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POPULAR DELUSIONS ABOUT UTAH.
Nw York UsrsH, Fsb. 13.
Mr. Edmunds proposes to call up in
the United States Senato to-morrow
his bill for the better enforcement of
the anti-polygamy statutes in Utah. It
is highly appropriate for a Senntor
from Vermont to take tho lead in a
legislative movement of this kind, for
his State was the birthplace of Joseph
Kmith, the founder of Mormonism ;
and Brigham Young and Hebcr C.
Kimball, who guided the conspiracy
that engrafted polygamy upon the dog
mas of the new religion, were natives
of the same soil.
There are some popular delusions
about the Mormons, aud very intelli
gent persons who have visited Salt
Lake City for the purpose of making
personal investigations there, and who
fancy that they have a right to pro
nounce authoritative opinions upon
"tlie Utah question," are not always
free from them. One is that the Mor
mons consist chiefly of foreigners. On
the contrary, the American-boru in
habitants of Utah outn#iiber the for
eign-born more than two to one. The
proportion by the census of 1880 is
99,969 to 43,994. I>nkotn, which ap- ;
proximates closely to Utah in the ng- j
gregate of its population, having 13-5,-1
180 inhabitants, while Utah has 143,-
903, is muelj more under the domina
tion of a foreign element so far as
numbers are concerned. The propor
tion in Uakota is 51,793 foreign horn
to only 83,387 natives of the United
•States. So is the State of Nevada. So
are most of the great cities of the con
tinent. The proportion in Utah does
not materially differ from that in
Rhode Island, one of the original mem
bers of the Union. It will not do for
the people of the United States to try
to shift their own responsibility for the
disgusting peculiarities of Utah society
upon foreign shoulders. The Mormon
religion was an American invention,
and the ecclesiastical supremacy over
its adherents always has iieen control
led by Americans. John Taylor, who
is the nominal head of the Church
since Young's death, is English by
birth, to I>e sure, hut he liv no means
inherits Young's autocratic sway. It
is shared with coadjutors most of whom
are of American birth, ami he himself
has been a resident of the United
States for half a century. He was
with .Smith in Carthage jail in 1814,
and was wounded in the affray in which
the Prophet was killed. Nor have
foreigners ever predominated in Utah
at any stage of the development of the
Mormon community. In 1870 the
total population was 86,7x0, ami the
respective numbers of American-born
and foreign-born were 56,084 and 30,.
702. In 1860 the total was 40,273,
and the respective numbers were 27,-
519 ami 12,751. The bulk of the
American-born inhabitants nlo nre
natives of tbe Territory. No b-ss than
80,847 of the present 99,969 were born
upon its own soil, under exclusively
Federal jurisdiction. Congress ba
had the power to control them from
the cradle in all those features of life
which ore subject to the regulation of
law. These figures fix the absolute
responsibility of the United States
Government for what Utah is. As
the twig is bent the tree is inclined,
and if Congress had bent this twig out
of its crookedness while the wood was
tender and supple it might have spared
itself the present severe efforts to
straighten a stout trunk of more than
thirty years growth.
Another delusion about ( tab is that
the foreign element in its population
is recruited from European races which
the. claimauts of a conceited superior
ity for the so-called Anglo-Saxon stock
fancv to be inferior. On the contrary,
England makes the chief contribution
to it,and next to England comes those
Scandinavian countries to whoso peo
ple the Auglo-Saxou stock is close
akin. The infrequeucv of Irish or
German Mormons is very remarkable,
and the races of Europe never
have been hospitable to Mormon mis
sionaries. Has the discipline of the
Catholic Church anything to do with
this? Certainly it is next to impossi
ble to find a Frenchman, an Italian or
a Spaniard in Salt City. Tin
proportions in which foreign countries
have chiefly contributed to the Mor
mon community arc very constant, as
is plain by the following comparative
table, which we have compiled from
the censuses of 1870 and 1880 :
ICH | ** I
Bom In Engl*nit IS iC I Ifl.i-'.l
Ham In SsaUnnd IWI I 201
Horn In Wnl*n ...... I.l*l i.Vju
Bora in IrrlnnS soi l.ngl
Ham In 1>ni?i*r1i.............. I.Ki :.7#l
Norn In Swwlrn 1,7*0 .1 JSn
Hern In Norwiiy..... mi I 214
Horn In Saiurlan4 11.40
Born In Orrn*nj Sin k.-.
We are satisfied, by inquiry, that
the large ratio of increase of Irish aud
German immigrants exhibited in this
table is due to the development of
mines in the Territory, and not at all
to convdßkoria to Mormonism. It re
inforces HI noo-Mornion, or so-called
Gentile, section of the population.
Another noteworthy fact is that the
Mormon community is not n favorite
asylum for Chinese. Notwithstanding
the facilities the Pacific railroad affords
them for acccso to Utah there were but
445 Chinamen there in 1870, and the
number had increased only to st)l in
1880.
A third delusion nbout Utah is that
tho females greatly outnumber the
males. This popular notion among
uuiuquiring people arises from suffer
ing their minds to dwell upon the
abundantly-stocked seraglios of the
wealthy potentates of the Mormon
Church, without considering that the
poverty of most of the agricultural
settlers in the Territory makes it em
barrassing for a multitude of them to
support ono wife —much more two,
three, or half a dozen. It is, to be
sure, a Mormon practice to marry
women for cooks and chambermaids.
There are conveniences in the practice
in respect to stability of service. But
the circumstances of most Mormon
hushaudmen forbid them to employ
cooks or chambermaids, whether by
wedding or by wages. Notwithstand
ing the vigorous preaching of poly
gamy as a duty for the last twenty-five
years, it irf probable that a majority of
the Mormon males still are monoga
mists for economic reasons, ami that
polygamy is a luxury, like cigars ami
champagne. The proportion of the
sexes shown by the census of I><Bo is
74,471 males to 69,436 females, and
lest this excess of males may be as
cribed by any one chiefly to the mining
immigration it is |H-rtinent to add the
figures of the two preceding censuses.
In 1870 the mules were 44,1 '2l and the
females 42,665, and in 1 860 they were
resjiectively 20,255 and 20,01 s .
.V Remedy for Hums.
THE Al'l-LIC AVION or A SATt'KATKI) SOLUTION
or sons HI CARBONATE.
from th* I'rartitlonor.
It is now many years ago that the
author of this paper, while engaged in
some investigations as to the qualities
and effects of the alkalies in inflam
mations of the skin, etc., was fortunate
enough to discover that a saline lotion,
or saturated solution of the bi earboii
ateil soda in either plain water or
camphorated water, if applied speedily
or as soon a* possible to a burned or
scalded part, was most clfeetual in im
mediately relieving the acute burning
pain; and alien ilie burn was only
siipeificial or not severe, removing all
pain in a very short lime; having also
the very great advantage of cleanli
ness, and if applied at once of pre
venting the usual como-queiicca—a
painful blistering of tbe skin, separa
tion of tbe epidermis and iterbaps more
or less of suppuration. For tbis pur
pose ull that is necessary is to cut a
piece of lint or old soit rag or even
thick blotting-paper, of a si?.-- sufficient
to cover the burned or scalded parts,
aud to keep it constantly well wetted
with thesodaic lotion, so as to prevent
its drying. By this mums it usually
happens that all pain ceases in from a
quarter to half an hour, or even in
much less time. When the main part
of a limb, such as the (mud and fore
arm or the font and leg, has lieeu burn
ed it is last when practicable to plunge
the part at once into a jug or pail or
other convenient vessel filled with the
soda lotion and keep it there until the
pain subsides, or tbe limb niny le
swathed or encircled with a surgeon's
cotton bandage previously -naked in
tbe saturates! solution and kept con
stantly wetted with it. the relief being
usually immediate, provided the solu
tion lie saturated and cold.
falling Hark on the Ijjn* of Moses
Vrvtn !'♦ T- M Piftinjt®
There is a colored Justice of the
Peace who hold* Court not far from
Austin ami who gets otf from the Bench
Nirae of the tiu>t wonderful decision*
that have ever been dclivcre.l ince the
day* of Solomon. Not Ion); since Jim
Webster wad brought up la-lore him for
cuttiiig oir the ear ol n row that had
broken into Jim's garden. The cae
was clearly proven, and the colored
Solomon saiil : "1 sentence Jim Web
ster to lie locked up in dc county jail
forde sjmcc obone year." "But,your
Honor, the statute says that the penal
ties for such offence* shall la-a fine,
not to exceed fifty dollars," said Jim
Welister's attorney. "I knows datar,
but I take de old Inw on de subject."
"To what old law does your Honor re
fer?" "To de law of Moses, sab,
which says, 'an eye for an eye, a toof
for a toof, an ear for an ear.' I)e pris
oner nt dc liar cut off one ear ob dc
cow, and de law say* splicitly, dat he
!<*•* a year's lime in de jail. Kf he
had cut oir bofe ears ob de row he
would hali got two years. < 'all dc next
ease on dc docket."
Au Innocent Abroad.
Frunt the Hartford Tlmst.
A young lady from the rural dis
trict recently visited town with her
lienn. (Jetting into a ear for the first
time she took her seat, while her lover
planted himself on the box with the
driver. Very soon the conductor be
to collect the fares, and approach
ing the rustic maiden be said : "Your
fare, miss." The rural rosebud al
lowed a delicate pink to manifest itself
upon, her cheeks and looked down in
• I confusion. The eouductor was
rather astonished at this, but ventured
to remark once more: "Your fare,
miss." This time the pink deepened
to carnation, as the rustic beauty re
plied : "l)eed,nnd if I am good look in",
you hadn't ought to say it out loud
afore folk* r
TIIK BOFTTON Pod can *O no reaaoti
why Chinamen ftlmuld no( Itecnme po*
line officer*. They tin not *|><-ak the
Knglinh language very well, but neith
er floe* a drunkard.
KCHTACIEH AT REVIVALS.
Whole Conyregatione Prostrated by "Jerk*"
and Nervout Kxhaustipn.
From ft Pftper lijr PrufrMor Ynrimll, of l*iit*vill.
Extraordinary interest was excited
in the popular mind of Kentucky, at
an early day, by a form of convulsive
disease, which, though it had been
witnessed elsewhere in the world, had
never assumed a shape so decidedly
epidemic. The spectacle of |>crsoiis
falling down in a paroxysm of feeling
was first exhibited at (Jasper River
Church, iu one of McGready's congre
gations in the summer of 1770. The
movement proved highly contagious
and spread in all directions. After
a rousing appeal to the feeling* of the
listeners, ami especially during spiri
ted singing, one ami another in the
audicnee Would fall suddenly to the
ground nnd swoon away. Not only
nervous women, hut robust young men
were overpowered. Some, continue.,
the historian, fell suddenly as il struek
by lightning, while others were seized
with a universal tremor before they fell
shrieking. Dr. Rlvthe, who often
witnessed scenes of thi* sort, assured
Dr. Duvidsou that he imd mice felt
the sensation himself, and only ovr
came the tendency to eolivulsiun by a clfnrt
clfnrt of hi* will. A few
shriek* never failed lo put the assem
bly in motion and set iio-n aud women
to falling around. A sense of "pin*
and needless" wa* complained of by
many of the subjects, mid others fell a
numbness of Imdy, mid lost all voli
tional control of their mucles. It stain
grew into a habit, and those who bad
once fallen were ready to fall again
under circumstance* by no tneau* ex
citing. The lir*t form iu wbiel| these
spasmodic movement* made their up
|M*aranee wa* that of a simple jerking
of the arms from the elbow downward.
When they involved the entire Imdv
they arc describe,! a- something terri
ble to behold. The head wa* thrown
backward and forward with a ecleritv
tliut alarmed s|iectalors, causing the
hair, if it wa* long, "to imp like the
lash of ft whip."
The most graphic description of the
"jerking exercise" wa* written by thu
Rev. Richard McNernar, an eyewit
ness o| ihe frenzy, a* well a* an ij*i!o
--gi-t, believing it to he n display of
Divine favor, in hi* "History of the
Kentucky Revival" he say*: "Noth
ing in nature could letter represent
tins strange and unaccountable iqicra
tioii than for one to goad another, al
ternately on every side, with a piece of
redhot iron. This exercise commonly
1 cgail in the head, which would fly
backward and forward, nud from side
to side with a quick jolt, which the
|>cr.*on would naturally labor to sup
press, hut in vain and the more any
one labored to stay himself and he
sober, the more he staggered, and the
more Ins twitches increased. He must
necessarily go as lie was stimulated,
whether with a violent dash on the
ground, a bounce from place to place
like a foot hall, or round with head,
limb- and trunk twitching and jolting
in every direction, a* if they must in
evitably fly asunder. And how such
could escaja? without injury wa* no
small wonder to spectator*. Hy thi*
strange ojiernlioti the human frame
wa* commonly so transformed and dis
figured a* to i< so every trace of i *
natural apjxarntiee. Sometime* the
loud would lie twitched right and left
to a half-round with such velocity that
riot a leature could lie discovered, but
the face appeared a* much behind a*
before. Head dre**es were of little ac
count among the female jerker*.
Haukerchiefs, hound tight round the
head, were flirted <m with the firt
twitch; ami the hair put into the ut
most confuinn.
Uranade is th* preacher who give#
thi# description of himself, which i#
also descriptive of hi* time*. lie wa*
a stormy orator whodrew great crowd#
wherever he went. He admit* that he (
went by the name of "the detracted
preacher," hut say* that nt one of hi*
meeting* "the people fell n if slain
bv a mighty weapon, ami lay in ouch
pile* ami heap* that it wa feared they
would nfTieate and that in the wimds."
Ho violent wa* hi* manner, stamping
with hi* feet and minting with hi*
hand*, that he often hrnke down the
stand* erected for him in the woods.-
Once, it i* told of him, he wa* address
ing a cla** meeting in the upper story
of a dwelling house, when the room
hehiw wo* crowded wit'o wor*hip|M>r*,
ami, being in what the historian call*
"one of hi* big way," he rxelaimed :
"I feel like breaking the trigger of
hell!" and at the same time gave a
tremendou* *tamp with hi* foot which
actually broke one of the joist*. The
|ieople below, hearing lbe*uddeti cruh
ran *creamiug, to the door, *omc of
them really imagining,a* the writer of
all these event* relate*, "that hell had
overtaken them."
GKXKRAL GRANT, when asked the
other evening where was the sword
which he wore at Ix-o's surrender,
answered : "I didn't have any on. I
seldom wore a sword. I did wear one
at the battle of Bhi!oh and it saved niy
life. A ball struck it and broke the
scabbard, which dropped on the field.
I Indieve Mrs. Grant has the blade.
Hhe is better at saving things than I
am."
It is estimated that if a man lives to
seveuty-two years old, he passes at
least twenty-four years in sleen 80,
you sets, a man is a pretty goon sort of
a fellow one-tbird of the time, bad as
he may be the remaining two-thirds.
Let us bo charitable.
A Young (Jlrl Marries a Murderer.
fat) Pftktti iaro Alio.
About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
u vouug lady named Mary E. Willis,
a blonde of prepossessing appearance
and twenty-four years of uge, applied
at the County Clerk* office for a mar
riage license, permitting her lo murry
George C. Gottung. who only two
hour* before had been sentenced to
serve a term of ten year* iu the Htate
Prison at San Quentiu for the murder
of hi* wife. About the *nme time
Justice Pennie wa* called out of the
Court room to go to the County Jail
to perform the marriage ceremony,
and half an hour later the jail door
was opened iu answer to a knock to
admit, on a permit from the (Sheriff,
"Judge Pennie, Mr. Gottung (a brother
of the groom) and Mis* Mary E. Wil
li*." The trio wore taken to the re
eeptioii-room, where they expressed a
desire to see George C. Gottung, uud
explained the object of their visit.
( VII No. 'J"i, wherein (Joining was con
fined, was opened and the party pro
ceded to cell No. 1, where Justice
Peuiiie united the couple, the only
witness present being the groom's
brother. After an hour's con versa
tion. the newly-made wife and her
brother-in-law left the jail and Gut
tling was locked up in hi* cell. Got
tung i* seven years the senior of lit*
bride, and by good behavior may he
released in about seven year*.
Mary E. Willi* i* the daughter of
Robert Willis, a house painter, re-id
ing at 171* Ix-a veil worth street. She
has been for a long time a member of
the Woman's Emit and Flower Mis
sion, and was a frequent visitor to the
county jail, where she went for the
purpose of laboring for the welfare of
the prisoner*. While in thi* work
she became acquainted with Gottung
and took n great interest in him. The
frequency of her visit* increased, and
it soon became apparent that between
the two hud sprung up a strong at
tachnient, report* of which finally
mt<4icd the ear* of tl.e young lady's
father, who trid to dissuade her
against yielding to an infatuation that
could result iti no good. Rut as she
wns of age and had a will of her own,
the visit* instead of decreasing la-came
even in- re frequent and of longer dura
tion. The lather tried to induce the
jail officials to refuse her admission,
hut as they scemd to think they had
no right to comply with the request,
lie finally suhmittd to the inevitable,
hoping f.r the best. The result is, that
tin! infatuated girl has —unless the
ceremony wn* void, hy reason of the
outlawry of the groom—been married
to a man under a ten years' sentence
for the killing of hi* former wife by
stabbing her iua Ix-er saloon at North
Reach.
Hon Marriage* Itnokes a Will.
ft- m • fi'lußf
Some very hard caw* have arisen
under our Pennsylvania Inw in regard
to this subject. A man about to mar
ry ba made his will in favor of his in
tended wife, and a woman about to
marry has inade her will in favor of
her intended husband, and in both
caw-* the will* have lieen revoked by
the marriage. It has happened more
than once that purchaser* who Ixuight
from the device* or legates under a
will have found that they had failed
t'Mfcct a title to the whole property on
account of an outstanding claim on
the part of an after-born child of the
testator. It is iniportant,therefore,thal
the following summary of the law by
the late thief Justice Reed should l>c
k< nt in mind :
First. The will of a single woman is
revoked by her subsequent marriage,
and is not revived by the death of her
hushatid.
Second. If a man makes his will and
marries, and die* leaving a widow, so
fiir as regards hi widow, he dies in
testate; that is, his will is revoked
pro tanto (or in that respect. I
Third. If a mau makes hi* will, and
has an after horn ehild or children
not provided for in said will, and die*
leaving this after-born child or chil
dren, he dies intestate, and his will is
revoked pro tanto.
Fourth. If a man make* hi* will
and ninrrics, and die*, leaving a wid
ow ami child not provided for in such
will, his will is not revoked alisolute
ly, as at common law, but only pro
tanto.
Fifth. If a man makes his will,
marries and dies, leaving a widow, but
not known heirs or kindred, it is clear
ly revoked, so far a* to give the wid
ow both the real and personal estate
absolutely.
The law refuse* to admit that a man
can intend to disinherit his children,
unless he shows that iutention by a
will made after they arc horn.
Making New Eyelid*.
Transplanting human flesh basal
ways been considered a difficult opera
lion, hut the success attending two re
markable operations of this kind re
cently performed by I)r. Richard J.
I.evi* at the Pennsylvania Hospital
has attracted the attention of the en
tire medical profession. The subject
that received the severest cutting from
the surgeon's knife is a coal miner
named John Delancy, from the Le
higli Valley district, who received ter
rible injuries about the head and breast
by the explosion of a can of blasting
powder. The accident happened Ave
{cars ago, and alter the wounds had
ealed the man was horribly disfigur
ed, presenting a sickening appearance. (
The head was drawn so far forward
that hi* chin had grown fast lo his
breast, wliih: hi* eyes were without lid*,
it wa* impossible (or him to *hut hi*
eye*,and food could be taken with only
the greatest difficulty. In this condi
tion life wa* a misery to the unfortu
nate mnn, while hi* repulsive np|*-ar
ance was no le** a Hource of annoynnce
to hi* friends. In thi* condition he
came to the Pennsylvania Hospital
about fifteen months ago, and wa*
placed under the care of Dr. Ix-vis.
i lie head wa* fir*t brought to an up
right position by what i* known a* the
plastic operation. The flesh that held
the chin down wa* cut, and to prevent
thi* new wound from drawing the chin
to its former position it w a* covered bv
*kin turned up from adjacent part* of
the breast. The chin wa* held in posi
tion by props and bandage*, and within
a few weeks time the patient wa* able
to hold hi* head erect.
liut the eye* were *tili a source of
great annoyance to him. The upiier
and lower lid* were burned off, leaving
the iuflumcd edge* turned outward.
The upper lids were supplied by flesh
f rom a little finger which it wa* neces
sary to amputate. The application
healed, and in a short time Delancy
returned home greatly improved in ap
pearance. He wa* able to partially
close his eyes, but the under lid* were
*:ill sore. A few weeks ago he again
came to the hospital, and wa* supplied
with new lid* taken from the fle*h of
an nrm. Thi* application was no less
successful thai! those that had preceded
it, and in a short time the man w ill li
able to have.
The second operation performed bv
Dr. 1/ •vis was one requiring even more
skill than the preceding, although the
result* obtained were not a* great.
The patient in this case was a young
woman, the corner of whose mouth
and the under lip were eaten awav by
disease. The flesh was gone even down
to the jawbone. To heal thi* a jtor
lion of the upper lip wit* cut aud turn
ed over, so a* to fid the place of the
part eaten away. The wound i* heal
ing readily, and withiu a short time
the mouth will he whole and without
disfigurement, only a slight sear show
ing.— I'hi/a. Jlrronl.
Fundamental Difference*.
N Vok ibiti
Mr. Jefferson's remarks prefatory to
the Ana-, written twenty-five years
after the Anas themselves, are full of
interest. "A short review of the facts,"
he *ays, "will aiiow that the contests
of that day were contests of principle
between the advocate* of republican
and those of kingly government ; and
that had not the former made the cf
forts they did, our government would
have been, even at thi* early day, a
very diflVrent thing from what the
successful i*sue of those efforts ha*
made it."
The Ana# were Mr. Jefferson'# re
cord of the occurrence# in ami about
the Washington administration. They
•how the real, unvarnished opinion* of
the Matcsrmn of that day upon vital
question*, and narrate the conflicts out
of which arose the parties which subse
quently divided the country —one of
which, the Democratic, still endures,
while the other has shifted it# name,
hut not it* esseutional doctrines, many
time*. Hut the germ or beginoing of
every political controversy that has
ever shaken the republic, from the in
auguration of Washington to the pres
ent time, niav be found in these narra
tion* of the first secretary of state ; and
elsewhere, iu the official papers sub
mitted bv the respective leaders, Jef
ferson and Hamilton, are elaborated
the divergent view* of fundamental
principles upon which partial have
since stood and fought, and indeed,
are likely to stand ami fight so long as
the Constitution of 1787 shall last.
It was, however pretty clearly the
opinion of Jefferson, as it ha* been of
nearly all hi* followers, that the abso
lute triumph of the Federalist* would
put a practical cud to political parties.
The leader* of the Federal party then
avowed openly, a* the leader* of the
Grant party have since done, although
with more caution, their purpose to
change the government, so a* to make
it " stronger" as against the common
people. Hamilton's demand for a
" distinct and permanent share of
authority" to he given to wealth as
such, was plainly reiterated by the
(•rant conspirators iu the prelimina
ries to the Chicago convention. Such
a change would soon be followed by
an hereditary tenure of many officers,
by a ruthless use of the power of taxa
tion for the further enrichment of the
fortunate few, by monopoly in every
form and bv large navies and standing
armies. What, under such circum
stances, would be the opposition or
Democratic party. It could scarcely
be anything hut a conspiracy against
overwhelming power, with DO hope of
succest except in revolution. Mean
while the condition of the people
would be what it has been in all ages
aud til countries where, instead of
making their rulets servants, tbey
suffered them to make themselves mas
ters.
HOW TO HLEEP WELL.
Tkt Cau*f Strrp— Voluntary and In vol
untary Mutrular Krrmot.
No healthful sleep comes except
that which follows voluntary or invol
untary action of the muscles of the
body. Pedestrians fall into sound,
deep sleep as soon as put to bed at the
appointed time for rest. That is the
sleep from voluntary muscular exercise.
A person in good health sits around
the house all day ; an invalid may all
day sit and lounge and'lie down from
morning until night without (deeping,
and both the healthy man and the in
valid in the course of the evening will
become sleepy ami fall into sound re
pose, the result of the weariness which
involuntary motion hringa ul>out; lor
the various organs of the body, tie
heart, the liver, the stomach, the
eyelids, work steadily every day. The
intestines are a ceaseless in their mo
tion as the waves of the ocean ; as these
latter are always dashing toward the
shore, so is the great visceral machin
ery working, working, pushing tlm
wastes of the body downward and out
ward from the first brerth of existence to
the last grasp of Jih\ There is not a
movement of the system, voluntary or
involuntary, external or internal,
which does not require power to cause
it. When that power is to u certain
extent exhausted, instinct brings on
the sensation of sleepiness, which i
; the result of exhausted power, inten
ded by nature to secure that cessation
from activity which gives time for re
j cuperation, very much as a man who
1 runs for a while stojs and rests so as
Ito get stronger to run again. We
| get up iu the morning with a certain
amount of reserved or accumulated
strength ; in the course of the day thai
! strength bccoui'-i expended to the
| point oectasary for the commencement
of a new supply, which corner from
rest, the rest from sleep, ((pium nar
cotics, ail forms ol aii'slvuss, cause
sleep artificially by com jailing re-t.
A horse may Ire tied so that he cannot
; move; he is compelled pi |w at rest; it
!is not the rest of tiredm •, hence it i
| unnatural. Anodynes, in a sense, tie
a man down ; they take away his (inn
er of motion ; they COUI|KI rest, hut it
is not the rest which is the result of
Used up strenght, hence it i an arii
: fi'ial sleep, not natural can not I. •
healthful; hence the truth of the first
utterance of this chapter—healthful
| sleep comes from the expenditure of
1 the strength of the body iu various
forms ot ex< rcise.
A Pretty W>lrni Komaiicc.
A brother ami sister have met after
a separation of twenty year*, ani il.
meeting has U(H br light About in
I) i'Vi iijcirt bv tin* little win of the air
ier in a iiio-t jM-cubar way. One week
B K° yesterday tlie rait steamer Clyde
Went into !>i'ven(>ori nil ber way tinrth,
and Captain Douglas* tied up hi* boat
lnr a while in order to jxrmit some of
the crew t> go aln>re and make pur
chases. Am.ng others wlm went ashore
wa Aarnn Carter, a raftsman. Tb •
weatlier i< very cold, with a keen
north-wed wind. While going along
the street Carter met a poorly-clad lit
tle boy. who was running along, cry -
ing bitterly. Carter asked him what
w. the matter, and the little lad sob
l>cd out: ''l'm cold." "Come with
me," said Carter; and taking the boy
to a clothing More he bought hini n
suit of worm clothes mid a |>air ol mit
tens. He then asked the boy In- name.
"Aaron Dunhp," • the reply. Car
ter wa thunderstruck. Aaron Dun
lap !he cried. "Where is your lather
and mother ?" "Father i deail," tlje
boy replied. "Well, take me to your
mother, thdi, a- quickly a- you can,"
said Carter. The boy t xk him to his
humlile home, and when flatter color
ed t he house t lie boy 's mother rushed in
to his arms with a shriek that made
all the other occupants of the tene
ment house rush into the hall to see
what was the matter. Carter had
found a sister whom he had not set u
since the year lX<r2, when he went to
the war with a Maine regiment.
IT was a HUSTON girl who asked :
"Why i* it that two oul, muted to the
impenetrable mystery of their nativi
ty. float by each other ti the ocean
currenu'of existence without being in
stinctively drawn together, blended
and beautified in the i*Mmilated aletft
bic on eternal love?" That is an easy
one. It is because htller is 4"> cent* a
pound, and a good sctbkin sacque cost*
as high aa SSOO. The necessaries of
life must experience a fall in price be
fore two souls willredily blend in the
assimilated alemiic, and so forth.
IN a pleasait company each one
asked a questim. If it wa answered,
the quesliotte' |id a forfeit or if he
could not anwer it himself he paid a
forfeit. Anlrtshmati's question was :
"How does fie little ground squirrel
dig his holt without throwing any dirt
about the ait ranee 7" When they all
gave it u|. I'm said: "Sure, do you
see, he bgins at the other end of the
hole," hie of the rest exclaimed;
"Hut luX does he get there ?" "Ah,"
said Pa. "that's your question. C'an
you atiwerit yourself."
WITN an Austin, Texas, school
niaste entered his temple of learning
a fewdaya ago, he read on the black
boar* the touching legend, "Our
teaefcr is a donkey." The pupils ex
pectd there would be a com bind cy
do* snd earthquake, but the pbilo
sopical pedagogue contented himself
wit adding the word "driver" to the
leend, and opened the school with
payer as usual.
£)j a Third avenue sarfare car re*
roily ft woman entered the forward
fthin, which is devoted to smoker*.
The conductor touched ber on the
houlder and told her that it waa the
moking department. "You mind your
Own business," aaid sbe, and she took
out a pipe, loiuled it with tobftroo, and
enjoyed ber smoke.