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A Substitute for Quinine.

Among the great discoveries of the year in
medicine and science will be recorded that
of artificial quinine. Scientists have long
sought to manufacture artificial quinine so
that the medical profession need not depend
upon the supply of the trees from which the
drug is obtained for their important anti
fever medicine. Drs. Grimaux and Arnaud,
of Paris, have succeeded in obtaining an ar
tif1cial substance similar to quinine in its
effects, and their method of making it is
given as follows:
The base cuprein contained in the shrub
remijia pedunculata found growing in Bra
zil is treated with sodium, and then the
combination thus obtained is treated with
chloride of methyl.
The result of this combination is drug
that is identical with the substance which
we know rs Quinine. 1t has the same effect
when given in levers, and it will answer the
same purpose as the natural product when
applied for other purposes than reducing
the temperature of patients. The result of
this discovery which has long been antici-
pated will be the cheapening of the drug,
and the regulation of the prices during all
seasons. The discovery, however, will lead
to more important results in the way of en-
abling chemists to obtain analogous medi-
cines of great value.
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Better Than the Pasteur Plan.

A report is circulated that DR.. Engels has
discovered in the African wiid-growing,
black, noble palm cure that will cutrival
Pasteur's famous remedy. The medicine is
an extract of the palm, and is a sure remedy
for blood poisoning caused by the bite of a
snake or rabtd' dog. Hundreds of patients
have been treated in Africa with the extract,
and the results Justify great expectations.
The remedy is injected under the skin of
the patient, and for a time it causes a mod
crate fever, but after the third day the fever
subsidies, along with the swelling and in
hammation caused by the blood poisoning
of the bite. On the seventh day all symp-
toms of the poisoning disappears and the
patient is cured.
Five hundred negroes that had been bitten
by poisonous snakes were treated in Africa
with the medicine, and 4s7 were cured COM
pletely. Seventy-seven farmers and negroes
were treated with the extract of the palm
for blood poisoning caused by a mad dogs
bite, and 65 of these recovered. Several of
those that died, succumbed to exhaustion,
and not by blood poisoning. In all cases
favorable symptoms we're shown after the
remedy had been injected, and further trials
may show the reasons of the exceptional
cases that were lost.
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POISON In THE AIR.
sulphuric and Arsenious Acid In the AT
mosphere of Grcat Fuel Consuming
Cities Like Pittsburg-Artihcial Quinine
New Cure for RabIes-Amount OF
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH J

SAaes A-ikc ~eAA
New Cure for Rabies-Amount oi
Sleep.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
A new poison has been discovered in
the smoke which surrounds factory towns
and cities. and the danger from breathing
this is not inconsiderable. A part OF the
smoke that goes into the air from burning
coal is arsenious acid mixed with carDon
Coal differs in the amount of impure matter
which it throws of, but it is estimated that
one ton of ordinary coal burns off about ~
to 80 pounds of sulphur. This sulphur Is
transformed into 60 pounds Of sulphuric
acid, which leaves stains upon all marble
buildings and statuary. Along with this
sulphuric acid great amount OF arsenlous
acid goes, and the two breathed into the
lungs continually act as strong poison.
Next to this active poison the SCOT in the
air makes factory towns unhealthful to live
which was deposited in London recently
showed that, on an average, 200 tons were
deposited over the city in every ten days.
The amount of carbonaceous and other par
tlcles deposited upon glass houses is good
indication of what the atmosphere contains.
In most cities where factories are located
the glass roofs of houses, and the window
panes, have to be washed and swept every
few days to keep the SCOT from blackenlng
them.
When all of this material is floating around
in the air it cannot be wondered at that
weak ana poor health are noticeable among
the Inhabitants. Science has yet to discover
means to collect and hold this smoke and
SCOT as it comes out of the chinlneys
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CHAPTER III.

Were the truth told about Kate Val
Santvoord, it would have cast sad re1ec
tions upon her husband. She was one ol
those women who hunger, in their girl
hood, for protective fondness, and to whom
an early marriage is hence an agency TEEN
ing either with portentous misery or joy.
Treated with decent marital respect, she
might have made an excellent wife; treated
quite the reverse of that, she had turned
wifehood into q travesty. The element OF
frivolity, on which she fed, had augmented
her natural feebleness of character. She
was like child foragihg in box of sugar
plums, which can be taken from it only
with tragic shrieks and tears. Alonzo
dreaded something of this sort now. And
vet the box of sugar-plums had to be taken
away. There was no help for it.
II always want to mean pleasant things
when 1 talk with you, Kitty" her brother
now replied. 1 only wish that 1 could al
ways mean to say them"
siYou don't always try" she pouted, not
at all comprehending him. "Just look how
other women behave. I'd have you under
stand that consider myself the-the pink
of discretion
sEYou should Gken yourself to lily. my
dear, and not pink. Like the lilies of
the field, you toll not, neither do you spin.
But I'm afraid, Kitty, your-your vacation
is over"
ssMy vacation over?" she queried, lifting
her brows, staring at him, and for the first
time perceiving that his face was colorless
and that there were drawn lines near his
lips. But still no real suspicion of the
truth came to her. "Oh, dear!" she ex-
claimed, "you're going to lecture me!
You've heard something horrid about me,
and you've believed it."
Aionzo smiled sadly, and for moment
lowered his look.
sT've heard something horrid about both
of us" he said, 'and I'm compelled to let
YOU know what it isl Then, amid silence,
he lifted his eyes, and soon added: 'It con-
Germs our money. There's been a great
loss"
ga great loss?" was her cry, as she
started up. "When? Where? How? Do
you mean that any of my money has
gomez"
eyes," and as she again reseated herself.
agitated and frowning, he pursued: kitty,
what will you do when you've heard the en-
tire truth, since you deport yourself like
this on the mere threshold of it?'
He at once proceeded to tell her the en-
tire truth, and some time before he had
ended she was almost in straits for breath.
ooh, Lonz," she at length gasped, 'T-I
can't think of myself as poor! It's toe
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to be anticipated from such as she. And
there were so many, he reflected, exactly
like her. The very spinal cord OF their
feminine dignity and self-reliance was pride
in the plethora of their pOcketbooks.
''Thank God" lie thought, while his sister $
faint sobs broke above the rumbling wheels
of the chill, dark carriage, ''my Kathleen Is
made of sterner and better stuff
The Van Santvoords had lately gone into
spacious house on Fifth avenue, within
almost stone 's-throw of the Park. Kitty had
grand ideas of the way one should live now,
when ones income permitted, and hers had
certainly challenged extravaganza. But 1t
was extravaganza tempered by charming
taste. She never entered her own carriage
without having three men to attend her
thither. The appointments of her home
were splendor itself, and yet free from the
least vulgar taint. No one in town gave
grander, and yet ehoicer dinners, and her
"house-warming, q few weeks ago, was
pronounced marvellous for its blending of
elegance and discretion.
Quite soon after he had entered her hand
some home with his sister, Alonzo met his
brother-in-law and shook hands with him
just as he had done hundreds of times be-
fore. But on no occasion, however, had the
incident of either meeting or shaking hands
with Hector proved at all agreeable.
Alonzo's heart had no gloomy lairs in which
hates could lurk comfortably, but it is
doubtful If he ever came came nearer to de-
testing any fellow-mortal than he did in the
case of Kitty's husband. Hector was to
him cold, hard, bright animal, openly
voluptuOus and secretly cruel 1t was easy
to see how any sentimental young girl
might have fallen madly in love with his
heroic figure and his chiselled face and his
large eyes of diamond darkness. But to
AlOnzo the man was so brutally Philistine
that he offered a constant personal explana-
tion Of his rankest follies He had MUIR
dered all that was finest in his wife, and
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Duuuesne Table D'Hote Dinners,

When Owen Meredith wrote that men
may live without poetry, music, art, con-
science, heart OF books, but that civilized
man cannot live without cooks, he no doubt
had in mind one of those superb Table
D'Hote dinners for which the Hotel Du-
quesne, under the capable management of
Mr.. William Witberow, has become so
famous Next Monday evening the dinners
will be inaugurated for the fall and winter
season, the hours being from to s o'clock,
and it is only necessary to say that the lead
ing patrons OF the Duqqesne assert that
cure, but will surpass the best to be had in
New York, and without question, at about
half the price of the dinners to be had in
the metropolis Try them and see for your
self
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Prevention Better Than Cure.

In the inaugural address before the late Con-
gress of Hygiene in London. Sir Joseph
Fayrer, showed the progress of preventive
medicine during the last decade. It is only
recently that general recognition has been
given to preventive medicine, but the gen.
eral results have been a tremendous saving
of life. In comparing the health of the Vic
torian age with the Elizabethan age he at
tributed the former to the practice of pre-
ventive medicine and measures. The Eng
lish of the esrlv period had bad and Insult
ficient food, filthy dwellings and ill-built
towns, with the country covered with
marshes and stagnated waters. The homes
of the people were wooden or mud houses,
with scarcely any drainage or ventilation,
and with floors OF earth covered with straw
or rushes, which remained saturated with
filth and emitting noxious misasmata.
The streets we're narrow and dirty, with
filthy cutters and open cesspools running
along parallel with them. Frightful cpl
denies, such as black death, plague, sweat
ing sickness, fevers, smallpox, leprosy and
malaria, devasted the land occasionally.
Preventive sanitary measures and medi-
cines have driven the plague, leprosy and
black death from the land and kept many of
the other diseases under control. One can
scarcely realize the improvements in eat
ing, living and surroundings which pre-
ventive measures have accomplished until
the picture of the past is compared with
that of TO-DAY.
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More than once, during wrangles with his
wife, he had aired opinions of this cutting
sort as to her brother; and Kitty, for the
sake of peace as women often put 1t TO
themselves, refrained from breathing a
word Of these savageries to AlonzO. Mean-
while, as at present, the two klnsmen con-
t1nued to interchange civil greetings when
accident placed them in one anothers
path.
Dinners been waiting ages, Hector Van
Santyoord now said, following his wife and
Alonzo into a small reception room off the
main hall, nook that was all the tender
bloom OF rose-color and silver. Hector
himself was in full evening dress; the white
at his throat became him, as it does most
dark men with features clean-eut
His wife rested an arm on the mantel and
stood there gazing downward, in mournful
apathy. Alonzo began to draw off his
gloves, and said, while doing so:
Il think that Kitty had perhaps a-sup-
posed You would dine out this evening"
He retained no idea of what words had
escaped him a moment after he had thus
spoken. 1t seemed necessary to break ths
awkward silence, and he had employed,
with this purpose, 4 mechanical monotone.
Hector looked at his wife and shrugged
his shapely shoulders. 81 told you,
Kitty, he grumbled, 'that 1 would dine at
home. L might have sat down alone" he
went on, still more ill-naturedly, after
pauSing for an answer and receiving none.
"But 1t occurred to me that you'd possibly
bring someone home with yon-not Alonzo,
but Jack Pettigrew, or someone like that. "
The sneer was evident, and as she per-
ceiyed it Kitty raised her eyes. While she
did so her husbands look swept her face,
and he plainly started.
you've been crying" he said; 'iyou'rs
crying still. What's happened?"
Kitty, as if for answer, threw herself on
a sofa and buried her face. AIonzo went to
the open door and quietly closed it.
"a good deal has happened +" he said tn
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it left the entire heart ana middle of the
vessel followed or scooped out for freight.
Thus, two-thirds of the main deck lay in
the middle, and this was pierced with
A DOZEN IMMENSE HATcHwAYs,
leading down into the double-decked hold.
A battery of four boilers ard powerful en-
gines of the triple-expansion class were
under the cabins aft. In other parts of the
boat there were smaller engines to operate
the helm, the windlasses and the anchors.
Altogether the John Harper cost SI5O. 600
when she left the hands of Captain John
Davidson, the celebrated ship builder, at
Bay City, Mich.
Her screw propeller gives her an average
speed of from II to 13 miles an hour When
boats attain such a rate of speed sails are OF
10 assistance to them, aud for that reason
the Harper does not own an inch of canvas
Captain II. L. Mills the master of the Har-
per, saws sails are an absolute nuisance on
fast steamers, and he adds that the sailing
vessels still plying the lakes are practically
an impediment to the progress of steam
navigation, owing to the narrow channel in
the rivers connecting each of the lakes. This
is q remarkable statement, but it strikes the
keynote of the influence which has been
revolutionizing the inland navigation of the
United States. The first steamboat in Lake
Erie was launched at Black Rock on NAV %,
1878 She was called the Walk-in-the-W Water,
and in August an attempt to operate her was
not fraught with any very brilliant success.
OXEN HELPED THE FIRST STEAMER
Again and again she tried to ascend the
rapids near there, but her engines were not
strong enough and she had to fall back,
after several days effort, upon ''the horn
breeze" This was a dozen yoke of oxen
Owked by one Sheldon Thompson, of Black
Rock, and used exclusively to drag sail
vessels up the rapids On August % the
first steamer of the lakes suffered the humili-
alton of having those oxen hitched to her.
The stOkers flung wood into the furnaces,
the dri Frs swung their whips, and, thus
supplemented, the engines got above the
rapids. Ludicrous as it was, it was the be-
ginning of a new era in lake navigation.
At the close of 1872 there were only go
steam vessels on the lakes and 1,420 sailing
crafts. Jack Tar" was still triumphantly
lsshed to the rigging. But in a few years
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how strong thrill of triumph had passed
through him when Kitty's own imprudences
had swelled into a striking offset against
those which he himself had committed. 81
can hit back, now, if she tries the divorce
game" he had once brazenly said in an as
semblage of intimates. This ribaldry
reached Alonzo's ears, and did not tend to
deepen his regard for its author.
On his own side Hector greatly disliked
Alonzo He considered him a person be-
sotted with namby-pambyisms and fit only
to loll at the feet of women sillier than
himself He thought that his pranks and
capers were the most pointless bits of
bufoonery, and that he was never so much
in his element as when the recipient of
reluctant giggles from disgusted observers.
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A Dream of Hapnineas

May be followed by morning OF "La
Grippe" Easily, and why? Because the
displacement of covering in bed, neglected
draught from partly closed window, an
open transom connected with windy entry
in a hotel, may convey to your nostrils and
lungs the death-dealing blast. Terrible and
swift are the inroads made by this new de-
stroyer. The medicated alcoholic principle
i'll Hostetters Stomach Bitters will check
the dire complaint. A persistence in this
preventive of its further development will
absolutely checkmate the dangerous NAL
ady. Unmedicated alcoholic stimulants are
of little or no value. The just medium is
the Bitters. Not less efflcacious is it in cases
of malaria, biliousness, constipation
rheumatism, dyspepsia and kidney trouble
The weak are usually those upon whom
disease fastens first. InVigorate with the
Bitters
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The Amount of Sleep.

DIR. Cold, a German specialist, comes out
strongly for more sleep for children. Infants,
he says should sleep most of the time, and
this is generally allowed them. But chill
dren from to Z are. robbed generally of
their sleep, and the change affects their
health. From 10 to IL the average child only
gets OF 9hours' sleep, while he needs 10 or
IL Until one is q, 8 hours sleep is neces-
sary to keep up the physical balance. Even
an adult, the German specialist thinks
needs from to hours sleep every day.
a. S. ATKINSON, Ii. d.
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mis- brother-in-law. And then, with his
discourse broken by his sisters audible
tears, he spoke for some time. The end Of
what he said left Hector extremely pale.
"Good heavens p at length fell from him.
'Tt's the most awful thing It's like-liks
a nightmare II daressy saw the sui
eide in the evening paper, but always
avoid reading those nasty things unless
they're about people know. And that
fellow, Chichester-why, I'd forgotten b
was in the firm at ALL
"His names been conspicuous there for ae
number of years, returned Alonzo, with
grimness.
"He was never fit to be Uncle Crawford's
partner" exclaimed Kitty, lifting her head
and clutching a tear-stained handkerchief
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evening, she made about three hours stop
at Sault Ste. Marie canal and arrived at
Ashland, Wis, Sunday night about two
hours past midnight. She would have
made it many hours quicker had not new
crew been aboard AS it was glance at a
map OF the Great Lakes and see what a
stretch she traversed. DAYLIGHT Monday
morning found her moored to the ore-docks
awaiting her cargo of ore
l.. E SToFIEI.
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Burgettstown Fair Excur sions Via Pennsyl-
vania Lines.

Round trip rate, 95 cents from Pittsburg,
October 6, and 8, good returning until
October g. On October and 8 a special
train will leave Pittsburg Union station at
6:30 A. M, central time, returning leave
Burgettstown at P. NJ. TuSu
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he commenced to tumble. and very gradu-
ally but very rapidly his occupation be-
came very precarious. On January 1, 1890,
he concluded to learn to be an engineer.
On that date the enrolment of vessels on
the lakes showed only 1,247 sailing craft
and !, ,453 steam vessels. Not only that, but
what sailing boats are left are of the smaller
class In 1872 there were 81 brigs and 117
barks. In 1891 there are no brigs and but
three barks on the entire chain of lakes.
IT Is THE AGE OF STEAM.
JIM Goodwin, of Mercer county, Pa,
figures out that the apparent decrease in
the number of sailing vessels since 1872 has
been 173, and the apparent increase in the
number of steam vessels in the same period
has been 765. At the same time, as the
number of steam vessels increased the num-
Der of paddles decreased %. In other
words, the steam vessels grew more power
full with each year, 751 of the steam vessels
increase since 1872 being screw propellors.
The transformation NAV be pictured in
another way. Of the sailing craft enrolled
January l, 1890, only two were of 1,60O or
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Praised by All.

Everybody likes Pilsner beer. It's the
most popular beer sold to-day; at all first.
class bars, or telephone for it to Iron City
Brewing Company, telephone 11S6.
MThssu
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Old St,,Ie Freight Boat. privilege of christen-
inc the marine twins. He named one the
John Harper, as a mark of respect to the
venerable President of the Bank of Pitts
burg, whose death had not yet occurred.
The other he named the Alex. Nimick, in
honor of the veteran iron master of Pitts
burg.
No stancher vessels ride the waves of lhe
inland seas than these two. They were not
designed for light, easy tasks. All Pitts
burg enterprises are essentially ponderous.
Anything that would claim connection with
the iron industry must be of the very
strongest make. Our products are too
heavy, our tonnage too great for anything
else.
TWO VERY SUBSTANTIAL BOATS.
The John Harper and the Alex Nimick
were constructed to carry iron ore from the
distant Lake Superior region to the Pitts
burg docks at Fairport, o. With their
tremendous cargoes they are pair of levi
athans compared with some of the lighter
craft they pass each week. With a capacity
between them to gulp down into their holds
nearly 5000 tons Of ore, they glide the
waters as airily as though burdened with
feathers. They possess enormous power.
They are among the fastest boats on the
lakes, and every trip, as they oTertake and
pass other steamers loaded with grain, with
lumber, or with merchandise of all descrip-
tioas, they simply assert by their strength,
power and speed what all Pittsburgers
know-that iron is still king.
The Harper has CARRIED me to the won-
derful Gogebic iron range and back. THE
DISPATCH conceived the idea of illustrat-
ing the interesting manner in which iron
ore is handled, from the moment the shovel
lifts it out of the mine over /, 900 miles away
until it is dumped into the blazing furnaces
of Pittsburg; and to give in facts and fig
ures some idea of the extent to which Pitts
burg's staple industry contributes to
THE MARvELoUsLT GROWING COMMERCE
of the Great Lakes. The mission was facili-
tated by Mr.. J. R. Irwin, manager of the
docks at Fairport, who courteouslyinstalled
me as THE DISPATCH's representative
aboard the Harper. A series of articles in
the Sunday edition of this paper, of which
this is the first, will set forth the informa-
tion CLEANED on the trip.
The vessel steamed out of the Fairport
harbor on a Thursday evening, just after
supper. Frequently both the Harper and
Gimick carry Pittsburg coal from Fsirport
TO Duluth, Mimi, but on this occasion the
Harper departed 'tfying light" for the ore
docks at Ashland, WIS.,, at the head or
Lake Superior. In that long journey she
would stop but once, if all went well, and
that would be at the famous Government
canal on the st. Mary's river. Sowhile the
ships engines painted increasingly, day and
night, there was found ample leisure for re-
Election upon what the huge dimensions of
the John Harper's hull meant She meas
ured 300 feet long. The depth of her hold
was some % feet. Her cabins were fore and
af', and these had the appearance, tersely
described, of being sliced off short, so that
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BADGES for lodges and societies at Nc
Mahon Bros. & Adams, 81 Fourth avenue.
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You would not believe it, but now you
know that Salvation Oil is the best liniment.