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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
THEIMPROBABLEIN WAR.

Every man who has been in the thick
Of fight knows that to all appearance
the escape of any man SO placed is ut
terly improbable, if not we'll nigh i'm
possible also. Bullets fly around him
thick as hail; shell burst and solid shot
scream around his head for hours; that
some one Of the thousand missiles shall
hit him seems to be almost inevitable,
and yet in a very few battles does one
man in ten sustain any sort OF harm.
The writer of this article has seen a
Ii inch mortar shell fall and explode
in a mortar pit fifteen feet square, IN
which eight men were standing, with
out doing harm to any one OF them.
Ninety-nine times in hundred such
an occurrence would kill every man SO
exposed, but in this case the utterly
improbable thing happened. In anoth-
er case within the writer s knowledge,
a casson chest, with seventy-five
pounds of powder in it, exploded with
out injuring man who was sitting on
it at the time. Improbable things OF
a contrary sort happen not less ire
quently. To draw still from this
writer's observation, a man lying in a
mortar pit fourteen feet deep, lying
close to the revetement, too, was killed
by musket ball which came from a
distance of not less than thousand
yards, and passed through the mans
lungs. 1t had probably struck apebble
or some other object in front. which
caused it to fly upward. and afterward
to fall behind the high parapet. At
any rate it killed the man.-New York
Erening Post.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
HUSH /!
EY ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR.

Il can scarcely hear" she murmured
For my heart beat loud and fast,
Bat surely in the far, far distance
I can hear song at last. :"
1T is only the reapers singing
As they carry homes their sheaves;
And the evening breeze has risen,
And rustles the dying leaves.
Listen! there are voices talking:'
Calmly still she strove to speak;
Yet her voice grew faint and trembling,
And the red flushed in her cheek,
ct is only the children playing
Below. now their work is done,
And they laugh that their eyes are dazzled
BY the rays of the setting sun
Fainter grew their voices, ank weaker,
As with anxious eyes she cried,
s.nown the avenue of chestnuts
can hear a horseman ride"
at was only the deer that were feeding
In q herd on the clover grass;
They were startled and fled to the tllcket,
As they saw the reapers pass
Now The night arose in silence,
Birds lay III their leaiy nest,
And the deer crouched in the forest,
And the children were at rest.
There was only a sound OF weeping
From watchers around bed;
But rest to weary spirit,
Peace to the quiet dead!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
The Anti-KGonop0liSt.

routs are all laid out. I shall go from
the city line of Brooklyn down to long
Island for three months. Then l
take Jersey, beyond Newark, as far as
Paramount; then / come back for the
winter. / have an idea [ would like
to try San Francisco. but Coolbaugh
is under obligations not to go there
with his men, and while I'm in his
debt I'm his slave. I'm drilling my
monkeys, so that / think may have
Philadelphia and Baltimore route.
That's a great place fog side shows.
A man with good dancing bear,
solemn organ and three trick monkeys
could make a fortune on the road.
You never saw such people for cheap
shows. But what want is San Fran
cisco. If Coolbaugh would only
| trust me-
'sWell, good-by, old man; wish l
could help you to what's better than
money!
Il wish to God you could, sir; but
my lots settled. Fate's fate, and |
have met mine.
| / left him. In an hour after
CHANGED to pass that way, watching
for car. AS stood for a moment
near his doorsteps, on which sat a
throng Of dirty, black-eyed. pipe
smoking Italians, there came from
the window Of the upper story the
window of the upper story the stately
measures Of old s'Dundee,' and the
clear, sonorour tones of the grinder
voice.
Really romance, wasn't it!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

the epidemic in and about Bagdad
last year shows that each year since
it's temperance i'll that district it has
covered Il wider area. and it will be
remembered that last year it crossed
the Turco-Persian' frontier, and broke
out at Shuster, in Khuzistan. From
the phenomena of the epidemic to
this period it was feared, especially
by the physicians on the spot, that, if
it should recur in the present year, it
must be expected to extend over q
still wider area and show itself i'll
even q more aggravated form than
had yet been observed. This opinion
is concurred in by Surgeon-Major Col
vile, the medical officer attached TO
the British Embassy at Bagdad, and
is expressed in this official report, on
the subject of the last and previous
years outbreak.
The Turco-Russian struggle in Asia
Minor. and the massing of Persian
troops on the western frontier of that
country. add an additional and most
grave factor to this ominous inteiil-
gence.
1t has been so long since Christian
Europe has suffered from this terrible
disease that most medical men have
never seen a case, and, indeed, for
awhile, psychologists fattered
themselves it had ''died out" They
yet say that thorough system of
sanitation will certainly check it's
advance.
Let us hope so; for of all pestilences
which have ever scourged humanity,
and desolated empires, none approach
| in magnitude those of the plague.
Under the name of 'sthe black death,
it fills, as Hirsch remarks, one of the
darkest pages in the history Of the
human race. 1t devastated every
known country Of the earth, and
penetrated to the remotest mountain
hamlets and oranges, sometimes
sweeping away in a few days every
inhabitant, leaving not one to remem-
Der the name or to inherit the goods
of the family or the village. Long
years afterward, travellers would
come upon the unknown villages, the
houses rotting, the bones of the
plague-stricken owners bleaching in
the rooms and streets, and no one to
say who they had been.
AS an epidemic disease, it no doubt
spreads from India, that mother OF
pestilence, where, in the province of
Hutch and Gauzerat, it is found as an
endemic of great malignancy far more
fatal in it's historical appearance than
the cholera, it is we'll that the medical
mind of Europe is on the alert to meet
it's approach with the most energetic
measures; and should they fail, it
will develope upon us to lose no time
in taking up the defensive in the most
energetic maner.-Me. ical and Sur
gicak Reporter.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
POETRY
REMEMBERED DAYS.

| remember a morn behind the mills,
When blackbirds sang.
And sheep-bells rang,
Far off, and all things were still,
But the rising Dream,
In the pictured stream,
An. the noise of water about the mill.
| remember maid in her sweet youth,
Whose gentle days
In village ways
Were passed in simple work OF truth;
The summers day
Sped fast away
In :. dream of love, i'll time OF you'll
remember the spring in garb OF green,
The light heart glee
That came to me
With the smile OF my love at seventeen;
Her laugh that went
Like woodland scent
ia nv soul-tllat time on the dalsled greer
And though know the days are past,
That love was lost
When came the frost
AT Summer S close OF my content;
Yet some joy stays
In winter days,
Ana bright its joyous complement.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
SC1ENcE+
PROFESSOR BISMARCK ON CANCER.

In recent lecture, this eminent
surgeon spoke upon the treatment OF
cancer. A large number of drawings
were exhibited. showing the various
cases that had been met with during
the course of DR.. Esmarch's profess
sional career. He advised that cancers
of the tongue, and also most Of the
malignant growths, wherever occur
ring, should be treated by means OF
arsenic and iodide of potassium,
internally and externally. before pro-
ceeding to an operation. The speaker
had frequently seen cancer originating
upon syphilitic basis, and often
where the syphilis had remained
latent for a long period-from twenty
to forty years. The lecture closed
by an appeal to each member to col
lect all the material in his power. and
to see if it were not possible, by a
division of labor, to arrive at some
definite conclusions on the question OF
malignant neoplasms.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
GROUP DUE TO MlASMA.

DR.. Lewis S. Pitcher has recently
made valuable report to the Kings
County IN. W Medical Society on the
subject of Group. DR.. Pitcher has
studied that disease with much care
with reference to local conditions.
A map of Brooklyn accompanies the
report, on which the dwellings where
in cases Of the disease have been met
with are suitably indicated. 1t needs
buta glance at the map to perceive
just where the malady has been most
prevalent, and to enable deduction as
to the probable influence of the soil,
drainage, etc., on it's persistence to be
readily made.
Under the term ''croup," the author
includes ssall forms Of acute inflamma-
tory affections Of the larynx or trachea
which may produce narrowing OF
their caliber to such an extent as to
occasion serious prolonged dyspnGa.
This embraces three conditions,
namely, catarrhal Group, membranous
Group, aid diphtheritic Group. The
first two differ in the secretion, in
the former case being liquid, and in
the latter it's giving rise to a false
membrance Of varying thickness.
Diphtheritic Group differs only from
membranous Group in being recOg-
nized as part of general diphtheri-
tic infection, Exposure to cold pro-
duces catarrhal Group; but membran-
Gus Group demands for it's production
not only cold and moisture but also a
miasmatic poison, the character OF
which is allied to that which is active
in diphtheria.
The conditions under which the
author has found that the worst forms
of Group may be generated are album
dainty prevalent in some parts OF
Brooklyn. The disease runs riot
among the large numbers Of badly
| nourished and weakly children in the
thickly populated tenement house
dictricts; and wherever examination
has been made into the physical
nature of the soil, in localities where
Group has been most frequent, there
unfavorable conditions have been
encountered. Along the water front,
occupying ground rescued from the
Obscured by the filling-in process; in
valleys that have been the site OF
watercourses, whose drainage Is i'm
perfect; these are the districts over
which, as the map plainly shows, the
malady has destroyed the most people.
Group is not commonly encountered
am ong the list of diseases which.
Science has thus far traced to miasma-
tic causes. DR.. Pitchers conclusions
are therefore Of especial value in call
ing attention to the fact that sc
prevalent a malady is preventable by
the ordinary sanitary precaution Of
proper drainage.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
THE ExTENsIoNoF THE PLAGUE

Our recent English medical ex-
change mention, with undisguised APP
prehension, the fact that already early
this spring authentic observers state
that the plague has broken out in
Bagdad, and is rapidly increasing
there; and information from other
sources renders it probable that the
disease has shown itself in other
places in the vicinity of that city,
some of which have not suffered
before since the new development
Of the disease in MesOpOtamia, three
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
LITERARY
LIE NEVER.

Not long ago an English steamer,
four days out from Liverpool, small
boy was found hid away behind the
cargo He had neither father nor
mother, brother nor sister. friend nor
protector among either passengers or
crew. Who was he Where did he
come from? Where going! Only nine
wears old; the poor little stranger.
with ragged clothes, but beautiful
face, full of innocence and truth. Of
course he was carried before the first
mate:
How came you to steal passage
on board this shipf asked the mate,
sharply.
My step-father put me in. answer
ed the boy. "'He said he could not
afford to keep me or pay my passage
to Halifax, where my aunt lives. l
want to go to my aunt.
The mate did not believe the story.
lie had often been deceived by stoWa-
ways. Almost every ship finds, one
or two days out at sea, men or boys
concealed among the cargo, who try
to get passage across the water With
out paying for it. And this is often
troublesome and expensive. The
mate suspected some of the sailors had
Il hand in the boys escape, and treated
him pretty roughly. Day after day
he was questioned about his coming.
and it was always the same story
nothing less, nothing more. At last
the mate got out of patience, as mates
will. and. Selling him by the collar,
told him unless he confessed the truth
in ten minutes he would hang him on
the yard-arm-a frightful threat in
deeed. &.
Poor child, with not a friend to
stand by him Around him were
passengers and sailors OF the midday
watch. and before him the stern first
officer, with his watch in hand, count
inc the tick. tick, tick OF the minutes
,sthey swiftly went. There he stood,
male and sorrowful, his head erect,
and tears in his eyes; but afraid mo,
not abit!
Eight minutes were already gone.
only two minutes more to live.
cried the mate. "Speak the truth
and save your life boy.
May | pray :" asked the child,
looking I'D into the hard man S face.
The officer nodded his head. but
said nothing. The brave boy kneit
down on deck. and with his hands
clasped and eyes raised to heaven,
repeated the Lords prayer. and then
prayed the dear Lord Jesus to take
him home to heaven. He could dle,
but he-never! All eyes were turned
towards him, and sobs broke from
stern hearts.
The mate could hold out no longer
He sprang to the boy. told him he
believed his story, every word of it
4 nobler sight never took place on 9
ship's deck than this-a poor. un
friended child, willing to face death
for truth sake.
lie could die; but ie-never Goo
bless him! And the rest OF the voyage
YOU may we'll think he had TREND:
enough. Nobody owned HIM before
everybody was now ready to do him
kindness. And everybody who Reads
this will be strengthened to do right
come what will, by the noble conduc
of this dear child.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
THE MICROSCOPE.

There is hardly any scientific instru-
ment so simple, OF which is SO vastly
instructive and amusing, as the mi
crOscope. 1t shows us that insects Of
various kinds can be seen in the cavi-
ties of grain Of sand. Mould, as we
learn by its magnifying powers, is a
forest of beautiful trees, with BRAN
ches. leaves. flowers and fruits. But
terfiies are covered with feathers;
hairs are hollow tubes. The surface
of our bodies is covered with scales
like those Of fish. 4 single grain
Of sand would cover a hundred OF
these scales. yet scale covers hun
dreds of pores. Through these narrow
openings perspiration forces itself out
like water through sieve. All these
are simple scientific facts revealed by
the power of the microscope. Each
drop of stagnant water contains a
world of animated beings. swimming
with as much liberty as whales in the
sea. Each leaf has a colony Of insects
grazing upon it. like oxen on mead
OM.
Aside from these merely sclentlnc
uses it is valuable to the farmer
because it shows him the fungold
growth which causes his milk to sour:
the fungus which causes the dreaded
fire blight on his pear trees; the para
sites which infest his stock, and the
many authorizations with which ne mas
to contend. In many of our cheese
and butter factories it has become an
important element in showing the
causes of bad product Of butter or
cheese, and by convincing them OF the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

great Importance Of little items which
they had entirely overlooked; has i'm
proved the production of their diaries
and thus been Of pecuniary benefit to
them. Every farmer should have his
pocket magnifying glass, which will
enable him to detect any adulteration
of seeds of weeds in his grass seeds or
grain, and thus avoid the introduction
Of nOXiOuS weeds.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
MtT AND HuM0R+

Our grandmothers were slower and
more dignified in their dances than
we are. When asked to dance they
said. '.Wait minute
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

A delicate, slender. rather tall
young miss, who was pestered by the
attentions Of an unlovable admirer,
did not call her big brothers to the
rescue, or go to the public courts for
redress. She simply accompanied
him to the sea shore, and went ba-
thing in hired suit five times too
lars for her. She had to walk back
to the hotel alone.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

"Well, Mr.. Sniffes, have you posted
the ledger!'' asked an employer of a
new clerk. Eyes, SIR said Sniffes;
eve posted the ledger, but it was
too big to go into the letter-box, SO I
had to take it inside
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

In a Cincinnati block-''J Josh, who
is the new ledger on the fifth floor e.
Janitor-''well, / dunno. l seed him
making faces outen pile Of mud.
Guess he must be Sculprit."
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

First boy: "Bill Smith has Canaan
daigua hair" Second boy: "What's
that p First boy: "Why, it's jist
beyond Auburn; it, kind 'er red"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

We are enabled to state, after q
somewhat hasty inspection of the new
style Of gown, that the human form
is quite as divine as formerly.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

A magistrate in Iowa refused to
fine man for kissing girl against
her will, because the complainant was
SO temptingly pretty that nothing
but an overwhelming sense Of it's
dignity prevented the court from
kissing her itself.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

All! if women were only like bana-
mas! The older this fruit gets to be
the nicer it looks, and even when
ready for the garbage-box children
crv for IT,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

When little Clarissa Dumbletop
read in the paper 1.-THE summer hegira
has begun in New York." her Aunt
Tabithy spatted her hands on her
knees and said: stop right there,
Clary; stop right straight there! /
know what II cure it. Blackberry jam
and camphor. I'll cure the wust
case lever heard on in one afternoon.
Remember it, cause you'll git it like
enough this hot weather. Now go on
I'm is'nin.'"
The following brief epistles lately
passed between Boston and Mount
Desert:
SHE TO HIM.
MOUNT DESERT, July, 1877.
Dear John: Lots of pretty girls
here. Do come down. SALLY.
HE TO HER.
BosToN, July, 1877.
Dear Sally: Lots of pretty girls here
too. Can't get away from business.
JOHN.
Sally came back to Boston the next
day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
A Remedy for ScaldS and Burns.

1t is not often doctor can be found
who will take his own medicine, but
here is one who not only undergoes the
remedy, but inf1icts on himself the suf-
fering that his discovery is to cure. DIR.
G. F. Waters, of Boston, recently tested,
before the meeting Of the Massachusetts
Dental Society, a new remedy for burns
and scalds, consisting of the application
of bicarbonate of soda, the simple cook
ing soda used in all families. The doc
tor dipped a sponge into boiling hot
water, and squeezed it over his right
wrist, the water flowing almost com
plctely around the arm, and nearly en-
circling it with severe scald two inches
in width. Not content with this, he
dipped the sponge a second time, and
pressed it closely on the under side of
his wrist for thirty seconds. He then
applied ,bicarbonate Of soda to the
scalded surface, and laid over it wet
cloth, and the intense pain was banished
as if by magic.
On the next day after this severe test,
the scald, with the exception of the part
purposely made most severe, was prac-
tically healed, only slight discoloration
of the skin showing where the scalding
water had fowed-this, too, without a
second application of the soda. The
flesh on the under side Of the wrist had
been cooked down to the sweat glands,
and the scald was one which ordinarily
would have caused an open and painful
wound of long duration. The only
treatment Of this, however, after the
first application of the soda, was to
keep the part moist with wet cloth,
and no pain was experienced, and it was
but a few days before this severe wound
was seen to be rapidly healing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
Pairing Off.

William T. Coleman, of San Francis
co, was talking the other day of his old
partner, Edward Mott Robinson, of New
Bedford, whose penuriousness was a
matter of common talk
" He was a good fellow in the MAN,
said Mr.. Coleman, ''but he exceeded
any man | ever knew in ingenious ex-
pedients for saving dollar In those
days | was a democrat and he was a
republican. One day he said, Coleman,
have your committee been after your
F" Not yet replied. We'll, mine have
been after me- he said, and they
wanted me to subscribe $500, and /
told them [ would / looked at him
with absolute amazement. Then he
added: Yes told them the democrats
would expect $500 from you, and / was
going to pair off! So mind you stick
to that arrangement. 1t will be all the
same to both parties, and it won't cost
either of us cent "-Ha1per's Magazine
for NOreu1ber.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
An Unattractiye Life.

After all, what woman ofrefned tastes
can blame the daughters of some farm
ers for being discontinued 81 want to
get away from home and earn my living
somehow, said a heart-sick girl. eff |
could go to school little more |
could teach; but they can't spare me-
[ knew that all her life had been one
round of cooking, and milking, and
churning; of washing, and scrubbing,
and ironing. knew that her father
was a wealthy farmer, and leading
church member. He has good farm
and a cozy barn-such coy barn !
and money in the bank. And when
looked at the ugly farmhouse, with its
black doors and small windows, it's
calves, and pigs, and chickens running
in undisturbed tranquility over the yard,
| did not wonder that she found it an
attractive, and that she wanted to 'Eget
away" The finer sensibilities of her
woman nature were awakening, and
they called for something better. The
daughters of men who consider it a
waste of time to send children to school,
and waste Of money to buy books or
magazines for them to read, are not to
blame if they are disconnected. Hol-
land tells us that farmers are afraid to
be educated, or refined, Or to cultivate
the beauties Of nature, lest they should
be thought " stuck up He says that
their finer nature, being neglected. be-
comes sluggish and dormant. When
they go to sleep they merely "go to