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The morning call., 1893-09-03
Danger i'm Saliva.

An Italian chemist has discovered that
the saliva Of Gals is richly c0lonized with
microbes by no means harmless, as inoeu-
lations are sometimes fatal TO guinea pigs
and rabbits ia tweDty-four hours. The
lap dog also, besides having foul breath,
which ought to be sufficient warning to
hose who fondle them as they would chill
hren, is microbe infested in the mouth
There are some people so very affectionate
and dotinE that they kiss their pet An
goras. Skyes or Spitz and they run the risk
of being lnoculated if they Fave abrasions
about the lips or tongue. These ars I'M
pleasant revelations. hut the continuance
of the practice IS not likely to he much
interfered with. Affection and folly often
go together.
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THE SECRETARY.
John G. Carlisle at Work
in His Office.
A WATCHDOG AT THE DOOR
To Prevent Cranks and Others From
Intruding-A Combination Sill
yer and Gold Dollar.

Every one is now thinking of the Treas
ury Department. 1t is The financial pulse
of the United States. Put your fingers on
IT and you can tell just how smoothly the
silver and gold blood is flowing through the
body of our country. The Treasury De-
partment is the central object in tile eye
of every business man. 1t is visited daily
by men from all parts of the United States,
and bankers and wage-earners come here
singly and in delegations to see the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. There are women as
well as men, and long-h aired old lady
from Kentucky haunts the corridors.
The press is, in fact, so great that Secre-
tary Carlisle will not see any one who has
new scheme to propose. The schemer is
met by one of the watchdogs of the
treasury and is told that the Secretary is
busy. He is requested to put his sugges-
tons in writing. and 1t is only a man
OF national reputation or with first
class introduetions who can get at the
Secretary at the present time. Even at
his home on X street the pressure of
Ofice-seekers, cranks and theorists is so
great that Secretary Carlisle's butler has
ever to give the stereotyped answer:
The Secretary is not in, sah."
And 1t Is as hard TO get a newspaper in
terview out of Mr.. Carlisle now as it was
to get ono out of Secretary Blaine during
the last days of his life. Soon after Mr..
Carlisle took the portfolio of the treasury
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Wartime shinpiasters Redeemed.
Albany Evening Journal


During war times the municipality of
Albany issued on its own credit frac-
llonal currency redeemable on demand at
the City Treasurer's or Chamberlain's
office. Most of the fat money was re-
deemed within the five years subsequent
to the end of the rebellion. and during the
'70s the Cham berlain would be called upon
to change few coins. It was believed
that all had been taken up.
Yesterday, however, Chamberlain Hills
was visited by two young ladies, who
showed him a quantity of the currency
issued In 1862 and asked him what it was
worth. To the Chamberlain's question
as how 1t had come into their possession
the elder replied that in looking over the
effects of a relative lately deceased 1t was
found stored away in an old box along
with many war curios. Mr.. Hills promptly
handed over the counter in good bills the
face value of the money, between S25 and
$40.
I A singular coincidence connected with
the transaction was that Chamberlain
Hills himself paid out the currency re-
deemed yesterday to the original owner
over thirty years ago.
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Made Miserable for Life.

This you may easily be If you fail to remedy the
Indigestion and REPRESENTATION OF the FOOD
which are the attendants and originators OF ner-
vousness. that ever present ailment which no mar
eotie, mineral sedative nervine can ever do
more than temporarily relieve. or course these
remedies have no effect upon the organs OF diges-
tion and assimilation except to disorder and en-
feeble them, thus aggravating the original diff
Guilty. Among the most alarming and dangerous
symptoms of chronic nervousness is insomnia,
which is the professional term Tor inability to
sleen where THIS exists there is always a ten
depcy to mental overthrow, pareSs and eventual
insanity. Begin at the fountain head OF all this
dif6culty with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and
avert evil consequences. No sooner does the
stomach resume Its tone, and the system gain in
vtror through the aid Of this benign tonic than
sleep returns aud the nerves grow tranquil Chills
and fever. rheumatism. biliousness and constlpa-
tion yield To the Bitters. -
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WAY DOWN SOUTH
Child Life in Virginia
Fifty Years Ago.
r1ARION HARLAND TELLS OF 1T
Pleasant RecolIections of the Manner
in Which Children Were Brought
Up Under " Nanny" Care.

The little Virginia girl who came into
this bright and beautiful world in 1912 had
English calicoes for every day wear, but
finer aud fadeleSs French prints were, as
she would have said, "for nice" The
English prints cost from twenty-five TO
thirty-seven and half cents a yard. and
the French seldom less than fifty; so that
her attire was not as cheap as 1t would seem
IT, readers used to nine-penny calicoes and
shilling ginghams. Moreover. money then
was worth more than half as much again
as now, writes Marion Harland to the
Youths Companion.
For high. days and holidays our little
maid had white and figured muslins and
lawns in summer. In winter her best
frock was of merino. her second best Of
'circassian." a coarser wooden fabric.
Her stout shoes were made by the plan
tation or village shoe maker. He had
Last for each member of the family, the
lesser children growing up to those dis
carded by the larger as they succeeded to
outgrown frocks, jackets and trousers.
Ii, under this law of succession, the shoes
were not always an exact fit, the fault was
not on the side of smallness. Toes and
ankles were never cramped.
The fashion of her best bonnets changed
twice year. Ii the newest baby were too
young to be left at home while the mother
made her annual pilgrimage to town for
the seasons millinery, an obliglng neigh
Dor who could 60 was intTuSted with the
family memorandum. or the country meT-
chant nearest the homestead undertook to
fill an order for three, four or six bonuets
of assorted sizes and prices. Only boys
wore hats"
If our maiden's last seasons headgear
was hopelessly shabby, there was always
a spinster or widow in the neighborhood
who eked out living, or perhaps made
her "church money" by bleaching. block
ing and making over "strawS." Chips
Dunstable and the more pliahle Leghorns
were much worn. A good LeghOrn was
expensive, but it went down through sew
eral generations OF wearers. coming out as
good as new every six months. The rural
modiSte bleached bonnets by hanging them
In an inverted barrel and Lighting pan of
birthstone underneath. When the straws
had Daled and cooled, she cut them down
or peeed them out to order. wetting and
shaping them upon block which. by the
exercise of a little ingenuity, could be
made to last several years.
For daily wear there were plenty of
homemade sunbonnets in summer and
quilted hoods for the winter. that began
just before Christmas and was pretty well
over by the LIST of March.
We had for week day wear stock iugs Of
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student or graduate who desired to "put
himself through" the university or law
school or medical college.
While there was no actual prejudice
against this primitive order of ceeduca-
ton, many parents preferred to have tutors
and gOvernesses in their own homes. The
schooIroom was an appendage to eight out
OF ten country houses.
Under tutor or gOverness we studied
and recited with our brothers until they
were IA years old or thereabouts when
they were sent off TO boarding-sc hool. The
under home rule before going to some
young ladies' seminary or institute. Some
OF the best educated women I know never
went from home to such a school.
Our childhood ended at u or 10. when
we begged to tuck up our hair." But it
was glorious while t lasted for those of us
who were not pattern children.
Our regular duties were school lessons
ana tasks" Of sewing and knitting. We
learned TO knit first upon garters, then
upon stockings tor ourselves that grew
wofully grimy with much handling and
unravellng and knitting-up again before
the toes were turned off"
Our earliest tasks in the use of the
needle were upon patchwork quilts. When
we had kutt certain number of rounds
above the bit OF black thread tied In for a
mark. and put together in unpuckered
Scdu'S q gwen tale CT -DeQQullk pieces,
we were free for the rest of the day.
Freedom meant open-air exercise, ex-
cept in stormy weather. We dug in our
flower gardens; we climbed cherry and
apple trees; we tramped for hours, a
retiDue OF small negroes at our heels. over
old fields, knee-deep in broom-straw or
''hen's-nest grass" hunting for partridge's
eggs. or wild strawberries. or persimmons
or ipcapins, or huckleberries.
We rode colts and plOwhorse and mules /;
we swung in loops made of wild grape
vines, or tore them down 20 use as jumping.
ropes; we played hide the switch, and
round about the gooseberry-bush. and fox
and hounds, and sat on messy banks, our
barred feet in the warm water OF forest
brooks, watching the frightened minnows
skurrying up and down stream.
Or. grouped under the pines, we told the
small negroes stories of Cinderella and
Red Riding Hood in return for the folk
lore they heard over the kitchen fire of
"Brer Rabbit" and "Brer Bar ;"-return-
ing home in the breathless summer sun
sets, and the dim autumn twiights, tired,
happy and hungry. bringing our spells
with us.
Mammy's turbaned head was shaken at
US from the porch like mournful cotton
tail. Our mother scoded and sighed over
torn fr0cks and mud-crusted shoes, and
fine young lady visitors held up their hands
OF laughing horror.
But we got the good out of every day in
that far-off time. Nature, disdainful of
entionalities. kept us in our own
school. We bless her for it, in our ripper
years, and the animal spirits, the mere
The morning call., 1893-09-03
MARIE'S PHANTOM.
Why De Pontignac Loved
His Collie.
STOP WAS HER COMPANION.
A Night Scene in the Library" We
Stayed Talking Late Into
the Night"

The people whispered. "There goes the
crazy mani" as he passed-the tall dark
man with the beautiful collie. How could
any but man off his head display such
solicitude about, after all. not such a very
remarkably valuable dog? Even" they
whispered softly to each other, "he had
been seen by some children who had
strayed a distance up the shore looking
for shells. lying on the sand talking to the
dog as though ne were human being"
And we, too. his friends. thought the
death of his beautiful young wife after
only two years of married life had un-
settled him little. And SO, in spite of re-
peated rebuffs. we had done our best to
cheer him, but with slight success.
One day five or six of US were walking
together on the beach. and for once De
POntignac, with his inseparable Stop,
made one of us. The dog was running
quietly on the edge of the water, and Rene
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will fit around gold coin and see whether
it has been rubbed or Clipped. On the
gold coin and around it he would put the
letters u. S. A. and on the silver the
words, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" The
idea is ridiculous one. but the man EVIL
IDENTIFY thinks he has fortune in II.
And so l might 90 on, and quote hun
bred more curious schemes and ideas
which are presented to the Secretary of
the Treasury daily. l have given some OF
the widest of those in the bushel of mail
looked over. Others are more sensible.
aud some of the letters contain good Sug-
gestions. They all show, however, how
deeply the people feel on the financial
question. Between their lines may be
read the words of trouble and loss, and
the anxiety that the Government should
at once do everything possible TO lead US
out of the wilderness.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Washington, September 3.
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eight buckwheat cakesi" I can see now
the mortified arch of her hrOMS

eight buckwheat cakesi" | can see now
the Mortified arch of her broWS.
Heavy suppers were interdicted because
they gave children bad dreams. In all
else pertaining to the kind of food we de-
youred and the times of eating. we judged
for ourselves. Ii we were hungry between
meals, we ran into the kitchen and begged
for whatever was at hand.
Sometimes it was hot aShcake and but
termilk sometimes cold pone and cupful
of hot LIQUOR from the pot In which bacon
and cabbage were boiling: sometimes hot
biscuit or ''ginger-cake, and In klll-
ing time" broiled spare-rib, or a pi2taii
baked in hot ashes.
The least hurtful Of these periDatetic
lunches were green corn. roasted In the In
ner "shuek," and sweet potatoes rakeo out
from the imuey-corner.
In fruit season we ranged garden and
orchard at will. | am afraid TO Try 10
guess at the number OF unrlDe apples;
pears. peaches and plums we consumed
daily.
Our fair-faced mothers-most OF them IN
delicate health themselves. may rehark
sat In the house or upon the sHaueo
pOrches. doing wondrous things Win nee
die and netting-hOok. and gave never
thought to our digestions.
"All children would eat trash. Iney
would learn better by and BY
The 'old field schoOr"-so named be-
cause the schoolhouse was usually bullt In
the middle or upon the edge OF WORKOUT
field given up to broom-straw and sassatras
sapIings-was attended by both girls and
boys, and usually was taught by college
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he found the absolute necessity of protect
ing his time. He at first admitted every
one, a1d be did nothing but talk to callers.
Had he not changed his rules he would
lave been unable o do any business what
ever, and as il is his every hour is Occu-
pied. He comes TO the department as soon
as he has finished his breakfast. and is
usually at his desk short time after 9.
His mail has already been gone through
with by his secretaries and the greater part
disposed Of. During the first few months
he answered many of his private letters,
but the work pressed him so that he has
given these almost altogether over to his
son Logan, the chief clerk of the depart
meDt, and his private secretary. He at
tends to only the most important of his
official mail and las the greater part of
his letters referred TO the chiefs OF the de-
partments to which the subjects practi-
caliy belong. A vast number of the letters
which are addressed TO the Secretary of
the Treasury never meet his eye, and when
you remember that it takes several clerks
10 merely open the mail that comes 10 the
department. every day you Will see how
necessary this is.
1t is this power Of making other people
do work for him which Keeps the Secretary
in good health to-day. called upon him
in his Office this morning. Heis looking as
well as he has at any time fer years. He
has had some trouble with his right arm, il
is true, and this has kept him from signing
his mail and papers for the past month.
But his eye is bright, his complexion is
good and he feels very we'll / sat for
awhile and watched him at work. He dis
poses of matters very rapidly. He would
pick up paper. look it over and hand it to
bis private secretary, telling him what TO
do with it.. He dictated a few answers
himself, and l am told be deals almost en-
tirely on the broad principle of letting his
subordinates attend to the details of the
department.. 1t was the lack of this power
that killed Secretary Folger, and il is said
that Daniel Manning might have been
alive to-day had he possessed il. From
about 10 o'clock the members of Congress
aud Senators began to come in. The
most of them wanted Offices for their
constituents and only few talked
of finance. They were all received, and
some were gratiied, though the most
were put off with the statement that
there were no vacancies. Senator Joe
Blackburn came in and stood while talk
ing. He smiled as ne left, and | judge he
got what he wanted. At II 80 the room
was about empty. Secretary Carlisle re-
ceiVes callers during only two days Of the
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NOVEL RAPID TRANSIT.
A Peculiar System Now in Use in
Naples.


A peculiar and novel system of rapid
transit has been devised for the city of Ma
pies, writes a correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch. The new line is projected
for the purpose of providing intercommu-
DicatiOn between the low level and the
high level sections of the city. which at
present are i'll supplied with means of
transit. The line is to be carried on two
metallic viaducts, each divided so as to
form double way, one for the operation
of electric cars and the other for pedes-
trans. A masonry tower 325 feet high is
TO be built III the Via Roma. and from this
he first viaduct, 1880 feet long, will be
carried to the Corso VittoriO Emanuele,
where 1t will terminate at The base of a
metallic tower 400 feet In height. The
second viaduct, $50 feet long. branching
out of this tower some distance below the
summit, will pass over the San Martiuo
Hill and end in the ground level at che new
Rone del VomeIo.
The metallic tower connecting the two
viaducts will be provided with staircases
and elevators for conveying passengers up
and down. The viaducts will be carried on
pyramIdal metallic towers erected on ma
sonry foundations. Passengers entering
the cars at either end of the line need not
change their seats on arriving at the metal
lie tower. as the cars will be automatically
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ali sorts of paper. Some were written in
pencil upon newspaper copy. Others on
I'D blanks as large as a sheet of wrapping
paper, and some were in typewriter under
the business letter heads Of the writers.
A number of these letters came from
cranks. There are IN nearly every COM
munity in the United States one or more
men who think they can advise the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet on all sorts of ques
tions. and they don't fail to do so. A look
at the in trOductiols OF some of these let
tiers gives an idea of the people.
Que Of the queerest of these cranky let
terS is one which contains model made If
lead and brass representing a com animation
silver aud gold dollar. The silver is run
around the edge in a hoop about a quarter
of au inch wide, and inside of this hoop
there is to be soldered little gold coin,
the whole making up a coin about as big
as a 50-cent piece. The man says he has
Invented the coin combination and will be
glad to give IL TO the Government for a
consideration. 1t contains two-fifths silver
and three-fifths gold, and he has little
patent measuring machine. which man
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What Allied Smith.
Texas Siftings.

A plainly dressed man. who introduced
himself as Mr.. John Smith. walked into a
doctors office In a Texas town, and. hav-
ing explained his symptoms. asked the
doctor how long it would take 10 cure HIM.
The doctor. who had treated the visitor
with every possible courtesy, replied:
"You will require careful treatment
under my personal supervision for about
two months before you are able to resume
your laborS in the bank"
Doctor, you are fooing yourself. I am
not Smith the banker. but Smith the
streetcar driver"
lis that SO? Well. my good fellow.
don't see what you came to me for. There
is nothing the matter with you except that
you are not banker"
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finer senses perceive Marie close to me-.
Twenty times day by his demonstrations
Of joy be lets me know Of her presence
where were l alone l wuuld know moth
ing. Were to lose him l would lose all
knowledge of her society, which Is dearer
to me- than my life. And then perhaps
perhaps-she only comes back for him."
MAY INMAN JACKSON.
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Political Items.
Texas Siftings.

1t is alleged that quite number of Dem
ocrats who did not even vote for the regu-
lar ticket are applying to Cleveland for
Office. Possibly they reason as did very
After the election he walked boldly up TO
the successful candidate aud said:
BOSS, | wants yer ter lem me $40 fur
services ren'ered you durin' de CHECKER
shun."
"But you worked ana voted for the other
ticket"
lar dat eff / had worked for yer side yer
would hab been beaten two ter one. A
pos'office will suit me. boss"
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A Cable to the Azores.

A cable is soon to be laid from Lisbon
TO the Azores. British company will
lay and own it. and. If the proposals favor
ably reported by a special committee are
accepted by the Cortes, will have exclu-
sive power 70 connect the Azores with
North America ana Cuba, and with Eng
land or other points in Europe. Such con-
nections would form a highly important
new route between Am erica and Europe.
ALI existing cables TO Europe are under
the far North Atlantic starting from Nova
Scotia to Observation-Disclosures York Sun.
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A SIN-OFFERlNG.

have hewn and builded my altar
And set IL in sight of men.
And now is my hand o falter,
Must the battle be fought again
From the height that scarce assembled
Have l fallen TO fresh offense
How lily the rents were mended,
In my garments of penitence.
In the ashes Of old transgreSsion
Still fingers last, dull fire,
And the shadows of past possession
TAKE shape in my vain desire.
The heart that strove to harden
Is as water that runs away:
The wind In my close-kept garden
Has scattered strange Seeo to-day
trife OF purple heather.
The Tilt CT miustrePs rhyme.
day that was like June weather
In June of the olden time
And l turn away unforgiven,
Unwilling to pay the price;
My soul. though by sharp swords riven,
Still shrinks from the sacrifice.
Then take what my will denieth,
thou to whom ali is due
And the soul which in sin now dieth
May be borne into life anew.
Take all, lest again uplifted
My heart from thee turn away
And /, like as fne wheat sitted
Find no longer of words 10 pray.
. &. VAN TAssEL SUTPHEN in Scribner'S Maya
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JOY in being alive, that tempted US to fol-
low her leading.
would be the stomachs and nerves origin
ally bestowed upon children who were
permitted to eat mince pie. boiled Dump
lings, pound cake. pot liquor. nuts just
ripe, and fruit quite unripe; fresh pork.
sausages and fried cakes. and to drink.
from Daoyhood. tea, coffee and cider?
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raised or lowered, and will continue their
way to either terminus. A concession has
been granted for the road.
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