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J? 6? ®hc Scrald and ^ducriiscij. 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. to of the fortunate who have for a few bits of [*i vvoiiia.ii. paralyzed from with her babe 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 asl785 ' * ‘■’ :5ciaieu * fixtures as early