The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1881-05-26

              THE ItEPUMJCAN. ADVERTISING BATES. NOB COUNTY T-FTJBLiaHKD One column one year $100 09 Oue-half colnmn one year 50 00 One-fourth column one year 25 00. Cue-eighth column one year 13 00 Bond Notices, $3.00 ; Attachment Notices, $2.50; Legal advertising at the rate prescribed by law. Local advertisimg ten cents per line for every publication. Obituary Resolutions from Orders and Socie-ties, when they exceed six lines, five cents per line for each additional line of eight words; money to accompany the resolutions. EVERY THURSDAY, JLjUU OALDWELL, NOBLE CO., OHIO. TBRMS: $1.S0 per yewt. in advance. Address all letters to W. H. COO LEX, Caldwell. Noble Co.. O. VOL. XXII. CALDWELL, O., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1881. NO. 43. REPUBLICAN, A FAIR INVALID. The Doctor at last, did you say, Jane? I wonder what makes him so late! Pull the blind down, and hand me that mirror; Here, see if this afghan is straight. Good afternoon, Doctor. The matter? That's just what I want you to say. I've a headache, am awfully nervous. And quite out of sorts every way. I've no appetite yes, those are candies; Don't you think that bonbonniere's neat? Help yourself. No? You'll find them delicious; They're the only thing I can eat. The heat of the room makes my head ache, . Perhaps? Why, pray how can that be? The mercury indicates eighty? Ah, well, I'm so chilly, you see. Take exercise? Certainly, Doctor; I drive when I'm able; hut pray Don't you see for yourself I'm unequa To any exertion to-day? My pulse is all right? Really, Doctor, I don't think you quite understand. Indeed, I am awfully nervous. And feverish, too feel my hand I Please give me some simple prescription Just something to make me feel bright; I've an opera party to-morrow, And tha Ankays grand ball is to-night. Harper' Bazar. KIT'S LUCK. Dear! 0 dear? What shall I do? Just my luck exactly ! I am always getting into scrapes of some kind. To think of my making such a mistake. Why, just jad this letter: Mrss Hammond Am very much obliged for the receipt of so great an amount for the slight service rendered you, but respectfully decline the same, as I am plentifully supplied with pocket money at present. Should my college demand be greater than the supply, however, may call on you for amount due. Respectfully yours, Frederick J. Ross. 64 Afton Place, May 8, 1800. Now, how could 1 have possibly divined that that man was the great Fred Ross, heir-apparent of the beautiful estate adjoining ours? But I suppose you'll be dying of curiosity to know what all this rumpus is about, so I'll begin at the beginning. You see we had just moved into the little cottage next the great Ross mansion. It was a lovely little place, with its vine covered verandas, large yard and great shade trees, but of course the former occupants had left both house and yard terribly dirty. Well, I was up to "my neck in dirt and confusion, and there was nobody to be found to help us, of course. Our girls always happened to get sick at moving-time; so I just up and told the last one that she might prolong her sickness to an indefinite period: that is. that she might go. So she went. Mamma and I had to do everything in consequence scrub windows and floors, tack down carpets, hang, curtains and in fact work ourselves to mere skin and bone. Well, I did not mind this so much as having to clean the yard. In the first fplace I did not enjoy that kind of work, and in the second place I did not want anybody from Mrs. Ross' to see me looking so dreadfully, for you know I could not look very charming cleaning the yard. You may think me very silly but I'm young, and I had heard a good deal about Fred Ross in fact, half the girls in Stonington had lost their hearts over him. Now you need not tnmK rm going to make myselt out any great beautv, for I'm not. I have brown hair, a dark skin and a sort of pug nose. Well, I have got handsome eyes, at least every one says so, and on yes! one other pretty thing, a dimple in my chin. I'm fat, too (everybody says plump because" they don't want to hurt my feelings, but " fat" is the out and out truth). There is Susie Margrave, (I can't bear her), one of your dreamy, ethereal beauties; she never misses an opportunity, especially if the boys are around, of saying:: " What plump little figure Dot has!" and I feel like tearing her to pieces every time sue says it. uut, dear me! where was I? O, yes, going out to clean the yard. Well I looked particularly horrid that morning. I had a garden hat Red un der my cnin, my sleeves tucked up above my elbow and my dress pinned up round my waist. I was raking and scraping at a fine rate when I happened to look up and saw a man in the opposite yard, leaning complacently on his spade, staring at me from under his broad-brimmed hat. " What a rude man," I thought. " I just suppose he thinks I'm the hired firl." Just then a thought struck me; would get him to come over and clean our yard when he had finished Ross'. ' Say, sir," I called. The man came nearer, " Will you clean this yard when you have finished that one? I have tried very hard to secure help, but have not succeeded, and will pay you well for your job." I added this last with much dignity, in order to impress upon the man's mind that I was not the ' servant. I could see nothing of his face but his mouth, and I noticed a peculiar smile lurking round the corners all the time 1 was speaking. Well, we finally made arrangements, and the next day he came over and cleaned the yard beautifully. 1 complimented him for his work, paid and dismissed him. He kept his hat down over his eyes all the time so that I had not the least idea of what he looked like. But little cared I for that so he did his work well. Well, now you come just where I was this morning. Two or three weeks passed and T had forgotten all- about the circumstance, when this morning I saw a young ieuow drive away from Mr. Ross', and two hours after the postman brought me this letter. Now, was there ever anything so mortifying? That man I hired to clean our yard was no other than ired Koss. O, dear me! I hope I shall never meet him anywhere. But my " luck " is a by-woijl. Indeed, it has passed into a regular proverb at school. If anything goes wrong with me the girls always say, "O, it's Kit's luck!" So 1 will just have to grin and bear this. the Professors good-bye, etc., when a little negro came toward me and handed me the most beautiful basket of flowers i ever saw. Attached to it was a card, and what do you think was on it? "Compliments and congratulations of Mrs. Ross' 'hired man.' " Now wasn't that impudent? I could have crushed the whole thing under my foot. I didn't though, it was too pretty. And I was not exactly mad either, for 1 was the only one to whom he had sent flowers, so 1 felt a little bit flattered. May be you think that was very silly also, but I don't pretend to be anything but a silly girl just let loose from school, so that settles it. That evening " Mrs. Ross' hired man," in other words, Mr. Frederick Ross, Jr., came over to oiler congratulations. And I don't exactly know how it was, but he came quite often that summer. Indeed, things were going on quite swimmingly (I think he was a little bit in love with me, and I am sure I was in the sime condition), when my luck, in the form of a pretty cousin of his, just spoiled everything. At least so I thought Mrs. Ross had invited a niece of hers to spend a few weeks with her, and oi course Fred said he must pay her a good deal of attention, out ot courtesy. Butshe was just awfully pretty.and don't you think I could see how things were going? Why Fred was madly in love with her, as any one with two eyes could see. He took her out riding, to parties, concerts, the opera, and in tact scarcely left her side a moment. I tried to harden myself by saying that he had never cared for me one bit, but that would not help me, as I could not con ceal the fact from myself that I loved him. oo 1 just entered a perlect whirl pool of gayetv, flirted desperately and finally gained the reputation of being a regular society coquet. Well, at last that hateful cousin (I don t call hei hateful now) went away, and wasn't I glad though no one would have dreamed I cared anything about it. Fred commenced coming to our house again, but wasn't I cool to him! Why, ot course 1 was not going to be the play thing of the hour, to be picked up and laid aside when it suited his convenience. Well, Fred went away to college, and wrote and requested me to correspond with him. I did not want to at first, but at last consented, and when he came home at Uhristmas we were quite good friends again. I won't worry you with all our spats and " mak- ing3-up." Fred graduated from the University with high honors and came home, bringing his pretty cousin with him. But this time I was not worried one bit, ior Fred had explained all that in his letters, xou see, she was engaged, but her familv were poor, and her affianced only moderately well off: so she was not much of a society gir and had very few pleasures. Fred, therefore, wanted her to have a splendid time, and took her around a great deal. So you may know by reason of this explanation! was made happy. The evening Fred got home he sent over a note asking permission to call and bring his cousin. I just wished that he had lett that cousin out of the engagement, but replied that I should be de lighted, etc. I was in a flutter of excitement, for you must know 1 had not seen Fred for nearly a year. So I dressed myself with great care. Fred and hi cousin came about dusk, and we sat on the front veranda and had a lovelv time for about an hour. By and by I began to see for what reason Fred had brought his cousin, for she began talking to mamma, and Fred came and sat. on the steps at my feet. I can't tell just how it was, but after awhile Fred and I were way round on the side veranda, and well, I am not going to tell you any more; may be you'll know yourself some day. When we came round to the front porch Fred walked up to mamma and asked her if she could let him have the pay for cleaning the yard. Mamma looked up at him in a puzzled way and he laughingly drew me to his side and said that f was the price that he demanded. Mamma gave us her blessing and well, I am just as happy as I can be, and am to be married next week, and Fred's pretty cousin is to be my bridesmaid. Although I think Fred was paid too well for that day's work, still I don't think that " Kit's Luck" was so badafterall. Doyou? Chicago Tribune. Curiosities In Photography. Well! Well! How long it is since I began my story. But I suppose since I did begin it you will want to know the rest. Cut, on! So much has happened since then that I hardly know where to begin. Well, after I received that letter I felt pretty badly. But the preparations for our graduating exercises at school put every thing else out of mind. How we girls did study and practice until all ot us became quite as ethereal in appearance as we could wish. At last arrived " the great, the important day, big with the fate" (not of Cii'sar and of Rome, but of a bevy of tired, expectant school girls), and we found ourselves seated in a goodly array on the platform, before a crowded house, and trembling as if we were going to be executed. 1 don'tknow when my turn came. I only know I found nivsclt standing belore a " sea of upturned faces," reading away as though my life depended on it and with a great feeling of joy in my heart when 1 came to Mie last page of my essay. I have a dazed reoollection of sitting down amidst a thunder of applause and a shower or bouquets. At hist the ex ercises were over, and the people were going away. I was in a whirl of ex-citnmonl (limiting to the plrls, bidding "The question is often asked," said an experienced photographer, "why actors and actresses take the most pleasing pictures. It is because they study the principles of art and good taste in their profession, and understand how to dress. Moreover, they usually bring a selection of veils, flowers, curls, braids, laces, and sometimes costumes, to give the photographer a choice of accessories. They come when they are wholly at leisure, and are not flustered. A red face takes black, and they know it. Then they do not load themselves down with gewgaws and haberdasheries, to show all that they have got in worldly goods. Few persons know how to dress for a picture like an actress. The best materials for ladies to wear when about to sit for a photograph are such as will fold or drape nicely, like reps, winceys, poplins, satins and silks. Lavender, lilac, sky blue, purple and French blue take very light, and are worse for a picture than pure white. Corn color and salmon are better. China pink, rose pink, magenta, crimson, pea green, butt, plum color, dark purple, pure yellow, Mazarine blue, navy blue, fawn color, Quaker color, dove color, ashes of roses and stone color show a pretty light gray in the photograph. Scarlet, claret, garnet, sea green, light orange, leather color, light Bismarck and slate color take still darker and are excellent colors to pho tograph. Cherry, wine color, light apple green, Metternich green, dark apple green, bottle green, dark orange, gold en and red brown, show nearly the same agreeable color in the picture. A black silk always looks well, and it takes well if not bedecked with ribbons and laces that will take white. . Dark Bismarck and snuff brown usually take blacker than a black silk or satin and are not easy to drape. A silk, because it has more gloss and reflects more light, usually takes lighter than a wool en dress. Ladies with dark or brown hair should avoid contrasts in their costumes, as light substances photograph more quickly than dark, and ladies with light hair should dress in something lighter than those whose hair is dark ot brown. Few ladies understand how to arrange their hair so as to harmonize with the form of the head, but blindly follow the fashion, be the neck long oi short or the face narrow or broad. A broad face appears more so if the hail is arranged low over the forehead or is parted at the side, and a long neck becomes stork like when the hair is built up high, while a few curls would make a most agreeable change in the effect. Powdered hair gives good effect ami powder should be bestowed upon fi'pcklps." JV. 1', Sttn. The Anti-Bourbon Party The essential fact in American politics is that a Solid South is a standing men ace to the peace and prosperity of the country. The experience of fifteen years has convinced the people of the North that defeat in the field has not changed the purpose of the Southern Bourbons. The Northern people would ladly think otherwise; would gladly elieve that the party which staked all and lost', in its rule or ruin venture, had relinquished its design, and was willing to abide the results of the stern arbitrament to which it appealed. Un happily there has been no exhibition ot any such . disposition, no sign of any such acceptance. The Democratic party of the South is to-day wh:it it always was, with the single exception that it not the institution of slavery to fight for. It is anti-progressive, arrogant, intolerant, hostile to freedom of speech and of the ballot a Bourbou oligarchy. This Bourbon oligarchy is in a minority m the South. It has gained power by violence and fraud, and it is resol d to perpetuate it. To this end it per- u-cutes its opponents with all the rough and violent methods of earlier t mes; it exalts itself above the law, uud upon the impudent assumption that only the Bourbons are competent to rule wisely, justifies its resort to fraud; :.iid again ii all opposition it wields with the force of long habit the unmanly anu cowardly weapon of social ostracism. Bourbonism at the South sits intrenched tradition, habit, the ties of long as sociation, the memories of mutual sacrifice for a lost cause, and the force of social caste; and it does not change or budge an inch. Whoever becomes im bued with progressive ideas, or ex presses a desire to promote the welfare of the South by other means than the continuance of Bourbon intolerance and Bourbon rule, is ruthlessly expelled, no matter what his rank or social position. It is just this Bourbonism that Senator Mahone and his party in Virginia attacked in its citadel. It is Bourbon-isra that stands at bay to-day in the Senate of the United States, obstructing the regular order of proceedings and delaying the public business for the sake of putting down the only formidable insurrection that has ever arisen in its own ranks. The Bourbon Senators have a very clear comprehension of the situation and of the peril to their power that it involves. Up to the present time they have had no difficulty in putting down any symptom of a rising against them. When an individual protested against continuing the control of the politics of the Southern States in the hands which had brought so much mischief upon them, and were working in the same direction with pur poses unchanged, they have either brought him back, as Senator Brown, of Georgia, virtually confesses that they did him, by making it uncomtortable and unsafe for him, or they have simply labeled him as a Republican, with the implication of renegade and traitor which they have contrived that the name shall carry as in the case of Longstreet and Mosby and destroyed his influence. They have apparently settled one thing, and that is that no man can as a rule be safe in the pursuit of his business, or have any social recognition, or stand as a reputable citi zen, who is known as a Republican, or who votes the Republican ticket. In this state of affairs is there any key required to the savage onslaught of the Bourbons upon Senator Mahone, who cannot be driven by threats nor cajoled by promises; whose influence cannot be wiped out by putting the Republican label on him, but" who makes his own fight on his own ground and in his own effective way? What Mr. Ben Hill started out to do at the opening of this debate was to force Mahone to call himself a Republican. To this purpose all the catechizing and nagging and bullying, the slurs, hints and insinuations of the Bourbon Senators have been directed. To bring this about Senator Beck resorted to the most unusual and indecent course of refusing to permit a Democrat to make a pair with him unless he should confess himself a Republican. When we consider the treatment which Republi cans receive throughout the South, the bitter hostility and the social ostracism visited upon them, and the fate of prominent Southern men who have joined the Republican party, the anxie ty which these Bourbons manifest, and the desperation with which they pursue their purpose to compel Mahone to call himself a Republican, are easily understood. Let him once say he is a Republican, and proposes to act hereafter upon all questions with the Republican party, and their point would be gaiued. In their confidence that the Republican party of itself, and in its own name, can make no headway in dividing them, the Southern Bourbons would yield the moment that admission was secured, and then stake all in their fight against him upon an appeal to the rooted prejudice against the Republicans among the citizens of the South. Let there be no mistake about the real meaning of this struggle. It is a fight, so far as the South is concerned, between the Bourbons and the. Anti-Bourbons. The local issues in Virginia on which the latter party sent Mr. Mahone to the Senate, sink into insignificance beside the larger one whioh the Bourbon demonstration has forced into prominence. The party in Virginia might well lay aside the name of Readjusters, which has no meaning outside the State, and adopt a name under which thousands of young men throughout the South, imbued with the spirit of progress and eager for the rise of a new dispensation and a new South, can rally that of the Anti-Bourbon party. That name would define its purpose with clearness and precision, at the same time that it re moved all ground of prejudice and took out of the hands of the Bourbons one of their strongest weapons. The uprising of such a party, though it had no sympathy or alliiiation with Kepub llcans, but aimed simply to promote brogress and prosperity in the South by breaking the intolerant rule which has so long cursed that section, would be hailed with joy by all true friends of the South everywhere. And per haps even Senators Brown and Hill, both of whom, if we rightly understand them, deprecate the continuance of a Solid South, but agree that the Kepublieans of themselves can never divide it, may see their way to join it particularly if it promises to suc ceed. I. hey are both politicians of great versatility, and it would be strange if any new party should come up that Mr. Brown, at least, did not at tach himself to. N. Y. Tribune. Restrictions on the Suffrage. Blind, But Not Unhappy. Several Southern Senators have been able to meet the charge that the right of suffrage is unlawfully violated in their section of the country with no stronger defense than a counter-charge that the right of suffrage is restricted by law in certain Northern States. An inability to see any difference in the moral quality of the two offenses, allowing both to be offenses, would certainly indicate a remarkable obtnseness in regard to moral distinctions. Whether it is expedient to maintain the restrictions that exist in one or two States is a fair question for discussion, and the policy of maintaining them may be subject to attack by reasonable argument. There is at' least ground for controversy. But to prevent those who are actually clothed with the right of Bunrage bv law trorn emoying its exer cise, and bv violence, intimidation or fraud to subvert the will of the major ity of legal voters, is a practice about which public morality can admit no de bate. Violation o law and the subversion of legal rights allow of no argu ment in their defense. They stand on very different ground from that on which the policy of restricting political rights by Constitutional enactments is defended. The States which are the favorite ob jects of attack with those defenders of Southern practices who hnd it dimcult to support their cause with argument are Massachusetts and iihoae island, two of the most enlightened and orderly of the New-England Commonwealths. Rhode Islrvnd is a conservative little State. Down to less than forty years ago she continued to live under her old colonial charter, which afforded all the machinery of local government that was found necessary. It is a State of small area and relatively large population. 1 - is almost wholly devoted to manufactures, which concentrates its population in towns and attracts a large proportion of foreign laborers. It has deemed that its interest and security required a restriction of the suffrage in the case of foreign-bom citizens. In order to yote they must hold $134 worth of real estate or pay an annual rental of at least $7. The qualification is not onerous, but it serves the purpose of excluding a considerable class of persons least likely to be intelligent, thrifty, and endowed writh a sense of civic responsibility. It undoubtedly works some hardships and disfranchises some very worthy citizens. It is in violation of the principle of universal suffrage, and it is a question whether it is to be justified by the amount of benefit which it secures. Massachusetts, which from her earliest colonial days has fostered and promoted popular education with zeal and liberality, requires her citizens to read and write in order to vote. The require ment is at once an encouragement to education and a safeguard for the suffrage, and, so long as schools are provided free for all, it is easily justified. It mitigates to some extent the difficulties experienced in other States, especially in their large cities, that spring from ignorant voting. But there are grounds on which it can be assailed as a matter of policy, ttibugh the discussion is one over whose results Massachusetts has exclusive control. The offense charged upon the people of the South is quite different from that which furnishes the retort against Massachusetts and Rhode Island. For reasons and under circumstances which need not be recalled, the people of the United States, by a change in the or ganic law of the Nation, declared that no distinctions should be made among citizens in regard to the suffrage on ac count of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. That prohibition was entirely justified by the causes and circumstances which impelled its adop tion, and its wisdom will be more and more clearlv vindicated as time pases. No State can by its own laws violate it; in no Northern State is the violation of its spirit or intent by unlawful means justified or tolerated. That the case is different in the South is generally admitted, and attempts at justification are made. It is claimed that there the colored people are very numerous, and the mass of them are uneducated and unfit to exercise the rights of citizen ship. Much greater reason exists for a reslriction upon the suffrage than in Massachusetts or Rhode Island for the purpose of excluding from its exercise the illiterate and the ihriitiess. it may be said that there is noth'ng to prevent Southern States from establishing an educational or property qualification. provided no discrimination on account of color is made, rsut there is a very serious obstacle in the wav of such a policy. It would involve the taking away of rights which now exist, with the consent of those who hold them. This may be set down at once as wholly impracticable. The apparent hardship of the South ern case may as well be freely admitted, though it does not justi.'y violence and fraud, or obliterate the distinction between such practices and the restrictions upon the suffrage which some Northern States still maintain. The Southern States have a large colored element in their population, which is to a great extent uneducated; the right of sutirage was conterred upon it virtually by the people of the JNorth; the with drawal or qualilication'of that right by law is altogether impracticable, and the task of educating the colored race cannot be accomplished at once. The problem presented is not an easy one, considering the natural prejudices of the people, nor is the difficulty of its solution slight. The suffrage must be tree, the rights ot citizens must be pro tected, and the evil3 of misgovernment that are so apt to spring up where voters are ignorant are to be avoided. The South has a task to deal with in which the North has little share, and in which the North can render it little direct assistance. But first of all, the task should be honestly accepted and not shirked. If a considerable portion of the whites will honestly support and defend the equal rights of the blacks, there wul speedily come a political division of both races that will vastly simplify this task. It is the apprehen sion of this fact that gives for the Northern mind so much significance to the attitude oi senator Mahone. He is regarded as in the van of a movement that would prove a blessing to the colored race, to the southern btates, and to the cause of universal suffrage. N. Y. Times. We blind," said Miss Katy Schalm, in her pleasant home, 500 East Fourteenth Street, yesterday, " have advantages over persons that can see, at least over some of them. For we get along a great deal better than some seeing persons. There are not many bad blind people. And then there is another thing, we don't see so many of the mis eries ot this world as others. But they tell me you are always cheerful. How do you manage to pass the day?" " lhe same as other people. I embroider, knit, read, write, sing and play. 1 shall soon have a new piano." Miss Schalm spent six years in a German institution for the education of the blind at Friedberg, nearFrankfort-on-the-Main, and nine years in the institution for the blind in Ninth Aveuue and Thirty-fourth Street in this city. Walking to a bureau in the room she brought out a pile of beautiful tidies of intricate figures and varying shapes knitted by herself. "I can understand how you can knit but how can you write?" asked the caller. In reply. Miss Schalm took from a table an instrument made of wood, about the length and breadth of a sheet of foolscap. It was made to hold a piece of thick paper in such a way that across the paper would lie two parallel wooden strips. She sat down beside a font of large type. The face of each type is composed of sharp steel points arranged so as to form a large capital letter. These types were deftly selected by Miss Schalm and arranged along the guiding strips. As each was placed in position it was subjected to a slight pressure by the fingers, and when a brief note had been written, the tvpes were taken out and distributed properly in the font. The paper on which they had been set had a backing of several pieces of woolen cloth to al low the steel points to pierce it readily. The types differed from ordinary type in that the face of each was an exact representation of a letter, not a letter in reverse, lhe consequence was that when the pricked paper was reversed the letters were easily legible to the eye, and at the same tune the ringer of blind person could trace th rough ened lines. When Miss Schalm playec Heim- weh," a composition bv Albe t Jung- mann, for her visitor, she had no notes before her. ' All her playing must be from memory of notes previously read with her ringers or by ear. She played readily and sweetly. She can only play a new piece by note with one hand, because the other must be upon the raised or pricked music. Her soprano voice was cultivated during her early education in Germany, arid in all the con certs given by the pupils of the Ihirty fourth Street institution she was a prom inent singer. Since her graduation she has sung in public frequently. She likes best lively airs, either in German or m English. At a recent concert she sang: 8- The discovery of the Hon. Will lam if. Barnum s name as bondsm under one of the most extravagant of the " Star-route contracts excites emo tions of profound grief wherever that pure patriot is known. He has un doubtodly been " imposed upon" Pflaitt that these old crones possess a certain ! knowledge of the virtues of herbs, drugs, etc., and many cases are on record where they succeeded in curing inveterate affections that for years had resisted the doctor's skill. Fevers of all kinds, ague and malaria, are among the most prevalent diseases in Russia diseases which it is currently believed haunt the country in the shape of invisible women, who go from village to village and from house to house in search of some human being, in whom they may conveniently take up their abode. There are said to be twelve such women, or sisters as they are some times called that is, kinds of lever who visit the patient separately. The first visitors are as a rule, only troublesome, not dangerous; but those that come later weaken him considerably, and the "twelfth sister" almost invariably takes the patient's life. By the latter name the peasants call the fever and night-sweats which are the usual symptoms of advanced consumption. Each of these twelve sisters is supposed to have a great dislike to some special mode of treatment, and will at once leave the patient if it should be resorted to. Thus, for ex ample, sister No. 1 is afraid of cutting instruments and sharp tools, and it is strongly recommended to surround the patient's bed with knives, axes, sevthes, spades, saws, etc., which must be laid with their sharp edges turned toward the door. A specihe against sister jno. 2 is an alcoholic extract of twelve kinds of wood, and sister No. 3 can be ex pelled by swallowing a large dose of gunpowder. The ninth sister dreads cold water above all things and will immediately leave a patient who takes a cold bath. There are several other remedies against fever, but they lose their power if employed by the uninitiated, lhe following is rather a curious specimen The village wizard or witch takes the patient by the hand and leads him into the open fields. Here they look about for an ash-tree which must be a little taller than the patient. The wizard then produces his knife, cleaves the tree in two from top to the root. Both halves of the top are then tied together with the patient's belt, and the quack holds the two lower parts of the trunk apart so as to form an opening, through which the patient creeps, having meanwhile divested himself of his clothing. His clothes are then handed to him one by one through the same opening; he dresses himself and is now considered to be cured of his ague. During the whole operation the wizard mutters cer tain mysterious words, which are sup posed to possess some miraculous pow er. Other popular remedies against "fever and malaria are tobacco, tar and verdigris, and of late years the peas ants have taken largely to use quinine. Chambers' Journal. ' Going to School. " Jamie has lonj? been a-courting me. Never was lover more true; But if he asks me to marry him. What iu the world shall I do? She also sang the flower song from Now, of the What! Class in geography, stand up. who can tell me who was King Cannibal Islands 400 years ago? can no one answer this gravely important query? Is it possible that you have knowingly kept yourselves in the dark on a point which may one day de- "Faust." She complains of the Tack of cide the fate of the nation? Very well; musical compositions prepared .for the blind, as well as the lack of books with rnicorl lttoT-a Kha ia on unrprtoinina- hostess, and her accomplishments an3 cheerful disposition make her a source of pride and pleasure to her family. She became blind in her fourth year, after an attack of scarlet fever, and her the whole class will' stay for an hour after school as a punishment. The B" class in geography will please arise and come forward for trial and sentence. Now, then, in what direction from San Francisco are the Mangrove Islands? What! can no one answer? And you boys expect to grow The Mashers On the Cars. Going out to Cambridge, the other day, on the Fitchburg Railroad, I saw a modest looking woman enter the car accompanied by a couple of girls, ap parently her daughters. J. hey were of the common, Daisy Miller type, not at all wicked but excessively silly and Argus-eyed for admiration. Soon they hooked a pair of gilded Harvard youths who turned around in their seats and began to eye their victims over. By the time we had got to the first station the young people were in the full tide of a gorgeous flirtation, notwithstanding that the poor mother tried her best to stem the flood. As the train slowed up the women showed signs of departing and the young men immediately got up and went out on the platform. By this time the whole car had become interested in the scene. As the girls got off, the two mashers raised theirhats, smiled from ear to ear and delivered the Harvard bow, a feat of contortion which must be seen to be appreciated. But as the younger cub slowly came up-to the perpendicular the old lady gently lilted him by the ear and, with a sweet smile, handed him tenderly as a jug of molasses on to the train. The maneuver was ef fected without a word from any of the parties. Only when the bov's re-entered our car, blushing deeply, there was a smile along the aisle. The conductor coughed uneasily; three or four of the passengers echoed it, a man m the cor ner remarked audibly that he ' didn't know as Jesse Pomeroy, the child-killer. had been let out agin; and Professor Ko-kun-ho took on his iron-clad spec tacles and said in the choicest oolong. 'Melican boy muchee cheeky all samee one foolee." The boys were very young in the business of captivation and kept extremly quiet until a brake- man poked in his head and sung out. "Camburridge." Most of usgotoff there, but the two youths pretended they were going further, until the train be gan to move, when thev hastily jumped from the front platform and ran up the steps of the depot, disappointing an en thusiastic crowd, who wanted to give them an ovation. The scene on the platform, minus the ear-pulling, was a complete and perfect "mash." A young man, proud of his store clothes stares at a young woman till she grins at him, when be grins back; perhaps they exchange a little nonsense; then they bow and part and there usually is the end of it. The vouth goes oft to tell other equally talented dummies of the conquest he has made; and the girl conhdes to her chums how a "per fectly splendid feller ' flirted with her. Occasionally the mash and flirtation culminate in the perfectly splendid joke narrated in the first part ot this letter. But that is the exception, not the rule. Ordinarily it is merely an affinity of vacuums. Hence the Henry James literature and much ugly comment from ignorant foreigners on the thought ot being immodest or anything but enioy ing a good time. On the part of the male player 1 thinK the game is not so innocent and I doubt if any flirt of that sex would care to see his wife or sister indulging in it. Regarded in its innocent aspect, the fun of grinning and being grinned at must be as delightful as writing love letters to one s sell and paying the postage. Boston Cor. Detroit Free Press. The Match-Maker. remembrance of the world, as she saw up and become business men, and you it, is now, she says, like a dream.- Y. Sun. -jsr. Missing Wills. Before the days or sale companies people used to hide their wills where they thought them least likely to be either disturbed or destroyed. Thus secret drawers in secretaries, the stuffed parts of chairs and sofas, the backs of wainscots, the space between floors and ceilings, odd corners in garrets, and out-of-the-way spots in the ground, have been chosen for such a purpose from time immemorial. More frequently, perhaps, at all events in later times, books have been selected as places of safety and concealment; and it so happens that, when such a volume has been either a Bible or a law book, the confidence of the will-maker in its keeping his secret has been better justified than he wished for. Such was the fate of the will of the late Gabriel Winter, of Flushing, he died fifty-one years ago. No will could be found, and in due course the Surrogate of Queens County granted letters of administration and the large property left by Gabriel AVinter was dealt with as if he had died intestate. More than half a century rolled away before it was found that this was an error. A relative happened about the first of last March to open an old musty law book once owned by Winter and lo! a document fell from it a will duly drawn, executed and witnessed fifty-one years.before. On the 24th of March this instrument was ottered at the Queens County Surrogate's office for probate. Mr. Mills, who is past eighty years of age, testified that he witnessed the execution ot the will. But the son and grandsons of Winter opposed the probate and a litigation has ensued which has not yet been ended. Ihis case, which, while but one ot many, has special interest as being im mediately in the public eye, and because of other curious legal proceedings with which the persons concerned in the pending action were not long since associated, shows that it is not only the duty of every one to make a will but to put the will where it can be found. The grief and strife so often entailed on families by the neglect of this duty are ill made up for by the benefits such neglect confers upon lawyers. In our day there is less excuse for omissions of such a nature than there once was. Any person at a trifling cost can put his will in a place of absolute safety, and may combine absolute secrecy, if he wishes it, as to its terms with the certainty of its being duly found at his death. The simplicity and trustworthiness of the safeguards thus provided make the selfishness or heedlessness of those who fail to employ them more censurable than the makers of missing wills could formerly, on this score, be held to be, and all persons who have anything to leave should not forget the fact. N. Y. Evening Post. j&Sr- There is an unnecessary amount of squealing among the patriots who are suspected of connection with the " tar-route" business. If they are innocent they can afford to wait the vindication which is sure to come. The Administration is making the investigation in a thoroughly businesslike m-inner, and with no effort at dramatic display. No innocent man will be hurt, and no guilty man can escape just ice by shrieking every few minutes that ho if Innocent, The Medicines of Russian Peasants. The Russian peasant has a great dislike to doctors and will rather suffer anything from a village quack than put himself under the treatment of a medical man. Among the laboring class the treatment of diseases and affections of all kinds is confined chiefly to old women, who not infrequently are looked upon as witches, and, as a recent terri ble example has shown, are occasionally treated tm such, It cannot be denied iris to become wives, and yet don t know whether the Mangrove Islands are north, east or southwest of San Francisco! I shall send the boys up to the principle to be thrashed, and the girls will have no recess. The class in history will now take the prisoners' box, and tell the jury whether sunflower seeds are among the exports of Afghanistan. No answer? None of vou posted on this momentous question? Two-thirds of you on the point of leaving school to mingle in the busy scenes ot lite, and yet you uo not know whether Afghanistan exports sun flower seeds or grindstones! For five vears I have labored here as a teacher. and now I find that my work has been ttirrtwn Qwau firt to vnnr seats and I will think up some mode of punishment behtting your crime. The advanced class in mathematics will now step forward. One of you please step to the blackboard and illus trate the angular rectangle northeast corner of a quadrangle. What? No one in all this class able to make that simple illustration? James and John and Joseph and Henry, you expect to become merchants, and Mary and Kate and Nancy and Sarah, you are all old enough to be married, and yet you confess vour ignorance ot angular rec tangle quadrangulers before the whole school! John, suppose you became a wholesale grocer. Do you expect to buy tea and sugar and coffee and spices, and sell the same again witnout reier ence to quadrangles? Mary, suppose you go to the store to buy four yards of factory at ten cents a yard. How are you going to be certain that you have not been cheated if you cannot figure the right angle of a triangle? Ah, me! I might as well resign my position "and go home and die, for the next generation will be so ignorant that ail ed ucated persons will feel themselves strangers and outcasts." Detroit Free Press. The Wrong Model. The Boston Courier tells this story. It is not new, but is good: Bingo, the artist, saw a very picturesque fellow on the street the other day. His unkempt hair flowed down over his shoulders, and his long beard reached his waist. An old bnttonless velveteen coat, battered slouch hat, and a pair of old-fashioned knee-breeches added to the singularity of his appearance. Bingo thought he would look splendidly in a picture with proper surroundings, and so he gave him a five dollar bill and told him to come to his studio the next day. He forgot, however, to tell him that he wanted him to serve as a model and when at the appointed hour the next day Bingo opened his door in answer to a knock he found a clean shaven man with closely-cropped hair and a " plug" hat in hand, confronting him. "I nave come, as you told me," said the man. showing a very white set of teeth. " Yes, and you can go again. You're no use to me now," thundered Bingo, as he violently slammed the door. Machines in a watch factory will cut screws with o89 threads to the inch the finest used in a watch has 250 These threads are invisible to the naked eye, ami it takes 111,000 of the screws to weigh a pound. A pound of them is worth six pounds ot pure gold. lay one upon a piece of white paper and it wok line a tiny sicei ruing. Every community, and perhaps almost every famuy, has its match-maker one who devotes herself to the sentimental interests of the race, who always is suspecting a love affair in every intimacy or triendship between a man and wom an; who compasses heaven and earth. so to speak, in order to throw two peo ple together whom she fancies are each other s athnity, either in mind or purse; to whom all the pomp and circumstance of a wedding, the progress of a court ship, the- tender anxieties or a lovers' quarrel, are the daily bread oi her mental existence. She plans and cir cumvents, and devotes her thoughts and talents to bringing about whatever scheme she has set her heart upon, no matter whether the pulses of her victims beat in unison with the wish or not. She has not only the satisfaction of feel ing that she insures the happiness of those for whom she labors a fable which she devoutly believes but her stratagems, the success of this ma-noeuver or the failure of that, afford her all the excitement, all the mental stimulus, of a novel, indefinitely con tinued, with numerous sequels, always on the way to some striking denoument. She is never in want ot heroes and Heroines, of cruel parents and miserly rel atives, because she draws her dramatic persona from real life. The match-maker is often the mother of a large fam ily of girls of straightened means, plain faces, and no particular vocations, who sees that a good marriage is their only deliverance from want, hardship and dependence in the future; it is usually necessity which develops this match making tendency in her; sometimes it is the childless aunt who rases the roie. who has nothing else to do but to look after the matrimonial prospects of nephews and nieces, whose house is a rendezvous ior lovers, wnose tact tines them over many dangers and shipwrecks; or it is the kindly old maid. whose highest ambition is to endow other women with the love and protec tion she has missed, whose sentiment has outlived a great deal of rough weather. Occasionally we meet the masculine type, who bungles at the business, frightens both parties, and only succeeds in driving his clients into marrying contrary to his wish. No doubt it is wiser that "love should nnd out a way" without any aid from an outsider; that it should be spontaneous and not suggested bjfc another; and though in most foreign countries what we call match-making, or a bolder form of it, is the general custom, where no young girl selects or accepts for herself but has love and marriage thrust upon her, yet the English-speaking Cupid is not to be coerced, is apt to resent in terference and to spread his wings at the sight of the match-maker, unless she approaches incognito. Harper's Bazar. One of the most notable "late achievements in engineering has been the refloating of the French iron-clad Richelieu in the harbor of Toulon. It will be remembered that about the last of December, 1S80, she took fire and was scuttled. She was brought to the surface again by relieving her of all removable weighty attachments, by seal-mg all openings, and by pumping dowu air to displace the water in the compartments while the water was pumped out. About 360 barrels, each containing 1,000 litres of air, were alsoemployed. MISCELLANEOUS. Polk County, Oregon, has a new town, which has been christened Sodom. The massacre of Colonel Flatter's surveying expedition is a serious Wow to the Sahara Railroad. , . In Blue Ridge, Va., recently, a blacksnake secured in its coil a young rabbit, but the mother rabbit attacked the reptile with such persistency that he sought safety in flight and the loss ot a dinner. - Whalers in the Arctic regions coil up a stiff whalebone, cover it with blood and meat, freeze it and toss the package to a bear. Old Polar gulps it down, and when the coil is loosened down in his hold there isn't room enough in a ten-acre lot to show off his antics. ' ' At Virginia City, Nevada's contri bution to the Washington monument is being prepared. It consists of a piece of polished porphyry, two by three feet in size and six inches thick, containing the arms of the State and the motto, All for our country," the letters be ing overlaid with solid silver. A man named Hawthorne recently took a drove of seventy-five hogs by steamer to the Cascades from Portland, Ore. On the way he proceeded to sew up the eyes of all the swine in order that, after landing, they,might not sacay in the forest and get lost. He , had served some of them in that cruel way. when, by threats of the vessel s officers he was made todesist. A man in Sonoma City, Cal., has a dog called "Barney," which for anum-ber of years was adrunkard. "Barney" would drink beer, wine or brandy every day until he cculd barely stagger to his kennel, and it was believed that his evil habit could never be broken so long as mischievous people would min ister to his appetite. But, from some cause, within a few weeks past Barney" has reformed. He will no longer drink any intoxicating liquor, and when it is offered' him he trots away growl ing. - The great World's Exhibition in Rome has been definitely decided upon. Prince Gabrielli is President and the King's brother, the Duke of Aosta, Honorary President. The exhibition is to last from October, 1885, to May, 1886. The committee counts upon a subsidy from the Government and the city and province of Rome of 12,000,000 2,000,000, and 1,000,000 respectively, estimating the grand total at 15,000,000 francs. More money will be raised by subscription. Vermont is the only State that has not a single Chinaman, North Carolina and Delaware have each one, and. Alabama has four. The largest number in any Southern State is 483, and Louisiana is the State. Sugar growing has brought them there. The other States and Territories in which they are most numerous are: Pennsylvania, 170; Illinois, 214; Utah, 518; Arizona, 632; New- York, 942; Montana, 1,764; Idaho, 3,378; Nevada, 5,432; Oregon, 9,515; and California 72,122. Colonel FfT. Gilbert has been mak-' ing researches for relics and traces of . former inhabitants of Nevada. " Near Williams' Station, at the lower part of the Big Bend of Carson river, where a bold, rocty blutt Has been lett by the action of the current, he saw a variety of figures cut into the face of the solid rock. They were very distinctly marked, and consisted of rude, but unmistakable, sketches of men and women, snakes, animals, circles, a very good representation of a mariner's compass and other curious drawings, showing a considera ble degree of ingenuity in their execution. : The larger number of suicides take place in countries where life is thought easy and happy, as in the kingdom and duchies of Saxony, in the smaller German States, and in Denmark. Trust worthy statistics prove that there are 110 cases of self-murder in France for every sixty-nine cases which happen in England. Suicides are least frequent in Spain, which is, perhaps, of all European countries the mst superstitious. There are only thirty female suicides to every 100 men who destroy themselves. The greatest number of suicides occur in summer; the tewest m mid-winter. Out of 23,304 French suicides, 8,413 died by strangulation, 4,656 by drowning, firearms disposed 2,462, and poison of only 281. Not long ago a young artdlery offi cer, m lull unitorm, and wearing spectacles, was walking up the Nevsky Perspective, in St. Petersburg, when a po lice sergeant stopped him, ana, standing face to face with him, held him with his glittering eye for several seconds, as though engaged in taking an inventory of his features and raiment. "What do you want with mer asKed the officer. "You seem to me a very suspicious person, was tne reply, "and not at all like a military man. lou wear spectacles!" "That," rejoined the officer, "happens to be because without spectacles I cannot see." "That is not the question. In such times as these you would have done better to have left your spectacles at home." "But, pray observe, I am in uniform." "There is nothing in that. Anybody can dress himself in uniform." "Well, then, perhaps you will be so good as to accompany me to my quarters, where you can satisfy yourself as to my identity." This the zealous official consented to do. Meanwhile a large crowd of threatening aspect had gathered round the interlocutors; and, had the young officer lost his presence of mind, or, still worse, his temper, he would in all probability have been torn to pieces, on the suspicion that he might be a Nihilist in disguise. Nothing can exceed the intense affection which a girl ladles out to her father for a day or two before the time when she's going to askfora new dress. Bonds vagabonds that are hard to redeerfl- A New Way to Raise Setter Dogs. A citizen of our community has a fine litter of setter dogs. He has been taking special pains to give them a good start in the world, and to this end it was his custom to rise from his bed at short intervals to feed them. It became rather tedious business for him to ' ' crawl out ' ' daring the cold winter nights to attend to their wants, so he tried a new plan. Setting a pan of milk in a warm corner behind the stove he went to bed, and in the small hours the young canines called for food. Ihinking to make one job ot it he arose in the dark and carried the pan carefully to the wood-house, when seizing each pup by the nape of the neck lie thrust its nose into the pan, and when all had " got to their work " returned to his bed. The next morning he was aroused by his wife, who wanted to know what in the world he had done with her bread pan. Investigation followed; his wife wet up a batch of bread and set it behind the stove to rise; this pan our "shot" had carried to the pups and they, after gorging themselves with the dough, waddled back to their warm nest. The yeast was good and the puppies rose, looking like so many muffs with the head of the animal used for trimming, while their legs and tails resembled an Early Rose potato.:-dcr-ion Tobacconist.