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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
The necessity for the artificial applica¬
tion of water is said to be far greater in
California than iu the older countries of
Europe. _____________
A statistician assorts that twenty
Princes and Princesses of the reigning
families of Europe have been treated for
mental disorders.
New York is agitating the proposition
to establish free kindergarten schools to
take the place of her present primary
system of instruction.
]’ago-i'ago, the Samoan port granted
to the 1 nited States for a coaling
station, is the most easily defensible
harbor in the Southern Pacific.
John S. Scott, a South Carolina cotton
planter, has been appointed by the
Russian Government superintendent and
instructor of a large cotton plantation
owned by the Govenrmeut in one of the
Southern provinces.
Mackerel and halibut, it appears from
the fishery reports, are deserting the
waters of the New England coasts. For
the year 1888 there was a falling off of
about six million pounds in the catch of
these two kinds of fish.
In a suit for damages for loss of a son
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided
in favor of the Philadelphia Steamboat
Company. The court held that a row¬
boat is not a vessel within the meaning
of the navigation laws, and that a steam¬
boat is, therefore, not bound to get out
of the rowboat’s way.
Carden and Forest urges tho Govern¬
ment to withdraw its forest lands from
sale and place them in the care of tho
army. Tho Philadelphia Times indorses
the suggestion, and asks the States to
tako immediate stops for the preserva¬
tion of tho forests before all our great
rivers shrink into shallow little streams,
It is against tho law iu Mexico for
any one to read a newspaper aloud; but
no one cures for that, observes the New
York Tribune, as few people want to
read them anyhow. You can get more
news in Mexico by sitting down half an
hour at a popular cafe than you could
get by reading a Mexican paper for a
month.
In Michigan University “a larger pro¬
portion or woman than of men are tak¬
ing by choice the full classical course.”
President Angell reports. Men are be¬
coming scientific rather than classical,
on account of tho new openings in
scientific professions, while women study
Greek and Latin, to meet the require¬
ments of teachers.
In England, France, Germany, Bel¬
gium, Holland, Austria and Switzerland
there are 221 cities having street rail¬
roads. Among these 118 are in England,
43 in Germany and 23 in France, there
being no city of less than 20,000 inhabit¬
ants having such roads, while in the
l nited States they are found in cities of
not more than 1000 inhabitants.
According to the Catholic World there
are ninety colored Catholic schools iu the
Southern dioceses and two colored sister¬
hoods—the Oblates, of Baltimore, and
the Holy Family, of Now Orleans, which
provide teachers for the schools. The
number of Catholic colored churches,
the World says, is not more than twenty,
aud there is but ono colored Catholic
priest iu the couutry.
Deaths from mining explosions in Eng¬
land for 1888 were only forty-three.
This is tho lowest record since 1851,
when the number was first officially given.
The lowest previous to 1888 was sixty
five deaths in 1884. The highest record
in the past thirty-eight years was in
1866. when 650 lives were lost by ex¬
plosions—360 of these leing covered by
the one casualty at the Oaks Colliery.
The great river of Egypt has not sent
down its accustomed floods this yea^
and the people who depend on that for
their food indulge only the most gloomy
anticipations for the future. There will
be no corn in Egypt this year, and the
ancient granary i f the world must itself
buy of more prosperous nations, Some
believe that the grea. feeders of the Nile
h:ue been cut off by growths of vegeta¬
bles choking off the passage of water.
Another theory is that the large flood a
fear ago left dams whfi h now obstruct
the water, as was the case some years
»go, and which were not cut through
tntil 1880.
A FRIEND.
A* sang the voices in the courts above,
Moved by the Lady’s shining mien and
grace,
“Lo, here comes one who shall increase our
!ov « : ”
So cried my heart when first I saw thy face.
I knew thy spirit was to mine akin,
Dwelling anear on some eternal shore;
Time, Sorrow, Death, their filmy threads may
spiP. shall
They bar no shining path we explore.
Enough, though here we may not meet, since
, ve
Once stood together on that blessed height,
When, through the mists that veil eternity,
Truth's flaming star burst forth upon our
sight.
And though our circuits lie worlds separate,
We smile an 1 part, for surely, O my friend,
Their lines shall intersphere or soon or late,
And move to ether to the .journey's end.
If now we met, perchance the hateful mask
Of finite vision might obscure our eyes
And dim Truth’s fixed star. No boon I ask—
We have met once on hills of Paradise.
—Annie Knit, in Harper,
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HELD BY A ROPE.
BY LEIGH YOUNOE.
•kgypt * ia9 been called the Gift of the
Nile, and everything in the land is con
nected with the movements of the great
artery that is the life of the country.
The seventeenth of-June is the “night
of the drop,” and is celebrated as a fes
tival. Moore in liis “Lalla Iiookh” tolls us
of the power of
“t he drop that down from the moon,
Falls through the healing air of June.”
According to Ihe ancient legends, Isis,
the goddess of Egypt, weeps over the
aridness of the country, aud the tear
falling from her eye into the Nile causes
the overflow widen brings renewed life
to the land. The Cairenes spend the
night beside the river, either in the
open air or in houses near fhe bank, and
practice all sorts of ceremonies. Each
member of the family places a piece of
dough on the roof; if the dough rises,
happiness is in store for the fortunate
one who placed it there; if not, it is an
ill omen.
Ten days later the river slowly begins
to rise, and the Nile crier goes through
the streets every morning with the latest
bulletin as to the height of the water.
The great festivity of the year is the
Wel'a or the cutting of the dam, which
takes place between the tenth aud four
teenth of August. *
Egypt is now no longer a vast lake
during the inundation as it formerly
was. The water is conducted into a
net-work of canals and reservoirs, and
distributed as it is needed, and engi
neers are appointed to see that there is
no loss nor waste. I evees are built to
keep the waters within bounds, and
many of the villages are connected by
these, while others can only be reached
by boat.
When wo reached Egypt, in the middle
of October, the inundation was at the
highest point, higher than it had been
for years. To attempt the journey to
the pyramids the was, we were told, mad
ness, whole face of the country be
tween Uhizeh and the city being under
water. But the flood would not abate
for weeks, and we could not wait, and
ao decided to try it.
started Selecting our donkeys with including care, we
out, a party of four,
tho which dragoman the and the little animals, The
are street cars of Egypt.
doukey boy, a very bright little fellow
of fourteen years, was a family man,
he told us proudly, with two wives and
four children, and he supported his
whole establishment on the one franc a
day he earned by taking care of the
donkeys.
On past the city out into the open
we rone, congratulating ourselves that
we had not heeded the advice given us.
Our route lay along a high embank
ment beside one of the numerous canals
which encircle the city, and a more
beautiful scene cannot be imagined. The
water wai almost up with the banks, and
in ihe sunlight glittered rushes aud with glistened,
Tall reeds and waving
plumes beautifully green lined the shore,
and the reflection in the water gave back
every leaf and twig.
Then suddenly and abruptly the dyke
was cut off, and before us was a sheer
descent into the yellow undermined water. The
force of the waves h;^L had the
foundation, and it sunk. What to
do next was the question. forward
Yussef explore? <*ot down, and went
to Finally he came back with
the intelligence that there was a boat a
little way back, which would take us if
we were willing to go in that way.
Tuming, we rode to where a curve in
the embankment formed a tiny cove, and
there was the boat, a long, dirtv,
weather-beaten craft, with the immensely
high mast and the odd-shaped Nile. sail that
they use only on the
Leaving our donkeys to the boy who
was to take them back to the The’little city, we
embarked and pushed reeled with off. the force of
boat rocked and
the current, but the boatmen seemed to
km w their business, and piloted us
safely enough, though it was ha no under easy
task. The tallest trees were f
water, and the smallest were wholly sub¬
merged ;aud when one least expected for the it,
he was apt to run up against mud one, that noth
water was so thick with
inc could be seeu below the surface.
Men were at work upon the embank
ments strengthening them, and a busy
scene the "reen terra; es rising up out of
the yellow*water pre-ented. "Where the
rush had swept the dykes completely connecting
away they were throwing reminded the
bridges. I was forcibly of
ecenes at home, when the
bursts its bounds and breaks through the
levees. verv available force on the
plantation Carrier is "set to work to strengthen
the that keeps off the waters. It
was all the mure striking, as the fellahin
and onr Southern negroes closely resem
ble each other.
Our little boat with its great sail
brought us finally up to the elevated
plateau where the pyramids stand, and
we landed, glad to be on terra firraa.
No one ever forgets the view that he
gets from the top of Cheops, where he
) seem9 drawback to feel the centuries and go by. which The
to the pleasure chattering, awe the
j the place inspires is the
quarreling and the clamoring for bak
shish of the swarms of Arabs that haunt
i the place. Thanks, however, to the
over.low, none but our own party were
there, so we were left in peace to the
desolation of the scene.
Below us lay the waste of water with
the winding line of the embankments
curling from like a great green serpent, and
its bosom seemed to rise the
minarets and domes of the distant city,
while over all the tall columns of the
Mosque of Mehemet Ali kept ward. At
our brooding feet crouched the sleepless Sphynx
over the scene as she has done
f or fifty centuries.
We explored the Tomb of Numbers,
and the temple in ruins, lunched at the
pavilion built for the Prince of Wales,
sunned ourselves in the sand as we
watched the granite monster, and wished
a genius was there to unseal those tightly
closed lips, and disclose the things that
those eyes had seen.
Then tired as the shadows were lengthen
ing, and worn-out we returned to
the boat. Whether the current was
stronger than in the morning, or whether
the crew were tried I cannot tell, but cer
tainly the boat did net obev the helm,
but drifted at the mercy of the wind,
and rocked from side to side. The great
danger was,of course,in running though against sho
a bumped snag, but providentally, the boat did
many times, not
strike heavily, and we drifted on in the
right direction, for she seemed to be en
tirely out of the control of the boatmen,
The situation was perilous in the ex
treme, night was coming on, there we
were, miles from any chance of succor,
wholly at the mercy of fhe current, and
liable at any moment to be overturned. I
At last we drifted toward one of the
bridges which had been thrown over sucked the
canal, into and immediately poured we were with |
the current that tre
mentions force through the opening,
Just as we went under, the sail which
they had been trying to take in fell with
a crash, and swept one of the boatmen
into the water. |
With a shriek he threw up his hands,
and went down like lead. Every effort
was made to keep in the middle of the ;
culvert, which was twelve feet across, :
and in that we succeeded.
The bridge was about fifteen feet high,
and .just as we ru-hed along, the top of
the mast caught on one of the timbers
of the bridge, and held fast. Back and
forth rocked the boat in the rush of
waters, but the hold of the ropes never
relaxed. From side to side we were
tossed with a dizzy, sickening motion, I
just escaping each time being dashed
against the rocks which formed the side
of the capsized. bridge, and expected every instant
to be
I have heard of the Eastern indiffer
ence to death, but it certainly was not
manifested there, for the Arabs shrieked
with fear, aud called upon Allah to de
liver them.
The boat was half-full of water, and it
took all of our efforts at bailing to keep
her from filling; but the men were of and no
use, they sat down in the water
rocked from side to side, bemoaning
their fate, till the Captain, losing pa
tience,administered some kicks to them,
telling them to go to work aud stop their
howling.
One of them slyly took out his pen
knife, aud approaching the rope was just
about to cut it, wheu called I, seeing what he
was about to do, to him to drop
the knife. The fellow got closer, and
had just touched the rope when I pulled
a revolver from my pocket shoot saying: “If
you touch that rope, I'll you.”
The outstretched arm dropped as if
paralyzed, and the knife fell in the
water.
Our one chance of life, and it was but
a slender one. lay in the holding out of
the rope. There were men working on
the road above us, we knew, and if we
could only attract their attention, it
might be well wish us yet. But, of
course, the chances were that the rope
would wear away, and then the almost
certainty was we should be dashed to
pieces. Half-mad with fear, of the
one men
jumped into the water to try and gain
the embankment. He was a tall, power
ful man and a magnificent swimmer, but
the water tossed him about like a piece
of cork. We saw with horror his red
fez go up and down on the waves, until
his upturned, agonized face drifted by
us, and he sank to rise no more. Horror
stricken we sat silently thinking that the
next moment such might be the fate of
the rest of us, particularly as I thought I
saw signs oi the fraying of the rope
where it worked against the mast.
We tired off two or three shots in rapid
succession, and then shouted at the top
of our voices, but no answer came, save
the rush of the waters.
One of our party rose and threw off
his coat.
“ What is that for ?” I asked.
“I am going to try to swim to shore ;
I believe 1 can do it.”
“ With Abdallah’s fate before your
eyes ?” I returned,
“ A es,” he said,^ “ I will try it, and
not be killed here. ’
*' It would be suicide.” I replied, aga’n
taking out my levolver, “ and I will fire
if you make a motiou to leave the boat,
We will take our chances here.”
“ But what chance have we here ? ”
“ Very little, but none in the way you
are trying.” dropped back in
Silently he his seat,
Aloud exclamation from the captain
' startled every one, and we looked up to
where hs finger pointed. the There shin
ing through a crevice in flooring of
the bridge was a round, bead-like eye
looking down upon ua, and presently,
finding a larger rissure, a coal-black face
beamed upon upon us.
Never was apparition more welcome,
In a few words the captain explained the the
situation we were in, and told man
that a couple of English noblemen were
there, and he must hasten.
Like an arrow the fellow flew away to
where a posse of men were mending the
road, and they hastened back; but how
to get at us was the difficulty. Rope
after was flung in vain; we were too far
under to catch it. At last they tied a
a heavy stone to the rope, and allowed
to drift under with the current. It
came nearer and nearer. We held our
breath with anxiety, fearing lest some
eddy should draw it away from us; but
as it came reached past, one of us, holding to the
mast, out and caught it.
A prayer hearts, of thanksgiving while shout went testified up
from our a
to our rescuers that the rope had caught;
to make it fast to the mast, and cut the
other, which was now almost frayed in
two, was the work of a moment, and
slowly we were drawn from around our danger
ous position, and towed to a
point where we could land and climb up
the embankment.
The engineer is held responsible for his
the safety of travelers, as it was
business to keep the road in order, and
when he heard that some of the boat’s
passengers had been killed, he came to
us in consternation and distress,to know
how many and who they were.
When he heard thaLone was an Egyp
tian soldier and the other a boatman,
“Bismillah,” he cried, turning on his
heel, “I thought they might have been
Franks.”
So little is native life counted among
them. — Youth's Companion.
A Terrapin’s Beseeching Eye.
David Burnham, living in a near-by
town in New.iersey, is exceedingly fond
of terrapin stew, but he does not think
much of the savory “diamond back” in
any other form. Nevertheless, a pet ter
rapin that some months ago almost
miraculously escaped the pot wanders
around the plot of ground on whicn his
house stanas and sleeps in his kitchen
every night. invited
Las October Mr. Burnham
some friends to supper, served to cele
brate the fifth anniversary ol his wed
ding. For six dqllars he purchased terrapin, in- in
Fulton Market a five pound with his
tending to regale his friends
favorite dish. He left orders that the
terrapin should be sent by e press to his
house, and supposed that it would understood be de¬
livered in a condition better
by the cook than the butcher. But the
little creature was by no means in the
soup yet, and wheD it was laid down lor
a moment with its ight side uppermost
in the kitchen it proved that it was
keenly alive to the situation by waddling
at its highest rate of speed toward the
door.
It was then turned on its back, and the
cook was invited to slaughter it. Bu
this she emphatically refused to do, and
as the ether servants shared her objec
tions Mr. Burnham nerved himself to do
the butchers work himself. Armed
with the family carving knife he en
tered the kitchen wheu the rest of the
household had retired for the night. floor He
says that he knelt down upon the
and was about to slit the terrapin’s throat
when the succulent creature, lying on its
diamond back, gazed at his face with
such a human, beseeching expression knife in
its mild, bulging eyes that the
dropped from his hand, and he deter
mined to spare its life,
The terrapin has shown itself grateful, the
but not demonstratively so, lor
mercy extended to it. When Mr. Burn
ham approaches its usual resting place,
under a great chestnut tree, it croak3
cheerfully, and slowly moves to meet
him. It will take a piece of bruised and
softened meat, a small fish, or even a
piece of water-soaked bread from his
hand, but its appetite is not large, and it
sleeps most of the time. It is growing
fat rapidly, and swells beyond its shell
with a posterior and an anterior
plethora—at least so Air. Burnham says,
and he has studied Dr. Johnson’s mode
of expression pretty closely. It does not
fear the cold, being warmly clad .—New
York Times.
The Australasian Wool Product.
The wool-producing colonies is industry which of the
Australasian one is
steadily growing in importance. The
total number of sheep in the whole of
these colonies on the 31st of March,
1888, was i><\4(52,038. Of this number
almost one-half were found in New
South Wales. The totals for each colony
are as follows : New South Wales, 46,
965,152; New Zealand, lo,235,561;
Queensland, 12,1)20,158; Victoria, 10,-
628,085; South Australia, 7,25!,008;
West Australia, 1,00 ',044; Tasmania,
1,547,242. The total of 96,462,038 com -
pares with a total of 18,888,710 in 1885.
For purposes of comparison, we may give
the number of the sheep in some other
countries. For Argentine Republic
the figures iu 1885 were 15,000,000; in
European Russia, excluding Poland,
there were in 1883 estimated to be 43,-
724,736 sheep; in the i nited States in
1S37 the number was ’4,759,315; and in
18So in the I'nited Kingdom there were
23,955,240 sheep .—Boston Cultivator.
Monument to the Hambletonian Sire.
The National Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders proposes to erect a bronze
statue of the great Hamb!etonian,to cost
not less than $3000, as a memorial to
the progenitor of one of the fastest
strains of American trotting horses,
The ommittee in charge ot the work is
composed of J. C. Howland, Guy Miher
aud J. AY. Gray, Treasurer of the asso
ciation, who also a ts as 1 reasurer of
the fund. A considerable sum .or this
purpose hid already been collected.by
E. A. Buck, editor of the Spin- oj ihe
Tim s.
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