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- -u r -v - VS, - ' " "- v"r"b V-e - -. -tf J--V- "K J- - ', . s. - -?ijr r, .-7-- '"- v 5 e-w ..v-" V tetssr'-.- - i'W, Lir r (Mumlras v i r J-. h f ' Ift . &; . - 'MT. STewf -wwnp j mm 4 - W A COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1889. WHOLE NO. 983. VOL. XLX.-NO. 47. 35V. " V "- Jfc'-J5-"- -r' ,fc Imtmsu, S? BSfe i . a i I . . :t - a V5C- COLUMBUS STATE BAM. . COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Cifital - $100,000. DIBECTORB: UUXDER QES&ARD, Pres't. GEO. W. HULOT. Vice Pree'L JULIUS A. BEED. B. H. HENBY. J. E. TASKEB, Cashier. f Ptpirit. uMscwuunt CaUactlema II Patau. snstlw saavele mm sy laterest TIann Its. 274 mUDHIM -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, : $60,000. OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON. Pwel. H. P. H. OULBICH, Vice Pree. C. A. NEWMAN. Cssbier. DANIEL SCHBAM, Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: jonas welch, h;p.h.oehlbi SSMB HvWINSLOW frl wlaALUCT.' ABNOLDOEHLBJCH. WT A. MoALLISTEB. V. n. musuww. 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It cosu yon aotUc to trtel. aad tt will core yon. Address H.QlaWOt.M.0. lttlr,.TM HENBY G-ASS. trNrDERTAJKER ! 4tffII! AID MET ALUC CASES lof'mUkUdMof Upkol- nnBBnBBBBBBnaBBBapBBsL& I CURE FITS! insaam. -wHHt wrr.v.ufcr TATIJ3I aV , taa V aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBW TBBB clmY Bbmj j'BaP iTXilL THE DAUGHTER. HrltttledasxMerrrowsi Bar does re bow ejaw oat or owe; It seen that I must take their place. We lure become such friends of lata. We night be ministers of state. DiacosalBg pro jests of great peril. Bach strange new qoesttonlngs dflate Tbe beauty of my Utile gwL How tall sbe grows! What subtle grace Doth every movement asteate; With garments gathered for tbe race She stands, a gu J to sMm anil straight, Young Artemis, when she was eight Among the myrtle bloom aad laurel I doubt it she coaU more than mate Tbe beauty of my Mttle girt. Tbe baby passes from her face, Leaving the lines more delicate, TiD hi her features I can trace nor mother's emtio, srrmc. enlsto. Tht somethmg at the bands of fate To watch the onward yean unfurl Each line which goes to The beauty of my little gni. Lord! bear me, asm prayer I wait Tbou givestall; guard Than my pearl; And. when Thou countest aft the Gate Thy Jewels, count my little girL C3uunbers JoumaL A NIGnrS LODGING It is no disgraco for a prospector to be pxr, to have no bed except the blanket on Ilia back, no friendly boarding house where his credit is cood. no fortune favored comrade to lend him a helping hand and $5. It carries no suggestion of dissipation, wild oats, or extravagance, and implies nothing worse than a run of bad luck. Sol may say without shame Uiat in the fall of '80 1 was broke Sta tistics show that one out of every 750 prospectors strike "it." I occupied a prominent position among the 749. Like many a better man, my claims had panned out badly, and my assays never climbed above two figures. I had pur sued the silver ignis fatuus all over tbe Red Cliff district unl my shoes were dropping off, and acquired nothing ex cept a stone bruise on each heel. Any one who lias ever food by a gambling table recollects the man who tirst loses a quarter, more in jest than anything else; then a dollar, then fliuJics and nervously pulls out a bill; then sits down and loses everything in a desperate effort to get even. That is the prospector on a small scale. He plays at the faro table of fate and loses health, home, years, strength everything except hope, and all the while smiling at his dreams, until death takes the chips out of his fingers and closes up the game. I had made pretty fair progress on this road. I had with me a veteran miner, one of the best fellows in the world, who shared my enthusiasm and thoroughly participated in my bad luck. His name was Joe Dixon. A gentleman in Golden had "grub staked" us giving us enough provisions to last for threo months with the un derstanding that he was to have a third of any discoveries. We discovered nothing, and devoured the provisions down to the last bean in tbe last can. Our elbows were sticking out of our sleeves, a quarter of a year's beard bris tled on our chins, and we had not a five cent piece between us. This was exactly the state of our affairs when we came in sight of Leadville on our return. We approached the camp from the southwest, and it was evening when we paused on the foothills, a mile or so away, looked down on the glimmering lights and held a council of war. Neither of us was acquainted in the place, and, although wo had some hopes of finding friends in the daytime, the prospects of spending the night in a strange town were unpleasant. We were not exactly tramps, but it would have taken an ex pert to have told tho difference. The spot whero we stopped was a desolate looking slope, strewn with bowlders, and bare of vegetation, and presently Dixon called my attention to a large, square house that stood some little distance away, quite by itself, and seemed, from its darkened windows, to be untenanted. "If it's empty," he said, "suppose we sleep all night there, and in the morning we can go into camp and, rustle." We acted upon the suggestion,' and proceeded to reconnoiter the premises. The house was a two story frame, well put together, in good repair, but appar ently as empty as a drum. No response came to our knocks, so finally we pushed open the door and walked in. Dixon struck a match, and we looked around and found ourselves in a large apart ment, which, with another of the same size, occupied the whole lower floor. Both were furnished sparsely but well. The front room liad a number of chairs, a table, and several little conveniences in it, and the rear contained a couple of beds and a washstand. On the table were a lamp, a number of papers and periodicals, all of them dated several months back, and a large inkstand in which the writing fluid had caked from disuse. Tho air was rather st'fiing, from all the windows being down, and the dust on the sills indicated that they had not been raised for some time. We lit the lamp, and to make sure that there had been no recent occupancy of tbe place, went up stairs. Here were two bedrooms and a sitting room, all well furnished, and in one of the bed rooms hung a quantity of excellent clothing. The windows of this floor were also down, and everything was as silent and lonesome as the grave. We went back to tbe front room, opened up the doors and windows, and proceeded to make ourselves at home, a littlo puz zled, but satisfied that we had stumbled into clover. To show that we were en tirely open and honest ia the matter we sat in the front door and smoked, and while we were thus occupied a man drove by on the road, about a couple of hundred yards away. When opposite he pulled up slightly, and we both called oat "Good evening." He made no re sponse, but looked very hard ct us, and whipped up his horse. This incident did not disturb us and presently we tamed in, rolling in our blankets on the floor. But I did not sleep. As 1 lay there in the stillMessand dark, the sense of strangeness in this empty house, the unnatural circum stance of it standing there untenanted, oppressed me. and I began to fancy queer things. I knew tiat dwellings were at a premium in Leadville, and this was far better than tbe average. Why should it be left at the mercy of the first prowling vagabond? There must faeaosne reaaea some history connected with it. I felt acresfsmg hi say veins, and then I re membered, with a shock, that there was bo lock oa the door. Them I recollected the clothing up stain. Was -it possible that may sane man would leave his prop-etrotactedinguchsfashloS? Perfaapsthe house was liaunted. I had laughed at such things, but tbe ides ap palled me now. Then by a natural tran sition it occurred to my mind that some horrible crime 'might have been com mitted there. Oae thoaf that sprang out of nothingness and laid hold of me with sickening iteration wss that a dead man was under the bed in a hack room, and by some curious prootsl that we have all experienced, but nobody can ex plain, I wss aware that Dixon also wss awake and frightened. Finally bespoke up: "I feel wakeful," he said. "I baUere Intake a turn outside." Meantime the moon had risen sad loaded everything with a white glare. I got up aad leaned against the open door, while he, lighting his pipe, began to pace tbe slops. At last he turned and glanced toward the front of the house. The moon fell full on his face, and, on the instant, lit up such a look of inhu man terror as I nave never seen before and trust I may never see again. He stopped not a second, but ran, ran with all tbe clumsy neatness of abject fear, stumbling, falling down, scrainhUng up again, always faster, until he disappeared over the bill. While this happened, I stood transfixed, and then I backed slow ly out of the house. I have read of peo ple backing away from a wOd animal or a lunatic that is the way I retreated, and, I will be honest, when I reached the slope I ran, too. . The remainder of my experience can be briefly told. I never saw or heard of Dixon again, but very fortunately I found a friend in Leadville who put me' on my feet. I stayed there, and a cowardly but perfectly natural fear of being laughed at kept my mouth sealed as to tbe adventure of tho night. What Dixon saw I did not care to speculate upon. One day, nearly a year afterward, when I liad quit prospecting and turned my attention to sometliing more remun erative, I was out riding, and quite by accident came in sight of the house on tho slope. Instantly my curiosity was revived, and I determined to have a close look at it, the bright sunlight having dissipated what fears remained. I approached it from the rear, and the place presented very much the same ap pearance that it did on that eventful night. Slowly I drove around, survey ing it rather contemptuously until I reached the front, when ono startled glance revealed to me what Dixon saw, and I took flight as precipitately and as speedily as he. Lettered over the door was the simple legend: LAKE COUNTY SMALLPOX HOSPITAL. Thought He Was Harrigaa. "How do you do, Mr. Harrigan?" was the salutation Deposition Clerk Ryan, of the Buffalo police court, received here one evening. "Very well," replied Mr. Ryan, who did not exactly get there with tbe mean ing why he should be addressed as "Mr. Harrigan." Presuming he was being "guyed," he6tood up to it. "Brought your company with you?" queried the new found friend of Mr. Ryan. "Partly." "When did you see Tony Hart last?" "Oh! only a short time ago," replied Mr. Ryan, who by this time was drink ing a small bottle at tbe expense of his friend, and helping himself to 25 cent Havanas. "Been a good season? "Fair," answered Ryan, as another small bottle was uncorked. "Where do you open next?" "In the United States court here in Albany," replied Ryan, as he coolly knocked the ashes from his cigar. "In a court, Harrigan! Are you crazy?" "Not a bit of it. You sre 'off,' my friend. I am not Ned Harrigan, but his double, and as for Tony Hart, don't know such a man. But who are youV" "Hallen, of Hallcn & Hart's combi nation, which is playing here this week. But who are you?" was the astonished inquiry. "Eugcno Junius Ryan, of Buffalo, sir. Here is my card. If you ever get locked up in Buffalo depend upon me to help you out." More bottle. More cigars all around. Then Tony Hart came in. Looking squarely at Ryan, lie said: "Well, I would swear that you were Ned Harrigan." Albany Cor. Buffalo News. Literally Sat aa Hint. Ono of the most absent minded men in this city is a popular clergyman. He was at one tune riding ui a street car with his wife, when bo became inter ested iu a conversation carried on by two gentlemen opposite. That side of the car was packed full of malo passen gers. Wishing to join in tbe conversa tion, the reverend eentleman crossed to the speakers, and, sitting down deliber ately in the lap of a man who had not time to move, began an animated discus sion. The unfortunate and nearly crushed passenger edged himself out gradually, without being noticed, and stood up the rest of tho way. At another time, and that very recently, the same clergyman was reciting the burial ser vice at a funeral. His eyes were closed, although he had the open prayer book in bis hand, and the people assembled were astonished to hear him say: "I now charge ye both" He had lapsed into the marriage ceremony by a trick of memory. Detroit Exes Press. The White Slaves of louden. A committee of the house of commons has for sosne"tkas been mysngstins tho "sweatissjksmaspnsticcd in Lon don workshops. It has hsW learned' that thouasnds'of work garbars obliged to stay up tflT 18orl o'clbck'slugbt,' work ing in tbe most unwholesome places, and frequently for asi little as 5 shillings a week. ,or even less. San Frsndsco Chronicle. A gentleman writing from Japan says that although it ia only eighteen years since the first aewspaper wss published ht Japan, there sre aoa Sti daily and weekly newspapers. There sre V3 law magazines. 111 scientific periodi cals; S5 uiedical jrwrhajiand' an equal number of'relisus newspapers. Now York Telegram. - In the severe earthquake shock tltat occurred recently in Vogtland. there were remarkably loud bttrraiwan nou. but no serious damage. Clean salves t soft flannel Bath brick. If nistytIuas wood rubbed on with a lyes bit of bisk (State, TaVwIll nothing else wflL spots whea TUB TURKISH BATH. AN INSTITUTION THAT 18 POPU LAR WITH THE LADIES, Wuacn Who Datlir la I Weight, aad Others Who Do the ts Make Themselves Thinner: Day al a St. Louis Bath Hoase, While St. Louis cannot boast of any Turkish bath houses marked by Parisian or even Levantine luxury and elegance as to fittings and conveniences, she can chum to have a large contingent of fresh looking, handsome women who give full credit to the beautifying influence of regular Turkish baths. All the public Turkish baths have "Ladies' Days," and the register of the leading esUbushmeat yields on inspection a long list of names of ladies prominent in society, in the schools, in the churches in all the sets snd circles of the body .social of our city. On 'Ladies Days" this bath house csn hardly accommodate the crowds of maids, matrons, children and school girls that are its regular customers. HAVE THKIR REGULAR DATS. The visitor as well as the attendants at the bath house soon learn to look for cer tain classes on the same days of each suc cessive week. Those who come by order ; of their physicians, or for some special physical ailment, are generally promptly on hand Tuesday; society women who come to recuperate their expended' strength snd for beauty baths, favor Thursday, as the off day of their week, when the gayetiea pauw for breath and one is less likely to "miss something" on that day. Saturday is the teachers' day. when they may stop to shed the dead skin of their spent forces and relax the taut muscles of discipline on tho slab where the spray soothingly falls on the just and the unjust alike, for most often, too. some of their recalcitrant pupils come in gay. noisy little shoals and make the corridors ring with their laughter and little st-renius of merriment. The faith of many women in the vir tues of the Turkish bath is limitless. Those who are too thin believe tliat they will attain the plumpness of their stand ard of perfection by continuing the baths. Those who groan with flesh think the batliing and the rubbing will make the burden roll away; those whose com plexions are too pale or too sallow seek there color and clearness. The pimpled face expects to grow smooth, the flushed face pale in sooth, they think the Turk ish bath the real fountain of eternal youth and beauty. Women as ugly and old as the Witch of Endorhave parboiled themselves until tho sap of life has left their skins like parchment, and they have finally dried up and blown away on the way from their tri-weckly trips to the Turkish baths, where they hoped to grow fat, fair, and 40 at least, when scragginess and the seventies had seized them ten years before. One entire fat family of social as well ss personal magnitude in this city never fails to send its ample supply of daugh ters for a douche and a pounding every Thursday; but pounding only seems to make them more pulpy. Then there sre three thin sisters who go to gain sym metry; snd three other sisters who have the natural rotundity and rosiness of stocky girls only one generation removed from the farm life of their mother's pa rental precincts, go for well, for what? Perhaps to get elongated; perhaps to ac quire a little etherealization heaven knows for what perhaps only for the fun of it. Then there comes a tall girl, neither too thick nor too thin, too rosy nor too pale, and, as Is natural, she in clines to the stout, short girls, snd they compare notes on the advantages of Turkish baths. SOUKDINO THE MAN ALABJL The mother of nine children, whose friends tell her she "doesn't look a day older" (than whom or when?), comes reg ularly, and says, "it's the Turkish bath does it." The phrase may be a little promiscuous, but it seems to be under stood by her f riendaand fellow bathers. After her will come a beautiful matron of ten years' standing, who never had any children, and her acquaintances will tell her she never looked so beautiful snd strong, snd congratulate her on the good times she has going around the world and having no children to keep her at home, and wind up by saying she looks younger than ever, and she says, it is all the Turkish bath. Then a widely known teacher, wise snd learned, will be heard telling a pale little Dante woman that nothing so helps to clear the brain snd put spring into the vertebra and make keen the nerves, which, unclogged, aid all the faculties to digest the learned dissertations of the doctors now expounding doctrines of tbe flesh and the devil as given forth by Goethe at the guild rooms of St. George's; ss a thorough massage of the physical woman. A suffragist, tossing wildly on a hard couch near by, from which she can see the clock, whose warning hour hand stands at half-past 12, notes the fact that "we must all be getting out of here pretty soon for those selfish men, who want the place at 1 o'clock. When women can vote we'll change all this." "I hope you wont vote to let the men in during tbe women's hours," exclaimed the horrified woman of calculus sna belies Metres. "No! wait tUl'I get my corsets on," cries a beauty from her dressing room who has' only heard "men"t mentioned, and she immediately sfplies'the rabbit's foot to her cheeks, ties down her lace vail snd out with' a last injunction to her to "take cars of nrr terry, blanket snd things" snd with her face toward the door to get the first glimpse of any of those "horrid men1 who nray be com ing, she looks over the register ss she signs her name snd reads therein a list of the best known names in the city. St, Loum Republic. ANTS FOR EATING. Should a Msme lumberman find a stamp of rotten7 kg-with thousands of big mack ants, in it, he scoops tbe torpid Issectsfrom their,, winter domicile and fills his oJaaer pail, with, them. When he gets back to hi camp at night he sets the pail in a cool place until his supper is ready, then brings it forth, and, while helping himself to pork snd beans,- helps himself also to ants. There is no accounting for tastes, snd he esteems a handful of salsa very choice. morseL Anto'sre'said by1 these wbohave tasted them toUiavs apeeulisriy sgrcesble, strongly add 'flavor.' The woo&mtm, whose food consists' hugely of salted meat, baked beans snd similar hearty VamY Atn ssmfatat WStt fM GuMi aM VmwaklflaV victuals, naturally have a craving for sometliing sour. "Ants sre the very best of pickles,'' said an old "logger," who confixl to having devoured thousands of tin-in. "They sre cleanly insects, and thenisi.f reason why they should not be -r.u- if one csn get over a little squca:: mess caused by the thought of taking m!i crawling things into his stomr..-:. There is nothing repulsive about t:.--iti. and when a man has once learned to cat the creatures as pickles be prefers them to any other kind." Ants have at various times and in dif ferent countries been quite extensively used in medicine, and formic acid, which was first obtained by distilling the bodies of these insects, but is now artificially prepared, is a well known and useful chemical product. Herodotus'tells of ants that live in the deserts of India which are in size "some what less than dogs, but larger than foxes." These creatures, in heaping up the earth sfter the manner of common anU, were a very efficient aid-to tbe In dian gold hunters. The sand which they threw up being largely mixed with gold, the Indians were accustomed to go to the desert in tho heat of the day, when the ants were underground, load the sand into sacks, pile tho sacks upon their cam els, and hasten from the spot as rapidly ss possible. Tho ants, according to the historian, were net only the swiftest of animals, but were gifted with such a sense of smell that they immediately be came aware of the presence of men in their territory, and unless the Indians got awav while the ants were assembling to attaclc them not a man could escape. Pittsburg Dispatch. Webster's Blue Suit. Daniel Webster went to college in a homespun suit, of which probably every thread was carded, spun and woven by his mother's hand from tho wool of their own sheep. A contributor to Wido Awake says it was a dyed-in-the-wool 6uit. and the color was indigo blue tho old New England color. In the south it is butternut: but though our Yankee, grandmothers and great-great-great-grandmothcrs knew all about what butternut bark would do, and the subtile power for slate color that lay in sumach berries and bark of white maple, and the various dyes that root and flower, bark and leaf could bo made to yield through the agency of vitriol and alum and copperas to "set" them fast. the universal stand by was the blue pot par excellence the stood in the chimney "dye pot" that corner of every kitchen worth naming. So Webster was fitted out in indigo blue from collar to ankle unbecoming for his swart' skin and set off grand and sophomoric. Before reaching Han over, there came on one of those drench ing rains uliich, like tho Scottish mist, wet a man to the skin. The suit held its own for has not indigo blue been "warranted fast" since first indigo wss heard of? but it bad parted with enough so that Daniel, too, was died blue from head to foot. Daniel Webster had a liberal stratum of sentiment in his make up; and for somo reason, this color of his young manhood became his favorite wear through life. He wore blue coats to his dying day. If any one ever saw him in a different one, the fact has not been put on record. Youth's Companion. Bublastela and Toa Buldw QuarreL The most fiery of pianists and of or chestral conductors, Dr. Hans von Bulow, has been pointing his baton at his old friend Rubinstein, to whose "Ocean Symphony" he has taken a sudden dis like. After directing at a rehearsal tho six movements of Rubinstein's symphony, which is, indeed, "vast and illimitable" like the ocean, Dr. von Bulow, according to a not unfrequent custom of his, ad dressed to the members of the orchestra some disparaging remarks on the work they had just been playing, and ended by saying: "A symphony like this can be properly dealt with only by a con ductor with long hair." (Dr. von Bulow wears his hair short.) On reading the report of Dr. von Bulow's little speech Rubinstein wrote from St. Petersburg to the paper which had published it, ex pressing his surprise that in the midst of his important and numerous occupations the learned doctor should have found time to measure the length of his (Rubin stein's) hair. He also inquired affection ately after the length of Dr. von Bulow's ears; wishing in particular to know whether they liad grown since the even ing when, after hearing Rubinstein's opera of "Nero" for the first time, he shook the composer warmly by the hand and even embraced him. St. James' Gazette. Xaklag Money by Raising Skuaks. Mr. Joseph Lininger, who lives about twenty miles northeast of this city, is proprietor of a skunk ranch, probably the only one in the state. Mr. Lininger established his "skunkery" with only a few animals, and now there are fifty in the corraL "I set out," remarked the proprietor when interviewed, "to raise fOOof tbe animals before slaughtering any, snd at the present rate of increase it will not be long before that number is realized." "How shout the odorr" was ssked. "There is none whatever; you can go right up to the corral, and I defy you to tell by the odor that there is a skunk in the neighborhood. They never eject their acrid and offensive fluid ex cept as a means of self defense, and if they sre not molested there is no dan ger. Besides, it Is a very easy matter to remove from the kittens the glands con taining the offensive secretions, sad thus disarm them for life. Tbe skunk is an animal easily raised, snd is quite valua ble for its oil and fur. Tbe skin is worth from 75 cents to $1.60, snd the yield of oil is about of the same value. They have from six to ten young st a time and breed several times in a season, the same ss rabbits. My attention was called to this industry by a man in Tennessee, who has grown rich out of skunk rais ing." Wabash (Ind.) Special. OeM Mines fen the Warld. At Lead City, sear Deadwood, Law rence county, sre located the largest gold mines and nulls in the world, the "Homestske." The ore bodies mined by this company show a working faco from 900 to 400 feet wide, sinking to an inex haustible depth. 4Six hundred stamps, crashing 20,000 cubic feet of nick every twenty-four hours, drop mcespactly, dsy snd night, in tlie mills, without an inter mission even for the Sabbath. During the ten years in which the mines of the Homestske combination liave been op erated they have produced about '$23, 000,000 in bullion; and paid over s,000, 000 in dividends to stwkhokkrv-7. F. MoUurinHsrpers. DANGERS IN DRUGS. WARNING USE TO THOSE DISPOSED TO THEM CARELESSLY. wislsl Cava N lOtrtecB Children ratal Kemedles Penally Take Notice. "More men are killed by drugs than diseaoo," is an expression one occasion, ally hears. How much truth it con tains is, of course, problematical. But, without doubt, no small proportion of the deaths occurring sre directly or in directly due to an unwise use of medi cines. Children furnish tbe readiest victims to the direct destructive influ ences of drugs. Here is an instsars where drugs. lutely harmless in anything like able doses, may yet be the caass of death: The pstientis saisfsat.ssd k suffers from diarrhea. The mother doctors it herself. She goes to the nearest drug gist snd. asks for a diarrhea mixture. He gives her one nude up of catechu snd chalk mixture, two of the simplest of agents, with which almost every mother is familiar. This she adminis ters to her child in the proper doses. The diarrhea lessens, but the child's condition does not improve. It even grows rapidly worse. Fever is on, the bowels are swollen, snd, what is more alarming, "head symptoms" have ap peared. TUB PHYSICIAN POWERLESS. A physician is called, but he is power less, for the brain is affected. The little one lingers along for days and days per haps, and finally dies from disease of the brain. Now, for the child's death the cater hu and chalk mixture, harmless ss they are, were yet responsible. Tbe mixture lessened the diarrhea, but in so doing invited an inflammation of the bowels; the little one's brain, always ex ceedingly sensitive and susceptible to in jury, became eongested as a natural con sequence, other and nioro&eriouschanges followed, as ui all such cases, and it finally died a victim to dosing. Had not the bowels been dammed up by the catechu and chalk mixture, but instead, had they been unloaded and then treated properly, neither the inflammation therein nor tho brain trouble would have occurred. In much the way described are thousands upon thousands of chil dren killed every year. And this terrible mortality will only lessen when people learn the ilangera of trifling with drugs. I have been for several weeks discuss ing hi The Sunday Herald the remedies in common use. Continuing to do so, I come now to calomel, an agent wiiich has been much abused. As every one knows, it is a preparation of mercury. It bears the name "mild chloride," in contradistinction to corrosive sublimate, which is called tho "corrosive chloride" of mercury. Calomel is very nearly three times as strong as blue pill. In one respect it is fortunate that there is, on tho part of the people, the strongest prejudice against this agent It is likely to deter them from ever using it on their own responsibility. So strong ia the prejudice there is scarcely a day passes in tho life of the busy practitioner that some patient or other does not question him about bis medicines snd enjoin that there be no calomel in it, Without doubt there is good and sufficient reason for this distrust of tbe drug. In times past it was, unquestionably, not only used too often, but in much too large doses. Sali vation was then the rule, and by some it was believed that calomel only 'had a curative effect when carried to that point But all that is changed now. PROPER AND IMPROPER USE. Physicians no longer hold that it has such great power over the liver, nor that it controls inflammatory attacks, as their fathers before them believed. When calomel is given them now they never push it to salivation. That condition is very rare indeed at the present time, and never occurs when the drug is wisely given, unless the patient is very suscepti ble to it Physicians occasionally en counter people who have the peculiarity of constitution that makes salivation easy for them. With the compound cathartic pill almost every one is fa miliar. It contains one grain of calomel and three pflls are a purging dose. They are usually given at bedtime, and, if failing to act the next morning, it is quite a common custom to give two more of them. This treatment is prac tically safe, and no one would expect salivation to follow. And yet it lias done so, but very rarely indeed, however, be cause of the peculiar susceptibility of the patient to the drug. The prejudice against calomel seems i to have grown with general enlighten ment. It docs not exist with those "be hind the times." In tho "far western country," it is still held in high esteem, and given in enormous doses even more than half a teaspoonful for almost every conceivable ailment. After taking one cathartic dose of calomel alone, no one is likely to court another such experience, unless Ids confidence in it is absolute, for it causes intense pain. For that reason it was in olden times given with jalap, to quicken its action. But after what has been said, and all that can be said about calomel, it is not an agent which can be dispensed with. Given in proper doses in cases wisely selected, it will prove one of tho most efficacious reme dies known to man. And so adminis tered it is perfectly safe. One wla does not thoroughly understand all about it should not, of course, meddle with it, for it is like an open razor in a child's hand. But if an intelligent physician ever rec ommends it for -a patient, either old or young, it should be unhesitatingly ad ministered. Boston Herald. of taoay. Tho town of Athens, snd especially tha Acropolis, b now passing through a very remarkable period in its existence. It is with mixed feelings tnst even those who reside here, snd whose chief interest is in archsfology, look upon the sweeping alterations that have quite changed the character of Its appearance. The tend ency to demolish all monuments, of me dkeval or modern history has atsn al lowed free phty of hue- years; in a short time hardly snythingwill be left that does not go back at least to Roman times. The line wfl probably be drawn here, though if one regards nothing but the work oajfche great age of Alliens ss worthy of preservation, it is hard to see why (for instance) the pedestal of Agrip pa deserves more respect than the "Fraakkb tower," which certainly was tnoTsassresaueand of higher histori cat tnseresc. Bu$ WW it Is too hUs to regret what aavsawsaiost. Oajytwo or" main, aad those of quits reosat when they sre removei. tae will sppear bat for tha wear dewMofsgw whasltaM so called Beals gate" was Thisisaa utsUisJhls sisa sgine it will now be recognised by alias the best attainable. The Acropolis never again present thai medley of histories! saw immuineate of all periods that Brttglifts the visitor twenty or thirty years afr bat ws may hope, whea the ugnssss of recent excavations sad aJterstioas has worn off, when a painfully exact ance of order snd srrsagemeat 1 avoided (ss is promised), sad, shove au, when tbe old verdure and flowers have once more spread over the whole, that a new snd more purely- rlssslral charm may be found to saveisadsed from tha 'temporary loss of beauty. Athens Cor. London AthensBum. KB Crier. When the mandstlon approaches the capital nasally at tbe end of the beginning of July the Nile begin their work. These criers sre men whose bustasas it is to call out, or rather to recite, before the houses of those who wish it, how much tho Nils has risen during the last twenty-four hours. Tbe Oriental does everything, nossst ter what it is, gravely, slowly, with much dignity and verbosity, sad is never chary of his time or breath. Even the form of his greeting in the street is a complicated ceremony of words and motions, which usually takes some min utes to perform. And in the same way this announcement of the rivers rise, which seems to us such a simple matter, is a most serious affair. The day before tho crier begins his talk, he goes through the streets accom panied by a boy, whose part it is to act as chorus, and to cing the responses at the proper moment. The crier sings: "God Ima looked graciously upon our neUa." Response: "Oh, day of glad tidings." "To-morrow begiaa tho announcement.' Response: "May it be followed by success." Before the crier proceeds to give the information so much desired he intones with tho boy a lengthy, alternating chant, in which he praises God, implor ing blessings on the Prophet and all be lievers, and on the master of the house and all his children. Not until this has been carefully gone through does he procee I to say the Nile has risen so many inches. This ceremony is carried on until the month of September, when tbe river has reached its culminating point, and the crier, as bringer of such good news, never fails to claim Ids 'baksheesh," or drink money sometimes humbly and sometimes, too, very imperiously. Lon don TidBits. Two Kinds of Coanlenresi Let us take the case of a man of very meager culture and education, whose ancestors for generations have been op pressed and their lot one of bare suTvivai. Has he a true conscience in reference to a large range of moral questions? To be sure he knows it is wrong -to steal, and be probably could bo trusted not to steal money; but how about pilfering? On the contrary, if ytfur man of culture steals it will only bo largo amounts, for ho despises and would feel disgraced by pilfering. Here you have the two ex tremes of society, v.-ith a common con science about 6tealing: but it is a weak conscience at opposite ends. The high born fellow will not pocket a slice of ham, but he will default in the handling of an estate or bank deposits. The ono is feeblo in moral judgment just where the other is strong.' These two men have also a common moral law against murder. Neither one dissents from the command nient, "Thou shalt not kill," but one of them, who is fond of society and dislikes the burdens of a huge family, does not hesitate to com mit foeticide; the other would recoil in horror at such a crime, but he is ready at a moment for a bhindy in which ho is liable to kill some one or to be killed himself. In neither esse does conscience speak loudly or condemn keenly. Tour conscience is your power of morally seeing tilings. Ufa your inherited and acquired ability to judge when an act is wrong. It is far more easy to have a poor conscience than it is to havo a good one. St Louis Globe-Democrat. C serge's Tissely Intermpttoa. "No, George," faltered tbe maiden, "1 fear it cannot be. I admire you as a gentleman, I respect you as a friend, but" "Laura," he exclaimed, "before yon pass sentence hear me out A recent lucky stroke in business has enabled me to buy a beautiful home on Prairie ave nue, wiiich shall be in your name. I will insure my life for $35,000, and" "George," calmly interposed tho lovely girl, "you interrupted me. I wss shout to say that the bentiments of respect snd esteem I feel for you, though so strong, are feeble in comparison with tbe deep love which which I which I have long don't, George, dcarl" For George had interrupted her again. Chicago Tribune. Supposed a Case. A small boy entered a Fourteenth ave nue grocery the other day, and ssked the proprietor to trust him to two cents' worth of candy. "I don't know you," was the reply. "But I live just two blocks down." "But what made you suppoue I'd trust your "I supposed so because you've got two barrels of kcroseno out doors and I could have liored gimk-t holes in both of them kut niht without anybody knowing it" Tlii- grocer compromised by trusting the boy to u cent's worth of candy und rolling the barrels into his shod. Detroit Free Press. A Story af Cactyle. I met Carlyle once the awn whosav riched'.he language by the word"c manity." He wss strolling sloag Cheyas walk, where his home wss in Chaises, snd a small boy running across the pave ment before him tripped and fell, crying. In tho philosopher's way. Instead of taking compassion upon the poor little feltar. Carlyle struck hiss with his stick. 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