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A Novel Remedy for ChiIIs.

FROM the ST. Paul Dispatch.
He tells good story, does Charlie Nc
Intyre. the manager of the Aberdeen: tells
it with Fluctuations of tone and infection,
and glance. that makes the tale far more
interesting.
This is one of his stories, and ii has the
advantage of tales told by Kipling and 9TH
ers, in that it is true.
He was living in town where there were
chills and fever in plenty and to spare. and
had friend who had fallen a victim to the
periodical seismic disturbance. 1t is well
enough to call it seismic, although that is
a lofty word, because, when man shakes
in that way, it is quite as much TO him as
though the world or a part of il were shak-
inS-1ust the same to him. Every other day
(e. o. d. his friend would go to bed and
await the shaking and the chills, for they
came every other day. Ingenuity was ex-
hausted in hunting for remedies and none of
the many applied were effective Finally
there came along an old French halfbreed
a man with long hair and a mysterious
presence hiding many potencies of good and
Ill; and in his presence one day Mr.. NJ. de-
clared that he knew what to give the pa
tient. The conjurer had a remedy to his
hand. one of the most singular and unex-
pected that could be imagined, one that
might well have been used in the incanta-
tons of Indian prophets and soothsayers
When the shaking fit came on the sick man
was 10 take two frogs, one in each hand
hold them up before his face and breathe
into their open mouths; the shaking would
then depart and never return.
or course such prescription raised
laugh, and laughing comments were made
on such remedy that
But Mcintyre decided to try 1t, as that
at least. could do no harm. He put on his
boots and waded out into the tangles of the
nearest morass and finally caught two big
frogs of the sort called bull frogs They
were fine specimens of their kind, with deep
green backs and voices that were accustom-
ed to echo their deep diapason among the
neighboring hills These he put into a deep
tub half filled with water, and put the tub
under the bed of his friend all ready for the
shake of the next day, for that was the
time when II was due.
The next day at about 2 o'clock his friend
went to bed and with what calmness he
could muster awaited the shake.
On 1t came, ano Mcintyre pulled out the
tub caught the frogs and gave them into
the hands Of the patient. He held one in
each hand, with their big mouths toward
him. and breathed on them. holding them
firmly. The frogs were lead in three Sec
onds and the man with the shakes got well
at once, and never had an attack afterward
1t was absurd, but 1t was effective.
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RAILROADS.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD


Schedule I'm effect June .. 1894
Leave washington from station. corner OF New
jersey SgeaSe and and stree vos,, -
express trains, ll:l5 am, 500 pm.
, For Cincinnati St Louis and IndlanapOlis yesti-
For FtfsS9rg and and ee a1esaa Cypress aay ii,
a ard s:35 pm.
For For Lg and staunton, mas am.
For Winchester and way stations. o 80 pm.
e For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke Knoxville,
Chattanooga. memphis and New Orleans, i2.O5
For Baltimore, week days. 1920. 500. e:ss,
- minutesl am. xI2:OO. i2.O5. l2:i5. n220
60 = IN minutes, SO nt2s All. - ;o5. 1910
and LBS pm. sundays, xI:20. 1880 500, IS
1a;so 800 e's - m 1g;S4 Am Il2co rl2:os GO
$50. Is:oo. 1900. 1000 XII 30, Ii as p'm.
PSr annapolis, a:lo and 9:l5 am. i2:l5 and
4 Fer p F N; sundays $50 an. 4:sI pm
pm. $1,000
For Hagerstcwn all: rs am. and as:so pm
For BOYD and way points 10 40 pun.
For Gaithersburg and way POINTS a6 90 as.Oo
an. ALSO. $500. a4:S5. 65:s5, soS. bii 80
For Washington Junction and way points, GOO,
ae:5o an, cl:l5 pm. Express trains stopping al
For Bay Ridge on S15 ' and a aas P p% sundays
g sdS An M 80 ;Se and S;l5 I'm 80,
PHfI.ADE1THi1- A>o
For Philadelphia, New York. Boston and the
ess en a Don sS 9oo en- g. b sg5 Dining
s;go l:So pm Sleeping Car. open at 1000
Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains
For Atlantic City, Cape May. Sea Isle City ana
Brigant.De Beach, week days, 400 and 1000 a M,
IL 90 noon: Sundays, AGO am. and IL 90 noon.
Except Sunday Daily. sunday only.
Express trains.
psIdences by Union Transfer Company on order.
left at ticket Offices, els and 1851 Pa. ave-. and
r. B. CAMPBELL. CHAs. o. sCULI.
au2 Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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pot OF preserves, which his mother has sent
to console him; and the bully of the crowd
VIII whisper threateningly to him, as he
passes back with his dictionary TO his place
at the table-"Passe-mo
Then the Playhouse.
In his playtime the potache is confined to
the school yard, surrounded on all sides by
the buildings. OF late years great provi-
sion has been made for perfect gymna-
Sums, but the boys seem to prefer simply
to run and shout about the yard like Gagged
birds. The boys of different ages are kept
carefully separate in different yards. At
this time, also, lessons In accomplishments
such as dancing and fencing, and even box
ing, may be taken. Those who set out to
prepare for the military schools must take
fencing lessons, and they begin at a sur
prlsingly early age to the foils and
mask. In general in their play, French
boys have not the athletic games made
much of in Anglo-Saxon countries. This
does not, however. prevent their having q
great deal of strength and address For
nearly all have regular practice in gymnas-
TICS, winch are very popular, in a cut and
dried way. Simply, they do not often mix
their athletics with their games; or rather,
they have few games.
with nightfall dinner comes. differing
from lunch in little except the lukewarm
water soup. with which it Is begun. After
ward, there is bit of playtime in the yard
when there Is light enough, or in winter the
boys are allowed to read their story books
In peace. These are in great measure made
up of TRANSACTIONS from such English au-
thors as Mayne Reid. The French noyelists.
with the exception Of Jules Verne and a
few others, are rightly considered too stiff
reading, even for the Partisan potache
STERLING HEII,IG
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PENNSYLVANIA HAu.RoAD
Station corner Of 9Th and b SITS

In effect June "a. 1894
Steering. Dining; Smoking and Observation Ca,
and % reSs us d, m
3 h,.s EAST E .es Sa, sqs rs:
FSIss hSl fs.- ASD ST ST
Ing and ;, Dining Cars: Hs5riseurs to ST Louis.
9io PM MEsTERS sp Hx naisss Sleep
Ing Car 10 Chicago. and Harrisburg TO Cleveland
7:i5 PM sorTHwEsrERS ExrREss-pullmas
Sleeping and Dining Cars 20 81 Louis. and Sleep
go PM P&6uTc E ssaPfds Sleep
Ing Car to Pittssuvg
Niagara Falls daily. except sunday. "''De''e' '''
sI 1870 e; 1 EliIa sns Remote d.,y. except
5;iS p 2. e. WiiIis%.port Rocse.s,e! Burial.
sGa Nass Es daily EXCEPT saturday with
1sa.4 sIS ss ss S. &. WI Es.sssss Z n
FGG fAssRs Sss f'ft S M s. E II Par,
ss c scs S Sss p S5 ce sm w.s
i :oS n. 2:Is, ais; 20 io'cc ana II ss y
saIs 81: Is:sS .n al s Sc? pm f g
'f s 'e Change s1' wee. day.
and s,i $;ls p f m daily ,-on., ca
For Atlantic City. 300 SATURDAYS only. eco,
100 an. l2:io pm week DAYS. Sundays, 12:13
For Baltimore. e:2s. Tan $50 7:ss. zoo. s.so.
ic;so' II ;oo and ,d II se isis POI SIS
1910. Ills and II as pm. on sunday, 80.
755. 300. eos. 10 80. ii 90 m i2.is LIS.
2;oi, SIS goo Limited. i:2o. $50. e:ix 5:io.
For Popeis creet Line T:eo am and $50 pm
70 Annapolis 20. 600 and ri.so am. ana
40 pm; daily. except Sunday. Sundays. 200 a
m ana ~ m;
sonyille and Tampa, $50 am. $50 > N. daily,
Richmond and Atlanta, $50 PIT daily. Richmond
only, 1887 m. week DAYS.
Accommodation for ouantico. 7:z5 am daily,
and rs pm. week days.
For Alexandria. 4s0. 6:ss, rs, s:4o. a.<s.
io;T. 1850 an. 1850. l;.o. $40. 4;es, 500,
at 4so. 7:4s. s:4s am. 2:4s els. SOC and 1905
pm
Lcavs Alexandria for Washington. Cos. ga,
1-0s. 500. e:10. 1o:1s. 1923 am, loo. Pix
500. s:23, 500 $50. Ella. TOO. T:2o els I0-e3
and ii 0s pm. On Sunday al e:43. a:lo. 1o.2s a
m. 21s. $50. TOO. 20. els and 1889 m
Ticket ofhces. northeast Of 18th street and
Pennsylvania avenue. and at the station, eth and
p street. where orders be left for the shesk-
ing OF baggage destination from hotels and res
defces.
NJ PROVOST. yR. WOOD. :
General Manager. Genl Pass. Agt
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY

-.
Trains leave daily from Union station (B. ana
Pl 9th and r SITS
Through the grandest scenery In America WITH
the handsomest and most complete solid train SER
vice west from Washington.
225 PM DAnY;-.C1ncinnati and St louis
Special''-Solid Nestibuled. newly Eduipped Flee
tric-lighted. Steam-heated Train. Pullman's finest
sleeping cars Washington to Cincnnati Indianap-
oils and St Louis without change Dining Car
from Washington. Arrives Cincinnati. son m
Indiananolis II :45 a m. and Chicago. $50 pm
ITO PM DAHY-The famous r. r. v Linz
tied" A solid vestfbuled train. with dining car
and Pullman sleepers for Cincinnati Lexington ana
Louisville. without change. Pullman Sleeper 20
Nirg:nia Hot Springs. week DAYS. arriving SO
IN, ooseryation car from Hinton; Arrives Gin
cinnau so pm: Lexington. 500 pm; Louis
Vile. $40 pm Indianapolis II rs y m: Chicaeo
1:30 am. and St Lonis. 100 am; connects 4,
Union depot for all points.
1857 AN, EXCEPT SUNDAY-For Ola Point
COMFORT and Norfolk. Only ran line "'
Fps PM DAnY-EIpress for Gordonsvine
Charlottesville. wsyncstoro Staunton and prinri.
BAL Virginia points: daily. except SUNDAY. fos
Pullman locations and tickets at company's of.
ices ei3 and 1921 Pennsylvania avenue.
n. W. FILLER.
my@ General Passenger Agent.
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tattoo on a drum. In the private schools
1t is usually a harsh-tongued bell which is
sounded, and a few years ago the bell was
substituted for the drum in the colleges of
the state. But either 1t was not SO eff
fective, or some clerical influence was sup
posed to Turk In the innovation, and the
French university brought back the drum
In triumph Five minutes after this first
signal the pion goes about, clapping his
hands and threatening with punishment the
poor potache who has turned over for an
other wink. 1t is before o'clock in the
summer and little after in winter
Study Before Breakfast.
Hurrying on their clothes all rush to the
rows of washbasins along the walls. These
are now big enough to plunge the head
into. But until twenty-five years ago there
were only faucets over a zinc trough, where
generations of French students stood catch
ing the trinkling water in their hands to
SCRUB their faces. Sometimes the pipes
froze and they must hold a candle under
neatn 70 thaw them out or. what was bet
ter still, go without washing for a day
Even now there is never a fire in the sleep
ing rooms, no matter how cold the winter
All the new colleges have complete bath
rooms, which may be used at stated times
put not in the morning. Then there are
long rows of foot baths which must be
used at regulation seasons, when the bows
are marched up to them in squads.
From the dormitories the students pro-
ceed In ranks down the staircase to the
study room for an hour over their books On
an empty stomach. Then they march out
always In ranks, to the 'refectory' or great
dining room. where they stand before the
tables until all are ready and the word Of
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THE DRAPING OF CURTAINS.
Cheap Stuns Require ms Much Art to
Arrange ms Costly.

Arrange ms Costly.
From the New York Times
The question Of how to drape curtains is
an important one. One artist said: "Ey-
erything should hang straight at the sides"
Another favored festoons and ends, or in
technical parlance ''sways and tails" and
third favored "draped lambreauins."
However the artistic eye may design
particular drapery there Is one great, i'm
portant fact, too snghtingly treated by
many housekeepers That is, perfection in
hanging. A draper Is Just as exact in
measuring and placing the curtain as the
carpenter is in hanging his door. A little
cut of plumb means any amount of trouble
An uneven folding means crooked, I'M
slightly hanging TO the drapery and sag
ging or skew to the very best part of
the rooms decoration. For are not win
dows open pictures? Are they not the eyes
of a room, and therefore in Iced of careful
treatment? The poorest stuff requires quite
as much, If not more, care in hanging than
very rich, heavy goods. A professional
curtain hanger confesses that he breads
having to hang curtains once placed by I'M
trained hands. He knows how he will find
them-stretched crooked and out of shape
Every measurement should be perfectly
true, and when once put in place no pains
should be spared to keep the folds hanging
as they were meant to hang. A portierre
which Is swished back and FORTH pushed
here, pulled there, by children or elders
either. soon becomes blemish rather than
decoration In a room, unless 1t has been
firmly hung and is frequently arranged.
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A Professor.

uniforms. with bright buttons. marching
In ranks, with n grown man in tall hat and
black coat TO accompany them. They are
the boys from the Iycees and colleges of
the city. and half Of them are boarders in
the school. even when their parents live in
the street around the corner.
At school.
When the boy is nine or ten years old, and
sometimes even younger. his parents take
him to the school door, with his trunk full
of the clothes which the school requires of
Rn Its boarders-the state schools demand
six cotton nightcaps with the rest. The
boy passes out of sight into the great,
gloomy building, and there he remains for
the next eight or ten years Of his life. Ex-
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Ready for Work.

cept for the walks with his schoolmates
into the city, he can go out only once or
twice a month. and then only when some
one Of his family comes to bring him. and
but for few hours of the daytime He
mas short vacation at the New Year and
another at Easter, and the months of
August and September. This will be all
his life with his family until he Is a young
man. Then he will be likely to go I'D to
some special school of the university TO
learn his particular profession. As likely as
Eot he will again be in some boarding in
0titution, but this time no black-coated man
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ARMY anu navy oic
at present vacant
and open to young
men in civil life,
who desire employ
ment. Political in
fuence has nothing
whatever to do with
the appointments; the
most meritorious APP
plicaEts will be Sc
lected without regard
for any other con-
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They Feel Sorry That They Have
Wronged Uncle Sam
AND SO GIVE TO THE CONSCIENCE FUND
Hard Times Do Not Weaken the
Resolve to Make Restitution.
G IFTS ALSO REC WE'D

ARD TIMES HAVE
not impaired the
American conscience.
/ took a peep into
Uncle Sans ac-
count books a few
days ago and found
that this human
sense of right during
the past twelve
months has been
worth more than
5000 to him, about
double its value the
year before. This
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eye Of some teacher or ''pion." The latter
is the man with the tall hat and black coat
who accompanies them on their walks His
position Is not pleasant. He is the pain
sufferer' (sOuffre- douIeurl of the college
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Written for The Evening Star.
HOratian Lyric.

Once heard a poet singing:
Life is short and death is certain;
Why should mortals be so senseless
As to waste their days In sadness1
Surely pleasure, by wise Nature
Was intended for all creatures; -
Not alone for brutes unthinkng
Insects, reptiles, birds and fishes"
And a sage. too, thus asserted
The same doctrine Epicurean:
Joy is, truly, the condition
And design Of all existence.
Men are foolish, serving merely
Lowest passions, gold up-heaping;
Here but little may suffice them,
Taught by reason their true welfare"
20 the poet, light wine quafing,
Crowned with roses, sang-I listening;
50 the wise man, In his study,
Natures wide hall, spake-I heard him.
Health, not riches; Joy, not sadness.
Grant to me, ye gods immortal
Grant the power Of song, ye Muses.!
Grant, Minerva, some slight wisdom
w. L. SHOEMAKER.
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except shop clerk or day laborer. He
cannot be a physician or a horse doctor, or
druggists clerk, a notary or a full
hedSed advocate, an army officer or a civil
engineer, or even a school teacher or a re-
sponsible agent Of commerce, unless he has
passed the proper university examinations.
With the autumn. when the school vaca-
tion Is over, the pOtache again appears on
the Paris streets. He walks along of an
afternoon. with twenty or more of his fell
lows, all in dark caps and close-fitting
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The Best Place to Learn.
From Truth.
Teacher-''Cau you swim. boy?"
Boy-"Yes, SIR
Teacher-''Where did you learn"
Boy-'In the water, SIR
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Purely Ve1etahle

anS aaess s,n
ssGlsEs UaEbW and ~ bowl cspllailts. ioc. &2se.
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I HE FRENCH Pc
tache Is something
which we have not in
America. He is only
a boy, anywhere from
six to sixteen years
of age. But he is at
once High School
boy, collegian and
university tud e n I
from the beginning.
In France unless a
young man has been
a "potache" he can
all his life be nothing
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The Dining Room.

great bottle of little red wine coloring
deal of water. 1t Is served second to pre-
vent the potache from drinking before ne
eats. This is the prescription Of French
hygienie science. Just se many mi2utes
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Gill accompany him on his walks, and he
Will have almost unlimited liberty. At this
later period of his existence he is known as
a bachot. or one who is about receiving
or has just gained his bachelors degree in
preparation for the highter schools
NapOIeOn's Idea.
Meanwhile the potache is living in little
school world. with hundreds of others like
himself. under kind of military drill in a
kind of barracks. When the time comes
for him to do his military service he feels
no great change in dofiing the uniform of
the school boy for that of the soldier. All
this is the triumph of the idea of the great
Napoleon, who invented this system of
laucation- He said that school should pre-
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Eating by the Clock.

For the second breakfast or lunch, which
is really the potache's dinner, toward II or
1 o'clock, great improvements have also
been made of late years. The students sit
by tens at the different tables. One of
them is named for week at a time by the
''surveillant' to serve. The dish is brought
on, with ten equal portions already divided.
II any complaint is made that the server
has shown Partially In distributing the bet
ter pieces he loses his place in disgrace. If
every one is satisfied, he may be renomi-
mated The students may keep on their
caps in the dining room, which is not sur
prising. seeing there is no fire. Nowadays,
also, they are allowed to talk at meals.
But until the recent innovations of the
comfort-loving republic they had to listen
as they ate to the reading of some improv-
ing book. When the students are seated
the surveillant-a pion who watches over
order during meals-calls out, Serve the
first dish" After a few minutes he calls
out again, Serve the abundance" This is
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Vacation.

pere for life; and, as he wished his French
nen TO live as soldiers. the schools of the
state were organized as barracks They
have been made more comfortable of late
years, but even now an American boy
would shrink from the hard seats, the
coarse food, the little beds in a long row.
as in hospital wards, and the constant
drill and regulation of every action of a
tetache's life.
Not Pleasant Position.
In only one of the Paris colleges-the
Rollin, which Is owned by the city-do the
potaches have separate rooms. and that
only during the night. For all the exercises
Of the day-for play as well as for study
and class-they have to be together, bound
BY rules and regulations, and beneath the
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command is given to sit down. What they
sit down to is, in the state schools a warm
broth. which may indifferently be called
soup or potage or PURGE. The potache usu-
ally styles 1t dish water. With this he
washes down piece of dry bread. AS a
great innovation of late years, a bowl of
coffee and milk is given on Thursdays and
chocolate on Sundays. In the religious and
m any Of the private schools the bowls Of
cafe au lait always form the staple of this
first breakfast. Until few years since in
the military schools no regular first break
fast was given. but the cadets had a hunk
of bread which they ate in the play grounds
with the help of water from the pump
Some people still think it was a good thing
because it hardened them and kept their
stCmachS clean.
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FRENCH SCHOOLS
Conducted on the System Established
by the Great Napoleon.
how THEY EAT, SLEEP AND STUDY
The Military Principle Governs the
State Schools.
THE COURSE OF STUDY

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
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STORAGE.

sToRAGE-CARRIAGEs OF ALL KINDS STORED
at low prices A. II. GREGORY. $40 Pa. ave.
NV. au14-sf
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Places Open for Young Physicians
in the Army and Navy.
LITTLE WORK TO Do, WITH HIGH PAY
Liberal Allowances for Lodging,
Fuel, Lights and Travel.
THE TREASURY PHYSICIANS
Written for The Evening Star.

~IGHTEEN DESIRA-
Ii BILE places in the
and navy are
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sderation. Diplomas from recognized medi-
cal colleges must be exhibited by candidates
for these positions. which are those of ply
sicians in Uncle Sans service. There are
ten vacancies in the army and eight in the
navy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1894-08-07
Wanted to be a Boy zgain.

I'd like to be a boy again, with
out a woe or care, with freckles
on my face and hayseeds in my
hair; I'd like to rise at 4 o'clock
and do a hundred chores, and
saw the wood and feed the COWS
and lock the stable doors; and
herd the hens and watch the
bees and take mules to drink,
and teach the turkeys how to
swim so they wouldn't sink; and
milk about a hundred cows and
bring in wood to burn, and stand
out in the sun all day and churn
and churn; and wear my broth
er's cast off clothes and walk
four miles to school, and get a
licking every day for breaking
some old rule; and then get home
again at night and do the chores
once more, and milk the cows
and feed the hogs and curry the
mules galore; and then crawl
YEARLY upstairs to seek my little
bed and hear dad say THAT
worthless boy ! He isn't worth
his bread = I'd like to be a boy
again; boy has so much fun;
his life is just a round of mirth
from rise TO set of sun; I gnot
-se',-.,a neither