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High Hays and Holidays.
hlong and lugging hours of time,
[ flow heavily the hopo you mock,
f jfowslow you creep across tho clock,
Rhea tho child waits for you to chime
fhoyear returning in its prime—
Vet all so glad! yet all so gl;i
I hurrying hours, when sgoisirigh,
[ I So breathlessly Hashing you sweop circles along, thron
So last your
|y failing sense and dazzled cyo,
Ve scarcely sco them as they fly—
And all so sad! and all so sad!
—Harriet Sjmffonl, in lhi'per’t.
WM THE COUNTRY.
llt’s Id Seventy-eight Pickett
Miss Diver. ‘‘And here is
ick, lliss driver!” (
Dorothy Diver gave these
h with an assumption of being
jin the wavs of the metropolis; if she in
-v B, lie she daily tried,to habit spe^ as hacks. were
I [r her feigned man did not iin
upon Charlie Kingston at all.
lA little girl from tho country,” he
B to himself. "Nover been herein
[life before. before she She’ll lias been lose hero that com
|ion many
fcths.” '
harlie Kingston, be it understood,
I [was not a professional jeh u. lie him
L not so very long from the
districts. It had become neces
\for him to come to New York to
b care of an old uncle who was an
1 lid; it had also become necessary
kMI m hi, living.
ing, ... boring livery-stable , ,, to , . be
was
out at a bargain, and Charlie had
i.alHiv man’s liking for horses. So
fought paying part of the money
r n and giving a mortgage for the
; and he was here this misty Feb
ry evening because one of his
ers had sprained a wrist in lifting
,avy trunk, and business was brisk,
orothy looked at him as he held
1 the back-door for her, and secret
omlored if this was the typical
f dork hack-driver of whom she
read and heard so many evil
igs.
■is eye* was bright and clear, his
|k Ice of wore the a bldbd healthy glow, and no
could have been
le quietly courteous than was he.
While she was still considering
le things, the hack stopped,
beventy-eight |l Pickett Place, miss,”
| the driver, jumping down from
boXi
jOh, Id have we reached it so soon?”
Dorothy, starting out of a rev
I. Ich “Oh, dear, I forgot to ask how
the fare would be!”
dollar, miss,” said
in spite of himself at her
pent borothv panic.
jely drew a sigh of relief. This
l was not the overcharge she
[if dreaded.
you would please carry the trunk
stairs,” said she, timidly, half-fear
lest the New York hack-driver
luld cast the baggage withimpre
ks, on the pavement, and decline
per to serve her
ht Charlie Kingston did nothing of
k” sort. lie only said ‘stairs "Certainly
and went up at once!
h the trunk well-balanced on his
ulder.
The fourth Hat—this is quite
it,” said Dorothy. “I’m so much
iged to you, driver!”
Itnd she timidly tendered the dollar
'• with a little silver dime.
Kingston gave back the latter coin.
Gne dollar is my fare. 'L, said lie,
%
“But for your trouble with the
fnk, she faltered.
Pie smiled a little.
[“It Id lie. is my “Good-evening, business to take trouble,”
[And miss !"
before Dorothy could remon
pate 4 he was gone.
never saw such a nice hack-driver
m y life,” thought she, as she tapped
I the door.
r iie ds tened. There was no voice,
r dlere ' ver e footsteps inside.
I wonder;' she mused, “if Norman
b °T en the door himself?”
:
Pl)r Dorothy, ba it known, had
anned a surprise for her brother
l° rm an, who had come to New York,
r ' u a year since, to follow his trade
f printer.
Dorothy h ad i on g ed to come, too,
Bt ' alas, she was not man, but a
a
roman!
Pllt hito her stepmother had made
t.imily home so obnoxious to her
at she had suddenly conceived the
psrnmnation live of coming to New York
L Gordian Norman, thus severing
L* I knot of affairs.
Be win be glad to have me keep
Uise for him,” she thought; “and I—
r 1 W0ld 'l go to the verv top of Pike’s
Peak to get away from that womanl”
80 here she was, upon that winter
ros v . smiling and eager, when
.
door was opened at Number
^niy-eight '■Oh Pickett PI ace.
Normy—dear Normy!”
- ad she flung herself, sobbing, upon
8 broad shoulders that eclipsed
®he (lomiraton St ax.
■■
one cillery gaslight
“I—I b < ! g your pardon,” faltered
deep "but a
voice, it isn’t If or ray! Mr.
iver hasn’t come in yet. I am Royal
Brooks—his chum, you know! You
are his sister, I supply ou loofc
actly like him. ex .
hre Pray sit down by the
and warm yourself; it’s very cold.”
And Dorothy, blushing to the
roots of her hair, obeyed. very
“Will he be in soon ?” she stammered.
“Very soon now 1 . ‘ May I give you a
cup of tea? I Hatter myself I’m rather
a dabster in the brewing of tea. We
take turns in keeping house, we fe'.
lows—Normy ...
Diver, Bill Blake and
lne> and thls is my week. We club
to g'ither and rent this flat We
couldn t stand the boarding-house
“ 3ine f 3 any lon er ^ ou know Miss
° - -
y T -
11,1 thus chatting, to relieve her
embarras * m ffiit, he bustled around, and
P^ently brought her a cup of very
™ Ce ea " n a dusty Japanese tray, with
i
wo or three fossil biscuits and a slice
or two of cold beef.
efore she had finished it, Norman
‘msclf came in, fresh and breezy.
ia 6 you here?” he cried.
“ileJIo! tr .. .. it's Dotty! Why, you precious
^ J* e ' pU38y ’ huvv 011 earth came you
And then Dorothy told her tale,
mter . rupted a few minutes later by the
a PP eara nce of the third, yohng printer,
" iUoughby Blake by name, who was
equally amazed, and equally disposed
>° >“ hnipitnble to the pr.tt, ,tr,mg,r.
“An 1 so” so ’ ■^Dorothy, mi,] holding •
t! S h ® ° n to Bormans hand, “I’ve
to live with you.”
‘^on are the ilearest little lass in all
4 ie '^Hd. said Norman, with a puz
^dlo I bores 0 ,< the ; -but other you fellows, see, it won’t you know, wmrk.
“ 3 «bare and share alike in our house
keeping affairs, and we haven’t any
ex f ra 1 C01lId ro ™‘ 3l eep on the sofa, with i
a
rug over ue. and give Miss Diver my
uen. suggested Brooks, eagerly,
, lV lour . den , is . all „ well fora
very
rough chap like you,” said Bill Blake,
in a superior way, “but it wouldn’t do
for ayoui*g lad D ni offer mine, but j
fat - flV-lTT. WITH TTT- !
Kins’ Baby crying ail night, directly
below. I’m used to it, but I don’t j
think any one else could stand it.”
“She could stay with Kitty Cliff?”
suggested Brooks, sud lenly.
“The very idea!” shouted Bill, smit
ing his knee.
And Norman whispered to her that >
Kitty Cliff was the fiancee of Brooks
a Bright girl, who lived a few doors
down the street.
“Ton’ll be to like her, _
sure
i much of
said he. “And I can see as
u as if y° u were hera ”
y°
Dorothy’s lip trembled.
“But I wanted to surprise you,”
said she. “I wanted to be your little
housekeeper, Normy.”
“ You have surprised me, Dot,” said
he “And next spring, when the lease
-
runs out, I’ll give Blake and Brooks
notice to quit, and you shall coma to
Bve with me.”
He walked* around with her, a little
later, to Miss Cliff.
Miss Cliff received them with a
i smiling welcome.
‘-Oh, I’ll take the very bed care of
her,” said she. “I’m so glad to have
y° u T° r a room-mate. Miss Diver. And
perhaps I can get you a place in the
store where I try on.”
“Try on!” repeated Dorothy, in
some bewilderment.
and mantles, know, ^
“Jerseys von
explained Kitty Cliff. “For the cm
tomers to judge the effect. I know
thev want another girl at the ready
made linen counter, and I think that
my recommendation would be worth
something.” kept
It was a quiet, home-like home,
by a respectable widow, and Dorothy
grew quite cheerful sitting by Kitty
Cliff's fire, in spite of the disappoint
ment she ha 1 that night sustained.
The rattling of milkmen’s carts over
the stones awoke her betimes in the
!wn i and she went with Kitty
1 to the breakfast-table, where on
, narlie3t boarders had as yet
thair abearance. And the first
h t she was •courtesying to tho
V
very hack driver of last night, while
“
Kl ‘%i^nver ng
Ji 3 ' this is Mr. Kingston.
, r fri.3 ’let me present you to
mv im friend, Miss Mis Diver . from Schoharie
county.” k
“Why, cried Dotty, .
man!” for Seventy
“It’s the young lady
p ight Pickett Place!” said Mr. King
ston. “But I am not a hackman!
‘•Neither do I live at Seventy-eight
Pickett Place!” said Dorothy, laughing.
And then ensued a mutual explana¬
tion, in th« course of which Charlie
and Dorothy became excellent friends.
Our littls heroine suoceeded in ob¬
taining the vacant situation at the
^ntrw^toMr! Km^ton’rprediction. ht as ®T* r j
her r03e9 ex/iration warned as of bn three 8 J r montfti.
a t the
COVINGTON, GE ORGIA, wWeS DAY, SEPTEMBER IB, 1885.
Fur Dotty was happy, and there is
tonic like no
happiness.
“Well, puss,” said Norman to her, as
the winter wore itself away, “I
the fellows pave
notice to clear out to-day.
I shall be ail ready for you to cditie and
keep house for me on the first of May.”
Dorothy blushed vividly.
“Oh, Norman!” cried, she, “I’m so
sorry, but---”
“But what?” said Norman. “You’re
not, going back to the country?”
“No, not exactly,” said Dorothy.
“But I’m going to keep house £-r some
one else. I’m engaged to Ctiar'ie
Kingston.”
“Hello!” said Norman Diver. “Then
the fellows may as well stay where
they are ?”
-if you don - t min(1/ . whlgpered
Dorothy,
“Well, you’ii have a goon husband,”
said Norman. “And now that his
uncle is dead, he’ll have a nice litile
property of his own. After all, puss,
it was a clever idea of yours to come
to the city.”
“But I never dreamed Low things
were going to turn •ut!” said Dorothy.
—Ruth
5
.
Dyei ig alw a ha hanA,, ^ d c ' \
the color of a dver’s Iff'* )
| anJ here machinery does not' e “ p
to inter f ere r t o 'if . 3 •', ,,' 0
s i opt)Y arid 1 " i uc 1 10
' * ’
| „ from reat JoHick, kej f hf ... * T Z
! bZ lio P ,*
: man beings, who
■ move ™ them occasion¬
ally to and fro to make sure all narts
| have a fai rchancx rt Z ., 7
t , gtoryo^the ,
color that is to be the
completed fabric, and we will not en
ter into any trade secrets of their com
position. But there is good dyeing f
“
and bad dyei honegt d j aQ(
false dyeing, an 1 a silk maker who has
intent to deceive can make his yarn
take 300,per cent, of extra weight by
the use of nifcta llic substances in the
<!ye pot. This accounts for some of
the cheapness as well as the bad wear
ofcertain foreign fal>ric3 which , ook
a3 well at first si % ht a3 J'*** d m > *
' ?
much hi „ h „ r P ‘ * om , ‘loaded’
trig-, -'-o-v'
with nitrate of iron as to give color to
the belief in “spontaneous combus
tion” in silk'which caused the North
German Steamship Company in 1879
to refuse the weight! er foreign silks.
The carbon of the silk and the nitrate
make a compound closely parallel to
gun cotton, which is simply cotton
fibre soaked with nitric acid. Amen¬
can manufacturers challenge consum
ers to test the purity of their fabrics,
which be done the
silks into threads. If heavily loaded
th0 y wiU break ea,il y’ feel rough to
the touch because of the particles of
dye, taste inky to the tongue, and
burn smoulderingly into a yellow,
greasy aih instead of crisply into
almost nothing. These are tests lady
buyers of a silk dress should not for¬
get. The range of tint in colored silks
is remarkable, and the variety of
required from year to year by
makes a curious pictorial history of the
times. One dealer at the Centennial
showed a rainbow in silk
Harper's Magazine.
A Zerehll .
Thezerebaisa native light barri
ca(le cons t r ucte 1 in the form of a
S q Uare and, by the Arabs, made of
,
mimosa brush, piled with the prickly
b ranc hes outward, and built high
enough to make the offer to overleap
t| iem impracticable. The sharp, jag
ggA branche3 present a forbidding as
p ec q q b e Arabs and blacks, who
ba ve no taste for flinging their naked
bodies against them. The great tac
^ cg 0 j> j be Arabs is to attack by “rush
ing,” in the hope to overwhelm, by the
yery impetus of the assault, the wait
enemy. As a means of checki ng
thi8 ,. rll3h - the zereba has been found
yery e ff ec tive, and the English adopt
ed t be na tive example as a very excel
lent p rov ision against a decisive
charg0 f rom the enemy in open fight
{ But any sort of superficial forti
cat ion flung up to meet a temporary
requirement is now referred to in the
,, PSnat ches as a zereba. It corresponds,
, fact t0 the fence-rail breastworks
and the light earthworks thrown up
/pieMconstruction i civil war The prin
is a very old one,
and is a verv good one in primitive
warfare wh0 re the serious fighting is
m hand ' ^__---— , encounters
Angela on Castors.
A Western paper speaks of girls at
the rink as “angels on castors.” Quite
poetical. Still it rather takes the
poetry out of the thing when it is re
me mbered that before the average girl
becomes an angel on castors she has a
course of training to pursue that
brings her many a mishap. In the
words of the poet:
She’» frowned upon by pastors,
She meets with » idi«st«rs,
Needs arnica and plasters
Before the art she masters
Of sliding on the Cfuritr
_
C0WB0YS~WI^ A LASSO.
Their Wonder; Skill in
Handling th/i.ariat.
Throwing tho Rope wl Marvellous Pre¬
cision —Oatohing a R,by the Horns.
In a letter describingf ' among the
cowboys, Cleveland a Montan) letter to the
Leaden- saj; I noticed a
variety of lari,.*--, <v a round-up
! party, nearly all of wife were made
of the very best qhlty of hemp,
twisted almost so extremely/.fit that it was
impossible untwist the
strands. Others wei! made of sinew
cords, and were bra e,d very neatly,
the ends or lassoing pfrts being greased
so as to slip easil These lassoes
were about sixty or )venty-ilve feet
long, one-third of v ieh forms the
noose bttle ’ mid when swiikng it is grasped
a above the loo; so as to prevent
tlle same from slippir 1 until launched
through the air. Thrasso l<jt is swung
over the head and shoulder and
back over th, ‘ rightfshoulder, a pe
culiar turn of
to \ return, keeping thlloop fie wide open
hen W*8 through air the noose
f takesa slightly oval f(rm, but remains
° pen and 3ettles 9 ui 1 i > ; arouQd the
object aimed at. McGfigan exhibited
to me the modua opsraiidi of handling
the rope,.and some ofi his feats per ‘
formed in my presencj were not only
executed with marvellous precision,
but were also beautiliil to look at.
This model cowboy is certainly an ex¬
pert in his profession, pefcaps the best
rider and lassoist in the jvliole North¬
west. What Slosson is to billiards,
MrGaigan is to his profession.
One afternoon, while loniiug around
the camp fire on the Musselshell, Mc
Gaigan and I get talking about the
skill he had acquired In tkrowing cat¬
tle and I had little difficulty in per¬
suading him to let me into the secrets
of his wonderful dexterity and actu¬
ally showing me some of the finer
points of the hu.ess. Mounting our
bronchos we rod^off through the sage
where liUmoeriess catr.Ie were peace
fully munching the luxuriant buffalo
grass. My friend had his best lariat
fastened to the pommel of the saddle,
and first showed me many fancy shots,
throwing the lasso from or to any
point, over either shoulder, behind or
in front. He caught a tremendous
bull by the horns, who looked up in
surprise and started off like a steam
engine, but the pony bestrode by the
cow-boy planted his forefeet firmly in
the ground and checked Mr. Bull in
before the latter
well started. The enraged steer went
round and round in a circle at a 2.40
gait, the pony acting as a perfect pivot
and turning slowly around with him,
but it was no use ; the bull was a pris¬
oner and would have remained so had
not McGaigan taken pity on him, and
passed the wonderful ring down the
line, upon which the rope leaped from
around the horns and fell to the
ground.
McGaigan remarked that it was no
credit to catch a bull by the horns, for
he cannot be thrown by them, and is
simply held as a prisoner, but the
skill in throwing a lasso is to pitch the
noose just in front of the animal when
he is going at full gallop, so that at
the next step he treads into it He
tried it on another bull while both of
our ponies were jumping along on a
dead run. The old fellow was going
about as fast as we were, but the fa
tal loop shot through the air at a tan
gent and fell, wide open, just In front
of him on the ground. The left fore
foot plunged square into the circle,
the rope was tightened with a s.udden
jerk and the steer rolled over in the
dust, as cleverly caught as anything 1
ever saw. The broncho, too, under
stood his part of the business thor
ougbly, for he bore at the right mo
ment in the opposite direction, else he
might have been thrown instead of
the bull, to which he was much infe
rior in weight. McGaigan also caught
great big steers galloping past at an
angle by any leg I named. >ot once
was his judgment at faul*. The noose
whizzing through the air in every di
rection went as true to the mark as a
bullet shot from a rifle.'
I was much taken with the free and
easy sort of life experienced by this
round-up party and enjoyed the trip
and camping out experience so hugely
tha t l was almost tempted to give up
profession of a scribe and become a
cow _floy myself, but I thought better
i( . next da y and, although I had lots
of fun ant] en j 0 ynient, I concluded that
(.^..q^y )if e must have its dark as
well as jt 9 bright, sunny side,
Iowa ranks the highest of all the
1 States in the number of cattle to the
square mile. She has 2,014,484 head,
or 35.9 to the Square mile. Illinois
has 26 Ohio 24, Pennsylvania 19.
. 15 head to
New York 13, and Texas
the square mile. The number of cat
^ ^ ^ 4)234(9 23.
The Seven Ways or marrying.
There are seven seperate and dis¬
tinct ways in which the nuptial knot
may be tied, the attending expense ol
the differnt inodes varying from f 1 to
$1000. The least expensive, and the
one seldom adopted, except in cases of
elopement, is that afforded by the
,1 ustice’s office. There a couple can be
firmly united in the space of a
minute for a small sum. It is cus¬
tomary for a groom to dress as he
may piease when the marriage is to
be performed by a justice, and a dress
suit would be sadly out of place’in a
musty law office. The one great ad¬
vantage of the justice-shop marriage
is its cheapness.
As some people object to being
married by a justice of the peace, pre¬
ferring the sanction of the church in
addition to that of the law, the young
people may visit a parson age ^instead
ot a justice’s office with the same pre¬
paration. The ceremony may be fully
as informal when performed at the
minister’s home, the only difference
being that not less than $3, and better
still $5 or $10 should be paid for the
service, although there is no fixed
sum charged. The most popular cer¬
emony among people who do not class
themselves as In “society,” and also
among many who do, is a quiet home
wedding, where the bride is attired in
a suit of plain white or a travelling
dress, and the groom in a plain black
or brown business suit, and where
only a few friends and relatives are
present. The affair is informal, per¬
haps a modest supper or lunch being
served after the ceremony is perform¬
ed, and the entire expense to the
groom being covered by a $20 bill, or
even less. This is the most popular
wedding ceremony, and this is the way
in which fully 75 per cent, of young
people are married.
Next in point of favor and inexpen¬
siveness is the informal church wed
ding, being similar in all things ex¬
cept that the service is performed
within the portals of the church. If
nave the „nu a S» bridesmaids S W and V groomsmen, %
as
they please. In the latter case full
dress suits should be worn, increasing
the expense. The “full dress wed
ding,” as it may be called when the
ceremony is performed at home, is
next in favor. Elaborate trousseau,
fu! ] dre8g suits, bridesmaids and
groomsmen, floweis in abundance, and
a hogfc of invited gue3tg are the re .
q U j s ites, followed by a reception, feast,
or i uncb) ^ t be contracting parties
may desire _
The seventh and last, and most pop
u j ar j s the full dress affair, performed
in church. Among people who desire
to crea t e a s ti r j a society, this is the
f avor ite. It is expensive, and in
many cases unsatisfactory.— Milwau¬
kee Journal.
* b.iarp-Sighled Engineer.
“Keep a sharp lookout while on the
run?” echoed an engineer, “Should
say we did. The man that tries to
run an engine without keeping his
eyes peeled gets left sooner or later,
I’ve heard about fellow's out West that
would start out on a run with a board
reaching across from the driver’s seat
t 0 the fireman’s, and a deck of cards,
but 1 never tried that. Just to show
you how necessary it is for a man to
keep his eye on the rails ahead of him
let me tell you a little story,
“i was running along one night in
Ohio some years ago. It was a blowy,
rainy, nasty night, and in time 3 like
that a man is doubtly watchful. For
flours I never took my eyes from the
wet, glistening rails ahead of me. ex
ce pt, of course, when we stopped at
stations. All at once I saw in front
0 f me —how far ahead I couldn’t tell
-a glimmer of light. It was just a
3 park. I barely saw it before it dis
appeared. Was it a lightning bug?
q hadn’t seen any that night. What
waait? That I couldn't answer. But
m y instinct told me to stop the train,
and stop I did. Lt was mighty lucky
q looked at it that way, for that glim
mor of light commenced in the oddest
way . You couldn’t guess it in a week
“A farmer was walking along the
track wbe n he discovered a short
bridge so badly washed out by the
fre3het that to run upon it with a
traia me ant a wreck. He tried to
3tart a fire with paper and his clothing
bu t couldn’t do it He had one match
left. He kept that till I got close to
him, his plan being to strike that
match, hold it in his hat, and wave it
across the track as he had seen the
brakeman do when they wanted to
signal stop. It was his hope that I
would see the blaze before it was
blown out.
“He no sooner struck the match
than out went the blaze, It was
merely a flash, but r saw it, and *he
farmer had saved the train. What if
I hadn’t made it a rule to keep my
eyes peeled along the rails every min¬
ute while running ?”—Chivago Herald.
VOL. XT, NO 44.
TOPICS OF THE OAT.
A chemist in New York asserts that!
In every one hundred pounds of green
tea used in this country the consumer
drinks more than a half-pound of
Prussian blue and gypsum.
The largest diamond in the world is
soon to be cut at Amsterdam, where a
special workshop is being constructed.
Thi3 gem is South African, and weighs
475 carats, thus being 195 carats
heavier than the “Grand Mogul” be¬
longing to the Shah of Persia, and
hitherto the biggest diamond known.
The London Lancet warns people
against the danger of licking adhesive
stamps and envelopes, adding that it
is a most perilous practice, producing
local irritation and sore tongues,
whilst occasionally other diseases are
propagated by the habit.
“Why Not Eat Insects?” is the title
of a recent English book. The writer
thinks that such a diet would have
certain advantages for poor people,
and he insists that an “appetizing rel¬
ish” is to be found in “boiled caterpil¬
lars, fried grasshoppers and grilled
cock-chafers.” His argument rests
mainly on the descriptions of half
starved travellers concerning their
personal enjoyment of cooked insects,
and the fact thatcertain savages thrive
on such diet.
Boulder, Col.,has an ingenious musi¬
cian, according to a western newspa¬
per, which says: “Neil McClay, who
grinds music out of violins in the
Board of Trade saloon, has made a
small violin which is quite a novelty
in its way. lie caught a small turtle
at the lake and used the shell for the
body of tha violin. Tiie holes where
the feet protuded were covered over
with a banjo bead and glue. The
back of the turtle is turned up and
the holes for the sound cut into it.
The head of the violin is ornamented
with the turtle’s bead and two of the
The Journal of Inebriety thinks
that the cumluative action of alcohol
on the brain centres exists to a great¬
er extent than is generally supposed.
Many men who drink regularly
through the day an 1 seem no worse
for it,become intoxicated late at night,
although they have used no spirits
during the evening. “It appears,”
says the editor, “that alcohol, like
bromide, may remain in the system
to some extent without producing any
marked action, and then suddenly,
from some unknown cause, burst into
great activity, pro lacing profound in¬
toxication.” The reasons for this do
not seem to be definitely understood,
though they are thought to be of a
combined physiological and psycho¬
logical nature, and partly due to cli¬
matic conditions.
The co-operative community in
France,of which so much has been writ¬
ten, is steadily gaining ground. The
average wages of workmen per week
are 30 shillings and sixpence (say
$7.35), which is said to be far higher
than those earned by foundry hands
in England. The association was
formed twenty-five years ago, and Is
composed of 1,400 persons. The capi¬
tal employed has a preferential inter¬
est of 5 per cent. Further profits
are divided among the workmen. Last
year the capital share was $66,000,and
tbe laborers’ share was $377,400.
The threats from time to time of in
vasions of the United Statea by chol
era, yellow fever, aud othei malig
nant diseases, repeatedly call the at
tention to the general use of disinfect
ants,which are often used to great ad
vantage in communities that have to
fear an irruption of these epidemics,
But it is a great mistake to rely on
them to the exclusion of individual
measures having a far greater impor
tance. Humboldt said that persons
whose bodies are strengthened by
wholesome habits in respect of food,
clothing, clenliness, exercise, and fresh
air, are enable l to resist the cause
which brings about disease in other
men. But to ordinary people it is so
much easier to rely upon the germl
cide poisons of a B ,ard of Health than
to ad »pt sensible habits, that half the
good work that is done by the author
ities is neutralized by the neglect of
all sanitary precautions,
A correspondent who has visited He
rat, “the key of India,” avers that its
evil odors assail tho nostrils at a dis
tance of five miles from the walls if
one be not traveling with the wind.
The city is in the form of a huge
square, with fortified sides about a
mile in length aitiier way. and with a
huge stone citadel in the centre. Sur
rounded by hills,Herat has no drainage.
reeks with mud, garbage and stagnant
water, yet its mortality is not exces
sive - Probably the supply of pure
water and the prevalence o' cool north
winds account for the ability of the
people to resist their filthy surround
■ ings. Some seven centuries ago, before
it was laid waste by Genghis Khan,
Herat was the largest city in the world.
Probably the Russian soldiers who can
luxuriate on a baoquet of vodka and
•tallow candles would feel comfortable
enough in Herat.
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In a recent lecture Mr. F. A. Gower
asked the question, Could armies, forts
and arsenals be seriously assailed from
that quarter In which attack was not
now expected—the air above? His
belief, from four years of study and
observation, was in-the affirmative.and
as a means to that end he proposed
simply to transfer to the upper levels
the general plan of torpedo warlarq,
upon a larger scale and with- its ^effec
tive range indefinitely extended. Tha
term “air torpedoes,” did not quite de¬
scribe his system, and he had used
rather the term “air battery” to de¬
scribe the force he proposed should be
used in aerial warfare. He suggested
tliatj by the means of aerostats explo¬
sions of 100 pound shells of gun cot¬
ton might be arranged ovei tho enemy’s
position. Summarizing his proposals, 1
the lecturer said: “In brief, I propose
to you a warfare by gun cotton and
hydrogen, to make the loss of an army
a result of its meeting an opposing
wind, to destroy the security of forti¬
fied positions, and finally to show,upon
the simplest principles of self-preser¬
vation, that nations must keep peace
and great armies be disbanded.”
Land of the Khedire. '
The natives are very industrious,
and on either side of the river bank
for a mile back have cultivated every
inch of the soil and planted their crops
down to the very edge of the water,
so as to have the benefit of the annual
inundations. The sight is indeed a
beautiful one. Sloping backward as
far as the rocky heights are beautiful
fields of grain, dotted here and there
with tha rude huts of the owners of
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season, so far as I know, but crops are
cut at all times of the year. The
principal crop is Egyptian corn, which
is made to answer almost every pur¬
pose. These people cling to the primi
time harvest tools used by the first in¬
habitants of the country. Instead of
reapers and mowers the diminutive
sickle is used, and the manner in
which they use it created much merri¬
ment among the voyageurs. I wit¬
nessed a couple of women grinding
wheat with the same old hand mill
mentioned in the scriptures. They
squatted tailor fashion on the ground
on either side of the mill stones, and
dropping the wheat in the cavity in
the center of the wheel, turned it
slowly, accompanying the proceeding
with a peculiar motion of the body and
at the same time humming a weird
tune. The sight was an unusual one
to me who had spent most of my life in
the Michigan Woods, but I had no de¬
sire to remain there any length of
time. The natives are very similar to
our negroes, except that they have the
prominent cheek bones of the Indian
and not the flat features of the descend¬
ants of Ham. I have i&jny time seen
slovenly people, but the natives of
IJgypt are, in my opinion, the~?iTttest
people in the world, Digger Indians
not excepted. To look at them is as
good as a dose of medicine. Their
only article of wearing apparel consists
of a garment shaped like a Mother
Hubbard dress. Males and females
dress alike, and the only way to distin¬
guish them is that the women are al¬
ways engaged in the hardest of
work, while their liege lords do the
bossing.
These people are very different from
the Arabs of the Soudan, who are as
treacherous as a snake. The Arabs
are magnificent specimens of the hu¬
man race .—Detroit Free Press.
A Young Man’s Fortune.
Every young man ha3 a fortune in
the fact of his youth, says a college
qiresident The energy of youth is urn
blunted by defeat or worn by hope de¬
ferred. With age one becomes more
conservative, and looks at as impossi
ble what a younger person would en¬
deavor to accomplish, in many cases
with success. The effort, even if there
be a failure, is a grand success. Self
confidence, or self-conceit, if you wish
to call it so, is a great thing. A young
man’s fortune is not to be found in in¬
herited wealth or social position. Gra¬
cious manners of business habits are
good things to cultivate, but are not
all. Will power i* the young man’s
fortune. It is the essence of the man.
A young man with only a little will
power is a foregoes failure. It should
be cultivated. Genius is a gift of
God, and should not cause pride, bur.
an honest pursuit duties is an exki
bition of will power;and is something
to be proud of. Well directed, educa¬
ted will power is wfet a young man
needs.