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The Chance for Small Industries in the
South.
While cotton mills and iron furnaces
vield a handsome profit in the south, yet it
'
» large capital i j construct * j
requires a to ^
operate them, so that i. is onh here and
there that, one can be started; but there A
no such limit to many smaller industries
that need comparative ly little capital. Then,
are thousands of openings throughout ah
parts of .he soulh for various kinds o»
smaller industries that will pay well-better
in proportion, probably, than the Mg mill
or furnace, In our manufacturing note
we mention the fact that a fruit-canning
factory is to be started in a certain village
in Virginia. Now this village, we person¬
ally know, is in a splendid fruit growing
section; tint, laving no near-by markets,
the farmers, many of whom have magnifi
cent orchards of the finest vaviety of pears,
peaches, appies, eherieg, etc., use only what
they need for their owd wants, generally
feeding the balance to the hogs. Of berries
there is almost an endless profusion grow¬
ing wild. Thus this factory will secure its
raw material fresh, and in good condition
at prices that would look ridiculously low
to our city packers. Labor in tbat, section
is. very abundant and cheap', while trams
portation rates to Baltimore and other
markets are moderate. With these
tages this factory has every chance for
making unusually large profits, and the
same opportunities for success offered in
tl at particular locality and to tbat
lar trade are offered to almost innumerable
other factories of this, as well as of many
other kinds, by thousands of other villages
and towns throughout the south.
At present the south buys almost every
thing.from ihe north, and a southern paper
could well say lately that “ we tricep onyan
fcee beds, we walk on yankee carpets and i
matting, wash in yankee basins with water
pourrd from ayankeo pitcher, drawn from a
welLby a yankee bucket; wipe our bands j
»ud face on a yankee towel, eomh our hair
before a yankee look mg glass with a yankee
comb and brush, eat from yankee plates,
and run our farm or whop with yankee im¬
plements and tools.” This is alt true, and
even more might be added to it. As yet
the south makes very few of these things
needed in daily life; but she has advan— I
tages aad falicilies tor doing so that must j
he improved in the enterprising men with
small capital, to him who has plenty, the ;
southern stutes extends invitation to j
come and occupy with e\ y assurance of!
success.—Mauulecturers’ Record. j i
■ ;
Where Birds Eat the Dead, l
J he towers of silence five number , i
are tn
and , stand , within . , enclosure , .
an measuring i
abuut eighty . , thousand , square yards. , J here |
are also within the enclosure a house of j
prayer lor persons attending a funeral, .
temple id winch the sacred lire, is kept a I- j J
ways burning and Irom which its rays encap
iug through apertures io tbe wall, fall upon j
the towers, and a well laid out and a well |
cared for garden. In the garden is an i
excellent model of a tower, which is |
explained to visitors by the attendants, j
Tbe corpse ol a deceased Parsec, clothed in i
white, is carried up the hill in an open bier
covered with white cloth ; the male relatives
and friends all clothed in white, following
in pairs, each pair holding a handke cbie
between them. Some prayers having been
said in the rest house, the bier is again taken
up and tbe body conveyed to one of the
towers. These towers are round, massive !
looking buildings, with white plastered
wails, ,be circumference of the largest o
them being 276 feet and the height of the
wall 2b feet. At a distance of three feet
from the ground.there is a door ,n the wall,
t hrough winch tbe corpse bearers push the
corpse and then, entering themselves, place
it in its appointed place. The interior of
the ered, tower, height which of is 26 open feet to from the sky, the ground, is cov- j
at a
with a circular flooring, which slopes
downward on all sides to the center, and
contains mini, rone open grooves or recep
tacles for dead bodies.
The outer ring of this flooring is sei
apart tor the bodies of men, a second ring
fer those of women and the third or nine...
most ring tor those of children. At regular
distances, radiating channels intersect
these rings. The body having been depos
tied in its place, the hearers retire and
immediately a swarm of vultures, which
birds of prey may always be seen sitting in
dozens on tin tups of the walls, swoop down
and strip the body ot every particle ot
flesh in les* than two hours. After a few
days, the corpse bearers return, and collect
mg the hones, which are then perfectly
dried, place then, in the Central well, -to feet
wide, where they remain to he decomposed
by the air and rain. L he moisture runs off
into the ground through filters of charcoal
and sand, and leaves nothing of tbe. human
body iu the inside of the tower but the dry,
crumbling bones.—Bombay Correspond -
euce Pfiila. Press
A Simple Medicine.
A young man who was supposed to be
breaking down wiih consumption, and tor
years battled for life with very little
of recovery, was encountered recently in a
■ city restaurant 1 pee. he said, that you
seemed surprised ut rov improved appear
ance. No doubt you wonder what could
have caused such a change. *6 ell, it was a
very simple remedy-nothing but hot water
As a last resort I consulted a physician who
had paid -peeial often ion to this hot-water
cure, aud was using it aim many Patien c
He sad: "There ism thing, you mow that
is more difficult than u- introduce a new
remedy into meo • ,. practice par. malar*
ifit .SH very siinp'e on- and at, .fees at .he
root o: erroneous views auf prejudice* that
Wr-ioug enmr: u, -d Nowheonl.
rational, xuimu: u ‘ .....aomptrm .sthat
t result-!. .,„ iefe-.— v ,n. It - ...
way accompanied by mai aa-om-mum
food. 1„ nearly every case 'he fromac h i
the s-ai (.i a term* ut irion hsi u'cepsari y
prevents proper c?*« t on. The first thing
todu „ toiammc tiw, frro.enta: u, am
put l be stou* adi w a cmdition tor* tern
loou a,.« u'-pos. o-r iffjperly. Th-s !• eT
.ected t.j taking wae>r Into th- stomach »s
not as it can borne, an hour befor-
meat, llus Laves the stomach clean aud
pare, Lke a boiler that Lag beeu washed out
; Then put into the stomach food that is in
i the highest degree nutritions and the least
I ■ di ®P® eed t° fermentation. No food answers
< h '* des ™l" ,on be » e [ ,han tend< * bp ’ : f ; f
, little stale bread J be with . Drink r .
I may J oaten it.
! noth,n , . « bm ‘ iur, ‘ wafer asb f Ie of tba *
; ftt T**' 1 **’ « ^J ^ hh - and ^tables, alcohohc pastry, drquor
: sb ulrt be avo,d L P,U tendpr benf a!one
j " «
I in '° a cl ‘* ao and P u ™ ^mach three rimes'
8 bo51t ^ u,iul l ba Sy8tem w;istin be ^ thflt T th *
i “P * * ,s
i ch,ef of^oasumpt.on, ceases, and
: recuperation sets in. So impressed was I
by this reasoning that I resolved to try this
simple remedy at once. I began by taking
one cup of hot Water an hour before each
meal, and gradually increased to three cups.
At first it was unpleasant to take, but now I
drink it with a relish. I gained ground
rapidly, and now fee 1 that T am on the sure
road to recovery. 1 am convinced, from
my own experience and what I have gleaned
from others, that almost any disturbance of
the human system that results from disor¬
ders of the stomach can be alleviated, and,
■' in most instances, cured in the same way."
j Who Kissed Away the Tear ?
.
L- any iking stranger than the human
heart ? Nature sends a frail, green vine
creeping across the earth to reach a grim
wa ‘* a, 'd cover its ugliness, to reach a read
branch and cover it with life. We bless
nature as we see these things, and yet we do
not realize that months ago, a rosy faced
child looking from a window, saw a queer
old man go limping by, It tapped on the
pane, and the.oM man looked up. The sight
of that sweet face opened his old heart, aud
he went on his way feeling richer than for
many a month past. Tie was the grim wall
—the child was the green vine. He passed
again, and again the child was at the
window, and for days and weeks they never
missed seeing each other. At each meeting
the vine crept nearar to the wall the wall
appeared less grim and forbidding. One
day the “wall” laid aside his old hat for a
better one Another day he had a new coat,.
Again he was clean shaved, and the “vine”
scarcely recognized him, No one knew the
old man, but all knew tbat, be was ‘deling
the influence of the vine. As the old man
passed one day he missed the face at the
window Was he too early or too late ( He
lingered and looked and seemed lost. It
was the same next, day, but a kind heart
pitied "him and sent out word that the child
was sick. I he green vine had reached the
wall only to be blighted. Iwo days more
and there was crape ob the door. The child
was dead. It had fallen asleep in death
without a struggle, knowing nothing of the
grand , hereafter, , , , but having tear. „ On „ . its
no
pale , cheek , , tear—a single ... tear which ...
was a
gJiatonud like a diaaiond. No band dared
w , It seemed a tie between
, H „ d tbc past _ t he living and
1
'|>|,, a g e can J g<s0 it—the child ?”
It was the old man—the grim wall—
knocked timidly at the door and spoke
thus. They knew him by sight, and they
led him into the room where the vine lay
dead. He stood over the coffin fora mo
meet, Ups quivering and eyes full of tears,
and then lie bent over and kissed the. face
that would wait for him no more. When he
had gone they looked for the tear. He had
kissed it away. Old and poor and unknown
he had reaped a treasure such as all the
millions o! the world could not buy.
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.
Very much of the. wrong doing of the
xyorld arises from ignorance and thought
lessness. Temptations arc- strong, debires
are ardent, inclinations are imperious and
he weak and undisciplined judgment is
easily led to concede that there is no great
harm in yielding. Gradually this yieldiog
comes to be a habit, and the character is
formed, or rather wrecked by self indulgence
where it might have been saved, elevated,
and strengthened by more knowledge and a
wiser training. Bow many wrong acts are
directly traceable to the common ph-a, |
didn’t think!” And, while we condemn
the plea itself, and count it a part of the
wrong, we must aLn condemn the defect
iye education that ha.‘j failed to develop right
thinking a.a the mainspring of right action.
It is generally supposed that our vital
activities are sometimes either to be res¬
trained or let alone. When they run to
excess and destroy the balance of our
nature, every voice proclaims the duty of
governing and curbing them, otherwise we
are content to let what we suppose to be
“well enough” alone. Life, however, is
positive, not negative It is the perform
attce of every duty ...id the exercise of
every function in the fullest manner that
constitutes a happy aud valuable life
Duty requires us to carry on all our vita
activities—to let none languish or decay.
Earn your own bread, and see how
sweet it will taste! Work, and see how
well you will bej? Work, and see bow
cheerful you will be! Work, and see how
independent you wili be! Work and see
how happy your family will he! Work and
see how religious you will be!—for, before
you know where you are, instead of re¬
pining at Providence, you will find your¬
self offering up thanks for all the numer¬
ous blessings you enjoy.
To think clearly and well is the first
step toward knowing anything, until that
has been taken, all others are useless.
Equally in the work we perform, in the bus
inesa we manage, in the vrrious duties o,
domestic, social, and political life, and in
the knowledge we gain or the opinions we
hold, is the art of thinking well essential.
Peace is better than joy. Joy is a very
uneasy guest, and is always on tip toe to
depart. It tires and wears us out, and yet
keeps us ever fearing that the next moment
it, will be gone. Peace is not so, It comes
more quietly, it stays more contentedly,
and it never exhausts our strength, nor
gives us one anxious forecasting thought.
The best way to discover the manifold
uses of friendship is to cast about and see
how many things there are which a man
cannot do for himself, and then it wili
appear that it was a sparing speech of the
ancients to say that “a friend is auother
himself," for a friend is more tbau himself
Sunlit rooms*
^ fnrniture Bhould be. used
^ ^ Mt 8tsnd sun i ight) f or ove ry room
in a dwolH ghould h[lV0 the windows so
thfcUome time during the day the
hl wiu be in the apartments. The
importauce 0 f admitting the light of the sun
^ ^ of our , !we l]„, g cannot be too
bigbiy e8 u m(Ue d. Indeed, perfect health is
^ . a: . much dependem ou sunlight as
^ ^ pure air Sunlight should never he,
excluded exoept when it is so very bright as
(0 be uaconifortable to the eyes; and walks
gh(m)d be iu bngbt 8un l igbt , so that the
e y<»a are protected by a veil or a sunshade
when very intense. A sun bath is of more
imporlanco ; u pregurv i n g a healthful con¬
diu()n tbe bo(]y tha „ ig gone rally suppos
ed. A sun bath is cheap, and that is a
misfortune, for people are deluded with the
tW , hoad thiugs only can be usefu i
wW{h C(Jg{ raoney . llut remember <bat
plm , wa((?r fresh alr and gunlit home8 kept
^ ^ dampne8a vlU Becure you .from
w11b o{ tbe doctors aud g ; ve
health m4 viKor which no money can
ft , g # wd , egtabligbed , a „, tbat
lbe , e who )ise much in the snn are
Mwa „ m and more heaUby than
(bose whogp omipall0n deprives them of
^ ^ jft nothing
sirange in the result, since .the same law
applies with equal force to nearly every
; auimote thing in nature. It is easy to
I arrange an isolated dwelling so that, every
apartment may be filled with sunlight Borne
! time in the day, and it is possible that many
houses eould be so built as to admit more
i light, ih«u they now receive.
Reform in Funerals.
A very considerable aud laudable agita
j tI0n ig sweeping over the country lookingto
a re f onn ; n tbe manner of conducting
' f uri p ra! .- - Iu the first place rt not thought
that they should be so conducted as to
j produce other funerals—that attendants,
m other wordgj shoaM be no longer expect
. -g a nd, with uncovered heads, in stormy
, W( ,, 4lber Respect for the dead-does not
j d , mand any TO ch disregard ot the health of
: tbt UvinK N ,ther does respect for the
, e
^ ,,„.,. and an immeQse f ucera3 that j D
I „;,, e ca8eg ont „f , en entails debt and
! gufftn ,,,, npoB the livin|I Such funsrals
havt brought actual and extreme want upon
, famiJies IK ,arfy every community The
2, di r ,„i. „ r 5g generally at the bottom of
expensive funerals Tbe greater th
e . pen?n (h . greater are his chances
p , „ fi , and tho bneiness has been pushed to
sues a iiaii: that many a funeral is a
s.^ei tov’*'nstead of a hear: cl: tribute to:
tb9d ,. p , rted H» need oTfunernls cen- j
du< , :ed itt H simple and unostentatious
maancr is everywhere in" felt and demanded,
' Jfce leferm funeral sitoeld
customs he
thorough and sweeping : and first of ail, the
exp e >s ive undertakers should he sat dovyu
up-'u.—Atiauta Coustitutiou.
A Wind so Strong it Steais a Team
“Do it blow hard here?” answered “Bowie
Bill.” “Well, stranger, I should say it did.
I was a skinnin’ tnule for Uncle Sam at
Camp Bowie in 78. and havin' an easy
time. One evenin’ the waggin boss come
’round and says, “Bill you hook up in the
mornin’ an' go over to Bayard.”
“I went right off and doped my wsggin
and got everything ready to move soon in
the mornin,’ I had twenty miles to make
the first day, and I came la the spring bout
an hour by sun. I turned in early that
evenin’ so’s to git a good rest and be rollin
before sun up next mornin.’ I d bin grin
din’ through the sand 'bout two hours the
second day, when happenin' to look to the
south I see a whirlwind a coinin’ bigger’n
any I see afore, and tnakin’ a noise like a
hundred buzz saws. I see it were a cornin’
my way, so I put the buckskin into the
mules an’ nearly set em’afire. Twan’t no
use. I could't git away from the thing, so I
stopped the mules aud looked at it a comin.’
“Goodness 1 stranger, it makes me have
rattle snakes and centipedes every time 1
think of tbat night. There a floatin’ round
in the whirlin’sand was horses an’ cattle
an’ doby bucks, not to speak of jack rabbits
kiotes, an' small trash. It were gittin’ tol
a’ble close by this time, an’ I says to myself,
‘William, are you prepared to ascend ? ‘No,
says I ; ‘I ain’t,’ an”jumped ofl’e’r my mule,
grabbed a big soap weed and fastened on
with a death grip.’
“I went none too soon, stranger, for in a
minait up went my whole body, my arms
an - legs twistin’ round like rope. I heerd’
tbe soap weed crackin' an’ tearin,’ but it
didn’t let go, and down I come. The very
first thing I looked for the team, and I see
it. Ther’ they was swingin' round an’ round
an’ goiu’ up, and they kept swingin’ round
aud goin’ up, til! they didn’t look biggeriu’
log, an’ then they went out o’ sight. I
ered myself up an’ footed it back to Bowie,
The very first man I met were the
boss. Says he, ‘Helio, Bill, what’s the mat
ter ?’ I set right down au' told him how 1
come so near goin’ to Heaven alive, airi
I was done he says, ‘Bill, what kind of
Rinecaboo play are you tryin’ to run on
you’ve sold that team,’ I told ’em the
was a dead open an' shut fact, but
talked so strong about sendin' me to
rence that I hulled out an’ come
here..”
Re-Vaccination.
-
'‘ h’ London papers have
len S‘ b lhe y esu,t3 of
at ' on aa ex htbited in the ease of b® -
,ween * en ‘ eleven thousand persons
fiermently employed in the postal service,
•» of whom were required to undergo
\ re-vaccination unless that on admission to the performed service,
operatiou had been
j ’* itbin seven years previously. Among
! tl*** Persons, according to the data now
1 cfficiaUy published; dmreha* sot occurred a
• m P le fatal c^e ot smallpox, and in only
ten Pi “ s noiv-fatal attacks, all of these be
n * 01 * *ery character. On the
« her faan<i - '» appears that iu the telegraph
depart me nt, where the enforcement ol re
vecioation wa- not carried out with the
same cqtnpletenqi- twelve cases occurred
in the same period, among a staff averaging
fifteen hundred. e.gbt of these auacks were
of persons not re vaccinated, and one proved
fatal - wbile tbe remaining four were of re
Tac 0' nate ® persons, who all perfectly rev to
ered without pitting
A Pretty Home Toilet.
Husband and children delight in seeing
“mother” look neat and nice. Nevertheless,
many women dress at home in such a style
that they are always ashamed to be seen by
anybody but borne (oiks. If a knock at the
front door is heard, they ran and hide, or
wait till they have "primped up” before
opening it In their creed anything is good
enough for home-folks; all nice things—nice
clothes, food, dainties-—must be saved for
company. A ny old calico or woollen dress
is good enough to do housework in, any old
worn out shoes good enough to wear round
i be house. Asa natural result of this theory
the parlor is always shut up save on great
occasions, the sitting-room i» rarely used,
and the family life is passed entirely in the
kitchen. It is no unusual thing for women
who hold such theories and carry them out
in practice, to find no time to comb their
ba r till after dinner work is done, and go
round with it in a frowee two-thirds of the
day. As a natural consequence, she forfeits
much of the respect and aomiration which
is her due. To antidote this unfortunate
result, a pietty and tasteful home toilet will
be found very efficient. Calico of fair
quality can be purchased at eight cents a
yard, and with a clean calico dress on and
a nice calico apron the housewife may be
always dressed up while at her work. 11
she unvaryingly combs hei hair before en¬
gaging in any morning task, her hair will
be in order for the day, and a lesron of
value will be set her entire household. A
bit of edging may take the place of a collar,
if the collar is too much trouble; and neatly
attired in fresh calico and whole shoes she
need not run and hide if there comes a
knock at the doov. The laboring man'
wife who is careful of her own appearance
while at her work will have a better oppor¬
tunity for and more influence in pertusiding
her husband to look no worse than he need
to while at his work, than she who cares for
none of these .things. A reasonable atten¬
tion to externals not only fortifies our own
self respect., but gains the respect of others.
Forms ol Lightning.
A flash of lightning is a very large spark
of electricy, just the same thing that one
sees given by an electric machine
in a lecture on natural phileso
phy, the only difference being that
the best machine will not give a spark
more than a yard long, while some flashes
of lightning have been estimated to be
several miles in length. According to their
appearance various names have been given
these sparks’in the sky, though in reality
all the several kinds are one and the same
thing. On a warm summer evening one
often sees the clouds on the horizon lit up
with brilliant, glows of lightning, unaccom¬
panied by any sound of thunder. To this
appearance the name of “heat lightning”
has been given, and the warm weather is
often assigned as it cause. In point of fact,
the heat lightning is ouly that of a thunder
shower so far off that, that while the ob¬
server can see (he flash, no sound ol the
thunder reaches him, and the entervening
clouds veil and reflect the flash until it be¬
comes a glow, instead of the sharp streak
usually seen. Where the flash, starting
from one point, branches out and divides
into several parts, it has received the name
of “forked lightning,” This is usually seen
when the discharge it near the observer.
Single flashes bearing a zigzag or crinkled
aspect are denominated “chain lightning,”
probably from their resemblance to a chain
thrjwn loosely ou the ground. Again,
when several discharges occur from about
the same place at the same time, and are
screened by rain or clouds so as to light up
| the heavens with a broad, bright glow, the
title of “sheet lightning” is applied. These
four comprise all the common forms. There
is, however, one manifestation called “ball
lightning.” Iu this phenomena a .small
globe or half of apparent fire rolls slowly
along the ground, and after a time suddenly
explodes, scattering destruction around.
These are few instances of this on record,
and no very satisfactiory explanation has
ever acecounted for the curious appear
ance.
Lovers’ Wooing
"Probably there is no instance,” said Sir
Arthur Helps, “in which any two lovers
have made love exactly in the same way as
any two other lovers, since .the world be¬
gan.”
True] Barkis insinuated. Vivien charmed
Merlin. Alexander made a bonfire for
Thais. Cassanic soft-soldered Portia with
a leaden casket. The garrulous female in
the Arabian Niykls told her husband
stories. Hippomenes had a close race for
Atlanta, but he played the apple-game on
her In the Polynesian Islands they win
their hearts by beating their heads with a
shillelauh. Harry the English and Llue
beared were off with the head of tbe old
j lov,! ton poked before down th “y « the r « tobbcco on with in the his new. pipe New¬ with
his sweetheart’s finger—a warm token of
affection. Tristram did it mostly with a
harp, and was likewise a good liar. His
two Isoldes were too many for him. Both
weil was inclined to Mary, and locked her
up in his castle, Cobbett's wife caught him
by the grace with which she used her wash
tnb—she was never known to use it after
the wedding. Sam Romilly, the famous
lawyer, killed himself because his wife died,
wbde a g 0od many others kill themselves
beeause tbey will not dia Nicholas
Russia wanted to “pop” at a dinner-table,
bnt didn’t like to be caught at it, so he im
beded a bring in a lump of bread and hand
ed it t0 ber Charlemagne’s secretary was
c<maht br a SB0wet0rm “sparking” the em
ppror - 3 daughter at midright, and she car
ried him home on her back, so that his
{ootsleps shouldn't be traced. The Emperor
beard of it. and saddled him on her for the
balance of her life
_
“ rm going to a masquerade ball nex
week a baldheaded man to his friend
- and { would like to have you advise me in
regard to choosing a costume Gian ring
a , the shinuing pate before him. the adviser
obseCTel . “You want, something simple,
yet appropr;a . e i suppose?'" * Yes, that's i
« xact i y . What would you suggest ?” “Well
aH is R ;Jrefin dr(g3 and a wej
vartisned fiead, and youfll b -» pertuut egg
p-aut- —Now York Advertiser.
Tombstone Madness.
The men who patrol the cemeteries after
the sun has gone down are armed with pis¬
tols and clubs, and are generally aeeompan
iedby trained and savage bioodhounds. In
addition to these, externa! and tangible
means of defense they , must be gifted with
rare and peculiar mental organization. So
many men have lost their reason through
watching graves at night that persons in
that position have come to believe that, they
risk lapsing into a state of melancholia per
fectly distinct from any other form of in
sanity. Sextons ami grave-diggers cal
this affection “tombstone madness ”
A startling realization of this fact was tele¬
graphed throughout the country yesterday.
It was announced that several of the soldiers
who do sentry duty day and night at the
tomb of Garfield, amid the dreary solitude
of Lakeview cemetery, near Cleavelaud,
have become insane Anything or any
device is used by the men to get away
from this ghostly muster of tombstones or
the dar.k array of mounds.
An old watchman at G'enwood cemetery
explained this to a Times reporter yester¬
day by saying that in all probability the
soldiers detailed at the graves were not
picked.
“Take half a dozen men from any walk
of life,” he continued, “and place them at
night, to watch graveyards, and the chances
are that in a short time five of the six will
feel like retiring permanently to a lunatic
asylum.
“if a man wants to enter this profession
and be a succees at it, he must be about as
impressible as brick and mortar. If lie has
the last bit of imsgaination he had better
abandon the business, for when the moon is
obscured by clouds and he is walking about
a cemetery, shivering from his heels upward,
he will mistake tombstones for ghosts. He
will think that the owls, as they whiz past
his ears with their mournful hoots, are un¬
quiet spirits come to haunt the receptables
of the bodies which they once permeated
When the noise of his footsteps makes the
rats disappear with rustling sounds into lit¬
tle thickets of evergreens ha wili start and
grasp his weapon. The very whine of his
dog will make him feel nervous, and bit by
bit his reason would become impaired.’’
“I could give you some sad reminiscen¬
ces of people who watch graveyards," said
one of the oldest watchmen at Laurel Hill
cemetery, in a strange, solemn tone. Then,
half jestingly, he added: “But they’re
buried in the past, and it’s my business to
let what’s buried remains so.” He did not
mind telling one story, however.
“I used to work in a Brooklyn cemetery
before I came to this city,” he began “It
was then that the terrible scene I shall
speak of occured. We wanted an assistant
night watchman very badly, but none o! the
persons who presented themselves could en
dure staying up with the graves for more
than two or three nights each. At last
there came an unfortunate man whose
health seemed shattered by overwork an( l j
privation. It was his last venture. He had j
tried to get employment everywhere without
result, and his wife and children were suf¬
fering. We took him on. I don’t think T
shall ever forget his face the morning after
his first night in the graveyard. He said he
had unheard of agony, but was hopeful of
getting over it in time. The following night
was dark and windy. Rain came down iu
torrents, and there were flashes of light
ning every few minutes. At about ten
o’clock the head watchman heard a loud cry;
there was a souud of running feet, followed
by the report of a pistol. A search was
made, and the unfortunate man found lying
on his back across a grave, dead. There
was a small hole in his temple, and his own
revolver, one barrel of which was empty,
lay three feet from away, where he had flung
it, imbeded iu the ground. It was certain
tbat some fearful creation of the imagina¬
tion had so terrified him that he took his
life to escape from it.”
When the old man had finished this nar
tive he was silent for many minutes. He
sat perfectly still, with a vacant look, and
allowed bright, tears to chase each other
down his cheek. Suddenly.he.made a brisk
motion and forcibly forgot the subject on
his narative. “There are amusing things
sometimes,” he said speak”ng at first with
an effort. “A short time ago a man was
put to work at night in a cemetery not far
from here.- He strolled around in an effec¬
ted, indifferent way, whistling tunes dear to
his countrymen. In the course of Iris rant
bling he tumbled bodily into a newly-made
grave and a lot of loose earth fell on him
when he reached the bottom. He struggled
wildly, and in about an hour and three
quarters managed to get out, screaming
lustly that the devil had dug a grave
and tried to bury him in it. With a single
bound he cleared a four-loot, fence, rolled
down a forty foot hill, and that's the last of
him, for no one about here ever set eyes on
him again, dead or alive. He must have
gone back to Ireland, for he wasn't hurt at
all. Some practical jokers once tried to
scare a watchman, a friend of mine. It was
immense fun—for the watchman. They
got into the cemetery disguised as body
snatchers, and pretended to be opening
gravi s. There were three individual. One
got seven buckshot in him, the second re¬
ceived five in his leg, and 1 forget what
happened to the third. The only thing that
is more dangerous than watching graves is
j robbing them.” the'dreadfnl
“What is it produces melan
j chola?” asked the reporter,
The old man looked around him myster
j iously and added, as he moved away: “I'm
not a doctor uor a scholar, but I have my
belief that its the miasma’frora the grave
' that poisons the blood and warps the brain,
Just see, cool as it is this evening, the vapor
is rising-rising.” And the old watchman
j pointed toward the setting sun, against
' which blazing background a filmy mist could
be seen ascending from the ground like the
! gen i from the fisherman's box in the A ra
bian tale-—Philadelphia Times.
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j BiLiousness.
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1 Almost every person is familiar with this
ailment, eirther as experienced iu himself
or as seen iu others. Yet the best medical
1 experts do not certainly know its nature or
seat. Pecple do cot die of billiousness,
! however long or much they tuay suffer from
it, and for this reason post-mortem exami
nation do not certainly reveal its origin
Probably, however, it is a mild sort of jaun
dice, due to some disturbance of the live -1
The liver is the largest gland in the body
and one of its offices is to strain the Moor
It cannot, therefore, be even slightly de¬
ranged without disturbing more or les
ihe entire system.
All persons are not eqnally liable to at¬
tacks of bdliousness. They are often the
result of a certain inherited tendomy, Sav
Sir Lionel Beale: “The biilious habit
seemea to be due to an unusually sensitive,
irritable stomach and liver, which will dis¬
charge their functions fairly in a moderafi
degree, but which cannot be made to de
more than this moderate amouut of wort:
without getting much out of order. Most
of the organs taking part in the digestion
and assimilation of food seem to strike
work when the biilious attack comes on. If
food be taken, the suffering becomes greater
t he fact seems to be that the digestive or¬
gans require rest for a time, and if, when at
attack comes on, this rest is gi^en the bill
ious state passes off, and then the patient
feels extremely well perhaps for a consid¬
erable time."
The same high authority condemns for
persons suffering from biliousness, rich
foods, fatty soups, fried dishes and most
forms of alcohol. He advises but little meat;
commends vegetables, fruits and vegetable
acids, particuarlv lemon juice, and plenty
of bread. Severe cases require medicines
for the liver.
, r> A Daring Bide.
The most conspicuous act of
courage I ever saw displayed oa any
field during our great civil war occurred
the second battle of vf anassas on the
of August, 1862. It was performed by
Federal artillerist in the presence of
armies, and was witnessed by at least
men, many of whom are still living arid can
readily recall the incident when reminded
of the circumstances, Just as Hood’s men
charged down the hill near the Heury
House upon the first Federal line, and
became evident he would capture the
tery stationed there, a Federal artilleryman
determined to save one of the cannon,
possible, and to do so he had to take it
the side of the ditch in front ot the Confed
erates for half a mile. The ditch was fou,
feet wide aud as many deep, and could not
be crossed with the car non. How he goi
his horses hitched or wbelher they had re
ally ever been taken from the piece I never
have known, but the first I saw of him he
was coming up our front, in a sweeping gal¬
lop from the cloud of smoke and Hood’s
men were firing at him. As soon as he es¬
caped irom that volley he came in front of
our brigade and under range of our muskets
on the left and as he swept on up the line a
file fire was opened up on him. Our line
was approaching the ditch at a doubh quick
and the lane between us and the ditch wa
getting narrower each second, buttheariil
ieryman seemed determined to save his aui,
!rom cap t ure aad he flew along his cours:
a ! a tremendous speed. He had jfour large
gray or white horses to the cannon and they
came up the valley in splendid style. The
man sat erect and kept his team well in
hand, while his whip seemed to play upon
(be q :lubs 0 f ( be leaders aud all four horses
appeared to leap together in regular time.
The ground was very dry and a cloud of
dust rolled out from under the horses' feet
and from the wheels of tbe cannon as they
came thundering along.
Three regiments of our brigade had al¬
ready tired at him as he rushed along their
front and as he approached the left of
another I ran down the rear rank shouting
to the men: “Shoot at the horses 1 Let the
man alone and shoot at the horses! You
are firing too high!” At this I saw a noted
marksman in Company F drop upon one
knee and sight along the barrel of his mus¬
ket and lire, but on came the man and the
gallop of his team unbroken. Ramming in
lioiber cartridge tie n arksman was teady
again in a minute and just as the cannonier
swept across his front within 100 yards, he
kneeled down and taking deliberate aim a
the foremost horse fired again, but on went
the team as before. Thus he passed along
the whole front, ot our regiment and then
along another on our right and escap'd
around the head of the ditch and across the
field aud up the hill beyond. As far off as
we could see him his team was still going in
and taking off his hat, waved it around his
head several times and some of the Con
federates cheered him
At least 600 men fired at that Yankee
gunner, and I have often wondered if he
escaped death in tbe subsequent battle of
the war and lives to tell of the fearful gaunc
let he ran along the front of a whole brigade
of Confederates firing at him,—[Capt. H. T.
Owen iu Philadelphia Times.
Freezing a Corpse
■
Every corpse that is . taken , to ,
Paris morgue is now quickly
ed into a block almost as hard as a
stone. This result is obtained by Carre’s
chemical refrigerator, which is capable of
reducing the temperature of the conserva
tory, where each body is laid out in
thing closely resemeb'ing a camp bedstead
in stone, to fifteen degrees below zero cen
tigrade. At the back of this room is a row
of stove like compartments, in which the
corpses are boxed up and lrozen hard
being exposed to public view. As an ilius
tration of the intense cold thus
secured, a Paris journalist, in
a recent visit to the morgue, sa • th-t in
opening one of the compartments the atten
dant took the precaution to wear a
lest his “hand should oe burnt by contact
with the cold iron.” The corpse, which
taken out of its receptacle, had been
j nine hours. The doctor who accompanied
| :he visitor struck the deal man on the breas
! with a stick, and the sound was just as if
j he had struck a store.
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A Sonth End man, who is preparing ,o
defend a breach of promise suit, says
broke his engagement to Miss Knapp
cause he could not stand having people,
who thought themselves funny,
ask him if he was going to take a krapp.
—Boston Post
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