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The Wingham Times, 1885-09-25, Page 7HEALTH, The Dangers of Narcotics. The London Lancet has delivered certai admonitions with regard to the prevaleu uee of narcotic poisons for excitability an sleeplessness, in such energetic and little terms as these : " The death of a medical man—Dc. Joh Middleton, late Surgeon -Major in the 2ad Life Guards, but at the time et his decease practitioner at Stooktou—will again draw attention tp the misohevious and, as we be liove, wholly indefensible practice of giving and taking such depreesiig narcotics as chloral and bromide of potassium as a rem- edy for sleeplessness. Sleeplessness is al- ways wakefulness in one or more of its multitudinous forms, and the reoource to narootio poisons for its relief is utterly un- scientific" and deplorable from atherapeutic- al point of view. It is as clumsy in theory —in so far as it can be said to have a theory —as knocking a man down because ho needs rest. What is it that prevents the natural and phyaiologioal rest of the body atrhyth- mical periods ? The brain is as truly a part of the body as the stomach, and it is as much a fault of the organs of the mind to prevent sleep by mental worry or wakeful- ness as it is a fault of the stomach to render sleep impossible by bad digestion. No in- telligent practitioner dreams of narcotizing the nerves of the gastric organs to promote sleep; Why in the name of common sense should any medical man for au instant think t legitimate to narcotize the brain because it exhibits some disturbing irregularity in its functions ? " Sleep is not a special prerogative of the brain. Every organ sleeps, and general sleep is the aggregate of many sleeps. It ie time to protest against this clumsy proce- dure. If wo do so warmly, it is because we feel that the mistake is of common making. It is se match easier to write a prescription or make up a bottle of medicine or a box of pills with one of the rank poisons that mim- ic sleep, and as they do so deprave cerebral and nerve tissue, than it would be to search out the real and active rause of wakefulness. When will the progress of profeseional en- lightenment reach that point at whioh all those cloaks for ignorance that depend so much for their significance on the negative in are ostracized from our nomenclature ? Dr. Clifford Allbutt has just pleaded forciib- ly and eloquently for the discarding of that wondrously silly word ' indigestion.' Will no spirited scientist help to exorcise the haunting folly that °liege to the term ' in- somnia ? All terms with in, negative, im- ply ignorance on the part'of those who frame and use them, and, which is worse, are con- tent with the state of knowledge arrived at, or are too indolent to extend and improve it. Who shall sound the depths or measure the range of the stupendous unknown over which the audacity of a specialty and the apathy of a profoseion conspire to cast the veil of ' insanity '? There are more than a score and a half of known causes or forms of sleeplessness, each one requiring direct and specific treatment, and yet, as by common consent, the profession sanctions the abuse of such drugs as chloral and bromide as ' poisoned sleep ' producers. No medical man is justified in undertaking the treat- ment of his own maladies. It is impossible that he should so far step out of himself as to be able to form reasonable judgment of his case objectively ; and no practitioner has the justification of science for the recourse to narcotics as remedies for sleeplessness ex- cept when an exceptional pain is the acci- dental disturber of a sleep f unction, or a habit of wakefulness may be broken by an oc• casional dose of the etupefier." We have known several cases of young men, who by medical advice have taken doses of quinine or chloral, or of a bromide compound, and in the course of a year have broken down with shattered nerves and a mental state bordering on insanity. A ra- tional observance of simple hygienic rule would have saved them the loss and worry incident to such a condition. 09 0141% P 7! shut '.themselves into :their own souls famine, " Only a God or a brute Can dwol in solitude," says the wise ord German. The resources are n at sufficient to keep off 1 t Oaring Rheuwatirjpl with Celery. d A German oorreependent of an Englis g paper writes ae fohvwe : I hays had a sever attack of inflammatory rheumatiem and wa n healed in two days' time by a soup made o the etalks and roots of celery : therefore a desire to make this simple remedy know through the columns of your paper for th - benefit of all suffering from gout or rheuma Hem of any form. I was induced to try i by Boeing the following notice : " Numerou cures of rheumatism by the uee of celery hay recently been announced in English papers.' New discoveries—or what claun to be dis coveries—of the healing virtues of plants are continually being made. One of the latest is'that celery is a cure for rheumatism; in- deed, it is asserted the disease is impossible if the vegetable is cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic powers from be- ing known. .Phe celery should be cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank by the patient. Serve warm with pieces of toasted bread, and the painful ail- ment will soon yield. Such is the declaration of a physician who has again and again tried the experiment, and with uniform success. At least two-thirds of the cases named "heart disease " are ascribed to rheumatiem and its agonizing ally, gout. Small pox, eo much dreaded, Is not half so destructive as rheu- matism, which, it is maintained by many physicians, can be prevented by obeyingna- ture's laws in diet. Here, in Germany, we boil the root and stalks, as the root is the principal part of it, and afterwards eat it as a salad with oil and vinegar. I received such immediate benefit that I am anxious to lot all rheumatic sufferers know of it. THE LIME -KILN CLUB. " De odder day I received a visit from ii oull'd orator who wanted to sot out on a tower," said Brother Gardner as the meeting. was called to order, "He had built hieself h a lecktur' an' named it: ' Was the Cull d Matt o Left Out o' de Ark ? IIe wanted to begin at e Portland, Me„ an' trabble to Galveston, f Tex,, an' deliber dat lecktur in ebery town I on de way, He believed dot cull d people n war jist dyin' to h'ar it, an' dat white folks o would stop work to pat him on de back as a • new Cicero. I ar' sorry dat I couldn't lend t him $20 an' givedrim a cc tidcate of char- s peter from our club. He am heah yit, an' o Sir Isaac 'Walpole may pass de hat an' take ' up a colleckshun. Sieh of you as fool like • chippin' in to start de great orator on his way shall hey do opportunity," The hat was passed and it came bank empty. The President made a thorough search of it and then continued : "Die seems to prove dot, fust, a great ou[l'd oratororter to hey at least $20 in his pocket, and, secund, dat de aiverage cul['d r Fresh Alr for the Brain. A physician noted for his skill in curing nervous diseases almost invariably separates the patient from her family, her old nurses, and the familiar, anxious, sympathizing cir- cle of friends, and places her in a ch.erful atmosphere, among new faces and scenes, where she no longer can believe herself the centre of the universe. " Thera is a certain healthy, helpful in- fluence which naturally comes from human beings to each other," he said, lately, while speaking to one of his patients. " This wo- man has drained all which her friends had to give years ago. We need occasionally a fresh moral and mental atmosphere, just as mach as fresh material air to breathe." Another physician, visiting in a country house where the mother a delicate, affection- ate, self-sacrificing woman, who lived but for her husband and children) lay ill, with no disease apparently but extreme weakness and weariness, ordered her to go to the city alone ; to spend a month in absolute idle- ness, mixing as often as poesible with crowds of people who were interested and excited, at church, at concerts, oven in public meet- ings. The patient, a shy, diffident woman, obeyed, and came home with color in her cheeks and new life in her heart. " I once asked," said a well-known law- yer, " the famous backwoods preacher Bas- com what was the secret of his power as an orator ; how he contrived to sway large numbers of men to his will. ' First,' he an- swered, ' I bring them close to mo and to each other. Leave no empty benches be- tween your audience. The electric spark will not pass across a gap from one man to the other.' " These ideas may seem fanciful, but there is a solid basis of truth under them all. Phy- sicians usually bring all their skill to bear in curing the ailments of the body. There is a human magnetism which wo are all apt to overlook in our materia medica, Ha*d-working women in the lonely farms or isolated villagea of this canary often find themselves growing irritable and nervous, and even troubled with religious doubts, in spite of their fervent prayers. They do not need tonics or moral discipline. They need friction with unfamiliar minds, new ideas, novel sooner, just se their lungs, after using no all tho oxygen in a close room, need the air out of doors. Young girls aro too apt, voluntarily, to force themselves into this state ; disappoint• od in their natural longings for a congenial 1 companion, they resolve to live alone, and , PEOPLE. Signor Luigi Canape. a composer whose three previous works have had some success in Italy, is writing an opera with the title "In Carnevale," which represents an episode of Florentine history in the time of the Medici. At the special invitation of the Emperor of Germany, Mme. Christine Nilsson has consented to sing for the first time in Berlin. The opening performance will tike place on October 12, the operaselected being "Faust,' on which coca ion all the members of the imperial family will be present. Florence, the actor, got into a street car the other day. • He says : "The seats were all full. A lady had her little boy in the seat along side of her. She told him to get up, and let the old gentleman, meaning me, sit down, I came home feeling my 54 years." A book called "Wieland and Reinhold," which has just appeared in Germany, con- tains the following extraordinary estimate of one of the greatest German musicians by one of the greatest German poets, In 1793 Wie- land wrote to Reinhold : " I should be pleased if your visit could occur on a day when the operetta 'Der Baum der Diana will be given, the music of which is said to be extraordinarily sweet and charming— whereas, on the other hand, Moz trt's 'Figaro' which was to add to the pleasures of out celebration day before yesterday, is the most disagreeable thing I have ever heard in my lie. 'William M. Everts fell in love with his wife when she was sixteen, and he a green boy at college. She was the daughter of Treasurer Wardner, of Vermont, and was as pretty as young Everts was homely. They became Ong ged at her home in Vermunt, and Evarts went away to New York, prom- ising to come back when he had made er ough to warrant his marrying At twenty-five he had made a name for himself as a lawyer, and was a member of one of the chief New York law firms, one making, it is said, a to- tal of $60,000 a year. At this time he mar- ried, a ad his wife, after bearing him thirteen children, is still well and happy. Once in a while the question is heard : " What has become of Mrs. Tilton ?" The little woman who wa'a few years ago the most widelyknown American woman in tha. world, lives with her aged mother, Mrs. Morse, on Pacific street, in Brooklyn, in comfort and quiet. Ever since tne remark- able scandal trial she has lived in the same way. .The home of Mrs. Tilton with hor mother is one of taste, refinement and eleg- ance. Many of the pictures that were made famous by the -repeated yarns in the court. room, of how Theodore, in his nightshirt, used to go around the home rehagging them at all hours of the night, are to be seen on the walls of her present brown -stone home. A good story was told about Mr. Henry Irving at a reception of Htrvard alumni at Buffalo. When the English actor visited Boston, President and Mrs, Eliot were among the spectators at his first perform- ance; and in order to do honor to the stranger, he was invited out to Harvard, shown all the college "lions" and finally en'. tertaincd at a luncheon to which a select party of distinguished ones were bidden.' "By the way, M•'. Irving," said the presi- dent,, with a praise -worthy desire to open the conversation upon a subject of general interest, "Are you a university man ?' "No, sir," was the actor's answer ; then, as if he felt that the reply might be taken ss in some way implying disrespect to the col. lege and co leges in general, he added, "but my business mat ager here is. In a new volume by Mr. R. ad, the veter- an reporter, a chapter on "hearing and m s- hearing gives somo emueing illustrations of the mistakes sometimes m tde by r port- ers owing to imperfect hearing, caused not infrequently by the imperfect articulation ef the speakers they were reporting. Thus . "overtax" was once written down for "over act ;" "Watching from the Roman eye" for "Watching from their home on high;" "a good Sunday coat" for "a goose and a goat; and the "Countess ef Ayr" for "county sur- veyor." A speaker in parliament once said, "What do the Turks want? To bo a ne• tion." This was printed "I'o bo in Asia." "Attenders of clubs," (lotto of Mr. Bright's speeches, was transformed into 'vendors of gloves The latter part of the statement t that "all reforms in this country have been brought about by pressure," was reported "brought about byI'russia." "Pew rates d are the greatest enemies of the Church" was t converted into "curates aro the greatest en- emies of the Church, ) o man of to -day dean keor a copper whedde his ancestors got aboard of do ark wid Noah or paddled aroun' on deir even hook. De faok am, our race am not sufferin' to h'ar do voices of orators half as much as fur fall an winter undershirts. If our ancestors went along wid Noah dat am all right ; if dey war left behind dat dean' make tu-morrer's job of whatewashin' wurf airy de leas. I would advise de orator to change hie leoktur' to : ' How I Got Left is Detreit,' an' go to work an' earn his liven' in an honest manner." ACCEPTED. An official communication from Robert E. Towers, Secretary and Treasurer of the branch Lime Kiln Club at Norwich, Conn., extended an invitation to the Detroit Club to send a delegate to a meeting to be held October 15, at which time the branch will discuss the question : "Should the length of a man's heel make his standing in society ?" The branch reported a membership of fifty- six highly respectable members of the com- munity, with $32 in the treasury and an en- thusiasm which would carry it to the 1st of February without any fire in the stove. Brother Gardner observed that the sabjeot was one he had given much thought, and one which all colored societies and lodges would do well to agitate and discuss. Elder Toots, who has the longest heels of any man in the State of Michigan, would be sent as a delegate. He will not only have a certifi- cate of identity properly signed, but all strangers will recognize him as Toots by a scar on his chin, the abeenoe of all front teeth, and a hesitancy in his speech which sometimes causes him a delay of five minutes in answering a person who wants to borrow fifty cents for a day or two, IN A BAD WAY. The Secretary announced an official communication from Montgomery, Ala.; re- citing the fact that the drug store and branch Lime -Kiln Club in that place was on the point of disbanding. The club started but to do business on a high moral plane, bar black sheep had crept in and made their influence felt until the organization had practically ceased to exist. Only two weeks since the club passed a resolution to the effect that it was every member's duty to steal water -melons and chick "I shall send Giveadam Jones down dar' right away," said the President, "I ar' satis- fied dat de inflooence of half a dozen individ- uals has brought about die state of affairs, an' dat as soon as dey kin be got rid of de branch will resume de pith to glory. Brudder Jones will be instructed to go down dar' an' seek out de unregenerate an' labor wid 'em He has a way of 'laborin' dat am mightly uncomfortable to a pusson who can't be convinced by moral suasion " FAILED TO PASS. The Rev. Penstock arose to a question of privilege. Dur rg the last three or four years he had suffered, dreadful pains in ob- ving the fact that eight out of every ten marriages among colored people took place before a white clergyman This was in the face of the fact that there were plenty of colored divines in the country who couid do the business up in first class style. No white couple ever went to a colored preacher to be married. Why should colored people pa- tronize a white preacher ? He hoped the "Lime -Kiln Club would instruct the colored population of this country to change its tactics. Giveadam Jones, Shindig Watkins. Pickles Smith and Col. Cahoots opposed any such business. This was a free country and if a citizen wanted to be married by a Chinaman no one should dictate. Elder Toots was preparing to sustain Penstock's idea when the President said : " De coll'd people must be left to deir own dieoreehun in de matter. While I has no doubt dat Brudder Penstock kin tie do knot wid de best of 'em, it seems to be considered a leetle mo' high -tined to call in a white clergyman." • REPAIRS VOTED, Tho librarian reported that during the summer vacation rain, rats and mildew had destroyed over 2,000 of the almanacs and railroad guides on the library shelves and he recommended speedy repairs. The sum of twenty-four cents was voted from the con- tingent fund to buy tar and shingles to stop the leak. PASSED OVER, The Secretary announced a communica- tion from Vicksburg, setting forth tho fact that the Hon. Backhold Smith, an honorary member and an orator who rates Al with Bradstreet, had passed over the deer to be known on the shores of ear,h never again. He ruptured a blood -vessel while lifting on the end of a corn•c^ib, and as near as could be remembered by his wife he died happy. Tho knob of the outer door was ordered draped in mourning for the usual thirty days and after voting down a resolution by True - toe Pullback to permit members to sit with their shoes off during meeting, the audiencp dispersed and someone stole Prof. Slaybaok e white plug hat and loft an old straw in its place. ... A man of mark—a marquis. Sober thoughts—the kind that come next morning, you know. Every succor in the land ought to be put hrough a "course of sprouts." The brewer who maketh good beer in the ,The and putteth a good head ou it is batter lean he who drinketh tho beer at night and waketh up in the morning with a good hoad n himself. YOUNG -FOLKS. Blue Eyes` Dainty Baby Blue Eyes, fair from head to Leet, bike a little flower, very, very er eel. Dowel the river Balling all the summer's day - Blue Eyes kept us happy with her merry play,` Naughtygrown-up (adios frowning at the heat, Stopped to smile at Blue Eyes, singing eat and sweet; gentlemen quite weary of the tedious way Waved a kiss to Blue Eyes, who was good all day Dainty Baby Blue Eyes, little blossom sweet, With the lisping prattle, with the, tripping feet, Did you dreamt ou taught us, all the au nmsr's day, That a happy temper cheers the longest way 1 The Count's Strange Guest, BY DAVID KER. The sky was black as night, the rain fell in torrents, the wind howled through the swaying pines, while clap after clap of thun- der awoke all the echoes of the rocky hill's whioh started to view ever and anon in a blinding glare of lightning, only to vanish again in deeper darkness. It was a night when no one who could help it would have oared to be out upon the wild Hungarian mountains between Nagy-Varad and Koloez- var ; and so, evidently, thought the tatter- ed, half-starved man who was struggling up the drenched and slippery hillside, " If I had with me half a dozen of the brave lads who lie dead yonder," he growl- ed, " I shouldn't need to slink Into the for- ests like a hunted wolf. Where on earth have I got to I wonder ? I must keep clear of the villages, for every one knows me here," Just then a brighterflash than usual show- ed him the towers cf a castle a little way above him, and his sudden start showed that he recognized them. " Karolyi Castle ? This is running iato the lion's mouth indeed. Were the Count to guess that I was within hie reach, my head would be onthe highestof those turrets in a trice, I'll warrant." He turned as if to take flight, but in an- other moment faoed round again, and setting his teeth doggedly, went straight up toward the castle gate, "Let him kill me if he likes," muttered he. " A little more of thiswoulai soon make an end of me, and I'd rather die by a brave man's hand than be starved by inches like a homeless dog." Supper was over in Karolyi Castle, and the guests had retired, but the Count him- self and one of his friends stood watching the storm from the sh-Iter of a turret. " Well, the Gorni [mountaineers] won't trouble us. much after tnis last beating we've given them," said Karolyi, laughing grimly, •' especially if Mor [Maurice] Racz himself was killed, as our men say." " I wish we could have actually seen him dead, though. That fellow has more lives than a cat, or he couldn't have so often es- caped the hands of your Excellency, the best swordsman in Hungary." " Some said Mor Raez was better," growl- ed the Count. " But although I've often crossed blades with him, one can't judge of a man's swords- manship in the thick of a battle. If he were alive now, and we could have a quiet half hour together, with no one to disturb us, we'd soon settle which was the better man." " Done !" said a deep voice out of the darkness below. " Who's there ?'' cried Karolyi, p ering over the battlements into the gloom. " Come down and you'll see," answered the unknown. Down went the Count without hesitation, although, for all he knew, he might find there a band of armed men ready to cut his throat. But all that he found was the rag- ged stranger already mentioned. " Come in, man, whoever you are," ex- claimed the Count heartily. " I wouldn't shut out a dog on a night like this," " Before you admit me, hear who I am," answered the stranger, proudly. " My name is Mor Raez." " What 1 not dead after all ?' cried Kar- olyi, in a tone of satiefaction which might well have surprised any one who knew that this man was hie deadliest enemy. " Cume in !come in 1 We'll have a chance at last of trying whioh of us is the better swords- man ; but I suppose," he added, with a keen glance at his enemyb haggard face and was- ted figure, " that you're hardly in fighting trim just'now,'' " 1 have not tasted food," answered the mountain chief, " since my comrades fell." "Two whole days, eh ? Well, we'll soon put that to rights. Just wait here for one moment." ha He ran upstairs, apologized for bidding is friend goodnight, by saying that a man had come to him upon urgent business, and then returned to R.acz, whom he led into a small room on the ground floor, and set such a meal before him as the hunted man had not seen for many a day. Mor ate like a starved wolf ; and when ho was at length satisfied (or rather when he could hold no more) the Count, who had watched his performance with considerable amusement, led him up to one of the turret chambers, and taking the key out of the door, placed it in his hand. A momentary gleam of pleasure lighted up Racz's worn face. He understood that his enemy was too proud to secure him by locking him in, and he felt grateful for t the courtesy. M " Sleep well," said the Count, as he closed fe the door ; " and to -morrow at daybreak s we'll try whioh of us can kill the other." w When the Count carne to the turret next h morning he found his strange guest already fu astir, and fairly started at the latter's alter- fi od appearance. After all his sufferings, ono to good meal and one night's rest had sufficed b to recruit the mountaineer's iron f. ame ; and to s he stood there, With the light of battle in a his great black oyes, and an elastic quiver to of repressed strength in hie long, sinewy to limbs, he looked a match for any man upon w earth. lo The Count locked the door inside, and of- a fored the two swords that he had brought o with himto Racz, who took one without a t, word. The next moment the blades Met and fe the combat began. in Karolyi was a splendid swordsman, but he this time he had met his match. In vain he sh tried countless feints and passes which had w never failed him before ; Mor's blade seem- qu ed to play around him like a flash of light- da ning, mewing and baffling hint at every go • turn. The swords shot forth' showers off' "sparks as they rasped together, and the vaulted item: eohoed with the clash of steely the stamping of feet, and the hard breathing of the combatants. Suddenly Mor attacked in hie turn, and for a few moments the quickest eye could not have followed •the blades as they darted to and fro, rising quivering, falling and ris- ing again. All at once a sharp° crash was beard, and the Count's sword blade, broken off within an. inch of the hilt, fell ringing up- on the stone floor. Any other man would have given himself up for lost ; but not so Count Karolyi. Quick as lightning he snatched up hie cloak, twisted it round his left arm, and was about to rush upon'his ;adversary with no weapon save the broken sword, But Mor, drew back and flung down his weapon " We have been enemies," said bra proud- ly,"but Mor Rtcz can not strike eat unarm- ed man. Get yourself another sword, and we will begin again, ' " Not I, my br..ve fellow," cried Karol- yi, grasping the mountain chief's strong brown hand warmly in his own. - " We have been enemies, as you say; but when a man can spare his enemy's life in the heat of battle, as you have just spared mine, any warrior in , unwary may beproud to call him friend ; and friends we will be h• ncefarth," And they wore so. STRANGER THAN FICTION. "The Marquis of Londonderry, whole- sale ani retail dealer in coals," is a sign to be seen in different parts of London. In some of the public hospitals Japanese paper handke-chiefs, are now used, with much satiefaction for drying wounds. It is a curious fact that wasps' nests often take fire, as it is supposed, by the chemical action of the wax upon the material of whioh the neat is composed. Many of the fires o£ unknown origin in haystacks and farm build- ings may thus be accounted for. A citizen of Kansas has in his possession: the ballot he cast in voting for General Grant, in 1868. ):t was printed on silk, and after it had been kept en the file, as the law re- quired, in the office of the clerk, he obtainedt it, and will hand it down to his childrea as an heirloom. A man put a large spider on a floating chip in a pond. After walking all about the sides of the chip the spider began to cast a web for the shore He threw it as far aa possible in the air and with the wind. It caught on some blades of grass. Then turn- ing himself about, the spider began to haul the chip toward shore. The Cheniere,'as well as Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico, was once a sugar planta- tion but the force of constant winds, blowing from one point of the comp iris, has several times caused the rollers to sweep across it for several days, and this, after a time, made the saccharine juice more salt than sweet. 1 people are obliged either to use the wood drifted in upon the waves or bring it, in loggers from a di,tance. As the salt in the drift wood rusts the cooking sieves there. are none in uee nn the island. But if the meals are cooked upon an iron frame in a. great, wide-mouthed fire place they loan: none of their savoriness thereby. The Journal cf Chemistry relates that se celebrated Parisian belle who made a pro- fuse use of nosmetics from the soles of her feet to the roots of h r hair, took a medicated bath, and on emerging from it was horrified to find herself as bteck as an Ethiopian. The transformation was complete ; not a ves- tige of the " supreme Caucasian race" waa left. Her physician was sent for in alarm. On ar.ival he laughed immoderately, and said : " Madame, you are not ill,• you are a chemical product. You are no longer a woman, but a sulphice. It is not now a. question of medical treatment but of simple chemical reaction. I shall subject you to a bath of sulphuric acid diluted with water. The acid will have the honor of combining with you; it will take up the selpbur, the: metal will produce a sulphate, and we shall: find as a precipitate a very pretty woman." The doctor went through with his reaction., and the belle was restored to her usual color. A Boy's Hunt for Offi..e. Soon after President Cleveland took pos- session of the White House a little chap. about twelve years of age, named Howard Fairfax Lee, obtained an audience, and earnestly pleader for an appointment in one of the deparements, to moist in supporting his mother and several brothers and sisters. The little fellow pre3sed his claim in such a manly, straightforward way that the Presi- dent's interest was excited, and he resolved, if the case proved, on examination to be a worthy one, to assist the young office -seeker. Howard is very small for his age, but is re- markably bright and intelligent, and ex- presses his ideas of men and things in lan- guage that would do ere lit to a person many years his senior. He lives beyond the city limits, in the vicinity of Brightwood, and is the eldest of four or five children. The President spoke to Secretary Manning about providing a place in the Treasury Depart- ment for the boy, but when the l-tter made his appearance before the Secretary ho was pronounced too small to be of any material. value to the publio service. Thereupon, Howard repaired to the White House, and, with tears in his eyes, told the President he result of his interview with Secretary' anning. Some one suggested to the little llow that ho would probably be more uccessful with Secretary Lamar. Off he ent to the Interior Department, where °found the Secretary surrounded by a room - 1 • f politicians and oflloo seekers. He nally got au opportunity to state his case tho kind hearted Secretary, who at once, °carne interested in his story and promised help him Day after day the youthfulpn pplicant haunted the corridors of the In- rior Department,d watched hiee.hanco eteal au interview with the Secretary hen the vigilant colored messenger was not eking. Finally the b:y was taken sick, nd the Secretary missed his visite to his Mce. Oae afte'noon last week the Secro- tiry, upon inquiry, found whore the little Hew lived and called to see him. Find - g that the case was really a deserving one, informed the bey's another that hor eon ould have an appointment of seen as ho as able to bo ab*ut. The geed news ickly restored Howard's health, and a y or two ago he was appointed a messen- r in the Pension Office.