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SOME HOTEL HAWKSHAWS.
TYF=t Or BEAUTY.-
Tilt Men Who Have Become Indlipene- ! No poMlblllty of Arriving at Any Stnnd-
ablo to Our Bonifaces. ard—Some Odd Ideas.
"OK *>e'8 a hotel detective, is he? I Various, indeed, are the opinions held
Well, what on earth good is a hotel de- I by a wide diversity of races regarding
‘ “ ‘ their beauties, though it is often difficult
tective? What do hotels want with de
tectives, anyhow?”
This remark, made in a petulant tone,
was uttered in the corridor of the Hoff
man house tho other afternoon by a
western man who was on a visit to the
metropolis and had been looking at tho
art treasures of the cafe. He eyed in a
contemptuous way the well dressed little
man, with a slouch hat, who was lean
ing against a pile of trunks near the ele
vator. A friend showing tho western
man tho city sights had happened inci
dentally to point out Detective Jacobs as
one of tho features of a big metropolitan
hotel. .
Ten minutes later the westerner saw
the little detective step up to a well
dressed man in a group of threo who
had just sauntered into tho art gallery.
“I’ll havo to ask you to move on, sir,”
the deteetivo said.
“Who nro you?” growled tho man,
ungrily, “what do you mean by talking
to mo that way?"
“Just what I say, and I mean it,” the
little man replied, undaunted, “and
here’s who I am, and I know you per
fectly well.”
Tho littlo detective threw open his
coat and showed his glistening deteetivo
shield. Tho well dressed man qpt short
his bluster instantly, and walked quickly
out into tlie street.
He was a local bunko man, who had
casually dropped into the hotel cafe with
two out of town crooks. The conversa
tion with the littlo deteetivo was anima
ted, but not so loud that anybody in the
art gallery could understand it. Tho
Gothamito who was showing tho west
erner around knew what was up, though,
and turning to his friend said pin; fully:
“That’s somo good a hotel deteetivo is.
That was a confidence man that ho
talked to. Maybo he’d havo caught on
to you if it hadn’t been for the den
tive."
It was an apt illustration of one of tin-
duties of tho hotel detective. In tli ■
' marvelous perfection of tho cquipmen.
of a metropolitan hotel in tho 1::> : _u-
years tho private detective has r.. o to
bo an indisiKjnsable detail, and today
there is not a hotel in town that enjoys
any select patronage at all that does not
employ n guardian, who is empowered
to make arrests if necessity arises. Somo
of the detectives are men specially as
signed from tlie police force, and whose
salary is guaranteed by the hotel in con
sideration of tlie policeman’s exclusive
service. Often, however, tho special
guardians aro regular privato detectives.
They aro men well trained in detective
methods, and enjoy tho advantago of a
wide and varied acquaintance with tho
faces of metropolitan rascals and tho
confidence operators of tho country.
Keeping tiie hotel clear of this class of
crooks, however,is only a small part of tho
hotel detective’s work. Upon them de
volves in most cases the supervision of
tho porters and hall boys, and all. the
army of help that a big Gotham inn has
to employ. If a guest loses anything in
the hotel, or outside of it either, ho. is
sent at onco to the hotel deteetivo to con
sult about its recovery; and if chamber
maids or porters find articles that have
been mislaid or lost, they are expected to
bring them direct to tho hotel detective,
and he, in turn, hands them over to tho
hotel proprietor, or his representative, to
bo delivered to tho owner.
It is also tho detective’s duty to pro
tect his employers from tho numerous
and persistent army of pests known as
tho hotel beat, and it is duo to the pres
ence of detectives, in every well regulated
city hotel, that New York has ceased to
be a spot where this peculiar gentry can
for people bred under another sky to
shore their enthusiasm. The Circassian
women, who havo a sort of conventional
reputation for loveliness, ore affirmed by
those who know them best to bo far from
worthy of their celebrity. Short legs,
glaring red hair, faces so long and nar
row that their heads seem to linve been
squeezed between two boards and flat
tened, noses out of proportion to tho rest
of the features and complexions of a
dull, lead liko hue, scarcely constitute
beauty according to our standard. Tho
Moors and the Tunisian Jews regard cor
pulence as absolutely essential to beauty,
and tlie inmates of rich men’s harems are
stuffed with nutritious food, like Stras
bourg geese for the market. Tho Chi
nese poets sing of tlie deformed feet ns
“golden lilies.” and the locking of their
women in attempting to walk as tho
“waving of a willow."
Other races have equally odd ideas of
what constitutes loveliness, for they “im
prove” their )>ersons by flattening their
foreheads, tattooing their skins, cutting
off their lingers, filing their teeth or
dyeing them black, blue or tartan, paint
ing their bodies, slitting their ears, com
pressing their waists, putting stones, bono
or metal through their lips, cheeks, or
ears, and in a dozen other ways trying to
enhance the i>oor ’prentice work of nature.
A Felatah lady dyes her liands and feet
with hennali, stains her teeth alternately
blue, yellow and purple, one hero and
tliero being left of its natural color, pen
cils her eyelids with sulphurct of anti
mony, and dyes her locks with indigo.
Tho Hydah woman inserts a plug of
wood or ivory through her lower lip until
it represents the hideous appearance of a
fleshy shelf over her chin. A Chinese or
a Siameso lady cultivates long nails. A
Hottentot liello cannot get her nose flat
enough, or a Parsian beauty liers high
enough.
On tho northwest coast of America no
reproach is more bitter than for ono In
dian girl to tell another that “your mo
ther was too lazy to flatten your head.”
Tattooing is almost universal among half
civilized or savage races; in Now Zea
land the Maori women, before they began
to imbibe European prejudices, even tat
tooed their lips, lest they should have
the reproach of being red. 'Some
races slit their ears until they hang i: i
loops on their shoulders. Others insert
huge rings and other ornaments through
the cartilage of their noses. The Louisi-
ade Islanders regard the lid of a sardine
box as a particularly neat piece of jew
elry, and even European women have
not yet ceased to suspend bits of stone
and metal through tho lobes of their ears.
There is, in truth, no possibility of ar
riving at any standard of beauty, tho
“points” of which would not do injustice
to some of the competitors. Even among
tho whites there are various ideas of
what constitutesjgood looks. Liko man
ners and morals, beauty is very much a
matter of sky. Just ns an Indian told a
traveler what a comfort his son was to
him, hecauso “liocould steal more horses
than any hoy of his age,” so a western
frontiersman assured a visitor that his
daughter was tlie "finest girl” in the
settlement, for she could “heft a barrel
AsnighuSo“^rmenwho SELF EXTINGUISHMENT OF F1RES.J
a»0 in tho least rheumatio or Cllflly should Automatic Sprinklcrs-A Tinsmith's Itx-
sleep in blanket wraps over the night- 1 perienre—Several Curious Instances,
gown, preventing aches andcolds caught I nu, apparatus which is most promptly
by tossing the arms over the head, as ' used i* cases of burning buildings, and
wefi as tbo loss of sleep that often comes a j so w itlt tho least efficacy, is the human
of disturbed circulation People who use voico> notwithstanding the historical fact
their brains habttuafiy, teachers, writers thut blowing hag accomplished nothing
artists, must keepwarm as the saving of 6inco the day3 of Jt , richp ‘ Y et there are
their abilities. They must havo fires numerous ins.ances whero fires have been
ear y and uso footwarmers by day and extinguished through causes connected
night, and dress like Esquimaux if neces- with $ heir origin> a ° d completely out-
sary, or congestion of the brain or lungs
is the penalty. Tlie inflammation of tho
lungs which carried off Georgo Eliot nml
Mrs. Browning was descended from tlie
chilliness and poor circulation which
side of precedence that they serve os In
stances of tho happening of tho unox
pected. In this connection wo do not
refer to the fires extinguished by auto-
., , . , , malic sprinklers, where the result is
these bram workers had borne for years. clearly 4 at has teen expected to happen.
Caro must be taken with all this heat- ' Notwithstanding tho fact that when a
mg. to have a current of warm, fresh air firo oc Cur!) on % t protected by auto-
circula ing in the rooms and to have it ; malic sprinkled, thoseprescntavail them-
healthily moist. Such precautions give ; se(ves * of a „ t ho menus of grace in tho
a soft and lovely complexion, equal to the | „ ha of tll0 usua , flru ..p^ratus „ t hand,
famousi Newport bloom. The best ivay to j yet 'there nro numerous instances where
secure this constant ventilation without p lrcs i lave occurred at night or in rooms
^ Is by having the topof the window vacantat Ul0 time, where the fact has
fitted w ith a perforated board, pierced by j te^ made known only by water per-
many conical borings, only a quarter as ; co x a ting; through tho floors, or tho sound
wido at tho center as at each surfaeo of | 0 f t ; 19 automatic fire alarms, or from the
the hole. This gives a fine, forciblo play > S p r i n k]ers which have already come into
of mmuto currents through the room in- a ‘ ctive operation( tho firo ] iavill g called
•InH’n rlrvi,’- ,s down means for self extinguishment,
n wv«. , jj ut y le instances which wo havo in
mind nro thoso where tlie menus of ex
tinguishment were not expected, as in
tho well known cathedral building in
Boston, wliero a fire, caused by sponta
neous ignition in a storeroom, melted tho
lead water pipes, and tlie water issuing
from them extinguished tho fire. A sim
ilar instanc* happened in a building in
Market street, Philadelphia. Somo sheet
metal pails wero returned by tho pur
chaser to a tinsmith in Chester, Pa., with
the complaint that they wero not tightly
made. Tho manufacturer resoldered
them, and in order to test his work filled
them with water and hung them upon
hooks at the ceiling. While tho men
wore at dinner during tho noon hour, a
firo heated the upper part of tho room
so that tlie hails connecting tho handles
to tho pails bccamo unsoldered, and tho
dropping of tho pails of water dashed out
tho fire.
Somo waste left upon tho top of a
steam pump at Watertown, Mass.,
blazed from spontaneous ignition, and
this in turn set tiro to tho lagging around
tho steam cylinders and tho feed pipe,
whero it melted tlie soldered attach
ments of a continuous automatic oiler,
Tho Bteam from tho feed pipo was dis
charged through the small tubes formerly
leadiug to the oiler, and extinguished tho
fire. There havo been numerous in
stances of fires which liavo ceased for
want of air. During tho war of tho re
bellion attempts wero mado to burn Now
York city, as tho rpsult of a conspiracy,
fires being started in several hotels; but
in order to prevent prematuro detection
tho culprits closed up tlie rooms so tightly
that tho tiros were smothered. At a
hotel in Woonsocket tho steam pipes
caused a fire in tho spaces in tho wali3 of
the building, which was,extinguished for
want of air to support combustion. Tho
time of tlie firo is unknown, as its occur
rence was not discovered until somo time
afterward, when in the progress of somo
alteration to tho building tlio facts were
made apparent.
It may 1» interesting to know that
in tki3 instance tho steam heating service
wn3 ordinarily used at a pressure of about
a woman’s invention, and a very clever one
for keeping rooms perfectly healthy and
fresh. It is a littlo remarkable that a plain
American woman should have worked
out a plan of cheap, efficient ventilation
on tho same principles as the French in
vention which drew tho npplauso of
scientific men years later.
To keep the air moist tho simplest way
is to keep a pan of water in tho heat reg
ister, with a largo sjiongo in it, or a wet
towel hung with ends in the water, giv
ing off moisture to tbo air which floats
over it. Pans of water alone do very
littlo good, though tetter than nothing,
Tho moisturo must be directly in the
path of tho air to be absorbed by it. The
water cans for stoves should bo largo
enough to cover the whole top and te
kept clean and full of fresh water. Such
water pans purify tlie air os well as keep
it moist, a;t they absorb impurity. A
littlo niter, iodine and salt in tho water is
very strengthening to breathe, having a
mild effect of sea air.—Shirley Daro’s
Letter.
Preparing a Nerve Skeleton.
One of the most interesting features of
tho convention of state homeopathic
physicians is tlie completion by Dr. It.
B, Weaver, demonstrator of anatomy at
the Homeopathic college, of a piece of
work which has occupied his closo at
tention for six months. It is a complete
expose of all tho nerves of tho human
Ixxly, exactly in tho jiosition they occupy
during life. Some idea can lw formed
ef tho labor involved when it is remem
bered that the human body contains up
ward ef a million nerves of various sorts.
Dr. Weaver, who lately traveled in
Europe, was struck with the want of
somo specimen of nnatomy showing tho
nerves only. Procuring the body of a
colored woman, who had, died in a very
emaciated condition. Dr. w’cater, work
ing ten hours a day for upward of six
months, and chiseling the bones away
piece by piece, managed to get .what ho
wanted. As seen tho other day, tho
figure, pinned to a blacklioard in a pol
ished frame, looked at a distance like a
! very dollcato drawing in white of tho
of pork and lick her weight in wild j ttotodtttet I four poumlsto the square inch durmgtlm
cats.’ —London Standard. I the delicate lines were rnallv nerves, coldest weather and that the safety valve
was so arranged that tiio pressure could
tiie delicate lines wero really nerves,
somo as delicate and lino ns silk. The
dura mater of tho skull and backbone nro
retained and also tlie eves. The nerves . ...
-. , , - , * ignited leaking gas, and tins in turn set
of the spinal cord nro so fine and so closo ” _ _
never exceed ten jiounds. A spark of
static electricity proceeding from a belt
cotton on lire, which oin-rated tlioauto.iia-
thrived The petty "thievery of guests’ I mado to ascend its steep side by a series
valuables has also come to te a rarity, j of zigzags or swing this way ami tjiat
and nowadays tbo man of means, stop- way ami that in fewer than nineteen
ping atauy well regulated New York ho- I times ore. tlie top is reached. From j
The Highest Inhabited Valley.
Presently, directly in out front, stood a
great high hill, and it seemed at first
glanceos though further progress was ' together that a vorv flno needle had to bo i . ,, , ,■ . , . , .
impossible. But man’s ingenuity over-1 used to separate them. Portions of the ! tic sprinklers and extinguished it. An at
comes mighty obstacles, and as this one i skin arc also preserved, but every particlo | " a *. mnue o
could not te turned the road had teen of bone and tissue lias teen removed.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
new dwelling
Hunger In Water Filters.
A most astounding revelation liaacomo
tel, can feel as secure as if lie wero trav- where we left tlr*' 'Trent bed to its sum- j to tiiose v.-lio liavo been confidently trust-
eling with a private station house of las | mit this barrier is at least 1,200 feet high, | ing to appliances for purifying their
own in tow. More than all, however, j and when we had reached tho top I found j drinking water. It seems that tho
tho old time harvest of victims that Ilun- , myself at tlie western end of tlio upper j ordinary filter, instead of rendering the
gry Joe and liis pals used to gather from Engadim-. _ I water pure and safe, is actually tho
hotel corridors is all cut off.
All this tho detective has to do for the
regular salary, but ho has legitimate ]icr-
quisites. These aro tho more or less lib
eral fees that good natured out-of-
towners, who want to see what the life
lestroy a block of
at Brookline, Mass., tefore
tlie buildings were entirely finished.
Some people, alarmed by tho smoke
which was seen in each division of tlie
structure, rushed in to save doors mid
portable fixtures, when it was noticed
that tlie tire.; did not appear to gain any
headway, and when the smoke had en
tirely died away, it was found that the
incendiary liail placed lighted candles in
sawdust and other inflammable material
in drawers ami closets, but with such
limited supplies of air that combustion
could not lie stipiiorted and tlie fires te-
camc smothered.—Engineering.
THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE.
This is the lottiest, most extensive high j means of producing just tlie opposite re-
vallov in Europe, and perhaps tlie high- | suit. The Rhode Island Medical society,
est inhabited valley in tho world. Its through Dr. Swarts, shows that somo
average height is 5,400 feet abovo the inters when first used do remove a mo-
level of the sea, and that is higher than j jiortion of disease germs. But aftei^Be-
tlie top of famous Rigl, near Lucerne. I jng in use only a few days there is a
of a big city really is after dark, pay for j which everylxxly thinks a wonderful nl- ; marked increase in tho number pf col-
straiglit tips on tlio places whero tho ele- I titude. It is a plain forty or fifty miles ; onies of germs in tho filtered us com
pliant “cuts up his most flamboyant and ; long and a mile or so in width, which pared with tho unfiltered water. In ono student forced to spend a summer in tlie
startling shindig's." It is worth a hand- I which has many largo towns, luxurious j instance the unfiltered water showed the city, “but I cannot endure the noise."
some sum to tho hotel deteetivo who j meadow lands, and several Alpine lakes i presence of thirty-six colonies, while tlio Possibly lie did not stop to consider that,
pilots a party of strangers through tlio j that finally How off into tho Inn river, j filtered contained tho enormous number in making such a declaration, ho placed
multitudinous and more or less pictur-I nml the whole inclosed in majestic moun- of 2,000, 5,000, 0,000, and even more, ; himself in illustrious company. Thomas
Tlio Demincfntlon of Noise.
lean tear tiie heat very well,’’raid a
esquo maze of after dark spectacles i tains so nwfully high ttiat they aro for- That is, tlio poison caught up by tho
known to tho experienced man about [ ever covered with snow nml colossal I filter the first few days becomes tho
town os “tho sights.” And tliero aro j glaciers, all so fantastically Bhapcd and source of a vast multiplication of tho
few more experienced men about town glittering that tlio spot lias quite a polar ' dangerous element. So look to your
than your quick witted hotel detective.
New York Sun.
aspect. In other parts of Switzerland precautions, and then bo on your guard,
eternal snow is never found below an al-1 If you cannot constantly cleanso your
Tho tVomlrotu Weather Flout.
That remarkable specimen of tho vege
table world, tho “weather plant,” con
tinues to excito considerable interest.
Men of science, who on its first discovery
were unwilling to express an opinion on
its prognosticating virtues, now ueree,
after extensive experiments, that tho ... . . ... . , ,
shrul/fs in truth prophetic. Thirty-two in their country and they both assed
thousand trials made during the last mc <' vhon 1 tolJ them how thc 5’ ma,1 °
three years tend to prove its infallibility.
titude of about 8,000 feet, but this limit
is not reached on tho borders of tho En-
fcadine until wo ascend as high as 0.000.
Hoofs of English Houses.
Shingled roofs are unknown in Eng
land and on the continent. I talked with
two men, intelligent English working
men, about the construction of buildings
Tho plant itself is a legume, commonly
called the “Paternoster pea,” but known
in botany as tlie Abrus Poreginus. It is
a native of Corsica and Tunis. Its leaf
and twig stiv glv resemble those of
tho acacia, 'i !.e more delicate leaves of
its upjier branches foretell the state of
the weather forty-eight, hours in ad-
i lower and hardier leaves
(when I told them how they
roofs in America) wliat shingles were;
they had nover seen or heard of them,
and laughed, when I described them, at
the Yankee notion of making “wooden
roof slate.” They thought their thatched
rnofo must be much better, every way.
limn our bhingled ones. In Whittlcsca I
saw square topped garden walls sur
mounted by caps of thatch, to shed the
rain. In all this town I did not sco
filters you had better destroy them.—
illustrative of tho different kinds of
courage observablo in different races,
Lord Wolseley tells us that at tho storm
ing of Lucknow our troops found them
selves in presence of a gate house, from
tho upper stories of which a severe lire
Carlyle “could not abide" a noise, espe
cially that of the. morning crowing of
cocks. Wallenstein, accustomed as lie jjci ;;l
was to tlie din of liattlo, had an uncon
querable dread of the barking of dogs,
and even tlie clatter of the largo spurs
fashionable i:i Ills day. In order to in
sure quiet, he engaged twelve |iatrols to
make regular circuits alxmt bis house
night and day.
Neither Julius Ca?sar nor tiio philoso
pher, Kant, could tolerate tho crowing
of poor eliaiiti-deer, who, indeed, seems
to liave very :u'vfrieiidsaiuongthestudi'
was kept up on them. Tho only access ousand sensitive. Schopenhauer exceeds
to the upper stories was by some very I almost all loveia of quiet in tlie extrava-
narrow winding staircases, hardly admit
ting one man at a time. Tlio English
soldiers shrank for a moment from wliat
seemed certain death. But tho Sikhs
rushed in, went up the staircases with
in:: a moment’s hesitation, and in five
minutes had thrown every rcliel out of
the windows. Yet tlio Sikhs would not
Have stood up man to man ugainst Eng
lish infantry. There is also the coutj
peculiar to certain individuals
ganco of Ills denunciation of noise. lie
declares that <he amount which a man
can bear with case i< in inverse ratio to
liis mental pov. cr.
"If I hear a nog ten ting for hours on
the thres.zi'd of n !io;:ao." he writes.
tioiidi
kind nr I-rains I
inhabitants."—
vance, while it., lower and hardier leaves peculiar to certain iadi
indicate all atmospheric changes throe veranda, a piazza or a porch no place ta j„ rnrl . Ji which zri-.c
davs beforehand. The indications con- where one could sit out of doors and te for doatli and tlio belief
sist in a change in the position of tlie
leaves and in the rise and fall of the
twigs and branchlets.—Pall Mall Ga
zette.
protected from tho raysp^ the sun—not
even an awning.—’William T. Tidsloy in
Lyons Republican.
to a te'tcv ar. I
A Mysterious Inconsistency—Tho Animal
- Kingdom—Moral Cowardice.
A very mysterious inconsistency in
human nature lies in the contrast be
tween life which mokes self preservation
its first love, and that utter contempt nnd
intolerance of it which induces self de
struction. By all human laws, tho man
who takes another’s life in defending his
own is held guiltless of murder; his deed
h accounted justifiable in recognition of
t’le savin ; instinct with which the
creator l.a* m ’ompanied the gift of life
to nil his i t ■ cures. With the earliest
conscious!!.' .. / young animal* this in
stinct iqiji.-:t. in iiuiiuityi.ini shrinking
from dan r- r. real or imaginary; and
down to i i" lowest order of beings, a
wound'd thing will exert its last strength
to eschaving its existence blotted out.
As for the human species, wo have it on
Scr.pturc authority that “all that a man
hath will he giro for his life."
In view of this, who that Is unaware
of tho fuels would expect to so con
stantly hear of men and women, and
even children, finding Ufo unbearable
and ending all? What a surprising vio
lation of this innate principle it scorns,
when for this or that cause, mid often
for no causo that is evident, some choose
death rather than life!
Suicide is not entirely confined to the
human species. There aro numerous
well authenticated instances of different
animals deliberately killing themselves
when circumstances rendered lifo no
longer desirable. A recent traveler in
tho tropics tells of coming at various
times upon tho skeleton of a spi-cics of
poisonous serpent within a circle of
leaves of tlie prickly cactus, and later the
riddle was solved by his seeing some
monkeys engaged in surrounding a sleep
ing reptile with the spinous vegetation.
Upon awaking nnd finding itself im
prisoned anil all its attempts to escape
futile, tlio serpent presently took refuge
jn stinging its own Iiody nnd dying at
once. It is commonly reported Hint the
same thing happens when a poisonous
snako is hemmed in by fire, in a spasm
of desperation at finding no chance <>t es
cape, it turns its means of self defense
into means of self destruction,
Tlio animal kingdom is a law unto
itself. Not so with man. Ho Is subject
to tho higher law of duty nnd accounta
bility; and no environment can te called
hopeless to ono who believes in a gra
cious overruling power and the hotter
lifo to come. A portion of tlio alarming
number of current suicides, it must be
confessed, nwaken only tho sincerest
pity in every susceptible nnd tenovolent
heart, and probably there are very many
inoro cases of this kind, were tlio secret
causes thut have actuated the victims
brought to light. Yet wherever human
law is founded on tbo divino law, self
destruction must necessarily te regarded
as a crime. A man’s buildings are not
his own in tho senso that ho con set them
on lire nnd bum them down with impu
nity; much loss is his lifo—a possession
which cannot be restored—so exclusively
personal that ho tuts the right to end it
by violence in an hour of discourage
ment or disgust.
Tho yearly list of suicides in somo of
tlio countries of Europe is appalling to
contemplate. Tho waters of tho Seine
givo up tlicir dead doily, and drowning
is but ono among tho common methods
for shuffling off this mortal coil. Pas
sion, impetuosity mid, abovo all, infidel
ity, nro prominent factors in recruiting
tho army of suicides. Statistics of all
nations show that occasionally there oc
curs wliat lias been called an opidemic
of suicide; though whether this is an
illustration of tho forco of example, or
tho result of some general impelling
force, such ns temperature during tho
oxhausting heat of summer, remains an
unsettled question. That the mouth of
July has long been noted for tlio large
number of its suicides favors tho latter
conclusion. Of direct causes among
young people, affairs of tho heart, lovo
matters that liavo taken an unfortunate
turn, must te reckoned the leading one.
Very often, too, tho circumstances at
tending these cases ore unspeakably pa
thetic. Next como losses of money and
business, friends and health. Of crim
inals who liavo recourso to dagger, bul
let or repo to evado just penalty, it is
unnecessary to speak.
There is a moral cowardico in fleeing
from tho liattlo of lifo, which strikingly
contrasts with tho patient, heroic endur
ance of multitudes of men and women
in every land and in all sorts of hard
Conditions. To tho tempted it might
servo as a tonic to read history on this
point, or tetter, to recall events. Think,
for example, of the crow of tlio Jean
nette in their frozen fastnei
Capi. DeLong and bis men in'
dying of slow starve
bravo to tlie last. But what
L . mul tiie streets of a city,
views of pinched and haggard fi
toiling decrepitude, for heroes and
lues that shall bo forever nameless?-
Lavinia li. Goodwin in Boston Globe.
Tlio Victims of Fright.
Tlio Oriental legend tliat represents
cholera meeting tlio traveler flying from
tho scourge, and telling him that the
majority of rim dead wero the victims of
fright, not of tho plague, seems to apply
to the yellow fever scare in tho United
States. If tli* ramo number of people
who die in Nf*F York in a single season
of iineoinonia. consumption, or avoidable
rcclJent*. fell victims to yellow fever or
ai.yoth.r epidemic, tho city would te
kv; :\ i ef inhabitants, and panic nnd
eon : : m would prevail. Tlio scare
er. ' ■ 1 s much mere suffering and
disturbance than tho disease itself. Heneo
in somo fouthern countries where it ii
endemic it attracts i;o more tiotieo than
ir.' e if the ..ter evils that edict I he
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a a Week.