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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. JUNE 13. I888.-TWELVE PAGES.
ENDED his life.
r Oliver Ivey Drowns Him
self in a Small Pond.
RO KILLED NEAR BLACKSHEAR.
n f Commencement Exercises st
" Methodist CoUege-Closlng
Exercise' at Daw.ou-A Pu-
laskl County Home.
ct>A Vista, June 14-— [Special].—
Oliver Ivey drowned himself in a
1 pond near his home, six or eight
from town, this evening. No cause is
except that his mind was unbal-
*d, probably by old age. He was over
Ij.'fjve years old.
LAGRANGE.
[ o Brilliant Commencement at the
l°,h,r.. Female College- Factory.
aGbifoK, June 14.—Last night closed
1 grand levee the most. brilliant
menctment ever held in the Southern
Air 0 'he"commencement sermon was
TVA rcv. Henry McDonald, D. D.
gSSuo a very large and attentive
Aegation. Monday the Juniors read
m from Tennyson that were highly
hmfndcd by all who heard them, and
,“l the thoroughness of Prof. Cox in
English classics. In the afternoon the
alien cotnest took place. The young
1 acquitted themselves remarkably
The prize was equallydivided bo
rn Mi* Helen Wall, of Tamna F a.,
,'wij. t„nie Sanford, of Crawfordville.
(he contest for the music medals
held This was very interesting and
the proud recipient of the instrumen-
and Miss Nancy Fannin, of LaGrange,
'Slrt 1 ' eclectic graduates read
nt pithy compositions that were well
d.’ In the afternoon the Ciceronian So-
» held their exercises. The most inter-
feature oi this occasion was the de-
betseen Miss Annie West, of Thom-
i and Miss Ira Bradfield, of LaGrange.
k’jtct: “Should Commencements be
dished Both young ladies read well
had strong papers.
Tuesday night was the grand annual
icert, which was a treat to all lovers of
faterday was commencement day and
l full graduates read eompositions’on
ilespeare’n women. Hon. J. H. Pitman
irered the address to the Senior class
Awarded the medals, as follows:.
-■186 Auuic West, TuOiuSOii, ocuiur es-
, Misses liradfield and Wall, honorable
ntion; Mies Jessie Pankey, Junior es-
r; Miss Mattie Robinson, honorable
ntion;Mies Zulla Burgamy, art; Miss
lie White, instrumental: Miss Nancy
nnin, vocal; Misses Helen Wall and An-
^Sanford, elocution.
Here were three classes of graduates,
ere were twenty-six graduates in all,
only four completed the full course
:extras. Last night tin- levee was held
.'ml a graird success. -Thus
olL r \ iniif.1 brilliant cofitoienffh-
. . number of visltoW were
Fork on the LaGrange cotton m|lis was
nn on Tuesday, and is now being
ied forward with energy.' The diree-
i hope to hare it ready for the machin-
by October 1st. / -
i town clock to cost 91,250>will be voted
Monday, !7tk. t '
Vops genernllv are much ahead of last
IIAWKINyiLLE.
icthlng About Pulaski Couaty Farmers,
High Living, Good Crops, Etc.
[awkinsville, June 14.—Vour report-
iccutnpanied by the jovial and 'big
rted Dr. Fleetwood, of the Rock Ware-
and Comprets Company, left the city
lerdsy. morning to visit the fields of
iS. V. Brown, about eight miles from
h Brown is a most excellent gentle-
■> and has a heart in him as big as a
and when it comes to entertaining
his fair lady can’t be excelled. He
•born within one mile of where he now
and lias been living at the same
1* *°r thirty-two yean. In the year
represented this county in the
gulature with honor to himself and his
crop is in a most excellent condi-
He has fifty acres in Spanish
? ._pca»i which 1b just beautiful and
jt be beaten in the State. His water
•on patch is lovely, and no doubt will
, “ lni m *ny visitors during the long
''UiMiier days; while his corn is just
™ enough, and if lie only makes half a
n .. aTe plenty, as his cribs are
,1 °i last year’s corn and oats. He
'Puttered enough to last him for the
inn or ,our years. His cotton crop
/T icret, be says, is not good; we
ijp however that it waa very fine
v™. as it was about knee-high and not
in grass in it to give a fi.st-class
breakfaat. He will make at least
bales of cotton. He has 300 head of
i* , arc ® ne ! an d he sells oodles
«t, lard and syrup, every year. His
horses and cows are fat and in
Iber
one condition. Mrs. Brown’s
J**^d Jerseys are as fine as can be
I,whieii numbers. *
nad a delightful dinner with quite
a , - v “'vegetables, which were nicely
a u .f. n “ found Mr. and Mrs. Brown to
. Ihgent and very hospitable. We
ver remember the delightful trip
M * r ' an '! Mrs. Brown.
•'apier will leave to-dav to attend
nl. ?.“7I ce " ,en t exercises of’ Weeleyan
-“■lege at Macon.
UAWSON.
•t Exercises at the South Georgia M.
i * ln *l F. College*
, June 14.—The examination
A** °f the South Georgia M. and F.
J h?un on last Friday. The pupils
1 1 * ,l4ence ot much familiarity with
in their various studies.
ireached
, ccaimencement sermon was
^tuthl^rt” 0 ™ 10 * b?
S 0c Jf“' T * r, » r y of the Enterpian Liter-
* OI.A* 48 '‘“Id on last Monday night,
'miib.i Tec *> *ke anniversarian, read
s,uj “J The other exercises
lirt’. (, ‘““"“lions and music.
M»v '“use was crowded on last
* 0 f n or ? lng 10 ,le “ r th * i''* r “ r y “<*'
kt JA 2I!“ ,tron gi of Atlanta. His
Oise and 'Be New.” His
tb C. viuence and masteriy way in
'‘““died his subject captivated
Rev. Mr. Bog-
his hearers. It was indeed a literary
treat.
Oa Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock
the anniversary address was delivered by
Mr. J. M. Black, who rec ived many en
comiums of praise, snd lovely flowers from
his fair lady friends in appreciation of his
able effort. Other able and eloquent ad
dresses were made and were rewarded by
lovely bouquets of Bowers and praises of
their numerous admirers.
The graduates were Miss Tassic Overiv,
Mr. W. E. Christie, Mr. H. S. McNulty,
Mr. B. H. Pearman and Mr. F. G. Branch.
W. E. Christie received first honor, H.
S. McNulty and F. G. Branch second
honor, Miss Tassie Overby third honor.
Medals and prizes were then awarded to
students who had obtained excellencies in
their various studies.
. Thus concluded one of the most pleasant
commencements of the college. President
Parker, who has charge of the institution,
has the thanks and praise of his many
patrons and friends for his able discharge
of duty and,his successful management.
GAINESVILLE.
Fifteenth Annual Session of the State Sun
day-School Convention.
Gainesville, June 14.—The fifteenth
annual session of the State Sunday-school
Association assembled Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o’clock in the Baptist church
There are about one hundred and twenty-
five delegates present from nearly all parts
of the State. Rev. W. H. LaPrade o|ieued
the exercises. Rev. W. H. Strickland, of
Gainesville, delivered the address of wel
come in a very felicitous manner, and Mr.
R. B. Kcppnrd, of Savannah, replied. The
remainder of the morning hour was con
sumed in the appointment of committees.
In the afternoon Mr. Lummus, of Brook
lyn, N. Y., spoke of Sunday-schools among
factory children, ami gave an account of
a school in Brooklyn containing 3,000
pupils.
R. B. Reppardwas again elected to serve
os president another year. He said this
was the last time he could accept the posi
tion. During the afternoon a fraternal
telegram from the Iowa Sunday School
Association, in session in Dubuque, was
received and answered immediately. Then
followed the reports of the district super
intendents. The organization is flourish
ing in some sections, while others repor
very little interest manifested. Some o
the short speeches on the reports were
spicy. At night Mr. M. B. Williams, of
Atlanta, presred the claims of the Young
Men’s Christian Association in a short but
attractive and forcible manner.
Judge Van Epps followed and spoke for
nearly two hours on the events of Gethse-
rnane.
The crowded house listened attentively
to the wonderful story told so graphically
by the judge. This closed the first day.
Ti«e i«wu nnriiini fined ror Arnault and
Battery—Crop* and Politics.
Monroe, June 14.—Mr. F. M. Bearden,
our town marshal, was tried in the County
Court yesterday, charged with assault and
battery. The evidence disclosed the fact
that on the first dav of this month Dr. Jas.
L. Long eatne to town, and early in the af
ternoon waa so drunk and disorderly that
it became nit essa ry to take him off the
'trike is. JxS'A'Wjing Wvctu* tW-tne
magoi’.WrfllhwTWrfflW'lif 1 ci nine vi rv :,u-
nu^indrefused to go any further, where
upon a tussle ensuetl and both men fell to
the ground. The marshal, aeeing that his
prisoner had secured a large stone, held
him flat of hiB back and struck him several
severe blows on the head with his stick,
splitting the skin in six or seven places
and causing the blood to flow profusely.
The mistake the marshal ^appeared to
have made was in striking the doctor four
or five heavy blows after he had thrown
the reck away, leaving himself entirely
disarmed and decidedly too drnnk to hurt
the marshal in any other way. The mar
shal was found guilty and fined fifteen dol
lars and all costs of'prosecution, or work
on the chain-gang four months.
The wheat crop of this county has been
almost totally destroyed by rust. Spring
oat;, cotton and corn are looking well.
We had a much harder time in getting
a stand of cotton than we are having in
getting a stand of candidates for connty
offices.
Cattle atealiog and horse breaking are
becoming common occurrences. If our
authorities would enforce the vagrant law
there would be less of both.
There is not a single white Republican
in Walton county.
COVINGTON.
Order of Commencement Exercises at tlie
Georgia Methodist College.
Covington, June 14.—Commencement
exercises of the Georgia Methodist Female
College will begin here Friday, June 15th,
with the annual concert at 8 o’clock p. m.
Sunday, June 17,the commencement ser
mon will be preached by Kev. J. F. Mix
on, D. D.
The remaining exercises will occur as
follows:
Monday, examination in primary de
partment; Tuesday, sophomore reading;
Wednesday, meeting of trustees, literary
address delivered by Rev. Wm. M. Hays,
of Columbus; medal delivered by Col. J.
G. Lester. At 8 p.m. reading of'essays
by senior class, followed by the conferring
of degrees and the awarding of prizes to
the graduating class, as follows:
Miss Minnie Hightower, first honor;
Xflu IUIIa Ml un-ell scconil hnnnr; Mi«e
Madge Bigham, Miss Katie Brice, Miss
Lilia Joy.
Our college is now in a prosperous con
dition. President J. T. McGlaughlin is
an able, energetic and competent teacher,
and the thanks of our people are due to
the conference for their judicious selection
of such an efficient educator.
BLACKS HE AB.
A Drenken NegTO CuTTo Flecee by a Train.
Blacksiiear, June 14.—A darky by the
name of Ben Harris was found on the rail
road track near the depot in Blai&shear
this morning. He was badly cat to pieces
■ by the train. It ia thought be waa drunk
and laid down on the track and the train
ran over him. ....
He was seen in the edge of the town an
hour or two before the train came, under
the influence of whisky.
Interesting Experiences.
HInun Cameron, fernltnre 'lesler of Col urn
bus. On, tells bis ezperlence thus: For three
veers 1 bnvo tried every remedy on the market
lor Stomach and Kidney WsorJcrs. hut got no
relief, until I used Electric Hitters. Tookllvtt
bottles and am uow cured, end think hleetrio
Hitters the beet blood purlller to the world.
SSS A. B. Heed, ot West Liberty, Kentncky,
lisced Electric Hitters for an obi standing kld-
nuy efftetlun, snd says: •'Nothing has ever
done roe so much good as Electric Bitters.
Sold st fifty cents s bottle by Lamar, Kenkln <k
GEORGIA PRESBYTERIANS.
Dr. Robinson oa the Need of a Presbyterian
University—A School Scorcher.
Atlanta, June t i.—The conventions of
Presbyterians of Georgia reassembled this
morning at 10 o’clock in the auditorium
of the Central Presbyterian church. Major
Campbell Wallace, of Atlanta, who was to
have presided at the morning’s session, was
absent, and Rev. J. N. Craig was chosen in
his place. Rev. H. K. Walker, of Decatur,
led m prayer.
Rev. John J. Robinson, D. D., of Ros-
welj, was introduced and discussed the
subject of “Denominational Colleges’’ in
an able uiauner. He opened by -speaking
of the necessity for a Presbyterian univer
sity in Georgia, and followed by demon
strating that if a denomination has a right
to exist at all it should use every means
for its prosperity. Re said:
If a denomination has a right to exist«t
all, if God has plainly given it a mission
to fulfill, it is hound to use all legitimate
means for its growth and prosperity. If,
for example, we, as Presbyterians, claim
the right to exist as a denomination of
Christian believers, we are under solemn
obligations to give that existence vitality,
(tower and enlargement. To the Master
who has put a sacred trust into our hands
we owe it to deepen, multiply and widen
the currents of our influence to build our
denomination in all proper ways, by all
pro[ier agencies and iu iraternal love and
sympathy with all other branches of the
church of Christ. Among the agencies
may lie ranktd the denominational col
lege, the proximate object of which is the
education of young men under the care
and control ol the church, with the ulti
mate design of giving them a Christian
education under the teaching of the Bible.
Until quite receutly the Presbyterians of
Georgia have employed this agency with
what practical results you are all familiar.
Oglethorpe Lniversity did a great work
in its dsy; hut the knell of
its doom was struck when it whs taken
from Midway and transplanted to At
lanta; for it needed then, as never before,
the wise und tender care, the constant and
faithful watchfulness and the diligent nur
ture of u plant uprooted from the soil in
which it has grown and flourished.”
Here Dr. Kohiuson read an extract from
a letter from Rev. C. W. Lane, of Athens,
which stated that at the opening of the
war in 1861, Oglethorpe had an endow
ment of about $100,000, with 1,500 to
2,000 volumes in its library, and perhaps
$1,500 worth of apparatus. There were
uuwards of one hundred students in the
college, which number war steadily in
creasing. At the end ot the war about
one-fourth of the endowment was all that
survived, $75,000 having been put into
Confederate bonds. Perhaps 200 to 300 of
her sons were sent into the ministry.
In the establishment of a denominational
college, said Dr. Robinson, “Presbyterians
do not wish their sons to be made bigots,
hut they wish them to become intelligent
Presbyterian Christians. They wish to
have included in the - process oi their
education the potent influence of the
Bible; they wish them to revere that book
more than they do Plato, Demesthenes,
more than Horace cr Cicero, Euclid or
Newton. They wish them to be ready to
give an answer to all who ask the reason
of their belief in the Bible amlCalvani-tic
frcshjtcriaui.-lu. Wl want uo hot-lied
v.-h- > • '.* "an!: words -i vict ar. t ini: i !
tv shall develop and mature their strength,
which shall provide cold storage for the
products of the intellect”
In s(ieakiog of President Cleveland, he
said, “whilst men were wild with enthu
siasm the other day at St. Louis over the
nomination of Cleveland, 1 feel proud to
believe that the incorruptible integrity
which accepts no bribe, the sturdy honesty
which lias no concealments the rugged
sense of duty which tolerates no neglect
and feara no result to self—all these
which make our President great, which
impressed his wonderful personality in the
late convention and which have made his
administration one of exceptional success,
are largely due to his Presbyterian parent
age ana training.
Ten minutes addresses were made by
Rev. II. F. Hoyt, of Madison; Rev. J. N.
Craig, of Atlanta, and Rev. M. Me. N.
McKoy, of Griffin. Col. L.' F. Livingston,
of Covington, also mode a short address,
which was a “scorcher” upon all the col
leges of the State.
He said the female colleges educated
5 iris these days to read dime novels and
ance the german. They were not taught
how to handle dish-rags/to tote the milk
pail, cook and sew. The boys fared no
better.' He would not specify any institu
tion, because be was a member of the
board of trus ees of two colleges, and one
of them was a Presbyterian female col
lege, but he would sty tnat the colleges of
Georgia were lacking in discipline. The
Colonel next referred to one of the
State colleges. He said he wouldn’t call
its name because be belonged to the board
of trustees, but from his remarks h» insin
uated strongly that he meant the Univer
sity of Georgia. In that institution he
said there were too many dead heat profes
sors, men who were teaching solely for the
bread and meat there was in it and not to
educate the boys. He said be could prove
this, if necessary. He referred to the good
old days of Church, Waddell and others,
when the boys were taught properly.
In those days, said he, the children were
brought up right and you did’nt hear of
any colleges turning out infidels and athe
ists, as they do now. Nowadays gamblers
ami loafers are being turned out of some
of our Georgia colleges instead of Chris
tian:. He :a:d vrhst tsrii lu sume
of our institutions waa the hickory switch,
which made such men as Boh Toombs and
Aleck Stephens the men that they af
terwards were. The Colonel next referred
to the religious instructions
young men received
Georgia colleges. He was not in favor of
religious instructions in llte University,
because he thought denominational col
leges ought to attend to that, bat the
Holy Bible should be in every public
school in* Georgia, and if State School
Commissioner Hook didn’t see that it was
put there, Governor Gordon ought to dis
charge him. He had heard that some of
the Presbyterians said they could not have
a denominational college. If they would
only put their hearts into • the
E ork ’ the money could easily
s raised. He wanted a college where boys
could be properly taught. The. Colonel
said in closing that he had said that a
child of his should not attend t college in
Georgia, but he bad to put a son of his in
Emory, in self-defense, although he regret
ted to do it.
The speech waa a very scorching affair,
and one or two of the delegates went so far
as to pronounce it rather intj
At the afternoon ae
Candler presided. Col
ered a very able address
veation upon “Early F '
Education in atorcta-'
VERY PLAIN TALK
About tbe Condition of Affairs In the State
Vnlvursltr.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
In compliance with the request of
friends of the State University, I beg to
offer to the people the following statement
of facts about the University aside from
the report given by the board of visitors
to the Governor:
The State has spared neither labor nor
money in providing expensive equipments
for teaching intricate branches of science,
such as chemistry, physics, civil engineer
ing, etc. This apparatus is well cared for,
and I have every reason to believe that in
the hands of skillful teachers it is accom
plishing the very end for which it was pur
chased. The library, too is in a good con
dition. Everything connected with it is
in taste, and the young men who attend
upon it cannot but be greatly bene-
filted. Figutes given to the board of
visitors by the librarian shows that
a fair per cent, of the students use it.
I would that I could speak so well ol
all I saw, but the truth forbids it. Sick
people often take bitter doses in order to
get woll, and the suritecn must sometimes
saw off a limb or two to save life. To say
that the Slate University is, in many re
spects, in a bad condition is (Hitting it
very mildly. In our report is a sentence
like this; “We venture the assertion that
i n no university is there lees immorality
and vice than in this institution.” (I
3 uote from memory.) I do not mean to
eny this, yet I do not know that it is
true. I voted against its being put into
the report because 1 had no occular proof
that it was the fact. What is vice? If
using tobacco is vice, then it seems to be
almost universal there. No institution
that ever 1 saw is so bad in this. The
hoys praise loudly some of the members
of the faculty who “set up” the
cigars at certain times. . Is physical
liianhood worth anything to the titate?
Is it worth anything to these
young men? What says their science
about tobacco and the physical man? Is it
hurtful or not to the average throat and
and brain and general nervous system?
Did the State establish this del'ghtful to
bacco chair in tbe University? What is
degree? Bachelor of Indecencies? I went
into the recitation room, where the Seniors
were examining in chemistry, The air was
full of the smoke. Was there any young
men in there whose mother had taken him
to Sunday-school and who - tried to teach
hiuftkat respect for others was but com
mon decency? Have refined people no
rights in su.h a place? The railroads have
reserved cars for such, but I am not euro
that the State University has such a re
serve. I mean by refuted ptople those who
are not ready to think that everybody en
joys smelling tho tpbacco smoke they puff
from their mouths.! I hold that the use of
tobacco is a vice and has a vicious influ
ence, especially onjlhe young. Will some
teamed professor please prove that 1 am
wrong? All ovctjsome of the buildings,
outside' ar well *s inside, the malicious
hands have defacnl with knife, chalk, lead
pencil,'etc.
Over tlw door ti) the chapel room, in
which daily m rvices are conducted, is in
2args9srjs.au SuVertucmeui of an eating
house. This, I suppose, is nothing Ev-
i rywhere the lead pencil has done its per
il rt work in ili i ■ linc. Tlie inih'ri m ii - in
the do
.nhle ■
before
utirely
l In
rep<
men. When spoken
objected to as not
>>ral, sm! therefore to be over
looked as unhurtfal to the institution.
Where decency is at a discount mankind—
and especially womankiud—are sufferers.
What is needed here is a prominent officer
known as missionary. That there are
young men here whose parents would be
shocked to see and know’ their true moral
surroundings cannot be doubted. They
most wonder, when they return from'
college, what gave them all their daring
impudence and disregard for all former
teachings of purity, refinement and Chria-
tian-grace. I know what did it. One moth-
en was with her sick son. Did she see any
of this revolting indecency ? The officer*
of the institution said to me: “'You can
not go in that building. There is a sick
hoyln the third story.” Yes. Whst,
would I hurt him? was the querry tome.
Within a few windows of his was a drunk
student, or a lunatic, or a Yahoo—I can
not tell which he was—howling like a
madman. He, of oourse, did not hnrt the
sick student. Tbe desks on which the stu
dents do their writing in the lecture rooms
remind on* .of ths'-arpenter’s saw horse,
ft looks as if a mtcual training feature
should be established for the geniuses in
wood carving. This, again, is nothing, of
course. One of the good members of
the board of visitors argued that it
could not be stopped. He was but re
cently a graduate from there, and no
doubt did a good deal of it himself, hence
he could see nothing wrong about all this
mutilation. To a casual obssrver the
whole scene betokens an alter want of dis
cipline, where every boy is “put on his
honor” before he has been taught tbe first
letter of the alphabet of self-government or
respect for property. One said, “Well,
some great men have gone from these old
dingy and much abused walls.” No doubt
of it, but many a boy goea away a harum-
scarum rattle-brain, who, under better
surroundings, might have made a useful
citizen. These years in young men’s lives
are fraught with too much of their future
to be so neglected. I am a etrong friend
of thie institution of learning, ana in the
name of higher education I pray that some
thing will be done to save it from
these terrible maladies that are fast killing
It. The- SM ;he .:..w «T
incompetent men that need a sharp knife
and a daring hand. During an eight days’
investigation, my eyes and ears, and nose
combined to teach me that it needs execu
tive salvation. New and vitalizing power
must be found that can etop this teckless
disregard of all that is sacred and dignified
and ennobling in this great institution of
learning. Such a power need not be looked
for among those under whose eyes all these
sins have been committed with impunity.
Lyman If. Ford,
Board of Visitors.
Superintendent City Schools.
Newnan, Ga., June 13, 1888.
BYDBOPIIOIIIA AND FRIGHT.
Deaths .4**r<t~!te4 ~the jjtlrtr
Caused by the Latter.
From tbe Philadelphia i-resa.
Tbe principal event in the convention of
the State medical amociation yesterday i
occurred in the afternoon. It was tbe die-1
enssion over the existence of hydrophobia. <
The debate waa interesting and valuable, !
and while there waa a gre at difference of j
inion on certain points, all agreed that j
over'
hydrophobia were shown to be common to
many forms of convulsions tetanic and
convulsions resulting from hysteria.
Dr. C. W. Dulles, who had been appoint
ed bj[ the society to investigate ltydru-
S hohia, read his report for the year.
[. Pasteur’s methods, he said, were not
attracting the same attention they did a
year or so ago, and are in a frir way to die
out. Pasteur had only treated 306 cases
the past year, he said, where he had form
erly treated 300 a month. Pasteur's method
had no effect in decreasing the mortality of
those who fall into terror of hydrophobia.
In the past year there had been fifteen
cases in this country of alleged hydropho
bia. He specified several cases, one being
the case of a man who dreamed he died of
hydrophobia, and on awakening was taken
with convulsions through fright and died.
“The fear is worse than the bite,” said
Dr. Dulles, “for not one of the animals,in
the cases mentioned gave evidence that
they had the rabies. The living in dread
of death from hydJophobia is often the
cause of death. Too often the diagnosis
of the ease is made by the laity and con
firmed by the doctor. There is nothing
more senseless, more cruel, more calculated
to cause death than the senseless test of
water.” Dr. Dulles spoke of the exagger
ation of the forcible restraint supposed to
be necessary in hydrophobia cases, and de
nounced the use of narcotics. “Hydro
phobia is a misnomer,” he said, and is not
a specific inoculable disease. I do not deny
that people fall into a certain state after
being bitten by a mad dog, but I do deny
that tlie state is produced by canine virus.
Fright and other factors throw the patient
into a ’conkition,’ not a disease. Wherever
there ia little talk there is little disease.
Hydrophobia was unknown in Pennsylva
nia this last year, and belief in it will lol-
low the fate of the belief in witchcraft.”
Dr. Shakspeare, of this city, dissented
front the opinions of Dr. Dulles, and said
he spoke only from the standpoint of a
medical antiquarian and a clinician, and
did not speak front laboratory knowledge
Dr. Sbakapeare held that the teachings of
laboratory experiments were in favor of
belief in hydrophobia beyond the (lower
of controversy. He said the work there
proved the existence of rabies as an in-
lectuoua disease in the animal kingdom,
and the strong probability was that it was
infectuous to man as well as in the lower
animals, for the same symptoms were ob
served in both. The assumption that man
is an exception to the rule that hydropho
bia is infectious, he said, was arrant non
sense.
Dr. Traill Green, who is almost eighty
years old, made a strong speech treating
hydrophobia ns a myth. “This state is not
so prevalent as people believe,” he said.
“Mad dogs are rare, very rare. In all my
experience I have never had a case, and
those I heard of and inquired into turned
out to be humbugs. I want to see tbe peo-
S le delivered front this scare. It’s a wou-
er we live at all, we’re so afraid of every
thing. People die of the fright, and it is
a doctor’s business to keep his patients
from being scared.”
Dr. Kahter, of Harrisburg,.gave the case
of a young girl which he considered a real
case of hydrophobia.
Dr. C. K. Mills said that the so-called
hydrophobia symptoms could ho explained
in other wayB as a resultant from other
diseascs.The convulsions might result’,from
the tea rug by a sharp instrument, and
would he of the nature of lockjaw. He
-aid : “We ought to do all we can to re
lieve the public of fear.” Dr.-Frank
Woodbury said lie considered it a settled
thing that hydrophobia and rabies did
exist, but that they were rare diseases.
Most people die of fright, he said, especial
ly young women. He was not in favor of
the society continuing Dr. Dulles as in
vestigator any longer.
Dr. Green said that Dr. Dulles was doing
a good work. “The fear is broadcast,” he.
said, “in every one’s mind. Even councils
show their fear by passing ordinances to
muzzle dogs in summer time, when there
are fewer case* of alleged rabies than at
any other time. I don’t want the people
to be scared, and I say such action is non
sense.”
Dr. Dulles concluded the debate. He
said that there was too mnch dictation
from the laboratory. He did notdeny that
rabies may be propagated, but said that
such propagation was wholly artificial. “I
do not deny that there is such a disease as
rabies, but that disease' is msrked hy s de
sire for quiet, rest, repose snd water, while
the al'eged symptoms of hydrophobia in
man are just the opposite.”
s single thought will be happier in mar
riage than an tngel married to a Tommy
Noddy, no matter what Dr. Holland says.
All the talk about “angelic superiority”
may be set down as cant or what the Eng
lish call “rot.”
JEFFERSON DAVIS AT EIGBTY.
A Picture tl the Aged Confederate Leader
In Hie Home at Ileanrolr.
From the New Orleans Picxjnnc.
Yesterday, June 3, waa the eightieth
birthday of the great soldier statesman,
Jefferson Davis, but there were few of the
■ignsof an octogenarian visible in his
S resence as he came dowu the long hall of
eauvoir to greet a Picayune representa
tive, who added another lo the many con
gratulations that were pleasant reminders
of the honor and love in which be is held.
Immaculately dressed, straight and erect,
with the traces of his long military service
still showing in his carriage, with his
eighty years resting as lightly on bis head
as a silver crown and with 'the flush of
health on his pale, refined face, such is the
portrait of the famous President of the
Confederacy as he looks at fourscore.
Mr. Davis looks back from the heights
of his fourscore years on an eventful life
that has brought him in contact with
most of the prominent men of the country^
although his public career naturally ended
with the war, and the oliticians oi tbe
present day belong to the era in which he
nas had no part. His mind is as vigorous
and active as it was in earlier years, show
ing none of he failings of age, and he
takes a keen interest in the questions of
the dav, political, religious, and social.
He is genial and witty, apt at repartee,
and most delightful of all when he can be
won from his reserve long enough to
speak of the great events in which he was
an actor.
The mail had brought Mr. Davis many
letters from people who sent their con
gratulations, and the house was gay with
towers and little tender souvenirs of
friends, who, to use the homely old phrase. -
“remembered him” upon his birthday, aid
lie seemed deeplv touched by the knowl
edge of tho nfection and reverence in
which he is held by the Southern (eople—
‘ilia people,” for whom he planned and
struggled and for whom he i disfranchised.
. Out of doors the doy was still and calm,
and looking front the nigh, wide windows
of Beauvoir hous one saw a sea as blue as
turquoise, with scarce a ripple on its sur
face, and it seemed almost a prototype of
the quiet life whose last years being spent
by its edge—quiet and peaceful, and blue
with heaven’s benediction after the storms
that had convulsed it.
Jn his home life Mr. Davis is exception
ally fortunate. No Southerner but is
proud to own the cultured, dignified mis
tress of Beauvoir as the best example of
what Southern civilization has done for
womanhood, and as for Mi?s Winnie, she
is one to whom the tendercst and the
.rtisst tesst is drunk st every re-union
of veterans—“The Child of the Confeder
acy.”
A Flaasura Bliarad by Women Only.
Malherbe, the gifted French author, de
clared that of all things that man posses,
women alone taky pleasure in being pos.
sessed. This seems generally true of the
of the sweeter sex. Like the ivy plant, she
longs for an object to cling to and love—to
look to for protection. This being her pre
rogative ought she not to be told that Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Is the physical
salvation of her sex? It banishes those dis
tressing maladies that make her life a bur
den, curing all painful irregularities, uterine
disorders, imflgmmalion ana ulceration, pro
lapsus and kindred weaknesses. Asa nerv
ine, it ourea nervous exhaustion, prostration,
debility, relieves mental anxieiy and hypo
chondria, and promotes refreshing sleep.
The'ladies’ “leap-year privilege” took its
origin in the following manner: Bv an
ancient act of the Scottish parliament,
passed about tho year 1228, 't was ordained
that, “during the reign of her blessed Maj-
eaty-*-Margaret—every maiden lady of
both high snd low dsgree shall have liber
ty to speak to the man she likes. If ho
refuses to take her to be his wife, he shall
be mulct in the sum of JC100 or less, as his
estates may be, except and always if ho
can make it appear that he is betrothed to
another woman, then he shall be free.”
A new helmet for firemen has bten ^in
vented in Bremen. It consist* principally
of a copper mask, which is very light.
The wearer’s nose, mouth and eyes receive
through an India rubber tube a constant
stream of pure air, which leaves the hel
met by an opening opposite the eye*, and
prevents the entrance of smoke. The hel-
If She Want. t. Marry, let Her Find . Man t ** Ud A » nd J* *°
Who is her Equal. be used by the Berlin fireman, it is said.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The advice of Dr. Holland for yonng
men to aelect a wife from the ‘female ao-
riety above them would be more valuable
if the learned doctor had defined in just
what the wife waa to be superior. That
he had a clear idea in bis head seem* man
ifest But does he mean superior in social
position? Does he mean that tbe coach
man shall always aspire to the brilliant
and accomplished daughter of hfs em
ployer for a wife? Does he
mean that tbe gardener’ son should
always aim to win the countess on the
ground that love makes all things
even? Does he mean that tbe judge
shall always pass by Maud Muller for a
lady of high degree—that the aim of a no
ble lord in the selection of a wife shall be
the daughter of a king—that the young
mechanic should seek for his btide in the
home of the coal kings and iron barons
and blue-blooded first families? If this is
his meaning, his advice is worthless, for in
common every day life such marriages, in
nine cases out of ten, prove to be the most
unhappy, anti generally end in divorce.
A man of brains has a better chance for
peace and comfort in a marriage with a
woman who is a goud*naiured dunce than
a woman of intellect could hope for in a
union with an ignorant or thick-headed
boor. The reason is obvious. The man has
the world of business and society open to
him for the pursuit of happiness. He need
use his home only as a place to sleep and
eat, while the wife wedded to a boor has a
life-long sorrow, a dead weight of woe,
and a penitentiary for a home. But the
gifted women who’ have married inferior
men and have had an, sort of a fair chance
for happinew we fail to remember^ while
Mrs. Hemans, Miss Landon, Mrs. Norton,
Fannie Kemble and others stand out as
awful warnings. Dr. Holland’s line of
advice, if carefully followed by men, might
give comparative happinea* to them. Mar
rying above themselves in wealth, social
(iosition, intellect and piety might per
chance not be so bad as tbe world goes,
but what of tbe women who thus come
down to wed men it low estate in each or
all of thew things? In former day* such
stuff might have been accepted as senes
and wisdom; but nowaday* no such igno
rance will be counted as gospel. Amur-
riage to be really happy muat be a nnion
of into friends and real lovers, who have a
fair endowment of reason and common
sense between them. Two fools with but
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