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THE GAME OF AFRICA.'
Lord Randolph Churchill's Chases for
Eland, Ostriches, Harteheest
and Hippopotami.
HE PROVES A TOOK MARKSMAN.
Jhe
Satires 'Will Give Almost Anything
They Possess for the Flesh of
the Fallen Animate.
HABITS OF THE SrLEXDID BEASTS.
A Wild Kg Tree That ProdKtes Kipe Fruit the Tear
Eonnd and Olhcr Uoiidcis.
twanijK roBiiE DisrATcn.i
We continued our travels and our hunt
ing in lashonaland into September. One
day observing a solitary kopje in the
distance vo'rode toward it, and from the
summit sarclied the surrounding plain
with a elescope. In a few minutes we
descrieda herd ot about a dozen hartebcest,
and abjut half a mile farther to the north a
nice lierd of roan antelope, among which
was jo be perceived a fine old bull. Thee
lattr ve preferred to chase. As a rule
those large antelope allow the hunter to ap
proach, especially if he is down wind with
in a distance of 500 or 400 yards, standing
'looking curiously at him. They then make
away at a slow pace, you canter after them
quietly, increasing your proximity to them.
After going a few hundred yards they
generally stand and look around again.
Sow is the time for a good shot, if you
have got, as you onght to have done, within
200 yards of" them. Atter the first shot
they mate cfi at a gallop and the hunter
must ride his horse to keep up with them.
but it is certainly better, if you desire to
kill several of a herd, not to prcs them too
closely, contenting yourself with shooting
from time to time at a somewhat lonsrcr
range, and at the same time not exhausting
the powers of your horse. In this way, un
der the guidance of Lee, I have several
times chased good herd; of buck for twenty
minutes or half an hour, getting many
shots.
A Tine Morning's Shooting. "
"With this particular herd the old bull first
ofiered me a fair chance, but I missed him.
He galloped off "With my second barrel I
hit hard a big cow with fine horns. Seeing
she was badly -w ounded and could not gallop
very far or last, I made after her and soon
finished her with another bullet. Lee in the
meantime had galloped after the herd and
had badly wounded the old bull without
being able to secure him, but had also laid
low a nice young bull, which latter turned
out to be the most excellent eating. Hav
ing "done the civil" to, i. e., grallocked and
covered up with grass and branches our
two dead buck, c turned our steps
toward the road.
On our way we came across the herd of
Jiartebeest originally seen from the kopje,
wnica naa oeen out slignuy disturbed by
our chase after the roan antelope. I got a
longith shot at one of these, and noticing
that he turned away from the rest of the
herd, galloped after him, thinking that I
had wounded him. I was soon joined in
the pursuit by Lee. who dismounted and
fired three shots without effect. I continued
to chase the buck,' who did not seem to be
able to get very far away from me. He
held on, however, for a long distance,
sometimes being as far away as 500 or COO
yards, sometimes allowing me to come much
closer, when I dismounted and fired. With
my sixth shot I hit him in the haunch, and
remounting, soon had the pleasure of seeing
.Ills pace get slover and slower from a
ranter into a trot, from a trot into a walk,
finally sinking onto the ground,
Churchill's Tirst Ilartobeest.
I rode up to him and off-saddled my pant
ing and dripping horse, now completely
blown hy a gallop of upward of three miles
over the most varied country, through
swampv ground, groves of trees and bush
and over rocky kopjes. This was the first
hartebeest I had managed to ride down and
shoot bv myself, and 1 was proportionately
delighted. Hound myself all alone in the
veldt, Lee having tor some reason or other
discontinued the chase. While I was en
gaged in opening the buck I was startled bv
a voice behind me. Looking round I per
ceived three natives with the usual amount
of clothing and assegai. Xot knowing
fjuite what the intentions of these barbar
ians might be. I immediately, with very
dignified and lofty signs ordered them to
complete the disemboweling of the back
and to put branches and grass with which to
cover it up. This they most meekly did,
upon which I graciously permitted them to
carry away the entrails.
I was now somewhat in a quandarv, not
knoyving where I was, being totally unable
to discover the way I had come and Lee
being nowhere in sight. However, I knew
the road ran west, and that if "I took a
southerly course I must soon cut it. It may
be well tor the inexperienced' in the chase
on the South African. cldt to remember an
elementary fact, that at midday in the
Southern Hemisphere the sun is always in
the north, and that to go due south you
have only to keep the sun shining on "the
back of vour neck. One or two other little
useful fasts mav be here set down. If
Tost on the veldt on a. bright, starry
evening, four times and a half the length of
the Southern Cross, measured from the
summit to the base in the direction of the
base, indicates the position o.r the South
Pole. The direction of the wind is ant to
be misleading, as it generally follows the
tun in the course of the day.
A Trick In the African Wilds.
It is well for a hunter leaving his wagons
on the "trek" to make thee latter drag a
chain between the rear wheels. "When re
turning from the chase, you reach the road
you can easily discover from the presence
or absence of the marks of the chain in the
dust among innumerable other spoor
whether your wagons are before or behind
you. Sir Frederic Carrington taught me
this little dodge, which, fortunately for its
cfiicaey, is hardly st all resorted to. It is very
imprudent for anyone to go hunting on the
veldt without a small supply ot biscuits and
whisky. Chocolate is an excellent thing to
caVy and a box of matches is essential.
Ithe hunter toward the evening finds
hiiself really lost and at a great distance
fr( Ji his camp it is much better to realize
!i,jffact while tome daylight remains and to
,ms?.e timely preparations for passing the
night on the veldt, such as choosing a good
tiee to which to attach your horse and "col
lecting an ample stock 6f fircrfood to last
through the niuht. If these preparations
are postponed too long darkness supervenes
and the hunter is helplc5s. Also, it being
lost on the veldt you happen to kill a buck,
efcoese your resting place lor the night some
clistar.ee away from the dead game, which
is likely to attract cither wolves or lions, in
whose vicinity at night it is well not to be.
X found my way to the road and shortly
afterward to the wagons without much dif
ficulty. .A Gnat Couldn't Bo Had.
On the following morning I- contented
TOelf with a lour mile trek to a Kaffir
iraal of some size picturesquely perched on
the peaks of a rocky kopje. Here under
the ample shade of a large "makoona" tree
I made a comfortable camp. Wc were soon
surrounded by scores ot natives, old and
yoing, male and female, who in exchange
lor the fresh meat with which we were pro
vided gave us large .supplies of mealies and
of kaffir com. I tried in vain to purchase
a goat, and also milk and eggs, but none of
these commodities would they produce.
.About noon, the sun beiug very hot, Lee
and I rode out on our daily hunt- Soon we
Ea'w a solitary hartebcest standing under a
tree looking at us, at which I fired at a dis
tance of 250 yards. ' After the shot he
moved a few paces to the right and still re
mained gazing at us intently. Seeing that
he was not disposed to make off, and think
ing I had missed him, I sat; down on the
ground and, resting mv rifle on'my knee,
took steady aim. This'bullet hit him in the
chest, and he staggered away a few yards
and fell. On going up to him, I found that
my first bullet bxd penetrated the ifose,
making a small hole and smashing the
lower jaw to pieces. This wound must
have stupified him and probably accounted
for his immobility after my first shot.
Going on, we again'aseend a kopje to spy
the plan. As usual, we perceive harte
beesfand roan antelope in different direc
tions, and we. as usual, prefer to pursue
the latter. These were two cows, who, on
being chased for a short way, led us on to a
herd of seven other roan antelope. "We had
a fine gallop of nearly three miles after this
herd, "getting many snots
Some Very Bad Shooting.
I knocked down the old bull, to which
in passing Lee gave what he thought to be
a finishing shot. I made after a cow Svho
seemed to be wounded and, aftersome time,
rode lier to a standstill. I then saw that
her entrails were protruding from a largo
wound in her stomach, in spite of whiph
she continued to gallop for a very consider
able distance. 1 finished her off with a shot
fired from the horse's back and returned to
look for the bull This old fellow as soon
as "he saw me approaching rose to his feet
and stacgered awav for some distance, and
then stood and looked at me. Dismounting
within a range of less than 100 yards, and
Silling uunu, iCSllU 111 JlilG UU Al, "tt
I fired fonr bullets at him. three of which
missed him clean, the fourth penetrating
the head and putting an end to his suffer
ings. This was dangerously had shooting if
a lion had been the object instead of a roan
antelope, but a long gallop over the veldt
under a hot sun makes the eyo and the
hand alike unsteady.
On the morning of the Sd of September
Lee and I rode in a westerly direction to
another kaffir kraal." Here the natives
were making what was evidently a new in
stallation. I noticed that their huts with
conical roofs and their small circular store
houses constructed of clav and wattle were
erected with marvelous neatness and even
symmetry. Here I tried to purchase a cow
but the "owner declared he would not part
with her unless he received two Martini-
Henry rifles with sufficient amnfunition.
One of the natives offered to guide us back
so we followed him. After going for more
than four miles he led us right on to a splen
did herd of about 40 sable antelope, among
which could be easily perceived a regular
old patriarch of a bull with long upstanding
black mane and wide arching horns.
One Shot Out of Twenty-Seven nit.
I had always been longing to come across
Euch a herd, but until to-day had ouly been
successful in meeing with single specimens.
Nothing more beautiful can be imagined
than the sight of this great lot of antelope
careering over the plains from 200 to 300
yards ahead of us. For some reason or
other I shot terribly bad this morning. In
a gallop of upwards of three miles I fired
27 cirtndges and only actually killed one,
although I wounded another which Lee
finished. Leo killed three, among which
was the old bull whom I found on examina
tion to possess a pair of horns of surpassing
excellence. J.ncse nve antelope lay aeaa
on the ground over a distance of about two
miles. I would have pursued the herd
further than I did, but that a nasty spruit
intervened in crossing by which the antelope
gained an immense start and, my horse be
coming utterly blown, was unable to make
up the lost ground. My last shot, fired at
a distance of more than 400 yards right at
the herd, brought down a nice young bull.
which Lee managed to gallop after and
secure.
In the short space of two hours these
three bucks had been cut up and bartered
away and distributed in return for mealies,
kaffir corn, some milk and a few eggs. The
natives are passionately fond of fresh meat
and will give more in exchange for it than
for "limbo," wire or beads.
On the evening of the Cth we encamped
on the banks of the Sarve river. Here Lee
observed some comparatively recent traces
of hippopotami and early the next morning
he and I Eet off up the river in search of
these creatures. But we were unsuccessful
and saw no hippo.
A Wonderful FlcTres.
This morning I came across a wild fig
tree with much ripe fruit This fruit is of
a soft rose color, much smaller than the
garden fig at horde, quite as sweet, with the
seeds inside small and dry. These arc often
much infested by ants, so that one has to be
careful in eating them. This curious tree
seems to have a habit of producing ripe
fruit at any season of the year.
The only o'her incident of to-day's ride
was the appearance of an immense quantity
of baboons, the first that I had happened to
see since I had landed in Africa. These
were very wild and lied long before we got
at all near them. In the afternoon we
treked 14 miles to the Zimboc river. Here
I found outspanncd a small party of three
men with donkeys, who were iu a great
state of excitement at having seen close by
the road a large herd of elands, as they
said, some 50 in number. Next morning
Lee and the "Baboon" found the spoor of
these elands and tried for a couple of hours
unsuccessfully to follow it. I then again
treked, but had not proceeded far before I
overtook my friend of the previous even
ing, who had been out shooting on the veldt,
had killed a roan antelope, had seen the
elands in the distance, as also some ostrich,
neither of which, being on foot, had he been
able to pursue.
An Unsuccessful Ostrich Chase.
On receiving this intelligence Lee and I
immediately mounted our horses, and leav
ing the wagon to trek on to Hartley Hill,
rode on toward the spot where the elands
were supposed to be. On this day I saw a
greater quantity and variety of game than I
had seen on any other since I began hunting
in Africa. We first sighted some large buck
which w e took to be elands; getting near
them they turned out to be a herd of seven
fine koodoo bulls. I took a shot at one of
them at a distance of over 200 yards, but
was not successful, the herd galloping off
just as I pulled the trigger. We did not
pursue them, as eland was the game we were
after. We soon came upon the spoor of the
eland quite fresh, indicating their prox
imity. While we were following it up through a
grove of trees wediscerned about half a mile
out on the plain five ostriches. It was now
a question which to go after, the ostrich or
the eland, and after much hesitation and
discussion, we determined to chase the
ostrich. We had a good gallop alter these
for more than a quarter of an hour. They
took a circular course, and as we occupied
the inside of the circle, both Lee and I ob
tained half a dozen good shots each. Alas!
we both shot very badly, not one was
brought down, but I expect an ostrich going
full tilt is not an easy object to hit.
Baxdolph CnuitCHitx.
NEW -YORK -IS BLUE.
The Unhappy Gothamito Ended the
Tear Eliminating on Paresis.
NEWS OP PE0JIINENT PEOPLE.
Pathetic Figure Cut by A Giant Whose
Knees Gave Wav Four Inches.
TWO CURIOSITIES IJf LITERATURE
rCOKBISPOXDKXCE OF THE DISrATCn.l
XewTork, Jan. 2. There is only one
thing duller than Christmas in New York
for those who have grown out of childhood
that is the period which drags along from
December 23 to the beginning of the next"
year. During those days life is compara
tively gloomy. The year is dying, and
death scenes are dispiriting. There is not
much to do, and frail man, while waiting
for the day to come when the official taking
ot good resolutions shall be in order, gets
morose as he thinks how many things ho
must give np and how bad he has been.
The mere fact that he knows better than
anyone else that he will, not keep his reso
lutions is of no importance. Every man is
an actor in his own heart, and the fine act-
ui ins inner man, as ne contemplates ir,
outside of New York. He declines to give
his real giant name, because he does not
care to cast a shadow over the proud, suc
cessful years of his life. Once, in a gen
eral's uniform, he lived in tents, receiving
homage and gate money. Then his kuees
gave out, as the knees of giants usually do.
They came together, his height dropped
four inches and he was useless as a giant.
Giants with bad knees are a drug on the
market. The public does not care for them.
Does the baby 1892 see anything sadder in
New York or in the world than this Four
teenth street giant? Probably not
How Minds Operate Occasionally.
It's a sad sight. Turn,to this letter, which
shows how strong is trust and confidence in
the human breast. It was received by one
of the wonderfully able and intellectual
women who rule Barnard College:
Deab Madam: May I study drawing and
the office work of architecture at Columbia
and learn at tho Medical Department of Bar
nai d the anatomy of woman? (I have just
had, lidicaloustisitmay seem,. an accident
in that line, which has made it impossible
for mo to walk for a year, so would like to
learn something in this line). Must I take a
college examination? And will you arrange
for my livins? Very truly, .
If this confiding person has hope, why i
snouia there not be hope lor the giant who,
ridiculous as it may seem, has also had an
accident in the anatomy line.
T?hat letter shows how curiously the
fairly well-educated American mind some
times works when it tries to
FIGHTING THE GRIP.
A-Physician Tells How to Preventlt
and How to Get Over It.
THE HEALTHY PERSON IS SAFE.
Efforts of the W. 0. T. U. to Introduce Phy
sical Ethics in School.
HOW LEAN JE0PLE CAN GET PAT
moves him to genuine tears. That saddens
the week, to begin with. Then, theatrical
men, instead of coming to the rescue and
trying with their finest efforts to lend to
the melancholy tinge of the holidays a little
rose color, deliberately settle down to
dullness and inactivity. They ought to
invent new things, give all the plays of the
year boiled down into one as the French
do, but they don't. They know that this is
a bad theater season, and instead of fighting
fate they submit and put their good things
away until another time.
The Victims of raresis.
Poor Scanlan, the good-natured Irish
singer, has wound up the year most sadly.
He has broken down with paresis, as Mc
Cullough, Tony Hart and so many other
well-known actors have done That fright
ful mental disease, one of civilization's lat
est achievements, is much talked about, and
men who find themselves aimlessly cutting
up bits of paper or otherwise exhibiting
what are called ; igns of incipient paresis
have taken to worrying about themselves.
The general impression that actors supply
nearly all its victims to the disease is en
tirely erroneous. It is based on the fact
that when an actor breaks down in that way
the fact is known to everyone. Chemists
and other medical specialists arc over-run
with cases from the rank and fill of New
Yorters who try to combine excessive dissi
pation and work. Of those the poor go to
insane asylums to die, the rich Tire taken to
die abroad. Nature, in her efforts to make
man behave himself, never conceived any
thing more effective or depressing than a
victim of paresis. It is strange, and seems
unjust, that in England paresis is as vet
comparatively unknown.
Pat Gilmore Blowing Oat the Tear.
Thursday night found New York City
trying to say a cheerful goodby to 189L
The horrid bells were ringing and the
stupid horns blowing as usual A new feat
ure was the hanging of electric lamps above
the steps of the City Hall and a musical
performance by Mr. Pat Gilmore, ot Coney
Island, and his band, with ghostly flags
fluttering in the" dark. At the Players'
Club, the Authors' Club, the Century Club
and other clubs that make a specialty of in
tellect, healths were drunk and fine things
were said. At the other clubs .they had
just as fine ceremonies, minus the intellect
ual part- Some New Yorkers traveled to
Albany to hear Governor Hill lead off his
touching farewell speech with poetry and
high-flown prose, telling how his heart
strings were wrenched by moving away from
his Albany crowd.
Others of a practical turn, staved at home
and set fire to their houses or shops. That
kind of thing, according to insurance men,
always happens very extensively at about
this time, when the time of an annual set
tlement finds many enterprising business
men unprepared.
The Sight! at Delmonico's.
A little New Year event brightened the
lives of those who regularly irequent the
public camping ground of New York so
ciety, which is Mr. Delmonico's big dining
room. All heads were turned toward one
table near the window. It was not to see
the physically big Englishman who has
come over to marry Mrs. Marshall O. Rob
erts, nor was it to study the mentally big
lr. Tl T-f u L- i ji
put what it
means on paper. As a study of mental ob
servations, compare with it the following
article, written bv a full-blooded Chinese
who has studied English only a short time,
and who, by carefully reading newspapers
daily, reached the conclusion that fate had
intended him for a journalist. He com
posed the article which is appended with
out assistance and offered it for publication
in a great daily. It is crude, but it shows a
certain pleasing newspaper instinct and an
eye for facts:
The Kevenge of Ju lung.
Ju Lung suspected Charles did the expos
ing his opium joint. He went to 21 Pell
street to And Chow yeck a relative or
Charles and demand that Yeck should pro
duce. Charlc for punishment yeek told
Lung that his cousin Charles is not in Lung
became angry and act like the Tamany
Tigerand string upon Chow yeck and begain
to tare him up. dozen men' were in tho
store they all jump upon Ju Lung but their
assistant do yeck no good Lung brook aVay
andfi;hthis way clear and tear down a Jot
ot carpenter work and upset tho goods in
the store like a manic until a man fiom out
side shout for Policeman Lung jump for the
door and get out just as quick as his leg
could carry him ofl. Chow veck were hide
kin tho back room and was afraid to make his
appearance all last night and to-day. Ju
Lung is n ow 1 ooking for the Chinese reporter
he swears to Josh that he will do him ud.
tho damages is amounting to several days
ca pentcrwork.
Not many then know who the fellow is who
first realizes that the old year is dead and
at the same time that the earth moves. He
is the newspaper slave who sat in a corner
of every office editing foreign copy at about
8 o'clock on the evening of December 31
just passed. Ho startled this office with a
whoop and proceeded to hand aronnd his
congratulations. He had got his news cable
from London beginning in a matter of fact
way: "London, Jan. 1, 1892." The new
year had begun in the foreign world which
lie inhabits and he had a fine feeling that he
was four hours ahead of his fellows.
Auinun Bkisb'ane.
THE MINDS OF THE SEXES.
Observations of a Psychological Expert as
to Use of Words.
Xerr York Times.
A writer in a recent monthly magazine,
who, it would appear, might have found
some better employment of his time, has
been compiling some statistics as to the
relative use of words by women and men.
He experimented by asking a class in
psychology composed of 25 of each sex to
write out rapidly a certain number of
words and to record the time. By looking
over the lists submitted, he deduces that
women repeat one another's words much
more than do the men.
According to the professor, "the female
students use only 1,123 different words,
while their male classmates use 1,375.
Again, the former wrote but 520 unique
words, while the latter have written 746.
With regard to classes, the women show
diflerent preferences from the men. The
repetitions in names of articles of apparel
and of interior furnishings preponderate
with the women, but they have a much
larger number of such words altogether;
similarly, the men have more repetitions in
the names of animals and mention more
such names."
3IId-Winter .Excursion to 'Washington Via
b.&o. K.n.
On Thursday, January 11, the B. & O.
K. lw will begin the annual series of mid
winter excursions to Washington from
Pittsburg, for thi, as for similar excur
sions during preceding winters, the B. &
O. will offer an exceedingly low rate, an
un excelled train service, and every accom
modation necessary for the comibrt and
convenience of passengers all of which
Ehould render the trip a very desirable one.
With each succeeding season these ex
cursions to the national capital are grow
ing in popular favor.
Washington is full of attractions. It al
ways is. Congress is in session. The public
buildings, the White House, the museums
and the art galleries are always open to
visitors free of cflarge. Then, too, there
are to be seen the elegant private residences,
the broad avenues, the spacious parks and
the numberlessmonuments.
Tickets will be valid for return passage
ten davs after day of sale, allowing ample
time for visiting Mt, Vernon, Old Point
Comfort, Richmond and other adjacent
points.
Tickets are valid to Baltimore.
Trains leave Pittsburg at 8:00 a. at and
9:20 p. ?t; round trip rate, ?9. Pullman
parlor cars on day tram, and Pullman sleep
ing cars on night train.
Mr. John Lafarge, who has wandered home
irom Japan and the South Seas with pic
tures and tales of adventure to stir the
blood. A pink bonnet was the object of
interest, and under the pink bonnet, which,
in obedience to law, carried little plumes
like a hearse, sat Miss Lillian Russell.
Miss Eussell is entitled to the interest of
the public any woman is who, after 10 or
12 years of well-advertised good looks, con
tinues to woTk hard. It is curious how
rarely an interesting actress, or in fact any
one outside, of the common ruck of rich
nonentities, turns up at Delmonico's. Per
haps that is why all the commonplace peo
ple showed such interest as she sat eating
her dinner with Mr. French, her manager.
Probably several million females out of
town would like to know what Miss Kussell
had on. It is unfortunate that a man can
never convey such information. Her dress
about the neck was a sort of dark color, cut
out in an attractive flower pattern, some
thing after the fashion of the silver around
modern whisky flasks which allows the glass
to show through. Through Miss Russell's
pattern there was visible a pink, probably
silk, which matched the bonnet.
Troubles or a 3Ian Who Can Draw.
When Du Maurier, the interesting En
glishman whodraws such fine tall women and
lat short men, came out as an author not
long ago, it was suggested that he did so to
test his ability to earn a living by his pen
should the loss of his sight ever make it im
possible for him to continue the making of
pictures. News that comes from London
tends, unfortunately, to confirm the un
pleasant explanation given for his literary
departure. His eyesight has undoubtedly
been failing, and although he has not be
come blind, as has been rumored, he will
be compelled in a few days to undergo an
operation of a dangerous-character. Every
body will hope for his recovery, but if the
worst should come it is pleasing to think
that he will be able to write and that he will
have plenty ol friends to illustrate his writ
ines. In the way of illustration,.by the wav,
Mr. Oscar Wifde, the human chameleon, has
evolved a new idea, or some one has evolved
it for him. He has written a book, not vet
circulated in Amerira, which deals with
dreams and contains pictures that try to
make on the eye the impression which
dreams make on "the mind. So far as being
hazv, indistinct and in.erestingly incom
prehensible goes, the pictures db suggest
ureauis.
Paaerewskl's Price for Charity Concerts.
Mr. 'Paderewski, whose name isnofr-on
the lips of Mr. Tony Pastor's humorous
actors and on those of sad comic opera sing
ers, and who is thus branded with the true
New York brand of fame, will play when
he comes back for the Summer Homo for
Working Women, a most deserving charity.
For such a concert Padere,wski charges only
half price 00. How it must cheer all
the 16ng-haired, earnest young men in Stutt
gart and all over Europe who now bend
laboriously over their pianos and.study the
muscles of their hands' to sec if they are
breaking down, when they think that some
day they may live to combine sweet charity
with 2,000 marks clear profit. Happy man,,
the talented Paderewski.
He is much happier than the broken
down giant who is now distributing business
cards in front of a shop in West Fourteenth
street. It is nroner to reauest. on behalf of
that giant, the sympathy of the large cities
THE FASTING IU INDIA.
the
Tery Year Some Freak Comes to
Front and Beats Sacci's Record.
Fasting indeed. Mr. Panachand Parakh,
referring in the Timet of India to recent
long fasts in .Occidental countries, says that
in India fasts of 30 to 40 days are common
among the Jains, from among whom once in
each year some individual comes forward
and undertakes to- fast 30, 40 or even 60
days. Tney do this with nothing but warm
water to drink, and will die rather than
taste food during the prescribed period.
Quite recently two Jains of Bombay fasted,,
one for CI, the other for 48. days, at the end
of which time, having been congratulated
by 25,000 Jains who went for the purpose,
they recommenced taking food in the man
ner prescribed by their own books and
Shastras.
On September 22, in commemoration of
this event, all the chief bazaars in Bombay
were closed, and about 5,000 Jains, male
and female, fasted all day, while a large
sum was spent in securing the release of
cows and other animals from the slaughter
house at Bandora. v
EUPEEOE WILLIAM'S EEFOBMS.
A Stamp Tax Upon Mistresses for the Bene
fit or the Servant!.
Xcw york Times.
An American woman who ias been liv
ing for some months in a German family in
Berlin saw the practical working of one of
the young Emperor's reforms. It dates
back two or three years, and smacks
strongly of Bellamyism, Every servant
keeps a Uttle book, to which every week
the mistress employing her must contribute
a five-cent stamp provided by the Govern
ment for that sole purpose. The book
becomes a reference from one place to
another, its record sKowing the periods of
time spent in a place and time of being in
service. In case of sickness or when age
incapacitates a servant irom duty, the
Government redeems the stamps contained
in the book, whose contents are really a
tax upon one class to assist in the mainten
ance of another less fortunate.
The scheme is said to be regarded with
favor on both sides, the employer as well as
the employed.
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IWBItTIIT TOE TUX DISPATCH.
There is no denying the fact that the grip
has paid us its annual visit again, and its
prevalency is becoming so epidemic that
the Christmas holidays were robbed of half
their enjoyment. The peculiar atmospheric
changes which generally take place during
the month of December create colds and
sore throats on every side, and develop the
disease germs of the grip with wonderful
rapidity. A vivid idea of the suffering
caused by the grip last winter may still be
in the minds of many, so that words of pre
caution may be eagerly heeded.
Those who have had one attack of the
grip arc not proof against it, as is the case
with many diseases, but on the contrary
they are more liable to a second attack.
The general health of the patient should be
kept good, and a few sanitary regulations
observed. The mouth and throat are the
places most susceptible to the attack of the
germs, ana one should look to these care
fully. No exposure of the throat or chest
should be allowed, and every precaution
should be taken to prevent colds. Although
the germs are in tho air, and may be
breathed in through the nose or mouth at
any .moment, they cannot find lodgment
and favorable surroundings if the person is
Careful.
Physical Vigor a Safeguard.
In no' disease is it more true than the
grip that a strong, healthy vigorous person
can throw offithe germs snccessfully if he
is careful of his health. The grip becomes
epidemic in places. The germs not only
float in the air, but are secreted in the dust
of cities. They are carried from one house
to another by various means. Whent is
prevalent in a town or city, extra precau
tions are needed. Avpid those as much as
possible who are continually coughing.
Don't breathe the same air which sufferers
from the disease have expired. Boil all of
the water which is used, for in some in
stances the germs seem to be communicated
through the drinking water. Avoid the
night air as much as possible, for like ma
laria germs the grip germs float in the night
air more than in the day. The wet, cloudy,
damp days should be spent indoors as much
as possible.
Finally, isolate every member of the
family that is taken down with a cold, from
the others. If the children in the public
schools are suffering from severe colds and
the grip, teachers should order their parents
to keep them home. When the first symptoms
of a slight cold manifest themselves, act
promptly. Take a good dose of quinine,
and go to bed early, and wrap up in the
blankets to have a good sweat, or drink a
bowl of hot lemonade, with a little rum in
it, soak the feet in hot water, and retire. If
this does not break the cold on the follow
ing iuorning .seep in tne nousc, and get a
physician to prescribe for you. Best for
days will often do more good than medi
cine. .Epidemics of Other Diseases.
After the grip a whole train of other
diseases become epidemic, which arc more
fatal than the first complaint. Pneumonia
is the most common, and where it sets in
where the grip has enfeebled the person,
death is pretty apt to follow. Convalescent
grip patients should thus be doubly cau
tious during the weeks after an attack.
Sometimes pneumonia settles in at the same
time the grip attacks one, and the two work
hand in hand. The case, then, must become
serious.
Severe attacks of malaria are also pretty
generally apt to follow the grip if one is
exposed to the air where the germs are
present. Night and early morning air
should be avoided. The convalescents
should take their airing in the middle of
the day, whenthe sun is bright and wterm,
andall marshy, low, damp places should be
avoided. Tyjjhoid fever and scarlet fever,
although entirely distinct from the grip,
are very apt to become epidemic in regions
where the grip has held a stronghold. The
germs of these diseases happen to find
favorable ground for developing among
feeble patients of the grip, and a regular
epidemic is thus easily induced. Here
again the greatest precaution is to boil all
the drinking water. Also be careful of the
milk ,and syphon bottles which are sent
around from "the dairy and druggists. Often
these bottles have been in households where
scarlet fever and typhoid reign, and some of
the disease germs are carried away. The
bottle establishments should be compelled
by law to soak all of the bottles in boiling
water before filling them again, but that
they are lax in this one can readily im
agine. Physical Education In the Schools.
Some 12 years ago the W. C. T. TJ. made
an effort to introduce in the public school
system, instruction in physiology and hy
giene, with- special relerence to the ettect
of stimulants and narcotics upon the human
system. They succeeded in this State, and
indeed, all but nine of the States have
adopted the law, and so successful was the
Union in its influence upon the public
schools that it has just now made a new de
parture. It is endeavoring to develop the
individual scholars "all around" by devot
ing part of their time to physical ethics.
Professorships in the schools devoted en
tirely to the system of educating and de
veloping the body are being established in
some of the schools through the efforts of
the Temperance Union. The, physical
ethics course will consist of instructions in
physiology, hvgiene, vital chemistry and
physical teaching.
The chief idea contained in this new de
parture is to enforce upon the minds of the
young the idea of perfect physical develop
ment as the foundation of all success in life.
The goddess of health will be enshrined in
the hearts of all those who pass through the
course. This education might be considered
a preliminary to the Del Sarte system, or a
preparatory school for this higher develop
ment of the body in accordance with certain
ethical laws. The pcrlectly developed body
is but an expression of the thoughts and
actions of the person, or at least should be.
It was partly through the perfection of the
physical form that the Greeks, with their
ino'dels of health and beauty, accomplished
such wonders in art and literature.
Milk for the lean People.
Many cannot take milk in the summer
time, owing to the acidity of their stomachs
which curdles and sours it. In the winter
time, however, a great many can gain sev
eral pounds of flesh by taking milk daily.
Such people should not drink the milk,
but sip it. Even the stomach that nauseates
at the thought of milk will often retain it
if sipped or drunk with a spoon. When
drunk down rapidly it enters the stomach
and forms the solid rurdled mass, which is
hard -of digestion. When taken gradually
the gastric juice separates it, and freely di
gests it.
Lean, nervous people should try this if
they would gain flesh during the cold sea
son. It is asa good supplement to the meat'
and fat diet now so generally adopted in
cold weather. A. S. Atklssok, M. D.
SEW AD VEBTISEJtENTS.
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Russell Sage, the . well-known
financier, writes:
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New York City, Dec. 20, 1890.
"For the last twenty years I have been
using Allcock's Porous Plasters. They have
repeatedly cured me of rheumatic pains, and pains
in my side and back, and, whenever I have a cold,
one on my chest and one on my back speedily
relieve me. My family are never without them."
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Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived by
misrepresentation. Ask for ALLCOCK'S, and let no
solicitation or explanation induce you to accept a substitute.
WeMMinss AseMflnib
To the Trade.
If you wish to purchase one or a hundred
barrels of whisky in bond or tax paid of
any of the well-known Monongahela Val
ley ryes or Kentucky bourbons or fine
blended goods, call on the William H.
Holmes Company, 158 Firsl avenue and 120
Water street, distillers of "Holmes' Best"
and "Holmes' Old Economy." 'vrsn.
To people who know and appreciate the fact
that at this and midsummer time of the year
there is a general cutting of prices all along the
line, and on some goods quite a good deal. We
have a few more of those 14 BEDROOM
SUITS left; they are very nice goods. for the
money. So also in PARLOR GOODS we have
. something special to offer. Come and talk with
us about them.
OUR CARPETS AND CURTAINS.
We are doing noble work in this department,
making and laying all Carpets and hanging all
Curtains and Window Shades when purchased
" with other goods FREE OF CHARGE.
We are offering some special bargains in Cur
tains. We would like you to see them. A
special bargain, Davis High Arm Sewing Ma
chine. $25.00 saved on each purchase, and a
5-year guarantee given with the goods.
HOPPER BROS. & CO.
307 WOOD STREET.
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AFTER THE HOL
AWTTTO
SDAY RUSH!
Which extends to every department in our store. All odd lots and broken sizes have been reduced to cost, and in many
cases to less than cost No special knowledge of values is required to recognize the worth of the articles
we advertise to-day and thousands of others which we cannot here name.
OYS' CLOTHIN
Every parent should look
through our stock of Boys'
and Children's Clothing be
fore investing a dollar in such
goods. Our January offer
ings are unparalleled. By the
last of this month we mean
to clean out some hundreds
of broken lines.
Our harvest is over, now
is your turn. Good judges
say the values are surprising.
They are.
IN SHOES
It's the same story. All
the odd lots and broken sizes
we are determined to close
out no matter at what sacri
fice. Here are a few samples of
what we are now offering:
Men's really fine Calf, in
button, lace, and congress, at
$2.50. You would have to
take another' dollar to match
the value elsewhere.
Ladies' Pebble Goat, but
ton, at $1.50. ' Remarkable
value.
See the Ladies' warm lined
Oxfords at 98a
'Boys' best quality Veal
Calf at $1.2 5.
Men's extra quality leather
Brogans at $i.
Men's best quality Mil
waukee Grain Creedmore,
Si-75-
Men's fine. Veal Calf,
Blucher, $i.
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MEN'S STIFF HATS.
Odds and ends in sizes of
our $1.69 and $1.49 grades
haveall been reduced to $1.24.
ODDS AND ENDS
In Children's Hats and Caps.
Our line of Children's Cloth
Hats sold all along at 74c
now marked 49c.
FOR CAPS.
The weather for these is to
come, but it will come too late
for us to get the prices they
ought to bring us.
Our 98c line of Coney Furs
now go at 74c
Regular $1.49 grade will
be slaughtered at 98c
NECKWEAR:
A lot of fine Silk Teck
Scarfs sold at 74c and 99c are
yours this week at 49a
Another lot comprising 39c,
49c and 63c qualities will go
at 24c
Between the suit that fits and the ill-fitting-, unsirfitlv suit is
very great And you are pretty sure to pay as much for the
latter as for the former. For it isn't the style and fit of a suit
that costs; it'sthe quality, and quality is all we charge for, a
perfect fit 'is thrown in.
Wideawake buyers will appreciate the prices we have
made upon our Men's Fine Suits. The sizes in many lines
are sadly broken,, and, although the suits that are left are
equal in value to those already sold out of these lots, yet we
have made many inviting reductions to close them out entirely.
Keep posted on what we are " doing and shall do in the
suit line for the next week or two, it will pay you.
BROKEN SIZES IN GLOVES.
Lot of odds and ends in fine
Dress Kid Gloves, fur top, wool
lined, sold at 1.24 and Si. 49,
now 99c.
Odds and ends in Cashmere
Jersey Gloves, 63c and 69c grades,
now 49c.
UNDERWEAR.
Odds and ends in Men's Under
wear, $i. 49 and $1.24 qualities
closing out at 99c.
Broken lots of Children's Shirts
and Pantalettes, 19c, 24c and 34c
qualities, now 9c.
Odds and ends in Fancy Neg
ligee Shirts, Si. 24 and Si. 49 "goods,
now offering' at 99c.
GU S K T ' S,
300 TO 400
MARKET STREET.
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