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SPRINGS EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO at.t. VOL.1. NO. 36. RED SPRINGS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1892. ft J onanr . In the new Maine town of Romford f ,ii(t, where tfot even a log hot too' tr sgo. a 910,000 residence is build i'.it .and 700 men are at work upoa mills other structure. Th rqKrt of the Society of Friend Kn-Iand shows an incsea ia its . nl'-'bip of 221 over last year, bring i up to a total of 22.297. There -, r.wr in Great Brittle 310 'meet- Eighty per cent, of the population of is, chrectly or Indirectly, depen Hot upon her agricultural resources. There are 5,000,000 acre of cultivable larj-U, of which 4,123,000 acres can be irrigated. According to the American Agriculturist the farmers feel keealj the c'n( f:titioQ of the farmer! ia Russia, Hioicvry and India D. Nansen, whose plan for seeking North Pole is to jab into the drift- I;- '.. in a stout Teasel, and resign him--if to certain ocean currents, proposes !iy in a four years' supply of provis, V,t. hcn he floallj embark on this 'vi;. He will also take along aa im v w stork of patience, adds the Chi Herald. Import of wheat into Great Britain A inn' the fiscal yen just closed have annate Ho nearly 180,000,000 bushels. lhi. hrge quantity it in excess of the pr.ieut requirement of the country, and ttiH result hat been that the price of this prm hs fallen loer than ever known previously. It is believed that loO.OOO,. Hurt iMHheli will be needed to supply the (t:fi'.ienciej of the coming year. A correspondent at Hamburg, (Jer rrnnf, eay the deadly mortality by cholera in that city it not surprising w!in tbe'eondition and filth of its people sre considered He says: "Case are m record of four families coniiiting of ewenfy two persons occupying a singlo unvl room dirided off Into" section for th use of the different families by chalk lino. All married servant on an estate i'c housed in one room." Ir inh to the New Orleans Picayune in ni'i'her expedition to rescue Emin I'.isin i in order. Dr. tublmn has "rifai i letter fromTabora staling that F mm is nt the. south end of Lake Albert Nj:wi.j, almost at tho mercy of the .rii, vhoe rcrolt has spread from the tVno e Htate intoth Herman terri "nr., .'.ud that he is waiting for assist ant in get. away, ft Ts not stated whi tlu r Stanley will go to his assistance 'w. Jersey is a geographical puzxle to nnt Hntons, because it happens to ' i ited with New York and I'ennayl iimi. Kven no intelligent an observer Anthony Trollope assures his readers in lus book on North America that the ' i i't f New Jersey i visible across the ll'il-on from New York, although in fi -tlu i State," whilo a recent critic of rk on Walt. Whitman says, referring t Homestead troubles, that there is "ilevlly economic war in that very V'ifo ,f the American Republic where Walt. Whitman died not many months . s-. n '.tih newspapers are discussing ev .:! If the question of cloakrooms io r i m-h, referring to the abience of, n Ui.!uto necessity for, facilities fjr l'tv,jng of wraps, hat and overcoats. SvMo ihurche in the country have wire hvru'ks bjoeath the seats, and a few hiv irtre bar for overcoits and wrapi fn bvks of sats. Oje church in riiTi hs regular opera chair and the svn nt conveniences. A cloakroom. " it- t the New York Tribune to fill a !-i 'fit .vint, for there does not appear ' vijr goo I reason, these days, auy i -v'.iy a man rr wamti should not I - i- nfort b!e io a church as in a At recent meeting o! the American !j of Civil Eainfers, B. W. De I'mi. t related an interesting expeiience 'Ie sctin as Supervisor and Bridge l.n ;incer of a railway. He had to use ,,i' .' the. three-wheel velocipele run nin : on the railway, frequently employed ' J tbf main.tenaoce of way offlciah, and his track ran through a number of Mrrow cuts, he happenet o day to think over the best thing to do should y me! an engiue. He decided that the wsj out of this trouble would b to J 'Tij' snd at the same time overset the T'l'vilo,i.j to the right. A trial of this f'nn showed that it could be carried out w'fhrM,t injury. The value of this stud apparent some time after, when Mr. iH'o-ircj was running out with his fore Win r inspect a bridge and met a loco rrivH h-vi of time in a rock cut about 'chteen U r. dee,. He threw himself t . rih and jumped a the sami t:rn,1 cite liny; the imall wheel tni ' -v.;n5 l)Mk against the rocky aide th cut. It was done so quickly that ' ' iwer thought he had run ova 1 mvu and so reported at the station LAUNCHING A BIG 7ESSEL OLD-TXKZ XETBODS AX.K ADAPTED TO ODZir COJTDITXOirS. wncn ir-aiatlna; lleqolrca to . . Laaoch a Ship Saoceastallr Hotr the Thine 1 Done. HE ltuach of i ao4ra Tel f aot not aiser materially from on oi oiaer aays, except in ae- tall tod enlarged reiDonsibilitT. it is now a question of mathematics ra ther than of personal experience. It is now a matter of applied acieoce and not one of fortunate guess-work. The con structor in these days does not fix the scale of the inclined plane, down which the veasel will glide, by his experience in such matter ; does not smear the tal low on the ways until it seem to be enough ; does not adjust the sixe of the ways to suit hit fancy. Vessels that cost from $1,000,000 to 13,000,000 are too valuable for the running of large risks, and hence the equation, the formula, th? .methods of applied mathematics, have supplanted old-time ways of trusting to individual judgment and good luck, f Three things are absolutely necessary ,in launching vessel in tidal waves the (launch must take place on time, must be of moderate apced, and all straining of the, veasel must be avoided. It is in this last particular that the greatest re sponsibility rests nowadays. A wooden vessel easy be subjected to a great strain, her seams may open, and, as a naval con structor recently put it, she may almost .be stood on her head" and yet escape (serious damage in launching. The seams will close again and the timbers and planks adjust themselves. Not so with uon or steel vessels. If the plates are strained, the rivets bent or broken, the injury it permanent and a matter of the 'gravest importance. Preparations for a launch are begun before the keel is laid. Toe incline of the plane has first to be figured out. It generally varies from one-half inch to one inch to the foot. Vessels of a large 'tonnage have less inclination than smaller ones'. The City of Paris had only one half an inch Inclination when she was .launched. The cruiser Columbia, so long known as the Pirate, and recently launched at Cramp s shipyard in Phila delphia, glided into the water at an in clination of thirteen-sixteenth of an inch the foot. She went down the ways like a race hone. Mr. Nixon, the construct ing engineer of the Cramps, planned to have her in the water in thirty seconds after she started. She made it in twenty nine. More vessel are launched at an inclination of three-quarters of an inch to the foot, however, than at any other plane. The size of the ways, too, is another Important matter. It has been found that a weight of between two and three tons to the souare foot is all that mav be Jborne safely. The weight of the vusel as she stands on the stocks is carefully ascertained. In the case of the Indian, the first of the new battle ships, which will soon be launched, Lieutenant Nixon says she will weigh probably 4.100 ton a she goes into the water. Tne length of the ways will be 27 feet each, or a total length of 55'J feet for the 450 ) tons. By making them three feet broad the number of square feet on tne. sur face will be If AO. Each square foot will therefore have a weight to sustain of two and seven-tentns tons. The ways, as is generally known, con- isist of two parts, the ways proper and the cradle. The ways proper are station- ary and firmly fastened to the ground. The cradle rests on top of the ways and up against the vessel and elide into the water with the ship. Between the ways proper and the cradle the tallow is Smeared. This is generally spread five- eighths of an inch thick and must be of the highest grade. That used by the Cramps is made io Philadelphia, and costs from seven to eight cents a pound. About 11,000 pounds was used in, the launching of the Pirate. It is bested in big kettles io the shipyard and spread on by hand. In the case of the Pirate the weather was so warm that there was serious danger that the tallow would melt and run away. Mr. Nixon, i here fore, mixed fifteen per cent, stear ins with it. He also played a hose on the tallow, and went so far as to sit up oiRBvts with the mixture to watch the effect of the weather on it. The stear- ine hardened the tallow and the launch was successful. ' Having arranged all these things, a day and an hour are set for the launch. the time of high tide being tne cniei actor to be considered. Most oi tne crops are taken down and the vessel reit on the keel blocks and one or two sets of stocks at the side. The 'wsys snd cradle have been fixed in place, and wedges have been adjusted above the cradle and under the poppet blocks on which she rests. The wedges are about one foot apart. A battering ram con sists of four men to a piece of stout tim ber. These four men take care of lour wedge. The signal is given and an immense clatter begins a the men drive home the wedges for five minute. The vessel is lifted just clear ot Vie eei blocks and now rests on the ways. Al ternate keel blocks are row knocked awsy, beginning at the stern. Another 'wedging up follows, ana men an i Via nrnna at the sides are re- moved. After a rest the third wedging comes, and then all the keel block are knocked down, the word i given, and the planki that hold the cradle to the wsy proper, at the bsw, are awed off, and the vessel Urt down to the water. Thi i the supreme moment in the ship builder's career. In thirty second all the responsibility of hi past and hi future i crowded upon him. Those who know the intense strain that rested oa Mr. Nixon at the launch of the New York.the gTsvest occasion in shipbuild ing this country has ever known, and of the Columbia, realiui what the big sigh meant that he dram when the vessel got off safely. Had he been a woman in charge of so grave an ccasion be prob ably would have swooned after it passed off tuccessfuUy. It took about 600 men, jt l.n.A . V . t i j . a. k nuutu iunc uoiu, sou i oeix services and the tallow and other Drerjiraiioni brought the mechanical cost of the launches up somewhere near 5000 each. It will thus be seen that the launch of to-dsy, although along the asms line a those of Tears azo. is a rastlv different thing. In those days the ship owner wore his ruffe 1 shirt, knee breeches and silver shoe buckles. In one laonch on the Delaware in the last century the ves sel was 198 feet loo sr. and this was so appauintr a size that it was considered o ' necessarv to use a silver soeakin? trum pet in giving orders to the men. To day the ship owner cm tcarcelT h dis- tinguised from his men. His rarb Is M ... meir garb, bis face and hands are grimy like theirs, and he has no time for cere- raony. Then, too, iu these dsys, the maiden who christens the shm no loncrr stands In the bow and reaches over ban. ... . . - - r nxing its trow, instead she stands on a tjlaUorm ender the ship's nose and Dreaks the bottle of champagne oa tn i vmu. .ht iort oua. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, A doctor has hunched the theory that the bet method, of inducing a flow of thought is to lay the heii flat on the table. Dr. David D. Stewart, of Jefferson .Medical College, Philadelphia, claim to (have dcovered that bydronaptbol u a cure for cholera. i - . I There are ten place of the earth, dis tant from each other 300 mile and up ward?, and yet none of the tea has either latitude or longitude. Londoners seriously discus the ad vantages of placing a school of crocodiles in the Thames, to act as scavengers, and thus purify the water. Carl Vogbt, the celebrated German anatomist, is responsible for the theory that small-headed idiots are a retrograde movement toward the monkey type. A post-mortem examination of the brain of a Missouri pauper showed that it weighed 144 ounces, or more than three times the weight of the normal brain. A microphone device has been invent ed by a Frenchman which will reveal the approach of duUnt vessels by making audible the noise produced by the m itioa of their propellers. The latest cure for obesity is to par take of only a tingle dish at a meal. This, it i said, will in a few weeks re duce the weight of the most obese per son to a normal condition. If a 'man who weighs 163 pounds were proportionately as strong as a fly ing beetle of the cockchafer family he would be able to push along level ground weight equal to 131 ton. Chemical action formed a stone in the stomach of La Marshale, the famous hurdle jamping horse of Paris, ne died, and the atone, a ball nearly eight inches in diameter, is in the museum of a Parisian veterinary. It i suggested that the muscular con traction to which the corpses of cholera victims are subject might give a clue to the real nature of the disease. These twitching have led ia the delusion that many patients have been buried alive. Aaide from the honey stored by -the busy bee the Rhode Island Experiment Station expresses the belief that the in fluence bees and insects exert in the proper fertilization of the flowers of fruits and vegetable i of far greater Importance than is generally allowed. Fossil remains of the huge animils that inhabited the plains of Eastern Ore gon hundreds of years ago are foun I in the placer mine above Prairie City. A huge tooth several inches across the crown was picked up a few day ago, while early in the summer the immense skull of some ancient species of animal was found near the same place. The color of certain shrimps and crabs and also the color of their eggs are known to vary greatly with the sur rounding. Those living in green sponges are much larger, lay vastly more eggs, which are also little larger, and the shrimps are green or yellow, and the large claws are always orange re J, whi.e thoee of the brown sponges are red, blue or brown. For all kinds of metals mix half a pint of sweet oil with halt a gill of turpen tine; stir into this powierei rot tea stone till of the consistency of creau; use in the ordinsry way. For tin, to three pints of water put one ounce of nitric acid, two ounces of eaiery povder and eight ounces of powderei paoiice stone; mix well and use with a flaiael, letting the mixture dry on the article to be e'eaned; then polish with leather. Terrible Urax-llsn SpldTi. Among the latest arrivals at the insect house at the London Zoological Gardens are a couple of large Brazilian spiders, each of which is accommodated in a sepa rate apartment. This isolation is neces sary, for feir of misunderstanding whict would very probably arise were they abb to see each other otherwise than darklj through intervening glass- Even if thej proved to ba opposite sexe, the softer passion would not be a sufficiently re straining influence; for the female spider is apt to love her mate so well that she can, and does often eat him. These art the celebrated bird eating spiders of Merien, whose stories, unliae many travel lers' tiler, have in this instance proved true. The spiders are not provided with birds to eat at the Zjo." They have to content themselves with cock-roaches and an occasional new born mue, upon which ooe of them uade a hearty meal recently. ondon Telegraph. MBSfSJSJiBiSWMW Early Ck sts. The earliest chest was simply the trunk of aa oak tree scooped out and cut down the middle, one-half serving as a lid, which was at first kept elneed by a airap of leather and later by ooe made of iron. Aa late a the Fourteenth Century the oak chest, in addition to be ing a repository (or valuables, served as a seat and lometimes also as a table. Chicago Time. OLLA PODR1DA. Boxr, RisxAULiBUtFiiTe. A traveler rho made a tour of the Orient, and who, y the way, is something of a magician amself, tells the following wonderful tory of his experience with some of the vizards of the far East: One f these was begun by the largest man in he group, who threw a great coil of rib tons far toward the sky. As it uncoiled n midair, & small hawk seemed to be lib trated from it. He circled around a few imes, seized the ends of the ribbons in lis beak, and then made off toward a mall, white cloud which apparently ormed before our eyes. From thi loud there now slid to the ground a make, a frog and a smiling native baby, vhich one of the wizard's "wives" caught d her arms and held out for the vondering crowd to inspect. Jfext, all if the magicians save the larger (a per Vet giant in stature), now left the place. he giant then ut down upon the ground. 3e then spread a large colored umbrella n such a manner as to wholly concesl limself from our party. Calling me to lis side he exacted a promise from me to emote the umbrella after the expiration of exactly five minutes by the watch. I iid as he directed and was unsbeakablv lur prised to find that the giant had dis appeased, though the earth where he had been sitting was perfectly solid. Re turning to the hotel e found our mir-icle-working giant sitting serenely on :he porch. hen I handed him his um brella he opened it with a quick jerk, disclosing my watch and chain hanging in a slip-noose from one of the ribs." Test for Perjcrt. A method of ascertaining when a witness is commit ling perjury is greatly needed by prac- titiouers. A hint toward the scientific Ireatment of testimony so as to obtain a knowledge of its value is given in a re cently published statement of a conver sion between three Kentucky judges. ihey all agreed to the statement that a person who yawns while on the witness stand is committing perjury. Another rule sometimes given is that a witness who repeats the lawyer's question before answering it is presumably lying. A judge recently rewarded a wit nes who had answered all his counsel's questions gliblv. but repeated carefully every question of the cross-examination before answering it: ' Don't repeat the questions, or the iurv may come to the conclusion that you arc making up your answers. I do not ssy they would be justified in doing so, but you should remember fiat there is such a notion prevalent. I he hesita tion of n witness and anv device to gain time before answering are frequently as signed aa reasons for believing that a witness is not telling the truth. An over- glib witness is. however, also suspected, and all rules thus far assigned have ex ceptions. The science of weighing human testimony is still far from exact, and the lawyer who believes a witness is commit ting perjury can only pursue the old methods of examination in the hope that some slip of the witness's memory may betray him. HOW TO FOLD AN UMBRELLA. 0, not that way! I never knew one man in a hundred to do it right." said the clerk in the umbrella ?torc. IIisrein.uk were directed at a customer who had proceed ed to roll up n recently purchased urn- orella to return it to its cuse. lie had done what )'J per cent, of rrsons who handle umbrellas do when they attempt to gather the fold of clcth in ft neat roll around the stick. He had grasped the handle with hU right hand and was twisting the ilk through with his left hand, ''that v. ill spoil the umbrella hen von have rerH-atcd the operation half a fWen tini." the cjerk continued, and then ou will lc coming here and complaining that that f (J umbrella wasn't worth fifty cents. .Now nee what you were doing! Von were making a pretty roll, but did you notice Clint you were twisting the ribs and brncrs in a f-niral around tint stick ns well as the cloth? You may have noticed that your umbrella sti ke and catches when you try to rais it. That' lccaue you don t know how to r -1 1 it. Vnu twit the ioints of thr ribs and braces all out of shape." There. u se. yu hare twisted the cuds of thoe ribs all around iu a bunch on one side of the handle Now let me show you how an umbrella should be rolled." The clerk took the maltreated article, shook out the folds of 6ilk, and worked the spital ut of the ru, and proceeded to demonstrate the proper methods of umbrella rolling- Graspmar the handle in his right haud. he encircled the silk at the tii with his left, which he flipped down about half way of the cloth, pressing the ribs and brace firmly against the Hick. The right band was then shifted to the tip of the ribs, which were held firmlv aramst the tick. hile the left hnd adjusted the roll of rloth around them. By this method the rit were kept stratcrbt alone the sties: and not partly twisted around it, a the customer" roll. Si. Lower Your Hrt1 to Think. Dr. Lawder Rrunton has made a dis covery which ought to eutitle him to the gratitude of all who live by intellectual labor. It is nothing Jos than the fecret of how to have ideas at will. One night, after a long day's work, this eminent physician was railed upon to write an article immediately. He sat down, with pen. ink aud p:ijer lefore him, but not a single idea oara- iuto bis head, not a single word could he w rite. Lying back he then soiiloqr.icd: "The brain is the same as it was st?rday, and it worked then; why will it not work to-day V Then it occurred to bim that the day before he wa rot so tired, and that fTobably the circulation was a little risker "than to-day. He nct considered the various exii.riu.ctit on the eonaer. lion between rcn-brnl circulation and mental activity, sit the London News and ccEcludcd that if the blcd would not come to th brain the best thinj would be to briug the brain down to the blood. It was at this moment that he was seized with th Happy thought of laying his head ' flat !-P"n the tblr. At once his ideas tn-n to fl-w and bis pen te run aero the apr By anu by Dr. ItnmtoT tb'jfht.',I as? gttticg on so well I ruay ;t up now." utit would n-t do. The moment, he continues, "that I raiv-d my head my mind became aa utter blaak. so I pit my head down gsia flat uj7 the ta&e ami finished my article ia that iition," Baa Francisco Examiner. COLUMBIA. rr r. s. orutoac Columbia! First sad buret gm On nature's brow diadem. Whose lastre bright as heavenly star, ne lijbt of freedom sheds aiir. Like Noah's ark. a God -sent bark. In search of land throorh day and.dsxk First found thee held by nature 'a child. The red man ia hia wigwam wild. Colombia! Soon the tiding spread Of what Colombo hv and said; The eye of man they tamed to thee. The new land, rising from the a; Zaeh spread hi sail before the gal. To verify tb-s wtmdroaa tale. And thus begin what was to M The hope sod home of liberty. Colombia! & what thoo art bow, A crown of star on nature's brow; With field of gold snd teeming marts, With fifty million loving hearts. Who cling to thee from sea to a Io gotrd tby peace and liberty; Who, man to msn, shall ere be just. And In the Lord place all their trust. Colombia! Lift thin ere en high. See Him who dwells tn yonder sky. The King of Glory on Hi throne. Who looks on all, for all's Mis own. Our earthly gain woold be in vaia, A home in heaven to attain. If with our hesrts we did not psy Our debt to Him. Then M u pry. At morn, at noon, at eTentid. Oh, Lord." b evr at oar 4 Thst we Thy voice my slwsjs hear. And feel that Thou art ever nar. In mercy spare from grief and care The Dttion, bowed in fervent pryer, Who ask with reverent lovs and awe, God bl and save America! MY FIRST PATIENT. I had been in my new lodging for a week. A week that had dragged itself along in an endless series of days, every one bringing to me the dream and the hopes of an entiic lifetime. Over tbej glass door of my neat little apartment the white door-plate, with which it is cusi tomsry to announce the ofrice of a prac ticing physician, had thone for a week For the same length of time my little re ception and consultation room had waited with its dark curtains and straight backed chairs for the patient who were to come to reek the advice and help of Dr. Max Eihardt. After all, I had no caufe to wonder that my room remained so empty in the first days, for the neigh borhood had first to get accustomed to my name, and to the fact that they coul find good medical advice io their neat vicinity. All this I said to myself com fortingly at that time. When, by good fortune, I should be able to heal only one patient, then the situation would quickly change. My reputation would increase, and soon the rush of people to my con sultation-room would proclaim my suc cess. I should soon go alut in a pretty, little carriage, with a dark, brown horse, driven by a respectable coachman ; then, indeed, then At last, a thought which tompletel) overpowered me came to my mind. ) was again in piiit with my Cou in Ma rie, who certainly would make the prct tiest of doctor's wives that one could imagine. I loved my fair cousin. Aa r1 boy, I had shown her every little chival rou sen ice which in either house or gar den Is demanded of the stronger com rade. As a junior in school, 1 ha 1 in scribed my firt poem to her; and as sen ior, I had badly injured my voice, whits was just theu turning to laritone, b) slngiug incessantly of "the flaxen haired girl." When I 'returned home, aftel rasaing the firsd examination, the first hing of all that the student noticed waf thst "the fin d haired girl" bad come t love him as completely as he loved her, but neither said anything on that suU Ct. My Uni.ersity erid paused by. All the time I w-orked earnestly, snd whenever I had undergone the tedious trugele of examinations victoriously, Marie's dear eyes seemed to express hei lively interest in the successful accora plishincnt of all my endeavors. And when Cousin Msrie greeted me upon my" return, said koftly, "Herr Doctor F.r bardt," f looked deep into her dear evel and said more oftly, "Frau iVctor F.r hardt. Then I saw a bright blush com over her face, es she turned hastily toward the window-iteat. Now and then, during the next few days, I had opportunity "to speak to Ma tie of all the castles in Spain which a young physician could build in hisemptj dwelling; but I dared not inform ber ol my dream in icard to the future doc tor's wife. There lay in the blue eyes ot my dearest an ixprrwn which kept back my words, even when they almost found utterance. I bad no doubt tbat Marie would eventually be my wife, but it seemed a if a lack of confidence in my ability as a physician lav in bet glance. That increased my pride, and induced me to remain silent and await the time when the report of my first pro fessional achievement would proclaim my ability to Marie. With my thought absorbed in all these things, I sat on the afternoon of dreary November dav in ray consultation room, and at first failed to notice a faint ring at my lell. Then I aros to open the door myself, a I had sent my errand bov to market. i confess that during '.be few tr which were ceceary to bring roe to th door, a food of strange thoughts cam over me. A caller was seeking my help. Very likely it wa a jsstient of high birth, and I should certainly receive a rich re ward and fame, and I was alreadv mar ried to dear Marie. I opened tb door. In the half-dark of the 1st August dsy stood a poorly-clad woman J , oelore me. I rut of her Laggard and chArcosd-blarkcned face looked a pair of great, dark eyes bechingly st roe. Doctor," said the woman in a treml liag voice, "Doctor, 1-e merciful, O please. My little Marie is so sick." The name atoned for the woman's un promising appearance, which coincided tadly with my Latest dreams. Who are yon? Who seat too to me r I asked. "No one," the woman axswtrcd ;u?rk j and in a low Toice. "O L.lor, do ?oma! I have been carrying coal all day from the wagon into a house near by. lire over there ia the courtyard. Ms child has been sick since vesterdsy. i found her so much worse that I came tc' you at once.' I hesitated somewhat; the disenchant oent was so great. The woman wiped her face with hei blackened hand. It was a face which already showed many furrows caused by sorrow an4 trials. 'I should have gone for the charit) physician," she said, wearily, "but yout servant. Doctor, i a child of the shoe maker in our courtyard, and he ha toh) everyone that you are such a good, man Oh. do help my little girl!' I decided to go with the woman. Aftei all, one Is a man, and most of all is be t man who has learned to do his duty. S I went with her, after I had gathered to gcther the necessary instrument w ith i pomposity which astonished and hsl: shamed even tayself. Across the street we took our course Into a great courtyard lying behind i row of houses. Then she'led me up Ivt Sights of stairs, each one darkrr ami steeper than the last, and finslly througt a badly-fitting door into a little re rr with slanting ceiling and very little win dows. On a miserable but neatly arranged bed lay a child of perhaps fourtcrt months. Her limbs were ftver heated and her eyes were wandering and inex pressive. The woman bent down to the fSedside. "She does not know me! 8he does no know me!? she moaned. The child coughed; it was a rroupoui cough of the wort sort. I tore a leal from my book, and wrote my firt pre script ion aa a practicing physician. "To the nearest ipothccary," I sai I. The womsn looked at me, eraharraj-ed. "Can I take it to the one in the Knnig strasse?" she said. "No, no," I tried. "it requires th greatest haste; why will you not go to th apothecary in this street I'' The womsn reddened perceptibly, in pite of the charcoal dut. Finally she stammered, "The apothecary in the Konigstrassc knows me; I carry coal there, and he will perhsps I have no money." A heavy tear dropped on the paper in her hand. "Thee people, who can pay no physi cian and no druggist," said I, angrily, but inaudibly. I took out some money, nd laid Aloud, "There, take that, and go ouickly." The woman kissed the band of br thilJ, and then, before I could stop In r, she kUsrd mine also, and hastened away. I looked around the room for seat. A rickety chair, a red chest, au old table, some miserable dishes on a iioor, cold oven, which occupied the place of a hearth, comprised all the furniture. Hanging on the wall in a corner wa a threadbare woolen garment, and also a child's cloak and a little hat with a rib bon around it a finger's breadth wide; on a bracket hanging next to the little win dow was a withered myrtle tree, a red geranium, and a hymn-lnKik, with dis gustkig yellow cdea. That was every thing the room held. I sat down beside the little girl, bin was apparently well cared for. Her limit were round and pretty, her golden hair was soft aqd curly. Shew us unconscious; her blue ryes stared straight lefore her, an if fbc was looking into the far, un known distant-. The room was cold. I went to the ovm and found only some splinters of wood. There were so few that I did not at tempt to build afire. I sat down and waited forthe woman and the medicine, Kver and anon my glanc would waodr around the miserable room. Hercwat ioor, hardworking woman, who carritd charcoal on the street, while her child lay in want and sickness, and et h loved her baby tenderly. 8uddenlvthe thought shot through m that I could not save the child. I ha I lieeo called too late. I had nd ieIu tiou enough to try any doubtful energetic effort to save her, to snatch her from th arm of Death. My heart was heavy. I sprang to the door and listened for the footktepaof the mother. She came uttlly my reproai hful look met her downt one. "There were so many people in the store. A woman like myself din not d ire to pre forward." An hour of torment went by. Th medicine availed nothing. ' Little Muie conld not! swallow it. An operation on the throat was of nous. The child died, died In-fore mv eves on the bosom of th mother, lowed down by her grief. Mie finally looked upia a terrified man ner: a tear had fallen on ber hand, but she had not wept. "lou are weeping, do tor, she said. sofclr. Ah, don't weep, sir, you will stand before many a sick ld as you has stood here, where the Lord will not help." bbe looked nsedly at the little corps. "I have loved her verv dearly. 1 be done for ber what I could in my poverty. s heneser I came hon from my work I found her so pretty, o charm ins! Kot hours she would lie in lfl or on the flooi and play with almost nothing, and If laughed for joy when I csnie home. IJod baa taken ber frosa me. He hrt her more thsn I do, but, oh, I shall be so lonesome !" I nread the womsn's hand, but could not eak. I dropi"d aoni money fn the table, and silently, went out. At borne I laid my instrument case away, and sat down dUhearteued. I could rat no tnp- er. I went to bed and fried to get to sleep. But the ructure c.f the gloomy attic, of the dead child, of the submi sive and patient woman, kept rr Jess from sleep thsn the tormectrwg sell-reproach with which I thought ovti every thing that I had done. My first atient! I simply gToaned, and then the worli ol the poor woman came to me azam: "Don't weep, doctor, you will stand If fort many a sick bed a you have t'l here where the Lord will not help." I had been summoned too late; I had not been alle to ave the child. "You will stand liefore many a sick fed as you have stood here." I laid my face In the pillow. It was a terrible ni;ht; th- tor- ; turing thoughts wbkh made roe n r t less were very diflerroCrotn the pleaoGt i dreams which had tncoiugrd me in bote. , my waking and my sleepuhjjioar. j Early on the roilowing day an oia col lege friend came, who had sought toe oi hi way through the city, lie dragged me srver the crowded street, lato the MvecTT, into all aorta of rrtara&U H co-'j-laified of mj taciturnity. 1 feigned a headache and escaped the ne cestitr of having to act a sensational play at the Court Theatre. Tired and worn out, I went at last to my own room. On my way there I passed the window of a brightly-lighted flow er-sbop, I walked io and bought a costly, white cameliaand some sweet smelling violets. I went up the five flight to the room of the poor woman. I found the door unlocked. It va fa!atly lighted, and a little cofSa stood in the middle of the room. In it lay the chill dressed in a white gown. The ribbon oa the hat on the wall hs-l been made into two little lows, the myrtlo wreath lay on the blonde hair, and th geranium wa taid upon her LrraiU Oa t he table stood a Ismp, and the open song !ook lay near by it. I laid the beautiful white flower la the little, motionless hand, and put the lou quct of violets oa the quiet trrast; then 1 looked at the open look. The pagw wa turned at an old songwh.'ch 1 had learned at school, an I had roua forgotten. . I laid ths book away, sighing. Tb words which I had read, the awful slUI ness, -the peacefullr-testiog child, op pressed or heart; t wrnt home, after asking in the hon for the hour cf the interment. I went tobed early. I was very tireJ and all d squt left me. And as if called forth by a strange poer. the w ords of an ardent prsyrr flowed oi re my lips; the prsyrr thst t Jo-1 mijjht tics me in my dttTlcult position, and might change ray conceited assurance ia my own skill into a submissive trust in His pmtec tion, whenever my little knowledge and my earnest wihe would not avail; thst I might hope for !' comfort at all lick bed, where 1 must, a on jrlcrdv, stand helpless. Marly in the morning I awaited th little coffin in the murtjatd. A mm, bore it; the mother, in her oot, hlatk clothing, follow til. hhe prcised my hand and gate me a thankful look when the aaw that I joined the little prtnesslon. The way w a not long; the stirttswrre almost empty; the air was scry mild for November. A the Iron gte of the burial ground opened, the weeping woman dropped her head upon ber breast. Beside the ojen grate stood tb clergyman. "I hsve made it my duty, as long aw my strength lasts, to give a Ut blsiug to aU the dead of my parish," taid he softly, a my astonished look met hi, !-ar, kind priet. jou did not tupc t he w the plain, homely word of blcsslni hih ipoke ovtf the liltle cofhV cave comfort to the poor woman, and tt myself a well! "In (iod's hind rvcilaMing rr l found." 1 know it, 1 know It." aoMed th woman, aud be brut her pale face over the baud of the young pfict. On the evening of tle same day I went to my relative. All the older tnemter of the family were absent. Only Ou ln Marie wa at home to icceivc m. We sat at the window and let the moonlight shine tion us, and then I told ber bow I had suited my first jnti nt and what I had loirned thereby of value to my call ing. Matie said nothing during my con fciion, but suddenly I felt myself em- . braced by ber arm. rhe looked at rue with inoUt eves. " Look, Max!" she said. "Now vou know well in what ri-sjwct sou fulled in jour pmfession. Thank (iod tint you have gaiued this know ledge through your first patient. Now I think tbat you will Income an able physician, ho will al wavs lo good, even when hi own skill shall not avail." I kitcd tny co-fkln. 'And now, what d sou tucftnt" f said. "Hase you the courage to lK.om the w ife of su h a detnrf " Hie smiled in the midst of her tears, nd we were betrothed at last. Fortune willed it that on the next dav I huu!d again be alTcd to attend a child, who sit serj sirk with the c roup. I was also fortunate enough to ! able t s ue it. MiK h grace ha Ood since then allowed to ln Iwstowed through my bind t the Mck and the poverty tricVcn. My profession became dean r afid d-er-r to me. Th mother ef the, i hi I I who bad ttero my first patient soon moved into my house to attend to the management of the household until my datekt one became my wife. Ne then itayd with us as cook, until later she Ik- Mne nurse to our first born daughter, M.itie. She wept over the child for lot, and in thankful remembrsnce of the ifttl blonde ir! who had shown me what it i to lie a pbyieiao.-lFroni the German, in ltomanee. Wolf Against Kafle. "I once witnessed a battle between an eagle and a big gray timber wolf," tiid Lieut, (harles F- Crittenden.' ''The wolf bad singled out a lamb for its mid day meal, but just as he wss preparing to gather it in aa eagle swooped down uwn it. Before the bird of freedom could rise into the air with its burden Ihe wolf attacked it siroualy. For aliout a minut the air was full of feath er and hair," and then the combatants rtcd and sized each etbr up. The wolf came to the acraU h, but I reeve vy that th etnb'.emof thi great tfo l:c showed th? white 'rathr unmulak bly. Instead of coming up with tLst :ever-say-die courage with -which it is credited, it jerad it wing and flew tcr'araing war. I do not telieve that a bird tbat a thieving wolf can chas away from a quare meal ia a fit emblem for the greatest nation on earth. I weuld rather see a game rooster on our tanlard. fSt. Iy-d Clol Dcrrxrat. Klag of Serpaat. The largest serj-nt of whU n any ao u rate measurement have liren takra and no ed was an anaconda which Dr. Gard ner found dead and usjiroded to th fork of a tree during hi trsvtli ia Mcf leo. It was dragged out into the p5. by two bor- and was fcuod to t thir tv seveo feet la length. Inside ..f it were ificovrrtd the lone aa I fleh of a Vnrt. in a half-digested stste. and tl.t was no dooM that it had awsllowrd Vh ain ;l wh'Je. Dr. Gardner end otmr travels a.y that anond4, pjthon sad U- aU iia a length of Over bwty feet, but tbre is bo recorded Instance of ooe bavirg !n eucoufitrrcd loader thi a thst whi ri bs been mentkrtml, thu,;h many r toot have sn servient s!le wbkh they climate to l el coidcrsb!y gtcaUf a. nr. i Chics go Herald.
The Comet (Red Springs, N.C.)
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Nov. 10, 1892, edition 1
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