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to be furnished at escape from misery.
You see," said the doctor, ''how diff
cult 1t is 10 treat child. grown per-
son exelaims when he feels pain, but a
child objects on general principles"
And l didn't blame the chiId-not the
least little bit. I wanted to scream in
unison myself when they brought in the
next one. with tear-stained face and
broken arm and sat him in the place of
honor, or of torture, and began to touen
the afflicted member. Such spasms of
pain shook the weak little frame. and in
spite of the agony he tried to be so brave
that l had to look out of the open window
when the first scream came, to where
other human beings walked or rode in the
sunshine and oblivious to all that trans
pired in the shadow.
And then there was a little girl with
such painfully worried face, and her
mother looked out the window, too, while
the doctors looked at her.
mo, she's not been that way long" the
woman said, "but 1 can't attend to her
Only once in while l can get an hour off
from work TO bring her down. It's too
bad for the child. I've had to work so
hard, she said, and the hopeless sadness
OF her lace and voice was pitlfuI, that
she has been neglected, but it's either TO
have fallen short in food or care and 1
dldn't count on this"
She sighed heavily, poor soul. and took
her tired body and her burden away from
US with the little girl, and went forth TO
be forgotten.
Terrible case of bad blood, " frowned
one OF the physicians, on whose round,
good-Eatured face frown looked out of
place. My, but you have to be careful
with these people," he shuddered. "Why,
they become offended at everything"
They are senstive-these children of
adversity-ior they have learned from ex-
perience to be suspicious and to expect
certain treatment, and when one expects
anything OF that sort it is usually found.
There had been few children at the
Mission Dispensary during the day.
''Only a few trifing cases." said the
physician in charge; "a case or two of
whooping cough. broken one. l think.
and little fellow had some injury 10 his
eye. Let me see," and he consulted the
big register; yes; 1 believe he'll lose the
eye"
He looked al me calmly and profession
ally, as though waiting for me to go on.
Well. of course, the loss of some one else's
eye was nothing to him. Perhaps it's a
usual occurrence. but it sounds somewh hat
startling.
1--WE have cases of tuberculosis most
frequently, he went or. ssThat seems TO
be the greatest trouble nowadays. A fall
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You would suppose that among the
girls averaging thousand in yearly at
tendance at Smith College there would be
found much ability in the dramatic line,
and you are right. Probably no other
factor plays more important part IN the
general college life than these same dra-
matics; and it is proper and right that it
should be so, for not only do the plays
given throug bout the year by the different
college houses and the eliminating "sen-
ior dramatics" at commencement time
tend to stimulate social fellowship and
friendly competition in the most delight
full way, but they often prove source of
much historical interest. to say nothing OF
the literary study and training in eIocu-
tion which they involve.
Moreover, the dramatics present fre-
quent opportunities for timid and retiring
girls who have hitherto made no impress
sion in their college work to take part in
the general social life and win recognition
by means of their histrionic talent. If
you are a little freshman burning TO shine
among your fellow-students you will
as pire to ''be inn as many plays as DOS
sible given by the college house in which
you happen to live. And if there are
sixty other girls staying in the same
house, why then il is no easy matter for
an unknown insignificant young "freshie'
like yourself to compass your desire
Nevertheless, if you are plucky you perse-
we're. being further fred in your resolve
by asking your neighbor some morning
in chapel as the stately juniors and
seniors come walking two and two down
the aisle, "Who is that tall, handsome
girl in black?"
To which the lofty sophomore sitting
next you replies, why, every body knows
Miss. M! She's a senior-took the
part of Achilles IN the play Achilles in
.Scyros' that the Dewey House gave the
other night. The girls are all wild about
her. Weren't you there ?"
And as you weren't there-weren't even
invited - you relapse into awe-struck
silence, watching with eyes glued to that
same tall handsome giri-how she care
les ly laughs and chats with her junior
and senior friends, or bestows a gracious
nod here and there on some under-class-
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sometimes very slight one-will bring
it on.''
But some children go tumbling about"
began, remembering my own childish
days, when trees let me fall and fences
refused my weight, and to be without
bruise was luxury l seldom en- ioyed.
Certainly" he said. 1.-The nine chill
dren will fall and get up again and forget
1t, but the tenth will go home crying with
hurt that will not cure: 1t is because
the blood is in the right condition and is
simply waiting Tor an excuse to locate the
disease"
If you will come on children's treat
ment-day," he said, Il will show you the
disease in some of the worst forms. Then
you will have a clearer idea of its cause
and result. Some OF the cases are very in
teresting. And if you. can wait or come
back in couple of hours | am going to
amputate toe. The little boy mashed
it and it has to come off.
Thanks" | gasped as l STUN ble6 hur-
riedly down the steps and Joined the dust
and the crowd tina: was blowing down
the street.
And it was not chiIdren's day at the
Southern Dispensary either, although the
same motley crowd with their divers all
ments passed in and out along the WE'LL
worn way. And so | passed on down
Mission street and went into the Pacific
Dispensary, and, as the wIre-covered sign
says, "free clinic for the deserving poor"
A number of young men-students,
knew Instantly by their manner. They
gave me seat IN a corner, far away from
the door, so that escape was an impossi-
bility, and went on with tn cir work cheer
fully and carelessly talking The while
There's bad case of leg" said one.
''Save it?' laconicalIy questioned an
other. A shrug of the shoulder was The
only reply. The bad case of legn sat on
the operating table and prepared to
scream at seconds notice. His pale lit
tie face quive-ed with pain.
Poor little fellow; life isn't beginning
very happily"
And some one. laughed on the other side
OF the room-at nothing, perhaps, or at
some idle joke, and mingling with it there
came from the inner room low moan.
Little fellow mashed his fingers-they
are attending to him in there. Want 10
go in?'
1t being what l was there for 1 fol-
lowed.
There was pungent odor OF ether, and
several physicians, anc white aprons, and
shining instruments. And there was one
moor little hand exposed to view, with
four of the fingers SO mashed that they
were nothing but pulp. !:
"It took only second to do that said
the doctor, picking up a knife. that aaz-
zIed with its cruel brightness, ''and 1t
can't be undoae now. Too bad though
shame to spoil that hand" And then he
went to WORK. saw the white face on
the pillow and stream of blood that
spurtei forth and
The next was sure of was being in the
air and hurrying down the street and.
trying to forget the sights and sounds, an
/ shall do forever and forever.
MUREL BAILY.
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Little Sufferers Who Bravely Face
Operations at the Free
Clinic

figure was completely hidden by an lift
ting black coat.
Just then DR.. Bryant called me into the
clinic, and she smiled her thanks.
Poor people always have the most
Children" said the kindly doctor, and not
compIainingIy, for. of course, it does not
concern him. "And there is much con-
sequent sickness, and" he hurried on
children are the hardest TO treat For
instance, the baby that cried so"-and l
remembered it well, for the crying still
rang in my ears-"its eyes were the
trouble, and of course the instincts of
self-preservation prompted it to make a
fuss when l attempted to put anything
into the eye. Then a child is afraid of
pain, as will show YOU"
He stepped TO the door and beckoned
and the little woman with the two chill
dren came in and looked up into his face
with a troubled seriousness and told him
what she had come for.
$50 you hurt your ankle" the doctor
said, catching the little boy in his arms
and humping his head playfully against
his own.
The woman smiled at them and then
said: ''And I've been little nervous be-
cause he still limps for fear it might be
hip disease or his kuee might be affected" {"
The physician placed the child on the
operating couch and, removing the shoe
ana stocking, proceeded to examine the
hip and knee and ankle 10 the accom- pani-
ment of the boys screams and the half
escaped sighs of the sympathetic little
mother.
She put the baby down. think she
trembled SO that she might have dropped
him-and bent over the suffering one
with tenderness and her arms were about
him and her lips were turning blue and
her eyes were fixed on the doctors face
with fearful questioning.
And the tiny infant sat quietly on the
floor and made no noise. but stared silent
ly as though in awe at the strangeness of
the scene.
Now we will put the child's stocking
on and see him walk"
The mother unwound her arms and
t-ied TO do as the physician requested
with her trembling hands, and he stood
by and watched and his face was as i'm
passive as a stone.
He shook his head finally. There is
nothing wrong now and not likely to be, ~
he said.
She stopped suddenly and picked up
the baby and kissed him, and tried to say
her thanks and turned TO the door.
''It would have been lifetime of suf-
ferin g she said. as she passed me. 'Oh,
am so glad"
And we were all glad that she had some
gladness ior that day, even though it had
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WHERE CFILDRENS PAINS ARE BASED

The pitiful, waiIing sound of suffe ring
| child greeted me as l went up the steps of
the Hahnemann Dispensary. Through
the partly opened door figures of men and
women could be seen leaning ag ainst the
walls or banisters for support, or resting
upon the rough benches in the halls and
waiting-room in that peculiar attitude
which bespeaks the want in the heart of
man and the finaI giving up of the strug-
giles against the bnffetings of the world.
There was man close beside me and
the hand of disease had swept across his
body and stripped it of its healthfuiness,
and the hand OF want had touched his
soul and stripped it of hope. and poverty
had touched his garments and age his
hair. The very atmosphere about him
whispered the life story. so plainly was it
written from his head to his feet.
He thinks he will get well" said thin
woman, whom the winds of adversely had
shriveIed and dried and twisted in their
mad blowings. Hes had some trouble for
seven years. l wouldn't want to get
we'll"
And she lifted her leg over one knee
and glanced complacently over badly
swollen ankle with evident superiority.
Mines an ankle" she observed.
Then another woman in faded black
gown, who was fleshed where she should
ha We been lean and lean where she should
have been large, bent ner black -bonneted
head close to US and said confidentialIy:
Mines a throat. Pretty bad. guess
but not KILN"
Then she sat up straight with the con-
,;r - hau dt,tx and
neither looked nor spoke again.
1t is strangely wise and just provision
that the troubled should sympathize with
each other and the misera BILE should look
upon greater misery. In the prisons the
offender who is brought in last repeats the
nature of his offense to his compan-
ions behind the bars, and he is acquaintc
with theirs, and they condole and depIore
according to the degree of their souls
knowledge. In the almshouse-thata at a bode
of the past-in the asylum-everywhere
that misery stalks at will, 1t is the same
And it is all pretty sad, and none of it
is KILN very often.
In the waiting-room two young girls on
whose faces the wrong lines were appear
ing and on whose heads the wrong hats
were worn, sat and talked of their ills and
illnesses. Two little children rested, silent
and suffering, on the hard benches, too
weary to do anything but watch the play
OF The other children.
"Please," said troubled voice behind
the doorway where l stood, "has the doc
tor come yetP'
l looked down upon her from the height
of five foot three as she stood holding one
sturdy boy by the hand and bending
backward with the effort to hold the year.
old baby in her arm.
And what a face she had, with eyes in
which the blue of heaven shone cons tant
and lips and cheeks of delicate tint-a
face that would send an artist mad for his
brush and pencil. although it was shaded
by an inartistic little hat trim med spar
ingy with a few faded flowers, and her
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'rwhi.e the house for the final and best per-
formance on Saturday night is reserved
for the seniors and their friends. 1t is
needless to state that the theater is
packed on all three occasions.
The expense of these productions neces-
sarlly varies with the size of the class.
The class of SO. numbering $50, of which
third took part IN the drama, gave .As
You Like 1t, at a cost of about 5000. not
counting the expense of all the costumes,
for each OF the principal actors was sup
posed to furnish one of the latter, and the
soldiers, foresters and other minor char
acters made their own.
When this sum was reached President
Seelye was minded to announce il as the
limit for all future senior dramatics, but
the large and wealthy class of '97, num-
bering 165, expended $1,000 on the presenta-
ton OF the Merchant of Venice" A
large part of this amount went 10 MIR.
YounF, the trainer, whose charges were
$50 visit, and he made a good many OF
them. He, by the way. is a banker in
New York.
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THE WALL" MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM"

TO produce. As for the private house plays
that have been given at Smith-farces by
Howells and other welI-known writers, as
well as little comedies and dramatiza-
tons by the students themselves-they
are too numerous to mention.
The fame of all these pales. however.
be fore the glory OF the senior dramatics at
the close of the four years course During
the end of the spring term in the junior
year committee is appointed from the
class who employ themselves all through
the summer vacation in looking up sui.-
able plays not only in English but in
other languages as well.
When fall comes they report the result
of their search to the class, having gen.
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reproduction of it, with makeup added,
on the occasion OF the benefit.
The day of the benefit arrived; the
house was iammed to suffocation, the
members of the two teams occupying the
first two rows OF the orchestra chairs. The
first three numbers of the programme
passed off with more or iess applause.
Nc. was accredited to ''Digby Bell' in a
recitation" Ire large audience settled
back in their seats with looks upon their
faces anticlpatory of something funny.
Imagine their surprise when, as the figure
went up, short, corpulent individual,
with gray side whiskers and gold. rim med
glasses, whom they instantly recognized
as a NJ. Palmer, walked down to the
footlights. and waving down the feeble
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line of applause which greeted his appear
ance, in ministerial voice and nasal tone
commenced a TRADE of denunciatlon OF
the game of baseball. baseball players and
everything pertaining to the national
game.
On the conclusion of the TRADE Digby
dexterously removed his wig, whiskers
and eyeglasses and disclosed himself to
the astonished gaze OF the audience, who
quickly recognized the artist and greeted
MIN with Tremendous outburst of ap-
piause. After his second recall Digby ad-
vanceo to the footlight and was about to
MAKE speech of thanks, when, looking
In Manager Miners box, to mis- utter hor-
ror and amazement he recognized Manager
Palmer, surrounded by Amos j. Cum
mings. Henry c. Miner and the long
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last of January till the beginning OF the
spring term IN April there are on an aver
age three rehea-sals a week, and after
that one every day. Three weeks from
commencement full rehearsals take place
twice week, and the last week every
day, in the regular theater in Northamp-
ton, the Academy of Music, as il is called.
At these a certain mum Der of the original
dramatics committee must always be
present..
On Thursday night of commencement
week the dress rehearsal is given, and 10
this the freshmen are allowed to come.
seats of course being purchased. Or Fri
day night the town people and the upper
classmen and their friends are admitted,
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fit, which was acted upon Immediately,
and Digby forthwith sought Mr.. Palmer
in his. office, and, presenting the subject,
requested Mr.. Palmer's presence and con-
tribution.
Much. to his surprise Mr.. Palmer
launched forth a TRADE against baseball
and baseball players, 30 the amazement
of the crestfallen Digby, VINO Immediately
sought his friends, Amos ]. Cummings
and De Wolf Hopper, and told his tale OF
woe relative to Palmer's reception of his
overture. which was received by these gen.
tiemen In. full, together with a capital
imitation Of Mr.. Palmer's tone of voice
and mannerisms. Mir. Cummings and
Mr.. Hopper both suggested that in order
10 get square" he (BellJ could adopt no
better measure than 10 give complete
The Butler weekly times., 1897-06-10
BRYAN TALKS OF THE FUTURE.

There will be no Prosperity in Thi. Country
Until the Gold Standard is Abolished"
Cleveland, June 2-William J.
Bryan lectursd here tonight to q
large audience on bi.m stalli.n He
arrived at l p. IN from the West
he was met at the station by . big
crowd, under the leadership of the
Bryan Association, and escorted TO
his hotel In the procession were
delegations from q number Of sur-
rounding towns.
Mr. Bryan was frequently cheered
along the way and he smilingly nc.
knowIsdged the salutations. At tb.
hotel he was given = reception.
''There will be no prosperity for
this country" said Mr.. Bryan to The
World correspondent, until the
gold standard is abolished. made
this prediction during my cam paien
and history is bearing me out in It.
"Ihe proposed Tariff bill, if pase-
ed, will not give us prosperity.
Whether we have a low tariff or /.
high tariff, the result is the same an
long 40 the obnoxious gold standard
prevails.
AOur people are divided on the
tariff issue, and for that reason We
want to keep it in the background
The Butler weekly times., 1897-06-10
OIL WORKS SHUT DOWN,

esork Gives cut and 1000 Men ar. Idle,
Cleveland, O., June Sat 1e
o'clock yesterday the entire plant ~
Sthe Standard Oil works in this citv
shut down for an indefinite period
The foreman told the men that there
would be no work for weeks and Il
may be much longer time. The
men believe that during that time
another section Of the plant will b.
'asondoned, carrying the Standards
1ol'cy OF making in this city only
enough oil and other products to
supply the home demand.
Close to 1000 men are thrown ont
"'ot work by the shut down. II il
SAD that the Standard has an i'm
rsnse stock On hand in the Ki,o.
sury run warehouses, enough in fact
0scpply the demand in this distr;ct
ssn6 January l. 1898, or longer.
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The latest authentic reports from
Cuba are to the effect that there ara
from 10000 to 100000 people on
the verge Of starvation in Cuba. An
American coneul, who has made q
careful study, says it is more than
25O,00o. These people have been
compelled to leave their home, in
the country by their Spanish com
mauder, WsyIer, and take refuge in
the towns and are virtually prisoners
of war. The report says unlike .nv
other nation which claims to be civ
ilized Spain does not feed her prie-
oners of war. Most of these people
who have submitted to the Spanish
authorities and are thus held in these
prison camps ere women and chill
dren- The dispatch says: AN in-
spection of . settlement of the
paciscos shows just how they are
held as prisoners of war. In not
all the places are they Lenmed in
by bitches and barb wire fences as
at Campo Floridc. but they ara
everywhere under military guard.
Those who are left of the men can
net go out into the country beyond
} certain line. Then It is with An
escort Of soldiers. Usually theee
The Butler weekly times., 1897-06-10

The Illinois legislature adjourned
Saturday after being in session five
nonths. At the closing hour riot
@srd free for all fight was only avert
I'D smong the members BY the inter
arence OF the officers. According
to the report in the city papers, the
Legislature was the most rotten and
~oorrupt in the history OF the state
S.nd nearly every legislator is charg-
ed with having filed his grip with
sboodle. The defeat OF the revenu.
asnd apportionment bills, it is thought
'~'ll necessitate the calling of an ex-
ttra session.
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are the guerrillas, and it is an even
chance bewteen death by starvation
and getting back without being
murdered.
Tho paci6cos are allowed to beg
IN the villages or towns whore they
have been concentrated, and in some
OF the camps the military terrorism
has been relaxed. But it is q eh,d.
ow which is always over them. When
Wsylsrs order was issued the coun.
try people were allowed to bring in
their cattle. Some of these cattle
did escape tho 'bene. olsnce' of tho
soldiers and guerrillas. but they,
too, are prisoners OF war They
must Craze within tho lines To
stray without is slaughter and con.
facation. The vegetation is now
bare. They have eaten clear down
into the so;l, and there is little left
on which to feed.
Grown people, if they know how
to be moderate, may do fairly we'll
on roots for awhile, but they are
not nourishing for children. And
even the grown people, after q long
course OF roots. get an awful hung Q
Tor meat It was such a hunger
hat caused the reconcentrados near
Aariel to devour the carcasses of
oxen which had died Of ganerene.
This was On the sugar estate OF Las
Csnas, between Guanajay and Mariel
Tho reconcentrsdos knew what
'aussd the death Of the oxen.n
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and keep the real issue to the front
"There has been q great change
among the real people iu favor Of
silver. The recent local elections
show how great the change has besn.
We will certainly win in 1900.
my Ohio friends say that there
VIII be great Democratic victory il
this State this fall, and l am incliu.
ed to think they know what tLey are
talking about. The tide 10 running
strongly against the financial policy
OF the Republican party"