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THE FITTSBTIRG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 189L ,
MAKiRG CUTGLASS.
The Touches of Magic by "Which Dull
Band and Lead Are Changed
to Sparkling Crystals
PMIIITIYE TOOLS AND METHODS.
Material for the Crucibles Is Still Kneaded
bj a Kan Who Walks Through It
in His Bare Feet
puee Gold used u the coloeetg.
The CcttlEC Done Will Iron Wheel Upon Which Sand
and Water Are Kept Ftowing.
Buriiia- ros the dispatch.1
In the hour of Christmas perplexity it
Day he a welcome suggestion that no gift
one conld select, whether forthe enrichment
of dining table and sideboard, parlor cabi
net or boudoir, betiercombines the elements
of utility and beauty and is more fashion
ably popular and more artistically pleasing
than "rich cut glass.
can be prepared from several sources. Iron
oxide produces a reddish brown. For the
production of violent tints the black oxide
of manganese is employed, and a mixture
01 manganese and cobalt is depended upon
to make black class. Oxide of chromium
produces a beautiful emerald green, which
can be modified by the use of other oxides.
Cold as a Coloring Agent.
One of the most beautiiul colors, a rich
transparent ruby, much prized by class con
noisseurs, is variously produced by combi
nations of gold with tin oxide. Often gold
is used alone, and I saw at the manufactory
referred to about $140 worth of the virgin
yellow metal thrown into a crucible full Of
and, lead and potash. Hence the extra
cost of genuine ruby glass, which is well
known to experienced buyers.
One of the odilest features in the process
is the construction of he "pots" or cruci
bles in which the raw materials are fused
into glass ready lor the blow pipe. These
pots, which are dome shaped, about four
feet high and half as much in diameter, ere
made of clay, which is principally imported
from Germany, although an article has
been discovered in the" State of Missouri
which serves the purpose measurably well.
Men are at work constantly making thesa
pots, for a supply of well-seasoned ones
must be kept on hand ready for immediate
use.
One of the workmen and a very im
portant one is , constantly employed in
kneading the moistened clay to bring it
into a condition of requisite tenacity, and
this work oddly enough he does with bis
bare feet, treading the yielding mass back
and forth with peculiar side-Ions steps all
day long for a period of three weeks to
LAW FOR BEGGARS.
How Paris Tries to .Regulate
Great Army of Mendicants.
Its
BAM FRAUDS THKY IHDULGB IN.
FlocUng to the Churches, Palaces
Museums on Cold Daja,
and
IMPEOHPIU CHORUSES IN THE STBEET
ams is , ue.y, mas war. wj.ri.cu each ftteh. KomachiDery has ever been
Into the semblance of surfaces frosted with deviscd which can supplant this primitive
crystals or lavishly encrusted with glitter
ing diamonds, the facets of which
reveal a marvelous Intricacy of geo
metrio design. It is verr different from
and far superior to the old-fashioned, shal
low cut glass now denominated "ground"
cr "engraved" glass. Its manufacture has
grown to be a great art trade, and it is grat
ifying to have the testimony of leading
dealers in New York, Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, that It has nowhere reached
higher excellence of production than in the
United States. The art ware undergoes a
wonderful evolution from the Alpha of dull,
sodden materials, to the Omega of the scin
tillating crystal objects which adorn modern
homes.
Largest Factory In the World.
The writer has seen something of the pro
cess in what is, in all likelihood, the largest
glass cutting establishment in the world.
The manufactory in question is in a locality
where one would least expect to find St in
one of the smallest of Pennsylvania ham
lets, in one of the most strictly rural local
ities in the State, and yet it is probably the
largest in the orld (this partly because in
the European countries where glass cutting
is carried on, the work is cot done in great
factories, but by the operatives at their
homes and by the use of foot lathes). The
plant consists of several extensive and sub
stantial buildings, containing every essen
tial to the peculiar manufacture, employs
steam to the extent of 200 horse-power, and
about 500 skilled workmen.
The especial variety of class which is
ground or "cut" and which forms the
beautiful ware seen of late years is what is
known as f.vd glass, so called because
originally cade from calcined flints, al
though at present and for many years the
silica in its composition is supplied in the
form of sand, of winch the most desirable
known in the whole world is found in Berk
shire coUL.tr, JIass.
I-ike a "Secret or Alchemy.
The glassmaker's trade, practical, even
prosaic and solidly scientific as it is in
reality, seems, however, to the average ob
server to be an exquisite art assisted by
something very like Eorcery. Take for in
stance the t cry first Ktep in the process of
making glass and wc have something Eug
gestive, even to the unimaginative,
of necromancy or alchemy something
akin to the tabled evolution ol
the philosopher's stone. In what is
known as the "mixing room"
we have a huge pile of tand, another of
oxide of lead and a third ol pearl ash all
dull, sodden, coarse materials containing
not the slightest promise of the gleaming,
glittering, crystal-pure glass which will
presently Cash in Bhow windows, in sumptu
ous boudoirs and parlors and on banquet
boards. The genii of the fiery furnace, the
ceit touch of skilled bands, seme marvel of
chemistry, something we know cot what
let us say the presto of magic will do the
work.
"What so dull, so dead, so lusterless as
sand and lead? What more transparent,
more brilliant, more diamond-like than
flint glass?
The amount of glass manufactured varies
at different times, but the proportion of the
Ingredients is never changed. A trusted
and carelul workman weighs out for exam
ple COO pounds of Berkshire sand and thor
oughly mixes with it 400 pounds of oxide
of lead and hall as much pearl ash. To this
compound he adds very small proportions
of saltpeter, arsenic and manganese, and
the whole well stirred together goes into
one of the great crucibles or "pots," as
thev are technically called, which hold
from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds.
Transformed by rurnace Tire.
In the furnace which contains eight of
these pots, the mass is subjected to the ter
rific Leat of a roaring fire tor 40 hours and
then the "metal" as it is called is ready for
the deft manipula ions of the skilled glass
blowers, n ho hover about the furnace and
at intervals, remove small portions of the
white, hot semi-liquid substance upon the
ends oi their long tubes or "blowers'
pipes," manipulating it in a way familiar to
every Pittsburger. The graceful sweeps
and agile twirliugs of the rod are not made
for the sake of appearance, but lor practical
effect in giving the glowing bit of molten
glass the peculiar shape which may be de
wired, cepenueut upon whether it is to be a
bottle, a pitcher, a punch bowl, a wine
glass, or any one of a hundred other things.
Hcsniajrs the tube with xarvioir force.
Mows through it carefully, expanding the
red hot bubble at its tip to the proper size,
rolls it upon a polished iron plate, re
volves the rod while he holds a tool against
thepliant mats to gue it lorm, heats it
again and repeats the process, or delicately
and rapidly touches it with two or three
other tools, perhaps being assisted by a
"helper" in some ol these rapid mineuvers,
and lo! the shapeless mass has become a
wine decanter, or a talad dish, or something
else of most graceful form, and is almost
ready forthe cutting room whence it will
emerge with hundreds ol companion pieces
of flashing, chased and bcautitul ware.
But first it must pass through the anneal
ing Jurnace, where, with the other articles
of the day's output, it is very gradually
cooled by being slowly drawn away from
the fire through a brick arched tunnel about
CO feet long.
Their Tools Are Almost Primitive.
However picturesque and fascinating the
scene around the furnace, with its strong
lights slid heivy shadows, the circles of
light caned iu the darkness by the sweep of
the gleaming, ruddy tipped wands may
be to the on-looker, it is stern, stiff labor lor
the operatives. Their tools are fewer and
more primitive than those of any other class
of skilled artisans. They use a lew rude
iron implements, a stick, much like a nar
row roofing shingle, a heavv, uncouth pair
oi iron shears and the all important blow
pipe, and with these they perform wonders.
Their worlt must be done while the glass is
hot and so there is intense activity, only
relieved by the occasional waiting for the
reheating of a partly formed object.
The greater portion of the glass made to
be "cut" or ground is white or rather
transparent. It colored material is wanted,
how ever, it is readily produced by the use
of various metals (or metallic oxides)
melted with the other ingredieuts of the
mass. The materials, temperatures and
other conditions employed by various man
ufacturers far producing certain of their
color efiects are guarded as trade secrets,
although in a general way the substances
are perfectly veil known. Blue is usually
obtained by the use of ccbajt Yellow
process of working the clay into proper
condition, and the old man I saw at work
will doubtless tread backward and forward
in his box of clay as long as he performs
any earthly labor. Another workman
builds up the pots In lots of eight very
much as the walls -of a rubble house are
built, making his circular wall of clay a
few inches high and then awaiting the dry
ing process before carrving it hieher. It
takes about three weeks to build a set of
eight, and they last but three months in the
intense heat of the furnace.
How the G'ass Is Cot.
The final step in the process is the grind
ing and polishing. The various objects
formed by the glass blowers as decanters,
bottles, vases, bowls, wine glasses, goblets
and scores of other articles of ornamental or
table ware after undergoing the gradual
cooling process in the glass house are taken
to the cutting department They have
form, but not the finish, grace of shape, but
cot brilliancy, and are technically knows as
"blanks."
A hundred workmen are ready at their
wheels to put them through the process
which will develop luster and make them
Hash acd gleam with prismatic lig at like
titanic diamonds. A hundred wheels
ranged in two rows down a long room, each
belted to a great central shaft, are swiftly
whirled bv a great engine in the basement
below. In this department, as in the
one already described, the tools are
of the simplest order, and indeed there
appears to be no line of manufacture in
volving so much skill and productive of so
rich and artistic effects which employs such
primitive implements as does this. The
skillfulness of the workman is almost every
thing. Many of them are young, scarcely
more than boys, but young eyes are the best
for the kind of work done here, and then,
too, most of the operatives have been
"brought up the trade," and have had
really moro experience than their youthful
appearance suggests. The workman needs
perfect eyesight, steady nerves and deftness
of band, lor the pattern must be cut with
geometric precision.
Carrie? the Hard Glass.
The glass cutters work In three divisions
and the various articles pass through three
distinct grades of treatment. First comes
the "roughing," that is the deep cutting or
grinding of the pattern, of which the princi
pal points and lines have been first marked
npon the glass with red paint. For this
work a thin iron wheel is employed,
upon which, as it revolves with the
rapidity of a buz zsaw, the operator
from time to time places a little saud from
the tank in front of him, while water drips
constantly from an overhanging reservoir.
The wheel, with its gritty covering, eats its
way slowly but surely into the thick glass,
following various lines crossing each other
in manv directions, some deep, some shal
low until finally the design, instead of pre
senting the effect of lines cut into the mass,
gives one the impression of raised work.
It is still in the rough, the various sur
faces or facets being exactly in the condition
of what is known as "ground" glass. The
second step is what is known as "smooth
ing." It is accomplished by holding the
dish, or whatever the article may be, upon
fine stone wheeK Of these, as of the iron
ones first used, there are a great variety for
different kinds of work. These take off
much of the roughness created by the harsh
touch of the iron and sand, and bring the
pattern a little nearer to perfection.
The Finishing Fine Touches.
And now the ware Is passed from the
"smoothers" to the "poli'kers." The men
in this division accomplish their work by
gentler means and their touch is soft and
almost caressing compared with the previ
ous manipulations which the object has
undergone. The polishers use wheel
brushes and wooden wheels of varying edge
formation to fit the different depressions,
and these are kept constantly smeared with
what looks like common yellow mud, but is
in reality a compound of finely ground
oxide of zinc and lead, called in "the trade
"putty." These wheels with their thin
coating of peculiar polishing material, after
innumerable lightning-like revolutions,
have the deep geometric lines and the cor
responding facets of the glass as smooth as
diamonds and almost equaling them in
brilliancy of gutter and purity of light.
It is found that the best lead obtainable
for the polishing "putty" is that which
comes ss the lining of tea chests from China.
It contains elements of great value to the
cut-glass manufacturer, which are not pres
ent in other kinds of lead. And so we find
in this establishment side by side with sand
from Massachusetts, and clay from Ger
many, lead from China, all lending aid to
the production of the richest cut glass in
the world.
The Various Styles or CntUns.
In the showroom of the manufactory al
luded to I saw in comparatively small space
upward of ?50)00 worth of this beautiful
ware, and upon a single table perhaps
?5,000 worth, embracing on almost be
wildering array of articles and a wide
variety of 6tyles in cutting, each having a
distinguishing name. There are ice cream
and salad sets, fruit dishes and a score of
other articles in the cut known as the
"Parisian;" vases, fancy dishes, bon-bon
trays, eta, in the "hobnail" cut; punch
bowls, glass-handled ladles to match, cups,
goblets and many more things in the "bril
liante" cut, and' there are cut glass call
bells whish give forth a very musical
tinkle. Articles of especial richness are
ponderous table lamps of cut glass through
oat, with dome shades of the same material,
and a line of ornamental dishes, rose bowls,
vases, etc, in what is known as the
"Bussian" stem ware. There are also
flower vases, decanters, water bottles, jugs,
cologne bottles, and an almost endless pro
fusion of other vessels in the "Princess"
and the comparatively new "tusk" aud
"Flemish" styles of cut. Late successes
are known as "the American" and the
"Kimberly" styles of cut
The goods are comprised in three general
lines or classes, known to the trade as "rich
cut table aud toilet glass," "druggists' "
and "lamp goods." Almost daily new de
signs in the form of articles and modifica
tions in the styles of cutting ore brought
out, and crystal is to a considerable degree
displacing both silver and china, although
it is almost as costly as the best grade of
either of those luxurious accessories of the
table, the toilet and the cabinet
Alfbed Mathews.
rcossxsroxDKsrcx or thx dispatch.1
Paeis, Deo. 11.
F laws or charity
or theories or all'
combined could kill
beggars, Paris
would have none of
them. For hun
dreds of years the
tribe has been a
problem of the
town. In the olden
days they swarmed
at every palace gate,
at every church
portal, infested the
bridges and courts
and allies.
They were or
ganized into a band
having at their head
77it 7pical Beggar, a chief officer whose
word was final. They elected a cabinet who
guarded and passed along the secrets of the
trade. These secrets vere numerous. They
taught a man with two good legs bow to ap
pear to have cone. They showed how a
straight spinal column could on occasions
be twisted. They kept the recipe for the
famous pomade, by which hideous, but
painless sores were produced in the flesh.
They knew a thousand tricks of gulling the
public. So miraculous was the manner in
which, when they entered their quarters at
night, the blind saw, the deaf heard acd the
lame leaped that one of the chief places in
which they congregated became known as
the "Court of Miracles a name it bears to
day. Just and Unjust Fared Alike.
In those days all who asked charity,
whether from necessity or preference, were
classed together. There were no attempts
at separating the unfortunate from the mis
creant There were no forms of public re
lief. The rich, when so disposed, walked
through the streets distributing alms to just
and unjust alike. At last the number of
begears became so great and their insolence
so intolerable that the city was obliged to
do something. It tried force.
Severe laws were enacted against them.
forcing these laws. There is much begging
to which the police are blind. Beggars of
long standing are rarely disturbed. In fact,
unless they are evidently unable to work,
or have become a publio nuisance, they are
not often arrested. Even then if they can
prove that they conld get relief at no in
stitutions they are not punished.
Usually the Parisian mendicant cloaks
bis solicitations under a pretense of selling
something. Women with handfuls of ragged
Sowers follow one through the streets.
Boys with a half-dozen cheap pencils or
notebooks besiege the students in their
Quarters. Flowers, neneils. notebooks are
J not for sale. They are to ward off the
ponce o nicer in case ne lnteneres. ironune
telling is a favorit device of many. In
crossing the Pont des Arts one day I tried
my luck with a blind beggar who ha been
holding out his tin cup there since I have
known Paris. I dropped in my sous and
from the wire filled with papers which he
held pulled off my fortune. It ran as fol
lows, and is a fair specimen of what they
all ofien
EXAMPLE OF ANDREW.
Fortunes Made to Fit Anybody.
Ton are going to have an uncomfortable
affair with a young person Jut two of your
friends will console you and Introduce you
Into better society. Ton will spend
many happy days in a great city, but at last
your Interests will force you to bellavn.
Afterward surrounded by fi lends and all
the pleasure of life you will see your days
pass happily by.
Many, of course, wear placards, but few
take so mean an advantage of one as the
blind miscreant who carries around the un
comfortable motto, "II I cannot see you,
God can." In the cold weather the beggar
becomes a great nuisance in the churches
and museums. There is at present a propo
sition before the chamber to charge on ad
mission to the museum acd palaces. A
reason urged is that on cold days the mendi
cants crowd these places much to the offense
of the eyes and nostrils of the students and
sightseers. They are to be found in all the
churches on cold days and at the instant
when they expect the sexton to interfere
devoutly take to their knees. Nearly all
of the great churches have their portals
monopolized by beggars. Here the police
cannot touch them.
No one of this class Is better known In
Paris than the "lame man of Notre Dame."
He sits at the portal through which all
tourists pass, his legs wrapped in a blanket,
his crutches at his side. I suppose he uses
them as far at least.as his "Court of Mira
cles." He is as much a part of the great
cathedral as the clustered columns within or
the grinning gargoyles without
Beggars That Are Licensed.
There are four classes licensed by the city.
The "four beggars" they are called the
mountebanks, the organ-grinders, the
singers and the traveling musicians. Only
a limited number of permissions are given
and those receiving them keep to a certain
quarter. The sign of the license is a little
medal which the possessor must have always
at hand, cannot lend, and must renew every
three months. They are forbidden to take
with them children under six years of age,
but there is not a day that a man or woman
accompanied by a child from one to eight
y ears of age does not sing under any win
daw. One of the most picturesaue of Parisian
How the Good Fisherman Found the
Messiah and Followed Him.
BUT THE FINDING WAS NOT ALL.
He Beally Pid Not Enow Him Until on the
lloont of the Ascension.
A PARALLEL IN ETEEIDAT LIFE
VIEW OF U-AXF THE IfltOST OF THE FAMOUS SOL.Dli.iS3 UOMii
In turn they were condemned to be
whipped, were warned to leave Paris or be
banged, and were sent to the galleys for life.
Their heads were shaved (a measure
which, as Du Camp remarks, at least had
the virtue of being hygienic). Their ears
were cut oft They were branded "M"
(mendicant). Rat severity could not anni
hilate them. Ficallv the city began to
distinguish between the worthy and the un
worthy. At that time the beggars of Paris
street sights is the group of traveling musi
cians. It consists usually of a violin; a
guitar and a singer. They choose an open
space near a busy street for operations, and
at the first note draw a crowd around them.
One of the party carries an armful of cheap
sheet music, which he sells to the company.
When 20 or 30 copies have been disposed of
the song begins. One by one the crowd
joins until sometimes 200 or 300 persons are
Dinging. This fall the favorite street gone
were recruited mainly trom wornout and , nas been Lia Valse des Ycux, an amorous
Accordingly, about the
Evert penny tells. You can get Salva
tion Oil for twenty-five cents. Best in the
market
crippled soldiers.
middle of the seventeenth century the first
Soldiers' Home was founded, the now famous
Hotel des Invalides. Soon after came the
first city hospital and the Home for Old Men
and Old Women.
Fining the AlrosglTers.
Still the becears thrived. The city tried
fining those who were seen giving alms,
but that did not attain the end. Just then
Law was blowing his Mississippi bubble for
the entertainment of Paris, and the Gov
ernment tried transporting young beggars
into the New World. The transportation
scheme came to grief 30 years after Law's
day when it was attempted to apply it
wholesale. The Government began quietly
The fraternity missed a few of its members.
A horrible suggestion was set in motion.
The King, Louis XV., was suffering at that
time from the leprosy, and it was rumored
that the missing beggars had been slaugh
tered to provide him a daily bath ol human
blood. There was a riot and the Govern
ment abandoned its colonization scheme.
The revolution of 1789 brought in the
ideas which Paris uses to-day in controling
mendicancy. The city's theory is that it is
her duty to take caie of all her deserving
poor. If she takes care of the worthy none
but the unworthy will be begscing on the
street; these she must punish or reform.
That is, in Paris a beggar is a miscreant
The French laws against mendicancy run
something like this: Any person found
begging in a place for which there exists a
publio establishment for relieving want
will be punished by from three to six
months in prison, and at the end of this
term will be sent tp this depot of mendi
cancy or, as we would cay, to the poor
house. A Plan That Was STodlflrd.
These depots are Government institutions.
founded in 1808. It was intended originally
that there should be one in each department
of France, and that in them beggars who
had fipished terms in prisop should be kept
at work for at least a year. By this means
it was hoped that they would learn indus
trious habits and would lay up small sums
on which to start respectable lives when
freed. The original plan has been greatly
modified. There are but 28 depots instead
of 5L Instead of being temporary work
houses for the able-bodied, they are filled
with a class similar to that in our American
poorhouses, old, sick,- imbecile persons
whom, for one reason and another, no ex
isting institution can take in. Instead of
the mendicant beine detained for a year. 15
days to two months is as long a time as it is
possible to keep them.
The Department of Public Belief in
France has advised a return to the original
conception. It desires to see institutions
similar to the English woridiouse estab
lished, but as yet no action has been taken
by the Government
The penal code orders further, that if a
beggar is a foreigner he shall be expelled
from the country and that if he belougs to
another province he shall be sent home.
Formerly his route was laid out lor him
and he was given so much a kilometre; cow
he receives a ticket on the railroad.
The Laws Are Not Enforced.
The insolence of the Parisian beggar has
become proverbial, and so the penal code
provides from six months to two years in
prison for menace or for carrying arms. If
it is discovered that he possesses more than
100 francs, $20, he pays for it by six months
behind the bars. He is punished in the
same wav for feigning sickness or deformity
or for begging in company with 'another
person, excepting it be husband or wife,
lather oi mother, or a young child or, if he
is blind, a leader.
There is no great severity in Paris in en-
and not too-proper -jingle set to a swaying
waltz air. A more picturesque sight I have
not seen in Paris than a crowd of perhaps
Disorganized Charity tn A'apoleori's Time.
100 men and women gathered at night about
a band of musicians stationed at a corner of
the Faubourg St Antoine singing the lan
guishing "Velse des Yeux." The blazing
torch, the twanging guitar, the passionate
music, the dark faces of the hard-worked
men, the reckless ones of cone too-innocent
girls, the furrowed brows of old women
framed in black or white caps, made a scene
both sad and fascinating, one which a
passerby must be very busy not to study,
and from which he would be slow in with
drawing. Ida M. Takbelu
ho rmr catching shabks.
With All Their Imputation for Ferocity
They Malce Very Tame Sport
Troat and Stream. J
As game fishes the sharks do not, I think,
stand high; the most common of them, the
dusky shark, when hooked, circles round on
the surface and usually bites ofl the Hue and
escapes. If so hooked that the line cannot
be cut, the struggle is furious and short, the
shark giving up in much less time than a
game fish of half his size, such as a channal
bass, salt wafer trout or snapper would do.
I once hooked a sharic about 5 feet long
which fought longer than usual, and when
brought to gaff he was found to be hooked
in a side fin, so that he retained his full
powers; So also with the hammer-head.
The shovel-nosed shark I have found to be
the most active of them. The nurse shark
lies on the bottom, and its bite is not felt or
its presence known to the angler till he
raises hh rod, then the fish comes up like a
log, without resistance.
. Bound to Be a Hard Tf Inter.
Of 50 ears of corn in Missouri in no case
were there less than 6 layers of husks,
and one had 10, says the St Louis GloU
DanocraL The husks for two years past
have been remarkably thin, and this sudden
change bodes no good. It has also been
noted that the squirrels have laid up this
fall a much greater store of nuts and grain
than usual, which is another unfavorable
sign. A friend who has faith in the goose
bone says it is black from top to bottom,
which is also bad. So, on the whole, the
signs point to a severe winter.
lVHirlJ.lt TOR TTTJB PISPATCH. J
"We have found the Messiahl" That was
Andrew's great discovery.
Andrew found the Messiah because he was
looking for Him. Yet it is not likely that
Andrew was consciously in search of Christ
It is not likely that he went about the
streets watching the faces of all the men he
met, thinking that some day he might
recognize the Holy One of Israel. Andrew
was looking for Christ because he was in
search of all that was best in his generation.
He wanted all the truth that he conld get
Into his mind, and all the good that he
could get into his life. He had his eyes
wide open to all that wss highest and
worthiest In the world in which he lived.
He desired to be the disciple of the best
teachers of his time. And that desire
brought him to the feet of Jesus Christ
Whoever is looking for truth and goodness
anywhere is in search of Christ And he
will find Him, if he perseveres, as Andrew
did.
The Story of St Christopher.
St Christopher, in the old story, was a
strong man who desired to serve the great
est master in the world. So he began with
the most powerful nobleman of his own
neighborhood, and served him. But one
day, as Christopher rode in the nobleman's
train, they met a company of people gaily
clad, and In the midst one statelier and
better dressed than any of the others, to
whom the nobleman in passing doffed his'
hat It was the King. So there was a
greater master than the nobleman;. thence
forth Christopher attached himself to the
service of the King.
But one night, passing through a dark
forest, amid the dripping of a dismal rain,
and the moaning of the wind among the
branches, and the groaning of the distant
thunder, Christopher saw that the King,
looking anxiously to right acd left fre
quently trade the sign of the cross upon
his breast; and when he asked the reason,
the King answered that he was dreadfully
afraid of the devil. So there was a greater
master than the lung. Christopher forsook
the King and entered the service of the
devil
Served Whom the Devi Feared.
But another night, riding in Satan's com
pany along a lonesome road, Christopher
noticed that the devil left the traveled way,
and made a long detour across the fields,
apparently avoiding something. And
Christopher discovered that beside the path
ahead there was a wayside shrine, showing
the thom-crowned figure of the Crucified.
The devil was afraid of Him who died upon
the cross. So Christopher deserted the
devil, and seeking ever the service of the
strongest master, he betook him to a hermit
who lived beside a river, and asked to be
enlisted among the soldiers and servants of
the Crucified.
And when the hermit found that Chris
topher could neither fast nor pray, he set
him by the river to carry passengers across.
So Christopher, for love of Jesus Christ,
became a ferryman. And one black, stormy
night, there came a little child, and called
for Christopher, and begged to be carried
over. And the river raged against the
banks, and the winds blew furiously, and
the rain fell heavily, and the night was a
wild, black, fearful night Yet Christopher
arose and took the little child upon bis
shoulder, and waded into the seething
water.
Uls Beward After the Sore Trial.
And the waves dashed up against him, and
the wind pushed him and jostled him, and
the rain blinded his eyes, and the stones of
the river were slippery beneath his feet,
nd the little child upon his shoulder grew
heavier nnd heavier till the weight of him
seemed like the weight of the wholo world.
Yet on he went and trained the other shore.
And as he set the child upon the bank,
there was a sudden gleam of glory in the
midst of the black night, and there stood
the Lord Christ Himself and blessed him.
Thus, Christopher, seeking the service of
the best master and serving him the best he
could, came at last to win the personal bene
diction of the Lord of Lords.
The most important difference between
the story of St Christopher and the story
of St Andrew is that Andrew's story is
true. Andrew was a fisherman on the
Lake oi Galilee. Fishing is an occupation
that allows time for thinking. And An
drew, uo doubt, made good use of all the
time he had. Every helpful thing that he
heard in the synagogue, or learned out of
tbeScripture,he treasured up in his memory,
and carried with him in bis boat out into
the lake, and there, pondering over dt,
made it his own.
How Andrew Found Bis Blaster.
When he heard that a new teacher was
preaching at the ford of the Jordan, a won
derful new teacher, like one of the old
prophets come to lit 6 again, he took ad
vantage of the first week of stormy weather
when there could be no fishing, and went
down to hear him. So Andrew became
John's disciple. But one day, as he stood
with John, Jesus passed by across the way,
and John pointed him out. There, he said,
is the supreme teacher, the master of
masters, the latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to unloose.
Acd immediately Andrew left John and
followed Jesus. He went to His lodging
and spent all the rest of the day with Him,
hearing Him and asking Him questions.
Theuceforth Andrew was a Christian. He
had found Christ He had found Him by
simply following all the religious light he
knew, by trying to learn all the good les
sons that came within his reach by seeking
the instructions of the wisest teachers.
The Ae of Truth Seeking.
We all want to find Christ "O that I
know where I might find Him," is the cry
of every earnest soul to-day. This is not an
age of faith. Thank God for thatl The ages
of faith were the ages of credulity acd
falsehood. No; there is something far bet
ter to be said about the time in which we
are privileged to live. This is the age of
truth. Never have men and women been
more eager than they are to-day to
know the real truth and the whole
Until, no matter what it is, and to give it
welcome. And that touches truth theo
logical. The age, with all its revolt against
the Church, is profoundly religious.
It is a great mistake to imagine that all
the discussions of religion take place in
prayermeeti'ugs, or that the only people
who are interested in religion are those who
are members of the Christian churches.
Every intelligent man and woman is inter
ested in religion. The great problems 'of
theology, the deep questions that have en
gaged the nttention of the profoundest
thinkers, and that touch the very heart of
hjman life, are debated over club tables
and beiiind office desks in Pittsburg every
day. That which is said may not be in ac
cord witn ail me sermons that are preached
in the pulpits. Some of it may bo foolish,
superficial, irreverent and unprofitable.
Proof That Men Are Thlnkln-.
But it is a great thing that such discis
sion goes ou in any way. It means that
men are thinking, and that they arc think
about'tbe greatest of all subjects. At heart
it is in earnest, and signifies more than is
spoken by the lips. It is a sign of u uni
versal longing for the knowledge of the
real truth. 'It is an evidence ot the rest
lessness, the discontent, that never lets go
of a good man who is apart from Christ,
but urges him ou, as it urged Andrew, step
by step, from the good to the better, until
at last he makes the jrreat dlseovery. It is
an endeavor to find Christ
The only effectual way to find Christ is
Anaxews way. tronow tee one Dest trmn
you know Be the disciple of the best
teacher you can find. And when a higher
truth reveals itaelf, follow that And when
a better teacher comes in sieht, follow him.
First, the rabbi of Bethsaie)a; then, John
the Baptist; and then, Jesus Christ Every
new truth that we can learn brings us just
so much nearer to Christ Every good
thought that we can think takes us just so
much closer to Christ Every mean, un
worthy thought puts a great distance be
tween us and Him.
Where to Ioolc for the Muster.
We make a mistake if we think of Christ
as belonging to the past only, or to the
future only. We mate a mistake If we
think of the coming of Christ as an event
that happened long ago across the sea in
Syria, or as an event away off in unknown
trscts of time, when he will appear in the
clouds of heaven at the Day of Judgment
The most important coming of Christ for us
to think about is His coming cow. Jesus
Christ Hve here to-day in Pittsburg. He
told us plainly that we might look for Him
wherever two or .three of us should be
gathered in His name. He warned us that
He would come In every opportunity of
daily life. Everybody that we have a
chance to help, to comfort, to uplift or to
make happy, even though he be the least,
the obscure'st of our brother men, is the
Lord Christ Himself.
Whoever comes often enough with desire
and devotion into the company of the
Lord's people, into the service of the Lord's
house, is pretty sure to find Christ some
time. Everybody who atavs away loses
that chance of finding Christ Whoever
tries every day to be more helpful than he
was the day before; to minister in every
kindest and wisest way to the necessities of
men, to make all those who know him bet
ter acd happier because they look into his
face and hear his voice: whoever eoes about
doing eood, as Jesus did, will find Him
some time.
Seeking the Holy Grail.
One of the notable things about the
legend of the Holy Grail is its absolute dis
regard for all geography. The knight who
sought the Holy Grail rode out Into the
world, north, south, east, west, whichever
way he chose to go. It was not said to him
that along suoh and such a road, turning
here to left and there to right, he would
come at last to the biding place of the Holy
GraiL His work was not to go in a certain
direction, but to live in a certain way. He
must fiebt bravely, and defend the right,
and help the helpless, and beat down every
opposition of evil and oppression, and
never run away, and be not only a brave
knight, but a good knight, and make vali
ant war on foes spiritual as well as physical,
and win the victory over himself; and thpn
somgwhere, It mattered not where, when he
should at last have become worthy to be
hold It, there would shine out before him
the blessed vision of his search.
That is a parable of the finding of the real
Christ Yet the finding of Christ, ns An
drew found him that day beside the Jordan,
Is only the beginning of the Christian life.
"We nave found the Messiah I" Yes; we
have come to recognize Jesus as the Christ
We have telt a little of the influence of that
holy life. We have resolved to set Christ in
the place of all our other teachers, and to
make Him the master of all otir living and
believing. But that la only tbe beginning,
rinding Is Only the Deirlnnine.
Andrew, as yet, had "found" the Messiah,
only as we make a new acquaintance. He
bad met Him; lie had spent two or three
hours In His society; he had been greatly
Impressed by Him. He had become con
vinced that Jesus was the Messiah, the
great saint and hero of tbe Hebrew people.
He bad only begun to find Christ By and
by, as be worked among the fishing nets of
the Lake of Galileo, Jesus came and. stand
ing on the shore, called Andrew. And An
drew left his nets and followed Him. So
Andrew came to live with Jesus Christ Ha
saw Hie works of love and rneroy; he heard
His words of wisdom; be felt the inspiration
of His presence, and the help of His ex
ample. He began to learn tbe eplrit-of
Christ He began, in some vague, blunder
ing way, to know Christ, to find Christ
Presently, Jesus sent Andrew away to
preach in tiio little villages of Galilee. And
Andrew came back and told the story of hi
successes and failures, what be had said and
what he had done; and Jesus listened, and
pointed out where Andrew had been right
and where he bad been wrong, and gave
him comfort and correction ana suggestion.
And Andrew found Christ, more and) more.
Andrew and the Cmelflxlon.
And then came the week of the crucifix
ion. And Andrew followed Jesus into
Jerusalem, saw the opposition of the author
ities, was present In the upper room at the
last supper; wont out with Jesus into the
night, oyer the bridge of fiedron, and nnder
the olive trees of Qethsomane: slept there.
with the other disciples, while the Master
prayed tn agony of soul; awoke to see the
gleam of torches, and the multitude of
servants and soldiers, nnd the kiss of Judas;
and thon forsook Christ as all the others
did, aedfied. And, atnr oB, he watched the
condemnation of his Master, and looked
upon Him as He hung upon the cross on
Calvary hill, but dared not stand beside Him,
dared not speak to Him. He was a coward
like the others.
Oh, what n lesson that wasl Sometimes,
even the devil, persuading a man Into some
shameful sin, teaches him more about his
own weakness and worthlessness; mote
about his need of Christ, and emphasizes In
the reaction the man's real love for Christ,
more than all the sermons in tbe world.
Andrew loved Him that Gopd Friday night
more than he bad ever loved Him. Out of
that tragic darkness, Andrew, even
trembling and afar off, looked into the face
of Christ, and found Christ anew.
After the Savior Had Risen.
And then came the rising from the. dead,
and the 40 days of revelation, and the ascen
sion into heaven. It must have seemed to
Andrew that he bad -never before that really
recognized the Lord Christ at all. He had
lived with HIra, and gone on day after day
never out of His sight and hearing, and yet
bad only begun to know Him. Only on the
Mount of tbe Ascension did Andrew really
find the Messiah.
Tho discovery of Christ Uonly-the. begin
ning or tbe Christian life. When Andrew
said "We have found the Messiah," that was
evidence only or Andrew's conversion. Con
version is th-1 act of a mnn's will by which
he determines that tho worthiest service In
tbe whole world is the service or the Lord
Jesus Christ, nnd that trom this day on Ho
will he the servant of that Master, and o: no
other. Whoever makes up his mind to that
bas found Christ, as Andrew, found Him in
the beginning. But conversion is only the
commencement. Year after year the Chris
tian grows in the Christian life, evcrflndlnir
Christ more and more. Christ comes to us
a He came to Andrew.in all the experiences
oi me. livery opportunity to uo a uctpiuj
deed or to speak a kindly word is a call of
Christ, as real as Christ's call to Andrew
amid the ashing nets. '
A Frosression In Religion.
The story or the gospel makes it possible
ror us to-day, if we will study It, to live with
Christ as Andrew lived with Him. To every
one of us temptation comes as It came to
Andrew, the temptation to deny Christ, to
forsake Him, to turn our backs upon Hlm.to
be ashau.ed of the cross, to be afraid of the
world. All joy and sorrow, all benediction
and bereavement, every crisis that comes
into any human life, is an evidence of
Christ's presence, and a chance to find
Christ, anew and better, if we will or to
lose Christ, livery year Christ ought to be
better known by us, ought to mean moro to
us, ought to he mora and more our example,
our i ispiration, our helper, our comforter,
our Savior.
Twenty years after the resurrection, St.
Paul, who had spent all that time in learn
ing about Cnrist and teaching about Christ,
even then felt the possibility or knuwing
Christ better tlun ho did. "That I may
tnow Him," was hi daily nr.iyer, ais daily
lonjrin and endeavor. Paul was still oc
cupied in finding Christ.
One day w o hope to tee Him face to face, to
see him, not us now we blunderingly, imagine
Him to be, hut as He lcully is. Oh what a
finding of Christ then! And et oven th.it
will be but u new beginning. Torlnd Christ,
to know Chrit, more and more to learn the
spirit or Christ tin will be the CluUtian's
study and the Christiau'o delight to all
ctorultv. George Hocoes.
ApT5ITArC fil? TIT I? "CT? A f seamen Is proverbial. The sufferings of
VAIA. XLXLJ.1 U Ul AJ-LXJ UJJH, mi
A Charity Supported by Entertain
ment Nights on the Atlantic
TWO YEET USEFUL INSTITUTIONS.
How Over 3,500 Poor Children Have Been
Cared for at LiverpooL
A PLACE AMEEICAKS 1EE WELCOMED
I y, .-. ') v , ,- ..--''
"Where Tjnole Sam Is Slow.
Although this country has such a simple
decimal system of money, it is very slow in
adopting S metric system in weights ana
measures. No less than 12 European coun
tries have enforced the use of the metric
system by legislation, but the United States
and Great Britain have only gone so far as
to legalize the use ot tha system at the
option of the seller.
I
rcOBKKSrOTPXXCX or THX DISrATCtr.l
XrvzKrooij, Dee. 1L Everyone who has
crossed the ocean in one of the great liners
knows all about "Entertainment Night" at
sea. Yet few know, save in a dim sort of
way, tho real object of the impromptu di
version, or have any manner of idea as to
what becomes of the large sums thus fre
quently realized.
On some one night of each voyage the
great dining salon of the ship is transformed
into a concert hall, theater and lecture
room combined. Among from 200 to 1,000
passengers there are always found men,
women and youths who can do some one
little or big thing well. The witty man,
the sarcastic man, the elocutionist, the poet
and the story-telling man are all on ship
board. Then there are the misses or mes
dames who play or sing or both. And
there is always found the rubicund, clergy
man, the brow-wrinkled Senator or the
bland, unctuous Judge to preside. Again,
scarcely a voyage, of the mailships occurs
when there are not professional people on
board, usually the best of European actors,
singers. Instrumentalists and all manner of
specialists, from danseuse to freak, who are
traveling from one continent to another to
fill their various engagements.
A Sight or Fall Dress.
These are folk with hearts quick to re
spond to anything genuine with chanty at
theendof it So that with the amatenr
performers willing to be distinguished, aud
the distinguished artists willing to perform,
"Entertainment Night" brings a programme
often of very great variety and merit, acd
fills the salon with hundreds of passengers
who are on this night for the first acd last
time in full dress ou shipboard.
The transformation of passengers them
selves is not the least interesting feature of
this concert in mid-ocean. The most genu
inely aristocratic people on shipboard are
usually the shabbiest of all passengers at all
other times than this. Even this night,
many dress richlv but soberly. But the
rule Is to make the occasion one
of at least partial display in dress,
and a majority honor the event
with costumes and jewels befitting the
most select social gatherings in any land.
To the "first tripper" it is an affair of
unique interest and delight The oldest
travelers awaken from their ordinary tol
erative lethargy and permit themselves to
be drawn Into the brilliant salon, after the
manner of blase theater acd foyer loungers.
Even the officers and stewards of the ship
welcome the anair as a relief to the mo
notony of the voyage. And, as I have
taken the pains to find out, the generous
sums secured from the sale of programmes,
and the irrevocable "collection," provides
for one of the most needful and deserving
oi all charities pathetically suggested by
the endless and dolorous tragedies of the
sea.
Noblest Charities of Oar Tim.
The proceeds of these "Entertainment
Night" collections secured on all steam
ships plying between New York, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Boston and Liverpool, ex
cept one, are turned over to the officers of
the Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution.
which is almost exclusively supported m
this manner. The exception noted is on
tbe part of tbe Inman Line. This line having
American affinities, and being largely the
Eroperty of American owners, bestows one
all of the sums thus collected upon the
Liverpool institution, and the other half
npon tbe American Blue Anchor Society's
charity, a kindred institution; Whether
they go to Liverpool or New York, no one
should ever hesitate about giving liberally
when distinguished actors, clergymen,
jurists or simple citizens "pass the hat" at
sea, for these seamen's orphan homes are
among the noblest charities of our time.
Every American tourist to Europe should
visit the Liverpool institution. Its offices
are at 14 Water street, not S00 yards from
the steamer landing, where the Secretary,
Captain Edward Stubbs, B. N., will extend
every possible courtesy, as all the officers
of the orphanage are peculiarly grateful to
Americans, for without their contributions
the grand work of this charity would wholly
fail; and everything possible is done by
Captain Stubbs, Sir James Poole, the
Treasurer, and Eev. O. E. Gaussec, the
chaplain, to make Americans feel that they
have acquired a personal interest in and
regard forthe institution. I know of no
other place in all Britain where an Ameri
can citizen can experience the same de
lightful feeling.
Not Restricted to Any Xatlonallty.
The orphanage was founded in 1859 to
feed, clothe and educate the destitute or
necessitous children of all classes of sea
men or seafaring men. It is not restricted
to any nationality, though children of sea
men who have sailed five years out of the
port of Liverpool have the preference. The
frequent recurrence ol such names as
Lund, Lundgren, Schavii, eta, indicates
the Scandinavian paternity oi many of the
children. Recipients of relief are divided
into two classes, the children admitted to
the institution and those placed on tho
"outdoor list"
Inability of the widow to support these
children is the only Qualification. Belief
of some kind has never been refused. The
boys are retained to the sge of 14, and are
then sent out to trades and other vocations,
many securing comfortable clerical posi
tions. The girls, if their mothers wish it,
are kept In toe institution until they are is;
the last year being passed in receiving
training in all branches of householdwork,
while school instruction is also continued.
Children on the outdoor list are those
whose mothers desire to retain them under
their own care. It frequently happens that
there is not in the widowed family a child
old enough for pnblio school life, or re
ligious difficulties mar Intervene. Aeain
there are deaf and dumb children and ih-s)
who are unfortunately mentally incapaci
tated from receiving instruction. To meet
such cases as these tbe institution grants an
annual allowance of clothing and boots, and
n monthly allowance of 10 shillings. I
know of many instances where this cash al
lowance pays the entire rent and actually
keeps a roof over the desolate family's
heads.
An Absrncs of K d Tae.
There are no red tape and official captious
ncss about this. The sole condition ol pay
ment oi tne money is wi me cntia shdll
produce a certificate of school attendance,
providing it be able to attend school. Of
these two classes there are at the present
time 360 children in the orphanage, and
nearly the same number on the out-door
list. An idea of the expenditure for so
great and practical a charity can be had
trom the fact that the annual cost of main
tainiug cacli child in the orphanaee is a
trifle over ?G0, and theanuual expense upon
each child in the outdoor telief class, in
cluding cash allowance and clothinc. is 10.
About 3,500 children have been cared lor in
one or the other of these two ways since the
many of their families on this side of the
water, even with the mitigation of this
beneficent charity, is inexpressible. The
bare hint of it all one gets from the glimpse
Eivea on "paying off" day is heart-break-?
Dlstrlbntlos; Yellow Bairoyerelens.
I went with Captain Stubbs the other day
ind sat with him while over 350 orphan
children, or those who represented them,
were paid their monthly allowances. Wo
took a pretty heavy bag of yellow half
sovereigns, and pushed our way through
the great throcgwhich on the first Saturday
of each month gathers at the ectracce to the
Old Church School, Moornelds, just off Dale
street The outer room was packed, and the
society's old inspector, who is a Liverpool
ex-police inspector, and knows the ins and
outs of every family receiving these pay
ments, was acting the part of bulwark
against the surging of the crowd.
We passed into the master's room, and
were in a few moments ioined by Chaplain
Gaussen, Captain Stubbs and myself paid
out the money and checked against each pay
ment The old inspector kept the children
and their mother in line, and got their
school certificates ready. Then as each
one came in, the chaplain re-examined ths
certificates, and a running fire of comment
resulted, showing that the exact status of
each child, the condition of its health, tha
occupation of its mother, and the general
welfare of the entire family, were matters
of actual personal knowledge on the part oi
these officials.
A Sample of the Banning Comment
"Ah, Eobert, glad to see you. Folks
well?"
"Thankee, sir; ves, sir."
"Good. Tell mother to come Monday for
the clothes and boots. Next" t
"Mrs. Tolmie?"
, "Thankee, sir; yes, sir" with a dnek aai
a salaam.
"William ill?"
"Yes, sir; with the throat, sir.
"Doctor?"
"Oh, yes, sir, thankee, sir,"
"All right, William's a good boy. tt!u
care of him, Mrs. Tolmie."
"Bless God, so he is; thankee, sir."
And so it goes from one to three honrs.
But the struggles; the battles for existence
the blessed help this little help is to them
all; the eyes suffused with tears: the choked
words of gratitude; the pinched and pitiful
efforts to come their clean, patched up and
deserving; the dolorous, dreadful hours in
these fatherless homes behind all this woe
ful procession to the alms-giving are
enough to sicken and sadden strongest
hearts.
I have never In any country visited a
charitable institution so well adapted to its
uses, and where there was such a splendid
and universal evidence of one having en
tered the atmosphere of a Christian home.
The first orphanage was an old structure in
untie street Ibe present one was com
pleted and opened in 1874. It is situated
on uninclosed ground, granted by the cor
poration of Liverpool, surrounded by tha
sylvan groves, limpid streams, mimic lakes,
and velvety lawns of beautiful Newsham
park. The buildings comprise the orphan
age itself, a five-story edifice of gray brick
with stone trimmings, as sweet as a new
laid egg from cellar to garret, one of tha
handsomest chapels in England, a commo
dious and beautiful sanitarium, and an ivy
and rose covered parsonage.
The Provljlona for Recreation.
Extraordicary provisions have been made
in this institution for recreation and amuse
ment. The park is the great open-air play
ground for them all. For unpleasant
weather there are spacious indoor rooms
and gymnasiums or both boys and girls;
and a great arched porch extends along the
rear of the orphanage open to an immeose
pared court, very similar to the covered
promenade you will find at the entrance to
the quadrangle of Eaton College, and much
on the same plan as that of the ancient En
glish mnnastio cloisters, which always
opened Into a beautiful court or garth.
Here, also, perhaps to a greater degree than
in any other similar institution, the com
bined elements of drill and music have been
utilized.
The bearing of these children Is exquis
itely manful and womanly. The theory
aud practice are that children can be inter
ested in maneuvers and drills, and all man
ner of dispositions rendered facile and
quiescent under the influence of music. So
there is an almost ceaseless series of musical
accompaniments music on rising, music at
entering and leaving classes, music at going
to and coming from meals, innumerable
musical entertainments and soirees, even
music on going to bed. I have never known
of such a marked and luminous proof of tho
humanizing and even Christianizing influ
ence of music, aud the singing of these 300
or 400 children is alone almost worth com
ing across the sea to hear.
But most pathetic of all things here is the
plaintive Litany sung immediately aftertha
prayer for those at sea. Your eyes cannot
but mist as you look and listen and you can
never cross the ocean again without know
ing the real and blessed significance of ship.
b03rd "Entertainment Night"
EdGAEL. WAKEltAjr.
Fresh Grapes All Winter.
St IOni Globe-Democrat!
Fresh grapes can be had all through tha
winter at a trifling expenditure of care and
attention. The grapes should be cut when
just ripe, with several inches of stem 03
each bunch, and then be placed in paper
boxes, with a layer of crumpled newspaper
underneath and another above them. Tha
bunches should not touch aud the grapes
should not be piled in the box. Keep them
in a cool, dry room not in the cellar, tha
dampness there is sure to spoil them and
with care to prevent their freezing they
will be as eatable in February as in,
October.
organization of the charity.
Noble as has been tiie work accomplished,
the need lor the extension is pitiful in
deed. I have not the figures at hand
as to the loss of American seamen;
but the returns from the English Board
of Trade are appalling in their evi
dence of loss of life at sea; for they show
that in the 11) years following the establish
ment of this orphanage, no less than 8".,020
seamen died iu English ships abroad, of
vt.nni Kt IS? .1 I rm- -1
of all these simple facts appear stirrinciy
to every tender heart The improvidence
This is a Wise'Doctor. A patient
sends for him.
It is a case of severe indigestion,
carrying in its train constipation and
sick headache.
The young man is incapacitated for
work. -
He flies to the nearest drug storo
and loads his already endangered
stomaqh with mercurial purgatives,
poiionous blood tonics, and pepsin
preparations.
Result he becomes rapidly worse.
Doctor is called. Happens to be
an old and respected practitioner.
Diagnoses the case quickly.
"Young man,throw these nostrums
out of the window. Send for a bot
tle of the genuine Carlsbad Sprudel.
Salts, follow the directions, and you
will be up in two days."
The entire Medical Fraternity rec- ,
orcmends these salts. It is in reality
taking the Carlsbad treatment at
home. Fo? 500 years it has been
Europe's first Health Resort. '
The genuine has the signature of
"Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole
Agents, New York," on the bottle.
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