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
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through druggists, authorized as agents. The/
are the chrapext medicines to use, as well as
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Turkish soldiers nre said to be very poor
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Children Tense For If.
Dr. Horsie's Certain Croup Cure ha lmrn
10 children who are attacke I with mm.. ~,•
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E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca
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—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
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sands of otherwise hopeless eases
have proved it. It's with Dr. Sage's •
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soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
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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
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" its sh oul d be
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"everyone suffer- Humboldt,
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