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SEWS GLEANINGS.
There ere 1 JOO blacks aad 113 white
in the (jgofgfa penitentiary.
The Miamfefepi State-Grange fayora
the agrieultaral lien igw.
The Atilfeta City Qmuteil has vdtod
lis l oob , for®hp purchase of a'bita for a
«»y f**- y Jlh
at Rich
mond, V*., WjH hare a chime of Mb
to awMr.ooo.
A co*BD*ny,-*tath a capital of U«\
000 hts bote Mjfssired to ratroduoe tpe
rieettfc light at Cetambu-, Ga
■'omwierinnvr Hawkins of Tennessee
m making arraagaenenta fbr esperiman
tai tests in the eflbet of commercial far
tiliaere on the crop* in every county i*
the Stale.
Soare Chicago capitalist* are jiegoti
mnrjor tiy putvtre**- 18,60<)acre* of
landln flequachee county, Tenn., aa an
iareatment It la well timbered and
rite in coal.
The marble quarry near Calhoun,
Tenn, baa bcpa leased, and 100 steam
drills will beoptealed there. A railroad
will be built and other preparations
■ade for extensive quarrying.
The Atlanta Constitution discover* in
the fact that the Eagle, and Phoenix
sills of ColMa»haa,Ga, last year earned
85 iter ceni.' on their capital (took, one
of the moat overwhelming political tri.
tbe tfoufe.
Th railroad has compromised
with SHlry FTCI. whom the passenger
ecod off Madison last
wearing his coat in the
Tfae road paid 15,000 for
thia treatiarion -efrpaatta
.•HteLlhang in the waters around
*X> ha* become 'a Urge
and t (ijrt About 100 men
• Cheriretorf in ng* every week:
* sheet ttaaa-eiaoa w» has room was,
found, hid in a pen of cotton seed near
Athena, Ga. It seems the proprietor
krpt a barrel secreted in thia pen. with
rubber tube leading therefrom, and when
a customer wanted his jug filled it was
eaaly drawn. It was reported to a rev
enue officer and broken up. ,
Atlanta Constitution: Columbus ia
about to turn her attention to building
a canal. According to all accounts it
won’t be a difficult job. With canals
is Augusta. Columbus, Macon and At
lanta, Georgia will have eufficicu. :m
proved water gower to run all the cotton
■ill ia the United State*. Bft, really,
we don’t want all. We will be satisfied
with just half.
Columbus (Ga.) Times There were
four bales of cotton brought to market
yesterday from the plantation of Col. F.
Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall,
Harris county, that was grown and
gathered in the year 1860, naled with
ropaa and have been reposing in his gin
house ever since. He was offered 47i
•raw for it in 1885, bat would not aell
brrsare be thought the revenue tax of S
«ata per pound was unjurt, and he said
to had rather burn the cotton than sub
mt to rate injustice by the government.
He had at the clone of the war upward
** 160 bales of eotton. and still has a
1 hv more iej(.
te the Hunke Orta a Hew Salt.
people think that snakes only
* < d their akin* at certain season nal the
J**. ’ mid the keeper “That's » turn-
If they are well fed anti k<-pt
yt warm they change their costa
“*•* every eight weeks through the
St" “ Does it pain them ?" “ Not a
°f H Ton aee the akin of a snake'
*— act increase in sue as the reptile
P®**. •" with us. While the old akin
* F*** 1 !* —Miler by degrees, a new one
" fcnntag underneath, and the other
k fate dry. When it is ready to
1 A Vi rasas around the lips, and the
•tele rube itself against the earth or
■• rote tn the catgv, and turns the np
over th* eye and the lower j»art
"re the threat Tbee it eommenre* to
gte around the gjass case, all the time
itself against aosnethirg until
’•'retire akm is worked off. Homeumrs
t** takes three day* ; occasionally they
Ad of th* tee* why an oe in a kv
I don’t believe they have a bit
" For *0 I feed them and
•* «v them, they would** lief bite n><-
G®7 riraagar. I earn handle a good
«< tea** safely, but it s oniy the
o* tbs thugnot that they woo t
tAst they rant get the
tea*.— M Hestea*. Mr. Waggle*
jyy*’ y* ■KSKB' terne halter last
feat 1 baaed you and y-r
high weed, re fprererlst »
-a** Wsggira (a reprobate--
tends, WOO it» More Hka low
•***s•- I sails ft."
tWmwhfa Mdiwfeet,
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Thcsmax is said to be building Jus
teaom for 1884,
I’avti—Cmomnati Mateo Hall—twr
Mbte-416,000.
Poa military reasons England will op
pose the Channel tunnaL
Tea Pop- recommends that the pro
pussd Hpanuh pilgrimage be abandoned.
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Gxs. Shxbhux favors the compulsory
of all officers sixty-two yean
“ ** B ’ .
Cottox returns indicate for 1881 ths
to" of 300,000 bales by ravages of ths
caterpillar.
Thb English exports to .America fbr
1881 were 20 per sent fess than those oi
previous years.
Bixcb Sullivan pounded Ryan he is
•aid to have had three offers of marriage.
He’s a great masher.
Ths appointment of policewomen on
the New York force is now asked for by
the woman sufFragista. •
Mas. Gabfibld will not reply to Mrs. ‘
Scoville’* letter, appealing in behalf of
the aesaaun of the President.
Thk address to the throne in the
Hous.' of Common has been adopted,
thu» sustaining the government’s Irish
Thomas Nasi, the well-known carica
tnnst, has a plethora of money, so we
are informed, and purpose* retiring to
private life.
Tin Fire Commissioner* of Eostoa
have ordered fire-escape* to be supplied
by all manufacturers employing five or
mwe hands.
Thk Prussian Budget ia made to a sur
plus of 000,000. This is chiefly due
to the working of the railroads bought
State.
* Prfrsro-Bt are being ftnported from
Europe, and New York dealer* are some
what disgusted. Buch invasions inter
fere with “corner*."
Cuba, just now, is undergoing a severe
drouth, to the great injury of the sugar
oane. We might spare her any quantity
of water and not suffer either.
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Bblli Born, the Confederate oorres
reepondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, TAm, and fre
quently delivers a lecture or two.
Thb insurance on Barnum’s baby ele
phant u iSBOO.OOQ. The insurance on the
average Congressman u $5,000. Differ
ence in favor of the babe, $295,000.
GbKat distress exists among the peo
ple of Sweden, the mildness of the
weather preventing the transportation of
produce by means of sleighs, as usual.
Genxhal Cabb, against whom Gen
eral Wiloox prefer**! chargee of a se
rious character, has been released from
custody, the President refusing to en
tertain the charges.
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Fraxct seems not inclined to rooon
vene th’e Monetary Conference April i,
'owing to s desire to avoid another fail
ure in her efforts to secure a uniformity
of view* on the pert of the Power*.
Thb Government Printing Office, in
spite of the scarcity of money and the
agitation about the change of manage
ment, is at work st a tremendous rate
turning out books, pamphlets, and other
printed stuff by the ton. *”
Bxxatom Hill, of Georgia, who has
submitted to a third operation for can
cer in the mouth, reports that hi* con
dition is now most favorable, and ex
preseea great confidence that a perma
nent cure ha* been
It aftbabs that, after all, the portrait
the temperano. ladiea had painted of
Mr*. Hayes to hang up in the White
Hoose, will not be used for that purpose.
Premdent Arthur feeling inclined to de
■a be pfeaww about the matter.
Thb State of Pennsylvania baa begun
salt sgmte sevrateen railroads iwcanse
of their failure to return to the Auditor
tbter annual report within thirty dap
after the expiratsoo of the financial year.
The pevlty foe each road is $5,000.
Mb. ftoovnxß propom* to lecture w
xanreu locshtaaoo the sab>oct “ M«T
erwPobttre
refer intedsßtally to th*
tml. e—
h mm** that Egypt
ta anwtam- Tte
Devot*d the Interests of Columbia Cousty ate the State of Georgia.
HARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 18S2
Khedive spends but $600,000 a year,
whereas his predeeearor spent *10,000,-
000. He ha* but one wife, and grants
wwiiMMoar to aU rehgiow*
tiana.
Pent and Minnie Hater both got
laryngih* durfeg th* Opera Fratival at
Cintennati, and that's why thing* got ra
terribly mixed up. All prima-dontw
grt laryngitfs-bnoe in * while, and those
who do not hereafter complain of laryn
gitis occatemaUy are not what you might
call great wafblere.
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Gnmax. estuaatee W toe Department
of Agriculture of crop* of 1881, a* com
pared with thoae of 1880, show* a reduc
tion of 81 per cant, in corn, 22 per cent,
in wheat, 21 per cent in rye, and 9 per
cent in barley. The total value of crop*
In 18811*81,465,000,000. against $1,861,-
000 in 1680.
Thb late Lord Beaconfield paid £4,-
000,000 for England's 177,000 share* in
the Hue* OanaL Owing to the recent
wild sjiecutativo mania in France, the
price of the ahare* wa* forced up to £l4O,
and if Her Msjeety's Government had
cleared out at that figure, it would have
realised £24,780,000, or a profit of £20.-
780,000.
Thb Memphia .Appeif aay* a new day
baa dawned fox the South, and that in
ita light prejudices are vanishing, and
with them the hatreds and the narrow
ideas of the past, and that intelligence,
reason and common sense are ready to
make available the resouroee which
science and experience have brought
within reach.
M
Abott two-thirds of th* oountie* in
Indiana have been antberixed to take
olwervations of the weather, and aa soon
as the instrument* and supplies are for
warded by the General Giverument the
service will be inaugurated. Indian*
will be the first Btata to make these
observations by oounttas, although other
State* are moving in th* matter.
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Aim persona, including officer* of the
law, are opposed to the brutality of prus
fighting, astetoe newspapers of ttretand
have a great deal to say against it, but
all newspapers take th* pain* to publish
detailed accounts of such affairs, and
with hardly a single exception, readers
are not satisfied until they know just
how each rourd came out, and who was
finally whipped.
Pnor. Hbxbt 8. V*xxoßhaa published
• card in the Cincinnati Commercial
declaring that he ia a tuccea* as a weather
prophet. However, instead of predict
ing weather a year in advance, he will
hereafter print a monthly paper at Mon
treal which shall contain predictions,
weather maps, etc., for the ensuing
month. Thus you see when a man
gets so he can't tell the truth, he turni
to editing a newspaper.
A bbutb, by name John Wilson, of
Taunton, Mass., has Ixsen in the habit of
tying a heavy rope around the neck of
hi* grown-up daughter and dragging her
around after him. For thia he was fined
ten dollar*, and the girl paid it with her
own money. She ia one of the Chris
tians who return* good for evil, although
when it comes right down to carrying
out the doctrine, it don't seem to be just
the Hung aocordiag to the common way
of thinking.
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iLLrwrxATrvß of the destitute condition
of j>eople in Southern Illinois, a cor
reH[xmdent writing from Saline County
•ays: “In thia countv nothing wa*
raised, not even grass. There are farm
er* who are as near stavation aa they
well can come without actually starving.
They are 1 iring on anything they can con
vert into food to keep soul and body to
gether. Their situation might tee im
agined, but one would has* to aee it to
fully understand it."
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At Lafatxttb, Indiana, an old soldier
named John Baker was married to Mr*.
Ann* Bmith, who had been nursing him
(or some time past, and to whom he
ewed considerable of * board bill. Baker
knew his death was but a few days dis
tant, and he wished to reward his kind
benefactrsra by leaving her the pension
which he had for several year* been re
viving from the government. He died
the day following fee ceremony, and tbe
widoV, it ■ said, has, besides the
monthly penatoo, a claim far 82,000
back pens Mu.
Chablht W*K>n, tbe colored boot
black, who saved two men at the recant
New York fire by climbing a telegraph
pole aad euiteng a■»•
emved a medal frosn tbe Amerieaei Hu
mane Society wtoeb makes bta* a eol-
ia- <Ka 11*0 mnnr brureu. A*otbsr
[ gold medal wiD be shortly given to bun.
1 He baa reeaived us money $W aste the
| Humane RoeSsty wtfl prresat tom wife a
I prana Be baa esrred «gb* s——lß
fee ami at Gape May, for tores eum
mras past. His father ia an African, hi*
mother a Btoux Indian,
Rev. Tsxmsob’h charge that tbe father
of Bobi. J. Ingereoll, in life, fed and
clothed hi* family sparing) v and “never
•poke afend word to his wife,’’ has re
ceived fee attention of Mr. John F. In
gereoil, xW Waukesha County, Wiscon
sin, who has printed a moat scathing re
ply. Ha says that hia father was a asin
istar on 8600 a year, and had to live
sparingly, that he was kind to hia fam
ily, and aa to Robert, while he did not
believe doctrines the father taught,
was 'Mb good and obedient boy as he
•▼« kiaw.’ Mr. Ingereoll endeavor*
to sham* the Rev. Talmage for going to
the grave aa a ghoul, to tear up the
ashes of tbe white-haired dead.
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Bfbgumtob-h in Cincinnati Opera
Festival tickets were gloriously atuck—
some to the extent of $1,500, and others
for lees amounts, but all lost more or
I*m in their speculation. This is as it
should be. Whan a 10l of men buy up
with a view to securing a '• corner ” at
the expense of the msseea—extorting
money from thoae who can least afford
it—it is but justice that they should lose,
and that Seavily. One Hebrew cittaen’
who had bought reserved Mata heavily
at a big advance, stood about the door,
tale at night, offering hia tickets at 35
cento apfece, and not ope of them had
coat him tinder $7, and some of them aa
high a* $24. People, rather than pat
ronise him, ahoved him aside and paid
$1 for ganeral admiaaiou, went in and
stood up, ao outraged were their feeling*
the affair. We never like to see
persona IdMng ’money, but sometimes it
is a good thing for the general public
for would-be oppressors to suffer se
verely thl truita of indiscretion.
A Tovonxo incident ooouired at ths
Midlothian mines in Virginia, the other
night Superintendent Dodds mounted
s coal car and addressing the wailing
throng of women and children around
him, said- “My poor friend*, it grievM
me to state to you that for the present
our search for the bodies of those you
know aufir loved Wfll Ewve to -bwtibero
doned. You know what fire in a coal
mine means, and it may take months of
watching to subdue it We will doe*
the pit now.” The speaker's voice quiv
ered with emotion. When he finished a
beautiful little girl of fourteen years,
Annie Crowder, the only daughter of one
of the victim*, uttered a piercing aaream
end rushed to the month of the pit, crying:
“Oh, do not leave my dead papa to burn
town there. Let me get into the cage
and go down after him. Let me eave
him.” The strong arms of the miner*
held her back as the fragile thing tried
to make her way to the cage, and mor*
than one blackened face was made
blacker as the hand went up to wipe
away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and
turned away to conceal their emotion.
The little girl, finding her progress
barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit.
Wernes’* laaeuliae Idols.
Every man who fills an effective pub
lic position ha* an especially good op
portunity of moraliring upon feminine
frivolity and frailness A liandeome
actor, * good-looking popular preacher,
a charming singer, finds the women go
down before him mnch as the ladies do
liefore the hero of Patience, As very
High Church young ladies dekght in
standing up out of reverence to very
young curates when they enter the
chnxvii. so there arc many woman who
would be charmed to go down on their
knee* when one ct the heroes of society
enter* a drawing-room. Good ipoka are
not always neoeaeary, though aa a rule
Women prefer their idols to be hand
eome. Fineseive notoriety will do in
stead. The men who, with no personal
charm*—with, aa in some recent in
stances, a poeithte unpieaaantnees abont
them—-go through society worshiped
and adored by the women, must indeed
be inclined to adopt the true GuvLiv
-Ing»toman view of the other aex. Three
ladiea who sneak after the man of mush
room notoriety, imploring him to come
to their afternoons, begging him for his
photograph or a copy of his poeoM, re
an antograph letter, re a lock of his hair
—must appear to him very “ pore little
beasts ” indeed. Bwt however he mar
despise them, he cen, to a certain extent,
understand their motive* They want
other women to aee him talking to them,
to meet him at their hoaaae, to be aware
that he baa written letter* to them and
given them bis photograph. The ide*
theee entertain must be that they
obtain a second-hand distinction by be
ing associated in people's minds with
the idol of the hoar. Women have from
all time regarded it as sufficient booor
for theeaeel vee to be fee fevonire of
greet men. Thia ia but a modern rest
denag of the old story. They have
mad* it tbe faetetou to ait in adorning
etn lea, aroax*} their hero, and gaae upon
bim with meek eyre Ci wonder, much ea
if be were a Parstan patace, and they
to* haasbie stores. Rot tbare ■ none of
the charm of danger m tikis, and perhaps
not ranch extaesasat; ire it ia all done
in public, aad has beacaee a proasmrat
festers in the prewraasm* as moat
dr* *iag -roam eaterteraSMSkta. -wZowton
A Cklcago GtrFs InH.
“ Doe*your father keep a dog?"
These words, uttered with the rimpl*
earneatoem that showed how deeply their
full meaning wa* felt by him woo spoke
them, fell from the line of Ethefbert
Dooley aa he looked tenderly in tbe fair,
apiritualte face of Rosalind Mahaffv
They were at the matinee, and a dull
pein stole into the girl** heart, as aha
shifted the last caramel in the box over
to the starboard side at her pretty mouth.
“Ethelbert doe* not love me,” the
said softly to herself, while a look of
pain whitened for an instant with a
deathly palter, th* pm fepotad face,
and the shapely hand grasped more
tightly the dainty silk parasol that
served alike to keep off ran and wind
from the tithe form. “All gone," ahe
murmured, sadly—" every blamed one'*
—feeling earoestiy with her taper fin
ger* in every corner of the empty box,
and then a look of sweet contentment
overspread her feature*, aa ahe plneed
her hand in the pocket at her aaalakia
saoqne, only to be succeeded by a dull,
dared expression of grief and anguish
She had tost her chewing gum. “•
“You look ill, darling," whispered
Etlielbert, aa the curtain want down at
titeotoaeef the first act; “fey some of
these," handing oat a neper at peanut*,
With a glad look of tore in her beau
tiful eye*, Rosalind turned to him and
said: “I can never doubt you again,
darling, I would follow yon to th* end
el th* world."— CAtoage THbuiw.
“Don’t Ten Believe Him.
The Arabs tell a story to show how a
mean man’s philosophy overshoots itaelf.
Under the reign of the first Oalip there
was a merchant in Bagdad oqoa-'ly rich
and avaricious. One day ho had bar
mined with a porter to cany home fre
him a basket of preoelain vaaee for ten
pare*:
Aa they went along he said to tbe man:
“ My mend, you are young and I am
old; von can still earn plenty; strike a
pare from your hire."
“ Willingly I" replied tbe porter.
Thia request was repeated again and
again, until, whan they reach the house,
the porter had only a single para to re
ceive. Aa they west up stair* the mer
chant said:
“If you will resign tbe last para, I
will give yea three pi*oee of advice.”
“Be it ao,” said the prefer.
“ Well, then," said the merchant, “if
any on* tells you it is better to bo faeri
inn than f Mature, do pot baliasa Lin, Ts
■ay one be-poct*
than rich, do not believe him. If any
one tells you it is better to walk than
ride, do not believe him."
“ My dear air,” replied the astonished
porter, “I knew these thing* before;
but if you will listen to ma, a will give
you such advtoe m you never heard.
The merchant turned round, and the
porter, throwing the basket down the
staircase, said to him:
“ If any one tells you that one of your
vase* is unbroken, do not lielieve him."
Before the merchant could reply the
porter made hia escape, thus punishing
nis employer for his miserly greediness
Ear and Brain.
The mibetance of the following state
ments with regard to the ear and brain
ia from a paper in the New York Medi
cal Journal, by Dr. Andrew*, surgeon
to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital,
New York.
Ear disease* are much worse than
those of the eye. They are a principal
cause of deaf mutism. They are ano
among the moat frequent diseases of
ohildhood,being developed in diphtheria,
whooping-congh, scarlet fever, meaale*.
•mall-pox, tvphoid fever, intiaonz* mul
tubercular alfectiona of the lungs.
Indeed, a simple cold In tbe head re
sore throat rapidly spreads along the
umconx membrane of tlie noatnle and
pharynx to that of the ear, Haya the
Ute Prof. Clark, of Harvard University,
“ Ho imj*>rtant ia proper attention to the
ear during anil after acute exanthemata
(diaeaaea attended with rash) that a
t >hvrician who treats such oaeea, and
neglrata to give thia atteotioo, cannot
be said to porform bi* dnty to hi* pa
ti.int."
But the most aeriou* fact about these
cfou-aaee grow* out of the very intimate
ootmection between the ear and the
twain. Moat at the bony wall which
contains the internal ear Be* to direct
rootact with the membrane of the brain.
Home part* of the wall are ao thin m to
be tranapareat. There are also open
ing* through it for the passage of nerve*
and blood-veseete, and often parts of it
are wanting through arreet of dtevalop
ttxa&L
Hence, purulent infiammatioos of the
ear extend *° fe* brain—th*
more ao, the younger the child. Tbaae
may sitnibur im/laniwiatuxi of tba
membranes, inflammation of large vein*
and alisosMM of the brain.
Nearly ooe-h*H of the latter are due
to thia craw, chronic infUmmaUon of
the ear-showing itself perhsps only tn
* alight headache—lieing vastly more
dsagerotm than acute.— I'onfA'e Osw*-
ttatoon.
A toumo, member of th* bar thought
bo would adopt» motto fre himaeM, and,
after much inflection, wrote fa lamp* tet
ter*, and posted up againet th* wall, tbe
following. “ i'ulqw," which may
be irauriated. “ Let every one have hfa
own." A countiy citant, coming to, ex»
preaaod hinxxeH much graMed with the
taaxtai, but added, “Yoa don’t apati M
nghl. " “fcadeed! Th«n bow ooght it
toLsepritr Tbe
'em qatak."
A tun tuj ba erased, bet wife ths
erarare gore pert of th* csiguiai taafewa.
Obareatav can tenet tutet a stain wife
out aome ton*.
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number 10.
THI BLACK BKATM.
O*wn W Um
ristDiae* ‘
It ia generally supposed, asps feu
Chicago TY-iicjite, th**fe* isuMioS tl
the low. land* of th* Euphrates river is
the only mum of fee oufeaualt M tike
plague, re black death. They are a een
tributing, but not th* ostly oauan Tbe
real cauM of the peetiletM* bM bass
known for years to th* Fenian and
Turkish Government*, tati fee* luN*
done nothing toward ita proreßSon. The
black death ia not aa uncoaunon dteeaea
in that at Mesopotaod* Mm aretfe
weat from Bagdad, Iwtdnra fee right
shore of the EiiphMtes and fee ferfem
desert. It hM made Ha regular MMar
auoe there ever sinew the year 1871, be
tween fee Matifee al Deaaaabnr aad
June. In Nedßff or Medashed AM. is
tbe grave of All, tbe son-in-law of fee
Prophet Mahomet. Fran three tends a
desert road, marked out by fee bteaabal
bones of camel* and human botaat, to
the eo-calted Lake Euphrntaa, which re
ceive* it* water through fee Hinitab
canal. To the nrefewuet of thia take is
situated the city of Karbeta, whsM to to
be found the golden mosque aad th*
grave of Huaacin, the son of Oriiph AU
and the daughter of the Prophet. Thea*
ti— -h— rrT m— F-TisiMir Titans* nf >
the dreralfnl diaeree. To Nadfeff and
Kerbeta the HhUtea, re religtooa follow
ere of All and Hnaeeru. ahiafly Fewtoan,
send the dead bedias of tbairlrtands and
relative*, becauee they believe that to
be buried near Hneeeia’a or All's grave
will Maure their aoob oaetata admtoeton
to paradia*. Caravan alter caravan,
each camel loaded with two fait-covered
coffin* <m each aide, aniue there daily .
and deposit their gbMtly freight for in
terment, which, during months of travel
(rom the Persian hifhtande. has bean
decomposing aad i* filling th* air with
ita peetilaDtial odor. The coffin* are -
placed in (hallow trench** aad ooreeed ■
with about *n inch re two of earth. Bat
tliia ia not ail The whole country
around Nedjaff hM beoouae on* vast
graveyard, and, in ooneeqnsnee of
the frequent floods occurring b the Eu
phrates, all th* lands on both rides at
the riv*r are inundated, fee light swear
ing of earth is awept from th* coffins,
which, being made of light material, fall
to pteCMB t Mid thanaaillJKXß thoMNHIdB
of ootpM* are taft rotting under the ran
of an Oriental sun ® Tbe water* finally
recede, re are gradually aberetoed by ths f
soil, poiaoningall tbewriteiafetacoosaj.
a«nd
tfml than—ndf ot Uwiir to bs bttrfed
near the mve of their reophet Ifebtot,
which ia also near Kerbeta. Bwrids tita** 4
caravan* three arrive flotilla* el pilgrim
boat* loaded with a ary ass on the Eu
phrates byway of th* Haanswat teaarib
and the Bar-i-Nadjetf. No* only are
they filled with this pestiferous toetaht,
but the coffin* are even hung ootoide «
the boats, loading them down to the wa- •
tar's edge. The constant arrival of
tlieee caravans and flotillas with tbafr ’
freight of decaytag human scream, aad
added to thia the caretaM burial, mart
be regarded m the cause of tbe outbreak
of the plague, and the fataitette nagM
gencc at the Persian and Turktab Gov a
enunento, which do not interfere until
the disease hM become epidaMe, ex
plains why it hM not been •upppreaed »
during tbe test ten year*. For a lang
time a special treaty hra been to uxtow
anoe between there two Goveromsato •
relative to the transportation of titaee
oorp*M, but so far it has been a treaQ
on paper only, Tbe people of Asaaem
are in m much danger m tbe met of fee
world. It ia about fene that the civil
ised nation* of tbe earth should make
this question of the trauepartaticu of
oorpaM under an Oriental sun an inter
national question, and sane tbe two
Govemmento direetly mtareeted to exe
cute the provtoiona of thrir treaty ia
good faith.
Tbe Uw at WeaKk.
Thera ar* thousand* of rich awn who
are not skinflints, who have tbe nputo
tion of bring ao, b ernes they here never
been known to have done any OMtal
good with their oxmay. A man wheu*
worth $60,000 ean do MfeTfe tadfe
himself loved end reepeeted by aU udfe
whom he aesnes fa contact, by the
judioiooa expendftttr* of a thousand dol
lar* fa <-barity, than by giving fee whole
fifty thoosaad doitere attreheto dead.
It seem* m though it would be afafety
small eooeoiafeM to a .oOHnarirs toteare
money to some abaritahte naem store
death, and be ao coufeandsd dead feat
be couldn't see tbe amitee of happtnare
that hto gensroalto had created.
Boppoae a milUoMto* who baa never
had * kind word arid es Mm exaepi by
fawning hypocrites, who hop* to ant
some of Ma money, should lay emt a ,
beeutifol pack worth a arillion dollar*,
red throw it open fro* to aU, with wrika,
drive*, take*, shad* aad iiurjfetag -
Me beret would be wanned up red feat
bto day would betengfeened. Wouldn't
every teokof feriusbavratikathoueaad
dotiara to fa* man who bad so mash
money ibaTlt made Mm reaadfeeul
Aeeedt Wouldn't be bare mere ptoae
ure than he would fa
with a lawn aeowreF—lfaeAta dton.
Taaan to « taccmgibte littte daeky
down taWaebtagton, H« to » rears
Ud, and htawktt alMmedMigaß
tried
kim by wMppteg Mm for fee feel half
cf the <tay, aad hanging htae up to a bM
and amoktag bfantheotbre Mm, brt fee
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