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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 190L 10 but !s contmt ith a modest military front that i." not hi'luon under a FUixTatmmlancc c-C decorations. Thv colonel's uniform, which I his habitual attire, may be of one or another branch of the service, but ever conforming to the strict insulation of the army a3 to its composition. No extra touches arc added to denote the otherwise exalted ranU of the weartr. One meeting on J not knowing would pass him for what hi seen;?, a far as lrv?s is concerned, an vnassuminpr yours officer. At Ntjnl he wore ?. creamy white coat but little relieved with other color, and trourers to match, und the tiiT hat with pompon; and. so far a it was practicable, he adjusted his hahil Iments to the' weather, which was I'JO l in the shade. The Empress was a very charm ing portraiture of the summer girl as we know her at Newport and other centers of the cultured and opulent. Her toilets, as rhe from day to day donned new chef d'oeuvre of Parisian art, would have made a Gibson series of ravishing Interest to the feminine devotee of fashion. Czara are but n.ortal under such circumstances, as Nich olas demonstrated, fcr while hi wife was the personification of patrician composure he vas not Most of the time he carried his bead covering In one hand, and every little while ran the lingers of the other through locks evidencing the purgatory of a padded military coat, buttoned to the chin, and a collar reaching nearly to his ears. Coming upon tho writer, rigged out In white duck, with loose neglige shirt, a white pith helmet aod chalked canvas shoes, he stopped, and, with something very like a sigh, remarked: You are to be envied, looking so cool and comfortable in clothea made where men know how to dress In hot weather." He had been in India when czarovltch. and where he could go about as any other man l rwl lilt) ItSL Ul me ciiuaiivi.. writer, some years subsequent to Nicho las's visit to Tuticorin. had been a guest there in the same house that of the chief engineer of the Southern India Railway, and from the genial host and hostess heard much as to the easy, off-hand manner of the present Emperor how he had earnestly requested there should be an avoidance of the formal in the entertaining, that meal hours should remain as they were, and his coming and going cause no disturbance of the even tenor of the ways usually prevail ing. He could not be more pleased, he de clared, than to be considered as one of the i i-t,. itcH nnrnrrtlnirlv. Ills wish wes gratified in so far as was possible 'Nicholas and his chum. Prince George of Greece, had the best kind of a time. They came and went as fancy Impelled, loung ing with the women folic under the deep, Üower-embowcred porches, or. in the cool of the early morning hours, going off on horseback with the men. It was no sur prise that recollections of those days of de lightful liberty should be inspired by the sight of the typical apparel, the .unconfined comfort of which had contributed so largely to his serenity In the East. SIGHTS AT THE FAIR. On another day, and when in the edifice given over to read vehicles, Nicholas, standing by a showing of farm wagons, asked If they were similar to those In use In the United States. They were, to some extent, and particularly as to red, green nnri vpiinw belne the favorite colors. The wondrous designs stenciled In chrome on the grass-hued bodies, and the Vermillion of - the running gears, were certainly re minders of South Bend, Kenosha and Itaclne. Being assured that there was a resemblance, his Majesty looked pleased probably over Russia's not having a mo nopoly of the rural decorative and turn ing to the Empress, said: "My dear, If and I were to take to this sort of rld- nhiia Hp-Actfnn tcrmld be the hi I'JI c n v.e-.-. V - ... . . 1 . M better lor It." TO uus sne uriguuy as- Fented. - The two used English almost altogether, fo far as noted during the week. Although the Empress by birth is German-English, her disposition Is to confine her conversa tion to the latter tongue. It, through her Influence, has, practically, become the court language. The current talk, when the marriage took place, was to the effect that the Princess Allxandra, daughter of Lud wig IVGrand Duke of Hesse, and Princes Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria, had been selected as the bride of Nicholas. Emperor of all the Russias, for reasons of a phys ical rather than a political nature. Of typical queenly stature, superb of form, classical of feature and radiant of health. It was believed, so it is said, that through her the Romanoffs of this and succeeding generations would come back to their own In height, commanding figure and impos ing presence. More than the realization of such hope Is the virile qualities of mind which Allxandra has brought to the house of the Romanoffs. She is a woman of sterling force of character, as was manifested at her very first step toward the throne of the Muscovites. The statement going the rounds of the press, that a Roman Catholic cannot be come an Empress of Russia. Is true as far as It goes, but no more may an ad herent of any other church, save the Greek. The Russian liana. Book is clear and direct on this point. "A person of the male sex, with the rosslble right of succeeding to the throne, may marry a person of another faith, only on condi tion that she embraces the-orthodox faith." The orthodox faith is the Greek. When Allxandra was betrothed to Nicholas she was of the Lutheran faith. For the formal renunciation of it, obligatory before mar riage, the Metropolitan highest dignitary of the Greek church of St. Petersburg, had drawn up for signature such writing as placed her In the position of affirming the religious belief of her life to that time, an error, heinous In Its maintaining and only possible to atone for In the absolution cf the fullest devotion tc the one true faith; as the Greek wes assumed to be. This by no means exemplified the position of the Gree'c church toward the other churches. It, as administered by the pro gressive men at the fore of affairs, is most tolerant as shown by the multiplicity of churches in the empire, comprising as they do every, religious belief. Christian and Tagan, known to the earth. The Metropoli tan, old and bigoted, as many before, and, for that matter, after him In every de- nomination, considered it his bounden duty to put on the screws when opportunity offered. But Allxandra would have none of It. Taking in the situation with keen perception, she ruthlessly drew her pen backward and forward over the document v.ntU obliteration of every objectionable ontrr.ee was achieved. Then with her own hind sho wrote, simply signifying her will- innrsa and purpose to adopt the religious faith of her husband as her own, signed her name, and it had to go at that. Oi another, and intensely womanly Fide cf her nature, Mrs. Breckenridge, wife of the th?.i American minister at St. Peters burg, afforded a comprehensive glimpse, in relating an Incident of her call of con critulatlon un;n the Empress subsequent to the birth of the bitters first child. Roth were mother?, and In the pleasant. Infor mal communion of spirits in common when maternity U the topic. Mrs. Dreckenridge öoubt!c?3 influenced somowha: by what she had heard of the disappointment cx Xrienccd as to the ex of the little one. marie, sympathizing remark in such con nection. Instantly the Empress broke In .nth-the warmest protestations of grati tude Indicative of the depth of her maternal Ä feeling. "No! no"' she passionately ex claimed, "give )ia joy that it Is a girl, for thus it is ours." A boy would have been the Czarovltch, the heir to the throne, and the state's child far more than the moth er's. ' J. G. PANG BORN. QUESTIONS And answers. : Who was the captain of Tale's football team? O. B. C. Gordon Brown. What Is the address of Troop C, Sixth Cavalry?-D. ü. Manila, Philippine islands. What were the populations of Dallas and San Antonio. In Texas, in 1SD0? J. A. Dallas, CS.007; San Antonio, 37,673. T -T- T" Is silver legal tender In any amount? Silver. Yes, unless the contract specifies other wise. What did the word "news" come from? W. II. S. Our adjective new, the French nouvelles, and the Anglo-Saxon nlwe. How many children had Jay Gould, and what were their names? F. I'. W. Six-George Jay, Edwin, Helen Miller, Howard, Anna and Frank Jay. Will you give the home or residence ad dress of John D. Rockefeller? Rex. Residence, 4 West Fifty-fourth street. New York city; office, 2G Broadway. -7- Were new bonds disposed of at private sale in President Cleveland's administra tion? If so, in what amount, and at what price? P. R. Yes; $1.315,400 worth at 104- Which is the largt secret order in the United States? 2. What order comes next? A. J. C. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 2. The Free Masons. How long after a young man has secured an appointment to West Point i3 he ad mitted ?-J. F. W. Appointments usually are made a year ahead of the date of admission. What Is meant by "seedlings" as applied to fruit trees sold by nurserymen? Estil llne. Trees grown from seed, as distinguished from those propagated by grafting, bud ding or cutting. -S- -5- Where does W. K. Fairbanks live? J. F. C. We do not know "W. K. Fairbanks." Mr. N. K. Falrbank is a Chicago merchant, Mr. C. W. Fairbanks, the United States senator from Indiana. Where is the Fourteenth Infantry of our army stationed? N. S. Headquarters and companies E, F, G, H, I, K, L and M at Manila, Philippine islands; Company A, Fort Brady, Michi gan; B. C and D, Fort Wayne, Detroit; Michigan. . When did the Indiana State Fair Associa tion stop charging an admittance fee for carriages, wagons and vehicles generally? Was it advertised in the Indianapolis news papers before the fair began. E. A. A. The order was Issued Sept. 21, 1894. It was advertised and the change made a feature of the fair that year. , Where are the Straits Settlements spoken of as a great source of tin, and will you give an idea of their size? C. W. M. They include some islands of the East Indies and a portion of the Malay penin sula, some 36,000 square miles in area, with about 1,200,000 inhabitants. Will you give me the address of the Thirty-eighth Infantry, which is now In the Philippines ? A. J. II. The regimental headquarters Is at Ba tangas, but all letters to soldiers in the Philippines should be addressed to Manila, Philippine Islands, the command being In cluded, of course. Who were the peace commissioners from this country In the treaty with Spain? 2. Who constitute the Philippine commission? -C. C. H. v William R. Day, Cushman K. Davis, William P. Frye, George Gray and White law Reid. 2. W. IL Taft, Dean C. Worces ter, II. C. Ide, L. E. Wright and Bernard Moses. . T- T T- What Is the address of the Cumberland Presbyterian University? 2. Milwaukee's population In 1SS0 was 113.57S and in 1890 it was 204.4C8; what was the percentage of Increase, and how is it determined? Ig. Lebanon, Tenn. 2. Seventy-six and eight tenths per cent. Rule: divide the Increase by tho earlier population. -f -T- What 13 the significance. In parliamen tary procedure, of moving the previous question? J. G. H. It cuts off debate and brings at once a vote on the pending question. As used in the British Parliament, however, the motion is employed as a means of avoiding bringing a question to a vote. -s- -T -i- IIow many United States senators has Texas had, and who were they? W. J. B. Fourteen: Samuel Houston, Thomas J. Rusk. J. Pinckney Henderson. Matthias Ward, John Hemphill, Louis T. Wigfall, J. W. Flanagan, Morgan C. Hamilton, Sam Bell Maxey, Richard Coke, John II. Reagan, Horace Chilton, Roger G. Mills and Charles A. Culberson. In what part of Michigan are its copper mines? 2. Was Marshal MacMahon's rec ord in the war with Germany a clean one? O. J. K. In its northernmost county, which ex tends Into Lake Superior as a slender pen insula. -2. Yes; though beaten and made prisoner, he was never accused of treach ery, as were most of the unsuccessful French generals at that time. I hold that Lawrence Sterne was the author of the adage. "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and am disput ed; will you decide? F. B. B. You are right ; it appears In Sterne's "Maria." " A hundred years earlier Henri Estlenne wrote a proverb in French whose English translation is "God measures tho cold to the shorn lamb." What is a suitable substance for a small filter, one that will last? 2. Will snow evaporate? J. M. C. Fine sand, sandstone, charcoal, asbestos or unglazed earthenware. All of these will come In time to need cleaning. Re versal of the current of water will suf fice to do this In some cases, but entire renewal of the material Is surer and safer. The earthenware may be sterilized by heat. 2. Yes, even at very low temperatures. Did, the Farmers Alliance originate In Kansas? 1 When was the first English settlement made in Virginia? Were the earliest settlers convicts? 3. In what State were the Bad Lands that the Sioux used as a refuge? W. A. C. No; it was formed la Texas, its chief object being opposition to wholesale pur chase of government lands. Kansas saw Its greatest political victories. 2. In 1G07. The first settlers were a needy lot, but the importation of felons did not begin until 1013. 3. In South Dakota and Nebraska. Was the Eldorado of the early Spanish discoveries ever identified with a certain locality? What was the source of the storks told about its riches? Ella. The Eldorado of these tales was not a place, but a very wealthy king of some Island city In the northern part of South America. Neither he nor hia city was located. Indian legends and the talcs of voyagers, wno reiurnea zrozn wholly un- 4 known regions, were the source of the stories, which arose at a period when Spaniards were noted for credulity and cupidity. By what process Va wood made into pa per, and what kinds of wood are used? What kind of paper docs it make? D. W. It Is ground to pulp and usually mixed with more or less cf wood fiber. The lat ter is obtained by chemical process, the wood, In chips, being digested in steam heated vats under the action of alkali or acid. The succeeding processes are much the same as those for other paper stocks. Spruce, pine, poplar and hemlock are the woods most used. News, book and the cheaper grades of miscellaneous papers are the product. - Are there any shoes imported to this country from Germany, France or any part of the continent? What is the duty on shoes imported to this country? So far as we can learn, few leather shoes are brought to this country. The United States customs office of Indianapolis re ports that it handles none. The duty on them is 23 per cent, ad valorem. Most of the importations of footwear consist of spe cial makes of shoes intended for foreign communities, as cloth shoes with wood soles, etc. The American leather shoe is generally recognized as superior to any other. Will you give a list of the great floods !n this country besides those at Johnstown and Gilveston. in the last 100 years, and their dates? O. L. H. Here are a few of the very serious ones: New Orleans, May 12, IStD; Mill River Val ley, near Northampton, Mass., May 18, 1S74; Eureka,' Nev., July 21, 1S74; Pittsburg. Pa., July 20, 1S74; in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Minnesota during the middle of June, 18S1; Ohio and Mississippi valleys, February. 1SS2; at Cincinnati and neighborhood,. Feb ruary, 1SS3, and Pennsylvania. New York and New England. Jan. 5, 1SS6. Galveston was inundated, too, on Aug. 20, 1SS6. Who was the first poet laureate of Eng land, and when was he appointed? 2. Who has the legal right to name a child, the father or the mother? Newt. Ben Johnson was the first to be officially appointed, his patent for the office issuing In March, 1630. But he had been appointed sixteen years previously, and in the days of the Norman kings of England there was often attached to the royal household a king's poet, who described his sovereign's achievements In Latin verse. 2. The father. A case of record wherein a father's prom ise to give a child a particular name has been held a valuable consideration for a note of the promiser. Give an account of what women have done as lawyers? What women were the most successful? E. C. L. To do this - would require more space than we can give in this column. The subject is thoroughly covered in a book called "Women's Work In America," in the Indianapolis City Library. Consider able information is given also In Volume 134, Indiana Law Reports, in Ex parte Leach this being a suit brough to test the legality of women's admission to the bar in this State. Mrs. Myra Brad well, Laura De Force Gordon, 'Ada M. Bittenbender, Carrie Burnham Kilgore, Clara M. Foltz, Leila Roblnson-Sawtelle and Belva Lock wood are names best known of women in the profession. Please give a small history of the Philip pine archipelago, giving distance from United States, number of islands, popula tion, etc.-B. F. K. The islands were discovered by the Span ish navigator, Magellan, in 1521. They were named in honor of Philip II, then King of Spain. Since then, until the naval victory under Admiral Dewey in 1S3S they have been nominally under Spanish control, though this rule was constantly disputed by Independent Malay Mohammedan tribes. Tho present population of the islands is estimated at about 7,000,000. The Islands He southeast of Asia, between the Pacific ocean and the China sea, Luzon, tho largest of the group, has an area of nearly 41,000 square miles. The western coast of Luzon Is about 600 miles distant from the western coast of Asia. Tho dis tance from San Francisco to Manila is 7,000 miles. . How long was Greek fire kept secret from other people, and would It burn under water? When was the religious war fought between Catholics and Protestants, where and by what nations? J. C. Its composition was kept secret by tho Greeks for several hundred years, but at the conquest of Constantinople was finally learned by the Mohammedans. The fire burned under or on water. 2. They followed the reformation, and were carried on at In tervals during the sixteenth, seventeenth and a part of the eighteenth century. In deed, full religious and civil liberty was not given to Protestants in France until near the middle of the nineteenth cen tury. These "wars" were not between na tions, but were rather persecutions of com munities, and were most bitter in France, as the history of the Huguenots and the Camisards show. In England and Germany a more iberal spirit prevailed and religious freedom was secured at an earlier day. A Correction. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Were you not In error in Sunday's "Ques tions and Answers" by stating that Cruik shank illustrated but one of Dickens's works. "Oliver Twist?" Collectors of that artist's work seek the eighteenth edition of "Rejected Addresses" (1S3S), which con tains six woodcuts by Cruikshank; alo "Memoirs of Joseph Grlmaldl," edited by "Boz" (1S3S), containing twelve etchings The book is delightfully entertaining and the etchings capital. "Oliver Twist" ap peared the same year. The error, although trivial, is of importance to collectors. CHARLES T. POWNER. Greensburg, Ind. He Found Out. Philadelphia Record. An elderly bachelor, a man of wealth and prominence, had occasion to send a wedding, present the other day, and, not wishing to be bothered with the details of selecting it, he went to a jewler, handed over his card and $50, and left Instruc tions to send .an appropriate gift. At the reception he gazed at the array of gifts, and wondered if his was properly com peting with the others. The bride over whelmed him with thanks for his beauti ful gift, and the donor smiled with the air of regarding it as a trifle, saying to himself: "What the mischief did I give them?" Meeting a woman of his acquaint ance hJ offered to bet a dozen pairs of gloves that she could not guess which of the presents was his. "Let me look around a little," said she. and she soon found her way to the bride. Inquiring casually: "What did Mr. Soandso send you?" She was shewn a clock standing on one leg, with a figure of Time on top mowing down the hours. Then she claimed her gloves. "How did you know I selected that unique object?" he asked. "Oh." she replied. "that is the sort of thins old bachelors always buy. The shopmen put off on them the things that nobody else will have." He asked the size of gloves she wore, and then bought them two sizes too large. The Kind Mothers. IIöw tender was a motber'r levo addressed In those fair days when youthful feet were led To Elumberland. How soft the touch that spread Th fol'U above; a goo J r.lsht kls was pressed To chlMith I'ps that rlnce then have confessed The burden of the day. Now she Is dead. Each nteht I stem mor veary. and roj Lead No more la pillowed to a dreamless test- rut tl!s I know, that Nature soon will hear My dally call; her hands my own will take. And lead ir.j eteps to rest; and not a tear rrofants lhat couch); my heart can never break Ecn:ath thes folds her popry wreath ap- rrom Wie vect mil no ccrUl thill artie. X Atom? nice. SUCH A HEADACHE! An Old Practitioner Sote on the Treatment of the Affliction. - . To parody a well-known quotation', some are born with headache, some acquire headache, and some have headache thrurt upon them. Yet there arc a favored few who never have the headache, so they say. A description of every' kind of a headache would confuse even the professional read er, for there are as manj' causes and many headaches therefrom. They may. however, be broadly classed as headache due to overfullness of blood (plethora), due to deficiency of blood (anaemia), and debility, due to Inflammation; due to sympathy with some other diseased organ, and due to nervous causes. Some headaches are slight and transient, and even severe headache, in those predisposed, does not call for In terference, except to relievo the pain, yet all headaches may be dangerous portents of serious brain disease, due, perhaps, in turn, to somo disease of amore remote organ, especially- the kidneys and liver. The treatment, too. Is not always the same for every headache. In a full-blooded person, for example, where there Is a suddenly occurring severe headache, with throbbing In the head, depletives or even blood-letting may save the sufferer from an attack of apoplexy, but In a weak per son such treatment might cause paralysis or epileptic convulsions. As a general rule If the person-suffering from headache 13 one of "full habit," sleepy, dull and slow of movement; If the vessels of the face are full and the visage is flushed; If the headache Is Increased by stooping, by a full meal, by stimulants or by sleep overfullness Is the probable cause, and a change in diet is Indicated, together with a mild cathartic, say, calomel or colo cynth, with occasional doses of "salts," exercise, bathing tho head with cold water and perhaps the application of one or two leeches to the temples to reduce the over plus of blood In the brain.- Such cas.s of headache are often associated with bilious ness, and care in avoiding the use of "heavy" food will often cau&e the head ache to cease from troubling. Sometimes the urine is deficient In quantity owing to temporary disturbance of the kidneys, es pecially after drinking or after exposure to cold. In Mich cases plenty of hot, strong lemonade will often give relief at onco.- In ether Ccsts there is some chronic disease of the heart, kidneys or liver which cause3 a disturbance of circulation, and a doctor shouli be consulted, who by proper treat ment of the disease causing the headache may check the headache. On the other hand, the person suffering from headache may be weak in body and nerve vigor, though Intellectually strong, and any overexertion, physical or mental, will bring on a severe attack of headache. Such persons, when thus affected, are list less and languid, the face Is pale and the pulse weak, showing weak action of the heart. Yet the brain Itself is suffused with blood and the head is hot to the touch. Such a headache is often associated with indigestion, and occurs especially in stu dents and men of business who apply them selves too closely to their books or work and often neglect' common hygienic" pre cautions. In such cases the whole system Is weakened and the brain and the circula tion as well as the digestion are all affect ed, one reacting upon the other. In such a debilitated state depletives would mani festly be unwise. Cold applications to the head will temporarily relieve the pain, and daily washing the head with cold water may aid in preventing the suffusion of the brain and thus relieve the headache. Exer cise, attention to the bowels without, purg ing, care In "diet and periodical relaxation of the mind by change of environment will often effect a permanent cure. IJy far the greater number of headaches, however, are so-called nervous headaches, technically called hemlcrania, and also known as migraine and sick headache. In all these cases there is a disordered state of the nervous system, inherited or acquired, and the slightest indiscretion In any matter eating, drinking, exercise, amusement or work is sufficient to over throw tho normal, yet unstable, equilibrium and cause headache characterized by a revere pain on one side of the head over and around the eye or temporal region. With this there is usually connected a dis ordered state of the stomach and nausea; even vomiting is an almost constant char acteristic of this form of headache.- Some times a cup of strong hot tea, with a slice or two of lemon In it, but no sugar or milk, will relieve this type of headache. Coffee without milk or sugar will some times relievo it, but often ag gravates It by exciting the heart. Sympathetic headaches indicate a dis ordered state of some other organ which reacts upon the brain. Kidney disease, for example, by causing an Inability of the kidneys to eliminate all the waste products, leads to an actual poisoning of the system through the blood, which often leads to eventual death by so-culled uremic poisoning, the person sinking into a deep stupor, and unconscious, dying at the brain, as the saying Is. The presence of bile in tho intestines in more than normal quantity also causes headache of a dull, sickening character. Indigestion, too, the presence of undigested food in the stomach and intestines, the too alkaline or too acid state of the gastric Juice also lead to head ache. In these cases a mild aperient or compound rhubarb pill will often bring relief. Some persons know from experience that vinegar and water will relievo the headache dua to an alkaline stomach, espe cially after oily or greasy food has been eaten, and, again, in cases of acid stomach, soda or magnesia will often correct the cause and remove the effect. Among drugs the safest remedy Is from fifteen to twenty grains of bromide of soda In Ice cold water, repeated in an hour or two if relief does not occur before. This drug does not cause any after effects and no drug habit is Induced, as is apt to be the case If phenacetine, morphine, and the like are used. Rest in a reclining position In a darkened room and quietness will aid much in the temporary cure, but the permanent cure. If any such is possible, depends upon change of habits, good diet, fresh air and exercise, tending to improve the general health and increase vital vigor. Change of climate will often be the sole remedy, for these periodical headaches may be due to similar causes as malaria, and may be In fact symptoms of chronic malarial poison ing. r The immediate treatment of headache depends upon one broad Indication, namely, to draw the blood from the suffused brain. A hot foot bath with a little mustard in It will often cause relief, and this may be aided either by cold water applied to the head on a cloth or hot water applied In the same way. Menthol, oil of pepper- ment, and similar stinging applications to the temple or along the forehead will also relieve the headache, and smelling camphor or menthol or ammonia, cautiously used, will aid these applications. Internally, lemonade will often bring relief in a short time, and some aperient Is usually in dicated, especially citrate of magnesia (ef fervescing.) A dose of castor oil or a small dose of calomel or a rhubarb pill will aid In clearing away the headache, which often continues until free action of the kidneys mid bowels is induced. Lithia water am a b-everr tils La 't!zlr tha headache, and. often is sufficient. If kept up daily, to relieve the recurrence of at- Among prescriptions in use by well known physicians the following are of value: In nervous headache where slight stimulation is necessary take carbonate of ammonia, ten grains; oil of valerian, thirty drops; simple syrup, one-half ounce; cin namon water, one and a half ounces. .Thö dose is a tablespoonful even' four hours. A quieting powder Is composed of pow dered valerian, twenty grains; compound cinnamon powder, ten grains, to make one powder. Repeat every four hours. For nervous headache take of ether and aromatic spirits of ammonia of each one drachm; camphor water,, ten drachms; compound tincture of cardamom, one drachm. This is one dse. to bo repeated two or three times a day. To prevent the recurrence of nervous headache the following pill is of value: Sulphate of atropine, one-half grain; chlnoidlne, one drachm. To make sixty pills. One pill two or three times a day. L. X.. M. D. IN THE GOSSIP'S CORNER. While it is very possible to differ from Joslah Gwin on every line of public policy which he advocates, it is impossible not to admire the sterling honesty and sturdy vigor with which he champions those pol icies, both In the Public rress, his New Albany paper, and in his spoken utter ances. But it is In his home that the old man shines brightest. To the visitor at his beautiful place on "The Knobs" he is the epitome of hospitality, and his prfde in the place, which he has built up from the primeval wilderness during more than a third of a century of occupancy, is a joy to see and to share In. He loves to dwell on his first purchase, when not a person lived on the picturesque hills; on the clearing of the land and the building of his first house; on the additional pur chases of land and additions to the house until it grew Into the present roomy resi dence, surrounded by many acres of beau tifully laid out and well cultivated land; on the building of the long S-shaped road down the steep hill to the town below. He will show you his stables and horses, his chickens and cows; rare roses and other flowers, fruit trees that he planted and pruned and cared for until, in matur ing, they bear the finest fruit in all the country round; and then he will take you to the edge of the hill and show you as fair a view of hill and valley and plain" and winding river as you will see i in a week's journey, and ask you why you re main cooped up in the city, away from God's pure air and water and the beauties of nature, which he holds to be equally essential-to good health and right living.' And you come away possessed with the idea that the man is one of the world's true ' poets, even if he does not put his life-thoughts In verse, but instead writes political editorials with which you cannot agree. xxx Everybody has seen those fellows who are always In danger of forgetting them selves in the presence of ladles. Such fel lows are lothing more nor less than the victims of brains trained to translate cer tain casual conditions into profanity. Ex pletive is their natural safety-valve. The strain of attention under which they labor while trying to talk decorously must be something frightful. Fancy having to pause as you are about to use your natural expression for the admirable qualities or utter uselessness of a person or thing, and search for- an unfamiliar synonym which will cover your meaning! No wonder that habitually profane men say' little In polite society. XXX' Silver, In all Its forms of art and utility, a leading jeweler tells me, has gone up 15 per cent, in the last fifteen months. Ster ling articles, plated ware and the various grades of solid silver other than the tech nical "sterling," all are about 15 per cent, higher at the factory than they were a year ago; yet In many lines the retailer's price Is not more than 10 per cent, higher than It was a year or so ago. These lines. however, are chiefly in articles of com mon use one may say, - of necessity knives, forks, spoons, etcetera. The deal ers make It up on articles of. luxury, art novelties and pieces for personal adorn ment or mere convenience, where the ad vances range from 13 to 20 per cent. The advance In finished goods comports well with the advance in the raw material. Fif teen months ago silver bars sold on the London market at 26d an ounce. The average price for the last sixty days has been 2911-lGd an ounce, an advance cf 14.1S per cent. But it does seem hard that the dealers In bars should have it all, the margin for the factories being only .82 of 1 per cent., while the average Increase of profit to the retailer is so small as to be almost nil. XXX A small maiden whose father tried to inculcate a moral lesson in keeping with the Christmas season is responsible for the following: Presents had been plentiful, and they ranged the scale from toys to cloaks, and Paterfamilias took the occa sion to say a few words which should bear fruit in childish charity. Taking Smctll Daughter on his knee he told her how for tunate she was that she had a Papa and Mamma who loved her so, and gave her clothea and gocd things to eat. He told her there were many little girls and boy who didn't have warm clothes to wear; who were often hungry, and that some of them had no tires by which to get warm. Then he asked her how she thought such poor little children could get along in the cold winter weather. She thought earnest ly a minute or so, and then said: "Well, papa, I 'spect they don't sweat much." -.X X X Thoso Chicago doctors who have dis covered that salt is the true elixir of life are 'way behind the times. More than twenty years ago Truman Wright, then ac tive, hale and hearty at more than eighty years of age, who built and endowed a col lege for his home city of Racine, Wl3. Im pressed on all the boys of his acquaintance the necessity of eating much salt if one would live long. He carried a snuff box filled "with it always, and was wont, three or four times a day, to put a good-sized pinch in his. mouth, besides using large quantities In his food. In the mbrning he gargled his throat with salt and water, and brushed his teeth (and they were natural and sound) with brine, three times a day. Old Captain "Billy" Morris, who gtill lives in Sussex county. Delaware, and who could go over the futtock shrouds like a boy and "shin" up a topmast like a middy, long after he was sixty, often said: "If you want to be a good sailor and live till you're drowned, eat lots of salt. I've e't it for fifty year, and I can lick the biggest boy I've got any day." Ami they were all considerably bigger than Captain Billy. THE GOSSIP. Poverty. If four bUink walls b mine, and every w'4 That goes careening Through the vast, of tky Makes free with my shrunk casement, and ray h-arth ' Shews tut a feeble flame. an3 th rouh Roer Has but the dust for carpet, am I poor? Nay. I am very Croesus! that, and more! For no swart Mt-cie can rob me of th dream Wherewith I hans a rapt Maionra there A face Muiiiio painted drape rich folds -Of gold-shot damask round yon oriel, And heap about me ruga of velvet pile Dft-wrousht upon the looms of Kenr.":v I'ocr! Is he rccr.tr!: tza GcTn CM cf r:;:r line Prince Albert 10c Cigar LOUIS G. 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It seemed an easy task, for I remembered several good acts which I had done, and I was not reluctant to write them down. So I made haste to write those deeds, and those deeds only. The Angel, observing the brevity of my narrative, said: "Nay, this is not the record of thy life. Write all from thy earliest years. Search thy brain; thou hast the full record there." Almost Instantly, the past returned, as a panorama. I was amazed at the vision of tome things, which had seemed of no groat moment, at the time done, though I now perceived the wrong. "Write!" sternly commanded the Angel. And I wrote down every act of my life, and every thought, kind and unkind, that had not become an act, which memory had preserved. And the good deeds and good thoughts appeared In pure black letters upon the white scroll, but tho record of evil was made with blood which flowed from the pen In some mysterious manner and stained and soiled the paper. This change from ink to blood, from blood to ink again, continued until the last word of my life-rrcord had been written to date. I looked up then, but the Angel had dis appeared. So I took the scroll and read it slowly; it was not a thing of beauty to behold, even at a distance, and my heart ached as I read it. When I finished the reading, I laid my head upon the table and wept, it seemed, for hours. When I, at last, lifted my head and gazed upon the scroll, I saw only a few words in lustrous black upon the clean, white paper. I was surprised. But, no! my eyes did not deceive me. And while I wondered at the miracle, the Angel reap peared, and looked at me long and ten derly. "Good Angel." I asked, "what happened to my record while I wept? See, it is very imperfect only the ink remains." And the Angel replied: "Thy tears, born of true repentance, flooded the page and cleansed It; such tears have this power; this is the only redemption. 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