Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1887, Page 10

o ) . _7‘ THE HYDROPHOBIA SCARE. Bow It is Magnified and Mude to Terrify the Timid. THE PASTEUR CRAZE DYINGOUT. Meatistics Manipulated to Bolster up the French Docter—People Killed by Fean In concluding his article in the Con- temporary Review, on Fi Cure and “~Fear-Killing, Francis Power Cobbe, takes up the hydrophobia scare. The two pre- vious sections of his article have ap- peared in the Sunday Bee. Mr. Cobbe says: We must pass over many examples which might be added to the fear killing revalent in our time, to speak at some ngth of the most prominent of those of she last three years—to-wit, the hydro- phobia scare. The history of this scare, and of Pasteurism as connected therewith, will one day, I doubt not, form a very m"'“‘fil;:fim instructive ohnymr in a future cohtinuation of Mackay's “‘Popu- Llli Delusions,” We can but glance over here. ‘A rare digense, which by its nature is exceptionally closely connected with and contralled by mental lmguuloqn. was announced be suddenn‘,x manifesting itself all over the civilized world, from Moscow to Chicago. Mad dogs became 88 plentiful as blackberries—at loast the reports of them in the newspapers were so—and it was diflicult to open a dm‘l‘y 1nurn|l without finding a paragraph add- nq‘to the general hue and cry. hat & greater proportion of these newspaper stories belonged to she myth- ical order of the Eooseborry and the se: serpent s without saying; and as re- rds the haples dofi:« req’luumd mn ndon as rabid afier being battered to death on doorsteps by “policemen’s truncheons, it is permissible to believe that a large proportion had excited pub- lic alarm by simply erying when kicked or run over, or by exhibiting the harm- less fita common to teething puppies. On these occasions of popular panic there are always, as in the old witch per- secutions, two classes of enemies to the victims, There is the ubiquitous Mr. Matthew Hopkins, who obtains kudos, and perhaps more substantial reward, for every case he detects; and there is {he stupid and terrified bystander, whose atent instincts of cruelty come out im- mediately at the call to sfay and torment either a miscrable old “woman or a mangled dog. Speaking of the hydrophobia bugbear, which spre consternation through America while our own scare was iving us of our common sense and our umanity, Dr. Edward Spitzka tells us in the Forum for April, 1887: *‘In order to determine how great the danger 1n the United States from rabies 18, the writer has carefully followed up all the newspaper reports of alleged out- breaks of the disease. In not a single instance has satisfactory evidence of its existonce beon obtained. [After detail- ing the sham cases at Newark, Chicago, etc., he continues:] Scores of observa- tions might be added, all tending to prove that during the past two years hore tas-beea-ne-reported case of rabies in man in this country which could not e referred to an error of observation. Before scientific tests all the newspaper slarms are shown to have been either fabrications, exaxfent!onl, or mistakes. [As an example of the exaggerations wi may take the following:] In Pennsyle vanis 8 number of nervous persons were rendered unhang‘y bg a sensational report that.rabies had become epidemic, and that a large number of school-chil- dren had been infected by dog-bite: The nucleus of this report was an epilep- tic fit in a little black-and-tan dog, in- g:uod 31 his having swallowed a chicken ne!’ Woe are very far, indeed, from making light of the terrible disease of hydropho- bfin when it ever really afilicts man, woman, or child. Bat the whole hlstorg of this false scare bears a false ring whicl provokes incredulity. In tne first place, we all know how reporters by the hun- dred are daily seeking provhsp r to feed scores of newspapers whichtégaite fresh supplies every mornings:: we know that the welcome giveu, h:mwru to every scrap of intelligencq. bearing on a subject which for the moment is ‘‘up” n public interest, secures the particularly careful supply of the article so in de- mand. This alone accounts no doubt for a multitude of these mad-dog para- aphs. But there has been at work in this particular instance something more than every day press hunger. There has been wire-pulling going on from the side of that medical clique whioh is notori- ously potent on the staff of some of the loading journals. As the Referee last "“8’" acutely observed: ne thing 18 certain, The present idemic of rabies did mot begin until . Pasteur was ready forit. If he were to-morrow to abandon his experiments in this direction, we should hear of very fow cases ot mad dogs. The panic would have died out long ago, but it has been fomented by the press in the interests of Pasteurism; and when the mad dog has not been available for sensational treatises, the mad dog has been in- vented.” Had no hydrophobia scare been raised and if 1t had been generally understood that many more men die every year from the kicks of horses than from the bites of dogs,t Pasteur would have obtained no such apotheosis as was prepared for him, But by carefully spreading the panic of “mad dog,’” the successful vivisector, as the great deliverer from maa dogs, was elevated to so lofty an eminencein public opinion that an English religious news- K:”“ spoke of him as a “God-sent aler,” and compared his virus kitchen in the Rue d'Ulm to the Mount of Galilee. Whether, besides exulting over every real or fictitious case of rabies, Pasteur's admirers are responsible tor actually causing the disease in some of the in- focted animals, 18 a question not to be dismissed hastily. Mr, G. H. Lewes told the royal commission on vivisection, “When one man publishes an experiment there are people all over Europe who will set about to repeat it, and repeat it, and Tepeatit.’ It is therefore excusable to surmise that some of the physiologists who have been 8o loud in their praises of have repeated his inoculations, some of the dogs on which they have tried the preventive method have subsequently developed the disease, and have communicated it to other dogs through whole districts. Pasteur and his followers have been playing with a tremendous poison of which the proper- ties are utterly unascertained, and we may never know the evils they have let loose, both as regards the virus of rabies and of anthra: Perhaps it may be asked, What inter- * P 181 4 two hundred and fifty-one persons died in in_consequence of wocidents vaused by and conveyances in tbe stroets of Lon- don, and nine from hydrophobia (See Rexis- Genoral's Annual Summary, pp. ix, and xxvi. 3 A)llll!llolli incident occurred in Florenca 0 yoars when opposition was raised to eaaor EOh's snormoun consamption. of viviseetion. (It was calculatod that he “uged” fourteen thousand in ten vears, thelr skins were said to by too much eut to be salable for manufacturing pur- ‘The indignant physiol threatened GR’ WOl be shortly rables, and very soon rore seen on ali sides. 1n ono case & ap) to the Bocieta Protet- that his dog had been in the hauds ‘and had either esenpod 1aboratory and re- THE OMAHA DAILY B ost oan English scientific men have had in glorifying the French savant? He wae of course (we may speak in the past tense) an “fllustration” of Franee, of which Frenchmen natarally made the most. of gl lotogtats and E By o o nglish biolo, and F.R.8.'s to jo the reclame in hfi honor? The reason, emy, who sheer resolution, was “mainly due to the im: irritation of the patient,’ Fleming says: ‘The influence of mental emotlo the development appear (0 Over and over great flourishes-of umns of the Times, in they made, with umpets, in the col- announcements of the mortal malady.* ka] that fear and oxpectant atte the ills of mortality. Like the revelations of clairvoyantes, they sound imposing, and are received by the initiated W‘fil rapture. But when [t comes to revealing either the number of a bank-note locked in a box or the cire of a disense in the human body, the oracle 1s either dumb or fallacious. Now, Pasteur, if his recognition asa successful healer of a dreaded disense could be insured, would afford the best possible argument for doing away with Testrictions on Eng}!sh vivisection. As the recent round robin to the college of surgeons showed, it was thought a good working grievance by the ?h siologists that they have ‘‘to go to Pari A{or experi- ments on hydrophobia.'” If Pasteur's vaunted remedy had been obtained with- out any cruel experiments, if he had pro- arcon record in which ‘‘rabies’ recovere ity of cases of reputed rabies in m: spurious. b{ henlthy dogs. That the seriou: oft-1 imitative nervous disorder, ence of the mind on the body. hailed by the men of science of England as an “‘illustrious savant”? Tell it to the marines! The proof is eonclusive. Thera are be- fore the world several other remedies for hydrophobia* carrying quite sufficient testimonials of success to merit the patient investigations of medical in- quirers. Kor example, there is the sys- tem of vapor baths, which was known to Celsus, and was bronght into promin- ence h¥ the late Dr. Buisson, who cured himself by such meuns, and afterwards nearly a hundred patients. But which of all the doctors and biologists who have glorifiod Pasteur has taken the troublo so much as to read the evidence in favor of these harmless methods of treatment, oven when, as in the case of the Buisson baths,they have been largely advertised at the cost of non medical bencvolent per- sons, and oftered gratuitously to needy pa- tients? When Mr.Walter McLaren,in April last, begged the home secretary to 1ssue another commission to examine into the results of the Buisson treatment, the suggestion was at once negatived. None save a few unscientific people, who cared merely for saving men and animals, ex- hibited the least interest in the subject. And what, we may now seriously ask, has been the outcome of the monstrous claque which has hailed Pasteur as a “‘benefactor of humanity'? Has he saved life, or been responsible for the loss of it? The statistics of hydrophobia in France have been of late so manipulated in the interests of Pasteur that it f clear up the first question. It appears however, that the average number of deaths from the disease throughout France was 30 per annum from 1550 to 1872. ‘I'ardien calculated them at 24 or 25, and after giving his reasons, added the significant remark that ‘“‘if these figures did not represent the exact truth they were certainly not far from it,”’ and that ‘the public mind should not be frightened with larger ones.”” Previously, in 1863, Boudin had presented to the Academie de Medecine a table in which he estimated the annual deaths in France from hydrophobia at 80.4 If then, we assume this to be a fair average, perhaps to_be somewhat raised of later years, we ask: What has M. Pasteur achieved in the way of lowering it? We find that in 18386 the deaths in France from hydrophobia were 89! Of these 22 were of persons noculated b Pasteur, and 17 of others not inoculated. Thus Pasteur had the opportunity of diminishing the mortality by more than half had his method been effectual. In- stead of this we find that the total of deaths exceeded the average by 9! . Taking the rest of the world into view, we have not materials for judging of the average of former years to compare it with the last; but we know that of Pasteur's patients—tnat is, of persons inoculated in Paris, or by those who are carrying out his system under his direction elsewhere —the number of deaths up to May, 1887, has been 79, On the other hand, how many lives has the Pasteurian delusion actually cost? For how many deaths are Pastenr and his supporters responsiblo? He has failed to save more patients than would have been saved, ju %lng by averages, in the natural order of things. Of how many has he caused the death? It would seem filenr that he has had two classes of vic- ms: 1. Those who have died of the “inten- sive inoculations,” which bave created the new disease signalized by Dr. Peter cats, t tion. been bitten by a dog, which in its than that the, a cow bitten had partaken of milk y a rabid dog.”t bugbear will soon be things of the but 1t will be well to remember for a time to come that, so far as biolo; science has a voice 1n England, it public 18 constantly asked to conl would fain be permitted at the sawe to settle the morality of the prac those ver: and even ridiculously mstaken. they were not clever enough, or were not honest and single-mi enough, to discern the unscientitic s not easy to | Janguage, appears the ver: tor charged his French colleague useless cruelty, and headed by Sir was being deceived into sending tion. c us, in the face of this huge medical an their religious conviction that by no sultingly challenged in every news to bow at last at the shrine of benefl vivisection—these, after all, prove to been right. ing cruelt; Lumanity, it1s to be hoped that thi no question at all. Of the ber” of miserable animals have di produced rabies; an that awful disease which Mayhew us amounts to being inflamed all And the result of this burnt offern the temple of the Rue d’Ulm has tionably of their inoculations. the way to be cried up. Men lovi they were immediately inoculated) of pa- ralysis, instead of the ordinary forms of hydrophobia, and feeling pain at the l;la:wl of inoculation, not of the original death in the pot. 'Ware microbes ‘Ware bacilli there! merely patients.” Of this disease eleven persons perished in three months after the introduction of the methode intensive, and thirteen up to | new scientific titles. ate.} some limit to this perpetnal 2. Those (with whom we are more | “Wolf! Wolf!" roperly concerned in treating of fear killing) whose deaths are due to the panic whichi has becn created to bolster up Pasteurism in Europe and Amwerica, How much deadly mishief has been done 1n this way will never be known, but may be guessed. Before the Pasteurian craze, grooms, gamekeepers, sportsmen, coun- try ladies and gentlemen, were bitton perpetually by dogs and cats, and some- times by ferrets and stoats and rats, and thought no more of it than a hedger does of a scratch of a blackthorn. But now that the scare has prevailed everywhere, there is a pamie every time a frightened beast uses it natural weapons, If the ac- cident occur in London and to a police- man, the stalwart policeman marches to Scotland Yard, and solemnly reports that his woll-zfovml fingers have been pinched by a puppy. To estimate the mischief done in the case of hydrophobia by such a panic as tlus it is only necessary to read the state- ments and opinions of the writers who have treated of the disease, and who, without exception, connect its develop- ment with nervous alarm, Dr. Barthel- jects, performing natural duties, enjoying innocent pleasures, than a later, amid pitiful anxieties and o messes and ineculations Perhaps we may never, alas! dis the secret of faith healin of sheer anxiety to live, and being at last by the very dread of death. HEALED BY FAITH. Remarkable Testimony to the ciency of Prayer. Springfield Republican: The Hol camp meeting, at Old Orchard, Friday. healing by faith. The meetings son, of anointing service at the tabe afterwards a gentloman actuall hobia, and s0 closely did_the Florentine popu- co conneot the occurrence with Profoss Schif's prophooy, that they hissod some mem- bers of the Socleta Protettrice, who attended the funeral, as uuthors of the culamity ! While these sheets aro pussing through the press | have recelved u letter from u medical man in & remote part of the kingdow, referring fo & oase of hydrophonis, on whioh [ had mads inquiries. He quietiy tells me (as if no such thing as the vivisection act had been heard of): “I'huve securnd the hound that has developed the symptoms, and myself and my colieaguos intend 0 carry out some experiments by inocu- lating other animals, £nd 1f, ns & result of our investigations, we come t any conclusion, £ will send vou particulars. " * As [ write [ observe in the Farmaoista Ttal- iano of Naples notice of the alieged cure of sixty.six putionts with aiready develo died of hydro- faith in years past. Amon, gave extended accounts of were Mrs. K Adams, of Manchester, who was 8. Haugh, of Sandy Hook, Conn from threatened brain paralysis. cures they had experienced. and “a disease, dyspepsia, hay fever, affections of the eyes, spinal brain tul methode, "’ ete., p. 18, + Namely, Rou “ Rev Wilde, GoM, Gerard, Lotang, Albert, Altund, snd Beye, rof ‘s ll-lmuflfl B’ I rstery of th my! 0 hew 1" tage, by Dr, Lutau Sodin, N oriot, Foula red hL selt of an I!laol by eld that the nation and Professor hydrophobia would e almost un’qneuvtlonnhln. and of the - “If it were understood [says Dr, Spitz. atients sufferin, from the most agonizing symptoms o on hearing that the dog which bit them was alive and well. same writer] incline to regard the major- times fatal influence of terror and expectant attention, fostered by popular alarm, is attended b‘y other epidemics of is & familiar fact to those who have studied the influ- From the and tearing children to pieces, down to the present day, when those dreading hydrophobia bark like dogs and mew like go records of hydrophobia are re- plete to overflowing with delusion, super- stition, hysteria, and unconscious simula- he tragi-comical case of a num- | wh ber of persons dying in the sixteenth cen- tury after having eatenof a pig that had had been bitten by another and rabid one, found its counterpart a few weeks ago in Russia, where a medical editor, a follower of Pasteur, suggesting the treat ing of a number of persons in the Pasteur institute at Odessa for no better reason The Pasteur craze and the h[dmphobm raised in husannas to the French savant. Those experts in whom the simgle lay lide, as the only proper judges of the utility of cruel experiments on animals (and who experts have proved th selves in this noteworthy case absolutely Either and delusive character of a method which, once it has been exposed in plain climax of charlatanism.t Not one Enfi ish vivssec- the commission, . Roscoe, which was sent from England last summer to inquire into the method, forbore for nine months to give its report, or warn the nation that it perilled men wnd children to undergo a delusive and perhaps dangerous opera- This was all that science did for ble. Those unscientific people who could only apply common sense to the subject who revolted from the monstrous character of the method, or relied on barbarous means could real good come to humanity—these people, deafened as they were n year ago by the ‘‘Great is Diana’ chorus of the biologists, and in- paper When next there is question of condon- on the plen of benefitting structive history will qot be forgotten. Of the moral injury done to the commu- nity.by sanctioning cruelty there can be hysical ad- vantages to be purchased by it we have a sample in Pasteurism. An “intinite num- the unutterable agonies of artificially gravated form of the death of soventy-nine patients, of whom at least a dozen have died unques- Old Selden says 1 his “Table Talk:" “To preach long, loud, and damnation 18 man who damns them, and ran after him to save them.” The secret has, I i 2 fear, been bequeathed to our modern before the Academie des Sciences last rr‘,cnsum doctors. It is right and proper January, and named ominously rage de | for them to warn us in moderation; but laboratoire, or rage paralytique: the suf- | they do it beyond. all reason, ‘“Touch ferers dying (like tho rabbits from which | not! Taste not! Handle not! There s All the world’'s a hospital, and all the men and women There 15 no end to the *‘host of spectres pale’’ which beleaguer us, summoned by their spells and clothed with double terrors by their alarming But there should be ery of We inust die sooner or later, whether with scientific advisers or without them; and it would, after all, be better to die sooner, pursuing noble ob- of filth, leading the lives of Moliere’s malade imaginaire. ; but at least we can avoid fear killing—dying by inches witnessed most remarkable scenes on It was the day announced for under the direction of Rev. A. B. Simp- New York, who was assisted by a large number of other clergymen. The afternoon meeting preceding the ronacle was largely an experience meeting of those those who had been healed by divine those who their cure Kimball, of Holyoke; Mr, of utter nervous prostration, and Rev. J. experienced a very remarkable cure A hun- dred or more others spoke briefly of the the affections enumerated were the fol- lowing: Nervous prostration, Bright's trouble, trouble, pncéumonia, neuralgia, il of! paseliver ~ EE: isense o'clock those whovished were while their triendsnd those who wishe ns on to ntion “T'he best authorities to-day [say the ‘T'hey believe that many of the sufferers who develop the imaginary dis- ease were bitten by animals suffering, not from rabies, but from epilepsy or from gastro-intestinal disease—nay, even pr s and abl vh turn | bo: nof not from ch: ast; on, gica was ha eru time tice), em- in they nded d and | < he: with tai na im- Re B bub- such B b} i pa cient have is 1n- ed in tells over. ng in been @ the | an ru here! ey and | lit! little dious Ih cover | P! re slain s learn the busin wore diamond: apologizing for her daughter's whim, The two of them wore gowns that turned named testimony ing given by a phy- meian lrom%ew’ {rf, % 4 Tt Ml:).hqu in his faily. attended to othersook their places until 270 people had be« anointed, At the be- ginning of the exetises Rev. Mr.Simpson Blyder. of Providere; Rev. A, K. Funk, of Oakes, of Manchder. vided with a sma bottle of o1l which he anointed he foreheads of those efore the altar, meanwhile offering fi:st row of supp liants were thus being administered, theaudience sang, “The Great Physician [ow is Near,” after which prayer was dered by Miss Carrie and s hymn sungat the close of each tin, of Syracuse, NY., who had not been she was a child because of a spinal trouble, whose natwe had baflled all the alone after she hal been annointed, and people were leaviig the tabernacle she walked out of thc building and to her ardh‘)f ing hold of the hanis of & lady on each side « her that she might chair, she had “'go to learn to walk,"” years, was that of Miss Ina Moses, of Old Or- severely injured in her left hip and knee, whilo coasting in the winter, that she she threw her crutches away, anointing service, she walked to tho altar and, for the first time since her injury, found herself ablé to kneel down. also walked from the building at the close of the services. was asked just before she left the build- ing if she felt any relief from infirmities, she replied thatshe “felt the warm health- giving glow of Christ’s presence pervad- being similarly questioned, said that *‘the joy she was experiencing was beyond words to express.” Philadelphia Ledger, Aug. 12: report of any kind. cases such as that reKortcd from North- port. Long Island, wl ment and the grnver& of her brother, the ) and walk. How many tired folks have the last s1x weeks? " The tale or count of those fathers and mothers, for instance, who know that they ‘can walk or work simply because they must for others that are dependent: on them, would far out- could be in{g conditions. , With so mnny every day mir; u plucky resolution, bath of which are good prayers for succes, :the only wonder is that the excitement cures of nervous in- valids get any njention or notice. e —— A little girl, four years old, asked her father one day: 3 “Pl?l, where' does the rain come from?" “It18 the tears of the angels, crying when Edith has been naughty,” Edith pondered over this explanation. One night later on, after Edith had been making a very stormy time on going to bed, and had been told that shg was very naughty, she was missed from her bed. Her mother, frightened at her ab- sence, made a rapid that a burcau drawer had been opened and everything in it thrown out, but no Edith was to be found. ment the door-bell was rung violently, Do you out on the roof?” The mother ran, breathless, up to the attic, where a stairway scuttle and then out ing roof of the house. t, perched upon the edge of the scuttle, with a lot of pocket lmndkerchietupru:u‘l about her. . “'My child!” her mother shouted,catch- in dofn han’k’chiefs for the angelsto wipe their wouldn't rain awfully Al Indianapolis Journal: operators as we town type-writing from her desk the other day. The plump, ment smoothed AUGUST 21. 1887.~TWELVE PAGms AN INTERESTING LETTER. Written by Thomas Jefforson One Hundred Years Ago. SUNDA". rmr reason firmly on tho watch n read- "f them all. Do not be frightened from this inquiry ty any fear of the conse- uences. If it‘ends in the belief thet there is no God you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you. ou find reason to believe thore’is a God, a who said it was adjourning { the tabernaocle at 4 to be healed ven seats irhe front of the ho““&( = witness the serces were allowed to fear, is not far to seek. For twel! it i re whether | ococupy what was It. The building was A past the Eng"she:dvoe:l:m gl':x’;:rl- :h:rz.re!n::r'?n;:tl:l?tny‘:umtflg from the erow';’sd and & markable s lrlt‘ was NOW ™ "FIRST WADE ' PUBLIC consciousness that you are acting undg: ments on living animals have seized on | bites of rabid animals 1a adult than in | manifest. The mjinting an rAyers His eye and that He approves you wlll‘” every siraw to enable them to answer | young persons may not be attributable, | were done publiy, & row of seats | The Statesman Discussess Religion, | A yas! additional incitement; {f there ] ihe challonges o tielr opponents to o | t some extent a exa, to this o, The | diroaly [ tront | tho platiprm bong | ™ paitogophy, Teavel and tho Study | &1 AT CReuioT MG Sppuni 4o de uce a W eration g 1 ) saved l:v“:dlsc?:e:y l:l?:: nlo valvl:ocuoa: nn(g exp:c’llfe Z?.:’ r::gdu:ngn those who first ceupied the seats were of Languages for the Benefit sorve it; if that Jesus was alsoa God— you will bo comforted by a belief of His aid and love. In fine, 1 repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice’dn both sides, and neither believe or reégret anything be- of Peter Oarr, NewrorT, R, I, August 10.—The fol- wonderful results of their practice,which ay nof ly develop serious mervous | named as those uo were to aid him in 3 might, would, could, shonfit or actually :‘;xgmun'u,onhflt lctm\rly cause death, | the service of th anointing' Rev. Dr, | lowing letter, written by Thomas Jeffer- | cause any other persom or deserlmlon‘ol had cured hltherto’ unconquerablo dis- | many who are threatened with hydro- | Peck, of Boston; lev, Dr. Cookman. of | son one hundred years ago to-day, while rsons have regretted or belleve(‘l t. ense. By some fatality, however, the | phobia would cultivate healthful self- | New York; Rev.H. H. McBride, of | |, paris as minister from this country, ‘our own reason 18 the only oracle given discoveries (if such there be) arrived at | control. The moral management of per- | Brooklyn; Rev. M Marrow, of Canada; d add d to Peter C: f Newport, by heaven, and you are answerable, not by this method always prove singularly | sons bitten by suspicious dogs is & most | Rey. M. Scoville, f Brooklyn; Rey. C. | and addressed to Peter Carr of P for the rightness, but for the uprightness unfortunate, and (nllvprucllcnlly to touch | important matter. A number of cases whose descendants are still residents of | of the decision. I forgot to observe, New York; RevDr: Kimball, of Holy« | this 1sland, has never before appenred in | when spenk(nfi‘of the New 'I’olllmnut' ke; Rev. 1. C f Provid i that you should read all the histories of ‘l’{eev'. J. l;i' Hn“,(',‘\"c!nsri“;' H::k; 'i?:vu' a:::' e'lv’;mcl.::ter 1Bt R IORSE (0% Christ as well as those whom a council of H. Chase, of Oaland, and Rev. Mr. EOALY 3 coclesiastics have decided for us to be Paris, August 10, 1787, Dear Peter—I have received your two lettersof December 80 and April 18, and am happy to find by them, as well asby letters from Mr. Wythe that you have been so fortunate as to attract his notice and good will. I am sure you will find this to be one of the most fortunate inci- dents of your life,as I have been sensible 1 enclose you s sketch pseudo-evangelist as thoso they named evangolist. Bucause those pseudo-evan- golists pretend to inspiration as much as the others, and you are to judge of their pretensions by your own reason, and not by the reason of those ecclesiastics. Most o{ these are lost. Thero are some, how- ever, still extant, collected by Fabricious, which I will endeavor to get and send you. DOUBTFUL UTILITY OF TRAVEL, Each was pro- with him rsons kneeling 1n front of ayer for the cvine blessing to be anted to the svplicants. While the ' it was of mine. Fifth—Traveling. This makes men J:;‘lg,: ‘o h"afi'féfl't?'&.ffil 291“;:};'«:::; of the soiences to which [ wish you t0 | wiser but less lsnppy. When men of {ng h\Ermity. Pryer also was offered | apply, in such order as Mr. Wythe shall | gober age travel they gather knowledge, which they may apply usefully for their lso the books in LA il ) A country, but they are after all subject to fifteenth century, when Alsatian peas- | anointing service. ur reading, which submit {;mdhl{: 'c:,;lrlel l}:gd!:'opti?b‘ln lb"mi“ od | ants imagined they were changes {nlo A number of romrkable cases of relief ::mll:ln" ‘::nl'lrz:')uon—mnngv of them saro ffié’{}flfif‘:.‘:g'w"e’.'\i%‘:.o':x‘ lll‘y"l‘:fl‘:“efi:‘nrdzs clinical or - i 3 4 ¢ & ignl oblervfimon.’wonhf.he hl:x%:’;n wolves, and ran on all fours, howling | were experienced. Miss Florence Mar. among your father's books which y0u | coror more objeots, and zhuyfenrn Hew should have brought to you. As I do not recollect those of them not in his library you must * write to me for them, making out a catalogue of such as you think you shall have occasion for in eighteen months from the date of your letter and consulting Mr. Wythe on the subject. To this sketch [ will add a few particular observations. First, Italian. I fear that the learning of this language will confound your French and Spanish. Being all of them degenerate dialects of the Latin, they are apt to mix in conversation, I have never seen a person speaking the three lan- uages who did not mix them. It is a elightful language, but late events have rendered the Spanish more useful; lay it aside to prosecute that. Second, Spanish. Bestow great atten- tion on this and endeavor to ucquire an accurate knowledge of it. Our future connections with Spain and Spanish America will render that language a val- uable acquisition. The ancient history of a great part of America, too, is written in that language. Isend you a dictionary. MOREL SENSE INBORN. Third—Moral philosophy. I think it lost time to sttend lectures on this branch, He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler if He made the rule of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of scionce there are thousands who are not, What would have become of them? Man was des- tined for society. His mornlitg. there- fore, was to he formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this sense. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation .of morality. The moral sense or conscience is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. Itis given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members 18 given in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body. This soience is submitted - in some degree-to the guidance of reason, but it is a small stock which is required for this; even a less one thun what we call common sense. State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, be- cause he has not been led estray by arti- ficial rules. In this branch, therefore, read books because they will encourage as well as direct your feelings. The writings of Sterne, praticularly, form the the best course of morality that ever was written. Beside these, read the books mentioned in the indorsed paper, and, above all things, lose no occasion of ex- ercising your disposition to be grateful,to be generous, to be charitable, to be true, Just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Con- sider every act of tms kind as an act which will strengthen your moral facul- ties and increase your worth, CAUTIONS ABOUT RELIGION. Fourth—Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place divest yourself entirely of all basis in favor of novelty or singu- larity of opinion. Indulge them in any other subject rather than thavof religion. It is too important, and the consequences of error may be too serious. n the othér hand, shake off all fear and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firm in A musician In Washington, D. C., says her seat and call to her tribunal every | that he Is prepared to prove that the Boulan- fuct, ¢very opinion. Que n with bold- | ger march is nothing more nor less than the ness the very existence of God; becuuse | “Margherita Polka,” written ubout fitteen if there be one, He must more approva | Years ago in honor of the Italian queen. the liomage of reason than that of blind- | , Miss Anderson will open the Lyceum thea- folded fear. You will naturally examine | ter; london, September 1, with a production G f the “‘Winters’ Tale,” for which she and first the religion of your{fown country. | Okt , )\ Rop i hit’le. ‘then, a8 you would read her company have been for some.time in $ 4 | active rehearsal, During th i 3 Livy or Tacitus. The facts which are in LN tho soRson O£ 1457 i and 1888 she will play on the other side. the ordinary course of nature you will 0 Lawrence Barrett, owing to his coali believe on the suthority of the writer as | with Edwin unon..'?vm this seasun m\\;:l?:'; you do those of the same kind in_ Livy use for “Francesca da Rimini,” and Cedric and Tacitus, The testimony of the lloBecnmemplnwslaklnull on a tour, E. writer weighs in their favor in |1« avenport did that with it thirty odd one seale, and these, not being against | Years ago. and soon abandoned the task. the laws of nature,does not weigh against A cable messaze from Europe announces them. But those facts in the bible the engagement of Herr Boetl, one of Ger- = which contradict the laws of nature must | MARY'8 foremost tenors, by Mr. Gustav Am- be examined with more care and under a berg, of the Thalia theaire, New York, for a variety of f: Here you must recur ;‘:}; 78 of ifé'r?"fim'n'“a-"i?f ll“’ecfi?e“&‘{w“w- ions of the writer to inspiration | night. o Examine upon what evidence Maud Granzer will pro bably appear at the his pretensions are founded, and whether | Aleazar in S8an Francisco with Jeffreys that evidence is so strong that its false- | Lewis, whose new play has a F‘" that is just hood would be more improbable than a | In horline This wilibo the first appearance change of the laws of nature in the case | S, eo'they' Niavad in “Diplomacy” at the Cal- he relates. For example, 1n the book of | {r5rh " eater in August, 1578, Joshua we are told the sun stood still SRRt e several hours. Were we to read that fact in Livy or Tacitus we should class it with It Verdi’s “Othello” be heard at all in their showers of blood, speaking statues, New York during the season of 1887-8 it will be under the management of Signor Cam- beasts, ete. But it is said that the writer of that book was inspired. Examine, panini, and the performances will be given tarefore, canaidly, what evidence there habits which “cannot be gratified when they return home. Young men who travel are exposed to all these inconve- niences in a higher degree to others more serious, and do not acquire that wisdom for which a previous foundation is requi- site by rfiwated and just observations at honie. ho glare of pomp and pleasure is analogous to the motion of the blood; it absorbs all their affections and atten- tion; they are torn from it, as from the onl{ good in this world, and return to their home as to a place of exile and con- demnation. Their eyes are ever turned ack to the object they have and its _recollection ~ poisons residue of their lives. Their first and most delieate passions are hack- neyed on unworthy objects here, and they carry home the dregs insuflicient to make themselves or anybody else happy. Add to this that a habit of idleness and inability to apply themselves to business, is acquired and renders them useless to themselves and their country. These observations are founded in experience. There is no place where your pursuit of knowledge will be so little obstructed by foreign objects as in your own country, nor any wherein the virtues of the heart will be less exposed to be weakened. Be good, be learned and be industri- ous and you will not want the aid of tra- velling to render you precious to your country, dear to your friends, happy within yourself. Irepeat my advice 10 take a great deal of exercise,and on foot. Health is the firstrequisite for morality. Write to me often and be assured, of the interest 1 take in your success, as well as the warmth of those sentiments of attachments with which I am, dear Peter, your affectionate friend, TH. JEFFERSON. lo to raise hersel upon her feet since ysicians, rose t¢ her feet and stood en the oxercises were closed and the place, asasting herself by tak- ‘entieman and t fall, for, as she said when she left her t having done ®» before for thirteen Another case of remurkable cure ard, who about three years ago, was so d ever since been obliged to go upon Yesterday at the camp ground and, at the ntches. She When Miss Martin het entire budy." Miss Musus, uu The meetings will continued till the 9th inst., and other aling services will be held. ‘Will Power Under Necessity. Many th cures get no newspaper mention or We do not refer to ere an invalid girl med ebb, under strong excite- —_— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Joserh Jefferson has no fintention of retir- Ing yet. Mme. Christine Nilsson was forty-four years old Wednesday, August 3, Minnie Hauk is to sing “Carmen’’ at Mos- cow and St. Petersburg in November. Henry Irving has been made a trustee of Shakespeare’s birthplace, succeeding the Iate Dr. [ngelby. Philadelphia is going to have a theater en- tirely for amateurs. Probably it will be all stage and no auditorium. With the exception of Kyrle Bellew there will be none but Americans in Mrs. James Brown Potter’s company. During Patti’s forthcoming tour of Amer- ica 815 in snld will be charged for orchestra seats and $5 to the gallerios. Maude Banks, daughter of General N. P. Banks, will star in her own play, *‘Joan of Arc” under l3oston management. Buffalo Bill intends to give a fall season in Paris and a winter season in the Coliseim in Rome. His Kuropean engagements extend over three years. One hundred ballet girls left New York city last Tuesday in charge of Edmund Ger- son, to take part In Bolossy Kiralfy's *‘Siege of 'h-oy." to be presented in Chicago. The recent open-air performance of “As You Like It” at Manchester, N. H., netted $2,800 for the actors’ fund. Rose Coghlan and ‘lhs entire cast suffered from the intense 0al v. Mr. Webb, was enabled to get up lled themselves out from sheer ex- ustion to go about their day's work in mber any of,tha miracles performed Minister Webb and his confreres. It s almost required an act of faith in the 8t Juls to believe that a day’s work lone under the terribly exhaust- acles around us of cheerfulness and Handkerchjefs for the Angels. said he. Sarah Bernhardt has gone to Cauterets by order of her physician. ~Her physical endur- ance has startled her frien and a new triumph is anticipated for her, no matter fu what play she may appear. search, and found Just at this mo- d when it was opened a neighbor shed in, oxclaiming: IR E know that your little girl is led up to a upon the slop- Aund there Edith her in her arms. here?"’ “Why, mamma, I brought up some “What are you es with, 'cause I's 8o naughty, so it ‘L'ype Writing to Some Purpose. A daintily clad fle womun—she was one of the best as the prettiest—whom veral times in a down- oflice, was missing had noticed s osperous-looking head of the establish- down some rebellious ddish-brown locks as she explained. *1 didn't expect to keep her long,” she id. ‘'She came to me n year ago to and her mother—who me With her, half early next spring. In that caseseveral of the Prlnclpnl parts will be sustained n¥ the ar- ists who created them in Italy, Tamagno EM- | 10 heads of the whole ofice, and looked | is of his having been inspired. The pre- | Will assuredly be the Othello. ] asif they had money enough and to | tension is entitled to your inquiry because Held bt' Jhogflem’)‘. v:lll open th‘? lakll liness | spare. It turned out when [ was n_my | millions believe it. On the other hand, | 5Easeh, ,0f 1O NIAE, Fheatre, Flew . York: Me., [ new spprentice's contidence a little | you are astronomer enough to know how | Withoin be in the cast and Mr. Gillette' will th an to th h were re tal cured i . who mon mors, 0 vory whole thing. So what does my lady do but get permission without assigning any and her law student choose to wmarry when the time came she could support fee days ago, the household powers to the shore. for work when she came back,and I think she wil week, and is about expert enough to get $10 now. That will help them out for a while, though 1 fancy her husband won't leave her here long. the “stomach is Dr. J. :;onxlh_eninl Cordial and Blaod Puri- contrary it is to the laws of nature, that a body revolving on its axis, as the earth does, should have stopped, should not, by that sudden stoppage, have prostrated animals, trees, buildings, and should, after a certain time, have resumed its revolution and that without a second gen- eral prostration. Is this arrest of the earth’s motion, or the evidence which allirms it, most within the law of prob- abilities? “A PERSONAGE CALLED JESUS," You will next read the New Testament, It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keepin your eye the opposite E;uwnllon; first, of thoss who say he was gotten by God, born of & virgin, sus- pended and reversed the laws of nature at will, and ascended bodily into heave: d second of those who say he was mun of illegitimate birth,of & benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity ended in believing them and was punished capi- tally for sedition by being gibbetted ac- at she was engaged to a law student— D impecunious one—and they wanted marry as soon as he was admitted to e bar. Papa had absolutely refused s consent, and mamma frowned cn the assume the character of the war correspon- dent. Louisa Dillon continues in the part of Susan, so_successfuily enacted by her last season. A new third act has been added, the value of which is yet to be determined, “The Dominie’s Dlu:fhwr‘"n drama found- ed upon the revolution hy D. D, Lloyd, and which scored a success at Wallack’s “theatre, New York, isto be revived for a tour of the country. Mr. Lester Wallack has selected the cast with great care, and the wanage- ment has been Intrusted to Mr. Byron Doug- las, & younfl actor. lato of kdwin Hooth’s support. iss Marion Booth, a niece of the tragedian, will play & leading role, Mrs. General Tom Thumb, Count Magri, her husband and a number of equally elever little folks will make a two years’ tour of the world under the management of Shumonds and Brown. The count and countess have been provided by their new managers with a miniature carriage, drawn by two Shetland ponies thirty-five inches high, Alex. Davis, ventriloguist, the Tissots and Sylvester Bleecker will also go with the company. Joset Hoffmann, a little German boy ten yeart of age has been astonishing the musici- ans and musical critics of London with Lis ason for the freak, to learn typewriting she is studying short-hand, too—having ken the idea into her head that if she e family until the appearance of some They had the knot tied a couple of notwithstanding, and are taking holiday/somewhereidown on the She told me she should be ready She has been earning $7 a I¥ the stomach per!on—-: its functions symp- t fom of ydrophobi, by means of the Bpirota matism and ‘heart disease, the last , cording to the Roman law, whioh pun, lano player. Ho i :‘lflnm:a::‘,fi&wu' orod by Doctor Frinoo CALROR TP, actively and regularly, the food of which | ished the first offense by whipping and ‘q"fi:a";f‘fl‘;‘f“fiml; c{.:.n:m.p.:’.?lr'hk‘e Ans S0y f0r tWenty Foars bAGk: e subjest & | SRAbIes and| W"P‘m‘: Proathe. it is the receptacle, i8 transformed into | the second by exile or death in tunca. | J0RRA T ofigies. He plays the most diffi- Vo This gucetion. distusaed by Dr. Lutand, | § - Fa aoaaitiation of' b’ eugiy recerved | blood of & nourishing quality, which | Sce this law in the Digest, Lib. 48, tit. 19, | 30i'pleces by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Ghopin “M. Pasteur et la Kuge,” ohap. xxl.; and by Dr. | rablo virus, by successive inoculations, not of | furnishes vigor and warmth to the whole | 28, 3, and Lipsius, 3. De Cruce csp. | and others with remarkable accuracy and ex- Constantin Jamos, “M. - Pustour sa mouvells | an antidote but of rabio virus of sive | body, the best rume-l{' to'.give tone 2. These questions are examined in the | pression, Mr. Maver is ot the opinion that book I had mentioned under the head of religion and several others. They will assist you Ju your inquities; but keep American musicians should have a chance 1 hear tofmann. Uperatic concert companiés are multiply- Mclean's A R RO i, e gon o . righ .In. his last operatic tour and san Brignoll with him when he lp?’en“r:d g‘:\ Antonio, contralto, of Signor_Joyine, tenor, and _Fava, baritone, from the Bellin] theatre, N-lym. who have arrived here, and Sigi Intel! planist. ‘The Florences oApon at_Mrs. theatre, Chi | nor.” Of Gayler’ Florence says: Mr. A western drama, hen AWA weonl lhr‘; educat| who had peen killed in fashinable society in New soenes take place at the homo of my brother, who is a weaithy banker there. from the west to see how my adopted daugh- ter 1s getting alonr. Mrs, " Florence is brother’s sister-in-law, Jor In the army. to marry m: myself llk’o th or 80, U rrll, no further west th The Brooklyn Terrors:" Inst n.llg than lanat ng of the catechism of from soprano, who wa: ay the Angelo opera com 0, August 20, in A bo ome, as I've already explained. g the dauchter of an old lled by nts. safe. ese to portray, -ninuw. and w Linocoln, N e Talmage on Death, ohnathan Edwards, or St ion. all the windows. doubt, unrolling of all the scrolls of itive Instead accurate standing at and of 10 start out consists a In his fnvnrll‘ Iast time, in 1884 me. Cosenza, ny; , the widow of a ma. A number of very funny scenes lay between us. She affects military airs on acoount of her duad husband’s posi- tion, and my rough, good natured ways vlease her, for of course we fall in love. One of the banker's confidential clerks is about brother’s dau:hter—ny nieces- and 1 save her by discoyering that this ctork, who I8 the villam of the combination of the ban everything ends happily. mor Cleconl, McVickor's “Onr Guy’s new play, *‘Uncle Bob,” “This” play is not a ut & four-act comody in which L play the role of a cattle king who ets rich in the mines and then buys ranch, % 1 am supposed to have run one west and become l!lm partnee She Is ork, and the 1 come on lay, has forced the Ot course . Mrs) Florence and have never before had characters nd we are well pleased with them as well as sanguine of success. Our season ‘will last thirt wi-lek: all go abernacle pastor re. cently discoursed thus on the “King ot “‘One minute after the vitaf unctions ceased, the little child that died] ht in Montague street knew nlmru "aul himself, before he died. Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorious ex« It is sunburst. Itis the opene 1t is shutting up and the 08 information, the foot of the ladder and looking up, it is standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. tion. All riddles solved, Who will fexr to go out on that discovery, when all the questions are to bo decided which ‘wa have been discussing all our lives? Who his hands in the anticipa. lessed country,if it be no better than through holy curiusity, cry *The time of my de partureis a{ shall not cla) tion of that ing: r the mark of excl hanat’” ——— To increase the stamina of an en feebled sysiem the nourishing properties of the blood must be increased. Dr. J. H, McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier enriches and purifies the blood and fills it with strength giving constituents. Mlinois Conservatory of Music nsurpassed ndvaptages in sil Do e, Li ress U Musl Add) Ateraturs, Moden Languages. K. ¥, BULLARD, It is the last myst taken out of botany, and geology, an astronomy and theology. 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