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THE ADYEETISEE,
G. W. FRBROTHER & CO., Publishers.
BROWNVTLLE,
NEBRASKA
CAN IT BE?
Sunday Magazine.
Can it be, oh, love, that you love me less
On the far, white hills of God!
That your heart holds less of tenderneBs
Than when the earth you trod?
Can it be, as we near the source of love,
We hear no more the flow
Of the stream that sang of those shining
heights
Down in the dark below?
Can it be, asthe face of God draws near,
Some dear face he has made
That helped us to a thought of him,
"Will from the memory fade!
I cannot think 60, because the Son,
Far-nearer that shining face
Thau highest seraph, still turned away
To bless our sorrowing race.
And, darline, I'm 6ure if the great Cbri6t
heart
Still throbs to our misery,
You could not sit on the far, white hills,
With never a thought of me.
For the great Chri6t heart'includeth all
Who make that heart their home,
And whithersoever his blood leaps forth,
Their blood must with it come.
And swift, aye, swift, doth it palpitate,
One instant here, one there;
The far, white hills kiss the suffering earth,
And earth clasps the heavens fair.
"That where I am ye may also be."
Ah, love, how the light breaks through!
Tou went to your Father, like Him, and lo!
You are with me alwav, too !
PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
How It Has Worked In that State.
Cincinnati Ecqulr t.
As the present session of the Ohio
legislature is likely to be largely occu
pied with the consideration of new laws
for the suppression of the sale of alco
holic liquors, it will be interesting to
consider some of the results of prohi
bition in Maine, the state where that
6tyle of legislation began, and where
its operation has been most successful.
Other New England states have enacted
similar laws. They still exist in both
New Hampshire and Vermont, but have
been unequally and fitfully enforced.
In many towns they are dead letters,
while in others, where the temperance
sentiment is strong, the sale of intoxi
cating drinks is carried on in secret,
and in some small places does not exist,
Massachusetts has replaced the prohibi
tory statute by a license law, which is
virtually a local option one. A major
ity of the smaller towns grant no li
cense, or, at least, allow only apotheca
ries to sell for medicinal purposes, and
are comparatively free from unauthor
ized saloons.
Maine has combined moral with legal
suasion. There are active temperance
organizations in every town and city in
the state, and public opinion is so
strongly in favor of prohibition, that
neither of the political partie's has
dared oppose it in its platform, and office-seekers
are generally as pronounced
in advocating total abstinence as an
over-the-Rhine canvasser for votes
would be in his eulogiums of beer. Yet
there are differences even in Maine.
In Bangor, the second largest place in
the state, liquor is openly sold, the
sheriff having declared his intention not
to prosecute dealers who keep orderly
houses and shut their doors at an early
hour of the night and during the whole
of Sunday. The preponderance of local
sentiment has apparently indorsed this
compromise. In the chief city, Port
land, on the contrary, the law has long
been enforced with great vigor. Neal
Dow, its author, resides there, and his
influence is constantly exerted to insure
its stern application. It will be remem
bered that the traffic in all liquors in
any quantity, whether whisky, wine or
beer sales of cider in amounts exceed
ing five gallons being alone allowed is
forbidden under penalty of heavy fines,
accompanied by imprisonment with
hard labor for second and third offe- ses.
It would seem from these facts, and
from the additional circumstance that
these penalties are strictly carried out,
and persistent drinkers are compelled
to import their supplies from Boston jr
elsewhere.
Portland has about 30,000 inhabitants,
and of course quite a number of its
population are unfriendly to the law.
Yet its continued and reientless execu
tion shows a balance of public senti
ment in its favor. If prohibition could
succeed in any populous community,
Portland would be the place and its
friends claim that the liquor law is not
more frequently violated than the stat
utes which forbid many other crimes.
The correctness of this inference can
be best estimated by the report just
made to the outgoing sheriff of four
deputies, who have served him during
his term of six years. They are friend
ly to the law, and claim "a marked im
provement in the general appearance of
things relating to the liquor traffic,"
saying:
Six years ago we had no difficulty in
making seizures at any of the hotels or
saloons. The object of search could be
found lying around loose, scarcely any
effort being made to conceal it. It is
not so now. "We must admit, however,
that during the past three months new
shops are being fitted up, and more
boldness manifest, by many keepers of
saloons. The cause for so much activ
ity at this time can only be conjectured.
The arrests for drunkennes5 and dis
orderly conduct, copied from the city
marshal's yearly reports, were for the
years ending March 1, 1875, 2,'318; 1876,
1,864; 1877, 1,608; 1878, 1,385; 1879,
1,543; 1880, 1,447. From this there
appears to have been a steady falling off
until 1879, when an increase ensued, fol
lowed by a decrease. Since March last,
nine months, there have been 908 ar
rests, which in the same nroportion for
the year would amount to 1,208, "a
very encouraging exhibit, considering
the steady increase of inhabitants.1'
During the six years there have been
4,680 seizures of liquors, and warrants
issued where no liquors were found in
2,152 cases. Fines and costs to the
amount of S125.2S1 have been imposed,
and 88,505 gallons of malt and 17,290
gallons of spiritons liquors seized and
destroyed. Three persons have paid
fines aggregating over 5,000 each; two
from three to five thousand; ten over
two thousand, and fifteen one thousand
dollars and upward. Several of the of
fenders have likewise suffer d imprison
ment. We shall let the figures explain them
selves. Different readers will vary in
their opinions as to their significance.
Some will regard them as proofs that a
good work is being earnestly carried.on
toward completion, while others will
find evidence from them that, in spite
cf general public disapproval, the ap
petite for stimulants still exists to such
a degree that dealers find it profitable
to supply their wants, though having
one of the most thoroughgoing enact
ments which ever found a place on a
statute book It is certain that only a
strong temperance sentiment and un
wearied official vigilance have insured
the partial success above described.
A Buried Forest.
It has been recently discovered that
an -oak forest lies buried in the Valley of
the Fulda, near Rosenburg, Hesse Cas
gel, Germany, at a depth of from six to
nine feet below the surface. The wood
flourished at a very remote period. The
great number of the trees discovered
were in good preservation; but, owing
to the action of the water through un
numbered ages, they have become
thoroughly black in color; they have be
come very hard and close, so they would
be good material for carving and orna
mental cabinet work. Some of the
trees are of very great size; one taken
out of the gravelly portion of the bed
opposite the village of Baumback, and
since sent to the geological museum at
Berlin, was 59 feet long, nearly five feet
in diameter near the root, and about 88
inches at the top. It is reported that
the furniture ana fittings of the geologi
cal museum of Marburg are to be made
from this long buried timber. It is not
yet decided whether these buried oaks
belong to a species still existing or to an
extinct one.
The Boy Lincoln.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Lincoln's early life was spent in Spen
cer county, Indiana, above Rockport, a
beautiful little city crowning the abrupt
cliffs which frown over the Ohio river.
He was faithful and industrious, but
there was in bim a latent indolence
which made him fond of taking his rod
to fish, or, with his gun upon his
shoulder, he would roam in search of
game over the long, low "hills bursting
with red day. There are living at pres
ent several old citizens who knew
Lincoln well at that time. He was
thoughtful, and his solitary expeditions
probably gave him plenty of opportunity
to indulge his meditative faculty. The
description of his appearance then: his
long, lank legs under an awkward body;
his liomely face upon which the promi
nent nose stood like a handle; his long
hair dangling upon his shoulders, bring
up instantly the picture of Icabod Crane
in the twilight stealing over the hills of
Sleepy Hollow to pay ins court to Frau
tein Katrina Von Tassel.
The embryo statesman was full of
spirit and fond of mad pranks. One old
gentleman in Rockport lives to tell of
the last time he saw Lincoln. He was
visiting the Lincoln homestead, and as
he was coming away they found a tres
passing cow hanging about the gate.
The cow had given the Lincolns much
annoyance by entering their garden and
committing depredations. Young Abe
was dressed in a suit of jeans, without
any coat, as it was summer time, and
on his head ho wore a broad-brimed
white straw hat, part of which ,was
cracked and broken. Finding the cow
standing hypocritically meek at the gate,
young Abe leaped astride of her back,
and digging his bare heels into her
sides, the astonished animal broke away
down the road in a lumbering gallop.
"The last I saw of Abe Lincoln," the
old man relates fondly, "he was swing
ing his hat, shouting at the top of his
voice, galloping down the road on that
thunderstruck cow."
In the old country church near the
Lincoln place is a pulpit which was
made by Abe Lincoln and his father.
There is a book-case in the Evansville
custom-house made by the same cat Ren
ters, and taken there for preservation.
Near where the old house stood is a
dilapidated corn-crib with rail floor, the
rails for which were split by young
Lincoln. Last fall a monument was
raised over Nancy Lincoln's grave
through the efforts of Gen. Veatch, of
Lockport. It is a plain slab with a
plain inscription.
Household Art.
The chief consideration in planning
the rooms of a house must of course be
that of convenience. Anything done in
the nominal interest of artistic results
which interferes with this considertion
is wholly bad. The way of building
houses so common among us, by which
the passer-by can tell the whole inter
ior arrangement by the exterior form,
and can count the rooms and see just
how the halls run. and where the doors
open, almost as well as though the
front door were of glass, is not to be
commended. In a house there should
be something like surprises, doors open
ing in unexpected places into unlooked
for rooms, leading the visitor tp feel
that there may yet be surprises in store
for him, and that he has not seen the
whole house at a glance.
Ample space should be given to halls
and stair cases though it be taken from
the parlors and boudoir and sitting
rooms. The hall should not be narrow,
width being more important than depth
in giving a hospitable welcome to one
who enters the house. Hall floors are
often decorated prettily with tiles, and
may even bear an inlaid inscription of
welcome, which would be better in good
Saxon, however. Of one gentleman
who had the Latin welcome "Salve"'
thus displayed, a rural gentleman asked
if the "salve was good to cure corns."
Above almost everything else make the
staircase easy. The health of the wo
men of the family as well as the com
fort of the family require this. As to
decorations, let the hall be a synoptical
introduction to the house. A few books
will do much to make one feel that he
has penetrated the home when he has
crossed the threshold. A picture or two
well selected, and, if your taste runs
that way, a few ceramics are in place in
the hall if so disposed.
There seems to be nothing for the
ceiling of rooms preferable to plastering.
Wooden ceilings absorb too much light
and give but little opportunity for
change of decoration. The plaster orn
aments of relief which were in vogue a
few years ago are fortunately now disap
pearing. If any decorations are applied
to the ceiling, those in color are the
best; but they, as well as the paper
hangings, if such be used, should be
modest, lest they destroy the effect of
other part of the room and furniture.
Many beautiful and tasteful designs in
wall paper are now made, but for the
rooms in most of our homes there is
danger that whatever we have in pfc
tures and other room ornaments will be
out of harmon' with anythiug elabor
ate in wall decoration. From these and
the various other methods used for wall
decoration, I fall back on plain tinting,
and prefer, too, the neutral tints, that
our common furnishing and pictures
may fit easily into a subdued and unas
suming setting.
The modern tendency to do away
with the painting of the woodwork, such
as doors, window sashes, wainscoting
and the like, is to be commended. In
the grain of the wood, we have nature,
and are reminded, perhaps, when the
brain is weary and sick, by the twists
and turns in the grain, of the processes
out in the free air by which all these
changes were wrought. How much bet
ter the associations than the thought of
the painter with paper cap on, smelling
strongly with varnish and creeping cat
like about the house. Nor is it neces
sary to have expensive woods. Butter
nut and chestnut are not much more
costly than pine, and pine itself has
great advantages for decorative work.
With a thin coating of asphaltum it has
a good surface, and by careful selection
shows as good a grain as the more cost
ly woods, while it is the best adapted of
all to endure the vicissitudes of our cli
mate. The fireplace is an essential to the
house. No other means of ventilation
is so good. It is remarkable that a
large number of our leading physicians
when inquired of as to the Dest means
of ventilating a hospital, replied almost
unanimously and without conference
together the fireplace. About the fire
place and the mantel gather the pleas
antest associations oi the room, and
here is the place for true home art to be
used at its best. Most of our fireplaces
are built in imitation of either the
French, narrow and low with flaring
jamb, or the English, high but still nar
row, well adapted for their use in burn
ing bituminous coal. -What we want
for homes is the generous, old-fashioned
New England fireplace, and we ought
not to import these exotic forms. On the
mantel we naturally look, if anywhere
inthe room, for a vase or two, and per
haps something more pretentious in the
way of ceramics. But we ought not to
fill our rooms too full of these fragile
articles, putting upon visitors the neces
sity of great, care lest they accidentally
break some of our household roods. A
cabinet secured firmly to the wall is a
proper receptacle for such treasures.
GEN. HARRISON.
Tlie Presidential Campaign of 1836
and 18-10.
Chlcazo Tribune.
Coldwater, Michigan, January 18.
Apropos of tlie elevation of Gen.'Ben.
Harrison, of Indiana, to the United
States senate, the correspondent here
of the Tribune has discovered in the li
brary of a prominent citizen and office
holder, of this city, a copy of the Liv
ingstone Democrat, published at Gene
seo, on the 15th of March, 1836, con
taining the letter of acceptance of Gen.
William Henry Harrison, Gen. Ben.
Harrison's grandfather, upon being
nominated for the presidency in 1836.
The student of history is conversant with
the .events of those early days, and
among other things, the fact that Gen.
Harrison ran for the presidency twice
befon- being elected. The nominations
of all the other candidates for the pres
idency in that vo.nr had been madn: find
Wlftn Mr. Harrison's name was placed
before tlie people and his nomination
officially made known to him, he said
in his letter: "At the moment of the
annunciation of my nomination
I was casting about in my mind the
probabilities of the success of each of
the distinguished statesmen who had
been held up to their countrymen as
candidates, under the recommendation
of being supporters of the constitution;
and to that one it was my intention to
have given my feeble support A large
and respectable portion of ray country
men have, however, determined that I
should be placed in the list of candi
dates. I have, therefore, no choice re
maining; I must acquiesce in their de
cision "
Further on iri the letter, the whole of
which would not fill a column of the
Tribune of to-day, he says that he "can
not fail to remark that the spirit of
party strife was daily increasing; that
it had reached a degree much beyond
that which had been considered whole
some and sanitive for free governments;
and that, from its rapid progress and
increasing violence, it was approximat
ing to that point where nothing would
be considered right which has a tendency
to arrest its march nothing wrong
which could be appropriated to the use
of those for whose aggrandizement it
was created and sustained."
Gen. Harrison's fears as to the extrem
ities to which party strife was reaching
were well grounded, as evidenced by
the conduct of the subsequent campaign,
when he was again a candidate. That
election gave rise to unprecedented ex
citement, and more time and attention
were bestowed upon politics than prob
ably has ever been at any previous or
subsequent time. The number of con
ventions, speeches, political documents
and campaign newspapers was almost
unlimited.
The celebrated "coon-pens" were
that year established, and a thousand
and one devices for political effect were
produced.
As the result of the campaign in 1836,
Martin Van Buren. the democratic can
didate, received 170 votes; Gen. Harri
son, whig, 73 votes; Hugh L. White,
the candidate of another faction of the
democrats, 26 voteo; and the other whig
candidates, Webster and Mangum, 14
and 11 votes respectively. Mr. Van
Buren, having received a majority of
all the votes cast, was declared elected
president.
The conduct of Gen. Harrison in this
campaign, both by his public bearing
and private words and acts, so endeared
him in the hearts of the people that,
ffiir years afterwards, they chose him as
their ruler. The highest hopes were en
tertained that the new president would
be able to discharge the duties of the of
fice to the greatest satisfaction of his
countrymen. In choosing his cabinet
advisers he appointed Webster, " one of
his opponents in the election of 1836, as
secretary of state, and Francis Granger,
his associate on the ticket in the same
year, as postmaster-general. After com
pleting his cabinet and calling an extra
session of congress, Harrison was pros
trated with pneumonia; and, just a
month after his inauguration, the presi
dent of the United States lay dead in
the white house, being the first one to
die in office.
Gen. Ben. Harrison is a noble scion
of an illustrious name; and his election
to the United Stales senate is but a per
petuation of that good old American
stock which has been promitieut in the
councils of the nation for fenerations.
Gov. Sprasjue's Brutality.
Des Molnog Register.
The vaunting statement of Governor
Sprague to a reporter, that he ir tends
to hunt his wife remorselessly through
the courts, and expose her to the world
in every point that is weak in her ca
reer, and that he expects to prove her
greatest infamy in connection with his
greatest enemy, will be caught up every
where on the tongue of gossip and rolled
as a sweet morsel under it. He also
says he shall use his son William as a
witness in court to prove his mother's
shame. This is the brutality of a man
who is himself lost to shame. But the
sluice-ways are plainly opening for such
a public pcandal in this as will cast com
pletely in the shade that of the Beecher
Tilton affair. It comes up, too, with
the fact apparent that there is nothing
at the bottom of it all but the jealousy of
a husband wm whisky has ruined both
in body and m. '
Obstinacy and ignorance.
The obstinate man is generally an
ignorant one, and a slave to his own
opinions. His belief is a proof
against his reason. The slighter and
more inconsistent his opinions are, the
faster he holds to them, otherwise they
would fall asunder of themselves; for
opinions that are false ought to be held
with more strictness and assurance than
those that are true, otherwise they are
apt to betray their owners before they
are aware. He delishts m c of all to
differ in things indifferent no matter
how frivolous they are, thr are weight
in proportion to his w k judgment;
and he will rather suffer lf-martynlom
than part with the least scruple of his
free hold; for it is imp isible to die his
dark ignorance into a lighter color. He
is resolved to understand no man's rea
son but his own, because he finds no
mau can understand his own but him
self. To try to reason with such a man
is labor wasted.
Bleak, chilly March and November
are the two worst months of the year for
those suffering with pulmonary diseas
es. Keep Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup near
by and those suffering will be able to
brave the rough weather without dan-
ger.
Price 25 cents.
Right habit is like the channel, which
dictates the course in which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper and
deeper with each year.
The Dread Diphtheria.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The governor of Kharkoff, a Russian
province, reports that during the year
1879, the number of deaths from diph
theria alone was 7,000, and for the first
ten months of 1880 no less than 5,500
inhabitants have succumbed to the
dreaded disorder. This would be a
frightful statement for the great state of
New York; but the entire province does
not contain a population greater than
1,175,000. The death rate, therefore,
from diphtheria is shockingly high.
The report is suggestive of several
important inferences which mav be
turned to account for our special advan
tage. In the first place, the. mortality
in Kharkoff from diphtheria conclusive
ly demolishes, if nothing else had done
so, the theory that diphtheria is due to
sewer gas. The capital of the province
of the same name, is a manufacturing
town of about the size of Syracuse, in
this state. Not being situated in a par
ticularly progressive country, it may be
taken for granted that the sewer "gas
factory namely, the sewerage system
of Kharhoff - is exceedingly minute.
The Russian does not trouble himself
much with sewers, even in aristocratic
Moscow or imperial St. Petersburg. In
the province at large, among a rude ag
ricultural peasantry, the sewer is prob
ably unknown. In other provinces the
conditions are about the same. And
yet, in this one in particular, diphthe
ria has become epidemic, carrying off
some 12.000 inhabitants in two years.
There is only one conclusion to be drawn
by common sense from the present state
ment of facts namely, that sewer gas
has nothing whatever" to do with diph
theria. But the fact that the disease has rag
ed through the empire of the czar for
years does point to one important fact,
namely, that Russia is either the start
ing point of the disease, or lies very
close to the starting point. It is admit
ted that while the disease may be an ep
idemic, that is, find a lodgment mere or
less permanent, it is, in general epidem
ic, as is shown in the present season. It
has followed a steady course this winter
that has swept over this continent, until
the cities of the south and west have
been overtaken by it. In this respect it
resembles two other dreaded pestilences,
Asiatic cholera and the plague or black
death, whoso movements have been well
defined. Careful observation has shown
that they both have their-origin in Asia,
cholera rising to the importance of an
epidemic at certain periods along the
low, steamj plains of the Ganges, and
the plague in the. southern region of
Central Asia. It is something more than
an assumption that diphtheria follows
the same law, and while it is a constant
element in Russia, circumstances favor
able to its development cause it to over
leap its ordinary boundaries and travel
westward. About a year ago when the
Russians of Kharkoff were dying by the
thousands, other provinces were even
more grievously affected. It will be re
membered that such was the terror in
spired by the pestilence that the inhab
itants of one province in particular
were flying in every direction, carrying
the seeds of dephtheria with them. The
imperial government was alarmed. It
saw the necessity of checking this flight,
and a cordon -of 80,000 troops was form
ed around the centre of the disorder.
By this means it was confined within
certain limits, and thither were sent
forces of medical practitioners from
Russia, France, Germany and England.
But it was clearlv impossible that gov
ernment vigilance could be permanent
ly and altogether effective. The disease
spread, and the germs of it were car
ried by the dirty Russ in his clothing
and household effects. During the past
year emigration from Russia has been
extensive. The records show that the
population of this country has received
considerable accession from the arrival
of Russian emigrants, who come in
batches, like Mennonites, and in fami
lies, like the Germans. It is only too
likely that our present visitation is due
to the release of the diphtheria germ
from its hiding place in the chests and
baggage of the Russians arriving in this
country. It has been latent in their
warm winter clothinar all summer, and
has infected the air when the approach
of cold weather has brought out thier
winter garments intq use. If this is the
case, then the course' of the quarantne
authorities seems clear. A glance at
the medical returns will show whether
the local facts correspond with this the
ory. If they do, it will be simple pre
caution to require the immediate dstin
fection of all baggage arriving by steer
age with chlorine gas, upon the instant
of landing. Experience has demon
strated that chlorine is theimmediate
antidote of septic poisons, and it is as
cheap as it is effective. We call the at
tention of the state medical authorities
to this point and suggest that reports
bearing upon it be secured at once from
all quarters in which diphtheria has ap
peared. Suicide by Imagination.
San Francisco Chronicle.
On the evening of the day after
Chrittmas a handsome, and well dressed
young lady, living with her father well
up towards the summit of Nob Hill,
hastily entered Joy's drug store, on the
corner of Mason and Post streets, and
asked for some arsenic. She asked for
two-bits' worth, saying she wanted to
kill some troublesome cats. Noticing
her unusual agitation, Mr. Joy gave
the young lady a tablespoonful of pre
cipitated chalk a harmless powder re
sembling arsenic.
The young lady left the store, and,
carefully hiding her purchase, returned
home. Going to her room, unobserved
by any of the household, she prepared
for death, for the arsenic was intended
as a means of suicide. Certain letters
were hastily looked over and arranged,
a whispered prayer for forgiveness fol
lowed, and, with a desperate determina
tion, the whole of the contents of the
druggist's package was swallowed. The
unhappy young woman lay down upon
her bed in a delirium of excitement.
Her brain was in a whirl, and her blood
rushed and throbbed through every
vein.
She felt that death was approaching,
and, confident that the work of the
deadly drug was too far advanced to
be counteracted, she left the room, and,
gliding into the parlor, announced to
her father and a young gentleman
there what she had done. The gentle
men were wild with consternation.
While the father supported the now
sinking form of daughter, the young
gentleman raced in desperate haste to
Joy's drug store. The druggist ex
plained that no antidote was required;
that the young lady had only taken a
spoonful of chalk.
"But she is dying unable to stand!"
gasped the young man.
"That's the, effect of imagination.
Explain to her the true state of the case
and she will recover."
The young man hastened back with
the joyful intelligence. The would-be
suicide, resting in the arms of her dis
tracted father, was sinking rapidly.
Her recover', which was amazingly
rapid, was h'astened by her rage at the
druggist.
"It is not the first time I have saved a
life in that way," Mr. Joy said to a re
porter. "A woman came in here one
day and asked for morphine, and I gave
her some sulphate cinchonia, which re
sembles it in appearance, but is a harm
less stimulant."
"An hour afterwards the woman's
sister rushed in here and accused me of
aiding a suicide. 'My sister has gone
away to take the poison you gave her.'
It afterwards appeared that the would
be suicide went out on the hills, took
the dose, and lay down to die. After
waiting for some time, and recovering
from the terrific excitement the act
caused, she felt an unconquerable desire
to return home and get a square meal,
for the stuff I gave her is a famous ap
petizer." A Short Love Storv.
Elmtra (jr. Y.) Free Frew. .,., , ,
And now "Robin Adair" has devel
oped another pretty little romance
which runs thus: Four years ago a New
York gentleman aged twenty-eight, of
musical tastes attended a meeting of the
Orange county musical association in
Middletown, and was much impressed
with the appearance of a young lady
who sang the song "Robin Adair."
She was not a great singer by any means,
but she sang with tas'.e ard feeling. It
was a case of love at first sight on the
part of the gentleman. During the even
ing he managed to secure an introduc
tion to the lady, but in the bustle and
excitement of the occasion misunder
stood the name.
A short chat with her only deepened
the impression the lady had already
made on his susceptible heart, and dur
ing the brief interval of conversation he
learned that she, like himself, was only
a visitor in that section. He was called
next morning suddenly to New York,
and in the haste of departure was unable
to get her name and address. The next
chapter of this true story opens at Ash
bury Park in July last, with the hero
summering at a watering-place hotel
there. Strolling about the second day
after his arrival, he passes near the par
lor door of his hotel and hears a voice
accompanied by a piano singing "Robin
Adair." A flood of memories rush into
his brain and instantly the fair-haired
girl of Middletown rises to his fancy's
view and a host of tender thoughts are
revived. Of course he enters the par
lor, and, though the lady's back was
toward him, the voice and song he knew
were hers.
A convenient mirror enables him to
see her face and her to catch a glimpse
of his. She knew him at once. She,
too, had been wounded by the archer,
Cupid, and it seemed -she had never for
gotten the face. She began the next
verse, hesitated, faltered, and breaking
down, rose from the piano, declaring
she could sing no more that night. Of
course their old acquaintance, with a
few polite formalities, was renewed, and
in a few minutes they were strolling
arm-in-arm on the piazza of the hotel,
with no one to molest them and no
bright moonlight to disclose her blushes
or his eager and happy face. What he
said and what she answered is not pre
cisely known, but the nature of the in
terview may be inferred from the fact
that the twain were made one during
the early days of last November. And
this is not the first time "Robin Adair"
has opened the gates hymeneal.
"Greasing the Spider."
It was a smoking car on the Hudson
river road. A New Yorker was exhib
iting an invention to several gentlemen,
when an old fanner, with a settled look
of sadness on his face, heaved a sigh
and said:
"I never see such things without
wanting to weep."
"Nothingabout the invention to weep
over that I can see," replied the in
ventor. "Wall, it sot o' calls up old recollec
tions. Twenty years ago this month I
thought I had a fortune in my grasp.
Yes, sir, I believed I had struck the big
gest thing since steam was brought into
existence."
"What was it?"
"One day when the old lady was flat
down with her lame leg, I had to cook
my own dinner. After I'd got the pan
cake batter all fixed up I couldn't find
the greaser, a greased rag the old wom
an used to rub over the spider. Sort of
absent-minded like, I picked up a piece
of raw turnip from the table and used
it instead. It worked to a charm; no
smell, no smoke, no stick."
He paused here to wipe away a tear,
and then continued:
"There was the fortune. I figured
that 9,000,000 greased rags were in me
in the country, nine months in the year.
Fifty thousand barrels of grease were
used up greasing spiders. Over $100.
000 wasted and gone. One turnip would
make six greasers 1,000 bushels would
make enough to supply the country.
All that was needed was to cut them out
in fancy style, affix a handle, and go to
-upplving the demand at ten cents
each."
"There was money in it.
"No, there wasn't. I bought 1,000
bushels of turnips, 56 worth of wire,
and hired two men to go to work, and
then I took some of the greasers and
wenc over into Vermont to see how it
would take. They wouldn't have it.
They had something more simple and
much cheaper."
"What could it have been?"
"They spit on the spider," replied
the old man, as a tear made a break
down his nose and was swallowed up in
the dust on the car floor.
Ireland for the Irish.
Ireland, says the London Spectator, is
a damp little island, intended by nature
to be a more beautiful Holland, the
property of men half sailors and half
dairymaids, with endless bays and har
bors and fiords and lakes and pasturage
for fat cattle, and therefore it has
been given to a people who love the
petite culture, who multiply faster than
their means and who have a special dis
taste or incapacity for the life of marin
ers, fishermen or seagoing traders.
There is one great race in the world
which does not understand or like the
Celtic genius, specially hates their
faults, is blind to their virtue, has ob
jects and wishes essentially different
from theirs; so that race is bound by in
exorable political geography to concili
ate or govern Irishmen. The land is
one in which cereals should not be
frown, so the effort of centuries has
een to grow cereals. There is one
edible which will grow there easily
which the people like, and which will,
like rice, support excessive numbers; so
the potato alone, among edibles, isstrick
en with deadly disease. The very fishts
swarm around a coast where the men
are by nature no fishermen and belong
to a "kingdom in which the majority
think that encouragement or compulsion
to fish is rather a childish absurdity.
The people have special domesticity,
and it keeps them over numerous; a
special love of their home, and it keeps
them always poor; a special patriotism,
and it blinds them utterly to the true
place of their country in the world. They
are so brave that they will not look for
ward, so faithful to each other that law
is nearly impossible, so lovable that
every immigrant catches all their faults
and the leaven, instead of leavening,
becomes more doughy than the dough.
IT IS WORTH A TRIAL.
"I vas troubled for many years with Kidney
Complaint, Gravel, &c; my blood became
thin: 1 was dull and inactive; could hardly
crawl about, and was an old worn out man all
oter, and could get nothing to help- me, until
IeotHopBlttere, and now I amaboyacain.
My blood and kidneys are all right, and I am
as activ as a man of SO, although I am 72, and
I have no doubt it will do as well for others of
my age. It la worth the trial. (Father.)
The loud tones in which some per
sons appeal to reason imply that reason
is a great distance from them.
Ab Old ttoctor'w Advice.
i was this: "Trust in God and keep your
bowels open." For this purpose take Kidney
"VVbrt for no other remedy so effectually over
comes this condition, and that without the
distress and griping which other medicines
mum. Try a box or bottle.
T&lemoh.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
In a paper on the color relations of
copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, maganese
and chronium, lately read before the
chemical society, London, Mr. T. Bayley
records some remarkable relations be
tween solutions of these metals. It ap
pears that iron, cobalt and copper form
a natural coior-group, lor u solutions oi
their sulphates are mixed together in
the proportions of twenty parts of cop
per, seven of iron, and six of cobalt, the
resulting liquid is f ee from color, but is
gra and opaque. It follows from this
that a mixture of any two of these ele
ments is complementary to the third if
the above proportions be maintained
Thus, a solution of cobalt (pink) is com
plementary to a mixture of iron and
copper (bluish ineen); a solution of iron
(yellow) to a mixture of cobalt and cop
per (violet); and a solution of copper
(blue) to a mixture of iron and cobalt
(red). But a solution of copper is
exactly complementary to the red re
flection from copper, and a polished
plate of this metal viewed through a so
lution of copper salt of a certain thick
ness is silver white. As a further con
seouence, a mixture of iron (seven
parts) and cobalt (six parts) is ident
ical in color with a plate of copper.
Dr. Carl Vogt divides the fauna on
the globe into four different regions,
which were separated from each other
at different periods: 1. The Australian
region, which became independent at a
very earlv period, and ha? been separat
ed "from the other continents at least
since the commencement of the tertiary
period, and undoubtedly before the ap
pearance of the placental mammals.
2. Tlie Madagascar region, which re
mained isolated since the period of the
lower eocene strata. 3. The old world
region. 4. The new world region, which
were separated during the eocene and
mioccne perkdi, but were connected
lritor ilnrinnr the. nlinccnp. and nntftnlio-
eeno periods by stretches of land over
which migrations could lake place.
During the eocene and miocene periods,
therefore, the animal migrations were
limited just as at present, by the existence
of two oceans and could only take place
upon thesurfaceof the continents chiefly
in the direction of the meridians.
Mr. Harry Grimshawe is of the opin
ion, now, thnt mineral and other oils
for illuminating purposes are so cheap,
and lamps for their consumption are so
admirably constructed and elegant in
design, that there is not the slightest
reason why valuable collections of books
and pictures should be exposed to the
sulphurous emanations of coal-gas.
But if all thit has been stated aboutrthe
experimental achievements during the
past year in obtaining electric light by
incandescence turns out to betrue, Swan
or Edison will soon be able to give the
world something incomparably better
than either oil-lamp or coal-gas jets for
lighting up our houses, offices, picture
galleries, museums or libraries.
The Engineering says that the Anglo
American electric light company have
commenced lighting the dials of the
clock tower of the British houses of par
liament. At first the western face was
illuminated, but the effect was marred
by the dirty state of the dial, and the
absorption of so much of the lignt by
the brick wall behind it. A few days
later the northern dial was cleaned and
the interior of the chamber whitewashed.
Three lamps of two thousand caudles
each were arranged at equal distances
apart at the back of the dial, producing
an illumination which for brilliancy
and steadiness leaves nothing to be de
sired. The ruins of a once magnificent bath
ing establishment, covered over by more
than thirty feet of ashes and lava, have
been discovered by Prof. Giuseppe Novi,
near Herculaneum. From all descrip
tions they appear to surpass anything of
a similar nature hitherto excavated,
either at Herculaneum or Pompeii. The
sculptured fountains and tanks are of
oriental granite, the floors are of co ored
glass mosaic, and the walls of the bui.d
ings are richly adorned with paintings
and stucco work.
The Photographic News describes a de
tective camera, the invention of Mr. Bo
las. It is like a shoe-black's block, and
may be slung over the shoulder with a
strap. It carries gelatine plates already
in position, and Tens in focus for any
distance from twenty to thirty feet. It
may be dropped in the street at any
time the owner sees a group he wants a
picture of. When it reaches theground
a bulb is squeezed and the exposure is
made.
If aloes are believed to be presen' in
cordials, elixirs, liquors, or beer. Hugo
Borntrager gives this rapid method of
testing the question: A portion of the
liquid is well shaken with twice its
volume of benzine, and the behavior of
the mixture with ammonia is obseived.
If no red coloration is apparent, aloes
can only be present in very insignificant
quantity, or not there at all.
According to the experiments of M.
Grehant. air containing 1-300 of its vol
ume of carbon dioxide proved fatal to a
dog which inhaled it for fifty minutes.
With another dog of the same size the
fatal dose was 1-250. A rabbit resisted
various proportions of mixtures of air
and carbon dioxide until the latter rose
to 1-60 of the volume of air; while a
sparrow died with 1-500.
Applications for space by those in
tending to send objects for exhibition to
the international exhibition of electrici
ty, to be held in Paris next autumn, will
be received until March 31. There will
be no charge for space, but those who
will require steam power must pay some
fixed rate.
To detect alcohol in ethereal oils, A
Drechler employs a3 a reagent a solution
of 1 part potassium bichromate in 10
parts nitric acid of sp. gr. 1.30. Alco
hol, if present, is at once betrayed by the
pungent odor of ethyl nitrite.
Dr. A. Schniitz believes that the non
fermentable part of grape sugar intro
duced into wines contains a poison like
that in potato oil.
Pellagra has been attributed to the
dietetic use of maize, but M. Fua shows
that if the grain be sound it produces no
such result.
The highest percentage of alcohol in
the beers of northeastern Prussia is said
to be 4.480.
The Art of Prolonging Life.
Tlie Louisviire Medical News in re
viewing a famous book with the above
title, by Christopher William Hufland,
makes a number of interesting extracts
from it. We select a few of the ex
tracts: How do tou Sweat? In Egypt it
longedelieved that life could be pro
and su by the continued use of emetics
and sudoritics. It was therefore a gen
eral custom to take at least two emetics
every month; and instead of saying
"How do you find yourself?" they sai
"How do you perspire?"
To ProLONG Life. Plutarch says,
"Keep your head cool and your feet
warm. Instead of employing medicines
for every indisposition, "rather fast a
day; while attending the body never
neglect the mind."
Carnaro, who died at eighty-three,
till the fortieth year of his age had led a
life of dissipation; had been always sub
ject to colics, pains in. his limbs and a
fever; and was so far reduced by the
last that his physicians assured him that
he could not live above two months;
that all medicine would be useless, and
that tlie only thing which could be rec
ommended for him was a spare diet.
Having followed this advice, he found,
after some days, that he was much bet
ter, and at ths end of a few yearg hi
health was not only perfectly re-established,
but he became sounder than ever
he had been before. He resolved, there
fore, to restrain himself more and more,
and to use nothing except what was ab
solutely necessary for subsistence. For
sixty whole years he took no more than
twelve ounces of food, everything inclu
ded, and thirteen ounces of daily drink.
A Profoundly Wise Maxim. The
Emperor Tiberius, who lived to seventy
eiht years of age, used to say ho "con
sidered a man as a fool, who, after the
thirtieth year of his age. consulted phy
sicians respecting diet," because every
one with the least attention must before
that period have discovered what was
useful and what was prejudicial to him.
Celibacy and Longevity. There
is not one instance of a bachelor having
attained to a great age. This observa
tion is as applicable to the female as to
the male sex.
Sours. I cannot here omit to say
something in favor of soups (liquid
nourishment), since it has been lately
fashionable to decry them as prejudi
cial. Be careful only not to use it hot.
in too great quantity at one time, or too
waterv. It is at ended even with great
advantages. It supplies the place of
drink, particularly to men of letters,
women, and all those who do not drink,
or drink very little except at table, and
who, when thev give over soup, receive
into theii blood too little moisture. And
it is here to be remarked that fluids us
ed in the form of soup unite much bet
ter and sooner with our juicc3 than
when drunk cold and raw. On this ac
count soup is a great preventive of dry
ness and rigidity in the body, and there
fore the best nourishment forold people
and those who are of an arid tempera
ment. METHUSELAH ONLY TAVO HUNDRED.
Some, particularly Hensler.have proved
with the highest probibility, that the
year till the time of Abraham consisted
only of three months; that it was after
ward extended to eight; and that it was
not till the time of Joseph that it was
made to consist of twelve. These as
sertions are in a certain degree con
firmed by some of the eastern nations,
who still reckon only three months to
the year. And, besides, it would be
altogether inexplicable why the life of
man should have been shortened one
half immediately after the flood. It
would be equally inexplicable why the
patriarchs did not marry until their
sixtieth, seventieth, and even hundredth
year; but this difficulty vanishes when
we reckon these ages according to the
aforementioned standard, which will
give the twentieth or thirtiethyear, and
consequently the same periods at which
people marry at present. The whole,
therefore, according to this explanation,
assumes a different appearance. The
sixteen hundred years before the flood
will become four hundred and fourteen,
and the nine hundred years (the highest
recorded) which Methuselan lived, will
bo reduced to two hundred years, an
aire which is not impossible, and to
which some men in modern times have
nearly appioached.
The Selection or a Physician.
Make choice of a physician in whom
you can place confidence, but none of
those who deal in arcana, who are too
talkative or inquisitive, who valae them
selves above others, or who endeavor to
make the conduct of others appear in a
dubious light; for this always betrays
ignorance, a bad head or a bad heart;
in short, none of those who are in favor
of prescribing strong, powerful medi
cines, or who, according to the com
mon saying, will either kill or cure.
Medical Consultations. Many be
lieve that the more pbslcians they col
lect around them the more certain they
must be of relief; but this is a gross er
ror. I here speak from experience. .One
physician is better than two two than
three and so on in proportion. In the
same ratio as physicians are increased
will the probability of cure decrease;
and in my opinion there is a certain
point of medical overloading in which a
cure is physically impossible.
KXOYf THYSELF.
tonic Practical "iigsefttluun to Mother.
The regular meeting of the Chicago
physiological sociely was held at the
Athenajuni, recently, and largely atten
ded by ladies. The object of the society
is lo teach mothers in the method of
caring for themselves and their children.
These meetings and lectures are open
to the public.
Mrs. Helen S.. Shedd, president of the
society, presided, and the lecture was by
Dr. J. S. Jewell, professor of nervous
and mental diseases in the Chicago med
ical college. The lecture was not forma!
in character. The doctor said that he
felt some dilhculty in presenting so
large a subject in bo brief a space of
time to an audience like the one before
him, which, though it might be a very
intelligent one, was not professional,
hence, instead of giving a scientific dis
quisition on the nervous system, he
could select certain practical points for
discussion.
In the first place he insisted upon the
relatively great importance of a knowl
edge of self. From the day of the old
philosophers down to the piesent it was
generally admitted "that the prop
er study of mankind is man." Though
this has been and is admitted, yet peo
ple proceed very much asif this was not
a trueism. When one looks over socie
ty and considers to what studies most
attention is given, it is astonishing to
observe how seldom any one gives more
than a passing attention to
A STUDY OK THEIR OWN BODIIS.
People peer into the heavens through
the telescope, others enter into a varie
ty of studies, having often very remote
relations with practical life.
But it is one of the rarest sights to
find persons, aven though they may
have passed through a university course,
who know anything worth knowing
concerning the nervous sjBtem. And
yet it is the most important part of the
body. All have nervous systems. It it
the instrument through which the mind,
whatever that m; y be, is plaeed in rela
tion with the outer world. Not only
does the mind through the nervous sys
tem get its knowledge of things with
out, but with this same complex me
chanism it gives expression to feeling,
to thought. Its study, therefore, is one
of extreme practical importance from
every point of view.
The speaker said he hoped the time
would come when, if many other things
are not studied sednlously, more atten
tion would be given by every educated
Eerson to the structure and action of
is own body, especially the nervous
system, which is the especial seat and
instrument of the- mind. The nerrou
system presents ur with two great parts
which lie parallel with each other, and
are closely connected together. One is
the sensitive side. It is the seat of feel
ing, and receives all the nerves of sen
sation. It reaches from the 6kin and
all parts of the body endowed with feel
ing up into the brain. In its highest
part it is the seat of those higher forms
of feeling called emotions. The other
half of the nervous system is for excit
ing and controlling the motions of the
body. It extends from the brain out
ward to the muscles and other parts to
which -the nerves of motion go. In its
highest part it is the scat of the will.
These two parts of the nervous 35 stem
in health should be equally developed.
But the tendency of education and
occupation in these days is, in many
instances, to a loss of balance in the
development of these two halves of the
nervous system. On the part of ladies,
in particular, who, as a whole, by
nature, are highly sensitive, the modes
of their education, the subjects they
3tudy, the occupations in winch they
engage in short the lives that they live
in this country more particularly, are
such as to unduly develop this half of
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Women become more sensitive more
susceptible of pain or of acute pleasure,
more the subjects of emotion, both
healthy and morbid, and gradually are
by comparison losing power to do or en
dure. This leads to a variety of ill re
sults, not only in the individual subject
to this training, but the ill results are
transmitted to the coming generation.
The speaker pointed out various ways
in which, in his judgment, this height
ened sensitiveness of the nervous sys
tem is telling disastrously upon the
race in civilized countries. He warned
his hearers, not only for their own sakes.
but for that of their children, on the
part of those who have them, against
pursuing too exclusively those occupa
tions which tend to develop unoqually
the two great parts of the nervous sys
tem in the manner already described.
The speaker then referred to the motor
side of the nervous system, and de
scribed the effect of nervous occupations
of a special character in developing cer
tain parts of the motor aoparatus in a
more pronounced manntr than are
other parts. This was dwelt upon at
some length, and example given.
He cited, especially, the pernicious
results which come to girls and young
ladies from the custom of having so
many try to be experts on the piano a nit
similar instruments.
The speaker then selected certain oth
er topics for practical remark. He re
ferred first of all to the prevalent cus
tom, in this trying climate, of young;
ladies, ana many older ones, leaving the
lower extremities imperfectly clau, so
as to be exposed to cold and moisture.
Out of this pernicious custom he declar
ed a great many pernicious evils to arise,
among them being serious disturbance
of the equilibrium of the blood circula
tion. As results, there are, he said, vi
olent fluctuations of the blood supply
within the cavity of the abdomen, or
about the head, with long trains of evil
results.
The speaker next directed attention
to a subject that he said had become a.
sort of hobby with him that is, the
abuse of tea and coffee. One reason
why he laid such stress upon this sub
ject was 1 ecause the custom of using;
and abusing these stimulants is so com
mon. There are but few person who
do not use them a vast numbcrto such
an extent as to become an abuse.
He then proceeded to speak of the
necessity of au
ABUNDANCE OF SOUND SLEBP
for the maintenance of nerve health.
He dilated at length on this subject.
Among other things he said if thesleep
lessness comes on in the latter part of
the night it is probably due to a passive
congestion, depending, probably, on the
horizontal posture. He spoke in a prac
tical way of simple mode for relief
from this kind of sleeplessness, if the
sleeplessness is in the fore part of the
night, it is probably due to an active
congestion, induced by exciting brain
occupations during the day, but espec
iallytduring the evening.
Finally, among other things, remarks
were made on the structure of the brain
of such kind as to excite the interest
and curiosity of those present.
The lecturer closed by expressing the
hope that some of the little company be
fore him might give more attention to
the structure and modes of action of the
nervous system, and if they should do
so he believed his talk would not havo
been in vain.
I)II. POTTS.
Ho iv III Experiment Failed.
Old Dr. Potts, of San Francisco, and
who is an enthusiast in his profession,
is the originator of the theory that much
disease is transmitted to human beings
through eating the flesh of immature
animals, such as calves, in the early
spring. As this assertion was disputed
by some of his contemporar. M. D.'s,
Dr. Potts determined to make some use
ful experiments before giving to the
world his discovery. He accordingly
purchased a 6-months' caif one of the
kind that appear to be built on stilts
and, as the doctor had no back yard to
speak of, he had the brevet cow placed
in the cellar, where he proposed to mix
the weeds in question among its food
for a few days prior to its being convert
ed into test cutlets, so to speak. The
China boy was bribed not to mention
the calFs presence to the other mem
bers of the household, who, it happen
ed, had been absent while the quadru
ped was being secretly let down through
the coal-hole by the butcher. To pre
vent its bleating, the doctor ha 1 wedg
ed a stout leather muzzle on its nose.
That night the doctor was awakened
by Mrs. Potts, who sat up in bed and
gasped in a horror-stricken voice: "Gra
cious heavens! Archibald, don't you
hear that singidar noise down stairs?"
The calf tiad evidently gotten the
muzzle about half off, and was making
a peculiar sound, resembling a small
fog horn tortured by remorse, but old
Potts stammered out that he couldn't
hear anything in particular.
"Not hear anything, Dr. Potts? Are
vou deafP Just listen to that! It's per
fectly blood-curdling."
"Perhaps it's rats," hazarded the
miserable physician.
"Rats, Dr. Potts! Are you insane?
Did you ever hear rats wailing like a
lost soul in purgatoryP"
"Well, not exactly like it," said the
doctor, shothiugly, "but perhaps "
"I can't stand it a moment longer. I
shall go wild if you don't go down and
see what's the matter. It's my belief
that burglais are trying to murder Ah
Wing."
"Well, my dear, if you insist I'll"
But just then there came a sudden
jerk at the bell and a terrible hammer
ing at the front door. The doctor put
up tho window and beheld a delegation
of about fifty half-dressed neighbors
with four police officers in their midst.
"Is he dead yet?" said one of the
crowd, as the doctor poked his head
out.
"Is who dead?" said the latter much
astonished.
"Why, your brother, down there in
the cellar. Didn' t you tell us your broth
er had made a big strike in stocks, and
was coming to stay with you this week?"
asked Didimus, the doctor's next door
neighbor.
"Why, yes! What of it?"
"You cold blooded villain. Do you
suppose no one heard you murdering
him in the cellar just now? By Jove,
he is not dead yet he's groaning still.
Just listen."
"If you don't lemme in I'll bust the
door dowa!" jaid one of the po'ice.
''Oh, Archibald! to think you should
turn out to be a murderer!" gasped Mrs.
Potts, going into hysterics.
0d Potts was too mad to utter a word.
He just walked down stairs in his night
cap, admitted the whole crowd, con
ducted it to the cellar stairs, hinded the
policeman a candle, and told him to o
ahead. He then went uDstairs and
awaited results.
Of eourse the calf made a break for
the light as soon as it saw it. The big
offieer holding it was upset by a terrible
butt in the stomach, the candle went out,
and, amid the rattling of the coal and
the nne vrthlv r'U of the crowd, the
cellar bcr n t- Tfviif foih hatles, ,cri
mv and di-givtcri men.
When they had ill gone, old Potts
quietly descended, locked the house up
againjtied a sponge full of chloroform
round the calfj nose, resuscitated Mrs.
P., and then returned gloomily to his
dreams of science.
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