Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Page 5

FLOODED BY THE FLOYD

SCENES OF UNUTTERABLE DESOLATION AND WOE. \ ___ The FrigliMul Flood Which the Floyd Elv«r Poured Over an Enterprising; lowa City, {Sweeping Av'ay Homes and Crushing Out Lives. Sioux City’s ’Calamity. Sioux City correspondence: One of the saddest scene in the history of the flood disaster of the West stands revealed. The contemptible Floyd River, which spread such desolation through this city, has crept back to its original narrow channel, leaving vast piles of shattered houses, torn up streets, broken telegraph poles fmcl tangled masses of debris to at-' test the fury with which it swept the place, engulfing the homes of hundreds and extinguishing human lives. Not less than thirty-five persons were drowned, and just how many more may have been borne to the raging Missouri may never be known. The flood did iiotsweepdown in a wall

ANDREW ANDERSON,

saved 27 lives aud lost tie gutter of a bis own. .stream in Western lowa into a turbulent river; but Tuesday night preceding the overflow the slow fall of the waters was hurried into a fierce down-

SCENE OF THE AWFUL FLOOD. General view of the city, looking west across Floyd River. Almost every lot in the blank -space shown in the foreground contained a house, and all were swept away.

fall, and when day broke "Wednesday morning the Floyd was tearing at its bank. In the middle of the night a wild gale began, and that, with the rain, did the business of death. The Floyd runs east of the thick of the city i nto the Missouri River., which bends at this point, and is almost directly north. It comes from the hills, and is an inconsiderable stream for the most of its course till it reaches Sioux City, where it broadens somewhat. In dry weather the numberless streams that feed it it are mere ditches, but under such storms as we have had lately they grow wild. They gorged the Floyd. The rising of the wind forced the water in the Floyd down through its banks, and finally pitched a volume into the course through Sioux City that«would have strained the capacity of a great river. It reached the town at 8 o'clock in a wave about two feet high, which roared over the Floyd course and tossed spray up about the piers of the railroad bridges. Preparations have already been made for clearing out families and personal property in the district •sure to be flooded, and under the instructions of the police chief, mount* ed men.had been sent from house to ihouse'with a warning based on reports •from .up the river. The first wave irolled to the knees of the horses of flhe patrolmen, but they kept about ltheif duty pushing through the flood and driving families from the houses. In .cases this was a difficult matter. "The "Floyd had never shown anger before, and even when the first rush ■came many persons clung to their little .property and refused to leave their homes. The mounted men worked till the spray was dashing over their horses’ flanks and then took ,to the high places with the hun•dred&of workingmen who had seen the tide ooming and had left the factories, the packing-houses and the roundhouses and scrambled for safety. After the Lull the Storm. There was a lull after the firstburst, and the people standing on the bridges and looking up the river said that whaf had come before was mere petulance to the greater force behind. Up among the hills the waters of the Floyd were seen leaping into the air, but charging down always between the steep hanks, with the tnunks of trees above them frantically tossed like the clubs ,of some barbarian

HOW MRS. KELLY SPENT 24 HOURS.

army, as far as the eye could follow the waters irito the woods above. And in a few minutes their force was felt in repeated bursts that covered a great section of the city with the mad flood. The scene that followed it was cruel beyond belief. In the part of the flooded district that bore the main weight of the attack hundreds of poor working people lived with their families in fsame houses convenient to the factories where the heads of the families were employed. The flood swept these slight tenements before it, and made them driftwood be-

fore the veiy •eyes of the catchers on the bridges. Some of the slighter ones were picked from their posts and tossed, contents and all, on the surface of the water. Others made a stout resistence, hut were crushed or jjent as it happened, and sent on the Same course. In less than an hour apd a half the homes of 3,500 people had been either borne down toward the Missouri as driftwood or were standing dismantled in the middle of the flood. From the bridges the people who had fled at the first warning watched the dreadful scene. They saw men and women clinging to the roofs of houses and screaming for help. The waves climbed, and soon, before the eyes of the watchers, these human creatures were dashed from their places and sent whirling down the river, driftwood themselves. Above the Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge a whole family clung to the roof of a frame house. Among them was a little girl. Suddenly she let go her hold and slipped into the flood. Later she was found alive lying on a pile of driftwood half a mile below. Her father and the rest of the family went away with the house, which succumbed to the waves shortly after the child fell. The father was drowned, but the other members of the family escaped. The mother was rescued by an engineer who had himself been let down from the railroad bridge to the plank to which she clung. Facing; a Dreadful Fate. Houses disappeared completely and the families clinging to the roofs were seen next hundreds of yards down stream wildly striking out for support from the drift. Some were thrown unconscious into masses of wood piled against the bridge piers. Still more were seen fighting for life, tossed in the middle current of the

crushing out life and homes by its very weight, as Johnstown’s flood did. It was expected, to some extent, for weeks of rain had poured ..down upon the 'hills at whose feet Sioux City lies, and had turned every lit-

stream. Some of these were thrown by side currents to the -shore; some went straight to the Missouri. It was a desperate task to face the fury of the flood, but many brave men ventured out in small boats and picked up the drowning men and women. While the flood was at its height many of these were saved by ropes held by men in safe ■places. Some were armed with ropes and long poles, and.a large number of lives were saved in consequence. One of those thus rescued was William Mills. He came sailing down with the tide in a>connnon dry-_goods "box. Long 'before he reached the trestle-work he had attracted the people's attention, and the life-sav-

iag rape was lowered and in waiting. Just before be reached it, however, the box burned, and Mills .all hut missed the rope. He succeeded in grasping the rope, and was quickly hauled up onto the level track. Many incidents of • the fldod were thrilling. Chief Hawman rescued Robert Ooekran's family and Victor Grille Fs family from tbe roofs of their houses. Louis Krunaann, a milkman, saw two men go out in a boat, chop a hole in a roof, and draw out a family who were shivering in the water, that reached to their chins in the back room of the top floor. The two men started out on a second trip, capsized, and were drowned. The most pathetic incident connected with the disaster was the drowning of Andrew G. Anderson, who had saved twenty-seven lives. Anderson was exhausted by his perilous work and his friends had forced him to desist, but later, when a family was discovered in a building likely to float away any moment, he took a boat and went to its rescue. Being capsized, he was too weak to save himself, although an expert swimmer. Four years ago Anderson swam out into the Missouri River and saved two lives. A handsome monument will be erected by the Knights of Pythias lodge to which he belonged. Scenes of Woe and Desolation

The scene when the flood, having receded, left the marks of its deadlyhand on the city were most distressing. Piled up on all sides were seen huge banks of wood and iron, paving blocks, the roofs of bouses, telegraph poles and big trees dragged from the hills. In the places where high streets had been were mere bogs, into which the workmen sank to their knees. Low expanses in the Floyd Valley were hip deep in water. Looking upand down from the bridge one saw spaces which were recently dotted with little frame houses absolutely bare of structures qf any kind. In the places where tenants had been thickest one only saw shattered skel-

TÆFE SAWERS AT WORK.

etons of homes. Railroad tracks were twisted and forked, roundhouses had been lifted and demolished and the broken upper ends of poles hung to the trolley wires that used to run the electric cars.

Around the bureau of information, which bad been organized by the

WRECKED PORTION OF RAILROAD LEADING INTO STOCKYARDS.

citizens, the scenes were most pathetic. Mothers came looking for their children, husbands for their wives, and children for their parents. In some cases the committee was able to give information as to where the missing ones could be found, but it was too often the case that the seekers went away benumbed at heart. In some cases the suspense became grief, when it was broken by the announcement of the recovery of a body. The Work of Keller. As soon as possible after the flood the work of rescue and relief was begun.* Private houses were thrown open to the homeless and soup

kitchens were organized. The council voted $5,000 to the relief fund. When Gov. Boies telegraphed the Mayor an offer of assistance that official pluekily responded that Sioux City could take care of herself. This, however, was reconsidered when the full magnitude of the disaster became known, andmow relief is coming in from all parts:of lowa. The most gratifying features of the visitation were the warm-heartedness of the wealthy. One burly Irishman, who had lost heavily by the flood stood in his 'Office door after the waters had subsided and distributed $5 and $lO bills to homeless people.

At• the Stock Yards. The destruction wrought at the stock yards was indescribable and the loss.amounts to over half a million. Blocks of hog pens were floated away and the noise of the breaking timbers sounded like the crack of artillery. Scale houses, slaughter houses, barrels and tubs, cattle sheds, chutes, etc., were swept by the flood and piled ten to fifteen feet high in one indescribable confusion. Hundreds of hogs and cattle perished. Toward Leech street, where the -strongest current ran, the force of •the water was so great as to scoop out a channel six feet deep. The heavy stone curbing was swept away and telegraph, telephone and electric light poles and wires were contorted :into tangled masses. 'A Perilous -Railroad Trip. From |he eve of the flood until Thursday no train entered the city. Then a train was pushed through on the Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha line, from Manilla, and the trip was one of the most perilous ever under taken. A repair train was sent ahead and the toad was practically built up ahead .'of' the passenger coaches. At every mile washouts were encountered, and when Mapleton was reached the train ran through Jakes bigger than those on which clubmen sail in their yachts in the summer time. The Maple River had overflawed its banks and for miles around the farms lay under from three to ten feet of water. When the Little Sioux was reached the situation was found to be extremely dangerous. The toad here runs over a long .trestle across the bottoms that adjoin the Little Sioux. The trestle is six feet above the bottoms, but there the water was rushing tumultuously ' against the

SCENE AT THE RAILROAD BRIDGE.

tracks. A gale of fifty miles an hour was blowing, and when it swept over a lake made by the flood for five miles on either side it tossed up breakers like triio.se that rush across Lake Michigan. Half way out the engineer halted. The conductor . got out and signaled him ahead. He went on through the flood. The passengers, in fear and many of them white-faced.stood upon the platforms-and clutched at the handrails. The waters sprayed around them and they could feel the trestle quaking. The trestle passed, the next danger point was the bridge oter

the river, which was swinging be* neath the blows of the noisy Little Sioux. It was stanch, though, and the train ran over in safety and reached Sioux City. Although nearly 4,000 people were rendered homeless there is little destitution, as the relief committees are

carrying out the work of assistance on systematic principles, and besides most of the heads of families are employed in clearing up the debris left by the flood. Sioux City is hopeful and a few weeks more will see it “boomin’’ on the road to renewed prosperity, as though a financial loss of nearly $2,000,000 had not been visited upon it.

Precious Ore in Central Park.

“There is silver in Central Park, and I think gold and tin are also to be found there.” The speaker was Colontd H. Charles Ulman, a lawyer of New York. Colonel Ulman, who was in command of the Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Reserves during the civil war, is a practical miner as Well as a soldier and lawyer. For eight years he was interested in mining in Colorado, and the knowledge he had gained in regard to it is of the practical sort. “What makes you think those metals are to be found there?” he was asked. “I have found one, silver, and there are indications of the others,” he replied. “Not long ago, while passing through the depressed roadway at Sixty-fifth street, I noticed a rock of peculiar appearance in the north retaining wall. I examined it with the glass I always carry in my pocket, and saw unmistakable traces of silver. I chipped off a piece of the rock. I used five milligrams of it in making an assay, and the result of the assay was a showing of forty-six ounces of silver to the ton. I learned from inquiry at the park department that all the rock used in building this retaining wall was quarried in the park. If that be the case, there is silver in Central Park. Since I clipped the piece from the stone in the wall in the Sixty-fifth street roadway, the stone has been removed aud another has been put in its place, but I am confident that a little prospecting would result in finding stone in the park that will not only show traces of silver but of gold and tin as well.

Old Things in Different Lands.

There are more things with the stamp of antiquity on them in this country than many suppose. In Greenbush, a suburb of Albany, New York, .is a residence built in 1642 by the Van Rensselaer family, and which has been continuously inhabited since, In 1888, David Drew, of Plymouth, N. H., came into the possession of grains of maize taken from an Egyptian mummy- 4,000 years old. They grew when planted. In 1791 am apple tree was planted near-Newbury, Ohio, and before the tree bore fruit the planter was scalped by tlje Indians almost beneath its shadow. The tree still bears fruit. Jliekory Jim, the oldest race horse in the world, was running the present year at Guttenberg, N. J., aged ,23. Last year a barn was burned In Berks County, Pa., which was erected again in 1740, and in which Gen. Washington stabled his horses. Last summer Samuel Sands, the compositor on the Star Spangled Banner, died at the age of 92. He set up the immortal song in 1814. There is in Rome a painting of Christ from the second century. There is in the British Museum a bank note issued from tbe| imperial mint of China during the reignof the first Ming Emperor. The oldest mine of which there is record is in Musashi, Japan, which was first worked 1,1-83 years ago.

The Great California Telescope.

Southern California seems naturally entitled to a very high rank in horticulture, in the attractiveness of its climate', in the exports of oranges and lemons, and in the size of its irrigating dams; but taking all circumstances into account, one would hardly expect to find in that region the largest telescope in the world. That distinction, however, the young community away down on the Pacific Slope will presently enjoy. The Manchester (N. H.) Union states that the largest telescope ever made, measuring ten feet in circumference, or nearly forty inches in diameter, is now in process of manufacture by a well-known New England establishment. It is destined for the University of Southern California, and surpasses in size even the celebrated instrument at the Lick Observatory.

Editor Smith of the Philadelphia Press thinks the Czar’s government is “the best for Russia.” In his opinion the Russians have all the liberty they can assimilate. If he had spent a year in Kennanizing, as it were, among the prisons of Russia instead of luxuriating at court, he would have come back with a different story. Editor Smith would not make a good police reporter. The Eiflpress of Russia presented to her father, the King of Denmark, six beautiful white Arab horses of great value on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary. The Empress goes back to the old idea of royal presents. The Arab horse has ever been one of the luxuries that could not always be purchased with money. Old King Coal appears to be entirely under the control of his barons. Among months May can properly be described as the raining favorite

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES.

BIX DEMOCRATIC STATESMEN IN THE LEAD. Brief Biographies of the Host Prominent Ucmorratlo Presidential Possibilities— Cleveland. Hill. Botes. Palmer, Campbell and Gorman—Good Hen and True. Grover Cleveland. Born in Caldwell. Essex County, N. J., March 18, 1837, of English descent on paternal side and of Irish origin

on maternal side. His father a Presbyterian minister. His mother’s name Miss Annie O'Neill, of Baltimore. Family moved early to Syracuse, N. Y., where, at the age of 17 years, the young

CLEVELAND.

man became an assistant teacher in an institution for the blind. Later they moved to Buffalo. The Democratic Presidential candidate was known as Stephen G. Cleveland till made Sheriff of Erie County, when he dropped off his father’s name and became Grover. Admitted to bar in 1859 and practiced with success. Made Sheriff in 1870, Mayor in 1881, and became known as the “Veto Mayor.” While Sheriff, it is said, hanged a man with his own hand. On cry of “Reform” chosen Governor by nearly 200,000 majority, the largest ever given for a State candidate. Re-elected with David B. Hill as Lieutenant Governor, who led the ticket. Chosen President in 1884, defeating Blaine. A rotund man who weighs 290 pounds and speaks in a prophetic vein. On June 2, 1886, married Miss Frances Folsom, the daughter of his old law partner. She is ricli and has one child. Only marriage of a President in the White House. David Bennett Hill, “I am a Democrat." He could have added: “1 am a confirmed bachelor.” Born in Havana, N. Y., Aug. 20,

1843. His father, a boatbuilder i n a small way, and sonj climbed the ladder step by step. Salesman, teacher, clerk, editor, and lawyer;, but above all a politician, and strongest of partisans.! Always studies the, effect of his acts so as to avoid being

“putin a hole.” Immediately after admission to the bar made District Attorney of Chemung, and held several local offices. He used his newspaper to solidify the Democratic elements, and his success was undoubted. His first State office was Lieutenant Governor under 'Governor Grover Cleveland, and became Governor when Cleveland assumed the Presidency in a 885. Twice mom hinted and elected to the office. Declined a third nomination last year,as he preferred to go to the United States Senate as-successor of William M. Evarts. Was a candidate for Governor dm 3 888, when Cleveland ran for President. He led Cleveland 30,000, and was elected toy a big majority, while Cleveland was beaten. Disloyalty to Cleveland was charged, hut never proven. Hill is a tireless student of-current events, .and 'keeps track of every movement.

JttmeN K. 'Campbell. One of the strongest Democrats in the usually Republican State of Ohio. Been chosen Governor of the State,

CAMPBELL.

Lexington, was one iff his maternal ancestors. Is known in .political circles as the Butler County “Mascot.” At theagemf twenty-four was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Hamilton County. Chosen Prosecuting Attorney in 1877, and served till 1880. Beaten for race for State Senator in 1879. His friends elected him to Congress in 1882, and again in 1884 and 1880. Became very popular by watching the interests of his constituents and of cx-soklicrs. Received the unanimous nomination for Governor in 1879. and came out of the campaign with flying colors, beating the previous Democratic record by 46,218 votes. l.lis record as Chief State Executive won plaudits from adherents of all parties. Is a hard worker, and more regular in his attendance at his office,than his clerks. Is easy erf access, and al ways ready to inquire Into grievances -and to redress them. Gives hifge sums in charity from his private means. His charming wife is a society leader, and Is mother of ■one daughter and three sons.

Jnfan McAuley I’almer. The ■‘'grand old man of Illinois” was born, 1817: admitted to the bar, 1839; Probate Judge, 1843; member

Constitutional Convention, 1847; County Judge, 1348: member State Senate, 1852; reelected as an independent and anti-Nebraska Democrat; left the Democratic party o n the slavery question, and resigning his seat in the Senate on that aCcount. 1856; delegate

to the Republican State Convention and President thereof, and delegate to convention which nominated Fremont, same year: supporter of Lincoln against Douglas, 1858; candidate for Congress. 1859: Presidential elector on Republican ticket, 1860: member Peace Conference at Washington, 1861; Colonel of volunteers, and promoted to Brigadier General, 1861; prominent in the military operations of 1862. promoted tp Major General, 1863; prominent in the campaigns and battles of Chickamauga. Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta; commanded military department of Kentucky, 1865-6: electr ed Goverhor of Illinois, 1868; supported Horace Greeley in 1872 and Samuel J. Tjlden in 1876; three times nominated for United States Senator and three times defeated: delegate to National Democratic Convention, 1884; nominated for Governor and

defeated, 1888; nominated and elect ed Senator, 1890-1. Horace Francis Boles. In lowa they call him “one of thi boys.” A big, handsome man, wilt clean-shaven face, and stroug, pleas

State of lowa, which chose him as its Governor on the Democrat ic ticket. Had been a Republican up to 1881, when ho joined in the anti-Republi-can crusade, which was a war also on monopolies and prohibition. He acted with the Democrats in all the campaigns from 1882 to 1889, and acquired a wide reputation as a vigorous and forcible speaker. It was this course which secured him the Democratic nominktion, which resulted in his election as Governor. 110 defeated Hutchinson, the Republican candidate. by 6,753 votes, although the rest of the Democratic ticket was defeated. Botes is a hard worker, and is at his office daily at the unusually early hour of 7:30 a. m. He has two sons and one unmarried daughter, Miss Jessie. He is a lawyer by profession, but gives his chief attention to cattle-raising, being a very extensive land-owner He is a tlrm believer in the doctrine that a grand future lies before Democracy in the West. Arthur l’uo Gormun. One of the most courteous and popular Democrats seen In Washington. Was born in Woodstock, Md.,

HI MX

a n<fi the (inly man in Ohio who made it hot for McKinley. Was born in Middleton, Ohio, July 7, 1843. Captain .TohnParker,.who commanded colonial troops at the battle o f

The joke about pigeon’s milk has a foundation in fact. After the incubation of the young has been completed the crop* of the parent birds become thicker and secrete a sort of curd with which, the young are fed. This description of nourishment is necessary for them, for if the young pigeons are deprived of it during the first week or two after hatching they are sure to die. So DisTiNorisHedapoet as William Morris going bail for an anarchist editor who lias been arrested for inciting his readers to murder naturally shocks London, just as the utterances of the artist Crane shocked Boston a while ago. Inasmuch as Mr. Morris has always professed extreme socialist doctrines, there seems to be no occasion for astonishment at his action in bailing out an anarchist who was anxious to attend the funeral of his wife. The world owes much to William Morris, including our Morris furniture, our Morris wall paper, our “Earthly Paradise” and thousands of lines of epic poems that are a delight to this generation and will be to generations to come. What a young man who has a best girl wants is to hold Jiis own.

PALMER.

ant expression. A great horseman and in youth was passionately devoted to equestrian exercise. Was born in Erie County, New York, in ,1827. Went West with his parents at an early age, and grew up with the

BOIERS.

March 11, 1839. His ancestors came from Ireland in 1784 and settled in Pennsylvania. His father, Peter Gorman, was a thrifty fanner, who acquired a competence and became a railroad contractor. Was one of the builders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,

and while In this enterprise settled in Maryland. Young Arthur was always a Democrat, and when a mere youth was a State Convention delegate. He gained the friendship ol Senator Douglas while a page In the Senate and rose rapidly through hit influence. Was a champion of Douglas in his race for the Presidency. Made Postmaster of the Senate in 1860. ' Made Collector of Internal Revenue in Maryland after the wai through the influence of Reverdj Johnson, Montgomery Blair, and Thomas A. Hendricks. Ills accounts fell in arrears in a large sum, hut the difficulty was adjusted, lie was made director of the Chesapeake and Ohic Canal in 1860. He served in the House of Delegates from 1870 to 1872. The next year he was chosen Speaket of the House. In 1875 was elected State Senator, and in 1877 was mud< Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. Has been in the United States Senate since 1881. A keen and dignified politician with a warn 1 heart.

A Pretty Cage Bird.

The oommon redstart makes e pretty cage bird, though it is not often seen in captivity in this country. It visits Missouri and Illinois every summer, leaving for the south on the first approach of cold weather. It is a beautiful bird, and takes iti name from a bunch of brilliant red feathers under the long plumes of the tail. When taken from the nest the birds are easily reared, and theii liveliness and cheerfulness in confinement dissipate the idea that they are longing for freedom. They havf a pretty song, and are in every waj so far superior to the canary that 11 Js a \Sonder that they are not fre qucntly caged and kept.

A Queer Partnership.

Here is a cat that didn’t “kill th< rat that ate the malt.” Dr. E. F. Everist, of St. Mary’s, Ohio, found In his barn a few days ago a large raf nursing three kittens. When tht mother cat returned she relieved the rat, which went to sleep In the hay. Next day the Doctor and some friends saw the cat go tip to a large rat-hole aud mew several times, whereupon the rat came forth and took its place among the kittens. At least, this Is the story as i| comes to us.

Bolling a Planet of Ice.

One of those scientific gentlemen who spend their time in determining results on impossible hypotheses, estimates that if the earth should come in contact with another body of the same size, the quantity of heat generated would be sufficient to melt, boll and completely vaporize a mass of Ice fully seven times that of the colliding worlds, or, in other words, an iced planet 150,000 miles in d Lam-et er.

Pigeon's Milk Not a Joke .

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Dust in Factories.— Dr. William B. Canfield read an excellent paper before the Clinical Society of Maryland, in which he dwelt particularly on dust as a causative factor in pulmonary disease. He turned his attention chiefly to the existence of this state of affairs in factories, and he furthermore states that tiie treatment is to take the patient from his dangerous occupation when the improvement begins at once. Owners of large factories are adopting stringent prophylactic measures in order that may not looso so many good workmen. The best methods are : 1. To prevent the formation or escape of dust by using wet grinding or by grinding in closed vessels. This is” not always practicable.' 2. To Prevent inhalation of dust by wearing respirators, etc., but these are uncomfortable and the men remove them at every opportunity. The removal of dust as fast as it is produced by using fans and air shafts. This is by far the best plan Still further the following rules should bo enforced: 1. Workmen should change their outer clothing after work. 2. They should keep their faces and hands as clean as their work will allow. 3. —They should not be allowed to eat in the work-room. Obstacles to the Cure of Disease.— A disease is incurable, says the Popular (Science Monthly, when its causes work on without interruption. Malaria induces an incurably chionic condition if the infected person does not leave the impregnated marshland of his residence. A bronchial catarrh continues stationary, and at last draws the lungs into sympathy with it if the jan-Son attacked by it remains constantly exposed to a dusty atmosphere. With like suddenness and energy of the causes of disease, with like continuance of the local processes, the individual’s power of resistance, tli© vigor of his constitution are Important factors in determining the outcome. A vigorous 30-years-old muu will overcome an inflammation of th© lungs which would lie fatal to an old man, to a drinker, or to a nmn weakened by luxury ora life of dissipation or suffering. Finally, “ crimen non est artis, sort icgrotl ” the fault is not of th© art, but of the patient is the phrase that may be applied to those cases in which the most correct measures taken under favorable circumstances fall to accomplish their purpose, because tho patient himself does not or cannot cooperate with them. No treatment can relievo th© smoker from ids throat-catarrh, so long us he persists in his habit. This aspect of the ease is especially pertinent to the nervous disorders which are one of the growing scourges of our age; incapacity aud vacillation, the forco of outer iniluenoes, or tho pressure of business too often intorvuno to interrupt acuro which was otherwise fairly possible. How, When and What to Eat. Never fail to eat little, and eat often—lt requires less food, is more easily digested, is more thoroughly assimilated, and is tho best cure In tho world for dyspepsia and a weak stomach. Never drink much when you eat—lt retards digestion, causes you to swallow your rood before it is properly masticated, and is tho principal cause of your eating too much. Never eat too much meat it is heating, and makes you a better subject for disease. Eat it sparingly. Never think too much about what you eat—the less.the better for your stomach. Eat a groat variety, and waste ns little thought about its effects us possible. Never drink strong tea or coffee—they botli are injurious, coffee being the worst. If you are ailing, the sometimes may act ns u medicine. Never eat too freely during th© middle of the day—make your evening meal the largest one. Nover fall to eat an abundance of broad, and as about everything else you cat contains about the same eleHeuts as bread made of finely bolted lloiir, eat what is called brown bread, or bread made of the whole wheat, as it contains elements not found in other articles of food—elements that your system must have to thrive. Never mix your food too much before eating it -it is piggish. Never fill your plate with articles of food and leuvo half of it—it is extravagant and uncultured. Never eat too fast -the evil effects of fast eating are so numerous thatit would require volumes to record them —the effect upon the nervous system is simply wonderful—insanity not infrequently is tho result of this habit. Never starve yourself—it is a common practice, and is exceedingly injurious as well ns uncomfortable. To think well, and be well, you must eat freely—mental exercise is more exhaustive than physical, and demands that the system should'bo properly supplied with food. Never became a victim of tho “ two-meal-u-day” bugbear. If you are healthy, three or four meals a day will he better—but do noteat too much at u time, “ Little and often ”is the motto. Learn from the beasts of the field, and eat when you feel like it. Never eat by schedule— eat when you feel like it, and whatever the appetite demands, unless you are unhealthythen it may be neeeessaiy to diet yourself but too much dieting is frequently the rexult in such instances. Never forget that for dyspeptics and those afflicted with ail similar ailments - tiie panacea is:“efl< little and eat often,” Never fail to eat ns much fruit as possible in tho morning. Never fail to make the meal hour a joyful on to which you can always look with pleasure. Much of your huppiness depends upon it.

GORMAN.

Onb of the marvels of the recent electrical exposition nt Frankfurt was a sixfoot eleetricsearch light of 20,000 candle power. Sohuckertt, the Nuremberg electrician, astonished Europe in its construction. Sohuckertt is now at work on a larger light for the World's Fair at Chicago. It will be seven and one-half feet, and of at least 52,000 candle power. The Frankfurt light could be seen plainly at Bingen on the Rhine, forty-nvo miles' away. It is expected that the search light at the Wor.d’s Fair can be seen at least sixty miles away. Electrical Engineer Sargent is making plans for a tower 300 feet high, on which the big light will be mounted. At a height of 100 feet above the ground will be two six-foot search lights, and the three will suffice to illuminate the skies for miles around Jackson park. Brilliant feats are accomplished with these search lights. Sheets of light can be projected with parallel, converging or diverging rays. • When the rays are thrown out parallel a clearly defined sheet of flame seems to be suspended in the darkness. By changing the reflector the rays are brought to a locus at long distance from the central station. These lights, turned on the buildings and alternately shot into the heavens or out across the lake, will produce brilliant electrical effects.

An Electric Marvel.