i 10 GREAT POETS Sir Edwin Arnold's Tisit to the Home of Walt Whit man in RoYemher. WHIPPED IN WOLFSOT The Sajjo of Camden Receives the- Homase of the Orientalist A MESSAGE'FROU LORD'TEKNYSON: ind 3Inch Pleasant Talk ilout Famous Men-of Letters. Other PAKEWELL "RTTH A EETEEENT KISS, Iwnu-iiA m mil uibrAioii.1 Letter No. 2. HE last time I saw "Whitman was on Novem ber 2, in com pany with Bir Edwin Arnold -JU ana major J, ii. ' . Pond, of New York. Sir Ed win hadarrived in Philadelphia, to read In pub lic from his poems. I had had a note from Whitman as ton some small courtesy toward the -actors Florence and Jefferson, and alsoin pursuance of a prom ise to Carpenter, tho artist, that I would try and persuade the poet to sit for a por trait As a small side light on the ways of theman, Lmay venture to give this note; Castpes, N.-J., Oct. SI, 1S3L DearFriendJ R.T.I Tours of the 23d received. Many thanks for the Invitation, and affectionate regards to yon and to Jefferson and Florence. But I am too dilapidated andT cannot think of try In? to como over. If yon see Frank Carpenter, .toll him I am -willing to sit for the picture, which is all I can do,nnd I send him my best compli ments. Am sitting here now in great arm chair with wolfskin spread over back for warmth cannot pet across the room (from paralysis), but fair spirits. Just had a pleasant call from Jeannette Gilder, X. T., and some charming girls. "Wait Whitjsajt. Arnold jSdmlred Him Profoundly. On the edge of the orange-tinted sheet upon which the note was written were these printed lines, as a quaint scroll, a motto or emhlazonmcnt-in social heraldry: From the Boston Eeemng Transcript, May 7, TIL The Epictotus saying as given by "Walt Whitman in Ills own quite utterly di lapidated physical case is, "a little Epark of toul dragging a great lummux of corpse body clumsily to and fro around." We inferred from the tone of- this note that while Whitman was not going about, a visit might not be unwelcome. Sir Ed win had a profonnd-admlrationfor the poet, and was the hearer among other things of a message from Tennyson. He could not, fie laid, pass as it were through the very do- fTTiitman at the Age ot 37. minions of the master without for the mo ment turning aside to pay him homage. It was arranged that we should visit "Whitman in the morning. x .umK o ir um uiu Mw.u cn- command in not expressing what must have ! TlU:t.c!T?J S k. U -I... Jl ..1A been in his mind, when repeated inquiries ., - l J - ' from policemen, and wayfarers in Camden, failed to re eal any knowledge of the very existence of their illustrious townsman. This self-command was not shared by Major Pond. "We had not thought of taking the address. It would be so much like going to "Weimar with the address of Goethe. At least Sir Edwin had paid Camden the com piiment of so believing. The cabman in a mood of despair reined us up at a chemist's with some sad fancy I am afraid that the temper of Major Pond required medical ad vice. In time, through the Major's dili gence, we attained the modest house. Wrapped In a Wolfskin. I had written "Whitman that he might ex pect us, and he gave us a cheery welcome. The attendant said he had not been down stairs for many a day. "We climbed to the upper story, found him in a bed chamber looking out on the street. He sat in an ample chair, with a vrhite wolfskin from the Mongolian plains over the shoulders. The floor was littered with papers, some with wrappers unopened, others partly read, niggieay-piggiedy everywhere. There was a broad table littered to the edge with books and papers, a remnant of two or three inches for writing. There were some scattered photographs on the mantel, laded, dusty and stained, one of John "W. Forney, with an aflectinnate message of farewell as he was "off to Europe." The humblest, plainest lodgings, a home of penury. And yet there the proud old man in royal wolfskin robes, with his thin whitened hair and Sowing beard, calm, resolute, rather dimming eyes, voice clear, loud, just a touch of weakness in the hearing, and unable to rie lrom the seat, because of the paralvsis, received us with quiet, sovereign dignity. Arnold sainted the venerable poet with affectionate tendernes', as a subject might his king, and the binor wits received in re served royal fashion. Why should not those subjects of mine come lrom over the seas in answer to my menage? If it had a meaning they would surely come. And this is as it should be, even as "appointed. This as if you read it in his eyes. Meeting of Two Rotable Figures. 3ere was the poet of the elder world, the interpreter of the mythologies and creeds of the infinite past, the scholar irom the Indies and Japan, never so eloquent as when in praise of moss-covered, medieval, aristo cratic England, and in honoring church and crown here was tbe -very poet of conserv atism, caste and privilege, a most probable Poet Laureate, in homage before the poet of Democracy. The Light of Asia, the Light of the World face to face with the Light ot the Prairie. Sir Edwin had only tbe other day left , dBpy3z : ' rs? Tennyson at his English fireside, and tun been charged by the poet laureate with a special message of regard for "Whitman. 'Tennyson has always been kind to me," said "Whitman. "His" voice was one of the first that came with the sign of encourage ment the superb old man!" He must hear from Arnold in detail about Tennyson's 'health. How did the heavy burden of Tears rest upon him? Tennyson could walk, could go out on the cliff, and look out on the downs, and see the mists that sheltered his England from continental rapine. "Well, that was a blessing, and such a comfort to hear it. As for his own legs, they were in such a bad way paralysis down on one side, and helplessness except to sit and read and think and talk. It was a comfort that this had been spared the fine old fellow at Farringford. Declined to Head for Them. Apart from a certain haziness of the -eye, and what seemed to be an idle fragment of catarrh, "Whitman Beemed mentally and rela tively physically well might readily have been taken as younger than 73. He would hear of no suggestion of an early leave taking, or that our coming might" inspire weariness, or discomforts, but evidently wanted to talk. His mind was clear, vivid, and he talked in the quaint old wav, recall ing "Washington days, and days in Forney's rooms. To the intimation that we might like to carry away a memory of his read- Whitman Commtmincr With Kattrra. ing, that no poem could be truly read except by the poet, and that perhaps he could be persuaded to recite "Captain, My Captain," he pleaded fatigue. "Oh, you like that, do you? "Well, I am afraid I cannot recite it." Not in a pet u- lent tone, but decisively nol The.name of Robert Ingersoll was mentioned, and "Whit man had many questions about him, must know just howlie looked, and whether he was well and doing well, and how he could never forget the Colonel had come over and lectured in his behalf, "whichbrought me," he added, "a very useful bit of money." The America of thai Future He was pleased, but etill and always in re served sovereign fashion, to hear from Arnold of his growing fame in England. And abont it he had his own thoughts. England vas more- tranquil, the minds of her people freer from immediate cares than tbe New "World no building cities and cutting away forests and could hear what he had to say. As to America, he was afraid she was too busy for poems. He saw America in its future. In that he believed how profoundly be believedl Through what troubles and tribulations tbe volcauio eruptions and outbreaks we should come to it, he could not say. He had seen one of them in the Civil "War. "What would be the next? The greed for money was not pleas ant, the hurry-scurry after the Materia, the deadening of finer thought, were distress ing. Bat we would come out of it: ves. we would come out of it triumphant, fruitful, although he -would never live to see itl It was often in his thoughts, that America of the future, conglomerate, composite Amer ica, melted, fused; the glowing mass with its Magyar, Saxon, Hebrew, Slayic, even Chinese ingredients embedded. "What would it be? "What would be the type of the ideal America when the twenty-fifth century was in bloom? This was evidently a favorite speculation, and it came rather as a philosophical thought, the meditation of an old man, with only his thoughts for his companionships, face to lace aa it were, al most in touch with the "Que sals-je" of Montaigne. Fame of Tennyson and Longfellow. The message from Tennyson through Arnold was the leading theme in the earlier part of the conversation. "Whitman as anxious to know if Tennyson had any pieces on nana things written at leisure, to ripen to their fullness and come to light after he had gone. I do not recall that Arnold had any information. "Whitman hoped that Tennyson knew how much he was appre ciated in America. Arnold said that this was well understood. There was a comment from one of the company upon the fact that Longfellow was better "known in England than in the United States, while Tennyson had a fame in America that he bad never enjoved at home. The tbcorv was advanced of an intern8tionai ,:i,f t, j .-mi,-j i,- -j; r ri. ." -".i.n wu..js uab.uua vi J.CAA" nysou Here and ot liongtellow in linglanu, and that their fame came where they were most widely read. It was something, however, for "the grand old fellow" at Farringford to know that a nation hich had never looked on his face had no greater delight than to hear his. words. And tbe strength of his genius, as Whitman remarked, singing with as much freshness and truth as when he wrote "In Memoriam." One of the company was not sure that his latest were not his best lines. A noble thought, said Whitman, as Sir Edwin recited the latest lines of the Poet Laureate: Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And maV tliero be no moaning of the bar. When I put Out to sea. Bnt such a tide as moving Seems asleep, Too fnll for sound and foam. When that which drew from out the bound less deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! . And may there ho no sadness of farewell, When I embarkf For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place Aw I w w; Whitman as Sir Ed trtn Saw Ulm. THE 'JW5 -. The flood may bear me far, -I hope tb see ray Pilot face to faoe When 1 have crossed the bar. Arnold r.ecltlng "Whitman's lines. Sir Edwin referred to the profound beauty of some of "Whitman's own poems, no clearer touch of genius since Homer. Then to emphasize with an illustration he leaned over, and resting his hand on the old man's knee, recited these lines: Horn lovftl-ir .nd snothint? death. Undulate round the world,serenely arriving. arriving. In the day. in tbe night, to all, to caoh, Sooner or later delicate death. Praised ha the fathomless universe. For life and Joy, and for oblects and knowl-J -And for love, sweet love but praise! praise! pralsel For the sure, enwlndlng arms of, cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always. gilding-near with soft- leet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of full est weloomet Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song, that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. "Whitman heard the reading, which was exquisite, with partly closed eyes, and -when Arnold had finished, simply said, "You like those lines', do you?" An allusion was made to the crowing in- Jluence of Poe, especially on the Continent. "Whitman said he had had one interview with Poe, and the man was clearly before him, gentlemanly, quiet, reserved, with a tired aspect. Saw him on the streets again, but remembered only one interview. Ho was inclined to think better of Poe than hs had done in earlier years, although one could see that "Whitman had little sympathy with the harmonies and rhythm and euphony of the elder poet. An allusion to Emerson. led among other things to an anecdote of tne uoncora seer, when no was once in Philadelphia. A Pniladelpnian Iiost to Fame. Iwant to know," Emerson said sud denly, "something about Dorgan? "Who it Dorgair?" There was silence. "John A. Dorgan, of Philadelphia. He sends me a thin, almost shivering book of poems, with some lines of fate which are Napoleonic: These withered hands are weak. But they shall do my bidding though so frail; These lips are white, but ehs.Il not tail The appointed word to speak. Thy sneer I can forgive, Because I know tbe strength of destiny, Until my task is done I cannot die, And then I would not live. "I should like to know," continued Em erson as he concluded the recitation, "what Philadelphia has done tor a man who could have written such lines?" The answer was not only bad Philadelphia done nothing for Dorgan, but had never heard of him. Whitman said, "And Emerson called them Napoleonic lines. That is a noble th6ught especially at tbe end. And did Emerson ever find Dorgan?" My impression was that he never did. I had a moderate acquaintance with Dorgan, a clear memory of him as a young convey ancer's clerk, who died shortly after the close of the war at most a year or two. I recall him as a delicate, sensitive genius, with sorrow in the way of personal suffering. Much in its life, his promise, its cares and its earlv efiacement to recall Keats and Henry Kirke White. There was talk of Lowell, and especially of what he had done in England as Minister, and "Whitman referred to his having had a visit from Longfellow in this very home, and of the warm personal regard. Long fellow was the poet of gentleness, as Byron was the poet of nature. Sir Edwin's Taking Leave. Sir Edwin again invited Whitman to England. "Ah, my legs; look at my legs," he said with a half mournful smile. "Let me have a month of you, sir," said Arnold, "and take you out of these rooms, and sub mit vou to the treatment of some'of tbe skillful Japanese, who know the needs and ) anatomies ot tne tinman body. J. would have you in the air, and again in the com pany of the sea, and vou could take coun sel with Tennyson and the others, who may keep their years and their genius for a cen tury." Then came a gentle upbraiding of "Whit man for bis seclusion, rally add banter, whieh the poet took in the best par,t, in a mild, serious, human way. "When the time came to leave, "Whitman took one of his books, and said: "Arnold, this is all I in tend to say to the fellows on the other side. When you see them you will tell them it is all here." Sir Edwin asked him for his autograph and a line of remembrance. "How shall I write it?" said Whitman: "Sir Edwin?" "No, omit the sir let it be Edwin Ar nold.'; Whitman slowly wrote the name and date in a clear, heavy-lined hand and for a mo ment paused. "I don't think," he con tinned, "that I shall add any inscription. You know all I would say to you and to Tennyson find all the other fine fellowk.who are so dear and kind -to me. The inscrip tion is inside. And when vou see them all, you will give them my loving regards. As we took our leave, which was affection ate and cheerful, Sit Edwin, in accepting the hand of the old man, reverently kissed it, even nSif it had been that of his sover eign and queen. John KussfcLij Ybtraro. HAfclfS OF THE GE0TT3K. When Frightened Ho Will Often Fly Di rectly Into Danger. rarest and Stream, Last fall, while on .a quail shoot at Kel logg, W. Va., I lodged with my 'friend Bobert Arms, who ventured upon my credulity and, in all honor to his veracity, I will say I doubt not his story. Said he: "Now, it may seem a thing impossible to you, but what I'm going to tell you is a fact I was standing on the Bide ef a hill, when someone statled a pheasant (ruffed grouse) which came directly toward me. I stood near a tree, and the 'bird apparently aimed to pass between me and it, and as it did so I made a grab for it and caught it" Now, when we consider the strange vagaries of the grouse, the account does not seem at all incredible. I know one instance of the bird flying from the woods into the village in daylight, and striking the door of the drugstore, where it fell and was caught. At another time I was hunting in TTlstet county, N. Y., wheu my beater drove a grouse out of tbe thicket into the open field where I was stationed in expectation of his flight towards me. I was a considerable number of jards from the thicket, but he came Straight toward me and did not seem' to realize his danger until very near my head, when he seemed to struggle to check his speed, as it were, fluttered, but he did not change his course. As he passed bv I wheeled and dropped him. I think I might have reached him with my hand. BAD FBOPEBTY 10 OWN. A. St. I.ouIs lady Bas a tittle Strip That She Cannot Qet Bid Of. "W. C. Marshall, City Counselor, of St Louis, tells the following story: I had a peculiar cose come days ago. A lady ca,me to me to know what to do in relation to a special tax assessment that had been made against her property which she did not wish to pay. She explained that the property in question was a Strip of ground 12 inches wide and 126 feet long, lying between an alley and an improved lot? The assessment had been made for the improvement of the alley. . As the ground is valueless, owing to its location, she was unwilling to pay taxes" upon it She wanted to sell it to the party owning the adjoining lot, but be did not want to buv. as in its present position it shielded him from special taxes for alley improve ment, isne nau also onerea to donate it to the city, but the city could not receive, as there were unpaid tax bills against it An Idea of the Benton. 'Harper's Toong Pebble or course it's nice to know how to skate After you've learned Just how . Bnt I find that on my hands and kneel I can make better progress now. "W ,w-v'- " PrTTSBURQ. , DISPATCH; - DOSES OF HOT'WlTER. Bob Burdette Recommends It For Various Kinds of Troubles. SUGGESTIONSFOR UR.WANAMAKER A Few Stray Lines Dashed Off From the Humorist's Typewriter. J EFFECTS OF SPEED- 4ON LONGEVITY ' PfBimif tob thz nispATcn.i HEBE are compara tively few people who know or at least take advantage of tbe many medicinal properties of hot water. And yet it is as useful in tho sick room, or to the invalid who is ablo to go around and grnnt, as it Is in the laundry. If you have any trouble on your mind, a glass of hot water, mixed with mustard, drank just after rising, will make you think of something else so earnestly for the ensuing ten minutes that your trouble will be forgotten. Then, if you choose to think of It afterward, when the other things have ceased to troublo you, it is your own fault If you are suffering from weak lungs, or if you are a public speaker or reader, and find that your voice is exhausted, just be fore going to bed if you are very wealthy and away up in society and had just as lief go to bed as pot, or if you are hovering, about somewhere between the kitchen and the parlor of life, then just before retiring thrust both feet into a foot bath half filled with scalding hot water. " You will find that your voice will be restored in about one-tenth of a seoond to all its pristine vigor." If you doubt the evidences of your own senses, ask the people who rush in without knocking to see who is murdering you. A pitcher half full of hot water emptied from a second-story window upon the back of a neighbor's dog on a very hot day in July has been known to cool the atmosphere down to within 3 or freezing point for the ensuing six weeks. Hot water poured doivn a rathole will drown the rat. It takes ten barrels of water to one hole. At least I have poured nine barrels of cold water down a rathole without reaching him, and I sup pose another one would have fetched htm. But by the time I had the nine used up it was time to go to church. A big tin dip perful of hot water thrown out of a kitchen window, will drWo away the laziest and savagest tramp that was ever surprised with a hot shower bath. It will also, as a rule, set fire to tho barn that night. It is well to bear this caution in mind when using this heroic remedy. A rigid adherence to a purely vesetnble diet, a daily course of cold baths, summer and winter, and drinking a glass of hot water every morning before breakfast, never fails to ihsuro perfect health. At least I have known a good many men who have tried this regimen and without exception every last one of them so long as they lived looked so much like his corpse that after his death when you went up to the coffin you couldn't help saying, ''Howdy, old man?" and we all know there is nothing the matter with a corpse. And when there's nothing the matter with you, you're all right. If vou have in vour own house no con veniences for'keeping hot water on. draft constantly, whenever you feel the need of a vigorous application of it go over to your neighbor's and tell her you saw. her little son Ereddv throwing mud at the meeting house, and heard hltu swearing and calling people names as they passed by, and you thought , she would be glad to know of it. You'll get into hot water that will milko'you wear blisters long, long, after Freddy 'hai forgotten what he was scolded about A strip of flannel four inches wide and two yards long, wrung out in hot water and wrapped around your throat pn going to bed, is a good thing to unwind itself during the night and wriggle down into the bed and twist itself around your legs and make you dream of snakes. -, There is another way of bringing on dreams and Visions of snakes id bed, but this is the cheapest It is also the easiest to get over. Familiarity Begets Similarity, "Why does a new broom sweep clean?" asked the Wise Man, "Because," replied the Howling Idiot, who had been in politics himself through three administrations, "it hasn't got used to the dirt yet1' Hints to the Postmaster General. It is all right, this talk of mail delivery at the farmer's d6or, but the Government wants to remember one thing really it should bo able to tetnember two of-three things, but it won't do to overburden the Government it wants to remember that the daily de livery of mail in the rural districts wili have'to be preceded by the construction of roads in those districts. If that is not done. the mail carrier will have to learn to fly before they 'can receive an appointment. A mail catrier whd could dnly walk or ride would be of no earthly account delivering mail in the country during bad weather. "Why, there are millions and millions, maybe more than half fis many as that, of places in the country, in this greatest and most progressive and prosperous land in all the universe, where people never dream of going to the corner's grocer during wet weather Of long continuance. Men have pined awa? and died longing for the health ful excitement of a game of checker3 with Si Bentleyt and couldn't get down to the store, four miles, or rather, four mild,away, to have the debauch. The road lo perdition is a bad one, as it is often described I never traveled it myself, although I have beeh told they have.tne best paVeihents in the world if it is in the world when you get there but if really can't bo much awfuller than tbe average country road in Americaduring the fall rains and ths Spring .thaws. Why, it isn't so bad( nol nearly; can't be, or else nobody would ever travel it They wouldn't, just because about nine-tenths of the year they jnst couldn't. Daily mail delivery in the country! Why, it's the craziest notion yet. When it is an old es tablished fact that the people in the coun try can t get to tne postomcedays at a time, how is the postoffice going to get out to the farm?" One good thing might come of this idea, however; the Government might establish the rural delivery where there nre roads that are passable nine months of the year. Then would the rural supervisor get into some new method of roadindking, other than the time-honored custom of dumping fresh loads of hew mud into old mudholes to fill them up. And another good thing for the Congressman would grow out of it. "We have dredgedand dammed ail the creeks and dry. runs in the country, and are at a loss to know what can be devised to take the place of the good old river and harbor improvement grab. Here we have it: Gov ernment appropriations for mail roads I - Under the aid grab some localities were forced to go to the expense of a steam pump, aud in some very destitute towns they had to haul water in barrels in order; .to make a creek big enough to get a slack water appropriation on; there was no end of hard work and both ends of much harder lying in order to secure an appropriation for slack.water improvement But every county, every township in the land, has a road, or a least a trail through the dust and bottomless mud that passes Under that name nnd is entered on the record as a road. Oh, countrymen what know Opportunity nnu A Ull( V, UUU O BUipiUB JiUUU M VUI dooril In the language of the gentleman lj from Calaveras, rake her." 'iHz. Speaker, I'move to A Dogmatic Medicine. All this talk that comes from Indiana about a diet of dog flesh being a cure for consumption is mere rubbish, and very poor rubbish at that Not that one has any ob jection to sausage on the hoof, but it is well known that consumption has been tho scourge of the Indians tor years. And doff is not merely the red man's Thanksgiving turkey, 'and pate de foie gras, but his daily bread. Also, as Mr. Travers might say, his pup-pudding. A Basbr Bat Mot a Humor. 'T have had a rash all over my body for three days." said the visitor, sitting down, puneasily as a king might stand on his head. "Ah, yes," replied the doctor, lor it was he speaking in cheery, though fee-bill tones, "bad blood." Yes," replied the visitor, shifting his position while a pained expression flitted across his countenance and all over his per son generally. "I Bee," replied tho Medicine Man, "something you have eaten?" "No," responded the visitor with a sigh, "something X said. I sent word to the new editor of the JVoiZ Grab that I would horse whip him on sight." And the Medicine Man more to hide the pestilent expression that orossed his face than anything else turned aside to pre pare a lotion, while the visitor, with many ohst and ahsl and some bys, slowly removed hiB coat and vest and shirt, as one who is going to take a bath. Not the Time but the Gait. "Your furniture," remarked Mr. Newrich Goodrich, with a kindly meant effort to se his old friend at his ease, "is all antique, X see." "Well, yes," replied Mr. Hadbeen( "it has that appearance, I am aware; but it is like some gray-haired men; it isn't so much great old time as great old times that has brought about the venerable aspect of honor able old age." And Mr. Goodrich, rjsing up that he might get on with both feet, remarked to himself how very singular it was that a plural should make such a difference. From Greenland's Icy Mountains. A "You look wan and worried and thin, young man," said Father William, "I am afraid this 'climato is too strong for you. You need a change of air." "AlasI Eather William," said the young man, "that is just what troubles me; my father thought as you do, and he has mada a change of heir for me, and the day has grown cold and chili. I fear me I will shiver indeed as the winter nights grow longer." "Shiver?" repiiedFather William, with compassionate gleam in his eyes. "Shiver!" ho Hndly repeated with increased empha sis, "not long you tf on't, young man, you'll freeze to death." So saying, Father William, who had been there, or in the proximate vicinity of the neighborhood himself, many a time, turned on his heel, which he kept affixed to tbe end of his leg for that purpose, and was. gone. r.OBEET J. BUBDEITE. MUG MORTAL STATISTICS. A DESIBOYINO SFlDEMlO ABROAD IN 0TJB LAUD. LA.GHIPrK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES MORE DESTRUCTIVE TIIAN WAR AND FAMINE COMBINED. 'Synopsis of a Ijectnre at the Snrgical-Hotcl by Dr. 6. B. Hartman. KEPOETED FOB TlIE PttESi It was stated by the great recorder of Jewish history, speaking of the land of Egypt after the seventh plague had been gent upon them: "And there Was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not some one dead." Not quite so tragio an Utteratioe is true of our own country at the present time, but certainly it is true that a great plague is abroad in the land; that the first born and last born has been slain in'countless house holds; that parents and infahts, without regard to station of oircnmstanceo, have fallen apreytotheiell destroyer, La Grippe. Never was there a plague so ihsidjous, so omnipresent, to defy tho skill of the phy sician nnd the strength of the patieht as this pestilence. It does not seem to spread like an ordinary epidemic: it seems to snrincr from the ground spontaneously everywhere at once. It finds its victims at midday; or, like tile destroying ahgel in Egypl, it Un sheathes its sword to strike the unwary asleep in the dark Wfttehes of the night It enters the hovels of wretchedness and pov erty, and easily crosses the threshold of wealth and luxury. Doctors seem to be wholly unable to prevent its onset, to Stay its ravishes or mitigate its consequences. Is there no balm in Gilead? No succor for the oppressed? Without hesitation or fear of successful contradiction I answer! Yes, there is a preventive for those who have remained, as yet, untouched.with this disease, a cure for those who are already its victims, and a complete and permanent restoration for those who have lately escaped its clutches with weakened and deranged bodies Jrom which recovery Seems impossible. To those whb have thus" far escaped this dreadful ail ment, but are trembling with constant fear of it, I desire to say that a tabUsnoonfnl nf Pe-ru-na, taken-before each meal, is abso. mteiy rename as a preventive against La Grippe; and no ohe need have any fear of an attack of this disease sb long as this treatment is continued. It is ab solute recklessness, for which there. is little or no excuse, for any one, during the unsettled weather at least, to omit to take this precaution. To those who are already attacked by this disease I would advise: At the appearance of the first symptoms treatment should be begun at once, and keep strictly to the house for a few days. No treatment, however effectual it may be, Will always prevent quite a long Biese with this difeease. but tin ntbtr morl. -Scinal treatment is necessary than Pe-fu-na. ine uireciions, as tney are given on the bot tle, are more applicable to chronic diseases, and it is advisable, during the acute stages of the disease, to take smaller doses, but oftener. I would direct a tablespoonful of1 Pe-fu-na every two hours for adults, and a eorrtspondingly less dose lor children, untilJ There are a great multitude of people in. an pans ot me iana wno nave entirely lost their health as a result Of La Grippe; .who have recovered from an attack, but find themselves with weakened nerves, deranged digestion, and with but very little of their former powers. There is no disease known to man that leaves the system in such an outrageous and exasperating condition as Xa Grippe. The student finds it is impossible to return to his books, the professional man to his routine of office work, and the work ing man to his labors, with anything like their old vigor. It is even worse with the housewife and the devotee of fashion, whose debilitating employments make re cuperation slower. For this class of suffer ers Pe-ru-na is a specific; and I do not hesi tate to guarantee that if anyone will tako Pe-ru-na according to the following direc tions that in a few weeks thev will be en tirely restored to their accustomed health: Add two ounces of rock candy to each bottle of Pe-ru-na before using. Take a tbblespoonful before each meal and at Bed-' time. Gradually increase this dose until, at the end ot one month, you are taking two tablespoonfuls at a dose. This dose Should be continued until every vestige of the symptoms disappear. .Anyone desirlnc inrthpr Tiar1.nlarfl should write The Pe-ru-na Drug Mahufac- i. i ' ui """""""""i "-, ior a iree copy of the Family Physleian No. 2 a most ad mirable treatise on La Grippe, acute and chronic catarrh, coughs, colds, and otHer climatic diseases of winter. all BTOTOAY - JNTJAEY 24, - 18931 SNOW 15 HEALTHFUL. -It Brings Out the Weak Eyes, but It Paints the Cheeks Red. HOW THE FLAKES PURIFY THE AIR Tie Tonsils Manufacture, tho White Cor- pu3cle3 of the Blood. HOW THE! FIGHT GERMS OP DIBEASH wsrrrxif roa the dispatch, i "The first snow storm always brings many patients to us," said my friend the oculist, "and we examine eyes, give eye water and instructions by the hour. City people have weak eyes. They are strained and weakened by work in gas light, by late night pleasures, overwork and nervous disorders. They are so weak that they are upset by the least extra exertion, but they love the snow and the landscape clothed in its white dress. "The glare and reflection.however.are too much forthe poor abused eyes. They wear blue and green glasses (which, by the way, are bad for the eyes) smoked glasses and shades, but they still suffer a great deal. Eye washes may do them some good, but the fault is in the eyes themselves, and temporary applications will only relieve the complaint and not cure it Many pleas ures of a sleigh ride have been spoiled by having weak eyes. Best and Ice Cold Water. "Is there any remedy7 Well, the best remedy that I know of is to take better care of the "eyes all through the year. Bathe them in cold water whenever they ache and feel tired. Give them plenty of felt in a dark room at times, and obey the general hygienio laws concerning those or gans. Our medicine is generally rest and ice cold water. These two remedies are better than all of the pretended eye washes and salves. "After a night's dissipation one should wash and soak the eyes in cold water to re lieve any depressing feeling over them. The same should be repeated several times the next day. The melted snow is a good relief. While taking your sleigh ride apply a little of the snow occasionally to the eyes, let it melt there, and keep the eyes closed, and then, with the aid of smoked glasses, you will get along tolerably well while the ground is clothed with a glaring white mantle, even though vour eyes be very weak." The snow, however, brings other compen sating values besides sleigh rides.' The eyes are benefited in one way by having the ground covered with the stfow. The whirl ing dust, ashes and cinders of the city are laid for good, aud they no longer obstruct the vision, and cause irritating feelings in I the visual organs. Bnow Is Good for People. If we could have snow on the ground most ot the time our health would be better, for snow is a great sanitary and hygienio agent. It purifies the ground and the air, gives new zeal and zest to life, rouses the spirits to a better appreciation of nature, and makes such a change in tho monotony of winter weather that every one feels bet ter for it Those who seek warm climates in tho winter miss one of the most exhilar ating sights that nature can give. In addi tion to all of this are the snbrts of coasting, tobogganing and sleigh riding, which alone can compensate for a great deal of discom fort The reflection from the snow is also bene ficial to the complexion, and gives a fresher and purer tinge to the cheeks. Bnow water ill one of the best washes that can be applied to the face. It should be gathered ffqm tome snow bank where dust and dirt have hot accumulated on it, and only a short dis tance from the surface. Scrape off the top crust aud gather the pure white substance. The bottom layer of tho snow is generally as dirty and full Of Impurities as tbe top layer. This is due to the faot that as the snow storm begins it carries down with it all of the floating impurities from the air. Every flake that cornea in contact with dust, dirt and germs of disease carries them down to the ground. In this way the snow acts as a great purifier of the air, and short ly after & Snow storm the atmosphere is as pure and fresh as that found among tho mountains. It should be breathed Into the lungs as the Very elixir Of life. It is this pure air which is so good for the complexion, and makes it good for one to be out of doors Sanitary Agents of the Blood, When the blood Is attacked Dy the germs of disease it is always the red corpuscles which suffer, aud by their destruction the person appears white and anaemic. The microbes Of malaria are a good illustration of this, and efforts are made to restore the blood to its normal condition by taking food that will produce red corpuscles. The white corpuscles, however, are thOgreatest friends we have, and they go through the system, destroying tho gorms which haVo eaten up the red corpuscles. If it were not for these white cells in the blood thousands of germs that now have appaiently littlo effect upon us would work desti action in our system. They aro the Bahltary agents of the blood, and their work is of inestimable value. When the malarial germs have entered tho system and destroyed the red corpuscles, the white cells immediately proceed to de stroy the small enemies. A change in tho fever 13 then at hand, and for several days the fever gerhis ate dUiescent. Our food produces more red corpuscles, and we grow ranidlV betteri but meanwhile tlio malarial germs are multiplying rapidly, and in a short time they begin their destructive -work once moie, only to bo checked fn time by the white cells. It is this change which produces tne periodicity of malaria. The Function of the Tonsil j. ifedtfcal discovery has Just demonstrated that tho glahds In the throat, known as the tonsils. art the workshop furthest) whita cells, and that they are manufactured hero in gieat quantities. From this workshop the white cells are Bent all over the system, like sanitary agents, to destroy all the enemies in the blood, and to preserve the fed corpuscles from destruction. Moreover, it has been discovered that they stand at tho entrance to tbe throat, ready to challenge every enemy that ehtets through the breath or food. This explains why ho manvofthe gdrrna which enter our mouth do not per form destructive work. They are mot, challenged and killed by tho white cell sen tries in the tonsils. It appears from this that people Who aro subject to quinsy and inflammation of tllo tonsils aro not so Well protected as thoio who have strong, healthy tonsils. Weak ened from some cause tho workshops of tho sanltaty agents aro attacked by tho enemf v?4 and yield to tne inroads or tne very gCrHiSSSave lost quarts ot diamonds." caution in tbe winter time to preserve these W1X4VU wio, .w .u.buuuv. mv xia.t. jj.tcuig glands from colds and irritation might be the means or warding off many diseases of a violent nature. The discoveries aro not only Intorestlng.bnt of great hygienic value. Heretofore medical science hns marked tho use of these glands as "unknown." A. E. Atktxsox, M. D. COEHERING TEE PLATUfUM. The Effort or a Syndicate That Bought the Product of Russia The workings at the Nisjne-Tagilsk plati num district in Itussia, are let out by a Government concession to Prince Demidoff. Outside miners are permitted to dig on their own account, but they arc Obliged under penalty to, sell what they get to the proprietary eoncefh. Two years ago a great syndicate bought Up the entire product df these mines for some time ahead, and set out to purchase all the scrap platinum ex isting in the world. But there proved to be more of the latter than had been counted upon, and so it was found impossible to con trol the market Consequently, after going Up from $9 to $18 an. btince, platinum has how silnk to $11 an ounce. This metallic substance has never been found in-the rocks where it originally ex isted in situ, as geologists sav except in the copper mines of Canada, where it was discovered a short time ago in Very small quantities and in an entirely new combina tion, being Blxed with arsenic, WEITTEN TOR THE DISPATCH BY MARK TWAIN, Author of "Innocents Abroad," "Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Firing Etc., Etc SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The stoTy opens with a scene between Lord Berkelev, Earl of Hossmoreond hla-soii Viscount Berkeley, in Chalmondelev Castle, Englind. The yonng roan hag studied tha claims to tho estate made by Simon Leathers, of America, and become convinced that he U the rightful heir and hts father and himself usurpers. He announces his intention to change places with Leathers, whereupon the old lord pronounces htm stark mad. A letter arrives from Colonel Mnlherry Sellors, of Washington, announcing that, by tha death of Simon Leathers and hi brother at a log-roUlngJn Cherokee Strip, he has become the Earl of Rossmore and rightful heir to Chalmondeley Castle and the vast estate. Colonel Sellers and his contented old wife live in an old frame house before which hangs a sign announce ing that he is an attorney at law, claim agent hypnotist, mind-euro specialist, eta, etc His old friend. Washington Hawkins, arrives. Ho has been elected delegate to Congress from Cheroke Strip. The Colonel has invented a puzzle whieh he calls Piars-ln-Clover. Persuaded by Hawkins he applies for a patent and accidentally runs acrosi a Yankee who agrees to give him 5 cents royalty on each one sold. Then the news come3 that Simon, Leathers is dead and the Colonel lays his plans. Tirst he establishes the usages of nobility in his home, which he calls Eosmore Towers. Sally Sellers, now Lady Gwendolen, is noti fied at her college, and proceeds to lord it oyer those shoddy nrlstoorats who hitherto ha va considered her a plebeian. The Colonel and the Major lay n plan to capture One-Armedi Pete, for whom there is a big reward. They locate him 8 the Gadsby HoteL Young Lord Berkeley has arrived meanwhUe and stops at tbe Gadsby. Just as the Colonel's plans are about to be consummated the hotel burns. Lord Berkeley cscapoj, finding One-Armed Pete's cowboy clothes In the hall. He puts these on and proceeds to hide his identity. One-Armed Pete is supposed to have been burned alive. The newspapers also report Lord Borkeley burned. This j ust suits the young man's plans. CHAPTER TX HE E3rl and Wash ington started on the sorrowful errand, talk ing as they walked. "And as usual I1' "What Colonel?" "Seven of them in that hotel Actresses. And all burnt out, of course." ' 'Any of them burnt up? "Oh, no; they es caped; they always do; but there is never a one of them that knows enough to fetch out her Jewelry with her." "That's strange." "Strange it's the most unaccountable thing in the world. Experience teaches them nothing; they can't seem to learn any thing except out of a book. In some cases there's manifestly a fatality about it For instance, take what's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder-and-lightning parts. She's got a perfectly immense repu tation draws like a dog fight and it all L came from getting burnt out in hotels." wny, now couia that give nor reputa tion as an actress?" "It didn't; it only made her name famil iar. People want to see her play because WWrMM wEMaS 'CLAH TO 600bNES8, IT'3 Dli nJST'TniE I'VE SOT EYE3 TOT 'TXL. her name is familiar, but they don't know what made it familiar, because they don't remember. ,First, she was at, the bottom of the ladder and absolutely obscure wages 513 a week and findher own pads." "Pads?" . "Yes; things to fat up her spindles with n ah tn be blumn aud attractive. Well. she got burnt out in a hotel and lost 30,00(r 1L .Mi.mnilHli ' "She? Where'd she get them?" "Goodness knows given to hit, Ho doubt, by spooney young flats and sappy bald heads in the front tow. All the papers were full of it. She strUck for higher pay and got it Well, she got burnt out again and lost all her diamonds, and it gave her Buch a lift that she went Starring." , "Well, if hotel fires are all she's got to rtonpnrl on to keen no her name. It's. a pretty precarious kind oi a reputation I "Not with her. No, anything but that Because she's so lucky; born lucky, I reckon. Every time there's a hotel fire,, she's in It She's always there and if she' can't be there herself, her diamonds are. How you can't make anything ont of that but Just sheer luck." "I never heard of such a thing. She must "Quarts, she s lost bushels of them. It's got so that the hotels are superstitions about her. Thev won't let her in. They think there will be a flrej and besides, if she's there, it cancels the insurance. She'3 been waning a little lately, but the fire wilt set her up. She lost ?CO,000 worth last night" , "I think she's a fool. If I had $60,000 worth of diamonds I wouldn't trust them in a hotel." "I wouldn't either; but you can't teach an actress that This one's been burnt out 35 times. Aud yet if there's a hotel fire in San Francisco to-night she's got to bleed again, yoU markrny words. Perfect ass; they say she's got diamonds in every hotel in the country." When they arrived at the scene of the fire the poor old Earl took one glimpse at the melancholy morgue and turned away his face, overcome by the Spectacle, lie said: "It is too true Hawkins recognition is impossible; not one of the five could be identified by its nearest friend. Xou make the selection, Ican't bear it" "Which one had I better" "Oh, take any of them. Pick out the best one," However, the officers assured tbe Earl for they knew him, everybody in Washing ton knew him that the position in which these bodies were found made it impossible that any of them could be that of his noble kinsman, lhey pointed out tbe spot where. Lif the newspaper account was correct, he 15 must have sunk down to destruction;- and at a wide distance from this spot they showed him where the young man rnusS have gone down in case he wa3 suffocated in, his room; and they showed him still a third, place, quite remote, where he might po sibly have found his death if perchance ho tried to escape by the side exist toward tha rear. The old Colonel brushed away a tear and said to Hawkins: "As it turns out, there was something prophetic in my fears. Yes, it's a matter of ashes. "Will yon kindly step to a grocery and fetch a couple more baskets?" 1 Beverently they got a basket of ashes from each of those now hallowed spots and carried thera homo to consult as to tho bests manner of forwarding them to England, and also to give them an opportunity to "lie) in state" a mark of respect which tha Colonel deemed obligatory, considering tha high rank of the deceased. Thev set the baskets on the table in whas was formerly the library, drawing-room and worgsnop now ino nan oi auaience ana went upstairs to the lumber room to see if they could find the British flag to use as a part of the outfit proper to the lying in state. A moment later Lady F.ossmors came in from tbe street and caught sight of the baskets just as old Jinny crossed he field of vision. She quite lost her patience, and said: "Well, what will you do next? What in, the world possessed you to clutter up tha parlor table with these baskets of ashes?" "Ashes?" And she came to look. Shq put up her hands in pathetio astonishments IbHJfbiajcfa, "Well. I never see de Ilkel" "Didn't you do it?" "Wh6, me? Clah to goodness it's de fust time I've Sot eyes on 'em, Miss Polly. Dat'sj Dah'L Dat ole moko is losin' his mine." But it wasn't Dan'l, for he was called, and denied it "Dey ain't no way to 'splaindat wen hit's; one er dese yer common currences, a body kin reckon maybe de cat1" "Oh!" and a shudder shook Lady Boss more to her foundations, "I seeitalL Keep away from them they're his." "His, in'lady?" "Yes your young .Marse Sellers from England that's burnt up." ' She was alone with the ashes alona be fore she could take half a breath. Then she went after Mulberry Sellers, purposing to make short work with his programme, whatever it might be; "for, said she, "h hen his sentimentals are up, he's a numb skull, dnd there's no knowing what ex travagance he'll contrive, if you let him alone." She found him. He had found tha flag, and was bringing it "When she heard that his idea was to have the remains "Ha in state, and invite the Government and the public," she broke it up. She said: "Your intentions are all right; they al ways are. You want to do honor to the re mains, and surely, nobody can find any fault with that for he was your kin r but you are going the" wrong way about it, and you will see it yourself it you stop and think. You can't file around a basket of ashes trying to look sorry for it, and make a sight that is really solemn, because the solemner it is, the more it isn't anybodjr- can see that It would be so with ono wly; ket; it would be three times so with three. ' "Well, it stands to reason that if it wouldn't be solemn with one mourner, it wouldn't with a procession and there would be 6,000 people here. I don't know but it would ba pretty neat ridiculous; I think it would. No, Mulberry, they can't lie Ih state; it would be a mistake. Give that up and think of something else." On h, ., rt if H,. ml t .nln.t.mtl KJJ HO f,A,W Uff, BUU JlUb ICLUIiMUll J. when he had thought it over and realized how right her icstihct was. He conclnded to merely sit up with the remains just him self and Hawkins. Even this seemed a doubtful attention to his wife, but she of-4 iered no objection, for it was plain that be hud a quite honest and simple-hearted de sire to uo tne inenuiy and honorable thin: by these forlorn poor relics which couli command no hospitality in this far-off Ian of strangers but his. He draped the ill about the baskets, put some crape on tl door knob and said with satisfaction: "There he is as comfortable now as w can make him in the Circumstances. . cept yes, we must strain a point there one must do as one would wish to be 6 by be must have it" "Have what, dear?" .lm 'UWr-lll--
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