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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. MAY 15.1888-TWELVE PAGES.
WASHINGTON.
Speeches by Messrs. Turner,
Clements and Candler.
GEORGIA HOLDSHEROWN IN DEBATE.
in Washington Highly Flensed
0 w) ,|i the State'll Delegation to St.
Louis—Th* Caucus Sntlsfac.
tory in Its Results.
'fbom cun tncixL counroKDiXT. |
1 Macon Tsi.xubspu Bubeau, ]
Ho 615 Fourteenth Stbeet, N. w., >
” Washington, May 10 1888. J
Georgia has been most ably represented in
the tariff debate to.-day. At twenty-seven
imites to 1 o’clock Mr. Turner began to
m eak from a seat near the centre of the
Democratic side. He spoke for one hour
cl twenty-five minutes, and had the close
attention of the House. It was pronounced
all hands to be one of the best speeches
vet made. In the beginning Mr. Reed
showed some disposition to interrupt. He
h»d challenged some statement of Mr. Tan-
„er’s in » loud "aside,” which the latter
heard, and to which he replied with great
f'oree.' After one or two further remarks Mr.
“eed desisted. He had had enough. Mr.
Turner was more than his match.
The speech of the Georgian was discursive,
covering the questions of land and labor.and
xeplving incisively to Republican criticisms
oi slavery. One of Ins observations was that
the Puritans “loved * their own race and
hated all others,” but lie was only sectional
j0 self-defense. He did full justice to the
jjorth. It i» said by good judges this after
noon that Mr. Turner’s treatment of the con.
nection of the land and labor questions with
the tariff was better than any which had pre
ceded it. He concluded with a ghastly ac
count of the Greely polar expedition party
teting the flesh from the bodies of dead
comrades, and said that protection in its last
analysis was cannibalism.
Speaker Carlisle, who has seldom remained
on the floor to hear the debates, listened to
jlr. Turner, who also had as auditors, be
sides his own colleagues, Messrs. Mills,
Breckinridge and nearly every other Demo-
cratic member of the Honse and very many
p.,publicans.
MB. CLEMENTS.
At 5 o'clock Mr. Clements took the floor.
He spoke for half an hour, announcing at
the close that he yielded half of his time to
his colleague, Mr. Candler. Mr. Clements
was in fine trim and made a most sensible
speech. He began with allusions to the sec
tional hatred evinced by the speakers on the
other side who had preceded him. “We do
not,” be said, “live twenty-five years ago.”
Mr. Clements discussed the over increasing
■nreins and held that all should engage in
the patriotic duty of reducing the tariff and
not make it necessary that it should be a
party question. He showed how wide of the
mark the prophecies of evil were in regard
to quinine, which had increased to double
the amount manufactured in this country,
while the price was not one-fourth what it
sas before the duty was takcu off. Mr.
Clements handled the labor question effect
ively. He made a fresb point on the organ
ization of labor in the South, including the
Farmera’ Alliance, which he cordially ap
proved. The President’s three messages
on the tariff were consistent each
with the others. He had not, as had been
charged, played fast and loose.
SPEECH OF MB. CANDLER.
Like Mr. Lane, of Illinois, who bad imme
diately preceded him, Mr. Candler said he
reprezented an agricultural constituency,
but his people, in spite of the fact that they
were not protectionists favored the repeal of
the internal revenue laws. Mr. Candler
then advocated the policy of concession in
luminous style, giving a statement of the
country’s finances. The business of the
country cannot long stand the strain. Low'
♦ring taxes was the only method of accom
plishing this purpose. We must compro
mise. The bill before the House was one of
mutual coiicessioni, and he would give the
bill hearty support, hoping in the near fn-
lure to obtain the entire repeal of the inter
nal sy«tem. Mr. Candler’s was a short speech
but elegantly written in clearly cut proposi-
lioni.*It was well delivered, lie spoke after
10 o'clock.
The Democrats to-day expressed them
selves ns pleased with the result of but
mght’i caucus,
The Georgia Democrats are delighted with
toe vigorous delegation of young men mi-
pointed to represent the State at the St.
Duns convention.
. Mr. Blount’s agricultural college measure
“ now before the Senate committee on ag-
Wnlture sad forestry, and it is expected
mat it will be reported back soon and pass
•he Semite.
The Mscon public building is included in
Joe,terms of tne bill which passed the House
May amending the act of March 3, 1887,
which appropriated $190,000 for the pur
pose o( heatiug those buildings. The ap
propriation is made available to cnal/te the
• scretary of the Treasury to fulfill con-
u 1 ’ f ; ,e red iuto prior to June 30, 1888.
tier. Janies W. Jones and Mr. Booz, of
Lednrtown, are here.
JIauer Lawton Wade has been appointed
1 copyist in the pen' ’on office.
c. w. n.
Some Flue Colts,
from the UOrsnge Graphic.
, *•**{ week Mr. B. if. Lane, one of the
“cst of Troup county farmers, had on ex-
nibition four of his five home raised colts,
---tuning ot three homes and a mule,
‘he mule colt and one horse was about
"•My month. old, and the other two were
•boot three yearn old. All of them are
*u grown for their age, in splendid con-
““'on, and would to-day sell for a good
cwner *’ r * Ce *° ^ lc 8 r ^ at profit of their
Mr. Lane is giving considerable attcu-
on to stock raising, as he finds it both
and prufi'thle, and his success in
11 busmens is a good example for others
' . sre endeavoring to diversify their en-
The colts attracted a great deal of atten-
tliL t won universal praise on account
tion * I’ rom k*ng points and good condi-
Loltn are a sample of a great many
f,; i. the countv, and a county
. i rt ’ ll j fall would bring together a colt
„, ow w j>ich alone would attract thousands
1 1’eople to the fsir ground.
,** tu P a i**r, get together, look
•round and see all we have in Troup coun-
»'».best scheme in the world to
i luainted with our own resources.
Brrjt?L l our neighbors are doing and
• u “t by their experience.
FULLING HOBBES’ TEETH. drank readily, but during the evening
n,„ ill-temper and perverse actions increas
They Suffer From Toothache Just the Same
As Bi
ller
temper and perverse actions increased,
and she tried to attack the man who had
charge of her. The next day she became
Fr “FiU C ho^es”eeth ! ' rL Ye8, why not? It' ?‘*>1 more violent and dangerous, kick-
can be done,” said a surgeon in the Ameri
can Veterinary College the other day.
“A horse is a good deal like a man,” he
went on, “and horses suffer from decayed
teeth, exposed nerves, and toothache just
the saute as a man or woman. How can
we tell? Why, bv examining their jaws,
of course, and* after we have located the
seat oi the trouble we quickly try to alle
viate the suffering. Even dogs have tooth
ache. Many a lady’s pet dog suffers pain
from cold and 'exposed nerves, and
pines away and refuses to eat because
they are suffering with their
teeth. Juno, a Laverick setter of excellent
pedigree, owned by Dr. A. N. Roussel, a
dentist, at No. 143 Stuyvesant avenue,
now rejoices in a gold-filled tooth. Dr.
Roussel 1 noticed a defective tooth in the
dog’s head and determined to fill it. Juno
was persuaded to take a seat in the chair
while the doctor drilled out the cavity and
filled in the gold. The dog stood it like a
major and looked up gratefully when the
work was finished. Oh, yes, it was a hard
job, I suppose, and the dog fussed and
fumed for a time, but he’s all right now.”
While at the Bonner farm a few days
ago Veterinary Surgeon Ralph Ogle, of
this city, was told of a horse on a near-by
farm which refused to eat. The most
tempting feed had been offered the animal,
but it had persistently declined to accept
even the least morsel of it. The doctor,
who is a veteran in his profession, exam
ined the horse and found growing along
side its jawbone eight protuberances which
were the size of walnuts and were as hard
as bone. With the knife and forceps now
used in improved dental veterinary prac
tice he operated on the horse’s jaw, and
succeeded in taking out five oi the protub
erances. Very soon after this the animal
began to eat and is now doing well.
Great improvement has been made in
the medical and surgical treatment of the jt was « a very great and serious
liorse in the past few year*. The treatment | evil.” Senator Stewart concurred in this,
is more scientific in every respect. The saying that cigarettes are “destroying more
ing and biting every one who ap
proached. The doctor who saw her
says: “Her eyes were widely distended
and her looks threatening, her countenance
having a peculiar contracting appearance,
resembling a kind of sardonic smile. When
suddenly excited she would kick with both
hind feet, but at times with one lore foot
only. Unable to bite others, she turned
upon herselt, biting her own chest and
forearm. She ground her teeth and tossed
her head up and down, and her jaws were
seized with convulsive movements. She
had been b tten by a dog that had been
killed three weeks before on account of
hydrophobia. Two shots in the region of
her heart put an end to her sufferings.”
During last year 1,025 opeaations were
performed at the American Veterinary
College, covering the field of surgery and
including operations upon the organs of
locomotion, digestion, respiration, genital
apparatus, besides those performed in cases
of abnormal growths. Many of these op
erations have been performed under com
plete amethesia, so produced by the use of
ether or chloroform, or in partial somno
lence, as produced by the use of chloral
hydrate.
Tlze Deadly Cigarette.*
From the New York Tribune.
The grave and dignified Senators, at
Washington became involved in something
approaching a controversy the other day
about cigarettes. A bill has been intro
duced to prohibit the selling, giving or
furnishing of cigarettes or tobacco in any
of its forms to minors under sixteen years
of age in the District of Columbia. Sena
tor Cliace presented a petition in favor of
the bill from 257 physicians in the . Dis
trict, who, he said, had been giving
this subject, and especially the sale of
cigarettes, much attention, and had
become impressed with the belief that
MindM
If it ever admitted that one of them
was honest without charging that lie
was a fool a copy of that particular ar
ticle would lie received at this office witli
unfeigned delight. We mo t positively
ii'-ert that the above extract in which the
Times alludes to the Democrat and the
Macon Tki.ei.bai-h as bulldozers and 1ml-
j lies, and greets us in terms of profound
j contempt, is the nearest approach to eour
tesy and respectful treatment the Times
j ever makes. It is considered quite the
i proper thing among protectionist organs
to charge every man wno favors a reform
of our iniquitous tariff laws with being a
crank, and intimates that he has been
bought with British gold. But when any
thing is »iid which impeaches the divinity
! of protectionist newspapersorptlitician,the
Times and its ilk immediately begin to
howl about “ostracism,” “reading out of
the party,” and other such tomfoolery.
The Democrat has never entertained the
slightest wish to prevent the editor of the
Times “voting according to his judgment,”
nor even hoped to moderate his passion
for blackguarding his betters. His judg
ment ami his taste are his own, and we are
thankful that they are not ours. But
neither his “resentment” nor his ‘‘pro
found contempt” will so completely wither
the Democrat out that it will continue to
preach tile gospel of tariff reform and tell
plain truth about its enemies. As a Demo
cratic paper, the Democrat has a right to
discuss Democratic principles and express
its views in regard to the requirements of
the pledge* given by the Democratic party
to the people. If it believes 'hat the
Democratic party has promised to reform
the tariff, and that this is one of the duties
it ow*» the country, it lias a right to say
that he who is trying to defeat tariff re
form is the party’s enemy, without regard
to the label he may wear on his back. At
least as much right as the Times lias to
stigmatize those Democrats who consider
pledges binding as being cranks^ bullies,
mossliacks, bourbans, and various other
kinds of improper things.
The
THE ENTERTAINING BRITON.
us of English
and
lpnrntlve 31
American Men.
From the Argonaut.
The popularity of young Englishmen in
New York society remains unabated.
Tlie young Englishmen in New Yerk
offer a variety of types. Some of them,
especially those of a lower class at home,
come like conquering heroes. They grum- |
bleat
Shu can not only lie enthusiastic, but care
strike enthusiasm from a clod of mingled
despondency and absent-mindednees, as
Moses struck water from a rock. One can
imagine her discoursing vivaciously to the
Sphinx, quite unawed by its ponderous
unresponsive, self-possessed and witty.
veterinary surgeon nowadays must possess
a thorough education and be posted in as
mcnv branches as a physician. His calling
requires him to be particularly sensjtive
and alert, for he is treating a dumb animal
whose manifestations of pain are difficult
to make out. The result of all this is that
the sick or injured horse gets nearly as
careful and minute treatment as the sick
or injured man. Fractured bones are often
reset and even amputation has been per
formed for special purposes. Let the liorse
injure its leg or foot, and the member is
done up in a sling as tenderly and carefully,
as though it belonged to a human being.
Here is a case in point, reported by Dr. L.
C. Wakefield: A bay mare that had been
ustd in horse power, while working in the
machine, caught her right hind foot in one
of the logs with such force as to stop the
machine and seriously injure the foot. In
a short time the animal could hardly nut
her foot to the ground, and when the doc
tor was called in she was suffering intense
pain. An operation was performed and
the ioinred lev ns well as the animal her
self, was put in the sling and for days the
foot was dressed daily. Just two mooths
from the date of the operation the wound
was entirely closed.
VETERINARY DENTISTRY NOW PRACTICED.
Veterinary dentistry is a new rpecialty
created in the practice, and some very in
teresting operations in this branch ul tnc
profession have been performed. A case
that illustrates this particularly we l was
had at the American Veterinary College a
few davs agu. It was the removal of the
third molar tooth; the patient was a brown
gelding. The first sign of trouble was a
discharge from the right nostril. After
several wtoV% this not ceasing, the owner
sent the horse to the country for a run at
grass. Here the animal remained, doing
well as the owner supposed, until word was
received from the owner of the pasture
stating that the services of two practition
ers had been had and that there w«« a
question in dispute between them as to the
nature of the animal’s disease. One main
tained that the liorse was affected with
glanders and ought to he killed, while the
other contended it was not. Immediately
after this the liorse was sent back
to the city and taken to the hospital
for examination. A large swelling was
found on the right side of the face, involv
ing the nasal bone. The animal roared
when moved, respiration being performed
with much difficulty, l’lacing his hand in
tbe mouth the surgeon found that the
third molar tooth of. the upper jaw was
decayed and the cavity partly filled with
food! To prepare the horse for the opera
tion of having the tooth pulled, a system
of dieting was first begun. When all was
ready the horse was thrown down and
put under the influence of chloral. Then
the diseased tooth was taken out by re-
moval in two pieces. As a part of the
operation the bulging nasal bone was tre
phined. Daily treatment followed, the
tooth cavity being kept as clean as possible
by washing out with water the foreign
matter that daily collected. Respiration
was performed witli ease after the opera
tion, and at the end of tho fourth week
t| le horse was discharged from the hospital
^Horses in those days must have their
quinine as well as human beinp. Dr. W.
II Pendry tells of the biggest dose of qui
nine ever given to a horse. It was a case
of pneumonia. He prescribed the ordinary
dose, one drachm. By mistake an ounce
of the drug was added to this and given to
the animal at 10 a. m. At 7 p. m., when
the doctor called, the horse was perspiring
freely, had a full pul e, and its tempera
ture'iiad fallen from 104 to 101 degrees.
The same dose was ordered given, und was
carried out before the mistake was discov
ered. The doctor, in telling the experi
ence. added: “I visited the liorse
.Knnt 0 o’clock the following morning
and was met by a whinnying welcome, to
which I at once responded by giving a
small feed of oats, which was soon put out
of the wav. I found the pulse not so full,
the body quite dry, but the temperature
was bade to 104 degrees. Here was a case
where two ounces of quinine had been
given inside of nine hours without any re
markable result.” , , .
A fact not generally known is that elec
tricity is coming into extensive use in the
medical treatment of horses. It is found
of value in nervous afiections ami espe
cially in diseases of the throat and larynx.
Sometimes regular shocks are given taro or
three times a day and the horse submits to
the galvanic current very readily.
The veterinary surgeon of these days
finds that the horse is subject to consump
tion, rheumatism, sciatica and, in fact,
nearly all disease* incident to human
beings, even hydrophobia. An interesting
case of the latter is on the veterinary re
cords. A ten-year-old mare, ordinarily. o.
kind disposition, wss found one morning
in an entirely opposite state of feeling.
She had kicked at her male several tune*
during the night. She was flared alone
and firmly secured. She took food and
youth' than any other one thing that in
affecting the prosperity of the country.”
Besides the petition signed by the doctors
there was one signed by eighty-six clergy
men, and another by 624 superintendents,
officers and teachers of public schools. The
Senators who were most impressed with the
magnitude of the evil wanted these docu
ments spread out in full in the Record,
with at least the names of the physician,
but this was combated, though no Senator
came out ns the champion of the cigarette,
and it was finally agreed that the petitions
should be printed as a document.
It must be said, in all seriousness, that
the episode is significant of a growing at
tention to an evil that is certainly not di
minishing. There seems to be no cessation
in the rate of deaths from cigarette smok
ing. Every few days the newspapers re
port a new victim. The other aay a case
was annoui ced wherca boy, or young man,
had smoked five packs a day for some little
time previous. Extreme indulgence of
this kind is very rare, of course, but a
:m=U «r="orticu it would he extreme ie
many cases. A statement was published
some months ago and never questioned,
that according to the estimates of New
York plivsicians there are no. less than
3,000 cases of impaired health in this city,
traceable to cigarette smoking, a considera
ble priipiiiliuii being uf buys. Ii is obvious
that the ileath- direc tlv re'iiiting I rum 11 ii -
habit, as in tbe instance mentioned above,
do not give even a faint idea of the dam
age done. One of our best known doctors
claims that this practice checks the growtli
of boys and lays tho foundation for lung
and tlirost diseases, dyspepsia, etc., which
do not develop themselves until a later
period.
The number of cigarettes annually con
sumed shows the wide prevalence of the
habit. The annual manufacture of 1,200,-
000,000 cigarettes and an importation of
5,000,000 more would give about liftv ci
garettes for even* male inhabitant the
United States. With n large share of these
smoked by boys, it i« clear that the average
to the imliviSunl smoker is much larger.
And this calculation takes no account of
cigarettes made by tho smokers them
selves. In many of our cities cigarettes
are sold at two for one cent at small groce
ries and in the stores where school supplies
are on sale, 60 that boys are tempted to buy
them instead of tho traditional schoolboy
dainties. The result is that many boys are
able to smoko without their parents’
knowledge. There never was a time, is
every passenger on the elevated mails can
certify, when the sale of cigarettes was be
ing pushed so hard by showy advertise
ments, pretty gift cards and the like as
now.
The adult can decide for himself the
question of the wisdom of this indulgence,
but there is no reason why tlie boy should
not be kept from it until he is of a proper
age, just as he is kept from buying liquor.
There seems to be no good reason why
Congress should not pass tho proposed
law for the District of Columbia, though
the precedents do not encourage the be
lief tnat it will be easy to enforce it. The
prevalence of cigarette smoking not only
among the boys, hut among tho girls also
in tlie Chicago schools, led the teachers to
secure the passage of a State law making
it an offence punishable with a line of $20
to “sell, buy for, or furnish any cigars or
cigarettes or tobacco in any of its forms to
any minor under eixtcei .-ears of age, un
less upon the written order of parent or
guardian.” Curiously enough, so many
parents, especially in Chicago, threw their
influence against the enforcement of the
law that it accomplished little.
A Talk With a Contemporary.
From the Nashville Democrat.
Here is something funny from our ex
ceedingly humorous contemporary, the
Chattanooga Times:
"The Macon Telegraph, tho Nashville
Democrat and other journals of their per
suasion on the tariff' question, arc quite
too much given to attempted bull-dozing
to have much influence with those Demo
crats who vary from their notions. The
ludicrous impudence that threatens ostra
cism of all who fail to see through these
editors’ optics, does not promote
party harmony to any percepti
ble extent, nor docs it have the
slightest effect on men of courage or in
dependence, except to arouse their resent
ment. Iu common with thousands of Dem
ocrats, wc have the moat profound con
tempt for this bluster. No editorial bully
can prevent us voting according to our
judgment of what will upon the whole be
heal for the uuilutrv ; Bur can these emi
nent and little tree traders silence those
Democrats who hold protectionist views.”
This sort of complaint is about upt to
the average of the protectioni-t newspa
pen, which likes nothing better than an
opportunity to denounce a tariff reformer
as a horse-thief, a burglar, a crank or a
fool. If the esteemed Chattanooga Times
ever spoke of a tariff reformer without a
scurrilous epithet, we never heard of it.
JIE WON’T STAND IT.
t Keep HU
Do SSuGIyuu Bays l |l « Ft,
Hands Off.
From the New York Times.
“What shall wo do to be saved?" was
the question propounded by Dr. McGlynn
at the meeting of the Anti-Poverty Socie
ty at Cooper Unien yesterday afternoon to
a large audience. The chairman, George
Smith, first made an address, in which he
referred to tlie fact that it looked as if
their plan of campaign was going to bo in
terfered witli, and, if so. they were pre
pared for it. “I don’t know iiow the
Irish people arc going to tako this inter
ference,” he said, “but if those who have
the direction of our spiritual affairs are
going to interfere in our politics, we say
hands off.” [Applause.]
Dr. McGlynn, referring to the Pope’s
interference with the plan of campaign,
said: “If tbe Irish people ran stand it, 1
think I can manage to worry along some
how. These wretched, starving people in
Ireland are sending thousands of dollars
every yeai to Route us reier's pence.
[H isses.l If they can tolerate their bish
ops and priests who have had the courage
to speak, being clubbed into silence by the
Pope ii they can stand th'*-. 1 ran. Hut
now I come to think of it, I
can't stand it. Something rises up
and tells me that I should
hr unworthy of my manhood and unwor
thy of iny priesthood if 1 did. [Applause.]
Tho vicar-general of New- York, who is
parjund parcel of the ecclesiastical bod,
in this district, has recently preached
political sermon in which lie made the ai
tounding announcement thot Me must take
our politics 68 wdi as our religion from
Peter. What means Leo XIII., Cardinal
Simceni, [hisses] and a little clique of
priests? When they undertake to (jive
yon your politics as well as your religion,
you nail better take care to see what you
are getting. [Laughter.]
“The works oi Copernicus on tlie Bolnr
system were on tho list of forbidden books
for I’Jl! years. The ioieioiel hi finally
taken off, and now the liitle boys and girls
are being taught liis works in the parochial
schools of the Catholic church, and not a
word said about Copernicus having been
branded as a heretic. If the Araercan
people can stand taking their politics from
Rome as well as their religion, 1 can stand
it. But something comes up and says no.
I love my country and this is my country.
[Applause.] I can't stand it, and I grieve
over the degeneracy of my cotmtrv that
the old love of liberty and justice has so
died out from ourpcople.
“What shall we do to be saved? The
salvation which we seek is tlie restoration
of perfect order and the emancipation of
the man from the brute.”
Gcurgtu Editors.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Atlanta. May 10.—The Georgia Press
association left Atlanta on the 7:30 train
this morning for Canton, via Marietta.
They left Marietta at 9:30, arriving at
Canton, where the association holds its
business meeting at the court house. A
welcome address will be delivered bv C. T.
Standard, Esq., of the Cherokee Advance.
The association will then visit Alum
Springs, the copjier mine and the gold
mints.
At 8 o’clock to-night a banquet will be
tendered to the press association by the
citizens sf Canton at the Etowah Institute.
The greeting of Hon. George R. Brown
will he'rrspomh d to by Colonel Tyler M.
Peeplcf, and there will be speeches by
Hon. Patrick Walsh, II. W. Newman, 1 { .
T. McCutchen, Clark Howell, Col. John
II. Seals and others, and a recitation by
Mrs. Oton.
Tf ic next day the nssociatien will go to
Murphy, North Carolina, where they will
be received by the Board of Trade and
lunum'lted. There will ha * ***** Tn.llso
dance by thirty native Cherokee Indians
in full costume. These are said to be In
dians of the genuine Lo variety. Satur
day morning the aborigines will have a
hall game on the public square.
Leaving Murphy at 9 o'clock Saturday
they will return, stopping at Jasper for
dinner and reaching Marietta at half-past
five, in time to take the train for Atlanta.
The fou r-year-old child of Stringer met
with a fttnmge <leatb at Little Rock. Ark. Mr.
Btrlneer la something of a chicken fancier and
pt Imlf a dozen (tame cocks in bit bock yard.
"ted to play there, and soon
His little
found tint rhmting oae of the game cocks was
an exciting diversion. Suddenly the cock turn-
ed attacked the little fellow furiously,
knocking him down and gaffing him about tne
“ waa etu and picked In a horrl-
m Goldk:« at morning, silver at noon, and
lead at ni^ht,” is the old saying about eating
oran'-'c?. But there is something that is
rifhtly named Golden, and can be taken
with benefit at any ho ir of the day. This is
Dr. Fierce’* Golden MedHaJ Discovery, lit
erally worth its weight in gold to anyone
gatfering with ■erofuloue aftections. impuri
ties of the blood, or diseases of the liver and
lungs. It is unfailing. By druggists.
Talk Witli n Header.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
m . ■ - - , . The other day I called on a bender, a
bie at everything American, they complain lady, not a gentleman, who is well known
witli ’interne* o’ the “trains” and the ell- as a most serpentine contortionist. I
mate, the lack of good manners among the wiahed to ask Mile. Vonare a few oues-
women, the ridiculous dressing of men, the turns about her art, with a view of throw-
iboddyiam, tbe aheenc. of old families, and fog gome light on the training of little
in their s eeves laugh complacently at the I | )0 ys and girls for the profession. The
people who are running about like mad | ] a dy was sitting before the fire with her
dogs and druimngcver) nerve to have them B i 8tcri w ) 10 i la8 abandoned bending herself
at dinner and dance. Not a lew of and exhibits a troup of highly educated
these men „r„ who noodles. A iitigh wicker basket contained
her dress and other stage habits. From its
depths she produced a bundle of photo
graphs of herself tied and kuotted into
all manner of curious folds.
That is tlie business of tlie bender. The
body is thrown into a score of unnatural
postures, which appear to tho audience to
be achieved by dislocating every joint in
the human frame, and to be effected at
great risk of limb and life. Artists are
generally enthusiastic about their callings,
and I must say that Miss Vnnore declared
she would rather be a bender than a queen,
or something to that effect. She began at
four j at five anu a half she was before the
public, and remains a bender still. “My
lather saw a contortionist one night on the
stage, and asked himself why he should
not teach me, aged four. I
was put in training at once, and
enjoyed tho fun, as u child
will enjoy anything new. Was I beaten?
Was I starved? No. I seemed to taketo
it like a little duck takes to water. You
see we were a family of athletes, and,, be
sides,! was a daughter and not an ap
prentice. If the father is the trainer ha
may not spare the rod, but he is cruel on
ly to be kind. My experience is that less
rod and more kindness ia the best plan.
Father used to bribe us into doing the
different tricks. To he successful means
years of hard work, practice and perform
ance. I am nineteen now, and my per
formance keeps me in capital training.
“In the business of contortion the first
lesson is the backward bend, first with the
arms, then without. You stand on a long
mattress, so that there is no danger, ami at
first your teacher controls vour movements
with a belt. It is much the same with
other forms of acrobatic work, nnd the
cruelty often takes the form of taking away
the inuUrcKs, wiiieii creates a sort ot panic
in tho pupil’s mind. If he lias really tried
his best and failed, he is so terrified that
he is almost certain to fall unless he lias
a great deal of pluck. If he has only been
sulking it may bring him to his bearings.
Oi course children are often stubborn, nnd
try the patience of tbe teacher to its ut
most limit.
“The art of contortion,” continued Miqs
Vonare, "is learned by degrees. First,
the backward bend, then the ‘dislocation,
then the ‘splits,’ nml so on. What we call
‘closeness’ distinguishes the best bending.
these men _ are adventurers,
gull the simple New Yorker with
confident ease. “ My cousin, Sir
Robert ; my elder brother, who mar-
ried the daughter of Lord ,” a man
not in the swim, can have no idea what a
few such sentences, combined witli a gen
tlemanly appearance, a chilly manner, a
good supply of clothes and cheek can do
here in r«ew York among people who are
neither dense nor inexperienced. The
Newark bogus lord was an exaggerated
type of this class, nnd so long as Ameri
cans lay themselves open to this sort of
thing they will be fooled and then jeered
at by the great family of bogus lords who
make America their happy hunting
grounds. It is rather surprising that 60
many bitter experiences liave not taught
our countrymen to be a little more judic
ious. But people who learn slowly gener
ally learn thoroughly.
The better class of Englishmen who in
fest New York are generally very nice fel-
lows ; who stand their spoiling well. Ex
cepting such men as the Duke of Marlbor
ough, whose reception here was something
to forget at soon as possible, they are gen
erally talkative, unaffected, jolly fellows,
with long legs, little brains and manners
either quietly dignified or boyishly ingeui-
ous. They are better looking than our
men, and better tempered. They are much
more ignorant of our country than we of
theirs. They all think to live on a ranch
must be bliss, and that bears, buffalos,
mountain lions, antelopes nnd prairie,
hens circle before tho door of the rancher’s
cabin, while he sits languidly in
the doorway picking off the partic
ularly plump ores with liis
rifle. Their ignorance iu business mat
ters is something unbelievable. They are
prey tor the commonest swindler: but once
they get swindled, as they always do in
the first year, they become absurdly suspi
cious of every one, and begin to’ regard
the honest man as Diogenes nnd Ilamlet
did. Tiiev are the most phlegmatic men
on eartlt in their loves, the most obstinate
in their hates. Their ideal is to be coun
try gentlemen on large estates in England,
and they bate the life of large cities.
Could there be a man more opposed, at
every point, to the average American ?
And this is one of the secrets of their
popttlai ity over here. We like a change
and they are a change. The other secret
of their popularity is that socially they are
superior to our men ns onr women nee so
cially superior to their women. And it is
socially that they are so much in demand.
American men, as a class, do not shine in
society. The reason for which is very sim
ple—they have no time to learn to be en
tertaining. It is next to impossible for a
mail who has been hard at work in office
nii day, to sit down in the evening, with
airy jiersiilage. some raw girl fresh from
college, or some gay married woman full
oi airs and graces and nonsense. Hi
tired out, ho is preoccupied, and he will
remain so until he does not liave to spend
his entire day in tlie office. I low eau lie en
tertain when he never reads anything but
what can better him from a business point
of view, whet all hi* brains and energies
arc concentrated on tbe problem lie lias
undertaken to solve? He may be, as far
as conversation goes, a mute, inglorious,
Diderot, an undeveloped Sydney Smith;
all that possible brilliancy has been fo
cused on his bii8inesH t at which he proba
bly is a genius. He is like very sua-mufal
literary people, *lio arc notoriously the
dullest people in the world to converse
with. And whv? Because all their bright
est and most original thoughts aregreedily
garnered up to the minutes dropped seed,
and are put into their nejt book, whence
they dazzle the world.
Not so the young, itineraiii Englishman.
He is one of the leisure class ami has no
business. He has gone through college
and now his work in life is to deck a crack
regiment and lie charming. He rarely has
as much native brightness as the Ameri
can, but with unlimited spare time one
can do a good deal. He acquires all the
habita of society, it soon becomes his nat
ure to laugh anil talk, and look unuttera
ble things m the easiest way imaginable.
He is good company and a good listener,
makes conversation with the skill of a
practiced hand—one who honors the fell
horror of a dead silence, and is altogether
a good all-round man from the society
point of view.
A young girl, who had idled all day, and
has nothing to do with herself but lie
charming, sweet and clever, goes to a din
ner. She is full of vitality, brimming
over with conversation nnd fun; she lougs
for some one to laugh and joke with. She
sits at dinner between the American and
an Englishman, both young, agreeable and
good looking. The American is, nay, a
lawyer, and has his first important case
coming up to-morrow. He has consented
to come tnis evening only at the earnest
request of his hostess, who is his dear
friend. He is worried, preoccupied and
tired. The young lady babbles joyously
to him a rippling stream of charming
commonplaces, lie tries to be civil and
make tallcee, talkee, but it is constrained
and forced, and his eyes, despite his efforts,
stare vacantly at her smiling face. With
the L-opn instinctive imrcto,lions of Its**
sex, she sees he is bored, tliough bravely
battling against it. She is piqued, as who
would not be, and turus to her neighoor.
He is talkative, tliough reserved, listens
with evident amusement to her sallies,
thawB under her glances, becomes enter
taining, and belter still, is evidently enjoy
ing to the full her wit and brilliancy. She
tlitDks him the most delightful of men, and
when she goes home, asks her mamma to
have him to dinner.
But the scales are evenly balanced. Til
Englishman talks well and is enter
taining, because the English girl
talks badly and in heavy as an
amateur’s bread. A void exist, d, and all-
providing nature created the necessary me
dium to fill it. Some one in society u.tist
talk, and if one party wou’t, why the other
has to. Years of laboring in the vineynrd
have given the Englishman a glib 'pro
ficiency, almost mechanical, end certainly
marvellous. He can be as entbii'iastic as
his nature will permit before a pair of icy-
blue eye*, of unsmiling, unrespousive,
healthy red lips, which would chili an
American to the marrow. We, on our
side, can proudly produce our dear, be-
written, ignis fatuus of an American girl.
To tlie audience bending seems most tlifli-
Ciili. Blit 1 experience no discomfort or
inconvenience. I wss a puny child. Yop
see me now.” The lady bender w as cer
tainly most healthy and cheerful, stout
in body and ruddy in complexion,' and she
strongly maintains that all women would
be greatly benefitted if they took to bending.
“It is unite a mi-takr- to think that we
put mir iimii- on: t,f joint or Hint w *■ uf-
■ “ * * V er j
fer from the curious nature
formanco. Of course, afte
difficult position** one may si
pain, but it goes on in no ii
attitudes I cun only remah
seconds, as the breathing bee
But the-** arc I -illiug in'
ill. t
or ni orb
a little
In some
twenty
dillioulu
lines. I
practice a lew minute' every day lo keep
myself loose here in my room, and that fa
alJont all I need <lo.”
Forty years ago Isaac Litchfield and
Henry, his sou, built a little shanty at Sandy
roe. rv.hi**et, tin.! there fur tuvitly
year, lived In seclusion. Then tauc <llcu..
kenrv kept up the hermit buslnces, and be-
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ADOlit a naif miie under the Mirfeee of the ocean
by tbe scientific party on the Huccaneer. A
weight, which waa Midden ly sent down the wire
while the fish was tioaing around the top of tho
iuNtrumcut, killed the uufonuoatc creature,
and he was pinioned fast between the weight
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