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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-8, Page 2RE.A,LT} Qoneerninj; aanitery SoieDoa "'One ot the marked changes of our time is the alteredaitfon of the physician in the community. The traditional ydu tiP of the doctor wee to cure disease, and disease was. supposed to be A Bort of maligant entity which had gotten into the tyatem, and could he expelled only by the meet energetic and hereto remedies. Physicians were saki to belong to the medicole rofsa o P i n as the chief 'business of the doctor was to Araagribe nred, thins, which are mostly drnge ; while Vol - Mire wittily summarized the work of *it phyaielan as an attempt to work a miracle by reconciling intemperance and health. A half century has altered the whole 'cope of medical study, Sanitary science profoundly affects ntedleal theories ; and the upahot f it all Is that the old faith in drugs and med. ielnea of all kinds le fast dissolving, People are everywhere learning that sunlight, pare air, good fo od r proper dress, regular lar ga,plenty of alesP, in shalt, right laving, le a million inti mea better than all the medicines the world. " The great physicians of our time are vastly more interested in sanitary eoionee and hygiene than in therapeutics. They aro studying anew the questions pertaining to life. They are investigating the conditions of perfect phyaioal existence. They are giv- ing lectures and writing books on the great art of keeping well, of developing physical foroe, of building up a perfect body, The questions of drainage and ventilation, of the nutritive valves of the different kinds of food, and the proper methods of cooking, of artificial exercise, when it le necessary to re- sort to such expedfenta, the heating of houses, and the quantity and fashion of clothes that should be worn, are assuming an importance hitherto unknown, " 1Lverything that relates to the art of :living so as to avoid sickness and pain, and maintain the highest degree of power and enjoyment, isinvested with new importance, The phyaloian is no longer `a medioiae man;' 0 we send for him when ill, it is true, and van t ne his curtive service as highly as ever; but a we would pay him a double fee to keep us well. He is a member of health police, t whose function it is to keep people from getting sick, and hold a disease at bay, And. instead of killing a doctor when a patient dies, after the manner of the Emperor of China, the skill and proficiency of the phy- sician of the future are determined by his anemia in keeping his patients strong and well; and should they fall ill, he may be dismissed for better one." THE LIME KIL/I OLVB. " What seems to be need of de hour jest now" 'add the ]'resident as the meet.. Ing opened, f' am Ino' he ss sense on' fewer lemagogues--n o' of de apeerit of conoegs14n an' Deet of de apeerit of deatruokehun--mo' (f c.eepaerit of tt;tetaai into;est au' lees of de p.inaptte of suis or ruin, If I pat money into a facktor an' make a sirocco of it, I am entitled to a fa'c in- t ore , e on t m money Toney invested an' a fa r profit on market values. Bsyand dot de income belongs to de:workmen who helped nee to make it. 1t am a plain princfp:o of jastloe n which no one need be mistaken, an' it has only to be follewed to keep employer and employe on the beat of terms, 1 " Ebery man am legally an' morally en• titled to all the money he can accumulate widout chicanery or oppression, Dat we am not all wolf a million dollars apiece am our misfortune, an' blowin' Jey Gould up wed dynamite won't1 helro 4r oases bit. "Dar' should be no reduckshun of pay to f ai-t hfu 10 w rk men except l t to prevent logia of capital invested. Dar' should be no strikes until compromise haa been offered an' re. jeoted, " While men workin' at etarveahuu wages may become dosprrate, it should be remembered dat obery idle facktory in do kantry am another burden added to taxa. shun. .A ship Iaid up at de wharf not only carries no cargo, but she int going to decay, "De workman who am not wealth' to ren- der a fair day's work am a cheat. De em- ployer who looks upon his workmn as a beast of burden am a tyrant. "Da hall question of Capital versus La- bor kin be aimnrerod down to this : Reason• able hours—fair ply --friendly arbltraehun on allpaints of dwputo. Dar am nuffia fur either side to lose by ooncedin—dar' am eberything fur boaf sides to gain by a hank an' mutual understandin'." NOT ADMITTED, Moral Necessity of Health. Life ; and to this, health is obviously ef and hapsuit pi- ness is- pensable. Usefulness is so essential to hap- piness that all good and enlightened men teach that the most useful life ie the hap- piest, and health is also obviously indispen- sable to the greatest usefulneaa. Morality is mantle' to ueefnlneas ; and while moral - hi tromotes it ue, though unnfortun t lytnot aos evid nt, or that health promotes morality ; for the laws of health are the laws of aatrrre'a God, and tic obedience to those laws i$ necessarily good ice morals, and such treatment of the body as will in no wIse diminish the fullness or vigor of its vitality ; that is, the capacity for use- is fulness is demanded by the highest morality. Health and morality are, then, to a great ex- tent interdependent, each one promoting the ether, Knowledge, as well as morality, is essential to usefulneaa. How dependent knowledge 1e upon health is made sufficient- ly obvious by the fact that however great a man's knowledge may be, he, if sickly, is less useful and happy than is an ignorant man who is healthy. Thus it seems that. knowledge, and morality, and ueefnlnesr, and happiness -the four great objects of life—are all dependent on health. Temperanoe in Canada, nr rn RIM W, S..IILAOKSTOCK, The object of thee paper ie, not to treat our readers to a, temiieranoe leeteret but to present aomo ,foots 01 the past witty of thie oountry whloli, le the present state of the temperance question, it is just as well for ue not to forget, If Canada ie today ono of the soberest countries in the world, as we are prod to think it is, time. was when it did not potsesa this enviable distinction, The ohmage which has taken plane am:ne us, even wtthfn the memory of living men, is one of the moat remarkable revolutions that has taken pl ee in meders society. Time woe, even in chip country, when a child could not be born, a chrietening, a marriage, or a burial decently take place without the help of intoxicating drink; and in many places seldom did an event of either of there kinds (nour without positive drunk, enamel. Indeed the common rhea of hoop'. 0 laity could not in those days be properly o for F F 9 t r marl p without u t the bottle. Elnri the �b hameycnd ha without it.m In come early $thelor was older ssettlei menta, persons making any pretentlona to repeatability generally laid in their supply of whiskey by the barrel. I Ind O it from the lips of the late Hiram s Swazy, Eeq,, of the Beaver Dams, near Thor. s old, that in the early part, of this century, a when swine's flesh was the prinolpal article of animal food among the farmers, their ch habit in that part of the country was to lay m in just as many barrels of whiskey as of to pork for the year's supply. av In those tomos it would not have been fa thought possible for a man to get a building put up, his grain harvested, his fat hogsand or cattle slaughtered, er almost anything out se of the ordinary way done, without such a pa plentiful supply of drink as to give all hands op the privilege of becoming drunk. And, to do the the people of those times justice, it must en be confessed that moat of them, so far as I tion have been able to learn, wore only too will- thin " to embrace the opportunity. It was Boo€ ly the timid and bashful sort that were wit °posed to live very much beneath their baa vilega in tine respect. Those fined entirely sober to the end of re exceptions to the general rul ncient" people among us whale en back to the "bees," and " rain first two or three decades of the recall atones which, in the prase civllizetfon and public sentiment are scarcely imaginable.- ne who were eye-witeases of nken orgies find it diffioult o to themselves the fact that such r did exist. On these ocoasions, n ces, there were, especially in the e, about as many women as men ge ether, and often the carousal we the greater part of the night. abou a done most cf the men were drunk, and says m afraid if the tame state of thtnga ex- a e ed now, some of the women would not whir considered sober, note eh so owny bank as the worst period in our to ersonal recollections do not dem tory so far as intemperance is concerned. and fore my day the Mothod-int itinerants— abaen "saddle -bag preachers," as they were etimes called—the real pioneers of G ilization, social reform, and evang n in the greater part of this con d not only commenced their labors d made their influence felt in every the country, Scarcely a spot eon nd where the wood•mau's axe o w -bell was heard, where such m ffy, and Lyon, and Neal ; as Losee nham, Ryan and Case, and a ho ere, who wore raised up chiefly tar air lnstramentaiity, had not found y. These were the original tempera evades of We country and the soci rich they planted all over the land e first—and, it may be added, the etive temperance organizations that ted either in thisior any other part o rld. One of the rules of these roc' ohibited, in thomost explicit and uneq 1 terms, "Drunkenness, buying and spirituous liquors, or drinking there in cases o/ extreme necessity," nd yet, though this agency was at w its lnflaenoe was extensively felt, e en I was a child, I can from perso lection bear testimony to almost every- prompt g that I have written. I know that one Dr, bo most powerful obstacles that these Therap 013 evangelists had to contend with was little bo intemperance which everywhere pre- ealicyla, ed. In the wake of the Methodist even- race, he at, buta couple ot generations behind ated wit Oa the temperance lecturer. First late of s re was the Temperance Society, which round t ply pledged its membera to abstinence next da `� Spirituous liquors," or " ardent peared is to, as f think it was expressed In the had rets ledge. The members of this organize had nut were at liberty to. drink wine and their pre so long as they abate/tied from afterwar, y and more fiery drinks. The no pr of this experiment was not antis - There was scarcely less drunken. of toilet an before, and the pitysieal effects such quaff and to be far more injurious. The thaw deo us stuff that was sold to. the people sitive ak€: e not only produced inebriety but the „ eNnet the persons indulging in it to such nighty t1 at that they did not recover fora elating t ten days from the effect of a night's . The beer, too, whether on account wn intoxicating qualities, or the for- prevelonc dmixture—the stick "—that was washing with d into it, proved itself a pretty ef- without p agent in producing drunkenness and fort, unloi g drunkards, to which was felt that if the movement WAS to such parse ed. and toe th reformation movement �_ of materia SCIENTIFId. Cold rain.wator and soap' china grew w will take outdmat here other.. mocha would not be advisable on 0.090 at of (More ninnies, etd. Te preserve and mount eon weed, plane it in a large bowl of water above a eitableu deed piece of glass, When it has expanded, lift them carefully out of the water on the glass, Arrange the aea-weed with the aid of a flee paint brush, lifting off s perf1aoue pieces, and spreading out those that lie too thickly, Press between sheets of blotting paper, The .lancet publishes an article givingan account of the succeeeful treatmenof ur• bunoulous diseases by the injection of the officinal solation of ammonia, Dr. Arendiue claims that it destroys the bacillaria in alt ;nant pustules, and is a specific in this lase of diseases, ase s As physicians havo found be carbuncle always dangerous, and almost cina the yreach of remedies, the suggestion may prove of great value to the profcesion nd to sufferers No healthy person need be too gout if my proper attention is paid to diet. Those o afiiioted should abstain from, or eat' very paringly ot potatoes, sugar, bread, butter, ad all fatty or atarchy kinds of food ; while, in the matter of drinks, milk and 000late aro to be avoided. A stout person ay partake freely of levan meat, green vege- blea, and fresh fruit. Nuts aro to be aided, as they are oily and therefore tteniag, To revent mental at, excessive indulgence not theeemotionsd; cond, frantic desultory efforts to aocom- elr in one hour an amount of mental work propriate to double that amount of time ; rd, every apeores of excess which expert, ce has proved leads to general oonstitu- al drain ; fourth, attempting to do two agls cne and the and other engagements which interfere hh the funotion of sleep ; sixth, indigeati- food. to of C t 0 The Use of Opium by Women. A New York paper says : Women more largely addicted Baa the use of op then men aro, Tni8 is true in the con as well as in the city. I have inqu of the apothecary on this subject, and haa told me that he keeps opium ready little packets for his women custom who take " en the the same reason that poor men geetdrnnk spirituous liquors. Trouble, care, the b dons of a hard lot in life lead or drive drink ; it first gives them a pleasing axh ration,, and than it drowns their thoughts the stupor of intoxication. Women era their full share of the troubles of life, So years ago I raw the report of an asylum the deranged which gave the accupations the pationis in confinement, More of the were farmer's wives than any other one el of pertons, They were young wives to Burdened with the cares of the honseho keeping no hired help, anxious:and amb Mous, they succumbed to the load. Belo losing their reason how much suffering the must have endured 1 Poor, weak, tire working when hardly able to drag them selves about,` oomplaining of a sense of goo nese that words will not describe they sin beneath the weight and go deranged;or the die. Stimulants are sought in the midst the struggle. Now itis opium, and now is strong drink, anything to keep up th spirits or drive away the spectres of harrow Ing care, The oountry store sappl ins the with eitheir the solid or the liquid medicin for their disease, and they take it 'with good conaclence because it eoems to afford a least a temporary relief. This is amen farmers in the oountry. And ladles in th city have even stronger temptations to thie vice. When all sorts of parties are going on, parties the very names of which aro nn- inteligible to the innocent ruralist, the ex- hausfion of life in town Is immense. To get dressed' for company is a draught on the system, A draught of something is often needed to supply tile drain. The round of fashlonablir visiting, late hours, hot roems,� rich suppers, thin dress and great exposure, reaction following excitement in theatre, opera and balls, ai1 these furnish as strong an inducement to take artificial di/intimate as the man of business ever has, Thus wo- men In the city are led into the habit •of drinking, sometimes . very privately, often without any. concealment from the family, Smooth. Bicyclist -1' What did you mean by tell. Ing me that the road was smooth wben it is nothing bat a stone quarry down there 1" Pennsylvania farmer ---0." Rooks n the road f Why, of cruise there was." Btoyollst�—" Why ; did you . not tell me, then 2" Pennsylvania fanner—ft Because , you didn't az me; If you had taken the rooks are tum ntry fired ho In ers, for on ur• to in ve mo for of m ass o, ld, re d, e-fr k of it e m e a t. g e who re - the day A. cement which is proof against even e, Tne boiling acids may be made by a composition emories of India rubber, tallow, lime, and red lead. ings" of The India rubber must first be melted by a oantury, gentle heat in benzine, and then six to eight int state per cent. by weight of tallow is added to tho anions mixture while it is kept well stirred ; the Indeed, next day slaked lime is applied, until the these fluid mass assumes a consistence similar to to re- that of soft paste ; lastly, twenty per cent. things of red lead is added, in order to make it many harden and dry. even- A writer on meteorology toys : " We thered know of no scroll thing as absolute cold," a kept He should have stood on a street corner Whess It t an hour a few days ago, He also tb.at " cold Is simply a negative, being omparetive absence of the positive, h is heat." We have fregwntly =tic that. When a man is freezing to h it must be a great comfort for him now that there ie no such thing as cold, that what ails him is a " oomparative co of the positive." me min for i to c an. Wh look his reel both Go wheaten bread should be well baked Mize- (not burnt), light, and spongy, the crumb ntry, being well permeated with little oavitiea. , but It should be thoroughly kneaded, of good the part taste, notite or bitter,bnot too moist. not When set Id the aside, the lower part should not become en Mame sodden, A four -pound loaf loses about one and ounce and a quarter n twenty-four hours, Bt of about five ounces in forty-eight hours, and lou h about seven ounces in sixty hours. This their loss will vary with the temperature, draughts nos of air, etc. sties Halle recommends the following appliea- wore tion in furuncle—Tannic acid, one part ; most powdered gum arable, one part; tincture of ever arnica flowers, two parte. This is to be f the painted over the boll and for a little distance reties around it, several coats being applied until ale- it forms a thick and firm covering. Halle sell- etatea that this mode of treatment quickly un- relieves the pain and dimiaishea the swell- ing. When taken in time, the boll disap- oak Fours without the formation of pus ; and, vee when this has already o0aurred, the appll- nal cation causes extrusion of the core and healing of the furuncle, ed a be it to 0 in f b 1i r a t to CaguoIl mentions in the Moniteur eutigue that, having as a patient a y .. with rheumatic I. _. .. had recourse to compreases satur- oda and covered with ollakin bound he most acuteiy flamed joint*. The y the pain and swelling had dieap. rned to them, while the joints which been no treatediremained exactly in vioua condition. These latter were out of the way, yon would have found that , the roan was smooth." 13icycillet can't see it, The Severn Tunnel teems te prove an expenalve luxury to the (heat Weatern Railway, The linexpeeted tapping of a untorereeit oetlay, and the opening will breve te• be postponed for at leest ehe natetlea mak earl sw la ta of toe not exceeding seventeen cents for travelling expense's and stationery. The reading of the following eptatle creat- ed much exaitement : ACADEMY CORNERS, PA. Some weeks ago I offered to become an honorary member of your asaociation and hicture on the "Structure of the Mule" for $13, Your President did not present my white wife, etc., which seems to he a viola- tion of your bealaws, No 500, I now wish it understood that will get there in opponi. tion to 13rother Gardner and all other ty. rants of hie color. I lave purchaied the influeace of mar yprominent members of the club, and the obnoxious by-law will Soon he repealed. ehael be in Detroit in a few days to arrange for delivering a lecture en- title I, d How to Dise o le of Colored Nerves," All inembera of the club except Brother Gardner will be admitted free. Several of the members jumped to their the Prebiderit waved them dOwn and '4 Pay no attenehun to de cernmunicitehun 93 disappieted candydates. When de Par- Giveadam ./enes trill probably Interview The meeting than adjourned. 1101h:wee in the immediete delivery e at evailing fault of a large proportion and fancy soaps is that they contain idedly Injurious to tender and sem educated up" to the point of appro. he magnitude of thio evil, yet most hese ekine are extremely senaltive perience, this winter, or durieg the e of easterly winds, that fraqueet roduoirm much personal dime/n- experience has guided them, Many la like oatmeal, and powders which tWn alkaline midterm find by ex persona w to be really effected, everything intoxicating must be Placed underthe ban. The result was the formation of the Total Abstinence Society. With tho organizetion of this so- ciety in Canada, about Bixty years ago, the The Re oharaoteri Methodist Societies, tney be said to have ee, he ev, had its beginning. Even the General Rules money of Wealey's "United Societies " did not go „Gado are B though they prohibited the MB of spirituous what 00 ea Sam Jones on Money. v. Sam Jones, whatever his other oney. If he is correctly report- : " I have no use whatever for have all the money I want. My upplied bountifully. My family able and happy, and I can't ree rth I would do with money if I couple of hundred dollars in the abundance, and ia all I have. a man haa plenty for hie wife n and himself ho ought to be I don't think the Lord sent the world te make money so far as this particular orgonization, for is comfort liquor and all sorts of extras, they did not had forbid the use of vinous, and fermented bug is att liquors ; betides they were only binding upon Ae gine as acteal members of the Methodiat Church, and abode° Renee, aa important cense, the struggle continited, which exist among as to•day may be Bald t have fairly cc:romanced with the formation of the Total Abstinence Society. which has resulted in the state of things- me out int but He did do geed. A my life la i on which, w to keep int want to 18B account the no good, What greater thieg is there for two human souls then to feel that they are jeined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rot in eaoh other In all sorrow to mirth - tor to eat& other In all paitt, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memoriam at the laat petting Sarah Bernherdt hen thrown up her part in self to the study of the role of Ophelfa for the forthoonaleg representation of "Hamlet" at the Porte St, lifattita, It wee with tome relectatiee that sim endertook the part, the ease, fearing thee the 'wan hardly youthful enough te do thorough juetice to Shaken- poer'n heroine, Howevei., the reflected teat e stress only about the same ego as Alias Teta n er template gave way, send me cut into the world to a far as rhy wife is concerned, named for e12,000, the intereet hen I am gone, will be enough ; and as for my children, I don't ve them tin If they are of any y won't need it if they aro money would be a aurae to ton tnatt sleep on a Spring bed in Purchase riot friends by gifts ; when then °Gazed to give, eueli will eeate to Irene Paris is wild vvith erithnslasm oVer the playing of Herr It is im. poesiblo get seats at the galls Bratd, though the theifortn price is no ide thee $4, It anhouneeol that the great violinist Will engage at the Matelot Theater, where there Are more than 3,000 tle4to. CAST OF ET THE SEA. Tail R1 alaitixesl.lAnvzavztas o>r e $oo?;aa WoarIN. That Elizabeth Maud Mount, who was recently blown from Shetland to the sorest of Norway, in the „Columbine," should have lived to tell the etoryof her extraordinary adventure is little short of the miraculous, In this heroine of real life fiction is again outdone byfact . � and for years to c>nee the tieing generation of ShetIandera will thrill with the rooita1 cf , emser a be 0o, the compositor earns $2,10 pear for , $12,60 per week, ana $630 per his enormous labor and median - 'cal exertion, not taking into eonaider- ation the menta' manure he hoe to suer tain. , Seppoeing he has to w his plaoe of employmentalk dal£ a mile to for dinner, and goes home he centime two reales per day, i2 per week, and 600 per year, in ad- dition to his other labor, and fowhich he reoeivea no compensation in th of mileage. a shape ser ruarvelous voyage, Elizabeth Monab +•�.--any. lir unin:arried, an ?tag resided to a miserable hut, where the burns in the middles of the mud smoke finding an uneasy exit th boles in the roof, In this die away i n the hill ebbe he is 7 said to h Mined a lofty independence, b able cs to provide her parkas knitting Shetland wool ahawis. Her one book was the Bible, and she wag conscious of only cne presence—that of the Lord. Though living in obscurity, notoriety has been thrust upon her by repeated misfortunes. Some years eines a cart ran over the poor woman's foot rendering hor a life-long cripple. On another oc- oaeion she was well-nigh drowned. Yet again her head just appearing above the rising ground, she was taken for a rabbit and tired at by a sportsman, the shots being still in her head. From these hair breadth escapes she Dame to be known as the Witch ot Dueronsnese, there being a prevailing superstition that "she could ne be kilt," A month since, at the age( of sixty, this frail woman—for she was an invalid --embarked in the "Columbine." intending bo vielt her niece ab Lerwick. She was the only passenger, and being seasick, remained in the cabin. Hearing a noise overhead, and findlrg the vessel stop, she imagined they had struck a rook being ignorant of the fact that the cap- tain had been washed overboard, and that the two men forming the crew had set out in a boat to rescue him. She beard the men row on, and thinking they had deserted the wreck, and abandoned the solitary passenger to her fate, she made for the deck. in her hurry; how- ever, the ladder fen, and she was unable to replace it. The wind blew up driving the 'Columbine" before it, leaving the two men to make for the shore, four miles distant. The poor woman was able to raise her head above the open hatchway of the cabin. The firat night was a terrible one, the vessel rolling heavily. I1 was very dark and bitterly cold Kith the sea washing down the hatch way and keeping her drenched to the akin. The only provisions she carried were two biscuits and a bottle of milk, and though a week's rations were in the forecastle, she was unable to leave her prlson-cham- ber to avail herself of it. When morning broke no land was to ba seen, and not even a distant sail. The sea was still rough, but the poor woman's hope began to revive seeing that the veaseI had air. vlved that fearful night. From this time, she tells us, she never despaired, but put her trust in God, fully assured that He would rescue her, For seven days and nights she never slept, ever an anon atandi ng up and peering ont of the open- ing to see if tumor was at hand. Her two biscuits and bottle of milk were made to eke oat as long long as possible, but the lash four days she was entirely with- out food. She appears to have suffered more from the wet and thirst than from hunger. Her thirst she slaked by lick- ing the drops which condensed on the windows. She became very weak and her iegs swelled, which rendered it difh;alt for her to stand up and keep a look out. With extraordinary presence of mind and indomitable perseverance she Iaahed herself close up to the open hatchways. After drifting in various directions for nine days and nights, the vessel in the darkness, grounded on the Norwegian coast. When daylight return- ed she called to some fisherlada on the shore, and one of them waded through the boiling surf, fastened a rope round the half'nsensible woman, and she was hauled to land. Borne to a house she was well cared for. When sufficiently recovered she was removed to the abode of an Englishman ; and in the course of a few days, unitise a brighter fnture awaits her, thanks to Cb.ristlan charity, she will, return to her miserable hut away among the Shetland hills. Letters written from Norway state that the "Columbine," to reach the shore, had to thread its way through a network of rocks which no helmsman, ever so familiar with the lo- cality, could have sucoeeded in doing in the darkness. What is still more mar- velous, the frail vessel seems to have picked ont the only place on which she could have beached, and only held to. wether ojt at long enough for Efizibeth Monet to be brought away. T t° E" HAPPY COMPOSITOR. for years Story of a l Jormola, peat fire 1 flint the We have a neighbor in Salt 'Lake City rough the who was no rerutas in the performance of mal abode his reltgloua duties that he lived for a do L en years a a or Dmore ave y wit main- Then a remarkably h only one wife, eing just y pre y servant girl was meal" by introduced into the hens s2lold and before long Brother r e FC W— s ooG! s ante began to acouso him. He saw that he was in a low spiritual state ; that he had been liv- ing for this world only, ana load almost lost sight of the thrones and kingdoms promised to the saint who espouses many wives and brings up his sons to follow in his footsteps. Ho felt that bis eoul was in danger, and that he must begin to live up to hie covenants if he would save him- self and his household. Accordingly he summoned his wife to a private confer- ence, and Iaid the matter before her, con- cluding his remarks as follows : " In nborb, I see clearly that it is ray duty to marry Lizzie, and as soon as you can get ready to go to the Endowment House with ns, we will have the ceremony per- formed." BY ONE Or THEM, Some people have a very shallow con- ception of wbat the work of a compoeitor in a priuting cffine condole of, and imagine that it is a very easy bnainese—very often expreasing astonishment to eee strong and able-bodied men doing the work, thinking that it is only play and no work for men, Very true ; it appears very easy, and one would almost conclude that a child would be able to accomplish it, providing it had the educational qnalificatione required in a good compositor. Irt order to undeoleve the pub/10 the writer of thie, a member of the craft, hes made a careful calculation of aome of the work such a man haa to preform, not on the basis of night, but day wotk, ulna lig. naming the mental drein utider which b.e is constantly placed. Calculating the average of a man's work to bo 7000 eine per day, he sets and correda 42,000 per week, or 2 100,000 per year (making the year to comprise fifty weeks of steady work, and so allowing two weeks for holi- days and lot time). On an average he makes three motions In the setting of every "ern," which amounts to 2100 per hour, 21,000 per day, 126,000 per week, and 6,800,000 per year. In distribution the average of two motions to the em may be allowed, which wonld be, accord- ing to the amount he set, 1400 per hour, 14,000 per day, 84,000 per week, and 4,200 000 per year, or a MAW of 10,500-, 000 movements for disbrubution and noth- ing, Allowing the price paid per I000 Now it happened that the wife was one of thoae weak women whose world is bounded by the four walls of home and whose hearts are wholly filled withilove for husband and children ; consequently, instead of rejoicing in this opportunity of enlarging the family circle and responding " I am ready," she fell to the floor in a swoon, that was like death. For many weeks afterwards oho lay on a sick bed, and her huabend, after waiting until hie patience was •exhaunted for her to get up and attend tifia wedding, WBB forced to allnw it to proceed without her. The new bride ws not Inatalled in the house, however, until after the first 'wife was restored to health. Then she took her proper place in the laxity, but some- how the two woraen did nob harnaothe, and their diflerences finally culminated in open war. Naturally this state of thinge was very distressing to the husband, and he maale up his mind to put an end to do mastic strife at any amt. So one day when the aeoond. wife attacked her pre- decessor with the carvIng-knife, he Inter- fered and took away the weapon, saying that he vies capable of diacIplining hie family himself. This heAteance proceed- ed to do by giving the olTen)ding firat wife a Bever° whipping, and when she pretreated that he was killing her he said : "I am determined to live my religion, if it kills the whole the family." Now the question to be coneldered is this : After a man has made so many sac- rifices in order that he might live his re- ligion, and obey the dictates of conacienee ought he to be sent to prison for doing so? The man I have mentioned is at present liable to a fine of $300 fine and six menthe, imprisonment, not for -al ploygamous marriage for preosecutiont that offence is barred' by the Stattzte of Limitation, but for centinuing his polyeamons rela- tions since the new hew went into effect'. Street Scenes in. Naples. The street scenes of Naples are a atudy in themselves, and would entertain a tro- ve 1er for days even if he never entered a building. The curious garbs of the ecclesiastics, who seem to form a large proportion of the inhabitants, the grco teaque appearance of the street venders, with their wares piled up above their heads, end hanging to all parte of their bodies, the brilliant dreates of the clam women, and the fantaetia costumes of the beggara, who aro pictureeqae in their very nakedness, give variety to the scene. The cathemeat /ran, -with his viande atrung on a long pole, from which ho detachee a piece anal carvee it with hie knife for each of his four -footed clients, la a most extraordinary sight The public scribe, protected from the rays of the nun by an umbrella, as he Bits at a table inclit- damael as beautiful as she ie illiterate is useful as well ae picturesque. Anotlier remarkable personage is the cigar scaven. ger, who at night goes about with him lantern hunting for old stumps, which he sells to znanufactnrers to be converted into the filling for fresh cigars. To these may be added the zampognari or bagpipers and a host of other curlew. charectore ranging anywhere from a cardinal, attired in crimson and riding in a gilded coach, to a baby, bound up, after the manner of Neapolitan babies, in the drafted of swaddling -clothes, and looking more illee a roll of linen just como from a draper's shop than a human being. ho advent of tho xampognif, alwaye herelds the approach or more important Chttrch featly Naplets S of tile They mime from their distant homes in the mountable of tlao Abruzzi to Naples and the surrounding towns to celebrate the' Immaculate Conception. and the advent of Ohristmae, Wearing pointed fele hats, wrapped In long brown cloaks, tmder which occasionally appeare goat-ekin jacket adorned with large metal buttons, their legs encased in tight -fitting breechee an far res the knee, and aheir feet adorned aboub tl, e Ankle and calf, they are most plc. pognari go trona lone° to house, Bulging and playing before the little gilded Im- ages of the Virgba and the Child, and stopping before the street shrines, where they repeat their monotonous song. On Christmati Ere, when there is a spirit of liberality abroad, tbe sampognaro usually receives a large number of coppers and ars Much in the way of food and aril* se bin' stomach can accommcdate. When the festival la over they return tes their inourit, sin hooter', there te pose their time ati laborers or shopherde, until the next occurs. The bagpipers of the Abruzzi frequently act BB rziodtlo,,thelepieturetquo costume adapting itself readily to artistie Oyttera have a language of theft owe,