SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. West of the Alleghanies nearly all educational institutions, from the primary school to the college or univer sity, are co-educational. The boiling-water fad at meals is dying out. Thousands of people arc glad, adds tho St. Louis Republic, and now some doctors who recommended it say it's all nonsense. An official of the World's Fair says that twenty-five feet of right of way at Sevonty-first street, Chicago, controlled by the Illinois Central, keeps 80,000 miles of railroad from entering tho fair grounds. The French Minister of War has imuoJ an order that henceforth every officer and every man in the French army shall, when on active service, carry on his person material for a first dressing in case of hijbeiug wounded. Rye has become an important cereal in the West. Field and Farm tells that the farmers on the divide a fow miles south of the Denver have beeu meeting ■with greater success in growing rye than they have with any of the other cereals. "For some reason or other," muses the Chicago Suu, "the possossor of capital is enjoying more advantages iu the building up of business than yenrs ago, while the great trusts seom to bo losing in coherence trul power, and iu some instances are disintegrating." The New York Nation asserts inn notice of a German book on Grook sculp ture that art is not necessarily tho more ideal for being less natural, that the greatest idealists have been tho greatest realists too; and also that there is more than one kind of beauty, the artist's business being to reproduce that which Kens beautiful to him. It is noted by an English financial jour nal as one of the causes of the failure of so many Australian banks that many of them hold such vast quantities of land that when a pinch comes they are unable to realize and are compelled to stop pay ment. In New South Wales twelve banks and financial syndicates own about 45,000,000 acres of land, one instiution nlono owning 8,500,000 acres. Two new occupations havo cf Intc been found for dumb and blind persons. One is for tho employment of deaf nud dumb persous as typewriters, where, as much of the work is writtcu, their de formity does not interfere with its suc cess. Tho blind women aro showing themselves expert and intelligent as massage operators, their delicate sense of touch and deft movements being ol special advantage. Filial duty is the strougest trait in the Chinese and Japaneso character, remarks tho San Francisco Chronical, but it is frequently perverted aud becomes to Western oyes inorc of n vice than a vir tue. Such a perversion was seen re cently in Japan when the daughter of a fiick man brought him a cup of blood taken from bet own veins and besought him to drink it, as slio had had a vision that this was tho sole means of his re covery. The recent publication of a paragraph to the effect that living children of Revo lutionary soldier* were few and far be tween has started a j>encrul search for such persons in a few Hiatus, The na ues of nearly a dozen have beeu sent to the Philadelphia Ledger, and as many more to the New York Tribune, which appear* to have originated the inquiry. William Wallace Ijae, of Mrridan, says ho believes that at least fifty surviving children of Revolutionary soldier* could bu (ouud iu Connecticut alone. Tlie Stat* of Illinois is said to be thu I first in the I'niou to establish an ctlb'ieut bureau of Kutoiuoiogy. The clinch bugs I with which that Statu was loug iilllntod occasioned this public attention to eutu otology aud It has p.iid iu many ways, Kveu the prophesies of clinch bug years ' have l>ecn elltemely useful, its when this iiMect promised to be ahund iut farmers wuie fore warned to plant crops it would not attack. In this way the numbers of destructive insects have been neatly de creased aud they aiu now rarely injurious to any .item. THE END OF THE D*Y, I hear the bells at eventide. Peal slowly one by one, Near and far off they break and glide, Across the stream float faintly beauttfu The antiphonal bells of Hull; The day is. done, done, dona, The day is done. The dew has gathered in the flowers Like tears from some um-onscious deep: The swallows whirl around the towers. The light runs out beyond the long c!oud bars, And leaves the single stars; 'Tis time for sleep, sleep, sleep, 'Tis time for sleep. The hermit thrush begins again. Timorous eremite, That song of risen tears au 1 pain, As if the one ho loved was far away; "Alas! another day—" "And now Good Night," "Good Night." —Duncan C. Scott, in Youth's Companion, "THE CACTU&" BY O. n. LEWIS. HE Cac tu s" was the name bestowed ■ upon her in Cinna t>ar - Iler signature, if she hail written it, & would probably have >. J been Mollie Pres "th $ cott ' at ' east suc ' l » . was the declaration IJlflj/ of Rosewood Jim. Ml ill// \ lIK "I see this ycre j/li 7/ll \ iiIMW f cma ' e a year ft ß° in uVi 1 f Wm ni 81 ° n e '" as_ Yv Smvi W )lnßw< SBr *ed iat veracious \[<ir s \ /Mm chronicler, "where JtfprrWsj s h e cooks at the stage station, an' she gives it out cold, she's called Prescott—Mollie Prcscott —an' most likely she knows her name, an' knowed it a year ago." As Rosewood was a historian of known petulance, no one cared to challenge oither his facts or conclusions; so the real name of"The Cactus" was accepted by the Cinnabar public as Prescott. "The Cactus" was a personable lady, comely and round; and her advent in to Ciunabar society had caused some thing of a flutter. Her mission was to cook, and in the fulfilment of her des tiny she presided over the range at the O. K. Hotel, lieing publicly hailed as "The Cactus" seemed in no wise to de press her, and it is possible she even felt a secret glow over an epithet which was meant by the critical taste that awarded it to illustrate those thorns in her nature which repelled aud held in check the male of Cinnabar. Women wear jcwelrv in Cinnabar, and on her first cominp "The Cactus" had many admirers. Every man in camp loved her the moment she stepped from the Tucson stage six months before. From the term "every man," however, a careful writer would except Rosewood Jim. That obdurate scientist, given as he was to the inner workings of faro as a philosophy, had no time for such a soft and dulcet affair as love. Another thing. Rosewood had scruples of honor born of his business. "Life behind a deal-box is a mighty sight too fantastic," quoth the thought ful Raeewood, "for a family. It does well enough for single-footers, which it don't make much difference with, when a player pulls his six-shooter an' sends 'em shoutin' home to heaven some abrupt. Hut there ain't no room for a woman with a mua who turns cards as a pur soot." As time went on, the score of lovers who sighed on the daily trail of"The Cactus" dwindled down to two. The ret guv*! out dispirited. "I'm clean itraiu euoui»h," said Hill Tutt, iu apologetic description of his \ failure to persevere, "but I knows when I've not through. I'll play a game to a finish, but when it's down to the turn an' tuy last chip's gone ovet to the dealer, why 1 shoves my chair back an' quits. An'it's about that a way of au' conceruin' my love for this yere Cactus girl. I jest taut her none, au' tuat settles it. I now drors out au' give* uiy seat to some one else." "1 Lai's whatever," said n pers.v:nge known us Texas Joe, who wa> au inter ested listener to |he defeated Mr. Tutt, "au' you cau gaftihlc I'm with you on them views. I laves 'The Cactus' my se'f to a ftiijlilful decree, au' thar's times I jest i;oe» about wliiuin' for her; but yere awhile back 1 come projcctm' around her kitchen, au''l>i|^!'come* a skillet at my head, nu' that let's me out. You bet i don't pursoo tiieui explorations rouud her no more, I dou't want to get my lope uuto no woman who U that cal lous as to heave kitclieu bric-a-brac at a heart that's |»autiu' for her." Twu lover* still knelt at the shrine of i l l he Cactus. ' Tie were hailed by meu of L'tuuahar respectively a* Rice lirowu aud Riley lirook*. A descrip tion of oue would have Iteju a portrait of the other. They were young, good looklug, ol the bluesy Southwestern type, tauued as to face, and lithe and limber as blac < suakes a* to person. I hese still held the atfecttuus o/ " I'tie Cactus ' iu *le|{e and deiuautted capitula tion. That estimable virgin paid no heed lo their court, uor the •umiueul uf ouloukmii Ciuuabar. Hhe pursued her path in life even anil unmoved, Kite i oiupouuded her daily bread, compiled he, daily llapjacks, and oroiled her daily bee fat 4k by that simple al*l lugsulou* rutess, |Hipuint In I tie Southwest, uf '»K II >«n the griddle* of her I tune, <c.oup.ecdly etlhungh b-audei Hellespont nut Antony • the e«r of K<»pt'» •wMble that 'l ue •* thorny in her ilto4u and idle; >d the other* l's( 'M| tu«4 out. Me the o.*«e twu persisted LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 27. 1892. with each other. As the upshot of sech doin's would most likely be the stringin' of the survivor by tho Cinnabar commit tee on lariats, these yere nuptials, which now looks some feasible, would be clean busted, an' the camp get a set-back jest tßat much. I wish this yere maiden would tip her hand in this to some dis creet gent, so a play could be made in ; advance to get the wrong man outeu the way. Whatever do you think you'se'f, Rosewood?" "It's a delicate deal,"said that sapient cardist, "togo tamperin' round a young female for the secrets of her soul, but I shorely deems it a crisis,and public inter est demands somethin' is done. These yere boys is growin' mighty hostile of each othor, which I notes last night over in the Gold Mine saloon, where they was pamtin' up for war, an' unless wc all in terferes yere it's my jedgment some of this yere love-makiu' 'll come off in the smoke." "Thar oughter to be a nnct of Con gress," said Tutt, the pessimist, "agin love-makin' in the Far West, an' the East should be kept for sech purposes spcshul, same as reservations for Injuns. The Western climate's too exyooborant for love-inakin'." "S'pose me an' you an' Tutt yere goes over to this young female, an' all polite an' congenial like, we ups an' asks her intentions?" continued Armstrong, in an interrogative way, to Rosewood. "Excuse me, pard," said Tutt, with sad earnestness, "but I don't think I wants cards in this at all. 'The Cactus' is a mighty spirited lady, an' you all re calls as how I've been pesterin' 'round her in the past myse'f, for which reason, with others, she might take my comin' on sech errauts derisive an' bang me over the fore'erd with a dipper, or some sech objectionable play. So I reckon I better keep out of this yere embassy a whole lot. I ain't aimin' to shirk nuthin', but it'll be a heap more shore to win if I do." "Tutt ain' onlikely to bo plenty right about this," said Rosowood, "an' I reckon, Armstrong,we all better tako this trick ourselves." The mission was not a success. When the worthy pair of peace preservers ap pcarod in tho presence of"The Cactus" and mado the inquiries noted, it excited the scorn and ire of that retiring damsel beyond the power of words to describe. "What be you all doin' in my kitchen?" she asked, her face flushed with rage and noonday cookery. "Who sent you ail canternin' over yere to me with those insult in' questions, anyhow? I demands to know." "And ycre," said Rosewood, in relat ing the exploit in the Gold Mine saloon j immediately after, "she stamps her foot like a buck antelope an' let's fly n stove griddle at us, an' all with a proud, high air, which reminds me a mighty sight of a goddess. At the time it would seom tho duo at tempted au apologetic explanation of their presence, and made effort to point out to"The Cactus" the crying public need of some decision on her part. "You don't want these two young mule persous to take to shootin' of each other all up none, do you?" said Arm strong. "I wants you two sots to get outeu my kitchen," replied "The Cactus" vigor- : ously, "an' 1 wants you to move some hurried, too. Don't never let me find \ your moccasin tracks 'round this ycre ! water-hole no more, or I'll turn iu au' ; mark you up a whole lot."' "Yere, you," she continued, as they j were about to leave, something cast down by the conference, "you all cau tell that Riley Urooks an' Rice Brown if . j they're blamed fools enough togo mak- ! > in' a guu play over me, to make it ! hard. Tell 'em I can pick my mau out j when the smoke blows away." "Tutt's way right about 'The Cactus' beiu' some sperited," said Armstrong, as the two walked away. "She's shore spirited, an' that's n j fact," mused Rosowood, iu assent. The result of the talk with "The | Cactus" found its way about in Cinna bir und in less thau an hour bore its hateful fruit. The peaceful quiet of that Gold Mine saloon, which, as a rule, heard no harsher note thau the clatter of a stuck of chips, waa sullenly broken. "You alt who aiu't interested yere better take to a lower limb." It was the voice of Riley Brooks. , The traiued instinct of the Ciuuabar public at once fathoned the trouble aud proceeded to hide its many heads bu hind barrels, tables, counter and auy | place which promised refuge from the I bullets. All but one, aud that was itice ! lirowu. lie knew it ineaut him the ! moment Riley Urooks uttered the first j syllable, and his pistol came to the | front with a brevity bora of long pmj I lice. His rival's was already there, aud *o the shootiug begau. As a result Mr. 1 lirooks received a serious injury which crippled his good right arm fur many a day, while Mr. Brown was 1 picked up with a wound in the side which eveu the sentiment uf Cinnabar, j mured to such thing* and ineliued to optimism at all times, admitted at dau- Iff row "Wei'," said Armstrong, after the duelist* had beeu cared fur at the O. K House, ">ere we be again an' uutklii' settled. \ ere We tut* all this shooUn' an' all this blood-lettin'. an' the camp get* ail torn up; an 1 still that's jest a* uiauy uf tllfese yere people now as there was before, an' most likely the whole deal togo over a jam." "t shore atiouuuatix thing* a splitln' j even this a way," a*id Itusewood, "but ' Cinnabsi must b'ar it'* burdens same a* other camps it can't he he'ped none. 1 ' j The neat day the two duelist* were i still In bed A new phase was given the ! •titan when "The I'aclU*,'* clothed iu our pie aud line liuen, sad with (wo (in tent red ios«* in her straw hat, Mi the j Stage lo« I union. I tie management of j the tl, K House lepulted, In lelesenee j tu the Mi ited slat* of the t muehef I mind, that "The UMt<«" aonid leturn ! in a w<-«k Uh.lV 'JJ gTiS I aiiei i n »>«#* "* v * v% " v " 1 ' MlUnUwtM j or ''The Cactus." The shooting had in nowise disturbed her. That may have been her obdurate heart, or it may have come from a familiarity with the evanes cent tenure of human life born of long years on the border. Be that as it may, she experienced not the least concern touching the condition of her brace of lovers wouuded upstairs, and took the stage without even saying good-by to them or anyone else. "An' some fools say women is talkers," said Itosewood, in high disgust. Three days later Old Scotty, the stage driver, came in with startling news. "The Cactus" had married a man in Tuc son, and would bring him to Cinnabar in a week. "When I first hears of it," said Old Scotty, with a groan, >'au' when I thinks of them two pore boys a-lay in' in Cinna bar, an' their rights bein' trifled with that a-way, I shore thiuk I'll take my Winchester an' go an' slop them rites a whole lot; but, pards, the Tucson Mar shall wouldu't have it. So she nails him, an' I hears in a saloon over thar she's been aimin' to marry him before she ever hops into Cinuabar at ail. I sees him afterward, an' he's a little, measly-lookin' prairie dog, and from his looks he couldn't get a job clerkin' in a store." "Tharyou be,"said Armstrong. "An other case of woman's inhumanity to man. However, if 4 The Cactus' lias done gone a-flutterin' from her perch in this ycre fashion, jest the same we must prance 'round an' give her a high old time on her return. The honor of the camp bein' concerned, of course we whoops it up in style." And they did.—Kansas City Star. A Wonder of Science. One of the most delicate surgical operations ever performed in San Fran cisco was that to which A. Eaehm, a patient at the City and County Hospital, was subjected recently. The operation was remarkable in that an endoscope, or small elettric light, was used during the process. This was thrust into the thorac ic cavity, and by its illumination the ac tion of the heart and luugs was plainly visible. Baehm was nfllcted with an nbscosg, which had formed in the plcutal cavity and attacked the left lung. The opera tion was an exceedingly dangerous one, and in order not to shock tho patient no mention of the intcution of the physicians was made to him. Tho sick man was quickly anesthet ized and the inflated breast was exposed to view. A discoloration on the loft side showed that the troublo lay under tho tissue in that direction, and Dr. El linwood began operations at once by J making]two deep incisions crosswise,from ; which the blood spurted in streams. Several of the larger 'ulood vessels were necessarily cut, but these wero quickly ligatured with Dr. Stillman's assistance. The (laps of flesh were laid to one side, exposing the third rib to view. This rib was resected for three incite.*, and whoa it was cut away a dark and bloody open ing was revealed, through which the thoracic cavity and the space between tho lungs could be seen. Dr. Hlrehfeldcr inserted the endoscope through tho open ing in Buchm's breast and the light was turned on, illuminating the iutcnor of the cavity with remarkable distinctness. The heart worked slowly, owing to tho effect of ether. The aorta dilated and fell with every heart beat. The lung was also plainly visible. During tic oue hour and a half consumed in making the operation tho action of the heart was dis tinctly visible, and the unusual sight was the subject of much comment upon the part of tho operators and spectators. When tho process was completed an l every vestige of pus removed, tho endo scope was withdrawn, nud tho opening in Baclnn'g breast closed. The operation was a highly successful ouo in every par ticular, and Buehm'* condition shows that he is gaining strength.—Electricity. The Earth's Souther.uu nt Settlement. There is something pathetic about the description of the towuof Puntu Arenas, Terra del Puego, located on the strait about inidtvay between tho two oceans, that towu which is the southernmost settlement upon the face of the earth. Pifteea hundred people Hud life worth liviug in this place, notwithstanding tho fact that one of the characteristics of the neigborhood Is the frequent prevalence of a uiighty wind which sweeps down from the mountains back of the towu with such force and suddenness as to overwhelm a ship lying broadside on be fore she can swing her head around au<l ride out the gale. The town itself is a miserable collection of hut* and hovels, but is a point of great strategic value to this country as a coaling station in case of war with a South American power. Proft-atoi Lee presented several views of the iuhabitanU of Terra del Puego, charming creatures, with their thin, at tenuated limbs aud portly stomachs. These beauties allow their hair to grow loug and hang down straight. Then they plaster it with seal oil and red elay, which hardeus and makes a complete waterproof covering for (hairheads. The natives p»s*e>« the (acuity of imitating a souud and Professor Lee undertook to te-scli them a >wi||. Ue succeeded »o well that when he departed froiu their midst a ui»up stood upou the shore and seren aded him with "Pettier, Dear Ptlher, C'ouie iiuutu With Me Mow.Washing ton litaf. Tripe lur Ui mil ug liook*. A e»<u|'«iiy has lecently been Incor porated in Newark, N J,, with a capital ■t'» ititu.uuu, for the manufacture of umwiiiuiiuiit, The article and it* nature ate alike new. It i* alauuy leather made flout tripe Hutiiiug else than tanned ii*pe, in lent, It is said to be •My fMt t> and durable. the inventor of the procea* of menu failure, Jaine* W llei kert, of Neeetk, bad i ,i..< h iMw with the l'«i. m u/titß |» •mill he end they wwi promUtd on the '.aim of the pro lout dims above. fbcj insisted yeun it -si, that tripe ees uipw,M» matter | ihiouMh a bat . if.'«!• piut ese it be** been put. ■ Louts Itep-tbUe. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Small machines in 272 tailoring shops in Rochester, N. Y., are running by electricity. Japan has no fewer than 700 earth quake observing stations scattered over the Empire. Fish do not seem to exist below 400 fathoms (2400 feet) with the exception of the shark. Engines to be worked by wind are to be made in Michigan and shipped to Af rica and Asia. Philadelphia, Penn., has the biggest reel truck. It weighs 16,000 pounds and can carry or bear 150,000 pounds. The Vichy Springs in France and the Hot Springs in Kansas, are recommended by physicians to sufferers from the gout. An electric tuning box for the use ot leaders of orchestras and others interested in music has been invented by a French man. Two new steamers are being built, each 600 feet long for the Atlantic ser vice, guaranteed to cross in five days and ten hours. The first trace of a Cretaceous mammal discovered in Europe is a tooth of a P'agiaulax, from the Wealden formation of Hastings, and allied to that genus whose teeth have occured in the purbeck (Jurassic) beds. Ninety per cent, of tho male popula tion of the United States are nfllcted in gome degree with nervous debility or weakness and decline, caused either by improper traiuing, sedentary occupations, the use of stimulants, and excesses in habits of life. Some experiments in connection with the artificial production of clouds by burning cases of resinous matter were lately made in Paris, France, but were only partially successful on account of the wind carrying the clouds away as soon as formed. It appears that tho song of the cicada in Natal, South Africa, is appreciated by lace-winged flies which, while the cicada is shrilling, were observed to gather, sometimes in a group of fifteen or six teen, forming a rough semicircle at a short distance around its head. Professor Ileim, of Zurich, Germany, says that the most agreeable death is by falling. He has conversed with many people who have escaped dentil by falling by a hair's breadth only, and reports that those who experienced such acci dents suffered neither pain nor terror. Fogs frequently rise tn the morning and fall again in tho evening because, warmed by the sun's rays, they becomo more rarefied, and disperse to an altitude when they appear to bo entirely dispelled; but at night, when tho earth cools by radiation* the vapors near the earth again condense, and settle in the form of fog. In some flno caves discovered in Ta • mauia, the lights carried by tho explor ing party having been extinguished, the ceiling and sides of the caves seomod studded with diamonds, an effect duo to millions of glow-worms hanging to the sides of the walls and from the ceiling. These were the only living beings seen in the caverns. The largest band-sawing machine in the world has roceutly been completed In Euglatid nud sent to Tasmania. The machine can saw through a maximum depth of seventy-five inches and the car riage will accommodate logs fifty feet long and wcighiug about fifty tons. It is asserted that this saw cuts even faster than a circular saw, while westing seven ty-tlvc |>cr cent, less wood. A good illustration of the amount ol change brought about by deep-sea inves tigations in our Idea* ot tho distribution of the fishes is to be HCCU in the recent history of the discoboli. It U now shown that the discoboles, diskboarers, lunipflshos, suckling fishes, or sea snails, as they are variously called, uruno longer restricted to the Atlantic and Pacific In their northern parts and to the Artie Ocean. The Mameluke*. Tho Mamelukes were a former class ot slaves iu Egypt, who became aud con tinued for a lon« time to be the domi nant race of that country. Their name comes from the Arab, "Maiuluk," that is, slave. As far beck as tho year VM) we find mention of them, but it is not for several centuries thereafter that they are kuowu as a power. Iu tho twelfth century tho Sultan of Egypt bought of Ueughea Khan 19,000 Circassian, Miu grelian, Tartar and Turkish slave*, and in tho year lil4UMalek riulah made theiu hi* body guard; aud ten years later they killed Turin Shah and became master* of Egypt. In more modem time* they played an im|Mirtant part iu the battle of the Pyramid* iu 1798, where they were exhibited a* fine horse men, but where they were auulltilaled. The great part of their uuiuber were massacred by Meheniet All iu IHi I, a renins ut ouly escaping, and for • few year* maintaining themselves at New Doogolo, but these were exterminated In I WW. T lie Mameluke* kept up their ituiulwrs by the purchase Circassian and Ueotgiau slaves.—New York Dispatch Wearing Dug* tn Meffs. The lashiou of wearing dog* in mull* began when Itiuhelteu was great in Pieuce, and It wo* of long duration. The animal was of n miniature specie* which swwm to have dissppeated from the fauna ot Prance, and wen remark able for its diminutive site as (or its villous 'itspusitiou. that of Ninon ('Kudu* bat peculiarities which history li4s taken the pains to we seive, The beautiful epieutann hod the habit of taking Ileum-—that wo* the name ot the uticiuseopic beast - «nil her when it. sited out Iu dinner, end placing It in Its little basket btsbln bei plate, whclw It etiehed over It* in ui ■ is* s health by gioitling eben she ess disputed to i.al of any dish likely lu tense sn indigestion. Moil dti||t were in nek genetel use tnat there were pel Sees sbo bied *wl **<bl them as a blanch el t "innscne, - ion P'sevtsso t biunivle. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. THE MOTHER AS DOCTOR. SOME REMEDIES WHICH SHE SHOULD HAVE AX HAND. Cases W here an Ounce of Prevention is Better Than a Pound ot Cure— What to Have in the House. EVERY mother of little children should be, to a certain extent, her own family physician. A woman possessed of an average share of common sense can hardly nurse one or more children through the dis orders incident to babyhood and child hood without acquiring a good stock of information as to how to treat attacks of slight indisposition. Iler domestic practice should, however, be restricted to the administration of the simplest remedies, of external applications and of preventives rather than professed cures. Her knowledge should stand her in good stead in emergencies, and yet be tempered with the judgment that will direct her to call in a physician at the least menace of serious sickness. A child should be so closely watched by the mother that no derangement of its system may escape her notice. She should ascertain for herself that ull its bodily functions are in proper working order. Her trained touch should note in a moment any unusual heat or chilli ness of the child's body, the dryness of the skin, the over-quickness of the pulse. She should learn to know at a glance whether the throat and tongue aro in their normal condition, and her ear should be schooled to detect the differ ence between natural and labored or shortened respiration. A fever ther mometer should be ii every family medicine chest, and the mother should understand how to take her child's temperature, and thus make herself absolutely sure whether the patient is feverish or not. Even when the symptoms arc such as to cause alarm, a physician is not always at hand, and upon the mother there devolves tho charge of the little one. A few general hints as to simple nodes of treatment may not be amiss. Some children have a tendency towards croup that manifests itself as night approaches in feverishness,ho» nesß and a barking cough. Such symp toms must not be disregarded. The child's feet must be well heated before it goes to bed, its chest-cubbed with cam phorated oil and coveted with a bit of red flannel spread with vaseline. Aconite may be given at the rate of half a drop in a teaspoonful of water every half hour for three or four doses. If the cold is a fresh one this may check it and pro duce a gentle respiration. When the un pleasant symptoms remain, fifteen drops of syrup of ipecac may be given every t-veuty minutes ur'i! the hoarseness is relieved or tbe child vomits. Should the little one waken suddenly from sleep with a hoarse cough and tightened breathing, a teaspoonful of ipecac con taining as much powdered alum as can be heaped on a silver dime may be ad ministered. If the child does not vomit within half an hour, the dose may be re peated. A bath in water of about ninety live degrees is, of course, excellent in croup, as in congestion or convulsious, Croupy children should be kept housed while there is meltiug snow on the ground. The snow air often affects them even theu,and makes thaws anxious sea sons for mothers. Slight bowel troubles can usually bo regulated better by diet than by drugs. Children suffering with looieness of the bowels should bo fed with boiled milk, boiled rice, arrowroot jelly, rice flour porridge, sage or tapioca aud soft toast. Haw fruit and sweets should be especially avoided. The regimeu is not severe,aud is more attractive than dosing. Children whose tendeucy is in the opposite direc tion should have a laxative diet, consist ing of oatmeal, hominy, mush, wheaten grits, baked potatoes, beef juice, apple tuuee, etc. Sugar of milk may be added to the food as a gentle corrective, a tea spoon (til three times a day usually being enough to produce the desired effect. Pain in the stomach or bowels, or colic, la so varied iu its uiauifcstutiou* that it is hard to lay down auy fixed rule of treatment. If the colic springs from acidity, a teas|ioonful of lime wa ter, or a piuch of carbocato of so la dis solved iu a little water will ofteu relieve the |Hitient. Where there is auy incli nation to sour tut* of stomach, lime water should always tie added to the milk which a child driuks. For pain iu tbe bowels a teaspoonful of auise cordial mixed with a teaspoonful of hot water wfteu produces a happy effect. Flan uels dipped iu hot spirits aud wrt'ug out may be laid on the l>owe!t of ihestiffurer sua frequently prove vtry soothing. In •harp |H«iu laudanum may be added to tbe spirits. Au old fashioued spice plaster iu excellent remedy. It ts made by mixing a heaping leaspoouftll each of grouud ciuuamou cloves, tuace aud all spiee with two of ginger. The mixture is quilted between two thickueatea o( red flannel about right iutiles toil 4 by six wide. The plnstei may Ito applied dry or dipped in boiling alcohol and laid ou the little patient s abdomen as hot ss he lan bear it, tu cues of weakness ■>( the bowels this plaster may be worn ton. tlautly Willi benefit. Although au ovoruse of drugs is al ways Iu be deplored, each home where theft are little folke should be supplied with its inedifllne cheat or cabiuet, kept baked, aud the key In the wothet s pusseasiwtt. In this box u| cupboard, besides the paregoric, ipecac and pep permint bottlee, there should be aconite fur fevertahuess, linseed oil for bum., amiMouia for bee stings, 1 atupbur for luAueuaas, and a vial ••( brandy for »ud den laiullug lit, or the serious ectidenl* that «Mt mmtiUiHW mini lu tin* Int| 112« jjuUtv t Nu* V 'ffc 14*. a** del. The last puluie upon which M> l*e<'t*i<i w >ike«l 1* bow tw « ahlbttiuM in Urn lot ll is a ttaui color stud) •( a a>Wi» 1 on horseback, and is dune on lk> lop iIM uf mi u#*iin*<f aalet tutor Mutt It <*4< found near the patntat s beds.4* kh> a j r <Mtfes NO. 33. HINTS OF SUMMER. Buds a ewellin', geese a squawking Everything a stirrin'; Robins whißtlin', quails a pipin', Pa'tridgea a whirrln'. Old man looks around about him Sees the ground a crackin' K&se the present time for freezin? Lacks old winter's backin'. „■ Farmers mendin' up their harness Girls a huntin' roses, Mud knee-deep in all the roadways; Old folks countin' noses. Thus by curious methods find we, Spring is slowly waning; / And that summer—long a laggin'— On our path is gaining. —Browne Perriman, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An old salt—Epsom. A cut and dried affair—Hay. Hungers for fame —The forty-day faster. Motto for a dictionary of proverbs— •'Old saws filed here."—Truth. A boot and shoe trust is a corporation with a sole.—New York Journal. There is one branch of labor which must always bo done by hand—Picking pockets. A man is as old as he feels, but not always as big, not by a heap.—luilaa a polls Journal. "Faith" was described by an Ohio boy as "exnectin' something ye ain't goln' to git. —Columbus Post. A •'statement that you won't wash" can't be trusted to the dampened tissuo of tho official letter-book.—Puck. A merchant may drive a fast horse, but he never objects to taking other people's dust.—Binghamton Republican. Maud—"What a terrible thing drown ing is 1" Mabel—"Yes; it wonld just kill me to die that way."—Harvard Lampoon. "Ten lifetimes," says a writer, "will not suffice to solve the enigma, woman." Indeed that is so; and yet we must not —Judge. invince a girl by arguing tliat a nii..... not an angel. The only <vay to convince her is to let her marry him.—Atchison Globe. The expert has become so necessary a part of our civilization that nothing is certain but death, and that is in doubt until after the funeral.—Judge. How does love tako the life out of a man I But then a man can't be expected to have much pluck after ho has given away his heart.—Boston Transcript. Possibly one reason why men who talk loudly seem so general!? «uccessful is that they can't be easily disturbed in their occupation.—Washington Star. Shakespeare speaks of sermons in tho stones. Now P understand why women pay so much attention to one another's jewels when in church.—New York Herald. "I never thought you were the sort of man to get married." "No; butyou see I go about a good deal, and I found it necessary to have some one to leave cards for me."—Fun. Miss Va«sar—"Do you know, Mr. Blank always carries a noto book in which to put down any bright remark ho hears." Miss Smith—"Why, I know him very well, aud I never saw it."— Yale Uecord. Every time Miss Amanda, whoso understanding is romewhat large, stops at a hotel, she cleans her own shoes and sets outside the door a small pair, which she carries with her expressly for that purpose.—Fliegendu Blacttcr. A police officer met a sarcastic organ grinder ou tho street and said: "Have you a license to play J If not, you mt»t accotnouuy inc." "With pleasure," an swered the street musician. "What will you siug?"—Providence Telegram. Physician—"You owed mo another little bill, Mr. Judkins, which I can't remember your having paid." Mr. Jud kins—"Well, don't grumble at mo about it. lam not responsible* for your bad memory, am ll"—Pharmaceutical Era. Judge—"Prisoner at tho bar, tho court DM assigned counsel to defend you." Prisouer (with a glance at the counsel,—"ls dat my lawyer, yer honor!" Judge—"Yes." Prisouer— "Den I pleads guilty."—Brooklyn Life. "Well, I'uele HI, yott are a prophet; tell me what Is the weather prospect for ta-iuurrow I'' "Ye'll hev ter excuse mo ter day, sir, I'm too busy to tell ye. Call around day after to-morrow, and I'll give you all the information you want about to-morrow."— Harper's litiar. IVklot— "lf your hu»lwtid's hiccoughs don't stop verv soon, madam, he'll ho a dead man. Theru la oaly oue thing to be done, lie must tie startled out of tlieni. t ail you suggest auy way I" Aux loua Wife (thoughtfully)—"| might tell* lilin that I hid decided not to ordet that new silk dress."—Cloak ilciitw. Young Medical Man—"Thanh good new, I have pulled through my esauta at last. It is horrible to think uf ail the haul work I have had to go through th«»»« last font years." Elderly Practi tioner "Well, uiy dear cnthMgue, thaw la one estuattlaiion; you won't have any thing t» dw lor a long, lung while now," -Iter Flub. "IVar, deal!" said a kind hearted tualruu mi ousting a friend whom she t«d not h«s tot a long tuna, "and jou re Mut yet mart led, Jane with y our go>id looks tool" "No{ Put not mar ried yet," leplled Jane, with a laugh. "Weil," said Jsue, with a twinkle o| hat eye, "1 «ipent It la Uusmr I «g burn so- Vt asp. The Mc« i-ugiatid thatm me Putwiait leas, lb* M. bile tM*lr« ,|| u j Ik.lung tens, gieM Was and a la* Uwn gu», th« ». cth piincinaiii yienn tea*, and the N nth a vat and ''-iiyln. iapau teas, a int W latter io**tttute v<*et *ne ' ' ol the stftMv tvnaunrytwn.
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