THE SCRANTON TRI13UJSE-SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1899. JXA lT PLENTY OF MONEY AWAITS INGENUITY LARGE FORTUNES FROM UNEX PECTED BO URGES. Tho Doctor Who Became a Million aire in a Little African Island. Discovery That the Ostrich May Be Domesticated Other Instances Which Show That Men with the Acquisitive Instinct linn uccomo Rich Anywhere. Cyrus C. Adams, In Providence Journal. It lias often boon said that a man like the late Jay Gould would And eomo way to make money even In tho middle of the Sahara desert. Here nnd there, in out-of-the-way places that many of us never heard of, men are today, making fortunes simply beoause they have the money-making instinct and can see opportunities to acquire property where the ordinary man would think It hard scrabbling to keep the wolf from tho door. Tho illustrations of this fact that nro giv en below, nro proof that the right rort (if man can mako money nnywhero, because he In keen onouch.to see the particular opportunities which his en vironment affords. The storv of the accumulation of wealth In some of the almost unknown corners of the earth through the re cent efforts of shnrp, far-sighted men, is almost as marvelous ns tho growth of tho late Cornelius Vanderbllt's for tunes. Twenty-sown yarn ago a young physician named aiathlcu Au gusto Ulbciro landed on the little Island of St. Thomas, not far from the African coast, In the n'ulf of Guinea. Ueforo he left tho medlral school In Tortugal he had decided that the ranks of his profession were overcrowded at home and he picked out this little Island as n place without n physician, where hu might build up n. good prnc tlce among the natives. So he landed there In 1S70 with money enough to buy n mule and to keep him In food for about three months1. He had left his wife and baby at home, for he wanted to be sure of ruccess before taking his family so far away. flu began travelling on his mule, through the valleys nnd among the mountains, healing the sick, and soon he had a lucrative practice. COCOA TREES. He war- the first to recognize the astonishing fertility of the soil of this Island. He had tho perspicacity to see that In point of light, of humidity and heat it had a great advantage over any other Island along tho coast of West Africa for the cultivation of the coca tree. This Is the low tree whose seeds constitute tho cocoa beans of romiTiPrce from which chocolate and cocoa are made nnd, though It was cultivated extensively In tho West In dies, Mexico and Peru long before Col umbus discovered tho Western world, It had never occurred to any one that the conditions for growing this most lucrative crop were more perfect In the Tsland of St. Thomas, West Africa, than In most regions where the tree Is grown. This fact was the discov ery of the struggling young physician and It made lilin a rich man. He kept his valuable knowledge to him self until his operations became so ex tensive that all the world could see what ho was doing. Day and night, for years, he was off on his mule, visit ing the sick, and after ho had removed his family to the Island every cent that he could save went into the pur chase of land. Land was choay and in a few years he was tho owner of various tracts that aggregated a large area. As fast as he bought land he hired natives to set out the young plants that he raised In nursery grounds till they were about fifteen inches high. lie took part In this work himself and his wife also assist ed him In setting out the plants. Peo ple looked on and wondered and It nev er seemed to occur to them that Dr. nibelro had found In the Island of St. Thomas Just the conditions of rich, well-watered soil, humid atmosphere, freedom from cold winds nnd protec tion from violent storms that are es sential for the successful cultivation of the cocoa tree. They did not begin to wake up until he began to market his product and then they saw that he had another form of gold mine and began to get Into cocoa tree raising themselves. REPAID. It was four years after his plants were set out before the trees began to bear at all. and It was eight years be fore they attained full productive vigor; and all these years tho doctor and his family were living almost In poverty, turning all the money he could TiKINaTHECITADHL. I? ; a. Ih war when a town Is v '. fCp taken 'ov storm there is no uso in merely captur- Ini: the outworks or lov-r fbi.inction"i : Ao Ion? as the enemy hoMs the h i a e 3 1 ! uroiiglinld the town 'is not con ducted. In warring arii:st 'lijcase there is no me in i'.v overcoming the symptoms. There ltv of nipr stinm. latin'.' -Jrrmr jt-rvn; lr.r.frlv composed of iih.ohol. which nivc a false '! temporary exhilaration followed by relapse, ma lir. Tierce's Golden r.icdical D.scovery lr, .-. true and radical remedy. It cor.lc.ins no alcohol. It does not ine o;;te or create a craving for intotic-.ting rtiwulants. It doer, more than overcome the outer symptoms of disease. It at tacks it in its highest stronghold ami roMs it absolutely and completely from the very citadel of life. No honest dtalr.t will advise yon to accept a substi tute for "Golden Msdical liisjovery" tlui he u.sy taalre a iittle larger profit. "I ft I It ay July to write anJ tell you what ttr, Fitter's ucd'cltei ae ilno (r nic,"iyi Mt Hmiiift '., o! WllllfotJ, li;tp Co , Art., In a IrUndW :qmoo!e'.ljn to Ut I . v pfrrce! of Buffitn, J. Y. ' 1 r 8.ie'tiin- w-.i:y :i:id trie.) !nl doctor' rnsllt bufrri!tl7i only trr I'HU rt'.t f : bi troiii-li'llf. c.iUirli. an .-Uo nwr.S dlJitic. I Icol: elifbt twittrt of Dr. rirv'r G5i.tn Hldfail IiUcuvcry nnd Tvr!tf Pr:crlj.tloi: At .spok tu I had taken Ibo art. Icttle I tju'.d s that trie medicine wil tit'i'rjg tut. IdUoi'it'I tliCionl trtatnieat ycmoKuntci. "Sit ilitcr nil your tseAlcioe did her o.n good tl.a.i nr.thluK hc ever too!:. line mi .iowu in led nil. I L-ouUt not wilk until nr Miu Jwt Uicn your latiEcir.c, nnd now l.i cp Them sVe plcisro and hilpi to do her woik," Cvery suffering man or womn should write for o free copy of Dr. I'icrce's irreat thcu-ind-piyo illunirated Common Sense Msdicil Ar".ier. Hwill he sent paper bound for the Imuc cost of mailing, ai one-cent stamp, or in heavy, lundjoroe clot'i.Wndius for ji stamps. .J?v I !& V ntj ' l "S. I.V. N lY. . & IteWc i-fli$ c rar minor S& iVV are ulci earn Into more acres, more plants, and tho care of them. He could not borrow money on any security ho could offer, for nobody shared his enthusiasm nor had much faith In his experiment. Ills work, therefore, was limited by the capital ho could raise as ho went along, but when ho began to send the finest of cocoa beans to market development was more rapid. In 1S8S Dr. Ulbciro, eighteen yenrs after ho had landed on an obscure Island which many Portu guese had never heard of, though It belonged to their country, wna already regal (led at homo as a very rich man, and ho had been mode so bv tho pro ducts of his plantations. Though still a young man, ho decided In that year to retire from business and return to Portugal with his family; so he sold all his property to the Hanco Ultra marlno for $1,400,000 and returned homo worth considerably over two millions. After nine venrs more of cultivation and development tho plantations ho disposed of nro now valued at $2,-400,000. This young man faund what nn Is land was good for and there was a fortune In tho discovery. It was easy enough for others to follow in tho paths ho made, and It Is really due to Dr. Ulbciro that this African Island to day has the aspect of one great plan tation on which labor Is richly remun erated. Sixty thousand persons live on the little island, even 1,000 Chinese havo heard of It and gone there to live, nnd It Is the home of C,000 whites. The plant that has given the Island Its greatest prosperity should not be con founded with the cocoanut palm, which Is another thing entirely. ANOTHKK INSTANCE. Thirty-live years ago a poor Ger man lad named Carlos Schmidt emi grated to South America and settled not far from Santos in Brazil. It was not long before it occurred to him that coffoe was in largo demand nil over the clvillred world, and thnt n very good article was being raised in l.ra zll. He decided to give his life to cof fee raising. Land was cheap, and In the course of yirs he enlarged the bounds of the few modest acres with which ho began business, until, today, he owns what is said to be the sec ond largest coffee plantation in the world. Ho has 1,S00,000 coffee trees In hearing on 9.7S5 acres of land upon which ho gives constant employment to 1,500 laborers. His plantation, with all the Improvements In the way of houses, stores, bakeries and so on, Is said to be worth over $",000,000. Tho few hundred dollars with which he started to moke his fortune In that far-away land from which Canadians have recently been nsslsted to return, as they could not make a living there. The truth is that they went to Brazil without knowing the conditions before them or how to meet them, and they failed of course. When men cannot got along well In a new country It Is not always the fault of tho country. OSTRICH CUITUHE. In the middle of this century tho leading zoologists who had given at tention to the subject declared that the domestication of the ostrich was an Utopian Idea. As late as 1SG1 the well known naturalist of France, M. Isadore Gcoffroy Salnt-Hllalre, declared that If the domestication of the ostrich was not absolutely impossible It would at least be a matter of extreme difficulty, and, In n commercial sense, could never be practicable. In his opinion, their young could not be raised In a state of captivity. If this were true, It simply meant the extermination of the ostrich In a few decades more. The great de mand for ostrich feathers was supplied wholly from wild birds, whoso plum age was obtained only by sacrificing tho lives of the animals. The ostrich was already extinct In about half of his former habitat In Africa. A little later, however, Dr. Gosse, a member of tho Soclete d'Accllmation of Paris, wrote a pamphlet controverting tho idea that tho ostrich could not be do mesticated, and nbout the same time a brood of ostriches was successfully reared in the city of Algiers. This pamphlet and the news of the probable success of the experiment in Algiers came Into the possession of two farmers In Cape Colony, one of whom was Mr. MacKlnnear, who came to be known as the chief promoter of the domestication of ostriches In South Africa. In 1SG4 these two farmers placed two ostriches In nn enclosure and began the experiment. The fol lowing year they had eighty ostriches In captivity, Including a large propor tion of young. This was the beginning of ostrich farming, and these two far mers were benefactors of their race and of South Africa, because they had discovered a new industry, which was destined to play n most Important part In the commerce of n vast region. A constantly increasing area of South Africa that Is not well adapted to any other form of Industry is being de voted to this profitable business. Os trich farming was greatly stimulated by tho Invention of Mr. Douglas, an in cubator, which has proved n perfect success. With tho use of this egg hatching appliance, Mr. Douglas, In ten years, Ineerosed his original flock of eleven birds to 900, This useful ani mal Is no longer In dnngor of exter mination, the feathers now come most ly from domesticated birds that are not killed to procure their plumage, nnd In 1S03. the latest statistics at hand, $6, 000,000 worth of feathers, from 350,000 birds, were sent abroad from the os trich farms of Cape Colony. THE MAIN CHANCE. The other day the writer received a letter from a former newepaper em ploye In New York city whose name he Is not at liberty to mention. Ho had Just nrriveU in tho r.irniinn Island group of the Pacific, whero he will probably. spend tho rest of his days; und If nil the facts that took him there were told they would m.iko a romantic story. It is enough to say that over 30 years ngo his uncle, a common sailor before tho mast, while the vessel on which ho served was at tho Carolines, decldol that there was a fine chance to make money by preparing copra, the standard article of commerce from which coconnut oil is made, and by supplying what the natives wanted of foreign manufac tures. As soon as he could ho return ed to the Islands with a few hundred dollars worth of trade goods, nnd from day to this ho hasi never been Ameri ca, though hU business has taken him now and then to Hong Kong and Australia. There are few men In the Pacific who today are as wealthy as this old pallor. Probably there Is no other individual oporntor who carries on so large a business. Ho requires a fleet of 3d small sailing veesels in his enterprises among the little Islands of this largo group and foreign ports. For some time he has felt, with growing years, a desire to shift a por tion of his responsibilities, nnd Instead of Belling out he decided to associate with hlmielf his brother and nephew In tha conduct of his affairs. This Sisiday-ScSioe! lesse for August L The Promise of Restoration 0 EZEK. XXXVI :25-36. BY J. E. GILBERT, D. DM LL. D.,' Secretary of American Society of Religious Education? INTRODUCTION. By tho captivity of Judnh, tho monarchy, founded un der Saul five centuries before and con tinued so long In the line of David, was utterly overthrown. But God did not forgot Ills covenant with Abraham, through whoso posterity Messiah would come to bless nl tho families of tho earth (Gen. xll:3). Although de prived of political power, the Jewish people were destined to act nn Impor tant part In the world's history. Af ter a brief schooling ns captives among strangers It was tho purpose of God to restore a remnant to their beloved Jerusalem, afterward as a sub ject people to achieve a mission which they had failed to accept during their Independence. To instruct them In this plan of God, ICzcklel, one of those carried nway by Nebuchadnezzar, was called to tho prophetic office. While Daniel wns at court Ezcklel was among the exiles. Our lesson Is part of his promise of restoration. PARDON (Verso 2:.). Having an nounced God's purpose to bring the captives homo (verso 24), the prophet sets forth tho conditions of their re turn, to Influence their future course. The first condition Is deliverance from Idolatry, which had caused all tho na tional calamities. This sin. so offen sive to tho Almighty, had polluted tho thought of the people and led to nil manner of vile practices. God promised to cleonse them from all this uncleanncss, that they might bo pure In His sight, expressing this purpose In ceremonial terms. Literally It meant that He would forgive the transgressions. But this forgiveness Implied antecedent repentance. Tfio law of spiiltual life under the old dis pensation was the same ns It Is under the new dispensation (I John 1:9). There Is no pardon for tho Impenitent. We must therefore understand Ezeklel ns announcing In ndvance to tho Jews what God Is willing to do provided they turn from the evil of their ways to serve him (Isa. i:lG-lS). SPIRITUALITY (Verse 2 Pardon is a change In the thought nnd feeling of God toward the sinful. While con ditioned upon repentance It Is free and unmerited. God is pleased to forgive He Is not obligated. But forgiveness is not the end of His gracious purpose. It Is rather preliminary to a work which He proposes to do in the sinner. Ho removes condemnation thnt Ho may enter the depraved heart nnd renew It, This act Is generally called regenera tion by theologians, a term that Is somewhat obscure to tho common mind. Our lesson describes It ns giving a new heart, awakening now desires and hopes, taking away the stony heart and Imparting a heart of flesh. This 3 effected only by tho direct energy of the Holy Spirit (John, lli;8), who hns nlwoys been the efllclent agent In pro ducing in man all holy affections. This Is what the prophet declares tho Al mighty will do to penitent Israel, what In fact Ho will not do until they are penitent, what will moke them once more His people. OBEDIENCE (Verse 27) There is nn order in tho development of n new na ture, and our writer most clearly de self-made American was sharp enough to recognize the main chance when he saw It among these Pacific island specks, with the natural result that he Is a rich man. INDIA'S HOARDED WEALTH. Millions of Gold Bricked Up in Se cret Vaults What Hindoos Save They Hide. From tho Springfield Republican. During the first decade of my resi dence In India I was for some years associated with a wealthy banker named Lalla Muttra IWshaud, tho Lahore agent of the great banking house known as the "Seths of Mut tra," and fr.im him I learned a grfat deal about the system of hoarding practiced In nil ages by tho wealthy classes of India. He died at B'inda bun about 1SG7. It may bo explained that the title of "Lalla" used by nativ-e bankers has no exact equivalent In English. It might with equal propri ety bo translated master, professor, or banker. Both In ancient and modern times one of the stock objections of Euro pean nations against trade with India has been that that country absorbs a large amount of the precious metals, which she never disgorges. It has naturally been asked what becomes of these treasures, for we do not find In India that abundnnce of gold or silver which might naturally be expected; and the reply has always been that they nre withdrawn from circulation as currency by being hoarded. For nges It has been a prevalent opinion In all eastern countries that thero is a vast amount of treasure hidden in the earth, which, unless found by ac cident, is lost to man. When up country last year I heard that Chowrlngheo Laila, manager to Lalla Muttra Pershaud, already men tioned, was In Gwalllor on some tem porary business, and I called on him, us an old friend, at a placo In tho Lushkar, whero he was residing. Among other subjects we discussed tho action of tho government in closing the mints, and I asked his opinion about the possibility of a gold stand ard for India and mentioned tho fact that certain members of tho Currency association considered that 50.000.000 sterling of gold would be sufficient to provldo India with a gold currency. The Lalla laughed tho idea to scorn, nnd assured me that 60,000,000 would not suffice to replace the silver hoards of even ono state. "You know," ho said, "how anxious the lute Mahara jah Sclndla waH to get back tho for tress of Gwallor, but very few know the real cause prompting him. That was a concealed hoard of sixty cores 60,000,000 sterling) of rupees In certain vaults within the sentries, over which Urltlsh sentinels have been walking for about thirty years, never suspect ing the wealth concealed below their feet. Long beforo the British govern ment gave back tho fortress every one who know tho entrunco Into tho con coaled hoard was dead, except one man, who was extremely old, and, al though In good health, ho might havo died uny day. If that had happened the treasuro might have been lost to the owner forever and th world for scribes that order first pardon, then regeneration, finally obedience. The last is the end sought In nil GodW gracious dealings with men, In fact the proof of the previous states (John, xv:14). A disobedient man is not peni tent, neither has he a now heart (Deut., v:29). Tho low of God Is tho rule of hiiman conduct and tho only basis for n prosperous condition of society, nnd he Is right who sincerely desires und earnestly attempts to keep that law. Sin is lawbreaklng, dishonoring to God, destructive to man (I John, 11:4). Hcneo the prophet represents the Almighty ai declaring that the people after their return from captivity should walk In His statutes and keep His Judgments. To that end His spirit will be given not to minister to their enjoyment merely, but to re-enforce their wills and help them to a faithful perform ance of all the duties required of them. COVENANT (Verse 28) Tho promise of God goes forward to yet larger things. He offers to renew the cove mint which tho people had broken, a covenant or agreement between Him nnd them made with Abraham, their illustrious ancestor, fourteen centuries before (Gen., xll:2). There were two special features of that covenant which made It of incalculable value. First, It was a pledge that they should be tho people of God, that He should be their God, a pledge of mutual attachment they to represent Him among tho na tions, He to care for them. This fea ture was presented by tho weeping prophet (Jer., x:.:22) ns nn Induce ment to reform, and repeated many times by our author (Ezek xxxvll:27). Second, the covenant included a war ranty deed to the land of promise, exe cuted to Abraham (Gen., xv:18), re newal through Moses (Deut. xxxlv:4), and repeated after tho conquest (John., xxlv:13). All this, which had been lost through the Idolatry and wickedness of Israel, should bo regained if the spirit ual reform above recited was accom plished. PROSPEBITY (Verses 29, 30,33, 34). It would seem ns if the foregoing were enough. What more could a peo ple ask than to be restored to the Di vine favor nnd to the forfeited land of their fathers. But God's goodness far exceeds human expectation and desire (Eph. 111:30). His promise of spiritual blessing to the captive Jews Is supplemented by surprising pro mise of temporal good. This latter occupies a very large place In our les son. Tho famine which had In the later years come upon tho land (Jer. 111:6), the memory of which was asso ciated with their captivity, should dis appear, and the consequent reproach of the heathen should cease. The old-time frultfulness of the field should return nnd plenty should be In their habitations (Deut. vIII:8-9). The cities should bo rebulliled and Inhabited and gladness should fill the hearts of the people. Here Isa plain statement of the doctrine found in many places in Scripture (Psalm xxvll:25) that righteousness promotes one's welfare in this life (Matt.vl:33). PUBLICITY (Verses 35 nnd 30). The good which the rightous receive from ages, because thero was only ono en trance to the hoard, which was most cunningly concealed, and, except that entrance, every other part was sur rounded by solid rock. "So tho Maharajah was In such a fix that he must either get back his fortress or divulge the secret to the government, and run the risk of losing tho treasuro forever. When the fort ress was given back to the Maharajah, and before the British troops had left Gwallor territory, masons were brought from Benares, sworn to secrecy In the temple of tho Holy Cow, beforo leav ing; and when they reached the Gwa llor railway station they were put Into carriages, blindfolded, nnd driven to the placo where they had to work. Thero they were kept till they had opened out the entrnnce into the secret vault, and, when tho concealed hoard had been verified, nnd the hole built up again, they were once more blind folded, put Into carriages and taken hack to the railway station and re booked for Benares under a proper es cort." Chowdlnghee Lalla went on to tell mo that for generations before the rise of the British power his ancestors had held the post of treasurer In the Gwa llor state, and that, after tho British had annexed territories around Delhi, one of his great-grand uncles had re tired from the post of treasurer of Gwallor with a fortune of 20 crores of rupees (20,000,000 sterling). By great good fortune, all this money was quiet ly got Into British territory, he de clared; and 15 crores of It are at this day bricked up In a secret vault under a Hindu temple dedicated to the god dess of wealth In the holy city of Brln dabun. "Now." said the Lalla, "if tho treasurer could accumulate so much, what were the accumulations of the state likely to be? The treasures of Gwallor form but n very small amount compared with tho total of tho known concealed wealth of India. All the sli ver would be brought out and replaced by gold directly the government de creed a gold currency for India. "Five hundred millions of gold would be nbsorbed and concealed before a gold currency had been twelve months In circulation. Europeans, oven those What do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Ilavo you tried tho now food drink called GItAIN.O? It is delicious and nourishing and takes tho placo of coffee. Tho moro Graln-0 you givo tho children tho rooro health you distri bute through their systems. Gmlu-0 ismadoof pnrograins, and when properly prepared tastes liko tho choico grades of coffee hut costs about ns much. All grocers Bell it- 10c. and 25o. iry urainui g 1 IruIstthntyonrErocergrfetyouGnAIN-O ? Accept no imitation. 1 God Is profitable to others besides themselves. This Is tho one purposo of all God's gifts, so to bless tho re cipient that others may take note of tho fact and honor Him (Matt. v:ll-13). The Jews were made to know that their return and tho blessings which they should afterward receive would have this result. They had been In the midst of tho nations. On every side were people who had witnessed their downfall and the long series of calamities that had befallen them. As a consequence the heathen had spoken lightly of tho God of the Jews rtJzek. xxvl:2). But when the people shall come again nnd rebuild, when they shall till the fields and gather In the harvest, when songs of Joy shall bo heard In tho habitations formerly filled with sorrow, then tho heathen round about shnll know that tho Lord has redeemed the desolate. All that will tend to carry His name and so to ad vance righteousness In file earth. HUMILITY (Verses 31 and 32) One possible danger must be guarded. A prosperous people are always llablo to pride, and a proud people are not like ly to servo God (Deut., vl:10-12). The Jews might again full by this method as they did before, although warned. They might conclude, ns Nebuchadnez zar did (Dan., lvi.10), that they had achieved the success of the post-cap-tlvlty period. As a protection against such a state of mind tho Almighty Im presses two facts upon tho people. First, the evil of their doings would be deeply fixed upon their memories, so that thev will think of themselves as unworthy the benefits bestowed upon them. Second, what God had offered to do wus not on their account. There was no goodness or merit In them prompting Him to such kindness. He would have them perpetually ashamed of their ways (Ezok., xxxix:23). These two considerations would humble the Jews. They would understand that their return from Babylon was through the exceeding goodness of God even be yond their deserts (Psalm cxv:l). REFLECTIONS. Our lesson is full of Instruction for nations ns such. When any people through sin have suf fered misfortunes there Is but one way of return, and that way is always open, Hence the calls to humiliation, confea slon and reform, Issued from time to time by chief magistrates, are based upon sound political principles. Many states havo gone down to Irretrlevablo death because they would not turn from their evil ways, and their names live In history as warnings to subsequent generations. But nations nro only ag gregations of Individuals who need to consider the pervading thoughts of this lesson. Here is the gospel In Ezeklel. To every soul God offers pardon, pur ity, prosperity, upon terms within reach of all, highly acceptable to rea son. He ought not to forgive those who cling to their sins. But having forgiven, Ho will work within the heart and He will bless the basket and store (Psalm lxxxlv:ll). What He will do for those that lovo Him surpasses the power of thought to conceive or words to express (I Cor., 11:9). There Is prom ise of this life and the next (I Tim., iv:S). who have been In the country for yenrs, havo no Idea of the hoarding propensities of even well-to-do natives, without counting the more wealthy bankers and traders. For example, my wife," said the Lalla, "has more than three lnkhs of rupees hidden for fear of my dying botore her, because I nm much older than she Is, and we have no son alive to lnhcrtt'my prop erty. And I know nothing about tha place where this money Is concenlcd. On this I asked how natives man aged to accumulate so much wealth, and tho Lalla replied: '"Natives don't spend like Europeans. Take the house of an well-to-do native merchant with an Income of, say, a thousand rupees per month; nt tho very outside, 50 to 100 rupees would purchase the whole of the furniture In it. Beyond n few purdahs (curtains) nnd beds, furniture in the European sense does not exist. Even the very wealthy, although they may have a carriage and horses, pos pess neither hooks nor pictures nor any expensive works of art: and when a fenst Is given to their friends a piece of a plantain leaf serves each gest for n dish, where Europeans spend hundreds of rupees In dinner and breakfast services of fragile, but most expensive, chlnn nnd glassware. All thi the native saves and hoards. The wealthy conceal thtlr accumula tions of gold and sliver In secret vnults, except the ornaments, wnlch nre served for and worn bv their women." I had to admit the force of all this reasoning. EGYPTIAN ELECTRIC FISH. From the Boston Transcript. An Interesting fish that Inhabits the waters of the Nile Is the malapterurus electrtcuB, which Is considered about the best species of electrical fish, for. unlike the gymnotus and torpedo, Its electric organs do not affect Its mo tion. In a paper recently presented to the Royal Institution at London, the theory is ndvonred by Professor notch that the seat of tho electro-motive force Is the nerve-center itself, and not tho collection of plates which have hither to been considered tho electric organ of the fish. These plates number nbout two million, and consist of a modified muscular substance separated by an albuminous composition, while each Is connected by a single nerve fiber to tho nerve-center. A measurement of the electro-motive forco of tho cells by a capillary electrometer revealed the fact that tho electro-motive forco was of the samo order as thar produced by tho contraction of n muscle, and amounted to ubout .01 or .03 volt. Between the excitation of tho nervo nnd the maxi mum electro-motive forco there is a tlmelag of about 1-1000 of a second, and an oscillatory electro-motlvo force is generated by a single momentary ex citation of tho nerve. At tho lecture before tho Royal Institution nlready referred to the electric current from two of theso live electric fishes was shown with a telephone, und also shocks given to many of the nudlenee. Somo of theso fishes were procured by tho Sonff expedition of Columbia uni versity while at the Nile last eummnr, and nro exhibited In tho museum of the department of zoology of that Institution. mMnwta.ni.uiw.n.TTi'nainniwfftlliTti''''Wmiwm.'..'jJ ) n UM h m H 11111 H mtlitmlTrJjB irrw.'m tw n 'fKU.lJ . . .. i. ."T"Vi" i.Ti i i..iiiuiiiiuiu. ni'i.ii i i r i"" t-S-,?'r 7!" J7N- -- ..T.." i.I7 twbit - -. . -- ?r f TmiS -n ; - ,,ir,ifitv' j'cflclhUcricparalionfor As slmilatlrig itcTcodflndncgula linfl ifccStomifis andBowck of Brorr.otasDigfstion.Chcctrul ncss andt&stGontafas ncUhcr OpiumrMorphnu tiorHncial. Not Nauc otic. jixtptvfaidJitsxtiVixxnxBm JumMvt SftS" I j&hxt Sua I ,!n.Jnf. 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