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In philesoph, in our sleep 1 dream tb .t we are on the poen we dream that hw is is all .a h©me, we it d ilial fs vP ,ilatr nncawers at stammer •.bout the coning eni HEALTH. Takinz OeM• Otte of the most important pointe in the care of the system is the keeping of the feet warm ani .dry. This lesson has been taught over and over, but it is to be feared that a rind many persous read solemn warnings, eornof tretec experiences. and gi' a them no. second thought. Our climate, with its sharp, suchen changes, calls for the exercise sf prudence in the matter of dress, to a deer gree that may be unknown m other regions where a mon equable and favorable condi- kion exists. Wards, comfortable undercloth- ing is ind apansabla, -and should be borne wen during a brief " warm sued" as a guard igainet dai'ger trotu climatic changes. A personhaving become heated either by -ac- tive exertion or by an excessive temperature, should not suddenty plunge into a chilling semperatnre,or sit either in a damp place or n a cool brease. The cheating ofthe perspira- tion too suddenly lays the fonndatsonof a tevereooldin every instance. Gentleexercise should be continued till the system has re- gained somethioe approaching a. normal con- lition. And so the list of cautions might se extended ; but the remainder would be is hackneyed as those already given. Care- essness or indifference gives the result,with idalt people, nine times oat of ten, though t is little cure for the ill to say, when the niscbief is wrought, " I might have known better." Still it often occurs that with the ntmost :are cold will be contradicted, ani the suf- 'erer be wholly unable to even suggest the time, place or circumstances which gave tbe anfortuuate exposure. A catarrhal conges- tion, dull headache, or some of the other familiar signs will be experienced, and the victim simply realizes that the time of pre- caution has passed. Much of the greater part of the sickness of winter comes directly or indirectly from taking cold. The list is very long. It embraces colds proper, coughs, hoarseness, sore throat, influenza, catarrh, neuralgia, rheumatism, with bronchitis and consumption as direct results. It is not, therefore, in good taste to say " only a cold," as giving the impression that the dif- ficulty will be gone in a day or so ; but the fact should always be recognized that even an apparently slight cold may be the begin- ning of a serious and possibly fatal illness. Do not lose any time in attending to a cold. It is not always possible for a per- son to give adequate treatment to a cold during the daytime. Duties which cannot be postponed may interfere. Bnt, gener- ally speaking, when the evening comes remedial measures are in order. There are so many ways of treating a cold that one is almost perptexed to know which to recom- mend-; and perhaps -it is as well that some- thing should be left to individual judg- ment, to .be determined by circumstances. One general principle may, consequently, belaid down—cold being the manifestation by congestion ofthe abnormal checking of theperapiration, or in other words the re- sult of a chill ot some portion of the system, the first remedial measure should be the te-establishing of the deranged action. It matters comparatively little, therefore, by what ordinary meaus the perspiration is started alone with renewed vigor, only so that the entire body be included. A fav- orite method with'tbe writer is simply to take an adequate dose of some " herb tea" or similar' preparation, going immediately to bed and covering with something more than the usual amount of bedding. A per- spiration will set in, lasting for some hours, but before morning the system will have recovered its normal tone, and in most case there is no neeessity for further treat- ment. But this is on the supposition that there are no serious or threatening complications. P.osibly there may be a severe headache in connection. In that case the head is pro- bably heated, while the feet and lambs are cold and clammy. This is -imply an indi- cation that the blood is being forced to the head, anti should, if possible, be persuaded to resume a more equal movement. This will be best facilitated by placing the feet in hot water, rubbi.,g the nether limbs briskly. It will aid in the result if the heart be also freely bathed in warm, but not hot, water. As this cools, it cools also the excessive temperature of the head, and is a better method of reaching the result than the direct application of cold water. The lower limbs should then be wrapped in a dry, warm blanket, and the patient should retire as before. The internal treatment is not to be overlooked, and any of the favor- ite herbs may be employed. Showers of Bloody &ain. - At Rome, in 12, it rained dust mixed with blood for three days, and, after the clouda had drifted away, it looked as if the sui, was swimming in a sea of tire. Four years later, in 1226, a snow fell in Syria which - was said to have been of as many color a as the rainbow. It thawed one day and was covered with a bright blue crust the following morning. On the fifth day it melted and. ran off in torrents of blood, or something much resembling that sanguine fluid in every particular- Many of the old writers record a three days' shower of bloody rain which fell in the Isle of Rhodes Sardinia, and Italy, in 1236. In 1343 old nature gave many marvelous exhibitions: - Fierce tempests and terrible earthquakes were the order of the day. Several towns and thousands of people were swallowed up, and the courses_ of many European rivers changedorentirely stopped. Many poison- ous fountains gushed out in Austria and lftalg= the fluids from thein being of different odor:rind colors. One spring which broke from the nieuutaan side near Vilaeh, Austria was_aLLretl as carmine ink, and so poisonous that "the -fumes from .it killed all the cattle grazingin the Wellecht Valley. Ponderous hailstones fell in Germany, some of them weighing as much as.seventy pounds. • At Laniech it rained flesh, dust, comets, fire- brands, ete. Mock suns with fiery tails tailed through "the air. These poisonous, iaporsare thought to have been the main lauaoofthe great plague of 1350 Fighting the In$sensa. There a as much mystery about the tire and origin of a coldas there is -about thainfluenza,tand 8 is popularly believed to befehing from one member of a family to ]mother; and notiufrequet a whole house- hold 18 dawn at the sametime with "colds,' is tonin if ►i1ien are- now ovili with in- "•_fiea erwee. h 'cuisd -is the ���,_- arose f .nen- for e,_ },3 - J,e J, 4 etli aI alt lt berntxf �h� cut s 01 dance raveai rets eat cold -= *Oen- Aftr:44* posed to it. We are constantly boasting of the increase in the length hf Itfe:, in_ recent -years; and mucid this `is dine 'to i 'creased knowledge an combating the dangers or the tendencies.to death which: surround the age of -both sexes. . ewe Other forms of epidemic diseases' can be shut out, and the arts of eating, drinking and sleeping have become eo carefully for- mulated, even widely studied, that many persona are able to live on in. a me-ehanical sort of way on a very limited amount of vitality. It is these persons who are now falling -easy victims -to- influenza' against which they have not yet discovered a de- fense, while those of a healthy and robust constitution resist the disease, or else pass through it, with more pain and inconvenience it must be admitted, but with hardly less danger than that attendingan ordinary cold. All the deaths are not those of aged per- sons, it is true ; but the feeble and damaged constitutions at all ages are of the same type, and fall easy victims to a disease which is in the air, and which easily finds its way to the fire -side and theinvelidcoueh. The best preventive measure against the in- fluenza is robust health. Perhaps we are getting a little too intemperate in eating and drinking, and coddle ourselves too much in furs and wraps at ordinary times ; but, in any case, the best treatment is just what we all know as the best treatment of a bad cold —a warm bed, warm drinks, and plenty of them, together with patience and freedom from mental worry and anxiety ; while the beat preventive as good living and plenty of fresh air. Are Oold Baths Injurious to Health. Cold bathing is injurious for persons with heart or lung disease, and for thosein whom it causes a sensation of chilliness, and is not followed by a sensation of warmth, or reac- tion as it is termed. If a bather comes out all aglow whilst dressing, the cold bath is not only not injurious, but beneficial, as it then acts as a tonic, and braces the system, If, however, the sense of chill remains, the bather not being able to rally from the dis- tressing influence of the cold, a cold bath in such a case is not invigorating but the re- verse, and is positively injurious to health. The water for the bath in such eases should be warm or tepid. In all cases vigorous rub- bing should fellow after bathing, and it is desirable that reaction should be stimulated by exercise, such as a brisk walk. Persons who advocate cold baths daily for all per- sons are clearly wrong, as what is suitable and beneficial for one constitution is pos- sibly objectionable, and even dangerous, to another. There is= no hard -and fast rule in the matter applicable to every one alike. AUSTRALIA'S AWE UL PEST. 20,00%008 Rabbits in Five Yeas. The plague of rabbits in Australia cannot be described without seeming exaggeration to those who have not had experience of it. Originally introduced in a colony of about a score of individuals by a squatter near Mel- bourne, who t hougl t their familiar presence on his station would "remind him of home," they have kept the recollection of England so fresh in the minds of pastoralists as to tempt them to very treasonable language concerning her whenever rabbits are men- tioned. The fecundity of the rabbit is amazing, and his invasion of remote districts swift and mysterious. Careful estimates show that, under favorable conditions, a pair of Australian rabbits will produce six litters a year, averaging five individuals . each. As the offspring themselves begin breeding at the age of six months, it is shown that, at this rate, the original pair might be respEn- sible in five years for a progeny of over 20,- 000,000! That the original score which were brought to the country have propagat ed after some such ratio, no one can doubt who has seen the enormous hordes that now devastate the land in certain districts. In all but the remoter sections, however, the rab- bits are now fairly under control ; one rabbiter with a pack of dogs supervises stations where one hundred were employed ten years ago, and with ordinary vigilance the squatters have little to fear. Millions of the animals have been killed by fencing in the water -holes and dams during a dry season, whereby they died of thirst, and lay in enormous piles against the obstruc- tions they had frantically and vainly striven to climb, and poisoned grain and fruit have killed myriads more. A fortune of £25,000, offered by the New South Wales Goverment, still awaits the n,an who can invent some means of general destruction. and the knowledge of this fact has brought to the notice of the various Colonial governments some very original devices. —[ From "Station Life in Australia," by Sidney Dickinson, in February Scribner. +_1 DWELLERS a THE AROTIO. The People of Upper Greenland. In 1813 sir John Ross discovered an iso- lated racrof human beings numbering about two hundred souls, living on the inhospita- ble shores of North Greenland. To this com- munity he gave the romantic name of "Arc- tic Highlanders," a name which unfortun- ately is misleading: for they are a littoral people and cannot inhabit the arctic high- land, as it is au everlasting ice -cap, and moreover they will not even visit it, for this inland ice isto them a region of terror ; a land where abide their demtins and evil spirits. At the present day they number as near as eau be estima ;ed, about the same as when tha knowledge of them came to the civilized world ; nor have they increased their terri- tory, but live on the narrow strip of moun- tainous'coast, which is left bare during the summer months, by the retreat of the winter snows. They could notbemore cut off from other human beings did they live on some small oceanic island. Practically they,do live on an islan 1;: for they erenurronnded by water ; by great e panses -:of solid _water ; for they ` never pass the ice barrier of the great Humboldt Glacier,: with its sea face of sixty miles ; they never ascend to the sum- mer foot of the "ice -blink," some two thou- sand feet above sea levet ;; nor = attempt to wandersouth over the vast ice -.floes of Mel- ville -Bay, one hundred miles in extent. At 79 ° north latitude, near the southern edge of_the Humboldt Glacier,isa collection of hats known as Etah, their most northern settlement, while at Cape York, in latitude 75 °' 55, N., probably'their largest eneamp- ment,is.their southern limit,. and wbieli, as near- as we could' determine by the sign language, they call Pitanito: _ .Their country may be said:to`beabout :one--huhdred':and gilts five: »:riles -long and from three to five mules. n breadth.. - - ''Twouid be of no gge.- Stern Parent. -t" I tell ion ,*➢dist it is, Martha, Fm tired of seeing that -y oun fel- -low coming here two or three eyenmgs a week. I think I shall haveto sit: down' on Mar"I•irsu .=.F - : � „twonld beat vie. Tse: done it m. self iatnea, end 'I irrlr Send out the Sunlight.VIM WO= or wag. BY ELLE DARE. Send out the suer ht. the -sunlight of -cheer, Shine on earth's sadness till ills dssapgear— Souls are in waiting this message to hear. Send out the sunshine in letter and word ; Speak it and think it till hearts are all stir- red— Hearts that are hungry for prayers still un- heard. Send out the sunlight each hour and each day, Crown all the yearn with its luminous ray, Nourish the seeds that are sown on theway. Send out the sunlight ! 'tis needed on earth, Send it afar in scintillant mirth. Better than gold in its wealth -giving worth? Send out the sunlight on rich and on poor— Silks sit in sorrow, and tatters endure— All need the sunlight to strengthen and care. Send out the sunlight that speaks in a smile, Often it shortens the long, weary mile ; Often the burden seems light for awhile. Send out the sunlight—the Spirit's real gold! Give of it freely—this gift that's unsold ; Shower it down, on the young and the old . Send out the sunlight, as free as the air ! Blessings will follow. with none to compare, Bleasingaof peace, that wil I rise from depair Send out the sunlight, you have ft in you! Clouds may obscure it just now from your view ; Pray Bets presence ! Your prayer with come The Road, The River and the Rest. Weary and worn in a wilderness, Fa from shelter. far from home, Shadows are falling and round me press toes that urk amid the gloom : Star there is none and the tangling thorns Force my stumbling feet to stray. Shall I not perish, if through these storms Break no kindly beams of day? Sweet is Thy mercy, come Savior spread Forth Thy golden wings of light, Over my pathwayThy radiance shed: Lead me safely home to -night Standing in awe by a rib er's brink Dark its waters,deep and sad Grasping a hand, I faint and sink, Grandest grasp I've ever had : Ab 1 how Istruggte, still ho iding fast, Shall I reach it, yon fair shore ? Oh, what a Saviour! home, home at last! I shall never sorrow more. Sweet is Thy mercy. Lord let me rest, Where Earth's troubles find a balm. Peaceful and placid folded and press'd Safe within Thy Bosom s calm. —LErnest E. Leigh. THE LATE= MORELL MAuKE331 E A Touching Story Illustrating His Good- ness of Heart Probably no physician •e ver died in Lon- don who had so many warm personal friends and so many bitter professional enemies as the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. He came by both honestly. He was a hard fighter, with all the courage of his convictions, and he had a faculty for winningthe affection and confidence of his friends, particularly among his patients, that has rarely been excelled. In the practice of procession he was of the gentlest and kindest nature, which was dis- played alike whether his patient was of royal blood or the object of his charity : for air Morell, overwhelmed as he was with engage- ments to treat the greatest and wealthiest people in the land, never turned away the humblest and poorest sufferer who came to his door. He charged enormous fees to the rich. He would not accept money from the poor. A touching story illustrating hie,. kinduess of heart is related in one of to -day's newspaper. Into one of the hospitals to which he gave a portion of his time eachweek was brought a wretched little working girl who had attempted to commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Sir Morell attended her day after day, but her case was hopeless, and she was finally sent to her home in an East End slum to die. She lingered on for two or three weeks, and all her thoughts and con- versation were of the great physician who had tended her so carefully and treated her so kindly. As her final moments drew near she begged that some one would go to " her doctor," as she termed him, and bring him to her bedside. So importunate were her entreaties that a city missionary, who visit- ed her daily, ventured to call on Sir Morell and tell him of the dying girl's request. " Can I do anything for her ?" asked Dr. Mackenzie. " No," said the missionary ; she is past human aid, but your presence would give her untold comfort." " I'll go," said Dr. Mackenzie, and he put aside all other en- gagements, wen five miles to an East En•l • enement house, sat down by the girl's bed- side for an hour, suggested one or two simple al levations, called her " my dear," and left her with two or three bank notes squeezed up in her hand. AGAINST THE O.P. B. Alt the U. S Railways Going to Attack the Comedian Routes. A despatch from Deeroit says ;—The an- nouncement of the boycott by the laichigan Central railroad of the Soo line by the refus- al of passenger connections either way prov- es to be a mere incident to the gigantic war- fare for which preparations are now being made en the most magnificent scale, not atone by the Central bat all lines centering in Chicago from the north-west and their eastern connections, inclusive of the entire Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania systems, against the Canadian Pacific. The Janu- ary meeting of the North-western Commit- tee of the Western Passenger Association de- cisive action was taken to withdraw the ar- rangements entered into at the conference held in February, 1890, regarding Canadian rates by way of Chicago. A joint letter was addressed on Janu- ary 11 to General Passenger Agent McNlooll, of the Canadian Pacific, and Gen- eral Passenger Agent Edgar, of the Grand Trunk, giving notice that arrangements made at the conference referred to Would be withdrawn. Upon request of two members of the association, however, a meeting of the North-western Committee has been called for to -morrow toconsider the question of postponing the e notice regariing Ca- nadian rates by way of Chicago to the North-west. The roads requested to par- ticipate in the meeting, or conference, are : the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, Lehi. gin Central, Wabash, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Great Northern and Northern Paiific. An invitation has also been extended to F. C. Donald, vice -chair man of the Central Traffic Association. This great meeting, it Li -confidently predicted by men having full knowledge of the situation, is the final quasi peace conference before the declaration of war. Action heretofore taken is simply = regarded as the skirmishes inci- dent to taking the position by the several great armies. Heller says that there fire presents in the Wands - adjoining Madagascar which have beads whih are always held erect, and faces "which much- resemble those of the human species." A- Few Points About lndastrY.' 'I+'risco hag 5,f)00 Japs, Canada has a cigar trust. Electric heating spreads. A rice trust is announced. Driving belts are of paper. Currycombs are in a trust. Electric mining is growing. Japan operates its• railroads. London has 65,003 Germans. Glass -coated bricks are announced - Paris has eighty-seven daily papere• London bas 18,000 newspaper women. The States. have 1,797 distinct railroads. Chinese gold miners in Nevada get 96- a day. Uncle Sam boasts of two negro women lawyers. Great Britain has 217,600 union mire workers. A Munich microscope will be run by elec- tricity. Poles in Prussia want Polish taught in the schools. Fireflies in jars furnish light in the West I Indies. A Nevada man claims a gun that fires fif- teen shots a second. Around Oldham, Eng., there are 101 cot- ton spinning mills. Spain has consolidated the postoffice and telegraph business. Mails may be shipped by electricity from Brooklyn to New York, Only citizens who can read and write are allowed to vote in Bolivia. New York granite cutters will have a $5,000 monument at the world's fair. Everything from a beet to a glass of champagne is 25 cents in Yokohoma, Japan. The State Trades assembly, of New York, want land assessed after the single -tax idea. The United States has a capacity for producing about 15,250,000 pounds of paper annually. It is possible to draw platinum and silver into wire that is finer than the human hair. 'Frisco women shoefitters make $12' a week and average a week. The union' numbers 300 women. The grand total of charitable bequests in Englaudlast year, excluding Baron Kirsch's, was $15,000,' 00. The United Kingdom has -180,000 land- owners, who possess between them the whole of the landed possessions. Mine. Furtado-Heine has given warm clothing, boots, etc., to nearly 6,000 poor boys and girls of Paris this winter. California produced enough wine this sea- son to allow a quart for every man, woman and child in the United States. Sheet -iron kites, to enable a vessel when in distress during a storm to communicate with the shore, have been suggested. The state board of agricultural of Indiana will give organized labor the preference in the construction of its new buildings. John Fischer. of New York, an old man out of work and starving, was sent to prison and put under 8500 bail for stealing a loaf of bread. In Great Britain the total sum paid in wages for the year 189 • amounted to £48,- 00 ,000 or an average of £66 10e per capital for the total number employed. It is claimed that the vice president of the Federation of Labor at Haverhill, Mass., isa detective, and he has been working against the union for years. - Diamond Out Diamond. At one of the annual fairs held at a smal town in Russia a gentlemen observed a gypsy and a Jew haggling over the sale -of a horse. When the bargain was concluded the two separated, both evidently highly satisfied with the result. Full of curiosity as to the process of barter between two such shrewd characters the gentleman called the gypsy to him, and in- quired how much he had received for his ani- mal. The gypsy opened his hand and showed a ten -rouble note. But isn't that very cheap ?" " No," said the gypsy ; „he is dead lame," The gentleman then sought out the Jew, and said • " So you've given ten roubles for a lame horse?" The Israelite laid his finger on his nose. " Lame ! He's as sound as you are ; I saw he was badly shod, and only limped in cense quence." The inquirer returned to the gypsy, and reported what the Jew Said. The former gave a tremendous and signifi- cant wink, and whispered: " He's as lanae as a t o -legged stool. I had him badly shod on purpose to make them believe that that was the cause of him limp- ing." When this was communicated to the Jew he seemed for the moment taken aback, and hung his head. Then, with a little sigh and a shrug of the shoulders, he said, quietly : - " Ab, well ! It's all right. It was a bad ten -rouble note." The British Battle -ship Victoria bas gone ashore on the Greek coast. This is one of most formidable battleships ever built. She is veritably a monster craft, having 10,500 tons displacement, and over 14,010 horse- power. Even with this immense motive power, the highest speed this great floating castle in armor can be given is not more than sixteen -knots. The protection on the Victoria's single turret is eighteen inches thickness of compound armor. Within this turret are mounted a brace of 110 -ton guns. Besides these monsters, the Victoria carries twelve six•inch and one 29 -ton gun, tooth- ther with a secondary battery of rapid-fire pieces. The Victoria is anew ship, and if she proves a wreck, the loss will represent quite a sum on the the wrong side of Eng- land's naval accounts. The official returns ofthe nuiniber,of visi- tors to the British Museum (exclusive of reade's)-dating the year -1891 show. the fel: lowing results :-Jantuary,_ .36,800; Febru ary, 35,205; March,; 48,042; April, 46,282;. May, 50,314 ; June, 35,677 ; ,. July, 48,999 .; August, 57,418; September, 43,713Onto- ber, 40,743 November, -35,353; Iyect ember, 36,368—total, .515;214. The number of.vist-, for during the year 1890 was 520;1724: there has consequently been a failing loll' during.the past twelve months of 4,958 vies .tors The dayand evening Attendances:for• the past six months were::—Day, 241,3773 , evening 21,521—total,-t62,894." -The eveii ing attendances for the corresponding period of 1890 numbered 22, 894, - The smallest evening attendance in each year: - happened on December22, there having been Only .J4 Visitors-Am that day ht 1890, and• 19 In: 139I WHORE CIES DESERTED. Disiistrous Results of the [loom Collapse in tcausus—Towns ano Cities Left Without a Sittglelnhab[tant—kasteru Loan Com-- panes Ot!'n the 4 ouiitry ' Seven years ago, says the N. Y. Times, tbe town site -and boomers managed to ob- tain control of the Kansas Legislature and secured the formation of a dozen or more small counties in Southwestern Kansas. Land was cheap, and they expected tis reap_. their reward in selling land costing 91.25 an acre for $90Q an acre after it bad been cut up into town lots. In manyinatances they succeeded, while the results of their greed were county -seat contests, which unfortu nately sometimes ended in bloodshed. - While these men had divided the land into counties, making them as small as tle Constitution would permit,others had rush-- edin and started towns of their own. So num- erous were these municipal plots that often they were but three or four miles apart. As soon as the counties were 'organized, and the appointed officers followed by elec- ted ones, the voting of bonds was com- menced, and continued until a fair country was so burdened that the present genera- tion will be unable to throw off the load. County buildings, bridges, sugar works, schoolhouses, and then refunding bonds to replace scrip issued for expenses, followed each other in rapid succession. The ease with which the first bonds were disposed of in New York, Boston and Philadelphia in creased the disease, for all were anxious to get rich. Twenty thousand dollars could be obtained for a handsomely printed bit of paper costing but a few cents. The boom period passed away. Property depreciated in value, where it did not vanish altogether, and the population dwindled away until the load now borne is a great one, that can have but one result,. -: The Attorney -General has commenced proceedings in the Supreme court to dis organize Garfield- county. He sets forth two reasons—the illegal organization and the small number of inhabitants and the limited value of property. It costs about $10,000 to run one of these new counties one year. Under statutory provisions, only 1 per cent. can be taxed to pay these ex- penses, and therefore there is an annual deficit of nearly $6,000. To create such an indebtedness is a penitentiary offence under a law passed three years ago. If the Su- preme -court disorganizes the county for the first reason, then its indebtedness of $123,- 456, according to Attorney -General Ives, will be illegal, having been created without authority of law. and the bond holders will have to lose that amount. If disorganized for the second reason only, then the debt. will remain valid 'against that county as a muncipal township. if successful in this application the Attorney -General will pro- ceed against sixteen other counties. No allusion has been made to the private indebtedness represented by mortgages held by Eastern men. Very many of these have been satisfied, the honest settler having prospered during the last five years. The greater portion of this class of indebted- ness has been due to the rascality and dis- honesty of two classes of people—the early preemptor, who never intended to become a permanent resident, and the loan agent, who was aware of the fact, but who desired his commissions. The latter knew when placing loans on many of these tracts of land, that he was virtually making a sale, but he could not forego securing his share of the plunder, An incident that came to the personal knowledge of the Times' corres- pondent illustrates this feature. In 1887, having occasion to visit the off- ice of a loan agent in a Western county, it was his good fortune, or bad fortune, to he present when a tall, dirty ugly homesteader came in to close up a loan. He bad " prov- ed up," and had his papers all regular. He had made application for 91.500, but had been allowed only 8900 by the hom ; office. He gave the required mortgage on his place, signed the notes, and then received • he $9011, less $90 commission, although his papers called for the tull amount. Careful- ly stowing the $810 away, he said : " Wall, I've made a durned good sale. I've got mor'n I ev.r expected to git ter the old place. I'm goin' back to Arkansaw and git me a little place, and durn my hide of you'll ever ketch me at Kansas agin 1" His " place" was not actually worth more than $36 -. The agent knew it, and the home office had reason to believe tint the land could not be warth the money ?laced on it. An evidence of this was that not, a member of the Investment company, which is still •counted a good one, ever placed a dollar. of his money on lands in that county. It was always Eastern money that went into this class of investments." There are twenty well-built towns in this state vethout a single inhabitant to waken the echoes of their deserted streets. Sara- toga has a thirty thousand dollar opera house, a large brick h .tel, a twenty -thous- and -dollar school -house, and a number of fine business houses, yet there is nobody even to claim a place to sleep. Her banks remain, but they are silent. -Some of her dwellings stand there, monuments of the credulity of man. At Fargo a $25,000 school -house stands on the side of the hill, a monument of the bond -voting craze. Most of the buildings have been removed or are torn down. The hotel ceps gloomy watch over the few re- maining houses, aided by the " bank." A herder and his family constitute the sole population of what was once an incorporat- ed city. South Hutchison is another example of a well built city without a people. It would take more than $300,000 to duplicate the buildings there, and yet one can wander. through the streets without finding man, woman or child. "Tae list night be con- tinued, but it would be a dreary repetition. Speaking of these " cities," Mr. George W. Martin, of Wyandotte, recently said : " Kansas has needed only one lesson, and we will find out when the reaction comes, after the depression, whether she has yet learned it. Every hainlet has been ambi- tions to . be a metropolis. Every twenty miles the people bonded themselves and built railroads_ for which they will have no earthly use in the next half century. Like the one -hundred dollar man with the one - thousand -dollar horse. each community has a system., `of water works. I know places where thousands of dollars lie in the ground :water mains, and if the property • for blocks Waste burn the loss would not amount to as much as the interest pn the debt." Bor Brightest Boy The Teacher—".There is one of my bright- est ;boys sigethereon wt- ing,rwhile his companionsovr are thwastiatngrock their titrate litidle piay. No doubt he is writing his esson`outforto-morrow. Here Jimmy, lekTaq see >rbat.you are writing." Jimm1+ I don't want to." see,his modesty !! Come, I want to read tt." _ Thiess what she read ease,James from school excuee m son ss Ile ]s needed at hom— Z —.eaten LATE B ISII NEWS. At this;mason oftthegear, on the average about -,30 :London policetnen are ineapaci- tated.At present -there are 1,500 off duty from tlae influenza, - The Yorkshire Coal Owners' Association have invited the owuei•49 federation to ar- range with them for a minimum price for coal with penalties for selling lower. _The valve of the mineral output of New "South Wales in 1890 w s £5.283,840, an increase of £503.474 over 1889 The pro- duction of gold during the same year was valued at £460,285. A quarry of natural cement stone bas :been discovered in the province of Natal, South Africa. Near by are extensive coal deposits, which supply the fuel to burn the stone. Three lads were " drowned at Tuwey, Northamptonshire, .on Saturday, through the ice giving way. One was the son of Mr. F. H. Mardlin, chief constable of Northamp- ton. In the coming Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, upon the payment of a small fee, persons will be able to listen through the telephone to the music performed at theatres in London, Birmingham, Manches- ter, and Liverpool. News reaches England from the East Indies station that the British war ship Blanche is so weak that, except the steel protective deck, the joints of her plates open out in a seaway. The Sphynx of the same service is also in a leaky state, and is not allowed to fire her guns for fear the concussion may do further damage. The engines for the British cruiser Astrea, which are being built in the Keyham fac- tory, will probably be completed by Sep- tember next, about half the work having now been accomplished. These will be the most powerful engines hitherto constructed in any British factory. The British Channel squadron arrived at Gibraltar on Jan. 11, and sailed on Jan. 13 for Tetuan, on the African Boast, returning to Gibraltar again on Jan. 16. the British training squadron was at Bermuda on Jan. 14. It is said by the United Service Gesiette that the Chileans have decided for the fu- ture to give all orders for war ships to Great Britain. France built one or two, bat the British vessels proved superior. At Wandsworth Police Court, on Wed- needay, the Rev. Arthur Denny, a church. of England clergyman, was committed for trial charged with indecently assaulting a police constable. Prisoner's couniel said witnesses would be called te* show that prisoner was not accountable for his actions. What appears to have been a deliberate attempt to wreck a South -Eastern train was made near Dorking on Saturday night. Several heavy pieces of sleepers were placed on the metals just before the arrival of the up -fast train. It fortunately was going at a high rate of speed, and cut clean through the obstruction. The police are making in- quiries into the matter. Intelligan. a reached • Belfast from Pome roy, County Tyrone, of the discovery in a snow -drift of the two little daughters of a farmer named Bone. They had been miss- ing for over a week. Oc, the 8th inst. they left school for home, two miles distant, and it is supposed they were caught in the snow- storm raging at the time. i" hen found the children were locked in each other's arms. The Coen -martial upon Lieutenant Col- well, charged with theft, was resumed at Portsmouth on Tuesday, and was again ad- journed. For the defence it was contended that the marked coins got into prisoner's desk by foul means While regret,,ing, as a grandson ot one distinguished officer and the son of another, the position in which he found himself, prisoner courted the fullest inquiry. On Monday morning, Mr. Coroner Wyatt received in ormation of the death of Mary White, aged 65 years, a widow, lately living at 14 China Valk, Lambeth. Deceased was brought home at night in a state of intoxi- cation. Nothing more was seen of her until the next afternoon, when she was discovered in a nude state crouched up in the corner of her room The divisional surgeon, upon his arrival pronoun:ed life extinct. A shocking accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at the works of Messrs Taylor Brothers, Sheffield. A young workman named Wing was lubricating the shaft of the machine at which he was engaged, when his clothing caught in the revolving band and he was whirled round several times. The machine was immediately stopped and Wing relieved. He is terriblyinjured, and was removed to the infirmary. An inquest was held near Lowestoft on Saturday on Sidney Darkiu, aged two and a half years, son of a gamekeeper in the employ ot Sir Swale Crossley. Deceased was lett in charge of an elder brother, aged nine, anti during the brief absence of the latter cr.-wled to a gun which had been left loaded on half cock in the kitchen. The brother on returning found deceased with his head partly blown away and his breast riddled with shot. The brother carried the body into the ba ikyard, where it was found three hours afterwards by the parents, who had been to Lowestoft. How Gordon Settled It. The artillery evinced their disgust (at their removal to Quniian) by refusing to fall in, and in a proclamation they threatened to blow the Chinese authorities away with the small guns. Their non-commissioned officers, as usual, all paraded and were sent for by Major Gorden. who asked them the reason why the men did not fall in, and wrote the pro- clamation. They, of course, did not know; and on Major Gordon, telling them be would be obliged to shoot one in every five, they evicaed their objection to this pro- ceeding by a groan. The most prominent in this was a Corporal, who was dragged out, and a couple of infantry who was stand- ing by were ordered to load, and directed to shoot the mutineer, whirs one did with- out the slightest hesitation. The remainder were marched back and locked up for an hour, with the threat that if the name of the writer of -this proclamation was not given.. and if the men did not fall in before an hour -had elapsed= the arrangement of shooting one in five would be carried out. At the expiration of an hour the men all fell in, and the name of the culprit, who had run away was given up. After that time we had no trouble, the men were thoroughly cowed, and the non- commissioned officers—the real offenders— dared no longer foster sedition. It is to be regretted, however, that one life should have been sacrificed ; but this saved many others which mast have been lost if a atop had not been put to the independent way of the men. According to an officer of Scotla n.; Yard there are 100,000 pickpockere in London, ind each one of them know* we Jtmeribau the moment he sees aim.