The Abbeville Messenger, 1887-02-08

finally cut the ropa. One other sanguinary citizen, in Twenty-third street, swings a shingle declaring him to bo "The Destroyer of Moths. v Four prosperous citizens earn their livelihood as doctors for the Jap dogs of rich womon. Ah a ruhv, the only medicine tlvy use is starvation. Thoy fling the dotix pets into barrel boxes and deprive them of food for four days, having found out that the usual trouble with pet dogs ia that thoy are fed extravagantly and improperly. Just east of tlte Bowery, in a tenement house, resides a man whose business it is to rent himself and his Punch and Judy show to children's parties in the brownstone wards. A person on the Bowery keeps six or eight girle busy framing wreaths and pictures ol tombstones, whereon are set forth the virtues of deceased New Yorkers, lie follows where the death notices in the papers lead him, and works upon tho feeling* of the grief stricken families. A rich Italian employs a horde of hla countrymen to trim or balance the loada upon the scows of our street ewcoplng department. These trimmers save for him Jill the rags, fat, bono, metal and oilier convertible refuse fitmg into the householders' ash barrels. Another man is making a fortune by carrying off aH the waste and refuse the city will not remove, . such a* builders' leavings, dirt from cellar diggings and eo on. The builders pay him to take it, and then he sells it in the suburbs for filling in sunken lands. Only one man la town pretends to keep photograph* of all the notable persons in the world. There is not room for two in the business. Another citizen sells to public men and corporations clippings from ali the newspajtera that nientiou them at five cents a clipping, addod to a suljscripJii'n fee each year. Yet another oltizen hunts up coats of arms and pedigrees for all thoee who think theirs have been overlooked, or that they n..ay get them from families of the seme, or nearly the same, names as their own. This is

.?auw.u., u.m u^v.113 UJ U tion of movements on an exterior knob. Tho safo dejKwit vault is another big box, also of steel and iron, some ten feet in height and twelve feet in length, built in, like a prisoner's cell, with a heavywall of brick, mortar and cement, and opening by a door almost a foot in thickness into a larger room which contains it. All that ingenuity can do has been dono to make the body of tho vault impregnable and to put the secret of tho intricate lock beyond chance of guessing. Tho cell insido is lined with drawers and boxes, each lockod and bolted. The wholo thing is a safo within a safo, making afisuranco doubly sure at but slightly higher rates for nervous aud cautious dejxwitora. Safe doposit vaults are built by only few of tho large safe makers. The metal used for the walls of tho vault is a mbcturo of iron and steel, melted together at high heat and tempered throughout as finely and evenly as possibly. The result is a homogeneous, almost flawless surfnc.o. which defies aliko the burglar's tools or the flames of a Life fire. A wall three inches in thickness is laid on in nlates with heavy bolts of the same material, and tho wholo side is then shut in' with a stout covering of fire "proof brick and a finely mixed cement. Particular care, of course, is taken with the door, which is tho only part exposed after the outer wall is built. The plates are doubled, bruccd and re-braced, of various sizes according to tho layers, over lapping and falling short, but all so piled and blended together that while one holds all will hold and the treasures within will still be safe. Tho lock combination is made so intricate, too, that it needs one man's mind working all the time to keep up with it. Th? ^ ^ 1

W.- nj vjiiui^cu U11\I iUV WIU1C ill such manner as to change the brain state. . No great progroas will be incdo with the ! employment of Bound, and form and . color C3 remedial agents, powerful as these agents really are, until wo dismiss the unscientific idea of "mind," and begin to regard the brain as an organ j which, like all other parts of tho body, , obeys physical laws and performs its fmictions by purely physical processes,? L London Lancet. i The Craa? for th? Stage. i And you, every year brings up ite Soup of ambitions young American lies, tenderly nurturod beings, who doi Giro to "go on tho stage." Tliey generally corao off again in a year or two, and conclude that plain sewing or school teaching would be paradise aa compared to tho life of a "lady actreaa." If she goes off with a distinguished nctress like Modjcaka shots not allowed tc stop at the tunxo hotel with her; that ia not eti?{ueLto. She may bo allowed tc play soiiio very inferior part, and be hissed for hor pains for doing it badly. Sho is put under tho care of t,,e old woman who plays tho part of "The Dowager" do olegautly, and finds that her guardian is a vulgar old person who driii]ca too much. But we will suppose her to be a pliiloeophio and patient girl, capable of living down all these disagreements of tho first year; but she has has learned, alas! that the play looks bettor before tho footlights than it does behind it; thot sho lias stopped on the wrong side of the illusion. It is not alone that tinsol reigns instead of gold, or that looking glasses are made of muslin. It ia not tho rouge or the pearl powder, or tho ugly company of ropes and pulleys, dust and dirt everywhere; it is not alone olw* U l U ,1_ !i1. -?? -

of conduct- in a fight to which I could hold mysolf, for if I did not, I could not tell whoro nay bewilderment might 601110 day take me and my regiment. I deoided that no matter what happened I would always go ahead in a straight line just as far as circumstances and the enemy would let' xne. At the battle of Williamsburg I followed this rule so far that it nearly coat our, people the servioes of myself and regiment. If it had not been for A. P. Hill my first extended acquaintance with the north would have been made from the slender coign of vantage to be load in a military prison. I charged ahead so hot and so fast that when 1 halted my entire regiment was through the enemy's lines and in their rear. Hill, however, came up on e-.ich side of my regiment and drove tho enemy back. As he rode up to me he said: CoL Lamar, do you know where you are?' I had to acknowledge a very limited amount of information an that point, and was never more surprised in my life than to learn that I had gono through the enemy's lines. Gen. Hill told me to take my regiment to the rear and lot his men go on, but I begged to bo permitted to go on,, and so my regiment was put in line with Hill's brigades and & went on. "I used to tbkik," Mr. Lamar wenton x to say, "before I saw much fighting, that the slaughter must be frightfuL I could not soo how, where so many bullets were flying, there was any chance at all for men to escape being hit. Hut I f. . . eoon wondered how anybody was hit at all. My men that day at Williamnhurir

I I or uu>c is iei aown to rest upon the l>ot| toti. but it' tho stratum of rocks which it [ is desired to "shoot" bo above the bottom, r i as is frequently the case, then smaller tul>es are fastened upon the first charged . tuLe for a support. These may be thirty l or fifty feet long, or even more. Tho , lower ond of this tulx?, of course, rests on . theJmttom of the well, and sustains tho , charged tubes, which are carefully let , down oue upon tho other until sixty, eighty, or even a hundred quarts ai-e thus r deposited. In doing this every movement tnu^t b? made with the utmost caro, and is attended with great danger. The liquid weighs alxnit four pounds I j to the quart, hence a great weight must be provided for. On (lie upper end of tho > topmost tube an explosive cap is placed. The charge k; exploded by dropping an t iron slug, called, in the nomenclature of k the oil country, a "go devil." Cautious t persons keep at a good distance. Tho operator gives tho alarm and lets the slug l drop. In a well 2,000 feet deep, filled . with gas or oil. the weight may l>o twen. ty or even twenty-flvo seconds in de[ seending. If tho well is clear of course its d<*rent is more rapid. The first scn sation one feels is a heavy thud, like tho dropping of a great weight on tho rocks. l The next a trembling of the ground, and > then a rushing roar, followed by a hoarse, [ .weird, prolonged whistle, ending in a , slight explosion, and a stream of sand.

J wo hesitate to go to sleep because tho I night is very hot? By no means. There } is, however, great danger in the habit of excessive drinking, whatever tho person may do afterward, whether it be going to the Turkish bath or to church, but tho hath would bo the safest place, to go at that time. The habit of the bath i* a most laudable one, and is to be encouraged at all times, as it tends to the welfare and betterment of the community? to elevate and not degrade man. It is on the side of virtue and not of vice. Because some may at times use it to get relief from their excesses is no more the fault of the bath than is the fact that peoplo will sin during the week and go to church on Sunday to get absolution the fault of the church. People are not made weaker or debilitated by the bath. On tho contrary, they are made stronger i aud more vigorous, and more able to use I what strength they have. Disease ; nd bad habits most certainly weaken, but the bath never. Let us look a little further, and not hastily say when a man dies that the last thing ho touched killed him. There is too much reasoning from the surface. Is tho sun to be blamed for bringing noxious air froi* undrained swamps? If 0110 takes a Turkish bath to-day and to-morrow is attacked with rheumatism or other diseases, is that the fault of the lxith? Emphatically no! If it is a fact that tho bath is weakening, how is it that, persons weakened and debilitated by disease* can take ono or two

ly thing m u.so by man is kept on sale. But, Kflor all. Now York is big enough to supply m*iiy ingenious persons with very curious occupations. Tho scheme of our "clean towel company," nowly started for supplying business offices with clean towels and soap, we ought not tc boast- of. since we borrowed their notion from Clucago. We are alone, however, in patiently permitting an audacious Teuton near Chatham square to koep hand organs in mischief by repairing them. He assume* to replenish them with now : tunee, but, of course, that is a fiction; ' for no hand organ was ever heard to play any but bald beaded and middle agcrl musiu. Now York maintains, also, at least one establishment for fitting little j children for the stage and ballet. Two courageous New Yorkers follow the useful but unpootic business of banging their fellow citizens. They are not prejudiced in faror of New Yorkers, hut are easily fiersuaded to hang men elsewhere throughout tho Union. It is always pretended that no one knows theii names and that only the sheriff of this county has their addresses. One is a Hebrew, dubbed "Isaacs," and the other is a Germmi, called "Menzesheimer;" but the city always lumps them both under the one name of Joseph B. Atkinson, and under that name they draw their pay. Thov rie the callows ?nrl

, bo continued automatically in harmony l with the music. Direct impressions on the cerebral cen. ters ajre probably transmitted througli the auditory center. Thus monotonous and slow music will exert a calming in lluence, provided it be not too slow to b< . in harmony with the nerve habit of the individual, as in that case it may irritate. 1 It is also essential to the success of any endeavor to bring the brain under con, trol of music, that it should first arresl the attention either by its power or sweetness, and then gradually conduct the . organism into harmony with itself. A measured cadence of the sort, likely tc ; calm the mind is more likely to augment . than to allay irritation, unless it begin . with a powerful appeal to the brain in o . koy wliich accords with that in which , the cerebrum is at tho moment itsell t working. This has not, perhaps, beer . sufficiently well understood in some at1 tempts which havo been mado, experi; mentally, to use music as a remedial measure. So w ith ondeavore to rouse the spirit [ by music, tho opening needs to bo plaint ive and in the key of melancholy which k liarmonizes with tho brain state of tin . patient. The attention boing arrested and tho cercbrum reached through the auditory center, tho koy must be grad -