Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1882 — Page 7

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BY GEO. & MAJLS&AIX.

Robert Mayo, a colored citizen of Louisville, brought suit for divorce, alleging that he thought his wife was a mulatto, whereas she is a white woman, and their cohabitation is in violation of law. Salvini had a hard time of if iu Boston. esthetic woman invited bim to a pale tea where the gas was turned off and a few candles lit, so that people talked at each other in the dark. He made the best of it by saying it reminded him of an Italian salon—where they don’t use gas—but everybody else said it reminded them of Vanderbilt’s tunnel. At another party the lady of the house approached and serenely invited Salvini to recite something. His smiles vanished, and he said he never recited. From the official report of the Italian census, taken on the last day of the jear 1881, it appears that the total population of the peninsula is 28,452,639, uii increase since 1871 of 1,651,485; while, in that period, it is estimated, further, that fully 350,000 Italians have .emigrated. The educational exhibit of these returns is interesting because so encouraging. Thus, the number of persons who could not read or write in 1871 was 42 per cent, of men and 47 of women —proportions which, in the case •of men, have decreased 17 per cent, wnd of women 11. The greatest improvement is found between the ages •of 20 and 25.

The guardsmen returned from Egypt who now walk the streets of London, •ays an English paper, have a wild look about the eyes and a marked unquiet’ about the brow. The trace of severe privation' is left in their dried and shrunken forms, but the trace of mental anguish is visible enough in the disturbed glances they cast around. The same expression was noticeable in the laces oi the men returned from Zulti*land, and the officers of our army will tell you that the men who have served in tbe frontier war against the Indians never recovered the happy, careless look they had worn at' the commence ment of a campaign. “One single echo of the war whoop by night will rob a man of twenty years of his life, and he may bid farewell to his youth forever after," said Gen. Custer just before entering on his campaign on the Rosebud river. Some interesting statistics of the public observatories of the world have just been published. Their number is 1M; eighty-four being in Europe, two in Asia, two in Africa, twenty-seven in America and three in Oceania. Of the European observatories Prussia has twenty-nine, Russia nineteen, England fourteen, Italy nine, Austria eight, France six, Switzerland four and Sweden three. Spain, Portugal, Holland and Norway each possess two, while there is only one in Greece, Belgium Denmark. The most ancient observatory in Europe and m the world is that of Leyden, having been founded in 1632; then comes Copenhagen, founded in 1637; Paris, in 1667 and Greenwich, in 1675. The Moscow observatory is the oldest in Russia, dating from 1750. Prussia, now the richest country in the world in astronomical observatories, had none before 1805.

That the country is Wealthier than the city is generally Understood, but the mortality statistics Qf the census furnish data upon, yrhioh to Jbaqe aUopinion as t» the itary the of 1180 perthan* sand of ppfmlatian, 12.8 sr’ of 1870, uad 15.1 in tfc« census of 1880,* The increase is attributed to the greater accuracy in . the work pf the enumerators for each successive census, rather than to,any increase in the Actual mortality. It is. believed' that the enumerators have yet failed to obtain the full mortality statistics, for a canvass in two States has shown that about 30 per cent, of the deaths are not included in the oeneus statistics. It is therefore supposed that the true death-rate is not far from 18 per thousand es population. As the death-rate for our cities averages about 25 per thousand, the chances of long life are vastly greater in the country than in the town. When William Shcehy, of Trenton, If. J., presented at the church to be married, the other day, the priest informed him that the ceremony could

not go on. Olfjection tb the marriage: had been made by two women, who: claimed to be friends of the bride, on the ground that Sheehy was already married, and said he wonld have to disprove the statement before he could go on with the ceremony. Sheehy had foi merly lived in Philadelphia, and it was stated that his alleged present wife was living there now. . The priest who had been his pastor in Philadelphia had since removed to N. J There jras nothing left Shee&y to do but go to Burlington, see the priest in question and get a certificate from him to the effect that he was a single Stan. The distance to the depot Vrits half a mile, and he had less than five minutes in which to catch the train. If he failed to get back from Burlingtbh W fore noon the.-, marriage wonld have?, to be postponed' for another;- day, and lie felt that under the circumstances de-' lays were dangerous. He reached the station in time to catch the train just as it was pulling out. Meantime there was excitement, anxiety and uncertainty among those at the churoh. The curiosity of everybody was too much aroused for any one to leave until thrfy heard of the result of the mission, of the absent Sheehy. After waiting about two hours, and just as the people were beginning to despair of his return, the groom expectant, about twenty minutes of 12, was seen coming on a run. fie had the desired certificate, and was in time tp have the ceremony proceed. By noon himself the bride were one, and the spectators were congratulating him on his pluck in overcoming obstacles. Mrs. Crosby, who lives in an oldfashioned mansion, surrounded by fine grounds, near Fort Schuyler, a few miles from New York, on Long Island sound, was awakened the other night by tbe ringing of the door bell and the demand of a man to be let in. She refused, and he went to the side door, where, by breaking a pane of glass, he succeeded in unlocking the door and letting himself in. She, in the meantime, rang a big bell and called John and Tom, the ostler and gardener, living near by in a cott&ge. “11l John and Tom you!” said the intruder. "I’ll kill yon if you don’t stop your noise.” He succeeded in reaching the top of the stairs, where the nurse broke a cane over his head and ran away into the nursery and locked the door. The man began kicking the panels of this door when Mrs. Crosby snapped a gun at him, which did not go off. Then she ran by another way into the nursery. Just as the man got his shoulders through the door, she clubbed the gun and struck him on the shoulder, breaking the stock of the gun short off. As the man arose she caught him by the neck and shoulder and hit him a blow in the right eye with her fist. He seized her by the face, hi 9 thumb in one corner of her mouth and his fingers spread from her right ear down under the jaw. Then he threw her across the foot of a bed. She wrenched his hand from her face, rolled him off, and, catching him by the collar, shoved him through the deor and sent him tumbling down the stairs. During this struggle Willie, a lad of 7 years, manfully helped his mother by kioking, pounding and biting the man and pulling his hair vigorously, saying, as ke did so: “Oh mamma, he’ll kill yon! he’ll kill yon! but I’ll help you.” When she had sent the man rolling down the stairs she thought of a pair of pistols in a case in the front room. She found the case locked, but pried it open with a knife. As she got to the head of the stairs with the pistols. the •ipan saw her and ran.' He reaohed the Conservatory door, near the foot of the atairs, and pulled the door-knob off in to 'get out. Then he ran up to the stair landing and jumped out he had come in. After the man had'fcot away from the the two servants woke bp, but could not find him.

Speaking Ships at Sea.

Immediately-on-hearing the cry M Sail, O!" the signal flags, of which there are eighteen, are brought to deok, and the ensign is run up the peak halyards; or, if not visible to the other vessel there, thoy are displayed from some conspicuous point. When the other vessel comes near enough to see our ensign through the glass, she makes it known by pulling down her ensign. We next raise the four flags of pennants that denote the name of our vessel, and when distinguished by them they follow suit, The other flags used denoting the letters were B. L. D. O.—from Bombay, B. E. M.—for Amsterdam, W. ,F. V.— seventy-six days out; these were answered by us, and then we asked him to report us-; he replied, V. J. W.—with pleasure. Anything can be said by the use of these flags.

HAVOC BY EXPLOSION.

Eight Workmen Blown to Pieoes st Shawneetown HI. Their Bodies Shockingly Mutilated by .the Bursting Boiler. A boiler in the saw-mill of A. J. Vincent & Co., at Shawneetown, 111, exploded the other day. killing eight men and fatally wounding another. The victims were seated around the engine eating lunch. Remnants of the boiler and portions of the bodies of the employes were found 300 yards away. • The details es the shocking affair are embraced in the following telegram from Shawneetown: It appears that the men were seated around in various positions in the cicinitv of 'the boiler, eating their noon luncheon, when ’the boiler exploded, creating terrible destruction. > There were eleven men in the mill at the thae, and of these the following eight were instantly killed: William Montgomery, Charles Bloss, Henry Hughes, Charles Baker, George Price, W. P. Grove, James McLaughlin, Samuel Kennedy. Several of these were blown into fragmenta The sawyer was blown to pieces, so that scarcely a common pailful of his remains could be picked up. One corpse was blown into the river, and two others were thrown a distance of fully 200 yards. Wade Kee, another employe, was thrown a long distance from the mill, and had his legs and arms broken and otherwise injured. He was picked up shortly afterward and died in less than an hour. The other two men are hurt, one probably fatally. The mill is a complete wreck, portions of the boiler lying in different directions and at various distances, rauging from 100 to 800 feet The accident is the worst ever recorded here, and has created great excitement Several of the victims leave families, some of them in comparatively destitute circumstances. Nobody is left to give any clew as to the probable cause of the accident, and nothing apparently can be known but that the disaster is appalling and complete.

THE TREASURY.

Annul Report of Secretary Folger on tbo National Finances. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury Is a lengthy document—nearly. If not quite, twioe the built of President Arthur's message—end fairly bristles with tabular showings of the national finances. We present below, in a summarized form, the main points of general interest contained in this, the most Important of all the departmental reports. For the fiscal year ending June 30. 1882, the revenue of the Government exceeded the total ordinary expenses $145,543,810, which, together with $20,737,6.U drawn from the oa<*h balanoe in the treasury, was applied to tie redaction of the national debt. While the net Increase of the revenue from all sources was $42,742,958 by the natural growth and thrift of the country, and not by Increase of tax levies, the expenditures of the Government decreased $2,731,448. The decrease In the Interest on the publ*debt about balanced the increase In pensions. It is estimated that if the taxes should remain throughout the year as now the surplus would amount to about $75,000,000. The coinage of silver dollars under the present act up to Nov. 1, 1882, had amounted to $123,329,880. There were on the first of last month 2,400 tons of silver coin stored in the publlo vaults. The Secretary thinks there should be a halt in the coinage, that the department should be authoilzed to coin onlv so much as will be necessary to supply tbo demand. The gold certificates are passed over with a simple statement or the amount ready for issue ($138,620,( 00) and the amount actually Issued up to Nov. 27 $31,‘290,000). No discussion of the restrictive or hew York policy is entered into. The total export of coin and bullion for the vear Was $49,417,479; me total import, $42.472 39a The coinage of gold amounted to $89,413,447, about $11,000,000 in excess of any previous year. The mints did a large stroke of business in minor coins, of which there were no less than 46,865 725 pieces struck, werth $844,757.75. Over 40,000,000 of these pieces were pennies, the rest, for the most part, 5-eent nickels, the demand for which was very large. The total stock of United States coin and bullion available for coinage, not counting anything bnt gold and silver, amounted, Oct. 1, to $773,584,791. The Secretary recommends the repeal of the special taxes on national banks, which, he says, derives little or no profit on their circulation. He says that nearly one-hnlf of the Interestbearing funded debt of the United States ($1,400,000,0001 is held by the banks, national, State and private, thus forming the basis of oar own medium of exchange. It follows, he olklms, that the debt oocld not be reduced more than that amount without endangering the stability of oUr banking system. ‘i he evil practice of overoertiflc&tion of checks by national banks is animadverted upon, and those who persist in it are plainly warned that they will be prosecuted under the law. The Secretary says, in regard to publio moneys, that, so tar as known, there hive been no losses to Government from publio officers engaged t either in the receipt, the safe keeping or the disbursement of the publio funds. The cost per cent, of collecting customs dues was never so low as now, and the internal-revenue service seems to be la most excellent condition, from an economic point of view. The total receipts of oustoma were $222,559,104; of internal revenue, $146,523,273. Thedlecretary strongly urges radical chances in the classification of sugar. Fortheiesthe discusses tariff reform in conne tion with the general subject of the reduction of taxation. Mr. Folger would abolish all internal taxation except that on spirits, fermented liquors and tobaoeo, making a redaction of $22,000,000, and still leaving a surplus of $98,000,00u. That he would take from customs by a general system of redaction, especially on raw materials in general, and sugar in particular. The repot t states that foreign commerce of the.countrv shows a balance in favor of expor a to the amount of nearly $ 6.i*0,(00. Over .5 per cent, of onr exports consists of agricultural products. The tonnage of vessels owned in the United States and engaged in the foreign t ade, is still declining, but the tonnage of those in the domestic trade Increased more than three times as much as foreign tonnage decreased. There were 1,876 vessel* .built apd documented as vessels of. the United States during the year. Of these 502 were steam vessels.’ Of the combined imports and exports of nserchandl-e ijf per cent, only was conveyed in Ame lean vessels. 1 The Secretary makes no suggestion on the subject of encouraging ship-building. Mr. frolger discusses the pleuro-pnerumonla question, reoo -nizlng the fact that it is confined to cattle in certain districts of the Atlantlo States, and has no foo bold in the * oat. He says that arrangements are being made which will justify the removal of. the present riUsh embargo on* American 'fire sto-k There lap large demand for stock cattle in'England, wh.oh this co utry could and would supply, to a great extent, if the Englis.i Government was not afraid of contagion.

Dressing Men by Contract.

In Lond< n men arejmpposed to dress well. Why is a mystery, unless it be, as I have been informed, tailors dt ess them by contract. A young man withes to be a swell—as t»ie phrase is—land goes to a tailor, offering him S‘JW a year to clothe him. The tailor kpeps him supplied with new suits as fast as the swell returns the old ones, witch he cannot keep more than a month. They are but little, if any; worn, And

the tailor immediately pells them to ready-made clothing houses. At the end of the year the tailor haa made S2OO from hu swell; has made a profit on the sale of the clothes, ana the swell has dressed exquisitely at small expense. In this way the tailors l>ecome patrons of the arts and phi’aXr thropists in one breath.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS.

The Navy. The report of the Secretary ot the Navy reeommeuds promotion by selection to the (trad' ot Rear Admiral, and the oonstrnotlon of two sec-ond-rate steel cruisers, one steel ram and an iron dispatch boat, all to cost net to exceed $3,500,000. The report r-commends the transfer of the lighthouse service, coast survey and revenue marine to the Navy Department, as the first two are not property part of the treasury, and are largoly unrated by navy employes at present, and properly oome within Its scope of operations. As a measure of ro nomy a union of naval and mat lne hospitals is suggested. The repot t comments at length upon the decline of American shipping, and says the present evils must be remedied or American shipping will be entirely wiped out He recommended the adopt ion of a protective system, and lt rge oomt enaation for caminir the mails in Ame lcan ships, ami the • stab ishment of a mercantile marine in the Nm v Department: the report concludes as follows :‘u the ns' al establlshmen’ is not made effective it should be discontinued, and the $15,000,000 annually expended bo rese ved to procure, in national emergencies the assl tanoe of foreign ships and gun-. If Governmental measures are n t soon adopt* d to promote the carrying trade and arrest the disappearance of American ships from the ocean, w« shall -oon cease to be a seafaring people, a d not need to maintain a navy of ourojva." The Postofllce. Postmaster General Howe in his annual report reooommends that a system of postal sav-ings-banks should be Inaugurated. After careful study he has arrived at the oonolnsion that the telegraph and postal systems of tbe country should be included under one management and that the only protection for the public against multiplied extortions Is for the Government to sssume exolusive control of the transmission of domestic messages. He considers the telegraph “too terrime a power to be wielded by any other than tbe representatives of the whole people.” *or the first time In thirty-one years the postoffice has not been a burden on the pnbllo treasury. After deducting all extra expenses there was a net surplus of reoelpts over expenses of $330,050, while last year there whs a deficiency of $2,444Utt8. The estimated revenue for the fiscal year 1883-81 is given at 650,670,456, and the estimated expenses at $16,741,111, wbioh will leave a surplus revenue of $3,939,345. The heaviest item of expenditure is for transportation of malls on railways. The next heaviest is that for the pay of Postmasters. These two items mnst swell with the volume of business, since tbe rate of compensation is proportioned to the amount of business done. The exKndlture next In rank is for what is own as tbe star servioe. That Includes all the mall transportation' not on railways nor on steamboats. The amount and oo t of that servioe is left almost wholly to the arbitrary control of department For tbe year ended June si, 1881, the s ar servioe oovered 79,557,206 miles of transportation, at a cost of $6,597,353. F* r the year ended June 3>, 1883, tbe same servioe oovered 76,934,867 miles, and coat $5,553,849. Congress is Invoked by the Postmaster General to make one more effort to engraft upon tho postal servioe a system of deposits for small some, and a recommendation is made that postage on seoond-class matter be abolished. “After the fullest consideration which I have been able to give the subject of postal telegraphy. I am forced to Me conclusion that the time has fully oome when the telegraph and postal service should be embraced under one management”

Department of Justice. Attorney General Brew ter asks legislation to protect civil officers of tne Government in the performance of their duties, as there is no Federal law to pqpish tbe murderer of an official. He calls attention to tbe refusal of tbe Leaislature of Utah to appropriate fun is to execute Territorial l-.ws. by which it evades a charge of about per annum. The Interior. Secretary Teller commences bis report with tbe discussion of Indian affairs, ami sepommends tbe disarming of the Indians as a means of removing temptations from them to go npon the warpath. Upon the vexed question of the title to Indian lands, the Beere’ary says that the savage Indian object.* to land in severalty because he has been taught, both as a question of political economy and Indian morals, that it is a crime to divide the land and allow one man to svtn it to the exclusion of ano her. To the end ■ hat the Indiana may be spduie In their titles and have the assnranc * than they will not. be remo ed exoept by their free consent, he recommends tbe passage of a lawHo give each tribe a patent for the land the Government has gu’iruntced t • it, leaving the Indians to determine the question of allotment for themselves. At le st half of all the Indian children of school age should to put to manusl-lab r schools, and more atffintum should be paid to teaching them to labor than to read With 20,000 or maqp Indian children properly selected in onr schools there will be no danger of Indian wan. Some core should be had in tbe selection Of 'the children to inolnde the children of those indlv duals and tribes most likely to make trouble. The Secretary Indorses the recommendation of the Commissioner of the Land Office for the repeal of tbe pre-emption law and the modification of tbe Homestead law. The Pre-emption law, intended as a me.ms es enahUrg the citizen wishing to make a home to do no cheiply and speedily, Has been nsal largely to aggregate large quantities of lands for the benefit of tbe speculator, and not for those whose benefit It was intended. It will be useless to repeal the pre-emption laws if the opportunity still exists to commit the same frauds under the cover of tbe Homestead law. If it is thought best to retain the pre-emp-tion laws they shonld be' so amended that toe filing for pre-emption should precede the entry by at lesst a year. The Commissioner of Railroads reports that, with the exception of a few minor roads, he regards the United States as secure in the ultimate payment of both principal and interest of tbe loans odvssoed.

The Transit of Venus.

The cloudr weather in various parts of the country was a great disappointment to many astronomers who had made laborious and elaborate preparations to observe the unusual and infrequent celestial event—the transit of Venus—which occurred on the 6th of December. They know it was the only opportunity they would ever have, for another transit would not occur to/-more than a century to come. The transit was successfully observed at Chicago, where lTois. Hough, Burnham and' Garrison too* .tin- time of the contacts and secured ten photographs. Tbs Irene < astionomrrs at the old fort at St. Auirus--11 nr, Fla are highly satisfied with their labors. The German pirty at Aiken, R C., partially failed In tbelr object Prof. Waldo and his associates at Yale College report satisfactory results. Profs. Wilson securing 160 full plates. At Kan )■ rnneboo forty-eight photographs of the transit were obtained. Prof. Hall, after great difficulty, took 204 photographs at San Antonio, and Prof. Honzeau, the Belgian astronomer, took 20 measurements. The appearance of the planet as it crossed ihe son's disk is described <>y the oi »*crvcrs as fcintply that of a round black spo* with a f moots surface. There were no indications of mountains and volcanoes which tha sue ent astronomers claimed to have seen, hut which have never apt eaied to modern observers, boon after the first contact the whole planet could be seen, and it was surronaded by a f i inge of iivhtdue to its atmosphere, a circumstance which was noticed by tin astronomer* who viewed the transit in 1874. TiiP.ni'. are 84,000 square miles of coal in the Missouri basin-

ADJUSTING THE TARIFF.

Bsport of the OoaMwlaatasi Bwnplag Reforms Bee—mended. Tbe report of tbe Tariff Commission, says a Washington telegram, is a gnat surprise, both to the revenue-reformers and tbe protectionists. Such extensive changes as an proposed wen not hoped for by the former or feared by the latter. The range of reduction of 30 to 50 per canton all articles which enter into consumption was certainly not anticipated. Neither was it expected that the commission would reoommend a reduction of duties on sugar of from 40 to 60 per cent, nor tbe nee of the polartxoope, nor the admission of so many articles te the free list As a class the revenue- eformers am much better satisfied with the report, so far aa they understand it, than the protectionists an. It is believed at a first glance at the suggestions or the commission that they will form a good basis npon which to provide for a thorough revision, and that after all it may be at Mast said that the work of tbe much-ridiculed commission has not been valueless. They propose to abolish oompound duties with a few exceptions. They have revised the custom-house regulations in about a hundred particulars, and recommend the abolition of all fees, charges and commissions. Tbe tree liet is extended by including many new articles, auoh as wood-pulp, quinine, all dye extracts, crude chemicals, and all gm< n fruit exoept lemons. oranges and grapes. The duty on these fruits is made specific. They abolish compound duties on iron ores and fix a specific duty ot 50 cents a ton They abolish all oomponnd duties on manufactured tubaoco and put a duty of $3 on cigars, cigarettes, eta They propose to abolish all oompound duties on raw wools, and to make a reduction of about 31$ cents a pound on medium fine wool, which Includes the class generally sheared by Western growers. On manufactured woolen articles ot lower grades they have made large reductions. On ©heap woolen blankets the tariff la reduced about 60 percent. On barrel and sack salt the reduction is from 13 to lo sen s per 100, and on salt in bulk from Bto 6 cents. On lumber and oereals them ie no ohanne. On steel We reduction Is heavy, but iron and steel are proportionately reduced, exoept steel rails, which drop down from S3O to $lB per ton. Hteel blooms are put at M oent per pound. Medicinal preparations an reduced from 100 per.cent ad valorem to 49 per oent All oomponnd duties on cottons an abolished and the reduction is about 30 per oent Any single book or publication may oome In free. Readymade clothing is reduced about one-third, and carpets about one-fourth. The duty on books is reduoed one-hslf, and tbe duty on works of art is doubled. Fln.-nrucUe s and ulaytng-Q rds are increased from no to 100 pe cent ad valorem. It is proposed to abandon the’Dutuu standard on all grades of sugar below No. 18 and to use the polar!scope test, and that tbe Dutch standard shall continue to be used for all grades above No 13. Tbe genet al effect of this scheme wonld be a reduct 1 ""

Report of the Secretary of War.

The annual report of Secretary of War Lincoln shows that the expenditures of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30,1832, were $45,349,319. Tbe appropriations for the current year are $55,663,430, and the estimates for the year 1883-64 are $38,897,620. This groat decrease is, however, apparent rather than real, as the estimates include only $4,513,603 for pnbllo works, the items for improving rivers and harbors and for the improvement of the Mississippi river under tbe River Commission being omitted by Mr. Lincoln. Nearly $1,800,000 extra is oelced for the maintenance of the army and the Military Academy, and the Secretary concurs in Gen. Sherman's recommendation for sn increase of 5,<>00 enlisted men, making the limit 30,000. During tbe past year (hero were 7,341 enlistments and re-enlistments and 8,731 desertions from the army. Mr. Ltnooln thinks it would be better and cheaper to raise the soldiers’ pay to sl6 per month than to be called on to ropuoe so many of them. He is In favor of the substantial encouragement of the militia servioe, and directs attention to the anomalous condition of the law governing retirement, and to the Insufficiency of existing laws to punish raiders into tne Indian Territory.

Concerning the Feet.

A well-known surgeon who has made a specialty of diseases of the leg and foot lately asserted that most of these diseases lind their beginning in the injury to the nerves and muscles done by high-heeled shoes. By the compression and false position into which the foot and ankle are thrown, some of the muscles are rendered totally useless, while a strain is put upon others which they are unable to bear; the toes are displaced, corns, bunions and scaly soles are prodneedThe nerves are bruised and actual disease follows. This crnel distortion begins usually when a child is about two Tears old, and its fond mother thinks it time to “shape its feet,” which is done by a pretty pair of stiff-laced heeled boots or shoes. An orthopedic surgeon in New York published, not long since, a statement that the number of splayed feet in the country was increasing rapidly. "A splayed foot is one in which the arch of the instep is permanently broken down ;* the foot is flat, ungainly and weak. The cause he atiributes in the main to high-heeled shoes; the French shoes in which the heel is placed a little forward, being less injurious than that made by American shoemakers, in which it is placed at the back, and thus the strain is made greater. The whole weight of the body in both cases falls on tine small bones of the centre of the foot, which stretch like the span of a bridge from the piers of the tom at one end to the peaked heel at the other. Other causes of splayed feet are the habit among littje girls of excessive jumping the rope, and a like immoderate tise of roller skates. Moderate use of either it wholesome exercise; bnt it should lje moderate. The girls are not alone culpable on this medical indictment of vanity. Within the last year or two it has been the fashion among boys and very young men to wear shoes that run to a point and turn up in front slightly. The whole, of the five toes are contracted to the) width of an inch. The shape of the foot is at once distorted to deformity, and the walk, which to be manly should l»e firm and free, becomes uneasy and mincing. Imagine the great athletes in the Greek arenas tip-toing in these pointed shoes. One could laugh at the foolish boys if we did not know the stores of suffering which they are laying up for the future, in swollen bunions and enlarged joints. One »cx has its share of vanity as well as the other. ( And the punishment of a passing folly in this isjsnre and heavy.— Youth V Companion. “Do not waste life in doubt* and fears; spend yourself on the work l>efore you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the 1 tours of the ago* that foltew.”