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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 22.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,42(5.
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(From the French.)
fi ij) u, mother, no;
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more
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stiotvhe:! her plump
j-niall hands toward
the fir, her fingern
lavishly ornament
ed v rings, as
th.- o-iietry of la-
tiics in '.sic wis.
"James," said slip, with her most dig
nified countenace, "you are as stubborn
as your father He. too. objected to
marriage. Jio belonged to a club the
poor man to the 'Uachflors' club,' and
had seriously sworn to remain faithful
to his principle. i:m you. too, you
tvIJl come to it."
"Hut, then, in my father's day, young
girls were brought up more simply;
they aspired no higher than to play
the piano prettily, write correctly, and
make a sncoful rnnrtosv. Then, dii
leaving school young girls came ino
their families with enough instruction
to understand the verses of a romance
and follow a conversation, not enougn
to humiliate their parent 3 and often
their husbands. They were then reai
ly 'home angels.' "
"Von exhaust my patience and I can't
bear such prejudices. 'Home angels.'
indeed. As if one must be a fool or a
nonentity to be domestic. A bright
woman never could be satisfied with the
vol you assign for her. If you had
not wasted your time at the college you
would not be so afraid of compari
sons!" "You arc too revere "
"Do yon pretend that Latin and
Greek are incompatible with modesty,
sweetness and domestic qualities in a
woman?"
"I declare it with enthusiasm."
"Very well, then; we will speak 110
more of marriage. You will accom
pany me at tho Desjardins. for you will
meet the twin sisters and you may
judge for yourself, since my experience
Is not worth your own."
Poor, little mother! I knew she and
lier old friend. Mine. Desjardins. had
together plotted against my bachelor
hood and a girl with the degree cf
bachelor was enough to frighten me
into it more securely than ever. When
wc arrived at Mine. Desjardins she
greeted me as "little James." This ex
clamation rather uppct me.
! expected her to ask me if I had
brought my marbles along, but instead
of that presented me to her daughters.
. The twin sisters resembled each other
', only in thoir dress. Md'.e. Martha
was a very beautiful brunette a Greek
goddess with pure, straigh'. features.
Mdllc. Hose was less imposing, a sweet,
pretty blonde. I was sure that in spite
of her 10 years she still played with
dolls. She certainly was not the
"learned young woman" my mother had
proposed I should court. It must be
the ether one. There was dancing, and
1 offered my arm to Mdlle. Rose. After
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SPEAK TO ME.
a waltz we chatted. She was witty
and a little sharp, this meek looking
little blonde. 1 started a conversation
on commonplace subjects and in a short
space of time I had judged my com
panion to be a most charming little
woman, and it was with much reluct
ance i left her side.
Uluc eyes, bine gauze, smiling lips
and a cloud of golden hair were all
mingled in my sleep that night. Win
not the stately, statuesque, dark beau
ty my mother would so gladl welcome
;- a uaugincr.
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in aiiumcr u .- 1 must again ac
company my mother to the weakly re
ception at Mine. Desjardins and then
they would come to my mother's Fri
days. Thus twice a week.
I saw her ami naturally fell, in love
deeper and deeper. Dear little Rose,
thought I, true "home angel." What a
wifc she will be to make home bright
".'" and happy for some one. A straiige
fear came over me and I recalled many
- instances wheie Rose had appeared
anxious to avoid me. perhaps out of
- '. consideration for her sister, or perhaps
to save me from a great disappoin:
ment. Under the torture of thi sudden sus
picion I flow to my mother. "I must
make a clean breast of it, mother dear!
- I Jove Rose, and you must help me to
gain her."
"Oh. James, is not this somewhat
sudden? And those convictions you
have cherished "
"Nonsense, mother: listen, this is se
rious. You will admit that so sweet
. aiid unpretending a girl is seldom found
: 'r.ov.-. No mor1 words, please, but do
-' like the good mother you are. go and
- " ask Mme. Desjardins for the hand of
her daughter."
"My dear child. I will teach you how
-." to be consistent: I can not go back on
" iuv wnnl. T will have nothing to do
with the arrangements of a marriage
for you."
t- She said all this with .such an
amused smile that T could not think
b. her serious. I determined, however.
0 to put an end t thi;- suspense ami soon
(' fcumd an opportunity.
Thre w-as a concert and ball at th"
'JJC5jar3ips' beautiful country home.
When bending over her mother's hand
I saw. but one thins and heaven en-
lered'my.seul as I caught the light of
0 her eyes. It seemed but an instant
o before, we were outside, wandering
ncbut the ground? The words were
xrn'rzv lirs to sjv'ak. when some one
o cmlle to es. "Cmbc, La Marianl is go
lng to sing!" What care 1 for the ai-
riani? But Rose hastened her steps
' and I followed, hoping she would at
least stay outside. As we ncarcd the
i house she led the way to a corner of the
. veranda and there the words and voici
of the wonderful singer readied our
1 cars and entered our hearts.
I "My soul is full of dream.
My soul is full of love."
'"ThoFe words are mine. Rose, do yci
understand? Don't you see how I iovr
you? You are the woman I haw
dreamed of since 1 have known how to
dreim. You arc the companion I hav
i longed for! Rose, could you not love
! me?"
1 In u low. tad voice she murmured
j "My friend, I am not the companion
j you have dreamed of. Too often have
! you dc&ciibed her to me, your ideal
woman, sou love me uecause you
think me simple as young girls should
be and you thin!: because you have
some time seen me attending house
hold duties that I would make a good
domestic wife, but you will love me nr.
more when you arc undeceived. When
jou know " Her voice had been
fiim until now and though her words
puzzled and pained me I occame aware
of the sorrow in her voice, a sonow
which meant more than sympathy.
"Hose, in the name of heaven, what
is it?"
She mastered herself in a .T.oment.
"How often have you cruelly toiiJ
me you would never marry a college
graduate, a bluestocking, us you ca.lee.
her. and yet you ought to have known
your mother knows "
The fool I had been; and how I
wished I cauld fall right there on my
knees to ask her pardon. Arid yet ho v
could I have suspected that vo muc'i
feminine grace could be united to a
ripe and mature intellect.
"Ob. Rose! speak to me. Sjvak si;
Latin, in Greek, if you wi'I. Oily sr.'.
you forgiv." mo and will love me!"
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Has she forgiven me? I am the hap
piest of men and have been for Hire
years. If ever you come to see us. you
will be asked to partake of the repast
my college wife superintends, and I
think all of you gentlemen who stand
in awe of learned women will sect
one for jour own.
FUN FOR CITY BOYS.
A I. ilir ; Time TliU One llal Was lu
CrjiiiR "" llnn-ii a Iii-il Walter.
One cliiul in an uptown New York
apartment house has found a novel way
of amusement, says the Press. Not
being allowed to play in the street,
since he might be run over; tired of
staying in the house, nothing is left
to him but the roof. Even there he
must not go near the edge, for he sure
ly would fall, and what a calamity that
would be!
Like the little boy in uia story, the
only fun he is permitted is to say
"boo." IJiit this lad in an uptown
apartment house chances to be ingen
ious. He has hit upon so many novel
ways of saying it that he is able to
amuse not onlj- himself, but the whole
house.
He speaks it clown the dumb waiter;
which, being lined with zinc and
reaching from cellar to roof, returns
the "boo" again and again in varying
volumes and keys. "It is like playing
with ever so many children," the en.
tells you gleefully.
The child was strangely considerate,
not to say diplomatic, in arranging
for his play. One day, by chance, he
called down the shaft and it answered.
Before he spoke again and gave the
tenants a chance to complain to the
landlord, he went to every front door
in the house and politely asked:
"Please, may I speak loud down your
waiter?" All wanted to know what he
meant, and were amused, touched and
willing when he explained. Touched,
because who, before, ever heard of a
little boy who had no way of having
a good time except to cry "boo!" down
a dumb-waiter?
JAPAN PAPERS AND "DEVILS."
The Japanese newspaper, as described
in a letter from Tokyo to the New York
Evening Post, is a curious product of
the borrowed civilization of the mika
do's empire.
Practically there is in it no tele
graphic news, and the editorial articles
are ingenious studies in the art of say
ing certain things without saying them
in a way to warrant the censor's sup
pression of them: for the minister of
state for the interior has power to sus
pend any paper when, in his opinion,
it says anything prejudicial to order,
authority or morality.
Not infrequently the censor has occa
sion to write an order for the suppres
sion of a newspaper, and when lie does
it he is brief but wonderfully polite.
He puts the honorifies "o" or "go"
before all the nouns and verbs. Pre
fixed to a noun "o" means honorable,
and to a verb it means honorably;
similarly "go" means august, augustly.
So the order to the editor of the offend
ing newspaper when it arrives will read
like this:
"Dign honorably to cease honorably
publishing august paper. Honorable
editor, honorable publisher, honorable
chief printer, deign honorably to enter
august jail."
The honorable editor with his honor
able co-workers bows low before the
messenger and then accompanies him
to the august jail, chatting meanwhile 1
of the weather, of the flower shows, or I
of the effect of the floods on the rice l
crop. Centuries of breeding under Ja- I
panese etiquette have made it impossi
ble for any one to show annoyance.
Tapanese 3It-tal.
Japanese are famous not only for
their skill in making decorative ar
ticles, but also for the beauty of the
materials used. It is said that the
serrot of the composition of some of
thir alloxs of brass and copper has
only lafij hron revealed. Tho finci-l
Japanese brass, called "t-inchu." con
sists of ten parts of copper and fivr
of zinc. Another very beautiful alioy.
named "shadko," to which splendid
hues are imparted by treatment with
acids, is formed by mixins ccld and
copper, the proportion of kvM vary- !
ins from or. to ten ccr ca? cf th !
tntlr mace. j
CAMPEIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.
The Slaa tVho Shot Booth boston Cot
bett Did Hot Prove Successful a
Lecterer First Pair of A nay Saves
Were Two Sizes Too Large.
A Hillside c:ra-erarl
l'USII the little gate
jl aside,
ave uemnu ail nu-
mun pride.
For here the grass is
waving wide.
And underneath in
quiet lie.
With faces to the si
lent sky.
The villagers of
times gone by.
With careless eya-I:
I That seems to crave a moment's clalar
From dull oblivion's heavy blame.
Vain hope! They cannot come again;
They hold no place in field or glen.
Nor In the daily talk of men.
Only, perchance, when nights are long.
And Urea in shepherds' cots arc strong,
Between the pauses of a song,
A name or two may rise and fall.
But half-remembered at the call,
A moment's pause, and that is all.
Enough: they lived their little life.
Where pleasant ways and speech were
rife.
Far from the city's grinding strife.
A simple faith to soothe and guide
Was theirs from youth to manhood's
pride.
And closed their eyelids when they died.
I pace a little further on.
Then pause beside a simple stone.
Where all the grass is overgrown.
A simple stone, whose records keep
The tender names of those that sleep,
Unheeding time that still will creep.
With dull, slow footsteps over all
They sleep, nor answer any call.
Close to the old, gray churchyard wall.
I read each nantn through misty tears.
Their pilgrimage of weary years.
With all its little hopes and fear3.
At length 1 reach my father's name.
An open spare beneath the same
That waits for mine that space I claim.
Alexander Anderson ('"Surfaceman.")
l.emlntaccnre of the War.
New York Press: "The first pair of
shoes I had in the army," said the old
soldier, "were two sizes too big for me.
I wore sixes; my first army shoes were
eights. I didn't take them from choice
I got the nearest I could to my size.
We were being fitted out from head to
foot for the first time that was when
we were mustered in and the required
number of pairs of shoes, of assorted
sizes, had been delivered to each com
pany. When I got at them they were
culled over so much that there was
noothing left smaller than eights.
"I didn't think it would be possible
for me to wear a shoe two sizes too big
for me, but I tried a pair on. They
were brogans, having flaps, with two
eyelets on each side, lacing over the
instep with leather shoestrings. They
tied snugly, so that the heel and often
part of the shoe, and the sole, did not
shuck on my foot. The forward part of
my foot felt as though It were outdoors,
but I thought they might do. I had to
have a pair of shoes and I took them.
"I wore those shoes for months, and
with the greatest comfort. They were
enormous, or they looked so to me. As
soon as I began to wear them the thick
leather of the uppers humped up Into
big. round ridges, with valleys between
them, across the top, giving the top
cf the shoe a sort of fluted or corru
gated effect. These corrugations re
mained always just the same as long
as I wore the shoes. They were not
what you would call a handsome shoe,
but, as I said, they did not shuck
around on my feet, and they were
mighty comfortable.
"But it doesn't follow that after that
I always got shoes two sizes too big
for me; ?s a matter of fact, I didn't;
but I always got shoes plenty large for
me; plenty, and found comfort in wear
ing them.
"Sometimes we used to draw boots;
cavairy boots. And it was kind o fun
to get boots. I remember very well
the first pair of boots I drew. I think
I felt (perhaps in a little rnaturor sort
of way, though not so much so, cither)
about as much pleased over that pair
of boots as I did with my first red-tops
when I was a boy. To get on a pair
of cavalry boots sort of made a man
feel a little bit less like a plodding in
fantryman, and a little more like a cav
alryman; it gave him a sort of horse-and-saber
touch. But this was only as
he walked down the company street af
ter drawing the boots from the quarter
master; the next day. on picket, the
boots were the same to him as shoes
would have been.
"Still there were men who preferred
boots and always drew boots when they
could get them. But for myself I like
shoes better. A mounted man, of course,
wants boots; but according to my no
tion the most comfortable thing for an
infantry soldier to wear is a good,
roomy shoe that can be made snug
enough somewhere so that it won't
shuck on the foot."
Man Who Shot Booth.
It will be remembered that Boston
Corbett, the man who killed J. Wilkes
Booth, lived for many years in Cloud
county, Kansas. About ten years ago
he was elected doorkeeper of the Kan
sas house of representatives and while
holding that position went crazy and
was sent to the asylum. Later he was
released from custody and went off to
Texas, where it is presumed he died.
The discussion now going on in the
periodicals over the death and burial
of Booth recalls to the editor of the
Concordia Empire that, something like
a dozen years ago, the ladies of the
Presbyterian church in that town seized
npon the idea of having Corbett give a
lecture upon the killing of Booth, and
a committee was appointed to wait
upon him. One of the committeemen
was the editor of the Empire, and he
thus describes what followed:
"We fouud him at home in his dug
out, a kind of hole in the side of a steep
hill with a brownstone front and a
rool cf brush, clay and clapboards.
There was but one room and the furni
ture was an old stove, a table, a chair,
a home-made bed, a. trunk, a box or
two. a well-worn Bible, and a varletv
of flrparms. Mr. Corbett had received
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a pension of several hundred dollars a
short time before and invested what ha
bad not glren away to others that ha
thought might be needing money in a
flock of sheep. A herd of antelopes
would have serred him just as well he
had no practical knowledge of the usa
of sheep. He was very hospitable, told
us much of his history and readily con
sented to deliver a lecture on the cap
ture of Booth and his experiences in
Andersonville.
"A packed house greeted him on the
night set. By way of introduction the
choir sang a song. Some sentiment of
the song set him off on a regular ser
mon (he was in the habit of preaching
occasionally) and for nearly an hour
he talked, but failed to either capture
Booth or get to Andersonville. At
last the pastor reminded him that he
was to talk of Andersonville and
Booth. He apologized for his forget
fulness, and in about a dozen words
told that he was captured and landed
;safc Inside the walls of Andersonville
prison. The first man he met was an
old acquaintance, who told him that
over in a certain portion of the prison
they were holding a prayer meeting.
He went directly to it. Then he talked
for half an hour about the prayer meet
ing, which, as far as his description
went, might have been held in Cloud
county or the backwoods of Arkansas.
"Being reminded again that he was
forgetting all about the capture of
Booth, he apologized, and said in sub
stance: 'Wc surrounded the barn in
which we found he had taken refuge.
We demanded that he surrender, but he
refused. We then set fire to the barn.
By the light he saw one of our men
and raised his revolver to shoot him.
I was peeping through a crack, saw him
raise his arm, and to keep him from
killing one of our men I fired and killed
him. The bullet went into his head in
nearly the same course as his bullet
had entered Lincoln's head. This is
as full a history as he saw fit to give
of an incident that had called forth
many long articles during the last
thirty years, and about which none
knew more than did our neighbor, Bos
ton Corbett." Kansas City Journal.
i row th or the German Navy.
The growth of the Cferman navy
since 1872 has been extraordinary. Ac
cording to figures quoted in the reich
stag, the increase in naval expendi
tures since that date has been 327 per
cent, says the Fortnightly Review.
The outlay of the North German con
federation in 1S70 was only 1,201,000;
in 1SS5 that of the German empire
stood at 2,119,000; while at the date
of the Emperor William II.'s acces
sion it was 2,700,000, which by last
year had risen to 4,315,000. The pro
posals of the German admiralty for the
present year involved an expenditure
of 6,450,000, of which more than 6,
000,000 has been voted by the reich
stag. During the present reign in a
period, that is to say, of nine years
no less than eighty-six new units have
been added to the ileet. But yet
neither Kaiser William nor Admiral
Hollmann is satisfied. Like Oliver
Twist, they are asking for more, and
arc making it very obvious that they
intend to get more. The program of
ships to be commenced during the next
four years was not, indeed, a particu
larly large one. It involved the con
struction of four battleships, six
large cruisers, six smaller cruisers and
thirty-six torpedo craft. What prob
ably alarmed the reichstag was tne
hint that war was coming at no very
distant date, and the scarcely veiled
pretensions to dispute with RnHaml
the command of the sea. The de
mands, too, were suddenly put forward
and public opinion had not been fully
prepared for them. The consequence
was that the public and the reienstag
were bewildered and refused to be
rushed into a great outlay for an ob
scure end.
Two V.eft.
Last Memorial day two veterans in
a Connecticut farming town laid flow
ersas they have done for many years
on the graves of six comrades who
enlisted with them in the Army of the
Union a generation ago.
Their experience illustrates one of
the many coincidences of personal his
tory during the civil war. Among the
volunteers from this town these two
living and six deceased soldiers were
schoolmates and close friends, and all
pledged themselves to stand by each
other and keep track of each other,
whatever might happen.
In camp the eight were tent-mates,
never divided except as bedfellows, or
rather as blanket-fellows; and cr.c".i
two of the four pairs of voting men
shared the same fate.
Fighting in General Hancock's divis
ion, where all served, the first pair
were killed side by side by
the same shell, at the bat- j
oStle of Antietam. The second pair
were taken sick while on a long march,
and both diel. The third pair were
killed at Fredericksburg. The remain
ing two, still serving under Hancock,
fought at Gettysburg, at Spottsylvania,
and in several sieges and skirmishes,
for 17 months, when both were wound
ed within an hour of each other, and
were carried off the field in the same
ambulance. Both recovered, and con
tinued in the army till the end of the
war.
They procured the return of their
fellow-comrades" remains to the old
home place, and the two, who are still
like brothers to each other, have never
forgotten their brotherhood to thei
dead.
Self Convicted.
A man came into a room where a
gospel service was about to be held.
Picking up a Bible, as he opened it, his
eye fell on the text. "The fool hath
said in his heart there is no God."
"Ah." he said. "I am a greater fool
than that fool, for I believe there is a
God and I'm not serving him."
Mas Lodged 18.000 Tramps
Reuben Romig of Lower Macungie
township, near Emaus. Pa., a farmer,
has lodged IS.000 tramps in his barns
during the last fifteen years, and has
had no trouble with any of them. Of
the 1S.000 only one has asked for work,
and he seemed glad when he got it
Jnstice is the key note of the world,
and all else is ever out of tune: It is
the Idea of God, the Ideal of man. the
rale of conduct writ in the nature of
icnind. T. Parker.
IN THE ODD COMER.
SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OP LIFE.
! Cuti.rt Uf Mldille-Agctl Bicyclists Odd
Uses for 1'erfnme Th Wheel id
Warfare and the Dog Scdut Mysteri
ous Class Hails.
The Llttlo Old Clerk.
UK little old clerk Is
thin and gray.
And his coat is
shiny at every
seam;
His hat belongs to a
long-past day.
And his hoots arc
patched 'neath
the blacking's
gleam.
"Shabby genteel," or
scarcely that,
dub him, with
ihe passers - by
vulKsr scorn
That little old clerk. In the napless hat.
The faded coat and the boots so worn.
Bits writing on. In a human hive.
With a slight respite for a meal between,
Sits writing on in a humble hive.
The busiest bee 'mong the drones. I
ween
Smart voung fellows. In well-made suits.
(His fellow-clerks) sneer, with a scorn
ful eye. .. . , ,
At the faded coat and the old patched
boots.
And ask him If better he cannot buy.
The little old clerk takes his napless hat
From oft" its ree. when his toil is o'er,
Brushes the coat that they all sneer at.
Then, with patient smile, passes through
tho door.
Twentv lorn; years he u clerk has been
In that ollice dim yet no higher goes;
Many placed over his head he's seen
The old clerk's passed by in his shabby
clothes.
The little old clerk, in the evening's
gloom,
Knteis his cottage, with anxious eyes;
Some simple blossoms brighten the room;
A crippled form on the sofa lies.
As a. sister's lips -to hid own are pressed
iThe one for whom shabby through life
he goes)
He thanks God that he with her love Is
blest
The little old clerk in his faded clothes!
Elsie Harrington, in Chambers' Journal.
Caution to Mititlie-Asc'l i:ii-y-IM.
Any form of exercise or sport, says
the British Medical Journal, which
makes serious demands on the atten
tion, 0:1 quickness of eye and baud,
and on endurance, ought not to be
taken up by people who have reached
middle life and are engaged in se
dentary cccupation, only with great
circumspection. The lesson has been
learned by Alpine climbers through
many bitter experiences. It Is pretty
generally held by them that most of
the fatal accidents in mountain climb
ing occur through the failure at the
critical moment of some man who has
taken to mountaineering too late in
life, and who is, perhaps, also out of
condition. An old dog cannot be
taught tricks, according to the proverb,
and, though it is disagreeable to have
to realize that we have passed the
age when we can excel in a new pas
time requiring special skill to avoid
accident and youthful adaptability and
elasticity to avoid overstrlD, v;
the part of wisdom to acsept the inev
itable. There is no reason why middle-aged
men, and even thosj who
vave passed middle age. should not
lake to cycling; hut it should ' v-'ith
I frank recognition of the limiijtions
Which age imposes. Great spece, long
distances and hill-climbing pat a
strain upon the constitution, ana will
find out the weak places the parts
of the system which are aging faster,
jerhaps, than the rest the heart, it
-Say be, or the vessels of the brain.
'd, also, in regard to riding a bicycle
in crowded thoroughfares, the strain
on the attention is considerable and
the risk not small, if a man has lost
the quickness of youth.
Vne ot Perfume.
Anything that will destroy th all
powerful and ubiquitous microbe
should be gladly welcomed, and when
the agent comes in the pleasant form
of perfume it is certainly the more ac
ceptable. We now find from experi
ments that are said to have been made
with the perfumes of flowers that by
means of them many species of mi
crobes are easily destroyed. The odor
of cloves has been known to destroy
these minute creatures in tinrty-fivo
minutes, cinnamon will kill some spe
cies in twelve minutes, thyme in tnir
y five. In forty-five minutes common
wira" verbena is found effective, while
the odor of some geranium flowers
has destroyed various forms of mi
crobes in fifty minutes. The essence
of cinnamon is said to destroy the
typhoid fever microbe in twelve min
utes, and is recorded as the most ef
fective of all odors as an antiseptic.
It is now believed that flowers which
are found in Egyptian mummies were
placed there more for their antiseptic
properties than as mere ornaments or
elements in sentimental work. If
perfumes are so singularly ericacious
as this, then the flower farmer must
be a fortunate person and his life a
healthy one.
Antiseptic Surgery.
The medical value of cleanliness has
not been fully appreciated until within
the past few years. Indeed it is even
yet scarcely allowed its fuil import
ance. There are yet in the medical
profession men who seem to forget that
cleanliness is of'en of quite as much
importance as surgical skill. One of
this sort of men, a dentist, with a toler
able practice, recently demonstrated his
right to be called a back number by a
most objectionable performance, and
one of which he is no doubt guilty
every day of his life. In giving gas he
used a cork attached to a string to
keep the patient's jaws apart while the
gas was being administered. The cork
was diity and covered with the marks
cf goodness knows how many teeth.
It was soaked with saliva, and yet this
doctor put it precisely in this condition
Into the mouth of a patient who wished
some teth extracted. Such a practice
as this should bar any man from prac
tice. 1- there is no article better than
a cork to keep the jaws apart, men
the co:k at least ought to be cleansed
In some way after each time of using.
Mysterious Otas IIIIk.
The imall island of Billiton. between
Sumatra and Borneo, has long been
famous for its rich tin-mines, which are
controlled by the Dutch government.
In describing the geology of Billiton
before the Royal Academy of Sciences
in Amsterdam recently, Mr. Verbeek
gave an account of the mystorious
"glass balls of Billiton," wnich are
found in Borneo and Java, s well as in
oosits. They are round, with grooved
surfaces. Similar balls ar occasionally
found in Borneo and Java, as wen aa ia
Australia. Mr. Verbeek thinks they
cannot be artificial, and there are no
volcanoes near enough to support the
theory that they are volcanic bomlH.
Besides, he say, the glassy rocks pro
duced by the nearest volcan
oes are quite different in
their nature from t'11 :natcr!nl
of the balls. He suspected that the
mysterious objects were ejected, ages
ago, from the' volcanoes of the mootl,
and afterwards fell upon the earth.
Karaclie.
Earache is such a common symptom,
especially in children, that domestic
remedies are often used until the dis
ease demands the advice of a special
ist. By that time often great harm
has been done, and perhaps serious
consequences have resulted. Dr. F. W.
Hinkel calls a(tent'on to lnc srave sig
nificance of earache and the import-'
anca of early treatment. Earache in
children may be thevnrst indication of
an approaching meningitis. An ear
ache should not be passed over with
a superficial examination, but the child
should be given hot foot-baths and put
to bed. The bowels should be freely
scted on. Hot, dry applications arc
better than moist ones. It is better
not to instill solutions of laudanum,
morphia, or cocaine into the car. Opi
ates, loo, often mask the pain and con
ceal the real trouble. Delays are dan
gerous, and in case of approaching
rupture the tympanum should be free
ly incised. No physician should ever
hesitate to call in an aurist when i'j
doubt.
A New Ton to American Tree.
Specimens of a strange caterpillar
discovered this spring on pear-trcea in
Cambridge, Mass., arc pronounced by
Prof. Samuel Ilcnshaw to be the "gold
tail," or euproctis chrysorrhoea, hith
erto unknown as an inhabitant of this
country, although it is found locally in j
England, and is "abundant in central
and southern Europe." When numer
ous, these caterpillars nre very destruc
tive, feeding on such trees and plants
as the apple, pear, plum, hawthorn,
bramble, elm, willow, beech, oak, hazel
nut and hornbeam. At present the in
vaders in Massachusetts are said to be
cenfined to a limited area In Somer-
ville and Cambridge. The first sped- !
mens seem to have made their appear
ance a year ago, and thus far they have
confined themselves to pear and apple
trees. How they got across the ocean
nobody apparently knows. It is sug-
gested that by vigorous measures they
may be stamped out.
The Wheol in Warfare.
The Frei.ch soldier on his bicycle is
giving his neighbor across the Khine
no little trouble, and the latter ha
been driven to find a now method ol
dealing with these troublesome skir
mishers on their steel steeds. Tr:
latest idea put into practice is the
training of large dogs to drag the in
truders from their saddles. The .
nines are taught to attack only tho5i
soldiers in the garb of the enemy, th:
being accomplished by dressing r. 1
German rider In a Frer.c'i uniform
A
A DOG SCOUT,
during the training. The mistake 01
assailing a friendly uniform results in
severe punishment, and the dogs soon
learn their lesson.
It is no easy matter for a man to
ride a wheel over a rough, strange
country, laden with a gun and outer
equipment of a soldier, and the advent
cf a pack of fierce hounds is greatly
dreaded by the ""frvMmate sPics-
Tho Frog in the lllock ot Stour.
While a great many persons have
heard that the quarry man sometimes
breaks a block of stone and a live frog
hops out, no one has yet been found to
verify these statements. Experiments
have been made upon frogs, and in no
instance have they been found alive
after an imprisonment of from one to
two years. That they will survive for
what seems a great length of time is an
unquestioned fact, but that they have
been imbedded in solid rock for almost
countless ages, and when released by
the blows of the hammer, have skipped
cut as brisk and jolly as possible, is by
scientists Icoknl upon as an absurdity.
KVinSii-j t'liiultcn by the Inriibatnr.
"I wonder if neighbor K. is baking
eggs this year, as he did last," said one
man to another as they met on the
public highway one afternoon. "1
suppose you know about his incubator
e-xperieiice. He invested in one that
held sibcut six hundred eggs, filled the
trays with what he confidently hope-'
Mould provo ;o be broilers and roasters
of the most delicious description. Af
ter w.it.'hins thi :h -rminieter with the
utmost care for five or si: days, he got
a little tired of i:. us he stems to tire
of everything, and, consoling himself
with the reficciiou that the- incubator
would probably get along all right, he
went cut driving and stayed away for
several hours. When he returned the
heat had run up to .1 cooking point,
rnd most cf the penr little possibilities
were beautifully coc.Ud and done.
And the most astonishing part of the
entire performance was that he treat
ed the accident more like a huge joke
than a:iytiiti else. Three times last
spring he filled that incubator, and
each time the heat ran up until al
most all of the csgs were spoiled. Out
of eighteen hundred eggs there werw
less than one hundred chickens that
grew to broiler age. It is just such
management as this that gives so
many small industries a bad reputa
tion. To succeed requires vigilaace
and care."
A child's respect for its parent !s
not secured by over-leaiencv any
than by over-severity
1 v v v mi
YOUNG GIRL'S LlBEflTV.
ica Are si Woflsum" l'rotcelc:u !
Youth Is it Time of liig '
The liberty and freedom of action ar
rowed young girls of today is the luk
jeet of a forcible editorial by Ed. wan!
W. Bok in the Ladies" Homo Journal.
"That everything in life U-ndin tr
make people freer In th. .:?.- -- ac
tion is undoubtedly triiff. aud U ; ?
healthful tendency in the mu'n 1. Kh
"ul for people of jcars and s?ll-eon:r.,.',
writes. Mr. Hok. "But no advantage U
without its disadvantages. The treer
our !Tfis become alon beautiful and
safe lines (lit healthier will our miiids
become. But befure v.e can safely
profit by these advantage we must
have lived iong enough to know how tc
use them and to umlei stand what
phases cf them to disregard. Because
women ere freer to travel alone than
ever before, it does not i2cessarily foi
Io.v that it ia wlac and right that young,
girls should he', permitted to travel!
alone. Hdre ccmesthe truth of' the
p.ovcrb that 'wtiat'a one man's poison
is another's meat." The time was whoa
a woman could not, with sOif-respect,
go to a place of eutertainnient unat
tended. Now she can. Bat that does
not make it right for a girl to do so.
The chapercn is none the less indis
pensable to girls today than she was 'M J
years ago. She is really more neces
sary, for, as things become more and
more possible for women, they should
become more impossible for girls. This
may sound hard and severe, but young
girls mst remember that .1 woman rf
years are her protection, where as a
lii IV, lack of years lit her danger. The
very aim and purpose of the present
tendency for woman's greater freedom
will be defeated if we allow it to guide
the actions of our girls. The danger
to immaturity alwavs becomes greater
as the danger to maturity grows less.
That we should never overlook. It is
a blessed change that things arc safely
nossible to women which were absolute
ly Impossible a few years ago. But prog
ress is dingercus as well as healthful.
If parents interpret the present chang
ing conditions by allowing greater free
dom to their daughters they will make
a very sad mistake."
1400 MILLION.
Tho i:sliuitcil l'omil.ttioii
ot tho
Kirtli.
One billion four hundred million of
human beings are living or trying tc
live to-day in the world. A little more
than one-half of these arc women. We
have about SOO.OOO.OOO female fralltie?
on this planet. Of these nearly 500,
COO.000 are semi-civilized, about whom
little or nothing h? known. Of the re
maining 300,000,000 at least one-hall
are suffering more or less with some
chronic ailment peculiar to their sex.
One hundred and lifty million sick
women! What an appalling statement.
Seven million of these sick women live
in the United States of America. 11
this vast multitude of frail sufferers
knew the value of I'e-ru-na in ailment;
of this kind, no medicine manufactory
on earth could make Pe.-ru-na fast
enough to supply the demand for it. It
is undoubtedly the greatest remedy yet
devised for nervousness, irregular cir
rnlation, weakness, palpitation, hys
teria, neuralgia, sleeplessness, blood-
lesncss, catarrhal congestion, loss of I
appetite, indigestion and general de
bility. The Pe-rti-na Drug Manufacturing
Company of Columbus, Ohio, arc send
ing for a short time Dr. Hartman's
latest work, written especially for
women, free of charge. This book will
be sent to women only.
A Lofly Salt take.
Iii rccntly published reports of the
explorations of Russian travelers in
North Tibet there is an account of a
small lake called "Unfreezing." which
lis at an altitude of 13,:i00 feet, and
whose waters are salt.
PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS.
The Greek who made justice blind
was a great artist.
In suppressing crime the ballot Is
at least as great as the rope.
Taken altogether women certainly
make life interesting for a man.
The frying pan Americans fount
Chicago as hot as South America.
The divine right or kings has never
been strong enough to endure unbri
dled criticism.
There is no burden like that of tho
miser, yet some weak woman is always
ready to help him bear it.
It seems ll'ut none of the female
colleges has ever taught a woman tc
say good-by in less than half an hour.
The hottest people in this country
are those who bought $100 wheels the
day before the pri was rcdurid to
In home states the criminals and the
candidates aie the on'y citizens v. ho
1 an dre'l upon the government for
anything.
Xtwspcper editors have shifted from
the queen's jubilee to the weather.
Something has to be written, you know,
and it is less risky to roast things in
a foreign planet.
Ic ib believed that the information of
Wcyler's recall v.v.s the worst piece '61
news unK7, La- iu.-.rd since the war
began. There is danger that Spain
may send n snYiicr to succeed him.
Bob Fitzsimmons is of the opinion
that John L. Sullivan can not stand
mere than three or four stiit punches.
Of course, it depends largely upon what
kind of stiff punches are alluded to.
Ils-Presidcnt Harrison is not a can
didate for any office, and is not mak
ing himself conspicuous in any way,
but he can not take his wife and baby
off for a vacation without the country's
wanting to know all about it.
STUB ENDS.
The doctor's hen text book is a good
judgment.
It is easier to tet a man down than
set him up.
A man is known by what he is and
where he '13.
The lofty tree is seldom measured
till it is down.
The crown is beyond the cross of toU
and self denial.
Humanity is never so beautiful as
r-'hen praying for forgiveness, or else
forgiving another. Jean Paul.
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