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ANDERSON & WALLIS f Proprietors 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. fV ; t 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 'tfriiri I f-~ - - KM4 —— — 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.