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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2t, 1SS2.
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FRUIT OR FLOWER.
When orchard! smile, and our gardens blooa
In rainbow beauty from day to day.
AndTvrdant leaflet and nodding- plume
Keep time to music the breezes play.
Row sweet the bower
When sun and shower
Unfold the bud and reveal the flower!
Along the meadows In gleaming linos
From year to year is the promise writ;
Tassels and tendrils of clinging vinos
Are never weary proclaiming it;
As bells in the tower
Toll forth the hour.
They herald tho fruit that follows the flower.
We may watch and wait, but can hasten net
The sweet fruition our hearts desire,
Kor gather the grape or the apricot
Until they are fed with the noonday lire;
Though the fields we scour.
We have no power
To harvest the fruit that Is still In flower.
But when tho orchards are pink and white.
And all the meadows are green and gay.
In the promise given we take deliirht.
And breathe the fragrance that oomos la
May.
Nor ask for the dower
Of a ripor hour.
For the perfect fruit In tho tlmo of flower.
Jostphin Pollard, In Harpcr'a Weekly.
BRITISH LAW OF TREASON.
Trials for high treason have been
most rare in modern times, and the
whole subject is invested with a singu
lar Interest even for the goneral read
ing public From the beginning of the
common law treason was recognized
and punished as a crime, the cause of
the crime always being some act of hos
tility against the Crown by some one
owing allegiance to it. With an un
written law and corrupt or subservient
Judges, it may readily bo imagined
what bloody injustices wore possible.
The laws of Alfred declared that if any
man plotted against the King, either
himself or by harboring exiles, he
should be liable in his life and all his
Sosscssions. During the two centuries
tat followed the conquest, however,
trials for treason were rare, and the
literature of tho subject is scanty. The
Ring being merely regarded as a sort
of Premior-Baron, and there be
ing no difficulty in finding a
flaw in bis title, treasonable enterprises
were froquent; per contra, when
those engaged in such enterprises came
to grief, they were got rid of without
excessive formality. William deBraose,
when King John invited him to send
bin son as a page to Queen Isabella,
hesitated, ana His wife declared that
she would never trust her child in the
hands of a man who had murdered his
own nephew. Tho result was that tho
whole familj having vainly fled to tho
Irish wilds, was shut up in a room in
the tower and starved to death. The
punishments varied, but were often
barbarous. The Barons under Mortimer
and Isabella hanged Le Despencerand
burned out Edward IL's bowels with a
red-hot iron introduced through a cow's
horn. The Norsemen had an interest
ing way of insinuating an adder into a
prisoner's stomach in a similar fashion,
while Edward III. when ho caught
Mortimer, his mother's paramour, mere
ly hanged him. In the twenty-fifth
year of his reign, Edward made a
creditable attempt at remedying the un
certainty of the earlier law under which
counterfeiting was treason, whether
tho King's seal or his coin were copied,
and it was treason to " encroach upon
the royal power." The new statute
made it treason to compass the sover
eign's death, to levy war against him,
or to adhere to his enemies, otc, though
all such o flenses had to be proved by
an over act. "Compassing the King's
death," however, proved a term capa
ble of almost indefinite expansion; and
when the phrase could not be stretched
to take in an obnoxious opponent, the
law was disregarded, or a new act was
passed for his benefit. Not alone was a
prosecution for treason a convenient
method of getting rid of a political op
ponent, but very small fish were scooped
in in the net Under Edward IV., one
man, whoso deer the King had killed,
was put to death for wishing that the
King had the deer's horns in his belly,
and another was hanged, drawn and
2 uartered for making a pun. He called
is inn the Crown, and his son the heir
to the Crown. The Judges must have
resembled that loyal magistrate of the
last century who sent a man to
jail for declaring that tho Prince
of Wales was born without a shirt
to his back. A special statute of
Henry VIII. made it treason to believe
the King's marriage with Anne of Cleves
valid. The statute of Edward VL re
quired for the conviction of one charged
with troason two sufficient and lawful
witnesses, but this provision was eluded
In a dozen waj-s. Bacon, when Attorney-General,
convicted the decrepit old
Parson Peacham of treason by bringing
in a sermon found in his study which
had never been preached more by
token, the great philosopher stood by
him when ne was racked to oxtort a
confession. The punishment of treason
in tho "good old times" was something
too horrible almost for description. The
average reader has a mild and very er
roneous idea of what " hanging, draw
ing and quartering " really meant, but
he will be instructed if he reads the his
tory of the Jesuit Ballard's conspiracy
in favor of Mary Queen of Scots, in
which he enlisted Anthony Babington,
Chidiock Titchbourne and other gen
erous young men; or turns to the recital
by Mrs. Elizabeth Willoughby of the
execution of the Jesuit Hugh Green, in
1642. "The hangman," we read, "either
through unskillfulness or for want of a
sufficient presence of mind, had so ill-
Erformed his first dut- of hanging him
it when he was cut down he was per
fectly sensible and able to sit upright
npon the ground, viewing the crowd
that stood about him. The person who
undertook to quarter him was one Bare
foot, a barber, who, being very timor
ous when he found he was to attack a
living man, it was near half an hour be
fore the sufferer was rendered entirely
Insensible of pain. The mob pulled at
the rope and threw the Jesuit on his
back. Then the barber immediately
fell to work, ripped up his belly, and
laid the Haps of skin on both sides, the
poor gentleman being so present to him
self as to make the sign of the cross
with one hand. During this operation
the writer of this kneeled at the Jesuit's
head and held it fast between her hands.
His face was covered with a thick sweat,
and blood issued from his mouth, ears
and eyes, and his forehead burned with
so much heat that she could scarce en
dure her hand upon it- The barber be
ing still under a great consternation"
but enough.
When Titus Oates hatched the Popish
plot of 1678, the infamous Chief-Justice
Scroggs aided the perjurer most vigor
ously. No second witness appearing
when the Jesuit Whit bread was put oip
on trial, Scroggs discharged the jury
to enable the Crown to supplement its
evidence, and. on a subsequent occasion.
Whitbread was duly convicted and ex
ecuted. But Scroggs was outdone by
Jeffreys, when Lord William Rus
el and Algernon Sidney were brought
before him in 1683, on a charge of com
plicity in the alleged Rye-house plot.
The jury was constituted illegally, and
fee was "refused the right to challenge,
while not- one witness proved the of
fense charged conspiring to kill the
King. In Sidney's case, only one wit
ness, the infamous Lord Howard, could
be found, but Jeffreys improved on
Bacon by accepting as the second wit
ness garbled extracts from a theoretical
manuscript work on government found
among his papers. Sir Thomas Arm
strong was at the same time hanged,
drawn and quartered, " without trial,
without having been confronted with
his accusers, and withoutbeingheariin
his own defense." Anyone can read in
Macaulay the story of the bloody assize
in the west, after Monmouth's rebellion,
when men were hanged and quartered
by hundreds, and Jeffreys sentenced
Alice Lisle to be burned alive, the sen
tence being with difficulty commuted to
decapitation. Elizabeth Gaunt ws
less fortunate, being burned to death at
Tyburn in October, 1685. When there
was not evidence enough for Scroggs or
Jeffreys, the crown could always pass a
bill of attainder and have Parliament
declare A or B guilty of high treason,
and therefore be executed, with ex
tinction of his titles and confiscation of
his property. William of Orange made
haste to do honor to Russell and Sid
ney's memory, yet he was the last
sovereign to employ a bill of attainder.
Thus he sent Sir John Fenwick, a
Jacobite, to the gallows, it being hope
less to indict him with one witness to
the overt act. The bill was with diffi
culty got through Parliament, Lord
Derby opposing it eloquently in the
Lords. In those days tho prisoner was
hanged for half an hour; then his heart
and oowels were torn ont and burned:
then his body was quartered, and the
four fragments and his head were stuck
upon spikes in different parts of the
country. After the Jacobite rising of
1745, Townley and Fkitcher were thus
dismembered, their heads being set up
over Temple Bar, where Samuel Rogers,
the banker-poet, remembered seeing
them. They rotted away about the time
of our Declaration of Independence.
The last persons executed in England
for high treason were Arthur Thistle
wood and his four companions, hanged
at the Old Bailey, May 1, 1820, for the
famous Cato street conspiracy to massa
cre the Ministers at dinner and carry off
the heads of Castlereagh and Sidmouth
as special trophies in bags prepared for
the purpose. They wore the last pris
oners confined in tlie tower, and the last
beheaded after death. By tho way,
hanging, drawing and quartering was
inaugurated in England in 1241, when
William Marise, the son of a nobleman,
suffered for piracy. September21, 1848,
William Smith O'Brien, convicted of
high treason, was sentenced to bo
hanged, and then beheaded and quar
tered. A similar sentence had been
Jiassed on John Francis, in June, 1842,
or the attempted murder of the Queen.
Mr. O'Brien rather nonplused the au
thorities by objecting to nave his death
sentence commuted to transportation, on
the ground that the Queen had no pow
er to substitute one penalty for another,
and it was deemed expedient to pass an
act of Parliament to remove the doubts
excited as to the legality of the act of
clemency.
In old times the fact that a true bill
for treason had to be found by a Grand
Jury saved many a noble politician
whose head would have fallen once he
was before the lords. Two witnesses
were needed as to the overt act, and the
prisoner was entitled to a copy of tho
indictment and the jury panel a certain
time before his arraignment But ac
cording to the act of 1800, where tho
overt act is in the nature of a direct at
tempt on the life of the sovereign, the
trial is to be conducted in the same man
ner as an ordinary indictment for felo
ny. London Special to Chicago Times.
Buried in a Trance.
A New Brunswick (N. J.) dispatch
says: In the latter part of March a man
named James Gilliland, residing here,
died after a brief illness. He was a car-
Eet weaver by trade, and was well
nown in the neighborhood. After
death his house was visited by sympa
thizing friends, who were anxious to
look once more on their departed com
rade. There was a peculiar appearance
about the body, which was the subject
of comment, and many of the visitors
refused to believe that life had depart
ed. Even after the body had been pre
pared for burial and inclosed in a coffin
there was none of the ordinary appear
ances found in a corpse, and Gilliland' s
friends were greatly agitated over the
matter, many of them believing that he
was only in a trance. So strong was
this belief that physicians were called
in to make an examination. They
found the body slightly warm, and hav
ing none of the chilly feeling to the touch
which is always found in dead bodies;
the face was somewhat flushed, and the
supposed dead man resembled a person
in a deep sleep more than amass of life
less clay. The doctors, however, after
a critical examination, pronounced Gil
liland dead, and the funeral took place
the following day, the interment being
in the cemetery. " Last week a brother
of Gilliland came to this city to make
an examination, having heard that
there were suspicions that the man was
not dead when burial took place. He
proceeded to the cemetery yesterday in
company with a man to reopen tho
grave. When the coffin was reached
the lid was carefully removed, and to
the great horror of the man he dis
covered indubitable ovidence that his
brother had been entombed while in a
trance, and had afterward recovered
consciousness. The body was found
tying on one side with the face terribly
scratched, as though done while in
agony. It is thought that the unfort
unate man, on recovering conscious
ness, endeavored to free himself from
his coffin, and that a terrible struggle
for life took place, the hands being
horribly lacerated, while the face plain
ly showed signs of terror. The body
was immediately reburied. Last even
ing the family of the unfortunate man
refused to give any information on the
subject and the cemetery authorities
were likewise reticent.
Most Have a Scotch Hammer.
A correspondent writes of an amusing
incident which occurred at Oneonta. Tf.
Y., and Rays that he knows all the per
sons referred to, and can vouch for the
truth of it "A carnenter and ioinnr in
Oneonta said to his fellow-workmen:
As soon as I can get a chance, I am
stointr to send over hnm tn Scotland
and get a claw-hammer, one that I can
work with; I can't get a decent ham
mer in Amerina.' Ahont this tfmo .
friend of his was going back to the auld
sod,' and he commissioned him to go to
the best hardware store in Glasgow and
get a carpenter's claw-hammer, the best
lie could find. rern.rdlpss of nnst Tn
due time the friend returned, bringing
me aesireu toou xne parry gathered
around him, including some of his fellow-workmen,
and ne proceeded to
open tne package, in the meantime
making the remark: 'I'll show you
snmntliinp tn mako vnnr orc trntor ' ne
the friend had assured him that he had
brought him the kind of hammer used
by the best workmen in Glasgow. He
affectionately unwound the wraps, and,
as he took the tool and handed it over
to his friends, he said: There, look at
that!' One of his friends did n anil
read the trade-mark on the hammer:
Made at Norwich, N. Y., U. S.' There
is no more bragging about Scotch ham
mers."
A small, very black negro boy by
accident threw his tOD through a laro-n
pane of glass in one of the front windows
of Mr. Green's sewing-machine agency
in the Cater block. As soon as he laid
hands on the offending toy, he grasped
it with steel spinner outwards, and beat
himself fiercely over tho forehead and
head with it until blood came, when h
threw, the top as far away as he could
ana tola the owner oi the store that he
"didn't go to break the window." His
WAS ft nnvel ufir of ati-mincr frn-tiiafanlt
but it had the desired effect and he was
allowed to depart unmolested. Selma
(Ala.) limes.
Oscar Wilde has made $25,000 out
of his lectures in this country.
The "Frevious Question in the House
of Commons.
It is not surprising that the introduc
tion into the House of Commons of the
cloture," or what is known by parlia
mentarians in this country as the" "pre
vious question," should be so stoutly re
sisted, when the importance of the inno
vation is historically and practically con
sidered. Looking at the subject in the
light of the present and its necessities,
the wonder is that some method of closing
a debate within a reasonable period
should not have been resorted to before
this late day; but when we look back
and remember how few debaters there
were in the days when Mr. Pitt and Mr.
Fox led in the discussion of important
questions, how conservative the English
people are, and how opposed they are to
a new departure irom tne oia meinous
of procedure, we easily realize that the
opposition to Mr. Gladstone's new rule is
not altogether unnatural.
Prior to the adoption of the Reform
bill in 1832, the House of Commons was
a large body only in theory, for while
the number on the clerk's list was large,
the number of absentees was also always
very large, the speaking was restricted
to a limited number of orators, and the
debates on the most important questions
usually terminated by the natural pro
cess of exhaustion in a few hours, so
that the main question came without
forcing.
But the Reform bill in 1832 not only
added many more members to the Com
mons, but it threw into it many conspic
uous citizens who belonged to the mid
dle classes, like Mr. John Bright men
fitted by education, ability and training,
to properly represent the ideas and de
fend the principles which had brought
them prominently to the notice of the
public. Instead of the leading parts be
ing all taken by a dozen of bright and
distinguished leaders, as was the case in
the days of Fox and Pitt, there was a
crowd of new speakers, representing un
easy constituencies, who insisted on being
heard. As a natural consequence the
debates became more and more protract
ed and wearisome, the party contests be
came more bitter and prolonged as tho
House membership resolved itself into
cliques aud factions, which resisted ob
noxious measures by what is now called
"filibustering" in this country a word
that has come into general use since
Jefferson's Manual was written.
Of late years these obstructionists have
become so numerous and so persistent,
and so determined to delay certain Gov
ernment measures that were obnoxious
to them, that it became manifest some
decisive measures must be adopted, or
all legislation would be defeated by the
chronic dead-lock. No matter whether
the "filibustering" was resorted to by
the Tories, Radicals or Irish members, or
all of them in league against the Minis
try, the effect was the same, and there
was no way of putting an end to talking
against time. The instance of the IrisTi
members keeping the House in session
forty-two continuous hours, as was the
case on one occasion recently, is an ex
ample of the power of a factious minor
ity, under the existing rules of practice,
and. also serves to show the necessity of
curbing it
Under these circumstances one would
naturally suppose that the necessity of
adopting a new rule of procedure in the
House of Commons would be so apparent
that there would be but little opposition
to it especially with the majority party
in Parliament, which is charged with the
responsibility of keeping the wheels of
government in motion. But the pro
posed new departure is seriously object
ed to (1) by the old conservative element
in Parliament and on of it which dis
likes changes of all kinds, and which is
tenaciously wedded to the idea that it is
"better to bear the ills we have than to
fly to others that we know not of."
(2) The application of the previous ques
tion to cut off debate looks to many
people,-even in this country, as a device
to stifle the freedom of speech, with
which mankind seems to be becoming
more and more enamored. Even the
majority has a deep interest in the
change, because it may be in the minor
ity next year, or next month, and then
the bit placed in its own mouth by
an overbearing majority may be as ag
gravating to them as it now is to the
minority. (3) The innovation is re
sisted on the ground that it may lead to
still more serious and far-reaching re
sults. An ambitious and reckless Minis
try, backed by a resolute and courage
ous majority in full sympathy with them,
might not only pass the most tyrannical
measures, but suppress the voice of hon
est opposition to them on the floor of the
House. (4) The Tories unanimously
object to the new rule, because they are
now in the minority, and expect to re
main so indefinitely. Altogether, the
position of Mr. Gladstone on this sub
ject is not a pleasant one.
The use of the previous question in all
legislative bodies in this country, except
in the United States Senate, where it has
never been in vogue, has not been pro
lific of any of the bad results anticipated
from its enforcement by the English
statesmen. On the other hand, it has
been found so useful in suppressing
windy speech-makers and unscrupulous
filibusters that it will not be long before
it most be adopted by the Senate of the
United States. Chicago Journal,
The Brooklyn Bridge.
Some slight doubts are cast upon the
safety of the bridge between Brooklyn
and New York. The difficulty is said to
be in the superstructure, the suspenders,
the added weight caused by the neces
sity of making up for supplying rotten
steel by a supplementary amount of solid
steel. Colonel Roeblin. in a letter
written last July, stated that the margin;.
of safety are very "low in the towers
and cables of our bridge. The anchor
ages it has been possible to re-enforce,
so that a recalculation made last week
gives a margin of safety of over three
times, which is enough where mere dead
weight is concerned. For the other two
vital points nothing can be added."
General Newton, in his letter to the
chkf engineer of the United States
army, speaks of the insufficiency of the
original plan and estimates, coupled with
the attempt to build for 6,000,000 a
work which will cost $14,000,000.
Another point made by General Newton
is of the purport that, to satisfy the
locomotive interest "the structure has
been strengthened, the trusses raised
five feet, and the weight increased so
that one whole point in the margin of
safety has been wiped out, and the pres
sure on the tower masonry raised to
thirty-two tons per square foot. While
I anticipate not even a sign of weakness,
relief can be had at any time by lighten
ing the superstructure. The margin is
as great as at Niagara, and greater than
at Cincinnati. The commission on the
Blackwell's island bridge recommended
a margin of safety of only three. During
the recent reconstruction of the Niagara
bridge the permanent load was reduced
200 tons. The cables rose four inches,
showing that in twenty-seven years the
the elasticity of the cables had not been
impaired."
The three well-known, venerable
citizens of New York, Thurlow Weed.
General James Watson Webb and Peter
Cooper, have been interviewed by the
New York Timet as to the habits of life
by which they have been enabled to re
tain their mental and bodily vigor. Oat
meal, milk and regular living is the pre
scription. m
Judge Hilton, in giving to a re-
Eorter his reasons for discontinuing the
usiness of the A. T. Stewart dry-goods
house, states that the business was in a
prosperous condition, but is too exacting
upon a man of his years. N. Y. Graphic.
m
But very few ever transmit a pedi
gree in as good order as they receive it.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The port of Venice is being deep
ened, so as to admit the entry of the
Italian monster ironclad3.
France and Italy have hitherto pro
"duced sugar only from the beet root
The sugar cane has lately been intro
duced in both countries, and it? rapid
growth threatens the beat-root industry.
The war footing of the Germ-in
army has been e-tablished bv the bud
get of 1882 at 500,000 men.' In the
event of war, the number could be
doubled at twenty-four hours' notice by
telegraph.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt is said to bo
almost vorn out by her Russian tour
She has been playing twice a day for
several weeks. In Warsaw she was to
have played fifteen times in seven days.
Returns of the recent census in
France give the following populations
for the cities named : Lyons, 332.894:
Bordeaux, 221,520; Nantes, 121,905;
Rouen, 104,720; Havre, 103,003; Douai,
73,900; Alger, 64,714; Grenoble, 50,907.
The St. Petersburg police have is
sued an order forbidding the appearance
of any actors or dancers on the stage of
the theaters of the capital whose dresses
have not previously been rendered in
combustible by moans of chlorate of
lime. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for live years.
It is feared that a famine is imminent
in Tunis. A very large portion of the
agricultural land has been, in conse
quence of the recent troubles, left un
sown; and it is estimated by tho-e capa
ble of judging that when the .scarcity of
food begins to be felt in the interior of
the country another and probably a
fiercer insurrection of the population is
likely to break out.
Olive Logan, in a London letter to
the Cincinnati Enquirer, saj's: "I
really think a change has come over
the heart of the Princess Louise. By
the expression of her face I should say
she loves and appreciates her husband,
as she never did before; while he, on the
other hand, has .had his ideas immense
ly enlarged by his sojourn in America,
and finds that tho whole of life is not
centered in the particular degree of
latitude wherein the maps say Great
Britain lies."
Two distinguished men have just
died in Paiis from a singular cause.
Col. Adan, Director of the lustitue Car
tographique, thought he had a chair be
hind him, and in sitting down fell with
all his weight on the iloor. Ho died
within a short time from the effects of
the accident. About ten days before
M. Pirson, Governor of the Banquc Na
tionale, went to a dinner party at the
Spanish Legation, and sat beside the
hostess. She rose from the table, and
then, continuing a conversation, re
sumed her scat. M. l'irson followed
her example, but a footman had mean
while removed his chair, and in his fall
he injured his spine and survived only a
few days.
A writer in the London Ixiwct
states that the popular impression con
cerning quick fatality of wounds of the
heart is not supported by fact. " We
know of no case," he says, "of abso
lutely instantaneous death from a
wound of the heart, in any part or how
ever extensive." Wounds in the apex
kill in an hour and upward, and a cae
is cited in which a man lived twelve
hours -after the heart had been severed
in twain by a sword cut. Out of twenty-nine
collected ca3es of heart injur,
only two were fatal within forty-eight
hours, and in the others death resulted
in from four to twenty-eight days. Re
covery may tike place when the wound
is extensive, for a bullet has been found
embedded in the substance of the heart
after a lapse of six years from the date
of the injury, the patient having died
from a disease of another organ.
The Last French Emperor's Death.
Tho Emperor believed that universal
suffrage would redress his wrongs, con
found his calumniators, and re-erect the
Empire. He was confident that the
millions of the people who had respond
ed to his appeal in the spring of 1870
were still true to him. But when the
news of the elections reached him at
Chiselhurst he was overwhelmed with
grief. He uttered not a single complaint.
It is not on record that he gave way even
momentarily to anger ; but lie was struck
to the heart, for he truly loved the peo
ple from whom the blow proceeded.
For some days he remained in deep
melancholy; and then his patient spirit
reasserted itself, and he turned to his
little study by his bedroom, where ho
worked, with the portraits of the Em
press and Prince Imperial on the desk
before him, at his dreams for the good
of the many who had just spurned
him. . ".
His disease had been aggravated by
the physical exhaustion of the campaign,
and especially by the hours he had spent
in the saddle at Sedan, so that he moved
little beyond the bounds of the park
about Camden Place. He went in the
summer of 1872 to the Isle of Wight,
but the good gained was only tempora
ry. He would walk by the hour up and
down the long corridor of Camden Place
with his arm on the young Prince's
shoulder, while he talked with him of
men and things, inculcating those kindly
sentiments and generous ideas which
time has already compelled his enemies
to concede to him. Atter the midday
breakfast, at which the little Court met
for tho first time in the day, he would
sit in the morning-room in his arm
chair (the arms supported by eagles) by
the wood fire, and talk cheerfully with
the Empress or with any visitors who
had come. It was a small circle in
which the imperial couple moved, but it
was one ol steadlast mends.
At the close of 1872 the Emperor's
medical advisers agreed that an opera
tion had become necessary, and it was
fixed for January 2. Two operations
were successfully carried out, but the
state of the patient gave rise to serious
doubts as to the ultimate results.
On the evening of January 8 the Em
peror's case appeared more hopeful than
on any previous day since the operations
began. He slept peacefully through tho
night, watched by turns by . MM. Con
neau, Filou, Clary, and the doctors. He
was able to rise from his bed in the
morning, and felt relieved. Another,
and it was hoped a final, operation was
to take place at noon. The Empress
had visited him as usual. At half-past
ten Sir Henry Thompson approached
him. A sudden change became appa
rent. The strong, regular pulse fell
rapidly ; the action of the heart failed.
The doctors were alarmed, and in a few
moments the Empress was at her hus
band's bedside, but he did not recog
nize her. Some stimulants were ad
ministered, and the patient rallied for a
moment. And then the Abbe Goddard
administered the last sacraments of the
Church, amid the weeping of the kneel
ing gentlemen and ladies of the house
hold, who had gathered about the death
bed. When the Empress leant over
h'm and embraced him, the Emperor's
eyes fell upon his wife; he could not
speak audibly, but he raised his lips to
kiss the devoted and heroic companion
ha YinA toL-on tn hid hpftrt: at-, tho hoiorlit.
of his glory, and who had comforted nis
exile ; and then he passed into his long
sleep. He had breathed his last when
his son arrived from Woolwich. It was
a quarter past 11 on the 9th day of Jan
uary, 1873.
The Emperor's last words, faintly ad
dressed to Dr. Conneau, were, "Etiez
TOU3 a Sedan?"
The poor young Prince arrived from
Woolwich only half an hour after his
father had passed away. The Empress
met him at the door of the death-chamber,
and taking him in her arms, cried
"I have only you, Louis, left!" Frm
JerroWs History of Napoleon III.
A Daily 5ecfsslty.
A mild mannered man came down
tho aisle of the car before we got vo
Utica. aud said softly:
"Can I sell you a life preserver to
day, sir?"
The Jester looked at him in amaze
ment "Well, hardly," he said. "If
you could seiliue something with which
jkiljl 111 tlit vitn Kit triflinuf rial' I
of detection, now, I would consider
that as near a life-'preserver as any
thing, but I have no use for the ordi
nary cork jacket that is never found un
der the berths nor in the cabins of the
ocean steamers."
"And yet," the agent softly assured
him, "every day you travel on the train
you run a risk of awful death. You
need a life-preserver as much in the
railway parlor car as on the ocean
steamer. Now I have here a very neat
and useful contrivance. It is built, as
you see by this model, on the general
architectural plan of the complete
armor of the middle ages, and gives tho
wearer a Richard Coer de Lion appear
ance." "I should think it would make him
look more like the scrap heap of a
prosperous railroad," said the Jester,
'where the rusty looking old man year
after year weighs and sorts rusty odds
and ends that nobody ever uses. If I
wore that armor of yours, the boys
would kidnap me aud sell me to the
junk man every time the circus came
around."
"This invulnerable armor,"contiuued
the agent, "is an infallible and inde
structible protection against the sever
est shocks, lou might lie down on the
track, clad iu this suit of mail and let
a thirty-eight ton locomotive run over
you. Steam could not scald you. and
if, bj- the concussion of the collision,
another passenger ran into i m head
on, it would bo a cold day for that other
passenger. Here at your side hangs the
regulation pattern old Front de Boeuf
battle axe, with which to hew your
way through the roof or sides
of the overturned car, and hack your
unhappy passengers free from encum
bering clutches of the tangled seats.
Should the flames of the burning car ap
proach near enough to threaten to roast
you in your armor before jou get out,
this lire extinguisher at your back will
avert that danger. This Sir Hildebrand
Hildesprit railway life saving armor is
the only positive assurance a man's
family have that they will ever see him
again when he buj-sa ticket to the next
station, and no wise man will travel
without it. And then it secures you
plenty of room in a crowded car, for
the man with the big overcoat, who
always crowds into two-thirds of your
seat and smothers you up into a corner
without looking at you, can make no
impression on this armor, and he won't
want to dig his vicious elbows into
these ribs of steel more than twice.
And when '
"That settles it," said the Jester,
"you may take my measure right
hero."
And although he had to pay 12i cents
a pound, delivered at the foundry, the
Jester ordered two suits; one to wear
and one to set up in the seat beside
him, to keep out the bore who loves to
shriek and howl amid the roar and rat
tle of the train, under the impression
that he is carrying on a "conversa
tion." "And when I get that medieval ar
moral Railway Life Saving suit of mail,'
said the Jester. "Oscar Wiide will turn
olive green with fleshly envy." liur
detle in Burlington Hawkcyc
Consumption.
The influence of soils upon health is
a subject of no ordinary interest. A
minute investigation clearly shows that
consumption usually prevails on clayey
and other soils that retain a large
amount of moisture. Among other
means of preventing the birth and
growth of this unrelenting malady is
living on dry or well-drained soils. The
dwellings in which persons inclined to
this disease live should be raised much
above the level of the adjacent lands,
and be exposed as much as possible to
the vital forces of the sunny rays.
Drainage of wet and retentive soils not
only produces larger :uid earlier crops,
but removes the causes of many severe
diseases, notably consumption. . Rais
ing dwellings high above the adjacent
land enables us to well ventilate the
cellars, remove the causes of decompo
sition, or impurities, check tho gener
ating of injurious gases that would ul
timately enter the rooms above, and
slowly and slyly create disease. And
so, many wise physicians recommend
that persons inclined to this malady
should avoid the injurious results of
exposure to moist and chilly air, in
cold, damp, and sudden changes of tem
perature. They strongly urge that such
persous should reside during moist and
chilly months in climates whose chang
es are Jess than in the Northern States.
What such patients need is a uniformly
dry and moderate temperature, and
they should exercise as much as possi
ble in the house. It is not the temper
ature itself that harms consumptives,
but the changes of temperature. The
temperature that is usually pleasant
and invigorating to members of the
human family is 66 degrees. It ab
stracts heat from the human family at
about the rate in which it is generated
in the human bod aud is congenial and
agreeable. It does not exhaust the
vital powers nor produce any unpleas
ant feelings. The consumptive not
only needs a congenial temperature,
but'excrcise enough to promote good
digestion. Visiting a climate that is
warmer than one's own has only this
advantage that you often visit the outer
air at regular periods of time.
Have food at stated hours and take
time for properly masticating it Have
as liberal a supply of easily digested
nourishing fod as you can easily dis
solve, absorb and convert to blood.
Keep the blood in active circulation.
Avoid late hours and chills and damp
air. Secure all the sleep you can. Do
not limit yourselves to any definite
number of hours, but sleep as long as
your condition needs. Protect
your body with woolen underclothing
and inhale all the air you can in sunny
days and expose your sin to the influ
ence of the sunny rays. Recovery from
this exhausting malady depends moro
on this or a similar course of treatment
than on medicine. But if drugs are
absolutely needed take them iu small
quantities at regular periods of time.
Do not neglect to rub the skin well with
a flesh brush or coarse towel e ery day.
Content and cheerfulness do much to
ward inducing the same result Prai
rie Farmer.
Five pale and delicate-looking, but
neatly-dressed little boys filled the sanc
tum this morning, ranged themselves
in a row, and the spokesman said :
"Note these pallid cheeks ? Castor oil.
Note these shrunken limbs ? Castor
oil. Note this Jack of abdominal ro
tundity ? Castor oil. Note this unani
mous stunt? Castor oil. We are the
unfortunate sons of a female woman
with a mania for castor oil, with which
she doses us every night, until we can
bear it no longer, and, heing desirous
to break through this unnatural bond
age, we wish you would say a good
word for us in the paper." We prom
ised, and the five tiled mournfully out.
The more you look at this, the more
sad it grows. Xew Haven Register.
The Jersey Board of education re
cently charged a lady teacher, through
the Principal, of incompetency. The
lady teacher put in a counter charge
that the reason the Principal thought
her incompetent was because she
wouldn't let him walk home with her;
Lady teacher retained. xV. Y. Pott.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Cincinnati claims to have taken 1,300
converts into her churches this winter.
There is in New Orleans a colored
sisterhood of the Catholic Church who
are devoting themselves to the education
otj-oung girls of their own race.
The late Deacon Thomas Smith of
Hartford, left over 8400.000 for hi
400,000 for his
!?n nnn to ,a ,:-
f?mily atler Rv'mS 820.000 to the mis-
sionary boards and 10,000 to local
cnanties. Detroit Post.
A young lady recently received into
the First Baptist Church at JJurlington,
Iowa, dated her first religious convic
tions to the reading of Longfellow's
"Psalm of Life." Chicago Journal.
The Brooklyn Board of Education
charges its teachers with using slan
dressing loudly, and showing a lack of
refinement and cleanliness. In short,
" they are totally unfit" to teach Brook
lyn's children.
A sect called the "New Israel" ha?
risen among the Jews of Russia. It
abandons circumcision, abstinence from
certain viands, changes t lie Sabbath from
the soventh to the first day and abolishes
usury. Ar. Y. ImlepemLnt.
A railroad conductor was recently
chosen deacon of a church. When ft
became his duty to take up a collection,
he surprised the congregation bv start
ing out with the characteristic ejacula
tion: "Tickets, gentlemen!" The con
tribution that day was large. Chicago
Herald.
Sands Street Methodist Church is
the oldest of its denomination in Brook
lyn. The rules which were in force in
1815 required that the sexton should
have the church opened and the candles
lighted at least a quarter of an hour be
fore the time of evening meeting. He
was also to see that the candles were
snuffed before the meeting began.
The steady progress of missionary
work in India may be judged of by what
is said by the Rev. James Smith, an
English Baptist missionary of long ex
perience in Delhi. He says that thirty
years ago it was considered encouraging
if anew convert could be reported every
two or three years. Now. at every mis
sion station, they are counted by scores
in each year.
The suggestive and inspiring teacher
is the man who is lxrn to hw work
and who alone should perform it A
patron of a school was once heard
to say: "I wish we could get such
a teacher as we had last year; lie taught
the children hundreds of things they
never thought of before, and my boy
has pestered me with questions ever
since; he will scarcely give me any rost;
he tells me everything he has heard there
and relates to me all the stories in his
reading book and comments upon every
thing. Such a teacher has a value be
yond expression; he remains an inspir
ing influence in his pupils' lives to the
end of them. These teachers may be
found and they are always appreciated
abstractly; it has not been discovered
that they arepaid more liberally than are
the dullards of their profession. N. Y.
Tribune.
PUSGENT PARAGRAPHS.
To-morrow never greets us; to-day
never bids us farewell; yesterday never
recalls us. Whitehall Times.
The hardest rocks are made cf the
softest mud, just as the biggest swells
are made from the smallest men. Low
ell Citizen.
"Lemmy, you're a pig!" said a
father to his son, who was five j'earsold.
"Now, Lemmy. do you know what a pig
is?" "Yes. sir a pig is a hog's little
boy." Meriden Recorder.
Sympathetic lady to beggar, who is
standing with hat 6th "O, sir, won't
you take a cold?" Beggar: "No, thank
you, ma'am; I only takes pennies or five
cent pieces." Philadelphia Sun.
A chap who sent us a poem begin
ning "When twilight dews are falling
fast upon the rosy lea," has since mar.
ried Rosa Lee, and now the weekly dues
are fallinsr faster upon him. FreePre.ts.
The presence of spongilla fluvialilis
in most of the city water in the land is
regarded as a sufficient excuse by many
for the insertion of four tablespooufuls
of spirilus frumenti in a small tumbler
of aqua pura. Norrislown Herald.
New that the fact has been demon
strated that the earth will continue to
revolve on its axis for at least ten mil
lion years more, we would request our
ubscribers to hesitate no longer about
paying up for one year in advance. We
may be sanguine, but we think this op
portunity for displaying faith should not
be neglected. Hackcnsack Republican.
A New York athlete named Donald
son wants to bet tliat he will jump from
the centre of the Brooklyn bridge into
the East River. He is safe enough in
that bet. We'll bet that neither he nor
any other man can jump from the centre
of the Brooklyn bridge and come down
anywhere but in the IJast River. N. Y.
Graphic.
It was an independent looking fel
low who was standing on the railroad
track, apparently paying no attention to
the fact that a train was rapidly ap
proaching. "I say," said the station
master, "you had better get off the track
or you will get run over. "I fancy that
is my own affair if I get run over," was
the reply. "Yes, I reckon so, but who
is goingto attend to taking up the mess
afterwards? It's not me." And. reach
ing out his right foot, he kicked the in
different man fifteen feet and nine inches
by actual measurement. Texas Sif tings.
We have studied with great care an
essay " On the Application of Electro
Puncture to the Treatment of Pulsatile
Exophthalmos of the Orbit," and on the
whole conclude that it is indispensable
for family use. Night after night have
we been kept awake by the "pulsatile ex
ophthalmos" getting on a racket and
knocking its own orbit askew. If we
liad only Iiad an "electro puncture" or
or even a bell punch in the house w
should have been happy. But now
science has stepped in and tilled this long
felt want we are comparatively happy.
New Haven Register.
m
Wealth in the Senate.
The present Senate contains at least a
score of Senators not one of whom if
worth less than $200,000. The richest
man is, of course, Fair of Nevada, wlio
probably possesses as muph as all the
other Senators together. Next to him
is David Davis, of Illinois, a widower,
who is reputed to be the possessor of
millions. It is somewhat difficult to
name the Senator whose fortune ranks
third in size; but if Eugene Hale of
Maine has received the mantle of his
father-in-law, Zach Chandler, with its
well-lined pockets, his fortune is nearly
as large as that of David Davis. Tlie
wife of Senator Hale is the only daugh
ter of the late Senator Zach Chandler.
Other very wealthy Senators are Miller
of California, Mahone of Virginia, and
Sawyer of Wisconsin, known to be worth
more than a million each. Sewell of
New Jersey is a railroad man, and is
very wealthy. Senator John Sherman
of Ohio, it is said, is worth more than
$2,000,000, his property consisting large
h of real estate in Washington. Among
other Senators who write their fortunes
with seven figures are Cameron of Penn
sylvania, Camden and Dgvis of Wesi
Virginia, Brown of Georgfa, and PHlmb
of Kansas. Senators Hill of Colorado,
Gorman of Maryland, McPherson of
New Jersey, andPendleton of Oliio are
all worth more than fSOO.OOO. Many,
other Senators are comfortably fixed,
possessing little hoards of from" $50,000
to $400,000. Among those who have
but little comparatively here below
that is not more than $100,000 apiece are
Morrill of Vermont, Anthony of Rhode
Island, Rollins of New Hampshire, Jones
of Nevada, Saunders of Nebraska, and
Allisoaoflowa. Portland (Me.) Argm.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN GUEE I.
1 ITCTUrS SPAVINS
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KENDALL'S SPAVIN CFEE! -
It has cured thousands of cases aud is destined to cure millions and millions mors
KENDALL'S SPAVIN UEE!
I the only positive rure known, and to show what thi- remedy will do we give here
a : :ii!iph of cast- uredfor it, a statement which vas
GIVEN UNDER OATH.
To Whom it .May Concern. In the
r:u- 1S7". I treate'd with " Kendall's
Si-iin t lire." a hone spavin of several
month.-' growth, nearly Iialf a large as
a ! ns egg, and completely stopped the
laiiit ness and removed the eiil-irgemcnt.
I have worked the horse eer -.itiee very
hard, and lie never ha been lame, nor
could I ever see any dillereiu-e iu the
size of the lioek joint- since I treated
him with "Kendall Spavin Cure."
It A. (iAI.N'KS.
Enosl.urgh ""'alls. Vt. Feb. . T!.
Sworn ami ?ulcriled to before me
this -Joth day of Feb.. a. i. 1S7!.
John O..Ik.nk.
Ju tic of Tcaee
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKE;
ON HUMAN FLESH it has been ascertained hit repealed trt lis to he,
the very best liniment ever used for any dce seated. pain of lona standing
or of short duration. Also for CORN. : IN IONS. FROSf -IlIThS
or any hruise, cut or lameness. Some are afraid to use it on hit nan jlesh
simply became it is a horse medicine, but' you should remembir that what
is good for Ji EAST is aood for M AN,' and ire know from Experience
that "KENDALLS SPAVIN CURE" can be used on a eiid 1 uear
old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human ilesh and it
does not blister or make a sore. Iry it and be convinced.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKE;
Head below of Its wonderful e fleet c
. II KM ATI TK. MlSSOPKI, Alll-t 0, 1SI.
15. !. KK.viiAl.LtV ).. Gknts: I am so oirjovit it; iewi.f the result of an ap
plication of your Kendall Spavin Cure that 1 f.-.f that I omrht for Humanities
sake puoiisti it to the worm. About thirt-live ear- nun while
U"ly horse, I was ininred iu one of mv testlelf-. ami frmiitli.it nm
ago a slow but constant enlargement has been the n-ult. giving me
of trouble, almoM entirely preventing me from horseback rn'Tii.
uyiiai n.ii tn ir;it;un. i saw a notice 01 vour Ivemla.i s pivm i iif'-. neer once
thought of it for anything except for horse's, but atter recou in- he medicine and
reading over what it was good for, feeling terriblj exercised about mv ilillicultc. tor
I had consulted many physicians ami r.iiue gave me an v sp,-,-itic but 'when it could
be endured no longer to remove it with the knite. 1 :ii',.litd ..tir Kendal''. Spavin
Cure as an experiment, and it was so painful in i-s application that I coiiclu.i. .1
not to repeat it and thought no more ale ut it until ncir i week, and lo and bc'-old
one-half the size wa gone, with joy I could scare l b-lie.- it, I immediately ap
plied it orer again, and hac made iu all about '- doeu applications runuiu''ovcr
a space or two weeks and the terrible enlargement U almost gns.-. ir. iew ffwluch
I cannot express my feelings of delight. It has been a God send to me. m:o he
.-cud to others with like troubles, .lon.v Kiei"
1'astcr of Hematite Congregational Church.
i . s. lou are at liberty to put tins
ashamed to have my name under, over or
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE!
Kendal IN Spavin Cure is sure in it- etfeets, mild in its action is it dm- not
blister, xct it is penetrating and powerful to reach -in de -p -itdpuu .r t re
move any bony growth or any other enlargement if ueI for sexci.r. dtjs. mhIi as
spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling. an bim-ncv and all enl u:L'-mriit !'
the joints or limb, or rheumatism in inan .im! tin-any purpo-e for wlinlia liniment
in used for man or beast. It i- now known to be the best liniment for in m ier n. .1
acting mild yet certain in its effects. It is Used in tult strength v. 1th oertect saf. t
at all seasons of the year.
Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its
virtues. No remedy has met witn Mich utiU;lllj d mi.v.ss to our knowledge, for
bcastas well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or iv buttle- for $.".
ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you.
or it will be sent to anv address on receipt ot pi ice. b the proprirtois,
48 Dr." B. J. KENDALL & CO. E-iosburi; Fills Vermont.
WHEN YOU TEAYEL
ALWAYS TAKE THE
B. & M. R. R.
Examine map anil time tables carefully
It will be seen tliat this line connects
with C. l.tt2- K. It.; in fact they
arc under one management,
aud taken together form
what Is' called
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IOWA, WISCONSIN', INDIANA,
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PRINCIPAL ADVANTAGES AUK
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15. .4 Q. K. II. No tranfers; changes
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AT
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CAN UK IIAD
Upon application at any station on the
-oad. Agents are also prepared to check
jaggage through; give all information as
,o rates, routes, time connections, etc .
uid to btciirc sleeping car accomoda
tion. This company i engaged on an exten
tion which will open a
NEW LINE TO DENVER
And all points in olorado. This ev
tcntion will be completed and ready for
Hisincs in a 'few months, and the putt- I
ie can then piiio all the advantages of i
i through lin between Denver and
Chicago, all under one management.
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Gen'I T'k't A'gt,
J3y Omaha, Nkis.
LAND, FARMS,
AND
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE,
AT TIIK
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rale
of Interest.
All wishing to buy Kail Koad Lands
or Improved Farm will And it to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin elsewhere as I
make a specialty of buying and selling
lands on commission' all persons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will tind it to their advantage to leave i
their lands with ni for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales are unsur
passed. I am prepared to make linal
proof for all partie- wishing to get a
patent for their honn-steads.
32TIIenry Cordes. Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
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