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“GREA T MINDS TO MADNESS CLOSELY ARE ALLIED” Prof. Grasset Proves Truth ot Pope’s Famous Lines The erotomaniac who loves two young women, often sisters, with equal love at the same time. He can't bear to marry either, knowing that the other adored one may become the wife of some oth er man. Tile monomaniac is insane on one subject only, gen erally the inven tion of a perpet ual motion ma chine. or some other contrivance which d e fi e s every known law of mechanics. On every other sub ject he is perfect ly rational. The dipsomaniac suffers from a dis ease which makes him drink when ever an attack comes on. He should not be confounded with the habitual drunkard. The megalomaniac is the founder of queer religions and sects He in vents new doc trines and be liefs and strives to win converts to his way of thinking, general ly with a small degree cf suc cess. The sitomaniac has ungovernable im pulses to eat. Sitomania is a disease, a mild form of insanity, and the sufferer feels impelled to eat at all times and hourj, no matter whether he is hungry or not. The kleptomaniac, who is driven in spite of herself to take what does not belong to her. K I e p t omaniacs show great skill and employ many clever ruses in their thefts. At'AREFl/L study of Prof. Grass-*’’* remarkable book on t]i.* "deini-fous" leads to two very decided ami consoling conclusions; first, that all great men are more or less insane: and. second, that it is not such a very dreadful thing to be long to the demi-tons." after all. There is not, as Prdf.Xlrasset points out. any way in which to draw a dis tinguishing line between sanity and insanity. The shades, or brands, of one overlap and are interwoven with liie other to sncli a degree’that it is impossible to show where the one ends and the other begins. In other words, you. for instance, ran be both sane and insane at lit ■ same time—perfect ly sane on certain subjects, blit insane, or partly so. on at least one other. There are so many brands of insanity that, fortunately, nor all of us are in sane on tite saute subject. "fletween calm, cold reason and a trans|Kirt of passion." says Prof. Gras set. "between originality and eccen tricity. between iter\ousness and agita tion. between a person who is slightly touched and one who is demented, there are all degrees of transition, and it i- ini|>ossihle to say where insanity begins." Admitting for tin- moment, then, that everybody is more or less insane, it is not a question of just how insane a person-is.-’but of tie- particular brand of insanity be lias inherited or ac quired. sitt> a writer in the New York Sunday World The brands may !>•* counted by the score. Soute of them are of real value, especially to a man of genius. Others are useless, harmless, or detrimental, as the case may he. The erotomaniac, for instance, falls in love. Hut tlu,t f» not all. lie may love two sisters with equal love at i the same time . and. no matter how ! hard ho riiay try. lie cannot make up his mind which to marry. It is impos sible for him to bear the thought that either of the young women he loves should become ftie wife of another, lie generally solves the problem by giving them both up and marrying a third. The Dipsomaniac Class. The dipsouidniar. who must not be classed with tho habitual drunkard, suffers from an affliction which impels him to driuk whenever an. attack comes on. Then thorn are the kleptomaniacs. Prof. Griisset describes them as "sick people who arc driven in spite of themselves to take wliat does not be long to them, just as we have seen that the dipsomaniacs are driven hr an irresistible- power to drink.” Among other brands of semi-insanity may Ik> mentioned sitomania,. pyro ntania. monomania and megalomania, which are illustrated and briefly de scribed. Thou there are other brands which are Characterized by illusions, hallucinations, jealousy, conceit, boast Iillness, rashness." inertness, impulsive ness. timidity ami many forms of ec centricity. Prof. Grass- declares that from i childhood persons of unbalanced mind are apt to "draw attention to them selves by their .precocity, their quick ness In taking hold of everything and uiiderstandtng it. and at the same time by their whims, their headstrong ways, j their cruel instincts, their violent and convulsive attacks of anger. When they become m-n they are queer, com plex. heterogeneous individuals, made up of ‘contradictor? qualities and faults. They are often as highly gifted in one line as they are lacking in an other. From tlie intellectual point of view they sometimes possess the fac ulties of imagination, invention and ex pression in a very high degree; that is to say. they are’ gifted in speech, in tho arts and in poetry." Those Who Are “A Little Oft.” The originals and eccentrics show lack of equilibration to a still greater degree. ‘ These people,” says Prof. jGraaset. are wha; the public would describe as a little off' on some one subject; they either have some pe culiar habit oi wear some odd style of clothes or have a queer manner ot wearing their hair or of walking or writing or speaking. It may be either a strange gesture, a form of speech, a lie or a grievance; The eccentricity is often shown by an imperious or obsessional tendency, as, for example, to surround oneself with birds or flow ers or cats, to collect uninteresting objects, particularly articles of wear , iug apparel, sueti as cravats, hats, foot MOOSE AS FLOWER PICKERS. MonarcHs of the Forest Revel in Luxuriant Lily Ponds. At first thought it would appear ini possible that such large, gaunt deni zens of the fores! as moose could in anyway be interested in (lowers. They are, however, exceedingly fond of feed ing on all kinds of water lilies. Few people know that these flowers grow from thick snakoiike rootstocks which are so firmly attached to the bottom that the strongest man cannot loosen them. It is from .hese firmly moored rootstocks that the much admired leaves and flowers strive toward, the light. A well-known naturalist, who stud ied tlie habits of the animals la north ern Minnesota, where moose are more numerous than in any other part of the world, often found two or three big bulls engaged in gathering their morning meal on the lake bottom. The great beasts would slowly stalk about in three or four feet of water and often their heads would be under wa ter for, halt a minute* at a time, so rhat their hacks wouid look like bowlders just protruding from the str*-ant. Th’'n a pair of magnificent antlers would come up, and the water would he shaken out of the big ears with a flapping noise that could 13c heard for a quarter of a mile, and then the big, long muzzle would be leisurely chewing a dripping mouthful of water lily leaves and other plants gathered from the bottom. So intent were the huge animals on gathering flowers that several times the naturalist could row up close enough to secure a good photograph before they splashed noisily back to (he shore and disappeared in the black spruce. When the tnoosd find a good lily pond they continue feeding in it until the plants are almost ex terminated.—The Sunday Magazine. Solve Life’s Problems. To resolutely and tenderly, day aft er day. commend ourselves to the hand of God, to do our best, to decide as simply and sincerely as possible wbat our path should be, and then leave the issue humbly and quietly with God.—The Upton' Letters. MEAN MAN’S GREAT SCHEME. Boasts How Ho “Works" His Poor Deluded Wife. Two men were standing together in a corridor of a post office. One of them happened to notice that a [Mist card, held in the Angers of the other, was addressed to the holder. “Why, wliat does this mean?" he asked. “Do you address letters to yourself?" "in this case, yes,” was the answer. ‘.‘That's funny." “Well, not, so very. See the other side.” He held it tip. and the other side read: "Hro. ltlank—There will be a meeting of the J. O. O. S. B.. No. 387, at the hall, the evening of October 1. to - transact special business. Mem bers not present will be Aned Ave dol lars. J. —7-, secretary. “Yes, but 1 don’t exactly catch on,” protested the innocent. “Oh. you don’t? Well, I got the cards printed myself; the society is ail a myth. When I want to go out of an evening I direct one of these card3 to my house. X reach home, and my wife hands it to me. with a sigh. I offer to stay at home and stand the fine of the fiver, but, of course, she won’t allow that. That's all. my friend, except that the scheme is worked by hundreds of others, and our poor deluded wives haven’t tum bled to it yet.”—Detroit News Trib une. Keep the Scalp Clean. A distinguished physician states that if the scalp is kept thoroughly clean one rarely contracts contagious dis eases. This doctor, who has worked long among immigrants and the poorer classes, declares that when the hair is allowed to become dirty and matted it is almost impossible to escape in fection. Nothing to It. A gentleman, whose name is with held by request and who conducted a large bakery until he lost all he had on the stock market, is quoted as authority for the assertion that "this casting bread upon the water don’t always work out just as some folks claim it doe3."—Toledo Blade. wear or wrappers of every style and color, or to be absorbed in researches and calculations and ridiculous inven tions ” Hut, alter all, scmi-iusqnity In some forms lias its advantages. Many world-famous men—.poets, mathema ticians, philosophers. historians, writers, statesmen and scientists— would probably never have been heard of but for that one little streak of in sanity which lent luster and impetus to their minds and prompted them Vo accomplish something of tremendous value to mankind. I'or instance, "Tolstoi belongs to the category of the semi-insane who are termed 'originals.' At eight years of age he was seized with an irresistible desire to fly. This idea haunted him to such a degree that he decided to put it into practice. He shut himself up in his study room, climbed up to the window and made the movements for flying in the air. He fell front a height of more than 16 feet and was sick for some time following.” Tolstoi s Peculiar Mania. l.ater Tolstoi's particular brand of insanity prompted him to fall in love, not. once, but threefold; for. having met the three daughters of Dr. Ueree, he "began by being very much taken by the oldest, then he thought he was in love with the second, and finally fell in love with the third.” The triple romance ended abruptly, for Tolstoi suddenly decided that instead of get ting married he’ would mow hay with the tnoujiks in a peasant's blouse. Ossip Lourie, who made a psycho logical study of many of the great Rus sian novelists of the nineteenth cen tury. summed tip Tolstoi's case in the following way: "Tolstoi is one of those rare men to whom the English aphorism. 'They are certainly cracked, but the crack lets in light.' might apply. In a word. Tolstoi was a semi insane genius." Even Socrates must have had a streak of insanity in him, for he ‘‘went into ecstaeies which were almost cata leptic fits. At table, or in the streets of Athens, or in tile camps, he would suddenly stop short, sometimes with out motive At othe- times, on the oc casion of a sneeze either by himself 01 one of iiis neighbors, he would act. or would not act. according to whether the sneeze had taken place on his right hand or on his left." Insanity of Some Great Men. Prof, tbasset cites the cases of dtany other great men of i>ast and present limes whose brands of in sanity were manifested in various way s. Pascal, for instance, “could not stand seeing water without falling into a perfect fit of passion." Then Au guste Comte who has exerted a y'ast and lasting influence on the philo sophical position of the savants of the ninetenth century, “was undoubtedly semi-insane when he was not wholly insane, lie wrote incoherent letters. While lie was taking a walk one day he wanted to drag his wife with him into the l.ake d'Enghein. During his meals lie would try to drive his knife into tfie tattle. like Walter Scott's Highlander, anti he would order the succulent hack of a pig and recite bits ot Homer. Of Gorki. Prof. Grasset writes that he “made aa attempt to commit sui cide at the age of 18 and belongs to the category of the semi-insane who have been termed vagabonds or wan derers." Guy de Maupassant died insane. He had often confessed to Paul Bourget that he frequently saw his double. In going into his own room he would see himself seated ti|>on his own sofa. The roots of his disease ‘ seemed to be confused with the very qualities of his talent. t^llemain had ideas of perse cution. .lean Jacques Rousseau was successively clockmaker, mountebank, music master, painter and servant, and then followed the paths of medi c-infy music, theology and botany. He used to meditate bareheaded in the sun at midday. He fell in love at 11. j He would suddenly 'depart from an inn. leaving his trunk behind him Gerard de Xerval, the political writer and poet, was subject to hallucina tions. He would lie found on the street corner, his hat in his hand, lost in a sort of ecs'taey. In the Tuileries he saw tiie goldfish in the big fountain putting their-heads out of the water trying-to-entice him to follow them to the bottom. The queen of Sheba was wailing fox him. they said. He was found ai the Palais Royal dragging a live lobster-along at the end of a blue ribbon, lie tried to fly like the birds, apd one day at a moment, in one of th[e streets of Paris, when he waited wffh his arms spread out for his soul to mount to a star, he was gathered in by a gendarme “because he had pre pared for this ascension by taking off his terrestrial garments." * Freaks of Men of Genius. Baudelaire dyed his hair green. He. was an epicure of odors, and used to say that his soul soared upon perfumes as the souls of other men soared upon music. One day after throwing a traveling glazier downstairs and break ing every pane of glass Baudelaire ex claimed: "-The beauty of life! The beauty of life.’ He declared later that he experienced at that moment an ' in finite joy," because he was. not yet in sane. at least, not officially so. Thi* case of Alfred de Musset, who was "restless visionary and slightly maniacal,'' is most interesting. In the Cafe de la Regenee it was his habit to order a plate of cigars and a frightful mixture of beer and absinthe, which he would swallow in a gulp. Then De Musset would settle himself solidly against the back of the divan and light one cigar after another until the plate was empty. At half-past eleven the waiter would hail a cab. lead the poet by the arm, and put him safely into the vehicle. He would let himself he taken quietly to his house, where his old nurse put him to bed like a child. Kven the great Napoleon had his particular brand of insanity. He be lieved in presentiments and horo scopes, as is well known, and Prof. (IraSset says further he "suffered from a habitual twitching of the right shoulder and of the lips.” Zola used to count the number of gas jets in the streets, the numbers on the doors anti chiefly the numbers on cabs. Balzac had an ambulatory mania. One eve ning. w hen he had put on a handsome new dressing gown, he wanted to go into the street with it on and with a lamp in his hand to excite the admira tion of the public. Schopenhauer al ways suspected that he was possessed of a demon. He said he could feel it within him He used to pass entire weeks without speaking to anybody. Swift announced in his youth that he would go mad, and. as a matter of fact. he did. Sorre Curious Hallucinations. Kdgar Allan Poe drank, as Baude lain- has said, “like a savage." Me was subject to the most horrible hal lucinations. Haller, the celebrated physiologist, believed he was being continually pursued by enemies, lie took enormous doses of opium. New ton became insane in his old age. Beethoven, who always washed in ice water, “would lift it up with his hands scolding all the while, and dash a quantity of water on his face and his hair without noticing that it made a pool on the floor, in which he splashed about like a duck." In connection with Prof. Grasset's work it is interesting to note that l)r. Henry S. Atkins of the St. Louis Asy lum for the Insane has recently been putting a theory of his own to a prac tical test. He has been sending insane women out in small parties to visit tile department stores and particularly the bargain counters to do some shop ping. The insane women were in charge of keepers, but gave no trouble. The patients purchased with a keen regard of appearance and value, just as their normal sisters were buying all about them. Apparently the sales women noted nothing unusual in their demeanor. Dr. Atkins said that such recreation as that afforded by a day in the stores is a valuable part of the treatment for the insane. Just as normal persons are better merry than moody, so, be says bis charges are improved by any thing that pleasantly occupies their minds while not at the same time ex citing their nerves. GOT IT SOMEWHAT MIXED. Little Incident That Happened at the Monthly Musicaie. Margaret Durham was the latest ar rival at Miss Simmons’ select board- - ing school, and being pretty and well dressed she was popular. Would she be an usher at the monthly musicaie? Margaret was hor ribly shy. She never could do it— oh. never! Hut the chosen five elected her for the sixth, so the evening found her k perfect flutter of white frills and pink hows (this was the pink musicaie) awaiting to receive the early comers. Kach of the hardened five bore forward an imposing audi tor, and Margaret found herself in quiring of a very ancient and elegant old gentleman in a voice scarcely audible: “Sir, shall I show you to a seat?" "What. what, what?" demanded the elderly party, irascibly, holding his hand to his ear. "Sir,” screamed the flustered novice, 'shall I sew you to a sheet?” Then five lace handkerchiefs were crammed into five tittering mouths while Miss Margaret bolted from the scene of her discomfiture, and the five were left to do the honors.— Harper's Weekly. Ice in Dentistry. The first use of ice in dental opera tions was in what the public term the "freezing system." This application is still in use in provincial towns, but it has for several years past been dis continued in London and other large cities. The first use of ice in this way was in America. The ice was cut up fine, placed in small bags so shaped as to fit each side of the jaw and the wretched patient held these in his mouth until the desired temperature was reached, when the operator ex tracted the offending molar or molars. To-day cold air is pumped into the mouth with more effect and without any of the pain and inconvenience that must have attended the more primitive style. Iced water is always used by dentists in America, but is never used anywhere else.—Ice and Cold Storage. SECOND BETSY ROSS WOMAN WHO MAKES FLAGS FOR UNCLE SAM. Miss Mary Woods, with Her Assist ants, Turned Out 7,000 Last Year Which Cost an Average of Ten Dollars Apiece. New York.—It was considered a wonderful achievement when patriotic Betsy ltoss made the first flag for Cnole Sam. Ever since she has been glorified in story and song, and there is not a school child in the land who has not heard her name. In fact, there are si ill lo be seen old-fashioned lith ograph pictures of the prim, quaint little woman sitting on her back piazza working on the stars and stripes. But there is a second Betsy Ross among us who deserves a great deal of credit, for where the former turned out one flag our modern Betsy turns out thousands. I lie average visitor to the Brooklyn navy yard has no idea of what goes on within those grim military walls. Neither does lie know that up on the third floor or the equipment depart ment is our Betsy Ross No. 2, whose real name is Miss Mary A. Woods. It is 2S years since Miss Woods en tered the employ of the equipment department at the navy yard. At that time she was turning out filmy gowns and beautiful costumes for the fair ladies of Brooklyn, when she sud denly decided to make flags for Uncle Sam Instead Accordingly, she pre sented herself at the navy yard with tile proper credentials and impressed the officials so agreeably that an arm ful of piece work was given to her to take home, as was the custom in those days. Soon thereafter she was made "quarterwoman" of the flag mom in the equipment department, where she has been for more than a quarter of a century. When Miss Woods first became quarterwoman" — forewoman we would say in civil parlance—she had only six assistants. Today she has under her 32 women and three men. who last year turned out 700 flags under her direction. Of these 1,580 were American. 500 were foreign en signs. and the rest were signal flags. Miss Woods has made and handled more flags than any other woman in jnssjztey-A -ft'coDs the world, and 90 per cent, of all the work done at the equipment depart ment is cut by her. as she is a past mistress in the art of cutting. When Miss Woods has cut her bunt ing emblems they are turned over to their respective workers, who do nothing but that particular thing 313 days in the year. There are eight hand workers who baste, embroider and do the fancy stitches required by our fastidious t'ncie Sam and foreign despots. These women receive from $1.52. fourth-class work, to $2.24 a day, first class work, for the pay in the navy is always by the multiple of eight. Many middle-aged women find employment in this department, and in eight years not one has been discharged for lack of work. Miss Woods herself has taught he: assistants all that they know of flag making. Miss Woods loves the beautiful soft, all wool bunting, and takes great pride in displaying it even before it is transformed into a flag. The vel vets. laces, silks and satins of her dressmaking days seem frivolous compared with the fast colored bunt ings. the choicest output of the Lowell mills. •'Last year," said she, "we used 1-10,000 yards. Can you imagine ii? And ten years ago we used only 40.000 yards It cost Uncle Sam last year to run this room alone 570,000. Of i this amount JiiO.OOO was used for ma terials and $20,000 for labor." "Xo, the work is never monotonous." says Miss Woods, "for there is some thing new to learn each day. For in stance, just before the fleet started for the Pacific the signals were changed, and all the flags had to be altered ac cordingly. Then you see there are a great variety of flags—408 in all and 43 foreign ones. So how can the work be monotonous? "And what is the most intricate flag to make? Ily all odds the San Salva dor, because it is more concentrated. And the only flag on which the front is not the same as the back is the Para guay, which has a lion on the front and a red five-pointed star on the back. There is more cutting, though, on a No. 10 30-inch ensign than on a No. 1 ensign 3G feet long.” Paid Enormous Dividend. A German company has just paid a dividend which, if not unprecedent ed. is certainly very rare. A company cailed the International Boring com pany. which has only a capital of $1-5,009, has recently announced a dividend of 500 per cent. Rothchilds' Great Wealth. The wealth of the Rothschilds at present is estimated at $2,000,000,000, and is believed to have doubled within the past 20 years. It is calculated that in TO years more they will possess an amount that can hardly be conceived- 1 PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT | MAY RECEIVE NOBEL PRIZE j Congressman Richard Barlholdt, from the Tenth district of .Missouri, is spoken of as the probable winner of the Nobel peace medal for this rear, a distinction which was won by i’resi dent Roosevelt for his work in bringing to an end the bloodiest struggle in modern times, the I!usso-.lapane.se war. The congressman is the leading figure in the lute: parliamentary union, a congress of members of national parliaments in all parts of the world, organized to further the cause of peace, and ii was due to his efforts that -bp members of the American congress were brought in. Both King Kdward and Km prior William have received him and Andrew Carnegie made him the custodian of $1,000,000, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to fur titering the interests of peaec He took a promi nent part in ihe last peace conference at The Hague. where lie made this very practical recommendation: "To chcIi nation joining the community of nations in such a legislative body will he guaranteed ill territorial and polilical inleu: i > and local sovereignt> or home rule; i2> an equal opportunity to Hud** abroad. and <:;> dtte voice in determining the law to lie recognized by nations in their inter course with each other.* These ate th< tights, you will observe, which to se cure and enjoy has always been assigned as the on . ••ason for the main tenance of military systems.” Although today an enthusiastic American, Congressman Hartholdt. was born in flernuiny, but came to tiiis country when a hoy. lie learned the print ing trade and has been a newspaperman ever since. He was < unueeted with several eastern papers as reporter, legislative correspondent and at the time of his election to congress he was editor of the St. I.oui-. Tribune. He is 5:i years of age and has served eight consecutive 'em. in congress. YOUTHFUL BANK PRESIDENT John H. Rd wards. who resigned ihe position of assistant secretary of the t rests nr- to become •* president of the Mercantile National bank to succeed F. Augustits Heinz, who was forced out during the flurry that followed die collapse of the corner in United t'opper in October, is a liltle past 30 years of age He began life as a bank clerk in Ohio, and by die time he reached voting age he had been elected assistant secre tary of the Bankers' association of Ohio. Con gressman Weaver of Springfield. O. offered hint die position of private serretav> some ten years ago. and Edwards accepted H and went to Wash ington with him. That position lie held until l!n)t, when the congressman was retired. His work had attracted tile attention of Postmaster C.eneral Payne. who offered him a similar posi tion. Edwards accepted. His <ia:brought him frequently into contact willi Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, ami when the latte;- was looking for a private secretary lie "borrowed” Rdwards from Payne and never paid hitu hack. When Horace A. Taylor tendered his resignation of the position of assistant secre tary of the treasury he recommended Edwards He suggested that the an nouncement lie made on Washington's birthday, then hut a few days off. ■ It is the birthday of Edwards' good old mother." be said, and the birth day of his young son. I would like to tell him of his promotion on that day. ' "Capital!" shouted the president, enthusiastically. T will go you one better and send his nomination to the senate on that day." He was as good as his word and Edwards got the appointment. Because tlie president of the I'nited States and the secretary of the treasury in these commonplace, practical and materialistic days, were sentimentalists, lie was confirmed it: a position which he did not assume for several weeks later. ALTERED PROHIBITION WORK I>r. Parley A. Baker, head and brains of the National Anti-Saloon league, shaking of the temperance wave that is sweeping over the United States, says: "We are lighting a demor alized and divided enemy and smile at conces sions shouted back by a whipped army in full ret real." Dr. Baker looks like a country preacher. He was but he isn't. Once he rode the hills of southern Ohio in a buckboaid and ministered to ten isolated congregations. He himself led the singing. Now he rides over the United States in parlor cars, an admiral on wheels in a rigorous and scientific warfare against the liquor traffic. Officially lie is described as the superintend ent of tae Anti-Saloon league of America. Un officially he i$ described as a corporation lawyer, a rmlitieul boss and a doctor of divinity. His headquarters are in Columbus. <)., and Washington. He is quick and nervous, but his head is all the time clear and his brain knows little if any rest. He dresses like a business man. As the head of the Anti-Saloon league he has helped lo select 200 paid workers throughout the country, a considerable number of whom are lawyers. Dr. Baker was born in the country. At 13 he had a step-father with the usual results He became a farm laborer. One night be drifted into a revival meeting. Then the desire for an education seized him. He became a minister and while laboring in Ohio he saw the effects of intemperance, but didn't think prohibition could be made practical and successful if it continued in politics as a separate party. He became interested with Howard H. Russell, who as a student had gone to the Ohio capital to lobby a township local op tion bill through the legislature. He resigned his pastorate and took up the cause of temperance. IRISH PEER COMING The duke of Ijeinster, Ireland’s premier peer, and *1 handsome, stalwart young man. is coming to America, and the gossips are hinting that there is a beautiful young American girl who may wear the strawberry leaves as a result of bis \ isit. The duke is said to be the best parti °f the day, for lie lost his parents while he was yet a child, and the revenues of the estates havo accumulated during his minority until to day he is a wealthy man, even f^r his position. Hoth lus lather and his mother, tihe latter the most beautiful woman in Englat'd at the time, died of consumption, and it was feared at one time that the young duke would meet the same fate. He was sent off for a long sea voyage and to? returned strong and healthy, with his constitution apparently thoroughly built up. I Consumption was not the only danger that, threatened the life of the young duke, for shortly after the death of his father he nearly lost his life in a tire which destroyed Duncombe (.ark. the country seat of his grandfather the old earl of Faversham, with whom he was living. He was rescued bv one of the servants, who climbed to his window by a ladder, wrapped him up in a wet blanket and carried him to th< ground. Both the ladder and the blanket were scorched by the flames bursting out at the window, but the child was un injured. The young duke of Leinster is a great-grand-nephew of the famous Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Irish patriot, who, after a hard struggle with the English troops and police, died in Newgate prison. Dublin, of the injuries in flicted by them. Lady Edward Fitzgerald, who long survived him. was gen erally believed to have been a natural daughter of the regicide, duke of Or leans, father of King Louis Philippe, and of Mtuo. de (Jenlis. The latter was the famous French authoress, who. as governess, was intrusted with the educa tion of Louis Philippe The romantic circumstances of the marriage of Lord and Lady Edward Fitzgerald, have found themes for the works of many novel ists and poets, including Thomas Moore. Tricked of the Time. A Philadelphia lawyer, who spends most of his time at his country estate, employs a sturdy Irish gardener whose one desire in life is to live until the banner of freedom is unfurled over Ireland. One evening the lawyer strolled through the grounds of his place and stopped to have a chat with the gar dener. "Michael, do you know that while we are here enjoying the beautiful twilight it Is dark midnight in Ire land?" be asked “Faith, an' Oi'rn not surprised," re plied the gardener. Ireland niver got justice yit."—Judge. Inevitable. “A boy should be taught to take his own purt,” said the earnest citizen. "Of course." answered the pes simist. "It will save him some trou ble in the school yard. Hut no maUer what you do. he'll probably grow up into the habit of hanging on to a strap and letting anybody in a uniform tell him to step lively."—Washington Star. i