The Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-30, Page 7vimuoim••••••..
A MAN WITH A NEW SKIN.
How He Suddenly Lost the Old and Slowly
Grew the New.
A NEW TRITTMIE'll IN SURGERY,
Shinned Alive But Dinned Back to Life
mid Resupplied V ith Cuticle From Big
'Frogs.
An lndianepolis, Ind., despatch Sys:
"Wealey Keller, "the man who was skinned
alive," returnea to work to -day. His ease
is ourioue. As an illustration of the nine
powera ot rnoder:a surgery it will be talked
about from one end ot the country to the
other.
On Wednesday, July 30th, Keller fell
into a Meant vat at the indienapolis Veneer
'Works. He was taken out as quickly as
poseible, but he had been scalded from the
•soles ot his feet to the middle of hie cheat.
One arm was all right, but the other arm
wee blistered to the ehoulder. Huge bliaters
puffed up all over the man's body, and the
fluid which had exuded from the flesh to
An them had been cooked to ajelly. In re-
moving hie clothes great strips of the out -
or scarf akin mane off, leaving exposed
ethe true skin underneath, cooked until it
looked like a parboiled lobster. Hie toes
mad ankles were so blistered and awollen as
to loge nearly all resemblance to human
numbers.
Ae soon as hie fellow -workmen got
'Keller out of the vat they telephoned for the
company's surgeon, Dr. Ralph Perry.
" There is, perhass, one chance in a thou.
Sand of saveag this man,' said the stir.
geon when he had looked at the burns. He
Set to work, however, and greased
lKallar from top to toe with a mixture pt
linseed oil and lime water. Then he
nmethed the body in cotton wadding,
from which all possible impurities and
diseatee germe had been removed by them -
:loam
For two days and nights the case hung
without lose or gain. A teaspoonful ot
brandy wee given every few home. Then
ts change mune. Kellar seemed to be
•.thoking. The throat became swollen, but
this swelling was checked. The man's
temperature rose a little. Fever eet in.
'Thie gave great hope. The nexv morning
Zeller naked for something to eat, and
antuelly ate a piece of pie and drank so:ale
coffee. The neves of this shocked the sur-
geon at first; bat he said:
" I guess we'll win this fight, for a man
w ho can eat pie with no akin on him has
life enough left to grows new one."
When suppuration began great care wits
taken to let out the pus at every point.
The first dressing took three home; the
:second still longer. Five days were con-
sumed in taking off the bits of old skin,
four hours each day being spent with the
:creeps, eciesors and scalpel removing the
skin layer by layer. Not a piece as big as
a dime was forced. Kellarie pluck wae
marvellous. The raw surfacee were dressed
with an iodoform mixture and bandaged
with soft stalls.
Meanwhile the swamps ef South Bend
were being scoured for two -pound frogs.
A bushel basket of theee were °leaned
with a germicide mixture and fed on pure
food. '1'he raw eurfacee of Kellar's body
were tenderly wathed with clean warm
water, then with peroxide of hydrogen,
which destroys pus. The utmost cleanli-
ness and wholesomeneas vtas insisted
upon. Juat before applying the frog
elate the raw surface wag washed with a
weak solution of corrosive sublimate.
-iterything ready, the first frog was
brought out. With a quick snip of the
eclesors ite spinal cord waa severed at the
back of the neck. Then the loose, pearly
white ekin from over the abdomen wen
quickly taken out and thrust into a diele of
Water wbich had been boiled, but which
w ait now merely warm
Intim water had been dropped a little of
'the, corrosive sublimate solation. Being
clettneed, the ekin was cut up into bits
abont a tenth 01 00 inch equare and applied
th Kellar's body—inside in, outside out.
Powdered iodoform was dusted over the
graft, whittle was sealed tightly from im-
rallies.
Dr. Perry made grafts on forty-two
o ccasioris. Thirty.two operations were
mnstaisfactory ; ten were satisfactory.
From teeth ot the ten centres healthy skin
radiated, until now Kellar is " es good as
Soto -day Kellar went to work—the only
name in the world who hes been boiled and
nesinned alive, and who has frog skin where
be once wore his own.
ANOTHER MURDER CASE.
Henri Bergevin Teases Michael Lefebvre
and is Fatally idiot.
A Montreal despatch says: A crime
manse to light tbie morning, when Henri
Etergevin died from wounds received lent
saiglit at the handl of Michael Lefebvre.
The shooting oecurred at St. Phillipe,
seven miles from Laprairie, twelve miles
from Montreal, and the news was brought
toiesprairie by a neighbor of Lefebvre,who
cameo to the village for a coffin. According
tohie statement, the victim and young
Lefebvre lived together on bad terms, and
•nover• worked together without a quarrel.
These quarrels culminated laet night at a
dance given at Lefebvre's farnehonee,where
the two had some hot words, and Lefebvre
lob the dance, procured a gun, loaded it,
and as soon ae the other man came out
;fired at him, the 'Merge striking Bergevin
a few inches below the heart Bergevin
eves employed by Fefebyre's father, a,nd the
murderer is a lad et not more than 19.
et is said that these affairs are compara-
tively common in the back districts, and
that it is only an exceptional case that comes
Ito light.
Further particulars give the view that
Lefebvre was not altogether to blame, and
tbet hie victim stated before he died that
he had teased the young man till he woe
goaded into an am of revenge, and he
brought death upon himself. It is not
certain that this statement will have any
NI; eight with the jury.
Children's Children's Children.
This comes from oversea : Qaeen Vic.
Iberia was herself an only child, but she has
lived to see her children's children's chil-
dren. At this time (3.ugust) this numbers
50 listing desoendante, inoluding eons and
denaghtere, grandsons and granddaughtere,
great- grendeons and great-granddaughters.
Harry Patilton's farce -comedy Niobe "
ie a travesty on "Pygmalion and Galatea,'
Mid will shortly be eeen in New York.
Nora Clench, the talented Canadian
winliniste, will remove to Buffalo where she
has been offered a pOsition as leader of a
string °roller:are.
" Hamarthie," a flamed drama, founded
ten H. Rider Haggard's novel "Cleopatra,"
in being produced by the Maclantn•Presoott
company. The initial performance took
plate at Louisville on the 301h ult. and was
laigbly paiaed.
The man who 0/13 write love -letters withl
.rtrit making an ass of himeelt has kept the
,
patter very quiet.
raosanLx NOT A MURDER+
The St. Philippe Tragedy Probably the
Result of Foolishness.
A Montreal despatch says: The story of
the reported murder at St. Philippe, near
Leprairie, turns out to have another side,
which makes the charge spinet young
Lefebvre much less paktum Amordiug to
the boy' s etory, Toeepli Bergevin, the de.
ceased, lead a habit M teasing him, although
no Unfeeling, ever existed between them.
On the day of the shooting young Lefebvre
was fooling and playing with Bergevin,
who challenged him too trial of strength,
and of course came off vie:tweezes.
Several of the lad's little companions
were present at the time, when he rose up
and said in a joking way, " I'll give you a
dose of salt," and he proceeded etraight•
way to the house, where he loaded
hie gun with salt, and came out again,
pointing it at Bergevin. The latter re.
marked, " Oh, you can fire away; I am
not afraid of your ealt." At the same
time that the boy fired there WINS a distance
of some 35 feet between the two. Immo.
diately the deemed cried out You have
hit me," at the acme time putting his hand
to his left side. They all went into the
house together and a doctor was called in.
After examining the wound the doctor did
not pronounce it of a very grave nature,
but advised the wounded man to stay in
bed and keep quiet. Thia he did not do, as
yeeterday morning he went in to breakfast
and ole a hearty meal. He ha,d scarcely
got through when he complained of intone°
pain, and fell book senselees. He died
about an hour later. Before he died, how-
ever, he managed to recover sufficiently to
repeat two or three times that it wae
merely an amide:at, and that he did not
hold the boy responsible. It is supposed
that the salt, being damp, got cleated
around the wadding, and thee it got
hardened sufficiently to cause a mortal
wound,
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
A Seduction Law That Seems o Need
Amendment.
A Guelph, despatch says : At the Wel-
lington Aesizes yesterday, in a criminal
seduotion case, a decision was given by the
court which is of some public importance.
The prisoner, Peter Dingman, a married
man with a family, was charged under the
Charlton Aat with seducing and having
illicit intercourse with an unmarried
female under 21 yesrs of age under promise
of merriage, she having previously been of
a chaste character. It was proved that
Dingman had promised to merry the girl,
Sarah Jane Lovell, 5 laborer's daughter, on
August 14th lam, and thet he hod seduced
her on September 14th following. Nothing
was eaid about marriage in the interval,
and it did not appear that, at the time the
seduction took place, any promise of mar-
riage was made by the prisoner to the girl.
His Lordship reared the question whether
these facts biOught the oaee within the
seetion oathe Act referred to, as he had
previously held in another similar case that
they did not. After some discuesion on
this point, the judge held that in order to
establish a oharge of this n '
ature the
Crown must prove that the promise of
marriage wee made at. the time of the
seduction, and for that very purpose, other.
wise the charge must fail. In any other
view, Hie Lordship said that seduction in
the nese of a bona tide engagement of =er-
ring° would be indictable, which he thought
was not tbe intention of the Act. For this
reason he felt constrained to withdraw this
case from the jury and direct a verdict of
not guilty.
TRAMPLED 'f0 DEATH.
Crazed with Fear a - Large Audience
Tramples Down the Children.
A Chicago despatch gives the following
additional partionlers of the panio in St.
Stanialaus' Catholio Churcb, Chicago,
yesterday: There were about 1,500 chil-
dren, accompanied by their mother, in
the church at the time. The women and
ohildren became' panimstrioken and rushed
pell-mell to the exits. Those in front were
pressed upon by those behind and loot
their footing on the stone steps in front of
the building, where they were trampled
upon by the fleeing multitude. The arrival
al the fire deportment added to the stem.
pede, and in a few minutes 10,000 people
bed gathered in the neighborhood. Tim
fire was quickly extinguished and the polioe
with much difficulty rescued the wounded
thildren. Jos. Jazak, 12 years old, has a
fractured skull and will probably die;
Stanielans Kaminska was iujured inter-
nally; Frank Drewyki received a severe
out on the head; Stanislaus Fargo% 9
years old, was injured internally; Martin
Kioski, 10 years old, Frank Sick, 10 years
old, and Leon Showkowski, 11 years old,
wore sent to the hospital, and four other
children were taken to their homes. The
scene after the panic was over was terrible.
The stone steps at the entrance were
covered with blood. The carpets on the
floor of the church and many of the pews
were torn up and the church looked es
though some bloody riot had taken place
in it.
SUMMONED TO ROME.
Prominent Irish Eccle- siastics Called to
Confer With the Pope.
Mr. Thomas Power O'Connor's paper,
the Star, says a London cable, announces
that the Most. Rev. Michael Logue, D. D.,
Archbishop ef the Diocese of Armagh and
Primate of all Ireland; Most Rev. Wm. J.
Weleh, D. D., Archbishop of the Diocese of
Dublin; Most Rev. Thos. W. Croke, D. D.,
Archbishop of Cashel, and Most Rev. John
MartEvelly, D. D., Archbishop of Tnam,
have been summoned by the Pope to Appear
at Rome in the early part of next year.
This, the Star saye, is an unusual and sig-
nificant step, and is eeldom adopted. The
fact that a eummons for the Archbishops
had been issued has been known only to a
limited circle. The Catholio archimpisco.
pitoy is deeply interested. It is believed
the summons wee issued in connection
with the Irish politioel sitnation and kin-
dred subjects. The Archbishops and
Bishops are now deliberating, and it le
probable they will soon issue a seriee of
reeolutione with reference to Irish affairs
Prompt meats.
Be businesslike enough to run year
houses on sohedule time, and be prompt
with the meale. A hungry man is gen.
orally an Italy men, and then is the time
to be plailceophioal. To kiss him at this
time is to make him crawl. He wants
ooneomme, not caroming.
Be reedy to receive him when he comes
in to dinner. Be in the doorway and let
him see the firelight or the lamp from tbe
hall. Let him take his overcoat off and
hie bat and his robbers, and let him blow
hie nose if he wants to. Let him solicit a
welcome, but don't peoffer it if he thews a
disposition eci get to the fire firet. It is
execreble Mete, but it is the kind he will
manifest if his trousers' lege are damp, his
feet wet and hie handecold.—Nei Nelson, in
New York World.
Tenderloins broil better if firat bruthed
over with olive oil,
8001e11.18M AND anelnektetOrALISee.
littnat the fiefresentattves et the Great
Hoelanet Movement are Saying.
A Halle cabie mem At the Sooisliet
Congrese to -day the dimuseion of elie pro.
gramme was continued. Herr MOS held
that religion aunt be a private matter,
espeoially when a combat againet the
Catholic Church was Whig carried on. He
wee opposed to changing the religious sem
lion in ttnY woe%
Herr Ruedt said: '4 We follow science
and have nothing to do with religion."
Her Welke:Aar declared on' agitation
which iguored the Church would be worth.
tem and barren of menthe.
Herr Metzner said although he held very
free religions edema he would deprecate any
change :In the programme.
Herr Livlaerader edvocated the exoision of
the religious clause, on the ground that it
always caused adverse criticism, and Was
the origin of many attacks upon the
Sooialist party.
Herr Ehrhardt declared the Berlin me.
tion of the party had frequently damaged
the Sooetlist cause by its oppesition to
religion. He urged the publication of a
pamphlet giving the views of the party on
the ideal sooial fature state.
Herr Schwas deprecated a wholeeale
secession from the thumb. He urged the
rentention of the words "by all lawful
mane" in paragraph 5, se he thought the
omission of the words would harm the
party.
Herr Metzner demanded the excision
from the programme of the provieionrelat.
bog to ao-operative societies. * He said the
agitation looking to a wholesele secession
from the church disgusted him.
Fran Steinbach demanded restriction of
all labor to six home a day.
Herr Liebknecht declared the develop-
ment of social democracy was a neoeseity,
and was not to be got rid of by °amen
balls. He continued " Instead of equan-
dering our etrength in fighting church
sacerdotalism, let us go to the root of the
matter. We wish to overthrow the state
of the °lessee. When thie is achieved
church semerdotalisin will fall with it. As,
for myself, I like neither priests nor the'
opponents of priests."
Herr Liebnecht introduced o resolution,
which was adopted, declaring that the party
programme agreed upon in Gotha in 1875,
however exoellent it may have proved dur-
ing a struggle of fifteen years, eapecially
during the operations of the anti-Socealiet
law' is no longer in touch with the times,
andthe Congress in view of the fact in•
amens a oommittee to submit to the next
Congrese the draft of the perty programme
as revised by the committee. The draft
will be publiched three months before the
Congress meets, in order to give time for
a thorough examination of the new pro.
gramme.
A reporter of the General Anzeiger, ot
Halle, was expelled from the Congress for
having alleged that the German Socialist
leaders had a secret discussion with the
French delegates. Herr Singer stigmatized
the reporter's statement as a calumnious
insinuation.
At the evening masion Herr Singer read a
long cotnmunioation from the headquarters
of the Salvation Army in London'which
was received with oatburete of derisive
laughter.
Herr Klotz, of Stntgart, referred to the
position of the Socialist party towards
strikes and boycotting, and said the Con-
gress ought to rnake a definite declaration
on those eubjecte. Subsequently a resolu-
tion was adopted, to the effect that under
the present economic, conditions and in the
face of the increasing efforts of the ruling
cleasee to destroy the political and eco-
nomic rights of the workingman, etrikes
and boycotting have become indispensible
weapons of the labor class. Great care
should be token, however, not to employ
these weapons in unsuitable places or at
inopportune moments. In all oases strikes
and boycottehoulcl be condnoted under a
thorough organization, centralized if possi-
ble, so that by weight of numbers and
the use of meterial means the ends de-
sired may be attained. At the same
time the Congress protests against the re-
newed efforts of the Government to destroy
the remnant of the right of combination
that still exists.
Herr Book, who represents Goths, in the
Reichstag, declared that he and his col-
leagues favored the resolution.
A Halle cable says :A kommerz was
given laet night to the delegates to the
Socialist Congress. Three thousand per-
sons attended. A red flag, the emblem ef
the Socialists, which for ten years had been
nnder tee ban of the lew in Germeny,
floated from the platform, from which a
number of speeches wine made by leaders
of the party. The promedinge were in-
terspersed with songs. An interesting
featnre was the presentation of a males of
tebleaux vivant representing " The Strug-
gle of Labor against Capital," " The Pro-
teotion of Labor and the Dismissal of Bis-
marck." Herr Beck of Zurich explained
that when he was exiled from Germany he
secretly carried the flag that was on the
platform from Kassel to Zurich, where he
kept it in safety until now when, on the,
expiration of the Socialist law, it was re-
turned to its home. Herr Wollschlager of
Beale said he was ashamed of the injustice
shown by Switzerland toward the Germen
Socialists, but he declared that no blame
should be attached to either the people
or the Government, because the
country was very small and there-
fore exposed to the pressnre of a
powerful neighbor. He believed the Swiss
Government deplored the tuition it was
compelled to take, although it migbt not
give public expreseion to its feelings on the
subject. A heated general discussion fol.
lowed. Several of the members indulged
in violent tirades and Herr von Vottmar,
in the interests of harmony, implored the
delegates to avoid the me of irritating
polemical language.
Herr Liebknetht said the Eisenach pro.
gramme of 1875 required revision. Hitherto
this had been impossible because of the life
and death struggle in which they had been
engaged. The demands of the Socialist°,
he seid, included trial by jury, a gratuitous
administration of justice and free legal as-
sistance and medical aid for the people.
With these ends in view all lawyers and
doctors ought to be permanent State
offioials. Another demand of the Smieliste
was that the question of religion be treated
as m purely private matter. They also de.
mended that the working day be consider.
ably ehortenee. The Socitiliet party, he
declared, was the only party that laid be-
fore the.
people definite aims andpurposes.
If coercion wen deeigneted an iron band
the progrerame of the Socialists must be
called a band ef adamant.
A Hallo cable says : At yesterday's
session of the Socialist Congrese it was de-
cided to nominate candidates to contest all
the election° held in the city of Berlin. It
wea also decided to hold a Socidliat labor
demonstration on the first day of May
next, and thereafter on the Sunday follow.
ing the 1st of May in each year.
The socielist Congress closed yesterday,
to the relief of both the deputies and the
publio, who have been evrionped by the yew,
bosity of the Sooialiste. Yesierday's ma-
iden Of the: ailmgress Wat Opened by the
election of party officers ats follows : Vint
ele
Preindent, Herr Singer; Beyond President,
Herr Gerieh ; Seoretaries, Herren Auer and
Filiaber ; Treasurer, Herr Bebe! ; and
Controllers, Herren Dubber, of Ramberg
Herbert, ot Stettin; Ewald, of Branden.
berg; Keden, of Dreeden ; Jacoby and
Sohulz, of Berlin ; and Behrendt, of Frank-
fort, On motion of Herr Gralenberger,
Herr Liebkneoht was confirmed as editor
of the party organ.
Herr Keseler next moved, That whereaa
tbe opinion prevails among the party that
many of its former members leave been tin -
justifiably accused of being in the pay of the
police, the congress appoint a committee to
report on the subject.
Herr Steger expressed regret tbat sua-
pioion sheuld have so ignominiously fallen
upon any one, adding shot it was beams.
Bible for the congress to do what weaselled,
as the membere could never find out who
was the man with the iron meek. The
matter after all wae only of individual
intereet, and party considerations were far
superior. The subjed did not denciend
such eluoidation. It was the police who
were most concerned in clearing the
matter. Herr Kessler's motion was re-
jected.
Other resolutions cell upon the Socialist
party in the Reichstag to seek to remove
the unsatisfactory conditions of the present
system of emigration, and espeoielly to re-
queet the Federal Government to exercise
a stricter supervision at the different ports
in regard to the transportation and accom-
modation of immigrants.
The President announced that 251 con-
gratulatory telegrams and 65 addreeses had
been received during the sitting of the con•
ferenoe.
DISCOUNTS MIND READING
A Safe Opener's Ingenuity Geta Ilim Into a
Chicago Dungeon,
A Chicago despatch says: A safe.open-
ing test, which discounts the wonderful
feat of Paul Alexander Johnston, the mind
reader, took place in the Wayne hotel
yesterday morning. The operator was
Henry E. Adams, a young man from
Minneapolis, who came to Chicago some
weeks ago and took rooms at the Wayne,
on Michigan street. There he became
acquainted with a young man about his
own age, who was a cousin to the hotel
proprietor.
This fait of the relationehip was not
known by Adams. Within the past few
days enemas proposed to his friend a
scheme to rob the safe in the hotel. Adams
was to get up at 4 o'olook yesterday morn-
ing and open the safe. Meantime the
proprietor had been told of the plot by his
athein, who pretended m take the part of
an accomplice in the robbery.
It was a little after midnight when two
able-bodied detectives were let into the
Wayne and eecreted behind the office
counter. Just as the clock rang out the
hour of 4 the safe robber came on tiptoe to
the hotel office. Witham tools or expioeives
the wondering officers watched young
Mama coolly prepare to open the massive
iron reoeptacle, although it wee clearly evi-
dent he did not know the combination mar
was he a mind reader.
He had simply resorted to an ingenious
plan and depended on nature for an open
sesame. Adams had pared the mil of his
index finger on the right hand until the
blood vessels were exposed ; then by
placing the sensitive wound on tbe knob of
the combination lock he could distinguish
the movements oE the tumblers as they
fell.
For an hour be worked, while the per.
epiretion &limped in beads from his brow.
At last there was a eharp click, and as the
first etreak of dawn came in through the
window Adams swung back the door.
With a sigh of relief he reached into the
safe ard laid his hand on a packege of
bills.
The detectives sprang forward and the
robber was under arrest. Adams wae
incercerated in the strongest, most closely
guarded anngeon at police headquarters.
A DARLING OF A DANCER.
How Little A tithe Smith Cut Fine Caper
iRefore Queen V1ctor1a.1
Little Addie Smith, born in Toronto, has
always been as lively as a cricket, but no
one knew until lately that she waa the
cleverest dancer who ever stood upon pins.
One evening her brother, who is a profes-
sional fancy dancer, was practicing in the
parlor when be noticed Addie imitating
some of his steps. "Why, the little wench
can do them better than I," he exclaimed.
Then followed some lessons. Addie was an
apt pupil. Some time ago she wae token
to Scotland. At a Scottish entertainment
near Balmoral, in July last, as we learra
from the New York Sun, Addie was asked
to dance. Her dancing delighted the spec.
titters, one the Queen leaving beard of her
remarkable performance sent for her to
dance at Balmoral Castle. In the big
drawing -room at Balmoral the little
Canuck delighted Her alajeety mad the
other members of the royal family in
strathspeys, the Highland fling, sword
dance, sailor's hornpipe and Shien
truibhs, the latter translated from the
tongue ot the ancient Gee!, meaning
John's trousers. For the last mentioned
dance, which by the way is a very artistic
one, the performer usually wears a pair of
trousers, but Miss Addie wore a girl's kilt
costume. The Queen was delighted.
On Probation.
They were talking the other day, obser-
ves the London Tid•Bits, of the most sen-
sible marriages on record. When the
woulebbe bridegroom put the usual queetion
to papa, that fine soldierly gentlemen gazed
a few seaonds into vacancy, then he turued
his eye on the expectant lover and spoke as
follows:
" There is plenty of room in the house ;
oome and live with us for six months. At
the expiration of that time if you wish to
marry my daughter and she wishes to
marry you, we will order the wedding
breakfast."
The breakfast has been ordered and
eaten, but if all engaged couples were put
on that sort of probation there might be
fewer marriages, while very certainly the
divorce °mute wonld lose half their buei-
nem
Managing a Husband.
A man wants a lot of letting alone. At
breakfast it is wise to be eloquently silent.
Keep still. Hold your tongue and give
him a chance to think of the work before
hire. Keep still all the time when you
haven't siterthing to say. People of senee
hate prattle and gabble and a wOnian
should have a very Berea voice to talk for
the sake of bearing herself. Now and then
he will be crown bothered, vexed or dis-
traoted, and that is the very time of times
to invent the gold of silence. Perhaps he
ba e been snubbed or squelched during
the day, and if he it a coward he will
bottle rtp his feelings jnet for the sake of
letting them off With a pop in the bosom of
hie fatally. By all means keep still and
give him plenty of titne and SIAM to re-
cover himeelf.—Nell Nelson in Neu) York
World.
Ta U SWEATINO SYSTEM
Become Very °cannon in Boston amid
The account given in the Herald of ems.
terday of the manufacture of clothing iit
tais city ander what is terneed the sweet.
ing system is the verification of au objem
tionable method which is gradually titian
place in thig elaSs ef business. A few years
ago the large wholegale olothing dealers of
this city were acommined to carry on the
businese of manufacture in buildiugs occu-
pied by them or the sale of their geode. In
certain of these establislinlenta, On or in
the vicinity of Summer street, hundreds of
young women were employed in stitching
the Walling on sewing mathines run by
steam power, It was a large and regular
bueiness, and although the oonaitions
under which the work was carried on may
not alwaye have been all that they might
be, the knowledge tint the workshops were
constantly subjected to official inspection
made their 'Proprietors 0Eirefu1 not to trench
too 13104 upon the line whiole divides the
healthyand acceptable from the nneanitary
and unallowable. •
But of late a radical change has been
made in this system of work., and at the
present time there is hardly one of these
great establishments in existence The
work now going on in these places ie limited
to the cutting of clothing and making Belch
slight changes and additiona OB may be
necessary to finiehed garments. A large
part of the work of manutiteture is now
carried on Calt of town, and the visitor to
the country dietriots of New England will
now and the come upon farm houses
where the noise ot numerous Sewing
machines indicates that a clothing
manufactory has been established, giving
employment in this way to the young
women of the neighborhood. The rates of
ply by piece work in eetablishrnents of
this kind are smaller than in establishments
located in the large cake, for the reason
that the expenses are len, and the opera-
tives can afford, living, as most of them do,
at home, to work for wages that would not
give to the young women in the city a suffi.
oient sura in a week to pay for board and
lodgings.
This country competition has been in
part Met by the establishment of tailors'
workehops, scores of which can be found in
different perte of our oity, where, under
cheap conditions as to rent and oonve.
niencee, employment is given in the aggre•
gate to thousands of young women, end to
certainly hundreds of men. These estab-
lishments are, in the great majority of
oases, managed by Hebrews, who seem to
show a peculiar aptitude for this class of
work. It is elmoet impossible to obtain
the data needed to determine whether the
operatives co employed obtain as much for
their services as they were accustomed to
receive when they worked directly for the
wholesale clothing dealers. Undoubtedly
the new method is a more economiosil one,
so far as the clothing dealers are concerned,
or they would not ao gtherally have aban-
doned their old system. A part of the gain
may have come in the saving of rent, and
it is possible that the CION3 eupervieion ex-
ercised over thisform of contract work may
lead to a larger production for each sewing
machine than was poseible under the now
discarded system. But the chances are
that tbe return e wheel the operatives
receive are not so great as those which
they formerly received for the same
service.
The clothing dealer makes the best con.
tract that he can with the one who engages
to do hie work, and, as the manner in which
this contract is fulfilled is something which
does not pass under his eye, he does not
have, as he otherwise might, appeals made
to his sense of humanity that would load
him to check his degree for a larger profit.
These workshops are in themselves the
embodiment of the sweating procese, for
their proprietors stand as middlemen, with
the desire ef getting as ranch as they can
from the wholesale dealer, and giving as
little as they ean to those wbom they em-
ploy. In the former trade competition
oomea into play, for if the proprietor of one
tailor's shop sk an extro price it is an
easy =titter to divert the business to an-
other applicant for it. But in the case of
the operatives there is no restriction except
the limit of human endurance and the need
of earning a certain amount of money for
the parpose of sustaining life.
Below this comee the tenement house
work, which, although in many ways
objectionable, ie, perhaps, no more to ba
graded under the sweeting system than
the class of work we have just referred to.
This consists chiefly in having the work of
manufacture carried on at home in the
tenements occupied by the operatives,
instead of at some central workshop. The
conditions in these cases must of necessity
vary greatly, and onr reporter, in nasking
examination, found that eome of these
tenement workshops were tolerably clean,
while others were filthy in the extreme
The pay received by these outiside opera-
tives s potherb as great as that earned by
those who are directly employed in the
worksheps, for in such instances it is not
necessary for the contracting dealer to pro-
vide accommodetions and simply the,
power, etc.
It is ssid that clothing made in these
tenements mast carry with it the :media of
disease, and than on this account the busi-
ness should be prohibited by law. But,
while the work is carried on under exceod•
ingly objectionable conditions, so far as
dirt is concerned, there is no direot evi-
dence to show that the result is detrimentel
to the health of the purchasers of tenement
house -made clothing. If it were pomade
to retise the rates of wages of those em.
played in the workshops by prohibiting
this form of employment, such action
might be praiseworthy; but we cannot
imagine how such a law could be drawn
which would not in its emplication inter.
fere in an unjust manner with the rights
of those who could not, for various well.
understood reasons, go to work in the shop-,
but who could eke oat their meagre in-
comes by doing work at home. As a sooki
question the amount of money received is
quite am and perhaps more, important than
the places in which the work is performed.
—Boston Herald.
Fred. Solomon has written for Carmen.
cite a beirleeque entitled, "The Mimi Girl
of Seville."
Silver buttone and silver gilt are both to
be had in smell ani leirger ,HiZOS for trim-
ming plaid gowee.
Otero, the newly arrived Spanish demur,
has captivated the blew York alistooracy.
She is young, of e mit donna type of Jewell.
nees, and the potstmor oil a. good voice.
Her dancing, white) is said to be something
• entirely new, hi aocompanied by an ore:hest re
of mandoline and , ultimo pleyed by eight
women end five Mete Her Spanish songs
bid fair to becomea toe rime.
Your husbend wears his hair very
short." 4, Yes, the cowardly wretch 1,"
A London weekly nye that Annie
Beesant is the Drat eloquent woman in ell
England. She ni not yorieg nor pretty;
she hasn't any teeth'arty Moziey or any
reputation, but she is better than the Whole
London police tome or the Hinge of Lorde
When their is a 'mob to be oontrolled•
small Homes Whore Love is Mina+
An aged mother, who bed lived te flee
her targe family of sons occupying pea.
tiOng of unneuel Weelth end power in, the
fiettricied world, wee aeked what period a
leer life she eettarded With the greeted
PlefialLurreeilied "Tho der], when I lived
with ray husband in a log °Mein out Weet,
and had idl my little °nee about my knee."
Yu, that is it. Memory loves the narrow
eocan, the low ceiling, tee rough walls, no
matter how bare, /mimes° then the little
ones were about the knee, loaning up math
trusting eyes and innocent miles into the)
face that is their all, and beneath which
they bloom without any thought as yet Oil
the feverish world, with its hopes, its Wan,
its ambitions and it allurements.
Do you hoer the sigh that uncouscionely
escapes the lips of that proud and seem.
ingly self matiefied matron, who in all the
porap ot wealth and station rides dome the
avenue in her carriageand sees through:ha
em
ling hisheerbea
a window
the Ifintigm eh
p gm
o
6 t
rown /
h
er
ita11:e'
have not smiled since that gay aud Berne,.
what dissipated young Mais he calls her
eon waa an infant?
Why does she sigh? Has she not a hone
of splendor, a troop of eervitore, unlimited
means, and all that she once thought would,
bring her unalloyed happiness? Yee ; ye*
the tears come when vieions snob as these
bring back piethres of a little golden head
nestliug on a pillow in a nursery white witth
innocence and a mother's prayers.
lkiore that picture her palatial honto
seeme empty, and when she mounts the
steps and entero tbe massive portals, you
aan eee by the wistfulness of her gaze thee
her robed is not upon the objects of beenty
and splendor that surround ber, but upon
another and dearer mene—a shabby stsir.
case, probably, cumbered with a broken
dram and dismembered doll, and worn by
the tread of little feet. There ia no butlee
waiting in that hall, but there is a rush ot
tiny feet to welcome her, a fiush of infan.
tile laughter, a cry of " Mamma 1 Moment 1"
that more than makes amends for tbe cold
and mechanical service that alone receives
her now. Or so one judges by the Mere
with which she suddenly awakes to the
present and resumes it cares, duties and rei
quiremente.—eleina Katharine Green.
Sowing Among Tares.
A missionary Sunday school in Brook
lyn has some sadly neglected littlo
heathens in attendance, whose lack cal
knowledge of tbe Bible is almost enough to
induce some of the ardent miSSiAnariaS
who go off to India to stay at home and
convert them. If the children come for
two consecutive Sundays the teacher is
grateful. One teacher's class was always
present and seemed interested. She too
them Bible stories so entertainingly that a
waggish friend said "the kiddies wouldn't
recognize the Bible when they grew up."
Her plan was to tell a Bible etory, and
then review the pupils on what she had
told. The boys seemed to enjoy this sore
of lesson. One Sunday not long
since the receited to them in n
very animated way the story ot
Joseph's trials and triumphs. The boys
answered in a gratifying manner until it
mime to the scene where Joeeph was ruler
in Egypt. The teacher had made a strouei,
point of Joseph's generosity. How he
might have sent his brothers away stereo
ing, but instead had given them corn and,
unknown to them, had put money into
their sacks. e, She drew special attention
to the foot that he had placed the silver
CU p in Benjamin's sack, and thought she
clearly brought out the fact that Joeeph
bad sent for Benjamin a few hours aftee
his brothers had started for home, and
asked the question : " Richard, what did
Joseph do after his brothers had gone 1"
" He telephoned for a policeman," an-
swered Richard, promptly. " That is not
what I told you," eaid the teacher, repthy.
ingly. "1 know it," said Richard, std.
lathy, "but that's what his nibs oughter
done."—New York Tribune.
The Turf.
The stakes to be run for the Victorie
Racing Club, of Melbourne, Australia, foti
the salmon of 18901 amount to over
$3,000,000, with over 52,000,000 added.
The hendioap sweepstakes for the Welk
bourne cup, run Nov. 4th, has e50,000 and
a $750 trophy added.
The racing season just about closed hae
been a profitable one to some of the stables.
Mr. August Belmont heads the list with a
total winning of e167,900, Mr. John A.
Morris is next, with a credit to his account
of $158,000, while Senator Hearst, whose
bad luck in previous years was proverbial,
closes the eeason third on the list of win.
nere, with $110,000. , Green Morris is
fourth, with $85,000, and Congressman
Boott is just below him, with 1/69,000. The
Dwyer Brothers, in spite of the crippled
condition of their stable, a mere wreck of
the princely establishment of the past,
have earned the snug sum of $65,000, while
Mr. D. D. Withers, whose stable has been
rather a disappointing one this season, is
credited with 564,000.
It is a curious fact that that nearly all
the big money in the leading stables hao
been won by one horse. Potomtis won
nearly half of Mr. Belmont's e167,000, and
if Tournament's earning's were deducted
from Senator Hearet's total there would be
very little left. The value of one good
horse is meet eignally proved by Byron
McClelland, however. Beyond a selling
plater, which he eold eariy in the season,
McClelland had only his filly, Sally Ma -
Clelland, to run for him, and yet she won
for him.$58,000.
Mr. J. B. Hogein ends the year with
$51,700 profit. Of this sum over 530,000
was Salvator's winnings; the bulk of the
remainder was Firenzi's. Burlington is
responsible for a big portion of the Hough
Brae'. 537,700, while Bashford (teener ferret
owes nearly all its e16,970 to Gteoon.
A New and Beautiful Variety of Rose.
Mr. D. Bowerd Tuxworth is devoting
attention to the thltivation of roees and one
of the varieties produced by him is known
as the Frenob tulip rose or Mom. Watt:wile.
It will Stand in weter and bold its pettish;
better than tiny other known flower of the
same class. The fall rose when open
presents a charming picture of delicate
wbite petals tipped with a dainty but
brilliant pink, which seems to grow deeper
toward the bud in the °entre. The variety
hi of French antecedence and was brought
to the United States only a few yew ago.
At &et it was oultivated in and around
Philadelphia, but New York hot tioulturiste
were etruck with its beauty and began to
raise it. Its career in Baltimore has been
alert but its attraetivenese and nsefulnese
have been apereoietee. No rose vsoept the
Mrne. Casio will begin to last as long as tbe
Wettville when detached from the bush.—
Balt We're Sun,
The Birch Rod.
Youth's Companion: Tyro eminent echo,-
are were diectmeing odacatiOntil questione
10 e very profound way not long since.
Witat Was it," said one it. the Other;
" that struck you most forcibly in the
course of yotto education?"
"The sohoolmaster," eleid the (am