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.