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The Republican party will have to
turn its attention to splitting Put
nam county, 6a. In 1880 Garfield
received one vote there; in 1884
Blaine received none, and in 1888
Harrison received none. That coun
tv believes in democracy.
The price paid the average Iowa
sehoolraam by tho year is $212.45.
Presuming that her board and wash
ing cost her about $3 per week and
her clothing and incidentals $50
more, she will then have a surplus of
$0.45 to build up a bank account,
which in 20 years of hard work would
nmount.to a little more than $120.
There arc some thousands of gen
tlemen in Washington who have four
months in which to decide upon %
new way of making a living. We
hope tho employers of the country
will look upon them kiridly.' While
it is truo thnt Uncle Sam will dio-
miss them without a recommenda
tion, everybody knows thnt Uncle
Sam is wrong. He never had a bet
ter set of servants.
That foreign claim of a torpedo
vessel thnt can run for hours under
water is not a sound one, asserts the
Cincinnati Enquirer. It is simply a
reproduction of a late American ex
periment in the boat called the
“Peacemaker.” The scheme will
never be a complete success until a
motor is discovered that needs no
fire and makes no smoke. Compress
ed uir was used by the Peacemaker
but so little of that can be carried
that the campaign must be very
brief. Perhaps some day some one
will be able to so store electricity as
to solve the problem.
The New York World has flung at
the public this question, “What
would you do if you had a million
dollars?” It invites everybody who
hasn’t a million to answer it. Prob
ably the World will regret its action.
There are any number of people in this
country who have been figuring for
some time on an answer to the ques
tion, and if they should send the
World the result of their air-castle
building. Mr. Pulitzer would have to
hire several men at big salaries to
attend to letters.
Edward Atkinson is the foremost
statistician in the country, at least he
is one of the most persistent. He lias
been figuring on the number of peo
ple who lay up from their salary or
income any money worth speaking of
and his conclusion is that fully 90
per cent, of them spend nearly all
they make. “Of this 90 per cent.,"
he says, “a portion may, by setting
aside a moderate part of their small
earnings, become the owners of a
house, or become depositors in a sav
ings bank, or insure their lives in a
moderate way. Of the remaining 10
per cent., a part save enough to pro
tect themselves against want in their
later years, nnd a very small part
may become rich, nnd then need not
work unless they choose.”
The New York Sun says that
Thomas Nelson Pago's story of “The
Two Little Confederates” came near
offending a good many northern poo
ijde because of the unlovely south-
f i le view he took of a couple of. fed
eral soldiers ransacking a house. The
Sun warns Mr. Page that many peo
ple object to having their children
entertained with diagrecablc pictures
of northern soldiers. This is strange
stuff to appear in a sensible paper.
Mr. Page offended because he put
some of the truth of history in Ids
story. The day is coming when mat
ters still more offensive to northern
readers will be published. The ac
tors in the stiriug scenes of the war
will tell bow the invaders of thesouth
tortured old men nnd women to make
them reveal the hiding place of the
treasures, applied the torch to the
homes of non combatants, and en
deavored to persuade the happy and
contented slaves to re-enaet here the
scenes of llavti and San Domingo.
All t’ds will’hc rather unlovely read
ing, but it will have to come. The
facts of history cannot lie suppressed
Dr. Hamilton’s Resignation.
The announcement of the inten
tion of Surgeon General Hamilton to
resign and accept the editorship of
the Journal of tho American Medi
cal Association at Chicago, was no
doubt received with 1 surprise. He
has filled his plesent position very
satisfactorily for eight' years. A1
thoygh a republican, Mr. Cleveland
did not ask for his resignation, be
cause he was .satisfied that ho was
about as good a man for the place as
there was in tbe marine hospital ser
vice. In his new position he will
have the same salary that he now re
ceives, and only a portion of his time
will be occupied with his editorial
duties. He will have an opportuni
ty to build up a private practice and
in that way greatly increase his in
come.
Surgeon General Hamilton’s re
port on the epidemic in Florida will
be looked for with a great deal of in
terest. It will be remembered that
he called attention to the probability
of an epidemic of yellow fever in
some of the Florida towns months
before the first ease was reported at
Jacksonville, and lie may raise the
question whether the McCormic case
was the first one of yellow fever there
this year.
Of course Camp Perry will receive
a good deal of attention and the re
sult of that experiment may be dealt
with at considerable length-. It is
understood that several important
things have been quite satisfactorily
established there by observation.
Among them arc the following: That
the period of incubation of tbe yel
low fever does not excee'd five days;
that yellow fever can be isolated and
that the germ theory is the correct
one.
If it becomes accepted that the pe
riod of incubation docs not exceed
five days, the time of detention at
quarantine stations in future epi
demics will be greatly reduced, and
if yellow fever can be isolated tbe
policy in future will be to put an in
fected place in quarantine, as it were,
instead of quarantining against it.
If all communication with an infect
ed place is cut off, and its citizens
arc permitted to pass out through a
quarantine camp, where detention
will be sufficient to make it certain
that they are free from infection, all
the rest of the country will move
along as usual without apprehension
of danger. The isolaticfh plan will
be far less expensive than the shot
gun qurantine system, but it can on
ly be carried out by the government.
Isolation must lie perfect, otherwise,
there would lie a lack of confidence
in it, ami other localities would re
sort to measures to protect them
selves.
Surgeon General Hamilton can
congratulate himself for having made
some advance in the management of
yellow fever epidemics.
There seems to be no doubt that
the Fifty-first Congress will be repub
lican in both branches. The election
of a republican legislature in Dela
ware and West Virginia insures tbe
elcctidu of two republican senators
in the place of two democratic ones,
and the majority in the Senate, there
fore will be republican.
It cannot yet be stated witli cer
tainty what the republican majority
in the house will be, but it seems to
be conceded that it will not be as the
democratic majority in the present
house is.
The republicans will be in a posi
tion to pass whatever laws they
please. They will he wholly respon
sible for whatever is done, and, there
fore, will be very careful what they
do.
It is pretty certain that they will
reduce the tariff, but not on the lines
indicated in their Senate bill. They
never intended thnt bill to pass. It
is quite safe to say that the bill they
pass will be nearer in accordance
with the Mills bill than the Senate
bill. They will aim to make such a
reduction as to destroy the tariff re
form i> sue of the democrats. They
wilt admit the necessity for a reduc
tion of the tariff nnd will act in ac
cordance with that admission. They
will strive to get the credit for doing
what they prevented the democrats
from doing.—Kx.
Old Thanksgiving Days.
As our national Thanksgiving Day,
Nov. 29th, will soon be upon us, the
following bit of information concern
ing it wiy be road with interest:
Thanksgiving day was suggested,
doubtless, by the Hebrew feast of the
tabernacle, or “feast of ingathering
at the end of the year.” Its history
in America begins as early as 1621.
The occasional observance of such a
day, formally recommended by the
civil authorities, w-as not usual in
Europe at an earlier date. In Hol
land the first anniversary of tho dc
Iiverance of the city Leyden from'the
siege, October 3rd, 1575, was kept as
a religious festival of thanksgiving
and praise, In the English church
service the 5th of November is so cel
ebrated, in commemoration of the
discovery of the gun powder plot.
One of the most remarkable thanks
giving customs on record prevailed
in Southampton and Easthampton,
Long Island. Montauk Point, which
consist of 9,000 acres, was owned by
numerous proprietors in these towns
and used as a common pasturage for
stock. * Tiic time for driving the
herds home to winter was fixed at a
meeting by tho Town Council, and
it came to bo a rule from the period
beyond which the memory of man
runneth nut, that the Thursday of
the week following the return of the
cattle from Montauk should be ob
served as a day of tbauksgiving.”
At an early period of New Eng
land history certain periods of pros
perity were often made the occasions
of public thanksgiving?, and often a
day of fasting and prayer was turn
ed into a day of thanksgiving .by
what seemed an immediate answer to
the prayers. Perhaps to recall to
our minds that first thanksgiving of
the Pilgrim Fathers may put us to
tho blush. Often on this day have I
.heard such remarks ns “I have no
thanks to give; I have nothing for
which to be thankful,” from lips
that it would seem might have had a
life’s work in frnmieg words ofpraise
and gratitude, so blessed were they
in the health of themselves and their
dear ones, while for some fancied
trouble this great good was overlook
ed.
States in the Near Future.
Savannah Sows.
Assuming that the next Congress
will be Republican in both branches,
and there does seem to be much room
to doubt that it will be, among the
first of the more important things it
will do will lie to admit territories of
North and South Dakota and Wash
ington into the Union as States.
There is no doubt that South Dakota
and Washington have the requisite
number of inhabitants, nnd that in
time they will become great ami rich
states. The. bill admitting South
Dakota has been twice passed by the
Senate, the last time in April of this
year.
It is by no moans certain that
North Dakota has ns many inhabi
tants as the law requires for admis
sion, and there may a doubt whether
it will ever become thickly populated.
The conditions there are not favora
ble to great prosperity, or at least
they arc not thought to be. The
territory has grown very slowly in
comparison with South Dakota.
The republicans, however, will be
influenced to some extent by the ad
vantages to them politically of the
admission of all of these territories.
They will all be Republican States,
and will give the Republicans ten
additional votes in the electoral col
lege.
South Dakota and Washington
would have been admitted some time
ago if there had been no objection to
the admission of New Mexico and
Arizona, which are democratic. It
now looks as if the latter territories
would, have to wait until the demo
crats get into power again.
life of a Hindoo Wile.
Not only is our bride thus turned
into a drudge, often unmercifully
overworked, but from tbe day she
gives up her childhood, to tho day of
her death—it may be for sixty years—
sho is secluded, and sees nothing of
the.world outsido tho walls of her fam
ily inclosure. It should al ways, there
fore, be borne in mind, when trying
to realizo Indian femalo life, what a
very important thing tho domestic
economy is to a woman; how largely
tho petty affairs of tho household
loom upon her horizon. Her happi
ness or misery, jndeed, entirely depend
on tho manner in which the affairs of
tho family are conducted. Now, con
sidering that tho female mind has for
centuries been mainly directed to this
all important matter, it is not aston
ishing to find that such questions as
tho proper method of eating and drink
ing, and of domestic propriety gener
ally—the intercourse, that is, which is
permissible and right between the vari
ous members of tho household, male
and femalo—have long been regulated
with tho utmost minuteness.
To uk who roam tho world at will,
and whose interests are often fixed far
more outsido than insido our homes, it
may seem rcmarkablo that sucli infini
tesimal restrictions and numberless
customs as aro found in full swing in
an orthodox Hindoo household should
bo remembered and carried out with
tho exactitude demanded, of tho
womenkind; but if wo consider that
these mako up their wholo life, and
that they aro called upon to pay atten
tion to nothing else, their capacity for
recollecting when to veil and unveil,
whom to address and avoid, when they
must run away, and when they may
speak, ceases to bo extraordinary.—
Capt. R. C. Temple in Journal of tho
Society of Arts.
Will IS IT! WHO Mil TELL?
— are shrewd at guessing, but no one can ex-
ilain the following strange edndiiton of thing*
happening every day.
A number of people arc beginning to “ail;”
they complain of slight indisposition; the sick
ness progresses until finally one will have con
sumption, another catarrh, another kidney troub
le, nnd worst of all. some will he afflicted with
that terrible malady, cancer. And to think that
prudence f
from any c
The reflection thnt the dead might be living
and the afflicted be in good health (had the prop
er means been used) is not n pleasant one. That
king of all blood purifiers,
“GUINN’S PIONEER BLOOD BENE WEB”
is the one great specific known to medical
science that attains tho above results It puri
fies, enriches and strengthens the blood, amt acts
nB a perfect tonic to the wholo system—prevent
innumerable, cases of sickness, and save many
lives. The following will explain itself:
“I am pleased to state to the public that
Guinn’s Blood Renewed has no equal as a
Blood Purifier, for have tried it sufficiently.
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Call on Messrs. Hodges Jb O’Connor for Alma
nac, and don’t forget to take a lmttle of the mel-
icine home with you.
Tho Cemeteries of China.
Bui as soon us China was reached
tho silent cities of tho dead came again
to tho fore, with greater prominence
than ever. One stands on tho walls
of Canton, near the Five Storied Pa
goda, and sees tho hills to tho north
all covered with graves. It is the samp
near any Chinese city. Tho living
occupy the city and tho level ground,
tho dead tho hills. No corpse is al
lowed to be buried within the walls of
a Chincso city, and without tho vast
otmctcries cover tho hills, with no
fenco or other limitation about them.
Tho Cliincso family which can afford
it builds a “horseshoe grave," or
bricked vault on tho hillside, with tho
end built up in tho horseshoe form.
Poorer people stick their dead in shal
low graves, on which a small tablet of
wood or stono is put. In somo dis
tricts of Quang-tung, near the head
waters of tho Pc-Kiang river, tho
cemeteries consist of big jars set
in niches of the rocky cliff of tho
Mac-ling mountains. As you pass
along tho foot trails you sco tho steep
rocks above thickly studded with tbeso
big carthcrn jars, in each of which is
a human body in a sitting position.
In tho rich alluvial plains, wliero no
uncultivablo hills aro available for
burying .tho dead, a graveyard re
sembles much a white uut villago in
Africa. The graves are sugar loaf
mounds, thickly clustered together.
While John Chinaman pays great rc-
snect to tho dead, ho tube's care that
they do not appropriate much ground
that is of value to tho living. Tho
cemetery of a Chinese villago among
tho rich rico fields covers little ground
in proportion to the number of graves.
It seemed t > me that bodies must liavo
been place ! one on top < f 'her or
stood upri. so thi- .. . :c tho taper
ing mound.-;,—Thomas fc.evens in Chi
cago Tribune.
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Headline to Remote Antiquity.
A few weeks since wo alluded to tho
ry interesting discovery of several
thousand small tablets used by tho
Babylonian school children about
■1,000 years ago. A moro important
study has recently been made among
the ruins of an ancient city in upper
Egypt, on tho banks of the Nile. This
discovery consists of a largo number
of tablets which gives us what cer
tainly seems to bo an authentic history
of Egypt, or of some parts of it, from
a date much earlier than that at which
its present authenticated history be
gins, and which indieato an active
correspondence between tho most re
mote nations of tho civilized cast at
least 1,200 years before the Exodus,
a discovery which leads Professor
Sayce, tho distinguished English ar-
clueologist, to express the opinion thut
there may yet bo similar “finds" in
Palestine.
Thut country patiently awaits the |
Rpado of the excavator, and lie thinks
it quite probable tlr : t.iidcr the ruins
of cities like . re and Eyblos, the old
Gibul of tho Jews (Ez. xxvii, !>), and
Kirjathscphcr (the City of .Letters),
there may yet be found archaeological
treastires in tho form of-books on clay,
giving as an authentic history, supple
menting, if not ante-dating what we
at present [xjsscss. Whether tho re
cent discovery is to affect Old Testa
ment criticism remains to be seen.—
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