Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 December 1888 — Page 3

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

8UBJECT8 THAT r*ERTAIN TO THE EVERYDAY AFFAIR8 OF LIFE.

CaHoos Facta Cnwendnj the WOd Cow (Boo PHalgrahu), U« PropnltoT of Our DomMUc Cattle, That Will Sarely 1»terfmt NtndenU of Mstarml 11 Utory.

The zoological collection of tbe Imperial Agricultural High Khool at Berlin has recently been enriched by a very interesting object, viz., tbe skeleton of a wild cow (Boa primizenioa). A* tbe Boa primigenios can rightly be considered tbe progenitor of oar domestic cattle, or at least of certain breed* of them, this skeleton is an Important acquisition. There are to be seen skeleton* of Boa primigenius in several museum*, but they have been heretofore very rare.

RKZLXTOX OF A WILD OOW.

Tho skeleton represented In tbe cnt was found recently in the deepest stratum of a peat bog. Iilustrirte Zoitung says concerning this fossil hkeleton that in many points it resembles the Podullnn and Hungarian steppe cattle, although much larger than these, and, indood, all kinds of domestic rattle. It is not to be confoundod with the so called aurochs, tho real bison. Whether tho so called "wild cattle" which are kept in the parks of certain largo landed proprietors in Scotland could be considered direct descendants of the Bos priraizenius is doubtful at any rate, tbeso "wild cuttle" nro no longer of the same size and general appcaranco as the really wild urus, but have greatly degenerated iu tho course of time.

Several investigators are of the opinion that the lar.t specimens of this clruw were killed in 1'oiund about 800 years ago but others maintain that tho urus was extinct in prehistoric tin.is. Tho authority quoted inclines to tho former opinion.

Tho height of ho withers of tho wild cow, recently mounted, is ff«t 1 i'n-lie while tho skeleton of a domusUu cow ci i- measures 5 feet I inch. Thohku'l of thi fur:..'n- ij 2 feet 1 inch long, that of a very largo domestic cow is 1 foot 7 inches 1 foot 9 inches in lengtfj.

In regard to the horns, tho part which was really horn has, naturally, perished in the course of tho hundreds or thousands of years but the well preserved bono portions, called Uio horn cores, show that tho horri sheaths were largo and well formed.

Of Interest to the Mleroseoplst.

At one of the meetings of tho microscopical sections of tho Brooklyn, N. Y., Institute, Dr. 8. II. Stiles exhibited sunipk* of a now wax cell and demonstrated tho method of constructing the cell and mounting of sheets therein. As tho cell loth si nplo and effective, wo reproduce for tho benefit of our readers the following il lustra ted description from Scientific American.

MAKING TDK WAX t'Bt.L.

Sheet wax. such a* is used by the makers of artill* iid flowers, is the material employed in the construction of this coll. Three or fiMir sheets of different color* ntv ptt^xed together by the thumb and ihi^- to cause them to ndhrrv, and ns»pinr»»«if the combined sheet thn formed of surtl- ii'iit sire for a cell cut out ni 'l pi -1 iijw't! a ,:l »ss jtlido. Thoalido is then placcd

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8 in the cut. when, by tho dexterous manipulation »f r-. erdumry I'-etik.-nfo, tho wax is cut into a rnvulnr form, mul tho center is cut on't lif rt-o. irr I depth. If the cell is to contain a transparent or tramlucent olject, the entire central of tho wax is rrmoM-d, n* i-Imwh a«i «. hut if aground is mpunit ft -no or more layers of wax «r' wKouctl to remain. A portion of tb up|*xr vt'f of wax i* removed to form a rim for th^ rvcep»ion

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The forvst* of New Jersey. An ov', -irv tho hl.o *vh f-'» net exist nnv»(H-r.' U-e *v fvi furuithos scores of pcoplem Capo May county, Xcw Jersey, with tonu*. i-v.- vo employment and baa made c-.'su iof.rtu:-^ for many ctlitm It is tho no* cl I s* r.ujnss, ~r$!ar tree* —di^^inj fi-om farl v..e.«ii tbe surface itnmwt« I of x3-,:» aiV-l nrvroatjo cvl.ir. The fallen iu Rubni T^cvl tf bem New Jrr«-v w, ru first l»enr«a:h tlie lKnni-*vliio nwajai'w Si'vcnty-t\re ye*r» a*t\ an-t have v, urvx of cr»n-**nt interest to jpisv.v^st* and M.'ieotis'js ever Minxf, Tiwre are staudin^ at the prr#*S day sr.-h ran^u* ijwtnastt cf the cedar aaywhi-rv tho faj» of the

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THE CURIOSITY SHOP

Knights of Malta—Aa Order Over 800 Tears Old. Tbe Knights of Malta is the name given certain military-religious order, which is ate called Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of St. John and Knights «f

Scone merchants of Malfl, tradiag

to tbe Levant, obtained leave of the caiipb of Eygpt to build a house for those who casae on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and whom they received with seel and charity, 104&. They afterwards founded a hospital for the reception cf pilgrims, from whence they were called hospitallers (Latin boepes, a guest). The military order was fonaded about 1099 confirmed by the pope 1113. In 1119 tbe knights defeated tho Turks at Antioch. After the Christians bad lost their interest in the east, and Jerusalem was taken, the knights retired to Acre, which they defended valiantly in I2S0. John, king of Cyprus, gave them Limisso in his dominions, where they stayed till 1810, in which year they took Abodes, under their grand master, De Vallaret, and tbe next year defended it undo* tbe Duke of Savoy against an army of Saracens. Tbe story that his successors have used P. R. T. (Fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit, or "His valor kept Rhodes") for their device is much doubted. From this they were also called Knights of Rhodes but Rhodes being taken by Solyman in 1523, they retired into Candia, thence into Sicily. Pope Adrian VI granted them the city of Viterbo for their retreat and in 1530 tbe Emperor Charles gave them the isle of Malta. Tbe order was suppressed in England in 1540, restored in 1557, and again suppressed in 1559. St. John's Gate, Clerkeowell, a relic of their possessions, still exists. Tbe Emperor Paul of Russia declared himself grand master of the order in June, 1799. After the death of the grand master, Tommasi di Contara, in 1805, the order was governed by a lieutenant and a college at Rome, till Pope Leo XIII tnade Count Ceschna Santa Cisce (lieutenant since Feb. 14, 1871) grand master, March 28, 1879. The knights sent a hospital establishment into Bohemia during the war in 1886, which afferded great relief to the wounded and sick.

The Quakers.

Quakers, or Society of Friends, were orig inally called Seekers, from their seeking tbe truth, and afterwards Friends (III John 14) Justice Bennet, of Derby, England, gave the society the name of Quakers in 1660, because George Fox (the founder) admonished him and those present to quake at the word of the Lord. Tbe sect was commenced in England about 1G46, by George Fox (then aged 23), who was joined by Georgo Keith, William Penn and Robert Barclay of Ury and others. Fox rejected all religious ordinances, explained away the commands relative to baptism, etc., discarded the ordinary names of day and months and used thee and thou for iu inoi consonant with truth. He pubdied a book of instructions for teachers and ^rofeaaora, aud died Jan. IS, 1691.

Washington's life Guard.

Washington's Life guard, varying in numbers at different times from sixty to 250 men, was formed in the spriug of 1776. Tho men were not leas than live feet nine inches nor more than five feet ten inches in height, and selected from tbe various regiments of tbe Continental army for their moral and per sonal perfection. Their usual duty was to protect the person, baggage and papers of tbe commander-in-chief. The last survivor of this corps was Uzal Knapp of Orange county, N. Y., who died in January, 1856, and was buried at the foot of tho flagstaff in front of Washington's headquarters at Newburg on the Hudson. A neat freestone mon umailt erected over his rotnalns was dedicated on June 18, 1800, at which time there was a large civic and military procession.

Royal Wedding Glfta.

Among tho handsomest presents received by the Princess Letitia on the occasion of ber marriage to tho Duke of Aosta was a diadem ornamented with 1,200 diamonds. Another costly diadem of pearls, having in tho center ono enormous diamond, was presented by tho Empress Eugenie. A toilet set consisting of ten pieces of massive silver plate, delicately hammered and chiseled and then gilt, was one of the most conspicuous presents. The set includes a mirror supported on an eagle with extended wings, a pair of bonbon boxes and two oblong boxes ornamented by braucbes of myrtle, a couple of trays for letters, a pair of candelabra with three branches, each resting on an eagle, and a basket delicately chased with garlands of roses and violets.

Turning Leaves.

Tho warning that has been sounded against turning the leaves of books with wet fingers, for fear of microbes, was based on investigations by the authorities among tbe circulating libraries at Dresden, to determine whether they were a medium for tbe communication of infectious diseases. Soiled leaves of books were rubbed first with dry fingers, and then with wet ones, and the result microscopically examined. No microbes, or few, wero found on tbe dry finger, but many on the wet finger. It did not appear that any of them were infectious, but the result of the experiments was held to justify an earnest warning against putting the finger in tbe mouth when turning the leaves of books.

Smoke.

The smoke cloud which daily hangs over London is estimated by Professor Chandler Roberts to tain about fifty tons Af solid carbon and 0 tons of carbon In gr

combination. Tbe expense of this w» of ooal is calculated at $13,000,000 a year, while tbe smoky atmosphere cat damage to proj*rty, which Mr. Edwin tdwick places at flC.tXW.iXW a year.

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In The Medical Counsellor Dr. William Oweus presents a article on "Hydrophobia a Dta*ae of tbe Imagination," He cites a large tminber of cases to «ttabli&h bttpsilion, and concludes with the statement: "I am today thoroughly skeptical on the subject of hydrophobia in man or any animal which perspires from Ure surface of tbe txdy."

Railread

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Radroad Authorities cay that with avenge bat about eighteen

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yea]**. A hremotive ea the truck lines of tbe fnited States earn* aa average of $100 per day. A "mUMi* dttyw carts about $17,000 in its ?ber» ore more than a million of employed by railroad companies in tbe (Jailed titatea.

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At tbe great steel works fa Cleveland, Q., a large electrvMnajruet Is ttMd, mopetadad from a crane, to pick up iroo or «aie! ban and billets. It will tale up pounds, awl at won as tbe eWu.c current is tamed off after tbe will £rvp st ia tb$ prop* place. di IS* work of a £•*:.£ of tsea.

A fporrse Lander.

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of speeMatfiaadooSt It. f, is iUi £»a* defereoce by *&*«(»»• {•rates, jio -UpwfcB tooxmams* at respectful 4 «sanco.

YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMN.

SUBJECTS SURE TO ENTERTAIN QUR BOYS AND GIRLS.

The Emperor William's five Sons—How These Kittle Fellows Are Early Trained for a Soldier's Life and Instructed In

HiUtary Occupations.

"How are the boysf is tbe first question tbe German emperor, William II, asks his illustrious consort on his return hone Cram any of his numerous journeys. The emperor is very fond of his five sons, tbe youngest of whom is a little baby in long clothes. "In Prussia," Prince Bismarck once said, "ws are born with a soldier's capote on oar shoulders." This holds good with tbe emperor's children. As soon as they emerge from short frocks, they have to don miniature uniforms and accoutrements.

lfTT.TTAUT SDUCATIOff or TBS Dimoa'8 BOHS. It is a pretty sight to see the three elder boys salute their father, when he enters the nursery, in true military style. Prince Augustus William, who is not quite 2 years old yet, imitates his older brothers in giving the salute.

When with their mother at Oberhof castle, in Thuringia, the young princes are instructed in military occupations. They have a miniature redoubt there, with two small cannons, where they play sentry go, or mimic an assault, while one of them beats the drum. In the cut here given tho three oldest boys are depicted as taking a lesson in tbe forming of a bivouac. Little Prince Augustus William, while too young to actually take a share in tho work, appears to be greatly in terested in his brothers' proceedings.

Indian Mummies.

Many of our young folk have heard or road of tho Egyptian mummies. Owing to the wonderful skill with which they havo been embalmed they are in as perfect a state of preservation as on the day they were entombed, some four or five thousand years ago. But that nature is as skillful as art will be seen by the following curious discovery:

Not long ago some miners were searching in the Sierra Madre mountains of Arizona for a cave, supposed to be filled with hidden treasures. As they were following an Indian trail ono of them hit something hard with bis pickax. On loosening the soil tbey discovered, not a cave filled with gold, silver and precious jewels, but an old Indian vault containing the remains of five human beings, two men, a young woman and a mother with a child 4 or S years old. The bodies were in perfect preservation. The features were as distinct as in life, and tbe eyebrows in a natural state. Tbe woman had long, fine, dark hair. Both men and women were wrapped in coarse, women cloth.

Now, wo must remember that tho Indian is ignorant of tho art of embalming, an art that requires much nice skill as well as a thorough knowledge of medicine therefore, we must infer that the bodies were embalmed through a natural process, namely, through the dry atmospdero and tho peculiar temperature of the vault in whieh they were placed. The bodies were immediately forwarded to San Francisco, where they have been the subject of much curiosity and discussion. Thoy are supposed to have belonged to one of the four Indian tribes of Astecs, Toltocs, Moquis or Zunis. The region of the cave was at ono time the seat of an Indian empire, whose people, judging from surviving relics, were comparatively civilised.

Seeing tbe World.

Rosy, Posy and little Clover Wished to roam the wide world over Left their beds at dawn of do/, Opened their door and stole away. When tbey reached the garden gate Each oae shook her curly pate, Baying, "If we could only know Where 'twere best for us to go I"

IBIT START A WAT.

6o they stood beside the gate Tin tbe dock was strikfrtg eight, And grandmamma came out toaea Where tbe little ones could be.

Rosy, Posy and Utile Clover Wished to roam tbe wide world ever* Bat aot knowing where to roam Turned about and staid at borne. -"Little Men sad W.

A Brief Bbtwy ot Thimbles. Good Housekeep'"? assures us *^-t tbe thimble was origin called a tin bell by tbe English, because worn on tbe thumb, then a ttnunH* and ftr-"f its present name.* It was a E inVe ra. and was first brought to England in ins. Thimbles wars for~ rIy made only of iron aad brafo, but in sparatively late yean tbey hare been of gold, steel, born, ivory and even pearL In Quna beautiful carved pearl i_ mbles are seen, bound with gold, and with tbe end of gold. Tbe first thimble introd distoSiamwaaatr gift froaa tbe kU to the queen it is like a lotos bod, made of gold and thic stoddsd wi liamoods arranged to spell

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Robert Bora* was a See nan, born la a odostcottac*, near Ayr, in the jmr 1739% died K91 r- by hi* par b» early began kaowtajsa, 1 as at fta* plow be was composing poetry. His first volume attro i- moss*. :,Woo,«a -If

laritodt^Sdiatssrgh, aad graced cfcrcie* tfecaa. Ho was tbe ai i» CTShsater." Soias one hassaa. _«* four most loved ia Sootiaad vv. vi* Wi .eaaad f. rt -sa, •'•thr faau~it,aad I— _^ad ^.att, s__ sr-iefcar

TERR3C HAUTE SATURDAY EYMING MAIL I

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

The Movement Care aad Educational or Hygienic Gymnastics. "The prioe of life is motion,1" affirms a writer on gymnastics, and adds: "The Swedes, many years ago, perceived tbe element of truth in this, and established the movement cum Discovering that many diseases were tbe result of inaction, tbey conceived tbe idea that motion was needed to infuse life into tbe patient. The movement cure had its birth in philosophy and common sense, and in many cases has been most happy in its results."

We bear mors or less about the Swedish movement cure nowadays, but many people dismim it as simply a new form of quackery. That this is not the case is clearly shown in an interesting account of its origin, given by Miss Ellen F. White. Ling, the originator of the system, was a Swedish officer, who happened to discover that a lameness of his own arm was cured by fencing. He reflected on this fact, and thai mode an exhaustive study of anatomy, physiology and pathology for tbe purpose of testing tbe principle which be thought he had discovered. As a result he evolved his system and it includes medical, military and educational or hygienic gymnastics. The object of Uie latter is to preserve tbe balance of power in tbe body that of the former is to restore the balance when it has been disturbed by a loss of the proper proportion between the parts. Tho theory premises that blood is the carrier of life and of disease, and that the flow and the quality of blood can be controlled, or at least regulated, by gymnastics.

Mabel Jeuness, another woman who has made an intelligent examination of several systems of physical culture now in vogue, and who has been already quoted, sums up the subject, in part, as follows:

A perfect system of exercise is that where energised action is supplemented by devitalising movements. The energised action, for giving impetus to tho blood, diffusing life and warmth, for developing the muscular system by supplying it with increased nutriment in the increased current of blood tbe devitalizing movements, for relaxing tho nervous system, giving grace of movement and freedom of expression.

Rational physical culture admits of swinging dumb bells and clubs, executing movements with wands and rings, and all exercises of a largo and well appointed gymnasium, as well as light, free movements. The one point to be kept constantly in mind is that energised movements must not be used to tho exclusion of devitalizing movements that rollicking, exciting action must be supplemented by reposeful movements or (he result will be muscle at the expense of graoe and expression.

Morphia In Treating Insanity. The eminent Dr. Auguste Voisoin is quoted as strongly indorsing the virtue of morphia in the treatment of insanity. Dr. Voisoin is said to have persisted in the use of opium and morphia for this disease during nearly twenty years past, treating mania, melancholia, criminal insanity and moral insanity with satisfactory rchults. Dr. Voisoin uses the hydroch'.orate of morphia hypodermically. In the initial dose he does not exceed one, two or three milligrams light cases are sometimes relieved by a daily does of five or six centigrai.ts, while in other oases the dose has to be increased to seventy oenti grams a day. Tbe influence of the medicine is shown by redness of the face and conjunctiva), nausea, vomiting, general sensation of heat, lassitude, sleep, loss of weight, diminution of arterial tension later, the color improves, and there is again in weight. It is remarked that the presence of a congested condition of the oerebro-spinal system presents an absolute contra indication to the uso of morphia, as well as epilepsy and goneral paralysis.

Warm Air at Night.

A physician expresses tho belief that consumption is due to a constant irritation of tbe air passages, and that cold air breathed at night is ono of the greatest irritants. Those who live most of the time in tbe open air are the least likely to suffer from phthisis, because their lungs are so accustomed to cold air as not to be irritated by it at night.

One Thing and Another.

Do not bathe the baby either in the boor just preceding or following a mealNever eat when mentally excited or physically exhausted, if you would retain a good digestion. If you are tired lie down and rest a few minutes before going to tbe table.

A person of inquiring mind wants "a satisfactory explanation of the fact that women always, with exceedingly rare exceptions, button from right to left, and men from^eft to right Personally I have remarked only four cases of exception tp tbe rule.'*

Almond meal is held In high esteem by fashionable women for washing the face and bands.

SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

A Rival to tbe Evening Dress Coat finds Favor for Xaformal Occasions. The swallow tail dress coat has at last a rival. According to good authority the "Cowes coat," first worn in England and here known under the aristocratic title of tbe "Tuxedo," has come to stay. While it does not bold equal rank with the evening dress coat and would not be donned for large receptions, balls or weddings, it is correct for informal dances and parties, theatres and general evening wear. Its use makes the swallow tail less common aad instead of displacing that garmentenbances its importance awl formality and that of \he occasions on which it is worn.

Tbe Tuxedo is a sensible innovation and as such is likely to meet with continued fa vor for club and theatre wear, and all informal evaaing oocasiOns. It is a trifle shorter than the sackooat and is shaped at the back to tha figure. Tbp coat is worn open, showing along rolling cqUar faced with Mlk. It is of a finely ribbed somewhat "clinging" black worsted material A low cut waist ooat (black or white), a black satinis and a low hat are tbe correct thing with tbe new doat, which, like tbe coat$for full evening dress, should not be worn before 6 o'clock p. m.

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THE TIME TO WRITE.

THE GREAT DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AMONG PEN CRAFTSMEN.

No Best Time for Writing Poetrj—What Noted Proso Writers Have to Say on tbe Subject—Prominent Example*—Disturbing Environments.

Whfn can a man do his. best writing with ease! Or, in other words, what time is tbe best for pood writing!

I heard, recently, this latter question talked over by some pen craftsmen, and their conversation brought out great differences of opinion. One, a writer of fiction, said that tbe best timo for writing was when you burned tho midnight oil. Another maintained that the best time was iu tho early morning hours when the sun "ariseth iu his majesty." While a third, a writer of poetry, threw out the suggestion that you can write easily and rapidly when yon "feel most liko it." Thus the question becomes one that will bo answered in a different way by different kinds of writers.

Obviously there is, there can be, no best time for writing poetry. If the poets themselves are to be believed, tho times for composing rhyme, like angels' visits, are few and far betweon. When Lord Byron wrote is a mystery, for no one ever found him writing. Yet we know that while he spent the day in pleasure, bo passed the night in work. Lord Tennyson regards the morning as the best time for poetic thought, and henco wo find him in early morn weaving rhymo over his pipe of tobacco. Longfellow was nn early riser, and wo nro told in a recent biography of the poet that ho found the morniug the best time for solid work. Thero is a tradition—and it is only a tradition—that Edgar Allan Poo could dash off flowing verse at almost any hour of the day or night. Indeed, Poo himself gave color to this notion, but, unhappy master of the raven as ho was, ho kept lonely vigils far into tho night, polishing and filing his exquisite verso. In truth, as many, if not more, examples could be given of poets whose verso "smelt of tho midnight oii,n as could bo given of rhymo breathing tho freshness of dowy morn. For with somo writers tho dead of night is tho noon of thought.

Whon wo come to prose writers there is the same difference as to tho timo for writing. "The greater part of an author's timo," said Dr. Johnson, "is spent in roading." Thus, Lord Macauluy spent the cntiro morning in reading, and then when tho time came he put his thoughts on piper. Few readers of Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay will forget the picturoof tho industrious historian mousing among tho manuscripts iu the British museum morning after, morning, gleaning the facts for his immortal history. With writers of fiction tho case is different Or, to quoto Dr. Johnson again, "When a man writes from his own tniud ho writes rapid'y." Although Balzac wrote rapidly from his own mind, bo spoilt much timo in rending. He found tho night the best timo for writing, and many a cup of black coffee ho drank in order to keep his faculties on tho alert—on edge, as he called it

Of English novelists, Wilkio Collins is a prominent example of an author who found the midnight hours the best time for writing. David Christie Murray is another voluminous novelist who often labors so far ifato tho night that bo often "sens a halberdier with an ax dressed in black and red," coming towards him in a threatening fashion. On the other hand, Anthony Trollopo set about his work iu a motbodical way. Ho sat down every morning to bis desk, rain or shine, at 5:30. "I allowed myself," ho plaintively says, "no mercy. I was called by my groom, and did so much writing rogularly beforo breakfast." William Black also thinks the morning tho best timo for writing. He writes two hours beforo and two hours after morning luncheon. Thomas Hardy says that ho writes at irregular intervals, sometimes in tho morning and sometimes in the evening. Tho method of James Payn is this: IIo carrics tho plot around in his head till completed, when ho writes it out as rapidly as possible, often working fifteen out of the twenty-four hours of tho day.

Wo may close this part of the subject by citing the opinions of two American novelists, as to tho best time for writing. Said Mr. Howells, in a recent interview with a newspaperman: "The first half of tbe day is the best part of a man's lifo. I always select it for my working hours, I usually begin at 9 and stop at 1 o'clock." To tho same effect is tho testimony of tbo late E. P. Roe, in a recent number of Lippincott's Magazine. "I go into my study," says be, "immediately after breakfast, usually about 0 o'clock, and write until 8 or 4 in tbe afternoon, stopping only for a light lunch. In former years I wrote at night, but after a severe attack of insomnia this practice was almost wholly abandoned."

Finally, it should bo born in mind that tho timo for good Writing is largely influenced by circumstances and by environment Many of tbo distressing and annoying circumstances incident to city lifo are particularly unfavorablo to easy writing. Above all, noises and harsh sounds havo ever been tbe bane of tbe writer. They distract tbo attention and put tbo mind out of tuno for orderly and continuous thought This disturbing force of sounds is a vice of modern city lifo.—L. J. Vanco in The Epoch.

Salt Rheum

With Its intense Itching, dry hot skin, often broken Into painful cracks, and tbe little water pimple*, often causes Indescribable suffering. iIood'sHanwparllla has wonderful power over this disease. It purifies tbe blood and expels tbe humor, and the skin heals without a scar. Send for book containing many statements of cures, to C. I. Hood & Co., Apotn^cartew. f/iwrll Msw.

P0T$ fcfANS

HOW I SUFFERED

Seventeen years from a Skin Disease. Conld not walk or dress myself. A mass of diseases from head to foot. Cured in eight weeks by the Cuticura Remedies.

At the age of three months a rash (which afterwards proved to be eczema or salt rheum) made Its appearance on my face. A physician was called. He said teething was the cruse he prescribed some cooling medicine, but the sores spread to my ears and head. Another M. D. was called. He professed to know all about the ease, called it "King's Evil." and prescribed gunpowder, brimstone and lard mixed Into a sulve but the disease continued. They could not do anything with It Another prescribed borax, water, and tlour another, linseed poultices. None of them did me any good at all. but made mo worse The disease continued unabated it spread to my arms and legs, till I was laid up entirely, and from continuully sitting on the floor on a pillow my limbs contracted so that 1 lost all control of them, and WHS utterly helpless. My mother would have to lift me out. and Into bed. I could pet around tho house on my hands and feet, ami had to wear a sort of a dressing gown. My hair had all matted down or fallen off, ana my head, face, and ears were one scab, and I had to have a towel on my bead all the time iu the summer to keep the flies otT. My parents consulted a prominent physician and surgeon here in Chicago (the other pbysUlans beforo mentioned were of Dundas aud Hamilton, Canada). He said he could do nothing for me. He wanted to cut the sinews of my legs so that 1 could walk but I would not let him, for if 1 did get better 1 would have no control of them.

Tho disease continued in this manner until I was seventeen years old, and one day iu January, 1879,1 read an account of yourt nticura Kemenies. It described my ease exactly that 1 thought, as a last resort, to give tnem a trial.

When I first applied thcui I was all raw and bleeding, from scratching myself, but I weut asleep almost Immediately, something I bad not done for years, the eflfcet was so soothing.

In about two weeks I could stand straight, but not walk, I was so weak, but my sores were nearly well. As near as I can Judge tho Cuticura Remedies cured me In about six or eight weeks, and up to date (1. o. from January, 1879, to January, 18S71 I have not been sick In any way, or nave had the least signs of tbe disease reappearing on me. w. j. Mcdonald, 3732 Dearborn st, Chicago, Ills., June 80, *87.

Cuticura Remedies are sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, fiO cents Resolvent, $1.00 Soap, 25 cents. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Hend for "How to Cure Skin Diseases." W pages, 50 illustrations, aud 100 testimonials.

1»I\IPLES, Blackheads, red. rough, c.liaplill ptHi

nd oily skin prevented by Cutl-

Const!t utional Catarrh.

No single disease has entailed more suffering or hastened the breaking up of tho constitution than Catarrh. Tho sense of smell, of taste, of sight,of hearing, the human voice, the mind,—one or more, and sometimes all, yield to Its destructive Influence. The poison It distributes throughout the system attacks every vital force, and breaks up the most robust of constitutions. Ignored, because but little understood, by most physicians, Impotent!,v assailed by quacks and charlatans, those suflfcrlng from It have little hope to bo relieved of it this side of the grave.

time, then, that the proper treatment of this terrible disease by remedies within the reach of all passed Into hands at once competent, and trustworthy. The new and hitherto untrlt il method adopted by Dr. Han ford in tin

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pivs.-l symptom*, clearing the heud, sweeten hiu the breath, restoring the senses of -iiiuli, taste and hearing, ami ncutrall/.lng 1 be constitutional tendency of tho disease towards the lungs, liver aud kidneys.

Ban ford'a Radical Cure consists of ono bottle of the Radical Curo, one box Catarrhal Solvent, and oiie Improved Inhaler, neatly wrappHl In one package, with full directions price, SI.00.

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IvTDNEY PAINS,

Strftins and Weaknesses,

Relieved In ono minute by thatraarvclous Antidote to Pain. Inllnmmatlon and Weakness, tne Cuticura JB Autl-Patn Plasters. Tho flrst and only palti-kllHng strengthening plaster. Especially adapted to Instantly relievo and speedily curo Kidney and t'uerlne Pains and Weakness. Warranted vastly superior to all other nlasteri*. At all druggists, 25 cents five for 11.00, or, postage free, of Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass.

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