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V01..l H FRED SASSCER, Editor. —— SHINGLES. —— SIMM (TKT’floiJ simisHii beame $3.40 Per 1000 Shingles. SIZE, 4x20. (.’001) BOARDS, sl,lO pei 100 Doors 75c Each. • 41 SMITH'S Lumber Yard, w-A-SiEiHsra-Toisr. id. c COAL! COAL! Walter H. Wholesale and Retail Dealer In COAL AND WOOD! Main Office 710 D Street Northwest, wjLSHixisroTOisr id. g. nits, iiii Ici.'s ANNOUNCEMENT. 25 Per Cent. Discount THIS IS NOT A SPASMODIC SALE. THIS IS NOT A CLEARANCE SALE. THIS IS NOT AN ASSUMED SACRIFICE. WE intend rebuilding and remodeling our entire establishment from top to bottom, adding new features, changing depart- ments, whole floors to bo taken out and the making of extensive alterations for a more spacious store. This necessitates the quick sale of $150,000 worth of Spring and Summer Clothing made by us for our own retail trade exclusively. To dispose of this immense stock of goods in order to be prepared in time for the builders and workermen, we inaugurate right now. at the beginning of the sea- son a Rebuilding Sale by giving an extra Cash Discount of 25 Per Cent, ofl our regularly low-marked prices. Not wavering an iota from our legitimate course of merchan- dising in this upreeedented offer of 25 per cent, discount in the midst ot profit-making time, tve join opportunity with ability. '1 he opportunity for selling the quantity is now ; the ability is ours to serve the public rightly. Our stock consists only of that undoubted quality in such variety and volume that to excel it is hardty poss : ble f all and see our goods and prices as the convincing argument . Keep posted by reading our’‘ads;" it will pay yon Likes, Berwanger & Co. MamiCncfiitTrsdC Hie Best Ballimore-Mau 1 (lolliiiiH; 10 and 12 East Baltimore Street Near Charsle. ; BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. J\ T. CAMPBELL m.irrii i.v ■p LUMBER ** EVERYTHING THAT IS KIP? Hi A FIRST-CLASS IDMBER YARD -A-T-iAV.A. YS OInTIET AY ISTid. 1311 ELEVENTH St, S. E., WASHINGTON, D C i|je IJtinfle Mnqniitt. AND SOUTHERN MARYLAND ADVERTISER. SUCCESSOR TO THE PRINCE GEORGIAN UPPEE MARLBOROUGH, MX) FBIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1895. |loftry. THE ORIGIN OH THE BANJO (Jo ’way, ti*l.lie. folks’* tire*l u bearin’ yo* a stjuawk- in’, Keep silenee tor a minute, don’t yo’ heah tie banjo talkin’? j About de possum's tail I’s gwine to lecture ladies listen- About de ha’r whut isn’t lar, an* why de ba'r am missin’. “I>ar*s gwine to be an ober flow," sab I Noah, look- in’ solemn. For Noah tuk tie “Herald” an* he read de ribber column; An’so he sot his men to work a clearin’ timber patches. An* ’lowed he’s gwine to build a boat to beat de steamer ••Natchez.” <>!’ Noah kep* a-nailin’, an’ a-chippin,* an* a-sawin’; An’ all de wicked neighbors kep’ a laughing* an’ a- pshawin’; But Noah didn’t min*’em knowin* v hat was gwine ter happen: An’ forty days ami forty nights de rain it kep* a- drapptn*. Now, Noah had done cot died a lot ob ebery sort o’ beas’es— Ob alt <le shows a trabbehn, it beat ’em all to pieces! He had a Morgan colt, an’ sebral head o’ darsey cattle— An’druv ’em ’board de Ak as soon’s he heerd de thunder rattle. Den sech anodor fall ob rain! it come so awful hebby, De ribber riz immejitly, an’ busted troo tie lebbee; De people all wuz drowned out ’cep’ Noah an’ de critters. An’ men he’d hired to work de boat an’ one to mix de bitters. De Ark she kep’ a-sailm’, an’ a-saibn', an’ a-sailin’; De lion got his dander up, an' like to bruk de pa- lin’— De sarpints hissed de painters yelled- till, what wid all tie fussin', Vo* c’u’dn’t hardly heah tie mate a bossin* ’round’ an’ cussin*. Now, Ham, tie only nigger whut wus ruunin’ on tie packet, (lot lonesome in de barber shop, an* c’u’tln’t stau’ tie racket; An* sti, for to amuse he se*f, he steamed some wood mm’ bent it. An’ stwin he had a banjo made— tie fust dat was in- vented. He wet tie ledder, stretclied if on; made bridge, an screws, an apron: An fitted in a proper neck twas berry long an’ tap’rin; He tuk some tin, and twisted him a thimble for to ring it; Anden de mighty question riz; how was he gwine to string it? De ’possum had as tine a tail as dis dat l’s a singin; De ha rs so long, an thick, an strong, jes tit for banjo stringin; Dat nigger shaved ’emort as short as wash-day din- ner graces; Ansorted ob 'em by de size, from little E’sto basses. He strung her, tuned her. struck a jig—’twas *‘N eb- ber min tie wedder” She soun like forty-lebben bands a plavin all to- getltler; Some went to pattin; some to danciii; Noah called tie riggers Au Ham he sot an knocked tie tune, tie happiest ob niggers! Now. sence dat time it’s mighty strange dere’s not tie slightes show in Obany ha’r at,all upon de ’possum’s tail a-growin: Aucun’s too, —tiai nigger’s ways, his people uebber los ’em For where yo tiii*l tie nigger tlar*s tic banjo an tie possum! AVic York He mid. Irlfft Hlisfrllmiij. “THrtt ART THE MAN.” ISV IIKI.KX FOUKKST (iItAVKS. "It's the last straw that breaks the eam- el's baek,” said Lucy, bursting into tears. The pleasant June sunbeams came peep- ing into the cool, stone-paved dairy, where pans of milk and cream were ranged in or- derly array; great stone pots stood under the shelves, and a blue-painted churn was already placed on the table for service. Mr. Bellenden was justly proud of his dairy. Not a chance guest came to the house but was invited down to see it; not a housekeeper in the neighborhood hut secretly envied its many conveniences and exquisite neatness. “And it isn’t the dairy alone!" triumph- antly remarked Seth Bellenden. “And you may go through tie: house from garret to cellar, and yon will never find a speck of dust or a stain of rust. There never was such a housekeeper as my wife." Mrs. Bellenden was young, too— searee- , ly three-and-tweiity. She had been the daughter of a retired army officer, deli- cately reared and quite ignorant of all the machinery of domestic life until she mar- ried Seth Bellenden. "It's very strange,” Lucy had written to her father. The farm is beautiful. You ' never saw such monstrous old hnttonhall j trees nor such superb roses, and the mead- ! ows are full of clover and the strawher | lies shine like jewels on the sunny hill sides. But nohod v sketches or reads. 1 ( don’t think there is a copy of Tennyson in | the neighborhood, and no one ever heard of I Dore or Millais. All they think of is how I many dozen of eggs the hens lay, and how j many cheeses can he made in .a year. And ; the woman who has a new receipt for waf- • ties, or a new pattern for a horrible tiling j they call crazy quilts, is the leader in so- j eietv.” But presently young Mrs, Bellenden her 1 self caught the fever and became a model | housewife. Example is all powerful, and I Lucy began to believe that the whole end and aim of life was domestic thrift, mon- ey-saving and the treadmill of work. "My deal,” said Seth, "if you thought j you could gel along w ithout Ilepsy, the maid, 1 might he able to afford that new reaper before tbe oat crop comes in." "I ll try,” saiil Buev. And after that she rose before daybreak and worked later in the night than ever. "What is the matter with your hands. Bury?" Seth asked one day. "They are i not so white and beautiful as they used to ! he?" I Buev colored as she glanced dow n at the [ PTTTIVf PpnQ Mammoth DLUiU DIIUU ) H>opartinont Stores, 74:4, 745 and 747 Slli STREET, S. E. CIO ME To IS! No other store will t real you as well—here is the place to do your J buy in g here you And the lai gest stock THE LOWEST I’KIOES! An Idea of What We Are Doing. Onlv a few pickings—here and there—the other goods show just as well -every piece ot goods in our stores at Bargain Prices. DRV GOODS DEPT. j House Furnishing Dep't. I*2 1 *2i* Zephyr (iingdiams, very tine,aiul wide. 5 i~'ic ( *2 dozen clot lies pins for lc. :i yard. *2 papers ol‘ pins tor it*. I*2 1 4i* A repons, evening shinies, also dark styles. Helix-eyed needles 1c paper. 5 I*2 a yard. ‘ Turk- 1 pr paper. Re per cozen papers. Dress Patterns, 10 yards to a piece, OIK* per j Linen Hiread 2c a sjmoi. 1 piece, * Harter Elastic, 2c a yard. . I*2 1 *2e white Hoods, satin checks,stripes and plaids, i 25c Silk Veiling, 5c a yard. 0 I *2 cents a vard. *2sc Hanlen set* 1 , hoe, rake and shovel. lOe. 45c Melange Suitings, in check patterns, all wool. I Large size broom, loc. Chair Seats, tie. *2O cents a vard. j Large size wootl Buckets, 10c. Best Indigo blue Prints, 4 l-*2- a yard. iLarge size Earthenware Cuspidors, Oc. 1 Best lining Cambrics, 3 l-*2 cents per yard. Hhiss Pitchers, 5 cents. Class Tumblers, 3 cents each, *27 a dozen. C-.4BPET DEP r. Soaps Soaps. 1 20‘* tine warp Japanese seamless fancy Mailings. ( _. i s3.ni a roll containing 40 yards. • 3Hi KxL *2oc heavy check C hiuese -Slatting, s3.s u roll con 1 jr, >r }|ll y of these Soaps —Star Soap, Bee Soap, Kah taining40 yards. lotts” Soap, Hoe Coke Soap, C reus Soap, obune | As an extra appetizer we wbl give you a cho ce of j Anchor Soap, Soapine. Bibb-tts 177- any Mattings in our stores tor *24c a yard. siMiO per ; s | o*,tler, Koval Soap Powder, B • Am . • roll ot 40 yards, you can take your pick ol any ot ; j;ruoK s r-yslal Soap. A 1 -*2c ; Ivory Soap. 4 l-*2c ; the cotton wraps and Damask Mattings, tba f we Knaiuiline* Stove Polish, 4c; Rising Sun Stove have sold at 40c, 50c and tide a yard, over .>OO >1if- Po isli. 4 l-*2 cents ; Pint botrie L quid Blue, 4<*.: j ferent patterns to select from, we can suit you, and j* est Household Amonia, rubber stopper, 5c.; Large j besides stve you money on every van*. size Scrub Brushes. s<*; I nported Bay Rum; 7c a *2tc Fell \\ indo w Shades, 3xrt feet, good spring roller. bottle ; Camphor Balls, 3c a box. all fixtures, any color, I*2 cents. . 40c best Opaque Window shades, 3xo feet, best IrlllllllCry .UllllllCrj i sprmg roller, fixtures, all c dors. *2l c mts. Our stock comprises all the latest ideas our price ! *2.c \ eintian Stair Carpet, .i S wide, 13c yard. will certainlv comm Hid vour trade—don t fail to i IS >' ‘■.'■rm.-oi Heni|il'ar|*l.!i 1-* cents a vai l. v i-it t i,i s Department. |*2 \\ indow Screens, tit any window, li* **ent'. \n Hats will be trimmed Free of charge, j *2..c best quality I able Oilcloth I*2cents a y ml. Large line of MOURN INC ROODS. ;%• A WORD TO THE WISE IS SXFEU’IENT—No such opportunity was ever ottered to save money in merchandise as we an* now offering. ‘BETTER SEE I S DON’T VOX THINK. BLUM BROS., Department°Stores. 743, 74*5 and 747 Kujhth St., Southeast , ID. CD. ■“The fVorid /” —-v-,V- _ ... .^p. iilriance fear Discliar® Binder ■ 0 VERSUS PROUD ENGLAND -Mak os Her Row. The Adriance wins highest honors at ho.ne and abroad. American inventions harvest the grain of the World, therefore the task of finding the best devise for this purpose, no easy one. About four years ago. we starteX e what we could find. We prod o spare you. d u ring these days of b y pull, comparatively, a barn ove a ••Nut Shell.” Ip 1888, after a >f practical tests in the fields, the / tS submitted to the farmer; lie pu e iu the harvest field; he found that he could cut stub'e close to the ground, or up 18 inches high: he could cut any kind of grain, on any kind of ground : he could cut more grain iu a day, with one man and two horses, than any elevating binder can with two men and four horses. The verdict was "just what we want; ’ extra man and pair horses, are "Making Hay vv hib* t 1 e Sun Shines. Do not be gov- erned bv the statement of representatives of old types of el* vating binders. Fact are stubborn Things. He progressive ; have only an Adriance Rear discharge binder, the great premium vanquisher of its imitators, and elevating Linders. W e set up this Harvester, and guarantee it to give satisfaction in the field, or no sale. A ear load just received ; see sample up at our store : a pleasure to show you the same; come, or write fora catalogue, and get a list (.fits victo- ries, over as many as twelve binders iu a field tri d. .I <1 rid lire “111 ('A L K I” Moirrr. Embraces tin* greatest advance made in mowers for a lone se- ries ot years. As soon as you examine same, you will be convinc- ed, as also that it is the light or the public, dhe above maeliim } I'ouglikeepsie, N. V. N. H. Any orders left wi ville, Md , will will receive our boos all steel Sulky Rakes • j. the farm and garden at rock hot P. H. Heist 113 Ldiisiana Avenue, 91G C Street K v\ W A S TX I TM < members in i|iu;stion. “I suppose it is I lie tires.” sai.l she. And then slie took to wearing old kid gloves at her sweeping and dusting and digging out of ashes. “My eoat is getting shabby.” Setli one day remarked. "Why don't you 1 >ny another one ask- i ed his wife. Seth laughed a short laugh. "What do you think Mrs. Higginbotham has done?” said he. “She ripped up her husband’s old suit and cut a pattern by it, and made a new one, and entirely saved him ten dollars!” “I could do that!” said Lucy, with spark- ling eyes. “I will try it.” “You can do anything, my dear!” said Mr. Bellenden, admiringly. And Lucy felt that she had her rich re- ward. Company began to come as soon as the bright weather set iu. All the affectionate relations of Mr. Bel- lendeu soon discovered that tlie farmhouse was cool and shady, t hat Lucy’s cooking ’ was excellent, and that the bedrooms were neatness itself. Some of them were even good enough to invite their relations as well, and so the house was full from April to December. All the clergymen made it their home at Brother Bellenden’s when they came to Silvan Bridge for ecclesiastical conven- tions; all the agents of unheard-of articles discovered that they knew somebody who was acquainted with the Bellendens, and brought their carpet-hags and valises, with pie faith in human hospitality which is one of life’s best gifts. Mrs. Bellenden’s fame went abroad among the Dorcases of the neighborhood in the matter of butter and cheese. She teok prizes in the domestic departments of all the agricultural fairs, and theadjoining housewives took no trouble to make things that they could borrow of Mrs. Bellenden, "just as well as not." And one day, when poor Lucy, under the blighting influence of a horrible sick headache, was endeavoring to strain three or four gallons of milk into the shining pans, the news arrived that Uncle Paul was coming to the farm. "Another guest," said Lucy despairingly. And then she uttered the proverb that heads our sketch. "Oh, it’s only Xuele Paul!” said Mr. Bel leuden. “Don’t fret, Luttie; he’s the most peaceful old gentleman in the world. He’ll make no more trouble than a cricket. John’s wife thought she couldn’t have him because she had no hired girl, just now—” "Neither have I!" said Lucy rebelliously. “And Sarah Eliza don’t like company. "I am supposed to be fond of it!” ob- served Lucy, bitterly. “And Reuben’s girls don’t want old folks staying there. It's too much trouble, they say,” added Setli. Lucy bit her lip to keep back the words she might have uttered, and said, instead: "Where is he to sleep? The Belfords have the front bedroom, and your Cousin Susan occupies the hack, and the four Miss Pattersons sleep in the two hall chambers, and the hired men have the garret room.” She might have added that she and her husband and the baby had slept in a hot little den opening from the kitchen for four weeks, vainly expecting Mr. and Mrs. Belford to depart, and that she had never yet had a chance to invite her father to the farm in pleasant weather. But she was maganimuus an 1 held her peace. “Oh, you can And some place for him!” said her husband, lightly. "There’s that little room at the end of the hall where the spinning-wheel is.” "But it isn’t furnished?” pleaded Lucy. “You can easily sew a carpet together out of those old pieces from the Belfords’ room, and it’s no trouble to put up a mus- lin curtiu to the window and lift in a eot- bcd. There are plenty of good sweet husks in the corn house, and you can just tack together a mattress and whitewash the ceiling, and— What’s that, Beniah? The cows in the rye lot! Dear me! Every- thing goes wrong if I step into the house for a moment. And really, Luttie, these things are your business—not mine!" he added, irritably. Lucy could not help laughing, all by her- self, as her husband ran up the fleps. But it was a very sad little laugh, and soon changed into a sigh. “I wonder,” said she, in a whisper, "if my poor, tired-out ghost would haunt these stone pavements and scrubbed shelves if 1 were to die? I never heard of a ghost in a dairy before, hut I should think that it might easily he.” Blit the little bedroom was tilled up for j all that, as fresh as a rose, and Xuele Paul ] arrived, a dried up, yelhiw-eouiplexioued | old man, with an old-fashioned cravat tied ! in many folds around his neck, and a suit j of navy blue, with brass buttons. I He had the olite way of half a century i ago, and Lucy 'ought she would like him very much, if only she had time to get ae I quaiuted with him. But she was churning' ten pounds of hut- ; ter a day, and there was the baby, and the j company, find the young chickens, and the baking to do for llie sew ing soviet v, which j was to meet at her house this week. [ She was almost too busy to sleep. But i Xuele Paul was watching her quietly all [ the time. He came out one day to the barn, where his nephew was putting a new handle on a sickle blade. “Pret'y busy time.-, eh, Xuele Paul ; said tile tanner, scarcely takingthe leisure | to look up. "Ave, absent Iva us w ered Ihe old man. “Dill 1 tell you. Nephew Seth, about the reason I left your Cousin Eliah's!” "Not that 1 remember.,' said Seth, breath- ! ing on the blade and polishing it with his silk handkerchief. “Dorothy died his wile!" “Oh, yes! said Seth. "Malarial fever, ! wasn't it?” 1 "No!" bluntly answered Xuele Paul. "It Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Absolutely pure was hard work. That woman. Nephew | Seth, did the housework for eight persons. Eliab didn't even let her have a woman to help with the washing and the ironing.” “Must have been a regular-going brute,” i said Seth, tightening the handle a little. “All the sewing too*’ - added Uucle Paul —“the mending and making. Never went anywhere except to church. Eliab didn’t believe in women gadding about.” “The old savage!” said Seth. “She was fond of reading, but she nev- er got any time for it,” said Uncle Paul. “She rose before sun-up, and never lay ’ down until eleven o’clock. It was hard work that killed that woman, and Eliab cooly declared that it was sheer laziness when she couldn't drag herselfaround any longer. And when she died he rolled up his eyes and called it the visitation of Providence.” “Why didn’t the neighbors lynch him?” cried Seth, fairly aroused to indignation at last. I Uncle Paul took off his glasses, wiped them vigorously and looked his nephew hard in the face. “Why don’t the neighbors lynch you?” said he. j Seth dropped the sickle and started. "Nephew Seth," said Uncle Paul, im- P pressively, “thou art the man! Are you not doing the very same thing?” ’ “1?” gasped Seth. "Your wife is doingthe work of a house- hold of sixteen people,” said Uncle Paul. “She is drudging as you could hire no for- eigner to drudge. She is rising early, and lying down late; she is offering up her life on the shrine of your farm and its require- i ments. I have seen her grow thin an pale even during the few days I have been here. I have carried water and split wood for her because there was no one else to do it. I have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford’s breakfast daily to her room, because Mrs. Belford preferred to lie in bed; and cook- ing dainty dishes for Helen Patterson, be- cause Helen wouldn’t eat what the rest like. No galley-slave ever worked as she does. And you, with your hired men—- and your array of labor-saving machinery, stand coolly by and see her commit slow suicide. Yes, Nephew Seth, I think it is a case for lynching.” Seth had grown pale. “I—l never thought of this,” said he. "Why didn’t some one tell me?” “Where were your own eyes?” said Un- cle Paul. Seth Bellenden rolled down his shirt sleeves, put on his coat, and went into the house. He told the Belfords and Pattersons that it was inconvenient to keep them any long- er, He gave Cousin Susan to understand that her room was needed. He made ar- rangements to board the hired men at the vacant farmhouse, and engaged a stout dairyman and a house-servant to wait on Lucy. And he telegraphed to her father to come to Silvan Bridge at once. “She deserves a treat,” he said. “He shall spend the Summer with us.” And then he went to tell Lucy. She had fainted among the buttercups, picking strawberries for tea. Poor little Lucy! The machinery had utterly re- fused to revolve any longer. His heart grew cold within him. “She will die,” he thought, “and I shall have murdered her?” But she did not die. She recovered her strength by degrees. “It is better than any medicine,” she | said, "to know that Seth is thinking of me , and for me.” And Uncle Paul—“the last straw,” as , she had called him—had proved her sal va- , tion. , "I don’t want her to go as Eliab's wife did," said Uncle Paul. PROFITABLE VENTRILOQUISM. Brewster tells of a master in his art, Louis Brabant, a valet de-chambre to . Francis 1., whose suit was rejected by the parents of a beautiful and well-dowered , girl with whom lie was in love. He called on the mother, after the death of the fath- er, again to urge his suit; and while he was present, she heard the voice of her I deceased husband expressing remorse for having rejected Louis Brabant, and con- I juring her to give immediate consent to the betrothal. Frightened, she consented. Brabant, deeming it desirable to behave liberal in the marriage agreements, but not having much cash at command, resol- ved to try whether his ventriloquism would lie as efficacious with a money-lending banker as it had been with the widow, falling on the old .usurer at Lynns, he managed that the subject should turn up- on the object of demons, spectres, and purgatory. Suddenly was heard the voice of the usurer's father, complaining of the horrible sufferings he was enduring in purgatory, and saying that there was no way of obtaining alleviation except by the usurer advancing money to the visitor for the sake of ransoming Christians from Ihi'hands of the Turks. The usurer was j terrified, but two much in love with his gold to yield at once. Branant went next ; day and resumed the conversation, when . shortly were heard the voices of a host of | dead relations, all telling the same terrible I story, and all pointingout the only way of I obtaining relief. The usurer could resist no longer ; he placed ten thousand crowns in the hands of the unsuspected ventrilo- quist, who, of course, forgot to pay it over for the ransom of Christians either in Turkey or anywhere else. After victory strap the helmet tighter. Established 1862 NO. 88 NAIL-BITINO A DISEASE. • That the habit of nail-biting is a disease among the children, and not merely a naughty trick, to be cured by punishment, is the scientific opinion of the famous 1 Frenchman, Dr. Edgar Berillon, who was I at one time associated with Bharcot and is I at present secretary of the French Socie- ty of Hypnology and inspector of state lunatic asylums. Berillon names this so-called disease • “onachophagie,” which at once gives an I’ air of importance to the discussion, and he 1 states, as the result of nine years’ study • experimenting, that it is an unerring sign s of incipient degeneration of the nervous v system. He holds that a child displaying ) any tendancy toward nail-biting, should f at once be put under a physician’s care in- stead of being teased and punished. The habit is more prevalent among girls a than boys, and it is probably due to the fact—although this not brought out in 1 Berillon’s recent papers—that boys are v permitted to live healthier lives, with more exercise and out-of-door sports. In ’ the report, made from an examination of one of the averaged mixed schools in Paris, the percentage of nail-biters among the - girls was found to be 52, while among -the i boys it was only 20. This habit was usu- ally observed among the poorer students. Several instructors in the Paris schools -for manual training have pronounced the habitual nail-biters hard to teach and often - totally unfit for technical education. On 1 rare occasions nail-biting children were ? found to he “infant prodigies,” but with a - superficial cleverness,invariably outgrown. Although the disease is frequently in- herited, it is more often the result of imi- r tation, which practically renders it conta- gious. In English schools the habit is i considered so harmful und so easily con- tracted that the nail-biting children are in- - solated and taught in seperate classes, be- - sides being subjected to severe and public ; reprimands. This idea of punishing a ; nail-biter, Berillon regards as showing -about as much judgment as would be man- ifested in scolding or whipping a child for ■ having croup or measles, and that the habit ; demands careful and intelligent treatment cannot be doubted, for not only is it on the increase, but in many cases it is ac- companied in the second and third gener- ations by marked signs of physical degen- eration. The extent to which it prevails in Eng- ; land can be estimated from the fact that • in one school of thirty children whose par- ents were of the middle-class, at least 50 per cent, were habitual nail-biters. In America the disease is prevalent to a mark- ed degree. It may be noticed at every turn on the street, in the schools and on • the street cars. Wherever there is a group of school childeen of any size, some of the i boys and girls will be found eagerly de- • vouriug their nails, and sometimes fingers as well. • The fact that after a time the habit be- comes automatic makes the curing of it a difficult undertaking; but Berillon believes that it can be done, and advocates the ■ grouping of these children into classes, - where they may be submitted to special discipline and hygienic treatment. As, however, the habit is the result of uer- I vous degeneration, it can be as easily treated at home. A nerve tonic, good • food and plenty of exercise are all the physical treatment necessary. For curing ; the '“after-habit” with children, which ; may linger after the cause has been remov- ed, Berillon suggests that the child’s rcso- i Union should be applealed to, and that he be taught to regard the habit as unworthy. . HOME AND ABROAD. It is the duty of everyone, whether at home or travelling for pleasure or busi- ness, to equip himself with the remedy which will keep up strength and prevent | illness, and cure such ills as ;e liable to come upon all in every'day life. For in- I stance, Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a general I tonic, and to keep the blood pure and less liable to absorb the germs of disease, will , be well nigh invaluable. Ch ngr of (Uink- . ing water often causes serio. s trouble, es- pecially if one has has been ; cd to spring water in the country. From a few drops | to a teaspoonful of Hood’s Sarsaparilla in a tumbler of water will prevent the water having any injurious effect. Hood’s Vegetable Pills, as a cathartic, cause no discomfort, no disturbance, no loss of sleep, but assist the digestive or- ' gans, so that satisfactory' results are ef- fected in a natural and regular manner. Jones’ Omission.— Jones was absent- minded, and as he was about to sail for the continent with his wife and family, a friend came down to see him off and make sure all was right. The friend was late. It was within twenty minutes of sailing time, but he found Jones smiling and hap- py. "Hello, Jones !” he cried. “All right?” "Yes," noded Jones; “trunks, tickets, letter of credit, steamer chair —everything. Flatter myself that all is right this time.” That’s good,” was the answer. “Where's Mrs, Jones and the family? Have to tell them adieu and hurry' ashore." "Jove !” cried Jones, sitting down sud- denly "I think they're waiting at home for me!” The annual rain fall in the Atlantic states is Jti inches; in the southern, 55; in the western, 20; in the Pacific, 02.
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25 Per Cent. DiscountTHIS IS NOT A SPASMODIC SALE.
THIS IS NOT A CLEARANCE SALE.THIS IS NOT AN ASSUMED SACRIFICE.
WE intend rebuilding and remodeling our entire establishmentfrom top to bottom, adding new features, changing depart-
ments, whole floors to bo taken out and the making of extensivealterations for a more spacious store. This necessitates the quicksale of $150,000 worth of Spring and Summer Clothing made by usfor our own retail trade exclusively. To dispose of this immensestock of goods in order to be prepared in time for the builders andworkermen, we inaugurate right now. at the beginning of the sea-son a Rebuilding Sale by giving an extra Cash Discount of 25 PerCent, ofl our regularly low-marked prices.
Not wavering an iota from our legitimate course of merchan-dising in this upreeedented offer of 25 per cent, discount in themidst ot profit-making time, tve join opportunity with ability. '1 heopportunity for selling the quantity is now ; the ability is ours toserve the public rightly. Our stock consists only of that undoubtedquality in such variety and volume that to excel it is hardty poss :blef all and see our goods and prices as the convincing argument . Keepposted by reading our’‘ads;" it will pay yon
Likes, Berwanger & Co.MamiCncfiitTrsdC Hie Best Ballimore-Mau 1 (lolliiiiH;
10 and 12 East Baltimore Street Near Charsle. ;
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
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|loftry.THE ORIGIN OH THE BANJO
(Jo ’way, ti*l.lie. folks’* tire*l u bearin’ yo* a stjuawk-in’,
Keep silenee tora minute, don’t yo’ heah tie banjotalkin’? j
About de possum's tail I’s gwine to lecture ladieslisten-
About de ha’r whut isn’t lar, an* why de ba'r ammissin’.
“I>ar*s gwine tobe an ober flow," sabI Noah, look-in’ solemn.
For Noah tuk tie “Herald” an* he read de ribbercolumn;
An’so he sot his men to work a clearin’ timberpatches.
An* ’lowed he’s gwine to build a boat to beat desteamer ••Natchez.”
<>!’ Noah kep* a-nailin’, an’ a-chippin,* an* a-sawin’;An’all de wicked neighbors kep’ a laughing*an’ a-
pshawin’;But Noah didn’t min*’em knowin* v hat was gwine
terhappen:An’forty days ami forty nights de rain it kep* a-
drapptn*.
Now, Noah haddone cot died a lot ob ebery sort o’beas’es—
Ob alt <le shows a trabbehn, it beat ’em all to pieces!He had a Morgan colt, an’ sebral head o’ darsey
cattle—An’druv ’em ’board de Ak as soon’s he heerd de
thunder rattle.
Den sech anodor fall ob rain! it come so awfulhebby,
De ribber riz immejitly, an’ busted troo tie lebbee;De people all wuz drowned out ’cep’ Noah an’ de
critters.An’ men he’d hired to work de boat an’ one to mix
de bitters.
De Ark she kep’ a-sailm’, an’ a-saibn', an’ a-sailin’;De lion got his dander up, an' like to bruk de pa-
lin’—De sarpints hissed de painters yelled- till, what
wid all tie fussin',Vo* c’u’dn’thardly heah tie mate a bossin* ’round’
an’ cussin*.
Now, Ham, tie only nigger whut wus ruunin’ on tiepacket,
(lot lonesome in de barber shop, an* c’u’tln’t stau’tie racket;
An* sti, for to amuse he se*f, he steamed some woodmm’ bent it.
An’stwin he had a banjo made— tie fust dat was in-vented.
He wet tie ledder, stretclied ifon; made bridge, anscrews, an apron:
An fitted in a proper neck twas berry long an’tap’rin;
He tuk some tin, and twisted him a thimble for toring it;
Anden de mighty question riz; how was he gwinetostring it?
De ’possum had as tine a tail as dis dat l’s a singin;De ha rs so long, an thick, an strong, jes tit for
banjo stringin;Dat nigger shaved ’emort as short as wash-day din-
ner graces;Ansorted ob 'em by de size, from little E’sto basses.
He strung her, tuned her. struck a jig—’twas*‘N eb-ber min tie wedder”
Shesoun like forty-lebben bands a plavin all to-getltler;
Some went topattin; some to danciii; Noah calledtie riggers
Au Ham he sot an knocked tie tune, tie happiest obniggers!
Now. sence dat time it’s mighty strange dere’snot tie slightes show in
Obany ha’r at,all upon de ’possum’stail a-growin:Aucun’s too,—tiai nigger’s ways, his people uebber
los ’emFor where yo tiii*l tie nigger tlar*s tic banjo an tie
possum!AVic York He mid.
Irlfft Hlisfrllmiij.“THrtt ART THE MAN.”
ISV IIKI.KX FOUKKST (iItAVKS.
"It's the last straw that breaks the eam-el's baek,” said Lucy, bursting into tears.
The pleasant June sunbeams came peep-ing into the cool, stone-paved dairy, wherepans of milk and cream were ranged in or-derly array; great stone pots stood underthe shelves, and a blue-painted churn wasalready placed on the table for service.
Mr. Bellenden was justly proud of hisdairy. Not a chance guest came to thehouse but was invited down to see it; nota housekeeper in the neighborhood hutsecretly envied its many conveniences andexquisite neatness.
“And it isn’t the dairy alone!" triumph-antly remarked Seth Bellenden. “And youmay go through tie: house from garret tocellar, and yon will never find a speck ofdust or a stain of rust. There never wassuch a housekeeper as my wife."
Mrs. Bellenden was young, too— searee-, ly three-and-tweiity. She had been the
daughter of a retired army officer, deli-cately reared and quite ignorant of all themachinery of domestic life until she mar-ried Seth Bellenden.
"It's very strange,” Lucy had written toher father. The farm is beautiful. You 'never saw such monstrous old hnttonhall jtrees nor such superb roses, and the mead- !ows are full of clover and the strawher |lies shine like jewels on the sunny hillsides. But nohod v sketches or reads. 1 (don’t think there is a copy ofTennyson in |the neighborhood, and no oneever heard of IDore or Millais. All they think of is how Imany dozen of eggs the hens lay, and how jmany cheeses can he made in .a year. And ;the woman who has a new receipt for waf- •ties, or a new pattern for a horrible tiling jthey call crazy quilts, is the leader in so- jeietv.”
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But presently young Mrs, Bellenden her 1self caught the fever and became a model |housewife. Example is all powerful, and ILucy began to believe that the whole endand aim of life was domestic thrift, mon-ey-saving and the treadmill of work.
"My deal,” said Seth, "if you thought jyou could gel along w ithout Ilepsy, themaid, 1 might he able to afford that newreaper before tbe oat crop comes in."
"I ll try,” saiil Buev.And after that she rose before daybreak
and worked later in the night than ever."What is the matter with your hands.
Bury?" Seth asked one day. "They are inot so white and beautiful as they used to !he?" I
Buev colored as she glanced dow n at the [
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J buy in g here you And the lai gest stock THE LOWEST I’KIOES!
An Idea of What We Are Doing.Onlv a few pickings—here and there—the other goods show justas well -every piece ot goods in our stores at Bargain Prices.
DRV GOODS DEPT. j House Furnishing Dep't.I*2 1 *2i* Zephyr (iingdiams, very tine,aiul wide. 5 i~'ic ( *2 dozen clot lies pins for lc.
:i yard. *2 papers ol‘ pins tor it*.I*2 1 4i* A repons, evening shinies, also dark styles. Helix-eyed needles 1c paper.
5 I*2 a yard. ‘ Turk- 1 pr paper. Re per cozen papers.Dress Patterns, 10 yards to a piece, OIK* per j Linen Hiread 2c a sjmoi.
1 piece, * Harter Elastic, 2c a yard.. I*2 1 *2e white Hoods, satin checks,stripes and plaids, i 25c Silk Veiling, 5c a yard.
0 I *2 cents a vard. *2sc Hanlen set* 1, hoe, rake and shovel. lOe.45c Melange Suitings, in check patterns,all wool. I Large size broom, loc. Chair Seats, tie.
*2O cents a vard. j Large size wootl Buckets, 10c.Best Indigo blue Prints, 4 l-*2- a yard. iLarge size Earthenware Cuspidors, Oc.
1 Best lining Cambrics, 3 l-*2 cents per yard. Hhiss Pitchers,5cents.Class Tumblers, 3 cents each, *27 a dozen.
C-.4BPET DEP r. Soaps Soaps.1 20‘* tine warp Japanese seamless fancy Mailings. ( _.
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i s3.ni a roll containing 40 yards. • 3Hi KxL*2oc heavy check C hiuese -Slatting, s3.s u roll con 1 jr,>r }|ll yof these Soaps —Star Soap, Bee Soap, Kah
taining40 yards. lotts” Soap, Hoe Coke Soap, C reus Soap, obune| As an extra appetizer we wbl give you a cho ce of j Anchor Soap, Soapine. Bibb-tts 177-any Mattings in our stores tor *24c a yard. siMiO per ; s | o*,tler, Koval Soap Powder, B • Am .• roll ot 40 yards, you can take your pick ol any ot ; j;ruoK s r-yslal Soap. A 1 -*2c ; Ivory Soap. 4 l-*2c ;
the cotton wraps and Damask Mattings, tbaf we Knaiuiline* Stove Polish, 4c; Rising Sun Stovehave sold at 40c, 50c and tide a yard, over .>OO >1if- Po isli. 4 l-*2 cents ; Pint botrie L quid Blue, 4<*.:
j ferent patterns toselect from, we can suit you, and j*est Household Amonia, rubber stopper,5c.; Largej besides stve you money on every van*. size Scrub Brushes.s<*; I nported Bay Rum; 7c a
*2tc Fell \\ indo w Shades, 3xrt feet, good spring roller. bottle ; Camphor Balls, 3c a box.all fixtures, any color, I*2 cents. ______
_.40c best Opaque Window shades, 3xo feet, best IrlllllllCry • .UllllllCrj .
i sprmg roller, fixtures, all c dors. *2l c mts. Our stock comprises all the latest ideas our price! *2.c \ eintian Stair Carpet, .i S wide, 13c yard. will certainlv comm Hid vour trade—don t fail toi IS >' ‘■.'■rm.-oi Heni|il'ar|*l.!i 1-* cents a vai l. v i-it t i,is Department.|*2 \\ indow Screens, tit any window, li* **ent'. \n Hats will be trimmed Free of charge,j *2..c best quality I able Oilcloth I*2cents a y ml. Large lineof MOURN INC ROODS.
;%• A WORD TO THE WISE IS SXFEU’IENT—No such opportunity was everottered to save money in merchandise as we an* now offering.
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the task of finding the best devise for this purpose, no easy one.About four years ago. we starteX ewhat we could find. We prod ospareyou. d u ring these days of b ypull, comparatively, a barn ove a••Nut Shell.” Ip 1888, after a >fpractical tests in the fields, the / tS
submitted to the farmer; lie pu eiu the harvest field; he found that he could cut stub'e close to theground, or up 18 inches high: he could cut any kind of grain, on anykind of ground : he could cut more grain iu a day, with one man andtwo horses, than any elevating binder can with two men and fourhorses. The verdict was "just what we want; ’ extra man and pairhorses, are "Making Hay vv hib* t 1 e Sun Shines. Do not be gov-erned bv the statement of representatives of old types of el* vatingbinders. Fact are stubborn Things. He progressive ; have only anAdriance Rear discharge binder, the great premium vanquisher ofits imitators, and elevating Linders. W e set up this Harvester, andguarantee it to give satisfaction in the field, or no sale. A ear loadjust received ; see sample up at our store : a pleasure to show youthe same; come, or write fora catalogue, and get a list (.fits victo-ries, over as many as twelve binders iu a field tri d.
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ries ot years. As soon as you examine same, you will be convinc-ed, as also that it is the light orthe public, dhe above maeliim }
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members in i|iu;stion.“I suppose it is I lie tires.” sai.l
she.And then slie took to wearing old kid
gloves at her sweeping and dusting anddigging out of ashes.
“My eoat is getting shabby.” Setli oneday remarked.
"Why don't you 1 >ny another one ” ask-i ed his wife.
Seth laughed a short laugh."What do you think Mrs. Higginbotham
has done?” said he. “She ripped up herhusband’s old suit and cut a pattern by it,and made a new one, and entirely savedhim ten dollars!”
“I could do that!” said Lucy, with spark-ling eyes. “I will try it.”
“You can do anything, my dear!” saidMr. Bellenden, admiringly.
And Lucy felt that she had her rich re-ward.
Company began to come as soon as thebright weather set iu.
All the affectionate relations of Mr. Bel-lendeu soon discovered that tlie farmhousewas cool and shady, t hat Lucy’s cooking
’ was excellent, and that the bedrooms wereneatness itself.
Some of them were even good enoughto invite their relations as well, and so thehouse was full from April to December.
All the clergymen made it their home atBrother Bellenden’s when they came toSilvan Bridge for ecclesiastical conven-tions; all the agents of unheard-of articlesdiscovered that they knew somebody whowas acquainted with the Bellendens, andbrought their carpet-hags and valises, withpie faith in human hospitality which isone of life’s best gifts.
Mrs. Bellenden’s fame went abroadamong the Dorcases of the neighborhoodin the matter of butter and cheese. Sheteok prizes in the domestic departments ofall the agricultural fairs, and theadjoininghousewives took no trouble to make thingsthat they could borrow of Mrs. Bellenden,"just as well as not."
And one day, when poor Lucy, underthe blighting influence of a horrible sickheadache, was endeavoring to strain threeor four gallons of milk into the shiningpans, the news arrived that Uncle Paulwas coming to the farm.
"Another guest," said Lucy despairingly.And then she uttered the proverb that
heads our sketch."Oh, it’s only Xuele Paul!” said Mr.Bel
leuden. “Don’t fret, Luttie; he’s the mostpeaceful old gentleman in the world.He’ll make no more trouble than a cricket.John’s wife thought she couldn’t have himbecause she had no hired girl, just now—”
"Neither have I!" said Lucy rebelliously.“And Sarah Eliza don’t like company."I am supposed to be fond of it!” ob-
served Lucy, bitterly.“And Reuben’s girls don’t want old
folks staying there. It's too much trouble,they say,” added Setli.
Lucy bit her lip to keep back the wordsshe might have uttered, and said, instead:
"Where is he to sleep? The Belfordshave the front bedroom, and your CousinSusan occupies the hack, and the four MissPattersons sleep in the two hall chambers,and the hired men have the garret room.”
She might have added that she and herhusband and the baby had slept in a hotlittle den opening from the kitchen forfour weeks, vainly expecting Mr. and Mrs.Belford to depart, and that she had neveryet had a chance to invite her father to thefarm in pleasant weather.
But she was maganimuus an 1 held herpeace.
“Oh, you can And some place for him!”said her husband, lightly. "There’s thatlittle room at the end of the hall where thespinning-wheel is.”
"But it isn’t furnished?” pleaded Lucy.“You can easily sew a carpet together
out of those old pieces from the Belfords’room, and it’s no trouble to put up a mus-lin curtiu to the window and lift in a eot-bcd. There are plenty of good sweethusks in the corn house, and you can justtack together a mattress and whitewashthe ceiling, and— What’s that, Beniah?The cows in the rye lot! Dear me! Every-thing goes wrong if I step into the housefor a moment. And really, Luttie, thesethings are your business—not mine!" headded, irritably.
Lucy could not help laughing, all by her-self, as her husband ran up the fleps.
But it was a very sad little laugh, andsoon changed into a sigh.
“I wonder,” said she, in a whisper, "ifmy poor, tired-out ghost would haunt thesestone pavements and scrubbed shelves if 1were to die? I never heard of a ghost ina dairy before, hut I should think that itmight easily he.”
Blit the little bedroom was tilled up forj all that, as fresh as a rose, and Xuele Paul] arrived, a dried up, yelhiw-eouiplexioued
| old man, with an old-fashionedcravat tied! in many folds around his neck, and a suitj of navy blue, with brass buttons.I He had the olite way of half a century
i ago, and Lucy 'ought she would like himvery much, if only she had time to get ae
I quaiuted with him.But she was churning' ten pounds of hut-
; ter a day, and there was the baby, and thej company, find the young chickens, and thebaking to do for llie sew ing soviet v, which
j was to meet at her house this week.[ She was almost too busy to sleep. But
i Xuele Paul was watching her quietly all[ the time.
He came out one day to the barn, wherehis nephew was putting a new handle ona sickle blade.
“Pret'y busy time.-, eh, Xuele Paul; said tile tanner, scarcely takingthe leisure |to look up.
"Ave, absent Ivaus w ered Ihe old man.“Dill 1 tell you. Nephew Seth, about thereason I left your Cousin Eliah's!”
"Not that 1remember.,' said Seth, breath- !ing on the blade and polishing it with hissilk handkerchief.
“Dorothy died his wile!"“Oh, yes! said Seth. "Malarial fever,
! wasn't it?”1 "No!" bluntlyanswered Xuele Paul. "It
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Absolutely purewas hard work. That woman. Nephew
| Seth, did the housework for eight persons.Eliab didn't even let her have a woman tohelp with the washing and the ironing.”
“Must have been a regular-going brute,”i said Seth, tightening the handle a little.
“All the sewing too*’ - added Uucle Paul—“the mending and making. Never wentanywhere except to church. Eliab didn’tbelieve in women gadding about.”
“The old savage!” said Seth.“She was fond of reading, but she nev-
er got any time for it,” said Uncle Paul.“She rose before sun-up, and never lay
’ down until eleven o’clock. It was hardwork that killed that woman, and Eliabcooly declared that it was sheer lazinesswhen she couldn't drag herselfaround anylonger. And when she died he rolled uphis eyes and called it the visitation ofProvidence.”
“Why didn’t the neighbors lynch him?”cried Seth, fairly aroused to indignationat last.
I Uncle Paul took off his glasses, wipedthem vigorously and looked his nephewhard in the face.
“Why don’t the neighbors lynch you?”said he.
j Seth dropped the sickle and started."Nephew Seth," said Uncle Paul, im-
P pressively, “thou art the man! Are younot doing the verysame thing?”
’ “1?” gasped Seth."Your wife is doingthe work of a house-
hold of sixteen people,” said Uncle Paul.“She is drudging as you could hire no for-eigner to drudge. She is rising early, andlying down late; she is offering up her lifeon the shrine of your farm and its require-
i ments. I have seen her grow thin an paleeven during the few days I have been here.I have carried water and split wood forher because there was no one else to do it.I have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford’sbreakfast daily to her room, because Mrs.Belford preferred to lie in bed; and cook-ing dainty dishes for Helen Patterson, be-cause Helen wouldn’t eat what the restlike. No galley-slave ever worked as shedoes. And you, with your hired men—-and your array of labor-saving machinery,stand coolly by and see her commit slowsuicide. Yes, Nephew Seth, I think it isa case for lynching.”
Seth had grown pale.“I—l never thought of this,” said he.
"Why didn’t some one tell me?”“Where were your own eyes?” said Un-
cle Paul.Seth Bellenden rolled down his shirt
sleeves, put on his coat, and went into thehouse.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons thatit was inconvenient tokeep themany long-er, He gave Cousin Susan to understandthat her room was needed. He made ar-rangements to board the hired men at thevacant farmhouse, and engaged a stoutdairyman and a house-servant to wait onLucy. And he telegraphed to her fatherto come to Silvan Bridge at once.
“She deserves a treat,” he said. “Heshall spend the Summer with us.”
And then he went to tell Lucy.She had fainted among the buttercups,
picking strawberries for tea. Poor littleLucy! The machinery had utterly re-fused to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.“She will die,” he thought, “and I shall
have murdered her?”But she did not die. She recovered her
strength by degrees.“It is better than any medicine,” she
| said, "to know that Seth is thinking of me, and for me.”
And Uncle Paul—“the last straw,” as, she had called him—had proved her sal va-, tion., "I don’t want her to go as Eliab's wife
did," said Uncle Paul.
PROFITABLE VENTRILOQUISM.Brewster tells of a master in his art,
Louis Brabant, a valet de-chambre to. Francis 1., whose suit was rejected by the
parents of a beautiful and well-dowered, girl with whom lie was in love. He called
on the mother, after the death of the fath-er, again to urge his suit; and while hewas present, she heard the voice of her
I deceased husband expressing remorse forhaving rejected Louis Brabant, and con-
I juring her to give immediate consent tothe betrothal. Frightened, she consented.Brabant, deeming it desirable to behaveliberal in the marriage agreements, butnot having much cash at command, resol-ved to try whether his ventriloquism wouldlie as efficacious with a money-lendingbanker as it had been with the widow,falling on the old .usurer at Lynns, hemanaged that the subject should turn up-on the object of demons, spectres, andpurgatory. Suddenly was heard the voiceof the usurer's father, complaining of thehorrible sufferings he was enduring inpurgatory, and saying that there was noway of obtaining alleviation except bythe usurer advancing money to the visitorfor the sake of ransoming Christians fromIhi'hands of the Turks. The usurer was
j terrified, but two much in love with hisgold to yield at once. Branant went next
; day and resumed the conversation, when. shortly were heard the voices of a host of| dead relations, all telling the same terribleI story, and all pointingout the only way ofI obtaining relief. The usurer could resist
no longer ; he placed ten thousand crownsin the handsof the unsuspected ventrilo-quist, who, of course, forgot to pay itover for the ransom of Christians eitherin Turkey or anywhere else.
After victory strap the helmet tighter.
Established 1862
NO. 88
NAIL-BITINO A DISEASE.
• That the habit of nail-biting is a diseaseamong the children, and not merely anaughty trick, to be cured by punishment,is the scientific opinion of the famous
1 Frenchman, Dr. Edgar Berillon, who wasI at one time associated with Bharcot and isI at present secretary of the French Socie-
ty of Hypnology and inspector of statelunatic asylums.
Berillon names this so-called disease• “onachophagie,” which at once gives an
I’ air of importance to the discussion, and he1 states, as the result of nine years’ study
• experimenting, that it is an unerring signs of incipient degeneration of the nervous
v system. He holds that a child displaying) any tendancy toward nail-biting, shouldf at once be put under a physician’s care in-
stead of being teased and punished.The habit is more prevalent among girls
a than boys, and it is probably due to thefact—although this not brought out in
1 Berillon’s recent papers—that boys are
v permitted to live healthier lives, withmore exercise and out-of-door sports. In
’ the report, made from an examination ofone of the averaged mixed schools in Paris,the percentage of nail-biters among the
- girls was found to be 52, while among -thei boys it was only 20. This habit was usu-
ally observed among the poorer students.Several instructors in the Paris schools
-for manual training have pronounced thehabitual nail-biters hard to teach and often
- totally unfit for technical education. On1 rare occasions nail-biting children were
? found to he “infant prodigies,” but with a- superficial cleverness,invariably outgrown.
Although the disease is frequently in-herited, it is more often the result of imi-
r tation, which practically renders it conta-gious. In English schools the habit is
i considered so harmful und so easily con-tracted that the nail-biting children are in-
- solated and taught in seperate classes, be-- sides being subjected to severe and public
; reprimands. This idea of punishing a; nail-biter, Berillon regards as showing-about as much judgment as would be man-
ifested in scolding or whipping a child for■ having croup or measles, and that the habit
; demands careful and intelligent treatmentcannotbe doubted, for not only is it onthe increase, but in many cases it is ac-companied in the second and third gener-ations by marked signs of physical degen-eration.
The extent to which it prevails in Eng-; land can be estimated from the fact that
• in one school of thirty children whose par-ents were of the middle-class, at least 50per cent, were habitual nail-biters. InAmerica the disease is prevalent to a mark-ed degree. It may be noticed at everyturn on the street, in the schools and on
• the street cars. Wherever there is a groupof school childeen of any size, some of the
i boys and girls will be found eagerly de-• vouriug their nails, and sometimes fingers
as well.• The fact that after a time the habit be-
comes automatic makes the curing of it adifficult undertaking; but Berillon believesthat it can be done, and advocates the
■ grouping of these children into classes,- where they may be submitted to special
discipline and hygienic treatment. As,however, the habit is the result of uer-
I vous degeneration, it can be as easilytreated at home. A nerve tonic, good
• food and plenty of exercise are all thephysical treatment necessary. For curing
; the '“after-habit” with children, which; may linger after the cause has been remov-
ed, Berillon suggests that the child’s rcso-
i Union should be applealed to, and that hebe taught to regard the habit as unworthy.
. HOME AND ABROAD.
It is the duty of everyone, whether athome or travelling for pleasure or busi-ness, to equip himself with the remedywhich will keep up strength and prevent
| illness, and cure such ills as ;e liable tocome upon all in every'day life. For in-
I stance, Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a generalI tonic, and to keep the blood pure and less
liable to absorb the germs of disease, will, be well nigh invaluable. Ch ngr of (Uink-
. ing water often causes serio. s trouble, es-pecially if one has has been ; cd to springwater in the country. From a few drops
| to a teaspoonful of Hood’s Sarsaparillain a tumbler of water will prevent thewater having any injurious effect.
Hood’s Vegetable Pills, as a cathartic,cause no discomfort, no disturbance, noloss of sleep, but assist the digestive or-
' gans, so that satisfactory'results are ef-fected in a natural and regular manner.
Jones’ Omission.—Jones was absent-minded, and as he was about to sail forthe continent with his wife and family, afriend came down to see him off and makesure all was right. The friend was late.It was within twenty minutes of sailingtime, but he found Jones smiling and hap-py.
"Hello, Jones !” he cried. “All right?”"Yes," noded Jones; “trunks, tickets,
letter of credit, steamer chair —everything.Flatter myself that all is right this time.”
That’s good,” was the answer.“Where's Mrs, Jones and the family?Have to tell them adieu and hurry'ashore."
"Jove !” cried Jones, sitting down sud-denly "I think they're waiting at homefor me!”
The annual rain fall in the Atlanticstates is Jti inches; in the southern, 55; inthe western, 20; in the Pacific, 02.
