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The Exeter Times, 1888-8-2, Page 6A Famous Doctor Once said that the secret of good health, consisted in keeping the head cool, the /eet warm, and, the bowels (pen. Hatt this eminent physician lived in our day, nud known the anerits of .Ayer's. Pills. as au aperient, he Would certainly have secohnmended them, as so many of his distinguished successors are doing-. The celebrated lar, Farnsworth, of Norwich, Conn.,. recommends .&yer'e Pills as the best of all remedies. for '" Intermittent Fevers.'' Dr. I. E. Fowler, of Bridgeport, Conn., says:"Ayer's. Pills are highly and universally spoken of by the people stout here. I make daily use of them in my practice." } Dr. Mayhew, of New Bedford, Mass., says : "Having prescribed many thou- sands of Ayer's Pills, in, my practice, I eau unhesitatiugly pronounce them the best cathartic in use." The Massachusetts State Assayer, Dr. !!r A. Hayes, certifies : "I have made a easeful analysis of Ayer's Pills. 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Engi<aud's Overland Telegraph lilac to In. itfa-flew It ta'W4 rked itua Proteeted. BY THOMAS STEVENS. One day, while the gueat of an Eliante ehief in remiss I notieed that two of the nomads in the crowd that had gathered around the tent were without right hands. Both these members) had been chopped off at the waste. This is no unusual sight in Persia, where mutilations of this nature are eften meted out. Nevertheless my curioa. ity was aroma, and I inspired the reason of the punishment. , Ferenghi telegraph," replied the novae& with ()limas eed.grin, mulch like youngsters who had been caught in some boyteh folly and been puniahed for it. Tiiese people are children even at the age of 50, and they herbored. no resentment toward me because I belonged to the race whose iuvasion of their desert home with the telegraph wires had deprived them of their hands, Only the other day vvhile talking over some of these experiences with an English- man, he looked surprised and said " Why, I didn't know we had any tele graph lines in. Persia." " Never heard of the Indo-European munication with India was by cable chiefly." Others present, all reasonably well.m. formed men, expressed eeual ignorance, and then it occurred to me that I, too, had never heard of it until I ran right into the line itself in Persia. And yet this overhind telegrapli line between Eughincl and India is one of the most stupendoue and interest- ing enterprises in the world. Fra ra London tti Calcutta, overland, by the most direct practicable route is some. where near 8,000 miles. Stationed here and there at intervals of a few hundred miles al along this distance are little GROUTS OP SOLITARY BRITISH subjects, the links of an aotive chain of political and commercial symeathy connect- ing the two widely separated capitals of the British Empire the home capital and the metropolis of India. he links of this great Anglo-Indian chain are strung out through Belgium, Germeny, and European Russia to Odessa : thence through the Crimean Penin- sula. to Kertch ; down through Ciroassia and Georgia to Tiflis ; across Transcaucasia. and the Persia frontier to Tabreez. From Tabretz they continue on eastward to Teheran. At the Persian capital the ludo - European line conneote with the line owned and operated by. the Indian Government. Practically one is but a continuation of the other, however, and from Teheran the little groups of Englishmen extend south to Bu. shire, passing through the cities of Ispahan and Shiraz. From Bushire they follow along India north of Karachi, where the chain, I which has been on foreign soil from the British territory. jects of Victoria, Queen of England, Era preaa of India, are simply the workbag force of the largest and finest -equipped telegraph line in the world. From the Belgian (mint to far distant India, there stretches one con- tinuous long row of splendid iron poles, climbing over rugged mountains in the Cau- casus, stretched out across the level Persian deserts in long, straight reaches, protruding like black, tapering stems from the white, glaring sand -waves of Beloochistan. My firsts acquaintance with this remarkable telegraph line was made at Tabreez. In riding from Constantinople, through Ana; tolls and Koordistan, 3. had been accom- panied from time to time by stretches of dilapidated Turkish line, usually one wire mounted on rough poles, twice as far apart as they ought to be and leaning towards all points of the corapass. At Erzeronm 1 seemed to have got beyond the territory covered by the Turkish sy.stem, and had ridden several days' journey into Persia. It was a wild barbarous conntry about the Marko -Persian border, inhabited chiefly caaional vreicome company of the Turkish telegraph line. Its disappearanee seemed like casting off the last strand of western civilize, ion. At that time I hardly expect- ed to see another telegFaph line until I should reach Japan, my intention being to reach the Pacific through Turkistan and China. Suddenly one day when nearing Takes.; I saw away off on the desert a sight that made me Bence AXE ROI MY EYES to make sure that it was not a mere optical illusion I was looking at. The deserts of Persia are famouis for produchas bogus ob- jects—mirages of lakes and waving palms, of lovely castles and similar fassimating scenes; but this time it was none of these. Miles away to the north, seemingly suspended in mid.air was a league -long row of telegraph poles, Araight as a die, even as the pick- ets of a garden fence. As I drew nearer the line assumed more definite form. Its marvellous symmetry, 1 then discovered, was not the enchantment of distance, but a solid reality in Euglish iron with the name of the contracting firna stamped on the poles. Every p.ole tapering from a circumference of twenty tnches at the bottom to six or eight at the top, and across the deactlevel wades of the Persian plains set up as evenly and perpendicularly ae they might have been in Hyde Park. It is worth noting, perhaps by the way, %at the Eng. lish alvsays take particular pains to have everything of this kind very superior in the East ; it is a perpetual source of wonder and admiration to the natives, a standing advertisement of England's wealth, power and ability to the multitude who have no other way of learning. From Tabreez I Was able to follow* this infallible guide into Teheran. Often I could see it stretching ahead of me mile after mile, tbe poles so evexi that they aeemed not to vary an inch, and disappearing in the heavens at the farther end by the curious legerdemain of the desert. The reolian music of its triple wires as the desert breezee play- ed through them, and the messages flashed past from India to England, from England to India --how companionable it was, tbat bit of civilization in a barbaroua country, only thoae who have been similarly placed know, During my stay in Teheran I became quite intimately acquainted with the staff, not only the capital, hut throughout all Perak,. There are many curious and interesting phases of life counected with the telegraph tiervice in such a country as Persia that are unknown here. Its alignment and working staff represent a narrow streak of western civilization through all that part of Asia. Men two thousand milea apart, who never sew each other in their lives, are neverthe- less well acquainted. TDB LONE ENOLIslilYfAX atfthe little interior control station of Da - heed is kept informed front day to day by hie clime at Teheran of the doings ef the European colony there. /1 Smith at Koora has succeeded in hie (Johann) of growing a little patch of Irish potatoes, his brother operatera all eloug the line know of it, %ranee at some little da - tion in Germany sonde on word that he has titOillea along 3,000 miles of wire. " Oh, nothing." repliee Jones, " only I can't etand the bloody Germane." And now there comes a meow to the Superintendent at Teheran from London, " Berry Hobbs. will start from London to- morrow, and will reptat at Teheran," Front that day until his arrival Hobbs becomes An object of daily speculation and comment ell along the line. It usually takes him about a month to get to Teheran, Now and then he reports at intermediete statione, and ie entertained and eized up by the old hande all the way along. The old hands send Isn. their comments to Teheran, and long before he has reached the confines the boys of Tee heran know Hobbs a good deal better than Hobbs know hinaself. Hobbs ht anything but a strangey when he finally turns ; every lightning rker in Persia knows whether he is a griffon vrhorn they can safe- ly play initiatory pranks when he arrives or not, Teheran,. Ispalmn, and Shiraz are the three favorite stations in Persia. Operator() are rewarded for good service by being sta. tioned at these points, or disciplined for ink- conduet by being aseigned to some lonely ()onkel station, where the only society is a few ragged villagers and their station a mere mud hovel. Dabeed, about midway between Teheran and Bushire, is considered the worst station in Persia. The EXTREMES OP HEAT AND cOLD in Dabeed are intense. Prom many degrees below zero in winter and raging etorms like blizzards, it gets so hot in summer that the operator often sits up to his chin in a tub of water. None of the 000ling appliances that make life tolerable in India are available here. The Ingiliz telegrapht.jee is quite an im- portant personage in Persia,. Outside of Teheran and Dislike, he is the sole repre- sentative of Europe. He is a sahib, whose salary often exceeds the income of the Per- sian Prince or Governor ot the town. He has aeveral servants, and keeps. the showiest riding horse in town, vieing ut the matter of horseflesh with the local Prince, with whom he is always on very good terms. He and the Prince invite 8E1011 other to dinner ; not a day passes but the Prince comes and smokes a kalian or two in the telegraph thane, and in the evening they sit beside the steaming .samovar and smoke and drink tea. The Prince sends his friend, the tele- graphlee, presents of fruit, or & pheasant now and then, and when the line inspector oomes along and leaves with the Englishmen a few bottles of choice Cruiskeen Lawn, the Prince knows he will not be overlooked. Tim mollahm and seyuds and khans and leading merchants—these, too are all friendly as a general thing, to the Feringhi. His is the one relief from the monotony of daily life to them, a speek of human interest upon which to centre their Oriental our - It is often a remarkable ohange for the young. Englishman. From an unambitious berth in England, wages a pound a week, he finds himself in a month or two hobnobbing on equal terms with Persian princes, with twice as mu& money to jingle as the Prince, and riding the finest horse in town. In ad- dition to a large Wary, inducements are held out to him to qualify himself for pre- ferment. A sum equal to three months' sal- ary is paid to him for passing an examines tion in Persian. Five hundred pounds ,is offered as au inducement to qualify for cer- tain services in India. For all these ad- vantages about the only sacrifice he has to make is of a social nature. Food is cheap and plentiful, and in the larger stations almost everything oan be found in the bazaars. Some of the men marg and settle down in the service ; they obtain wives trom England, or marry the maid servants at the Le,gislation in Teheran. One or two have married Armenian women; but by so doing the " telegraph sahib " loses caste, much as a man does out West by marrying a squaw. He loses caste in the estimation of his comrades, the Persians, and also with the Armenians themselves at heart, although they consider the capture of a sahib very advantageous. Everything is now so thoroughly equipped and organized that the telegraph service runs smoothly and efficiently ; but this was far from being the case at first. The difficulties were a long way from being overcome when the line was put through. For some years it was almost impossible to keep communi- cation open between Teheran and Bushire. Here for nearly a thousand miles it follows along THE GREATEsT CARAVAN ROUTE in Persia. The oharvaders and camel -men regarded the long lengths of nice strong wire strung all along their route almost in the light of a special dispensation of Allah, sent to their favored country so that they might obtain all the material they wanted from time to time to mend their ramshackle pack -saddles, chains and harness, without paying out any money. All summer long thousands of camels and pack mules are constantly employed along this route, and the caravan people used to render this line well nigh worthless. When- ever anything broke that could be mended with wixe, the charvadar would simply shinny up a telegraph. pole and help him- self. In a day or two, perhaps, something else wouldufall to pieces ; but it mattered little to the charm:icier, for an unlimited quantity of good English telegraph wire was always to be had for the trouble of Next to the oharvadars the wandering tribes were the worst depredators. The nomads of Persia are much given to embel- lishing their charms of petson by means of thick wire bracelets. Copper or silver wire is their preference, but they have no objec- tion to bracelets of baser metal, especially if they oan obtain them without pay. To stretch a telegraph wire through their coun- try was about the same thing as plaoing a pot of P.m where it can be easily reached by a boy. Notaade who had caught on went atrutting about the country wearing a wealth of telegraph wire bracelets that made the eyes of their less lucky tribesmen bulge with astonishment. Finding that they could be obtained for nothing by merely climbing up the Ingiliz poles and haoking off the wire, the popular- ity of the new style bracelets spread far and wide among the Eliantes Susmanis and Bactia,rie, These IINSONIISTICATED 011ILDItitlf OP THE DESERT, for a time, outdid even the caravan men. Ambitious; young nomeds thought they (Jaw in the unlimited quantitiee et telenraph wire an opportunity to largely ihorease their wealth, and they began to carry the bracelets into the more remote regions as articles of cermterce. All this the Engliah Govern/tient stood patiently, hoping that thne and the em- ployment of numerous native: linemen would eventually put a stop V) the depre- datione. The caravan people, hoWever, finding that they ()beeped punishment, grew Deere and ratite eitteepriaing and aggreallive. They were not slow to disconer it tile thitig 4Q they; found profl table,1 eoercen of amuse - meat to beot. They took to ahoeting at 014 instilatore for wagers, and clippipg the wires: With bullish} for wort. Another form of recreation Was tO Make mark ep neer the thin end of the oastairon poles, and stand off ao many paces and ehoot at it. They used to gamble on the number of Blithe it would take to creek the pole, and bring the upper part, crose.trees, wtres, and insulaters down to the gronod. This was, of course, rare fun for the Persiana. But for those who had to bring ixon polee from England, and pack them on camela hundreds ot miles over the deserts, it was not quite so Tbe English finally had to appeel to the Shah to protect the line. " Very good," said the King of Kings, blandly, it shall be stopped." Orders were seat out to out off the hands of people who were found. wearing telegraph wire bracelets. Among these unfortunates were the two Eliantes mentioned es the beginning of this paper. Equally effective punisliments were dealt out te the caravan people. This had the desired effect, and to -day the telegraph wires are as safe in Persia as in any country. A Genuine English Turk. Henry Selby Rickards, for some reason of his owm turned Turk in 1840 after eettlbag in Egypt. He pnblioly embraced Moham- medanum and made a pilgrimage to Mews, assuming the mime of Abdallah. He set up housekeeping in the Voslem atyle, with slaves and all thereat of ib, and was married in 1841 to the daughter of an Egyptian Sheikh, of Cairo, the fair Fatoom Hanim. By this lady he had ben ohildren. Re enter. ed the Egyptian service, was given the rank and title of a Bey, and after twenty-one years retired in 1870 on a pension Thin he proposed to enjoy at Beyrout, in Syria, where he.purehased a house. He had a rose garden Inven him in Lebanon. by the Govern- or of that province. He was rich in houses, land, gold, and jewele, and so far all things seemed to be well with him. Upon the death of Fatoora the renegade went through theform of marriage according to the -Moslem rites with Catherine Rick- arde, the daughter of hie brother, This sort of thing, however, happens to ba invalid by Mohammedan law as well as by that of Christendom. In 1885 Abdallah Bey, alias H. S. Rickards, made a will leaving the bulk of his property to Catherine Rickards. He died in 1886, and then began a strife for his wealth between the children by the Bret wife and the so-called second wife, ending in an appeal to the court ef Chancery. The whole affair reads like a atory out of the "Arabian Nights," for the testator it hap- pens, died worth more than £21,000, besides the jewels valued at Z2,000, the house at Beyront, £7,000, and the Lebanon rose gar- den, E600. It seems that there have been pagoda treea in Egypt worth shaking as well tie in India. *Healthy Professions. All professions are healthy as composed with trades. What men are longer lived than scientista, arobasologists—there is no profession of archreology, but let that pass -- lawyers, clergymen, physicians, actors ? In some professions, notably the bar, to which might be added the stage, the early training is said, in a half serious banter to kill off the weaklings. To some extent this is true of all professions. Men without self.00ntrol die, as a rule, young, whatever their occupa- tions. In other oases, however, the condi- tions under which the (lessee named exist are the most favorable. The two thing(' that most readily kill men who attain mid- dle age are anxiety or loss of interest. The man who goes to bed not knowing whether a turn in the market may elevate him to wealth or stoo.p him to ruin dies of soften. ing of the brain, He who has made his for - rune and retired feels, unless he has culti vated a hobby, that he has no place in the world, and dies of inanition. As a rule, the professional man of fifty has learned what he can do. If he is unfit for the line he took he has slipped out of it ; if he is making a fortune it is a career full ef interest, e,nd with little trouble or anxiety to himself. It is not his own case, that the barrister pleads, the physician combate, and the parson arraigns. If again he is but moderately successful, his earnings, though small, are pretty safe. He gets as near an approximation to security as fate in a world suoli as this accords,. and Jae may hope, bar- ring exceptional circumstances, that the future will be as the past. His occupation, meanwhile, brings him consideration tand intelligent surronadings, and his life is fairly and pleasantly varied. Once the philosoph- er temperament is reached the combustion of life is very rapid. Life at Suakim. The situation at Suakim is thus described in the Times by a correspondent, who says, under date May 1 :— Life at present in Sua- kim is life in a. beleaguered ciV. It is true that there is no apparent investment, and that the head quarters of the foe are at Han- doub, some ten miles off, but for Europeans the isolation is as complete as though lines had been traced and trenches opened all round. In the daytime it is risky to ad- vance a step beyond the range otthe guns of the forts; at night it would be the height of foolhardiness for a straggler to venture be- yond the walls. From the scrub with whir& the plain is covered at a certain distance out a prowling bend of rebels may dash at any moment, while at night they steal in almost close to the forts and fire valleys' for defiance rather than damage. This little trick of theirs ie so common that no, one pays any more attention to a little musketry fire at night than one would ab home. to the rattl- ing of rain on the window pane. In the daytime the same placid indifference pre- vails. Enforced leisure gives ample oppor- tunity for the cultivation pf social amenities; dinner parties are frequent, and lawn tennis in the afternoon continues to be one of the most serious businesses of life, the foe at the gates notwithstanding. Every onet front the Governor-General downwards, is firmly persuaded thet the town is perfectly safe from either assault from without or treaoh. My within, and behaves accordingly. Flavor of Eggs. The Fanciers' .Review says : 'Well wager a dime that hens fed on the manure heap and compelled to drink barn -yard water will give their eggs a peculiar flavor.' " We think the .Retiew is correct. The qual- ity of eggs can be improved or deterioreted by the feed. A continuoue feeding with chop- ped onions will impart a strong onion fla. vor to eggii, mid for that matter, to the Soh of the fowl too, if killed at the time of eat. big oniona. Food should be cleat and of good quality, if good food is deeimd from the product of the feeding. Remember the old saying that "Like produces like," spring chicken, waiter, and a smell bottle —" Find eVetything right, inr I" Custora- brought me spring wine and a '74 vintage The lkiletin Plkarmacentigue states that anewremedy for phylloxera has been die - (levered by M, Leffon ot Capendu, anti thet it has proved atm:eyeful. It coueiete of a weak aelution of nitre cf mercury, end appease pain, but, awarding to Hence - For &rioting epistaxis and eirnilerbleed- trthe :meal chambers, or a solution of an- tipYrin may be applied by means of a plug of cotten,wool„ Plaster oasts may be made tO reeerobje terra:code by peinting them with whiting mixed with very thin Frenoh-polish tinged with Venetian red. If the surface is too shining, dilute with methylated apirit. Let the aret ooat. dry befole applying .the Bees ond which is usually sufficient to give verY restiefactory results. How to wash a ehamois-skin: Use a weak solution of Reap and warm water rub plenty of Boit mean into the leather, and.) allow it to remain in soak for two hours, then rub it Bufficiently, and rine° in a weak solution of warm water, 00da, and yellow soap, If rinsed in water only, it beoomee hard when dry and unfit for use. After rinsing, wring out In a rough towel and dry quiokly, Shen poll it about and brueli it well. Soap.balls for removing stains: Cut up some good yelbw soap and put it into a jar, water. When the soap is melted, stir in well-waahed silver -sand until it is pretty stiff. Take off the fire, and add two or three tablespoonfuls of glycerine. When getting cool and stiff, make into bells about the aize of an orange, When cold, they 0a)2 be stored away. If the hands are stained or unusually rough, these balls will restore thern to there usual whiteness and smooth- MERL of coal tar; its exact chemical composition hasnot yet been ascertained. It is possessed of very marked bacillicide properties, a sol- ution of one in one thousand sterilising cul- tures of the cholera bacillus. Its dender. king properties are equally remarkable, a very small quantity of the above solution removing the offensive smell of putrefying liquids. According to Koltun, the solution, applied to wounds, hastens aioatrisation in a marked degree; it ie moreover a powerful A very isood and agreeable imitation of the Tartar beverage known as "kefir," which is, like Jemmies, use extensively in phthisis and other wasting diseases, may be made by the following simple method, described by Dr. Levy in a German chemical journal. Freahl -prepared sour milk is briskly shaken up an then placed m a soda -water bottle, together with two per cent. of sirup. The mixture is well corked and kept in a warm place for three or four days. At the end of that time a moat agreeable effervescing bever- age is obtained by uncorking the bottle. It contains some two per cent. of alcohol. If required for use more speedily, a few drops of lemon.juice should be added to the To clean white or very light silks, take a quart of lukewarm water and mix with it four ounces of aoft soap, four ounces honey, and a good-sized wineglass of gin. Unpick the silk and lay it in widths on the kitchen table. Then take e. perfectly new scrubbing - brush, dip it in the mixture and rub the silk firmly up and down on btrith sides so as to saturate it. Rinse it in cold water,twicle until free from soap, and .hang it on a clothes -horse to drain until half dry ; then iron it with a piece of thin muslin between it and the iron, or it will be marked on the ironed side. Keep the silk quite smooth when laid on the table, so that every part may come under the brush. White silk re- quires a little blue in the water. Silk stock- ings should be carefully washed in water that is neither hot nor cold. Any pure white soap will do, and the stockings should be dried on wooden frames made for the purpose. White silk handkerchiefs must be quickly washed in a lather of pure white spoonful of salt, has been added to prevent the color from running. Java. Java, which is about tbe same size as Ireland, is by far the most important of the East Indian colonies of Holland. It is the granary ot the Asiatic Archipelago, and is supposed to be capable of supporting many times its present population, as not one-half of he surface is yet under cultivation. The climate is healthy, except in the marshy regions of the north, and the scenery is both grand and piatutesque. The island is trav- ersed throughout its entire length by a chain of mounts ins of moderate elevation which slope geatly to the sea; these are crowned by voloaroes—which indeed constitute a prominent feature of this region—from eight to tvvelve thousand feet high. 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