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ir -!- - i "iit " s r" - - ifc ? - 1 THE JOUKKAL. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1886. Xttertl at iis Portcflci, Celestas. Safe. CltSI Bitter. , si neesd A GLOVE. Ah. yesterday I found s glow Growa shabby, full of tiny rips. But dear to me because my love - Oaos through It thrust her finger-tips. A jrtoro one would not care to see upon bis arm in publJo street: Tet bore I own there Is for me No relic In the world more sweat. A faint, far scent of lavender Steals from It. as the clover smelt. When through the fields I walked with her Aad plucked the blossoms for ber belt. Faith I but I loved the little hand. That used to wear this tlme-stalncd thing! IU slightest gesture of command Would set my glad heart fluttering. Or If It touched my finger, so. Or smoothed my hair why should I speak Of those old days? It makes, you know. The tears brim over on my cheek. Poor stained, worn-out, lontf-wristed glove! X think It almost understands That reverently and with love I hold it in my trembling bands. And that it is so dear to me. With its old fragrance, far and fatal. Because my mother wore It, she Om earth my love, In heaven my saint. James Berru BenseL A FEABFUL VOYAGE. Old Lady Blown Across North Sea In a Boat. the Elizabeth Mouat, the heroine of the almost miraculous trip of the Colum bine from the ooast of the Shellands to Norway, arrived in Edinburgh lately nd hag been interviewed. She lived on one of the Shetland Isles for sixty yean. She was the daughter of a poor shoemaker. Her first husband was a sailor engaged in the Greenland whale fishery. The last ship on which he was employed was never again heard of after it sailed from port. Her second husband was a fisherman. For thirty years she led the simple life of toilsome industry which is the lot of so many Shet land women, working among stock and with tho peat-gatherers by day and at the famous hosiery in the evenings. She has long been regarded as bearing a charmed life in the district of Scatness, whero she lived. Eighteen years ago lie was accidentally snot in the crown of tho head by a sportsman who had not observed her being in rango of his game. Ten years later, while driving a peat-cart, the pony became restive and she was thrown out. Ono of the wheels crushed her foot, injuring also her hip. She has never been fully well sinco hence her trip to Lerwick to sec a doctor thcro. She was intrusted with forty knitted shawls by her neigh bors to sell. These she returns with, thus keeping her trust sacred. The skipper of tho Columbine, a fishing craft of twenty-one tons, offered her a passage. The Columbine had left Ler wick and the trip should have extend ed to Dunrossness and Fair Isle, to which places it carried the sample mail bag, but the rough weather compelled it to return to Lerwick when it was only twenty-four miles away. Proceeding to sea with the usual complement of throe men, the little vessel had not long been under way before the weather be came boisterous. Elizabeth Mouat was below seasick, and was seated near the foot of the cabin steps. She heard the skipper cry out: The mainsheets arc broken!" Looking up through the open hatchway she saw him run to the fore part of the boat, and the next moment heard another voice cry: "Clear away the boat!" Fearing something alarming hail oc curred, she endeavored to climb up the steps to look out In doing so she fell . JUkfikjOR th&jtofif nuA'bflgHltf SHCClia tag tho steps, to her amazement she discovered the crew had left. She felt no doubt that when the skipper went forward the swinging boom had knocked him overboard, and that with in ten minutes of her fall the two men bad put out in the boat to rescue him. The sad fate of the Captain and the dismay with which the men discovered tho Columbine again under way and fonnd it impossible to overtake her arc already known, as also the exhausted condition in which the men reached land; tho alarm spread as the Colum bine was seen from shore driving sea ward with a solitary invalid woman on board; the starting in pursuit of the steam trawlers Gypsy and the Earl of Zetland, and their return without find iagany traces of the ill-fated craft. The vessel was rolling at tho mercy of tho waves in tho stormy North Sea, and as the well-known outlines of the islands were quickly left behind, the truth of the terrible situation in which she was placed presented itself to the old woman. Being under no sort of control, the helm shitted at every lurch. The waves washed over the deck first from one side and then from the other. Heavy showers of spray were blown down the hatchway. Tho loosened sail flopping with the wind, was gradually being reduced to tatters. The boom was swinging, and the ropes, with the blocks attached, wcro flying danger ously about from the rigging. "I could only maintain a silting pos ture," said tho woman, "by keeping a firm hold of a rope fastened to the roof, and was in danger every moment of be ing thrown violently on the floor. Tho idea of being alono in a little craft on a stormy sea, with darkness of night coming on, horrified me. A feeling of terror came over me and I commenced to scream. Then I became calm, knowing my voice could reach no hu man ear, and then thero came to me the thought of tho impossibility of peo- Ele on snore ever being aware of my ite. This was one Saturday night.1' She then told how the long hours till daylight were passed in tiresome efforts to maintain her sitting position, now with one hand and then with the other holding on to the rope until each be- same benumbed; how a lurch of the vessel overturned the table, and the drawers of the locker slid out with a crash, and for the rest of the night rolled noisily about; how by the light of a match she succeeded in filing her feet upon the heaviest articles on the" floor, and bv burning several other matches tried to restore a little warmth to her fingers. Sunday, as daylight came, she fancied she heard a little church bell ring. She prayed and soon felt calmer. Having tasted nothing since Saturday, she xnade-her first meal on board, which was confined to half a biscuit and a small quantity of milk. The experience of Sunday was much .like that of the previous afternoon. .The storm continued mi abated in Jarr. In the course of the day another heavy lurch brought down the com- .panion ladder. She had not sufficient strength" to replace it, and was thus .practically imprisoned. By standing ea a chest fastened under the laiisr ,she could look out, and every day cast her eyes over the sea in search of land - waffling vessels. Sunday closed ears: and stormy and the prospect of sawaer night of terror was so ever- Sowwringas to inducethat calrBaeta Rrtuefc accompanies despair. Mosia aaarniag she aerain orew upon ner amnty store of biscuit and milk. Snow il an" had given place to rain. Fmd W niece of roue she fastened it to which hnncr from the reef and! i a. convenient Joop in wmen see v m mat one esbsw at a one. a sua her raman seated ana WMsH tint hands get better.- I The Captain's watch hanging on a nail in the cabin had ceased to go at 12 JOMonday. When the lonely woman fancied the day had advanced to about that hour she wound it np. This she did daily until her release, when, as she somewhat triumphantly said, the watch was found to be not bo far wrong. Tho presence of the watch, too, was a source of quiet comfort. Searching around the cabin during the moments when the lurching ceased, she found a stout sailor's jacket, which she put on above her shawl. Thus a 6ufEcientdcgrec of heat was maintained in her body to prevent any serious shivering, which in the night might have been very dangerous. Monday night, like the two which had preceded it, closed dark and cheer less. Tuesday morning brought no improvement in the weather. Tho snmn. ecnntv mf!i1 was ntrain nnrtiilrnn. Toward the afternoon the weather mod- erated, and it was possible to sit with out holding tho rope. The cold in her extremities was the chief cause of the old woman's suffering. Wednesday tho sun was shining brightly, and continued so all day. There was in this a glim mer of comfort, and the poor, lonely creature sat down to her last meal on board with the last half of her biscuit and' drinking from a bottle of milk. She then climbed upon the box and looked out. It was midday, and the bow was directed toward the sun. Looking behind, to her momentary delight she saw land which she knew by the sun to lay northward, and that the course of the vessel was for tho time southerly. She described tho land as a range of low hills with much high er snow-covered hills in tho distance. The course of the vessel soon left them far behind. By Thursday morning the craft had lost every rag of sail ana was drifting stern foremost. More cheer less hours passed. Early Friday morn ing the wind sprung up. The sea was violent, and hunger and horror again oppressed the old woman. Her thirst increased and she eagerly licked drops from the cabin windows. Through Saturday the storm continued, but after midnight, then one hundred and sixty eight hours having passed, she felt the first indication that either help or destruction was at hand. The vessel began to strike violently on some submerged rocks, and with the rise and fall of the sea sho found a bed now on one inclination and then on an other. The timbers began to break and strain, and as the vessel struck rock after rock the noises produced by the bumping, the shifting of tho furniture, and oscillation of the mast which now began to givo way were to the prison er most terror-striking. When Sunday morning broko, weak and exhausted as sho was from starva tion and exposure, and notwithstand ing that the vessel was still rolling among the rocks, Elizabeth Mouat con trived to raise hcrsclt once more upon the box and to look out. Hero at last was land. Tho vessel was still beating along stern foremost. At about eight o'clock the Columbine ran upon a shingly beach, leaned over to one side, and remained fast, tho mast in the same minute going over into the sea with a lond crash. As the vessel leaned tow ard shore the water in the hold made its way into the cabin and soon rose to a foot. The place where the Columbine came to land after its erratic vovage across the North Sea was the little island of Lcpsoe, on the coast of Norway, twelve miles north of the fishing town of Aalesund. This island is four miles long and two broad, consisting mainly of one huge rock one thousand six hundred feet high with, at several places, narrow seaboard bowlders. Where the Columbine stranded there is only a very short stretch of shingly beach, and had the vessel struck a few fathoms either to the east or west of the identical spot on which It now lies it would only have been dashed to pieces against the precipitous rocks Elizabeth Mouat would have been killed. The solitary passenger was now eagerly looking out from the hatchway, which stood breast high to her from her footing on the box beneath. She was able to see 3'oung lads who had for some time been watching the smack. She waved her arms and raised her voice to its highest pitch. As the poor woman screamed for help the lads shouted in return. Sev eral ran off to the nearest hamlet, called Farstad, for assistance. A num ber of fishermen arrived, but as the vessel was distant from the beach six hundred yards and was in a heavy surf it was evidently going to be a work of considerable difficulty to get on board. One fisherman with a rope around his waist walked into the sea, but was sev eral times beaten back. At length, getting hold of a part of a sail and a rope hanging from the bow he climbed on board and was soon afterward fol lowed by a companion. Meantime Elizabeth had by a desperate effort climbed out on the deck, where she had never been since she had crone on board, and the men found her sitting almost helpless. Their language was unknown to her, but they soon gathered that tho helpless woman was the only living creature on board. By means of a rope from shore and with the assist ance of the recurring waves, the vessel was pulled as far up on the beach as practicable and made fast. Still, however, tho distance between the vessel and the land w:is great. Tho fishermen put a rope around the woman's waist and threw it to land. They next lifted her over the bow and gave her hold of the rope bj which tho vessel had been drawn toward the shore, and which was there held taut by willing hands. Suspended in mid air, this much tried woman of sixty years actually scrambled hand over hand for a distance of several yards until relieved byCaro men from the shore, who, standing up to their mid dle in the water, caught her in their arms. She was carried ashore nearly dead with terror and exhaustion. The people gave her food and rest. She gained strength rapidly and was taken soon to the mainland, and thenco by steamer to HulL Thence hither by rail. Here she found a telegram awaiting her from the manager of the Royal Aquarium in London offering to pay her 10 a week and expenses to come to the aquarium. All she would have to do would be to receive visitors The' proposal was at once declined. Chicago Tribune. American Millionaires. A well-known NewTork broker gives the following as nearly the true wealth of a number of capitalists: J. J. Astor, 125,000.000; Jay Gould. $100,000,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $80,000,000; W. K. Vanderbilt, $75,000,000; Russell Sage, $50,000,000; C. P. Huntington, $25,000,000; "Winslow, LanieT & Co., $20,000,000; D. O. Mills. $15,000,000: Kerpont Morgan, $15,000,000; Robert Garrett. $15,000,000; Armour, $15,000, 00; Fred Vanderbilt. $12,000,000; Sidney Billon, $10,000,000; JVoeris hoffer, $10,000,000; J. B. Hoxie, $8,000. 000; .Addison Cammack, $5,000,000; John Rockefeller, $5,000,000; H. Boeka feller, $5,000,000; Alexander Mitchell, $5,000,000; Cyras W. Field, $4,000,000; & V. White, $8,000,000; W.R. Travers, 8,000.000; R.P. Flower. $8,000,000; John Shaw, $2,500,000; W. E. Connor, 2,000,000; Slarback, $1,500,000; Gen eral Dodge. $1,500,000; Victor Now oamb, $1,000,000: aad Sam Sloan. $1,000,000 Town Topics. Next to a dead elephant, the most creature mau this worm u eKchod locomotive LONGEVITY. Conditions Favorable to the Enjoyment f a Long and Ilealthy life. Statistics arc strange things; we can not very well refuse to believe them, but certainly one's reason hesitates some times to accept the facts and figures they present. For instance, when we read ancient history, or even modern history up to three hundred years ago, wo are not quite prepared to believe tho statis tician to be correct, when he says that tho average of human life is greater now than it ever was. It would seem to us that civilization with its consequent lux ury and indolence, its improved in ability to acquire facilities for pleasure, and its enervating effects, would rather shorten than prolong lifo, but figures, which thev sav "never lie," tell us dif- . fcrently. The ancients certainly knew little of physic, and so far as can be learned, diseases wero by no means so numerous among them as among us. It may be that their physicians were more skillful. It is told of Esculapius, that ho was so successful in healing tho sick that Pluto complained to Jupiter that because of it bis kingdom, hades, was not so populous as.it should be, and Jupiter made Esculapius sign a contract to play into Pluto's hand. Eho contract was perpetual and binding on all physicians thereafter. Physic was unknown in Ronio for six hundred years. It was then tested as to its vir tues. It was condemned and banished from the city at the suggestion of Cato, the censor, who declared that ho had lived eighty-five years without it, and had never had it in his family; therefore it was not wise nor necessary for people I to take medicme, nor to have medical attendance. And as his motion was carried, it looks as though ho voiced the sentiments of tho majority. Accepting the statistician's figures, let us see what effect civilization has had in prolonging lifo. Tho avcrago of human life ten years ago was 33 years. In ancient Rome, from two hundred to five hundred years before tho birth of Christ, tho avcrago dnratlon among tho wealthy classes was 30 years. In this century the avcrago of tho same class of people is 50 years. In tho sixteenth century it was, I think, about 21.21 years. Between 1814 and 18S3 it was 40. C8, and as many people now livo to 70 years old, as lived to bo 48 years of ago three hundred years ago. In 1C93 the British government bor rowed nionoy by selling annuities on lives from infancy upward, oa tho basis of tho average longevity. Tho treasury received the price, and paid tho annu ities as long as the person lived, and the contract was satisfactory to all con cerned, and also profitable. In 1790 Mr. Pitt used another scale of annuities, on tho expectation of life as the previous century, but it proved at that time to bo a costly loan for the government, for the annuitants lived longer than their prede cessors had lived. It was then investi gated and ascertained that while 10, 000 of each sex in tho first tontino (1693) died under the ago of 28, only 5,772 males and 6,416 females died at that ago when the second tontino, or scalo of an nuities, was made. Tho avcrago length of life among the annuitants of 1693 w:is 25.5 years, and thoso of 1790 almost 84 years. That is, in each case, the party lived to bo over 30 years of age. Now, as said above, tho aver age is 83 years. One-fourth of the pop ulation die. at or before the average of 7 years. Among 10,000 persons 1 lives to bo 100, 20 live to be 90 and 1 in 100 lives to be 60. Of course professions cxerolso a groat Influence on longevity, and the rich live longer than tho poor. Tho births exceed the deaths by about sixteen or seventeen per minute. Thonmnber of fe male births is four percent, greater than the male births, and at tho age of twen- tv thero arc more females than males. At. fnrrv. hoiwrnr. thn nrorwarr- - - on U" " n twloa while at seven ty the number is supposed to bo about even, but betweon seventy and one hun dred tho excess of women over men is fully five per cent., which shows that after forty the probabilities of longevity aro greater for women than for men. We read of cases of longevity, and can neither disprovo nor prove them, since, until 1538, no registers wore kept wherein such things wcro recorded. In 1612 the Countess of Desmond lived to lw one hundred and forty-five. In 1635 Thomas Parr lived to bo ono hundred and fifty-two, and In 1648 Thomas Damme died at ono hundred ami fifty four. In 1670 Henry Jenkins lived to one hundred and sixty-nine, while Peter Norton died in 1741 at tho ripo age of one hundred and eighty-five years. Tho list of authenticated cases of longevity shows plainly that something in the habits of the people of Ireland and En gland, together, with the climate, induco to long life. There is no doubt but life in manv iorms and manifestations. is claimed Dysonie, in panded in vigor, intensity hut onlyrrpndcr fa and influencas. To stances and conditions amid which life or form of life is placed, into har mony with the law appointed for its be ing, is still left for scientists and work ers in the cause to do. I have no doubt but for every ill there is a remedy, for every disease a cure. It may not be for tho nineteenth century to discover the remedy and cure, nor yet for the twentieth, anil in tho meantime new diseases, or diseases unknown to med tcal science at least, are presenting themselves for the torment and anni hilation of mankind, but somewhere the remedies remain to bo discovered and used. Science will yet teach us the "favorable conditions whereby life may be pleasantly prolonged. Norwich Ga zette. CONCERNING SPELLS. IIow They Are Related to the Magic ot Wontern Kurope. In regard to the magic of Western Europe, since the establishment of Christianity, some 'singular evidence has been forthcoming from, the discov eries made on the sites of ancient Nine veh and Babylon by Sir Henry Layard and other explorers, followed by the in vestigations of scholars of tho present day based on these discoveries. A whole literature has been disentombed, and its contents have been partially deciphered. This literature consists of tablets .of of clay, written on in a cunei form character, and is mado np of treatises on theology, magic, astronomy, agriculture and niathemathics, most of it upward of three thousand years old. The magical treatises consist of noth ing but litanies, indicating the vites used for the expulsion of the evil de mons, and for salvation-from their pp- erations. The descriptions given of these evil demons show clearly that they wero what-we nowadays term diseases such as fever, plague, leprosy, and what not, as also poisons. Diseases wero looked upon by the writers of these tab lets, as fffcy are to this day by uncivi lized people, as evil spirits which took possession of their victims, and it was imagined that by tho utterance of prop er words, and by using suitablo rites, they could be expelled, or prevented from causing mischief, or that good spirits could be brought to operate against them. Ancient Magic The New Orleans Times-Democrat. in reply. to the statement that the city has lost most of the cotton trade, shows that New Orleans still exports thirty eight per cent of all the cotton laavi&g tMonntry. DHhws nsitJ arjrcarDc cxpmiL ia ...: .aaa an iiiniuuuaM brassF the ciMbbbbfI FOREIGN GOSSIP. The King and Queen of Sweden have joined tho Blue Ribbon army. In China the flesh of rats, dried and salted, is deemed an excellent hair-restorer. European papers remark upon the good imitation of celluloid now manu factured from potatoes. Londoners are puzzled by tho fact that their fogs have lately been of a E'inkish hue, the causo of which is un-nown. It is thought that a dozen shots from tho new German bomb, charged with rk nv itvmnn rw-ivvtn nnaFimn ttrN dynamite shells, would destroy tho strongest fortifications in the world. i Dr. G. L. Fitch, who has boon for five years in charge of tho Kakasko leper hospital in Honolulu, thinks that . in fifteen years there will bo only enough natives left to mako curiosities. Liquor and leprosy are killing them off. j An old corset of Charlotte Bronto ! was sold tho other day for 8s. For a ; pair of scissors sho had once handled 10s. was accepted, a print dress, rather , worn, fetched 15s., and an ancient pair of boots was thought cheap at 25s. Worth, the man-milliner, has a great disliko for perfumes. His em- j ploycs are prohibited from using scents, . or even wearing flowers. Whenever a '. lady sends him her costly laces, odorous xrom long connnement in penumed satchels, the first thing ho does is to havo them thoroughly aired, otherwise he could not touch them. A sailor returned from Anam and Tonquin is feted bv his frionds, to whom he recounts his advonturcs. "Did you f see tho KingJ of Anam? " inquired one of his admiring friends. "No, and it is very lucky for mo that I didn't; for, according to tho law of that country, the first time a person looks on tho King ho is beheaded; for the second offense ho is banished." Paris Figaro. In Germany recently was hold the "Cooper's Festival," which occurs in Munich every seven years. Thoso who took part in tho Cooper's Dance wore green skull-caps with bluo and white feathers. silver-bordered crimson jackets, black velvet knee-breeches, white stockings and shoes with silver buckles. Each dancer held above his head a half hoop of evergreens, from which hung a small keg. Colonel Prcjcvalsky's facts throw Jules Verne's fancies into tho shade. This famous Russian traveler has fought his way through Mongolia and Thibet with a party of seventeen soldiers and a host of othor attendants, spent forty three thousand roubles, killed four hun dred peoplo who barred his way, given a number of Russian names to places nominally in tho dominion of China, and shown tho portrait of tho White Czar to enraptured crowds of Mon golians longing to be taken under his protection. An interestingdiscovery is reported from Faversham, Kent, England. In tho course of sonio excavations for brick earth in King's Field, near that town, a collection of old coins and other valu able relics was discovered. Among tho articles are two large gold pendants, one of which is set with garnets, a buckle set with stones, a quantity of beads, quartz, a ring and a sword. Similar discoveries have boon made in the same field on previous occasions during excavations. THE PEARL OF SAVOY. Queen Margarita of Italy the nest-Dressed Woman in the World. American women visit Europe for a variety of purposes. Sonio go for tho sake of displaying their clothing and jewelry; others for tho purpose of secur ing rich and titled husbands, and others to spend money. A few go abroad for the purpose of studying art and music, and a still smaller number to learn L-snorti;fy it u. people oi xoreign countries. Ono American woman of wealth and fashion, it appears, by tho foreign papers, left our shores some two years ago for the purpose of discovering who was tho bcstAlressed woman in all Europo. She visited London, Edin burgh, Pans, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva and St Petersburg, and mingled in the best society in thoso cities. Sho attended weddings, operas and balls, and numer ous slate receptions. Sho professes to havo seen all tho reigning Queens, Princesses and "professional beauties" m Europe. She was not charmed with the dress of any of tho women she saw. She concluded the long journey had been mado in vain. So she went to Rome, as many people have done who wero tho victims of disappointment. There she unexpect edly discovered what she had been look ing for in vain. She found the best dressed women of Europe, and she be liovcs tho best dressed woman of all the world. This woman who has mastered the art of dressing properly and well on all occasions is Margharita, wife of ing Humbert of Italy. She thinks it not strange that her subjects delicht in calling her "The Pearl of Savov." Her dresses aro always becoming, al ways olegant, always beautiful, but never very costly. Receiving visitors at tho royal palaco, attending opera, on her way to church, or visiting the sick in charity hospitals, her dresses are always becoming the place and the occasion. Still the investigator de clares that the Queen docs not spend as much on dresses as many a rich woman in this country or England docs. Jf the wife of King Humbert has dis covered the art of dressing well at a very small expense, it is to the credit of a woman of our country that sho has mado the fact known to tho world. Possibly, however, there may be some mistake about it. Queen Margharita is a very beautiful woman. Sho had great beau ty as a child, and she has never grown out of it. Quito likely her beauty height ens the appearance of her dress, as licr dress does her personal loveliness. She is probably ono of thoso women "who look well in anything." That sho is very sensible ami lovely, as well as a most beautiful woman, is the unanimous "opinion of her subjects. Some state that the beauty of her face is but the outward expression to her 6oul. Whon but six teen, and about to be married to the heir of tho throne of Italy, she expressed the wish that all her bridal garments oe niauo oy Julian mooisiesirom mater ials produced on Italian soil. Though sho married a Prince, he was a poor man, for his incomo was not large, and, as King, he voluntarily undertook to pay all his father's debts by installments. To do this required many years, during all of which time his wife spent very little money on dressmakers and milliners. It is stated by some that tho dresses of the Queen of Italy are to be the models for the fashions. If this is the case, Italian lace and dress goods will bo in demand. It is to be hoped that if the women of this country adopt the style of dresses worn by Queen Alarghama, they will copy her sweetness of man ner, her habits of economy, and her Sractice of caring for the sick and estitute. They will also do well to re member that she affords evidence of the truth of the' old maxim "Handsome is that handsome does." Cor. Chicago Times. Dr. W. S. Webb, of New York, and Hs brother-in-law, who was sufficiently fortunate to marry -a Vanderbilt, have purchased m the town of Shelburne, Vt, somo. one thousand and five hun dred acres of land, and propose to make it the second garden of Eden. All this property lies on the cast shore of Lake Champlain, and no pains or expense will be spared in making it a second Long Branch. The grounds are most pleas antly located and some of the finest oa th laka show.-: N. Y. Tribune. J At Breakfast, Fortress Monroe. To an angel, or even to that approach to an angel in this world, a person who has satisfied his appetite, the spectacle of a crowd of people feeding together in a largo room must bo a little humiliat ing. The fact is that no animal ap pears at its best in this necessary occu pation. Hut a hotol breakfast-room is not without interest. The very way in which iK-ople cuter the room is a revela tion of character. Mr. King, who was nut in good humor bv falling on his Feet. ait were, in such agreeable com- ,.i i,;.,w..ir h. c.!,.;nn. !. i guests ns they entered. Thero" was tho iiuui. ttuiujvjii aiiiiui.li u m ftiki iii" kiiu --..- . portly, florid man, who "swelled" in. patronizing tho entire room, followed V '.... bv h niiHik I it tin wile an ul three timid children. There was tho broad, dowa- gcr woman, precoded by a meek, shrink ing littlo man, whoso wholo anpearanco was an apology. Tin-re was a modest young couple who looked exceedingly sell-conscious r.nd hnppy. and another couple, not quite so young, who wero not conscious of anybody.' tho gentle man giving a curt order to the waiter, and falling at once to reading a news paper, while his wife took a listless at- iiiuue, wuicii seemod io nave oecoino second nature. There wore two very ! tall, very graceful, very high-bred girls ' in semi-mourning, accompanied by a ' nice lad in tight clothes, a model' of propriety and slender physical resources. nrlirk fwirffutfltr riiflnoroH thn nrrirtnn nl. ""7 i,.v. mi. " vaiion oi uis sisiere. aulto was a pre- : ponderauco of women, as is apt to bo ! tho case m such resorts. A tact oxpll- nnhln not on tn Hinorv that wnnu-n arn more delicate than mou, but that Amer . . ... j ----- ---- ican men are (oo busy to take this sort of relaxation, and that tho care of an establishment, with thn dumands of so ciety and the worry ..' .m rants, so draw upon the nervous on-ry of women that they are glad to escape occasionally to tho irresponsibility of hotel life. Mr. King noticed that many of tho women had tho unmistakable air of familiarity with this sort of lifo, both in tho dining room and at the ollice, and were not nearly so timid as some of the mou. And this was very obscrvablo in tho case of tho girls, who wero chaperon ing their mother, shrinking women who seemed a littlo confused by the bustle, and a little awed by the machin ery of tho great caravansary. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine for April. Parents and Children. There arc pareutn who manifest thoir lovo for children by gratifying every wish and abjuring all authoritf. They aro surprised in time that their children neither heed nor respect them. The fault is llu'ir own. The very tact that they exercise no controlling inilueuco led to a fooling of contempt. There was no authority to reripeot, and no qualities that especially commanded conlidencc. A linn kind heart i.s felt and appreciat ed by children. They aro keen readers of human nature ami know when they are lirruiy or weakly governed. Such commands as are givun should bo so manifcatly just as to nave tho approval of their judgments. They know when they are wrongly punished and undor stand when h-tr-di rebukes arc the mcro outgrowth of the parent's irritation and not of the chilli's wronir. Confidence ... anil I.svo can bo inspired by sympathe tic iirm::ess better than by mere indul gence. A father said once to his son, who deserved punishment: "My son if it will better impress you with tho wrong you have done, I will expose my self to the punishment that belongs to you." Tho lad felt the rebuk and bog- fed to be punished and reformed. 'hiladeli-hia Call. m Dickens Affront to tho Secretary. Charles Dickens, when ho first visited tho United States, in 1842, was received with prodigal attentions. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore vied ith o..k Ur in jdiowcrinsr adulation. upon him, and tho doors of lhe moet aristocratic mansions opened wide to rocoive him. Plays wero written and perfonucd in which ho and his most prominent characters wcro personated true to nature Ho was overwhelmed with invitations to balls, dinners and receptions, ami tho highest social hon ors were showered on Tiiiu, which he re ceived like a conceited coxcomb, and repaid by writing a slanderous account of his tour. When in Washington he hold a daily levee at his hotel, and the Secretary of War, calling to pay his re spects, heard him say, while waiting in tho ante-room: "My hour for receiving is past" That night, at a reception at tho White House, he told his friend, j Christopher Hughes, to inform tho Se-, crctarv that ho was then willing to introslpcd to him. "Tell him my hoi lor rsjpiving luni is past, was Spencofc reply. Den: Pcrlcg Poon Jjoston wiuuicL I xui ' ' J& No Clmcc for tlio Prooidcnojf "MamnW said a little Fifth Ward boy lugubrsmutly the other day, as ho laid iiown"fR volume of biographical sketches of tEjjuPresidents, "I don't bc lievo I'll evcrfc a President I ain't got tho right." ehanm I '4fbsn't brung up "Why. child havo tho samo chance that other ttle boyshavc." "No, 1 ain't; ntborn m a log cabin, nor 1 ain' ve a team on tho canal, nor had to tho spellin' book by the light of a pi it, nor had to split rails nor nothin ! the rest of 5. 1 toll you, on this Presi- tho boys who got mother, 1 m liandicn dential business."' From tho stress 1 0 hardships endured by 501110 of the idents when boys, it is not strange iu juvenile mind sholld draw euch Elmira (fazctle. uction. Kespect the Ajje We never see an ngcu man dtwoman without feeling a sympathy and 'respect How sad to hear tho thoughfipfa re mark in speaking of ngod porsoriyVthe old man" or tho "old woman." wbat disrespect to an aged father or mnalr. Some da not seem to care, in spca of thMlged. They evidently tliinlc not jScntial to treat them with th resaWthcy do the yonnger portion magphd. It docs not take a very keen; observer to seo this truth, for wo havo ' instances every day. It 'matters not how useful their lives havo been, in bringing up families, making every sacrifice for thoir children's advantage; placing them in a position of honor in tne world. 1 hough young now, wo shall soon bo old, if permitted to live, in which case we shall feel tho need of respect and kindness, that wo fail to five others. Old ago falls to every uman being, unless they die prema turely. Then may we remember that fathor and mother who has watched with unceasing care over our infancy and childhood without a murmur, but with the paternal love that never fails, and let us ever bear with them patiently and tenderly, with duo respect to tho aged. Fireside Journal. m m Good Words. The grandest of all empires is to role one's self. There are few grand who aro not also calm. If you hear that others hare spoken ill of yon, consider if yon havo not done the same about many people. How much better to heal an in jury than to avenge it! Guard vigorously that social tie which binds man toman, and establishes the rights common to the human race. Life is a pilgrimage, a warfare, and those who climb np and down steep paths and go through dan gerous enterprises) are the brave men and the leaders in camp. To rest basely at the cost of others' labors is to W a coward, Ufa because demised. nrkf 01 imTOBBBHl IhaU uw Health Hints. Milk contains all that is required by tho body, and tho proportion of miner al matters, is less irritating than other foods and better digested. Everyono should keep a bottle ready of equal parts of strong lime-water and sweet oil shaken together to tno on burns and scalds, or for chapped hands. Frozen orange aro regarded as the causo of some recent sickner at Palatka, Fla. Tho Hcrnli of that place says tho ; Pn VtLL" dnTOO lDl "" . orange by tho frost ! An experienced vocalist has. it is said. during fourteen years cured any number OI cases of obstinate cough by presenb- 1Do tno Irco usc ot oysters as a diet. The remedy is oasily tried. Distrcsstn&palpitatinn.says tho Medi cal Worldi&uis gcncralljr-be rclioved.br bending LI if' l-Jfl J 'afc.T, oie, ino nvatpvaown bands ging so m ayproaw congeal oi ino un 71 . T . V of! body. Cu sciatifea tag place in appi on of Vr. . freezing the skin above the pairf with spray of chloride of inothvl. The oporatioa'is said-to bo applicable also Js facial ataralgiatA. J. Sun. r.- According to' v - . . . ..' mZtiy lrvt. A1.A AmL .- 1?nmll. aAtAi lli nMitrt. fmnAidt vy" iuiiu, .u tiuu- , ture m woii.VontiI.-tted nSfccs Is as f& nroiK i . necs .is as I lOWS Nurseries, asylums and sch by degrees; worKsnous, oarracKs a prisons.59 degrees; Hospitals 6lo 64 j fc ln .oHJnga'ja jhis country3r ! v t .. . .?. 5. .- .. . .'C-. j Uas Doen ino custom io aeon uie . iomv peratyro at Journal. 65 to 70 degrees. Chicago Doctors say that women should bo cautious how they call to offer sympathy to neighbors having sick children. Wo men's clothing offers inducements to fugitivo bacteria, and several instances have been recorded lately in which con tagions diseases aro known to have been brought about by germs carried into the household in the folds of-heavy woollen fabrics. ,P(v In a study upon tho nature of hypno tics, M. Dujardin Beaumetz concludes that opium and its alkaloids do not pro duce a condition of sleep. They stupefy tho faculties and induco torjor, but the brain still remains in a condition oi tonio excitement Chloral will bring about true sleep, but in large dojo it has a dangerous action on the hoart, and its Ingestion often gives riso to gas tric disordors. The Sanitarian gives somo sensible advice about tho teeth. It eays: Tooth brushes should always bo soft and rare ly used more than once daily, before breakfast which is auito often onouch to remove ine insoiuoio parucics or iooa i . . i i , ... . . " . I a ... -. . wbicn collect at tno margin o: tne teeth. Use the soft brush with water only, or at most, with nothing else but pure soap in addition. Soap is not only more cleansing than anything elso, but it leaves a sweeter ana pleasanter taste, and is nover followed by injurious ef fects. A writer ln tho People's Health Journal tells of a debilitated patient who did not do at all well on beef tea, but' was easily restored to health on a diet of bean soup. The only remarkable thing about this is that the patient over ex ported to derivo strength and nourish ment from beef tea alone. Considering that we have upwards of a hundred ( thousand doctors, and that a very large Iiroporuon of them aro fully agrocd that eef tea is almost valueless, except as a stimulant; it is surprising that people continue to look upon it as a food. Pork is good for nervous people, but is not easily digested. Wild game is excellent. Fish is good for nervous peo ple. Eggs boiled iust enough to harden tho white aro easily digested. It is a mistako about peoplo eating too much. Tho majority do not oat enough. Nerv ous dyspepsia comes from working too hard and not eating onough. When a man begins to suffer from overwork he ciUuuiu mi uicutjr or uud bread and butter, drink two quarts of milk a day. and eat plenty of good moat. When such a person resorts to a vegetable diet ho grows weaker and loses bisnerv power. Children's Feet and Small snoea. Too much cannot bo said against the cruelty of foroing children's feet into short and narrow-toed shoes. A man in a largo and fashionable shoe store said that lie sometimes used all his strength, that of a developed man, to forco large foot into small shoes, for Kown folks, but when ho was requested mothers to put shoes too small on children, he objected. Many children. before tbey are ten vcars old, have in cipient corns, bunions and callouses, caused bv the foolish pride or careless ness on tno part of tho mothers. Many do not know that if a child's foot is allow ed to develop naturally, that when fully developed, it can wear with ease a much smaller shoe than whon crowded back and forced ont of shapo while growing so fast Tho foot is one of the parts of the body that completes its growth early. Tho size of the feet of a Sowing boy are sometimes noticeably rge; when tho rest of the body has finished its growth tho feet are propor tionate. If a growing foot Is crowded Into short shoes, the toes are pushed back and become thick at the ends. They are pressed np against the top oi tho shoo and corns are made. They aro enlarged at the great and little too Joints, causing bunions, which are more painful than corns. Narrow-toed shoes cause lapping of the toes, callouses, and corns, especially on the side of the large too and under the widest part of the foot; ingrowing toe-nails are also pro duced. Corns cannot be cured 00 long as pressure is on them. This mast first be removed. A man who suffered tor ribly with corns, said he would do any thing to cure them. His friend said, you aro going up Into- the -Mountains- barefooted this summer." He did , and his feet were entirely cured. Anothor cut the tops of the shoes away, leaving the soles and tho leather back of the toe-joints and toes. Pauline Ade line Hardy, in Good Housekeeping. A Wise Captain. A Nantucket steamboat captain was once asked br a nnmenrrer on his boat -yhow much ardent spirits no used. He replied, "I never drank a tea 'spoonful of rum. brandy, gin. cider, Vwino or beer; I never Miio'ked or snuffed, and never drank tea or coffee." "But," said tho passenger, "what do you drink with your breakfast?" "fVllfi orator" was fVin .neva. "And what with your dinnerP "Cold water." ; "Well," said tho passenger, "but what ;do you tako when you are sick?" '"I nover was nek in my life," was the ready and glad reply. He was a wise captain. He was ac customed to exposure in all sorts ef bad weather? wind and. storm, and never be lieved in the foolish notion that ho must take a drop of spirits to "keep ont the cold." Cold water was the drink of Adam In -Paradise. Cold water was the drink of the children of Israel in the wilderness. It was also tho drink of Samson, and of Daniel, and of John tho Baptist It is the best driak foryoo. LUtU Amm , Justice Chitty, of London, was recent ly trying a caso when a largo piece of plaster fell from the ceiling upon the canopy under which he was sitting. "Fiat jnstitia, mat ccclom," he ex claimed, and went on with the trial. It k said that ont of 15,000 elgar makets ia New Tork dry, only 900 are skilled aaad workers, the rest naaawMs. The ajftMed CJ lafasior. .22sssVaflsV t. - - k. f rcR aver rpportfil as-sv-ris afuSa single talfh Tri vi; inino oi fePParta a Mi boon cror bokwid upon man Is pcrfeeT ht-nltb, Ptid Hio true wav to InMralth tt to I'urlfr jour L!oodwlih jiarllla. ..Ir. Eliza A'Qloos toil St.7T.OTiMl. M&M.. HTi-iiiicr ami prmsr mr lamur. incimitng Jr niysclf, uvs notora! bottle of Aycr'i Sar- . - t . .P .... w saparllia. Kxpcrlruce !u convinced mo that, as -4 inm-crful Blood I'tiriiler. It Ls Tcry much sultrier to atiy other preparation of SanapariiLi. Ail persons of wrongous orconmmptife trii- ..d.-ni-lo. and especially delicate children. ' nr: sure to be greatly benetllrd by Iw u vr." J. V. Starr, Laccnia, Iowa, wrlto. : ' For years I was troubled wi:h "crurii loui corapInluU. I tried several tlifTVrrnt pr-'parsMnn, which did mo Hule, If -hit. jcwmI. Tto tattles of Aver rerta- Sar!.a-J irltjU myV rills tCrctrtl a complete cur opInliirtrTinr; this incdiclou i.r.HKisr . JA' 1 Purhier m. s av 1 of the Iay." C. E. Upton. Xailiua. N. 1!., writes: "For a number of tfar I was troubled with a humor in my ore, and limbic to obtain relief until I cm iiiencrtl uthijr Ayer's Sarapari!Ia. 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