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HEALTH.
Cheerfulness,
T We are not going to write re homily on
Oatmeal. °
Some prejudice bas existed again, th
excellent grain food, on the ground that
is productive of skin diseases, a notio
which is wholly without foundation, as wi
be seen from the followingparagraphs fro
the pen of Mimeo 0. Whit; M. D., Profetoo
of Skin Diseases in the medical departmen
rof Harvard University
:—
" Oatmeal forms an essential part of th
breakfast of a large proportion of the inhab
state of the northern United States en
-Canada. For this purpose, it ie raised here
in quantities, and is also imported from
Scotland. It is eaten in the form of porridge
andoakes chiefly, with the addition of milk,
cream, sugar, molaaeeo or butter,
It is commonly believed to be ' heating,'
to be the cause of eruptions, and is often ab-
stained from under this fear, by those who
bavicekin diaesees. Is their any foundation
for this belief ?—I know none. It is eaten
by vast nun -hero of people from infancy, who
never exhibit the slightest diaturbance of the
skin ; and the cutaneous affections, in the
oauoation of which it is so often regarded as
a probable factor, are those of the moat
common occurrence among all classes and
races, including those who never use it.
"I have for years sought for an explana-
tion of this prejudice among ety patients
who entertain it, but I have to no instance
-found a reason why any individual should
bold it. I have repeatedly looked for some
effect in removing it from, and adding it to,
the diet of patients having affections which
11 is aupposed to influence; but I have
never seen the slightest ill result from its
free nae. I believe it to be entirely harm-
less in itself. Of its supposed value above
other cereals in the dietary table, it is un-
necessary to speak."
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is est and most invaluable fireside virtues.
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n enough to aoknowledge that It is hie duty
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TH +' BRUSSELS POST.
LEA HO
LEAVING 'PRE OSE ALONE,
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The Interceliug Experience of a London
Caretaker an q encode Thies,
There is a oleo of old, or oldish, women
in London who make a profeeeion of taking
charge of houses during the absence of their
and her duty to make efforts at any rate in proprietors, Mrs. Bloggine, the ocoaeional
the direction of prevailing cheerfulness. It charwoman, Is one of this clues, and is
is hard, of coarse, t0 be cheerful et all times, always et call, being only too glad to give
and much harder for someoonetitutiono than up her two or three days a week °haring for
for others, lmpoeeible indeed and unnoaee• the certaiutieo of a "house to mind," which
eery at certain tunes, Resignation, and not cot any rate, is good for bed and board and
cheerfulness, is the only proper attitude of bring, and slow weekly shillings to boot,
mind under certain errcumatnnoee. But But, though Mra. Bloggina has seen so much
there are many occurrences in life in which
anything as solemn as reeit*nation would be
quite out of plaoe, but in which, neverthe-
lest, ft takes no little Effort for most of us to
be cheerful. And yet it le worth the effort,
like other gime things. An inateaeed self.
respect will not be the least pleasant result
of conscientious endeavors at this formol self-
control. And then, too, we will find part of
our reward in the consciousness of increased
friendliness on the part of our associates.
Tho cheerful man or woman who clan forget
his own worries and help others to forget
theirs for a time can hardly help being
popular, Mere " Obippernese,' however, is
not the same as true cheerfulneee, but is at
boat a rather poor pinchbeck veneered imi.
Melon, Nor is there any necessity for a
cheerful person being at all boisterous. The
toad gufluwe may speak of a vulgarity of
soul and may be evidence of a certain sort
of hilarious oontentment, perhaps, which is
not altogether unpleaaing, but it would be
a great mistake to suppose that such is the
only, much less the highest form of cheerful-
ness. It has been well said, too, that he who
is of a cheerful spirit will be cheerful amid
all hie privations, It is comparatively easy
to be cheerful when everything is going well
with us. When digestion and reepiration
and everything else of that kind is satisfac-
tory, when business is good, and the children
all well, cheerfulness is almost as easy as
breathing, It ie quite true at the same
time that he who is of a complaining spirit
will never want excuses for indulging himself
It is not one's possession or surroundings so
much as one's way of looking at these
things that settles the question of his cheer-
fuluess.
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° Relishes,
A relish is something eaten with food to
render 'Ern .re appetizing, or to quicken a dull
appetite. There are certain articles, which,
without soma such addition, as salt, for in-
stance, are tasteless—sometimes even nem
seating. But it is not customary to apply
the term relish to salt, or to any other
ertiole when it is employed simply to "sea-
son " food.
The relishes are of two °lessee. First,
those which depend mainly on one or more
piquant substances, such as pepper, mes-
terei, ginger, horseradish, vinegar, cinna-
mon and the various apices. These are coo•
biped with some. one or more—generally
with several—of the following:vegetables as
a base ; tomatoes, usually green, onions,
cabbage, cucumbers, pears, peaches, cur-
rants, berries, grapes.
Secondly, those which depend mainly on
sugar, combined with the juices of various
fruits, or with the pulp, as in the oaae of
marmalade.
New the question arises, are these and
obbnilar relishes conductive to health?
A normal, vigorous appetite needs no such
aid. It ie sufficient of itself, The lower
animals need nothing of the kind. The
cow's green grass, the horae's dry hay, and
the dog's bone with a little meat on it, are
donbtleas eaten with a relish that our nam
pered stomachs know little of.
Socrates told his rich Athenian auditors
that he got more real enjoyment out of his
dry cruet than they did from the luxuries
with which they tinkled their palates. The
old Latin assertion, "optimum condimentunt
fames," is only the Baying of Socrates con-
ciaelyf expressed—the best sante is a good
appetite.
Unfortunately, all people have not high
health. Some are in a feeble condition, with
little or no appetite, and yet their recovery
depends mainly on the food they take. In
all each cane some simple relish is nit
merely greatly desirable, it ie necessary.
Many persona, in this driving age, come
to their meale with little appetite. A sem
sfble appetite quickens and increases the
gastrio secretions. In such casae, therefore,
some piquant relish is really helpful. Pro -
1 ably even the strongest is not injurious, if
used with moderation; but relishes are
greatly pernicious if used to encourage
overeating, or to cause one to eat when the
stomach is already exhausted from previous
repletion. —
How to Peed a Sick Person.
In serious illness, especially' intestinal
troubles, the sufferer must rely chiefly, if
not entirely, upon milk, brake], gruels, or
what our English colleagues term "slops,"
to sustain his strength. It is very imi octant
that the nurse should know how to give tech
nutriment as skilfully as possible to avoid
nntteoeseary fatigue to the patient. The et -
moat care in the preparation of the food will
be thrown away if the invalid aan not be in-
duced to take enough of it to nourish him
properly, and the nurse fails in the first duty
who does not devise means by which this
shall he accomplished. When the head can
not be raised from the pillow a bent glace
tube can be used to draw the fluid into the
mouth. If the end is raised a little as it is
removed, nota drop need be spilled, Where
there is delirium a piece of pure rubber tub.
Mg may be substituted for this glass, as the
sufferer might break the tubo sad swallow
a fragment of it, Feeding Dupe of different
shapes are sold by druggiaba with and with-
out spouts. In neing them one should bo
careful to regulate the flow of liduid, that it
does not come too fast. When 1110 necessary
to feed with a spoon, see that there is not a
drop on the bottom of it, put it well in the
mouth, and empty the contents [slowly. Al-
ways place a napkin under the patient'e ohin
to aetah chance drops, and dry the lips gen-
tly with it after the food it given, When
the invalid is stronger and desires' to drink
front the cup, the nurse should pate her left
hand under the pillow and raise the head
and hold it at a comfortable angle, while
with her right she grasps the cup, adjusting
it so the liquid will flow eaaily but not too
fest,
In feeding a helpless patient with solid
food, it should be out into mouthfuls of a
convenient size and fed slowly, ample time
being allowed forit to be masticated and
swallowed with ease before offering the next.
Nothing is more likely to take away the ap-
petite of a weak Iverson than to be hurried
in eating, and this eopeoially if the food is
much relished. In this way, too, the patient
is not likely to take more than the stomach
man bear well,
An Object of Compassion.
"My dear," said a lady, who was sitting
sn hoe front stoop, "do you notioe that
poor man coming up the street 2"
"Yes," wee the reply.
"Hew Iity such people," she went on,
gentle'. "Thele life must be hard, indeed.
Insuffloient food and olothing, no money to
buy even the simplest necessaries of—"
Just then, the wretched object of her Dom
pasoion vociferated;
r' Pay dash alo' I"
None more impatiently eager injuries than
those who aro always more forward its doing
Sem,
Mrs. President Cleveland,
The more one hears of Mra. President
Cleveland, the better one likes her. She ap•
of the world, she has, unfortunately failed
to fathom its illusions, and is not quite e
sharp enough guardian to property in these
evil days,
Last Autumn Mr Servawrit, the lawyer,
migrated with his family to the seaside, Team
Mg Mrs. Bloggine in highlysatisfied poems -
aim of his handsome residence, with nothing
for the old dance to debut to anewer calls and
forward letters. A11 went well for a time;
but one fine morning oomee a thundering rat -
tat -tab at the door, announcing the arrival of
a magnificently dressed gentleman in patent
leathers and lavender kid gloves, hat with
haste and urgency, to consult with Mr. Sarva.
writ on business of momentoue import. "Not
at home, my good woman 7 Nonsense I I tell
you 1 must see him 1" "1 bog your honour's
parding, I'm cure, sir; but all the family is
agone into the country," " Dear meI dear
me I Tell me where will a letter reach him?''
This here's the plane, sir "—handing him a
card with the seasideaddreee, "Imuetwrite
to him this instant. Show me where I can
write—not a moment must be lost. Quick,
mygood•womanI quick, for goodness' sake I"
"Thio way, if you please, sir ;" and Mrs
Bloggine shows the gorgeous stranger into
the back dining -room and seats him at Mra.
Servawrit's handsome devonport, where are
abundant writing materials ; and, to show her
manners, there she leaves him to transect his
correspoudence.
If she oould have seen how effectually
with a small implement produced from his
vest pocket be fastened the door after her
and how deftly he opened, cleared out and
reolosod the cheffourer containing the plate,
stowing the latter in hie legion of pockets,
she would have swooned away on the spot.
Next he writes a nota, lets himself out into
the hall, hands the note and a shilling (a
counterfeit) to the dame, exacts a promise
that she will poet the missive right away
ears to be a thoroughly sensible, level and grandly stalks away. Mr. Servawrit
P g ygets the importantletter next day
headed, warmhearted American girl, who "DEAR ere :" it rune, '°I can but eompli-
would have filled any other station in life meat you on the good taste you have shown
in the same simple, unaffected way, that in the selection of your pinto. I was always
she is filling her present one. One of her partial to the fiddle patterned articles, and
many virtues, is that she can stick by her when elegantly chased, as yours are, they
friends of other days when she was merely
one amongst tens of thousands of other
Amerioan girls, and without thought that
she would ever be called on to be Mistress
of the White House. One of the latest
stories circulated to iter credit, is that ehe
has given some snobbish circles of Washing -
Society a much-needed lesson in every day (they were, mine they are),
Christianity. It appears that a Mies Wil- "Gox'Era."
lard, a schoolmate and special friend of Mrs. And thus, adding insult to injury, was
Cleveland's, had paid a visit to the White Mr. Servawrit enlightens d as to the hazards
House last winter, when of course the was leaving home,
gladly admitted as a friend of the Presi-
dent's wife to whatever was most select in
the way of social festivity. Recently, how-
ever, she has again come to Washington
but in a much humbler condition to the
world's eye. She is now a governess
in a young ladies' school there, neither more
nor less than a young woman receiving pay
for doing honest and needful work in this
world. This, however, in the oyes of"Society"
was enough to anther out from the sunlight
of their countenance, but they all waited,
nevertheless, to take their one from the
Preeident's wife, This ohe has given them
in a way that every lover of good woman-
hood rejoices at. She has continued to treat
her old friend in exactly the same way as
she has always done, and the ladies of Wash-
ington Society have been given to understand
that Miss Willard, governess, will be received
at the White House as in all respects their
social equal, The cliques are said to have fait
aggrieved at this action on Mra. Cleveland's
part, and to have dieouaeed the matter very
unfavourably. One can readily imagine the
condition of disgust into which some of these
tabbies, both old and young, would be thrown
when they heard the news. How many a
nose sniff of ineffable disdain would there
be that the first lady of the land should treat
a mere wage-earner as if she were as good
as the best of them. Ah, poor soon brained
society, of all thy many aillinesaee the worst
is thy struggle to maintain what thou
deemest the necessary eoeial barriers be-
tween man and hie fellows.
are doubly welcome. The fish slices and
the gravy spoons are substantial and to my
liking. The toddy ladles are really unique.
1 approve also of the spade guinea at the
bottom of the punch bowl, which last named
article 1 shell preserve in remembrance of
my brief sojourn under your roof. Yours
Women as homesteaders.
It is very common to find a lone and un-
protected female "holding down a claim,"
as the Western phrase runs. The women
of the East would look aghast at the pro-
spect of living alone in a sod house for six
months, miles from the nearest neighbor,
Yet experience proves that the "unpro-
tected" is much meet out on the lonely
prairie than she would be in Hew York City.
I never heard or road of a woman on a
homestead receiving an insult at the halide
of anybody. To be sure, they are always
armed, and know how to handle a pistol,
but they rarely have a more deadly use for
it than the killing of a jaok-rabbit or a
prairie -dog. Some women complain more
of loneliness than of fear, For whatever
charms solitude may have for the sage, it
certainly has none for the fair se; not
even for our hardy Western represent.
ativee of it. Here is one of their ingeni•
nus devicee ; Two of them locate on
on adjoining "quarters," and build their
houses on the dividing line; so that while
mob house is on its ocoupant'o claim, the
two structures are practically ono, affording
frequeut opportunities for the ladies to call
on each other and discuss social topics.
They ate all provided withponies, and thick
nothing of a hotsebaok rode of fifteen or
twenty miles, either for business or plea.
sure,
A New Cure for Ri000ngh.
The followin
n des i '
g or tion of a new cure
p.
for hiccough, published by the "Pkat•
maoeutiaal journal" is not so lucid as it
might be, but perhaps some of our readers
will get 8 sufficiently clear idea of the
method, to he induced to make a trial of
itt—
"Procure a glass of watert and pour a
little of it down the patient's throat. While
he le drinking the water, he should press a
finger on the ori$oe of each ear, By this
method you oven the giottls, and in five
seconds the thong ie done. Should you by
any ohanoe meet with an obstinate ease, you
may rest assured that the throat end ears
were not closed at the same time; either
the water was swallowed before the ears
were thoroughly stopped, or the water was
not sufficient to fill the throat. Another
prooaution is to keep the shin well up.
hie cure wait obtained by the writer from
an old Indian medioal °!hoer, who had or.
perimentod Nr some yeato to discover a
method of relieving the terrible stage of,
hietenghingin yellow fever, and this mire
WO the outcome,"
The Doings of Royalty.
It may interest those who care about the
doings of the world s present day Kings,
both the crowned, the uncrowned and the
discrowned varieties, to know that the fol-
lowing may be taken as the latest and toler-
ably accurate information. To begin with
our beloved sovereign—Queen Victoria is
living quietly at home just now, in what
particular palace or castle report does not
say. The likelihoods stand in favour of
either Windsor or Buckingham, and prob-
ably the time is spent between the two, She
is said to be feeling rather badly over the
alleged ill-treatment received by her august
daughter the Dowager Empreas of Germany
at the band& of her late subjeots, and to be
meditating a maternal visit in the autumn
to Baden-Baden to spend three weeks there
with her widowed daughter. This daugh-
ter's son—unnatural eon ma many, probably
misinformed people, prefer to call him—is
touring through Eu,ope exchanging kisses
of friendship with other regal dignitaries and
gratifying his taste for military display.
Just what the Czar of the Busies is doing
in a metal way does not appear, but politi-
cally he ie badgering the Turkish Sultan
for payment of the war indemnity which is
long since due and still unpaid. France of
couree haen't got a king, but Prince Victor-,
the Napoleonic heir, who is always waiting
for the turn of Fortune's wheel that is to seat
him on an imperial chair, has been iesuing
from Brussels:a manifesto in the shape of e,
birthday greeting. Prince Ferdinand is do-
ing nothing in particular but waiting for the
sentence of dethronement which threatens
him. The King of Greece is on his
travels to St. Petersburg, but inaog.
The ex.Queen of Servia, the unfortun-
ate Natalie, so roughly the
of her
boy, is wandering about Europe, and was
last heard of at Hague. Her recent husband
is said to be quite ill, dying doubtless of a
bad conscience and the abuse he le eub-
jeoted to, The King of Italy is enjoying
himself at Menza, while Spain's baby sever.
eign is sea bathing at San Sebastian, in the
care of the Queen Regent. King Charles of
Roumania is busy fishing, while his wife,
" Carmen Sylvia, the only genius among
them, le writing poetry.
Foreign Trade of Great Britain,
The returns of the foreign trade of the
United Kingdom for the first six months of
the current year have come to hand, and
the story which they tell is well worth not.
ing. The figures show a large and pervasive
increase, in the values handled, and as
prices on the average remain at loot year's
level, this fnoroase in values means a aorres-
ponding expansion in the volume of bueiuess.
As England, by liberal views of trading, has
Made herself the centre of the oommeroial
exchanges of all nations, the growth of her
foreign business may be accepted as indicat-
ing a pretty general enlargement in the trade
f thea the figures' for the
o cell. Here are
w
first atheyear n comparison
six months ofti
t
with the amouttte for he oorresponding
period in 1857. We turn Engiieh into Ce
nmdlan money at the usual computing rate'
of five dollars to the pound sterling
aaTTtnn 80100108 'MMABrr.
First six months First six months
0(1888, of 1887,
'Imports of mar hat
ohandts6 ,,,.,,,, 8048,648,525
bxporto
British goods $508,880,725
Forolgtmrt and colo
nlal goods 160,870,100
Total experts... „ 8728,768,015
$804,825,450
0521,476,705
150,700,460
$02,875,040
Glad.$1,072,414,466 $1,806,011,785
FtxdOBo o1 �lmpo,84
over exports 6224,882,020 6222,000,862
By the new salute in the Frenoh army,
eoldiere touch the hair with the hod revers•
ed, showing the palm, and the officers touch
the brim of the kepi,
There were 90,621 paupers, besides lune -
tilos and vagrants, in the 3,815 000 inhabit•
ants of London in the drat 'week of July,
AUG. 24, 1888.
TRIED AND TRUE. I The Modern Newspaper.
{ Mr, Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
A story of the Emden Pad of 'aU, York Sun, made a oapital speech ab Milwaukee
the other day bofore the Wieconsin Edirorlal
From the moment Owen Gilbert, had Aseooiation. Hie eubjeot wee the 3larlorn
dropped upon the field with a miserable � Newspaper, and if anyone has a good right
knowledge that be had fired hie last allot at to speak 00 that eubjeot ft is Mr, Dan,,
the enemy, while yet there was need of his He is among the oldest of American aditore,
a real veteran in fact, his memory going
bank, as ho tolyl his hearers, between for.
y an by years to the time when be
right arae in Ilia country's service, ho had
kuowu nothing until he opened his eyes
upon tiro white walls of the neat lfttlo nob- t d fif ! h
tags that hal been fmgrovieed as a hospital, printed a weekly paper on a band
lying week as any child upon hie pillow, and press and thought he did a big thing
feeling perfect indifference to the past, the
present, and the future.
Some one offered Trim a drink, and in-
stinctively ho tried to take the cup with hie
right hand ; then he cried ae we do cry in
our extremity : " 05, my God I" Ho could
have borne tne loss of one arm calmly, but
both—no words could expreae his agony,
After that one cry he said nothing, but
lay perfectly quiet, thinking what should he many other excellent things which we should
do—how 000upy the wretched time before be glad to reproduce ware there time,
hien. How could he learn to de without He referred, for iuebane°, to the kind of men
that aro needed for great newspapers now•
adaye, In the Statoe people have got fairly
wall educated on this point by this time
—intelligent people at any rate. But in
Canada it is to be feared we are far behind,
There is an impreasiou here that almost any-
body will do for an editor, and that news-
paper work is almost something to be asham-
ed of, something not quite respectable and
needing to be apologized for if one making a
living in that way happens to finds himself
among respectable people. To be a doctor,
or a lawyer, or a minlamr, or an engineer, a
successful merchant or an influential banker
is to the majority of our people looked
upon as the only occupations to whioh
any young man with parts and ambitions
has any business to turn his eyes for a mo-
ment, But for journalism—faugh, the thing
is not to be thought of, A beggarly bust.
nese at best it is considered. As a last re.
source it may do, but that any ntau should
voluntarily adopt i5 as life worlt, who am
get anything better, or 10 fit for anything
better, is looked upon as absurd. This anti -
emitted idea, as we have said, is rapidly
becoming exploded among our neighbouro.
Of course they are muoh wealthier than we
are, and their metropolitan papers acro of a
magnitude before which the beet of ours
pall into comparative inignifioanoe. Con-
sequently the tendency is naturally towards
the employment of a higher type of aver-
age mind on their papers than on ours
as yet, Tho salaries aro higher and the
soots' consideration less grudging. But the
press of Canada, too, is rapidly rising in im-
portance. Newspaper men now occupy a
better position socially than they did
twenty-five years ago, or even ten years ago,
This is largely due to the fact that the re-
quirements of the work are more exacting
now, and a higher style of man is called for.
He must be more highly educated, more
reliable, of better morale, better taste, bet-
ter social position, in every way a sounder
specimen of humanity than was needed for
the humbler duties of past years, And this
will become more and more the case, As
Mr. Dana pointed out, it 10 hardly possible
to exaggerate the power of lila press, and
as the years plea it becomes more and more
necessary that trained intelligence of a high
order should shoulder the honour and the
responsibility of guiding thin power. The
old-time Bohemian newspaper man will aeon
be as extinct es the dude. And he can't go
too fast, Newspaper work combines the
Madness and the profession in a way that no
other oeoupation does and to do ice work
to the very beet advantage it must make
Itself respectable in order to be reepeoted,
when he ran off he hundred copies in a
day, Truly things have been revolutionized
sinao that time, In no department of humero
effort has the last half century seen ouch
dazzling, almoatgbewildering, aclvanoo as has
been seen in everything pertaining to the
newspaper, As Mr, Dana very truly said
genius has won no prouder triumphs then
in the field of journalism. The speaker said
his hands ? How should he learn to do
without what was dearer to hint than his
limbs or his eyesight, or hie life itself at its
brighteet, the sweet hope of making Nellie
Home the partner of his life? Now he
could marry no one; now he should never
have a fireside where a sweet face should
welcome him, any more than he should ever
go baolt again to work on the dear old farm,
She would pity him, of course ; but he should
the her marry some one else, or hear of it,
for he could not bear to look Tato hereyee if
they did not wear the look of the olden
time—the tweet, sweet courting time.
Some one—the woman whose faoe was
nearly hidden in hood and kerchief, perhaps
—had put a cup with violoto in it on the
table near his bed. He hardly knew whe-
ther they most pained or pleased hitt. They
awakened such sweet memories and euoh
bitter regrets. He had murahed away to
the front with the first that had bloomed that
year, in his button hole, the day he left Nei.
110.
' God send you bank to me i" she had
said ; and he knew she loved him. But no
man could fancy a girl bound to a helpless
fellow like him beoause she had promised
herself to a man able and willing to protect
and cherish her. " But I love her all the
same," he moaned; "I love her all the name
—my pretty Nellie." Then he began to
wonder why he should have this sent
to him ; and to feel hard and cold,
and to wish himself dead, and to hate the
very kindness of those who ministered to
him.
But be could not, after all, as the day
wore on, feel thus to the woman with her
face so oddly tied up and hidden, who wait-
ed upon him with ouch tenderness ; who
seemed to anticipate his every wish, and
whose touoh upon hie hair was so pleasant.
At last he tried to thank her. It was so
=Rah to let her think he did not know how
good she was to him ; and she seemed, he
thought, to be sorry for him. And the effort
did him good ; and tears came into hie eyes,
and he wept softly for the old time, and
Nellie. After that he was very patient, and
not quite so wretched. And still the aurae
in the cap and hood watched over him, south•
ing him fnexpreasibly by the touch of her
little hand upon him, and making him think
of another hand just as °oft and smooth
which he had held so often.
With days he gained strength and was aa
aura of life as any there. In the twilight of
an autumn day he called the hooded nurse
to bin, " Madam," he said, " you have
been so very kind to me that L who must
always sok favors now, dare to ask another.
I want a letter written I Will you write
it 7" The nurse whispered a tremulous
" Yes," and without another word brought
pen and paper, and sat down at a little stand
where he could not see her face. Then there
was a pause.
Is it your mother, or your Astor 7" she
asked.
He sighed. "They know," he said. "No,
it is some one else—to—to the girl who prom-
ised to marry me a few years ago. To Miss
Nellie Home." And then hie voice falter.
ed, " I love her ao,"he continued, in theta.
ling tones. " 1 shall mina her more then
those poor arms of mine. But I must do P.
Tell her, madam, what evil has befallen me,
and tell her that I relesee her from her en-
gagemenb. That will be all ; you can put it
on what words you please upon the paper ;
only lot her know how dear she is and al-
ways hae been to one; and beg ber sometimes
to thinly of one who had far better be dead,
since life Den only bo a living death to him
hereafter,"
The nurse trembled. She dropped the
pen and hid her face in her bands. Then
she arose and camp swiftly behind the bed.
" Why write to her thus, if you love her
still," she whispered. "Do you think she
la heartless?"
' 1 know her to be pure, and good, and lov-
ing," said the soldier. "But I have no right
to hold her bound to one eo altered. And
now, though sho might pity me, she would
find it impossible to love hideous deform-
ity.'
"She knew what a soldier's chances were
when she bade you go," said the nurse,
" Can she turn from you now because you
have given more than most men for you
country 7"
" She will pity and weep forme," said the
soldier, "I know that the would be as
kind to me as you are, But, madame, there
could be no excuse for me ohould I proeume
on the tenderness of her heart end selfishly
seek to claim ber. I am not poor, but I
could not protect her—could do nothing for
her. She would do all tor me. I would not
be so o wardly if I could. I must give her
up. Write for ma, please,"
Then the nurse came to the side of the
bed and sunk upon her knees. " Let me
tell you nay story," she acid, " I also loved
a soldier, whom I gave to my country, as
be gave Himself. 1 knew what were war's
ohanooe, and I ehrunk from none of them.
He lies maimed and wounded in ,hie hospital
and that is why I Dame here—to nure0 him
at no other would. I love him better for
his pain and helplessness. I will marry him
as gladly as though he were the handsome
man who won my heart. Is your Nellie
orad than
w If"
Owen Gilbeyfa heart wag beating wildly..
Be strove in vain to see the face' bowed down
upon his pillow, A hand crept up and rest-
ed against his cheek ; the hood fell baok,
and Nellie's faoe, bathed in tears, bent over
the soldier, " I love you better than I ever
loved you, Owen I" she said, Tell me ,kat
the knowledge makes you a little happier."
And the soldier dropped hie poor head upon
herbreaat, and they wept together,
And soon he claimed her for his wife, and
the two now dwell together (for thio fit very
true, and no fancy sketch) in a quite little
little hoino not many miles from B----.
They are happier than many upon whom no
mere:Menne has felon for truelove can fling
a halo ground life, whatever are it0 sorrows.
At a reeen6 ball a6 the house of Mrs,
Mulholland, in London, the rnantlepiooeo
were covered with banks of rare orchids,
pyramids of flower° wore placed in every
available °other, and baskets of flowers were
hung from the ceilings, while the staircase
wag a trellis work of dowers,
A Touching Story,
We venture to say that very few of our
readers or of any other present day journal,
are acquainted with the touching incident
treasured among the saddest, yet most pre-
cious, traditions of a certain lunatic asylum
in ono of the neighboring States. The raae-
fe so interesting that we feel under no ne-
oetity to apologise for calling it up from the
buried past and describing ft at some length.
A highly respectable physician in ono of the
smaller oitiea of an eastern State had as one
of hie patients a young man who Boomed to
be in a hopeless condition of idiotic insanity.
His mental faoultioa seemed to be wholly ab-
ragateP He never epoke, never of his own ao•
cord moved himaelt. If not disturbed he ha-
bitually sat shading his eyes with his hands.
Ae a remedial measure the physician made
him take walks in the neighborhood, In the
couree of these he made the aoquaintnnoe of a
beautiful girl of sixteen who knew of his sad.
condition and took apitying interest in him.
It was aha who began the acquaintance. She
would etop and speak kindly when she met
him. At first he would take no notice of
her, but after a few montne his interest be -
thane aroused, and he would look tut for her
quite anxiously and bo disappointed if at
any time the failed to appear when he was
expecting her, Finally he began to go to
her home and leave flower bouquets for her.
Gradually the emotions which she aroused
brought the dawn of a new and brighter day
to the poor fellow. His torpid mind
began gradually to throw off the incubus
that had oppressed it. The girl encouraged
his *shirts when she learned how much better
he was becoming. She actually induced him
to try and learn bo write, Steady applica-
tion reeultod in ability to write good eeneible
letters, The ultimate result was that ho
fully recovered his reason. Then the girl
married. This was a severe shock to him,
but he bore up under it' wonderfully and at
last was restored to his family, quite cured.
And now comes the old sequel of the story,
His fair benefactress, soma after the birth of
her first child, was brought to the same hey -
loon from which she had rescued him, per-
fectly insane, He heard of it and wee most
anxious for an nterview. This, however,
wan denied for the sake of both, She died,
but he continued to live and became an ac-
tive, useful member of eoeiety,
An A000mplished Robin.
Thomas O'Donnell, of Readout, N. Y.,
hao a robin which whietlee like a molting.
bird. This is probably due to the fact that
it as rained in company nn
yywith nmocker.
The robin whistles <Jo n Get your
Gun," "Don't Leave Your Mother, Tom,"
etc,, with all the sang froid of a Bowery
actor, its powere of mimicry are wonder.
ful. Ono day reoently a man wept into a
saloon, ovei the door of which the cage
containing the robin to hung. The bird
gave &quick whistle, A man on the opposite
side of the street heard the whistling ; and
seeing a friend entering the saloon and
believing that he had whistled to him to
"eome^ and take something," crowed the
street. The man who first entered the
saloon denied having whistled, but his friend
insisted that he had, and outmoded in.
getting "something." In the early morning,
when things aro quiet, the whistle of the
ird has been hoard a quarter of a toile.
Within a radius of three miles front Per.
ham, Minnesota, during the past fourteen
days there have been 6,000 bushels or' 'hop.
pets eau ht and kflltd5 the oouttty paying a
bounty el $1 abtiehel for them..
PERSONAL,
Emperor William halo decorated Dro. Berg.
man and Gerhardt.
All the Pope's Jubiloe wino Is to be dis-
tributed among the hospitals.
Mrs. Rogers, the "Texas Cattlo•Queeu,"
l0 at Atlantic City, She rides a horeo, we
are tolyl, " any way and every way," and is
at like the wind while the beet of her row.
boys are getting into their saddles,
M, Crory, late President of France, le ,
busily engaged in writing his memoirs, cover-
fug the loading omits in French history
from 1848 to 1588. It is said that a publish
er is already negotiating for their simultan-
eous publication in Loudon and New York.
Countess Chandon de 13rialless, known' in
Perla as a clever amateur actress, has got
herself talked about by a recent balloon trip
she made with her husband, The cars were
too slow to emit this couple, and so they
started in a balloon from Paris for their
country seat at Epornay. What is more, they
got there safely, and demanded in the grounds
of their chateau before their servants and
furniture had arrived,
Gen, Boulanger, on a pension of 81,800 a
year, pays $2,400 rent and spends 830,000
a year on himself and an equal amount on
the establishment of his wife and two
daughters ab Veraaillea. French papers in.
timate that an American millionaire supplies
the deficiency between income and outgo.
Airs, Susan Tope, wife of a farmer of Devon-
shire, England, while driving out with her
huebend, was street( accidentally just be•
low the loft oye with the lash of tbo whip
and a slight wound was inflicted. Little
notice was taken of it, but a few days after-
ward Mrs. Tope's farm began to swell, and
subsequently aamali knot of cord was remov-
ed from the wound. Look jaw set in, and
she died ina short time,
"Carmen Sylvia," the Quaon of Roumania,
is having a " poet's chamber" built, wherein
to write her poems. It is constructed of
reeds surrounded by a high hedge of rosea,
In the niche of the hedge aagea of singing
birdo aro hidden, and in one corner there is
a fountain of perfumed water. In the mid.
dle of the room is a mosey bank and a great
blook of rock that ie also covered with moss
and hewn in the form of a writing
desk, Upon this mote -grown stone the
Queen poetess will indite her versos, Tho
ground is covered with a thick, soft carpet
of green turf, and a hammock is slung on
one aide with golden cords.
Queen Victoria recently, it ie said, desired
toeinspoob a detachment of Coylon Rifles
that were in England. None of thaw knew
any English. When they were paraded in
tho grand corridor at Windsor, the Queen,
passing among them, asked one: "Have
you been long in England?" The anewer
was in pure Cingaleoo, and the Queen, with-
out betraying any embarrassment, answer-
ed : " Oh, indeed I" aid dropped the eon-
vereation. All the eo]diere caught the re-
mark and remembered it, and when they
went hone repeated it to their comrades
and friends, and now in Ceylon the principal
English phrase heard is, " Oh, indeed 1"
which fe very important because the Queen
used it,
A Legal Prayer.
When Judge Prolicke joined the Metho.
diet Church of Regeneration, New Jersey,
it was with the expreea understanding that
he was not to be expected to actively partic-
ipate in any of their festivals of prayer.
He remarked that even in his chosen pro-
fession he had rarely, if ever, been palled
upon to do anything in the way of pleading
or public doolamatioi—itis labors being al-
most entirely in the line of legal research,
preparation of brief°, forme, etc.—and that
even under spiritual influence he feared be
world make an indifferent exhorter. To the
credit of his brethren in the fold be it said
that his preferenoo in tide regard was
courteously deferred to, and during several
yenta of oonsistentmembership in the Regen-
eration Church Judge Prolioks was never
called upon to do anything more than to para
the plate and punctuate the intervals of
supplication with some warm and tremend-
ous " Amens." One evening, however, a
visiting divine was leading the service and
had worked the participants to such a degree
of ardor that even the judge anted as if it
was about all he could do to " hold in,"
Deacon Lakwitt took nota of the effervee-
°once of the juridical member, and availed
himself of the same by exclaiming ;
"Will Brother Prolicke please lead in
prayer 2"
The judge was winged, so to speak, by
the suddenness of this discharge. Re f]ut-
tered to the limit of the " anxious seat," and
for a moment seemed to wilt from eight.
Tho fiery fervor had been smothered but for
that moment, however, and flaming into life
age aft assisted too judge to his feet, where-
upon, with much incoherence, aided never-
theless by the resources of hie palling, he
petitiot ed as follows :
" Thie evening we bop mercy and forgive-
ness for all people actuate, lying sad being
within this tenement edifice, ereotion or
structure devoted to worship. We are all
miserable sinners; of, in, during and through
the existence, duration and continuance of
our life or lives—that le to say, the life' or
lives of each, any, either or all of us, col-
lectively, jointly or severally—we have
grievously, persistently, feloniously and
with malice aforethought offended spinet
the law in such thee made and provided. We
have, each and every one of ea, at divers
and sundry times, occasions, intervals and
places—as will be more particularly and at
length set forth, proolaimed, declared, mum.
crated and elaborated in the indictment
hereunto annexed—committed, performed,
perpetrated and caused to be done smolt acts,
deeds, transaction(' and offenses as have rem
dared us unworthy the leniency of this hon.
°rabic court, But we nevertheless beseech
our lawgiver to give, grant, devise, transfer,
convey, sot over, release and bequeath unto
each and every servant, the parties hereto
of the amend part, and to their heirs, exe-
cutors, administrators assigns, and to the
urvivor5 or survivor of them, euoh mercy,
uetaintnggra
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commiseration and
relief ief
s the need no ndooator and to this oor
may atom moot, just, worthy and commend•
d in the premises. We know that the re.
ief sought by no as petitioners, and by all
arties serving under them or either of them,
s Birch as pasaeth the measure of human tin -
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erstanding, but we know furthermore, and
y these presents declare, affirm, ineiet and
maintain that mer0y is as boundless as the
heavenly dominions, Infinite power ex-
endeth over all those certain lots, pieces
nd parcels of land and water situate, lying
ad being in the solar system and bounded
nd described as follow, to wit: Beginning
b a point—"
To whab further extravagance his momen-
um in the professional rut would have borne
its emu only be conjectured. Apprehension
ed beacon Check to out short his 7080818.
ion, and from that day to this Judge Pro-
foks has never been invited to indulge in
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