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VOLUME XL.
One year ago a ringing Toles,
A clear blue eye
Ant! clustering curls of sunny halt,
Too fair to die.
Only one year—nvolne, no emlle,
'1 Nit glance, ot efe,
tie clusterlng.curle of golden hair, I
File- but -to die. •
One year ago, what loves, whatschemes
-ralr Into Ilte
What Joyous hope■, 'what high resolves;
What generous litrlfe
The silent picture on the.siall,'
The burial stone,
Of all that beauty, life and Joy . 1
Remote alone I
5ep.26,19
One year, ono year,one little year,
And so touch gone '
And yet the oven Slow of life
'Mores calmly on,
. . - I,
The grave grows green, the Bowers blom
Above the head;
No sorrowitig tint at teat .or,spray
says he Is dead
No pause, or hash, or merry birds J..
That sing above,
Tell us how cqldly sleeps below
The form we lose,
What halt thou been thts year,,heluved ?
What bast thou seen?
What ristUg fair, what
Where host thou been ? .
Tire vet!! the veil! so thin, to strong I
•Twizi us and thee
The mystic veil; when shall it Ifa
That we may se r e?'
Not dead, not sleeping, not oven gone,
But present still,
And Waiting for tho coming hour
Of God's sweet will.
Lord oeihe living and the de.ad,
our Saviour
We lay In Silence at Thy feet
This sad, sad year.
I'Lb 27, '79
. .
Next to the leviathan of Scripture,
the lightning-rod man is one of the
most terrible ohjects.of the animal
kingdom. Stich, at least, .is the
opinion of an honest farmer, in the
vicinity of Waukesha upon whom
one of these individuals, waited a few
days ago, urging him to protect his
buildings with the three:ply, stub
and twist, agate:pointed, platinum
tipped lightning-rods.
" I thought I see you-round here a
year or two ,ago, .selling another
variety - of them . condiments," ob
served the honest old agriculturist,
"and you said that these here light
ninmrods were frauds.'!
"%h, yes; that was when I was in
the bonds of sin, and' the gall !of
bitterness," said the ant contritely;?
"but been eon welted since. I
often shudder now-a-days when r l`
think that if my foot had slipped
when I was putting up ope of the
inferior articles which I was then
palming off upon a credulous and
uproteeted community, I Might hive
gone. plump down to perdition with a
lie upon my lips and a hammer in
my hand. The remorse which even
my case-hardened soul had too feel
'at last became too powerful to be
borne with impunity; but now Ilam
endeavoring to atone for the evil
which I committed by exposing'the
inferior quality of thelightning-rods
I then put up and replacing them
with those for which I am novr i agent,
at cost price."
cnovll -75
L. ELSBREK.
[ teb.l '7B
The old. farmer said that he didn't
exactly know that lie wanted to ri ut
up any lightning rods, brit the agent
said to him, "I'll tell you what I'll
do. I'll put
,up a set, of lightning
rods fOr you, and if you don't like
them 11l make you a present of
them."
Jan.l,lB7S
IZEITS2!
The honest old agriculturiSt's e,•cs
sparkled at the proposition
when, at dewy eye, he had complet
ed his task, he slapped the farmer on
the back, and asked him if he liked
, the material of the rods and the
workmanship. '
The farmer said he didn't. , •
(Art'll 12, '76.]
4 ‘ All right !" said the agent pleas
aptly ; then the rods are yours, and
I don't charge you a cent. Our com
pany always sticks to its word, and
would rather lose a million dollars
than clo a job that wasn't satisfactory
to the customer. If any one asks
you tell them that that set of
lightning rods didn't cost you a cent
—you didn't think they were quite
satisfactory, and so there was no
charge."
=I
The farmer asked_ the lightning.
rod man to come in and have some
dinner, and the lightning-rod man
said he didn't mind. There seemed
to he something Tunny on the light
ning-rod man's mind, for he used to
look at the farmer every_ minute or
two and laugh to himself gently, and
when asked what was wrong, say,
" Oh, nothing ! nothing!" and then
choke with inward mirth. All through
the meal he entertained his hosts
with interesting reminiscences of
houses that had been struck by light
ning--Alow in one case everything
metallic within the buildings was
fused, and a lac-simile of a campaign
supplement was indelibly imprinted
upon the person of thd woman of the
house, while her beautiful daughter
was snatched bald-headed and driven
through a store-pipe 'hole, leaving
great strips of lier soft white &slip)).
the ragged edges of the sheet iron.
(Here the farmer's daughter got up
and left the room, While' her mother
said, "Laws-a-massy !" and fanned
herself with her handkerchief) Then
the agent burst Out laughing (" at
nothing," be said, and asked the
farmer if he was insured, and when
the farmer said, "Yes," asked . to see
his policy, .and pointed out to him
that the company waived -any re
sponsibility for damage by lightning,
and said he must be up and off. -But
when he was climbing into-his wagon,
the fit of mirth :with which he was
seized so nearly approached the pro
portions of an
_apoplectic seizure,
that the honest farmer got alarmed,
and asked him what in the name of
Charles Foster he was laughing at.
"I•was brughingha, hat he, he I
hi, hi ! ho, ho !"—panted the merry
agent, "to think that you think that
you've got ahead of me. By Jove!
as I used to say in the days when I
was an unrepentent sinner, itAk the
biggest lark 1 ever remember since a
man stole my_ dog the -day the
animile. went mad." .
TOWA,NI)A, Pk
...11123,000
... 66,000
A 1111.157.9
NM
Peitz
ONE YEAR AGO
4Nrellaiqous.
HOW IT . IS DONE.
"Got ahead of Yin' ?—well, I did
get . ahead of you," r said the farmer;
I got them lightning rods for noth
ing"
"Yes," gasped the agent, in parox
ysms,o mirth, • 4 hut go anil, look l at
those lightning rods and see if they
are wound up--ho ho',! ho !"
"Well, suppose, they ain't wound
up; what , darned difference, does it
make ?"
"What darned ilifferenee floes it.
make?" echoed the agent in well.
feigned astonishment. "Shades of
S. F. B. Morse, - here is st man that
doesn't know •thd difference between
positive and negative electricity
Just you go up td the house, and if
you , , have Whetstone's ' Pragmatic
Analytical Synopis of Differentiated
Electricity—the edition of 1876 is
the best--overhaul the eleventh
chapter, and you'll see what the
k •
difference is.
Phaven't got the book,' 3 ,.Said the
fanner; " what is the difference, any
way ?!,.'„
"The difference is that - a lightning
rod when properly wound up Con
ducts positive , electricity from the
clouds to the earth; when not wonnd
up it condnets negative electricity
from the earth to the clouds. That
is all the difference there is. The
The earth, as Huxley says, is-a great
reservoir chockful of electricity,
which .is constantly seeking affilia
tion with the oxygen and metheglin
of the atmosphere. Your lightning
rod is probably the only one in the
Northwestern States that is not
wound up ; consequently the surging
currents of electricity whieli have
been meandering . all over the coun
try, striving to find an outlet, like
rats seeking to escape out of a bar
rel, after vainly trying every ether
lightning rod arc accumulatiing 'be
neath your house; and currusticating
and dilating and titillating aill along
the surface of your' lightning-rod.
Wait till it gets dark and you will
see a pale, lambent flame playing all
along its surface; and if any be
flighted lightning rod pedler 'hap
pens to be in this 'Vicinity .and ob
serves this beautiful and significant
phenomenon, you'll see him whip up
his horse andlet over the hill - so as
to he away from the neighborhood
when the explosion takes plaCe: Talk
Of electric lights and Fourth-of-July
fireworks! The first touch of aitlitin
der storm you have up here, tlie_spec
tacie of awful grandeur presented by
„you' lightning rod 'll knock anything
ever seen since the cumbustiOn ,of
Sodom and 'Gomorrah. By the' why,
there's a dark, blue cloud corning up
yonder; which from the size Of a
man's hand has rapidly attained the
dimensions of a St. Louis girl's foot.
I guess we're going to have a thun
der storm. Good-by ; I must get out
of here, for I owe it to my family to
preserve my life. If your daughtersurvives, don't you worry about the
future. ll'll make a proper provision
for, her, for it will be $100;000 in-my
pocket to be able to point to-her as
the sole survivor of a man Whose
house' was knocked into brick-dust
and match-splints because he wouldn't
take my advice about the arrange
ments of his lightning rod.
" I'll get an axe and crowbar and
tear the dum thing doWn," said the
farmer, after a moment's irresolute
pause.
All right; only I want as a special
favor to ask you not to begin until I
am over the hill and out of sight.
With that lightning-rod instinct, with
negative electricity, as' it is, it is sure
death for any: uninsulated man to ap
proach it. 11 4 you send a hired man
to tear it down, then I don't want to
be la witness and. have the cot oner's
jury bring inn verdict that the de
ceased's employer was guilty of homi
cide in the second degree in sending
the deceased into the jaws-Of death.
If you go yourself,'l don't want -j-as
is duty I should be bound to dO—to
have to inform the life ingurance com
pany that you violated the conditions
of your policy by taking a deliberate
ly risk which virtually amounted to
suicide. Good-by ; I hue you have
.so lived that you are na afraid to,
die. Get up, there."
y " ! hold 'on." said the unfortun;
flte fanner ; I'll give you $5 to wind
up the darned thing. for me."
f' Five dollars!" said the agent,
with a :witherin g sneer; " why, the
fact that your house was burst into
twenty hundtied thousand 'million
pieces 'll 1..* worth $50;000 to the
Company as an awful example. (Plug
there." .
"Hold up," yelled the agrieul-
Orist; "'will you wind up them
lightning rods if I pay you for them?"
" Well, I don't know that I should,"
responded the agent; "you said they , .
weren't quite according to your taste,
and it doesn't seem exactly right to
be. taking a than's money for a thing
that he isn't quite satisfied with. Be-
Sides, it is , taking . thousands and
thousands of dollars out of the corn
pariy's. pocket,, because what we want
is an awful example to scare other
fellOws into taking our rods just as
we Put 'cm up:. However, seeing it's
you, and I .don't want to have your
bloodi on my hands, I .don't mind
doing it. Hand over $9O, and fix
it." ,
The farmer produced tilt. money,
and the agent gave him a receipt ;
then taking a monkey wrench, he
said. solemnly, "Even for experienced
an:l insulated men there is consider
able danger in the experiment 4 now
am abOut to .perform ; If I should be
struck!'dead in its performance, please
tell my wife that Idled at my post— !
or to speak more cprreetly, my rod--
and have the fact telegraphed to the
Chicago Tribune, not forgetting to
ring lathe name of the company."
Pale with emotion, the. noble - and
fearless man approached the light
rod, gave it a couple or licks with
the monkey wrench, placed his t ear
close to it, hit again, and then ..re
turned 41)y - fully to the farther. "It's.
all right," he said ; "it has been
wound up, and is now prepared to
conduct positive. electricity in large
or small quantities from the atmo- .
sphere to the earth at the shortest.
notice. But if I had btien half an
hour Liter I should have been too
late, for , 'already, the lightning-rod
was beginning to bulge and throb,
and scale off in places, with the firey
element contained' within 1 i
Chicago Tribune.;
TOWANIA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA, -THURSDAY MORIN% DEC MBER 11, 1879.
THE MOUSE CURE.
Medical science has, made ,great
progress during the fast fifty years.
Novel and „startling as this assertion
is, there is no doubt of t its truth.
Modern physicians have learned! to,
discrithinate between diaeased that
the physicians of the last generation
believed to be identical, and inthis
way they have added at least two
dozen able diseases to their repor
toire. For example, it was forinerli ,
supposed that when a man who lived
in his ownbouse had a fever, the
symptoms - which were apparently
the same as those of a malarious
fever from which his next-door neigh
bor, who lived 'in a hired house, suf
fered, the two diseases were identical;
but we now know that a man who
lives in his own house never has a•
malarious fever, though he often suf
fers from a nervous - ailection, , the
symptems of which 'closely resemble
those of chills and fever. In addition
to thus discriminating between dis
eases whieli were formerly comfound
ed, modern physicianii have made
very extensive additions to the nia
leria,medietz, and of these, the recent
discovery of what seems to be "a spe
cific fornearly all nervous diseases
is by no 'means the least important.
Of all .nervous diseases, tetanus is,
one of the most determined and oh.
jeetionable. it is usually induced
by over-indulgence, in rusty nails or
fish-hooks, and when it once takes
hold of a patient it is nearly impossi
ble to drive: it away. One of its
permanent symptoms: is the closing
of the jaws so tightly that they can
not be pried open with a crow-bar
When it is remembered that women
as well as men' suffer from this di
sease, its tremendously powerful
nature becomes evident.
Hitherto there has been no remedy
which could be regarded as ispeeitic
for tetanus. 'the last century the
- usual treatments was to kn"ek out a
few of the patient's
. teetli, so as to
pour.a little brandy down his throat,
and then to order his cothin. With.
the progress of medical science;
various other remedies were sug
ges,ted, among whicb the subenta
neolis injection of curare, a particu
larly deadly South American vegeta
ble-poison, gave, on the whole, the
best results, and frequently so far
got the mastery over tetanus that it
killed the patient before the disease
could. kill him. At last, however, au
ingenious French physician has ap
parently- hit upon -a remedy before
which tetanus yields as rapidly as
toothache - yields to the dentist's for
ceps, and which will, of course, su
persede curare and all other inferior
remedies:
The French doctOf in question
was calledlin to attend a lady suffer
ing from tetanus In his -report he'
says that ahe was a married woman
of 31 years of age, , , and that previous
to his visit her laTily physician had
tried every known remedy for tetan,
us, including curare, without pro
ducing any effect. 'The patient was
lying on her back, with her jaws
tightly closed, and the muscles of her
chest and throat were so rigid that
she was unable to utter a sound.
The doctor at once sent out and pro
etired a live mouse of the usual size
and voracity, to the -tail of which he
attached a strong horse-hair. Placing
the mouse at the foot of the bed, he
permitted it to walk the entire length
of the patient's body. No sooner
did the patient notice s the mouse
than she sprang up, loudly calling
to the attendants to take it, off, and
denouncing the doctor as a horrid
heartless wretch, who ought to be
ashamed of himself and guillotined
on the spot. There was- no recur
rence. of the symptoms of tetanus.
In fact, the doctor adds that the
lady's jaws were so thoroughly And
permanently unlocked that the hus
' band, who is, of course, ignorant of
lay, has threatened to begin - an
action for damages against him'.
The success of this experiment en
couraged the doctor to try the mouse
cure in other nervous diseases. He
reasoned that the administration of.
Mice powerfully stimulates the nerves
of a female patient, and enables the
nervous system to throw off any dis-•
ease with which it is afflicted. Soon
after tim incidentjust related, he inet
with aVviolent case of hysteria. The
patient, a married lady of 37 years,
was subject to hysterical attacks, but
'this particular one was of unprece
dented violence. --Among its promi
nent symptons was an absence of
whisker,On one side of the„husband's
face, a broken clock, and an almost
irresistible tendoncy on the part of
the patient to lie on. the floor and'
`kick the paneling of a rosewood\
book-case. • The doctor at -once.per
ceived that mice in strong doses were
indicated. He therefore ordered that
a Mouse should be administered every
ten minutes until the 'violence of the
attack should abate. The first mouse
ran across the patient'S bOdy, but
there was no 'perceptible, change in
her heels or voice.- The senond mouse,
however; entangled itself in her hair,
and her recovery was almost instan
taneous. She sat up and said that if
the doctor .would :only take that
mouse away, she would get right up
and see about: dinner. No further
treatment- was necessary, •and the
fact that the disease has not returned
leads the doctor to eXpress a 4d.rong
conviction that the cure will prove a
permanen, one.
The mouse cure his also been tried
with the very best results in an at
tack of.' paralysis' of the left leg,
which, was in a fair way to prevent
the wife of a Parisian banker from
making a call on certain of her hus
band's relatives, and in a case of
nervous prostration which suddenly
attacked. a lady when her husband
bad refused to take her go the -sea
side. Both of these cases yielded
promptly to the exhibition of mice,
and there is no room for doubt that
the cure was due solely to the reme
dy employed.
The addition of mice to the materie
media' will naturally interest the
profession everywhefe, and we may
expect to find the mouse treatment
adopted in nervous diseases by all
regular physicians.' It is rather odd
that the distipgyished French physt
cian has not turned his attention to
rats. There may be' discciveries made
in the rat field which will be of as
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li t
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REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
much importance as' those which he
has already made in connection with
Timce.
HOW TO PLAY POKER PROFITA
BLY.
First—Don't bity half i as nutny
Chips at the start as the other. play
ers. The expectation is that you will
win, and it you lose it is better, that
you borrow or " owe" up.
SecOn&—Never ante ,up until some
some one tells , you, and then say that
you have, and stick to it, which will
generally 'persuade some .one else to.
"come in " twice. This rule, though
an excdllent one, must : be followed
with discretion.. Lf practised too of
ten, it is liable to produce unpleasant
feelings.
Third—Toward the end, of the ev
ening it is always better. to . "owe "
up your ante" for a minute" than to
" put 't up, as the winner of the pot
frequently forgets to charge up the .
'debt, and none of the other players
will remind him, as they may wish
to do the same thing.
Fourth—When the credit system
begins to creep in, as it generally
'does about the middle of the, game,
you . should "owe up" if possible,
and 'bet chiefly against those who
always "put up." This is one`of the
most important rules.' To win in
cash and lose on credit is the great
secret of snecessful poker playing.
Fifth—lti dealing, always observe
the bottom tard, which, you can easi
ly do before the cut.' Then by notic
ing how thick a cut is made, you can
tell whether that card goes out. This
may help you in the draw.. , .
Sixth—Keep a sharp, eye on the
discards. They may be of service if
your draw is not satisfactory.
Seventh—When you are" in luck,"
watch your opportunity, from time
to time, to put some of_your cheeks
in your pocket without being ,seen.
This will enable you to_ 4 , owe" up if
luck turns, and will preVent the .oth
ers from borrowing from you. '•
Eighth—When any one wants to
buy more checks and you hallo plen
ty, give him to buy of you, if possi
ble, in preference to the barls. It,
enables you to • conceal the amount.
of your winnings, and besides the
bank may riot he able to pay up.
Ninth=--When you are "chipping
out" for drinks, etc., put a cigar in
yOur pocket_eiery once in a while:
You are sure to be so much ahead of
the game, and they come in very
handy when` you don't smoke. ,
Tenth—Never permit anything to
make you forget for a nu - talent that
the whole object of the game is to
save yOur owu money and secure
somebody else's, and let olerything
you do, however trifling; tend to this
trilling end.
Eleventh—When the game is ()Veil,
if you are winner; deny it. entirelv.or
fix the figure as low as possible ; tf
you-.are loser declare that you have
lost twice as much as you really have.
This rule. is never departed from.
The money lost at a game of poker
',always foots up four times as much
. as the money won.
TwelVe— r When it. is inconvenient .
to avoid, paying your. debts entirely,
use, discrimination in the matter.
Debts tb persons whom you are, not
'likely to meet very often you. can
avoid. L Many players teel a delicacy
about asking for a poker debt.; these
are safe ones not to pay.
APPRENTICESHIP TO TRADES
SHOULD BE ENFORCED.
The refusal of most of .our trades
unions to perMit apprentices to be
brought into the shops and factories
they control has borne a, fruit that
should impressively teach the folly
Of attempting, to regulate wages by
making laber artificially scarce. The
collapse of our industry between
1873 and , 1879 had the effect to scat
ter skilled workmen from the manu
facturing centres. The partial sus
pension of coal mining} similarly had
the effect to diminish the mining,
population of each of the coal-pro
ducing States. any of the miners
settled'on Government land ; more of
them went. with their, tools to Colora
do and 'Utah. The sadden revival of
business this year encounters a scar
city of labor. Had boys been sys-.
tematicallytaken into our shops and
factories, as apprentices for a. term
of years, they would now be matur
ed men, skilled In trades and prepar
ed to receive their share of the pros
perity the country is entering on.
The trades unions; in . their selfish
ness,, would not suffer this reserve of
American labor to be created. The
manufacturers, in their :necessity,
have been compelled to import it.
They have sent agents to England to
select, 'skilled workmen and bring
them to this country. There is even
an importation 'of coal, iron and cop
'per miners. And the trades unions,
which would not suffer their members'
own soils' to learn their fathers! busi
ness, have the bitter satisfaction of
seeing' foreigners conic here to com
pete with them for employment in
high-priced Work„w Idle their children,
for want of mechanical' education,
are left -to the chance employment
and low pay of the unskilled laborer.
The public has an interest in this
queStion of apprenticeship quite as
great as the -
,trades unions have' if
'
not greater. . ( A; sound conditon of
thin g s requires' a balance between
production and . consumption.. The
supply of labor should be equal to
the demand for it. No barrier should
'be erected against this supply.-. It.is
the highest social duty - that boys be
trained to some useful pursuit. To
the sons of laboring men this duty is
preeminent. It the surest way of
saving them from the deadly effects
of idleness—from becoming loafers,
blackguards and 'criminals. It is
high time that the obligation of ap
prentice Ship in -all
.trades should be
recognized by the State and provided
for and enforced •by statute.- 7 .:New
York,Bun. !
Tniturs stealing rides on coal trains
complain bitterly of freight " discrimina
tions whenever they are put off the oars.
BEFORE being able, to comply with a
request to ante up, many a fine young fel
low is compelled to pay a visit to • my
uncle."
AFTER a popular politician has been
treatetinto alb the high-grade ice - c ream he
Can stow away, his rue= spiteful rivals
go and say that he his h ad a cool recep-
tion. - 4
64 CHILLS " -AND SHAKES."
Innumerable attempts have been
made to ascertain the poison that
produces malaria, and in every in
stanee until recently they-have failed.
This poison' is not coonizable_by the
senses, nor could it detected by
chemical tests. The air of malarial
districts has been analyzed, the soil
has been submitted to mieroseopical'
examination, but no light was thrown
on the subject by any investigation
that had been undertaken. It was
not difficult to describe the places
favorable to the production of the
malarial poison, or ,to prescribe the
proper medical rernedies for 'those
who are suffering from it. It was
easy to say that thee poison was gen
erated in salt and fresh water niarah
es, in wet meadows, from Vegetation
decaying under a hot sun, in lands
alternately flooded and drained, in.
the moving of earth rich in 'vegetable.
matter, and in the drying up, under
certain atmospheric conditions, of
stagnant pools. But what the poison
was that produced those remitting
and intermitting diseases which are
known the various Lames of marsh
fever, malarial fever, fever and ague,
and' popularly as " chills P• and
"shakes," no physician could explain;
At - length ; however, a series. of in
vestigations into the origin of' malaria
has' been crowned with success. Two
men of science, Signor Tommasi, of
Romc,and Professor Kleb.of Prague,
after spending three .weeks in that
fever-stricken region, , the Roman
Campagna; experimenting on its soil,
its - atmosphere and its stagnant wa
ters, " have succeeded," it is said,
"in' discovering a microscopic fun
gus which, being placed under the
skins of healthy dogs, caused distinct
and regular paroxysms of intermit
tent fever, and— produced in the
spleens of these animals that peculiar
condition which is a recognized) part
of the pathology of this disease."
The report of their
: investigations
and - experiments, and ,the success
that crowned them, .was read a short
time since in the Academy of Rome,
and if further tests substantiate the
truth of their discovery, the next
series ofexperiments
.will have for
ieir object the means whereby these
poisonous fungi may either lie des
stroyed or; rendered innocuous. It
is doubtful i wtiethei anything can lie
done in this directAon. Th h h lifacti
eable agrieu!tural remedy for drain
ing and Inning must remain, we ap
iirehend, the Only certain one. But
the discovery 'Of the source of mala
ria
in a minute fungus, discernible
only under the microscope, merits,
nevertheless the applause, With which
it has been received, and: will
strengthen very materially_the belief
irr the term theory of disease which
has found in Tyndall one of its Ablest
advocates. • •
A REMEDY FOR DIPHTHERIA
Mr Shiskin , Russian minister to
thv United States, - . writes• from the
Imperial Legation at Washington to
the :Yew •York Herald as. follows :
In view of the increase of diphthe
ria in several places of the State of
New York 1 hasten to communicate
CO you for publicity a 'very,simple
remedy, which, 'having been used in
Russia and Germany, ,may prove ef
fective her l e. Out of several others.
Dr. Letzerich, who made extensive
experiments in the application of
this remedy, has used in twenty
seven cases, eight of Which'were of a
!very serious nature, all of which had
ta favorable result except one case,
when a child died from a complica,
tion of diseases. For children of one
year he prescribes the remedy, -for
internal- use every one or two hours,
as follows': Natr. benzoic, per. 5.0
sole. in nq. distillat aq. menth, piper.
:Ina 40.0 syr. tort. aur. 10.0. -
For children from 1 to 3 years old
he Prescribdd it from seven to eight
grammes for 100 grammes of distilled
water, Wft :same syrup; for children
from - 3 to 7 ,-years old he prescribed
ten -7 to fiftert grammes, and for
grown persons'from fifteen to twenty=
tivegranimes for each 100 grammes.
Besides this he uses ,:also with
great success the iniufflation on the .
diphtherial Membrane through a glass
tube in serious cases every three
hours, in light cases three times t
day of the natr.ben;oic pulver. For.
grown peOplo he pritscribes for garg
ling a dilution of ten grammes ,of
this pulver for 200 grammes lof
Water.
The effeCt of the remedy is rapid.
After twenty-four or.thiity-six hours
the feve'rish symptomS disappear
completeli and the temperature and
pulse becOme normal. This
.remedy
was used also with the same ,success
by Dr. Brahm Braun and Piofessor
Klebs, in P,rag • Dr. Senator, in Cas
sell, and several-others in Russ a'und
Germany.
ANCEDOTE or GUIDON SALTON;
STALL.—Gurdon Saltonstall resigned
his functions as a preacher for the
office of Governor. A religious , iect
arose professing alleizience..to Christ
.only, and acknowledging no author
ity in the civil law._ Anong other
peculiarities of their creed was the
!right to contract Marriage . wittiest.
the sanction of' the civil authoritieti.
A man' named - Gorton was their
leader._ He appeared before Gover 7
nor Saltonstall one day, as hiSEi
cellency was peacefully '-Smoking his
long pipe, and announced that he
was, married to 'a women whom he
had brought .with him, and that
without the sanction.of the law. The
Governor serenely removed his pipe,
and asked, And thou art determin
ed to have this to be thy
wife?"
"I am," replied Gorton.
" And you, madam, have taken this
man for your husband ?"
."
That khave, Sir," was the prompt
reply.
" Then," exclaimed the Governor,
"by the authority and in accordance
with the laws of the State, of Con
necticut, I pronoUnce you legally
man and . wife."
" Gurdon , thou are a cunning
creature," replied. the' discomfited
Gorton.--4Azzir. W. CIIAMMEY, in
Harper's Magazine for December.
IT is a.distinguishink feature of Chris
tianity that its Gild is a God of love,
Christianity tells us that "God is Love."
This is both His nature and His name.
p \\
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THE FROST KIN.
. ..
lie went abroad laSAlght
On a lieree:and wild foray, '
And treasure's bright, lo his feeify flight,
,From the lfillaldei(bore away.
Earth - mourns to-day In gloonr— ..
yor a crushing hand was Laid • . I. •,,
On last and bloom, and rare perfume, 7 ,
- In woodland. glen and glade. . f
•
'lle tore the garlands down,
That the gtowtng autumn twined,
And hie faded crown of ruart brown '
in her golden tentple ahrtued.
Frost King, our hearts still yearn •
For the vanished summer hours,
And sadly turn from thy blackened. urn
Of
Of blighted buds and flowers.
• —Journal of Education
THE POET HORACE. '•
It is now aboutnineteen hundred
years since Horace died, and during
all the centuries that his works hive
been before a public which has in
eluded all the learning and refine
ment of every cultivated nation, no
writer any language has been so
much:read, (pi l oted, translated. and
commented upon. lle is the first of
those classic authors who become the
friend of the reader, and the friend
sliiplasts with life. Mallierbe Said
he used the epistles as his breviary . ;
Condorcet took a volume of the odes
into :the dungeon where - he died. I)e
Witt,, , When a murderous Mob burst
upon' him, repeated to his brother the
noble lines in whichAhe poet describes
the righteous and resolute man, whom
not even the fury of eitizens. , ean
shake frpm his {purpose or drive into
error. , , What is the secret of a pop
ularity Whie,htime leaves unimpaired?
How is .it that this, writer, dealing
With the tilan;:actions of a life; the
very traditions of .which are now Ob
solete; never fails to interest, CO de
light, to fascinate ? We know that
Demosthenes was the greatest orator,
Thucydides the. greatest historian,
Euripides the most tear-provoking
tragedian of antiquity, We admit
their claims, but we never read them.
School boys learn them at college,
and student's master them in after
life ; but Horace is not for us an au
thor but a friend. We read him in
our. youth, rind we return to him
When our judgment-is more mature;
and we think with kindness of the
man Who, across nearly twenty centu
ries: chats to us easily, consoles, ad
vises, amuses; whose philosophy: is
never cumbrous, whose learning is
never pedantic, whose courtly jokes
are always in season. - We yield to a
fascination which •We can scarcely
account for, but - which remains con
stant amid many changes.
One charm about him is that be is
eminently a man of- the world-,--a
man of the world and 'a gentleman.
And what, makes this so strange is
that his birth was quite ignoble. His
father had been a slave. Horace tells
us so himself. -He had been's slave
who was aivenllis freedom, and who
devoted his lifele the education: of
this only child. Horace was still:a
youth when he • took leave of the
good father whom he was never again,
to . see, anti started for Athens to
complete hs , education it its acade
my.. It is hard to realize those times
and to regard the Greek ity as a
kind oinambridge, Cicero had a
son * there, who was, perhaps, a coin;
panion of young Flacdus, and we can:
fancy the excitement that must have
been produced among the young Ro
man students when the I messenger
came in with ,the tidings of the asses
.sination of Julius Ctesar..There were
plenty of young republicans at' At h,
ens, and .the students joined the
crowd *he crowned the statues of
Brutus AO - Cassius with garlands.
How Hoe in his early manhood
espoused' the republican cause and
. fought at the battle of Phillipi and
ran away, leaving his shield_ inglori
ously behind, he has himself told us.
The party with whom he sided were
I utterly beaten ; and he was reduced.
to poverty, which- (he says) drove
him to write. But he had matte good
friends ; even Virgil, who was five
years older than he, came to his aid,
and another poet, named Varius,
Whose works have perished forever.
i f le period of want did not last long.
One day he was introduced to Me-
Cienas: With : a- delightful brevity
and . simplicity he - has described the
interview. " The day I came to see
you," he salys in one of the Satires
addressed, to his patron, ""I spoke
but little, and that nervously ; silent
shatim stopped me from saying more;
1 told no tale of an illustrious father,
but the plain truth about myself.
lott answered but little ; then nine
months afterward you Sent' fOr me
again and bid me be in the number
of your friends." :,From that . time
poverty . was unknown. f ile lived an
easy, happy, careless - lif(4 rich in the
possession of many friendships, un
touched by political change, hoSpita
ble, kindly and nc4 avaricious. With
that patroni.whose kindness had so'
opportunely rescued him from want,
'his relations remained always the
same. "iftemember Flaceus," said
Alecamaslon his death-bed to the
emperor, remember Flaccus as 'you
would Myself." The solenin,bequest
was not forgotten, but the poet did.
not long survive_ Lis pation. Isis' last
illness came so suddenly upon him
that he had not time tri make his
will. Witnesses were called in, and
the poet had just force left to name
the emperor as his heir. •lle died in
his fifty-seventh, year, and was, buried
at the end of the Esquiline Hill, close
to the tomb of Mecfenas.
His life was thus not eventful, and
most of what we know about it we
know fiom himself. No small part
of the charm of his writings is due
to their extremely personal, nature.
Like Montaigne, he is 'confidential,
even egotistical, without ever' being
a bore. The satires and epistles are
literally independent of time. Omit
tihg a very few local allusions; they
remain models of what they are in
tended to be. Take the fourth satire
of the second book. It might' have
been written yesterday. The poet
walking through the street meets a
friend who is hurrying on so gtligkly
that' he cannot stop a minute. But
Horace detains him, and asks him
where be has been ; Cities •replies
that he has - just heard a lecturpi on
cookery; and that he is tryingifiow
to learn its precepts off by heart'; he
fears lest he may foiget them Hor
ace prOposes that he should fix them
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81.00 per Annum In Advance.
in his memory by rehearsir.g..thern
then and there,. and Catitni accord
ingly commences,: "j.iet no ordinary
man lightly take to himself the, sci
ence of .dinner-parties unless _he has
first .duky considered the delicate
question of taste. Some men's genius
is poor, only. equal to the 'invention
of new pastry; whereas it is worth
while thoroughly to master the qual
ities of compound saaces."" So the
Satire runs on, till: Horace begs than
he may betaken . to see this lecturer,
that he may note - the bearing of the -
great man, "and quaff draughts of
the wisdom of Such a blessed life," •
. Another. notable characteristic Of
the — poet is his appreciation of - the
country. He has the acct of a land
scape -painter in - describing' a land
scape. There' al ways comes some
lappy, forcible,, adjective that puts
the scene . locally 'and individually
before yo u. Ile.turris away from the
overgrown city, mid takes his holi
day among the vines and olive trees
of the Sabine farce. Few letters have
ever been penned more delightful
than that. in which the poet; writing
to his country steward, complains of
town. life, •and longs to be back.
among the • fields . and the. - woods.
These epistles have a wonderfid ease
and simplicity. They read as if they
were mere letters, and .not, studied
literary productions. Fope imitated
k t lorace,:but the labor Of the file is to
be ttraeed on-every.polished line,. and
his satires smell of Midnight. oie
'Horace is alWays simple and natural.
His friend; Bulletins, is traveling in
lona. Hies ever such a gossiping,
pleaaant_ letter written by a stay.at
honieJo same acqn - aintanee Wander
ing about in his travels? . He asks ',
him how he likes the different places,
and hVw they compare with the field
of Mars and.:the stream of Tiber.
Hp is .glad to know all the newshis
correspondent can tell him, but. he
has something to say himself, and he
l l
keeps it • for-the end of the letter.
Busy idleness; he ,says, is the vice of
the day. It is with ships and chari
ots that people seek . to live pleasant
lives, and yet it is reason and discrd-
tion that take away our Jarcs and
not a spot that commands a wide ex
panse of sea. 'Tis the- sky and not
the wind they change who "Speed
across the sea: If the satire on cook
ery seems applicable todle very-year
we jive in, is'not thiS hint to the rest
less thillatine as appropriate in an
age of tourist agencies and a feVerish
restlessness for travel ? The touch
of
.nature is upon everything that.
Horace has left behind, and so :.in
every century his works find kinship
with -every cultivated people.
White birch is largely used in'this
manufacture, and as extensive fores 4
of this wood grow throughout; thd
State of Maine, Canada and the Pro
vinces, many: spool factories are- lo
cated in those sections in order-that
supplies of material may be easily
procured. - •The.wood, after being de--
livered to-the factories, is sawed
into pieces about four feet long and
from an inch to an inch_ and - a half
square, according to the siie of. the
spool it is required to' makea These
,pieces 'are- pat into-a dry 'house , and
thoroughly. dried, from whence they
are taken into the factory' and 'given
to the " roughers," who, in an inre
dibly,short spaCe of time, bore a hole
in the centre a couple of -inches deep,
turn about- the same space round,
'and cut off the length required for a
spool.' The Machines used for this
purpose are revolving planers, in the
centre of which-is revolving gimlet,
or bit, and immediately to .the right
a small circular saw with a gauge
set. to the proper size of the
.spools.
The "roughers" receive a cent and
a half per gross for thefr -work, - and
experienced men can turn out froin
100 to 130 gross per day. The round .
blocks pass from them to the "finish
ers," who place Ahem * in machines
which give them the shape of spools,
and :make them quite smooth. - A
man. stands with his left hand on a.
smalllever, And with the right places
the blocks, one . 'at a time, in- the
lathe, then draws the-leVer to him for
an instant and the work is done; the
lever is puShed back and the spools
drop docin into a box belol, while j
the right hand is ready with, another
block. These blocks are handled at
the rate of twenty-five to thirty per
minute.' The " finishers" also re
ceive.a tent and a half per gross, and
they can each turn out from 100 to ,
139 gross per day. _ The spools are
then thrown loosely-into a. large cy
linder; which revolves'slotvly so that
-the spools are -polished by the coif
stant -rubbing upon each other for
some time. .On being taken ottt7of
the cylinder they are placed UP a
hopper with an, opening at the ha
t* through which they pass down
a, slide forinspection. Here the in
sPector sits. and watches . closely to
see that no imperfect spools are 'al
loWed.to pass, and a very small knot
or'scratch is - suflicient .to condemn
them.' The spools then pass into the
hands, of the packers, who handle
them very liVely. They are packed
into large boxes made - the proper
size, so that layers of 'spools -exactly
the box, with no additional pack
ing, and a smart boy who is accus
tomel to the work can pack about
209-gross per day.
Of Mrs. -Lincoln, the mother of
the President, an . old neighbor once
said to a correspondent of The
Gazelle,• of Cincinnati: , " recol
lection of Mrs. Lincoln is that she
was, in thelater years of her life, an
invalid, and underwent great puysic
al suffering as a result ot the priva
tions and 'exposure she was compell
ed to undergo in her pioneer life.
But she was always gentle, alwaya
kind. She had a Sweet• expression of
countenance, though her face bore
'thp lines of great physical suffering.
She was far more energetic than her
husband, and was gifted with a great
relish for the humorous and a keen
appreciation of the ludicrous. She
used occasionally to scold her hus
band, but he paid little attention to
chirping' as he styled her com
plaints, at_his want of activity."
.Tnis. life may be, as stern moralists
say, all a fleeting show • tut a show
from which deadhead s are rigidly_ _ea
eluded.
NUMBER 28
ABOUT SPOOLS
FUN, PACT AND FACETEM.
- , ;
Mee; 'bpi never tell-not even to tele.
A znonoucueurar horse is the flout Of
the stable.. -
• . •
- Ax old trunk may bey utilized an a new
departure. • •
• Tor, t•eseWork in tlie world to do is to
do your duty. • •
TirE alphabetical parts of a man's anat
omy are the -
Ayes is not urisered when he is com
pelled to sally forth. -
A 'MISER never knows the value of a
dollar until he urns it. •
" The early bird gets the worm ;" but
a gaudy apple gets it also.
Too much sojourning in
_a bar-room is
often bar to preferment.. - ' •
I
I Ev - rra pious people rejoice when all ;of -
otur industriesare in 'full blast. _! • -
Tae most skillful bar-tender cannot
make a " sling" - of a cotton gin.
ETERNAL vigilance . is the ice of liber
ty ; and ash half rates for chi t Oren.
A pc IXITI.OS clergyman' in quest of a
church is engaged in t steeple-chase. .
Those are eve the most aceepta.-.
ble which the giver qtas made precious. ,
Give, if thOuicatist,"an-alms; if not af
ford. instead of thai, a sweet and: gentle
word.
Wnr:sr COViltEit sighed for a lodge in
some vast wilderness, he wanted a grand
lodgei : •
THE squeeze of the printing press 'may
juidly be styled a close embrace or knoiorl
edge. •
exiibit too greata familiarity
with tile new acquaintance ; you - may give
offence. •
_ WHAT HI to be the 'really suce.esiful
electric light is about as - slippery as the
electric eel. ."
THE Mimi bath not reason to remember
that passions ought to be her vassals,
her masters.
•
Ar.t, virtue lid in a power. of denying
onr own &sires when season does not au
thorize Mai.'
.
.AN emperor in might-dap will
: not
meet With half the respect of an emperor
with a crown.
ExTnEssiox of more cousequermo
than shape—it will light up featmes oth
erwise teavy.
II t3.tou, • warm and .all-embracing as the
sunshine bathes its. objects in a. genial'
abiding light..
AT the
-last of eartli;. what boOts it how
handsome and popular _the departing
grim has ,been ;' I
.-Tiit.oys'eris a ,Refoinier. That's why
he does businesi:only-iu the - months with
.
an "r" in them.
PkorLE do not reflect that. they may
sm,ii die. If they did their quarrels would
quickly terminate. -
Gt.:NEßALtz.vrtoN - and great self- eon
eot are always preparing. the .Most la
mentable mishaps:
TiiEnv are exceptiOns to every ruld.
Surgeons are not requirid to atupatate
the limbs of trees. _ • -
THEY who laugh last are those who are
too thickheaded to appreciate a brilliant
joke at its first flash.
.•
TIIEY called the ohl man a "rattling"
good talkbr because his teeth were loose.
—Keokuk •Constitittion. .
ORDINAtir apprehensiim. or a correct
view• of human affairs, 4,the general heir
loom of common sense.--
.Tice circus that gives. the most dead
head tickets is the gratis show. on earth.
AT present us , :reniove what is bad ;
which" must always be done befo - re good
of any hind can spring.
Ns ER neglect to perform the 6ommis
mission ' nilich the friend entrusted .to
you. Yoti'''must not forget.
• PkRISEVERING mediocrity is much more
respectable=', and of unspeakably more use
than talented inconstancy..
31 ax are-often more guilty-of treachery
from weakness of Character than front
any settled design to betray.
Eva ate the fatal apple under the im-.
lii-ession that she *as sampling an ingre
thent( for pies and dumpling's.
_ -
THE universe is bet one skeet city, full
of belOved ones, divine and human, by
nature endeared to each-.other. , -
. _
IF lightning-cOoduotors-had the power
of speech they would f-ay ".Have your '
tickets ready, or go'to thunder !" I
. A 3i.5.S embarking in an important en
terpriie should assure hiniself that he is
not going to. bark up a wrong tree.
ThERE are many manifestations of
God's-love in Nature and providence, but
th_e greatest of all is in ChriSthis Son..
.Covvrots men need. , mondi_leaiit, yet
they roost affect it ; but prodigals, who
need it.most, hall the least regard for it.
every inam sweep the snow from
before his own doors, and not busy him
self about - the frofit on WS - neighbor s tiles.
TO ho vain-of wliatloii have learned is
the same as to plume yourself _on a piece
f of game you have yeeived from a bunter.
WE respectful) yi suggek to England
that she release Citywayo, providing that
he will.give bonds not to enter the lecture
. .
Tim greater th 4 diflipulty, the more
glory in surmounting it Skillful Skillful
_pilots
gain their
.ieputation from-,storms and•
tempests. " "
"By their fruits shall ye know them," ,
was writtewhefore the small boy carried
home" - appies in the legs"of his trowser:4.—
Nem York Exprent. - : •
Urox a modest gravesiton& in" Viacom
rtes cemetery appears the- plaintive le- .
gend : " His neigh4rplayed the cornet."
—St. L4IIIN Times-Journal,
• YouNo ladies in maiden - meditatihn
fancy free are forming walking' clubs_: in -
prder.to more effectually walk into the
affectiins of.eligible young men. _
Tn.tr plenty , - shinild produce either c 6--
vetousness or prodUrdityls a perversion
of providence, and yet the generality of
men are the worse fortheir riches.
WriARP-u.vrs that is tp sag,- the
tramps of the ri,ver4tont—after they have
gone Wrinw, lite better men, are
.not al
ways tried he a jury of their - piers.
. 'Shakspeare's time the jolly- itoys
said -: "-I'll be with you straight !" Now
adays the? ob , erve : "Just--wait until, I
go around the corner arailsee a nian!"
"lit-oomby alicar," is the title of an'
article in.a recent number of the Buffalo
Every Safurdag. That 'is nothing - but
what a great many women experience.
• Lt FE is short and fast horses are fleet
ing ; and our hearts, though stout and
brave, fail us when we go to beat heavily
on a mag.that has no more pedigree than
a grave. -
THERE is no greater sign of a mean and
sordid_ man than to dote upon riches ; nor
is anything more magnificent than to lay
them out freely in acts of bounty and lib:'
erality. • - • ,
kr. is because prize pedestrianism is an
athletic sport that the champion six-days' •
walkers are allowed to go as they please.
Men moving on • tick always claim and
take that privilege anyhow.
Tim surest method against scandal, is
to live it down by perseverance in 'well
doing, -and by prayer to God, that •he .
-would cuffs-the distempered mind of those
who traduce and injure -us.
woman dusts:billiard chalk off
her husband's coat,-and a big tear stands
in • her eye as she thinks.how
.late ho
works nights at his desk p the white
washed.wall.—New TorkiPeopk.
ItExt.tnas an accomplished fashion-wri
ter; "The sailor hats are becoming to
almost every feminine face." Are we to•
infer from this that the bright - eyes of
dear Woman are nothing more than, tarry
toplights? . - .
IT is related that an ass once talked
like- a man, and the people- wondered
greatly thereat. Now thousands-of men
are continually talking like asses, and
nothing is thought of it. - Civilization is
a wonderful educator !
' THE terrible temptation of the glass in
tlio sashes of the windows of tenantless
factories first fascinates the boy. lie inns&
indulge in the delicious pastime of smash
ing, then), even if it costs him a sound
thrashing. Later in life lie swallows the
smashes andthreatens to', thrash the po
licemara
" Ci.x you see the whole of me?" ask
ed a fellow, who wanted an entire view
of the photographer.
- "Ohl yes, sir !" was the reply ; "lean
see scarcely_ anything else except the hole.
You bad better close it."
The fellow instantly shat his mouth.—
New Rochelle Press.