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CHURCHES.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
J. K. PnuUin.JS. D. Coleman, J. F.
Creel, A. L. Foster, J. N. Bigbie,
County Treasukkr, J V. H. Brown
Tax Collector, W. R. Harrison.
Tax Receiver, T. R. Davis.
Coroner, J I) Owens.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
Dari.kt Ijoikhc, N<>. 17.—Regular rout¬
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L« yaykti k <Tiaiticr No. 12—Regular
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(jrahftiu, H. 1*.
NV. A. Graham Council, No. 22—Regular
macting itli Saturday evening. NV. A. Gra¬
ham, T L G II.
k uCJI. Gainc* Lodge No. 1887-Regular
mo»iiug 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights NN. h
Lightfoot, Reporter. T M„ Brown, Dictator
COUHTY.
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J T MeAUi’*ter, HherilV, Regular term, 4lh
Maudeys in March and September,
Court or Ordinary. — R. T.
Footn, Ordinary. «arh Ruguhir meeting 1*1,
Monday in month
County Court —G. G. Lark,
Judge.
IRWIN & WARWICK.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
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I T . MANDEVILLE,
PHYSICIAN nnd SURGEON
.Orr ice ir Central Dkiq Stork.
O. 1*2. CONE,
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Shop Gallery. under EN DEK’S Pict¬
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Central Railroad of Georgia,
Xoticcto Travrting Vublic:
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NEW YORK and BOSTON
,, pSHta7;s;!r,T,
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all-rail ride. Rate* include liitfal and state
re in on steamer.
Hautid trip tieket* will ba placed , on sale ,
Jun« UL phhIUi return until October 81*t. |
N.nv York steamer* sail* tn-weeklv. Boston
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ir formation agent com
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Traveling l‘aa*enxer A emit. Central Rail¬
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II HPIIJM whiskey Habits
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All Ga.
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SAVANNAH, (2a., Not. 1, 1888.
Forty TiionnaiHl Southern llomm mini#
happy with line liiMlranienta niuce 1870,
■ud -till tbe good work him-# on.
8,000 PlitnoM nnd Ori(itn» gold I tint year.
6,000 oar innrk lor thin year. I,ower l*rlre#;
Slettor InHtruioentnt Knnirr Tertmt and
■renter Indnedinenti# will ■itiu ui* this In.
ereaned ante. ,
TIionMAiitN of IfomcN yet nnnnitplicd with
InHtrumentH thnt uilslit lo-any he enjoying
them throii|(h our nutty oyntein aft,elling.
CASH to pay down not needed. We Imvo
A PLAN by which, WITHOUT K I 1 SK, nny
ouo enu obtain nn luntrunieiit of nny Stylo
or Price, making YEARLY either JtONTIll.Y,
QirAItTKRI.Y paid for, or enjoying PAYMENT* of
until meanwhile utte
lnntruinent.
No extorilonnto price*. No Rink. No For¬
feiture of all cattlt paid If InHtnlln*entH can¬
not be promptly paid, ('outran perfectly
FAIR, nntl I'tjl’ITARLE, proteeiing purn
chtincrH front nil ImpoMitioH or lots.
Write its nnd we will point ont » he way t(
get a flue Instrument Lawlly nnrt nt a Low
Price( Wonderful harttalna for r ail 1888 .
Wetter than any Iteforo oll'ered. Price*
I.argely Reduced. Notice llice SPECIAL
OFFERSt
Uprighi Piano om,$200
7*4 Octaves—Overstrung Scnle—Three
fitrlu«s—Kiwcwooil—Fully —Sweet Toiio. t^italogue Price, (.uMranteml
8«00.
Parlor Organ - o n, y $65
Four SvtH Reeds—It Stops—(' inplcr#—
Handsome Case. Catalogue Price, 6400 .
8tool, Cover,Instructor,Music all Freight Paid. Book
and
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SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE. SAVANNAH, 61.
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Herron & Gaudry,
(Success rs to L. J. Guilmartion & Co.)
COl'i ON FACTORS,
AND
Comm issi on Afereh a tits.
120 Bay Street, — Savannah, Georgia.
I ibernl advances made on cotton con sign¬
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For sulo by NV, M. Speight.
#5 TO 1)115 S.VVEl*.
r.omplote free. harness Why onlv if;. J5 cent j
catalogue my retail price. ?
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wanted. Natioxm. ll.trNF.ss t e., \\ e.n.t-1
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BufTulo, N. Y.
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FORT GAINES, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH l*th, 1889..
WINNING A WIDOW.
j&e&s. Wi “ kto#
•‘Well, what’s warnin' V' Iwlly
responded Jotham Hardcastle, wi‘h
a t ha’I nu.i masticated m-iMiuitu straw siiaw belwccn ueiwtcn
his teeth, as he looked up fiom the
bit of harness he was mending.
“The widow Palmleaf has taken
chat cottage at the foot of the lane.”
“Tell me something I didn’t know
afore,” -aid Jothain, with more
irecdom than reverence in his man
ner.
“And if she sends op to borrow
the rake, or the hoe, or the spade
M
“Well, what then ?”
“Tell her she can’t have ’em j |
Women are always a borrowing. I
knew Hobart Palmleal when he
was alive; he was a chronic borrow
t*r. I don’t want anything to do
with his widow.
“All right, ’ observed Jolham
philosophically, arid his his master re¬
sumed the perusal of newspa¬
per once more.
“Jotham!” said Mr. Wiggieton,
about ten days afterward, as he
came in, heated and out of breath
from a walk. (Mr. Wiggieton wasn’t
as spry as he had been before his
five and-fovtieth birthday, and the
Locust Hill was a pretty steep as¬
cent.) ? ’
“Well, what now
“I wonder if that was tho widow
Palmleaf I saw gathering blackber¬
ries into a basket by the south wall
of the cottage garden ? *
“Kind o’ slim and tall ?”
“Yes. ’
“Blue eyes, and bair as shiny as
satin ?’’
“Yes.”
with “And a little ?” white parasol, lined
pink
“Yes.” •.*
“Reckon likely it was,” said Jo
tham.
“But,” persisted tho puzzled
landlord, “she doesn’t look at all
like a widow.”
“There s as much difference in
widows as there is in other folks,’
observed Jotham, dryly.
Mr. Wiggieton was silent for a
mi mite or two.
“Jolham! ’ he finally* said.
“Well ?’
“Pas she sent to borrow any¬
thing ? ’
“Sent yesterday forenoon—asked
if we had a screwdriver to lend—
the bingo was eftming loose on the
garden •‘And gate. ’ did tell her?”
what you
“Said my order was contrary
wise to londiii* or borrowin'.”
“Jotham, you arc a fool.”
“’Taint the first time you said so,
and ’taint the first time you’ve been
wrong,” said Jotham, with a calm¬
ness of demeanor that was beauti¬
ful to behold. “Hard words is
considered in the wages, and I ain't
tho man to find fault. I only did
as you told me.”
‘ Yes, but Jotham—never mind—
tho next time she sends let her have
whatever she wants.”
“Said „ . . somethin , . , about , wantin . , a
man to come and lioo them early
potatoes. Be I to go.
“Certainly ot course. Iseigh.
bora s iould act liko neighbors,, os
pccialty And Mr. in the Wiggieton country. sighod and
wished that lie was not too cerpu
lent and unused to labor to hoc the
widow Palmleal s early potatoes
himself.
•lint he did the next best thing; .
h “ went over to look at tho field
al,c1 ' Jotham had hoed It, and gave
mo widow good ad vice concerning
a eerlam rocky uphill bit of sheeps
pasture that belonged to the cot
t.gc larm.
“I’d lay that down in winter rye,
‘LLul," “i'hnt si you ’ 80
much obliged to you,"
SRul t ho **L d ® w * wcwll Y* “Sniee
poor dear , Hobart was taken away
i have no cue to advise me on these
anbiects” ‘ \L
» „,i nU K Wiggieton thought 1 how . 0 .
“
?ott , pretty her blue eyes
“ r n ° »>» t tho sort ol crop lor
lh t’ 1 , ’ fepnng wheat 8 llic only
,ZS s ™:, , tb „ “ „ ,
cr a nis tmpioj er, ustiu.
**les, sir. I will said Jotham,
ilh » broad grin over Mr. Wig
-leton's shiinugbaldhead.
"And about these hyacinth beds,
| n - u am > said tho latter, recovering
hi# equanimity, “ill Como over '
this evening it you will allow me. f ,
sb*ill bo delighted q » 99 intei rum* l 1
-
°‘ 1 , tho Widow With a Siaile that
showed a set ot teeth as white and
regular as pearls.
•• ih ' s «»■«">.’
Mr. W iggieton, with a bow, “and
* c sketch out a dtagt ain. Hya**
■>»»• 10 be ilUMSored , Mr,.
I'alndeal -
“So 1 have always beard, said
the widow.
That evening, after Mr. Wiggle
ton had returned from ’discussing
the momentous question of
soil, bulbous roo»s and crescents
and circles, he found Jothmn on tho
' oni porch contentedly breathing
• ihe flower scented air.
. rZi-T nirr* r
ployer; not because there was nr.y
special congeniality of soul between
p«n£ to be fSS? there. l 3
-‘Well, nobody doubts that ns with ey
»r I heard ol.” s».d Jo.han,
h|g c n, 0 w8 on his knees, and his
f aco complacently turned toward
the moon.
“And she can't be over thirty?”
“So I should a said, m}self,” as
merited Jolham.
M J*m glad she has taken the cot
tage on a long lease, Jotham,” pur*
sued Mr. NVigglelon, ‘1 liko good
neighbors.”
“Most folks does,” observed Jo¬
tham.
And he got up, shaking himself
like a great New Foundiand dog.
and went into the house, leaving
Mr. Wiggieton to the companion*
ship of his own cogitations. There
arc times in which solitude is said
to be the best company; perhaps
ibis was one of these special occa
sions, in the estimation of Mr. Jo¬
tham Hardcastle.
The summer went by; the great
maple in front of the Wiggieton
mansion began to glow as if its
leaves bad been dipped in blood
and melted gold; the asters reared
their purple torches along the stone
wall by the cottage under the hill,
and any acute observer might have
perceived that Mrs. Palmleaf bad
laid down the rocky bit of uphill
ground in spring wheat instead of
winter rye.
“Jotham!’' sa’d Mr. Wiggieton to
his farm-hand one evening, it was
the first time they had had a fire
on the wide, old fashioned hoarth.
“Well ?”
“I — have concluded it isn’t best
for you to live hero at the house
any longer.”
“What’s going to happen ? ’ said
Jotbam. “You ain’t going to hire
another hand be you?”
“No; to be sure not. You suit
mo admirably, Jotham, only”—and
Mr. Wiggieton shot the words out
with nn effort, “i’m thinking of
being married.”
“Oh!” said Jolham.
“It’s rather late in life, to bo
sure,” said Mr. Wiggieton, eon
scions of looking extremely sheep¬
ish; “but you know, Jethain, it’s
never loo late to do a good thing.’
‘Certainly not,’ said Jotham, dry
y*
‘You ought to get married, speaking Joth
am,’ added his employer,
in rather a rapid and embarrassed
manner.
‘Think so 7’
‘Certainly. You might live in
the little house beyond tho peaeh
oichaid; it wouldn't taka much to
fit it up nicly, now that paint and
paper are so cheap.
Jotham starod reflectively at tho
fire.
‘And your wife could tako care of
the ciearn and butter, and all that
sort of things for us. It isn’t likely
Mrs. P-Ahem!—it isn’t likoly. I
mean, that my wife will care for
such things.'
‘Humph!’ remarked Jotham.
‘I’d advise you to turn tho thing
OTCr in youp mind, Jotbam,’ said
his employer.
*Yes, I will ’ said Jotham with a
mtle h .
Tho next morning Mr. Wiggle
ton attired himself m his best suit,
and went to tho cottage,
Ml , 9 p a | mlellf received him in a
c fc ar ming crimson cashmero wraps
per , with ribbons to match,
Mr. Wiggieton wasted no time in
usc !o8S preliminary chit chat.
‘M rs . Palmleaf—ma'am,’ lie began
a | iu | c n( ,rvously. ‘1 have eonclu>
dcd , chan “ „ e m i,o „ con dilion.'
,i„ dccd: . lid t widow, smiling
i.ko „„ opening 6 rose; ‘I am glad to
hear i t ’
. And J „ m hero this morning to
ask “TYon^ro^'kind, r 3 ' ou i 0 ,^ my wi,c • pursucd
sir. .aid Hr.
Palmleaf. blushing, and looking
n . al i*. ,!... ( i,, h n tk,,. t t ,. m iu. *
’
couiai. .
‘ And not 7 demanded Mr.
Wig.rlcton, fairly taken aback by
» ^ » n exneeted answer
. Might , dare t0 lt‘s ask Jotbam -that is- Hard
‘Oh, certainly.
castle.
Mr. Wiggieton stammored out a
or two of congratulation
‘ took his leave ^
And whcn lh spr ; n , ^hcat
reared its green tussles on the hilt.
ald j nUl „ m married tho prcltv
J a widow—and Mr. Wiggle**
ton's single yet. lie always felt as
if ho had been ill-treated, but he
never could te!l exactly how.
Barnvard manure is the basis of
successful farming. It cost nothing
but the saving., and is a complete
manure for atl crop productions,
»nd theroforo in growing food nee
es,ary for the stock the fertility ol
the soil can be maintained, which
1 otherwise is always sure to deter
iorate.
{ •*•«
Mr deDood if your face for
rent?”
She laughingly asked “but and slow,
“Of course not,” be said r whv?
ghe said*
Zz ™ u ,#ok * T *“ —Critic. nt yo °
How to Kill a Bear.
jpSrJEifS^S the old man, as he pushed back h,»
coon.km cap “Tho total count ts
about hlty, 1 bel,eve.
“You must have been in a dans.
gerous “You position many limes?”
bet!
“I suppose that scar on your
cheek was made by the claw of a
bear?”
“That scar? Oh, no. The old
woman hit me thar with a splinter,
“YoOr left eye is gone. Did a
bear dj that?’
‘Left eye? Oh, no. The old
cow hooked that out.”
“Fifty hears is a good many. old
Some of them must have been
and fierce?”
“You bet!"
“I notice your right hand is
crimplcd. I suppose a bear got it
into his mouth ?
“Right hand ? Oh, no. 1 got
that caught in a corn §hollcr.
“You walk lame in one leg. Did
that come from a tussle with a bear?
‘{One leg ? Oh, no. I fell off a
load of hay and hroko my log.
‘Well,’ persisted tho questioner,
‘that scar over your right eye must
have been mado by a bear.
being “Right eye? Yes, purty near
a bear. I run agin a beam
in the barn in the dark.
“Then you wero never hugged,
chawed nor clawed by a bear ? que¬
ried tho reporter in disgust.
• “By a bear? Oh, no.
“But you have Killed fifty?
“Yes, an even fifty.
“How did it happen that you
were never harmed?
“Harmed? Oh, I always shot
them at least fifty rods off, or at
first got them into a (rap and artcr
wise shot them. Don’t never let a
bear come near you }*oung man—
they are daugerous.—New York
Sun.
Indian Horsemanship.
There some points about Indian
horsemanship that deserve mention
here. To begin with, he always
mounts from the off (right) side of
his horse instead of tho near side,
aa wo do. Tho only real reason
why tho cavalry man has not been
taught for centuries to mount from
both sides is that his saber, swing¬
ing from the waist belt on his own
left side, was in the way. Mow
that we are attaching tho saber to
tho saddle instead of the trooper, it
will probably lead to practice on
both sides. West Point has already
begun it. The Indian, onco in his
saddle, wrapped in his blanket is
a depressing sight. He sits hunch¬
ed up on his pony, his knees way
up, his feet thrust far into the stir¬
rups, not unlike those of ladies’ sad¬
dles. Ho looks utterly awkward
and ungraceful as he jogs along
flapping wooden handled perpetually, with his
right flank whiplashes at the
of his steed ; but tbe
instant he clears for action, throws
off his blanket and darts out over
thepraric, he is transfigured. Moro
daring, graceful, swaying, horso
mansbip it would bo almost impos¬
sible to conceive of. You forget
the bunched up knees in the free¬
dom and flexibility of his lithe,
painted pody. You marvel at the
cat-like agility w r ith which ho
bounds on or off his dashing pony,
ducks under or down on cither side,
firing under his neck as ho whirls
across tbe springy turf, but you
have only to remember that it is
all second nature with him. He
began to ride as soon as he was
loosened from the bonds of the pa¬
poose board and has been at it ov¬
er sinco. Many of them, especial¬
ly among tbe Snakes or Shoshones,
are wonderfully bow-logged as a
consequence, and are most ungain¬
ly bipeds when afoot—Colman’s
Rural World.
The Future Amersdan Empire.
Queen Victoria, in her speech at
the opening^of parliament, said :*‘I
have consented to take part in a
conference with Germany and
America, at Berlin, upon the Sam¬
oan question.” Here is a curious ex¬
ample of tho eomplelo surrender
which has been made to this country
of the word America. It is now ap¬
plied by other nations oaly to ^the
great union of American states. To
bo an American, therefore, one
must be a citizen of the most pow¬
erful nation that ever existed. No
one ever thinks of calling a resi¬
dent of Canada or Mexico, an Amer
i cun. The peoplo ot the L nited
Spites, by their achievements, have
made themselves stand for the en
t«rc continent. Perhaps this is an
unsconscious admission on the part
of tho rest of the world that it is
the manifest destiny of this coun
try to rule ail the territory from
the pole to the isthmus and from
ocean to ocean.—American.
An old fisherman at Norwich,
Conn., makes the consoling pre¬
diction that the high water prevail¬
ing this seasen will be the cause
of some astonishing good The tro~.t fish
ing next spring. muskrats
cannot get at tho trout, upon which
they ravenously feast when tbe
-dreams aro covered with ice.—
E: change.
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Who Made Aloohol.
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drunkenness, between virtue and
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Quito recently a well informed,
genial, woithy editor a teacher and
vender of his fellow men, said he
used wine and beer and all the good
things that God had made and giv¬
en us for our food and drink. And
ho insisted most positively to the
last, that God had put alcohol into
every grain ami fruit and every¬
thing that contains celluloso, so j
that it can bo extracted from even
n dry old fence pole.
If that were true—if tho Creator
had done this-had made our grains
and fruits and vegetables part alco
hoi—if he had put four gallons ol
whisky into overy bushel of corn
or wheat or ryo-thoro would bo no
room for argument, and wo ought
to go to bed ev jry night devoutly
drunk.
Our friend, well posted in gener¬
al information, did not know a.«
our Band of Hope children know,
that not a drop ot alcohol ever ex¬
isted in any of tho works or pro¬
ducts of tho Creator, nor was over
produced save by man's art and* the
total destruction of some article ol
food of man or beast—by its cor¬
ruption and decay, arrested at a
point vvbcie the elements of the su
gar in the article employed, have
been separated and have combined
in new forms and produced two ol
tho most deadly poisons known—
alcohol and carbonic acid gas.
Were fermentation not stopped
then by art tho alcohol, which become" is
now beer, would rapidly
vinegar, and if not then interfered
with would result finally in clear
wator, the other substances having
escaped in gases or become a sedi¬
ment at tho bottom of tho water.
Tho whole system of fermenta¬
tion is one of death and corruption,
decay, putrcscenco after death. It
is tho same death and decay which
happens to fish and flesh and fowl
—the return of the created thing to
the eloments of dust from which it
was made.
The grain and fruits from whose
dead, usolcss, lotting remains alco¬
hol is produced, aro, in their nat¬
ural state, until subjected by wick¬
ed men to a diabolical chemical
process, tho choicest blessings and
sustenance of mankind. If left to
decay as nature allows them to,
they would never have generated a
drop of alcohol.—Censor.
A Soldier’s Romance.
Col. Graves, speaker in tho Low¬
er House of tho Minnessota Legis
laturo. has had a strangely roman
tic career Ilo was a gallant sol¬
dier in the late civil war, and rose
trom a private to tho rank of colo¬
nel. Gen. Terry has recontiy said
of Col. Graves that he was onci of
tho bravest and shrewdest of the
colenels with whoso careers he be¬
came familiar during the war.
He's small in staue, said tbe Gen¬
eral, but bo was a great fighter.
Col. Graves first met his wife
upon a Southern battlefield. She
is tho daughter of Gen. Tatraan,
and she was the wife of another
man the day sho first saw Col.
Graves. Their meeting was both
sad and romantic, Her husband
had been fatally shot, and while
sho stood by his side in anguish,
waiting for the last heart throb she
knew must come very soon. Col.
Graves was brought in. Ho was
insensible from a fearful wound in
the left brenst. Thus Col. Graves
and the lady who is now his wife
became acquainted under circum¬
stances most torriblo, hut later on
tho friendship ripened into love. known It
is probably not generally
that Col. Graves life was finally
saved by the insertion of a silver
lube into tbe bullet wound, which
passed through the left lung. Ap¬
parently the wound does not trou¬
ble him now. lie is a very active
man, and his general appearance
indicates the healthy, well kept bu¬
siness man of fifty.—Minneapolis
Journal.
• A Blizzard Strikes the Kicker.
This half-sheet is no accident.
We is&ued it to save our legal no¬
tices. Had we no legal ads we
should have skipped publication
entirely. When it is cold enough
j n this town to freeze red whisky with
j n ten feet of a hot stove, there
j s no ca ii for an editor to get up
anc i hump himself. Our esteemed
contemporary down the street cnl
culates to skip two weeks and get
drunk at least four limes, and we
shall be with him In spirit. While
wc a ; m to publish West, the greatest
newspaper in the we can’t
fight twenty-seven degrees below
zero worth shucks. Cum dig solis,
which means that as soon as the
blizzard lets up we will try to do
better.—Arizona .Kicker.
A glass eye has one compensa¬
tion—everylody else can see
through the device if the w-aror
can't.—Life.
NO.. 33.
The Marriage of Near Kin.
• •
There is a widespread idea that
consanguineous unions produce
either detective offspring or none
at all. When a marriage between
cousins is spoken of stertilifv or n
deaf mute, idiotic or deformed
progeny is predicted and examples
are always at hand to cite in sups
port of the prophecy. positive Does this
opinion rest upon and well
authenticated tacts, or is it orronca
ous? This is a question thut was
examined a few years ago by G. 11.
Darwin, who, after a profound
study of the subjeoi, came to tho
conclusion that, In the present stale
of science, there is nothing to justi¬
fy the common prejudice that ex
•sts against tho mnrringe of near
kin. More recently tho subject
has been further examined by Mr.
A. II. Huth, who has just published
ari exhaustive work upon it, in
which ho arrives at tho same tot®
elusions that Mr. Darwin did.
Mr. Ilutli thinks that consanguin¬
ity of itself plays no particular role
in the union of individuals of the
same stock. In tho descendants t
increases the tendencies common to
the two relationship, progenitors. By reason of
their the closer this is
and tho closer the relationship of
the ancestors, the greater is tho
tendency of tho descendants to exv
hibit tho same dispositions. If
these aro good, consanguineous un¬
ions will be advantageous, in that
they will fort ify and intensify them.
If, on the contrary, they are bad,
such unions should bo avoided, in
order to prevent a re-enforcement
of unfavorable tendencies, which
should bo suppressed. But the case
is identical where it is a question
of unrelated persons. No reasona¬
ble person would urge two ncuroa
pathic individuals of difforrnt fami¬
ly to unite, because be knows that
tho nuerosis has every chance to
become intense in tho descendants.
On the contrary, a union between .
consanguineous individuals equally
healthy bo encouraged. and well favored, ought to
What may bo urged against mar
riages of near kin is tho facility
with which unfavorable tendencies
aro transmiltod, and the relative
rarity of tho circumstaucos in which
such marriages can really he
vised. But, this admitted and ex
plained, consanguity of itself pre>
sents no inconvenionco, especially
if wo consider how remote, by reas
on of th*e existing laws upon mar*
riage, is the degroe of consanguini¬
ty belween individuals capable of
uniting legitimately.
Upon the whole, consanguinity*
ty accumulates and intensifies ten¬
dencies. If these are bad, the mar¬
riage of near kin should be avoid¬
ed; if good it may be favored. But
as, unfortunately, tho unfavorable
tendencies are more easily and fre¬
quently transmitted, because they
aro the ones that aro established
with the most facility, there is of
toner mere reason for avoiding
than seeking such unions. Upon
tho whole, Mr. lluth concludes that
tho accusations diroctod against
marriages of near kin-arc not jhs*
tified in tho present state of science.
—Scientific American.
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Tho economical ■ U to
most way
milk a cow, all things considered, leav¬
is to milk the two fore teats,
ing off with a pretty full stream,
and then milk the hind ones down
to a short stream, and, returning to
tho fore ones, milk them to tbe
same condition, not touching tho
hind ones again. This will leave
the teats empty, and the bag loo.
It is a false notion that tugging
away at tho teats stimulates a cow
to givo more milk, but on the con¬
trary, emptying the bag as_»bori as
possible yields more; then;the cow
cun have tho extra time to eat,
which is a better stimulus than
either. A slow milker is never
tolerated in the dairy districts, and
a “stripper’ is an injury anywhere.
The sooner tho cow is milled, and
all the organs connected with feed
ing, digestion and secretion aro
left in their natural condition, tho
better it is for tho cow.-—Karat
Canadian.
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A very novel feature is to be
ed into the asylum for the blind to be es¬
tablished in Pittsburg. Dr. Campbell
of the Royal Institute for the Blind in
London, who ia expected to be in charge
of the asylum, aroused the greatest in
terest in the world’s metropolis, when fa
lost September he selected a claaa of btiarf
pupils whom he had taught with to ride in on
the bicycle, and they, him tho
lead, rode from London to Derby. Th»
distance between remarkable the two fact place* in is ISM*
miles, and a coni^JO
tion with the feat was that no aocideni;
occurred on the way. r Dr. Campb
will follow out bis ideas on the subject
when he takes charge of the asylum a 7
Pitteburg. # r*
An English walnut Wee, planted
130 years ago at .Washington
Heights, New York, i» now a mon
ster in size, the stem six feet in di
ameler at tho base, and more than
seventy-five feet high, with wide
spreading branches. Onfl of thes i
branches cross-sections was cut off of a which few yoarJ|
ago, enough for the top ot
largo which made life i
tables were “abouLlw
From 1810 to 1865
loads” of nuts wore cootid*
fair crop, and it had borne conlin- '
uously for n^ar'y 100 years. ® d