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Dl illy the ng e'rs it ich OU n't DANGERS IN DRUGS. WARNING USE TO THOSE DISPOSED THEM CARELESSLY. TO Special Caw Nexle.l In Olvlns Medicine to Clilldreo Fatal RctulM Pimiblo from Iloiucdlos TJnally Harmless Muthcr. Talto Notice. "Moro men ore killed by drugs than ! dlscaso," is on expression one occasion-1 ally bears. How much truth it con tains is. of course, problematical. But, without doubt, no small proortioii of tho deaths occurring ure directly or in- directly duo to an unwise use of meili cines. Children furnish the readiest i victims to tho direct destructive iullu-1 ences of drugs. Ilero is an instance whero drugs, abso-1 futcly harmless in anything like reason able doses, may yet be the cause of death: Tho patient is an infant, and it Buffers from diarrhea. Tho mother doctors it herself. She goes to the nearest druc- i gist and asks for a diarrhea mixture, llo gives her ono made up of catechu and chalk mixture, two of tho simplest bf agents, with which almost every , nother is familiar. This she adminis-1 :ers to her child in the proper doses, j rho diarrhea lessens, but the child's Rendition does not improve. It even sgrows rapidly worse, fever is on. tho I Ifcowels nro swollen, and, what is more 'alarming, "head symptoms" have ap peared. TUB PIIYSICIAN POWERLESS. A physician is called, but ho is power less, for tho brain is attected. Tho little puo lingers along for days and days per-1 naps, ana nnaiiy tnes irom disease of the , Ijrain. Now, for the child's death the j catechu and chalk mixture, harmless as they arc, were yet responsible. Tho mbcturo lessened the diarrhea, but in sol doing invited an inflammation of the bowels; tho littlo one's brain, always ex ceedingly sensitive and susceptiblo to in jury, became congested as a natural con- j sequence, other and more serious changes ouowed, as in all such cases, and it i lmally died a victim to dosing. Ilad tiot tho bowels been dammed up by tho catechu and chalk mixture, but instead, Jiatl they been unloaded and then treated properly, neither tho inflammation therein nor tho brain trouble would have occurred. In much thewav described thousands upon thousands of chil dren killed" every year. And this terriblo ijuortalitv will onlv lesson when tvmnln (learn tho dangers of trilling with drugs. 1 havo been for several weeks discuss ing in Tho Sunday Herald tho remedies in common use. (Jontinuinir to do so, I omo now to calomel, an agent which 'lias been much abused. As every ono Jknows, it is a preparation of mercury. It bears tho name "mild chloride," in contradistinction to corrosive bublimate. .which L3 called tho "corrosive chloride" f mercury. Calomel is very nearly hreo times as strong as blue piU. In one resDcct it la fortiinntn tlmt thorn in. ou uio an o inu nco n u. tno Ktrnnfrrst prejudico against this agent. It is likely tft dofor t.liom frnm prnr nemo- It nr tlinlr own reauonsiouitv. so stroncr is the TirtMiiMiff rnnri iu CP! H'o r i i nr nnccna mm aDOUt 1)13 medicines nna omom Mint there- bo uo calomel in it. vithout doubt thero is frorwl nnrl anfiipiptif roncrvn f.r it was, unquestionably, not only used too niLnn. ihil in miteii inn iiirn-n (Wiioq sn n. VfltlHTI WiW thn Mil" ritlt Mini Iw enmn if mnn hAlw,..n,l l,n I . 1 I 1 1 .minmrn nil rwr vr ion nnrrim I o flint rm n f t.V Milt nil hn in nlm n ivrw I MF . pnopr.i: and improper use. Physicians no longer hold that it has t controls inflammatory attacks, as their auiers oeioro tliem behoved. When calomel is given them now they never iiuc iuulto m mu jiruseiu uiuu, ami nvnr occurs when lhn dviii ia ivisnlr ven, unless the patient is very 6usccpti- 1 . : . ni ounter people who havo the peculiarity r constitution that makes salivation iiniiir. ii. i iini'iiii1 fini it." ii rii f m irirriM i d three pills are a purging dose. They I rA lmiirillv iivfn nt. limit! mo nml if, ailing to act tno next morning, it is t uito a common custom to givo two roof them. This treatment is prac- ically cafe, and no ono would expect salivation to follow. And yet it has done so, but very rarply indeed, however, bc causo of the peculiar susceptibility of tho patient to the drug. Tho prejudice against calomel seems to havo grown with general enlighten ment. It does not exist with thoso "be hind tho times." In the "far western country," it is still held in high esteem, and given in enormous doses even moro jthan half a teaspoonful for almost every conceivable ailment. After taking ono cathartic dose of calomel alone, no ono is likely to court another such experience, unless his confidence in it is absolute, for it causes intense pain. For that reason it was in olden times given with jalap, j to quicken its action. But after what has been said, und all that can bo said about calomel, it is not an agent which j can bo disenKod with. Given in proper doses in cases wisely selected, it will prove ono of the most efficacious reme dies known to man. And so adminis tered it is erfectly safe. Ono who does not thoroughly" understand all about it should not, of course, meddle with it, for it Is like an open razor in a child's hand. But if an intelligent physician ever rec ommends It for u patient, eiuier oiu or young, it should le unhesitatingly ad ministered. Boston Herald. Advunri' of Science. Tho "drop a nickel in tho slot" fad has been utilized fur many things, but I riovor thought it would Ik used in tho Insur ance business. It is a fact, howovor, and Km -I . i : i . l I.. ,, elnf j-iii pnn lV MUJIHIIJJ IV IIIIUVI III lliw Ret $500 necident iimuranco for twenty- four hours. I simoono noon a man will Ui nblo to get n cornor lot by dropping a nickel in tho eJoL Buffalo News. ANTS fOR EATING, They Are Said to Ilr n Good a Pickles. Somo IjirjjK n I'oxrs. Should n Maine lumlerman find a stump of rotten log with thousands of j big black nnts in it. he reoops tho torpid insects from their winter domicile and fills his dinner pail with them. When , he gets back to his camp at night ho sets the pail in a cool place until his j supper i3 ready, then brings it forth, I and, while helping himself to pork and beans, helps himself nh.o to ants. Thero is no accounting for tastes, and he esteems a handful of nnts a very choice morsel. Ants are said by those who have tasted them to have a peculiarly agreeable, strongly acid flavor. Tho woodsmen, whoso food consists largely of salted meat, baked K-ans and similar hearty victuals, naturally have a craving for something sour. "Ants are the very best of pickles," said an old "logger," who confessed to having devoured thousands of them. "They are cleanly insects, and there is no reason why they should not be eaten, if one can get over a littlo squeamishuess caused by the thought of taking such crawling things into his stomach. There is nothing repulsive about them, and when a man has once learned to eat the crteturcs as pickles ho prefers them to any other kind." Ants have at various times and in dif ferent countries been quite extensively used in medicine, and formic acid, which was first obtained bv distilling tho bodies of these insects, but is now artificially prcjwred, is a well known and useful chemical product. Herodotus tells of ants that livo in tho ' deserts of India which aro in size "some what less than dogs, but larger than foxes." These creatures, in heaping up tho earth after the manner of common ants, were a very efficient aid to tho In dian gold hunters. Tho sand wluch they threw up being largely mixed with gold, tho Indians were accustomed to go to tho desert in the heat of the day. when the ants were underground, load tho sand into Backs, pile the Hacks upon their cam els, and hasten from tho Bjxit as rapidly as possible. The ants, according to tho historian, were not only the swiftest of animals, but wero gifted with such a senso of smell that they immediately le- camo aware of tho presence of men in their territory, and unless tho Indians got away while tho ants wero assembling to nttaek them not aman could escape. Pittsburg Dispatch. W'l)ster'rt II hui Suit Daniel Webster went to collego in a homespun suit, of which probably every thread was carded. 6pun and woven by his mother's hand from tho wool of their own sheep. A contributor to Wido' Awako says it was a dyed-in-the-wool suit, and the color was indigo blue tho old New England color. In tho south it is butternut; but though our Yankee grandmothers and great-great-great-grandmothers knew all about what butternut bark would do, and the subtile power for slate color that lay in sumach berries and bark of white maple, and the various dyes that root and flower, bark and leaf could bo mado to yield through tho agency of vitriol and alum and copperas to "set" them fr-sf, tho universal stand by was tho bluo pot par excellence tho "dyo pot that stood in tho chimney corner of every kitchen worth naming. So Webster was fitted out in indigo blue from collar to ankle unbecoming for his swart skin nnd 6ct 4lf grand and Bophomorie. Hcfore reaching Han over, thero came on ono of thoso drench ing rains which, like tho Scottish mist, wet a man to tho skin. The suit held its own for has not indigo bluo been "warranted fast" sinco first indigo was heard of? but it had parted with enougli so that Daniel, too, was died bluo from head to foot. Daniel Webster had a liberal stratum of sentiment in his make up; and for soino reason, this color of his young manhood became his favorito wear through life. He wore bluo coats to his dying day. If any one ever saw him in a different one, tho fact lui3 not been put on record. outh s I ompamon UuliiiistWn and Von HiiIoit Quarrel. Tho most fiery of pianists and of or chestral conductors. Dr. Hans von Bulow, has been pointing his baton at his old menu uuninsicin, to wnoso "Ucean i Symphony" ho has taken a sudden dis like. After directingnt a rehearsal tho six movements of Rubinstein's symphony, which is, indeed, "vast and illimiUiblo" like tho ocean, Dr. von Bulow, according i to a not unfrequent custom of his, ad dressed to the members of tho orchestra somo disparaging reniarks on tho work j they had just Ixfen playing, nnd ended ' by 6aying: "A symphony liko this can j bo properly dealt with only by n con-j ductor with long hair," (Dr. von Bulow j wears his hair short.) On reading tho report of Dr. von Uulow's little sjeech i Itubinstcin wroto irom bt. Petersburg to tho paper which had published it. ex pressing his surprise that in tho midst of his important and numerous occup.ttions th learned doctor should havo found timo to measure the length of his (Rubin- Etein's) hair. He also inquired affection ately after tho length of Dr. von Bulow' ears; wishing in particular to know wneincr tney utiu grown biuco mo even ing when, nfter bearing Rubinstein's opera of "Nero" for tho first time, ho shook tho composer warmly by tho hand and even embraced Jiim. St, James' Oazcttc. Tlio Lament Oold Mlnc In Ilia Yorld. At Lead ('ity, near Deadwood, Law. reneo county, are located tho largest goid mines nnd mills in tho world, the "Ilomobtake." Theoro bodies mined by this company show i working faco from 200 to 400 feet v. ide, (linking to an inex haustible depth, bix hundred stamps, crushing 20.0C0 cubic feet of rock ovory twonty-four hours, drop incessantly, day and night, in the mill, without an inter muion oven for ths iiobbath. During tho ten years in which tho initios of tho Homutfako combination havo been op cratod tlioy havo produced about $28, 000.000 In bullion, und aid over $0,000,. 000 in dividends to 6U.!fholdtirJ.--l P. McCluro in Harper'. THE WOMEN OF MANILA. MANY OP THEM SOME AND ARE VERY HAND INTELLIGENT. Tlicy Are Hipcrts at tlie Scwlnc Mncliln mid In Milking Toys Tlicy Drem Prrttlly, but Do Not Lace Many Superior Unix. ltiiniN In .Mini I In. Perhaps one of tho most interesting studies in this part of the world is the nativo and the development of his racial features. Those who are given to tho study of physiognomy are impressed at once with the intellectual superiority of the female native over tho male. She shows it plainly in her face and manner, and when she speaks it is even moro un mistakably apparent. As a rule tho na tive women are modest, industrious, anx ious to acquire a knowledgo of lan guages, and make most excellent house servants. They aro very expert with tho needle nnd learn music with scarcely an effort; in fact tho wholo raco is natu rally musical, and there are probably more really excellent brass bands in Manila than in any other city of its size on tho face of the earth. Nearly every district has its brass band, and each reg iment of soldiers has one that would do credit to any country. That attached to tho artillery regiment received the first prize at the last Paris exjiosition, nnd several cities in tho orient havo bands of natives of tho Philippines who fur nish the best music to be had. EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. Somo years ago sewing machines wero introduced hero nnd tho nativo women very soon learned to run them as easily as any white woman. Now no well regulated household is completely equipjicd without a sowing inachino and a nativo woman to run it. An excellent seamstress can bo had for twenty cents a day, and nearly every European family has one the year round. Of course, they lose quite a number of days, as tho church feasts aro numerous and they aro most devout iu their religious duties; they never work when thero is a chance to go to church, so that, taking it altogether, they probably aro paid for less than two thirds of tho year. They livo in their own homes littlo nipa huts, with ono or two rooms and are in tho housesof their employers from alwut 8 a. m. to 5:550 or C p. m. Largo numbers of the nativo women work in the tobacco factories and other manu facturing: establishments about tho citv. . while many of them occupy themselves at home, making toys, fancy articles and embroidery for tho shOps. Some of their toys are very curious and givo evidence of wonderful dexterity and delicacy of touch, and are quite as valuable us curios j as thoso of the Chineso or Japanese. Full , sets of dolls' furniture, ships, houses, na tive canoes, carriages, etc., aro repro duced in miniature with great expert ness and are sold at very low prices. STREETS ITLL OF BEAUTIES. The natives aro a branch of tho Malay race, and none are much darker than a very dark brown. They havo somo of the characteristics of tho American In dian, among which are tho high cheek bones, which, however, aro not as a rule prominent in tho femalo fnce. A native i bello has a bright, expressive face, soft black eyes full of animation, and a I mouth tlmt would be beautiful but for a suggestion of sensuality. Yet she is modest and drops her eyes bashfully in tho presenco of strangers, but lnw for her intimate friends u smile fascinating iu tho extreme. And thero aro many such faces among tho natives; ono can see them at almost any hour of the day on tho streets selling Koodaof various kinds, returning to or from their places of em ployment or pooping coyly out of tho ono window of a nipa hut. Theso girls aro never tall nor awkward, but their forms are jnst as naturo mado them, for they aro not distorted and deformed by tho fashionable dress appliances of civil ized life. They are ignorant of tho ways of tho western world, aro guileless and confiding, and it is not strange, consider ing tha class of foreigners who usually como to this far oil" place, that tho Eu rasian, or half cast clement, is constantly growing. Wliat would bo called Eurasians in other parts of tho east are called Mestizos or Mestizas; that is, tho offspring of whito fathers and nativo mothers. A fair typo of the Spaninli Mestiza dress, which is peculiar to this class, consists of a long skirt of heavy sill; and a waist and nockkerchief mado of tho fibers of tho pineapple plant and embroidered with whito silk linen or cotton. This costume is calculated to greatly enliance tho attractiveness of the faco and neck, and therefore the Mestizas asa class havo a reputation for beauty which thoy prob ably would not havo if thoy woro Euro pean attire, borne of tho skirts nro beau tifully painted and embroidered and cost fabulous sums, lor thero aro many very weaniiy people among the Mestizo class, who, although they could not bo wel comed in the best society, form an aris tocracy of their own, which in very ex clusive. Manila Letter in St. Louia Re public. A Slirmrd Advi-rtiiter. Two men met on a down town corner. Ono asked tho other to accompany him to lunch. The invitation was cordially accepted. They started along tho Btrect, arm in arm, and finally the host led the way into a restaurant. Now tho friend know that tho host was himself tho pro prietor of a big restaurant, and ho won tlored why he had not taken him thero for lunch. When they were seated at a table and had given the waiter their or ders lie asked the reason for this move. "I'll tell you." said the restaurant pro prietor, as he removed a ntcklo from Ids rival's crockery. " You see. over at our 1 placo wo make our own butter. Tho( process is very exonsive and tho but ter costs us a reat deal of money so much that when I go into tho placo 1 do not cat butter, because 1 do not eel that I can afford In do so. Hero I eat tho butter becauw I do not pay for it." making. Do you wto?" Tho friend thought ho did, mid ho realized wlm a lovely advertiser tho man was, Chicago Herald, A Wnrrlnr'a Matrimonial rate. Walking along Lake Shore with nn old soldier, who had married thrico nnd for money every time, I had somo new nnd valuablo light 6hed upon tho ques tion, "Is marriage a failure?" Tho war rior takes an easy view of life. Ho is inclined to think that women nro not as bad as they aro painted, but that they re quire 6trong handling. "The marriage laws aro much too easy on women. Now, look here! I'm a man of family I mean social osition. 1 havo nn in como of between $2,500 nnd $3,000. 'Tisn't much, but as Shakespearo says, ' 'tis mino own.' I married a widow for my first wife. She had $5,000 a year of her own and no social position, as her first husband was a saloon keeper. I got her into refined and fashionable so ciety. "How did sho repay me, think you? Well, she insisted upon Epending all her own coin upon herself, nnd then de manded half of my littlo income. Wasn't that pretty cheeky? Sho paid mo noth ing for my social position. Sho got everything n:ul gavo nothing save tho $5,000 a year when sho died to a twenty second cousin near Princo Bismarck's homo in Pomcrania. My second wifo was in her second widowhood, but not a bit softer about monoy matters than when sho was a maiden fair. Every thing settled upon herself. I paid for tho wedding breakfast. Sho had a large income and she novcr gavo mo a cigar. Sho went to heaven nnd left her money tonsister. Tho sister wouldn't marry mc, but I got a nice littlo woman with four children, who had buried threo hus bands and was as merry as a butterfly. Sho is alive now and is' tho hardest nut of all. Sho doesn't tako half my money sho takes tho wholo of it, pays my bills and allows mo fifty cents n day for spending money. No, 6ir; marriago was no failure for threo women who had tho good fortuno to marry mc." Chi cago Journal. NlilltlilR tho Loud. "Even my wife sometimes tells me that I must bo different from other men," Abraham Lincoln onco moro pathetically than jocosely remnrked. "and the compliment is not intended for me either. But 1 toll you right here," and the long, dark hand came down on the table with slntrp emphasis, "that 1 have schooled myself to think occasionally of something else besides the trouble immediately at hand." "Oh, but that must bo with you a natural faculty, Mr. Lincoln,"the presi dent's companion replied. "Most peo ple aro so constituted that thoy cannot do it. The thing that hurts them is tho only thing they can consider. It is the Insistence of pain. Only hero and there can be found ono able to rise abovoit." "There never was a moro outrageous fallacy than that, outrageous because of the mischief it can do," said Mr, Lincoln. "Oh. yes." interrupted tho friend, with a superior smilo; "that is all very well, but can you tell tho world how to throw off trouble, how not to foci pain?" "I would liko such a recipe myself." was tho laughing answer, "but I was only speaking of the ability toshift tho load of pain or trouble, so that it might not incapacitate a man from being of some help and comfort to his neigh bors. Now, you've no business to go round liko a black gloved, grim visnged undertaker It is your business and mine to consider first what wo can do toward lifting tho loads of others. A good story is better than a long faco; a Jolly song has more 'get up and get' to it than a dirge Tho only rulo I have Is to try and put myself a littlo in the rear. I don't say that this is always easy, but I havo found this out that to ease another's heartache Is to forget one's own. When things get to squeez ing too hard I often find comfort in this question and answer: " 'Abo Lincoln, aro you doing the best you know how?' "And when Abe's reply can truth fully be. '1 am, please CJodl' then the country is safe." - Youth's Companion. 'l oo .SuggrHtive. 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