HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
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KIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA.', THUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1878.
NO. 40.
VOL. V III.
' Indirertlon.
The author of the following verses recently
terminated an eventful and stormy career by
committing suicide in Ban Francisco. He was
in turn poet, soldier and journalist.
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their
subtle suggestion is fairer j
Bare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the secret
that clasps it is rarer t
Sweet the exultanoe.of song, but the strain
that preoedes it is sweeter
And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning
outmaetered the meter.
Never a daisy that grows, but a myBtery guideth
the growing;
Never a river that flows, hut a majesty scepters
the flowing ,
Never a Shakepeare that soared, but a stronger
than he did enfold him ;
Nor ever a prophot fortells, but a mightier seer
hath fortold him.
Back of the oanvas that throbs the painter is
hinted and hidden ;
Into the statue that breathes the soul of the
sculptor is bidden ;
Under the Joy that is felt lie the Infinite Issues
.of feeling ;
Crowning the glory revealed is the glory that
crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols of being, but that which
is symboled is greater ;
Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the
inward oreator ;
. Back of the sound broods the silence, back of
the gift stands the glviDg,
Back of the band that receives thrill the sensi
tive nerves of receiving.
Spacs is as nothing to spirit, the deed is out
done by the doing (
The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer
the heart of the wooing ;
And up from the pits where tbeee shiver, and
up from the heights where those shine,
Twin voices and thadows swim starward, and
the essence of life is divine.
liichnrd Uealf, in Atlantic Monthly.
THE FARM HAND.
She was on the front stoop, mending
Farmer Thornley's stockings, when
Baxter, (be Dew farm band, came and
sat down on the rude seat by the door.
and hnng his palm-leaf hat npon his
Knee, ana took ins pipe irom nis month.
' Do you mind the pipe?" he asked.
Polly looked up in surprise ; none of
the farm hands had ever consulted her
on the subject before ; even Mr. Thorn
ley himself smoked and smoked without
a dream of asking her permission ; that
is, whenever Miss Hannah was not near
to reproach him with turning their sub
stance into smoke,
" Mind the pipe !" returned Polly.
" No ; I like it better than Mr. Thorn
ley's." '
' There's a difference in tobacco."
Polly, not being'posted in the merits of
the staple, dropped the subject, and the
frogs filled the interval with melodious
pipings.
"What are you thinking about?"
asked Baxter, as she delayed her needle
ana meditated.
"I I was thinking that Mr. Thorn
ley's hand would make two of yours.
You weren't cut out for hard labor, Mr.
Baxter."
" But the hard labor was cut out for
me, eh ? Its a mighty flue night, Miss
Polly. Wouldn't you like to walk
down by the brook and find some vio
lets?" "Yes; but Miss Hannah may want
me."
"Miss Hannah has put on her specta
cles and gone to borrow Neighbor Hook
er's newspaper, and Thornley is steal
ing a smoke in the orchard. It's as
good ns a play to see him tuck his pipe
into bis pocket, at the risk of setting
himself on fire, whenever ho liears a
footstep." And then the two young pe.o-
fde strolled off to the brook, and
istened to a whip-poor-will making pen
sive rausio in the edge of the woods, and
watched the evening star push the filmy
clouds asido and step forth.
Young Baxter had been on the Thorn
ley farm a month or so. He happened
one day to knock at the door and ask for
a night's lodging ; he had a small bag
slung across his shoulder, and a sun
burned countenance, which quickened
Miss Hannah's pulses. "A tramp 1"
said she. "Good gracious, Polly, shut
the door quick ! No, no, we don t take
lodgers. We'll be murdered in onr
beds and the spoons my grandfather
left mo 1 Didn't I tell yon to shut the
door, Polly ? No, we don't take folks
in ; you'll find 'comraodation further
down the road, at Hooker's or " But
just then Mr. Thornley came up, cau
tiously knocked the mud off his boots,
and said :
" A tramp, Polly ?"
" I've been tramping some distance,"
said the stranger, with a frank smile,
" and I'd like to put up for the night
somewhere. However, if your family's
uncomfortable at the idea, maybe you'd
lot mo sleep in the haymow ?"
"The impudence !" cried Miss Han
nah, from within. "That would be
mightv handy for him to make off with
Light foot and the colt, wouldn't it,
now ? Where's your wits, Hiram ? Why
don't you say No,' up and down ?"
" As to that," drawled Thornley, " a
fellow must sleep somewhere ; and then
I s'pose you wouldn't mind working it
out in the morniug, eh ?" with an eye
to the main chanoe. " I've got some
plowing I'd like done right off."
" I'll drivo your plow for a night's
lodging, and thanks," returned Baxter ;
"or mend your fences, or repair yonr
clocks. I'm not above earning an honest
penny."
" Lor', if he's willing to lend a hand,"
capitulated Miss Hannah, "I'd give
him an attic chamber and welcome. He
ain't near so rough-looking as I
thought," she confided to Polly, later.
"He's got an honest face and handy
fingers, if he is forty tramps."
Baxter showed himself so ready on
he morrow. Farmer ThnrnlAv
ed he should spend another day in his
employ, and then the work in hand ran
over into the following day, and as no
body .could finish it so well as Baxter
he naturally staid on and on, till, at the
end of the week, Thornley admitted,
I! MftyHe 7??, goo,i haQd as I'd get
f I waited till Christmas ; perhaps you'd
like steady work for the iumrner. with
board ftndT wages?" r' wuu
"You wouldn't be likely to do bet
ter," put in Hannah, " with no recom
mendation you see though I don't say
you need one."
' Thank you.; And what do you say?"
he asked, turning to Polly.
"If Why, I" faltered Polly.
" Polly hasn't nothing to say about
it," objected Hannah. " Me and Hiram
runs this concern."
" Then she's the first woman that
hasn't nothing to say. Speak up, Polly,"
commanded Farmer Thornley. " Don't
never leave a sentence to loose ends."
" I was going to say that four makes
a cozy family.
"Two's company, and three's a
crowd, eh, Polly"?" said Thornley, with
a laugh. And Baxter staid.
" ' What makes the lamb love Mary
so ?' " he quoted, as they wended home
ward, Polly's little ewe lamb, frisking
before them, having joined them in the
pastures.
" Why, you know," explained Polly,
" her mother disowned her, and she was
left shivering and hungry out in the
cold. And 1 brought Her in and warmea
her before the kitchen fire, and fed her
with warm milk, till she grew and
throve." ,
"And Thornley gave her to you ?"
" No : but he said. Seems as though
she belonged to Polly.' But Miss Han
nah didn t like it. Mil en 1 s pose the
dishes belong to Polly, 'cause she
washes 'em, and the rooms, 'cause she
sweeps em, and the beds she mokes I
she said. Isn't Polly paid her lawful
wages for doing whatever her hands
find to do, be it to cosset lambs or cook
the vituals ?' "
" Have yon always lived here, Miss
Polly ?" asked Baxter.
"I have always lived in this house,
but not always as a servant, Mr. Baxter.
This was the old parsonage ; my uncle
lived here, with little or no salary. He
didn't care for that ; he came here to do
good, to show the people the road to
heaven there was no church then, for
miles around and he had money of his
own. My mother and I came with him,
and after she died we two lived on here
together, and he taught me all I know
it isn't much. But when I was fif
teen, he came home one day from the
city, where he had gone on business,
and told me that some wicked people
had ruined him, that his good work was
ended ; and he threw bis head back,
sitting in his arm-chair, and gasped
once or twice, and I was all alone quite,
quite alone. After that people came
and looked at the place, and the Thorn
leys among them ; and I was a little
moping beggar, not knowing whioh way
to turn, and the Thorn leys offered to
keep me for maid-of-all-work for food
and clothing. There was nothing else
for me to do, and the neighbors all said
it was a providence ; but since then I
have struck for higher wages, and now
C have day-dreams ; when I get enough
money I mean to go away to school,
even if I'm as old as the hills, and then
maybe I can do something nicer than to
churn and cook for my daily bread. "
" And you have saved something ? '
" A hundred dollars already."
Baxter smiled. "And when do you
expect to hav6 enough to set out and
seek your fortune?"
"Do you think it will take very
long t sue asKea, anxiously. Btiau 1
be too old?"
"I should think not," he returned,
still smiling to himself.
This was not the first walk Baxter
and Polly had taken together, neither
was tnis tne last confluence reposed in
each other.
" You two do seem to have an ever
lasting lot of talk together," commented
Hannah, "and Polly ain't no talker
neither; and what's queer, you always
come to a lull stop when a body catches
up to you." She had just overtaken
tbem on the highway, as it happened,
though usually MiBS Hannah's inter
ruptions were not owina to chance.
No sooner did she see them strolling off
togeiuer alter woi-k was over than she
slipped out the sink-room door with un
dignified haste, took a short-cut through
the woods, and joined them as if she
were returning fronia neighbor's.
" You'd onghter not to take to tramp
ing round the country so much with
Baxter," she advised Polly on one occa
sion; "folks will begin to talk about
yon."
"Talk about me? What can they
say ?" asked Polly.
"They'll say Baxter's making a fool
of you and they won't be far wrong."
" Why soould he wish to make a fool
of me " persisted Polly, the tears gather
ing in her eyes. " Why should he take
the trouble?"
"It ain't no trouble it's amusing.
You're an easy victim, I reckon."
After that Polly made an excuse when
Baxter wished leave to go with her on
an errand, or begged her to step outside
on fine twilights and. listen to the whip-poor-wills;
she had always a stint to
finish, the bread to mix, the milk to set,
or some homely duty to detain her. An
older woman than Polly would have seen
that Miss Hannah herself had set her
heart upon Baxter, followed him about
like his shadow, courted him with sweet
meats, and flattered him within on inch
of his life. " Baxter's that 'cute about
a place, its a pity he wasn't born twins."
sue unei to ueciare.
"Though he be a tramp," Thornley
would add.
But it was love's labor lost. Her flat
teries fell upon unheeding ears, as she
was not slow to discover. By painful
degrees her keen eyes took in the situa
tion, and her emotions changed, as the
case became hopeless, from love to
hatred; she seemed to echo the poet's
assertion :
" To love you was pleasant enough,
But, oh I 'tis delicious to hate you 1"
Neither Was Pollv'n ATiRUnna naln
more aereeable iust at thin Um h.
nah's amusement was to thwart Baxter
in his love-making, to send him a wild
goose chase of a mile or two in the wrong
... , vv vuv Duuuiuuilg-UIUUAB ill Ula
way. But she did not stop here: she
L 1 L - nil i . , ; . .
BuggtmbBu u xuormey s stow mind tne
possibility of an elopement, of duty
neglected "along of spooning npon
" Do we know anything about Bax
ter 1 Did he have a recommendation ?"
she darkly insinuated. " Didn't I cau
tion you against taking him in ? If yon
lose anything through him and Polly,
don't lay it to my door, thafp U f " i
" Him and Polly I" gasped Thornley.
" Baxter I"
Hannah had hit the mark at last.
Blessings brighten as they take their
flight. Polly might have lived at Thorn
ley farm for a century, and Thornley
never have found out that she was dearer
to him than Hannah, till some one else
should threaten to claim her. After that
Baxter could do nothing to please him;
he lay in wait and watched the lovers as
a cat watches a mouse, and worried them
as cruelly.
One evening Miss Hannah entered
the room where Polly was sitting in the
twilight.
"Plotting misohief, I reckon," she
said. " Are you fond of darkness, Pol
ly, 'cause your deeds are evil ? Strike
a" light, girl. I'd a roll of crisp bank
bills in my hand an hour ago Square
Emery paid his butter bill this after
noon; I put 'em in my gown pocket
when Hiram called me to turn the grin'-stone-r-and
they're gone 1 Now you
needn't tell me they're gone without
hands."
"There's been no pickpocket here,
Miss Hannah."
" Ain't there ? When you take folks
in out of the highway, without no re
commendation, how do you know what
their habits is? To be sure, I didn't
suspect no one of haying stole 'em out
of my pocket; there's a hole in it; I'd
forgot about; and naturally them bills
must have dropped out between here
and the barn; but Hiram and me has
hunted the place over and again, and it
Btands to reason they couldn't have trav
eled further without hands.'
" Mercy 1" cried Polly. " How much
was there?"
"A whole hundred dollars, miss; and
if it ain't forthcoming, somebody'll
smart for it."
" You don't think that I took your
money, Miss Hannah t"
"Well, maybe not; but it's gone
and there's Baxter."
" Baxter !"
"Yes, indeed. What do you or I
know about the fellow ?"
"I know he wouldn't do it."
"He'll have to prove it. I'll have
him up before the court, as sure as you
live."
Polly could hardly keep her anger
from flaming into audacious words ; the
bare suspicion was a blow to her ; she
believed in Baxter thoroughly ; though
an angel had accused him, yet would
she have upheld him. But how often
has the innocent suffered I how often
has injustice triumphed over justice 1
To be suspected merely was an irrepara
ble injury, she thought. Baxter might
lose his good name, his work ; might be
sent to prison everything might go
against him, and he had nobody but her
for defense. As it happened, he had
gone down to the village to get the mail
and do some chores, and while Hannah
iuveighed and Polly defended, a Bmall
boy knocked at the door to bring the
pleasing news that "Mr. Baxter, the
fellow as works for old Thornley, give me
i quarter to run up and let you know
he wouldn't be home to-night, and may
be not to-morrow neither, as he'd been
called away sudding like along of a
letter."
"There!" ejaculated Hannah, "I
hope you're convinced. He'sabsoonded.
m have the law after him sure as his
name's Baxter, which I dare say it
ain't."
"Were your bills new greenbacks ?
and did you take the numbers ?" asked
Polly.
"Crisp and fresh as new cabbage
leaves ; and as for the numbers, they
were fives and tens just as it hap
pened." " We must have another good search
before yon accuse any one."
" Only them that hides can find."
And Polly spared no pains ; every
minute that she could secure from her
duties was spent in the search ; but
when the second night and day passed
without bringing Baxter, or any tidings
from him, her heart sank beneath the
weight of Miss Hannah's words ; not
that she doubted him for an instant, but
the suspicion might keep him away, and
she might never see his face again.
There was now but one thing to do, and
she did it. She begged leave of Miss
Hannah to go to the town and mail a
letter.
" Lor', Hiram'll mail it for you," said
Hannah, intent upon mastering its con
tents first. But Polly was firm in the
matter ; the letter was too precious to
trust to another. It ran :
"Mb. Baxter If you are staying
away from your work and losing wages
because you are suspected of finding
Miss Hannah's money, which she lost
the day you left, please return at once,
ns money has been found, and your good
name is restored, though never suspect
ed by your friend,
"Pauline Powers."
But her object in town was not merely
to mail this document ; she went direct
from the postoflice to the bank where
her little hoard was growing, and drew
out a hundred dollars in crisp green
backs, fives and tens, trusting that they
mado no larger parcel than Miss Han
nah's ; then she retraced her steps
homeward, and quietly dropped the
precious roll on the floor of Miss Han
nah's closet, where it might easily have
been overlooked after falling from the
rent in her pocket ; she wisely con
jeotured that the next day being Friday,
Miss Hannah would bring it to light
with her broom.
" What's all this about Miss Han
nah's money and my good name ?" asked
Baxter, when he returned on Saturday
and found opportunity to speak to Polly
privately. Polly related the facts, leav
ing out her own share in the results.
" And where was the money found ?"
"Miss Hannah found it on sweeping
day on the floor of her closet," demurely.
"And who put it there, Polly f "
" Who ? Why, she says it must have
dropped there when she hung up her
gown."
"Poor deluded Miss Hannah I How
long since yon learned to prevarioate so
prettily, Polly !" L .
"If- Prevaricate I What do you
mean, Mr. Baxter ?"
"I mean that you drew the money
from your bank store yesterday to save
my good name Polly. Don't deny it.
The cashier told me he had some curi
osity about it If yoo a do mu
for my good name, how muob would
you, 4Q for the owner ? There i a r,d
die for von." Polly hung her head and
blushed. "And so you've abandoned
the idea of an education, Polly?"
"I don't know. I'm so sorry yon
found it ont ; yon will think that .1"
" I shall think that yon love me well
enough to be my wife, Polly, dear."
And Polly failed to put in an objection.
" Didn't I tell you how it would be,
Hiram?" said Hannah, at dinner, the
following week. "Here's Baxter and
Polly, they stepped down to town this
morning on an errand together, and
came driving back like the great mo
gul, whoever he was, on their wedding
tour, to say good-bye. I blowed the
dinner- horn for yon like the last trump,
thinkin that'd fetoh you, if any thing,
but I reckon you're getting deef."
" Well, I never I" cried Hiram, aghast.
" But it ain't no use crying over spilt
milk."
As Baxter and .his bride drove
along, " the flowery by-roads through,"
towards the railway station, "I've
a pretty story to tell you, my love,"
he said, "which I', hope you will
be glad to hear a true story. There
was once a young man who, being rich
and strong, and tired of fashionable life
and conventionalities, undertook a walk
ing tour through the mountains' and
valleys of New Hampshire for a summer's
vacation or recreation, camping out at
night in the green woods, buying his
daily bread at farm-houses by the way, or
broiling his wild game by a brush-wood
fire, as fortune favored him, wearing his
old clothes, and getting bronzed and.
weather- stained on the route. One ni ght
he asked for lodgings at a certain farm
house door, as it threatened rain, and he
had a mind to try the luxury of a bed in
doors. A y oun g girl opened the door for
him, spread the table, made the bed, and
stole his heart; and the next week, when
the farmer offered him a season s form -work,
being short of hands, he promptly
accepted the situation, having a fancy
for adventurous living and the young
girl aforesaid."
" Mr. Baxter," said Polly, " what do
you mean ?"
" It's a true story, Polly."
" Do you mean that you oh, John 1
that you are not that you are the young
man, that the farmer is Mr. Thornley,
and an ignorant girl like me your wife ?
Oh, John, how could you be so foolish ?
How could you deceive me so ?"
" It was all ' for love and the world
well lost,' " said Baxter, proudly.
"There's that hundred dollars," said
Miss Hannah, the next year, when she
lay ill. " I put it direct into the bank.
Give it to Polly, if if anything happens
to me, though she doesn't need it, good
ness knows a-trapesing off to Europe.
You needn't tell her, but I confess I was
a little confused when I found them
greenbacks on my closet floor, seeing
that I hadn't lost a red cent myself.
Harper's Bazar.
Words of Wisdom.
Hatred is blind as well as love.
Man is more than constitutions.
The greatest pleasure of life is love
Light cares speak, great ones are
dumb.
Hate no one hate their vices not
themselves.
Approve thy friend privately, com
mend him publioly.
Great souls invite calamity, as lofty
mountains the thunder clouds.
Men's evil manners live in brass ;
their virtues we write in water.
Take the tone of the company you are
in, and never pretend to give it.
To be a great man it is necessary to
turn to account all opportunities.
Truth often displeases a lively soul,
but it always persuades a just mind.
Men seldom improve when they have
no other models than themselves to
copy after.
A man can do without his own appro
bation in much society, but must make
great exertions to gain it when he lives
alone.
It is common for men to err ; but it i
only a fool that perseveres in his error ;
a wise man, therefore, alters his opinion ;
a fool never.
Everything may be mimicked by hy
pocrisy, but humility and love united.
The more rare, the more radiant when
they meet.
The great mistake in many of the
plans for reorganizing society consists
in supposing that systems can supply the
want oi sense.
Wouldst with thyself be acquainted.
then see what others are doing. But
wouldst thou understand others, look
into mine own neart.
A friendship that makes the least noise
is very often the most useful : for
which reason one should prefer a prudent
ineiiu to a zeaious one.
A Professional Tiger-Slayer.
D'Harnanoonrl, the great professional
tiger-slayer, who is employed by Great
rsritain, tnrougu me government ot
Singapore, to exercise his specialty, is a
native of the United States, though of
French extraction. His father having
been taken prisoner while with Napo
leon in the Moscow campaign, was sent
to Siberia, whence he escaped, and
came to this country. The son was
born on the plains of the far West, and
early became a hunter, ranging in search
of game ever an immense territory.
Desirous to see the world, he went to
sea ; was wrecked off Formosa, and
badly treated by the natives of that
island. An English captain induced
him to visit Singapore, where he got
his engagement, his price being $50 per
head for tigers. D'JQarnancourt is sav
ing money to go to Algeria, where he
will be under French authority, and
where he can kill lions instead of tigers,
as he covets the fame of a lion-slayer,
and is desirous to rival Girard. The
American Gaul is said to be not only
fearless, but reckless, and has had many
desperate encounters, from which good
luck alone has delivered him. He is in
clined to intemperance also, and it is
not unlikely that some tiger will ere
long hunt him with fatal success, and
save him the trouble of a journey to
Africa.-
There is a class whom beggars can't
put up with ; they are hotel k.et,pf ri,
TIMELY TOPICS.
Ex-Gov. John P. Hoyt, of Arizona,
says that the fears that the Mormons are
taking possession of that Territory are
rather premature.
Germany turns out annually five hun
dred and fifty dootors thoroughly edu
cated, about one hundred of whom im
migrate to foreign parts.
A farmer of Beno county, Kan., com
ing across a rattlesnake, tied his reins
in a bunch and killed it therewith.
Subsequently he untied the knot with
his teeth, and the poison thus got into
his system and drove him mad.
The riding of bycicles, the modern
development of the old velocipede, trans
planted from England twelve months
ago, has taken a firm root in the cities
and towns of New England, and threat
ens in a short time to spread its in
fluence all over the country.
Mrs. Diana Haines was made insane
in Mount Gilead, Ohio, by a false re
port that she was an heiress to $100,000,
the sudden elation and disappointment
unbalancing her reason. She tried to
commit suicide and was sent to an
asylum. Lately $700,000 was really be
queathed to her.bnt she will not believe
it.
California, like many other parts of
the country, is suffering from an excess
of railways. The San Francisco Alta says
that so many railways have been built in
California, and they have advanced so
far beyond the demands of business or
the probability of any large profit, that
the future construction must be slow.
Out of 2,000 miles, at least 1,000 do not
pay six per cent, on the cost. Long
stretches have been built with the
expectation that they would be unprofit
able, one motive being to increase the
trade of other roads already built.
Twice already had the marriage of a
young doctor and a rich belle of Mount
Sterling, 111., been postponed, when the
cards were issued for a grand wedding
party. The feast was set, the guests
were met, but no bridegroom was there.
The young lady went out to seek him,
and found him at his room dead-drunk.
Going to the railroad station she took
the first train that passed, gave the
conductor a ring to pay her fare, left the
cars at Macomb, and: was only found
next day by her father and the sober
and repentant lover. He was anxious
to marry her at once, but she refused
ever to speak to him again .
On the Cooper lane, about a mile or
so north of Stockton, Gal., there lives
an industrious Italian on an even acre
of ground lying in triangular shape be
tween the road and the railroad at the
crossing point. He has a wife and five
children, whom he supports in com
fort from the product of his garden.
The little farm is planted with trees.
vines and vegetables, and is thoronghl y"f
well tilled, occasion ally he plants an
early crop on the railroad right of way
adjoining, which remains undisturbed
until the plow of the fire protectors
comes along. But this instance iB a
good illustration of " a little farm well
tilled."
Poisons and Antidotes.
The following list gives some of the
more common poisons and the remedies
most likely to be at hand in the case of
need. The directions may be old, but
in case you get a good strong dose of
poison down, you will not object to a
cure on account of its age :
Acids. These cause great heat and
sensation of burning pain from the
mouth down to the stomach. Bemedies,
magnesia, soda, pearl-ash or soap dis
solved in water ; then use the stomach
pump or emetic.
- Alkalies. BJst remedy is vinegar.
Ammonia. Remedy, lemon juice or
vinegar
Alcohol. First cleanse ont the stom
ach by an emetic, and then dash cold
water on the head and give ammonia
(spirits of hartshorn.)
Arsenic. In the first place evacuate
the stomach, then give the white of
eggs, lime water, or chalk and water,
charcoal and the preparations of iron,
particularly hydrate.
Lead, white lead or sugar of lead.
Remedies, alum, cathartio, such as cas
tor oil and epsom salts especially.
Charcoal. In poisons by carbonic acid
gas, remove the patient to open air.
aasn com water on tne head and body,
and stimulate nostrils and luntrs bv
hartshorn, at the same time rubbing the
cnest Driskiy.
Corrosive sublimate. Give white of
eggs, freshly mixed with water, or give
wheat flour and water, or soap and
water freely.
Creosote. White of eggs and the
emetics.
Belladonna night henbane. Give
emetics, and then plenty of water and
vinegar, -r lemonade.
Mushrooms, when poisonous. Give
emetics, and then plenty of vinegar and
water, with doses of ether, if handy.
Nitrate of silver (lunar caustic). Give
a strong solution of common salt, and
At A-
iueu emetics.
Snake bites, etc. Apply immediately
strong hartshorn, and take it internally;
also give sweet oil and stimulants
freely; apply a ligature right above the
part bitten, and then apply a cupping
glass. Tartar emetic Give large doses of
tea made of galls, Peruvian bark or
white oak bark.
Verdigris. Plenty of white of eggs
uim water.
White vitriol. Give the patient plenty
of milk and water.
Opinm. First give a strong emetio of
mustard and water, then strong coffee
and aoid drinks; dash cold water on the
head,
Nux vomica. First emetics, then
brandy.
.- Oxalio acid (frequently mistaken for
epsom salts). Remedies, chalk, mag
nesia, or soap and water and other
soothing drinks.
Prnssio acid. When there is time,
administer chlorine in the shape of soda
or lime. Hot brandy and water, harts,
horn and turpentine are sjso useful,
Professional Sesnrrectionlsts.
On one occasion a professional resur
rectionist was walking in the vicinity of
a hospital when he saw a man totter
as with a sudden faintness and then
fall. He hurried to bim with the best
of impulses, but on bending over him
he found that be was dead. Immediately
the cold craft and sordid calculation of
his nature became uppermost, and, like
a consummate actor, he assumed, with
soaroely an effort, an expression and
attitude of the most poignant grief,
wringing his hands and entreating the
passers-by to assist him to carry his
" cousin " to the hospital. On the next
day an inquest was made by the coro
ner and the resurrection man laid claim
to the body and took it away with him,
ostensibly for burial with the usual
Christian rites. Bat instead of a
graveyard he sought another hospital,
where no ana nis caning were wen
known, and sold it to the faculty for a
considerable sum. One night a young
practitioner who had gone to bed was
roused by the knock of a resurrection
man, and on opening the door of his
house was informed that a subjeot was
at hand, in readiness for delivery, if he
cared to purchase it. It was paid for
without inspection and the doctor kick
ed it jocosely down a night oi stairs
leading into his dissecting room. Then
he turned and was about to ascend to
his bedroom when he was surprised to
hear a complaining sound proceeding
from the sack which enclosed the contra
band merchandise. It was indistinct and
broken, but certain epithets and exple
tives belonging to the vocabulary of the
British tar oonveyed a meaning to his
horrified ear. His first thought was
that some one had been murdered for the
sake of the price of his body and that
the murderer or murderers had erred in
not doing their work effectually. He
turned, and was not a little astonished
to behold a man sitting erect on one of
tbe steps and beside him an empty sack.
When he advanced toward him the ap
parition betrayed the greatest terror and
begged for his life. He afterward explain
ed that he had been drunk and had lain
down in a stupor, when some rousta
bout companions who did not love him
too well had slipped him into a sack
aud carried him off for sale. The doc
tor was a victim as well as he, for he
had expended pounds, shillings and
pence for a live subject, and thus had
been swindled.
But a very horrible phase of this trade
in the images of God was that which was
developed during the Napoleonic wars.
It was long before the invention of
false teeth was perfected, and wealthy
people who had lost the first armament
which nature bad given them were will
ing to pay immense sums for sets made
up of molars and incisors from the gums
of all sorts of persons and from all
quarters of the globe. Agents were
sent from the chief cities of Great
Britain to the continent to follow the
armies, and after every battle to thor
oughly scour the field and reap a har
vest of teeth. They carried with them
instruments made specially for the pur
pose of extracting them, and the dead
and wounded alike were outraged by
them. With this occupation they linked
others of a less fiendish character, hav
ing first taken the care to protect them
selves by being licenced as sutlers.
They truly were deserving to be called
vampires, since they must have caused
the death of many a pi or wretch whose
legitimate wounds were not necessarily
fatal. Doubtless they were sometimes
resisted bv soldiers, who possessed
greatei strength than they had counted
upon, and thus were compelled to choose
an alternative between exposure and
their own punishment and the murder
of their victim. Jsew York Herald.
Swearing Chinamen.
In the county court the trial of the
People vs. An Chee and An uuong, in
dieted for robbing a Chinawoman of
jewelry aud other valuables, was begun.
The parties to the suit being all Mongo
lians, it was concluded to swear the wit
nesses by the most binding Chinese
form. As the ceremony consisted of
sacrifice both by fire and blood, it was
found necessary to adjourn to the side
walk in front of the court-house. A
chicken and the necessary joss sticks or
wooden '.tapers were procured, and the
latter stuck in the ground and lighted.
While they were burning the prosecut
ing witness (the woman who had been
robbed) held an animated consultation
with the Rev. Mr. Nevin, court inter-
fireter, after whioh two wax tapers were
ighted, and after being brought in con
tact with the neck of the chicken, were
stuck in the ground. Now began the
forious business. A formidable piece
of yellow paper, covered with Chinese
characters, was brought out and handed
to Mr. Nevin, who deoliiifed to receive
it, saying in English that if he or any
white man read it tbe ceremony would
lose much of its force, as the witnesses
would claim that they hod not under
stood him. The document was then
tendered to several Chinamen, all of
whom refused to read it, one saying iu
good English that he would not read the
paper for a hundred thousand dollars.
Finally a Chinaman was found brave
enough to undertake the office. He
read the dread formula first to the
woman, who repeated it as he read. At
the conclusion a large bnndle of paper
previously prepared, was lighted, over
which the woman stepped a couple tl
times, and then took possession of the
chicken and the sacrificial knife, a cleaver-shaped
implement, which had lain
by the side of the fire during the read
ing of the oath. The male witnesses
were then arranged in front of the fire,
the oath was i gain read, eaoh repeating
it after the reader, who, after he had
finished reading it, threw it on the Are.
The Chinamen then, one by one, step
ped over the fire, the head of the chick
en was chopped off by the woman and
the sacrifice was accomplished. We
made an effort to get a translation of
the oath, but were unsuccessful, Mr.
Nevin informing onr messenger that,
as he had not read the document, he
could not accommodate Xi&.Loa An
gelea (Cal.) Herald.
A Nevada paper tells of a young lady
in that region that is so delicate and
etheral a creature that on losing a hair
pin from her head the other day, she;
caught a bad cold thrj hnpg on for a
week, ' - -k
Items of Interest.
A polite fish A gent-eel.
It is the tin business which is most
liable to a pan-io.
Give a cat money and it will, of course,
put it in its purrs.
Tomatoes contain no cancer-producing
substance, says Prof. Arnold.
A printer in the New York World of
fice has worked at his trade fifty-seven
years.
Deer are found in almost all parts of
the globe except Australia and south of
Africa.
II you turn an Amerioan " State " up
side down yon will find the Etats of the
French republic.
A man named Putton has written a
book on music It will be called "Put
ton Airs, probably.
A couple were married on the cars in
Missouri, lately. What a long "train"
the bride must have had 1
Albert Smith once wrote his initials
in a hotel register. A wag wrote just
underneath: " Two-thirds of the truth."
Get in your plants, your apples pick,
Ere both are knocked to flinders,
To daylight bring your storm-door quick,
Put on your double winders.
The popular idea that mushrooms
grow only in the night is not correct ;
their growth is nearly equal day and
night.
Gold is entirely unaffected by atmos
pherio action or influences. Silver be
comes dull, but gold retains its native
luster.
Talk about the angry sea and the mad
waves and all that. Humph I you'd be
angry, too, were you crossed as often
as the ocean is.
"A splendid croquet ground in the
rear," said the real estate agent. And,
when he had bought the house and
moved in he found that the frogs kept
croaking all night.
The first steamboat used dry pine
wood for fuel, and the flame rose to a
considerable distance above the smoke
pipe ; when the fires were disturbed,
mingled smoke and sparks rose high in
the air.
One time a lion met a elephant and
the elephant sed : "You better go and
git your hair cut." But the lion it sed : ,
" Bah I I shant resent a fellers in suits
wich has got his nose tween his own
teeths."
It is said that there is one word which
is never pronounced right even by the
best scholars, and that is the word
wrong. It is only fair to observe, how
ever, that there is another word which is
never pronounced wrong, and that is the
word right.
A drunkard in Sacramento, warned by
a touch of delirium tremens that he had
carried his drinking altogether too far,
resolved to reform or die. He declared
his purpose to several friends, locked
himself in his room, seated himself in an
easy-chair, and put a loaded pistol on a
table within reach. The craving for al
cohol grew stronger and stronger, and
at last, unable to resist his thirst, he
shot himself through the heart.
Proof that the top of a wagon wheel,
when running along on the ground,
moves faster than the bottom, is given,
according to the Scientific American, by
instantaneous photographs of a wagon
in rapid motion. It is obvious, says the
writer, that an instantaneous photo
graph of a wheel, revolving npon its
axle in the air, will show all parts of the
wheel with equal distinctness. But if
the wheel has a progressive motion,
and any one portion has a greater mo
tion than its corresponding part, above
or below, there must be a liability to
blarring in that part of tbe picture.
These pictures are taken with so brief
an exposure that the horse, though
moving at a 2:24 gait, is sharply out
lined. Tbe wheels of the driver's sulky,
however, have a different tale to tell.
The lower third of each wheel is sharp
and distinct as if absolutely at rest. Not
so with the top, that part of the wheel
showing a peroeptible movement dur
ing the two thousandth part of a second
of the exposure of the plate. The up-
Eer ends of the spokes and the rim are
lurred.
Languages of Finger-Rings.
In case of a gentleman wishing to
marry literally "in the market " with
his heart he wears a plain or chased
gold ring upon the first finger of the.
left or heart hand. When success at
tends his suit, and he is actually en
gaged, the ring passes on to the third
finger. If, however; the gentleman de
sires to tell the fair ones that he not
only is not " in the market," but ihat he
does not design to marry ot all, he wcjirs
tbe signet upon his little finger, and all
tbe ladies may understand that he is out
of their reach. With the fair sex " the
laws of the ring " are : A plain or
chased gold ring on tbe little finger of
the right hand implies not "engaged,"
or, in plain words, "ready for propos
als, sealed or otherwise." When en
gaged the ring passes to the third finger
of the right hand. When married the
third finger of the left hand receives it.
If the fair one proposes to defy all siege
to her heart, she places the rings on her
first and fourth linger, one on eaoh
like two charmtt. to keep away the
tempter. It is somewhat singular that
this latter disposition of rings is very
rare.
Winter Clothing for Children.
Every one mast remark that a favorite
article of winter clothing for children i
a comforter swathed around the (neck.
This is a great error; the feet and wrists
are the proper members to keep warm;
the face and throat will harden to an
healthy indifference to cold; but that
hjuJHer, exchanged for an extra pair of
thick socks and knitted gloves, would ..
preserve a boy or girl really warm and
well. . Bronchitis and sore throat have j. .
declined fifty per centum since the"
absurd use of nigh collars and twice
round neckerchiefs went out of fashion ;
and if the poor would take better care
of their children's feet half the infantile
mortality would disappear. It only
costs a trifle to pat a piece of thick felt
or cork into the bottom of a boot or
shoe, but the difference is often consid
erable between that and a doctor's bill,,
with perhaps the undertaker's beside. .
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