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A HERALD OF MERCY

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND HER
ONDERFUL WORK.

A Story of the Most Remarkable Woman 1

of the Nineteenth Century—The Hell
She Found Became 11 Heaven of Clean-

liness and Comfort.

War is not all blood .and glory. It
has. its gentler side, represented by
noble women, whose work requires a
more indomitable spirit and a nobler
courage than to go. "down into the
jaws of deat ” during the heat and
excitement of battle. The army nurse
must sacrifice ease, health, and'all the
home comforts so dear to woman’s
heart; and face death in the pestilen-
tial atmosphere of the- fetid and over-
crowded corridors of the hospital. She
must become a constant attendant on
the most loathSOme diseases and
frightful wounds; and shrink from no
peril nor horror of blood nor death.
History affords no nobler examples of
heroic womanhood than are furnished
by these ministering angels of the bat-
tlefield. The truth of this is best ex-
emplified in the life and work of Flor-

 

‘FLCREXCE NIGHTINGALE, IN 1864.

encc Nightingale, the soldier’s friend.

Miss Nightingale was born in Flor-
ems, the “City of Eiowers,” during
the month of May, 1§20,. while her pa;-
re 11*s were sight-seeing in Italy. She
was the youngest daughter of Mr. Wil—
liam Shore Nightingale of Embly Park,
Hampshire, and of Les. Hurst, Derby-
shlre, England. Her father was
wealthy; and the home of her youth
was a comfortable old Elizabethan
manor-house situated in one of .the
most lovely parts of Derbyshire. She
was educated at home byprlvate gov-
ernesses. .Mr. Nightingale, a highly-
cultured, scholarly man, evidently fa-
mred the advanced education of girls,
for before his famous daughter had
reached. her seventeenth birthday she
was skilled in science, classics, and
mathematics, and was well-read in
standard literature, a fair artist, a geod
musician, and could speak and read
ernch, German and Italian fluently.
In addition to this she did fancy nee-
dlework; and on the walls of her old
home at Lea Hurst still may be seen

samples of her skill with the needle-

She lived the freest of outdoor lives,
walking through the lovely country
surrounding her home, and riding over
the hills on her pony. It was dining

one of these rides, with her friend,

the vicar, that the “Queen of nurses”
found her first patient, a dog. The in-
cident shows a tenderness of heart
and thoughtfulness rare in youngg irl.
hood.

0n the ride in question they met

.Roger, an old Scotch shepherd, who

was attempting to collect his she»
without- a dog. “What has become
of your dog?" inquired the vicar as he
rode up to the old man.

“The boys have been thromrg
stones at him, 'sir,” replied the old
shepherd, "and I am thinking of put-
ting him out of his misery to-nignt;
for his leg is broken, and he will never
be any good any more."

“Poor Cap’s leg broke-.11!” and the
tears came into the girl‘s eyes. “Oh,

Roger, how could you leave poor old
Cap alone in his pain?
where he is.”

’13:: tell me

AS SHE IS ”PO-DAY.

“You can’t do any good, missy,“ was
the sorrowful reply. “I’ll just bring
a cord to him to—night, and that will
be the best way to case his pain.
lying in the shed overyonder.”

“Do take me to himl" and Florence
lifted her tearful face to tho vicar,
who seeing her distress turned his
horse in the direction of the shed. In
a moment Florence was by the side of
the suffering dog. kneeling on the
muddy floor, so intent on doing some-
thing to ease the, pain of the animal
that she thought not of the dress she
we: ruining. Fortunately Cap’s leg
Wis or broken, oni'v‘ bruised and hurt;

a1. gder the ministrations of his lov-
11.. .use he soon recovered. ,

action is 11' meal of the Whole
1114-; 21' Florence Nightingale. She
cc-..I.. never see suffering without striv-
ing, her utmost to relieve it. It soon

became the custom of the neighbor-
hood, when anyone had a cut or a
bruise r there was a sick animal,- to
send 1'01 “1 iss Florence."
natural for her to help the needy as
for the sun to shine. Her favorite

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It was as '

 

books werethose' which told how to

alleviatesuffering and misery. In-
stinctively- she Was fitting herself for
her great life work. -

Her parents belonged to an old and
wealthy family, and in due time Flor-
ence was presented at COurt and took
her place in society; but, even during
her first .season, she took a much
greater interest in the .hospitals and
charitable institutions of London, than
she did in the gay social life of the
metropolis; and shortly after withdrew
from. it altogether. She now began a
systematic study of the hospitals of
London, Dublin and Edinburgh; and
compared them with those in. leading
Continental cities. She found their
greatest. need to be trained women
nurses. . Miss Nightingale determine-d
to fit herself to become a skilled nurse;

but to securethe needed training she .

wasobliged to go. to Kaiserwerth on
the Rhine, where there was an unique
Protestant institution for the training
of nursing sisters. Hither she went,
in 1851, and enrolled herself as a vol-
untary nurse in order to secure the
prized knowledge. Afterward she
continued her studies at the hospital
inParis. Her health failed and she
was obliged to return to England
Then came the war of Crimea. The
reports which reached England daily,
of brave men literally dying by hun-
dreds in the hospitals for want of or-

dinary human attention, stirred the,

motherhood of England until it arose
and demanded that, regaidless of cus-
tom, precedent, and red tape, women
should go to care for the sick and the
dying. The demand was granted; and
Mr. Sidney Herbert, the head of the
War Department, wrote to Miss Night-
ingale offering her. the command of
this novel expedition of nurses. The
same day that Mr. Herbert penned his
letter, a. pale, fragile, thoughtful wo-
man at Lea Hurst sat down and wrote
to the War Minister offering her ser-
vices. It wasnot until the next day
that Miss Nightingale received Mr.
Herbert’s letter. She was to leave for
the East in eight days.

On October 21, 1854, all was ready
and Miss Nightingale, accompanied by
thirty-eight nurses, started on her no-
ble mission. ”It was not until No-
vember 5 that this little band of "an.
gel women” reached Constanunopls.
They at once took up their quarters in
the great Barrack Hospital at Scutari.
and, began their work“ The Lady- in-
Chief, as Miss Nightingale officially
was called, found the condition of the
hospital indescribably horrible. There
was no sanitary. arrangements. It
was frightfully overcrowded. The

men were covered with vermin, and
rats bit the

limbs of the helpless

 

LEA BURST.
wounded. The beds were reeking
with filth. I There was no laundry, no

kitchen and the meals were served in
the roughest manner. Added to this
there was a scarcity of food, coverings
and the commonest necessities of life.
This was the Augean stable the frail
English woman had to clean; but she
cleanSed it. The day after her arrival
she received the wounded from the
glorious charge of Balaclava, and in a
few months she had ten thousand sick
and wounded under her ca’re.

Nothing daunted her. Her endur-
ance was phenomenal. Wherever the
danger was the graves and the need
cried loudest there “err. light form was
to be seen. The s:1de;.ng soldiers al-
most worshipped her. Dying men
turned to kiss her shadow as it fell

All yielded to the indomitable will
of Miss Nightingale She re- -organiz-
ed the entire military hospital system.
Order sprang out of chaos at her bid-
ding. The hell she found became a
heaven of cleanliness and comfort. At
her call all England arose to help the
work. Contributions of ,money pour-
ed in. At the end of six months the
hospital arrangements were such as to
satisfy even Miss Nightingale. She
remained here for two years, never
faltering in her work.

In 1856, when peace was declared, all
England sought to honor her home-
coming. But the brave little woman
embarked under an assumed name, and

reached her beloved Lea. Hurst even'

before her family knew she had left
Scutari. .She refused all public cya-
tions; and devoted the $250,000, which
the gratitude of a nation presented
to her, to the building of a training
school for nurses, which is fittingly
called the Nightingale Home. The
brave and noble are modest.

 

A Humillatlm—r ‘l‘lionght.

The young colored man was very
fortunate in that the. cable-car was .just
about to stop at a crossing when the
fender struck him. disc-n'tangled
himself from the n,ctwork and,
straightening himself up, inquired of
the pol iceman:

“W'hah is de recruiting office?”

The policeman gave him the proper
direction and then asked:

“Were you on yo or way to enlist?”

“No, sub; but I done change mer
min'. I ain’ gwinter run no risks of
habbin’ it said dot I done kep’ out’n
de abvmy ' only ten most mer death at
de han’ s ob er streetcyah!"—-Washing-
ton Star. »

“He is dippant
if he flies."

“Yes he can.
whenhe tries to be funny.‘

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He is very.serious“"

 

‘ " T‘H’Rowsns of DYNAMITE.

: The Vesuvius .1111 life. Nictheroy Unlike

the Ships of Any Navy in the \Vorld.

With the 'incorporationof the Nicth-
eroy. into the United States Navy, that
branch of the sermce will have two
ships that are unlike those of any other
navy in the world—destroyers 0:1 a
huge plan. - These two ships—the Ve~
suvius and the Nictheroy—arethrow-
ers of dynamite. The explosives which
they throw do not depend, as do those
thrown from the- torpedo tubesof or-
dinary warships or the missile sent
from a torpedo boat, on any mechani--
cal contrivance, inside ofthe missile.
They travel through the air, and their
propulsive force comes fromcompress-
ed air, which is stored in a tube'that
is more like agun. thanla tube. The
shots have ranges far superior to those
of the torpedo and accuracy which is
almost perfect.

The one question is whether large

. ships like these can getnear enough to

an enemy to reach him with their shot.
They are not like torpedo-boats or tor-
pedo boat destroyers. They are large
and noticeable Objects, and while the
Vesuviusis armored, the Nictheroy has
little defensive power. _ But if they do
get near enough to an enemy to use
their dynamite guns. properly the ship
against which they. operate is doomed.
No armor, no strength of censtructmn,
no bulkheadscansave the warship that
is struck ,by the tremendous, charge
of nitro-glycerine or explosive gela-
tine with which the aerial torpedo is
loaded.

The Nictheroy originally was a mer-
chant vessel owned by the Morgan line,
and her name when she was in a peace-
ful occupation, was El Cid. She was
bought by the Government of Brazil in
the time of the last revolution there,
and was to be used against the insur-
gents, who'had seized the navy and
Were bombarding the. forts in the har-
bor of Rio de Janeiro. She was re-
fitted pretty thoroughly as a cruiser,
and her coal bunkers were so arranged
that they protect the machinery and
the parts necessary. to operate the gun.
The latter is mounted in the bow, and
projects through an opening in the
spar deck, giving it a clear range for-
ward and permitting a free motion on
each side, so-:that- it can. be trained
either to port or starboard: The air
reServoirs of‘the. gun are in the lower
hold, _on the starboard side, directly
under the gun, and a central air pipe
leads up through the foundations on
whiCh the carriage of the gun reSts.
Shields protect the weapon and the
men who serve it.

On the. way to Brazil the crew prac-
ticed with it, using “dummy” projec-
tiles, and its accuracy was found re-
markable. The gun was so new, how-
ever, that the 'men were almost as
much..afraid of it, oaths enemy ,w‘gs.

'expected'fto be, and'tli‘ere was consider?

able reliefon board when it was found
on .arrivalvin Brazil that there Would

‘ be noneedforsflrllls. it with; real .“dyna-

mite, as the revolution was over. Since
then the successful installation 'of “to
batteries of these guns in United States
forts" has made artillbrists more con-
fident, and much reliance is placed in
the work of both the Vesuvius and the
Nictheroy.

 

TO AIM OUR GUNS.

How the Range Finder ll Used In Place of
.. the Human Eye.

Seacoast guns, the huge engines
which ars‘intended, not to kill men
directly but to destroy ships of war,
are not aimed by gunners' eyes, but by
mathematical formula and precise” cal-
culatidn Indeed, “there is nothing by
Which the eye could sight a modern
coast defense gun for any of the gi‘ea‘t
ranges, as the weapon ".pbints high up

into the air and not at the object which '

is being attacked. This has made it
absolutely necessary to devise a. way
of aiming which should. be exact, and
the result has been that the high pov‘ver
rifled steel gun of to- day is the most
accurate cannon ever used in warfare.
Paradoxically, as guns have increased
their ranges they have increased their
accuracy of fire. ‘

The instrument that has replaced the
human eye to aim the seacoast gun is
called a range and position finder, and
its purpose is ‘to tell .exactly how far
from the cannon muzzle the ship to be
attacked is. *To accomplish this one
of the most peaceful professions, that

of surveying, has been pressed into ser?

vice, and the range of fire is ascer—
tained by a method based on the sim-
ple process of triangulation.

Besides the;range, however, the posi-
tion of the’ship must be known. Some
forms (if range-finders are designed so
that it is necessary to have two of them
at fair distances from each other, using
the distance between them as the base
of a triangle of which the ship: is the
apex.
range'and the position of the enemy.

Others ascertain the range' with one
movement and the position with an-
other. Of this class is the Lewis
range-finder, which has been installed
in the forts of the United States. It is
of the kind known as depression range-
finder, and it, too, calculates the dis-
tance by triangulation. The known
fire guns, as it is too swift in its flight.

The aerial torpedo which is thrown
from the dynamite guns on these two
rocket and is about ten feet long. Spi-
ral vanes guide its flight’and the ex-
plosive charge, consisting of from 200
to 500 pounds of nitro-glycerine, is in
the head and‘middle of the projectile.
When loaded the entire affair weighs
1,000 pounds. t can be set to explode
either on impact or by a time fuse. A
range of 2;000 yards with entire accu-
racy is attainable.

 

Ned—If you want to marry an heir-
ess, why don’ t you propose to Miss El-
derly? She's rich.

Ted—Yes; but I object to her past.

Ned—W by, I thought that was above
reprOaéh.

Ted—It is; but there' I so much of it.
~Biooklyn Life.

Thus they tell at once both the

 

OVERALLS Foe LITTLE ONES.

The Official Robe of Licensed Fun and
' Permitted Mischief. . 1

t a certain shop where children’s
Wares are sold the overall is a respect-
ed garment. It is the official robe of
licensed fun and permitted mischief.
The youthful overall of this season is
stoutly made, and attractively. It
comes in blue denim, with suspenders
attached. And—praise the Lord-it is
in fashion for girls. Up to their eighth
year they may wear blue overalls and
little sunbonnets to play in. And if
anyone pokes fun at them, it shows the
ignorance or the silliness of such a
mean gossip. The most conservative
women this yearars buying overalls
for their small daughters just as they
order them for their sons. The, differ-
ence between the' garments is largely
in the trimming. The girls' overalls
have red yokes and red. suspenders,
while the boys get along with only red
stitchings.“ But then, for the. boYs,
come tiny denim' coats like the iron-
sers. The girls are not supposed to
wear these. The reason?

“A boy is dressed, " said the attend-
ant, “with only overalls and the, jacket
over his underwear.
yet made up their minds to this sim-
plicity for'girls. Gamps of white cot-
ton or linen, or sweaters, are worn by
girls with overalls." 'Any child large
enough to hold its own on the play-

 

Mothers have not .

grOund is big enough to dress in this‘

highly sensible garment. The price,
for girls, is sixty- -nine cents; fer bey’s,
forty-nine. The comfort which this
ovei all fashion insures to girls and
boys and their mothers is hardly to be
estimated in a moment. It means that
the play hour is free for all from wor-

riment about damage to clothes; that ,

mud, even fence nails, no longer have
power to poison young souls. Mothers
can turn their hopefuls loose in a back
yard, a garret or on a seashore, confi-
dent that nothing worse than dirt and
tears will happen to small clothes.
Tears can be mended easily, and the
remedy for dirt is the occasional wash-
tub.

Fancy the relief to women of limited
means, this sanction by wealthy neigh~
bors of a fashion of dressing the im—
petuous young, which recognizes their
need of being next to lawless frequent-
ly. In intervening moments, for very
tiredness, . children want.tb be clean
and good. ’

_With. this admirable garment boys
and girls wear on their feet low, or
higher shoes of stout brown leather. It
is imported goatskin; the heels are
spring. The higher shoes keep out the
sand. The soles are thick, the heels
low and lacing is more sportsmanlike
thanbuttonlng. Withal these boots
are easy and flexible. The careful
shoeing of children is an intelligent
enthusiasm with enough shoemakers
to supply the demand from.. mothers
wise enough to ask: for, - _tsshaped
shoes. It is the pride or- on ':
particular where young boot? sire sold
that a child wearing from infancy foot
covering of their make will grow up
with perfect feet if nature gave to them
a fair start. Black shoes for children
as for adult, are dressler than brown,
though there is a brown Russia} leather
sort which is good enough for much
afternoon use.

 
 

Kate Greennwny Frock.

Nothing could be more quaint and
becoming to young children than the
little Kate Greenaway frocks which 'are
now becoming so popular again.
'For a sweet ’little miss of four or
five, a‘ lovely little gown is of white
lawn dotted with blue. The skirt is

 

quite plain in frent and is finished at
the bottom with two tiny ruflies. The
short waisted bodice is laced part way
up the front and worn over a. dainty
guimp of white lawn. The sleeves
which are held in with a small cuff at
the wrist, are slashed to show the
white _guimp underneath. A large
sun hat is worn With this frock

 

 

.Dinlng Room Soda. Fountain.

The dining-room soda-fountain was
seen more'or less often'last summer.
It is again put forward with the spring
housefurnishings. It is aplain oaken box
that might be anything until it is open.
ed and its interior displayed. Within
an icevchest the supply of sOda-Water
is held, and small bottles of various
fruit syrups are also a part Of the out.
fit. A more simple arrangement
where soda-Water is wanted at the
country house which is often not only
miles from the traditional lemon- but
equally removed from the esteemed ef-
ferveScence diSpenSer, is the use Of the

home-made syrup with to siphon of

The fruit syr ups—straw.

plain soda. _
raspberry,

berry, pineapple, orange,

current, and Yemen—are easily made.

The wish or a small boy for a. soda.

--' fo‘dntaiin right in the wall of his room

is practiizoll'y, if not to the flatter,»
cempnshed.

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