Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1879 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TTEDNESDAY J QKNING bEPTEMBER 24, . 1879.

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KTRAJiGE OCEAN MONSTTERS.

TalwToU bj Mariners for the Ear Landlubber. of Columbia SontHed Hd Swmpr4 by a Thing Much Larger Than a Whale Vha Privateer's Crew Paralysed by a Serpent ISO Feet Long. fHw Tork Star, September H.J Tho efflce ia Hanover Place ef Christian Bora, eensal general for Swedes and Norway, was filled with an excited group of aaUoia prior to business hours oa WedaebAay They exhibited radically different kinds of emotion, some weeping and begging to be taken to Scandinavia, and others angrily asserting ia the purest vernacular their innocence of some undefined aecasation. The uproar was explained upon the entrance ef , the ana sal general These seamen," ho said, "are the sorviving crew of the Norwegian bark Columbia that was sank so mysteriously on Thursday last ia latitude 47, longitude 43s 51'. They were picked up in open boats by the Rotterdam steamer P. Caland a few hours after the wrecking. They claim that a strange marine monster store a hole in the bark. Others suggest the idea of scuttling, and the latter charge is what they are wrang- " ling about."

An agent of the Columbia volunteered the information that she was of 450 tons burden, owned by Captain Baed, of Funschborg. Her cost was $20,000. Nothing is knowa on this side of the Atlantic of the amount of her insurance. It is regarded as a singular fact however, that a crew of 12 mea should ' be sent out with the ship sailing ia ballast. Mate Petersen made a detailed statement to the consul general. After leaving London, a straight course was steered for Quebec. At 10:30 a. m. on the 4th of September, a sudden shock threw the entire crew oa their faces. Ia atter amazement Captain Larsea

looked over the vessel s side only to see a black mass rising from the bows. Ia a few . seconds it assumed the shape of a whale, but was nearly twice the size of an ordinary one, and anreeognizable by reason of bloody laceration. The sea was dyed red for a dwtaace of 50 feet on either side. The mate's experience is best told in his own words: "The big fish was over 40 feet loag. It thrashed around in great fury. I thought we bad struck a rock. If it was a whale, we must have killed him. During the axcitement somebody discovered water rushing into the hold. liarson pat en the pumps, but could not reduce the stead t nnur of the water. I dimhml over the side, lowering myself by a rope to the water's edge, and then saw that six fourinch planks had been crushed in and afterward ripped off. The monster that did the mischief floundered about a few miaatos and sunk. We began to do the same thing. Larsen got into one of the two opea boats, and I took the . other. "We forsook our clothes, money everything. With six men n eaah boat we put off, the Columbia going down at 12:45 o'clock. "We were thankful to escape. A new danger threatened us. We had neither water nor provisions. We reckoned on being 90 miles from the oatlying fishing banks of Newfoundland, where we hoped some small vessels might be found. In less than three hours we sighted the steamer P. Caland, which responded to a signal of distress made up of at par and a black coat." Captain Deddos, of the rescuing steamer. is oi tne opinion mat me story given oy uia Norwegians is true. Their stories all coincide. The only similar case coming to the knowledge of the captain was that of a Cunard steamer, which last year had her propeller shattered by a whale. The following official report of the rescue was sent by Gapwin jjeaaes to ine noiieraam ana Antwerp Bssanship company: "September 4, about 3 p. m, saw two boats with 12 men in them. Shaped our coarse for them and took the men on board. We set the boats adrift. The men proved to be the whole ship-wrecked crew of the Norwegian bark Columbia, bound from London to (Quebec Captain Larson, of the Columbia, bis mate, Mr. H. Petersen, and the crew made the following statement: . On their voyage from London they met with variable winds and weathor until September 4, when, sailing with all sails set, in a light northeast wind, about 11 a. m they felt a sudden shock. ' On looking overboard they saw the sea discolored by blood, and either a, fish or other sea monster, making away from the ship as fast as it could. At the samo time Captain Larsen heard some of his men crying thai the ship was leaking badly and fiiliag very fast. He went down into the hold, but soon found that nothing could be done to save the -ship. When he came on deck agaia thg crew had barely time to put the boa to flyerboard and take a few things -""t. u Half an hour after they V. IV U U V. I ... the Columbia sue want down. .iort.lv afterward ther discovered un a bdV - ""B "j i i r w;tj, a gignai f distress, which we w n t Vl wv nut ..ceived. After taking them on board we. proceeded on our course." The crew of the American ship Privateer, which arrived in this port from London on Monday night, had a remarkable experience, with a sea rerpent otf the French coast. CaDtaia J. F. Cox brought the vessel in charter for James E. Levett of No. 67 South street. Mr. Cox is a stout, bronzed veteran of the seas, and the possessor of a reputation for veracity and good seamanship that it would be difficult to call into question. He related to a reporter the following tale. which was vouched for by three able sea men of the Privatier: "We left London on Augusts ia fiae sailing weather. There was a rattling breeze on on the stern auarter that drovo us through the channel in magnificent style. At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th I stood smoking on the after-deck, with my back to the rait. We were skimming along at about seven knots, under a tack leading inshore. Brest wasjust 100 miles on the port. Suddenly. Jack Harlow, mv man at the wheel, caught sight of something in the wa ter that made bis eyes stand out uae Diiimru balls. He dropped the wheel with the exclamation. Bv G d 1-o-o-k at thatt' I turned quickly'and was confronted by one of the most horrible blood-curdling sights it has ever been mv luck to run across. There was a aea semen t sure enough a regular an aeon da of the deep. I knew nothing of such monsters until that moment, although I've beard many incredible stories about them, without taking any stock on my own account. Now, I'm not a coward, but I shook all over, dura it. when 1 clapped my eyes on that im mense mass of black coils rising out of the sea." "What did it resemble?" "A hutre snake. The sky was clear and pretty strong sun struck the object, so l will swear it was no delusion. Half of it 'was under water, out of sight, but the head and forward coils glided along at an elevatioa of 30 feet. All our bands r turned on aocK, ana in absolute alarm mv mate ordered out the howitzer as well as the small fire-arms. "It was difficult to get the men to obey. Thev seemed to be terrified in very foscination'of the sight. The fish or serpent, or

whatever it was, must have been loOleet log.

With' the limited opportunUyThad to figure oa it, I should thiak its thickness was five feet. I noticed it was black all over, as if coated with black and green scales. Th bead was peculiarly shaped something like that of a bluc-flah but it obeyed every twist and contortion of the body. For a full minute the course of the monster was parallel to that taken by the ship so we had a good opportunity to take in its proportions. Its neck appeared considerably smaller than the trunk. In fact it gracefully tapered into a head of remarkable siae, containing eyes as large as plates. They wore a dreamy expression until one of the boys foolishly fired a carbine in the direction of husnakebhip. That was enough to stir him up. His eyes snapped fire as he turned in the direction of the ship and began to lash the water. Although 200 yards away the oonrortions disturbed the waters under the Privateer so that it rocked violently. To my horror the serpent poised its head aloft for a moment, and then plunged under the vessel, coming up, fortunately for us, oa the opposite side. One blow from that tail would have swamped us." "How did you finally get rid of your visitor?" "It was fully 20 second afterward that the idea occurod to me of escaping the danger of an assault by piling on all sail and running away. - The excellent wind enabled us to get under fine headway and to actually outdistance our troublesome neighbor. At 3 o'clock the last speck of him disappeared' in the horizon." "That's my adventure," concluded the skipper, " and I know you fellows won't believe what I toll you. I wouldn't myself, if I hadn't seen the boast with these 'ere eyes of mine. In all my experience of 20 years on the sea, I never saw a monster bigger than a whale or a dolphin, but doa't you aevertell me, after this, that there is no trath ia the stories about sea serpents." STEPHEN GIRARD'S HEROISM.

A Story of the Philadelphia Pestllenee o 1798. Washington Republic The example of eminent men in the csum of humanity can not too frequently be cited if we would see their great deeds emulated. The fearful epidemic, yellow fever, prevailed ia Philadelphia in 1793. All who could fled. The horrors of the plague, as described by Defoe in his narrative of London, were realized ia this American city. Friends and evon members of the same family abandoned each other on the approach of danger. The poor were dragged otf to Bush Hill Hospital, where under panic and malpractice, few ever recovered. New York passed a legislative act to arrest and imprison any one sick or well, male or female, coming from Philadelphia or suspected ofsocoming. Massachusetts passed a similar rigid law. In the midst of this terrible scourge it was announced that Stephen Girard, the wealthiest morchant of Philadelphia, had taken charge of Bush Hill Hospital, whence no one ever returned, and was engaged in shrouding the dying and interring the dead. He built a new house in the vicinity of the hospital and rented a barn to accommodate the patients who then crowded Bush Hill for cure. And though Girard had been declared insaneand reported, dead he still lived and kept well, was soon after found on Fifth street in a large house, in which he installed 60 orphan children found in the street which proved to bo the foundation of the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum. Organisms Not Susceptible to Pain. Professor J. Bymer Jones is authority for the statement that crustaceans and certain other animals are not susceptible to pain. He 6ays, in a paper on this subject: "Pain, 'Nature's kind harbinger of mischief,' is only inflicted for wise and important purposes either to give warning of the existence of disease, or as a powerful stimulus prompting to escape from danger. Acute perceptions of pain could scarcely, therefore, be supposed to exist in animals deprived of all power of remedying the one or of avoiding the other. In man the power of feeling pain is indubitably placed exclusively in the brain; and if communication be cut off between this organ and any part of the body, pain is no longer felt, whatever mutilations may be inflicted. The perception of pain depends upon the development of the encephalic masses; and, consequently, that as this part of the nervous system becomes more perfect, the power of feeling painful impressions increases in the same ratio; or, in other words, that inasmuch as the strength, activity and intelligence of an animal, by which it can escape from pain, depends upon the perfection of its brain, so does the perception of torture depend upon the condition of the 6ame orgaa." Beautiful Women. Philadelphia Bulletin. SdtiiehdW or other, all the famous beautiful women known in past history and in modern newspapers have begun or ended with a loss of reputation. ISetweon ueion ana air i Langtry there is a long list of Greek, Ror,an Italian, French, German, English and. ther women famous as beauties, not one. fj? whom who deserved a particle of the 'respect due to a good American girl or r&ntron who keeps out of the newspaperst as any woman can do when she chooses, ljola Jtlontez was a pro fessional beauty from Europe who visited America. Nobody here could discover her beauty, but it had been worshiped by a king of most ancient lineage. Mrs. Koushy was an English professional- beauty who had achieved conquests which made her a heroine of the London sooietyjournals. But she had little success in America, where prettier and better women abound. Her beauty was fatal to her character, and led her to excess that killed her at an age when a really beautiful and good woman ought to be at the stage of perfection. Educating Her Husband. Bailer (Ok.) Herald. The most unexpected ( and we might state romantic) marriage that has ever occurred in Taylor county took place at the residence of Airs. tsartieu, on last r riaay nigni. jjy me Kov. J. . Murray, Mr. John CJhildrews, 23 years of age, to Mrs. Bartlett, 59 years of age, wite ot the late James uarueu, wnose death occurred about three months ago. Mr. Childrews is a poor but worthy young man, who has for several years past been an employe of Mr. Bartlett. Mrs. Bartlett, being a lady of considerable wealth, has agreed to thoroughly educate her husband, and he is now in attendance at Butler Female College and Male Institute. A Dinner and a Wife. fNew Tork Sun. A young man of Hackensack, N. J., who had entered the National Hotel to obtain dinner, on Wednesday, was smitten with tha charms of one of the waiting maids. He could not bear his love in silence, and, taking couracro. explained his feelings to her. Be fore dinner was over they were united in marnaee by a German mi n later wbo was called in. We are frequently informed now that old Mr. Tilden is "husbanding his voice. If he had husbanded a respectable specimen of bumanity in petticoats a good while ago, he wouldn't be the "lone, lorn old creature" he if to-day. Jersey City Journal.

TBH OAFTVRB OF AHDRB. .

Am Historical Warrattve that DUeretodl American Patriotism. We are indebted to Captain Charles H. Townsend, says the New Haven, (Conn.) Palladium, for the following copy of an interesting manuscript. In the year 1817, General King was written to by a friend who desired to know the exact facts in relation to Major Andre's capture, etc. The following letter was written by General King in reply, and, although previously solicited for publication, is now. for the first time, given to the public: "Ridohtibxp, June 17, 1817. "Dbab Sir Yours of the 9th is before me. I have noted the contents and am sorry to express the indignation I feel at the idea of being obliged to translate a foreign language to obtain a true history of any part of our revolution. The, facts so far as I am acquainted with them, I will state to the best of my ability or recollection. Paulding, ' Williams and Van Wort I never saw before or since that event. 1 know nothing about them. The time and place whore they stopped Major Andre seems to justify the character you have drawn of them. The truth is, to the imprudence of tho man, and not to the patriotism of any one, is to be ascribed the capture of Major Andre. I was the first and only officer who had chn.-e of him while at the headquarters of the Second regiment of light dragoons, which was then at Esquire Gilbert's in South Salem. He was brought up by an adjutant and four men belonging to the Connecticut militia, under tho command of Lieutenant Colonel Jamison, from tho lines near Tarrytown, a character under the disguised came of John Anderson. He looked somewhat like a reduced gentleman. His small clothes were nankeen with long whito top boots, in part his undress military suit. His coat, purple with gold lace, worn somewhat threadbare, with a small-brimmed tarnished beaver on his head. He wore his hair in a queue with long, black band and his clothes somewhat dirty. In this garb I took charge or him. my barber came in to which I requested him the same operation, When tho ribbon was After breakfast shave mo, after to undergo which he did. taken from his hair I observed it was full of powder. This circumstance with others that occurred induced me to believe that I had no ordinary person in charge. He requested permission to take the bed while his shirt and small clothes could be washed. I told him that was needless for a change was at his service, which he accepted. We were close pent up in a bedroom with a guard at the door and window. There was a spacious yard before tho door which he desired he might be permitted to walk in with me. I accordingly disposed of my guard in such a manner as to prevent an escape. While walking together he observed that he must make a confident of somebody and he knew not a more proper person than myself. I proceed with the major's own story. He said he came up the North river in the sloop of war Vulture for the purpose of seeing a person by a flag of truce. That was not however accomplished. Of course he had to come ashore in a skiff, and after he had done his business the wind was so high, the Dutchman who took him ashore dare not venture to return him on board The night following the militia had lined the shore, so that no attempt would be made with safety, conse quently he was furnished, after changing his clothes, with a continental horse and General Arnold's pass, and was to take a route by Peekskill, Crumpound, Pincsbridge, Sing Sing, Tarrytown, etc, to New York. Nothing occured to disturb him on his route until he arrived at the last place except at Crumpound. He told me his hair stood erect and his heart was in his mouth on meeting Colonel Samuel B.Webb, of our army, plump in the face. ' An acquaintance of his said that Colonel Stoddert knew him and he thought that he was gon. but they kept moving along and soon passed each other. He then thought himself past all danger, and while ruminating on his good luck and hairbreadth escapes he was assailed by three bushmon near Tarrytown, who ordered him to stand. He said to them, I hope, gentlemen, you belong to the lower party.' 'We do, says one. 'So do I' says he, 'and by the token of tbis ring and key you will lot me pass. 1 am a British officer on business of importance, and must not bo detained.' "One of thorn took his watch from him, and then ordered him to dismount. The moment that was done he said he found he was mistaken, he must shift his tone. He eavs: 'I am hapnv. fffntlomen, to find I am mistaken you belong to the upper party an.4 so do I; and to convince you of it, heri is General Arnold's pass,' handing it to them. 'Damn Arnold's pass,' said they. You said vou wore a British of ficer. Xbere is your money?' 'Gentlemen I ba" none about me,' he replied. You a Bl'itisb officer, pooh! A gold watch and no money! Let us search him. They did so, but found none. Says one: 'He has his monev in his boots; let's have them otf and see.' "They took off his boots and there they found his papers, but no money. Then they examined his saddle but found none. He said he saw they had such a thirst for money, he would put them in a way to get it if they would be directed by him. They answered him in this way: 'If we deliver you at King's Bridge, we shall bo sent to the sugar house, and you will save your money." He says, 'If you will not trust my honor, two of you may stay with me and one shall go ..i .i J i . . " t -mi XT wiin me letter j. win wuw. . i . sum. The sum was agreea upon, due i. can not recollect whether it was 600 or 1,000 euinens. but tho latter I think, was the sum. They held a cousultation for a considerable .. . i e i time and nnaiiy incy ioia mm n no wrovc, a nartv would be sent out ana tano mem, ana then they should all be prisoners. They said they bad concluded to take him to the , i a ml Ji J commanding omcer on me lines. uey uiu so, and retained the watch until General Washington sent for them to lappan when the watch was rcatored to Major Andre. "Thus, vou see. had money been at com mand, after the imprudent confession of Maior Andre, or any security given tnat tne British would put confidence in, he might have Passed on to Sir Henry Clinton s head quarters witn an nis papers aim aruumo pass into the bargain. I do not recollect to have seen a true statement of this business in . ... 1 A 1 .1 anv history that has fallen into my hands. If my memory serves me, Arnold solicited and obtained the command of West Point in consequence of bis being an invalid, and the reason why his negotiation was not completed bv flag of truce. 1 will state what General Washington told the French ambassador Jjucerne. lie stated on nis route to aunford that ho dined with General Arnold at Haverstraw at Joshua Smith's, where Arnold and Andre met. General Arnold showed him a letter from General Robinson directed to General Israel Putnam, an officer com manding West Point, requesting an interview by flag on business of the first importance to the United States. General Arnold niilrorl General Wiuhinirtnn if he should CO and hear what he had to say. General Washington replied that it would be very improper for the commander-in-chief of a post to meet anybody himself. He could send trusty hand if he thought proper. But, bo added. I had no more suspicion of Arnold than I had of myself. This accounts for

Maior Andi-;., figure to negotiate by flag, and his sunu.nt ' 6

4w 1 mw VUlCUWi ... 1 nax thus complied with vour reauest. gp; you such facte, by what I had from the Viouth of If vjnerai Washington tell the French minister joon alter the execution of Andre." A True Tragedy. Tooth's Companion. In an upper room of a dwelling in Philadelphia, a month or two ago, John M , long known in the West and South as the great Mississippi gambler, lay dying. He was the foremost type of a class fast becoming extinct. In appearance, he was a quiet, modest gentleman, unobtrusive, but fastidious in dress (M 's clothes was made for him in London for 20 years), cool stoical as a red Indian, no matter what the emergency; and his profession, that of ruining other men. The man, it is said, never played for less than thousands. He confined his operations to cards until a favorite boat, the Natchez, ran a race with the R. E. Lee from New Orleans to St. Louis. He bet all he was worth on her. For five days and nights the gambler remained on deck, betraying his excitement in no other way. The Natchez was beaten, and the man was ruined. He went to the bar and took his first and last glass of liquour. M '8 wile, an innocent country gril from Ohio, died of a broken heart, after a wretched, shameful life with him. She left one child, a boy, and his boy M sent away, that he might never know what manner of a man his lather was. The lad was educated in the best school in Europe. But when the hardened, cold-blooded old man came to die his heart cried out for his son. He found him a practicing physician, told him his story, and was nursed by him until his death. But the gambler neither repented nor altered. Even when the death-rattle was in his throat, he cried, "I lay you five to one that I last until morning." A similar story was told in the reports of me new xorn ponce courts lately. A lady, young, well bred and modest, the wife of an officer in the army, complained to the police of a drunken, disreputable woman, who hung about her house, watching it. The woman was arrested. Brought face to face with the complainant, she cried out in agony: "Why, child, I am your mother!" The lady, greatly agitated, stated that it might be true. Her mother, she said, l.ad placed her in a private school when she was an infant, and supported her until her marriage, but had always refused to see her. A Husband and Wife Arrested for Kissing. Chicago later-Ocean. The New York police are remarkable for the facility with which they adopt thoories, and this one of affection and matrimony being incompatible meets with their approval. Consequently whon on a cortain evening a Central park policeman saw a young looking couplo wandering through tho arbors cf wisteria and the willow groves, apparently in confidential conversation, ho kept his eagle eye upon them. Soon he saw a manly arm steal around a slender waist, a little later a feminine head bowed down upon a masculine shoulder, and next cold chills benumbed tho circulation of the guardian of the peace two mouths made "red cherries on a stalk.' Rudely and wrathfully did tha goblin in gray descend upon the touching tableau, and walked tha dramatis persons off to the station house. In vain the woman wept, and the man swore by all that was holy, that they "were husband and wife'" and that there "wasna wrang in kissin'." They were told to keep that "taffy" to themselves, and not try and cheat a policeman. Both the people were well dressed and well appearing. The lady seemed terribly mortified, and, at last after long arguing, the gentleman suc ceeded in gett'ng permission to telegraph to his friends. This the officer said would cost two dollars, 20 cents for the message, end the remaindorto suppress the matter in the newspapers. The couple spent the night in the station. Early in the morning their friends came to tho rescue, and they were found to be highly respectable people Mr, and Mrs. Cottier. The judge at once ordered their release, and offered if they would bring suit against the man, to testify in their behalf. When asked why he supposed them to be unmarried, the policeman gloomily responded that he had never seen a married couple kiss each other in the park before. A Man Stops Repudiation. Years ago. Illinois was poor, and burdened with a debt of $7,000,000. A large part of the indebtedness had been created in order to carry out a system of internal improvements. The people, finding it difficult to pay their taxes, talked loudly of repudiation. A con vention met at bpnnghoid, the capital ol tha State, to voice tho popular leeling. lbe repudiating ordinance was prepared. It would have been aaopvea nut ior me lniericrence oi one man. ine inciaeni is vnus auscnueu oy the New Orleans Times: The convention met, and the repudiation ordinance was prepared. It was about being adopted, when Stephen A. Douglas, who was sick at nis hotel, asked to be taken into tne convention. He was carried on a mattress, and, lying on his back for he wastoosickto sit up ne wrote ine ionowmg resolution, which he offered as a substitute for the repu diation ordinance: Resolved, That Illinois will be honest, al though she never pays a cent. The resolution took like wuonre. . it touched the honest sentiment of every mem ber of the convention. It was adopted with the wildest enthusiasm, it dealt a death' blow to the repudiation sentiment through out the State. The canal bonds immediately advanced in value, and in a short time were quoted at par. Telegrams were received from New York that Illinois could have all the money she wanted. What was the result? Capital and emi gration flowed into the State, and Illinois is to-day one ot tne most prosperous states in the Union. She has more miles of railway than any of the other states, ller broad prairies are one great grain field, and are dotted with hundreds of thousands of peaceful happy homes. Thriving cities and beautiful villages are foundevery where within her borders. This is what honesty has done for Illinois. What would repudiation have done? Pretty Mnch 8o. Detroit Free Prne A fow days ago Justice of the Peace John 'Weber took his little son down to Toledo on an excursion. The lad interviewed the man at the wheel, and gathered much information relative to the business . of steamboating, Presently his father joined him on the hurricane deck and asked him how he was en joying himself, "First rate," was the enthusi astic. reply. '"I'm going to be a steamboat man, papa. "All right," respoded the "judge, "but you'll have to study navigation, astronomy, and divers other sciences in order to be a good one." The lad said nothing at the time, but appeared to be revolving the difficulties of the case in his mind. Perhaps half an hour later he remarked, with much gravity, "Papa, I guess I won't be a Bteamboatman; I'd rather be a justice of the peace; you don't have to know anything tor that. , .

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A Chemist Publicly Beveala Soma Startling eta An Abominable and Dangeroas female Practice. (CleroUnd (0.) Herald. 'JJo yon see that lady? ' said a prominent chemist of this city, to a Herald reporter. "As sure as that the sun will rise to-morrow, so surely will that woman die prematurely in a few years by a slow but certain self-des truction. The scene was on Superior street, and tha lady in question was standing on the eidowaiiv waiting ior one oi tne cars. The afternoon sun shone full upon her, her dress and tout ensemble marked her as wealthy and refined, and her face was beautiful, but about the large, gray eyes there was a weary, troubled expression, and the marble face was almost death-like in its pallor. The skin was translucent, showing the delicate bluo veins beneath. It was perfectly r.ure and clear, but it was unnatural. Accepting an invitation to step into the chemist's laborato ry, tne reporter was soon seated in a spacious room surrounded by thousands of bottles of all shapes and sizes, and the conversation turned again on the woman eeen in the street. 'That lady," said the chemist, seriously, I "is an arsenic-eater. Few have any idea how the deadly, damnable habit is spreading. Even in this citv it numbers its devotees hw hundreds, I had almost said- by thousands, and the husband who prides himself on his wue 8 bcaututii complexion, the father wbo presses tee pale forehead of his daughter, and j the lover who is proud of. while he is anxious about the transparent and clear complexion of his sweetheart, never dreams for a moment that it is an unuatural effect produced by the use of a poison which will sooner or later de stroy nie. l am not telling this lor sensa tion; it is a terrible truth, and I" could sit down and write off now a list of 500 names of ladies who ara in the habit of using this drug regularly. I could startle this city by telling it that the women of many of its nest lamiues are committing a slow suicide. now is the drug usually taken? " "Sometimes pure, in minute doses, but gen erally in the form of Fowler's solution. For the first few months, mavbo in some cases for a year, little or no effects ensue, but after I that time the beautiful pallor which you have seen is produced. After a few years the wretched woman begins to feel her health giving way, and decides to discontinue its use. Alas, it is too late! The face changes to a livid red, every one notices it. and in despair she returns to the same course, and receives the congratulations of her friends on her restored health. After some years, however, the face gradually changes from the clear color of alabaster to a dull, ghastly complexion like chalk; the whole system, saturated with this mineral. gives way, and usually death mercifully ends a life of paralysis. Suoh has been the history ol many or our wives and daughters, and, unless the strong arm of the law steps in and puts stringent rules on the sale of this poison, it will be the history of thousands of the 1 present and riEing generation. "Are there any other drugs used for the complexion which have the same effects as arsenic?" "None which have such awful consequen ces in their train, because there are no other poisons which are habitually taken internally to beautify the complexion, but great damage is being done by the use ol cosmetics. Why, sir, I have analyzed over 60 of the leading cosmetic preparations, and I did not find one which did not contain either sugar of lead, oxide of zinc, or some other preparations of lead. Tha amount varies from two to 10 grains per ounce, but in all it is the leading ingredient." " W hat would be the effect of the continued use of cosmetics?" "Briefly this: Sooneror later, in proportion to the quantity used and the frequency of its application, the pores of the face become acked with the insoluolo material or the causing lead-poisoning of the minute nerves and blood-vessels, and paralysis of the skin, extending even in some instances into to the neck and arms. The paralysis of the skin is not dangerous of itself, but it is liable to bring on diseases of the throat and respiratory orgaus, and it always has the effect of making the skin yellow and icainer-iike. J5ut if the consequences which loiiow tne use of cosmetics are not so deadly as those which follow the internal use of arsenic, they are far more widely spread. I assure you as a solemn fact that, to the best of my belief, and I have given the subject extended and close attention. 80 per cent, of tho women between the ages of 25 and 60 use cosmetics in a greater or loss degree, and probably about 40 per cent between 15 and 25. People fail to re alize the immensity of the evil. I have seen dozens of cases, and heard of hundreds more on irood authority, of mothers applying these poisonous preparations to their young children, and even to infants a few weeks old. ruining the complexion for life. It is a se cret underhand trade in one way, for the woman seldom tells her dearest friends that 6he habitually uses a certain balm or reno vator. The manulacturers and dealers wno pander to this wretched tasto make no secret of their preparation, but advertise it far and wide, and will give some idea of the widespread demand which exists lor these poisons when I tell you that during the year 1878 there were manuiaciurea ana soia in this country alone over 1.100.000 gallons of a certain well-known patent wash for the faco and neck, while on this subject l must not omit to mention a preparation, which I will not name, for the removal of freckles. As it certainly does remove freckles, its sale has enormously increased in the last two years. A few months ago I analyzed a specimen, and was horrified to find that it contained 6 per cent oi corrosive suoiimaio. At present it has a large sale, and it is re tailed at a high price. "Are there any cosmetics which improve the skin and are harmless I "None, except fresh air and pure water. Carbonate of magnesia is quite extensively used, and is not- pernaps. positively injurious; but it makes the skin look tough and old, and in time stops the circulation of the blood in small vessels of the lace. nuing nas me same effect. The better and more expensive rouge made from pure cochineal, or cochi neal carmine, are not lniunous wnen usca in moderation and washed off every night, but the cheap kinds all coatain anahne, and are very poisonous. Bay rum contains no ingredient which is chemically injurious, but even that is liable, if used too often, to dry up the little oil globules and make the skin dry and harsh." "I suppose the use of the poisonous cosmetics is almost entirely confined to women?" "Well, not exclusively. I fancy many would be rather astonished if they knew the number of young men who participate in this evil with their sisters and mothers. And another thing, too, of which you may not be aware is, that there are hundreds of young men, mostly of the upper and upper-middle classes, who wear corsets. . The habit is injurious to a young woman, but it is a thousandfold more so to a young man, for physi cal reasons which I have no time to enter upon. I did not suspect this habit until j about a yea ago but since that time I have I discovered that its existence is by no means I un frequent

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