The Medford mail., March 31, 1892, Page 4, Image 4

Raping for health.
NATURAL EXERCISE BETTER THAN ANY
MECHANICAL MEANS.
A HtUh-6lTing Flmnre Open to RJeta
"miid Poor Alike Physical Cnltoro
rVWhfeh Bring Delight AdTntgo oi
Walking Avoid Too Long Wtltt.
There can be no happiness or contetit
ment without health. Hence health and
lonr life are the great desire and hope of
jbankindt How to attain these blessings
has been the aim and study of the sages
AT1'faji Xi,,l nitwit hctnnrlinff All thftt
V VI. Ml MKT-O. iJU UUtniWHWUWD
I , . . , , . 1 1U
.Das Been aone in ine interest, ui uotii.u
and longevity to promote a more perfect
. development of the human system the
physical condition of man, as he exist to
day (in the cities at least), seems to be de
generating instead of advancing.
- Not; long ago there appeared in one of
, ourleadinsr monthly magazines some valu-
:able st:t-i.-!ico. touching the subject of
fv hinutta longevity. . The author otnfte pub
l iiitioaaeiit out into all parts of New En g
f" tend some 5,000 circular letters asfaug for
I ' tlbtalled Information concerning the occu
pations, habits, during life of persons
ovr eigfct years of age, male and female.
' A TBe inQuiries were oufte thorough and
eome interesting facts were furnished in.
the answers that he received, ine
')Jbllbwing among other facts were clearly
established:
lr Thathkigevifa; without regularity of
. lablts. n mrfe. J " i-- "
2,T&at phy,sjcar acByityiS conducive to
long h re., .V ..
V 3. That bone and- muscle are the basis
and main support of health and long life. '
4. inat excessive flesh is rarely round in
healthy old-age. J.rJ. vvV '"'""- -S;
"hVthe percentage bl those who at
tain a ripe -old age ia greatest among
larmersr-or those leading active lives in the
country.-"V. - -,v' -' . "
. The statisttcs-also showed a very low
comparativVJR'alth rate for the cities, m
spite of the fact that cities and large towns
i enjoy the Benefits of all that science can
do in the way of improved hygienic appli
arices. In the cities, too, was found the'
greatest degree of physical degeneracy.
These unsatisfactory, conditions are due
largely to the inactive, lazy habits ol city
people, who take" insufficient exercise.
Street railways and cheap cab lines are
responsible for a rood deal of it I once
heard a well-known physician declare that
every street car was a recruiting office for
the hosnitAl anirl the nnnr house. Lftzv
7 people ride when 'there is no necessity for
It; and when it would be a thousand times
better for them to walk and save their
money.
The important Question, therefore, is,
how can this tide of physical degeneracy
wtucn is destroying our manhood and
- vuiwuuuvu w ?vTu. a u ucj"va
simple outdoor recreation is the cure.
cowrie re is tnis evil more apparent tnan
in the ranks of the rising generation.
Boys and girls are growing up misshapen
under their present careless and listless
manner of carrying " themselves. The
physical culture of the youth of the land
tis a question of vast importance and it is
one that is now occupying a good deal of
attention. The establishment in the pub
lic schools of a department for t'.aining
the pupils in the art of walking ana' other
hpjll t H-rn vi n cr CTn'TQ heinir viemmuidv
atrVDcated. This would seem to be a capi
tal idea, for the true end of education
should be development, the right adjust
ment of mind, bciy j nmaracterThe
need of soma aueh system Is juaauestioned.
espeuiatty in the interest of girts, who tare
. more anuted m opportunities for. physical
, euitnft&a.n coys, r- ... "
jAmgng-tb field sports,'abaso baU,'cro
. quel ana lawn tennis ouguvto do en
'eouiased.' -These games furnish healthy
diversion for both mind and body.. Base
hail and croquet bring into plar every
- joint ana muscle of the body, and they are
; partMjularly ; efficient - in -promoting
healthy. -development of the organs of
; viaioi -5eii to walking they are the best
exercises for boys and girls.
The fact that tennis players, as a rule,
use but one arm is an abjection to the
. game, for it tends to promote uneven de
velopment. Lovers of this graceful, fasci
nating sport should encourage the use of.
both arms.
That rational exercise is essential to a
healthy condition of the human system
. will.be admitted by all, but people are not
so well agreed regarding the best method
to be used. The relative merits of each of
.- the various mechanical devices now em-
cloved are a fruitful source of discussion.
" Etch method has its advocates as well as
its critics That each possesses advan-
. t&ges as well as defects cannot be denied.
---- It nmsfcoe said, however, that want of
fcurt Sir znf a natural tendency to over
exertion and ' straining are objectionable
- features ol thgy mnasium.
The bicycle, too the upright or large
wheeled variety especially must be ob
jected to on account of its bad influence
i on natural pnysicai development, it tenas
" to curvature oi me spine aiiu otner niai
, formations of the system ; and the boy or
girl who takes to the wheel at an early
' age is apt to become stoop-shouldered,
weak-chested and bow-legged unless great
preventive care is taken." The legs are
abnormally developed at the expense of
. the arms and body, and grace and symme
try of figure are destroyed.
The superiority of walking over any
mechanical method is so marked as to
place it beyond the range of rivalry.
Walking is nature's own exercise. It is
. a health-promoting diversion which is free
to ail. The rich and the poor are alike
- welcome to its pleasures and benefactions.
little or no pecuniary expense is required
' in its enjoyments and it vouchsafes almost
s Deflect immunity Irom tne dangers which
surround the gymnasium, the horse, the
" cycle;' the boat, -c. And comparatively
"few can afford these luxuries. Sound feet
'" and a reasonable amount of energy are the
Ouiy mpiuu icijuucu vi uw nuaDi. A
"very, freedom from expense is, perhaps,
the reason why walking is not more popa
- dar with city people. That which is cheap
'anU easily acquired, is never eagerly
Benight after. But were the advantages
and benefits to be derived from systematic
. walking better understood it is certain
'- that l devotees would be numerous.
? Very ong walks are not to be recom
" 'Tnended, especially in an enervating cli-
4 piatey. T.welve to fifteen miles ought to
'- be the limit. A walk to be beneficial must
be enjoyed, hence fatigue should be
' '.avoided." Walking, when employed as a
.v4maii'Of testing physical endurance in
5 other wordsC when it becomes a task
. - loses -its ehams and is positively injurious.
. -The beet walking shoe is a snug-fitting
--call gaiter , (lace or button) with flexible
,k-tiitl ned leather soles. The soles should
"ati- Be over heavy. Sound toes are pref-
. rrtbfc' to square ones.
To secure a good gait in walking the
-. 'Uidy should"" -be ,erect, head up, feet low,
methodicaU-nergetic step, the arms
rantageOeorge Simmons in Wasning
a .'hs.Star,' ... - - ' c .
PKvGatSSIVfc.
DRUNKEKNESS.
IHaOnrod kSVk.? Work of Two Painter
-r ' on thV Front of a Brick Fnildlng.
f Thet w qulte an odd spectacle the
- other day in front" of a large business
.block In .-eowrse ."- repair. The front
waU'wae o? brick," and" bad been freshly
painted,' but the "tuck pointing" or out
linlngpf. the bricks with white paint still
remained to be done.- On t he day in ques
tion the two meirhired to do the pointing
armenreci at the building somewhat the
' ,-. tfir having been on a mild snree
tne.-D1Vfl,r mr uuu-
trxntifsj" beiw? on band, the men de
cided to jro right to work... Ascending to
. . - . . i : i t : . . I. n . n r
tuft top,oI tW UQU'llUIl. W"5J but? BWI-
fold was "already banging, they carefully
climbe l ont ami began work.
All went welt (or a Uine, and the out
lines of the-tu-loks.jrere true, but as the
men lowered the seaffold to the fourth
sf-nrv one ofthaw nroposed having a lit
tle refreshment: Of conree no objec-
tions we iie ay ma companion, ana
' he shortly reftirnetf with m large pall of
' beer, which wrfs soba emptied, and work
was resumed .a, IKtle. more joyously
than befoie. !--'" -
- - " Wbafs the ma' tewltb making thete
brick so sin oil I sayr let's make 'em
bigger," one" fellow remarked to the
other, 'and, suiting the action to the
words, be tinea out a nuniiter oi uncut
the slz ? or paving blocks. This excited
the rivulry of bis companion, and in
short time fie facade at the fourth
story bewail to look as if it had been
rented by a dry g iods merchant -to- ad
vertise plai I dress goods, larne. small,
and broken'.' Xt the third floor more
beer was consumed by the. pair, and
the brick began to assume--fantastic
shapes. With one graceful sweep of the
brush the.v would make a round, tri
angular, or octagonal brick, as the fancy
struck them. ; ..
It was about 10 o clock that the people
in the street beg in to notice that some
thing was wrong. The small boys
gathered below, and the remarks they
made at tne expense oi tne two jouy
fellows on the scaffold- would fill a
column.
"Come, put In a star, cried one.
That's it, make an eagle."
" Now pa!nt a'fia." said another.
" Why don't ynu draw the President's
picture?" yelled a third.. , .
The men tiowewr, went on umiuunteu,
making lines an i curves as if their lives
depended on it. crawling along the scaf-
. i t l : . i. ........ t. . 1 ... I A, M .1 ..
I01U, wuitu wtoupcuucu ov o uau,i;i-
ous angle. At 11 o'clock the. contractor
appeared and ordered the men to stop
t; kt crazy -work and come in, or he would
have them a rested. It was none too
soon, either, for with the disappearance
of the, fifth pail of betr the " outlines on
the -wall had assumed very grotesque
shapes, and there were no two bricks on
thewhole facade, below the top floor, of
uniform size. The effect was ridiculous.
and the "bricks' looked as much intoxi
'cate3a"ft'h?ttien;;'who. had..' executed
them.
As tile two painwrs wijre taken in hand
bv the contractor one of the spectators
was beard to say : " By Jove ! I'd rather
have .tost $l(Jthan to have missed that."
Washington tost.
CHArSACfcR-S Itf'SACK-
A Inter s'lng o Muden' of Baman N;:-
" tare as the Front of Ii11vlda-.
The back of an individual is an easy
study the whole of him. his figure and
walk, his shoulders moulded by the
habits of his life, the carriage of the
bead, the wearing of the clothing. Face
to face we see the mitn as he desires to
be seen; but behind his br.ck we take
him by surprise, and catch sight of h.s
Character.
Follow the thoughtful man as he
winders through the streets, seeing
no bing. Wuile he walks his head and
shoulders bend ; one knows that his
eyes seek the ground, just as one sees
his feet linger on It. . In this manner it
must have been that Macaulay walked
In his famous night wanderings, when
he traver-ed th . London streets and
jav nothing, a contrast to the night
walks of Cnarles Dickens, who trod the
same streets and saw everything, with
head characteristically held back and
slightly to one side an energetic ob-se-ver
rather than a dep thinker.
Very different from what we may call
the refined and intellectual back is the
back of the broad and vulgar figure who
struts past us as if be owned the street.
His glory is not in . his mind or heart.
out m nis pocKets. no nas a naoit oi
sticking up for his rights. Even his col
lar sticks up, and his bair to correspond
with his inner self, is bristling. He
thinks he can buy anything, from a
picture, of which he knows nothing, to
au elector, who knows nothing of him.
The puise-prond man will never hand
money out of that pocket for charity,
unless he is pretty sure that his nam"
is in a printed list of subscribers.
Sot so the wealthy man who bas a
heart above gold. Look at him, a back
view, as he stands at a public meeting
called at some time of calamity or need.
He is sure to be there. If the hall is
overcrowded you can see hira-standing.
never complaining of the lack of "Seats;
he is there lor tne comfort of others;
he forgets his own. He is a large
hearted mm, and everything about him
Is large. The big bands are only wait
ing behind him to give freely, the broad
back can bear a goodly share of others'
burdens.
As for the back of the rogue, it is of
infinite variety. If there were only one
sort, we might all make what soldiers
woul I call a reconnoissance to the rear,
and delect and outwit him. There is
the sharp dealer of the business world,
who is remarkably spruce at the back,
a d the"' adventurer oi -.society, who can
bow like the first gentleman in Europe
and ten thousand more varieties, from
the welcher on the turf up to the gentle
man who ought to be a baionet, and who
has lived for the last thirty years on
that statement, and oj charitably col
lecting for the savages of Borriboola.
He could stra ghten his body if be liked,
but his mind is fixed in curves of cun
ning. He and his principles are as
crooked as wriggling eels. He can press
others to his will too, as he presses his
cane to a curve like himself.
His spare form is not the thin, bent
back of the student. The back of a
bookworm, is another Kind of bend a
curve to be respected. Nor is it the
stoop of old age. Tne back is an index
of age as well as of character. Tue
small child stands a square, upright
atom of humanity. The man grows,
straight to bis full height; then his
shoulders come forward and his head
goes down.
There is an old saying to describe a
man of weak character that he bas " no
backbone." There is not much back
bone in the man who walks as if not
quite sure where he is going to, who
drops his letters, and never cares to
straighten his shoulders. Follow him,
and note how his hat poin s backward ;
and you know from the angles to which
be has set his hat and bis whiskers
that, sen front fac. his aspect is not
wise. Still, he is a go jd-natured fellow,
and by some instinct we read on bis
back that he has an ambition to be
amusing. One is perfectly certain that
the ma'i with such a back sings comic
songs and eq tally certain that he never
knows when people cease to laugh at
the song and begin to laugh at him
self. But there is such a thing as having
too much backbone, and that is rather
worsi than having too little. Wtien a
man bas too muc'i backbone bis bea t is
not as people say ' " in the right place."
Somet.mes there is no room In him for
a heart at all. Now, taere are some
men in whom force of character is car
ried Into the extreme.and becomes hard
ness and habitual severity. A severe
back is a pleasanter sight to see than a
severe face. It is not what we would
call the just and righteously Indignant
back, which is straights and noble, a fine
thing and a venerable. It is the bulldog
shouldered back' tbaidenotes the do
mestic ogre. His "bald head, shines.
One knows that in the front the veins
are bursting. His moustache -has been
twisted to a sharpness by angry fingers.
His hands are clenched or . puSbtng
mightily against his ha d-eet knee." He
could strike, but he has too much pride,
and his orders are harder than blown
He has a habit of getting his arm crook
edly bent to his knee -in - self-restrained
wrath.
There are, in leed, many backs that
are more gladly seen than the corres
ponding faces. The J?ac!t of t!ie bore is
a goodly eight, bile, on the other hand,
when good-by is grievous, bow much
precious regard Is wasted on that dear
characteristic, well-known back, that
never knows what loving looks went
after it. Toron o Truth.
Rather m. Good Day For Dogs,
"That Bergh fountain - on Market
Square is a success," said W. E. Goodman
the other day as he took a seat in Henry
Weinberg's' cigar store, and puffed medi
tatively at a Key West cigar.
"Is that so," said Henry, as he drew dp
a chair.
"Yes, last night I couuted 9,000.000,4.'.3.
895 dogs and fifty -eight horses that came
to the basin .to drink."
Henry fell off bis chair and sank Into a
state of coma that took him nearly three
quarters of an hour to recover from. When
at last he came to bis senses, he turned to
Mr. Goodman with a smile of ruo-'gnition
and said: ' - -
"Say, old man. Is that right auof those
dogs and horses, or are you giving me an
extra dose of humanity?"
"That's right, Henry, I was ateopand
dreamed it." The rapidity with which
Mr. Weinberg passed the cigars was some
thing beautiful to behold." Peck's Sun.
ART OF PRIMITIVE MEN.
The" Cave "Dwellers unit Their" F'osto
Glnctal Successors,
Whoever has "examined the -handicraft of
savage peoples knows well that from a
very early age two, totally distinct types of
art arises spontaneously among uncul
tured races. One is imitative, the other
decorative. Paleolithic men. for example
the .cave-dwellers of prehistoric Europe
before the glacial epoch, had nn art of
their own of a purely imitative and picto
rial character. They represented on frag
ments of bone or mammoth ivory realistic
scenes; of .their own hwitiug existence.
Here a.naked and hairy - wave, speor in
hand" stalks wild horse's, uudlsmnyed in
the grassy plain; there, a couple of rein
deer engaged in desperate tight, with their
antlers bard locked in deadly embrace;
yonder a mammoth charges, unwieldy,
with Wide open mouth, or a smtko glides
unseen beneath the shoeless feet of au un
suspecting savage. AU their rinio works
of art reproduce living objects aud tell, in
their half way, a distinct story. They are
pictorial records of things done, tilings
seen, tilings suffered.
Paleolithic men were essentially
diangtsmeu, not decorators. But their
neolithic successors, of a totally different
race tlie herdsmeu who supplanted them
lu post-glaciul Europe had an art of an
entirely different type, purely aud solely
decorative. Insteiul of milking pictures
they drew concentric circles aud ornamen
tal curves on their boats and dwellings:
they adorned their weapons and their im
plements with kuobs and nicks, with
crosses and bosses; they wrought beauti
ful patterns in metal work as soon as
ever they advanced to the bronzo-usiug
stage: and tiiev designed brooches aud
bracelets of exquisite elegance, but they
seldom introduced in their craft any living
object; they imitated nothing, aud they
never iii any way told a pictorinl story.
Now, these two tvpes of art tlio essen
tially imitative or pictorial aud the essen
tially decorative or aesthetic persist
throughout in various human races, and
often remain as entirely distinct as in the
typical-instances here quoted. The great
aim of the one-is to narrate a fact, the
great aim of the other Is to produce a
beautiful object; the first is, so to speak,
histori al. the second ornamental. In de
veloped forms you get the extreme case of
the one in the gallaries at Versailles;
you get the extreme case of the other in
the Alhambra at liranade. The modern
Eskiiuau aud the modern Bushman re
semble the ancient cave-dwellers In their
love of purely pictorial or story-telling
art; a' man in a kayak harpooning a whole.
a man with an assegai spearing a spring
bok these are the subjects thut engage
I will not sav their peuclls but their
sharp Hint knives or their lumps of red
ochre. "On the other band, the most cen
tral African races have no imitative skill.
Thev draw figures and animals ill or not
at all, but thev produce decorative pottery
and other ornamental objects which would
excite attention at Versailles, and be well
placed at tiie arts and crafts in the new
gallerv. Everywhere racial taste and
racial faculty tell most iu the one or the
other direction."' A tribe, a horde, a nation
is pictorial or It is decorative. Karely or
never is it Uith alike in an equal degree of
native excellence. fortnightly Heview.
The Pig Went to Church.
Harrison Black, of Spring City. Tenn
is the owner of a very fine pig of an im
ported breed, of which be is verv proud
and which is very devoted to him in re
turn, as" was evidenced recently. Mr.
Black is in the habit of feeding Bolter, as
the pig is called, himself, but. the morning
being Sunday, was too hurried to follow
his custom and deputized a servant to per
form the duty. Bolter refused to touch
the breakfast however, and seemed very
restless for awhile, but. after a time, bis
discontented grunting ceasing, they sup
posed he bad reconciled him to his mas
ter's alseuce. In a short while one of the
servants, though, passing the pen. found
that the pig had broken out, so at once
started in pursuit of him.
Bunning with all his might he soon
caught sight of Bolter toiling up a little
bill, at the top of which is situated a small
mission church, in which Mr. Black takes
great Interest, and where he was then at
tending service. The man tried to over
take the pig tiefore it could enter the
church, as it evidently intended to do, but
was just in time to see Bolter march n at
the door, which had been left ajar. Piggie
trotted up the aisle, clattering along un
concernedly, and, reachiug the pew in
which Its master sat, entered it sedately,
and dropping his snout into his band, be
gan to coot tor the corn it usually brought
him, and to grunt loudly on not finding
the expected meal.
Amid the involuntary laughter of the
congregation, in which the minister heart
ily joined. Mr. Black rose, calling to the
pig to follow him, but frightened by the
noise Bolter turned olstinate and fie
about the edifice, squealing lustily, until
forcibly expelled by Mr. Black, aided by
the servant, who had arrived breathless.
when he suffered himself to be quietly
driven home. ht Paul Ulobe.
Girl's, From n Boys View.
Girls is grate on- making believe. She
will make believe a doll Is a live babv. She
will make believe -she is orful sweet on an
other girl or a fuller if. they come to see
ber, and wheu they are gone she will say
"Horrid old thing."
If yer 'don't do what a girl tells yer. she
says your horruL I drather be horrid than
be soft. If you do what a girl tells you,
you will do all sorts of foolish things.
Girls can be gmxl in school every day if
they feel like it. I shud think they would
git tired, and have to do sumthiiig wonse
In a while; I know a feller does. Girls say
fellers a-t orful. but when a girl get
a-going it she acts orller than any feller
durst. They don't care for niithing.
If a girl wants a feller to carry her books
home, she ain't satisfied unless she gits
the same feller the other girls want.
whether she likes hi in or not.
Girls is grate on having secrets I mean,
telling secrets. They make a secret out
of nothing at all, and tell it around to all
the other girls, orful quiet, just as if
was sumthiiig dredful. I bleeve a girl
likes to .make bleeve they are doing sum-
thing dredful."
Girls ol ways git their joggerfry lessons
better than a feller; but if thev are going
anywhere they don't know their way a bit,
and thev are sure to git lost.
If a girl don't feel like doing a thlng.you
can't make ber. no matter whether she had
orterornot. If she won't, she won't aud
she will git out of It somehow. That is all
I know about girls this time. Home
Queen.
Wsk Eyes Sicken the Body-
That weakness or imperfections of the
eyes may be the unsuspected cause of the
various troubles apparently in no wise
connected with the organs of sight is as
serted by a writer, who says that head
aches which come on after sewing, read
ing, watching, a play or -otherwise using
the visual organs in a special direction for
a period of time, are usually the direct re
sults of ocular defects. Neuralgia, dizzi
ness, mental depression, melancholia, St.
Vitus's dance, and even epilepsy, have
been shown to be directly dependent in
certain cases upon refractory errors for
their causation. To some people glasses
are a revelation, revealing powers- and
beauties Of vision .never before known to
exist. Glasses not only Increase the power
oi vision anu greatly reuove tne work oi
the eye, but they actually prevent the oc
currence of certain diseases of the eye and
of reflex affections in other parts of- the
body, and effect the preservation -of good
vision tnroiigiiout life. .
A Nice Dish ol Turnips. .
Peel the turnip. Itoil them in slightly
salted water till they are half done; take
them out, slice off a thin bit from the bot
tom to insure their standing firmly and
cut a piece off the top. scoop out the mid
dle of the turnips, make a stuffing with
minced veal, onion and parsley, and with
it fill the turnips, line the slice which waa
cut oft" the top as a cover, tie them roum
with thread, place them In a shallow sauce
pan, pour over theni some boiling broth
(gravy is preferable), add a lump of butter.
season and let them simmer till quite ten
der Take them out, arrange them on
dish, remove the threadti. thicken the
sauce with the yolk of an egg, pour it over
the turniiM anil serve hot." .These will
take about two hours.
, V'f. Willi Cr-.
How " dangerous a thing Is a Jltt'e
knowledge"" has frequently been proven.
In these d.iys, particularly when every
other person one meets has a notion or
theoiy to Advance upon the ethics oi
life, mental and physical, discretion is
imperative. - -You have a sore throat,
perhaps, and say so to a friend you en
counter In a street cir. "Oil," she
cries, whipping open her bag, "you
Want a ch orate of potash lozenge. Iam
never without them. Whenever I feel
a dry ess iu my throat, however slight,
I pop one in my mouth and the dryness
vauishe-t. 1 don't wait till the really
sore stage Is reamed." Sho ha I mucji
better do so, for the probabllltl s ar
that she consumes forty usel ss loz -nges
to the one that proves a remedial agent,
and the thirty-uln are not only useless.
Dut Harm in. Tho name properties
which act euccej-sfully upon the' In-
fl imed tissu s of the throat act, when
they are not absorbed, unkindly upon
the normal (.Issues of the stomach.
Quinine, too. that most beneficent of
remedies in many cases. Is much abused
nas m-iuy more, lhe climatic, condi
tions of this region do not demand its
Incessant consumption. Yet In tunuiu
erable households the box of quinine
pellets from one grain for the children
up to live a id even ten for the. a -a-ioued
head of the' family seems to be an essen
tial. Quinine is counted among the' ten
dangerous drugs, and the statistics of
the bospitu show it to be the most pro
lino cause of deafness. Aud, on tho
other ban 1. this noble compound is ac
credited with laving increased tho aver
age length o. human life two and a half
y ais.
Another drug used in the bands of
wont -n especially is aconite. Jlauy
mothers will tell calmly of keeping a
supply on hand with which to do so the
children indiscriminately on the ap
peal ano of any a .normal condition
Foitunately most j-f the aconite thus
recklessly used Is in the little sugar pills
of tho homeopath, doubtless given thus
udiclo:isly . because of the habit; but
there a-e mothers who boldly adminis
ter the mother tincture. Vet aconite is
a,deadly poison, used by physicians with
the most scrupulous care aud nicety
and supplemented genera' lv witn its
antidote or complement. I. doesserloqs-j
evil, which must speedily be repaired
with Its good.
"simpler drugs are proportionately
powerful if persit-ted In. bo mild aMis
tillatiou as the essence tf,peppemrtnt
is Injurious to the digestive org ns
taken too often. Ail meillclu'. Indeed
that is not uecessary works 4 degree of
evil. For a slight nillg. If diet, uatural
sleep, and proper exr'&cise will not re
move it, the sa e plan Is to summon i
physician. As tlie late !:-. H. H
Hamilton said: "Not every one who
wants a dose of salts o. of s nna should
send for a doctor, but every one who
needs It.'" New York Times.
T-rrapln Fattc-nlc Wlihon Ford
Everybody bas heard of I he toothsome
terrapin, surnamed the diamond back,
dear to the epicurean palate, but er-n
iu Washington, Where they are com
paratively plentiful, it is not everybody
that knows l hat It will take $3 in good
American coin to buy one ol these di
minutive little dainties with the pecul
iar mm k-d shells. That Is to say. it
takes $3 to possess one in the raw shape.
before some expert chef has converted
him into an edible. In the latter state
nobody but millionaires and gastron
omists like Colonel Tom Ochiltiee are
in it. In cooking them only butt-r
worth 50 cents a pound is fit to be used,
aud wines of the rarest vintage, which
help to make the figures loom un on the
ticket that comes when the fea ,t is
euded.
'What will you take for a doi-n of
them?" was a-ked a Twel th-st. dealer.
whose front window was pretty well
filled with the little crawler -t.
T ike a d zen for tM." was t:ie r-
ply, "though only hotels and restau
rants usually order that many. Yes.
t- at's the lowest price. We eel tbem
lrm a little town down in Marylan-I.
vbeie they are bought up from t ie
flsbermeu w' o catch tbem in nets In
Cbca:wake Bay.
"There are diaiuon I backs In other
South-rn waters here is one that came
fio.n Savannah but none are supposed
to have the exquisite taste of those
caught in the Caesapeske."
" How long will th-y live?
' For three or four months and
Strang to say get fatter t e longer tbey
are kept. All the food tbey g-t is a lit
tle Ba grass put down for tjem to
wnddl- about In."
The average terrapin isn't over seven
inches long, and In the shell don't
weigh over two pounds. The late Mr.
Wormley. of hotel lame, was a con,
noiss -ur in diamond backs, and bought
as many as 3.U at a time. H put tbem
away ;n a remote room, where no light
entered, so ttiat they .wouldn't stir
about, locomotion being a hindrance to
the fattening process. Washington
Star.
Finnish Honesty.
Finnish honesty is proverbial. In trade
the Finns, as a rule, are not only scrupu
lously houest-they are herlocally, quixoti
cally so.
A tradesman will tell you the whole
truth about his- wares, even wben he
knows perfectly well that by doing so he
loses a customer whom the partial truth, a
slight aupimiwivrmo. would have secured
him.
"This seems exactly the kind of appara
tus I am looking for." I said to a merchant
in Helsingfors some months ago. iu refer
ence to au article that coet about 15.
"and I will buy it at ouce if. knowing what
I want it for, you can honestly recommend
me to take It."
"Xo, sir; I do not reeommend you to
take it, nor have I anything in stock just
now that would suit you." And I left the
hop and purchased what I wanted else
where. " Here's your fare." I said to a
peasant in the Interior who had driven me
for three hours through the woods on his
drosky, handing him four shillings.
" No. sir; that's double my fare," he re
plied, returning me hnlf the money. And
when I told him ho might keep it for his
honesty, he slightly nodded his thanks
with the dignity of one of nature's gentle
men from which defiant pride and cringing
obseqtiiousuitss were equally absent.
Saturday Review.
Brok i Musrl., In a relo-.lng.
Ike Kev. fczra H. locum, 1. JJ., pas
tor of Grace Methodist Episcopal1
Church of Harrlsburg, Injured himself
in a pecul.ar m nner Tuesday morning.
Upon arising from his night's rest the
reverend gentleman threw bis arms
baa ; over his bea I and stretched hiin-
seif. Suddenly there was a rather loud
report, as of something snapping, and
Mr. Yocum fell to the Boor. He man
aged to reach the bed and lay on it un
conscious for a time. Members of tho
family discovered him ther and sent
for a doctor. After making an examina
tion the physician stated that, Jn the
act of stretching, Mr. Y loom had
snapped a muscle back o.' hU ear which
bad connection with the shoulder, and
this cau-ted the loud report. It Is a
painfull jury and will require an abso
lute restof some days before Mr. Yo
cum can resume his pulpit duties.
Philadelphia Pies.
Not lie Soto's Remains.
.Some parties engaged In booming a town
at Fort Jefferson on tho Mississippi Klver
in Kentucky started a story reeoutly that
they had there Viicurlbed the remains of
Hornnndo De Soto, the discoverer of tlie
Mississippi. This has sot tho antiqiiurlaus
at work. It is claimed by them that the
route traveled by De Soto in America can
be clearly traced by tho aid of tho old
roadway which he opened for his cannon,
and by the diaries and notes of his priests
and others. These, it Is clulmod. establish
the fact that De Soto was no further north
than Memphis, and thut be no vor was In any
part of tlie territory now included In Ken
tucky's boundary. Moreover, It is assorted
with much show of proof, that the Mis
sissippi Blver now flows In a channel 300
miles eastward of the bod which it occupied
when Do Soto's body was burled in its
muddy waters. Thus the attractive fiction
of the town boomers and advertisers Is
ruthlessly- shattered by the cold . and un
imaginative devotees of foot. New Or
leans Picayune.
SCENES IN YUCATAN.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE LIFE OF
THE
PEOPLE IN FOUR CENTURIES.
The Dark Skinned Mayas Still Tllllnc
tlie Field i I.niiit Owners Knrlrhed by
the sisal Industry Mixed Knees Some
thing About Progreso.
If the northers still blow and the sand
bars are shifting with every ebb of the tide,
as tnoy were 4U0 years ago, so too, there is
little change in the lower currents of hu
man existence In Yucatan. The dark-
skinned, coarse-haired, somnolent Mayas
wore there when Cortes sailed the seas, and
thev are still to lie seen lazily tilling the
Holds and sunning themselves iu the market-places.
Four centuries ago their great
cities were already in rulus, and their mas
sive causeways and temples were over
grown with troplcul verdure. They had
been a superior race, with a genius for
architecture, m.vhanlcal art and engin
eering such as the over-rated Az
tecs never possessed; but they were
In au advanced stage of intellectual
decadence when the Couqulstadores
passed along the coast. They still form
tho main mass- of the Kpulatioii of the
peninsula; and when one glance at their
stolid faces ho liuds It hard to Im-IIovo thut
there has beeu a material change in their
social Bla o of mental doveloieiiieut. T"WI l t,le reading can
workmen in tlie sisal fields and tho market " The Las' Kosft of Su
women dozing in their stalls Hvtf'vory
much as their swarthy "ancetstrs lived
generations ago. Fruit, iioiza paste,
beans and green poppers form their diet.
They sell their garden "produce or lalr
under a tropical sun only, wheu they are
forced to do so by the necessity of earning
enough to buy supplied of food for a few
da vs.
If tlie sisal laborer can make 30 cents a
day he Is contend- He Is always in debt to
his eiuployeiOiud uever to bo counted ukii
for serious- necupatioii twenty-four hours
after a tpost-day. I,lfo means to him as
little .work as possible and a maximum
consumption of tortillas aud frijoles sea
soned, with, chile. As for religion, the
priests know all that there Is to be known
about It; aud a pulquo debauch is one of
tlie signs of piety when it is wicked to work
on a feast-day. This Is the character of the
working population of Yucatan to-day. ac
cording to the testimony of experienced
observers. Generations of Mayas have
lived and died since tho palaces of i'aleuque
and the temples of Chlcben were over
thrown, but them has been no revival of
the primitive prestige of a wonderful race
there have lieeu no signs of intellectual
progress.
Due must be Just, however. In bis esti
mate of SiNUiisb-American civilization. If
there are iu Yucatan aud adjai-ent Slates
hundreds of thousands of the dsvndants
of the one powerful rac whose genius
is attested by the elaborate stone struc
tures unearthed during recent years by
archaeologists, it is because the rouquest
with all its tynuiuy aud merciless greed
left the natives iu possession of the coasts,
fields and forests. Au Anglo-Saxon luva
siou would have swept them into the Pa
cific. The Indian tribes which witnessed
the settlement of Jamestown, Manhattan
and Plymouth Kx-k have perished from
the face of the earth. The Indians whom
Cortes found in Yucatan ami Mexico are
still here, and it is their labor, uuskilted
and uncertain as It is. that makes the
wealth of the eountrv available for the re
quirements of trade. If s.ooo.ooo out of li
OnO.QOO. which is the estimated population
of the country, be of pure Indiau stock,
tlie great mass of what remains, al least
6.000.000. is of mixed Moo I; and the upper
strata of it have received the impress of
Spanish civilization.
I omare tlie Indian races and mestizos
sf Mexico with the aborigines whom Anglo-Saxon
progns has driven from merid
ian to meridian and from one reservation
to another, and is even now eamjiaigning
against in the Far Wis;. Sjuiuish civiliza
tion may not have imarled a progres
sive impulse to tlie Indian population, but
it has not beeu a barren policy of extermi
nation. The unmixed races remain in
their fallen estates tne most interesting
ruins to be found in a land of ruins but
they have at least been left in possession
of their mountains and forests. Toth-se
are added the races of inix.-d M-xl whith
Spanish civilization has created -the bone
and sinew of the Mpulation. upon which
all hope for the future progress of M.-xico
must be bas.-l. If the Latin race bad beeu
like the Anglo-Saxon there would not have
been tin's,' six millions of mestizi.
Progreso is practically the only port of
Yucatan. It is a town built on a sanity
beach, ami while it is small it lo.ks fresh,
businesslike and prosperous. Oa its long
wharf are landed all tlie lmirts received
in the State, and it is the shipping-point
for the main product of the country hen
ncquen or sisal fibre. The town is the ter
minus of a well-managed system of Ameri
can railways, by waieh a erop of heune
quen. valued last year at So.CW7..V52.0i, wben
exported, is brought Into market. This
railway ruus for many miles through sisal
plantations. All the way from Progreso to
Merida rows of this valuable fibre-producing
cactus are seen, ndie upou mile, in
every stage of development. Everywhere
there are stone fences In excellent order,
manv of them covered with beautiful
creeping vines; the farm-houses and cab
ins have a fresh and lady look; and the
country while perfectly level is beautiful
to the eve. Yucatan is one of the most
productive and prosperous Stales in Mex
ico. The sisal industry has enriched the
land owners. If the working population
remains in the lowest state of impoverish
ment and lguoranee. the sisal-fanners are
well-to-do and contented with their lot.
Thev have what Sir Ambrose Shea is seek
ing to provide for the Bahamas - a valuable
ludustrv pre-eminentlv adapted to the soil
aud climate. Correspondence S. Y. Tri
bune.
Msibninm l.ore.
A local export proposes to make mush
room hunting a specialty this Summer,
and ho Is certain that if there is any sec
tion of Maine where there are lovers of
this fungus It is right here iu Ie'wiston
ami Auburn. On his linger he can count
scores of men (has to use his lingers twice
over and more too. you see) who are fond
of them and know how to cook them. At
one certain coiiutry house lu Lewiston the
Suiidav mushroom dinner Is a fixed thing
in Mummer, and my! aren't they delicious!
The old rule for distinguishing them from
UKulsttKils ;Via.. eat them and if you die
they are toadstools is not now oiorativo.
It's a poor mushroom gatherer who does
not know the difference. Tho top of tho
voung mushroom is white, tlie under por
tion loose and lighter; as It matures the
top changes to a browu color and the un
der art to a dark red. The stem, which
is whitt and round when young, alsc
grows il irk with age. Eatable mushrooms
have pleasant odor and are never slimy.
A tst proposed is to sprinkle salt on the
under si le or sMingv part aud givo It time
to act.' if it turns black the mushroom is
good ; If yellow, the toadstool is poisonous.
- lyowlsujii, Me., Journal.
A Rello of the 8 m an D Mater.
An Interesting relic of the Sntuoan dis
aster In tlie slinpe of the propeller ol the
Nlpsiu ia si. on to be place I on exhibition
in Washington. It It now at fie Maro
Island Navy Yard, i av.ni; been brought
there from Honolulu, where it WHatiken
from the Nipsle. Wl en tbe American
ships were driven on the coral roof at
Samoa the Nlpslu'a engines were going
at full spued aud she wits muklnx trantio
efforts to get to sea. The propeller wus
pounded on the rocks and Its bludes
struck thejiard co al at every levoiu
tlou. They woretw stod and curled up
out of all semblance to their former
shape, but l emuiued unbroken, showing
a wonderful degree of t-Dsllo .strength
and elongation in the material. The
propeller was made of - old-fashioned
nary bronzx oont-ilulug 83 parts eopper,
10 parts tin and 2 parts ziuo, and it ia
doubtful whetb r any of tbe faney
patent propeller bronzes lately Intro
duced could stand such rough usage and
still be capable of running the ship to
Honolulu, as was done with the Nipsio.
Baltimore Sun.
Ktklag- a T " f !"'
I believe you Presbyterians don'l
keep Lent. Miss Lawrence?''
I guess we do. I always have a new
ult tor Easter."
"I AM HAPPY NOW."
EMMA AB33TT'3 LVST SONG TO A
FLUTTERING INVALID.
She Rode1 Through a Storm to 1. t B tn
Hrar Onre More U s Iileal or Mulr,
Tho List Rose of hummer - " I Am
Content."
Philip J Borst, who Is dying of con
sumption in San F. a icisco, at the age
of thirty, was a resident of D-trolt a
few years ago and a passionate lover ol
music. He was a regular patron of thnj
Abhott se:iuo:is In that city and nev r
missed beirlng the singer In Martha."
Her solo, " Tne List Bose of Summer,"
wti his ideal of music. '
When he was first attarkfcd by the
pulmonary affection whiiVis now end
ing bis days be caiin. to C.llfornla iu
hopes of being benefit -d by the change
of climate. He gained strength and
vigor for a time,' nn-1 was able to accept
light employ iiient, but not for long.
For week's jiast he has been bed-ridden
at the lio n or his brother. No. 1 VMli
Twenry-secoiid stie-t. With hope of
lite non poor B.mst had little to wish
for beyond a speedy Wmiuatlon of his
sufferings, until E uma Abbott began
h-r rec-nt en-jnueinent at the Hal twin
theatre. The young man read every
tiiltlcism t nit the press afforded, and
ne a longing for
mmer."
lie liupior d bis pbys clan and rela
tives f.ir permission to attend Just one
performance of Flotow's mas erpleee.
T e man of medicine pronounced judg
ment that li ost o uld noi live to make
the Journey between his bed and the
theatre. It was Impossible; be was too
u'.terly helploss even to walk to a car
riage. Tue dying man, usu I'ly tractable and
gentle, was persistent. In refusing to be
resigned. "If I con hi hear Emma Ab
bott sing 'The Last Rose of Summer' I
would he readv to die," he leiuarked to
Mis. M. A Hotaliug. a friend of the
family, as she sat at his bedside one
afternoon.
Mr'. H Haling lives at the Baldwin
Hotel, tlie temporary I o-n of the prima
donna. It was uot a difficult task to
convey the information r.i Bost's pas
sionate longing to Miss Abbott, and
M s. Hotiilin i accomplished it through
a third p I son.
In the miil-t of the day's violent down
pour lhe la iy was surprised by a call
from M.f-s A'bot. The prima donna
was so do ike 1 an I boodeii that Mrs.
Hotaliug did not recogniz her at first,
but the fair visitor soou stated ber er
rand. "Now. Mis. Hotiling" she said, at
the conclusion of her rectal of what she
bad heard. "" I want you to take me to
your young friend. If my singing will
give him one moment's pleasure or for-getfulne-s
I don't think I can spend the
afternoon to better advantage. '
Hut tue weather; it Is raining, oe-
gau Mrs. II. Haling, pleased, but sur
prised. "'Nver m:n I the ra'n; it won't hurt
me a bit. and I have set mv heart on
thl-. 111 you aecomp mv me? "
Mrs. Hotaliug needed no urging, and
in a few miunles the errand o." mercy
ba.l oegnn.
The Introdu.-tion was almost too much
for the invalid. Joy einie near killing
In his Instance. It was several min
uses befor lie recovered siifli -iently to
even atte npt to express his gratitude.
and then hi- vis ;o- refused to listen.
Syave your strength, my friend; you
have but ii tie le t. aud use it tu making
your peace for the life to come."
The slrauge interview was between
the two alone, and it lasted for nearly
an hour. Tuen B-kisCs Irien Is were
sum-none 1 for the song.
Tnere was no stage, no costuming, and
all the properties but one were lacking.
In ber left band the actress held a blush
rus . an i with the no es the petals fell
to the fi.or, one by one.
n Vie lset no of Summer,
i n t" omlnc alnae.
Boost lay on his pillows as one en
tranced, bre .thless lest a note of the fa
vorite to w lich be ha I beeu so long con
stant should escape him.
His were the only dry eyes in the
roo.n. li is doubt ul if more pathos
ever entered in'o aiy composition that
Miss Abbott evr a" tempt d.
At the end B -ost droppe I back utterly
exbauneil. The strain was too much,
and for a f w moments it w..s feared
that tie x-it ment bid killed bim.
He raiii-d sufficently later on to say
good-by and express his thanks, and in
the evening he penciled a req iest that
tne leaves of the rose 1h preserved and
sent to bis mother iu D.-troit.
Sail ra V ,ter.
Salt ia an absolute essential to the
diet of man. It promotes health in rar.
ou ways. Si my of tbe functions of the
body o on better under its influence,
and w.thout it the blood becomes im
poverished. While a complete de; riva
t on of salt w. uld produce disastrous
results, an excess v use of it would
scarcely be less harmful. In larjre doses
it acts as an emetic; in quantities be
yond the requtremementsof health it ir
rllat -s the stoma h an 1 intestines and
sometimes purges. Those who uu salt
unusually lreely almost always suff-T
more or less from constipation.
To drink large quantiti -s of water
daily should be the rule with those who
suffer from con-tip ition. Each day the
system nee Is at least two quarts of
water, as about that quantity is used up
or thrown out of it every twenty-four
hours. Fruits and vegetable foods Con
tain much water, and in tea. coffee,
soups, etc., consider j b!e Is taken habitu
ally. In all ways, as stated, about two
quarts of water should enter the stom
ach daily. Ii Is a good plan to drink one
or ttvo g'asses of water from ba'f an
hour to au hour before eating breakfast.
And it niny be either hot or cold as pre
f -rred. Whichever be ued. the water
should be slowly sipped. To deluge the
stomach with cold water would be
to invite dyspeptic troubles. Boston
Heiad.
Lut Uurilo la th - K-d U aert.
There is a small herd of buff ilo on
what is known as the Ked Desert, not
many miles from Laramie. Wyo. A par
ty of hunters recently returned from
thero and report having seen 15. Dur
ing their tr p tliey captured two with a
lusso, but both of tne-n died, it is s il.l,
from the eff.-c:aof the choking they re
ceived. One of them was taken after
a chase of three days. Mr. J. C llob
bins was at the bead of tne party, and
his puipose in capturiug them alive was
toad. I their, to a private collection of
the wild animals ol the Rock - Mount
ains which he intends nMb't-ng at
the World s Fair at Chl-ago. He left
three hunters iu the hills near tne des
ert for the impose of c ptur.ug other
aniiuiils. D -uver New.
A wrlghl'a Blu . H nk.
There exists In the Lord Chamber
lain's cilice lu Lond.iu a p.icoluss collec
tion of manuscript plays, for every
author has to deposit in the official
archives a copy of the work f r which a
license is demanded. Over and over
again an author who has lost his manu
script has been a'le, through the gen
erous assistance of tho librarian to
obtain a copy or his property, by payiug
a small fee for haviug it transcribed.
We doubt not that t ie Lord C.inm'er
lutn would permit the publication, in
tbe form of a B.ue B -ok, or a complete
list of nil the plays hitherto licensed by
theL rd C inmberlaln and contained iu
the ofUVl il archiv s, says t te London
Telegraph. With the aid of such a cata
logue a d:amatio author oould see at a
glance what titles had been used before,
and dramatic hlstoiians could hnw
under their hand the dates and places
of production of a'l the plavs of the ceu
tury. Man gers, authors aud critics
would cheer ully subscribe for the issue
of such a blu book, for, of course, there
are no funds available by the Lord
Ci:aiuberluln -tor Its publication.
Wknt They Said It.
Oh. I have so much to say t
Clara
yo(.
Maud And I to you
opera to-night. L f.!.
Let's go to tha
A Strange Coincidence.
" At 8 A6 on the evening of March 11, 1891,
an odd thing happened " said H. F. North
cross, of Chicago. " I was about to enter
the dining room of an Indiana hotel, when
a gentleman, also bent on the same errand
as myself, asked me the time. I looked at
my watch and replied, " Five after 8," and
passed into the diuifig' room. He took a
seat opposite me, - and the moment he
caught a full glimpse at my face he fairly
shouted: -"-Howard Northcross, by all
that's BuClUlie! Don't you remember me
AndySIdttevitt, of Corning, Ohio? By
heaven? man, exactly seven years ago this
vety day, hour and minute you saved my
life." Then the incident came bacx to me.
That memorable night, March 11, lHhi,
Andy, who is one of the movt prominent
citizens In his " neck o' woods," came very
near " passing in his checks." During the
day Andy had hail a quarrel with a
Catholic priest. As the village clock was
striking 6 o'clock that evening a mob
rushed Into Andy's store and dragged him
out to lynch bim. I hapix-ned to be in
Corning, aud was fortunate enough to
render him aid at that crith-al time. He
escaped, and the meeting on the seventh
anniversary was our first since the fateful
night. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A Preredi-nt.
Mr. Sprightly Miss Oldgirl. won't you
waltz with me?
Miss Oldgirl Oh, thank you, Mr.Spright
ly, I should like to, but 1 fear 1 am too old
to dance.
Mr. Sprightly By no means. Miss Old
girl; I saw a lady dancing last week who
was quite a little older than you.
Miss Oldgirl Really, now Mr. Sprightly.
What was the dan.-e? The waltz?
Mr. Sprightly No, it was the St. Vitus
liostou Courier.
Four or five alderniea are to he
tried for uccepiinpr brilies for their
votes in favor of certain franchises in
Chicago.
Many of "I'rine Michael's" "di-ci-pltis
of the Flying lt-jll" are desertiug
bim on account of his "spiritual iinir
riaKe" theories and leaving the De
troit community.
The Prohibition state eon vention in
Michigan voted not to fuse with the
People's paity.
A stom of sleet, hail and snow,
with intensely coM weather, did great
damage to crops all over Texas March
17.
President Palacio of Venezuela has
twice postponed the presidential elec
tion and his opponents are stirring
up a rebellion, backed by ex-Presideut
Blanco. Several fights have oecured.
Emperor William and his cabinet
have split on the education bill.
The czar ia alarmed over the rejort
that another plot is under way for his
assas9inalioD.
CONSUMPTION.
1 have a positive recsedv for the above dnease; by ha
as thooaaads of cases of tbe worst kind and of lone
standxnc nave been nred. Indeostrone;ia my faith
m ii r&ccj, tbt I .11 ertxi T" o bottles raxs. with
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T- A lorss JI. I S3 Prari St N. V.
The Fatal Hand.
I was watohiuir s catue of poker once,
at Hena, MudU Tlie players were a ina
tder (whom I knew slightly ami who bore
the sobriquet of " Lucky Hill ") and two
miners.
Suddenly after the bands were dealt
and tlie players had "'chipped in" and
drawn cards. Lm-ky Bill, with perfect
calmness and not so much as a shadow of !
a change in the exre-ion of his fai.
laid bis cards on the table, took a note- ,
book from his pocket and deliberately j
wrote a few words. Then he tore out the!
leaf and banded it to me. j
" Look at that when you get borne to- '
night." j
His voice was steady and did not betray i
a particle of excitement. I thrust the j
paper aimlessly into my pocket and cave -the
matter hardly a second thought. j
The play progressed. Lucky Bill's face
was unyielding as a stone and entirely in- !
expressive. He noticed everything, bow- '
ever, and his vigilant eye did not miss the
slightest move on tbe part of the other
players. He was a typical gambler and
one of the most successful of bis guild
Hence his sobriquet.
At last there was an altercation between
the two miners. Hot words ensued a!i
revolvers were drawn. Some of the by
standers iuterferred at this -point and. in
tne scuffle that followed. I beard the sharp
whistle and spring of a bullet. Lucky Bill
(his good star in the descendant) I'll to the
floor and expired without a groan. Ke
had been killed by the accidental dis
chargeof a pistol in the handsof oneof the
miners,
I was horrittedat theoceurreiieeand that
evening, after i reach home. I thought of
the line the gambler had written uie. I
took it from my pocket ami r.sd as fol
lows: I have drawn a pair of sevens. I now
hold jacks full on red sevens. It is a fatal
hand. Xo one ever vet held it and left t he
card table alive. 1 shall die. I have $6 AX j
in the First National of Bismarck. Notify
my mother Mrs. , of Franklin. Ky.
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