Lincoln County advocate., May 03, 1876, Image 5

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S1EWART
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cantile Success—Reminiscences of his
Career and Pergonal Habits.
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Eurfather waffW
respected farmer," descended from a race
of Scotch-Irish Bresbyterians, whose
industry, frugality, and precision the
bojr inherited in full measure, Alexan
der Turney Stewart was born in 1803, in
the 'suburbs of Lisburn, an extensive
manufacturing town about six miles
from Belfast. Befprejie was eight years
old liw parentannd elder sitfter died, and
'•i« be was left Willi only one near relative—
hid grandfather—who in his old age
cherished the hope that he would live to
hear his grandson preach from a Metlio
„dist pulpit The boy had natural ability
.and methodical habits, and easily led his
classes, Jinallj taking a degree at Trinity
.^^.Colle His..grandfather died, how
ever,"
"before the course of study was
completed, and the young student was
left without a relative. The grandfather
had a" worthy successor in a pious
II
Quaker, who was appointed the young
man's guardian, Under his guardian's
advice he finished his course at tho uni
yersity, one of his tutors, tSfeing the
famous Sheridan Kriowles. He was not
one of the boisterous revelers-of the uni
versity-whose portraits Charles Lever
has drawn with a bold hand. With a
frame not robust, but lithe and active,
he-was^' a seriofts/ jpaiistaking student,
wj^fo wflfs |tf^ysN»«IJfpund reading in
lire rooni fwlplei^h^s 3»Bqws were enter
tainingW^Bterers in their chambers.
He had graduated with honors, and
'^waiTabout 20 years of age, when he de
cided to emigrate to America. A trivial
circumstance at tjie turning point of his
life made him a merchant. A. young,
,ui tf^ wiyirWhQfci fe6 had becomto intifcitfte
applied to him for money wherewith to
open a small dry goods store. He ad
vanced the greater part of the small patri
mony which heihad brought to America
alsmall store was rented and stocked*
but though an unforseen circumstance
liis friend, after all the preparations had
beep mide,7wasunable to begin«bosiness.
Sjjc* pl«ck ^B^ jpher^ W&ch were the
heritage of his Scotch-Irish ancestry
came to the surface. In order that the
money which he had already invested
Blight not be lost,- he resolverl to carry
oh the business himself.' He Vent back
to Ireland, converted into money the
moderate fortune which his father had
left him, bought a stock of Belfast laces
and returned to 'New York to open his
store. The capital invested amounted
to about $3,000, and in the Daily Adver
tiser of.Sept. 2,1825, appeared a modest
adycrtiseitojSpt announcing that A. T.
"""Bfewari ojwreid for sale, at No. 283
Broadway, "a" general assortment of
freak and jeeasonable dry gobtls." He
liad rentedi one-half of a store, with a
frontage ofHjrepty.-flve feet, exactly op
,.} poSito-.the iiprtheln entrance of the pres
ent whole&le store of the firm, then the
site of Washington Hall, In the rear of
hi$ shop, the rep till of which was very
low, the young merchant had a sleeping
room. Under these humble conditions
was formed the germ of the most exten
r. .sive dry goods business in the world.
•... Mr, Stewart's first customer was not
only a lady but also a friend. On the
day before the little shop was opened, in
accordance with his modest announce
ment, a lady whose acquaintance he had
made in .the city said to him: "You
must 9ot. sell ttip^ning on the morrow
till IjCtjme attd-mrtke me first purchase^
for it' will bring luck." The next mosa-S
ing she drove up in her carnage and
purchased Irish laces and other goods
worth nearly two hundred dollars. It
gQWl^tJtnan'fjr the'yoiuu? mer
e^na-ifcvmsit Ihcky in
vestment for herself. The lady subse
quently removed, to a city on the conti
nent, where Mr. Stewart found her in
reduce^.circumstances, her husband
having^died after "waiting her whole for
tune. Tlie merchant settled an annuity
upon her, and during the rest of her life
she lived in comfort.
quite as interesting,
5s related of the first day's business. A
woman came in to buy calico, and a clerk
told her that the colors were fast1 and
would not wash out. Mr. Stewart in
dignantly remonstrated with the sales
man.' What do'you meatti by saying
.YS&SKXI
HWiflt ybtl know to be untrue The calk
co will fade she will demand her monojr
back, and she will be right. I don.ti
want goods represented for what they
arenof." "Look here, Mr. Stewart/'
said the clerk, those are going to be
your principles in trade, I'm going to
look for another situation. You won't
last long."
But Mi". Stewart did last. His favor
ite business principle was—one price for
all. From this fixed price no salesman
was allowed to depart and no deceit or
misrepresentation as jp thfr quality of
the goods was tolerated". Hewaaled by
ihstmcjr.pnd ea^lyVtramihg 'to accept
Honesty is the best policy" as a sound
business principle. There never was a
merchant who put mare conscience into
his business than Mr. Stewart, and yet
with him it was not so much conscience
it was oommon,sense.!'/".
The two stores which Mr. Stewart
built are among the proudest monuments
of commercial enterprise in this country.
The trade transacted in them is almost
fabulous. The sales in the two estab
,ndittenls at&,Bai(l tohave amounted to
6208,000,000 in three years, and the in
COIJM
of Mr. Stewart has been the larg-i
est ill the mercantile world. In 1863 his
income was $£500,000 in 1864, $4,000,
000* in 1865, $1,600,000 in 1866, $600,
000—an average of about $2,000,000
year.. When he was.poxainated for Sec
...Ujp ^ttS^.^'estiinated his
annual income at 83,000,000. Tlic bus
mess of the house is world-wide. A for
eign bureau has been established at
Manchester,
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narr.-.nBBSS
the Deceit sctl
Es own words
"My business has been a matter of
principal fnom the start. That is all
there is about it. If the golden rule can
bo jpcorpttated into purely mercantile
aflairs, ifc bs b#Mv dQiie&a this aifabi
T^eanVent, and youiaust1 lilv& notickl, if
"you nave observed closely, that the cus
tomers are treated precisely as the seller
himself WOuKTlike to be treated were he
in their place. That is to say, nothing
is misrepresented* yiAKpri$e Ik fixed,
onea and for tdVafc thfe loVp^fc' possible
figure, apd the circittflStances of the
tbuvdr are dot suffered to influence the |r
salesman in his conduct in the smallest
particular. What we cannot afford is
violation of principle,"
!The hard, practical SccAch sense which
those words indicate, and which wag the
strongest trait-of his character, was in
his blood. He was of Irish parentage,
tTftoWremdtfflf' 6f '{Scotch' ancestry.
sf^tfdSpirous and highly
Englisji-^oods are
:ed. At
..here lin-
ens are bleaoiied* At Glasgow the firm
hare a house for Scotch goods. la a
.ate /spQeo^Ecpt In-
The
ttf ty®. Paymenta are
made at the Paris hnrebp, and all the
flHnu JThea
-ft
Sf^tep ^hlcli mabufoictiire ^ods exdltM
ively for this firm, and there are buyers
and agents who are constantly traveling
from Hong Kong to Paris, from Tl#«t
to Peru.
Mr. Stowart's benefactions were on
the same large -scale as his business.
He gave as a prairie yields crops, jAJ
thougli lie was American in all his in
atiucts, his heart was warm toward his
native island. When there was a famine
in Ireland Jiernought for it Tihip. A
'firftfahr^tssel wasofi^jfed he would have
•toSdn^butSth Am^pcdn vJSSel. One
was found with an American captain and
an American crew, and was at once char
tered. The vessel was loaded with pro
visions, and under the American flag en
tered the harbor of Belfast. The agent
3t Belfast was' directed to advertise for
andfc-^ohit^i who desired to
passage was
Jiv?n to as many as the vessel could
carry, the only requirement being that
each applicant should be of good mor
al character and able to read and
write. A circular was issued by Mr.
Stewart, himself and sent to his numer
ous friends, stating the fact that he
expected a largo number of young peo
ple and asking employment for them.
When the vessel reached the harbor of
New York, places had been found for
almost every one of the new emigrants.
After tho Franco-German war, Mr.
Stewart chartered a uleamer and dis
patched her to Havre with 3,800 bar
rels of flour for the relief of sufferers
in manufacturing districts* One of
the Paris newspapers, in Kmmentijig
upon this gift at the time,*
said "It
is from a republic that sucli oxamples
of generosity and true grandeur come
to us. Can we show ourselves'worthy
of the sympathy of a people represented
by such men
When Chicago was desolated by fire
in 1871, Mr. Stewart gave $50,000 for the
relief of the sufferers. A princely char
ity was his proposed home for working
women on Fourth avenue, which is still,
unfinished. The building "osi 3t,
000,000. The
B«:':
Avas
The public events in Mr. Stewart's
life have been few in number. In 1867
he went to the Paris Exhibition as
United States Commissioner. This was
thfi 'only public office which he ever held.
He was President Grant's first nominee
for Secretary of the Treasury. A few
days previous to the inauguration of
the President, Mr. Stewart and his fam
ily, accompanied by Judge Henry Hil
TOU "fiftd Gen. Daniel Butterfield, visited
Washington and occupied apartments at
the Ebbitt House, a private entrance on
Fourteenth, street, near Newspaper-row,
being arranged for his personal conveni
ence. It was understood at the time
that only the objection made by Senator
Sumner' prevented his confirmation by
the Senate. Late in the afternoon of the
day on, which the nominations were sent
in, arumor got abroad that there was alaw,
understood to have been really written
by-Alexander1 Hamilton while Secretary
of the Treasury, prohibiting an impor
ter in active business from holding the
position of Secretary of the Treasury.
?A newspaper,correspondent obtained the
Jaw bearing on the jase and carried it to
Gen. Butterfield, wj^g etsfiveyed it to Mr.
Stewart ati4 his ldgait-adviser, Judge
Henry Hilton, whd was then with him at
Washington: They immediately con
sulted Chief Justice Chase, and he con
firmed the view which had been taken of
the law by those who first brought it to
Mr. Stewart's attention. It was under
stood at the time in Washington that Mr.
Stewart proposed to retire from business
and devote the entire profits that might
accrue during the time that lie should
hold the iofiioef 6f Secretary of the Treas
ury to any charitable object which might
be named. But this was decided to be
a means which would not be proper
either for him to carry out or for the
Government to accept. Immediately
after seeing Chief Justice Chase, Mr.
Stawart ahctJ£idgev Hilton drove "to the
White-hofyse ai^d laid the factij and the
opinions befbre the ^President, who on
the next day wrote a message to the Sen
ate asking that the law of 1788 be set
aside so as to enablo the candidate to
hold the office. This the Senate de
clined to do. It was a very natural am
bition for a man of Mr. Ste'wart's tastes
and training to desire to bo at the head
of the Treasury, and not unlikely
a very se-
Mr. Stewart has long been regarded
as one of the richest men in the United
States. Next to Cornelius Vanderbilt
and the late William B, Astor, he was
probably the richest. Mr. Vanderbilt
invested in railroads from their first in
troduction iu this country, and has
amassed what is popularly supposed to
be the'largest private fortune in Amer
ipa* almost wholly inrlheSo productive
slacks. Mr.' Astoria great fortune of
850,000(000 or $60,000,000 was made, as
^is well inowrf, tilmbst wholly iri real es
tate operations, in a city where such in
vestments proved to De exceptionally'
and marvelously profitable. Mr. Stew
art's fortune was made almost Wholly in
trade —his real estate transactions being
subsidiary to his mercantile projects—
and he took no interest in railway or
other speculative stocks or operations.
His fortune grew less rapidly than that
of the others, being subjeetei$tfreverses
of trade which that of the others did not
feel but it is generally estimated that
he has leftpropertv .to the amount of
$50,000,0^, ^o|s^bly more.
Pertinent Questions.
A Michigan lady sends this note to
the Chicago Tribune: "Are the ball
room dresses iU strated in fashion
papersi c»rrect representations of the
dfuM ad 'Worn by ladies attending balls,
etc., in our large cities If so, how dp
those not endowed by kind nature with
the correct form, you know, manage to
keep up their end of the fashion lever
painfod, grooved and warranted to fit
And why is it (if a fact) that respectable
ladies, while attendiug balls, parties,
etc., are licensed to exhibit themselves
in the same shape in ordinary society,'
they would ba classed among the demi
ft as I do:
noWnove in the higher circles,' and am
not posted."
"I NEVEii larfed so much in all my
life," said Guy at the club the other
night, when I sat .down on, you know,,
a nice old chap's hat, you know, and then'
everybody larfed, you know." It was
funny, you know, wasn't it
ma
thirty, .^honsand
are 'nsed fir
.000 matches
MINNESOTA will give the office of school
director to women.
AOSTBAIIIA
A
exported in 1875, gOldFdiref
to the amount of $15,889,525.
SEOHET societies are being organized
by the Chinese throughout Nevada.
,FOF' -vomen were arrested at Titus
ville, I', ., recently for assaulting a
man.
WHEN farmers cannot raise good
crops they do the other thing—raise the
prices.
A
FABMEK
of Santa Ynez, Cal., recent­
ly traded 240 mustangs for one blooded
stallion.
ONE thousand men will be employed
in the Consolidated Virginia mine this
summer.
THE site upon which Cincinnati is
built was sold for less than fifty silvtir
dollars in 1787.
THE Czar is the tallest sovereign of
Exu-ope. The Emperor William comes
next in height.
RABBITS have so increased in Ken
tucky that hunting them down has be
come an absolute necessity.
AN economist says he can live on seven
cents a day, but he wants a seventy-five'
cent breakfast next morning
THERE were nearly 12,000,000 postal
cards issued by the Postoffice depart
ment iu the monili of March.
DEADHEAD
A
^ject was to fur­
nish a building wherein lodging, food
and warmth could be furnished at the
lowest possible rates. Each working
girl
to pay a fixed rate for lodging,
the benevolence of the plan consisting
in the fact that every one would secure
more comfort than in a common hotel
for-less money than a squalid lodging in
a tenement-house. Although Mr. Stew
art was not considered generous to local
charities, he gave in his own way. He
had a Scotchman's hatred of professional
beggitrs,
has been senteoc^d in
London to six months and hard labor for
merely asking for a free pass.
SibVEK mines which bear traces of
having been worked by a previous race
have been discovered iu Mason county,
Texas.
GEORGIA
exchange recently headed
a marriage announcement Cramp
ZeiiaeK." He was the cramp, and she
—tno other party.
LUCY HOOPER wants a large Yankee
population in Paris—people who get out
of bed and began business before 10
o'clock in the morning.
AN
old tombstone in the burying
ground at West Lynn, Mass., has this
inscription: "God took the.good, too
good to stay, and left the bad, too bad
to take away." Rather rough on the
mourners.
THE children of school age in England
and Walep, that is, from three to thirteen,
number 5,374,301, or twcnty-throc per
cent, of the whole population. The
amount ended upon primary education
during the last ten years in England,
Wales and Scotland is £9,918,277.
AT the Exeter (Eng.) Assizes a school
master named Starbridge has been sen
tenced to five years' penal servitude for
brutally flogging a youth who failed to
complete his exercise in arithmetic. In ., ,,
the boy has lost the sight of one eye,
MR. GEOKGE CARTER SLETT, an En
glishman living in Shanghae, has just
published a collection of Chinese ballads.
One of them bears the name of "Chang
Liang's Flute," and according to tradi
tion its melancholy tones induced 8,0C0
soldiers to desert their camp for their
homes in a single night.
ETHER drunkards are a product of
Eugland. In a Londonderry neighbor
hood an official report has been made of
two deaths caused by drinking ether,
and "notwithstanding, attempts made
by the clergy and others of influence
to stop the practice, it seems to be
spreading,
THE remarkable scientific. fa£*is aji
nounSed that an iron ball at whifee heat
refuses to receive a charge of. electricity
when cooled down to red iieat it will re
ceive a negative charge at a dull red
heat it Will receive a positive 'charge
and when further cooled down it will
accept both kinds.
AT a recent funeral in Montgomery
county, Pa., the following relations were
present .One great-grandfather, one
great-graricTmother,' two 'grandfathers,
two grandmothers, three fathers, three
mothers, three sons, two grandchildren,
one great-grandchild, and two daugh
ters-in-jaw.
FOUR burglars stole $1,290 c.f a widow
in Oakland, Cal., the other night, and
her son-in-law shot two of them, cap
tured a third and recovered all the mon
ey. When asked why he treated his
mother-in-law in that. Way, he excused
himself by saying that the old woman
was rather weakly, and he thought the
money had better remain in the family."
A
REMARKABLE
duel is reported from
the neighborhood of Toulouse. The
combatants were two journalists, and
both ^ood shots. They mfet 'at 8 in the
morning, and after the usual prelimina
ries„the signal to fire was. given. Roth
the duelists fell dead off the spot, each
having received a ball in the region of
the heart. They were both married and
leave large families.
A FAVOHmr mode of curiiig intoxica
tion in Sweden and Norway is by using
the hair of some of the "same dog. The
drunkard is put in jail-and fed on noth
ing but bread and wine,. He likes it at
first, but after a few days it grows very
disgusting to Jiim, and, if followed up,
creates a deep-seated repulsion to all that
can intoxicatei 1 ..
VIENNA Aises 720,000 .pounds 6f? geu
uine meerschaum, worth over $1,000.
000, yearly, a»d 4,100,000 pounds of
meerschaum chips, which' are. ground
and compressed and made into imitation
pipes and cigar holders. The imitation
is. carried to such perfection that the
best judges are often puzzled to distin
guish it from the real article.
The Philadelphia Census.
Th$j, people of Philadelphia. Jiave
stood lip 'and' been counted by Mayor
Stokeley's police. The result shows a
population of 817,448, an increase of
Overtwenty-onepercent, since
1870. This
is a greater rate of increase than there
was between 1850 and 1860, the rate for
that whole decade being only nineteen
per, cent. For the decade ending 1870
the rate' qf incj-'pase was thirty-eight per
cehki-Which would be equivalent to
about twenty per cent, for the period
from 1870-to the beginning of 1878.
This growth is very gratifying, consider
ing tho severe business depression which
has prevailed for three years past, and
E
Ef*tem city has
we dQu'ot if any other
increased in, populat'
Philadelphia Times.
A
GOOD
J50 rapidly.—
destl hah been said against
chewing-gnm by the press at large, but
it holds its own evenly with the despised
hand-organs Certain Petroit boys now
peddle the stick from house to house,
asdareallojred to gp fpom parlor to base
ment and tfedk, tfnd B^ll to all When
Ito haS ncf^n^gpn^ iboutfiMeeS ftinntea
the lady of the house remarks: 'Mandaj4
yum gum. um tell Bessum whum to get
forum dinner." .." Yoh, ago," Amanda
vyav« diicknoi'f um
tine mother ^we
"Yaus uin/bilemn
rolling haj cttd
replies..
finner," remarks
Free Press.
iiiwwyr'"
"T'
Qsp Haarff resides in St. Louis.
Gov. LII'PIT, of Rhode Island, ought
to' be a goott speaker.
.uto.ii.wjutiit
nr.
7TMIXEP BABIES.
T^r
.)U
lies Moines Moprding-House Tragedy,
A few days since two simultaneous in
fants were bornrin a Des Moines board
iug-house, and inasmuch, as they were
dot twins, it is, pferh&ps, unnecessary to
imentfcn«thaviwd distinct mothers wfere
involved hi tlie'affaii'. llie judioioiis in
fant notoriously prefers to be born in the
middle of the night,, for .the reason that
find
it is certain its father at home
miss~ioti& The wild Western infant, on
the contifety, dist&ins custom, and is
careless of the Convenience of others.
The two Des Moines infants made their
first appearance in the middle of the
day, when there was no.one iii readiness
to welcome them and If they have life
long reason to regret their precipitancy,
the verdict of staid and orderly people
will be that it served them right.
It so, happened that a friendly and
neighboring matron, who heard of the
casualty, promptly called on the two
mothers and volunteered her assistance.
Her aid was cheerfully accepted, and the
infants being handed to her she placed
them in a convenient market-basket, and
carried'them to her room in order to
dampen the enthusiasm Avith which they
had entered on their new existence by
making them acquainted with the pins
and soap of every-day life. No one
claims that she did not perform her task
in a thorough and proper manner. The
infants were soon made ready for exhi
bition, and were brought back to their
mothers much depressed in spirits, and
entertaining 'grave doubts whether, on
the whole, they had acted wisely in emir
grating to Des Moines. When, however,
the more inquisitive of the mothers de
sired to know which was her private in
fant, the officious matron uttered a wild
cry and sank fainting to the floor, while
the infants rolled from the limp arni9
and brought up with considerable vio
lence against tne coal-scuttle and rock
ing-chair.
It will hardly be credited that the
well-meaning but unfortunate matron
had taken 110 precaution to distinguish
one infant from the other. As a conse
qaence, she was entirely unable to re
turn each to its actual mother. Nothing
could have been easier than to mark
them, for identification—calling one, say,
Schedule A-j^-'-and the other Schedule
B." This, iiufact, is jthe precise way in
whicli a lobftl la^yeiywhose advice was
subsequently asked, asserted that the
affair ought to have been managed. The
same purpose would have been accom
plished had the matron cut a notch in
the leg of one infant, or pasted a written
label on its forehead, or marked its nose
with indelible ink. .As she remarked,
however, it is easy enough to think of
these things when it is too late to use
them and it is doubtful if those who
now so severely condemn her for not
Jiabitually carrying 'brass checks in her
pocket for the piirposo of checking cas-
tered had they been in her place.
That
she was flustered she readily admits,
and though the precise meaning of that
term is not very well ascertained, it is
generally understood to denote a state
of temporary insanity, induced by an
excess of infants.
It is not pleasant to dwell upon the
grief of the disappointed mothers. To
find that, instead of owning one infant
each, they had only a tenancy iu com
mon of two infants, must have been ex
tremely painful. It istrue that a mother
who owns an undivided half part of two
infants has just as much infantile prop
erty as though she owned one entire in
fanj»in fee,pimple. Still, every ipother
prefers to Save a stnetly private infant,
and the law makes no provision for a
a partition suit between tenants in
common of the same infant. The re
pentant matron tried to mend matters
by advising the mothers to draw for the
choice of children. First carefully mix
ing the infants behind her back, she
covered them with a blanket, leaving a
single leg of each projecting about three
inches from the blanket. Each mother
then selected a leg and drew forth the
corresponding infant. Perhaps, in these
circumstances, this was the best plan
that could have been adopted, but it by
no means repairs the mischief that had
been done. Neither mother will ever
have any real satisfaction in her alleged
child. Each will always have a terrible
fear that she is wasting her time and en
ergies over a colic that rightfully con
cerns the other mother, and when one
child is praised by indiscreet friends for
its imaginary beauty, both mothers will
insist that their own features have been
inherited by the infant in question.
When these unhappy babies grow to
years of discretion they will never be
satisfied as to their identity, and the
blighting consciousness that while other
men are forbidden to marry only two
grandmothers they are each forbidden to
marr four, will effectually take away the
zest, of life.
The moral of this tragedy is obviously
twofold. It is a warning to western in
fants to return to the good old custom of
entering upon existence in the night
time, and it will impress upon the minds
of all mothers the necess:ty of keeping
labels always oh hand for" nse in sudden
emergencies. If these twoVgsults should
follow, the Des Moines fcfJhts will not
have been mixed in vaiir, and what is
their loss will prove the gain of future
generations.
Induced Lactation.
of this city, a married
Mrs.
lady, but having no children, took an
orphan child three weeks old to raise.
She began feeding the infant on cow's
prescribe.
We found it with a slight diarrhea and
somewhat emaciated, and continually
ci-ying indeed, the crying was almost
incessant, which was qnieted only by
repeated doses of paregoric.- Our prog
nosis was, of course, unfavorable, for
statistics show that three-fourths of the
spoon-fed" children die before com
pleting the first year. Therefore the
plan of treatment for our case was to
procure the natural food—that is, a wet
nurse for we attribute the crying and
diarrhea to two causes, namely, loss of
its mother and $he character of the food
and thus to faraiish a wet-nurse could
meet both indications. After diligent
search a wet-nurte could not be found.
We then recommended the next best
thing," and that was for Mrs.—— to
suckle the baby herselll She was
shocked at the suggestion at first, but
after assnringher that I thought it could
be done, and orbing other .similar cases
as reported by Dr. Gilflllian^.of Brook?,
lyn, and remarkuig upon her great love
for the infant «nd ita dependence upon
her for hfe, aihe came td look ntopn it as
a Christian, duty la none the oaild and
suckle it if possible^ MoreoVerj, she was
ansienB,to'lVB(»i^e a mothes, bnt had
despaired' of becoming, one naturally,
having been married ire jears: she the
nfcre i^^^nnd6)rt^^i® &^periaient
We allude to thege mattern beidanse we
tlte inental influ^OPe of greatest
i»portancft^4h6 ana
think our treatment very favorably in-
fiuericed by havitog: ealtivatejl a desiw
iii that direction. i,
We directed her dn tetu'ing At night
not to give the accd^topied opiate, Bnt
•hofd .with, avidity, and, aftetf stwkrag
nearly an hour at the dty breast it went
to sleep and slept nearly aU night., The
following day we caused a largo poultice
of the green leaves of the ritiini* com
munis (castor oil plant) to be applied,
and at the same time giving teaspoonful
doses of castor oil internally every three
hours. At the end of the first twenty
four hours she experienced a peculiar
sensation in the breasts, and in three
days the flow of milk was well estab
lished. It is heedless to add that the
infant speedily recovered, and the
adopted mother experienced great satis
faction.— Louisville Medical News.
How the Oyster tirows.
Mr. Frank Buckland, who conveys in
struction more agreeably than any natu
list of the day, thus explains the man
ner in which the oyster builds his shell:
The body of .an oyster js a poor, weak
thing, apparently incapable of doing anyr
thing at all Yet what a marvelous house
rtn oyster builds around, his delioate
frame. When an oyster is first born he
is a very simple, delicate dot, as it were,
and yet he is born with hjs.two shells
tiponhim.
iU,
"For some unknown reason he always
fixes himself on his round shell, never by
his flat shell, and being once, fixed., he
begins to grow bnt he only grows in
aySntnnr. Inspect an oyster shell closely
and it will be seen that it is marked witn
distinct lines. As the rings' we observe
in the section of a trunk of a tree denote
years of growth, so d6 the markings on
an oyster tell us how many years lie has
passed in his bed 'at the bottom of the
sea.
Suppose the oyster under inspection
was born'June 15,1870, he would go on
growing up to the first line we see well
marked he would then stop for the win
ter. In summer, 1871, he would more
than double his size. In 1873 and 1874
he wonlfl again go on building, till he
was dredged up in the middle of his
work in 1875 so that Jie is plainly five
and a half years old. Tlie yay in which
an oyster grows his shell isa pretty sight.
I have watched it frequently. The beard
of an oyster is not only his breathing or
gan —i. e., his lungs—but also his feed
ing organ, by which he conveys his food
to his complicated month with its four
lios.
When the warm, calm days oi' June
come, the oyster opens his shell, and, by
means of his beard,' begins building on
additional story to his house. This he
does by depositing very, very fine parti
cles of carbonate of lime, till at last they
form a substance as thin as silver paper,
and exceedingly fragile. Then he adds
mofe and more* till at last the new shell
is as hard as the old, one. When oysters
are growing their shells they must be
handled very carefully, as the new
growth of shell will cut like broken
glass, and a wound on the finger from
an oyster shell is often very dangerous."
Eutertainiug the Parson.
The preacher was .stopping over-night
at their house. This was quite an un
common event for their household, and
Mrs. Swipes was on her good behavior.
While she was so precise and prim that
butter would hardly melt in her mouth
in the presence of his riverence," she
had to keep a vigilant watch oVer her
husband and boy, else they would kick
over the traces and "shpw their
bidding/' It was while Blie was in this
frtipe of mind that a tramp present
ed himself to the door and asked for
something to eat. Now it is proverbial
with her that she always turns a cold
shoulder to such applicants but she
was on her good behavior, and, conse
quently, spread a good breakfast before
him. After everybody had left the
house and she was washing dishes she
found herself minus two napkin-rings.
On the return of her husband from work
she said to him
Two of my silver napkin-rings have
been stolen."
You don't say so!"
"Yes my two best ones."
"Well, well, you ought to know bet
ter than to leave things around loose,
Mrs. Swipes,, after reading all,of that
Beeeher business.""'
It wasn't tho uwfcer." It was that
dirty tramp." •.
Serves y«ti right, :.iva. Swipes, for
trying to show off your kindness before
that preacher. Why didn't you make
the lazy loafer s&w wood for his broak
fast? Yon ktiow well enough all tramps
will steal."-
I don't know any such thing. I'd
let ypu know that I wasn't raised a tramp,
if you was, old Swipw."
You needn't put On airs over me if
my parents were poor, Mris. Swipes. My
Eing
arents didn't have to go to the found
asylum to pick out a baby."—San
Francisco Chroniqlr.
Chicago Falls Heir to Several Million
Dollars.
The Chicago Tribune says The
news has been received of the death in
Some of Miss Julia JJ. Newberry,
daughter of the late, Walter L. Newber
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magnificent library. The late Mr. dew
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and valued even at the'present depreciar
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A large portion of it is unproductive,
but the uioome is upward of $100,000 a
'Mrs.
and
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TLIE Succsgsful i'hyslcian.
41
lf
[From the St. Louis Globe.]
There is probably no man to whom the com
munity owe so mucb ae to, the honest, fa.jr
spoken^hyBician, who does hia actual duty both
to bttoself arid to bis patients. ItaUly BkiUfol
physicians are not BO, numerous that their vir
tues need no mention, and hence the adver
tisement of Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, may
well claim tho reader's attention. Dr. Pieica to
a type of a class of men who obtain miwn h».
careful and well-directed effort, not attempting
too much, or creating false kieae as to abilHy.
The only reliable pliysician in these days of
complicated disorders and high-preseure livlntr
is tho
Spffcialist," the man who nndentandB
Ins one branch, the bnaineest Such in hb
line ie Dr. Pierce, for the benetft of his read,
era he has written*a "Common Sense Medical
Adviser," which is well worth readier by those
who need such a work.. With Btri^ tmaineoa:
•honor, high professional skilli redsMiable fees,
/end a laroe oorpe of competent assistants, Dr.,
Pierce wul doubtless make hi
as household words."
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Gen. Weflfn Agt..
1
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'*HI# DM Moihe« (ITFTA) Register says:
"Yesterday morning two Soften in the
west part of hirti to children
hi the same room and at the same time.
The oircuihstanoed tt[ast9fire4 aQOftetv
than had tiefett expected fund «s a cou
.gequenoe preparations for the new «r
rivals had not been.nMKle, InteilJgeMce
of the event was cmveyedto a neigh
boring housi!,w«nd' a woMan uving there
hastened to them in order to Wttder nec
essary aid. Bhe cared for-'the little
straqgers, ba&ed pnd clothed them,'and
in due Reason started to present them
to their waiting mammas. Thensho
made the startling, dlAfcWntf that she
had succeeded in inextricably mixing
the infants so that die .was unable to de
cide which was the mother of either.
The case 'Ms anxiously considered by
all parties, but no decision conld. be
reached, and finally the two' mothers
cast lot» for choioe, agreeing that if the
children should, when grojra, ^develop
family traits sufficiently to, identify
them they should be exchanged if the
present selection Bhould pr6ve to be in
correct."
TBBMONT AI HAIHM, twenty-six years
old, a Providence medical student, com
initted suicide recently, by taking mor*
phine, the effeot of which lie had noted
etery five minutes "as long as lie ootild
write. He was originally mm Maine.
He had sung in different '.ch torches in
Boston, and was once a nenjber of the
Parepa-Bosa operixsompany.-
JOHN HOOWASH, of Iowa, Has run for
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Detroit Fete Sreaa'. Well, let John
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