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HEALTH.
It Should be Enjoyed in a 'Physical
and Spiritual Sense.
Early Training in Both Directions the
Duty of I’urents—Sermon by Kev. T. De-
Witt TiUmage, D. D,
Brooklyn, Nov. 20.—Tho subject or Dr.
diseofwe to-day was: “The
Gospel oI ileklth,” and his text from Prov
erbs vii. 23: “Till a dart strike through his
fiver.” Ho said:
There is a fashion insermonics. Acorn
parti vely small part of the Bitde is called
on for texts. Most of the passages of
Scripture, when announced at the opening
of sermons, imjuedmlel^divjjdathemselves
into old discussions that wo have heard
from boyhood, and the effect on us is
soporific. The auditor guesses at the
start just What the jireacher will say.
There are very important chapters and
verses that have never been preached
from. Much of my lifetime lam devoted
to unlocking these.gold chests and blast
ing open these quarries. We talk about
the heart, a.M .preach about the heart, and
sing about the heart; but if you refer to
the physical organ that we call the heart,
it has not half so much to do with spiritual
health or disease,, moral exaltation or spir
itual depression*.as tho organ to the con
sideration of which Solomon calls us, in
"the text, when he described sin progress
ing “till a dart strike through his liver.”
Solomon’s anatomical and physiological
discoveries wore so very great that he was
nearly three thousand years ahead of the
scientists of his day. Ho, more than one
thousand years before Christ, seemed to
know about the circulation of the blood,
which Harvey discovered sixteen hundred
and nineteen years after Christ, for when
Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, describing the
human body, speaks of the pitcher
at the fountain, ho evidently means
the thrSe canals' leading from
the hdtirt that receive the
# blood like pitchers. When be speaks in Ec
clesiastes of the silver cord of life he evi
dently means the spinal marrow, about
which in our day Prs, Mayo and Carpenter
' and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard
have experimented. And - Solomon re
corded in the Bible thousands of years be
fore scientists discovered, it that in his
time the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
producing tju; tremors of hand and head:
“Or tlie silvjrr cord be-loosed.”
In the tpxt he reveals the fact that he
hud studied that,‘largest gland of the hu
man system, tho liver, not by the electric
light of ,the modern dissecting-room, but
bv the slim light of a” c6niparatively dark
age,and yet had sedn its important function
in a God-built castle pf the human body,
its selecting and secreting power, its curi
ous cells', its elongated branching tubes,
a Divine workmanship in central and right
and left lobe, and the hepatic artery
"through *• which God conducts the
.crimson tides. Oh, this vital organ is
like the eye of God in that ft never
sleeps. Solomon knew of and had no
ticed, either in vivisection or post-mortem,
what awful attacks sin and dissipation
make upon it, until with the fiat of Al
mighty God it bids the body .and soul sepo
rate, and the one it commands to tho gr-ive
and the other it sends to judgment—a
javeliTf of retribution, not glancing off or
making a slight wound, but piercing it
from, sidq to side “till the dart strikes
through the livlr.” Galen and Hippocrates
ascribe to the iiver the most of t,he world’s
moral depression, and tlie word melan
choly means black bile. .
I prfltdh to you tins mormjig the Gospel
of health. In taking diagnosis of tbo dis
eases of the sbnl you must also take the
diagnosis of.the diseases of the body. As
if to recoghizcr this, one whole book of the
New Testament was written by a physi
cian. Luke was a doctor and he discourses
much of physical effects, and he tells of
the good Samaritan’s medication of the
Vvounds by pouring in oil and wine, and
recognizes’hunger as a hinderanpe.to hear
ing t&e Gosj.ef, so Mi at the five thousand
Were fed', and records the sparse diet of
the prodigal away from home, and the ex
tinguished eyesight of the beggar by the
Wayside, and lets us know of the hem
• tu-rhage of the wounds of the dying Christ
lind the miraculous post-mortem resuscita
tion. And any estimate of the spiritual
•condition that does not include also an
rstijqate of the physical Condition is in
complete. When the door-keeper of
Congress • fell dead' from excessive
Joy because Burgoyne had surrendered at
Baratoga, and Philip the Fifth of Spain
dropped dead at the news of his country’s
defeat hi bottle, and Cardinal Wolsey ex
pired as a result of Henry the Eighth’s
anathema, it was demonstrated that the
body ar.d soul are Siamese twins, and when
you thrill the one with joy‘or sorrow you
thrill the other. Wc might as well recog
nize the tremendous fact that there are
two mighty fortresses in the human body,
the heart and the liver —the heart the
fortress of all the graces, the liver the
fortress p/ all the furies. You
the hoadTlilled with alp the intellectuali
ties, f\nd the esjr with all musical appre
ciation, and the mouth with alt eloquence,
and the hand with al! industries, and the
peart with ail generosities, and yet “adart
strike through tho liver.”
First", let Christian people avoid the mis
take that they are all Wrong with God be
cause they suffer from depression of
spirits. Many a consecrated man has
found his spiritual sky befogged, and his
hope ju£ Hojiven blotted out, and himseii
plungedf oh in ddep in the Slough of
Dcsffond. and has said: “My heart is not
right with God, ani I think I must have
made a mistake, and instead of being a
child of light Gam a child of darkness. N 6
one can feel as gloomy as 1 feel and be a
Christian.”
Ami he has gone to his minister for con
sola'ion, and ho has collected Havels
booan books, and Baxter's
books ah'd VeatT and read and read, and
prayed and prayed and prayed, and wept
and wept, and wept, and groaned and
groaned and groaned. My brother, your
trouble is not with the heart, it is a gas-
trie disorder or rebellion of the liver.
You need a physician more than you do a
clergyman. It is,not. sin that blots outyour
hope of Heaven, but bile. It not only yel
lows your eyeball, and furs your tongue,
and makes your head ache, but swoops
upon your soul in dejections and fore
bodings. The devil is after you. He lpis
failed to despoil your character, and he
does the next best thing for him—he ruf
fles your peace of mind. When he says
that you aro not a forgiven soul, when he
says that you are r.ct right with God, when
he says that you will never get to Heaven
he lies. You are just as sure of Heaven as
though you were there already. But Sa
tan, finding that he can not keep yon out
of the promised land of Canaan, bus deter
mined that the spies shall not bring you
any of the Eschol grapes beforehand, and
that you shall have nothing but prickly
pear and crab apple. You are just as good
now under the cloud as you were when you
were accustomed to rise in the morning
at five o’clock to pray and sing “Hallelu
jah, ’tis done!” My friend) Rev. Dr.
Joseph H. Jones, of Philadelphia, a trans
lated spirit now, wrote a book: entitled.
“Man; Moral and Physical,>’ in which he
shows how different the same things may
appear to different people. lie .pays:
“After the great battle on the Mincio, in
1859, between the French and Sardinians
on one side and the Austrians on the other,
so disastrous to the latter, the defeated
army retreated, followed by the victors.
A description of the march of each army is
given by two correspondents of the London
Times , one of whom traveled with the
successful host, the other with the defeat
ed.
“The differencerin views and statements
of the same place, scenes and events, is
remarkable. The former are said to be
marching through a beautiful and luxu
riant country during the day, and at night
encamping where they are'supplied with
an abundance of the best provisions, and
all sorts of rural dainties. There is nothing
of w T ar about the proceeding except
its stimulus and excitement. On the
side of the poor Austrians it is just
the reverse. In his letter of the same
date, describing the same places and march
over the same road, the writer can scarce
ly find words to set forth the suffering,
impatience and disgust existing around
him. What was pleasant to the former
was intolerable to the latter. What mafic
all this difference? asked the journalist.
‘One condition only: The French are vie
torious, the Austrians have been defeated.
The contrast may convey a distinctive idea
of the extent toiwliieh moral* impressions'
affect the efficiency of the Soldier.’”
So, my dear brother, the road you aie
traveling is the same you have been t.r»v
eling a long while, but, tho difference In
your physical conditions makes it look dif
ferent, and therefore the two reports you
have given of yourself are as widely differ
ent, as the reports in the London Times
from two correspondents. Edward Payson,
some times s'o fafr up on the mount that it
seemed as if the centripetal force of earth
could no longer hold him, some limes
through a physical disorder was so far
down that it seemed as if the nether world
would clutch lyin'. Glorious William Cow
per was as good as good could be, and
will be loved in the Christian Church as
long as it sings his hymn, beginning.
“Tilers is a fountain tilled with blood,”
and his hymn beginning, “Oh, for a closer
walk with God,” and his-hymn beginning,
“What various hidranees wo meet,” and
his liyrniTßeginning “GcA moves in a mys
terious way.” Yet so whs he overcome of
melancholy, or black -bile, that it-was, only
through the mistake of the cab-driver.who
took him to a wrong place, instead of the
river Jmnk, that he did not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so mightily affected by
the physical state, what a great opportuni
ty this gives for the Christian physician,
for he can feel at the same time both the
pulse of the body and the pulse of the
soul, and -he can administer to both
at once, and if medicine is needed he
can give that, and if spiritual counsel is
needed he can give that—an earthly and a
divine prescription at the same time —and
call on not only the apothecary of earth,
but the pharmacy of Heaven. Ah, that Is
tjie kind of doctor I w ant at my bedside
when I get sick,one that can not.only count
out the right number of drops, but one
who cau also pray. That is the kind of
doctor I have had in my house when sick
ness or death came. Tdo not want any of
your profligate or atheistic doctors around
my loved ones when Ihe balances of life
are trembling. “•A doctor who' has gone
through the medical college,and in dissept
ing-room has traversed the wonders of the
human mechanism, and found no God in
any of the labyrinths, is a fool,and cau not
doctor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian
doctors! IVhat a comfort they have been
in many of bur households. And they
ought to have a warm place in our prayers
as well as praise on our tongues. Dear
old Dr. Skillman! My father’s doctor, my
mother’s doctor in the village home. He
carried all tho confidences of all the fam
ilies for ten miles around. We all felt bet
ter as soon as we* saw him enter the house.
His face pronounced a beatitude before
lie said a word. He yelcomed all pf ,us
children into life* and lie closed the old
people’s eyes when they entered tho last
slumber. I think 1 know what Christ said
to him when the bid'doctor got through
his work; I.think he-was greeted with the
words: “Come in, doctor, I was sick and ye
visited me!”■ 1 bless OOa'that tho number
of Christian physic ians ismultlpiyifig, and
soma of the students of the medical colleges
are here to-day, and I hail you and I bless
you and I ordain you to the tender, beauti
ful, Work of a Christian
physician, and when you take your
diploma from the Long island Medical Col
lege, to look after the perishable body, be
sure, also, to get a diploma from the skies
to look after the imperishable aoul. Let
all Christian physicians unite with the
ministers of the GoSpel-in persuading good
people that it is not because God is against
them that they sometimes feel depressed,
but because of their diseased body. 1
suppose David, the psalmist, was no
more pious when he called on every
thing human and angelic, animate and
inanimate, and from snowflake to hurri
cane, to praise God, than when he said ;
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1887.
‘Out of the depths of hell have I cried un
to Thee, O L rd,” or that Jeremiah was
.any better when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his ‘‘Lamentations.,’’
or that Job was anv bettor when lie said :
“I know that my Redeemer liveth,” than
when covered all over with the pustules of
elephantiasis he sat in the ashes scratch
ing the scabs off with a broken piece of
pottery; or that Alexander Crudon, the
eoncordist, was any better man when he
compiled tho book that has helped ten
thousand students of the Bible, than when
under the power of physical disorder he
was handcuffed and straight-waistcoated
in Bethnal Green Insane Asylum.
“Oh,” says some Christian man, “no one
ought to allow physical disorder todepress
his soul, lie ought to live so near to God
as to be always in the sunshine.” Yes,
that is good advice; but I warrant that
you, the man who gives the advice, have a
sound liver. Thank God every day for
healthful hepatic condition, for, just as
certainly as you lose it, you will some
times, iike David, and like Jeremiah, and
like Cowper. and like Alexander Cruden,
and like ten thousand other invalids, be
playing a dead march on the same organ
with which now you play a toccata. My
object at this point is not only to emoliate
the criticisms of the well against those
in poor health, but to show Christian
people who aro atrabilarious what is the
matter with thorn. Do not charge against
the heart the crimes of another portion of
you? organism. Do not conclude that be
cause the path of Heaven is not arbored
with as fine a foliage, or the banks beauti
fully snowed under with exquisite chrys
anthemums as once, that therefore you are
on the wrong road. The road will bring
you out at the same gate whether you walk
with the stride of an athlete or come up
on crutches. Thousands of Christians
morbid about their experiences and mor
bid about their business, and morbid about
the present, and morbid about the future,
need the sermon I am now preaching.
Another practical use of this subset is
for the young. The theory Is abroad that
they must first sow their wild oats, and
afterwaj-d Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wild oats are generally
sown in the liver, and they can never be
pulled up. They so preoccupy that organ
that there is no room for tho, implanta
tion of a righteous crop. You see aged
men about us at eighty, erect, agile,
splendid, grand old men. How much
wild oats did they sow between eighteen
years and thirty f None, absolutely none.
God does not very often honor with old
age those who have iu early life sacri
ficed swine on the altar of the bodily
tempie. n
Rcmembei, O yquilg i-uhiij WW?' wkll, in
afterlife ana after years .of dissipation
you may perhaps have your heart changed,
religion does not change the liv.er. Trem
bling and staggei'ing along these streets
to-day are men, aU bent and decayed and
prematurely old lor the reason that they
are paying for liens they put upon their
physical estate before they were thirty.
By early dissipation thej put on their body
a first mortgage, and a Second mortgage,
and a third .mortgage to'ttte devil, and
these mortgages are nowbeing foreclosed,
and all that remains, of their earthly
estate the undertaker will soon. . put
out of sight. Many years ago, in fulfill
ment of my text, a dart struck through
their liver, and it is there yet. God for
gives, but outraged physical- la.w, never,
never, never. That has a Sinai, but ■no
Calvary. Solomon in my text knew what
he waS talking about. He had in early life
been a profligate, and he rises up on his
throne of worldly splendor to shriek out
a warning, to all the centuries. David,
bad in early .lifo, but good in later life,
cries out in an agony of earnestness,
“Remember not tire sins of my.youth.”
Stephen A. Douglas gave the name of
“squatter sovereignty” to those who went
out West and took possession of lands and
held them bv right of preoccupation. Let
a flock of sins settle on your heart before
you get to twenty-five years of age, and
they will in all probability keep possession
by an Infernal squatter sovereignty. “I
promise to pay at the hank SSOO six months
from date,” says the promissory note.’ “I
promise to pay my life thirty years from
date at the bank of the grave,” says every
infraction of thelawA of your physical'be
ing.
What? Will a man’s body never com
pletely, recover from early dissipation in
this worldi Never. How about the world
to come? . Perhaps Gijd will fix it up in the
resurrection body .so that it will not have
to go limping through to all eternity; but
get the liver thoroughly damaged and it
will stay damaged. Physicians call it can
cer of the liver, or hardening of the liver,
or cirrhosis of the liver, or inflammation of
the liver, or fatty degeneration of the
liver, but Solomon puts all these pangs
into one figure and says: “Till the dart
strike through his liver.”
Hesiod seemed to have some hint of this
when he represented Promethens for his
crimes fastened to a pillar and an eagle
feeding on his liver, which was renewed
again each uight, so that tho devouring
went, on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle and' rescued Prometheus. A id a dis
sipated early lifo assures a ferocity peck
ing away and clawing away at the liver
year in and year out, and death is themity
-Horcules who can break the power of its
beak,or unclench.its claw. So also Virgil
and Homer wrote fables about vultures
preying upon the liv.gr, but there are those
beretto-day with whom it is no fable, but a
terrific reality.
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars ha • no idea that he is get
ting for himself smoked liver. That young
man has no idea that he has by early dissi
pation so depleted his energies that he will
go into the battle only half armed. Na
poleon lost Waterlec days before it was
fought; Had he attacked the English army
before It was reinforced, and taken it di
vision by division, he might have won tho
day; but he waited until he had only oue
.hundred thousand men against two hun
dred thousand. And here is a young man
who, if ko put all his forces against the
regiment of youthful temptations, in the
strength of God might drive them back;
but ne ts allowing them to be re-entorced
by the whole army of middle-life tempta-
tions, and when all those combined forces
are massed against him, and no Grouchy
comes to help him, ahd BlUcher has come
to help his foes, what but immortal defeat
can await him!
Oh, my young brother, do not make the
mistake that thousands all around you are
making in opening the battle against sin
too late, for this world too late, and for the
world to come too late. What bringi "lliat
express train from Wt. Louis into J rsey
City three hours lute! They lost fifteen
minutes early on the route, and that af
fected them all the way, and they had to
lie switched off here and switched off
there, and detained here and detained
there, and the man who loses tune and
strength in tho earlier part of thor journojv
of life will suffer for it all the way through,
the firsjt twenty years of life damaging the
following fifty years.
Borne years ago a scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on a great
canvas different parts of the human body
when healthy, and different parts when
diseased. What the world wants now is
some eloquent scientist to go through the
country showing to our young peoplo on
blazing canvas the drunkard’s liver, the
idler’sliver, the libertine’s liver, the gam
bler’s liver. Perhaps the spectacle might
stop some young man before he comes to
the same catastrophe, and the dart strike
through his own liver. 1
My hearer, this is the first sermon you
hayo beard on the Gospel of Health, and it
may be the .last you may ever hear on that
subject; and I charge you in the name of
God, and Christ, and usefulness, and
eternal ylestiny, take better care of your
health. When some of you die, if your
friends put on your tombstone a truthful
epitaph, it will read: “Here lies the vic
tim of lufte suppers.” Or it will be: “Be
hold what chicken-salad at midnight will
do for a man.” Or it will be: “Ten cigars
a day closed my earthly existence.” Or it
will be: “Sat down in a cold draught, and
this is the result.” - Or it will be: “I died
of thin shoes last winter.” Or it will be:
“Went out without an overcoat, and took
this last chili.” Or it will be: “Thought
I could do at seventy what 1 did at
twenty, and lam here.” Or it will be:
“Here is the consequence of sitting a half
day with wet feet.” Or it will be: “This
is where I have stacked my harvest of wild
oats.” Or, instead of words, the stone
cutter will chisel for an epitaph on the
tombstone two figures—namely, a dart
and a liver.
CARE OF PIANOS.
How to Keep Musical Instruments In a
Goihl CondiUoii,
It is evident that, if the piano is to remain
in good order for many rears, good care
of it I lie ins tram tin* "KrilllH
be closed when not In use In order to pre
vent tile collection of dust, pins, etc., on the
sound board However, it must not be left
closed for a perioi of several months and
longer, but be opened occasionally and the
ilayiight allowed to strike the keys, or else
the ivory may turn yellow. Any hard Sub
stance, no matter small, dropped Inside
the, piano, a jarring
noise. It is in every case desirable that an
tndia rubber or cloth cover should protect
the instrument from bruises or scratches.
The piano should not be placed in a damp
room, or left opou in a draught of cold air.
Dampness is its most dangerous enemy,
codling the strings and tuning pipes to rust,
the .cloth used in the construction of the
keyfwind action to swell, whereby the mech
anism move sluggishly, or often stick
This occurs chiefly in the sum
mer season, and the best pianos, made of
m'Vt thoroughly seasoned material, are ne
eejarily affected by dampness, the absorp
tio3 being rapid. Extreme heat is scarcely
lees injurious The piano should not be
placed very near to an open fire or a heated
stove, nor over or close to the ltot-air fur
naces now in general use. Moths ate very
destructive to the -cloth and felt used in a
piano, and may he kept out of it by placing
a lump of camphor, wrapped ia soft paper,
In the inside corner, care being taken to re
new it from t ine to time Many persons
are unaware of the groat importance of
• having their piano kept in order and only
timed by a competent tuner. A new piano
.should he tuned at least once every three or
four months during tlie first year, and at
longer intervals afterward.— Mimical Journal
Wliere the Heart Is.
In one of the art galleries of Italy there
is a curious picture, by i:n early paiiner,
which represents a sick man stretched on
his bed, and his physicians come to visit
him. They have examined their patient,
and asceitiined his malady to be that his.
heart, is g»ne —it bus altogether disappeared.
From a pulpit near by, St. Anthony, of
Padua, is preaching on the text: “For where
your treasure is, th re will vour heart be
also.” He announces where the particular
organ in question will be found; and the dew
he furnishes is followed up, in another
compartment of the painting by a group
of the sick man’s friends, who open his
strong box, and stand amazed at discover,
ing the missing member reposing among the
abundant gold pieces. The artist apparent
ly considered the incident an actual occur
rence} and we should err in feeling unmixed
amusement at his credulity. For it is as
true as though it were a literal fact, that the
heart may be enticed from its rightful place
to lie among earthly treasures; and it is no
’less certain that, if the affections , are chug
severed from their vital connection, spirit
ual debility which may well call for anxiety
will follow. The case of the invalid, in the
picture, is not so singular as at first it might
seem.—&. 6. Time*
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'A Yeung Snob Kebukod.
I was told the richest thing about a Min
neapolis girl A certain Swedish baron of a
fine family and education came to this
country and, the old story, found himself
obliged to obtain any situation to keep him
self »bove absolute want, so he entered the
clothing store of Mr. as clerk. Well,
this young lady, hearing he was a noble,
must have his autograph, so ehe came into
the store one day and requested it, leaving
her album. It puzzled him greatly. Why
should she want hi* autograph, a complete
stranger? Suddenly the truth struck him
and he wrote his name and beneath: “Clerk
in Mr. ——'s store. “ “You should have seen
her face lengthen,” said he, “ancfTihe said:
*1 didn’t want that I wanted your name
and your title. 5 ‘There it is,’ I answered;
*there’s the name and clerk at Mr. ’s is
the only title I wear iu this country.
Paul Pio/itt!■* Prat*. „
EXCITING DUEL.
An Old Man Shoots a Policeman
and is Himself Riddled.
Dying; While In the Act of Signing His
Will leaving Ilia Property to His
Pretty Step-Daughter.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 23.—A sensa
tional shooting affray occurred here to
day, in which two policemen and a saloon
keeper named Baldwin were the princi
pals. William Baldwin kept a dive in
a remote part of the city, and his place
has been the especial care of the police
authorities on Sundays, on which day
he kept a very disorderly house. Yes
terday two policemen went to‘Baldwin’s
saloon’to arrest King, one of Baldwin’s
employes, for selling whisky on Sun
day without license. King was arrested,
and the officers accompanied him to Bald
win’s home to get Baldwin to g<> or. his
bond. When Baldwin’s house was reached
ho was asleep, having been drinking very
heavily. He was awakened, and uas very
much angered because King had been ar
rested. and ordered the policemen off Ui9
premises, accompanying his order by a shot
from a 82-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver.
He shot twice before the policemen
could draw their weapons, and then a duel
commenced that was very exciting. The
third shot from Baldwin’s revolver struck
Policeman Howard in the forehead, felling
him to the ground. Baldwin then began
firing at the other officer, who fell at the
first shot as if dead. Baldwin then turned
his attention to Howard, who was
struggling to reload his revol
ver. The other policeman then
rose and fired deliberately at Baldwin
three shots in succession. Each took effect
n vital parts. Baldwin went, immediately
into the house, pulled off liits boots and sent
for an attorney to draw his will. Ttie pa
per was written and dictated by the dying
man, and just as he grasped the pen to
sign the instrument which would
have left his property, amounting to
considerable money, to his step
daughter, a very pretty girl, he expired
with his pen iu his hand. Howard is in a
very precarious condition, and it is feared
he will die. The whole difficulty grew out
of the efforts of the police to enforce the
Sunday law in accordance with the agree
ment of tlie saloon-keepers. Baldwin was
about sixty years of age, and was a dan
gerous character, he having already killod
two men.
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A Chance for Superstition.
Trr “»*• •''’WAV Knir O')
people may regard as inauspicious an ac
cident at the White House. In unloiding
the sections of the mirror which forms
the base of the famous flower piece that
adonis the White House dining-table, on
slate occasions, one of the mirrors was
broken yesterday. The design of the cen
terpiece represents Minnehaha in an In
dian canoe of silver on the water, which is
represented by the mirror. It was pur
chased by Mrs. Grant at the Centennial,
and was then regarded as a wonderful
-iece of work.
A Startling Report.
Chicago, Nov. 22. — A Daily Xews special
from Plainfield. Ind., says a most startling
report from Fisher’s Station, a small vil
lage eighteen miles northeast of here,
came this morning, saying that since tho
opening of a mammoth natural gas well at
that place a few days ago there had been a
perceptible settlement of'the earth of sev
eral inches, and that the whole population
of tho village and surrounding country ar#
terrified beyond description
Big haul by a Pickpocket.
Tuscola, 1t.t.., Nov. Martin,
well-known farmer of Northern Coles
County, while returning on the train from
Chicago, whore he had been with four car
loads of cattle, was robbed of $1,325 in
money by an unknown person. The money
belonged to a neighbor for whom he bad
taken the cattle t he market.
Not a Soul Saved.
Chicago. Nov. 22.—An unknown two
masted schooner m sunk in forty feet of
water one mile and a half abreast of Keno
sha, and fears are entertained that not a
sou Twas saved of her crew. Judging from
the size of ttiqJ vessel it is probable Ibat>
not less t hflgrfve men manned her when
she foundered.
Poor Grevy A-Cold.
Paris, Nov. 22.—A1l the leading French
politicians have refused to form a Cabinet
lor Grevy and advise his resignation. It
looks as if there is nothing else that he
can do. Don Carlos, the Spanish Pre
tender, by virtue of the death of his father,
claims to be the legitimate King of France.
Wonderful Address to the Pope.
Pkstii, Nov. 22. —The Catholic Assembly
lias voted to present to the Pope an address
signed by 1,500,000 men and 86,000 women.
The church collections to be presented ti
the Pope amount to 185,000.
British Arsenal.
Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 22.—1 tis rumored
that the Imperial Government is negotia
ting for two hundred acres of land near
Esquimalt, for the purpose of establishing
a. vast arsenal.
Postal Telegraph by ttn Government.
New York, Nov. 22.— A Washington
special quotes Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Knott as saying that he is convinced
that , the Government will establish a
system of postal telegraphy within three
-years.
This is Official.
Coi.i "Mill's, 0., Nov. 22. —According to the
official returns of the late election, the
total vote for Governor was: Foraker, 358,-
937: Powell. 383.205; Seitx. 24,712; Sharp,
29,700. Total, 746,685. Foraker’s plurality,
33,732
VOE. IV.—NO. 40.
SPREADING LEPROSY.
lliKli*Hau<le<l Outrage by a Philadelphia
Physician.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 21.—The two
unfortunate lepers, Mrs. P Miranda and
her nine-year-old daughter, Anita, are now
quarantined at, the Municipal Hospital. It
is alleged that Mrs. Miranda was advised
to keep the secret of her disease by Dr.
Van Harlingen, and it is also said
that several prominent physicians
were consulted, and the treat
ment of the lepers begun. During all this
time they were stopping with Mrs. Mi
randa’s widowed sister, Mrs. Nierson, aM
Twenty-fourth and W T right streets. Mrs.
Nierson occupied tlie same sleeping apart
ments as ttic unfortunate leper. When she
learned that her sister was being treated
by a physician she inquired what her ail
ment was, but Mrs. Miranda merely re
plied: “Only a skin disease.”
Mrs. Nierson learned that Dr.
Van Harlingen was her sister’s physician,
and she visited him, but he refused to tell
her what, ailed his patient. With her
secret buried in her bosom Mrs. Miranda
continued to live at Mrs. Nierson’s home,
while Anita, her daughter, who is also cov
ered with the marks of leprosy, attended
school and played with the schoolchildren.
At eleven o’clock this morning Mrs. Nierson
and a friend visited the health office. They
were closely questioned by Dr. J. Howard
Taylor, tlie medical inspector, as to the
relationship existing between herself and
Mrs. Miranda, and the nature of the lat
ter’s disease. Mrs. Nierson was very much
exercised for fear the disease might be
contagious, and asked if Dr. Van Har
lingen was not responsible for tiis con
duct. “I think it was a high-handed
outrage,” said Health Officer Patterson.
Mrs. Nierson wanted permission to see her
sister at once, but was informed by tlie
Health Board that it would Vie impossible
to grant her request. It seems to be the
opinion that the Board of Health will send
tlie lepers cither to a settlement for lepers
in Louisana or Canada, and that action
will be taken by that body at its meeting
to-morrow.
CONFLAGRATIONS.
Widespread lfuin l>y Forest Fires at the
South.
Memphis, Tknn., Nov. 21.—The forest
fires continue to rage in this section, and
the damage sivstained is becoming serious.
Several gin houses in Crittenden County,
Ark., have been burned; also in the coun
ties of Mississippi which border the river.
It is impossible to gather definite details
of the loss. It is so widespread in its na
ture that an estimate can not be given.
Hteamers can not run at uight
owing to the dense smoke which
prevails num v loasourg, ruiss., to
a point one hundred and fifty miles above
Memphis, a total distance of six hundred
and fifty miles. Fires are burning every
where within this territory, and there is
no immediate prospects of rain. Travel
by rail is also obstructed from these
causes. Several trestles on the Kansas
City road have been destroyed, and com
munication with St. Louises rmw made via
Forest City, Ark. Nevervbefore in the
history of the country lvfg there been
such wide spread conflagration and the
loss to farmers will be very heavy. The
wind-storm which prevailed Saturday and
Saturday night must have been destruc
tive to many dwellings- and out-houses of
planters, especially in the counties to the
•westof Memphis in Arß’ap<kß, but owing
to tho secluded counA'Aind the lack of
telegraphic will be
days liefore the true condition of affairs is
learned. The same reports come from
every quarter of fires anyHfce loss that is
being sustained. epiy jscape that is
promised will conCinrom rain, and in
nearly all the churches prayers were of
fered yesterday that showers might fall
and the destruo^ffnFt-ease.
Demand lor Small Changed
Pun, A v. 21.—Superintendent
Fox, of rife U. S. Mint, said to-day that not
only is Up* kept up for
small or the bstfiks
are dollars. They ara
also demanding new quarter and half dot
lar pio«6s. The superintendent stated that
by the Ist of January he would hava
coined as many gold dollars as ho thought
advisnbje for the present. When asked
hovvACny, he said: “Less than ten tliou-
do not think I*will exceed that
am<*nt.”
Chamberlain’s Body-Guard.
Washington, Nov. 21. —The English rep
resentatives on the Canadian Fisheries
Commission, especially Mr. Jos. Chamber
lain, are accompanied to this city by a
Pinkerton’s detectives, foui in
iffuSfber. A friend of Mr. Chamberlain
states that the distinguished Englishman
cloes not fear any violence. Nevertheless
the British Minister has employed Pinker
ton’s men to keep a faithful attendance
upon him, sleeping or Avaking, while in
the United States.
Sympathy for the Prince.
Washington, Nov. 21. —The Secretary of
State on the 15th inst., directed the Amer
ican Minister at Berlin to communicate to
the Emperor of Germany the cordial sym
pathy of the President and citizens of this
country in the serious illness of the Crown
Prince. Tho German Charge d’Affairs at
this Capital to-day transmitted to the State
Department a reply thereto stating that
the Emperor was deeply moved by the
message of sympathy.
Reign of Terror in Thibodeaux.
New Orleans, Nov. 21.— The labor trou
bles at Thibodeaux are not over. For sev
eral days past, white and black hands,
working peacefully under one shed, hava
been fired into by negro strikers. Several
were wounded and one hassineodied. The
outlook is very dark. The {Own is full of
idle negroes and each day they beeonia
more and more audacious.
Frost in the Sunny Southlands.
Ai.'gvsta, Ua., Nov. 21.—The thermometer
ivas down 1o twenty-six degrees this morn
ing, and there was a heavy frost through
out Georgia and Carolina.