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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1889.
GLARA BELLE'S CHAT.
A Glance at Some Interesting Women
With a Mission in Life.
IMS. H.B.STOWE AND F. H.BUMETT
"Wherein the Two Differ in the -Matter of
Driving a Bargain.
A FAMOUS FEMALE STEIZE EECALLED
rcOKEESPOSDESCE OI TBI DISPATCH.!
EW XOEK, February
9. Let us see if we can
not find some women
who are interesting in
some new way or other
aside from that fashion
able 5Tew York frivolity
which somewhat fre
quently commands the
pen of this particular correspondent. "Well,
there is Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. She
will answer ihe purpose, not only because
the authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a
remarkable woman, but also because there
is a jolly row about her. A year ago it was
thought that she was going to die immedi
ately. To physical nilments was added
men tal disturbance,and last summer the dear
old lady was sent to a quiet place away
down on Long Island, where she was doc
tored and secluded. In view of the proba
bility of her early demise, a project of a vol
ume of memoirs suggested itself to many a
publisher. S. L. Clemens is ever at the front
in the subscription book business, and, as
he was a Hartford neighbor of the Stowes,
it was expected that he would get the job.
But it seems that the Stowes and the
Clemenses were not neighborly afterall.close
ness of residence having had the effect of
disenchantment perhaps. Anyhow the
humorist's serious business proKsition was
declined, not by Mrs. Stowe herself, for at
that time she was incapableof deciding any
thing, but by her husband, the venerable
Prof. Stowe. Then two rival volumes were
projected, both assuming to be autobio
graphic to some extent, although written by
persons employed for the purpose. Seizures
of material were" made in all directions, and
the relatives of Mrs. Stowe appear to have
been divided between the opposing enter
prises, both of which were promoted with
great spirit and industry until about the
holidays. Then Mrs. Stowe suddenly and
unexpectedly regained a good measure of
mental and physical health, and once more
knew what was going on around her. "When
she learned about the "autobiographies"
'she remarked that she would take a hand in
that matter herself. She put an instant
stoppage to all proceedings concerning the
books, so far at least as the providing of
data for them was concerned, and threatened
to publicly discredit with all her might
and main'anr unauthorized issue of a book
about herself. That is the situation at
present, so far as it can be learned by" any
body not in the inner secrets, but it is cer
tain that efforts at a compromise are being
made, and that Mrs. Stowe is likely to di
rect, if not to littrally dictate, a history of
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the suc
cess of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
and notes of that instrument were worship
ing But the choir gallery, conspicuous at
that end of the house, held the vocalists
from Dockstader's minstrels. They sang
Gilbert's "Lost Chord" and two pathetic
ballads with themes related to bereavement
by death, and they did it admirably. But
their f oices had so often been emitted from
the blackened semi-circle of minstrelsy, and
their soft repetition of the final verses was
so characteristic of minstrel vocalism, that
it was hard to make them seem appropriate
to an occasion of tears. The only speakers were
Harry Edwards and ingersoll. There was
impressive portliness in Edwards, and he
read a panegyric with first rate elocution,
but the composition was theatric in tone
and seemed to make no impression upon the
assemblage, although the manner of its de
livery was dignified. Edwards made the
nearest to a religious allusion by finally ex
pressing a belief that Mrs. Fiske. in step
ping out from her earthly home, had entered
through the portals of a future life. Colo
nel Ingersoll did not concede so much to
orthodox Christianity, of oourse, and he
got over the difficult part of his task by
telling of the adoption by Mrs. Eiske of an
infant that had been abandoned on a cold
night near her residence. To his mention of
that act of benevolence he added the prayer
that Mother Nature would as tenderly and
considerately take to her bosom the
form which her friends were now compelled
to cast away.
SERVANTS' TRAINING SCHOOLS.
Theee is another authoress who, unlike
Mrs. Stowe, has a clear faculty for business
bargaining. Mrs. Stowe got a comparatively
small percentage of the enormous profits of
her most popular book. Mrs. Francis Hodg
son Burnett, on the contrary, has not let auy
of the "Xittle Lord Fauntleroy" dollars fly
past her without at least reaching out to
catch them. Her handfuls of money are so
numerous and rich that her coffers are being
stocked with wealth. In the first placed she
followed the recent custom of reserving the
right of dramatization when she copyrighted
lier story, whereas Mrs. Stowe sold her work
outright on the basis of a low valuation and
without saving the theatrical privilege,
which would have enriched her immensely.
Not only did Mrs. Burnett thus protect her
property in the United States, but she did so
in England, too. and that in the absence of
an international copyright law. England
has adraniatic censor, without whose formal
permission no new play can be enacted. He
may base his permission or refusal on any
reason that be chooses, or upon nothing save
his personal whim. So, when Mrs. Burnett
complained to him that an unauthorized
dramatist had stolen her brain work for the
London stage, he gallantly forbade the pro
duction. This advertised the subject greatly,
and, at just the right juncture, a version of
"Little Lord Fanntlerov" bv Mrs. Burnett
herself was brought out. It was exceedingly
profitable there. At once the Jady was beset
by American managers with offers to use the
play in this country. Palmer, of the Madi
son Square Theater, and Frohman, of the
Lyceum, were high bidders, and, as she
knew them both personally, she was inclined
to deal with one or the other.
But there was another shrewd operator in
the person of T. Henry French, who had the
advantage of being in London at the time,
and he closed a contract with her to control
the drama in America, giving to her IS per
cent of tGe gross receipts. That is the largest
royalty ever paid to a dramatist. But so
big is the Fauntleroy boom, so unreason-
ably immense, that French finds himself in
volved in law suits concerning the enor
mous profits. His partners in the .New
Tork City production are suing him for
half the proceeds elsewhere, as well as here
in town, for they assert that he is inclined
to trick them out of their dues. A. M.
Palmer claims that Mrs. Burnett, when she
signed the contract with French, thought
that Palmer was the principal in the affair
and French only an agent. Litigation unnn
that point is likely to be averted by transfer
ring the play to Palmer's theater next
summer. But through all the turmoil
Mrs. Burnett goes personally to the Broad
way Theater every Monday morning to
draw her 15 per cent of the receipts; and
every night a trusted relative stands at the
doorway to see that a ticket goes into the
slot of a locked box for every person who
enters. After the performance he witnesses
the opening of that receptacle, helps to fig
ure up the amount of money represented
therein, and returns to Mrs. Burnett a table
of the figures.
'Whenever the writer of these letters
las taken a vacation, her friend Mary
Hewins Flske has used the pen in her
ctead. Mrs. Eiske is dead now, as you may
have already read, and her funeral was
one of the singular events of the week. She
was as marsea ana peculiar a woman as
Still keeping clear for once from dis
tinctly fashionable femininity, and yet find
ing interesting females, let us say that the
feather-making girls engaged in a current
strike have developed so much of whimsical
and charming originality that the local pa
pers are giving many columns to them. It
may be apropos to recall the first strike ever
made by working women in America, if not
anywhere in the world.
"A strike among the women in the cotton
mills of Lowell, Mass., in the winter of '33
and 'Si," said an old gentleman to me, "was
carried on by women altogether. I was an
overseer. Twelve to fifteen hundred em
ployes turned out, as we called it in those
days. They had street processions in the
daytime, and in place of a brass band they
sang songs in praise of liberty and in defi
ance of tyrants. A favorite with them and
the crowd had for a chorus:
Oh. I cannot be a slave,
I will not be a slave.
For I'm so fond of liberty
I cannot be a slave.'
"Multitudes followed the marching sing
ers, sometimes cheering, and always enjoying
the fun, but making no bad-tempered dis
turbance. The women didn't hold public
meetings, although they made speeches in
the mill yards and exhorted the dull' and
weak ones on the street corners. They were
quiet but awfully determined. Most of the
girls and women were Yankees from hillside
farms and villages, and many were working
to pay off debts on the homestead, or to
meet school bills for ambitious brothers who
wanted to go through college. They were
contemptuously dubbed cotton bugs by
some of the vain and wealthy people, but
they were a self-respecting" class, out of
whose ranks came several distinct poetesses
and a still larger number of the rich matrons
of a later day."
"What did the employers do in the way
of fighting back?" I asked, with a view to
comparing the methods of half a century
ago with those of to-day.
"Jim owners whose hands had not
struck," was the answer, "put an overseer
over each section of the establishment, to
keep them clear of those who would have
joined themselves to the strikers, and to see
that the most remunerative work was plen
tifully provided for them. The turn-outers
were evicted from the tenements owned by
the corporations, and so they hired a big
house to sleep and eat in. The unmarried
ones, and those who had laid by some of
their earnings, helped their less fortunate
sisters, but it was a fact complimentary to
Yankee thrift that nearly all had some
money to fall back on. They" were com
pelled to give a fortnight's notice to the
savings banks before withdrawing deposits,
however, and so were cramped a little while
waiting for the period to expire. They re
taliated upon the banks by refusing to ac
cept anything except specie, the law per
mitting them to do that, and when all the
gold and silver coin had been disbursed
there was a skurry to Boston banks to get a
further supply. The 1,200 to 1,500 strikers
had an aggregate of $70,000 on deposit.
After the expiration of the two weeks, and
when the women hnri i.nt . itanl- ,i,..
they departed from the big house with all
their belongings in wagons and carts and
went to their family homes. No railroad
ran into Lowell then. The corporations
would not take back a turn-outer on any
consideration. So the looms stood idle a
long time, some of them for two years, but
the places ot the strikers were at length
filled by recruits from distant parts of New
England, and by women no les9 intelligent
and respectable than their predecessors."
Claba. Belle.
Copyrighted, 1839, by the Author.
MES. HARBISON'S BEAUTY SLEEP.
Sho Believe! In the Value of Sleeping Before
Midnight.
From the Jfew York World.l
Mrs. Harrison there is, of course, but
one woman of this name now gives the
gay society-whirlers something to think
about in her observation: "I can't be made
to realize the profit of pleasures purchased
at the expense of rest and health. I am
old-fashioned enough to believe that two
hours of 'beauty sleep' (before midmVhtl
are worth more to a woman's youth, temper
and general health than treble that amount
after daylight."
I it perhaps because high-cost things are
coveted that pleasures for which health and
strength and comfort are freely sacrificed
are so much the fashion? It is, of course,
perfectly useless to protest against balls that
begin at midnight and an evening of excite
ment following a day of work or worry, or
to point ontthat such dissipation is appro
priate only in a society where the men have
nothing to do and the women nothing to
care for. "What fashion decrees, its de
votees will continue to do. But it is en
couraging to observe the growing tendency
in the "best society" toward earlier hours
for evening entertainments. It is one of the
compensations of an arbiter in these matters
thatwhen the inner circles do hit upon s
sensible fashion the outer circles soon follow
it. It was the "old-fashioned" notions
which Mrs. Harrison cherishes that save to
this country the splendid type of bright
and handsome old ladies and the vigorous
grandsires who will never be duplicated by
the rapid-going fashionable set of to-day.
Burning the candle at both ends is Wasteful
business. Pleasures bought too dear are
short-lived.
Tho Necessity of Institution! to Tench
'Domestics the Niceties of Cooking-, Sew
ing and Working A Diploma for Pro
flclency Recommended.
From Harper's Buar.1
"We are very particular, or ought to be,
about the character of the people who super
intend the moral training of our children.
"We should consider ourselves very negli
gent if we encouraged the mental develop
ment at the expense of the physical, and
yet, with rare exceptions, we engage a
woman to oversee our kitchen, to make our
food, and supply the very essence of life
who is ignorant of the first laws of nature
and oblivious to the existence of chemistry
a centralization of superstition, a
sypthesis of omission and commission.
And this is the nresidintr erenins below-
stairs who has chiet control of that delicate
piece of machinery the human stomach, to
sow at will the seeds of dyspepsia, bilious
ness, and all the other ills that flesh is heir
to, and incidentally to lay the foundation
for domestic infelicity; lor I believe that
many men drift into the habit of dining at
the club because they do not get properly
cooked food at home, and all the wife's
struggles with an incompetent cook go for
nothing. A waitress does not haveso much
vital power in her hands, but her opportu
nities for showing her incompetence are
limitless.
Domestics need training as much as
nurses, and why should not we have more
and thorough training schools for servants?.
We all know wbatan improvement a trained
nurse is upon the Sairy Gamp type, and
will not a little education and training do
as much for servants? To be sure, the
nurses are a grade higher in the social scale,
to start with, but until philanthropists like
Florence Nightingale commenced the work,
and there was a demand for intelligent
women to be educated for nurses, the stand
ard was pitifully low. And why cannot we
increase the demand for trained servants by
creating a supply?
There are business training schools and
colleges, classes in our institutions to teach
every trade and profession, endowments for
almost every branch of labor except house
hold work.
The New York Cooking School, organized
in 1884, has instructed some 3,000 girls in
cooking. This, of course, must be very ele
mentary; but the work is good, and the
managers are having requests to start simi-'
lar schools all over thecountry. In connec
tion with this school they have a home
training department. The number to be
taught is limited to six, with a course of six
months' instruction in plain cooking, sew
ing and general housework.
The Church of the Holy Communion has
a shelter for respectable girls and a training
scho61 for servants on a small scale. Tuition
in general housework is given without
charge.
Boston also has its cooking school, where
the rich and the poor meet together. Ladies
take class or private lessons, others send
their cooks and nurses, and medical students
take a conrse in invalid cookery. These in
stitutions all fulfill their mission as far
as they go, but that is not far enough.
We need a building, either endowed or sup
ported by the community in its infancy,
until it may in time become self-supporting,
which should be the aim, if possible, of all
such instilntious.
We ought to have a lanre. well-appointed
house where the girls can have their train
ing under the direct discipline of carefully
selected superintendents in the different de
partments. There should be a small ad
mission fee, so that none but those .who are
really desirous of learning and improving
tnemseives snouia gam entrance, and a bet
ter class of girls would apply for tuition.
It might be well to have a month of proba
tion, at the end of which time those found
incapable ot performing the allotted work.
afflicted with any serious disease, ill-tem-f
pered or incompetent, might be rejected.
The length of the course could be best de
termined by experienced housekeepers, and
dependent upon which branch of the work
undertaken. There would have to be a
committee of ladies appointed to visit on
certain days, inspect the house, see the girls
at their duties, and lunch in the building
on the food prepared by the cooks in train
ing and served by the waitresses.
The superintendent and assistants should
be women of some refinement and intelli
gence, that they may be able to instruct in
the little niceties of work and serving,
so rare in ordinary servants; teach them that
they are not degrading themselves by menial
wore, dui oy respectiui interest and atten
tion to their duties they enhance their own
value and make themselves indispensible to
their employers; teach them the virtue of
economy and the sinfulness of waste; and
above all teach them hygiene and a respect
for sanitary laws, that they may know and
reason for themselves why certain things are
injurious and why others are necessary to
health. It is of little use to lay down rules
and regulations to persons ignorant of their
very meaning; they must understand the
why and wherefore to work intelligently.
At the end of a satisfactory conrse a
diploma should be given, stating exactly
what each is capable of performing, and,
according to the degree of proficiency, this
certificate should entitle them to higher
wages than are now received by inefficient
servants, and the demand for trained work
ers would be so large that the great army of
blundering unteachables would have to
work for less wages or be crowded out of
the market.
It seems to me that this should be the first
step in the cause of woman suffrage. All
women interested in this movement should
be willing to lend a hand in organizing an
institution that is to relieve them ot the
hated bondage of housekeeping, and have
that department of their homes so well
regulated that they do not lay themselves
open to the charge of neglecting the home
for the "cause."
To many people all this will seem imprac
ticable, and as the millennium has not yet
come, we shall doubtless have to encounter
many difficulties and disappointments, but
the sooner we begin 'and find out the weak
points of the scheme, so much the sooner
will our enorts be crowned with success.
POETHI OF MOTION.
Valuable Instructions in the Art of
Skating Fast and Gracefully.
A FAMILY OF AMERICAN SKATERS.
i The Advantages of Straps Over Clamps in
Eacinr.
AN AMERICAN BOI'S SPLENDID EECOED
fWBITTIS TOB THIS DISPATCH.!
THIS has not
been a good win
ter for skaters
on American
ice, but the
skates are still
on the market,
and the extra
ordinary work
done abroad,
where they have
a cold wave
now and then,
by an Ameri-
TntnF flOD
induced many
- ,...,
J .Irn his steel
keelswelloiled,
and many an
old boy to re
call the days of
his sport on
rockers. All
the inventions
in the world by
which one may
skim over a
iolished floor
Joe Donoghue. on wheels at
tached to the feet will not withdraw skating
from the category of winter pastimes, and
even if the present season should pass with
no more than a week of ice where usually
there are months, the sport will live until
the sun and wind are less kind to the house
less and the thousands who have no idea of
the exhilaration that comes from vigorous
exercise in the coldest weather. Even if
there should be no more skating than has
already occurred, young Joe Donoghue's
European achievements will keep alive the
interest in the sport, and he will be assured
an eager welcome when he returns to his
home in Newburg, N. Y., even should that
occur in July.
A SKATING FAMILY.
The Donoghues are a skating family. At
present the youngsters are in the fore, but
years ago there was another Donoghue
whose name was highly written. That was
Timothy, the father of the boy who has
been teaching the Bussians and the Hol
landers how to get over the ice. In 1864
"life's
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feat as a skater was his trip from Newburg
to Albany, made many years ago. The dis
tance is 85 miles, and the time required for
covering it was five hours. His shorter dis
tance records have been eclipsed by his
sons, of whom he has. four Charlie, a
liquor dealer; Tim, Jr., a letter carrier; Joe
the lad of 18 who is now in Europe, and
Jim, a boy of IB. Tim, Jr., is the Ameri
can champion one-mile skater, with a
record of 3 minutes 12 3-5 seconds. Joe is
the champion in this country at five and
ten miles; and in Holland and Germany at
two miles. He was taken to Europe by Mr.
6. M. L. Sachs, an enthusiastic admirer of
skating, and therefore of the Donoghue
family. Mr. Sachs went abroad on business,
and took Joe along purely out of kindness.
s.
MEN FJIOMTHE SEA.
Mural Hist6ry of an Interesting
Island Near Africa.
NATURAL GAS FIELDS OF INDIANA.
The Latest Application of Electricity to
Mechanism.
AN IMPORTANT CHINESE EAILEOAD
The Donoghue Stroke.
The Social Way.
DO WE LITE LONGER.
LIfo
Be wu Nop the Only One.
JTew York Sun.
"See here." remonstrated one of tn
ever figured in the literary and dramatic J mourners, returning from Woodlawn, to
the nackman who had stopped long enough
circles of this town. Unlike most folk
who are witty with their pens, she was more
than equally so with her tongue, and an
impromptu speech made to an audience
during the first representation of her play,'
"Philip Hearne," will long be remembered
by those who heard it as a remarkable
achievement in polite address combined
with inimitable drollery. She was a close
friend and disciple of ltobert G. Ingersoll,
and the telegraphic wires have already car
ried accounts of his oration over her body.
Bnt I think that nobody's considerate im
pression of such a funeral service, without
an atom of religious element in it, has yet
gone iorth. Indeed, it was hard to make
sucn an estimate with judicial fairness. All
that was seen and done was solemnly im
pressive. But there were many present,
inevitably, who could not keep out of their
minds the personal and ordinary associa
tions of the participants. The place had
been a church, and still looked like one, al
though lately devoted to the purposes of a
Masonic lodge. Its architecture was quite
cathedral-like. But the pew had been re
moved, and the temporary chairs were tbe-
fttricaL A lanre orcrnn wan left hner nf
ehete the pulpit had been, andjthe looks I
ft
to get a piece of pie and a glass of beer,
"this isn't exactly the proper thing to do.
"We want to get back to town."
"That's all right sir," said the driver'
reassurringly, between mouthfuls; "all
mourners is aliens anxious to get back to
town." '
An Opportunity Not to be Lost.
New York Sun.J
Fcatherly (to his chum, Burnley, in
boardinghonse) For heaven's sake, Dum
ley. get up.
Dnniley (starting up in bed) Wha
what's the matter, fire?
Featherlv No. no: some new Tu-1
came late last night, and I wouldn't miss
breakfast this morning for money.
New T. M. C. A. Baildinc.
During the year 1888 the following cities
have dedicated new Y. M. C. A. buildings
at the following costs: Toronto, ?80.000; De
troit, $125,000; Albany, 5100,000; Indianap
olis, $100,000; Worcester,- 5140,000; St.
iosepn, tizo.uuu; .New York (railroad)
?100,000; Yorkville Branch, $50,000.
The Average Duration of American
Being Gradually Increased.
From the Boston Ulobe.2
There is good reason to believe that the
average American of this last quarter of the
nineteenth century is longer lived than his
ancestors of the last century. The most
casual reader cannot fail to have been struck
with the frequent notices in the daily press
of men and women who have lived well on
into the nineties, and promise well to be
come centenarians. The best medical opin
ion of the dayis that the average duration
of human life is not only being made longer,
by reason of the improved diet and better
sanitary conditions of these latter days, but
that it is capable of being still further
lengthened by (till greater improvements in
our ways and means of living.
A Salt T.nlio Episode.
Burlington Free Press.!
Citizen (showing the town to a famous
baseball player) Hello! there goes Elder
Plural's nine.
Baseball Player (excitedly) Where?
Let's have a look at the boys.
Citizen Yon mistake me. I mean his
nine wives.
Wlint a Olnn Ocf In a Shave.
Minneapolis Tribune.
A Buffalo man recently counted the mo
tions made by a barber's hand during the
process of shaving one man, and found.
them to be 678. As the motions of a bar
ber's mouth exceeds in number 2.000. it can
be seen that a man gets a good deal for the'
trifling sum of lu cents.
A Dry Wine.
Hew xork Snn.l
Gus (to Jack, who is standing a S0-cent
table d'hote dinner) Isn't the claret a
trifle sour Jack?
Jack It's a very dry wine, Jack.
iryi wen, j. snouia say so. Why, Jack
Timothy Donoghue was the American
champion. He still lives and he still
skates, when the thermometer will let him,
but he no loneer enters for races. His sons
could probably beat him at it now at
any distance.
Timothy Donoghue was born in America
51 years ago. Almost all his life he has
lived in Newburg. He was from the first
an enthusiastic skater, and the broad Hud
son by his city gave him plenty of oppor
tunity to practice his favorite sport. He is
now a powerfully built man, 5 feet 11 in
height, with a full beard that is turning
gray. He stoops slightly, and this may be
due to his trade, that of an oar maker, which
causes him to lean again and again over his
bench as he fashions the wooden blades for
boatingmen the world over. Outside his
skating fame he has a general reputation of
consiuerauie importance, ne maces tne
oars for many of the best college crews and
for professional boatingmen in this country,
and even m.England and Australia.
A champion's caeeee.
Early in Mr. Donoghue's career as a
skater he became noted locally as one of
the best. He was naturally ambitious to
excel, and in every conceivable way he
sought to perfect himself in the wintry ex
ercise. It occurred to him that the rocker
skate with keel about equal in length to the
length of the foot could be improved upon.
He saw that such a skate necessitated keep
ing one foot after another in the air longer
than was advisable for renewing the stroke.
It seemed to him that if the skate keel were
longer a more powerful stroke could be
given with it. For this and other reasons
he set about inventing a skate for his own
use. ilis model is a curious affair, a dia-
Neither oi them has tried to make money
out of the boy's races, and he is still an
amateur. He has met in Europe the best
skaters of the continent, and he has won
enough events to cause his friends to believe
that he could win the world championship
under good conditions. In his European
races he has been, handicapped by a lack of
practice. What with traveling a good deal
of the time and meeting bad luck now and
then with respect to weather, he has not
been able to keep in prime condition. One
of his victories was won immediately after
he had left a train on which he had been
riding for hours. What he has accomplished
may be summed up in Mr. Donoghue's own
words:
A GOOD EECOED.
"As far as we have now heard, Joe's trip
sums up as follows: He has won three
races and lost three. He has beaten the
champions of England, Holland, Sweden
and Germany, and has won all his races at
distances of one mile. He has been beaten
only at a halt mile and a mile, and by only
one skater, the Bnssian champion. I think
we have no reason to be ashamed of our
boy, and I have only this to say: If Joe
does not beat Ton Fanschin at a mile this
winter, I will send him to Christiania, Nor
way, next October, let him stay there until
he gets all the practice he wants, and then
send him to St. Petersburg and have him
try Mr. Von Panschin at home."
Yon Panschin, the Bussian, is a large,
powerful man of remarkable endurance.
The first time he met Joe Donoghue they
raced two miles. Joe's time was 6 minutes
24 seconds, 21 seconds better than the world's
previous record. Von Panschin made the
distance in 6 minutes 31 seconds. After
ward they met in a contest at one mile. Von
Panschin made the fastest time on record,
2:57, and Joe Donoghne came in one-fifth of
a second behind.
SOME POINTS ON SKATING.
The writer had a chat with Donoghue.
Sr., at his home in Newburg recently.
"A good skater," he said, "will always
have the wind against him, for he goes
faster than an ordinary breeze. Going be
fore the wind a man can make 33 per, cent
better time than on a calm day. When the
wind is against a man it is desirable to pre
sent as little surface to it as possible. For
this reason I have taught the boys to skate
with their arms folded behind "them. With
our long skate we make long strokes. Von
Panschin, in spite of his size, makes 30
strokes to Joe's 2Q while they are racing."
"Do you practice or teach fancy skating?"
"Not a bit of it. I have never touched it,
but have confined my attention to straight
away skating, which Involves, of course, the
ability to turn all kinds of curves quickly
and securely. I doubt not there's much fun
and sociability in fancy skating, with your
lady partners cutting up fine figures on the
ice, and in rougher sports,' jumping over
iSiiiiiib
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A Skating High Jump.
stumps. My skates, however, are not
adapted for jumping or the more delicate
figure drawing. They are made to race
with, and I am content with that."
The Donoghue Skate.
this. wine is fairly dusty.
gram of which is here given. It is 18
inches long, the keel extending the entire
length of the frame from AtoB. The
widest part, denoted by the dotted line
E E, is Zi inches. The heel has to be
pierced in the old-fashioned way for a
screw which projects upward from the place
marked D. At the points marked cc are
guards for straps that are wound about the
foot from heel to toe and fastened by
buckles. Ihe shape of the steel keel and
the appearance of the skate on the foot may
be seen in the picture of Timothy Dono
ghue, Jr., that accompanies this article.
The wooden, frame in which the keel is set
is made of applewood.
PEEFEES STEAPS.
For many years Mr. Donoghue has made
his own skates and those used by his sons.
It is just possible that he mav have made a
Eair occasionally for persona'l friends, but
e does not sell them. None were ever on
the market, and he- says that he does not
purpose to make money by manufacturing
skates. Those who have grown up familiar
" " """" wuuBsaies, or who learned
on tho rocker with its screw and straps and
therefore realize how great a convenience it
is to fasten a skate to the foot by a clamp
that is simply adjusted, will wonder why
Mr. Donoebue did not adnnt , f (f,
modern improvements in making his racing
articles. The reason is because Mr. Dono
ghue, does not see that the easily adjusted
clamp is an improvement. When he goes
on the ice he goes to skate and he doesn't
mind a bit of extra trouble to make his
skates secure. He does not think the
clamps are to be depended on in racing. At
nil events he and his sons have won various
kinds of championships on the father's
skates, and they are well pleased with the
model and its screw and straps.
FAMOUS SKATEES.
Perhaps Mr. Donoghue's most famous
COLOEED CATHOLICS.
Their Cfanrches. Schools, Orphan Aiylnnu
and Reformatories.
It was stated at the recent convention of
colored Catholics in Washington that there
are 20 colored Catholic churches in this
country, each one of these having a school
annexed; besides 65 colored Catholic schools,
8 orphan asylums and 3 reformatories. The
Catholic hospitals, homes for the poor, etc.,
are open to both colored and white children.
About 5,000 children are taught in the
schools and 300 children cared for in the
asylum. There is but 1 Catholic priest, but
there are 7 colored students.
twainim for the sispjkTcn.I
b.lb.balfoi;e,
F. K- S., has recent
ly published in the
transcriptions of the
Boyal Society of
Edinburgh an ex
tremely interesting
Ir description concern
ing the botany of the
Island of Socotra.
The Island of Socotra
lies in the Indian
Ocean about 500 miles
south of the entrance
of the Bed Sea, and
about 140 miles from the nearest point of the
African coast. Although a considerable
island, haying a length of 22 miles and a
breadth of 20, and situated in the path of
a great commerce, its natural history has re
mained singularly unknown. Dr. jBal
four's researches show that of the 575 species
or flowering plants 206 appear to be peculiar
to the island, and that there are 20 genera
which are likewise limited to its area.
Somewhere near 40 per cent of the species
are peculiar to the island.
'In a review of this work published in
Nature, the writer contrasts the conditions
as regards the number of peculiar species- in
Socotra with those of the Bermudas. The
Bermudas are more than twice as far from
the neighboring continent as Socotra, and
yet the Bermuda peculiar species are only
half a dozen in number, and there is no
genus of plants confined to that island.
Moreover the species which may be deemed
indigenous in Bermuda are very like kin
dred forms on the mainland. It is by such
facts as these that naturalists are now en
abled to determine in a tolerably circum
stantial way how long a time has elapsed
during which a given island has remained
separated from the mainland; or if it rose
from the sea how long it has retained its in
sular character. We are justified in assert
ing from the character of the plants on
Socotra that this island has been above the
level of the sea for several geological pe
riods many times as long as the Bermudas.
NEWT USES FOE ELECTEICITY.
In a recent number of the Electrical Re
view there are some interesting notes con
cerning the progress of electrical invention.
TTp to 1876 the total "number of patents
granted for electrical contrivances amounted
to less than 2.000. Since that year over
8,000 such patents have been granted, and
at the present time the progress of electrical
invention leads to the granting of about
1,000 patents per annum.
It appears that a company has recently
been formed to construct a system of ele
vated railways for carrying letters and
other important packages at an estimated
speed of 600 miles an hour. The propulsive
power is to be electrical energy, and there
seems no manifest impossibility in obtain
ing the expected result. At th'is speed the
letteror package can be sent to San Fran
cisco in five hours.
One other wide use of electricity has been
found in the Mining Journal. Within the
decade the process ofwnning coal in the
mine has been greatly advanced by the use
of machines for cutting under the coal a
channel of recess to the depth of several
feet from the face of the bed, so that by the
use of powder, or in some cases of levers,
the coal might be broken down from the
roofs and reduced to fragments of a size to
be handled. Hitherto these machines have
been worked by means of compressed air.
Although better than the old method of la
boriously picking out by hand the under
cutting, these air engines have proved in
convenient on account of their great bulk.
Mr. F. M. Leckner, according to the Engi
neering and Mining Journal, has recently
uruugui. cieviricity iuwj use ior driving
these undercutting machines. The great
advantage of the improvement is found in
the fact that the engine weighs less
than 1,000 pounds. Moreover, the ma
chinery is relatively simple, so that the
contrivance can easily be moved abont and
occupies less room in the cramped space of
tne mine. .a. trial or this engine showed
that two men in ten hours could prepare 100
tons of coal for extraction. Furthermore,
the cost of the equipment is said to be only
half that required for the use of compressed
air.
The officers of the Indiana geological sur
vey have recently brought together the facts
concerning the distribution of natural gas
in that State. It appears that the area in
which a profitable amount of gas may be
looked for is 165 miles long by 65 miles wide.
At present it contains 381 profitable wells.
From these wells 600,000,000 cubic feet of
gas flow each day, or an average of 1,500,000
feet per well.
NATUEAL OAS IN HTDIANA.
than the geographic features or the charac
ter of the soil.
AN IMPOETANX EApOAD.
The London Standard lias a dispatch
from Shanehai. dated October 19. announ
cing the opening of the first railway con
structed in China under the favor of the
conservative Government of that country.
It extends from Tientsin and Toki to the
coal district about the Tong-Shan. The
length of 'the road is abont 86 miles and its
immediate purpose to bring the coal of the
Kal-Ping collieries to the seaboard. A cer
tain amount of opposition from the land
owners was encountered, but by a system of
compensation, either with cash or the bam
boo, this appears readily to have been over
come. The importance of this railway in the
economic history of the world is likely to be
great; hot because of the construction itself,
but for the reason that it indicates a deter
mination on the part of the Chinese author
ities to make -useof themechanical resources
which they have so long refused to appro
priate. It may indicate the abandonment
of the resistance to the western civilization
which has kept the celestial empire so com
pletely from the tide of our present life.
A new and interesting invention concern
ing: the application of photography to the
delineation of an extensive territory has re
cently been made by M. Denisse. In the
ordinary method of photographing a large
extent of country a balloon is used, either
one large enough to carry up an operator az
well as his apparatus or a small balloon
which is intended to lift the apparatus
alone. M. Denisse proposes to elevate a
cylindrical camera, containing on its peri
phery 12 lenses, by means of a powerlul
rocket, the shutters of the camera opening
at the moment the apparatus begins to fall
from the exhaustion ol the power in the
rocket. The shutters are quickly closed by
a simple arrangement, and at the same time
a parachute is expanded which insures the
safe descent of the affair by a slender cord
which remains in the hands of the oper
ator. It seems possible that this interesting con
trivance may prove of value in military
reconnoisances such as are extremely desir
able when enemies are in face of each other.
Such reconnoisances have hitherto been ex
posed to great danger, for the reason that
anyform of balloon is quickly made the
target of the enemy's guns. The movement
of a rocket, however, is so swift that in most
cases it would not be worth while to waste
ammunition upon it. ' ,
Pbof. N. S. Shales.
HOME AET AND AETISTS.
Beautiful nsrnvlna; Free.
"Will They Consent?" is a magnifi
cent engraving, 19x24 inches. It is an
exact copy of an original painting by Kwall,
which was sold for $5,000.
This elegant engraving represents a young
lady standing in a beautiful room, sur
rounded by all that is luxurious, near a
half-open doorj while the young man, her
lover, is seen in an adjoining room asking
the consent of her parents for their daughter
in marriage. It must be seen to be appre
ciated.
This costly engraving will be eiven away
free, to every person purchasing f small
box of "Wat fitarnh.
This starch is something entirely new.and
is without a doubt the greatest starch in
vention of the nineteenth century (at least
everybody says so that has uf ed it). It
supersedes everything heretofore used or
known to science in thp laundry art. Un
like any other starch, as it is made with
pure white wax. It is the first and only
starch in the world that makes ironing
easy and restores old summer dresses and
skirts to their natural whiteness, and im
parts to linen a beautiful and lasting finish
as when new.
Try it and be convinced of tlio whole
truth.
Ask for Wax Starch and obtain this
engraving free.
The Wax Staech Co.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
The present state of our knowledge con
cerning gas wells makes it seem certain that
the area of country they occupy is many
times as great as that from which any con
siderable quantities of petroleum can be ob
tained. At present the districts known to
contain natural gas in sufficient quantities
to have any economic value within the
United States probably exceed 50,000 square
miles, and it is likely that further inquiry
win ue,veiop numerous neiai as yet un
known. A great many of the wells bored
for petroleum in the wild search for that
earth product, which went on 20 or 30 years
aeo, developed large quantities of nat
ural gas. The value of the substance was
at that time not appreciated. These wells
gradually became closed by various acci
dents, or wasted their contents in the atmos
phere. The value of natural gas in the
economics ot tnis country is now but little,
if any, below that of petroleum, and the
probability is that within a few years it
may exceed that substance in value. It is
a matter of great interest to determine not
only the areas occupied by this valuable re
source, but the circumstance of its forma
tion. There can be little doubt that it rep
resents the decomposition of organic matter,
the fossils of old rocks, and that it is gener
ally generated at the same time as petro
leum, being only a lighter form of the same
varied series of hydro-carbons. The tacts
appear to indicate that under certain cir
cumstances gas may be produced in large
quantities with little or no oil, while at
other times the oils may abound and the gas
be small in quantity.
It is curious to note that the preservation
of these gases, as well as of the associated
petroleum products in the Mississippi val
ley, is due to the fact that the rocks of this
region have been but little affected by moun
tain building disturbances. If the strata
now containing these hydrocarbons had been
folded and riven, as is the case in mountain
built countries, the gas Would have escaped
and driven before it to the surface the oil as
well, and so these resources would have dis
appeared from the under earth and become
decomposed in the atmosphere. In this and
many other ways we perceive the close con
nection which exists- between the structure
of the, earth and its uses for men. It seems
not improbable that the resources of natural
gas will in a few years give American man
ufacturers an opportunity to extend the mar-
- kets for the products through parts of the
wunu iu wuicu wey coma not nave gainea
access bnt for the economic advantage which
this subterranean resource affords them. Of
old, man's dependence was rather upon the
surface of the earth than upon the nether
realm. Now the mineral stores beein to
Mr. Beatty's picture has been on exhibi
tion at Gillespie's during the past week.
"WHEN the Reaper's Work is Done," Is the
title of an original etching by Mr. John Full
wood. It is a work of some merit as regaras
execution, but in style of composition and ar
rangement is of a rather decorative effect, suit
able for ornamental work or tapestry painting.
A bather pleasing little painting, bearing
the name "Agnew," shown at Boyd's, has the
appearance of being the work of an amateur;
but it is entirely free from the cradenesa which
such works usually exhibit. The water is very
well painted, and the color of the whole is
good, though of a rather somber tqne.
Aoatized wooa Is a beautiful 'decorative
material, which is at present being brought
from Arizona in large quantities. It is hard
and takes a fine polish, and is cut In sections
across the pram in order to show its flue
markings to the best advantage. Many of the
specimens are brilliant In color, and when
finely polished, are excelled In beauty by few
of the products of nature or art.
AX exhibition of relics and old pictures will
be held daring the coming centennial of the
inauguration of Washington. Among other
objects of interest will be portraits of Wash
ington and his Cabinet, and also members of
tho'first Congress. The Art Committee has
been promised a portrait of Washington which
has never been reproduced, and will be glad to
hear of any pictures or articles suitable to
form a part of the exhibition.
Me. A, F. Kino is at work upon a picture of
a little street AraD, one of the enterprising
jonng merchants who handle collar buttons,
blackinc, etc. The youngster has a rather pen
sive ana wistful expression of countenance, as
though entreating the passers-by to purchase
his small wares, and leaving but little doubt on
the mind of the observer that trado is some.
times dull with him no less than with business
men at an older growth.
A nsw steel engraving by Charles Schlicht,
after the picture by Mrs. Odenheimer-Fowler,
entitled "The Gentle Student,'' has just been
published. No fault can be found with the en
graving, bat the work expresses but little of
character which the title indicates that it
should posses. This picture shows a rather
peculiar type of face, but its ruling character
istic Is sadness and melancholy, which, though
not incompatible with studiousness, cannot be
held to arise from it.
Mr. John J. Hammer is still engaged upon
the head of a young girl for which one of the
pupils of the School of Design serves as a
model, and the work is now so far advanced as
to show that it will -be quite an artistic pro
duction of a character new to Pittsburg. He
has also some very excellently painted land
scapes, notably one rather large picture of a
scene near Munich. Mr. Hammer has also
placed in Mayer's window a work which de
serves and which will undoubtedly attract a
lair snare ol attention. This work is a sea
side view, although water forms but a smalt
portion of its effect. Some level ground with
boats beached near the foreground form the
point of interest, with characteristic coast
buildings in the distance. A cleverly painted
sky in which the snn. though obscured by
clouds, still sheds a strong light upon the scene
lends life and brilliancy to the whole.
Peobablt no single expression is more dis
tasteful to an artist, and none more quickly
stamps the person using it as ignorant'of the
use and meaning of words, than the phrase
"hand painted." To speak of a picture in
course of construction as being painted, or to
describe the finished work as a painting covers
the whole ground; the word has a distinctive
and well understood meaning, and it is in no
sense necessary that it should De further quali
fied. Although the word painting is a compre
hensive term and incladesjall manner of tech
nical differences ra mater!! -, and style of exe
cution, the principle In each Is tho same, and in
this sense there is only one kind of painting,
viz., that which is produced by the human
hand, always under the guidance of the brain.
The expression "hand painted" is one that it is
well to avoid; it is one. of those phrases which
grow more and more disagreeable by constant
repetition and It has already grown so common
that it has, to say the least, degenerated into a
vulgarism, and the sooner it- is allowed to be
come oosoieie tae oetter.
TEKpainting by Charles Linford, which has
beem shown in a Wood street art store, is. in
some respects, a characteristic example ot that
artist's work, bnt It is by no means executed in
his best style. Those who object to a broad,
free style of handling on the ground that it ob
literates details and fails to render truthfully
the whole of nature's story, will And in a pic
ture of this description much that supports
their position, and no one can reasonably be
blamed for demanding In work of art a little
cleaner and more positive drawing than is here
shown. It is not, however, in the fact that Mr.
Linford paints with breadth and freedom that
the fault in this instance lies. Breadth and
freedom are most desirable qualities In them
selves where they are not attained by the sacri
fice of something better, but tbey do not neces
sarily entail, nor are they any excuse for either
crudenessor harshness, it is not a fanltof
manner or style, but carelessness and Indiffer
ence pure and simple that has hindered the ar
tist from keeping this picture up to his usual
standard.
In awarding the medals for excellence of
execution in water colors at the School of De
sign, much difficulty was experienced by the
judges in deciding between the claims of two
seemingly equally meritorious works. The
1 coveted prize was finally bestowed upon Miss
Aland il. rainier, lor her study of grape leaves
and clusters, and honorable mention made of
the rival work, which was a cleverly exe
cuted picture of riDe corn. bvMlss Marv IWrt
Subsequently, however, it was decided that the
work exhibited by the latter young lady was of
such excellence that its merit was deserving of
recognition, and she was also awarded a medal
for another of her pictures, leaving the honor
able mention upon the one above referred to.
In oil colors thero was less hesitation shown in
awarding the first prize, or gold medal, to Miss
Laura D. Dummett, and the second prize, or
silver medal, to Miss Mary T. Patterson, both
for still life studies. Among works of special
notice are those by Miss Kmma Patton, draw
ings from Ufa, for which she received a gold
medal, and a crayon drawing b, v Miss Tillio
Whitmore, a portrait of her .brother, the late
Frank L. Whltmore. A number of good works
in oil were shown, one of .the best among them
being the picture by Miss Minnie M. Nickum,
which Is a good composition and very well exe
cuted. Work will be resumed at the school to
morrow to continue until the latter part of
June.
flOWTOBEHEALTHT.
Br. Wnu A. Hammond on Luncheons,
Dinners and Other i easts. "
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The Physiological and Sanitary EektloM
of Human Pood.
A3EBE1CANS THE MOST HfAETI EATEBS
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PJUSP'T-lt
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affect the destinies of peoples even more .Syrup.
'The poor ye have always with von.'"
Give each one a bottle of Dr. Ball's Cough
rwaimar fob nut ohpaich.3
ASHINGTOX, Feb-
4- ruarv9. The oresent
ris emphatically the
season of luncheons,
dinners and other
feasts, and in his con
nection I propose to
consider the physio
logical and sanitary
relations of food, be
ing .convinced that
very erroneous ideas are prevalent in regard
to this important subject. I shall not bo
able within the scope of a single article to
discuss the ftatter as fully as desirable, but
I trust that the remarks I am about to make
will not only be interesting but instructive
to those who may read them.
The quantity of food which should be in
gested must vary, of conrse, according to
the conditions in which the individual is
placed, and is also dependent to a consider
able extent on the quality of the aliment
placed at his disposal. During infancy and
childhood more food is proportionately eaten
than in adnlt age, and more is required in
consequence of the development of tissue
which Is taking place. Compared to the
weight of its body, an infant at the breast
takes daily a larger amount of food than "a
grown man, and youths about the age of
puberty, not only relatively, but absolutely
more in many instances. It is very rarely
the case that children will eat a greater
quantity of the ordinary aliments than is
requisite for them, and therefore it is Indis
creet in parents to put too great restrictions
on them in this respect. It is to be recol
lected that digestion at such ages is per
formed rapidly, that the constant activity of
mind and body which children manifest
produces a great destruction ot tissue, and
that the growth and development of the
body, which are unceasingly going on, re
quire material to be supplied in abundance.
Pood in them is not only necessary to make
up for the losses consequent on the organlo
processes, but to provide pabulum , for tha
new deposits of tissue which ofe to be
formed. The first condition, therefore,
which modifies the quantity of food is age.
ASIOTJ. T Or FOOD BEQUIEZD.
In the adult period a large amount of
food is also required. The growth of the
body is completed, but the mental and
physical faculties are now exercised to their
fullest extent, and consequently the absolute
destruction of tissue is greater at this age than
any other, and an absolutely greater amount of
food is generally necessary. The size of the
body being Increased also necessitates a larger
amount of food for its nourishment.
In old age the quantity of food ingested is
at its minimum. Not only are the digestive
powers weaker, but the wants of the system are
less, consequent upon the diminished activity
both of mind and body attendant upon ad
vanced years.
The amount of food Ingested by the Inhab
itants of warm climates is less than that taken
by She residents of cold ones. The East Indian
lives on a little rice, while the Greenlander
eats several pounds of fat meat daily. Even
in temperate climates the seasons exercise an
influence not only over the quality but the
quantity of food taken into the system. Most
persons eat more in winter than in summer.
The cause is doubtless to be found in the tact
that in cold weather a greater quantity of re
spiratory food is required in order to keep up
the animal heat than in hot weather, when tha
external temperature more nearly approaches
the temperature of the body, when the sub
ject of climate was under consideration in
stances were adduced relative to the quantity
of food taken by the inhabitants of cold re
gions, ratty suDstances iorm tne principal
part ot their diet, and if these were not used in
Immense quantities tbey would undoubtedly
perish with cold. In the torrid zone, however,
where the opposite condition as to temperature
prevails, fruits and farinaceaare almost entire
ly used to the exclnsion of anlpal food; and as
physical exertion is avoided as far as possible,
little purely histogenetio food is required.
Occupation also influences the subject. In
dividuals whose business requires much bodily
exertion or that they should spend much of
their time in the open air, eat more than those
of sedentary habits. Intense mental occupa
tion 1b not consistent with indulgence in tha
pleasures of the table. Hard students ar
rarely great eaters. On the contrary, the sol
dier, the sailor, or the plougbnjan requires a
largo amount of food, of Which a considerable
portion must be pre-eminently tissue forming.
Muscular exertion, therefore, more than mental
exertion, causes destruction of tissue, and, con
sequently, a greater demand for food for tha
supply of the waste.
As a rule men eat more than women, and
that is mainly on account of the greater degree
of activity of their lives. During pregnancy and
lactation the appetite of the female 13 in
creased, owing to the additional demands made
upon her system consequent on the growth of
the foetus and the supply of nourishment for
the infant after birth.
EXCESSIVE UTDULOEITCl!.
There are, therefore, several factors to be
taken into consideration in determining the
quantity of food to be ingested. Many estimates
have been made, differing; as is usual in such
cases, very much from each other. From my
own experience, and from a thorough inspec
tion of the dietaries in use in the hospitals and
armies of Europe, 1 am clearly of the opinion
that no people eat more than the inhabitants
of the United States. Taking a healthy adult
American as our standard, the quantity of food
required to maintain his organism, not only in
a normal condition, but up to the full measnre
of physical and mental capability, may be
placed at about 40 ounces, of which two-thirds
sbonld be vegetable and one-third animal. This
is In addition to the water he may drink, which
will amount to about 20 fluid ounces and to
eight or ten fluid ounces of tea or coffee.
If an excessive amount of food be habitually
taken the digestive organs have more work
thrown upon tbem than they can accomplish,
and consequently derangement of their funo
tions occurs. Before, however, an advanced
stage of dyspepsia is reached, obesity or
plethora is developed, and a tendency to dis
ease of the brain, the heart, the liver or other
organs is established. The regulation of the
appetite receives very little attention until
warnings, in the shape of functional disturb
ance, are given, ana tnen it is often too late.
Mr. Lawrence, in his lectures on surgery, re
lates a very instructive case which bears upon
this point: "A very long time ago I was inti
mately acquainted with a young physician of
spare habit, active mind and body, zealously
pursuing his profession and taking much walk
ing exercise. Meeting with deserved success,
he found it necessaryto leave off walking and
to keep a carriage. Having agreeable manners
and social habits he lived much in society when
the mode of living was freer than at present,
though he did not commit excess. He soon be
gan to increase in bnlk, and was joked by bis
friends on the subject. It was his custom to
celebrate bis birthday by a jovial meeting,
which was concluded by a bowl of punch after
supper. On the last occasion he had been In ex
cellent health, and was perfectly well next
morning when he left home in his carnage.
Having occasion to draw up the blind, be found
the left arm motionless and the lee very ma
lt was an attack of bemeplegia, which obliged
him to give up his profusion. After surviving
a few years he sunk under advancing disease of
the brain."
But the influence of excessive indulgence in
the pleasures of the table doei not stop with
the digestive system and the establishment of
proclivities to disease. Habits of idleuess and
indolence are set up which add to the difficul
ties. The metamorphosis of the tissues dees
not progress with the normal state of activity,
and hence they become soft and unhealthy.
with greatly increased liability to disorganiza
tion. Moreover, the products of the decay of
the tissues, instead of being rapidly excreted,
are retained In the system and add to the Un
healthy condition. An organism thus circum
stanced, although not necessarily diseased. Is
like a powder mill which only requires a little
spark to cause the explosion. A trifling acci
dent or affection may act as the spark and pro
duce the results which never would have fol
lowed had the system been Jn a normal state,.
William A Huucoxs.-
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Kq Time Should be Lett
By those troubled with constipation In seeking
relief from Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Tha
disease is easily relieved in Its earlier stage.
and as it Is utterly subversive of the general
health. DOtoonenient of thn r.m i. .,
The same holds good of delay in cases of feverj.1
and ague. kidney comDlaints. ni.n.nn... ..!
billty and rheumatism, aliment tn which tha''-
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