Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02
TOO LATE!

When was young lifted mp mine eyes,
And saw austere philosophy achieve
The victories that teach men to be wise.
Then said to my soul, "Erelong, believe,
Thou too shalt wisdom knowr
But while waited, 10!
That hoary figure came, and said, TOO lateI
Folly hath no reprieve"
When was young. saw a maiden sweet,
. Whose smiling eyes made sunshine in my
breast.
souI." quoth 1. ito house this virgin guest"
But when at last sought
The maid, that graybeard caught
Mine eve and frowning. said. "Laggardl too
Pass on, by love unblestr'
When was young. Gods face upon me shone;
Whereat l yelled mine eyes. and whispered.
1t was dreamI God dwells in heaven alone"
But when to heaven 1 came (having paid
deaths toll),
The voice said, know, in Me
Love, Power, and Wisdom be:
1 am the Lord. and thou hast learned too late
God only is mans goalr'
Julia Hawthorne in RuyDers'
Won HALF A MILLION.-''The oldest
betting I ever heard Of" said one oil
broker to another in the Hoffman House,
the other day, SAYS the New York World,
''was between Henry Harley, who first
conceived the idea of tidewater pipe
line from the oil regions, and the oil oper-
ators who used to make their headquarters
early IN the seven ties in Harley's Offices.
The gambling spirit pervaded the whole
business in those days. Henry Harley and
his Brunswick crowd used to get together
about 10 in the morning. and Henry often
opened the ball by offering to buy or sell
800, 900 barrels of oil at given figure at a
certain hour that day. He might gain or
lose as much as 100000 on one OF these
offers, and that sort of gambling seemed to
satisfy MIN. He fought shy OF side issues.
But not so the gang.
"Nigger up or nigger down" the avenue
was their favorite gambling game 1t was
their own invention. Two of them would
sit at side window and the other three at
window fronting on Fifth avenue. The two
on the side would bet each other $40, $40,
$50 or S100 clip, as they felt inclined, that
the first colored person passing would go up
or down the avenue. The three in front
would be judges and referee. Day after day
ana week alter week the gang taxed their
ingenuity to get Harley into their game.
''Phillips-not one of the brothers, but
an oil man also-had lost SIS 900 to Weston
one morning in an oil deal before Harley
u
set, and he bet Weston $500 more that he
would get Harley into the 'nigger up or
nigger down game before night. Weston
took the wager.
"On his way down town Harley, who was
pretty close observer, had read in his
morning paper that the colored people of
New York were going to celebrate Emanci-
patton Day that day by grand parade,
which would form in Union Square and
march to Central Park. He attached no
particular Importance at the time to the an
nouncement, but when he got to his office
and Phillips began badgering him to bet
'nigger up, niger down at $40 head his
eyes flashed and, to the astonishment of all
the oil men within hearing. and the gang in
particular, he broke out with:
I've stood this thing long enough now,
and I'm tired of it. I'll bet you an even
hundred each that more negroes go up than
down to-day
$50 the judges and the referee went to
their windows and Harley went about his
business as If nothing out of the way had
happened or could happen.
"By IL o'clock $40 colored people-men,
women and children had gone down Fifth
avenue in plain sight of the Judges and not
a single one had gone up. Phillips natu-
rally felt little 'Sot up since he was S87,-
900 to the good, and he ordered in basket
OF wine. Harley kept up an imperturbable
front. He was secretly astonished, inasmuch
as the matter had gone Just the opposite of
what he believed he had a right to expect
they would go. 1t didn't occur to him that
the $40 people were going down to where the
parade was to form.
"At o'clock he returned. He had hardly
got his head inside the door when a wild
barbaric strain was heard pealing up the
avenue, and in a moment gorgeous sable
drum-m or broke into view, at the head of
splendid negro band. Every neck was
craned out to see what had broken loose, but
Harley, who felt that his time was coming
at last, kept his own counsel. Before 5
o'clock that day 5000 colored people had
marched passed the Office windows in the
Brunswick Hotel and Harley was S513, 900
ahead of the game of snigger up or nigger
down. don't believe it was played much
there after that. Harley accepted dinner
to the gang in lieu of his stakes"
TAKING CoLD-What do we mean when
we say we have taken cold? asks writer in
the st, Louis Magazine. In literal sense,
we have done no such thing; and modern
writer has suggested that what is called
Catching cold" +" would be better expressed
by the phrase, catching heat. What actually
takes place, is something as follows: We
expose some part o. the body to draft; the
surface becomes chilled, and the circulation,
to some extent, is arrested; the blood and
other fluids are sent In another direction.
What should have been thrown out through
the surface, is turned in on the mucous
membrane; and as these parts become con-
gested, sneezing takes place; there is an
abnormal quantity OF fluids thrown upon the
mucous surfaces, and the system makes an
effort to get rid OF it.
This taking cold' may be caused by sit
| ting for lew moments In strong current
| of cool air; it may be the back OF the neck
| that Is exposed; or it might be some other
part of the body. Holding the hands in
very cold water for a considerable length of
| of time will often cause one to take cold.
| Or sitting with cold feet will do the same
thing, especially if the general circulation
is feeble. Clothing one part of the body too
much, and another part too little, will ire
quently give one a cold. Anything that
arrests the free circulation of blood and
sends 1t in on the mucous surface may
produce this effect.
The most frequent causes of all, perhaps,
| of taking cold, is the one stated, that of
Catching heat Sitting for hours in a
| room where the temperature is 800 or up
ward, and than going out into colder at.
mosphere. frequently produces cold this
| is particularly the case, where the air is not
| oniy hot but impure. In fact, we think the
| impurity has more to do with it than the
| heat: and the two combined will rarely fail
to cause ar influenza or a sore throat; some
| times full-hedged pneumonia. By expos
! ing ones self TO hot, foul air, the whole
! skin is for the time debilitated, and on