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VOL. IX.
KPSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1885.
NO. 49.
BV1ET7.
IS ISSUED
FRIDAY MORNINGS.
BT
J. R. N. BEIL, - - Proprietor.
.Rosebui
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RevieWo
TTfP
J. JASKULEIC,
PRACTICAL
Watctaaier,
Tpwp1pt anil flntipiQn
ALL
WOItK WABBANTED.
Dealer la Watches, Clocks. Jewelry,
Spectacles and JCyeglasses.
ikd a rcu u or
Cigais, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tb oslr reliable (Jptomer tn town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacle ; always on hand.
Depot af the Genuine Brazilian Psbbls Speo
taclet and Eyeglasses. .
Office First Door South of Fostoftlce,
R08EDCRU. ItEtJQX.
LAHGEITBEBG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
HOSEIiURtt, OREGOX,
a Jackson Street, Opposite the Poet Offics,
Keeps on band the largt and best auortment of
lias tern and San Francisco Boots and
- Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
And everything la the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
Doots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Dons, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS IiAXGEXBERG.
HUBBARD
CREEK MILLS
CLARK & BAKER, Props.
Having purchased the above named mills of
E. Stephens & Co.. w e are now prepared to fur
nish any amount of the best quality of
LUMBER
ever offered to the public In Douglas county.
We will furnish at the mill at the following
prices:
No. 1 roujfh lumber ..; .....(12 VM
No. 1 flooring, 6 inch.. ,..$24 $ M
No. 1 flooring. 4 inch...... $'26 VM
No. 1 flnsihintr lumber 820 f M
No. 1 flni-ihiiiff lumber dressed on 2 sides $24 M
No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 1 Bides $26 3 M
CLARK & BAKER.
X.. K. LANE.
JOHN LANE.
LANE & LANE,
ATTORNEYS AT L AW
Office on Main street, opposite Cosmopolitan
Hotel.
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CHARLEY HADLEY'S
H II O X
Next Door Live Oak Saloon.
Shaving and Hair Cutting in a Workmanlike
Manner.
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture.
HII.RUn. OHEGOV.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on band.
FURNITURE
I have the Bpt
STOCK OP PtTENITCRE
South -I Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
XoTno lrlees to Cnwtomers,
KeMdutita of Doticliui County are requested to give uie a
call before iiurchatiiig elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oak laud, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND Tilt ' ,
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps coimUnUy on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
' WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full atock of
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Such aa required by the Public County School.
All i kinds or Stationery, Toys and
Fancy Articles.
TO SUIT BOTH TOCiTU XSD SOLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS ! SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL OKDfiRS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
HAC11KXY A BSXO,
Portland, Ohegon.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Delivered by President Cleveland at
Washington, D. C, March 4, 1885.
Fellow Citizens : In the presence
of this vast assemblage of my country
men, I am . about to supplement and
seal, by the oath which I shall take,
the manifestations of the will of a great
and free people. In the exercise, of
their power and the right of self-government,
they have committed to one
of their fellow citizens a supreme and
sacred trust, and he here consecrates
himself to their service. This impres
sive ceremony adds little to the solemn
sense of responsibiliy with which I
con tern plate the duty I "owe to all the
people; oi the land. Nothing can re
lieve me from the anxiety, lest by any
act of mine their interest may suffer,
and nothing is needed to strengthen
my resolution to engage every faculty
and effort in the promotion of their
welfare1. Amid party strife, the peo
ple's clpice was made, but its attendant
circumstances have demonstrated anew
the strength and safety of a government
by the people. In each succeeding year
it more clearly appears that our Demo
cratic principles need no apology, and
that in its fearless and faithful applica
tion is to be found the surest guar
anty of good government. Buf the
best results to be found in the
operation of a government wherein
every citizen has a share, largely de
pend upon a proper limitation of a
purely partisan zeal and effort and a
correct appreciation of the time when
the heat of the partisan should be
merged into the patriotism of the citi
zen. To-day the executive branch of
the government is transferred to new
keeping, but this is still the government
of all the people, and it should be none
the less the object of their affectionate
solicitude. At this hour the animosi
ties of political strife, the bitterness of
partisan defeat, and the exultation of
partisan triumph, should be supplanted
by ungrudging acquiescence to popu
lar will and a sober and conscientious
concern for the general weal. More
over, if from this hour we cheerfully
and honestly abandon all sectional pre
judice and distrust, and determine with
manly, confidence in one another to
work out ; harmoniously the achieve
ments of our national destiny we shall
deserve to realize all the benefits which
our happy form of government can be
stow.; 4 On this auspicious occasion, we
may well renew the pledge of our devo
tion to the constitutionwhich, launched
by tlie foUndersof this -Republic r and
consecrated by their prayers and pa
triotic devotion-, has for almost a cen
tury borne the hope and aspirations of
the great people through prosperity and
peace, and through the shock of foreign
conflicts, and perils of domestic strife
and vicissitudes. By the Father of His
Country our constitution was com
mended for adoption as the "result of
a spirit of amity and mutual conces
sion." In that same spirit it should be
administered in order to formulate the
lasting welfare of the country, and to
secure the full measure of its priceless
benefits to us, and to these who will
succeed to the blessings of our national
life.
The large variety of diverse and com
peting interests subject to federal con
trol, persistently seeking recognition of
their claims, need give us no fear that
THE GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST
' NUMBER
will fail to be accomplished. If in the
halls of the National Legislature that
spirit of amity and mutual concession
shall prevail, in which the constitution
had its birth, and, if this involves the
surrender or postponement of private
interests, and the abandonment of lo
cal advantages, compensation will be
found in the assurance that thus the
common interest is subserved and the
general welfare advanced.
In the discharge of my official duty,
I shall endeavor to be guided by a
JUST AND UNSTRAINED CONSTRUCTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION,
careful observance of the distinction
between the powers granted to the fed
eral government and those reserved to
the states or to the poople, and by a
cautious appreciation of those func
tions, which by the constitution and
laws, have been especially assigned to
to the executive branch of the govern
ment.
But he who takes the oath to-day to
preserve, protect ana deiend the con
stitution of the United States, only as
sumes a solemn obligation which every
patriotic citizen on the farm, in the
workshop, in the busy marts of trade,
and everywhere should share with him
The constitution which prescribes his
oath, my countrymen, is yours; the
government you have chosen him to
administer is yours ; the suffrage which
executes tne , will oi the ireeumen is
yours ; the laws and the entire scheme
of our civil rule, from the town meet
ing to the state and national capitols,
is yours. Your every voter, as surely
as that of your Chief Magistrate under
the same high sanction, though in
different sphere, exercises a public
trust. Nor is this all. Every citizen
owes to his country vigilant watch, and
CLOSE SCRUTINY OF ITS PUBLIC SERV
ANTS, '
and fair and reasonable estimate of
their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is
the people's will impressed upon the
whole framework of our civil policy
municipal, state and federal, and : this
is the price of our liberty and inspira
tion of your faith in the Republic.
It is the duty of those serving the
people in public place to closely limit
public expenditures to the actual. needs
of the government, economically ad
ministered, because this bounds the
richt of covernment to exact tribute
from the earnings of labor or the prop
erty of citizens. And because public
extravagance wrongs the people we
shbuld never be
ASHAMED OF SIMPLICITY
and prudential economies which are
best suited to the operation of the Re
publican forms of government and
most compatible with the mission of
the American people. Those who are
selected for a limited time to manage
public affairs are still of the people and
may do much by their example to
encourage, consistently with the digni
ty of their official functions, that plain
way of life which among their fellow
citizens aids integrity and promotes
thrift and prosperity.
FOREIGN POLICY.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in the home life,
and the at tention which is demanded for
the settlement and development of the
resources of our vast territory, dictates
scrupulous avoidance of any departure
from that foreign -policy commended
by the history, tradition and prosperi
ty of our republic. It is the policy of
independence, favored by our position
and defended by our known love of jus
tice and by our power; it is the policy
of peace, suitable to our interests ; it is
the policy of neutrality, rejecting any
share in foreign broils and ambitions on
other continents, and repelling their in
trusion here; it is the policy of Wash
ington and Monroe and Jefferson-
peace, commerce and honest friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances
with none. 7
' . FINANCES. -
' Due regard for the interest and
prosperity of all the people demands
that our finances shall be established
upon such sound and sensible basis as
shall secure the safety and confidence
of our business interests, and make the
wages of labor sure and steady. And
that our system of revenue shall be so
adjusted as to relieve the people from
unnecessary taxation, having due re
gard to the interests of capital invested
and workingmen employed in Ameri
can industries, and preventing the ac
cumulation of surplus in the Treasury,
to an extent that induces extravagance
and waste. Care for the prosperity of
the Nation, and for the needs of future
settlers, require that the public domain
should be
PROTECTED FROM PURLOINING SCHEMER
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anu uniawiui occupation. The con
science of the people demands that the
Indians within our boundaries shall be
fairly and honestly treated as wards of
the government, and their education
and civilization promoted with a view
to their ultimate citizenship.
POLYGAMY
in the Territories is destructive of the
family and of religion, and offensive to
the mOfalsense Of the civilized world,
and shall be repressed.
CHINESE AND PAUPERS.
The laws should be rigidly enforced
which prohibit the immigration of ser
vile classes to compete with American
laoor, with no intention ot acquiring
citizenship, and bringing with them
and retaining the habits and customs
repugnant to our civilzation.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The people demand reform in the ad
ministration of the government and
the application of business principles
to public affairs. As a means to this end
civil service reform should be in eood
faith enforced. ' Our citizens have the
right to protection from incompetency
of public employes, who hold their
places solely as the reward for partisan
services, and frpm corrupt influence of
those who , promise, and the vicious
methods of those who expect such re
wards. .Those who worthily seek pub
lic employment have the right to insist
that merit and competency shall be
recognized, instead of party subservi
ency or the surrender of honest politi
cal belief in the administration of a
government pledged to do equal and
exact justice to all men.
THE COLORED MEN. '
There should be no pretext for anxi
ety touching the protection of freedmen
in their rights or their security in the
enjoyment of their privileges under the
constitution and its amendments. All
discussions as to their fitness for the
place accorded to them as American
citizens is idle and unprofitable, except
as it suggests the necessity for their lm
provement. The fact that they are cit
izens entitles them to all the rights due
to this relation and charges them with
all its duties, obligations and responsi
bilities.
These topics, and the constant and
ever-varying wants of an active and
enterprising population, may well re
ceive the attention and patriotic en
deavor of all who make and execute
the federal law. Our duties are practi
cal and call for the industrious appli
cation and intelligent perception of the
claims of public office, and above all, a
firm determination of united action, to
secure to all the people of the land ful
benefits of the best form of government
ever vouchsafed to man and to us. And
let us not trust to human efforts alone,
but to humbly acknowledge the power
and' goodness of the Almighty God
who presides over the destinies of na
tions, and who at all times has been
revealed in our country's history. Le
us invoke His aid and His blessing up
on our labors.
A hotel is to be built in Pittsburgh
seven stor.es high, with the kitchen on
the top floor, and an electric fire-escape
in every room. The escape is to be
operated from the office. By touching
a button there the guests are simul
taneously aroused, every window
thrown open, and a flexible ladder
loosened that reaches to the ground.
Pittsburah Post.
fchip hres, so common an occur
rence at the port of New Orleans in
the past, rarely happen now. Theprc
h bition of smoking near cotton on the
wharves and on ship-board and a strict
watch kept over it have almost entirely
eliminated tnis evil. fl. u. Times.
PREPARING LAND FOR GRASS.
Thorough TiUage and Manure as Neces
sary For Thl as or other t'rop.
Our best land is put to grain, and it
gets our best attention to put it in or
der. When it ceases to give satisfac
tory crops, it is put to grass, with the
expectat on that this will improve it,
which it sometimes does; but in many
cases the grass soon 'runs out, or fails
of a "catch," the land being too poor,
or, mechanically, in too unfavorable a
eondition-the latter the result which
inevitably follows the abuse of clay soil,
eaving it lumpy, and incapable of with
standing drouth, while the little plant
... 0 . !. -I '-.1 S
ood it may nave is iockcu up iu iuo
umns. or if" liberated by soaking rains,
is carried beyond the reach of the scaat
roots of the plant. Worse than all is
drouth, which usually proves fatal to
spring seeding on such land. Here is
the loss of the seed and of the labor of
sowing and brushing the land, not un-
frequently repeated tna ioiiowib; year
with the same result, to say nothing of
the disarrangement of crops consequent
upon such failure. Should a mo'st sea
son occur, there w 11 be at best but a
weak errowth, and unless heavily seed
ed, a light catch, some seed being al
ways thrown away on such sou.
Such management nas been ine
means of an immense loss, and is still
a heavy drain. This is to be deplored,
and the more so as' the remedy is so
evident simply a better preparation of
the soil, which means not only the use
of implements, aided by the elements,
particularly fiost, out enrichment as
well. Where land is intended to be
seeded down, whether in connection
with a grain crop or without, it should
receive extra attention in order to favor
the increased demand of the double
crop of the grain and the forage plant,
or the latter, if sown alone, so as to se
cure not only a good catch and start,
but to continue the growth and sustain
the plant during the drouth wh:ch sel
dom fails to occur. In this way a fair
to good crop is realized the same sea
son if grown without an accompanying
irra'n cron. with the orosnect of an in
creased yield the following season, to
be further kept up with manure, which,
if properly applied, will suffer no loss
on grass lands, tne nenvorK oi roors
which forms the ?oJ appropriating all,
t me in such case be ng allowed for
this. Further, a good cover of grass
will prevent the rays of the sun
and the -drying winds from getting
access to the ground, and will hold
the dew and the moisture of the rain
ricr. The ma n Jo s of moisture is
what the plants tlum elves take from
the soil, and the greater the quant ty
the better, as it is a measure of the
growth of the crop. - Th s measure" ap
plies to the roots of the plaut as well,
Which penetrate deeply if favored by
culture, and this culture, deep ami mel
low, is nece.-sary, when it is considered
what an amount of water grass takes
from the soil, the pfoces going
on during the entire seaaon, from ear
ly spring till late fall, the grains occu
pying but half that time. Deep culture
is t tnereiore 01 more importance in
growing a grass crop than one of grain.
As in our drouthy climate we do not
obtain the requisite amount of nio'st
ure from the air, we must seek for it in
the ground, and only in its depth can
it be obtained. In th:s way heavv
crops and a good sol are secured, the
sod, when turned down, star lurther
benefitting the land by introJuc'ng
vegetable matter, which disiributed
through it is one of the best means of
fayor ng mo:sture. This prepares the
orrmrwl nnt. nilv for further p-rowinjr
n t J r " o
rass or clover, or any other iorae
crop, but in a superior manner grain.
including wheat, it the so.l is composed
largely of clay.
The growing qr sod. as is wen
known to jrood farmers, is one of the
principal means of improving la id, as
the dairy regions nave long since
shown in this country and grazing
in England. Badly reduced land has
been renovated and made prolitabiy
productive in the clay loannof Central
New York by a single two years'
course of clover aided only by a plas
ter, good yield of hay being realized at
the same time. So, with' a fair set of
grass which can be obtained on worn-
out land only by early sowing on
winter srra'm "in the spring or, better.
on land' prepared in autumn without
the srrain a crood sod has been se
cnreci m a lew vears uv me use ui
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mineral manures adapted to the land.
The values of the fertilizers was real
ized in the crops crown, while tne
main benefit vegetable material in
the soil was secured in the sou, where
farm manure was wanting. But all
this must be preceded by a good prep
aratron of the soil, comminuting an I
deeply working it, which will tell in fu
ture vears in its favor, iust as bad
treatment will still further reduce it.
This proposed treatment of improv
ing land for grass mean almost a
revolution, so much has this part of
farming been neglected. The old
management in effect underrates grass
and fails to appreciate sod,, when it is
known that thev are leading factors
in agriculture, the benefits of each to
be secured speed ly, by a single prep
aration of the sol maae inorougn,
:ded bv the elements and by manure.
Cor. "Count ry Genlkman.
AMERICAN
FABLES.
Sundry Apologum With
Morals.
Extraordinary
A Peasant having cut his Foot with
the Ax began Abusing and Scandalise
ing the Implement in the Most Em
phatie Manner, and he was still at it
when a Sage Passed that way and In
quirt d:
. "How, now, my fr'er.d Why all th's
Chin-Music?"'
'The Ax Wounded m', and I'll havo
Revenge!' ' replied tiie Peasant
"Ah! ys, bat hail you b cn Sitting
on a Soap-box in the Crocery and left
the Wood-pile to your Who the Ax
could have done vou no harm.
Moral -The Same Sage also Advised
the Peasant to let his wife l'ght the
Morning Fire.
THE RHINOCEROS AND THE LAWYER.
A Rhinoceros, having run down a
Lawver, stood over the Prostrate man
for a Moment to gloat upon his Prize,
when the Victim made an Earnest Ap
peal for Irs life, claiming that hewosld
some day Return the great Favor. The
hmoceros Deliberated for a while, and
then Decided to let the Lawyer go.
Several weeks afterward tfie Beast got
into a Row with an Elephant and killed
him, and, Fearing trouble, he went to
the Lawyer and said:
Now is your time to Return that
Favor. I want you to Defend my
case.' . :
"Oh ah exactly," stammered the
awyer, "but you are iust too Late.
Only last night the Friends of the Ele
phant Retained me to help Prosecute
yon. Sorry, you Know, but first come
first Served."
Moral: When you get a lawyer on the
lip never let go. . , - -
THE TWO NEIGHBORS.
A Citizen having heard-, that his
Neighbor was Scandalizing h'm called
Around at the office for n Explana
tion.
"Haven't I always Spoken Well ; of
you and yours?" he asked. ; "
"Uh, yes."
"Haven't I lent you my Snow Shovel,
my Flat-irons and my Coffee Mill for
these many years past?"
"le. but "
"But What? What on Earth could
have induced you to throw out h nts
that my Aunt was my Uncle?" -
- vv ny, my ; uear ear, your onow
Shovel is broken, your Flat-irons too
old to be of Further use, and yourtUof
fee Mill will ho longer grind. How
can I Longer JSeighbor withmch a
man?"'. -V ..
Moral When vou can't live off a
Neighbor make him sorry tor it.
THE SICK ELEPHANT.
An Elephant who was ATmg with
Chill and Fever was Recommended bv
the Hare to take Calomel. The Fox
Hecommended something else, and the
Wolf, the Lamb, the Owl, the Serpent
and the Turtle all hastened to an
nounce their Remedies and Importune
the Elephant to try them. 1 he bood
Natured Soul Swallowed One aft r An
other, and before n'ght he turned his
Toes up to - the Daisies. The Hyena,
who had come too late with, h s Pre
scription warranted to stand in any
Climate, contemplated the Dead with
Sorrow, and Remarked:
? "Moral My Friends, there is such a
thing as getting too much of Sonie-th-ng
real good." Detroit Free Press:
RAIDS ,OF THE TURKOMANS.
System of Plunder that Jla ReuU!
In the Kttln of Held and Villftjres.
As we left Shahrud, writes a corre
spondent from Cala-I-Maur, Persia, the
defensive walls of the villages seemed
to get more massive and , stronger,
while the single gate of entrance to
them got smaller, this lat being a
pretty sure evidence of danger and of
)recaution against it. 1 he towers of
refuge in the fields seemed also to in
crease iu number, showing that I he
Turkomans took every care to make a
surprise bysktdkin gttRttar (ho 'ver.-.
of hollows, or whatever would conceal
them, till they could pounce suddenly
on the village pr its field, and calch
the Uufortunate cultivato.s before thev
could reach the security of the walls or
the safj re'uge of one of t ho towers,
or if once into one of these the Turko-
a. . ... ...
In one village three men were kept on i
the lookout in towers, and if lh-'v saw
an Alaman coming they iired o:V
muskets as a wani ng 10 an to run
and save themselves. .-When':. a pris
oner was taken the captor lied h s
hands and put him up behind oa tlr
horse, and thus carried off the prize.
Handsome young girls we:e h'ghly val
ued, because a high pr;ce could be got
for them. Sheep, goats, horses and
cattle were all seized. One raid was
poken of when 130, 000 cattle were
taken from the region we have been
Sassing through, lhe numwr is no
oubt exaggerrated, but suppose one o;
the figures to be cut off from the .sum,
by way of discount ng it, we have
still left what would represent a seri
ous loss, particularly to - a poor
country like this. The head of oiie
Village told us that he was Jong ago.
carr.ed on to lurkestan and sold as a
slave. At times there would be five or
x thousand men in these raid-". From
this detachments would go off as scout
ing parties, and when successful the
booty was brought into the ma 11 body,
who moved slowly along and couid
thus keep strict guard over their
captives. A body of men- 1 ke , this
w th their horses would be I ke
locusts, everything grow ng iu
the fields would be eaten up or
destroyed. The wonder is now the
people here were able to live under
such awful visitations. One is aston-
L- hed that the place is not depopulated,
aad nothings but ruins left. Ruined
villages there are; and de troyedby the
Turkomans is the usual explanation.
The people know that it is not their
government they have to thank for
putting an end to this state of things,
and they speak gratefully of the Rus
s'ans, to whom they owe the blessing of
peace and security. ; '
Ghenghis Khan was the first great
Turkoman raider, and the sy .stern has
continued off and on ever since his time.
Regions which in ancient times were
cultivated and populous are now des
erts, with nothing but mounds to mark
where man lived. At last, after cen
turies, an end has been reached, and
this Turanian scourge will be a thing
of the past. A new period opens for
Central Asia, as well as for the regions
round it. Loiulon News.
The largest room in the world
under one roof and uifbroken by pillars
is at St. Petersburg. It is (J-'t) feet
long by 150 in breadth. By daylight it
is used for military displays and a
battalion can completely maneuver in
it. Twentv thousand wax tapers are
required to light it. , The roof of this
structure is a single arch of iron, and
it exhibits remarkable engineering
skill in the architect.
It is a little remarkable that of the
three statues raised to women in tbs
country all within' the present year
one is to an English woman, Harriet
Martineau another to an Irish woman,
Margaret Hangherty, a successful New
Orleans baker, and one to an Ameri
can, Mrs. Julia A. Tevis, of Shelbyville,
Ky. , a successful teacher. Chicago
Herald.
SCARLET FEVER.
Absolute Necessity of Complete Isolation
: When This Disease Is In Our Mldnt.
One of the usual accompaniments of
the colder season of , the year is that
terror of all mothers, the scarlet fever,
which, although confined to no partic
ular season, and having, like death, all
seasons for its own,' nevertheless seems
always to rage with more vehemence
when the mercury gets down among
the small figures.
Unlike the measles, which most moth
ers think it desirable for their chihlreu
to have early, there is almost no pains
which wise mothers will not take to
avert from their children this fearful
evil, than which no other disease is so
much to be dreaded. And it is justly
that this dread is felt; not even th
small-pox is so deserving of it, for al
though that sometimes takes life, - and
often beauty, it seldom, after good re
covery, does further damage. But the
scarlet fever, even if the little patient
escapes with life, is as likely as not to
poison the blood, to injure the brain,
to destroy the hearing, or to affect ' to
deadly purpose some vital organ with
long and slow and painful decay. Poe's
terrible story of the "Masque of the
Red Death" had in it some elements of
the horror that belongs to this pesti
lence that walketh by noonday; and we
have known an aged physician who
never could speak of this especial form
of fever without tears springing to tus
ej-es, so. much misery to child and
Karent and household had he seen it
rin about. .. . -
When we see a disease which, even
on recovery, drugs after it in most in
stances long sequelae of other ailments,"
often veiletT and obscure and not easy
to reach and treat kidney affections,
lung troubles, glandular difficulties,
idiocy and the rest we can judge of
the virulence of the original thing it
self. And if bv any chance we see the
child itself enduring the first distress,
the final agony, crying out in blind
wonder at its own suffering, yielding
up its brief life perhaps in delirium,
perhaps in faintness, with the pangs of
suspense and despair of the mother
bending over it, and the desolatton of
the home it leaves so empty of its
sweet presence, till it seems as if there
were nothing but suffering in the
world when by any chance we have
seen all this," have fought our own
light with a disease capable of working
such woe then it seems to us that we
would almost give our own life rather
than be : the means of diffusing such
trouble, of increasing the suffering of
the world, of bringing such j)ain and
sorrow upon another person who loved
a child.
Yet it is an almost universal thing
for families every individual of whom
would feel all this shrinking from in
creasing the sorrows of the world in
stead of doing their utmost to prevent
the spread of the terrible infection, .
acting with an almost criminal care
lessness in 'th'e"fmafctctVraniJ-':trrtt;'"i&f
course, with no iutcntion other
than good ones, but partly from
ignorance and- partly from thoughts
lessness and " partly from a
general trusting to luck. There is a
eae of fever in the house; they isolate
it, and then they think they have done
their whole duty; they themselves, if
not needed in attendance, go and come,
here and there, in and out, as thev
please. "Oh, it is only a slight case!f'
they answer you if you question their
action, forgetful of the fact that the
most malignant form can be developed
from the tout agon of the very slight
est case of , scarlatina, scarlatina being
the generic name of the disease in any
form, and not merely of its lightest de
velopment. The doctor goes and comes
unavoidably through the hall and up
down the common stairway between the
door and the sick, room, nobody knows
how many germs of the disease cling
ing to the woolen fibres of his garments
to oe scattered in the hall and on the
stairs, over which the rest of the family
pass necessarily many times a dajv to
gather them up in their own clothes,
and have them ready to disseminate
whenever they go out among people.
The nurses, too, and those in attend
ance on the sick-room, go up and down
into the kitchen and elsewhere about
the house, carrying with them more or
less of the atmosphere of the room and
all that belongs to it, again to be
possibly caught up by those who have
never gone near the patient; and
the verv dogs and .cats about
the place, to say nothing of the '
flies, are liable to gather the dangerous
unknown force in their lon fur, and
bring it to the other, members of the
family. If then these other member
of the family, thus virtually contam
inated, go out freely on the street, what
deadly work is it they do. all 'uninten
tionally and unconsciously, what seeds
of death and sorrow do they scatter
with every wave of their garments as
they walk and as they encounter peo
ple'on the street or venture into houses!
Doubtless it is hard and unpleasant,
a sort of imprisoment, indeed, for peo
ple not immediately concerned 4u the
work for the sick to shut themselves ur
when such a trouble is in the house; but
there are always ways for them to get
enough fresh air to keep themselves in
health. And for the rest of it, if the
thingcomes, if should be received 1 ke any
other dispensation, and borne with
becoming strength and self-denial, even
if that requires abstinence from church
and concert and call, the foregoing of
the morning shopp'ng and the after
noon stroll. For fully three weeks after
the patient Is out of danger and con
valescing a process called desquamat"o
a shedding of the scarf skin goes on
I with the lit tle person, and every flake of
that cuticle waitea aoroaa js uui, in
oculation of the disease wherever re
ceived. Isolation, then can not be too
much regarded; and if we do not here
speak of disinfection it is because we
believe everybody in the world must
now know the value and necessity of
that in its most extended foro while
many forget or are not aware of the
need of complete isolation. There is
nothing fine in the courage or bravado
of those who would visit or go errands
to the dwellings where this sickness ex
ists. It is verv easy to be courageous
for other people, and it is other people,
and not one's self, that the grown per
son endangers by going into the way
of the disease, and those other people
helpless little ch Idren. Grown peo
ple are seldom in much danger of re
ceiving the contagion for themselves,
but they can carry it in their clothes;
and knowing this, and knowing the
alarming vitality of the germ, and how
long afterward it can maintain this de
vastating vitality with unirapeached
power, they would be acting with total, '
want of principle, and even of decent
human charity, if they did not avoid
going to the house where scarlet fever
exists, and did hot also avcid those
who come out of that house. When
Seople who are aware of the danger
o a vo5d those who have come out
from these fatal doors it is not for
themselves, it should be remem
bered, nor indeed always for those.
dear to. them as life itselfui4juitiTas
often for thesake"of Those dsar as life
to others; and no one has a right to be
offended at this avoidance. It is not
the people themselves who are" thus -avoided;
it is the terrible trouble whose
companionship lurks about them. The
very individuals who avoid them, or
who feel compelled to condemn their
want of consideration; and care in go- -ing
abroad, would, it is very likely, go
Uf their houses and remain .with "them,"
helping and cheering them as long as
the necessity lasted, but not daring to
go out into the world again so long as
the least danger of communicating the
evil remained. -Instead of being; of
fended at the avoidince, all persons,
on the other hand, would do well to
Erevent the necessity of such avoidance
y keeping Out of the way themselves,
and by voluntarily and spontaneous! v,
with noble regard for others, even if
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selves and their house in a sort of quar
antine, which, uncomfortable as it may
be to them, is indefinitely better 'than -
sickness and death and the sorrow of '
vacant houses to others. Harper' Ba- '
zar.
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j THE TONGUE, i
The Gustatory Properties of ltd Diminu
tive Tip. J -
When ; we want to - assure ourselves, '
by means of taste, about any unknown
object say a lump of somr white stuff,
which may be crystal or glass or alum '
or borax or quartz or rock-salt we
put the tip of the , tongue against it
gingerly, . If it begin to burn us we '
draw it away more or less rapidly, with
an accompaniment in language strictly
dependent upon our personal habits
and manners. Tbeest we thus occa
sionally 1 apply, even in the civilized
adult states to unknown bodies is one
that is being applied every day and all
day long by children and savages. Un
sophisticated humanity is constantly
putting everything it sees up to its
mouth in a frank spirit of experimental
inquiry as to its gustatory properties.
In civilized life we find everything
ready labeled and assorted for us; we
comparatively seldom require, to roll
the contents of a suspicious bottle (in
the tongue in order to discover whether
it is paie sherry -orXhili vint garr Du b
liri stout or mushroom ketchup. Btt in
the savage state, from which geologi
cally and biologically speaking, we
have only just emerged, bottles and
labels do not exist. ' Primitive man,
therefore, in his sweet simplicity, has
only two modes open before him for de
ciding whether the things he finds are
or are not strictlyv edible. The first
thing he does is to sniff at them, and
smell being, as Mr. Herbert Spencer
has well put it, an anttcipatorjr taste,
generally gives him some idea of what
the thing is likely to prove. The sec
ond thing he does is to pop it into his
mouth, and proceed practically to ex
amine its further characteristics.
Strictly speaking, with the tip of the
tongue one can't really taste at all. If
you put a small drop of honey or of oil
of bitter almons on that part of -the
mouth; you will find (no doubt to your
great surprise) that it produces no e'ffect
of any sort; you only taste it when it
begins slowly to diffuse itself and
reaches the true tasting region in the
middle distance. But if you put a little
cayenne or mustard on the eame part,
you will find that it bites you immedi
ately the experiment should be tried
sparingly while if you put it lower
down in the mouth you will swallow it
almost without noticing the pungency
of the stimulant. The reason is that
the tip of the tongue is supplied only
with nerves which are really nerves of
touch, not nerves of taste proper; they
belong to a totally different main
branch, and thev go to a different cen
ter in the brain, together with the very
similar threads which supply the nerves
of smell for mustard and pepper, ihat
is why the smell and taste of these pun
gent substances are so much al Jse, as
everybody must have noticed ; a good
sniff at a mustard pot producing almost
the same irritating effect as an incau
tious mouthful. As a rule, we don't
accurately dist'nguish, it is true, be
tween these different regions of taste
in the mouth in ordinary life; but that
is because we usually roll our food
about instinctively, without paying
much attention to the particular part ,
affected by it. Indeed, when one is
trying del berate experiments" in the
subject, in order to test the varying
sensitiveness of the ditierciit parts to
different sub-tancjs, it is necessary to
keep the tongue dry in order to isolate
the thing you are experimenting w th
and prevent its. spreading to all parts
of the month together. In actual prac
tice this resxdt is obtained in a rather
ludicrous manner by blowing upon
the tongue between each experiment
with a pair of bellows. To . such un
dignified expeJients does the pursuits
of science lead the ardent modem ;
psychologist. Those domestic rivals of
Dr. Forbes Winslow, the servants, who
behold the enthusiastic investigator al
ternately drying his tongue in this
ridiculous fashion, as if he were a black
smith's fire, and then squeezing out a
single drop of essence of pepper, vine
gar, or beef tea from a glass syringe
upon the dry surface, not uanaturaliy
arrive at .the conclusion that master
has gone stark mad, and that, in their
private opinion, it's the microscope and
the skeleton as has doae it. CorrUiUl
Magazine.
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ranks seventh the balloon, the loco
motive, and trotting, pacing and run
ning horses having faster records. It
ranks seventh because a lie will tiaveL
faster than any of them. Current.