Daily globe., 1883-08-25
TETANUS, OR L0CK-J4W.

The following extract, taken from
the autobiography of the late Rev.
DR.. Guthrie, shows the marvellous
effect of keeping people in hot water:
A youth, who had been driving q
cartload of Goals to the schoolmaster's
house in the village, had received from
him glass of whisky-a bad way of
rewarding any kindness, too common in
those days. He had hardly drunk it
and left the door, when he was seized
with tetmus, or lock-jaw. A doctor
had been found, who, finding himself
unable to part the teeth and open the
mouth for the administration of medi-
cine by irons from the smithy and
other appliances, ordered hot bath.
News of this was brought to me as I sat
in my study. Without delay the fires
were blazing in our chimneys, and with
pots and pans OF hot water from the
manse and other houses we filed a
barrel in the cottage into which he had
been carried, and where he lay, teeth
clenched, limbs, arms as rigid as iron,
and his 'pine bent up like bow
The doctor prepared the medicine and
committed the bathing of the poor fell
low to me. We stripped him to the
skin, and [ made thermometer Of my
hand. I was glad to withdraw it, the
water was SO hot. Knowing, however,
that the hotter the better in such
case-and the case had come to be
desperate-I resolved to risk it; so,
giving the signal to three or four stout
fellows who stood by, they plunged him
in feet foremost up to the neck. He
Toared like q bull, and was taken out
ere long red as q boiled lobster, but,
happily, with the clenched teeth and
locked jaws parted wide enough to
allow the doctor to administer The
medicine and thereby save his life.
AN ABLE PROSPECTUS.
There is an excuse fer lack of spice
and all that sort of thing in the news
paper world. The men who write our
dailies, as a rule, have to write about
two miles per day, and they ought not
to be kicked if it is not as interesting as
"Uncle Toms Cabin" or the Leaves of
Grass"
We have done some 900 miles of
writing ourself during our short, sharp
and decisive career, and we know what
we are talking about. Those things we
wrote at time when we were spreading
our graceful characters over ten acres
Of paper per day were not thrilling.
They did not catch the public eye, but
were just naturally consigned to obliy-
ions bottomless nav.
The public, it seems to us, has created
a false standard of merit for the news
paper. People take big daily and pay
SO year for it because it is the biggest
paper in the world, and then don't read
a quarter Of it. They are doing a smart
thing, no doubt, but it is killing the
feverish young men with throbbing
brains who are doing the work. Would
you consider that large pair of shoes
or large wife should be sought for just
because you can get more material for
the same price?
Excellence is what we seek, not bulk.
Write better things and less of them,
and you will do better, and the public
will be pleased to see the change.
Should any one who reads these words
be suffering from an Unsuitable hunger
for paper that aims at elegance of die
ton, hightoned logic and pink-cambric
sentiment, at moderate price, he will
do well to call at this office and look
over our goods. Samples sent free on
! application to any part of the United
States or Europe. We refer to Herbert