HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-11-12, Page 8HEALTH,
Pure Water for Drinking.
Prof. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian'
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t u atron 1 ravommends the %notice
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of boiling all water need for drinking pur.
poses, un ions it is known to be, pure. -The
only perfectly safe way of aseertarniag
whether water ie pure or not is by having u
analyzed by a competent chemist. But to n
ie an expensive process, though there are
rogues wbo proteae to do it for much less
than the operation would vont, and the boll
ing for half an hour, though saarewhat
ronbleaome, is a good deal less cost! , and
would have to b, resorted to anyway if the
anal. als should show the water to be unsafe,
A porous earthen veaael is a good thing to
put the water in to cool, and if boiled in the
evening and placed in earthenware vessels
in a cool plaoe to get cold, the water will be
found cold enough in the morning f,r many
persons to drink without ice. It is a simple
preventive of the comae of many diseases,
and the fact that impure water by no means
betrays itaelf, as many people suppose, by an
appearance of impariy, but is perfectly deur
and limpid and agreeable to the taste, adds
to thedanger of this cause, It has been shown
over and over again that impure water is
not at all confined to cities, but is found even
more frequently in the walla which supply
our country residents, It used to be held
generally that even when surface impurity
existed within a radius of the well suibicient-
?y limited to draia into i:, the percolation
through the soil a ould remove every part-
iele of impurity from the wets% ere it rtach-
ed the well t but scientists have shown ua
%hat such is s t the case. During the very
hot weather% on so muck water is drank,
it fa well to be un the safe side. A little
:old coffee, or a little vinegar and a little'
eagax poured into tk a writer, make a very
palatable and refreabing driuk in hot
weather, llll very cold drink. should be
imbibed slowly. Srdlonly -Hooding the
stomach with a large quantity of me-c►1d
liguid is always attended with more or less
risk, according to the condition of the drink-
ers at the time.
Dangers of Roller-Skatire•
When rotier•aksling was i:rot introduced,
we looked on i t with much favor, We put on
skates ourselves, and often stv:ompauied
ladies to the hall. They, we ax d our aes:ci-
atee, enjoyed the exercise much. In some re-
speeto roller-skating teemed fully equal to
skating on fee, in ita graceful and coni acct•
ed movements, rind vastly niperior is its
freedom from the interrupttion of scow an i
rain, wind andcold. We thought it furnish-
ed a fine combination of mental relaxa ion,
physical exercise and social life. We naw in
it a creep and agreeable diversion for the
people, free, we *oppose i, from the tempt-
ations wh•cle everywhere beset the young.
lint people overdo many things, In
p.e:ante, wo. k, politics and religion. If the
apostolic injancnon, ""Let your mode.a"ion
be known unto all man," were one cf the
Ten Commandments, we should be a nation
of breakers of the Decalogne. Itolier•akat•
ill; became ""a craze." It was pursued as if
it were the perpese of life ; every night ie
the week, leveret hours at a time, in crowd-
ed rinks, with vitiated air and impalpable
dust.
That moderately indulged in and duly re-
gulated it would be healthful, and in many
ways helpful for those already vigorous, we
atilt believe, But the fruits of the present
methods of pursuing the amuaemeut are
often evil.
The followin , fam the 4teeiical Record,
written by J a "bwnaend dill, M. II., is
worthy of att ntios
• ""Sir: I am erynuch interested in thio
subject of roller-Aedting for girls especially,
because I hive from thirty to forty girls an -
der my care for phyaioal training and treat-
ment, With the utmost care as to time and
amount, I find it unsatisfactory, It seems
to brim% out any latent p'odiepoaition to die-'
ears, I have been compelled to forbid those
who had tho'b ighteat tendency to kidney or
heart trouble, in fact, any organic trouble,
indulging, in the sport. A case of anemia,
the moat intractable one 1 ever had to deal
with, I am sure was caused by skating exo us
ively." Other physicians give a similar
testimony.
.All recreations may have their dangers if
carried to excess. This now and popular
one, like all others, needs to be used more
wisely and conscientiously.
Abominations of the Back Yard.
Many back yards are abominations to the
eye and nose. One finds in them all forte of
Litter and refuse, from oyster cane to old
boots. Here the slops of the kitchen are
poured to increase the odors which ought to
warn every thoughtful person of the malari-
al influence breeding there, to break out
eventually in fevers or diphtheria, If any
member of the family dies from one of these
diseases his death is probably lamented as a
""mysterious dispensation of Providence,"
but the minister would say, if he were to
visit the back yard, that death was caused
solely by a violation of hygienic laws. A
very% strong argument against a dirty back
yard is the spirit of deception which it is
apt to foster in the young members
of the family, for it is a constant de:eit to
present a clean and attractive front yard to
the gaze of the passers, while the back yard
is not fit to be seen. Children should be
taught to be clean for the sake of cleanliness,
and not because outsiders are likely to crit-
icise them. The best plan is to have a hogs-
head or large box fitted up in one corner of
the yard, and make it a rule to throw into
this old cane, boots, broken dishes, and all
such rubbish, and when there is a great ac-
cumulation to bury or burn It. Do not allow
anything to be thrown about, Have drains
made to onvey slops from the house. Make
good we , nd let the ground have a fine
.eevore fg of grass, not weeds. Put up strong
euppoi�ta for the clothes lines. Keep the
fence in repair, and plant currant bushes
near it. Set vines about the refuse barrel,
and train them over it until it is hidden,
If you have a receptacle for ashes, let it be
something which can be shut up, not a row
of old barrels to offend the eye, and give out
a cloud of ashes every time the wind blows.
Make it a rule td heyo the back yard at all,
times as clean as .the. front one.
ue
We often hear of goats eating circus post-
ers and other luxuries, but they have one
in Dracut that chewed up' a horse's tail. A
sort of• swallow•tail 'goat, we should say.
The old-fashioned spinning wheel was:
introduced a short time ago into the Tole.
of Man Inpane Asylum with the idea of
amusing the patients. The latter seemed
delighted that they could inthis way con,
tribute to their support, .and 'became so
absorbed in their new' occupation that'
their nervous symptoms no longer pre
dominated. As. Dr. Richardeon,themed-•
teal superintendent expressed it, the di
rection of the nervous force was changed,.
and their condition was, improved. The
experimentis to be tried in other asylums.
OVER THE QOEAN.
The Sultan is as devoted to' Wagner as
the King of Bavaria, Iiiuch of hia time is
panned at the piano, and two of hie sons are
."e3omplished musicteta,
8 $ sa e
Z a-9 a Gil t ,F`, 3t ellen
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En land. Tae bath is fi led with long, green
aea sed, steeped for an hour before nee in
:wiling water. The bather remains in about
swsnty minutes, and. the bath is thought
very invigorating.
A Scat:hman is suffering from a painful
disease of the h: n 1 and wrist, brought on
by the pressure ag ►first the palm of a round -
knobbed cane. The surgeons say that the
thing to carry is a stick witha plain, smooth,
oylin'irical handle,
The proprietors of Loudon reetauranta and
hotela are taking to uauslo At the Holborn
restaurant sweet music has been discoursed
during dinner hours fur some time past, and:
quite a number of hotele and restaurants
have now applied for a license,
The London police have received orders
not to take int a castody a person about to
commit suicide, but to apply for a warrant
to apprehend him on a eharge of miade-
meanor. The medical journals ca11 this
"" locking up the stable of ter the horse is
stolen."
Its:ems almost useless to warn people not
to take overdoses cf opium and itsaikaiciis.
An E^gliah clergeman, who had been accus-
tomed to take m rphia pills for s'eepies'nesa,
continued the habit agai:�st his physician's
expreas instructions, r.nd cue right took a
number cf them equal to a grain ar d a half
of the drug. He went to aiecp and never
awoke.
Asia posaeues the most powerfully equip.
ped hornets, The Indian .Lf'edical Ga::tee
tela of a man who was bitten on the neck
by one of theist, Wit-hinten minutes he be-
came cold, pulseless, and unoonacioua. He
was a robust malt, but the use of active rem.
edies only brought him to after a couple of
hours, The hornet was of medium size,
bright i,etlow and stripedd with blaek,
The immeua, gun constructed at Elawiek
for the Bee ieh government has a total weight
of 300 tons, being considerably in exo es of
previousundertekinga. Its length iasteted
at some f,rty-four feet, though with an ex-
treme diameter at the breech ct but five feet
six inches, a very elongated chase cr barrel
tare:iag down to twentyeight inohes, with
a alightawelling at the muzzle,
A curion%pully hou,e ii among the latent
,►ttractloua in Poria. It it called La Ta-
zx me du Bane. The walla are hung with
elatinga repretent ng the horrors of convict
life, interapersed wits portraits of notorious
Communists. All tea waiters are dressed
in convict uniform. and wear the chains and
?+iotas of the regular farc:i'. The landlord
is Citoyen Maxims Li/Leone. ono of the lead -
era of the ineurreotion of 14i 1.
fair James Paget .h;s bean trach,g the
course in life of one thousand medical ata -
dents, taken at random from an k ngliah in-
atitube. IIs found that 23 out of tk;e 1,000
achieved distinguished success; GO ad con-
siderable success; 507 made a living ; 14
hada very limited sacoesa, not having made
a fair praetiee within 1G yearn after gra3ua-
tion, and 50 failed utterly. Nearly 10 per
oent. (p0) of the whole number left the pro.
feasion after beginning etcher study or prac-
tice; 677 died after entering practice, and 41
died when students,
The merry little mosquito has arrived in
Dublin. The interacting tourist from this
side had already turned up in Landon,
evidently with the notion of staying. Ile is
reported at opposite outskirts. Ever since
the memorial day, some raven yearn since,
when the first intruder of his race waylaid
an Irish M. P, in Piccadilly, the bloodthirsty
insect has not only lurked around Lon
don, but has considerably increased and
multiplied, though it is doubted whether he
will ever prove formidable, Hta develop-
ment there promises to form a curious
chapter of natural history.
In about the centre of the leland of Trin-
idad, a dot in the Cirribbean sea, jest off
the oaaat of Venezuela, there is an asphalt
lake. It is said to cover about 100 acres,
and is apparently inexhaustible. It is a
black sand subat"nce and is believed to bo
crude rotten petroleum, A singular feature
of the substance is thea, although about 30,-
000 tons are taken out of this lake annually,
it conatantly fills up so there is no lessening
of the supply. This singular lake of paving
material is owned by the Venezuelan
government, but is leased to a company in
Washington.
The special correspondent of the London
Times says of the Italian army ; The Italian
soldier always seems contented, cheerful,
and willing, while, as to hie conduct, it is
remarkably good. I have not, during the
more than a fortnight I have been living in
the midst of the troops, seen or heard of a
single drunken soldier, nor have I been
told of misconduct of any sort. The Italian,
indeed, as was proved by Napoleon, makes
a good soldier, though he is not quite so
military in hie style, bearing and talk as
the Frenchman; and the army has been a
great civilizer of the more uncouth portions
of the population, as well as a great fuser
of the different races which inhabit the
peninsula and the islands.
The imperial meeting at •Kremsier, which
lasted twenty hours, cost the Austrian Court
Treasury upwards of $$300,000. It is a
proof of the morbid state of terror and ap-
prehension in which the Czar exists that,
on arriving at Kremsier, he refused to oc-
cupy the splendidly furnished apartments
whioh had been prepared for him, and in•
stalled himself in a couple of rooms at the
other end of the palace, which had been des-
tined for some other members of the suite.
There mast have been frightful waste, or
else the whole company must have indulged
in a great orgie, for 1,000 bottles of Rhine
Cabinet wines, 3,000 of champagne, 2,500 of
claret, 300 of liqueurs, and 300 of brandy
were consumed by 800 persons at two meals,
One morning twenty-nine yeara'Iago, the
body of Mr. John Sadlier, a celebrated Irish
financier and, epecuiator was found lying
stark and cold near Jackstrews Castle, on
the Hampstead Heath and mar it the little
vial containing prussic acid with which, in
the depth of his despair, he had mid himself
of life. An inquest was held, and the medi-
eel witness on the occasion was Dr. Edward
Staunton. About ten days ago again an-
other body' was found, stark and cold on
nearly the game spot, and the fingers still
gripped a small bottle which had contained
prussic acid. i t was taken np and recog.
nixed as that of the,same Dr. Edward Staun-
ton, whom the weary passage of twenty-nine
years had brought to. the same end.
A policeman attaoked by cholera morbus
Lost: eo much rest thathe was forced to go
on duty again to recuperate,
A woman who claims to know says it
takes more atrategy to marry;offa family of
girls than it does .to secure re-election to
Parliament,
The Problem of Life.
EY ISAIAR ItYLEit, M, D., Toron e.
Air, water and food are essential to f the
couditioaa .of life in both the vegetable and
animal kin dome I e to r t
, f w I.e a rat oa eo
g
P
ive view, the apparent circumstances of
Adam and k re lead us to suppose that these
were gifts to man from the Creator, and 5'at
t.,ey. were to be used in tee eonditicns in
wl;ieh they were presented; By oomparison
with our present customs, t'riaview is called
barbarous, and a return' to the prescribed
use of these necaseitles would be denomin-
ated a return to barbarism, If we ins itute
a eitreful eaam:nation of t'e results of each
we are co.npelied to the conclusion t:.at the
ariginal eating and drinking ussgea of cur
first parents wer': mare in harmony with the
Creator's laws, and are aiapted to afford
better results to t lose who are desirous of
making the meet of their opportunities as
regards the present life, and 5,e immortal•
ity to which so large a portion of t'.ie humin
race aspire.
Tse promise cf an endless life made to
Addam and Eve evidently depended upon
their conforming to the stipulated conditions
of the Creator, and their failure to do tree,
itis reasonable t., assume, was the epecial
reason why tine "' dying, tnou s halt die,"
process of which they were so auspiciously
warned, was, in the case of t'.aemselves, and
so large a portion of their poaterity, so
persistently e%rrled out. The superiority
of man's •erebral structure, as comps*ed
with that of tate lower auimata, afferda ample
eeidenes of his ability to grasp the facts in-
stitxted in the order of nature sufficiently to
di-eriminate between t'e goof and grit, so
far as they relate to his physioial statue and
destiny. Without assistance it might re-
quire an indalaita period for the s uman
mind to accomp.is:r tele work ; but we, as a
human race, have been S cially favored
with revelations from tee Creator, both in
its incipiency and at various. perloda since,
which not only intimate, but pesitiveiy stip-
elate both our privileges and " ur dyu lee,
Bat the free agency accorded to l umanity
nes permitted mankind to seek out "" many
inventions," is the doing of which it k se
alienated itaelf from the aimlestruotions of
the Creator,
Is is evident to the commence: observer
that our lungs and pure air are admirably
adapted to each other. We instinctively
seek it in infeney and adult age ; but as our
instinctive intelligence becomes dulled by
t're evil customs of society, we gradually
come to disregard its great importance, and
finally, from the force of habit, prefer evil
adore rather tban to enjoy the "" food for
the lungs'" in its originai purity, Tide ie
eaidence3 by the suability of the smoker to
enjoy himself for icy length of time in an
nnperverted atmosphere, If farther i lus-
tration of this fact were needed, it is ale*
found in the preference of city aldermen,
commissioners, boards of health eflielals,
dectori, lawyers, ministers cf the. Gospel,
editors, and other prominent eittzena, for
sower -gas, and the effluvia of closet ossa
pools. Men In these varlone positions have
le in their power to abate these evils, but
porelatently decline to do so, though they
are asked. through. the public prints and by
private regueets. Babylon, home and Lon-
don inaugurated a eystem of sewers which
was preceded and accompanied by the closet
ceea-pools, and that is a sufficient reason
why every modern city should tax the pop-
ulace for this most expensive and deata-
dea'ing luxury.
And similarly with our water, Nature dbi.
tills it by, the power of the sun, and pre-
cipitatee it in the rain•fail—purI6ed, end
admirably adapted to su state life ; and the
same influential claame persistently oontam.
into It with alcohol, tea, ooffeo, etc. ; and
by aasoefating our water supply and sewage
systems succeed in compelling all classes to
praetioally accept their perverted and death-
de"ling opinions. The custom of using these
contaminated beverages so dulls the vital-
nervona intelligence that it fails to diatin-
enish as to what is pure and impure, and,
as a result, the proper depurating preceaaes
are omitted, and the"syatem becomes so load-
ed with the debris of broken-down-tiseuee,
which ale only poison, as to make a oontio
uaus existence impossible, and the purging
and purifying processes, called by medical
writers" cholera," "" yellow -fever," "" small -
pee," etc„ are Instituted by an all -wise
providence, in order that Hia instituted laws
may find acceptance. in Itis " temple," the
human body.
Oar food -supply is equally bad. We fail
to distinguish between the things given to
man, and those preaoribed for the " fishes of
the sea, the fowls of the air, and everything
that oreepeth upon the earth, in which is
life." The leaves of planta are their breath-
ing organs, the same as aro our lungs ours.
The vegetable kingdom uses the gases that
are destructive to animal and human life in
building up their own strueturea ; and the
persistent efforts of humanity to appropriate
these noxious gases first degrades its
victims to the standard of intelligence pecu-
liar to the vegetable, and then to the"" dust"
on which the vegetable kingdom feeds.
The fruits and grains were specially pre-
scribed for man's food, and are given to him
uncontaminated and uncooked. The reason
why they were specially prepared by the
Creator for man's use, was that he was His
favored and best product—the temple in
which He was wont to make His own per-
manent abode. The method by which this
spacial preparation of food is accomplished
is simple, though unique. It is done by
"" elaborating" or breathing upon the dust
a second time through the instrumentality
of the ohaff•leavea of seed -bearing herbs
and the leaves peculiar to the fruit -buds of
all fruit -bearing trees and shrubs, the leaves
peculiar to the general plant performing the
first elaborating process for the sap peculiar
to the cells of all living plants,
A comparison of the two systems—the
divine andthe human—or imaginary—of sus-
taining human life, are so much at variance
that it is worth while to pause, and asoer-
tain if the death which is so persistently
paraded by the advocates of the human
method, is an absolute necessity in human
experience. If God, in His wisdom, has es-
tablished a better order of things, it is our
privilege to avail ourselves of it, . But "" they
that would Dome to God, must first believe
that He is, and that He is. a rewarder of
those who'diliigently seek Him."
Bridgeport has a church that has opera
chairs instead of pews. The "drop curtain"
has not yet been painted,
Italy is now sending canned oysters to
Canada. If It were not so mean we might
retaliate by sending come organ -grinders to
Italy.
Lord Wolseley ought to be the staunch-
est defender of .Mr, Gladstone's Egyptian
policy, for it has brought him two peerages
within three years. Such honors come
cheaper now than they used to. A pis=
countcy a -which Wolseley now - enjoys --
was considered a sufficient reward to Nelson
for the Baltic and the Nile. Wolseley, too,
has secured his title -with a epeeist remain-
der to his only child, a daughter,:something
the illustrious Collingwood was unable to
get, his well -won coronet decending to hie
tomb ineteed of to, hie daughter's head,
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A GIRL JUMPED RIB CLAIM,
now a Young 'Settler Lost Iii Farm and. won
it Bark .w•ith aWire.
A year ago last spring a young man named
Blanw. to
a e ant Aaketa, took up IO0 soros
of land, and built himself a ehace. Two
weeks later a girl named` Helen Chapman
took up the claim artj .fining his on the west,
and also built a cabin. The neighbors be-
came aligItly acquainted, but both were too
busy to do much visiting, Belden was an
easy_ggoing fallow, nens too fond of woe:,
and Helen was an active, aggressive, good
loo ing, end ambitious�young woman, She
r wo days' work to hie one, and had a
better farm at the end of sixty days than he
would have had at the end of a year. if he
had kept en in the way that he was going.
After Belden bad been on his place about
three months he became weary of the mon•
otenons life, and, going to town to have
some fan, found so much enjeynent that he
came pretty near forgetting to go home.
When he bad been gone longer than the bums
permitted by the Lone. law, Helen, who had
b. en watching her opportunity, jumped hie
claim, and it less than ten hours bad a shuck
of her own standing on his farm. Belden
returned at last, and, finding that a woman
had jumped his claim, he said nothing. If.
it had been a man it would have been hie
duty to go out and fight him to the death,
but as it was a soman, and a rather comely
one at that, he thought he would say noth-
ing and trust to luck to get rid of of her.
Oeoupying hie own shack, he was not more
than 800 feet from her new habitation. She
held her ground well, treating him as an in•
terloper, and rover acting as though e'ae had
any idea that he beiougad there.
iden'a wrath begin to rise finally, and
when he reit eted on the comments that
would be made if lie permitted a pirl to jump
his claim he grew furious. Knowing that
the temper of moat settlers would brook no
interference with a girl farmer, he went to
town for conan'tation, First he talked wish
tone of his friends who drank his whiskey.
They eha'k their brads and maid it was a
mighty bad job, Then he consulted a
lawyer who gave him tomo hope..
In the course of a day or two he got two''
of hie friends and a lawyer to go out to hie.
place mite him t0 see what they could do
toward patching up a settlement. Osce on
the ground it was agreed that the lawyer
sliouid go and see the girl. He was absent
an hour and a half,aud when he returned he
acid It was no vac. The girl was posted, -and
he didri t see what could be done about it.
If itwae a man," be Said, "" we could go
over there and throw bim by the heels into,
the nex': county, but it won t do to harm a.
woman.''
The four talked the matter over, and it
was finally agreed that the lawyer should
call again in the morning, and represent to
her that Beiden s friend* were coming to his
assiatanee, and that if ate wanted to avoid
serious. trouble ahs bad better atm idon her
aback and leave his ahem alone. The law.
yet started out cn this errand the neat day,
but he was back again in fifteen minutes
with a lump on his head the size of a horse
oheetnut, where he said she lead hit him
with an axe handle,
After talking the matter over, everybody
being mad, I. was decided that they would
give her a scare as soon as it became dark.
At about 0 o'clock all hands went over to
the girl's naw ahaok and surrounded it. At
a given signal they yel'ed and fired their ro-
volvers in the air. Tire reports had hardly
died away when a shotgun was discharged
from cue window of the shank, and a mo-
mentlateranother shot was fired from the
other side of the house, The men waited
to silence for a few minutes, when two more,
barrelswerefired. Thisoonvinoedthemthat
the girl was not to be frightened, and they
crawled away as stealthily as they could.'
A11 that night the girl's shotgun thundered
at regular intervals, until her adversaries,
who were vainlytrying to sleep, wished that
it would explode, and blow her and her
shack into next week.
In the morning Belden's lawyer and two
friends started for town, .leaving the jumped
farmer alone in hie misery. Afv.rtheir de
parture Bilden did some work en the place,
taking pare not to run across the girl, and
though they saw escii other frequently they
both avoided a meetin
Things went along in this way until fail,
Helen workt.d on her own farm a good part
of the time, and Belden paused many days
in hunting. He had made up hie miud that
he could tire the girl out, and he believed
that after she found that he was not to be
got rid of, ahe would voluntarily abandon
the claim. In this he was mistaken. One
day, while out on a hunting expedition, he
diachargei his gun accidentally, and receiv-
ed several shots in his arm and side. He
got home without difficulty, and, examining
the wcunde, made up his mind that he would
go to town in the morning to have them at-
tended to. The next day he was in no con
dition to move, and was obliged to keep hie
bed. Growing rapidly worse, and fearing
that his injuries would result seriously if
not attended to, he watched for his next
door neighbor, and when he saw her he sig•
nailed for her to come to him. The girl came
up and heard his story, and volunteered to
go to town for a doctor. When the phyai•
clan arrived and dressed Belden's wounds
Helen told them that ahe would look in oc-
casionally and attend to the sick man's
wants, and she kept her promise religiously.
For nearly a month she visited the Belden
shack regularly, cooked and served Belden's
meals, dressed his wounds, and helped him
as tenderly as a relative could. When he
got so that he could sit up and help himself,
her visits became shorter and at longer in.
tervale, and at length they ceased, altogeth-
et.
This last spring it became necessary for
somebody to pat in the crops if anything
was to be done, Belden had had no settle•
went with the girl, and she appeared to be
making preparations to work his farm as
well as her own. He didn't want to give
up beaten, and he could not quarrel with a
woman, especially one to whom he was under
eo many obligations. Finding that things
were becoming intolerable as they were, he
called on her one evening in May and they
had a long talk, the result of which has just
been discovered; After that consultation.
they were frequently together. They work-
ed both -farms this Year and made big crops,
and last week they were married.
The 0
y have patented an.antomatio milk -
stool at last. , Shuts up when the,cove kicks,
"Will you please give a sick man a'few'
cents to buy some medicine with ?' whined
a tramp on the station platform. "" Siok,
are you ? What's.,the matter 1" "Been
sleopin' in barns, an' I have.a bad case of
bay fever."
Three-fourths of the grazing land to the
west of the Colorado river in Texas is eaten
bare and about 100,000 cattle are without
anything to feed on. They are kept out 'of
New Mexico and Arizona by' alleged quar-
antine restrictions. There;is plenty of grass
aoross'the border and the Texas "cowboys
are getting ready to appeal to the `rifle and
the revolver,
", WUO GOES TifERE ?'
AN INCIDENT OF TEE SEVEN Yneas' WAR.
Davit K r tells, h Golden Ilays,a story
of a P nsdi n en
r m a inn
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a Se
t v
en
Yaare' War..
the king bad to be out in a night
like this," growled private Wilhelm
Baum, watching the camp -;fires of the
Anstrians and Realigns from the heights
of Bunzalwitz, "he'd coon be as sick of
war as T ars. I''
"Ani how do you know he hasn't f''
broke in a strange, aharp voice close be-
side bim, while aehadowy figure rose up
in f:onb as suddenly as if it had shaped
itself out of the darkness.
Iostanbly Banco was himself again. At
the first sign of a stranger approaching
his posh, thesoldier apirit awoke at once,
and silenced his grumbling.
His musket watt Qa ble shoulder In a
moment, and hie voice rang out clear and
stern : _•
""S`�and 1 Whogo is there i"
""A. friend,"" replied the unknown.
""Advance, friend, anal give the count-
erslgti "
""the Prussian E sgle."
"Pare on, and all's well."
But instead of passing on the stranger
came close up to the sentry, who could
jest make out, by astraygleam of moon -
tight, that his mysterious visitor was
wrapped la a horseman's clank, and had
af three-;,ornered slouch hat over his ayes
in such a way as completely to hide• his
face,
""Yoe seeps to have rather damp quar-
tars here, comrade," said he ; "`why don't
you have a emeke to warm yonree ( a
bft7''
"Smoke " echoed the sentry; casrhy,
where do yea Doyne from, brother, not to
know thaw smoking on duby's strictly far-
b:dden
"" But supposing the king gave you
leave to smoke I" suggeetett the un-
known.
""Tire kine be hanged t' retorted the
soldier, grunt,. "What would my cup.
txin say I Long before the king contd
hear of it, the drummer's cane would make
my back like a aurveymap C"
"Pooh 1 the oeptain'a nob here to see
you. Ont with your pipe, man! I'll tell
no tales i"
""Look here, you rascal 1' cried the
sentinel, fiaroely. ""I belf snapect you're
some fellow who has got aM grudge
age net me, and wants to get me into
trouble. blow, if that's so, you had bet-
ter ba off before warse c amee of it ; for
it you worry me any more, I'll be apt to
give you such a cuff oa the head as you
won't like,
""I'd like to aee you try i.," said the
other mockingly.
The s aldier's only reply was a blow
which, had it gone fairly home, would
have bowled down the stranger like a
nine -pin. Even as it waa, his battered
old three-carnezed hat went tiling into
tea air, while he himaasif staggered back
several paces.
""Very good?' said he, recovering him-
solf, and apoaking in quite a different
tone. "�You'Il hoar of tide to -m arrow, my
man, and gat what you deserve, never
fear. Good -night to you i"
He stooped as he spoke, and seeming
to pick ap something from the ground,
vanlnhed into the darkness
The sudden change In hie unknown
visitor's tone and manner, coupled
with his parting threat, had not been.
lost upon Blinn, who began to have dis-
mal misgivings, that he bad insulted an
officer of high rank, a oo'onel, at the very
leant, perhaps even a general.
"" However," th�sught he, "" he doesn't
know my name, that's one comfort, and
he won't had it very easy to describe the
spot where I wa, prsted, considering
teat the night's as dark as the bottom of a
mine."
Bat the next moment be gave a terri-
ble start, for he had j xat missed bra to-
ba.oo•pouch, which usually hang at his
belt, and he remembered to have seen the
stranger pick up something as be went
off. It mese have bean the pone h, and
his Hams was upon it in fall.
There was not much sleep for poor
Baum that right. although he was re-
lieved from guard half anhour later. He
tried to keep np hie courage by repeating
to himself over std over again that the
general could hardlypuniah him for obey
ing orders ; bat even this did not camfort
him much, for in those days "there were
vary few things which a general could
not do to a private soldier.
The next morning, sure enough, a
corporal and four men came to conduct
private Wilhelm Baum to headquarters,
and when be got there he found all the
generals grouped around a little, lean,
bright-eyed man in a very shabby. uni-
form, whom by the reapect. which every
one paid him, Baum guessed at once to
be the king himself, Frederick the Great,
of Prassla.
"Gentlemen," said Frederick, with a
piercing glance at the unlucky sentry,
what does a Prussian soldier deserve
who tells his king to be hanged, and then
strikes him I"
""Death !" answered the generals, with
one voice.
""Good 1" said Frederick. ""The sen-
tence is pronounced, and here is the
man."
And he palled out a tobacco -pouch,
marked with the name of "' Wilhelm
Baum."
"'Mercy, sire, mercy f" roared Baum,
falling on his knees. `" I never thought
ib was your majesty with whoml had to
do."
"" No, I didn't suppose ,you dld," said.
bhe king, clapping him : on the shoulder;
"and I hope all my soldiers will obey or-
ders as you do. I said you should get
what you deserved, and ao you shall, for
I'll mane you a sergeant thfe very day."
And bhe king kept his word.
Dogs.
Stuart
Many year since, In my youth, I was.
standing by bhe side ..f the taunter ef my
brother's grocery in Beaton, when a cua-
torner, as 1*vansabo b leaving,
n approach,
ed me, taking off my hat and putting his
handkerchief into it infinch a way as not to
besoenbyhis email yellow dog, "Panto."
When about to lei.ve, he stopped, look-
ed toward the II "cr, as if thinking of some
important matter, making no motions tow-
ard "Tonto," simply saying to, himself,
to all a )pearances, "some one has my
handkerohief,�I wish that you wuuid find
18. "Panto" eame back, looked care-
fully ar.ued, jumped to the counter noar
ran se. z 4 the rim ef my hat in his teeth,
took It elf, seized the handkerchief and
carried it to his master, never stopping
to replace my hat .1 Ha was directed to
my hob, propably, by the scent of the hand-
kero`alef, ao it is well ?mown that doge
follow theirmaster s footsteps by theacenb,
the same as they do the steps of any ani-
nisl, as the fox, for example. The owner
told me that he loot hie handkerchief
in tug street cn one acraeion which he did
not discover ti I he reached home. He
asked hie dog to go and back and find ia.
It was known afterward that he found a
man in the street, and that it was in his
skirt pocket, not in as convenient a place
as ft was in my baa. How was he to get
it was the question, as the man was walk-
ing. Hs smelt is and knew just whero it
was, but- could urea well put bis nose in
that pocket. He at last decided what to
do, as hie beat plan He stood on hie hind
lege, seizad the part of the skirt where it
was, torn it c if, maxim home as fait as he
could, not atopp'ng to thank the man for
the part of the cuat captured! Ha also told
ME, that when he wlehed any small article,.
asash hit Oahe, a:1ppere, & s., he had eireply
to asst "Ponta'' to get them, as he would a
child or servant.
.A few years since the clew of a Soiling -
niacin lying at anchor in Brixham Hob or
happened one day to be on shore, except
one man and a dog. Tea weather being
find, and the water smooth, the man
threw the animal overboard to have a
swim round the veinal. When tired he
wanted to be taken up, but an unexpeot-
od diffirutty presented i self. T,na smack,
being light, was high out of the water,
andher
aides, so perpeudias-t
fir and
smooth that. had the dog attempted to
climb, he could not have obtained any
foothold.
The roan, however, got a rope, at the
end of which be made a runnbag noose,and
thenlowored it to the dog, who, he though;.
would have souse enough: to lay hold of it
in. some way or another, and so allow him-
self to ba drawn up. To the man's sur-
prise, he first put one of his fore -legs into
the noose, and then hie head. When the
man began to haul hie companion up the
noose tightened under that part of his
foreleg near the body, and so prevented
all, pressureupon the animal's throat. Ia
this way he was sa€ely brought on deck,.
without having received any lujaryin the
ascent, We may well ingaire what
prompted the dog to put his leg as well
as his head into the noono. Could ho
have adopted a battorplan.
The Omaha Revolving Jail.
The peoaliar feature of the jail which
mark it as different from any other, is
that the cella are arranged in the form of
a great iron cylinder, which revoivea
about so that only one cell is as the open-
ing at any ono time. This cylinder is
three atonies high, there being ten cells on
each finer. Its weight is forty five tons
and this ponderous weight is hueg from
above instead of turning on a track below.
The strangest part of the arrangement is
that the great cylinder can be turned by
a simple crank with very little foroo, a
man with his left hand moving it reality.
When it is c:mipleted it is the intention
to have a little watermotor In the base.
menb and then by simply moving a lever
the cylinder will be Set to rotating. It is
suggested that when there are prisoners
who,ib is feared, may be trying to cub out
the cylinder can, by a motor,be easily kept
mov.ng slowly all night, so that the pris-
oners do not remain long enough in one
place to do any mischief, or even to crawl
out if they had made a partial break.
It seems that prisoners have little chance
for escape from the new jell. A cage of
Iron bare completely surrounds the cylin-
derin which the cells are. The entrance
on each floor is guarded by two' doors.
The cfficors standing outside does not
have to unlock even the first door, but
can awing the cylinder around until the
Dell appears in which is the desired prig
one%, and then by a simple movement
the inner door is opened and the prison-
er can step out of his cell. Then the
officer can open the other door and let the
man out, but the other prisoners areaway
beyond possible reach of the offleers, and
it is impossible for them to make any
break on him while he is taking a man
out or putting one in. He can handle
any number of men in the same way, and
they cannot reach him until he chooses
ho let them.
Trade wind—A drummers talk.
The seasick man who casts his bread
upon the waters will nob find it after
many days.
Clergymen are like railway brakemen
In one particular. They do a great deal
of coupling.
A. belle differs somewhat from, a cow-
boy. The more powder she uses the leas
dangerous she grows.
There lea Quebec girl with ouch a good
sized mouth that she has to be measured
for her tooth -brushes.
Posters have been appearing lately In
some of the Pacific coast towns whero
difficulties wibh the Chinese exieb, warn-
ing firemen not to respond bo alarms of
fire from the Chinese quarters.
The venerable Andrew Mercer of Mon-
treal walked into the Health Office and re-
quested to be vaccinated, stating that he
was 96 and doubting if the operation would
succeed, bat expectingprobably that his
good example would take if the :vaccination
didn't.
Edward. Eggleston is with his family at a
little, town in Canton Vaud, Switzerland.
He has been taking a two or three weeks'
vacation—almost the first rest lie has had
since he began work upon his history of
"•hife in the American Colonies," five or
six years ago. His health is improving,
bat he is not able to work more than., three
hours a day,. an
i
Puss Did It
A wakeful oat serenaded the guests at
an Atlanta hobel,the other night, and
succeeded in opening their eyes to the
fact that the *Wilding' Watt in flames, The
wrath of the inmates at thetunelese strains
of the feline was quickly changed to grati-
tude. One of the lady gnesta has placed
a gold band around the cat's neck, but
when pussy depart? this life ahe should
have a lofty monument erected to her
memory, and composed of; brushem blaok-
ingboxes, boobjaoks, mugs, and such other
axtioles as are usually thrown at the feet
of these midnight serenaders,