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A WOMAN’S LIFE OF CRIME.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, November 30, 1888.
A SOUDANESE THREAT.
Tlie Africans Propose to Turn the Nile
from Its Course.
The warlike Soudanese, who have
so stoutly resisted the introduction of
civilization into their land, are now
found, according to Sir Samuel Baker,
to be masters of the situation to a de
gree for which even the fall of Khar
toum has not prepared the outside
world. They hold the key of the Nile,
and prudent and thoughtful men who
know the geography of the Soudan
and the resources and recklessness of
the natives believe that that they are
capable of turning that great river out
of its present course and bringing irre
trievable ruin upon Egypt. It appears
that in the inaccessible fastnesses of
the desert, where, the bayonets of
Europe cannot reach, there is a spot
where even savage African engineer
ing will suffice to lind the Nile a short
cut to the sea, and they have already
threatened their enemies with this dis
aster.
If the work is done a fertile land
nearly equal in extent to the states of
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
will be changed into a desert and a
population of millions will be blotted
out of a country that is the oldest in
history. No such gigantic menace has
ever before been held out in the annals
of the world, and never before has it
been so possible that a grave threat
would be fatally carried out.
It is a figure of speech . when we
talk about the nations changing the
map of Europe; the wild spearsmen of
the Soudan have it in the hollow of
their hands to alter in fact and deed
the map of Africa. They can, if tliey
please, we are told, spread the Sahara
like a great yellow pall fully across
the continent from sea to sea. They
can build a rampart of sand
against progress that progress can
not cross. Such tremendous power,
such a mischievous possibility,
gives an interest to the Egyptian prob
lem that brings it home to every
• nation. The pyramids have stood
since the morning of time; empires
and dynasties have risen and have
fallen, and they have not been stirred.
Yet the ignorant savages in the desert
are their masters and can bring the
sand upon them to bury them as the
temple of Jupiter Ammon and the
Sphinx itself were buried. If the
savage wills the sacrifice, a flood as
fp,tal as that in which Pharaoh
perished can sweep Egypt out of exis
tence, slowly, perhaps, but surely. It
is the land of tombs and memories, the
world’s graveyard; perhaps it is time
that it should* be interred itself. Civi
lization waits upon the Soudanese. It
is for them to say.—Chicago News.
Subjects for Industrial Training.
Mrs, Laura Osborne Talbot thus de
scribed to the American association
her experiences of the effects of a little
industrial teaching upon thirty va-
j rrant boys whom she, with some other
aches, induced to attend for three
years an industrial school at Howard
university one morning in the week:
“We were limited in every way. but
we found these children of the lowest
kind were delighted to work with
tools, and some of them have set up
little carpenter shops of their own,
and support themselves in that way.
The moral uplifting was the best result
of all, and it is not likely that these
boys will become members of our
criminal class.
“Each boy as he entered the class was
taught in the tailor shop to mend his
clothes, and in the shoo shop to mend
his shoes. One lame colored boy from
the orphan asylum became so skillful
in shoemaking that he could not only
make liis own shoes, but could cut. up
the larger, half worn shoes and make
them over for baby feet. All of this I
term the best kind of economy, espe
cially in a city like Washington.”—
Popular Science Monthly.
QUIET AFFAIRS.
“Greenland's Icy Mountains.”
‘ T heard an odd story the other day
about Bishop Heber’s beautiful liymn,
■From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,’ ”
said a well known Cincinnatian.
“Wliat is it?” “It relates to the music
for the hymn. You remember that
Bishop Eeber wrote it while in Ceylon
in 1824. About a year later it reached
America, and a lady in Charleston,
S. C., was struck with its beauty.
“She could find, however, no tune
that seemed to suit it. She remem
bered a young bank clerk, Lowell
Mason, afterward so celebrated, who
was just a few steps down the street,
aud who had a reputation as a musical
genius. So she sent her son to ask
him to write a tune that would gc
with the hymn. In just half an hour
the boy came back with the music,
and the melody dashed off in such
haste is to this day sung with that
song.”—Cincinnati Star.
Arrested at the Ago of 11 Tears—At SO
She Goes to Prison to Die.
The oldest professional sneak thief
in the country has again been arrested.
And she is a woman. Sixty-nine
years ago she began the criminal
career which she still pursues, and yet,
strange to say, she bears upon her
features but little traces of the life she
led. Of the four score yeare that have
passed over her head more than forty
nave been passed in prison. During
that time all the sunshine that came
to her was what struggled through the
prison bars. Her friends were tue
companions with whom crime had
brought her in contact. Honest people
she had scarcely ever known. In
deed. it almost must have seemed to
her that she had no place whatever in
the great free world outside. A curi
ous and a sad sight she presented as
she sat huddled up in a corner ot
the pen in the Tombs police court.
Her clothes were comparatively
neat, a hood was on her head, from
beneath which the purest of loci.s of
silver gray showed out. Her face was
pallid, and, dressed differently and
surrounded by brighter circumstances,
she might have passed as an old lady
of most respectable ancestry. She nad
no Haunting airs, exhibited no out
ward semblance of cowering, gave no
furtive glances that indicated tue soul
of the criminal looking out through
the eyes. The place seemed natural
for her. Well, perhaps it might, for
many and many a time she had been
there before. Others who looked upon
her might pity her. She did not seem ,
to realize why they should dp so. She
was merely going back again to the t
only home she had ever remembered.
Mary Fitzgerald is her name. I lie
war of 1812 took from her her father,
and when she was 10 her mother died.
She became a waif on the world, drift
ing hither and thither in search of her
food and of a roof to shelter her.
Many a time she could find neither,
and want, possibly more than any
evil inclination, made her a thick
She joined one of those g-iags <-■
criminals who at the time made the
wharves and the river fronts their
homes as well as their headquarters.
The fields and woods that then stood
where fashionable up town now ex
ists would have afforded those urchins
better quarters, though ones not so
safe. Mary was only 11 years of age
when she first was brought before the
courts, and had to be held up in the
arms of the sergeant so that the judge
could see her and hear the little story
she had to tell. She had no excuse to
offer then. Indeed through her whole
career she has never had. Stealing
has seemed to be as natural to her as
living, the only variation in her con
duct before the authorities being
that she would occasionally claim
identity with some other well known
criminal. On one occasion some fif
teen or sixteen years ago she insisted
with the utmost gravity that she
was Sarah Alexander, the notorious
“French Sally,” who had made so
many little storekeepers mourn her
visits to their establishments. One of
the peculiarities of this trial was that
the judge who presided had only a
short time before sentenced the origi
nal Sarah Alexander and informed
Mary of the fact. Her persistence in
this matter was the only bit of char
acter she had ever exhibited, and she
was then deemed worthy of a place in
the famous rogues' gallery at police
headquarters. She prepared for the
event as well as she could, and to this
day the picture bears evidence of her
anxiety to look as well as possible. A
broad smile suffuses her face, and it
had not the slightest trace of that al
most involuntary if not willful un
willingness to be photographed, that
marks the pictures of nearly all the
other criminals.
Mary’s last stay out of prison wr.2
one of the longest she had ever made
—five months—and the police were
beginning to hope that at least the
sunset of her life might be in the
honest air of the open world, but they
were doomed to disappointment. She
was arrested bv Detective Sergeant
Woolbridge for picking Hie pockets of
Beatrice Mezzano in an auction room
on Catharine street. The detective
was present and saw the interesting
performance. He arrested Mary, and
was marching along with her, wlie f o
Thomas Whalen, a resident of Cherry
street, who is alleged to be the wo
man’s accomplice, assaulted the detec
tive. In the melee Mary escaped, but
only to fall into the hands of an of
ficer of the Fourth precinct. Both
were eventually arrested, and Mary
I will, in all probability, end her life
within prison walls.—New York Press.
Out the
The Increase of Baldness.
It is curious how caducity has in
creased. and the prevalence of it taken
away the old reproach. All the argu
ments are against its existence, and
all the facts prove that the arguments
are misleading. People lead healthier
lives now than they used to do, and
vet they are balder. People lead
longer lives, and yet they grow bald
earlier, and, morever, it is the
healthiest people who are often
the baldest. Indeed, it almost be
comes a question whether in
these days baldness is . evidence to a
very reliable extent cither of age or of
delicacy. Ox the Get ay of vital power
it is certainly no conclusive proof.
Consumptive patients and persons suf
fering from lingering [disease are not,
as a rule, bald, and "more frequently
than otherwise seem to put a mw '
deal of strength into their hair.—Lon
don Globe.
Steel and Wrought Iron.
A ui ' ".-r gist gives as a reason why
steel will rot weld as readily as
wrought iron that it is net partially
composed < f cinder, as seen is to be the
case with wrought iron, which assists
iii in. a..;/ ' a aire^* vi-.i 'me
scale of. >;;;■< '.A. m :cried on the sur
face cl' the iron in the furnace.
Peruvian Whistling Jugs.
The silvadors or musical jugs found
among the burial places of Peru are
most ingenious specimens of handi
work. A silvio in the William S.
Vaux collection at Philadelphia con
sists of two vases, whose bodies are
joined one to the other, with a hole or
opening between them. The neck of
cue of these vases is closed, with the
exception of a small opening in which
a clay pipe is inserted leading to the
body of the whistle. When a liquid
is poured into the open necked vase,
the air is compressed into the other,
and in escaping through the narrow
opening is forced into the whistle, the
vibrations producing sounds. Many
of these sounds represent the notes of
birds; one in tlie Clay collection of Phil -
adelpliia. Pa., imitates the robin o
some other member of the thrush tribe
peculiar to Peru. The closed n cl; of
this double vase is modeled into a rep
resentation of a bird's head, which is
thrush like in character. Another
water vase in the same collection, rep
resenting a Hanna, imitates the dis
gusting liabit which this animal pos
sesses ox ejecting its saliva when en
raged. The hissing sound which
accompanies this action is admirably
imitated. A black tribe of earthen
ware ornamented with a grotesque
head in low relief, to which short
arms a-v attached preying a three
tubed syrinx to its lips, ck A: ves special
mention, as it suggests the evolution
0. ims liwii-uoii.iu i i o.u r. sre Lie Luce
to uiorcVe.npkc- 1A f- The Cl j
Worker.
Pawnshops Which Do Not Han;
Three Significant Balls.
In my rambles around this great
metropolis I have been surprised at the
many methods of making a living,
writes a New York correspondent of
The Detroit Tribune. Certainly if one-
half the world do not know now the
other half live, they just as little know
how the other half make their living.
There is on Fourteenth street a place
which gets its patronage from the very
swellest and most exclusive circles of
society. The place has no sign, noth-
ino- to give it away as a pawnbroker’s
shop, but such it is, notwithstanding j
its handsome entrance and liveried!
door tender, who ushers tlie visitorsor
patrons into an elegantly furnished :
drawing room, decorated with rare
bric-a-brac and choice paintings. The j
woman who keeps it, for the proprie
tor is a woman, is dressed in the latest
stylo, and receives her customer as if
a guest. It is not until after the usual
exchange of morning salutations that
she asks:
“What can I do for madame this
morning?”
The madame displays a set of jew
elry, diamonds, perhaps, or bric-a-
brac, on which she wishes a loan.
Sometimes a not* is given at the rate
of 15 or 20 per cent. * These notes,
however, seldom go to protest, for the
givers do not care to have these trans
actions known to their husbands; but,
apart from that, they care but little,
as it is generally understood that a
woman frequently exceeds her allow
ance and makes it up on the next,
while the obliging broker makes a
good profit from the necessities of
fashionable women.
The “duplicate gift” woman who
calls at the handsome “brown front”
house just after a fashionable wed-
dino- is known to the neighbors, who
see ner descend from a carriage or ba
rouche only as a caller, but she makes
quite a living in buying up the dupli
cate gifts. Every one knows that the
wedding gifts of a season run in
grooves, and that most brides, on
looking over their possessions, find a
large proportion of their gifts dupli
eated. Tlie bride who wept herself ill
on finding that she had seven butter
dishes, every one alike, with a cow on
the cover, had not the advantage of
the bride of today, who calls to her
aid the buyer of such duplicates.
One of the popular brides of last sea
son found among her 700 wedding
presents 15 silver plated candlesticks,
3 bronze busts of Shakespeare, 4 etch
ings of Millet’s “Angelus,” 10 silver
hand mirrors, 3 engravings of one pic
ture, 8 fish knives, 23 pickle and olive
forks, 16 fans, 14 jewel boxes, 8 bon
bon boxes and 7 table crumb knives.
What did she do with them? Tlie ex
change women came to her aid and
took most of tlie duplicates off her
hands. Of course they were disposed
of at a sacrifice, and the young bride
worried for weeks for fear the trans
action would leak out, but what could
she do? She could not litter up her
rooms with duplicates. I think it
would be a good idea, when one is
sending out invitations for a fashion
able wedding, to add to each what one
is desired to present, or else to do away
with gifts by saying, “Gifts not de
sired. ” I am sure either method would
save any amount of annoyance to both
giver and receiver.
Peru’s Curse of Health.
It was the wealth of Peru and
Bolivia which was their curse from
the time of Pizarro to that of modern
Chili. Guano has been exported since
1846 from Peru, and the annual ship
ments are said to have amounted to
$20,000,000 and $30,000,000, whereas
the whole population of the country
was not greater than Pennsylvania.
Tlie epidemic of riches broke both the
g overnment and the people, and
rouglii in foreign enemies. How
much better are we off in some parts
of this country with all our riches and
so little fortitude? The guano running
down, nitrate of soda was found in the
deserts, and Chili came in to get this,
and destroyed Peru.
It was discovered in 1S33, in South
America, by an old Englishman
named George Smith. They say it
will take eight or ten centuries to dig
it away. Nobody knows bow the ni
trate was formed under the sands of
tills desert. Shoveling off the sand,
you come to a course of sun baked
clay, and under this is a bed of white
material, like melting marble, and soft
as cheese. It is about four or five feet
thick, and is broken up by crowbars
and ground. A solution from it is
; run into vats of sea water, and crys-
I tallizatiou is caused. The ultimate re-
i suit is an iodine of commerce costing
j as much per ounce as the saltpeter
j brings per hundred weight. The high
est grade goes to tlie powder mu Is, the
; next to the chemical works, and the
third to the fertilizer factories.—Cin-
| cinnali Enquirer.
Wliat Cigarettes Are Made of.
For some time past The Chicago
Journal and The Evening News have
: been waging vigorous warfare*)gainst
; cigarettes. Tlie Journal has printed a
series of articles showing the large
number of cigarettes that were sold by
small shopkeepers to the public school
pupils, and has had interviews with
the principals of the various schools
and with physicians, showing the ex
tent and injury of the cigarette prac
tice among young boys. The News
has been investigating the composi-
i' < . iid effect of cigarettes generally.
\A.h this end in view a number of
packages of each brand commonly
used were purchased and stripped of
the boxes, cards and every distinguish
ing mark. Each bind was put into a
j pasteboard box. tlie lid of which was
inscribed with a letter. These were
! taken for analysis to Professor Dcia-
i fontaine. a well known chemist.
He found that the cigarettes he
! tested were generally made of to
bacco ‘'imperfectly fermented,” which
means that an unusually large amount
of nicotine was present in them. He
found that nearly all had an unnatural
proportion of insoluble ash, that sev
eral kinds were steeped in an injurious
substance, and were impregnated wnii
dirt in . varying preportions. New
Italian
Many writers, treating the subject
of Italian emigration, assume that it
presents quite abnormal proportions.
There is nothing to justify tins as
sumption. When the kingdom ot
Italy was definitely constituted m
1861, without tlie territory around the
city of Pome, the population amount
ed, according to The Almanach de
Gotha, to 21,728,529. Tlie same au
thority gives the number of persons
then actually under the dominion of
the pope as 690,000; so that the people
of Italy numbered, in that year, all
told, 22,418,529. The total area of the V “ NtfVin'rnoI-s "between whom there
kingdom is 114.410 square miles. Em- | ^ bind of equality, sim-
igration began to assume noticeable , - nvers w itli reciprocal su-
proportions about the year lore, and - \ n tbem so that one can
tho total number of emigrants regisr , I ^ luxury of looking up to the
tered in the thirteen years, lbre-loox, j enjoy ^ ‘uxuij o - ^ tbe
was 1,708,435. Of tliese, 800,000, or j other and ° n d Sin- M in
nearly half, passed , into Europ«aii j $ a^ e i 0 pment.” *°
countries, the rest going beyond .sea. j tu ® ^ ’ th UV J c f genius have
In ISO the population of tnekmg- j ] ht di!fei . ent ly on tli& subject. It
dom was found to be 26,801, la4. In j « ^ ^ ying of Dr , John-
is better pleased
Intellectual Wives.
r>r» intellectual women make tne
woman into the matrimonial noose
whom it would notdehght tohearto
read the learned reviews of Gottingen
or the universal German library w
they sounded his praise, though t
might be in some degree exaggerated.
John Stuart Mill regarded the insti
tution of marriage in its hignest aim
and aspect as "union of two persons ot
cultivated faculties, mdentical in opm
28,459,628,
half of the natural increase in
population, for it must be remem
bered that there is no immigration
into Italy. How do these figures
compare with those for Great Britain
and Ireland? The population of the
United Kingdom was, in 1878, 33,730,-
572, and in 1887, 87,091,564. Tlie area
is 120,832 square miles. For the ten
years, 1878-1887, the number* of emi
grants from Great Britain and Ireland
was 3,095,868, or only 355,000 less than
the whole registered increase of popu
lation for the same period. This ap
parently stationary condition is partly
explained by the fact that there is a
steady reduction in Ireland, amount
ing, in ten years, to more than 400,-
000 persons: but the evidence is over
whelming that the emigration from
the United Kingdom is not only ac
tually, but relatively, vastly greater
than that from Italy. The British
population increased at the rate of
330,000 a year; the Italian, for the ten
years, 1871-1881, at the rate of 165,-
000, and for the five years, 1SS2-1S80,
at the rate of 296,000 a year. So far
as a growing population implies nar
tional vitality, Italy is surely holding
her ground.—Flunk Leslie’s News
paper.
America as a Perfumer.
America is going to the front so
rapidly in every direction that it is
hard to keep a line on her progress.
A prominent dealer up town is author
ity for tlie statement that this coun
try now leads the world in the manu
facture of perfumes, an industry in
which the French have long excelled.
“American perfumes,” he said, “can
be bought in London, Paris, Hong
Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Siam, Austra
lia, and even the Philippine and Sand
wich Islands. It is a great mistake to
suppose that the use of perfumes is
vulgar. Coarse, rank odors are, but
they are not perfumery. There is mag
netism in a line perfume. From the
most ancient times perfumes have been
held in high esteem. Solomon says:
‘Ointment and perfume rejoice the
heart.’ Hippocrates, Criton and
other ancient physicians prescribed
perfumes as medicines, and it is
affirmed that when the cholera has
raged in Paris and London those em
ployed in perfumery factories escaped
the disease. The Egyptians poured
sweet scented oils on the heads of
new by arrived guests. The Persians,
Greeks and Romans used perfumes as
offerings to the gods. The Greek ath
letes anointed their bodies with
scented oils daily. Tho Athenians per
fumed their wines with roses, violets
and so forth. The Catholics used per
fumed tapers and incense in their
churches as eai f ly as the year 964.
Charlemagne used perfumery, as also
did Philip Augustus in 1190. Eliza
beth, queen of Hungary, in 1370,
patronized the perfumer, while Cath
erine de Medici when she visited
France took with her a famous Floren
tine perfumer who taught the French
nearly all that they know today about
perfumery. In England the taste for
perfumery was chronicled in Shake
speare's time.”—New York Tribune.
| Racine had an illiterate
accustomed to boastfully dec.are tnat
she could not read any of hi^ trage
dies. Dufresny married his washer
woman. Goethe’s wife was a woman
of mediocre capacity. Heine said of
the woman lie loved, “She lias never
read a line of my writings and does
not even know what a poet is.” The-
rese Lavasseur, the last flame of Rous
seau. could not tell the time of day.
“How many of the wise and learn
ed,” says Thackeray, “have married
their cooks! Did not Lord Eldon,
himself the most prudent of men,
make, a runaway match? Were not
Achilles and Ajax both in love with
their servant maids? Seven hundred
people sat up all night to see the beau
tiful Duchess of Hamilton get into
her carriage, but would one in a thou
sand lose a wink of sleep to get a
glimpse of the learned wife ol the
pundit j Yainavalka, who discoursed
with the Indian in Sanskrit on tlie
vexed problems of life?”—The Interior.
How a Boy Began His Career.
Some five years ago many people
who happened to pass a certain news
paper office might have noticed *
bright faced lad of about 12 years of
age, who kept his eye fixed on the en
trance to the counting room. When
ever any one issued from the office, if
a grown person, the boy would ad
dress him, with an eager glance: “Are
you lookin’ for a boy, sir?”
He came on duty every morning
early, fresh, bright, cheerful, and ap
parently undismayed by the unbroken
current of “uoes” that flowed by him.
In a week lie disappeared. Last week,
while the writer was chatting with
the manager of one of the lar-
largest wholesale establishments in the
west, a bright, active young fellow,
with cheeks full of color and eyes
shining with good nature and eager
ness, came up and handed the man
ager a paper. It was the lad who had
stood before the newspaper office in
search of a man who wanted a boy.
“Who is that lad? He seems above
the average.”
“I picked him off the sidewalk in
front of a newspaper office. He is one
of the brightest, quickest and most
faithful of the boys in this establish
ment. Some day he will be at the
head of some big business. He is of
Irish parentage, and supports a wid
owed mother and a brother and sis
ter."—Chicago Globe.
To Beep the Beet W::mj.
An exchange, in speaking or the
cold winter in northern latitudes, says:
“In extra cold nights the chief prob
lem is the difficulty of keeping the feet
warm: and the nursery rhyme objec
tion to sonnie John going to bed with
his stockings ou can be compromised
by the u: 1 of hot bricks
crocks,
inents, 1
The Poor af Mexico*. ^
The peon laborer who earns ^
»S&oate comrade
woman took her little bed and gave it
to a sick woman, and ijemelf slept
♦ bo hard floor for weeks the* eauer. a
pwr paralytic comes to my door every
week aud Jets alms; .t .s hard to keep
a silver quarter in the pocket wnen a
deformed man crawls by on his hands
and knees. How many of these po
wretches one sees on rainv atternoous
crawlin" along through tue mud and
dirt of the streets. Umy »y.
that these poor people should
the hospitals, but they pre*
when able to
out into the
fellows and trust to
charity of the
loo's to walk, on, ,.
money to keep them- from starvation
I know a pui
the knees down, who, ,
in her arms, kneels in one of the pub
lic gardens and receives t.io chanty
people bestow on her. If she gets
twenty-five cents in a day she lives
well and has a little meat aud possibly
a drop of coffee. If she gets but six
cents she lives on that, and thanks
heaven. In the lottery of life some ot
us draw prizes—sound limbs. good
lun"s and clear heads, while others,
equally worthy, get the blanks. 1 can
not help thinking, as 1 wall; the streets
of Mexico, that it is good for the pros-
lassly,
be in
fer,
get
their
do so,
world
The Pigeon Flyer*.
Birds are susceptible to training, as
we all know, but it really taxes our
credulity to believe the stories told by
Charles Frederick Holder about the
pigeons of Modena in his new book,
“A Frozen Dragon and Other Tales.”
But they are. strictly true for all that.
Read what he says: A traveler in
Modena observed a youth in a pictur
esque costume leaning out of the win
dow of a stone tower, his face show
ing every evidence of excitement and
pleasure. In his hand he bore a long
staff, upon the end of which was a
colored flag, with which he seemed to
be signaling to some one in the dis
tance. The traveler soon distinguished
several other figures on the roofs of
various houses in ‘ the vicinity, all of
whom seemed to be answering the sig
nals. Finally all the flags were with
drawn but that Held by one man. He
stationed himself upon an eminence
on the roof, raised his staff high above
his head, and from about his feet
sprang into the air a vast flock of
birds. Up they rose, higher and
higher into the heavens, waving and
turning, the morning sun glistening
upon tlieir varied colors as they, ex
posed themselves in different positions
to its rays.
When almost out of sight they
turned, and a meteor of wings came
rushing down with a roaring sound,
and nearing the housetops again
alighted ,-iboui the tall figure on the
lofty roof. Hardly had this been done
when another figure rose and another
flock darted upward. These were pure
white, and resembled flecks of silvery
cloud as they swept about. These
maneuvers were repeated two or three
times, the birds always returning in
obedience to the waving of the flags.
In Modena there are fully 100 flocks
of these pigeons, composed of several
hundred birds each, and they have
been bred and trained from the earliest
times. They understand and obey the
signals just as soldiers do on the field
of battle. Sometimes the whistle is
used as a signal instead of the flag,
and they obey that too.—Philadelphia
Times.
WiM Dop of Assam.
Wherever dogs run wild, as in Aus
tralia and in India, they show many
of tlie characteristics of wolves. They
have a similar habit of hunting in
packs. The people of Assam tell won
derful stories of the cunning and sa
gacity of these wild hounds when in
pursuit of game.
They say that when a pack goes out
to hunt, an old dog goes in front and
searches for fresh scent of a deer.
Having found this, he starts off alone,
and when lie has ascertained the
whereabouts of the quarry returns to
the pack, which he then disposes in a
circle of a mile in diameter round it;
each member of the pack has a part
allotted to him.
These precautions having been
taken, the old general starts alone
once more in search of the victim,
and on finding gives chase. The start
led deer of course flies from his enemy,
who follows, giving tongue as a signal
to the rest of the pack. The deer, far
outstripping the dog, rushes on, but is
suddenly met in front by one of the
outlying dogs, who gives chase. The
deer, of course, turning to the right
or left, again rushes off, only to be
met and turned by another dog.
Thus, turned at every point, the
poor animal becomes mere and more
exhausted, while the pack gradually
closes in upon it, leavmg no avenue
of escape, and dozens of sharp fangs
scon feast on the victim which has in
tliis way been run to death. —Youth's
Companion.
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The World’s Hsiilroad Sleepers.
Tlie six principal railway companies
of Fi ance use more than 10,000 sleepers
per day, or 3,630,000 per annum. In
the United States the consumption
warming \ amounts to 15,000,000 sleepers a year,
t master of many ex pen- which is equivalent to the destruction
I\ ‘ ‘ enkefer, I~ as aq -er- of about 170,000 acres of forest. The
taiued ih-.t a stoneware be tile, half annual consumption of sleepers by the
filled with molten pitch ii-v resin), | railways cf the world is estimated at
and secur. iy cc-ihed, wai keep Lrat c_ .POj.luO. and that is probauiv less
longer than anything yeLinvected.”—! than the actual number. New York
Easton Traci lag. ______ _ I Telegram.
off, to see
blind men
porous, tbe comfortably
these poor cripples, these
and women, these strange beings, hail
human, who crawl at your feet. Shut
them up in hospitals, and one forgets
that they exist. Tbe charity which
one puts into a plate at church goes*
only indirectly to the afflicted. Halt
the pleasure of doing good is lost.
For years there was seen around the
streets here a dog faced lad, who
walked on his hands and feet like an
animal. I have not seen him for
months, and perhaps he is dead. The
story went that this strange, fantastic
freak of nature was born the son of
well to do parents, who. disgusted at
his horrid shape.
turned him into the
streets. On chilly winter mornings he
went about in cotton, for he was de
cently covered, but his expression of
sadness and hunger and weariness
went straight to the heart. To see
this poor fellow made one ashamed ol
being able to walk upright. Those of
us who gave him small coins now and
then do not, I fancy, regret it, now
that he has gone from sight. For the
student of human development this
lad would have been a treasure. He
was human, but he was also brutish.
Sights such as these make the blood
run chill in the veins, but they also
prompt little acts of charity which
make giver and recipient feel their
common humanity.—City of Mexico
Cor. Boston Herald.
Causes of Cancer.
Dr. Mackenzie in his little book
about the crown prince and his treat
ment has a few pertinent words about
the causes of cancer. He says:
“There can be no question that the
determining cause of its appearance is
in many cases an injury, such as a
bloAv, or a condition resulting from an
injury, suel} as a scar, or the persist
ent application to a particular spot of
something that keeps the tissue in
flamed and angry. Such as a jagged
tooth which chafes the tongue. \Vork-
ers in paraffine and petroleum are pe
culiarly liable to cancer of the parts
which are habitually exposed to the
action of these substances. It is well
known that a particular form of cancer
which formerly was common enough
in England is now almost extinct,
simply owing to the fact that the cause
which produced it has ceased to exist.
When soot commanded a good price it
had to be sifted. This operation na
turally involved much of friction
against the skin, whereby irritating
particles were rubbed into it ; qnd
‘chimney sweep’s cancer’ was a frm
quent result. Nowadays it does not
pay to sift the soot, and the disease {<5
which it gave rise has disappeared.
“Among the causes of local irrita
tion heat is certainly one of the most-
active. By far the most common seat
of the malignant disease in men is the
mouth, which is more exposed than
any other part of the body to irritation
by hot substances. Every surgeon is
familiar with this fact. Whether it be
a lower lip, on which the hot stem of
a clay pipe or the smoldering paper of
a cigarette has rested day after day, or
a tongue exasperated by tlie frequent
contact of acrid tobacco smoke, or the
mouthpiece of a foul pipe, or made
raw by ardent liquors, or stung and
blistered by fiery condiments, tlie cause
is essentially the same—viz., the sear
ing of the superficial covering by pro
longed heat. In some places, where
hot brasiers are often applied to the
abdomen and thigh, cancer of these
parts is not uncommon, though all but
unknown in either of these situations
elsewhere.”—M. L. Holbrook, 3VL D.,
in Herald of Health.
The Biggest Man in the World.
During this trip I have been over a
large part of this state, and find Iowa
has the largest and best corn crop that
has ever been raised in the state. Iowa
does not only stand at the head of the
list as a corn state, but stands at the
head, also, for large men. I was one
of the two largest men on a train last
week, and the two of us weighed just
two pounds over a half ton. I weighed
210 pounds, and the other fellow
weighed just 792 pounds. His name
was J. II Craig. He is 6 feet 4i inches
long, and was born in Iowa City
Cnrty-two years ago. He is said to be
the largest man in the world at the
present lime. lie is well proportioned,
Ir 1 , fun an J as playful as a kitten.
He told me that when he went to
f ’ u ,;’ C ' ( h b f. P at the collection
baskct .md took a whoJe seat for him-
seh. He has weighed 833 pounds
bin uses tobacco now to keep his
THbune UOWn bel ° W 800 --davenport
,, lce was artificially manufactured by
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