Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1871, Page 7

_ and his friends were sure Jones would skulk, and xa dap Uy any Nive dead leaves tel ‘and melt, Ard tight by night the mouitory Blast Waile in the ke: he Ct oe Se arims Ulde wave: tad now tee per le fold wa Of melancholy - tenderer in i's monds “Than any joy summer dealt. ends etber in the glimmering eve ith tones that mise THE TICK-KNOB DEBATE. Jotham Jones and Didymus Dox were rival candidates for Congress in the Pennyroyal dis- trict. This district was close, and the contest hot and personal. After a rattling fire at long range for more than a month without result, it was resolved to try the effect of bringing the combatants to close quarters: in other words, it was arranged that they should meet and discuss *the issues of the hour” at Tick-Knob, « cen- tral and accessible point, on the day before the leetion. “"Both parties, in donning their armor, boasted as only he should boast who taketh it off. Dox dJones and his were quite as certain Dox neyer come to the scratch. But if neithe: backed out. not a *+grease-spot” of either would be left, if the other was to be believed. | An ambuscade of secret affidavits to the effect | that Dox’s wife’s sister-in-law’s brother-in-law, who kept a grocery at Sorghumdale, sold sand | in his sugar, constitated a principal featuré in athe Jones tactics. Dox, on the other hand, was supplied with an equally convincin, ; proofs that Jones’ step-father’s uncle’s aunt's cousin by marriage, had a halt-sister no better | than she should be. These masked batteries, | held carefully in reserve on either side, when opened at the last moment, was confidently ex- pected, by those in the secret, would pat a final settler on “ the issues of the hour. For the time being, Tick-Knob became the | center of interest. Everybody was making | y to go. In the remotest corners of the dis- | , the din of preparation sounded. Heads of | households: scrangeh to take their families, and | ains their sweethearts. Carryalls, baggies, wagons, sulkies, horses, males, saddles, side- | saddies and pillions were all in demand. To see 8 couple of politicians “* worry and devour each | other” was a treat too rare to be foregone. The dawn of the eventful day was as bright as the hopes it heralded. As Jones walked the platform, ‘‘scenting the morning air,” and wait.. | ing. for the train that was te carry him to Tick: Knob and vietory, reveries were distur! by, touch on the shoulder. ee ‘urning about. w an elderly gentleman— no, we can hardiy say be saw the elderly gen- | tleman, for on the latter's arm hung a creature of more surpassing beauty than it had ever be- fore eni the heart of Jones to conceive. * Going on the train, sir?” the elderly gentle- oor ~ od without removing his eyes from jones ing the object that riveted them. | “M take charge of a lady as | ht I ack to next sition?” the gentleman contin: | ed. Might he? The question transported Jones to the heaven of the houris. Eger pooch thing about being on! py, and was sav: from naling a complete ass of himself by the arrival of train. Recovering himself, he handed the lady on board, where another piece of good fortune | awaited him; the crowded state of the car com- | pelled him to sit by his charge’s side, and. the Toad was a narrow gauge, When it was build- ing Jones had gone with the broad-gauge party; he saw his error now. For the next half hour Dox and the issues of | the hour slipped from Jones’ memory. He had | never struggled for popular applause as he now laid himself out to win favor in the sight of a pair of lustrous dark eyes, far ‘‘lovelier in their strength” than any Byron ever wot of. Nor, he fiattered himself, were his efforts wholly un- availing. His flashes of wit and gushes of sen- timent were rewarded with more than one in- toxicating smile and tender look that made him feel as though his entire cuticle was rising into «‘goose-flegh.” At the end of thirty minutes the conductor sang out ‘‘Sorghumdale!” Jones would have sworn the minutes had been yeconds. Anxious to prolong the delicious moments, he escorted his charmer to the platform, which they had barely reached when a sudden faintness seemed toovercome the lady. Her step faltered, her far as limbs tottered. and she must inevitably have fallen had not Jones caught her. His first impulse was to shout “Fir: i —his | Before he could do either, histle shrieked, the locomo- the w tive What was ach Tick-Kuob in season, after all his vaunting, he | 1 be set down as anarrant poltroon, and his | cake henceforward would be dough. ernative but to drop his burthen nd at his post till help cam | iseues of the hour” to take their own | «was too much of a man to hesitate. it | ly, and there might he another train; rive to Tick-Knob in a couple sat come what would, he would n: rt such an angel in distress! hen the train was fairiy off, the Ia in a dend faint—opened her eyes, and look- | « § F E 5 a 5 h mantied her cheek as she sengage herself. yy don’t exert yourself!” Jones mit mé to carry you; if you only easate I feel in—in— she an- over it. K of nervousness—nothing more. will only lend me your arm a little way to | e’s, I shall not trespass farther with ues was sure she was not equal to the effort. permission she should prove it. Jones k his head. She pointed the way, and took He begged her to lean upon it, and walked on At the relative’s, after being rudely thanked mily, and most charmingly by the lady teelt, who was hurried off to lie down, Jones explained his predicament. He was Mr. Jones, candidate for Congress against that arch-dema- gogue Dox, with whom he was under an engage- ment to discuss “the iswues of the hour,” at ‘Tick-Knob that day, at ten o'clock. Would there be another train in time ‘There was no other till three o'elock. take a seat. Most of the conveniences in that Ine were in use, as nearly everybody had gone But he thought of a friend » might be able to accommodate him. ly an hour elapsed before the friend re- with a rickety old sulky drawn by a ors@, whose sire might have been Rosi- nd his dam—well, he hardly looked to th one. It was the best that could be done, however, and no time was to be lost. Jones mounted the seat and ‘took the lines.” | For a quarter of a mile the horse did wonders. He was an earnest-looking quadruped—evideutly an animal of tenacious purpose—but Jones | hadn't expected anything like such speed. If it was backed by corresponding bottom, he would | reach Ti Knob in ample time to demolish Dox, and brand his wife's sister-in-law’s swind- | ing brother-in-law with the everlasting infamy | he dererved. At the end of the quarter hour the roads forked. Jones’ way led to the right; the horse | e path of duty on the left. Jones tugged one way. the horse set his face the other. Jones coaxed, the horse was inflexible. Jones swore; it was ‘sinning to no purpose. It was nearly and there were yet twenty miles to go. ich way's yer a ” inquired a shock- i urchin in ventilation trowsers. Tick-Knob—blast you!” The clause to his horse. “Yer don’t understand Jinglebones,” said the boy. “He wants ter go home an’ wen he does (her's only one way ter mannidge ‘im. Lemme ow yer.” The boy took off his hat, and holding it brim latter up went to the right, calling: Cope! cope!” : Attracted by imaginary oats Jinglebones tarne » that direction when the boy adroitly @ thistle he had in readiness under the It acted like a charm. dinglebones atfall gallop. Jones’ heart bounded with Mane ies sodg in yo hn stim- ulating thistle only kept its verything depended on that. =: ut the fates were against Jones. At a sudden turn the hab of the sulky struck « te! pole, and the whole co: fe axle and body—fiew to pieces like the shell of « touch-me-pot. Jones was huried head first into a brier patch and before he could extricate him- self, Jinglebones, whom the shock had relieved - bis =— turned and cantered placidiy ‘Jones gave it late to think of going forward. teli for her sake, ward his would wait z e unt's cousin by marriage, aunt's cousin amailed, and bis own sneaking fear of meetin; of the hour,” he would less comfortable than he On his way back he skirted | i i oT il iif E ? I i i off she: His destination reached Could he see the lady be had morning. z | least,—with impunity. So, too, with re; P goed tobetes taasbed nr array of | poiso | typsical baby-starving ease. The mother and Who Should Not Smoke. “Is smoking i rious ie Thisisan question aj patients to their tors. Like most broad questions of the kind, it involves far too many considerations being answered by a plain man, Dr. E. B. Gray, who mod- erate smoker, and watches the effect of the habit on himself and others, here believes to be the trae answer to the question. First of all, there mast be an about the quality of the tobaceo to be smok Bad. i. ¢.. rank, gulekly intoxicating and pros trating tobacco (cert: ‘inds of and cay- endish, for instance,) must always be injurious. Few can smoke them at all—none habitually, at to to excess to the smoker, quantity; even will to a certainty be injurious sooner or later, in some Way or = Methon er another. Of the various evil effect excessive smoking, more will be said presently. Next, as to the smokers. There are le to whom any tobacco, however smoked. is ‘amply ‘ansing, even in small doses, vomiting, pallor, and alarming prostration. Sach Bever get seasoned to its effects, even re- peated trials, and if they are wise they will for- ever let italone. T oe il further bet fee sepa to laws for others who have not the same itiosynerasy, No one can enjoy smoking or smoke with tm- unitY,,mhen ont of health. ‘The phrase “out of ealth,” though it may sound vague, is definite enough to frame a rule. At time it is useful to it particular disorders and Which tobacco does special harm. As far writer's knowled; , these have never Festa ty nce seas sirable. To begin, a manwith a bad smoke, most assuredly eat worthy faet for or from & wasting illness or “off their wl er cause. This effecto tobacco, way, while an evil to the sick man, <8 5 Fee wi an of As e Fi if e a x 5 { no man should smoke who has a dirty tongue, bad taste in his mouth, or a weak or di nm. In any such case he cannot relish his tobacco. It should be a golden rule with smokers, that the pipe or cigar which is not smoked with Telish ~ better zat be smoked . estion in every shape vated s at most especially that form of it iy known as atonic and accompanied with flatu- lence. Diarrhea, as a rule, is made worse by smoking. One of the commonest and earliest effects of excessive or untimely smoking is to make the hand shake. This gives the clue to another class of persons who onght not to smoke—per- sons, namely, who have weak, unsteady nerves, snd suffer from giddiness, confusion of sight, tremulous hands, tendency to stammer, or any such symptoms. And if tobacco does harm in mere functional weakness, still less allowable is it in aetual organic disease of the nervous sys- tem; as, for instance, where there exists any degree of paralysis or other sign of degenerative | change in the brain or spinal cord. The im- proper use of tobacco beyond question somehow interfere with due nutrition of nerve substance. An illustration of this, familiar to rulists and medical men, is the so-called to- bacco-amaurosis, a failure of vision occurring in excessive smokers from mal-nutrition of the retina Another class of persons who ought not weak or unsteady ms, and complain of such troubles as palpitation, cardiac pain, intermittent pulse, abitually cold hands and feet, or chronic lan- F is reason for believing that the habitual use of to! is hkely to retard the due growth and nt of the body. If £0, no one should become a smoker till he is well past the period of puberty. Boys, moreover, ave no excuse for smoking, for they are spared the hard wear and tear of adult life. Now, after eliminating those who from idios- Yherasy cannot, and those who from bodily ail- ment or from fender years should not smoke, there will still always be a large residuum of happy folk who can smoke, enjoy smoking, and are indeed the betterfor it.” These are they who © tobacco without sbusing it—use it, that , in moderate quantity, in due season, and honestly for the sake of the comfort which it gives tliem—a comfort every bit as legitimate as by ‘offee or wine ex- | in each case from their favorite beverage. ee ee A Sore of Modern Society. One of the terrible sores of our civilization was laid bere on Saturday night, at an inquest beiore Dr. Hardwicke, the deputy coroner for Central Middlesex, England. A baby had been put out to farm, and had been starved to death. [t'was the child of a child of Ir, acd its father bad never contibuted a farthing to its support. It had been placed with a woman whose dwelling was a front kitchen, damp, close and unhealthy. In this kitchen uman beings lived; and it was nursery, room for all the seven. Here is a t tract the baby-farmer have been charged by the cor- oner’s jury with manslaughter; but that does but litte to meet the justice of the case. Where is the father, and what is the law worth which cannot touch b How is it that seven human beings are allowed to live together in a room ow the surface of the street? Above all, it is that a woman living in such a place is allowed to take in baby lodgers whom she can only accommodate by lulling them with opiates and out of whom she must starve her profit ? Parliament regulates lodging: uses for adults; why not for babies ? The subject was investi- gated this summer by a committee of the House of Commons, but there was no time to legislate. It may be hoped that next session some measure will be passed dealing with the matter; and that some means will be found of bringing home the ibility In such cases, not merely to the poor mother, who finds the child an intolerable burden, nor only to the wretched being who hopes to make a little profit out of the baby's ners, but to the father, whose abandon- ment is at ‘the bottom of the whole tragedy of horrors.—Lonidon N Best Parlors, Almost every American house possesses one of these dreariful altars, erected to what unknown oddess it is impossible to guess. It is a i -efore Whom from time to time people burn gas | in chandeliers of fearful design; to whom | are dedicated flagrant carpets, impossible oil paintings, furniture too gorgeous for com- mon day and shrouded therefrom by cus- temary Holland. Musty smells belong to this | Deity, stiffness, angles, absence of sunshine. | The Visitor, entering, sees written portal: bove the “Who enters here abandons—conver- | What is there to talk about in a room | dark as the Domdapiel, except where one crack ina reluctant shutter reveal: stand of wax flowers under glass, and a dimly descried hoste es, who evidently waits only your departure to | guish that solitary ray? The voice in- tinetively hushes; the mind finds itself barren of ideas. A few dreary commonplaces are ex- changed, then a rise, a rustle, the door is gained and the lightof the blessed sun; you glance upin passing—ilap goes the blind, inner darkness is ain resumed, Bogy has it ail his own way, and thank your stars that you have done ur duty by the Browns for at least a twelvemonth 1 And yet, upon this dismal apartment, which she hates and all her acquaintances hate, poor Mrs. Brown has lavished time and money enough to make two rooms charming. For ugly things cost as much as pretty ones—often more. And costly ugliness is, as Mrs. Brown would tell you, @ “great responsibility to take care of.” with the carpet which mustn't get faded, the mirrors which mustn't get fly-specked, the gilding which mustn't be tarnished, there is nothing for it but to shut the room up to dark- ness and all dull influences. And as families are like flies and will follow the sun, the tic life comes to be led anyw! than in rather the best parlor, and the “taboo” which Mrs. Brown proc entorced.—Scribner’i Monthly. is easily ' man, and. many times every day, praying for all things, and chiefly for thesouis of them that withstood him. And the mannez of his prayer was in this wise, dahmizize and dahmizole; for such were the prayers of the devout meno! in the market pices, and in the temples where they worshipped the god of that city. In all these places ‘ize and dahmizole were heard continually. And lied the name of their Almighty Dahl Lar. And all men worship: him, and of women not a few. For so it was in Gotham that men gave them- t ives day and night ti unto them- felves imagce of thelr god, the Altnghty Dab fod Lar, and he who had gathered many was called worthy of so many mages, and he” who had Ted most was worthiest and great- est. And him (=< meead even as he had worshi, the Dahl Lar. There! when the men of Gotham saw that the images of the Almighty Dahl Lan ber of the ig! a even a multitude like to the stars of the firma- ment and the sands of thesea for number, they said one to * * * Now Danicl wasa Pharisee. And he also prayed daily; but not in of Cornelius, nor yet in that of Daniel of old, who went up into his chamber to pray. But this 1 prayed always in the congregation, and eang and hymns and spiritual And when he was not praying and ing, he was taking money on the road or in Ouahistrete, like Cornelius; for he also was a Durrektah. Satan helped him likewise. For when he was praying and singing, he thought about taking money from. wayterin men, and from the men of Ouahistrete, and when he took money, he seemed to think of praying and sing- ing: ‘And this manner of man findeth taver with Satan. LIKEWISE FISK. * * * New Jemphrise was a Tangkie, and had come to Gotham from wh, the chief city of the iangeies, and he was of the tribe of Pedduliah, and in his youth he had gone to and fro in the land of the langkies, sitting ina chariot, and blowing ® trumpliet, and selling merchandise. And he found favor in theeyesor the women of that land, and sold them much merchandise, even garments of silk and of woolen, and of fine twined linen, and jewels, and nameless little things that in the Iangkie tongue are called noshins; albeit among the Langkie women both shins and noshins are nameless. But in Bosstown he had joined himself into the tribe of Jobbah, and sold merchandise unto the Peddullahs. And when he came to Gotham he left the Jobbahs and went into Ouahistrete, and became a money-changer. But he ceased not to sit in a chariot or to blow a trumpet, and he blew his own trumpet daily. For he said, [f I blow who will blow it for me? ‘THE BLONDES. And after these things, there came certain women to the City of Gotham, singing women and dancing women from the land of the Pabli- Yoos, ant trom the land of Johnbool. And the women were comely and fair to look upon; and they all painted their eyelids like Jezebel, and they that came from the land of Johnbool stained their hair yellow like gold. And their garments began low and ended high. | And when they sang, they lifted up their | arms, and clapped their hands, that men might see that they were comely from ‘the waist up- ward; and when they danced, they flung their feet behind, and waiked around, that men | might see that they were comely from the waist | downward. And the words of their singing no man could understand; for verily they meant nothing; but their dan meant @ great deal, and’ was understood of all men. And they found fayorin the eyesof the men of Gotham. “But in the eyes of the women of Gotham they were naught; and they said, What are these women, that the men uid set so much by them? Do they not wear garments that begin low and | end high, which is an abomination, and work- eth confusion? Verily, we ourselves, when we | nntoa feast, where there are many men to | {ok spon us, wear garmonte thet begin low, | but IMkewise they end low, even s0 low that a woman's raiment continusth long after the woman is ended. Notwithstanding, the men set none the less by the dancing and singing women, and when th plaved before the people, the houses were filled with men, ng and old, shouting and clap- ping their hands, and casting tlowers and jewels of gold at their feet; such was the delight that they took in the singing that meant nothing, and the dancing that meant a great deal. Even so, also, did the men of the land of the Pahili- Yoos, and of the land of Johnbool. So that the | whole world was filled with the uproar of these women; and their singing and dancing was called in the tongue of the Pahlivoos. as it ie spoken in the land of the Unculpsalm, uproar- pooph. + ‘ow Hot Iron May be Handled. ‘ons. I. Fontelle, president de la Societe des Sciences Physiques et Chimiques de Paris, &c., has left the iollowing on record :—* About the year 189 one Lionetto, a Spaniard, aston- ished not ge | the ignorant, but chemists and other men of science, in France, Germany, Italy and Xngland, by the impunity with which he handled red-hot iron and molten lead, drank boiling oil, and performed other feats ¢qually miraculous. While he was at Naples he at- tracted the notice of Professor Sementem, who narrowly watched all his operations, and deavored to discover his secret. He observed in the first place that when Lionetto applied 4 piece of red-hot iron to his hair dense fumes immediately rose from it, and the same oc- eurred when he touched his foot with the iron. He also saw him place a rod of iron, nearly red- hot, between his teeth without burning him- self, drink the third of a tablespoonful of boil- ing oil, and taking up molten lead with his fingers, place it on his tongue without apparent inconvenience. Sementem’s efforts, after per- forming several experiments upon himself, were finally crowned with success. He found that by friction with sulphuric acid, diluted with water, the skin might be made insensible to the action of the heat of red-hot iron; a solution of alum, evaporated until it became spongy, appeared to be still more effectual. After having rubbed the parts which were thus rendered, in some degree, incombustible with hard soap, he dis- covered on the application of hot iron that their insensibility was increased. He then deter- mined on againsrubbing the parts with soap, and after this found that the hot iron not only occasioned no pain, but that it actuaily did not burn the hair. Being thus far satisfied, the Professor applied hard soap to his tongue until it became insensible to the heat of the iron; and after having placed an ointmsnt composed of soap mixed with a solution of alum upon it, boiling oil did not burn it. While the oil re- mained on the tongue aslight hissing was heard, similar to that of hot iron when thrust into water; the oil soon cooled, and was then swal- lowed without danger. Several scientific men have since successfully repeated the experi- ments of Professor Sementem.' not my own trumpet, rofenor Semeniat Tse Arrroacntne Soran Ectirse.—An eclipse of the sun will occur on the 1ith of next pease, puis = taxis bag — in India, » an ia. Tre) ns are ee ‘observe the sstronomical event in a manner worthy of its great scientific Importance. The British ‘men of mee are res commenci ener, rh ie et trot. he atrneme i alre: in his m for use in his chosen aay : ice re men write Carouay injures why we fegara marta writer apoyo regned marvels on interest; he says t! ph hy man who exceeds 100 pr of life has no more ‘us than the min who exceeds eight feet ” In short, ’tis uence. It is that i ‘occasional 5; steam the locomotive seems to take answer its rider. An engine never hurtsits mas- ter, save in the effort to throw the ers, nt the engineer, though sitting so placid, is wide awake. “He is kept aly fou ‘Two hundred lives hang on his wrist. We plunge into a snow-shed with infinite clat- ter, every and beam beating back the deafening press. As we rush on, the prairie dogs skulk into their holes, or sit on their hind quarters, with fore feet lifted, as much as to say, “What next?” The antelopes scatter over the plain. We ride unimpeded where less than two years ago the buffaloes stopped thetrain as the heads stam across the track, and along here the savages careered on tlieir ponies. You see here and there groups of re hair, and cheeks dashed ‘war-paint, ringed ears, and a superfiuity of dirt that buries your last romantic notion ‘about the “noble men of the forest.” The air is laden with the breath of the cedar, madrona, manzanita and buckeye. Here we are peli and Ninev on either side our track must have vaster abodes, where giants might have lived till the ‘Titans began here to play leap-frog and turn somersault. Now the whistle lets off a wild scream; a cow and calf on the track. The cow we cut into halves, and the calf, with broken legs, tumbles over into the ditch. I wonder if that man just ahead will get off in haps he is Porhaps he is crazy, and wants toberanover! Neither. In time to save him. self he switches off and robs th Hold your breath! Ravine a thousand feet deep on this side! Embankment a thousand feet up on the other! As we turn the curve the engineer pulls the steam-valve, and the silence that chiefly rei; here for six thousand years lets slip all its sounds of echo and reverberation. ew! how we fiy! Ifa bolt break, or a truck fall, or a rock dislodge, we are in eternity’ Innumerabie varieties of flower break their ala- baster at the feet of the clitts; but yonder the mountain tops are blooming into the white lily of everlasting snow. Bridges, high, narrow, tremendous, that creak and tremble under the pressure of the train. A tunnel! Ink-black, midnight doubled, dampness that never saw the sun; while far ahead is a hint of sunlight peer- ing through a bole that looks about the size of the arch of a mouse-trap, but which widens till at last it is large enough to let a whole train escape into the golden day. Out there is the old emigrant road, with occa- sionally the skeleton of 4 cow or horse, or the wreck of a wagon that hopelessly broke down on the way; and here a mound, and a rongh stone at the head of it, that show where some worn traveler finished his journey, inthose times when in one year across these heights went five thous- and wagons, pulled by seven thousand mules and thirty thousand yoke of oxen. * * # And now the night begins to fall, and the train es plowing through the darkness. ‘The great purning eve of the locomotive peers through, and flashes far aead uyon the wild scene. The rizzly bear, the panther, the night- hawk, the cormorant, the pelican, the grosbeck, the eagle, that kept aloof while the day shone, may venture nearer now, if they dare. Oh! how wetly! The rush of the wind, the jamming of the car-coupling, the clang of the wheels, the steam hiss, the fierce shower of sparks that set the night on fire, the shooting past of rocks five hundred feet high, followed by a precipice a thousand feet deep, make the breath short, and the heart thump, and the very scalp lift! How the shadows shuttle! How the era; shiver! How the echoes rave! An express train at night on the Rocky Mountains! ‘The irresixt- ible trampling the immovable! Yet the way smoothed down by human engineering. Then it will not be so difficult to prepare the way for grander coming when the mountains shail be made low, and the crooked straight, and rough places plain, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all ilesh shall see it together! An Unsuccessful Straggle for Life— An Affecting Incident at Chicago. While Madison street, west of Dearhorn, and | the west side of Dearhorn were all ablaze, the spectators saw the lurid light appear in’ the Windows of Speed’s block. Presently a man, who had taken time to dress him- self | ¥, appeared on the extension built up to the second y of two of the stores. He coolly looked downj the thirty feet between him and the ‘ground, while the excited crowd first cried jump, and then some of them more considerately looked tor a ladder. A long plank was soon found, and answered the same asa ladder, and was placed at once a the window, down which the man soon after slid. But while these preparations were going on there suddenly appeared another man at a fourth-story window of the building below, which had no projection, but flush from the top to the ground—four stories and a basement. His escape by a stairway was evidently cut off, and he looked despairingl; n the fitty feet between him and the ground, ‘The crowd grew almost frantic at the sight, for it wasonly a choice of death before him—by’ fire or by being crushed to death by the fall. Sense- less ‘cries of jump ! jump! wae se from the crowd—senseless, but full of sympathy, for the sight was absolutely agonizing. Then for a minute or two he disappeared, perhaps even less, Dnt it seemed so long a time the supposition was that he had fallen, stiffocated by smoke and heat. But no; he appears again. ‘First he throws & bed, then some bed-cloathes apparently Phy, probably even he does not know. Again he looks down the dead, sheer wall of feet below him. He hesitates, and well he as he turns again and looks bebind him. : he mounts to the window-sill. His whole form appears, naked to the shirt, and his white limbs gleam’ against the dark wall in the bright light as he swings himself below the window. Somchow—how none can tell— he drops and catches upon the top of the win- dow below him on the third story. He. stoops and drops again, and seizes the frame with his hands, and his gleaming body once more Straightens and hangs prone downward, and then drops instantly and accurately upon the window sill of the third story. A shout, more of Joy than applause, goes up from the breathless ‘crowd, and those 'who lad tarned away their heads,’ not bearing to look upon him asheseemed about to drop to sudden and certain death, glanced up at him once more with a ray of hope, at this daring and skillful feat. Into this win: dow he crept, to look, possibly, for a stairway, but appeared again’ presently, for here was the only avenue of escape, desperate hopeless’ as it was. Once more he dropped his body, hanging by his hand. screamed, and waived to him to swin, over the’ projection from which man had just been rescued. He tried to do this, and Vibrated like a pendulum from side to side, butconld not reach far enough to throw himself upon its roof. Then he hung by one hand and looked down; raising the other hand, he took a fresh hold and swung from side to side again to reach the roof. In vain. Again he motionless by one hand, up, he let a oF white # jot down full forty feet to the fonnda- tion of the basement. Of course it killed him. He was taken to a drug store near by and died in ten minutes. Tuezs awp Rary.—In Italy the clearing of the A ep and nd altered the climate of the Po v: the African sirocco, never known to over the right bank Of that river over the right bank of that tory of Parma. The armies breath M47=een YOUNG AND RISING. GENERATION ‘The vegetative powers of life are strong, but ina few years how often the pallid hue, the lack-lustre eye and emanciated form, and the impossibility of pplication to mental effort, show their banefal in- ftuence, It soom becomes evident to the observer that some depressing influence is checking the de- ‘velopment of the body. Consumption is talked of, ‘and perhaps the youth is removed from school and sent into thecountry. This is one of the worst move- ments. Removed from ordinary diversions of the ever-changing scenes of the city, the powers of the body, too much enfeebled to give zest to healthful and raral exercise, thoughts are turned inwardly upon themselves, If the patient be a female the approach of the menses is looked for with anxiety as the first symp- tom ia which nature is to show hor saving power in diffusing the circulation and visiting the check with the bloom of health. Alas! increase of appetite has grown by what it fed on. The energies of the system are prostrated, and the whole economy is deranged The beautifal and wonderful period in which body and mind undergo so fascinating a change from child | to woman, is looked forin vain. The parent's heart bleeds in anxiety, and fancies the grave but waiting for its victim. HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU FOR WEAKNESS ARISING FROM EXCESSES | OB EARLY INDISCRETION, attended with the fellowing symptoms: Indisposi- tion to Exertion, Loss of Power, Loss of Memory, Difficulty of Breathing, General Weakness, Horror of Disease, Weak Nerves, Trembling, Dreadful Horror of Death, Night Sweats, Cold Feet, Wake- fulness, Dimness of Vision, Languor, Universal Las- situde of the Muscular System, Often Enormous Ap. petite with Dyspeptic Symptoms, Hot Hands, Flush- ing of the Body, Dryness of the Skin, Pallid Counte- nance and Eruptions on the Face, Pain in the Back, Heaviness of the Eyelids, Frequently Black Spots Flying before the Eyes, with Temporary Suffasion and Loss of Sight, Want of Attention, Great Mobili- ty, Bestlesnese, with Hotror of Society, Nothing is more desirable to such patients than Solitude, and nothing they more dread, for fear of themselves; no no repose of manner, no earnestness, no speculation, but s hurried transition from one question to another, THESE SYMPTOMS, IF ALLOWED TO Go ON-—WHICH THIS MEDICINE INVARIABLY REMOVES—SOON FOLLOW LOSS OF POWER, FATUITY AND EPILEPTIO FITS, IN ONE OF WHICH THE PATIENT MAY EXPIRE. During the superintendence of Dr. Wilson at the Bloomingdale Asylum, this sad result occurred to two patients, Reason had for a time left them, and both died of epilepsy. They were of both sexes, and about twenty years of age, ‘Who can say that these excesses are not frequently followed by those direful diseases, Insanity and Consumption? The records of the Insane Asylums, and the melancholy deaths by Consumiption, bear ample witness to the truth of these assertions. In Lunatic Asylums the most melancholy exhibition appears. The countenance is actually sodden and quite destitute; neither mirth nor grief ever visits it. Should a sound of the voice occur itis rarely ar- ticulate. ” “* With woful measures wan despair Low sullen sounds their grief beuiled.”” While we regret the existence of the above dis- cases and symptoms, we are prepared to offer an in- valuable gift of chemistry for the removal of the con- sequences. HELMBOLD'’S FLUID EXTRACT OF BUCHU. ‘There is no tonic like it. It is an anchor of hope to the physician and patient. This is the testimony of all who have used or prescribed it, Beware of counterfeits and those cheap decoctions called Buchu, most of which are propared by self- styled doctors, from deleterious ingredients, and offered for sale at ‘+less price” and “larger bottles,’ &c, They are unreliable and frequently injurious. Ask for Helmbold’s. Take no other. Price $1.25 per bottle, or 6 bottles for $6.50. P putts Aeneid Describe symptoms in communications, A™in SEYERY WEDNESDAY AND Sat- URDAY TO AND FROM rechten oy Freight j Mer é ship freight, and procure bills of Inding vim CFR Tee Vino | BeenmoRe ano oue winnnoas a5 Genta Wharvse command- at ALL WAY STAT wre ‘4 : . snd 245 po me Ae aN O:8B a, bale = 3.00 and 7 ANNAPOLI® 4:10 p.m. Netraintoer N SUNDAY. rok BALTIMG) ALL PA 3, a Fo! at 6:49 a.m. Leave oa. Leave at Fo! 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