Doworcai? Hada,
Bellefonte, Pa., July (2, 1901.
ROSES.
Red as the wine of forgotten ages,
Yellow as gold of the sunbeams spun,
Pink as the gowns of Aurora’s pages.
White as the robes of a sinless one,
Sweeter than Araby’s winds that blow,
Roses, roses I love you so !
Crowning the altar where vows are spoken,
Cradling the form that is still and cold,
Symbol of joy—of love's last token,
Telling the story that never grows old.
Clusters of beauty whom none can debar,
Know ye, I wonder, how fair ye are?
Blooming for monarch in palaces royal,
Queenliest charmers in all the place,
Blooming for yeoman, tender and loyal,
Stooping to kiss his toil stained face.
Roses, roses, born but to bless,
Yield me your secret of loveliness !
—Julive C. R. Dorr.
A PAIR OF VAGABONDS.
1 first met the old man and his dog in a
red hot provincial melodrama, in which
Alcibiades, as the dog was called, and his
master were engaged for a kind of specialty
part.
It was a shockingly ridiculous piece,
badly put on the stage and villainously
acted—I was manager myself and I played
the chief part, so I ought to know—but
there was one item in our entertainment
which was worth all the money charged at
the doors. I mean the performance given
by old Billy Ecclestone and his dog.
The part supported by Billy Ecclestone
was that of a drunken, lazy, kindly old
vagabond, who supported himself by means
of a performing dog. All that he had to
do was to be natural. As the author said
at rehearsal : ‘‘Don’t try to be more of a
vagabond than you really are, Billy. You’ll
overdo it.”’
So Billy used to loaf on the stage just as
he loafed in a public house bar—the dog
did the rest.
You talk about acting—I only wish you
could have seen old Billy’s dog. That ani-
mal combined the intelligence of a senior
wrangler with the snug hypocrisy of a
Chadband. Hecould look miserable and
half starved, walk dead lame, and go blind
one minute, and next time you met him he
would be going through a long and com-
plicated performance with unnatural acti-
vity and dash. .
I suppose the shifty, roving life had
weakened the dog’s moral nature; but I
can only say that he rose to heights of de-
ception which I thought were only possi-
ble to human beings. He would ‘‘shoulder
arms,”’ ‘‘march to war’’ and ‘‘die for his
country,” in the presence of district visit-
ing old woman, with such a chaste air of
pious resignation that I have seen tears
trickling down the spectator’s cheeks. In
some curious way that abandoned old dog
could suggest holy martyrdom combined
with a desire for social reform just when he
liked.
_I remember seeing an old woman so car-
ried away by the dog’s air of noble patience
that he gave old Billy sixpence, and then
groped blindly in her hag for a biscuit for
the dog. Whether she was so overcome
with emotion that she didn’t notice what
she was doing I can’t say, but instead of
producing a biscuit she handed the animal
a temperance tract, entitled ‘‘Shall I Get
Drunk To-night ?”’
The dog rose to the occasion superbly.
To be sure, when she groped in her bag
there was a slightly worldly look in his
eye, which reminded me of the expression
on a parson’s face when the plate is being
carried round; but when the tract was pro-
duced the old missionary expression re-
turned. and with a glance at the heading
12 tarrien it to his master and wagged his
ail.
I regret to add that as soon as the old
woman’s back was turned Alcibiades led
the way to a public house.
But when Alcibiades went through his
performance in a music hall his manners
were quite different. The look of noble
resignation gave way to one of reckless and
diabolical enjoyment. There was a sly
twinkle in his eye that suggested comic
songs with double meanings, and he seem-
ed to he on the point of telling a yarn com-
pared with which a French farce would be
innocent and pure.
I am confident that if the abandoned ex-
pression on that dog’s face had once caught
the attention of the county council they
would have refused to renew the license of
every hall where he appeared.
: Several years elasped between the break-
ing up of our provincial melodrama and
my next encounter with Billy and his dog.
I believe they rubbed along in their usual
fashion. Alcibiades was a dog of some re-
source. When things were very had, he
was capable of abstracting a piece of meat
from a butcher's shop and bringing it in
triumph to Billy’s lodgings. His master
would then gravely reprove the dog and
cook the meat. :
Once Billy sold him to a young dog
trainer, who thought Alcibiades would ex-
ercise a good moral influence over his
younger pupils. The price agreed upon
was £5, but within a week Billy bought
the old sinner back for 20 shillings, the
reason being that Alcibiades not only ob-
stinately refused to perform tricks of any
kind for a stranger, but displayed his an-
noyance at things in general by killing a
valuable fox terrier.
I came across them again at Brighton.
Billy and his dog were giving brief per-
formances on the beach. They hoth look-
ed a little older and a little wickeder.
Poor old Billy was going down hill rapidly.
Strange as it may sound, he was a man of
high education, and had once held a good
appointment as master in a public school.
The downfall had been brought about hy
the usual causes, and now he had degen-
erated into a thorough vagabond.
It was rather a pitiable spectacle to see
the good natured, weak old fellow and his
dog going through the same tricks; Alci-
biades looking as pious and vigilant as ever,
but a little more ragged, and a trifle stiff
in the joints.
But it was here that Alcibiades put the
tinishing touch to a remarkable career. It
was a crowning stroke of diplomacy and
sagacity, for which at least three people
owe him an everlasting debt of gratitude.
It happened that at that time I was work-
ing extremely hard to win the affections of
a certain young woman, who weighed me
in the balance with a judicial exactness
which was rather exasperating.
However, we had at least one common
peculiarity—a profound respect for dogs—
and when I told her of Alcibiadesand his
master, who were then performing on the
beach, and how, at one time, I had been
their comrade and companion, she was de-
lighted. I had rather feared that her
fastidious little mind might have been
shocked at the notion of my having once
been intimate with sueh a pair of vaga-
bonds, but, on the contrary, she was rath-
er pleased. I think she considered it a
great honor for any man to be intimate
with such a dog as Alcibiades.
When we arrived on the scene Aleibi-
ades was extremely busy balancing a Japa-
nese umbrella on the end of his nose. He
winked at me, and dropped the umbrella,
but redeemed his reputation by playing a
concertina. As soon as old Billy saw I bad
arrived, and was accompanied by a lady,
he judged it a favorable moment to take up
a collection. So Alcibiades was sent with
a tin mug, while his master gave a pathetic
recitation about his *‘grandchild’s doll.”
I may mention that Alcibiades could
take up a collection in a way that would
put many churchwardens to shame. There
was no escaping him. In fact, if you se-
riously tried to avoid him, he sniffed the
calves of your legs in a way which would
excite liberality in a miser.
But, to my surprise, he took compara-
tively little notice of me, but passed on to
Miss Woodhurst, and made as much fuss
over her as if she had been a friend of the
family. I was sorry, because she was just
the kind of girl to lose her head if a dog
took any notice of her.
But Alcibiades behaved in a most eccen-
tric fashion, for he seemed to abandon the
sacred task of collecting, and ran back to
old Billy, with his stump of a tail quiver-
ing with emotion.
The old man gave me a grin of welcome,
and glanced at the girl by my side. To
my surprise, he stopped dead short in his
recitation and blusbed. Yes! his weather
beaten, grizzly old face actually turned
scarlet.
Miss Woodhurst appeared to be sublime-
ly unconscious of what was going on, her
attention being entirely occupied by the
dog, whom she seemed to regard as a be-
ing of a higher sphere.
“Isn’t he a dear old thing?’ she whis-
pered in an awe stricken voice. ‘‘I should
like to buy him.”’
“If you buy the dog, you'll have to take
the old man, too,”” I remarked. ‘‘You
can’t have the one without the other.”’
Oh, I don’t want the old man,’’ she
she, glancing, with a little shrug of hor-
ror, at old Billy.
1 think it must have been the first time
she had looked at him, for a flash of half-
puzzled recognition came into her eyes,and
a scarlet patch appeared on each cheek, as
she glanced from the old man to the dog,
and then back again.
Then she turned away quickly.and walk-
ed toward home, and, of course, I followed
submissively.
“What is the name of that dog?’’ she
said presently, making a great effort t
| speak naturally. .
“They call him Alcibiades,’’ I said,speak-
ing lightly, to help her to regain her com-
posure. ‘‘He’s old in sin and in years.”
“And —and the old man ?’’ she said.
‘Ecclestone—familiarly, Billy—a very
good old boy, too, in spite of his faults.”
“He happens to be my father,”’ she said.
This was rather a shock, but, of course,
I evinced no surprise, but received the
news as if it were quite natural for a well-
dressed young lady, living in The Drive,
to have a father who ran a performing dog
show on the beach. ;
“J—I am rather upset about it,’’ she
faltered.
“I think you ought to be very glad to
find him,’’ I ventured.
“I’m glad to hear you say that,”’ she
whispered. *'I was afraid you would think
the opposite. Will you help me? What
ought I to do ?”’
It appeared that her mother had died
when she was 6 years of age, and from that
time until she was 11 her father neglected
her so shamefully that at last her mother’s
brother interfered and took her away. She
could vaguely recollect her father buying
Alcibiades as a pup. The old man was
then going downhill fast, and had prac-
tically lost all self-respect. She had never
geen him again after her uncle took her
away, and old Billy had made no effort to
seek her out.
But she was now free. Her uncle had
died and left her well provided for, and
she was anxious to do the right thing for
the old man—and, in fact, more than the
right thing. She was living with a maiden
aunt, she only other relative she had in the
world, but she would like to be a real
daughter to the old man, if I could suggest
any way of bringing it about.
Now, it struck me that this was not
quite so impossible as one might suppose.
Like most weak people, old Billy was
amendable to influence, and I long since
found that I could do almost what I liked
with him.
So, without telling Miss Woodhurst any-
thing of my intention, I songht the old
vagabond out that night at his lodgings,
and arrived just in time to prevent a drink-
ing bout.
After giving him a good shaking up,
morally and physically,a proceeding which
rather puzzled Alcibiades, who hardly knew
whether to applaud my efforts or lay hold
of my leg, I proceeded to sound him on the
subject of his daughter.
Now, there was one redeeming feature
in old Billy’s character—he was not exact-
ly a cadger—and when, in order to see how
he would take it,I suggested that he should
ask his danghter for help, he rejected the
notion with scorn.
Now, my boy.” he said bitterly, ‘I
treated the girl badly, and I’m not going
to blackmail her, and be a beastly nuis-
ance. To-morrow morning the dog and I
will be up and off, and get out of her way.
And so it will go on until the old dog dies
—it won’t be long now, for he’s very old—
and then I shall go to the workhouse, and
no one will be a penny the worse.’’
Then I approached the matter in a dif-
ferent spirit, and told him that the girl
wanted a father just as badly as he wanted
a home, and that he would have to shake
off his vagabond ways and be a man.
Finally, I took him into the town and
had him groomed down and decently cloth-
ed, and the change was so remarkable that,
when we three—Billy, the dog, and I—
walked along the Parade next morning no
one would have recognized the old show-
man.
It was a great occasion, for we met a cer-
tain dignified, self-possessed little lady,
who put her dignity and self-possession on
one side, and, greatly to the amazement of
a large and fashionable crowd,put her arms
around the old sinner’s neck and kissed
him.
Then she welcomed Alcibiades, who,
with his usual sagacity, had remembered
ber from his puppyhood.
Finally, she turned to me, and—well,
no, she didn’t say anything; but there was
a certain look in her eyes which I had nev-
er hefore seen in the eyes of any woman
during the five and thirty years I had been
knocking about in the world.
And I have only one more remark to add
about Alcibiades, the wily—since that mo-
ment he has never performed a trick. No
coaxing or persuading will induce that
cunning old rascal to die for his country,
or even accept a cake on trust. He seems
to quite understand that he has retired
from the profession, and like a wise dog he
declines to appear as an amateur.— Black
and White.
Mysterious Gift.
A Chicago Woman Gets $50,000, But She Does not
Know Why,
Mrs. John G. Steinfield, wife of a florist
at Forty-third street and Drexel boulevard,
Chicago, was called upon on Wednesday,
by three men who were strangers and had
the appearance of lawers. After question-
ing her closely for the purpose of identifica-
tion, the men presented her with a pack-
age containing $50,000 and immediately
left the house.
Mrs. Steinfield was too much excited by
the visit to do any questioning and did not
open the package in the presence of her
visitors.
When she saw the money she thought it
might be counterfeit,but her husband took
steps to ascertain its geuineness, and was
soon satisfied that it is good United States
currency.
The visit of the men with the cash was
the climax to an anxious night passed by
the recipient, owing to a peculiar ‘‘per-
sonal’’ which had appeared in an afternoon
paper last evening. While in her store, in
Drexel houlevard, a boy who works for her
read the advertisement as follows :
“Mrs. J. G. Steinfield—You have been
very kind to me when I was sick at the
home of R. So please accept this $50,000
and do not seek the giver.”
“It is true that I received a large sum of
money from some unknown person,” she
said, ‘‘but I do not care to state the exact
amount. Three men called. and, after
questioning me closely, left the money. I
have an idea of what is meant in the per-
sonal by ‘home of R.,” but I prefer not to
say anything about it at present.
“I did work ata certain place in this
city once where sick persons are treated.
It is not a sanitarium nor a hospital. I
simply did my duty for those there. Many
of the persons I waited on were wealthy
and could afford to do a thing like this. I
wish I knew who had remembered me so
generously, but I really do not know.
Maybe I shall find out later. I'm so
nervous and flustered about it just now
that I can’t think.”
The Most lcy Spot.
Werkojank, Siberia, is the Coldest Region of the
Globe.
The coldest region of the globe, that of
Werkojank, in Siberia, where the lowest
temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit is 48
degrees Fahrenheit, is inhabited by about
10,500 persons of the Jakut and Lamut
races. In a large part of the region, ac-
cording to the representation of Mr. Ser-
gius Kovalik, in the bulletin of the Geo-
graphical Society of Irkutsk, the air is so
dry and winds are so rare that the intensity
of the cold is not fully realized. Farther
east there are sometimes terrible storms.
In the summer time the temperature some-
times rises to 86 degrees F. in the shade,
while it freezes at night. The latter part
of this season is often marked by copious
rains and extensive inundations.
Vegetation is scanty. There are no trees,
only meadows. The people hunt fur-bear-
ing animals, fish and raise cattle and rein-
deer. It requires about eight cows to sup-
port a family, four being milked the sum-
mer and two in the winter. The cattle
are fed hay in the winter and are allowed
to go out occasionally when it is not too
cold, their teats being carefully covered up
with felt. Milk is the principal food, oc-
casionally supplemented with hares, which
are quite abundant. The houses are of
wood, covered with clay, and consist of
one room, in which the people and their
animals live together. The wealthier clashes
are hetter provided with lodging and food.
The people are very hospitable, but excess-
ively punctilious concerning points of hon-
or, such as the place at table.
Lightning is Not Zigzag.
It has been definitely determined that
lightning is not zigzag, although it gives
our unaided eyes that impression. The
question has been settled by the camera,
that great revealer of the secrets of nature.
The term zigzag means turning at short
angles, but instantaneous photographs of a
lightning flash have shown that the turns
are curves, and not angles. They look like
angles to us because the flash occupies too
little time for us to perceive it as it really
is; the camera, however, gets the true im-
pression.
Do you know why the lightning makes
those turns ? Why does it not move in a
straight line ? Because it always seeks the
path of least resistance, and as it condenses
the air immediately in front of it, it turns
aside to avoid that condensation. It is the
resistance of the air that sometimes makes
a flash divide into what is called forked
lightning. *
There are straight flashes, however, but
they are seen when the cloud is close to
the earth, and not enough resistance is met
to divert them.
It might be well to correct an erroneous
impression that exists about so called‘ ‘heat
lightning.”” That is the term commonly
applied to the lightning that we see in
broad sheets near the western horizon, and
that is not accompanied by thunder. Bat
it is ordinary lightning, nevertheless, and
the only reason why we do not hear the
thunder is because the storm is too far
away. It is properly called sheet light-
ning, but ‘‘heat lightning’’ is a misnomer.
Raw Eggs.
A Few Uses to Which Nurses. Doctors and Also
Housekeepers Put them.
Not a few uses are found for the egg be-
sides serving it for food. For example,
the white of a raw egg makes a most satis-
factory paste, and for some things is better
than any prepared mucilage or paste one
can buy. Dip into the white of an egg
the papers intended for covers of tumblers
of jelly or jam, and they will hold not on-
ly securely, but will be air-tight.
In making mustard plasters mix in the
white of an egg, and there will he no dan-
ger of burning the flesh. The white skin
that lines the shell of an egg is a cooling
application for a boil. 1t is claimed that
a raw egg swallowed at once, when a fish-
bone is caught in the throat, will dislodge
the bone. A better remedy, however, is
to fill the mouth with bread crums and
swallow without chewing any more than
necessary. Hoarseness is often relieved by
taking the white of an egg that is well
beaten with loaf sugar and the juice of one
lemon.
Besides serving to make coffee clear an
egg beaten up with grounds before they
are put into the water will act asa good
tonic. To prevent inflammation in a se-
vere burn or scald, apply the white of an
egg. This can bedone quickly, and will
relieve the stinging immediately.
Some people have difficulty in taking a
raw egg when prescribed bya doctor.
Break the egg into a cup. Be careful not
to break the yelk. Grate upon it a little
nutmeg’ add a few drops of lemon juice,
some chopped parsley, a little salt and a
dash of pepper.
Childish Deformities.
Slight Physical Detects and How to Correct Them.
a Few Useful Exercises.
Few mothers will admit that there is
anything wrong with their children’s
looks. Even the few who see flaws in
their jewels believe there is no help for
these flaws and so let their children grow
fo, & slight defects to deformities. Perhaps
#2 child is the first to notice the physical
defect, and through shame of 1t conceals it,
to her greater harm. One young lady once
said to me:
‘If my mother had only noticed this be-
fore it had grown on me, or if I had not
been so shy about undresssin;; before her,
I would not have been this way. If I ever
have a child of my own I'll wateh carefully
her physical development and examine her
every few months.”
This poor girl had become deformed and
ker spine curved laterally simply from lack
of some one telling her to stand or sit cor-
rectly at school and at home. I cannot
understand why a mother does not see a
defect of this kind growing on a child. A
boy almost always attends some gymna-
sium and comes under the trained and
watchful care of a physical instructor, bub
a girl is rarely sent to a gymnasium until
she becomes old enough to enter the High
school or a college where she is compelled
to take physical training. Every woman
should keep careful watch over the physic-
al development of her little daughters, as |
also should the teachers in public schools,
for it is in these schools that lateral curva-
ture is generally started, if anything is
found to he the matter with the physical
developement of tke child it should be at-
tended to at the earliest moment.
THE RIGHT WAY TO STAND.
1 suppose most mothers would not con-
sider that a child sitting or walking with
chin extended had a physical defect, but
the lungs are seriously endangered by this.
The correct position in standing is this:
The chin should be well in. The trunk or
torso, from waist upward, should be slight-
ly forward inclined ; chest well out and
the weight forward on the balls of the
feet.
Never tell a child to throw his shoulders
back. This causes a narrow back and a
hollow between the shoulder blades.
Simply teach the child to raise the chest ;
the shoulder blades will then flatten, and
the back will become broader. When a
mother tells a child to throw his shoulders
back the child will make such an effort
that the shoulders will come together and
he will unconsciously protrude his abdo-
men in the attempt to become straight. A
mother said to me a short time ago: ‘My
son had a splendid broad chest from club
swinging, but he has a narrow back be-
cause I told him so often to throw back his
shoulders. I never look at him now with-
out remembering what you said a short
time ago about the error of telling a child
to throw his shoulders hack.”
USE OF BREATHING EXERCISES.
Teach your child to raise the chest and
hold the chin in and you have accom-
plished much toward making that child
healthy and graceful. Consumption is not
inherited, but a child may inherit a predis-
position toward consumption. Breathing
exercises, will take but a few minutes a
day, will so strengthen the lungs and make
such goed blood that the little germs of
disease can find no lodgment. Breathing
exercises make bright, clear complexions,
and sparkling eyes. Many a pale child be-
comes rosy under these simple exercises.
So oxygen is received into the lungs, and
thus good red blood. Boys usually take
more exercise than girls. At about the
age of nine every child should be taught
physical training at home or else be sent
to a gymnasium.
I shall not speak of correct wearing ap-
parel for girls, as every mother must judge
| for her daughter, but what I wish to write
is of children who have acquired some act-
ual physical defects, and of the way these
deffects may be removed. In children the
bones are #0 soft that they may easily be
molded. At the age of 25, however, the
bones have hardened beyond the possibility
of changing their shape. We can change
the muscles, purify the blood, strengthen
the organs of older people, but the bones
cannot be changed. Bone is composed of
animal and mineral matter, and in children
the animal matter predominates. Broken
bones mend quickly in children.
EXERCISE FOR STOOPING SHOULDERS.
Here is an exercise for stooping shoul-
ders : Face the wall, toes touching the
wall ; bring the chest to the wall ; breathe
deeply, keeping the abdomen from touch-
ing the wall. Extend the arms in line
with the shoulders ; hands on the shoul-
ders ; extend arms again, and down at the
side.
A defect common to babyhood is bowed
legs. This is caused by many things ; one
is poor nutrition ; sometimes because foods
are substituted for the mother’s milk, or it
is a weakening of the muscular tissues, and
sometimes because hones are softening of
the first conditions named—lack of proper
nutrition. This will be noticed generally
in the first or second years, and sometimes
not until the sixth or eighth year. Consult
a doctor first as to what food to give your
child. A case of soft bones is never known
in Japan. The mother never allows her
child to eat meat up to five years of age.
Don’t encourage your child to walk at
first. Two or three times a day lay the
child on the bed and sit beside him. Put
one leg over your knee and gently bend it
in the opposite direction; at the same
time smooth and rub it with the other
hand. This will cure a child who is one or
two years old in six months or a year. It
will take longer for an older child.
WEAK ANKLES.
Weak ankles is another great weakness,
and very common indeed. How many
children are always turning their ankles,
and even strong boys when skating on the
ice wear straps to keep their ankles from
turning over. The Swedish people, who
wear low shoes all the year round, have
very strong ankles, because their joints
don’t depend on stiff shoes from babyhood.
Here is a good exercise for weak ankles:
The child reclines, the mother or nurse sits
on one side with the child’s leg across her
lap. With one hand grasp the leg near the
ankle and with the other resist the flexion
and extension of the ankle, the hand
pressing against the ball of the foot during
extension and pressing on the upper sur-
face of the toes and part nearest the toes
during the flexion. Do not resist too hard,
so that the child will have to push too hard
to flex and extend his foot.
Here is another exercise to use with the
last one. Let the child lie in the same
way ; then take his toes and ball of foot in
one hand and make the toes describe a cir-
cle each way while you hold his ankle with
the other hand. For the right foot sit on
his right side and use the right hand in
making the movement. For the left, sit on
the left side and use left hand. Do each of
these exercises ten times at first and then
gradually increase up to twenty times.
These two treatment should be given a
child during babyhood, but after, or about
¥
the age of 9, you will notice several little
defects occurring. One of the most com-
mon things is to see a child walking or sit-
ting with his chin dropped. or head thrust
forward. Many mothers think this is
something which a child should outgrow,
but he won’t for it will steadily increase.
Look at the men walking in the streets.
Eight out of ten will be seen with head
thrust forward, chest compressed, or stoop-
ing shoulders. Do you want your little
boy to look like that? I will explain how
this defect will effect the health and
growth.
From the back of the ear on each side of
the head there is a long muscle which joins
to the breast bone and to the inner part of
the collar bone. Now if the head is
held erect the upper part of the muscle
pulls the lower part upward. As the low-
er part is joined to the breast bone and the
collar bone, or clavicle, the whole chest is
raised. If the head is dropped forward the
muscle becomes slackened, and of course
does not pull upward, and of course the
whole chest is allowed to sink and in time
becomes compressed. The object is to so
strengthen these muscles on either side that
it will always hold the head erect, and |
thus the chest is pulled up and there is
room for lung expansion. If this is taught
the child and his lungs expanded asin
breathing exercises.
‘‘Head backward—bend! One’”’
‘‘Upward stretch ! Two!”
The child will soon learn to do it to
counts, without the order. At the order
‘*‘Head backward, bend,’’ the head is al-
lowed to drop slowly backward as far as it
can. Then on “two’’ the head is brought
up to position with the chin held in, push-
ing upward on the back of the head, thus
pulling the chest upward and outward.
You can tell if he is doing it correctly by
putting your hand on his chest when he is |
doing the exercise.
Protruding shoulder is another defect
which is a great misfortune to a young
girl. for it spoils the shape of her back and
makes her look angular, as well as giving
her a very narrow back. The best cure for
this is club swinging, but, as everyone can-
not afford a teacher, I will give a few exer-
cises which will have the same effect.
I. Have the child lie on his face on the
floor, hands on his hips, elbows and face
touching the floor. Now tell him to try
and see how high he can raise from the
waist, toes touching the floor all the time.
Three times a day will be enough. This is
a fine exercise for young and old, to flatten
shoulder blades and expand the chest.
II. Hands on shoulders, elbows touching
sides ; throw the arms out violently at the
sides, counting thirty each time.
III. Same movement,forcing them down
at the sides.
A COMMON DEFECT.
About the commonest defect in children
is lateral curvature; either one shoulder
is lower than the other, or oue hip is higher
than the other, or both hip and shoulder.
It is not often noticed until a child bas
reached the age of fourteen. If a girl the
dressmaker generally notices it. This leads
to a very serious deformity if allowed to go
on. The spine curves to either side and
sometimes rotates, so that one side of the
chest is compressed, the shoulder blade
thrust way out, one shoulder lower than |
the other and the opposite hip lower. Lat-
ural curvature always grows worse unless
stopped at the beginning. After the bones
have hardened nothing can be done. If
your child is only slightly so, one shoulder
a little lower, here are a few things to do
for her.
II. Have a bar suspended in the nurs-
ery or fixed firmly between a doorway, and
at any time during the day have the child
catch hold of it and hang as long as he can.
If the shoulder is very much lower have
the bar slanting, with the high part on the
side of the low shoulder. The hand on the
side of the low shoulder should grasp over
the bar and the other hand under grasp.
This exercise brings the spine to perfect
straightness at the time, and the longer it
is kept in this position the better.
II. For the low hip, hang on the bar
and bend the knee upward on the side of
the low hip as many times as the child
can, which would be about five, I should
say.
III. Put your hand on the child’s low
shoulder and give gentle resistance as he
shrugs the shoulder, taking care not to
move the other shoulder at all ; child sit-
ting during this exercise.
Watch the child in sitting and standing.
Make lim keep equal weight on both feet,
and not stand with one hip thrown out.
Explain to him how it will grow so, and
see that he understands for himself. If
the child is already badly deformed put
him immediately in the hands of a medical
gymnast for treatment, from one to three
years. These exercises are the best for a
mother to use, and I have tried to give
help for the commonest defects in child-
hood.
Don’t let you child sleep on high pil-
lows ; it is better to sleep on none at all.—
Philadelphia Record.
Fourth-of-July Fatalities.
Man Killed by Somebody Lighting a Cracker He Car-
ried.
The usual number of fatalities caused by
pyrotechnic patriotism developed on the
Fourth are reported from various sections
of the country. At Lonaconing, Md.,
Andrew Kirkpatrick died from injuries in-
flicted by a giant firecraker which he was
carrying home and which somebody light-
ed behind him. The explosion, according
to a Cumberland dispatch, broke two of his
ribs, lacerated his lungs and injured his
heart.
At Pulaski, Lawrence county, five men
were injured by the premature explosion
of a cannon. Among the injured were Ed-
ward and Clifford Porter, of Braddock, who
were burned about the face and hands.
The explosion set fire to a thirteen pound
can of powder.
During a row at Fitzwilliams Grove,near
Washington, Pa., Blanche Williams, color-
ed, was slashed with a razor several times
by Susan Dickson, also colored, and a rival
of Miss Williams. A negro who was escort-
ing the Dickson woman held her victim
while she plied the razor. The ‘‘brave’’
negro and his lady friend fled after the cut-
ting, but the woman was later arrested at
Wheeling. The Williams woman is in a
serious condition asa result of her injuries.
At Uniontown an incident out of the or-
dinary occurred when a policeman arrested
Councilman John G. Wildey for violating
an ordinance he had helped to frame by fir.
ing off giant firecrackers. A mob tried to
rescue Wildey, and Lewis Bradley was ar-
rested. Burgess Rutter fined Wildey and
Bradley $10 each.
— Edward McWilliams, his wife, four
children and two unknown men were
struck by lightening at Monessen at 1:30
o’clock Thursday afternoon. Two of the
McWilliams children were killed outright,
the father, mother and baby died soon af-
ter, and one child and the two unknown
men will recover.
Pastor Leaves the Town.
Rev. G. E. Ford, pastor of the Second
Methodist church, left Bridgeton, N. J.,
on Wednesday morning. It issaid that he
went upon his bicycle, and it is given out
positively by members of his church who
last interviewed him that he will not re-
turn.
Rev. Mr. Ford sprang into notoriety re-
cently by publicly indorsing William Ire-
land, the alleged ‘‘Divine Healer" and was
the only minister who would consent to
marry that individual a couple of weeks
ago. There have been some mutterings re-
cently among the coigregation of the
Second church, disapproving of the pastor’s
alleged actions, and but a few nights since
the parsonage was literally sprinkled with
over-ripe eggs by midnight visitors.
About 2 o’clock on Tuesday night some
one noticed a 15-year-old daughter of one
of the members entering the darkened edi-
fice, and she did not immediately return.
The word was hurriedly passed about the
neighborhood and soon a crowd col-
lected, surrounding the church. There
were threats of tar and feathers, and when
the crowd became demonstrative the front
door, the only one in the building, was
opened and the little girl hurriedly came
out. She declared there was no one else
inside the building. The girl was taken in
charge by some acquaintances and taken to
the home of her parents.
An investigating committee then entered
the church and ravsacked it from top to
bottom, but for awhile no signs of anyone
could be found. Finally a rattling in the
heater pipes led the people to look 1n that
direction, and Rev. Ford was bauled out of
the heater in the cellar. He presented a
sorry sight, being almest unrecognizable
because of the soot and ashes which cover-
ed him. while his face and hands were con-
siderably scratched.
The pastor was hauled outside, where
the angry people would have wrecked sum-
mary punishment, but wiser counsels pre-
vailed, and Mr. Ford was taken to his
home, where there was a conference. The
preacher is said to have agreed to leave the
town, never to return.
Ford had been at Bridgeton two years,
and has a wife and eight children, some of
the latter being nearly grown up.
Horses
Heat.
Treatment for Overcome by
“First, horses should be provided in ex-
cessive warm weather with light sun-
shades or wet sponges on the head when at
work, or the horse should be sponged
about the head as many times as possible
during the day. Never feed or water
them to excess. Daring the warm months
stables should be well ventilated. If the
horse is debilitated treat him and build
him up. If a horse has suffered from one
sunstroke extra precautions should be
taken or the attack will be repeated.
“Symptoms of sunstroke are as follows :
The animal suddenly stops, drops his head
begins to stagger, and soon falls to the
ground unconscious. Breathing is marked
Ly great exertion, the pulse is slow and ir-
regular, cold sweats break out in patches
on various parts of the body, and the ani-
mal dies without regaining consci ous-
ness.’’
“In treating for sunstroke do not bleed
the horse. Ice or very cold water should
be applied to the head and along the spine
and half an ounce of carbonate of ammo-
nia or six ounces of whisky should be
given in a pint of water.
‘‘Heat exhaustion symptoms are first ap-
parent by the animal requiring much
urging for sometime previous to the appear-
ance of any other symptom. General per-
spiration is checked, and then he becomes
weak in his gait, and breathing hurried
and panting, eyes watery and bloodshot,
nostrils dilated and highly reddened, as-
suming a dark purple color; the pulse is
rapid and weak the heart bouncing and
often followed by unconsciousness and
death. If convalescence takes place re-
covery extends over a long period.
“Treatment similar to that given above
for sunstroke should be followed where
the horse is suffering from heat exhaustion
with the exception of cold water to the
head and spine, for, in this case,
cloths wrung out in hot water should be
used. In either case where a reaction
takes place a preparation of iron and gen-
eral tonics may be given, one good tonic
being sulphate of iron, one dram ; gentian,
three draws ; cinchona bark, two drams,
and give in the feed nights and mornings.
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Died in Abandoned Mine.
Four Men Overcome by Black Damp in Cave-in of 0/d
Workings.
Four young miners, ranging in age from
nineteen to twenty-one years, lost their
lives near Monongahela, Washington coun-
ty, in a cave-in of an old abandoned work-
ing of the Catsburg Mines about 8 o’clock
Friday morning. The men had attended a
Polish ball at Monongahela on the Fourth
and had spent the night at the home of a
friend. While returning home past the
old cave-in, one of the men tripped and his
hat rolled down to the bottom of the hole
into the mine. The young man went after
it, but on reaching the mine was overcome
by the black damp and fell down prostra-
ted. Three of his companions went in and
attempted to rescue him, and all met the
same fate.
The fifth young man became alarmed
and ran to Catsburg for help. A large
crowd assembled at the hole, and the
bodies of the victims were pulled out by
means of iron hooks fastened to long poles.
The names of the dead are Frank Gariske,
Louis Skalski, John Smilki and Stephen
Cropel. The first named lived at Catsburg
the latter three at Baird.
Dolly’s Faith.
Dolly is a firm believer in the all-wise
-and all-seeking power of her Creator, but
she is also a devoted mother to a family of
six bisque and kid waxen babies. On Sun-
day morning the nurse came home from
church and found Dolly busily pressing
out a doll’s dress with a toy flatiron.
Nurse fixed her charge ‘‘with a stern re-
proving eye. ‘This is Sunday,’ she said
—just as if Dolly didn’t know the dullest
day of the seven. ‘‘You should not labor
on the Lord’s day.” Dolly lifted a pink
face and smiled serenely. ‘‘God knows
this little iron isn’t hot,’’ she said.—Cui-
rent Literature.
Successful Fish Farms in Maryland.
The fish commission reports a successful
experiment of fish farming by a resident of
Chestertown, Md., named Josiah Massey.
He has a “fish farm?’ of about two acres
area, of clear spring water, which is alive
with black bass, perch and other fish.
which are cultivated with as much atten-
tion as his barnyard fowls. The fish are
fed night and morning, like turkeys or
chickens, on cornmeal, breadcrusts and
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