Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1884 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TFIRRE HAUTK, FEB. 16, 1884.

FORTY YEARS AGO.

HOW THE PEOPLE OF THOSE DAYS LIVED. v.-

Prentice Malford writes in the San ^Francisco Chronicle, of the times forty years ago:

In

dres-s,

black was the prevailing color

—black for promenade, parlor, church, ball, or business. The motto ran, "a black suit is always genteel." The hat was bell crowned, long-napped, broadbrimmed, and pressed vice-like on the head.

People did not so much then give away their second-hand clothes, or dispose of them to the "old clo,'" inau. They "wore them out." For this lea son the "swallow-tail" dress coat was often an article of every day attire. It

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the second-hand swallow-tail, supplanted by the new one for Sunday or state occasions.

The shirt collar was high, standing and sharp-pointed at the ends. The black frock-coat was short waisted, narrowchested, with long narrow skirts, and the sleeves were as tight as possible.

The ladies' bonnet was modelled after the coal-scuttle. An artificial full blowu peony or buucb of roses adorned its summit. A plain cloak or shawl hung like a rag from the shoulders. A plain uncrimmed skirt reached to the ankle.

Their slippers were heelless, flat aud secured by black strings wound around the ankle. The parasol was edged with deep, heavy silken fringe. A bag of gayiy-colored silk, embroidered with beads, was neceesary for full dress. The handkerchiefs was Uordeied with lace, and carried exactly in the middle by the thumb and forefinger.

The "b'boy" of New York was a feature forty years ago. His hair was closely cropped behind, but allowed to grow long in front. To these frontends perfumed bear's grease was applied in generous quantities. They were carefully and laboriously brushed and the ends tucked under.

His face was closely sbaven, and he wore a black plug hat, pitched prominently forward over his brow and also slightly inclined to one side.

A large shirt-collar was turned loosely down and st fastened as to expose a bull-like neck. The skirts of his black frock-tailed coat extended below the knee. His year, was a highly-colored or figured satin or velvet, and so cut as to expose his entire shirt bosom. Pautaloons sailor fashion—light at the knee, and from thence to the ankle growing larger, as does a blunderbuss from chamber to muzzle.

His jewelrv was often varied, profuse, and showy. "Ho walked with a roll and a swagger. In the street ho preferred to lean against a lamp-post.

Iu his mouth his cigar was cocked up at about the tame angle the brim of hia hat was cocked down.

In voice his intonation wavered between a falsetto and a growl. He was in his element at fire balls. He belonged or "ran" with some volunteer fire company, the number of which was embroidered on his red flannel shirt. He always wore red, for It was the color of blood, and in blood he delighted.

His crowning ambition was to get the first water from his "masheen" on the fire. He fought with his fists, but was not averse in emergencies to_tne use of a "spanner" or a fire trumpet

Unlike the ruffians of to-drf?, he scorned the use of knife and pistol. He was rough, bnt he had a good deal of rough chivalry in his composition. Hisgeneric name was "Mose." That of his girl was "Lize."

In early life the b'hoy was generalty apprenticed to some boss butcher. In the labor peculiar to his calling he spent his days. To run to fires at night was his recreation. To become a "boss butcher" was the summit of his ambition.

He worked, and he worked hard, for a living. ChanTrau made a great hit when he put him on the stage in company with "Lize." "Lire's" attire was an aggravated and exaggerated copy of that of a Broadway belle of the period. The skirt was Rhorter and fuller, the handkerchief larger and more ostentatiously carried, the corkscrew curls longer, slimmer, and stlffer but her gait resembled as nearly as possible. that of the man who ruled her affections and everything else.

The Bowery "b* hoy'r is now extinct. The war extinguished him. The city Saturday night at that time was dull. Parties were inadmissible. "Visiting was rather doubtful propriety.

For the theatre it was the poorest night of the week. Stars in their engagements invariably exeeptod Saturday nights. The theatre was on that night often ivon over to some aspiring debutante, or whom none were hopeful but himself.

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The lawyer's office at the time was generally on the second floor back. Its floor was carpetless. Its chairs were of divers patterns and some were cripples. The inkstand was of gray stone. Stubby quill pens lay about in all degrees of Inefficiency. There was a pad of red blotting paper, a boxwood sand box, a scattering of settled cases tied with red wipe. A few unpainted pine boxes servfor the book case. The floor was begrimmed with dust and ink stains.

Safes had not arrived banking an insurance houses had their iron chests* These were formidable shows, but impotent safeguards. The wooden sides were crossed with bars of strap iron, and the whole box was thickly jutted with knobs. These knobs Were to the chest what were gongs to firmer Chioese armies. The gongs made an imposing noise. The knobs made an imposinr sight. Here the usefulness of bott ceased.

There was not then so marked a dlvid ing line as now between the "store" and the "shop." To be a thorough gentleman of leisure was hardly respectable. The law of the time was that all men should be in some hind of business.

Adams and Harnden were commencing the express business, and their own messengers and their entire daily freight was stowed in a couple of carpet-bags.

Family cooking was better than at present. Our mothers and grandmothers "took a hand" in it. B^ead was m«de at home Coflfee was freshly ground morning for breakfast. The ol the family coffee-mill was a amillarsonud of the early morn, long ere the children were up. Foreign help had less ftvmy in the kitchen than now, and European hands did not make a

American dishes as *h cakes, pork and

botch of such purely American dishes pumpkin pie, codfish cakes, pork ai beans, corn bread, buckwheat cakes,and "succotash.

People then did not live as long, nor 1 was the average health as good as it is «i* day they ate mors meat, more grease, more hot bread, more heavy diabee, -drank coffee at meals and afterward chewed more tobacco.

Dyspeptics and consumpti and more common premature

death were devoutly laid at the Deity's door-and alluded to as "dispensations of Providence."

Tombstones had longer epitaphs and more vtrbosity engraved upon them. At funerals the undertaker cried with the mourners, the flow of tears being proportunate to the expense of the funeral.

Coffins were very plain, and burial caskets unknown. Young folks in couples counted it a privilege to sit up nights with the corpse before burial, and in many cases it was for them a welcome recreation.

New Orleans molasses, very blsck and thin, was the common "sweetening" for buckwheat cakes, Refined molasses was comparatively scarce.

The bank bills were of State banks, and the farther west their locality the shakier were they. Illinois and Indiana bills would barely pass in New York city.

Much of the silver currency—sirshillings and dollars—was of Mexican coinage, brought to this country by the Santa Fe traders.

Tne country retail trade was better than now. People then could' not so easily by rail run up to the city aud spend their largest cash accumulations for the more expensive cuffs.

Country dry goods stores renewed their stock from the city twice a year. The arrivals of "new goods" from New York created 'quite a flutter. It filled the store for two or three days—unli all the women in the village had seen the new styles.

Eggs were a shilling a dozen, and butter was considered high at IS cents per pound. "Ihere was "York currency," being eight shillings to the dollar, and New England currency, six shillings to the dollar.

Business letters were more voluminous and formal than now, and written in a precise, round hand.

The yearly almanac contained prophe cies for each month in the year. The phrase, "Expect much rain about this time," would extend along the column of dates for ten days. These predictions were based en the "hit and miss" principle, and one hit would atone in the public mind for half a dozen misses, Who made them was ever a mystery.

The almanac was hung up in the chimney corner, and as the months glided on It grew yellow with age and smoke. 2solated rural settlements contained a greater proportion of lunatics, paralytics and victims of St. Vitus' dance than they do to-day.

The railway had not strung places together and there were fewer hospitals for special diseases, hence most of these cases were kept at home.

The comparative isolation of the time and the slowness, cumbrousness and expense of travel prevented the more general social intermingling of ts-day.

Families resident in one locality had intermarried for generations. This resulted in a certain physical degeneracy, which may have come more from the union of exhausted stocks than of mere relationships. Consumption was more common.

Some of the habits of the time were very trying to the weak. They slept more in cola and damp rooms a demand iu winter for a heated bed-room was considered a mark of efflminacy.

Little importance was attached to the admission of sunlight to sleeping rooms. People left warm fireplaces and disrobed in tne atmosphere of an ice house. The morning dressing was performed under similar conditions.

The diet was more surcharged with grease. The winter breakfast at thousands kt tables consisted of salted ham and hot cakes.

Dinner was simple a hasty lunch at noon. Little importance was attached to the necessity for good digestion, or a period of rest after eating.

The same heavy diet prevailed in many families, without change, winter and summer. Hence on approach of the first warmth of spring came "spring fever" and billiousness. For this the doctors of the period gave strong cathartics, possibly a "blue-mass pill" or a dose of "calomel."

The regular profession then used mercury in a manner which would now be deemed reckless. The patient was given a regular purgation and directed vo "diet" for a few days. Children were strongly dosed with castor oil and rhubarb, and salt* and senna, on the least provocation.

It was a strong age for medicine, and an age of strong medicine. Under such treatmeut the strong managed to recover the weak died at the medium class physically lingered on and suffered.

Care for the body was deprecated even from the pulpits. It was frequently alluded to as a "poor, perishing" affair soon to be "food for worms," and the inference seemed to be that any extra ains for the preservation of bodily ealth was so much taken from the "care of the soul."

Old age came on sooner than to-day. There were more senile old men aud women mumbling -in chimney corners, incumbrances to the household.

Lightning-rods made their way into use with difficulty. The ultra devout actually opposed them on the Aground that they were An insult to Diety, and that it was an interference with the works and will of Providence.

Negro minstrelsy was just cropping out in the travelling circus. There were generally but two performers, who assumed male and female characters. The popular melody was "Jump, Jim Crow."

The fare at the country tavern was better than that to-day. Th» landlady was American, and superintended the cooking. The eggs were laid in the barnyard and fresh. The bread was not that of the baker, dry as a chip, but home-made and conscientiously made.

Few churches were warmed. The older ladies carried "foot stoves," little tin boxes containing a metal drawer, in which previous to "goihg to meeting" were deposited live coals, and during "church time" placed under the feet.

The term "church," as applied to houses by the sects termed them "meeting

Among the Methodist and Baptists church architecture, without and within, was very plain. There were no frescoed ceilings, and all attempt at ornamentation was regarded with disfavor.

Church choirs were voluntary, homemade and without paid singers.. The congregation "joined" in the singing more than at presont. Singing masters, as well as school teachers, came mostly from Connecticut. Our father* sang with the spirit if not with the understanding of music.

Avowed "freethinkers," inMdels or atheists in those days were held in a disrepute now hardly to be realized. They were marked men among small communities.

Newspapers were rather scarce. Few families took one paper. They were dall, stupid, stilted, proay sheets. The village editor ordinarly deemed it beneath his office to give anjr smaller local items than a houso or barn barning. His editorials were always oo I political topics.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEN ING MAIL.

MR BEECHER'S LATEST. Mr. Beecher spoke upon a recent Sunday upon the theme which engrosses much of his thought at present, namely, the gradual advancement of the xace from the lower to the higher forms of life, and durifeg his sermon he used the following words: "They say it is difficult to trace the connection between the intellectual man and the animal from which he came. Some step in the sequence is lost, they say. They call it the missing link. I say to you there will be more than ene missing link in the chain of Godless evolution. How did man ever get away from the vulgarities, the passions, the violence of his brute state in the face of ali the strength of the world striving to hold blm back But if you place God behind your scheme of development then it becomes sublime. If you consider that He has been working on a plan that the true and pure and weak shall triumph over the violent and the vulgar: that the God which is in man shall triumph gradually over the brute which is in man, then, indeed, you have an evolution which is sublime and worthy of the greatness of the universe. It is quite plain to me that the teudency of the world toward goodness, and refinement of goodness, and a variety of goodness, has given it in these latter days a character it never bad before. Some power has been

working

invisibly

to push the earth upward. I call that power God. "•urs is a period when men are getting rid of coarser forms. The world is in a transition state, and those who have looked a little ahead are beginning to think they were befooled. It is no sign that the great truths of God are not growing in our time because so much skepticism, so much indifference so much agnosticism exist. Some think the remedy is to go back to old forms. They want to screw up the machinery a little tighter. So say the elder, and the deacon, and the minister, very grave and very ignorant. 'Go back to the old ways,' is their cry. Ob, yes that's a fine way to get rid of ophthalmia—by putting your eyes out. Yes, go on in the old way blind yourself and if you don't be lieve in your theology, bolt it. But presently people will begin to see that this time is not a time of waste. New things will begin to spring up which will not be contradicted. The young, now in their cradles, will receive these things. They will not hear the doubts, the objections they will accept what is presented to them, and so the world goes on aud up again. "Men used to read the Bible as if it and dropped

were printed in Heaven right down as it stands. beginning to find out that it was not inspired in that sense, but that it Kepresents a series of developments made through the influence of God's sunshine in the human consciousness. Some think if we take the old literal interpretation away from the common people we are destroying faith.

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say we are doing

far more to destroy faith if we do not explain the truth to them, for they will reach outside for themselves, and if they find they are decejvod in one respect they will be likely to kick the whole thing over. As to those who ask whether we do not lose the Bible when we make a change in its anatomy,

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O, ye of little faith, do you believe it is truse because it has a certain history, or because it is true? The old doctrine of the atonement—I dislike the word, there is so much error wrapped about it—or rather, men's attempt to explain how or why mankind is to be sfoved, has got to go under, and it isjgoinfc under. But

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ask you if astronomy wft d&t-trbyed because Copernicus corrected its errors? Many of our old ideas on every subject have been swept away, and we are better for it.", ..

FATHER'S APPEAL TO A DISSIPATED SON. The following letter appeared in the Covington Commonwealth, and is one of the most vivid pictures of the kind overdrawn by the pen. It was written by a father to a son of dissipated habits: fr'

My Dear Son: V^hat would you think of yourself if you should come to our bedside every night, and waking us up, tell us you would not allow us to sleep any more? That is what you are doing, and that is why I am up. Your mother is nearly worn out with turning from side to side, and sighiug because you won't let her sleep. That mother who nUrsed you in your infancy, toiled for you in your childhood, ana looked with pride and joy upon you as you were growing up to manhood, as she counted on the comfort and support you ftouId give her declining years!

We read of the most barbarous manner in which one of the Oriental nations punishes some of its criminals. It is by cutting the flesh from the body in small

Eeginning

ieces, slowly cutting it off the limbs, with the fingers and toes, one joint at a time' till the wretched victim dies. That Is just what you are doing— you are killing your mother by inches. You have planted many of the white hairs that are appearing so thickly in her head before the time. Your cruel hand is drawing the linefe of sorrow on her dear facto, making her look prematurely old. You might as well stick your knife in her boay every time you come near her, for your conduct is stabbing her to the heart. You might as well bring her coffin and force ner into it, for you are pressing her toward it with very rapid steps.

Would yoti tread on her body if prostrated

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the floor? And yet with un-

rateful foot you are treading" on her and crushingout life and joy—no, I need not say 'joy' for that is away from us. OF course we have to meet our friends with smiles, but they little know of the bitterness within. You have taken the roses out of your sister's pathway and scattered thorns instead, and from the pain they inflict, scalding tears are often seen coursing down her cheeks. Ttfusyon are blighting her life as well as her hours.

And what can you promise yourself for the future? Look at the miserable, bloated, ragged wretches, whom you meet every day and see in them the exact picture of what you are fast coming to, and will be in a few years. Then in the end a drunkard's grave and drunkard's dofcm! for the Bible says, "No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.!' Where then will you be?. If not in the kingdom of God you inust be someWherto elm

Will noithese cofeslderations induce vop to quit at once,. and for all time? And may God help you, for be,can and will if you earnestly ask it.

Your affectionate, bat sorrow-stricken father.

Ta« disfiguring aruptions on the face, the sun ken eyft, the pallid complexion, indteite that there Is sometbfng wrong going witbln. Expel tbe lurking foet health. Ayer's Sat*« pari 11a was devised for that purpose and does it.

COME EASY, OO EASY. The frequency of divoroes in these days, and the ease with which such instruments are secured calls forth the following timely remarks from the Commercial Gazette:

Much*is said about too easy divorces, and nothing about too easy marriage. Yet one following the other. People think that easy marriage promotes morality. It also promotes easy di vorce.

Ministers will get out of bed with the alacrity of the boys that run with the machine, to marry a runaway oouple. Perhaps next Sunday they will preach on the Notional sin of-easy divorce, and wonder why it does not fetch another deluge. Such cases are always announced in the publis journals as the triumph of true love over cruel parents and locksmith. The girl is taught that love is a divine sense and infallabie guld, which she should follow in defiance of parents and all prudential consideration. Tbe parents have not entirely outgrown the same nonsense. Tbe lover thinks his passion gives bim a sacred right to gratify it, although he tramples upon the care and love of parents and deludes a silly girl to trust her life to his worthlessness.

Hardly any degree of dissipation in a man will prevent him getting a wellbred girl to marry him, with the mother's consent, if he has money. She will tamper with her conscience'by the feeble-minded plea that marriage will reform him. And romantic girls marry hard-drinking rates to reform them. But hard-drinking young men are apt to keep on the road that makes drunkards, and then, after immeasurable misery in the family, comes a petition for relief by divorces.

After marriage people see that what they thought a divine aud infallible sense of love, whose dictate must override the judgment of parents, relatives, and calculations of prudence, was otherwise than spiritual, and as an infallible guid was a delusion. "That love is brief madness, is a maxim as old as the human race. How can a man and a mad woman be competent to enter into a contract which is to rule their whole lives and to fix the destiny of the unborn? If the parties were morally irresponsible, does not what is called marriage for love make a case for divorce on the ground of emotional insanity "3o it comes out that looseness in entering marriage, requires looseness in divorce. Happily, the greater number or marriages are tolerable1, and so society holds together.

CA TCHINO COLD.

Dr. C. E. Page, in the Popular Science Monthly, says that catching cold results from indigestion and impure air, and not from exposure to the elements. The person who adopts a proper regimen' of food will never take cold. He claims that he was along sufferer from the disease in various forms, and from the "snuffles" in infancy to the "hay fever" of adult age, but he now finds it impossible to excite any of the "well known symptoms," though subjecting himself to what many would consider the mo3t suicidal nractices in the matter of exposure, so long as he confines himself to a frugal diet, chiefly cereals and fruit. In bis experiments in this direction, he has submitted himself to remarkable exposures, wearing low shoes and walking in snow and slop, removing flannel in midwinter on the approach of colder, weather, sleeping with a current of air blowing on bis headland shoulders, sitting entirely naked in a draught on a very'cold, damp night in fall, and others of a similar character, without catching any cold. Going back to his old habits of diet again, the ordinary mixed diet of people, ne found no difficulty in accumulating a cold, and within a very reasonable time. He believes that people who take the most care to avoid "exposures" are the most apt to take cold The "fresh air idiot" seldom catches a cold. He digests his food well, and is in no disordered condition to feel the effects of draughts or changes of atmosphere. It is the over-careful people who catch cold, and whose fear Incites them to "muffling" themselves when they go out. who quake with fear of "night-air," "draughts," and so cheat themselves of health-producing influences. Lacking active exercise and fresh air, or sweltering with an excess of clothing, they must suffer from indigestion. This renders them an easy prey to slight changes. He has no faith in the maxim "stuff a cold and starve a fever." He claims it to be a misinterpretation of an older maxim, "If you stuff a cold you will have to starve a fever." A cold, he says, will easily and quickly yeild to fasting. In fact, any kind of a fever, and a cold is a fever, will rarely have a run of more than three or four days when the "fasting cure" la applied, with appropriate water, aud air baths, sunshine, and perfect ventilation. He presents a number of cases tending to prove tbe correctness of his theory, which is one that, in this climate of almost universalcold catching, is certainly worthy attention,

THE FORGOTTEN SCIENCE OF

CARVING.

Tlie Detroit Free Press says In this lazy man's century, the delightful occupation of carviog is almost a forgotten art. It used to be such a pleasure for a gang of hungry children to ait and watch "pa" sharpen tbe carving knife, give it that preliminary flourish, and then insert its delicate point under the wing of the brown and odorous turkey. To see pinions and second joints, slices of white meat, crown drum«e ticks, tbe pope's nose, all showering in symmetrical portions from tbe noble bride, and to wonder why turkeys didn't have fbur legs and a double row of wings! A good carver seems to give away all the turkey and go without any himself. But when everybody is helped he picks out bits of tenderlion, morse's of brown and juicy meats, odds and ends, that as everybody knows, are the tid-bits of the feast. It would be as dangerous an experiment to ask a young man of tbe present time to carve a turkey as it would be to require him to ask blessing on tbe food. He would either sprain bis wrist or fire the turkey through the window in an attempt to cut it in two.

Fob three years -Mr. R. C. Wright, of Gaston, N. C.. bad been an intense sufferer from Rheumatism. His friend, J. A. Warwick, of Petersburg, Va., writes: Before the first bottle of Ath

lophoros

was finished be was able to

walk, and how goes about all over hia farm." In this case, which the friends of Mr. Wright regarded as desperate, a test was made of Athlophoros, It surprised friends and patient by Its prompt and thorough action on tbe blood and diseased parts, and won tbe emphatic opinion that it was truly specific for Rheumatism.

CU1 AND THRUST.

SOME OF WENDELL PHILLIPS' PRESSI8NS HAVE PASSED INTO HISTORY.

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Of Edward Everett he said: "He is a cuokoo. He sings, and sings, and sings, and sings but he always sings somebody else's songs."

Of Rufus Choate: "This chattering monkey! What does he know about the science of politics.'" "The North is choked on cotton seed." "If Jesus Christ had been born in the nineteenth century, they would have had him in jail in less than a week." "The natiou is solittled ruled by intellect and justice that it is making merchandise of men. In all the political meetings there are tbe chink of coin, the whirr of machinery and the dust of trade."

Of General Grant: "He cannot stand up before a glass of whisky without falling down at its feet."

Of Horace Greeley: "His ambition would make him either a democrat, or a rebel, or both."

Of Seward: "He is a blade of Damascus steel, so tempered as to bend into a scabbard shaped like a cork-screw."

Of Webster: "Heis a bankrupt statesman." Of Washington: "The great slaveowner."

Of Lincoln: "The slave hound of Illinois." Of Ellsworth, who was killed by Jackson at Alexandria, Virginia, for attempting to pull down a Confederate flag wav-

iug over his hotel: summate flower." Of Boston society: aristocracy."

'That bright, con-

"That broadcloth

Of the Saxon race:

"Their dominant

passion is for empire and strong drink. First the battle and then the bottle." Of the need for coustaut agitation: "If the Alps, piled in cold and still sublimity, be the emblem of Despotism, the ever restless ocean is ours, which, girt within the eternal laws of gravitation, is pure because never still."

Of Chief Justice Chase: "Heis a complacent political trickster, with plenty of democratic blood in bis veins."

Of Benjamin Franklin: "His soul ought to be damned for encouraging the sordid economy of Poor Richard."

And last but not least, here is what Robert Toombs said of Phillips himself. Some one spoke of him to Toombs, and characterized bim as ''an uproarious devil." "No." replied Tombs, "he is an infernal machine set to music

HARD TO BELIEVE.

It is bard to believe that a man was cured of a Kidney disease after his body was swollen as big as a barrel and he had been given up as incurable and lay at death's door. Yet such a cure was accomplished by Kidney-Worth in the person of M. 2&. Deverenaux of Ionia, AIich.,'who says: "After thirteen of the best doctors in Detroit had given me up, I was cured bv Kidney-Wort. I wa^.t every one to know what a boon it is.

DEAD EYES THAT WINKED. Here is the latest Paris story: Dr. De la, Pommerals was executed a few days ago, for a murder of Palmer type. On the night before his execution he was visited by Surgeon Velpeau, who, after a few preliminary remarks, informed bim that he came in the interest of science, and that 'he hoped for Dr. De la Pommerair' co-operation. "You know," be said, "that one of the most interesting questions of physiology is as to whether any ray of memory' reflection or real sensibility survives in the brain of a man after tbe fall of the head." Atthis point the condemned man-looked somewhat startled but professional instincts at once resumed their sway, and the two physicians calmly discussed and arranged the details of an experiment for the next morning. "When the knife falls," said Valpeau, "I shall be standing at your side, and your head will at once pass from tbe executioner's hands into mine. I will then cry distinctly into your ear, "Co*uty de la Pommerals, can you at this moment thrice tower the lid of your right eye while the left remains open?" The next day, when tbo great surgeon reached the condemned cell, he found tbe doomed man practicing the sign agrped upon. A few moments latter the guillotine had done its work, ll: head was in Valpeau's hands, and tbe qutmtion put. Familiar as be was with tbe m»t shocking aud ghastly scenes, he was almost frozen with terror as be saw the r'ght lid fall, while the other eye looked fixedly at Tim. "Attain!" he cried franiically. Tbe lids moved, but tbey did not ^rt. It was all over.

EACH ONE HAD AN EXCUSE. The other day a temperate man concluded to take a drink, and went into a saloon. To bis horror he meta friend at the bar who was also tbe kind of a man who "never touches liquor, sir." Each felt a little better, however, when he divined tbe reason of theotber's presence.

Just as they said "good morning" and were sliding up to the bar, a tbitgr party of similar abstemious pretention, came in and would have backed ous but the others saw him. "Ah-ab-gentlemen, will you take something?" said number one. "The fact is, I suffered all night with a terrible cold. It was simply terrible I thought I'd take something to warm me up."

Number two hesitated a moment and then said: "Well, I don't care if I do. My rheumatism has been hurting me awfully for a week. I believe I'll join you."

Number three coughed, and then put bis hands on his side, then hesitated a moment and -finally said: "Well guess I'll take one too. My mother says her corns hurt her so this kind of weather that she can hardly walk."

ren, wife's

STRANGE TASTES* ..

Philadelphia Times.

"There are people in this world who would eat almost anything," said a market dealer yesterday, "and tbey sometimes ask for tbe most curious things as articles of food. Ears, tails, toes, beads, and spare pieces of animals and birds are eagerly called for by people who would turn up their noses at turkey and reject* juicy porter-house steak or the choicest productions of tbe kitchen of any of our best restaurants. I heard a man ask one day if there was any place in this section of tfce county where they slaughter mules. No, be didu't find any here. He was told to go to Texai. There, I believe, tbey have tbe liveliest kind of mule meat."

Remember a complete cure for acb#t, sendi-

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pains, sores, pimples, urinary ments, disturbing dreams, nervousness, dispondency, indigestion and general weakness of mind and body, brought

?ound

tn by improper habits or otherwise, is in two or three bottles of Dr. Guysott'sYellow Dock and Sarsaparillfc, as has been proven by the experience of many who long suffered, but now feel a well and strong iu all parts of the body.

A HUNTER' STORY.

HOW HE WAS OVERCOME AND TH1 WAY BY WHICH HE WAS FINALLY SAVED.

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Correspondence Spirit of the Times. An unusual adventure which reoently occurred to your correspondent while hunting at Brookmere in this State isso timely and contains so much that can be made valuable to all readers, that I venture to reproduce it entire

The day was a most inclement one and the snow quite deep. Rabbits tracks were plentiful, but tbey principally led in the direction of a large swamp, in rabbits could run without

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which the difficulty, but where the hunter constantly broke through the thin ice, sinking into the half-frozen mire to his knees. Notwithstanding these difficulties, the writer had persevered, al- I though a very small bag of game was tbe result. While tramping about! through a particularly malarial portion! of the swamp, a middle aged man suddeuly came into view, carrying a muzzle loading shotgun and completely loaded down with game of the finest description. Natural curiosity, aside from the involuntary envy that instinctively arose^ prompted the writer to enter into conversation with tbe man, with the.following remit: "You've had fine success, where did you get all that game. "Right here, iu the swamp." "It's pretty rough bunting iu these parts, especially when a man goes up to his waist every other step." "Yes, it's not very pleasant, but I am used to it and don't mind it." "How long have you hunted hereJ abouts." "Why, bless you, I have lived herd most of my life and hunted up to ten] years ago every year." "How does It happen you omitted th'dj last ten years?" "Because I was scarcely able to move] much less hunt." 1 "I don't understand you 1 "Well, you see, about ten years ago after I had been tramping around a)1 daviu this same swamp, I felt quite pain iu my ankle. I didn't mind it verj much, but it kept troubling me for da* or two, and 1 could see that it kept in' creasing. The next thing I knew, I fel the same kind of a pain in my shoulder and I found it pained me to move mj arm. This thing kept going on and itv creasing, and though I tried to shake of the feeling and make myself think was only a little temporary trouble, I] found that it did not go. Shortly aftei this my joints began to ache at the kneel and I finally became so bad that I bad (I remain in tbe house most of the time." I "And did you trace all this to the faw that you had hunted so much in tnfeq swanip "No, I didn't know what to lay it toj but I knew that I was in misery.

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joints swelled until it seemed as thougf all tbo flesh I had left was bunched at the joints my fingers crooked in everj way and some of them became doubl« jointed. In fact every joint in m" body seemed to vie with the others to sen which could become the largest anl cause me tbe greatest suffering. In tlm way several years passed on, dun ing which time I was pretty nearly helpless. I became so nervous and sen sitive that I would sit bolstered up in th chair and call to people that entered th room not to come near me or even touc my chair. While all this was going oi I felt an awful burning heat and feve with occasional chills running all ov^ my body, but especially along my bac. and through my shoulders. Than agali my blood soemed to be boiling and brain seemed to be on fire." "Didn't you try to preverft all tfc agony "Try, I should think I did try. I trie every doctor that came within my rear and all the proprietary medicines I coui hear of. I used washes and linimein enough to last me for all time, but th only relief I received by Injections morphine."

Well, you talk in a very strange mai ner for a man who has tramped aroun on a day like this and in a swamp lil* this. Ilow in the world do you dare,! doit?" "Because I am completely well and sound as a dollar. It may seem stran but it is true that I was entirely curei the rheumatism all driven out of nr blood my joints reduced to j^ieir natnr size and my strength made as great ever before, by means of that great a' simple remedy, Warner's Safe Rh* matic Cure, which I believed saved life." "And so you now liavo no fear rheumatism "Why, no. Even if it should come o| I can easily get rid of it by using tl same remedy."

Ttie writer turned to leave, as it growing dark, but before I had reacw tbe city

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