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The Duties o( I'arenU. Wc should so live t!iat when the Mitn mons comes to tin a parent It will find us prepared. Like n thiol In the night Man hour w lion we think, not, 1 kc a thun deTbolt from a clear sky, the call may come to ns. Let the n ght-lanip, there fore, Ihj trimmed and burning, and the alum when ve ran lav hold i n it at anv time. H it, above all, we should mako ourselves conversant with those little parliamentary nilos whjph must govern the coDdtict of the parent in bis or her social contact with Die child. A lew suggestions upon what constitutes and shown good breeding in wis urr.ncn M I ITI . 1.!.. -I oi society, rcauuy illuming auu rui trasting the cultivated parent and dis tiniruishing him or her from the vulgar, the snide, the plebeian, ths canailles (as we say In nance), me James i row ami the sans culottes parent, might not be ill-timed or inopportune In wipinir a child's nose be extremely eareful to leave the nose. Some parents use so much unnecessary strength, tn dolnff this that they tind when it is too late that they have wiped the nose of a pet child into space. Nothing gives more need leu pain. Nothing can be more pitilul tuau the child s iirst i.i- f .t ,i;.um..intmnnt u-i...n he starts to wipe hi nose and discovers ...... ' . that it is gone, Pause, fund parent. while tbe wipe is in its incipieney, and resolve that you will spare his nose. It can be of no use to you, and the loss of It will be a constant source of annoyance to the child, Teach vour ch Id the t entity of frank nrss and o"n candor toward all. Im press npon him the beauty of be'ng what you appear to I e, and hate de ception everywhere. It vou will fondle him and dote on, h m in society and jerk bim laldheaded in tho seclusion of the home circle, ho will readily under stand what you mean, t lnldien soon learn that if you hug their 1 ttle gl.- entirely cheeked, and no sound is pro ards flat while visitors are aho.it, and dinted. But if you bold your mouth then, when the home life is agalu ie- wide open while you sleep, so that the snined, you throw them down cellar and wear out a taMe leg on their ehui, by limbs, that life is leal, life is earliest, and the square-toed, open, frank policy Is not geno ally in use. Patents should Impress upon tho r children the beauty of sidf-sacrillce and self-abnegation, if'they know what that is; I dou t If there should be but one piece of pie, give it to "poor sick papa." it may kill him, and alter the luneral your y ning life will be one pro longed hallelu ah and rose-t uted whoop'emup'lua ane, Parent should not be (ostanlly sus pie ous of their children. I his will in evitably breed hypociisy and iinrellabll ity. ' If you fear that vour sou is play Ing pln-)ool, do not break down your constitution and bring on delirium tr,.tn,i. h.nx.o.rnnn,! Ih. .wiUMil... watch ng all night for him. He will look upon you w.th distrust, and no doubt at last tell yoit to go and soak yojir lead Do not constantly tell your boy "how tall" ho Is that ho "grows like a weed" and finally make him think he is a giraffe. If you keep it up you will finally mako a round-shouldered, awk ward, bashful bean-pole out of a mighty good-looking boy. it every tali Doy in mis country will agreo to lick every woodon-hcadod man who tells him "how be does grow," I will agree to hold the coat of said tall boy. 1 am now dealing with a subject on which 1 hapnen to be Informed. The same rule applies to girls as well. If you want to mako your daughter fall over the piano and yearn to climb a tree whenever she sees anyone coruo toward tho house, tell her "what a great swalloplng torn boy she is getting to be." In this way, ii parents act judiciously tnd tn con cert, we can soon have a nation of young men and women whose manners and carriage will be aa beautiful and as symmetrical as tho plaster cast of a wro too---4Ktt AV, in Denver Opinion, Uucrr alnty of tbe Lw. llore is another instance of the glorl- eus uncertainty oi the law, I he rase r.f tho father who caught diphtheria from sucking a tube to draw out t'je "dipbtberiau matter" in his child's throat and brought an action agalu t the doctors in consequence, has already been twice tried the first trial ending in a disagreement, mo second in a ver dict for the doctors. A divisional court, yesterday, ordered a third trial, which. Just to complete the Illness of the thing, will no doult end in a verdict for the father. We will refrain, however, from pre ml icing the legal aspect of the case, and win content ourselves with po ut Ing out that a very interesting question of ethics was involved in the argumeut yesterday. Lord Colerldgo had assumed that the paternal instinct would have niauo the lamer suck the tube in any case, and did not ihiuK. tncrerpre, that his not having been warned of tho dan ger made any difference. But the judges decided yesterday that the fath er ought to have been told of tho dan ger and thus to bavo "had tho alterna tive presented to hint whether be would suck the tube or not." And this is clearly tho vlow that most schools of ethics would take of the matter, for whore was the virtue of the sclf-saori- nee oi it was not d, dated tv tbe rev on? Vail Mall Vazette. ! " A Japanese Monument, The growth of modern liters in Japan has been Bigniflcautly indicated of late la the erection by a Japanese land-owner of an imposing monument to C. D. lUchardson, an Knglishuiau, who died In 18&1 during the fierce struggle again? t tbe outside Nations. Mr. Rich ardson was backed to death by tbe guards of a Japanese nobleman, and Lis companions were cruelly maltreat ed. The affair was one of the causes of the bombardment of Kagosheemaby a British squadron. In which 1.6(H) Japan ese were killed and wounded and tt,000. (KXj worth of property was destroyed. Then indirectly also the murder led to aha suppression or feudalism In Japan through the agitation which followed, and th- monument now set op Is ap parently a recognition of that reform as much as of the man whom It honors. It Is placed on a mound on the spot where ha fell, and Is Inscribed with verses recording bis virtuos, and pray ing "that the thoughts of tbe blessing bo brought us may gladden his heart La the lana of thehades." Chiaiyt Jrib-vne. Easy Lesson In Science. When you lie down to bleep you have vour choice or doing either one or two thing vou tan sleep like a Christian or a liend; Liit you can l do both. In the case of a Christian the act of breathing is sin)pl; the atr passes to and rro be tween the lungs and the limitless ex- pan so of the universe through the chan pels of the none. There is anotlier channel through the mouth, which com municates with the lungs, mid thoso two channels unite hi a little cavity just be low the Velum pendulum ralati. or. as the doctors sometimes call it, the soft palate, which is attached by one end to the bone covering tlieroor or the mouth, This bone is bounded in front and at tlie sides by the alvelar arches ami the gums; behind it is continuous with the soft palate, or, as it is commonly called. the Velum pendulum palati. This roof of the mouth, which is covered by dense structure formed by tho perios teum and mucus membrane of the moutb, is sometimes called the bard palate. Well, now, one end of the soft palate if I may be allowed to use tbe professional name is fast to tbe bard palate. The other end dungs out in infinite space, like the leg of an old lady b,:kinK 0,,t ' aerriage. wildly feeling fop 1 1 in rrrtiinl U'if n nna ftit 1 Ii m for the ground with one foot. This loose end of the soft palate is lightly and easily moved hy the air as your mortal breath breezes rtsoir along the avenue to and from the lungs. The lungs, mv dear child, are your breath ing things your bellows, to speak pro- icsslonally, like rrot. Millivan, the great slugger. Now, when a sleeping Christian breathes, he breathes through his nose alone. When the air passes through the nose it gently presses tho swaviug end or the palate down upou the tongue, The vibration is greatly impeded, if not two currents of air pass in and out through the nose and the mouth, the soft pHlate is right in the path of a respiratory cyclone, it is thrown into a state of violent vibratory commotion, it Imps and Uutters about like a robe de nun on me ciouiesune on a raw ana gusty day in March, and you snore like a policeman. According to the rapidity I or slowness of the vibrations, t lie snore is sunn ana sonorous or proioiimtry deep and guttural, (hi, II you snore, or think you do, vou know now how you can easily prevent it. Tut a base ball in your mouth when you lie down; or you can sit up all night and keep awake; or you can fasten your mouth shut with screws and thongs of leather; or, vou may sleep out on the pathless prairie, far from any human habitation, and no 0110 Will CBrO HOW IUUCU VOU Snore. whl caro how much Ihe Talking Dog. It was a Market struct restaurant. A solemn man entered, followed by bis dog, seated himself and askod for the bill of fare. It was given bim. The dog meanwhile had climbed uoon tho chair on the other side of the table, and was travel v rei'ardinir his master. "wen, said the solemn man, reflect ... ..'. o . -- - ------ ively, "gimme two fried eggs, turned over." "Gimmo the same," said the dog. The waiter gazed at the doer with amazement mingled with horror. The solemn man continued: "Then I gness you can give mo a sir loin steak, very rare, with fried pota toes." "(jiinme the Name," said the dog. Tbe waiter's face assumed tho color of cold boiled veal. "Cup o' coffee, plenty o' milk," went on tho solemn man. "(iimmo tho sanie," said tlie dog. The waiter shuddered, and turnin?. fled for tho kitchen. A man with a squint, at an adjoining table, was much interested in the scene. Ho had observed it closely, nud linally spoke to the solemn man: "It must a been a learlul lot o work to learn that dog to talk, mister," "It was," said tho solemn man. "I should smile," said the dog. "What 'ud yon take for him now," said tho man with a squint. 'Wouldn't sell him," said the solemn man. "You'd better no!," said tho dog. "Tho man with a squint was much Impressed. Ho began making wild offers, and when lie reached a thousand dollars, tho solemn man relented. Well," said he, 1 can't refuse that I li.rtu to part with him, but vou can have him." "He'll be sorry for It," said tho dog. The man with a squint drew a check for the amount, which ho gave to tbe solemn man. The latter was about leaving when the dog cried again: "Never mind-111 get even. Til nevor speak again " llo never did. The gentleman with a squint was tho proprietor of a dlmo and freak museum on Market street. Tho solemn man was a ventrilomiial croon. nun rrancuco Argonaut, Vltroroui SetMi Corn. It has boon noticed by every farmer that corn when planted exhlbiu all de grees of vigor in growth, ewn upon soil that cannot possibly bo unlike in fertility. -It has bocn suggested that such vigor is attributable to seed itself, and that if certain precautions are tak en, seed ot uniform vigor may be more closely approximated to size, or weight will not etermine this, but it might be possible to call in the aid of specific gravity, and thus discriminate between iigm ana uense seed, ii seed or any aina is put in brine it win be round that a greater or less quantity will not sink, but remain floatW uion tho surface. while the other will sink to tbe bottom ; and it Is from these last that tbe most vigorous plants must come. It is a most Important thing in successful crop growing to have seed of uniform grow ing, and tbe great loss In grain produc tion results from this very cause. With improved machlnory, rotation of cros, better understood methods of fertiliza tion and cultivation, if a way of obtain ing more uniformly vigorous seed could be chanced npon, it is not beyond the bounds of reason to suppose that better crops can be raised in the Uunited States than In Egypt and India with tbe rude, barbario ways and implements of the centuries.- i'Uttland UrniM. rtRSOSlL AND LITERARY. Henry ward ueocber can t save anything out of an Income of nearly 511X1,000 a year. a. r. aun. ,- Kx-United States Senator Davis, of est Virginia, nsod to be a brakemau on ihe railroad which he now nearly owns. - -The coincidence is noted that Mr. Blaino was born in Brownsville, l'a., and Mr. Logan in Brownsville, 111. Chinugo Herald. (ieorge Augustus Sal a, in his jour nalistic career or thirty-live years, claims to have written over 7,000 "newspaper essays.' A twelve-year-old school-girl was lately married to an eigbty-year-old physician, at Boykin, S. C, wita her parents' consent. St. Louin Post. Most of the Japanese newspapers are modeled alter the r.ngiish journals, but one of them reads from the bottom of the column npward. Airs, ureeiy, tne wiie or tho ex plorer, is only twenty-eight, is a small brunette of most pleasing, though now somcvhnt careworn, features. Chiaujo Journal. A large library devoted exclusively to newspapers is to be established by the authorities of tho city of Vienna. This, it Is said, will be tbe only institu tion of the kind In the world. A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing from Long Branch, says that Ueneral urant will soon write, from a strictly impartial .stand point, an account of General Lee's sur render at Appomattox. ' ' When grieving over the nomlier of books that are published, It win be satisfaction to relied upon those that are not. A single publishing bouse re ports the rejection during the past month or one hundred and liny manu script works of fiction. Harvey Wakehchl, who died re cently in Oolchrook, Conn., at tho age of eighty-two, had a passion lor saving all sorts of articles that people general ly threw away. In bis barn ii a huge pile of newspapers, and It is said that every newspaper be bad received in six' tv years lies in that heap. Hartford 1'Oit. In the year lC04tho second edition of "Hamlet" was printod, and proba bly revised by its author. In the same year a laud suit was begun at Wetzlar, near Cobleutt. This lawsuit is still go ing on, and the Duke of Brunswick is defendant. I'erhaps Shakeseare had the spirit of prophecy when he wrote the words. "The law's delay." This is the best instance of it on record. Mi's, ( usier, the widow of Cenoral Custer, is at the Ocean Hoi se, Swamp- seott, accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Calhone. Hy a singular, as well as sad coincidence, both these Indies lost their hiisbnmls iu the same battle With the ludians ou the Yellowstone, and it is said that both received the news of their widowhood the same day aud hour. Mrs. Custor rarely refers to nor dreadrul sorrow, and lives under It patiently aud meekly. .V. T: Herald. HUMOROUS. ' I could but love thee when I saw thy 'ace," writes Lilla Cushman. We thought you aetod rathor quncrly, Lilla. That is w hy we ran. I'fiiliuU-lplria Call, -Several young girls have been ap pointed station agents ' iu Minnesota, nud enginoers are keeping a sharp look out for miss-placed switches. St Paul Ueraia. A cook and hou eninid.had a little dilllculty in the kitchen tho other day, aud presently matters became so quiet that you could hear a rolling-pin drop. imcaao inoune. The girl who succeeds in forcing a young man to spend his last cent in treating her to ice-cream renders her self liable to arrest for robbing the male. Philadelphia Chronicle. Mabel's mother saw the little girl running from chair to tablo and f om table to bureau and all around, looking wish both eves for something. "What's the matter, 'Mabel?" "Why, I've lost my fink and can't remember where I put my tlmble " At the Rink. the went to the rnllnrokatttig' rink. And put the sliders on; A strap or two aliom hr shoo. And then she's off snd (roiio. She slid, she slode, slip gild, be glixte, Uutiold by fear or fetter, Hut it iHst tho s-entlo maid was "throwed, And Ihe roller-skate i:iset her. Exchange. ' "No." said Mrs. Brinvto an iuouir- ing stranger, "we don't have malaria ero, I admit, but it's the best boaixlinir' house on the bay shore, and m v daughter bally makes lemon pies that can t be beat 'rouud these parts.' When the visitor had gone, Mrs, Briny said to her uniigiitcr; --non, oano, i guess we ii nave to lay in a stock ot that maiary, for all of 'em as comes hero keep askin' u wo ve got it.- uoaien Vay. "Yea," said the young man to the lecture committee, " I want to deliver a temperance lecture iu vour town "You don't look likes man who has bad exporiouce in drinking," remarked tho chairman, suspiciously. "Have you everboen a drunkardP" I lectured all through the South last winter, and in Florida, where I saw a swamp-snake fifty feet long. I' ' ' Pardon my curi osity, sir," interrupted the chairman, hastily; "when do you want tbe ball?" Uraphic. The wayfarer who is obliged to fake "pot-luck" at all sorts of eating housos is not the happiost of morta a. There is something wrong with tho fare usually, and when tbe beef is not over done it is apt to be underdone. A steak, placed before such a traveler at, a hotel one day last month.was so "rare" as to be actually raw. "Waiter?" said the guest. "Yes, sah!" "Waller, take this beef out, please, and kill It." Tho poor waiter crawled into a napkin-rimj aud disappeared. A Finished Education. Mrs. De Jones Your sou is in Can ada. 1 believe. Mrs. Von Brown Yes. the dear bov preieried the climate, llo has more time to study too. Mrs. Do Jones lie is very finely od- ncated. I understand. Strange he'evcr went into a bank. Did hu ever ro through college? Mr. Von Brown-No. Do went Uiro;;gh the bank. The O'niMic. J rroof of Death. If most peoplo are afraid of anything it is of being buried alive. That cases do happen where it is very difficult even tor the experienced physician to uo termine whether a person is really or but apparently dead without bis having recourse to means while they would at once settle tbe dispute, would place life it it really still existed in jeopardy, may be judged from tbe fact that the rrencb Academy some ten orntteen years ago offered a prize of 40,000 francs for the discovery of some means by which even the inexperienced may at once determine whether in a given case death had ensued or not A phy sician obtained tne prize, lie baa dis covered tbe following well-known pbe nomenon: If the hand of tbe suspect ed person is held toward the candle or other artificial light, wit h the nngers stretched, and one touching the other, and one looks through tbe spaces be tween tbo Gngers toward the light there appears a scarlet red eolor where tbe fingers touch each other, due to the still eirculating fluid blood, as it shows itself ' through the transparent, not yet congostod tissues; but when life is extinct this phenomenon at once ceases. The most extensive and tlior ougb trials established the truth of this observation, and the prize was awarded to its discoverer. When electricity, or rather its appli cation in medic. ne, came in vogue, it was first thought that it would be means or deciding whether a person was dead or not. J'his assumption was based upon the lact of electro-muscular contraction.. Hut experience soon proved that for ono to throe hours after death has taken place, and in some cases where rigidity but slowly ensues for a still longer period, the muscles! of a dead indiviilii il respond as well to the electric stimulus as those of the living being. Dr. Mix Huch now publishes fn the Central, 1. Aeu mlilkd., A iil, amodih cation of the above, and what promises to be a reliable and scientifiu proof of death, for thus lar no scientific te&t ex isled. W bile in the living the temperature of the surface over a muscle iu the act of or immediately after contraction de cidedly increased, this increase is utter ly wanting in the dead, and even dur ing tbe time (one-half to throe hours) in which alter death tbo muscle still re tains its contractility. Having placed, therefore, a surface thermometer on tbe skin, and having waited until the tem perature has continued at one and the same height for about five minutes, the muscle just below tho bulb of the ther momoter is made to contract by elec tric irritation. If, then, tho column of mercury does not rapidly ascend we have the most definite and tbe scientific proof that life is extinct in the body; while if tbo temperature increases it is Just as certain that there is still life. Jndor normal condition the skin for a considerable distance increases by sev eral degrees in temperature if in the muscle below is caused a powerful elec trical contraction; and this phenome non is also observed in paralyzed limbs; while in the doad nerves tho produ.-tion of heat, as induced by motion, has for ever ceased. The method, it is true, has not vet been tested in the cataleptic case re sembling death; but it is to be supposod that as long as there is the faintest trace of circulation so long will in creased activity in any part of the body produce a corresponding increase of neat. Apropos, this observation leads us to another interesting fact It is well-known that all over in nature rapid motion calls forth heat, and this is tho more apparent the more friction attends to motion. Two stones or two metals rubbed together will soon induce warmth, and the Indians are said to be able to start nre by tho violent fric tion of . two pieces of wood with each other. It is said that no law of nature knows an exception, as no amount of motion or friction will elicit tbe least warmth in the decomposing tissue. But that some mysterious process of heat regulation is still active within the dead tody may be seen Irora the fnct that, no matter what the temperature of tbe surrounding atmosphere, tho surface of the body will go on decreasing its. own temperature until the state of rigidity is emiea and active decomposition com mences. Akdic d and Surgical lie porter. Milk Diet. Milk should enter largely into the diet of children. It contains case no, or flesh-forming material, cream and sugar, wnicn are neat producers; nun eral salts, for the bony structure; and water as a solvent for all the other ma terinls necessary in nutrition. It should be used with discretion, however; not drunk immoderately, but taken slowly as food, after the pattern given by nature. Milk as taken is a imid, but as soon as it meets the acid of tho gas trio juice, it is changed to a soft curdy, chccse-iiKo substance, and t'.en must be digested, Ana the stomach is over tasked if too much be taken at once. A large glass of milk swallowed sud denly will form in the stomach a lump oi uense, cneesy euro, wnicn may oven prove fatal to a weak stomach. Under tbe action of the stomach this cheesy mass win turn over ana over like a heavy weight, and, as tho gastrio juice can only attack its surface, it digests very slowly. But this same milk, taken slowly, or with dry toast, light rolls, or soft, dry porridge, forms a porous lump through which tbe gastrio juice can easily pass, and which breaks up every tirao tho stomach turns it oyer. Milk sj-.ould be slightly salted, and eaten with breadstutls or sipped by tho spoon ful. Cow's milk produces less heat than human milk; a child would .grow thin upon it unless a little sugar were aildoJ. Wheat flour has such un ex ess of heat-producing material as would fatten a child unduly, and should have cow's milk added to it to reduce its fattening power. Philadelphia Call In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in circnmfcrence. Its top was torn away by a storm; bnt six feet tip the trunk two more trees have taken root an I grown up as high as the old tree is. Holt way np the trunk of the original treo a peach tree stands oat" An observer says most of the centenarians in America are from Ire land, though there arc many amon? the colored people. A Case of Like Cares Like. An old bachelor friend of mine who lives up town has had a dreadful expe rience lately. "Keruark these sunken eyes," said he wi'.h a wan smile, "see this wasted vis age, that flattened check, and this pinched nose. It's all on account of neighbor who has got into the habit of giving summor-nlght parties. But I've cured her, I reckon," and he chuckled savagely. "Summer-night parties?" I echoed, Interrogatively. "Yes; Mrs. Blank, who lives next door to mine, is a votary of fashion in a small way. But as her husband isn't wealthy enough to send her to Saratoga, she conceived the idea of making things lively in town for a whilo by gc ting up ice-cream evening parties. Ice cream, as everybody knows, means girls, and girls mean flirtation and mu sic, and pandemonium generally. The racket began some three weeks ago. I smoke a pipe and read or chat till bed' time. andVeiierallvFo to sleep bv 10:110, Well, sir, just as 1 would be off in tho first blissful doze, tliere would come a tremendous racket. All of a sudden, bang! bang! would go the cheap hired piano, and some wretch who makes be lieve to sing tenor, or possibly a fiend in a clawhammer coat who professes to sing bass, but only succeeds in emit ting a hideous series of grunts and rears, would begin the circus. Tho windows being open, every one on the block was treated to the infliction of a free concert In one short week I heard the score of a dozen prime operas mur dered, a raft of solos torn to shreds, and Heaven knows bow many anas from the best composers rendered in way that would make angels weep. I lost mv sleep on an average of three nights a week." "Not much. I went to Mr. Blank and told him that unless he called his wife oh I was a dead man. Ho laughed at me; then he swore and then he ordered me out I told him I would get square and I did," "How?" "I went down town the next morn ing and bought ot a dog fancier a canine that wus warranted to howl enough to turn the edge of a razor. Oh, be was a beauty! I lis teeth were set back as far as his ears, and when he lay back, set up his snout and howled, you could hear him to Harlem. I chaiut-d bim in tbe back yard, and that night there was a concert. Ho took his feed quietly, and I thought he was really going to sleep, but he was only saving uimself for a good timo later on. About 10:15, sure enough; Lang! bang! pumpettv! whack! thump! squirr! rick ety! rack! br r r rip! went the piano, and out on the night floated the strains of a wheezy soprauo in Rome day a some day a Some day I a shall a meet you, when my dog caught on. He thought it was a duct, and he did bis part of tbe business right up to the bundle. Every time tbe singer caught breath that dog gave a series of yelps and howls that made tbe windows rattlo and my soles tingle. He really spoiled tbe effect of the song, I think, for a moment later tbe music stopped and -somebody Hung a boot, or something that scunded dke it, into my back-yard. But that made him howl the louder. He got well Into the kennel and lay down with lis head a little on ono side, nice and jasy like, snd there he bowled so lusti y that I felt 1 had got him cheap at the money. "VV ell, lie kept it up for three nights. Then old man Blank came round to my bouse and said he guessed there wouldn't be any more parties this sura-, ntcr as his wife had concluded to go to hu country for a spell, and if I would call off my dog he would call off Mrs. iilauk. So we called it square and now I get my night's rest. But another week of it would baye made a total wreck of every soul in tho block." Ar. r. Star. Stealing Eagles. A farmer named Beter Gow, in Dun wich, is in possession of several young eagles, whose eyrie is in a tall treo on his farm. Several boys in Dutton have oada hankering for these eagles for some time, but Mr. Gow said no would not part with them at any price. The boys were determined that he should, and one uight this week they appeared at the foot of tho tree with pikes attached to their legs, after tho mode of the tele graph erectors, and a stout strap to uuckle around tho . tree to assist in climbing. The boldest boy in the crowd climbed the tree, and when about sixty feet from the ground, just under the eagle's nest, his strap dropped and lodged where It could not bo got Ho was in a predicament. He could not get down without assistance, which the boys could not give. Various plans were suggested, but to no purpose. So towards morning, when tho boy in the tree got tired of hanging on "and was abont to drop, they went to Mr. Gow's house and besought him to come out with a rope and help save the life of tho youngster in the tree. . Tho old gentle man forgot the iniquity of their act and ran to the barn, took the rope out of his hay-fork and went to tho tree at a two-forty gait The question was: How to get the rope up to the boy? After considerable cogitation the lad up In the tree was seen tearing his shirt, and the problem was solved. The shirt not being sufficient his pants were next made into strips and tied to gether. They reached the ground; the roe was attached to it and drawn up, and down came tbe lad from his preca rious position as naked as when ho was born. Mr. Gow provided tho youngster with a pair of pants and ahorse blanket to keep the musquitoes from eating bim up on the way home through tho swamp. These boys think stealing eagles a poor spec. Toronto News. She looked just a bit anxious as she apeared on the wharf at tho foot of Woodward avenue yesterday and asked: "Anybody jumped in hero to day?" "No, ma'am." "Will you please do, me a favor?" "Yes'm." "Mv husband has threatened to drown himself, and I don't want him to. I can't stay here and watch because I'm going on an ex cursion. In case ho comes won't vou please discourage him. He's verv c'asv discouraged, and I can go on my trip and feel like enjoying myself." The man promised, anu she went awav in the .kM of spirits. Detroit Pre Prrst. Medern Samaria. The modern village is very insignia, cant Josephns says that it reoehred its name of Sebastia from Ilerod. k honor of Augustus. Tbe city has bee sa :ked and plundered times without number. Upon it extreme summit Ahab had Its famous ivory palace, and this acropolis constituted the capital of tho ten tribes, until they were carried captive into Assyria. The modern re mains, which are the finest I have seen tn the Holy Land outside of Jerusalem ouly date back nominally to tbe time of Horod, of course, but ft is doubtless true that Horod employed mnch of th material of former ages in creatine hW splendid structures; in which event th debris, represents a pre-Herodian an tiquity. Against the city for its idolatry Micah and Uosea launched forth the invectives of prophecy: "I will niak Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones tberouf Into the valley, and I j discover the foundations thereof," "Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against ber God; they shall fall by the sword, their infante shall be dashed to pieces," etc. There have been numerous literal fulfillments of these predictions. ioking dowt into the valleys as wo rode around the hill, we frequently discovered broken columns nnd building rubbish. We rodo completely around tho hill, a circuit of about two miles, tracing the remains of Herod's magnificent colon nade. There were evidently four rows of columns clear around the hill, support ing a porch above. Tbe porch has vanished, but a great many of the mas sive columns are still standing. Other pillars aro broken in two, lie prostrate, or are utilised in the construction of stone walls. Wo counted nearly 100, and Mr. Floyd says that tbe great majority bavo either been dostroyed.by tho natives or carted away to Europe to occupy niches in museums. Tn level place at tho extreme top of the bJM was adorned by sixteeu very large col umns. It was doubtless in the general inclosure that the great temple of Haal stood, which was utterly destroyed by Jehu, after ho had received the heads of Ahah's seventy suns in baskets at the gate of .Jezrecl, and mercilessly slaughtered sll the priests of Baal, as recorded iu the tenth chapter of the Second Kings. It was very near Samaria that Elishi dwelt when the hordes and chariot f Naaman, tbe Damascene leper, halted before the door of his humble home. Now, as then, leprosy holds carnival is Damascus, and is regarded as incura ble as it was by the King of Israel whei he rent bis clot lies under tho impressloa that tho audacious Naaman was a tool of Benhadad's to pick a quarrel with him. Grasping, penurious Gehazi was made to inherit tho leprosy of tbe Syr ian captain, which "should cleave unto bis seed forever." Perhaps some of the modern Nablous lepers are tbe inherit ors of this fearful legacy of Gehaxi. My impression is that it was dreadfully stupid of Naaman to put confidence ia the word of a native like Gehazi. What terrible agony there must hay been in Samaria during that memora ble siege of tbe indefatigable Benbadad. After having traveled through tbe Orient it does not seem at all incredi ble to me (hat the peoplo resorted to doves' dung for food, until it actually became a costh' luxury (II Kings vi, 20). Not only did Kit ah and Elisha work onders in Samaria, but even tbe Apos tles wrought miracles and preached there. The revival which was started by Philip, who far eclipsod the witcher ies exercised by Simon the Sorcerer, in duced the Apostles who had remained behind in Jerusalem to ro-enforce him by sending Peter and John thither. Ihen was tho Holy Ghost given, whiek Mmon sought to buy with money (the first impulse of an Oriental when he thiuks there is no chance of getting a thing as a free gift). We were shown the ruins of an interesting cathedral, known as the Church of St John, ia which, it is claimed, the beloved dis ciple met his death. These ruins art architecturally interesting. Jerusalem lor. U. nines-Democrat. ' Itch. This is a well-known disease of Hi skin, inflamed and irritated, appearing ia small watery pustules or vesicles, is which a small insect a species of acari, is found. It is contracted only by con tact though it may be developed by uncleanly habits, by filth of the body, as the first case must have been. It is seen between tho lingers especially, and in places exposed to unusual heat or friction. It is believed by standard authors that most of such diseases re sult from crossness of living; or, as ono says, "the absence of water, soap, flesh-brushes, and coarse towels, and by the use of fried pork, salt ham. sausages, old cheese, fried cakes, cooked burnt fats of all kinds; stimulating drinks, as hard cider, acid wines, and ardent spiiin." Of course, while prevention is best " something may be dono for the removal, though much nas been done in the past to drive tho disease in, and actually poison the system, such as the applica tion of lead, mercury, arsenic, turpen tine, oorrosive sublimate, gunpowder and whisky, gin and salts, white and red precipitate ointments, etc., etc., applied with tho intention of killing something, whilo the escape of .the patient is a marvel. , Now, it is quite certain that cleanli ness will do nioro good and less harm than these violent poisons, such an ap plication ai soap-euds, thorough wash ing and correct habits. If ono caa not wait and work for three or four days and must do something fashion able or "scientific," sulphur applied" e eternally it need not be combinod with lard, but with glycerine, or even w ater will effect as much good as the poisonous irritants, and bo far safer. A little -a fourth of a tablespoonful morning and night in water may be taken at the ame time, using tho ap suds with great freedom. "Cleanliness is uct to godliness." And here I may a Id, never drive any eruption in; never tiintpt to make the skin smooth bv any doubtkil applications Dr. J. u. lUmfunl, in Golden ltule. A well drained farm is said to im I'M'.e the health of domestic animal a I've upon it