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6 HIGHER PRICES FOR CEREALS. WHEAT, CORN \M> OATS ARE ON \N l l*\\ \RD THEM). Aihnnco in the Price of Cotton I>no In Report* off Crop DnmiiKP-Iron '|'rnil(‘ *>how Considerable Weak ness in Prior*—There ire Orders Kuo null llul the Quuiititie* Wanted \re >innll— Heavy Rnsiness Doliik in Refined Snnr. New York, June 22.—Bradstreet’s to morrow will say: M: isummer dullness in distributive trade and industry and further reductions of prices of manufactured goods, partic ularly iron and steel, and raw textiles, but a marked upward movement in nearly all agricultural products, are the leading features of the business situation this w ek. Wheat has advanced 14 cents per bushel since June and 20 cents from the low point reached in November, a gain over <he latter period of 27 per cent, in price. Corn crop adviets .ire sti 1 in n high de gree en ••■a laying,but t .at cereal has sym pathized with wheat, as have also ?at. and hoi- products have In turn felt the quickening influence o. higher prices for corn. Improved demands for dairy prod ucts it reflected in slight advances this week. Crop damage has been a moving cause for the a lv.mce in the price of cotton, though the danger of the short side on the old crop has been evident for some time past in the critical condition of the visible supply of rot ton. Some weakness has be? n noted in cotton goods, without, however, favorably affecting distribution. Retail trade in dry goods has been helper* by warmer wca'her. Wool is lower and the wool* n goods market is rather quiet, awaiting the next London wool sale and the opening cf the spring weight season. \Yonkne** in Iron Trmlo. Weakness of price- is still the leading feature of the iron trade and lower quo- are noted for pig iron. S. rucf ui al material has also verified predictions in a decline of from $7 to $9 per ton. Do mestic orders for iron are i**rhaps slight ly more numerous, but are for small quantities. Talk of a systematic shut down of ir n furnaces pr ducing for the open mark t o men chiefly trom the Fouth, but whi e t is subje t s order con sloe ain th. <is ■c is mi ng a partial cure In the going out of blast cf a r.unP er of less economical furnaces and the sum mer shut down of many mills Export cemand i go 1 but. a< for senm time pas . wai s u <n t e question of fre.ght room. Th. <> ii• r me als are steady and practical!* unchange 1 in price with the exc pti nof tm w ich is slightly low- r. A havy b ineis and eng in refined su gar and the manufa •:ureis are* oversold. A good margin of profit exists in this tra le. Hu ldii g < emai <1 f r lumber is not active, but wlrte pine is relatively firm est. Southern tie is in oversupp y in a number of mTk .. Anthracite coal is in seasonable ci-t, ibut ion. while the demand for bituminous cent nues quite active. .Shipment* of ( orenl*. Wheat, including flour shipments for the week, aggregate 4,€45,18) bushels, ata rst 4 67\0_9 busntD las< w ek. 3.746,- 718 bushels in th - c rresnondlng week of 3899, 3,79',479 bu-hels in 1S98; 2,156,216 in 1897, and 2 ‘37,€3i bushel- in IS9‘. Since July 1, this season, the ixports of wheat aggre gate 19 i.470.1G2 bushels against 221.7 >9,610 las- y< ar, and 229 072.288 in 18)7-98. Failur s in the I‘nited States for the week number 1-7 compared with U 0 last week, and 199 last year. Failures in Canada for the week num ber 28, against 23 last week( and 22 last year. QIEK.H EKEAIiS OF CIA)I Dflt IIST.s, >u Two of Tlicm \rc Attend oil ly the Slime I'li‘Uineiin. From Ainslee’s Magazine. Cloudbursts are sometimes very destruc tive of life ns well as of property. They come up so suddenly ifcat it is almost im possible to escaped if the wayfarer is caught in the bed of the creek. Camp ers in the mountain regions usually select the high ground above the creek rather than pitch their tents close beside the gentle rippling water which may become a roaring torrent while they sleep, sweep ing th'm to destruction before they know that dancer is near. It was from neg lect of this precaution that many lives were lost in a cloudburst near Morrison, Col., in the spring of 1897. Some people were camping along the borders of ihe etream, and, as it was just after dark and had been raining heavily, they had sought the shelter of their tents. Sud denly they heard the awful nnd peculiar roar of the approaching cloudburst. It grew louder every second. Realizing what had happened, <he unfortunate campers—men. women and children— rushed from their tents and tried to reach the higher ground. In the con fusion and darkness some turned the wrong way and were soon struggling in mad torrents, battling with tree trunks and wrecks of cabins and immense masses of moving stone in the bosom of the flood. Thirteen lives went out in that dire right. The bodies found later showed the marks of buffeting wiih the debris in the flood of waters, and it is believed that few. if any, cf <he unfortunates lost their lives by actual drowning. Occasionally the sudden downpour of rain will be precipitated on a soft, yield ing soil and instead of taking the form of a cloudburst, with a wave of water carrying everything before it, the whole surface of the ground will lake on the consistency of molasses and roll slowly, but irresistibly down the watercourses. This happened in rhalk canyon, near Mount Princeton, in Colorado, three years ago. Chalk cliffs are a peculiar formation o* the head of the canyon, the so-called “chalk" being of a lime nature, j which after being dissolved in water j quickly hardens again, like cement. A cloudburst begun high up on the sides of the mountain, washed away tons of material from the cliffs and rolled the mass slowly over the railroad tracks like the pour of lava from Vesuvius. The tracks were covered to a depth of six feel. A gang of workmen was put to v.ork on the deposit, but it oozed In to the track- as fast as the men shoveled it out. Finally all work was suspended and the overflow was hardened so quickly that n track was built over it. Within six hours of the breaking of the storm ti v running over the deposit. So hard did the “.•balk" become that the railroad has never penetrated to Its old tracks and in the excavating that was done in relaying the tracks permanently dynamite had to be used. ink; stops \ m:hhvbo\t. F.xciting Twenl> Which ||o Spent in tli* Whcelbox. From the Philadelphia Preas. lie wan only an inoffensive looking of dimunitlve dimensions, but lie stopped the ponderous ferryboat Pennsylvania ful ly ten minute® yesterday and acted after ward ms if he hail the injured party. Jh was exploring the ferryboat t'amden u ~ she lay in lur slip on the oilier side of the Delaware when he became seized with h dizzir sand stm;xvled overboard. He Fir r k the water Just ns the Pennsylvania v.hs making a landing, and started to cross her bows. Not being gifted with trip* expansion engines, he failed dis mally. end was caught up by the ferry boat's wheel. lh was burned over and over in the wheedbox. but he dodged the tight pares and wa very much alive when the kind hearted ferry employes, after twenty min utes work, dragged him out into the light of day. H did not occur to him, however, that he had been saved from a watery grave, i and os he was * irrled by the nape of the l neck to dry land his dripping little lega k paddling at a twenty-knot clip. SHOT FOB HIS LIFE. Warm Receptlo AYhloli a Wildcat Intruder Met in n Northern Camp. From Forest and Stream. Tired! The word does not express my condition, and it is dark, and the m or. will not 1*? up until 8 o'clock. Allen and I roll up in blankets and are asleep almost as soon as we touch the floor. No de s rip|ion can be given of the camp and n> surroundings until morning, as it i now pitch dark, except for the light from our lantern, and our physical condition is at too low an ebb to permit even the mind to flow freely. Some magnetic influence caused me to oi*-n my eyes after sleeping, as I then thought all th? night through. I locked around, it seemed to be light as day. but soon recognized the effect of n wonderfu - ly clear atmosphere nnd a full moon. Oh. how dis i. t everything looked! But hark! What is that noise? Purring: now loud, now soft, sound.*® like the grat ing of a miniature millstone grinding Mg leaves. I turn over gently to gt a fair look a the third window, and Heaven help me! What is t'nai huge, terrible monster sitting in the window hole? A panth r a grizzly, a mountain lion? I acknowledge frankly 1 was thoroughly frightened ('or a few minutes. Eyes a greenish yellow shining like burning brimstone, silting as the monster was In the opening, with th mellow, clear moonlight for a background, his size and devilish outlines were en hanced nranifold, both by the conditions of the setting and atmosphere, ns well as by mv most agitated mind. In a few minutes it dawned upon me that I had nothing more fierce to face then a North ern wildcat. The brute looked savage, with his wicked orbs gleaming viciously down on us. but knowing him and his pe culiarities, I knew there was nothing to fear. My revolver was lying in my hat by mv side. Grasping it. I gave Allen several sound nudges in the ribs. He awoke, and then I whispered: “Don’t move, Ed. Iscok at the window to your right.” He looked and continued looking. I was frightened. Allen was more so. He wa-s speechless, and I was heartlessly cruel. "Ed, that’s a panther, and I’m afraid we’re in for it; the devil is evidently hun gry. and I’m going to try a shot at him. If I miss you roll yourself in your blank ets and let me fight i out. He will no? attack but one. We both have families, but. oh. Ed. look after my wife and * hi - dren. Oh. Lord! Why did I ever come here and cause you to run your head in this death trap!” I gurgled several gurgles in imitation o f tearful despair, and Allen still remained speechless. Slowly I took aim with my revolver, until the barrel covered th** bon> of the cat. I had a perfect sight, tha* k to the moon: I pressed the trigger, a deaf ening report, and then two ear-split’, ing yells—one from the cat, the other fro.n Allen. To this day I am unable to slat'* which was the louder, but I give Allen the bene fit of the doubt. He had s*o thoroughly taken my advice that when I tried to un roll him from his blankets, he evidently thought the panther had lunched off me and was after him for dessert. .He kicked and squirmed, but at last he was quiet long enough to hear me speak to him. and then uncovering himself, he leaned on hD elbow and hoarsely whispered: “Old man, old man. are yon badly hurt? Is the panther gone?” My emotions forbade my speaking, an l Allen mistaking my convulsions for spasms of pain, like a true hero, regard less of the probable presence of the pan ther. Jumped to his feet nnd came to me, turned me over on my back and seeing fny uncontrollable convulsions of laughter in stantly regained his sang ffrodd, and calm ly said: . . T “Say, you’re very smart, mister, but 1 knew it wasn’t a panther a 1 the time. Any fool could tell it was a bear ” And then 1 began anew, until Allen opened bis vials of wrath and gave me a shower bath of the most pungent English that I soon begin to cover up. •Did you hit the cat?” 1 acknowledged 1 hadn’t gone outside the shack to see. We went, and about thirty yards from the window we found the cat—a male, an l a giant, stone, stark dead. Allen claims that he didn’t sleep another minute that night. Horne* in llnttle and After. From Pearson’s Magazine. The thousands of horses killed in every important battle have to be disposed of; they are either buried or burned, accord ing to the climate. In South Africa burial is always resorted to. but in some of the northern parts of India the carcasses are left where they fall, and in less than eight hours afterwards are picked clean by the vultures. This is by far the best way from a utilitarian point of view, for the bones may afterwards be collected and ground down for manure. The interment of slaughtered animals is always left to the burial parties, and can scarcely be said to be any part of the veterinary sur geon's duties. In a cavalry charge, especially w’hcn the firing is at long range, it is practically im possible for the enemy to atm at so small a figure as a human being with any cer tain chance of hitting him, and so the horse, presenting the larger target, the list of casualties among horses under these circumstances is naturally greater than among men. At Talavera 290 horses were killed and 240 men, while at the famous charge of the light brigade at Balaklava the losses among horses were 360, and among men 280. The horse is more likely to suffer from hunger and want of rest than a man, and consequently we find that in all pro tracted wars the loss in horses from dis ease is terribly heavy. In Napoleon’s cam paign across the Nlemen, out of 60,000 horses, no fewer than 46.000 succumbed in six months. At the siege of Plevna the Russians lost over 30 per cent, of (heir draft animals, and in the Egyptian war of 1882 half the English horses were disabled, of which 600 died from sickness and on'.y sixty on the field of battle. —The following appears among the fash ion notes of a Chicago ixiper: “New waist ecats for men are made in crocodile skin, s ft and pliable, with a highly polished surface. They are made in green and (hades of brown, and some are laced in stead of buttoned. They are cut high, and are waterproof.” Household Need Kvery household has, or ought to have on hand a bott.e of pure alcoholic stimulant against emergencies. SHUNTER BATIMORE | R y E recommend? Itself, js 1! Is the purest " >• i whtskej it.l the gy, one whiskey pr. for fljdyVyg n-l by physicians BBgy ' Is p.nSP ularly re '3ornmenele.-l to *• IM|uU£jb9)|| r< ' < ''i because It Is IPure, Old, Mellow. Sold at all first-class Cafes. IIKNHY BOU'MON & SON. Bole Agents, - Savannah, Oa. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JUNE 23, 1900. If you w nt a light, s rong, correctly made corset —one that literally lives up :o its name— kid-like, soft, pliable, yet firm, get Pw, THOMSON’S “Glove-Fitting” Corset Turn it over and see how it’s made All seams run around the body. ffiyfj This is 9 pieture of UUI *i\ I Our Ventilating Corset, jlft f (Trade-Mark Registered! made cf im- IT • / ported nettirg. stripp'd vdth coutil, and i i"*/ trimmed w.th lace and l aby ribbon. sl.o') IHHnVli l’frWullilfflJ'/ Light as a feather, y. t s rorg as the ayjjßfl |i &■! strong si. Handsome illustrated cata- W logue mailed free. X Geo C.Batcheller& J0.,345 Broadway,N.Y. For sale by all leading dry goods stores. AMHHK V I\ CHIVY. Vuniln \r\t Door to World** Grent **t Market*. (Minister Wu Ting Fang in Ainslee’s.) “America has a magnificent opportuni ty in the Orient if she will only reach out and take it. A people which has done so much and has taken advantage of co many chances will surely not fail to reiip for its commerce the benefits which it has earned by its bravery. The possession of the Philippine Islands brings the United States close up to the greatest markets in the world—markets which have only Just begun to be developed, but which have already shown ci capacity for developmeni that a great cominer* iul peo pie will understand. There are many millions* of people ii> Chinn, and they are ready to uy from other nations the things which they enn use. Some in America -eem to think that the Chinese now man ufacture practically ail that is sufficient for their own needs. Far from it. Of course, it is true that for centuries be fore China was open to foreign trade its people made the goods they used, and this seemed sufficient; but now China is open to foreign frade, and manufactured goods come from America and Europe. We buy them readily. America can sell us goods more cheaply than our people could manufacture them. This i-s true especial ly of cotton cloth. That w hich we manu facture ourselves we wa.ive with our own hands, and it is very durable; but He American product is very fine in compari son. and now it has come to be in common use with us. In some parts of the em pire American and English cottons have akon almost entirely (he place of our n i tive manufacture. With finer dresses, tdiks. and (hot sort of thing, it is not yet true; but with cheaper articles it is. Modern Chinn. “China takes kindly to improvements. We have not only the railroad, but the telegraph and the telephone. The tele graph lines extend throughout the length and breadth of China. There is not a province now without the telegraph. The first cable in China was laid by the Dan ish Company, and our principal telegraph company is now superintended by a Dan ish engineer. The first telegraph com pany was organized by an official named Sheng Hsuan Huai, commonly known as Sheng Taotai. He induced Chinese mer chants to subscribe and built the line under government protection. The line extended from Tien Tln for a short dis tance; then it was continued to Shang hai; then to Pekin, and so branched out from north to south, from east to west. This was twenty years ago. and the tele graph built by private enterprise under government control, with Danish opera tives, in the main now covers a wade ex tent of territory. When it came to ex tending the system to more remote parts of the country, rhe private commercial company did not like to undertake the construction, and so the government has built these lines itself. Thus there are practically two systems, one semi-official, the other soleiy % under government con trol. “The telephone has been Introduced more recently. The first telephones were brought in by foreigners for their own convenience, and put up at Shanghai, and others followed in different treaty ports. They are all managed by different private companies. We have no long-distance telephone as yet, but that will come in time. With the railroad, the telegraph, fhe telephone, and a great population thickly settling a vast extent of territory, the future possibilities of the Chinese trade must npp* >1 to the commercial in stincts of the United States. Wi h a foot hold In the Philippines. America will have a great advantage over other nations which lack possessions in that part of the world. If Americans know how to turn this <o good account they will be able to do wonders.” WHERE (\( LOM.S \IIB IIREX). I>rniua of the F.U'inentN In the Rocky Mountain*. (T. C. Knowles in Ainslee'®.) “For the world west of the Mississippi the Rocky Mountains are the points of origin not only of the rivers and water flows.-but of the condensing of the mois ture of the air. the bonked snows, the sub terranean currents which form the basis of the entire watershed. Their cold alti tudes seem t> shed the waves of which conflict with the warmer waves in the plains below, and in their battles gen erate the cyclones and the lesser windy terrors which devastate the Western plains. They are the beginning of the heartbreaking blizzards which tie up truffle of the metropolitan tstreets. or chill beyond endurance the homes of the poor. They are, in a word, the atmospheric top of the continent, and one would expect to find among them the same excesses of nat ure that are seen on a smaller scale when the wind whips the flags of the roofs of lofty buildings, or when dark clouds lower over the Jersey hills or the gentle moun tains of the Cumberland. “Yet, though the Rcckv Mountains are the beginning of such awful things .is cyclones and blizzards, they are singularly immune from the terrible effects of these phenomena, when they reach their full growth on the plains below. The storms are sharp, strong and typical. They are dramatic. Rut. lacking in the chance of a long run across the plaint*, where force is constantly accumulated with each suc cessive mile of | regress, their life is us ually of short duration, and their imme diate sphere of action small. They are as if all the phenomena, the storm from its genesis to its conclusion, were given in miniature. In this respect, the storms of the Rockies differ from those of the ►Swiss Alps. Tin- latter are severe, pro tracted, and full of catastrophe. The for mer complete themselves briefly, and then lot the 1 n+incc <>f the continent wrestle with what they have given forth. '•Probably nowjup* is storm and ell mate so varied. All phases of nature’s cataclyms alternate with all phases of na ture's peace ond pleasure. The entire gamut from sun-ulu** to black gloom fre quently Is run within a Ringlo day or an hour. A morning will open clear, with the sun warm. Perhaps at noon the clouds will gather and a heavy rain begin. In a few minutes this will turn to sle*t and then to hail. Fifteen minutes after the storm begins, it will he snowing heav ily. and an hour from the time the first cloud appeared the sun will he shining again. The whole shower, rain, hail and snow will hve been accompanied by thunder and lightning. “Two wayfarers were recently driving through the mountains In the Smith Park | of Colorado, when just at nightfall a ter rific storm came up. It lasted only about fifteen minutes, hut during that time the thunder and lightning were continuous. After it was over a dozen tree stump* were seen blazing like beacons on neigh boring hill." Tetter—No l nre, No l*ay. Your druggist will refund your money If Paso Ointment falls to cure you. 60c. —ad WHAT A CLOt I)III'RST IS. No Such Thing am a Rurnting Cloud. Si ill i*l > a H(*nv> Rain. T C. Knowles In Ainsl e’s Magazine. “The most destructive f rm of moun tain storm is the so-cal’ud cloudbursu w hen the ripj lit g bro k suddenly be comes a ioaring river, carrying; death an 1 destruction in its path. The noi c e male by a cloudburst has no parallel. Above the lumble and r ar of a mass of rushing water- is heird a grin ling,groaning round of falling rees. cf slipi ing earth and roll ing boulders, while the banks of the si ream far above the danger line trem ble as if in an earthquake. The sense are numbed by the awful cataclysm, an it seems to the spec at r, al-hough he i* on the high b nks and rut of actual dan ger, as if the very foundations of the earth had burst and judgment day was come. The fl< od tosses about trig ty tr and rocks as if they were straws, the barks of the stream seem o dissolve be fore bis ey?s. end a feeling of awe at the irresistible power of nature s cal- over the t hs- rver. Once witnessed, a cloudburst is never forgotten. “In point of fact, however, "there is no such ihing as t e burs ing of a cloud. Th term ‘cloudburst is a converi nt express ion by which the result o r a very heavy rain is and signated. N arly all the surfac of the earth in the mountain rgon is made up either (t ro k- or adobe s il The lntt* r. in mos> cr.seq has never been broken to cultivation, and is almost im prvious to a sudden heavy downpour of rain. The cons qo< nc is ihat t’e moun tains are cut up with aroyes, gullies and wa er curses, and n the course of un numbered ages into mighty canyons whi *h isonl t e tourist. In an unusuall* heavy ra nfall, the great n a-s of water spr ads over a large area, irs ead of sink ing into the ground, is qu ck y a cumu lated in the b ds of the streams, which rise many feet in a sh. rt time When tM* accumulation is rapid enough, and tht lay of th® land’ Is Jus? right, the water rushes down the bed of the stream In a soli! wall, and is called a c’oudburst. Th* same precipitation in an open country, or in ene in which the sod lias been brok en up by cultivation, woul I be called a heavy minfall, and w ul i do no damage unless continued long nough for th* streams to rise out of their banks and and floed the c untry. “One of the most and srructive storms of this nature, so far as bs manifold con s qu roes are concern? and t *? k place in th sp. .ng cf 1564. when a cloudburst occurr ed at the headwaters of (’herry creek This is a smail s reim dry most of the year, but notorious for its eccentric t e. Jt flows through Denver and empties into the Platte river, with n the confines of the city. Just at nightfall che water swept dawn th s .ry creek in a wa 1 .-aid to have teen ten fcei in hight. carrying everything before it. Many people were drowned, and many buildings were wash ed away. All night 1 ng tht* creek flowed hankful of wat* r that was thick whh wreckage. Purple were rescued during th* night on rafts and Improvised boats. The most serious 1 ss was the City Hall, which was swept away by the waier. together with all the records cn file there. These records included net only these cf the state ard cly. hut also the United State lard fildgs. The flood wv followed by an era of lard-jumping, and a good many of the prefsmt for unes in Denver date from that event. The sife of the City Hall was never found although s me relics of th flod incbdUg a tori‘on <f th’ press of the Rocky Mountain News, are n w r in the rooms cf the State .Historical £o e'etj DOGS ROTH THINK \\D REASON. Fact* Inillcnte the l*o*ne*Mion of it High Order off Intelligence. From the London News. Do dogs think? Yes, replies Herr Sieln er-Brunner, the landlord of the Hotel du Glacier at Meiden. in the Turtmanmha'. Herr Brunn r left his mountain hotel dur ing the past winter under the guardian ship of a watchman, whose only compan ions were a ccrple of dogs—a French “griffon” and a little “spitz.” A month ago the watchman was cutting wool in the neighborhood of the hotel when h** was suddenly overwhelmed by an ava lanche. The two dogs were with their master and must have seen him th * bur ied by the fallen mass of snow Unable to get at him for his release, his two ca nine friends, either with or without hold ing counsel together, rushed down the mountain (which stands at the hight of 1,800 meters above the sea level) and made their way to Herr Brunner’s house in the valley. There, by snorting, barking and others signs of excitement, they made the landlord understand that .-omething extra ordinary hod occurred at the summit. The host, with three men and the two dogs, ascend?-?! to the Hotel du Glacier, a jour ney which occupied them nine hours. When they arrived at the sp t where the accident had happened "it was as clearly Indicated by the conduct of the two dogs us if they had said In words. 'This is the place.’ ” The watchman was soon exca vated from his snowy grave and quickly recovered himself. As he could give lh?* exact time at which the avalanche had fallen, it was calcu lated that the two dogs had ma le their downward journey of eighteen kilometers In little more than an hour, and during a heavy snowfall. —ln conversation the other day with a Russian newspaper representative. M Emile. Zola said that so far n< h • was concerned the Dreyfus case was finish* 1. He worked for th* officer’s* liberation, and that was obtained. At the same tlm ihe novelist said that he and his friends were still at the disposal of the liberate i man if he wanted their help, but they did not see the necessity of the re-establishment of his innocenc* that is to pay. his reha bilitation. M. Zola furtli* r said that l* e Dreyfus cate was like others which ram l>efore the courts early in the twenties. Its development showed the terrible dan ger of militarism. —The reception and entertainment of the Khedive cf Egypt at the London Gull 1 Hall will take place on or about June 20. The golden t>ox which will contain the ad dress of we.com* Is of 18-earat gold an*! weighs fifty-one ounces. Its base is sur rounded by emblems of ancient Wrypt. sphinxes forming the supports for the \®l - base on which the body of the cask* t rest*. The model of a minaret adorns the lid, and r.ty* of light ir~ rep resented as proceeding from t*e dome, in i semi-Orlentßl frame above the * ter of the casket the Khedive*® monogram ap pears in Egyptian characters The Io ns anti the rose are entwined s a -ymbol <f the relationship existing h tw e.n End in 1 and Egypt. Illustration® of don’s arts, industries and commerce, together with views of some of the prlncip and c ty institutions wdi find a olac® uuou the easket THIRST I\ HOT CLIMATES. Alcohol nnd Tobacco Promote It. Some Hint* to Soldier*. ‘From the Hospital. Preach as we will on sanitary question*, teach our soldiers as carefully as we like that muddy water or water that has been exposed to risk of pollution, must at every sacrifice bo rigidly avoided, in practice all these maxims ar* thrown to the wunds. In the presence of thirst all men are equal, j and we see the educated, and the unedu- * cated alike, obeying one common and j irresistible impulse, which drives them to drink the poison wrhich a little later lays them low’ with typhoid and dysentery. Of | all measures for the prevention of dis eases among troops, by far the most ef fectual would be the prevention of thirst, , if that were possible, and we need not be surprised that, both for this reason j and because thirst Is one of the most mis- j erable of tortures, inquiries are con tin- j ualiy made os to how it con be best pre- j vented and how best It can be relieved. In seeking a solution of this important problem the fir** thing to remember i9 (hut thirst h~ not n mere desire of the lips or a mere craving of the stomach. Thirst is a wan: arising in every corner f the organism from every (issue being deprived of some of the wafer which is an 'frsential element in its normal constitu tion. Putting on one side. then, such trivial method* as pebble sucking, spice ; noting . and so on. which act merely by preventing dryness of mouth, real thirst can only be relieved by water, and in whatever form the drink is taken by which it is alleviated it is the w-ater which i it contains, and the water alone, that effectual. Again, the only way to pre vent thirst i to avoid undue loss of the j ; watery constituent of the blood. Prec tically. then, the problem is reduced to 1 his: How best (o prevent undue loes of I water from the system? Over the Jos-* of water by the lungs we nve no control. Over (hat by the skin we can exert some influence by care as to Nothing and as to drink. The more men irink the more they perspire; and if they obey their natural Impulses in this re gard they are sure to loae for more water through the skin than is at nil necessary. It is the loss of water by the kidneys, however, that is the moo>t under a man'.* c-ntrol. and what we wish especially to insist upon, is that alcoholic drinks, in onsequenee of their diuretic action, are very effectual thirst quenchers. They re iieve for a time, hut by their action on he kidneys they remove almost as much fluid ns they add. so that the condition the blood Is very rapidly brought back > what it was before, or even made worse ban ever. Universal experience enforces he lesson, that, however, comforting at 'he time, alcohol produces thirst, espo ially when much physical exertion is >eing made. It fakes out as much ns It puts it>. and certainly should not be drunk when economy in fluid is essential. Another and most important cause of wasteful excretion of fluids from the body ia Impatience of the earlier and bearable iegrees of thirst. The human body must mrt with a certain quantity of water r > form the necessary excretions. Nature, (owever. w’ith her usual liberality, has ar ranged for the watery fluids required for 'his pupose to be secreted in far greater quantity than is absolutely necessary, and much of this excess of secretion ceas *s when less fluid is taken Into the system. Unfortunately, the same water starvation which dlmin’shee excretion also produces i sense f thirst, and many a man who is impatient of this <fisoomfort and tries to ook it by constant sipping might as -. pR empty his water bottle onto rhe road. No nan can exert himself j n n hot coun ,rv without becoming parched, nnd this ' rly rhirst must be put up with when the water supply is limited. Any aUemr ? really slake it merely leada to a wasteful passage of fluid through the system. Then about tobacco. Smoking is proba ble rot in essence such n thirsty proceed • g as some people imagine. Habit has much to do with the drinking with which u is often accompanied. Still, tobacco should not be Indulged in during the ‘flv hours of the march. There can be <* doubt that it enables men to bear fa igues and discomforts which, without i. would be found almost unendurable, and mong other things to put up with the miseries of rhirst. But the very efficacy of tobacco for this purpose makes It all •he more desirable to keep it back until is really wanted. THE “BOXERS.” Their Name. Origin, and Object* Co herently Explained. Letter to the TCdlior of the London Times. Sir: The so-called “Boxer” Society in hina has lately forced itself into such disquieting prominence that a short ac ount of its origin and objects will prob- Mv be of interest to your readers. 1. Name—The proper name of the society is I-ho-ch’uan. which may be translated League of United Patriots.” What is the origin of its popular designation "Boxers,” is uncertain. This name may have been given them from the prom inence its members appear to attach to bymnastics in their training, or by n pun on the last charac ter in thc-ir Chinese name, ch’uan also meaning “fists”—the characters are dif ferent. hut the pronunciation the same. 2. Origin—The seizure of Kiao-Chau by Germany, as one of the measures of pun ishment for the murder of two Chinese missionaries in Shan-tung. and the conse quent acquisition (practically seizure) of Port Arthur nd Ta-lien Ray by Russia, of Wei-hnl-wei by England, and of Kwang-ohau by France, gave rise to the general belief among the Chinese that the hief source of international complications lies in missionary propaganda, and that if missionaries and converts could once be g<t rid of. things would run smoothly. This idea was availed of by Yu Man-tsj as the basis of his campaign of destruction in Szu-ohunn, and to a certain extent by the “Large Knife Society.” In their up rising on the borders of Shan-tung. Anh wei. end Kiang-su (though In the latter ease dearth of food was n'.so a large con tributing. probably the main, factor.) it is the same idea which has led to the pres ent outbreak of the I-ho-ch’uan in Shan tung. the province in which Kiao-Chau and Wei-hal-wei are situated, and in which the railway development being pushed on from the former place has en countered so much opposition. Third. Object*—lt is not unnatural, therefore, that, as the China pres* reports is the ci®\ the society’s flag should bear •h- device, “Uphold the dynasty, drive out foreigner*.” It is also per ha ns not unnatural—however mad the policy indl ra'fl by such a device rrav a 1 p ar to u< Westerners—that at a time when great and w i lespread di *atifact on was being orenly expressed with the Empress Dow- STUDIO FOOD. An %rtlnt's Diet. An artist living In a New York studio writes regarding the advantage of a proper selection of healthful food. 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Drawers, Knicker bockers ag. r s policy, not only throughout China but by Chinese domiciled al road, a so ciety which openly avowed the ma'nten- of the dynasty as one of its main obj?'cts should be viewed with favor by the reietiontarie? in Peking—Yu hM?n. the late Governor, not only lock no act.on to suppress the society at Us insti tution, but by his behavior aided its development, and little sterns to have been done by th?' newly arp:intei Governor, Yuan Shlh-Kai, anl the foreign drilled troops he took with him to curb Us ac ion It* cent telegrams have (old of the advance of these m n > n Peking and ?f the destruction caused by them.ln the Chi-li camps there are a num ber cf troops more than ample to sup press the movement, if they van he relie 1 on to obey orde s to do so. But can they? In popular outbreaks in China as the number of adherents inci eases ihe origi nal object of the movement, is very apt to be lost sight of; but if the I-ho ch’uan acts up to its motto, it is proba ble that sympathy with its ohje t will p-ove strong? r than discipline among (he Manchu tio ps. And for the past two years G p n. T’ung Fuhsiang, who is hizh in favor in Peking, and his truculent K in sult troois. who w’ere guilty cf the at tack on the engineers of the Pek ng Rail read some two years ago. have openly avowed iha‘ the policy advocated on the society’s fbtg is that which they desire to carry out. Here lic-s the danger. No doubt the advance cn Peking wi 1 b?' scotched. But. unless th?' movement and its sup rort rs be stamped out. thes' elements of disorder and ?f danger will rema n scat tered broadcast over the c untry, and the evil cay will be only postpen- and. It is a moment when, in the interest not only of Western nations, but of China her self. a firm i>olicy and concerted action are essential. Has that policy been ?le cided on; has the concerted action been arranged? Youis faithfully, Shanghai. Decay of Westminster Nliliey. From the London Telegraph. The latest reasons alleged for the ac celerated decay of some of* the stone of Westminster Abbey is “the smoke from the factories across the water.” There is certainly not as much factory smoke either in Paris or in Brussels as there i? in London, yet within the memory of some or the oldest inhabitants of these capitals there never was a period when either Notre Dame, St. Eustache or St. Gudule was free from scaffolding. And whatever may be the cose now. there was no factory umokfl In the time of Sir Christopher Wren, who pointed out that the decay was four inches deep, and fell off perpet ually in large scales. Seven centuries of wear in a country where the winter of discontent is not always made glorious by the summer sun of York, or any other sun, are quite sufficient to disintegrate the finest material, and it is a widely known fact that the pile was erected with inferior material. The subsequent addi tion!*. except those of very recent years, w’ere not superior, and it may be that til3 repairing has had the effect of anew patch on an old shoe, i. e.. torn the old stuff nwav. New wood dovetailed wi'.h old often produces such results. —Collectors of postage stamps at the present time are legion. They are una ware, say® the New York Herald, that they sometime** collect at ihe same time dangerous microbes. M. Busquet, who Is attached to the bacteriological lalioratory at the Military* Hospital at Algiers, had in hie service a young soldier who had not only tuberculosis, but in an advanced stage, in w*hose saliva Koch's bacilli swarmed. 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The development of this fea ture of modern enterprise in China is de scribed in considerable detail in a recent publication of the Treasury* Bureau of Statistics, entitled “Commercial China in 1899 " Ir shows that the telegraph sys tem of China included In 18119. about 3.000 miles of line in operation, and that the railroad system included 350 miles of road in active operation, and over 3.000 mile® projected. The telegraph system connected all of the capitals of the provinces with the na tional capital. Pekin, and in turn, con nected with the Russian trans-Siberian telegraph line, and the ocean cables; but it appears from the recent reports that those lines have, in many* cases, been de frayed by the anli-foreign mobs and armies. The railways thus for constructed, be long to the Chinese government, and were constructed under Its control and direc tion. and at its expenee. They connect Pekin, the capital, with Tien Tsin. which lies at the head of the gulf of Pechill. and is the seaport of Pekin, while other lines run northwardly from Tien Tsln to Shan haikwan. end still others extend south wardly from Pekin as far as Paoting. the capital of the province of Chili, in which Pekin is located. From that point south ward, a railway was being constructed In POO. by Belgian capital, though it was suspected that Russian influence and. perhaps. Russian capital, was associated in thin work. This line was expected to extend to Hankow, which mav mo described as the Chicago of China, being its best and largest and most pros perous inland commercial city, located 500 mite* P the Yang-tse-Klang from Shanghai, which lies at the mouth of th® river. Hankow is a city of nearly l.Ot/O.fr” inhabitants, and it was expected that the Belgian lino would connect pekln. which lies -well nt the north, with Hankow*, lo cated near the center, and that an Amer ican line would extend still further south from Hankow to Canton and Hong Kong. Ihe American line was surveyed by a corps of engineer® under Mr. W. B. Par sons of New York in 1898 and 1899. under a concession granted by the Chinese gov ernment to Calvin Brice. Hugh J. Grant, Thurlow Weed Barnes and others, and this line. lik* ail others for which concessions have been granted, was. after a term of years, to become the property of the Chin ese government. It was expected that this American line running from Hong Kong and Canton northward to Hankow and connecting at that point with the Belgian line which would extend to Pekin, would form an extremely important artery of internal commerce from China's most im portant southern city. Canton, ond its most important central city, Hankow, and thence to Its capital at the north, Pekin, from which point it would connect with the Russian railway system which enter* China in Man 'hurin at the extreme north. Numerous other railways have been sur veyed and some of them were tinder con struction. The German government ha* b- cn encouraging he construction of rail ways in the Province of Shnntun in which its port of Kiao-Chau is loco ted. while concessions to British companies author ize the construction of lines along a large share of the -;isrrn coast and extending up the valley of the West river to the bor d< rs of Burmah. where It was expected they would flrally connect with the rail way system of India. The railways projected in China, and for which concessions had been granted contemplated a length of more than 3.000 miles, and it was confidently expected that their construction would bring the Trans-Siberian system of Asiatic Russia into touch with the Trans-Indian sys tem of British India, which in turn w’ould finally connect with the railway system* of Southern Europe, and thus give to th® world an intercontinental belt line stretching northwardly from Northern Europe through Russia and Siberia, thence southwardly* through China, thence westwardly again through Burmah, In dia. Persia and Turkey in Europe, to a connection with the railway systems of Southern Europe. What the effect of the hostilities In China with reference to w*orks of this character will he cannot now he foretold. Russia controls a long stretch of terri tory along her north, and England th® territory of British India and Burmah. nt the southwest. Railway lines existing or projecting extend from the territory of both of those countries into the very heart of China and intermingled with, and an important link among these is the great American enterprise already alluded to, upon which a company had, according to the statements of accepted authorities in railway matters, arranged for the expenditure of $20,000,000 of Ameri can funds.