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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
DISEASES ON WINGS.

Modern science has entirely changed
public opinion In regard to the fearful
pestilences which affiiet civilized
societies. Formerly when "the black
DEATH" or the plague, or small pOx,
or cholera appeared and spread their
mysterious and terrible ravages, the
feeling of the people at once was that
this was supernatural visitation for
national sins, and that the only mode
OF escape was prayer and fasting and
religious ceremonial.
Now the more enlightened view is
that such calamities are, indeed. pun
ishments for national sins, but they
are the practical iniquities of every
day life-uncleanliness, neglect of
ventilation, carelessness about food, ],
and disregard of the laws of health,
especially in the cleansing of houses
and public ways. The only apprOpri-
ate repentance for such offences is to
cease committing them; to make
clean the persons and houses; to
purify streets and lanes; to enforce
ventilation, and see that the masses
Of the people live in abOdes fit for
human beings. Evidently the relig-
iOus lesson in these diseases and pes
tilenees is that man should carefully
obey the laws of health, and take care
of his fellow man.
Modern science has elassed a large
number Of diseases under the generic
name Of foul air diseases" such as
scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid,
cholera and small pOx. These are
believed to be absolutely under the
control of sanitary arrangements I;
that is, If body of physicians and
sanitarians could manage a whole
city as they now do a prison or an
asylum, they could absolutely prevent
or kill out the maladies. II is related
that in sanitary books that the direc-
tor of a model prison in England ex-
pressed himself as ashamed and con-
vieted at the appearance once of a
sporadic case of small pox in his
building, knowing that it arose en-
tirely from some local neglect. The
material for the foul air diseases fills
our whole atmosphere we take it in
every pore.
Without doubt, if we had organs
sufficiently fine for the purpose, we
should see floating all through the air
the various germ-seeds of our pesti-
lenees-there 6 cloud Of small pOx
germs, there the winged germs Of
diDhtheria, or the small fungi of
cholera iDfantum and typhus. and a
multitude beyond all computation of
seeds of sickness, pestilenee and
plague. And these germs cannot be
exclusively OF the soil which
generated them. We are made our
brothers. keeper, and we suffer for
his neglect.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
RAD AIR.

Air, the breath Of life, is the first
want of the human being, and it il
also the last. At every puIsatiOn
during life, we need this life-sustain- .
ing element. Yet. one would suppose.
by the bad ventilation of houses
churches and theatres. that a man
was made to live without air-at least,
that il was a matter of Indifference
whether be had much or little, or
whether it was good or bad. We read
in the papers of the death of persons
from suffOcatiOn in wells, mines, or
by escaping gas, and we are startled,
wondering why people will be 50
careless; yet thousands of people die
by inches, or only half live, in eOnse-
quenee of the impurity of the air
which they breathe. If one is shut
up in a small room without any ad-
mission of fresh air, the air contained
within the room soon becomes impure
by having been bTeathed over and
over, and very great lassitude or de-
preston of life and spirits is the con-
sequence. The blood requires to be
Tevitalized constantly within the
lungs, by coming in contact with
atmospheric air. Indeed that Is the
whole Office of the lungs, to aerate or
revitaliZe the blood (which is there
met by the atmospheric air), and
change it from dark Yenous blood to
bright scarlet arterial blood, thus pre-
pairing it to carry life to every part
and tissue of the system. In the lungs
the blood loses many of its impurities,
and takes on the life-giving oxygen
from the air; and in proportion as the
air is abundant and pure which we
breathe, in that proportion we have
the glow of health and the enthusi-
asm of living which comes from WELL
Yitalized blood.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
Social Life in China.

There is no social life in China.
Woman is alone and expects to be
alone and to pass her days in mental
toll, If born to poverty, or in embrOid-
cry and useless leisure work if wealthy
She is cleanly and nice in her habits,
and as happy as she can be in her
low state of social development, and
the question of regeneratiDg China
depe ends far more upon her than any
other cause. As the population has
reached its maximum, there is a
necessity to check it, and however
stringent the laws against female in
fanticide it is extensively practieed,
particularly in seaboard towns where
emigration takes place. There are
many proofs of this murderous Gus
tom, some of which are the number of
foundling asylums which receive no
male children, proclamations bullet
ined through the cities warning
against female infantieide; and the
great excess everywhere of the num-
Der of males over females The
parents are not brutal but necessity
regards no affections, and the poor
little girl baby is drowned before she
knows what life is and what miseries
she has escaped through the door Of
her early death.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

The longevity of the soldiers who
fought under Napoleon finds parallel
in the number of body servants who
ministered to the personal comfort of
George Washington, and the army of
eOaehmen needed to guide the steeds
which dragged the numbeTless vehi-
cles of the pseudo President Jeffer-
son Davis. Another of the NapoleOnic
veterans has just expired at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and, like all of his very
venerable colleagues, he was present
at the Bridge of Lodi, fought bravely
at Marengo, participated in the winter
trip from Moscow via Beresina, and
was in at the death at Waterloo,
when the Old Guard refused to sur
reader on any reasonable terms. 1t
is wonderful how the severe trials
which the soldiers of the first French
empire underwent strengthened their
vitality. While there is apparently
no end to the survivors of Napoleon
BOnaparte's armies, we never hear of
the demise of one of the peaceful
citizens who lived quietly and peace
fully in France during the ambitious
and desolating wars of the great
Napoleon.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
THE ART OF MAKING MONEY

One great cause of the poverty of
the present day, is the fai uTe of many
people to appreciate small things.
They say that if they cannot save
large sums, they will not save any.
| thing. They do not realize how a
daily addition, be it ever so small,
will soon make large pile. If the
young men and women of to-day viii
only begin, and begin now to save q
little from their earnings, and invest
in some savings bank, and weekly or
monthly add to their mite, they will
wear a happy smile Of content ard
Independence when they reach mid
die life. Not only the pile itself will
increase, but the desire and ability TO
increase it will soon grow.
Let the clerk and tradesman, laboTer
and artisan, make now and at once a
beginning. Store up some of your
youthful force and vigOr for future
cOntins ency. Let pare nts teach their
children to begin early to save. Be
gin at the fOuntainhead to control the
stream of extTavagance, and then the
work will be easy to choose between
poverty and riches. Let our youth
go on in the habits of extravaganza,
for fifteen years to come, as they have
for fifty years past, and we shall be
nation of beggars with a mOneyed
aristOcracy. Let a generation Of such
as save in small sums be reared, and
we shall be free from want. Do not
be ambitious for rextTavagant fortunes
but seek that which is the duty of
every man to Obtain-independenee
and comfortable home. Wealth in
sufficient quantities is within the
reach of all 1t can be had By only
one proeess-saving
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
Ont Of Meat.

a deacon being in c neighborine
town one Saturday, fell in with {
travelling minister and invited him tC
come to his town and preach mex
Sunday, and to his house for dinner
So Sunday morning the deacon told
his family that the minister would be
there to dinner, and, as they were out
OF meat, told his hired boy to go to q
certain place by the side of the road
and dig out a wOodchuck that was
supposed TO have burrowed there and
they would have him for dinner
While the boy was digging away al
the woOdchuck hole, the minister
came along on his way to preach. On
seeing the 10y thus digging, be
hauled up and aceosted him with:
"Well, my son, what are you doing
there ?"
Digging out a woodchuck, sir"
said the boy.
"Why, but don't you know it is
very wicked? ? and besides, you won't
get him if you do dig for him on Sun
day."
"Git himI" said the boy. 'Thun-
der! I've got TO git'im; the minister's
coming to our house to dinner, and
we amt got any meat"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
Why Do animals Need Salti

Prof. James E. johnson, of Scot
Land, says that half the saline matter
of the blood (75 per cent consists OF
common salt, and as this is partly
dissolved every day through the
skin and kidneys, the necessity of
continued supplies of it to the healthy
body is sufficiently obvious. The
bile also contains sOda-one of the in
gradients of salt-as a special and in
dispensable constituent, and so do all
the caTtilages of the body. Stint the
supply of salt, and neither will the
bile be. able properly to assist diges-
tiOn, nor the cartilages to be built up
again as fast as they naturally waste.
1t is better to place salt where stock
can have free access to it than 20 give
it occasionally, in small quantities.
They will help themselves to what
they need, if allowed to do so at
pleasure, otherwise, when they be-
come salt hungry, they may take
more than is wholesome.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
bow. 70 Give ChlIdren an AppetIte.

Give children an abundance Ofout-
door exercise, fun and frolie; make
them regular in their habits, and feed
them only on plain, nOurishing food,
and they will seldom, if ever, com
plain of lack of appetite. But keep
them Overtasked in school, confined
closely to the house the rest of the
time, frOwning down every attempt
at play; feed them upon rich or high
seasoned food, candies, nuts, &C,
allow them to eat between meals and
late in the evening, and you need not
expect them 10 have gpOdappetites.-
On the contrary, you may expect
they will be pale, weak and siekly.-
Don't cram them with food when
they don't want il, or have no appe-
tite for it-sueh a course is slow muir
der. If they have no appetite, en-
courage, and If need be, command
them to take exercise in the open air
Don't allow them TO study too much,
and especially keep them from read
ing the exciting light literature which
so much abOunds in our bookstores
and circulating libraries. In addi-
tiOn to securing exercise for the chill
dren as above, change their diet some
what; especially if they have been
eating fine flour, change to coarse or
Graham -four.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

FINE OPENING FOR a PHYSICIAN.
= Not long since the measels broke
out among the Ute Indians, who are
of the mountain tribes Of Utah, Colo
RADIO, and Northern Mexico. The
papoOses died, and the medicine man
was in demand. Incantations and
drum beating did not mitigate the
disease, and finally the chief of the
tribe demanded of the Indian doctor
why he did not stop it. In vain the
poor fellow attributed it 10 the dissat-
isfaction of the Great Spirit at some
irregularities of the Utes; in vain he
redoubled his incantations and mon
key dances; the Papooses still died
rapidly At last the chiefs held a
smoke, and concluded that the medi
cine msn was no good. and at sunrise
one fine morning they led him out
just back of the camping ground and
shot him.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
cApTA1N HAIL AND PARTY


were Hospitality entertained by ]. w.
Smith, who is the representative in
Greenland of the Danish Govern
ment The Captain did not evince
any desire that the authorities of the
United States or any other outside
of Greenland should learn of his re
turn to that country. and the aeci.
dent that befell the PolaTis, for when
Mr.. Van Anderson. Capt. of the Meer-
ibek, offered to take a copy of the
notes of the expedition, letters from
himself or statement concerning his
voyage generally, and the case of his
DELAY at Disco, Capt. Hall promptly
declined, upon the grounds which he
did not feel disposed to explain. 1t is
Capt. Van AndersOn's opinion that a
publication of the log of the Polaris
up to that date would stimulate in
ternational competition which might
make piecemeal Of the merited lau-
rels of America ia this cause. After
the Poliaris had been thoroughly
caulked and prepared for sea (which
Capt. Hall thought would be about
Wednesday, the 9Th day of March
last1, she was to start upon the Origi-
nal course, and the Capt. proposed to
carry an abundance of coal, so that
he may make all possible headway
during this available season.
When the Polaris arrived at Disco
she was run into the sand at Busken
Beech as she was so heavy water.
logged that the Captain feared she
might go down at any moment, where
upon the present expedition would be
abandoned, as th,Te was no means in
Greenland of ofraftiig sunken ship of
the dimensions o. the POlaris. On
the following dag the Polaris was
freely pumped ard tempoI arily eaul-
ked, so that she mightbe removed with
hawsers and ran into floating cradle
the only structure in Disco wherein
to repair disabled vessels Of large tom
mage.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

No young man ever thinks that. he
shall die. He may believe that 9TH
ers will, or he will assent to the doe
trine that "all men are mortal" but
he is far enough from bringing il
home to imselfindividually Youth
buOyant activity and animal spirits
hold absolute antipathy with old age,
as well as with death, nor have we in
the hey-day of life the remotest con-
eeption how ''this sensible warm mo-
tiOn can become a kneaded elod." Or
if, in q moment of idle speculation we
look vaguely forward to the close of
life, 1t is amazing at what a distance
it seems, what long, leisurely per-
spective there is between. We eye
the farthest verge of the horizon and
think what a way we shall have to
look back upon ere we arrive at our
journeys end, and, 10! before we in
the least suspect it, the mists are at
our feet and the shadows of death
encompass us.-Le PreUOst.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
Poor Prospect for Crops in ireland.

From all that can be learned from
the agricultural districts of Ireland
the prospects of a good harvest are
far from cheering. The winter has
been not only severe. bnt also mOst
unhealthy-a wet, sickly, dreary sea.
son throughout the island, and
farmers argue from this that the crops
will be unproductive and the harvest
small. In many of the cities and
towns smallpox has prevailed to a
fearful extent. Dublin, particularly
has suffered, and in Cork. Bel asst,
Drogheda and Waterford, both small
pOx and fever have helped to throw q
gloom over the inhabitants of these
cities. With these diseases, amount
ing almost to an epidemic, in the
towns, and poor harvest prospects in
the country, the hardships of Ireland
will be increased rather than abated
this year. The continuous rains
which prevailed from the beginning
of November until the end of Febru
ary have interfered greatly with the
farmers, and the winter crops amount
to nothing. Indeed, it seems as if
the ills of Ireland increase with years.
Between internal dissensions, failing
crops and epidemics, the condition of
the Irish TeOple is yearly becoming
worse, and annually we find thrOng-
ing to our shores the poor Irish
emigrants seeking a home which
various causes eonspire to deny to
them in their native land.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

Emerson says: do not hang a
dismal picture on your wall, and 10
not deal with sables and glOoms in
your conversation" Beeeher follows
with: Away with these fellows who
go bowling through life, all the while
passing for birds of paradise. He
that cannot laugh and be gay should
look well 10 himself He should fast
aud pray until his face breaks forth
into light" Talmage then takes up
the strain: Some people have an idea
that they comfort the afflicted when
they groan over them. Don't drive
a hearse over a mans soul. When
you bind up q broken bone of the
soul, and you want spllnts. do not
make them of cast irsn-~ After such
eOunselingsand admOnitions lay aside
your long faces.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
A DMINIsTRATORS' SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

An pursuance OF an order Of the Court OF
offer-at public sale on
Tuesday, June 4, A. D. 1879,
On the premises, three miles northwest of
corner of Youngstown township. the follow
ing real estate, as the property Of Ephl aim
McKelvey, deceased, viz:
Four adjoining tracts OF land situated re-
spectlVely in the townships of Youngstown,
and Austintown. in Mahoning county. and
Weathersfeld and Liberty, in Trumbull
county, Ohio.
Isr TRACT,
Situate at the northwest corner Of said
Youngstown township, containing six and
one-half( 90 acres, more or less.
ID TRACT,
Situated at the northeast corner Of said
Austintown1 township. containing ninety
eight eS) acres, more or less.
Sd TRACT,
Situated at the south east corner Of said
Weathersneld township-contain gtwenty-
one and one-iourth enc seres more or less.
4TH TRACT,
Situated at the southwest corner ofsaidLib-
erty township, containing twenty-five C25)
acres, more or less.
Said 4th tract is subject 10 q reservation OF
the coal and the right 70 mine the same
The FIRST three tracts are pot tncumbered by
coal reservations and supposed TO contain
Appraised at So. Terms Of sale-one-
third in hand, One-thlrd in one year, and
one-third In two years. Deferred psy ments
TO bear interest from the day Of sale. and 10
The above tract win be offored Separately.
GEORGE McKELVET,
Adm's OF f. MckelVey, decd.
May s, is72-4t ~
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
THINNING FRUIT,

The Southern papers say that there
never were as fine oranges i'm Florida
as there are this year, and that it is
owing to a severe gale which blew of
nearly three-ffths of the young fruit,
Just after they were fairly formed.
The Germantown Telegraph urges q
lesson from this, to be needed by
fruit growers of every class. 1--WE
take up the fruit-grOwers' societies in
any part of the community and note
the great difference of opinion which
prevails as to the quality of any one
fruit. One speaker, perhaps, eharae-
terizes it as food for the gods, while
another would not give il TO his pigsl
No doubt, if the facts could be ascer-
tanned, il would be found that one
had an over crop, and the other but
few on his trees.
I'm the grape, we know how fOrci-
bly, all writers warn US against the
evil of over cropping. The best vine
yardists cut away large proportion
of the punches. and assert not only
that it aids the size but the quality of
those which are left; aud, in the pear
itself, we all know hcw the large, fat,
juicy fellow is far superior to the lean
scrub from the same tree.
1.-THE good effect of fruit thinning
is not half enough insisted upon; but
such facts as this of the orange crop
may help to do it."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29
THE CHRONICLE
HOW SHALL WR MRRrl
BY z. z. BRowN.

BY z. Z. DROWN.
How shall we meet in our future home?
AS we parted here on earth?
Viii the spirit carry its loves and hates
Into the heavenly birthf
VIII the heart be moved, in that world Of
bliss,
BY the Feelings that stirred It's depths in
this?
When we meet with the lost ones. face TO
face,
in the light Of that better shore,
VIII the cankering cares of this changeful
life
And its harrassing doubts be DER?
Then, Father above speed on the day
When the mists OF earth shall be cleared
away;
Year after year our round we tread,
In spirit of sad unrest,
Striving TO hold. with clinging clasp,
The phantom JOY to our breast;
Heaping dust DER hopes that have died,
And smiling above tue graves we hide.
Father divine o, teach us how
To patiently wait thy Will
To bear the burdens upon us laid,
And trust in thy goodness still;
Till death shall the pearly gates undo,
And swing them aside to let us through.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

"There is no royal road to learn
ing" is an axiom, but the average
American will not be convinced of
the truth oft 1t is hard to convince
him of the truth of anything, when
it Is to his interest to believe the con-
trary. He can find, or make royal
roads anywhere. And he does, though
many of Them are paved with any
thing but good intentions. " Get
rich, my son. get rich. honestly if you
can; if nOt-get rich" 1t was not a
Frenehman who said this, although
one might think so, but a member of
that plain speaking sect-Quakers.
The average American does not
"speak out in meeting" he is too
smart for that-he merely puts inten.
ton into practice. 1t is not so much
his fault, perhaps, as the fault of the
period, that he makes haste to grow
rich. Everybody does 50.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

The house in which John Brown
was born is still standing in TOrring-
ton, Conn, on a hilltOp-a brown,
wooden farm house, now tenanted by
a eolOred family, and even the bed
room on the ground floor, in which
he was bern, is shown to visitors, and
has half its door cut OF and carried
away for relics of the martyr.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

Here is an aneedote told by one
minister about another. A certain
presiding elder, who was noted for
seldom being very animated, and
seldom up to time, and seldom very
brief, once kept a congregation wait
ing a long lime for his appearance,
and when at last he did come he
preached for them prosy sermon OF
unusual length, on the text - Feed
my lambs" He had not yet finished
when that original old minister
known as camp meeting John"
arose from a seat in the congregation
and said, Brother, have had some
experience in raising lambs myself.
and have found the following rules
absolutely necessary to successful
raising: First, give them their foot
in season; second, give them a little
at time; third, give it them warm" "
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

A resident of Fort Erie has accepted
a challenge to swim from Buffalo
lighthouse to point six miles dis
tant. If accomplished, it will be one
of the greatest feats in the swimming
line. Not only is the distance the
greatest ever attempted, but the cur
rent from Lake Erie, setting into the
Niagara. renders the task one Of ex-
treme difficulty.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-29

Some ingenious Yankee has invent
ed a process by which maple-sugar
can be made out of common New Or
leans molasses, flavoring it by steam
ing maple wood. The next thing we
are looking for is a process whereby
they will make honey from cod-liver
oil, fiavoring II with bees-wsx.