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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Gazette, 1893-12-21, Page 6aha her' rstnod in five "�r he- Tia tatane was -bein p.Aglatfn the_kit tie chimnei . .But p, wur mes. and,'. ba ter;: an DFD= SOY =T1t ILD='' 1� tie ielora-of a a noted fo `tfieir ash sunt -goatsr " `eAliwa1." and . u aides ID file t7e B tisht wok th to them a every sae: reof- natives; aceatst he:oradle, lead but we d whir too Y. -Fassin g � + wever, th +f Jong a ' ",_*- 11371ire•oeer e' x p ting' x - +ared theocdds anter" reeve '-abalrin` cehic -F s$ -t ,t le to t%ie ritish line. As e g signal: .ahgitted. noIsTE. H. • Cove ed yourselves �v¢ith glory, 041g -hat none of the officers were G troop, -Sir henry Smith enquired; r44 a White are.your. officers ?' ' All down,': 'phen,'said the General, `go and join tlee left wing under Major Beer.' ajar -Say he in the_oharge had "been .ouu cl in the thigh. He stuck to his, aria anfnlly, however, but . seeing,hini ` itesrwgin'the saddle I rode up witha couple f:men °ancitook him to the rear. On joining :Major Beer another cavalry charge took place'npon an infantry square. This, too, ' was broken in equally gallant style. Then followed a general cavalry charge, and soon. t he Sikhs were in full retreat. Crossing the Sutlej numbers •of them were mowed down, and the river was reddened with se eat their. blood. As the survivors clambered erta-in up --the opposite bank they were subjected ent' to a, deadly fire from our'artillery. The battle lasted from 8 o'clock in the morning ;until 4.O'clock in the afternoon, afid re- .suited in, the complete route of the enemy.' in Empire. - ' Dan:;erous Toys and Oaudios- plied. _ .- r e, ipiine. ay at :been t elle a theefed weer], tc idle, so ihantl' �'� her-` bailie r when a er won + +ave been iattea ed by eon_ i cones lltitiI•y`possilbiic to, l hate;' YETERANzOF Ts 1` - +iw iwanlls a omb_ ,e1neS Intda.ian bald desgtil entas a regullar Waterloo at twieew9 us' eig"he_ roough the ' y'2 t ©f 396 Y9g to,wevGroculatant ,ofotac€isnsHaa tweets To. e_`battle. of ;,one eef the toolf -place this engage- the .fact ri'ish`cavalry ettetn _ squeres of in - wife '1 Bergman' in 0 tat dashing regiment elf .4,Jiereetheiquet of epel Sikhs, say the 'h korrnr: o'f the' lands of hn e_i an this *fear made reir.rnfa pry aSjuares'• Pos- es fast knee MOVE. as: fatal.:stepwhen the S`h ; army, tubertgjfi0 000 then, crossed he Sutlej or the cont uest;of.Hindo•stan. ' The British forces, , under :the command of Sir Hugh Gough, promptly; advaiz'ced .to meet them. and:within three;weekef our pitched battles were fought, "Moodk e," "Ferozeshah," "Aliwal" -and "Sobr on." With'. the last engagement _the Sikhst were - dr`ven baoji: to --Lahore, and aarrendered tithe. Britt- h.. - :.i,. .a Of these four engagements,,. certainly the' t-brilhant was `th t of Aliwa , where a iah force.of 12,00,•with 32kinmilee ^ ommand. of Gen . Sir Harry,, Shits de-, the _$ikh: ar i(iy, numbering . 19,©00, & 'gunk:Mini iende.'dby;the -girder ethenr:with : a:loss to killed and wounded. A `-threat y o£ ' • aha, -occupied at th ,-e battalions of natide infantry, the c mmand of Brigadier Godby, �.tthe =acne tithe there was commons- 1 s;with he British forces being inter - d. By . ,aeries of rapid and dexterous meats,, :undeterred by a furious. can defronethe enemy, Gen.. Smithadvanc ie : force iintilr: he 'effected "conneefioon ,Looehana, and then, reinforced by tidier, Godby's -battalions, gave.; battle he •Sikhs, who had- - advanced.:, toward raon :with a : view of =intercepting- the itish communications.-�"The:latter ,.had en strengthened by the inivitsaf,i4,0b6 gulag troops, a large force of cavalry:, and 2 ;pieces of artillery. . The battle took place on: `ftlie' 26th January, 1846. i The Sikhs viere-drawn up along a ridge ;close to the village�of,'liwal, their left resting , upon their entr�elnched camp, and their`right occupying the ridge. The villages of-elliwal and Bhoonllee-were- carried at the point of -the' bayonet,- and with the aid of the cavalry and the artillery we worked brilliantly together, the were' ousted from their position ineletleiven across the river:: • In crossing they suffered, greatly, and on'Abe right banje-c f the river, ., a murderous artillery - fire. {,tow, ' them remorselessly -clown.'' The Sikh e was captured: and. 52" pieces of artillery' eofell into the victors' hands '' SERGT or ,GLD'S STORY. At the;beginniig of the b~gttle to em envy's cavalry triedeto turn onreflenlei but a charge from :the l:60i. Lancers .and -3rd: "Native Cavalry stepped .that movie and.the enemy, retired behind, the shelter of their urns. Opposite our right flank was a bat- he *env. talion of the enemy's iniantryand-a4battory. r Ratko= of brass 9 `-and :12 pr gunse r Harry eight, of Smith gave the order -for: the l6tih Banters if almost to advance` and capture the guns. ' This 'We . as: hill .he._ did with all the alacrity in. the world. -We ntire di's had -a splendid man for commanding, officer, =Major Roland 'Hill Smythe Her;was.six apparatus_ feet in height and: ofmost-commanding ap rial he sank :pearenee._ At the, trumpet note to `trot' mencetd '.tis off we went. 1,000 feet _ "-`-'Now' , said Major Smythe, `I am not n alighting going to give the word to charge Three cheers for the Queen.' There was a� terrific for several •,urst of cheering in reply, and down we_ such perfect= $wept upon the coils Very soon: they weree ,v et d- on the er a rags tered ht of scend- atisfied ry, Mr. lnereas t .Singh Maj ter o1 0,000 khahe It seems easy enough on the surface to se- lect Christmas gifts for children. With the `shops fall, as they are at the holiday season, of everything -to delight the most exacting youngafer; there should be no difficulty, in making a choice. • As a rule the baby of either sex delights in blocks. Indeed, these are usually popular with children of a larger -growth, and like :bthemgood'things it is .hardly possible to. have -too many of the squares, . cubes; or. triangles that mace up the building mate- rials of the wee architects:- - ln this day, when the study of children's foibles and fancies has advanced to the dig- nity of a science, sets of blocks are offered for sale that might furnish .amusement and instruction to boys and girls who have long since quitted the nursery. Such_ blocks are of wood, .stone and composition, and come in shapes that enable their owner to build any- thing froni 'a Queen Anne cottage to a cathe- dral. More than mere amusement can be gained by handling these blocks under the direction of an older person, and they inay serve as.a valuable means of imparting .in• formation - respecting architectural terms and.proportions. There are other toys which one may be tolerably sure will give pleasure. Nearly every boy delights in a train 'of cars, a fire - engine, or- a steamboat, andseldom is there e, girl found who fails' to find enjoyment in a well -stocked tin: kitchen or a miniature dairy farm: Paintboxesand crayons give' to the•ehitdren of both sexes that always dear pleasure of making ainess. Games; too, are excellent in a family ;where there is more than one child, and for both boys and -girls, big and little, books are always and altogether admirable. The choice of these. should not be a mere hap- azard affair. • e tie of mechanical toys is us- uelly a wa le oiNterney. -_ The delicate ma- chinery: *ill not bear unharmed the ' energetic handling of the average small boy or gitl, and a plaything that can only be enjoyed under parental snpervision is a disappointment to the child and a nuisance to his guardians. . One caution should be especially obt served in the choice of toys for very little children.- They should be such as would prove harmless to the child should he take a fancy to test their flavor. Most of us are familiar with the moving tale of Little Willie, who ",had a red and yellow mon- key climbing on a purple stick," and have heard how He•went and sucked the paint off Andit made him very sick, They stuffed him down with calomel, d still. in the iii n our possessioA ,more exciting job followed -. Ve had to ,charge a:square: of infantryAt thein we;wvent;:thRe bullets' flyin 1trbi Ii1r. a hailstorm =. ight: itt Y gs..• He also himself by a Ding salve by the taitoj Lllienl al 11.1)$,Mas:8isergeant Haloed Harry rated :on -a gray_. out5of `Hullo, boys, tionm ssion,' brand:Vat rottt eantb or kneel -it iiiiets. sa�New so rat -over and gra $,. ct In hopes to move his liver, But all in vain, his little soul 'W,is wafted o'er the river. . - The=parents who wish to avert such heart- rending catastrophes from their own off- spring should purchase paintless wooden togs, china or rubber dolls, and woolly ani - male. - N6 less care should be observed in select- ing -bon -bons. Even in the best -regulated nurseries a few ._ sweets are allowed on Christ -ems Day, and these should be of the purest. The e,ay-colored candy images which charm the childieh eyeshave their uses as adornments for the Christmas tree, but -these Mixtures of mineral paints and alba - terra are unfit for any one's stomach, least of .ell : for 'a ?hild's. The old-fashioned bailleysugar, simple chocolate pastiles, or the always popular Lemon drops and cream peppeiinints, if given in, moderation, will tickle the babies' palates and, de no harm - to their digestions. --- BEALTEL Ooffee• - f".W-that shall .we drink ?" is about as im- portant a question as "what ftul we eat ?" ihrst,' it- is safe . to say that most people .+irink .tee,' -mach especially :while eating. Numerous_ small and four large glands are 51aced under andrat the `sideof'the tongue to -furnish vnoiature(siliva) for the food to male swallowing easy and produce a solvent action on the food. An active.. rinciple of the spittle or saliva) `called salivin changes the starch of potatoes or bread to another form resembling sugar, when it is ready to be absorbed, by. the coats of the stomach and received into the blood to build the -was to places. Water, or the water of tea or coffee, can never do this ; it can only dissolve or soft- en. One can eat a meal very fast, complete a meal and rush on. to business, by washing down the food by drinks, but must settle for it later. The mischief does not end by hurrying. the food down with drinks and missing the action. of the fluids of the mouth upon it. The gastric or stomach fluids have a duty to perform that is both solvent and chemical. Now a pint of liquid,- more or less, in the stomach.. with the food, will so dilute these liquids that their power, which is acid, will be much lessened. The stomach must absorb this water in excess before di- gestion proceeds. • Of course the body must, have water, and . plenty of it, for the larger part of the body is water. ,.The proper time to receive this necessary' water is before the taking of the meal. Then. it serves a double purpose, viz.: to give the body what it needs and wash out the stomach before it begins di- gestion:. Those -`a little -dyspeptic . have more mucus in the stomach than there should be, and say a half hour_ before the secretion of the gastrie'fluids is induced by the presence of food in the month and the working of the jaws is a good time Co wash out the 'stomach by using from two to four gills of water. - This had betterbe takenas hotas itcanbe taken, as beat is a - stimulant. Now what is true as to the use of water is more em- pahtic regarding the use of coffee. • You get a strong stimulant as well as the water and many tiles of dyspepsia may be traced to the use of coffee. Now and then a person may be found who is very strong and healthy and doing much manual labor, who seems to drink coffee with impunity. But it is safe to say that any one with dyspepsia can not get well and use coffee. The peculiar distress of coffee is a sense of weight in pit of stomach, sleeplessness, nervous and fidegty, ill-tempered, and neu- ralgic pains, especially in the head, of a piercing kind, as of " a nail driven into the flesh." A substitue may be found in rye or barley browned and ground as store coffee. It can be bought at about 10 -cents a pound. A little may ' be taken of these drinks or water, especially hot water, during or after meals ; but the best time to get the fluids we need is before meals. Drinking a large amount about an hour after meals, when digestion is about half completed, is very improper. Eler trioity as a Go Between. - , Some of the men who have been making a study of the problem of transforming the sofa, rutty, roads of the country into satis- factory hard reads, have decided that the expense *volved is too great and that under the present system it is impossible to put and keep the roads in thoroughly good order. `'they note, -however, the condition of :the in' .abitants of the State of Illinois, where, intalmost every city or town of 4,000 inhabitants, the electric street car are at Work. these roads are not mer y -city services,>btit they stretch frons city to the sin ll outlyingfvillages,and afford an easy m de of town coming to the farmers, while t the seine time the freight .ears of the l' carry in the country produce to the - :marled. - The idea with many of the road agitrtors now is that a system of electric ,railways should be mapped out for save et and that convict labor should be em - tell' so that the usual - expenditure of Abad building may be diminished. As ail let'outl`ying towns and villages would thus brought into immediate connection with he.=centre:;market, . the .farmer would be spared all the inconvenience and expense to which lie: is now put on .account of the im-_ stbility of the roads. The promoters of _ ni a are mere confident than we must ss an• e' -.we ourselves, that'they,have �e,onlyand true solation .to the ev, er- Sad. problem. *iii*ea:l Iles an Hour by Rail ly= there- is no finality to the SACitailway enterprise. Next year k§I'S to be' -placed on the line be. ton ,scud -Edinburgh which will ea -an .lion; and run from Lon- xtilern ; capital in six hours. Tuberculosis and its prevention. Dr. Anderson,the medical officer of health of Dundee, delivered an interesting address recently, so says the Lancet, with the view of quickening public interest on this im- portant topic. After referring to the his- tory of our knowledge of the specificgerm and of the manner of its propagation, he mentioned the fact that tuberculosis had been calculated to cause one-seventh of the total mortality of the human race. It was remarkable that, notwithstanding this im- portant fact, little practical interest had been taken in the matter by the state, local authorities, or individuals. An assumed theory of its unaviodable nature seemed to lie'at the root of this baneful fatalism. Dr. Anderson maintained that all tubercle bac- illi were derived from predecessors of the same character, and pointed out the facility with which- this bacillus adhered to moist surfaces and propagated itself under in- sanitary conditions such as prevailed in the overcrowded houses of the poor. He also mentioned the opinion, held by bacteriologists, that the expired breath of those suffering from the disease was comparatively innocuous, while their sputum swarmed with bacilli, and on evap- oration and desiccation was apt to become a fruitful source of infection. Hence the paramount necessity for a systematic de. struction of the sputum, disinfection of apartments occupied by those suffering from tuberculosis and disinfection or de- struction of articles of clothing likely to re- tain the germ. Referring to the large mor- tality from tuberculosis disease, Dr. Ander- -son mentioned, as an instance of public apathy in the matter of its prevention, the fact that very few people ap plied for dis- infection of material after death from this, cailse, in comparison with the numbers of those who took ouch precautions in the case of the various fevers. Passing to the subject of the disease in cattle he pointed out the large mortality among these animals from this cause and also the relation of milk supply to infant mortality from tuberculo- sis. The proportion of death from this cause in children under five years of age in Dundee was found to be 1 in 11. All these facts pointed to the necessity for the house- holder to safe -guard his owr, interests. Dr. Anderson concluded his instructive ad- dress by mentioning in detail the prevent- ive and disinfectant measures necessary to secure the highest possible immunity from the scourge. Servant girls and females of every class do not long continue employees in South Africa. The men average ten to one wom- an there, and therefore the latter are quick- ly soughtin marriage. One of the worst economies you can practice in feeding, is to feed whole corn - fodder. It is a'waste of both feed and of labor. The cattle will waste a large por- tion of it, in spite of your best .efforts and the stalks : add immensely to the labor of handling manure. It is far better to take the trouble to cut it before feeding, and ,so get the hill value; and save subsequent labor. Never use a grade animal for breeding_ however' good its -appearenoe may be. Whatever of merit, style or quality he may have comes • to him from some thorough- bred ancester, but he has no power to transmit his fine qualities to his progeny, to any degree worth: figuring on. The im- provement has ended- with himself. The grade is 1 Auld to breed -your herd &rem instead of up,. and there is no profit that wag. WASTE 1 Table Ware, ®vel board A man who the big Cunard quiring turn of to good advan pressed to a re amazement at of valuable m much of the st the steerage," would be thr the stewards, call them, ma if they can. T action results A great man steerage becau accommodatio food, and the able to buy course, it isn't what I wonde disregard for "For inata down to the s plates of choi carefully cove not be seen, tained silver very often si dishes and in pots. When and silver we whole busbies the refuse ch I've seen as down by the three or fon trip and in ev ware and bu may take my steward Carrie its proper qu. of the risk of trouble. I do very great, f themselves e tructive. I' handsome bla room for him a bath. Wh were rolled u the chute, an thnes during suggest a r wouldn't ex could, but it s have those thi responsible m affairs. A w- ronging from exceeding the they get no p only work wit company Tb.eB a ' There is n and a history nature of cri geography of the dark scie self. The cri the south-eas the restless nations who f the constant Austria, who fere. The ci the centre of than any cit although P have at ti " crooks," comparison constant s thieves and s ous city,and civilization t The proof and the pro over pain of it. Polson' form wond cannot fail, pain subdu• the bottom, Nerviline c external. bottle, and in doing its 00 txi „ t. . Mr. G--OO to go house stand toug coffee, a want tende pure Java c are going Mrs. Sli glad to hav conte back. Mr. Go morning, would like are vacan Mrs. Sli the matte edge butte Mr.Go much." This Co fui Conser ent in whi in Piano, ments,- chief tea° European strictly c N0 un