Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 May 1885 — Page 2

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 16. 1886.

SOONER OR LATER.

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Sooner or later the storms shall beat Over my slumber* from head to feet Sooner or later the winds will rave In the long grass above my graves

I shall not hoed them where I lie, I Nothing their sounds shall signify Nothingthe headstone's fret of rain Nothing to me the dark day's pain, Hooner or later the sun shall shine *-_ With tender warmth on that mound of mine Sooner or later, in summer air, Clover and violets blossom there. "21

I shall not feel, in that deep laid rest, The slanting light fall over my breast, Nor even note In these hidden hoars The wind-blownbreath of the tossing flowers.

Hooner or later the stainless snows Hhail add their hash to my mu^e repose Sooner or later shall slant and shift, And heap my bed with the dazzling drift

Chill through that frozen pall shall seem, Its tonch no colder can make the dream That recks not the sweet and sacred iread,. Shrouding the city of the dead, Hooner or later the bee shall come And fill the moon with Its golden hum Hooner or later, on naif-poised wing, The bluebird's warble about me ring—

King and chirrup and whistle with glee, Nothing his music means to me: None of these beautiful things shall know How soundly their love sleeps below.

Hooner or later, far out in the night. The stars shall over me wing their flight, Booner or latei, the darkliig dews Catch their white sparks in their sllense noose

Never a ray shall part the gloom That wraps me round in the kindly tomb l'ease shall be perfect for lip and brow, Sooner or later—O! why not now? —[Harriet Prescott Spofford.

THE ARROW AND THE WORD.

I shot an arrow— I cared not where. It buzzed and buzzed

Through the air,

Till I heard a dove utter its cry. And In! at my feet it caine to die, Then I know mv arrow, In its random course Had brought it its slender naught but deep remorse.

I spoke a wc ril To one so fair— •?. A careless word—

Of such beware!

It entered the inaldeu'a heart And therefrom made love deprat. Theu I knew tiiat word on its bantering course Had brought to its sender a life of remorse. -[Willis Merritt.

A High-Tempered Girl

"No, I won't!" said Theodora Reed impetuously "I won't! I won't! so there's an end of the matter."

Theodora was busy making pear marmalade, with a pocket handkerchief fastened, Beatrice Oenci fashion, over her luxuriant brown tresses, a huge check apron enveloping her trim little figure, and sleeves roiled up above her elbow.

Deacon Powers stood opposite, nervously feeling of his bristly chin. Theodora was young and pretty, with limpid, hazel eyes, rings of brown hair straying like floss silk over her temples, and rosy lip.

Deaoon Powers was elderly and wrinkled, with an indescribable sharpness in his face, as if it had worn away in contact with the world. ••It's getting to be an inposition," said Theodora, brusquely. "Last week we had two tract distributors here, and the week before vjat old Mr. Doddington and his wife and three childret stayed here five days, so that it should be convenient to tue semi-annual convention. In fact, I don't remember a single month without company since we have lived in the parsonago, and we have no girl now and papa has the neuralgia, so you must tell this young clergyman to go somewhere else. I won't have him nere 1"

But, my dear Miss Reed—" "I'm not your dear Miss Reed," said Theodora vehemently. "If I were, you would try to spare me a little of this annoyance.. Yes, I kuow I am the ministers daughter and as such am expected to have neither feelings nor preference nor sensibilities of any kind. But I'm human, after all, and I decline to keep a perpetual free hotel for every one who comes In this direction." "Your predeeesaor, Miss Reed—the lamented MissSmlloy—was neveraverse to entertaining the saints." reproachfully uttered the deacon. Her door was ever open, and her amiable hospitality—" "Oh, yea, 1 know!" said Theodora. "And she died at forty. I intend to live a great deal longer than that. She was killed by Bewing societies and company and Dorcas meetings. I've had enough of that sort of thing, and I mean to stop. If the church people wish papa to entertain all creation, they must raise his salary—that's all!"

But, my good young friend—M At that moment, however, a third person unexpectedly appeared upon the scene. The door between the parlor and kitchen, which had, unperceived by Miss Reed and Deacon Powers, stood slightly ajar, opened—a tall, frank-faced young man stood there, with a decided eolor on bis cheeks. "Deacon Powers," said he, "pray assure this young lady t"h«t I will not tresupon her hospitality. Perhaps we better go ou to the next place at once."

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There was something In bis air and manner which eaus*ea the deacon to shoot out of the kitchen like an arrow from the bow, and the next moment Theodora was alone.

She colored and bit her lip. '•It's all true," she said, "every word of It. But I'm a little soriy be heard it. Perhaps he wasn't to blame after all."

And Theodora went vigorously on with the pear marmalade, until the old clock in toe corner struck eleven and then she poured out a cap of chocolate and ran up stairs to her father's room.

Mr. Reed was sitting before his study table, his temples resting on his hands, his elbows among the chaos of books and papers. Tbeo went to his aide at once and laid her hand on bis head. "Papa," she said wtatfully, "is your neuralgia worse?" "Very much worse, Theo," he said, lifting his pain-glased eyes to her eager questioning young face. "I do not believe that 1 can preach to-morrow I do not believe that I can even prepare a sermon."

Theodora looked aghast. ., "But. papa." maid she. "what can yen dot Ota Dr. Denton ia oat of town, and—"

My dear," said the poor clergyman, pressing his bands to hia throbbing ternplea, you must and a not* to Mr. Harvey, and ask him to oflftdateln my place f-N

"Who is Mr. Hervey asked Theodora. "I don't know," sighed Mr. Reed. "I only know that heM to be at Winfield this week. Most probably he will be at the Star Hotel." "Very well, papa," *aid Theodora, feigning a cheerfulness that she .was very far from feeling. "Drink your chocolate now, there's a darling, and don't fret yourself the least bit in the world, and I will see that all arrangements are made."

So she ran down stairs and set herself to thinking. A substitute must be found for the pulpit and here it was twelve o'clock on Saturday.

She sat down and wrote a little note, consulting the dictionary more than once to make sure of no errors, and carecopying the whole, because of a spattering little blot which fell, as if "of malice aforethought," directly across the second line.

DEAR MB. HERVEY Will you grant us the great favor of preaching in papa's place to-morrow He is very ill of neuralgia, and is unable even to prepare a sermon. We shall be greatly obliged if you will dine with us to-morrow after church. THEODORA REED.

And after satisfying herself that it was all right, she carried it herself to the Star Hotel.

Mr. Hervey was not in, hadn't been in since morning. But they would give him the note directly on his arrival.

So Theodora hurried home again, and in the course of the afternoon a little colored boy from the hotel brought a card, on one

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of which was engraved

"Henry Hervey," while upon the other was written the words, "with the greatest pleasure."

And the minister's daughter, "on hospitable thought intent," roasted a pair of chickens, collected the ingredients for a salad, made a peach pie, and baked a loaf of bread which, was as light and white as sea foam. "I'll show him that the country girls undeistand good housekeeping," said Theo to herself.

Mr. Reed was not able to leave his sofa the next morning, so Theo put on her pretty blue and white muslin dress and gypsy hat with the roses that became her delicate complexion so perfectly, and went to church, after first seeing that the table was all spread for the cola dinner, and the coffee-pot simmering on the stove.

The church was full. Mr. Hervey was arising luminary in the theological horizon, and almost every one In Wlnfleld had heard him, so that there was no lack of an audience.

But to Theodora's iueffable dismay the tall young man who walked so composedly out on the platform was no other than the frank-faced person who had stood on her kitchen threshold only the day before, and overheard her diatribe on the subject of undesired guests.

Under the shadow of the roses she turned redder still. "Oh, my tongue—my unlucky tongue!" she said frantically to herself. "I always knew it would lead me into trouble! What must he have thought

And, as may be inferred. Theodora's devotions—albeit, she was in reality a sweet, sincere little Christian—did not do her much good that morning.

Mr. Hervey came afcross into the parsonage when the sermon was over and held out his hand to blushing Theodora. "We meet again," said he, with a smile. "I can't help it." burst out Theodora, in desperation. "I meant every word I said, Mr. Hervey it was all true. But —but It didn't apply to you "I understand," he said qulely. "I was a little neftled at the moment, for I merely wished for a temporary shelter while they were furnishing my room at the Star Hotel. But

He was taken up to Mr. Reed's sick room after dinner, and bad a pleasant chat with him before the afternoon service. "You have done ma a great favor, sir," said the elder clergyman, when at length he parted from his guest. "And we should esteem it a privilege—mv little girl and I—if you would make it your home at the parsonage during your stay in town. Should we not, Theo?"

Theodora hung down her head and turned pink to the very roots of her hair. "Yes," she said, almost lnaudablv. "Only—I am ashamed to say so. Oh, papa," hiding her face on his shoulder, "I have behaved so badly! I never should have taken it for granted that Mr. Hervey was like the rest."

And then, Infinitely to Mr. Hervey's amusement, she told the whole Interview with Deacon Powers.

Mr. Reed smiled as he stroked Theo's head. My little girl la only a little girl," said he, "and sometimes forgets that the tongue is an unruly member. But she will improve as she grows older."

Mr. Hervey spent the summer at Winfield. He was reviving the proof-sheet of a theological volume, and liked the quiet and seclusion of the little village.

Perhaps, too, he liked something else about it. At all events, although he did not make the parsonage his home, he spent a good aeal of his time there. "Theo," he said one day—they had become fast friends by this time—"you have tasted so many of the petty trials and annoyances of being a minister's daughter that I wonder if you would ever consent to be a ministers wife?" "Well" said Theo, half laughing, half blushing, "it would depend a great deal upon who the minister was." "Suppose it were Henry Hervey?" "Do you really mean it said Theo, suddenly growing grave. "It is strange, Isn't it," said be, "that I should lose my heart to audi a little termagant aa you proved yourself the first day I ever saw you? But it la a foregone conclusion—I am entirely at your mercy. Sweet Theo, will you be my wife?"

And Theo placed her hand in hia with a lovely look of awe and happiness, and answered: "I will I"

Deacon Powers could not comprehend it all. "If be marries such a high tempered girl aa that," said the deacon, "he doea it at his peril. Why, I never waa so berated in my life aa I waa that day at the parsonage." "Bat, pa," said the deacon's daughter, "every woman finds her master sooner or later. Now. I think Theodora Reed has found hers."

From almost every •action of the State come reports of a general improvement of the health of our people, due no donbt to the influence of Dr. Ball"* Cough Syrup. .*

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now that I have thought the matter over in anew light, that a minister's family must be sadly pestered with voluntary uests. Pray think no more of it, Miss

AndPhe spoke frankly and pleasantly that Theo became quite at her ease, while he carved the chicken, and she piepared the crisp lettuce and limpid oil for the

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEN IJS1G MAIL,

DOCTORS AND DOCTORING.

IS THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE

"BAR

BAROUS JARGON

[London Troth.]

Do we believe in doctors Whether we do or not, we generally send for tbem when we are ill. Still, if I were asked my opinion, I should say the profession is largely over-crowded. Physic is hugely overdone. Half the complaints people—especially idle peoplesuffer from are imaginary.

I do not deny that men and women get ill, and occasionally die, but I hold that, in a vast number of eases, a doctor is unnecessary at first, and quite helpless at least—that is, so far as his physic is concerned, and I have pretty good authority for what I say.

Sir William Jenner has the courage to declare that "the science of medicine is a barbarous jargon—every dose of medicine is a blind experiment!" When the great Majendie assumed the Professor's Chair of Medicine at the College of France, he thus addressed thapastonished students: "Gentlemen, medicine is a humbug. Who knows anything about medicine I tell you frankly, I don't. Nature does a good deal doctors do very little—when they don't do harm." Majendie went on to tell the following pungent little professional tale out of school: "When I was bead physician at the Hotel Dieu I divided the patients into three sections. To one I gave the regulation way to the other I gave bread, milk and colored water, and to the third section I gave nothing at all. Well, gentleman, every one of tho third section got well. Nature invariably came to the rescue."

Now, of course, we must allow something lor the obtrusive candor of professional confession—which is always apt to overleap the mark and give the opponent a few more points than he asks for, really for the Bake of placing him at a disadvantage. Still, there is truth in the candid jest, if jest it be and the truth is this: The doctor is often superfluous, sometimes mischievous, and occasionally fatal. Physicking, as Sir William Jenner (quoted by Dr. Ridge) admits, is largely a speculative operation. The ingenious "doseist," as Artemus Ward would say, has theories about what is the matter with you he physics according to his theory, and then physics to correct his theory. This he calls "changing the treatment." 'Wrong again Try back alter diet then physic away at the new diet. Wrong again Patient gets worse. Perhaps it Is change of air, not change of food he wantsbright idea! send him out of town. Off he goes into the country forgets to take his physic feels better gets well doctor looks bland, nods his head and says: "Told you so change of air—that's what you wanted." What he really wanted was to be let alone. Leave off worrying Nature—that is what is required and that is probably what Majendie and Jenner and all the wise doctors think. They aim at diet and discipline—tbey assist, they do not try to force, Nature's hand—and they every now and then admit this in a burst of confidence#

There is another dubious side of the question. Doctors oiten say to you, Be sure you come to me at once. 1 can arrest disease at an early stage but delay—hesitate hesitate j—ana you are lost!" This is just one of those danger ous ifalf-truths where doctois dd such no small advantage. If you call the doctor in for eveiy little ailment, you will get into an artificial state. Nature will strike work, and you will never be well without the doctor—nor with hiifeeither.

you always take opiates, will sleep without them or tonics, you will never eat withou them or stimulants, you will never work without them.

Not only do we often begin too soon, but we go on too long with the doctor. He calls and calls again he refines his prescription until Its graduations of efficacy are quite imperceptible, but they are just enough to keep nature in leading strings and to make each step dependent upon the therapeutic art.

Of course, I admit that there are many cases to which these remarks are wholly Inapplicable. Bronchitis, incipient cancer and others, both functional and organic—to take these in time may be everything. There are cases v» here the diagnosis of a good physician is simply invaluable his hints about food are not to be neglected, yet tbey should be taken, perhaps, cumgrano, and checked by personal experience. There are cases, too, where codliver oil, quinine and one or two other drugs are absolute specifics. Who can not realize Dr. Livingstone's gloomy consciousness of having signed his own death warrant when he determined to go forward after losing his medicine chest of quinine in the river?

THE REPEATED SERMON At one time, when the writer was pastor of the Summerfield church, the Rev. Heman Bangs waa the presiding elder. His appointment to preach was for Easter Sunday. He came and preached an admirable and appropriate discourse on the resurrection of Christ. At the close Mrs. Anna Knapp, a widow of fourscore years and a daughter of the Rev. Smith Arnold, one of the pioneers, came to the altar, and in hearing of the writer thus addressed "Uncle Heman," as the venerable preacher was affectionately called by those who had known him long: "Brother Bangs, I enioyed your sermon very much. 1 heard you preach it forty years ago, I liked it then. I heard you preach it again about twenty-three years ago, and it was good then, and to-day it was as good all ever." Uncle Hemau, with that look which those who saw it will never forget—of mingled good-humor and a quizzical spirit—replied: "Well, Sister Knapp, has there oeen any change in the fasts about the resureciion of our Lord in the last forty years If it was good the first time you neard it why should it not'be just aa good now?" Said the old lady: "Well, prother Bangs, we shall soon be where you yvon't have to make an argument to prove it, as you did to-day Neither their piety nor the infirmity of old age had dulled their wits.

SHARP CHICAGO QIRL. Boston Girl: I understand you Chicago young ladies have large feet." dnieago Girl: "Yea, onr feet are quite large, but we don't have to wear our garters above the knee to keep tbem from falling off aa yon Boston girlsdo."

Happy Though* in the Night. For years Mr. Jaa. R, Ackley, of i83 Ww* Fayette street, Baltimore, had suffered with neurmlgia ao that be could hardlyaleep. Buthewri tea. "Oner I waa Buffering very much, and the thought struck me thai Brown's Iron Bittera would do me some good, andperhapa care me. It was a happy thought, and to my great jo/ it has rati rely *wed ooe alter using two botUea. Aft** three month* have had ntf itttrn of the symptoms. I cbeerfaliy recommend tt aa tee beat tonic I have ever Neuralgia sulfcrera lake the hint!

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THE MACHINE METHOD IN THE SCHOOLS.

TO FAIL IN A SINGLE STUDY IS TO MISS PROMOTION AND BE ABUSED AS A DUNCE.

Detroit Free Press.

Class in Geography stand up. Now, who can tell me who was King of the Cannibal Islands 400 years ago What? can no one answer this gravely important question Is it possible that you have knowingly kept yourselves in the dark on a point which may one day decide the fate of the nation Very well the whole class will stay for aa hour after school as a punishment.

The "B" class in geography will please arise and come forward for trial and sentence. Now, then, in what direction from San Francisco are the Mangrove Islands? What! can no one answer? And you boys expect to grow up and become business men, and you girls to become wives, and yet don't know whether the Mangrove Islands are north, east or southwest of San Francisco! I shall send the boys up to the principal to be thrashed, and the girls will have no recess.-

The class in history will now take the prisoners' box and tell the jury whether sunflower seeds are among the exports of Afghanistan. No answer? None of you posted on this momentous question? Two thirds of you on the point of leaving school to mingle in the busy scenes of life, and yet you do not know whether Afghanistan exports sunflower seeds or grind stones! for five years I have labored here as a teacher, and now I find that my work has been thrown away. Go to your seats aad I will think up some mode of punishment befitting your crime.

The advanced class in mathematics will now step forward. One Of you please step to the blackboard and Illustrate the angular rectangle northeast corner of a quadrangle. What? No one in ail this class able to make that simple illastralion James and John and Joseph and Henry, you expect to become metchants, and Mary and Kate and Nancy and Sarah, you are old euough to be married, and yet you confess your ignorance of angular rectangle qaadrangles before the whole school! John, suppose you become a wholesale grocer. Do you expect to buy tea and sugar and coffee and spices, and sell the same again without reference to quadrangles? Mary, suppose you go to the store to buy four yaras of factory at ten cents a yard. How are you going to be certain that you have not been cheated if you cannot figure the right angle of a triangle? Ah, me! I might as well resign my position and go home, and die, for the next generation will be so Ignorant that all educated persons will feel themselves strangers and outcasts.

YO UNO WOMAN'S UESTIONS. [Mrs. Winslow, in the Alpha.] A lady signing herself "Nora" wishes to know "if disparity in the ages of husband and wife, say from twelve to fourteen years, will affeot offspring injuriously 2. How, in this generalion, is a pureminded young girl to know if the man of her choice is truly congenial? 3. Can you give a girl, that desires to be sensible and regards the marriage relation as sacred, some plain, practical hysical) rules by which she may test the man who offers her his heart and hand?

Well, Nora, these are sensible and ractical questions. We are glad you ave felt tlieir importance so deeply as to seek knowledge on these subjects.

First, inform yourself thoroughly and settle your mind as to your duty la this relation to yourself, your husband, and last, but by no means least, your duty to offspring.

Great disparity in years between married couples is certainly undesirable. It makes some difference] on which side, the husband or the wife being the older. Generally women area little older at the same age than men. (Why this is so, we cannot say, unless it be the "little health" of women, as"a result of bad habits, bad dressing, too much exclusion from sunlight and pure air, and the ridiculous practice of using only the upper half of the lungs in breathing, all of which is under our own coutrol, and must not be charged to Providence.)

Much of the disadvantage to offspring from disparity in years of parents must depend upon age, habits, health and temperament. We have observed that the children of old and feeble men with young wives are not as vigorous they are pale and delicate. It is supposed they are not as long-lived and have less power to resist disease and less recuperative energy.

The second question* is not easily an swered. If young women could always study their lovers' characters without a glamor of passion or partiality, there are many signs that might lead to correct conclusions. If he is chaste in his conversation, generous in his sentiments, clean in bis personal habits, selfrespecting without egotism, and willing to wait patiently for favors until he has earned them by frankly showing his heart and life without reserve to the woman he would marry, and if you are strongly attracted to him it would be safe to trust such a one. These rules of frankness and truthfulness apply equally to the young lady who is sought after and should be conscientiously observed.

A reliable help and guide in reading character ia to study the atmosphere everybody carries about with him, an atmosphere or aura of his own, which is an emanation made up of bis character and acta in everyday life.

Women are especially endowed with a faculty called intuition, the gift of seeing and knowing things. It is, according to Dr. Evans, "the knowledge we derive from the universal soul or mind." We don't know exactly how we know certain things, but we know tbem, and if we give need to this intuition it will lead eventually to the right way and the right conclusions. But, like conscience, or the striking of an alarm clock, if habitually unheeded, it falls througn neglect into disuse, and our sense oeaae to take cognizance of its promptings or warnings. All persons living pure lives have this faculty more or lees developed, and it should be our unerring guide in all important matters of life, especially in the most important of all, that of chooaing a companion, to occupy themostintimateof all relatione. It is not right for persona to reason or force themselves into marriage relations in violation of the promptiogs of intui tion. If there is intuitive

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or a consciousness that your heart ia not wholly satisfied, If yon are not quite content in the presence of such a friend and he doea not appeal to your highest and best self, beware.

Oeneral debility, female weakness, foes of physical power, Bright'a Disease, mad nervous diseases, are speedily cured by finnt's Remedy.

To encourage sleep, creste an a brace up the system, and to pa blood, take the unfailing Hunt' ney and liver] Remedy.

A FASHIONABLE DINNER IN NEW YORK. [Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer.]

A dinner party in New York's fashionable quarter means something more than merely putting food before guests and letting them eat and run off somewhere else. It involves, if the dinner be up to th6 standard, a profuse decoration of the rooms with flowers and confection pieces, the distribution of bouquets and favors to each guest, and the general entertainment of the party until such time as it breaks up. So much of preparation does it involve that many persons prefer to take guests to Delmonico's or the Brunswick, or to some other place where they are in the business. Or it may be that the Fifth-ave-nue resident may decide to give his entertainment at his own home, and may put the entire charge of it in the hands of Delmonico, who will furnish everything that is to be used, and will cart it away next day. He limits the expense to so many hundred dollars, and Delmonico's assistants do the rest.

Oftener, however, the fifth aveuue man has a ohef to whom he gives a large salary, and of whom he is very proud, and he tabes an especial pride in the dinner and its surroundings. He loads the table with flowers,andne puts them on the walls in greatest profusion. There is a trick in setting a wide dinner table by laying a strip of mirror lengthwise down the center and fringing it heavily with flowers. It has then the appearance of being a miniature lake, ana the gaslight dancing on it gives off most beautiful effects. Then there are half a dozen confection pieces, worth (10 each, either on the table or looking down upon it from brackets on the wall. They, too, are decorated with flowers indeed, in dining-rooms, the flowers form the chief item of expense, so lavishly are they used.

Nine time out of ten when the guests march Into the banquet hall they do to the soft strains of an orchestra stationed in an ante-room or hidden behind shrubbery in the back ball or the parlor extension. Then come the two or three hours required to do justice to the twelve courses and the ten kinds of wines. The ps ty gets very merry and confidential at the end of the first hour, 8nd quite hilarious and noisy at the end of the second, and almost paralyzed and incoherent at the close of the third. All hands, from the host down, are convinced that it is the finest dinner of the season, and afresh supply of champagne is ordered to clinch the conviction.

At midnight.the orchestra is yet at work. Half a dozen persons are trying to waltz in the parlors, and the host is urging the gentlemen to slip back to the table for just one more taste of benedictine or brandy. The flowers are torn down to be taken away as favors, and the confections have been smashed to pelt one another with the pieces. By one o'clock they have all gone. The host surveys the wreck and goes to bed. Next day he gets his bill. It looks something like this: Florist, for flowers and services in decorating $200 Orchestra, ten pieces 50 Confections. 00 Dinner for 15, with wine at 820 a plate 300 Extra waiters.. 15 Extra wine 25 Miscellaneous expenses 20

Total 9&T0

And to the furnisher of every thing save the music, the profit is more than 100 per cent. But the host cares not. He has given a successful dinner, and bis guests talk about him for a day at least.

WHAT TO EfAl.

Apropos of the st/bject of eatfagVthe editor of Hall's Journal of Health says: "We eat for warmth and strength, hence almost all articles of food have both these elements have carbon to warm, and nitrogen to strengthen, to gower to work. Butter, sugar, and oils are almost all carbon. All breads and grains are mainly carbon. Meats, flesh of all kinds, abound in nitrogen. Food which has mopt nitrogen is most 'nutricious.' Butter has eighty-three per cent of nitrogen. Milk contains two parts of warmth and one of strength. Bread contains one part of nitrogen and eight of carbon. It is thus seen that in reference to eating, carbon—which is charcoal fuel—and warmth are one and the same thing while nitrogen—which is in effect salt petre—gives flesh or muscle, which are ooe and the same thing in substance with strength, showing that it takes more to keep us warm timn to keep us strong. A sedentary person requires in round numbers about one pound of food a day, while a hard-working man requires two pounds this two pounds of food gives out power enough—as steam in an engine gives out power—to raise a man of average weight eleven miles high. But calllag the two pounds 5,000 grains, only 300 grains of it are nitrogen, the remainder carbon: that is, sixteen times more of warmth is required than of strength producing food. One practical result is, that as the world becomes more thickly populated, the necessity increas esof economizing food of adapting it to the various needs oz the system as modified by age, sex, occupation and season. Person living indoors Bhould not eat more than half as much as those who work hard. Less warming food should be eaten in hot weather than in cold. If we eat an excess of warming food in hot weather we have to work it out of the system at a great expenditure of strength and until it is worked off we feel full and feverish and oppressed on the other hand, in winter we reauire quantity of warming hence our instincts lead to eat healtily

an additional of warming food, id to eat healtily rk, buckwheat cakes, and butter, of pork, buckwheat cakes, and butter, ana molasses, which are almost purely carbon. In warm weather we need cooling food, and Providence sends us in profusion the fruits and the berries, and the green things, which have no carbon at all and while our appetite for them is ravenous the very idea of fatty food is nauseating."

Mishler'8 Herb Bitters cures cholera morbus, and thus gets the better of the complair every time. Samuel Anderson, a blacksmith, living three miles from Springfield, O., writes: "I was taken with a severe attack of cholera morbus—no severe that I was unable to straighten myself. After taking two doses of your Bittern I was entirely cared.?

A TOUCHING SCENE. [New York Sun.] "There was apathetic scene on a train on the western division of the Erie, Wednesday," said a conductor on that train to a Sun reporter. "A woman boarded the train at Orlean. She carried in her arms a baby but a few weeks old» It was very cross and peevish and defied all its nurse's efforts to keep it quiet. Its cries were at times so loud and piercing that the other passengers could not hide their annoyance, and after a while audible expressions of their feelings came from all parts of the car. The woman was patient under the double trial of the child's troublesomeness and the evident knowledge of the annoyance it was to her fellow passengers. She talked soothingly to the child, placed it ia all positions, and tried so to arrange its wrappings as to, in a measure, deaden the sound of its cries. Finally some one in the car, whose patience had got the better ot his sympathy, shouted out: 'If that child can't be quiet, I hope it may be removed from the car at the next station.'

This unfeeling remark seemed to meet with general approval, and the

to her and sobbed violently. She soon recovered herself, and redoubled her efforts to keep the child quiet. For a short time she succeeded somewhat, but presently^(he cries of the baby were as oud and prolonged as ever. At last a man arose and said sharply: "'Madam, it would seem to me that the mother of an Infant should know how to take at least half care of it.'

The train bad now stopped at Salamanca. At the remark of the second speaker the woman arose in her seat, abd, facing the car full of passengers, said, in a voice trembling 'I am not this poor thing's mother. I never saw it before yesterday, and I believe I hasn't a living relative. Its father was killed on a railroad a week before it was born. Its mother, living in a distant place, hurried to the scene of her husband's death. The child was born among Btraugers, and day before yesterday the mother died, leaving her little one with no one to care for it. I lived in the house where the mother died, and volunteered to do what I could for the poor little thing, and to go with the dead woman's remains to ber native place. Her body is on this train. I am sorry the child is so troublesome, but isn't it entitled to some little sympathy "The effect of the woman's words may be imagined. There were few dry eyes in the car when

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A FJ$ST1VE GANDER.S, *. [Maryland Journal.] A lively air on a violin will sometimes set a whole flock of geese wild with delight. On one occasion at a country wedding I was a witness of a curious performance by one of these animals. After dinner a lady entertained the guests assembled on a lawn with music from an accordion. A flock of geese were feeding in the road just below the bouse, snd with outstretched necks answered back with notes of satisfaction. Soon a white gander commenced dancing a lively jig, keeping good time to the music. For several minutes he kept up the performance to the great delight of the company. The experiment was tried several times for a week or more, and the tones of the accordlen never failed to set th6 old gande^ into a lively dance. "ft? "i ^.

ANOTHER PROBLEM SOLVED. Sarah: "Who would have thought there were so many?"

Jane—"Many what, dearie?" "The paper says there are 13,501,20J milch eows in tho United States." "Milch cows? What kind of cows are they "Cows that give milk. I thought

everybody knew that." "Oh! of coarse, I forgot, kind arejCftlled oxen."

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YOUTHFUL INDULGENCE in Pernicious Practices pursued in Solitude. is a most startling cause of nervous and General Debility, lack of Self-confidenceaad Will Power, Impaired Memory, Despondency, and other attendants of wrecked manhood. Sufferer* should add rasa, with three letter postage stamps, for large Illustrated treatlss, pointlngout unfailing means of perfect care, WORLD'S DISPEJISART MEDICAL. ASSOCIATION, BUFEALO.JT^Y^J

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bing, into her neat. All selfishness was lost in sympathetic thoughts of the desolate little wanderer, aud a ecore hands that a moment before were almost willing to raise in chastisement of the babe, were now anxious to extend aid to it and its self-sacrificing guardian. It was a touch of nature tnat makes the whole world kin."

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rNERVOUS TOOTHACHE. To relieve ordinary nervous toothache ic is recommended to take a very hot bath, which is calculated to quiet the nerves and be soon followed by restful sleep. Hot, dry flannels applied to the face and neck will often relieve the "jumping" toothache.

ADVICE TO CONSUMPTIVES. On the appearance of the first symptoms, as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor, chilly sensations, followed by night-aweats and cough, prompt measures of relief should be iak®n» Consumption is scrofulous disease of the lungs therefore use the great anti-scrofulous or blood-purifier and strength-restorer,

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