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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1900-11-02, Page 4SURGEONS' TIIREAD. MATERIALS THAT ARE USED TO SEW UP CUTS AND WOUNDS. There Are Many Kind s 9f Instru- ments stud Needles and a Great 'variety of Stitches treed In Le Saving operation*. Imagine a tailor who deliberately plans to have the stitches he so careful- ly sews give Way at a certain time. Suppose he ehould use oue kind of thread in a coat warranted to break in one week, another kind in the trousers guarauteed to fall apart in a month and using permanent material only in making up a waistcoat. Yet this is ex- actly what the surgeon does every day. Sutures, as the stAgeon's thread is call- ed, are mane from various materials, according to the requirements. Catgut, silk thread, silkworm gut, silver wire, kangaroo tendons and horsehair are in common use. Catgut was at one time obtained from members of the feline tribe. As its use increased the supply ran short. Experiments showed that sheep fur- nished an acceptable substitute. So catgut used by surgeons, jewelers and makers of musical instruraents comes now from the submucosa, or middle layer of the intestine of a sheep. It is the most commonly used of all sutur- ing material. Catgut stitches are ab- sorbed in from ,five to seven days, de- pending on the individual upon whom they are need. In occasional instances catgut stitebes have been known to be absorbed in 30 hours. By treating It with chromic acid such a suture will remain la position. for many weeks. Because of Its adaptability and the cheapness of the material catgut heads the list of suegical threads. Silkworm gut can be more thorough- ly sterllizal than any other known suture rat! e 'J. In preparing sutures of all , ;Li° 4iSttli method is to boil the Lae eael in "7!:.7.% allow it to soak for S4 h -ere nen elate it in alcohol for e aty nr ZZ! follow this with a L '. e 17 u 1 ti on. Notwith- stae iese, lee n ugh Cleansing, the vaear, germs still present in t tee In many instances. r 1,,,r dim fewer micro - ergo' eaenf seer materials treated in the te, .. it Is highly recom- nesse ea work. The mate- Some quaint ideas have hovered rialt el a silkworm killed around that familiar garden herb and disk adorner. parsley. In England, it begius to "rye Devonshire folk declare that parsley Ite I lunately for sur- Mug !Meer be transplanted or great eo" * t • ,ein permanently in ph. „ r t, aeon Ita ese Is re - Eta * 7' °,,,' numbing Wien from tine a „ to furnish surgeons Web• 1: Cad. Kangaroo ten- II dee , eel; hold fast for many parsley away. Ask then) fur roses. lilies, fruit or rare vegetables, told basitet- „her wire sutures are but request a few sprigs of parsley and mate t "teeliS lATO Medan. ite gums or the body you 'will be told. with a solemn sleeking of heads, "'No. we never pick parsley do ye • r teens in any way. and forany one, velem It's pod rare, Cate. stltebes Will reMain The great historiun Blutarch relates tm "1°341 IV "Ine It Is an Interesting nueedote on the subject te tatty I ,” elver wire has distinct of this herb. Timoleon was leading Int la eelaticn l*ENJWII tO 1f5 a good ger- micithe lie nee it Is argued that a ell - Ver sell ifidnlibus to germ development SS &Med be the 'contact of body fluids •dt4qt' Thtls 2tIleb nibl.ec"s and his Well took it into their. heads DISSUADED FROM SOICIDE. The Coaviztelna• Argument u Parli011 'Used `tilitth Telling Meet. "An Arkansas country store keeper of my acquaintance had a bad attack of melancholy about a year ago," said a New Orleans drummer, "and attempted to commit suicide. Be put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger, but the cartridge. failed to explode, and bee fore he could try it again the weapon was taken away, HoWever, he swore be would do the deed the first chalice he got, and he was no doubt really of that Intention when he was talked out of it by a little itinerant preacher who was a reformed gambler. The argu- ment used by the parson was so pecul- iar and lagenious that it made a deep Impression on my mind. 'You know you would be a dead man,' be said as nearly as I can rememper, 'if it wasn't for the fact that there was a defective cartridge under the hammer of your re- volver. Now, a defective cartridge is a very unusual thing,' he went on. 'They calculate at the manufactory that there is possibly one to the quar- ter million turned out. The chance of that bad cartridge being in the boxful that you bought for your gun was not over one to another quarter million, the chance of your getting hold of it when you loaded was exactly 1 to 50, and the chance of it being under the hammer was 1 to 5. That makes the total odds 1 to 500,055.' "At that point the little preacher sud- denly straightened up, his eyes flashed fire, his chest expanded, and he shook his forefinger under the storekeeper's nose. 'You miserable sinner,' he roar- ed, 'do you imagine for a minute that the Lord would have given you that kind of odds and let you win out on the play if he hadn't got some good and special use for your life? Don't let Inc ever hear of you trying to bloat% him again!' "The would be suicide thought the thing over and concluded that the par- son was rigbt. His melancholy prompt- ly disappeared, and the last time I saw him he was bubbling over with cheer- fulness. He believes firmly he Is a man of destiny." ALL. HONOR TO PARSLEY. Curious Folklore and Ilistory Con- cerning. This Common lIerb. area eetee sedures are not eta evil will follow. Suffolk people any it will not come up double unless SOWLI 011 Good Fridley—a notion tbat expert - melts might surely soon lave disprov- ed—While ancient dwellers in Hemp - shire steadfastly refuse to give any 4;414 •Ininn Is esti* fuls will be gladly bestowed on you. rettleepes eetiee. Nitrate of silver army agitinst tbe CArthaginiati& I'llut us he was ascending a bill from the top Of which the 4iettirs camp and nil I their vast Comes 'would be in sight, lie Met Annie 1111110S laden With parsley, A. RED FIRE COMPANY IT STARTED OUT to SHAKE THINGS UP IN JERICHO. POP Perkins, the Postranster, Tells flow the Enthusiastic Organization Was Dusted Up by One ot Lish Dil- Lingo' Pranks. (CoPYrlztt. 1900, by C. D. LewiS.1 Tbe Jericho tiro company, which con- sisted of 40 wen, 10 pails, 2 axes and a heeler and all painted red except the men, le no more On earth. It was or- gaulzed 13 years ago and never turned out to but one fire. Nobody had found any fault with it. however, up to two mouths ago, when Reube Holdfast came into the postoffice one day and says to me: "Look here, Pap, this town of Jericho is deader'n a doe:toll, and unless sun - thin kin be done to rouse her the moss on our backs will be a foot long in an- other year," "What kin you do?" says 1. "That's what I've bin thinkin of fur the last month. We can't git up dog fights nor boss raves, and nobody will go in fur a brass band or a camp meet - he The only thing I kin think of is to resurrect the fire company and. boom her fur all she's wuth. If we kin git things a-goin red, bee Jericbo will wake up and push to the front till Chi- cago won't be in it. I'm gittin figgers together fur a speech, rap, and .you jest lay low fur three or four days, and you'll hear sunthin drop." Before the week was out everybody In town knew that sunthin was up, aud one evening Amite shot off bis speech to the postoffice crowd and made a big hit. He had the number of fires and the losses in the United States fur the last fifty years, and he showed how a fire eotnpany kept down taxes, reduced Insurance and was the main- spring of liberty. He pictured the town of Jericho in ashes fur the want of sunthin to squirt out a conflagration, and when he 'went on to describe wid- ale Mad by las of ram Cecureenee when " that it N-caa a had emelt heeehee we Civet wire is utilized. usually crown the sepulcher with para. 8Ink thrgati* tfteh " uted br '01* ley, and theme conies the proverb with lc& but ct the •finest quality find of . TAW? cable% is frequeatly "teed. The tetteltes ere pmetically ndildbearbabIN thenets nt •times no trate of the thread 14'4 ball 6"112d itt 115 ust'w th°Tinioleon ordered the troops to bolt. piretien ot yeer. otod•thrtkitag t etteeelt suitable to tbe fileenintgodate this netorttneet of . aetastaa. ahaetved ataaug caber things trowel% special satiates neediee are that etatraa tote brought theta before 1Itgen0"8"h0u5e'' the vietory and offered themselves et t'':trP" "''11'Itttbu Itee-nes IL" 'whuhl11 their •OWleaeeord. Por the Corinthians teestreete11ereeognieedso auth be the regard to one tbat is dmigerously 10. *Such s, one has need of nothing bet parsley: To deliver them from this enperstition add to remove the Inuir teanitteted. iteettlet the needles Miffs tki in 'here -tea eegments of a tittle, Vatittoefts thsts heedlee elemed like o' -or javelibe acid bayonet Willa. 'Neat* 'are as long at hesikiiig, tereninab leg in a point like a Militant* kttife blade. °them have the sherpened on telertemlitt. with the apiees ot the ate u 2e.tt sitatpeittel 1:00 140200 *Age. &tee few oto rotratea like ordinAry tewitig needles, but turide of givelet Mettle Isttettgth. Insteed ot 0 tided& a fent"geoft lit** O tt intorament tidied 01 hetelle header. It is einteed like a pert teleeote„ The potere of sleet' are Meet elampt. The needle is held fiet betweeti the aititet tit tke eferepe titan teleated by opetileg the two Melee as eeeseors tite tepebed, Then fteell Lola fet takeit ilea the ade time eepeeted t1I11Ite-avy etitch. A skitifot entgron lent pe-tifeet diffe teatel of' the neediest ell thnee. Theta bee moments doting rat opeMtlail 'damn • *ell pieced stitch Meaue saving the lite of a pa Mete At teen tieset the pifltttisntgeoh displees01 eeletity and ,deatnees not ell:epos:reel itt embroidery. The tentgeen 1es meat vettaiti 'glitches foe allaetent necele, just as the deeettneker picks end eltotteeee among tbe VritiolfS fornte of etitehing. The hemstitch. eafstitch. whelebonte het - tom tilt sattiquity have looked mom a Wreath of petrel -6y as meted, erownifig 1 run the slant bell 111 n way to tuth the hull town bottom side up In rive mittiM., That tire eompatty Went at 'Met tonflngration to eoliker or die, dud lei 17 ininifs the red tongued flames of deetruttion Mel btu &vetted but, mid Serieho was sate. In a leetie tipeech which folleted the are Squat' Defitere sioki thet Rome itt her paitniett day* atattiner iliteateittee, betel' equaled the oectieloh. mid Philo. fino—Peentul Is lust non dtatlial n toe Jobneon declored that the thatlite dateettapeoeful, two dmitee; ft tdhle- or totigrese Would he a Iwo0 reward fur epootifill, tout dedrits, such heroieut. telettig or aditiinittetitig theige of • The dity Ibo ilreinert got theit titan. Mae loft quatitities should be carefully relent Jericho got op oft her hied loge itiertioted fit a thediethe gittee. for thee and honied. There WAS *kb eitite- itilit.tatiy be Stoke sate or too itm000t gitoo„ *Old is tioito oopo.mlolo to 'WEST wnooreeo nower t�1 IVA% tiers lookin into the embus fur the boues of their husbands and busbands shovelin over hot eoals In search of the remains of wives and children even Joe Truelove watt seen to 'wipe a tear from his left eye. Fur once everybody seemed to be agreed, and when ltetam Wae mimed fur foreman of the compa- ny nobody kicked, Before the meetin closed it was resolved to buy two more palls and another ladder and that the company should be uniformed. Jericho evoke right up. Real estate began to jump, Tom Bigelow put down six rods of new eltietettlit, and Homer Lee repainted his barn and put neer binges on his gate. People who eattie over from Dobbi Perry and witnessed the epeerit of enterprise went home Jealous of the town, and el lightttin rod man said that the imetiln reminded hitt: or the catty days of Itaheas City and Denverit wettift it week before the Widder Tyler's smokehouse got stare at tedditight, and Pekoe Stott the Vidor:it with it at the lethaileu gait:roe" tbe general then erovetted himself rthd all his °Mors with part - ley wraiths, and led his mat to bot tie, their feats touqueted, tile result being a detleive victoty, ment In the town thet soft even WAS allowtel to boil &Vier, bread wale Mined $1.°° Ye" 6t. so tiga (and tbla if otie 'Men Aptions, for these vary lu i1 up in the avow, mid meet folks ;forgot ttetetn thutthI heett"e 'g *Ire '4'ere the tteeritilleg to feeltiou, to feed thelt lieee. Solite idea or What 01 h"d"nnel' gnwil than Senle elf the tottrisoilteg inedielhe. It le beet sett of a rased jubilAtion 11 Watt kih be tebblhleht Wetheh hi the tet4teglitleh" fiti wield the aleee 'oh the lealeee, fee tethered reale tee vitt that tate gro. 11110 rettlen `kttt..* elvish opettly, end the onahelde Otto the heed ewe wee easily vets tdetata geld 111 lenient and negotte Mattel- toned ite waY lute publie print, hold It ettoltedie, taut thus inadvert- ivate tibiae the IS it ivtitg eteabe The fact that the Wife's Wealth:* eittnt Maly pour tot a larget swine,* litddinees itlee lbet a iirelnin oi.i 0" the 4°1°1' seemed ta.° be ot no con atuotiot too& tit ote4JotioN1 by the doe- 4 *heap; he esti date. mid he fideleed eta tr,:aaltletlee" 411 1°130° we""in tor. Settle Cages Metes of °elite kifid ere' member of tile eon:early eo leette italtatad trad tuattltisal ttt tb@ ObilettY blight be titiethievous in effect his imitotni dity and eight Whole the gl*.en tn het. ith.°te etelte` seeeeeded I stet theedereteete value siong. at, fire it( tediatieditig her littsband Witle bad turned out fur everythin but a Cu - tierce, but death had obstinately .refus- ed te gin it a show. There was a lot uf old folks with asthnee and liver cone plaiut and a lot oreabies with whoop - in cough and measles, but none of 'ern avpuicl die. Reube used to go around achin, fur it, and he'd drop into the postoffice oceasionalty to say to we: 'Pap, if some one would only die, I'd turn out the boys in a way to jump Jericho 100 years ahead. Them red pails and axes and ladders would jest be an offset to the mournin, and the way the boys would stand around on one leg and look selemn would be a plc-. ture to beat an , old master. How's your heart disease, Pap?" "l3etter, thank you," ."I was in bopes it was wuss. Thar's wuss meg nor you, Pap Perkins, but if you'll only die our fire company will gin ye a sendoff to make yer wielder proud fur the rest of her days." Reube was on the watch day and night fur a funeral, and he'd almost made up his mind to turn out the com- pany fur the next cow that died of hol- ler born when a crisis come like a flash. Owin to his lame leg Lish Bil- lings hadn't j'ined the fire company, but he was an old and respected citi- zen who could beat anybody in town at a game of checkers. Tharfore when the news come that his well had caved in on bina and buried him under ten feet of airtb the tire bells rung and red shirts went whooplu down the road. Mrs. Billings dictiet seem to care very much whetber they got Lish's body or not, belu it was already buried, but they was determined to hey it fur a funeral. They worked all the arter- noon and all nigbt, and at intervals Reube had the bells toled fur the dead. Nobody In Jericho slept The well kept cavin in, and the firemen kept world» like hears to elear dt out. It web- 8 o'clock next mornhe when they found Lish's old bat. As it was passed up to nettle, he shed tears and turned his bead away. Philetus Johnson was jest remaeltin that Lish's loss was our gale or something of that sort, and the diggers down in the evell -were lookin fur arms and legs. when 'Ash himself appeared lu the crowd. He seemed to be in good health and speerits, and he carelessly remarked to the fire compa- ny that he was mueli obleeged fur say - in him a week's work. uthin was said fur about a minit, but presently Reube Moldiest wiped the tears from les eyes and asked,: "Lisle wiaar you bin since yesterday noon?" "Up stairs in the house," says Lish. "What was your objeck?" "To boom Jericho by menu up t fu- neral. Titer's my old lint, tuel yot kin take it along and bury it In good sbnpe." Reube called off his company. nnd they marched back to town with sot - emu tread. They hadn't put away their red water pails before folks was lo tigh. In at 'etn, and before sundown the doom of the fire company was settled Lish Billings bad thrown 'em down. and the public was guyin and ridiculin. Wbeu tbe 7 o'clock mail had bin dig- trIbuted. Reubo stood up in the post - Wilco anti said: "Feller citizens, whams this 'ere town of Jericho don't seem to appreci- ate enterprise, vigilance, heroism and booms and whams she'd ruther be at the mercy or the fire fiend than to have her disastrous conflagrations equirted out, now tharfore resolved that this band of heroes be disbanded, and Jeri - oho kin go to thunder!" 34. Clean. jealousy Anteing Monkey*. When n Motikey gives natty to Jeal - 11 shows it degree of hatred for the animal that has innoeently aroused Ito malice that makes it for the time it ittonster of c.ruelty. On it Ship 'returning from one of her tours In tropieal lande wee a monkey etthith became a great frieud or the ittewardess. One day she fed :mother Monkeys it pretty, gentle createre. This trilling Attetition enraged the other motikey, whieh coaxed the little Habig to Its Aide raid the -n, before the steer• -melee§ had time to reAliee that tale - thief wee 'Watt took it by the neck end thing it overboord. Of another monkey the •eettoe person tells- that while prepering dinaer for n greed petty the took was abeerit from the kitchen for e. minute. No teener had her baelt been turned than the monkey ilipped 10 hitter: -of whieh 11 'had teiwttys betel Joliette Into the Soap Wet01 ithillitte dee* lap Peettettlieft, hillifette bed hie eatery tut •dowti THE TASK., Said Duty; "Take thy pen and write Life throbbing line, wordy weighed with Import highl Enough of sonneting on Sylvia's cyet Enough of singing of her rose and whitel" 1 *it me dawn, when, lo, upon my sight (My inner sight, since there is no one nigh!) A vnion flashes; thought of Duty fly Like southering birds adown an autumn night. 0 mentor stern, no task that thou canst set, I care not whatsoe'er thou bidst it be, Will far remove me from some dream of ber'. Look '0 am wearing Love Inc amulet! Ana lance thou mayst as soon part land and sea As thoughts of Love from Love's true wor• shiperl —Olinton Scollard in Coamopolitan THE SECRET SERVICE. Tiresome Work of Reading a Ci- • pher Dispatch of 2,000 Words. Some governments make use of nu- naerals for their ciphered communica- tions with .thelr agents abroad, °titers a mixture of numerals and words, and yet others exclusively words. Of course, the only problem that needs solution in dispatches of this kind is to ascer- tain the key number or key word. When that is accomplished, etre re- mainder is easy, though generally very tedious. Indeed it is difficult to conceive of a more tiresome, head splitting piece of work than either to cipher or deci- pher a dispatch of some 1,500 or 2,000 words. The writer talks from sad and weary experience. Some goeernments change the key word or key numerals with each dis- patch, according to a settled arrange- ment. Others, again, change it every month. Sometimes it itt placed at the beginning of the dispatch, at other times at the end. To the uninitiated a dispatch of this kind will appear in the nature of a Chinese puzzle, but to an expert cryptographer the deciphering of a government code dispeteh is mere child's play. Occasionally the dispatch will appear a mere jumble of consonants without any meaning. while at other times it will be so ciphered as to contain sensi- ble and plausible sentences, the mean- ing of which appears ou the surface. It was a code of this kind that was used by the Spanish secret agents In this country during the war with Spain, and the clever staff' of secret service men, employed by the United States government were in a very short time possessed of a key JO the cipher in question. - A KAFFIR "SMOKER." The Native Women Are Entltuttinatlo Devoteet or the Weed. In South Atrien the native womau smokes incessantly. Your native serv- ant smokes as site cooks tend as she washes. The toil:leo sbe likes is rank. The dninty cigarette an English or " 'nisei:in lady of fashion enjoys, .eutolt- ed through a quill. to that no nitotine elm stain either Wetly or fingers, woal be metered at by a Ku tar. 'alive y I pipe rind stamethitte In it tllAte." Is Ill effeet What site says. The men lantlitet are beyond tobne co. Tbey smoke eomething fey Vehellietit tinit it makes them cough nuol splus1P1'. lose their brelltil. elluLe Ititt1 SIAN Ze an alarming degree. They like ewe a too. and are fond of ofreriug mot tee - lug pluehes of it ("sebniii" they oall when they meet and visit one anether. Regarding tobaceo as too mild for their taste, the Marna tahe another weed anti smoke that. They pretend to arrange a swotting parne by squat- ting on the ground and getting ready t eir "Pipe," a cow butt with n thin tube In it inserted bale way down at right angles to the horn. The end of the tube is in a basin, nnd it Is from it that the smoker stacks the strong sentli that ninkes hhn ineapnble of nuything but a series of tomilum inni elite:es for some time after he bas heel his turn at tbe pipe, whielt is peeeed, atound from xnon to Ittatt, Ulan is perfect elto. tem of eougits rends the air The tehrteto the Boers smoke hookS like poor tett and is peculier theees yet Ertglishmett who Mere beeothe used to it neealre gads a taste for It that they Weer nett for any other kind.— London Mail. Welk. *St POrdder AZeti. The big tree Of Californet is unique In -the world. It is the loreest, oldest attd Meta beittestically ay.:ireful of all trees. SettiVeg el) knowe tree A/teams it is the beet living representative of a falter geologie tige. It bas comedown through the eget *imply by reason of its etmetb powers or defettee against liostile emiditions. The Isla is tome- tithee snitch Ittt two feet thlek Anil le Altartet hoheombestible. The oldest enecimeus -felled are etill totted at the hearts Yet, with ell its advalitaget, the big trees do hot seem to have ba 50-05500 their tango tince .the giochal e poch. NO: III*, d - If Tteiniericeme trettreete. - bell mt.i. mul voint.any tutted but ttuta the minietry.—"A. Slitisteies eine at the yhoef rematkable talltoad# ; and stood testily to rush to the -spot if Wite" In Lndlesv I'lnine 1"tital' le tee Vetted notes is that which runs .,i ligittivin frit anethie It tht,Te WAS a . , ............. ftoin Vithyare At the foot of Motet dog tight in -Vont of the ton hell the efinahorte. training stitch mid back letnd t ee, t..Y -Ji. iii tell" beret**. 1 urfiSudigtOri, to the stnamit—a dittance . eampany vette tin:bin up end it env "tit& ttmkee you Assume Ruch i to dta;tr t° the' reelialee gullets hate 1 tif a.ta; title& The time requited in : ty,yoy'n team tau away ''ot a kitelle-n. tood and oftgit-tivt' totle" 111 Tift%ellgt/i- theft eounteepette in the. e010ee:10*e , ritekle the ilidett is one end oneehelf `', . fe b g alovi get d ot theto wee a &Ash of Ing your tarn Merl -leer. 1 asked the eery mattress suture., infeertiptete Iasi ran. healit, *Ida is et the eate of a Mile ' red littirteril heroes. Jerielar Welt htIo ix canal rtIoild- likosone enture, subeuticulat *mute, the ntill Inetructeint Mee bitted 1 SeAtiet With !age es be rated a tow Irish tettnit tot bit Atekteitteltieet. "Notet Rielfetty, yrall ApOil the litte erith those feet. Draw them littek in - Mantle-, theft Mut get them in liner Refferty's digeity 'toes hart 1 "Piete, serginte" fae dre wled golelina ly, "they're not Mine:. thefte alicky Bootee% le the row ranter A. Green Ilaxid. la 2a 1 TI a • emit is etad .1 It" ot to initee, The es 1 e ri ..., in. but Rothe wasn't tatietieti with hee peree etting And figare eight tutlitek the same .. 1 AM °tett t�do , wee t e great I.einbott end Czettey stiveree. Ae the ' tue 3ame utile' trhe tate IS *4 tel.' the ' Pr"all'a.‘ na got ifle tonttenty out ' tidtsea titia*,01.:- "r id battwally one of „ totted trip, or at the tate or On teats ' aim matched them to attreley ebureit 1 the blast hiail'st "en In the "t1(1* andtogromtm-s se 100 'nu Itelirenthite a Mile, No °thee 'toad In the woald ! end to Tberettay evebity witeee 'meet. a Pee got to keep ptaising myself tot eiteh for * SId011. It hlitIOnhOle Of MI tfi. .,,,, rtr&S tillte SO Intleli And ten' fun I n '' i-TvelYe vca A lima 1)01:'-guit avt.f* sew i; tea tenaltite liktnre U -III noniPti oh!' slli°.°t11 th(Y°seShit°i1-- tilting at it speed quite no sio*. Abont 1 tad:a-001r dim White and Anitti 'romp,- : nee to' go te the ttiMittget and tell him I bur his life saving stitehet. ....... ee. Ariera tateseege..t. e. nt.e tattled genteell. iI king. 110i1 the Ill* tompany wee pregent i tit100k lat n g too emth money. " *tol'ehlae eaar, lae. ,iLeera Tit,* wit,, kit; Geteginna 01 sympathetic hided?' 'WOU. heti ele ptaieeinlything I *ett ei.eg it lu a way which mitkee eiet nretethng 1 usually went enkbtleoneas .esve. lrtetl of mettlegee 10 in Franceand '1eiey21Neroay, 24; Russia. O. . ya ft uniaotin. Old altte 'leapt:lee Wag 1 Little teeeyets l'ilitata teken etaawl the doetot said the i One 'evertleg 1 t 0 1.ncy ktielt to hbat must go, and -..ruht, teit it hit duty to ,. Moan t tt, the largest Voldatio Itt her ateintlk ibtall.i.... get Tette hettri ! oleic': the teettipany tip tohet toffee i leuittre end one tot tile littgett in the was bursting With Self getisattetiot — I heel eve lan' . I „ , y She hod been so eeetnpiery :111 thtougl'e ; ;....s -s -to. -01:.:7 t-urna''sfentr'tttleZwbeeltitetH. andshe,I, itsii.°:Iirile' nil fletirtie-rcef6aettitlisiglybastn, d 90 nines . , the day. "0 Lord." she said, "maize1 beettin to elf well: and Retitle matehed : . . ... , inc tett good, even bettet filet I am:, " . tin' „Inatome ale agar, to give berthite i , , The initu Itho iiitS delve eild wait§ plus -et it he does not tate to tint If ' kite! &bent a Month. there vhig only 1, btoitulf• ciellitileiltettaohett71:ntleodn go f %,'Ild-Seljfnit, !eine :1111 - fate Wordfl. ; .. erne thine ItiCkill. the tire -e0tiltoltlY ; Ion,—chietigo News,. I s Many an older person thinks 1111' „ebri e Inc not dyin, Ile waS new freight hatailleit "Load those batrels in that tar," ot- deted the "freight agent "01 ea:al load Motel§ itt tbat toe tele" tespoilded tbe new mate "Why ilot?' "WS01 box eine tots°. The Adiediadeek enoanteltis elnletece titt iti*it of e'er '2,0100.000 acres, and lb thig ate& fully SOO el onutain peeks tise to altitudes ranging front 1200,to 5,000 feet re* things are Impossible In hern ttelvee. 11 le not go lamcb meene as perseverance that is eventing to bring theta fob iniegessfol issue. DEATH AT A WEDDING. A Pathetic Tragedy of the '1,Var tween the State.. Recalling the historic incidents chi* tering about South Caroni:ulna eXeell. tive mansion, Mrs. Thaddeus Horton writes in The Ladies' Home Journal of the shocking tragedy that occurred there toward the close of the war. This Was the death of the daughter of Gov- ernor Pickens immediately after her naarriage to Lieutenant Le Rochelle. "On the afternoon preceding the even- ing of the marriage the morthern army began shelling Columbia, but prepara- tions for the wedding continued. "Finally the guests were all assem- bled, and the clergyman was proceed- ing with the solemn ceremony and had Just joined the right hands of the hap- py pair when suddenly there was an awful crash, and a ball from the ene- my's cannon penetrated the mansion and burst in the middle of the mar- riage chamber, scattering its death dealing missiles in every direction. There were screams and a heartrend- ing groan, mirrors crashed, the house shook, women fainted and walls rock- ed to and fro. "When the first confusion was over, it was discovered that in all the crowd only one person was injured, 41 that was the bride herself. She lay /partly on the floor and partly in her lover' arms, crushed and bleeding, pale, but very beautiful, her bridal gown drench- ed with warm blood and it great cut in her breast. "Laying her on a lounge, the frantic bridegroom besought her by every term of tenderness and endearment to allow the ceremony to proceed, to which she weakly gave consent, and, lying like a crushed flower no less white than the camellias of her bridal bouquet, her breath coming In short gasps and the blood flowing from this great, angry wound, she murmured 'yes' to the clergyman and received her husband's first kiss. A moment more and all was over. "She was laid to rest under the mag- nolias, and the heartbroken bride- groom, reekless with despair, returned to his regiment." CHEAP SPONGES, Where Therm Sold by the Street l'altirs Are Procured. Sponge.: ee1.1 by tbe street fakir are retie r ettells Whig In nppenrance, large and eine,. a el late. and the price ranges from D to lit vents wet. People who have hugbt 'Images at it drug store kivAr that . twit looking articles can' ie. rot th, le fee so 'tale money, and so they 131Vt.:t. But they don't Invest more trent once, bemuse the sponge stem fella to pleees. whereas a good sponge will last foe yelltS. Some.sly started a store" years ago dint the rensou the ftetirs could sell these spenges so cheaply was beeause they hot ght them from the hespitals, and there are 801110 mettle who still be- lieve it. As if toot devoting all their energies and skill to ameliorating the Ills of mankind would spread disease by distributing old and 10-05511)13' germ inieteted sponges. AS a matter of faer. surgeons' Ranges are small and fillittOtil as velvet. being close grelnetl. The fakirs' sponges are the clippings off the big sponges sold lit liverymen and others who need large epongee. The parts cut away have little Isely and would mon tear loose. The fakir* buy these bits, trim them itto shape nd then give theta a bath in dliuted muriatic nerd. After lying there for 12 'mum they are taken out and washed In clear water and dried. They ere bleaebed. In other words. but at etill farther detriment to the sponge. Neve r or dose textum the laeSh IS bleak more ratter] by the acid. and that is why they soon tall Nowt But to ear itS disease Is cobeereleal they are ets pure as any sponge bought in the finest drug store. The Tonne Men of TOtlisr. The young men er today are too fire icky—too much giveti to f:eir analyeis. WO Self pampering. Tbeir shoes and neckties eoet more each year than did the entire wardrobe of their grandee. them. They feel a senee of degrade.; tion in smolt beet:mit:0 land plodding. mid they wait for euceess ready nteede to come to them. There is dot a eoung WWI la the country who wonid knit:Ste get/ Prankiln and matelt fittOtig,11 the etreete meheiting h lone of hteral while looking foe employment. Ile thirds not. Indeed, because society has heeonte al- to Iltileky, and tvotild atressed tie a thane The young nem of today Watite eiopit1. tis eannot be preeideht or a batik or judge of a ectutt the titst week he Is featly sehool. and he fates, like the fattotie 811 Pus.sley, that be has "ho rheum"- -••-• ,,,, • Ittlialbit latent* tlhalltleii: Weedif they ette pulled atit Or I hewn At tt Hine Whet( they ere full of teed will evitice a degree of Pato rot the needs Which IS Almost tote -Meg, They will tett theft' leaves upward an far aS each can go to covet the seed:4 and ptotect theta from the suit till the end, and Often one will find weeds that Ore qtate deed. sun killed. *hose leave:e still gee -whipped tiemly &Mind the vend poste. NO mother tordd ehow more ettikifig devotion in death than do these despised plants. ........ A Paittittit titre:tees, Attlee -Here Is the poittrtit Of yolk *Ire 'whieli- 1.tts itiehmareeAhl lea vety Ilite lea Attlet—Sbett-ee—leatt—the didn't pay fot it. She 'Said Yotad tie that. Mr. Riehman—A.hi Sten Mote like het Proved. 116450 you think your lather tag toy, Idea net We ate in love/ She—Not the rerooteid. He teld toe he didn't Mind yout toreilug to see Me. -4)etrolt rtee Pees's.