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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1888)
AIM HIGH. Hlch thinking more, IiIkIi living lew, Tniili telling though the sky ntiouUl fall, Woulil ailil to human happlim-is Under tlie heavens, tint - all. Tin- lofty tctniuliuil i if IIih JiLt, The courage lo d 'fijl the rl'lit, Would move us further from the dust, Anil lift mi nearer to the light. George W, Bungay til Youth's foinpuiloa. AS A FOREIGNER SEES US. II Think Americans Are ( ontnidli tiry Mortal Common Sense Nw.i. "You Americans," mid (ioorge Q. Taylor, a foreigner, In a group of Now Yorkms, "are tile most fuitrnhctirv sot of mortals in the glolie. You slave all day ami h'w1 ul night. You submit t all soils of iniKMturi nd ex tuition, yet you are terrible lighter when aroused. V.tila things do nut sceir. to fret you an they do foreigners. You lire cheerful and courageous in the fin of hopelcs din- aster, yet never scent unduly elated if you make n million or two, Now, why iliouM inch a fioople ciiiKwe to wear t tic lllll'kl.st uml most gloo.nv looking clothingr A bystander ventured tliu remark (hut he didn I w-0 anything particularly soiulMVubout the uveruge American nttirii. ' "You don';.' JI.-vo yon over boon upln tho Western I'nloii towcrf Well, you otht to go up tliiTi-. I mudo tin ascent tho other day, dilllcult as it is. Tin view i oiitru ncj ji ir. But when I lookud down into llroud'Auy jt made mo shiver, lliu hurrying crowds on the sidewalks linked like two unending funeral processions moving in opjiosite ui rection. Illrck, block "Very where. All the red hair ! girls must have liocii up town, fur there witnii t it white horse to be i'i. Tlio only relief to the eye huh an occasional Broudnay surface car. It was lliu imsst gloomy spectacle I over Itsikisl ilnH'ii iqioii, yet I knew that Ix-iiouth tlio dark rxterior thi're ni-ro wiinu hearts, noiivo brum uud bunds equally ready to llt;lit or work." " Well, what would you liavo us do Dres In bright colors during tliu winUrf" wus sked. "Not nt nil. Use romuion wimp, that in all. KiiniKinn generally do not see. the uooosHity for dark colors in winter. Ho long as the clothing in heavy and warm the color doesn't limit"!-. You can wear black over tllero if you like without exciting remark. Hut here, if a limn wourxa heavy plaid suit in winter he In cunt .'iiiptuously regarded by a native, even though his critic! limy b shivering in bin thin, black clothes. Take a Nuw England town, iNew Haven for instunce, If you want to we till" provincial Hpirit in an oxuggerutoii form. A fault (uMly dressed New Yorkur is anobjivt of auiversiil mlinii'iitioii. l'eopln run out of Htoreiit.) liHikut him. A sluililnly drwrnxl mull, even though Ihh clolhen lit him butter tliuu thime of tho average New Haven duili), in ut mica uud on all Kidex regarded iih a mii'iik thief who ouht to bo in tliu lockup. Hut an KuL;liliiimii ar other foreigner in a plaid milt is ail object of horror. To nee tlio ommi inoutlH, unci uplifted haiuli one wouhl tliink llnruulu'n rhinoccri wan looxu in tlio HtiiM-t. 1 alwayN put on u black Milt when 1 go to Nuw Haven, fur 1 cniiuol do Iiumiick-i there in any other wirt of clothing." Mow York Kveniiig Sun. An KiltOirS riireoii lluliu. When, in the midst (if my wriliu;', bhiio tiling turnN up tlmt "umt go'' in or In-fore the next i;lT, I hliove it illl'i n U,'roii hole marked "iiniiiediiiUi." Tills pl;:iiin bole ciuiina lif t, at.eutioii when I liuvo hi'ealhin pace. Alter thin in cleared 1 turn to one marked " Advance" matlein liiat mssl time todevel ip, and want to Ik Ktiuiiil well in ad'ituce. tine i -larked "Current" it devoted to mat U'is that uuvlit lo be attcinli fi to re;;uhil ly with every iv.ne, though not ikmshniiiiIv lie foi'n a given day. Tilings' necuinuhtc here koiueiiiiii'ii, h.it MKiiier or Inter they me ground twredllii; Hue. Ilestof all Is a pigisin hole lulsliil "C'ou tiii'v'nt." It is practical, comprehensive, Hiid -"ithlii Imniaii liuiils iit. -n lie:; It Is a"l.cd with heads ami tails lor which I know the iiiimIii exti einiti.n will wuue day !e ikying: "Here Is a curious iMiilnvaiice; I want u description oi' it; 1 hiiw one once; then I shall Uud it h.'iV I do. "You proiuhisl." "(Ih, no!" "Oh, yes! I have your Idler hcii';" and I have. "What is the Hum's i!ddi'iNi' 11 I ever had it It will lie here;" it is, What data was it wut There was a receipt. Look here," "Where I tlmt I'ircnhir; that price list; that funny Icttcrf What was tliu sic of Hint pc.gcf I low ninny did 1 count Here!" "(Mi, you want your 'O lo to a Violetf 1 don't remeiuU'r it; but if you inclosed stump we shall suivly Hie I it here, without any niune ntluchisl." A huslnc m man would have nil these cltLssd llisl, Is'i-au-e of a uieut ipiantity ; but I have only aa "inllult variety" of 'Youtin gencies," w ith porhai two or thrtsj of ouch kind; anil It is easy to milslivldv when the quantity pnsiMsi, Every memorandum or msr which I want to forget until culled for, and then tlnd handy, 1 put here; those which niv likely not to bu cnlhsl for ..sm I put in it big drawer, which 1 label ri mv mind "Keinote (.'iintiligeiit." it is thick with the dust of ugtst. Wolhtnn ll.voy in Tho Writer. 1 1 tin's 1 wo Meals I ) n . Only two meals a day are nerved at CuImiii hotel. They live much an people do in wuiid purls of l'r.ince mid SwiUerl'ind. Yon tnko an orange or tw o ith a cup of coffee ami a rdl in the early morning; a Itlieral lircakfaxt, In couiimsi, l M.'rVd at II u'oloek, uud a rere mouioui dinner at i or 5 In the afternoon. Thin mode of living in iidmirahly suited to tlie climate, and you fall in with tliu custom and like it itt once. The breakfast opens with (mall olive and frwilt raduhisi oerved lu the aiuue dish; the licit course is flsh, then egg, mivits, etc. You are not asked what you aefer, but each course is set U'fore you and you (wirtake of it or not, Instead of beginning with fruit, the C'ulsiu breakfast ends with it- pinenpplea rut from the stalk the suliio iihsnlug, ls nauas fivshly picked, sadillaa, a faint and rather over sweet moinvl, w ith oranges d libitum. In Florida, and lu many other part of the oouutry, the orange is rut in halves mid its juUw and pulp aix stsl to the inouth w ith a teaspoon. In Havana the orange is served whole on the table, lcd down to the Juicy "meat of the fruit, and you present the gol den liall to your ll on the prongs of a fork. At any and every American hotel the mo ment you sit down the ipiretlon is almoxt flung nt you, "Tea or 00111 r I'ulwns U-V ter uudeistinid what is healthful. They fid low nature's plan and take their meals more as the lower auiuiaisdo. Culsvu do not fill their stomachs with tlui.ls during iiieala, Alter brra fust is over, then tea or rotleu is scrvnl cottc in h'rctieh stvle, at leasl ene lm!f the cup being tilled with milk. Home Journal. A Trulest A(luat (irwniniar. It 1 to be wished there was law prohibit ing the use of spelling books ami granimam. I tu I il grammar In the onluuuy way a)Kut tlirra wivks, just lmg enough to flud out abut a genius some miple i-nn show iu putting asunder wliat U1 bath iimsl to get iter. It Is a splendid device lor luung up a (sir Isiv's lime and souring bis disiutitn: but It Mill Hot ks'i him out of the :rave, lit belli bun pay n ut and butcher's bnU, Kov. C It. i'olkuUlsl. NATURE'S rOIMEHS. THE DANGER SIGNALS THAT OF TROUBLE AHEAD. TELL We Are Loath to Fee the Knot That the Human Marklne Is Wearing Out A Vkeisry llearl Urny Hairs Other Warn In?. Nature is one of the kindest of motbui-s. h'lic. is ever on the ofTuc tiouuie alert to let her million children kuuw of the ills that nienaet them and to hoist the danger signal liiut bills of trouble ahead. Kor yuan you huvu txuu occuHloMiml to reail uu hour or two or three hours at night without your sight being in lee least affected. You can still see the do tails of the Oakland bills and make out wb'ire the few red woo. Is bid lelt back of Hun Miitco. No type bothers you and you huve uo particular fis-usof vision, j Latterly, bow ever, you have begun to notice that toward tb end of your seances your eyes lsti;ine a trifle blurred, that the Mack of the ink grows grayer and that you require u not her gas Jot or tho lamp a little nearer to your elbow There is your warning, and he alone is wise who hood it. You have received tsilnter of the most valuable descriptioa It means that you are wearing out your eyes and that the lihww.1 gift of goes! sight is Isj 1113 trifled wltlL To let Ibis warning go by uubeodud is criminal, both in intent and action. The trouble with us Is that we will not orcpuru for the tornado untd it is titsiu us that we want a clubhiu,; to llud out tiiut oui s!;ull can ls cracked. We are loath to bring ourselves fuiw to faco with the fact that tin machine Is wearing ou;, and wo alnest ta!.i It as nu insult when told that wo are not m youi'S r.. we might l. So it baTi'M-ns thai ne Ihul -.u enu.iot run up a bill with tin lilino degree of eliuiticky that we were wo:ti to have, und that when weurriveat the to we have bellows to mend, v.u usci ibe thssi facU to a hiiavy dinner, tho stalo of the at iiiosplierc, tight Iku, or to any other causi .ccpt the right one lucreusmg years. tlliTTUl AVOID A ttt'MU. That boavily bi'ating heart that thu:ni. ugaiiuit your nljs wiiun the run is over is o.i' of nature's pointers, and one given with . gissl ileal of scrioUNmus, too. It indicat" Hint tho heart stock is weakening; th.it tlier is too much fatly debris in the cardiac dix trict, and that unless you want a smash ii. lliu market you had better avoid anytime like a rush. Physiologically, tho fawn 11 only a big musclo, but it is b!m lie great clock of tho human system ;:s tick tick goes on from tho cnull 'o I ho colTiii, and it lieats olr tho seconds 1. mr II von, tangibly, audibly and ceaselessly so Ion;; as ear lionjei.-ope H-rmits. Hut iiiik if till should we remember that It Ihiiii alanr ihs-k, its warnings being vuried, but uniiiis takabiu There is tho intermittent beut. th llutter, the rattlo and the wild throb : jointers oiVeri.'d us by nut urn Something t wrong. I eruuM It is only p euiteef indi ;er.lion, or the luck of a little iron in tin ileal, or t'.ie presence of an extra amount o; ;i::i'.iluiit, but whatever it In, we uro ben t.ionlisi an oiMionuiuty of llndni'' 0111 .vlietlu r t!iu trouble is teiiisrury or s'rina nt. Tho one with euro run Is) removed the other with euro can lie ulleviated. Kui to heed the wnruiiij',, and souie time whei. vo l .ne milking 1111 after dinner sccrh you '.v.ll lull forward 011 the tulilu uud never reai. mr oliitimry notice. Y i:;r bu.'ni r one day wndsthe wild shiver. :ov:i your li.vk liy tolling you tlmt ym:' liuir i i Uiiig Una on the toil of your head '011 had known it ulready; you had noiieei. ir very many wi-k-. piu-.t that your bruslui irried o'T u sad lot of your crop in it: .ii i',:lcs j.-iiry time you used them, and b l.j iwi ol your huml i'Iilss und the uiirroi v.i had found out that the sculp on Hi sown was iHiuinning to show through, thai he psrtin; was getting very broad and the on-ln ud very uign. All this you had known. ml you had thought It a secret Uitiveeu uisu'lf and your mirror, so that when I lie ar!Hr lii'iitally U lis you (hat the effects of he thinning out process are plain to every "lie, you cannot h.ilp tioln slux-ked. When 111 jj. homo you put yourself in a strong l.:hi ind go 111 for a regular iucctioii ul nines .uvage. 1110 roitult IS .teplurablo .'.-. in thrt teiiisiral locks, cunningly hid Ion away under the darker hair, are two 01 wm breads if gray, while, as though the Mtieiiuin with the hour glass had struck hi In he back of the neck, lu the short inirs tt tho uasj two r tlinsj mure whiu u: is are seen. put awat roousii tuincis. It is, tvrnaps, Impossiolo to imagine any no f nature's s. intern that Is moru unwili mg.y nsviveil than this. Unwillingly re vi ved Iss'iuiso it means that tho tune ha .vino when you must put away foolish things. nut tlio frivolities not tho pleasures, neces tut ily f y mth, give up the assumption ol j .venility ami settlo down to tliu scnou I'lligs of middle age. Kirtunateiy tnidille A '.e lias its ple.'irant us 'well as its scriom l ings. In fact, it is a tpiestion w hether that si'.KUer time when the leaves are beginning orurn. when the noon heat is over: when he passions are suUlued and when the quiet v, ilight is coining 0:1 is not after ull the ls.it voi'tMii or a man s life ami of a woman s, too EijiecMlly is It likely to lie so if wo pay nn.i uttentlon to nature's pointers and Is' aivlill without coddling ourselves. The si'heilule of thtie pointers is by no iiejns exhausted, however. The tailor has uie or two of them lu store for us. When. for instance, he tells us that we are adding to our girth below the waistband uud not abovr it; that the legs of our trousors are growlm: shorter und thai the Map of our vests bad better be made a little longer to look well these are a few pointers that are full of meaning. Thou there is tho fuct that we cau l stand getting our eel wrlas we used to; that we have to U careful when coming out of a warm room Into the cold air; that we want our moult it regular hours; that we cannot stay up at nights without sleeping corresiwiidingly Utter in the morning; that the birds do not slug quite as bomuly as in lung syne; that wo begin to think uf slippers ana dressing gowns us the pleasures uf uu evening, that our feet grow cold if w sit too luug; that we uuy a tinnier cm-Jiry of awks; that out daughter's head is L.ruiuui to reach our wauh pocket; thai U-cim uiv l.Ulj c:vasa W.tUug tuto Ce cuiuem uf our eyes that the lilies from t.itf Uuj uf Uu nose to Ui angles uf tin) uiou'.U are growing heavier; that we do not kwk as fresh in the morning as formerly - these are a few of the tips wmcU Motiier .Na ture gives us to reuuud us Uu:t her cuutl but irruuslible laws are iu t .icru-JU :iil iat the machine we call oursvlvtis Is surely ruimiug dowu. San Kraucisoo CUroiUc.e. Am Ktsuiple of rrtss Airsuey. M1! mamma having been very IU in the ritiJ, I presume some 0110 bad told bitu that nkt bad sent tlie Illness, for, in the suuuner. fb-r irukmg a little t,o freely of water mIoii, he came and stood by my aid and. v'Uii.g very uucoiufortAbiA, said: "Ik i.lu't send this stomachAclie, did he I That's v ntii limine, 'cue ale too much water w ion IUli hood. DIDN'T MIND THE BITE. Aa Old Chap la Arkansas Who Uasn' Afraid of Hydrophobia. A Georgia man, while standing In front 0; I blacksmith s shop, was bitten hy a .log "Oracious slivel exclaimed the buicksnntii "rim home and pray for the saivatiou uf yum suiU. rot yoiil budy Is lost," 'How )" tlie old fellow asked as In rublssj in plucf wtiere the dog bad biilei mm Why. Uiat dog ia ouid Look bow b Icmiii at the misjth Ihat's the dog tlu utugnisirs uuve lii itsikiug for" A pull of .iiioKecnine (rum tne iiushesneol uy tlx- "Ising' uf a gnu aw heanl and tlu dog lell ileml III UirriKiil ".Neighlsirs iieeu ItsiKin' lur bun, eh!" said the old fellow wtiu tuel lieen Intleu. "Wall, I unit imwii iisikm fui nun. out it 'peait sortel like be's Imiii lis .Kill' lur llie" "Ituu to a doctor, iiuiil" "No, i kisui I ailui'd it. I hire.) one lasl spring to curr tne ciulls on uiy daughter .Nun, an' I thougM It would break 11 te boda tiously up agm I got linn paid Nuu, you know, munie.! Aiw hluter shortly after want au I suys to Aim, s'l, 'Abe, you ouglitei psy a Hirt of that chill bill' 'Whul chill o,ll 'soys he VV'y .aus. s'L 'Oh, says lie. I didn't marry tlie chills too. I only married .Nau. an' I uucbiially expetitwl the chills not ter cut no Hgger iu the traiuac Hon. An , sir, A is? lie uerer would pay 1 i-eni 011 that chill lull, but putty soon "long come the yaller uger, eixpm' dowu the big rd VS tilt. sun. It lio.i a-Ntruddie uv oit Abe an rid Hint putt) uign btr death." "Hut Uiat am t gol iioiuiug t do with thui mssl doi( You II na deud inuu iu Iuis ii nine ilays " "(Vail. I'M wait an' sto, an'ef whut you say ts niies true, wv I II own up I am tin nun lei .lispute alter lie-acks nave dun goie agin me 'I ain't lluiter way witn Als' llioiigh He II urgy wtieii be known lie 11111 1 got 110 show I like lei see a n an stick 111 f fir wliul tie 1 s-l lev hs. but then when a telle tlnils lies wrong, w'v lie est uuchully oilgli er cave U ull, K'sxl mawmii I've got kmk trade on nun over yander cross tn nruncli en I ivlieve I'll tlx It up Isjlo' 11, b'llei gits uulen the notion." AikttiiM. I ruveior l.lfe In a ltuslan Prison. A Kiissittti army ollliwr wh. was n. leiuued to "kor toga" for an assault id.. united in a moment of excitement, and wn as fiai'doned by the call' after several yem letciitiou, descriliee the Onega prison, whei le was confined, as follows: "For smoking and minor offensos of tin hi t. a prisoner could lie made to kneel ft- 1 wo hours on the bare, frozen flags. Th .cxt punishment for the same minor ofTen us the black hole the 'kurier' the ivuri .lie uml the oold one, underground, with . eiiiis-rnlure at freezing sint In Isu i-risoiwn slppt on the stomn, and the term m alice des udisl on the will ol the directo: evcrul were kept there for a fortnight, uft. inch they wore literally dragged out in: i.ivlight and then dismissed to the Inn. ' here pain and suffering are not. Durii. ;ie 1 011 1 years of my conllnement the nvei ;:.e inortality In the prison was t cent er ainiiiin It must not ls thought tha ao-eoii w hom penalties of this kind were in Itch-d were hardened ilesS'i'inlis's. We I: Hired i.hein if we suved a morsel of breu. "nmdiuuey lor the supHir, or if a loa:c if found on. a prisonr. The 'despei iiiiuctcrs were trent.'d after another f:n.:. .11 Dne. for iiistiims-, was kept for nil. lontlis in sulitary ennliueuieut in one of th 11k cells, and came out blind and insane. 'In the evening llie dins-tor went Ic 11 in N, and usually Ih'.iii Iik iavorite hs-i .i ion --Hugging. A very narrow liench ;: 011,-nt 01R, and 81 sin the place risouiu!c ith slineus, while the director hsikeil o: ul ; unlitl the lashes, smoking a r::t ne 1 1 eh roils were of exce;itiomd size, u.: in'ii not iu use they were kept immerse. I 1 atci soils 10 make them more pliant. Aii in tenth lash the shrieking ceased, an othmg was heard but groans. Kloggir 1. u.-.:iallv nppliisl in batches, to live, b ien, or more, and when the torture w. ver.11 greut pool of blood would roumin 1 iark the smiI. After every such scene " .id two or throe days of comparative peac, ie Hogging had a soothing influence on ti: ii'S'tor's nerves. Soon, however, he weul ss line lumsi'If again. When hewosdniu. ml his lelit mustache was drooping 1111. nip, or when he went out shouting un auie home with an empty bag, we km i nut the same evening the rod would Is- -e t work."-ilifhuul Mulkotr in, Chu-ug N'ews. Why r.lrls Ymt ( andv. American girls eat more randy than tin 4I1U of any other uutiou," said au observin. ravoler recently to a reporter. "Thoy coin lence on New ear s day and then continue atd New Year's eve. Alwnyi candy, some lines localise it is a birthday, sometimes be 'ituse they meet a friend, sometimes because t was scut to them. Thev have as many e.v iisi's for eating ruudy as a muii has fui rinking whisky. "Iiou't fotvign girls eat candy f "Oh. yes, uud they are learning very fast o fulow the example of the fair sex ou this ud of the water. In this country tho Yan eo girls were tho first to start the fashion. 11 halnt, as it should be more properly culled, tnd fi-om the east it has spread all over the iMinii'T now I think the western girls can 10I1I their own against all comers. In Eu- Mie Uermans, Italians and 8iaiiiards are reut euu-rs of pralines, chocolate a la I'reme, sugared almond and crystallized iruits, French women eat fondants, and her a man, wheu he escort a lady to the theatre, must cars with hint a packet of louceia-s. In Knglund candy eating surted with sucking caramel or nibbling creines. Now the weH to do Hritou eau sweets with lis wine after dinner. They are fond of 'ondunts, nougat, candied mandarins or laugerlnes and other kinds. Butter Scotch, mi ley sugar and chocolate are the ordinary, (very day candies, Soldiei suck almond ock while doing sentry duty, the policeman n hi beat usually has a bull's eye orbraudy all in his mouth, and the Iliitisb tar chews tn American caramel Instead of the quid of .ngtail that is-ed to distend his swarthy :heek in th good old days of England's 'woodou walls.'" New York Mail and Ex was. Notes ol yurer t lrssluas. A teacher of Mississippi colored folks has !wen takiug n'.(s of queer expressious that ihe has lies id (rum tier pupils aud iu uiwt nig. and The Autericaun Missionary pub kslwm tlieio. Here ai- a few; "Uo to the real physicianer " "1 us consecrated Ive." .Sheuacrippler." "O Lord, give us good Sinking tacticHls.' "Th meetiug will bo in IU Istsiu uf the chun-h." "O Loid. throw )vwljaid all th load we'se totin, aud th it us winch iifwt us. "Jog them in remem brance of their vows," "I want her lo resist ne witn ttie UTHiing." "1 want all you peo le to sillier Ui the hell." "Tlier will b no Swrss'iaiile wople ui beaven n no re ifwtorol iousi. "I was much diwncour Igisl "It was said at lu narlment of th neeting." " take car of three head of htldren." "W hsv piuj9i through many bus ssuie aud uuaeeus," New York Suk CUTTING OFF A LFG. AMPUTATION REALLY AN EASY AND BLOODLESS OPERATION. I'raelleal urerf In a llo.pltal-A fa ct,.,,! on th aiirceoii's laid How ll.morrbaee l l'rev.iild Th Kolf t Uork The I'ertieps. Anamputntlon. while a serious If really i very simple oiieraticu. A layman who sees an ampiilutioii nf u leg for the llrst time is sun'""' that there is ubout it so little that Is slurtling or slioekllig U) hi nerves. He naturuhy expei'ts U, se serious bomorrungu and rapid work to prevent the patient's bleeding to deuth. He is surprised to find that, on the contrary, it is one of tho most bloodies operations performed on the ur goon's labia The llrst leg amputation seen by th writer was ierformcd upon a man of middle age, who was suffering from advanced necrosis, or death of the boiieof the right leg, just below tlie kuee. Th patient had been brought into the amphitheatre of the city h'Mpitol for treatment two week before tb time of amputation. On tho first occasion be was not remly to submit to amputation, illhoiigh the doctor advised It, and the sur gwin llieii operated upon the bure clianeo 01 Having the limb He found ou examination. however, that a greut cavity hail formed in the Isiiie, the first rouse having been au in jury, and there was hardly a chance of saving tbr Uuib The patient not having cousonted, however, to lose the leg, the treatment id Hint tliu was limited to merely demising tin wound and closing it up The doctor slated then that even U the disease was checked mid acurow o begun. It woum require ai leosi tu years for enough fresh lione to form to muke w hole limb. Mechanical appliance In the way of nrtl flciaJ limbs are now so skillfully made that a wisslen leg, as It Is ordinarily culled, is al most us gotsi as one of tleshtind bone. Il reriuiuly is not worth two years' time, to a man in active life to spend in trying to save a badly damaged leg. At all events, this pa tieut seems to huve come to that conclusion, and two weeks after his first uparance lit was again usin the surgeon's table, and tlit ntss'ssury instruments for amputation weit by the side uf the oerulor It wus doomed uoccNxury to take otf the leg Just alsive tin knee Joint. The nppliuiice which docs away with all hemorrhage iu amputation is called the Diiuarch buudage This is simply a long belt of India rubber alsuit two uud a bull Inches wide, which is wound tightly uboul limb, beginning al a (sunt below where tlu amupiituliou is to Is? inado. und extending spirally, lik'. th stripes of a burtsu-'s pole, but overlapping toward the tssly foi eighteen incii or more, md then at the point if the bandage nearest the Issly a stunt ruhlier "ord is tied vtry tightly ' The rubls-i bund s then unwound and the limb is left altogether bloodless uud with the blood ve tcls 'ightly compressed at the (sunt when the rubber .urd remains riietirecctf wind ilig '.lit 'iil ls'i' uluut the liml. 111 this way ii to drive Hit bi s; 1 Iroiu ail the veins und ar tern back into the body. 11 id to leave be hind nothing but '.he Isine 111 1 ti-l:es. Then 'he eirveon liegins his work. IU need not hurrv lie has plenty it time to dc his irk carefully and thoroii.,hiv In tht .o in sunt lie pr.'i'.ises '.u cut the l.om nlsmt thrv inches ilsive tLe kias' joint. Tht flesh was .01111.I ind healthy from the kin Joint upward md it wus ms-esjirv iu this, is in ull cues f ainpiitatiou, to so rut tin tissu s 'hat there would remuin a Hap, as it urdiuunlv culled, jl llesh which should iniii. pletcly covir the md of the hone where it was 'liken otf liking t rather narrow bladisl sculH'l r surgeou'a knife, diurr siiuted and vith 1 blade ilxjut I'.' inche) long. Ii. -il Ily 'Ut the flesh from the knot nan li igonully upward to the isunt where .u iroMivxl i, tev.r liu bone md likewise it he om.sHi'e uli if he limb aia'ting V shiissl iii'H) in in sich udo f .lu l?g LhrMib t.1 aj :iss i. a ho bone Nit 1 lrw if blo-sl 'oi'ivvl dj -oursd f th km'f n 1.. "j r. Vie -urfag if h tiss'te Ki'irnsti ransiiy iroe m. iuvs. snd theu .h m.';e,i vis r-id? ise .hj a T'i s 'iis'.rMin uk il'hmgh. f ourso. if iner muk. as j'-i vctilr ne mm is -Mt iseil In 111 v-di.i.irv i.ivu-rs mju tnd r.tit upf)n 'istsl .5 11 iixnit ,h vim riv ml vu- ut ruit: is 1 "vivur eouid out hr nub t ' )f vef This fiiiislfsl '.he vx ciii' xir ( '.hi iperaciou, and it had xvupi si si-arHy 1?4 mm res. The nior- d 'licarf in 1 mor 'edious -art of the 1 win t ion (jUowdd. TS'j wnipn. tie'jmtug tip r tlie large and imall hlMii vessids uud '.yimr up r ligiving rhem Tht ims)rtant arUrtes and lurger reins were easily diw-overed and the emk of Miem wizeil with artery foroois. These otveiw were ip- phed and Kt hanging to Derh.-i) dozen hloixl vessels U'fors the lignting (vgaa This work was done by the surgeon's assistant It consisted iu tying the ends of the v ses Just ubove the point where they were gnpied by ttie forceisj, vitb strong catgut thread Especially in '.be case of the arteries i . was neivssary :hat this should bo douo with the greatest "are, for if for any reason one of these threads should give way there would ts the greatest duug.T of the patient's bleed ing to l.'uth Iwfoitthe hemorrhage -ould bt checked Aftut '.he blood vessels In siuht had lssn ".hus til up, the rubber cord which bound the limb n xu the body was loosened. and then occurred th nly hemorrhago ol the entire operation. There remained in the exposed stump nf the limb fifteen or twenty small blood vessels which could not be de tected by the eye while th limb was blood less, end the location of which was shown by tha now f the blood Itself. When the bandage had been loosened, tht surgeon, standing ready with a hand ful of artery rerceps, rapidly seized the emU of the exposed bloodvessels as fast as tht location of them was Indicated, and in two or three minutes th hemorrhage wus checked, and the end of the limb was hung with a great bunch of curious little steel implements. 1 hese smaller vessels were taken up one at a ttin by ligatures, in the same manner thr th others had been, and when the lost hati been tied, and the last pair of artery forceps bad been removed, th wound was ready to be closed up. It was first treated with antiseptic solution and powder in order to reduce to a minimum tbr danger of inflammation and to increase the cbano of the wounds healing by first in tention. Theu the two flaps above and below the bon were brought together over it, and the edges of th skin were carefully sewed opsjuie to each other, and the operation was over It bad occupied altogether about fort ,' five minute. The patient during this time remained apparently asleep. The operation had been entirely painless, and when the ban.lage had been appbed and the ether roue reuiov! from tb patient's face, he was amed front the amphitheatre Just as he Is'gan to show sign of consciousness. iios ton Cor. New York Sun. H Is wise economist who doe not wast more than half an hour a day in idle gossip, useless conversation, frivolous amuseineut, or uier vacuity. Many a Key West cigar ha a Key Wea UiUuaU odor. FROM OFFICE TO OFFICE; TagslMiud IVdd ere Who Thrlv on Small Profits Uulek Hales. The bulnss sMrtlou of this city ha from time immeinoriiil been curioifcly Infwted by a decidedly original and enterprising crowd of small traders, simulators and other ad venturers with whom sligni pniuwouu Mo saic are a maxim. It i uot only the shoe string ieddler and such like eheup Jack who thrive by going from ollico to olhv. but men of almost every craft. While I was in one office thootherdiiy a iwrlpatetic phrenolo gist came In and wanted to feel our buniis. In another 1 found a corn doctor planing down the tenant' feet. At another still, a vagrant sleight-of-hand performer did somo tricks and passed around the hut, and barbers, furniture menders, gluziers, carpenters and puinters travel ubout in search of job and probably find them. There is scarcely anything a man cannot buy down town lu the course of a week, with out leaving his oillce. Tailors' agents will measure him for clothes, to be nindo hero or in London. Venders will supply him with bat and boots and underclothing; ho can buy cigars and song birds, and beer and dogs, and whisky and sealskins for his wife, and tovs for the youngsters, from the vantage ground of his ofllce chair. There ore drum mers who go about scaring up trado for shirt minufttcturers, and others who offer building lots, and houses, and furniture for sale on iio installment plun, while as for tho lino .its mid literature thry bave their Agents very where, ready to deal f jt cash or credit, is (H'cxsion may demand. ' Tne customer of these venturesome tradee .iion are not drawn from the highest rank of trade. It is imiosible for a peddler M get nt a greut llimncier, or lawyer, or mer chant as it would be for him to enter the kingdom of heaven by climbing a telegraph ;sile. But there are thousands of men who iro cngnged in minor businesses, running .fllcos of their own and easily accessible to , ho public as it pusses, nt l poll these the soldiers prey. Wit goes greai. way toward taking truilo. The vei.der who can talk veil uml crack a joke with 'adlity will pro. per even iu the worst of t.mes. There is one young fellow who sells writing pudauloia dining the artists and other independent oc cupants of downtown unices, who might own piito u snug bank account by this time if lie 1:1 ved tho money ho picks up. Hut, like ,,iost of his kind, ihero is a shiftless strenl; i:i 11111, and ho dis?s not try over hurd to seil his varcs when he does not actually need money This seems to bo the weakness of nil of these '.ugubond industrials. Sutllciont for tho tiny t the gmxl thereof, ami ample for the man t that fortune which kee; his want of the .our supplied There do not seem to bo its uny women among H:es random nior hunts us tlicro once were. Even tlio female i.sik agent is not us numerous us she used to 10. But tho litimlier of men so busied con Junes to increase with years and, to ull up urunces, to grow in prosperity with time, too. Alfred Trumblo in New Yoik News. Exercise for tbe llllloiis. As a simple i!! tstratio:i tal:o the man of 6odei!tnry occupation prone to w hat is culled biliousness. He is assured that he needs ex ercise, and so enters Usi:i tho practice of walking four or live miles, or even longer .li aances, daily. He improves, it cannot but bu 11 IsMietit to lis six. Stiil, were be to devote 1 part of t'.ie time given to walking ton more v: ied form of exercise, ho would Und it less of u task and the gain still greater. To get the ro-catest gisid out of 11 walk one must llmg his urnii around und so carry bimscif us to bring every uuwleof the body into play. But few people would euro to indulge in such un e.hiliit:o.i on u public street, mid so when tne g.'iieraiity of thou walk they tic soulinost entirely with their legs, inothti words, only the lower hu'f of the lusty is much exercised. Tho bilious patient. eicciiilly, needs to exer cise all pans ulikc, und so draw the blood from the liver into the muscular system, re lieving l liar iui;Kii'utlil organ, whicu is moro or less congested. Again, lo mechanically compress tho liver and ussist it to empty itself is ncccss.'.ry. When a man rides horseback, the liver is actually churned, us it were, uud that is why bilious patients derive so much benefit from that peculiar form of exercise, if a mini who walks four or Rye miles a day could give uo longer ti 1110 to physical work than tlmt, he would do better if ho walked half the distance und siient wliat remained of his time 1:1 a gymnasium, or in sawing wood. Boston Herald. Spoiling Ideas with Words. In reviewing 11 manuscript not long ago I had ixi'asion to say: "Y'our subject is good, and well treated in spots, but your matter should be bo, led down nt leust half. If you will do this carefully 1 nm sure you can And a market for your article." Tho answer to this was as follows: "Tlio children of my brain tire sacred to me, uud the cool manner iu which you suggest a gen eral massacre is nothing less than shocking. Uptothedato of your letter no editor or render has ever suggested so much as tfio insertion of a comma, or the elimination of a word." There was moro of this stuff, but tho above is a suilicirnt sample. Now I know by the apix'nrunce of this manuscript that it was a very ancient mariner, indeed. It bad evi dently mado a number of temixstueus voy-J ages, remaining with tbe owner on the return triw ouly long enough for a new invoice of postage sUitii8. This aper bad been curo fully read, too, for it possessed real worth, and 1 was clairvoyant enough to know that more than one editor had with reluctance marked it "unavailable," and with a "Why will writers string out sol Why spoil idea with words!" "Tho pen is mightier than the sword," but thosoissors and the bli pencil are some times mightier thuu either. Eleanor Kirk in The Writer. Not Ready for It. In a lefture recently delivered in London it was stated that type writing was part of tho regular course in some American public tubools. Not yet I Many Ikivs and girls have learned Just enough shorthand in the even ing schools to kk.'11 "knife" and "light" with three letters when using long hand, but in troducing the type writer to ruin their chirography is oue of the "improvements" yet 10 come. The type writer is undoubt edly of very great assistance to some busi ness men, but a wise teacher would no more give it to a pupil with an unformed hand writing than a seamstress would give a sow ing machine to a child who could not stitch well. Those who are at once habituated to laziness never become laborious. Boston Transcript Four Hours a Week. Four hours a week devoted to any study by any young man will make him a thorough scholar in his Secialty long before be is old Ileal study for four hours a week will have the most astonishing results. In Ave year tbe student will have learned to much that be will bo inclined. In his astonishment at himself, to think be know all there is to be known; in ten years he will know what he dx not know of what is yet to be learned, iu fifteen years he will be at the front anion; those who know all that is know n, it Loui UepubUcau. THE VILLAGE DOCTOR. REMINISCENCES OF THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY PRACTICED MEDICINE. In Former Hay There Was a I'surltj of Illnesses "Calomel and J,dap,H fiwratlnn It Out I'm lent. )Vru,j Aiealnst Cold Water. If one could disentangle himself from tb telegraph wires of today, get the shriek of tbe locomotive out of bis ours and then tat, a backwurd leap into old plautoUuu times ha would lie mightily amused. Among the oik. jwbi o; interest would be the iwntry of t19 greut house, where the housewife kept her stores. If be peered curiously about ha would see a certain rather retired shelf on which would be bunches of herb and roots, also bottles of decoctions made thereof. Those were the household remedies, formula copyrighted by tradition, proprietary to the family. In the country, where the doctor's bailiwick wus of extended area and where drug store were non-existent, everybody was to a large extent his own doctor. As consequence be wanted to be everylxxlyelse'i doctor, while everybody else yearned to b his. A PAUCITY Of AILMENTS. Alasl Uur repertoire of Illnesses was lim ited, Indeed, compared with today. There was 11 paucity uf uvuilabla disease. A man could not poNiibly huve cerebro spinal men ingitis; it w'u not to be hud If he 'had iuiu in his chest 110 one soothed bis unguish !,y ti lling him bo hud pneumonia. The word pleurisy wii remorselessly flung at him. Diphtheria was uncomulablo; putrid sur throat tilled tbut vacuum III the list. If a man was w beczy and hud trouble with his bivtithing the rugged word phthisic was nailed to him; no one dreamed of bronchitis. Bright s disease luul uot lieeu invented in our region, and people's hearts never troubled them save when in love. Hence old time ieople, when they came to die, hud a con tracted list of ailments from which to choose, uud they died us they lived, plain aiid uuru uiuutio. When the uniateur doctors of the commu nity desired assistance theu the village doc tor wasculltsl iu, and becotitliied himself to two remedies calomel -and julap adinmis .ercd by Hm shovelful. There must have Issiii n full in the price of these drugs wheu the lust of these doctom died. If a man sprained bu ankle, wus bitten by a mud dog or hud a sick headache ho wus told to take calomel or jalap; if he refused and died, it served him right. If he took them and died, it was evidence tbut no human power could save him. Castor oil and paregoric souie innes upeiired, but they were dwarls com pared to calomel and julup. The only rem .slies leiirod were the private remedies of the sjple. The moment uu old woman thought -he could make a valuable metiiciuo out of s ime herb or herbs, she burned to administer it'lo some sull'ering neighbor. 1 he gissl Sumurilan, Mrs. Perkins, often walked mile to urge the use or snake rout tea ill tlie includes to bring the disease rapidly to the surface. An old negro, Aunt Kitty, i:,ude a salve for suivs tlmt was very famous. Its principal constituent wi duck's fui, but tiiw fowl must Is? Killed at u certain phase of the moon uud Hie tut melted over a tire kindled with certain sorts of wood. As this salve wus said to work miraculous cult's, it may lie 11 los to Immunity that the astro nomical and bouiiiicul ccrels of its manu facture were not H-rK't Hilled. SWEATING OUT DISEASE. There was a multiplicity of remedies for colds, uml they generally wore bused on sweating out the disease. Boneset tea, tea of wild cherry bark, onions stewed with sugar, and vinegar und molasses ull had their warm dvocut.es, but u highly esteemed remedy wr. 11 Thoinsoniun mixture Uurin z the rather indefinite name of "J inssiliun." There was nothing undefined ubout its taste or ;!riHt, however. It was uf 1111 anient, im imlsive nuture. It burned the tongue when tirst tasted, then itchurred the winilpianu liver as it went down, und finished by par boiling tlio soles of the feet. Its form was rausing a sweating, and it did its duty to the letter. It brought tl.o cold out, and it brought tbe ofiginul sin out, and the heart' lecretsoiit. Nothing that could lie moved rested U-neiith tlio cuticule niter a composi tion seance. One old idea of the dix-tors has greatly changed the objection to their patients drinking water. No mutter how much the invalid craved it ho wus told that even a mislenite indulgence would bo futul mid the attendants were solemnly warned to turn a ieuf ear to his entreaties. At tho tender age if ten year 1 aimed the first blow at the anti-water regime, and it happened in this uiHiiuer: I was visiting on a plantation and the planter's father, a man of advanced veal's, was at deuth's door, ow ing to a pro tracted case of dysentery. Day by day the aid mun drew nearer to the grave, and the family awaited the coming of the destroyer with sad hearts. The one desire of tho dying man was a draught of cold water from one of the sparkling springs which abounded on the furm. No traveler, sand blinded oud thirst stricken iu the arid tlesert, could have cried more piteously or more unavailingly, for tlie doctor bad declared a draught of water fatal to the sick mun, aud had sternly commanded' the family to refuse his requests. One morning I was iu his room, for he dearly loved children, and he begged uie to stealth ily fetch hi 111 a pitcher of water from tbe spring. I hesitated, for while no oue bad forbidden me to give him water, I knew tbe family refused it to him. Theu the old man asked me to bring bim his watch from oS Ihe table. I did so, and he told me I should have it if I would bring bim a pitcher of water. Tbe watch was of silver, as large a small saucer, and I longed to posses such a treasure, I brought the water. At times I try to think bemanity made me bring it, but then 1 think of the watch and doubt The old man swallowed the pitcher's con tents at a draught and died teu year after, of old age, and I have tae watch yet. "J. r" iu Philadelphia Time. At tha Haiti of Cill'.furd's Court lions. There are many incidents connected with the battle which are mostly embalmed ouly iu tradition and deserve a most iastiug plo in history. With CoL Washington's cavalry was a volunteer tnxiper from Virginia, Totcr Francisco, a giant in size, and with the courage and strength of Kichard U Lion Hearted In a short encounter iu tlut bloody corner of the field when WashmgwJ joined the First Maryland in its attack upa CoL Webster guards, he slew, wilbbJ"3 hand eleven men. His sword was over tul" feet in length, and o heavy that uot auolhsf man in the army could wield it. One 0.' U guards, despite Fraucisco' parrying, ra his bayouet into tho latter thigh, p. -rcinj him to bis horse. Francisco forbore to sir.r, but assisted him to extricate his bayonet. A tbe soldier t urned and lied Francisco ma a furious iroke with his mighty blade a"1 cleft the guardman' head U b. sbouHer. Tbe force of the blow, added to the soluirr speed scut biia on a number of steps, wia bis cleft head hanging Uju eoch &t(u!J before he felL There w.-re many wituo ol this occurrence. IlaJeih Letter.