Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1883, Page 7

BRIGHT FANCIES OF THE POETS. & Pince Myself Within God's Hand. (From the German of B. Schmolke.) BY J. B RANKIN, BD. I place myself within God's hand, My will, what God ts wtlltn And what for me, He does mand, ‘To bear without ¢ ‘Than hand of x I trust myself within God's hand, When round, men’s bands are surinking; It bins me, as no other band, And keeps my soul from sinklag. So be the wort To rutn hurte ‘Though loud the tempest rages, Fim on the Rock of ages, n my hand, J boli God's hand, ning can ever di ugh death’s arrow’s on the strand, oser Fil eabrace tt: 0 his datt unit nO part, ling, God's hand, acti H!s Will shall end tt And if ha: life by Hin be planned Tspend tt, "PIs best, His Wor That hand will sure uphold me. Whe Eievator Man. Written for Tur Evrsixc He has his ups and downs,— y like a flirted fan, Ittle fellow levator Man, STAR. Confined within his room, His station by the door, ‘Yet 15 he evar Day and night, t a floor to floor. His bell Incessant (Oo monareh throned More sought by ear More walted for, th: Tho benefit cont We plac Omit a simple “thank you,” A bow, or smile—and leave, He lives, he thinks, and feels, And has, besides, I ween, Some other swell belongings Above a mere machine. Whatever be tt Acanowk work, it, If goods Elevator Mant —Szatos Donono. ati Written for Tux Evenrxe Srap, L AwWhole wide ocean rolled between me and my friend,— 4 yet I was not sad; g through the months unto her jour- "send pi my heart glad, . i A low wise of mistrust between mo and my Gbend— And through !t I could seo Wer fori, her face, hex eyes,—that sweet love- es send, —But, ni For, loo tomet pia @, ocean bring thy waves; clasp thy cold arms, 0 Farther apart. ——_——_+e- _____ Wondering. —G. K. M. ‘Written for Tue Evestse Sram. Awonder !f she ever hath divined ‘The sentiments with which my heart ts teeming; I wonder if, within her novle mind, She e’en suspects that ’n Lie feelings of unutter. I wonder if she know ‘Thrills my belng with ‘That, twit my will’s And stern unyi ss seeming eet voice nsations nS reguiations , 13 rendered power! K see we umiuner Time, round, from ata next door «teething babe ig for tts mT, ver the w.y a loud-voiced mata : ee Au Unsatisfactory Meeting. in walking down the dusty road one Woman traveling afoot the other way; And, laying down his big Valise,ue bowed fn han some style, White she returned his greeting with a curtsey and a smile. *Can you Inform me where, ma’am, I can find a Witez” said he. tay tongue to ask about a husband, tr,” sald she. fT'm Weary of my singte state, and -many miles vo gol For one who'll cook ond wash for me and sew my nS OL: h me when I am well and tend me fu, r give me cous? to grumble at a foollsh Do you bnow any one, ma’am, you can recom- 4, Mend?” salt he, *Tn looking for precisely such a husband, str,” no. ‘led thoughtfully Then stowly reached for his velise, regretfully to Ls ‘White. with a pensive Po the sky, r 0 nd Ww ned the ecy cloudiets as they lazi passed by. eee Tis plain Pim not the busband you're after, tia’am!” satd he, Tis evident Im not the wife yowre seeking, sir!” said she. ALCOLM DowaLas, in St. Nicholas, conned pvr Unease mile, she gazed up at What Did He Leave? ‘What did he leave? He left the light of heaven And the wide rivers that make klad the elds— We lett the Lirds the forests to enliven, et but) ays with golden shields, He leit the muste of the atrand water tao here witching shadows a ‘th-love, the Muses’ purest daughter, y—that was beyond ls call He lett then all, ‘What aid he leave? He left, w i the dattering pl-udiee’or iaurel he spent his Itfe tn earning, And many things that witaer with the years, Bieler the wealth that footed all his garuors, Which, ere the sun bad set upon his padi, ‘Was reached for by the hands ot eroedy mourners, ho feared lest something might the dead Fe: He left them al. ‘What did ho take? Ah! "tis not for mor: ‘To judge the dead, or mete tor him the toa: Whate’er he carried throuzh that mystte portal Is kttywn Uato Bemseif and to bis God. + Just this we know, he took the blessings tender Of those he cheered tn poverty’s enthrall— took whate'er he won of true Worth’s grane deur, What time he sweetened Sorrow’s cu; of gaul— that was all. . Wa. LYLs, t% Boston Transertpt, And tho cool groves, th spirit yearning, fs peers MRS. DODD'S PORTIERE. BY MARY N. PRESCOTT. “I mean to have a portiere, sure’s you live,” announced Mrs. Dodd. “Lor, what's that 7” asked Lucinda. “One of Mrs. Parloe’s new recipes? I hope it’s some- thing good.” “A portere! child alive! Don’t you know what that is? They're curtains hung up to the doors, and they sweep on the floor—and they're worked with crewels and yarns and things! Lawyer Browne's folks, over to Hingham, have real satin brocade ones in the best parlor, good enough for a gown. But Mrs. Kitchener, the housekeeper, she took me into her room, and there they was nothing but coffee-bagging, it you'll believe it, with bits of colored cotton- flannel sewed on’em; and the bagging ain't over fifteen cents a yard.’ “I don’t see the good of hanging curtains up to the doors; nobody can see through ’ein.” “Lor, elild, the door is took off, and the por- tiere hangs In Its place, and looks mighty grand, and makes you feel as thongh you was living In a palace. f don’t believe it'll deceive me,” sniffed Lu- cinda. “Do the dictionary down, Lucindy, and look out porliere. I want to know how to spell it, and allabout it, and when Mrs. Jerry comes in she can’t trip me. How cut up she'll be! You kuow when brother Ben left me his best woolen iedto know if I wasa’t afraid of da took down the consumptive-looking and pondered over it. believe that’s the ri at “there ain't no such word here.” such word! You're just ike your Aunt 4, vs makin folks miserable. Mrs. Kitcheaer knows, and « this twenty year up ter Lawyer ay she’s poking fun at you.” hing fun at Do you think your lated to hey fun poked Lucindy Dodd?” s have got an unabridged,” said the questlon;“1'li run over and “But don't let on what you're looking after. I want the neighbors to come In and ask what : ing wp there, and I want to teil to be sure: and I want to see ‘em i dying of at hating heard of the thing y to know what a porti to give in that they never before!” But. Mrs. Kitchener, who had been commis- sioned to buy the coffee-baging in Hingham, hap- pened over With it the next day. “fo you know,” sald Mrs. Dodd, privately, “we've hunted through the dictionary, aud Lu cindy’s looked in the unabridged, and ‘we can't find porfiere. high or low?” “Of course: you couldn't,” answered Mrs. Kitchener. ‘Wi a French word!” “A Freuch word!” repeated Mrs. Dodd: “a real French word! You don't say so! Why, folks come from Oldbury, and Neartield, aud all about to see it, Just as if it was a whole ine Q Mrs. Jerry'll be fust ft to die. But 1 y what ‘Tom’ll’say about taking the he hinges!” ik Freneb,” put in Lucinda. ” he cried. re you crazy, Hl be laughing at ake the door off the hing “What tomfoolery ts thi Par el ely? Ali the neighb Hang your portiere. hat’s just what we nda. ant to do,” giggled he neighbors dot laugh at Lawyer ne’s fulks, and there's portiervs and por- all over the honse, 1 sce ‘em with my eyes.” ud the doors took off?" gasped Tom Dodd. ed if Tever heard of such a thing! mnust be moder as It ss! Why not take down house and hang up a curtain? way? It ain't pretty; it looks ket. Itt be mighty nice for and influenzy. Why not take the disapproval the door , brilliant with cotton- dragons, Japanese young men and If moons and hierozlyphies reigned ad. Mrs. Dodd was ready for the and the port Mercy sakes alive!” cjaculated Mrs. Jerry, come in with her darning for a little What on earth have you got a hang- gos: ing up there? and where's your door gone?” p- ‘hat? Oh, that’s only a portiere,” as if a portieve in Millvillaze was the most’ common thing in the world. “A wiat! It looks Itke a side-show at the or a poster.” nverybody don't take to ‘em when they first ‘em:” tiltered Lucinda. ther didn’t. # have to be educated up to ’em, like eating patoes.”” é, did you say? Where'd you get ‘It’s a French word,” sald Mrs. Tomn, as if ich were her dally speech. “It comes from France.” “Pity it hadn't stayed there. sight of cold ait.” “We haven't suffered no inconventence,” re- turned Mrs. Tom. loftily. “Tt ain't to be sneezed at,” said Lucinda. As luck would have It, however, « cold snap set in about this time. Mrs. Dodd’ piled on the It must let faa +] coal and shivered surreptitiously. “Your what-you-may-call-it- don't seem to keep out the cold like a door,” suggested Mrs. Jerry in another of her neihborly calls. “I don’t believe they'll be popular in Mill: village.” “They're pop: the first fa: sister-in-law, “Weill, I spose they have a furnace there, and the price of coal atn't no consequence toe For my part, [shouldu’t be able to reconcile it to my conscience tu waste Jerry's sabstunce ina al Lawyer Browne’s and in ilies to Hingham,” returned her Mrs. Dodd had wished to set the neighbor- hood azog, she succeeded; Miilvillage wasn’t used to esthetic tdeas, and the report that she bad taken a door off the hinges and hung ap a curtain in its stead seemed to their uuenlight- ened minds the height of absardity. “But it reaily does look ever #0. prett: one genial soul at the sewlng circle, “only my teeth chattered ju my head all the time I stayed Mis’ Dodd's." “Lucindy tells me it’s a new-fangled notion got up to Hingham; she says It's all aronnd. as Ifit was the measles. It's what they call ‘Art Decoration,’” explained Mrs. Lute- string, the milliner. ‘Art fiddlesticks.” snapped Mrs. Jerry. “the art of taking cold, [reckon. Pameley had the doctor, last night, ‘and a mustard piuster! 1 cal- Kilate ‘she’s decorated with a blister by this th 'm afeared Miss Dodd's getting dreadful worldly to be so took up with coffee-bayging and cotton-fannei when there's missiouury work to be done,” sighed old Mra. Preacher. “Miss Dodd's got gentility on the brain,” in the viliage dressmaker. the fusions in Millvillage.” “T think It’s our duty to get up a petitionand ask her to have the door hung again, seeing’s the sewing society's golng to meet there next it wouldn't be convenient for alt of us to have the influenzy together,” suggested the presideut of the sucicty. the face of Providence,” per- “It's flying i sisted Mra. Jerry. But before the week ended Aunt Hannah dropped tn trom Nearfield to make Mrs. Dodd a Visit. as the weather had moderated, “I thought I'd take advantage of the warm spell.” she exclaimed. “You see I'm going over to Hingham next week to hev Lawyer Browne make iny will, and.1 thought I'd stop awhile along with you, Pameley, on my way. You Know,” she continued, dropping into a whisper as though all the heirs were at her elbow, “if I don’t make it—and it seems as if I was old enough—everything'll go to the folks! seeing’s pat “She wants to lead I'm only your aunt-in-law, having married your own unele Roger Hill for’ my first husband, and mny good-for-nothing cousin Tom Jackman for iny second; if I don’t make it, you see, nota dollar’d belong to you, a3 I brought you up till you married Mr. “Dodd! Laws is queer, you ‘now; 60 [thought 1 wouldn't wait no longer, but take advantage of the thaw and hey Lawyer Browne cut his folks off with a dollar.” But the thaw was followed by another cold ware before Aunt Hanoah could start for Hing- am. “It won't last long,” Mrs. Dodd consoled Ner, ind then Tom’il drive you over in the pung. ‘It's proper pleasant here,” chirruped the old lady, “and I wouldn’t grudge staying all win- ter, if bis folks had only been cut off. How well Ben’s woolen carpet wears, and the horse hair furniture looks real genteel. When you get my legacy—ain’t there a door open somewhere, ees ? I've got eold water a-running down ‘a ” ck — “Do put on Mrs. Dodd; foot-stove and a bottle of hot wate: 4s old and full of cracks.” “When you my legacy you can have a new one, Peaks: Vhat have you got that count e up to the doorway for? ‘erpani to keep out the air? * ©That is & portiere, Aunt Hannah,” ipa ei trv teeredl shale tiere, and folks wondered what it was like, and said they hoped it wasn't nothing catching, Ive been meaning to ask you about it ever I come, but the will and the cold snap put it out of my head, So that’s a portiere, is it? Can't you afford a door, Pameley?” “We took it off a purpose,” said Lucinda; “doors ain't anything besides portieres now-a- day: 'm afraid it ain't wholesome,” caid Aunt Hannah, her teeth chattering in her head, to speak figuratively. “{ believe I am comin; down with one of my colds,” as though she monopoly ot them. ‘I hope it won't be noth- ing serious, till I see Lawyer Browne; his folks would laugh in their sleeves if they was to come in ee ashare ofthe property. I guess I will go to bed.” “T will just slip the warming-pan into your bed firet, Aunt Hannah, and builda fire in your room, and put some pennry-royal to steep. You don’t feel feverish, do you?” But poor Aunt Hannah never reached Hing- ham, and the will was never made. “Pride goeth before a fall,” Tom Dodd reftect- ed aloud. “You pald a pretty price for your portiere, Pameley; hope you feel as though you got your money's worth.” “it's like locking the door after the horse is stolen,” remarked Lucinda when the curtain was taken down and the door replaced. “TI never want to hear the name again, Lucin- da Dodd; don’t never talk to me of portieres,” said her mother; “‘they ought never to have been invented. ‘Our Continent. eet eee A JERSEY SNAKE HUNT. - Practical Use of an Imitntion Mouse— At Close Quarters. Letter to Philadelphia Times. After the road came to an end altogettcy and left the wagon jolting over an unbroken field, the old herse put on a remarkable burst of speed and turned into @ narrow lane leading to a small farm-house. S “Look here,” I said, ‘didn’t I pay you to carry me to Jerry Martin's ? “Sartin you did, sir.” “Then why don’t you do it? Why do you stop here at your own how “Done the best I could, sir. Martin's place, This is Jerry ; at your service, sir.” surely was’ Well ed, and, checking an impulse to say seme- reastic, I laughed and told Jerry my nake hantin’, is it?” he like astonishment. ‘Want to go snake- I never! Fine gents from the 'y never liunts snakes, as I knows on. Goin’ to start a circus? Museum business, maybe? No? Well, never. Jest want to hunt snakes! m houted, in a voice that might have aken for a steam whistle. A nervous-looking little woman stepped out from behind a chicken coop. ac Ye needn't yell so, Jerry Martin; J ain't deaf. ~Here’s a gentleman from the city as wants to go snake huntin’.” Jerry moyed back to note the effect of his words. Not a muscle inoved in reworn face under the sun-bonnet. she said, a moment afterward, “why ‘ou take him?” “Til do it—for half a dollar.” In a few minutes Jerry and I were szain jolt- ing over the unbroken field in the direction of a forest of scrub pines, “Snakes Is scarce around these parts this year. Fire over to. Hammonton way drove ’em off last summer. The big ‘uns took to the pine swamp ‘bout quarter of a mile below the clearin’ in the piney woods over to the right of us, and the little ones was burned up. It’s harder for me to git snakes now, but when I finds one he’s sure to be a whopper an’ big enough to send to acircus. The little ones I send to saloons an’ restaurants for show windows. Billy Howe, in Camden, he used to sellem for me, but he’s gone out of the business, and I have to ketch *em and sell em myself. I was up to the Zoo- oligical Garden in the city last week to see about selling a big piney snake, but Mr. Brown, the superintendent, was away, an’ the dutfer at the gate wouldn't let mein. “Mebbe I'll go up next week. [ain't seen the big snake for three weeks, an’ if he ala't pulled up stakes an’ gone on a ‘vacation he's hiding in the swamp. Can't .stand the hot sun, d see, and only out for any length of time ‘on cloudy Not much chance for ‘im to-day.” claimed, In some- roped from the wagon and turned loose. A cov- ered basket, a pronged stick, a bottle of chloro- form, anda small sponge were taken from a box in the wagon. In the basket was an imita- tion mouse, fastened to the end of a stout stick, and wound around the end of the stick was a small ball oftwine. Anold cloth apron com- pleted what Jerry called the “outfit.” Down to the edge of the bigswamp,where the weedsand the bushes grew thick and high, Jerry walked softly, and, after five minutes of slow creeping, sat down upon a log. “Keep quiet now,” he cautioned, “there’s lots e-holes around here. Here's where I saw the big'un three weeks ago. Now, you hold the end of the string while I fasten the mouse in the clear spot over there.” The stick upon which the im!tation mouse” was fastened was forced into the ground so that the mouse rested in‘an upright position about aninch above the sand. The string reached from the mouse to the log. We lay down, side by side, behind the log, with our heads up- ralsed so that we conld command a vlew of a semi-circle thirty or forty feet in diumeter. We waited five minutes In utter silence. Then Jerry's arm moved backward quickly and the string fluttered an instant in the sand. Squeak! The imitation mouse cried out as if caught inatrap. A bird stopped chirping over- head. Squeak—squeak! The bird flew away. At irregular inter for ten minutes the mouse shrieked in angulsh, but only the flitting shadow of the swaying string disturbed the dull gray surface of the sand. Through an opening tn the trees the sun blazed down in sullen fur Out in a cleared field the heat throbbed upward like waves from aturnace. The nirrow horizon be- yound the trees waved like a banner, ang the branches of the bushes hung motionless In the stifling air. yweak —squeak—squeak! The monse was be- coming furious. Over at the base of a stump Be thing moyed. A streak of yellow-gray sand seemed to start Into life. Jerry nudged me softiy “A snake.” It was but a whisper, but the snake rd it and stopped, with head upratsed and tongue darting back and forth like the flame of a spiritlamp. ‘The mouse became fran- tic at its danger. Jerry selzed the crotched stick, the chloroform and the sponge and was making ready foraspring, when I saw by a sudden lee in its face that something had happened. [leaned toward him and he put his lips close to my ear, “There's & snake cravling over my legs,” he whispered. ‘Don't move a muscle!” Jerry bowed his head upon the log and be- came as marble. In a moment something touched my legs twice. A chill ran through me; my veins ceased Cees and my lungs refused to do their work. e snake was feel- ing his way across me, A second lengthened into a minute,the minute to an hour,seemiugly, and still the suske dragged his heavy length across my legs. In thut seoond of horror and disgust the reptile was as yong as aship’s cable and as heavy as a tree. hen 1 felt myself free of the weight I turned my head. Jerry had risen, and with stick in band was stepping over me. He made a lunge at souething, and when I jumped to my feet I found him holding the stick upon the snake's neok. “Wet the sponge with chloroform, quick, and hold it down upon his uose.” While 1 was doing this the snake wouad him- self about the stick and abuut Jerry's leg twice, but la a moment the folds relaxed und the snake was us limp usa a “That's the way I ketch ‘em,” sald Jerry, as he wrapped the snake in the apron and crowded it into the basket. ‘No trouble about that, is the ‘To-morrow that piney snake will stretch his six feet o’ length in a box that I've got up to the house, an’ next week he'll go to New York or to the new museum on Arch street, Philadelphia. That mouse dves the business every time. That firat aunke skipped back to his hole when the mouse stopped squeakin’. No use tryin’ for ‘im to-day auy more. Wouldn't come out fora drove of mice. ‘They're mighty sharp, snakes is.” Culture in The “Higher Circles.” From the New York Sun. Tt appears that Mr. and Mrs. Bradiey Martin, who entertained a good deal during the winter, and sailed yesterday for Europe, are the pos- sessors of valuable old tapestries coming from convent sales, and bearing the I. H. 8. (Jesus pees ron Salvator) on them. At one of the receptions great admiration was expressed by the guests, when suddenly a iaey, remarked that the tapestries *‘could not possibly be as old ag they were represented to be, as they had the initials of Isaao H. Sherman, the father of the hostess, upon them.” A boat -pronetien, by electricity has made over seven and a half knots an hour in trial trips on the Thames. It has to carry two tons of storage pattorlos, however, for a short trip with @ vessel AWATERING PLACE. Where Wo: it Street Lamps and Indie i'ma Baths, -Among thé celef¥ated watering places of Bohennta, this {8 oné of the prettiest, and most frequented by the Auatrian and Russian no- bility, althougathete are invalids here from as far off as Aisrat writes a correspondent from Frauzensbad, Austria. Belng a modern bath it is not*so Well known abroad as Carls- bad, some 25 inttes stant, which was already famous as back as the year 1500; conse- quetttty ‘there ard fewer “"Americans to be found here,’ but the reputation of its waters and “baths is among the first on the continent ‘for benefiting, if not curing, all sutferers with: gowt, rheumatism, paralysis, dyspepsia, oe all,pervous and female com- plaints. Just now, at the height of the sea- son, one wonders how the constantly ae crowds of people can be accommodat though there are 150 capacious hotels or lod; inghouses. They are all handsomely built, and each one has its own private garden, and the interlors nicely arranged. The vestibules and corridors are adorned with stands of ferns and flowers, and arches festooned with growing ivy. An occastonal glass door, bright with or- namentation, and landscape panelsof the world- renowned stained Bohemian glass, together wito an air of cleanliness and comfort every- where, enliven the dullest of rainy days Indoors. There are five elegantly constructed bath- houses, which can each accommodate between 200 and 300 bathers at one time, in separate rooms. The grounds around the different springs are beautifully laid out, affording delightful prome- nades in all directions, with comfortable seats at every turn. At short intervals along the side- walks, shaded by large chestnut trees, where, at the regulation hours for eating, elegantly dressed er may be seen taking their meals unmindfal of the passing crowd, and with as perfect nonchatance as if enjoying the privacy ofa room to themselves; nor do they seem to fear consuming more than their alloted “peck,” fora week of continual falr weather has made the streets very dusty In spite of the frequent rounds of the water cart. This indispensable summer institution is manazed here AWAY MOST UNIQUE. The barrel-shaped receptacle for the water Is drawn by two horses, the driver walking leisurely by their side. At the back it has a hose attachment two or three feet long, with a nozzle like that of an immense watering pot; to this is attached a short rope with a handle, which aman holds and jerks from side to side with great force. the water describing Hogarth’s line of beauty at every pull, raising clouds of dust at the same time. One commiserates the man for fear the rope might break or his arma he jerked from their sockets. Admirable studies for an artist's pencil are to be found here. Young girls In picturesque, native costumes from the surrounding villages; swarthy Arabs, Polish Jews, intheir conventional long black frock-coats descending to their feet, their often handsome features marred by one stiff cork- screw curl on either side the face; fair-haired Swedes; dusky, olive skinned children of Greece and Spain. Many persons of the highest rank and social position ere here, but they cannot be recognized from common mortals by a distin- guished presence or elegance of attire, and none of the ladies will compare with many of our own Kentucky girls. A really beautiful face and form uite the éxception. In one of our early morning strolls, in a re- tired walk, “far from the maddening-crowd, we met a gerfttemah in a plain, dark brown suit, walking witl?a lady not particularly noticeable, unless from dn absence of all beauty or grace. Tall and spare and straight, her dress of some ordinary chedked material, made in the piainest and stiflest style, she was not an object onwhich the eye would love'to dwell; but our attention was immediately arrested, and we looked at them with more" curk asour Austrian at- tendant hasténed to inform us that they were the Count ana Couhtess Trani—he, Prince Louis of Bourbon, Frothe? of tie ex-king of Naples; and she, the Grand:‘Duchess Isabella, SISTER 0 TH EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. Among they latest distinguished arrivals are the Princess Hohengollern ot Prussia, “Her Im- perial, Most Serene Highness Mme. Grand Duchess ElizAbeth df Austria” and her illustrious daughter, “Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Christine of Spain,” and retinue. With the workiag classes here the women seem to have equal'privileges with the men, aud in many Instances monopolize what in America would be considered their rights. Women gar- deners, women water-carriers, women. porters, bearing on their backs the weightiest load, and every day may be seen carts, heavily laden with botties of the mineral waters for exportation, drawn by six of elght women. But the most novel sight are the women lamplighters, who carry their heavy ladders slung over’ their shoulders with ease, if not elegance, which they mount with agility, and dispatch their work quickly and as soberiy as if theirs was the most responsible of all positions. Could the most zealous advocate for ‘women's rights” demand more? One particular salu- tation is universal here, with all inferiors, which sounds startingly to unaccustomed ears lke “‘s’cat”; but which one soon understands is a short way of expressing “Ich kusztdie hand.” It is astonishing what those who have lost that priceless blessing, health, will endure to regain it. Here the most fastidious ladies, who would shudder at soiling their dainty shoes with the dirt of the street, sit. with the greatest equa- nimity, up to their shins in a horrible looking, thick, "black mess, not unlike lumpytar, com- posed of soft mineral bog. This is the “moor” or “mud bath,” so efficacious in rheumatism gout, paralyals, nervousness, ete. A tub of mineral water is placed alongside, into which the patient steps to be transformed again from black to white. In most cases, after a fair trial, the greatest sufferers are blessed with renewed health and go on their way rejoicing. rr Professional Secrets. From the St. James Gazette, M. Francisque t favored the readers of the XZXe Siecle witti a dissertation on the delicate subject of pr jonal secret and the obligation it somet imposes of t ling a lie. The circumstanc:s of a case cited by him in which the seal of secrecy was broken are ot a very dramatic character. A lady whose daughter was about tobe married having ac- quired a suspicion that the antecedents of the nance were not of the most/desirable character— that he had, in fact, undermined his constitu- tion by early dissipation—called upon his med- ical adviser, Dr. Delpech, one of the most dis- tinguished professors of the Montpelier Faculty of Medicine, confided her suspicions to him, and asked if they were well founded. The doctor fenced with the question as well ashe could, and tried to avoid givinga direct answer. The lady insisted. “I do not address you as a pro- fessional man,” she said, ‘“‘but I ask you, as the father of a family, would yougive your daugh- ter to this young man?” Overcome by this ap- peal, the doctor gave a reluctant answer in the negative, and the marriage was broken off. Some days afterward the carriage in which the doctor used to drive to his class came to a stand before the door of the medical school, but without either the physician or the coachman, who were both found lying dead on the road at some distance, each with a bullet loged in a vi- tat\part. The circumstances of the murder were shrouded in mystery fora time; but event- ually the dead body of a yoane man, who had blown his brains one, was found lying in a room the windows , of which looked on to the scene of the assassination. Jt was the body of the young wan whom Dr. Delpech said he wonld not ac- cept as a son;in-law; and there could, of course, be no reasonable doubt that he was the assas- sin, aaah Diseaso Ggyns im the Air we Breathe, From the St. James Gazette. It is fortdnate.that only an infinitesimally small proportion of the germs of disease that ure always abroad ,in the atmosphere can ever meet with the confbination of conditions that is essential for their development... According to Prof. von Pettenkofer of Munich, a germ, ere it becomes capabiet of producing actual disease, must not only find’ ®, msceptibie subject, but must also find that subject In a favorable I- ity, and at a favorable time; and, as disease germs are not, as rule, very long lived, the vast majority of them die without encountering the necessary conditions. Ifsuch were not the case, it Is certain that the human race would 8) cease to exist; for the chief of the Mi- crographical Department of the Paris Observa- tory has recently discovered that the number of disease one kind or another contained fal is In winters 000; ta May 12,000" in Say in winter, 7, jane, 35,000; "tr “August, 26,000; in. October” 14.000, and in November, 8,000; and ‘It cannot be sup- Inge tis ts Paris, is wholl or that the air, even of country ly uncontaminated. ' ae Christ Church, Philadelphia, in which the centennial convention of Protestant Eplscopal- Jans is to be held, was the place of the first oon- vention of that denomination fn America. It was built raised tn‘ ‘@ lottery WATERED “PLANTS” The Telephone Going the Same W: as the Telegraph Business. From the Indianapolis News. We recite the genesis of the Western Union to call attention to the fact that the telephone business is going the same way. The first tele- phone exchange was established a very few years ago ina New England city; now these exchanges are to be found in every city and large village. First each exchange was an in- dependent enterprise, end the stock was owned by a few of those who were served by its wires. But no long time ago the combination began, and now the time for ‘“‘watering” has come. It is said a company in Maine has made so much money that its shareholders have received a stock dividend of 200 per cent, so that the an- nual dividend has been apparently reduced to 5 percent. Other companies are paying 12 per cent. But it won't do to openly divide these immense profits, growing greater as the busi- ness extends constantly, and in order to reduce dividends toa uniform apparent rate of 6 per cent, the capital stock of several companies are to be diluted by water. The result will be, it is sald, the consolidation of all the New England companies into one, with a watered capital of from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000, although the “plants” of these companies could probably be replaced for $3,000,000, or certainly for $5,- 000. — SOMETHING ABOUT CAMEOS. How the Cutting is Done—The Cost of Portraits, “The onyx stone, on which the most valuable camer re cut, is found in such plenty on the Uruguay river in Brazil that ships often take it for ballast,” said a cameo cutter. “Some of it has been found in Germany, where much of the cutting Is done. The market is flooded with cheap and imperfect cameos, the work ot Spprentices, yet there isa fair demand for new work at good prices, especially for portraits. ‘The art ot cameo cutting is very old, and some ofthe specimens of Roman work done 2,000 years ago are exquisite in tracery and design. They were produced by an extraordinary amount of labor, unaided by the modern im- provements in tools. Such work was then done for monarchs or very wealthy persons, and a cutting requiring a year was a common thing. The same quality of work is now within the reach of ons of moderate means. Three fair-looking cameo cuttings, suitable for mount- | ing as breastpin and ear-rings, may be bought for #8, But cameo portraits cost from $50 to $250, according to size. and the stone for the latter would be worth about $70. “A raised cutting on any stone is called a cameo; when the device is sunk it iscalled an intaglio. The onyx Is preferred for cameos above all stones, because it comes in I: two colors. The combinations are bi: white, black and cream, red and w te, and dark brown, called the sardonyx. One ad- vantage ofa cameo portrait is that it will last forever. The stone is so hard that it can be cut only with diamond dust. The proceeds of cut- ting consists of holding the stone up to revol- ving drills whose soft steel ends are covered with diamond dust. The utmost patience, and caution, and delicate manipulation are required to grind off the upper layer ofstone. A mistake is fatal to the work. No steel can be made hard enough to drill the onyx. Even chromo steel will not do it, and that is so hard that a drill | made from it will cut through an ordinary file. No acid will affect the onyx, and it will stand the greatest heat of the furnace if the heat is applied gradually, so as to -prevent cracking, Some cuttings went through the great Bond street fire and were found in the ruins un- harmed.” ——__-e.______ Girls on Foot. From the American Queem The first comment an English traveler makes upon American women as a class is that they are not as strony and healthy looking as English girls. This is mainly due to the indoor life our young girls lead throughout the year. Of course there are exceptions, but with the majority of young women walkingand riding regularly every @ayis out of the question; habit, custom, and the convenience of horse cars have made walking a dead practice. ‘True. the English climate is leas severe; but still there are few days in the year when the weather is either too bitterly cold or too in- tensely hot to admit of a comfortable, brisk walk ofa few miles. The narrow-shouldered, flat-chested, and shapeless looking girls, with inched, colorless faces, would fill out by the st exercise the human frame can enjoy, A vig- orous youth brings about a hale and hearty age; and with women physical health is by far more to the sdvantage of the race than a figure squeezed into shape by tortuous corsets and ing. Mothers and tathers should insist upon out- door exercise. The muscles demand it quite as much as the stomach food or the lungs pure air. A young girl confined for hours in a room heated by poisonous blastsfrom the Infernal m chine known as a furnace, should be sent out regularly to walk witha free, untrammeled step. We say untrammeled, having in mind those ridiculous dresses which were so fashionable four years ago, and which bound a woman's limbs so there could be no free movement. We hear on all sides of nervous prostration. What 's this new disease? It is simply the re- sult of bad education. It is the direct out- growth of the folly of parents who have had their Glos Siesta educated,at the expense of their health. Youug girls are made to study and to spend hours over a piano, to get accomplished, and their muscles grow soft and useless. At 20, if it were not for the corset, they could not sit up half the day; the back needs artiticial sup- port. Half of the reputable physicians in this city will confirm this statement, and also wiil agiee with us when we say that’ nine girls out often are prematurely permitted to wear the io et to the detriment of the muscles of the a Young girls loll about, sink into seats with soft backs, and, in midsummer, should It grow cold, clamor for a fire and flock about it. The result of it all is that a girlon her marriage be- comes @ useless doll, without any stren; sit up, much lesy toshow olf those‘tremendous accomplishments of which we hear so much, and of which go few husbands ever experien plcsaore of, after the knot had been firmly tied. Birls, for their own sweet sakes,” had better enjoy good health, and mothers should, see that their daughters take plenty ofexercise, We hear of Awerican girls walking in Switzerland; sup- Pose they commenceto walk at home. ae Eulology et Cholera, From the London Nature. The etiology of cholera, in so far as relates to its influence in this country, does not admit of much doubt. The infection must be actually imported into our midst; it has never yet been imported except through lmmanagency, and the poison appears to be ali bui, if not entirely, Iim- ited to the discharges from the bowels and to the matter vomited by the patients. Where these go the polso:? goes; hence sewers and dcains receiving them tend to become channels for conveying the disease; soll fouled by them may, by leading to the pollution of well and other waters, as also by aerial emanations, favor its diffusion; and, to a less extent probably, the bed-lihen and personal clothing of the sick'may become vehicles of infection. In all esser respects the disease appears to spread under much the same conditions as favor the spread of enteric or typhoid fever, and, like that disease, it has in this country mainly been associated with the use of water supplies, which have been. subjected to the risk of receiving the specific infection. What that infection consistsin Is not yet known; but, Judging from analogy, It Is a dedinite organism capable of reproducing itsown: kind under those conditions of filth which we have adverted to as being associated with the spread of the disease. In the case of anthrax, which causes the so-called wool-sorter's disease In man, and in the case of relapsing or famine fever, the microscope has succeeded in showing the organisms which lead to the production of those specific affections: but in the case of chol- era no such results have as yet been attained, and this notwithstanding the laborious micro- scopic and other researches which have been in India and elsewhere, Mohammed, ap; tomb at within 140 c tion are to be a plague and Nat Goodwin, the actor, asked what was the : thing with brick from England, and money | fought under the mansgement of, RIEN OLY. DR. CHEEVTR'S ELECTRIC BELT, or tor, is made expressly for the cure of the use have tested it, and thousands of cures are testified to. Weakness from Indiscretion, Incapacity, Lack of cured. Do not confound this with electric beits adver- tised to cure all ils from head to tos. Thisis for the ONE specified purpors. For circulars giving fail ‘uformation address— CHEEVER ELECTRIC BELT CO., mb3-0kw 103 Washington street, Chicago. New Discoveny Tx Menicrss. + IMPORTANT NOTICE. SANTAL MIDY Will cure in 48 bours ali deraugements eh plas f organs in either sex without incon venience of any kin GRIMAULT & CO.,8, Bus Vivienne, Paris. ja22-wisly SSTED CAREFULLY ged Scheme to be drawn * EP-CAPITAL PRIZE $79,000._29 TICKETS ONLY §5. SHARES IN PRUPORTION. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. “Wado hereby certify that sent fr al the Men ‘and Se TH PUBLIC IS REQ! Mor fo notice the new and en nth The Leuixiana State Lottery fon manage and control the f wmelves, nd that the same are conducted with honesty, Frirness, and tu goed Faith towara all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certiicate, with fac-mi miles as our signatures attached, in tts advertisements.” aE Cominissioners, Incorporated in 1868 for twenty-five years by the Leata- tatire for FOucational aura Chariabie’ puryosen wth capital of | $1,000.000—to which @ reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been adaed. By an overwhelming popular vote ite franchise was mado's part of tho prgsent State Constitution adopted December 2d, A.D. 1879. The only Lottery ever voted on and indorsed bythe peo- pleas any State. It never scales or_postpones. Irs Graxp SINGLE NuMBER Drawras take ce my 4 PISGELENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR- TUNE. RIGHTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS H, AT NEWOBLEASH. TUESDAY, AUGUST ‘M4, 1883, 169agt MonTaty Daawixe, CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at $5each. Fractions, in fifths, in pro- portion. AIST OF PRIZES. 1 Capital Prize of. = 1 Capital Prize of 3 Capital Prize of 2 Prizes ot $6, 5 do. 2 10 do. 20 do 100 ao. 309 do. bua do. 5 1000 do. 2 9 Ai = ination Prisca of $150 9 Approxtnation 1r1zes of $750. ge 600. 9 do. 250: 1,967 Prizes, amonntine to. Apollcation for rates to to the Office of 2 full. ad- Gites, Address #0. Money Onder or Itegistered Let ters to NEW ORLEANS NAT! ‘AL BANK, Onurans, La, Ordinary letters by Mail or Express to M. A. ae x > 8, La. 4y11, 18, 21,25, 28, auyl, 4, 8&i1-yt fa co ee H oo Sgss tf LER TITT FEE RRR gSSSg, : i fe kon Sess, E RR ;. : ERE EE Bggs8 HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS, by increasing vital power, and rendering the physical functions reg- ular and active, keeps the syetem in good working order, and protects it against disease. For constipa- tion, dyspepsia and liver complaint, nervousness, kid- ney and rheumatic ailments, it is invaluable, and it affords a sure defense against malarial fevers, besides removing all traces of such disease from the system. For sale by all Druggists ana Dealers goucrally. —Always LIQUID! Leather and Rubb ‘Billiard Cue Tips NOS. 403 AND 405 7TH ETREET NORTHWEST. HEADQU/RTERS FOR THE WHITNEY CHIL- DREN'S CARRIAGE COMPANY. THE CHEAPEST FOR BEAUTY, COMFORT AND DURABILITY IN THE MARKET. Lawn Tennis, Croguet, Biczslon, ‘Velocipedes, Arch- ery, ing Tac! jagons, &e. Call and examine the Goods. Prices to suit the times, aya Seounsry Frow Loss By Brncuany, ashing ton, THE NATIONAL | SAVE DEPOSIT COMPANY ie Sma tho New Yous Ave. capetual Charter Act of ‘Congress Sanwary 20 i867. ltahesscrvnceee 4 The Company rents Nafes, inside its Fir d Bargiar Petes aber cli "pre eee eeseer Joining Veulta, provided tor Siferreniars. VAULT DOORS GUARDED BY THE SARGENT TiME-LOCK SECURITIES VALUABLES. descri) eseneem owe cee SPECIAL GU: ‘hE, at the Lowest Kates, BARREL PORES RESTS ras Whores TEV ANE, Secretary. cE. Nyman, ‘Asst. Seog. pore P. Snyder, ‘Charies “sR Abert Stirtersnt Tecckes vans AUCTION SALES. W 55 ay YF Soulppoaite Oy Post Omen. ADMINITRATOR'S SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FUR RITURE AND RFFROTS. By virtue of an order insuod by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a special term on the Sth day of August, 1883, I will sell at publie auction, af Weeks & Co.'s auction rooma, 637 Louisiana avenue, of TUESDAY, AUGUST FOURTEENTH, AT TEN O'CLOCK A.M, Antique Chock, &o. Feather Bods and Plows, Andirous, Assorted Chaira, Mirror. Card Tables, Bureaus and Stands, Carpets, Mattings, Sewing Machine. Sideboards, Sofas, Hat Rack. Wardrobes, Stover, Crockery, Chest of Tool, together with an assortment of other goods, to we call attention. ALBEKT HAKP aul0-3t Aduninisteator. VOTION SACK (OF DESIRABLE Bi ie LOIS AT THE NOKTH + ANT COKNER OF BLEW ENTH STREET AND SOUTH CAROLINA AVI NUE SOUTHEAS!. On MONDAY. AUGUST THIRTEENTH, 18: atSIX O'CLOCK P.M. 1 will nel tion, dn front of the preaitses, lot 1 on 11th strest and 111 feet 1G inch TT avenue. ‘There is 45 feet of par on the avente a 15 fect on Lith street. Pavement, sewer, water ata eae in front. “This is an excellent chance for builder oF speculators. On SAME DAY will be offered a» two-story frame bones, No. 306 Lith strect southeast; lot 1.9 by 83 food meats dort ss bap bcine Marae ay. dorwear, Co . Hireas Sbirta, ‘Sheetings tall ele, Doinestion of all hiuds, ra 00 Sl ___ FINANCIAL. rs FDME GREAT TROUBLE IN BOTH THE OLD line and ordinary Axsusment Companies is the Constant will pera. Uy the pian KVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION this great diflle in the way of permanent and safe life insurance rawal, ax years Ds; cy Deponita received mubject to check. We pay SPECIAL attention to oblaining CORRECT and RELIABLE information myarding our various city securities, and are propared at ali tunes to answer ingul- Jasregarding same, HARRY ©. TOWERS & CO. BANKELS, BROKERS AND INS! myst 1420 Nor, STREET NORTHWEST, Pawvare Stock Trrxcxarn Wines BETWrEex WASHINGTON, NEW YORK AND RICHMOND, H. H. DODGE, Bonds, Stocks and Investment Securities Bought aud Sold on Commiseion, No. 539 1$rH STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING,) Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, 4 Buoavway, New Yorn, Every class of Securities bought and sol? on commis- sion in San Francis-o, Paltiniore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on the New York Stock Fxchango at cne-cizuth of one pee cent commixsion, Private and direct telecraph wires to Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, through which or ers are executed on the Stock Exchanges in those cities and reported bagk promptly. Quotations of Stock# and Bouds and in- formation regarding the Markets received through our wires I ‘LY direst {com the New Kork Stoo ul ___GENTLEMEN’S GOODS, __ s. B. ELLERY, Fecerston 49 DUBKEUIL BROTHERS, MANUFA( ERS OF FINE DRES3 SHIR} SOFACT ESS FURNISHINGS, ss 3112 F Stexet Norrnwner, Wasutxoror, D.C. cs: Siete Pulltlne of Bop wear pal @ assortinent of Scarfs, Gloves, Hosiery FAMILY SUPPLIES. Presusa Asp Prssexvixa Season. Special care to secure Pure Spices, Green and Bleached Ginger. Puro Cider Vinegar, Glass dary ° c. WITMER, Pennsylvania avenue, 4y28 x T THE PALACE MARK Bhriver's best ‘Tomatocs, ay cae a LING S1b. cans. Golden Gate. Kichards & Re P Best ‘Mushroom. NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS. EEE Cisse Ovor Case Suz OF ODDS AND ENDS,