Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 August 1897 — Page 2

AFFAIRS OF THE RAIL

Q, J. MACKEY MAI BB PRESIDENT OF THE OHIO VALLEf BOAD,

Cast Kan Made On the Union Pacific—F. D. ,-Cnderwood to Be Frraideqtof the Northern Pacific.

r* t. Jt There is a etrong probability of David J. Mackey, former president- of the Bvansvllle & TerrenHaute Road, becoming president

the Ohio "Valley. The Ohio Valley, it will eb recal|f"was recently purchased by the Illinois Central. An Evaasville man who is in a position 15 know and" who was in the city yesterday said that President Fish of the Illinois Central was in Evansville a few days ago and offered the presidency of the Ohio Valley to Mr. Mackey. President Fish told Mr. Mackey, so it is said, that he could have the presidency at a salary of $10,000 a year. If Mr. Mackey takes the position there are many people in this city who will read of the

announcement

with no little

satisfaction. Mr. Mackey has many warm friends in Terre Haute. When connected with the E. &. T. H. Mr. Mackey never lost an opportunity to do this-oity good. He never refused to

grant!

"reasonable rates and

it will be a lucky day- tor the Ohio Valley If he is made president"'6f

the

road.--"

ANOTHER TICKET SCHEME.

Impracticable Plan Suggested by a Traveling Meiu wv* "l have been reading' *6®5t. ,a '«fieme got up. by a traveling man,.tl^t vBl .settle the question of cheap rates ", satd John S. Lazarus, traffic manager of'tW Itidiana, Decatur & Western, to the Indianapolis News. "His plan id to have the* c&inmercial travelers get a card on which is their photograph, and that card, when presented at a ticket window, would entitle the holder to buy a ticket at 2 cents a mile.' This is good theory, but it is bad in practice. The originator of the scheme forgot that there is an interstate commerce law. The law is to the effect that there

shall

be no discrimination,

in the matter of selling tlcketsr If the traveling man could use a card of the kind suggested, so could everyone else. Every mail, woman and child would be' allowed to have a card of this kind, and the railroads would have to sell them tiptfets on demand. I would rather be a photographer than own a gold mine if that plati. was adopted. The fact is, that the law prohibits such a scheme as that. The

railrcCads,

allowed to issue clergymen's permits, mileage" books and excursion" tickets, but every one has to be treated alike. All. clergymen are entitled to

the.

Underwood to Be President. lb is 'flhnounced. -poeitively from inner railway circle^ that .. Frederick D. Underwoodj generaL. manager of the. Minneapolis, St, ^aiil"'iijilt jte Marie Railway, is to become president of the Northern Pacific Railway Co. Mr. Underwood is 48 years of age, having, been born in Milwaukee in 1845. He entered the railway service in 1868 with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and has been successively, clerk, brakeman, baggage man, elevator foreman, conductor of freight and passenger trains, yardmaeter, assistant superintendent. He may be said to have climbed from the bottom to the top rung of the railway ladder. Mr. Underwood was superintendent of the "Soo" for eleven y$ars.

iv Mhc Distance Record llrokeo*,, ,. The Union Pacific officials are pluming themselves .on a new long distance .record. Engineer Thomas Grogan with engine 890 pulled a special from Evanston, Wyo., to Omaha, 955 miles,-in twenty-four hours, including all stops.

0Thi§

record

is claimed as the

long run for a single, engine. The

•final spurt of the. run was a remarkable burst of speed, the distance from North Platte to Omaha, 291 miles, being covered in 279 minutes, at the rate ol 63.49 miles per hour.. The engine was built at the Omaha shops. .. ...

Kallraad Note*. .'V

James Morrow,-..V'andalia ,-ageqt at Darlington,. has been transIay:« drto Rockville. Billy Stevenson, late^ofliffifetor on the Gripe Creek coar' run^- has been given ch*i%& of a freigtatMrator,ffn',:tlP9-"S?. Elmo division of Lhe C.'A 1$.- K~^."'•

Tf"hiinmaster BurKj^*M di vision' of the Vandalia, has "ordered discontinuance of the ,.t rain ^6jxes By conductors. They are declared to be "a nuisance.

The.car repair shops"oL the-Vandalia are now running -to the^ fullest capacity. The Vandalia is needing .«ais badly -at present and all the disabled rolling stock is be ng hurried into the shops-for repairs.

The state board has made the following changes in tax appraisements-: The Terre Haute & iLogansport reduced $182,000: the E $67,000 -the E! & T: H:, $82,000 on side track the Terre- H&tite & Indianapolis was increased $160,000 the St Louis divis Ion of the Big Four, from Indianapolis to Terre Haute was decreased $80,000.

SENATORS FOR EUROPE.

Cullom, Hawley and Wetmore Among the Passengers on the St. Paul. New York, Aug. 6V—The American line steamship St. Paul gaile^ from this port: today for Southampton. She had among her passengers Senator S. M. Ctfllom of Illinois, Senator J. R. Hawley of Connecticut, Sena£er George Pea bod "Wetmore of Rhode Island apd Representative John Dalzell of Pittsburg.

Senator Cullom said he was on pieajure bent, and that he would be back in OctobeV. If our flag was up in Hawaii he was glad of it. Hoped it would not be taken down again.

Other departures on the St. Paul were Captain J. P. Green first vice president of the Pennsylvania read.

BND OF A WEDDING "FROLIC."

f&ur People Lose Their Lives in a Cincinnati Fire.

Cincinnati, Aug. o.—Shortly after d'clock this -morning afire of mysterious origin was discovered by Officer Wiehle *t 1109 Charlee street, in a two-story tenement house, in which was an all-night resUurant, kept by, Oty Adler. Four persons wfre shortly after taken from the building suffocated by thje, smoke. They.were Arthur Guth. Esra Rouse, Roy Carr and, Neilie Bennett.

Arthur Guth and the daughter of Otto Adler had been married Wednesday evening, and the nuptial festivities were in progress the greater part of the night. This fact accounts for th.e inability of the living occupants of the house to give a clear account of how the fire originated. One story was that it was caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove in the kitchen of the restaurant. This is bound to be incorrect. Another story is that a guest, trying to light a cigarette by a coal oil lamp, upset it. and so caused' the conflagration, while a third presumption is that some malicious person fired the building in a spirit of revenge for a fancied slight.

Guth. the bridegroom, appeared to have been preparing to retire in a room with Etra Rouse, his brother-in-law. They were found together. In another room Roy Carr. a bar tender, out of employment, and Nellie (Bennett, a cook in Adler restaurant, were fouad suffocated. All the dead were dressed,

showing that they had not yet retired. All efforts to get at the facta are met by the inability of the other occupants of the building to give any rational account of what happened.

The bride, whose life was saved by the fact that she was in another part of the (building when the fire occurred, became hysterical when she found that her husband was dead, and was wholly unablf to tell anything about the circumstances. The fire department quickly extinguished the Are, the loss on the building being trifling.

BRAZIL WROUGHT CP.

Her Councilmen Wanted Home People To Have Street Paying Contract.

Brazil advertised for bids for paving a street and is mad because a Terre Haute firm was the lowest bidder. The Democrat tells the story of the council meeting as follows: "Contract for the improvement of North Washington street "by paving was let to a Terre Haute firm. The bids were: Voorhees & Co., Terre Haute, $3.76 per lineal foot for full width of street Fitzpatrick' Bros. $3.88 per lineal foot for full width of street 65 cents per loot for sidewalk on each side Brazil Stone company, $3.79 .per lineal foot for home gravel, $3.92 per lineal foot for shipped gravel 68 cents per foot for sidewalks on each side. As soon as the council was aware that the bid of the Terre Haute firm was the lowest there was considerable effort to get out of it. For more than half an hour councilmen consulted each other and thought up schemes by which they might throw the contract to one of the Brazil firms.

Mr. Phillips said he was opposed to giving the contract to the Terre Haute firm to have them bring over a crowd of men from that city to do the work when there were so many men in this city who needed employment. He said that he used to be a Terre Haute citizen, but now he was a Brazil citizen, and did not believe in sending money to the former city. 'Mrrr Voorhees stated that if he were awarded the ^contract he would employ all Brazil jioe'ii.except a foreman, engineer and one

under the law, are

permits. Mileage books

are sold to everyone, .who, Jias„.t,h§ yioney to pay for jhem~,.and so are/excursion tickets.. If that plan wire atfbpte&'it 2 cents a mile for everybody." ~v

i^o-expert bricklayers. "He. further stated that he had been in the business for thirty years and had built streets in Terre Haute which were acknowledged to be the best in the world that he was well prepared to do the work and could do it better, perhaps, than our home companies. "J. N. Halstead took exception to this statement. He said the Main street pavement of Terre Haute could not be compared with the pavement in this city, and thaA Brazil had as good brick pavements as could b© built. "Mr. Voorhees responded that he did not pave Main street at Terre Haute. "Members of the council talked It over again with each other and at last decided to let the contract to the Voorhees company on condition that they should employ all Brazil men except the foreman, engineer and one expert."

WEDDING BELL ECHOES.

Marriage of Miss Ora Donaldson and Mr. Jared Martindale—Other Marriages.

Miss Ora F. Donaldson, an accomplished and pouular young woman of this city, was. married to Jared B. Martindale of Rensselaer Wednesday evening at the home of the bride'6 parents, on East Chestnut street. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. H. Shuey, pastor of the First United Brethren Church. Only a few of the most intimate friends of the bride were present and the families of the contracting parties.

The bride was a graduate of the High School class of '95 of Terre Haute and is the daughter of Professor and Mrs. John Donaldson. She has for a -long time been, the organist at the First Methodist Church and is a member of the Joe H. Davis Company. The.groom is the son of an extensive stock grower and farmer near Rensselaer. The two young people met here while the groom was a student at the Normal where he was graduated this springy

Other Marriages of Recent Date. Miss Edith McLean, a teacher in the city schools, was married We^desday to Harry- K. Jephson. a machinist in-the C. & E. I. shops at Danville, 111. The youhg couple will take a tour through.the South.

James O. Park, a barber, aged 26, of Fairbanks, and Flora A. Hopewell-, aged 21, of thig county, were married "by Justice Brown Wednesday at the Henderson House, on South Fourth street.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. May of Ellettsville have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Cora Delle, tfr Mr. Harry Harris of this city, Wednesday, October 6th, at 8 p. m.

Samuel Clugston. age 33, and Miss Maude Creale, age 20, both of Burnett, Vigo county, were married at Paris Tuesday by the Rev. R. W. Bell.

Clifford Cook, aged 24, and Ahna Hoddy, aged 18, both of Terre Haute, were married by 'Squire Brown yesterday morning at his office.

HE LOST Hrs BRIDE.

She Juried Another Man After a Lovers'

Cj|iarrel.

Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 5.—A. D. Yoder and Miss 'kattie Hutchinson, young society people of Hutchinson, Kan., have long been lovers and were to have been married Tuesday night. Monday evening Miss Hutchinson went buggy riding with Jesse Cook, a young man who had paid her considerable attention. The affianced husband heard of it, and called upon her Tuesday morning to upbraid her.

There was a q.uarrel and Mr. Yoder declared that he would not marry Miss Hutchinson. Mr. Cook heard of the break about noon and lost no time in calling upon Miss Hutchinson and asking her to marry bim. He was accepted, and the two were married last night in the church which was to have been the scene of the Yoder-Hutchinson wedding. The minister whom Mr. Yoder had engaged officiated, and the guests who had invitations to the Yoder-Hutchinson ceremony attended, most of them in ignorance until they arrived that the wedding they had come to was not the one to which they had been bidden.

Mr. Cook is now negotiating with Mr. Yoder for the residence which the latter had built and furnished while laboring under the impression that he was to marry Miss Hutchinson.

|*t of New Veaciier# "V

The summer jtfrm p£ the Jfpijmal ..cjqges today.. There ,l\ave ]een ip jii.tend?n,ep .ov^r. 350 pupils, many from' a djstanpe. Those who wijl receive certificates^are: ,W, L.: Cory, Middletown. Henry, county George, Costello, Grass Creek, Fulton county: Anna Boruff. Bedford, Lawrence county Minnie Hunt, West Lebanon, Warren county Alice Kidd. Wabash. Wabash county: E. E. RobejvKokcmo, Howard county Mary Layden. Glenn Hall, Tippecanoe county Mrs. Ella H. Fellows, Worthington, Greene county M. Alien Pence. Frankfort. Clinton county M. W. Hollinger. Terre Haute, lad., and Amy Mullikin, Rinard, 111.

LAD1K CAN WEAR^ SHOES

One size smaller after using Allen FootBase, a powder to be shaken into the eiioes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy gives instant relief to corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures and nrevents swollen ffcet,/blisters and sore spots. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cur* for sweating. hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmstead. Le Roy, N. Y.

JBfiEPAEABLE LOSS.

THE DECLARATION 'INDEPENDENCE SAID TO B€ DESTROYED.

Host Valuable Document In Thi* Country Xsined at Chicago Exposition—Said lo Have Been Tampered With There or cm the Way to Waahinffton.

The rained remnant of it is kept hermetically sealed between glass plates and in a steel safe in the department of state at Washington. A copy, made from copperplate in John Qnlncy Adams' time, is shown to the public.

It has been asserted that the original was ruined wben the copperplate was made, bnt offieiaferof the state department say this is not :l». The document was spoiled when trwas senfc to the Chicago exposition.

An old'teSWint of Washington, ah employee of th'^'federal government, recently made this (statement concerning the destruction of the great doonment: "The first yiew I ever had of the Declaration of Independence was When it Was plaoed on public exhibition in the library of the department of state—say about 20 years ago—when it' had been returned from the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. At that time—and I looked 'long and lovingly' at the great parchment—-it was in a good state of preservation, clear, legible and bold, both the body of the paper and the signatures, all save a few of the signatures in the lower left hand corner. That it was then in good readable shape its presence at the Centennial was proof positive, else it would not have been placed on exhibition at that &reat sbbw.' "I saw it tho first day of itB public exhibition in the library of the state department, say twenty or more years ago, and I saw it at least once a month—oftener weekly—from that time to the day it was sent to the Columbian exhibition at Chicago, and I most positively assert that it had not obanged one iota during those 20 years, but that when ifc was packed for shipment to the great city on the lake it was as clear and legible—Hanoock's glorious sweep included—as when I saw it the first time. "The fact of its being sent to Chicago to challenge the world's inspection is evidence enough of its oondition. The hundreds of thousands who saw the great document at the exposition can atjtest to its condition at that date. "On its return from Chioago and on its being replaced in the old case in the department I was astounded to note its oondition. As one of the clerks, when speaking about it afterward, said, it was as shriveled as a washerwoman's hands. So-

have

other.

The

5 a.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRTDA? M0RX1NG AUGUST 6.1897.

:£.

The Declaration of Independence, the most precious document in the United States, has been practioaliy destroyed.

Accommodating Landlord. ""(»i *jt A correspondent assures us that hep never knew that' it was possible fOi an inn-ri keeper to be too accommodating to his* guests until ho went down to Nova Scotiarecently and put trp at a pleasant little hort tel in the country. The landlord of this*' hotel laid it down as one of his principle? of action to give people a little more thai they asked for—to be "extra accommodating," as he termed it.

The landlord brilliantly illustrated hi adherence to this principle the very morn. ing after our correspondent's arrival at tluj. hotel. The guest had to go away on the o'clock train that morning and asked tin proprietor to call- him at 6. The guest went to sleep in the calm assurance thai he should be aroused at the proper hour.

He seemod hardly to have fallen into sound sleep when he heard a terrific pound ing at his door. Jle sprang up wideawake "What's the matter?" he called out. "Four o'clock! Four o'clock!" came the landlord's voice from the other side of the door. "Two hours more to sleep!"

It is needless to say that the guest slopt no more that morning. The landlord's anxiety to be "extra accommodating" failed of its mark that time.—Youth's Companion.

With a huge spring—hia legs doubled up and bis arms whirling like a windmill to beep his balance—he Jumped.

It was a fine effort, but he ooold not reg&n bis feet and went rolling over and *orer down the hillside in the snow. That

she

did not kill himself during his series of -somersaults, with nine feet, of wood dropped to each foot, seemed to be miracU1QUS." But he came out of bis 6now bath noiie the worse. r' He was hardly out of the way when No. appeared upon the platform. He was luckier or more skillful, and after his jump recovered himself and. sped away 'down to the lake.

So,

in rapid succession, the racers followed each other. Fully half of them "landed on their feet, and no one was hurt, though a few ski were broken. The man who made the longest jump—-88 feet—did not regain his footing, and Hie prizes—the king's cup and the ladies' puree—went to another ma&.

We looked on and. marveled, concludes Mrs. Tweedie.

•-'V

Strange Relationships In l&arriage. It is rarely that a daoghtee becomes her mother's mother-in-law, yet this.fCurious coincidence does occasionally hafifon.

A friend of mine, a colonel latbe army, had been a widower for same fears and resided with his sons and daughters in Plymouth.

At a ball given by the officers of his regiment he meta beautiful young girl, with whom he foil desperately in love, and, to make along story short, they wore soon marficd.

At the year's end there was an addition to the family. Of course the mother came to be with her daughter on this interesting occasiup, and being a handsome, well preserved woman, thq colonel's eldest son became much attached to her and before long led hor to the hymeneal altar. Thus the daughter became mother-in-law to her own mother.

Another strange relationship is that of a lady who is mother-in-law to her two sisters in a somewhat similar fashion to the above, they having married her stepsons. I myself am cousin to my own sister, she having espoused my husbaud's first cousin, and am second cousin to my nephews—her sons.—-London Tit-Bits.

Does Smoking Cause Cancer? ir While many surgeons deny the existence of "smokers' cancer," others now indicate tobacco as the cause of cancer of the lipe and nasal fossae. The disease from this oanse is said to be lobulated epithelioma, sometimes composed of mucous and sometimes of horny tissue. It shows particularly among smokers who pay no attention to the cleaning of the mouth, who smoke short clay pipes to the bottom and who use an inferior quality of tobacco. The umlerlip or part of the tongue most in oohtact with the overheated stem of the pipe is most frequently attacked. Contagion' from two men using the same pipe

snriveieu as a waHimrwoujciu uouub. xnay result. When an early operation is it was. A wrinkled, puckered piece of. performed on cancroids situated on the lip, parchment, faded out of all semblance of prognosis may be favorable, but the parchment, faded out of all semblance of prognosis may be favorable, but the legibility. That it created consternations

reTerse

among the offioials of the department was »—^—1—j very apparent, for all feel as though some great calamity had befallen the land, more than the land, for the Declaration of In dependence was the trueKohinoor (light of the world), and its destruction, however it oame about, through design or ignorance, was a world's loss whloh can never be replaced. "From the foregoing statement you will be ready for the statement which "I now deliberately make—that either in Chicago, on the way back from Chicago or after its receipt at the department.of state and before it was replaced in its case in the library for public inspection it was tampered with. "By rwhom- or -for what purpose I have not the remotest idea, hut ad nearly all the people who had oharge of it in the department while it was in Chicago are still in the department it- should not be impossible to fix the bjame for and to reach the cause of its destruction, for it is now as dead as a mUmmy in a pyramid. "It is nonsense to assert that this great document should

held its-own for 50

years or more and then, without cause, hnve instantly shriveled, up and faded Gut in the one or two days,it was left on exhibition is the department after its return from Chioago, for itwas as suddenly withdrawn as it Was put up. The evidence of foul' piny was too apparent, and:hence iti was consigned to its tomb and a facsimile? put up for publio worship."—New York Journal. !-T

|a the case when the tonsils or

tongue is attacked. Smokers Should use a pipe with an amber moutbpiece, and it should never be smoked to the bottom. Acrid tobacco should be avoided.—'Chicago Inter Ocean.

father Bonomi's Imprisonmnent. Father Bonomi relates the following about his imprisonment together with Father Rossignoli: "When wo were taken prisoners and conveyed to El-Obeid, our clothes were torn from us, leaving us only a few rags. Our crucifixes and crosses were also taken, as they seemed to be of some material value. When we appeared before the mahdi, he exhorted UB to embrace Mohammedanism, and. when we refuged he exclaimed, 'Well, then, tomorrow. we will behead you.' The next day we were surrounded by an army of soldiers, perhaps 40,000. We expected.to be executed Immediately, but the mahdi ordered the execution to be put off indefinitely. After this we were no more molested, not even put in irons, but we had hardly any means of living. Sometimes we dined at the mahdi's table, which was very scanty. A dish contained a curious mixture from which each took with his fingers the portion he liked."—-London lsews.

Miniature Painting an E*actlng Art. Those who know only the finished'miniature and have

tiny

The Fickle Parisian Public. The Parisian world was in fact very jqq iies.—St. Louis Republic fiokle. Society had been much exercised

grave men who sincerely desired their

country's welfare were profoundly moved humored and coaxed—the ^poorest Korean and whispered serious forebodings to each

^orld4at large was sensitive to

both currents thpught4 but in the main

the masses'jCfm^dered the coming corona-

ij ft & Jump big on BM$ Ids "There is nothing a Norwegian cannot do on ski," says Mrs. Tweedie, with pardonable exaggeration, after witnessing the annual jumping contest at Christiania. The hillside on which' the contest took place was "almost perpendicular," arid ran down to the edge of a lake, on the icy surface of which were gathered mafly thousands of spectators.

Halfway up the hill was a small, low platform, built out in the snow, and so steep was the desdent that the edge oj the platform gave an opportunity lor a le^p of 80 or 90 feet.

There were 105 competitors, each wearing a large number on his breast. At the word No. 1 rushed from the plateau on the hilltop down the hill it: self. The pace was tremftndduS/, On he came till he reached the platforih.^" Tficfr

acquaintance with the

method of its production xjannot conceive of the labor that it represents.- Each of these

ma^berpieces*-tbese '. ornaments

'with human identification—these concentrated expressions of pictoral art—stands fo» more-toil, of a peculiarly exacting sort, than the largest canvas. The brushes/some of them containing scarcely half a dozen hairs, make strokes so fine that most of the painting must be done under a magnifying glass. And the touches on the frail bit of ivory must be as unerring as they are light, for the smallest mistake ijiay destroy the characteristic translucence that constitutes the miniature's greatest charm.—Nancy Houston Banks iniLadies' Home Journal.

Earth Curvature and Visiter One of the seven wonders of the ancient wofld" was the Pharos, or light tower at- Alexandria. If you have a popular account of that great structure handy, read it carefully and note that you are informed that the tower could be seen at a distance of from 100 to 150 miles. Let tis see if this could possibly be true. The curvature of the globe is 6.99 inches to the mile. This being true, we find that an object 100 feet high can only bo seen at a fraction over 18 miles. Figuring on the basis of an earth curvature of even seven inches to the mile, we find that the light tower in question must have been over a mile in height if visible even at a distance

The Clever Korean Woman. Out of a few simple ingredients—which her western sister would scorn—and with

over the execution of Engbien rumors of coming war furnished interesting topics of conversation. The giddy majority had a few passing emotions, gossiped about ^Yew^sinTplelmplements—that that sister one theme and the other alternately and

then went on with its amusement*. The

woui,i uot

out

understand—often almost with-

impiemt,nts and with little fire—fire

that milst be COaxfid

woman Wiu prCpare

gry

cleQn to

tlon ceremonies^ ihe splendors of empire, ^jrs_ Miln's and the prospects for unbounded glory opened by Napoleon's unhampered control vastly more entertaining as the subject of speculation than anything else. They were not deceived in some portions of their dreams the time of imperial grandeur was at hand, tfye influence of French civilization was inarching over Europe, the dazzling vision of France as supreme in prestige and renown was opening oh their view.—"Life of Napoleon," bv Professor' William M. Sloane, in Ceiv

and humored, and

a meaj which no hun-

European, prince or peasant, need

BCOrn to eat

wjji

be savory,wholesome,

daintiness 8

Quaint Korea."

Ixpe

de Tegflf-

Lope de Vega, the famous Spanish dramatist and poet, liwd from 1682 to 1036. His literary work began when he was about 13 years old, and from that time until his death, a period of 80 years, he poured forth an enormous quantity of plays, dramatic compositions of all kinds, prieins of every character, breathing every Spirit from the strictest asceticism to the inost unbridled license. Over 1,800 plays are credited to bim, and the published col* lection, comprising about 300, is ooiitained in 28 volumes.

The Scotch.

The Scottish people were the Scoti, the prehistoric invaders of Ireland. They are supposed to have been either Germans or Slavonians. Ireland was called Scotia from the fourth to the tenth century. In the reign of Henry II, 1154, it began to be called Ireland. The Scot! also settled Scotland. and there retained their original designation. rhm

Now-

MJxp15

"Demosthenes acquired eloquence and success by talking with pebbles in hiB mouth." "Yes, but men. who succeed nowadays have tb havtrTOckft in."their pockets."—

DOCTORS IN CHINA.

DANGIRS MEDICAL MISSIONARIES HAVE TO fcNCOUNTERt^

Instructions Disobeyed and Various Obstacles to Prevent the Recovery of the Afflicted— IgaonaM Makes the CIUimk

Hard Patients.

The Stfe of a medical missionary in China is filled with difficulties any one ol which may become a source of positive danger at any tfano. .T.

In the making, of a diagnosis many perils lurk. The fever thermometer, the tongue depressor cr tho stethoscope map be remembered as an evil'implement-to the hands of the foreign woman, calling down upon the patient a bad spirit, if he should happen to die even at some far distant time, while the use of more complicated instruments in examining the throat, nose or eye is advisable only in selected oases.

In prescribing medicines not only is the fear of a future acousation of poisoning ever present, but the possibility that it may prove to be a reality. Thus a bottle of liniment curing the venerable grandmother of rheumatism may be lent to a neighbor stricken with smallpox as an infallible remedy, or the entire contents of a vial of toothache medicine be administered in one dose to a-teething infant. And

is of any benefit the whQle bottleful, taken at once, multiplies its usefulness in a corresponding ratio. Therefore, if not previously warned, experience soon teaches the missionary to make it an Infallible rule never to dispense a poisonous remedy or one which could do harm if the entire quantity were taken at once. Liniments and toothache drops compounded of nonpoisonous drugs may not he highly potent, but they are at least harmless.

Against the administration of an aosesthetlp there is the greatest prejudice, the condition of temporary unconsciousness produced fey it being beyond Chinese comprehension. In the majority of oases, however, it is easily dispensed with, the stoicism or the insensibility to palh-of the average

Chinese being remarkable. He or

she will open the mouth and submit to having every tooth extracted without a grimace or a groan, and it is with apparent enjoyment that one receives the thrusts of the long, sinuous acupuncture needle —acupuncture,!universal panacea,' is the chief native surgioal procedure—imbedded five inches in his swollen rheumatic knee again and again by a native surgeon.

The dread of smallpox and cholera displayed by foreigners fills the CeleWflal mind with surprise, and any show ofNkbgolute fear with the utmost dpntem^t. "Why be afraid of smallpox," they 'ftSk, "when thousands of Chinamen 'die Mifiiit every yearP Wo know thore is tftfthfttgi. to fear from it." In these cases th^forldTn hope of the Chinese leech is the7 famotis red pills—lingo pao you tan, the supernatural treasure for all desires—globules of the bigness of a pin's head, whose composition is secret and whose curative properties are in Chinese eyes unequaled. Advantage is taken of the fact that the powder when puffed up the nose acts like snuff in producing sneezing to prognosticate a case of cholera or other illness. If a pinch will not produce one sneeze, the man will' die in a short time if he sneezes once, he will live at least one day longer If twice, two days if 20 times, 20 days, and thus the ratio continues.

During an epidemic of either of those oontagious diseases patients so afflicted are daily brought to the hospital, asking for admission, but the reasons for thoir rejection fall upon uncomprehending and dissatisfied minds. It is utterly impossible to establish any form of quarantine or to prevent members of infected families from going wherever they desire, while the physician has groat reason to congratulate berrolf if she succeeds in excluding them from visiting the dispensary and hospital wards.—Philadelphia Timos.

AN INSECT CATCH Ear

plant Named Xterlinfftonta That xTares Insects to pe»tractlonv California has a trumpet leaf more remarkable than those that grow in the east. It is the darlingtoniaj named for Di Darlington, a famous botanist who lived near^ Philadelphia many, years ago. In the mountains where it grows the people call it calf's bead from the shape of the pitchers. These are sometimes three feet tall and are covered at top by a sort of hoed that bends down over the mouth. The hood ends in two spreading wings that give it the look of a fish's toll. Like the other trumpet leafs, darlingtonia has its pitohers brightly colored, so as to catch the eyes of flying insect* and lure them to their destruction. Around the mouth of the pitcher, along the fish tail and often dowii the wing on one side there is a little of the sweetish, sticky substance thnt offers a bait to the visitor, tempting him to come always a little farther in search of more.

The upper side of the fish tail and the inside of the pitchers are covered with stiff hfilrs that point downward. Master

Ineee* finds It mmf **k to epnrl down Into pitcher, hot tf ha gets frightened by the darkness at the bottom and tries to return as to casne be finds these hairs very much la hl« way. So at length, woroout hy his vain efforts to climb up, he usually Calls Into the well beneath him.

But even if he is strong enough to get past the hairs he is not likely to find hi* way to the opening, for that is quite dark, while the hood oovwing the pitchor Mr lighted up by thin yellow dots (Battered: over it, much like the oii paper that people covered their windows with in the. old days before glass was common. The poor. prisoner beats around inside the hood* a wasp on a window pane, until he if tiled '-.: out and drcps to the bottom, The Call* forniai insect catcher seta its trap for hig game.- Grasshoppers, bees, hornets, but-. terfliesTand now and then a snail are cap-"-tured hy it, besides many a smaller mor*-" ael. It is one of the hungriest of the in-' sect eating plants.—Thomaa B. Kearney,, Jr., in St. Nicholas.

without exception the heathen Celestial there is no address. In r.ine cases out reason that if a small portion of medicine

When it is absolutely necessary to administer a powerful remedy several times or for several days in suocesslon^tbd dec tor puts each dose up In a sepas&te vial*1 evidence each time I wfcs there, the P®*" powder or capsule, and, leaving theia st P^ted

the dispensary with a, trained Amei'.rian nurse or other foreign holper, directs thai a servant or child of the patient be sent there for one every throe hours, orvthree times a day, as the case may require^ otherwise it would all be taken at ojpco or divided among ailing neighbors/-

In rare instances, where the"~sU2forer belongs to the household of a great- dignitary or is otherwise of especial importance, the doctor may remain herself or leave her nurse to administer the drafts, but this can rarely be done In a country where one treats 20,000 or 80,000 patients annually.

To guard the closets containing drugs against depredations the utmost precautions are necessary. As there is no privacy in China, any attempt in that direction producing suspicion of hidden evils perilous to the welfare of a foreigner, the ourious natives peer into the open doors of a dispensary, and even the well ones crowd Inside during dispensing hours to observo proceedings. They watch the ourious foreign woman mixing various powdors and potions seemingly in a haphazard fashion, with the passionate desirb to do likewise, which will be gratified if the closet is ever found unlocked. Meanwhile there is some satisfaction in attempting to extract a powder from the table, a bottle from the oloset or even a little dust spilled from a paper bag, attempts seldom successful. The incentive is usually opium, though It may be mere curiosity.

In the matter of drugs thg most faithful servant in the mission hospital oaq never be trusted, nor can the native assistant nurses, no matter how carefully trained, be allowed, .as a rule, to handle or administer medicine.

The complications and responsibilities usually attendant upon grave operations are in China multiplied a thousandfold. For reasons explained above, an operation must never bo done in private, but in a room where it is possible for the natives to observe the mysterious rites from outside posts of observation. It is possible that they may take alaita at any stage of the proceeding^, to be appeased only with great difficulty, and the death of tho patient may be followed by an open revolt. On the contrary, if the (Speration is successful, people afflicted with all sorts of irremetlial surgical ailments in nowise resembling the preceding one are brought to the little hospital with the demand that they also be relieved.

Letters With Queer Addresses. "It is wonderful how much confidence people have in a letter carrier's ability to deliver letters," said a letter carrier. "Very cften we have letters to deliver with scarcely any address at all and even that imperfect. If they manage, howevar, to got the number of the house and thogp street right, we can generally do the rest,^| it matters not how the fcames aw spelled,p|?: or even if they have fceen left off altogether. In other instances the "names are all rlght,^,

f«u sn"h

letters teadh their destination,

though they are often somewhat delayed. I had a letter a few days ago whioh illustrates my Idea. It was addressed to a publio wagor stand, to be delivered to thf 'driver of a gray horse'with a Covered fup,: nitnre wagon, the wagon being painted^ green.' It was the last Word that secured^ the delivery, for it happens there are tbrt* white horses which are usually on thai stand, but there was only one green paint' cd wagon. The laughable part of it wa|i that the letter was marked Immediate. I visited that stand three times during thf day, and, though white horses were ix,

not

"how up until mj**

lasttrip. Then tho combination was com-

plete, and I delivered the letter. It wa(. an order for the driver to move some fur*^ nitnre. "Another letter I one** delivered wol-^* equally blindly addrea«r.i. It was" adT'^~ dressed to 'Mr, —=—, who owns two Spitrydogs, one a yellow and the other a gray.! In a note on the back of the envelope, addressed 'To the letter carrier,* the information whs given that the name had slipped the mind of the writer, but that the than with the two dogs was known to cne carrier. It happened that I did know the man nnd had often seem him with his dogs, but h« lived two lilies from my route, though be very' frequently came through it, visitihg his sen, who lived in my district.' He got bis letter, thouah.'^—Washington Star.

I*" .,

Helping Him Out«

Crawley and his wife weye at a dinnerparty the other night, and Crawley, who., ad be a it in re a of a hour for the opportunity, suddenly burs^. out with: "That reminds me of a little story I heard the other day about an absent minded man who was going to take a bath on Saturday night and"— "Ton are mistaken, my dear," said the wife of Crawley's bosom across the table in her calm yet firm voice. "Itwas not Saturday night it was on Wednesday night. You always get it wrong when you try to tell the story, and I think that even a Bimple little story snould be told correctly if at all, and you are so apt to get muddled on the main points of a story that I'd rather help you put by telling the main points myself, which were that the man was very sbsentminded. and one night when he bad filled the bathtub full of .water preparatory-to taking a bath his bead was so full of other things that what did he do but plunge right in without taking off any of his clothes.. Those are the main points, and now you may go on with the story, Mr. Crawley." ...

And Crawlpy laughed .lightly as he said, "I guesMtjere is nothing left to tell, my dear," but the thoughts and 6trong desire# that were hidden *ytt& in the secret recess of his heart #niy Mr. Crawley knew as they went jon.^bsir-,homeward way.— York Woiidi. im. ,\*.i .:!»«•

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.. Hon*#'* Caustic 8atires. Hone's kindly sentiments and whokK^some doctrines appear in.his well known

Table'' and"'' Every,-Bay Book,'' but his caustic 8&tis& QQftobed inja liturgical toxn:,: roused, the Indignation

ofniill

and.

well thinking

people—that is to say, of all those who were an tie side of the ministerial party, to whioh Hone was politically opposed. He was charged with writing impious, profane ond^scandalous libels" on that part of our church service ealled the catechis(n and other part^ tbsreof, with intent to bring these works into oontempt. "Hoping

believing that you are Chris

tians,''' said X.ord- Ellen borough, on concluding his address to the jury, "I dottbt. not that your verdict will be in accordance with your creed." But the jury found Hone not guilty, *nd emphasised their findings by Initiating a subscription for the accused, which.amounted to several thousand pounds.

Ellenborough says Campbell, bought six red herrings on his way homo after the trial, but never again held up his head in public. For him these political squibs, were the dissemination of an awful system of impiety, and there is not the slightest doubt that he inought it as much his duty to put Hone in jail 4or his parodies as to condemn a poor wretch to death for stealing in a shop to tho value of 6 shillings. To Sir Matthew Halo, in the Bury St. Edmund's trial, a disbelief in witchcraft was all one with a disbelief in Christianity, and Ellenborough saw an abrogation of the commandments in a parody of the catechism.—Quarterly Rovlew.

Kip Van Wink'-:- In China. A Chinese writer, Toheng Ki Tong, d» scribes Chinese choss as gamo of patuv.ee. It is played with 301 pawns, and the player sometimes deliberates half an hour before moving one of them. Literary men and ladies are said to bo fond of it, and what sounds more likely "people who have retired from business." There are three sounds, the writer says, which help to turn one's thoughts toward what is pure and delicate—the sound of falling water, the murmur of wind in the trees, and the rattle of chess pawns.

In the time of the Tcbing dyhasty, as thfc story goes, a woodcutter who had gjone to tho top or a pountalri for a day's work found two young men there playing chess. He stopped to look on and presently became deeply interested, and after awhile one of the players gavb him a piece of candied fruit'to cat.J

The game grew more and mere exciting. The woodcutter forgot his work and sat hour aftor hour with his eyes on the board. At last he happened to look at his ax. Th« handle of it bad rotted away.

That frightened him. Ho Jumped up and hastened down the mountain to the village. Alas!

Among

all tho people in the

street he reoognlzed not one, and he found on inquiry that several centuri.es hod passed since he started out with his ax.

Unfortunately Put.

A French provincial newspaper which boasts of it* large circulation publishes the following naive announcement on the subject of a charity concert: "We advise all our readers to secure their seats in advance on account of the smallness of the hall, which ooiy holds about 50 persons."