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JURITBBB.
Xreerson.
i Grace, Beauty and Caprice
i JBulid this golden portal:
. Graceful women, chosen mt
" Dattle every mortal.
Their tweet and lofty countenance
Sis enchanted food!
Ho need not go to them, their formi
Beset his solitude,
Helooketh seldom in their face,
Ills eyes exploit) the ground
Tho rreen crass Is nTooktag-glas
Whereon their traits tire found.
Little nnd lest he huts to them. "
Bo dances his heart In his breast:
Their tranquil mien bcrcaveth him,
Of wit, ot words, ot rest.
Too weak to win, too (ond to shua ,
The tyrants ol his doom,
Tlie much deceived Endjrmloa
Slips behind a tomb.
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MBS. DOBBS' "WIIIM."
from tho Argosy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs lived at Gap
ham. They wcroa very worthy coup
le, their friends said. That is about
tho best people will say of an elderly
pair it they aro not intellectual or
troublesome Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs
woro neither. Mr. Dobba was Btout
and commonplace in appoarance, and
did not flirt with his neighbor's wife, or
gamble in stocks, or livo beyond his
income. He was hall-marked among
upright men, and was trusteo
for half hid friends' chil
dren. No doubt ho was a triflo
heavy and prosy at times, but tlioso
aro drawbacks frequently attendant
upon men of probity. Ho certainly
was never tempted by impulsos or in
spirations of any sort either to do
wrong or to becomo witty or original.
Mrs. Dobbs was reputed a respect
ablo and virtuous matron for othor
reasons. Imprimis, she had no tasto
in dress; neither did sho paint her taco
or excito the envy and spite of her
female friends by beautifying her house
Sho was fond of a good dinner ot
a solid English sort, and always
woro black Bilk or satin gowns.
Her caps were propoatcrouB erections
oi lace, with gilt or steel ornaments
attached; and when sho went to tho
theater sho woro a rod bernouso. Tru
ly this couplo wero loft behind in tho
raco of extravagance, frivolity and ec
centricity. Fashionable folks would
have nothing to say to thorn; those
who did consider them worth cultivat
ing explained their status as "good,
worthy peoplo," with a compassion
ato shrug or smile.
Mr. Dobbs was "somothing in tho
city," and his big ofilco and
many clorks brought in some
thing more than a comfortable in
come. Yet ho mado no parado of
wealth and Kept household accounts
strictly. Every evening ho returned
homo punctually by tho 0 o'clock train
from Waterloo, carrying his fish bas
ket with htm. Fish was cheaper and
bettor in tho city than at. Clapham,
and Mrs. Dobbs was particularly fond
ot fifth. Tiio worthy Josiah would
not have spoiled her dinner for tho
world. Sho must havo her salmon in
Beason, and her red mullet and white
bait, all in duo turn, of tiio best. By
this you will understand that
Mr. Dobbs was devoted and
domestic. Yet there wero thorns
amid tho roses of his conjugal
paradise, Mrs. Dobbs was now and
again beset by spirits of unrest and
discontent, and her whims at inter
vals caused dear, steady-going Josiah
much inconvenience.
There wero no
children at Clarence Villa; and por-
haps for this reason Mrs. Dobbs had
more leisuro for complaint. Sho prac
ticed tho art oi murmuring with as
pteady a "persistence as a prima donna
her scales. Josiah suffered her dis
contents with more than tho ordinary
patience of an exemplary husband.
As years went on Josiah philosophi
cally gavo up wishing for an heir,
seeing his Dorothy had grown
portly and middle aged. He
uubecribed largely to tho Vari
ous charities not having a legitimate
outlet for his human kindness. A
philoprogenitivo organ impelled him
toward children's 'hospitals. Why,
said ho, should not his generation
benefit instead of they that were to
come after?
Mrs. Dobbs did not however, view
such matters with equanimity See
ing tho undue and unwelcome number
of olive branches round about other
people's tables, sho resented nature's
cruelty to herself. She, therefore,
frowned persistently on Josiah's
philanthropic schemes tor othor
people s cnuuren. ills uenovolenco
toward orphans, foundlings and waifs
and strays was a never-ceasing
cause of argument and mortification
to her. Sho did not sutler any loss.
Serscnally, from these charitable
eedB. Not a wish remained uncrant
ed, and checks were forthcoming with
cheerful readiness when required. She
had her carriage, her servants, her
milliners as she listed. Josiah erected
a miniature Crystal Palace in his gar
den because bhe wished to havo bana
nas growing. Ho took her to Egypt
one Winter, and nearly died of sea
sickness by the way, because she had
been reading Eastern romances and
yearned for Oriental glitter. Nothing
that money could obtain was dented
her only she had no children.
for a long timo Mrs. Dobbs had
displayed no extraordinary caprice.
Josiah was sailing axongmwondcrrulty
smooth matrimonial waters. But
the lady's Irequent absence of mind
and contemplative inein might have
convinced a more sophisticated man
that mischief was brewing. In truth
Mrs, Dobbs was Blowly hatching a
scheme which she felt sure would run
counter to Josiah's wishes. This lent
an additional zest to her plan. She
considered itaretributivescheme. She
would fight Josiah on his own ground
with his favorite weapon of benev
olence, "I'm going to adopt a child, Josiah.
I?owt itUuno .use your contradicting
me, because 1 won't listen,- cam tee
lady one evening over dessert. She
spolco aggressively, cracking the shell
ot a walnut with decision. Sno peevish
ly found fault with tho fish and the
salad, and had slapped her pug for no
earthly reason. II Josiah had been
less Blow he would havo opined that a
storm was brewing. Thero was silence
for a minuto after Mrs. Dobbs had
opened fire.
"Aren't you going to speak?" she
said at length.
"A child, romarked Josiah, drop-
fling his tat chin into his shirt. "My
ove, that iaaurely a project requiring
very serious consideration."
Mrs. Dobbs tossed her head omin
ously. Every inch of laco in her cap
ieomed suddenly to havo acquired
starch, whilo tho gilt ornaments there
on scintillated fiercely.
"When I say a thing I mean it, as
fou know, Joaiah. 1 nave considered
hat you indulge your hobbies with
out restraint. It is high timo my
benevolence found something to oc
cupy it."
Josiah drank up his wino slowly.
When he spoko again it was in a sub
dued tone.
"Dorothy, my dear, how often have
I reminded you in tho past threo
years that your poor sister loft a
child. As I liavo said before, it is
your clear duty"
"Mr. DobbsP' Tho lady roso, and
swopt her black satin Bkirts to the
door. Here sho paused to add: "I
repeat, I remember no sister. A dis
gracelul marriago severed all connec
tion of birth. I beg that you will
never alludo to that shameful matter
again."
Perhaps tho episode alluded to was
well romembrea by Josiah, for ho
sighed Boveral times in his after-dinner
solitude Ho know tho mad-cap
girl ho had sheltered for many years
beneath his roof was dead, but ho
know, too, that her child lived, arid ho
would fain have cherished it for the
mother's sake.
In tho course of tho evening Mrs.
Dobbs resumed tho question of adop
tion. Josiah was a peaccablo man,
and ho loved his wifo; but this last
whim was a serious one, and would
inevitably entanglo her in difficulties.
"I'm going to advertise at once,"
Bho said.
Mr. Dobbs looked very blank.
"I should adviso you to try some
other plan that would givo less pub
licity to tho matter," ho said mildly.
"That would bring any amount of
beggars and innostors about you."
Mrs. Dobbs looked over her crewel
work in an injured way.
"Thero you aro again, Josiah; always
trying to oppose mo and make my
life miserable I declare you contra
dict mo overy morning and evening
about something Haven't I told
you beforo what a lonely life I lead?
It's all very woll for you, who go away
to tho city overy day to make
money. You aro just liko all men
you aro selfish to tho core." With
this final femalo platitude, Mrs. Dobbs
began to whimper. Mr. Dobbs lelt
guilty of hoinous cruelty.
"A companion might "he began.
Tho lady lifted herself from tho sofa
cushion and Josiah quailed.
"A companionl" with withering
sarcasm, "to mnko lovo to you, no
doubt, Josiah. I know their schem
inc ways. Didn't I have enough of
Miss Griggs and her maneuvering
tricks, working you braces, the hussy,
and sending you Christmas, cards.
How dare you mention a person of
that sort after all my sufferings with
them?"
Of course in tho end tho lady pre
vailed, and Josiah passively counte
nanced the adoption. Matters were
soon sot in order for the fulfillment of
the latest whim. Yet verily her heart
failed her during tho week follow
ing her advertisement. Her lonely con
dition had never been so apparent to
her beforo as when sho was beset by a
crew of parents and guardians bearing
some puny or blighted fnfant for her
adoption.' All sorts and' condi
tions of men craved her pity for their
wretched children. Site was bewildered
by the offensive bearing of bolder ap
plicants. Moro than onco Mrs. Dobbs
had to ring in her respectable butler
to get rid of some inslstant parent
who endeavored to intimidate her in
to an immediate purchase. Tho re
sult ot all this was a cessation of the
daily advertisement." Mr. Dobbs, of
course, was not informed minutely of
all that went on, though an interviow
with his butler one evening threw a
little light on things that had occurred.
"I wish to give a month's warning,
sir," said this gentleman in privacy
to his muster.
"Why, now, Tinker, what is the
matter? I'm sure you've a very com
forr.iblo place, with a boy to do all
your dirty work."
Tinker coughed and stammered a
few words before coming to the point.
"Well, now, sir, to speak plain it's
along ofthat wild crowd of vagabonds,
as Mrs. Dobbs she's seeing of every
day. Babies by tho score, they're
brought by impulent rascals such as I
ain't been accustomed to. One of 'em
Bho wouldn't no out ot tne gate tin 1
railed tho police. It aint respectable
in a gentleman's house, I do assure
you, sir."
Somehow or other Mr. Dobbs man
aged to sooth the outragod feelings o!
his man servant, nnd prevailed upon
him to put up awhile longer with the
inconvenience of tho situation. The
worthy Josiah was concerned for tho
protection of his wife.
"How are you getting on with your
uusiness, my lover" inquired JUr.
Dobbs that evening.
"Oh, pretty well," ssid the lady
cheerfully, yet persistently avoiding
her husband's eyes. "1 lind it very
difficult to make up my mind; and I
waut a pretty little boy, not quite a
baby, with no disgraceful connections
to hang about him. No doubt I shall
see one to suit mo in a few days."
Tho few days passed without further
allusion to the subject, and the follow
ing curious advertisement appeared
in all the daily papers:
WANTED. For immediate adoption, a
little boy between 2 nnd 4 years old. Must
be healthy and pretty and sound In body
and mind. Tho parents or relatives must
renounce all claim on him forever, lie ill
be comfortably provided tor in the future.
Apply daily to Messrs. Griilham and Grab
bum. Solicitor!, 201 Parliament street,
Westminster.
Alter the appearance of this adver
tisement the persecution of Clarence
Villa died away, and only now and
again a respectable man or woman,
leading a littlo boy, was heard
inquiring for Mrs. Dobbs'
residence of a local policeman. But
tho lady was obdurate to all claimB
made on her pity. See had hardened
her heart to aestituto cases; and pen
niless widows or consumptive fathers
met with Bcant ceremony at her
hands it their offspring wero not de
Birable. After this had gono for a
fortnight or moro, Mrs Dobbs one day
visited Messrs. Griflham and Grab
ham during business hours.
"I havo come about the child, Mr.
Griflham," she said, going at once to
her point. "How is it you havo Bent
mo nono that aro pretty or interest
ing?" From tho force of habit, Mrs.
Dobbs was apt to speak dictatorial
ly to strangers.
"My dear madam, pray remember
children , aro not made to order."
Mrs. Dobbs winced. "I see I must
except no assistance from you, sir,"
she said loftily. No doubt my hus
band's opposition to my object has
influenced you, I will tronblo you no
further in this matter. You may con
eider your quest at an end. Good
morning."
Weary ot her undertaking, Mrs.
Dobbs had almost resolved to aban
don her whim; ,Sho chowed the cud of
hitter thoughts on her homeward way
that day. Providence or fortune was
against her success. That evening Mr.
Dobbs came homo in an unusual de
gree ot haste, und of a cheerful mien.
"Lovo," Baid ho, tripping over tho
dining-room mat, "I've found a child
for you."
Mrs. Doobs lookecd up coldly. "It's
impossiblo I shall liko it," said she
perversely. "No ono wants to part
with a child unless there's something
the matter with it."
Mr.Doobs beamed yet more bright
ly. Ho was not to bo subdued by any
wet blankets. "It's a little boy, and
ho is 3 years old, fair, pretty and
most intelligent. His father is just
dead."
"What about his mother?" queried
Mrs. Doobs cautiously.
Josiah reddened, stammering alittlo.
"She all, poor soul is dead too.
This is no beggar's brat. Ho is well
born, Dorothy, on one side. I can
givo you every proof."
The noxt day the child was brought
tp Clapham and left a Clarenco Villa
by a clerk from M. Dobbs' office. Ho
was poorly dressed, but a handsome
little lad, lively and spirited. Ho was
not at all shy, and addressed himselt
freely to tho pug and parrot. The
piping treblo voico and shrill, childish
laughter touched the maternal chord
in Dorothy's heart. Sho went a littlo
sadly that day while her eyes followed
tho child. Ho stroked her velvet gown
and fingered her rings while he sat up
on her knee, chatting about the things
around him.
"What is your name?" questioned
the lady.
"Harry," answered the boy readily.
But nothing more could bo elicited
from him. He did not seem to under
stand that he could have a second
name Ho was but a baby boy, scarce
ly three.
In tho afternoon Mrs. Dobbs tele
graphed to her husband that ho must
make arrangements for her to keep the
child a day or two. It would
not bo necessary to send any one
to fetch him that evening. The
day passed quickly, with little feet
pattering besido her, exploring
tho wonders of garden and green
houses. Towards 7 o'clock Mrs.
Dobbs began to look anxiously for her
spouso s return, bhe had quite decid
ed that sho would keep the child, but
still there wero questions to be asked
preliminaries to bo settled. The boy
must bo hers entirely. Nono must
over claim him, or interiero with his
welfare Mr. Dobbs came leisurely
up the garden at his usual hour, car
rying his fish-bag. His stolid face
changed a little when he looked
through tho window and saw the child
on his wife's knee.
"Ho is a pretty boy, Dorothy." he
said nervously, when ho camo near.
"A darling little boy: I mean to keep
him, Josiah," she said, gently disen
gaging tho chubby hands from her
chair. "Will you stay with me,
Harry?"
The child laughed gleefully, tossing
back his curls. K-
"Stay witli oo; pity, pity flowers,"
he cried clapping ins 'minds.
"Tell mo nil you know about him,
Josiah. What is his parentage, nnd
will his nearest relatives surrender
all claim upon him?"
Josiah shifted uneasily in his seat.
Ho had the appearance of a man op
pressed with guilt.
"Ho i an orphan," said ho look
ing speculatively at his own broad
toes.
"So much the better for me, ' said
Mrs. Dobbs. But I will have no dis
tant reltaives hanging about. He
must belong exclusively to me."
Mr Dobbs drew nearer to his wife.
"Dorothy, he ought to belong to
you it to anyone."
Tho lady put down the child from
her knee, His large blue eyes gazed
in wonder at this sudden rejection.
"What is the boy's name?" said
Mrs. Dobbs, breathlessly.
"Henry," ho rejoined, slowly.
"But Henry what?" she asked, more
sharply.
"Henry Morrison. He is your sis
ter' child a friendless orphan now.
God help him if you don't.
Mrs. Dobbs fell back on the sofa
cushion, and covered her faco with her
hands. The tears wero falling thro ngli
them when little fingers essayed to
movo them.
"Has oo, been naughty? on't ky."
Perhaps the lady was verj conscious
of her own naughtiness, for she cried
still more at this appeal, drawing the
child into her embrace. There was
never any more doubt atyoiit the
adoption. Henry Morrison calls Mrs.
Dobbs mother to this day, and Josiah
is a little less generous toward asy
lums nnd hospitals. There will be a
very pretty penny by and by for bis
adopted son.
Norway, Michi;an, was destroyed by
fire, its population rendered homeless, and
their losses reaching 5300,000.
- -Too Jefferson's Home. j
Across tho marshes and bayous
eight miles to tho west from Petite
Anse island ripcj Orange island, fa
mous for its orange plantation, but
called Jefferson island since it becamo
the property and homo of Joseph Jef
ferson. Not bo high as Petito Anse,
it is still conspicuous with its crown
of dark forest. From a high point on
Petito Anso, through a lonely vista of
trees, with flowering cacti in tho fore
ground, Jefferson's house is a white
spot in tho landscape. We reached it
by a circuitous drivo of 12 miles over
tho prairie, sometimes in and some
times out of water, and continually
diverted from our courso by fences. It
is a good sign of tho thrift of tho raco,
and of its independence, that the color
ed peoplo havo taken up or bought lit
tlo tracts of 30 or 40 acres, put up
cabins, and new fences round their
domains regardless of tho traveling
public. Wo zigzagged all about the
country to get round these little en
closures. At ono place, where the
main road was bad, a thrifty Acadtan
had set up a toll of twenty-five cents
for tho privilege of passing through
his premises. Tho scenery was pas
toral and pleasing. There were fre
quent round ponds, brilliant with lil
ies and flcurs-do-lis, and hundreds of
cattlo feeding on tho prairie or stand
ing in tho water, and generally of a
dun-color, mado always an agreeable
Eicturc. The monotony was broken
y lines of trees, by cape-like
woods Btrctching into tho plain,
and the horizon lino was
always fine. Great variety of birds
enlivened tho landscape, game birds
abounding. There was the lively
nonpareil, which seems to change its
color, and is red and green and blue
I beliovo of tho oriolo family the
papabotto, a favorite on New Orleans
tables in the autumn, snipe, killdce,
tho cheerooko (snipe?) the meadow
lark, and quantities of teal duck in
tho ponds. These littlo ponds are
called "bull-holes." Tho traveler is
told that they aro started in this wa
tery soil by tho pawing of bull?, and
gradually enlarge as tho cattle fre-'
qucnt them. Ho remembers that he
has seen similar circular ponds in the
North not mado by bulls.
Mr. Jefferson's residence a pretty
rosovino-covored cottage is situated
on tho slope of the hill,-overlooking a
broad plain and vaststrotchof bayou
country. Along ono sido of his home
enclosure for a mile runs a superb
hedge of Chickasaw roses. On tho
slops back of tho house, und almost
embracing it, is a magnificent grovo
of liveoaks, great gray stems, and tho
branches hung with heavy masses of
moss, which swing in the wind liko tho
pendant boughs of the willow, and
with something of its sentimental and
mournful suggestions. Tho recesses ot
this forest are cool and dark, but up
on ascending the hill, suddenly bursts
upon the viow under tho trees a most
lovely lako of clear bluo water. This
lake which may be a mile long and a
half a milo broad, is called Lake Peig
neur, from its fanciful resemblance, I
beliovo to a wool-comber.
Tho shores aro wooden. On the isl
and side the bank is precipitous: on
tho opposite shore amid the trees is a
hunting lodge nnd I believe, there are
plantations on the north end, but it
is in aspect altogether solitary and
peaceful. But tho island did not want
life. The day was brilliant, with a
deep bluo sky and high-sailing fleecy
clouds, and it seemed a sort of animal
holiday; squirrels chattered; cardinal
birds flashed through the green leaves;
there flitted about the' red-winged
blackbird, bluejays, red-headed wood
peckers, thrushes and occasionally a
rain-crow crossed the scene; high over
head sailed the heavy buzzards, do
scribing great aerial circles; and off in
tho still lako tho ugly heads of tho al
ligators toasting in the sun. Charles
Dudley Warner, "Tho Acadian Land"
in Harper's Magazine for February.
Tiio World Not so Very Lnrsc.
From the Washington Post.
The world is growing smaller every
dayl Threo gentlemen wero standing
together in tho East Room of the
White House at tho last State recep
tion. Richly dressed and beautiful
women wero thronging into that mag
nificent parlor from the Green Room,
having "been through" as the expres
sion is for a presentation to tho Pres
ident in tho Blue Room. Tho social
mill was in furious operation that
evening, and an enormous grist was
being ground out.
Suddenly a medium-sized, facinating
lady fioin New York, in an elegant and
becoming costume, emerged from the
hopper. Sho was tho wifo of a high
railway official in that city. The
three gentlemen glanced at her. No
one of the three knew that either oi
the others had ever seen her before."
"Ah! said Browne, "the last timo I
saw her I was pouting sand into her
shoes at Long Branch."
"Indeed!" said White. "Tho last
time I met her was at the Hotel Con
tinental in Paris, when sho presented
me to Clara Louiso Kellogg."
"And that reminds me," snid Greene,
"that the last time I saw her I wus
6eated by her side in her carringe,
driving up Fiftli-ave.for a turn in Cen
tral Park."
And then the three gentlemen looked
at each other, and shook hands, and
lausmed. How sninll this world is.
The Long One and
One.
the Short
New Zealand Times.
There is a story oi old Peter JTau
cett, the New South Wales Sopreme
Court Judge whola;ly retired. He was
somewhat short-sighted, and one day
a very diminutive barrister appeared
before him to move something or oth
er. When the short man stood along
side "Jumbo," a very tall barrister,
who was sitting down, their heads
were about on a level, and as soon as
the smad man began: "If your honor
please, I " "Ye must stand up
when y address the court," interrupt
ed old Peter, irascibly. "I am stand
ing up," said tho small man, with dig
nity. "Then tell the gentleman
alongside ye to sit down."
JPIiAGUE OF CHOLERA.
Hew the Drttd DUeus bst renetrsted ANiriea
Serersl Tints.
From tho Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Asiatic cholera is an epidemic dis
easo of great virulence. It has been
known from a very romoto period,
and has visited at ono time or anoth
er almost overy country on the globe.
Tho first account published in detail
was in tho first part of tho sixteenth
century. Tho dispaso seems to have
prevailed first in India, and tho vari
ous epidemics in otlies countries can
bo traced as having been brought from
that country. The invasion of India
by tho Portuguese and afterward by
the English during the sixteenth cen
tury served to introduco tho disease
into Europe. It again was
brought into Europe during tho
eighteenth and the early part of tho
nineteenth century by tho English in
vasion of India. In 1832 it again pre
vailed in Europo, and 120,000 peoplo
died from it during that year. It first
appeared in America during that
year (1832) and wasbroughtherebya
French emigrant ship, wliich disem
barked along tho St. Lawrence1 river
and spread the disease to the various
towns along the river and tho great
lakes as far as Fort Dearborn, near
where Chicago now is. From thenco
it spread as far as tho Mississippi. In
the sarao year another ship brought it
to Now York, and from thenco it
spread southward along the coast to
the gulf, and westward into tho inte
rior, along tho courso of tho great high
ways of travel.
It first appeared in Pittsburgh in
1833. It next appeared in 1845, and
again in 1853. In 1805 it occurred
again, but had a limited extent, audits
last appearance was in 1 873, at which
timo it did not prevail to any extent.
All the cases that have ever prevail
ed can bo traced to pre-existing cases
ot cholera, proving that it does not
arise spontaneously, but is always
caused by pre-existing cases. This is
almost absolutely proved, and teaches
a lesson with regard to prevention of
the disease What the specific conta
gious material is that causes cholera
is a subject yet of much investigation
nnd dispute. Tho investigations of
Koch, of recent years, would seem to
point toward a micro-organism as tho
oavee, an organism called tho comma
bacillus. Yet this is not absolutely
proved, and in fact thero aro some
grave objections to the theory. This
organism is found in great numbers in
the intestinal canal of cholera pa
tients, and it is not found in patients
Buffering from any otherdisease. Yet
these germs, when dried, die in a very
short time.
Now it lias been proved that tho
contagion oi cholera has been carried
long distances and for spa.'es of timo
in dry clothing and other manners.
Koch's theory, consequently, is not
universally accepted. Soma think
tho disease is duo to a chemical com
pound, which is unstable. Cholera
prevails during warm weather, and is
most fatal in tropical climates. Cold
weather is almost suro to stop an epi
demic. It undoubtedly effects its en
trance into tho system through the ali
mentary canal that is, stomach and
intestines and does not cntor through
the lungs, in all probability. Yet In
effect it is much tno samo, as tho con
tagious material often disseminated
by tho atmosphere may lodge in tho
mouth, and, being swallowed, cause
tho disease. Its origin can often bo
traced also to water into which some
of tho excretum of cholera patients
has gained access.
The prevention oi this diseaso con
sequently limits itself down to destruc
tion of the morbid product whicli pro
duces it, and isolation of thoso affect
ed with the disease to prevent its
spreading the destruction of every
thing about theso patients calculated
to retain the poison. The best meth
od of doing this is by fire and disinfect
ants. We think that not only should tho
clothing be burned, but also the bod
ies of tlioso who die of the disease.
The safety of tho community at large
depends upon the thoroughness with
wliich this is done. Isolation of tho
patients and prevention of the possi
bility of carrying the diseaso by a
strict quarantine, both at seaport
and inland should be urged. The ob
jection to quarantine is found in its
interference with commerce, but the
interference, as a rule, affects only a
minority of people, and tho rule that
tew should suiter for tho benefit of tho
many should bo applied here. Expe
rience, the great educator, has taught
that the safety of the masses depends
upon the efficfency ot the quarantine.
Tho symptoms of tho disease are
too well known to need repetition.
During the first part of an epidemic
the disease usually is mora violent and
the mortality greater than later on,
the disease seeming to spend itself,, to
wear itself out. In vry severe cases
death may take place in a few hours.
One peculiarity noticed about persons
dying from this disease is tho contrac
tion of the muscles, which tnkes place
a few hours after death. It is some
times horrifying to those nbout the
body to thus see a dead man move.
A Mr. Ward reports tho following: "I
saw the eyes of my dead patient open
and move slowly in a downward di
rection. This was followed, a minuto
or two subsequently, by tho move
ments of the right arm, previously
lying by the side, across the chest."
Another caso is reported olthe body
turning clear over by tiio muscular
contractions on ono side of the body.
In many cases ot cholera no treat
ment is of avail. In the less sovere
forms it) is of tho utmost Importance
for the patient to havo early treat
ment. Dr. Austin Flint nttaches
great importance to this, and says
that in an experience of threo epidem
ics, during which he attended hundreds
of cases, reepvery was the rule if he
saw the patient early in tho disease.
The deaths during an epidemic occur
largely among tho poor, poverty and
neglect being largely the cause.
A shortage ol $34,000 him been found
In the nccountB o! Col. W. H. Webster,
late treasurer ot Merrick county, Ne
braska. Webster otter to turn over all
his property, amounting, to $20,000.
Whnt Wo Aro Mutlo Of.
Professor Lnngley.
In tho South Kensington Museum
there is an immenso collection of ob
jects appealing to nil tastes and nil
classes, and we find there at the same
timo people belonging to the wealthy
and cultivated par t of society, lingering
over tho Louis Seize cabinets or the old
majolica, and the artisan and his wifo
studying the statements as to tho rela
tive economy of baking powders, or ad
miring Tippoo Saib's wooden tiger.
There is ono Bhelf, however, which
seems to have some attraction com
mon to all social grades, for its con
tents appear to bo of equal interest to
tho peer and costermonger. It is tho
representation of a man resolved into
his chemical elements, or rather, an
exhibition of tho materials of which,
the human body is composed. Thero
is a definite amount of water, for in
stance, in our blood and tissues, and
there on tho shelf aro just
so many gallons ol water in a largo
vesseh Another jar shows tho exact
quantity of carbon in us; smaller bot
tles contain our iron and our phos--phorusin
just proportion, while oth
ers exhibit still other constituents of
tho body, and the whole reposes on
the shelf, as if ready for tho coming of
a new Frankenstein to recreate tho
original man and make him walk
about again as wedo. The littlo vials
that contain the different elements
which we all bear about in small pro
portions are more numerous, and
they suggest not merely the complex
ity of our constitutions but the iden
tity of our elements with those wo
have found by tiio spectroscope, .not
alono in tho sun, but even in the dis
tant stars and nebulae, for this won
derful instrument of tho now astron
omy can find tho traces of poison in
a stomach or analyze a star, and its
conclusion leads us to think that tho
ancients were nearly right when they
called man a microcosm, or little uni
verse. Wo have literally within our
bodies samples of the most important
elements ot whicli tho groat universe
without is composed, and you and I
are not only like each other, and
brothers in humanity, but children of
tho sun and stare in a more literal
sense, having bodies actually made in
large part of the samo things that
mado Sirius and Aldebaran. They
and wo are near relatives.
Tho Military Frontier of Frnncc.
Tho cession ot Alsnce and Lorraino
placed Metz and Strasburg, tho keys
of the old French frontier in German
hands. It gavo Franco a new frontier
and a very open one, a frontier un
protected by any very great natural
obstacles, for the Germans now held
both sides of theRhine.nnd the north
ern passes of the Vosges (tho passes
by which the a rench army used to
march to the Rhino under Napoleon I.)
were well within the new German ter
ritory. Moreover,this naturally open
frontier might bo said to be wholly
unprotected by art once Metz ana
Strasburg wero gone. True thero
was the fortress of Belfort on tho ex
treme right, guarding tho w'ell marked
valley between tho Vosges and tho Ju
ra, which French geographers call la
trouee de Belfoit. But Belfort, shat
tered by tho successful siege
wliich was the last act of tho war,
was only tho wreck of a fortress,
and in any caso its works wero not of
such a character as to fit it for its new
position on the very frontier line.
Taught by the hard lessons of defeat,
tho French Government at once set to
work to put tho new frontier into a
thorough state of defense. Successive
War Ministers have steadily worked,
upon the lines originally laid down by
the engineers charged with tho task in
1871. Money has not been spared.
It has been spent by millions, and now,
after the labor of 1 0 yeais. the work
is done. Probably so" vast a schema
of military engineering was never be
foro planned and executed in so brief
a time Tho French engineers havo
not been content to erect upon tho
new frontier three or four first-class
fortresses to serve as points of sup
port for adefendingarmy. They havo
closed it witli a double line of works,
linked these together by an elaborate
system of railways, and, besides re
fortifying Paris, they havo construct
ed two other great fortresses in the
heart of France to servo as bases of
operation for her armies if. as in 1870,
the barriers nearer tho frontier wero
again pressed byinvndingannies from
beyond tho Rhine Rural National
Review.
How Much CuiibeDrcnint inFlvo
Seconds.
Revue Bclenttfique.
I was sitting with a police official at
his office, und wo were discussing some
fantastic story, when an employe
came in and Bat down be3ide us. lean
ing with his elbow on the table. I
er. going across long corridors, I walk
ed behind him, at the college where I
had been brought up. He 'went into
a wing of tho house which I knew well,
and which led to the class rooms. Un
der the stairs he showed mo a stovo
on which stood an oyster shell with a
little whito paint in it (I had been
mixing water colors tho night before.)
"But vou have forgotten the vegeta
bles. Go to the porter at the other
end ot the court-yard; you will find
them there on the nble." I waited
for a long time; at last I saw him
making signs to mo that he had found
nothing. '"It is at the left hand side,"
I shouted, nnd saw him cross the
yard, coming back with an immense
cabbage. I took a knife from my
pocket, which I always kept there,
and at the moment when I was going
to cut the vegetable I was awakened
by the noise of a bowl of soup being
put heavily on the marble top of the
table next my bed.
It appears to me that the idea ol
soup was suggested to me by the
smell at the moment when the door
was opened by a servant bringing in
the soup while I was asleep, and it
takes live seconds at the most to
walk from the door to the bod. ..y
looked up and said to nun, -you nave
forgotten to make tho soup." "No.no;
come with mo." Wo went out toceth-
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