MOTHERLESS CHiCKS. SURPRISES AT A LONG ISLAND POULTRY FARM. • Where the Thermometer Rules— Thousands of Birds Within ('all. but Few in Sight—ln the Brooding House. Hundreds of little hulls of fluffy down, sedate old hens, arrogant roosters, vel vety, lily white ducks. They ure all within reach of the mildest halloo and yet not a dozen of them in sight at once. That is the first impression one gets of a largo, well ordered poultry farm. It is a curious impression, too. The underpinning of your ideas seems utter ly out of gear. Where is the traditional cluck-cluck and the feathered bustle of the barnyard you know so well? Then you suddenly remember. Modern science has stepped in with her incubators and her mixed feed and deposed Mother Nature 011 her own ground. The "sottin' heu" is good, but the hot air box is moro reliable. "The chickens and the ducks are all 1 there "behind the scenes" in u long row of frame buildings. The poultry farm of to-day is run 011 scientific principles. The machinery does not wear itself, it is far too well oiled, llut you may feel its motion. "Sandacre," the country Beat of Rob- ' ers Colgate, on the outskirts of the vil lage of Quogue, L. 1., within sight and sound of the blue Atlantic, is at once one of the most famous and representative of modern poultry farms. It is famous be cause of its size audits varietiesof fancy j fowl, representative because every inno- I . vation and improvement is brought into I plav within its boundaries. Once upon ; a time there was u farm 011 the New Jersey sands that fur exceeded it. But now that Jersey chicken settlement has \ handed over its glories und "Sandacre" i reigns unique ut least. "Sandacre Furin" as it is to-duy is the ' outgrowth of years. Mr. Colgate has long boon a fancier of note. But until 1 recently he has always exhibited in the | name of his manager und kept aloof from tl.o turmoil of county und state ! fairs. It was the organization of the New York Poultry and Pigeon Associa tion that brought him before the public as a man of fowl. He was not one of the j association's originators, but summoned j to the very first conclave lie made his murk among those who were and was 1 elected the first president. This post lie 1 has tilled ever since. I visited "Sandacre Farm" 011 a hot morning. The sunlight lay warm and 1 glistening 011 the brown roofs of the long v row of chicken houses and the waters of Quogur Buy a magnificent duck pond, truly shimmering iii the glare. "Sand acre" is most appropriately named, mil, to puvaphruse a hit, it might well ho called "a fowl's paradise." And the Scriptural injunction has boon obeyed. The soil is sandy everywhere, but it is not upon the sand that these houses have been built. Gay lor, the manager, awaited ine at the incubator house door. And a strange- J hr interesting person I found this Gnylor. j He was a man of science, u macliincst, ! an electrician, mi inventor and a fancier all rolled into one. The incubator in 1 use (there were two others iu the little house) was of his own make, piece by piece, and lie could tinker any part of it should need ho. August is betwixt and botweon sousons for the mechanical hutching of chickens and ducks. The incubator's greatest 1 activity is in the early months of the year. Thou brood follows brood without the loss of a day. Seven hundred and fifty eggs are put in the hatcher at one time, though its actual capacity is double tliut. "Has oxporionco proved the incubator a greater success than the old-fushionud j barnyard hen?" I asked. "Yes, and 110," answered tlio manager, J with a reflective whisker twirl. "The Incubator chickens uro 110 stronger and 110 bettor than those hatched in the natural way. But it is difficult to fet setting liens, enough of them I mean, 'lien again, the proportion of loss is very much sin iller in the hatcher. Look at this machinery und you will see why. And again it was impressed upon me hew modern science is able to givo points to natuie. The eggs rest in rows 011 wire-bottomed trays, eiglity-fivo to ninety eggs to a tray. These trays slide in and out of the hat cher like desk drawers. Along the top ruu ten iron pipes, five for the flow of water, five for its return. Several inches lower extends a thermostat of poculiur design. It is a bar of hard rubber, one-sixteenth .of an inch thick and one inch wide. It is held taut by a powerful spring and a bar controlled by it plays between the points of an cloetric circuit, completing it by touching every point, breaking it by standing midway. The thermostat is regulated to 102-102 1-2 degrees, the lamp is lit, the hot water circulates through the pipes. The temperature rises above 102 1-2, the circuit is completed and clock work is put into motion, which Jiovosn loose sleeve or snuffer over the lamp wick und opens the ventilators. When the temperature has fallen one degree the thermostatic bur tiles to the other point. The olockwork moves again,llio sleeve is lifted off the lump wick, the light blazes up uguin and the ventilators 11 re closed. /Seemingly the ineclinuisin is perfect, hut there is yet another safeguard. A second thermostat is in the machine. This is rogulatod between 05 and 105, tlio danger points of incubation. When the temperature touches either of these the circuit is completed, and three electric hells ring—one in Sandacre mansion, another in the manager's house, the third in tlio brooding liouse. It is a danger signal by night as well as by day, aeldom if over sounded, but a hatch of 750 eggs is too precious to take risks with, and some sudden mischance might befall. k Each egg is carefully scrutinized us it goes into the trays mid many times there after. The examination is an interior one, though made wholly from the outsid°. j liens' eggs are studied by lamp light, the concentration of rays being needed. Ducks' eggs, however, aro more trans parent and can he looked over at any time. The period of incubation is oigli teen to twenty-two days for liens, twenty six to twenty-eight for ducks'. The science of the poultry farm is not only not ended, hut it is just begun when the chick comes out of his shell. In tlio barnyard the fledgling is thrown upon the cold, hard world at once,and lie must scratch for himself even before lie cuts his eye teeth, as it were. With the in cubator-raised chick it is very different. A silver spoon is truly in his mouth. I From the hutching room ho is carried di rectly to the brooding houso. Tlio brooding house is divided into eight "peas," each about 4xlo, und with tiny "runs" in tlio sunlight under glass. In the front are rows of stoam pipes, i which keep the room at an even temper ature of a little ovor seventy, and the V flicks huddle up close to them at uiglit- full in default of a mother's warm wings. The floor is well sandod and the "run" outside is mude of sandy soil itself. Here the fledglings learn to scratch in an amateur sort of way. Not for a liveli hood—they ure too well provided with food for that —but from a natural in stinct. The food for the first three days is pinheud oatmeal. Then there follows a week's diet of old-fashioned johnny cuke, baked hard for two hours in a slow oven, ground tine and fed dry. It is composed of corn moul, wheat bran and ground beef scrap. After this their rations are those of the older fowl, a mixture of corn ineul, wheat bran, hone meal scrap and ground charcoal. In the winter chopped cabbage is added to make up for their loss of other greo.i foods. The chick hospital hangs 011 the wall near by. It is a big cage divided into four wards, or rather compartments, where the fledglings can receive especial care and warmth. Medicine is seldom necessary. The weighing machine is hut a few feet off. This, too, is a cage, the flooring resting immediately on the scute. The chick's promotion to the secondary brooding house depends mainly upon the weather. It is ordinarily a matter of three or four weeks. The secondary brooding house has twenty rooms, each oxß, and open air "runs" of fifty-two feet, separated from each other und the outside world by screens of wire netting higher than a man's head. Fifty chicks are placed in each room instead of one hundred, which is the rule in the other houses. Here the young fowl first feels the responsibilities of life. He is de prived of urtificiul heat and now has u broad field to run und scratch in. But the poultry village is yet incom plete. There is a feed and cook shop, a ban to 111 liouse, u building for "surplus" birds, half a dozen small breeding houses, with largo yards attached, and the duck buildings down on the edge <o* Quogue Bay, with a duck pond that is a veritable Southern Sea close at hand. The ducks, however, uro omnipresent. They have a largo yard all to themselves in the inidst of the poultry's domains, and in the heat of the day it is a pretty picture, a flock of fifty or more of a glossy, glistening white, huddled in the shade of an upright bough arbor of pale brown, with tlio sparse green grass of the sundv soil as a frame. They are quite unconscious of their end, of course. And yet the chopping block stands iu that very yard. They have been driven up from the water's edge especially for decapitation. The season of the markets lias now coino upon thein and from fifty to a hundred are killed each week. But this is but a drop in the bucket for a duck yard pro ducing two or throe thousand a year.— [Now York Telegram. Fasted Fifty Days. Alexander Jacques, who undertook to fust for fifty days at the Royal Aquar ium, London, England, completed his task. Although during the last week his condition cuusod much uneasiness to Drs. Robin und Whitmarsh who watched liini throughout, Mr. .Jacques succeeded in abstaining from food. The bulletin issued gave his temperature as 100 and during the lust night he was only able to sleep for two hours. This was owing to renewed attacks of gout and to excite ment. He still maintained a cheerful condition and spent the early part of the morning in attending to his correspond ence and talking with those about him. The bulletin issued at noon the last day stated that during the past twenty-four hours Mr. Jacques had lost two pounds, leaving his weight at 114 pounds four ounces, his total loss boing twenty-eight pounds four ounces. His pnlso registered sixty-four, his respiration 24 and his tem perature 118.8. During the previous day ho drank thirty-four ounces of fluid. At the commencement of the fust the aquarian authorities issued over 2,000 invitations availuhle at any time, day or night, during the fifty days to the medi cal moil of Loudon. The lust afternoon a large number of English and foreign physicians visited Jacques, one of whom, Dr. llcnrik G. Peterson, a Norwegian, practicing in America, tested the strength of the fasting man's grip on the dynamo moter before ho partook of food, with the result that it was said to he equal to soventy-four pounds. As tlio time ap proached for the completion of the fast the reception-room in which Jacques has remained during the whole of the time heenmo crowded with spectators. Jacques, who had boon smoking cigar ettes during the latter part of the after noon, appeared to he rather excited. The cheering of the audience at 4 o'clock an nounced that the fast was over. Mr. Davis, who has been tho fasting man's lecturer throughout the whole of the time, said that M. Jacques had ac complished the most stupendous fust over known, and it has proved tho groat value of his herbal powder, the secret of which he alone possessed. His contention was that armies campaigning through a hos tile country, or if men suffered shipwreck or met with an accident where food was not procurable, the powder would proba bly be the means of sustaining life until help or succor came. Jacques hud boon watched night and day by doctors and by members of the press, and he hoped that lie had now proved to the public without doubt tliut lie was in possession of a secret which must prove beneficial in all cases of emergency. Jacques then rose and carried Kennedy, the mesmerist, twice across tlio room, and immediately afterward partook of his first meal,which consisted of chicken broth, fish und grapes.—[Chicago Herald. The Diamond Duke. The Diamond Duke was a nickname given Charles Frederick William Augus tus, u Duke of Brunswick in the present century, who was driven out of his do minions by his people in 1831 and who died in exile a few years ago. Ho was undoubtedly crazy, und manifested his mental aberrution in several peculiar ways. 11c thought e, cry body was try ing to rob him, and his house in Paris was constructed like a foitress. No 0110 was admitted save his intimates, and some times his freakish temper denied even them. Ho converted u largo part of his wealth into diamonds, which ho kept in strong boxes, secured in collars and guardod with moro precautions than are taken by most hanks. The underground rooms where he kept his riches were ac cessible by sooret staircases, tho doors of which, when discovered, could be opened only by a knowledge of tlio numerous combination locks with which thoy were fastened. His valuable papers and most preciousjowels were kept in a largo chest at tho head of his bed, and by touching a button the box and its contents descend ed into a well 150 foot deep. During the Inst years of his life ho spent his time either in fondling his diamonds or in selecting his costume for the ovening. Bewigged, powdered and painted ho went out in the afternoon for his drive, then, with as many of his jowels as ho could bestow 011 his person and guarded by half a dozen private detectives, ho visit ed the theatre and returned home. He lived in mortal fear of being poisoned und finally died under the impression that his servants hud given him arsenio in his coffee. —[St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. SCALING HERRINGS, The Work is Performed in a Some what Peculiar Maimer. A peculiar feature of the smoked her ring industry inthiscountry is the method by which the fish are scaled. Enormous quantities of them are captured in weirs and gill-nets and the catch thrown into boats. When a load has been secured the fisherman "treads them out" by walking briskly buck and forth through the mass of squirming objects at the bot tom of the boat. The motion of the fish upon each other and also the contact with the feet and legs of the "trouder" quickly removes the scales. In the coursn of half uu hour a skillful opera tor will thus scale four or five hogsheads of the fish. Another method consists in using a piece of board about u foot long und four or five inches in width, which is socurely fastened to a long handle. This is thrust into the center or the mass and moved briskly about until by continued stirring the scales are moved in uu incredibly short time. The work must he done while tlio fish aro fresh, us otherwise the scales become set and can only be taken off with groat difficulty. Care is exercised in both processes, as if not systematically done, muny of the catch will bo only partially sealed, and if stirred about or "trod out" for too long a time the flesh will be soft or bruised, in which case the catch will be less sal able, and if the skin is broken, abso lutely worthless. After scaling they aro washed and suited in tubs, Barrels or hogsheads; then strung on sticks, from twenty-five to thirty-five being placed 011 each, accord ing to their size. The next step consists in re-washing, to remove ull the blood und dirt that has accumulated, und the strings uro then laid on frames in the opon-uir to druin und also to harden und dry the gill-covers. This being accom plished they are taken to the smoke house, properly arranged, the fires started and the smoking begins. Several kinds of wood are used for this purpose in different countries, white birch being preferred in France, while in England, Scotland and Holland oak chips and sawdust are considered the best. In tills country pine logs that have been soaked in salt water are selected, us the salt renders the wood less inflammu hle und it also gives off' a greater volume of sinoko. Some of the curers, when tlio smoking process is nearly completed, build a fire with oak logs for the purpose of giving a higher or brighter color to tlio fish. As a mutter of fact, however, the woods make little or 110 difference, the chief idea being to get a kind that will burn slowly and at the same time yield a suffi cient amount of sinoko to cure the fish, and at the same time burn so slowly that there is 110 possibility of scorching them. —[Detroit Free Press. Large. The largest railway depot in the world is at Biriniughain, England. It covers eleven acres. All army of locusts ten miles wide re cently swept over the Punjab iu India, ll I occupied five days iu passing. The highest trestle on tlio lino of the ' Northern Pacific Railroad is that across the Corsicnn defile, Missoula, Mont., 30C j feet above the gorge below. Gludwin county, Michigan, boasts ol having the largest frame ham in the world. It is 150 foot long, 50 foot wide, and in its construction 500,000 feet ol lumber were used. The biggest horse in the world is now the pride and glory of Detroit. Tin noble brute is 21 hands high, weight 2,305 pounds, und is possessed of remark able intelligence. The largest lighthouse lens in thii country measures fifteen feot in height and eleven and a half iu width, tlio inter nal diameter, or "hull's eye," boing eight feet eight inches. Some land in Paris has boon sold at the rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in London for what would not $5,000,00 C per acre, and some in New York for e sum equal to $8,000,000 per acre. The British debt is so large that if it were divided into £1 notes they would completely cover the State of Ohio three timos over. If paid in penny pieces, and each penny piled 0110 above the other, ii would make seven columns of coppoi reaching to the moon. Edison's Latest Device. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, claims to have just perfected a new svs tem which ho can apply to any street car and which will revolutionize rapid transit. The prince of electricians said lie would not explain at present his plan? or details, but that he had just finished the tests; that they were a grand success, and that the North American Company is going to use the system. It is a trolley system, only the rails ure used and there is no slot. It is not a storago battery system cither. Mr. Ed 1 sou said that by the time the Broadway Company got through digging and ditching, his system would be in op oration ill some other city at munb less expense, and it will give more satisfac tory results. Ho said, too, that 110 could pave the old Broadway lino and change a block each night, and no one would have been the wiser until his system was in complete working order.—[New York Commercial Advertiser. China's Postal System. A writer in n Shanghai newspaper re cently, describing the Chinese postal sys tem, observes that China liub never con sidered the conveyance of the correspond ence of the people as a nocessary function of government. This is provided for by nostnl establishments, which are to ho found in every town of any size, and Eu ropeans in the interior who have to use them report favorably of the system and repose considerable confidence in it. It offers some advantages even over West ern postal systems. All letters carried aro practically registered and tlio con tents insured to the full value without extra fee, and grout latitudo is allowed iu regard to weight. Letters need not he stumped beforehand; tlio rule is to keep current accounts with customers, which ure settled monthly. Tho Bank of Paris is said to have offered Uu ia a loan of #00,000,000 at four por cent. SELF-MURDERERS. NOTED PEOPLE IN ALL AUES WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE. Boiilangcr and Hulmucedu liud Many Celebrated Predecessors—Samson * the First 011 Record—Suicide a Fine Art in China. Boulaugor and Balmuceda, each of whom played for high stakes and com mitted suicide when the gutue was lost, had many noted predecessors. From the days of the Boinan Empire down to the present time men who had staked their all and lost have capped the climax of their defeat by self-destruction. Bather than enduro disgruce they have acted as their own executioners IWilma ceda, the would-be dictator of Chili, shot himself when convinced that escape from the victorious insurgents was iinpossi- j ble. Boulanger, after muking a brilliant record as a soldier iu Algiers and in the Franco-Prussian war, and being idolized by his people, aspired to overturn the Bopublic and found an Empire, of which ho would be head. A traitor to his coun try and branded as a thief, ho was out lawed. When at last the woman who was his companion in exile died, ho end ed his strange career by shooting himself 011 her grave. It is only u few months since Prince lludolph of Austria und Marie Vetseru ended their liasou in 11 manner that shocked the entire world. In tho days when Bomans believed it a disgrace to be killed by a foe in battle suicides were common. Catostabbed himself rather than live under the despotic reign of Caesar, and when Thermistocles wus ordered to lead the Persians against his countrymen he took poison. Hannibal and Mithridates poisoned themselves to escape being made pris oners. Sumsoii was tho heroic suicide of the Scriptures, for, in order to bo re venged on his enemies, he pulled down the temple in which they were reveling und perished with them. Many of tho noted suicides of history are due to tho philosophy of heroism rather thau in sanity. Zeno, the founder of the Stoics, lived until ho was ninety-eight. Then, when he fell one dav and put his thumb out of joint, he decided that he hud lived long enough, so he repaired to his dwelling and hanged himself. llomer is said to have hanged himself becauso he could not solve tho 44 fisherman's riddle." Terence stabbed himself because ho had lost 108 translated comedies. Brutus threw himself on his sword, Licurgus took poison and Nero cut his throat. In China suicide has been a fine art for several centuries. If a Mandarin is guilty of misconduct ho is requested to put himself out of tho land of tho living. There is a distinction, too, in tho maimer iu which tho Orieutul may dio. If he is of exalted rank, and untitled to wear the . peacock feather, 110 is privileged to choke himself to death with gold leaf. This is regarded ua a distinguished manner of ending life. If tlio Mandarin is only of the rank that is entitled to wear the red button he must be content with strangling himself with a ailkeu cord. Such are the distinctions of caste. One of the most remarkable cases of suicide was that of the lving of Faluha on the west coast of Africu. The king was attacked by a Mohamme dan force, and, finding resistance impos sible, ho assembled his family and prin cipal ofiicors, and after addressing them and intimating his determination never to accept Moluiuimodanism, and inviting those who did not agree with him to go away, he applied a light to a largo quan tity of gunpowder collected for the pur pose and blow into atoms the paluce and all who were in it. Suicides among the aristocracy iu Eng land arc rathor numerous. Tho suiciue of the Duke of Bedford in January last shockod society circles of both conti nents. 110 was 0110 of tho largest landed proprietors in England, immensely wealthy aud was seventy-two years of age. Eying on a sick bod, from which he had no promise of immediate rocovory, ho succumbed to the agony of tho moment and sought relief iu death. Tho fact that it was a suicide was carefully concealed from tho newspapers, but tho socrot leaked out after the body had been cremated. Lord Congleton, who was Mr. Parnell's groat-uncle, hanged himsolf in 1842. 111 tho sumo year tho Earl of Munstershot himself in tho hcud. In 1869 Lord Clonoarry, tho last of his house, jumped froin a window und broke his neck. In 1873 the last Earl of Do la Wurr drowned himself, and in 1876 Lord Lyt tleton, tho insane brother-in-law of (Hud stone, escaped from his koopors, threw himself oil' tho staircase of liisowu house und was killed. A story of suicide in which sentiment is mingled is that of Prince Bandouin, heir to the throne of Bolgiums. The youthful Prince loved beneath his station, and finding that love could never bo realized, sought peace in the eternal silence of the grave. Commercial disaster to any member of the Rothschild family is us great a dis grace as crime is to any other family. This was illustrated by the recent at tempts of Baron Gustav de Rothschild to end his existence. Mis attempt at self destruction followed close upon his loss of $8,000,000 on the Loudon market. The attempt was a failure, and in that respect resembled his speculation. His wus not the first affair of the kind in the Rothschild family. B uron James de Rothschild, crazed by ill luck, some time ago blew out his brains in the presence of his mother. Only last May Lord James Edward Sholto Douglass, brother of the Marquis of Queens bury, committed suicide by cutting his throut with a razor. He had been traveling from Ireland during the night and behaved in such a strange manner that the railroad officials ordered one of their employes to accompany him to London. Upon arrival in that city Lord Douglass put up at a hotel, and, when the attendant was not looking, ho cut his throat. The tragic death of Lady Brassey, W!H> plunged into the sea from her yacht while suffering from fever, will bo long remembered. She was one of the most ambitious of women and remark ably talented. When she jumped over board last year her husband dived after her, anil it was with some difficulty that he was rescued from shuriug her fate. Suicides are common among defaulters as preferable to facing the charge of dis honor and trying to live down the record. Politicians smarting under the sense of defeat have ended all with a bullet. Dis appointed lovers by the score take their lives when jilted by the objects of their choice, and so the category runs. Dis appointment of every character has prompted all kinds of pooplo to end this brief existence with a bare bodkin.— [New York Recorder. A Sweet-Smelling Disinfectant. A very pretty form of disinfectant is being introduced to siok rooms in Au stralia, in the form of the green branchts of eucalyptus. The reputation of the eucalyptus as an absorbent of malaria, and as an antidote in fever-cases is well established. and for some time its effect as a disinfectant in sick chambers bus been carefully wutched. Dr. Ourgenven states, after twelve ! months' trial, that in cases of scarlet fever, if the branches be placed under the bed, the bedding undergoes thorough disinfection, the volatile vapor pene trating and saturating the mutrcsses and every other article in the room. The vapor is also said to have a beneficial effect upon phthisical patients, acting I not only as an antiseptic, but as a seda- I tive, aud to some extent, as a hypnotic. —[Philadelphia Press. A MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE. Visit to an Oriental House of Wor ship in Uairo. A commission has been appointed by the present government whose duty is the preservation of the monuments of Arabian art; occasionally, therefore, in a inosque one finds scaffolding in place, and u general dismantlement. One can only hope for the best—iu much thesame spirit in which one hopes when one sees the beautiful old front of St. Marks's, Venice, gradually encroached upon by the new raw timbers. But in Cairo, ut least, the work of repairing goes on vory slowly; three hundred mosques, probably, out of the four hundred still remain un touched, aud many of these are adorned with A delicate beauty which is unrivalled. I know 110 quest so enchanting us a search through the winding lanes of the old quarters for these gems of Saracenic taste, which no guide-book has as yet chronicled, 110 dragoman discovered. The street is so narrow that your donkey fills almost all the space ; passers-by are obliged to flatten themselves aguiust the walls in response to the Oriental adjura i tions of your donkey-boy behind: "Take heed, O inaid I " 44 Your foot, 0 chief Presently you see a minaret—there is I always a minaret somewhere; but it is I not always easy to find the mosque to I which it belongs, hidden, perhaps, us it is, behind other buildings in the crowded I labyrinth. At length you observe a door with a dab or two of the well-known I Suracenic honey comb-work above it; instantly you dismount, climb the steps, | and look in. You ure almost sure to 1 find treasures, either fragments of the ' I pearly Cairo mosaic, or a wonderful j j coiling, or gilded Kufic(old Arabian text) 1 inscriptions and arabesques, or remains 1 of the ancient colored glass which | changes its tints hour by hour. Best of all, sometimes you find a space open to ' the sky, with a fountain in the centre, the whole surrounded bylurcades of marble ' columns adornod with bunging lumps (or I rather the bronze chains which once carried the lamps), and with suspended ostrich eggs —the emblems of good luck. Due day, when my donkey wus making his way through a dilapidated region, I cuino upon a mosque so small that it seemed hardly more than a base for its exquisite minaret, which towered to an ! unusual height übove it. Of course I | dismounted. The little mosque was open; . but as it was never visited by strangers, it possessod no slippers, and without cover ings of some kind it was impossible that unsanctified shoes, such as mine, should touch its matted floor; tho bent, anciout guardian glared at mo fiorcely for tho mere suggestion. One seos some times (even in 1890) in tho oyes on the old men sitting in the mosquos tho original spirit of Islam shining still. Ouco their religion commanded the sword; they would like to grasp it again, if they could. It is suggested that the matting might, for a baksheesh, be rolled up and put away, as tho place was small. But tho stem old keeper remained inflexible. Then the offer was made that so many piasters—ton (that is fifty cents) —would be given to tho blind. Now tho blind are sacred in Cairo; this otter, therefore, wus successful; all tho matting was carefully rolled aud stackod in a corner, the three or four Muslims present withdrew to tho door, aud tho unbeliever was allowed to enter. She found herself in n temple of color which was incredibly rich. Tho floor was of delicate marble, and every inch of tho walls was covered with a mosaic of por phyry and jasper, adorned with gilded inscriptions and bauds of Kufio toxt; the j | tall pulpit, mado of mahogany-colored I wood, was carved from top to bottom in intricate designs, and ornamontod with | odd little plaques of frottod bronzo; tho sacrod niche was lined with alabaster, turquoise, and gleaming mother-of-pearl; ! the only light came through tho thick j glass of the small windows far above, iu downward-falling rays of crimson, violet and gold. Tho old mosaic-work of tho j Cairo mosques is composed of small plates of marble and of mother-of-pearl arranged in geometrical designs; tho delicacy of the minute cubes employed, and tho intricacy of the patterns, are marvellous; tho color is faint, unless the turquoise has boon added; but tho glittor of the mother-of-pearl gives tho whole an appearance liko that of jewelry. Upon our departure five blind men wore found I drawn up iu a line at tho door. It would I not have been difficult to collect fifty.— ! [Harper's Magazine A Plague of Spiders. Millions of small red spiders have attacked the fruit orchards in and around the town of Lodi, Cal. The pest is far worse than a plague of locusts. The spiders first made their appearance im mediately after a season of very hot weather. The ground is ml with the insects, and groat duinage to orops is the result. ln size the spiders an? almost infinite simal, but there are millions and billions of them. They cover the ground with a thin web. They seein to attack the eas tern sido of the trees, where the foliage is thickest, the most. They lay their eggs all over the loaves, and when the eggs begin to hatch the juice of the leaf begins to disappear. The body of the leaf is not injured, that is, no holes are eaten in it. but the young spiders seem to draw the juice out. 11. O. Williams, who is a prominent fruit grower at Lodi, said in an interview recently: "I have examined the spider eggs under the microscope and could 800 hun dreds of thoin on a leaf. The spiders themselves are not hard to kill, but it seems almost impossible to destroy the eggs. The insects multiply very rapidly. I have tried Paris green and a patented wash on tho trees, but the stuff did not seem to affect the eggs, for they hatched just tho same. I tried lime water a few days, and that seemed to kill some of tho eggs, but I was afraid of getting tho mix ture too strong and injuring the trees. Spiders are the natural enemy of almond treos, but out our way they seem to at tack everything. They are oven des troying the peanut vines of a neighbor of mine. I have twenty acres of almonds that they have already ruined completely. —[New York Times. President llarillas has asked Congress to restore capital punishmeut in Guatemala. Fun Among tli* .>ltNSi<iiisrln. Occasionally the good missionaries to the Indians in the lar West have a little Joke among themselves at the expense of their converts. Said an Episcopal clergyman to iiis Presby terian friend: "One of you; converts was tip bo fons a magistrate recently charged with intoxication, and the lattersaid 'Uncas, you ought to be ashamed ot yourself; you are a Christian and should know better.' 'llloChristian, Mr. Judge,' said the Indian. 'Uncas only a Presbyterian.'" "That reminds me," responded t lie Presbyterian; "I was at your Sant.ee mission, not long ago. and called on tire Episcopal minister in charge, and while we were talking the door opened and in stumbled a top-heavy Sioui chief with, 'lfow, preacher, how! 1 come to see you (hie) and two or three other good churchmen with me.''" —[New York Sun. Start" K gut. Remember, Mr. Young Mechanic, that the mechanic who studies and thinks, who seeks good society, who is cleanlyin person, who is self-reliant, industrious, obliging and courteous, is the mechanic who is hound to l ist, in his profession. Remember, also., the reverse, that lite mechanic who never studies or thinks, who seeks low associates and indulges in vicious dissipations, who is slovenly, slouchy and unpleasant in person, who is sfhiftless and loaferish, discontented, discourteous and disobliging, is the future inhabitant of the gutter, the groggery, the almshouse, and the prison, and the future occupant of the pauper grave in the potter's Held. Which way are you taking at t lie start?—[lron Industry Gazette. AT a recent wedding, as the newly married pair were marching down the aisle, the organist played "Onward Christian soldier, marching to the war." To Protect the Piibllo From fraud and imposition, the genuine med icines of Dr. it. V. Pierce are now sold only through druggists, authorized as agents. The/ are the chrapext medicines to use, as well as the best, because in every case won pan only for Ihe Q> (Ml u< tt get. The money is refunded if they ever fail to benetlt or cure. I Being sold on this peculiar plan of "value 1 received or no nay," the prices of the gchiii'ie | guannitrKl medicines always have been, are, and always will lie, as follows: j Dr. Pierce's (jolden Medical Discovery (the I remedy for all discuses urisiug troin a torpid I liver or impure blood), . . . $1 per Inutile. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription (the rem ! edy for female weaknesses and derange ments). ?1 per bottlo. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets (the original and best Liver Pills), 2'iuts. per vial. Dr. Sage's Catarru Itemedy, o. eta. per bottle. Suspicion naturally and righ fully attaches to any medicines purporting to ho Dr.Pieroo's, wheu offered at any other prices than those above given. President Harrison draws his salary monthly in checks lor $4,100 07. (IRATIKYIMJ TO ALL. The high poiiion attained and the universal acceptance and upproval tf the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as thomost excel lent laxative known, illustrate tho va'uo f the qualities on which its success is basfd and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. Turkish soldiers nre said to be very poor marksmen. Children Tense For If. Dr. Horsie's Certain Croup Cure ha lmrn 10 children who are attacke I with mm.. ~,• acute congestive cold j . Sold bv dru re I a or mailed on rcoeim. of 5) cts. Addiea-i A. I Haxmc. xJnffaio. N. Y. Switzerland yearly receives about $25.- 600,000 Irom foreign tourists. E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh lirteen years ago and she has had no return ot' it. It's a sure cure." Sold by Druggists 75c. Birmingham, England, bus the largest r.til road depot. UTir slopped free by Dn. Ki.ink'h Great Nkhvk Restorer. No fits after tlrst day's uso. Marvelous cures. Treatise uud $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St.. Phi la.. Pa. The Russian language is to bo taught in 011 o( the .Japanese schools. P44 BEWARE OF Cheap | S. S. S. WILL CURE. ! There is imitations s My daughter had a case of chronic j Otlly 006 < Eczema, which for over five years ) o C O ShOlifd be <j had baffled the skiil of the best phy" ( O. avoided > Bicianß - As sho was daily growing- > Take no ) worse, I quit all other treatment and ) They never) commenced using 8. 8. 8. Before ( Other. ) finishing the second bottle the scaly CUre ? incrustations had nearly disappeared. X continued and are s 8 - 8 ' 8 - until she was entirely cured. I waited S before reporting the case to see if the cure was perma often \ nent. Being satisfied that she is freed from the an. lannarnus ) noymg disease for all time to come, I send you this. langerous, ) V. VAUGHN, Sandy Bottom, Va. BOOKS ON BLOOO AND SKIN DISEASES FREE. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. RED CMSS ? DIAMOND BRAND i a.™* 0 " 10 '"" " NU,NE -, The only Hafe, Sure,and retlaMePM for imla. l.ntllcM, aK Druggist (or Chickftttr i Kngliik Diamond lirnnd in K..1 and Cold niotalllo \v Uixet.euUMwlth bine ribbon. Take m> other kind. Refute Substitution and Imitation*. V All |>LLL ID pasteboard B.XE, pink wrappers, arc dangerous counterfeit*. At Drucgi-i • or WVT ni 4c. In stamp. fur particulars, t-.tlmoniaU, ami "KelTcf for Indies." in Irttrr, l.r r.lnri, Mull lO.OnOTeMlmonlalß. Nam* Payer. CHICHESTER CHEMICAL Co., Mu.lUou ftquurc. Hold bp all Local HULAOKLI'I'IA, 1% I nno/profit. Agent* Wonted. Household Novelty. lUU i'.suinnli?.2sc. M. J.llotcliklHs,NewHftven.Ct. r>tjh |i OAK, MCUVOUH, VVKKTCIIKI* mortal* get *IF|BK WA,I AND K<MM) Health H riper . -AiMS "vn tells how. 50 cte. H vear. humi.U' our JKttJr free. ]>r. J. 11. 1> YK. Editor. IlufTalo. N. Y. KBF WORSTcD AND WOOLEN H£ftINA. 3 TS film, Suiting* and laiitlugs. directlr m Mill*. Send -lanto jECS, lor ■ample*. HS I U *.L W < >RBTKD MILLS, Hoplt IMOU.LI. I. T&VIM WE PAY SALARY^!TS \L\ ll part tlnt>*. Out It Free. Experience not need- I MfeLy'/// od. J. Kugniid Whitney. Kocheetor, N. Y. \ > AGENTS WANTED ON SALARY. / or oomm'Sßlon tohanile tho New I'uteni Ch ntieal , r's. ■ / \*^s s - Ink Erasing l'eucll. Ago. ts making 850 per week. • \J k\aJNX frh.uroe Krasor Mr 'g t_'o.,l.a t_'ro.-*e, Wig. Uox 831. 7 \ /^fil\ BEST jQ| BROOM HOLDER. Lydia E. Pinkham's **■■"? SSS\" Vegetable ! Com pou nd £-"*vI WANTEIi. d|r otherurtleles/riv , Acts in perfect harmony with the laws that rovern CO.. Haaletdn, l*a. Stamps taken the female system under nil circumstanceli->uc. CAHYASSERS WANTED. is unpai.ii : ' BAKER AND ROASTER.: Improved and most IMYfeel •ui| P aVol : anir 'i)iKcaos'Mr ih'''i V.-iu or Womb. It '% >f all. Many OOOD COOKS do nol hivn uahlp to the rhaugn of l,ih- t an "lIKAD aad n CA KK IVaKINo" 'vl ,l sal'b li'.V-ii 'km i'icluhTuty 'xmoirt' V ".""rat'.'..n, Kx wHlllr "r'tf "•''r I '>''"vY'iv, I ;,'' irK'ti'V - of ClrnuUMTg free. AddiesH Loxenucs. ripripl !*|| >(>. I.lva C.i-. Al. hueuig dL Co.. Huxleop/I, fa. Ageuig LYDU A. fttIVKUAM MKD. Co , I.YNN, MASS. COOYRtOHT I£J9I ' All over —your sufferings from Catarrh. That is, if you go about it in the right way. There arc plenty of wrong ways, tliac perhaps you've found out. They may relievo for a time, but they don't cure. Worse yet, they may drive tho disease to the lungs. You can't afford to experiment. But there is a right way, and a sure way, that does cure. Thou sands of otherwise hopeless eases have proved it. It's with Dr. Sage's • Catarrh Remedy. By its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, it permanently cures the worst chronic cases. Catarrhal Headache, "Cold in the Ilead"— everything catarrhal iu its nature, is cured as if by magie. It's away so sure that the pro prietors of Dr. Sage's Remedy offer, in good faith, ¥SOO for a case of Catarrh which they can not cure. If it's sure enough for them to make the offer, it's sure enough for you to make the trial. They risk So 00. \. hat do you risk? "August Til 99 Flower " I have been afllict- Blliousnoss, "ed with biliousness „ ~ ~ "and constipation Constipation,.. p or f\ft een years; Stomach " first one and theu " another prepara- Pains. " tion was suggested " tome and tried but "to no purpose. At last a frieud "recommended August Flower. 1 " took it according to directions and "its effects were wonderful, reliev " ing me of those disagreeable "stomach pains which I had been "troubled with so long. Words "cannot describe the admiration "iu which I hold your August " Flower—it lias given me a new "lease oi' life, which before was a "burden. Such a medicine is a bett " efaction to humanity, and its good "qualities and "wonderful liter- Jesse Barker, " its sh oul d be "made known to Printer, "everyone suffer- Humboldt, "ing with dyspep sia or biliousness Kansas. ® G. G. GREEN, Soic Man'fr,Woodbury,N.J I X X INTER-AIR-SPACE x x h ■ Adapted to all climates and vur.ntlons of tcrn-M penuurr. Hold by Lending merchant< lupilucipall cities. llhisiiHl.d cn aloßUc um 1 *tl l ree i u api.h-l | cation to llnrdci fold Fabric Co., Troy, N. Y.
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