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country, no nouoo wiu do lun 01 ai
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If there is any country in the world)
here food ought to be cheap for the"
masses it in ours.
The Forttm says that the wealth of the
United State in $00,000,000,000, and
lint half of it is owned by Ipsa than 25,-,
000 people. Thefts ere the men to put
the world'i fair on its feet.
Cordelp, one of Georgia's newest cities,
is a plnce with a population of 3000. A
year and a half ago the site on which it
is built was a cornfield. It is already as-
piring to havo a street railway and clec-1
trie lights.
Last summer New York dumped large
quantities of frcsh fruit into the bay to
keep up market prices. San Francisco
has been doing the same thing1. Ono
day recently dealers dumped 6000 mel
ons into the bay.
Official statistics show that 25,000
people are. killed annuully by wild beasts
and reptiles in India. Of these about
20,000 are slain by snakes. Tho Gov.
ernmeut offers rewards and makes other
effort to reduce tho danger, but the peo
ple are indifferent.
.Ten million dollars make a pretty
large sum for tho city of London to lose
because a handful of dock owners held
out against paying their workmen reason
able wages. It is no wonder that the
feeling is growing there that it is time
for the public to take its turn at running
things.
At the congress of the advocates of
cremation held in Vienna, tho statement
was brought out that there exists at
present throughout the world fifty cre
matories, most of which are in the
United States, twenty in Italy, and one
' h in Germany, England, France and
. ii erlund.
v nn'or Sherman, in a recent speech,
said iliut while "we boast in America of
tho rapid jirogrcss wo have made in
growth, population, wealth and strength,
jet it is equally true that some of tho
oldest nations in the world nro keeping
paco with us in industry, progress and
even in liberal institutions."
The deep-sea researches made by the
United Slates Fish Commission with a
viow to discovering the temperature of
the fishing grounds and thus learn the
causes that lead to tho fish migrations are
attracting great interest, not ouly among
scientific men but among those interested
practically iu trade.
To those who can read the signs of the
times, it is obvious, says tho Commercial
, -Ail cert utr that a great change is coming
into the relations of the two great schools
of medicine,. Surgery is constantly be
coming a more and more -exact science,
but medicine is constantly slutting her
ground, and the lines between allopathy
and homa'puthy are not by any means so
closely drawn as they wed to L-a.
It has been estimated that the capital
ization of the various corporations and
concerns in this country dependent upon
electricity for their business, irom the
Western Union Telegraph Company
down to the-humblest maker of electrical
appliances, is not less than $600,000,000.
This n o ms that the people now pay an
annual tax of lwtcewn thirty-five and
forty millions for a convenience which
forty years ago had scarely beguu to at
tract attention as something more than a
scientific toy.
The London docks, tho scene of the
recent strike, art one of the greatest
systems of docking to be seen in the
world. Upward of $130,000,000 have
been expended in their construction, and
hundreds of acres are covered by them.
They are built of stoue and concrete,
and are as substantial as such work can
bo made. Many of them date back to
the beginning of tho century. The
amount of traffic upon them is enormous.
It is estimated that in the warehouses of
single dock company there is at all
times at least fi5, 000,000 worth of
goods.
"Don't bra if and strut so much,
Chicago, " facetiously remarks the De
troit Free lrett. "You are getting to
be a big, overgrown town, but there
are dozens of cities to which you would
not make a rcsi Citable suburb. Your
' little million could be added to the five
and a half millions of London without
increasing the streaming city's central
roar to any appreciable extent. The city
at the base of the Eiffel Tower is twice
uud a half your size. The suburbs of
New York contain as large a population
as you have on all your valleys and
prairies. Eveu Mongolian Canton
could swallow you twice in rapid suc
cession. Boochow, Ilanehow, King
tchching uud Changehow all lap over
you, and towns that are your equal iu
sue and superiors in virtue .swarm all
over tho Middle . kingdom from the
A moor to the B.ahroapootra and from
the, njpuutaius of Thibtt to the YiJllow
UO lo, Chicago.
WHAT t (j
0b, what Is the love or tho bate of menr
What is their praise or their blame?
Their blame is a breath, but an echo of death.
And a star tbat glows bright and is (one
from the sight
Ah I such Is the vanishing guerdon of fame.
Oh, what la tho grief or tho joy of life?
What is its pleasure or pain?
The joys we pursue pass away like the dew;
And though bitter the grief, time brings re
lief To the heart th,at is wounded again and
again.
Oh, what is tho loss or tho gain of tho lime?
And what Is the suoceas' fair crown?
Tho gain that we prise lo! it fades and it
flies;
And the loss we deplore as quickly is o'er.
There is little to choose 'twixt life's smiles
and life's frowns.
Oh, men they may love and men they may
hate,
It matters little to me,
For life is a breath, and hastens death
To gather in all, from the hut and wall,
To the home that is narrow the house
that is free.
Boston Transcript,
A BRAVE DOCTOR,
When Herman Dean was in college and
tho medical school, he was so timid and
so slow of speech that his fellow-students
uiado bun the butt of frequent jokes.
He seemed to know his lessons, but in
endeavoring to recite them he floundered
about and clutched at his words desper
ately and awkwardly, and made but a
poor appearance. One could not help
smiling at tho tall, clumsy, blushing fel
low. But he worked at some of the prob
lems that discouraged tho rest of us
with ft stubborn courage that enabled him
more than once to surprise us and put us
to shaiue. "Thorough" seemed to be his
motto.
Ho took his degree of M. D. with
honors, and soon afterward we heard that
he had been appointed a United Slates
Medical Inspector on the Maine frontier.
lie entered upon his official duties in
1865, the year of the memorable small
pox epidemic whicli in Montreal and the
surrounding villages raged destructively
among the French Canadians. With al
most incredible fanaticism, thousands of
these people refused to be vaccinated.
They declared that to vaccinate was to
oppose the Divine will. God had sent la
picotte, and to try to prevent its spread
was wicked. The Canadian health of
ficials, in attempting to compel them to
be vaccinated, were fiercely assaulted,
their flags and placards torn down, and
the people rioted in the streets. Uuder
these circumstances, it was almost im
possible to check tho epidemic.
Tho American health officials estab
lished a rigid system of inspection along
tho Canadian border, and required that
all passengers on railroad trains coming
from Canada should be fumigated.
Surgeons with tho necessary appliances
were stationed at the railroad Ntutions,
and on the wood roads and forest trails
leadiug across the boundary, to vaccinate
all people arriving from Canada who had
not already been vaccinated.
Young Doctor Dean was directed to
make a tour of the logging camps in the
Moosehcad Lake region, aud to vaccinate
every man iu their crews whoso aim did
not show a fresh scar. Among these
loggers were many ignorant, lawless fel
lows, some of whom had the stupid pre
judice against vaccination which had led
tho French people across tho border to
resist the efforts of the Canadian doctors.
Their employers and the foremen, how
ever, were heartily in sympathy with the
work of the surgeon, uuci did their best
to compel their men to submit to his
lancet. Iu one of these camps Doctor
Dean encountered a French Canadian
called Pierre Couteau, who was unusually
obstinate, and showed a vicious temper
in his opposition to the doctor's pur
pose to vaccinate him. Ho was a huge
fellow with a black beard, and a great
red scar on his forehead.
"Its of no use for you to hang off
you've got to have the job done, said
Dixon, the boss of the camp.
"No 1" answered Pierre, crisply aud
doggedly.
"Don't make any fuss about itl Roll
up the sleeve of your frock !" ordered
Dixon.
Dr. Dean took a step toward the Can
adian. "No "growled the fellow, with an omin
ous emphasis, at the same time grasping
his axe as if to strike. His eyes flashed,
the scar ou his forhead grew redder, aud
he fairly bristled with determination.
Dixon was furiously angry and burst
into a torrent of profane exclamations.
"Leave this camp and don't you ever
come back, you brute!" he cried. "We
don't want any murderers here!"
Pierre muttered a few words iu his na
tive patios, flashed a defiant look at the
foreman, dropped his. axe with a scorn
ful gesture, aud turned to go away.
Iu a second Dr. Dean sprang upon him,
tripped him, threw hiut to the ground,
face downward, aud jumped ou his back,
Dixon came quickly to his assistance and
helped to hold the man down.
"Throttle the scouudivl!'' exclaimed
the excited foreman.
"No," said the doctor, coolly, "I'm
going to vaccinate him."
A friendly wood-chopper happened to
come along. Ho helped Dixon to hold
down the struggling, cursiug, frothing
man, while Doctor Dean cut away his
frock and shirt, criscrossed his skin with
his lancet, and rubbed in the vaccine.
In less than a minute the operation was
over.
Trcrubliug with rage, but cowed, the
Canadian jumped up, flung buck an
angry threat at the doctor, took his
small pack of clothing, aud, still
breathing veugeance, strode away from
the camp.
"I duuuo; I guess you made a mis
take," said Dixon.
"Why!" aked the doctor.
"That critter is liable to kill you. He's
a bad one ! I rather think 'twould have
beeu letter to let him go without trying
to vaccinate him.'1
"If I'd let him go hu d ho liabls to
kill a hundred hicn instead 6t one, 're
plied the doctor. "He might be the
very one to spread the small-pox all
through this regon. One unvacinated
man is ft constant menace. The only
safe way is for mo to obey order, and
see that everyone is vaccinated."
A few weeks later Doctor Dean was
ordered to take his station at a point
where a much-traveled road through tho
woods crossed the boundry between
Maine and Canada. The Canadian
Pacific Railroad had gangs at work in
Maine, and many men were going back
and forth across the border. A log
cabin was build for the doctor's habita
tion, a turnpike gate was put np, and
no man was allowed to pass without first
having bared his arm.
The cabin was furnished with a stove,
bunks and a few necessary pieces of fur
niture, and was well stocked with pro
visions. A young man known as Dan
wo engaged to stay with the doctor as
his cook and companion, and he also had
the company of a large mastiff and two
less sociable friends, a pair of rifles.
The cabin stood in the midst of a dense
forest, in which were many wild animals;
the nearest human neighbors were the
men in a railroad camp, twenty miles
away. The trout which abounded in a
stream that flowed past the cabin often
contributed to the bill of fare of the
doctor and his assistant. Once Dan shot
a deer, which supplied them with venison
for several weeks. Their table was at no
time scantily furnished, they had a col
lection of books, the air of the woods
was invigorating, and they enjoyed their
wild life.
Almost every day men with packs on
their backs came along the road from
Canada, and were stopped and vacci
nated. Sometimes they grumbled, but
for a long time no one resisted the doctor
outright. At night the two young men
took turns at watching the gate, and the
traveler over tho turnpike to Maine, at
whatever time he arrived, had to stop
and be examined.
Week after week passed, and still the
young men had no serious trouble in the
performance of their duties.
One forenoon the doctor's assistant
took down one of the rifles, and saying
that ho would'try to get some partridges
for dinner, started into the woods. The
doctor was sitting' on the door-stool of
the cabin, reading a book.
'I wouldn't go very far away, Dan,"
he said.
"Oh, pooh! You won't have any
trouble! '
"No, but our instructions, you know,
aro to stick right here," said Doctor
Dean.
"I shan't run off," laughed Dan.
"Better not go so for that you can't
hear me it I should cull. '
"Well, if you want me, you halloo,
and I'll come."
Dan had been absent for more than
half au hour, when the doctor heard
voices, and soon saw three men coming
up the road. He took his case, and went
out to the turnpike to meet them.
"Gentlemen," said he, politely, "I'm
a Governinent'surgeou, aud have orders
to vuccinate you.
"Huh!" grunted the foremost of the
three men, a stout Canadian in a red shirt
and knit cap. "Qu est ce que c est?
The doctor explained the situation to
them in French.
The three men chattered with each
other in their peculiar Canadian French
dialect for a few moments. The doctor
pretended to pay no attention to them,
but listened iutently, and caught nearly
all they said.
"Let's keep right on," the rcd-shirted
man finally stud.
"Break the man's head!" exclaimed a
scrubby littlo man, with a large brass
buckle on the belt of his frock.
"But the dog!" said the third man.
The mastiff was a quiet but attentive
listener to the colloquy.
"Who cares for the dogt He can't
stop us!" said the littlo fellow with the
big buckle.
Doctor Dean wished that he had
brought one of his rifles out of the hut
with him, aud that Dun was at baud.
He shouted "Dan!" loudly, thinking
that Dan might hear him, or that the
call might at least serve to intimidate the
men.
The three travelers listeucd for a mo
ment, and looked sharply about them.
They heard no answer to the doctor's
cull, aud saw that nobody came.
"Laissez nous passes!" (Let us pass!)
the first speaker said in French, with a
threatening look at the doctor, who stood
unflinchingly at the gate.
"It's a very simple thing," said Dean,
without raisiug his voice. "The Govern
ment requires me to vaccinnate you. It
won't take me five minutes."
He spoke pleasantly, as if he had not
heard their threatening talk as if he did
not see i warning in their eyes.
He saw that he was about to have se
rious trouble, but he made two resolves;
one was to make every effort to keep
those men from passing the gate iu defi
ance of his orders, and the other was to
manage, if he could, to get his rifle fiom
the cabin. AVith that in hand he felt
that he should be master of the situa
tion. It was possible for the men to escape
him by turning from the road into the
woods, but they were too surly to take
so much trouble iu maiutaing their diso
bedience. They had determined to defy
the doctor, and to pass along the turn
pike in spite of his opposition.
Suddenly the man in the red shirt
moved towards the gate. At the same
moment the doctor heard footsteps of
some one approaching down the road.
"Perhaps it is Dan," he thought.
The red-shirted man started to climb
over tha gate, but Dean grasped him aud
pulled him back.
With au angry hiss the fellow aimed a
blow at Deau. The doctor dodged
quickly aud then straight from his
houlder come a blow that laid his assuil
aul ou the ground.
The two ether men, cursing, sprang
upon tha doctor.
"Take him, Lion!" Dean cried to tha
growling mastitl and iu an instant the
dog was at the throat of the man with
the brant buckle, who yelled With terror.
Dean, meanwhile, was wrestling des
perately with the third man.
If he could ouly shake uun on ana
get his rifle I
But his first assailant was up. lie
rushed to the succor of the screaming
wretch who was strugging with the
mastiff.
Dean was left to battle singly with the
third man. His courage rose.
They were whirling around, panting
and kicking, each trying to trip the
other, when a new-comer rushed into the
melee. It was the man whose approach
ing steps had been heard.
Dean saw a great red scar burning
over a face covered with black hair, and
his courage left him all at once.
The man was Pierre Couteau I
The doctor ceased to struggle, and
dropped limp to the ground. His
antagonist aimed a kick at his face with
his boot, that, if it had reached hun,
would have disfigured him for life.
At the same instant the doctor saw
something pass between himself and his
assailant like a Cash. Pierre Couteau
grappled with the fellow and threw him.
Amazed, Dean sprang to his feet.
"1 11 help you I ' Pierre cried in French ;
and he yelled to the other fellows to
desist.
The poor mastiff had received his death
blow from a stone. Dean rushed into
the cabin and brought out his rifle. At
its appearance the three fellows sur
rendered and were vaccinated, and
allowed to go on their way.
Then Dean learned from Pierre the
secret of his unexpeted behavior. He
had gone from the Moosehead logging
camp to Canada. While he was there,
the small-pox attacked his village. Many
of his friends died; but he, thanks to the
doctor's vaccine, escaped' with a mild
attack of varioloid.
"I have often ask dose saint to bless
dc good docteur," he said in his broken
English.
When, on his way back to the States,
he saw his good doctor in trouble, he
was glad to do him a service, and thus
help the saints to answer his prayers.
"Some good luck dat I come 'long,
n'est-ce-pas?"
"That's so, Pierre! Can you stay
here with me a while?"
Pierre said he would be glad to stay.
AVhen the delinquent Dan came back
with his partridges, he was dismissed for
disobedience, aud Pierre was installed in
his place.
All through that trying season, Doctor
Dean and Pierre guarded the turnpike iu
the woods, and the doctor found in tha
Frenchman a most tractable and useful
assistant. Touth'i Companion.
A Good Story Told of a Congressman.
This story about Congressman Frank
Lawler, of Chicago, is printed in the
JVewi, of that city, as being told by Amos
J. Cummings, the New York editor and
ex -member of Congress:
"Lawler came to me one afternoon last
winter and said: 'Cummings, I'm going
to have the Agricultural Department in
vestigated. I've stood things as long as
I'm going to! I shall introduce a reso
lution calling for a committee to-day."
"I saw that he was pretty mad.
'Frank,' said I, 'what's the occasion for
this sudden outburst? Colman is a good
fellow, and his Department generally ha!
given satisfaction. What cau he have
done to offend you?"
"Then Lawler explained that oue oi
of his most influential constituents had
written him three times asking him for a
sample paper of seeds ; each of these let
ters was referred to the Agricultural De
partment, but to none of them had the
Department paid any attention whatso
ever. 'When the first came,' said Law
ler, 'I sent it to the Commissioner of Ag
riculture with a noto saying: 'Please re
mit.' The second letter complained that
I had probably not received the first,
and would I theiefore not send the seeds
by express at once. This letter I seut
by messenger to the Agricultural Depart
ment, with a pretty stiff note intimating
that there were no flies on me. Well,
sir, to-day I gets a third letter, and my
friend is madder'n fury all about there
seeds says I've got the big head so bad
I won't pay any attention to letters writ
ten by old friends. I was so paralyzed
that I just indorsed the letter over tc
Colman in theso words : 'If them seedi
aiu't sent to-day there'll be a committer
on your tracks to-morrow.' "
" 'Tell me, Frank,' said I, 'what hai
caused all this uproar? What kind ol
seeds did your friend ask for?'
" 'He wanted mushroom seeds,' saic
Lawler, solemnly, 'and he's going to ge
'era, too, or I'll know the reason why.' '
He saw the Gorilla.
The Fort Wayne (lud.) correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says
W. H. Stewart, proprietor of a museum,
residing in this city, has a very largi
gorilla, noted for his strength and feroc
ity, caged, and at present the cage is ii
his barn. This afternoon a man namcr
Isaiah Slade, of Akron, Ohio, desired U
see theanimal, and visited Stewart's bun
during his absence. The animal hut
just been fed and one of the iron bars o
the cage was left open. As soon a
Slade eutered the burn tho gorilla force
his way through the opening aiic
sprung upon the man, forcing him dowr
aud punished hiin frightfully. His yelh
brought Stewart, who with great dilii
culty drove the auimul into his cage
Slade had his whiskers all pulled out, om
ey gouged out and his nose badly torn
A Meteorological Mystery.
A remarkable air-wave has attractet
much attention from meteorologists, win
are stiil unable to explain the phenome
non. At several stations in Central Ku
rope the barometer recorded a suddei
dip of about four-huudredths of an inch
followed by a corresponding rise a fe
minutes later. Dr. K. Hermann ha'
traced the disturbance from Pola to Kei
turn, separated by about five degrees o.
latitude, the rate of translation betwcei
these places having beeu about seventy
one miles an hour. In an easterly au(
westerly direction the disturbance vai
confined to narrow limits. Ther wai
no earthquake iu Europe. Arkmm
Truitlr.r.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
TKAST CAKF.9.
Two quarts of water, two cups and a
half of boiled mashed potatoes, one cup
of sugar, two tablcspoonfuls of fine flour
and half a teacupful of salt. Take a tea
cupful of hops and boil in a pint of wa
ter; strain off and pour boiling hot over
the mixtures of potatoes and flour; then
ndd the warm water, sugar and suit and
have a cupful of yeast to raise it. When
it begins to ferment stir in fins corn
meal, enough to make a stiff dough, roll
out thin and cut in small cakes as large
as ft teacup ; spread them out on plates
and dry quickly, taking care not to let
them scald; dissolve one in a teacup
of warm water; one cake will raise four
two-quart loaves of bread. Keep the
cakes in a box where they will not mold
JIOAST TURKEY.
Select a turkey with thin skin, bright,
clear flesh and white fat of a moderate
amount. Dress carefully so as to remove
the gall bladder whole. Save both gir.
zard and liver. Let a stream of cold
water run through, wipe dry inside and
out, and singe any hairs with a white
paper flame. Break the leg bones and
draw out the tendons from thighs. Fill
the breast and body with a dressing oi
bread (entire wheat is best), using only
butter of the best quality, with pepper
and salt for seasoning. Sew close with
twine. Firmly truss, putting the liver
under one wing and the gizzard under
the other. Dredge with flour, salt and
pepper. Koast iu quick oven. Put a
largo piece of butter in blasting ladle.
Baste frequently until well browned
and frothed. Serve with stewed cran
berry sauce.
ROME rHACTlCAI. DOJj'TS.
Don't give a child any sweets except
molasses candy or chocolate caramels,
and these very rarely.
Don't permit a child under five to re
main out of bed after eight p. m., even if
you have to forego social duties you
think most sacred.
Dori't thiuk that a child needs food
each time it manifests hunger. Try to
assuage thirst by several tcuspoonfuls of
boiled and cooled water.
Don't hold a child in convulsions in
your arms, but strip it quickly and im
merse it to the neck in a hot bath,
to
which a tablespoonful of mustard may be
added
Don't allow a patient with colic to
suffer until the physician arrives; give
large injections (two quarts of warm wa
ter with ten drops, adult dose, of tinc
ture of opium).
Dou't seek relief for burns by the use
of cold water; if nothing else is obtain
able use warm water; better still, keep
the part wet with sweet or linseed oil.
Don't lose your head when with cases
of bleeding from the lungs; they very
rarely prove immediately fatal. Prop
the patient up in bed, and give him
small pieces of ice to swallow, aud tif-
teen drops of tincture of ergot (no sugar
of lead or acid) every hour, uutil your
physician arrives.
Don't imagine tbat sunstroke (heat
prostration) follows exposure to the sun
exclusively. The same may be produced
by excessive heat even at night, es.
pecially when the person is much fatigued,
or in a crowded room.
Don't allow meat aud vegetables to be
placed in the same compartment of the
refrigerator.
Don't wear high heels. Women who
wear them publicly advertise the fact that
they seek or wish to maintain serious in
ternal troubles.
Don't mistake weight for warmth in
clothing. Feeble people may be worn
down by heavy clothing, and yet be less
sheltered thau those who wear light
woolen fabrics, both as inner aud outer
garments.
Don't read, write or do any delicate
work unless receiving the light from
above und over the shoulder. Don't
read in street cars or othpr jolting
vehicles.
Dou't rub the eyes, except with your
elbow.
Don't attempt to clean the ears with
anything but the tip of the little linger.
Don't attempt to remove hardened ear
wax by picking it out. If you canuot
reach a physician when hardened ear wax
becomes troublesome or painful, you may
gently inject (by means of a fountain
syringe) warm water, to each pint of
which half DSMunce of bicarbonate of
soda has been aQi'd.
Don't believe that catiug fat will make
you fat; quito the contrary holds true.
Don't eat gamey meats; remember that
"ganicy" is the hyper-refiiicd word for
rotten.
"Don't pour a mouthful of coffee into
an empty stomach, even if you must tear
a button from your coat aud swullow it
before," says un Arabic proverb. This
applies to tea as well.
Dou't attempt to remove foreign bodies
from tho upper part of the windpipe by
trying to reach them with instruments of
any kind. Try giving a violent blow ou
the back immediately after tho accident.
If this does not succeed, have the patient
held suspended by the feet, head down
ward, and moved rapidly from side to
side while you strike between the shoul
ders with the palm of the hand ; stop
this at once if the patient shows evi
dences of suffocation. If these continue,
or the foreign body is not dislodged,
send for a surgeon to perform tracheoto
my or laryugotomy as quickly as possi
ble. J'hrewtoyiatl Journal.
Clay Pipe Muklut;.
The cluy pqie industry is remarkable
from more than one point of view. The
manufacture is essentially French and its
importance is daily increasing, despite
the formidable competition of wooden
pipes and cigarettes. One pipe manu
factory occupies au area of ubout one
hundred thousand square feet and give
employment to from five hundred to six
hundred persons, exclusive of children
less than twelve veur of age. The
annual product is 120,000 gross. The
number of styles is infinite and is duily
increasing, as the dealers are continually
Uug for new models,
THE GOVERNMENT HORSES.
IT
TAXES PRIDE IN ITS
FOOTED STOCK.
FOUR-
All tlio Animals Have to Conform
With Certain ItcgulRiion A
Horae Generally Lasts Six Yen in.
Whenever, upon the occasion of any
public parade, the cnvnlry stationed at
the garrison at Fort Myer forms part of
the procession, the magnificent appear
ance of the horses excites the universal
admiration of the spectators. Their size,
for they are above the ordinary build,
suggests in itself tho idea of strength,
while the uniformly shaped head aud
large, prominent eyes tell of the intelli
gence of the animal. The horse is as
much of the cavalryman's outfit til his
sabre or his carbine, and ho must needs
possess the strength to endure long
forced marches, aud the understanding
to be of the most possible benefit to his
rider in fighting by requiring the least
attention.
Congress annuully appropriates about
200,000 to be expended in the purchase
of horses. This amount is expended pro
rata among the divisions of the army,
those on the Atlantic coast not requiring
as large a sum as the cavalry on the fron
tier, where the life of the animal is not
altogether one of lazy contentment. In
Arizona, especially, the equine mortullty
is greater than in any other section, and
more horses become disabled and unfit
for further service. The burning sands
and alkali deserts lead to blindness and
diseases of the hoof, and the animal has
either to be shot or sold. The lack of
proper pasturage and feed aIo cuts an
important figure in the life of a cavalry
horse in the remote garrisons of the
West, for while his Eastern brother is
feeding luxuriantly on a full allowance of
oats aud corn twice a day and sleeping
in a comfortable stable, the Western
horse is making a scanty meal on huski
and Bleeping in a ramshackle building
that seems to have been especially con
structed for a free circulation of air.
There are nearly 10.000 horses in use
by the United States Army. Of this
number about ten per cent, are sold
annually because of their uufitness fur
further cavalry or artillery duty, and
about five per cent, are lost by death.
So, in order to maintain the staudurd, it
is necessary to purchase about 1500
animals every year.
When a stock of a
garrison needs replenishing the Quartermaster-General's
Department is notified.
An advertisement inviting bids is in
serted in the prominent papers and a con
tract entered into with the lowest bidder to
deliver the horses at the desired point, if,
after a suitable inspection by the Secre
tary of War, they meet the requirements
of the standard fixed by the army regula
tions. The regulations require that the
horse shall be a gelding of uniform and
hardy color; from fifteen to seventeen
hands high; from four to eight vears old,
and weighing between 000 and 1200
pounds for a cavalry horse and between
1050 and 1300 for srtillery horses. There
arc other requirements necessary, such us
the general build of the animals and their
health. V henever it becomes necessary
to purchase tho half-breed horses of
California or Southern Texas the standard
of the height is reduced to fourteen and
a half hands. Long-legged, loose-jointed,
long-bodied aud narrow-chested horses,
as well as those which are restive or
vicious, are rejected.
Most of the horses used in the army
arc purchased iu St. Louis and Louis
ville, although tho general rule of late
has been to obtain the animals iu the
ueighborhoood in which they arc desired
for use, the idea being to obtain
thoroughly acclimated auiaals. The
avaragu cost of a horse is a trifle over
13J.
As soon as the purchase is completed
the horse is branded with tho letters "U.
S." on the left fore shoulder, aud a com
plete descriptive list is made of him,
which always accompanies hun where
ever he is transferred. Tho horses are
distributee! by the regimental comman
der, and the riders or drivers are not al
lowed to exchange them or permit any
one vise to use them.
With every troop of cavalry a record
of the animal is kept, containing a des
cription of every ono received and trans
ferred, showing the kind, name, age,
size, color, marks, brands, or other
peculiarities, how and when acquired and
disposed of, the name of its rider and
driver, uud the use to which it is ap
plied. The forage ration for a horse is four
teen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of
oats, corn, or barley, and in special
cases of hard service or exposure the
graiu ration is usually increased three
pounds. Iu localities where gofid graz
ing is practicable for a considerable por
tion of tho day, or during seasons when
little labor is required of the animals, the
ration is usually reduced.
The animals usually last about six
years, and at tho end of that time are
sold at auction, or before, if they are dis
abled so as to be unfit for service. When
sold tho officer puts another brand on
the horse, making it impossible for the
horse to be sold to the Government at
some other poiut. Condemued animals
do not briug very much. They are
worthless for carriage purposes, aud are
too much worn out to be tit for the more
arduous work of street-car hauling.
They are usually sold tocoutractors, who
employ them in hauliug tmall loads.
But the army horse doc not last long
after he drops out of the service. Usually
he does not amount to much when the
Government has no further use for his
services, and his career thereafter is a
short as it is uneventful. Wathinitm
Pott.
Ou the day that Simon Cameron was
buried the Court House bell at Em
porium, Cameron Couuty, 1'euu., was
tolled ninety times. The bell was a gift
from him at the time the county was
formed.
The African Methodist Church, which
has not a white man among its uituiUy
or any organic relation wi;h auy white
church organization, reports a member
ihip of 40,iniu.
r OR WANT OF BREATH. '
A poor city babs lay dying ono day
On a ragged aud dirty cot.
Lay quietly gasping Its life away .
In a basement squalid and hot;
O God! for a sniff of cool, sweet air
Just one for the child and it mother:
For the heart that bleeds so helplessly there.
And the balie that must He there an l
smother!
The fanner's boy is a cheerful sight
As he sits on the floor in the sun;
How he doubles Irs Bsts In mimic might,
How lusty his grief and fun!
Oh ! Full of life all day Is tho breeze
From the fields of the farmer oomiua",
For it dallied awhile 'mid leafy tree.
And a while where bees were humuiiug.
The fisherman's boy I at ploy on the sand
Hnw nl ii id v and nliimn he erows!
There is strength in the grip of his chubby
hand,
Aud his lips are red as a rose.
Oh ! rweet are the breezes born at wi
And era (Ilea in white foam AoeT 1 1 ,wl
Sweetly cool, when waves are like grass on a
lea.
Cool and keen when a tempest lowers.
The babe in the tenement house ia dead,
With none but its mother to weep;
Then lay it to rest in that narrow bed
Where the sleepers breathe not lu their
sleep.
Oh I breeses that wander at will alway.
It ashore or where sea-scud is flying.
There are thousands of poor city babes to-day
Tbat are smothering, fainting, dying.
George llorlon, in Ckietuo Hemlil.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Burs to matrimony The front gate.
Life insurance in some cases is merely
a matter of policy.
The young man who is in love is con
spicuous for his courtly manner.
A hero is a man who refrains from eat
ing things that do not agree with him,
A man is not necessufily mean liecausc
he will jump on a feather bed when it is
down.
Some men are born rich, some achieve
riches and some get into fat government
offices.
Goes without sayiug The young mau
too bashful to pop the question. l'ejwi
Siftingi.
These times suit the scissors-grinder.
He likes to find thiiigs dull. Sin Fran
eiffo Alto.
The stiuup-wiiidow of any postoffice it
a sort of Lick observatory. liothttter
Fott-Esprett.
A man is known by the company he
keeps. That' why she prefers to be a
sister lo him.
Meu will strike for shorter hours, but
the earth continues to revolve at the same
old speed. Judtje.
Republics were ever ungrateful. We
put our great men on postage stamps, aud
then punch their heads.
Because a bald-headed man doesn't
happen to keep a lock on his head doesn't
signify that there is nothing of value in it.
Cupid is doubtless known ns the God
of Love iu this day because the seutimeut
of love has become largely a sentiment
of cupidity.
Queen of Spain "Good gracious!
The baby King has the btomaeh-ache."
Lord Chamberlain (excitedly) "Call the
Secretary of the Interior!"
'The sunset lingered o'er your hair,"
Was what her ardent lover said;
But other maidens young and fair
Said, "Gracious, but her hair is red."
Wanhiinitun C'upitul.
Fat Woman "Oh, uin't these mos
quitooa awful!" Thin Womau "They
never bite me." Fat Woman "Of
course not.. They live on blood, not
bones." Oitre a Weel.
Misunderstood. Pop-eyed Photog
rapher (about to remove the cap)
"Look this way, please." Sitter "Not
much, I wouldn't look like that in a
picture for uothiu'." Litlit.
It is rumored that Queen Victoria
thiuks of bestowing the Order of the
Bnth ou Thomas A. Edison. Iu order
to make him feel perfectly at home, she
will probably make it' an electric bath
I'ecl'i Sun.
A Chicago bearded woman made a
snug fortune out of the show business in
about twelve years, aud now lives in
comfortable luxury with his handsome
wife and five beautiful children JJing
hamton fiepubliain.
"I'm all broke up," ho badly sighed,
As he returned to towu.
"A love affairr" "Jio," he replied;
"A hauuuut k let me down."
Bau,:
Boston Mau "Well, my boy, how ia
real estate in the West, active?" Drum- .
mer (just back from Kansas) "Active!
Well, I should say o. A cyclone car
ried a 150-acro farm forty miles the other
day. It's a little too active for me.''
Ktarnty Enttiyritt.
A naughty little boy one day eluded
punishment by creeping uuder a table,
where his mother could nut reach him.
Shortly after his father came iu, and
when told the state of affairs crawled on
his hands und knees in search of his sou
an i heir, when to his astonishment, he
was greeted with this inquiry: "Is she
after you, too, father?" .
Au Kuglishmun has written a book,
entitled: "Two Thousand Miles on :i
Camel's Buck." We believe we can beat
that iu this country in half the space.
Ix-t some oue come out with "One Thou
sand Miles on a Fence Rail." There arc
lots of people who have had the experi
ence, with tar and feathers thrown in
gratis. Detroit Free Ire.
Au Electrical Drill.
Au uitercstiug electrical machiue can
be seen in operation on the framework of
the new war ship Muiue, iu the Brook
lyn Navy Yard. It is a drill. Instead
of the slow and tedious paid and ratchet
haud drill commonly ued, is one that is
set a whirling by an electrical current
seut through curefully insulated wires.
A three-quarter inch hole in a three
quarter inch plate cau be dulled iu lcs
than a minute. The chief objection u
that the Drop-line current ia deadly.