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NCLE SAM WILL HEhP RESCUE FLOOD SUFFERERS. VIES ARE RAPIDLY GIVING WIT. plcUers Arc Placed On Guard—Situation In Overflowed Districts Grows Hourly More Desperate. A special of Sunday from St. Louis >ays: “Latest advices from the flooded country situation south of here state that the is hourly growing worse. Walls of water have beaten down the .svees at many points and dwellers are U the mercy of the floods. Out of thirty-eight telegrams re¬ ceived from the lower river, but one records a cessation of the rise. This was from Cairo, Ill., but the halt of the flood in this instance is due to the breaks in the levees adjacent in Ken¬ tucky and Missouri. The most disheartening intelligence comes from the Iowa and Dakota val¬ leys of the Missouri river. Warm weather has turned the snow to water, which is added to the already over- flowed streams. Work on levee barriers is practically abandoned in Arkansas and Missis¬ sippi as useless. At Chicot, Ark., a barge load of sandbags was dumped into a levee break. They only served to widen the breach. This is the experience at other points, and work oh the outer barriers is abandoned and every hand turned to save the inner levees. A dispatch from Ripley, Tenn., -says there is a strong and the current through Reel Foot lake old river bayou. Steamers Among Trees. It is feared the river will seek its old channel through the lake which was shifted twenty miles west by the earthquake in 1812. South of Helena, Ark., the levee breaks are most nu¬ merous and the damage greatest. The five steamers employed by the Memphis relief committee were aided Sunday by two government boats tow¬ ing barges. These steamers pick their way through the tree tops. The C. B. Bryan steamed due west from Memphis thirty-eight miles and returned with 130 people and a barge load of live stock. At Austen, Miss., forty miles below Memphis, but two houses remain on dry land. From these twenty-four people were rescued. Belief work is now occupying more at¬ tention than endeavors to fight the flood with levees. A relief committee has been organized in Little Rock, Ark. Mem¬ phis continues to save life and prop¬ erty, aided by the state government of Arkansas. Sunday night Major Ambury, in oliarge of the river and harbor work at St. Louis, received a telegram from Secretary Alger directing that help and rescue measures be at once undertaken by the United States fleet. The Mer¬ chants’ exchange has also taken up the rescue work. Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has sent a company of militia to guard the levee of Desha county, as there were fears that Mississippi men might try to save their homes by cutting the levee on the Arkansas side. Unconfirmed rumors of great loss of life are met at every hand, but the death roll cannot even be approximated until the flood subsides. The situation is indeed gloomy with small prospects of immediate better¬ ment. CLEVELAND RAID OFF. Secretury Ga?re Signs Warrant For Balance of Ex-President’s Salary. The treasury department closed up its accounts with Mr. Grover Cleveland Saturday. Secretary Gage signed a warrant in favor of Mr. Cleveland for $277.78, the balance due him on his salary as president, and mailed it to him at Princeton, N. J. This balance completes the §200,000 to which Mr. Cleveland was entitled for his four years’ services. ICE MOTES DOWN STREAM. A special of Sunday from Omaha, Neb., says: The general thaw of the past week has started the ice in the Logan and Elkliorn rivers, and towns along their hanks have been threatened with floods, but only two of any im¬ portance have been seriously damaged. JACKSON AND WALLING HUNG. Finale of tho Sensational Pearl Bryan Murder Case. At Newport, Ky., Saturday, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were hanged for the murder of Pearl Bryan, January 31, 1896. Although the two men wero hanged simultaneously from a double trap, they fell on pulling the same lever. There were no special incidents at the gallows. The scones were those that ordinarily take place on such occasions. Both men wero cool and nervy to the Inst, and they died protesting their innocence and declared their confes¬ sions were false and made for effect on the governor. DUNLOP SENTENCED TO JAIL. Chicago Journall.t Must Buffer For Vio¬ lation of Foetal Laws. The mandate of the case of Joseph R. Dunlop, the Chicago newspaper publisher, has been issued by the United States supreme court. The decision will have the effect of causing Mr. Dunlop to be takeu into custody for the execution of the judg¬ ment of tho court, which imposes a fine of $2,090 and imprisonment for two years for violation of postal laws. LOST SHIP IS FOUND. Wandered On the Vn»ty Deep for Nearly a Year. The long overdue ship T. F. Oakes, which left Ilong Ivong July 4th, 250 days ago, with a general cargo, and 1 which had been given up as lost, was towed into port at New York Sunday morning by the British tank steamer Kasbek, Captain Muller, which picked her up last Thursday in latitude 38:10, longitude 68:44. The Kasbek was bound from Phila¬ delphia for Flume, Austria, with a cargo of oil and left the former port on Saturday, March 13th. Captain Reed, of the Oaks, when interviewed at Quarantine on his arri¬ val told a story of fearful suffering and privations. The Oakes left Shanghai on the 17th of last May, and after completing her cargo at Hong Kong, sailed from that port July 4th. When six days in the China sea a terrific typhoon was encountered, last¬ ing several days, during which the fore and main topmasts were sprung. The vessel was obliged to run before the gale, which had no sooner blown itself out than it was followed by a second typhoon, which blew with great fury for twenty-four days. The vessel was now well out in the north Pacific and so far off her course that Captain Reed decided to shape the course via Cape Horn, rather than by the Cape of Good Hope, hoping thereby to make better time. The weather remained fine, nothing but light airs and calms were expe¬ rienced until Cape Horn was rounded 167 days out. In the meantime six of the crew were takeu sick and died. One by one the other sailors were obliged to quit work until on March 1st nobody was left except the second and third mates. NOTICE OF BLOCKADE RECEIVED. Papers Sent to Secretary Sherman By Foreign Representatives. The representative in Washington of the six powers signatory to the Ber¬ lin treaty—Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia—have in concert notified this government of the blockade of Crete, the respective notes having been de¬ livered to Secretary Sherman Sunday. They were almost identical, and con¬ sisted of a mere formal announcement that a blockade of Cretan ports against ships under the Greek flag, commenc¬ ed at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. Mer¬ chant vessels of neutral powers, in¬ cluding those of the United States and of the treaty powers, while subject to overhauling by the blokading warships of the concerting fleets, are not to be disturbed in their ordinary commercial occupations if they carry no merchan¬ dise intended for use of the Greeks or insurgents on the island. It is a question whether this govern¬ ment will give its assent to this form of blockade which involves a grave de¬ parture in international law, and would establish a precedent abolishing rights that the United Stases might desire not to surrender. UNCLE SAM TO THE RESCUE. Vessels of War Department to Help Flood Sufferers. Secretary Alger acted promptly Sat¬ urday to relieve the flood sufferers of the Mississippi valley by the use of vessels belonging to the war depart¬ ment. Senator Cullom, of Illinois, presented the secretary with an appeal from the mayor of Cairo, Ill., for government assistance to save life and property. SecretaryAlger at once telegraphed Maj. Handy, the eugiueer in charge of river work at St. Louis, and Colonel Gilles¬ pie, the president of the Mississippi river commission, directing them to have all government boats sent to Cairo. RIOT IN MINING CAMP. Negro Resisted Arrest and a Fueilade Ensues. Saturday night at Brookside, Ala., a mining camp, the city marshal at¬ tempted to arrest Henry Johnson. The latter refused to be arrested and took tho marshal’s pistol away from him. A police deputy, named Sellers, went to the marshal’s assistance. Negroes from all sides went to Johnson’s aid. Shooting then began. Jake McKenzie, colored, was killed instantly; Sellers was shot through the body and cannot recover; Johnson was shot in the arm; other negroes were wounded. HUSBAND POISONERS. Women on Trial For Making Way With Their Helpmeet©. Astonishing revelations are being made at present in the criminal courts of Hungary-Austria. A dozen women are on trial in one town for poisoning their husbands, and it is freely admit¬ ted that theirs are only typical cases which illustrates what is almost a na¬ tional custom in the country districts of that region. Husband poisoning, it was coolly announced in court, is a common call¬ ing, and the public prosecutor declared that he only proceeded with these few cases before the culprits had confessed and desired to break up the practice. FALLING TREE KILLS TWO GIRLS. Farmer's Daughters Crushed to Death During a Hurricane. At Mountain Creek, Ala., a station a few miles north of Montgomery, Sat¬ urday, two daughters of James H. Norrell, aged 13 and 16 years, were in¬ stantly killed by a falling tree. The older girl was at the spring when the storm came upon her, and her sister started to meet her with an umbrella. Just ns they met the tree blew down, crushing them to death. STEAMSHIP FOUNDERS OFF CAPE HATTERAS. SEVENTY-EIGHT SOULS GO DOWN. Heavy Seas Encountered and Water Dashes Through Gratings Putting Out Fires—The Vessel Abandoned. T ‘ The French line steamer Yille Saint Nesaire, which sailed from New York on March 6th, bound for the West In¬ dies, foundered at sea. Of her eighty-two passengers and crew only four are known to have been saved. These arrived in New York Wednesday on the schooner Hilda after a week’s drifting about the Atlantic in an open boat, during which thirty-four of the thirty-eight occupants went mad or died of starvation. The saved are: Generate Berry, inspector of the Compagnie Trans-Atlantic; Marie, the ship’s doctor; Stauts, third engineer; Tagado, a San Domingan. Among the lost are: Andrews, first lieutenant; Herbert, second lieuten¬ ant; Le Juene, purser; Nocolay, sec¬ ond captain; Mariani, chief engineer; Mrs. Tagado aud four children, starv¬ ed to death. The steamer Yille De St. Nesaire left on March 6th, bound for West Indian ports. She was one of the smaller vessels of the French line and had been engaged in the West Indian trade for years. She was one of the first to come over when the line from New York and the West Indies was established. The steamship encountered severe weather on March 7th while off' Hat- teras. Tremendous seas swept over her. She rolled and pitched. Great waves bore away the hatch coverings and floods of water found their way through the gratings to the engine room and extinguished the fires. The steamer was unable to make any head¬ way, being water-logged. Captain Jacqueneau gave the order to man the four boats. There were eighty-two persons in all. In the haste to leave the vessel it was impossible to get provisions or ■water to last more than a day. Of the four boats only one has been heard from. It is believed that the other three were lost. The survivors of this tragedy are hardly yet able to give a connected story of the last twelve days. Captain Berry, the inspector general of the French line, tells a story of privation and hardship such as is seldom heard in the annals of the sea. The other survivors are on board the Normandie and the Yille De Brist, a sister ship of the ill-fated vessel. Some in the agony of thirst, drank salt water to suffer fiercer pangs and to become raving maniacs, whom the saner ones had to struggle with to pre¬ vent them from doing harm. The stouter ones managed the craft and relieved each other at the task. Some leaned over the gunwale, with heads lolling and froth streaming from their lips, and some others moved their glassy eyes to the horizon, searching vainly for that rescuer who would not come. ARKANSAS OVERFLOWED. Over Eight Hundred Miles of the State Now Inundated. Wednesday the United States weath¬ er bureau gave out the startling infor¬ mation that 800 square miles of the fState of Arkansas is under water, and that the Mississippi river will continue to rise. In the district to the west of Marion, Ark., hundreds of people were picked up. The work of saving stock has been abandoned and from now on all efforts will he directed towards saving human life. ARMS FOR INSURGENTS. Three Suspected Filibusters Sail From a Florida Key. A special from Key West says: A fishing schooner just arrived reports seeing three large steamers passing Cape Florida Island going south. They were well out and seemed to be under full speed. One of the vessels had an unusually large number of ipen on deck, while one of the others seemed to be heavily laden. No names could be made out, they seemingly being covered up. DEFALCATION DISCOVERED. What Examination Of The Accounts Of Stegrti* Revealed. The board of directors of the old Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia made public Wednesday afternoon a defalcation of some §35,000 as the re¬ sult of the examination of the books of the association by an expert book¬ keeper. Mr. F. D. Stegar, tho assistant sec¬ retary, in whose accounts the defalca¬ tion occurs, was sent for to explain the matter, but did not appear and is said to have left the city. All the securities of the corporation, which is one of the oldest and strong¬ est in the state, are intact, the loss being on collections THREE KILLED IN WRECK. Train Separated aud Came Together Again With Fatal Result. The through freight on the Georgia Southern and Florida road, from Palatka to Macon, Ga., separated Wednesday morning just after it had passed Cordele. When the separated parts came together, three cars were wrecked and three men killed, N. C. Jordan, a white flagman, and two un¬ known tramps. FITZSIMMONS IS CHAMPION. The Australian Defeats Jim Corbett In Fourteen Rounds. The pugilistio oontest between Jomes Corbett and fiobert Fitzsimmons for the world’s championship, took place at Carson, Nevada, Wednesday, and resulted in a victory for Fitzsimmons in the 14th round. Up to the twelfth round Corbett seemed to have things his own way and pounded Fitsimmons all over the ring. In the fourteenth and last round Fitz landed a terrible left hand jab on Corbett’s stomach and Corbett went to his knees with a frightful look of ag¬ ony on his face. The timekeeper called the seconds. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, but Corbett cme to his feet. Ho rushed to Fitz and endeavors to strike him. There was a terrible uproar. George Siler decided that Fitz was winner. The blow that did the business landed over Corbett’s heart and he collapsed. The last round lasted just one minute aud forty-five seconds. The defeat nearly drove Corbett wild. When he was able to feel his feet, after his seconds had helped hint to his corner, he broke away from them and rushed at Fitz, who had not left the ring. A scene of dreadful confu¬ sion ensued. The ring was crowded with an excited mob, but Corbett burst through them and struck at Fitzsimmons. It was with great difficulty that Billy Brady and the seconds succeeded in quieting Corbett down and getting him back to the dressing room. Corbett broke down and cried like a child as he was made ready for the street. The battle, as predicted, was fought on purely scientific and almost new principles. Neither of the men took any advantage of the privileges allowed them under the London prize ring rules, and there was very little hitting iu clinches. Fitz came from the ring battered and bruised. Immediately after the battle was over, Warren Lewis, who sent Corbett up against Sullivan, challenged Fitz for another turn, backing Corbett for $ 20 , 000 . CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION. A Seusatlon Sprung: In Iowa House of Representatives. A tremendous sensation was caused in the Iowa legislature Wednesday morning when Representative Lam¬ bert read portions of a letter said to have been sent by a building and loan association over the state making wholesale charges of legislative oor- ruption. Speaker Byers demanded the letter be read in its entirety. Lambert re¬ fused, saying the communication was confidential. The speaker ordered the sergeant-at-arms to procure it and it was read in the house. Speaker Byers then rosignod and demanded a thorough investigation of the charges made against him and other members. LOAN CONCERN COLLAPSES. Application Fado For Receiver For pMiflo Association. Beriah A. Woods, one of the stock¬ holders in the Pacific Loan and Homestead Association, has filed a bill in the superior court at Chicago asking for the appointment of a re¬ ceiver for the concern which he al¬ leges is in a hopeless state of insolv¬ ency. The bill also charges D. C. Butts, the former secretary, with deception and fraud, by the employment of which he has wrongfully converted to his private use about $222,000 of moneys belonging to the association. The charges sweep in the board of directors in general as having com¬ pounded Butt’s alleged felony. Christian Ships Pillaged. A dispatch received at Athens Wed¬ nesday from Caneasays that the Turks have made a sortie from Retimo and proceeded to Utopopoulos, which they burned without opposition from the forces of the powers. It is added that the pillage of the Christian ships con¬ tinues and that tho governor of Retimo and the Turkish gendarmes are co¬ operating in the looting. Hesing Resigns as Post master. Washington Hesing lias resigned his postmastership of the city of Chi¬ cago. Three days ago he wrote and forwarded his resignation to President McKinley. ST. LOUIS HEIRESS MISSING. 12-Ye«r-01cl Girl Has Probably Been Kidnapped. Ella Burden, 12 years old, heiress to $100,000, has been inexplicably missing from her home at St. Louis since Monday. She lived with her grandmother, at 5032 Minerva street, and left home Monday for the Dozier school, where she has been regarded as one of the brightest and prettiest of the se veral hundred pupils. At 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon, the usual hour, she left the school for her home and went part of the way with several other girls, to a point where sho usually took the car for home. Nothing hoe been heard of her since. DISCUSSED BY CABINET. The Expeditions to Cuba Are Being Booked Into. A Washington special says: The fili¬ bustering operations between this country and Cuba have occupied the attention of the cabinet. Attorney General McKenna gave his views on the subject of permitting al¬ leged filibustering steamers to clear for Cuban ports with cargos of arms aud munitions of war. A general dis- enssion followed kisl'emarks. ADDRESSES SENT OUT BY AMER¬ ICAN COTTON GROWERS. APPEAL FOR CO-OPERATIVE ACTION Reduction of Cotton Acreage Advised by Committee of Prominent Men of Th© Association. The American Cotton Growers’ Pro¬ tective association, has issued an ad¬ dress to farmers urging them to plant more of the food crops and less of cot¬ ton. The document was prepared by a committee, which included Mr. Hec¬ tor C. Lane, of Alabama, and Hon. W. A. Broughton, of Georgia. The ad¬ dress is as follows: “To the Cotton Growers of Amerloa: The Cotton Growers’ Protective Association of America, in convention assembled at Augus¬ ta, Ga., on the 15th day of March, 1897, again come to you with an urgent appeal for co¬ operative action in planting the crop for 1897. It is a matter of extreme congratula¬ tion that the appeal made to you in 1895 and 1896..was so generally responded to and that the crop of 1895, made upon the diminished acreage, did have the effect of greatly in¬ creasing the prices of cotton. The crop of 1895, though estimated to bo 3,400,000 bales short of the crop of 1894, was in the market of the world worth more by nearly £3,000,- 000. In the face of this result to abandon the idea of diminishing acreage would be to sound the retreat in the face of victory. It is the consensus of opinion among the best think¬ ers that it bv any means the cotton crop of America should be held within the limits of 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 bales per annum for five years, the people of these southern states would be the richest and most pros¬ perous agricultural people in the world. How can this be brought about? The answer is with you. AYe appeal to your self-interest and patriotism to do all in your power to keep down tho production of tho staple. Do not abandon the ground you have won. Fight on upon tho lines laid down, make the cotton states self-supporting, put more land in clover and grasses for your hogs to run on, diversify your crops, and when you have done all this the area devoted to cotton will yield more profitable returns than if you sought to increase the number of bales. While the reduction of the acreage to be plantod in cotton for the sole purpose of re¬ ducing the size of the crop may bo impracti¬ cable, the increase of the area planted in food crops must inevitably bring prosperity to cotton growers, irrespective of tho size of the cotton crop. There has never been a time in the history of our section of the country that a movement looking to the in¬ creased production of corn, hay, oats, hog3 and other food crops was so important and necessary. “It is felt by the most thoughtful men that we are entering upon a year of great uncertainties, and that even a small sotton crop may fail to give adequate returns for its production. The prudent man will trim his sails to meet it. With the commerce of the country interrupted by war—and war may come—cotton would be unsaleable ex¬ cept at nominal prices. Every considera¬ tion, then, of patriotism, of self-interest and of prudence dictates that you adhere strictly to the rule of diminished acreage. Earnest men are earnestly working to lead you and to guide you into prosperity. Do not let them labor in vain, but cheerfully and hope' fully respond to their appeal. “In conclusion, we desire to say to every cotton grower, whether his crop is ten bales or ten thousand bales, see to it first that your place is seif-snstaining—and wo mean by this to be sure yon grow on the farm an abundance or corn, meat, hay. oats, peas, potatoes, place, both etc., white for all the people on the and 'olored. If the ten¬ ant will not produce these articles, sell them to him and keep the money in your own pocket, in place of sending it out of the country. When you hr,re done this, or pro¬ vided for it, grow what eotton you can. “If every farmer or planter in the cotton growing district will make this his rule of action, and live up to it com cientiously, it will accomplish the result we ao mueh desire of making us all prosperous and happy, whether your cotton, which will be a sur¬ plus would crop, sell for a high or low price. Wo urge you again to make sure first of a cheap, home-grown living for oil the peo¬ ple and ail the animals on the place, and then make what cotton you can. “We address our argument to each indi¬ vidual farmer. Every farmer may measur¬ ably control the cost of producing his cotton. “Let each individual farmer resolve in his own mind and without regard to what oth¬ ers may do, to cut down the cost of produc¬ ing his cotton. By confining his area to the best fields and to the best parts of his Held by concentrating his skill, his industry and fertilizers on a smaller area he will produce his cotton cheaper. Every farmer knows that tho better the land, the better prepara¬ tion and cultivation, the more liberal the amount of well balanced fertilizers he ap¬ plies per acre, the less will be the cost per pound of cotton. “Put only the beet land in cotton and corn the poorer lands in rye, peas, etc. This will certainly reduce your cotton product in the aggregate, but it will much more reduce the cost. “So that, in any event, whatever others may do, you will be all right.” Livingston Speaks in Boston. Congressman Livingston, of Geor¬ gia, addressed a large audience at Bos¬ ton, Mass., Wednesday night on trade relations of the United States with South America. PAYMASTER CORWINE NABBED. He Was Caught In Chicago By Detect¬ ives of That City. John Corwine, the absconding pay¬ master of the United States navy, who was stationed at Newport, B. I., was arrested in Chicago Wednesday afternoon. He arrived from New York city dur¬ ing the morning. Shortly before 3 o’clock Inspector Fitzpatrick received a message over the long distance tele¬ phone from the Newport chief of police that Crowine was in Chicago, and that he would register at the Palmer house under the name of J. Beeves. Detect¬ ives were immediately sent to the hotel and arrested Corwine as he was writ¬ ing his name on the register. SENATE WOULD NOT AGREE. Conference Committee Asks It to Recede from Amendments. The conference committee on the constitutional convention bills in the Tennessee legislature recommended the senate recede from its amendments providing that the convention not sit more than seventy-five days and dele¬ gates not receive more than $2 per day. The senate rejected the report, how¬ ever, and a new eommitteo was ap¬ pointed. POPULAR SCIENCE. The velocity of light is 186,830 miles per second. No bird oan fly backward without turning. The dragon-fly, however, oan accomplish this feat and outstrip any swallow. In New Zealand no less than five hundred speoios of plants have been introduced and aoolimatod since the colonization of the islands. A bill to promote aerial navigation has been introduced by Representa¬ tive Baker, of New Hampshire. It is proposed to give §30,000 to Professor Langley, §20,000 to James Selden Cowden, of Virginia, and §20,000 to the War Deportment. M. Levat has recently made a com¬ munication to the Paris Academy of Sciences on the tempering of steel in phenol. From comparative trials on tho same steels tempered in water and phenol respectively, it has been found that the hardness and elasticity in the latter oase was much greater than in the former. Swallow wort, or the greater celan¬ dine, which Dr. Denisenko asserts is a oure for cancer, haB long been nsed by country people to remove warts. The doctor uses the juioe of the plant diluted, both externally and internally, in external eases injecting the fluid hypodermically around the cancerous growth. According to the Lancet, however, experiments with his specific by other observers have not confirmed his results. The College of Civil Engineering of Cornell University shows how thoroughly alive it is by the announce¬ ment of a new hydraulic laboratory of immense size, having a rook-out canal 500 feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feet deep, and a steel standpipe— in whioh the force exerted by great masses of water is to bo studied— whioh is six feet in diameter and seventy feet high. No other hydraulic laboratory of half the magnitude of this one has ever been constructed. The number of speoies of plants whioh have become extinct is very lurge, and yet generio groups rarely die out. Comparative researches show that much the greater proportion of plants whose remains have been pre¬ served in a fossil condition from earlier geologic periods belong to the genera whioh are represented by plants now living, although many of these exist¬ ing plants differ specifically from the earlier ones. From this it seems that new types are outgrowing the old ones constantly and take their place in the general scheme of life. About Drinking Water, According to Professor Allen, we should drink from one-third to two- fifths as many ounces as we weigh iu pounds. Therefore, for a man weigh¬ ing 168 pounds there would ba re¬ quired fifty-six to sixty-four ounces daily, or from one and one-half to four pints. This the Journal of Hygiene regards as a very indefinite answer. The amount of water required depends on the season of the year, the amount of work dons and the kind of food eaten. In hot weather ws require more than in cold, because of the greater loss through the skin, though this Is in part made up by the lesser amount passed away through the kidneys. If ft man labors very hard he requires more than if his labor is light. A man working in a foundry, where the temperature is high and the perspiration profuse, not infrequently drinks three or four gallons daily. If the food is stimulating and salty, more water is required than if it is bland. Vegetarians and those who use mueh fruit require less water than those who eat salt fish and pork, and often get along on none except what is iu their food. In most cases our instinots fell us how much water to drink far be tter than any hard or fixed rule. Forages they have been acquiring a knowledge of how much to drink, and transmit¬ ting that knowledge to descendants, and if we follow them we shall not Trd far oat of the way. It is of more use to know that pure water is essential and that impure water is one of the most dangerous of drinks, than to know how much of it is required daily. If one lives in a region where the water is bad, it should be boiled and put away in bottles well corked in an ice chest, and, in addition, one should eat all the fruit one can, if fruit agrees. Fruit contains not needed only pure water, but salts whioh are to sarry oa healthfully the functions of life. — Medioal Times. Dangers of tlic Diet Fad. There ie not much danger, ordinar¬ ily, of our children being starved. But an idea has lately been borrowed from England which we should be sorry to have extend itself in. this country— that of keeping childreu oa a spare diet to prevent their becoming plump. It is natural and right that young creatures should be plump, and the best medical authorities agree that just before the change from child¬ hood to youth begins, at the age of twelve, a store of fat ought to be laid up as a safeguard agninst tho unusual demands about to be made upon tbeir strength. It ie eerteinly n mistake to deprive young children of wholesome, nutritions food to prevent the accu¬ mulation of flesh.—Woman’s Home Journal. His Final Statement, Once a clergyman went to pay a visit to an old Yorkshire yeoman, of the old type, who was lying on his deathbed, and after a few preliminary words the worthy minister said that, if the veteran had anything on his mind, he hoped he would ease his conscience and confide it to his pas¬ toral ear, so that ho might die in peace. “Well, sir,” nnswored the old sportsman, “if I only bad to live my life over again, I’d fish more with taut and less with flies.”—Tho Gentle- watnau.