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SUPERIOR COURT.
Scm. General; B. B. Bo wer, M. Judge; J. W. Walters. So
Hal tor J. Coram, Clerk. Spring
term Fall convenes on second Monday Monday in Mir .roll.
term on second In September.
COUNTT OFFICERS
I. A. Monroe, Ordinary: W. W. Gladden
Sheriff; E. 8. Jones,Tax Collector: Tiros. K.
Cordrny, G. Godson, Tax Receiver; Coroner. O. H, Gee, Treasurer;
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COUNTY COURT.
L G. Cartle'tge. Jui?e. Quarterly sessions
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OOUNTT SdnOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. Beek.
COUNTY SURVEYOR
e. P. Norton.
COMMISSIONERS R R.
John Colley, J. J. Monro*end J. T. B. Pain
Courts held 1st Tuesday in each month.
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Baker County Directory.
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Bill Arp’s Adventures on the Farm.
Variety is the spice of life, and if a man
can get auy fun out of trouble be had better
do it. Farming is an ever-changing era"
ployment. There is. somethin;; new turns
up nearly every day, something unexpected
and out of the general run. It amt so with
storekeepers, nor carpentering, nor any
mechanical business, for with those pursuits
one day is pretty much alike another, and
lh»t is why I like farming. There is more
ple.y for a man’s ingenuity and contrivance
and more gratification in his success. If a
iai mer contrives a good gate, or a good stall
for the stable, or makes a good wagon tongue,
gue, or single-tree, ■ r plow stock, he is proud
cf his labors aud thinks more of himself.
I have been mighty busy of late fixing up
fences. Fences are a big thing in these
parts, and if a man slot careful it will take
about half he makes on his farm to keep ’em
mule high and bull strong and pig tight. ]
bad about a mile to build this spring, and
timber was too scarce to make it all of rails,
sol went to work and cut down a lot ci
pines for stock, and borrowed a carrying
and began to haul ’em tothesaw mill. The
pines were on the side of a rocky ridge, and
the steers were sorter bu 1-headed and trok
all sorts ot roads to get down, and run over
saplings, and against stumps, and my old
darkey couldn’t do much with ’em, and the
iron dogs would come out of the logs when
the hind end rolled over a rock, and tbo log
would stop apd the steers go on, arid it took
all bauds to head ’em with sticks ami thrash
poles and make ’em turn around and go
back and straddle the log again: we had to
swing one big log five times before we got
down io the road—and it was “gee Dick,’
and “haw Tom," and "comeback here,” and
“wbar you gwine" a hundred times and the
key come out of the bow, and the bow drop
ped dowu, and old T om thought he was loose
aud slatted lor home, and we bad a'time of
\t all around. Alter a while I noticed that
the dogs were too straight and oidn’t swell
around the log as they ought to, so I sent
’em to the shop and bent ’em, and after that
we could drive ’em in deeper, and we had
no. more trouble on that line—when we got
all tbe stocks down to the big road. we be¬
gan to ban! to the mill, and there was
a right smart bill to go up. which was tbe
only lull on tbe way. Old Tom is a mean
old suer. He is just like some folks, he
has fits of pulling and fits of not pulling and
when he does pull he wants to pull as Lard
a, be can. He took a notion that the hill
was too much for him, so he wouldn’t go
worth a cent; we bawd him, and gee’d him
and whipped him, and hollered at him and
iwisted his tail, but he Rot Bullen and got
down on bis knees and played off, and we
fooled away half a day without moving a
stock. Then I sent alter the mules and a
double tree, and fifth chain, and hitched the
mules in front end nil hands hollered "get
up there,” and I cracked the long whip and
old Torn come down to his work, for he saw
be bad help, aud the way we jerked those
logs up tbe bill was a cortion. We had no
more trouble after that, until the time to go
home, and I concluded a ride oil the carry
log tongue would suit me pretty well, for
Ralph, my fourteen year old boy said it was
good riding, aud so I mounted on the little
plank seat, and took the lines and tbe whip
and give the words of command, and sud¬
denly old Tom took a notion to run away
for amusement. It was dewn a gentle grade
for a quarter ot a mile, and the re were deep
little ruts in the road, and pine roots cross¬
ing it ever and anon and some
turnouts around the bad places, and
so 1 began to pull on the lines and boiler,
"wo, wo, wo, I tell you, wo 'l orn, wo Dick,”
but they paid no more attention to me than
if I was a big bog in the road. They just
went a kiting, and didn’t miss a big s’ump
half an inch, and the ruts and tbe roots
bumped me up and down like, a churn dash¬
er. I never was scared so bad in my life.
Tbe darkey and Ralph come a running as
fast as they could to get ahead of the brutes,
and that made ’efn worse. I didn’t dare to
jump off for fear tbe big wheels would get
me, and then there wns those confounded
iron dogs with their big hooks banging down
and I expected every minute to be jolted
off, and have ’em catch me in the slack of
my pants, or somewhere else, and drag me
borne a mangled and lifeless carcass. I
dropped the long whip and let the lines go,
when suddenly a turn in the road brought
tbe infernal beasts right square up agsinst
a wagon that was coming, and they stopped.
I left that tongue before you could say Jack
R ibinson, and eat down on a log to be
thackful. Driving steers is not my forte,
and I shall hereafter let all such foolishness
alone. The folks 1 ave not got done laugh¬
ing about it yet. Carl drew a picture on
his slate of a corrylog and steers and two big
hooks a hanging dowu, and a man hugging
the tongue, and when 1 came into tne room
Jessie was a cackling, and the girls a gig¬
gling, and Mrs, Arp laughing like she had
found a circus; but I cau’t see auy more
tuu in it than iu a last years bird ’guest.
LEARY, .GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1883.
I am buildirg a fence now, a good fence,'
and n cheap fence. We got out one
tired chestnut posts, six feet long, in one
day, and hauled ’em home. I put ’em
twenty two inches in the ground and twelve
feet apart; my plank is twelve feet long.
The base is ten inches wide, and the neat
three six inches wide, and then comes the
barbed wire two inches below the top of the
post, and this makes the fence just four
feet high There is a strip of six inch plank
nailed op and down in the middle of every
panel, which is nearly as good as if there
was a post in the middle. This strip keep.
the plank in line, and keeps them from
warping The nails sbonld’not be driven in
straight in but a little slaniing to make
hold better, i built a half mile of this kind
of fence two years a; o, and can find no
fault with it. The wind can’t blow it dowp
and stock never try to jump it. My lumber
cost me five dollars a thousand for sawing
—my wire cost me half a cent a foot and
that makes the fence cost twenty-eight cents
a rod besides my labor, and a rail fence
can’t be built much cheaper considering the
value of timber. Fences are generally
made too high and too top heavy, and the
wind rocks ’em abou’, and the posts get
loose, and the rain drips in and rots ’em.
Gates are most always male too heavy—a
gate should be made wide, say nine feet,
and very light. Use bolts instead of nails
at the corners and in the middle of the
brace. Dont let the gate swing when it is
abut, Let the bottom of the latch-post rest
on a piece of scantling, bevel the scantling
a little and let the gate slide upon it as if'
shuts. An iron roller put in like one is
put in a bed post is a good thing, for then
the gate will roll up instead of slide up. A
gste is opc-n very little compared with the
time it is shut, and if it rests on something
when shut it will never swag when open.
A gate should be no bis her than the fence,
but I make my farm gates with the hinge
post three feet higher, and run a brace
across that one from the other two corners.
Pack post well at the bottom, especially op
the front aud back. The plank will hold
’em the other way. I think I know right
smart about gates and about fencing, but
I don't know bow to drive steers, and 1
don’t want to If am.—Bill Arp;
To Kill Men Without Pain.
A New York man has applied for a pat¬
ent for wbat he terms “An improved device
for i xecutiiig criminals condemed to death.”
It is a method of causing instantaneous
death without pain to the criminal, and
without disfiguring his body. It consists of
an ordinary arm chair with legs containing
some substance which will insulate the body
of the chair from the floor. The arms end
in two brass knobs, on which ihe hands of
the crimii ala will rest. The chair bus a
foot rest on which is fitted a brass plate.
The back of the chair is a3 high as a man’s
shoulders. At the top is a small knob with
a hole for a peg. The positive wire cf »
dynamo-electric machine runs up the back
of the chair and euds in the knob. The
negative wire runs to a resistance coil un¬
der the chair, and thonce to a brass plate
in the foot-rest. Another positive wire runs
to one of the brass knobs on the arms of tie
chair, and a second negative wire to the
other knob.' The wires can be connected
with a machine miles away by conducting
wires.
The chair is in condition to be used in
wo ways, as the two sets of wires are not
operated together. If tbe foot-rest wire is
used, some pieparations is needed. A smsll
silken collar is fitted tightly on the neck of
the criminal. It has ou the inside of the
back a small brass button, which fits closely
against the spina! process. It is connected
with a small silk cable, which hangs loosely
and ends in <v brass peg. This collar is put
on the criminal in his cell in the same man¬
ner as the noose end used in hangings. He
is then brought out, with feet bared, and is
seated in the chair. Straps fasten his arms
to the chair arms and his legs to the chair
legs. The brass peg of tbe silk cable is in¬
serted in the hole iu the brass knob at the
back of the chair, and is there held by a
screw. The bare feet of the criminal rest
on the brass plate of the foot-rest, The
circuit would now be complete were it not
that the positive wire is broken at a short
distance from the ebsir, Connection can
be establish d at once by turning a switch,
or Ly pressing a button. The fuTl charge
of electricity enters the criminal’s body at
the spinal cord and passes out at his test
The resistance coil, which it meets under
the chair, aggravates its force,'aud prevents
it from injuring the dynamo’ machine on its
return. 'jL'iie criminal is killed instant&ne.
ously and without pain, as the electricity
acts much more quickly than the nerves of
sensation—New l’ork Bun.
It is impossible for a man to despair who
remembers that, his Helper is omnipotent.
Overtwo million acres of land in Alabama
are still open to pre-emption.
A LITERARY CURIOSITY.
COLLECTED AUD ARRANGED BY JAS. A. MONK.
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Oh, man, by nature formed tor all mankind.
—Akenslde.
How narrow are thy prospects, how confined.
—Chatterton.
Be thou the copious matter of my song.
—J. Philip.
And let thy thought prevent thy hand and
tongue. —Rowe.
Poor voyager on this flood or tears,
—Jus. Montgomery.
\ tong perspective to my mind appears.
—Joanna Baillie
Storting In view of a glorious goal.
—Charles Mackay.
To feel tiiat thirst and hunger of the soul.
—Longfellow
Eager to run the race hte fathers ran.
—8. Rogers
Oh, what a miracle to man is man
—Young.
Each to his end adifferent path pursues.
-EUt. Fenton
Homer with ah his “nodding" I would chuse.
—Sara Cobb
Time-honored Homer, aged, poor and blind.
—J. C. Prince.
A ragged cote oft have a royale mlnde.
—Nich Bralthwayte.
Minds, vest as Heaven, capacious as the sky.
—I. A. HlHhouse.
Born to lament, to labor and to die.
—Prior,
And richest Shakspeare was a poor man’s
Child. —Ebenezer Elliot,
On fame’s eternal bed e-roll worthle to be fyled
—Spencer,
Already polished by a hand divine.
—Somerville.
He was not for an age, but for all time.
—Ben Jonson.
What rage for fame attends both great and
small. —Jas. Waicott.
He who climbs high and augurs many a fell.
—Chaucer.
Greatness hath still a little taint P th’ blood.
—Daveoaut.
Fame is at best but an inconstant good.
—Roscommon.
When kings have tolled and poets wrote for
feme. —Goldsmith.
Ah! fool to exult In a glorj? so vain.
—Beattie
Both right and leift amiss a man may slide.
—Nich. Grlmvald.
To treat the dreary path without a guide.
—Dr. Johnson.
The wise sometimes from wisdom’s ways d^
part. —Byion.
That oan inform the mind, or mend the heart.
—Burns.
On high estates huge heaps of care attend,
—Webster.
No joy so great but runneth to an end.
—Rob Southwell.
Sooner or later all things pass away.
—Southern.
Dissolving in the silence of decay.
—Dryden.
Yet look one& more on nature’s varled,plan.
—Laughorne.
And moralize on the state of man.
-H. Kirke White.
Swift to its close ebbs ont life’s litte day.
—H. F. Lyte
Sent Into life, alas! how brief thy stay.
—A. Phelps.
Time, sure destroyer, walks his hostile round.
—Mallet.
Nor is the longest life the happiest found.
-F.S. Knight.
The visions of hope fly one by one.
—Eliza Cook.
The sands of time grow dimmer to they run.
—E. A. Poe.
To know, to esteem, to love and then to part.
—Coleridge.
Passing away like a dream of the heart.
—Herrey.
We spend our days like a tale that Is told.
— Psalms.
To the very verge of the church yard mold.
—Tom Hood.
OI let me view, while life’s short changes last.
—T. Dermody.
The end not tar off which is hastening fast
•—J. Monk
Whilst some affect the sun and some the
shade. —Blair.
Let us walk humbly on, but undismayed.
—M rs. Hemans.
There stand, If thou wilt stand, to stand up
right. —Milton.
He .can’t U? wrong whose life Is In the right.
— Pope.
When we have shuffled off this mortal coll.
—Shakspeare
O! hn ppy he whose conscience knows no guile.
—Ferguson.
A Desirable Husband.
Choose a busy man—one who has plenty
to occupy his mind aud to talk about. It is
the mau with many interests, with engross¬
ing occupations, with plenty of people to
fight, with a struggle io maintain against
the world, who is really the domestic man,
in the wife’s sense ; who enjoys home, who
is tempted to make a friend of hi wife, who
relishes prattle, who feels in the home cir¬
cle, where nobody is above him, as if he
were in a haven of ease and relaxation. The
drawback of home life, its containing pos¬
sibilities of insipidity, sameness and conse¬
quent weariness, is never present to snch a
man. He no more tires of his wife and
children than of his own happier moods.
He is no more bored with home than with
sleep, ’AH the monotony and weariness cf
life he encounters outside. It is the pleasure
loving man, the merry companion, w ’10
requires constant excitement, that finds
home-life unbearable. He soon grows
weary of it, and considers everything so
tame that it is impossible for him to be hap¬
py or not to feel that he is less unhappy
ther- than elsewhere.
The Sue.
In any refetence to the physical history
of the sun, tbe stupendous magnitude of its
sphere must be kept vividly present to the
mind. With a diameter one hundred and
nine times longer than the earth's, the solar
orb looks ont from a surface that is twelve
thousand times larger than the one which
the earth enjoys. The balk of the sun is
one million three hundred thousand times
that of the earth. If the surface of the sun
were a thin, external rind, or shell, and the
earth be placed in the middle of this hollow
sphere, not only would the moon have space
to circle in its usual orbit without ever get¬
ting outside of the solar shell, but there
would be room also for a second satellite,
nearly as far -. gain as tbe moon, to accom¬
plish a si nilar course. The weight of the
sun is three hundred thousand times that ol
the earth, or, in round numbers, two thous¬
and millions of millions of millions of tons.
The mean distance of the snn from the
earth is now as well ascertained, through
investigations which have teen made in
several ways, that there can searcriy be in
the estimate an error of five hundred
thousand miles. The distance at the pres¬
ent. time given, is 92,885,000 miles. This
measure is in itself so vast that, ix any
traveler were to move at the rate of four
miles an hour for ten hours a day, it would
take him 6,?00 years to reach tbe yin.
Sound would traverse the interval, if there
were anything in space capable of transmit¬
ting Bonorous vibrations, in fourteen years,
and a cannon bill, sustaining its initial ve¬
locity throughout, would do the same thing
in nine years. A curious illustration, at¬
tributed to Prof. Mendenhall, is to the
effect that an infant, with an arm long
enough when reached out from .he earth to
touch the sun, would die of age before it
could .become conscious through the trans
mission of the nervous impression from the
hand to the brain, that it had burned its
fingers.
In order that tbe earth moving around the
t
sun with a chasm of twenty-three million
miles of intervening space between them,
may not be drawn to tbe sun by the prepon¬
derant attraction of its three hundred and
thirty times larger mass, it has to shoot for¬
ward in its path with a momental velocity
fifty times more rapid than the swiftest rifle
ball. But. in moving through twenty miles
of this onward path, the earth is drawn out
of a straight line something less than the
eighth part of at inch. This deviation is
properly the source from which the amount
of solar attraction has been ascertained. I
the earth were suddenly arrested in its on •
ward flight, and its momentum were in that
way destroyed, it would be drawn to the
sun, by the irresistible force of its attrac¬
tion, in four months, or in the twenty sev¬
enth patt of the time which a cannon ball
would, take to complete the smae journey.
The English National Debt.
The national debt first appears as a reg¬
ular portion of the national expenditure iD
1694, though no doubt it had practically
existed long before. With some fluctua¬
tions it grow and grew, until at the close of
the great war in 1815 it amounted to nearly
£900,000 000—more than all the other na¬
tional debts of the world put together. It
seems a singular commentary on onr great
triumph over Napoleon, that, while France
came defeated out of the war with a debt of
only about £70,000,000, we who were vic¬
torious, had incurred one of £900,000,000.
This enormous sum has been slowly re¬
duced ; but at the present moment, and
even after deducting the amouut of the
loaus made to local authorities and the
purchase money of the Suez Canal shares,
it still amounts to £731,000,000. The
Americans are setting us a noble example
aud paying their debt off with much greater
rapidity.—Sir John Lubbock in the Nine¬
teenth pentury.
Look not mournfully into the past, it
cannot come back again; wisely improve
the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with a
uiauly heart.—Longfellow.
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Vol. I. No. 46.
THE TWO AGES.
Folks were happy as days were long,
In the old Areadtan times:
When life seemed only a dance and song,
In the sweetest of all sweet climes.
Our world grows bigger, and stage by ; stage,
As the pitiless years have rolled,
We’ve pallet orgotten the golden age,
And come to the age of gold.
Time went by ina sheepish way
Upon Thessaly’s plains ot yore.
In the nineteenth century lambs at play
Means mutton, aud nothing more.
Our swains at present are tar too sage
To live as one lived of old;
-do they couple the crook of the golden age
With the hook of the age of gold.
From Corydon’a reed the mountains round
Heard news of bis latest flame;
And Tltyrus made the woods resound
With echoes of Daphane’s name.
They kindly left us a lasting gauge
Of their musical art. we’re told;
And the Pandean pipe in the golden age
Brings mirth to the age of gold.
Dwellers In huts and marble halls—
From the shepherdess up to queen—
Cared little for bonnets, aud lies for shawls
And nothing for crinoline.
But now simplicity’s not the rage,
And it’s funny to think how cold
The dress they wore in the golden age
Would ssem in the age of gold.
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons and steam,
Are little events that come to pass
Since the days of the old regime;
And, iu spite of Leiupriere’s dazzling page,
I’d give—though it might seem bold—
A hundred years of the golden age
F Tear of the age of gold.
Exchange.
WISE SAYINGS.
We sometimes meet an original gentlemn,
who, if manners had not existed, would have
invented them.—Emerson.
If there be any truer measure of a man
than by what he does, it must be by what
he gives.—South,
Flowers are the sweetest things that God
ever made and forgot to put a soul into,—
Beecher.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an
invalid as heaithy weather. —Franklin.
Our youth we can here but to-day,
Wc ms? itwt\a fiuu haw to gtvw old:
—Bishop Berkeley.
Of ail thieves fools are the worst; they rob
tou of time and temper.— Goethe.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice sad
shame, that nobody ever had the confidence
to own it.—Rochester,
The best education in the world is that
got by struggling to get a living.—Wendell
Phillips.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who
has not the science of honesty and good
nature.—Montaigue.
We seldom find people ungrateful so loDg
as we are in a condition to render them
service.—Rochefoucauld.
Dare to be true: nothing can need s lie;
A fault, wnica needs it most, grows thereby.
—Herbert.
The claims of habit are generally too
small to be left till they are too strong to be
broken.—Ben Johnson.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed,
—Cowper.
If satan ever langns, it must be at hpyo
crites; they are the greatest dupes he has.—
Colton.
False face must hide what the false heart
doth_know.—Shakspeare.
Early and provident fear is the mother of
safrty.—Burke.
About Bathing.
The Royal Humane society of Loivlon
has just published a list of cautions to
bathers, which may well be referred to the
attention ot our readers, at this season
whenjbathiug, either in salt or fresh water,
will be freely practiced. The rules are not
new, but practical and valuable, as follows.
Avoid bathing withiu two hours after a
meal
Avoid bathing when exhausted by fatigue
or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body is cooling
after perspiration.
Avoid bathing altogether in the open air
if, alter having been a short time in the
water, it causes a sense of chilliness with
numbness of the bunds and feet.
Bathe when the body is warm, provided
no time is lost in getting into the water.
Avoid chilling the body by sitting or
standing undressed on the banks or in boats
alter having been in the water.
Avoid remaining too long iu the water—
leave the water immediately there is the
slightest feeling of chilliness.
The vigorous aud s’rong may bathe early
io the morning on an empty stomach.
The young, and those who are weak, had
better bathe two or three hours after a meal
—the best time for such is from two to three
hours after breakfast