Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1891, Page 7

THEUNCONQUERABLE BACILLUS INTIFIC PRINCIPLES TO THE TAMING OF A SHREW. SCI Condit Crane in the New York Times. PD® Pct, HENRY KNAUPF KNEW EVEN as much as the Inmps on his protuberant forehead predicated, and this is extravagant e, for it always looked as though it had ed from an Irish picnic. ionary for happiness was Materia Medica; his date for the Golden Age was the time of the Black Death; his idea of fun was the carving of a cadaver. Occasionally he | would feel like having a high old time, then he would sit up all night and read the works of Hippocrates in the original and drink boneset ten. From such excesses he would return rather shame-facedly to the normal joys of his Profession, striving. like all prodigals, to ex- cuse himself by muttering: “Well, it’s all ina lifetime.” Dr. Paul was a young old man and had ever been such since the day of his birth. Even at that initiatory event he bad assumed so wise and critical an expression that the nfonthly nurse becan to imagine that he had been assisting professionally, and when she nearly caught herself looking ‘around for his encff box and red bandana was so “‘flus- | trated” that itrequired several draughts from | black bottle containing what she was pleased to call “catnip” to restore her equanimity. Perhaps, considering that it was she who took the nips, the term was not infelicitous. ‘Thereafter the ebild continued to exhibit un- usual powers—eil, however, exerted in a single direction. He was regular with his diet long before he learned to tell time. When his face grew red with pain he would himself reach for the correction powders which the doctor had left. As for crying for a certain popular rem- edy, he had no need, since he ever cherished a bottle of it as his favorite toy. When he began to associate with other chil- dren he would never race too hard of sit in draughts. Often in their sports he wo = ronaie the fami ‘wisdom apothecaries’ “es; he insisted upon doing his Spencerian es upon prescription pads; he carried his lunch in « leather case with a strap and sil- fee from all boyish pranks beyond ides behind gigs and ringing night 14 indeed pull the wings from flies, them squirm, but the better to dis- t them with a penknife. His heroes were | J Aratwus and Avicenna, the Arabian; int was Luke. He deplored that med after this good physician bad been unable to When, at Christmas- asked ‘his choice of me craved a mortar and | & stechoscope, with which dupon his father’s asth- This course of treat- 4 to agree with her; in ay * her. tions of his natural bent did not He was dubbed “Doctor” long ed thet frivolous period ¢ teens.” and when the teens ght no frivolity for him. He yed, convinced that the P before ealied by to become epidemic | ting course with rendered them so midn’ tally hard in physiology, or, to use a scholastic phrase, he “Loued” to such good effe that he eaused poor Mr. Skim- jor, who was expected to teach thing ending in ““y" for 530 « month and | i, to study half the it instead of the | tomary lilten minutes Preparation for struction, and even then his uneasy frame would -quirm in dread of an astful ques- nm from Paul regarding the effect of the upon mclaneboly or the topography of the sphenoia bone. in the chemistry class, too, Paul ranked exsily tirst. Noone could evolve such electric 1 's back as he; no one could so sjeedily change water into gas and gas into Aud explosions! he had but to mingle vinegar when—whisk! bang !—the rock as though its aupport were And smellx! Well, clothing ed after he had experimented. Tolling ste had to be well ai So, of course, the boys loved him. n the clssics he Was proficient, though he evinced far more pleasure in translating sec- i preseriptions. which he bought of gist, than he did in doing the odes of desire to know what auopaihy and homeopathy really meant soon todo so. In polite letters he was E considered a disease | itch: poetry a madness which ved itself ina eraving for harmonious ‘One poet alone did he read and ad- -Swift—end he, he was wont to say, was a great phy ist and naturalist epoil i argument for this statement was the lines: *"So naturalists observe a flea Has sivalicr des that om bi prey, ‘A these Lave smaller still to bite ‘em, And so proceed fun,” which he claimed expounded the theory of bac 5 will be seen, Paul was an enthusiastic - reality of bacteria, aration, when he was finally ered a twenty-page thesis if Developing the Appen- formis into a Subsidiary Alimentary the afilicted friends of the family who were tnavoid «bly present were unanimous in acreeing with his pa-ents that such natural in- ons should not be thwarted and that a must become. So he was sent to | tical school at Aberdeen and for a year happiest days of his life, scarcely searceiy sleeping, oblivious of friends, pure the 2 pared sunshine, gayety, all clse savg the lecture the dissecting table, the leather-bound treatises in his lonely little attic. A queer th no mold. eiysiam, but happiness A us-looking object was Paul in those tall and stoop-shoul- rments flapped a requiem tied through the streets to at goggles added to the blue eyes. When he Taised bis hat it was apparent that he was no heir of Esaa’s. A simple, useful life—why was it not allowed to develop’ im peace? | Why was dam permitted to delve without the cht of fruitage? Kemorseless Fate an- both queries alike—a woman! would seems that Paul must have me the last man to be the object of n sehery. Already he was renowned | for his erudision, and his parents were reputed to be rich. So, like phosphorus, it was said that he would mal match. As for bimself ke avoided the fair sex, for, like all great men, he was woefully modest. A roguxh glance from beneath delicately curved lashes caused him to quiver and biusir; or, as he would express it, there wasa sudden tation of the anterior ganglia. His land- wever, hadan only daughter named femiliarly called “Filla,” and often | * good woman thank her stars—her idea of Providence—that Tilla had not been twins. She was squat of figure and florid of com- lexion. Hair that would have made William ufus seem swWarthy in contrast crowned her brow. Her voice was gong-like in its stridency, but, unlike it, was never still. Before her servants tied in dismay. and even her mother, who had be. i was pale ant His black his beloved work. ehinaness of his pal her | iteratively soliloquized that Tille Despite his bashfulness Paul bad been at- tracted by a certain pleasing characteristic of | Tilla’s In common with all of sanguine temperament the blood surged beneath her milky skin as though it would surely ay and this it was that proved his temptation. He bad a theory of his own that in such cases the red corpuscles were exceptionally volatile, and be believed that if he could only feel her pulse for about one-half hour his trained touch would enable him to substantiate this interest- | always with us. So he | He turned paler than the chinancss of His | suppliant tones, “I feel the need of a change was corly nestled within a corner of it ashe passed through tbe parlor from his supper one evening. She was srrayed in white, bol and pledge of innocence. Her hair ahone like spun gold, while the vivid color danced in her cheeks as though the red corpuscles recog- nized the coming of their master. It seemed his theory. He ad- her side in that gin- gerly fashion which sometimes betokens a sus- Picion of a pin. “May I take vour hand?” he faltered, as the anterior ganglia grew delirious with excite- men “Yes, darling. forever!" she cried, with fer- vor, and before Puul could pull at’ his waist- coat or scratch his bumps, as ways did when distraught, that plump li within his grasp, that aureate leaned, against his contracted chest; lock of ‘ose brilliant tresses had crept beneath bis goggles, seemingly distended from astonish- ment, and was tickling his blinking eyelids, Alas for hapless Paul! ‘The future would yield ample opportunity for his investigations into the volatility of the red corpuscles! i “Oh, ma, we're ongaged! I’m so delighted !” cried Tilla'a few moments later. “So am I,” repiied ma. And so delighted in- deed she was that she forgot to add cl and burned crusts to the Mocha for the next morning's breakfast, much to the disgust of the boarders, who then complained that the coffee was not as good as us Yes, Paul married and became a man marred. For years he patiently endured his cross; for “cross” synedochically meant Tilla. He worked more diligently than ever, for ab- sorption acquired an added charm. He became renowned as the most advanced thinker in his profession, and yet out of it he dared not have ‘& thought of his own. ‘The red corpuscles van- ytished him and danced in derision upon his manliness. Sometimes, indeed, he would visit boiler shops and walk on railway tracks in search of quiet; sometimes he would attend church fairs so as not to be na; But such leasant events were merely infrequent oases Inthe brond devert of connubial bliss: He may have been weak, but remember the strain was a matter of years. Had the duck- ing of shrews been a custom of the times Tilla would surely have grown amphibious. Her voice acquired a rasp that would make » saw-filer's spine quiver: her eyes were peren- nial springs of tears; her tongue exemplified perpetual motion and the indestructibility of Matter. As for nails she was more prolific of them than ahardware shop, at least so the doctor's bumps thought, and they often re- ceived marks of her appreciation, won, like many a race, by a scratch. Well, the worm will turn—an easy enough matter, after all, for ite sinuosity—and Paul finally id come to ponder over his unhappy lot. “Had fate sentenced him to tortue for life, or was there not at least some mitigation which his vast knowledge could suggest? She surely was not mad; there was too much method to make such a theory tenable; but were not such snappy eyes, such raking talons, such a bit tongue, such an uncontrollable temper, suc ‘an evil disposition, all manifestations of a dis- ease which. though chronic, might still prove curable? While there's life there's hope, and ‘Tilla was so full of life. Why are some women so amiable and others so odious? Was it merely a matter of education and character, or was there not some taint, some disorder, some phssical—even though microscopical—scourge which insidiously af- Hicted the latier and thus rendered against their wills, so distressingly different from the former? Now, Pan! was a materialist and evolutionist, a disciple of Pasteur and of Koch who had often exceeded his masters. He was as familiar with bacteria as he had judged Swift to have been. The bacillus, like the poor, he believed to be dered until bis mind formulated a daring theory. 2 ‘Then hé inves- tigated, following, as is common with physicists, the trend of his former researches. With in- finite care and skill he prepared a peculiar sensitive paper of his own invention. He scat- tered it over the desk and chairs in his study. ye he pulled at his waistcoat; he scratched his bumps; then, with the bravado born of des peration, he went to the head of the stairs and called for Tilla. She came, hot from indigna- tion and the kitchen stove, her fiery nair yet on end from the squabble with the servants which he had thus rudely interruptei. Yet this devo- tee of sciencs flinched not. “My dear,” he commanded, “there's a button off my coat. Attend to it ct once!” A button off his cont! Why, during the thir- teen years of his matrimonial expiation his clothing had been held together by strings and hairpins and other Crusoe-like devices, and yet never a murmur. ‘There followed an epicene bull baiting. The red corpuscles grew Vermilion, the talons quivered like a hawk’s clay within adore. os “It’s always the way,” she began. “To after all these years of toiling and moiling and working one’s flesh off one’s fingers for such a thing as this!” And away she stormed for a fall hour, until her very lungs failed her. And Paul, although he resembied a notable aspen, and shook until his shoestrings frayed, w her on by well-timed asides and hugged him- self in triamph, for he had observed several of his rensitive sheets to curl before the scoreb- ing breath of her wrath. Vhen tears had produced headache and headache had led the tottering sufferer to her bed Punl subjected these sheets to the minute microscopical _exammation which only he could make. For hours he labored, oblivious to aught save the exhaustive search. At length, when midnight was striking good night and good morning, he raised high his hands in ex- ultation and, like the bath-tub philosopher of old; shouted: “I have found it!” He had—a singularly lively bacillus of a ies Mimaie aioe = “My dear,” said Paul the next morning in of air. My liver is just the least tritle torpid. I think thai go to our country seat fora few days, and Ido so want you to’ accompany me. Ob, crafty Paul! Of course that wish set- tled it, as he knew it would. Of course she said that she, for one, had no time for such idleness; that’ her liver was all right; wasn't she'd know the reason why, au quick, too; that he could go if he ‘ood riddance; but as for her, her jome, and there she should duty ‘too well to go gallivani thither, ¢ knew her g hither and helter skelter, and let the things her poor dear mother had given her come to rack and ruin, &e. So Paul, like a released schoolboy his way rejoicing to the little box back went on of Shiloh which his industry had purchased in the lust days of his freedom as a dovecote for the honeymoon. Despite the depressing associa- tions of the spot he was happy, for he was alone. He sat within his little study emittin rotesque chuckles and snapping the enlai Coane his Simian fingers ce rati powder crackers. “Let me see,” he soliloquized. “I will gota male for obstinacy; ves, and perhaps a Dalky horse. Then, what is uglier than » bulldog? Oh, I must surely have a cross-cved bulldog with lots of teeth. A peacock is vain and has 4 voice like a rusty hinge. Well, a brace of peacocks will be useful, cad so will a parrot— an old one that imagines that incessant chatter is reason. And cats—grimalkins that can scratch and _ and sing all night—oh, I must depopulate the sheds of them! A ferret is ick of eve and fond of finding out things: & ferret is indispensable. N. let me think. Asi through Shiloh this morning, didn’t I notice the flaming bills of a menagerie? I'm sure I did The very thing! If I don't buy a wolf, a hyena, a jackal, a gorilla and anos. trich, it's only because money has lost its pur- chasing power.” ‘Now Paul was rich. Within a week he had gathered into his barn this motley crew. Their | eries and roars and squeals shattered the pure calm of evening and murdered sleep, only smiled upon the turmoil, for it reminded him of home. For days he toiled among them under Jock and key. | Let that secrecy bore- Tilla, believing that wings Paul gazed upon her he for ized how much he loved her, not for what she was, but for what she soon would be. ‘Hardly had the im _ did the red on —— . frenzy and the tongue display ii y An img conjecture. ferret darted about in a dozen places at once, ‘To feel her pulse! Ab, his blood leaped to | the ostrich hid its head in the hay, the emulate her brilliancy at the very it. | the wolf and the jackal And yet desire increases as the square of the | screamed and the beat the rumble of diticulty. Perhaps, after all, it was only nat- ural for a medical man tocrave pulse o’ Tilla. Now, Tilla kad noticed a twitching nervous- ness on bis part toward her, whieh she had teken tomean a kindly interest. and ehe bad Fesvived that matrimony should be the princi- pal which should make this interest a enn Several times in passing the butter, waich was her uniform notion of sociability at the table, he had stealthily touched her hand. Several times abe had caught those pale blue — sisting at her like ‘twin beacons eg through a fog. ‘So abe laid in wast for him, anda sofs changed sym- | sternation. ad THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. his so far into an irremediable further. She| Whon he awoke Tilla was already dressed. “Get Lazybones!” she screamed. He rul his eyes ii amazement, in con- Could it be that there had indeed ‘ly desr,"*he faltered, “don't you feel any better?” * “Much you care how I feel!” she began. “After all these years of toiling and moiling,’ been no &e., de. Paul de! walked out of the house and turned toward of his recent experi- scene ments, which he now felthad been ineffectual. ‘There was an unwonted silencé which he could not explain ly in the morning the up- roar was at its height. He cn’ 1 barn, and his sparse locks stood on end. Here, at arn transmutation had oce ‘The cross-eved bulldog crept to his side and poem rubbed his nozzle, so prolific tee st his leg: the grimalkins purred like tabl a or ca] jies before earth; the baiky horse pered, and the mule shed tears; the pea- cocks and the parrot roosted in silence in the corner; the ostrich talked warily about, as. if apprised of its own bulk; the ferret dozed with f-closed lids; the hyena laughed a hearty, joyous laugh: the wolf and the jacakal gamboled like lambs; the gorilla frankiy extended the t hand of welcome and feliowship. wal returned to his study. He thonghtlong and earnestly until he realized the truth. He recalled the scene in the barn, when Tilla had raged so furiously; and there le found t cause which had produced such effect upon the animals. He sub; lymph to analytical tests, and verified its Strength to have been all that he had desired. And yet how impotent it had proved. With a sigh of res on he accepted the Se 7 ter did ho attempt to eure that which is incurable. Never did he give to the world the particulars of his won- book he formulated thistheorem: ‘*The bacil- lus of a shrew is destructive and indestructible.” ———__-r.- —____ Fashions in Men's Wear. From the Clothier and Furnisher. Gloves are indispensable to the man that ‘aspires to be well dressed. ‘The delicate shades in pearl of undressed kids with a narrow cord embroidery upon the back in self color and with a single large Pearl button, is the ultra-fastidious type for full dress. The foible is an expensive one, becanse the evening glove must be immaculate. A soiled pair of evening gloves would Le decmed as Great a solecisin as a shirt fornt that betrayed & previous wearing. lew walking gloves aro, of course, preferable to those that show the ravages of long service. But worn and even soiled walking gloves are better than no gloves at all. The walking glove jowever, in its best age after n week of care- ful wearing. It then lacks the unpleasant shop- pishness end gontraction of the hand that necessarily accompanies the first wearing and is more distingue because less noticeable. There cannot be any question but that paja- mag are the retiring garment: of warm weather and night robes are the slumber gowns of colder temperatures. The palamas are usually of thinner material, and they, moreover, are more fittingly donned upon a warm night, when one would throw off the coverings. ‘the night gowns, however, are constructed with a freedom of cut that warrants their being worn most appropriately under the bed clothes. It cannot be gainsaid but that the pajamas are affected by a comparatively emall propor- tion of the community. There should be, fore, in nightgowne regulation style mer and winter weights and designs. ‘The w ter nightgown should be based upon the ful- somo breadth and length of the old-fashioned home-made article that extended down to the | ankles, and was so big around that one coald almost wind oneself up in it. The summer dream robe might be of more diaphanous ma- terial and of less ample dimensions. The white full dress cravats have finally felt the effect of the tendency to bigness in neck- wear. They have been latterly worn in widths from one to one and a half inches. The latest examples spread out to greater widths at the end. It is not deemed reprehensible now to wear one of the formal-looking high-backed turn- over collars with the swallow-tail of evening dress. In the sumny timo there is little doubt but thet this stylo will become ax prov- alent for fuil dress as the standing collar now holding the piace of priority. cutis is the posi of four or more years ago when the cu: shooter reveled in his deadly exceutio links are now made in smali and unostenta- tious designs without the jewel ornamentation at one time the vogue. The general tone of the néckwear showin; of 8) will be in light-colored and dark-col- ored backgrounds. For tho carly. wear, there and the big irregular puffs than later on, when these styles are too cumbersome for comfort and aptness in warm weather. In the better jndgment that has animated the tone of the outing ontputs for the coming season the blazer and the lurid sash have been left out of the list. ‘The black silk muffler of extra length that folds down well over the full dress waistcoat opening is now on sale at all the high-class jops and has scored the success of this wi ter's season's innovations among men’s fixings. Solid colors in neckwear will not be as much fancied as heretofore. The wide-bosomed ungarnished shirt front for full dress is the surer indication of metro- politan training. | ‘The embroidered effects find favor in the smeller cities and provinces. Late ideas in dress shirts are very properly made with three eyelets or buttonholes or shirt studs, studs consisting, presumably, of three separate pieces, and two eyelets or buitonholes wonld naturally suggest that one of the set had been lost or made away with, and the curtailment of the blind orifice was a makeshift to cover the deficiency. — His Dire Revenge. From the New York Sun, During the halcyon days of the roller skating rink I was in the ticket office of arink in Louis ville when a man came in and asked if he could hire the floor for one hour. It was about 10 o'clock in the forenoon and after some figuring he was told that he could have it for $10. “I want to bring a friend here and teach him to roll,” he explained, “and I want it under- stood that no one is to raise a hand to help. ‘That was agreed to, and he paid the money and went away. When he returned, ten min- utes later, he had his friend with him, and he selected one pair of rollers, strapped’ them to the man’s fect and after a littie led him out to the center of the floor, where there was a single column reaching up'to the roof, Here he Joorened his hold, stood back with folded arms, said: “James Burns, you are s cheat and liar! You lied me out of $50 a year ago manded the other, who was for support. mean?” de- ig to the post “It means that the hour for my revenge has | come at Inst! James Burns, you are a scoui drel! Yes, sir; you are a contemptible, miser- ablewretch” ae “You—you must raz! gasped the vic- “slew” made by tim, ashe recovered from one of his fect. “No, sir! Far from it! I revenge. You are a low-lived, miserable cur! Words fail to expross my conteiapt for you!" ‘The other mi @ move at him, but ‘“slewed” right and left and came near going down. He gotanew grip on the post, and stood there with his legs wobbling and trembling. The other steadfastly regarded him for long min- ute, and then exclaimed: “Liar, villifier, slanderer, I defy and spit upon you!” advanced and spat, and then turned on his heel and waiked away. The other was 60 mad and helpless that he shed tears, and he offered an emploxe *5 to come and help him sit down and get his skates off. ‘This was against the bargain, however, and no one went near him. He got'so mad that he decided to try it alone, but the instant he let go of the Post ome foot shot one way and the other ina contrary direction, and he came down like » | block of stone. After ten minutes’ work he this skates off, and then he crawled across fhe foor on hands and kneos.” His companion after him he waved his hand to us and said: Iwill find him! Iwill in foc tenn try eos skin for fish bait to catch s drous discovery. Within his own private note- | 4 mn of the big link buttons that are relies | will be a greater sale of Ascots, De Joinvilles | ‘This is the proper number, a set of shirt | planned this to get | ¢ TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR. Other Forms of Neuralgia, Sciatica, Muscu- lar Rheumatism. From the New York World. Asarule people consider sciatica s sort rheumatism. We often hear it spoken of as sciatic rheumatism. Nevertheless it is a neu- ralgia pare and simple and next to the tis sciatica quite readily, as the pain is less severe in the former and is spread over a larger surface of the limb. Then, again, the pain is more steady in rheumatism, whereas in sciatica it comes in paroxysms, ‘of | More or less regular, although differing much in intensity and duration. Sometimes sciatica may be confounded with hip disease in its first stages, and, in fact, hip disease is often at- tended with genuine scistic neural In case of complication it is necessary that a Physician be called and I trust it in perfectly understood that in my talks I do not intend to convey the idea that every man may be his own doctor. Iam the last man in the world to tract in any way from the value of the research, study and experiment that have brought the science of medicine to its present state. In fact, had I the making ‘of the laws I would insist much more thorough more complete and education before I would allow a yo duate and practice medicine. ineluded in the regular course of education fora medical student at least a year at pre- scription clerk duty with a good drugzist and threo years’ service as assistant or even as nurse in a hospital, we would hear less of errors in ingnoses and of blundersin writing and fiiling prescriptions. But, as I was saying, Ihave no intention in these talks of advising you to doctor yourself except in simple cases; what I want is to show you how to avoid disease, for of course you Fe- momber the old saw abont the “ounce of pre- vention,” and surely in this case it is most ap- licable. Pigcintica is rarely inherited. It can, in nearly évery case, be traced to direct causes. The nerve affected, in plain terme, begins at the lup and runs down to the kneo, then separates into several branches and continues on down to the ankle and heel. For some reason sciatica is more frequent in men than in women and may arise from several causes, eich as ex- treme constipation, excessive walking, sitting in a certain position constantly or in a chair “of such” form that t00 much pressure is brought upon the nerve, exposure to cold and damp, sitting upon a cold or damp stone, sitting in street cars in winter, which are usually both cold and damp, al- thongh, thank goodness, the companics have become so far christianized that they have given up their plan of strewing the floor with wet, half-frozen straw. Although, as I have enid, sciaticn is seldom inherited, it must be admitted that persons who inherit a tendency to rhenmatism aro more apt to have an attack of sciatica, under ‘exposures, than those who are perfectly in their pedigree. jatica usually begins with an attack of Iname buck (lumbago), although I have known mptoms to appear in the feet or in jsually there is a numb feeling, » feeling of stiffness, and a dull, heavy 4 tion ‘about the leg, before the distinet p comeson. When the pain does come, ho ever, sharp, tearing, grinding, there is any- thing but numbness.” It may come in the hip, shoot like lightning along the course of the nerves tothe heel or to the knee, along the calf of the leg, or to all parts at once. Some times the pains only last for an hour or 0, but in extreme casos they have been known to re- ist all treatment for several days ata time. ntervals between the paroxysms the leg yand sore. Exercise or movement in- creases the painandan awkward movement muy bring on a paroxyem. in severe cases the appetite is affected and the patient's health runs down from a conse- quent weakness and loss of sleop. The limb becomes more and more useless, a cane or a crutch has to be used, and finally the bed must be kent constantly. With proper treatment, and if taken in time, a case of gcin ay be entirely cured in a week or two. Some cases, however, last for | months, or even years, especially it there be complications. Some cases gradnally supside | in a year or two withont xpecific treatment. Now as to treatment. Of course the causes that can be discovered must be removed. If there is constipation of the bowela that must be attended to. ‘Such habits ns may tond to en- courage the disease must be given up. If the ‘comes on with a lame back I would rec- ommend a porous pleste: Capsicum.) In fact, 0%: will tind from my talks that I am a firm be- fiever in. tbe edlogey of & porous plaster as'a eunter irritant, and I think they should be used much mote than they are. No would especially recommend any of those pro- prietary ones—all are good. The plaster I like best is not » patent medi- are called “Dermix,” and are strong with Con sicum and contein Just little belladonna. It isa regular pharmaceutical preparation, so I am at liberty to recommend it. In sciatiea or in lame back or in muscular rheumausm I use these plasters, and always with good results. Put them right over the seat of pain. In ex- trem> cases of sciatica I have seen the whole thigh covered. I believe that nearly every case of sciatica if taken eurly may be not only relieved, but completely cured by this simple treatment. Russian and Turkish baths are excellent things for sciatica, the only objection to taking them being the liability of the bather to take cold on his way home irom the bathing estab- lishment. I have for a long time recommended asimpic arrangement for taliag hot air or vapor baths at home, and sball talk about it next week. _—_____+ee—_____ In the Harvard “Annex.” From the Boston Globe. None of the students live at the school, but while they are in the building they are on the most intimate terms, and a feeling of sociabil- ity among the students is encouraged by the authorities. Any yeung woman who wishes to become a student in the college must write to Arthor Gilman, the well-kn who is secretary, and he finds out all about the student and her family. The ages of the ap- plicants vary from eighteen to forty years, After the student has passed the entrance examination and has come to Cambridge, what calied the students’ committee vf the college | is called on for the performance of an import ‘ant fun This committee is entrusted with of either selecting the home in which the student is to live or supervising | the student's selection. All this applies, of | course, only to the case of the student who comes from a distunt state or a not very adja- cent city or town of New Engiand. All of the students at the annex who have no homes in Cambridge board in private families in that city. Of the 160 students at the anncx this year there are about fifty who live in this way. ‘The other 100 or more students come fromsnch places as Koxbury and CG and Somerville and Newton.’ Their homes are in those towns, and when they get through pith their work at the annex every day they go ome. Outside of the supervising interest which the authorities have in the social life of the siu- there is another interest that manifests in all kinds of pleasant ways. The young women are encouraged to regard their instruc: tora as persons who are more to them than oficial pedagognes. And then the students have no class spirit, no social sets, none of the barriers to kindly intercourse that inevitably exist in other coileges. For several years a certain ceremony has ex- isted at the atinex. itis the ge! ‘together at the commencement of the college year of all the students. The new students aasemble at the invitation of those who have been on the last year’s body’ has a j gets acquainted w: gatherings. It is the commencement recep tien, and there aze dancing and the usual juncts toa social affair. But the invitations are strictly confined, alas! to the studeats ives. emsel. On this £3 § Hiceess I: E Ld de- | cell, where.a vacant cine, and every druggist keeps them. They | P THE FIRST DAY. ‘Experience of # Political “Suspect” in a Rus- ‘From Free Russia. I was taken into one of the little courts in Persons. The sleeping berths were for ten Persons, but the space detween these berths and the wall was so narrow as to make it diffi- cult for all the ten to walk at once. Several of them generally sit or lie on the berths. All the celis were open and the prisoners were in the court; some were mending their ragged clothing, some knitting stockings, some merely lying or sitting in the sun; most of them, however, were employed in destroying para- sites in their hair or clothing. Several Persons surrounded me and asked who I was, ow long I was to stay and where I was going; no one inguired why 1 was in prison; that ques- tion is considered impolite in prison society. After having satisfied the curiosity of the ques- tionere, most of whom were in chains and were to be transported to Siberia, I was taken into a lace was chown me, ona sleeping berth an ‘cll wide, with a dirty pillow fed with straw and no mattress or blanket, for both of which the prisoners’ cloak serves. Prisoner who showed me my place was the ‘elder of the ward” (starosta): he was very amiable to me and Tecommended one berth, remarking that “There's plenty of room here, there are only ten of us; in ail the other cells there are fif- teen; that's why I put you here.” The fact is, that the elder was building hopes on me; he hed noticed that I wore spectacles, and had therefore concluded that I must be ® “gentle- man,” and, of course, must know how to write, and he was past then very anxious to write a tition. I, of course, consented, and asked im to explain to me his business.” He began an account, from which my attention was dis- tracted bya eudden sensation of burning all over. “Oh! Isit they?” he asked, breaking off. “They?” I repeated, wondering. He nodded: my experience was’ familiar to him. “Never mind,” he enid consolingly: “they bite so furionsly just at first, you won't them after a bit.” Itore off my cloak: my shirt was literally covered with vermin. ‘They were in suc swarms that I stood horror stricken; it seemed tome thatI must die from them. My new friend, still trying to console me, helped me off with my shirt and we wens out into the court. Laying down the cloak in the hot sunshine to get warm, we employed ourselves in clearing the shirt of vermin. Before laying the cioul: on the ground the elder held it upfor me to look at, and it seemed to me to be almost free from insects. But after a few minutes he called my attention to itagain. The vermin hidden the coarse canvas texture had come out to the heat. It was _ only then that I understood in what condition the clothing was that had been given me;Idrew back with the bitter conviction thet it was useless to struggle against such endless legions. But my instructor assured me that there was no need to despair, that I must have patience and that by working at it eigh- teen hours a day one could get rid of a great many in two days. There was nothing for it but to follow his advice: no: thet I had any hopes of success, but rather from sheer desper- ation. But we had not long to sit in the court. At7 p.m, our names were called over and we were locked up in the cell. We lighted some tiny lamps, filled with grease, and went omwith our work. ‘Some had contrived to get hold of a puck of cards und spent the time in playing. though with frequent interruptions, a8 at any moment the sentinel might look in and catch the gamblers in the act, which would have re- sulted in @ search and ‘the confiscation of the cards. One of the prisoners, therefore, stood admiring the beauties of the darknens, acting meanwhile as scout, and gave notice with a movement of his foot every time the sentinel approached. ‘Then instantly all the gamblera would put on the most innocent air and occupy themselves in some other way. At 5am. we were let out. Ihiad not slept at all, uor ob- tained one moment's relief from the torment of the vermin. The prisoners crowed round the well and drank: some took off their cloth- ing and washed ing naked while they i chilliness was still the I “and my new friend resumed our toil of the day before. He was evidently well accustomed to the work, and looked compaasionately upon my ignorance and clumsiness. “You don’t a bit know how to manage; yon look half afraid of them! You shouldn't ge at it so gingerly! I know whose cloak that is,” he went on; “a fortnight azo there was a feliow here, ‘Juck Fool,’ we used tocall him; quitea natural, you know. He was always soft in his head;’ and then be was ill, too; just ail over wounds and sores from head to foot. Well, there he'd lie, and of course he got all over these creatures: ied to get rid of thom. Of eourse fellaw wouldn't let his cloak get into that state, but the foot care—aot he; he didn’t seem to have any feeling. somehow.” On learning the biography of my clok I ap- ‘or to know whether I changed for another. ined thatit was quite need- get rid of the vermin, tha oue couid not cacch diseases from clothes, | but he failed to convince me. “Of course, | remarked az last, “one cau get it changed: it'll | cost a lot, but it ean be done; here, sir, any- thing can be got for money. ‘Why, not only clean things, you can have spirits, playing cards, paper, pens and ink—anstiing you like. My cloak was changed that day.’ Prisoners are not allowed to have money in their posses sion, buta prisoner who has money to his ac- count in the office can buy things in the prison shop by order. The dealer, ike a banker, cashes your order, though in goods insteud of money, and takes 20 per cent himself for trouble and risk. ‘hat evening I felt far lees miserable in con- sequence of a clean cloak. only. feel Desirability of Sudden Death. Chicago Journal.—From “sudden death” we Pray to be delivered. Are we wise in that? A great official of the United States, a member of the cabinet, died last night while at a banquet, and just as—as if the thing were to be accentu- ated and havo an added interest—he had con- cluded an addvess to those about him. He sat down, leaned back in his chair, gasped, lapsed into unconsciousness and saw no more of this stopping place on the way to all eternity. ‘There were lights about him; his last look was into the faces of friends; he raw no saddened faces; heard no sobs; there had beon no dread of the fearful messenger. The statesman was and he was not. That is all there was to it so far ar this world goes. There was spared to | him ail the long agony which so often comes before the end. After all is not a sudden death the one to be preferred? Is it not better to step than to be carried in a litter over the illimitable frontier? New York Herald.—Never was in the Book of Common Prayer the midst of life we are in death,” more startlingly or im- preguively illustrated. ¢ And yet a sudden death, death in the harness, is in many respects desirable. Secretary i yed the privilege of bearing his respousibilities to the very edge of the grave, hed bo long, wearisome iliness, with its mingled hopes and fears, but quietly stepped from the harassing carcs of the present into the realm of eternal rest and peace. ————+00 He Had an Object. From the New York Sun. “Gentlemen,” he said ashe approached the four of us seated in a row in the waiting room, “it grinds me to the soul to be obliged to ask favors of strangers, but I've got to do it right here and now.” “Then my house burned down and I got no “ay * “Then I fell out of a tree and broke my leg ma aa wee enya “Then I sold a piece of real estate—the property Thad—and.s fellow robbed mate ea Freee fou are hard up, indeed. I should ‘ST hore fart on object i ving.” “and that?” “ was a boy, ten yeare old, and lived “When 1 in Vermont I stole waterinoion froma farmer. My cele. fron, never’ discovered’ eas policeman ‘What a Lady Sees in the Newest Style of ‘Work and Fashion. Elsie Bee in the Jewelers’ Circular. ‘The stork lends itself as a model for button- which were four cells, each with room for ten | hooks. Very dainty are the solid silver scalloped but- ter shells. The taste for miniature watches and time- Pieces is at its height. The turquoise was never more popular than at the present time. Quite new in brooches are heart-shaped ame- thyst ones encircled with pearls. Very new and very handsome are the mono- gram letter clips in solid silver. ‘The preeent fad in padlock bracelets is for those having either heart-shaped or square locks. Girdles continue in fashion, a favorite kind being copies of those worn in medieval times. Novel scarf settings. The very Intest thoee that show a ver. ‘The very prettiest hts are silver see saws on the cndsof wich ars placed protty little Viennese bronzes. Tiny balls encrusted with diamonds and set as scarf pinsand sleeve links are extremely Popular among gentlemen, ‘he long chains of twent returned to us and with 1) slide chain with jeweled slide. Tt is a fact beyond dispute that coral is again jionable. One sees it in scarf pine and brooches bordered elther with small Siamonds or pearis. In much of the new jewelry diamonds and atls have changed pl pearls forming in ph combination beauty. ‘The watch is making itself quite at home in all sorts of odd places. We find it in um- brella handles. the tops of inkstands, in cal- endars and hidden away in the heart of rose pendants. ‘A convenience for the smoking room is the self-adjusting Ikmp in silver. It comes in various forms, in all of which the arrange- ment is such ‘that the light remains always ai the top in whatever position the lamp may be held. A convenient novelty which 9] to both soxes is silver case for elevated railrond, bridge, ferry and car tickets. This case can be carried in ‘the vest pocket or worn as pen- dant from the watch chain. It is quickly gperated by a thumb-piece slide, which throws ticket into the hand. The beauty of this ornament is that itcan be worked withont re- moving the glove or even taking the case from the pocket. —_—_+2+ —____ IT I8 AN ILL WIND, ETC. Winter Storms Bring Sunshine Into Editor- fal Sanctums. From the Christiania Dagbiad. The northern waters are frozen; the sound and the belt are sheets of ice; the lightehips in the Kattegat have been dragged ashore, the sailing vescels are all ashore and even the strong steamers have left off running in the north of Scandinavia. One fair day the Christiania post office sends out notice that on account of the severe weather no foreign mails have come in. “What's the news?” asks the editor, as usual, when he gets into his newspaper office. “No foreign mails,” the staff replies ina chorus. “That's capital,” the editor re, and rabs his hands gleefully as he thinks of theenormous number of MSS. be has had in his pigeon holes for ever so long. * '”” groans the foreign editor, “but ing for news from England about the kes. ‘hat may be; but think of all our con- tributors in our pigeon holes; there are scores of yards of manuscript.” the the While the staff are sorting and newly arrived telegrams an old friend editor's looks in with « ruefal face. “Good morning,” he saya, woefully. “Good morning. Whatever is matter 7th you? You look as if you came from = funeral.” “I've heard that the foreign mails have not arrived today and Icame to condole. I sup- pose you are not going to publish today?” |. The editor casts a compassionate look at his simple-minded friend. -*Come in,” he says to thesorrowfulone. “I will show you our stock.” ", | They go into the inner sanctum, and there ih of contributions ix dispiayed. “Look here,” the editor says, triumphantly; “all this has been reposing there for some time. Now it will be looked at, for there are,no doubt, useful things among the heap. Now can you beliove that we can fill the peper with original matter?" The friend, reassured, takes his departure; the editor begins to read and the contributors rejoice when they see the evening paper of that eventful day. There are no less eight columns of complaints against the local board; & paper measuring a yard in le ‘on the de- | sirability of building a railway line to the part “were I live;” new and wonderful philosophic theories are expounded; the whole world is set | right, and as for poetry, why, a whole generation of Skaldshave sprung up ina single night. There are five novelettes, with morphine bottles at the end and the odes to Bjornstjerns Bjornson alone fill a whole paper basket, over and above those that are selected for immediate use. ‘The pigeon holes are clean and empty. the poets and scribes of the north rejoice and all cause the cold and the ice have delayed the foreign mails. Se NERVY AMERICAN GIRLS. She Got Rid of the Man Who was Crowd- ing Her. From the New York Telegram. “The fact that American girls go anywhere and almost everywhere without escorts has long boen matter of wonderment to me,” said a member of the French nobility to me the other day. “I was coming down in an elevated train yesterday and the reason was made evident to me. As we neared City Hall station almost every passenger made a rush for the door and stood for five minutes, each anx- ions to get ahead of the other in leaving the train. “Ono of the crowd was very pretty young woman carrying a long-handied umbrella in one hand and a big bundle in the other. Just behind her was a short, very fat man, who was rudely crowding the pretty girl. As I had not left my seat I saw the performance that followed. ns Qnce the girl looked over her shoulder and e fat man stopped crowding ®& moment, but began again and trod on the skirt of the retty girl. Her eyes grew dark with anger. he long-handled umbrella assumed a hori- zontal position and shot backward point catching the fat man just about at the of his vest. He gave gusp of terror and caught his breath just as the pretty girl looked her shoulder, smiled maid: ‘Ob, rdon me; but youare on my PelcThen she srailed as though the air in the car was suff him. marched complacently out car ‘engines, hose carts and shit ‘small boys. Lines of hose were carried in at the doors and over the handsome stair car- & i i i i i nt lk i f tho wines wiiieet one pull at their cigare. A nhmber of noticed the calmness of the club men and one of the firemen, with ared noseand s graf s dl Noblemea With More Wealth Than Common ‘Sense. the ful highness is ambitious of academic honors, ‘and, in order to pass his “matric” in proper style, Prince Demidoff San Donato recently in- duced a whole college of perceptors to come— at his expense—from St. Petersburg ‘and there to undertake his Russian press shrieked « of wealth,” but the pri Other Bah to s Z fet a é sf i i Fs, H i allt itt rah i i E ees ie i i i & z | 7 i i i i i H A te g ‘ & & HY L f ¢ piece de resistance of the ornament and the | The most @iamonds serving ns an enhancement of their | Ak wars the government was in great straite and axplied to the arch millionaire, who was not an admirer of his sovereign Indy, for a loan. “You can have 4,000,000 rubles,” replied, for no other compensation : give her majesty’s ambassador (and representa- tive) a box on the ear for each million.” This satisfaction, however, was denied him, as the money was returned at the proper time. Another amusement of the aristocrat was to get persons to stand before him for an hour to- gether. If during this time they did not move their eyelids to the slightest ‘they re- ceived @ certain sum of money; if they did, there was the knout for them. a MISTAKEN IDENTITY. A Bemarkable Eesemblance and = Useless Apology. Teresa Dean in Chicaro Herald. It is an amusing thing—this mistaking a stranger for some one you know—or it is amus- ing to see some one else do 60. And did you ever notice the difference be- tween men and women in the way in which they get around the mistake? A man will go up to another one and say: “Why, how do you do?” As he putsout his hand the other man takes it and gives it @ cordial shake and a “How do you do? How are you? Itisa fine day. Let mo see—where have I met you?” When come to compare their mental notes they discover that they never have met anywhere, but they sit down and discuss poli- tics and religion, or anything else, with the same freedom as if meeting was an every-day occurrence. A woman will bow to another, thinking she has met her before, and unless the one is taken in the tiest manner mistaken.” The first one blushes aad apolo- gizes and settles down th ly convinced of the enormity of the crime mistake. ‘makings simple joes a man under the same circumstances. returns the cordial handshake and lets perp yer degeeicgaren | ing, OF crests to fuck in not betting the , OF trusts to lucl ‘Woman discover her mistake. A fow days ago a man raised his hat to a lady in a prominent retail store. The lady stared at an For hia iy ‘and turned her head. and after emo ment he went her and said: “You for lady whom Ymet bat’ once sanort, dave I at but still there aw once, but iS very greet revemblanee cr mame i Be _—., resemblance is so remarkable you may have heard of ber.” SG Cipeones remeeeg peewee ee~ aid: “Yes, resemblance is L myself, am Mrs. ——" 1e man started. By the time he covered just what the “mistake” was (i had dis- ‘that be t | saw the indy was gone. CRUCIFIED ALIVE. The Terrible Fate of Prisoners im the De- ‘From the Nashville American. In the King of Dahomey's country in Africa that worthy has a way not altogether pleasant of dealing with those incurring his ire. After his defeat at Kotohou he relieved his feelings by an expedition against = tribe called the Egbas and took several thousand prefer it avoids e ‘ubmarine Tunnel Company. The En- lish admiralty having intimated that it would observations near the British coast Cape Grisnez. greatest dey ‘wae from tie meters northeast of the light to South Foreland, and it terminates northeast of the entrance of the Its length is 83,450 th of water met with to Sl meters,a de; gnly over a distance of i bridge al posed is shorter by 5,130 meters ited in the dep! 700 the the west of pth meters. line than that preliminary scheme. Moreover, of 55 meters, and those 8% Xtend only over a comparatively «bort distance. The soundings show that the sub- marine soil is sol:deverywhere. As regards the to be made from an English vessel, the desire thus expressed was complied with. ‘Soundings ina Decings were taken July 8 to Beptem- . extending tice. The battery and the wire of the telegraph plant must receive careful attention and the three a was " “ just be a remarkable person,” said of rough-hewn wood and in similar to | another man: “How long ha Seokenee. that known to every Christian. victim was | Say" enn apo a 3 ed? 2 thickly in core = “Ten years. And she never disappointed me. ope sank deep into the leah and he was utterly | Tri. unable to help himself. The lower portion the body indicated that some wild animal had beer ing at him. Hardly had the traveler passed one than he came upon another All “Say, boy!” he called toa lad who was ing the doorway to a dentist's office on Wood- ward avenue. “Yes, sir.” “Td like you to go upstairs and see if the dentist is in.” ot to Speak of the chance to slash it off withe bowie knife or # razor.” ‘The italics are our own. It would be inter- ten Pedy he yh o well-informed jour- ‘spent his time and with what manner of mer he consorted while in America. Should he read of the isolated case of the woman whose nose was rebridged with a rabbit's rib as an ex- in Re he will Seco as be pach as eae statement me hove Setidetal Foolish Consistency. ‘From the Youth's Companion. Emereon tells us that there is no particular virtue in consistency. How stupid a man must be, he says in effect, who is not wiser today than yesterday, and who does not accordingly have to change some of his opinions. “A man will never his mind who hes ee aes + 5 and Faraday expresses same idea when charges us to remember that “in knowledge Saw of wentiuce” — There is s medium between rte cock” and remaining ‘a one rab be- Kiet. Most of us know = | cannot bring 4 last year. > cy Irishman once owned which was Ban eld r be ‘TH otis e ¥.