Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
Hibernsting In Tar and Camphor.

hlueTuatlnS IN 18r and CamphOr.
We slowed it away in a box lined with
tar paper and let it hibernate for few
weeks, when friend happened to hear US
speak about it told US that it would draw the
house so full of moths they would eat everv-
thing on the place except the window
weights and buggy wheels He said if he
wanted to catch moth he would bait with
tar paper. The only thing to knock out
moths was gum camphor So we trans
ferred the Terror of the Storm to another
box, and embalmed it in camphor. think
1t took about ton; not more than that. 1t
came to the house in o cart
Well, the thing slept along until some
time in the fall when I spoke about 1t to a
visitor, who said he was an importer of
woolens for 10 years, and that he discharged
porter or salesman who used camphor for
headache the minute he came into the store.
He said he wished he could find a moth Just
to show me how greedily it would devour
camphor. The only way they ever used it
was to lay it out on the sidewalk in front of
the store to draw the moths out of the place
Tobacco, he said, was the only moth slayer
That knocked them cold, but nothing else
would. So we reused up the Terror once
more, and enticed him into barrel, in
which we introduced cargo of tobacco,
broken and powdered, and went around
weeping and sneezing the rest of the week.
Taking the Coat to Church.
You know how cold we all thought it was
going to be a few Sundays ago; and how
much it looked like snow, and hail and rain?
I hated to have SO much dead capital lying
about the house, and fearing it would be the
only opportunity this winter to wear the
Terror, I hauled it forth, got under it and
crawled into it. I wore it to church. /
went early in order to find an empty pew
into which I could get that coat. hadn't
been in the sanctuary very long before
heard the sexton telling a deacon that it
was no use trying to do anything with that
old heater; the more you tinkered at it the
more it made gas.
sNobody will be able to sit in this church
this morning." he said, "unless we turn off
all the heat. Just 60 in there and smell
for Yourself"
And the deacon came in and smelled and
told the sexton to go down and pour water
on the fire, and to break the heater I'D
Monday morning. I couldn't notice any
thing myself, but as I was in strange
church 1 hated to say anything. A little
later a severe-looking man placed tract in
my hands and went away and watched me
read it, sitting where he could observe the
effect. 1t was story of man who smoked
tobacco until his system and being were
just saturated with it, and then used drugs
to conceal the odor. He was entirely cured
of the habit by little child, dear little
girl who put cartridge in his pipe and blew
the whole top of his head of.
The Crying Need of the Age.
was deeply affected and must have dis
played my emotion, for the man looked
radiantly happy, and gave me another tract,
hon ha fret fal1 oh
man who was very vain, and thought of
nothing but dress, and at last stole money to
buy dizzy overcoat and was sent to States
prison, where he contracted terrible dis
ease that racked him for weeks and months
in terrible agony before he died. I began to
wish 1 had stayed at home. Another man,
who sat just behind me, told me that he |
didn't think 1 ought to be out at all; that |
when the grip. reached that stage it was |
pestilential, and a man owed it to his |
neighbors as well as himself to stay in the |
house.
All these things made me feel so uncom-
Portable that left the house just before |
they passed the plate around. regretted |
this, because itlooked as though L went to |
a strange church just to air that storm coat. |
That really wasn't the reason, at least not |
the principal, or at any rate not the only |
one. / had other and, L trust, better reasons
than that. What the present civilization
demands is not so much the discovery of |
new groups of asteroids so far away that it !
requires the united efforts of five men, work.
ing ten hours day for three years, to see
the place where they thought they were
when they began looking, but an inodor-
Gus, or at least pleasantly fragrant prepara-
ton that will Kill or keep the moths out of
a 50 overcoat without destroying the peace
and good feeling OF an entire neighborhood
ROBERT j. BURDETTE
FITs-An fits stopped free by DIR. Kline.s Grea
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first days use. Mar