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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HADTE, JHNE 7, 1884

THE LIFE OF MAN.

A DISCOVERY THAT HE LIVES LONGER THAN HE DID.

INTERESTING STATISTICS.

THE NATURAL LIFE-TIME OF MAN A CENTURY.

It is believed by scientists who have given the subject close attention that people live longer than they used to live, and there is an assurance that much may be done to prolong our lives. The late Dr. Farr, in bis description of the march through life of a million children, has given the following results: Nearly 150000 will die in the first year, 53,000 in the second year, 28,000 in the third year, and less than 4,000 in the thirteenth i?year. At the end of forty-five years 600,000 or one-half, will have died. At the beginning of sixty years 370,000 will still be living. At the beginning of 80 years, 90 000 at 85 years, 38 000, and at 4 %95 yearn, 2,100. At the beginning of 1C0 years there will be 223, and at 108 years pfe% TBI MEAN UF1TIMI. of both sexes in England was calculated some years ago to be 40,858, or nearly 41 years. Mr. H. Humphreys has shown, 'Ji however, that in five years, 1870 to 1880, the mean ago death was 43.66(females

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There is a life force, inherited from t. pre-existing life, which builds up matter into living tissue and holds it to--f, gether for a time and the tenacity with which this force holds organized matter together does not depend on size, or strength, or muscular development altogether, but rather probably on an eves balance between the several parts, and on something more. As the strength of a chain is equal to its weakest link, so the vital strength of the body is equal to the weakest organ.

After the middle arch of life is pasted the changes become commoner, and there is danger, if we continue to put the same pressure on a weakened vessel, that It may burst. In the hurry and strife of life men too often forget this truth

AND PAY THE PENALTY.

After fifty or fifty-five a deal more rest and sleep are required than in ealier mankood. The physloal powers should & be at their best. It is probable that some of the greatest of men between fifty and seventy. Living public men in every department of literature, science, art, and politics may be cited in 4 proof. For many years after thedegen- .. orative process of age have weakened the bodily powers ana the intellect!vely unsffteted. A continuity, and a diseased vessel lb the brain may hold its entirety for a great length of time if no great stain is put upon it. In

TAKING THE PERIOD

of 65 to 75, and still following the fortunes of the million children born, we 4find that 309,029 enter this age and 161,124 leave it alive. Diseases of the brain, heart and lungs are most common 81,400 die bf old age. The numbers that enter the next decednial—75 to 85—are 161,124, and the number that leave it alive are 38,565. About 122.500 die chiefly of lung, brain, heart ana other loom) diseases. Nearly 59,000 die of atrophy, debility and old age. Some writer says that he has met few or no cases of death fwm old age, everybody dying of some recognised disease. It is true that the srmplums of disease become obscure in old age, many oases of pnenmonla and other inflammation* escaping recognition. But it is also true that many deaths attributed to diseases are mainlv due to old sge slight injuries, cold, beat, want or attacks which in early years would have been shaken off. Of the million with which we started. 2,153 live to the age of 95—233 to 100. Finalvjly, at the age of 108 one solitary life dies.

DRMUfOS HAY DIVIDED

Into two great classes—the paraaUc and ^ihe degenertlve. The former are more prevalent in early, and the latter In the later stages cf life. Of cancer, which is ^one of the diseases of old age, it is un«ertain whether it belongs to the para•wsiUc or the degenerative type. As It to the duty of the physician to help man

-through as many of then stages, and with as little pain as possible, it becomes rinporiant to stud bow to protect hint from accidental diseases, and hoy to husband hi* forces so that he may imvel f«r over the way before hi* strength nhall fail. The first essential of life is Jood, and beyond doubt the majority kre underfed, and a large proportion Improperly fed The morality among the poor and the !*rd worked, at all stages of life, Is amasingly larger than among

MIDDLS BlQlt& C3UASSM.

1~ Ths human constitution possesses amount ©f elasticity, sad will tol-

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being again of nearly 2H ye»rs "iln

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Thus with!

years, notwithstanding

an increased birth rate, density of popu

S* lalioiK and the unsanitary condition of "iore than years have been added to

townssuddeniy grown large, "I two and a half years have been the life of evory inhabitant of England.

The Spectator asks: "What is the kind cf life which is increasing? Are we young longer, or mature longer, or old "longer? Do we live longer, er are

we only a little slower in dying?" I am bound to admit that some of the gain in early life is lost in middle life that while the expectations of life at birth is 2*f more, the expectation from 36 to 00 is a fraction less. But notwitnstandin the slight increase of morality at 35 an upward, a large portion of the additional survivors live on to the higher ages. Of 1,000 born, the aditional number of survivors is 35 at the age of 45, 26 at 55, 9 at 65, 3 at 75 and 1 at 85.

THE INCREASE

ftj is much greater among females. By far the larger proportion of the increased duration of human life in England is vW'-i Hved between 20 and 60. It is fnteresting to ascertain what is the natural lim fid it of existence. Dr. Farr says the natur

al lifetime of man is a century. That is §51 the length of time the body will live un

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der the most favorable condition. An other most interesting question is j- 'When does old age commence?' Dr

Farr has divided life as follows: Boy hood, 10 to 15 years youth, 15 to 325 manhood, 25 to 55 maturity, 65 to 75. ripeness, 75 to 85, and old age, 85 and ranrjr wweino nr certain'pauio logical changes which take place atdlf ferent age*. It. is interesting to learn what conditions hasten of binder these ••••$ changes. It in held that all life begins in a formless fluid, and from this devel ..s ope Into the varied & FORMS OF LIVING BEINGS.

to departure from correct diet for a length of time, but in tbeend the penalty is rigorously exacted by nature. Lessened vitality inevitably follows impoverished blood and ill-nourished tissue. Uudoubtedly men are better fed than formerly, and fewer die of starvation. But the*increased density of the population by the flocking of people to the towns has intensified old dangers. Unless sanitary improvements seep pace with the increase of population the mortality increases. One-seventh of the population of Great Britain live in Lonaom a large portion of the

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large towns. Dr. Farr says: "What is especially remarkable in London is the high mortality of all ages after twentyfive." It ia due to pnlmonory diseases. The same holds good of all large towns. Improved health conditions and increased population are fighting a great battle, and, on the whole, if not at every part of the field, health is winning.

SMALL FEET NOT BEA UTIFUL.

TIGHT SHOES UNHEALTFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE OF GRACE IN WALKING.

"This clatter about small feet is all nonsense," said a shoe maker yesterday. "I saw an interview with a shoe maker in the New York Mail and Express last week, in which it was said that a certain lady had the prettiest foot in New York because she weighed 160 and yet wore on iy a number one shoe. That lady bad the homeliest foot in New York, in my judgment, and I am a connoisseur in feet. A small foot is more usually a deformity than a beauty." "Why?" asked the reporter* "Because it is usually a disproportion a monstrosity. A perfectly beautifu woman's foot should be in length a little less than one-seventh ol her height The foot, moreover, is the base, the sup port of the body, and it should be neith er too small to support it, nor, for beau ty'a sake, seem to be so. Imagine 160 pounds of flesh over two little number one feet. I've got an artistic eye for such things, and the disposition makes me shudder. The most beautiful foot known is that oi the Venus de Medici It is neither very short nor very narrow, and, although the Venus is a rather small woman, she would find a number two shoe decidedly uncomfortable. The model of that foof never wore a shoe. "Are tight shoes unhealthy "Very. They impede the circulation of the blood. With tight shoes and tight lacing our women will produce a very thin-blooded generation. Tigrbt shoes destroy grape and cause an awkward walk. If you want to a

ward walk. If you want to acquire the gait of a dude, just get a hair of pointed shoes two sizes too small for you and hold out your arms." "Can you describe a perfect foot?" "A perfect foot must

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as I said be

fore, a little less in length than oneseventh the length of the woman. It should be arched on the top. It should be broadest across the ball, and the toes, systemetrical and tipped with pink nails, should spread flat upon the grouud at every step. The second toe should be the longest. The heel should descend in a straight line from behind the ankle and should be delicately rounded. The skin should be white as ivory and marked with faint indications of blue veins. The heel and toes, how-

a seaside watering place, and never will until women learn that a small foot is not necessarily a beautiful one."

CATERING FOR WOMEN.

NEW WRINKLES ADOPTED SHREWD LANDLORDS OF SWELL HOTELS.

The hotel-keeper of to-day is artful. He caters to woman for his popularity, and wherein twenty years ago her com fort was a secondary consideration, today it is studiously consulted and placed foremost. Why Because women travel both alone and with their husbands much more than they did formerly, and quick to perceive any deference to their own tastes and convenience, they insist upon going to the same hotel nntil they become familiar habitues. It is amusing to note the different dodges employed oy the managers of the great city caravansaries.

At the most exclusive hotels in Boston it takes the shape of beautiful flowers in vases and jars scattered about the room, and in the latest numbers of "Harpers," the "Century," aud"Atlantic Monthly" ready to the hand. At aNew York^hotel, facing on Madison Square, at lunch, when dessert is brought on, a plate of choice confectionery is put before you, and while making use of a finger-bowl the deft-handed waiter whips out a sheet of fresh white paper, twists it with a turn, of bis band into a cornucopia, empties the bonbons into it, and presents it with an Oriental obeisant for up-stairs consumption. There is really cleverness in this, for it has put a stop, without vulgar remonstrance, to the practice off to their rooms plates loaded with fruit, oakes and candles, to nibble at between meals.

At another hotel on Madison Square, when a lady ia seated In the dining-room, waiter has ready for her feet a dainty tapestry-covered hassock. No one but woman, who has spent a portion of her life in sitting on the edges of chairs dangllog her feet in the air, can fully appreciate this comfort. At this hotel arose or a few violets are always found floating in the water of the fingerbowl, and lend it pleasant fragrance.

The proprietor of a hotel on Union Square has availed himself of the sugitionsof his lady guests in improving table appurtenances. For example, instead of the cruets full of black or white pepper, generally so adulterated that a deluge required to flavor the food, issubstltuted a tiny and pretty sflver mill, filled with the whole peper corns. Two or three turns of the handle and you realise ths delightfulness of pepper in its purity.

In pSaee of the customary "salts," ss they are called, a small hlsque Cupid has a spring in his back, which, if you oress, causes fine sprays of salt to fling torn the point of hi* cnuning arrow. The fruit at dessert Is pat on in the French fashion, dressed with flowers sad leaves, a tow sufficing, and the effect Is most pleasing, ss at tills season

Omts

Is a monumental stlftoess about a stack of oranges, apples and bananas.

COMPANY SHOPS.

Mr. M. M. Shoffner, Postmaster and JusUso of the Ptoses, Cempany Shops. Alamance Co.. X. C., writes, be has used St. Jacobs OU for reumattem, cuts, swelled ankles and knees, pains In ths back sad sore-throat. One or two applications in earh esse has always cared, and he believes the Great German Remedy is the best In the world. "As long as I can get it," be adds, "I never Inland to be imho«t it."

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

ROBBING STAGES,

A HOADs AGENT TELLS HOW EASILY IT IS DONE.

NOT A BIT OF DANGER IF THE JOB IS MANAGES BY A SCIENTIFIC BOBBEft—THE PASSENGERS INVAR

IABLY TOO BADLY SCARED TO

MURMUR.

Madkba, Cal., May 17.—Two stage robbers in jail here for operations in the Yosemite Valley have been visited by many people and questioned as to their career on the road. Both men are fully identified as the individuals who stopped a coach last fall and relieved the passengers of their valuables. Both claim that this is the only robber^' of the kind they ever participated in, but under the influence of free cigars they confessed that they had certain friends and acquaintances who had had some very queer experiences as road agents, some of them on the Yosemite trail. "For a man who wants real good business and an easy sort of a fife," said Tolman Terhune, one of the prisoners, "I would advise mm to go to work on the Yosemite route. Living is comparatively cheap and good in that vicinity, and stages are just plenty enough—not too plenty, but just enough. You don't want to tackle every stage that comes along, for that would Bpoil the whole thing. People would not ride, and after awhile there would be no stage at all. You must let the recollection of one 'hold up* kinder fade out of mind before you spnng another on them. When a •hold up' Easnt occurred in two or three months drivers get kinder careless and passengers take greater risks. "My observations have convinced me that there isn't anything in this world that the majority of people fear more than a road agent. Itrs all moonshine, but it is a fact, nevertheless, and the boys in the business have to be very careful, or they will stampede all the game. "There's more or less science in doing up a stase, I can tell you. Your mind must be on things present and things prospective. You must work it so yon can eat your cake, or a good part of it, and have it, too. "Now, I had a friend that once did business on the CalaveraB road. He was a hog. He wanted everything that came nis way. and he took it. The result was that before many weeks elapsed the stages were all taken off but one or two, and the drivers of them used to go over the route alone very often. One time my friend sprang out in front of the stage and ordered the driver ts throw up his hands, which he did. Then my friend went around to the side of the coach to interview the passengers and found that there wasn't a soul in the gig. It made him mad, of course. Ma he went back to the horses, and, npicing that the driver was

Bmllling,

he remark

ed 'I've a notion to slice you tip for playing this trick on me.' What trick says the driver. 'Why didn't you tell me you hadn't anybody aboard 'Because you didn't ask me.' 'Well, what have you got?' saidTOv friend to the driver 'come, now/shell

"The driver didn't have anything but

got to talking, and after awhile my friend got up on the box and rode five or ten miles with the driver, just to keep him company, and to hear what he had to say. The driver was one of those observing fellows, and he gave the agent some good advice. Says ne: "'You have ruiued the business on this road, ruined yourself, and ruined the company. Nooody travels here atvy more. You have scared them all off. Now you might as well git yourself, too. There's no money here, and won't be till you restore confidence. You can't work a stage line without confidence any more than you can a banking institution. You must dear out of here and stay out, and when the arteries of trade open up once more then you can come back if you want to, but you mustn't be too enthusiastic. You must hold pp a stage and then take a rest. Go over to San Francisco for a few weeks and enjoy yourself. Mingle in society and seek diversion. Then when yon feel like it come out and take another crack.' "Well, when 1 left the stage driver— I mean when my friend left him—he knew a good deal more than he did before. ana I have heard that he profited by it to some extent.. At any rate he made fewer hauls, but they were bigger, and he had a good deal less wear and tear. "Now, there is no danger in stopping a coach. Did you ever near of a stage robber being killed I never did, ana I have been on the coast for thirty years. Nobody kills a road agent. In the first

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the passengers are too scared, and the next they are so almighty anx ious to have the thing over with that they do not think of anything but complying with the demands made upon them. It is aa safe a business as preaching, and safer than preaching in some towns that 1 know of. I have heard an acquaintance of mine, who operated in the northern part of Oregon, say time and again that some of the gentlemen whom he invited to shell out made him feel sshsmed of himself by giving up things that he would never have thought of as King for. One man, I remember, he told me about in particular. He was standing in the row with his hands up and teeth chattering, and when his friends came up to htm and palled out of his vest pocket a little wad of money, not over f6, the fellow, evidently fearing that some dire punishment would be Inflicted upon him in case be did not pan out as well as the others, told the robber that be had more money in his trunk, which was strapped on behind. Well, of course my friend had to get that money, and it took time, bat he found it right where the fellow told him it was. He would a good deal rather have gone on without overhauling the trunk, but since ths man had tola him that there was money in it, he would never have rested essy after that if he had hot got it. "I know dosens of just such experiences. I have a cousin operating on the Yosemite road over near where 1 wss round up, who took more pleasure in the business than any man I ever beard of. He enjoyed the fan of the thing, and he often used to say to me that, ss between robbing a stage and going to a oe would take the former minstrel show. every time. Now, that, yon see, wss because there waa absolutely no danger in it* He wss an experienced man, and knew thai the thing wss safe. I honestly believe that if, when be was going through astage load, somebody had fired off a gun be would have fainted away, not so mcich from fright as from surprise. "My cousin was considered a very good man in his day. He had an air of authority about him, and a voice that could be heard a mile in the mountain air. When he said 'Haads up!' hands

went up. and no driverever dared move a peg wnen heard him remonstrating. Yet he was downed once, end by woman, too. He stopped a stage load of people from New England, and there was a schoolma'am in the crowd who wore spectacles and was a good deal more angular than any of the women they raise out here. When he ordered 'hands up' he didn't notice that she refused to obey, because she was down at the foot of the line, and he didn't pay much attention to her anyway. As be proceeded along the line, working the different victims ss he "went alone he noticed that her arms were behind her, and that she was a slender old girl. So he said nothing until he came to her. Then throwing all his power into his lungs he yelled, 'Hands up!' Well, she put her hands up. She bad one of those Cape Cod umbrellas, with whalebone ribs ss big as your finger, and when she raised her bands she clutched that umbrella with the grip of death, and down it came on my cousin's head. He told me he saw double for a week after that, and for the time being he was nearly knocked out. "It was a mighty ticklish moment. As I have said, you work a coach load easily by terrifying them and getting away before they recover their self-pos-session. Now here was a woman who had not lost her's at sill, and if the men at the other end of the line had bad an opportunity to t^ink for a moment they would have been on top of me—I should say on top of my cousin—before he could get out of the way. But he was a clever chap. He just drew a big gun and sailed up to the other end of the line looking very ferocious and muttered something to the men about never roi bing & woman. They took on a fright and did not understand fully what had happened. He thea gave the order to mount, and covered the crowd as they got into the coach. The Rchoolma'am was the last one in, and she was the only one who was not robbed. Now I'll bet those fellows felt cheap when they heard her story and found that she had not lost anything. "That's the whole secret of this staging business. No stage robber who is fit to follow the road ever kills snybody. He may shoot at times, but not to kill. Whenever you hear of a stage being fired into and lots of people hurt, you may make up your mind that some gang of hat men are at work. No professional does anything of the kind. "I'm sorryl've got into this difficulty just now. The season opens in about two weeks."

A SCIENCE AND AN ART.

THE FACULTY OF CREATING A SENSE OF COMFORT AMONG GUESTS.

To make a person "feel at home," in the best sense of the words, is almost becoming a lost art. People nowadays, in the rush and hurry of existence, haitgly have time to make each others acquaintance. Existence has degenerated jtttto a%ace, and we all speed along so quickly that we are just about as sociable as a company of rockets, which, though they may travel aloft in close company, are only intent on their own business of making a fine show. Peo-

Eowever,

le, even when very busily engaged have leisure now and again, for a little social communion, for a party "hop," or a bit of a jaunt. This is the Uip* or practice of that crowning aTt afreet, making everybody feel comfortable. You go into an ordinary drawing room, and the hostess trips up with a pretty little stereotyped smile and a delightful triple of gusn, and you shake hands, speak of the weather, and are dismissed as some one else ap-

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jroaches. Then you notice the same stereotyped smile, and the same bit of gush, the same sentences from first to last, and wonder if people are ever deceived by the mockery. But a woman with anything like real tact will make everyone of her guests feel that he or she is really welcome,—will, in fact, force the visitors to feel at home, and consequently altogether at ease ana happy. At a mixed party or picnic where number of strangers are fathered together, the good fairy who can make suitable introductions is doing more to promote the enjoyment of those present than might be supposed Here there Is a shy young man—and shy young men are not so very rare, after all—and yonder is a disconsolate maiden escortiess and pining for a little attention. To bring the two together makes another happy pair,andsoon all through tbellatsof guests. The organiserofa party, in-doors or out-doors, in being able to make people feel at home, must have the eye of a general. He must dasb in ana divide Ill-sorted groups, bring like and like together, and generally preside, like some benign influence, over the whole of the gathering. But this must be done as unobtrusively ss possible. A noisy, fussy bustling person is a nuisanse. True art conceals art, and the art of making people feel as if they had never met sucn pleasant acquaintances before, is an art which is all the greater an art if the means which effect the miracle are studiously hidden behind a mask of quiet ease.

SWEET IS WOMAN SLOTS. An Arkansas woman whose husband was recently sent to the penitentiary wrote the following letter to her loved one: "Idon't like td shake you now that you are in trouble, but under the circumstances it is the best thing I can do. The man yon stole the bog from has proposed to me, and I have consented to marry him. I am getting tired of the neighbors throwing it up tn me that my husband is In the pen. I am going to marry this fellow qnietly, an' when they come around an' say, 'Your husband's in the pen,' I can call 'em a liar and have'm arrested for slander."

SETTING HER CAP.

The little brother came qnietly into the parlor where Mr. Featberly waa msklng sn evening call, and after looking eagerly around remarked to his sister: "Auilt Jsne Is mistaken," "What Is it?" his sister aaked pleasantly, patting the dear little fellow on the beta, while Featberly gased at the two in wrapt admiration. "I don't see any cap," he replied, "but Annt Jane just said that you were in the parlor setting your cap for Mr. Featberly."

Among the Whitest TM»f on earth Are teeth, beautified and preserved by SOZODONT: and the rose is scare sweeter than the breath which becomes aromatic through its Influence. It is tbe very pearl of dentifrices and tbe surest preveative of dental decay

AN OLD SLAVE SELLER.

STRANGE-STORY BY THE LAST OF THE NEGRO AUCTION EERS—SLAVES LOST AND WON GAMB

LING.

From the Boston Herald.

"Yes, sir, so far as I know, and I think I know all about it. I'm the

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existence. It

remedies with certainty canker and every species of corrosive blemish upon' the teeth, and counteracts the hurtful influence upon them of acidity of the. stomach. Tbe formula of ita prepareHon includes only botanic ingredients and it contains only tbe purest and most salutary of these. 7-4w.

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profession—the last

man alive in the United States who made a business of selling niggers from the auction block. I'm 72 years eld now, and I guess my time has nearly come." Thus spoke old Jack Campbell as he filled his glass for the fourth time at aBroad street bar, and leaned back against the counter to open up his budged of reminiscences. "I went into the slave auction business in 1835, and never quit it until the war broke out. I have sold niggers in Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Louisville, Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis, and all along in the other towns of the South. I don't blow my own trumpet —you know that on their own merits modest men are dumb—but I can say that Jack Campbell had the reputation for showing up the good points of a •buck' or a 'wench' and drawing out bids that made bim in demand whomever there was a big sale. "The nigger traders have made me travel 500 miles to run off a lot for them and they paid me my own price for my work. "How many have I sold? I was In the business some twenty-five years, and I guess I always handled 500 or 600 a yeai. "I've had plenty of queer experiences, as you cal) them," he continued, after he bad wiped his lips with a nobby white silk nandkerchief. "Long as you ask about it, I remember the biggest money I ever got for a nigger was 99,000 f«r a pretty quadron wench that I sold in Louisville about '52 or '53. She was only 18, and was about aa white as you or me, and her two children bad light curly hair. Her master lived down near Bowling Green, and though he didn't want to part with her, he was so down in his luck that he had to sell her. I beard, too, that bis wife swore that nigger must leave the plantation or she would go home to her family. My instructions were not to take less than |6,000 for the girl, and I was to get a big percentage on all over that so when they put her on the block I talked her up for all she was worth. "There were more than twenty men bidding for her, ani the fellow that got her for 19,000 was a rich and gay youne bachelor from Tennessee, who happened to be in the city on a spree and was attracted by curiosity to the sale. He was allttle drinky and wasn't caring anything for bis ducats. He was also so set on having the girl, I believe he would have given |20,000 for her, if anybody had bid her up that high. He carried her home that day, and I ain't

oing to tell you anything more about than that he made a big name in the Southern army and was killed at the head of his soldiers. "One of this woman's children by her first master lives in a Massachusetts town now, and is a rich man. There isn't a sign of black blood in him." "Have you sold many of such people?" "Plenty of likely girls, from chocolate color up to nearly white, and got from $3,000 to 96,000 apiece for 'em. There always was a good market foe that kind of stock. No, it didn't

woome

from any

particular place HI the South. You could find it everywhere from Maryland to Louisiana. Southern gentlemen took an interest in it, sir, and no decent master would let one of those girls marry a black M*n. They were superior people, superior people."

Which were the best markets "New Orleans, Louisville, Charleston and Baltimore used to be about the same till the cussed black Abolitionists got therunning the niggers North by the underground railroad. After that it was always a little dangerous to do business in Baltimore or Louisville for fear the Yankees would steal them across the Pennsylvania line or the Ohio River. "I brought six blacks to Baltimore once on my own account, and put 'em in the pen at the corner of Eutaw and Camden streets, to wait for a sale. Two got loose that very night, and that was the last I ever saw of them. Of course tbey got over into Pennsylvania, but they never could have done it without somebody helped them, for they had come clear from North Carolina. They were worth fl ,500 apiece, and I was clear $3,000 out of pocket. There waa a nest of infernal Quakers at a place called Christiana in this State, and they were always lookln' out to rob a man of bis honest property. "Another time a nigger ran away from me at Newport, Ky.. and got to Cincinnati. I went across the river and saw a friend of mine who kept a place where I bad played in a good many thousands of my bard earned dollars. I told bim I wanted bis help to get the man back, and, says he, 'Jack, if you ain't a fool, you'll let that moke go. It mightn't be healthy for you to raise a row here over one nigger, 'cause the nigger lovers are bosses here.' He was a sensible man, and 1 took his advioe. "This was in '58, and after that I didn't do any more business on my own risk so close to the North. The last sales were made in Baltimore and Louisville in 1861. but for five or six

previous New Orleans was our market. Maybe it ain't any use telling people so, but the hardest master on the slaves were the Yankf-es who bad settled in the South or had come there as overswra. 1 never saw one of them that wouldii break up a family when he wanted to sell. I had to deliver two field bands once at a plantation three miles out from Milledgeville. I «a* marching them along the road, and one turned as quick as a flash ana knocked me down before I knew what he was doing. Tbey started to ran, but I drew one of them down with a bullet in his neclc. He wasn't badly hurt, but after I got them up to the plantation the one I shot was laid up for three weeks, and cuss me if the man who bad bought bim didn't offer to sue me for the loss of his services, after I had saved his nigger for him. That man was a Yankee squatter, and there was plenty mors just as mean as him."

knew any Southern hotel that was built before tbe war and aak tbem to let you go down into the cellars. See if you don't find them tbe old cells where the servants of travellers were shut up at night. Tbe Baltimore Custom House was once a hotel, and there are more than two dosen cells under it now. Ben O'Hara's slave jail in that dty Is Mill standing on Pratt street, although it has been turned into a beer garden. And through all the larger cities in tbe South tbe old roakhmters could show you tbe private pens." "When did you last sells negro?'* "Going down tin Mississippi from

St. Louis to New Orleans on the steame Star of the South in May, 1861. I getting out of the Souths for thin were becoming too hot for m^there. fellow who was taking some niggers a plantation he owned in Arkansas got cleaned out in a little game of draw, and put two of 'em up ou a small straight They were scooped in by a man had three deuces and a pair of jacks, at as he didn't want them, be offered the for sale. "Pretty much everybody on boar knew me, and I was called to ask fo bids. They were two as good youn bucks as ever you saw, ana I only |1,600 for both. When the war h) brought business down that low thought it was time for me to dron out of It, and I did." "I have heard it said that these storh about betting slaves over a gamblin table are all lies." "You just take old Jack Campbell' word for it that It Is true. I've traveled the Mississippi a hundred times befor the war, and held a hand in many game where niggers right on board the stakes. Yes, and I've won some 'em, too, and lost 'em again."

TBE SIR A WBERR SEASON.

WAYS IN WHICH THE DELICIOUS LITTLE FRUIT MAY BE EATEN.

Boston Heiald.

As tbe strawberry season is at hand, a few ideas regarding the disposal of the delicious berry might be timely. Here is one of the best receipts for strawberry short-cake: One pint sifted flour, onehalf teaspoonful salt, scant one half teaspoouiul creair of tartar (omit sour milk be used), mixed together and sift two or three times one-quarter cup of butter, one cup sweet or sour milk or cold water. Rub in the butter, or melt the butter and add it hot with the milk, gradually mixing and cutting with a knife, and use just enough to make it of light, spongy consistency. Either bake on a griddle or in an oven. When baked tear open and spread each half of the cake with softened butter. Put half of the cakes on a hot plate. Mash a pin of strawberries, sweeten to taste, put large spoonful on each cake then put a layer of cakes and whole berries, well sugared. Serve with crcam.

Strawberry charlotte: Line a bowl with strawberries and fill with Bavarian croam. Tbe cream is made up of ball box of gelatine, half cup cold water soaked together. Whip one pint of cream till you have three pints of the whip. Boil the remainder with three

ped cream. Strawberry sherbet: One pint berry juice, one pint sugar, one pint water, juice two lemons, one tablespoonful gelatine. Or, one pint preserved fruit, one cup sugar, one quart water, two lemons, tabiespoonful gelatine.

Ayer's Sarsaparill is a highly concentrated extract of Sarsaparilla, and other blood-purifying roots, combined with with Iodide of Potassium and Iron. Its control over scrofulous diseases is unequalled by any other medicine.

BUTTERMILK*

In the warm Summer weather many

persons feel an irresistible craving for something sour, and often gratify this desire by a free IndulgenceJLp pickles or vegetables made acid with vinegar. This demand for acids indicates a deficiency in tbe acid secretions of the stomach, and the demand for an artificial supply is a natural one. but vinegar is not the best substitute. Lactic and is one of the chief agents that give acidity to the gastric juice of the stomach in health. This is the acid of sour milk, and, therefore, one of tbe best Summer diet drinks that/ we can use is butter milk. It satisfies the craving for acids by glviDg to the stomach a natural supply, and at tbe same time furnishing in its cheesey matter a good supply of wholesome nutrition. A man win endure fatigue in hot weather better on buttermilk than on any diet be can use.

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THE WAY BOYS SLEEP. A Burlington Hawkeye. Baron Reicbenback declares that sleeping with the bead pointed east snd the feet west is tantamount to committing suicide. Well, if tbe baron ever noticed a boy sleep with bis bead bearing southeast, half east, one leg due north and the other bearing northeast as far as tbe ksee, and then heading due west, the left arm south by west to tbe elbow and thence northwest and tbe right arm east northesst be would abandon all bis theories about north and south sleeping. Is there any creature healthier than a boy, sleeping or waking Lleth a boy, awake all night with troubled dreams and uneasy thoughts

to tbe slug,

tbou ant, and learn to take things slow and easy without reference to tbe points of the compass.

"My wife suffered from Rheumatism for months. She tried a number of medicines but received little or no benefit. She commenced taking Athloi'hobos three days ago, and I «hh

safely h»v

she has already received more benefit from it than all tbe medicines she had taken before." J. Stephens, Hazel Green, Grant Co., Wis. The universal verdict as to ATHLoraonos is that it cures where other remedies fail. What an amount of money might be saved if sufferers would go directly for tbe recognized specific.

"A God-sxkdis Ely's Cream Balm," writes Mrs. M. A. Jackson, of Portsmouth,

lN.

H., on May 22, 1882. I bad

Catarrh for three years! bsd tried nearly all remedies but to no purpose. Two or three times week my nose would bleed quite freely and I thought the sores in it would never beal. Your Balm has cured me." This preparation is not s. liquid or a snuff, snd is easily applied. (Price 60 cents. Seesdv't.)

Physicians recommend porous plasters in case of Back Acba, Lame Side, Stiff

Muscles,

Rheumatism and all local pains.

HOP FLATTER*9XT the best made, combintug Fresh Hops with Gums. Ready to aae, pleasant and powerful in action. 26 ,• cts. at any drug store. ,,

RILES! PILE*!! PILES!!! Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itching Plies. One bottle has cured tbe worst case of 90 vests standing. No one need suffer five miDdtH after antic William's Indian Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors, allays itching, acts as poultice, gives Instant relief. Prepared only for Pile*. Itching of nothing else. Hon. J. M. Cleveland, say* "I have used -i cures,and it affords me pleasure to

that I

have never found anything which gives sura Immediate and permanent relief as Dr. William* Indian Kle Ointment." Sold bv druggl*tMai»d on receipt of prloe. fl. jorwde by Cook A Bell, wholesale druggists.

FITS: An Fits stopped free by Dr. KUmrt Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after flnrt day's use. Marvelous cores. Treatise andf2. trlal bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, ill Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.