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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
BURNS AND THE SCOTCH.
ANOTHER KKELY.
Senator lleck Tell* a glory of Ronnie Scot-
land.
’Washington Correspondent Boston Globe.
I happened to ait at the table with Sena
tor Beck of Kentucky, and it occurred to me
to aak him in what town in Scotland he waH
born.
“I came from old Dumfries,” said Mr.
Beck.
Why, that is the town in which Robert
Bums died."
“Yes," said Mr. Beck, “and I often saw
before I left there Jean Amour, his wife.
She did not die till 1834. Robert Burns
himself died before the close of the last cen
tury. I went to school with Burns’ grand
children. Jean Amour was a rather gypsy-
looking woman, with a black, sharp eye,
dark skin, And she had fine arms, aua when
she was an old woman wonld roll up her
sleeves and you coaid see the muscles left
in her arms."
“How queer it is," said I, “thctyon
should be before me, a United States Sena
tor, near the close of the nineteenth cen
tury, and have seen Robert Burns’ wife—
that Burns who would like to have extolled
both the French and the American revolu-l
tions, and did make a feeble strain that way,
till the British government sat down on
him a* on exciseman!"
“Ah," said Mr. Beck, “Burns got Lis
power from his many imaginations. He
hated to be patronized, to be considered as
something naturally inferior, who might be
encouraged and iutrodneed to somebody.
The reason that he takes his rauk in the
world is that he first drew the character of
the natural man. Walter Scott never made
a poor man manly. All his poor people are
willing serfs or common folks. He never
drew* but one character among the poor
which had any self-assertion and that not
much—and that wa» Jennie Deans. Shaks-
peare’s poor people are all louts. The liter
ature of Great Britain had never measured
a man tor his natural worth and equal
claims till Burns set him him uj) from the
contents of his own mind and spirit."
Haul I, “What do you think of the Scotch,
of whom you once were one?"
‘•The Scotch race," said Senator Beck,
“are a kind of western Jews. They are
just as tough, stubborn and long-lived as
the Jews. Some one said of them that
they kept the Sabbath and everything else
they could get. Out in Kentucky we have
the polled angus bulls, a Scotch breed,
which are called from angus, shire, and
the word ‘polled’ means hornless. They
are very black. Now, 1 am told that you
can turn one of these black bulls into a
herd of Texas cattle and every one of
the cows will be as black os the bull, and
not one of them will grow op with horns.
The tenacity of the stock is so fjreat that
no admixture can breed against it."
Beck said of Burns that he did
more to destroy tho old, fierce Galvanism
of Scotland than anybody else, and he
wondered if any other peraon had accom
plished anything against it. In the first
stanza of “Holy Willio's Frayer" ho threw
a bombshell into the Calvanistic dotrinc.
Said I: “Mr. Beck, John Knox, how
ever, created the Scotch character, did he
not?”
“Yes, I suppose ho did. Burns was a
universal character, who spoke for man and
his rights, but Knox gave the Scottish peo
ple their education. He made them believe
that every one of them - man, w’omnn and
child- was the special creation of God, gov
erned by God through the mind and soul,
and that, therefore, they must get to work
and learn to read and write, so as to scareh
the scriptures and consider their own char
acters. Consequently, long before the En
glish'people could write—and to this day
hundreds of thousands of English people
cannot do either—the Scotch people were
all educated; they could read and write, and
the raco was very for advanced in the Six
teenth century, when it gave the ruling
dynasty to Englaud, and had produced a
long line of poets, philosophers, reviewers
and inventors. The Scotcn race is hard of
9 itself," said Mr. Beck, 4 ‘but its influence in
our day is due to old Jobn Knox making
them individuals and not a mere herd."
The Man Who Invented a Pneumatic Street
Hall road Motor.
New York Star.
A tall, lank Southerner tells the following
story: “About six years ago there drifted
into New Orleans a strange character, whose
name, if 1 remember, was Richardson.
Among other schemes germinating in his
busy brain there was one for the operation
of a street railway by compressed air, car
ried in four cylinders on top of an ordinary
street car.
“His plans for the erection of two termin
al stations, about eight miles apart, at the
extreme boundaries of the city, where gi
gantic compressors would exhaust the air
from receiving vats and pump it into the
cylinders. Then, too, he had a new patent
automatic safety brake of his own construc
tion, and an elaborate drawing of the gear
ing of a driving wheel in the center of the
car, which was to be operated by compressed
air from the cylinders and furnish the mo
tive power for each eight-mile trip.
“The president of the Poydras street rail
road took the matter up, and soon Richard
son was established in a neat little work
shop near the northern depot, busily en
gaged in perfecting his Invention.
“Then a company was organized with a
capital of $10,000, divided into 1,000 shares
of $10 each. The company rejoiced in the
name of ‘The New Orleans Pneumatic Street
Railway Company.* After tinkering at his
car for a month or two, Richardson an
nounced a trial trip. At 3 o’clock in the
morning, After the regular cars had gone off
duty, tne new motor was wheeled out of the
workshop and placed on the track. A select
committee ot stockholders awaited the re
sult with breathless interest Richardson
t ried ‘All aboard!' and they piled into the
car. Richardson pulled a lever, and the
car glided *oftly from it* position in front
of the depot and proceeded leisurely down
the street. It ran four blocks that night,
and then the gearing got out of order and
the prominent citizens had to push it back
to the station. Next morning tne $10 shares
were worth $40 apiece in open market.
'Then followed a series of trial trips.
Something always went wrong. At first
Richardson said it was the brake, then the
exbanst pipe, then the traction wheel, and
finally the cylinders. On the day after the
lost trial trip the $10 shares sold readily for
$235 each.
“The eventful night came when the new
Bessemer cylinders w ere to be tried. Fully
200 stockholders and their friends assem
bled about the depot to bear testimony to
the triumph of Richardson’s ingenuity.
Odds of four to one that the car would run
the whole eight miles were freely offered
but takers were few and far between.
“Suddenly the midnight stillness was
broken by the din of an explosion. The
door of the shed in which Richardson had
been locked up alone with bis motor was
hurled bodily into the middle of the street,
and the fragments of a cylinder followed
it. The crowd surged in and found Rich
ardson on the floor, with his patent safety,
automatic brake gear twisted all about him
like an anaconda. They disentangled him
with difllcnlty aud bore him to tho hospital.
Here the Southerner stopped abruptly.
“Well, what happened to the motor:’’
cried UU audience.
“Oh, nawthin’,’’ answered the South
erner, slowly, “hut if any of you gentle
men huppen to hove heard of anyone who
yearns to possess thirty shares of the pneu
matic stock I know* some one who will sell
them dirt cheap,"
A DAY WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS.
His Reconciliation With Zuehary Taylor
After Floplng With Ills I>*tt£bter.
St. Louis, April C.—“I went out to the
Exposition races at New Orleans the other
day with Jeff Davis," said Col. Pat Donan
recently. The party, for whom I had tickets
of admission, included Mr. Payne, an old
friend of Mr. Davis, and Colonel Robert N.
Ogden, one of the most brilliant men in
Louisiana. Colonel Ogden had been telling
me of Mr. Davis’ wonderful memory, and I
had often heard of it from others, bat when
I met him I had a personal demonstration
of it that more than realized all that had
ever been said to me. He had never seen
me but once in my life, and that was nearly
twenty-three years ago, when, as a boy with
a face as smooth as a girl's, I was commis
sioned in Richmond to raise a battalion of
cavalry in the mountains of Virginia and
Kentucky; and yet he recalled my face in
stantly.
“Tho ex-President of the Southern Con
federacy is apparently in much better health
now than he was then, And looks little
older. Ho walks with a firm step, and car
ries himself with military erectness. I
told him he seemed stronger than when I
had seen him all those years ago, and he
said I was right; his health is better and
time has, all things considered, touched him
lightly. Speaking of my living in Dakota,
he gave ine many interesting reminiscences
of the time he was stationed in those then
unknown and savage wildernesses, as an
officer In the United States army, fifty-one
years ago. Then there was not a white
settlement north or south of Prairie du
Cbien, and the whole vast region northwest
of Port Dearborn, now Chicago, swArmed
with Indians.
I told him that I never took a party of
friends over the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St Paul railroad without pointing out to
them, near Portage City, Wisconsin, the log
cabins that mark the site of old Fort Win
nebago, where he was stationed more than
a halt century ngo, and that, associated with
his name, it was one of the places of inter
est to which the railroad eondnetors and
brakemen cell the attention of tourists. He
seemed pleased to learn that his name had
gone into the classics of that beautiful
region of lakes and dells. I did not tell him
the whole story that always accompanies
the view of the ancient fort; that it was here
he came after eloping with the only daugh
ter of old Zachary Taylor, and that the peo-
noon of clumsy amateur races, with un
trained plug horses and young society men
as the material; but one more, containing a
scrap of lifever-before-published Confederate
secret history, is all I have time to give. A
gentleman of the party, who has for many
years been one of the most intimate friends
of Mr. Davis, told me that the Confederate
ex-President once declared to him that he
considered Albert Sidney Johnston the
greatest man ho bad ever known. He re
garded him as the greatest in every respect.
He thought if he had adopted statecraft as
a profession he would have been the great
est statesman of his age; if he had chosen
art, he would have been the greatest artist;
if science, the greatest i cientist; if law, the
greatest lawyer. As a soldier, he had no
peer on either side during the war, if he
ever had in American history. Mr. Davis
added: ‘So great, so absolute was my confi
dence in his abilities, that on one occasion
daring our struggle I tendered my resigna
tion as President of the Confederacy to my
cabinet, provided they would put General
Johnston in my place.’
“Does this not put somewhat a new face
on many of the current impressions of Jeff.
Davis’s character? Does it not materiallv
DOCTORS BAD WRITERS
The Many Trials of a Drug Clerk—Uow Mis
takes are Made.
Baltimore American.
A representative of the American stepped
into a drugstore yesterday when the com
pounding clerk, as the prescription man is
termed, wus putting up a prescription in
which quinine was ordered. He had just
completed one in which morphia was used,
and the reporter noticed the great similarity
in appearance of the two find asked if it W’as
not quite an easy matter for a sleepy clerk
to get the wrong sulphate. The druggist
replied affirmatively, hut said that in the
change the prevalent idea of his ruthless
selfishness aud ambition, and show him
ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of his
section and people? Whatever may be the
verdict of history as to his patriotism, I
must say I can see no difference in that re
spect between him and many men who now’
hold seats in the Uuited States Senate and
House of Representatives, judgeships in
Uuited States Courts, and commissions as
United Slates Ministers to foreign govern
ments. They all fought and failed in the
same cause.
“However the future may write him
down, one thing is certain: This country
has produced few more brilliant and accom
plished men, and no more instructive and
delightful companion for an afternoon of
tiresome races/'
carelessness on the part of the clerk are re
ported they are due to the almost unintelli
gible scrawl of the physiciun. “As chirog
raphists," continued the druggist, who
handles the prescriptions of some of the
most eminent physicians of the state,
“your average doctor is quite as bad as a
lawyer, and, I believe, worse than a newspa
per reporter, and to this is attributed many
of the mistakes of so-called careless clerks.
Of course, in sum 3 cases the
fatal error is the drug clerk's,
iaiai error is tne drug clerk, s,
out you know that between selling stamps
and showing the ladies your directory, tne
A WOMAN’S CURSE.
The Strange Relationship It Had to the
llurnlng of Two Great Steamer*.
clerk is sometimes hurried, and his mistakes
are, therefore, not entirely inexcusable. As
un example of how well posted a drug clerk
should always be, take chloride of mercury,
which physicians formerly prescribed in
doses of twenty, thirty, or forty grains.
Indeed, fifty grains could be taken into the
stomach without any serious consequences.
Bi-chloride of mercury—you see there is a
difference of but two letters—contains twice
the amount of sulphuric acid as the chloride
and w ill kill any one foolish enough to take
three grains. By the addition of an in
creased quantity of sulphuric acid the en
tire nature of the compound undergoes a
change, and it becomos a deadly poison.
The quantity of sulphuric acid neoe ;sary to
a fatal dose when compounded with the
corrosive sublimate of mercury could bo
taken safely in double the quantity un-
mixeci. Thus, you see, neither drug un-
Louihville, Ky., April 12.—There are not mixed is a positive poison, but when coin-
few people who have a vivid recollection pounded in one ratio as a bi-chloride the
corrosive sublimate and sulphuric acid be
come a poison, and when mixed as ordinal
WONDERFUL BOY.
PARIS MARRIAGE AGENCIES.
Ji Still IIant for Anierlrun |!«lr«»M. , *-t*u-
tlmui Details*
Paris Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph.
Some curious revelations have recently
been made in the Parisian papers concern
ing tho matrimonial agencies in this city.
Of these there exist, it is said, over ltXl.
They are of three classes. Those of the first
order have for clients talented gentlemen
without fortune, dismissed officials of the
government and wealthy provincial widows
and orphan girls. Advance payments do
not exiat at all or are of small amount. Five
per cent on the dowry of the bride ia the
stipulated price for the bridegroom to pay.
Agencies of the second order look after the
matrimonial affairs of retired army officers,
of dismissed government officials of a lower
grade, aud of well-to-do shopkeepers. For
these agencies $100 is the ordinary entmuct
fee, which may be, by previous stipulation,
disbursed on tho payment of the usual 5
per cent on the dowry. The third clasa of
agency is the moBt frequented of all. It is
used by persons with damaged reputations—
gentlemen who have seen the interior of a
prison by reason of swindling operations,
and ladies that have tossed their caps over
the windmills, to make use ot a delicate
French ambiguity. No entrance fee is re
quired. The amount of percentage to be
levied on the dowry varies with the extent
and depth of the stain on the character of
the client Blackmailing plays a large part
in the operations of this latter class ofestab-
Uahmeuts.
It is an undoubted fact that very honora
ble persons, and those possessing good so
da! standing, often resoit to the agencies
of the first class, and that reasonable and
convenable marriages are formed by their
means. To the mind of a respectable
American lady or gentleman, sffch a mode
of getting married appears beneath con
tempt. But we must rememlier bow en
tirely matrimony in France is a matter of
business, and how utterly mutual attach
ment is banished from the whole transac
tion. These agencies only play the i»att
usually acted in higher circles by some offi
cious friend of the fntnre husband, who
very often receives sub roea the percentage
on the dowry openly exacted by the public
establishments. American heiresses form
the principal bait of the higher class agen
dea, whic h, in inch instances, act through
tbs intermediary of an tmavowad agent -a
titled lady or gentleman may lie, whom
btuinem it la to arrange all the preliminariea
of the affair; tho presentation of the gen
tleman to the lady, the earlier negotia
tion., etc.
Home of the older eatabliahmeDts of thia
nature keep exhaustive and carefully cor
rected litta of the unmarried American
ladies poaescing fortunes that arrive in Ku-
rope; the port at which they, land, their
place of deatination, the part of the I'nited
State* from whence they came, etc., etc.,
no lcaa than the amount of their respective
wealth.
rrvnrli far Celery.
Harpu'a ttaur.
free grass ?*
load or pec
plell think we're ignorant. It moat
French for celery."
Secs Through Solid SulmtaiM'rs, and Talks
In Languages b* has not lSeen Taught.
Middle port (Ohio) Special.
Your correspondent to-day visited tin
horn e ot Presley Forrest, son of Burr For
rest, nine miles from this place, who within
the past tw’o months has developed such
extraordinary spiritual manifestations and
wpuderful sight seeing phenomena, and
which have created the greatest sensation
and astonishment among those of spiritual-
istic belief, and among the entire neighbor
hood of that section, the people flocking for
miles to see, hear, and witness his talk and
performances while under the influence of
what ii common known us spirit control.
The young man belongs to one of the most
respected families in Utt land Township, is
twenty-eight years old, h!< ndir build, and is
an invalid and deformed, being crippled in
both hands and feet from his birth; is very
quiet, inoffensive and u< n-communicative,
except when in a trance, at which time he
converts with the spirits of well known
deceased persons, often strangers to him
self, speaking to them in the language and
characteristic way in which they were accus
tomed to do, even in German or other for
eign languages, aud he also, while under the
same influence, gives examples of their par
ticular habits and individual actions the
same as they did when alive, so that friends
readily distinguish the spirits of those they
were* formerly accustomed to see or asso
ciate with. Forrest also reads and trans
lates German into English and English into
German with great rapidity, which is not
the less strange since he never studied or
was taught German, being but an inferior
scholar, and having few or no advantages of
schooling. Persons who lmve gone there
have been told a great many things relative
to their diseases, infirmities, etc., which he
readily discovered by looking at them, and
which they fully believed no one else knew
of, supposing that they were profound se
crets to all except themselves. Instances of
this kind have been numerous and aston
ishing. He also seems to possess the power
of seeing directly through solid substances
as if they were only gloss, and lias many
times told the mw.ition of the hands of a
watch when shifted purposely to deceive
him, apparently beiug able toVee or divuie
through metal. Also, it is claimed by lps
relatives, friends, neighbors and many
strangers of the influential and substantial
character, that he really observes objects
through solid wood, walls of a house or
otherlike substances while in the state of
trance. Parties of the highest standing and
unquestioned varacity attest to these tacts,
'Ad Actor’s Rib Toe.
New York L#llii&8An Francisco Argonaut.
The fun in th^MMormance of the orig
inal “Mikado" company now depend* *
ly upon the big toe of George Thorne,
cleverest of the various Ko-Koa. He
Japanese sandals, and the idea .^occurred to
him some time ago of iutroducuig into the
opera a rebellion*^ ami alert big toe.
sticks np from the sandal at the mo#'
convenient and extraordinary timet di
the opera, and a large part of Ko-Ko's time
is spent in an angry effort to knock it into
its place and keep it there with his fan. “I
I haven't the least doubt in the world," the
actor said the otheiday, “that Mr. Gilbert
would be immensely displeased if he knew
of this toe bnsinees, but it is not introduced
lightly and in a wanton and careless spirit.
Peopfe who come night after night to see
the ‘Mikado* are deserving of some considl
• ration. It is on their account only that my
toe has made his debut into comic opera, ■
To Ismtl|sto Labor Troubles.
Washington, April 15.—The Speaker to
day appointed the following committee to
investigate the can*** and extent of the la«
pie of Prairie du Chien, then a frontier post,
showed their sympathy with the runaways
by giving them a big reception as they
passed through to the last outpost of civili
zation.
“Mrs.Clement C. Clay of Alabama, whose
husband shared Mr. Davis’s imprisonment
after the civil war, and who is one of the
most remarkable women the South ever pro
duced, gave me the sequel of this elopement
scrape. General Taylor never forgave either
Davis or his daughter until the night after
Davis led the famous charge of his regi
ment of Mississippi riflemen at Buena
Vista. About midnight an orderly presented
himself at Col. Davis's tent and announced
that General Taylor wished to see him at
headquarters immediately. Tho two men
had never spoken since the one had stolen
the daughter of the other. Davis knew
the passionate temper of the old man, and
instantly conjectured that the sudden and
peremptory summons boded no good to
him. In / ep anxiety he hurried to the
General's tout, entered the door and sa
luted without speaking or moving a step in
aide. The door was dosed in a moment,
and ‘Old Rough and Ready,' with his arms
outstretched, rushed forward and embraced
bis long-ignored son-in-law, exclaiming,
•By my daughter knew you better
than l did. Forgive me! Forgive me!
“The reconciliation so dramatically
brought about was a lasting one, aud to the
day of old Zach’s death, sixteen months and
four days after his inauguration as Presi
dent of tho United States, he and Mr. Davis
w’er** friends.
‘ Though ho is now far past tho script
ural life-limit of three-score years and ten,
Mr. Davis is a charming comparison tor an
afternoon of commonplace races, aud the
range of his information seems almost in
finite. Col. Ogden gave me an amusing in
stance of the effects of this semi-oinnis-
cience on an untutored native of the South
ern swamps. Nick Dticheneville Las a
hunting lodge near the east end of Lake
Pontchurtruin, and is a noted cliuracter in
his region. lie is an expert on dog-4, hunt
ing aud fishing and all accessories to these
sports, and is a good-hearted fellow*, who
will now and then, or ofteuer, get on a
howling spree and is always grotesquely
profane. Out on a gunning expedition with
lim three or four weeks ago, Col. Ogden
mppeued to mentidu Jeff Davis. Nick
aid: ‘That air's a man I want to see. I
was in his war four years, un’ I ain’t laid
yes on biui yit. What kin' o’ man is he,
monel?'
Col. Ogden replied: ‘Nick, Mr. Davis is
great man, a very great man. There is
nothing he doesn't know. Why, Nick, he
knows more about medicine than any doc
tor yon ever saw, and more about horses
than any of our sporting men. He can tell
you more about hunting and fishing than
any of our hunters and fishermen. lie can
sail a boat or put on a fly better than either
of us. Why, Nick, he knows more about
boats and guns aud dogs than both of ns
pnt together.’
“Nick's eyes had been gradually swelling
during this oulogiuin, nod here he burst
out with: ‘By gum, Colonel, be must he a
great man! lvnow more about boats and
guns and dogs than 1 do. Lord, what a
whale he must he! I'd give a dollar jist to
look at him, by gum!’
“About A week la’er Mr. Davis w as sitting
the office of one of the little lakeside ho
tels, with a party ot gentlemen who were
out on a duck-snooting excursion. One of
them had a handsome blue setter, and the
Confederate ex-chieftain was explaining
how that particular strain of dogs origi
nated in thia country, stating, I think, thut
tin* ancistral canines were presented to
John Jay when he was in Europe, about the
fir it of this century, and entering into an
elaborate disquisition ou the various breeds
of hunting dogs, thsir qualities and chora v
teristics, the mode* of training them aud
th«ir value for different purposes. Col.
Ogden** friend Nick, pretty drunk, lml en-
♦.Mvd tho room duriug 0u* talking, and learn
ing who this marvelous discourser on dogs
was, had listened in o|>en-eyed aud open-
mouthed amassment, and at lost, swept away
by bis enthusiasm, rustled up to Mr. Davis,
anti, sticking out his huge, grimy hand, ex
claimed, in tones that could be heard a
quarter of a mile: 'By gum, sir, Mr. Davis,
I wont shake hands with you! I’ll be
^ ou ain't the greatest mail I ever
_ By gum, sir, a man that knowa
_ about dogs than me an* Col. Ogden is
__ greatest man in the world, sir! He’s
agger than George Washington an’ Napo
leon Bonaparte, sir! Mr. Davis, I want
yon to come ont to my place an’ stay a
week, an* it shan’t cost yon a cent, sir; not
a damn cent, sir! By gntn. Mr. Davis,
you're jist the man we waut for Governor,
sir! A man that knows as much about dog*
n yon do could beat ail hell, >dr!'
of tho terrible river horror, when the two
splendid steamers, the United States and
the America, collided on the Ohio, near
Florence, and burned to the water’s edge,
each with nearly 200 passengers on board,
the night of December 4, 1868.
f (Among the passengers that night on the
nited States was Col. George C. Northup,
now city passenger agent of the Jefferson
ville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad,
and the Grand Commander of De Molay
Commandery of Knights Templar. To a
party of friends, at a little social gathering
in the office of the new Grand Theater last
night, Col. Northup told the following story
in connection with that tragic affair, and as
it bos never been printed, it is worth it now*:
“I wjw never superstitious in the slight
est," said the Colonel, “but I w itnessed one
thing that came near making me a believer
in almost everything of that nature. It
was in November, 1868, that the incident
occurred, ^wns working for the Pennsyl
vania road at that time and had my head
quarters here, as uow. It was a custom
of ours to visit all the boats when they
landed in order to catch on to some Eastern
business, and on the day 1 speak of,several of
us went to the wliarfboat as usual. The splen
did steamer America had just landed, liav
ing come down from Cincinnati. We
walked into the offico and sat down near
the stove to wait until things got straight
ened up. While wo were sitting
there u woman and two children
entered. They were all poorly dressed and
carried bundles wrapped up in handker
chiefs. which stamped them os emigrants.
They had a decidedly foreign appeurance,
and it developed when tho woman walked
up to the clerk that she was an Italian, and
could not speak a word of English. She
endeavored to make known her wantH, but
the clerk could not understand her. While
the pantomine was going on un Italian who
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round waist, gloBsy black hair and SSl
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with a narrow double pleating ot feSSPSl
and pale gold inorie. Down each . ? ’’••I
panels of Valenciennes lace The’* 1 *
parts of the panels were
and elaborately draped at the K,V” e (l
open in front to show the skirt and ‘"'I
of blue inorie. The vest was a]J * '"‘•I
edged with gold inorie and futensdWI
\ulenciennes chemisette. Down eitt, 0il
of the vest were tiny blue pearl bnJ**l
The neck was finished with a full rr L
of lace, closed in front under a bow of
gold color. fit I
Another, in which the wife of a n. I
nent Board of Trade man who h Ve *
North Hide appeared, was made of StM
grav plush and rose-colored brocade if I
hack, made with a broad Vatteira .1
was of the plush, the train being .El
finished with a heavy gray siln coni r?l
rose-colored rich brocade which comJol
the front of the skirt was left without ,"*?*
niture, except at the bottom, which . I
edged with three full pleating* 0 f I
huert lace. The front of the waist I
to display a vest of the cream-colored f'?|
and gray Batin, fastened with large button I
each of which was a pink cameo set it. I
The demand for manual training tj
been sp far developed in New York thit.
stock company, with a capital of $.y, 5
has been organized to snpply that kind
instruction. The proposedschool isto
for both boys and girls.
: I
ould speak Knglish happened to enter.
11 her wants to him
b ong-
Lwetfr
it in
luring
The woman ma«lo know
It appeared that she had purchased emigrant
tickets at Cincinnati for St. Louis and was
to have taken passage on the United .States,
which went to her destination. Through
mistake, however, some one pnt her
ou bourd tho America, which only
came as far down as this city. She
Wits allowed to keep her ticket, and
what she wanted the clerk to do was
to take her back to Cincinnati for nothing
so she could use her tickets to St. Louts, us
they were not good from any other startiug
loint. The clerk refused to comply with
ier request, and she grew terribly excited.
Walking to the stove she took tht poker
and laying it on the floor proceeded to go
through a number of motions with her
hind4, at the same time uttering some
words. She kept this up for some moments,
theu started for tho cabin door. Before
reaching it, however, she stopped, and tak
ing off her boy’s cap, threw it on the floor
and went ou through another exhibition of
pautouime, winding up with the same
words as before, then w’&lked out,
crossing the gang* plunk, went up the leveo.
We asked tho Italian what sho meant, and
he replied she had ‘cursed the two boats,’
which ha l been the means of her failing to
reach her proper destination, And prayed
that some lmrm might befall them. It was
not thirty days afterward until the terrible
collision occurred, and both of them were
burned. No one know’s how many persons
were lost that night. All the Irnoks of the
United States were burned and the record
of passengers destroyed. It is thought, how
ever, that about eight lost their lives. Ever
since then, when I recall that night, I can
not help thinking of tho Italian woman's
curse aiul wondering at the coincidence. I
have never seen or heard of her from that
day to tills."
chloride of mercury are harmless. You wi!
notice," continued the apothecary, “liow
easily a person tho least careless could mis
take sulphate of quiniafor sulphate of mor
phia—the former almost harmless—indeed,
entirely so to those habituated to its use
(those w’ho live in malarial districts)—the
latter so deadly that two grains w’onld be
likely to kill a man of ordinary strength."
The greatest difference, however, betw’eon
these two sulphates is that quinine is next
to insoluble, while the poisonous morphia
is quickly absorbed by water or other fluid.
Morphia presents also another point of dis
similarity to quinine. The former is more
inclined to adhere in lumps and lacks the
frosty’, glittering appearance of the eastern
shore 'panacea. All alkaloids being white
in colors, strychnia might easily be given
for quinine by a careless clerk— of course
with .dire results. One grain of strychnia
would poison—the sixteenth part of a groin
being an ordinary dose.
“Could prussic accid be given in mistake
for aqua pun?" inquired the reporter.
“It could, as both are transparent and
look alike, but the acid always has the odor
of almonds or tho smell of a peach-seed.
Nitrate of mercurv, in the handwriting of
some of our best doctors, would look quite
as much like bi chloride of mercury—one
comparatively harmless, the other decidedly
dangerous." The druggist cited cases in
which fatal errors had been made by the
close resemblance between different drugs,
but he holds tenaciously to the idea that the
very sure possibilities of these mistakes
wonld be more remote if physicians would
write with more care, and always affix their
signatures to their prescriptions. Ho thinks
it w’ould not be u bad idea to have some of
the most learned of the city’s doctors take
a courso at a writing school, as the physi
cian's abilities as a doctor are generally it
inverse proportion to bis knowledge of pen
manahip.
“What are we to do,” he said, “wher
people know so little aliout our line that of
ten we not only compound the presoriutiou
but are netn.dly asked to prescribe. Ar.
iueiih lit was rel Ped in v.liieh a n an had
•'• v * t'.r cathedral pills, and being cor
rteted, returned the next week and wanted
m..:wai<* pills. According to the statement
of this druggist, a couip •nuding clerk's life
is not a happy my, as a deal ot hia time ia
spent in trying to decipher the h rroglypb
ics of hurried doctors and selling an occa
sional stamp or so, which time should he
given to the careful preparation ot his med
icine.—Baltimore American.
Miraculous Escape,
tV. W. Bred, druggist of Winchester, Ind * n i*.
••On© of ray customers, Mrs. Louisa Pike. Bar//.
Randolph county, Ind., was a long sufferer
consumption, and was given up to die by h C r
sicians. She heard of Dr. King’s New Distort!
Consumption, and began buying it of me. t
month’s time she walked to this city, a dUtu<V
six miles, and is no<v so ranch improved *b«
amt using it She feel* eh© owes her life
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Dog Fanciers to Ilullil a Mounter Kcnurl
New Orlrana TimevDeraocrat.
A kennej on a larg • scale is to bo started
in Nashville, Tcnu.. by business men of
that city. It is intended to breed nil sorts
of nnre strained fancy animal*. A specialty
will be made of mastiffs. Colonel Fred
Grant, son of the late General U. S. Grant,
is probably the most fashionable breeder of
mastiffs in tho country. His kennels are
at Boston, Mass., and he hu* forty-new
stock dogs. A letter received front Coloin
Grant by a gentleman in Nashville sty
“My stock dog Major is uudcuiuhly the
largest and most distinguished private mas
tiff in the countrj and is valued at
Attached to a sixty-pound wagon he draws
with ease and safety my four children, en
tering into i heap rt with apparent delight."
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Mr. Horctirron the IKoyrntt,
Chicago, April 10.—The Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher arrive*! here to-day on a lec
ture tour. To a reporter who tsB od with
hiui concerning the Knights of Labor Mr.
Beecher said there were in the organization
f wo poisons which tended to disruption,
and must be eliminated. They were the
boycott find tbe treatment of workmen not
members of tho organization. Whatever
ead was intended to be reached by the boy
cott, it was an evil. The New York Times
published some time ago an artic e on cer
tain Western boycotts, in which they were
severely criticised. A Knights of latborpa-
K r at once said that the Times itself should
I boycotted. “Supposing," said Mr.
[Beecher, “that I nreachc*d a sermon in
Plymouth church calling into qtiotion boy
cotting measures, Plymouth church and!
every mctulier attending it could be ns rea
sonably boycotted.” In Mr. Beecher's opin
ion boycotting was a tyranny worse than
the tyranny of Rns-iu. It did away with al
free press and free speech. It ended liberty
of action. Nothing could justify the use of
such an agency. The immediate result
might apparently he good, but in the end it
must be evil. Of the second noison Mr.
: Beecher said that the Knights did exactly
, the thing* which formed the basis of tbe
A Street Car TIc-up In lluttliunre.
Baltimouk, April 15.—At noon to-day the
officers of the Knights of Labor ordered a
tie-up ot all cars of the Union, the Peoples’
and the Central companies, and the work
was done as rapidly as the cars reached
their friable*. The police authorities were
at once notified and forces were sent to all
tbe ►?aides to protect the property of the
companies and any persons who decided to
accept employment. 'I In se include ad linos
of tho city kliowu as “oob-tail," and leaves
but the lines of two companies running.
No demonstration of violence bus jet been
made. Th© entire police force, nearly 700
men, is on duty, and any attempt at vio-
grievanct» they complained of, when they
“And Nick, I understand, is still solid for I sought to interfere with non-member*.
Mr. Davia, first, last and nil the time for I Speaking of the southwestern strike Mr.
Governor of MirsMppi, Louisiana, or any j Bcv-her characterized it a* the moat ontra-
other HUta into which his rough-diamond • gvous affair of its kind on the part of the
Lor trouble* in the Watt: Curtin of Penn- admirer a nomadic pursuits iu*v taka him. Knights which Lad occurred during his life.
Ivania. Crain of Texas, Outhwaiteof Ohio, “I could fill a small volume with the en- w
t*ruining reminiscences and anecdotes J Nxw Yo&e city now has over 10,01)0 liquor
which made memorably pleasant an after-1 saloons.
men, is on duty, ami any attempt
lence will be promptly suppressed.
The International < uiif»-rence.
Washington*. April 15.- A bill was re
ported to-day from the House committee on
foreign all lira provi ling for an international
conference. Ii tmthori/.-s the President to
invite the governments or Mexico and Cen
tral and South America to join the Uuited
States in a conference to be held in Wash
ington for the purpose of dincuHMng and
recommending sonic plan of arbitration for
the settlement of disagreements and dis
putes thft may hi r*.after arise between
them, and of considering questions relative
to the improremei.t of business intercourse
between them. SiG,mm U appropriated to
pay reason..Lie expel*** s of the conference,
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Th. K-siil.tti.iH lt,fil«c«l.
Cmi'-too, April 15. —A SurioKficl.l, III.,
•pt-t-l.il says: (iot.rnor Oglesby nftiM.il
▼MtrttUy to is. It. » rd|niidlirii for the
deputies who took refuge in St. Loni. after
the killing of set end persons on til,' llli-
noia aide of the ri»er. The papers pro-
aented upon which to make • ref|nisition
were decDrtd informal, because baaed on
th. verdict of t coroner*a jury instead of
, on an indictment or complaint before a
( Justice of tb. Peace.
TmruUr. to lltlBKAHO lilt
(hero I. Nothing nurprnl**^
In th- fs.-l th.t Unison', rap-tlie
ly imtunsl: that cheap an.l ».,rtht— F—*1^
name, of .molar ...and. and .tmtlar *17 . f
lyt*. .r. Irtcly otTon-d lor mle.
ant ortatnal merit always ha*, to m
trashy imitation.- Bnt — they be.-oto*
die ont tbrotich dew-reed n-z!—"t- * ;
warn the tstbite mtainat tbe wvalhd Vf
•■cap icin,, -s'.im.-in • and "Carl*?*? ,
whether ••Benton'h.™ ••BoiWw <*
They have no iredidnal or etuattvaj
ever, and mo mad. to ..il .*n th*
•on'.. W hen pureh»«ln«aa*for®f---; r , n
te.^um.
etived. Th© genuine ha* th# »Thfu# - r
mark <m th# ckth aafl |th# word
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