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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1888)
hie telephone . . THE TELEPHONE. *------------------ ——X 1>EMOCRATIC. PUBL18HKD FRIDAY EVERY WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Door North of cor or Ihird and E Su, M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IN ADVANCE.) «2 00 1 00 ¿0 One year....... Six month« ■ - Three months VOL. Ill s, A. YOUNG, M. 0. Transcontinental Route. Physician & Surgeon, M c M innville , . . . WOMAN AND HOME. O«tGox. A SACRED PRIVILEGE THAT 13 TOO Dttiee and residence on D street. All tails promptly answered day or night. -------VIA THE------- W. V. PRICE, Cascade Division’ now completed, PHOTOGRAPHER. making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Pining Cur line. Th« Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest T.ains. Low est Rates to Chicago anil ull points East. Tickets sold to ull Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Curs Reservationscan be Becured in advance. Ip Stairs iu Adams’ Building, McMinnville. Oregon ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so be sure and call for your tickets via the To East Bound Passengers. —THE— Be caeful and do not make a mistake but be sure to lake tlie M Northern Pacific Railroad. It is positively the shortest ami fin >jt line to Chicago and the east and south and the only sleeping and dining car through line to And see that your tickets read via THIS LINE, St Paul or Minneapolis, to avoid changes and serious delays occa sioned by other routes. Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run on regular express trains ♦nil length of the line. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest time. _______ Omaha, Kaii.ai* City, and all Missouri River Points. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed train service and elegant dining and sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the title of General Office Of the Company, No, Washington St., Portland, Oregon. The IRoyal Route Others may imitate,hut none can surpass it A D CHARLTON. Asst. General Passenger Agent. Our motto is “always on time ” Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets via this celebrated route and take non« others. W H MEAD, G A No. 4 Washington street. Portland. Qr. Tlio only FIRST CLASS BAR Mrs. 11. P. Stuart, MILLINERY, COOK’S HOTEL, Hair weaving and Stamping. ----- IN----- McMinnville, is opened THE LEADER IN —IN— Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Domestsc Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , I’ropr. Opposite Orange Store McMinnville. Or iSÆ’JSZmSTJST VILLE TONSORIAL PARLOR, The St. Charles Hotel. Sinning, Hair Cutting and- - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. Sample rooms in connection. o------ o FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop’s. I Is now fitted up in first class order. All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in Accommodations as good as can be the latest and neatest style foun din the city. All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair dying, a specialty. Special attention given 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. to I Ladies’ and Childrens’ Work I also have for sale a very fine assort ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc O« I have in connection with my parlor, • the largest and finest stock of CITI STABLES, Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Henderson Bros. Props First-class accommodations for Ccmrner cial men and general travel. Transient stock well cared for. CIGARS Ever in the city. |3ff“THiRD S treet M c M innville . O regon . M’MINNYILLE NATIONAL Everything new and in First-Class Order ltf Patronage respectfully solicited Great English Remedy. Murray’3 Specfic. Trade Mark. A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak memory, loss of brain power, hysteria, headache, pain in the back, nervous prostration, wakefulness, leucon lioea, uni versal lassitude, seminal weak ness, inipotency. and general loss of power or the generative Before Taking, organs, in either sex, caused by indiscretion or over exertion, and which ultimately lead to premature Trade Mark, old age,insanity and consump tion |1.(X> per box or six boxes for $5.00,sent by mail on receipt of price, Full particu lars in pamphlet, sent free to everv applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure any case. For every $5 00 order received, weAfter Taking» send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund the money if our Specific does not ef fect a cure Address all communications to the Bole manufacturers THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO. Kansas City, Mo. Sold by Rogers A Todd, sole axents AVriejlit IBro’s. Dealers in Harness. Saddles, Etc, Etc, Repairing neatly done at reazanahJt rates * ' Wright's new building. Corner Third and Fstreets, McMinnville. Or. PATENTS Caveat*, and Trade Marks obtained, and all Patent business conducted for MODER ATE FEES OVR OFFICE IB OPPOSITE V. S TATENT OFFICE. We have no sub agencies, all business direct, hence can transact patent business in less time and at less cost than those remote from W ash ington. -end model. ' drawing. or photo. ... ,l<-;.n if tfll til r»IP We n advise if »><1 patentable with description, or not free of charge, Our fee not due till patent is secured A book, “How to Obtain Patents,” with references to actual clients in vour State. county, or town sent free, Address r C. A. SNOW & CO. Opp...ite Patent Otlice. Wa.liillgton. D ( WM. HOLL, Proprietor of the Mdfeiili Jewelry tat, The leading ESTABLISHMENT. —OF— _ YAMHILL COUNTY. Third Street, McMinnvilla Or Transacts a General Banking Business. President,............... J- W. COW LS, Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. Cashier.............. CLARK BRALY. Sells exchange on Portland, San Francisco, and New York. Interest allowed on time deposit!. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Apr. 13 tf ELEGANT BUT COSTLY. Channing Noveltie. In Jewelry for the Lucky Owner« of Hank Account«. OFTEN NEGLECTED. Jounle’s Dainty Appetite—Talkins to In valid. — The Jaded Wife — Kitchen Aprune—Romp»—A Sulky Helle—The Teacher—Cheap Living—Note*. All aequaiiitnnceof mine who bad removed from Newport, R. I., to Cambridge. Mass., was asked what was the social difference. He said that ho could porceive none oxcept that there were fewer handsome equipages, and that young mothers wheeled their own baby wagons. This last point of observation quite restored tho balance, for what gorgeousness of livery can compare with the proud faces of such parents, and what occupants of a phaeton or a barouche-landau can have such felicity as beams in the face of that rosy little creature, to whom every individual atom of the great universe is an inexhaustible novelty ? My friend’s remark was, I fear, a just one: I can recall but two young mothers among my immediate circle of acquaintance in Newport who habitually took out their own babies for an airing, while in Cambridge 1 can not think of one who does not, except one who mentioned this to me as the greatest privation of a long illness, and the one loss that she never could replace. I can remem ber one who dhrit iu New York, and when her father, a clergyman, was congratulated on the good sense of his daughter, he replied, “Tn our family we believe in the natural affections.” It would, of course, l>e very unfair to deny an ample supply of natural affectious to those who habitually send out their young children with a nur«e; there are many pre occupations, many inconveniences, that may be in the way. The thing of which one may justly complain is the tradition prevailing tmong the well to do circles of many cities, ■ast and west, north and south, that the mother is never to take out her child. This seems to me a wrong both to parent and child, as much a wrong as the habit still lingering in France of sending n young child to dwell with a nurse, the mother only visit ing her occasionally; or the habit formerly prevailing in the English upper classes, which forbade a mother’s suckling her own child—a habit so fixed that when Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, broke through it, the poet Coleridge wrote her a resounding ode, as if she had done some great de^d: O lady, nursed in pomp aud pleasure, Who taught you that heroic measure! In the present case the “heroic” young mother who wheels her own baby wagon gains the felicity of the fresh air, to begin with; she shares the happy littlecooings and jointings of her young charge; she is asso ciated with its first contact with tho world outside; she will never forget these sweet and simple associations, and she will always be a part of them to her child. Site has, beyond this, the inestimable satisfaction of knowing that her child is cared for; that it is not wheeled against the broad sunlight till its eyes water, or pushed backward till its brain whirls; that it is not left to cry un heeded while the nurse gossips with her fifth cousin, or taken furtively into some ba/’*'- ment kitchen reeking with tobacco or onions, and not unsuspected of diphtheria. I read the other day in a woman’s essay, which had many good points in it, ffivo as sertions which seemed to me very wide of the rrtrrf’k. The first was that there is now hardly such a thing in America as a fresh, simple, unspoiled child; to which statement I should oppose the objection that there are at least a dozen of these rare beings in the one short street where I happen to dwell. Tho second point was that we should find a remedy for this alleged evil in introducing the English system of keeping children ns much as possible in nurseries, and having them as little as possible in contact with the family life. Had this statement been turned just the other way it would have seemed more reasonable, for surely it is where there are most nurses aud nurseries—in America at least—that one finds the artificial and self conscious children, while the simplest and most genuine are in those households Where servants are few or none. This whole philos ophy seems to me far less sensible than that of a little boy of my acquaintance, who once made a protest against the whole race of. nurses in these plain terms: “Mamma, I de wish I could l)e taken care of by somebody that lives in the front ¡»art of the house.” This criticism involves no injustice to those kindly and child loving races who sup ply nine-tenths of our nurses—the Celts, the negroes—and one sometimes finds among them individuals of a quality so superior that they are wholesome and innocent com panions for any child, and even ignorance forms no bar to a life long and genuine friendship. But what risks are run to tem per, to health, even to morals, in the effort to find this ¡paragon! How many poor little things owe horrible, frightful terrors and nightmare superstitions and manifold last ing injury to being intrusted almost un watered to persons to whom no one would intrust the training of a pet animal! One may see households where a man servant who should kick a favorite dog, or even speak angrily to a high bred horse, would be dismissed instantly, and yet where delicate and sensitive children may be scolded and twitched about and even chastised by nurse« of no higher training and principle. I know a family whose sweet faced nurse was the admiration and envy of all who came to the house; it was nevertheless not intended for an instent that the power of punishing should be placed in her hand«; nor was it discovered until weeks after she had left the family that she had l>een in the habit of taking her little charge privately into the pantry and putting mustard on her tongue by wav of punishment for such sins as can be committed at 3 years old. The inhumani ties of parents, on which a brilliant Ameri can woman once wrote an essay, may be l>ad enough, but it has always seemed to me that the worst inhumanity, in the long run, was to leave a child to the unwatched control of & hired attendant. I say “unwatched,” but, after all, how can any watching be mon than superficial!—T. W. Higginson in Har per's Bazar.________ _ I I can at least give a loving word, which is of more importance than you think for. You little dream how hungry she gets for some sign that love is not dead, although it may be so crusted with thoughtlessness and self that it is seldom seen. Kind words cost nothing, and if they were more frequent love and happiness would linger longer by the hearthstone, where now there are bitter re pining« for the past, and hard, resentful feel ings as the wife bears her burden alone, un cheered, unhelped and, as she believes, un cared for by her husband.—Mary J. Holmes, in New York Mail and Express. Diet of Cake and Pickles. “My Jennie has such a dainty appetite I don’t know what to do with her! She just won’t eat anything but sweetmeats and the like!” Thus exclaimed a foolish mother in my hearing the other day. Yes, lamentably foolish is she for allowing such a condition of things to exist. We are told by the matchless bard that desire grows upon what it is fed. The child desires dainties, and the mother oft gratifies that desire. Soon the mischief is done, for the dainty appetite is quickly formed. Apropos of this: A ruddy German girl of seven summers was adopted by childless people of means. The indulging process was early begun by them, for it was » pleasure to give the child all the goodies that she could well eat. Ere long a scorn for substantial food possessed her, and the mere ;hought of the plain but healthful fare of hei Jerman home excited great disgust. Dain ties formed her, daily living, but think you that her robust German parentage preserved her from paying outraged Mother Nature’s penalty? No, indeed! She fell a victim to consumption while yet in her teens. The poor, abused digestive apparatus could not manufacture good blow!; the great waste a as not supplied, and “galloping consump tion” claimed another victim. While on the cars, en route to one of Min- icsota’s beautiful lake resorts, I was attracted by an anxious mother and her unfortunate invalid daughter who occupied seats near mine. The wan cheeks, the hollow eyes and the languid air all told their own sad story of lisease and deuth. The weary one oft had lcuess to the stimulating flask to sustain her to the journey’s end. At length the mother and child partook a morning meal. A large lunch hamper indicated a long journey. L did not observe the mother’s choice of fare, jut the delicate girl who had so aroused my sympathies made a hearty (?) meal of rich cake and pickles. Yes, she devoured three wholo pickles and a piece of cake. Think of it, mothers—of supplying the enormous u«ste that was apparently going on with only cake md pickles! Could one drop of good blood emanate therefrom? Would disease have attacked the poor child had the mother pre vented such unnatural appetite? She seemed 1 woman of culture and refinement—not al ways accompanied with common sense, it seems—and I would fain remind her that she could take her loved one to the most health ful clime of earth, but she would not keep aer long if her diet consisted of cake and pickles. Indeed, in this instance I fear that lothing could avail, for the blood—which fou know, is the life—had already become 'impoverished. See to it, mothers, that your children are lot forming pernicious habits of eating what ▼ill perchance take them to early graves or •under them dyspeptics for life.—Ladies’ dome Journal. Hurtful Speech in Sick Rooms. The horribly brutal speeches to invalids that are made by visitors apparently' friendly md apparently sane, are inexcusable. Some >f them are so horrible that one must laugh it the very remembrance of theq|. To a dear old gentleman who had been confined to the house for some time, came ;he cheerful inquiry: “Does the grave look sleasant to you, Mr. ---- ?” A lady sorely and dangerously afflicted «rith dropsy, unable to breathe except in a fitting position, worqgout by sleeplessness ind suffering, was thus comforted by a sympathetic neighbor after viewing her with iager curiosity: “Well, Mrs.---- , you do look awfully! I do hope you will die before fou burst!” To a nervous old man, depressed by a long itruggle with disease, and feeble, yet very inxious to recover, came this cheering ob servation: “Dear me, how you have failed lately! Why, you're as white as a sheet! Your blood is all turning to water! You ;an’t last long?” By tiie bedside of a sensitive woman at tacked with pneumonia, I heard a most be- aevolent and truly Christian woman say in llear tones, “There is no hope. I see the ieath mark on her face.” You will find, if ill for several weeks, that some of your Inst friend will study your ap pearance and report with startling frank- uess: “Why, my dear, how you have changed! I really don’t believe I should have known you. You are paler or more natur ally flushed, as the case may be, since I was here last; and, yes, you have perceptibly lost lesh. But you must get well. We all love you too much; we can’t get on without you.” This is said with the kindest meaning, but to the “puir sick body” it means faintness or in creased fever, or a cry after the visitor has departed. Whatever may be your disease, the conversation, instead of turning upon the cheerful and engrossing topic« of the time, is too apt to tie fastened to your own condition, and instances are given of Mr. 8o- and-So, who died of the same, or Miss This- □r-That, who at last recovered, but has never been her old self since. We all know how the imagination acts upon the body, even producing death in a perfectly healthy person. Then how careful we should be in a rick room.—Chicago Journal. A handsome bracelet consists of sev en alternate diamonds and rubies, each in a separate box setting, and all mounted on a knife edge band of Ro man gold. A tasteful pattern in a child s ring consists of a numoer of small tur- quoises, set at equal distances all around a plain goli band, having slightly raised edges. A hollow ball of gold, having stars and leaves pierced through the shell and set with small jewels, makes an ornamental top for a single prong ladies’ hair-pin. A six pointed star set with small diamonds radiating from a central cat s-eyo, and overlapping a similar Material for Kitchen Aprons. star set with rubies, is a pleasing pat After trying many different materials for tern in brooches. kitchen aprons I have decided that shirting A very pretty brooch represents gingham is the best. Being about three- three entwined garlands of flowers. yuarters of a yard wide, one breadth answers The blossoms are in colored enamels, very well, thus the time which would be and the Romati gold of the wreaths q«nt in cutting breadths and sewing seams proper can just be seen between them. is saved. A small plaid of brown and white, with narrow lines of red to brighten it, An irregular scroll of enameled gold makes a pretty apron, which, if washed and filigree, in which the principal curves dried carefully, will look well a long time, start from rubies, the whole encircled and there is no doubt about its wearing well. by a diamond paved silver ribbon, I dislike blue in an apron for two reasons, makes a very handsome brooch. namely: It is apt in washing to stein the The Tired Oat Housemother. Small hammered gold paint tubes And when you go home at night and find rubber of the washing machine and wringer, fastened together, side by side, with her jaded and worn, think of aome way in and a disagreeable odor arises when it is platinum links, make a bracelet which which to help her, instead of finding fault ironed. If one wishes bibs to her aprons, of the gingham will be left after cutting, will probably And favor in the eyes of with your »urroundinga and hurling harsh I l'*ss word« at liar, if you do not aometimw break | if enough for two, four or any other even customers with artistic tendencies. the third roamandmHit in your real to K I numlier of garni »nte be purchaser! in one A pretty design etched on a child s eniphatic. Hhe ia Juat aa tire 1 ua you are and - piece. Í11VA- silver mug represents . a _ party ot juve ha. worked aa many hour« at home, battling To ascertain the quantity required, measure nile merry-makers, some gaily dancing with the children and the aervanta, or, when the length nerewiiary for skirt, allowing for about a May pole while others stroll there are none of the latter, battling with the bem an<l a little for shrinkage; then measure monotonoua housework, doing tlie aame thingl the distance from shoulder to belt. Thia atxiut and pluck the early blossom.». Which «be did yeaterday an.l knows ahe length of material will make two bibs, unless 4 tasteful design in sleeve links is in today will have to do tomorrow, until it is not I the wearer is uncommonly broad shouldered, the form of an oval having two platinum •t-snge that «he lemme« disheartened and j which must be taken into account in calcu and two dull gold quarters. In the thinks her life is “one eternal grind,” like lating tbe whole quantity; then allow two renter is engraved a Maltese cross, in poor Mantilini, who, however, used astronger | incites for each belt, as one strip across is about the rig t length Any one after a lit adjective than I have done. which are set a ruby and a sapphire. Anil while she baa been so busy, with tle practice OUi cut the bib to suit her teste. An odd design in rings represent, wwreely a thought beyond the kitchen and Ticking is a good material for an apron to ba the familiar “hook and eye. hereto the cook stove, jrou have been out into the worn when washing. —Good H</usekeeping. fore sacred to feminine garments. Une world and heard «bat it was doing and felt end of the shank set with rubies repre- its pulse beating against your own. and nun .ente the hook and enters th- emerald gled with your kind, and in one sense you go l • trssber U wb /oar wife, to wtoota jon studded eJ^ -Jtwikn a NO. 19 MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 1888 The Great JÍWELRY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. ■ 1 1 . I I may be, it is certainly true that in one respect at least modern mothers are wiser than were their mothers and grandmothers before them. It is only in a few homes that girls are now required to “sit still and be little ladies.” Why should a healthy, grow ing girl be expected to sit still any more thau her romping brother, about whom no concern is manifested, provided he remains iu the house only long enough to eat aud sleep! What matter is it if outdoor sports are hard upon dresses and boots? It takes less time and anxiety to mend torn clothes than to watch by beds of sickness and it costs less to pAy the shoemaker than the doctor. The «laughters of the present generation ai e to be the mothers of the next, and they need outdoor exercise and indoor sjKirts to make them healthy iu body, gentle in dis position and free from all those nervous affectious that are the bane of every woman whose days of girlhood were passed iu uiak- ing patchwork and doing the thousand and one other foolish things commonly denom inated “girl’s work.”—Nashua Telegraph. A Difference in Dress. At a dinner and reception a young married belle was in the sulks. 8he had flounced her self into a chair, and turned her back on her husband, who was angrily red clear over the bald top of his head. “I’m sure I’ve got as fine a dress as any body here,” she was heard to poutingly say. “But you look as wooden as a Dutch doll,” ho blurted out. His criticism was sound if not amiable. The young woman wore much flufiiness of white skirt, her bodice suggested sheet iron, so stiff wore its outlinesand so unyielding its aspect. It was a new thing called the armor waist. It had no sleeves, and over the shoul ders were merely ribbons, tied as though to hold up the bodice. No woman could be graceful in it. Near by sat a willowy girl. Her gown was fashioned of thin cloth, which took its folds from each movement of the wearer, like the garments of the ancient Greeks. The fabric in each fold perfectly adapted itself to the figure, the draperies having actually molded themselves to the form of the wearer. An enwrapping of the slender waist with a wide, soft sash, added to the charming effect of pliability. A demure air was worn with this gown.—New York Sun. The Teaclier’ii Responsibilities. Is it not the mother’s business to know the skill of her child’s teacher as well at least as that of the physician who prescrilies for his sore throat or the tailor who measures him for his first pants! It is only in desper ate cases that we can bring ourselves to pull the door bell of a strange doctor and sum mon him to our house. As a rule, he must be known and accredited, even tested, before he receives our confidence. Yet an ignorant or vicious teacher may work immeasurably more harm than any doctor, if we admit that the soul is worth more than the body. We have divine instruction to the effect that we need not fear those who have no power to kill the soul. An unscrupulous teacher bus the power to deform—perhaps to destroy —both soul and body.—Caroline B. Le Row in Worn .n. Cheap Living. “As I told you, the secret of cheap living is in having ‘no nargin for waste.’ Now, in my system that is the corner stone. In the first place, every economical housekeeper should learn htw to compose her dinners. If one day you have an expensive meat dish, the next day you have a cheap one combined with farinaceous food, such as macaroni or beans, so that both dinners will be equally nourishing and the one balance the other.— New York E\ening Sun. Dressing Well. Since dressing well stands for duty nothing excuses a self respecting person in any walk in life for offending by careless or slovenly attire; and the employer who allows bis •help to offend or the mistress who permits her servant to go about in soiled garments or unkempt hair, is himself or herself guilty of offense against others’ rights and privileges, for their prerogatives give them the right to expect and demand clean and orderly habits of dress.—Annie Jenness Miller. Be sure that the water is at boiling point before putting into it the vegetables to be cooked. If it is cold or lukewarm the fresh ness and flavor will soak out into the water. Place the saucepan over the hottest part of your stove, so that it will boil as quickly as possible, and be careful that the boiling pro cess does not cease urtil the contents are thoroughly cooked and ready to be dished. When the plate is sent up for more meat «end up your knife and fork with it. It is a breach of good manners to retain it. In Germany, however, where the knife and fork are changed less frequently than with us, knife resit» are often provided at each plate. Hold raisins under water while «toning. This prevents stickiness to the hands and cleanses the raisins. Put the quantity of raisins needed in a dish, with water to cover; atone them before removing from water. A polish for furniture may be made from half a pint of linseed oil, half a pint of old ale, the white of an egg, one ounce of spirit« of wine and one ounce spirits of salt. Shake well before using« To keep your skin from roughening, find by trial what kind of soap su’ts you best, and use no other. Frequent changes of soap are bad for the complexion. For a sore throat there is nothing better than the white of an egg beaten stiff with all the sugar it will bold and the clear juice of a lemon. Soaking the feet in warm water, in which a spoonful of mustard has been stirred is beneficial in drawing the blood from the head. A ham for boiling should be soaked over night in tepid water, then trim carefully of all rusty fats before putting on the Are. When you want to take out a broken win dow pane heat the poker, run it slowly along the old putty and soften it loose. A school for wives is alxrtit to be established In England, the pupils of which will be in structed in practical housewifery. The Iwst way to mend torn leaves of books is pasting them with white tissue paper. The print will show through it Blankets and furs put away well sprinkled with borax and done up air tight will never be troubled with moths. Freeh mmt beginning to tour will aweeteu if placed out of door* in the air over night. Good fresh buttermilk made from sweet cream is a serviceable drink in diabetes. Washing in cold water whan overheated b a frequent cause of dm figuring pimples. Drying the hair high is apt to cause head ache. PHYSICAL STRAIN. PERILS RESULTING FROM EXCESS OF BODILY ACTIVITY. A Proper Degree of Exercise Necessary to the Well Being of Man—The Jewish Race — Sedentary or Brain Pursuits. Overwork. One square or less, one insertion.............. $1 00 Guo square, each subsequent insertion.... 50 Sutievsof appointent nt und final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisement*. 75 «enta for first ins« iti hi and 40 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business column«, 10 cents perline. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards. $12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads.” « COMPENSATIO MWh> hesitates is lost** Is an adage old. Fearful lovers, to their cost, Learn they must be bold; But, since nothing new can ba Underneath the sun, *Tis as old and true that she Who hesitates is—won. —Kemper Bocock in The Century. Cuba's Upper and Lower Ton. Nothing is more absolutely necessary to There are but two classes in Cuba. They the well being of man—not only ph\ sical, but mental and even moral—than the bodily ac are the high and the low. A study of the tivity involved ina proper degree ol e.teicise. latter comprehends consideration of a tre But, on the other hand, undue strain put mendous majority of Cuban people. The u;x>n the physical forces is a potent source of greater portion of the island’s population has, danger. It is a case tor the application of since the extinction of slavery, become a the Horatian maxim in regard to moderation. sorry host within the great cities. Fully one- Exactly to define the proper mean is an ex third of the entire population of these cities tremely difficult task. Wo can, however, comprises those who practically do no labor. offer s mo suggestions on this point that They are beggars and petty thieves and lot may prove of use; and we will also touch tery ticket peddlers and what not They upon somo of tho perils resulting from ex would all freeze or starve in our land, but cess. The ancient Greeks havo for many here they ueed neither food or clothing. centuries supplied tho world, among other There is not a stove or the need for one in things, with models of physical culture. The the whole island. All efforts of this horde climate permitted them to live largely in the is, therefore, confined simply to obtaining open air; their dress was unrest ruining, anti enough food to satisfy hunger. While filthy, they paid great attention to athletic sports sodden, soulless masses of ignorant humans and the development and care of the body. breed and grow out of these conditions, the They were, us a people, patterns of manly singular fact remains that crime is not and womanly beauty; their average of health largely predominant.—Edgar L. Wakeman in New York Mail and Express. wus high, and their longevity good. The observations made, however, by tht Lesson« In Stage Deportment. l»b. ysiciausof tho Greek and Roman schools go | Mlie. Mars learned stage deportment from coYiclusivoly to show that, wherever physical activity was carried to undue excess among Mlle. Con tat, and M. Legouve tells an amus them—as in the case of professional athletes, ing anecdote of how that persevering pre cured her pupil of an ungraceful habit etc.—the invariable result was premature ceptor ' decay and early death. Excessive physical of ' flinging about her left arm when she was Au invisible string was tied to the culture during the ago of chivalry furnished acting. 1 tho same results. Study of the vital statistics left arm of Mlle. Mars and whenever she brandished tho offending arm the string was of England, France and Prussia in modern times leads to a similar conclusion. Not only jerked by Mlle. Contat from the wings. At does the point we are urging hold true in the last, however, there came a scene where the was not to be controlled. Up it went lives of individuals, but it is true of nations arm 1 and races. Perhaps, as regards tenacity of vith a gesture so sweeping that the string existence as displayed by a race, the most was broken, “Now you have learned what I striding argument in favor of our position to wanted to teach you,” said the preceptor be found in history is the negative testimony when tho young actress went off. “Never your left arm unless you intend to break furnished by the Jews. This people, since its raise 1 dispersion, has never in any general, system- the ’ string.—New York Commercial Adver tiser. atic way cultivated its physique. It has ’ never voluntarily borne urms. It has taken Contagiousness of Emotion. no share iu the athletic pursuits of the na Frances Power Cobbe, in an article on th© tions among whom it has been placed. It of emotions in The Fortnightly has never exhibited u high physical standard. contagiousness ' Its worst persecutions havo, probably, been Review, s;>dkks of the demoralizing effects due, more than anything else, to its apparent of ' attending cruel shows. A friend sent the corporeal feebleness. Yet today this race, following instance from his own knowledge: for tenacity and vitality, probably stands “A party of Euglish people went to the bull first on earth, and even at this late stago of ring at San Sebastian. When the first horse its history still shows a capacity for produc was ripped up and his entrails trailed on the ing results in literature, science, art. polities ground, a young lady of the party burst into tears and insisted on going away. Her and commerce that ranks with the best. Full vigor of intellect is only properly brother« compelled her to remain, and a based upon vigor of body, and this vigor o( number of horses were then mutilated and body results only from proper exercise. It killed before her eyes. Long before the end is no unusual thing in colleges to find stu of the spectaclo tho girl was as excited and as any Spaniard in the assembly.” dents standing well both in their studies ano delighted ' in athletic« President Eliot has always been —New York Post. a stanch friend of physical sporta, and him Col. Lamont on Advertising. self when in college pullod an oar in the uni Ever since his return from Florida, Cob veiiiity crow. No ono cun ever look at Jo seph Uook, or could ever have looked at Lamont has been entertaining his friends Agassiz or Bryant, without nt once recogniz with alligator stories which have a decidedly ing the development and solidity of the phys classic flavor about them. The latest, I un- ical man. Such instances nre almost innu derstahd, serves to illustrate the powers of merable. But one thing is certain: no man judicious advertising. The colonel beard of a family in Florida can continually use both his physical and mental powers at anything liko their full ca who hud lost their little boy, and had adver- pacity without soon coming to grief. Hu tised for him in the daily paper, That very num nature was not made for this sort of afternoon an alligator crawled out of the thing. It is burning the candle at both ends. swump and died on their frontdoor step. In It is not given to one man to be both un Em his stomach was found a handful of red hair, some bone buttons, a glass marble, a pair of erson and a Sullivan. A man should decide which half of his checked trousers and a paper collar. The nature is to have the lead, and then exercise colonel vows that advertising did it.—New the other half just sufficiently to keep the York Tribune. former in condition and to preserve the Rubbing Off Rough Edges. proper general balance. If be lives by hit Some men, fond of reading and of a brain, let him take physical exercise sufficient to keep his bodily faculties, and by conso- scholarly turn of mind, make a great mistake .;uence his brain at their best—but not too in leading the exclusive lives they do. Every much. If he lives by his body, a certain ad man is better for associating with people, mixture of brain occupation will make him and the wise man, while itever ceasing to not only a larger, but even actually a physi love his books and studies, will find himself cally healthier man. A body worker should wiser and his mind healthier if he goes forth use this and every other possible precaution into the big world and, so to speak, gets next against undue physical strain. In both and to the great popular heart. When a man as in all cases overwork of the bodily forces sociates with his fellows, the rough edges of must result In serious barm. The outside may his nature are worn off, and a good deal of be fair, and the external appearance all that nonsense is knocked out of him.—P. T. Bar could l>e d?sired, but inside there will bo de num in The Epoch. cay. Wilkie Collins, in one of his stories, A Very Singular Country. most truly showed how delusive are the First U. 8. Man—Ever been to Canada! seeming soundness and vigor of even tho Second U. 8. Man—No; have you! trained athlete, when the call upon his vi “Yes; it is a very singular country, It tality has been too prolonged or too great, or when his physicul development has been ab snows 200 days in the year.” “What do the people do the other 165 normally forced—how suddenly his apparent robustness disapjKjars, and is replaced by days?” “They sit around with their ear muffs on, morbid conditions, upon any «udden or extra tension of work or emotion. The case of the and wonder bow long it will be before it ull conquering but finally foiled Sullivan, snows aguin. It’s not much of a country for which has lately attracted so much attention, picnics, lightning rod men and raising honey.”—Texas Siftings. seems clearly one exactly in point. For the sake of emphasis we again say: In Wouldn’t Stand It. the case of the man of sedentary or brain pursuits, he should employ bis body only “I ain’t a-going to be «windled any more enough to keep it active and vigorous, and by them gas companies,” remarked a Detroit hence his spiritual faculties bright ami keen, citizen of more means than education. “I without taxing his resciwe of vitality. The havo just had the meteor taken out, and I’m object is not to use himself up as fast as pos going down to the electic works and order sible. It Is a wasteful and fatal mistake some of them uncandid lights put into my to keep tho entire endowment at high pres house.” And that was the way the incan sure. As regards the man employ cd in bod descent light came to take the place of gas in ily labor, it is seldom within his power to his household.—Electrical Review. control its amount. It may, however, bo said that, ns soon as he finds the equipoiso of Writing Over an Erasure. his system is being disturbed—a fact which I see various expedient« given for writing will generally reveal iteeif to him through over an erasure. This is the best I have ever some pain or feeling of strain in some local used, and I have tried many methods. Erase ity, the unnatural action of some organ or carefully with a knife, not scraping too some sensation somewhere that he recognizes deeply. Then turn the pen over and write as not natural—or ns soon as ho And» that with it back downward. The writing will be his physical strength is gradually lessening, but little darker than other words on the he may know that he has passed tho limit. page and will not spread.—The W riter. In all cases, by systematic and severe physi cal competition—such as either calls for the Wellington’s Camp Bedstead. exertion of sudden and tremendous foi’ce or Mme. Tussaud has added to her collection for prolonged endurance, as occurs in prize of relics the camp bedstead on which the fight«, rowing matches, walking or running Duke of Wellington slept the night before race«, etc.—is physiologically unsafe, and Waterloo. It is a simple one of ropes and from the standpoint of health and longevity wood, and is barely six feet in length, with should l>e abolished. the merest preteuse to a mattress.—New The danger in physical overwork is princi York Bum pally to those portions of the l>ody which are concerned in the pjtyoluntary arts of life— The following is the seating capacity of that is to say, to thè fnuscles and nervous ap the eight largest churches of Europe: St. paratus employed in circulation, digestion Peter, Rome, 54,000 persons; Milan cathe and respiration. At tho best these never dral, 37,000; St. Paul, Ixindon, 35,000; St. re«t; and when undue lalx»r devolves upon Sophia, Constantinople, 23,000; Notre Dame, them, they l»»-<-onie more or loss deranged, j Paris, 21,000; Florence cathedral, 20,000; They belong to vital orgnns, ami injury to Pisa cathedral, 13,000; 8L Mark, Venica» those is of the grarest import. Again, when 7,000. _________________ one or more of the vital organs are in any of it« parts seriously affected, all the other por Two large firms of Japanese nurserymen tions of our complex I mm II cs which depend are introducing into California the Unshin upon it or them suffer also. Generally, the or dwarf orange tree, and find many custom heart fails first, ami, of ail vital organs, it, ers for the true because it can be grown in a together with the whole circulatory system, very small space. is most likely to suffer from undue physical strain; but sometimes the respiratory organs Come to think about it, «orne of the young go as soon, or even earlier. Either way, th«, men who make “masbea” are very “«mail digestive apjMiratiw soon follows, an«l when potate*».”—New Or lean« Picayuna ruin so vital ns this has taken place, death cannot lie put off.—Boston Herald. Among the curiosities of the National mu seum in Washington is a book bound in To fasten knife ha^Jlee that have become human skin. tooKoned, take p>w»’Jfct I resin and mix with Statistics appear to show that in England it n small quantity Of powd» red chalk or whitin F»ii t’. »' M in the handle with domeette servante are growing compaiBÜTaly the mixture, heat ti.e lang of the knife or fewer. ______________ fork and thrust in. When cold it will be Tho highest recorded price for a tec jreiy fast md. vari us vioUo is said to be 98.UÜ0,