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HEALTH AND WEALTH. Two oiiilltln Which Hare Many Tolull In I'nmiiitiM. Health and wealth have many points in common; first of all in their very name. To have health la to be well; to have wealth in also to be well well off. Wealth is for tho most part got in three way by inheritance, by self-denial, by care, labor and attention; often by some combination, of these three. Wealth is lout by extravagant expendi ture or by carelessness and neglect. Health'uiay also begot In these three ways. A man may inherit it from hU ancestors; he may gain or keep it bv do nying his appetites for luxurious food and drink, and for excesses of all kinds: .he may besides have to work for it, by painstaking exercise, and a constant su- Jervision over his habits. In brief, tin ess a man has inherited a large and vigorous stock of hea th, he musi do as he has to do when he does not inherit wealti earn it. . He may also lose his health by extrav agant demands upon if, by reckless ex penditure or by carelessness in nurtur ing and preserving it Moreover, the connect'on between health and wealth is so close that if he spend his wealth lavishly and recklessly on luxurious living anil dissipation at the gaining table or other improper places far into the night, his health will fo with his wealth. So again it often appena that he can not have both an excess of health and an excess of w alth at the same time. He often loses his health acquiring his wealth, ami if he has to care auxously for his health he is not likely to accumulate wealth. Again, health Ls like wealth io that a man may accumulate health not only without wronging anvbody, but in doing so actually benehts the world. A man who gathers health and vigor from the air and the water, from projer exercise and a correct life, does not take one particle of health from anybody. There still remain in the earth ami atmos phere plenty of the elements of health for all the rest of the world. He, more over, provide in himself and his off spring a oerta n number of persons who will not burden the community with sick and feeble members. So, too. a man by his lnlor and his self-denial may, without injuring any person whatsoever, gather wealth from the soil, from the manufacturing forces of nature and art or from his capacity to organize business enterprises and so reduce the friction of commerce. The wealth thus created is besides a H?si tive addition to tho comfort and pros perity of mankind. Man can not voluntarily be deprived of his health. He may sacrifice it him self. Just as ho niav sacrifice his wealth, for tho benefit of iiis fellow-men. But no one can take it from him. If there were any way of doing so there would be but one result. No man would deny himself or take any pains whatever to acquire or preserve his health, only for the sake ot being obliged to give it up to some person, too luxurious or too la.v to acquire it for himself. The same is true of wealth, Xo man would accumulate wealth if he knew it would be confiscated by tho self-indulgent or the lazy tho moment ho had got . enough of it to tempt them to take it from liiiu. This is the fatal defect of all social st and communist schemes. It put in practice, men would cease to ac quire wealth, and the civilization would degenerate Into savagery. In sonio conditions men are forced to give up their wealth to other people. Slaves have to do it. Heavily-taxed people have to doit. What is the re sult? Slaves and the heavily-taxed cease to produce much more than enough to keep themselves alive, and the races or nat:ou which long sutler such a state of things become impover ished ami go to decay. Thcro is one particular, however, in which health seems to, but really does not. U tter from wealth. II It were pos sible for a shrewd and cunning man to obtain health.from other people, leaving them sick and feeble, he would then be like tho speculator or gambler who ob tains property from others without pro ductive labor. Hut a man who should trot health in this way would add noth nig to tho common stock of health. He would merely transfer from oilier peoplo to himself. Th's, however. would bo an unequal distribution, not an accumulation of health. So the gains of a gambleror speculator are not an accumulation of wealth but an un equal distribution of property. Such transfers add no more to the general wealth of the country than transfers of health would nddtoitsiren eral health. Hut nnv man who by self- denial or labor accumulates either health or wealth is not only entitled to ' what he acquires, but his acquisition is a positive addition to both the health and tho wealth of the world. Iklroil j'ree i'ress. m m HAYDN. . . Sum Peculiarities of the Itenowned Com poeer. ( Haydn was a man who made tho most of his gifts. He was never satis fied, and always strove to reach a higher ideal. Ho once sad: "I have only just learned in my old ago to uso tho wind instruments, and now that I do understand them I mnst leave the world." HecomKsed so much that one would th nk he wrote quickly, but such was not inn case, v hen an idea oc curred to him he would note it down in a little book that lie always carried with him, and afterward he would work it over with the greatest care. He felt his genius was a gift from God wh ch he must use for the good of others. '-God has given me talent," he sa d, "and I thank Hmi for it. I think I have done my duty and have been of use In my general on." In writ ng for the pijno - fo to. he pa'd great attention to ihe melody, wh ch renders his works equally interest ng to young and old. They are alwayi fresh and cheerful and are often founded on some little romance or ine'dent Haidn dd so lime for mus cat compos t ion. e jct:alH the symphony, and was so gena! and kiud" to h s fellow mus'cians. and so fond of children, that in hi later years he was always called Part I'ay-!u." The name Is still frequently used in leferring to him. AgtUta TunU, .it St. Siho!(u, I , AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY. A S7.0O0 Bedchamber that Ha CauuMl a Lawtult la New York. A remarkable lawsuit, in which John A. Moiris, a millionaire of this city, and M. X. Cutter, local architect, have lig ured prominently, has been decided by Judge Donohue in favor of tho former. The suit involves perhaps the most ex pensive bed-room everconstruced. Mr. Morris has a large couutry establish ment at Throgg's Xeck, Westchester County. In October. IS"-', he decided to hare a private liedrooiu built f or his own use. and called in Mr. Cutter, who was to formulate plans. It was said at the trial that the reason the addition was made was because when Mr. Mor r s slept ho snored so loudly that the noise d sturbed the other sleepers in the house. Mr. Morris' sjec (n ations called for a total expenditure of &,500. The bed room was to be located over the carriageway, and access thereto had I Ill-oil'.; b a private bathroom which con nected with Mrs. Morrs' sleeping apartment. The room was t be twen ty-four feet square, and, except that it should contain an English fireplace, was to le in keeping with the ma n house externally and internally. After g'v'ng these direet'ons Mr. Morris and family went south for the winter. All hough the main house was built ent'relv of wood, the architect provided that the western side of the addition should be an arch of brown stone and brick supporting a chimney forty-live feet high, shaped like a cham pagne bottle perforated by a bull's eye window. On the eastern end he ordered an elliptical bay window, although that of tho main house was semi-polygonal. Thus the exterior, as Mr. Morris claims, was made to represent a blast furnace or factory. It was in tho interior, how ever, that the architect seems to have given full play to aesthetieisra. The English fireplace was to have behind it a concealed heating chamlHr resting upon a block of stone weighing seven thousand pounds. As this mass of rock rested on three slender floor pieces it naturally settled and pitched the lire place forward, somewhat after the manner of the leaning tower of Pisa. The ceiling of the bedroom was to con verse into a dome lighted with opales cent antique Venet:an stained class with brilliant class jewels, the lorms van ously symbolizing months of the year, e. g., holly for December, mistletoe for January, and ".Morning, Mght. "Music." "Architecture," etc. The room was to le finished in fancy cabinet style, with lino carvings, arabesque work, carved friezes, cornices, panels of leaves and flowers carved and cut through a ground of embossed and painted leather. The ceilings 'and dome were to be trimmed and hung with em bossed leather and wood carvings. The gas-fixtures were te be of antique brass, Cyprus copper, oxidized silver and man ufaeturcd to order after the architect's special design. I n one corner of the room a plate of metal was to be sunk, upon which a brass bedstead should stand. Other concomitants specified by the architect to the carpenter were eiiuatlv elaborate, imposing ana ex pen sive. By tho pleadings in the su:l it appears that the brick and brown stone masonry was to cost over 85,000, the carpentery. exclusive of the interior, over .?;J,0K), tho ironwork over 91.300. the interior finish over 912.000, furni ture over 9'2, 000, one pair of iron and irons $11).). a crate fender 91.50, and i coal-hod, lire-set stand, brush and bel lows, 9111. Tho -total for theso and other luxuries, exclusive of furniture, was over !?-.?7.000, or 921.500 niore than the contract with Mr. Morris called for. The only entrance to this palatial bed room was through a private bath and closet The carpenter had expended some f'.i.ooo when, becoming alarmed, he wired Mr. Morris, In Florida, that he haiPreceived an estimate for part of the Interior finish of $5.1171. Mr. Morris at onco wrote Mr. Cutter that he had re ceived a telegram from the carpenter that absolutely appalled him, and de sired to know "what the whistlo might cost if ho went on. At tho sumo time he wired the builder for full details and asked what was meant by "interior finish. " When he learned what was go ing on ho wrote the following letter to Mr. Cutter: "I cave you authority to draw de signs for a room to cost no more tl an 85,000. You sent me a month sinee some designs which were perfectly ah surd on account of the expense whi'-li they involvedand I wrote you a letter which it struck me anv one would un derstand. Xow you amuse yourself bv forwarding another lot of designs for furniture for a room which will not lie built with my consent. Can I say any thing to vou which will make yon un derstand that I shall never do any of the extravagant things you propose, and In fact there Is nothing vou can proposo in the future that there is any chnnce of my doing?1' At tho samo time the builder was di rected to complete tho addition, disre garding the architect's plans of the in terior. Mr. Morris then sued Mr. Cut ter for damages amounting to 916,775. Tho latter retaliated with a suit against Mrs. Morris, who owned the cottage, for 91,262.08, his commission as an architect in planning this addition to her premises. The former suit has not vet been, tried. The latter was begun fast Thursday before Judge Donohue and a jury in the Supreme Court. On Mon day morning the complaint of Mr. Cut ter was dismissed upon the merit, the plainlitf haing fa led to establish his case. There was a large attendance of architects and builders. In this cele brated case, which has been running some two years, the architect was rep resented by Mr. John Henry Hull and Mrs. Morris by Mr. Charles E. Codling ton. Ex-Judges Fullerton and CarJo.a were also counsel for defendant on the triaL .V. 1". Uraphie. Colonel Matthew 8. Quay, of Penn sylvania, is the owner of the site of old lort McIntosh.the furthest American out pot among the Indians during the Revolutionary war. situated in a com manding posit'on on the bank of the OhioK.verat leaver. The old picket beat whereon the sentry made his rounds la Tt't Vt.ll ft,?finAt anil alrtntT fM Me Quay has planted forty shade trees. lhcago inter Ik tin. THE MORGUE. A Oucrlptloa of Dm Metropolitan Invi tation lu Hail Hlntorle. What is the morgue? Xo doubt many of our readers find this question sug gested by the sad fate of Hattie Bedient ami hence a brief sketch may be ac ceptable. One of the most painful scenes ever witnessed at this abode of horrors was when poor old farmer Bedient beheld the corpse of his once beautiful daughter stretched out upon tho marble slab, alone with other "un known dead." The principal charity hospital of Xew York is situated at the foot of Twenty-sixth Street on the East Uiver, the place having been once known as "Bcllevuo." From the foot of this street the steamboat plies to and from Blackwell's Island, where the peniten tiary is situate, the distance being two miles. As you enter the grounds vou pass a small brick structure with a large window opening on the street, and here one oiten notices a crowd gazing with intense interest. Xo wonder, for inside of that window are the unknown dead. and thi-r.) for two days la the' pallid form o. tne onco lovely Halt e Iteuient The floor is stone, with a dra!n, which keeps it dry. Its sole furniture is a pa r of stone tables, each slanting so as io auow moisiure io escape uy urippiny. Ou these tables the corpses are la l. striped of their clothing, but covered by au India rubber cloth, which only permits the head to be seen.' In hot weather a jet of cold water is often thrown nHn them in order to prevent decomposition, for as soon as this be gins they are sent to the potter s held for interment. The place is open from nine to five o'clock for the purpose of allowing any one to identify lost fr ends and In order to assist in this search an examinat on of tho wardrobe is also permitted. This wardrobe, indeed, is one of the most striking features in the morgue, and what strange emotions are felt as one gazes oij this va ied array of garments, whose owners will, in most instances, never bo knowi. Each one is numbered and accompaiied by a few words of descript'on. Here, for instance, are a pantaloons, shirt and vest, labeled: "Picked up in East river January 12. 184 -buried on the 18th." Another is a full suit, marked: "Picked up in the streets, stabbed." These garments are kept for a year, and sometimes even longer, in order to ass'st 'n ident'fying those who have gone to tiie trenches of potter's Held. The latest and most im portant of these garmenti were labeled Su eido at Grand Centril Hotel," and hundreds examined that mark (II. H. Bedient) which saved poor Hattie's corpse from pauper burial. While speaking of ths unfortunate woman it maybe added that her father, accompanied by a friend, reached the morgue at midnight. The building was closed, but in complance with his earnest request the janitor opened it. and the gloomy morgue seemed still gloomier as it was illuminated by a lamp. As soon as the light fell on the face of the corpse the jioor old man recognized his child. Ihe scene was one beyond the power of art, and even the hardened attendants were moved by it. I speak of these men as "hard ened." meaning merely thnt natural indifference which is tho inevitable re sult of habit. The record of the morgue has reached more than 2,000 cases. most of which went to the potter's held. Among tho number was a young man from the vicinity of Albany, whose parents were rich, and the family held high social position. His corpse was picked up in the Harlem River, and he had cither fallen in while intoxicated or had closed a dissipated life by suicide. Somo months after he had been buried n thn pauper trench his name and family were discovered. vice. indeed, brings many of its victims thither to tin'sh their course, and even in the Hattie Bedient case there is a secret volume of misery which never will be opened. Such was the curiosity awakened by tho Bedient tragedy that more than five hundred persons called to view the corpse. Among this number were the friends of a half-dozen girls who had recently disappeared. These mysterious disappearances are among the strange features in a great city. On one occa sion the corpse of a man, evidently of the better class, was brought to the morgue, and the fact being announced by the press, the place was visited by nearly a score of women whose hus bands were missing. Xone of them cla'med the dead man, but their appli cation revealed the fact that so many husbands could be eliminated from society with no clew to discovery. There is such a rush of strangers to this city from all parts of the world, and such facilities exist for shuttling off this mortal coil, that the morgue never lacks for tenants, and the Bedient tragedy will no doubt soon be forgotten in subsequent Bcenes of tragic char acter. Tho most painful scene that ever oc curred at the morgue prior to tho dis covery of Hattie Bedient was the-Mrs. Lcroy suicide. This unfortunate woman was the wife of an extensive business man who became rich, and they lived in Fifth Avenue in the height of style. Then camo tho "shrinkage" in wnich so many sank to ruin, and among other victims was the house of Leroy & Co. The loss of her splendid home made her insane, and the result was her disap pearance, until a corpse "found drowned" was brought into the morgue, where it was identihed. 1 he transition from the grandeur of the Fifth Avenue to the stone table of the morgue was certainly strange, but it is only one of those vicissitudes which so often mark high life.-.V. 1'. Cor. Iron (S. Y.) Times. A popular Xew York variety ac tress contrives to make an extra bit of money in her nightly vocation by sing ing songs in which "the excellences of the wares of various business men are warbled forth. In an impersonation of a tipsy dude she vocalizes extravagant praise or a certain brand ot w ne, in another impersonation she extols the virtues of a certain cigarette. The managers of the various houses in which she has been engaged have re monstrated with her in vain. As she is a good "drawing card" she is allowed to nave her own way. A. r. Sun. A QUEER OPERATION. lluer a Niw York M-tn Managed a Jack- gerew la Ills Month. A slender man of quiet and respect able appearance, sitting in a Sixth ave nue elevated train, last evening, drew from his inner coat pocket a narrow steel rod about six inches in length. The rod was flat and the width ot an ord narv lead-pencU. At one end there wns a small slot In if. So curious an implement and the preoccupied manner of the man attracted the attention of the other passengers in the car. A lady opposite, accompanied by a little boy, glanced with a arm toward the con ductor, who was intently watching the man, as the latter put the slotted end oi the steel rod in bis mouth. The man shut his teeth together and his face un derwent a series of contortions as he worked his hand with a motion as if he were tightening up a loose nut on a bolt The lady became so agitated that she left her seat and took one nearer tho door. "You needn't ba frightened, marm." said the conductor, "1 gu hat's only the circus man with the .iou ,aw." "What In the world's the matter with him?" asked the lady. "I guess he Is only tightening up his jaw, marm," replied the conductor, con solingly. The man had now finished the opera tion, ami ha restored the steel rod to his pocket. Then he took out a memorandum-book and made some entries in it cHrefully, and, having finished these entries, hi remarked to his neighbor in the adjoining seat, as he closed the book: "Science doe remarkable things in these days." Tho neighbor noJded. "Now) I don't suppose vou would have the least idea that I had a jack screw bettveen two of my teeth." "A jack-screw?" inquired his neigh bor. "Yes" returned the- man, smiling. "I'm undergoing a dental operat;on. One of my teeth had been extraoted, and ono of those adjoining it began to grow over in the vacant space. It was a good tooth, and I didn't want it pulled, but the dentist couldn't get it backHo its place, until one- day an idea struck him and he t aid he'd put a jack screw in there. So he made one. It is less than a quarter of an ioch long, but it is on the same principle as the other jack-screws just like those used in lifting up Cooper Institute, only on a small scale, you see," "Is there no danger of its slipping out?". "Oh, not nt all, my dear sir. It is a very ingenious liitle contrivauce. The whole t dug is made of gold and the nut by which it is turned is next to the face; you saw me turn it just now? Well, I turn it once around every twenty-four hours, and that turn is equal to abuut a two hundred and fiftieth part of an inch. Then, you see, I make a mem orandum of each turn. Generally I turn it twice a day. but 'only half-way riling each time. I expect that it will take two or three weeks to straighten the tool h. "is it uncomfortable? Xo, not espe cially. A little unpleasant when I am turning it Makes me grit mv teeth some, but I soon get uevl to having it there. The only objection is that gold is a little too soft a metal where there U 8n much pressure brought to bear. You see, the Kcrew is a very slender wire and the thread on it is" very deli cate, though it leels as though the whole thing was a foot long and ns b g as tiiose used under a building. A day or two after I began to use it tae threa 1 snapped under the strain. Tnen I thought there was a dynamite cartridge in my mouth and the whole top of my head was coming o f. But it did not hurt me. The dentist is going to make one of platinum iu case this should give out. That is a harder metal. This is my station. Good n ght," and the man with tho jack-screw between his teeth left the train. -V. 11 Tribune. A MODEL COLLECTOR. Tim FaRan's Ercrntrlilllet Io the Collec tion of Desperate Accounts. "You talk of deputy sheriffs being al ways on the make," said an indignant member of that august body to a re porter, as he closed a bargain with a creditor. "Why. we are most of the time victims absolute victims of the cunning and duplicity of peoplo on the outside. There, it was only tho other day that I was badly bit myself. A fellow up-town owed me an even hun dred, lie gave me a little palaver once or twice to stave off the collection, and I took it all. But pretty soon 1 saw that he was on the beat and I went for him. It wasn't any good. He was a cute file always out when I called never to be caught napping, and he worried mo to death, not on account of the money, but I hated to be pla e.i .o slick. "Well, I made up my mind I'd make his life miserable anyhow, and I got hold of one of the fellows that loafs around here Tim Fagan and a sharp one he is if ever there was one. "Tini, savs I, 'I've a hundred t collect from a man. Xow, I want you to take the job. Stick to him through thick and thin. Don't, let up, and I'll tell you what I'll dos If you can collect you can have half of the hundred.' "Away went Tim. aud he stuck to that fellow, he did. He was there morning, noon and n gbt it was no use sneaking in through back-yards or trying any other old blinds. Tim was up to all of them, and he made that fel low so sick he wished he'd never been born. At last he tackled Tim and savs he: 'Look here. You ought to be pretty sick o' this. I am. Xow, tell me bow much '11 you take to come off?' Tim thought it over. He saw there was battle in the fellow still. 'Well,' says Tim, 'give me fifty and I'll let up.' The fellow made good and Tim went awar. "He didn't show up here, though. It was only the other day I met him. "Hullo: says I. liow aid you make out with that bill?' " -Och! but he's the hard ould file,' says Tim. -But did you collect." says L "Well says Tim, quite cool and business-like. 'I collected tar half o the hundred. But, faith, I think there'll be the deuce's own work collecting jours.' "-V. r. Vtrald. A BEAR STORY. atlll-lluntinf the tirlnly In the Tlorky Mountain. Sure enough, there were two bears (which afterward proved to be an old she and a nearly full-grown cub)travel ing up the bottom of the valley, much too far for us to shoot Grasping our rifles and throwing off our hats, wo started off as hard as we could run di agonally down the hillside, so as to cut them off. It was some little time be fore they saw us, when they made off at a lumbering gallop up the valley. It would seem impossible to run into two grizzlies in the open, but they were go ing up hill and we down, and moreover th?: old ono kept stopping. The cub would forge ahe id and could probahly have escaped us, but the mother now aud then (.topped to sit down on her haunches and look around at us. when the cub would run back to her. The up shot was that we got ahead of them, when they turned and went straight up one hillside as we ran straight down the other behind them. ' By th s time I was pretty nearly done out, for running along the steep" ground through the sago brush was mot exhausting work; and Merrilield kept gaining on me and was well in front Just as he disap peared over a bank, almost at the bot tom of the valley, 1 tripped over a bush and f 11 full length. When 1 got uu I knew I could never make up th'? ground I had lost, and besides could hardly run any longer. Merrilield was out of sight below, and the b ;ars wire laboring up the 'steep hillside directly oppositn and about three hundred yards off. so 1 sat down and began to shoot over Merrilield's h;a i, aiming at the big bear. She was going very steadily and in a straight line, and eaeh bullet g"nt up a puff of dust where it struck th s dry soil, so that I could keep cor recting my aim; and the fourth ball crashed :nto the old bear's flank. She lurched heavily forward, but recovered herself and reached the timber, wh le Merrilield, who bad put on a spurt, was not far behind. I toiled up the hill at a sort of trot, fairly ga-ping and sobbing for breath; but before I got to the top I heard a couple of shots and a shout The old b -ar had turned as soon as she was in the timber and come towards Merri tield; but he gave her the d -ath-wound by firing into her chest, and then ihot at tho young one, knocking il over. When I came up he wai just walking towards the latter to finish it with a re volver, but it suddenly jumped up as lively us ever and made o;V nt a great pace for it was nearly full-grown. It was impossible to fire where the tree trunks wcd so thick, but there was a small opening across which it would have to pass, and collecting all my en ergies I made a last run,, got into o siuon, and covered the opening with my rille. ' The' instant the bear ap peared I fired and it turned a dozen somersaults down-hill, rolling over and over; the ball had struck it near the tail and had ranged forward through the hollow of the body. Each of us had thus given tho fatal wound to the bear into which the other had fired the first bullet Theodore Jioonevctl, in (Jentury. FILIAL RESPECT. A Sentiment Which 8 tould be Incntratetl Religiously. The Bible Reviser.1 have not found any reason to materially alter the phrase of t'.ie Fifth Commandment. Tho duty of filial respect is still its specific in unction. . And it would be well if ail th j clergvmen in the jand were to join in an effort to bring it es pecially to thj attention of Amcr.can youth. It has come to be toj easy a matter to slip the parental lead ng strings. The boy is rel ased too soon from control; is allowed too free access to things that pertain to the man; is suffered too frequently to sit in judg ment upon the behests of those who, by both i he laws of man and nature, are endowed wi.h due authority over him. We need something of a revival of the patriarchal dispensation. In too many families is the command of the sire mocked by the child; in too many fam il.es does the sire fail to exact strict obe jienee. Public morals are suffering in consequence, and young faces abound in our penitentiaries. The reins of parental discipline need tight ening. The boy should be made to tec! that ue is a minor until his majority. His twenty-firs', birthday should mark a' great event in his lite. It is not too much to say that the average American boy recognizes no special s gn ticance in the day, beyond the acquis tion of the right to vote. He should also feel a seuse of independent manhood and of individual respons bility. But he does not For too many years has he been allowed to indulge his own des.res, to make l!p;ht of til.al obligations, and to respond freely to the temptations that beset him. The Scriptural injunction should be I terally obeyed The child should be compelled to realize his com plete subordination of self in the family. Human experience demonstrates clear ly enough that there must be a head to e.ery household, and that head accord ed implicit obedience and careful re spect The boy should feel himself constantly within the vision of the parental eye. He should entertain a pos.tive fear of parental displeasure, and t-hould be given all needed punish ment for every infraction of parental rules. It was never so easy for the young to familiarize themselves with the wavs of vice as at the present time, and it 'therefore follows that there has n vcr b -en a t me wuen t.iey should be kept under so strong a curb. Xo mat te, t ougn the curb may gall, it should bi 8 ithy held nevertheless. The parent who ig'n iies this duty, who does not lorce, if need te, the obedience he has h it ,ht to exact, Ls guilty of participa l.on in the ev.l doing of his child. He can not free himseit of responsibility. The im i ora ity of the times needs the in st vigorous metho Is of correction, t he re orm of Convicted criminals is uubiless ao important philanthropy, i.u, the- restoration of the parental authority in tea thousand homes of tne land is a more pressing necessity. Cur rent. There are said to bs fifty-two kinds el sheep in the world. . THE SUICIDE MANIA. More Mvea Lou by Hcl'-S.a(liur Th.. by Any Other Mingle Caiue. Disastrous as the present year prom Ises to be to human life, It is question." bio whether its record will not event, ually show that more lives have been lost by suicide than by any ether single cause, so far at least as this country U concerned. Human life is not only held cheap by the lower and more brutal elements of society, but the regard for it seems to have lowered so rapidly that self-murder is now perpetrated. upon the slightest provocation and for rev sous which sometimes are absurd and often grotesque. It is never possible to obtain the exact number of suicides ac complished in a certain time, as many of them are not reported, but an ap proximate idea of their rapid increase may be obtained from the number re ported by telegraph, and these, since the 1st of last January, foot up three hundred and seventy-eight, which is nearly a hundred more than were re ported for the first live months of last year, or for many years previously. These self murders are not confined by any means to imknown people. On the other hand, among the prominent persons who have shumed off the mortal coil by their own hands this year are three baukers, three city ollicials, nine merchants, three postmasters, three clergymen, two lawyers, three college professors, two dentists, two editors, and one judge, actor, physician, artist and army ollicer. Melancholia is the most common cause, and next. In the order named, come unknown reasons, insanity, disappointed, love, domestic infelicity, liquor, ill health and business los es. There is a general impression that women are more addicte I to suicide than men, but such is not the caso. Of the three hundred and seventy-eight instances reported above, two hundred and ninety-four were men. and the same proportion holds good year by year. An analys's of the causes which have led to suicide shows some curious facts. A boy ol seventeen recently committed suicide because his father reprimanded him. He took poison in a barn, and one of his father s em ployes seeing him commit the fatal act procured poisou and k lied himself be fore night also. A boy of fourteen at Mount Carroll in this State hanged him self because his mother told him he must take medicine. A student in St. Louis suicided because he failed to pass an examination for admission to the Missouri Medical College. A boy of fourteen at liockford in this State read of a suicide and then took his life in the same niauner. Large numbers of silly young ptople have killed themselves because their parents would not allow them to marry as they wished. While tho majority of deaths have been those of very young persons, no age is exempt from the craze, for Elizabeth Bowy, of Falmouth, Kv., without any apparent reason, barred the doors and windows, set her house afire, and was burne.1 to death, wiiile another very old woman in Xew York, in a fit of passion w.th one of her neighbors, poured kerosene over her bed, touched it oft with a match and then deliberately threw herself into the burning clothes. What sadder case can be found than that of George W. Tripp, of Frecport, X. Y., an old man of seventy-nine, who, when he was told that his wife, with whom he had lived hap pily over fifty years eoald not live, went out and hanged himself in the barn, leav ing behind him only the?ewords:"Mother w 11 die and leave me alone. I can not bear it" It is a curious phase of the suicide mania that it goes over the country in waves. The recent sad suicide tf a voung lady at Kockford. III., by drown ing has been fo'lowed by several other cases of a similar chancer, two of which grew out of reading the accounts of her death. The latest victims among these young girls are Xellie Cantiuld. a grandniece of Abraham Lincoln, who shot herself at a female seminary at Beleville, X. J., and Miss Hattie Bed'ent, the daughier of a farmer at Hornby, X. Y.. who killed herseif at the Grand Union Hotel, Xew York. It is state I by the Xew York II 'odd that her suicide has served to disclose the startling fact that at the preseut time there are ten young girls missing within a radius of a few miles from that city. The general cause which Fes behind these suicides is surely worthy of study by the social philosophers, for the dis ease appears to be giowing epidemic in its character. It is certainly worth while to consider what arguments can be used to prevent a man under the in fluence of extreme melapcholy from taking his life. If tho instinct of seif presei vation is the strongest implanted in our nature it would be equally well to consider why it is that scores of boys and g.rls. to whom life is specially dear, kill tuemsclves for the most trivial rea sons. It is becoming a very sinister phaso of modern society, and one which is not considered enough. It would be well to know whether the race is declin ing morally as well as physically, and if so what "remedies can be applied to strengthen t hese weaker specimens. It would be a fruitful topic also for the pulpit to exam'ne with reference to de ciding whether the growth of ma terialism and the consequent dissipation of any fears for the hereafter, such as troubled Hamlet, bnve anything to do w.th it Chicago Tribune. Sure Cures. The report that Attorney-General Garland had the mumps created a sym pathet.c sensation in Arkansaw. As many of the people do not know the ad dress of the distinguished lawyer, the fo lowing suggestions, with a request that they be forwarded, have been re ceived at this office: Old Mathias Seymour, who lives in the Gum Pond District, writes: "In a ca-e ut mumps thar ain't nothin' like rubbin" the jaws with the forelaig uv a toad muig. i have knowed it to cure the mumps in half a day." A well kno vn gentleman of Conway County, offers the following infal ib e remedy: "Take the claws of a yellow cat, bury them in new ground, and. after two weeks' time, take them up. grind them into powder ana sprinkle them in both ears. ' , Both lemedies are no doubt efficient Arkamjw Traveler,