Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1871 — Page 6

THE ONE THAT DIED.

V'5'i

uv HETTY AT1I0.X MOBRISpS.

I passed a group of children at their play, Strong UnilK-a, strong voiced—they laughed, and leeped, and ran,

As only happy, sturdy children can— The fairest eight of that fair summer day. And a* to watch their merry gambols oVr-

IH-r work down'dropped, forgotten, at her side. With ablaze, with tenderest mother's pride— The mother leaned from out the cottage door.

So fair tl.- Mj-ht it moved my strange"? tOli^U" To cry, "Oh! mother of those sturdy boys

And rose-bud girls than thine, no sweeter Joys Hath poet heart conceived, or poet lips er sung!" tf4 iktasSS "Ah, yes," the mother said—and then she sighed. "Yes, they are fair, those boys and girls of

mine,

#s%*

mother *uld you

And I—no prouder find—" Again

Kin Highed—"Ah,

died!"

but the one that

It is a common grief. Who hath not wept The while one fair hope to bis heart was pressed,

On one sweet love, his willing lips careasfd, O'er grav- where hopes and loves, far dearer, »iept? Oh,' cold, green earth! Oh, far-off starry

Alike, each hides from us some priceless dust, Home shattered treasure of our hearts fond trust, The while we watch, with tearful, longing eyes. Sad heart be comforted. The Crucified,

This truth triumphant laugh, "Love can not die, Though on his pale, cold brow, the death drops lie, For Death is but Lift.- scorified!"

From the CanniBal".

Islands. ,«

LETTER ROM CAPT. EARLE.

W I I A

Off FATnuiVA Marq,

April

10, 1871.

Wo arrived off this island at sunset, and hove-to under short-sail with the foro-topsail aback, waiting till morning to go on shore. The natives have bright firfjs burning along tlio shoro as kind of light-houses lor us. Wo catno here for water and fruit.

Now, Rodnoy, do you know lliat I do not half like theso people—they arc Cannibals. I don't care what Hermann Mulvillo may say to the contrary, thoy will lio and steal and murder chastity is not known among the woinon men will sell the honor of their wives—if their wives had any mothers •will make a traffic of the virtue of thoir daughters—but their daughters have none, so they are in a measure saved from that sin. The men aro a raco of cowards, and consequently cruel. The women are a community of prostitutes thorofore infamous. Men. women and children aro drunkards they know how to distill ardent spirits from the coacoa nut and get drunk when thoy please, and that is about all tho time. If it is possible grace,"Thrs^p^Pi^V^il'M 6ff "yttiimivn, I believe, have dono so.

April 20.—Wo camo to anchor in this harbor of Omoa at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Tho pilot, a man by tho naino „v?'V)f Hawkins, camo off when wo were about live mllos from tho land. He has resided on this island for twenty-four years, and has already told us some html stories of those pooplo of tho most revolting kind but lie tells one that seoma to come homo to me more than any of tho rest. On tho 15th day of iFobrnnrv, wo spoko tho Barque Roman of Nrw Bedford, Mass., Jernegan, Master. Captain Jernegan lias his wife nnd two children with him. Ho lives in the Aft mo vlllftgo that I do, and we' arc old friends.

Well, ho anchored lii Resolution Bay, Island ol Aitahu (pronounced AVitahoo) about forty miles from here. While there, his crow, composed entirely of South Son Islanders, mutinied, Sand as near as wo can learn, drove the ^Captain, wife and children and fourth mate below into thocabiij, attackod tho other officers, the mate and second mate. They probably killed tho third mate, and ffien took three boats and left tho ship. They landed on Aitahu and then came up here. Here they gave away one boat, and sold another.

Eleven of the mutineers are hero now. April 35.—The ringleader of tho mutiny is a native of this island, and his mother is still living. His name is Charlie, Is of middling sise, his features art) very regular in form, even handsome but his eye 4s evil—cruelty is deep down in its blackness, yet I not think he is bloodthirsty.

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April 2fi.—I hnv© had conversation with several of tlu' mutineers, and thcy differ but little in their story. Some, however, say the mate was killed outright, and others say he was not dead but insensible. The second mate said to the rititfleader, "Charlie. you have killed me." "I know it," answered Charlie, "but, Mr. Thompson,

did

not strike you.'' £*hls Charlie told me himself but the her imitimorSi say that Chart!" did rj?tr» iiir... -Every man strike him," it tiu.y express It in their broken Emdish* I ®ked them

what Invjune of the ship. They told .... ine thai the next morning after th® dy t© drink?" "Yes,' I rep!i mutiny»•-. Tb«y

I -S stralghtfomr 1 talk. with hlrn ytv-UfrtHy mill I netted

nerve I am {-.is-, wsiof to carry n.e is ,1,

-tk. TJio ---1-'• -v. tit ii w.-." ih

-j! ,.:*« «*f-,on y--:-'rd:«* roornhiC to Uiiiti', ii'i 1 -'.'"I*. I vr ^-. rod ir.ri.U wbo nOd :lo !mkru and who III tl.o

N«'-a. T1

.n.

sers, the former outside of coune, he had neither shoe nor stocking nor hat. Dan, however was not my only attendant, a stalwart Kanaka, tattooed from bead to foot, blood-shotten eyes, glittering teeth that no doubt had gnawed many a human bone in short, he was as fierce a looking savage as ever the eye of man beheld. He was perfectly naked, and to complete his hideousness he carried in bis right hand a long butcher-knife and in his left a piece of stone on which ho was constantly sharpening his knife—ka-whit,ka-whit, ka-whit-a-ka-whit, yen know how it sounds In civilized life but you can form no idea how it grated on my nerves as we trudged along, Dan in front, I next and the savage with his inevitable knife close to my heels. I do not think I was very wicked when I prayed that that Cannibal might fall and break his neck before he attempted to make a supper on niy bones. I wanted him to go before me, but no, he was altogether too polite to think of such a thing.

In the ramble we visited a hula-hula (dance), a luare (least) of cats and dogs —several toddy-drinking circles and some natural curiosities and finally, (no not finally) we came to a house in the vicinity of a tattoo house and they were just tattooing a young girl of sixteen, or parhaps a yetr younger. I wanted Dan to take me up so that might see the operation but he positively declined, he even tried very earnestly to persuade me to not go there, but go I would und go I did. I was too late to see the modus operandi but not too late to see the workmanship. The girl was very pretty and for a Marquesan light colored. She had a pleasant, good-natured look, a twinkle in her eye as well as a smile on her lips. I told her as I came too, late to aeo tho tattoo man at work I would like to see tho work now it was done. She unhesitatingly bared her leg as high as her knee—women aro tattooed only.bclow the knee. The tattooing was very tastefully done as far as beauty of design and symmetry of tho figures are taken into account, but the girl's leg was awlully swollen though only her foot and half way to her knee has been tattooed. They took all of my inquiries and examinations in good part and I parted good friends with them after giving the girl half the tobacco I had in my pocket. I think she needed a fine comb more. On rejoining Dan we started to see a grand toddy drinking at a house a little further up the valley.

The natives had alroady Arrived and as soon as we cinno up they dipped in tho cocoanut shell and passed some of the toddy to me. Dan told me not to refuse, tneyonly required that I should wet my lips with it. I tasted it but I did not like it. Altera wbilo the natives Uc trail to im)W -K£XYJsjJb^'.VYSi- nw* gan talking with Dan in English about how ho camo very near hnlng killed in a a row tho night before, a native had struck at him with a knifo which struck him slanting making a long llesh wound across hisleft breast. Dan said to him, "Look out for yourself or you will be killed." "I look out for myself—I no liko Kanaka—I been fight board shin—I been strike white man," he replied, then turning to me ho said "I no liko white man's blood. I been strike white man in face with clubhammer. I no liko white man's blood." My blood was boiling and I could hold in no longer and I burst forth with, "You yellow-skinned rascal, you killed the "jnato ol the Roman. ou were the prime mover of tho meeting, the ringleader, and if I have any influence a man-of-war shall como here and you shall be hung, j'ou devil: bocause the captain would not let you go ashore you committed murder, stole tho ship's property—you aro.a murderer, a thief, and if you set your foot ou the Emily Morgan's dock I will put you in irons^ and carry you to Honolulu or shoot you down as I would a dog!" I said a great do 1 moro but fortunately for me no one understood what I said but Dan and Charlie. Tho natives stared at me with amazement for they saw my blood was up. In tho dead silence that followed my speech I could hoar my swarthy friend's knifo as he industiiously whetted it on ttio stone. Perilous as I knew my situation to be, and unarmed as I was, I had not tho least feeling of fear, but poor Dan was awfully frightened, ana tried to pacify me, at the same titno telling Charlie to look out for himself. Charlie might have had me murdered there and then, but instead of that he was all abject submission. Ho said in answer to me "What you say is all true—I liko the white man—Ibeen to white man's land—I like white man's land—all white man good to me, everj* time—Captain Jernegan good to mo, mate good to me, second mate good. I tell you true I ilo like white man's blood on my hands." And so Dan filled his bamboo with toddy and wo our downward course toward tli-1 ship, our friend with his knifo still following at my heels. Dan was irful of an nttnek and hurried us over tho sharp rooks very diligently. Wo rrji.'l 1 th-

Km!*

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twwmI *ho h«.r cables ajud, o: to IKnohihl. This Charlie has been a lo»« tfmo in American ships, has been to America, ••T-oak* vry pxxl English nnsl ootwe-i ^ut'n'lr nu.ro cullty than tb«

just at dusk and

1 iuuk a long ath when I set inv foot on tho chip's d'vk again and Old Hawkins tell- nic !i' It ^*reat wonKr th '. n»: iuur.io-vd. Well. I vl bettor for tolling 'hat Ch:irlie my opinion of h:»a. I n't want to ran su risk ac n. Wh I told Hawkins nbois the fovn-o with tb5 knif# ami wi.ol-sloiK!, ho .Mighol 4iud *.iid«#iat th:U matt w.vs "ft cbiof uidithoj 1k-M frte':'? of t? fl !.:tc man on.tfctJ iiJhmil—moro, did not httle girl, i.i^h in ll nine or ten vears old, offor vm the tod- a* the wa-

jrw:

mi:

,i. -wen.: of iter Hit I

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brother Mo.vl «.l hor '-ide and ha.I you in thoir gala dn '-9—thoy do into trouble ho w.«uid lv»v» pta-M to fond of bright o-ior«. :!.o l-oy 011 \our shots ler .'.-.i y'\o g^rl kina of morning dm-is me rhite hipsei anoth

WOr.hf Jrn liidjvu r.w-v unlv-rmt He- th«n up to that bo:«e,D.ifi having to'ei him whero he was tr- ing to at had he not s» |n ^ettlnc the boy on your j- he would' h«v© fought to the death lor you." ih« way must t«II you that itaa

•y of high W

TERkk-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, OCTOBER 14. i871.

disturbance and sent thorn ahead of us while bo camo with Dun and me. The old fellow was not

anxious to make

it is tho sap of the cocoanut stem, in short, what furnishes the milk to tho cocoanut. A man climbs a tree, cuts off tho nut bearing stein a foot from where it joins the top of the tree, bends It gentlv over so as not to break it, then inserts It into a joint of bamboo and leaves it hanging—this is done in tho morning by three or four o'clock in the afternoon about three quarts of tho juice or sap will have exuded and the man goes up and brings it down, ho thus gather from ten to twenty gallons, perhaps more. This is the ''toddy to me it has a vile taste, something between sour buttermilk and sweet cider flavored with bed-bug poison. Large quantities, say three quarts'to a man will make a whole neighborhood drunk. When a man gives a "toddydrinking party" he will always have enough for all men, women and children drink to a wild state of intoxication and then a horrid sceno of unbridled licentiousness ensues. It is well that night in some measure conceals a part of the obscene orgies. My pen Shall not be the one to describe the unholy carouse. They commence drinking the toddy in the afternoon—the later it commences the deeper will be the debauch.

This toddy-drinking was introduced amongst them about five years ago and already the evil effects are plainly visible the constant drain of the sap from the cocoanut stem is destroying the bearing qualities of trees. This is not all as a result of the unbridled and promiscuous intercourse of the sexes at these carousals the women have almost ceased to bear children. Hawkins is pretty good authority and he says one quarter of the people of Ornoa have died within the last three years.

A singular custom prevails among these islanders, which is, if a man is lying down and you step over him, especially over his head, he will be justified in killing you, the same if you pass anything over him while he is lying or sitting down. You must remember this if you ever visit these parts.

The prophets or priests haye great influence with the people, in fact they are the only ones on tho island who have any influence since toddy-drink-ing has been introduced—the chiefs have no authority but what their possessions may give them. Tho tabu is exercised here in its full force—tho prophets only, have power to tabu any person or thing—all canoes of thfe larger size are tabu for women. If a woman should step her foot into a largo canoe sho would either be killed at once or starved to death it has only been two or three years since women were allowed to go into any canoe whatever—they have only small ones made especially for them.

That beautiful clump of cocoanut trees that reaches to the brink of yonder dark cliff stands on tabu ground— no woman must cross that spot if she enters its sacred precincts sho must end -her days there—four years ago a woman crossed it in the night through mistake, tho next morning sho was taken back to it, a small hut was built for her, a little food was left with her— she managed to live a year upon fallen cocoanuts. That grove is where they offer their human sacrifices.

This island is about eight miles long by four broad, is about 3,800 feet high, a sharp ridge runs the whole length, a

fissures, extremely rugged, with njany detached rocks that rise pinnaclo-likc abovo the main part of tho land these fissures and chasms extend down the mountain side as valleys to the seashoro where they form beautiful picturesque little bays. These valleys are lined with a dense foliage, and tho habitations of the people are built in them.

The island is of volcanic origin—one vast mass of lava. Tho bay in which our ship is lying is at tho north-western extremity of the island—it is beautiful and picturesque —beloro us lies tho beautiful valley of Ornoa with its groves of cocoanut trees —the lime, tho lemon and the orange grow in wild profusion—the stately Dread-fruit tree, tho magnificent bangare tho gorgeous pandaney and the waving palm and denso under-foliage lend enchantment to the view. To the left is a low sea-beaten hill to the right a black cliff rises perpendicularly two thousand feet, whoso rocky base has buffeted tho briny waves from tho time it roso/rom the great deep till now. The summit of this cliff is crowned by four pinnacles one rising higher than the other as they recede from tho brink looking liko hugo statues placed there to commemorate a raco of giants—our anchor lies in a bed of coral, and our shin lies in waters of a cerulean hue.

The latitudo ol tho island is about 10 degrees south and the longitudo about 138 degrees west.

Oh, dear! I don't believe your wife

would ever forgive me if I did not tell her whether the women of this island aro haiidsome or beautiful or not. Well, I must say that they aro, at a certain age, say from twelve to eighteen, very handsome in features, but as soon as they reach twenty or therabouts they are old womeu, there are no middle aged women here, all either old or young—tho mother of two children is old nnd haggard. There are no more beautifully formed women in the world than the Marquesan girt Thoir hands are very small and well formed and their feet would be handsome were they confined in shoes. They dg not have a graceful walk, a kind of swinging undulating motion of the whole body, but in the water they rival the dolphin and seal In ease and gracefulness of motion. I almost think that wator Is tlr ir natural lament, th are in It far more than t!i" men. I suit the day before yesterday for hours waMii ig them as they wen- finoMing a!

in the surf, their hair AiL^ng out behind them or enveK:

f.tws 5n

it-

their

raven flak** Ti.. ahe.-nice'

of k'itliintf-dtvssee ra.her f-h-•'•} niVj R'T.e of m-xSoity, but in thi« huid we niiist not bo too particular. "Hi* llsdi'-*- v.n-i*t of a loOM cow :j rv.iohing nearly ih anU-vs.i nc-' and *»p*n Uuwn -r I

W Th 5 ma' or a I is go nora!ly !io thinti^r rv.-.r* :ra1

his they not nngr ily fold

around th-

holding it *h -if in the ite: -v nt.diy

th-

iti*

.1 '1. .u. :i i, ,V\ ou o-

S. t.-a

JL umu* toil y.au, *bid *1*4 -It* «uav« Haiti awYttry «mUt on*'

-•frnrm*

t.»

\v .]•» 1... -r

fe.iiit r*' r?*h-

aro not so sensual looking, and I do believe would be far bettor if the men were less depraved.

I think I havo given you enough of the Marquesas Islanders, and surely not so flattering a description as to induce you to leavo the home of your youth and come hither.

May 4th—We left Ornoa six days ago to-day, (April 28th.) We have been wafted along by a pleasant south-east trade wind to this spot, latitude 5° 21' north, and longitudo 1S9° 81' west, a little over 900 miles. We passed near •the islands of Nukahiva, Jatuhugo, Doneinique, Hood's Island and the two Roborts Islands and a small, low sandy Island scarcely four feet above the surface of the water.

We are bound to the Sandwich Islands to obtain recruits for our northern season. Our potatoes will come from San Francisco by steamer—I do not think the Sandwich Island potatoes are so good as the California We will be at and near those islands for ten days or a forti ight—will arrive there in about ten davs. We have 16 degrees of latitud&and 19 degrees of Ion gitude, 2100 miles combined t© run but as we make an oblique angle in our sailing it will only be about 1500 miles. After recruiting we shall steer immediately for the Arctic Ocean through Behring's Strait. The distanco from the Marquesas to tho Sandwich Islands is 2500 miles.

In approaching a port like Honolulu where we expect letters and to hear from homea sailoralways has a peculiar feelingof dread—anxious for news from home yet fearful that the news may be bad.-

Tho severe hardship of a sea-faring life such as exposure to all kinds of weather, liability to all kinds of dan gers incident to the sea, and particularly the whaling business, is nothing to the absence from friends and home for long years.

The same faces to be seen every day the same blue watei% the same azure sky, the same passing clouds, even the same routine of work, day in and day out for months long. We visit many lands, see strange people, look upon grand and magnificent scenery, but these do not compensate for the fireside of home—for ties sundered. The eye that light up at one coming may be dimmed forever, the hand tkat has pressed our own in all the warmth of friendship may never meet our clasp again.

We know that loved ones are anxiously waiting for the long-looked-for letter. Think not, oh friend of early days, that a sailor's life is a life of pleasure. Think how I and my family aro situated. M}' daughter married and consequently follows not her father or mother—my oldest son in the East Indian seas, my youngest on the coast of Chili, their mother in her lonely home, while I, the father and husband, am in the middle of tho great Pacific Ocean I cannot dwell upon this wide sundering of family without a deep emotion of sadness and sorrow. There is glimmer of light through all this darkness, a glimmer of soft and heavenly light arising from the strong love we all bear toward each other. Our children, no matter whero or how thoy may bo placed, will ever havo father and mother and each other uppermost in their thoughts. Their sweetest memories will be around the family hearthstone. It was one of the greatest, yes, the very greatest struggles of an eventful lile to part with my boys especially tho youngest who had been my companion on an arduous voyage ™odTl named him for Jim Modesitt and ho will ncvor disgrace tno nmuu

When homeward bound on my last voyage I was sick for nearly a month so that I could not navigate tho ship, the mate was crazy and incompetent as well, but my son Jimmie, not then sixteen years old, navigated tho ship from two thousand miles to the westward of Cape Horn to eightoen hundred riiiles to tho north-eastward of it. I need not toll you that that passage was over the wildest seas on tho face of the globe this was something for such a lad as ho was to be proud of. I intended to visit Terre-ITaute with him last summer, but I deferred too long. Wo will come some day. My oldest son is equally capable and equally as good,but not hav ing had him with me has not had a chance to display his parts—some how I think he will not like the sea, and I hopo he will not. As lor tho younger he is cut out lor a sailor—fired in his bone—but he will neyer bo a jack-tar, My wife ever made it her study to make home the most attractive spot on earth, for the children and shesuccecded admirably to me it is a spot of hal lowed associations.

You cannot imagine how much I want to see my native place again, and if I return home across land I shall give you a call.

Ever truly, truly, truly Yours,

Wm. Eakle.

''TTakk onk Five-Dollar Bill."—

A storv is told of an auctioneer who was provokingly annoyed, while in the exercise of his profession, by the ludicrous bids of a fellow whose object seemed to be to make sport of the buyers gather than to buy himself. At length, enraged beyond endurance, the knight of the ivory hammer, looking around tho room for a champion to avenge his wrongs, fixed his eyes upon a bipod of huge dimensions, a very monster in strength, and cried— "Marlow, what shall I give you to put that fellow out?" "I take one fivo-Mollar bill.' "Done! you shall have it,"

Assuming the ferocious, knittinrr hH brows,spreading his no*' la 1 ike11! i• ii'h and putting on the wolf all over his head and shoulder*, old Msrlovr strode off to the aggr-M »r ami, sei ng the rified wretch by th" r.iila, wr.d to liin in a vkiayar ihat

w-j»hoard

Oreen

Bay,

H»

not api^-fr Anotuer.a on ly a pi*

white native "cloth (kap«) tied oit he hips extending n«strly to DM kt.v-»— md another is, a kind of noon-day dress, a large piece of (Kapn* five reaching from their neck

ir li- i-. I

I'.n of V. .ij- .-r. V. !i -tit

ill-

'-nt

icmruoaiy not

o* Jl'

all ov«r ihu

room— "Mv !"ii T. you go out with me, If "Dono! done!" JMid tho ft-How. "Hurrah 1 hurruisi'' fchouted *C

Tho anot ion« fr had the uood to jow iu liw I*ugh, uiu twoiiy ii#rk*»*i ou lie V.

IIorack

PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT SMOKE. In an article on the medical aspect of smoking tobacco in the Food Journal, Dr. E. B. Gray asks:

Is smoking injurious?" This is an every day question apt to be put by

Eatients

Wis., i-i he though:

"th« time sr»"n? :n thextudrnf Aig'-br* wss worset?i "i w.-Mod. If'- h-id r. veltarvi down th"o.ir!h for MXty y.-.ij-.vaiiii h.id la i.usv ii *, but h«* ii .1 never yet had oec.-^ioa to r%m hi- nac'|':-ii!,'at .-'-«i v.':th til.-' «oe, hot did t-\or.v d:iv «.v-r his ig|civilizationthe norance of gf-ol^uy and eltcuii* ry.**

A cmzKsr of Marion, Ohio, was bitten by a rati: k-Miake l. «t Tuo+day, mid swallowed vrcritvlwn stxsh* of enr-

-.-.X hours. •i iu ii.'5 .-» S31

Wom. W..L-) upV e.sc a.iu«t tho 1 .h "v. ..! .i rn 1

Lest £,-**ar

to their doctors. Like most

road questions of the kind, it involves tar too many considerations to admit of being answered by a plain yes or no. A medical man, who nas long been a moderate smoker and watched the ef-

feet of the habit on himself and others, here offers what he believes to be the true answer to the question.

First of all, there must be an understanding about the quality of the tobacco to be smoked. Bad—namely, rank, quickly intoxicating, and prostrating tobacco (certain kinds of shag and cavendish, for instance) must always be injurious. Few can smoke them at all—none, habitually at least— with impunity. So too with regard to quantity, even good tobacco smoked to excess will to a certainty be injurious to the smoker, sooner or later, in some way or other. Of the various evil effects of excessive smoking, more will be said presently.

Nfxt, as to the smokers. There are people to whom any tobacco, however smoked, is simply poison, causing, even in small doses, vomiting, pallor, and alarming prostratiou. Such people never get seasoned to its effects, even after repeated trials and if they are wise, they will forever let it alone. They will display still further wisdom by not presuming to make laws for others wno have not the same idiosyncrasy.

No one can enjoy smoking, or smoke with impunity, when out of health. The phrase "out of health," though it may souud vague, is definite enough to frame a general rule. At the same time, it is useful to know what, if any,aretho

Sarticular

disorders and conditions of

ealth in which tobacco does special harm. As faras the writer's knowledge goes, these havo never been specified By medical writers as clearly as is desirable.

To begin, a man with a bad appetite will, if ho smoke, most assuredly eat still less—a noteworthy fact for smokers or others recovering from wasting illness or "off their feed" from whatever cause. This effect of tobacco, by the way, while an evil to the sick man who cannot eat enough, becomes a boon to the starved man who cannot get enough to oat and ample illustration of this was furnished among the French and German soldiers in tho recent war. Again no man should smoke who has a dirty tongue, a bad taste in his mouth, or a wei^k or disordered digestion. In any sudi case, lie cannot relish his tobacco. It should bo a golden rule with smokers, that the pipe or cigar which is not smoked with relish had better not be smoked at all. Indigestion in every shape is aggravated by smoking, but most especially that form of it commonly known as atonic and accompanied with flatulence. Diarrhoea, as a rule, is made worse by smoking.

One of tho commonest and earliest effocts of excessive or' untimely smoking is to make tho hand shake. This gives the clue to another class of persons who ought not to smoke—persons, namely, who have weak unsteady nerves, and suffer from giddiuess, confusion of sight, tremulous hands, tendency to stammer, or any such symptoms* And if tobacco does harm in mere functional weakness, still less allowable is it in actual organic disease ~*rr nr»«em os. for instance, where there exists »»»ij oxt^Juuu of dogeneratiye chan«o in tlio bruhi or spinal cord. The improper use of tobacco doe^boj^ma question somehow interfere with due nutrition of nerve substance. An illustration of this, familiar to oculists and medical men, is the so-called tobacco amaurosis, a failure of vision occurring in excessive smokers from mal-nutrition of tho retina. Another class of persons who ought not to smoke are those who havo weak or unsteady circulations and complain of such troubles as palpitation, cardiac pain, intermittent pulse, habitually cold lianas and feet, or chronic languor.

Lastly, there is reason for believing that tho habitual uso of tobacco is likely to retard the duo growth and development of tho body. If so, no ono should become a smoker till ho is well past tho period of puberty. Boys, moreover, liavo no cxcuse for smoking, for they aro spared tke hard wear and tear.of at]nit life.

Now, after eliminating those who from idiosyncrasy cannot, and those who from, bodily ailment or from tender years shoulu not smoke, there will still always be a large residuum of happy folk who can smoke, enjoy smoking, andaio indeed tho better for it. Those ar they who uso tobacco without abusing it—use it, that is to jay, in moderate quantity, in duo season, and honestly for tho sako of the obmfort which it gives them—a comfort every bit as legitimate as that which drinkers of tea, coffee, or wipe extract in each case from their favorite beverage.

the course of his journejdngs in the Old World, Mr. James Brooks found occasion tc say: "The English language, I see—and the moro I seo the better I seo it—is becoming tho universal language of the oduated world. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, or less, only French would carry you •ough tho world but now it is impossible to go anywhere, from tho pyramids of Egypt to the mountains of Japan, that will not pretty well carry you along. Chinese house-servants, moro or less, speak English-'pigeon English,' a* it is called—but, nevertheless, comprehensible English .and go whero you will, in whatever society, English seems now to be the tongue."

Massachusetts Republicans treat

ed the petition of the Woman .Suffragists with respect and adopted a resolti tfon. Parties always follow public the I sentiment, and when a Convention composed of l-lu ewd and long-beaded

Politicians resolves so mm u* this "it" at Worcester did, tho action iH«igniii»and enoonraging to the friends oi ju.il rijrMs. One full year of wise,

a recent *p?ech «'i 'UsSagtic work in every

city and town of that stJ-t", and her women will not have to wait, longer for the illot.—Golden Affe.

ThbGerman

army h«« been reduced

to a peace footing of 400,000 men. And this is peace in En rope, in the last quarter of nineteenth century. Our at the best is but a fringe of gold on the upper edge of a thunder t-load.—Golden Age.

Tho author of My Summer in a n" roaw,-!• tm.t "Nothing '.V-v/s ouy who his fr&ii''" nro like prwp- riiy and ripe fruit. Ih dagood friend in th io*r

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A 2-1 j.vwfi'K!

1IIOH ART IN NEVADA. Tho cause of High Art does not meet with enthusiastic encouragement out in Nevada. They built a new cathedral in one of the towns, recently, and & full-length statue of St. Augustine was wanted to fill up a niche. The contract was given to a nativo artist who was* bolieved to have original talent. In a few weeks the artist drove up with St. Augustine packed in sawdust, on a dray, and when the statuo was taken into the cathedral, the fact was developed that the saint had on a shiny high hat, and pantaloons which were held up by suspenders, and fastened at the--waist by a belt, in which .was a six barreled revolver. The church anthor ties refused to receive the work, and JL quarrel ensued, in which tho wholo neighborhood was involved—the friends of the artist claimed that St. Augustine was decorated in that manner wli^n he was alive, and the friends of the church insisting that ho wasn't. -3 Upou tho merits of this controversy we are unwilling to pronounce our opinion, but we incline to fhvor the theory of the artist. Although we havo been unable to find anywhere in the Scriptures a positive assertion that St. Augustino did wear suspenders and a high hat, yet an artist must bo allowed sumo room for ideality, and if he cannot give his fancy full play in tho direction of suspenders, ana permit his vivid imagination to soar to the lofty altitude of a high hat, why, Art must bo abandoned! For fear such a controversy as this may tako place centuries hence*, when so mo sculptor wishes to carvo our statue to adorn some noble cathedral, we place on record now the fact that tho Suspender is one of the tew ties that hold us contented bore on earth, and any etligy which has not thcui jjpon it. is not a representative of us.

THACKERAY'S AMERICAN OYSTER. In London ho had beeif'very curious in his inquiries about American ovaters, as marvellous stories, which ho did not believo, had been told him of their groat sizo. Wo had taken cure that tho largest specimens to be procured should startle his unwonted vision when ho came to the table. Although I bltjsh at the ronienibrance of It now, we apologised in our wicked waywardness to him for what we called tho extreme smallness of ho, oysters, promising that wo would do better next time. Six bloated Falstafflan bivalves lay before him in their shells. I noticed that ho gazed at them anxious^ ly with fork upraised thon ho whis^ pered to nie, with a look of anguish, "How shall I do it?" 1 described to him tho simple process bv which tho free-born citizens of America were accustomed to accomplish such a task. Ilo seemed satisfied that the thing was feasible, selected the smallest 0110 in tho half-dozen, and then bowed his^^ head as if ho wero saying grace. All oyes wore upon him to watch tho effect of a new sensation in tho person of a great British author. Opening his mouth very wido, I10 struggled for a moment, and then all was over. shall never forgot tho comic look of dospair ho cast upon tho other five over-occupied shells. I broke the perfect stillness by asking him how I10 felt. "Profoundly grateful," ho gasped, "and as if I had swallowed a llttlo baby."—Atlantic Monthly.

What becomes of the gold?—The

world had a pretty fair supply of the precious metal, from sourcos not yot exhausted, boforo our American mines wore discovered. Since thon wo havo added?1,200.000,000 to the general stock, null Australia tlW rrtw* some hundreds of millions but these enormous reinforcements are not seen, either in circulation or in tho hoards of the bankers. Wlioro do thoy go?

An errant husband in Troy, Now York, was recently reclaimed by his loving young wifo, on the moral suasion plan. When I10 got into tho habit of staying lato at trio lodge," five or six times a week, she didn't go for him with tho broomstick, nor 'attempt to smooth his ambrosial locks with a tlatiron, nor keep him awake all night With a curtain lccture. O11 the contrary, she fix^d up a superb dinner ono day, and after tho ungrateful brute had stuffed himself with it, sho throw hor arms around his nock, and said, "Qoorge if you find a sweeter spot than our home describe it to me, and I will rival it il 1 die in tho attempt." A kiss and a few toars completed tho victory. And now when Ooorgo wants to spend an ovening at "tho lodgo"—she lives over a milliner's shop, two or threo blocks away—ho sends his adorod Angelina out of town to visit hor "dear, kind mother." [And tho llttlo gooso'' doesn't know any bettor than to think it is all In good faith. Such an oxporienco ought to encourage young wives, who find their husband's lovo waning, to "go and do likewise."

Tttk

North Carolina Supromo CourL

has decided that for a lawyer to call witness a "Pennsylvania. Yankco" "gross abuse."

CITY ITEMS.

Tqn thousand persons who havo visited the city during the p«wt week voted T. H. Riddle's notion and jewelry cwtabliRhmcnl the finest, most extensive and most complete In every particular, in the city. They all declare that he sells Jewelry cheaper than the cheapest, and they could not wish a greatir variety to choose from. His stock of millinery goods is equal to anything of the kind this side of New York. iis at wholesale and will duplicate, Cincinnati. New York, Indianapolis or Cliif.--o orders.

While Hi'- many pV-rty Indies nnd hnmlnomo juon of our city are '•ontinually dNj'Inyinu thoir Jewels, we would inform those tvho de-!ro tho !ct«t .'nd jrtbst elegntif sfrio'i of rings, chain*, watciiU!, bracet, !•., tiiatJ. B. Fr. -man ot the Opera House Jewelry Store h:n a "killing" storV cn hnnd whfeh he cheap. TbTeV Ki.o \u± .. th"-" Willi Wo !. to ur the latest

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Years will be reiuirf d»o robaild CThlcuz». ihi-yt-vf YoriroftTi." %v. ft may never iw viIron: ihc va: which lias ju-t spread over it Bat this wlil not the r'-:!-.•« of Tt. t. -Hall's stove trade. H» on farnlvhlng sovts for the tiiutlmi unditurlM by the fate of Chi'-fijo. His fin" grati and maatefs r,M tft^^nTTJorapidity they a week ago, nil merry u% R. L. Jtnil's.

A certain lady in the city informs us that whenever she feels unhappy she in vari.otraces tho cause to th" faof that her *11 iy of Rippctot grocerie- iia^ expired.

In th Naiion-U Block, and hiyn In ft ii sto'-' arjd r.-iiii iis |ji»::sf rh^Tfni nnd SV- i-til! o' jriWe, .' Mi'.!' is still driving aw a •&" ti." nil

s, my opini

on, jMfUKt many a man and his wite.'

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