The Exeter Times, 1887-7-27, Page 2p
Sore e,
The eYeS are always SYMnatItY With
the bedy', an afford au eXeellent indeX
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_ Seri:401a. ythielt Produced a painful in,
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Mrs. William Gage, Coneord, N. H.
For a number of years was troubled
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to obtain any relief until eouuneueed
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Na .—
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From childhood, and until within n few
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I suffered for a year with inflamma-
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By Taking
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My daughter, ten years old, was afflicted
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wet a health, only to bring back diseaes‘,
or poseibly, death The disease to Whit*
they are specially expern14 le typhoid fever.
It may be well to re -state some of the
leadingfacts relating to thie, diseasie. Its
?seat is in the lower part of the small WO
tines—the ileum.
It is caused, as the highest authorities
now admit, by microscopic vegetatiens—
bacilli—that enter the system through the
Mouth and stemach, and find their most
favorable soil in certain of the inteatinal
glands which they inflame. They multiply
to vast numberS, and the discharges are fill-
ed with them,
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pools or vaults, or anywhere upon the
ground within one hundred feet of a well,
they are quite sure, sooner or later, to find
their way into the well -water, borne thither
by the rain -water, as it percolates down
through the sail. To the eye and the
taste the water, though heavily charged
with therm may seem perfectly pure.
As theee.organisine may thrive and mul-
tiply out of the body, they may have enter-
ed the well several years before, or may
have long existed in the soil to be borne at
any time into the well.
Now it is unfortunately true that country
people are specially negligent in the matter
of drainage. Little is done to guard the
purity of the drinking water—to apply on
the premises the sanitary principles which
have been established during the last
twenty-five years, and which are so gener-
ally acted on in our cities, making
even the
mighty London a healthier place to live in
than many of our rural districts. In multi-
tudes of cases the purity of the country air
is more than counterbalanced by the impur-
ity of the water.
The condition of many of our famous sea-
side resorts is still worse than that of the
country, the drainage being radically de-
fective, and wholly unequal to the needs of
a large temporary population.
In our religious camp -grounds also, to
which increasing numbers of persons yearly
resort for the entire season, adequate drain-
age is the exception rather than the rule.
Bence we say to every one, make sure be-
forehand that the cottage or hotel or farm-
house you propose going to, makes the full-
est provision for pure water.
How to Keep Cool.
As warm weather approamies, we devise
all sorts of plans to keep cool, and by very
earnestness defeat our purpose. To be
cool, one must be tranquil—and avoid un-
necessary exertion. The prudent house-
keeper. will make her morning fire suffice to
do the chief part of the cooking for the day.
Cold boiled meat, cold vegetables, cold des-
serts. for dinner, when that meal comes in
the middle of the day, are in order. Po-
tatoes made into salad are not to be scorned
by any lover of that vegetable. If a cup of
hot tea or coffee is desired, it can be made
on an oil stove, and such food as is prepared
warm can be warmed over. But custom
renders cold food as palatable as, and dur-
ing hot weather even more palatable than,
hot, food is in cold weather. A little
persistence on the part of the house
mother will prove this the case. and
the experiment is certainly worth trying.
Farmers' wives who stew over the stove in
midsummer aeons have a harder time of it
than farmers do in the fields, and there is
no necessity for this. Iced tea and coffee
and milk are as delicious as hot tea and
coftee when meal palate is acoustomed to
than. The hardest part of the work should
be done in the morning, if possible, and if
you can lie down for awhile in the heated
part of the day, so much the better.
Plenty of sleep, with frequent baths, will
enable almost any one to bear the warm
weather philosophically.
New Treatment of Burns.
Dr. Copeland, of Alabama, condemns the
common method of treating burns by fre-
quent change of dressings, and advocates
the imployment of no dressing at all. He
covers, or surrounds, the affected part by
means of pasteboard box, or a frame of some
kind, over which he throws musquito nett-
ing to keep away flies, allowing a scab to
form over the burn, underneath which,
according to his experience, healing pro -
greases with very much greater rapidity
than when the injured surface is dressed
daily. He claims that the secretions thrown
out upon the burned surface are intended to
aid in the work of forming new tissues, and
that the frequent dressings which are
applied, ,destroy the new and delicate
tissues which: are formed, thus greatly de.
laying the healing work. ,
Fruits as Food and Bledioine.
Of all the fruits with which we are bless-
ed, the peach is the most delicious and
digestible. There's nothing more palatable,
wholesome and medicinal than good ripe
peaches. They should be ripe, but not over
ripe and half rotten; and of this kind ,they
may make a part of either meal, or be eaten
between meals; but it is better to make
them part of the regular meals. It is a
mistaken idea that no fruit should he eaten
at breakfast. tIt would be far better if our
people would eat less bacon and grease at
breakfast and more fruit. In the morning
there is an acid state of the secretions and
nothing is so well calculated to correct this
as cooling, sub acid fruits, such as peaches,
apples, etc. Still, most of us have been
taught that eating fruit before breakfast
is highly dangerous. How the idea originat-
ed I do not know, but it is certainly a great
error, contrary to both reason and facts.
The apple is one of the best of fruits.
Baked or stewed apples will generally
agree with the most delicate stomach, and
are an excellent medicine in many cases of
sickness. Green or half -ripe apples stewed
and sweetened are pleasant to the taste,
cooling, nourishing and laxative, far super-
ior, in many cases, to the abominable doses
of salts and oil usually given in fever and
other diseases. Raw apples and dried
apples stewed are better for constipation
than liver pills.
Oranges are very acceptable to most
stomachs, having all the advantages of the
acid alluded to; but the orange juice alone
should be taken, rejecting the pulp.
The small seeded fruit, such as black-
berries, Sgs, raspberries, currants and
strawberries, may be classed among the
best foods and medicines. The sugar in
them is nutritioua,' the acid is cooling and
purifying, arid the seeds are laxative:
We would be inueh-theigainers if we
would leek' more 'to onr orchardS and
gardens for our niedieinea, and lose' o oiir
drug store. To cure fever or act bn the
kidneys, no febrifuge cn• dittretio it superior
to watermelon, which May, with very
few exeeptions, be staken in Sick/Asa and
health in a1most itnlimited quantities, not
n y without injury* but with positive
granatee, and all that class. Lemonade le,
the beat drink in fovers, 004 when, thick,
ones', with sugar is better than syrup of
squills and. ether nauseous thinmany
cases of cough.
Tomatoes not on the liver and bowels,
and are rough more pleasant and, safe than
blue 'neo and " liver regulators." The
juice should be used alone, rejecting the
skin,
It is .
, but true, that the tahle ol
the day laborer ' in town, who does not
own a foot aloud, and whom the country
man contemptuously declares "live from
hand to mouth," is more bountifully sup-
plied with vegetables and fruits than that
of the farmer in the midst of his broad
acres. The latter gives a variety of excuses
for his neglect ; and at a neighbor's, with
his mouth full of his second help of delicious
green peas, will declare a garden "don't
pay,» and as he backs up his plate for
another <mutter. section of strawberry short-
cake, will wonder how his host can find
time to " potter with small.fruit," regard.
less of or indifferent to the sfaot that no
acre on his farm will yield him so much
good living, and do so much to promote
his health and happineha, as a quarter.
acre garden spot, intelligently tended.
Even so 11 an aren has • fi pos-
sibilities to be developed into rich reward,
when we are educated up to the right stand-
ard
; that thinking which leads us to seek
less to hoard money for a possible " rainy
day," than to enjoy life's pleasures and.
privileges every day.
THE CRAZY ROMANOITS.
now Insanity ilas Run Through the Entire
Imperial nuniiy
In the recently published memoirs of Count
Vitzthum, of Eckstadt, proofs are given of
the hereditary character of the mental dis-
ease which afflicted the imperial family of
Russia. All the sons of Czar Paul I., like
that unhappy monarch himself, who was
murdered in 1801, became subject to fits of
insanity. Paul I. had four sons—Czar
Alexander I., the Grand Duke Constantine,
Czar Nicolas I., and the Grand Duke '
Michael. Every one of them, after his forty-
fifsh year, exhibited undoubted signs of ,
mental derangement. This was not fully
discovered in the case uf Nicelas 1. until
after the Czar's death. An English pity- 1
sicrian, however, the Count says, noticed the
appearance of the hereditary disease in the
Czar as early as July, 1853, and he then
predicted that the monarch had not more
than two years of life before him. This he
stated in a letter to Lord Palmerston, The
Emperor Nicolas died in March, 1855, about
four months earlier than the date predicted.
The Count appears to have no doubt that
the Crimean war, so far as it depended on
Nicolas was the rash act of a ruler " whose I
mental equipoise was disturbed," None of
the four sons of Paul I. lived to be sixty
years of age, and every one of them suffered
from concussion of the brain after reaching
his forty-fifth year.
Alexander died at forty-eight, a miserable
man, moody and despondent, as Prince
Metternich has painted. him, " tired of ex- 1
istence." His brother, the Grand Duke
Constantine, though not manifestly insane,
gave frequent signs of mental disturbance, ,
of which he was himself so plainly conscious s
that he did not think himself fit to be trust-
ed with the reins of government. His con-
duct in the year 1330, at the outbreak of
the revolution in Warsaw, will remain to
prove Ms mental unsoundness. He had to
be intrusted to the care of his wife, the
Princess Lowicz, who was cautioned in the'
same way as is a physician in charge of a
patient having intermittent fits of insanity.
He died in his fifty-second year from con.
gestion of the brain. The Grand Duke
Michael was killed by a fall from his horse
at the age of forty-eight. Some years be-
fore his death he had exhibited signs of un-
doubted mental disease, and his physicians
declared that he was on the road to certain
insanity. The events of 1848:52 were not
calculated to allay the hereditary dispbsi-
tions of the imperial family of Russia, but
to excite and intensify them. There is
something terrible in the contrast between '
the outward position of the Czar Nicolas, ,
upon the bent of whose will the fate of so
many millions in Europe was depending,
and the alleged diseased inward condition
of his mind.
The Sportsman's Musio.
Unfortunately for the goose, it can be
imitated to perfection, and the unhappy
birds frequently meet their end by paying
too much heed to its deceptive notes. One
instance of peculiar interest has come to
the writer's knowledge. The destroyers in
this case were Captain Walter S. Green, of
Life Saving Station No. 5, Long Branch,
and Mr. Bright. These two shooters live
on opposite sides of a large pond, and are
on the constant watch for birds of any '
kind that may come in from the sea to rest.
Early one morning Mr. Bright heard a
distant but vigorous honking. He soon
saw a flock of seven geese flying in toward
the pond. Quickly getting his gun and
some heavy cartridges, he hastened down
to the edge of the pond, keeping himself 1
hidden behind a heavy hedge. As soon as
he had selected his position, he uttered a '
vigorous honk, to which the leader of the
incoming flock responded. Flying low,
they sailed majestically in over the op. ;
posite shore, a hundred and fifty yards
away from Mr. Bright They were evi-
dently weary, and anxious to settle clown in
the smooth waters of the pond. Suddenly
out of the tall marsh grass on the shore
opposite Mr. Bright, two puffs of blue
.smoke and two booming reports rolled out.
I The leader of the flock folded his wings
and fell to the ground dead. Mr. Bright
then knew for the first time that Captain
Green was at hand. The birds swerved
from their course and flew toward Mr. I
Bright, who easily killed the second bird. ,s
Both he and Captain Green did not cease '
honking, and the birds, after going away
to a considerable distance, sailed back
again, passing over Mr. 13right's head at
some height. With his heavy gun he killed'
two of them, when they circled and swept 1
across the pond, where Captain Green
killed two more. The remaining bird, which
bad been wounded byscattering shot, Made
a hard struggle to rise to a safe height.
Captain Green hastily slipped in a cartridge
and took a long shot. A few feathers fell
from the bird: and he flew across the pend.
Mr. Bright then got a longFillet at him,
breaking his wing arid bringing him down.
•
•
Q'8 WO OM2&QUS
ci he boya.to a ad as a. Mar h hare 1
011, to think that 1 should ever have Buell a
4(411?
So spoke a portly Suffolk butcher as he
came stamping into his house tole evening
with a very angry face indeed.
"Good laok ! what aileth thee, husband ?"
cried his wife anxiously. "Hath our son
Thomas done aught to displease thee S He
was ever a good and dutiful lad."
"Good and dutiful, forsooth!" growled
the butcher. " What thiuk'st thou, dame,
this "good and dutiful lad' of thine bath
taken into hie crazy pate ? Nothing less
will serve his highness than to be a student
of Oxford, and win his degree there as Bache.
lor of Arts."
" Lackaday 1 that were a bard matter 1'
cried the good woman, opening her eyes in
amazement. "Whence hath the boy got
sucb high notioos ?"
"High or low," grunted her husband,
"tis,a.11 one. The thing is inaposeible, and
an end ."
Just then the figure of a young lad ap-
peared in the doorway, whose shm, well -
shaped form, pale, delicate features, and
high white narrow forehead were so utterly
unlike the butcher's brawny frame and
course red face that no one could ever have
guessed them to be father and son.
" Sir," said he, quietly but firmly, "1
have blotted the word impossible out of my
dictionary."
The tone in which these bold words were
spoken and the bright, fearless look which
accompanied them struck even the angry
father with involuntary admiration.
"1 like thy spirit, son Thomas," said ho,
in 'id •• • " but thouart• h I I
nevertheless. Who ever heard of a butcher
lad becoming a scholar and a learned clerk
of Oxford ? I and mine have been butchers
these two hundred years, and I trow that
what was good enough for thy fathers is
good enough for h "
The sly twinkle in young Tom's dark
grey eyes showed that he saw the weakness
of his father's argument, and knew how to
. . •
"Thou speak'st well, father," said he ;
" but tell me, I pray thee, who is the gre'tt-
est man that liveth in Europe this day ?"
" Why, who but his Holiness the Pope ?"
saia Thomas the elder, who, like most Eng-
lishmen of that age, was a stanch Catholic.
" And know'st thou not, father," retorted
Thomas the younger, " that his Holiness
was a peasant's son, and worked in the
fields in his youth ? What if he had said
then, " What was good enough for my
fathers is good enough for me." The great-
est man in this town of ours is our worship-
ful lord of the manor. His gree,tgrand-
father was but a simple yeoman, and a yeo-
man he had remained had he thought as
thou wouldst have me think, father. But
forasmuch as he did good service to our
lord King Henry V. of England in the
French wars, the King knighted him with
his own hand, and lo 1 his descendant is
become a great lord."
" Son Thomas 1" cried the butcher in de-
speration, " wilt thou talk thine own father
out of his senses ?"
" The more reason for letting him go
where his ready speech can be known and
prized as it ought,' put in the mother, who
had been listening with delight to her son's
eloquence.
But the father was too thorough an Eng-
lishman to give in without resisting to the
utmost.
" Hark ye, lad," cried he, "I'll make a
fair bargain with thee. If thou canst,
within three years, win thy degree as an
Oxford Bachelor of Arts, well and good ;
but if not, give me thy word that thou'lt
come home straightway and be an honest
butcher like thy father."
"So be it," answered the lad, grasping
his father's hand ; " I give my word."
"And I mine," said the butcher ; "and
to show that I am a man of my word, the
day thou wearest the gown of an Oxford
Bachelor I'll give thee the best bit of beef
in my shop for thy dinner, even' if King
Henry himself (long life to him !) had bespok-
en it."
Three years had gone by since the father
aol son made their, bargain, and the
butcher, remembering how pale and thin
his son had looked the last time he saw him,
was more anxious about the result than he
would have cared to own. He had just un-
hooked a magnificent sirloin nf beef, when
his wife burst headlong into the shop, and
called out in a tone of very unusual ex-
citement,
" What art thou doing with that beef,
husband ?"
"It hath been bespoken by our worship-
ful lord of thn manor," replied the butcher.
" Were it for King Henry himself," cried
the housewife, seizing the meat with both
hands, "lie should not have it this day 1
Bethink thee, husband, how thou didst
promise that when our son should gain his
degree of Bachelor of Arts—
" And hath he gained it ?" broke in the
butcher, now quite as much excited as his
wife. "Whence hest thou the news, wife?
where is the messenger ?"
" Here," answered a low, clear voice
behind him ; and there stood young Thomas
himself in the fur -trimmed robe of an Ox-
ford Bachelor of Arts.
" Brave lad 1" shouted the overjoyed
father, seizing his son in a hug worthy of a
Polar bear, and plentifully besmearing his
new robe with the grease that covered his
own frock. " Thou shalt have the beef,
though one should offer me it weight in
gold. I pray thee, good friend," he added,
turning to the lackey who had been sent for
themeat, "let not his lordship be angry
" My lord loveth good learning too well
to be displeased theSeat, interrupted the
servant, who knew the story of the butcher's
promise to his son as well as every other
man in the town. " May God prosper thee,
Master Thomas, and give thee joy of such a
son 1"
A proud man was the butcher that night
as the neighbors flocked into congratulate
him and his wonderful son. And the sheriff
himself held out s his hand to the young
scholar, saying, laughingly:
Thou hast begun well, goods youth, and
thou wilt mount high hereafter. Remember
me, I pray thee, when thou art a cardinal."
"There is many a true word spoken in
jest," answered the student, with a sudden
gleam in his deep, earnest eyes, "Ono
Englishman hath become a pope—why
should not another become a cardinal ?"
And any one may new read. for himself
in history how Thomas, the butcher's son,
ruled all England for many a year as CA110-
NAL WOnagY.
1
We clip the followi/gsageadvice from an
agricultural paper : When around your
bees neither figor ht them nmake quick WhatSh
He atild gay.
Motions." The questionwithus is how to avoid
making quick motions when one of the little
beirsits stings you in it tender spot.
O You can get More wind mit of a ten cent
fan than you can frorri a $500 one. itS the
Barrie way' with a ten dent man,
•
"Ma," said Bertha, should I say
'pants' or trowsers ?
" Trowsersi my dear," said the mother.
Well then," said Bertie, "1 think Brid-
get had better give lido sonic water ; he
trowsers awfully."
$0PletiaiIle; that 141
In 1881 a Man WhO slefituarea•ad title
of gospeller visited Cambridge, University,
in England.. He is net a 010'0700 of anY
soot, but he helieveg that ChriStianity la the
One vital force Whieh is te Civilise and'elevato
all mankind. The earnestness, directness,
and simpliety bie appeals gathered large
numbers of the students but him. The
one question which he urged on each of them
was, " What itt &Sine to. you Look at his
work in the world, and choose whether you
will help Him in it."
After he was gone, a large number of
these young Englishmen met every dity, to
discuss this matter. They were deeply moo
ed and excited. Here was the most moment.
ous question which they could ever face,
They wore not eigkly, emotional, or even
scholarly men to whom such subjects were
familiar. They were the sons of men of high
rank and social position, many of them pos-
sessors of lame wealth. The young men
themselves were the leading athletes in the
university, sensible, practical, jolly fellows,
a few of them inclined to be fast; but they
were neither shallow nor petty in nature,
They took up this question, knowing that
their whole future depended on the issue.
What would they do with life? Give it to
society, to money -making, to sports ? Here
was another way offered to them, which
was to help mankind by teaching Cm ist ;
to labor, to bare hardship, death if need be,
for His sake.
Thirty of these men accepted this offer.
Of these, five, after leaving college last year
went to China as missionaries, bearing their
, own expenses. One of them was among the
most famous cricketers in England ; another
was strokemar of the CambridgeEight. They
were joined by an cfficer in
, tillers+, and another in the Dragoon Guards.
Before leaving England the seven volun-
teers held meetings in the universities, and
told the story of Jesus, as they knew it, to
young men. They roused deep enthusiasm,
especially in the Scottish, colleges " They
were themselves," we are told, " the strong.
est appeal and call to a noble life. They
were types of handsome, healthful, joyous
youth."
One of them, the cricketer, said at one of
those meetings, with boyish directness,
" Cricket will not last. Fame will not last.
Nothing in this world will last. I wonder
what you woulcl say to me, now that I am
going out to China, if I bought a large out-
fit of things absolutely useless in that coun-
try? You would say I had gone mad. But
what are you doing ? You are only going to
be on the earth for a short time; after,
comes eternity. And which are you really
living for?"
On their way out to their chosen field of
labor in China some of the passengers on
the steamer were at first disposed to quiz
the young missionaries ; but so earnest and
simple was their faith, so possessed were
they by their one high errand to the world,
that many of their fellow -voyagers were con-
verted and all were awed into reverent and
respectful silence.
A few weeks ago we alluded to a visit to
China made by two blase young Americans,
who, possessing enormous wealth, had tast
ed every pleasure until they were weary of
life. They went to Pekin, while lounging
around the world in search of something
new, to see a batch of prisoners beheaded.
"It really was quite a new sensation,"
said one, but there was only five heads
chopped off, and the thing was over in a few
minutes. So there we were, just as flat as
before 1"
"Look now upon this picture and on that
of the earnest, high-souled Englishmen 1"
The gift of life has come to every lad who
reads these words, as to these different
groups.of men. How will you elect to use
it—as a mere animal, seeking only personal
gratification, or nobly as a man?
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The Influence of a Newspaper.
The following clipped from an exchange
is indeed worthy of a place in Ou'r columns
as in cateringto the public taste we do not
furnish sufficient insight into the conduct-
ing of a newspaper.
What were we before the circulation of
the newspaper? for head and heart mut&
have felt a need that books could not. fill.
Through its columns we feel/that we are in-
haling a new atmosphere, bracing, invigor-
ating, that stimulates le pulses to new
aims and hopes ; and its issues are potent
for a greater or less amount of good or evil.
It is a mighty agent of reform that must
fructify, or wither, exalt or degrade society.
The secret of its subtle influence lies in its
continual presence and ceaseless appeals to
the fireside where it is a welcome guest that
is eagerly greeted, and its teachings devour-
ed to the exclusion of all other reading,
however elevating and instructive.
O Its matter is so varied that there is same -
thing suited to every taste, mood, interest
and avocation. It is one of the most im-
portant factors of civilized life, and it is
only a narrow prejudiae that decries its
value.
It constitutes almost the sole species of
instruction that many families possess, and
insipid inaeed would be some homes without
its cheering presence. It gin es a knowledge
of the outside world which we cannot glean
from books, for it keeps pace with every
innovation, every little business fluctuation,
every social, religious, commercial, and
political enterprise, at home or abroad, in
time of war or ofpeace ; and it is now re-
cognized as one of the greatest demands of
modern social life.
Since it has gained an undisputed foot.
hold upon public confidence it arrogates to
itself a universal range as prophet, teacher
critic, and legislator, and is not content
with all this distinction, but boldly draws
aside the curtain of daily domestic life and
exposes to vulgar gaze the closeted grinning
skeleton behind the downy cushion of gild.
el haberdashery and luxury.
What the editor is and what a cricital
public would have him be, are as diverse as
one can conceive, and it would be a diffi.
cult undertaking to furnish the true ideal.
It should not be expected that his work
should bear the stamp of an exceptional ex-
cellence and finish, for to indite hourly aud
creditably demands more unremitting
thought, attention, and leisure than is pos-
sible to bestow upon the varied matter pre-
sented for the public approval or condem-
nation.
Theeditor's responsibility is a grave one,
and the daily and momentous pressure of
his surroundings renders his position any
other than an enviable one, He mist think
hastily, yet soundly, he must write rapidly,
yet faultleesly ; and any immaturity of
'thought or expression is an unfergiven tres-
pass upon an invidious public.
An important addition has beets made to
the active list of the Royal Navy t-dy by
the completion for sea, at Sheerness of the
new fast cruiser Mohawk, which has heft
built at a cost of £108,000. The Mohawk
is the first Of the new type, and is armed
with 16 -inch breech-lottcling guns and seven
fourteen-ineh tubs. diseharging Whitehead
torpe does.
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