Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Page 6

CARE OF THE FEET.

A CHIROPODIST GIVES TIPS FOR SELF-TREATMENT. A* Bcores Shallow-Pated, Vain Men and Women Who Distort Their Tone by Tl*ht or Pointed Shoe*—Women the Chief Offender*. Cauea of Cora*. Dr. Charles Kahler, a chiropodist, of New York, has written a book entitled “How to Treat Your Own Feet," in which he gives some sensible advice on a topic that is of great and growing importance. He states that nearly all the evils to which the foot is subject are due to ill-fitting Bhoes, and he roundly scolds those who sacrifice health and comfort to make their feet look smaller than they really are. He urges women to wear shoes with room enough for five instead of only two toes. It is suggested l hat the feet were designed by Nature, not by man, and that any interference with the natural growth

THE PERFECT FOOT.

and requirements will meet with a Just punishment The badly fitting Btocking also comes in for a vigorous dressing down. Troubles caused by 111-fitting stockings are more common among women than men, for the reason that women are more anxious to encompass their feet in as little space as possible. This custom, the author adds, was probably borrowed from the Chinese women, who, upon becoming of age, regard feet larger than mere stumps as a disgrace and a deformity. The Doctor says that frequent bathing in very warm water is of much benefit to the feet, and is usually the first course to be adopted for the treatment of unnatural growths and callosities. The heat of the water renders the flesh soft and pliable and allows considerable of the superfluous skin to be easily removed. It is advisable to put a little spirits of ammonia in the foot bath. Should the collosity be highly inflamed, so as to have the appearance of a fester, a slippery elm or flaxseed poultice should be applied before going to bed. Chamois-skin washers should be placed over the sore spot the next day in orde/to prevent friction from the shoe. Sometimes a slice of lemon

EFFECTS PRODUCED BY TIGHT SHOES.

applied to the callosity will relieve, If not entirely eradicate, the trouble. Ingrowing nails are a source of great inconvenience, and often of excruciating pain. They should be prevented by wearing properly fitted shoes; but if they should appear it is highly advisable to nip them in the bud, so to speak. This may be done by inserting a wad of lint under the nail, where it has a tendency to turn down into the flesh. This prevents Irritation and the development of an ingrowing nail. “My advice,” says ■Dr. Kahler, “to all persons afflicted with ingrowing toe nails, or who have had them treated without effecting a cure, is to procure shoes of sufficient length, breadth, and fullness of upper to allow plenty of room for the toes, and especially for the

HOW THE BOSES BECOME DISTORTED.

great toe, and to follow the treatment heretofore described carefully. If this advice is acted upon a cure will certainly follow in a reasonable length of time. Corbett receives $20,000 in nine ninutes by striking perhaps a dozen blows. Patti receives $5,000 for singing “Home, Sweet Home,” which contains twenty-eight notes and consumes fifteen minutes in the singing. Obviously Patti is underpaid. Both artists must submit to long, arduous, £nd more or less expensive training—there is no advantage on either side. Each, to be sure, starts out with the divine gift. If CoTbett is premier in his profession, Patti is premiere in hers. Yet the slugger makes more than four times the wages of the singer. As for fame, where is Patti now? These are considerations of interests to young people hesitating to choose a profession. The moral is plain. As between pug and diva, be a pug if you can. But if you can’t pug, diva. Even Patti makes four times as much as anyone else on earth. The danger of convicting a prisoner on inconclusive circumstantial evidence was forcibly and practically demonstrated at a recent; hanging. While standing on the scaffold the prisoner confessed to a murder for which an innocent mkn is now serving a life’s imprisonment. The circumstances surrounding the murder fixed the guilt on the innocent man. He had had trouble with the victim, who was Shortly afterward murdered. He was arrested and sentenced and is now in the penitentiary, where he probably would have remained had not the murderer confessed. The man who walks over a precipice with his eyes shut is as sure to killed as the one who throws himself *** \

ADMIRAL BENHAM'S FLEET AT RIO.

WINTER DIET.

A Few flints by Which Go id Health May He Attained. Few people seem to give any thought to the appropriateness of food to the season of the year, says the New York Ledger. With the coming cold weather many people remain a great deal indoors, occupying rooms which are often kept at a high temperature and with, of course, very much less fresh air than they are accustomed to during warm weather. This has a tendency to create a feverish condition of the system that should be counteracted by a free indulgence in fruits of all available sorts. For such purposes there is nothing better than good apples eaten raw. If children were permitted to eat all the fresh apples they craved throughout the winter there would be fewer diseases and deaths; while for adults, those who are of fairly quiet habits and who remain indoors a great deal, there is nothing in the whole range of food products as useful. It is claimed that severe cases of gout and other rheumatic difficulties may be entirely cured by the free use of apples. In the absence of apples, raw potatoes, eaten with a little salt, are a most excellent corrective of bad humors. An eminent lawyer of this country claims to owe his excellent health largely to the habit of eating raw potatoes with salt. Whenever he feels feverish or out of condition this is his medicine, and for years he has taken no other. Oranges, lemons, grape fruit, pineapples in their season, and all acid fruits, are valuable for people of sedentary habits. Almost all persons might improve their health if they would but give a little attention to some of the most simple of nature’s laws, and when this boon is so cheaply purchased the wonder is that it Is feo much neglected.

The Santa Fe Failure.

Such an event as the failure of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, occurring in former times would have precipitated a panic in the midst of prosperity, or would have increased vastly the terrors of an existing panic. The failure of Jay Cooke and the half-flnish-ed Northern Pacific Pailway in 1873 created the panic of that year. The interests involved in that catastro phe were not one-tenth as extensive or important as those of the Santa Fe. Yet this occurrence did not affect the money or stock market to the extent of one-half of one per cent, on the total volume of business. The loss on securities fell so lightly and were so widely distributed that the result amounted to but little more than a ripple along the shores of the business world. The disaster to the Santa Fe is the result of nothing but misdirected enterprise and errors in management. In 1881 the stock of the Santa Fe sold at 1541. From 1886 to 1888 the stock was but a point or two below par. The plan or extension then began. The line to Chicago was built and the immense terminal property on State street was acquired. The Chicago extension never paid, but caused loss of business to the main line. The business of the main line, which had been divided at the Missouri River among several roads, kept them all in a friendly spirit and the Santa Fe received their combined transcontinental traffic. When it built a rival line to Chicago it lost all the Chicago and eastern traffic of other lines. Practically the same result followed the acquisition of all its extensions and subsidiary lines. Each step of enterprise excited the hostility of rival lines whose territory was invaded. The main line lost traffic and the branches did not do a self-supporting business. Every attempt to conquer other worlds impaired the value of its own world as a source of profit. In the bankruptcy of such great roads as the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Erie, the Santa Fe and other systems profound, lessons are to be learned in the science of railroad management, and especially in the morals of railroad financiering. With good business principles and honesty as a basis of management every one of these railroads should be solvent and paying good dividends on its stock.

“Gatored Mules.”

The Washington News says that a “ ’gatored mule” is, according to Florida dialect, a mule that has been driven partially insane by an alligator. Therfe are hundreds of such demented mules in Florida, and it is a fact that they are never the same after a genuine fright of this sort I helped to ’gator one myself, writes a traveler. I had been staying at Ocala, and finally agreed with several friends to go hunting in the south. Some distance from town we located upon a small stream abounding in ganie. After pitching camp, I went for a walk, and before long I found a ’gator hole. From the strong, musty odor issuing from it, I knew the owner must be at home. I decided to capture him, and called my companions. Several times we rammed a long pole into the buirow. Finaliy we heard a snap like

the report of a gun, and the pole reTfee ’gator had seized it. We tried vainly'to pull him out Then some one suggested that we try our camp mule. The mule was led down to the hole, a chain fastened to him and the pole, and the frightened animal was started. There was a creaking of chain, a roar, and an alligator fully seven feet in length came out with a rush, as the mule started on a wild run for the road. The saurian’s teeth were sunken so deeply in the pole that he could not release himsfif, and away went mule, pole and all. The alligator spun round, hissing like a steam-engine: but he held on, while the mule, thinking himself pursued, snorted and ran. We followed. Into the main street of Ocala flew the mule and his queer load. Completely exhausted, he was stopped by a party of men near the post office. The ’gator was dead. We skinned and stuffed him. The mule recovered, but the sight of a swamp now throws him into a perfect frenzy of terror.

Leaks in Drain Pipes.

Another piece of chemical knowledge worth noting is the action of sulphide of hydrogen in the p r esence of a lead salt. If a piece of blotting paper be soaked with a solution of sugar of lead and be held near or over a bottle of sulphide of hydrogen the blotting paper will at once turn dark-brown or black. That is, a chemical change takes place and the sulphur or the sulphide of hydrogen unites with the lead of the sugar of lead, and a sulphide of lead is the result, whiyb is black or dark-browD. The practical application of this is tho detection of leaks In drain pipes. Almost all foul odors from cesspools and drains contain the sulphide of hydrogen. If a leak of these odors is suspected or noticed, a piece of blotting paper soaked with a solution of sugar of lead and held at the joints of the pipes or where the odor is suspected will at once turn brown or black if there is an escape of gas. Often at summer resorts some of the back rooms suggest an odor not too pleasant, and a bad drain rr leaky cesspool is suggested by a faint smell. A piece of blotting paper treated as directed above and left to hang in the room will detect a slight amouqt of this poisonous gas and prove conclusively that the room is unfit for occupation.

Just the Opposite.

An Irishman who was employed in the iron works in a Western town was advised by his physician to seek some employment where the labor was less severe, on account of an enlargement of the heart. He proceeded, therefore, to set up a small grocery, which was well patronized by his friends. He was not in the habit of diminishing his prospects of financial success by giving “down weight,” and one afternoon, when a customer asked for a pound of sugar, he added pinch by pinch until the scale barely turned. “Fat,” Inquired the customer, looking up Innocently at his careful weigher, “phwat was it the dochter said was ailin’ ye?” “Inlaargemint av the haart," answered Pat with pride. ’’Well, thin,” said the customer, “it’s tolme ye were changin’ yer doo ther, Fat; the wan that’s tindin’ ye now don’t understhand yer disease, me b’y. Yer haart is gettin’ smaller moiglity fast, an’ it’s in great danger ye are!”

For the Minister.

The Woman’s Journal has heard ol a little girl who has learned to adapt herself to circumstances. She wrote a composition entitled, “The Cow.” It had two great merits: brevity and truth. It ran thus: “The cow is a very useful animal.” That afternoon the minister called at the house, and the little girl’s mother asked her to read her composition to him. She read it with emendations and improvements: “The cow is the most useful animal except religion.” The California Fruit Grower reports the arrival *f specimens of a new beetle from Hawaii. It feeds indiscriminately cc the leaves of the peach, orange, and grape, and, in tact, on all kinds of fruit trees. It is as yet unknown in California. It is to be hoped that the specimen was promptly destroyed as soon as identified. The worst insect depredators have been disseminated by sending specimens as a scientific curiosity, and then letting some of them escape. The beetle came originally from Japan and is known in Hawaii as the Japanese bug or leaf-eater. Extract from a new novel: “Stand where you are, Reginald de Courcy! Advance one step nearer and I will tell you what I saw at the World’s Fairl” “Foiled again!” hissed the villain, as he faded from view.— Philadelphia Record. The average waist of woman, a woman’s journal asserts, has increased from 19 inches to 24 ipches within five years. It looks elusive, but there are men who will endeavor to get ’round it—Philadelphia Ledger.

A RIVAL OF NIAGARA.

MIGHTY WATERS HARNESSED FOR HUMAN USES. Wonderful Betonrooo of a New RegionTeat Industrie* Springing Cp— How the Maaonrl'a Swift Cnrrrnt I* ttUixed— Young end Promising Cltj. Marvels of Montana. Great FaUs, Mont., correspondence: It was not until the return of Lewis and Clarke from their remarkable journey, covering two and a half years, to the Pacific coast, in the first years o? she century, that any definite knowledge was obtained of the Falls of ihe' Missouri. The intrepid explorers spent many months rowing and poling their heavy batteaux against the swift current of the muddy river, which became clearer as they left the bluff deposits of the prairies and plains and neared the falls, above which the water jg gs clean and pure as it 3 sources of supply In mountain springs and snow, We wish our B{.aco would permit reprinting but graphic descriptions given cl this wonderful series of falls, in America's greatest river, around which the exploring party spent nearly a month. From the highest point of land, 350 feet above Black Eagle Fall, on which now stands a smokestack 200 feet high, as prominent an object as the Washington monument, the top as high above the furnaces as that noble shaft, Lewis and Clarke looked for the first time over the site of the present city, but then temporarily occupied by a herd of buffalos, and later, in an encounter with a wounded ope. Lewis was chased into the water opp: site the town, where the river is 2,800 feet wide, and compelled to swim to the other shore.

A new edition of “The History of the Explorations of Lewis and Clarke” has i'ust been issued under the direction of -’rof. Elliott Coues, of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a recital of a most important event in our history, and brought down to date by numerous foot notes. It is dedicated as follows: To the People of the Great West: Jefferson gave you the country. Lewis and Clarke showed yon the wav. The rest Is yonr own course of empire. Honor the statesman who foresaw yonr West. Honor the brave men who first saw your West. May the memory of their florious achievement be your precious herlagel Accept from my heart the undying record ot the beginning of all your greatness. E. C. According to Eastern ideas of calculation, this is a very young city, but undeniably it is one of the most promising in the West, and is bearing out the predictions of the explorers, that an important industrial" city would spring up here. The first settler, Hon. Paris Gibson, an honored and still active citizen of the sturdy young giant with over 12,000 population, and as enthusiastic over the future as ever, with much now to back up his opinions and prophecies, broke ground for the first house about ten years ago. Its growth was slow until the first railway, the Groat Northern, reached there four years later. Now railroads reach out in various directions. The reader will naturally inquire what there is in the Northwest to make great States and cities. Is not this country in the American desert the Bchool books used to tell about? Yes, but the desert has since been chased hither and thither, until it is now located in spots among the lava beds and high ranges of the far Southwest, and what there is of it contains borax, salt, and resources of value to man, and there is no such thing as the “Great American Desert.” What made the older States of this Union wealthy? Pine forests, iron ore and copper mines supplied the raw material upon which Northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was built. Coal, iron and oil made Pennsylvania great. Corn and hogs brought riches to lowa and Illinois. An extract of corn and rve distinguishes Kentucky. Wheat has given prominence to Minnesota and the Dakotas, and so on through the list. Montana is a new State, and but little known, except as a grazing region and producer of precious metals. Stock shipments last year exceeded $6,000,000 worth. Herds of cattle and flocks of sheep are brought into this State from the country south as far as Texas, to fatten on the ranges for Eastern markets. All the conditions here, grass, wfiter and climate, are conducive to the highest development of physical life. The State prodigies horses of large lung power and endurance, much sought after by the War Department for cavalry purposes. Budd Doble feeds his horses on Montana hay and oats. It was too far west, so stockmen said, to raise wheat, but a roller flouring mill with 500 barrels daily capacity, located here, is making high-grade flour from native wheat, and this immediate locality supports two agricultural papers. Those who.have not been West have little idea of the possibilities and elbow room of a State like Montana, a region larger than all of New England, and then with country enough left over to include several of the Middle States.

Standing by the tall smoke stack of the copper smelter, we looked down on the mighty river, with its rapids and cataracts, and saw waters fall with quick descent, furnishing power to turn wheels to crush ores, to generate electricity, to grind flour, to make hot fires hotter, and agreed with the builder of the marvelous wheel at the World’s Fair, that where there was such enormous water power an industrial city must arise. The monthly pay-roll now exceeds $l6O, t 00 for labor, and is to be largely increased. The electrical energy possible at this point is beyond reasonable comprehension. It is already used in multiform ways: To refine metals, to run machinery and strest cars, to cook food, and for heating purposes. Five ranges of mountains are in eight, clothed with forests and veined with precious metals and iron, and valleys between seamed with beds of coal. Fertile lands slope back to grassy plains, where plowmen and stock raisers are already busy. All these potent and varied resources are within boundaries that make them tributary to a common center, and that location is one of destiny, for men see these natural forces, and are beginning to utilize them. With all these things, there is indefinable hopefulness and keen alertness in the air; every breath one draws is a pleasure, making it indeed a land worth living in. In this energetic climate so conducive to longevity, a few of the early fur traders still linger. We remember meeting a year ago old Hugh Monroe, who spent ninety years in the Northwest, dying a few months ago at the age of 108 years, and old man ROndout, who lives forty miles east of here, is in his hundredth year, coming to what is Montana in 1835, then as unknown a region as Africa. The country and conditions give men an opportunity to display their abilities. Robert Williams, modest and quiet, is better known in scientific circles in the East and the old world as an ornithologist and botanist than he is as a citizen of this city, His collection of birds is large

and rare, and of gramea alone he haa more than eighty kinds, with flowers, ferns, etc., in large numbers. Prof. O. C. Mortson has catalogued over 300 different kinds of metals, minerals, cres, rocks, etc., found in this region. In company with Prof. Mortson, we today visited the chief copper smelter, and saw the brown metal by car loads and learned that by the electrical process used in refining over 200,000 ounces of silver are extracted monthly from the copper output. Nine hundred men are employed, and with the proposed wire and sheet copper mills c m pie ted, the force will be largely increased. Along the double banks of the river for eight miles, the water everywhere can be harnessed to wheels and turned to human use. With millions of pounds cf wool marketed here every year, it is only reasonable to assume "that this will become the site of woolen mills, as it has of silver and copper smelters. With iron ore and coal, it is natural to think that furnaces, foundries and rolling mills will spring up in close association with tho raw material. descending grade frpm the gold, silver, copper and iron mines to this point, perforce of circumstances concentrate the smelting interests of a vast region along ttr’s available series of falls. Our space will not permit us at this time to say more about this interesting and resourceful region, and we must cl. se with a brief reference to the recent discoveries made by Prof. Scott and a party of Princeton College students. They found in the Smith Biver Valley, south of here, whole skeletons cf the camel, rhinoceros, and other tropical animals, comprising in all fortytwo species and twenty-two genera. Several specimens of the three-toed horse were found. The remains are petrified. lying in indurated clays and protruding from the baqlia or sides of the valleys or Coulees. The ArPow Creek Bad Lands, at the foot cf the Highwood Mountains, east of Great Falls, is another interesting section, full of wonderful formations and abounding in fossil shells and remains of sea lizards and ancient reptile life. It is a fantastic region, with deep coulees and rocks twisted and bent into odd and fanciful shapes. A lofty cliff exists in this same locality, well filled with petrified fishes. The Little Rockies and Eear Paw Mountains are also rich in fossil remains. This city is the natural outfitting point for scientific, geological, sketching, exploring, hunting and fishing parties. We are under obligations to the energetic secretary of the Board of Trade lor printed matter and personal attention, and prompt consideration will be given to all in-

quiries.

BELIEVE IN THE "EVIL EYE.”

A Trial for Witchcraft in a Modern Town of Salem. The town of Salem, Ohio, was the scene recently of an extraordinary trial, which carries one’s thoughts back to the Massachusetts town of the same name that hanged witches in the seventeenth century. Salem has a pretty

TRUSTEE CULP (of the Evil Eye).

but after digging to what he considered a sufficient depth failed to strike water. He was nonplused for the moment, hut, having a half belief in witches, came to the conclusion that his well was bewitched. He went to Alliance to consult with a Doctor Hoff, a septuagenarian, who claims to be a witch doctor. Hoff went back with Hughes, and descending into the well built a fire, and throwing several powders into the blaze went through a powwow performance. On coming to the surface Dr. Hoff told Hughes that William Culp, a trustee of their church and the wealthiest farmer in the neighborhood, was causing all the trouble with his evil eye and that the well would remain dry until after Culp’s death. Hughes told the Breen and Loop families, who also had a weakness for witches, that Culp was the wizard who was bringing all the lad luck on them. From time to time the deluded people kept clear of Culp, but denounced him as an evil man to all who would listen -to them. A month ago some cattle belonging to Norman Breen took sick and died and then a relative of Hughes fell and broke his leg. Culp was blamed for all this and the families have been very active in denouncing him as a wizard and dangerous person and advised their friends to keep away from him. Their belief bscame so annoying to the pastor of the little church that he concluded to have the superstitious ones expelled and, preferring charges of witchcraft and defamation against them, he organized a church trial, which took place, the presiding elder of the district acting as judge. The trial occupied the whole day and, as a result, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Breen and Howard Hughes were expelled from the fold.

FATHER OF THE INCOME TAX.

What Congressman Hall Says In Regard to His BUI. Of all the men in Congress none probably have a clearer view of the income tax proposition than Represen-

tative Hall, o f Missouri. He has made the subiect the study of years and is the father of the income tax bill in this Congress. In a rec e n t letter Mr. Hall said: I have before me an estimate of a num-' be r of persons and business firms residing in

New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago who drew incomes to the amount of 250,000 a year. This estimate placed the number at 12,000. See the immense income that would be derived from this source. A writer in the Forum divides the people of our Government into three classes the rich being 182,090 families, their wealth being $43,367,000,000 averaging per family $238,135; the middle class he estimates at 1,200,000, owning wealth to the amount of $7,500,000, or an average of $6,2(0 per family, and the last he names as the working class, composed of 11,620,000 families, owning wealth to the amount of $11,215,000,000, averaging $968 per family, and under the present system of indirect taxation the 11,620.000 families averaging $968 to the family, and who represent the great laboring mass of this Government, pay 90 per cent, of the governmental tax, while the 182,090 families that average $238,135 a family do not pay more than 3 per cent, of'the governmental revenue.” PEGGS, horse thief, escaped from the State prison at Columbus, Ohio.

THE QUAIL AND ITS HUNTERS.

When America'* National Game Bird It Moat Plentiful. Though the quail is übiquitous, and is everywhere highly prized from both sporting and epicurean points of view, he is at his best in both capacities throughout the Carolioas, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, writes Charles D. Lanier, Harper’s Magazine. There a man has his setters and pointers almostas inevitably as bis kitchen. The boy grows up in proud dreams of the day when he shall be allowed to shoot over the dogs with the men instead of holding the riding-horses for them; ne practices diligently on tia cans tijowg into the air, and, as eye and artn begin to acquire canning, on the “bull bats” that circle around before dusk in the early fall. One’s shooting qualities are offlcialljrguaged by the number of quail one can kilL A good shot will bag half the birds shoots at, and a fair marksman will be content with two or three to every ten empty shells, counting after a full day’s sport. Then there are those rare Qld shots, with, lightojng nerves £ha ey&Z, \vh6, in open and thicket, taking snap-shots that would give the average man scarcely time to raise his gun, will bring down fifteen, or even eighteen or nineteen birds with twenty cartridges. Along the river bottoms and broad Stubblefields of these States the partridges are still so numerous that in favored localities it is no wonderful thing to find during the day twenty or twenty-five coveys of birds, averaging fifteen or more in a covey. But in finding the birds almost all depends cn the dogs. The curlycoated setters and shorter haired, trim-built pointers are about evenly used, the favorite varieties of the former known to the local sportsman being the Gordon, generally marked black, or black and tan; the English, marked white with black, lemon, orange, or liver-colored spots; and the red Irish.

The gun still used for quail, and upland shooting generally, is the 12gauge double-barreled breech-loader. The great manufactories turn these out so cheaply now that they are in the financial reach of everybody, whereas it has been but a score of years since they were rarities, and very costly ones. Some of the more dilettante sportsmen are beginning to use again the smaller gauges, generally of fine English make. Season before last the writer fliot a Scott 16bore hammerless with excellent results, and the lighter weight of gun possible with this small gauge is very grateful on a thirty-mile tramp across country. A five-pound gun can, too, be handled more quickly in snapshots than a nine-pounder. Even in grouse shooting, where the birds are strong and wild, the smaller gun shows no inferiority.

J. G. JONES.

little Methodi* Church,at which farmers worship. For the past two years several families attending the church have been possessed with the idea that they are bewitched. Last Bum me r Howard Hughes, a well -known farmer, dug a well on his place,

Some interesting experiments were lately made by Dr. Mesmer, says the London News, by way of solving the question whether or not rifle bullets are liable to carry infection with them in their course of entry into the body. He made his trial with bullets which had been infected with germs of a particular kind, and the infected bullets were shot into tin boxes from distances varying from 225 to 250 meters—a meter being nearly 3 feet 3| inches. Inside the boxes was placed gelatine peptone in a sterilized or germless condition, so that whatever germ developments were found in the peptone (which is a great growing medium for microbes) would be presumed to have come from the bullets. The tracks of the bullets through the gelatine were duly scrutinized, with the result that in each case germ growth took place corresponding to the particular microbes with which the bullets had been respectively infeceted. In another series of investigations the burets were made to pass through infected flannel before penetrating the gelatine, the bullets being of ordinary kind. Here, again, microhicgrowths appeared in the gelatine, showing that the flannel had yielded up its microbes to the bullets as they traversed it. If noninfected and ordinary bullets were used, thegelatine developed only the ordinary germ life, such as the air contained. The bullet is, therefore, a germ carrier of very decided kind, and it is also clear that if clothing is penetrated by a bullet prior to its entrance into the tissue, the missile will be liable to carry into the wound it makes the bacteria resident on the clothing.

Hard work, mental or physical, rarely every kills. If a mild amount of physical exercise be taken and a judicious amount of food be furnished, the surface protected with proper clothing,and the individual cultivates a philosophical nature and absolutely resolves to permit nothiug to annoy or fret him, the chances are that he can do an almost unlimited amount of work for an indefinite length of time, Dearing in mind always that, when weariness comes, he must rest and not take stimulants and work upon false capital. The tired wornout slave should not be scourged to additional labor. Under such stimulus the slave may do the task, but he soon becomes crippled and unfit for work. The secret of successful work lies in the direction of selecting good nutritious digestible focd, taken in proper quantities, the adopting of regular methods of work, the rule of resting, when pronounced fatigue presents itself, determining absolutely not to permit friction, worry or fretting, and the cultivation of the Christian graces, charity, patience, and philosophy.

U. S. HALL.

The people of the United States haven't the slightest objection to Admiral Mello blowing up all the ships the Brazilian government may purchase in this country after the aforesaid ships get outside of Uncle Sam’s boundary waters. Rut if the rebel admiral attempts to blow up any such ships in United States ports before they’re delivered and paid for, as is his alleged intention, it will become the pleasurable duty of our navy to go down to Rio and ’bust up” Mello and his blooming insurrection. And that duty will be very conscientiously and perfectly performed, too. The only time a man can perfectly control himself under excitement is when he is bunting a burglar.

Microbes Carried by Ballets.

Hard Work.

WHEAT TAKES A DROP

CHICAGO’S LOWEST RECORD BEATEN BY THE BEARS K*gj Dealer* Caught by th* Kuch-Adrtr-tlaed Ball Biid a* the Grain Drops Ca. der 63 Cent* for May—Strong People SeU Oat with Heavy Losses. Took a Sadden Tumble. Tuesday in the Chicago wheat pit was the stormiest tor a month past. The whole trade and about nine-tenths SiJ Ike people la. the country are watching fob v heat to take a start toward sl. They saw it take a drop Tuesday* Until the Jqw [§cord for May wheat in Chicago under jJle? ent Lading methods wa§ 63| centa. But the record was lowered, as horsemen cay. There wa3 a smash of over 1 cent in the price when it went to 62} cents and closed at 62} cents. - #*■

Wall street sold wheat all day long. But Buxbaum & Co. were among the bulls reported as dumping big blocks of wheat. There was selling out by strong people, with losses ranging from sto 15 cgnts per bushel, beeqyse they saw no sign of a turn In the tide. Liverpool was sick and lower, foreigners selling at New York, wheat piling up at the rate of nearly 400,000 bushels a day at primary markets. Contrast stocks increased to nearly 19,000,000, and no demand for it, and "Baltic porta shipping 3,400,600 for the week in midwinter. Wheat in Chicago elevators now exceeds ihe great stocks drawn there bv the Harper manipulation by over 6,000,001 bushels. Elevator people have bought the 2!),000,000 bushels of wheat there, but speculators are carrying it. Commission houses in many cases are carrying speculators. One big house gave it out that customers have wheat showing losses of 25 cents to 40 cents a bushel. The grain was taken on July contracts around 75 cents early last summer. It was changed to September at about 4 cents loss, changed to September at 5 cents to 7 cents loss, changed again to December at another loss, and changed over again to May, the present speculative month, making the wheat represent over 3*l a bushel, whereas It is now under 6! cants. Already the changing to July next has begun. It is a dark outlook so such holders, says a Chicago correspondent. These are the things which make the recently published fake about a great bull combination in wheat look worse than ridiculous.

DWIGGINS IS WANTED.

To Be Taken to Fowler, Ind„ on a Beqnlsttion. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, has i»sued a requisition for Zimri Dwiggins, of Chicago. Dwiggins is wanted at Fowler in the proceedings there growing out of a

ZIMRI DWIGGINS.

legal investigation of his basking methods in Indiana.

TILLMAN WILL FIGHT.

South Carolina's Governor Will Suppress Illicit Whisky Selling. “If these people want to get up a bloody riot, I am willing; I’ll give them all they want of it, ” said Gov. Tillman,

of South Carolina, talking about the dispensary troubles in Charleston. I have as many constables as the police force o f Charleston, and if it is necessary they will be armed with Winchester rifles, and they will be backed up by the police foi ca of the city. I want these

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people to understand once and for all that I propose to tee that the laws of the State are upheld, even if we have to kill a few cut-throats and bulldozers. I am making no threat, but I am simply warning them. I am ready to go ahead if they are. lam going to carry out the law and suppress the sale of liquor in Charleston if I have to call out all the military. All I want to say is that no' amount of bluffing and big talk and killing even will stop me' in my efforts to enforce the law. That law will have to te obeyed. I will stop illicit whisky selling in Charleston if it takes all the military and constables in the State to doit.”

FATAL GAS EXPLOSION.

BoUdin* Wrecked and Whole Family Meet Death at Indianapolis. At 1 o’elock Wednesday morning in Indianapolis an explosion of natural gas demolished the house at 600 Madison avenue, occupied by Louis Keuhler, his wife and four children. Rosa Keuhler, a 12-year-old daughter, was killed outright and the rest were fatally injured. They are Louis Keuhler, Mrs. Keuhler, his wife, and three sons, Louis, Jr., Julius and Charles. The house was a two-story brick and was blown to pieces. The cause of the natural gas explosion is not known. The ruins were immediately enveloped in flames. The fire department was called out. but it was an hour before the last of the injured were extricated from the wreck. Julius and Charles died soon after. The other boy and the parents cannot recover It is supposed that the gas had accumulated m the cellar, and finding its way through the floor above ignited at a ' gas jet or an open fire-place.

Notes of Current Events.

Frenchmen are alarmed to find that there is a sharp decline in the thrift of the republic. Incandescent lights started a blaze in Omaha, Neb., which did about $300,000 worth of damage. Going to the defense of his mother, deaf and dumb James Thompson killed his father at Colupibus, Ga. Mr. Bland introduced in the House a bill providing for the coinage of silver bullion in the treasury. Mrs. Louisa R. Kent, widow of a Colonel in the war of 1812, died at Chicago. She was 94 years old.