dblham Record.
H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
kuitob ami ntorurroa.
TERRS OF SUBSCRimOM:
Ci itEm
p a Tina
of
ADVEHTIHING.
One square, ooii iusnrUan,
Ou square, two lusnrtlotuv
Doe square, on immth,
tt.SI
1st
Om anff , on fmr,
Oh opr .ill mouths
VOL. V.
PITTSBOKO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 26, 1883.
fnt hrgaredTnrtisetiwnts Ulmral oobtrswts ll
NO. Xi.
Woman's Voire.
Mot In tho swaying of the summer trees,
When evening bieins sing their veepor
the minstrel's mighty symphonies,
Nor ripples breaking on ttie river'. Iiritn,
la earth's best rhut-io; those mny have awhile
High thoughts iu happy hearta anil irking emus
boguilo.
But even as tlie awallow'a silken wines,
Skimming tho water tt tlio swooping hike,
Stir the atill silver ilh a hundred rings
So dothono aoiiml tho sloeping spirit waka
To brave the danger nnd to la-ur tlie harm
A low ami gentle, voicu iviu woimui'a chiol
eat charm.
An excellent thing it In! nml ever lent
To truth ami love, ami meekness; they who
own
Thia gift, by the nil gruriittis (!ivor aont,
Kvoi by quint atnp nml smile are known;
By kind eyes that h.ivo went, hearts that liavo
sorrow'd.
An excellent thing it is whun first in glad
neai
A mother looks into her infuiH'a ryoi
Suiilca to its smiles, ami suddens to its aad
neea rules at its paleness, sorrows at lis erios;
lis food unil Bleep, nml hinilea ainl little joys
All tlioso come ever blunt will) onflow, genlle
nice.
An excellent thing it in when life ia leaving
Leaving with gloom and sailue", joys and
cares
Tho atrong heart fulling, and the high soul
grieviilg
With alrongont thou-lils and wild, unwonted
fear.;
Then, then a wonifm's low, soft sympathy
Comes like an angers voice to teach us how to
die.
But a most excellent thing it is in youth,
When tho loud lover hems the loved one's
toiiu
That f mi, hut lons, to m liable tlie. truth
lluw their two hearts uru on", und she hi'
own;
It makes sweet hiiiiinii music oh! (he spells
Thai h unit tlio treiuhl.ng tiiln a bright-eyed
luuidun tolls. Kilu-in Arnold.
"A Desperate Character."
AN AUVKNTl lit: IN l.OMMtN.
I went to Covent (iurden theater
one night last season. We were li't
out at 1'J, anil set nit to my lodgings.
1 knocked; there was no answer. 1
knot-kill again; it window h uh thrown
tip and my landlady's licnil appeared.
"Who art; you 'i" she screamed.
"Let's in, please; it's nie!" I an
twrrt'il. "TIh'Ii, Mr. Mi-, if you ilon't come
homo before H you may still out till
morn in'. I never wait up for my
lodgers my door is closed at 10!" and
then tlie window closed with a bang.
"No go!" thinks 1. "1 have no
money, I'll go to a railway-station and
wait in the waiting-room till morning;"
which resolution I proceeded to carry
out ly walking liriskly for tho bank.
I turned into Moorgate street, and
was just thinking whether 1 should go
to London, Brighton and South ('oust
or tho London Bridge Motion. 1
stopped to think. There was a con
fectioner's shop just in front of me.
Oh! that it were open! 1 had three
pence left.
Just at this moment a tall, broad
shouldered man came up to me and
viewed, ine from top to toe. 1 looked
At him. IIo was dressed in dark
cli'hes; n pea jacket and clap-trap
cloth hat, with a peak lying level on
tlio forehead, gavo mo it feeling of
4wc The thought forced itself upon
mo that he was a garottcr. He spoke
Qr.tl.
"You're Mr. Sain ?" and ho laid his
3nger on. his nose.
"You've guessed it," said I, thinking
It best to agree with him, although my
name was Tom.
"Then cotno along!" and away we
went.
"Did Butler give ye e'er a pistol ?''
be asked.
"No," ?aid 1, beginning to tremble.
"He said he wanted them himself."
"Just like him. He told I'd find
fou standing at Moorgato street, be
tween 12 and 1, opposite tho confec
tioner's, w ith your ril.t hand in your
pocket."
"I'm in for it." thinks I, "but I must
o through with ii. Hut whatever
Yill it come toot all, at all?"
Ho led mo through a labyrinth of
streets, walking rather fast, till we
emerged upon the city road Then
he made straight for the Angel, and
from thence took a cab for Fleet street.
What object he had in doing tliis I
cannot say. He did not offer to ex
plain; in fact, not a word passed btv
tween us till we got out at tho top of
Ludgate hill.
From thenco wo went into a bark
itreet, and out of that into another,
no matter which, and suddenly stoj
ping opposite a shop, he exclaimed:
"That's our crib!"
"Is it?" says I.
Whereupon ho produced from his
pocket a rule. Tlie shop was evident
ly a tailor's, as it had bars standing
out like the rungs of a Jacob's ladder,
from each side of tho door, to exhibit
stock upon. My friend 'stepped on tho
first of these, which was throe feet
from the ground, and speedily measured
the bight of large glass fanlight over
the door; then, stepping down again,
he measured the breadth of tho door,
and as the fanlight was square ho mut
tered to me by way of giving me its
dimensions:
"Three and a half by two high!" and
chuckled quietly.
Then he crossed tho road, and I foL
lowed, ho explaining that we must
wait till the policeman passed. He
hove in sight about ten minutes after
wards, while we walked past him.
Then we waited till ho returned. This
time w e did not pass him, but watched
from a corner at a distance.
"Twenty minutes and a half between
going and coming," exclaimed my com
panion. "And a handy beat; for he
comes up the corner there" pointing
to one a littlo beyond the shop - "and
goes down this street next ours."
Tlio impression began to steal over
me that 1 was committing, or helping
to commit, a felony, and that if caught
I might get into trouble. I thought
of running for it; but the remark my
companion made at that moment, to
the effect that it would be a short run
if I deserted him (for he seemed to
seo I didn't like tho job), deterred me.
I dared not explain that ho hail made
a mistake, for 1 felt stint t'at he must
have mistaken mo for some ally of
his own. "I must go through w ith it,"
thinks I. "He'll leave me outside to
watch, and I'll hook it then?" .Sol
went on.
He crossed tho street again the mo
ment tho policeman was past interfer
ing with us, and producing a piece
of stout black cloth ho applied the
rule thereto, I holding it against the
shutters, while he set out "three a'ld a
half by two" thereon. This done, he
cut it within two inches of tho mea
surement all round, and then produc
ing a treacle-pot front his pocket, he
smothered ouo side of the cloth witii
treacle, and, desiring tne to hold it, h"
mounted the shop-door, so to speak,
again; and I gave him the cloth, which
ho immediately clapped on to the sky
light, the treacle making it adhere
firmly to tho glass. Then, looking at
his watch, he cried:
"By j ngo! he'll bo here this minute!'
and away we walked. A glance be
hind us, ;ts we turned tho next corner.
Not yet iu sight! We stopped and
waited, but tho policeman came not.
My friend muttered an oath, adding,
"I'll go. Couie along; but keep your
weather-eye open!" And off we went.
"Perhaps he is watching us," I sug
gested. But the idea was discarded
as not in tho nature of a policeman
"like that one we saw."
Wo arrived at the shop. He mounted
again, and drove a string through a
hole in the cloth. Then he ran a dia
mond round the edge of the glass. A
gentle pat, and it gave way. Now 1
saw the use of the cloth and string.
He could hold the glass by the string;
and he slowly let it down into tlie shop,
and, producing a long-shaped pad, he
laid it along tho bottom of tlie fanlight
to cover the glass edge, and threw one
leg into the opening and got astride of
it!
"Follow me," ho muttered, and
ducked his head under the d. tor-head.
But before he could draw in the other
leg I mounted the ladder, ami, .seizing
it, gave him a pull that kept him from
going in, at the same time yelling,
Toliee! Thieves! Murder! Police!" at
the top of my voice. And, lo and bo
hold! tho policeman appeared at the
corner at that moment. A horrible
oath from within, a pistol-bullet
whi3tling past my head, and 1 ran for
death and life. I did not stop till I
found myself in Broad street.
In the next day's papers I saw the
account of the capture of a burglar by
tmo policeman, who had watched two
burglars from the corner, and saw ono
enter the house, and tho other leap up
the wall like a cat, grab at a disappear
ing leg, and yell "l'olice!" and run.
The ono that was caught got seven
years' penal servitude, and "tho police
aro searching vigilantly, though a yet
unsuccessfully, for the other, who, it
appears, is a desperate character!"
They never caught hiiu. VuMsdL
Bachelor Life In Turkey.
Both state and church combine to
make the life of a Turkish bachelor
miserable. As long as his parents aro
alive, he can live with them without
much trouble. As soon as they die
he must get a permit from tho civil
and religious authorities before he
can lie admitted to any household.
Then the proprietor thereof, in the
interest of public morals, must pee
to it that other persons than females
wait upon his boarder. If tho bach
elor bo rich enough to occupy a house
or to rent unfurnished chambers, he
cannot possibly obtain that simple
privilege unless he shows that a
woman of good repute lives with him
therein. A mother or sister or aunt
removes that dillictilty. But a man
without kindred may go an indefinite
period w ithout a home.
HOME LIFE IN PARIS.
Pernii.ntiea or ih. p.rii.t.a. - now
I'rople Lire In Ilia French t npllal.
This picture of homo life in Paris is j
given by a writer in the Ih wutor ami :
Fini.slur: Wherever one sees a yellow
bill upon the door of a Parisian house
he may be tolerably certain of discover
ing within a neat apartment, well
furnished, having at least a bed-room,
a parlor, a dining-room, a kitchen, and
usually an ante-room into which the
entrance door opens. Tlio windows,
extending to the Hour, aro hung with
lace and stuff curtains; the doors have
portieres upon either side, rugs, as a
rule, take the place of carpets, tho bed
is under tho protection of a canopy,
even if it be no more than muslin, and I
a heavy wardrobe, with a full length
mirror in the door, is often the point j
de resistance in tho room. A showy
silk down ipiilt is thrown over the bed, :
and
a bolster of huge proportions rests ;
.. . !
ic heal. 1 he ton ol the mattress .
at the hea l. 1 lie ton
averages three or four feet from the i
lloor, and suggests tho advantage of j
step ladders and the utter discomfort j
of little i-i 'pie. Tho peculiarity, how- j
ever, of the French bed is its restful
quality, for it is so whether it bo found
in the Palace of the Klysee or a third
rate apartment house on Montmatre,
in the Hotel de L'Alhencc, or tho most
pro incial of pensions.
The elasticity of prices in tlio rent
ing of apartments is wonderful. A
Frenchman pays $.'10 a month for a
nicely furnished Hat in the Palais
Itoyal, or, wo will say, in the neighbor
hood of Trinity church, taking the two
extremes of localities, and an Ameri
can tourist gladly pays $.'i( for the
suno accommodations. II the lessee
is fortunate and rents from a family
that may be going to Vi.hy for a few j j,oon t) SWocp through the soul to puri
niouths, he possibly can arrange f,r fy or destroy,
silverware, linen, and crockery, but if
this is denied him, he will find a most j City Iu Two llcmlsphf res.
........... i.i. . r... ti.. i
' . ' 1 ' ' . ?' ,. , .
mi j mi i j " '.-M- i '1 rii f iii 1,11 I I ill in It'll l
resident with all the necessary appur
tenances of housekeeping, at a prico
that allows ono to display a magnifi
cence approaching royalty at tho most
economical outlay. A bonne may bu
had at $7 per month, one of those
smart French girli that does every
thing from cooking the meals to dress,
iug her mistress, anil who insists upon
doing it. Seven dollars, he it under
stood, is not starvation pay, it is muni
ficence, ami one may expect from such
a girl all the esthetic cooking of the
French repertoire -peas, not as wo
have them in this country, yellow and
hard, but delicioiisly sweetened, tender
as cream. Tho bonno does all tho
marketing, wrangles with tho trades
people, and hands iu her account every
day or week. Of course she lias a
percentage from the stores, but who
would begrudge that to get rid of tho
intolerable nuisance of .shopping?
A stroll on the boulevards, a visit to
the Jardiu d'Acclimation, a ride to tho
Bois de Boulogne, by the way of the
Champs F.lysee, all these are pleasures,
and combine with the attractive fur
nishings of the house to make one
forget tlie annoyances be is subjected
to and the crude and primitive domes
tic surroundings he is called upon to
endure, lie is induced to forget that
on his way home he may be run over
by a vicious cab driver and then arrest
ed for being in tho way of the horses,
for, of course, in Parisian streets
vehicles have the right of way.
Tho concierge is an important factor
in French life. If one fails to "come
down" with the proper amount of
subsidy in tho shape of "pour boiro"
the concierge, w hoso place is at tho en
trance to his building, takes very good
care that his close-listed tenant docs
not receive his mail, certainly until one
day after its delivery at tho door, and
his visitors aro informed that he is "not
at home," when in truth he is await
ing their coming in his rooms. Should
tho tenant protest to tho landlord, his
lifo will thereafter bo miserable, a suc
cession of ills and terrors that will
finally drive him from tho house, to
look for other apartments. But he is
known to every concierge in tho city,
o in ino city,
and, despite the naming yellow poster
that announces from the outer wall
there is an apartment to let, he meets
everywhere tho ono reply, "Thero is
nothing here sir," and if, perforce, he
does get into tho building tho prico is
placed at such a figure as to put it
beyond the reach of tho tired and
discouraged searcher. After ono ex
perience of this sort the traveler
either succumbs to tho inevitable and
pays up like a man, or else, with what
courage ho has left, ho goes off to
Switzerland and freezes on Mount
Blanc, or to Homo and gets the fever.
Of course, where thero are few
carpets the floors must be kept in good
condition, so a man comes every week
and waxes the boards, and skates
about on them with stilt brushes tied
to his feet.
A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence.
TEABLS OF TIIOIUHT.
Ho is richly endowed who is cheaply
diverted.
Tho weak sincwH l)0C()lm, 8trong i,y
thl.ir Ctmi(.t wiUl di llirtitt ten.
Ho shall be immortal who livcth till
he bo stoned by one without fault.
To love is to admire with tho heart;
to admire is to love with the mind.
Fame comes only when deserved,
and then it is as incviUMe as destiny.
Unfriended indeed is lie who has no
friend bold enough to point out his
faults.
Physical exercise and intellectual
rest in duo season should never be
neglected.
A solid and substantial greatness of
soui looks down with neglect on the
censures and applause of tho multi
tude. Tim iirimnl iltitii.u vlimn nloft. tike
. ' , . .
stars; the chanties that soothe and heal
,,, , . .. , . .
auii oiess, are scauercu ui mo ice ui
men like (lowers.
He is a good man, people say, thought
lessly. They would be moro chary of
such praise if they reilectcd they could
bestow none higher.
The path of duty lies in w hat is near,
and men seek for it in what is remote;
tho work of duty lies in what is easy,
and meji seek for it in what is dillicult.
Is thero ono whom difficulties dis"
hearten who bends to the storm V Ho
W ill do little. Is there one who will
conquer? That kind of man never
fails.
Oh, there Is nothing holier in this
lifeof ours than tiro first consciousness
of love tho fust ihittering of its
silken wings -the last rising sound
and breath of that wind w hich is so
At Quito, South America, tho only
! city in tho world on tlio lino of the
equator, tho sun rises and sets at li
i o'clock tho year round. Your t hick
. may break down, your watch get
1 cranky, but tho sun never makes a
mistake here, says a correspondent.
I When it disappears from sight for the
1 night it is G o'clock and you can set
J your watch accordingly. In one part
! of the city it is fie summer season and
! in the other part it is winter. The
i present dwellings in Quito in archilec-
ture have degenerated and fallen far
short of that old, gigantic ne e of In
1 diaus, who, with tho lucas, of Peru,
! joined their city with massive and
! grandly constructed highways. There
I still exists vacant remains of colossal
i buildings on this roadway of palaces
and fortresses with walls so finely cut
and closely joined together that be
tween these massive stone blocks there
i is not space sufficient to insert the edge
'of the thinnest paper. In one royal
. palace of the Ineas, gold or silver was
' used for the cement. If the journey is
j long and dillicult to reach this old
1 Spanish town, thero is much to com
pensate) one's trouble in its interesting
I structure. It is 10,000 feet above the
; sea and contains some liO.oon buildings.
; I am almost afraid to say how old is
' this ancient city, for it dales far back
in tho dark ages when the "memory of
man goeth not to the contrary."
, When you realize that everything of
; modern invention found here has been
j brought a six (lays' journey, through
! dillicult mountain passes, on mules'
j backs, then you understand how highly
I luxuries aro appreciated. In this way
I all tho supplies from the outer world
I and all their exports are carried.
' There aro in Quito scores of beautiful
i pianos brought by ships to Uuayaqui-
that have been carried on Indians'
backs this long distance of 1100 miles,
up through tho mountain passes 10,
000 feet above tho sea to their rich
owners in tho city.
Leatherold.
Tatherold is a new article which Is
being made of paper. It consists of a
lumber of thicknesses of cotton paper
, NVlJUIUi one upon another over a cylin-
' d , The rt.mark;thlo qualities of
strength and adhesion tt possesses aro
derived from a chemical bath through
which tho paper is drawn on its way to
the cylinder. Tlio effect of the chem
ical bath on the paper is said to bo
wonderful Leatheroid, for the pur
poses it now serves, consists of about
twenty thicknesses of paper; it is
shaped upon or around molds, while
wet, into the form it is to represent,
and will hold that form perpetually
when dry. When dried it is as dillicult
as rawhide to cut with a knife. Cans
made from this material are about one
fourth tho weight of tin cans of equal
size ; while tin cans are liablo to get
bent, cans made from U-atheroid are
entirely free from this objection. They
have the elasticity of thin ,teel, and no
amount of kicking and handling will
break them. Boston Journal of Chetn-
Life nml Death In Nature.
For some inscrutable reason, whish
she has as yet given no hint of reveal
ing, nature is woudrously wasteful in
the matter of generation. She creates
a thousand where she intends to inako
use of one. Impelled by maternal in
slinct, the female cod casts millions of
eggs upon the waters, expecting them
to return after many days as troops of
interesting offspring. Instead, half tho
einbryotic gadi are almost immediately
devoured by spawn eaters, hundreds of
thousands perish in incubation, hun
dreds of thousands more succumb to
the perils of attending ichthyie infan
cy, leaving but a few score to attain
to adult usefulness, and pass an honor
ed old age, with the fragrance of a
well-spent life, in a country grocery.
The oak showers down ten thousand
acorns, each capable of producing a
tree. Three-fourths of them aro
straightway diverted from their arbor
eal intent, through conversion into
food by the provident squirrel and the
improvident hog. Oreat numbers rot
uselesslessly upon the ground, and tho
fi-W hundreds that finally succeed iu
germinating grow up iu a dense thick
et, whereat last the strongest siaoth.
ers out all the rest, like an oaken Oth
ello in a harem of qiiercino Dcsdeim.
nas. This is the law of all life, animal as
well as vegetable. From tho huuiMu
hyssop on tho wall to the towering ce
dar of Lebanon from tho meek and
lowlv amieha, which has no more char
acter or individuality than any other i
pin point of jelly -to tlie lordly tyrant, :
man, tho rule is inevitable and invaria- j
hie. Life is sown broadcast, only tube
followed almost immediately by a de I
function nearly as sweeping. Nature I
create:! by the million, apparently that, j
she may destroy by tin: myriad. She '
gives life one instant, only that she j
may snatch it away tho next. Tho I
main difference is that, the higher we I
ascend, the lcAs lavish the creation, and
the less sweeping the destruction. :
Thus, while probably one, fish in a !
thousand reaches maturity, of every
lOt 'O children born GO I attain adult
age. That is, nature llings aside W.)
out of evry lOOii fishes as useless for j
her purposes, and two out of every
livo human beings. l'ojittlttr ISrn-iice J
Monthly. j
Grain and Meut in Europo. j
In a paper mi agricultural statistics
read before the British association, W.
Hotly gave some interesting facts con
cerning tho food supply of (Ircat
Britain and the continent, as follows:
"At present the food supply produced
in l'.urope is equal to about eleven
months' consumption, but iu a few
years the deficit will be sixty instead
of thirty days. The present production
and consumption are: rain consump
tion in the L'nited Kingdom, G7,ooof.
000 bushels; continent, -1.70 1,U0( 1,000;
total, yl'.il.oiM'.Oi'O bushels. Produc
tion of the l'nited Kingdom, :V'.2,0o0,
000 bushels; continent, -I.ToG.OOD.OOO
bushels; total, .'i.O.'iS.i idO.OOi ). Meat
consumption in tho l'nited Kingdom,
1,7-10,000 tons; continent, (!,S7J,0O0
tons; total. 7,:? l'.0"D tons. It appears
that the bulk of the deficit belongs to
Croat Britain ; but as the continent is
unable to feed its o 'i population, wo
must iu future look to ...ime other hem
isphere for tho needful supply, rather
than to the supposed surplus of Kussia,
Hungary, Holland or Denmark.
Europe paid last year i:t"..lHiO,OO0 for
foreign meats and .v.S.",ooO,000 for
grain, a sum equivalent to a tax of
.t 10,000,000 per month. In the l'nited
Kingdom the importation of nieaf,
including cattle, has risen sis
follows: IStiO, 1U,2:S0 tons, value,
l,W0,000, per inhabitant, 7 pounds;
1870, 114,225 tons, value, 7,70;0O0,
per inhabitant, 10 pounds; 1S80, G50,
300 tons, value, i-2t-,Gl2,000. or 40
pounds for each inhabitant.
A Curious Taste.
Tho Malagasy ta-.te for tomb-building
was another frequent cause of
delay. Among tho Ilovas, tho ha ling
tribes of Madagascar, largo sums are
spent on their tombs, which aro a kind
of vault, made of immense slabs of un
dressed blue basidt rock. A man w ill
live in a house which has not cost
more than from ten to twenty dollars,
but he will cheerfully expend two
hundred or three hundred dollars upon
his tomb. As soon as a young man
marries and settles in life ho k-gins
preparations for building his family
vault; and all of his spare time-and
most of his spare money are spent
upon this work. Tho basalt slabs are
often brought for two or three miles
distance, dragged by hundreds of peo
ple, all the family connections going to
assist. Although tho portions under
ground in these tombs ..re of undressed
stone, aliove ground a massive, and
often elaborate, structure of dressed
stone is erected, with bold moldings,
and sometimes with a good deal of
carving. London Qttioer.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
Fasting as a Cure fur HhriiiimtUm.
lr. Tanner's heresy may yet become
the creed of regular practice. Tanner
claimed that fasting was a good
hygienic cure for many forms of blood
disease, and now lr. Wood, of the
medical department of liishop's college
Montreal, reports fasting as a cure for
acute rheumatism. Plenty of water e
lemonade was allowed but no med;
cines wen given, and from the gi ton-suits
obtained in fasting from fou
to ten days Ir. Wood is inclined t
believe that rheumatism is only a phasi
of indigestion. Dr. rook's Jhnlth
Monthly.
Itcmcily for l.rysturlns
At tlie recent congress of tlerinan
surgeons, lr. Fisher, of Straslmrg,
drew attention to the valueof naphtha
lint' as an antiseptic. For some skin
diseases, and especially in the treat
ment of erysipelas, it is almost specilie
The application is made in the most
simple manner possible by
rubbing gauze in tho powdered mate
rial, or dipping any suital le fabric in
an etheriel solution diluted with alco
hol. Naphthaline being very cheap,
this prcparat ion will be less expensive
than anything of the kind now in tho
market. It is extensively used in
Straslmrg, where it is regardetl as a
perfect preventive of erysipelas; and it
is hoped that if this valuable property
can be substantiated, it will be used
for the same purpose in this country.
Ir. Fisher does not state whether its
use in the manner stated is attended
with any inconvenience or pain to the
patient; but persons employed in gas
works and elsewhere who have suffer
ed from scales of naphthaline entering
the eyes, etc., would be disposed to
regard the remedy with very consider
able suspicion.
I
llml Trcth ami ni-rnsr.
Had we the means we should endow
a charity the gn at aim of which should
! be to prevent, disease by establishing !
an institution for the treatment of
decayed and imperfect teeth. There
are more cases of disease of various
i kinds and various degrees of severity
! emanating from bad teeth than from
j almost any other cause. The trouble
is easily remedied if taken in time; :
I but those who suffer most are liny
I who have not the means to employ !
i competent dentists. It is pitiful to
1 see the children of the poor as they
: grow up, gradually losing their teeth
by decay and neglect and becoming
; dyspeptic at twenty and old and
haggard at thirty. If there is a nobler
; charity than that which would supply
free dentistry to the poor, and dentist
' ry at cost to those who are able to pay
no more, we know not what it is. But
there are persons of ample means who
pay no attention to their own teeth or
: those of their children. They should
be taught the importaiK f attending
' to this matter, and. if tin y then refused,
they should be punished for tin-neglect
of an important duty toward their
families. There is no exctSse for any
I person having bad teeth. A child can
be taught the importance of attending
to the teeth, and every child that has
his second flout teeth should be pro
vided with a tooth-brush and be re
quired to use it at b-ast once everyday,
; using eastile soap. Once in six months
at. furthest .a dentist should be employ
ed to examine the teeth and properly
till any that may be decayed. Were
this plan generally adopted we should
see no more toothless men and womcn
Jiitll's Jounml Until Ii.
Overtaxing the Brain.
In a recent lecture on "Brain
Health," at Kdinbtirgh. lr. ,1. Batty
Tuke said that, as a matter of fact, it
was not an easy thing to overtask the
energies of the brain by work. It was
not work, but worry, that killed the
brain. But break down from over
strain did occasionally take place, and
the first really important symptom
was slecplcsness; when that set in
thero was cause for alarm. Loss of
sleep was brought about thus: When
the brain was being actively exercised,
there was an increase of blood in its
vessels this was spoken of as
"functionid hypericnia." If they con
tinued the exercise of the brain power
too long, thero was a tendency of tho
blood to remain in too great quantity
from tho cells becoming exhausted and
not being ablo to control the vessels.
In sleep the amount of blood was
diminished, and sleep could not be
procured if this functional hyperu nia
persisted. In the absence of sleep, the
cells could not recover themselves, and
their activity became impaired,
iron.innhe loss of nnnetite. and trcneral
listlessness followed. As soon as a
child or young person developes con.
tinuous headache, work should be dia-
continued at once.
1
Forty years ago a man worth $GO,000
was accounted wealthy; now ho must
have hia millions to be to regarded.
J My Ship.
O! tliotiRh my nlii is twilinc (w out on the
wiilo, wM; urn,
Tlio jinni t ever dement still la tny own
lioiuu to me;
Ami tall lliu time, Ly ninlit, hy dny, bof"0 ne
fuct'8 (Uiir
ComoHiniliiiK, Kecti"K clioorinj;, aa in funey
they Bi'n-Hi-.
O! though my shiji is sailing fur in distant wa
tcra blue,
My liiwiit looks cvor homeward to my home
tics, ever true;
I uuuk each (lay's di'Piirlini;, for I know it is
ono lens,
Iicforo I clani my loving ones, or fool thoir
Boi'i curuiM.
O! tliouli nty whip is Hiilini; Inr, in storm and
leiiipent oil",
I still vim fi cl tlm prussuro of warm bauds anil
leii'tN Mift ;
I iiiii looking, Tonkin;;, longing for die time to
i-iuiii- liir inn,
When I slmil iiietil my i liiMien deiir and Uike
Ilium on tny knee.
O! Iliouli my Miin is .s:iilin far, 'twill soon be
"homewaiil liniinilj"
On Inn. I or sun was novur heard, by man, a
Mvculi-r sound;
With Mul nil set niiJ bounding o'or tlie rolling,
billowy si n,
Ii u li boar is bi ininj; nciiiur all lay darling
ones to mo.
O! theu swifi wimU, from out thn skios come
toOTvini; strung tin t firr;
blow lor urn homeward bitt-zon, hasten home
uiy :-liip und iiic;
AH my lovnl oiiiis llit'i u nra wuitiug, wailing,
looking o or the si'a;
And in piitii ia'o xwi'i't uio watching, O! my
ktup lor then an. I mu.
ri'Xb'EM IMKAI.KIIMIS
I Medical query - Was the eye-lash
; designed lot hriiW-li.-utillg?
i Flattery is called -tally" because it
! ina'.es a man feel awfully "stuck up."
There is a marked difference bet ween
; getting up i!h the lark and staying
i Up to have i -lie.
When the hen with chickens at
tad. ed tlw mi, ail boy in his mother's
yar I. tie.' hen informed him fchc had
been laving for him for some time.
A li do mnde on Sunday is void;
which may account f-T men sleeping
all tbrotiirh church service, and mak
ing no noli- of w hat the preacher says.
A young child in Oregon died from
the i-M'ei (s of swallowing the leaves of
an almanac We always held that
dates should be eaten in small quanti
ties. When a certain bachelor was mar
ried iu Philadelphia, members of tho
Bachelor club broke him up by sending
him as a weiluing present a copy of
"Paradise Lost."
It is a gluriiitis thing to have been
born a man. One doesn't have to
bother himself for a month over tho
plans and specifications of a new
spring bonnet. He simply has to foot
the bill when the thing is bought.
A little bright-eyed boy, upon hear
ing bis father read the story of Joan
of Arc, was greatly moved by her sad
trials; but when the part was reached
where she was about to be burned to
death at the Make, the poor little fel
low could not contain himself any
longer, but sobbingly ( bitched his pa
rent's arm. and. with bigtears running
down bis plump little checks, cried,
"But, papa, wh e re were tho po
be '
Henry Clay Quoting Shakespeare.
Henry Clay, who left a scat in tin
Senate for in-- iu the House, but afte
many year-." service at the other end o
tlie capi 1 returned to tho S-'iiat,.
chamber, exercised a powerful contro)
over tho politics of tho republic. Idol
ied by the Whig party, his wondorfui
powers of personal magnetism, ami
his rich, manly voice, would enable him
to bold an audience for hours. 1 1
made but little preparation, and used
but few notes in speaking; but wber
he wrote out his remarks for the press
his manuscript was remarkably neat
without interlineations or blots, lit
seldom indulged in classical allusion
and his occasional attempts to niakt
quotations of Fnglish poetry we:
generally failures. On one occasion
ho used tho well-known phrase from
Hamlet, "Let the galled jade wine
our withers are unwrung," but mis
quoted the last syllable, calling it "un
strung." The gt nth raen who sat co
either side of him noticed the errort
and simultaneously whispered "un
wrung." This double prompting con
fused "Young Harry of tho West."
'' who straightened himself, and witb
stronger emphasis repeated "unhung.-
This raised a general laugh, at tht
close of which Clay, w ho had mean
' while ascertained his mistake, shook
I his head, and said with one of his in
iniitable smiles: "Ah! murder will out!
I Uuwrung's tho word." The fascina-
tion which he exercised ovtr all wila
whom he had personal intercoms,
even his political adversaries, was
markable; but ho was imperious an-.
j domineering, exacting nnconditiona
j juj unqualified support as the price o
his friendship. Jkn l'eiit-y Voort it
tin Century.