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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1890.
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till the rickety little revolver nearly shook
itself to pieces, and Amoniina the outcast
because he might blow up at any moment
browsed in the background and wondered
whv stones were thrown at him. Then they
found a balk of timber floating in a pool
which wascommauded by the seaward slope
of Fort Keeling, and "they sat down to
gether belore this new target.
"Next holidays," said Dick, as the now
thoroughly fouled revolver kicked wildly
in his hand, "we'll pet another pistol cen
tral fire, that will carry farther."
"There won't be any next holidays for
me," sai,d Maisie. "I'm going awav."
"Where jo?"
"I don't know. My lawyers have writ
ten to Mrs. Jennett, and I've got to be edu
cated somewhere in France, perhaps I
don't know where; but I shall be glad to go
away."
"I shan't like it a bit. I suppose I shall
be left. Look here, Maisie, is it really true
jou're going? Then these holidays will be
the last I shall see anything of you; and I
go back to school next week. 1 wish "
The young blood turned her cheek scarlet
Maisie was picking grass tufts and throw
ing them down the slope at a yellow sea
poppy nodding all h- itself to the illimita
ble levels of the mudflats and the milk
white sea beyond.
'1 with," she said, after a pause, "that I
could se vou again sometime. You wish
that, too?"
"Yes, but it would have been better if if
you had shot straicht over there down
by the breakwater."
.Maisie looked with large eyes for
a moment. And this was the boy who only
ten days oefore had decorated Amomma's
horns with cut paper ham frills and turned
him out, a bearded derision, among the pub
lic ways! Then she dropped her eyes; this
was not the boy.
"Don't be stupid," she said, reprovingly,
and with swift instinct attacked the side
isue. "How selfish you are! Just think
what I should have felt if that horrid thing I
had killed youl I'm quite miserable enough
already."
"Why? Because you're going away from
Mrs. Jennett?"
"So."
'from me, then?"
No answer for a long time. Dick dared
not look at her. He felt, tbocgh he did not
know, all that the past four years had been
to him, and this the more acutely since he
had no knowledge to put his feelings in
words.
"I don't know," she said. "I suppose
it is."
"Maisie, you must know. I'm not sup
posing." "Let's go home," said Maisie, weakly.
But Dick was net minded in retreat.
"I can't say things." he pleaded, "and
I'm awfully sorry tor teasing you about
Amomma the other day. It" all different
now, 3Iaisie, can't you see? And you
ffiignt have told me th'at you were going, in
stead of leaving me to find out."
"You didn't. I did tell. Oh Dick, what's
the use of worrying?"
"There isn't any; but we've been together
years and years, and I didn't know how
much I cared."
"I don't believe you ever did care."
"So, I didn't; but I do. I care awfully
now. Maisie," he gulped, "Maisie, dar
ling, say you care too, please."
"I do; indted I do; but it won't be any
use."'
"Why?"
"Because I am going away."
"Yes, but if you promise before you go.
Only say will you?" A second "darling"
came to his lips more easily than the first.
There were few endearments in Dick's
lir.rae or school life; he had to find them by
instinct He took :he little hand blackened
"with the escaped cas ol the revolver.
"I promise," she said, solemnly; "bnt jf
I care there is no need for promising." J
"And do jou care?" For the first time in
the past tew minutes their eyes met ana
spoke lor them who had no skill in speech.
"Oh, Dick, don'tl please don't! It was
all right when we said good morning; bnt
owits all different!" Amomma looked
on from afar. He had seen his property
quarrel irequently, but he had never seen
kisses exchanged before. The yellow sea
poppy was wiser, and nodded its head ap
provingly. Considered as a kiss, that was
a failure, but since it was the first, other
than those demanded by duty, in :ill the
tvorld that either had given or taken, it
opened to them new worlds, and every one
of them glorious, so that they were lifted
above the consiacration of any worlds at all,
especially those in which tea is necessary,
and sat still, holding each other's hands and
saying not a word.
"You can't forget now," said Dick at last
There was that on his cheek that stunc
more than gunpowder.
"I hhouidn't have forgotten, anyhow,"
said Maieie, and they looked at each other
and saw that each was changed from tue
companion of an hour ago to a wonder and
a niysterv they could not understand. The
sun began to set and a night wind thrashed I
along the bents of the foreshore.
"We shall be awfully late for tea," said
Maisie. Let's go home."
"Let's use tht rest of the cartridges first,"
said Dick, and he helped Maisie down the
dope of the fort to the sea, a descent she
was quite canable of accomplishing at full
speed. Equally gravely Maisie took the
grimy hand. Dick bent forward clumsily;
Maisie drew her land away and Dick
plashed.
"It's very pretty," he said.
"Pooh!" said Maisie. with a little laugh
of gratified vanity. She stood close to Dick
as lie loaded the revolver for the last time
and fired across the sea with a vague notion
at the back o his h ;ad that he was protect
ing Maisie from all the evils in the world.
A "puddle far across the mud caught the
last ravs of the sun and turned into a
wrathful red disk. The light held Dick's
attention for a moment, and as he raised his
revolver there Jell upon him a renewed
sense of the miraculous, in that he was
btanding by Maisie who had promised to
care for him for an indefinite length of
time till such date as A gust of the
growing wind drove the girl's long black
hair across his lace as she stood with her
hand on his shoulder calling Amomma "a
little beast," and lor a moment he was in
the dark, a darknefB that stung. The bul
let went singing out to tne empty sea.
"Spoilt my aim," said he, shaking his
head. "There aren't any more cartridges;
we shall have to run home." But they did
not run. Tliey walsed very slowly, arm in
arm. And it was a matter of indifference
to them whether the neglected Amomma
with two pin-fire cartridges in his inside
hlew up or trotted beside them; for they had
come into a golden heritage and were dis
posing oi it with all the wisdom of all their
-vears.
"And I shall be ," quoth Dick, vali
antly. Then he checked himself: "I don't
know what I shall be. I don't seem to be
able to pass any exams., but I can make
awful caricatures of the masters. Ho! ho!"
"Be an artist, then," said Maisie. "You're
alwavs laughing at my trying to draw; and
it will do you good."
"I'll never laugh at anythinc you do,"
he answered. "I'll be an artist, and I'll do
things."
"Artists alwavs wantmoney, don't they?"
"I've got 120 a year of my own. My
guardians tell me I'm to have it when I
come of age. That will be enough to begin
with."
"Ah, I'm rich," said Maisie. "I've got
three hundred a year all my own when I'm
21. That is why Mrs. Jennett is kinder to
we than she is to you. I wish, though, that
I had somebody that belonged to me just a
father or mother."
"You belong to me," said Dick, "for ever
and ever."
"I know I do. It's very nice." She
Fqucczed his arm. Tne kindly darkness
bid them both, and, emboldened, because be
could only just see the profile of Maisie'i
cheek with the long lashes veiling the gray
eves, Dick at the front door delivered him
seif of the words he had been boggling over
for the last two hours.
"And I love yon, Maisie," he laid, in a
whisper that seemed to him to ring across
the world the world he would to-morrow or
next day set out and conquer.
There was a scene, not for the sake of
discipline, to be reported, when Mrs. Jen
nett would have (alien upon him, first for
disgraceful unpunctuality, and secondly
for nearly killing himself with a forbidden
weapon."
"I was playing with it, and it went off by
iUelf," said Dick, when the powder-pocked
cbeek could no longer behidden,"butif you
think your going to lick me you're wrong.
You are never going to touch me again. Sit
down and give me my tea. You can't cheat
us out of that, anyhow."
Mrs. Jennett gasped and became livid.
Maisie said nothing, bnt encouraged Dick
with her eves, and he behaved abominably
all that evening. Mrs. Jennett prophesied
an immediate judgment of Providence and
a descent into Tophet later,but Dick walked
in Paradise and would not hear. Only
when he was goiig to bed Mrs. Jennett re
covered and asserted herself. He had bid
den Maisie good-eight with down-dropped
eyes and from a distance.
" "If you aren't a getleman you might try
to behave like one," said Mrs. Jennett,
spitefully. "You have been quarreling
with Miss Maisie again."
This meant that the regulation good-night
kiss had been omitted." Maisie, white to
the lips, thrust her cheek forward with a
fine air of indifference, and was duly pecked
by Dick, who tramped out of the room red
as fire. That night he dreamed a wild
dream. He had won all the world and
brought it to Maisie in a cartridge-box, but
she turned it over with her foot, and, in
stead of saying, "Thank vou," cried,
"Where'is the grass collar you promised
for Amomma? Ob, how selfish yon arel"
CHAPTER II.
"WITH GORDON SHUT UP IN KHARTOTJM.
Then he brought the lances down, then the
bugles blew.
"When we went to Kandahar, ridin two an
two,
Kiuin. ridin'. ndin'. two an' two.
Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra,
All the way to Kandahar, ridin' two an' two.
Barrack-Room Ballad.
"I'm not angry with the British public,
but I do wish we had a few thousand of
them scattered among these rocks. They
wouldn't be in such a hurry to get at their
morning papers then. Cau't you imagine
the regulation householder Lover of
Justice, Constant Header, Pater-familias,
and all that lot frizzling on hot gravel?"
"With a blue veil over his head, and his
clothes in strips. Has any man here a
needle?" I've got a piece of sugar-sack."
"I'll lend you a packing-needle for six
square inches of it, then. Both my knees
are worn through."
"Why not she square acres, while you're
about it? But lend me the needle, and I'll
see what I can do with the selvage. I don't
think there's enough to protect my royal
body from the cold blast as it is. What arc
you doing with that everlasting sketch-book
of yours, Dick?"
"Study of our special correspondent re
pairing his wardrobe," said Dick, gravely,
as the other man kicked off a pair of sorely
worn riding breeches and began to fit a
square of coarse canvas over the most obvi
ous open space. He grunted disconsolately
as the vastness of the void developed itself.
"Sugar bags, indeed! Hil you pilot-man
there! "" Lend me all the sails of that whale
boat" A fez-crowned head bobbed up in the
stern-sheets, divided itself into exact halves
with one flashing grin, and bobbed down
again. The man of the bittered breeches,
clad only in a Norfolk jacket and a gray
flannel shirt, went on with bis clumsy sew
ing, while Dick chuckled over his sketch.
Some 20 whaleboats were nuzzling a sand
bank which was dotted with English
soldiery of half a dczeu corps, bathing or
washing their clothes. A heap of boatrbll
ers, commissari.it boxes, sugar bags, and
flour, and small-arm-ammunition-cases
showed where one oi the whaleboats had
beeu comnelled to unload hastily; and a
regimental carpenter was swearing aloud as
he tried, on a wholly insufficient allowance
of white lead, to plaster up the sun-parched
ganing seams of the boat herself.
"First the bloomin rudder snaps," said
ho to the world in general; "then the mast
goes; an' then, s' 'elp me, when she can't do
nothin' else, she opens 'erself out like a
cock-eyed Chinese lotus."
"Exactly the case with my breeches, who
ever you are." said the tailor, without look
ing up. "Dick, I wonder when I shall see
a decent shop again."
There was no answer save the incessant
angry murmur of the Nile as it raced round
a basalt-walled bend aud formed across a
rock ridge half a mile up stneam. It was
as though the brown weight of the river
would drive the white men baok to their own
country. The indescribable scent of Nile
mud in the air told that the stream was fall
ing and that the next few miles would be no
light thing for the whale boats to overpass.
The desert ran down almost to the banks,
where, among gray, red and black hillocks,
a camel corps was encamped. No man dared
even for a day lose touch of the slow-moving
boats; there had been no fighting for weeks
past, and throughout all that time the Nile
bad never spared them. Kapid had followed
rapid, rock rock, and island group island
group, till the rank and file had long since
lost all count of direction and very nearly
of time. They were moving somewhere,
they did not "know why, to do something,
thev did not know what. Before them lay
theNile, and at the other end of it was one
Gordon, fighting for dear life, in a town
called Khartoum. There were columns of
British troops in the desert, or in one of
the many deserts; there were columns on the
river, there were yet more columns waiting
to embark on the river; there were fresh
drafts waiting at Assiut and Assuan; there
were lies and rumors running over the face
of the hopeless land from Suakiin to the
Sixth Cataract, and meu supposed generally
that there must be some one in authority to
direct the general scheme of the many move
ments. The duty of that particular river
column was to keep the whaleboats afloat in
the water, to avoid trampling on the vil
lagers' crops when the gangs "tracked" the
boats with lines thrown from midstream, to
get as much sleep and food as possible, and,
above all, to press on without delay in the
the teeth oi the churning Nile.
"With the soldiers sweated and toiled the
correspondents of the newspapers, and they
were almost as ignorant as their compan
ions. But it was above all things necessary
that England at breakfast should be
amused and thrilled and interested, whether
Gordon lived or died, or half the British
armv went to pieces in the sands. The
Soudan campaign was a picturesque one
and lent itself to vivid word painting. Now
and atrain a "Soecial" managed to get slain
which was not altogether a disadvantage
to the paper that employed him and more
often the hand-to-hand nature of the fight
ing allowed of miraculous escapes which
we're worth telegraphing home at 18 pence
the word. There were manv correspondents
with many corps and columns from the
veterans who had followed on the heels of
the cavalry that occupied Cairo in 1882,
what time Arabi Pasha called himself King,
who had seen the first miserable work round
Suakiin, when the sentries were cut up
nightly and the scrub swarmed with spears,
to youngsters jerked into the business at the
end of a telegraph wire to take the place of
their betters killed or invalided.
Among the seniors those who knew every
shift and change in the perplexing postal ar
rangements, the value of the seediest, weed
iest Egyptian garron offered for sale in Cairo
or Alexandria, who could talk a telegraph
clerk into amiability and soothe the ruffled
vanity of a newly-appointed staff officer
when'press regulations became buidensonie
was the man in the flannel shirt, the
black-browed Torpenhow. He represented
the Central Southern Syndicate in the cam
paign, as he had represented it in the Egyp
tian war and elsewhere. The syndicate did
not concern itself greatly with criticisms of
attack and the like. It supplied the masses,
and all it demanded was picturesqueness
and abundance of detail. There is morejoy
in England over one' soldier who insubordi
nately steps out of a square to rescue a com
rade than over 20 generals slaving even to
baldness over the gross details of transport
and commissariat.
He had met at Suakim a young man, fit
ting on the edge of a recently-abandoned re
doubt about the size of a hat box, sketching
a clump of shell-torn bodies on the gravel
plain.
"What are 70a for?" said Torpenhow.
The formula of the correspondent is that of
the commercial traveler on the road.
"My own hand," said the young man,
without looking up. "Have you any to
bacco?" Torpenhow waited till the sketch was
finished, and when he had looked at it said,
"What's your business here?"
"Nothing. There was a row, so I came.
I'm supposed to be doing something down
at the painting-slips among the boats, or
else I'm in charge of the condenser on one
of the water-ships. I've forgotten which."
"You've cheek enough to build a redoubt
with," said Torpenhow, and took stock of
the new acquaintance. "Do you always
draw like that?"
The young man produced more sketches.
"How on a Chinese pig-boat," said he,
sententiously, showing them one after an
other. "Chief .TOate dirked by a comprador.
Junk ashore off Hakodate. Somali muleteer
being flogged. Star shell bursting over
cam pat Berbers. Slave dhow being chivied
round Tajurrah Bay. Soldier lying dead in
the moonlight outside Suakim throat cut
by Fuzzies."
"H'ni!" said Torpenhow, "can't say I
care for Verestchagin-and-water myself, but
there's no accounting for tastes. Doing
anything now, are you?"
"No. Amusing"myself here."
Torpenhow looked at the aching desola
tion of the place. "'Faith, you've queer
notions of amusement. Got any money?"
"Enough to go on with. Look here; you
want me to do war work?"
"I don't. My syndicate may, though.
You can draw more than a little, and I don't
suppose you care much what vou get, do
you?"
"Not this time. I want my chance
first"
Torpenhow looked at the sketches again,
and nodded. "Yes, you're right to take
your first chance when you can get it"
He rode away swiftly through the Gate of
the Two War-Ships, rattled across the cause
way into town, and wired to his syndicate,
"Got man here, picture-work. Good and
cheap. Shall I arrange? Will do letter
press with sketches."
The man on the redoubt sat swinging his
legs and murmuring, "I knew the chance
would come, sooner or later. By George,
they'll have to sweat forit if I come through
this business alive!"
In the evening Torpenhow was able to
announce to his friend that the Central
Southern Agency was willing to take him
on trial, paying expenses for three months.
"And, by the way, what's your name?" said
Torpenhow.
"Heldar. Do they give me n free hand?"
"They've taken you on chance. You
must justify the choice. You'd better stick
to me. I'm going up-country with a col
umn, and I'll do what I can tor you. Give
me some of your sketches taken here, and
I'll send 'em along." To himself he said:
"That's the best bargain the Central South
ern has ever made; and they got me cheaply
enough."
So it came to pass that, after some pur
chase of horse-flesh and arrangements finan
cial and political, Dick was made free of the
new and honorable fraternity of war corre
spondents, who all possess the inalienable
right of doing as much work as they can and
getting as much for it as Providence and
their owners shall please. To these things
are added in time, if the brother be worthy,
the power of glib speech that neither man
nor woman can resist when a meal or a bed
is in question, the eye of a horse-coper, the
skill of a cook, the constitution of a bul
lock, the digestion of an ostrich, and an in
finite adaptability to all circumstances. But
many die be ore they attain to this degree,
and the past masters in the craft appear for
the most part in dress clothes when they are
in England, and thus is their glory hidden
from the multitude.
Dick followed Torpenhow wherever the
latter's fancy chose to lead him, and between
the two they managed tn accomplish some
work that almost satisfied themselves. It
was not an easy life in any way, and under
its influence the two were drawn very closelj
together, for they ate from the same disb,
they shared the s.ims water-bottle and, most
binding tie of all, their mails went off to
eether. It was Dick who managed to make
Gloriously drunk a telegraph clerk in a
palm hut far beyond the Second Cataract,
and, while the man lay in bliss on the floor,
possessed himself of some laboriously ac
quired exclusive information, forwarded by
a confiding correspondent of an opposition
syndicate, made a careful duplicate of the
matter, and brought the result to Torpen
how, who said that "all was fair in love or
war correspondence," and built an excel
lent descriptive article from his rival's riot
ous waste of words. It was Torpenhow who
but the tale of their adventures to
gether and apart, from Pbilaa to
the waste wilderness of Herawi and
Muella, would fill many books. They had
been penned into a square side by side, in
deadly fear of being shot by over-excited
soldiers; they had fought with baggage
camels in the chill dawn; they had jogged
along in silence under blinding sun on in
defatigable little Egyptian horses; and they
had floundered on the shallowB ot the Nile
when the whale boat in which they had
found a berth chose to smite a hidden rock
and rip out half her bottom planks.
Now they were sitting on the sand bank,
and the whale boats were bringing up the
remainder of the column.
"Yes," said Torpenhow, as he put the last
rude stitches into his over-long neglected
gear, "it has been a beautiful business."
"The patch, or the campaign?" said Hel
dar. Don t think: much ot either, my
self." "You want the Euryalus brought up
above the Third Cataract, don't you? and
81-ton guns at Jakdul? Now, I'm quite
satisfied with my breeches." He turned
ronnd gravely to exhibit himself, after the
manner of a clown.
"It's very pretty. Specially the lettering
on the sack". G. B. T. Government Bullock
Train. That's a sack from India.
"It's my initials Gilbert Belling Torpen
how. I stole the cloth on purpose. ""What
the mischief are the camel corps doing yon
der?" Torpenhow shaded his eyes and
looked across the scrub-strewn gravel.
A bugle hlew furiously, and the men on
the bank hurried to their arms and accouter
ments. " 'Pisan soldiery surprised while bath
ing,' " remarked Dick calmly. "D'you re
member the picture? It's by Michael
Angelo. All beginners copy it. That scrub's
alive with enemy."
The camel corps on the bank yelled to the
infantry to come to them, and a hoarse
shouting down the river showed that the re
mainder ot the column had wind of the
trouble and was hastening to take share in
it As swiftly as a reach of still water is
crisped by the wind, the rock-strewn ridges
and scrub-topped hills were troubled and
alive with armed men. Mercifully it oc
curred to these to stand far oil for a time, to
shout and gesticulate joyously. Une man
even delivered himself of a long story.
The camel corps did not fire. Tney were
only too glad for a little breathing space,
until some sort of square could be formed.
The men on the sandbank ran to their side;
and the whaleboats, as they toiled up within
shouting distance, were thrust into the near
est bank and emptied ot all save the sick
and a few men to guard them. The Arab
orator ceased his outcries, and his friends
howled.
"They look like Mahdi's men," said Tor
penhow, elbowing himself into the crush of
the square; "but what thousands of 'em
there are! The tribes hereabout aren't
against us, I know."
"Then the Mahdi's taken another town,"
said Dick, "and set all these yelping devils
free to chaw us up. Lend us vour glass."
"Our scouts should have told us of this.
"We've been trapped," said a subaltern.
"Aren't the camel guns ever going to begin?
Hurry up, you men!"
There was no need for any order. The
men flung themselves panting against the
sides of the square, for they Had good reason
to know that whoso was left outside when
the fighting began would very probably
die, in au extremely unpleasant fashion.
The little hundred and fifty-pound camel
gum posted atone corner of the square
ODened the ball at the square moved for
ward by its right to get possession of a knoll
of rising ground. All bad fought in this
manner many times before, and there was
no novelty in the entertainment;always
the same hot and stifling formation,. the
smell ol dut and leather, the came boltliko
rush of the enemy, the samu pressure on the
weakest side of the square, the "few minutes
of desperate hand-to-hand scuffle, and
then the silence of the desert, broken
only by the yells of those whom
the handful of cavnlry attempted
to pursue. They had jrrown careless.
The camel-guns spoke at intervals, and the
square slouched forward amid the protests
ot the camels. Then canu the attack of
3,000 men who had not learned from books
that it is impossible for troops in close order
to attack against breech-Ioiding fire. A few
dropping shots heralded thuir approach, and
a few horsemen led, but the bulk of the
force was naked humanity, mad with rage,
and armed with the spear and the sword.
The instinct of the desert, 'where there is al
ways much war, told them that the right
flank of the square was the weakest, for
they swung clear of the front. The camel
guns shelled them as tkey passed, and
opened for an instant lanes through their
midst, most like those quick-closing vistas
in a Kentish hop-garden, seen when the
train races by at full speed; and the infantry
fire, held to the opportune moment, dropped
them in close-packed hundreds. No civil
ized troops in the world could have endured
the hell through which they came.the living
leaping high to avoid the dead clutching
at their heels, the wounded cursing and
staggering forward till they fell atorrent
black as the sliding water above a mill dam
full on the right flank of the square.
Then the line of rinsty troops and the faint
blue desert sky overhead we nt out in rolling
smoke, and the little stouei on the heated
ground and the tinder-dry clumps of scrub
became matters of surpassing interest, for
men measured their agonized retreat and re
covery by these things, counting mechani
cally aud hewing their way back to chosen
pebble and branch. There was no semblance
of any concerted fighting. For aught the
men knew, the enemy might be attempting
all four sides of the square at once. Their
business was to destroy what lay in front of
them, to bayonet in the back those who
passed over them, and dyiug to drag down
the slayer till he could be .knocked on the
head by some avenging gun-butt Dick
waited quietly with Torpenl,ow and a young
doctor till the stress became unbearable.
There was no hope of attending to the
wounded till the attack was repulsed, so
the three moved forward gingerly toward
the weakest side. There was a rush lrom
without, the short Bough-hough of the
stabbing spears, and a man on a horse, fol
lowed by 30 or 40 others, dashed through,
yelling and hacking. The right flank of
the square sucked in after them, and the
other sides sent help. The wounded, who
knew that they had but a feu hours more to
live, caught at the enemy's f tet-and brought
tbem down, or, staggering to a discarded
rifle, fired blindly into the scuffle that
raged in the center of the square. Dick was
conscious that somebody had cut him vio
lently across his helmet, thut be had fired
his revolver into a black, foam-flecked face
which forthwith ceased to bear any re
semblance to a face, and that Torpenhow
had gone down under an Arab whom he
had tried to ''collar low," and was
turning over and over with his cap
tive, feeling for the man's eyes. The doc
tor was jabbing at a venture with a bayonet,
and a heltnetless soldier was firing" over
Dick's shoulder. The flying grains of
powder stung his cheek. Jo was to Torpen
how that Dick turned by instinct The
representative of the Central Southern
Syndicate had shaken himself clear of his
enemy, and rose, wiping his thumb on his
trousers. The Arab, both hands to his fore
head, screamed aloud, then snatched up his
spear and rushed at Torpeahow, who was
panting under shelter of Dick's revolver.
Dick fired twice, and thjs man dropped
limply. His upturned faca lacked one eye.
The musketry fire redoubled, but cheers
mingled with it The rush had failed, and
the enemy were flying. If the heart of the
square were shambles, the ground beyond
was a butcher's shop. Dick thrust his way
forward between the maddened men. The
remnant of the enemy were retiring, and the
lew the very few English cavalry were
riding down the laggards.
Beyond the lines of the dead, a broad
blood-stained Arab spear, cast aside in the
retreat, lay across a stump of scrub, and be
yond this again the illimitable dark levels
of the desert The sun naught the steel and
turned it into a savage red disk. Some one
behind him was saving, "Ah, get away, you
brute I" Dick raised his revolver and
pointed toward the detert His eye was
held by the red splash in the distance, and
the clamor about him seemed to die down
to a very far-away whisper, like the whisper
of a level sea. There was the revolver and
the red light, and the voice of
some one scaring something away, exactly
as had fallen somewhere before probably
in a past life. Dick waited for what should
happen afterward. Something seemed to
crack inside his head, and for an instant he
stood in the dark-ui darkness that stung.
He fired at random, and the bullet went out
across the desert as he muttered, "Spoilt my
aim. There aren't any more cartridges.
We shall have to run home." He put his
hand to his bead and brought it away cov
ered with blood.
"Old man, you're cut rather badly," said
Torpenhow. "I owe you something for this
business. Thanks. Stand up I I say, you
can't be ill here."
Dick had fallen stiffly on Torpenhow's
shoulder and was muttering something about
aiming low and to the left. Then he sank
to the ground and was silent. Torpenhow
dragged him off to a doctor and sat down to
work up his account of what he was pleased
to call "a sanguinary battle, in which our
arms had acquitted themselves," etc.
All that night, when the troops were en
camped by the whale-boats, a black figure
danced in the strong moonlight on the sand
bar and shouted that "Khartoum the ac
cursed one was dead was dead was dead
that two steamers were rock-staked on the
Nile outside the city, and that ot all their
crews there remained not one; and Khar
toum was dead was dead was dead."
But Torpenhow took no heed. He was
watching Dick, who was calling aloud to
the restless Nile for Maisie and again
Maisie!
"Behold a phenomenon," said Torpenhow,
rearranging the blanket. "Here is a man,
presumably human, who mentions the name
of one woman only. And I've seen a good
deal of delirium, too. Dick, here's some
fizzy drink."
"Thank vou, Maisie," said Dick.
To be continued next Sunday.")
CLEVER HiDIAN CADET.
He Is a Favorite and Doing Well at the
Northwestern Military Academy.
Chicago Herald.
The Northwestern Military Academy at
Highland Park has among its cadets a
Dakota Indian. He is a sort of protege of
the Government, and came there from the
Santee Agency. He is from the tribe
known as Heikarees in the western part of
North Dakota. He was at school at the
Santee Agency, but life was made miserable
there lor him, because most of the scholars
are Sioux Indians, and the two tribes are
enemies.
His name is Pasc which means in his own
language "Young." Some one gave him
the name John, and at the Highland Park
school he is John Young. John Young
wins all the prizes. He is the best writer
in the school, the finest ball player and, it
goes without saying, he runs like an Indian,
having won several prizes as the fleetest
runner in the Santee Agency. He is quite
exclusive, but iriendly with all the cadets,
and they are all fond" and proud of their
Indian companion.
Through the vacations he remains at the
school and earns enough money to buy his
uniforms. At times he becomes anxious to
know who settles his bills, and asks some
pointed questions, though bis knowledge
of the English language is limited. In
books he carries as many studies as any of
the cadets, and is brighter than the aver
age. His ambition is to masterthe language,
receive commercial training and return to
Dakota to go into business.
Hypnotic Suggestion.
The Baltimore ews.
Hypnotism continues to attraot attention,
and the source of danger it undoubtedly ii
brings It within the scope of proper letislr.
Ition.. Nearly every European count- has
nrrmounced against it, and it has been eon
iiomncd by the Oatholio- Charon.
CANNIBALS OF CONGO.
Some Extracts and Illustrations
From Herbert Ward's Book.
HOW HE CAME TO MEET STANLEY.
A Complaint About a Slave Boy That
Resulted in a Sic Feast.
BOILER TUBING FOB, 0EHAMBHTS.
Here are some extracts from Herbert
"Ward's book, just publishhd, together with
reproductions of a few
nf its more striking
illustrations:
If my Borneo ex
periences were ren
dered unsatisfsctory
through ill-health, it
is to this portion of
my life that I am in
debted for a friend
ship which has in
many ways influenced
my later life. It hap
pened that news was
brought to me by a
Slalay that a white
man had accidentally
shot himself at some
distance from where I
tflPTl V!1D Tf is., mw
!V poor friend Frank
Hatton, from whom I
had parted but a few
days before, whose
life of much achieve-
A Trophy. ment and more prom
ise was ended in this tragic manner. "While
tracking an elephant through the forest hie
gun became entangled in a creeper, the
trigger caught, and the charge entered his
right lung, killing him almost instantly.
A Type of Balolo.
Ihad becomemuch attached to Frank Hat
ton during the short time we had spent to
gether, and my first thought on my return,
when renewed" health enabled me to get
about, was to seek out his father. Mr.
Joseph Hatton was then in America with
Mr. Henr'Irving, and, hearing that some
one had arrived lrom Borneo who could sup
plement the meager details of the catastro
phe he was then in possession of, he hast
ened his return toEngland, and immediately
on his arrival home sought me out to hear
all that I could tell him of the cruel circum
stances that deprived him of an only and
dearly-loved son. It was through Mr. Hat
ton that I procured an interview with Mr.
Henry M. Stanley, and thus, by a chain of
circumstances, an event happening in a far
away Eastern island was the means of send
ing me to the heart ot Central Africa. And
as I jot it down to-day my reminiscences of
five years' life with the Congo cannibals it
seems that I can almost hear the report of
the fatal shot echoing through the Bornean
forest?- ' ' -
On one occasion, some two years ago, a
large caravan of men from the north bank
of the Congo had
taken loads ot Man
yanga for Stanley
Pool, consisting
mainly of material for
one of the steamers
then being put together
at Leopoldyille,
among which was a
quantity of copper
boiler-tubing and iron
piping. Having got
well out of the ken of
the State officials of
Manyanga, this gang
of innocents called a
halt, and after having
duly weighed the pros
and cons of the under
taking, they medi
tated, a s s e r te d
the inordinate
overweight of the
loads they had been
forced to take at Man
yanga, and the length
of the road to the
Pool, and finally con
fessed that conper was
a very valuable and
enticing metal, and
looked peculiarly lus
trous in conjunction
with a black complex
ion, they inconti- Rati for Sale.
nently bolted with all their loads to their
distant villeags in the Bwende hills, on the
north bank.
Some short time afterward search was made
by the State officers for the missing copper
tubes, which were then badly wanted for
the completion of the steamer'3 boiler; but
no sign of them could be discovered along
the caravan route,and it was only as gradual
native reports filtered into Manyanga of the
marvelous display ot copper necklets, and
leg rings, and iron. bracelets by the dusky
beauties of Bwende on market days that the
horrible truth at length dawned upon the
official mind at Manyanga, and steps were
taken to recover what might yet be saved
from the melting process, to which a great
part of the steamer's fittings had been sub
jected in the task of converting it into
jewelry for the fair sex of Bwende.
Among the Bangaras almost weekly some
savage act of cannibalism would be brought
to my notice and though the villagers in the
HlMiy
A Bokengo's Oiave.
immediate vicinity of the station did, after a
time, become chary of acknowledging to a
white man their liking for human flesh or
their participation in these orgies, I knew
that I should never have far to seek to find
my friends of to-day, with old Mata Bwiki
at their head, indulging in alight repast off
the limbs of some unfortunate slave, slain
for refractory behavior, or banqueting upon
the bodies ot the enemies slaughtered in
some recent conflict All was flesh that
came to their net; and if a slave, captured
in war or sold into bondage by a'neighbor-
J ins people, became "uppish" and diicon-.
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tented with his walk in life the remedy was
simple. They no longer troubled him to
continue treading a path which proved a
weariness to the flesh. The pot became his
destination, and he soon ceased to afford
even a topic for conversation.
This may seem incredible, and yet I have
au instance in my mind's eye of such an oc
currence having actually taken place at
Bangala only one year ago. A slave boy
had been permitted to engage himself to
work on the station of the agent, at Bangala,
of the Belgian trading company. After a
time he absented himself during working
hours, without permission of the agent, who
complained to the boy's master, a Bmall
chief in the neighboring village, informing
him at the same time that the boy was a
lazy fellow, and not worth mnch. A day or
two later the chief told the trader, with
evident satisfaction, that the boy would not
trouble him again, for that he 'had killed
him with a thrust of his spear; and the
white man's horror was increased when on
the following day, the chief's son, a
youngster of 16 or 17 years of age, came
swaggering into the station with spear and
shield, and nonchalantly remarked "That
slave boy was very good eating ha was
nice and fat."
TWO PE0JECT8 Iff GBEECE.
The Corinth Canal a Certainty, hut the Hel
lespont Bridge Isn't
New York Tribune.
The bridging of the Hellespont is an
event still of the uncertain future. The
French company stands ready to begin the
work at once, having the plans ready and
the money in hand. But will the Sublime
Porte grant a charter? There is the rub.
The probability is that permission to build
will not be granted. But another work of
modern enterprise in an equally historic
place is being rapidly pushed to completion.
That is the Corinth canal, which will sever
the Peloponessus from the mainland of
ureece, and will permit the largest ships to
pass directly from the Gulf of Athens to the
Gulf of Corinth. The route for goods from
Adriatic ports will be reduced by 185 nau
tical miles, and from the Mediterranean by
95 miles.
The work was begun some eight years
ago, and, of course, by a French company.
It was to have been finished in 1887, but
various troubles delayed it, and now 1895 is
named as the earliest date on which it can
be opened for traffic. The total cost ot the
canal is reckoned et (14,000,000, or about
$3,500,000 a mile.
STEEL TIES A SUCCESS.
An Encouraging Report on Their Use by
Ballroads in Australia.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Some of the experiments in metal railroad
ties in Australia are of special interest to
this country. Conditions there are much
the same as prevail in portions of the "West
Steel ties made in the form of an inverted
trough are used. They are manufactured in
England and cost 65 a ton on shipboard.
These ties are 6 feet 3 inches long, 12 inches
wide and 1 inches deep. There are grooves
for the rails. Mr. James, the resident en
gineer, says:
"The steel ties are exceedingly strong;
they stand well in the track and keep a
good line. To one traveling on an engine
the road seems as elastic as if the line was
laid with wooden ties. The contractors are
highly pleased with them. They give no
trouble when laid, and the cost for main
tenance is very much lighter than with
wooden ties."
TEE COLLEGE ATHLETE.
Picture of the Harvard Giant as He Appears
In the Classroom.
Boston Traveller.!
The athlete in a recitation is very amus
ing. "When he enters some admirers usual
ly whispers his confidante "look at; isn't he
a dandy?" The athlete always looks too
large for his chair in the classroom. You
wonder why it does not break down. The
book, too, seems all out of place in his big
hands, and a pencil looks positively funny
as he bandies it He wears an air of pat
ronage, as if intellectual pursuits were well
in their way and a thing to be encouraged,
even interesting on occasions, but just a
little unworthy a man of muscle
He likes to stretch out his big limbs, and
watch them in repose, knowing how much
they can do when occasion requires. The
professor even defers to him a little, unable
to refuse his instinctive homage to power
even though it be physical. "When he
strolls across the yardj men look out of
their windows after him. He is pointed out
to the young lady visitors, and the fair
creatures look with awe on the god-like
being whom they have seen battling in mud
and gore for the honor of Harvard in super
human fashion.
The athlete during his season of activity
does not study much. He has to reserve his
energies lor physical effort He can neither
smoke nor drink. About all that is left
him is to talk athletics, and for this purpose
he can get plenty of listeners. But when 4
o'clock in the afternoon comes, then he is in
his element And from 4 to 6 he toils away
like a young giant
THE FAD OF THE BAY.
A Great Seal of Intellectual Energy Devote
to Athletics Now. 6
There are probably more new writers and
lecturers in the field ofphysical culture than
on any other topic prominent before the
public. The interest very widely expressed
in the Sargent awards for the best developed
man and woman, announced some weeks
ago, was a striking illustration of the deep
hold the effort after perfection of the person
has taken on people generally. A man who
has anything new or striking to say about
building up a man's physique or developing
a woman's muscles is to-day sure of a hear
ing. John S. White, LL. D., head master of
the Berkley School, ot New York, read a
good paper on this subject before the Town
and Country Club at Newport some weeks
ago. He predicts that the United States
are at the threshold 01 a new era of physical
development likely in its results to
transcend anything that the world has yet
seen. Everybody remembers the attention
Dr. Dio Lewis attracted when he fint
talked and wrote on the human body. Dr.
"Winship was less well known, but his ef
forts were beneficial in drawing people's
thoughts to the machines which rendered
thought possible. Dr. D. A. Sargent, of
Harvard, director of the Hemenway Gym
nasium, Prof. Hartwell, ot Johns Hopkins,
and Dr. Hitchcock, of Amherst, are to-day
men whose teachings in athletics command
as much respect as would their lectures on
metaphysics or the etymology of Pi.
THEY L0TED BBEVTTY.
Curious Abbreviations Found In the Manu
scripts of '76.
The men of "76" studied brevity. This
is apparent in all their manuscript writings,
not so much perhaps in the expression of
their ideas as in their use of words. Their
abbreviations were numerous, and perplex
ing from their peculiarity, and some of them
require almost as much patience for their
interpretation as a cuneiform inscription.
These were not confined to particular or
much-nsed technical words or terminals,but
were applied indiscriminately.
"The" was abbreviated to "ye," "your"
to "yr," "that" to "yt," "companion" to
"compn," "hundred" to "hnd," "young"
to "yg," "Fritz" to "Fz," and so on in
definitely. "When two consonants came to
gether one'was often dropped, and a circum
flex was used to denote the elision. Thus
"wagon" according to the usage of those
days, was correctly spelled with two g's,
and when spelled with one only the writer
signified that he knew better by placing a
circumflex over it So also with such words
as "common," "trammel," "cellar," "pil
low," "committee," one of the doubles is
often dropped. Important words were gen
erally capitalized.
IRBIGATI0N m KA5SAS.
An Experiment "With the Underflow of
IUvers That Promises Great
Chicago Herald.
There has been growing upon those who
have studied the plains of "Western Kansas
the conviction that the success of agricul
ture in the western third of the State is be
yond question a failure unless a more per
manent water supply can be obtained. A
new theory has been broached, that of irri
gation by means of the "underflow" in the
river valleys, and it has been tested with
remarkable success. In searching for and
investigating the water sources, it was dis
covered that underneath the great valley of
the Arkansas, and presumably under all the
river valleys of "Western Kansas, if not
under the plains, lies hidden a vast body ot
water. The possibility of utilizing this as a
source from "which to supply the ditches
naturally arose and practical tests have just
been completed that prove the entire reason
ableness of the theory.
The vicinity of Dodge City, about 100
miles from the western line of the State in
the Arkansas Valley, was selected as the
place for the experiment just completed.
There was opened a ditch 14 feet wide and
drifting westward up the valley. The river
falls seven feet to the mile, and the ditch
was commenced three feet below the snrface
and extended westward on a grade of three
feet to the mile, which soon brought it below
the level of the river bottom.
The ditch was extended nntil the excava
tion was found to be 12 feet deep and 6 feet
below the river bottom. Into the ditch thus
dug into the solid earth drained the under
flow. So great was the drainage that at the
point of beginning a dam was constructed,
and the amount of water flowing over it was
found to be 30 cubic feet per second.
A ditch was opened easterly along the
higher land at a fall of only "l 7-10 feet per
mile, so that by the time the ditch reaches
a point southeast of Dodge City there is a
perpendicular fall possible of nearly or quite
20 feet, with a water supply as constant as
the everlasting hills, or at least so con
sidered. The ditch thus far constructed, and which
it is believed will furnish a permanent sup
ply the year round, as it was completed at
the close of the driest season ever known in
"Western Kansas, will irrigate about 25,000
acres of land, and has been built at a cost of
60,000. The proprietors believe that with
their experience they could now do the
same amount of work for at least $10,000
less.
WHAT SPAHIABDS DBINK.
Beer and Lemonade 3Ilxed In Equal Quanti
ties One of the Favorites.
LoulSTille Courier-Journal. 1
Spaniards seldom drink much wine; as for
the women, they never touch it, but quaff
glass after glass of pure spring water during
their meals. Ordinary wine is placed on
the table; when a guest is present, sherry or
else manzanilla is served once around. Of
course, these usages only hold good in every
day life; the aristocracy drink French wines
and champagne liberally, and the fair sex
partake of them also. Common wines would
be very good if the growers used casks in
stead of putting them into skins, which
always give them a strong taste, even when
bottled afterward.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after his re
freshing siesta, your Spaniard feels the
want of a cup of chocolate. In some really
old-fashioned families it is a pretty substi
tute for our 5 o'clock teas. The steaming
hot beverage is served in quaint little cups
on lovely Talavera plates; with each cup is
a large tumbler of the coldest water, to
"drive the chocolate down," as the natives
say. The water ia sweetened with the classic
azucarillo, a sort of light cake of sugar.
Light sponge cakes are eaten with the choc
olate. Water is much used as a beverage,
especially iu summer time. They cool it in
bottle-shaped jars of porous earthenware
called alcaragas, which render the water as
cool as ice. Spaniards do not use ice except
in cafes at receptions. They do, however,
make a most detightful and refreshing bev
erage with iced lemonade and beer, mixed
in equal quantities. The -'two ingredients
are poured into a large punch bowl, and a
silver ladle is used to fill the glasses.
OLDEST WHJ0W IS EHGLAHD.
Chat "With Mrs. Morfew, Who is Now 104
Tears Old, bat Hearty Still.
Pall Mall Bndget.
In a little tumble-down cottage not far
from the Ham Gate of Richmond Park,
lives the oldest widow in England. She
was born in 178S.
"Is Mrs. Morfew in?" I asked, and
knocked gently at the open door. No an
swer. Thinking that there might he a back
room to which the old lady had retired, I
knocked again, and again, each time louder
than before. For some time all remained
silent, and then suddenly the heap of gray
ish clothes on the old tumble-down tour
poster began to move, and some one said, in
a far-away, unearthly voice, "Eh?" aud
once again, as, somewhat staggered, I re
mained at the door, "Eh?" Then lrom the
tangled mass there rose a small head, with
a widow's cap pushed on one ear, with hair
as white as the nnest nax, and
with a face of a million lines and
The Widow Morfew.
wrinkles, but still with a little flush of life,
not unlike an apple that has once been
"pleasant to the eve," but has now been
"asleep" in the straw for many days, and
has become shriveled up and wrinkled.
"Am I well? Yes, I am quite well. I
have not an ache in mv little finger. Only
I am a little deaf, and my sight is bad, very
bad."
"But yon do not look as if you were tired
of life?"
"Not I. I am quite well, and I conldn't
say that I am tired of life, could I?"
It was pretty to notice how ever and again
between her abrupt speeches, as 6omegIam
of light fell for a moment on the dim and
distant past, the centenarian would, with an
appealing, childlike look, end her words by
asking "Could I?" or "Could they?"
"And can you still eat yonr food and
enjoy it?" .
"I ran eat anything. Nothing makes me
ill. But I can't eat meat if it isn't cooked
to death, because I have only one tooth. I
could not bite much with that, could I?"
"Then, do you live all alone in this cot
tage?" "No, I am here only during the day. Up
to a few months ago I lived in it, but now a
neighbor fetches me at night and I sleep at
her house. I can dress myself, but they tie
my stockings and put on my shoes. They
are good to me, my neighbors are, but I
have been good to them too. If you are not
good toothers, others won't be good to you,
will they?"
Pursuit and Possession.
LonliTllle "Western Beeorder. J
We part more easily with what we poneis
than with the expectation of what we wish
for, and the reason of it is that what we
expect is always greater than what we enjoy.
Mir vu
'A (1 -KMi
F0UNTAIN0F Y0UT&
What Ponce de Leon Never Found Is
Within the Keach of All.
THE PLAIH LOKEWAKJI BATH
Kenewa the Waning Powers of ige and
Taints Beauty's Cheek.
H0WTDB B0DI WILL ABS0BB WATB8
Life is everything, and so it Is that any
nostrum whose virtue was supposed to be
the prolongation of the brief span of human
existence has always attracted the greatest
attention. The Brown-Sequard excitement
is the most recent example. Of course all
such claims are nonsense, but the belief in
the fact that there are draughts in existence
which have the power of prolonging life
has never entirely died out, and even at ths
present day "arcanists" and wonder doctors
are preparing elixirs of life from all kinds
of herbs for the benefit ot those who will ba
deceived.
But this inborn hope is not altogether de
lusive; there are means, positive means,
which for a time counteract the process of
waste in the hnman system, which comes
with advancing age, retarding thereby the
end of the same. These rules,are purely
dietetical, however, and among them ths
lukewarm bath occupies a prominent rank.
C1IABACTEB OF OLD AOE.
The efficacy of this is not new only not
generally known. Careful observers have
noticed long ago that aged persons are great
ly refreshed, restored and rejuvenated by
the lukewarm bath, but no one knew just
why it should prove so beneficial to old
people. It was not nntil the end of the past
century, says a writer in the St Louis Post
Dispatch, that a French physician, Pomme
by name, explained this circumstance. He
reasons as follows: "The character of old
age is increasing dryness, brittlcness and
stiffness of tissue. Lukewarm baths are a
direct preventative for this drying up of the
tissues, and by reason thereof, are a means
of prolonging life, and it is easily under
stood why they should have such a beneficial
effect upon the old."
The human body absorbs a considerable
quantity of water in the lukewarm bath,
which causes a softening of the tissues, and
for this fact Falconet has furnished ns the
proof. This scientist demonstrated by the
scales that a person remaining in the luke
warm bath for au hour absorbs through the
skin more than three pounds of water.
Marcard, the famous Pyrmont physician,
asserts the same, aud has arrived at this
conclusion through several careful experi
ments. Kecent observations have been fol
lowed by similar results, and everybody
who will set up a scale in bis bathroom
can convince himself of the correctness of
this statement
TUB WEAR ASD TEAR.
Beside this, lukewarm baths have a ten
dency for decreasing the 'number of pulsa
tions and respiration, and also in this direc
tion they diminish the rapid consumption of
vitality. Persons whose Dulse is easily ac
celerated, who suffer from rush of blood to
the head, etc., derive most benefit from such
baths. A bath of a temperature of from 88
to 95 Fahrenheit and lasting a hair hour
reduces the pulse from about 72 to 60, and
for quite a long time after the bath the
number of pulsations does not increase.
Marcard says that he reduced his pulse to
54 during an hour and a half 3 stay in tha
lukewarm bath.
Among others Dr. Zwierlein states:
"Natural death is not caused through tha
wasting away and wearing out of the organs
but principally through the drying up,
stiffening and immovability of the solid
parts of the body, the narrowing down and
complete obstruction and growing together
of all the delicate vessels, through corrup
tion, incrassation and stagnation of the fluid
portions, through a superabundance 01 tha
terrcous parts in the fluids and the disturb
ance caused thereby in vall the functions of
the human system, particularly that of
nutrition and the circulation of the blood;
therefore, no more appropriate medium for
the postponement of death can be found
than the lukewarm bath, which, when
judiciously used with increasing age, will
do all that human ingenuity can prescriba
in order to prolong li.'e."
BENJAMIN FEANKLIX'S CASE.
At the time of Benjamin Franklin's stay
in England durinz the '70's of the last cen
tury, when he was past 60 years ot age, ha
began to feel greatly the encroachments of
old age. As a preventive Dr. Darwin
recommended to him the lukewarm bath to
be taken twice a week. Franklin followed
his advice, and very soon experienced tha
beneficial effects of these warm baths upon
his aging body. He continued to use them
up to within a short time of bi3 death, and
always with the most satisfactory results.
He reached the age of 84 years, and to the
last was strong and vigorous in body and
mind.
Count Berchtold, of London, says oi the
English Consul General, of Alexandria (a
gentlemau of 60 years of age), that by rea
son of his protracted stay in hot climates
and his sedentary mode of life he hsd lost
much of his formerherculean strength, but
that a rrequent luEcwann bath, into which
he poured a cup of pure olive oil, always re
freshed and strengthened him greatly. Tha
addition of the olive oil enhances tne soften
ing, flexible property of the lukewarm
water. In former days physicians knew
little or nothing of the fact that water could
be absorbed into the human body while in
the bath, and yet this is its most important
factor.
A TRUSTWORTHY BEATJTIFIER.
The frequent lukewarm bath for ladies ii
a Bure beautifier. It restores elasticity and
smoothness to the dry, harsh skin, it loosens
the tissues and thereby brings back fullness
and roundness to the limbs. It prevents
eruption of the skin, and where present, it
removes them, oiten even lrom the face.
For elderly ladies lukewarm baths are the
best means of conservation.
The slight irritation of the sensitive
nerves has a quietiug effect upon the nerv
ous system in general. Without increasing
the activity ot the regular warmth-producing
organs, these baths protect the body
against giving up too much heat aud this
enhancos nutrition, whereby the important
part which the "indifferently warm" bath
plays in the dietetic is explained.
RULES FOR BATHING.
It is well to commence with these baths ai
soon as the first infirmities of old age begin
to make themselves felt, between the 60th
and 60th year. Two to four baths should be
taken every week. The temperature must
be iroui 88& to 95 Fahrenheit, and within
this scale that degree should be chosen
which is the most conducive to the comfort
of each" individual. As the water cools off
hot water must be added and tha thermom
eter constantly consulted. In the beginning
the bathing sbonld not be extended beyond
the limit of a half honr, bnt it may grad
ually be increased to an hour. Lukewarm
baths lastihg less than a half hour cannot
be regarded as of a life prolonging char
acter.
The best time for bathing is the forenoon,
one or two hours after breakfast, or the
afternoon at least four hours alter the mid
day meal. After the bath the body must
be thoroughly dried and rubbed with" coarse
towels, first the arms and limbs, then tha
body and lastly the head. Baths either too
hot or too cold are dangerous to old people.
Hebra's experiments have demonstrated
that a man can spend nine months uninter
ruptedly day an(T night in a lukewarm
bath without the slightest ill effects to his
health.
Just Our Luck.
Detroit Tree Press. 1
A school oi fish was seen off the coast of
New Jersey the other day which was esti
mated to contain 20,000,000 fish, each and
every one anxious and willing to bite a hook
dropped by a newspaper man. We weren't
there no newspaper man was there and
eTery blamed fish got away!
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