Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 19, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 June 1897 — Page 7

DDAMHIi BT n: MURRAY. ~T7 BJUIf IT SPRING FLOWERS. m begged ft flower of an old. old man. WM who aat by the wayalde to mourn, ißwhose life had ebb'd to Its final span. S As he rented him all forlorn. M a flower." quoth he. as he sadly smiled. And held out the bloom to my ***; gathered these for a poor dead child, in the thlcjpet, close by the n>aM. B'What. to the dead, can a flower Impart.” mM i asked, as he looked on the. rose; ■■•’Surely. the clay with Its lifeless heart m seeks naught save the tranquil repose. mMfiut the old man looked with moistened eye, WM And the teardrop played on his cheek. Sis with sorrow’s voice he made reply: Neither flower nor dead may speak.” 9-These are the emblems of purity, IS The lily, the rose, and the leaf, i |S They’re symbols of love and constancy, And remind us that life Is brief. j|H They fade when their nurture forsakes them, To our lives they’re cldsply akin, £■ They richly adorn him that takes them, ■ They toU not, nor yet do they spin. §1 "The bride in her blushes and beauty for adornment posies entwines, |B [But casts them aside ere her duty Leads whither her pleasure inclines. ■ They’re besprinkled with dew from heaven, ■ They rear themselves proudly and brave, To us for our lives they are given. At our death they enshroud our grave.” A —London Lady. I jp WRRNNNWWWMWfI II THE ffIOUHTfiIN DAISY. § I VemMMMWiNWMN/ IT was In a corner of the conservatory behind the palms during one of the H most fashionable functions of the sea- ■ eon. This seems a favorite situation ■ with fate while weaving the web of I human destiny. Fred Trevor, tall, dark, U elf-contained, with power apparent in I every look, movement and feature, I etood with hands crossed behind him U before the magnificent woman he had I just seated. I “You know. Miss Alden,” as he leaned m toward her, “that my knowledge of the ■ fcocial tenets is not profound.” S “You have only to follow your inI etincts, Mr. Trevor.” ■ “And you are th 4 gentle mentor who 9 warned me against the sin of flattery.!’ ■ ‘'lf I have paid an undeserved com- ■ pliment it is to society in assuming that H St has attained to your standard.” | “You’re Incorrigible, but I’U accept I the verdict &nd carry out the thought ■ I had in bringing you here.” ■ She made no answer save to withdraw f her eyes from his and gather in the 1 folds of her dress to make room for him to sit down. ‘1 want to tell you something of my |j t !ife and then ask your advice. lam not I assuming that the story has any special I interest for you, but I have a special de- ■ sire for your opinion after I have told I . It.” I “But don’t you know it as a general I truth that, with the average woman, the man who is rich, famous and honI ored, glorifies his antecendents, no mutI ter what they 1 may he?” I “If you weref the average woman I I would never Wve sought this opporI tunity. When I first faced the world I alone I was a little, ill-fed, sallow, ragI ged and half-dressed boy In the CumI berland mountains. I did not know I that there was such a thing aB a rail- ■ road, a steamboat, a book, a hereafter, ■ music, culture or anything different I from the detestable surroundings from I which I longed to escape. My father I had been killed in defending an illicit still, and mother seemed to go with the I mountain flowers which I had gathered for her till tjhey had ceased to bloom that fall. During the winter I was I kept alive despite kicks and bruises byIa family that had me as thelrsolerelinnce in 'toting* water and gathering wood, “In the spring I went away. Made np a little bundle and stole off in the night. Till the evening of the next day I hurried over the red clay roads and paths, terror of being caught and taken back crowding out every other thought and feeling, But hunger and exhaustion are not to be denied, and at last I went stealthily to a little cabin where a girl of my own age was keepin’ house in a hollow stamp, just outside. She put her frowsled head over the wall of her primitive abode to conduct the examination. ‘Who is youuns, boy?’ ‘Whar’syou’par?’ ‘Whar'ayou* snar?’ ‘Whar mout yon be a goin'?’ ¥ iwere questions that I answered as well las I could. Then she said wisely: *1 PUowb thet yon is runned away.' “This would have put me to flight, fint she sprang out, told me to take her place, and white I sat in the cramped {quarters she brought me all that I ieould eat and a paper of food to carry fwith me. After assuring me that she. {would have her ‘pari shoot anyone who knight he trying to recapture me, she pointed the nearest way to a town, walked a way with me and said as we parted: ‘I reckon yonuns ’ll heve ter 3dm back some time an* marry me fur all them wittles an’ for tailin’ folks Weans heven't sawen yon when they comes aarchin’. I promised her, of . course.” “But you never told ns that yon were engaged,” laughed his brilliant listener. “Where can we find your mountain daisy?” “I wish I could tell you. The Incident was one of the events of my life. For the first time I knew the sweetness of symjmthy. I have grown to almost detest the people from whom I sprang, because of their ignorance and Jack of ambition, bat the little girl/of •the hollow stump has always had a warm place in my memory. Yon know most of ray experience in the far wsst. Before I had been there six months I * found the old man known a. Bennit . Ban lying unconscious and apparently dying in qpe of the mountain gorge.. Z brought the aid that carried him to

his shanty, procured a doctor and was fils nurse till he recovered. He felt to* me as I did toward the ignorant little girl back in Tennessee. I had been good to him without any selfish motive and be no sooner was well he announced that I was his boy Jim. This was my protection, for, despite the fact that he was a recluse, Bee was known as a ted man when interfered with hnd commanded a respect that wns heightened by the mystery with which he surrounded himself. Something had made him at enmity with the world. For years he told me nothing, though from the first be showed me all the affection of a mother and care of a father. ** < “It was soon a matter of common report that Ben’s new boy was to be a gentleman. The hermit himself took charge of my primary education. He was delighted with my lack of knowledge and my endless list of simple questions, for it showed him that he was working on virgin soil. He molded me in accordance with his own conception of manhood, forever'impressing upon me that ingratitude was the cardinal sin. When I could comprehend he told me that I would be rich, that I must spend money generously and that some time ho would let me Into a secret which would place at my command all the immeasurable power ofgold. \ “When it came time for me to go east to college I suggested that I should go back to the old place in the mountains and see if I could do anything for the girl who had been kind to me. No act of mine ever pleased him more, and when I left him it was with unlimited credit authorized by ono of the greatest hanking Institutions of the west. I did not find the girl, hut learned that she had first been employed and then adopted by a widow whose husband ham fallen in the war. I left money with a lawyer, telling him to find the girl and have her educated. A year later this money was returned to me with notice that he could do nothing for m. I wrote for further informa* tion, but could get no reply. “Before my benefactor died he told me of the rich gold find he had worked without sharing his secret with anyone. You know how it proved a veritable mine of wealth, built up a thriving city and won me the title of Bonanza Kjng. He also told me how a heartless woman had wrecked his life, and asked me to never abandon the search for the little mountain girl until I knew what had become of her, and whether it was within my power to help her. You have no idea how roan and boy, thrown together as wo were, could build a romance upon a foundation so slender.” “I think I understand. And you have found no trace ?” „ - “None that I could follow. After that fight when the strikers tried to destroy the machinery at the mines, my wounds threw me into a fever, and through all the delirium I talked in the dialect of my boyhood with the little maid I had never seen but once. That show* you the hold She had upon me, and even yet I have an ideal that must either be shattered or confirmed before

I WAS HIS NURSE.

I can be content. Now for your advice. Should I marry before I have seen this girl?” “Not with my approval, Mr. Trevor. Go to the end of your foolish dream, or it might haunt you, and some woman might suffer.” _ “I had hoped for a different answer from you,” and hia eyes told the old, old story. “But I'm your friend, and can give no other. This is our waltz.” Within a month Trevor received* letter in a yellow, blotted envelope. The scrawl only said: “I reckon youns have furgetted me. I’m fapek here agin, an* I have hearn youns was rich.” Trevor shuddered. His romance had died a-cruel death. But gratitude was hia strong point. Reluctantly be went. When at length he rode to the front of the old cabin there was a woman in a Unsey dress that could not conceal tbs beauty of her form, her back to him, while she threw food to tbe noisy chickens. Just as he reached her ride fthe turned with: “Well, youuna did kim back, hey?” . "Mis* Alden,” gasped Trevor, as ha crushed the “Mountain Dalay” against biz breast .And the promise of his babyhood was made good,—Detroit Free Press. / A Llaeela SteerAmong a botch of stories attributed to President Lincoln is tbe following good one on President Tyler: “During Mr. Tyler’s incumbency of the office he arranged to make an excursion in some direction, and sent his son ’Bob’ to arrange for s special train. It happened that the railroad superintendent was aatirongatblg. A* such he bad oo favors to bestow °° the president and informed ‘Bob’ that hta road did not run any special train# for the president •What,’ arid ‘Bob,’ ‘did you not furnish a special train for tbe funeral of Gen. Harrison r Yea,’ said the superintendent, ‘and If you'll bring yore father in that condition you shall hare th* MM train on tbe road.’ "—’frojTtwaam.

TALMAGFS SERMON. Words of Advice and Encouragement to the Doctors. •" \<o > Hew God Has Hoe ored the Profiles Why Doctor! Should be CfcthtlMiTheir Opportunities for Ctihthi Usefulness. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage sends out the following sermon containing words of encouragement to the medical profession. It is based on the text: And Asa. in Uxe thirty and ninth year of hla reign, was diseased In hia feet until his dtasaae was exceedingly great; yet In hia disease ha sought not to the Lord, but to |he physicians. And Asa slept with hia fathers.—O. Chronicles, xvt,-18. At this season of the year, dhen medical colleges of all schools of medicine are giving diplomas to yonng doctors and at the capital and in many of the cities medical associations are assembling to consult about the advancement of the interests of their profession, I feel this discourse Is appropriate. In my 'text is King Asa. with the’ gout. High living and no exercise have vitiated his blood, and my text presents him with his in flamed "and bandaged feet on an ottoman. In defiance of God, whom he hated, ho sends for certain conjurors or quacks. They come an 4 give him all sorta of lotions and panaceas. They hlecd him. They sweat him. They manipulate him. They blister him. They poultice him. They scarify him. They drag him. They cut him. They kill him. He was only a young man, and had a disease which, though very painful, seldom proves fatal to a young man, and he ought to have got well; but he fell a victim to charlatanry and empiricism. “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in bis feet, until his disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he Bought not the Lord, bat to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers.” That is, the doctors killed him. In this sharp and graphic way the Bible sets forth the truth, that you have no right to shut God out from the realm of pharmacy and therapeutics.If Asa had said: “O Lord, X am sick; bless the instrumentality employed for my recovery!” “Now, servant, go and get the best doctor you can find”—he would have recovered. In other words, the world wants divinely-directed physicians. There are a great many such. The diplomas they received from the academies of medicine were nothing compared with the diploma they received from the Head Physician of the universe, on the day when they started out, and He said to them; - “CM heal the sick, and cast out the devils of pain, and open the blind eyes, and unstop the deaf ears.” God bless the doctors all the woftd over! and let all the hospitals, and dispensaries, and infirmaries, and, asylums, and domestic circles of tho earth'respond: “Amen.” Men of the medical profession we often meet in the home of distress. We shake hands across the cradle of agonized infancy. We join each other in an attempt at solace where the paroxysm of grief demands an anodyne as well as a prayer. Wo look into each other’s sympathetic faces through the dusk, os the night of death Is falling in the sick room. We do not have to climb over any barrier to-day in order to greet each other, for our professions are in full sympathy. You, doctor, are our first and last earthly friend. You stand at the gates of life when we enter this world, and you stand at the gates of death when we go out of it In the closing momenta of our earthly existence, when the hand of the wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter, shall hold our right hand, it will give strength to our dying moment if we can feel the tips of your fingers along the pulse of the left wrist. Wo do aotmeet to-day, as on other days, in houses of distress, but by the pleasant altars of God, and I propose a sermon of helpfulness and good cheer. As in the nursery children sometimes re-en-act all the scenes of the sick room, so to-day you play that you are the patient and that I am physician, and take my prescription just once. It shall be a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a disinfectant, a stimulus and an anodyne at the same time. “Is there not balm in Gilead ? Is there not a physician there” In the first place, I think all the medical profession should become Christians because of the debt of gratitude they owe to God for the honor He has put upon their calling. No other sailing in all the world, except it be that of the Christian ministry, has received so great an honor as yours. Christ Himself was not only preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist, ophthalmotologlst, and under ilia mighty power optic add auditory nerve thrilled with light and sound, and catalepsy arose from ite fit, and the club foot wae straightened, and anchylosis went out of the stiffened tendons, and the foaming maniac became placid ae a child, and the streets of Jerusalem became an extemporized hospital crowded with convalescent victims of casualty and invalidism. All ages have woven the garland for the doctor's brow. Homer said: A wise pkjrsloUa. skilled our woeads to feast. Is mors thsa armies to tbe puMle west Cicero said: “There is nothing in which men so approech the gods as when they try to give health to other men.” Charles IX. made proclamation that all the Protestants In France should be put to death on fit Bartholomew’s doji, bet uapde once exception, and that the case of Pare, the father of the French surgery. Tbe battlefields of the American revolution wet* coined Dr*. Mercer end Warren lad Bush. When the French army wae entirely demoralized at fear of the plague, tbe leading surgeon of that army famedieted himself with the plngne to show the soldiers there wee no eon teg ion io it; and their courage rose, and they wenton totheconflict. God has honored this profession ail the way through. Oh. the adreaaameat from the days when Hippocrates tried to ears the greet Pericles with hellebore end das* Mid poolUmiAnvb to Amt tetaff

turies when Heller announced the theory of respiration, and Harvey the circulation of the blood, end Asoall the uses of the lymphatio vessels, and Jenner balked the worst disease that ever soourgad Europe, and Sydenham developed the recuperative forces of the physical organism, and olnchona bark stopped the shivering agues of the world, and Sit Astley Cooper and Abernathy, and -Hoaaek, and Romeyn, and Grissom, and Valentine Mott, of the generation just past, honored God, and fought back death with their keen scalpels. If we who are laymen in medicine would understand what the medical profession has accomplished for the insane, let us look into tho dungeons where the poor creatures used to be incarcerated. Madmen, chained naked to the wall. A kennel of rotten straw I their only only sleeping place. Room un ventilated and unlighted. The Worst calamity of the race punished with tbe very worst punishment. And then oome and look at the insane asylums of Utica and Klrkbride—aofaod, and pictured, llbrarted, concerted, until all the arts and adornments come to coax recreant reason to assume her throne. Look at Howard Jenner, the great hero of medicine. Four hundred thousand people annually dying in Europe from the smallpox, Jenner finds that by the inoculation of people with vaccine from a oow, the great scourge of nations may be arrested. The ministers of the Gospel denounced vaccination; small wits caricatured Edward Jenner as riding in a great procession on the hack of a cow; and grave men expressed It as their Opinion that all the diaeaaea of the brute creation would be transplanted into the human family; and they gave instances where, they said, actually horns had come out on the foreheads of innooent persons,, and people had begun to chew the cud! But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccination until it has been estimated that one doctor, In fifty years, has saved more lives than all the hattloa of any one century destroyed! Passing along the streets of Edinburgh a few weeks after the death of Sir James Y. Simpson, I saw the photograph of the doctor in all the windows of the shops and stores, and well might that photograph be put in every window, for he first hsed chloroform as an anaesthetic agent In other days they tried to dull human pain by the hasheesh of the Arabs and the madrepore of the Roman and the Ureek; but It was left to Dr. James Simpson to introduce Chloroform as an anaesthetic. Albs for the writhing subjects of surgery In other centuries! Blessed be God for that wet sponge or vial in the hand of the operating surgeon iu the clinical department of the medical college, or In the sick room of the domestic circle, or on the battle-field amid thousands of amputations. Napoleon, after a battle, rode alopg the line and saw under a tree, standing in the snow, Larrey, the surgeon, operating upon the wounded. Napoleon passed on, and twenty-four hours afterward came along the same place, and he saw the same surgeon opearting in the same place, and he had not left it. Alas for the battle-fields without chloroform, liut now, the soldier boy takes a few breaths from the sponge and forgets all the pang of the gnnshot fracture, and while tho surgeons of the field hospital are standing around him he lies there dreaming of home, and mother, and*Heaven. No more parents standing arouud a suffering child, struggling to get away from the sharp instrument, but mild slumber instead of excruciation, and the child wakes up and says: "Father, what’s the matter? What's the doctor here to-day for? ” Oh, blessed be God for Jsqiex Y. Himpson and the heaven-de-scended merries of chloroform. The medical profession steps into tbe court-room, and, after conflicting witnesses have left everything in a fog, by chemical analyses shows the guilt or ianeeenee of the prisoner, as by mathematical demonstration, thus adding honors to medical Jurisprudence.. This profession lias dote wonders for public hygiene! Ilow often they have stood between this nation and Asiatic cholera, and the yellow feverl The monuments in Greenwood, and Mount Auburn, and Laurel Iliii tell something of'the story of those men who stood face to face with pestilence in southern Cities, until, staggering in their own sickness, they stumbled across tins corpses of those whom they had come to save. This profession hss been tbe successful advocate of ventilation, sewerage, drainage and fumigation, until their sentiment* were well expressed by Lord l’a inters ton, when be said to the English nation at tbe time a fast had teed proclaimed to keep off a great pestilarues: “Clean your street* or death will ravage, notwithstanding all the prayers of this nation. Clean your strsete, and then call on God for help. Hee what this profession has don* for human longevity. There was susb a fearful subotraction from human Ufa that there was a prospect that withia a few centuries this world would be left almost Inhabit** ties*. Adam started with a whole eternity of earthly existence before him; but be cut off the most of it and only comparatively few years were lefte-only TOO year* of life, and then MO, and then 400, and then MO, and then 100. and throw, and then the average of human life earns to 40, mod then it dropped to l& But medical aetenos came io, mod sloe* the sixteenth century the average of bomen life ha* risen from it year* to 44; uod it will continue to rise until the average of bemao Ilf* wilt be M, aad it { Wilt be to. aad it will be 70; and • man will have no right to die before 00, aad' tbe prophesy of Isaiah will be literally fulfilled: “And the child shall dte a hundred year* old-" Tbe util tea lum for the souls of me* will bs the ali--I—l*l for th* bodla* of men. ftin dome, disease w.l b* do**—the clergyman aad thcpbyv riao gutting through with their work at the seme time. Bat it mam to me that the a** Beautiful beaedteti— the medical pro-

'■ r 1 log iotentlflo ittendßooe. DUpMUMftM end in flrraartes every where under the control at the beat doctors, some of them poorly paid, oome of them Hot paid at all A halt-starved woman cornea out from (be low tenement house Into the dispensary, and unwraps the rags from her babe, a bundle of ulcers, aad rheum, end pustules, and over that little sufferer bends the accumulated wisdom of the ages, from Esculaplua down to last week’s autopsy. In one dispensary, in one year, 100,000 prescriptions were issued. Why do I show you what God hss allowed this profession to do? Is It to stir up you vanity? Oh, no. The day has gone by for pompous doctors, with conspicuous goldheaded canes and powdered wigs, which were the accompaniments In the days when the barber used to carry through the streets of London Dr. Brook leaby's wig, to the admiration and awe of the people, saying: “Make way, here comes Dr. Brook leaby’s wig." No, I announce them things not only to Increase the appreeiatiou of laymen in regard to the work of physicians, but to stir in the hearts of the men of the medical profession a feeling of gratitude to t|od that they have been allowed to put their band to such a magnificent work, and that,they have been called Into such illustrious company. Have you never felt a spirit of gratitude for this opportunity? Do you not feel thankful now? Then I am afraid, doctor, you are not a Christian, and that the old proverb which Chrlet quoted in His aaramn may to appropriate to you: “Fhyaleian, heal thyself.” Another reason why I think tbe medical profession ought to to Christians is because there are so many trials and annoyauoea In that profession that ueed positive Christian solace. 1 know you have* the gratitude of a great many good people, and I know it must be a grand thing to walk in tell (gently through the avenues of human life, and with austomlo skill poise yourself on the nerves and fibers whleb cross and reorosa this wonderful physical system. I suppose a skilled eye can see more beauty even In malformation than au architect can point out in any of hta structures, though it be the very triumph of arch, end plinth, nod abacus. But how many annoyances end trials the medical profession have. Dr. used to say, iu Ills valedictory address to the students of the medical college; "Young gentlemen, have two pockets, a small pocket and a big pocket; a small pocket in which to put your fees, a large pocket in which to put yqpr annoyauoea. Again: Tho medical profession ought to bo Christian because there are professional exigencies when they need God. Asa’s destruction by uublossed physicians was a warning. There are awful crises in every medical practice when a doctor ought to know how to pray; Ail the hosts of ills will sometjme* hurl themselves on the weak point* of tho physical organism, or with equal ferocity will assault the entire line of susceptibility to suffering. The next dose of medicine will decide whether or not tiro happy home shall be broken up. filial I Hbs this medicine or that medicine? God help the dootor. Between tbe flva drops and the ten drops may be tbs question of life or death. Hliaii it to the five or tlie teu drops? lie careful bow you put that knife through those delicate portions of the body, for if it swing out of the way the sixth part of an iuch the patient perishes. Under such circumstances a physician needs not so much consultation with mono! his own calling as he needs consultation with that God who strung the nerves and bufit the sella, end swung the crimson tide through the arteries. You wonder wl#y tlie heart throbs—why it seams to opeu and shut There is ho wonder about it It is God's band, shutting, opening, shutting, opening, on every heart When' a man comes to doctor the eye, he ought to be in communication with Him who said to the blind; "Receive thy sight,” When a doctor comes to treat a paralytic arm. be ought to bo in communication with Him who said: "Htretch forth thy hand, and he stretched it forth,” When a man comes to doctor a bad case of hemorrhage, he needs to be In communication with Him who cured the issue of blood, saying; “Thy faith hath saved tnee.” But I must close, for there may lie coffering men and women waiting la your office, or on tit* hot pillow, wondering why you don't eonie. Hut before you go, O, doctors, hear my prayer for your eternal salvation. Blessed will be the reward in Heaven for the faithful Christian physician. Home day, through overwork, or from bending over a patient and catching hi* eon teg ions breath, the doctor comes home, and he Be* <Viwn faint and sick. ll* is too weary to feel hi* own puis* or take the diagnosis of bis own coin pirn nl. He is worn out The fact is his work on earth is ended. Tell those people in the oflte* there they need not wait any longer; th* doctor will never go (her* again. He ha* written his last prescription for the

alleviation of human pain. The people will ran up bis front step* and inquire; “How is the doe tor to-dayf* AH the sympathies of the neigh >tarhood will be aroused, and there will be many prayers that he who bs* bee* so kind to th* siek may be comforted in bin But pang. It to ail over now. in two or three days bis sonsaissrent patients, with shawl wrapped around them, will com# to the front window snd look out at tbe passing bears*, and th* poor of the *Hy. barefooted and bareheaded, will stand on tbe street coraM saying. "Ob, bow good h* waste US all r But on th* other aid* at the Here of death some of hia old patient*, who nr* forever eared, wilt eome out to wetaom* him, and the physician of ifearem. with lock* a* white as snow, according to the Apocalyptic vision, will I wae siek and ys visited are f* fitfpxnffsgtsat. ■Xf* ivee

SGIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A- '' -'5 ‘aMWM —Taking It year In and year oat, th* coldest hour of each 84 in flv* o’clock fas the morning. —Two new telephone cabled, eodk with two circuits, nr* to fig Mid acres* the English channel at oqM- This wilt make practically six lines for the Lon-don-Paris service. —Aluminum helmets have not provaf entirely successful In the German army, the saving in weight being more thaw offset by the metal’s storing heat, even to bllstcriug the foreheads of the wearer*. —Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist, has been experimenting to find out how loug the common ant would Hr* if hep* out of harm’s way. An ant which had been thus kept and tenderly cared for died at the age of 15 years, which is tho greatest age any specie* of insect baa yet been known to attain. —A recent Invention Is a roller bearing for car wheels, which does away with the use of lubricants. Its inventor claims that it Is a “sure cure” for hot boxes. One wheel bos a test of 170,000 miles In the west without the application of n drop of oil. A bicycle has been made with the mine bearing, and Urn power required to drive It is only about one-fourth that whloh is necessary to propel tlie best modern wheel. —Amateur photographers will be Interested in knowing that yellow spots which have formed on negatives by Insufficient fixing, etc., can be successfully treated by using a diluted bromide solution. The negative is immersed bs a ten per cent, solution of bromide eg potassium, to which have been added two per cent, of muriatic acid and two per cent, of bichromate of potassium. After the negative has been thoroughly bleached it Is washed In running water for some time, exfmaed to daylight far a few minutes, snd developed again in a diluted iron developeiv tO —According |n stntlstMi prepared by tbe •KngliiedrlnjP snd Mne Journal, the output of bituminous dial la the United fitates during iam Manned a total of HI.TTMW short to*i (8,000 pounds), showing a gain over IMS of 4,371,752 tons. On the other hand, there was a decrease of 5,7*8,057 short tons in the anthracite production. The total coal production wss, therefore, 18V 351,097 short tons, and the total deas i’oiu|mred with 1505, was 8,410,305 tons. The production of coke showed a gain of 4453)70 ton*. Chiefly dun to the autivity of th* iron and steel trades in tlie earlier part of lb* year. ALL KINDS OP SHIRT WAISTS. Th* Latest Is Lilts the •tsstr Usemeat War* hr Hew. , Tim shirt waist of tbe present day is a striking example of what fashion ran do In tlie way of furnishing variety In even n comparatively small field for operation. Alt the early rumor* to tbw effect that tbia acrvlceahl* nrtirie at dress wns to be relegated to the lie* of uit sash tollable l binge certainly had no foundation, if the hundreda of waist* of every sort and condition which fill every available space In tbe ebopnuMl appear on every other woman you meet, are conclusive evidence of popularity. The very latest and almplest shirk wl*t of cotton, madras, zephyr, or percale, is mads almost Ilk* the summer shirt worn by men, with a plait in frpnt, pointed yoke In the back and very llttl* fullness in the sleeves at the cull, which is plain, and faalena with link button*. The fashionable stock of black or some light color, or the high turn-ov*r linen collars, are worn with ffilfl, UMft also with silk, batiste and every other kind of waist which oan to* classed with the shirt variety. The genuine tailor-mad* shirt walai la generally considered th* heat fltyle, for aometbing in th* onL fit and finish of It promptly stamp* it as not in tho clam of ready-made shirt*. Yet the latter have Imjprovnd wonderfully In alt point* which go to malt* them a * tmeses. The f ulineae In front of the waist mode to order is arranged more oo tho shoulder, and it la fitted more closely under th* srtn, both of which potato help to fuske it more becoming to tho figure, Got ton waists of gingham i stripe* end decided plaids of rather vivid colurs are prominent in the display, with many others of ribbed tinea and French batiste, etripml with vartr ous colors and patterned over with redbuds. AB the varieties of linen batiste are used for shirt waists, some of the prettiest being those with *mt>roider*d bodies and plain Imtiste nleeves, Tho plain batiste bodice to usually ornamented with crosswise tucks, forming * yoke, or to group# mat tbe cotire waist, with narrow lace Iritis on thn edge of on* tuck in each group. Flowered organdie waist* with ootored silk or dsialy lining* are very pretty, and corset severe In pal* blue, pink aad groen out be purebaacd alt ready to wear under any of the** thin waists. White dimity shirt waist* are to be mush worn, sod the/ have a small bishop sleeve and turned-over cuff*. Tbe prettiest white waist* are made at wash aiik or Liberty satin, with two rows of narrow tow* insertion down either aide of tbe box plait snd a group at tiny tusks between.- I’hilsdeipblo Times. fl* Weader Pswnle Dte. / 1* it to be wondered st that th* aam - mam people of India are weak nod unhealthy? Account# say that In aesous when it to peculiarly score* they drink the very water they nave been - bs thing to; and that they inherit the practice from fenerations of forefather*. In many country districts there are *OO of them to th* square mite—• ii living on wfiat little riot they ore produce on their miniature forma Util* wonder that they die by thensands, reran when famine m not pare eat; that all the minor diseases, a* well as King Cholera, find them * good feed- , tag greinfli Th* *p*l * hygiene /