Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURKAL, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1889.

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LEPHOSY IN A3IEIUCA.

TTherethe Victims Are Ixcated -The Xxmlsin Settlement Opportunity for Charity. Xlebecca Harding Darin, in New York Independent. The Princoof Wnlea, it is said, lft at th rai! a movenient to honor the memory I ather Damien, the hero prie-at of Molokai, by erecting a hospital for lepers in London. There are reported to bo about twenty lepers in Englaud; and it is for their comfort and seclusion that the house is to b bnilt.cn well as for the opportnnity t vrlU attbrd physicians for tho ecientiiic stndy of leprosy. Father Daniien's life and death were appreciated as highly in this country as in any other. There 19 among us no lack of keen sympathy for any kind of suffering, 3ior of money to relieve it. As we all kuow, there is no disease, no form of want, no condition of misery (but one) for which the kindly wealthy Christian folk of our eitiea have not supplied relief in asylums. lAapitala or some other form of active charity. The one exception is that of leprosy. It is high time that this most terrible of all human calamities should bo Drought under the control of Christian chanty and scientific skilL The difficulty iso far has been that the country is so vast -and the cases so scattered that very few persons know to what an extent it actually prevails among us. Now and then vaguo statements are made in the newspapers of its increase among the Scandinavian settlements in the Western States. The fact is that leprosy has existed in Norway for nearly a century It is an hereditary disease and breaks oat among the children of the settlers la Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. There is no attempt made to cure the wretched victims nor to isolate them. They are. as a rule, carefully and humanely treated; but they a ro allowed to go abont scattering the germs of the disease until God in mercy aimers them to creep into the grave. Leprosy also exists to a large degree in New Brunswick, near thd Bay. of Chaleur. It was reported In 1S44, by a commission of cientinc men appointed by the Canadian Parliament, to be lthe true lepra grcccorum, or Asiatic leprosy, known in Europe during the middle agea. . It is both hereditary and highly contagions. No person contracting it in those districts has ever been cured." The lepers in New Brunswick were isolated inarhugo inclosure at Tracadie; their food, it is said, Avus thrown to them as to wild beast. Vague Tumors come to us of the horrors of that 'pen. of the tilth, the sickening odors, tho awful loneliness and the mad passious that raged within it. It was, I think, about fifteen year ago, that live sisters of somo merciful order in the Roman Church in Montreal, looked their last on the outside world and voluntarily went into this place of living death. They have brought cleanliness, and order, and peace into it, and liope, too for another world. It is to the leprosy in Louisiana, however, that I wish to call the attention of my readers. The facts concerningit were mainly given to me by Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans, tormerly president of the State Board of Health As early as 1718 the negroes imported into Louisiana from Guinea brought with them three kindred diseases the African yaws, the elephantiasis and the gen nine leprosy of the Hi bio. So rapid was the ' spread of the last disease and so great tho teiror which it inspired, that Ulloa made ; an ineffectual effort to herd the victims together. In 1785 Governor Miro founded a liospital for them near the ltayou St. John. They were confined to a ridge of land surTounding it called La Terre des Lepreaux. In consequence of this insulation, according to Gayarre, leprosy almost died out in Louisiana, tho hospital was deserted, and the land now is a densely, populated quarter of the city. In 1870 the leprosy appeared again in Vermillion parish. A woman named Ourblanc, from the south of France, in whose faiu' it had been hereditary, suddenly develo. i in her old age tho terrible, unmistakable symptoms. Her husband and seven children all tied and left her to the care of a young girl of the neighborhood, who took pity on her extremity and tenderly nnrsed her to the end. After her death the disease appeared in this heroic girl and in six of the old woman's children. They all died. Other cases in which the contagion was clearly traced to the Ourblanc family appeared. Lepers now became frequent patients in the Charity Hospital in New Orleans.- The most pathetic case among them was that of Father Boglioli, a Catholic priest, a powerful, muscular man of noble presence, from the Apennine mountains, who for fourteen years had - ministered to the patients in this hospital. He was called upon to administer the last rites of his church to some of the dying lepers, but was warned of the dauger of contact. He quietly proceeded with his duty, nursing the lepers, giving them extreme unction and laying them in th gTave. Ho was at once infocted with the disease and died about two years ago. The chief seat of .leprosy in Louisiana, however, has always been on the Bayon Lafourche, below Harangue canal. In 1880 the Legislature was roused to action on this subject, and Dr. Joseph Jones, of tho Board of Health, with his son, volunteered to examino into the condition of the infected district He found tho cabius of the inhabitants standing in low marshes usually rice-lields irrigated np to the very doors: their diet consisted largely of fish and rice. They were constantly subject to low, malarial atmosphere. The leprosy, inherited in some of these families from distant ancestors in Africa or Southern Europe, was spread by contagion and nursed by the low, povertystricken, malarious conditions of their life. The lepers lit-d on his arrival or were hidden by their families, as it was feared they were to be carried off to somo isolated island in the sea, liko that of Molokai. Dr. Jones, however, discovered whole families in which Asiatio leprosy had oxisted for generations. Some of the victims, with their leonine faces and hands turned to stone.wero living alone in huts thatched with palmettoes, among the swamps, feeding themselves on 6iich rice and roots as they could find, abandoned by man, and. it must have seemed to them, by God himself. Dr. Jones, on his return, vehemently urged the Legislature of Louisiana to do something for tho relief of this most wretched community. Nothing was done then and nothing has since been done. It is rumored that leprosy is still on tho increase in this region. As far as I know not even the devoted Koman priest has penetrated into its shades of death. Why should not we, too, do something in memory of Father DamienT Catholics, Protestants and infidels alike were stirred to the heart by his death; there were tributes of praise in every church and paper through the Union. But what shall we do for those our own lepersf They are there in tho malarious swamps dying by inches and spreading their mortal ailments to their healthy neighbors. A practical movement to relieve, isolate and nurse them would be a more fitting tribute to Father Damien than any words or tears. LAND TE.NUKE IN CHINA. Th Emperor Only Theoretically Owns Brerythlug Under the Sun Kent and Taxes, Philadelphia 2f orth American. In a paper lalely read before the Shanghai Asiatic Society by Mr. Jamieson. it was stated that although tho Emperor theoretically owns everything under tho sun, the private owner of land in China has as absolute a property in it as he cau have under any government. Wate or nbaudoncd lands, as well as those for which there are no heirs, revert to the crown, which can also annex private land for public purposes. Land tax is m all cases paid direct to tho government, and there are no zemindars and no "farmers-gene raV in China. There arc two main tenurt-s, military and common, tho former applying only to certain military colonies, ajid to grants made tohis followers by thoMancha conqueror of the country in 1W4. Ninety-nine hundredths of the land is held under common tenure, which has three conditions attached to it, viz.: The Sayment of the land tax, the supply on emand of statue labor to the authorities, and the payment of a fine in alienation! For the land tax the bsien, or district, is the unit, and is assessed at a fixed sum by the government, which the district magistrate has to pay whether he receives it or not. But as a rule ho has a surplus. In th event of some great calamity, such as a dearth or inundation, he may get a remission, the benefit of which reaches the people. 'Ihe supplying of statute labor nasalmont fallen into disuse, which, perhaps, accounts for the bad state of public works in China. The fees are pavafdo on the transfer of land by sale or mortgage, succession or inheritance. b Probably half the soil of China is the property of the peasants who till it. Large tracts are owned by retired officials and their families, usually called "the literati and gentry," who lease it to small farmers on a Kind of enstomary tenancy at will, the rent, wnicb is paid in kind, amounting to half the crop in the hest toil and di

minishing as the land is poorer. The rent is paid as soon as the crop is harvested, so that rents are seldom in arrear. and evictions are very rare. The laws are all in favor of the tenant, who pays no taxes or rates of any kind, and, when he leaves, takes everything with him, including his house. The soil is so rich that the farms are generally very small, and. indeed, it is estimated that a square mile is capable of supporting a population of S,b40 persons. Within these broad lines there is every variety of arrangement respecting the ownership of land: there are absolute sales, and sales in which the vender has a right to claim something more if tho U.nd rises in value; somo sales arc revocable, some irrevocable, the former being apparently in the nature of mortgages, the limitation period being thirty 3 ears. Again, there is a dual ownership in land, one man owning the surface, the other being regarded as the owner of the soil, and liable for all taxes, and there seems to be a good deal of Chinese law in the respective rights of the two owners as to houso-build-ingand laying corliuM in thecommon ground. The ownership is established in the usual way by title deeds registered in the district offices. A MOMENT OF DANGER.

A TToman Circus-Performer Nearly Crushed by a Boa-Constrictor. nolyoke Democrat. At about 8 o'clock last night, when the tent was tilled with spectators. Mrs. Wallace mounted the platform and took from tho hox the fifteen-foot boa-constrictor. She twined it around her neck and body, and then petted it as though it was a kitten. After handling the reptile for several minutes, it began to get away and opened its enormous mouth. The spots on its body grew darker and its skin glistened in an unusual manner. In Us movements it became more lively, and it was with difficulty that the charmer could keep it aronnd her neck. It uttered a low, humming sound as it swung its head from side to side. This noise grew faster and louder, until it broke out into the appalling hiss of the king of rentiles. The audience, who np to this timo were enchanted with the scene, drew away from the platform, while they kept their eyes fixed on the brave woman, who endeavored to pacify the snake by drawing her hands in rapid succession over its nody. The snake, instead of quieting under her efforts, seemed to increase in auger. Its skin kept shining with a peculiar hue, and the hiss was prolonged until it could be heard across the street. The snake turned its head on the charmer, and its eyes Hashed as it suddenly swung itself around her neck, and the coils began to tighten. The woman nttered a scream. Her husband, who had been watching every movement, told her to choke it. As soon as'the woman heard her husband's voice she became remarkably cool, and while the coils of the serpent wero slowly but surely choking her to death, she quietly moved her hands down tho body of the Rnake. The snake saw the movement and opened its jaws, bnt at the same moment the woman had clutched it around the neck. With both hands she squeezed it and then the coils began to relax. While holding the neck with one band she removed the coils with the other. When the snake was put back in the box and a large coil of irou cable thrown on top tho audience breathed a sigh of relief. Mr. Wallace 6aid that he bought the snake three months ago in New York city from a dealer. Last year the same snake crushed a woman to death while she was handling it in a New York museum. It is about to shed its skin and is apt to bo ugly during this time of the year. WINTER PALACE. Magnificent Home of the Czar of Russia on Neva's Banks. Theodora Child, In July Harpers. The initiative of the .Russians in art and in civilization is limited. Hitherto the3" have displayed greater aptitude for copying than for original conception; and even for their copies they have had recourse to Western artists, particularly to Italian architects like Onarenghi, Kossi and Count Kastrelli. ' The last is responsible both for the inside and the outside of the Winter Palace. This enormous structure was begun in 1732, finished in 1762, partly burned in 1&7, bnt rebuilt in from the original drawings. It is a broad, rectangular block, four stories, or about eighty feet, high, with a frontage 455 feet in length, and a breadth of STjO feet, one facade parallel with the Neva, another looking toward tho Admiralty, tho third facing the vast Alexander place and the fourth (blind; facade backing np to tho adjoining Hermitage Palace, with which it communicates by means of a covered bridce. Tho proportions of this palace are not commendable, the style of architecture is very bombastic rococo; the decoration is overcharged with statues, caryatides, flowerpots, grenades and trumpery accessories: the cheap stucco surface of its facades mercilessly broken up by pilasters, waterspouts and windows, so that the eye nowhere finds repose is washed with a brownish red terra cotta, picked out with a lighter tone of yellow. The iron roof is painted red. The outside of this palace is absolutely without charm or merit of any kind; its only claim to notice is its immensity, which, by the way, according to Russian notions, is .1 very considerable claim. The interior is a saddening example of the bad taste that seems to characterize crowned heads of all nations, whether the Russian Czar, the Turkish Sultan, the German Emperor or the British sovereign. The ornamentation is for the most Cart in rampageous rocaille style, bright uruished gold on whitewash or white imitation marble. Our pen absolutely refused to describe the sham splendor of the imperial apartments, with their modern French polished furniture and vile wood carving, their massive screens glazed with purple glass, their wall hangings of yellow and white or rose and green satin. The malachite room.the l'ompeiianroom, the Manresqne bath-room likewise failed to transport us with admiration. The corner that pleased us best was Peter the Great's throne room, whose walls were huug with soft red velvet embroidered with golden eagles. The St. George hall, a parallelogram 14 xGO feet, adorned with Corinthian columns of real white marble with gilt bases and capitals, is also a tine room, perhaps the finest in the whole palace, The white hall, the golden hall and tho Nicholas hall are chilling white show rooms, which require the animation of tho court ceremonies and balls and glitter of lights and dianiondsinorderto give them a picturesque interest. Finally we may notice the state entrance to the palaco from Neva quay, called embassadors stairs, of white Carrara marble, and the vestible, richly decorated and gilded with renaissance ornaments and statuary. This staircase and the St. Georgo hall are the only two parts of the winter palace that presents an aspect of real grandeur and majestv. SPAIN'S BABY KINO. A Regiment of Tin Soldiers Among Ills Wagon-Load of Toys. London Figarr The young King of Spain is growing into a fairly strong and healthy boy, and he is enjoying his holiday stay at Aranjuez with his mother immensely. Ho is especially delighted with the drives whichhe is taken by the Queen Regent, who drives out every day in a pony phaeton with a pair of bays, which she manages with consummate skill. Her royal son sits np proudly at her side and kisses his hand to the delighted country people with tho most engaging frankness. His Majesty's playthings nearly filled a largo luggage van when the royal baggage was brought from Madrid, and additions are made to tho assortment at frequent intervals. One of his latest toys, in which he is be ginning to tako great interest, was presented to his Mujesty by the officers of the regiment of guards of which he became tho colonel by right of birlh. This specially designed toy consists of a reproductiou on a lilliputianscaleof the 500otiicers andmeu of the regiment, each diminutive soldier being an accurate copy in uniform and accoutrements of the original, it is accompanied by a finished model of the barracks in which the regiment is quartered, and thero are tho bandsmen, too, each with his own special instrument and a series of transport wagons, ambulance carriers, ammunition carts, etc. At present his Majesty is only allowed to play with his mode.l regiment under the direct personal supervision of Senora de Tacon, who is superintendent of the litfle King's honschold, and held the same pot when his father, Alphonso XII, was a child. Those who see most of the young King are much struck with the striking resemblance he bears to his ancestor, Charles IX. TliK best and surest dye tocolor thebenrd brown or black, as mav b desired, is Buckingham's Dyo for the Whiskers. It sever fails.

KOTAKO SII1MOMURA.

A Learned Young Japanese Who Was Educated by Louisville Philanthropists. Lcnlavllle Courier-Journal. Very few more interesting persons have ever visited in this city than a young man who has been the guest of Judge and Mrs. Richard J. Iirowne. No. 1512 Third street, for the past two weeks. His name is Kotaro Shi mom ura. Mr. Shimomura, or Professor Shiraomnra, for he has already occupied a chair in one of the most successful colleges of Japan, is abont five feet two inches in height, and slight in build. He dresses and wears his hair in American fashion, but the tan colored skin and almond-shaped eyes, which in his native land are considered marks of personal beauty, bespeak his Oriental origin. The Professor is but twentv-iour years of age. His home is in Kyoto, Japan, and he will soon return there to assume the professorship of physics and chemistry in tho leading institution of learning in that isle, where printing was done thousands of years before Uutenburg introduced this art to European nations. Professor Shimomnra is the son of a minor officer, who drew a small stipend from the Japanese national exchequer at the time when the now learned young man was a boy, and had never heard of tho Christians' God. The boy went to the native schools, and then entered the iDoshisha Gakn-In, or college, then a struggling institution. He completed the courso, graduating with high honors, and developed such wonderful faculties that he was chosen one of the professors in the preparatory department, where he taught one year. Among other studies there is the religion of Christ. The young professor had a consuming desire to learn more of the Christian people and their superior attainments, lie thirsted to gain tho knowledge which he had not tho means of attaining in Japan. He wanted to tit himself ' to raise the standard of learning in his native country, but he had no money to accomplish this end. Then he bethought himself that the Christian people of the United States might aid him, so he addressed a letter to them, which was published in an American religious journal. This was road by some philanthropic people of this city, who are too modest to allow their names be given. They interested others, and the requisite amount was made up to pay his tuition at somo of the most advanced schools of this country. Four years ago the young Japanese entered the Worcester Technical Institute, at Boston. At the end of three years he was graduated, taking one of the highest prizes. Ho then went to the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, where he was graduated a few weeks since, again gaining the highest encomiumsof tho faculty. He is now going back to Kyoto to assume one of the most important chairs in Doshisha College. The history of the establishment of that greatest seat of learning and of instruction in the Christian doctrines in Japan has never been told in print, but it is well known to ono of the most estimable ladies of Louisville. She has always takon great interest in religious and philauthropicmatters. and has for twenty years been closely acquainted with the Japanese founder of the now famous college, and receives letters at regular intervals from him. The founder's name is Rev, Joseph 11. Neesima, and the story of his life equals in romantic features the fictions of the modem tale-writers. Neesima was the son of tho secretary to one of the mighty princes of Japan. Twenty-live years ago, in land where there were no Christian missionaries, no houses erected -for the worship of any except the pagan gods and idols, the boy conceived the thought that there must have been one infinite being who ruled all. One day he happened to see a tract, printed in the Chinese language, beginning with the first verse of Genesis -"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Here was evidence that others believed that which had come unbidden to his mind. He determined to know more, but could find no one in his native land to tell him. The tract was printed in China, therefore some one there must know and could tell him, and he resolved to go there. He was but fifteen years of age, and had no money. If he asked for it, sufficient to pay his way, ho would have to tell what he wanted money for, and he would never be. allowed .to Thero was but one thing left him. lie must run away. Secreting himself aboard a ship bound for China,.Neesima waited until the vessel was far out at sea. Then C came out and begged the captain's pardon, and asked to be allowed to work as a cabin boy to pay his passage to China. The captain smiled on the boy, and told him he might do as he desired. China was reached, and Neesima found that he could learn much about tho Creator, but not enough to satisfy his yearning. He was told that the Americans across tho Pacific could enlighten him. After remaining in China some month, he' a train became a stowaway. This time it was 6n a vessel owned by Alpheus Hardy, a wealthy ship-owner of Boston When land was cleared the boy again threw himself npon the mercy of the commanding officer. '1 he skipper was a bluff old seadog, butuhe had a very deep reverence for the teachings of his mother. He was struck with the remarkable mission and earnestness of this little 'Map," as be termed him,, who was leaving his parents, playmates and country for the sole object ot learning more about the Christians' God. He told the boy ho might stay about the shin till she returned to the United States. When the voHsel arrrived at Boston, the captain took his stowaway to the ship-owner, telling him he had brought him a servant who might be made useful about tho house. Mr. Hardy was astounded when he heard the boy's story. If that is your object," said he, "I will give you a chance." So he started Neesima at Andover College. From there he went to Amherst, and was graduated. About that time a Japanese embassy came to the United States to study the common school systems. Neesima was employed by them as a guide and interpreter. Then they went to Europe, and he remained there a year and a half. Returning to Andover College, he completed the highest theological course, and then started back to his native land to teach what he had learned. This was in 1875. That year he started Doshisha College at Kyoto, with eight pupils. Last year there were 730 pupils, with seventeen Japanese and nine American professors. Joseph Neesima, who obtained his first name in America, is president, and Kotaro Shimomnra, the joint protege of himself and the philanthropic Louisville people, is one of the chief professors. PHILLIPS BBOOKS. A Couple of Anecdotes of the Great Boston Preacher. Boston Home Jonrnal. Perhaps no man in this city comes so near to living up to the ideal which people have of him as does Phillips Brooks. The good he does in the world cannot be overestimated. He possesses that ready tact and those quick perceptions which aid a man not only to do good, but to discover opportunities to do it. lie is not a man whose aid springs up only in response to an appeal. An illustration of that will be found in a story recently told me. Somo time ago a lady had occasion to travel from Providence with her father, who was very weak in his mind. Whether it was the excitement of the journey which developed so suddenly in this usually quiet and inoffensive man an unrulv disSosition, or whether it was merely the oriuary course of his disease, I do not know, but at all events long before they reached Boston he became possessed of a fancy that ho must get oil' the train whilo it was still in motion; that some absolute dnty called him. His daughter endeavored to quiet him, but it was difficult to do it, and sbe was just giving it up in deepear when she noticed a very large man just across the aisle who was watching the proceeding intently over the top of his paper. As soon as he caught her eyes ho roso and crossed quickly to her. "I beg vour pardon," he said. "Von are in trouble. May I help your" As soon as he spoke she felt Jerfect trust in him. "What is vour ather's name!" he asked. She told him, and with an encouraging smile he bent over the gentleman who was sitting in front of her, aud said a few words in his ear. "With a smile the gentleman rose, crossed the aisle and took the vacant seat, and the next moment the large man had turned over the seat, and, leaning toward the troubled old man, bad addressed him by name, shaken hands cordially with him, and engaged him ki a conveasation so interesting and so cleverly arranged to keep his miud occupied that he forgot his need to leave the train, and did not think ot it ngain until they were in Boston. Here the stranger put the lady and her charge into a carriage, received her assurance that sbe felt perfectly safe, and had cordially shaken her hand, and waa about to close the car

riage door, when she remembered that she had felt so safe in the keeping of this noblelooking man that she had not even asked his name. Hastily putting her hand against the door, she said: "Pardon me. but you renderert me such a service may I not know whom I am thanking!" Thebig man smiled as he answered, "Phillips Brooks," and turned away. An excellent foil to this, as showing a different side of his nature and yet identical in its ready tact, is another story which was told me recently. Tho great divine has no stronger interest in the world than that which ho feels for the young men who sit within reach of his voice. Last winter he noticed three young men who came to hear him quite regularly, and, as they looked like workiugmen, he took pains to find out who they were, and made an opportunity to speak with them. Having ascertained where they lived and what they did, he went one day to call on them. He climbed several flights of stairs and knocked at the door. All three of the young men were in, and they were taking their comfort in their shirt sleeves. Naturally they were a trifle embarrassed at being surprised by this man to whom they looked up with so much respect. Mr. Brooks shook hands all round, and then said, with his cheerful smile. "Well, boys, it's a little warm here. I think, if you will let me, I will take off my coat," and he did and sat down and tuade his call in his shirt sleeve. It is needless to say that those boys will never need any better influence in their lives than Phillips Brooks will keep there, for it is remarkable how many men he can carry in his mind and keep safe in his influence. There may bo two opinions in regard to the eloquence of this divine; there may be nioro than that number 111 regard to his originality; there can be but ono in regard to the place he has in the affections of the world or of the wonderful good that his remarkable life has done in tho world, which has too few good examples and where too few men live up to tho ideal that one has of what the life of the clergy should be. STRUCK A HARD BLOW.

BTow Mike McCool Received nis Sentence to Jail from an Indiana Judge. Washington Post. Some time after the war Mike McCool and lion. Joo Coburu engaged in a gladiatorial symposium and pugilistic controversy in southern Indiana, inasmuch as such meetings were regarded as unlawful and frowned upon by the Hoosier statutes, the sheriff of the county in which the fight took place seized upon the persons of the pugilists and haled them before the circuit judge, ono Jeremiah M. Wilson. This distinguished jurist, though legally and mentally a giant, was, and is, thin to tenuity and physically the reverse of powerful. But ho measured out justice in generous, allopathic doses and promptly sentenced tho offenders to six mouths in the county jail for breach of tho peace. "One moment," 6aid ho, as the sherift was about to remove tho prisoners. -"You will, during the ensuing months, have ample opportunity to become acclimated to Indiana. Vou will, also, so the sheriff informs me, meet a foe who will test your powers of resistance aud endurance to tho utmost If 3'ou are ablo to resist and defeat this foe it will bo duo to your magnificent physical condition, which is a result of denial and abstemiousness, the necessary adjuncts of the severe training you have both recently undergone. This foe, it is needless to state, is the fever and ague, which is tho champion in these parts." May it plaze yer honor,' said Mike McCool, rising as Judge Wilson finished, 'Oi wudloike to say a few wourds, av the coort does not object." His Honor looked at the culprit sternly, and saw nothing but seriousness in McCool's face. "The court has no objections to the prisoner speaking, with this understanding, that his remarks will contain nothing disrespectful or unseemly." "On tho contrary, yer honor, Oi have the highest resnict for th coort." "Then you may proceed." "Oi only wanted t ter say that fer a liehtweight yer honor has strook me the hard est blow Oi lver had." . . A Short Holiday for the Printers. Washington Post. There is a very unpleasant feeling in the rt.oTernrmnit Printing Office over the fact that by somo mismanagement prior to Mr. Palmer's appointment, the money appropriated for tho leaves of absenee of the eni-ploj-es has been partially used for somo other purpose: consequently none of the employes will be able to secure their full thirty days' leave, with pay, and the clerical force is now engaged in alloting the time which can be granted. Tho pro rata pay which is due to clerks who have not taken their lea ve, and which is legally due them, cannot be paid in full, owing to tho exhaustion of the fund. The employes do not know yet whether they will get 25 or 10 per cent., or what the proportion will be. Mr. Palmer is doing everything in his power to straighten out the matter in the employes favor. In the meantime the eradoyes are wondering why a fund set apart jy Congress for their annual leaves should have been encroached upon. It is stated that many employes helped to exhaust the fund by staying several days beyond the limit allowed by law and receiving pay for the extra time. riaying Ball and Making Hay. Xewlston (Me.) Journal. Somebody remarked in tho dry Lewiston barber's shop that a young man had been engaged as a member of a base-ball nine at a salary of $50 a month. "Couldn't he earn more money haying!" asked the man in the chair. "Oh, well," said the dry barber, with a face as sober as a broadcloth casket, "if he was hayin he'd havo to work forenoons." m One Quite Enough. PhttAfleTphla Press. Kev. Sara Jones declares that the Lord made him and then lost the pattern. Humanity does not mourn the loss. One from that pattern is quite enouirh. flyer's Hair Vigor TS the "ideal" nair-dressing. It re. A stores the color to gray hair ; promotes a fresh aud vigorous growth ; prevents the formation of dandruff; makes tho hair soft and silken and imparts a deli cate but lasting per. fume. "Several months 'ago my hair commenced falling out, and in a few weeks my head was almost remedies, but they did no good. I finafly bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and, after using only a part of the contents, my beau was covered with a heavy growth of hair. I recommend your preparation as the best in tba world T. Munday, Sharon Grove, Ky. " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for ft number of years, and it has always given me satisfaction. It is an excellent dressing, prevents the hair from turning gray, insures its vigorous growth, and Keeps the scalp white and clean." Mary A. Jackson, Salem, Mass. "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for promoting the growth of the hair, and think it unequaled. For restoring th hair to its original color, and for a dressing, it cannot be surpassed." Mrs. Geo. 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