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VOL. XV; GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1889. NO. 10 3 PBOFESSIOIJAL CARPS. , J AS. E. BOYD, , ' ATTORNEY AT LAW. Oreeneboro, 2f. C. Will k at Graham on Monday of each week t attend to professional business. Sep 161 : ATTORNEY AT LA W ' practices in the Bute and Federal Court Will faithfully and promptly attend to U tin aessntrusted to him DR. W. WHITSETT, ' Surgeon Dentist, . . - N.C. ann'olan vlnic Alamance. Call" the conutry attended Greenaboro. - , in Address me at deo8tf JACOBA. LONG, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRAHAM, . - '" c Mav 17. '88. . ADVERTISEMENTS. DONT BUY, ' '.jWl or exchange any kind of new or second band Machinery" Busies, Ac., before OD- taliiln prices from t.,.11.. Mills. Bhaftlne Wood-worklnjr Ma line ff Kugines, cninery, iraii v. Large flnttonsGins. Presses Lieht Locomotives, role iioaa Ljicuuiui.r, Boiler-feedore, Lubricators, "j? chinery, Oils,-Unoet anything you want at 'Cwhary'oTw.nt, mention this paper and are money. Bcpt. 13, '87-1. SUFFOLK ; .Collegiate Institute. . ' CHARTERED 1872. : Preparatory, Practical or Finishing in Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ;: " : and the Fine Arte. Pi J. KEBNODLE. A. U.', Principal. - Terms reasonable. ioth sexes admitted In distinct departments. . . in.. biii. miens Monday. Sent. lTtn 1888. Write to the principal for catalogue at Suffolk. Va. J"1" "THE NORWAY SHEEP." iV. G. HUNDLEY, I a s u r a n e e ,A g e n t, GREENSBORO, N. 0. Fire, LIFE, Accident. Ity&ab saly FirstQu Ccapaaies. la.rifnce opposite the Court House, North Elm Street. "j Oct 13 t' , Durham Marble Works, Whitaker & Hulin, Owners, V successors to R. L Bogeri.1 . ' Durham. N. C. ' , - TMs, 3. W. Cates, at Burlington, can sbewjou Ceshjw and give yon prices, Vasly X T. SHAW, So. j- JEWELER, N.C, fbsfleroe wind, breaking from his bond oomea roaring from the west; On every long, deep rolling wave the white horse shows his crest As If a million mighty steeds had burst their mas ters' hold; For the wild white sheep of Norway are coming : to the fold. The storm drum shows Its warning sign; th. sea gulls swoop and cry; The fleecy clouds are driven fast across the stormy sky; Along the sands the fresh foam gout in ghastly . sports are rolled; For the wild white sheep of Norway are coming . . to the fold. Wistful the Usher seaward looks, out from the x great stone pier; Wistful he stands, the breakers' call along the cliffs to hear, To bear across the flowing tide the ceaseless rock bell tolled, While fast and fierce the Norway sheep are oon . ing to the told. , i .. "Ifce wife and heJrnswffl get no bread from yon der sea," he thinks, f As bis Idle coble by the statthea (trains at ita cable's links; , .X Email use to bait the lines or see the broad brown sails unrolled, . While the wild white sheep of Norway are com ing to the fold. - r "God guard the ships at sea to-night," the stem old sailors say. Straining keen eyes across the waste of hearing; tossing spray, BecaUlng many a bitter night of storm and dread of old, When the wild white sheep of Norway were com . ing to the fold. Oh I there Is many an aching heart, here in tha red roof ed town, As wives and mothers hear the blast come wall ing from the down. Who knows what tale of death or wreck to-mor- row may be toldf For the wild white sheep of Norway are comma to the fold. - -r All the Year Botmdi AS OTHERS- SEE US. . Dealer In watches, clocks. Jewelry, spec tacle, eye-glasses, c REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Any part ef a watch, clock, or piece fewelry can be replaced at my beach ca.e " ally and aaeheaply as yon can have tt done anywhere. All work lent through the mall or by rxpress shall aava prompt attautKm. tour truly, . OciiXy "8IIXW.- '. si i p-x. aag4 ApT) : IFrHtrFR ; 1 WAiwhc sms taw w S.WIW TWII -n. Ir.-aj-l t . LituuuUcxL m i " VintkEMi aiadt sVO at Us ayhntuiairwffutrt D mriDcncoRCio. ifwUTLl TW afMl m4 M car. forCw. Barley ' "Two pretty girls on the boat at any rate," said Harry, aa the three friends alighted at the wharf. "There should be one more, though one for Tom, poor fellow; he baa no knack; of making ac quaintances." -" "Yea; it's too bad abouf Tom," re marked Phil, derisively. - - - "I do not care to meet any one, said Tom; "you shall have clear field today, boys. Fact is, I'm tired of talk, especially society talk; it's all hollow. If I could, exchange thoughts for a while with some interesting party, I think I should quite enjoy it" "You might as well be a deaf and dumb man," said Phil. "Suppose you travel as one this afternoon,'-said Harry; "you will hear can dor enough;" and the novelty of the proposition secured its laughing accept ance before they had reflected on its ab surdity. From that moment Tom was deaf and dumb, and, strolling forward on the boat, he seated himself near the two' young ladies, and his friends, in a spirit of merriment, began a make believe con versation with him on their fingers. Tell him we'll be back after a while," said Phil; "also, that we'll see to the, tickets, and that he can just sit here and enjoy himself as well aa he can. Poor fellow, it is hard to be so, afflicted, oven if one has a million!" This information having been commu nicated, apparently by the signs, the two sauntered away, leaving Tom with the ladies, who had been interested specta tors of all the little pantomine. Of course they had their views to exchange on such an unusual event as a deaf and dumb compagnon - du voyage worth a million, and Kate began immediately, in tier impulsive way; "Isn't it sad, Millyt and he is young and handsome, too; yes, he would be called so that is, in some places; we would have thought so at Mme. Ber tram'. His eyes are good, and his mus tache no, it isnt red, not real red. It's blonde, it's that new color, not terra cotta, but Uke it, you know that lovely new russet. Ana worth a million, too; I suppose he'd give it all to be able to hear. I wonder if he can talk, and if he was bora so; if not, it must seem all the worse; and those friends of his, how heartless they are to leave him alone I Probably no one else on tha boat knows how to talk with him." "But I presume he can write," said Hilly. "He looks intelligent enough." "Indeed he does," responded Kate "and more than that, be looks cultured and scholarly; and notice fa what good taste he dresses; nothing to indicate his wealth, no jewelry yes, there's a watch chain, but it's small and it's allowable; it's necessary, it subserves a purpose. He wears no rings, and do you notioe how taper and white his fingers are? and See the ship go sailing over there against the hiU. You know, Hilly, we must not talk of him when he's looking straight at u these deaf people are so quick; be could tell what you said by the motion of your lips. Whenever he looks around we must talk of ships, for fear that There goes another one; that is a steamer. Hilly; you can tell that. Hilly, by the steam and it' going through tha water. There, see how I met that crisis? I never moved a visible muscle. You must excuse me if I tell you all sorts of foolish things about ships when be turns those deep eyes on me. They are beautiful eyes, kUUy, soft and brown and good. I think be is a good man that is. ha would be if he could bear and talk; not goody good, but a man of charaoter a gentle man under all circumstances." - Ob, do take breath. Kate.0 said Hilly. ''How you rattle .on, no matter what the subject! But tell ma, would you marry such a man?" "Do you mean if I loved himT" was the reply. "Why, of course, I would marry any one I loved." "But I mean," explained Mfliy, could you love hunf "Oh, that's one of your puzzling que tions," replied Eat. j That depends if be loved me, perhaps; Jt be prized me above all other women, if I was nacea sary to bis happiness, if be should prove to be the oo man in the world for me, why, his infirmity would make no diCer- . -.Eatnere comes Agatha, Vo you know I with aba wouldn't comet She's deceitful. I some way have no con fidence in bar since that Percy affair. She encouraged hint toe months, snul bis father failed. But let us shock ber: don't tell her the mystery of our friend here, and we win hfarify ber." ...a A ILry iuiyn carr, sacceeac4 bu f been that Agatha bad just been talking with Harry'on the lower deck, and, un der pledge of secrecy, he told her of the joke which be began to realise was more on Tom than on any one else. So Aga tha went forward, at Harry's suggestion, to see what was going on, and also de termined to make a good impression on Tom, whom she knew by reputation. : "How do you do,-Agathat" said Kate, affably. "Wont you sit here with us awhile.? . This is tha coolest place on the boat, and the most pleasant, too. "We have such a charming companion; look at him, Agatha isn't be handsome? He is a little sunbrowhed, but that's because he travels; he hunts and fishes and flirts, and leads a very happy life. , He has money, too, invested beyond the reach of failure, and be is of stalwart, manly build, and eyes Hilly, there is another ship, there somewhere; I can't see it yet, but I will look for it and, as I was say ing, he looks self reliant and dignified, and kissable and adorable," . ",Why, Kate, are you , crazy t" said Agatha. . "Not that I am aware of, Hiss Agatha," replied Kate, loftily. . x "But, Huly," continued the new comer, "how. dare she talk so in bis presence?" -,.;.',,'.!,' "Oh, Kate means no barm," said Idly, blandly., "He is a gentlemanly fellow, and doesn't care what we say, and he is sunburned and dignified; Kate was right" "Is he a friend or relative of yours?" asked Agatha. 'Relative? No," said Kate. "Friend? J do not know. I am his friend, and his name is Tom. Whether he is my friend or not, remains to be seen." "Well, young ladies," said Agatha, "your conduct is, to say the least, inex plicable. I certainly should grieve to hurt the feelings of this gentleman or of any person. Perhaps you may not be giving offense or doing anything uncon ventionaL I do not wish to misjudge you there is some mystery about it that I cannot fathom. But I must go below with mamma." "Well," said Kate, after Agatha left, "that was a curious position for her to take: as though we were possibly doing anything wrong the ideal Her whole speech is ' unlike her; there is, as she says, some mystery here." "Indeed there must be," replied Hffly. "She have feeling 1 She has none for anybody., Something in her voice re minds me of the day when she told the madame bow she had been inveigled into that excursion, of which she was tha promoter." "Yes, I remember just how she looked," said Kate. . "I tell you there is treachery here. Let us go to the cabin for a while. Some way I feel uneasy." . When they had gone, Tom rose, walked to the side) of the boat and seriously con templated jumping overboard. His cheeks burned at the position in which his folly had placed him, and he was so angry at bia friends as to have given them little grace bad they appeared just then. It bad been awkwartl, terribly awkward and distressing. Why hadn't he left when first they began to talk? He bad placed one of the brightest, sweetest, most beautiful girls he had ever. , seen in a false position which would al ways mortify her, make her hate him, . and make him hate himself. He had i been a dishonorable spy, an eavesdrop per; be bad listened to private conversa tion. Thoroughly vexed and chagrined, he went below, and meeting his friends, said, very sternly: "Boys, through your' amazing idea of a joke I have disgraced myself. Unless youvdo just as I ask you, and help me out, I never want to see or speak to either of you again." ' The boys, who had heard something of the facts through Agatha, laughed till the tears streamed down their faces laughed, in fact, until Tom became so enraged that they dared not irritate him further. So they readily promised to as sist him in any way he might desire. Tom remained below, sullen and reti cent, until they reached Bockledge land ing. There he and his friends left the boat, and when once on tha wharf he saw to bia dismay that a party, includ ing the three young ladies, had also landed, and that the steamer was al ready under way. ' He must keep up the farce for a little longer, at least until the next boat back. Beaching the hotel and there - was but one he took the landlord into bis confidence and evolved the following ingenious- plan of action: He was Hr. John Baird, who bad coma in over tha mountains to meet bia twin brother, Hr. Tom Baird, who had coma up on the boat. To this; notable scheme bis two friends heartily assented; but once away from him, they fairly roared when they reflected that Agatha I was in the Secret, and would probably j disclose it at Just the wrong tune, in pursuance of the plan, however, Hr. Bennett, the landlord, begged of Kate and Hilly that be might introduce Hr. John Baird, who just came la from tha BockkUlVaUey. . ,. When Baird was introdnced, although ha bad changed bis clothes and appear ance aa far as possible, Kate's stately "hauteur" and Holy's withering scorn almost froce his blood. .: "I believe w bad the pleasure of see ing Hr. Baird on- the boat this after noon," said Kate idly. -- .- "One Hr. Baird, I have bo doubt," said Tom recklessly. . "Hr. Tom Baird, ray twin brother, Poor .feUowx you doubtless noticed his infirmity, amy of recent date, too vary recent in fact; be wouldn't come down to-night be avoids pociety, naturiifiy: he's a great band to rise early and be gone all day m the moantalDS- sad at mght take niuasr m his room." - toweshaILdoubtleas.be denied the pleasure of meeting him?" said Hilly ironically, but half convinced. Vot at an," said Baird. "lahaH in sist on hie joining us to-morrow evening. It wiU never do for him to make a her mit of himself at hie time ca! life. So yoang-rtbat ie" ' "Your twa brother, 1 believa," said gate, with a morking something in ber Toics and manner. "Yea, oh, yea," continued Tom, "We are quite different, though, aa people ob serve when wf are together." ''Indeed," said Kate, with a doubting turn tew; and then, aa Tom kit them, sbesddeds "JIUly, whs do you think?'' . ''I can't tell," replied Uat younr. lady. "Wait until we see them together. " "Yes, wait until we do," said Kate, her old doubts returning with added force. , :-, :-. ' Agatha, however, understood the situ ation, ana sought to make the most of it by cultivating Hr. John Baird, as she affected to believe him. In this she made but little headway. ' Meanwhile, it became notorious through the hotel that Hr. Tom" Baird had rambled away to a village down the river, and had thence gone to the city, telegraphing for bia valise. Some credible people had seen the dispatch, and it was quite as well known that a valise had been sent to Hr. Tom Baird at his city address. These little incidents, though perhaps not en tirely convincing, at least gave Kate and Hilly an excuse for treating Tom courte ouslya toleration of which he made the most endeavoring, by every attention, to reinstate himself in their good graces. The fact is, Tom was desperately, hope lessly in love with Kate; and she was so far interested as to remark, without seeming offended, several little inconsist encies in his story. "I observe, Hr. Baird," said she, "that your friends, when speaking in haste, are quite as apt to call you Tom as John. Doubtless they oonfound you with your unfortunate brother. You must be very like." Thereupon Tom makes some incoherent answer or observation in . a pained, re proachful Way, and changes the subject At length there was a revelation which Kate could not overlook, if she desired to; for Agatha, jealous that her arts were vain, and that Tom should be monopo lized by her rival, at last said: "How long, Kate, are you going to keep up that stupid farce? Why, I knew all the time how it was, even on the boat; Harry Bishop told me. Deaf and dumb, indeed I Tom Baird deaf I What a joke I I presume, however, you regret that he is not" 'And you knew and did not teU us!" said Kate, slowly nd with deliberate scorn. "You teach me the value of your friendship, Hiss Vine; you knowingly witness our mistake in order to further your own selfish ends." She turned away proudly, passed down the long porch and slowly away through a winding forest path. Her self control was superb. Yet at last, when far from the beaten track, In the heart of the woods, she seated herself on a rock, buried her face in her hands and shook with sobs which she could no longer re presssobs born of bitter mortification at her mistake and the notoriety which it must soon obtain. - Suddenly her name was spoken, and Tom stood before her. She sprang to her feet, her eyes blazing with fire, her face queenly in its scorn. "How dare you, sir, intrude again upon me I Again dishonorably, like a spy?" . ' "Hiss Norman," said he, with a quiet earnestness which commanded her atten tion, "I stand on the brink of a cliff; it is perhaps a hundred feet down to the ; rocks below. A few words I must say ; to you, and then, unless I havo won your 1 full forgiveness, I wiU swear an oath" I and be spoke with dramatic intensity to throw myself down this precipice aa some poor atonement, the only rcpara , tion left me, for my folly and for your tears." What woman could be insensible to so much earnestness? .What woman that loved? What woman could ask a man to jump a hundred feet down on jagged rocks? A handsome man, a man with a million a man who, as he told her, loved only her, and offered to prove it by jumping any time she gavo the signal. As, at last they walked home arm in ' arm along the shadowed, sinuous path, she said: "Tom, how dared you swear you would jump if I didn't forgive you? Would you have really jumped?" "Oh, that's a leading question, my love," was the reply. "I probably should have jumped, for I felt thoroogly wretched at the time, and bated myself for having caused you such pain. Then, too, my dear, you may also bear In mind that I did not really swear I'd jump. I said in effect that I would swear, which is quite a different thing. Again, my dear Kate, the cliff is not quite as bigb as I stated in my excitement" "You said one hundred feet, Tom- one hundred feet to the rocks below." "Oh. did I? Well, so it doubtless la. my dear; one hundred feet to some of the lower strata, perhaps not to the up per ones, However. Una more kiss, Kate, just one; that is really tlio last chance. Around tbe cena we wul be In plain sight Of the hotel." H. IL Cam, Jr., in Irank Leslie's. Signed the Lord's Prayer. How easy it is in Bussia to get a high official's signature to any sort of a docu ment may be illustrated by an anecdote that I have every reason to believe is ab solutely true. A "stola naohalnfk," or bead of a bureau, in the provincial ad ininistration of Tobolsk, while boasting one day about bia power to shape and fllrect governmental action, made wager with another chinovnik that he could get tbe governor of tbe province the late governor Lissogorski to sign a manuscript copy of tbe Lord's Prayer. He wrote tbe prayer out in the form of an official document on a sheet of stamp ed paper, numbered It attached the proper seal to it, and banded it to the governor with' a pile of otlier papers which required signature. He won his wager. The governor duly signed tbe Lord' Prayer, and it was probably as harmless aa official document aa ever came out of bis office. George gnP'l in The Century . CURED BY IMAGINATION1. FMlth Sot the Only Panama round Outside tha Pharmaeepasla Queer Bamedle. The beneficial effects of faith have probably conte under the observation of us all when it has become a question of a change of doctors. The old medical attendant docs not please, a new one who has been highly recommended is engaged, and so great is the patient's -faith in the new comer that the progress of a .fatal disease often seems arrested. . It is, of course, but a temporary check, and it is only a question of time before another new doctor is looked for. - Sometimes, on the other hand, when it is not a case of the destruction of the vital organs, a cure has actually been effected. Fre quently, too, patients become impressed with the curative value of certain medi cines, and doctors of long standing have been puzzled to say where imagination or faith ended and reality, began, . Faith, however, has by no means been A Beveratfcy fa Dress Haldne , 'When the sewing machine first came into general use it was feared that i would do away with the means of sup. port of the sewing girls, making it a aim pie matter for every household to com pass all ita own sewing in comparatively no time at all. But, contrary to con jecture, precisely the opposite has been, the result; for the sewing machino made plain work so easy that tucks, ruffles, in sertings, and all the finer fancies of the needle, done by Its aid, came to be as much a matter of course as the plain Beam used to be, so that work accumu lated beyond all expectation, and the class of sewing girls found more to do than they bad ever dreamed 'of having; and those who had worn the simplest sort of clothes suffered from a prevalent feeling which made plain clothes seem to manifest a want of taste and elegance and care for appearances. With ail this superabundance, then, of ' fanciful outline out and nnttine together the only panacea found outside the pbar- again, of stitching and trimming with macopceia, as the shrewd manufacturers- -bands and edgings, that came in for the A barber in Boatoa affects to be disc-Dated with the record of a Loodoa bar. ber who, on a wager, shaved sixty men 1? sixty minutes. The Boatoa man ears that he has frequently disposed of tbe grizzly growths of twelve faces in ten minutes " just for fun," and that the London artist's feat ie as nothing. He talks of challenging the barbers of Amer ica to a shaving match forthechariipiasv shipof the United States. Chicago Jewa, Anaoog other thing cinnamon is said top nsn great attractions for the cock roach fMlate, and there is a scandal to tbe effect that those whose business it is to reduce the cinnamon sticks to a pow der are not very careful to separate tbe spie from the Insects which sometime constitute nearly half the contents of the bags but tumble them together into the aT1', IrrtrVm Standard of elixirs, charms, amulets and magnetic thingumboba very well know. Even the wisest of men are not free from the pecu liar throlldom of imaginative medicines. Bishop Berkeley, whose Idea : concerning the westward course of the star of empire has become proverbial, was a very clever, very sedate and very good man, yet he was a victim to the idea that he had dis covered a cureaUP . The universal restor ative in his case was tar.water. Stir a quart of tar in a gallon of water, and drink three glasses of this water daily, said, the bishop, and you' would never know what it was to suffer pain or even discomfort Berkeley was not content with calling the tare simple remedial agent, but he went so far as to write books about his tarry water, claiming that tar contained the vital element of the uni verse. For a time tar water had a pro digious success. Tar water warehouses were established, and every one was going to be cured of everything. Then tl)e people began to remark- that there was just as much sickness about as ever, and gradually the fad died out . Another great remedy that set people agog some two hundred years ago was the. earth bath. - Establishments were opened aU over . Europe - where the pa tients were covered up to their necks in loose, dry earth, and thus planted were supposed to be cleansed of every infirm ity and impurity known to human na ture. Human nature continued obsti nately to get out of gear notwithstand ing the earth cure, and so the establish ments were closed up and the soil carted off to the nearest garden. Faith has bad some curious allies in effecting cures. Aided by tbe peculiar forms of oolite called toadstone and ea gles tone, it has been a charm against dis ease, shipwreck and famine. Joined to a proper amount of faith, the two unat tached bones found in the heads of some fishes, when mounted in gold and hung around the neck, will prevent tbe colic. With the powerful adjunot of 'faith it has been found that a ring set with a bloodstone would stop hemorrhages; that an amethyst ring would cure drunken ness, on agate was efficacious against eye diseases, a jasper against the dropsy, a saonhlra aeainst insomnia. and coral against nervousness. Son Francisco) Chronicle. ' .- ' . , - To Keep Away Snakes. It is always expedient in India to Iiave a dog or a cat, or a mungoose (a sort of ichneumonlabout the bouse to keep away snakes, or to draw attention to them when they are crawling about Sly wife's dog probably saved her life by barking at two snakes which got iuto ber dressing room. A cat with kittens once drew my attention, by her extraordinary antics, to a large cobra which she was trying to keep away from her young ones. The mungooso is the professional enemy of the, snake, and goes for him at once to kUl him, and, perhaps, to cat bun. Tbero is no valid foundation for the belief that the mungoose has recourse to an antidote to protect itself from the the snake's venom. Tbo mungooso re lies on his own agility and sharp teeth, and on the coarse hair of his skin, wliich wiU avert most snake bites. But if the snake gets weU homo, so as to lodge his poison in tbe mungoose's skin, that mun goose will surely die. It is not dissimilar to the case of the common village pigs in India, which are well known as scav engerffand carrion eaters. Tbey will kUl and eat any snake that cornea in their way, and tbe hido of their hard and hairy bodies and logs is almost snake proof. But if a oobra bites a pig on a soft place, so as to plant bis poison under the skin, that pig will surely die, Foreign Letter, white underwear with the sewing ma chine, the outside wear presently could not fail to correspond in intricacy; and thus embroideries, furbelows, pleatings, draperies, and all the rest of the Insignia of fashion belonging to tbe gown, have come in their turn. The consequence of this raising of the straight seam to its highest power is that she who once dressed herself with simplicity would now be out of the world in ber old style and manner, and finds it best to sacrifice ber tastes and deck herself out like a doll, as it seems to ber, and she who used to be the French doll incarnate has to worry her brains and ber modistes to Invent something that shall exceed ail previous ' bambinos, and be an impossibility to ber : imitators till it is time for something else. J And thus the innocent looking little j sowing machine has brought about a 1 complete revolution in fine attire; has raised dressmakers' prices from $5 to , $40, with the intermediate grades, and those far exceeding the larger figure; has made it necessary for the . woman who used to buy ber best black silk for , a dollar and ninepence a yard, and when ' cut and basted for "two and three- pence," make it up herself in three or four ' afternoons, now to hire a mantuamaker with skUl at the old and a knack for the ' last new wrinkle, and to ray for one gown what would have supplied her whole wardrobe twenty-five years ago. Har per's Bazar. ' Inefficiency of Faucet Filters. An agent has just left my rooms after wasting a half hour of time in vain at tempts to persuade me into purchasing a faucet filter made in some new f an gled way. There is really no such thing as a filter for water that can be used at tached to bouse faucets. . At best, they have never been anything else but strain ers, and recent experiments prove them to be worse even than that for they ore shown to bo nests for propagation of just such impurities as they are calculated to remove. 'Far better toko chances on Croton or Cochituate direct than to have tbo already laden water made a breeding place for ' bacteria by so called filters. They are not to be trusted. . t - This water question continues to be of the utmost publio importance, and It seems extraordinary that typhoid fever and other filth diseases should not rage to far greater extent than reports show, if our drink is as foul as it is said to be. I suspect that the -truth is this bacteria scare lias been very much overworked. Tliere are leaders in the medical profes sion who say directly that modern prac tice of medicine has actually nothing to aliow in the way of better results than ancient, and that no greater percentage of patients recover in palatial hospitals than in tbe rough shanties where sick wcro kept a hundred years ago; and cer tainly the past- heated term, with ita ac companying immense consumption of water, has not shown any increased death rate elisrhtlv the reverse. If one's water supply be distinctly and sensibly impure, rial by recent facts, which, show that b . COMMUNICABLE DISgA$E8. A uhjeot a Vital Import. to Conua.. Bltlesi PwuMnnsi Disease can be divided Into various, groups. Of these none, upon the whoje are so-formidable as those, termed coa. mrtnicable diseases. We use this, tern in preference to contagious or infectious,' because these two worda have in use de parted so far from their original mean ing as to convey no correct. U of. thai? relationship. There is. great variety in tbe method In which, disease are com municable. Some, hke hydrophobia in, man and glanders, in horses are con veyed only by direct contact with aa. abraded surface, which is equivalent . to, inoculation. Evan our common vaccina) disease can only be induced in this, way Other diseases which are communicable require some special and abnormal Gon dii ion of the particular tissue.. tawhicK they will attach. Thus, although tha bacillus of tuberculosis, is probably trans-t. missible, it is only to those whose hing are in a peculiar state of receptivity. Other diseases, such as the. commoner eruptions, vary exceedingly as to-lbagea gree of their communicability." ' It ia sometimes quite difficult to deter mine the extent to which the commun eating particle can be carried. It is prob able that the air from a smallpox hoipita has given the disease to a person.a mile distant Ou the contrary, scarlet fever has been brought Into the ward off a fub but well aired hospital and continue there a day without a tingle, person con tracting the disease. If we could be, sure as to the secretions.' and an the skin, separations from, scarlet fever' it (would) not be a very communicable disease , ye we have known, a. dress, folded up at the bed of a dying patient wad placed, in a, trunk, to convey tbe. poison to a ftttujUy, of children four miles, distant,, when the dress waa unfolded m their presence three months afterward. Whooping cough and diphtheria are probably neve conveyed by tbe first case occurring, ex cept by the breath or sputa of tbe patient Measles, on the other hand, - are cou-i municated - - at - much t . greater . .dis tances. In, general, -any, one,, off tliis class of diseases having' be come ' epidemic, tbe communication, to others is from houses and clothing far more than from persons. Difficult as it is to determine accurately all the facts as, to the conveyance of these diseases, tbeta' transmissibility, their times of inception, and tbo time of greatest risk of conta gion, or when the patient ceases to be "a risk to others, no subject is of more vitaf importance to communities. - ',;. -' ; Dr.: Vacher, the medical officer oft Birkenhead, and ' Dr. Dukes, of Rugby, -have given much attention to the subject and have classified a large numbs of cases as to the time from the first symp tom to the beginning of eruption, the. time from begihningof eruption to cessa tion of fever, and the time from the be ginning of eruption to when, (jhe patient, ceases to be infective. They state the, latter a follows: For smallpox,- OS days; measles, 27 days; scariet fever,, 49 days; diphtheria, 28 days; mumps, . 8J days typhoid fever, 28 days. . ' ' ' " These will serve as general gaidea la all cases where schools are concerned tbe time of return should be guarded. It ia, to be remembered that ' more depends upon the cleanliness of the bouse and family and upon the garments worn than, upon the person. It is often a question, bow far boards of health shall require re, ports of contagious diseases. ' in ' any good system cf sanitary government such, report is required aa to smallpox; scarle fever, diphtheria, typhus fever, choJwty and as to measles when extensively epi demic.. . We think strict rules sbould be, enforced upon physicians as to' such ret pott, but that tbey should be paidVaiiere for, inasmuch as such report is of special service, quite different from theceftiaea-. tion of a death. Tbe habits of 'different countries and states differ1 moefe, tout'eil agree that tbe report should be made by- some one. This is rendered more try some other source; otherwise, it is a question if it be not unwise to disturb ono's mind about microecopai Dec that havo been swimming about evi since Adam. William F. Hutchinson, U. D., in American Magi tine. Mast. i. of word and Pea. Oen. Sheridan bandied tbe pen as deftly as the sword. When bis autoUr ography was concluded it was submitted to a distinguished literary critic When asked for bis opinion of the style, the lat ter replied that he became so absorbed in reading about Sheridan's fights tiiat be forgot all about the styleof the narra-. Hem, course tive. It is a notable fact that great sol diers are usually successful when tbey lay aside the sword for the pen. Cmsar and Xenephon described their own cam paigns better than any Idatorian who ever attempted the teak. Napoleon's kt ters will stand as modtto of style for all time. Cardinal Newman considers WeU' llngton's dispatcbee the beet- specimens cf compact ngiuh in exiidence. Geo. Orant's book has now universal praise for its directness and simple purity of style. Von Holtke, too, though silent in seven languages," is a most vigorous and eloquent writer, as his letters free (he Orient testify. Once a Week. Vol lajourfon to Her Health. In tbe face of facta like these and of many more that might be adduced, we cannot believe that nature has placed before woman any constitutional barrier to tbe collegiate life, but that so far as physical reasons are concerned, she may enter upon it with no more fear than a man may. That an increasing number of women will do this, and that it is best for the state that all should do it who are destined to be instructors of the youth of the republic, is in my mind not at all doubtful. . . - What is to be the result? That is the crucial question. On tbe physical health of tbe educated woman it will be bene ficial. Observation, so far as it is now j pomwe, snows tnat the work or tne ruu m favorable to bodily health. Tbe regularity of Ufa, tbeeatis- : faction of attainment tbe pleasant oom- panionahip, -the general broadening of the ' girl nature, tend in that direction. Speak ing of "nervous or neuropath io" young women, Dr. Charles Follen Foboin, of the department of nervous diseases la the Boston bokprtal, writes that it his opinion that the bigber education is a eooservative rather than a destructive force." Arthur Oilman in The Cen tury, . - - - Tha WesWttrflst Baaaaa Brafa, According to the novel computation of a renowned hlstologist, who bas been cal culating the aggregate cell forces of the human brain, the cerebral mass is com posed of at least 800.000,000 of nerve cells, each an mdependrat body, prgan- leci and toicroscorks train, so far as con cerns its vital funoriona, but subordinate to a bigber purpose in relation to the function of the organ ; each living a sep arate life individually, though socially subiect to a higher law of function. The lifetime of a nerve ceil be estimate to be about sixty dsys, so that 6,000,000 die day, afaost 100,000 every nour, 1 and pearly 8,600 every urinate, to be I succeeded by aa equal anmLet of their ! progeny; while once hi every sixty t'eys j The iron posts that mark the northern boundary line between tbe United States and eastern Canada are at every cross road that leads into Canada, and desig nate, as the inhabitants there ssy, "Line 43. " They stand above tbe ground about three feet, and have four tides, on which appear the following, inscriptions: 1. Boundary, Aug. , 184a." 1 Albert Smith, United States Comntisaioner." S. Treaty of Washington." 4. "Iieut Cot L B. B. Estoourt, H. B. & Com tnienoner." Frank Lsslies, early and strict isolation the cotnmoq communicable diseases aro often, pre vented from becoming epidemic. ' is often a question Jiow, for atwno Mcevat funerals should be prevented tit cases ordcatb from communicablo li-4 coses. Wo know of a recent caso fat which tle attendance of children at a, church funeral the death having been) caused by'malignant diphtheria, proba bly led to a dozen deaths and ptany cases, in a sparse country Tillago. The exposure is far greater for children than for adults, If all details as to tbe washing of the dead body, the dealing with clot iing, the time of transfer to the coffin, the use' t disinfectants, -could be carefully' regu-i Jated, (t is probable that the risk would, be very little ; but as wo cannot rely ypoq -the carrying out of aU these details, M U) better to prohibit publio funerals ana "to, announce cause of death In all Cases of the more dangerous communicahle disi eases.' ' Similar caution ia needed as to tha visits of friends upon, (boss who are thus, siok. Whila tbora is no need of such feas as wiU preclude assistance from tildes persons where there is need of lielp, there, no excuse for exposing tha young. With due precaution as to siring gar ments, it is sery rare that communicable, diseases sre carried to others ' by the. casual visitor. We thus desire to caution all against unnecessary exposure, and tq secure publio opinion as an aid In rre venting the spread of a class pf fU3'"', which counts so tnany victims. Nef York Iridependent -s Arphcant Kiver, mum, a man has a new brain, Berlin Oazeu. I fers laUnnm. Odqs a Week, A Cse.ii.tsel Hi Hisrress (to applicant) yes, J Iiava advertised far a nurse. Are you cotnpe feut to take ewre of young children f .Applicant Oh, yia, mum. ' - , . Histrets You never give then pare goric to quiet them? . I airs pre- .. . A rertahle BiitiU lea. . ' .. While visiting a friend the ether even ing be invited me to take a look over bis house, To, my surprise be picked up an. electrio lamp that was standing cu the table and started off up stairs with U la bis band, the flexible insulating wire connecting with the lamp trailing aiocr behind. On investigation 1 djarovere that be bad the wire wound around a reel and that it was smoothly paying out as be went along. Ha also had Liiie pulleys fastened to the doorways over which be passed- the wire as be turned the corner. Tbe lamp itself was mou; u-d on a standard hke the standard of en t4 lamp, and the gentleman inform,-1 irj that be was in the habit of taking tl i all parts of tbe boose. Tbe d-'vim a novel one, and it suggests m-v r -irirsfos the electrio Lci.t . "i 5 L-htrun.? is "becoiryj very tanjo i the ' ma 'estip ci mo!rq .. :.--4 FiDoei-r IToss "LLljr.er."