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• We have had 9,,ff 'FOAM, experienee e
.pinne erchard 0about fifty trout,:o an many
'tieenietiea A pert a .h.tetiele persona. et -
4.010,7a. could net be Tven to ha .oreharde
and tingmeremed the ereadth 0 the expeen.
inent—allowinet the diffeeen.co between ',care.
.and neglect For the grat eight on ten years
the greM1 wait hept we1 Caltivated,. but:
lettethf tlitit time, !StO, aPPOOnter absertee, the
earmilia ran riot, :and UOt hothel of e.rott
• eletalned itom the Whele orchand. Them
*emote were thee taken:in hend, and by
ammo et .framed :muslionxo p1ug� end, a
lemity hemmer, together with an Unremitting
WA.* every MOrniag fer three weas,. oyee
thenland el the entettlitee were elentreyod.
the.mate yeti; iu August md Septent-
bete the- treett beuttendenthe Jennie ef tee*
mad. phlox Nero& Theeet heavy and dein
gime. crops Were centinued under efeeilar
*neat:meat for. iteverel. nears, but the growth
O f the treva was injared aPel etteeleed by the
etatitliteen neevy crepplege and -one year
after nu unueuelly bevy. ceop, we bed an
,intensely .cold. wiuter. ; The treeS, oche:noted
by the beavy lead Which they 'had Write,
were getionaty tejared, de.ed branches sleow.
ed thefeliewleg ,seuteter the effecta 0 the
.404, and a rart-a the trees were tilled Out-
right. lied the frnie teen preterit!: Minced
whew er lead A few. 0 the cureultee
been permitted to .thia worin log hero
yenta been, teen done.
Atter this eeeurreece, the tetee lest their
beentifol enromeetry fence end the tunev-
.41 91 the 404.41 Ifinhs geve themmem or leen
.ndistertedt cventideitippeetonen, but noder
cultivatiert, Atli "Me nianueltg, the
*Wm were ice lteentifol end tdelicieue
Saattre, tamed copleuely over. the whole
twine a the grouted, hati leeetefound perti-
endeely liegefielel to tient tete*, ela Inca
ChM treated ere WAS1ih to the lea:alight
*high feequeutly lejurea the erep io quality,
ventieg the full meetu4ty-0. the 'fievot,
id eheeltiog growth. Every yeer there
kerb lem bla.ek ktiet, hut .premp eNdsiob,
'the dity it la dot Men, preenote 4 frein
haete. It it,' testi treMble et letter to
'ground
keen -the hie* keot et bey then. to cultivate,
the and deetroy theweed*; yet we
often meet witUt mermen whet "Celli PA think
"erionli liardeltip to give even a little
prompt attention :Igo eheeking Vete diem%
To sum up—the four prineenal drewheektt
in plum eultere (on SAW A. whom the treat
neetwell flentioht are L Chet:king 'the'
negleet'd cultore, ft, Allowitig
ear a to have the km run el the or.
Neglecting this Meek knet ; and
4. Leaf blight WM i Want dimming and
toed culture.
DEC
Arty One who hati a dick heel- cellar
fureece nein Ally lime a couple et meal
tauslutcona bed% which -will furnish ull o
tido kind Of food likely to be required in A
*tefootle'. The method el preparetion
*me,Ji being aultitautially the game ao
holeed. Strong berm utaiture, which
hie been well eAturated 'with twhie, come.
bate* the foundation. Ibuu1Ue1reb ad
freer:cm rubbish and weed seed*, teken from
behind borate bedded with deer etra,w,
which hi better cut in tax or eight-iuelt
laiistlas for this tpurpotie. This manure,
moistened with warm wider, if toothy, rnuat
he shaken up mad the materiel* evenly mix.
ed. It i* then made into a equere, eveely
1*Id bed 15 to 20 inches bleb, tour feet wide,
mid of tiny desired ieneeth, built agelost the
*eller wall. The two beds may come together
*t the eorner, but ahonld not both be mettle
at the lame time, U i meant aucceseion
desired. The ineteriel must be turned and
turned again, with Intervale for the beet to
rise, until it is well tempered, as overheating
destoys the apemen Clout woothaoil is be
for covering the bed, eay four inches deep
on the top, an and front. Thle should be
watered, and kept moderately moi. The
tpavere which its aold by seedsman
"bricks," is inserted in small bite all over
the heti, tieing a dibble, with which holes are
made, at intervals of a foot or co each way,
down to and a /ittle into the immure. This
"pawn" eends its "mycelium," or white,
root -like threads , all through the bed, ; and
from thie the " buttons" are sent up. These
iihould be gently removed before they ex-
pand, awe being taken not to distnrb the
soil more than can be helped, and to amooth
it over neatly after each gathering. By
keeping fresh material on hand each bed can
ise renewed, in 'onetime as it is exhausted,
and a steady anpply maintained.
Ceem-ne Cnictezzes.
There is one call for chickens tell over the
country, but nearly everystate has its pe -
sillier method of calling pigs.
The Pennsylvanian requests the presence
al his herd of swine with " pig,
pig, piggie, piggie." The North Carolinian
halloos "Pig -i, pig -i," dwelling on the" i"
eaoh tinie. The Hoosier calls, "Whoceee,
whoo-ee," and his piga come on the jump
from every direction. A Buckeye farmer
reasons with his big, easy-going, well-fed
porker, and coaxingly cries, "Soo, soo—soo,
BOO soo." The Kentucky farmer causes the
bilis to reverberate with his heavy bass
voice, " Poohe, poohe." A Dalcotian brings
his pigs with a shrill whistle. Probably
Pigs would come at the sound of any human
voice„whatever words were used, for they
are creatures of such unbounded appetites
thee they need no coaxing to come to the
feeding -place.
640,000,000 DOLLARS.
"Wonderful," we hear you say when
you are told that this is the yearly poultry
product in the United States. But it is
true. The product of and consumption of
the product of Uncle Sain's poultry -yards
In eggs and poultry reaches this sum an-
nually.
A blanket in a cold stable will save oats.
Wooden troughs are best to hold drinking
Water for fowls in winter, to it does not
freeze as readily as in other vessels.
• A cow well broken to lead is worth ten
dollare more as compared to a timid and
• unmanageable one. She will give more
lank, and make more butter, besaies al-
waye making good nature.
The modern fancy butter contains name
neoisture then the old style. All right, thie
ie the way people want it, It looks better,
!spreads better and is made without break -
lug the grain and looking like grease,
A rottobroom Plantation has been estab-
lished in a disused railway tonael at• Edin-
burgh. The mushroom beds occupy about
six hundred yarda of the tunnel whese total FLORENCE 3LtRRFAF's ESVAPE
lengtle is about threaquerters of a Mile,
It le itaid that 1,000 sheep, Itept on apiece The Novelist Relates UOW She Oka and
of ground otie year will melte the 011 cepa- came to Lire Again
be of yielding ,graie enough—over and
above the eapeeity tho sou without tyle FlerenCe Marryat tell* In tho Eneliebra
sheep. manuree-to wpport 1.03$ sheep, -the pexe the. eatramtliaery etery of ler nearly
t- eclVe4tikre While on a lecturing tour in
Clover hay is lust the ehip'g ear the hreea. caned% She was billed to ap
wpear in Lon-
jng Ae. feed the Wood t,c,, sosio a per_ don. Ont, aid hoUr 'before the time the
feet !ea The dovor stubs are gew, after, audience were invited 'the preeented herself
the leaves, Mammies and 4eixte are eaten off
--.4We, Mean by not deed ripe.. With sucle
hay there tenet be bran .end mite er the lin.
bun feel watt isterved.
HOY itt the moot valnable.o.f Rat American
crops.; the meant .etit in, DM :exeeeded
tleIrty-elx tees gown on more
than thirty reilliexte f aeroe. .It hag kept
pace witk ita rivele, for in 18W, net quite
the opera house. To quote her men
words I was eonducted to my dressing-
reout by a very polite youog gentleman, a
semetare to the eommittee Who had engaged
my service% and who was ;nest anxious that
everythiee should be comfortable for me.
As 1 entered the roem, which had a large
witielow and a door, anti two gas -burners
-Alight, I said t 4*TeelV is a strong emell of
an here" ,
fourteen Million tow were greWP. Even .of Yes," itsilied my cornpaxdort, I an
twenty yeen Age but nineteen millicum were filmid there. is et little eeeeve neetembeee, but
reported, so that it bas ueurlY doubled in it must be very slight, for 1 can't diseover
two deco -deo. Do you think it will loconvenienee
At the recent English dairy ehow a. Abort you se
born COW ?rowel the ebampion milker and. • " Oh dear no," I said ; "It cezde be any-
buttermeiter. After dsht daya front calving, thing serious, It will go off after a while."
her milk arnenoted to forty -fine and orte. Tile gentleman teen remarked neat It tans
half pounds daily, and her butter to 44 per equarter-pagt seven,and he should come and
cent^ RqUal to two and one-baif Pounds Per fetch me at eight o'clock to go on the stage,
day. The total olids in this milk anionated And as eeort ee be bad left me I itched the
to 4.1 per ceott, which thews that the cow deer. There was another doer in the room,
was tett c ply an excellent buttermaker, but and before preeeeeteg to undresa I Erica the
ceptteuello geed ler chute,. •handle to gee if it was faarene(IL It yielded.
It ie
as idle to expect that a good cow can to my tench, and opeeleg it, I7eaw it con-
ehow great results without plenty ef good eeeled a large, clerk cupboard, piled with
feed, as it is to expect that a good feed- dusty chairs, at the hack of whioh 1Per-
grinding machine vac sbow a blg pile of ceived a thick black funnel, which teemed
meel bedew, when leo grain he put tote the to paaa through the INallS ou either side.
hopper. A vow moot have the teed—whet At the game time a blast of coal gas rushed
"he acne with It detertAtillea her eller-40er-- into my fece, leeving its taste eon smell
wbetherabe nianufac,turea meat with it to beth in my mouth and ncetrils, eloeed
clothe her OWAS body, and make growth in bed bolted the door bastily, thiuking as
of frame aud amount of fat, or term it did zo, "Thia lo where the egcape conies
into Milk leaded, with butter and cheeee.
The Reath papers are ellectweleg t
nisas the Bzitiele termer is ie." A corr
epeudent of the eloricolturel Onettee &howl;
how the plowland ferrner peeve wbeet.
be raigea 44 bushels per are and 35 hoodred
weight of etraer Ilia Prop is worth
with wheat at 30 ehilliego per quarter and
etratir at two eletillego per cwt. lae
pumice are A
cm, Still I never anticipated therewould
y daoger from it, though I have efteu
ed my owe foily since for not anticipet-
it. However, having fastened the door,
I enter:led to the heemess of dreeeteg, tun
peeked my basket. 414 my heir, etn, and
t on the skirt of my drese. AR this time
perhepa a quarter of an hour —1 bad no
ttat 1 was effeet, alowly dying. I
her OrMe saying to erlyzelf in a peculiar
nay voice, "I hope 1 arn not going to
IU," but that is all I can remember,
tIch proveehow completely I:deices death
y bee
hat harmed after I had put on the
irt of my drem I only knew from the Var.
AUou f others. The geeretary told me
rd that when he came, meordlog to
tomitie, te amnion me at 8 o'cloek, he
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Wile
Lod Raglan,
Mr. Einglaite wati intrusted by lord R"
lan's family with, hie correspandeoce with
view to wrtting that villa, -nyder the ti
of a hietory, Vita inter:tiled to be really a
tetieeetlen of Lewd Raglan. To know
ril itaolge, to be breught into gotta,*
wltb him even poathuntously and even
through hio mem, was to line Itim. And
e domed love. for he was fearlem, honeet,
uteldsb, thoughtful of others, thorough-
bred, and. with a marvelous fascination of
anuer, NO wonder, therefore, that Mr.
Kiuglake has in greet measure wandered
from the path of the hietorign into that of
the eulogist. Eulogy, however, is not a
proof of new:dime, and. it is to be regret.
ted that Mr. loinglake should have to often
met charges with a general denial and. a tort
of haughty Appeal to character. Again, It
isa little wearisome 'be find Lor4 Raglan, in
the part of the spirit of good, being contin-
ually =treated with Louis Napoleon in
the character of evil, All Oaten WW1 and
judiclous in the conduct of the cam/mien did
not invariably proceed from Lord. Raglan,
neither waa every mistake to be traced snore
inlets directly the Emperor of the French.
Lord Raglan , like his former glorious chief,
the greet Duke of Wellington, was tho vic-
tim, of much scurrrilouit abuee in the press,
and of much shameful alander in the House
of Commons, and the public were at one
time in a very ill -humor with him. The
Chelaea Board of general Officers, however,
acquitted him, and public &pinion has ainee
done bim justice, It has in feet put birn in
hie proper plece. Ho has a noble Omuta;
he was a brave, experienced soldier, be was
well *Med in his drofeasion ; above all he
possessed great tad, temper, and diplomatic
ability. Ile has been reproached for being
too much of a desk man, but he was over
ready to exchange the desk for the saddle
whenever action was called for. Besides, as
his functions were as much those of a diplo-
matist as of anioldierlhenecessarilettmdto deal
with a vast mass of correspondence which
was of too delicate and difficult a kind to be
handed over to any subordinate. Activity
indeed his activity contrasted very favor-
ably with that of Pelletier, who ever pre-
ferred a carriage to horse. That he did not
advertise bya, showy coatutne and* brilliant
escort his almost daily -visits to the troops
and the hospitals is perhaps the cause that
he was accused of meglectino this essential
duty of a commander in the field. Lord
Raglan erred in this absence of show, but he
had been brought np in a school of almost
Spartan simplicity, and ostentation has al-
ways been considered vulgar by well-bred
English gentlemen.
lid the door loeked, and, alibis kneekm
d ceiling !mine no effect he facia
t hey° dropped asleep irate fatigue. 0
ulting the committee, they broke open
oor, where to tbeir borror, they found
nine; apparently dead open the Ow.
And to all intent, and purposes 1 wee dead,
for had they left me alone / ohoedd mover
have recovered POUPCIOUBAM arum
$eme one nailed upon the Stage, how-
ever to AMAMI:Me the astembled audience
that I was too ill to appear and to ask if
there was a doctor in the how. A. gentle.
man from moonset them kindly proilered
hie aerviees and came to my dreziolug-room,
where he immediately pronounced hia opin.
ion that I was past praying for—in other
word, life extinot. The committee, how-
ever, not being aatisfied, autnimoued three
more medical men, who threw open all the
windows and doors, bliatered me over the
heart and. the temples, and finally curried
me, atilt unconscious, in their Rana back to
the hotel, where, at 11 o'clock the same
night, I woke Alp to this life again, having
been ingenalble for three hours and inhalf.
It trampired on subsequent inquiry that
in order to draw a large atulfence for the
occaaion of my appearance the committee
vrho were responsible for expenses, had
wished to warm the body of the houae by
as and to that end had affixed a largo pipe
or its conveyance (the very game funnel I
caw in the dark cupboard) to the main motor
but without taking the precaution to have
the part where it joined the meter properly
proteetecl by cement, Coneequontly as soon
as I entered the opera house and the gas
was all turned on the eseepo from the im-
perfect fixture Calnel creeping into my room
and nearly crept away -with my valuable
existence, and so Maidionsly that I was
never once aware cf it.
/ never recall the incident of my asphy-
xiation vvithout wondering whence bas
arisen the great actual physical fear of death
which makes the anticipation of it a tor-
ment to so many. I remember a clever
and popular physician once telling me that
during many years of experience he had
never met with a single case in which the
ant of dying was a painful one. But I have
heard people ahudderingly aver that the
soul can not be loosed from the body with.
out a fearful wrench. As I know is, that
my soul, or spirit, or life (or whatever men
choose to call me), escaped so quietly and
peacefully and easily from my body on the
occasion I have related here that it was less
terrible than going to sleep, and that I could
not wish my best friend a pleasanter death
than by asphyxiation.
Horrid Death ill a linlyersity
Boat Race.
One of the most memmable sights yet wit-
neseecl was that at the Cambridge Lent eight -
oared bumping races, when the scene,
one
of great gayety, was changed to one ofcon-
siderable gloom. It was the third day of
the races, and the second division, according
to custom, was started first. Some exciting
racing followed between crews representing
Queens' Clare, Trinity Hall, and Emmenuel.
Clare had suceeeded in bumping Queens'
early in the race, while Trinity Hall, who
followed Clare, were pressed by Emmanuel
College. Clare had eased up at the bank,
having .bumped the first -named crew and
Trinity Hall, trying their utmost to prevent
their downfall, ran the nose of their boat
into the Clare ship, but, in so doing, un-
fortunately. the bow of the craft ran into
the side of No. 4, 1VIr. Edward Stuart Cun-
ha% and is supposed to have penetrated to
his heart. *
' Only a fewnxintite8 elapsed before life was
extinct, and it was decided not te go on
with the other races. While the unfortun-
ate gentleman wee breathing his last the
crowds of spectators, unaware of what had
happened, as usual, were -very jubilant over
the races, but no Fleenor had the fetal nowe
been conveyed round than an imposing sight
Iwee witnessed. The ham) crowd, principally
etAmposed of representatives clad in colors
of the different colleges, were seen wending
their way borne with downcast heads, While
Iall the boat house flags were immedietelY
dropped half-mast high.
A. Typical Russian "Affair of
Honor.
A somewhat eurions duel took place a few
days ago at Kicheniff, the capital of the hie-
pertent Russian province of Bessarabia. A
gentleman of the name of Paul Usakoff and
Prince Temariaff quarrelled together about
some trivial matter at the "Nobles Club,"
and finally determined to settle their differ-
ences by a duel. On the following morning
they met with their seconds and a surgeon
on the outskirts of the city and exchanged
three shots a piece without doing any injury
to one another. On the following day they
again met at the club, and after a short con-
versation began to quarrel afresh with in-
creased vigor. Growing more and more ex-
cited the dispute at length degenerated into
a regular kicking and fistieuff struggle. The
Prince, who all along bad been the aggressor,
was in the act of receiving a sound and well-
deserved thrashing, when suddenly the thin
varnish of civilization gave way, and all his
innate and, national barberiten getting the
upper hand, he flew with a yell at M. Usa-
koff, and, catching the latter's lower lip be.
tween lus teeth, bit it completely off. It is
needlese to seer that that terminated the fight.
M. tsitkoff is still confined to hie bed, hope-
lessly disfigured for life, while his nether
lip is deposited as a kind of corpus delicti at
the police court, where the case veillbe tried
when ad, Usaleoff is able to leave his led.
Meanwhile the Prince swagger's about ' the
town and the Nobles Club is exceedingly
proud of hie "bonneehouche."
IN A MADAN'S CAVE.
be geereateeade for Himself by a SealpIess
and lilsgraeed Worrier.
I was ridieg leisurely eldiagover the prai-
rie one day, About three miles southwest of
Fent Berthold, when I saw, Standing ahead
of Me &bone 200 ) ad, four Indims I
thought nothing of it, and turued my head_
to leek at a, deer thatwAs hounding in fright
over a distant hill, When I leoked in the
direction in whielt I had seen the Indians
there was a blank. Where eould they beve
gone? Tnere wag no butte behind which
they could possibly have hidden, and not a
guily was to be seen in, widen they could
have orept. I looked in every direction,
and suddeuly aa they had disappeared they
• appeared again, though for the life of roe I
could net ',neve told where they emerged
from, They arose as if they bad sprung
out of the ground, as did the soldiers that
grew /rent the dragon's teeth winch Jason
sewed,
I went up to the band. They happened
to be a tribe with whom I could converee
without difficulty, and 1 askecl theni where
t ey ted been while 1 WaB totkien. They
pointed in reply to a flet stone thee looked
as mueh, as anything like the side or end of
aseive pieee 0 eandetene, There was a
erack in the stows, it was tone, but it was of
Ilea a nature as to ex:We no suspicloo, Otte
af the perty pvessed ageinet the SEMI% and
ib toward- It elferded an openiug 'Argo
etiough for a man to creep through without
any trouble.. I was invited to follow the
leader of the gang, I diemounted, and,
haodien the pony 1 was rielieg to oue 0 the
Iiidlano, entered the etrarge retreat le
wae a queer ectoo cut ont 0 the biU, There
w4tS a beneh en whieh a man guild get a
good night'e rest if he were sleepy, member
(if boles cue in the wall overhead looking
lthe pigeouheles, and, although thoo was a
grimy !oak to the welle, it was not an un-
eomfortehle abode. There was a heap of
home in eme coreer, Match I afterward
learned were the reinatim 0 menet a feagt
the owner 0 the hele in the ground.
A Madan Indian, who, nefortunetely for
hie peace 0 mind and egad etanduae, boat
his scalp in battle several decades ago, on.
eructed this home here. He was diagraced
by the less of his scalp, and never more
uld live with his tribe, or abide with bit
quew or little (men DaterMined to make
as nitiCh as peseible of what life he lead re.
nutialug to him he laewed a ?lege out of the
arth where Jae was free ROM moleatation,
Hoe he lived alma and in comparative corn -
fort, seeure againat blizzerdo, and equally
proteoted against the heat of slimmer.
Thia unique specimen of a feet -dying rage
was something et an Artiete Around an the
rock of Ida lonely abode he had carved a
mber of the most primitive -Appearing de.
no. 1 etould not learn front my guide
wbether or not it was probatile that the ar-
tbt wat accustomed to drinkiug the peculiar
broAd of whieky tbat yeara ago tbe white
Malt traded to the rubbing for pelt, but it
was a etrange fact that the artistic ekill die -
played appeered to run to snekes, Repro -
sometime of makes in all Attitudes adorned
the wails. In some atoms they were repro.
seated as swallowing a Man, and. now a huge
crawling monster would 'have an expiring
buffalo within his coil% There were te dozen
wellepregervecl impreetiona of enakea, all 0
which repreaeuted monatera, and not the
harmless reptilea that aro found in
thia region.
MY guide informed me that the ecelpleas
man depended for his artistic ideas upon a
legend of a huge serpent that existed in this
egion, and which legend has fed upen a
peculiar underground paeaage, tortuous and
eieuous in the extreme, which is pointed to
by the natives as being the forroor home of
it bad apirit in eerpent form.
The Story of eibievra.
Married to FranCeeCO degli Agolanti, the
one of her two lovera who loved her least,
Ginevre, was buried alive during a, trange
or collapse which looked like death. Wak-
ing up to (tenaciousness in the moonlight she
freed herself from her grave clothes and
crawled to the house 0 her busband for
shelter. He, sorrowful for her death as he
was, refused to believe that this pale men -
auto crying at his door was his living wife
and superatitiously denied her admittance.
So did her mother ; BO did her unole. Then,
nearly dying in good earnest, she betook
her to the house of ber other and truer lov-
er, .Antonio di Rondinelli, and sank fainting
on the threshold after she had cried aloud
for help. And Rondinelli, enlightened by
love, recognized her voice, took her in,
warmed, fed, comforted her, and eventually
married her as by right. The Bishop, con-
sented to the divorce as having been made
by death, and to the re -marriage as having
been consecrated by love, and faith gained
what fear had lost.
Politeness in Japan.
The men of Japan are always excessively
polite to one another. They bend their
backs and bow their heads, and put their
two hands back to back between their knees
and have a great time. But the most amus-
ing thing is to see two old ladies in Japan
meeting one another on the street. The
street is empty, we'll say, and they catch
eight of one another three or four blocks
apaxt. They immediately begin to make
obeisance at one another and they keep
Fending and bowing at short intervals un-
til they come together, when they make
that peculiar hiss by drawing in the breath
and keep on saying "Ohaye for about two
minutes. The young things, the" Moos -
mails," are very charming and graceful in
their greeting of one another but the old
ladies are ornate and elaborate in their ad-
dress.
An Opera of Great Antiquity.
Nearly three thousand years ago, a very
wise man and a great sportsman, exchanged
the company of philosophers, and grave
senators, for that of wits and gallants. He
established a playhouse in order to enter-
tain himself and others with jests, banter
and drollery. Solomon had everything that
was charming and diverting; all sorts of
melody and music, vocal and inetrumental,
men singers, tend women singers, the best
voices he could pick up, all the wind and
hend inetruments that were then in use.
But he pronounced them all vanity and
vexation of spirit. He obviously came to
grief in attempting to run a national Opera,
company on a theocratic principle. •Appal--
concubixies, with the Queen 0 Shebe thrown
ently, he could manage 300 WiVes and ZOO
rate the heap, Bat the great Israelitisla
opera experiment fairly paralyeed him.
A LIVING DEATH.
Nan who for Twenif:Atbree Teaks Embus.
ea MMUS' Invery Agony.
wealth of roma, pink and whInt and yel-
low, in place of the meal gombret crape sym-
bol of death, hung -on the bell lamb 0 7trd
Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn, the other day,
where hey the went and wastesi bean of Dr.
Charles F. Reed, to whom death inust in-
deed have been a relief. For twenty.theee
years and Skr Months helplese invalid, Dr.
Reed was, in addition, se great a sufferer
that it wIta a marvel that he lived at All.
The catalogue 0 beaten ills was gomplete
ie one a:lumber with him, but he 41413143Ted
degree of fortitude, Chriatian resiguanlea,
and even chemineee, that made
WeNnannib DirRESsION
upon all who visited him. No one could
have this experience without empties:lig
valeable feeling that this worlds troubles
are, after ail, 0 little moment.
From a medicel atendpoint Dr, Reed's
case interested, the profetoon 0 the country
end 0 the world. He had aehieved an ex-
cellent standing as a phyeician and in the
community, w ben in 1864 he was attacked
with Oysentery, big eystem being all run
• down in cousequence of overwork and en-
eetieive study. A few days treatment con-
quered the original disease, hut io. the wen
time sciatica, that was in hfa eyetein by
heredity, developed itself. Eight yesrs of
helpleseuess and agonizing suffering
foltaw-
ed, and in In!...1 he had an attack 0 cerebra,
spinal nienittgitio. The petienthi pitiable
condition becente even worse. Mugenlar
dietertiou mat weariug eptiente were mitered.
Ae awe aleep wee inmeeeible, voltas ettend,
ants held by force the writhiug body awl
contorted limbs 0 the eaferer. The appe-
tite became ilopeired for the firat time, aud
the digestive functiene eeemeel to be deetroy:
ed, leflanimetion of the joint? Was the nem
complioation and fer a year And a half the
glight tar of'a careless tread On the iiger
near him was productive of oneh exeruoiet-
ing agony Unit he woeld feint away and lie
AZ if dead for beam
In 1873 A rash which had broken out on
the patieuthi body was communicated te, his
eyes, total blindneaa was added. to Ida other
afilictIons. Thie result was drat apperent
after a series 0
SaVER£ gi,Ucritie SNOOKS
auffered by Dt. Bea during_ a thunder
storm in April 0 that year. ide described
the shoeka *heft to those received from a
Leyden jar Ilia facuitien remained utaten.
pawed, bis mind being remarkably clear
4 his *plata goo&
In IMO the prectice of taking hint into
the country was begun. and he hag event
every mounter singe in Vermont, near Rut-
land. The effect wax an inaprovement
the digeative and, nervoua systems, but none
of Ida theunettle trouble. He remained
perfectly belplem mid blind. During All
this time bis wife, a alight and phytuctilly
frill women, took almaat the eetire care of
him. In tide idle was meieted by a device
that he had planned and deaoribed ea then
it could be built, by which the could lift
hint out of bed unaided. The evinde dawn
tion was seemly tem remarkable than the
husband's fortitude. He wetianable to make
any motion beyond au almost imperceptible
one 0 the shoulders' which. enale,d tura to
pull a bell cord fixedtvithin his reach, and a
slight nodding motion of the heath Hie jaws
W500 ao firmly let that only liquids eould hes
given lake for nourishment, and them with
difficulty. About a year ago the decay 0
Ida teeth and the exposure of the nerves of
Lour 0 them
ADDED TO TIM SnIfFERM03
of the unfortunate. It was weeks before a.
dentiat was found who by pulling the front
teeth out was able to got at the ones affect-
ed and kill the discand and throbbing
nerves.
Dr, Reed was supported for the last five
years from n fund of whith D. M, Stone,
the editor 0 the Journal of Commerce, was
treasurer. The fund was started ata meet-
ing in the direotora' room of the Academy
0 Music. The original contributors' with
the exception of one gentleman whokept
bis payments of $5 a month up to the last,
oradually fell off. Mr, Stone for the last
two years, by contributions and collections,
has raised nearly all of the money that has
gone into the fund, The payments have
averaged about $1,200 a year. There is
money enough in the treasury to pay the
funeral expenses, but Mr. Stone, in to -day's
Journal of Commerce, makes an appeal for
contributions to a purse for the widow. By
the Doctor's request, his remains were cre-
mated at Fresh Pond.
Dr. Reed's death was peaceful and pain -
leas, though preceded by twenty-four hours
of agony. The lingering vitality in hie
poor tortured body amazed those who wit-
nesssd it.
Dug -Up At Pompeii.
One stands absolutely openenouthen and
with starting eyeballs before the cases in
the museum which contains the Pompeian
lady's rouge pot and the Pompeian doctor's
surgical instruments and the pass -out cheeks
for the Pompeian theatre; and the hair of
one's head stands erect as one comes to a
wall in Pompeii and reads what a rude little
Pompeian boy had chalked upon it just
seventy-nine years after the birth of qur
Saviour. ,
It gives one a little flutter of excitement
to look at a man, perfect inform and feature,
lying just as he died on that November day
exactly 1809 years ago next November—to
see his hands clenched and his teeth set, and
the very look of horror on his face that came
there as he fell, fleeing from the doomed
oity—fell to rise no more. And in another
case lies a beautiful girl of Pompeii who
died with her arm across her eyes, slItting
nut the sight of the swift death that was.
overtaking her. And near lies a poor little
dog who had died that day. He still wears
the collar and chain that bound him to the
kennel and prevented his escape. The poor
little Pompeian bow -wow, who lived 1800.
yeare ago, lies upon his side, his limbs
drawn together in agony, his lips parted ,
just as they were when they gave the last,
dying whimper of terror and despair.
Poor little dog 1 He will tesi handed down.
perhaps for thousands of years yet to come'
for the wondering eyes of a new race of hip
inan beings to gaze upon. That little dog
I of A. In 79 may—lni timustiet lose myself
in building up v; Rider Ilitggard romance
about that dog. He has achieved immortal-
ity, and, like a good many: four -footed im-
mortals, he paid a good tree for. the,adver.,
tioement.
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