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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1889.
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DEFORMED CHILDREN
Can be Made Straisht Willi Troper
and Judicious Treatment
SHIRLEY DAEE TELLS OF MIRACLES
Wronjlit lj Pare Food, Fresh Air and
Woman's Tender Care.
A PAPER FOR FARESTS TO READ
PTEITTKf TOE THE DISPATCH.1
IP anything on
earth more expresses
the divinity in man
than the devotion of
parents to afflicted
children, show it to
me! What g.'t de
scends on fa hers
and mothers to make
them so endlessly
tender of deformity,
patient through
months, years and
lifetimes, sleepless,
the arms fail them,
able of their flock.
tireless at heart when
and all for the least
Nothing shows the difference between the
old pagan feeling, worshipful of youth and
beauty as it was, and the modern belief,
than that every man and woman who reads
this will feel a touch at heart, which
makes the last sentence superflous and trite.
Two thousand years ago it would not have
been so. The well and the wise considered
the unfortunate as burdens to be only too
hastily turned off. The cripples starved or
begged. Their families disowned them, and
the State condemned them. They could
neither fight nor work, so they were thrown
to the waves or to wild beasts. The world
had not begun to learn what a treasure of
brightness may lie in the brain of the
hunchback, or what tender attachment re
pays the care of the disabled. The helpless
call ont such deep, complete tenderness as
renders their service a blessing. One sees a
little way into heaven who knows the un
speakable affection of words and looks be
tween parents and sick children.
A PAKENTAL MISTAKE.
WTio has not seen the unstinted care Riven
the crippled or half idiot child by some
hard-working family, the patient saving to
buy appliances, costly to them, which may
relieve the one for whom the heart is ten
der, the thought to carrv home each treat
lor the one who never stirs cutside the door
I know the wite of a day laborer who stints
and slaves to buy her deformed child shoes
that support a twisted loot Each pair
costs 58, more than the father earns in a
fortnight, too olten, but the mother sews
and goes without food to buy the shoes
which help her darling. The child has
been to the hospital and has been operated
on repeatedly, without cure, and now the
mother will not try any more.
Here she and a thousand other parents
are wrong. They try two or three methods,
halfa dozen maybe, and then submit to
lifelong illness and delormity. So many
sick, ot all ages, have given up hopelessly,
when perhaps the water of healing was
beyond the next palm trees. Few diseases
under 45 should ever be considered hope
less, or few deformities under 30 years of
age. The right practice may not have been
followed in some medical respect. Too
much is expected from medicine or trom spe
cial treatment, forgetting how little these are
able to do without good nursing, pure air,
diet and good influences generally. "With
these more can be done without medicine
than medicine alone can ever do. Yet I
would be one of the last to decrv medicine.
THE DErOESIITIES OF CHILDREN
are counted the most hopeful of cure. A
clever doctor will take a sore-eyed, rickety,
distorted child from 'life slums, or from
homes nowhere near the slums but quite as
unhealthy, and make it for all purposes
sound and useful for life in a Tear or two.
He will mend its hare-lip, to begin. They
take in families at city hospitals to heal for
this feature. St. Luke's, 2Cew York City,
had an Italian mother and her three children
from eight years old to the baby under treat
ment at once, the baby having a double
hare-lip for a start in lite. All were menaed
up ana sent out passably good looking.
Cross eyes frequently come from bad
digestion and they must be set right first in
all diseases and disorders. The. strong ex
pression of Dnjardin-Beaumetz on con
sumption is no less trne of most other mala
dies. "There do not exist several medi
cations tor it: mere is nut one
which addresses itself to the nutrition,
others are only adjuncts which become
dangerous if they aflect unfavorably for a
single day or a single instant, the digestive
lunctions." And we may seriously add the
followinc sentence for all disorders of chil
dren: "Thus far those conditions which
promote bodily vigor have alone been lound
effectual." As parting advice the doctor
usually says "pay good attention to the
general health, diet, etc," when he should
say, "Your habits must be set right, or
medicine has only the throw of a dice for
you," and he should insist upon strict care
inthese respects as he insists on not taking
acids with certain medicines, or on poul
tices and bandages when necessary. "With
out strict home care, the chances of recovery
by medicine ore 1 in 100, while with suet
care they are 90 in 100.
Beautiful are the miracles of the healing
art, though slow, and no less valuable for
being the work of time. If people could be
cured by the touch of a hand they might
be very careless how they ran the risk of
being sick again.
GOOD CAKE "WORKS "WOKDEES.
1 i these kindly works in the town ba
bies which are every season consigned to the
care of a good farmer's wife not faraway.
They come ot the worst parentage perhaps,
wails and foundlings, their heads and faces
crusted with sores, eyes all but closed with
inflammation, and every function astray.
The good woman has her own time with
them the first year, but at the end, with
fresh milk and fresh air, decent cleanliness
and punctual hours you will find the same
children lair and smooth of cheek as roes,
the eyes brave and bright, the poor thin
bodies growing plump, firm and frolicsome
a sight for all men to be thank-ul for. AH
disease of such class as rickets or epilepsies
need in childhood littleother treatment than
good, strengthening care. The best thing
for a weakly young child is to put on its
nightgown, or no gown, and lay it on a bed
or on the carpet in a warm room to sprawl
in the sunshine. The effect of the stimulant
is simply magical. Appetite increases,
sleep is sounder and the spirits better. The
color grows rich and the very quality of the
flesh alters and becomes excellent. The
little Greek boys in Alma Tademan's inte
riors are so pretty and so happy, playing
over the bath or on the lion's skin with their
unconsciousness for a garment, one is tempt
ed to wish lor the seclusion of the Greek
women's apartment, where mothers might
work in scanty apparel, ana the babies in
none at all.
The food in children's ailments must be
nutritions jfi possible, and they are the bet
ter in rickets, and case of withered limbs or
backward growth lor a course ot hypophos
phites. Acid phosphate, in very small
doses, or vitalized phosphates are most val
uable in such cases, and soon cail by in
creased appetite for rich food like cream,
wheatcn grits boiled in broth, and doses of
lipanin, the new substitute for cod liver oil,
made from tiie finest olive oil. Kaw eggs
beaten up with two tablespoonfuls of calfs
foot jelly or truit jelly to each egg are very
strengthening and relishing. In
FEEDING CHILDREN iSD INVALIDS
for strength, care mut be used to have food
taste good, and invite appetite for the sate
of eating. Too olten the little inclination
for food is turned to repulsion by the taste
less, unsavory messes served; and'the chance
ot strength lost beyond recovery. Pood, to
cave its full medicinal Talue, must be of
the freshest, kept in pure air, and closely
kept, that the various flavors do not affect
each other. A box prettily painted or cov
ered with tile, 1'k a jajfdinicrc, to stand
outside the window of an invalid's room is
much safer for keeping food than a common
refrigerator, where meats and milk, cooked
vegetables and fruit stand together, and all
communicate by the wattcpipe with the
house drain. A diseased box like this is
the secret of much lost health and unsne
cesslul care of invalids, especially sensitive
children.
The deformities and chronic ailments of
children classed by common practitioners
as hopeless, are often the best of all cases to
treat, by home methods. The doctor's ad
viee is needtul, to determine the disease and
indicate its treatment, but the mother must
be the practicing physician to carry it out
From sad experience I am led to say that
no woman should undertake the care of a
lamily, whether as mother or otherwise,
without intelligent study of medicine, and
practice under a trained nurse. It should
be part of a woman's education. Let me
urge loving women, to whom their own are
precious, to inform themselves about health
and disease belore the veil comes and sick
ness falls upon the household. What others
have learned they can learn, enough to save
their dearest from death or lifelong dis
ability.
WTTHEBED LIMBS
arise most frequently from .fevers, or teeth
ing, with accompanying dieestion and cere
bral disturbances, lrom which the child
escapes with paralysis and arrest of devel
opment of one arm or leg. Nature makes
an effort at recovery and succeeds in all but
one member. A fall often brings on grad
ual paralysis of one side. The first consid
eration is pure air and good nourishment,
the next a good circulation of blood in the
parts. The innervation, or stimulus of the
paralyzed nerves, takes place only by a
goodflow of arterial blood. Hot baths" for
the limb, daily, followed by a rest, wrapped
in hot flannel, then exposure to the sun by
the hour, firm and gentle friction, only
ceasing with fatigue of the patient, and
movement of the limb, bending and straight
ening the joints, and squeezing the inert
muscles by another person, indicate the
treatment which patiently kept up will in
almost everv case that can be mentioned,
restore wasted limbs to natural size and
vigor. Electriiity is useful to some extent,
but is farless to be relied upon than the simple
treatment known as massage, or the sensible
"movement cure."
Spinal curvatures of the one-sided sort
which throw a hip or shoulder out of line.
come not from disease of the bone so much
as weakness of one set of muscles, or over
use of one side, which gradually draws the
bone into distortion. But the'same influ
ence which cansed the delormity may effect
its cure. It is simply to establish traction
of thernuscles on the opposite side, which
will in time draw the bones into place.
Plaster jackets and stiff supporters have
their use, but it is equally possible to cure
spinal curvature without such rigid methods.
Indeed, severe treatment of any kind for a
child may be thrown aside as worse than
useless, unless in one case of a thousand.
The traction of a linen brace, good nutrition
and the exercises of the movement cure,
combined with easy slings and swings de
vised by physicians will cure the worst
lateral curvatures in a year or two, and
lighter cases in a few months.
GEKTLE CUBES THE BEST.
Little faults of position, standing on one
foot too much, sitting one-sided, wearing nar
row heeled shoes, may strain the muscles so
as to produce spinal curvature with deformed
shoulder or hip. Angular curvature or
"hunchback" is caused, like true hip dis
ease, by caries or ulceration of the bone, and
is a much more serious thing to treat.
Some of the best surgeons preler to treat this
without instruments or braces. "No
means," says one of the best writers on the
subject, "are admissible, whether confine
ment to the bed in the prone or any other
position, or the wearing of hard, heavy,
confining instruments, which can at all in
terlere with the general health." An in
strument may serve a temporary purpose,
but it is folly to distress a child to the point
of nervousness and sleeplessness with it.. It
is better to take a little longer time for the
rnre htr rentier Kxfer tnpnns A Hwlif Krfioa
which relieves the pressure on the diseased
bone and strain of the muscles, while it al
lowsthe child to run about and play, will
do more lasting good than "counter-irritation,"
moras, formication, or blistering with
oil of ants, needle-cures, or other methods
which draw upon the already weakened
strength of the patient.
I wonld urge all person3 in charge of such
cases or any deformities of children, to
study the eminently sensible and practical
"Theory and Practice of the Movement
Cure," by Dr. Chas. F. Taylor. Published
over 25 years since, it is one of those books
which should never be allowed to go out of
print, not more for its special topic than for
its varied information on points of health.
of the highest interest. Like Florence
Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing," it is
one of those books from which an intelligent
woman win gain more guidance than from
a dozen specialists outside. I have drawn
liberally from its clear information for this
letter, added to the experience ot the found
er ot the Orthopedic Child's Hospital, of
New York, whose early work I had the
pleasure of seeing years ago, when he took
crippled children into his own house for
cure. The happy faces of his little patients
were the highest tribute to this good man's
care. His humane methods are such as
may be followed in most cases at home hv
instructed mothers, who are the best phvsi
cians for their children. I repeat, there is
no snch aid to medicine in the wide world
and the influence of a kind, truthful woman
over her child. The sympathy between
them, his trust in her, obtain precisely that
easy, tranquil state of mind in which physi
cal nature works its best This best, of un
aided nature working without resistance of
an upset mind, accounts for all the wonders
of the mind-cure, of which mothers have
had the key for ages. Shirley Dabe.
THE STOPAT SAMOA
A Disappointment to tbe Ball Tossers
, From Yankee Land.
AMUSEMENTS ON SHIPBOARD.
A Climl Up Mount Eden and a Pen Picture
of Auckland.
TAB MAORI SOLID IS AUSTRALIA
V? IfJj
1 EW5T
SPECIAL COBBISPONDKTCZ Or THE DISPATCH. 3
Sidney, New South Wales,
December 19, 1888,
THE arrival of
the Alameda at the
Sa m o a n Islands
brought another
disappointment to
the baseball players
and other members
of the party. They
had been led to an.
ticipate that they
would witness there
one of the most
unique sights of the
voyage. They had
heard glowing ac-
" counts of the pictur
esque appearance of the natives as they
swam out to the steamer to dispose of shells
and other curios. Besides this, the mail
was to be dropped here to be taken up by
the next Australian steamer, on its way to
America. Probably no ball tossers have
never before applied themselves so diligently
to the task of writing letters, and an unusu
ally largemailbag was filled to the top
with the histories of the trip. It was ex
pected that the steamer would reach the
place during Sunday afternoon, but con
trary winds held it back, until it became
manifest that the island would not be
reached until late in the night
The Sabbath day proved exceedingly
dnll. During the forenoon religious service
was held, at which the benevolent looking
white-whiskered gentleman who officiated
exhilarated his hearers by reminding them
of the dangers which beset a long sea voy
age and the possibility ot their never again
seeing the faces of the friends they left be
hind. The day was observed with the ut
most decorum, card playing being eschewed
entirely. The sea was rough, and the huge
splashes of spray that washed the deck com
pelled most of the passengers to remain in-
aoors.
A midnight gbeeting.
When it was finally learned that the ex
change of mails would probably take place
about midnight, most of the players de
cided to remain on deck. About 11:30
o'clock the vessel sailed with startling
abruptness out of the dashing, turbulent
waves into almost calm water. The cold
breeze that had been sweeping over the ship
gave place, with equal suddenness, to a
zephyr-like breeze that had almost a velvety
soitncss as it purred on the bronzed cheeks
of the athletes. Afar off in the dark night,
a small light was seen to twinkle.
It was from a vessel near shore
which was awaiting the arrival of
the steamer, whose captain had, with uner
ring precision, sailed out of the creat waste
of the ocean to the small beacon that laid to'
the leeward. The line of the mountainous
shore was just discernible. Alter a short
delay other lights appeared; then burning
blue light from the vessel illumined the
water nearby, and was immediately re
sponded to by a similar luminous display
on shore. Another short delay followed;
then a voice in the distance hallooed out:
"Is Mooie's goods there?" and in a few mo
ments a small cat boat, manned by a white
umu aim iu natives, waue its appearance
for the merchandise, consigned to some
trader.
About the same time a small light could
be seen on the waters, now and then bob
bing out of sight, as the boat was tossed up
and down by the waves. It was a lifeboat
which brought mail from shore and was to
take in return the mail matter from aboard
ship. It was rowed by five natives, big
broad-chested fellows, dark-skinned and
with not unpleasing countenance. A ladder
was let down as it was made last near the
cat-boat, and a big lellow, whom the mate
called "Pete" clambered on board. He was
about 6 leet tall and had an enormous mus
cular development of chest and arms. As
he entered the purser's office he was asked
would he take a drink. He replied in the
afilirmative and a big goblet of gin was
poured out for him. He drank it in almost
one gulp. As he smacked hislins the
purser asked, "Will yon have some water?"
YEEI QUEER SHORTHAND,
A Mllvrnnkee Man' Pccullnr Idem on the
Subject ot Phonorraphr.
Chicago M&1L
A number of years ago, before writing
shorthand became so common, there was in
Milwaukee a young man who was just fin
ishing a course of commercial training and
penmanship. This youth was ambitious to
enter a business house and become self
sustaining. Accordingly .he was on the
alert for any opening that fortune might
cast in his pathway. I will tell the rest of
the story in his own language. He said:
"I was one evening leaving the school
when a student gave me an Eastern news
paper. I took it home and in it read an
advertisement fot a young man to write
shorthand. I had no more idea of what
shorthand really meant than a pig has o a
stock market However, I wanted a job,
and, as I could write like Sam Hill, I
applied for the place and wrote two letters
one in the most cramped-up handwriting
that I could make and have it readable, and
the other I wrote in a very long, serawly
iiuuu, su as iu uiutie ine contract greater. I
never got a reply lrom the advertiser, and
since I came to Chicago and got to be a
court reporter I often think how those fel
lows whoever they were, must have laughed
at my shorthand."
After Business.
Chicago Herald.
Southwestern railroad manager to his
general passenger agent:
"I see that the Canada roads are
aded with snow."
"Yes; no trains have run into Montreal
and Toronto for three days."
"Get ont a circular showing the advan
tages of Mexico and offering special rates to
trusted financiers."
block-
B-tTrecn Scjlln and Cuarybdls.
New York Bnn.J
"So poor old Lordly has gone to smash,"
remarked Terwilliger. "It will fall rather
hard on his five unmarried daughters, poor
things. Was it wheat that ruined him?"
"Naw," was grunted out. with an emphasis
that caused every one to laugh.
HE DISGUSTED ANSON.
Captain Anson, who had been regarding
the native with a I'd-like-to-sign-you sortol
expression, turned away disgusted at the
performance, as if he realized the difficulty
of making such an athlete amenable to strict
prohibitionary discipline.
Pete next took hold of the big mailbag as
if it were a feather, tossed it lightlv over his
shoulder and went back to his boat A mo
ment later the boat cut loose from the
steamer and was soon lost to sight, as the
vessel weighed anchor and again sailed out
into the rough waters of the ocean.
The voyage from Tuitnila to Auckland
was quite uneventful, excepting, perhaps,
the jump from Thnrsday to Saturday morn
ing, when the steamer crossed the 180
meridian, to make up for the time lost trav
eling westward. Tbe hall plavers were
deeply interested, and devoted themselves to
the study of the causes tor changes in time
in a wav that will probably never character
ize them again
A series of entertainments were gotten up
in the social ball of the steamer for whiline
away evenings, the most interesting one of
which was the trial of a so-called voung En
glish nobleman, who claimed to be Sir
James Willoughby, of Willoughbvshire,
England, but was traveling under the ple
bian name of Smith. He had been dubbed
bv the ball players "Jimmy" and "Sir
Jimmy," and was arrested on the charge of
traveling as an impostor in the United
States, and for having intent to shoot
through the whiskers of an unpopular indi
vidual known as"His Whiskers.,r"Jimray"
had devoted himself assiduously throughout
the trip to drinking whiky, and was, as a
rule, in a chaotic, if not paralytic, condi
tion. A MOCK COTJBT'S "VERDICT.
The court was organized, with Major
General Strang", an English army officer,
as juuge; ouonsiop i ara as counsel Jor de
fendant; Colonel House, a character from
Chicago, as prosecuting attorney.and Eight
fielder Fogerty as court crier. The rights
of the lair sex were recognized bv giving
them a place on the jury. The trial proved
a grotesque affair, in which the court ciier
considered himscll the most important indi
vidual. He was continually interrupting
the proceedings by vociferous cries of
"uere-ye, nere-ye, ana on one occasion
almost made the dignity of the judge col
lapse by -calling out trom one end of the
saloon, while pretending to order drinks,
"What'll you have. Judge." Ward
showed quite a clear perception
of his duties, and his case
was materially helped by the prosecuting
attorney, who was continually arguing and
cross-examining witnesses In lavor of the
other side. But notwithstanding all this
and the unbiased charge of the judge, the
jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and
"Jimmy" was ordered to pay a penalty of
four quirt bottles of champagne, a- punish
ment which the court-crier made it his busi
ness to see was at once carried out
On another occasion the wicked man
from Chicago accomplished the hitherto in
comparable feat of actually putting out the
lights by poor singing.- lie was perpetrat
ing the almost forgotten song of "Lather
left his audience in total darkness. It was
not a prearranged jnke, but was due to -a
slight accident to the machinery. The irre
pressible Fogarty, who was peering in at
one of the windows piped out in an effem
inate voice, "Please sing 'White Wings."
The discomforted singer made a dash to the
spot where the voice came from and grasped
his hands tightly around the neck of a per
son he thought was Fogarty, until a real
feminine voice exclaimed, "It wasn't me, it
wasn't me," and showed him that he had
been trying to strangle a gentle, elderly
female.
A COSTLY DISAPPOINTMENT.
The effect of the late departure from San
Francisco continued to follow the baseball
combination like a disappointed nemesis as
the steamer approached Auckland. Satur
day was the day set for arrival and playing
of a game, but it was not until early on
Sunday morning that the port was reached.
It was a bitter and costly disappointment
to Spalding, for Saturday was a legal half
holiday and all outdoor spurts had been
postponed out of deference to the coming of
the baseball plavers. It was said that nine
or ten thousand people would have been at
the game. A small but encouraging bit of
good luck finally happened here. Owing to
a coal strike at Sydney, the vessel had to
take on a double cargo, which extended the
usual stop of a lew hours to 28. It was at
once determined to play a game on Monday
alternoou; though it was not expected that
there would be nearly so large au attend
ance. There was no demonstration on the wharf
from the thousand or more people who had
assembled to see the steamer come in. The
Sabbath day is observed with the utmost
strictness, and the streets present a state of
qmet more marked than that of a new
England village. All the shops are closed,
and even the street cars, or trams, are not
allowed to run. During the early hours of
the day very lew people are on the street,
ana an almost graveyard silence prevails.
Under the circumstances little sight-seeing
was indulged in, though a leception com
mittee, composed of the editors and proprie
tors of the New Zealand Herald and Auck
land itar had arranged to take the visitors
around. During the afternoon, in spite of
a pelting ram. the ball plavers. including
the wives of Captain Anson and Ed
Williamson, started out to climb
Mount Eden, the most interesting sight in
the immediate neighborhood of Auckland.
It is a mountain about a thousand feet high,
the sides of which present a series of pictur
esque terraces, the remains of old fortifica
tions built by the Maoris. On the very top
is the crater of an extinct volcano, the bot
tom of which is about 100 leet down. The
view on a clear day is a pretty one. The
carriages stopped within a halt mile of the
top, and the climb np the solt turf was de-
cidedly more interesting than pleasant. The
island'at Auckland is only six miles wide,
and tbe ocean is visible on both sides, but
the heavy mist shut it out from view. It
was clear euongh, however, to see the prettv
rolling country in between. The climb
down was marked with several amusing
mishaps. John Ward and the Mascot had
their descent accelerated by taking long and
unexpected slides.
A TBEAT FOB AMEBICANS.
The ride through the open country was
exceedingly pretty. The fences which di
vide the fields are built mainly of lava rock.
The cottages and residences are, as a rule,
surrounded by handsome trees, and gorgeous-colored
flower beds greeted the eye on
every side. Auckland is very hilly, and
the views from high elevations disclose a
picturesque array ot gable roofs in the vale
and up and down the hillsides. Fruits of
all kinds wereeen in abundance.
It is 6aid ot improvident ball players,
that they feed on snowballs during winter.
It there are any such in the Chicago and
All-America baseball combination they
must be considered extremelv fortunate, for
strawberries, some over an inch in diameter,
and big black heart cherries have tickled
their pallet in this place of continuous sum
mer. Auckland is a quaint looking city to
Americans, with its low-roofed buildings
and plain, heavy style of architecture. The
business portion of the city has many sub
stantial looking structures, especially the
banks. . - .
On the second day of our stop here the
streets presented a scene of a thriving and
bustling activity. The people are not
essentially different from Americans either
in their dress or manner of talking, and
their inflection of voice is scarce peculiar
enough to tempt theadmiration of an Anglo
maniac. The citizens take a great pride in
the Maoris, the aborigines of the country,
and regard them as brave, industrious and
honest people. This may possibly account
in some aegree lor me peculiar regard they
have for Australia. They resent strongly
the idea of being considered a part of that
country, and try to impress emphatical
ly that they have a little con
tinent of their own. The Maoris them
selves wonld feel insulted to be considered
in any way related to the Australian
natives, whom they look upon with exceed
ing contempt. A "Maori member of Parlia
ment, whom I had the pleasure of meeting,
expressed his feeling aptly when he said,
"The Australians can't even learn their A.
B. Cs." Tje chiefs are big, broad shoul
dered fellows, with aEeries of gracelully
curved tattoos around their eyebrows and
aiong their noses. One of themj who was in
troduced to Anson, Ward and others and
told their mission to the country, regarded
them intently for a moment and then with
grin on his countenance, reniarked in his
native tongue "Boys!" Goodfeiend.
POOR OLD STAGERS.
Bessie Bramble's Heart Goes Out to
Those Miserable Beings,
LOVELESS, FORLORN BACHELORS
Who flare Neither Home, Friends Nor Cher
ished Ones, but Are
LOOKING FOB SOMEONE TO LOYE THEM
"jo, repnea om .Brown. "It was the and Shave," and had reached the third
five daughters and the tailor-made suit" I verse when the electrio lights went out and
PITK0LEUM AS AETIIiLEEI.
How Oil la SInde to Servo oa a Substitute
lor Gnnpon-der.
General S. W. Crawford says in the
Springfield, Mass., Republican:
"Once, for the sake of the excitement and
diversion, Ijoined Don Carlos at Los Arcos,
in the mountains of Navarre, and accom
panied his troops to Vienna, on the Ebro,
and was a witness to the attack on and capt
ure of the place. They were a tatterde
malion lot ot soldiers and no mistake,
clothed in every conceivable garment and
armed with every conceivable weapon, from
a pitchfork to a broken scythe strapped on a
stick, ana from an antiquated, out-of-date
army musket to the latest improved Ameri
can breech-loader. But nondescript and in
congruous as they were, they had stout
hearts in their ill-nurtured bodies, and
when put to it and snurred on by the pres
ence of their Prince they would fight as
gallantlv and desperately as onl v bra7e men
can. As lor the artillery, thev had none,
but that did not appear to aflect them one
way or the other. I stood by the side of
Don Carlos on a rustic bridge one dismal
and rainy morning ns his devoted followers
filed by on the march, and I was much
struck by seeing a number of wagons in the
lane loaded down with barrels. I asked
Don Carlos what they contained, and he
carelessly answered. In his most nonchalant
manner, with just the trace of a smile on this
baml-ome face:
"Thev contain jietrolenm."
"And what earthly use," I asked, "have
you lor petroleum on the march?"
"What use?" he answered. "Why, much
use, to be sure. That's our artillery. We
employ it to smoke out our enemies from
barricaded strongholds, and I can assure,
yon it's been tried and found very effective
in case a conflagration is deemed desirable."
And then, alter a moment's pause and a
look at my face, "Oh, yes; I can assure you.
General Crawford, petroleum makes verv
good artillery on a pinch; very good, in-
C0BBXSF0XDEXC5 01" TIIE DISPATCH-.!
IKEN, S. C, Feb
ruary 13. About
the forlornest be
ing under the shin
ing heavens is a
bachelor after he
reaches the age of
B0 years and np
wara. Then the
dreams and joys of
youth have flown
the enthusiasms
and energies ot
voung manhood are
moderating and growing more toward the
sedateness and desire for the quietness of
middle age the disappointments and the
harrowing lessons of experience have about,
dispelled the rosy visions of the days when
love and joy, hope and happiness seemed to
be the boundaries of life's horizon and the
man has about fonnd ont that he no more
takes pleasure or finds joy in the revels and
gayeties of youth.
Some men who, as they say, have kept
clear of the bonds of matrimony, seek to re
tain the semblance of life's young day
when it is only a shadow of the past by
the frisky airs of youth by the aping of
boyishness long since departed by a studied
and carelul preservation, or rather imita
tion, of their early prime, but no man of 50
can sham his days in the twenties with suc
cess. Even if gray hairs were wanting, if
wrinkles had written no marks of care, if
vears have brought no weight or solidity to
the slimness of figure, yet half a century
will tell a tale, and leave its marks.
At snch age an old bachelor is ont of
favor with the young, who scruple not to
call him an "ancient old dnffer." He is
not in unison or sympathy with those of his
own age who are married and live in anoth
er world than his, and who have closer ties
and sweeter relationships than his friend
ship can bestow, and who usually look upon
him as a shirk wedded to his own selfish
ness. Growing hard of hearing and garru
lous as mostot them do they are bores in
society, and are looked upon as inflictions,
unless they have money enough to
induce to fawn upon and flatter them to the
top of their bent
SECOND-HAND JOTS.
Some men ofthis class, who have reveled
in the joys of single blessedness, are excep
tions some degree miss the forlornities of
growing age, and enjoy the next-door happi
ness of fatherhood by becoming a blessed
old uncle, liberal with tips and appreciative
of what constitute the pleasure ot vonthfnl
lives. By the adoption of these second
hand joys they secure such sort of second
class happiness as falls to those who have
missed the sweeter pleasures ol love and
friendship in marriage. For them it may
suffice; for their narrow desires the love of
wedded bliss is not essential to comfort,
solace, and a scanty measure of content
But these are not'thelonelv, forlorn old
beings, who roam about the "world alone,
who are ever in the pursuit of health, who
are found everywhere anxious to be con
sidered youthiul and eligible, who flatter
themselves they could marry any time, who
are without home or relatives or minister
ing sisters. Being a bachelor may be all
very beautiful until the meridian of life is
past; but then comes loneliness, and an
ardent longing for that "completest hap
piness" which can be found on earth only
in a home of one's own, with familv and
friends.
"I feel now that I should have married.
said one of these desolate men the other day.
When years creep on, ill health comes,
society no longer has charms, and friends
are wrapped up in their own aflairs, then a
man is lonely. He is sensitive to the jokes
on him as an "old stager," and would rather
feel that he w,as an "old sweetheart" for
somebody. Some men who have wealth
enough to make them tempting, try to re
trieve their early error by marrying a young
girl, but such a union is rarely happy, for
if he is old, he wants to turn his back upon
the madding crowd, and toast his toes at his
own fireside, while she is longing for the
gay and glittering throng and giddy whirl
of the world outside. She has not yet dis
covered, as has he, that
"Society's a polished horde
Formed of two mighty tribes the bores and
bored."
She has not tasted all the joys of youth
that he has exhausted she has not reached
the conclusion by experience that the com
fort and joy of life conies of renouncing the
pomps and vanities of this wicked world, as
has he. In his youth he wanted all the tun
drink, and filled up his spare time in abuse
of his family. The wile's friends, wishing
to provide her a home that he could neither
mortgage nor sell,. had to vest the title in a
trustee as she could not hold it. Hence it
may well be seen that marriage as pre
scribed by church and State, and fortified
by the bulwark of no divorce, is no less a
failure where such condition of affairs exist
than in States where greater freedom pre
vails. Hut women, as they grow in indepen
dence, and find means to make their own
living, and take care of themselves, are
greater gainers in personal happiness by fol
lowing the advice of St Paul as to marriage
than are men. A harmonious happy mar
riage has in it the highest lorm of friend-
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
A Boom far the Boomers.
Anntston Hot Blast
How dear to our hearts is the boom we are
having; dear are the boomers who' help it
along, who sing of improvements, of rust
ling and paving, while hundreds of voices
join in the song. The kickers must vanish,
the loafers must perish, the cranks and
croakers mutt all amble down; and we will
encourage, and fondle and cherish those
long headed boomers, those progressive
boomers, those 'free-handed boomers who
brace up the town;
there was in it: so does she. Human nature
is human nature. The young love pleasure,
gay company, gadding, and junketing. De
cember and "May form no fitting match, nor
smoothly running pair.
AN OLD MAN'S DARLING.
A wealthy old bachelor who marries a
young wile is an old ool, as the wisdom of
the world goes, and the girl who thus be
comes a bride is usually s'et down by the
same authority as a-mercenary, calculating,
cold-hearted creature, speculating upon his
folly and with an eye single to his monev.
If, however, on the contrary, people of tfle
s.ime age marry when they have grown old,
they have weakened their chances of hap
piness, because they have likely both be
come, in Yankee narlance, "sot in their
ways" and solid intheir prejudices, and
will find it hard to adapt their tastes to the
measure of mutual enjoyment Still,
equality in age gives fairest promise of
companionship.
Single women are far less lonelv than
men when a little Irosthas become visible in
their hair, and the wrinkles have begun to
show, and the joy in ynutli'ul pleasure has
given way to the greater delights of middle
age. They can make themselves a pleasant
home, and revel in comtort in any place
from an 8x12 hall room to a palace fit lor a
queen. Anold maid, however she may be
held up to ridicule and derision, finds in
celibacy more ofpleasure, more ol independ
ence, more of real comlnrt than does a man.
She can find cheer and solace where he is
helpless and 'disconsolate. Taking marriage
as it stands to-d.iythe woman would, in
niost cases, be vastly happier outside of
matrimony than within even its silken folds
and rosy letters. Here in South Carolina
marriage is simply legalized slavery. Its
laws justify atrocious outrages and cruelties
upon women, and debar them trom any
rescue or escape by divorce. It is Christian
marriuge by pr.iyerbook ceremony, or church
form and no divorce. It is the
state ot affairs so earnestly desired
by the Anti-Divorce Society and the
authorities of the church generally. But
tin; ideal harmony and happiness pictured
in a State where divorce is forbidden and
impossible no more exists here than any
where. It is true the lawyers are not kept
at work on cases of divorce, but they are no
less busily engaged in devising plans and
evasions lor protecting wives lrom cruel
and unscrupulous husbands. II a woman
with property in this State marries, that
property becomes her husband's 'o have nnd
to hold at his good pleasure. If he is main,
profligate and rapacious as, sad to say,
some men are he can reduce her, to poverty,
and make her life one of misery and priva
tion. NO BEDRESS FOB WOMAN.
But neither the law nor the church gives
her redress, or escape in the way of divorce.
A case In point came np to-day, where a
husband spent every dollar he could get in
ship, the purest and sweetest eniovroent of
life, but in an unhappy union women (Uifer,
as a general thing, mnch more than men.
The law is largely against them thevare de
pendent lor maintenance they are restricted
by family cares they are coerced by
society and debarred by custom lrom any
course save that of endurance and suffering.
'Men go out into the world and find new
friends, fresh Sources of pleasure, and secure
the enjoyments of a club. They content
themselves with furnishing the funds for the
support of the family, and leave their wives
to unhappiness, knowing" that no great
social onnswill fall upon them if they
find cogeuial companionship elsewhere.
Prince Rudolf has been defended
for his unfaithfulness to his
marriage vows by the press his sins or in
fidelity .have been condoned by the pulpit.
If Stephanie had been unfaithful, and then
committed snicide, her sins would scarcely
have been condoned she Would hardly
have been buried in the odor of sanctity,
and accorded the highest honors of the
church. No snch license to transgress
the law of marriage is winked at in women.
No such flagrant infractions of domestic
virtue are covered with a mantle of charity
when committed by women. No such de"
fense and justification of marital infideli
ty has ever been printed by respectable
papers for any woman of whatever rank, as
has been accorded to the royal prince of the
Hapsburgs.
WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.
Whatever may be said in the way of ex
ceptions, it becomes clearer to women that
marriage, as it stands, brings to them
heavier bnrdens, drearier lives, more of
suffering, more of worry, more ot sorrow
than celibacy. As a way to secure a home
and make a living regardless of the love
that alone makes it sacred, anything were
better. No state of servitnte could be mom
galling or more destructive to the joys of
freedom. Tn thfl nld rlnva n-Tian an "U
maid" was under the ban, when a woman
who was not married was looked upon as
one who, for Lick of beiuty or want of at
tractiveness or good qnalities, had failed to
please a man, women entered upon loveless
marriages through fear of the world's
dread laugh, or the stigma of the
name, or the fear of poverty. But
no such bugaboos frighten intelligent
women into bonds now-a-days. They have
tasted of the delights of freedom, the jovs
of independence. The woman now with
means o her own to bo comfortable looks
with pify on the sisters who struggle aloni:
in marriage and are worn out by its carking
cares and bnrdens. "Would I not be a
blooming idiot" said a bright young
woman, with her salary of $1,500 a year and
more in prospect "to resign my place and
get married to struggle along in house
keeping for nothing a week, to tie my
self down to a nursery, to wrestle with
the servant question, to wear myself
out in a steaming kitchen, and all for what
for a man? Bah! Don't mention it I
have my honrs of work, which I enjoy; I
have my own money to spend as I please; I
have my vacations, my trips of pleasure
with congenial friends; I come, and no. or
stay, with no man nagging at me, or bossing
me; x nave my own little nome where no
Queen of Sheba could be happier.
Wouldn't I beasnblime fool to get married?
Surrender, will I, when the right man comes
along? Well, may be I will, but hardly, if
I know myself. At all events, if I do, the
man I marry will have to be up to the top
notch of a man, mark you."
SAD OLD BACHELOBS.
That's the way the girls are beginning to
talk of ma riage. And no wonder, with the
awlnl examples of the failures in marriage
all around. With their talent for home
making and housekeeping, and their ability
to interest themselves in the every day
duties of life, women who remain single for
wnatever cause are never so lorlorn, or
lonely, or at loss-asold bachelors who are
in the sere and yellow leal especially
those who have" burned the candle at both
ends in their youth.
The picture of these old codgers as they
haunt hotels and hang along m society, is
laughable to most people, but there is a
pathos about the old tellows that excites
sympathy. They do not like to hang back,
or be" counted out, but the fact remains that
they can no longer keep up with the pro
cession. Nobody wants to talk with them,
they are too short and prosy; nobody wants
to listen to their interminable old stories;
nobody has patience with their cranks and
crotchets. The time seems to be coming
when to be an old batchelor will be
as approbrious, as subject to ridicule,
as much a point for satires, and subject of
jokes as once was the old maid.
A ma-i who grows old in a single state is
generally morose and Iretful and sour and
embittered and faultfinding, says Dr.
Johnson, and he further asserts that though
matrimony may have some pains, celibacy
has few pleasures. Marriage should be a
matter of personal choice for both parties.
But as a divine institution, a dictate of the
law of love and nature, the single man and
celibate woman both miss something of the
highest miss.
For marriage rightly understood.
Gives to the tender and the good,
A paradise below."
Bnt the "old bachelor" misses more than
the woman as age creeps on. A man is a
handy thing to have in a house, but an old
maid can enjoy a paradise without him.
Not so the old bachelor. He has to be
taken in and done for. And the older he
grows, and the more lonely he becomes, the
more he realizes that he should have married
before the frosts had settled upon bis head,
or time had stamped him as an old stager.
Bessie Bbamble.
BY A CLEKGYMAN.
HE infreqnency of large
families throughout the
United States is note
worthy and suggestive.
Is it ominous? Does it
indicate that American
women are becoming in
valids? In the middle
and higher circles, is the
social pace so exhaus
tive ot vitality that ma
ternity is lulling? May it be justly said
that motherhood is now considered "bad
form?"
A striking article appeared in one of the
great dailies, the other day, which raised
and discussed these questions with singular
point and delicacy. It was a woman who wrote,
and she exhibited both feeling and sense.
Among other excellent things, she said:
"Whereas ourgrandraothers looked with ad
miring pride upon the dozen or mors happy
faces, miniature likenesses of their own,
around the hearthstone, now we oould scarcely
find in a day's walk a household among tbe up-
Eer iu.uuu mat couio. boast hair a dozen mem
ers o? the second generation. Doe this de
crease in domestic numbers point us to what
seems to be psychological fact viz., that the
irlction of many minds rfrom the nursery up to
the salon is necessary to the development or
genius? It would seem so, indeed, when re
membering that Napoleon Bonaparte was one
of thirteen children, Benjamin Franklin ona ot
seventeen. General Sherman one of eleven,
Charles Dickens one of eight Glad
stone one of seven or more. Dr. Will
iam Makepeace Thackeray, grandslre of
me later namesake, was one of 16. Others
could becited who have attained eminence in
one department or another, who were one oi
many, while instances of an only child's celeb
rity are rare. What possibilities our fashion
able mothers of to-day forego In theirnarrowed
nime circles! The po-sibilities of fostering
genius and of gaininc fpr themselves personal
distinction, for wo all remember Napoleon's
pninted answer when Mine. Stael asked him
who he considered the greatest woman: "She.
Afcidame. who is the mother of tbe most chil
dren." replied tho greatest general of France
to the great woman of her day. It is a self-evident
fact that society women do not have as
many children as those less fashionable, and
J?.?, important question to be answered is:
Which is cause, ana which effectr Does the
fashionable life reallv lessen thn rhm.nr
raotherho-Hl, or does it necessitate its decrease?
Does it destroy maternity, pr only put it aside
as inconvenient?"
This evil is most pronounced in fashionable
1 Sr j UJS Preentt however, among what are
called the better classes quite outside of "so-ciety"-especially
in cities;
Is not the cause of It to be fonnd in the In
creasing artificiality of modern life and the
enhanced cost of living? The cost of alanre
familv is a fearfnl far.tnr nm tn i... .iicnn.
In any thoughtful consideration or this vital
subject; and It brings us (as most social ques
tions do nowadays) face to face with the ereat
industrial problem. Selfish people who will
lire in ease and comfort cannot afford to have
many children. They prefer a tine house,
fashionable clothes and frequent outing to
half a dozen cradles in the nursery, with the
confinement and drudgery and responsibility
which these would entail. Hence maternity is
relegated to our foreign-born women, who, as
yet, are not sufllciently Americanized to shirk
the noblest function of their sex. The old
fashioned large families are generally found
around. their hearth. Meantime onr American
families are growing as Prior sings: "Fine by
degrees and beautifully less."
At the present rate America will repeat
France, where the population is stationary, so
that the frightened Government anxious W
the continued existeuce of the nation has
offered a State bounty to the parents of more
than a certain number of children-) many
hundred francs a head for each additional one.
But the women are not alone to blame for
this unhappy and lamentable stated affairs.
Tbe men are equally guilty. They hold the
purse and pay the bills. Their grumbling and
luxurious selfishness goes far to cause this
lemmme auuicauonoi tuetnrone of maternity.
The world slowly forges ahead. In cast
iron India, 22 new rules of marriage reform
have been proclaimed. Three of these are
new departures of a radical kind, viz, the cost
of marriage ceremonials has been largely re
duced; elaborate ceremonials at the time of be
trothal are forbidden, and. most important of
all, hereafter no girl maybe married under 14.
and no boy under 15 a change which rings the
death knell of the iniquitous practice of child
marriage. All this Indicates a reurrection of
common sense in a community dead and buried
for a thousand years.
Half a century ago in Turkey it was
considered a disgrace for a woman to know
how to read. To-day the Sultan himself
has established two schools for girls in Con
stantinople. Seventy years ago Harriet Newell
went to India, to find the women shut np in
Zenanas, Ignorant and degraded. From the
Very place where she landed there came to this
country, not long ago, Mme. Joshee. a highly
educated Brahmin woman, to study medicine
in the Woman's College in Philadelphia. And
who would have believed, even 20 years ago
that a high estate Brahmin lady would address
an audience of her own sex, in choice English
from an American pulpit, as was the case with
Pundita Ramabla?
Gems of thought are always worthy of
careiui attention. Because thoughts are the
seeds of which action are tbe harvests. The
thoughts which are in men's minds to-day are
in their homes and business and legislation to
morrow. The French Revolution was in the
pages or Rousseau and Voltaire beforeit broke
out in the streets of Paris.
Distinction Between Crying nnd Weeping.
Ban Francisco Chronicle.
Here's the gentle Imogen weeping for her
absent exiled'lord. I don't think the wife
of to-day weeps for her husband when he is
far enough away. When he is out late
down town she cries; she does not weep.
There's a difference between crying and
weeping. A woman is 6ad when she weeps,
nnd mad when she cries. But if the hus
band is in New York I think she bears it
better
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This elegant engraving represents a young
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Attend, then, to these gems of thought:
No longer talk about the kind or a person a
good man ought to be, but be such. Aurelita
Antonius.
HowThou can'st think so well of us,
And be the God Thou art,
Is darkness to my intellect,
But sunshine to my heart Faber.
The saving power I not faith, but the Eter.
nal aims in which faitn enables ns to lie.
Tbe Christian is like the ripening corn, the
riper he grows, tbe more lowly he bends hi
head. Guthrie.
If our lelieion is not true, we are bound to
change it; If It is true, wo are bound to prac
tice and propagate It ArchbUhop Whately.
If we would bring a holy life to Christ we
mut mind our fireside duties as well as the
duties of the sanctuary. Spurgeon.
Resign all things unsuitable to tby age. Lu
cretius. The moving finger writes: and having writ
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel bair a line.
Nor all vour tears wah out one word or it
Rubaiy t of Omar Khayyam.
Fortnne is painted blind that she may not
blnb to behold the fools who pay court to her.
Jerrold.
Meditation is the eye wherewith thesoul sees
God. and prayer the wings wherewith it flies to
Him. St. Ambrote.
Tho human race is divided Into two classes
those who go ahead and do something, and
those who sit still and inqnire: "Why wasn't
it done the other way?" Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
The perceptive and reflective faculties are
practically useless, unless they be conjoined
with the executive faculty. How many KCbol
ars there are who know everything but how to
use it
"Who has not often noticed that some of
tho most crurial telling, obsiinato and de-
lerminea ourervations ara made with a
yawn, as the heart or a lefer is sometime' de
ferred to the postscript? Always take the more
careful note nf what a person says to you with
a yan. Selected.
Our own moods vary widely, yet we canrot
at the moment prechelv comprehend onr being
in a.ny mood different from tin. one in which
we are. If. F.
Thomas Fuller said of one who. with mora
industry than judgment trequented a college
library and c.imrmnly made use of the worst
notes be met with in any author, that "he
weeded the library."
It appears by the statistics just tabulated
that the net gain of new churches in tbe
United States during the year 1888 was
MM. The net increase ol 'ministers was 4,505.
1 he net growth in church membership was
77iS61. This is doing well. But let the watch
word for 18S9 be "excehior."
Sevek Christian Endeavor Societies have
recently been formed in Foo Chow, China,
and the vicinity. Who says the Chinese are
backward In coming forward?
The Leeds Mercury, in an interesting
and instructive article on the religious con
dition of England, eives the following fig
ures, viz: There are 47.000 places of worship.
Thero are SS.0OO ministers: while tbe church
and chapel officials number 170,000. Of com
municants (Protestant) thero are X, 000,000. The
annual cost or the religious establishments Is
19,000,000-eqnivalent to 80,000,000 of our
money. These flarares da sot include Scotland
and Ireland, which would considerably Increasa
all the sums total. But read in' tbe light of
proportion to the population, the tables are all
far below America.
Apropos of England, the New Yorkr
fferald quotes the Kev. Dr. Pierson, of
Philadelphia (who spent some time in tha
British Isles after tbe close of tbe Pan-Presfcy-terian
Council last summer), as saying that
'London Is the greatest center or Christian
work on the globe." While the proportion ot
Christians there' is not as large asbereho
thinks that there are more thoroughly conse
crated men and women In Great Britain than
In tbe United States. It is undoubtedly true
that Christianity is more pronounced and ag
gressive among the English and Scotch.
They do not hesitate at all times and in
all places to avow their belief. The Christian:
engineer on the steamboat hangs np placards
which advertise bis faith. . Christian women
on the railroad distribute religions tracts.
Christian men on the sidewalks or tbe cities In
vite pedestrians to adjacent houses ot wrshin
on the Sunday. An active propaganda is car
ried forward all tbe time. If onr young-men
imitate the English in sticking tho beads of
their canes, whv not Imitate them in faith and
works ? "It's English, vou know," would then
be something better than tbe shibboleth of
snobbery.
A GEKTLEHAN called on his pastor not
long since, to say goodby. He was about to
start on a tour around the world. Said he :
"1 havo long been thinklngof and preparing for
this journey; have set my business in order:
have secured my letter of credit; have talked
with men who have mane tbe tour, and bare
read over thn eround I purpose to traverse for
1 remember Emerson somewhere says a trav
eler always Hnds what he carries. Now I havo
called to take your band and receive your good
wishes."
It reminds one of that other journey which
we are all taking tbe journey to eterni
ty. Have we made any. the least preparation
for it? Are onr earthly affairs in a proper shapo
to leave, or are they tied up in hard knots of
confusion? Do we seek tbe society of those
who can throw light npun the necessary outfit?
Is our reading along lines which tend to dis
cover knowledge that may help us yonder?
Havo we taken oat letters of heavenly credit?
How fnojish to start on tbe longest and most
formidable of journeys, yet leave everytblngat
hazard! A man who should act so in earthly
travel would certainly fetch up in, if he did not
start irom a lunatic asyiuin.
"We stand now over some of the myster
ies of eternity as children that look withy
fear down into deep dark ponds on winter
evenings. On some eternal summer daywa
may pas by tbat way and find them dried to
the abidingground, and the mystery at an end.
One man accuses, another excuses, every
body except himself. The difference beJ
tween these words lies in the prefix. The1
difference between such persons lies In the
character.
A tebt good story comes from Indian
apolis concerning Han Payne's little boy
and his German prayer. Ha had just'
learned tbe Lord's Praver In German and told
bis father that tbe following evening hi pro
posed to offer bis German prayer.. when he
went to bed, in order to nrprise his mother.
He added tbat of rourse God could understand
German even common-school German, with
out any trouble. "Ye," said his father, "but
I tbink It would sound a little sacrileginus,and
God might not like it in that spirit." "No. but
you don't understand, papa." said the boy. "I
want to do it to 'stonlsh mamma, you know.
You see, papa, the joke isn't on God at all, it's
on mamma."
Otnj everyday occupations, rightly viewed
and used, are not a hindrance but a help to
Christian living. Like a favoring wind
tbat tills tbe sails of a ship, they hasten the
voyage homeward.
"Business," savs a shrewd moralist, Ss aklnd
of material body, without which the spiritual
life is a kind of ghost In the perfect life they
are essential to each other. Business, wbat-
ever attaches to each man's position, Udead, if
the spirit do not animate it The spirit how
ever, if it have no body to animate, has but a
shndowy life. Occupation, the daily endeavor
to obtain fond, raiment ar.d roof, forms thai
coporeal substance and local habitation with
out which the spirit of righteousness, how
ever quick and fresh, is but an ally nothingness
flying between the cold moon and tbe earth."
Let every day be to thee a day of judg
ment. Seek of the scrutinizing mercy of tha
Most High to examine thy thoughts day by
day, to cleanse thee from thy secret faults, and
to lead tbee unto tbe land ot uprightness. Then
wilt thou meet the great day well If thou get
the Great Judge to judge thee every day. in
Fhilpot.
What must we think of the morals and
manners of Austria when the Crown Prince
blows his brains out as the only way ot es
cape from entanglements in which he had en
snared himself by his ungovernable passions?
Rudolf had everything to live for, it should
seem a lovely and virtuous wife, an historic
name, a magnificent immediate environment,
and. in reversion, one of theprondest thrones
in Europe. Yet this spoiled darling or fortune
throws everything awa gambles with Satan
with bis own soul for the stake, and loses tha
came. He bad betravetl an Austrian baroness.
whose brother gave bim, the option or commit
tine suicide or fighting a duel and he slew
himself.
No wonder that Rudolf should have said
recently: "Things look now as thoogh ihera
wonld be no more Princes in Europe after an
other half century." Why sbuuld there be?
What use has the world for these titled profli
gates who set an example of debauchery and
make the invasion of homes a basinets? Is it
strange that such an empire should be kept to
gether only under the lock and key of despot,
ism? Wbo could be contented under such a
regime save victims debauched into moral in
sensibility? Every rizhteous man must prayt
Gracious heaven! unless the Hapsburgs re
pent and reform, soon send them after Rudolf.
Hapsbukg blood is bad blood. The de
scendants of this house, in every generation,
since the days of that first Rudolf who
founded tbe royal dynasty In the thirteenth
century, have been tyrants and libertines.
They are tainted. Self restraint is unknown
among mem. The traditional heavy jaw of the
Hapsburgs is no more pronounced and charac
teristic than are their boisterous passions tbe
scandal or histury. Tbe truth is that nothing
Is worse, morally, than a career of unbridled
power. Human nature cannot stand It Snch
despotism unsettles the brain and sets a mad
man sporting with tbe property, virtue, lives of
millions. Most of tbe twelve Cae-ars were thus
insane. And as they were struck from tha
throne in red succession, so it is time to pay
these royal highwaymen out or the saddle.
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From 40 to 45 years of age, 2 per cent
From 45 to 50 years of age, of 1 per.
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