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for dinner, and nob
but squash, and
ne folks don't like
her." A neighbor
orrow some flour)
tnd said, " Just try
le." I did. They
ney did like squash
o did John. So far
d those who don't
here is the recipe:
lsh, one tablespoon-
half cup of cream
to taste, and the
wo eggs. Bake in
alf-hour in a hot
ink it a rare bit of
n mistaken.
F.A. SOUP>
kinto a saucepan to
een hulls into a
in with the peas,
extract the juices.
remove the hag,
nd add the peas.
g up for the next
peas a half -cup of
kened with flour,
and last but fat
, or this may be
ividual taste. This
the Sick Room.
toe will sometimes
than a carefully;
Don't Tiptoe.
hisper will often
en an ordinary voiwe
per.
niffs and Sighs may
e open air where a
hem away. Don't
Papers. The fold-
ers that "rattle" is
le" invalids, to say
re strong and well.
the voice to be kege
ting may be a ne-
th the treatment of
should be counted
only indoors, when
who are "deaf as a
le has invented a
ely to be a boon to
ore the unfortunate
a seat too high or
course but tcsuffer,
ature of the spine
ere caused by un -
With the new desk,
Both the desk and
owered as the one
s the desk is simple
pensive in building
sly adopted.
11 fours and cough.
e head and body ;
on flat.
mpress above the
ompress below.
the part in cold
stroyed cover with
the ear with tepid
d instrument into
xcite vomiting by
warm water and
void rubbing ; dash
e cinders, etc., with
d pencil-
, unless your month
and or better, cub
delay ; hold the
can be borne to a
cigar.
pets, etc. ; water
g oil and increase
through smoke take
stoop low, bat if
cted walk erect.
nd Moulting
he canary diseases
rally brought on by
ry hot room or in a
by an open door or
give a paste made
ne pulverized crack-
thout water. Salt
s, sprinkled with
good as a cure.
hard, caused by an
eplantain and rape-
water, as the sole
nail placed in the
on chalk fastened
some broken pieces
gravel, is excellent.
n by lack of some -
t apple, chickweed,
ve sore feet, wash
o which are added a
Give him plenty of
d keep his perches
esult from too small
be half an inch i'
feathers mostly in
They then need
d be kept in a warms
If the tail and win6
for the bird to drop,
Ante. Your bird w
it to six weeks.
—" He's a acaney,
said Mr. Newbred.
think so, Obadiah?*
instead of table
di- "
atiway drop thein; h'a_
attain
amine
be control
Bible in all 1
one Dr t
slovenly
rammer.
summer is even
cult . winter. In
re is abun..• •f fresh, pure air,
F.
er tem erat may
be easily
P Y Y
the use of artificial heat. In
the contrary, the heat cannot
Pure air is not always pos-
ities, where the neglect of
eless neighbours, with
ryards, may fill the atmos-
phere w1 ., : ..ison of decaying vegeta-
tion or some other nuisance. These diffi-
culties are against the invalid sufferers in
country or town and require extra care on
the part of the nurse.
A wise physician has said that a good
Dirndls a woman, thoroughly healthy and
alert i* all her five senses, She must have
good sight, in order that she may watch
the slightest changes in the patient, catch
a motion of the eye, the tips of the fingers,
and see in a moment, what is wanted. She
must have quick hearing to catch the slight-
est whisper of a weak invalid. She must
have a, sensitive as well as a soft touch, that
--sae may note the most delicate changes in
the skin and may test the temperature of
hot applications that may be ordered. It
is especially necessary that she have a cor-
rect and acute sense of smell, so that she
may detect the slighest impurity in the at-
mosphere of the sick room. Her taste must
be correct, in order that she may test the
food to see that it is properly cooked. A
good nurse should also be a good cook,and at
the best training schools for nurses a course
of lectures with manual training in cookery
is a part of the curriculum.
A nurse has special need of physical
st ength to endure the fatigue of her place
in he summer season. Where the patient is
very ill a second nurse is supplied at night,
to give the first or day nurse her needed
rest. It is a great mistake for any woman
to undertake the duties of a nurse unless
she is willing and able to endure the physi-
cal hardships of such a place. A nurse must
have no objectionable eccentricities of man-
ner ; she must have a general sense of whole-
someness in her personality. A nervous
woman is in no way fitted for a nurse. A
great many women manage to pass their ex-
aminations who do not possess all these re-
quirements, but they do not make success-
ful nurses, The question of education is a
second one. No education beyond the rudi-
ments is required at the admission on pro-
bation. Nevertheless, it is found that un-
educated women fall out of the ranks be-
fore the time of probation is over, as they
do not possess the same nerve and power of
endurance and comprehension of details as
women of more cultivated minds.
The good nurse should certainly be a
woman of tact, in order to humor the harm-
-.iegs_whims of her patient rather than irri-
tate him by martinettish methods. One of
the most objectionable habits of the indis-
creet nurse is that of rehearsing her sick-
room and hospital experiences to her
patient. Like a wise physician, the discreet
nurse says little and never talks " shop."
Slimmer Diet.
Half the illness that occurs at one season,
I think I can safely say, is due to improper
dieting taken at another. We hear of
people feeling weak in the spring or suffer-
ing from those different ailments due to
malnutrition, such as boils, skin diseases,
, obesity, or debility. Now this would not
be so if the person adapted his diet to his
requirements and to the season. No sensible
person would think of keeping a large fire
burning in his room m the summer. If he did
he world undoubtedly soon feel the effect
of it ; but many a man who would feel him-
self intuited if he were not thought a sen-
sible person, will eat in the summer to
repletion foods the particular action of
which is to supply heat in excess. Per-
haps I cannot do better here than to ex-
plain that the foods that are converted in-
to heat—that is, keep up the heat of the
body—are starches, sugar and fat ; and
those that more particularly nourish the
nervous and muscular system are the albu-
men and salts ; and a perusal of or refer-
ence to a prepared table will show what
these are, and also the amounts of the dif-
ferent constituents they contain. At a
glance the reader will see that the largest
proportion of summer food should consist
of green vegetables, cooked or as salads ;
white or lean meats, such as chicken, game,
rabbits, venison, fish and fruits. - [Dr. N.
E. Yorke Davies.
A Parent's Duty to the Young.
The body may be looked at as a living
machine, delicate and complicated in struc-
ture, made to run a hundred years or so,
but liable by bad management to be disar-
ranged and brought " to untimely destruc-
tion. All continuous physical transgres-
Bion, however innocent it may seem, is fol-
lowed by retribution. Such ie the punish-
'en.,twhich aveseeee--s multitudes who over-
work their brains and underwork their
muscles ; of not a few who waste vital en-
ergy with anxiety, fret and unstinted care,
of many who overlook the great law of
their physical being that makes daily recu-
peration depend on the interchange of work
and rest. Even ministers of the Gospel not
unfrequently allow well meant faithfulness
to and in a fatal mental strain. One of the
final facts connected with many forms of
physical transgression is its tendency to
weaken the vitalstamina of the treniigres-
sor's offspring.
The least a child can ask of its progeni-
toe is a fair chance of life. To squander
the vital inheritance of one=s offspring is
vastly worse than to squander its large an-
cestral estate. We have no more valuable
possession than a good heredity—an inher-
itance of longevity; and if this has not de-
scended to us it is generally because ances-
tors -more or less remote, have squandered
i t- Such an inheritance givesconstitutional
vigor, keeps its possessor safe amid almost
every form of microbe diseases, secures the
needed recuperative energy iii ease of attack,
makes life worth living up to thenoruial end,
renders old age green-=and,sunmy and keeps
up intelleetual activity to the last,—[Dr.F.
Tumblety. -
Hemorrhages from the -Nose. -
Many children are subject to the nose-
bleed, and in ordinary eases it should not be
interfered with or checked, as it is usually
nature's wise method for relieving the head
from an excessive pressure of blood which
might otherwise cause serious " results._
When, howere the hemorrhage is serious
and lasts so los bat it is weakening to the
child, something should certainly be done
to check the flow. In . the first place try
the application of cold, either by using very
cold water, ice or brass keys—ice being the
most effective. If possible, keep the child's
arms raised above his head for five or ten
minutes at a time. This alone will often
cause the bleeding `o cease. If not, place a
piece of fee wrapped in a. cloth at the nape
P.
lie
_liras
anus
another one'
duy ecil at
the
top of the none in ween the eyes. " :,
If the las dont rot stop the bleeding,. plug
the nostril with styptic cotton. Every
house should have a bottle of the last nam-
ed article, as it will often arrest violent
hemorrhages more quickly than anything
else when proceeding from the head, and
is also useful in dressing wounds when
bleeding. If the styptic cotton is not at
hand, the old fashioned remedy, cobwebs,
may be used, but fine lint is still better.
Many people use powdered alum, snuffed
up the nese, which is good if the child can
snuff it up without the effort increasing the
hemorrhage.
Extract of hamamelis (witch hazel) should
be taken internally in dose of from one- Featherstone : " I tell you, old man, you
half to a teaspoonful from fifteen minutes ought to be in with a girl like Miss Gros -
to one hour apart, according to the severity grain. Her father travels agreat deal, and
of the case, and it may be taken occasion- while he is away we have a lovely time,"
ally between the attacks as a preventive or
braises. Ringway : "What do you do when he
where there is great weakness of the mem-
TIT Bi'
' 'Got Even.
Watts : "Did Bingley ever accomplish
his intention of getting even with the girl
clerk who beat him out of his situation by
offering to do the work at a smaller salary ?"
Potts : " I rather think he did. He
married her, and she is supporting them
both."
Reciprocity in Travelling.
The Choice of Friends.
"The friends thou hast, and their adop-
tion tried,
Grapple them to thy soul
With hooks of steel"
Girls from time immemorial have been
ridiculed because of the supposed sentiment-
al and short-lived character of their attach-
ment to each other. "Nothing but a school-
girl frieedship" has become quite too com-
mon a phrase.
A keen observer once declared that he
sent his son to a certain college simply on
account of the social advantages to be gained
by the acquaintances he would make there.
The saying has become almost trite that to
know some people is in itself a liberal edu-
cation, and the man or woman of large ac-
quaintance is regarded as the man or woman
of large opportunities for good or evil. In
view of the fact that friends of the right kind
are elements of personal power, the making
and the retaining of them becomes a matter
of importance.
We are said to endure our relations, but
to choose our friends. The character, theu,
of those to whom we voluntarily attach our-
selves is an indication of our own. We are
known by them. Therefore it would seem
wise for a girl to take plenty of time in the
commencement of her school life, and not al-
low loneliness or homesickness to hasten her
into companionship which may effect her so-
cial interests through her entire life. The
bright showy new -comer, whose toilettes daz-
zle every eye, and whose ready wit appears
so delightful, may, before the term is half
over, disclose qualities that ostracize her
from the best set. The girl who, for lack of
prudent waiting, has rushed into an inti-
macy with her will be obliged to do one of
two disagreeable things—either break off
the friendship and gain an enemy and a sore
spot m her memory, or lose the helpful so-
ciety of classmates whom she has learned to
respect and admire. Few buy a gown with-
out subjecting it to close inspection, and
even tests, while too many do not give the
selection of their companions a serious
thought.
Idleness and vanity tempt some to acquire,
even when they are very small, the taste for
being the greatest ones m the company.
They prefer reigning among inferiors to
service with their equals, and so become
leaders without caring very much who
their followers may be. Girls have
become unduly intimate with their
mothers' maids and the most un-
worthy of their school -mates, and even
made disastrous marriages in the end,
through the indulgence of these traits.
A girl that you know is your inferior
in birth and breeding, and whose coarseness
of speech and manner at first repels you,
flatters you into believing that it would al-
most break her heart, if she were refused the
luxury of your aociety. You say she is so
devoted to you, and so anxious to improve.
You begin as a missionary trying to raise
her, and end on` her level ; for it is only
growth that overcomes the law of gravity,
and we cannot help those who have not in
themselves the power to rise.
Rothschild, the great banker, was once
asked the secret of his success. He replied,
°'I never have business relations with un-
lucky people." Never choose as a friend
that girl whom fate appears to assail at
every point. You think this is very hai sh,
but remember that, generally speaking,
there is a reason for failure. The girl con-
tinually in trouble both with teachers and
pupils, overwhehned by " bad marks," and
always "found out," is called unlucky ; but
she is m reality the architect of her own
disasters. Anyway, it is surely just as well
to throw in your lot with those who are
favorites of Fortune as to pitch your tent
with the exiles from her favor.
The confidential friend is to be avo•ded,
She swears you to secrecy, and tells you all
kinds of gossip, and then goes to another
with the swine details and the
same injunction never to tell. Now
you may keep religiously to yourself what
you have heard, but others will not be so
reticent; and then comes your day of sorrow.
For the confidential girl has a poor memory,
and forgets that she has made thrilling dis-
closures to so many. You are accused of
speaking and even of inventing injurious
reports. Be afraid of people who are un-
willing that their sayings should be known
abroad.
It is quite a common habit among a . cer-
tain class of girls to turn everything into
ridicule. They are generally what is called
in school -room parlance " good company."
Excellent mimics, they twist personal
peculiarities and chapel exercises alike into
monstrous jokes. They parody hymns, and
punctuate their conversation with misquota
tions from the Bible. Birds of the air, they
rob you of serious thoughts and hallowed
memories. Associating with them, you be-
come irreverent and flippant.
Shun as you would a pestilence that girl
who, under the guise perhaps of _,bumor,
tells a vulgar story, or speaks as she would
not dare to do in the presence of older.
people. Almost every one knows the girl
who is enthusiastically attached to- one
class -mate, and then drops her suddenly,
without rhyme or reason, to devote herself
to some new -comer. She appears to be in-
capable of continued friendship, bat is a
victim of the intermittent theory, for she
generally returns, like a pendulum, to the
discarded object of her fancy. Let one
lesson suffice. Treat her pleasantly but
refuse to be made the victim of her caprice,
for she is not worth serious consideration.
An Ocean Island.
The Norwegian barque Ellora h'is just ar-
rived at Seattle, U. S. A., from Melbourne,
and reports that an -island in the Pacific
Ocean about a mile square, lying due south
of Hawaii, and marked on the charts as un-
inhabited, is really peopled. Fifteen natives,
Malays, came out from the island in canoes
to the barque. One of them said, " Good
morning," and another asked for tobacco.
These three words seemed to be - all the
English they knew. Two of -them wore
mats, and the rest were naked. They had
ne weapons.
comes home ?" -
Featherstone : " Then I travel."
Signs That fler Husband Vas Failing.
"'You are not so strong as yon used to be,
John," said a fond wife to her husband. "I
think it is about time you were getting some
insurauce on your life."
" Insurance on 'my life ! What are you
talking about? I am as healthy as ever I
was. Insurance indeed !"
" d\ ell, dear, I only mentioned it, you
know, oat of respect for yourself. I thought
you were failing."
"And what in the world put it into your
head that I am failing ? Me failing ? Why,
1 am as strong as a horse, and can run up
three flights of stairs without taking a
breath."
" Well, that may be so ; but I am afraid
you are deceiving yourself."
" Deceiving myself ! Goodness gracious,
woman, what do you mean ?"
" Don't be so impatient. What makes
me think you are failing is this : \Vhen
you were courting me you could hold me on
your knee three hours ; now you cannot hold
the baby on your lap three minutes."
Well Pitched.
A Scotchman who was mcunted on a
donkey had to travel over a rather rough
piece of country in Australia. After a
while he came to a wide ditch which the
donkey refused to cross.
Turning back a few yards he urged the •
donkey into a gallop, thinking the donkey
would jump across. Instead of jumping
across the animal stopped suddenly, throw-
ing Sandy over its head with such force
that he landed on the other side of the ditch.
Gathering himself up, he looked at the
dookey a moment or two, and then said :
" Wed; wee], that's very well pitched ; but
how are you going to get over yerself !"
$e Couldn't Understand It.
Some little time ago a clergyman, who
had' not been long in Bolton, had occasion
to pay a visit to an outlying farm, and in
returning he completely lost his way.
Whilst he was endeavouring to find the
right road, he met a farmer's boy who was
also bound for Bolton, and who, although
extremely astonished at such ignorance,
volunteered to show him the way.
As they walked along, the clergyman ask-
ed the boy what his occupation was.
The lad told him and then inquired, "An
whad does to do, owd mon ?"
" Oh, " replied the clergyman, " it is my
duty to show men the way to heaven. "
" Eh, gerrout wi' thee, " exclaimed the
boy with a knowing wink; " abeawt thee
showing foalks th' way t' ' eav'n an' don't
knave t' rowd to Bowtou !"
Misastrous Results of Vaccination.
A doctor was scouring the slums itt the
interests of the health department. Things
went on smoothly until he encountered a
suspicious -looking Irish woman, who dwelt
with her shock -headed children in the lord-
ly heights of the seventh floor.
The doctor pounced upon the eldest boy,
and was about to make the initial scratch
of vaccination, when his mother stopped
him.
"Is it vaceinatin' that is ?" she queried.
" Yes, madam, " answered the doctor.
" Well, it's not a bit av it yell' do to my
bye Dennis. "
" Why, it proves life and health and—"
" Go ' long wid ye ! That's what they
told Doony McCann when his bye Willie
had it two weeks ago. "
" Well ?"
" They desaved him, vaccinatin' an' all.
Willie is dead. Lord rist his sowl ! "
" What killed him?"
"He fell down -the back shtairs at Bro-
nan's and broke his neck ; an' be th' sham-
gocks of Barry Mulligan if vaecinatin' can't
rstop things like that phwat sort av a loife
preserver is it? "
A Queer Meal.
The following story used to be related by
the late John Gough, the temperance advo-
cate.
A woman once entered a bar -room where
her husband was sitting with some boon
companions. Placing a•covered dish which
she had brought with her upon the table,
she said : "Presuming, husband, that you
are- too busy to come home to dinner, I have
l-rought you yours."
She then departed.
With a forced laugh the husband invited
his friend to dine with him, but on remov-
ing the cover from the dish found only a
slip of paper, on which vas written : " I
hope you will enjoy your meal: it is the
same your family have at home."
It is said that man never entered a public -
house again.
The Maiden's Reply.
At a certain telegraph office, one morning
last week, the telegraph operator (a young
man), after repeated calls on the instrument
to a young lady clerk at a branch office, at
Iast got a response, and then " click, click,
click, click."
He telegraphed back to her vehemently :
"t I have been trying to catch you for the
last half-hour."
In a moment the following spicy reply
came tripping to him over the wires from
the telegraphic suburban maiden : " Pooh !
that's nothing ! There's a young man here
who has been trying to do the same thing
for two years, and he hasn't caught me
yet."
Said in Fun.
Beneath the trees was swinging low
A hammock in the shade.
And -seated there a college youth,
Near by his side a maid.
The trees swung down protecting limbs,
'Tway surely not amise,
Since no one was- in sight, he thought,
To try and -steal a kiss.
The maiden,•blushing, murmured "Don't!"
"Least said soonest
mended," d :
as the dor- And watched. the gay
leavess drop.
tor;said to the patient with a-factured jaw- Mischievously he asked, "Don't what t"
bone. - _ " Why, doie't," she said, " don't stop 1"
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The Strikers Awakening to the Meaning
of Their Presence.
Threatening the Viilbsgge of Nleolisi-The
Eruptions Increasing in Volume.
A Catania, despatch says :-.-The situa-
tion at Mount Etna is steadily growing
worse. The main crater i
sgraduall extend-
ing,
-
ing, and the mass of hot ashes, lava and
scoria which it is vonnting is increasing in
volume and violence. Showers of firey stones,
many of them of huge size, and molted
matter are sometimes projected into the air
to a height of l,(00 feet, and dense clouds
of smoke and ashes hover continually over
the crater. Two new cones, each about 800
feet high, have been formed, and from these
streams of lava are constantly flowing. The
lava is advancing n ng in a threatening manner
in the direction of Nicolisi, a village of 2,-
700 inh,.bitants, situated on the southern
slope of Mount Etna, nine miles from Cata-
nia. The stream is now only two miles dis-
tant from the village.
A DENSE SMOKE HIDFS THE CRATERS.
The immense columns of smoke and ashes,
which are hovering over the burning mount,
have grown so dense as to cover everything
in the vicinity with a mantel of darkness
and the craters are now invisible. The
largest craters are still ejecting immense
masses of boiling lava, the streams of which
are steadily growing wider and are as steadi-
ly creeping with terrible persistency, foot
by foot, upon certain of the villages lying
on the mountain slopes.
VENATIIRA PARTIALLY DESTROYED.
A later despatch says ;—Enormous incan-
descent rocks and immense clouds of steam
continue to be thrown out of the crater of
Mount Etna. Part of the village pf Vena -
tura has been destroyed by -lava, and an im-
merse amount of damage been done to
neighboring chestnut woods. Committees
of citizens are being formed to relieve the
sufferers.
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HISTORIC DUGS.
One Brave Animal That Recovered a Flag
at Austerlitz.
A French paper has published a roll of
honor of celeurated dogs which have distin-
guished
istin-
uish d themselves i
g & e n war. This is not in-
appropriate considering that the dog has
been pressed into military service, For in-
stance, there was Bob, the mastiff of the
Grenadier Guards, which made the Crimean
campaign with that gallant corps ; and also
Whitepaw, " Patte Blanche," a brave
French ally of Bob, that made the same
campaign with the One Hundred and Six-
teenth of the line, and was wounded in de-
fending the flag.
Another, Moustache, was entered on the
strength of his regiment as entitled to a
grenadier's rations. The barber of his coin-
pany had orders to clip and comb him once
a week. This gallant animal received a
bayonet thrust at Marengo and recovered a
flag at Austerlitz. Marshal Lannes had
Moustache decorated with a medal attach-
ed to his neck by a red ribbon. Corps de
Garde, a Norval among dogs, followed a
soldier to Marengo, was wounded at Aus-
terlitz and perished in the retreat from Rus-
sia. The Sixth of the Guard had a military
mastiff named Misere, which wore three
white stripes sewn on his black hair. We
have also to name Pompon, of the Forty-
eighth Bedouins, the best sentry of the bag-
gage train ; Loutoute, a Crimean heroine ;
Mittrailli, killed at Inkerman by a shell;
Moffino, that saved his master in Russia,
and was lost or lost himself, but found his
way along from Moscow to Milan, his first
dwelling -place. The most remarkable, how-
ever, was the last, anEn;dish harrier named
M ustapha, which went into action with his
English comrades in Fontenoy, and, we are
seriously told, " remained alone by a field-
piece after the death of the gunner, his
master, clapped the match to the touch-
hole of the cannon and thus killed seventy
soldiers," and it is further added that Mus-
tapha was presented to King George II. and
rewarded with a pension alimentam.
Pleasant Perfumes.
A bit of perfumed wadding, a trifle of rib-
bon, silk, or even cheese -cloth, is easily
made up into a satchet bag, and these may
be placed wherever there are things to be
sweetened, taking care not to make the fra-
grance too• -common. For the box, desk or
drawer where stationery is kept, there
should be a liberal allowance of the perfume.
A delicately sweetened letter always gives
en added pleasure to the recipient. But
strong perfumes are offensive and out of
taste. The wholesome, clean and delicate
odors of the lavender flower, "strawberry,"
spruce, and the fine blooms of sweet, white
clover, which are found in some parts of our
country, are quite sufficient, if carefully
gathered and distributed in proper quanti-
ties, to make a generous supply of delicate
perfume for the household linen, wardrobe
and toilets of the farmer's wifeanddaughter.
Pleasant perfumes will not abide with un-
wholesome ones. This is true of one'sprop-
erty or person. No perfume at all is much
more desirable than either a strong or a
common one. But the orris -root can be
safely recommended, if used in the right
way, for its delicacy, permanency and
sweetness.
Rest.
How differently men and women indulge
themselves in what is called a resting spell!
" I guess I'll sit down and mend these
stockings, and rest awhile," says the wife,
but her husband throws himself upon the
easy lounge, or sits back, in his arm -chair,
with hands at rest, and feet placed horizon-
tally upon another chair. The result is,
that his whole body gains full benefit of the
half hour he allows himself from work, and
the wife only receives that indirect help
which comes from change of occupation.
A•physician would tell her that taking
even ten minutes' rest in horizontal posi-
tion, as a change from sitting or standing
at work, would prove more beneficial to her
than any of her makeshifts at resting. Busy
women have a habit of keeping on their
feet just as long as they can, in spite of
backaches and warning pains. As they grow
olderthey see the folly of permitting such
drafts upon their strength, and learn to
take things easier, let what will happen.
They say, " I used to think I must do thus
and so, but I've grown wiser, and
earned to slight things." The first y ears of
housekeeping are truly the hardest for, un-
tried and unfamiliar cares are almost daily
thrust upon the mother and home -maker.
Got. What he Wanted.
There was:a young man named Michael,
Who thought he -could ride a bicycle;
But the headers, you know, ,
Disgusted him so
That be gave up this.;lricky vehicle.
Said he, "Of these headers I'm chary;
And must have me wheel that will carry
Me
safe over stumps,
Bricks, boulders, and bumps ;"
Sb now on a safetyyhe'1l tarry.
First They Were Cordial to the Rlueeoated
Vistors to homestead, Now They are Not
Even Friendly.
The execution of further plans for the re-
establishment of vested rights, and for the
operation of processes of law -at Homestead
has been delayed by the committee of in-
vestigation from Congress, which has de-
manded the presence of men who otherwise
would have directed important events at
Homestead.
,
Stead.
No man could read the patriotic words
which come by every mail to the Carnegie
headquarters without- being solemnly im-
presssed by the stupendous importance of
the present crisis. And let no one think
that the man in charge of the Carnegie in-
terests is blind to the significance of the
struggle.
H. C. Frick is a just man and a determin-
ed one. He realizes completely the nature
of the vast responsibility that is upon him.
There will,be no vacillation, no weakening
in the policy he is following. He will keep
right on in a straight open course. He has,
and will continue to have, the entire sup-
port of his principals. He will meet appall
ing obstacles in the great task he has under-
taken. He expects them, but his policy
will be unchanged to the end, come what
may. It will be, it already is a mighty
struggle. No panorama of war itself pee-
sents more thrilling and dramatic situations
than are already in view. As it continues
to unroll, pictures worthy the attention of
the nation will be disclosed.
Peace now reigns at Homestead, but it is
peace at the cannon's mouth. There M mur-
der yet in the hearts of the people. " I
would like to put a bullet through you,"
hissed a striker into the ear of a newspaper
man who had advised a stranger to refuse
to answer an unauthorized demand for his
name and business this afternoon.
There was more of this arrogant interfer-
ence with personal rights all over the town
to -day, and few dared resent it. The Com-
mander of the National Guard said he
would arrest any one who attempted to as-
sume the power of the mob again in this
way, but nobody cared to act as complain-
ant in such a case.
The plans for reopening the Homstead
mills, and for reducing the strikers to a
more complete subjection to the law for ob-
vious reasons will not be made public in
advance. It can only be said in general
terms that decisive action will be taken
very soon. No violence is apprehended in
connection with the threatened strike in
the Pittsburgh mills to -morrow.
The men are intelligent and naturally
lawbiding. Their sympathies are strongly
enlisted in behalf of their Homestead breth-
ren, and they realize that they are making
a great sacrifice in going on strike merely out
of sympathy. They know that there are
very few sympathy strikes on record that
ever succeeded. They number about 3,500.
At the Braddock mills, opposite Home-
stead, there are more than a thousand, and
they are said to be -ready to take similar
action. There are in all the Carnegie mills
about 23,000 men, but a considerable pro-
portion of this number the company believes
cannot possibly be induced to strike.
President Weihe of the Amalgamated As-
sociation refused to say to -day what would
be the attitude of his organization in the
matter of a general sympathetic strike,
The Homestead strikers are basing some
hopes on the possibility of the railroad men
refusing to handle the product of the mills
there if turned out by non-union men under
military protection.
Gen. Snowden said to -day that he thought
the troops would be kept at Homestead
about two weeks; No one at all acquainted
with the temper of the strikers believes that
it would be possible to peacefully operate
the mills at the end of that period without
a very strong armed force for the protection
of the men. There is no chance of the men
weakening at present because of lack of
mean.
Their own and kindred organizations will
gladly supply them with all the money they
need for a long fight. If an appeal for phy-
sical assistance should be sent out, the in-
dications are that there would be an equally
prompt and effective response if the tenor
of the offers which for a week have been
pouring in means anything at all.
The feelings of the strikers toward the
troops are rapidly changing. They are no
longer cordial. They are not even friendly.
• A Source of Unhappnness.
"The longer I live," said Sydney Smith,
"the more I am convinced that half the
unhappiness of the world proceeds from
little stoppages, from a duct choked up, from
food pressing in the wrong place, from a
vexed duodenum or an agitated pylorus.
"My friend sups late ; he eats some
strong soup, then a lobster, then some tart,
and he dilutes these esculent varieties with
wine.
"The next day I call upon him. He is
going to sell his house in London and retire
into the country. He is alarmed for his
eldest daughter's health ; his expenses are
hourly increasing, and nothing but a timely
retreat can save him from ruin.
"All this is the lobster, and when over-
excited nature has had time to manage
this encumbrance, the daughter recovers,
the finances are in good order, and every
rural idea is effectually excluded from the
mind.
"In the same manner old friendships are
destroyed by toasted cheese, and . hard
salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleas-
ant feelings of the body produce corres-
ponding sensations in the mind, and a
great scene of wretchedness is sketched out
by a morsel of indigestible and misguided
food."
A Villige Schoolmaster's Experience.
As I am settled in a manufacturing dis-
trict, which is pretty well sprinkled with
the sons of " Ould Erin," I necessarily
encounter some specimens of Irish wit and
waggery. On the first day of school I walk-
ed up to a ragged urchin of a dozen years,
with the usual question of, " What is your.
name ?"
" William Flanagan, sir,"
" Well, Willie, where do yon live?"
"Next door to Michael McFinnagan, sir."
Which, as I was a stranger, was, of course,
rather unsatisfactory.
" But," persisted I, "where does Michael
McFinnagan live?"
" Sure," said he, with that irresistible
brogue, "he lives next door to me, sir."
The offerings at the annual sale of
throughbred yearlings bred by the Queen
numbered eighteen, none of them of a very
high class. The amount realised was 5,27C
guineas, an average of a little less than
293 guineas each. The higest price was
for a fill b
1,100 nines Mintin --
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allant -
Alpine climbink "i -
many -kinds. One of-tlien
ger from falling stones.
the Alpine Club, Mr. Foster
ker, with two professionalgui
$ -
to the summit of the AiguiBe + =a'
peak which had been ascended rimy twice
before. The getting down kern the to
most rocky cone was -a work of niu► `d}
unity, but was safely accomplished, the
mountaineers were carefully skirting round ._
the base of it, looking for the easaeS iroute
by which to continue their descent. After
a time they found themselves, as Mr. Foe
ter says, at the head of a great 'precipice.
overhanging a glacier. The rocks present-
ed no great difficulty beyond their steepness,
and the party struck straight down. ' .
Some few hundred feet below, a butterass
at our right hand attracted us, and we pass-
ed straight along the face of the cliff to
gain it. Jakob was leading, Walker next, I
followed, and Baumann brought up the
rear. Only one was moving at a time, and
ee cry one had the rope as
etaut as possible
between himself and his neighbor.
Jakob was crossing a narrow gully, when
suddenly, without warning, as though he
had trodden upon the keystone of the wall,
the whole face for thirty or forty feet above
him peeled off, and with a crash like thun-
der, hundreds of tons of rocks precipitated
themselves npcn him.
In in instant he was torn from his hold
and burled down the precipice with them.
Fortunately, Walker was able to hold on,
though the strain on him was awful.
As the uproar ceased and silence even
more impressive succeeded, we looked in one
another's faces with blank dismay. From
our potation it seemed impossible to see
what had become of Jakob, and only the
tight rope told us that his body, living or
dead, was still fastened to us.
In a voice singularly unlike his own,
Walker at length cried out, "Jakob 1 and
our hearts sank within us as it passed with-
out response. "Jakob! ach Jakob!" Walker
repeated; and I trust none of my readers
may ever know the relief we felt when the
reply came back, "Ich lebe nock."
Walker craned over a rock, and then turn-
ed round. .
"I see him," he said. "He is awfully
hurt, and bleeding frightfully."
I contrived to shift my position, so that I
could see him. His face was black with
blood and dirt, the skin torn fro 'ais-ble '
ing hands, and his clothes in ribbons.
a moment he recovered his footing. Then = _
he untied the rope with trenniblifinger*,
and crawled along the faee of the ,i#F•'io
the other side of the gulf*, where Some
snow offered means to staunch fiale -wounds
As soon as he was safe, Beanie/in called
to as to stand still, and clambered carefully
over the spot where the rocks had given
way, our only road lying there. I followed,
and then Walker.
Jakob had indeed had a wonderful escape,
and on taking hold of the rope to tie him on
again, we were awestruck to find that all
but one of its strands were severed, so that
his whole weight had hung literally on a
thread. Strange as it may appear, the
rock that had done this had probably
saved his life by jerking him out of the line
of fire.
No bones were broken, though Jakob wan - ,
badly bruised all over, and after a quarter
of an hour's rest he was ready to start
again.
nig Little Men.
Brains and stature do not go together by
any means, and some of the most famous
men in the world have been little men, or,
at least, they have been short. Everybody
can think of a dozen men besides President
Harrison (who is anything but buried under
" Grandfather's Hat") as caricaturist*
feign, whose names are leading ones in poli-
tics or literature or business to -day whe
have fewer inches by several than, say,
Bishop Brooks. A writer in the Gentle-
man's Magazine marshals many celebrated
little men whose little talents have enriched
the world sin ue " Zaccheus, he, did climb a
tree" to see over the heads of his tenet
companions. Balzac says that little fellows
are the fellows for work ; being short him-
self, he did not hesitate to say, what Bacon
said too about the evident relation between
over -developed inches and under -developed
brain, The champion of the tall may have
his say about that as soon as he pleases
but on this side there are Napoleon (whc
was five feet one) and Admiral Keppel, At.
tila and Oliver Cromwell. The Duke of
Wellington and Lord Nelson were both a
good deal under six feet ; General Sheridan
was much shorter than General Grant who
was not a tall man, about the height of
Frederick the Great. Michael Angelo and
Sir Christopher Wren, Thomas Moore (not
an inch above the five feet) Alexander Pope
(only four feet six) Voltarie and Calvin and
David Garrick and John Milton and Will-
iam Wilberforce and Lord Shaftesbury -.ars
some of those named and everybody can add
to the list.
Tea-Ohest Lead.
One of the industries in connection with
the tea trade is the collection of the lead
with which tea-chests are lined. China has
been noted for many centuries for the purity
of its lead, and this tea-chest lead, as it is
called, is regarded es the finest in existence.
There are many uses for it ; it is found very
valuable in making the best kind of solder.
No machinery is employed in the produc-
tion of this sheet lead ; every sheet is made
by hand in the most primitive fashion. A
large brick is provided, the size of the
of lead to be made, and is covered with
two or three sheets of paper. On these the
molten lead is poured, and another brick is
placed on the top, which flattens the lead
out the required size and thickness. The
sheets are then soldered together to the
size of the interior of the tea chest ; tho
tea is packed in, and the top sheet is fast-
ened in place. The whi'kmen are very ex-
pert, and they turn out an immense num-
ber of sheets in the course of -a day, and,
where labor is so cheap, _, at a price mach
less than if the artioles were produced- by
machinery.
The Pope Manufacturing Company hay
just finished and sent to Boston -a-bicycle
whose use; if it proves iss'successfitq as; it
seems likely to do, will openanew'fieldfor-
the work and availability of :the silent steed.
The wheel, which is being tested by the
Boston Fire Department, is to carry a fire
extinguis-her. A ladies' wheel frame is
used, and the extinguisher, designed to
carry two gallons of fluid, is hung: so that
the weightis evenly divided between the
t Ano wheels and pint of the way of the .rider.
A twist of -the hand disengages -0e exult
guisher, and in a moment tlie:stream- of •i-
. enerating Iiuid __is turned Amon the 1ilaiueS..
The extinguisher adds about 2fiprtiuds `
the weight of the wheel. ,The ides is thah
upon a atilt or other—alarms a ire3 tl with ..
an extiniguisher can to orate seine
minntea.before theorel;u
arilye,aft lid often a tires
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