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MAPLE SUGAR SEASON.
MERRY -MAKING AND SUGAR -MAK-
ING IN THE WOODS.
bo Larlylipring kr0Uv. Tapping the Trees
and Sugaring an,.
" New Maple Sager" le the legend priat-
1 in large ty pe that meeis rho aye in nanny
ops at this beacon of the year, and the
alb of the brown oweotneee calla up happy
otuorieo of bygone days, You really begin
feel smite eenttmental, when it suddenly
ours to you (if you are famili W with the In•
dustry) that it is rather early for ougar-mak•
ing, and a feeling of iediguation pervades
your being that you have allowed your-
self to be led into reverie by a lump of brown
auger, boiled down from last year's syrup.
So, with a sigh of contempt for the trades-
men wbo have imposed upon your most sa-
cred feelings, you hurry on. The time, how-
ever, ie near at hand when the new sugar
will be with ne, if the weather is as it should
be. Freezing nlghte end warm sunny days
are necessary to start a good run of cap. A
number of farmera in Ontario and Quebec
now own maple groves, and many of them
realize quite an income from their produce.
Some tap as many as five hundred trees,
while others only a hundred or lees, as the
case may be,
THIS DSANOR OF FARMERS WORK
comes at a Berson when there is little else of
importance to do, so that moat of their time
and attention is given to the manufacture of
this toothsome and healthy dainty. In fact,
one rarely meets a person, old or young, who
indulges in sweets at all who does not show
a decided taste for maple sugar.
Sugar time is hailed with delight by the
younger members of the farmersfamilies
throughoub the wooded districts of Ontario.
Visions of oonntless jollifications and many
surreptitious draughts of delicious sap crowd
out yesterday's rendition of Blueing and coast
ing. When the weather le just right farmers
and sone start out to tap the maples. A
It sit inch hole is bored in each tree on the
southern exposure. Into the hole is insert•
ed a small wooden trough about nix inches
long. When the sun throws its warm rays
about the trees the sap trickles through the
troughs and down into the do pails hung be-
neath, making sweet music in the silence of
the grove. There are patent articles used
for running the sap into the pails, but all
armers do nob .neat in them. The home•
nade article Is cheaper, and whittling harlot
:ouoted as work. It is done at odd times,
generally on stormy days, when the " men -
elks" congregate in the barn, each armed
with a good stout jack-knife and plenty of
bite right material to work upon. There
hey tell stories, discuss the price of potatoes,
and gossip just a little.
The sap pails, which hold about a gallon,
must all be hung at night, or very early in
tihe morning, and when night Domesaga
the same ground is gone over, the briin
mming
pane emptied and hung again in place. To
look ab this colorless liquid one womd hard-
ly think ib could be boiled into anything re-
sembling syrup or sugar. Bub "time con-
quers all things," and this liquid which tastes
and looks like sweetened water, eventually
GRACES YOUR BREAKFAST TABLE
as maple syrup, or qualifies some one's
aweet tooth in the shape of sugar. The sap
ie put into a huge pan and set over an enor-
mous wood fire, where it soon boils and
bubbles right merrily. It is ono person's
duty to tend the fire, as the eap must be
kept at boiling point. More advanced ougar-
makers build a sap house in the grove, and
there all the work is done on scientific prin-
ciples. Each day's yield of sap must be
syrup or sugar before the workers este
rear. That is to say, what flows to -day
would be pat over the fire tc-morrow.
This is not desirable for farmers, as they
lose many hours of rest thereby, which can-
not be made up In the morning. Bub with
all their diecomforta, they are prone to de-
rive just ea much enjoyment from everything
as they possibly can, and no chance escapee
them whereby they ran bring together a
goodly company.
"SUGARING OFF. "
Some fine, crisp morning just after a light
fall of eaow, your neighbor's son drives up
to the door with the two-year-old colt he to
so proud of and invites you in an offhand
wayto "come over to-night—we're going to
auer off,"and then dashes off agaiwith a
merry jingle of belle and calling back to you,
" Be sure to coma." Early in the evening
you find yourself at your neighbor's, helping
to receive the fast arriving guests. The
merry jingle of eleighbello, the creak of the
snow under the runners, the laughter and
music of young voices, are quite enchanting.
Each swain carefully lifts out his dulcinea
from the depths of the sleigh robes and air-
ily, but not always gracefully, plants her on
terra -firma, as though lifting out country
girls were a trifle, even if they do dip the
scales at 150 pounds. Soon they are gather-
ed in the house, where fun and frolics hold
high carnival. They are hero for a good time
and are bound to have ib. " Uncle Bill "
arrives later and this merry company takes
little time in finding places. The equeazy
fiddle does good work„ and the dancers do
not laokin agility and vigor at least. How
these country girls and boys learn to dance,
Is a mystery. It is a fact, however, that
they do dance, and many of them are 00u0u'
ally graceful.
COUNTRY MERRY MAKING.
The mesio and dancing are prngressing
finely, when the shout ie heard ; " Get your
pane and dither', the angar's here 1" In an
instant the music has matted, the donors
with one accord make a grand rush for the
old-fashioned pantry, where piles of tins are
ready. Each helps himself and rushes out
of doors regardless of night air. No time
la to be lost, the engem must be just right
or the flavor is gone. Quickly every plate
ie filled and banked up wibh the fresh new
fallen snow, and then the merry company
troop into the eked, each holding ish or her
plate ready to receive the ladles full of seeth-
ing eyrnp, which, as it falls upon the snow•
congeals into a fantastic masa of sweetness,
Only those who have enjoyed thio treat of
Dame Nature's can fully appreciate maple
sugar. Many times the dishes are returned,
till all have had their fill, It bat nor that
extreme sweetness that oomoo when the aug-
er granulates but is just, a gummy mase of
goodneso. (OW, the merry crowd troops-
baok into the house and the dance is oontin.
ned. The antiquated fiddler nefzes his bow,
and wrestles once more with his anoient fid.
dle, but the dancers are not at all critical,
and all goes merrily until the orchestra eel -
fovea and falls oub of hie chair quite ex.
haunted.
Now oomee the good man with his wife
from the pantry laden down with good
things—older and apples, pop•gorn, golden
brown doughnuts, almost enough for a small
army. Thus the evening passes away with
talk and much gossip. Of oouroe ono ex.
poet's that. It la the spice of country life,
and it it Is safe to gay tliaba 4' lugaring off "(
is well seasoned with it,
A DESPERATE FIGQP.
The Owner Oa Cheboygan Resort Killed by
a Shtrlitl
l;ieEBovoAN, Mich„ Maroh --Onarlo
Smith is the proprietor of u house of low
oharaoter near the railroad depoh, in
thie city. On Saturday night Sheriff Mama
heard the sound 'tf disturbance in Smitb's
place. The aherlff et thee entered the house
and endeavored to 010011 the commotion by
remonstrating with the proprietor. Smith
was greatly angered by the sheritl"s interfer-
ence, and springing over the counter drew a
revolver from a drawer. Marshall Bouchard,
who accompanied the sheriff for the purpose
of assisting him if necessary, immediately
ran babied the bar and grappled with Smith.
In the effort bo wronah the revolver from dm
enragoi man Bouchard stumbled, and at the
same moment Smith shots him through the
face, the bell entering one oheek and coming
out the other. The wounded man fell to
brie floor unable to return the fire. As the
smoke cleared away Smith levelled his re-
volver at Sheriff Hayes, bub the sheriff was
too quick for him. He drew and fired, the
ball passing entirely through Smith's throat.
It staggered him, but did not finish him.
Still clutching his weapon, he sprang upon
the sheriff, The latter /struck Smith's re.
volver aside just se it was discharged, the
ball whizzing past the officer's head and
burying itself in the wall of the room.
.A fierce struggle ensued, Smith, nob•
withstanding the wound in his bhroab,
fighting savagely. Finally Sheriff Hayes
managing to press the muzzle of his revolver
against the side of his desperate opponent,
pulled the trigger. The snot dropped Snaith
to the floor. Sheriff Hayes and others carri-
ed Smith to the open where he shortly
afterward expired. Before he passed away
the dying man asked the sheriff ro give him
his hand. Holding it he said, 'Hayne,
you've killed me, but I don't blame you for
it," Hayes is fully exonerated from all
biome in the matter, for Smith was a most
desperate character. ills look before the
shooting meant that he intended to kill all
officers who went to arrest hire. Marshall
Bouchard is resting quietly and the phyla
ohne say he stands a good chance of reoov-
ary,
Common Courtship in the U. S.
Shirley Dare, in his series of artioles upon
courtship in America, says : " Wherever it
was, when I called upon a young lady, I
either sew no other member of the family,
or if I found the young woman's mother in
the front room she was preparing to vacate
db. Usually the mother wore an apologetic
mien and made evident haste to withdraw,
greeting me with a few words about the
weather before she retired for the rest of
the eveninv. Often and often when my
knock or my ring was mistaken for that
of some neighbor or friend of the family
have I known a general scamper from the
trent room to follow the fireb sound of my
voice fn the hall ; usually, though, it was
the young lady's voice that did the work, ae
abs exclaimed, purposely, aloud . ' Why,
Mr.—, I didn't expect yon,' and 0o forth.
In very few country houses did I ever see
the members of the family. That happened
in some of the larger towns, but the rule in
auoh planes always was for the interlopers,
as I considered all except the young lady,
to retire eery early, leaving her and myself
together and undisturbed for the rest of the
evening.
I would not like to say how late I often
stayed on suoh 000ssions. That I followed
the general custom in this reepeeb, however,
was thoroughly proved by the faob that,
whenever I had friends who spent their
evenings in the same way and agreed to
meet elsewhere, they were as late as I was,
There is not a night constable in a country
town In the United States, I dare say, who
will not not bear me out in stating that on
Weduesday and Sunday nights the parlor
jlights burn till long after midnight, and that
he meats the young beaux of the place on
their way to their homes in the growing
hours toward daylight. The story told of
bhe Garman maiden and the boos plumber
wbo spent their courting nights in innocent
slumber in their chairs was paralleled in my
experience, for one of the young women in
my list of sweethearts used to tell me that
her sister had a beau, a farmer, who always
fell asleep soon after he had Dome to see her.
He had done a hard day's work on the
tarn, and she bad been tiresomely employed
in the hones. Neither one had any thing
to oonveree about, so when he fell asleep she
settled herself for a nap, and whichever one
woke first awakened the other, whereupon
the young farmer bade the young lady good-
night and went away—it might be ab 11
o'clock or it might be at 3 in the morning."
" Now," sake Mr. Ralph, who is drawing
attention to the look of safeguards in wart -
ship as a possible reason for the growth of
unhappy marriages and the prevalence of
divorce in the United States—" Now what
is recommended ae a substitute for present
usages?" The readerhad best draw his own
conclusions.
It would seem aoeneible proposition,
that if the young people find that their love
affairs do nob interest their parents they
should force the subject upon parental at-
tention. A young girl should nob Buffer her-
self to be neglected either in the room in
which ehe entertains her visitor or in the
counsel she bas a righb to demand (and
should rejoice to obtain) from her mother.
A young man should not insist upon a room
apart from her family for all his interviews
with his lady love, and before he ventures
upon an engagement he should talk the mat•
ter over freely in hie own home.
" The customs that obtain in those fami-
lies that have preserved the European
usages are not irksome to any one concerned
in their application. In such families the
malts bo the younr woman who is of an age
for courtship are paid to her in the general
assembly room of the family.
" Ab first, when she earliest visite of the
new acquaintance are made, he le apt to be
received with parlor formality, bhe mother
and sisters, or brothore, or whoever le at
home, leaving the ebbing room or place of
general evening assemblage, to assist in the
entertainment of the visitor. If he makes
himself popular and his visite are encour-
aged, he soon finds his way to the actual
sanctum of the household, usually a rear
r parlor, and sometimes the dining room."
Cured by Prayer.
Wanks'', Ind.—A most remarkable faith.
euro ease has been made public. Mrs. Noah
Ham, of Anderson, has been a chronic in-
valid for menthe, owing to a stomach els
ease, and for weeks has been unable to keep
food on her stomach. She has been unable
t0 stand. Her oaoe was oonsiderod a hope.
lose Ono, and ahe has grown worse rapidly,
Haat Tuesday Joseph Moore and several
other members of the Church of God oalled
and engaged in prayer for Mrs. Ham's re.
'ovary. While the praying was in progress
the invalid felt relieved of her pain, and
ninth than has rapidly gained in liken
while the /stomach trouble is dlaappearing
Tho lady is confident that her baro was
caused by prayer.
YOUNG FOLKS.
Lilacs.
1'00 seen the pussy -willows
With dainty furry faooe
I've found the protby violets
Abloom in shady Flame ;
The jonquil and the aroma
Have told mo of the eprieg,
And in the orchard up and down
Hae glanced the bluebird's wing,
But horne' the purple lilao
That lifts its fragrant plume'',
And sends a weft of sweetness
Through homely cottage rooms,
Ito hardy branches tapping
Againsb the farm -house eaves,
The flowers ib gives u9 growing
In generous waving ahoaves.
I'in aura the mother robin
Is very glad to see
The lileca'eoreen about her
Wee neat and fledglings three.
And father wren is singing
In pure delight today
That apriog is hear already
And summer on the way.
And I am glad our Father
Whose love is over all,
Who counts the stare by number,
And nee a sparrow fall,
Hes sent again the lilacs
To make the garden fair,
And waft their honeyed•eweetness
Upon the wandering air.
—[Harper's Yourig People,
SHE SLAMMED THE DOOR.
BY REV. EDWARD A. RAND.
B.b-b.ang 1
"What was that k" new msly asked Anot
Prudence, who had Dome to visit her broth-
er, Mr. Mildmay, and suddenly In the midst
of a oonverastion, when he was inquiring
about her husband, children and neighbors,
came this violent slam. "What was it ?"
Aunb Prudence again asked.
Mr, Mildway's fade was clouded. He
was biting his lip. It aama again, "Bang -g-
el" Aunt Prudence rose from her chair.
"Why, Thomas," she exclaimed, address-
ing her brother, " that must be a heavy
wmd thab has gob into the house somehow,
and is doing mischief, Don't you want me
to go and sae what it is 1 Your wife has a
headache and I wouldn't trouble her."
" I will attend to it, sister," he said ner-
ously.
He sprang up, and left the room. Then
Aunt Prudence heard him mounting the
'all -stairs, Then she heard his deep voioe
echoing oub an order : "Nellie, you muse
tot do that again. If you don't like what
/our brother Tom is doing, come to me,
but don't chow your displeasure that way,"
Then Aunt Prudence heard the peevish
muttering of a child's voice. Finally, Mr.
Mildmay came downstairs, and resumed his
scab in the parlor by the side of hie sister.
" Oh 1" thought Aunb Prudence, "I see
now who it was. That was my niece, Nel-
lie, and she was angry with her brother Tom
and slammed the door."
Aunt Prudence was correct in this con -
elusion. Nellie was a girl lovely in feat-
ure, but lacking in good temper. To pub
it another way, she did not try to rein in her
bad temper.
1'he nexb day, Aunt Prudence witnes.
ed another exhibition of Nellie's peevish-
neete
' I say, Nellie," remarked Tom, pleas.
anbly, " it is hot here in the ebbing -room.
Let us go out into the hall ; it is not so hot
there. Walk up and down with ma for
five minutes. Come, that's a good girl 1 I
am going. Five minutes, four minutes,
three—," " five minutes 1" she said pet.
tishly, yet leaving the sitting -room for the
hall. On her way there her foot naught in
a rug and she almost fell. "There, Tom,
just like you!" she Dried, Tom impru-
dently began to laugh. Nellie's face dark-
ened.
"Oh, I beg your pardon," said Tom,
humbly. "Too bad, Nall 1" He saw the
Whoring storm and like a would-besudi•
mous mariner at sea, shifted his rubber and.
went on a different course,
Too late. The storm broke. Nellie
bounced into the diniog•room, and then—
bang-g•g.gl The dining•room door closed
with such a sharp report that ib sounded
like a pistol vigorously going off.
And Tom, did he atay in the hall five
minutes, or a less time 2 No, he quickly
returned to the sibting.room as if determin-
ed that there should not be two fools in the
same house, He oat down at the table near
which Aunt Prudence was reading.
" Too bad I' reflected Aunt Prudence.
"Nellie is spoiling her temper, if it le nob
spoiled already, and she is hurting Tom's
good nature, and, on, dear she does nob
know she ie getting into a habit that will
hold her like iron. What can I do?"
That was a difidoulb question to answer.
Mrs, Mildmay, the mother, saw Nellie's
fault but neglected to cure it, making only
some trivial suggestions of improvement to
the girl, and ahe did nob want Aunt Fru.
deuce or any one else to manage her children
for her. She did nob say exactly this to
Aunt Prudence, but its equivalent. A Duro,
though, was started.
Perhaps, you may say, Nellie's own good
sense broke up the habit ; that she herself
saw how unladylike ib was to fire off her
temper as if it were a cannon -cracker, a
bemper exploding in those door•elame. No,
the pure began in another way. Nellie and
Tom had anUnole George. He was at sea,
commanding a ship, bob while Aunt Pru-
dence was visiting her brother Thomas,
George was expeoted. Nellie bad never
seen this Unole George.
"I dare say, children," observed Aunb
Prudence to Tom and Nellie, "that Uncle
Georpe will give you some presents."
"Perhaps he may give us a pi0ce of his
mind," Nellie remarked ungraoiouely.
"May be," said Aunb Prudence, good-nat-
uredly, "and may be not. I hope not"
"Oh," said Tom, "if Uncle George is rich,
he may give Nellie a new dress. I have
seen him, and he is real generous. Yea, a
dress 1"
"Perhaps so," added Aunb Prudence, "or
some nine books."
"Ha 1 Ha I" laughed Nellie. "While we
are aboub ib, let u0 hope ib will be a piano,"
The next day, Mr. Mildmay ;brought
home a ;meet "Its is a man,' thought
Nellie, looking out of a window in the upper
hall, Then she went to the rail of the
stairway and leaned over. Ib was a dark,
chilly rainy day, and as the two gentlemen
entered bhe dimly -lighted hall, the stranger,
stepping briskly forward and accidently
hitting a light stand on which was a hardy
pot.plant, tipped stand and pot over.
" Oh, too bad 1" !aid the ebranger,
repair damages."
" Oh, no damage done I" pleaeantly and
promptly said Mr. Mildmay. "Pot ,s nob
broken, no dirt spilled, and plant looks all
right. No harm done 1"
"Bang'g•g 1" went a door upstairs.
Mr. Mildmay looked vexed. Ho under.
stood lie He know what that sound tele-
grapb meant. Siam went another door.
"You go up eteir's, turn to the right,
and take Otto firer door, 1'll make you Oona-
fortable," said Mr, Mildmay,
The gavot reaohod the guoot.room and
was about to enter, when the door mete.
riouoly began to abut 00 if a whirlwind were
impelling it, Unfortunately ho had thrust
out ifs band and wee grasping the side of
the door, and than Dame a vigorous rxolama-
tion from the 'stranger, for his hand was
pinched fn the door -meek.
"Oh, Unolc George I" said Tom, rushing
up emirs, for Tom hero made hie appearance,
The door hit you I"
"Yee." said Thole George, "but a girl le
in there 1 I saw her in a looking glees in•
Bide." Then Unole George said oamothiug
olse,
Unhappy Nellie 1 Tryiue to gob out of
the way, the bad run into the wrong room,
and fired the door at Unole George.
And riok Undo George—he gave whab, in
the sweated list of presents?
Piano 1 Nn,l(
Books 1 Nom
Dress? No,
A piens of hie mind, as Nellie had im-
agined i Yee, and only that,
It was unfortunate all round. However,
after that, Nellie began resolutely to dia.
oipliea her troublesome tamper.
" Ask God to help you," suggested that
good friend, Conscience. And she soughb
and found help,
DROPPING THROUGH THE EARTH.
Scranton, Pa„ Slaking Into the Alines Un,
dementle the 010y.
SCRANTON, Pa., March 91.—Eight cham-
bers in the fourteen -foot vein and these
directly above it in the rook vein of the
Central Colliery Company have caved in
and bite cruse is still in progress. The dam-
age that may ensue cannot be determined,
as the cavo• in is almost in the very centre
of the Hyde Park section of the pity. The
convulsion is almost under Washburn street
Presbyterian church, and the north wall of
the edifice is dangorouely pitched out of
plumb and the ceilings are giving way. The
reaidonoe of the pastor, Rev, J. Steards,
and that of Mine Superintendent Benjamin
Hughes are thrown askew by the crush, and
so also are the homes of Helen Pulver and
Wesley Lanning and others in the neigh.
buthood. Much excitement prevails, as the
nave -lo gives every evidenoe of extending.
A Strange Beene in London.
The London "Spectabar" thus deaoribes a
scene which presented itself in St. Swithin's
I lane, in that city, on the 27th ulo. :
"The day had been fixed for the allotment
of shares in Mr. Streeter's Company which
is to work the ruby -mines of Burmah, and
he streets were choked with applicants.
So terrible was the pressure, that Lor,
Rothschild could only be admitted into hi
own offices through a first floor window, am
persona were forced through the plate•glae:
, windows opposite, and severely injured. S
( high rose the mania, that BL shares wer
I sold before allotment at 45, and Founaere
shares, with 20s, paid, at 5300. The idea is
that Streeter's holds a monopoly of rubies ;
1 that there will be a great demand for the
stones ao three times the price, carat for
carat, of diamonds : and that, ooneequently
1 bhe mine may return some fabulous percenb•
age,"
Which Was Most Like a Hog?
A good story is told of two Southern
olergymen, one of whom undertook to re.
buke the other for using the weed.
" Brother G.," ho exclaimed, withoub
etoppiog to ask any question, " ie it possible
you chew tobaroo?"
"I muse confess I do," the otter quietly
replied.
' Then you must quit it, air," the old
gentleman energetically continued. "Ib is
a very unclerioal practice—an unoleanly one.
Tabaoco 1 why even a hog won't chew ft'?"
"Father F, do you chew toba ao?" re•
plied the amused listener.
"No, sir," he answered gruffly, with in-
dignation.
" Then, pray which is moat Like the hog,
you or I?"
A Reliable Man.
She—" I am then really the fireb woman
you ever loved 1"
He—" I swear most solemnly that you
are the fireb woman I have spoken to of
love."
" In that ease I will granb your request
to meet you in the park at two o'clock,"
"Heavens I What blies 1"
"You will surely be there, my only love."
"You atm gamble on my being there, I
never missed keeping an appointment of that
kind yet."
Beauty and Appetite.
"I love all that is beautiful in art and
nature,' she was saying to her tosthetio ad-
mirer;" "i revel in the green fields, the
babbling brooks and the little wayside
flowers; I feast on the beauties of earth
and sky and air ; they are my daily life and
food, and—"
" Maudie 1" cried oub the mother from the
kitchen,nobknowingthat herdaughter'o beau
was in bbe parlor, " Maudie, whatever made
yon go and eat that big dish of potatoes
that was left over from dinner? I told you
we wanted them warmed for supper. I de-
clare if your appetite isn't enough to bank.
rupb your pa."
A Lost Opportunity,
Jiggers—"Durn an ignoramus, anyhow."
Wiggere—"What's the matter now?"
Jiggoro—"I was calling on little Mies
Pertly lash night, and she asked me what
the phrase 'indulging in osculatory exer-
oleos' meant. Said the found in in a
novel."
Wiggers—"Well, did you tell her?"
Jiggers—"I didn't Know what ib meant
until I looked through the dictionary thin
morning."
SPONGE GRAFTING,
A Remarkable Case or Surgical lugenulty
In Ilu [Ming Up Mesh Tisane.
The ogee of a German woman named Han.
nah Breeze, who luta been in St. Luke's Hos.
plbal, Hertford, loo been considerably dio-
auseed for a tow days among the medical
fraternity, She was a victim of the rare
disease known as ergotietn, melting from
eating rye Mud. Hur melody was ab fleet
diagnosed ns leprosy, It began with the
most agonizing pains which ran all over the
body, seemingly from a central point in the
03100, midway between the shouldoro. The
agony wise so intense that opiates had little
or notffest and rho only relief was obbaieed
from a free 000 of ohloroform, Thio con-
dition was oupersodod by ono directly op.
polite, Sho lost the sense of all feeling en.
tlrely. Needles could be inserted into any
pub of bio body, except the head and neck,
without produolgn any shook, and the so
veresb tests were tried without awakening
the teeth sensation. Sho still had the power
of motion in a measure, but lacked oonfi•
death, and would not try to help herself
in any way.
Her mind was also affected, and she often
talked aboub dreams, all of which had
TUE ELEMENT OF Mennen
uppeemosb. This condition was followed by
spume, nausea, vomiting, and great exhaus-
tion, and when thews subsided the onbire
body became dark and had the appearanoo
of being in the early stage of mortification.
The temperature ran up bo 110 degrees,
which is indicative of a speedy death, and
yet the patient did nob die. The body grow
blacker steadily, and finally small uloere ap-
peared on the hands and feet. They rapidly
extended over the hands and arms, but only
two Dame out on the body. The extremities
were simply frightful ; often the ulcers had
exceeded so thee the arms and legs were a
solid mase of pus centres.
Both the nature and aauaos of the disease
remained obscure until the consulting sur-
geon learned from the patient thab she was
passionately fond of rye meal and had long
been in the habit' of eating it uncooked.
Then it became easy enough to diagnose the
:Bemuse as a pure typo of ergotism, which is
caused by the ergou in the rye in he natural
state. There is no retard of a similar case
in this part of the world. This disease is
found among the natives of Africa and South
America, and is mistaken for leprosy. Ib is
usually fatal.
Tho phyeioian searched high and low in
the medioal records for a euro, but could nob
find anything more than a few hints on the
plan of treatment; that proved to be of no
use. Being thrown upon his own resources
he;
INVENTED A MODE 06 TREATMENT
that proved sucoeesful.
The first step was to make an examination
of the bones in the arms and loge, to see if
there were any caries. This WEB done by
making inoisione in different placate The
bone was found to be healthy, except in four
toes, and these were amputated after the
patient bad been ananethetozed. The next
step was to atop the progress of decay, the
formation of ulcers, and to ornate new tissue
bo ouppiy that which had been destroyed by
the ulcers. The ulooration was altogether
toe extensive to transplant live tissue from
another body, and the sure eon determined
to try and build up the body by 'Tonga
grafting.
It was a bold undertaking, requiring
great skill and patience to make it success.
fel. The fiaeat quality of sponges were
used. They were given a bath in diluted
nitro-mnriable aoid tor seventy-two hours,
then washed in water and liquor pobaesor,
and finally allowed to soak in a week solution
of embolia acid. Before being thus treated
the sponges were out into alines one-quarter
of an inch in thickness. All the cretaceous
materials were destroyed, and only the
horny framework of the sponge remained.
In preparing the legs and arms tor the
sponges
TRE ULCERS WERE SCRAPED
and all the good themes united while the
patient was under other.
The stripe of sponge were than carefully
laid close together, until every par of
bhe diseased tissue was covered in the arms
and legs. Fine strips of sticking piaster
were need be hold rho sponges together, and
the whole was firmly bound in bandages
dipped in a carbolic solution. Turpentine,
oamphor and wino were elven Internally
for tumoral days before the operation, and
were also oonbinued afterward.
The effeat upon the ulcerated theme was
remarkable. All the sponges wore inherent
inside of forty-eight hours, and the growth
of new tissue followed at ouee. Gianb cells
were thrown out into all the little canals in
the sponge until they wore all filled up
Then fine streaks of red that under the mi-
000500pe were found to be blood vossele
were developed, and with the blend came
nerves and vitality.
A email nation of sponge was cub from
the calk at the end of two weeks, and ib wee
almosb solid. When the sponge wait oub ft'
bled freely the same as if the log had been
crit. After three weeks there was a marked
change in the sponge, it had the oppoaranoe
of raw beef and wee
VERY SENSITIVE TO TIER TOUOIE.
The oarbolia solution was frequently
applied to the dressing.
As if it had been pressed by a magio wand
the sponge slowly faded from view and was
converted into good healthy tieeue, The
only explanation of this marvellous obange
i0 that a sponge to an animal them, and
does nob act as a foreign body and set up in-
flammation and blood poisoning,
Ab the end of six weeks small speaks of
white appeared, and indioated that the
segonge had boon entirely absorbed, and thab
eki0 was forming. Tkis proo.00 book the
most time, and it seemed doubtful ab times
if the skin would ever be perfected. Bub it
finally healed, and both lege and arms were
ompletely covered by tieouo and skin, and
the uloere were entirely wiped out of exist).
nee, The flesh, of aouree, shows many
care and irregularities, but is sound, and
ave great 'sensitiveness, whiohtern diminish
n time, it is as good as new. The patient's
health improved as the ulcers heeled, and
he will be discharged in a few days. The
only way a surgeon of the old sohool could
have relieved this patient would have been
by amputation of the arms and legs, and
death would have been preferable.
A Youth's Rejoinder.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
was the sharply -spoken remark of a lady to 0
a young man who had just trodden on the
train of her dread.
" I bog pardon," said he apologetioaily,
adding after a pause. "You must admit
madam, that the angels could not be blameri
for being afraid."
Aoourately Expressed.
"This is a fearful existence of mine," said
a barber to a traveling man who was ono of
his regular ouatomers.
" Don't you like it ?"
" Well, I should say not. Thio thing of
fixing up old white headed men to look like
youths of twenty or twenty -ono is getting
miserably monotonous."
Why, you talk like a man who was
tired of living."
"No;, that does nob quite express It ; I'm
tired of dyeing."—[Merohant Traveller,
The ballet pantomime, "The Belle Sofia,'
now being produced at Cassel, pictures Bul'
garia and introduces the Emperors of
Auebria and Russia, the Sultan, the Singe
of Greece and Italy, and Bismarck. In the
anal soone the Emperor of Germany sits on
his throne, eurroundod by donning beauties,
with Bismarck by hie bide.
Roman Satire.—Lltble son -"Papa, when
Brutus said the Roman 'senators were all
honorable men ho didn't moan Ib, did he 1"
Father —"No,ho spoke satirically," "What's
that 1" "He meant that the rhon.' in front
of their namo0 were put there by their con.
stituents just for joke. Those old Romans
relished bugler just se much as wade,"
APRIL G, 1889,
A GOOD HORSE.
now You Can '1111:11.40 {shier You See'
"1 oan'bexplsin wliab a good horse le,"'
said a well-known dealer. "They are au
different es men, in buying n home you
meet look first nu hie head and eyes for awns
of intelligence, uempe., courage end honesty.
Unions a horse hue brains you can't teaoh
hitt. anything any mere than you eau a half•
witted child. boo that tall bay there, a
fine-looking animal, 15 Wilds high, You
can't teeth that noon anything. Wby1
Well lel show yi.0 a difference in heads, but
have a care of hie haola• Leek et the brute's
head, that roun.ting nose, that baporiiig fore-
head, that broad, tull ;Lica below the ayes.
You eau's treat him. Kick ? Well, 1 guess
so I Put him iu a 10 -acre lot, where he's gob
plenty of awing, and h '11 Wok the horn off
the moon,' Tee world's treatment of man
and beast has the tondoney to enlarge and
Intensify bad qualities, if they predominate.
Tnis good -watered phrenologist could nob
refrain front slapping in the feces the horse
whose oharaoter had been ro cruelly delinoab-
ad, whilehe had notitiug but the genbloo4
00000000 for a tall, (limbo, sleok-limbed sor-
rel, that prioked her oars forward and look-
ed iotelligeut enough to undoroband all that
;was being 'said.
"That's au awful good mare," ho added.
" She's as true as toe 0nn, You can see
breadth and fullness between the ears and
syee. You couldn't hire that mare to act
mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be
full, and hazel is a good oolor. I like a
small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw
bis earls well forward. Look out for the
brute thab wants to listen to all the conver-
sation going on behind him. The horse that
turtle back his care rill they almost; meat ab
the points, take my word for it, is sure to
do aemething wrong. See that atraighb,
elegant face, A hone with a dishing face 1/1
is cowardly, and it cowardly brute is usual-
ly viaioue. Than 1 like a square muzzle,
with large notarial, to let in plenty of air to
the lungs. For tbo under aide of the head,
a good horse should he well out under the
jowl, with jaw -bonne broad and wide apart
under the throttle,
"So mnoh for the head," he 000tinued.
"The next thing to consider ie the build of
the animal. Never buy a long-legged, 'salty
horse, Let him have a ahrrb, straight back,
and a straight rump, and you've gob a gen-
tleman's horse. The withers should be high,
and the shoulders well set bank and broad ;
bub don't get them too deep in the sheat.
The fore-lhg should be thorn. Give me a
pretty straight bind leg with the hook low
aowu, short ptotern joints, and a round
mullah foot. There are all kinds of horses,
but the animal that hats these points is al-
most sure io be sightly, graoolul, good-na.
tured andservioeablo. Ae to color, baste
differs. Bays, browns and chestnuts are the
best. Roane aro vary fashionable ab pre-
sent. A groat many greys and sorrels are
bought here for shipment to Mexico and
Cube. They do well in a het climate, under
a tropioal sun, for the same reason that you
find light colored clothing the moab sorvioe-
able in summnr. That oireue horse behind
you is what many people call a calico horse;
now I call trim a genuine piebald. It's u
freak of nature, and may happen any.
where."—[Albany Journal.
Useless Mourning.
She is waiting in the darkness, she is
waiting by the door, and she hears the and
sea moaning ne it beats the sandy shorn;
and she hears the nighb bird Drying, and
the wailing of the trees, and upon her fever-
ed forehead gently blows the southern
breeze; bub in vain oho stands and listens
for the ooming of the one who to her Is prince
and hero, who is brighter than the ann.
Close the door, oh, weeping lady, close the
door and weep alone, to the sighing of the
branches, to the ocean's sullen moan; to the
screaming of the nightbird, bo the sobbing
of the rain, as ib fella like tears from Beavon,
splashing on the window pane. Let your
eyes this night be rivers and your hair a
mourning veil, lab yt ut soul flash out to
heaven in a wild despairing wail; for the
footsteps of your hero do not eoho nn the
shots, and tonight' you'll never see him
though you're waiting by the door; and you
will not hear the music of the voioe you
love Bo well; you will only boar the moan-
ing of the ocean's restless swell. Close the
door, oh weeping lady, look no more for
him you love, better look for hope and com-
fort to the sombre sky above; to your side
your love and hero all your watching can-
not win, for he triad to paint the oiby and
the peelers ran him i0.
Dudes Play at Dueling.
LEXINGTON, Va.,—A duel with pistols
was fought here the other afternoon by two
young society swells, who have hitherto
been companions and faob friend'', and who
have occupied the same suite of rooms.
Warwick C. White and 11, 0. Starkey, well-
known young men, had o misunderstanding.
A protracted dispute resulted, culminating
in a personal agreement to fight a duel with
pistols. Accordingly, Wbtte selected Pate
Williams as his second, and Starkey named
John Doss as hie repreoenbative. The prin-
cipals and seconds at thee left town, and in
a eeoluded plate; in the suburbs marked off
thirty paces. The principals faced each
other armed with 'seven -oho -item and ab a
signal began firing. The pistols wore emp-
tied without reaulb. Seven more elute were
fired without effect. At this stage of the
affair it began to look as if neither of the
aggrieved youths could hit a (look of barna.
The pistols were charged for a third time.
The last seven rounds were fired in rapid
euooeosion, and when the smoke cleared
away it was found that one ball had passed
through White's hat and that the cosh of
Starkey showed a bullet mark. Forty-two
shots were fired altogether. At the eon -
elusion the principal's stepped forward,
shook hands, and became Meade.
Bishop Ooxe on Romeo
The Boston "Herald" osys:—Among those
who take the ground that Roman influence
in this country is hostile to national educe -
tion Bishop Coxa is certainly to be counted;
but when his animosity is fairly measured
and understood, ib is found thab his objection
bo the Courb of Rome 10 not Bo much theolo•
gioal as national. He demands, and the
majority of .American citizens demand with
him, that Roman Catholios in thio country
should be loyal to American ineibutiono, and
so far is this posiblon from being unecoepb.
able to the large and growing proportion of
the Roman Catholic population that a good.
ly number of the Roman Catholic otorgyend
people will probably be found to agree
with him on this point Tho ground of hie
earnest pleading against Romana interference
In this oountry was entirely polities', and
his address was a praobioal application of the
Monroe doctrine, to American education and,
imolai life. Our Roman Catholic chime aro
too wise and intelligent, for the most parb,
to deny the justice of the position taken by
Bishop Clore. No reliylous body in thin
country min accept foreign diotabion in its
polioy toward our inatitntione aaii be loyal
to the nation,
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