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THE CITIZEN: DALTON,: GA., THLBSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
Every-day life.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Ad-
ventui’es Which Show that Truth
is Stranger than Fiction.
FARMER while cow hunt
ing near Sampson Lake,
Fla. , saw a big flock of buz
zards, among which, judg
ing from the birds’ strange
behavior, something of in
terest must be going on.
The buzzards were gathered
around a large dead alliga
tor, and one of them had
got his foot fastened in the carcass in
some way and was unable to free him
self. Finally his comrades bit the cap
tive’s foot off, which caused its owner to
scream piteously, but released him.
Upon examination the farmer found
that the stomach of the carcass con
tained a huge alligator turtle, which had
been swallowed while the saurian was
alive. A hole just big enough for the
turtle’s head had been made in the
alligator’s hide by the birds, by which
the turtle had been able to capture its
unsuspecting victim. Although crushed
out of all shape by the alligator’s teeth,
the turtle had lost nothing of the pug-
fiaaiiy peculiar to its kind.
W.
Wright’s
monster
in from
* Hanging in front of A.
meat market to-day is a
cougar, which was brought
the North Arm by Albert Evans, on
whose premises it was found in a trap
at an early hour this morning, says'the
Vancouver World. Mrs. Evans heard
the wailings of the animal, whose right
fore-leg was in the trap. The enraged
animal made great efforts to be released
from the trap jaws, which held it pris
oner much against its will. On seeing
Mrs. Evans tlie fury of the animal knew
no bounds. It hissed, crouched, and
then sprang as far as its chain would let
it reach, but all of no avai . Mrs. Evans,
fearing trouble if the enraged monster
got away from the death grip in which
it was held, ran to the house and got a
rifle which was loaded already with a
cartridge. With the weapon raised to
her shoulder and a “bead” taken on the
animal’s right ear, when within a dis
tance of twenty feet of it she drew the
trigger, when the animal fell a quiver
ing mass in the agonies of death. The
*‘drop” was so complete that in a second
or so life was extinct. This, indeed, is
the act of a courageous avoid an, deter
mined to protect her own life, that of
her family and their live stock. The
dead brute weisrhs about one hundred
and fifty pounds, is close upon seven
feet from the tip of its tail to the mouth,
in which is to be observed a mass of
huge teeth. It was in fine condition,
having evidently fared well on the fat-
lings of the best flocks of that section.
Ip the story related by a Parisian con
temporary be true, there is a merchant
in the French capital who has been
singuarly favored by capricious Dame
I'ortune under rather curious oirciuu--
Qtances. The paper we refer to narrates
that recently a wealthy Parisian, a lover
of antiquities and curiosities, purchased
of the said merchant.a suit of armor for
the large sum of $60,000. Bef
came into the possession of its presen
®wner, the suit of armor had had a re
markable career. It belonged origin
ally, it is stated, to Francois I., and fell
one day into the hands of M. de Roths
child, who bought it for $500 disposing
of it later on to Lord Ashbumham for
$5,000 dollars. Years afterward the
latter, in his turn, sold it to a London
dealer in curiosities for $40,000, he again
passing it on to an English millionaire
for $85,000. When the millionaire died
it was left unnoticed in the corner of a
lumber room, and the house, being
afterwards destroyed by fire, the cele
brated suit of armor was found among
the ruins and passed into the hands of
a dealer in old iron. It was unearthed
in his shop not long ago by the -Paris
merchant who bought it at a merely
nominal price and cleaned and restored
it, after which he was lucky enough to
find a purchaser Avilling to take it off his
hands, as has been said, r the sum of
$60,000. So he did a rennarkably good
stroke of business Avhen he bought it of
the dealer in o:d iron for a mere song.
M. Liegeosis, Professor of Law at
Nancy, France, has made a special study
of hypnotic suggestion in relation to
civil and criminal law, and has pub
lished his results'in a recent memoir.
He has made a large number of experi
ments to establish the possibility of
suggesting crimes, which the subject of
such suggestions may carry out while
ignorant of the motive power that guides
their hands. The following was one of
Elis experiments : Arming himself with
a revolver, he took a subject at random
from among the five or six somnam
bulists with him at M. Liebault’s. To
remove any possible idea of play he
loaded the revolver and fired one shot
I in the garden. Then he Avent into the
house and showed to one of the subjects
a card just pierced by the ball, * ‘In less
than a quarter of a minute, ” he said,
“I suggested to Mme. G. the idea of
killing M. P. by a pistol shot. Abso
lutely unconscious and perfectly docile,
Mme. G. approached M. P. and fired
the pistol. The commissary questioned
her immediately. She confessed her
crime with complete indifference; she
killed M. P. because she did not like
him. .They could arrest her. She knew
well what awaited her. She was asked
if I had not suggested the idea of the
murder she had just committed. She
assured us that this was not so; that she
was led to it spontaneously, and that
she alone was to blame.
Jektl Island, on the coast of Georgia,
owned by a club of that name, is now
the centre of an interesting experiment
in breeding English pheasants. The
remarkable success which has so far at
tended the effort is due to special cli
matic conditions favorable to the rear
ing of so delicate a bird. The attempts
which have been made in this direction
in the Middle States have not had en
couraging results. The head game-
keeper at Jekyl Island reports that from
the seventy-eight pheasants at first im
ported from England 1,000 birds were
raised and reached maturity. A second
importation of fifty birds, of which
forty-nine were landed, resulted in a
product of 960 hatched. It is estimated
that the island now contains from tAvo
to three thousand pheasants. Next year
it is proposed to set 5,000 eggs under
barnyard fowl. The central stage of the
experiment has nob yet been reached.
It is a well-known fact that pheasants
poss©ss sniftU powers of resistance to the
attacks of disease; any one of the numer
ous sorts to which it is subject when
once introduced among them destroys
the birds with fatal rapidity. This is
particularly true of the English species.
The golden pheasant of China is a much
more hardy bird, and one it might be
well to cultivate on Jekyl Island. Great
success has attended the. breeding of
this species in British Columbia, in a
climate far more trying.
“How many thieves, regular out-and-
out-robbers,” said Government Detec
tive James H. Prior, “do you suppose
have boxes in the safe deposit com
panies’ vaults of New York City ?
Plenty of ’em, and when they make a
good haul of swag there’s nothing in the
world to prevent their going straight
doAvn to their vaults as any millionaire
might and quietly caching the goods
until they get -good and ready to dis-
nos9 of them. ‘Never thought of that,
did you! ‘Wealth and respectability’
are not always implied by a bank ac
count any more than they are by a
legalized hiding-place with a safe de
posit company. The theives knoAV it is
hard if not practically impossible for
the law to follow their booty there.
Suppose you were a bank cashier or
even a Napoleon of Finance and put
away a milion before the crash, or flight,
or arrest, why shouldn’t you put it in
your regular safe deposit vault, or in
some other name with some other safe
deposit company? There you have a
safe fund to draw on for lawyer’s fees,
and for a frolic or two when you doff
the stripes and come out into the gay
world again!”
At the last meeting of German neurlo-
gists, held in Baden-Baden, Professor
Goltz of Strassburg reported a most re
markable experiment. He cut out, in
two operations, almost the entire cere
brum of a dog, leaving. only the cere
bellum and a small portion of the base
of the cerebrum. The animal lived for
fifty-one days after the last operation,
and then died of pneumonia. The re
markable part of the experiment was
the influence it had on the dog, who, a
few hours after the operation, raised
himself on his hind legs, put his paAvs
over the side of the box, and looked in
quiringly around. He could walk, eat
and drink, and would chew any food
that Avas placed in his mouth. Walking
and sleeping alternated naturally. He
was restless before feeding, but after
ward Avould become quiet and sleep.
A slight touch would awaken him from
sleep. During urination and defection
the animal assumed the normal position.
Hearing, taste and smell were, of course,
absent.
A bbaheman named Thomas Higgins,
slipped between two freight cars on a
moving train near Maple'Ridge, Mich.
The signal to stop was given by another
brakeman, avIio saw the fall, and the
OUTFITS FOR INFANTS.
train
Higgii
over
mang
severe
feet fp
icked
f strick(
ain o;
was seen
and the
badly fri
seioushe:
after the
body,
men.
pped and backed up to where
lay. Eight cars had passed
ody, which A\’as frightfully
Tlie head was completely
the trunk and lay several
the track. Fireman Bye
the head and was. horror-
'■-oc-e--the-eyelids close and
and party close again. This
jy Engineer William Whitney
_ irakeman. All three were
htened. This sign of con-
Avas given several minntes
head Avas severed from the
The three witnesses are reliable
A most peculiar accident occurred the
other afternoon in the Libby prison,
Avhicli recently was transplanted from
Richmond to Chicago. Resting against
one of tlie pillars Avere a number of old
war muskets. _ No one was nearer than
five feet to them. Suddenly one of the
muskets Avas discharged, tlie contents
tearing a hole in tlie ceiling aboA'e. The
report was terrific, and several people
were greatly excited. Hoav the old
musket was exploded no one can explain.
It had done service during the late Avar,
and some soldier had loaded it in ready-
ness to fire. It was placed among the
other relics, apparently, without being
overhauled. Tlie charge must have
been in the musket at least twenty-six
years.
Isaac Larimer, aged 40 years, a well-
known farmer several miles north of
Washington, Ohio, died a terrible death
from lock-law. The other day he was
harroAving a field Avlien the harrow
struck a stump and threw the rear part
of the harrow into the air. When it de
scended one of the sharp teeth pene
trated Mr. Larimer’s foot. The tooth
was extracted and the injured 4 mau re
moved to his home. In a short time
lock-jaAv set in. Last evening his jaws
became free again, but he Avas taken
Avith spasms and died as stated above
while writhing in great agony. He
leaves a family.
Washington is the Gretna Green for
runaway couples from the adjacent
States. The ease with which a marriage
license can be obtained and the many
attractions the city offers to strangers
make it such. Hundreds of young men
and women, and old ones, too, for that
matter, in consequence go to the capital
yearly from Virginia and Maryland to
have the marriage knot tied. The laws
of marriage in both of the States men
tioned are, comparatively speaking, ex
ceedingly exacting, and it- is to avoid
these, as well as the displeasure of un
feeling parents, that the trip is planned
and caiTied out.
Their was a Chinese wedding a week
or so since. The bride, who was the
maid of a well to-do Chinese lady, came
with her from Canton four years ago as
nurse for her children. She is called
Mai Day, and is said to be seventeen
years old Fong Wing, the groom, is a
big* well-to-do shopkeeper, fortv years
of age. His only gift to the bride was
the payment of her passage-money from
Canton.
One of the Queerest Shopping Places
in New York.
It is interesting for a man to lo ter
for half an hour or so in a fashionable
dry goods store and watch women shop,
but it is much more interesting to stand
for awhile in a shop where nothing is
sold except for children and to observe
how mothers and elder sisters buy
things for their younger charges. There
is a shop in this town where you hiav
buv everything that a girl will ever need
in the way of apparel, from the day she
is born until she reaches the stature ot
young womanhood. Or, if its a boy,
you may purchase all his clothes
eveiything he will ever wear—from the
hour he comes into the world until he
is 17 or 18 years of age.
This shop is said to be the only one
of the sort in the United States, or m
all the world except in London and per
haps jtn Paris. The business began in a
squall way here some time within the
present decide, and now 7 has become so
great that it takes all the space in two
large buildings and an annex to hold
the stock and afford salesrooms. Half
an hour in this place is to a bachelor dr
time of odd sights. The first thing that
impresses is the extent of the establish
ment. There is floor upon floor, each
filled with goods solely for children.
The next thing noticeable is the number
of babies here, and there throughout the
place. Doting mothers have brought
them, sometimes in their own care,
sometimes in the care of nurses, some
times in the care of older children. The
shopping is all for the benefit of the
youngsters, but the youngster doesn’t
have much to say about it. The mother
and her elder daughter will put the
baby on the floor or ou the counter, and
then busy themselves studying goods
andl garments. Generally only those
children are put on the floor who can
Avalk, and so while the elders are exam-
ing articles and searching for just what
they want, it often happens that the
youngster Avill wander off to some other
spot in the big room. It is odd to see
tlie littie ones toddle off on their own
hook to some pile of cloaks, and begin
pulling at them as if they wanted to do
some shopping on their own account.
Authorities in the store say that boy
babies show just as much desire to look
at things as do the girl babies, all of
which goes to prove that boys might be
come as good shoppers as girls if they
only had a long enough chance.
There is a heap of fun in watch'ng
one child wander away from its mother
and strike up an acquaintance with
some other child that has slipped off
from its maternal skirts. Baby A gets
within handshaking distance of Baby B;
the tAvo look inquiringly at each other.
They can t talk very volubly, but there
is a language in gianees and gestures
and grants intelligible to them, if not to
a bachelor observer. The youngsters
look each other all over and if they seem
to be mutually attracted, they come
closer together, and one will stretch out
its short arm and unfold a chubby fist
on the shoulder of the other, as if to
make sure it is real flesh and blood be
neath the cloak upon which
folded fist
will feel o:
the next
esjch other
flbbr snugg
trying to tel l each other
and all they think about this place.
But there is more fun Avhen the moth
ers, having come to some sort of decision
about what they shall buy, look around
for the youngsters of whose wanderings
they have been ignorant. Every ten
minutes or so there is to^ be seen a
mother walking rapidly through the
salesroom/glancing down now at this
group of babies and then at that, and
finally finding her OAvn strayed away
darling. Then the child is trotted back
to the counter and the trying-on process
begins. The child’s light Avrap is taken
off and one of heavier stuff for winter
weather is put on. The youngster is
stood off at a distance, and the mother
studies the effect. The garment doesn’t
fit, she thinks, and then another and an
other are tried. Frequently the child
has an idea it ought to have something to
say about the selection itself, and it w 7 ill
flutter off' to a mirror and see how things
look to its oavu eyes. There is a similar
sIioav Avhen they have the household ty
rants try on their liliputian shoes or
their brobdingnagian hats, and, alto
gether the shopping in such a place is
about as queer as any in Gotham.—
New York Sun.
GUMPS]
7 PTTR BEST normal training in the world.
Connecticut, which has always taken
an advanced stand in regard to the
requirements of tlie teachers of the
public schools, especially in the larger
towns and cities, is now better equipped
for training its teachers than any com
munity of similar size in the world.
The Normal school at New Britain,
justly known as one of the most suc
cessful in the country, is now to be sup
plemented by the opening of a new
normal school at Willimantic, ini tem
porary quarters until the building can
he provided, and by the opening of a
normal department of the free academy
in Nonvicli. Thus the State has three
central points where those desiring to
fit themselves for successful teachers
can have every advantage known to
educators. Dr. Keep, of the Norwich
cademy, in his circular announcing the
opening of the new department, ex
presses A 7 ery clearly the aims of normal
school training and tlie desirability of it.
“The special work of the normal de
partment is the study of the history,
art and science of education. In this
course of study the theoretical and prac
tical sides of the teacher’s art receive
equal attention. The best appliances,
and the best modern methods and ideas
are fully employed ; and, most import
ant of all, provisions will be made for
bringing into contact with the minds of
the girls experienced educators, eminent
for their gifts of mind and heart, and
for the variety and value of their experi
ence. Yery attractive, at this stage of
their lives, is the opportunity of gain
ing power to use their knowledge of
studying Avitli the most definite practical
object, of acquiring the most useful and
most interesting art which can be sfcud-
ied*-the art of influencing for good the
mind and heart of others.”—[Post.
A PEST WORKING AT FAMOUS ELMS.
A singular discovery has been made
in Ansonia, by Warden Wheeler.
He finds that the deaths of Elm trees
occurring in alarmingly large numbers
in that borough are not due to electri
city, as has been locally supposed, but
to the depredations of a white insect
about one-quarter of an inch long and
no larger than a pin. He made the dis
covery by accidentally knocking off the
bark of the largest of one of the most
recent victims of the pest. All the tree3
were then visited and were found to be
similarly afflicted. It is feared that the 1
pest Avill spread over the State, as Con
necticut is covered with beautiful elms.
The presence of the pest is made k own
by the falling of the leaves of the tree.
On such trees it is found that the outer
bark is easily removed. Underneath it
are myriads of the destructive insects.
They seem to feed upon the soft inner
bark, which is the life of the tree, and
work up and down the trunk until the
tree is girdled, when it dies. Warden
Whee er will continue the investiga
tion in the hope of saving the rest of
Ansonia’s beautiful elms. At the rate
the frees have died there dining the
~ast two years inside of ten years the
- ' ’ ompietely de-
elm trees of New Hay^'
been touched by the pests, r )U fc
> in that eitv have % alwa;
he best of watchful care.
The copper aviII enter largely into roof-
Sitters, inductors, etc.,
fe&ythan before, from the fact that
the price is so low. The Farrell Foun
dry is well supplied with orders and the
prices still continue low. By push and
economy in the management of business
Ave are enabled to make a small JL-ofit.
E. A. Locke, sercetary of the Water-
bury Watch company, was asked if he
did not anticipate a period of unusual
activity in manufacturing circles in
Waterbury. He replied: Ido. I feel
that an era of unusual prosperity is
daAvning. The principal reason is the
increase of onr oivn business. Our
business for each month this year has
exceeded that of the corresponding
month of 1888. There is every indica
tion of prosperity in our business, and
collections are good and indicate a
healthy state of general trade in the
countrv. From conversation with trav
elers for other lines of goods I get the
same impression and learn that there is
an increased demand for all classes of
goods. We started up after our vaca
tion with a full force and hope to be
able to run on full time. Our business
is as prosperous as it ever was. ’ [Re
publican.
A VISIT TO ISRAEL FOTNAM’S CAVE.
The famous “Avolf den” of Pomfret,
into which old Israel Putnam crawled to
s!ay the wolf that had slain his sheep is
a favorite haunt for rattlesnakes. A
party of New Yorkers, who have been
spending the summer in beautiful
Brooklyn village, drove to the den the
other day, and had a picnic in the woods
about its mouth. Before setting out on
the homeward trip several of the gentle
men donned overalls and old coats and
explored the cave for twenty feet. In
the darkest part of it they heard the
hiss of a rattier, and, 'guided by the
sparkle of his eyes, they approached and
killed him with a club. They took him
away as a memento of -the visit. He
was about five feet long and wore eight
rattles.
A BIO CROP, BUT NOT OP NUTMEGS.
The thimbleberry, as the wild bush
blackberry in western Connecticut is
called, is gone, but the crop of 1889 was
enormous. Thousands of bushels were
gathered. One wild lot in Winchester
yielded over 100 bushels. The moun
tain lots were full of the cone-shaped
berries. The highways and crossroads
were bound in black and green; the
fields of com and tobocco intersected by
the bushes had the appearance of being
enclosed in frames of jet. One nimble
picker, in the high tide of prices, made
$20 a week. Four little French young
sters, children of a charcoal burner,
picked enough berries to buy four pairs
of shoes apiece, to say nothing of “sights
and sights” of cotton and calico goods.
In Satan’s kingdom,” a rocky gorge in
the south part of the town, the berries
grow to be one and a half inches in
length. The price ranged from twelve
cents a quart in the beginning of the
season to eight quarts for twenty-five
cents at its zenith. The year 1889 Avill
go doAvn to futurity as “the year when
thimbleberri.es were so thick.”
THE CANAL OF JOSEPH.
J - Q- A. LE^jg
D ALTOS,
Everything new m *
steps of the car shed. ^
A home for commercial L.
summer and winter wZ. »
ST * JAMES Burr '
CARTEBSYOLE, I
The richest county in ^
resources in the state
Will try and desem ratr
* J ^fcj
BIG SHANTY EATlXf „ ,
ON LINE AVESTERX,-;^
night passen'gergoh^Jg^ 1 ?^-!^ m ,
grant HOUSE,
MRS. N.N. ARCHER, PEorjujj. I
ATLANTA, GA ■*
This hotel is located in the
the city, at Nos. 86, 88 and
It is a new house, newly furnhS^
throughout. Table uneiceM^ 1
construction of tlie buildine ^
center, giving light and
rooms, makes them the *1
cit5- Polite and attentive wrttnaj :
HATCHER
OPPOSITE DEPOT, CLEVELtR,
Tbis house has been recently
and roomy, and everythin" tt V
always supplied with the'hest i
mercial men will find it to their Sll
at this house. Baggage transTeTred- '’ 1
Public Square free of charge. “
PHYSICIAN'S,
DR. J. C. BIV1XGS,
Office: Second door north of I
bank, up-stairs in rooms formerly o
Dr. J. P. Fann.
DR. H. K. MAIN,
PRACTICING PRTSICU
DALTON, GA
Also, WHOLESALE and RETAIL B
Northwest corner Hamilton ami i
DR. C. P. GORD05I
Tenders his professional servicestoth
of Dalton and surrounding
attention will be given to all <
surgical and. obstetrical—entrustedmij
Office ojfi King street, where hedi
during tflie day, unless professfauirt
DENTISTS.
A Great
'4,000 Years Old. ,
The
BRASS C3TY AND THE BUSI
NESS OUTLOOK.
expression has been current
The citizens of Taylorsville, Neb
recently tarred and feathered old Jason
Mitchell and then rode him on a rail.
Instead of resenting this treatment!
Jason seemed to enjoy it. This puzzled
the boys very much, until the old man
sued twenty-five of them for $100 dam
ages each, and got it. Then they began
fun 66 JaSOn real] y tiie most
Chinese Foot-Cramping.
A Chinese paper, the .Hu Pao, has
been investigating the origin of foot-
cramping by Chinese women. The
practice is of very ancient date. Some
affirm that it rose in the time of the
five dynasties—that is, in the tenth cen-
tnry A. D. Jao Niang, the wife of Li
Yu, the last emperor of these dynasties,
tied up her feet with silk into the shave
of the cresent moon, and all the other
beauties of the time imitated her. The
literature of previous dynasties does not
allude to the custom. During the reiern
of Kong Hi (1664 A. D.) an edict for
bade foot-cramping under various penal
ties, the local officials being he d
responsible in some degree for vio’ation
of the law by people in their district.
But the fashion was too strong, and in
1668, at the instigation of the Board of
Ceremonies, the edict was withdrawn.
It is still universal in Kuantung and
Kuangsi.—[New York Star.
His Trouble for Nothing.
. Louis the Fourteenth of France had
m his court a nobleman known to be in
ordinately anxious for distinction. One
day the Ling asked him if he understood
the Spanish language. “ No sire.” was
the answer. “ That is unfortunate,”
saul,the king. The nobleman at once
conjectured that tlie king wished to
make him ambassador to Madrid, and
employing a teacher, he forthwith ap
plied himself, day and night, to acquur-
mg the language. At last, pale and
exhausted, but with a satisfied, expect
ant look upon his face, he came to the
King with the announcement, ‘ ‘Sire, I can
now speak Spanish.” “Do yon under-
s ana it well enough to converse intelli
gently with a Spaniard ? ” “ Yes, sire,”
the man answered, his heart beating
ingh m anticipation. “I wish you joy,”
“now yon can read
j Don Quixote in the original.”
throughout Waterbury for several weeks
that an era of unusual prosperity was
dawning upon the city because of an in
creased volume of business in its manu
factories; for, like the majoriry of New
England cities and villages, the heart of
Waterbury is in its factories. With a
desire to learn whether such an impres
sion had a substantial foundation or not,
a Republican reporter called upon some
of the leading manufacturers to obtain
an expression of their views of the mat
ter.
F. J. Kingsbury, president of the Sco-
vill Manufacturing Company, said:
“The last year has been, I should say, a
good business year, perhaps not remark
ably so, but fairly up to the average, and
I see no reason why the next year should
not be as good. There does not appear
to have been much over-production.
Stocks of goods are understood not to be
unusually heavy. Crops are reported as
good-—prices rather low 7 . The amount
of railroad construction is reported as I
about the average. Money is very 1
.any of tbe engineering worJ
of the nineteenth century will there be
in existence in the year 6,'000 ? Yery
few, we fear, and still less those that
will continue in the far-off age to serve
a useful purpose. Yet there is at least
one great undertaking conceived and
executed by an enginer, which, during
the space of 4,000 years, has never
ceased its office, on which the life of a
fertile province absolutely depends
to-day. We refer to the Bahr Joussuf—
the canal of Joseph—built, according
to tradition, by the son of Jacob, and
which constitutes not the least of the
many blessings be conferred on Egypt
during the years of his prosperous
rule.
This canal took its rise from the Nile
at Asiut, and ran nearly parallel with it
for nearly 250 miles, creeping along
under the western eliffis of the Nile
valley, with many, a bend and winding,
until at length it gained an eminence,
as compared with the river bed, which
enabled it to turn westward through a
narrow pass and enter a district which
was otherwise shut off from the fertiliz
ing floods on which all vegetation ir
Egypt depends.
The northern end stood seventeen
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abundant in the money centres and this j feet higher than low Nile, while at the
will be likely to lead to speculative in- j southern end it was at an equal eleva-
vestment, but the result of this will not i tion with the river. Through this cut
be likely to be felt largely before another ran a perennial stream, which watered a
province named the Fayoum, endowing
ycai\ I think the indications are that it
is a good time for prudeut people to
adopt a moderately, but not excessive,
conservative course, to secure what they
have already gained and place them
selves in a position where sudden fluctu
ations cannot seriously affect them.
Edward L. Frisbie, Jr., Secretary of
the Benedict & Burnham Manufactur
ing Company, said: “Yes, business is
good. That is as we find it to-day. I
am not a prophet, and cou’dn’t say of
the future any more than that I see by
a recent statement of the secretary of
the National Iron Association that all
kinds of iron are selling at an advance.
The iron business is an indicator of the
condition of other industries and that
report is pretty good and. looks as if we
should have a good fall and winter
trade. Yes, the volume of business is
greater than a year ago.”
E. G. Lewis, President of the Farrel
Foundry and Machine Company, who
is also interested in other local manu
facturing enterprises, said: “Yes, it is
true that all the indications point to a
prosperous fall and winter business. I
am looking for a more thrifty trade.
Prices will not advance much, although
they ought to, for manufacturers are
working on a small profit. The increased
business has come gradually and health
fully, and to stay some little time. This
is due, somewhat, to the fact that bus
iness has for the past few years been
overdone. There was an over pro
duction, which was followed by a
let up. The increase of popula
tion has also been going on until
the time has arrived when the demand
is getting nearly up to tlie sources of
supply. In relation to the brass busi
ness,! think that copper is getting down
to a fair marginal profit to the producer
and will settle the matter of price in the
mind of customers. It has reached a
price where it will not drop much more
it with fertility, and supporting a large
population. In the time of the annual
flood a great part of the canal was under
water, and then tbe river’s current
would rash in a more direct course
into the pass, carrying with it the rich
slit which takes the place of manure
and keeps the soil in a state of constant
productiveness.
And ijhis, with the exception of the
tradition that Joseph built it, can be
verified to-day, and it is not mere sup
position or rumor. Until eight years
ago it was firmly believed that the
design has always been limited to an
irrigation scheme larger, no doubt, than
that now in operation, as shown by the
traces of abandoned canals and by the
slow aggregation of waste wa er which
had accumulated in the Birket et
Querun, but still essentially tlie same
in character.'
Many accounts have been written by
Greek and Roman historians, such as
Herodotus, Strabo, Mutianus and Pliny,
and repeated in monkish legends or por
trayed on the maps of the middle ages,
which agreed with the folk lore of the
district.
These tales explained that the canal
dug by the ancient Israelite served to
carry the surplus water of the Nile into
an extensive lake lying south of the
Fayoum, and so large that it not only
modified the ‘climate, tempering the
arid winds of the desert, and converting
them into the balmy airs which nour
ished the vines and the olives into a
fullness and fragrance unknown in any
part of the country, but si jo added to
the food supply of the land such im
mense quantities of fish that the royal
prerogative of the right of piscary at the
great weir was valued at $250,000
annually. This lake was said to be 450
miles round, and to be navigated by a
fleet of vessels, while the whole circum-
and therefore there will be an increased ! ference was the scene of industry and
demand for brass and, copper goods. \ prosperity.—[Engineering;
A Careful
The other morning,
Herald, a young man i
ren street and waited nbrtlnri5i»|
bundle under bis arm. On fee
the bundle, in s encil, was I
“3,618.” The young maadilmij
to notice this until a friends
at Monroe streat and caile
tion to it. Then he colt
said: “Yes, I know what you
came from a pawnshop,
and I’ll tell you why. Is
man. I live around town its
move veiy often. In the
card my heavy overcoat,
from moths i No. I don 11
thing about camphor or red j
go and hock it for about “
me, according to pawnbn
just 40 cents per month,
it when I like. The pawnfe
serves it for me meantina
Well, because if he allowed',
eaten up by moths he conld e*
if I did not call for it. Se*- :
I have my coat well cared 3
the hot weather, and when
again, as I think I do now, U
and get it, paying the money >■*
on it and the usual 10 percents
which is cheap storage.
hock it because I needed tte
Theta’s where I fooled you. ^
Hints on Health-
Never lean with your
anything that is cold.
Never begin a journey until 1 -
fast has been eaten. _
Never take warm drini
mediately go out into the
Keep the back, especially
shoulder-blades, well cover®
chest well protected. In sl«I*j
cold room, establish the habit aj
ing through the nose and
the month open. ,
Never go to bed with cola
feet* ,
Never omit regular bathUL^
less the skin is in active con
cold will close tbe pores and
gestion and other diseases.
After exercise of any kind,j
in an open carriage or near
of a car for a moment; it is c
health, or even life.
When going fjom a warm a
into a cooler one, keep ■
closed, so that the air may
in its passage through the n j
reach the lungs
Reports from ranching dud* 1 J
the international boundary
great scarcity of food and
stock is already suffering
quence. Owing to the niv ,
season the amount of bar P .
small, and immense stretches ^
have lately been burned over- . i
look is so discouraging
ranchers offer to give their
knowing that death from s£:
almost certain.