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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
The Food Question in England.

In letter from London, Mr.. Louis
j. Jennings, discussing the food ques-
tion in England, says "a large place
in Oxford street has been taken for the
sale Of American beef, although il is
my belief that every butcher sells it,
charging for it the price of English
beef. Ask any salesman in Uovent
Garden market how the supply Of apples
is likely to be this year, and he viii an
swer, 1T all depends on America. Pret-
ty nearly two-thirds of the grain we eat
comes from your shores. Cut us of
from the rest Of the world for month
or two, or even less, and half the popu-
lation would have to starve. Our sup
plies OF the necessaries of life have to
come from foreign countries. There is
no nation in the world and there never
has been one which had TO depend 30
largely for its food upon other nations.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
Sarcastic Wit.

AT recent dinner Of the Massachu-
setts medical society, in Boston, Presi-
dent Eliot, OF Harvard College, in an
amusing speech, called the attention OF
the doctors to q peculiar disease existing
among the students OF Harvard. Twen,
ty-one per cent. OF the senior class were
SO affected with diseases in the throat
and lungs that it was impossible for them
to 60 to prayers--so the doctors of the
Massachusetts medical society had certi-
fed. Among the curious facts in con-
nection with this disease was that it had
increased from ten per cent. in the
freshman class to twenty.one per cent.
in the senior class, which showed how
unhealthy the college course must be in
this respect. 1t was disease which ex-
listed only few moments in each day.
1t did not prevent the students from 60
ing to breakfast even when the prayer
bell was ringing, nor from going to the
theater every night in the week. Some
of them were the most athletic men in
college, and sang in the glee club while
thus affected. These diseases were all
certified to by members of the Massa-
chusetts medical society; the college
took no other certificates. Il don't know,
said the president. seriously, ANY great
er harm physician can do young man
between eighteen and twenty-one than
to give him false excuse for avoiding a
duty .Gon1 dI liat 70 s.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
The Gross. .Eyed Children.

Nobody can tell who has not watched
it what an effect physical deformity
has upon the mind and character Of O
growing child, especially one which de-
tracts in so marked manner from its
personal appearance. 1t exposes the
child to the taunts and cruel appella-
tions OF its comrades, which in sensi-
tive children often drive them into soli-
tude, and make them shy and suspicious
Of strangers, in whom, on the other
hand, they excite suspicion. The turn
in the eye gives either wandering,
doubling air to the face, or if the gaze
is fixed, too intense expression, which
is disturbing and perplexing, if not
downright painful, to the beholder.
I have known boys of eight and ten
years Of age beg their parents to let
them undergo the pain of operation to
rid themselves Of deformity which
subjects them so often to the unfeeling
remarks Of their elders, usually friends
Of the family, as well as the uneupho-
NOUS but expressive titles bestowed
upon them by their own contempora.
ries, Of google-eye and cock.eye. Nor
does this end with childhood. The de-
forinity is disadvantage to him through
life. 1t pursues him in his business
and in his profession. Cheated Of fea-
ture by assembling nature, he is otter
thought to be assembling himself when
nothing is further from his thoughts.
How often do we hear people say of
another, whom we know TO be perfectly
upright and trustworthy, they do not
like him because he never looks them
squarely in the face. And it is little
curious that precisely here it is that the
lesser degrees of the trouble produce
the most effect. That peculiar express
sion which people complain so much Of
is generally due TO deviation in the
axes OF the eyes-a slight convergence
which is never very conspicuous, and at
times oily to be detected by trained
eye, but which, nevertheless, produces
in all very disagreeable impression,
although not marked enough to betray
its cause. DR.. Edward @. LOring in
Rar1oer's Magazine.
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CLEVELAND, TENN, AUGUST IA, 1879.

1t was astonishing how easy it was to
get on with Mrs. LIE Roy mere after
this. Sometimes, indeed, Eide won.
dered whether her former troubles had
not been chimeras OF her brain.
As for Mr.. and Mrs. Clark, they we're
at last entirely reconciled to their
daughters marriage. They spent the
greater part OF their subsequent lives in
spelling their little grandchildren to
their hearts con tent.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
The Production of Opiuln.

The use OF opium as stimulant seem
to be steadily growing throughout civil
ization, having greatly increased within
a few years, even in this country, wherl
1t was almost never employed genera
tion ago, except az a medicine. Thu
general demand is reported to be some
what in, advance of the supply, SO thaI
prices may be said TO have an upward
tendency. TIE pernicious drug, though
the best comes from Turkey, is manu-
factured to larger extent than anywhere
else in India, and the poppy, from which
it is made, is regarded as one of the
most valuable plants, commercially, in
the whole vegetable kingdom. The
chief opium district is large tract on
tho Ganges, 600 miles long and 200
broad, divided by the East India comps,
ny into two agencies, Behar and Benares,
the central factory of the former being
at Patna, and of the latter at Ghazeepore.
There are three varieties of the poppy,
white, red and purple, the white being
choicest, and the purple yielding most.
The plant requires for profitable culh-
vation a rich soil, which should be fine
and loose when the seed is sown, with
later liberal thinning and wedding. Il
is put in in November, and in December
is three or four feet high and in full
flower, with capsules as big as a hens
egg. These pierced with sharp instru-
ment, the milky juice exudes freely
This is done early in the morning, be-
fore the heat is felt, and the next morn
ing the juice is scraped off and put into
an earthen vessel hanging at the side of
the collector. 1t is then transferred to q
shallow brass dish, and undergoes treat
ment until it arrives at certain eonsis-
tency, when it is packed into small jars
and taken to the factories. The opium
is grown upon the lands of the Indian
peasantry, who are obliged to deliver it
all to the government factory Of their
district, whence il is forwarded 10 tho
two great factories already named
Everybody knows how profitable deal
ing in opium has been to Great Britain,
and how cruelty she has forced its mar
ket upon the people Of the East. The
net revenue in India in 1S7l-72 was
about $38, 600, 600; thenumber OF chests
being 49, 695, at nearly $700a chest, or
$3.50 higher than the previous years
average. The net profit was $3.50 a
chest, In 1884, 7l,746 chests were
exported, valued at some $4,000, ,OOO.-
The poppy is extensively cultivated in
the Asiatic Provinces, in Egypt, and
Persia, and liz moderate quantities in
other parts of Europe. even in Britain.
The principal fault Of the British climate
is not so much absence of warmth as ex-
cess OF moisture. Very fine specimens
have been produced there, and its pro-
duct has been remunerative. In 1880,
a surgeon planted a number of poppies
in Edinburgh, and obtained fifty six
pounds of opium from one acre Of plants,
selling it at about nine dollars q pound,
which was surprisingly successful ex-
pertinent.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
Painting Growing Rare.

Painting is 30 common with some per-
sons, particularly women, and the cause
Of it is so little understood by non-pro-
fessional people, that some knowledge
on the subject often proves valuable. -
Painting consists in temporary failure
Of the activity Of the heart, the blood
not being properly circulated in conse-
quence. Although it does not reach the
head, the sufferer loses all clearness Of
vision, and, If not prevented, nay fall,
the fall not infrequeutly restoring the
normal condition, There is no convul-
sion, and though he-more probably
she-can hardly be called conscious, he
is not SO profoundly unconscious as to
be incapable of arousal, as happens in
epilepsy. There are all degrees OF faint
ness, from merely feeling faint and
looking somewhat pale to positive and
complete swooning. In some cases one
faint is no sooner cured than another
and another succeed hour after hour,
even day after day. 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to say. that such cases are serious
and need prompt treatment. The causes
are various. Some persons. are so easily
affected that they swoon If they cut their
finger or see any one bleed. Their de-
feet is over-sensitiye nerves and weak
muscular fiber. The heart is essentially
a muscle, which is feeble in some, strong
in others-feeble generally in women
and strong in men. Whatever weakens
the heart and muscles commonly pro-
duces faintness; close, foul air being an
active cause. Whatever greatly affects
the nerves, such as bad news or the
sight of the disagreeable or horrible,
may induce a swoon; and loss of blood
is another and a serious incitement.--
Sound health, naturally accompanied by
firm nerves and muscles, is the best
preventive of faintness. The majority
Of vigorous men go through all kinds of
severe and painful experiences without
fsinting, while delicate men and many
women swoon at triAes. American wo-
men, who used to faint continually-in
crowds, at bad news, at scenes of dis
tress-now faint comparatively seldom;
and the fact is ascribed to their relin-
quishment, for the most part, Of the
habit OF lacing, to their increased exer-
else in the open air, and their better
physical conditions. Not one American
woman faints to-day where, thirty years
ago, twenty-five women tainted, and the
diminution of the disorder, always the
result of direct causes, is an unmistaka-
BILE evidence, which other things corrob-
crate, OF the marked amelioration of the
health of the highly y-organized, extreme
ly.sensitive, but flexible and enduring, |
women OF our complex race.
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UNITED AT LAST. +


Yes, I suppose it's all very fne and
grand. but bIieYe I'd father Eddie md
taken q fancy to some one who wouldn't
have felt himself too fine and grand for
her pa and ma. .rsse 800 .i ~ '.l sss..s 80
Il can't see but the young man is per-
fectly civil and respectful. And certainly
his mother has acted the lady by you.
Called on you first, and asked Eddie
there to tea right of. We should bear
in mind that she never expelled to make
the acquaintance of plain folks like us.
There was nothing else to do, unless
she quarreled with her son, and that she
would never do, and he the apple of her
eye. So she made the best of it. But
I'll tell you what, pal mean to have
my own way about the wedding, for all
Mrs. lie Roy's wheedIing soft speeches.
Some mothers would have been elated
at the prospect of daughters marrying
above her, as the phrase goes, but OF
these was not Mrs. Clark. She was sat-
isfied with her own station in life. She
preferred to keep to her own ways, and
that other people should keep to theirs.
She felt that she was as good as any body
else, and she did not desire to be thrown
with people who held contrary opinion.
Mrs. lie Roy carried the day. The
wedding took place in st. Mary's, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark were ushered to
their seats like all the rest Of the con-
gregation, to see their darling married.
Mrs. lie Roy swept in ON her sons arm,
calm, cold, collected; the bride followed,
supported by the white-headed governor
of the State. In bitterness Of heart her
mother heard her take the VOWS which
made her Edna LIE Roy. It was large,
dignified assemblage, in which good Mr..
and Mrs. CLARK felt lost. They felt
equally lost afterward at the wedding re-
ception al Mrs. LIE Roy's. Itwas very
melancholy satisfaction to them to hear
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on az siues p<s!seS u 'ne Oilue . OK
quisiteloyeliness. They seemed no long
er to have part or parcelin the matter.
If Edna did not realize the pain of all
this to her parents, il surely was not be-
cause sne uio not love tnem' one loved
'nen ueariy, WIN tenuerness all her
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olung y HI snein wltn passplonase y Y klsses De'
lore she started on her wedding Journey
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
A Wonderful Baby.

Tis a wonderful baby, cannot deny II.
The loyeliest, sweetest that ever was made;
And no silver or gold IN the country could bus
ii tIl f
Nor jewels-thOugh Oen queens casket
wtre paid. ielHs as h
We humpr and fondle, We kiss and caress IL,
= Are anxious whenever It's out of our sight;
And wscallitpe names-such as'queen, lamb
and blessed II.
Dear old precious darling from morning
tIl night. .E
II wo have any Joys, IL we have any trouble,
II over our pathway dark shadow lowers;
Our grieis we divide and our pleasures We
double r84 at.r -. sat-.s
Because Of this wonderful baby of ours.
1t never is cross, or impatient, or fretful,
Like most other babies that you and know
And we would be never unkind or forgetful
or all that to this precious darling we owe.
Its face all wrinkled-now isn't that funny2
Its steps have been feeble for many day,
And over the brow where were ringlets once
sunny,
There pow are soft treaes Of silyery gray.
You'll think pm foolish and frivolous, may
be-
DeclatiDg the truth have surely not told;
But Tiff precious old darling !, this wonderful
baby, ssalH7n ,ssn1 .rbtaa4 y
So dGpt TO our hearts, is near eighty years old.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14

Tis a wonderful baby, / cannot deny it.
The loveliest, sweetest that ever was made;
And no silver or gold IN Che country could buy
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14
Life of tlle FemaIe MN Operatire

Life among the Fall River, Mass,
mill operatives is pictured as round Of
drudgery. They live in crowded and
often cheerless tenements, although the
common laws of health are not generally
disregarded, and some of the homes are
beautifed with pictures, carpets and
flowers. Men, women and children,
work together in the mills, and the home
is little more than lodging in most
cases. The wives and mothers are bound
to perpetual slavery. They work as
hard as anybody in the mill, and, when
the mill day is over, their duties become
terribly onerous. Upon reaching home
supper is to be swallowed, and then,
while the rest Of the family find rest or
recreation, all there is OF housekeeping
is performed by the wife, occasionally
assisted by her children, if they are old
enough. There will be no time the next
morning for cooking breakfast, and it
must be looked ont Tor over night. DIN
ner is to be taken to the mill, and its
substantial materials must be cooked
during the evening. While the kettle
is bnbblipg, or the frying pan sizzling,
or the oven baking, or all together are
sending out their heats, the washing of
the bed and personal clothing for the
household may be performed, the old
mans trousers mended, or the children's
clothes made or repaired. If one OF the
brood is sick it may also receive ntten-
tion at the same time. The wife and
mother tolls thus Cor her family, living
"a life the like, of which no Southern
slave ever dreamed about. Intemperance
too commonly adds its sorrow tothe rest,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-12
GEORGETOWN.

THREE CHILDREN PoIsoNED.-AbOut O'Clock
this morning, Moses Turner, aged seven years,
entered the rear OF Goodman's grocery store,
corner of Green and Dunbarton Streets unknown
to the proprietors, and finding a small guam
tity of meat in box took it home. when 1t was
prepared for the family breakfast. Some time
after eating 1t, three of the children of the fam
1ly-Lilly, aged years, Moses years, and
Laura, years. were taken sick. Dr. Suter was
called in and pronounced them suffering from
poison. On Investigation 1t was found that the
meal contained arsenic. which was mixed with
it for the purpose OF killing rats. The boy is in
a critical condition, but the girls at Q O'Clock
this afternoon was out OF danger. No blame is
attached to the proprietors OF the store.
CUT WITH A FLAT-IRoN.-YeSterday after
noon, Jesse Brown and William West alias
.'Sweet William" two colored men, had little
difficulty about duSky damSel living near the
Aqueduet br1dge-in which Brown cut Vests
head with fiat iron, INJECTING seYere wound.
Both were sent to the Police Court this morn
ing.
n. o. Rat the annual session of the Ma
uonal Tent of the National Order of Rechabites
held at Seneca Falls, N. j., Mr.. A. d. Hurdle. OF
this place. of Excelsior Tent No. 1ss, was elected
deputy chief ruler for the District of Columbia.
CATTLE MARKET.-OfferingS and sales at
Drover's Rest yesterday were as follows: 43O
cattle offeIed-all sold at to4H cents; 800 sheep
and lambs-all sold. Lambs at to Sd and
sheep at to4k cents. 80 cows and calves sold
at $50 to $50 per head.
misunderstanding Ann Eliza, Shrop-
shire, from Philadelphia, with an assorted cargo
to District merchants.
GRAIN.-There were no arrivals of grain and
no offerings on Change to-day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-12
The Bowie Train Wrecker.

HE CoNFESsES THE CRIME AND IS COMMITTED.
The colored man, George II. Perrin, who was
arrested by Detectives Miller and McElfresh at
Bowie, Md, yesterday morning, as reported in
THE STAR last evening, had hearing before
justice yesterday, and was committed for the
action OF the grand jury. These officers were
called on by Supervisor AbercrOmbie OF the Balti-
more and Potomac railroad on Sunday last. MI.
Miller took the train on Monday morning, and
went to Bowie. He was shown where the en-
CINE struck the tie, the track at this point being
Perrin, the latter volunteered to tell all he knew
and, in detective parlance,
GAVE HIMSELF AWAY,
as some OF the particulars he mentioned could
only be known by the party who did the act.
The officer did not take him into custody then,
however, but led him to believe that they did moi
suspect him, and then returned to this city,
Yesterday morning Mr.. Miller, with McElfresh,
went out again, and found in the bushes a
to Perrin showed it to him. He acknowledged
that this was piece Of his pants, but accused
the officers of tearing 1t off themselves. After
the hearing he admitted the act relating how
he put the tie on the track and hid himself in
the bush, not twenty feet away, and
WAITED FOR THE PASSING TRAIN.
He says he was aStOniShed when he saw it go
by. Perrin has wife near Bowie, and hereto
fore has been looked on as a man OF fair char
acter. The tie was found afterwards with the
fndentation OF the point OF the pilot four inches
deep in it, and it was finally split In two. They
attribute the safety OF the train to the fact that
the tie was about evenly balanced on the pilot
and the fine order in which the track was, it
being perfectly true. The railroad officials are
much pleased with the successful work Of the
Washington officers
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Anluselllents. &c.

NATIONAL THEATER.-The second night Of
contempt of Court" drew very large audi
ence. The play was given as only Mr. Sargent's
company can produce comedy. There is plenty
fun, with good acting, to be seen at the Ma
tional.
FORD's OPERA HoUsE.-"The Mayor was
given for the last time at Ford's last night. 1t
has been withdrawn, and will be succeeded to-
night by "The Chimes Of Normandy" Exten-
have been made Mr.. FOrd's company are to
give it. The chorus will be strong and well
chosen.
THEATER COMIQUE-"Wild BILL who. in the
person of Julian Kent, is delighting the audi
ences q the Comique, is highly sensational The
play has other strong points beyond the appear
ance of Mr.. Kent.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.-A grand concert
will be given at the Congregational church next
Friday evening. 1t will be under the direction
Prof j. W. BiSchof, assisted by Miss Evan,
Miss McGrpw, Miss Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul,
Mrs. Burbridge, and the Misses Harvey.
LINCOLN HALI.-A lecture for the benefit of
the orphan boys of st. JoSeph's Asylum, will be
delivered at Lincoln Hall this evening by Right
Reverend j. j. Keane His subject will be 1.-The
New Christianity" a review OF the religious
teachings OF Matthew Arnold, Dean Stanley and
Max Muller.
GRAND ENGLISH OPERA.-The sale of seats for
all the performances OF the Emma Abbott grand
English opera troup will commence tomorrow
and as the indications are that the house will
music will do well to attend to securing their
sc ats early. All necessary information is given
in the advertisement In to-day's STAR. 1t will
be gala week at the National. "Paul and Vir-
gtnius" and Gound'S new opera, 'Romeo and
Juliet" are announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-12
ALEXANDRIA.

INTEMPERATE TEMPERANCE. "A temperance
meeting was held at the foot of King street yes
terday evening by a party who come from
Washington every Sunday for that purpose.
Some OF the speakers were anything but tenn
perate in their language, one of the females ex-
pressing her wish hat the steamers which run
between Washington and this city on Sunday
would sink with all on board, and supplement-
ing her wish with the statement that the
preacher from her church had just gone up on
one Of them. This the audience considered
rather rough on the preacher.
CATTLE SHIPMENTs.-The shipments of live
stock from the grazing regions of Virginia to
Europe via Baltimore have increased very large
ly of late. Scarcely a steamer sails from the
latter port but a lot Of cattle are a part of the
cargo. Some fifty or sixty car loads for eXpor-
tatfon are expected down the Midland road to-
night.
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILROAD.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway
Company G. B. Roberts was chosen president,
and the following directors John Grove, j. N.
DuBarry, John P. Green, Albert Hewson, John
S. Leib, Thomas A. Scott and G. C. WILKINS
TGQEettP. 11h,