SCHOOL GIRLS.
The EffcoU of Over I'rannire Sound Ad
vice to Mutliera anil Fulhern.
A young girl of sixteen, of a healthy
heritage, was brought Into the conduit
lng room of ono of our I'ostori
physicians for a Might lateral ciirvatur.'
of tho spina, fcho never hud been sick;
rdio did not sufl'er from headaches or
any of tho functional disturbances
sometimes seen in growing children.
Her growth had been rapid, and idie
was pale, thin, and lacked tho vigor of
hoalth. An inquiry brought out the
fact that at her school she spent live
hours a day, besides live hours' udy
out of school houri, stimulated to extra
courses by ambition and the prospect of
promotion.
A growth of three inches in a year,
combined with ton hours' daily nervous
train, aro component which will, as
certainly as tho formula of 2 plus
equals 4, produce an impairment of
health, a diminution of forco which,
coming In tho growing years, is so
much taken from 1 tho eventual
sum total of vital energy. The
studies which wore the most of a
burden to this young girl wen
Greek and Algebra, and although the
parents, if forced to choose, would
agree that their daughters should forego
the pride of possessing a knowledge of
Greek, if that must lie coupled with
certain amount of physical misery, yet
nothing short of a dire necessity could
justify tho girl in falling behind her
class or tho standard imposed by emu
lation. Such experiences lead us to believe
that the root of tho trouble is not so
much in tho school svslum as in the
community itself, which, after all, cre
ates tho school system. With a certain
amount of elasticity of requirements and
an Improved supervision of scholars,
much of tho evil of advanced course
and increasing stimulation could be
avoided, provided tho home inlliicncc
wero in the right direction. Tho ill ef
fects aro seen ehiclly among the irls;
for it is tacitly admitted that, hooks or
no books, "boys will be boys," and the
boy in largely an animal; but the Amer
ican mother of tho day not only wishes
to stamp out what there may be of tin
animal in her daughter, to give her
conventional manners, but, in the view
of tho lottery of American l.fo.
to teach her to support herseli
and also to sliine socially as a possible
mistress of the White House; a:id all
this preparation is to bo dono during
tho pre-matrimon'al years. Out of
door sports are discouraged, and riiusi
cal or Intellectual pro eminence con
sidcred desirable. Furthermore, among
tho girls themselves in a certain uuiii
ber tho desire for disf notion, the innate
femininity, ropressod by circumstance
from finding vent in coipietry, prompt -to
attracting attention and admiration
for profio'ency as amateur musicians
for rank at school, for winning pri.e
in female colleges, for success in pro
fussions. Such a system of education
may produce, in some instanoes, good
results, and givo us future George
idiots, Maria Mitchells, Mary Soiner
villos, l'utnam-Jaoobis, etc, yet the
records of tho nervous wards and tiie
lists of tho nervous prostration! st show
that tho success of a few individuals
has been bought for the public at the
price of many shattered lives of unsue
cesslul imitators.
What in our community is especially
needed in regard to women is the better
physcal education of irirls. A mother
should be as much ashamed to bring up
a llat-chesled. round-shouldered d:ui'rli
ter, to be a candidate for the Adams or
other Nervine institutions, as if she
brought her up unable to read or write.
The introduction of any out door game
suitable for girls, and enjoyed by them,
as base ball is by boys, would be nil in
calculable blessing, before which the
joys of (i reek and the aspirations for
professional careers would he mist, ami
ashes to the coming gencrat'ou of
mothers and the prospective generation
of children.
A cerla n, and by no means small,
proportion of our joung women seems
to bo going through the name craze
shout mental forcing and professional
careers which atllicted our young men
of previous generations, and which with
them was responsible for much ill
health. Fortunately, a revival of
athletics and snorts, the war, and
the development of more variml
industrial pursuits created a revo
lution in Mrs. It is alrea.lv a
long time since the dyspeptic, narrow
chested, pale face, weak-eyed male be
came an object of interest by becoming
a bookworm. A knowledge of Greek
no longer condones a want of vigor and
viva 'ity in the male, and we do not bo-
lievo it is any more likely to in tho
female. Those who run nnv risk of
health by pursuing advanced studies
had best not trille with the experiment.
Tho prophets of hygienic righteous
ness, as physicians have been termed,
should throw the weight of their in
fluonoo in favor of everything that im
proves t'lo physical development of
women. When they line! the rate of
growth is excessive or accompanied by
an imperfect development in weight,
when the chest capacity is small and
tho blood noor, they should prescribe
more out of doors and a postponement
of literary amb lions -more sunshine
and fewer books. A good practical
guide as t the physical condition in the
rough is the relative increase of growth
compared with the inercaso in weight.
lioston Mclical and Surgical Journal.
Tough.
When it comes to toughness, Texas
beef is entitled to tho blue ribbon. The
avorago Texas landlord usually manages
to secure the toughest beef in the mar
ket "Istheroa carpet beating establish
ment next door?" asked a newly arrived
guest at an Austin hotel.
"Not that 1 ever heard of."
"Well, then you must have a black
smith's shop in the cellar. Do jou shoe
horses down in tho cellar?"
"Why, no, stranger, what makes von
think so?"
"What's all that pounding as if there
was a bo'ler factory in full blast, o
some coopers wero driving down the
hoons on a wooden cistern.
O, thst! Why that's the cook pound
lng the beefsteak tot breakfast."
Tctat Siftingi.
THE LAST OF THE B'HOYS.
Modern l'ill t Mlinpno r the Klml l
H.iugli "r licneriilliiii .Julio,
It is related of Thackeray that when ho
was in New York he found himself un
certain which way to turn one night,
when he whs in the Howtiy, and. ad
dressing himself to tho lirst man he met,
asked:
"(.'an I go to Itleecker street this
way?"
Accident hml thrown him bi t' way
of a liowcrv h'hoy. who r ; 1 1 - i fn :
manner of ids kind: 1 1. Ici'-yoii
kin. sonny, if you herhave vou.v-h'
Tho llowcry boy ami. in tan. i-vrv
variety of the New York pnnK n
twenty-live years ago, was pirlnn .-ipi'1
and in some respect inluii. able :ii com
pared with the t ugh of lo-dav. The
rough characters of that day did not liml
It inconsistent with their dignity low oik
for their living. They wen- iin iiaiiics
painters, butchers, newsdealers, pi inters,
hatters, verniers, and, in fact, followed
any and all callings. They even ren
dered themselves extra useful by work
ing in tho Volunteer Fire Department
a service they were nearly all vei r fond
of. When they were not at work they
got their high silk hats out and aired
them magnificently, carrying them tilt
ed on one car, often over a llannel shirt,
and with their trousers tucked in high
topped boots. A tough was not a tough
if he did not have a high hat for evening
and Sunday wear. They were tre
mendous and incessant lighters, but
their fists wero the weapons they pre
ferred. They drank and gambled, but
they did not necessarily steal, and it was
not at all beneath their idea of dignity,
or at all uncommon, for them to court
tho pretty girls of their acquaintance,
marry them, treat them wcli, and sup
port them in comfort.
It is astonishing how almost com
pletely they have disappeared. There
aro a few yet to be found in Washington
Market, and there are others over in tho
Ninth Ward and in tho old shipyard
district, but they dress very nearly like
tho men they meet every day, nnd it is
only by little signs, tho wav they pro-
nounco certain words, tho angle at
which they wear their hats, the black
silk scarfs tied in enormous bows that
they cling to like death, and such trillcs,
that one who used to know them by tho
hundred can now pick out these few
survivors.
Ono of them rode over to 15ronklyn in
the bridge cars yesterday. His big silk
bowk not, the red stockings that wero
revealed by llaring trousers and low
shoes, his broken noso and old-school,
smooth-shaven, typical Howcry boy
face betrayed him. Even the old famil
iar impudent curl of his upper lip re
mained with him, and when he spoke to
a stranger ho first looked him over and
then called him ether "cully" or
"boss," according as tho person's ap
pearance impressed him. Ho was two
thirds tipsy. A now broadcloth suit
and a massive chain and linger ring
showed him to bo prosperous. His
wife, a substantial, jolly looking woman,
walked by his side with a littlo girl of
ten or eleven years beside her. Her
dress caught in a projection from a
valise on tho car floor and slie had to
stop and free herself. The owner of the
valise apologized, and assisted her in
disengaging her dress.
I?v the timo tho old-fashioned touch
missed his wife from his side slio was
about ready to move on after him. Ho
saw that something unusual had detain
ed her, and, mistaking the cause, put
himself in readiness for a light.
It was amusing to watch him. Ilo
first showed astonishing solicitude for
his wife's comfort, got her seated, saw
the little girl comfor table by her side,
and then sat on the extreme edge of an
adjoining seat, ami adjusted his hat so
nearly on ono side of his head that it
seemed a marvel that it did not fall oil'.
His eyes Hashed, his upper lip curled,
and liii glanced at the man with the va
lise. "Will I chaw him up, Gussie?" ho
whispered to his wife.
"Who, Tom? What's tho matter?"
the woman asked in Homo alarm.
"Who? Why, dergalloot what stop
ped yer. Givo us the right of it, Gussie,
an' then I'll let tho sawdust out of him.
What ddhedo?"
lietween his sentences ho glared most
fiercely at the man with the valise, who
was reading a paper, and was calmly
unconscious of the lighting man's exist
ence. "Why, he's all right," said the wife
in a sliil lower tone than he had used,
"he acted very gentlemanly" and then
she explained what had happened.
Gradually the old rowdy' face bright
ened up, and a smile took the place of
the frown, lie arose and went unstead
ily over to the man with tho valise, arid
attracted his attention by giving him a
whack between the shoulders that
seemed hard enough to loosen his teeth.
"You've just had a narry escape,"
said the old-fashioned tough, laughing
hoarsely "a narrv 'scape, bergosh. A
minute more and I'd a took you up and
broke you over my knee. I thought you
done something rude to my old woman,
b'g , but ver didn't dono sieh a thing,
did you? No, indeed, you didn't. And
yer wouldn't, would yer? 'Cause I'd
chaw a man up for less'n that I would,
b'gosh!"
After entreating the man to step
right oil' and have a drink, nnd being
politely refused, there being nothing
drinkable except the F.ast Kiver for
whoever should step oil', tho old-fashioned
tough went back to his wife ai d
insisted upon kissing her to celebrate
the escape of the mun with tho valise.
She was quite oll'cnded, or rather pre
tended to be, and called him an old fool.
"Sit down, Tom," said she, "and
quiet yourself. Your lighting days aro
over now."
"Well," said the ancient rowdy, with
the smile of a thoroughly good-natured
man, "I kin kiss the kid, she can't help
herself. Your kissin1 days is over any
how, Gussic, and the kid's just begin
ning." Tho little girl ran to hint when ho
beckoned to her. snd eagerly climbed
upon his knee. It was evident that the
pugnacious old chap was a kiudlf man
at home. X. Y. Sun.
The Karen Baptist Theological
Seminary, at Rangoon, Burruah, held
its fortieth anniversary recently. Four
addresses wero niado by members of
the graduating class.
HIDDEN INCA TREASURES.
Tim I'JXirU Tint Have Keen M l l li.-ln -til
ii l,lt Throe Citnlurli-i to l.orutr
'I hon.
Tho Spaniards under l'izarro lurid d
lir.-t on tho Isl md of Tuna, at the mou h
of tho harbor of Gua;.a piil, and after
ward upon the ma'n coast at Tu iibe
in Peru, a few in 'Km s mtlr.va -d. II ms
they found tint tho Iiiea, f ir tiic first
time in the history of that remarkable
race, werj at war. Iliiayna Capae, tin;
greatest of the Ineas, undo u to his
capital, and there lived in a splcndo
unsurpassed in aneien' or modern l i.i" .
At his death ho divided his kingiio t
into two parts, giving to Atah i !ln
the northern half, and to Huscar w a
is now liolivia and the southern part o
Peru. The two brothers went to war
mid while they were engaged in it Pi
7iiiTO came. Everybi dy w ho has read
Preseott's fascinat ng volumes knows
what followed. With the a d of the
Spaniards, Atahuallpa c mipiercd his
brother and then the Span aids con
quered him. When he lay a prisoner
in the hands of tho guests ho offered to
fill his prison with gold if they would
release him. They agreed, and his
willing subjects brought the treasure,
but the greedy Spaniards, always
treacherous, demanded more, and Ata
huallpa sent for it. Runners wore hur
ried all over the country, and the sim
ple, unselfish people surrendered all
their wealth to savo their King. Hut
Pizarro became tired of waiting for the
treasure to come, and tho men in charge
of it, being met by tho news that Ata
huallpa had been strangled, buried the
gold and silver in the mountains of
Llangatiati, where tho Spaniards have
been searching for it ever since.
No amount of persuasion, temptation
or torture could wring from tho Indians
the secrets of tho buried gold. Two
men of modern times aro supposed to
have known its hiding place. One of
them, an Indian, became mysteriously
rich, and built the church of San Fran
cisco in Quito. On his deatli lied he is
said to have revealed to the priest who
confessed him that his wealth camo
from the hidden Inca treasure, but ho
died without imparting tho knowledge
of its location. Another man. Valverdo
by name, a Spaniard, married nn Inca
woman, and is supposed to have learned
the secret from her, for ho sprang from
abject poverty to tho summit of wealth
almost in a single n:ght, "without visi
ble means of support." Valverde when
he died left as a iejacy to tho King of
Spain a guidq to the buried treasure
Hundreds of fortunes have been wasted
and hundreds of lives have been lost in
a vain attempt to follow Valverde's di
rections. They are perfectly plain to a
certain point, where tho trail ends, and
can not lie followed farther because of a
deep ravine, which the credulous assert
has been opened since Valverdo died by
an earthquake. These searches have
been prosecuted by the Government as
well as by private individuals, and if
all tho money that has been spent hunt
ing for Atahuallpa's ransom had been
invested in roads and other internal im
provements the country would bo much
richer and tho people much moro pros
perous than they are.
The devotion "of tho Indians to the
memory of their King who was strangled
3oO years ago is very touching. lien
"tho last of the Incas" fell ho left his
people in pcrpetu d mourning, and tho
women wear nothing but black to-day.
It is a pathetic custom for the race not
to show upon their costumes the
slightest hint of color. Over a
short black sk'rt they wear a sort of
mantle, which resembles in its appear
ance as well as in its use the "nianta"
that is worn bv the ladies of Peru, and
tho "mantilla" of Spain. It is drawn
over their foreheads and across the
chin and pinned between the shoulders.
This sombre costume fives them a nun
like appearance, which is heightened
by the stoalthy, silent way in which
they dart through the streets. The
cloth is woven on their own native
looms of the wool of the Mama and the
vicufl'as, and is a soft, line texture.
While tho Indians have accepted tho
Catholic religion, li.lO years of .submis
sion has trot entirely divorced them
from tho ancient rites they praet'eed
under their original civilization. Sev
eral times a year they have feasts or
celebrations to commemorate some
event in the Inca history, nnd like the
Aztecs in Mexico, they still cling to a
hope that future ages may restore the
dynasty under which their fathers lived
and . destroy the hated Spaniards.
(,'mio Cor. Hoston Jlcrald.
Cast-OfT Foot-Gear.
Hundreds of men, women and even
boys, in New York, are engaged in tho
"business" of collecting old boots and
and shoes, which they take to tho wall
paper factories, where they receive
from live to fifteen cents per pair. Calf
skin boots bring the best price, while
cow hide ones aro not taken at any
figure. These boots and shoes aro first
soaked in several waters to get tho dirt
oil', and then the nails and threads aro
removed ami the leather is ground up
into a line pulp. Then it is pressed
upon a ground of heavy paper, w hich
is to bo used in tho manufacture of
"embossed leather." Fashionable peo
ple think they arc going away back to
medieval tinies when they have the
walls of their libraries and dining
rooms covered with this, and remain in
bli-sfnl ignorance that the shoes and
boots which their neighbors threw into
the ash-barrel a month before now
adorn their walls and hang on the
screens which protect their eves from
the lire. Carriage-top makers and
book-b nders also buy old boots and
shoes, the former to make leather-tops
for carriages and tho latter leather
liind ngs for tho cheacer grades of
books. The new style of leather fianu s
with leather mats in them are entirely
made of tho cast-oil' covering of our
fict. Mica Jit raid.
Judge Laporte. of Huntington. Pa
is of the same stuff tho ancients found
in their heroes. His son, accused of
murdering a friend, tied to his father
for refuge, and there confessed to the
killing. The old Judge told tho boy he
had sworn to obey the constitution and
enforce the law, and taking him in his
buggy to the county seat delivered him
I over to justice. l'hiladtlphia rrttt.
HE MADE A MISTAKE.
Ill-tier Hit Iinpneil on lijr Fi-nuil- Tin Do
III! Illllll-at I'OI-KIIII HII 1 1'.) ,i Hi- .
"Yes, ho may lo a fraud-pnbaUv
is one," replied "the man under the
white plug hat as lie replaced Ii s c. nnge,
"I lit I made a ruistako on the wioiig
side of tho ledger once and I don't
want to girt caught that way again."
"How was It?"
"Well, I'm neither a Christian nor a
ph'lanthropist Fact is, I'm a pretty
hard-hearted man on the average, but I
ued to bo a little worse than 1 iuu now.
One evening, five or six years ago, right
in front of this very store, a boy about
twelve years of ago hit mo for a dime.
He had tears in his eyes, a drawl to his
voice, and I spotted him at once for an
impostor. He went on to say that his
fattier was sick and unable to work,
and that he himself had been down
with a fever and had no strength lo
look for a job, and I laughed in derision
and told him to clear out or I'd give
him in charge."
"It's an old dodge," observed the
man who was smoking a corn-cob
pipe.
"Exactly, but it may not always be a
dodge. I had a pocket lull of silver,
and I was too ornery mean to hand over
a dime. Suppose the boy was lying?
Suppose he wanted the money for him
self? How contemptible in me to be
grudge that trifling sura to a littlo chap
who was certainly all skin and bone and
evidently needed a square meal."
"But it would have been encouraging
vice," said the man with tho check
shirt front
"Bosh! There are men In this city
who are looked upon as shining exam
ples, who cheat and swindle tho people
out of a thousand dollars where vice
gets a shilling. This little incident I
have been relating went out of my
mind in an hour, but next day, as I was
looking over an old tenement with the
owner, who wanted me to figure on re
pairs, who should I come across but the
boy of tho night before. Ho was in bed
and raving with fever. In bed? Well,
he was tossing around on a heap of
rags. In the same room was the moth
er, trying to cam a few cents at the
wash-tub, but not having the strength
to work for more than live minutes at a
time. Also, the father just alive with
consumption, and occupying a bed no
better than the boy's."
"Same boy, eh?" queried tho corn-cob-pipo
man, as tho hard lines in his
face began to melt.
"The very same. There was a quaver
in his voice no one could forget in a day.
Ho was raving away of this or that, but
tho father was quiet and inclined to be
checriiil. As I sat down beside hint for
a moment after leaving a $j bill In his
skeleton hand, he said:
"God bless you for a good man!
When littlo Ben started out last night
we hadn't either light, fuel or food in
tho bouse. He met some kind-hearted
man who gave him a dollar. It might
have been you. But for that money God
knows how we must have suffered."
"Might have been mo! When I re
membered how I had repulsed that boy
the thought stabbed mo like a knife! I
was trying to say something to cheer
the dying man, when that fever-stricken
lad sprang up, evidently recognizing
my voice, and cried out:
" 'Please, mister, don't have mo ar
rested! Don't let 'em lock mo up! I'm
telling the truth 1 aiu't lying!'
"He came right over and got hold of
me, and I tell you if ever a man was
broken down itwasthisverv individual.
I left twenty-live dollars there when I
went away,' and 1 sent a doctor around,
but insido of a week father anil son
were dead. One died blessing me, and
the last words of the other were an en
treaty to nie not to call him a fraud and
have'hini locked up. That's why my
hand goes down for tho chink when
man or boy strikes me for change. I'd
rather give a thousand dollars to frauds
than to have another honest boy die
with my refusal grinding into his soul."
Detroit Free 1'nss.
HINDOO LAW.
A Itrmarknlile Dcrlnlon hy nn Ihillan Mug.
inl rut.
A judgment was recently delivered iu
the high court of Bombay, after a trial
of fourteen days, which deserves more
than local notoriety. The 'limes of
India says it is "the most important caso
that has'.been tried in Western India
for many years." The cl lim was by
the son of' a Hindoo millionaire, Sir
Munguldass Nuthoobhoy, and he de
manded from his father a partition of
all the family properly and an equal
share. The father refused the partit on
and the son appealed to the high court.
The .Judge who tried the case, Mr.
justice Scott, follow ing decisions of the
Privy Council, ruled that a son who was
a member of a Hindoo joint family bad
an equal right with the father and nn
equal share in the family property, and
could claim partition against the
father's will at any time after majority.
The Judge pointed out that such a claim
was reprobated as immoral by the an
cient writers, but still admitted as just
bv the highest authority in Bombay.
This seems an astonishing decision to
European minds. Imt the authorities
cited by tho learned Judge show its ab
solute legality in Hindoo law. At the
same time it has struck consternation
through the wealthy families of West
ern India. The rule, no doubt, is a sur
vival of the primitive idea that tho
family is an aggregate or collective
unit, of which all members have an
equal interest in the common property.
As the learned Judge pointed out, tho
current of authority tends to overthrow
parental authority and to effect a pain
ful revoluton in the family system
throughout Western India. It was also
decided in the case that property that
was not family or ancestral property, but
self-acquired, could be devised by will
by a father to his son. and that the
property retained its self-acquired char
acter iu tho hands of tho son. This
will considerably diminish the danger
that might arise from an unrestrained
exercise of the right now fully declared.
The giso has been for a long time the
subject of much d scussion and great
anxiety in all native circles, and, al
though experts in Hindoo law agree in
the strict legality of the decision, there
is a general opinion that tho altered
conditions of Hindoo society render leg
islation necessary on tho subject, in
spite of the extended effect now given
to the exercise of the testamentary
Dower. London Timet.
TALL Liu Lu. -
An rIrrf Oplnl-m I'he.n on tlio Score
r luMitlioi ii-ss, l'A:
As our re uler-hnow. a b'll was In
tn due d til's v.i it.-r into tut; New York
Leg' Kloro p o-.i ! nr that tho l.o'ght of
biih.lings ai the d . elling-housu quarti r
of the city oi N. w York thould bo ro
itiietcdto a ceit.ui limit, which was,
is a maximum, set at eighty feet
from the sidew.ilk. Tho objict of tho
bill was of cour o t prevent tho cdc
t on of tiie great apartment houses
w i eh tower in t-oiue. ca;cr two hun
dnd feet above tho pavement, and tin
qi e t oiiably shade tho streets and
homes north of t em, and i educe, by
comparison, ihe npparcut sle of the
ne'ghbor.ng buildings. Whether this
dwarfing effect woul 1 be appicciablo
iu the selling price of the property
next to sue.) strurturcs is nloro than
ilouKful, and the ieal grievance seems
to be cont.nc.l to tie shadow cast by
them, and as this seems to have becu
considered an in-ulti' -lent basis for i-o
arbitrary a rest ict ou as the one pro
posed, the advocates of the bill have
rec nt'y uiid 'it iken to fortify their po
sition by the very doubtful device o.j
attacking the apartment hou-e them
selves, and have produced evidence, in
tho siiap r of opinions by certain phy
sicians, to show that the inhabitants
of such buddings aro liable to zy
motic disca cs trom the probable open
ing of ti e jo nts of the drain-pipes in
them, as well as to contagious dis
orders from tho difficulty of isolating
patients attacked with such maladies
in them. As might have been expect
ed, this a tempt has brought out
an overwhelming amount of re
butting testimony. Several of the
lest physicians iii the city join in com
mending the .substitution of elevators
for .stairs, which forms one of their
principal charac'.i ristics, and it is easily
proved that, however such luildings
may shade the streets below them,
those who live in them enjoy a greater
a ilk ri ut of air and sunshine than the
dweller in the average city house. To
say nothing of the advantage of bciug
raised above the surrounding buildings,
the planning of the best iipiirtment
houscs always secures outside light and
air for the bath-rooms and hallways,
which in most citv houses are dark and
unvciitilated, while the interior space
between the front and rear chambers,
which in houses is usually given up to a
mass of unvciitilated closets, clipboards,
bath-rooms, wash-basins, and slop
sinks, anil soon becomes the permanent
abode of the insects and ctlluvia which
aro supposed to be indispensable to a
city dwelling, is practically unknowu in
tiie first-class apartment bouse, where
economy of room, as well as better
principles of planning, demand a dis
tribution of these adjuncts lo domestic
life which greatly fac l.tates their main
tenance in wholesome condition.
Whether infectious diseases are likely
to spread more rapidly in an upurt-ment-housc
than iu a block of houses
we will not venture to say, but in the
lire-proof buildings, which should alono;
bt) constructed for the purpose there is
littlo probability of contagion being
communicated through tho walls or
lloors, and the risk that any person
leaving the patient's room will convoy
tho infection to others by contact in tho
elevators and halls is no greater than
that w hich every one encounters in rid
ing iu a public conveyance American
Architect.
THREE COURSES.
How it I'rniillr.ss but I'l-rrnrlniu Customer
Vorkii llii t'rrn KHcket.
The hands on the illuminated clock
face in the Jcil'er on Market tower we;t
both pointing directly to the zenith.
Below, on Sixth avenue, a policeman
woke up, came out of a shadowy door
way and majestically swung his club as
ho thought of the appio.iching midnight
relief. The lighted windows of a small
restaurant illuminated his manly form
and a sign of "Little neck clams, twen
ty cents."
The sign caught the foxy orbs. of a
hungry-looking pascr-by. lie stopped
delved both hands down into the va
cancy of his pockets and tried to rattle
up nothing. No use; they were emp
tier than his stomach, and that was as
vacant as an elephant's cxprcssh-n. Ho
peered through the steamy windows
and "sized up" the people inside. Tho
proprietor was dozing in his chair be
hind the cash-stand. A big, fat, greasy
look ng waiter and a cadaverous, little
thin one wero lounging aboit with
soiled aprons. An individual, with a
Derby bat no bigger than a tablespoon,
was struggling with a cup of coli'ce at
a corner table.
The outsider winked to himself and
went in.
He seemed very sleepy when he stag
gered into a seat at a tabic and said:
'Clam chowder." The wa ter bad to
awake him when he brought it. Ap
parently, unconscious of what he was
doing he devoured part of it, then sud
denly cunie to and seemed to be very
much surprised.
"W hy why this ain't an oyster stew.
Bring mo a slew; I don't want this.'.'
Ti e waiter thought that pos bly ho
had misunderstood tin order, and so
prmnpiy obeyed. When the stew camo
the customer was asleep again, and
ngiriilcgan iis consumption witli an
air of abstraeiion. t 1 e broken oil w.tlr
an exclamation of d'sgiist
"What do you mean by trying to fool
me like this? Do you think I am a
chump? Don't you 'spo-e I know
oysters.? That's w hat you brought in
and I never eat 'cm."
"That's what you ordered, s'r "
"You lie: I didn't. Take 'cm away.
I ordered bacon and eggs."
The waiter demurred and wanted to
argue the subject. I ut the customer be
came so noisy that ho yielded. When
the til rd dish';ir.ived th'esan c perform
ance was gone through with agan.
Alt r the customer had made thought
less headway into it he d seovetvd what
lie w s citing and fairly raved.
"Well, of all the ste iks. this lavs
over the deck. ' i'ain'l lio s'eak.
You're the biggest flat I ever struck.
a.i't you hear anything str light?
1 won't stay here and be to ded with."
The waiter cxrostiila'ed hut the cus
omer went, ami as he go! outs do mur
n ired soiiu't iing about it's "being a
i-i v good meal f r o thing.'' A. )'.
.va.U
wi?rD-vo:cE3.
All tho Year Bound.
rile btgh tho lo-8, aud draw the curtains
round,
I will not heed what matter that the wind
Howls round the' huuso, nud shakes th
window-blind?
I know 'tis untiling save the wintry sound,
That speaks of Autumn's death;
Beneath its an'iy breath
The leaves lio sluiu upon the trodden ground.
Suppose we cannot keep it out? suppose
Those are real voices in that angry roar
That surges round the house) Suppose, once
more,
The dead thus speak the words; the calm
repDse
Of just-relinquished life,
Of rest from jujt-fouglit strife,
Had siluneed. aud 'twas thus the dead arose!
Ghoits! ghosts! Ob, wailing wintry wind, bo
stib I
Yet pity seizes me. I see again
Those whom I loved. Once more the
anguished pain
Strikes to my soul, and tears mine eyelids
till.
Why should we shrink with fear,
E'en though the dead are near
Ah me! bow shrieks the wind wild, wild,
and shrill 1
Ghosts are abroad on the uncanny night;
I cannot shut them out, e'en if I would.
Perchance they have a message, dear and
good,
Radiant, I pray, from Heaven's own crystal
light.
Come in awhile to me,
lie ns you used to be,
And make mine empty house-place filled and
bright.
Oh, wild, triumphant scream I There are no
ghosts,
Save of the wicked In the angry cries
That rend my heart and till my tii ol eyes.
Those whom I love join not these vagrant
hosts,
But lie too fast asleep,
In slumber dead and deep,
To walk abroad, screaming such empty
boosts.
God I silence me the storm, and let me rest,
Just where my love 1 ones Bleepout in the
wind
That is so full of sorrow, deaf and blind.
They hear and sue me not; in death's dark
breust
A fearsome problem lies,
Nor earth, nor sea, nor skies,
Know as he knows, that He, not life, is rest
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE.
fiii','land's great premier at tho age of 73 is
without doubt a marvol, nud may prove a
puzxle to posterity. Vim cannot rcaliza the
Liceral chief, or form a picture of the man,
solely through a study of bis interminable
speeches, books, pamphlets, loiters and post
cards. You mustsee him in the flesh. There,
in oflic?, sits the First Lord of the Treasury
ami leadT of the House of Commons,
stretched out with his legs straight beforo
him nnd his to.-s turned up to the glass
cellin. His hands lie listlessly crosses i.ver
his hip. His hea l droops over his right
shoulder. His face is pallid. Tho corifcrs
of his mouth droop as if in pain. His seant
gray hair clings like a fringe of floss about
tho base of his great skull. His eyes are
closed. The powerful features, touched
i'h a tingo il sweetness nu t overworn
with half u century of politics, mutely
'mender pity. His ill lilting clothes
hang loosely about his tiyure, always
lighte an I active in motion. So, seem
ing as it flaccid from want of sleep,
he lies in wait. Then tho lax figure siU bolt
upright, chin iu the air, and hands clasping
his knees. All traces of fatigue pass away
as the eves, large and luminous, keen and
gray, rest wlt.li unger upon the enemy. Tho
nostrils dilate, tho lips still close work ira
paticn'ly, the body leans forward. In a
moment Mr. Gladstone is upon his feet, and
us his Into antagonist said of him, "inebriated
with the exuberance of his own verbosity,"
he oxns the floodgates of his oratory, and
deluges the Commons with supcrbeloquenca
Tho timbre of his voice is delightful, gliding,
mellow, dropping to the soft s.iund of wind
stirre 1 r eds by ihe river, rising to tho full
volume of the storm ut sea. In tho heat and
passion of debate Mi", (ttadstone does not re
spect persons, but rends friends and foes
ali.'J. In his eyes ii is a sin to differ from
lis opinion, even thou;h his enemies thoughts
were his ow n of tho previous day, and when
from time to time 1 .0 great leader changos
his mind ho docs so from honest cnuvictiou,
mixed with an appetite for npp'.ause, and
then ho sees his old friends iu tlio light of a
company of blind fools.
Couiinuiitlcr-lii-CIiIrr of the Grand
Army of the Kcpubllc.
JOnX 8. KOUNTZ.
The now commander-in-chief of tho Grand
Army of tho llepublic, entered the army in
his sixtwuth year sja drummer boy in tha
Thirty -seventh Ohio. He distinguished him
self by his courage in exchanging his drum
for a musket when the ratter was most
needed. During the assault on Briggs' line
at Mission HiJge the drum corps w as ordered
to the rear, but young Kountz took np a
musket, advanced with bis regiment, and
was shot while in the front line of battle,
bis wound necessitated the amputation of
bis leg. On bis return to Toledo, 0 drum
mer Kountz was given a place in the county
treasurer's office. He has filled faithfully
many civil positions u well as posts of honor
in the G. A. R. since.
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