Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 October 1888 — Page 3

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

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rRESULTS COINED BY MEK ©FcGENIUS AND OF PUBLIC INTEREST.

I PHtMr's Ineieetlgmti*me of Pm—untiM BaetcrU and Hicrobci That H*ee«ef .JLet* Beero Conecckd by the Medlral iStpfc*•Ion to Be oftfinal UnportMee.

The fame of ILiXjOQis Pasteur, woeeepor•qftait is here prorated, unlike tbatrf tasmj *a skillful scientist, is not confined ioitbe •eircle of bis protfeational brethren, lrat«x4mdi among the ^people all over the world. IQiis is perhaps, is4onw measure, dnetoihii later researches sad ducoreriei on tfce pre•ration by inoculation of hydropho bia. But the* .are yet not so univvergaily accepted AS to equal in practical importance his work in many other directions, though they have fceen strongly indorsed by eminent pfeysiologists and pffcgrsiciana. Aside from his method of treating the ter-

LOCie PARTKun. ribU malady already referred to, W. Pasteur's Investigations have beeuHjf immense value. He is credited with having vanquished at the beginning of his career disease of silkworm* which at one time tbw-ntcned to ruin the silk industry of Europe. py means of inoculation he has provided suhftantial protection against the dreaded dinsfi of anthrax in cattta. The preservation at wine or beer, by destroying microbes with artificial heat, is his invention, now extensively t»ed and everywhere known under the name of Pasteurisation.

It is hardly txttessary to add that it is to tho study of ferwonts, bacteria, microbes *od the like that Pasteur appears to have «feiefly directed his efforts, and as these organlanis ore of late conceded to possess an importance beforo unappreciated in medical 0dmm, M. Pasteur's work ii Justly regarded by laymen and professionals alike as of great interwt to human kind.

Experiment la Capillary Attraction. Capillary attraction, though a most subtile force, may lie illustrated by exceedingly simple experiments. A modification of a striking one employed by Faraday for this purpose In popular lectures is described, in substance, by 8d«otifla American as follows:

GLunrriuTioft or CAPILLARY ATTRACTION. The apparatus includes a plate, funnel and India rubber balloon. The balloon should bo Inflated to its largest slso and kept so for •omo time to stretch tho rubber well. Tho glass funnel should bo as largo a» possible. Tho funnel is filled completely and a little abovo tho rim with perfectly dry salt well pulverised nud pressed In na hard as jiossiblo. Tho plato is then placed over its mouth so os to bear oral nut tho salt, and the wbolo is inverted. Tho mouth of tho balloon, whenco tho air has been expelled, is now sprung over tho open end of the funnel, as shown in tho cut A saturated solution of salt should 1* ready. This is mado by shaking in a hottlo an excess cf salt with water of ordinary temperature. A little coloring matter, such as any ink solublo In water, Is added.

The solution Is now jxHireil into tho pinto so as to ri»o above the edgo of tho funnel and keep It immersed. It at once rises through tlio salt, coloring It os it ascends. As fnst as It risen it of course loaves tho plato. llenco tho experimenter must m«ko repeated additions of solution. As the fluid rises it drives out the air beforo It This would escape from the moutli of tho funnel but the balloon which has been placed there Intercepts its escape. Tho ulr enters and rapidly inflates it The pressure thus produced (.«slight It cannot do more than just fill tho balloon. It cannot distend it But by having tho balloon well strotclwd, its inflation eon be made quite conspicuous.

The PlMterlns of Vino.

Since the preot reductions In the amount of wines manufactured in tho Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, tho inferior wines of the central departments of France ore being substituted for them, and recourse is had to chemical addition far the purpose of increasing their ttuxkrl value. So important is this matter considered that tho question whether tlte plastering of wine Is injurious to public health cr not i« now being discussed by tho Academy of Medicine at Paris. Tho plasterIns of wine, explains Science, consists in adding sulphate of lim^after tho first fermentation. The advantages told to bo gained by the use of sulphate of limo are, that fermentation is grsatly increased, is more rapid and complete, the color is brighter and more permanent, and the wine will keep for a much lotger period. The objections are that the uh'.iUoa of sulphato of limo COOMB ohetnicsU change® that render tho wine injurious to heevitU.

A report of tho progress thus far made ta Its inquiry by the academy makes it evident that jJi cml wines have occasioned functional i.. jbk» and orgaoio injuries.

In tvj?ar\l to the abolition of plastering, the hygknio committee are not cm scats in tbeir decision. It »the opinion ..t a moderate plastering necessary for tho atttix* tion, prtJKH-rotion, and transportation of a certain class of the poorer grades of wine, whose loss would l« cdMnw thing for the wine Bat pnxluccrs and merchants are warned that, If they should continue the practice,, the proportfan of acid sulphate should not exceed two grams per

This proportion Is nficieat to obtain commcrdal advantages for which the lime Is used. ii. Marts calls attention to thefattt that natural wines never ^-rT-a more than 6M00 a gram of the of potash per Utm Tho hyjrtcnisCs oo this side do not Iga the fact Out stfa» do**, IwJ If It It Wft-cji 1- WUI cert&i&iy Injure pnbUc health, la oaa» cfairioa, the mem-. iyg It ae Its imanl•BOW omntott tL^. ph^rtng srine WH a 1 to heslth

Data of Uw OwMitaa

According to Sew Ttetameat cLrooetegy was urucift*! April S, A. 0.3if •ooord to ». ntoa, April li, A. IX 89 aad moaapL-i to —-Jee, Maixsh 8^ A. IX SL It is to adhere to the Jlew

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THE O0MSBITY 8H0f».

Veritable W«nm Mko IBat lertaai fMl 4mr Small Animals. The bookworm 4s. doubtiess. a fact tGroat dostructimi tan bsea wrought to valuable books by this aaiasaL Volumes whleb ore allowed to remaia«a«he shelves of lebrartes unused for many years are liable to the ravages of the bookworm. The fallowing ifrom London Notes aad Queries on the sabjec* will give some of our readers some light:

Various animals, pepalarly known as hookworms. are found ta paper, leather end parchment The larvs of Angkwa piitquinalis iso railed from its Xseding on butter a*»d lanb will aoabiish itaelf upon the binding a book and. spinning a rahe, will do it no little injury, so does aim a minute iieetle at the family of sroiytiilae (Hypothenemu* era ditifl. Westwcwul/, whieh Sir. Westwood fouml burrowing in the same situation. A mite iCbeySettw eniditum eate the paste that fastens the pa|«r over the edges of the binding, and so loosen* it The caterpillar of another moth, the species of which is not ascertained, takes its station ia damp old books, (between tbe leaves, and tbene eommits great ifavagea Tbe little wood boring beetle (Auoliinm pertinax and striatum) also attacks books, and will even bone lb rough sev volumes. 4L Peignot meau'oas an in soance where, in a library bet little freqaented, twenty-seven folio voivmes weri pertfurated in a straight line by the same inapct Jn sucb a manner that on passing a string through the perfectly round feole made by it .these twenty-seven volumes eould be raised At onca

The Middle Age*.

The "middle ages" is a term of ro definite period, but varies somewhat with almost every nation. Generally, it may bo regarded as including a period of about one thousand years, or from tho Fifth to tho end of the Fifteenth century or, if reckoned by events, as extending from tbe subversion of the Roman empire, and tbe transfer of tbe imperial dignity from Rome to Cou tantinople (A. D. 476) to the outbreak of the Reformation (A. O. 1523). Hallam, in his "History of tbe Middle Ages," says: "It is not possible to fix aceurate limits to the middle ages, bat, though tka ten centuries from tbe Fifth to the Fifteenth seem, in a general point of view, to constitute that period, a less arbitrary division was necessary to render the commence-

Wales' Crest.

Tho crest and motto of the Prince of Wales were obtained in the following wnyi The lattlo of Ctvcy was fought between the Eng lish under King Edward III and the French under King Philip VL Tho French outnumbered the English thrco to one, and the Prince of Wales, who was leading the charge (ho was then only 13 years old), sent to his father for re-onforcementa Tho king refused to send them, saying that his son "must win his spurs." Upon this the prince and his soldiers charged again and completely routed the Freuch. Tbe blind King John of Bohemia, who was fighting on tho French side, was killed as ho rodo between two cavaliers, with his horse tied to theirs so that thoy could guide him. As tbe custom was, bis crest of three ostrich feathers and his motto, "Ich dieu" (I serve), was given to tho young prince who bod conquered him, aud ever since this bos been the motto and crest of the Priuce of Wales, it is said that canr.oti were first used at the tattle of Crecy by tho English.

Canadian flonmlary.

Tho boundary line between 0 tida and the Uuit*«! .States is, for many mu„s imagina ry, running as it does through tbe centers cf the great lakes of Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Tho Uno of the river St Lawrence is tho boundary tor some distance, then opposite tho town of Cornwall It strikes di rect cost till it reaches tbe United States frontier on tbe ct&to of Maine. This frontier was settled with the United States government in t$41 by Lord Ash burton. There is an idea indulged by some Canadians that the present state of Maine was meant to bo included in Canada. The t*iniary line along this frontier is marked by iron poe&, about three feet high, and plaenl about a mile apart In the co araf' -sly now c. v, Manitoba and ttr. imbia, the mfj line is more recent, and is, in some parts, marked •v'nh ir~n posts. In others with woof' ones tw ut down, leaving stamps five high) with "U. on United States and on tho Oa»ia-....-i sida.

Wc»cM or Coti»«.

T*--' we»r^t» of silver coins of tbe On olSfc aceor to tbe latest report of tho director of tbe United States mint are u-: Tit 'Hlar, 412^ erair*. 4 3 0 I I "the"t. vf dc: v.\ A tto*qfw*rter'~»Uar, -r.m, tLn—

So it will be obacrved t: -,t oae-tetitb fx all the coins alloy.

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Creole is a corruption of the v. word Criotlo, signifying one born Indks or America of European ancestors. It is it or a trot sand uuuj ptrai of all its *ioation does not im of Airlcan Uood.

Tbe bor--"1 «f fr—» w!r^b eame tbe royal :ses .. we,.- ..dnr 5apka, im its tbe Arrhambands, wtds of B0«iw4.ibUT|.

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the period France by Clovis (A. D. 409) to that of Naples by Charles VIII (1495." For his purpose this might bo advisable, but for common use there is little advantage in any sucb arbitrary restriction. Tbe term must be accepted for convenience rather than precision, and to understand it as comprising one thousand years, from tbo end of tbe Fifth to tho beginning of tbo Sixteenth century, is, for all or Ulnary purposes, sufficient

A Great Discoverer.

Nikolaus Copernicus was born in Thorn, Poland, Feb. 10, 1748. He was brought up by his uncle, the Bishop of ErmelamL After studying medicine at tbe University of Cracow he went to Italy, studied astronomy at Bologna, and then taught mathematics in Rome, where ho became famous. When 80 years old bo went to Frauenburg, in Prussia, where be prosecuted his astronomical studies with renewed vigor. He soon saw that the way of explaining the movements of the heavenly bodies then taught in the schools was all wrong that the sun does not move around tbe earth, as other astronomers believed, but that the sun was the center around which tho earth and tho other planets revolved. Ho wrote a book about this, but he did not publish it for many years for fear of boing persecuted. It is said that tbe first copy of bis book was put into his bands the very day ho died, May tM, 154.1 Very few people then believed what ho wrote, but now he is honored tbe world over as one of tbe greatest men who over lived, and tbe principle bo taught 1s called the Copornican system.

YOUNG Foils' OOUDIN.

AMUSEMENT AND «N8TfH*CTtON FOR OUR YOUTHFUL READERS.

All About tbe ExeJttag Oasae little N'ag Tail.** fTWek joyed by English Bojw tar Oat

Sport. ^..1In tbe game of "Jump, iittfe Nag TaH.* an Snglisli pastime, tbe players are divided .into two sides there ought not to be mom (than six or seven on each side

FO*P. LITTLE RAO TAIL.

One party enacts the nags, and the other represents the riders. One boy stands against a wall, or a post, or a gate, with bis face towards It and the next to him leans bis bead against the first, the third against the second, and so on, until all the nags are in position. Or tbe first nag may sit down on a bench, as shown in theengraving, the second laying his bead in bis fellow nag's lap The first of the riders takes a short run and a spring, as at leap frog, and must manage to get as far forward as possible on the row of nags. The second then follows him, and the third, until all ore mounted. Then, the first rider must say, "Jump, little Nag Tail, one, two, three and this he repeats three times, adding after the third repetition, "Off, off, off," when, suiting the action to the word, the riders dismount and become nags in their turn, to be backed' by those who just now carricd them. If, however, one of the nags should break down or touch the earth with bands or knees be or it a a as be

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A piccolo not yet registered at the patent office may be made by any one as follows: Taken good sound cork, with as few holes or cracks in it as possiblo. By placing this against the teeth, holding it tightly between tho lips, and playing upon it with tho bowl ends of two teaspoons, a very singular imitation of a piccolo or small flute will be produced. Tho tuue should be fancied by tbe player, and a quick air will bo found most effective. flow to Bl&Jto a Brldgo cf Knives.

Place three glasses distant from each other about tho length of ono of tho knives you iutend to use, so as to form a triangular figure,.

A BUtDQB OF KJIVK8.

Now arrange threo knives upon them, in the manner shown In the illustration: that is, let the blade of No. 1 pass over that of No. &, and the blade of tbo latter croei over that of No. 8, which in like manner meat rest upon No. 1, they will thus support each other and tho bridge will be complete.

OnsdnAl Adviec.

"Help yourself, help yourself, little boy—do Dost wait for others to wait apoa you." Grandma was hnlrting her afternoon chat, Knitting and king away as sbe sat "Lookatttettras,bo«rthcgrbuUd their own nest 1 Watch the brown bees, always toiling their best! Puty trowntu- to ta{U» plow if yoa'd thrive TV-:. „OBt you: r.rnnta to wishing, but strive."*

In her face .•! a mischievous elf -imt forget.darting satdsbe, "beipymnetf." Afternoon i* lows grow drowsy aad deep Grandma raoquflly folded In sleep Not I wax hi bat tbf farm boose dock Plot——g al-*^" -.:hl**wft "tick! toe*r** Out froaa t.' raatty then .-an-.o loud crab 7v T- •.tbetieartnBkeaOasfe. ••••.- to So this practical boy. 06c*:-'5 to ty ean -.Mfd, aad oy. Orb G.tw«r*~? "FMA ItenpsettbeaMft On atnd -1 1 did belp myself." —Harper^* T«aaf Peopie.

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MuQnlto a B: easing ta Dkfnta*. Ina recent'v i.vered in India on that hr.~~ Luosqoita, Mr. H. S. es it appear by no means tbo ed a anew it is ooiaQy oooddered. Mr. ii na iismte ttet only tL- tanale mosqnl does tbe biting. In aptoiao tamq: banmt awful peat, sevencighths at ics eilstet we being deroteil to the aerrtaeof men aad only una tighlh to their aas- ytoax It extea ia the larval state twenty-one dara, and dcring that period an* in aa&ltary work with ardor a&dtbor-

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nags feels his strength giving way, he may cry "Weak horse," and the riders must instantly dismount, and tho game begins again. If they do not get off immediately on the cry of "weak horse" being raised, the riders have to become nags.

Instructive Facts About Railways. There arts 157,(JOJ miles of railway in the United States, which cost fO,000,000,000, and give employment to more than 1,000,000 people.

The longest American railway tunnel is tbe Hoosao tunnel. The highest railway bridge in the United States is the Kinzua viad^ct^ on the Erie road, 805 feet high. 1

A steel rail with average wear lasts about eighteen years. The cost of a high class passenger locomotive is about $8,500, and of a palace sleeping car from #15,000 to $17,000. ,-f

Guinea Pigs.

The guinea pig, which is regarded by some as a fancy pot, was so called, it is humorously stated, because, if held up by the tail, a guinea will drop out of its mouth—a joke arising from the fact that it has not a vestige of a tail by which it could be suspended. Like most animals that have long been domesticated, thoy have sported into numerous colors and varieties. One of tbo most recent is a long haired kind, absurdly called Abyssinian, tho guinea pig being, in a wild state, a native of South America.

A Newly Invented Plccola

Wberwar tbara is dirty water, there is filthy drain, there tbe larval are to be fomsd in hundreds,

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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

Senahfne. Fresh Atr aad «m Ratlw tbs Oreatest Eteetorers of tbe Kervee. Shirley Dare, a writer well known on many topics that interest womankind, has recently considered tbe subject of "nerves" in a manner both interesting and helpfnL In answer to the question, "How shall we control the nerves so as not to make bad worse in the enaP* sbe says: By means simple and old as nature, the warm, sedative bath, or tbe cool, not cold, one, as preferred, by breathing purest air, by delicate, nutritive food, and, most of all. by the great, safe magnetizer -and healer, tbe power of the sun. It may be necessary to renew every drop of blood and ntom of tbe body, but tbe result is priceless. Rest in the open air and mild sunshine is the test hypnotism for nerves. A rattan lounge es a porch or by an open window, where the sun may foil on the lightly dad person, tho bead being shaded, is the best euro for spinal or neuralgic ailments.

The liquid foods sold so largely are valuable in tbe beginning, as they lighten the work of digestion, and one gets a very pretty complexion using them. Bromides and nerve compelling drugs should be gradually left off tor hot salt water baths, which are tho best nerve tonics after pure air and sun. Sleeping when sleepy is an excellent prescription, and nervous folk often feel sleepy by 5 or (5, and would insure good rest by going to bed then as quickly as possible. It is no mon than the divas of the opera do, on off nights, to keep tL'eir nerves and oomplexions. Eat iug little and of en, as ono feels like it, is a good rulo for nervous women, who often starve themselves into chronic disability to digest.

The best massage for nerves is gentle, firm rubbing with the light band of a healthy, bright eyed, clear compiexioned nurse, 6ucb as Sir Andrew Clark is careful to select for his patients. A sponge bath, followed by r.killful massage, will relieve the worst at tack of nerves. In short, being as comfortable as circumstances allow is the very best advice to be given in nerve diseases.

Intelligent nervous treatment is the best cosmetic course to be recommended, for the ucrves write their condition in tbe face, and tho cross patching of fine lines they leave when disordered is fatal to beauty. Yet wrinkles disappear with health like writing by invisible ink. The tenderest, wisest, finest of mankind have been intensely nervous men and women.

Treatment for Roll* and Carbuncles. M. Verneuil, of the French Academy of Medicine, has proposed anew treatment for boils and carbuncles. He says: The topical applications (prominent among which stand the carbolated and borated solutions) employed in a certain way, and particularly in ibo'form of powder used repeatedly and for along timo, are of remarkable efficacy, and at tho same time are absolutely harmless and easy of application.

These applications of powder quickly abort, with very fow exceptions, boils and carbuncles. Tbey arrest tbe progress of the disease in tho gravest cases, ordinarily cause the pains to quickly cease, reduce the fever, disinfect the purulent and gangrenous centers, hasten resolution, and promote tbe formation of healthy granulations.

This treatment is suitablo for all regions and for all forms and periods of the disease. It is never harmful, and leads to a cure in a large number of cases. It assists surgical interference when that is necessary.

Pharmaceutical Sweetmeats. "It is just as well to bear in mind that chlorate of potash lozenges are not lollipops properly so called," suggests The London Hospital Gasette. "The use of these pharmaceutical sweetmeats in anything approaching excess is apt to bo attended by marked prostration and even severe toxic symptoms. A number of cases are now on record in which an excessive doso of the salt, taken either by accident or from inattention, has been followed by alarming and even fatal effects."

A New Remedy for Toothache. The latest remedy for an aching tooth or for neuralgia starting from a tooth is to anply a bit of cotton saturated with ammonia to the defective tooth. Those who havo tried it say that it gives instantaneous and complete relief to the very worse case, and so delightful is tho sudden cessation of jiain that tho sufferer hardly knows whether to laugh or cry.

Cure for nillousness.

A remedy highly recommended for biliousness or torpid liver is a glass of hot water with the juice of half a lemon squeezed in it, but no sugar, night and morning. This is .«o simple a remedy that any one thus afflicted may well givo it a trial.

SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

OCfcr Refreshments to Chance Guests If You Would Bo a Popular Hostess. Tho hostess who would bo popular will cover make a mistake in offering ber guests, cr even a solitary caller, something in the way of refreshments. Do not adopt the forlorn custom of serving nothing at alL Anent this economical bat inhospitable practice, not unknown to people of some social position, a writer in Good Housekeeping appeal* to the members of tbe sex who eat but do not prepare refreshments, to say if an evening call ia not dry work without a sip of frnv^ari" or a bit of fruit to take comfort over. About 9 o'clock conversation lags, and the most eloquent guest, riding bis favorite hobby, pauses conscious of a lade somewhere. Nor does this lack inhere to tbe stomach merely it is felt by tired brain and excited nerves, which after a long day's work ore expected to spurt brilliantly for tbe edification of friends and neighbors.

Tbe lady already quoted relates that a young housekeeper in tbe frugal days of early married life, when tbe larder Is not apt to be overstocked, was visited one summer evening by a trio of her husband's friends. A whispered interview with ber maid of all work revealed tbo appalling fact that there was not a lemon in tbe house, nor a piece of cake, a cookey, oor even a cracker. Apples had just given out, and there was in fact tmthing except some anV.-melons for tbe morrow^ breakfast and lunch. At 8 o'clock t!io smiling "girl" appeared bearing a tray the devoted muakmelons. Oct which halved n* ft: plates ir r-.:

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tkmaS viands," and aoon left nothing bat They never dreamt that host rinda y-jgm went with-^t fruit or to pay forth oetcrnal feast, but they did vote that wife "an awfully jolly girl* and felt an impulse towarti somo Ume setting «D just such a litt! :»ome for tbemnhm How different this tr*m a stiff call In a company parkr, with ajrearnlng which even gilt frames aad body Brnseb cannot satisfy,

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Doot emit from year visiting atrdi year title, Mr., Mra or Mha, whatever it ha. It is very common in the United Sn for (•ten to omit Mr. fn :i their vfeitiaff cards, arc! awmtimnw yoaag tedios print their names without a tttle, tat the

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At last you got a place—junior clerk in a big office, with a dozen clerks above you, and half of them girls. The chief clerk gets a hundred a month, the others very much less, and you—well, it doesn't pay quite as well as being a bricklayer or carpenter. All the same, you mean to try It Besides, you don't know how to lay bricks, and as for driving nails, you always hit your thumb. Pretty soon you find a 1 tbe clerks, both men and women, are on the lookout for something better. The men want to go into the business, and the women—well, they hepe to go homo some day and never come back. Some cf them, both men and women, hopo to become cashiers or head bookkeepers or accountants, because, as they tell yon, the higher the work the bigger the wagea

So tbe hard pan of the business is that to earn good wages as a clerk, you must be able to do more than read, write and cipher pretty well, or as well as you do. You must go to work and learn a complicated art, and it is doubtful if you can do this without two years' hard work in a school or an Office. Very bard pan. Just so, but here is the bottom fact To earn good wages, yon must be able to do something well. Thousands can do as well as you can when you come out of school. The slow, tho stupid, the lazy and the care'ess will underbid you, will work for less money, and unless you can do better, your chances of earning a living as a mere common clerk nre very small indeed. As for making a fortune—well, it isn't there.

Suppose vou do learn the art, and becomc a first rato bookkeeper and accountant, what are tbe bottom facts of tbe business! Under tbo term bookkeeper, there are hundreds of thousands of people employed in this country in stores, offices, banks, steamship and railroad offices, telegraph offices, manufacturing companies and shops of all kinds. Now is this the beet thing for you—the beet work you can do I Let us figure it np, and strike balance sheet of advantages and disadvantages.

First of all, health, as that is the most valu able thing in the world. The work is done indoors, in clcse and often dark rooms, often in tho midst of noise, hurry and confusion. Decidodly, it is not a healthy trade, though, of course, it is not dangerous, and men do often live to bo gray old clerks. Socond, chances. Does it givo chances to risef Yes. It gives chances for a smart young fellow like you to look about and pick up inform.i tion, and learn some other business or pro fossion. This is the chief value of a clerkship. It leads to something elso. It is true, on tbo other hand, that these chances are very much less today than fifty years ago, because busi ness of all kinds now requires so much capital. A bookkeeper in a bank or railroad office can hardly expect to start a bank or set up his own littlo railroad. Thirdly, ia it a businesH you want to follow all your life! Will you be content always to be a clerk, and nothing but a clerk Plenty of people, both mon anil women, never expect to be anything else, and lead quiet, sensible, safe, and often vcry happy lives, saving money and earning tinrespect of all who know them. btrikoyour own trial balanoe. There is the hard pan of tho matter. What do you thinkl Is it a good thing for you—tho best thing you can dof Nothing like having straight up and down talk with yourself about tho real bottom facts of tbo case.

Would yon liko it? That's tho point Now we are fiat on hard pan. Would you like It? What a man likes he docs roll what be does well brings good wages. A man's work is for his life. It is not for this month or this year. You are not working for next Saturday's pay. Yon are working for the wages you will get when you are forty years older. If you liko accounts, if tbe work is interesting, if yon mean to rise to bo a cashier, or chief bookkeeper in some great house, all right Work, study, practice, prepare to rise, for you must riso if you do these things. Oo into tho businesses a life work. Climb on the clerk's stool, resolved to stay there.

Bat if you diclike to go to the desk in the morning, and are glad tbo closo tbo big ledgers at nigbt, consider well tbeeo things. You will wear neat clothes, have white, weak bands, and pale, thin blood, good pay and a nice home, And with a frugal wifo may lay up a little money, join a building ^nMwtirtn, and some day own a littlo home of your own—and yon will h-to it all your life long. Better climb from that stool, and dig about among tho reel facts of this world till you cc to tbe bard pan of your —Charles Barnard in Once a Week.

A Diabolical St ^ed Instrument. The Chinese tnrb-L-„i" is otr of tbe principal nmsicai instruments of that backward nation in everything as regards mnsic. Their instruments are tbe same, many of them, as three of centuries ago, and with their prejudices against rrvolud in their forefathers' customr *vey r-^tu fcrf*j«of the nr«* diabolical str ed trutnenta The j-been" has four "strii fastened to pegs coming from tfc" if a small tube, exteir**~g

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I1NG OUT IN LIFE.

The Hard Pan of the Matter Junior Clerk ta a Big Offloe—The Bookkeeper. A Balance Sheet of Advantages and Disadvantage*.

Here yon are, 16 years old, just from school, and ready to start out for yourself. Have yon ever got down to hard pan I What are you going to do next! Going into business—going to work! What comes first I The hard pan of the matter is just here—what can you dot

Read, write, and do short sums. Reading! No money in that unless you mean to be a public reader, and that means a beautiful voieo and years of training and study. W riting and arithmetic! Why, everybody can do that There isnt a cent iu such things. Then what was the uw of learning these things! Because they are tbe hard pan oi every art, trade, business and profession, and while they will not bring wages, you cannot get good wages without them.

Every business requires some one to "keep the books." There is something for you. Become a clerk. You set out to get a place, and at once find that, while hundreds want clerks, there are thousands who want to bt clerks. Not one of the fellows who hava places seems to want to give it to you, and, worse than all, half of the clerks are girl*. It's enough to make a man discouraged tc see tbe way the girls have pushed into all tho good places down town. A fellow has no chance now.

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With fow exceptions the houses are built close to the street one stops irom the sidewalk into the front doorway. The exceptions aro the bouses of "the gentry." These are built behind high walls, with a locked iron gate to keep out intruders, at which one must pull a bell wire if he desires admission. Within these walled enclosures aro usually handsomo gardens indeed, I found one or two pretty ones behind very unattractive houses not so enclosed. The average Englishman has no idea of spending money and time for tho delectation cf other people's eyes he wants his pleasant sights and smells all to himself cnil his choson friends, and will tolerato no uninvited partnerships. Thcro is no sitting oat doors in EuglanU, as with us, and in tho largesi privcto gunlcu3 ono seldom sees a bc.ich cr a settco. Au Kii^lis^rnan^B house ia his csstlo, and he feels inoss liko it commando* when he is within its walls.— W niinm t. I'vusley in Lyons Ke*ublicin.

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An Important Annoanoement

•boat six we«ks ego. while at business, 1 WM suddenly attacked with excruciating palna In my (ML knew and hand*. SOMTAIW the attack that 1 took uiy bed Immediately, and In two or thme day* my Joint* were swollen to almoat tftmble their natural tlaa, and sleep was driven from me. After »uttering the moat excruciating patn for a week, using liniments and various other remedies, friend who sympathised with my helpless oonrtltlon. said to m«i "Why don't you get Swift'sSpcelfio and ass it. I will guarantee a eure, and if it doss not the medicine shall cost you nothing.'*

I at once secured the 8. 8. 8., anT after using It the ilrst day, bad a quiet night and refreshing sleep. In a week I felt greatly iienentted. In three weeks I oould sit up ana walk about the room, and after uslnc six bottles I was out and able to go to business. Slnoethen I have been regularly at my post of duty, and stand oo my feet from nine to ten hours a day, and am entirely free from pain. These are the plain and simple faots In my ease, and I wlir cheerfully answer all Inquiries relative thereto, either in person or by malL THOMAS MARKILUB, 11 W. 18th street, Mew York City.

HAiimujt, Tsss.-X have warded off a se* vere attack of rheumatism by a timely resort to Swift's 8p«cino. In all eaaee where a permanent relief Is sought this medicine oommends Itself for a constitutional treatment that thoroughly eradicates the seeds of disease from the system.

Rev. W. P. HASUSON, D. DL

JTEW Toax. Bt Tra Ava-After spendtnf $300 to be relieved of Blood Poison without any beneflt, a few bottles of Swift's BpealOo worked a perfsot cure. 0. Poavaa.

VrontA, OA.—Ky little girl, aged six, aad boy, aged four years, had scrofula la the worst aggravated shape. They wer and sickly. To-day they are healthy bust, all the result of taking 8.8. S,

vdted shape. They were puny andr»otxtsa.

Jos T. Ooi

LADY LA ins, 8cmr.IT Co.. FIA.-Your & 8. B. hac proved a wonderful success la my case. The cancer on my face, no doubt, would have soon hurried me to my grave, Co think ltis wonderful, and has no equal.

B. H. Bran, Postmaster. WACO, TSXAS, May B, 1883.

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