The Eugene City guard., November 13, 1880, Image 3

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TH FACTORY BELLE.
"So that U tbe factory belle, is it?"
wiJ Mr. Payson, the now foromon o(
the Mallendole works. "Well, I must
confess that she Los rather an attractive
(ace, with her largo hazel eyes and that
profusion of red-brown hair, althougk
her nose isn't quito Grecian, and the
lines of her mouth are just a trifle out
of drawing."
'Humph I" said old Solomon Oilsey,
the engineer. "She's been made much
of, Kitty Kelsey has, until she's just
spoiled. And" v
Jjuthere Kelsey herself came saucily
up to the foreman's desk.
"Jlr. Payson," said she, tossing the
cloud of red-gold hair that hnng over
hor dimpled face, "for I suppose you are
jlr.I'ayson?"
"At your service, said the young man
with commendable gravity.
"My machine doesn't suit me. I wish
von would please have it changed for
another." ,
"Doesn't suit you? ho repeated,
"Xo'," said Miss Kitty, straightening
out the bow of ribbon at her belt.
"Is it the custom at Mellendale to
ohango machines at the beck and call of
ivery dissatisfied damsel?" he askod,
still witliout a change of countenauce.
"My machine is always changed when
ever I ask for it," said Kitty Kesley,
nonchalontly.
"Suppose yon try and make it do, "said
Mr. Fayson. "I dare say the turn of a
screw bore, or the altercation of a ten
sion there, will make it all right." John
son to the packer, "bring me that list
of boxes that are to be sent off this
morning." , .
Miss Kesley stood in indignant sur
prise at this politely cavalier treatment.
She, tho spoiled beauty, the petted fa
vorite of the whole establishment, whose
every whim had been humored, whose
caprices indulged, to be told to try and
make things dol
"You will not change it?" said she,
coloring very red.
"It is quite contrary to my rules," said
Mr. Tayson. "That is rijiht, Johnson.
Ai d now I will look over the list with
it
Miss Kitty went back to her seat in a
genuine passion.
It was Anson Payson's first day in the
Mellendale Factory, and of course it
proved rather a fatiguing ono.
The morning, bleak and cloudy, had
settled down into a good old-fashronod
snow storm, before the afternoon; and
when at last the throb of the engines had
ceased, the whiz of the numberless ma
chines ws still, and the flocks of girls
had disappeared one by one. Mr. Pay
son locked the desk, pocketed the keys,
and also sailed forth into the snowy
twilight of the November night.
But unaccustomed as he was to the
Mellendale roads and their windings, he
soon became disagreeably aware that he
somehow had missed the way.
"They told me to turn off at on old
stone mill," he further pondered,"
"but I have seen no stone mill; nor any
fingor post. I do believe," standing still,
and trying to peer through the white
wilderness of flying tnowflake, that I am
destined to be a modern Babe in the
Woods. And the worst of it all is that
there are such a number of awkward
precipices along the edge of this woody
road, where one might walk off, in this
half light, and never know how he came
to his end Stay ! luckily there is a red
light gleaming thro' the darkness. It
must come from some farmhouse window,
and I am saved from my doom."
But as Anson Payson knocked at the
door of the little one-story dwelling, he
felt that lie was very weary, with hands
and feet numbed from the biting blast,
and garments wet through by the damp
and penetrating snow.
The opening of the door revealed a
cheerful little interior, which would do
no discredit to the pencil of a Dutch art
ista blaze of pine logs on the hearth, a
candle burning in its. brass sconco, a red
and blue rag carpet on the floor, a round
ohorry table set out for supper, and a
hugo grey cat purring cosily on the
hearthstone.
A tall, white-hairod old man opened
the door to him, aud welcomed him after
a cheery unconventional fashion.
"Come in, strangor, come in !" said
the old man. "Well, I declare, you
have got wot, hain't yo? Step right up
to the fire. Here's a seat. I don't seem
to reckonise ye not just by sight
though I've lived forty odd years here
about. You ore"
"I am Mr. Payson, of the Mallendale
Works'Baid our hero, with a sigh of
satisfaction, as he expanded his chilled
hands to the delicious warmth of tho
firelight penetrating his whole frame.
"Do tell!" said the old man, who had
by this time swung a huge, iron tea
kettle to a crane over the fire "I ve
got a grandaughter who runs a ma
chine there. And you're a new fore
man? Board at 'Squire Ameses, dont
ye? Well, you're a good two mile out of
your way. You'd ought to took the fust
right-hand road, by John Millerbrook s
stone mill, and then the fust left hand,
' runnin' where the Widow Fitch's tavern
is. Bat you're kindly welcome to stay
here all night, stranger; and my little
gal, she'll show you the way in the
mornin. She was wondering what the
new foreman was like, and now she 11
get a good, long look at you. Just set
down in the big chair, stranger, and
make yourself comfortable, while I go
down in the cellar after a pot of apple
sass. My little gal, she comes home
pretty tired of a night, and I like to
save her all the steps I can. She's work
in' dretfnl hard for a new cashmere gown
forThanksgiven; and when the taxes is
paid, and the interest on the mortgage
and"
At this stage of his remarks, the voice
of Mr. Payson's host became inaudible,
by means of his slow descent down the
cellar stairs, with the brass candlestick
in his hand; and the new foreman was
alone with the purring gray cat, and the
red shine of the flames, and the deep
shadows at every angle of the room.
"Well, grandfather, did you think 1
as never coming?" , ,
The door had opened suddenly, ana
admitted a gust of frozen air, a cloud oi
flying snow flakes, and as a girl all mul
fled up in hoods and shawls.
"I stopped at Mollie Dean s for a paU
ten," said she, "and of course we had
to talk a little. Oh, grandfather witn
a merry laugh, as she sat down on the
floor tO Dull off Iiaf ml. loo. .1. I.T'
aeen the new foreman and he's as hand
some as a picture, and as cross as two
"ticks, Hateful fellow! Only think of
his refusing to change my machine for
me! But 111 be revenged on him,
grandpa. Mollie and I have concocted
a royal plan; and I'm going to bewitch
nim. and wind him inm,i ,..
and make him fall desperately in love
ut,uu men x snail refuse him
haughtily, and-.Why, who is that?"
She surane la hnr fnt ;! i ;,
of terror, for while Mr. Payson hod sat
hAnril,lnA 1 i At. t .
""".iuoiou m me vague suadows by the
fireside., and aha limi voku.i
Moses keslev had flniklm.1 i. .n.i :
the cellar and now came slowly up the
iwt, mo canme iigut shinning in
front of him like a beacon.
"There aim nnwt" i. -
. " " Mil T, 111 J
little Kitty, Well, my gal, supper's
uum rutmj, anu uere a a good chance for
you to scrape acquaintance with the new
foreman, lie has got lost iu the snow,
and"
But Mr. Pavmn
offered his hand to Kitty Kesley, who
stood as if paralyzed in the middle of the
uuur.
"Prav foro-ivn mv liiiai;.iinn f;.
Keslev." said he. "I am vrv aorrr if I
really was as cross as two sticks." As the
little children say "I won't do so again
And I am quite ready for you nrxl your
friend to commence the bewitching pro
cess. I dare say I shall find it vory
agreeable.
Kitty Kesley could not holp laughing
in Bpite of herself.
Well, I suppose it s just as well to
make the best of it." raM h "nn.l wn'll
proclaim an honorable truce, Mr. Pay-
son, i or me present at least.
Kitty was charming all the evening,
full Of vivacious snirit ami arch plintt.ir-
but Mr. Payson did not know thot she
cried herself to sloop that night with the
bitterest tears she ever hod shed.
"What must lie think of mn?" nn.i',1 tlin
factory bello to herself. "How did I
ever ever come to inaice such a dread
ful blunder?"
While Mr. Fnvson was savins over and
over to himself, as he drifted off into
urearninnu,
'She is tho most charminir trirl I ever
mot in my life!"
And, at the year's end, Kitty Kosley
left the Mellendale Works to marry its
foreman, and kMn Iioiira in a nietnr-
esque little stone cottage on tho edge of
the ravine.
"Didn't I tell you I'd do it?" said
Kitty, saucily.
Vnn aniA vnn wnnld vnfnea ma
haughtily," said Payson.
"Oh." laughed Kitty. "I concluded I
would change my mind about thatl But
all the rest has conio true now hasn't it?"
And Mr. I'avson confessed that it hod.
Already Punished.
If it has ever been in print we are in
nocent, as it comes from that traveling
encyclopedia of fun, the drummer. The
firm, consisting of two brothers, Jacob
and Isoao, in New York, had failed for a
large amount, and announced their abil
ity to pay only ten cents on a dollar.
This having "boon done, Jacob said to
Isaac:
'Isaac, dod vos der biggest day's pees-
ness we efer done, hah ?"
"I ped you."
"Isaac, ve vill go celebraJo. Ve vill
pig deener by der Delmonigo, hah ?"
"All rhiad.
Thev went to Delmonico'sand ordered
a sumptuous meal, for which they were
charged $15.
Said Jacob, presenting a fea bill to the
cashier:
"Gif me dree dollars und a half in
shange."
"How can that be 7 asked the casn
ior. "Your bill is $15, and that is but
$5." .... ..
Oxectly, dot s rhiad. iou see ve vos
baengrubt, undt pay not no more as
den cends on efery tawler, ain't1 it
Isaag?"
But the cashier failed to see it that
way, and sending for an officer he made
Jacob produce uie correct aniouni.
"Got vill bunish you for dees,'.' said
Jacob to the cashier. "He bunish you
for shead a man who only gan pay don .
cend on der tawler, ain't it, lsaag?'
Isaao said nothing, and the brothers
started out. Jacob still assuring the
cashier that "Got vill bnuish you for
dees dings," and when they got iuto the
street, Isaao said cautiously to jacoo:
"Yacob, you vas rhiad. Got vill bun
ish dod man, Yacob," he continued run
ning his hand in the breast pocket of his
overcoat and pulling out something,
"Got haif already bunish6d dod maon,
vor I got me vou tozent hees zilver
sboons."
Churning Iu Uruguay.
Tliav lmil rlonn sncli a thin as to
churn butter bofore, it appears. Liz
.1 nnf mil lirnncht a baor of rawhide.
about as large as a common meal-bag.
How clean it was insiae, l am sure j. uu
not know; but he turned the cream into
it, and poured in new milk enough to
fill it two-thirds full; and then he tied
it up with a strong strip of hide. M
stood with a broad grin on his face. I
was already too niucn asionisueu w
onv mmnrka. T,iz dow carried the
Uianu -
bag out of doors, and then got his horse.
Taking his lasso off the saddle, he made
one end or it last to tne cream-uag; iu
other end, as usual, being attached to a
;n cn.Mln This done, he not
on the horse, and touched spnrs to him.
Away he went, ana at uie nra jem mm
bag went ten ieei in iue air. uu ion wnu
a souanoh. close onto the horse's heels.
. . . i .i j. i . :n TT
At the next jeric u weni uiguor Dim. no
onnt nut of sicrht. with the bas
dancing after him. Sometimes it struck
down alongside tne uorse, anu bouio
times it struck slap on the animal's
rump. M was convulsed with laugh
terat me, I suppose; fori must confess
u.. ..; nnui all mr orevious ideas of
I U luw "I""-. - J I
butter-making. In the course of twen
ty or thirty minutes, Liz came back, the
horse looking pretty hot, and the bg
very dusty. -jimunimu iuuw
T.t tia VA nntied the churn.
CUU1U, mih .
and sure enough there was a good home
ly chunk of butter in it; ana u provea
to be very decent butter, too. I asked
if that was the way they always churned.
They said it was, and Ed declared it was
"a dale asier than turnin' a crank." So
I respectfully submit the "method" to
allourgooa peopia op aiuiiu.
.i.:-- AA tnr it ia a aule-Iaather baff.
clothet-line aad a horse. Youth s
Companion.
RUUg Talk.
Still the flood of gold and of immi
gration tendi toward tho Unitod
States. Europe roars hor children,
And when they roach maturity, in
stead of becoming soldiers to defend
their native States, or instoud of cn.
gaging in business to holp boar tho
burden of thoir fathorland, their
footsteps tarn to tho West, and from
the nearest seaport they sail away
and aro thereafter forever lost to na
liro land. This year half a million
have come, next year it is oxpoctod a
round million will sook our shores.
A million of people. That means
that in ono year, from Europo's
strength thcro will bo drawn almost
as inuny people ns uro now in our
liopublio west of tho Rocky Mount
ains. Ono-fifticlh as many us our
liopublio now possess after a bun
dred and fifty yonra of colonial life
and more thun a century ot National
life. And with tho peoplo the gold
of Europe is also coming, though so
many are coming thoso who remain
havo to buy so tnnch American ma
terial that it inoro than counterbal
ances American recklessness and ex
travagances, and makes heavy druins
upon tho aggregated wealth of tho
Old World, lloro are lessons for tho
nations beyond the sea, and a groat
lesson also for us. This stato of
a flairs is a notico served upon Europo
that her vast armies must bo dis
banded, that tho young must bo
pcrniittod to marry and to work for
a homo, and that whatever elao is
witthold from tho people, they mast
bo given tho right to think
as they please, and to road what
ever a free press may throw off.
When our Declaration of Independ
ence was writton, that was a notico
served upon the world that sover
eignty was soon to pass from kings,
and that tho pooplo wero to assuuio
thoir divino prerogative. .Europe has
been slow to hail tho signal; it may
require a great many tears and many
a blood bath yet to wash tho mists
from tho peoplo's eyes but the earth
quake is npon its maroh and no
chains can be wcldod which can re
strain it in its course The peoplo
there aro restive now in wearing out
the best part of thoir lives in holding
bayonets as props to thrones; what
will bo their condition fifty years
hence when this Republic becomes
a cloud by day, a pillar of firo by
night to a watching world, and whon
150,000,000 of pooplo chant in chorus
proansto Liberty? And for us tho
lesson is that as a pooplo wo must
take higher ground; must prepare
tho youth of tho country for noblor
work. With the great West all ox.
posod, with a curtailing of tho fields
of labor, and with from half a mil.
lion to a million common laborers
coming to our country annually, the
children of our people must bo given
an education which will train eye
and hand and brain to do some
necessary thing bettor than foreign
artisans can do it, our manufactories
must bo encouragod, tho laws must
bo modified which govern our ship
ping, and tho rich must be taxed to
fill tho seas again with our sails that
tho nations which have to buy will
buy of us, and tho daily losson which
should never bo missod in our Bchools
should bo that our nativo land do
sorves all tho love, all tho rcspoct
and tho perpotual defenso of its chil
dren. Extremely "Silent."
Tho vflHioious Washington corre
spondent informs that portion of tho
American poopio wnose wretcueu
fate it is to live olsewhore than in tho
National capital, that a gonuino
aristocratio society is at last in
process of evolution in that city. It
is known as tho extremely soloct so
cial circle of the army and navy, and
it has attained to tho dignity of ono
distinguishing characteristic. Among
tho young women who movo in this
select circle it is considered highly
impropor to attend a cencort or tho
ater, even with ono's betrothed,
without tho cbaperonage of mamma
or a maiden aunt. A rido nlono, or
even a call, without tho presence of
a third person, is not to bo thought
of or spoken of without a shudder.
All that sort of thing is hold as in
bad form, vulgar, American and far
inferior to tho social.code of docorum
practiced in Spain and Turkey. Ono
young lady whoso mamma was too
ill to go to the play, violatod the
rule and conscntod to go alone witq
tbe man to whom sho was engaged;
and speaking of it afterward, she
said: "I sutt'ered intense agony all
evening for fear we should meet
somebody I knew, and I never felt so
common in all my life." Tho next
time that young lady's fiance asks
her to accompany him to the opera
she will probably reply: "If I bo.
longed to tbe common people; if my
father or brother simply made laws
for the community or superintended
the commercial intercourse of na
tions or directed the financial ex-
fhancrca of the WOlld. I should be
most happy to accompany you; but,
seeing inafci "v - j
Horiieated fVinWolf to the dc-
stroction of mankind and kills such
peoplo as those in power happen to
fk;ir .hnnlH he slain. I must request
you to buy another ticket for my
old maiden aunt.
A California Justice, in a moment of
anger, said that the lawyers in a ease on
:Ti V. v;, w.r. tin batter than
iriat ------ - . -. -
hone thieves. Then he apologized and
fined himself lor contempt i cour.
WIT AJD ni'MOB.
Potato brandy, used greatly in some
parts of Switzerland, is said to be nearly
m poisonous as absinthe.
Our infldel reporter remarks that Bob
Ingorsoll can juggle the Anglo-Saxon
language better than any man iu Amer
ica. The students at Oborlin college are not
allowed to chew tobacco, but, this being
tbe case we don't see how thev expector
ate as first-class scholars.
A Profossor Grimmer prediota terrible
mortality the noxt sovon years. Ameri
ca will lose fifteen millions -Ex. We
never hoard of a grimmer prediction
thun that.
Col. Jeromo Bonaparte and wifo. who
have usually spent thoir winters in Paris
will pass the coming soason in Washing
ton. Their daughter will bo near them
at the Visitation Convout in George
town. A California Justice, in a momont of
anger, said that the lawyers in a case on
trial bofore him wero no hotter than so
many horse thioves. Then he apolo
gized, and fined himself $10 for con
tempt of court.
Bill Jones owned ono of tho bill boards
of a Michiinin town, but business being
dull he was compelled to soil it in ordor
to pay his hotel bill. It rather bored
Bill to have to sell his bill-board to pay
his board bill.
The MHhchlist says that "Calvinism is
hunting with a donblo-barrollod shot
gun, a collego barrol and a pulpit barrel.
Tho college barrel is loaded with free
salvation," aud it asks if the divinity
students are not taught one $ing iu
theory and another in practice
"Why don't you cot marriod?'. said a
young lady to a bachelor acquaintance
who was on a visit. "I havo beon trying
for tho last ten years to find somo one
who would bo foolish onough to take mo
and have not yet sucoeoded,'" was tho
roply. "Then you haven't boon down
our way," was the insinuating rejoinder.
Gen. Novos, the American Minister,
has finally secured apurtnionts iu tho rue
Francois lor., first corner of the rue
Pierre Charron. Tho Minister's new
rosidence is but a short distance from
tho legation, aud is a largo and hand
somoly furnished ono. It will bo occu
pied the prosout week.
She was a four-year-old blondo, gonor-
ally quiet and tractablo, but mamma had
provoked her. I don t love you any
inoro, mamma, "very well, doar, you
neodu't." "Well, I don't love you."
"All right, doarie, mamma will try to
got olong." "Well, I do love you, butTI
dont fool juist like it now."
A Boston eontleman not long since
diod, leaving his widow nothing but a
mortgage for $10,000 on a church. Some
of the leading mon of the church offered
to compromise with her for a small sum,
representing to her that the church was
poor. She went to a lawyer, howover,
and was informed that the corporation
was very wealthy, and easily able to
pay its debts..
A New Yorker predicts that "the time
is near at hand when a race of honey
beos will be introduced to the American
people who have no stingers." But the
American peoplo who have no stingors
who and where are thoy? Or, rather,
who and whoro are the American peoplo
who have stingers ? Perhaps the Ameri
can people who have no stingors will ob
joct to making the acquaintance of a
new race oi honey neos. orwicu
Horald.
An Artlllclal Bun.
An eloctricnl onginoor of Boston
is about to try the oxporimont of
lighting Holyoko, Mass., in a manner
that will strike tho present genera
tion as novol. It is proposod to
build a tower seventy-five loot high
overlooking tho town. This is to be
surmountod by an immense lantern
of such illuminating capacity as to
put all previous lamps in tho cate
gory of trifles. At present only one
tower will be built, but if the princi
ple should provo a success, sevon or
eight towers will ultimately bo
croctod, that tho city may bo ren
dered as light as day, aid gas and
koroscno completely suporsodod.
The idea ot tho inventor is to chargo
the uppor strata of tho atmosphore
with luminous vibrations in tho samo
manner as is done by tho sun, and
thus to produco tho samo ofl'ect that
is obtained during tho day from tho
reflected, refracted and diffused light
of that popular orb. It is boiiovea
that oloctrio light can thus be mado
to pormoato epaccs which are inac
ccBsible to diroct rays by the samo
law by which daylight diffuses it
selfthat is, by virtuo of an expan
sive property which is constantly il
lustrated on tbo largo" scale of polar
illumination, but has no placo in our
text books on optics. Tbo light
given by tho solar orb a few minutes
aftor sunset, when only the uppor
strata of tho atmosphere aro directly
affected by tho solar beam, furnishos
tho best example of tho diffusion and
expansion that tho Boston engineer
proposes to imitato artificially. His
plans provide for an illuminating
power from each lantern equal to
300,000 candlos, which is nearly
twenty times larcer than that of any
electric lamp yet manufactured, but
is not all impracticable, as it involves
only an increase in electrical volume
and pressure, ana a corresponding in
crease in tbo diameter of tho car
bons. The cost of tho tower, lamp
and goncrator for a single lamp will
be 815.000. irrespective of tho engine
power required to run tbo latter. If
this exneriment auccecus iiuuu
will bare to look to his laurels.
No American represent tivo at the
Tonrt of St. James since tbe late Mr.
Motley receives so much attention as
Mr. Lowell, our present Minister,
and it is said of bim that he has not
time to accept one.half of the social
invitations continually showered
npon mm.
DIFTBERIA.
Dipthoria consists essentially of a
local inflamation and a general fever. In
many cases the throat affection, which is
tho local inflammation, is slight, while
the constitutional affection or general
fever is sovere ; and, in some cases, the
revorso happens. The fever is always of
the low and typhoid character. The
local inflammation, in all cases, is at
tended with an excrotion of ooagulable
lymph, which, concreting into a false
mombrano, forms a crust or coating to
tho mucous surfaco, to bo cast off like
all other foreign substances. Whon
spread over a largo portion of the
larynx, trachea, or bronchial ramifica
tions, this mombranoous concretion may
occasion death by suffocation. Iu the
other cases which terminate futally,
death is the result of exhaustion.
The cause of diphthoria is poison,
virus, or impurities of some kind in the
blood. The disease itaclf is an effort of
the syvtem to purify iteolf by expelling
these impurities. The danger from
diptheria results usually from tho exces
sive determination of morbid action to
the throat; and henco, the obvious indi
cation of cure is to counteract this do
fnrmination hv nromotinir doiuiration. or
oloauing of the systom.in other directions.
especially through the skin, xuo true
management of disease is so to regulate
tho remedial effort that each organ or
Sart may perform its own appropriate
nty, so that no structure may be dis
organized by having too groat a burden
thrown upon it. Instead of subduing
disease by merely opposing or counter
marching tho symptoms, it should bo
rntlmr an ilifTnsiiil anil directed that it
may successfully accomplish its work of
pUriUCaUUU. XUO Ull iuuiv.nuuu, iuuii,
in tho treatment of diphthoria is to bal
ance the circulation, and in accomplish
ing this, the temperature of the body is
tho proper and tho infallible guido.
Whoi-nvnr thorn is deficient circulation.
thore will be found coldness and pale
ness; whorover there is congestion or oo
struction will be pain, boat and disturbed
function. Thoso conditions must be kept
in mind, as they are tho basis of all
thorapontio prooossos. ino gonorui
miiin.iinl nlnn. therefore, so far as the
fover is concorned, is resolved into the
simple ldoa of regulating tuo tempera
ture. To do this, is to promote equal
imti-ihntinn of the blood: in other
words, to balance tho circulation; and
as functional action is always in propor
tion tn tlm vifror of tho circulation, so by
regulating the temperature and balanc
ing the circulation, we supply tuo con
ditions which enable nature to euro tho
ilinAnnA nr. in othor lihraseoloirv. which
aid and assist the living system to do tho
work oi punucauon.
Iu the premonitory stages of diph
theria, whon tho patient is affected with
rigors or chilliness, or those with alter
nate and irregular flushos of boat, a full
nrm imih warm as tho patient can bear
comfortably, for ten or fifteen minutes
should bo employed if practicable. If
this is impractioablo, the warm hip bath
and the hot foot bath are the best substi
tutes. If those are not available, warm
fomentations to the abdomon and bottles
of hot water to the Bides aud loot should
be resorted to. If thore is at this time
pain or soarness of the throat without
much heat, fomentations Bhould bo ap
pliod externally for ten or flfteon min
utes, followod by tho cold wet compress
covered with a dry towel or cloth, and
this should bo ro-wot and re-applied
as it becomos warm or nearly
dry. The patient should keep
at this time, avoid-
inir ovnrvthinf in the shone of food.con-
dimonts, stimulants and medicines, swal
lowing nothing but pure waior, ami ui
this only so much as is demanded by the
thirst. The temperature of the water for
drinking may oo that which is inoBt
agreoablo lor the patient. uuu uiu uov
.t.w, nf ha fever is fully doveloueil. the
tepid half bath and the tepid ablution
moy bo resorted to. in tuo caso oi mum
foeblo patients, and whore the external
iiont. i mmlorato or unonual. tho tepid
ablution should be preferred. The tem
perature of the wator snouiu oo oooi.oui
not vory cold soy from 75 degrees to 85
degrees Fahrenheit. Either of tho baths
may be repeated as oiton as occasion re
quires; that is, as often as the external
iiiniiinraiiirn of the Tuitient rises much
above the normal standard. The patient
should be put to bed immediately artcr
i, i.ntii nml Innt warm and comforta-
rmu -- l , , ,
bio. Much sweating, however, is to be
avoidod, although a vory mouoraie per-
aiiTnflnn til ft V lie desirable. Too much
Aonnnt 1m taken to keen the feet
warm and the head cool; and if thore is
the least tendency to coidnoss oi tue
lower extremities and heat of the head,
w wile should be appliod to the
feet and cold wet cloths to the head.
When there is much pain, heat or
.n.niiinrr of thn throat, or when the littlo
patches of fibrinous exudation become
visible on tne mucous niuimuu m mo
tonsils, or elsewhoro, the local treat
varied accord iuirlv.
Cold applications must be now resorted
to, and employed wiuruuBijr vv
everincly until the morbid secretion is
arrested. Sips of very cold water may
le taken frequently, or, what is still
. i a 1.!..- i ma. Y111 f Itltn tllA
month an.l allowed to melt away, while
ia Anvelonod in cold wet
cloths. The object now is to ciiecu me
.njMti nt tliA inflammation and thus
fcUW kUtvwv -
arrest the exudation of the membranous
material, and there is no way to do tins
lai-t.iinlv oml ao effectual! v as to re-
.111 AO ttia morbid heat below the point
,v,,i, . Aiutntinl to the excretion of
coagulable lymph. This plan has been
nmrinnu in lll(,nHUUU UI W1VU
BIU'WJ v ... f
.l...n.t nnifnrm anccess. And in the Ul
cerated sore throat of malignant scarlet
fever it is, as every experienced moiuer
wall nlivnieian knows, the only re-
liable resource. If the patient is at any
J '
time troubled with harassing cougu, an
ficult expectoration or laborious respira
tion, or all together, after the violence of
the inflammation has subsided, warm
water drinking to the extent of induciug
itirr if non.l he. ahonld be resorted
to. And in the latter stage of the dis
ease when the concreted exnaauon u
firmly adherent to the mucous suriace,
v.. .Ttanrtiul wiilolv in the bronchial
tubes, warm fomentations to the chest
and throat are proper. Aounaance m
pure fresh air is quite as important in
k trA&tmunt of dinhtheria as are the
No doubt the con
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i.imu nr nonenntasionsneas OI the
disease depends very much on the means
which are employed to ventilate and
cloanse the apartment. The patient
should be kept oomfortablo by means of
bodclothes and fire if necessary, but on
no consideration should all of the win
dows and doors be closed for even one
moment. The safety of others, as well
as of the patient, depends on this alone.
In close rooms aud in underground
apartments, where froe vontilation by
doors and windows is impossible, the air
of the place may be purillod to a groat
extent by swinging the door vigorously
forward and backward. In this way, in
tho crowded tenoiuent houses of our
cities and largo villages, fresh air may
bo suppliod and tho accumulated miasms
expelled. The purifying and invigor
ating influences of light aud sunshine
should never be disregarded. They are
nseful in nearly all morbid conditions,
and of especial value in the mauagomont
of putrid and infections fobrilo and in
flammatory diseases. Whon practicable,
the rays of the sun should be admitted
freoly into the sick chamber, and during
the day the room should be as well
lighted as possible But at night, whon
the external senses of tho pationt noed
quiet and repose, light should bo ex
cluded; nor should the talking or whis
pering ot watchers be allowed in tho
room. Host is anothor important ele
ment in the treatment of any disease.
And thore is no remedial resource so lit
tle understood and so geuorally disre
mir.loil as this. Even many bhvsicians
seem to have little idea of its necessity
or value, ana win uisiuro ana ois-
quiet their patient every hour,
ami even awaken them out of
a refreshing sleep, to administer
some dose or drug wnicn wuiuo mein iar
loss good than the quiet and slumber
Hint iiim lwn broken. The chief point
of skill in the true physician is to know
whon to lot tho patient alone. It is easy
to porceive morbid phenomena, and to
combat avnmfonis: but to know when
Nature is doing just right, and whon she
should not be intoriorod wun, requires
judgment and discrimination, which are
Iit no m en it a too common. Undor tho
head of food and diot very little may be
i n it ..-.ill Jl
said, xuo procnoe oi siuuing tuo pa
tient oontinually with what is absurdly
callod "nourishing diet" iB exceedingly
pornicious. During the acuto stago of
the disease, while tne iever is violent
aud the inflammation severe, no food can
be digested and nono should be taken.
As the fever subsides the patient may be
allowed a little gruol and good fruit, to
bo followed, as convalescence advances,
with such farinaceous articlos as mtally
iir,tnl nunn nnlnavunod broad, etc.
Baked applos, tomatoes, stewed or raw.
swoot oranges and similar iruits may
gonorally be allowed as freely as the pa
tient desires, and until the crisis of the
disease is fairly passod, no othor food
1- 1 .1. ....... l.A inlrA.
is required, unit uiuj m uuu -cording
to thirst, but when there
i ir-niit thirst, with a disposition
to vomit, very small draughts should be
.. . . ,. . . ml
takon and iroquently ropoatou. mere
is no objection in such cases to the juicos
of no ill and Bub-acid fruits, properly
diluted, as lemon juieo, applo water aud
oranges. Juried berries, Btewoa ana
slightly swootonod, will answer in seme
oases for 'both victuids and drink. In
this city, and probably in most other
parts of the country, dried borrios of all
kinds can be liau in auuuuuucu uu
ph the winter season. Presorved
berries can also be found nearly as fresh
and savory as when nrst pickou irom tne
bushes. Indeed the value of a really
frugivorous diet in febrilo disease has
never been sufficiently appreciated.
When vnmitiuif becomos a troublesome
symptom or complication, small bits of
ice may bo occasionally swauuwuu,
f..miiKf si uu nt nnhl water taken, and 11
cold wet towel covered with a dry cloth
should bo appliod over tue region oi mo
stomach. Hemorrhages can gonorally
be promptly chocked with cold applica
tions. . Extreme swelling of the
glands of , the neck also re
quires the oonsiant nppuuuuuu
nt wnt elf.thea to the part. Coma may
bo relioved by cold applications to the
head aru warm ones to 1110 ieei. iu ex
treme cases, fomentations to the abdo-
ilnvail nilvatitiLfrnnnslv.
IJIUU lUnj US WiMl-.vjww c-
The sequohn of diphthoria demand only
a strict attention to tue gouorui uuuuu.
Of course, these papers on uipuuiona
do not claim to present an infallible
romody for that terrible disoase, but
simply to give on intelligible description
of it, ond the best moans to be employed
in au emorgoncy. To understand in
telligently the real nature of the enemy
is to meet .him uau way. ivuuimuuur
that proper ventilation would in
many cases prevent the ocourrence oi
diphtheria, and diphtheria is one of
those disooses mat can oo moro ewmjr
prevented than cured.
k T) ..... ' nm irun Tip in Tt ia
not mere sentimentalise that pleads in
favor of the most merciful form of doath
being adopted in the case of the slaugh
ter of animals inteudod for human con
aumption. There is no question that
much suffering would be spared cattle if
they were not allowed to see each other
slaughtered, flioi easy is it iv
the kind of torture they feel and cannot
TTnnr ilianrnt P.rA animals is I
VXylvoo, uvn w. ..... . - .
proved by a case which came under my
i i: n a miniv ttiA innintea of
own u ufter vuui'u . 1MIW..Q - -
my house is a jackdaw, an all-grained
and vituperative bird as ever accepted,
undor protest, human oompnion.ip.
and human attention. He prefer so
distinctly sleeping in a cago ltfW M
enomy can assail him while ho in w 'n,
guard that he is allowed to have hi '
way in the matter. One day, wuila he -
was in the cage, some uw "".'"
which hod just arrived in a hamper,
i .1 l..,.;.lo l.im I fin dread of
wore iiuuuii woiiiw . v- i
these was remarkable to witnes. A bird
whose whole time was passed in couaoco
of things trongor than himself, in ag
gravating a mastiff that would not make
two bites of him, or in pinching surrep
tiously the flamboyant tail of his arch
enemy the cat when it came within reach
of his cage, went at this sight into an
f t a . a,li!nh nn lil net be an-
tosumy ui kiivi, ------ r
pcasad until tho uncanny objects were
removed. vnt inniuci tuiu "
strange demonstration in the presence of
death shown in one of its own race,
albeit of so different a species, is not to
be guessed. Much food for reflection
and speculation is, however, afforded.
Native is looking into the parlor, and
the maid, who is bnsy sotting the table
for dinner, places a vase of flowers m the
center. Native "Aye, ifa rale bonnie;
but Maggie, who eats the flowers?