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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

speaking on TINS SUBJECT the otner Gay,
DR.. Seaman said that Mile. Bernhardt
had seven ways of dying, and all of
them were totally unlike anything he
had ever seen in a medical practice
covering many thousands of cases of all
kinds of death.
"Of course do not hold myself re-
sponsible for the deaths in my hospital
any more than for the births, 'said DR..
Seaman. my patients come in when
they are almost in the last moments OF
life. Many are known TO be absolutely
beyond hopes of recovery. But my OBJ
servation convinces me that the drama
fist and actors have far over-estimated
the pains of death, and especially the
possibilities of great mental effort just
previous to the moment of dissolution.
ut is, in fact, about as difficult to
tell when a man dies as to determine
when he goes to sleep. Death is
gradual, not a sudden process. l am
speaking now of death by disease, not
of violent death. Possibly in the rep
resentation of violent death the actors
may come somewhere near the truth,
but generally their pictures of death by
disease, are, to one who knows the
truth, simply ridiculous. Dissolution is
as painless and unconscious as birth.
The approach to it may be protracted
and painful. There may be long and
agonizing scenes resulting from disor-
dered Imagination. Death destroys one
organ after another, not all at once.
The last organs to yield are the lungs,
which show their oppression in the
breathing, and produce what is termed
the death rattle. AS soon as the lungs
cease to act, the black venous blood is
no longer changed to arterial blood, but
is propelled unpuriiied from the heart,
and thus poisons the body like a mar
cotic. The energies of the brain are
gradually lulled rs in the approach of
sleep, and unconscious cerebral action
produces the murmur of friends, or rec
objections of past life, or reference to
whatever has passed through the mind.
But that there is pain in natural death
/ have long ceased to believe"
The death of healthy person is
always n very different thing from the
death of a diseased person. In cases of
accident. where persons know they
must DE in a very short time, unless
t"'' "a naS not been too great, they
~ =" - customary trains of
i ;''cJ their affairs with
'."'. shown persons to die
eases. Douglass
Jerrold is reported to have said: why
torture dying creature, doctor?' and
everybody remembers the dying joke of
Robert Burns-'Don't let the awkward
squad fire over me-.
at must be remembered, however,
that what are called the last words of
great men may have been uttered q
considerable time before death-either
hours or days. Some allowance must
be made for the impossibiity of procur-
ing testimony. When the late DR..
Beard died, after having become widely
known rs an intelligent and educated
skeptic, his sister proclaimed that he
had recanted on his dcath-bed, and had
indicated his hope in heaven by point
ing upward, and saying: Higher, higher
But the attendant, who was beside DR..
Beard. said the words, Higher, higher
had no reference to future state of ex-
istence, but were simply an indication
that the doctor wished to be raised on
his pillow. ~ Y. Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10
Uncle Oapen as an Exposition.

A humorous story in the August Gen.
tury, "The New Minister'S Great OPP
portunity," by the author of ELF and
1.-The Village Convict" relates this
among several anecdotes of the deceased
hero of the story: Il must tell you," she
said, lone of Uncle Capen's sayings.
1t was long ago, when was first mar
ried, and came here. l had q young
mems bible class in Sunday-school, and
Uncle Capen came into it. He always
wore cap, and sat at meetings with
the boys. So. one Sunday, we had in
the lesson that verse, know
that if all these things should be writ
ten, even the world itself could not
contain the books that should be writ
ten; and there uncle Capen stopped
me, and said he: Il suppose that means
the world rs known to the Ancients. "
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

Editor of city daily to assistant
"John. have you finished your Paris
letter to-day" mot yet. | had to
write a Washington letter and n letter
from Delaware about the peach crop this
afternoon, and I'm just now finishing
our own London cable message. Don't
try to crowd me II you want me to do
Justice to this work. "-Middletown 7rar'-
script.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

Mr.. Nelson Tower, Mendon, Mich, says:
81 have good reports from Browns Iron
Bittere, and it gives the best of salts.
faction.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
England and the sucL Canal.


Tho clamor of the British merchants and
shipping men has proved too much for Mr..
Gladstone. He has announced that the
agreement with De Lcsseps will not be sub
mtted to parliament at this session. Mr..
Gladstone took the ground that the De Lesseps
company secured from the Egyptian govern
as a condition precedent to the undertaking
of the first enterprise on account of its enor-
nous expense and that the honor of England
is bound by the Egyptian concessions; that
no power can lawfully ignore the monopoly;
and that all that England can do is to secure
from De Lesseps the most favorable terms for
British shipping he may be willing to give
in consideration of other canals in Egypt.
Ne claims that the British government has
secured all the concessions possible
or necessary to the present interests of British
shipping by having induced De Lesseps to
undertake tho construction of a second and
parallel canal, and to pledge the management
at Port Said Ismailia, and Suez to English
hands, and to greatly reduce the tolls, in
consideration of tho government loaning the
company f5,000,0O0, at 81 per cent, for fifty
years, securing aninety-nine years extension
land concession necessary for the second
cut.
These statements, however, have failed to
satisfy the British public, or that part of it
concerned in the shipping interest, and they
demand absolute monopoly. Mr.. Chamber
lain, the chairman of the board of trade, pro-
promise limiting the maximum dividends to
90 per cent, which would give more rapid
diminution of the tariffs, with a representa-
tion on the board Of directors corresponding
to the sum total of English capital invested.
He insisted that this was the least
concession that England could afford
to ask, and that if this were refused
the government ought to abandon its agree
ment. What will NJ. Dc Lesseps do in the
meantime? He cannot carry out his inten-
tions of building another canal without the
consent of Egypt, and it is not at all likely
that the khedive will give his consent with
out the approval of England. 1t is evident
that were the agreement submitted to parla-
ment it would DO defeated. Sir Stafford
Northcote claims the conservative vote as
almost unit against the agreement, and he
has assurances from number of tho liberals
and Parnellites of their assistance. The
chanc es are that NJ. De Lesseps will be forced
| to yield.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
Now Publications.

| Harper q Bros. give notice that they have just
issued Mr.. George Ticknor Curts'S Life of James
Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United
States" The work is in two large octave vol
umes, and is compiled, or rather wrought out
from tho immense aud exceedingly complete
mass of material which Mr.. Buchanan left to his
executors. That Mr.. Curtis has done his work
well no one will doubt.
The Hdrpers have also published this week
monograph by Prof Augustus G. Merriam, of
Columbia college, on the Greek and Latin in
scrptions on the Obelisk Crab" In the Metropoli-
tan museum of art. The crab was part of the
pedestal on which the obelisi now In Central
park originally stood. All the legs and of the
claws were wrenched away and carried Off by
plunderors long before the time when Lieut.
Gorringe removed 1t to New York, and the re-
| naming claw (he right one) was found upon ex.
animation to contain inscriptions in two Ian
! guages Prof Merriam's pamphlet gives most
| interesting account of successful attempt to
decipher the criptions and to derive from
| them some information as to the precise date of
| the erection of the obelisk in Alexandria.
| The first number of the American Counting Room,
a very handsome magazine in make up and gen.
| eral appearance, has been issued in New York
| city. 1t contains, among other good things, well
written articles on prevention of Fraud in Pay
ment of Coupons" Books of Original Entry"
accountants and their Clients" "Checking En-
| beZzlement in Tax Collections" "A Criticism on
| Averaging Accounts" "The Tariff Question" I"
"Posting from Slips" and "The Railway Expos-
ton"
| The american Bookkeepsr with its seventh vol
ume enters upon new form under IL new name.
| Hereafter 1t will be known as the american Count
| ing Room. The first number of the rechristened
| periodical has just been received. 1t is very
handsome book. The publishers announce that
| they will continue the special character of work
| to'which the BookkeCpsr has been devoted; but
tn at the field of service has been greatly en-
.larged and the range of investigation extended
that what formed In the Bookkeeper the chief pur
pose OF the publication will represent only de
| partment of the american Counting Room.
| TIE August number of DiO Le'DjsS Monthly has
just been received by Brentano. 1t ontains more
| than the usual number OF articles by the editor
| among these being one on prenatal impressions
| and another of remarkable cearness and vigor or
" Womans Figure" in which the perniciops in
Huence of modern dress, and especially of the cor
set, is very sharply treated. The table of contents
| t. long and well varied, and the whole number /,
| highly interesting.
| Brentano sends the last number of Punch the
London Pictorial World. the London Gr0phic, and
| the London Illustrated NeiGs. These are all unusu-
ally good numbers. The historical sketch in the
Pictorial World of the Tower of London, and the
history and description of Southamton in the
Graphic are each worth more than the subscription
price.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
Accidents by water.

Tho terrible accident at Tivoli bay, near
Baltimore, by which seventy or eighty por-
sons lost their lives on tho night of the
twenty!third instant, ought to be lesson to
owners Of wharves. piers, and officers of
steamboats,. At this season large parties of
men, women and children, seeking to escape
the heat of the cities, are going on daily ex-
cursions, trusting their lives absolutely in
the hands Of tho officers of the boats, who
ought to be held strictly accountable, not
only for their safety on the boat but for any
accident from rotten piers or wharvos. We
have heretofore called attention to the danger
of travelling on overloaded vessels, and sug-
gcsted to the proper authorities the enforce
mcnt of the law on this subject. There are
laws which are both complete and explicit
Every moment of delay in their enforcement
is moment of danger, just as every instance
where infractions of them are winked at is
an instance of crime.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
PresldentInl Holldnvs.


Some democratic newspapers see m to be of
the opinion that President Arthur ought to be
kept confined all the year round In the malarial
regions of the white house. Those blind and un-
reasonable partisans ignore the fact that the
president of the United States is one ofth hardest
worked men in the country. The office of presi-
dent is not a bed of roses by any me ans. To give
audience for five or six hours every day to an
army of men and women who force themselves
into his presence and bore him with all sorts of
grievances is more trying than bailing out the
Potomac with teaspoon. To say nothing of the
everlasting entertaining which president is by
custom and courtesy Obliged to go through, the
the Office is much more fatiguing than carrying a
hod up u siX-stOry building with the mercury
up In the nineties. President Arthur was quite
correct In saying yesterday that he needed little
recreation as much as any of his hard working
fellow citizens. Every president from Washington
down, found it necessary to have brief vacation
| from the cares of state,
National Republican., 1883-07-26
pRANCu OFFICES,

The following Is u list Of the branch Offices In
woshipcton. Others viii be added hereafter
". y RoosEs Ncws stands no me AhLINdroN
uu1r1. NlLLAEp's HOrEl, aud METROPOLITAN
UOTEI.
Eocsr & orrry's Ncws stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
If. CVFUS, 81. JAMES liorEi-
IiCCs iiousr News stand.
FuuiTr II u-r News stand.
AnEnlcAH IloCsE News stand
W.S. THONTSoSs Drug store.
(H. FlCkMSGs Drug store, Georgetown.
.TRAplEY ApAMs's Book stores.
OR. Durour, Druggist, lsls Fourteenth street.
I.B TgrGusoS Druggist corner Second and
T,urty lyuuin avenue :. L.
: T. LEWIS, Druggist corner Fourteenth and
streets
&C. e. svva. Druggist corner Fourteenth and
Nov York avenue.
F.gcALA, Druggist, boo Fast Capitol street
Il. A JOHNSTON druggist, corner Tenth and o
tlrCes northwest
s. sLArEn's Cigar Store. corner II and First
streets northwest.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
Amuscmonts and Reoreatlons.

The following amusements and recreations
are advertiscd
Drivers summer Garden-The fancy bicycliss,
the great ElwUod, Madam Angela, and other at
tractious
Abners Summer Garden-The Aron qunrtctte,
Miss NJ. Medini soprano, and Prof. Chr. Arths or.
Chestra
The Swimming School-Open during the day.
Special party Of ladie, and gentlemen o-night
Athletic Park-Bise ball game between the
Douglass, ofthis city, and the Orions Of Philadel-
phia.
Blakiston's Island-Tho Jane Moseley leaves at
0 n. m. sharp.
Lower Cedar Point-Steamer Armenia leaves at
0 n. IN.
Mount vernon-Seamer W. w. Corcoran leaves
at 10 o'clock a. IN.
Norfolk, Fortress Monroe. and Point Lookout
Steamer Lady of the Lake leaves Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Norfolk-Steamers Excelsior and George Leary
National Republican., 1883-07-26

plodes and repels this claim He shows that
tariff for protection was constitutional, ex-
pedicnt, and wise In Virginia, everywhere
indeed except in South Carolina he struck q
crushing blow to the seditious opposition to
protection.
Hence, we commend the teachings of Madi-
son TO our free traders, as we'll in reference to
the benefcence of tho policy of protection as
to the constitutonality of tho power of con-
gress to levy custom duties for the encourage
ment and protection of our domestic manu-
factures
National Republican., 1883-07-26
The Charge He has to Keop-
BurIinDton HalDkeye

The New York Telegram says Treasurer
Teller sticks closest to his desk Of all the cabinet
offcers.' Oh, to be sure. And so is Col. Emily
Faithful the most devoted of all men TO the cause
OF women, only Emily Faithful isn'ta colonel
and she isn't a man and Secretary Teller isn't
treasurer and the treasurer isn't cabinet officer.
Mr., Teller is secretary OF the Interior department
and he has nothing in the world TO treasure save
some old tribes of thievish Indians whom nobody
else wants. f. s.-Neither does the secretary,
only he has to have them; couldn't run the in
lorlor denartment without 'em.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
The Ohio Campaign.

Judge Foraker has opened the Ohio guber-
material canvass in speech of great force,
which has given the greatest satisfaction to
his party friends and challenged the ad-
'miration of his party opponents. He dis
cussod the tariff question very ably. He said
that "the incoming of the next congress is
attended with the threat that there is to be a
revision of the tariff in the interest of free
trade, and that democratic confidence to do
mischief will be proportioned to democratic
assurances of success next year" lie showed
maintaining unimpaired the protective sys-
TEN, which has always been fundamental
principle of the republican party
Speaking of the insincority of the demo-
Gratis on the tariflquestion, he alluded to their
platform with sections to be wheeled to the
front for free trade or protection, as the local
ity may require"
In regard to the theft of the presidency, he
denied there was any theft except only in the
Oregon case which Judge Hoadly managed
and that while the democrats voted as party
on all other questions in this issue, they voted
against Judge Hoadly in his Oregon case.
He discussed the liquor question with grea
frankness and boldness, and in fine demon
strated the wisdom of the republican conven
tion in putting him forward as its candidat'
for governor.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

IT turns QUE that the so.called outrage on
the acting American consul at Monterey,
Mexico, was simply the act of some robbers
to secure booty Mr.. Patrco Milmo, of Mon.
tcrcy, tclegraphs Mr. Quin, at Galveston,
under date of eighteenth instant, that during
was el>ored by robbers and some articles
stolen. Mr.. Shaw happening to enter before
the robbers could get out, he was set upon and
badly beaten.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE Denver Republican uses confident
tone in regard to the early disappearance of
Mormonism, This result it attributes to
contact with Christian civilization, The
women born in Utah almost unanimously de-
cline to marry polygamous husbands, while
the young men appreciate the evils of the
system and rcpudiate its teachings and prac-
tice. Hence there is little or no increase Ia
the Mormon church from its own communi-
ties, its chief accessions being from assisted
immigrants, representing the lowest most ig,
norant, and most dobascd classes of Europe
If the legislation which prevents the poor
Irish from landing on our shores were directed
to this class, it would be more humane anC
result in more good to the country.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE striking telegraph operators gained
thoir first point yesterday. Tho managers of
tie American Rapid company not only
awarded their committee recognition, but
consented TO treat with them, and compro-
mise was speedily arranged. The basis of the
agreement is that salaries shall be advanced
10 per cont; that eight hours for day and
seven for night service shall constitute days
work. aud that extra compensation shall be
given for all overtime aud for Sunday work
The strikers on this line will resume work
this morning.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

The Cincinnati Enquirer, while it gives the
cold shoulder to Judge Hoadly, and takes ad-
yanced ground for the prohibition of liquor
selling, very strongly favors the Russian
method of punishment for drunkenness,
Tho Russian method is to promptly arrest
any man found drunk-without regard to his
trade, profession, rank, or standing and con-
fine him in the station house until he is sober.
Ho is then taken out and a large image of a
cross ip white or black ink according to the
color of his clothes, is painted on his back or
rather the back of his outside garment. This
means to all the world ARRESTED for drunk.
enuess." He is then, at 6 o'clock in the
morning, delivered over to the keeper or SUI
Perintendent Of the street gang, being sup
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE indications now are that we will have
cheap bread next winter. The falling Off in
tn wheat crop of the United States will only
+ ach l0,766,7GO bushels, according to the
estimate of the National Millers association.
English reports make the wheat average
about 10 per cent, below the average. The
quality OF the wheat crop in this country i,
unusally good.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE Galveston Negs gives its Interpretation
Of the real meaning Of the Ohio tariff plat
form in this way. "Was that Monterey af.
fair a robbery, with incidental outrage on the
American flag, and had the Mexican robbers
been studying American politics to find that
the incidental is the larger part of the job ?"
National Republican., 1883-07-26
CURRENT GOSSIP.
THE MrsrRAn1r MANS LAMENT.

THE MISERABLE MANS LAMENT.
am heart-broken, sin-sick and weary,
And have neither friend nor foe;
My life is sad, lonely, and dreary,
And wish had died long ago.
While others recllne upon roses
have sat all my life upon thorns;
have riva!led the meekness of Moses,
But the world only treads on my corn
Iflife were worth living I'd live 1t,
II death were worth dying I'd diet
But If life I could gain I'd not give 1t
thought, were dead, nor sigh.
What is life but a treadmill, a prison,
galley, desert forlorn?
on, from chaos wished I'd ne'er risen,
But died long before was born
-Hdrold Van Santvoord IN LIE.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

piled with a shovel and broom, and is made
to do duty as a street sweeper until his crimo
is cxpiatcd. The adoption of this rule in Gin
cinnati would bring out such procession of
democratic workers" as never yet has been
seen anywhere
National Republican., 1883-07-26
TO crTY sUBsCRIBERs.

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my rnrt OF the ciN aud suburbs regularly anu
ently at the follow u5 rates:
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National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE American rifle team was defeated by
the British at Wimbledon because the Amer
leans have practieed undoubtedly with refer
ence to meeting a foe face to face near by,
while the British have had an eye to firing at
long range-safe distance.
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE law compelling the closing of liquor
saloons in Kansas City went into operation
last Sunday. The drug stores are said to
have done large business. Many customers
had prescriptions reading "spts. frumenti
quaint. suf. Soda water, six ounces,'
National Republican., 1883-07-26
A Reminler.
RnaaIo Oommereial

Those democrats who are in a state of mind
because the president proposes to be away from
Washington for Il time, are reminded that Gen.
Jackson, when president made several Journeys
which took him away from the business of the
government more than the president of day can
possibly be with the telegraphio system,
National Republican., 1883-07-26

AN enthusiastic bourbon editor of Mis-
souri, paper announces himself as welded $50
the timn honorcd democratic doctrine that
To- the spolccs belong the Victims He evil
telgIy wants to "tura the rascals out"
National Republican., 1883-07-26

THE gas monopolies of the country may
take courage from the fact that three of the
towers erected in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
hy the electric light company haye been
blown down, doing some little damage to ad-
joining property.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
Not for Joe.

The Ledger has no disposition to disparage
the claims OF Mr.. Mcdonald or any other good
democrat In advance of the convention. But his
friends must not howl themselves hoarse with re-
gard TO his strength in this state. The plain truth
is that there is large element in the democratic
party that once had greenback proclivities, and
that still sympathize with that party, who are bit
terly opposed to the nomination of Mr. Mcdonald.
National Republican., 1883-07-26
The Next President OF Ohio.
burlington HaloLeye.

Judge Hoadly compares Toledo, Spain,
with Toledo Ohio, and says the dead city of Spain
is the work of bourbon republicans, while the
Ohio city is the outgrowth of pure democracy. If
the learned judge starts out by citing Spain as q
republic, he is going to make an interesting cam
ptign oh, very interesting Just let him so on
and describe Grant crossing the Rubicon, and
the horrors of the inquisition under Hayes, and
Sammy Tilden praying at Valley Forge, and
Thomas jefferson will be elected president Of
Ohio. sure,
National Republican., 1883-07-26

VENNoR and Virgins are not to be mem
toned as prognosticators of tho weather.
Tho signal service on Monday gave notice Of
a thunder storm yesterday afternoons and it
ca me on schedule time,