Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1891, Page 12

12 EXAMINING THE LYMPH The Government Doctors Have Found a Lymph for Diphtheria. HUNTING FOR BACTERIA. At All Events Immunity From Diphtheria Can Be Produced and Probably Cured— Wonderful Results From Koch's Remedy— Prospects for Treating Other Diseases. HE GOVERNMENT MEDICAL AUTHOR- ities in this city, working on the lines laid out by Prof. Koch, have discovered, according to information furnished a Sram reporter, a lymph that is a spscitic for the cure of diph- theria. ‘They have boon engaged of late in = most active and interested investigation of Dr. Koch's remedy for consumption, both as to its constitution and respecting its curative prop- ertics. With relation to the former point they are inclined to believe, funnily enough, that Dr. Koch does not himself know precisely what 4s the curative eloment in his own preparation. To explain this it is merely necessary to quote im plain language Dr. Koch's own description of the process by which the lymph is made. As he tells it, a little beef soup, boiled to « jelly is put into a glass tube. The tube is corked with s plug of cotton and heated until all the germs in it, such as are floating everywhere in the air, are killed. Then a particle of a dead person's lung, diseasod with consumption, is fouched to the jelly in the tube, the png being briefly removed for the purpose, and the tube, tecorked, is permitted to stand fora few hours. At the end of that time the bacilli of consu: tion, finding the jelly good to feed upon. have multiplied enormously in the tube, so that » containing myriads of them, maybe as Eigas s dime, has formed upon the "surlace of the jelly. Nothing can be simpler than the process so far. You could perform it yourself with a little care and any one of the germs thus produced, Properly introduced into the system, will make & cage of consumption. THE GLYCERINE EXTRACT. Now, Dr. Koch, as he himself says, artificially propagated a patch of baci way, drops into a tube with them a small quan- tity of glycerine. Then le takes the mixture thus produced and strains it through a filter of | clay so fine that the bacilli cannot pass throug! it. What does pass through is the glycerine, conveying with it certain poisonous elements belonging to the bacilli, but, as has been said. not the bacilli themselves. One of these poiso: ous elements is called omaine,” and the | other a “tox-albumen.” Both of them have a ordinary attribute. A person inocu- lated with either the one or the other exhibits | the symptoms of the disease, without the com- laint itself. ‘The same thing applies to other ineases, like typhoid, pneumonia, diphtheria, earbuncle, From the germs of each, like manner, can be obtained its peculiar Poison, without the germs themselves, which, injected into thi produce merely the symptoms of unt without the actual disease. be T by straining the m monly fatal be successfully utilized by inocula- tion for combating those troubles? It would be too much . sate that they can — there is great hope and even some expectat of its vo turning out. If it shall vo, eventuate a new era in the history of civilized men will have been begun. NOW THE LYMPH OPERATES. The question is often asked: How does the lymph operate—by what means does it accom- plish its end? The answer is very simple. Consumption begins with the breathing into the lungs of agerm afloat in the air. Such germs are constantly afloat everywhere. When a consumptive coughs and spits in a street car or elsewhere he is exercising wich means as are athiscommand for circulating the disease. ‘The sputum thus coughed up dries and is con- veyed in the shape of dust tothe lungs of the well person. If the person has healthy lung tissues the bacilli do not find lodgment; if, on the other hand, he has a tendency to consump- tion, hereditary or otherwise, they may secure aroosting place. Having accomplished this much they rapidly propagate, feed on the tissue of the lungs, and. Break it down, thus. formi mp of dead, cheesy matter, which is called a“tabercle.” "The blood circulating through the lungs, carries the baciili elsewhere through their substance and they form other tubercles, thus clogging up the air cells. Such is consumption. But the 1 has the effect of causing the tubercles to slough of from the healthy tissue of the lungs, leaving the organs in condition to work properly. In this manner Dr. Koch’s remedy acts. A DEFENSE AGAINST TUBERCULOSI®. Because the bacillus spoken of acta by feed- ing upon the tissues so as to form lumps of dead matter called “tubercles,” the disease oc- casioned by it is termed ‘“taberculos It may attack the Ings, in which shape it is named “consumption,” or it may assail the glands, the joints, or the skin. In any form it is a foe to be dreaded. God send that a defense has been found against it! One fact of most acute interest is thet this lymph of Dr. Koch's operates as effectively in cases of leprosy as in consumption. Why, nobody knows. It suffices that it isso. What rays of hope this discovery may shed upon a complaint hitherto deemed hopeless must be determinod in the fature. Asia and the Poly- nesian Islands look toward us and Enrope. The world entertains little recognition at resent of what it owes to the bacteriologist. Tike science isa new onc, though the romlte ft has already achieved are so grect. It has brought human knowledge closer to nature than its studious eye had ever reached before. Its teachings have unraveled many of the mysteries hitherto deemed too profound for human research. It has instructed mankind in causes where phenomena only had been ob- served before. Through its agency the sources of fatal disease have been discovered and their cure aimed at upon grounds of certainty. ‘To its researches are to be referred all methods of aseptic and antiseptic treatment, by which, among other things, the numerous cases in- volving the cutting open of the abdomen of the patient are successful nowadays in nine cases out of ten, instead of occasioning death to nine cases out of ten, as formerly. ‘Through this branch of study the most remarkable medical discoveries. of the future are destined to be brought about. The medical art, in fact, may be said to be about to take a tremendou: leap into the space of positive understanding. WHAT THE BACILLI ARE. In conclusion, it is worth saying what these bacilli are. They are bacteria of @ rod shape to which the name “bacillus” has been given. What are bacteria, then? Simply vegetable organisms. All vegetables may be roughly divided into three classes. First come the plants as we know them. Next are the fungi, Iycerine ex- poisonons | This extract is | © poisono inciple which m? | actively operates as a cure for ¢ The governn lieve his not a che been set apart a made with to the worl tution of th method of velépment Bie adivasitaz of the ge purpose rors the govern! TAR LYMPH IS ¥ Two cents an of treatment | ¥ that is cheap enough. Fifty cents’ | worth of lymph will be enough to cure—if it | proves a cure, as is expe .e average vic-| tum of incipient consumptio: Already the gover is sending out to all the army posts quantities of the Iymph in Feadiness for use. It is dispatched in a very Peculiar fashion to insure its employment in Proper manner. Necessarily it must be ster #0 that when inoculations ure made no foreign germs, which might cause abscesses, shall be introduced into thesystem. Therefore each drop of lymph is seaied up in agines bulb, closed hermetically by blowpipe, and with the drop goes a tube. closed likewise, and contain- ~ ninety-nine drops of distilled ‘The army doctor who desires to make an injection is instructed to place the bulb containing the drop of lymph in a glass receptacle, smash it Bp—as by a pestle ina mortur—with the tube of water, and so mix the lymph with the water, thas preparing the mixture for use as an in| tion. The quantity is enough for thirty injections, and whatever is left can be boiled © plugged tube, so as to sterilize it for further employment. SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENTS. Now, as to the curative prozectios of ths Iymph, the experience of the government physicians has been most satisfactory. One case at the Freedman's Yospital ix this city is thatofs consumptive so far progressed that the spatum coughed! up showed from » dozes toascore of bacilli to every sixteenth of an inch square. Now, after half a dozen weeks of treatment, it is very difficult indeed to find any bacilli at all in the sputum; the cough of the patient hasalmost ceased. he has rapidly gained Weight, and withina month he will probably be discharged as cures. Three cases of “lupus” at the same hospital ere rapidly on the road to recovery. Con- sumption, it must be understood, is tuberculosis of the lungs. The same disease attacking the skin is lupus,” because of i ing nature. One of the patients atilicted with this complaint, a woman, had suffered with it ever since she was eight years of age. Her nose was as big as «tumbler and her whole face a mass of raw flesh. Now, after a few injections, the nose, though still mixshapen, is reduced to normal rtions, and the raw flesh is skinned over. Amonth hence she will be discharzed, cured. Lupus is not a common complaint in this country, but in Europe, particularly Ger- many, it is most prevalent. IMPORTANT RESULTS EXPECTED. Most important results are likely to come about indirectly from these investigations by the medical authorities of the government. Al- Teady, acting upon the lines of the Koch dis- covery, they believe that they have found a eure for diphtheria. Researches in this con- nection are being carried on by Dr. E. A. | | but of recent birth. | ciety columns of the newspapers and consulted Zany of them preying upon the plants, whic are tore numerous than the plauts in’ kind: ‘Third are the bacteria, which are the lowest in the vegetable scale. "They occasion all these diseases which have been spoken of and many more. it is they which cause all decomposition natter, animal and vegetable. Throw u scrap of meat into the street in the summer time. They fall upon it, consume portions of it, and in this way cause it to decompose. liberating, thereby, gases which are offensive to the nostrils. “But in this way they assist useless Inatter to return to ary elements, in order that it may mbined by nature for useful purposes. ‘a are harmful, but most are bene- al, and without them none of us could live. It is their province to destroy whatever is use- sor noxious. Bacteria are everywhere. ads of them are clustered in our mouths they are breathed in at every reath by thousands. The problem which the riologist tries to solve is simply the ex- clusion of those specimens which ure disease- producing. His science, as has been said, is When it has attained de- the awful enemy Death will tind his ongly fortified against his most cus- tomary approaches. oes ge NO DIVORCE WANTED. A St. Louis Woman Angered by Her Law- yer's Laughter, From the St. Louis Republic. A.well-snown St. Louis lawyer was called on one day during the past week bya lady whose name is not unfamiliar to the readers of the so- on the subject of divorce. She was not quite clear in her own mind as to whether she wanted a divorce ornot, and, even after she had been told just what steps were necessary in the ordinary case, she seemed tobe in a puzzled frame of mind. With a delicacy characteristic of limbs of the law whose practice takes them into the divorce courts, the legai light under- took to find out what it was she was holding back, and finally said to her: “You will have to tell me all the facts if you want me to take your case. I cannot proceed in the dark, and I plainiy see something is on your mind that you have not yet told mer" “Yes, tnere is,” she said, “and, in fact, am not sure that I want you to take my case, or, in fact, that I will have acase. You see, case, if T apply for a divorce, will be just twice a5 bad as the ordinary case, for the very simple reason that Henry and I were married twice—- one e privately and with only the neesaary wit- nesses, and the second time four months afte ward in a church and with a big receptio aud of course there will have to be two di- vorces in order tu set me entirely free.” The lawyer laughed. In fact, he laughed so long and iso heartily that the Indy got mad and flounced out of the office, vowing she would not have a divorce; that she had rather fight it out with her twice-married husband than be laughed at by a lawyer. ———_<r-_—____ How Gen. Hooker Got His Charge. Frot the Globe-Democra:. ‘Gen. Banks’ story about his war charger, said Pension Attorney Bond, “recalls to mind one Hooker rode in 1863, and especially at the battle of Chancellorsville. Few people know how Hooker came by that horse. I will tell you. When Sickles’ corps was camped on Good Hope Hill, just across the Lastern branch and about a quarter of a mile above the residence of Fred Douglass, [happened one day, while out foraging for something to eat, to run across a milk-white Arabian stallion that had been hidden in the pines by his master. | Ltook the horse into camp and Gen. Sickles, who was a connoisseur of horsetlesh, no sooner | put his eyes on him than he recaptured him from me. I made no remonstrance, however, as the horse was of no use to me. ‘A few days later the owner of the Arabian came into camp, identified his horse and claimed him. Sickles held that he was a con- fiseated horse, and refused to give him up. Then the owner went to Secretary Stanton for | relief, and made affidavit that he was a loyal | man, and came back to the camp with the order from Stanton to Sickles to deliver the horse. In the meantime the horse had disappeared. He turned up, however, in New York city a few di: later as the pi ty of Geo. Wilkes, but neither Stanton nor the horse's owner was aware of these facts. When the matter was quieted down one day an item ap) papers that George Wilkes had presented a Yucroughbred Arabian war charger to Gen. Hooker. at was how the horse came into Hooker's Schweinitz of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. William bacteriologist of the Army Medical Museum. The diphtheria cure is not «certainty yet, but almost. So far they merely know thai they can produce immunit ble by vaccination. jeal axiom that what is true of a guinea pig, pat ly speaking, is true of a man. For this reason the unfortunate guines pig is the chosen victim of the experimenter. pigs i with a gelatine extract of diphtheria are proof agai t has deter: ed yet, though pretty nearly. The latest ‘es: ty upon two gumea pigs showed that Both, having been treated with’ the “extract subsequently to inoculation with the disease in sufficient quantity to kill them ordinarily, re- covered. It looks as though diphtheria faust its fatal grip upon the human race; but it is unsafe to jump at conclusions. Nevertheless, undeniably, it seemsas if a new bulwark against the most ‘serious complaints which mankind has been discovered. Segue vession and how he came to ride him at the Battie of Chancellorsvilie. "He was one of the finest specimens of his race, and when seated on him Gen. Hooker was not only the best mounted officer in the Union army, but he was far and away the handsomest.” 25 ssacact ae Known by Their Hats, From the Chicago Tribune. A man who knocks about a great deal and is a close observer said recentl York and Paria. Yon know, maybe, thata man is often known by the bat he wears. There are a few hat men w: lead, and the Zou en mo, mun suena they tie Fou Hsiao con volcano” bat mangtitnrre rom man ve just and puts them in cheap hats. Teenie up hishat then, whenever he takes it shows the stamp of = thus, in POISONS FOR ARROWS. Extraordinary Methods Used by Many Peo- ples for Making Weapons Fatal. “The use of poisoned arrows is undoubtedly of very ancient origin,” said Dr. W. J. Hoff- man toa writer for Taz Star. “They are be- lieved to have been employed in Europe in Prehistoric times, and later on, according to Aristotle, Strabo and Pliny, the Celts and Gauls envenomed their shafts with the juice of a plant of the genus hellebore. The Scythians pre- pared arrow poison by mixing serpent venom with the serum of putrid blood, and other in- stances are recorded in classic literature of Peoples about the Black sea and in Asia Minor who practiced similar arts. “The Ainos of Japan prepare a poison for spreading upon bamboo or metal arrow points, to kill game with, a small portion of flesh about the wound being cut out before the animal is cooked and eaten. In Java, Borneo, New Guinea and other of the East India Islands the same practice obtains to n considerable extent. The poisoning of arrows prevails extensively in Africa, particularly on the west const, in the Gaboon, among the Somali and with the Bush- men. By the Bushmen the juice 0: a plant is mixed with the pulp of'@ venomous worm. fue Baal Ramen tiar aaah setien ot eae Roisons is the woorare or ‘urari’ of South merica. It ischiefly used for the tips of darts blown from the blow gan, and the most im- t ingredient is the juice of the plant rom which strychnine is obtained, to which is added certain ‘other vegetable elements and serpent venom. In Central America poisons aro also employed on arrows and blow-gun darts. The Caribs employed, similarly, a poi- son made from the sap of a tree called | ‘maneenilles.’ The antidote was the applica- tion to the wound of what we know as ‘arrow root.” “The Seris of northwestern Mexico prepared ison by putting into the ground a cow's iver, ratlesnakes, seorpions, centipedes and other unpleasant things and beating them with astick. Into the mixture the arrow points wore dipped. The Apaches and neighboring tribes were until rocently in the habit of smear- ing upon their arrows a composition said to consist of decomposed deer’s liver and ratile- snake venom. In some instances crushed red ants are algo reported to have been used. A microscopic examination of such a coating upon arrows obtained from Apaches in 1871 showed the presence of blood and a crystalline substance that waa apparently rattlesnake venom. The venom of serpents retains its poi- sonous properties when driod indefinitely. One instance of poisoning by such an arrow men- tioned to me was that of a man whose wound Was a mere scratch on the shoulder blade, but previous to death, which ensued, the flesh of the man’s back fell off, exposing’ the ribs and spine in several places. “The Shoshoni and Bannack Indians state that the proper way to poikon arrows, as for- merly practiced by them, is to secure a deer and cause it to be bitten by a rattlesnake, im- mediately after which the victim is killed, and the meat removed and placed in a hole in the ground. When the mass has become putrid the arrow points are dipped into it. ‘The Clallams of Puget sound used to. make arrow points of copper, which were afterward dipped in sca water and permitted to corrode. Ihave never met an Indian who would admit the use of poisoned arrows in warfare against man. In nearly all instances when poisons are prepared by Indians the operation is performed with more or less ceremony, chanting aud incanta- tion, for the purpose of invoking evil spirits or demons. In their belief.the effects of poison are due wholly tothe presence in thom of melovolent spirits or demons, which entez the body of the victim and destroy life.” gactembinciaidl SOME FUN ABOUT SCIENCE. The Smithsonian Institution Finds Amuse- ment in Letters It Gets. The Smithsonian Institutisa could add a very interesting department of liverary curiosities to its exhibits by making a judicious selection from the letters which it receives from all parts of the world. There seems to be» somewhat widespread impression to the effect that the National Museum is some sort of place of entertainment resembling a dime mu- scum more or less in character. At all events, communications are constantly re- ceived from various quarters offering such in- teresting contributions for sale as two-headed calves and other freaks of nature, such as | Japaneso mermaids, four-legged infants in al- cohol, &c. Living freaks likewise offer their services for engagement at so much per week. Circassian ladies, fat ladies, skeleton gentle- men and variety performers of all sorts solicit contracts for their appearance atthe museum in their particular and unrivaied specialties. People outside of Washington appear to form the moxt varied notions aa to the functions of the institution One man wrote the other day proffering a sure remedy for ingrowing to nails, and another one said that he was a lobster fisherman and, owing to some confusion in his syntax, made it out that his wite was a lobster also. ‘The funniest mistakes are made in ad- dressing the Smithsonian. A few of these have been saved and put together recently. ‘The} make a very interesting list. “Smith s Onion is the #uperscription on an envelope sent by a person who seemingly had en idea that the Concern wus something in the agricultural line. A Frenchman writes to “Monsieur Smith- sonian, Washington.” Another correspondent, who has apparently got two sights of the cap’ tal_mixed up, addresses the “Smithonument. Stil another ‘attempts to communicate with mith’s Oncthing.” Another disrespectfully writes “Sinith Assonian.” Other amusing ad: dresses ure “Smith’s Seamen's Instit “Smith Maso: Sonian,” “Smithsenial, mith Union" and “Smithosian.” When the Washington postmaster gets a letter wit an address on it not otherwise to be made out he very often sends it, on general principles, to the Smithsonian, ‘where his guess is apt to be found correct. — THE NEW MINISTER'S PISTOL. He Was Ready to Fire Christianity Into Hi Wayward Hearers. "= From the Puyallup Citizen. Rev. J. C. Willet, the new Presbyterian min- ister, has made his advent into Puyallup ina manner that will at once command the respect necessary to make hin popular among the old- timers of this quite lately wild and woolly west. While H.C. Stevenson, the brakeman on the 9 o'clock Tacoma train, was removing the parson's trunk from the baggage car, the jar of the receptacle discharged a 4$-caliber plains- man’s revolver which was in the trunk, and the unfortunate brakeman received the charge in the left ribs. ‘The incident has been the talk of the town today, and there are many theories floating about the streets as to how the weapons would figure in the reverend gen- tleman's ministry at Puyallup. Some say that he is fond of the chase, and that the weapons are relics of hunting days; others that he ix going to take a firm stand in church mat- ters and will not be monkeyed with in matters pertaining to his salary and church benefits, d yet others that he is going to actively join the Club Theater. And itisa significant fact that Bill Johnson, ite proprietor, left the city Inst night and has’ not since been heard from. But for all this a preacher has as many rights in regard to Weapons as any other citizen in free America, though it isa curious freak of fate that the only pious young man on the road force in this division of the Northern Pacific railroad should be shot in the ribs by the accidental discharge of a revolver in a parson’s trunk. ‘Now, Willie Wilkins, I want to tell me the trnth—did Harry ‘Thomas dvaw ‘anger that question.” * Wilip’ Wilkine-"Beonaee I. gave, Harry word of honor I would not tell qn him.” ea 4 REALISTIC DIALOGUE, Life is Sweeter Than Maple Sugar at Such ‘Times. ‘Zenas Dane in Pack. Harry and Mabel are discerned standing on Mabel’s doorstep. They have returned from the opera and the love scenes and passages therein have brought proposal from Harry that has been trembling on his lips for three months. They havo been standing on the door- Step for two hours and are now engaged. He is making a feeble effort to drag himself away and she is as feebly endeavoring to have him go. “Well, I s'pose I must go,” he says at last with a sigh that hoists him almost off his feet. “Yes, indeed you must,” she says; “it’s aw- Sully late.” “T don’t care if it is. “Oh, but I must go “No, no, don’t go yet good-bye. it isn’t late at all.” “Oh, you fal boy, you; it must be after midnight.” “No, it isn't.” (He knows that it is 1 o'clock.) Won't you call me ‘Harry’ again?” “Why, T° you so fifty times already.” “Once more, dearest; just once more.” “Well, then, ‘Harry.’ * “Can't you aay ‘dear Harry? ” “Oh, you bad old boy, tomake me say such things'so soon. “Please, please say it.” “Well—‘dear Harry’—now I must'go.” “Oh, wait, wait, I want to tell you some- thing. ell, what is it?” ‘Oh, it was about—about—I forget now.” “Oh, you!” “Wait—don't go, darling; I'l think of it after a while. One kiss isn't enough when we're just engaged.” “One? Why, Harry, how can yon say jibes. You've been so wicked as to steal fifty at least?” “Oh, Mal you leave your Harry boy?” ‘Such a hurry? Why, Harry, we've been standing here ever and ever vo long!” Has it seemed vo dreadfully long to you?” ‘Now, Har mt know I didn’t meau that.” “It hasn't scenied two seconds to me.” “You foolish fellow—but dolook at your wateb and see what time it lo after 11." “Why 1 ~o-h, H-a-a-r-r-y haeks you can see for yourself by the street ee larry, you know as well as I do that yon've turned that wateh back two good hours, You rogue! Now, good-bye.” “Good-bye, if you are so anxious to get rid of me.” vorn, Harry.” ‘Not without another kiss.” ‘Oh, you funny, old, foolish fellow, you.” by, derling—darling!” “<By-by, dearest.” “Good: AN UNUSED DECREE. An Ebony Casket and the Papers Which It Contains, From the New York Times. In the dressing room of a bappy married woman who lives in a Madison avenue mansion there stands ina conspicuous corner a small ebony casket with silver trimmings. It is locked and has not been opened for ten years. Few know its history, which is one full of romance and also of food for reflection for those on whom the marriage yoke bears heavily. A little over ten years ago the occupants of this horhe were married. ‘The wife had been brought up in a luxurious howe and wasa mem- ber of gay social circles. The husband was equally rich in worldly possessions, but with no liking for the round of society’s pleasures. His young bachelorhood had been passed in inde- pendent club life and the sober enjoymenta of his books and pictures, for which he had a strong taste. The honeymoon was barely over before a speck of discontent appeared on the horizon of their lives. It grew rapidiy and soon obscured the sun of their wedded happiness. They mutually fretted under the strain of the Is. He disliked to be dragged to receptions and balls, and she chafed over his library inclinations ‘and wanted to keep the house’gay with guests and incessant going and coming. At last the explosion came and after full and free discussion it was mutually agreed that they shonld separate. As there was no legal grounds of divorce in this state they journeyed together beyond the Ohio and consulted coun- sel. ‘The pliant laws of the west would give what each wanted—a decree. They remained away long enough to acquire statutory resi- dence and on a certain day a decree was duly granted severing the marital chains. ‘The law- ¥ers in handing each a copy of the decree ex- plained to them that, although granted by the court, it would not take effect and was so much waste’ paper until entered and filed in the clerk's office of the county where the court was held. ‘The lawyers’ fees were paid and each took the parchinert. Both felt free and inde- pendent, but each hesitated to put the anal seal to the transaction. by a common decision, arrived at separately, it was settled to return to New York, whence the decrees could be mailed for proper tiling. i¢ return trip was on the same train. A conversation arose on the subject of their changed relations. Their newly acquired free- dom put a ditferent phas Explanations and exp more tolerant in the fac Cony on the discussion. sions of opinion were of restraint removed. rsions, which a false dignity prevented rto, were now broached as possible had y remained ian and wife. In the end it was at it was not the tie itself which was galling and unbearable, but the fact that it Was a tie, binding fast and permanently. The separation uever took place. ‘The de- crees were locked in the casket, to which each carried a key. At tirst the casket stood in the husbands library, but as years went on occa- sional questions ebout it became irkeome. It was sent upstairs to the wife’s room, who, in her turn, tired of it, sind it was tucked in a cor- ner of the dressing room. But it still exists, aud there are those who will say that it holds in its possibilities of freedom the analloyed huppi- ness of that home. : ———— His Light Put Out. From the Clothier ond Furnisher. He had worn a colored blazer on the Nile He had sported spats in Persia, just for style; With an quite too utter, in the streets of old. Calcutta, he kad stirred up quite a Mutter for 4 while, ‘The maids of Java thronged before his door; Altracted by ihe trousers that he wore; And his vest, a bosom venter, siook Formosa to its center, and they hailed him a8 a mentor by the seure. On his own |, a8 a masher on the street, He outdid a ashe, wh stood real He gave Shanghai girls tne Juaips, and thelr ehceks stuck out like mumps, at tue patent leather Pumpson his fe But he called upon a Bostor. girl one night; With a necktie ready inade, witich wasn't right; And ste looked ai num, this mail did, and he faded und he faded, and he faded and he faded, out of sight. ‘ —Tom Masson. AE ae British Ladies in Waiting. From the London Figaro. Lady Jane Churenill is now the most in- fluential lady at court. Since Lady Ely's death the queen has consulted her in everything, and I see that in a letter addressed by Lady Churchill to a Welsh weaver, who sent the sovereiga a Welsh homespun petticoat, she usen very similar language to her majesty. She fonnd “the petticoat” on her arrival at Wind- sor and she thinks it is “‘a very nice one.” The queen siso “likes it very much.” If the lady waiting had exhausted the vocabulary she could not have senta more welcome form of acknowledgment. ‘The new lady in waiting, Lady Antrim, is, of THE ZOUAVE JACOB. ‘Still Practicing “Christian Science.” ‘From the London Globe. - Like most people I was under the sion that the zouave Jacob died long ago, but Ihave just found out that he is still alive and devoting his miraculous powers to the cure of suffering humanity. The reader may remem- ber that when he first made his appearance in public he turned Paris upside down; his sanc- tum was besieged by the lame, the halt and the blind of all classes, and such was the scan- dal created thereby that the authorities had to suppress him. He then vanished from the scene, after tho manner of many other ephe- meral ¢elebrities, and the ungrateful capital forgot all about him till the question of hypno- tism was brought before the assizes, Every- body then recollected the wonderful soldier, and inqtiries made after him resulted in the discovery of his whereabouts. He no longer lived in a splendid apartment in the fashiona- ble part of the town, as formerly, but in a mod- ¢st one-storied house in the avenué MacMahon, in the semi-respectable quarter of the Ternes. He has a small garden and farm yard, in which he whiles away his leisure hours. The garden isembellished with three or four statues of myaterious divinities resembling the Wise Men of Greece. He receives a number of patients daily, but his cligntete is not com of dukes ahd duchesses as of yore; the nobility and aristocracy have deserted him and places have been taken by poorer folk, whose of distinction, however, by no means di- minishes their faith. ~ Dr. Jacob's consultation is fixed at 2 o'clock Panctually. Let us enter. In a room 20 feet long by 12 wide and seated on forms are about forty persons, men, women and children, ali afllicted with some sort of malady. Examining them closely we soon perceive that the majority belong to the working classes, such as cooks, clerks and cartmen, interspersed with a few small shopkeepers. "They were all engaged in animated conversation concerning the most re- cent cutes of the gifted zouave. At the end of the room were an organ and a piano, on which stood the busts of some more divinities. On the wall was a long strip of white calico bear- ing in large black characters the name of “Je- sna Christna,” who is supposed to have been @ Hindoo philosopher and a great curer of the sick many, many centuries ago, but whose identity with Jesus of Nazarcth is as plain asa pikestaff. As 2 o'clock struck a door opened and Jacob entered. A denth-like silence imme- diately followed. Advancing to the middie of the room he suddenly stopped, gazed fixedly on the ceiling and remained motionless. He was invoking the spirits. As be stood there all eyes were turned on him. He isa man of me- dinm stature, with silvery locks and hard feat- ures. He looks about sixty. He was dressed in a white flowing robe, with a hood thrown back on his shoulders. Altogether he might be mis- taken for a holy friar. At length, after a quar- ter of an hour's invocation, the spirits listened tohim. He then marched solemnly round the forms, questioning the patients as he passed before them. “Where is your pain?” was his chief inquiry. Some said in the head, eome in the stomach and others in the heart.” “Point out tome the place.” he rejoined, “but don't mention the organ winch hurts you: the spirits know them all.” He then laid his hands on the spot indicated and rubbed it gentl; now?" he asked. “I suffer a little fess,” was the answer. Again he passed his hands over th lace. “And “now?” he repeated. “The p as gone,” was the reply. This was the caso with nearly all on whont he operated. Coming to an old woman he looked at her and exclaimed: “As for you, don't come here any mote; you bring the black spirits with you; they act against us. You are sent hither by my enemies. Take care Idon’t see you here again.” The old woman bowed her head, but said nota- ing. Having gone his round the zouave ro- turned to the middle of the room and pro- ceeded to explain how to get rid of certain in- firmities which it was not always in his super- natural power to remove. He enlarged on dropsy, corpulency and the like. Oue elderly person said, as « proof of the efficacy of the ad- vice he had given her, that not long ago she weighed 240 kilograms, whereas now she weighed only 120 and hoped ‘to weigh only 60 in a few weeks. The seance was now brought toan end. Jacob receives no fees, but the patients buy the pamphlets he has written; some pay 1 frane, some pay 10, but all pay something for them! In this way he turns the law against quack: who are not allowed to accept fees. “Now, he cried, in deep-toned voice, waving his hands slowly in the air, “go your ways.” All obeyed save the old woman, who, believing her- self to be bewitched, insisted on remaining to be cured. According to the zonave she went once to a magnetizer and has ever since had black spirit in her stomach.” He was obliged to turn her out by force and thus got rid of his onsessed enemy. Jacob then volunteered to reveal how ho d‘c- covered that he was blessed with the “mystic fluid” which healed the sick and suffering. i 78 at Lyons,” he be- ‘I joined the zounves. At that period I ready been initiated into the science of spiritism. “One day we were ordered to the camp at Chalon;, where Marshal Regnault de Saint-Jean-d’Angely was in command. In one of the villages through which we passed on the Way was asick man whom all the doctors in the world were unable to cure. Iinvoked the a: of the white spirits, I laid my hands on hiv and he was instantly restored to health. I muse admit that all my cures are not so rapid. ‘The news of this cure soon spread throughout the country and a dozen invalids followed our regi- ment to Chalons in the hope of obtaining relief from me. The marshal at first forbade me to spoak to them, but as the poor creatures would not leave us he finally consented to my pacity- i I cured ‘them all. I then left the and in a short time my fame became uni- versal. This fame waa justitied by the great number of miracles which I had worked and which are all the less open to objection or danger in that I employ no remedies and rely solely on the touch of my hand.” Our extraordinary zouave is both a student and musician. He “reads all the scientific pub- Jications and plays on the trombone. “Yes,” he said, sceing his visitor smile, ‘the trom- bone. ‘Ihave won a trombone which was pre- sented to me by the ladies of the court of the Queen of , When I passed some months in London.” * This will be news indeed on your side of the channel. To show his proficiency on the instrument he played the well-known cavatina of the “Barbier” in a style which would do credit to the best professional. I have said that he has written several pamphlets on the subject of spiritiem. He also ed monthly enutled the “Revue Theurgique, which, we re assured, is scientific, psycho- logical and philosophical, treating especially of the cure of ‘maladies by'the influence of the mysterious fluids and of the dangers of medical, clerical, magnetic and hypnotic practices. This publication, however, is known only to the faithfal. As the visitor left Jacob invited hin, if ever he should be attacked by illness, to call on him and be cured for nothing. “+f should 80 like to convince a journalist of the existence of my healing powers,” he said, with an engag- ing smile, oe See MAKING REAL ESTATE. How a Chicago Man is Rapidly Increasing His Wealth, ‘From the Chicago Tribune. A young business man in town recently bought a strip of land along the lake shore in Lake View, and a short time afterward moved up into the vicinity of the land. His friends say that he did it so that he could watch the land, but this he denies. However, he has a good eye for the main chance. “It ion’t a big strip,” he said, “but it gives me riparian rights, that is why I bought it.” “Going to fili in?” he was asked.” “No. ‘The waves are making half » foot a month for me by washing up refuse.” This to rhow that he had a business head. It was rumored in real estate circles very natural they should do shop and modiste and milliner with new materials, styles and models to lay by the winter trappings and assume fresh age. Over a month ago the first spring fabrics were ushered in by a grand display of cotton goods. Redfern is already planning spring wardrobes, and the accompanying sketches are from his designs: =3 A HOUSE GOWN is the subject of the first. It is of leaf green surah with bodice and cuffs of darker velvet. The upper part of the sleeves, the plastron and drapery across the bust. as well as the back of the skirt, are of surah. ‘This is one of Redfern's prettiest models for a young lady of slender The other is a walking costume of blue-gray cloth, the coat ent into deep tabs and edged withgold cord. ‘The wide notched lapels are also braided and inclose a silk vesi. THE CONGO PEOPLE, A Missionary’s Experience In = Curious Country. From the Seattle Telecraph. I told my boy, Kibo-Ka, to get soft-boiled eggs. When he came in he said all was ready but the eggs. He said: “They had been boiling half an hour, but I don't think they are boiled soft yet.” Just before Treached Stanley Pool I had an unpleasant experience with “drivers.” They are always on the move. They travel by millions and drive everything before them— the missionary and native alike must leave the house when they come, whether it be day or night. All kinda of insects, lizards, and even chickens, are devoured by these voracious ants, which are a little larger than our largest black antsat home. The elephant is driven to mad- ness when these ants get up his trunk. In Africa. as in other countries, they have peculiar styles of dress. Down the coast they wear plenty of clothes. Up the Congo one hundred miles a piece of cloth the breadth of three fingers is worn. On the upper rivera few strings of beads only. Far away up the river a smile only. Iwas present when a native brought toa missionary a little afflicted child to sell for brass wire (the currency). On being refused he went toward the river with his barter, the piace to which they ail go to get rid of afflicted children. My caravan halted at the Fumaagombe mar- ket to buy food. These markets are held every fourth day. Here I met Tippo Tasso. his staif and » few of his many wives. He was tipsy, ing palm wine and maki shown the dead body thirty-foot pole and the barrel of a gun driven into the ground—the punishment this king in- flicted upon the man for bringing his gun into the market—but that law is now void, and that he got out on the shore in the morning | T°P° with a hoc and a rake and pulled in everything that got within reach, but this could not be verified, |The following, however can be: le was standing at low one Over his laud when he wnddenly startled his wife by exclaiming excitedly: “Great Scott! There are a lot of boys on my r Mtlehat of fe" his wite asked innocently. “What of it!” he cried. Bal RETA ‘re digging harbors on We minute end TU fx it. oo He bed his hat and rushed out. ec ‘ou settle it?” asked his wife when he returned « moment later, INTER HOMBRE Cold, raw winds of winter fan to fury itching, burning, and scaly hu mors and diseases of the skin, scalp, and blood. 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