Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1882, Page 2

> ea Beus tN wT OF COLUMEIA Provisions of the Laws New im Force Hiere. AS a mastior of interest to afl concerned, it may be at the laws now in force in this District De a tax te 4 or kept in the Dist f Colambia, to be collected us other taxes are: that the collector shall furnish to every 1 paying si ! th the year is t and of » record of | «whieh | A aml ny di i rea-! lamation, w securely | ing or le 0 co at large al first offense, $2 for i conviet.o: Commix to be slat 1 p and BUILDS AGN, Report of the Building Inspector. | Tt was menti Tharsday’s Star! that Inspector of d made | @ report on the Columbia building, occupied | Di rs in which for offices hy the baild or the purposes for In his eT ON THE MBIA RUILDING he says: There are twenty-four rooms in it, four of which are of fire-proof construction and used for storave of records. Seven of the rooms are located in the center of the building. having | no light except from the siaall light wells, and | are therefore of no use for offices, leaving bat | fourteen rooms to be ceeupied. The number of | persons employed In these fourteen rooms is | ninety-four. xe these fourteen rooms are = Maps, drawings, measurements, receipts and Fequisitions, special and eral assessment books, in fact nearly ali the records the board of public works was establis mast be kept there on account of the vi crowded. This building was originally intende: for two dwellings, and is built throughout with wooden stairway s and partitions. ‘The two stairways a: rrow to let to | Persons pass each other eniently. Several | of the more important offices are located on the third and fourth floors. and the absence of ele- vators is constantly complained of by the reat Bumber of persons haying business to transact | there. There is little or no ventilation p ded, and the air at times be foul ¢ is necessary to open th: heating apparatus consists of two sms portable furnaces in the celiar, h alis and the two larsze rooms on the first iloor, 1 bpastnves or sting expensive, ne nl all the other rooms being he: grates, which ms compared with a zener with one or two fires. The building with Its | two small well-holes, one in each section. ex- | tendinx from the second floor up, and of ven combustible construction, would in case of in ames, and at . and. with all records being Jead to endless litigation. THE ENCLOSED STATEMENTS of the chiefs of the prin the contents of their rooms in ease of fire. The water register states that his oMce contains the records and furniture, that the rooms are dark and unsuited r purpose used, having constantly be lighted with cas. The rece contained could not be replaced if lost Th Yalue in dollars and ceuts is incaleulable. as | there isno data to which reference could be made in cas Auditor } fire of the contents of his ot tended with very serious Feeords, the value of wh: state, Assessor Dodge states that if his books and records were lost by fire it would cause great delay and annoyance in stating the amount of taxes due, and retard the collection for the com- ing year; that owing to the crowded state of | the itre-proof room in the back building, all the | by at- | ot papers and | he is unable to | | given. j ctbin, where th ie — € AREE DisrwureyT . | to St.Louis, wir | many expres: ‘TE OF JOHN RISQUE. Graphic Account of His Slaughter by Savages, THE AMBUSHED ATTACK—THE FALL OF RISQUE— THE ESCAPE OF MAGRUDER—RECOVERY OF RISQUE'S REM\INS—THB OBSEQUIBS, ETO. A leiter has been received by a gentle man of this city, from Mr. Ferdinand W. Risque, of St. Louis, in which the particulars of he sad death of his. brother, the late John tisque, formerly of this District, in Arizona, are The writer states that the story is briefly told. The deceased owned a half-interest ith Magrader and two and open negotiations The party lad reached the mine v time and determined to go to a vould dine. Ss ATTACK. ried, and on the way . whiel they supposed ‘That shot, as it was led the owner and oc- he pathway was a moun- 1 been suffering with a sprained knee, so he hired a mule and led the ard the report of x * fired by some covered, . Capt. Slawsou was next behind him; ‘Tres- cott next, and Join Magruder last. Suddenly one of the party called out re are the In- Once & volley was poured in upon hem from the brush. vunded, shot thro: gh the i do! fell mortally nder the arin, ell dead at the i with his lex broken, shot a second time. took in the whole 1 his rifle at an In- as pre ndian dropped fi jer turned or sifety Into a gulch. and ran back with bullets whizzing — past. behind frees, rocks and mounds, then y only a man so ly he had reached a point of tliat ne ran fully six miles nd dang The alarm was tize d they turned out, d buried them where they - Ss before he w THE REMAINS RECO! Magruder went to Clifton and then to City, where he and Beverly Risque orzat who determined to ain men at all y would ever rty of forty young men, her th ‘0 Silver City. eek after the nmassaere. The body of Jchn Risque was laid in state at the Masonic hall, with a guard of honor from the Knights Templar and reliefs of Royal Arch and Blue Lodge Masons. Masonic cere- monies were held in the hall, and the master Was compelled to stop f ly in the servi 62 account of his emot iness for sev. S$ neaily suspended, and a gloom ttle on the little ety. The re- mily, were taken nterred. R OF JOHN RISQe mains, accor BRIEF BUT BRILLIANT CaRse e The writer coucludes as rollows :—*‘ John was 33 years 15 days of age at the time of his death. He left Georgetown coliegze betore graduating, but was almost without ex: classes all through. He went to New Mexico in Aptil, 1 as John was very 5 extion to business, and numbered among his clients the Atchison, To- peka and S. F. R.R. Co., the stage and mail line, the banks of the piace, and a number of inining companies. Many tianks for your kind and at- fectionate letter, for it is vut another of the 18 you have given of your friend- eu “THE MERCILESS SAVAGES. Mr. Conway, the partner of John Risque, wrote to his brother in St. Lonis an account of the affair, which was inclosed with the above ship avd e and have in all these days of our deep sorrow been too much oceupied to write. In ‘ondition we have all been in, the sns- excitement has unfitted nus to write. letter. ——S ‘The Lost Child. From Wide Awake. losted! Cou) Lyon find me, please?” Uttle frichteried baby! iden fleece, stehed Ler dirapled knees, r With ease, q her spered, “M "y Asi “But dear,” Lsaid. “what ts your name?” you hear me told you? A bright thourist pod; Dut wie: mamms never seolds Uttle blush ensutng. pt "ve been i-fowing ston says (the culprit owns), appbira Jones, What has you been a-doing?” Sree ga ee Goats to Protect Sheep. Farmers in New Jersey use goats to protect their sheep from dog. Two goats can drive away a dozen dogs, and two are about all each farmer puts in with his sheep. As soon asa dog enters at night the goats attack him, and their | butting propensities are too much for the ca- nine. who soon finds himself rolling over. A few repetitions of this treatment causes the dog to quit the field, limping and yelling. Formerly, when a dog entered # sheep field at night, the books mentioned are left exposed continually. /ssheep would run wildly around and cry piteously. He does not krow how the loss could be calcu- lated in of fire. ‘The superintendent of property states that he keeps in his office the journals aad ledyersof the | late board of public works. containing the origi- nal charzes for material furnished the contrac- tors: also the original requisitions and receipts for material furnished the contractors from 1871 | to 1882. which are of great value in the settle | ment of claims. The officers of the Court of | laims are constantly examining the books of | that office. j The collector of taxes makes a similar state- ment of the troubles and delay which would | ensue from the loss of his books and papers, and | states that they could not be replaced if lost by fire or otherwise. ———— Earth Closets vs. Sewerage. ‘To the Editor of the Evenine Star. Dr. Verdi, in his testimony before the com-! mittee of Conzress, well sets forth the dangers | of the Potomac fiats and of the sewage dis-| charged upon them. After filling the flats he | Proposes a new main for the sewage to connect | bec with the river far below the city. It is probable | he thoucht this was as much of a step forward as Congress would stand. even as a suggestion. He is tuo good @ physician and sanitarian not to know that the whole svstem of handling the excrementitioas and waste matter in cities through sewers is fearfully destretive to lite and heaith. It is also a grievous waste of valuable fertiliziag material that the earth sorely needs to replace the exhausting con- sumption of cities. Great attention is being ~~ to this matter by scientists in Europe and jo some extent here. It seems to be satis- factorily demonstrated that by the use of cheap deodorizers, such as pulverized clay. all ex. erements can be rendered in: in- Rocuous. Even sifted coal ashes does quite well. By the use of earth closets the dangers of our present system would be obviated. Economy, decency and health are all on the side of this reform. As an original proposition the contamination of a nobie river would eyery- where be condemned as a public crime. The supposed necessities of the city have alone menrmerycbrmensade it. Now sone ae shows a er cheaper way. a grow! civilization will soon demand its adoption. The population on the river below may reasonably protest against the continuation of the and demand the abatement of ve eS et anes, an admitted source of danger £0"the ‘pub the nuisance. Since the goats have been used to guard them they form in line behind the goats, and seem to enjoy the fun. The {dea of utilizing goats in this way came from the west, where they are put in sheep pens to drive away wolves. aA emits Sute wD The Champion Needle Story, From the Pittsburg (Penn.) Commercial, May 12. A lady living in the vicinity of Blairsville has had a somewhat remarkable experience. When a little girl, she put a sewing-needle in her mouth, which got into her throat. As it en- tered her throat crosswise it lodged, and her mother made an attempt to get it out, but It disappeared. The family were greatly alarmed and called in a physician, but as the needle | could not be seen nothing could be done, and | just fears were entertained of serious conse- quences. Ina short time, however, theinjury the throat had sustained healed, and as no further inconvenience was experienced the matter was forgotten or recalled only as a strange affair. ‘The little girl grew to womanhood, married and : amother, enjoying all the while excel- lent lealth. A fe' ys ago she began to ex- perience a jagging sensation in one of her thighs, which became at times very annoying and pain- fui. Finally the end of the needie made its pearance through the flesh, which she canght and extracted—beyond all doubt the identical Uniltated, at least It soem very soranges tne uni at seems very 7 pen. for Renee th a dozen years in making such a pilgrimage through a human body without giving greater inconveni- ence or pain than in this case. A Planetary Sight Few of Us Has Ever Seen. Mr. J. Herschel writes: Those who watchfor and witness the phe- the rest of their lives of haying seen what few others have seen on any other occasion—namely, Venus and Mercury in very close conjunction at the very unusual height of thirty degrees above the horizon. The two planets are now about ten degrees apart. This distance will continually diminish, while both recede from be cara aera i a ess will af the-enme time aftalaite nesses : ite Jadge Wylic nnd the Apprenticeship Question, ‘Te the Editor of Tax Eventve Star: ‘The recent reiterated declaration of Judge Wylie from the bench, as reported in the press of this city, that owing to the proscriptive meas- ures of trafes unions it was aimost impossible tor a boy to acquire a trade outside the walls of ® penal institution, has given rise to considera- ble discussion among unionists and elicited aev- eral commantiestions in Tue Star and other papers; but it appears to my understanding that none of these ders have fully met the issue presented by the judge and controverted his assertion. The mere dicta of this honorable gentleman (who perhaps has never entered a kshop except as a visitor. and whore a ities for acquiring information as to the influences controlling the apprenticeship ques- tion appear to be limited to conciusions drawn from recitals of so-called oppression in which important facts are suppressed and the trades- unionist painted in-hideous colors) should not be accepted by the general public without inves- tivation, for dicta, in a case of this kind, unless supported by incontrovertible evidence, carries ho more weight than prima facie evidence of a man’s guilt of crime before the testimony is heard. It is true many trades unions now limit the number of apprentices. Time was when they did not. After the decay of the indenture sys- tem, and when most mechanics were employed by the week on full time, the apprentice having no legal restraint upon his movements, when he thought himself competent to perform the du- | ties of a journeyman, the incentive being higher wages, through the connivance of another mas- ter mechanic wouid leave his instructor and en- ter another shop, thereby defrauding his legiti- mate master of the fruit of the training bestowed upon him in the early days of his apprentice- ship. But mark! a master mechanic aided and abetted the desertion—not the journeymen, for they could not give him employment. Experience of this nature naturally rendered the inaster mechanics who had thus suffered dissatisiied, and remedies were sought to cor- rect the evil, which was a growing one, affect- ng likewise the Interests of jouraeymen and he progress of honorable apprentices. lier, 8s onthe subject simply provided for the exciusion from fellowship in the unions of apprentices who failed to serve the required period with their legitimate masters. Unions in those days being more of a social and beneficial character than the pictured exacting tyrants of to-day, this mild legislation bore but a modicum of the fruit the planting of the tree gave hope for, because disreputable employers still contin- ued tieir piracy on willing captives. More stringent measures were next resorted to. The number of apprentices was Iinited in each establishment; and at this time many unions declare that if an apprentice leaves his employer without his written consent the mem- bers of the union will exclude him from every other establishment so far as lays in their power by refusing to work with him. And farther, if ah employer dismisses an apprentice without sood and sufficient cause the vacancy thus occa- sioned imust not be filled until he releases his control, so far asthe union is concerned, over the dismissed apprentice. The justice of limiting the number of appren- tices, I admit, is open to debate and smacks of proscriptive selfishness ; but when viewed in the light of certain facts I’ opine even Judge Wylie will admit that the Devil (tue trades-unionist) is not so vile as he has painted him. A glance at the newspapers for a few years back will de- monstrate that thousands of workmen (from the lack of employment brought about by flnan- cial depression as the result of the legalized vambling in stocks and breadstuffs) struggled for a bare existence for themselves and families, exchanging the tools of the skilled mechanic for the implements of untutored labor, and even apprentices, with their trades not haif acquired, were thrown upon thelr own resources by em- ployers who could not or would not sustain them in idleness—ignoring the moral obligation involved because not restricted by the legal obli- gation of indenture. As all observers are aware, a majority of me- chanies can work but a portion of the year— notably, bricklayers, plasterers, house-carpenters, painters, slaters,&¢.—while others depend largely upon the business vity of the country—1. e. book and job printers, iron-molders, puddler machinists, &c. In times of depression the ap- prentice suffers with the journeyman, and it is of common occurrence for him to be furloughed without pay. Were the number of apprentices unlinited this wrong would be proportionately extended. Is it not reasonable to assert that it an employer finds it necessary to furlough two out of four apprentices, if he had ten he would furlough eight ? While I do not indorse the dicta of Judge Wylie in the sense he desires, yet I am willing to admit that ia a large number of instances it is alinost impossible for a boy to acquire a trade, and for the very good reason that there is no one to teagh hin and he is necessitated to “pick it up” as best he can. But the trades-unionist isnot responsible for this lamentable state of affairs. Why? Because the journeymen work by the piece, and every moment g yen to in- structing the apprentice is so much money loss without any corresponding compensation. If employers working hands by the piece desire to ve to the world workmen who will reflect credit on their craft and the establishments from rhich they graduate, it fs time they were realiz- f constant supervision of ap- an experienced workman. nist does not fear the competent On the contrary, he hails him with ure and is proud of his association; but he ‘oes fear the incompetent, and seeks to improve his condition by pointing out his defects and en- deayoring to correct them. When to incompe- teney is added moral insensibility then he is shunned. The true unionist is not an enemy to apprentices, but he is bitterly opposed to the prevailing loose apprentice system. By legal enactment, if only as an experiment, make it compulsory to enter into indentures of appren- ticeship in this District, and if the employers do not prove the stumbling-block to an unlimited number I venture to assert that the trades- unionists will not. There are many points for discussion involved jude Wylie’s remarks I would be pleased to ut this time—mechanical schools, prison ction in trades, a contrast of the trades- sts and the professions, &c.—but will re- serve the subject for another occasion owing to the length to which my pen has run. Oxe Wuo Was INDENTURED. Ei EE Stories By An Iowa Minister. From Our Continent. An Towa minister sends us the following, vouching for it as occurring precisely as stated: Being assisted by an evangelist, the latter took up the case of Job one evening. As haa been the favorite practice with the evangelists for a few years past, the patriarch of patience was set forth as an illustrious case of hypocrisy, After the service I asked him if he remembered the Lord’s judgment of Job’s character as given in His question to Satan: “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, as perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?” My friend was not a man to be cornered nor to be daunted by aquotation. ‘Yes, I remember it, but the Lord was only getting Satan’s opinion!” I thought of the man in Proverbs and of theseven men that can render a reason, and was silent. Of many men it is still true as of many men in old Chaucer's day: “For whanne that he himself concluded had He thot eche other mannes wit so bad ‘That Impossible it were to replie Agenst his device. This was his fantasie!” On another occasion a brother of the hard- shell order had been holding a series of meet- ings in our place, He was to close on Sabbath evening,and as the chapel of our Baptist friends was smaliand a neigh! iz church wished to Join with them in the closing service I offered them my own churcb. It was thankfully ac- cepted. and on the evening named was densely crowded. The worthy man read for the Scrip- tare lesson the healing 6f the lame man at the pool. Pausing and looking around he sald: “I want you to take notice, candid triends, that this modern habit of finding fault with the iiracles of our Saviour is no new tht _- nomena of the 30th may talk without tear for | {St FOUR HUNDRED EDITORS COMING ‘TO WASHINGTON. What They Can Sce Here. James R. Young in Phila. Star, Usually about the middle of May, Washington is to be seen at its best, and when you see It at its best you see the prettiest city in the United States, and, as far as I have seen, the prettiest in the world. But weare about two weeks be- hind time. It has been raining since Tuesday night and everything 1s damp and chilly. The rain, however, is making the grass look as if it were greener than ever before, and is bring- ing out the leaves on the trees so rapidly that you fancy you can see them grow. This is a city of parks, trees, honeysuckle vines, flowers of all descriptions, clean and smoothly paved beautiful public buildings, and cheay car fares. Any man who wants to give his wife and children ‘a few days’ holiday, and at the same time have a visit of instruction, let him take a run down here in about two weeks, or say the first week in June. Not only will he be able to see a beautiful city and havea visit to all the public departments, but he will have @ chance to see Congress in session and other attractions that are visible only when Congress is in session. There is a firm in Boston which makes a business of bring- ing excursion parties from the surrounding country to Washington during the fall, winter and spring—one about eyery three weeks. The excursionists generally allow themselves aweek from home, which gives them about five days here. Judging from the large numbers that the firm brings, the excursions must be a success. It is a wonder some one does not start a simi- lar movement for Philadelphia and neighborhood. Mr. Menamin, ‘of the Printers’ Circular, 18 here arranging for the visit of the Pennsylvania Editorial association in the latter part of June. They will number about 350 persons. He has secured quarters for them at the National and the Metropolitan hotels. They will stay with us for aweek. The President has promised to receive them, and give them the run of the Executive Mansion for an hour ortwo. One day is to be spent in a trip of sixteen miles down the Poto- mac to the grave of Washington at Mount Vernon. This is a trip full of historle associa- tions. You pass the United States arsenal and see the spot where were hanged the con- spirators in the assassination of the late Presi- dent Lincoln; the old town of Alexandria, where Ellsworth was killed; the Virginia hills, where at one time were encamped a hundred thousand soldiers; old Fort Washington, the navy yard, the Jail’ where Guiteau is contined, the bridge Booth crossed in making his escape after killing Lincoln, and other places of equal interest. Then the editorial people are to have a drive to the Soldiers’ Home and park, (a lovely place, at one point of which you get a bird’s eye view of the city,) and visits of Inspection’ to the Capitol” building, the State, War, Navy, Treasury and Post Office departments, the Patent Office, the Agricultural Bureau, the Smithsonian Institute and vark, the National Museum, which isa store house for all the things given to the government by the various exhibitors at the Centennial Exnibi- tion, the Botanical Gardens, the Washington Monument, now nearly 400 feet high, and to be 700 feet when completed; the carp ponds, the Corcoran Art Galiery—one of the best art galle- ries in the country—the Medical Museum, con- taining all the medical records and relics of the war, and which was the house in which Lincoin was assassinated; the depot bullding where Gar- field was murdered, and many other places I cannot now think of, but which Mr. Menamin has marked down on his program. It ought to be a pleasant excursion, tor there is everything hereto make it pleasant for a visitor. He Loves, it Hie Censures, From the Boston Transcript. In bangs I never can delight, My gentle Phyllis ears Why Will you hide from mortal sight 2 ‘That forehead white and clear? I do detest that halo hat, ‘Whose wide, Set regecns brim Encircies like a pancake flat, And hides your face from him Who fain would gaze upon your face, Where beauty sits enshrined; I do not like the easy grace ‘With which you free your mind Of jargon, prattle, small talk, slang; “nese taka ty . hings do'sadly mar— But spite of these, big hat and bang, Yil take you as you are. —_-—-o______ Books for Children. It has become trite to say that children are the most formidable of all audiences; but why are they 80? Because they are interested in nothing that does not appeal directly to the ele- mental passions of the soul; because they will not endure padding; because you cannot hum- bug them with what you have acquired in the way of knowledge; they care not a pinthe more for you If you are professor of all the languages, sefences and vanities of the world; you are reduced to engaging them with your naked mother-wit or not at all. Because they know and care nothing about literature, have no re- spect for literary traditions, but an insatiable appetite for things, if they be the right kind of things, because they know nothing of com- parison, and will not listen to vou because yeu assure them that, stupid thoug! you are, some other story-teller 1s yet more stupid. Because, in short. the man who tells stories to children must be himself a child, and yet wiser and of more experience than the great majority of men. Ifhe cannot combine these two ex- tremities of the great circle of human life let him hold his peace when children are near. It is true that children, nowadays, are supposed to read a terrible mass of hybrid enorinity—moral, useful. dogmatical, in- structive and what not—all which does them just as much good as if they were to be fed on tobacco and spirits and wedding cake, instead of on bread and milk and fresh air. What a child needs is not the precocious cul- mn of faculties which belong to mature years, and which any mature numskull can ast of, but the fostering and encouragement of that invaluable and only too evanescent wis dom—there is no other name for it—which chil- dren are born into, which, once lost, can never be recovered, and the poor, scattered vestiges of which become, in later life, the precious soll wherein only the seeds of poetry and the higher humor can germinate. It is, however, unfortu- nately true that our children are (owing to the jabber f indolence, officiousness, and lack of imagination of their elders) compelled to have resort to a mass of mental nutriment of a qual- ity so indigestible and heterogeneous that, were it not for some chance occasional child in re- mote districts who escapes being taught how to read, and would rot understand what is meant by morality and eternal punishment—were it not for a few odd fugitives of the school board like these it would become a serious question where our next generation of social and politi- cal reformers was to come from. We ate ap- pallingly reckless of our children. They are the only children we shall have, and they will have but one opportunity, of being children; if they mis’ shat opportunity they will never be of any value to God or man. And yet we are doing our best, from the moment they are able to dis- tingulsh'‘mamma” from “papa,” to make little cut-and-dried moraliste, grammarians, linguista, matl.ematicians, and, in short, premature men- tally dyspeptic prigs, out of them. We have no Be to do this, for the children do not belong to us, though they have been so ill- advised as to throw themselves, like Bona- parte, on ours generosity. History records what became of Bonaparte, and, eee our chitdren have not devastated Europe and been beaten at Waterloo, we shut them up all the same in the St. Helena of our formulas and pre- judices, and go to sleep, forgetful that they are our posterity and the world’s future. Let us, while there is yet time, ch: St. Helena into basttnioas aot, return to iter -—_ which we began this paragraph—let_us huml and repentently the fact that if fairy stories are commoniy held to be the pasturage of children it Is because the dee; pate discernment of mankind tl the best II prod literature Which the human mind has laced must of necessity be addressed chiefly 80 rage ans bet who are best qualified to preci: beings are children.— ‘Be Spectator. aR IO 2 Handsome Corsets for Bride. Chicago Fashion Letter. A pair of corsets reserved for a West Sidelady who is tobe married shortly were of delicate ‘Winatering in the Snow. - Many of the swnmer resorts between 2,800 and 3,500 feet above the sea are not open and available at this season, and in those that are available the accommodation is perhaps not such as invalids require. Moreover, even if a suitable intermediate station is found, it will Occasionally happen that pulmonary invalids find themselves worse for the change, and begin to think they have been ill-directed ingtheir choice, whereas they should bear in mind that the spring is a dificult season everywhere, especially for those who suffer as they do, ‘husis, 2,448 feet above the sea, is convenient and accessible, but little is known‘ about its spring climate. Fair ac- commodation can be obtained there, and it has the advantage of being on the way homeward. Seewis, nearly 3,000 feet above the sea, a village in the Practtigau, quite close to Landquart, is exceedingly conveniently situated in @ pictuagsque position, and, we are assured by those who have spent ‘a whole winter there, has excellent accommodation. Glion, above Montreux, on the Lake of Geneva, also about 3,000 feet above the sea, is a pleasant, sunn: station, with very good accommodation ani most picturesque and cheerful surroundings, rather out of the way for those who are returning to England. Heiden, 2.660 feet above the sea, near Rorschach, on the Lake of Con- stance, is also conveniently accessible and ina picemne situation, but would probably be found lull and unprepared for spring visitors. In con- clasion, two questions must be briefly dealt with: tirst, what class of invalids may fairly expect to derive benefit from wintering in tases, high mountain valleys? and, secondly, what are the curative agencies at work there? It is of the first importance to remember that these mountain cli- mates are by no means adapted to the treatment of many well-definded forms of consumption; that cases have to be selected with great care ‘nd discrimination, and that regard must be paid rather to the constitution and tempera- ment of the individual than to the mere amount of local disease. Hereditary predisposition, other circumstances being favorable, offers no counterindication to the suitability of these Stations. But their remedial power is especially manifested in persons who have become acci- dentally the subjects of chronic lung disease, and who are the possessors of originally sound constitutions, and have obvious reserve stores of physical vigor. The constitution must have the power of healthy reaction to the exciti stimulus here applied to it. The extent to whic! this reaction often occurs has occasionally led to grave and even fatal indiscretions. It is the universal experience of physicians that the phthisical constitution is the most difficult of all to control: consumptive patients are forever committing indiscretions which are perilous to themselves and in the last degree exasperating to their doctors! Cautions against over-excite- ment and ovey-exertion are therefore specially needed in climates such as we have been con- sidering. The following summary of cases suit- able to these high mountain health resorts is founded on the published testimony of a phy- sician whose practical experience in one of them has extended over 20 years, and, in the statements which follow, my own experience is in accordance with his: 1. Where there is an obvious and well-ascertained predisposition to consumption, and when perhaps a slight hem- orrhage has occurred without the manifesta- tion of any definite local disease; as a preven- tive measure a residence for two or three sea- sons In a high mountain station is to be recom- mended. 2. In catarrhal forms of con- suapyon, in the early stage, without much con- stitutfonal disturbance, the best results may be looked for. But cases with much fever from the commencement, and of nervous and excita- ble temperament, must not be sent to high alti- tudes. 3. Chronic inflammatory indurations and infiltration of limited portions of the lung, often the result of acute congestions and inflam- mations, are especially suitable; not so, how- ever, if a considerable extent ot lung in the seat of tuberculous disease, or if, owing to the extent of lung involved, and consequent changes in the sound lung, there is much diffi- culty of breathing. 4. Cases of chronic bron- chial catarrh in young people; that is to say, those cases ot tendency to repeated attacks of “cold on the chest,” often left behind in chil- dren after whooping cough, measles and other maladies. But this does not apply to the chronic winter coughs of per- sons more or less advanced in life, or to cases where there is much permanent short- ness of breath. 5. The results, in the shape of thickenings and adhesions. of former attacks of pleurisy, to which too often the develop- ment of serious subsequent lung disease can be traced. The pulmonary gymnastics excited by treatment in high altitudes prove of great value in these cases. 6. Many cases of purely nervous asthma have been cured in these resorts. 7. Apart from cases of pulmonary disease, many other ailments, such as general loss of power, not dependent upon organic di: of nervous exhaustion, over-work, retarded con- valescence, in otherwise vigorous constitutions, certain forms of dyspepsia and hypochondriasis, and other less strictly definable maladies—not seldom find restoration to health and strength from prolonged residence in the pure Bracing air of these Alpine stations.—Dr. J. B. Yeo, in the Fortnightly Review. Holmes on Heredity. In his tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes gaid: “When a life so exceptional as that which has just left our earthly companionship appears in any group of our fellow-creatures, we naturally ask how such a well-recognized superiority came into being. We look for the reason of such an existence among its antecedents, some of which we can reach, as, fer instance, the characteristics of the race, the tribe, the family. The forces of innu- merable generations are represented in the in- dividual, more especially those of the last cen- tury or two. Involved with these, inextricable, insoluble, is the mystery of mysteries, the | mechanism of personality. No such | peerapcd as this which was lately present with us is the outcome of cheap paternity and shallow mother- hood. I may seem to utter a Hibernian ab- surdity; I may recall a lively couplet which has often brought a smile at the expense of our good city; I may—I hope I shail not— offend the guardians of ancient formule, vigilant still as watch-dogs over the bones of their fleshless symbols, but I must be per- mitted to say that I believe the second birth may precede that which we consider as the first. The divine renovation which changes the half- human animal, the cave-dweller, the cannibal, into the servant of God, the friend, the bene- factor, the law-giver of his kind, may, I believe, be wrought in the race before it is incarn: in the individual. It may take many genera- tions of chosen births to work the transforma- tion, but what the old chemists called cohoba- tion is not without its meaning for vital chem- istry, life must pass through an alembic of gold or of silver many times before its current can pos run quis clear. A New Englander as a right to feel happy, if not proud, if he can quarter nis cont of arms en the moses = ancestry of clergymen. it gener ainisters preceded the advent of this prophet of our time. There is no better flint to strike fire from than the old nodule of Puritanism. Strike it against the steel of self-asserting civil freedom, and we get a flash and a flame such as showed our three-hilled town to the lovers of liberty all over the world. An ancestry of min- isters, softened out of their Old World dogmas by the same influences which set free the colon- jes, is the true Brahminism of New England.” They Would “Rather Be Excused.” The Kingston Freeman says: ‘Complaint is made by one of our correspondents that the girls in his neighborhood are growing too fond of re- plying, ‘I would rather be excused,’ when asked by young gentlemen the privilege of escorting them home from church at night. The practice may be hard on the ‘boys,’ but it is one which Perfected his @iscovery, he has had all kinds of ordinary flowers blooming in baskets containing the fertilizing mosa. On the occasion of any fete, as for instance Christmas, his tables have been covered with a profusion of spring flowers, and he has been able to decorate his rooms with ® freedom impossible with plants growing in earth. Thns, while mature outside lay frozen and dead, the interior of his house has been &@ blooming parterre. The practice of adorning rooms with plants is so agreeable a one, that wih encoding to be told it may provea source of disease. A Russian rove | suffering from inter- mittent fever was attended by Prof. Edward von Eichwaid, of St. Petersburg. The disease readily gave way to quinine, but returned again andagain in the most inexplicable manner. At last the cause was discovered. When she left her sick- room convalescent she went into the salon, a large room filled with plants. Prof. yon Eicbwald ordered the room to be entirely cleared, and the fever returned no more. Such malignant effects are impossible ‘with the fertilizing moss. It cannot turn sour like earth and poison the plants, or contain germs of malaria and poison their owner. The extraordinary way in whicn the discovery will develop the artistic character of floral decoration, in the facilities it will afford to all kinds of arrangements and effects in color, can only as yet be faintly imagined. Churches, and even public roads will by its help be tar more beautifully and rapidly decorated; for the great obstacle of weight in the removal of plants will be obviated—there will be scarcely anything to but the plant iteelf, so that in the majority of cases @ child’s strength will suffice to remove the wicker basket in which the plant will be living. There appear to be no practical difficulties in carrying out the process. The one all-important ad is to preserve the roots of the plant rom being torn or otherwise mutilated, and from being brought into close apajene d with the fertilizing moss. In taking a plant from the earth M. Dumesnil removes the mold about the roots by placing it in alightly tepid water. Having prepared in the basket or vase intended for the plant, a bed of fertilizing moss, the quantity being regulated according to the strength of the plant, he places over it a layer of ordinary moss of similar thickness. He then takes the plant and. spreading out the roots, fastens it in the ordinary moss, covering the whole with another layer of the fer- tilizing moss. A little water is ff en at first and the moss always kept slight- If the change from the earth ly humid. to the moss is made with intelligence the plant soon exhibits ail the beauty and freedom of life, its satisfaction m its new conditions being shown by the quantity of rootlets it throws out. Other gar- deners besides M. Dumesnil have tested the 2g cess and witness to the same results. M.Cabos, director of the public gardens at Havre, has. since the 22d of November last, been cultivating in the fertilizing moss dracenl, alternantheri, crotons,and cocoa-nut trees,all hot-house plants, as well as palm trees, chamerops, and the | Pteris Arguta had developed numerous new roots in the moss. None of these plants had lost a single leaf, nor had even faded at the | time of their transplantation. In a fortnight they had completely taken possession of the moss, and had thrown out new leaves, In the chameerops,two or three long roots of the thick- ness of a quill had appeared, one of the best in- dications of a vigor of a young palm tree. The old roots had developed a quantity of fine rootlets, The Cocos binoti and the various kinds of dracwena, all very delicate, had also produced new roots, and were in perfect | health. On December 9 he submitted a number | of ordinary greenhouse plants to the proceas, with complete success. All the plants preserved their vigor, and their health continued as if nothing had happened. On the 17th he in the fertilizing moss an Eucalyptus globulus. This shrub has the reputation of not bearing transplantation; however, it scarcely faded. Two Cuphea bazli, equally difficult subj were put into the moss he ak same n day, = gave nO appearance of suff ym the change. The culture in moss of the Eucalyp- tus globulus is the more important, as this celebrated shrub has the property of dis- infecting the air, and is inning to be used in sick-rooms. It will be observed that these perfect results haye been ob- tained by practiced horticulturists. Ama- teurs must not expect that this pro- cess in any way dispenses with attention to the ordinary laws of vegetable life. Happy results will depend, as heretofore, on the to which the plants are loved and cared for. The object in the cultivation of vegetables being in- creased and regular productiveness, the adopted by the gardener of Vascceull is to P ace their roots, enveloped as above described, in an ordinary bed of mold. The results are most satisfactory. Wesaw at Vascceuil as many as thirty fine potatoes the produce of one mother- tuber. Thus the poorest land may be made to teem with rich crops, the soil being of no im- portance, the earth merely affording room and shelter for the plants. Seedlings and cutting areraised in the same way. Jn fact, the pro- cess seems to have all the characteristics of a great discovery: perfection in principle and in- at powers of further development.—Good —— ‘The Death-Cry in Connemara. From The Catholic World. There was no sound of merriment, not even a voice, from the house. All was still, as if in ex- pectation, when there came from it a long, piercing, mournful wail-u-lu-iu! It rose toa high tremulons cry, filling the misty air with an indescribable thrill, and sinkinginto a low moan. It was thrice repeated, and then followed by a rapid recitation in Gaelic ina sustained key. The cry seemed the last excess of anguish and lamentation, and, although I knew that in one sense It was artificial, it overcame me with an actual shudder. It was the keen. After the recitative had ceased way was made for us into the room where the corpse lay. It was large though low, and around the bare, rough walls candles were stuck up with lumps of clay. Its only ornaments were a religious pictore and a faded lithograph of the ‘ Libera- or.” In the center a poame of stools supported coffin ot unpainted deal. No glass protected the white, wan features of the corpse from the tobaceo cloud that filled the ai eadying around the candles and under the cobwebs of the thatch. The principal mourners sat at the side of the coffin, and consisted of the son, a stout farmer of fifty, and his wife, and a half dozen children in youth and girlhood. The room was filled, except in the space immediately at the head of the coffin, with all the neighbors for miles around, seated on benches, stools and turf kishes, or on the uneven floor. An im- pressive quietude and solemnitygreigned upon the countenances of all. The faces of theassem- blage were characteristic ot the locality. They were sharper in outline and wilder in expression than their congeners of the south. Their fea- tures were more regular, with darker complex- ions and hair, and less of the Milesian out- raaliteetaen aaa ae eye and the oval of the Span! a there was the and turn of the head of Poo! clad, and few of the women had the comfertable long blue cloaks of the southern farmers’ wives, or cap with its frill of lace around the shin- ing hair. Some ofthe men were ragged beyond description, and the suggaun, or hay-rope around the waist was all that kept their garments in any of consistency. Several of the men, and women also, were barefooted, although the ere and air were both damp and chill. keener sat on a low stool at the head of the coffin. When she had finished her recitative, she had drawn the hood of her and julous ery and continued with a tative, apparently addressed to the rather than the audience, and then subsided again into chargeable ‘to the dealer. quart fulge Dealt open the geehiinievel cam dents over which the renga had no control. For example, the drags may have yee on with before coming in alleged to be criminally at fruit, or in the fendant's store. by accident or otherwise, apart trom any negligence or knowledge of the pro- prietor and clerks. A high degree of care would not secure the seller against such a possibility of error. The courts do not dispense with the Necessity that actual negligence shall be an ele- ment in the lability when a mistake bas oo- curred. Intentional wrong or obvious negli- gence must be proved. ht — A Practical Young Woman. From the Chicago Tribune, “See the sunrise, Gwendolen!” Miriam Mahaffy spoke those words im an ec- stasy of girlish enthusiasm to ber elder sister as the latter sat sanguidly on the bedroom floor one soft sensuous morning in June, and pulled with stately grace a long striped stocking over a shapely limb. Thrasting her tiny feet into a pair of dainty slippers, Gwendolen stepped to the window and looked out upon the morning. “ not beautiful?” exclaimed Miriam, im- pulsively, putting on her corset as she spoke. “The golden pencilings of light dart up from below the horizon, touching the fleecy white- ness of the ever-changing clouds with a roseate glory beyond compare. See how, in yonder speck of blue that peeps forth #0 coyly between the great masses of clouds that surround it on ; side, there comes a mezzo-tint of orange making a beautiful background to the tur- quoise bloom of the picture. Is it not very beautiful, sister?” “Yes,” replied Gwendolen, reaching for the hair brush. it reminds me of a lemon pie ine blue plate. “See, sister,” continued Miriam, as she did up her back hair and took her bang from the dress- ing case, “the breath of the morning, balmy and sweet, Is kissing every flower and plant into y life. Can anything be mere lovely?” ‘Nothing in all the wide, wide world,” replied Gwendolen—“except breakfast.” —e A $25,000 Cheek on a Shingle. From the San Francisco Bulletin, May 2. Joseph C. Palmer, a California pioneer, and at onetimea banker and politician, died yesterday in Oakland at the age of 63. 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