Which Relates To The Ague

AT y cnndid and disinteTeeted iiiívieo to overybody is, toi't have the igite. Hl luid niy lite tO í i vi; üvi.t ílffain, I don'l ihink I would ha-TS the igiuí. If anybody should ttíll inc tht thc agüe was agroeaMo, I tbíuk I tvoiild be vi ry muoh inclined to doubt them. Thai the agüe has been the prime canga iA' incalculable misery and evil to mankind, lifis bon so clcarly and gatiafaotoiily deiitonstrated as to learcnogruUud whatovor f.r dispute. I ti uil ages of ' tbe world tho aguo has provod itsalf ono oí' th most diruí'ul affliütiotUí We reíd in Homev's ilidd tliat once npon a time- if ín y memory serves me riglitly I thiák il tniist Im-vu bceh gome tlivco or fotir thousand yearsago - a " diré Contagión" Visitcd tho Oroci.ili ariiijf wliilo oncarajiod boforo Troy, OaTTying thofteanda of braye soldiers to premature graves. After many yoars of patiënt, iuoessantj porsevering and laborioott ítudy and researoh, I have til length atrived at the gago oonoluaion that the oontagion roferred to was nothing moro nor luss than tho aguo- -ditforing froia the agüe of to-day only iu tlmt throe thotisaml ycai-s have tendod to BomeWhat modify ífs fatal ohafscter, aiiil to rentove its opideiuio peouliaritiaBi Uníortonately for the öreeku, in the hurry and worry OfgOÜtgtO War tlioy had lift bofiiüd thciit thcir il: ipi'm. There Worc Uodrug stores within a tbousand milos of them, except thoso in tho city of Troy, and tboy could of courso expect no assistance from tho enemy - not eren tho sale of quinine, which to the Greeks had bocome a nccessity. ïhus it was tbot tliati":iT''ls of tlteitt perigheá af' th'c agiie in :i t. .-.-(. horrible manner. In tho sanie píe we reail howthe TrojaiMsent intothe Greoiaa ouTüji a si named Dolon. The Greeka canght him, and whon they laid hands apon him they noticed that ho shook like a leaf. ïiow, tho Greieks detested cowardico, and slew Dolon beeauso they imagincd ho was a cowiird and that ho treinbled for fcar. Dolon was not a coward, however, nor did fear cawse his trembling. IIo was having an ague shake. Dolon certainly was bravo and patriotio, ot he never would have ondertaken snch a job whon ho had tho ague. It strikes me that if tho Canaanitcs, in a certain battlo with tho Israelitcs, luid been visited with tho ague instead of with a storm of rain and wind and hail, tho Israelite would have' oonquered them much casier than they did. To mako a moro modern illustration of the baueful effeots of the aguo, both upon society and upon individuals, I would refer to Shakspeare'a üthello. I will venturo to surmisü that tho Iiniuortal Bard was not quito right wlien ho niado tho Moor say of jealousy, " It is the ffreen-evf I monater W)iich doth niako met it luedson." Ky reasons tor doubting npon this point mny bo briofly givcn. Wo ;iro all aware that nothing, not oven. jealousy, wil] in.'iko i Otan deploro his existenoo liko the agT.ie ; nd whun wo come to considor that the most authontic records show the aguo to havo boon vcry prevalent in Vonioe ut that timo - even inoro se, if possible, than it is in Ann Arbor today - it is quito olear to mó that it was intonded to speak of the aguo and not of jealimsy, and that tho linos should rond, " It ia the shak-inff moist#r "Whieh iloth uiiiku the meat il fecils on." Indood, I bolievo that üthollo bimsclf must havo had tho aguo when ho amothr ercd Desdemona with a pillow, for wo know that niany pooplo aro dolirious when thoy havo feveea, aiid suroly nt aame man would amothex suuh a loveable wonwn as Desdeinoua. This is tho only inisUke. I havo boen ublo to detect in Shaksppare. You will bcliovo mo, ray dear madomoisellc, when I say that Leander would havo swam the Hollespoat twice ns ofteu as ho did, woro it not that ho stood in holy horror of tho ague - a. horror even strongcr than his love tbr Hero. Tlio aguo was then raging in Sestos. I duu't think auybody will attsmpt to contradiet m y MBertion that Enooh Arden would not havo fallón from tho must il' tho agae had not shaken liim off. Many illustrious mon havo had the ague Ivo had it. Somo of tho earlior nimrods wci-o bilt partdally suocossful- wholly due to tho ngue, which shook thcin so as to dostroy thcir aim. Izaak Walton had the aguo so badly on) tfay that he couldn't go a-fishing. Bülwer must have liad tho aguo, or hu oould not have wiitten Zanoni, Iverily bcliovo that tho domon, tho " Dweller of tho Tbroshold," that figured sa conspiouousljr in that work, was nothing moro nor loss than tho aguo, and th.it tho olixir of lifo, which tlio Roaiorucians maiiutactured and oaght to hivo sold at wholcsali and ivtail, was siin])ly au aguo cure. This belief arises from the faot that whon I read about it I was (jnitc cliilly. It was winter, and the fin: had noarly gono out. 1 might go on for a week, yen, for a montli, enumorating instonoes whi;ro.tho aguo has brought disasters upon tho liuman raco. Suffice it to say, however, that tho aguo i a very horrible malady. Apropcs to this dissertatiou, I will relate a littlo episode. When I was younger thau I atn now, T read tho following verses somewhere. I won't teil whero, beoanae if I do ovcrybody will bo reading thom : '■Thtr-1 i- :i world beyODd ■r;nl propc, :iiMiiii, willis l!i-' h'.n a nf hopo - A 1 i i - ;i 'his ki ycnith'a f:r.i gaM nlriii mm .1 lie bUt .;.!! :iud ji (llv.uu. # '##♦# 'lli.' li anl.d tiinn Comea piping clicorly thsouKh t lio odaroui leavoj Dim slüti's siuk, misMike, aowis tka orj vt.-ii ivmiriiin, JLná rodea tbe ..r.-ml thioui the grten osV6b oí the mountniu." I had before heard of fauna and oreada, and reading these versos greatly increas eil a former ouxiosity to know what they wero ; so I set about ascortaining tho vvhcroabouts of that ideal world, but oouldn't flnd it. I hoar.l afterwards that when ono had a fevor-- espooiitlly an aguo fever- ono's imaginativo powers w.To niui.li gtronger. Tho noxt timo I liad the aguo 1 set my im.igination at work, and - -fonnd ilm world! I won't teU whorc it is, bocause if Ido STerybody will bo going thoro. I resolved to rnpair thither my next aguo day. (My aguo wa I the kind that cornos evory othorday.) oond day aftor, when I bogan to i'ei 1 aguish, I made all possiblo hasto to tho ideal world, airiving thorb in duo i. Everything was strange, yot huautiful. Some of tho mea I saw, and whom I afterward learned wero fauns, woro vory curious iooking. I won't tell how thcy looked, becauso it' I do all tho men will try to imitóte them. Ono of thcsi, through my asking, directed me to the polaoG of tlic oread queon, At tho gat e stortrl ;; smitiucl. lic was a faun, imieh maft piily dressed than the others. l'nlilf otír sentinels, hd oanieá ju Énfteld rülr at ötbe wöapdii 81 wafc tttil had in hiahand n reed instrument resonib a fifo, whioh lio pinjad ut, my approach. I guve liiin my eard, wlr.oh vfés j '. in to the queen, to whosd preseBi ■■ I ;is soon admitted. Her palace, though in u ïiiiiun'.iin, was very beaitifnl indoed. Almost tho firs! ijncsiii.ii she nskcit ïiio was about my politics. I toM lier I Was an Idealist. I won't teil wlutt a?i [doAlist is, becausë if I do wel] haVè nouing in oür inilittiis but Idcalisin. Bhe didn't think 1 looked very real - 1 was töo handsomo. Shti remrked mj' palenen, a:.d iiKjiiircd the causo of it. I tóld her T hitd iiif agüe, :ih(i oanoÉ ló coüBult an Idealist phyaioian. Slie sympatbized with we and ontertained mo very sumptuously. I won't teil what wc had fordinner, because if I do everybody will be having the s:ve disliüS: That avening there wns to be a gnuid ball at tho fashionablc hotel, and she invited me. The company was select - none were invited (besides niyself) büt i'nuns and oreads. "J'llefo wcre sixteen oread?, íifteeii fiitins, and íiiyself. í nevor saw a inore fflagnifioent hotel. I won't teil how it was títted up, becauso if I do all our botóla will bc remodeled to correspond With it. The muño was furnished by a string band of four fairy players, and I never danced to sweeter music. I havo attended a groat many ballsj but nond so unjoyable us this cmo My altehdanee npon the qtiocn, the lovlicst of all the oreada present; tho voluptuous music, the rtoWetS) the pcrfunied air, the luxurious repast, the gorgeous dresses - theso made me foigfit the aguo for the time. (I won't teil how they dressed, liecauso if I do all tho giris of Ann Arbor will bc dressing like oieads.) During the evcning she asked rac if I kiicw the story of Cydippe and Aoontius. I tokl her I did, but that onc ought not to talk about such things when ho had tho agne. Whereat she blushod. I didn't Iet my youth got the start of me at all. Tho noxt day I was presented to tlic Lord Mayor, who gave me the freedora of tho city for as great a lcngth of time as I desircd to stay. " It is very seldom," said he, " that an Idealist visits us froni the other world ; and when one does come he shall be treated with tilo grcatost respect, no matter whether he has tho aguo or not." I dined with him, and nfter dimiur callcd upon celebratod physioian, who gave mo a specific that curotl rae of tho agüe. I won't teil his name nor what the medicine was, bocause if I do everybody who has tho aguc will putronize him. I thought I had stayed as long as I could, my business at home demanding wy attentiou. Asi badethe quoonLOolbye slie invitod me to viait her ugaia. I promised to. Notwithstapding I havo drawn rathcr a cheerful picture, I yet repeat my admonitiou to everybody, dou't have the aguo. Lest some might get it for the salto of visiting that mest dclcctablc ot' all places, the ideal woild, will ttvte that everybody cunuot be adiuitted to the présenos of an oread, even if they fiDd whero she dwclls. It is not enough that yoa 'io an Idealist in politics. Certain very particular virtucs aie necossary, which the queen said I possessed in a p&markable degree. TIk; principal virtue wa-i theChriatian fortitude with which I boro tho ague. Several other virtues are required, but I won't teil what they are, becauso if I do everybody will bo trying to cultívate thein. SllAKY COJÏTRIHUTOR. A RePTTBUOAS - who has long cherished tho popular idea that all the intelligente, virtuo, piefy, religión, and we don't know how many other good and noble qüalities, were tKe exclusive property and pwsc-ssions of his party - -was hcard to cemark, a few days ago, that when ho rrad tho proceedings of the late Syracuse cönveiition he should havo thought it wáa a Democratie menagerie, bad not' the paper - a Repnbliostt ono - pronouuced it on orthodox Republioan gathering. His unwilling conclusión w;is that the party did not contaia all tho reliiiU3 element t' the country. We presume, howevor, that he only nieant to confesa that a little of tho ungodly element had somohow orothcrleeomo mixed or amulgamated with tho saints, aud not that títere was any good or good men out of fche Republican fold, as lus indiscroet remark might havo led tho thoughtless hearor to suppoao, He oextainly would bo loth to concodo that the " God and Morality party " is go s;iUy demoralized as the proceediugs at Syraenso would indieate. The following aro Üio candidatos for State offioers, nominated at tho New York Republi a:i Oonvonüon liolilat Syracasr, and which tho Domocrats of that State will havo tho ploasure of sending " whore th woodbino twineth " thü Tth of uext November : For Seeretary of State- Gt. Hilton Scribner, of Wostohcstor oounty. l-'nf Comptroüer - Xelson lt. Hopkins, of Brie. For Treamrer - Thomas Ruinps, of Monroo. For Atiorney Oenend - Francia C. Barlow, of Xew Yovk. Stat Enginter - WilMam B. Taylor, of Onciila. For Cu il Commissioner - Aloxauder Barkley, of Washington. For State Friten öommistioner - Thomas Kirkpatrick, of Cayuga. Tin; New Yovk Evming Poaf, Radical, in gpeaking of tlie influence of Coxklixg and M'JRIMlY ovor tho lato Syraousa convontion, pays : "Thouonfldonoo whioh the delégate placed in thora was astonishing, but still more astonishing was tho manner in which AxmiEW 1). Vmn-: lont himself to this faotion and did its work. Tlis fulsomo culogy of the President, and defonco of the San Domingo job were unworthy of liis i-cputation." lu which astonishment and opinión tho Pont is not alone. President White hm littoly advised the Obrnell studente 1 tabjuro Eeada's Tmv riblo Temptation."- fik. So far bo goo;l. Now let Prosidont WuriE adviso the same Cornoll students to abjuro the prococdings of tho late Syracuse epnvention, nnlesa they can be made to bilicvothat that'orridly beha ved body was Demooratio, Accounts froin Strasbourg state thiit de ofemigration fromtnere has been so great that rncasures liad to bc deviscd to check it.