THE ' SCItANTON " THIBUNE-8ATUIlDATx MOItNTNO, JUNE 15J 1895. 9 fobte;.of : interest ' , Tr Woinnieini - Readers- Symposium of JnformatJon, Partly Grave, ' Partly Gossipy and Partly Gay. THE. VEIIY NEW WOMAN: She's an that one could wish for she'i healthy and all that ' Her hair 1b rather thin, but then -her cheeks are round and fat; There's a sweat, bewitching Ulmple In the ' middle of her chin. And the thing that most distresses ber may only be a pin. Her lunirs are truly lusty, and her eyes are clear and bright. For she never burns the midnight oil she's not so erudite. She's bound to rule the universe, espe cially man; Already he's her willing slave dethrone her If you cnn. Perplexing' thoughts contract her brow some problem she would solve; Just how to raiso her trampled sex, no 1 ' doubt, she would evolve; Her long pent-up emotions burst in one crescendo shriek fine's Just a tiny baby girl JJorn Last Week! Ella Starr. An Important and' interesting contri bution to the, statistics of the new wo man movument Is that, made by the census bureau's report on occupations, just out An analysis' of Jt made In a Washington-; dispatch to' the Chicago Tlmes-HeraNl fhows very'- nearly 4,000,- 000 of females 10' years old or over en paged In gainful occupations In this country In 1890. "The remarkable man ner In .which woman Is fnvading all fields of labor (a. strikingly shown by a comparison- with'. 18S0. During1 the decade the Increase of number of males In occupation was 27 per cent., and of females 49 per cent.. The census re port gives a list of 221 occupations, and of those -women ,are absent from only two officers of the United Statc9 army and navy and soldiers, sailors and ma rines in the service of the United States. In every other trade, business, profes sion, vocation, occupation, woman Is represented. Nearly 700,000 women are put down as farmers, planters! and agri cultural laborers, though it Is explained that only a small proportion of these actually work for wages, and they are for the most part the wives and daugh ters of farmers. It is rather surprising to read that there are 219 women coal miners, 134 other miners of the same sex, 30 female quarrymen and 32 wo men woodchoppers. One Is not sur prised to see that there are 3,949 ac tresses, 10,810 artists and teachers of art, 2,725 authors, 888 journalists, 34,519 musicians and teachers of music. It Is a little amazing to find 22 architects, 1,235 clergymen, 337 dentists, 208 law yers, 4,555 physicians and surgeons, 634 showmen and theatrical managers, and 2 veterinary surgeons In the female columns. The Important part played by women In education In this country Is strikingly shown by the ngures 735 professors' in colleges and universities, and 245,230 teachers. There are 2,825 women barbers and hairdressers, 14" bartenders, 32,593 boarding house keep ers, 47 stationary engineers, 5,315 hotel keepers, 86,805 housekeepers and stew ards, 21 hunters and trappers, 2,780 Jan itors, 216,617 laundresses; 51,402 nurses and mldwives, 2,416 restaurant keepers, 2,275 saloonkeepers, 30 sextons and 2.0S3 watchmen.' ' i .... f 1 : 1 FEMININE DIPLOMACY: Mrs. Sproots (looking out of the window) "Goodness! Here comes that horrid Mrs. Waggles and all her children. What shaft 1 do?" Aunt Totsle "I know! Johnny, as soon as they get seated, you say you don't feel well; do you hear?" Johnny (two minutes later) "I feel awful sick." Aunt Totsle "Oh, let me see your throat. Mercy on us! I hope you aren't going to have diphtheria!" Mrs. Waggles "I hope not! Come, chil dren! We only dropped In for a moment!" Ladles' Every Saturday. ' Most people will be surprised to learn that 228,309 women are engaged in what the census bureau calls trade and trans portation. Of .these 64,048 are clerks and copyists (Irrespective of where they may be employed), 21,185 are stcn- ' graphers -and typewriters, 68,449 arc saleswomen, 27,772 are bookkeepers, 25, 941, are merchants, and e,504 are packers and shippers. The only wonder is that most of these figures are not larger, for few people will be ready to believe the census bureau has enumerated all the typewriters and copyists. On the other hand, one Is scarcely prepared for the statement that there are 4,875 agents, and collectors, two auctioneers, 612 commercial travelers, 237 draymen, hackmen and teamsters, twenty-four hostlers, 2,259 peddlers and hucksters, forty-eight livery stable keepers, four locomotive engineers and firemen, 2,909 messengers and errand and office "boys," one pilot, 325 porters In stores, twenty-nine sailors, 1,438 steam rail road employes, twelve street railway employes, 8,474 telegraph and telephone operators, 669 linemen and electric light company employes, clghty-ithree ' undertakers and fif ty-five gaugers, measurers and weighers, Mpre than 1,000,000 women are employed in what the census bureau denominates manu facturing and mechanical industries. The greatest number is under the head of dressmakers 288,000. Seamstresses come next, 415,000; cotton mill opera tives third,-with 92,000, and tnlloresses fourth, with 63,000. Other occupations in which women largely figure are: Bookbinders, 11,000; boot and shoe mak ing, 36,000; boxmakers, 13,000; carpet makers, 11,000; hosiery and knitting . mill operatives, 20,000; milliners, 60,000;, -..wooien mui operatives, ao.wv; BUK mills, 21,000,' and tobacco and cigarette fac tories, 28,000.. i , HER REJOINDER: . " The following Incident occurred lately On a crowded elevator In -this city: A young woman' aroso, upon the entrance of an elderly one, and with a wave of the band toward the seat, which the new comer seemed reluctant to accept, said: "Age before beauty." "Thank you," was the reply, as the new- ,' vomer dropped Into tho scat, "but one -would need glasses to see the beauty." 1 , "Perhaps," . was rejoined quietly, "but none would be required to see the age." Urand Kaplds Democrat. .''.. Women literally greit into everything. ,They are apprentices to blacksmiths, -to - carpenters, to wagon-makers,' to ' masons, to machinist's, painters, plumb ,:tra and. tinsmiths. . There are ' fifty- ,nme women blacksmiths, seventy-two . ; brewers, 194 brlckmakers, ten. bulld- , era and contractors, 129 butchers, 191 carpenters, fifty-four coopers, nine dis tillers, eighty-nine 'gunsmiths, 859 harness-makers, 663 marble and stone cut ters, Corty-two brick and stone masons, ninety-nine millers, forty-seven mold ers, fifty-four paper hangers, forty-two plumbers, 418 powder and cartridge makers, threo .roofers and sinters, three boat builders, six bniler-makers, one well borer, pne wheelwright and nine whltcwashers. There ore few occupa tions In which women outnumber men. The women teachers outnumber the men nearly three to one nnd the same Is trife of boarding-house keepers. The disparity Is rtlll greater, of course, among nurses, launderers end laun dresses, housekeepers and stewards, seamstresses and servants. The total number of servants In the country Is 1,025,000, of whom only 237,000 are moles. Women take the lead numerically in typewriting, in dressmaking, milli nery, llower-maklng, boxmaklng, ns cotton mill operatives, In silk mills, In making corsets and buttons and hosiery. ... Some of Pr. Holmes' brightest things never got Into any of his published vol umes. 1Mb reference In "Elsie Vennor" to tho "twenty-seventh letter of tho alpha bet" so puzzled one lndy reader, who was reading the story In company with a rela tive, that she w.roto to the author, telling hltn thnt neither she nor her cousin Ed ward could make out tho meaning. Tho answer received was characteristic: "Ilos ton, March 4, 1X61: My I'enr flltss Lavlna The twenty-seventh letter of the alpha bet Is pronounced by applying the lips of the person speaking It to tho cheek of a friend nnd puckering and parting the snme with a peculiar explosive sound. "Cousin Edward' will show you how to speak this lablnl consonant, no doubt, and allow you to show your proficiency by practicing it with your lips agulnst his cheek. For further Information you had better con sult gra'mma. Very truly yours, O. W. Holmes." Kate Field's Washington. ... In this department of The Tribune of May 11 appeared an extract from an article on .AVoman of the French Revolution which, we hove since learned, was written by Mrs. John Dale, of London, for the March Rel gravla. The omission of credit to Mrs. Dnle was unintentional, and we take pleasure In correcting it. . . . Rev. Klttredge Wheeler, a Baptist pastor of Chicago, recently preached a sermon to wheelmen. In the course of Which he thus diplomatically expressed his distaste for bloomers: "In discuss ing this subject I shall hardly venture to touch upon tho 'bicycle cost jme,' for the reason that If I were addressing a company of cyclists in the latest and most up-to-date uniform I would be In great doubt as .to the sex of my au dience, and when a speaker is In doubt in regard to so fundamental a question as sex it would be wise to speak very cautiously. If not to be altogether si lent. I will, however, venture a single suggestion to wheelmen. See to It that you costume is as masculine es pos sible. Distinguish and emphasize your sex In some way. " Wear a mustache, let your beard grow or sew upon tho back of your costume three big, red capital letters, M A N. You have no right to appear on the street or even, on your wheel, in a costume worn by' females, for several reasons. In the first place, it 19 wrong for you to at tempt to deceive the public. Second, your appearance in female costume is an Insult to the fair and gentler sex, for you make an awfully homely wo man. Third, you subject yourself to civil arrest and punishment, for it is an offense against .the law for a male to wear In public the female attire. If there be only two costumes suitable for bicycle riding, the single closed skirt and the knickerbocker, I say to the men, be gallant, let the women have the choice, and if she choose the knickerbockers, do you take what Is left. - Be a man and put on- the skirt. Make it universal and let the public understand it. This will distinguish the sex on the. wheel." ,. . In the Chicago Herald, that excellent paper from which we get much that is readable and new,. Walter Wellman thus gives a man's view of the "new woman" problem: , , THE GOOD OLD TIMES: Oh.'Ornndma, Is It really truo That men did once delight To look on girls as goddesses Who dwelt upon a hoight? Oh, did they really slave for them And think it was but right? Oh, had they then no grievances They organized to air? Did they ne'er vow her tyranny Was more than they could bear, When Woman woro a petticoat And never cut her hair? Oh, wero men happy subjects onee, Of an unconscious queen. E'er yet the sea of Progress camo 'Twlxt them to Intervene That heavy sea In which, today Wo watch her throne careon? Was she a thing of benuty once E'er yet she did affright A wond'rlng world by blazing out, In bloomerettes bedlght E'er Freedom, in her books, was made Synonymous with Fight? , Oh, Grandma, I was born too latol A lump comes In my throat To think that a divinity, On whom all men might dote, Died an unnatural death the day That Woman got a voto I - Boston Globe. ... . According to foreign advices, the new woman 1b at least rampant even In conservative Berlin. The Countess Frits Hohcnau Is the leader of the smart set. The countess Is a cousin of the emperor by a morganatic marriage, and she Is a' young woman of athletic proclivities. Her Intc-st freak has been to discard the feminine rldlng-hablt. fihe wears a ' frock-coat of soft and clinging material, with very long tails. Around the waist Is a light leather girdle.. The countess's corduroy knick erbockers, very wlde reach over the knees, where they meet with tolack silk stockings. The latter are hidden from the vulgar gnxa by 'leather leggings of the same colqr as the girdle. Russet or patent leather boots, a black velvet Jockey-cap or a blue Ballorcap com plete the costume. The Berlin Park police view- the Innovation with much favor. One of the mounted runaway catchers said that since ladles had ceased to frlgihten their own horses by their black skirts fluttering in the wind the horses etiowod much less tendency to part company witn their riders. THE MODERN WOMAN: ', "Now. the modern woman," began Snif ter, "is really attracting more attention than .modesty will permit " "If the fool men would mind their own business these would be no trouble," re plied Mrs. Snifter. "That's itlf responded Snifter. "I'm Impressed more and more every day with the forwardness of the modern woman." "There's certainly room enough in the world for all to live." "Yes, my dear; but the modern woman is destined to destroy all thul Is lovable In the very thought of woman " "It seems to me," said Mrs. Snifter, "that there Is not that sympathy between men and women that ought to exist " "Ah, my dear; I have thought of that, but you know tho modern woman has ren dered such a thought dlstastoful " "Hut cannot men be gentlemanly?" "Ah, my dear; you don't understand. The modorn woman " "Who Is the modern woman?" "Eh? What?" "Who Is she?" "Why-cr-huh?" "Thnt's what I thought; Snifter. To ask a mun what he's talking about Is to find out he's nn Idiot," And, somehow, Snifter hasn't thought so much about the modern woman since. -Cluveliind Plain Denier. In point of force, clearness and beau ty of rhetoric as well as of sentiment, thin little sermon by "Amber," in the Chlcugo Herald, stands out as a fine gum. "it is not," says she, "the most profitable thing In the world to please. Suppose It should please tho inmates of a bedlam-house to see you set lire to your clothing and burn to death or break your bones one by one on a rack or otherwise destroy your bodily parts that the poor lunatics might bo entertained? Would It pay to be pleas ing to such an nudlence under such circumstances? But the destruction of the loveliest body In the world Is noth ing compared to the demoralization of soul Hint takes place when women sub vert what Is" lofty and noblo in their nature to win the transient regard of a few worthless men of the world. They learn to smoke ciynrettes because such men profess to like. to see a pretty wo man affect the toughness of a rowdy. They drink In public places and barter thr-lr honor nil itoo often for handsome clothes in which to make a vain parade, all to please some heathen man who In reality counts them Inferior to his horse. The right sort of a sweetheart, my dear, never desires to bring a wo man down to his own level. He prefers to keep her on a pedestal and say his prayers to her. Every time I see a wo man carousing in a public resort, mak ing herself conspicuous by loud talk and louder laughter, I think of some fair . ship that should be making for the eternal city with every shred of snow-white canvas set, rotting at Its docks, or cruising at arm's length from a barren shore. We wera put into this world with a clean way-bill for. a better port than this. Across the ocean our way lies, Ft might to the harbor of the city of light. We are freighted with a con signment from roomage-hold to keep, which Is bound to be delivered sooner or later, at the Master's dock. Let us be alert, then, to recognize the serious ness of our own destinies, and content ourselves no longer with shallow soundings., Spread the sails, weigh tho anchor, point the prow for the distant port! Sooner or later the voyage must be made; let us make it then while the timber is stanch and the rudder true." The new woman will do well to go on in tho way she has started, but let us hope she makes sure of not going too far. Tho vine should become stronger, healthier, more self-reliant, with deeper color, more marked Individuality, firmer roots nnd more fragrant blossoms, but It should be a vine still. Tho new woman docs well to learn really to think, not merely to think she's thinking, and I am conlldent the more she does really think the less she will talk about what she is, what she wants to do and to be as a woman distinct and apart from the remainder of the race. That curious law of human nature which, as a general thing, produces words quan titatively in Inverse proportion to tho amount of feeling and knowledge behind them Is not conlined to either sex. Tho new woman, with her awakened In terest In the real things of the world, gives me hope for the apiwarnnce of a race of women who will have plenty of things be sides their clothes to think about. I also dare to hope the new woman will devoto herself less to the novel and tho fashion papers, less to peace-destroying dnbbles In music for which she has no soul and to soul-damning daubles In amateurish and nffected art for which she has no apti tude, and give herself, more to study of this wonderful world and the wonderful life and civilization and problems and beauties which It contains. No artificial development or apparent change, no passionate rebellion against tho tyranny of custom, no Joy In a new-found feeling of Independence and self-reliance can alter the law that brings man nnd woman together ns the most precious thing In the universe In the eyes of the other, any more than a cyolone can change tho laws of attraction and corelatlon of forces or an earthquake overthrow tho law of gravity. The new woman will always be looking for a man to love and look up to. She. will never reneh a point In the development of individual conceit where sho will look down upon all men. I (lnro to hope not only that the one man to whom sho finally looks upward, with her all In tho glance, will provd worthy of her more often thnn ha Is at tho present time, but thnt her In crease of critical power will In the grent process of sexual competition lift up his avcrnge of manliness. . SELECTED RECIPES: , Beetroot Is moBt useful for pickling, mixing with snind, garnishing, and also us a vegetable, but, us a change from tho ordlnnry boiling, try this process: Chooso moderate-sized beetroot, avoiding such ns do not slightly give to tho touch; wash them nnd wipe them with a clean cloth wrung out of ordinary spirit. Place a thin lnyer of moistened straw in the oven (which should be sufllelently hot to bake bread); stand the roots on tho Btraw, cov ering each one with an earthenware jar, and leave them for eight, or ten hours without Increasing the heat. If poslblo, let them cool In tho oven; when cold, pool and uso as required. Carrots, a la ercme Scrape, wash and cut them Into pieces or Bllces ns desired; boll them In water with salt nnd peppor; when nearly tender enough, strain them Put into a saucepan a breakfustcupful of thick, fresh cream, with a lump of butter; when this bolls add the carrots and lot them Fimmer for fifteen minutes. Trim a BtilQalent number of large loeks, remove the green part, and cut up tho rest In two or three pieces; If they seem very strong, scnld them In boiling water; If not, simply boll and strain them thoroughly to extract nil the moisture. Qhop thorn up and brown them slightly In butter, flour, salt and popper, moisten with crenm or thick gravy, stir over the lire, and when done thicken with the yolks of two eggs. Servo with fried bread, or with cutlets, or frlcandeau Turnips Peel the turnips, boll them In slightly salted water till they are half done; take them out, slice on a thin bit from tho bottom to ensure their standing firmly, and cut apeco off the top; scoop out the middle of the turnips, making a stuffing with minced veal, onions, parsley. a few truffle or mushrooms, and with t fill the turnips; use the slice which was cut off the top as a cover, tie them round with thread, place them In a shallow sauce pan, pour over them some boiling broth (gravy Is preferable), add a lump of butter, season and lot them simmer till quite ten der. Take them out, arrange them on a dish, remove the .threads, thicken the sauce with the yolk of an egg, pour it over the turnips and serve hot, These will take about two hours. . Cabbage, chou a la creme Cut up tho cabbage, not too fine, scald it partly and cook It in salted water strain very thor oughly; melt some butter In a saucepan, add salt, pepper, flour and a cupful of fresh cream; put In the cabbage, let It sim mer for three-quarters of an hour, and serve.- Chou-rouge au vtn: Take a fine red cabbage, not too old, slice It very fine, scald It for two minutes in boiling water, and. strain thoroughly. Put some bacon, cut in small dice, Into a saucepan with a little butter; when quite hot add tho cnb- bago, and stir in broth or gravy and some French whlto wine. When quite tendor the liquor must have assimilated Itself en tirely to tho vegetable. This dish is often garnished with large, boiled chestnutB. Chou farci: Trim a large, firm winter cab bage; removo the heart and part of the hard stalk, scald and strain It, put It Into cold water and strain again. Have roady some minced veal and bucon (equal quan tities), or, If preferred, sausage meat; mix this with pepper, salt, chopped onions, chives and chervil, according to taste, and the yolks of two or three eggs. Place the cabbage carefully in a cloth, and wring tho latter -to press out all the water with out damnglng tho cabbage, Into which put all the stulllng, first filling up the middle, and then Inserting some between the larger leaves. Tie this round and round with string, nnd put it into a saucepan with a bouquet garni, a couple of smoked suu- sages, onions studded with cloves, enr- rots, grated nutmeg, pepper corns, and any remains of meut. Cover the cabbage with strips of bacon, moisten freely with good stork nnd boll for three hours. After this dish up tho cabbage, removo the string, take all fut out of the liquor, let it 1)0.1 up twice, strain It, put It on tho flro aguln to thicken with a little, fecula, and pour over the cabbage. Tomatoes Cut the tomatoes In hnlvcs and put In the pips and most of the pulp Into a saucepun with a little butter and bring all to the boll. Then put into a basin two ounces of brend crumbs, tho lean part of a rnshcr of bacon chopped up finely, a little parsley, a small shallot' finely minced, nnd some pepper nnd salt. On to this mixture strain tho tomato pulp, etc.; Btlr It well together nnd stuff the tomatoes with It. Put a small piece of butter on each hnlf tomato and bnke them in a moderate oven for twenty minutes on a flat tin thnt has been well buttered and slightly rubbed with garlic or a shallot. It's a dish fit for the gods. Bottled AsparagusCleanne the aspara gus as for boiling, cutting all tho hard part off; place It In a pan, cover It with boiling water, place the pan over tho stove and watch the water boll; then take up the asparagus very carefully, put it Into per fectly cold water, and leave till cold. Take somo clean, large-nocked bottles and pluce the asparagus In these, head downwards, putting any that are broken aside; make tho bottles perfectly air-tight with corks, wrap each bottle in a wet cloth, place them In a deep kettle, and three parts cover them with cold water; place tho lid on the kettle, let the water como to the boil, and continue boiling for one and a-half hours;thcn draw the pan from the lire, and In half an hour's time pour off the water and leave the bottles in the kettlo for another hour, then tnke them out, set them aside in a cool place till next day; then tar the tops of the bottles over and store away In a cool, dry place, when they will keep well. Slmplo French Dressing for Salads Half a teaspoonful of salt; quarter of a teaspoonful of black pepper; add gradually three tnblcspoonfuls of olive oil. Stir until the salt seems to be entirely dissolved. Add by degrees one tablespoonful of vine gar. Do not be afraid of stirring too much To Preporo Mustard To prepare mustard for the table take two tablespoonfuls of mustard and one teaspoonful of Hour. Mix this smooth with a little cold vinegar. Mix together four tablespoonfuls of vine gar, one tablespoonful of olive oil, one teasoponful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, and one of black pepper. Set this on a stove In a suitable dish nnd let it come to a boll, stirring It all the time. Pour the boiling mixture Into the other, stir It well, and as soon as It Is cold It is ready for use. Ladies' Every Saturday. GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. He strode before the footlights ' In trappings gay and rich, But he couldn't buy, when the play was done, A little ham sandwich. , Chicago Inter Ocean. John Drew will give tho "Love Knot" in London. Dlxcy may appear in the "Pacific Mall" next season. They say that Nat Goodwin Is going to play Hamlet Sam Edwnrds will stnr next season In a comedy by Max O'ltell. E. H. Sothcrn will be seen In "The Pris oner of Zenda" next season. All actresses paint, but only the best of them draw well. Footlights. Miss Clara Lane Is M'ss Lillian Rus sell's understudy In "The Tzigane." lusen s new play, "L,lttle Eylor, was lately produced In Paris with great suc cess. Olga Nothersolo will appear hero next season In "Cnrmen," "Cnmille" and "Ro meo and Juliet." Mario Walnwrlght will devote her sum mer to giving lessons In acting to a few pupils In New York. E. II. Sothcrn hns so many new plays ready for trial next season thnt he will luy the old succcsses'on the shelf. It Is at last understood why wigs are so commonly worn on the stage. A bald- headed man can't have a part. Footlights, George W. Monroe and John C. Rice have a rhI n joined forces and will nppoa; In their old-time farce comedy, ".My Aunt Bridget." Charles Wyndhnm has engnged Lord Rosslyn a real lord to act on the stage. His name will follow a llfe-slzo coronet on tho billboards. Among the theatrical people who will spend the summer nbroad will he Mnrln Walnwrlght, Nnt Goodwin, Pauline Hail, Alexander Sulvlnl, John Drew, Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellow. A prize of $1,000 Is given by the French academy to the author of tho best pluy produced each season at the Comeclle Francnlso or the Odeon. Coppeo s "Pour la Couron" won the prize this year. It IB stated thnt Mr. Harry B. Smith tho librettist of Mr. Reginald do Koven, was police reporter In Chicago a few years ago. and thnt ho now enjoys from his opera hooks an Income of .$i0,(XX a yoar, It Is' definitely Beltled that Boerbohm Tree will not return to this country next season. The foreign stars who have tlnnlly decided to visit America next season are Henry Irving, John Hare ami Mrs. Lnng- try, and probably Olga JJethersolo, from ungianu. Henry Irving Is the flrBt English actor to receive the distinction of knighthood. Sir Augustus Harris was knighted not be cause he was a managor, but as lord sheriff of London, nnd S'r Arthur Sullivan was knighted In pplto of the fact that he wrote comic opera. These two are the most nearly connected with Henry Irvlng's ojilllner. " Daniel Frohman Is arranglngifor the pro duction of American plays in London. It Is believed that the tide has turned in England and that the American playwright Is going to And a good field for his work In the mother country. Tho manuscripts of "Alabama" and "Shenandoah" have lust been Bent for, and It Is believed that they will be produced In tho English capi tal early next autumn. Marlon Manola-Mason, after an absence of more than-two years from the opertlc stage, which time she has devoted to play ing comedy with her husband, John Ma son, has decided to return to her first' lovo. Bhe has signed a contract with tho Murray-Lane company, and will open with that organization in Cleveland, O., In "Clover," the charming opera In which she created the leading role when Colonel McCaull first produced It. Is the Qermni A - Fact .or a Dr. Alexander Wilder Scouts the Alleged Morbific Powers of the Festive Hicrobe. Out of a number of striking articles In the June number of the Metaphysical Magazine, we are Induced to choose for examination at some length Dr. Alex ander Wllder's revolutionary paper on "The Mlcroblan Craze." Dr. Wilder remcmbere that as far back as 1832, during the cholera's first invasion of American soli, ho read a humorous dia logue; In the Sentinel nnd Gazette, pub lished at Utlca, N. Y., In which the theory was advanced that the prevalent epidemic might possible be due to the presence, In the atmosphere, of very small bugs. Ho regards it probable that the materialistic notion of micro organic sources of disease is but this materialistic age's reflex of Its predom inant religious hnblt of thought, just as in earlier ages, tho spirit of super stition, then rife, caused It to be gen erally believed that disease was the do ing of evil demons, to cure which ex orcism was necessary. Indeed, he cites considerable Interesting evidence to prove that the doctrine of micro-organisms as the cause of disease "had Its Inception In the teachings of the very men who held firmly at the same time to the belief in elementary snlrlts and malign demoniac Influence. They probably did not apprehend any wide difference between a morbific germ, or animalcule, and a mischievous element al; and. Indeed, it is not easy to see now one belief can be more visionary than the other." But it Is with the mlcroblan craze's present vogue, rather than its history, uiu-i ur. wuaer-s paper deals. We need not apologize for quoting some of his more striking assertions at cnnni,w. able length. "Perhaps," says ho, "no confession of the unreliability of the various theories and procedures of the medical art can be more emphatic than Is Implied by the passionate enthusiasm for this theory. Its apostles have brought to Its chrlstenlng-font a con siderable numhfcr of germ-bablcs a vibrio for disorders of the nostrils, a leptothrix for the teeth, a biclllus for diphtheria, a spirillum for tubercular disease, a cryptococcus far yellow fever, and so on. The conjecture of their morbific influence Is explained In several ways. They are supposed to deprive the blood of oxygen or other Important constituents, and perhaps to excrete deleterious substances Into the body, productive of obstruction and Irritation. Their rapid production, it is declared, Intensifies the mischief. Worthless Sprays and Lotions. "Several procedures have been de vised upon this theory. Lister Is the most prominent In this direction, as tho Inventor of antiseptic surgery, tho employing of sprays and lotions to pre vent the Invisible aerial microbes from Infecting wounds made In operations. Others have Invented germicides 'with highly-vaunted virtues, and even pro prietary medicines are often extolled In this way, Slgnor Semnola, of Naples, however, discourages attempts In this direction. He argues that, granting a disease to be caused by parasites. It would nevertheless be Impossible to in troduce into the intestinal canal any germicide In sufficient quantity to de stroy them, without also endangering the life of the patient. "Nevertheless, other ways have been found to work oft the accumulated zeal. We have the sterilizing of milk and even of the drinking-water; the arbitra ry enforcing of disinfection and sani tary plumbing at the. caprice of an un intelligent or malicious official; and, to clap the climax, the Inoculating with various kinds of diseased and morbific material, and the Injecting of such ma terial into the blood. The violence em ployed, the compulsion and other ar bitrary measures to enforce vaccina tion, diseasing the healthy and some times killing outright by blood-poisoning, painfully Illustrate the subject. Pasteur'followed up the procedure by his inoculations for anthrax nnd hy drophobic Koch proposed a similar treatment for the arrest and curing of consumption. Now, as If to reach the highest eminence of the preposterous, the employment of antitoxin, a filthy and loathsome virus procured from dis eased horses, Is urged by the over-numerous politico-medical authorities to be injected Into the blood ns a remedy for diphtheria; and deaths have al ready been thus Inflicted." Dncterln Not Dangerous. . Notwithstanding the exceeding great ado made by believers In the mlcroblan theory, Dr. Wilder does not scruple to assert that closely observed facts have signally failed to confirm the as sertions respecting the morblllc action of bacteria. In the Instance of the spirillum, or comma, bacillus of chol era, he claims thnt the downfall was complete. "The little trickster," says he, 'xna also to be found In other, forms' of disease, and was not always present when the patient suffered from cholera. At a Inter period, other Inves tigators announced four different forms of bncllll.fov cholera, each having its advocates" to Insist that it was the gen uine Dromlo, and that the others were spurious. Dr. Pettenkofer, of Bavaria, determined the matter. He swallowed quantities of the micro-organisms, at different Intervals and In various con ditions of health nnd received no harm. "The sanitarians pleaded In their turn that the accumulations of filth and feculent material, U often abounding about bhlldlngg anff In popular locali ties, afforded breeding-places for bac teria and so Infected the atmosphere. Tet epidemics generally have seemed to disprove these assertions. The mor tality in Nefv York: Is least in tho dis trict south of Fourteenth street and eaBt of Broadway. A similar state of facts has been observed lrt other cities. Asiatic cholera and other epidemics are not generally more severe In the districts where it would be expected. Whatever the effective agent may be, the bacteria abounding in tilth and fer menting substances are evidently its destroyers. Experiment has demon strated this beyond, reasonable cavil. Flugge, Karllnskl, and Mlquel confi dently declare that typhoid and cholera bacilli, when placed in waste waters and putrid fluids, are very certain to perish nnd disappear in a few hours. They also affirm that the vapors and emanatlons-from decaying substances are free from bacteria. , Noedless Anxiety About Wator. .''The attacks, on drinking-water are equally destitute of a 'foundation. .The only way to ascertain the effects of water upon the human system is by drinking. Analysis and microscopic examination are alike uncertain, ens eal, writing for the British Medical Journal, declared that In the present Theory Fake? . state of medical knowledge no chemical will Justify the assertion that a water Is likely to cause a particular disease, and that no process of examination whatever will prove the noxious char acter of a water. Pellew, In his manual, further affirms that with our present knowledge a satisfactory microscopic examination Is hardly possible, even for one. thoroughly skilled In such In vestigation; and that the question of the purity or Impurity of a water can not be satisfactorily settled by bacter iological tests alone. We are warrant ed In doubting whether there is any scientific proof that the water of any spring, well, pond, lake or stream used for drinking, except It was contam inated purposely or by accident by some Irritant poison, ever caused In the human body any specific disease, or anything more' than slight or tempo rary disorder, There Is no reliable evi dence of serious sickness as the result of using common drinking water." ' Dr. Wllder's conclusion Is that "de spite the zeal and even tho fury with which the germ-theory In this, Its lat est appearance, has been promulgated. there are missing links between it and the unequlvoca facts. Its strongest foundations are only assumed. The no tion that the atmosphere is forever swarming with germs of bacteria and other mlcroblan! products, ready to rush Into, wounds, Into the lungs of every breathing thing, Into our water and kneadlngntroughs like the frogs of Egypt, and to enter the pores and through the stop pers of glass bottles, is purely a guess, without a solitary fact to sus tain it, except such as are found in the interpretation wherein the guess Is taken aa established ifact. It is a plausible theory, but unproved. The actual fact appears to be that the mala dy and disorganization are first, and the micro-organisms afterward. In stead of being seed3 and germs to gen crate special diseases, they are agents for neutralizing and removing matters that might otherwise be harmful and deadly." . In other words, the germ-theory Is "an assumption of causes, of the ex istence of which we have no evidence, to account for effects which they by no means explain." NAPOLEON'S HEAD. The Pediment of tho Pnthcon Saved by o Lucky Accident. There Is a good story told about a re markable head of Bonaparte which ap pears In McClure's Life of Napoleon. This head Is a copy of the first plaster cast made for 'a figure of Napoleon, which appears in the pediment of tho Pantheon In Paris. It seems that In tho reign of Napoleon III the arch bishop of Paris persuaded the govern ment to destroy the pediment of the great temple because Voltaire appears In it. The. order had been given to ex ecute this piece of vandalism when Baron Larrey, son of the chief sur geon to Napoleon I, and himself ex military surgeon to Napoleon III, hap pening to be with ithe emperor at the camp at Chalons, conceived tho noble Idea of trying to save the sculptures. At the emperor's table, Baron Larrey adroitly turned the conversation to Da vid, and Informed the sovereign, to his surprise, that the proudest effigy of Napoleon was to.be seen on this pedi ment. Bonaparte, in fact,. Is repre sented as seizing for himself the crowns distributed by the Fatherland, while the other personages receive them. On hearing this, Napoleon HI was silent, but the next day the order was given to respect the pediment. We believe this Is the first time that this cast has been reproduced. Gilmore's Aromatic Wino A tonic for .ladies. If you are suffering from weakness and feel exhausted and ner vous; are getting thin and all run down; Gilmore's Aro matic Wine will bring roses to your cheeks and restore you to flesh and plumpness. Mothers, use it for your daughters. It is the best regulator and corrector for ailments peculiar to woman hood. It promotes digestion, enriches the blood and gives lasting strength. Sold by Matthews Bros., Scranton. riT. PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL Coal of the best quality for domsstlo Use, and of all sizes, delivered in any part of tho city at lowest price. Orders left at my Oftioe NO. 118 WYOMING AVENUE, Rear room, first floor. 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DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The symptoms of which are dizziness,! of confluence, sexual weakness In men and women, ball rising in throat, spots floating before the eyes, loss of memory, unable to concentrate tho mind on una subject, easily startled when stuiilonly spoken to, and dull dlxtrcgsed mlnd.wh i-h unfits them for performing tho actual du ties of life, making hapyiness Impossible, distressing the action of the heart, caus ing flush of heat, depression of splrlts.cvll . forebodings, cownrdic, fear, drenms.irel ancholy, tire easy of company, feeling ns tired In the mornir.g as when retiring, lack of energy, nirvonsness, trcmhlltiff, confusion of thought, depression, constipa tion, weakness of the limbs, etc. Those so affected should consult us immediately) erd be restored to perfect health. Lost Manhood Restored. Weakue? of Young Men Cured. If you havj been given up by your phy Rlcian call "Don the doctor and be ex;im- "d. He cures tho worst cases of 1'or vous lability, Scrofula, Old Sores, Ca tarrh, Piles, Femalo Weakness, Affec tions of tho Eye, Enr, Nose and Throat, Asthma, Denfncss, Tumors, Cancers ana Cripples of every description. Consultations freo and strictly sacred and conlldenia';. Otllce hours dally from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, 9 to 2. Enclose five 2-cent stamps for symt;Km blanks and my book called "New Elfc." I will pay one thousand dollars In roll to anyone whom I ennnot cure of EPI LEPTIC CONVULSION'S or FITS. PR. E. GREWER, Old Post Offlco Building, corner Penn venue and Spruco street. SCRANTON. PA. test RE VIVO !v RESTORES VITALITY. 1st bay. l 10th Day. THE GREAT FiiEiaon xixjavmEZD-sr produces the above remits ln!no days. It artl rowcrfullr and quickly. Cures when all othrre fall. YouDg men will regain thoir Inst manhood, and old men will recover their youthful iuor by ualns IIKV1VO. It quickly and surely rentorca Meryoua ana, Loet Vitality, Impotenor. 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