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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENG VOL, 111. NO. 6 Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED Every Satiii*da.y, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In tho Interests of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will contrib tite to its columns from different parts of the country, and it will contain the latest Gen cral News of the day. The Messenger is a first-class newspaper nnd will not allow personal abuso in its col umns- It is not sectarian or partisan, but independent—dealing fairly by all. It re serves the righ tto criticise the shortcomings of nil public officials—commending the worthy, nnd n commending for election such men as in its opinion are best suited to servo the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a new spaper to advocate the rightxS and defend the inter, sts of the Negro-American, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolines. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year $1 50 H months - - -1 00 f» months ... 75 4 months - - 50 o mouths - - - 40 Address, W, C. SMITH. Charlotte, N. C. The landed property of England covers somo 72,000,000 acres. It is worth $lO,- 000,000,000 and yields an annual rent, independent of mines, of $330,000,000. One-fourth of this territory, exclusive of that held by the owners of less than an acre, is in the hands of 1,200 proprietors, and a second fourth is owned by 0,200 others; so that half of the entire country is owned by 7,400 individuals. The population is 35,000,000. The peers, not 600 in number, own more than one fifth of the kingdom; they possess over 14,0'j0,000 acres, worth over $2,000,000,- 000, with an annual rental of $66,000,- 000. A medical authority says, that at about the age of thirty-six the lean man usually becomes fatter, and the fat man becomes :eaner. Again, between the yeaas of forty-three and fifty his appetite fail 0 , Sis complexion fades, and his tongue is ipt to become furred upon the least exer :ion of body or mind. At this period cis muscles become flabby, his joints weak, his spirits droop and his sleep is mpcrfect and unrefreshing. After suf fering under these complaints a year, or perhaps two, he starts afresh with re newed vigor, and goes on to sixty-one Dr sixty two, when a similar change takes place, but with aggravated symp toms. When these grand periods have been successfully passed, the gravity of incumbent years is mor strongly marked. Bathers’ cramp is made the subject of an article in the Popular Science New. The conclusion is reached that although the intimate nature of muscular cramps und the precise mode in which they are established arc still unknown, sufficient data on the subject enables us to recog nize the chief conditions of their causa tion, which are as follows: A peculiar individual susceptibility; the shock of cold applied to the general surface of the body; prolonged muscular exertion, and forcible and sudden muscular exertion, especially in the direction of the extrem ities. The disorder is very apt to rise in persons of irritable temperament, attacks persons of middle age oftener than the young, men oftener than women and the robust oftener than the weakly, and occurs oftener in hot climates than in cold. Its most powerful and avoidable cause is the immersion of the body whil* h ated in water of a relatively low tern perature. King Otto of Bavaria, successor to the late King Ludwig, resides, or is kept rather, in the Chateau of Fuistenried, about one hour’s ride from Munich. The castle is wholly isolated And situated in the heart of the forest. It was a convent in the thirteenth century, and was pur chased by King Louis I. The garden and park are traversed by a grand ave nue shaded by elms and surrounded by a high wall. The guards and servants are stationed in little houses. Patrols of honor are posted at tho entrance to the castle since Otto’s elevation to the throne. The King has lucid moment*, and then he devotes himself mainly to reading the newspapers. But these moments are of brief duration. He smoke? cigarettes incessantly, and often Likes a promenade. The mud monarch sometimes takes a notion to visit the imjierial funity of Austria, to which, in h's *ar.e moments, he appears very de voted. He spends whole hours in pick irg berries and making them into little pyramids in the park. An alienist physician in black coat and white cravat always walks a certain distance behind him, an 1 he is followed in turn by three gendarmes. CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1886. A HARVEST SONG. Ho! ye reapers, merry reapers! Through the fields a-singing go, And the summer wind, in whispers, Bends the wild flowers to and fro. List! The song of scythe and. sickle, Mingled with the reapers’ plaint, While the magpie, wise and fickle, Bcoldsand scolds in language quaint. Now the bearded grain is falling. Golden grain with beaded head; Hark! Yon meadow-lark is calling— Bparo my babes their trundle-bed. r Ho! ye reapers! Harvest grand! Sing and toil this summer day: There is plenty in our land, Peace and plenty holdeth sway, —Gay Davidton. A FAIR EXCHANGE. BY ANTHONY E. ANDERSON. Jack Enderby sighed dismally, stretched his long arms, as the train for New York, with a succession of reluct ant shivers, came to a halt before the lit tle wayside station of Waterman’s Hol low. The car had but two other occu pants—one very fat lady and her very thin spouse. It was a dreary spring day, filled with thick fogs and spiteful dashes of rain. There were two figures standing in the rain before the station of Watermans Hollow, both attired in disfiguring wa terproofs and thick veils. One of the ladies suddenly thrust aside her veil, and flung her arms impetuously around the others neck. Enderby had a momentary glimpse of a tear-stained, lovely face, with blue eyes. The locomotive shrieked impatiently; there was a last embrace, a sudden flurry and swish of wet drapery, nnd then the sweet-faced vision was seated directly opposite Enderby, softly dabbing her tearful face with a snowy, violet-scented handkerchief. Enderby had been trying for the last hour to keep awake over Thoreau’s “Ex cursions.” He took a blank card, which he had been using as a book-mark in his frequent lapses from attention, and idly began to sketch, in preposterous exag geration, the scene he had just witnessed at the railroad station. His pencil was a blunt one, and the car did not move very smoothly, so that the sketch proved to be somewhat more of a caricature than he had intended. He smiled amusedly as he wrote the title under it—“ Tears, idle tears”—and then glanced about guiltily, fearful that the girl had seen it. But no. Gretchen Fisher was too busily engaged in disposing of her wraps, and patting her damp, silken Langtry bangs just then, to pay the slightest attention to art or any other trivial subject. She certainly was distractingiy pretty, and Enderby, who was an artist of some pretensions, drew his breath in silent en joyment as he looked at her. Gretchen took Howells' “Indian Sum mer ” from her valise, and was soon im mersed in its pages. She was not so in terested as she pretended to be, how ever, for every now and then her eyes would raise themselves restlessly from the unturned leaf, and at last the book slipped from her listless fingers and fell with a resentful thud in the ajsle. Enderby stooped to pick it up, and, with a bow and a smile, handed it to Gretchen. “May I ask if it is Colville or Mrs. Bowen who displeases you?” he said, in his courteous, pleasant way. Getchen thanked him, and smiled brightly back at Enderby. She felt in stinctively that he was a gentleman, and she saw no reason why she should not accept his advances in the spirit in which they were made. “Loth,” she declared, “and Imogene more than either. ’ Enderby smiled again, and Gretchen went on with ani mation: “But I love little Effie, 6he is a very sweet and winning child. Have you read it? How does it end ?” Enderby told her, and the conversa tion soon drifted into other channels. Enderby was conscious that he talked unusually well, because he was unusually interested in the pretty woman beside him. And Gretchen mentally decided that bis profile was almost as fine as his dark eyes. How fast the time flew! The sun had come out gloriously, too, and had begun to tickle the fat woman’s and the 1 an man's noses, bo that both woke simul taneously to discover themselves very hungry. As they lunched—and this un dertaking was by no means a small one —Gretchen and Enderby watched them in silent amusement. “ ‘Jack Spratt could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean !* ” Enderby whispered, with eyes which were filled with laughter; but Gretchen would give no encouragement to such unseemly levity. “I have a lunch-basket,” she an nounced, “I shall be glad to divide with you, if you like.” The thin sandwiches and delicate cakes, arranged with appetizing effect on a snowy napkin, made a delicious lunch, and they were as merry over it as two school-children on a picnic. Enderby was conscious that ho said many things that were boyishly nonsensical, but he did not care one whit for that. Gretchen, too, wondered what her grandmother would say if she could see her now. Why, even Enderby’s name was unknown to her! She announced her destination to be Bug by, and Enderby wished it were a thousand miles off. It seemed to him that th> re could be nothing in store for him half so blissful as riding in a car with this beautiful unknown girl. As the train steamed into Bugbv, which happened all too soon, he looked so gloomy and dis contented that Gretchen veiled her eyes lest he should see the amusement in them. He carried her small yellow valise to the door. For his life, he could not resist putting out his hand to her as she went out. Getchen hesitated for a moment— but only for s moment; then tho warm blood surged to both their fares, as they bowed to meet no more. Enderby seated himself again, and stared moodily out of the car window. These was a carriage waiting for Gretch en at the platform; it was driven by a handsome young man with a blonde beard. He lifted Gretchen into the car riage, and then deliberately stooped and kissed her on her smiling, uplifted lips. “The deuce!” Enderby muttered; then he smiled grimly at his own folly. Be hold him! a man thirty years old, gen erally conceded to hnve the average In telligence, who had fallen heels over head in love at first sight with an utter stranger! And she had already a lover, too! “This was the unkindest cut of all!” It was too absurd, and Fnderby tried his level best to make himself feel foolish. But liia thoughts always re turned to those wonderful eyes and those red lips. How he envied that blonde whiskered young man! He watched the carriage disappear behind a bend in the road, and straightway began to feel as dismal as if he had lost his last friend in the world. Never had time passed so slowly; bntnt lost our disconsolate trav eler found himself in his pleasant room at the Hotel Brunswick, New York. He opened his valise for his comb and hair-brush, and started up with a whistle of astonishment. Before his eyes lay half a dozen dainty handkerchiefs, a jeweled card case, a pair of long terra cotta gloves, a box of bonbons, Aldrich’e poems in vellum covers, and a dozen other charming feminine trifles. Ender by’s fingers trembled ns he opened the book; but there was no name in it. The card-case, too, was empty. The hand kerchiefs had “G. F. F.” exquisitely worked out in white silk, but the clue was too slender a one too give him much hope. Here was a quandary, indeed! “I wonder what her name is,” Enderby mused, tenderly carcssmg tho smooth covers of the volume of poetry. “Geor gianna, perhaps, or Grtselda, or Ger trude, or Grace—yes, it must be Grace. Grace! what a sweet name it is! and it just suits her, too. “So, Grace, you have my brush and comb in your possession, and I must go unkempt on your account. Well, I would willingly do much more for yt.us sake; you have stolen my heart already, so the valise might as well go with it.” The next morning Enderby started for Rugby, with tho fixed intention of hunt ing up G. F. F. Rugby was but a vil lage, so tbe idea was not such an absurd one as it might seem at first sight. He registered at the principal hotel, and entered into a gossipy conversation with the garrulous clerk. After a good deal of talk he learned that there was a gentle man who had just come there with his handsome young wife, and had built the most elegant house there. His name was Fisher—“ Theodore Fisher, sir.” G. F. F.—G. F. F! These letters flashed in a wild dance before Enderby’s eyes. So Ted Fisher, his old college chum, had forestalled him, and married tho only woman he— . Jack Enderby—could ever love. Could fate be more cruel than this? There was no doubt of it; it was Ted Fisher, ond no one else. He remembered well the handsome bright face, though he had not seen it for eight vears, and it was heavily bearded now. Enderby felt that he could not stay to sco his friend’s happiness. He would go away on the next train, and try to forget all about the wretched, ridicu lous affair. Luckily, no one else knew anything about it. He strolled idly down the broad avenue, wondering in which house Ted Fisher and his beauti ful wife lived. He felt a sudden grip on his right shoulder, and then someone whirled him round, and began to shake both his hands. “Jack Enderby, by all that’s wonder ful !" a cheery voice exclaimed, and two blue eyes were gazing eagerly into his own. “ Where in the world did you drop from?” “X came down from New York this morning,” Enderby explained, “looking for some of my property. If I am not mistaken, you can help me recover it.” his eyes twinkling. “1?” Ted Fisher started. “No, thanks! I’ve had enough of that sort of thing. I’m no private detective, though you and my sister seem to think so. Why, man, she demanded the same ser vice from me yesterday. Somebody stoic her valise and left his own in its place—a miserable allair, containing half a dozen color tubes and worn-out paint brushes. The fellow had some literary taste, it seems, for we found a book by Thoreau in the valise.” “Ted Fisher!” shouted Enderby, grasp ing Fisher’s hand as if he would wrench it off, “is G. F. F. your siatcr ?” “By Jove!” gasped Fisher, “if this isn't too good! Ha, ha, ha! Were you that fellow, Enderby ? Let go my hand, I say! I'm not made of cast iron.” “Who would have dreamed of your living here, Ted?” Enderby exclaimed, joyously. “Take me to your house at once, old fellow, I want to meet your wife, and—and your sister.” “‘And—and my sister!’ ’’mimicked Ted. “It is kind of you to remember her at all, Jack.” But Enderby only laughed, and gently pushed Fisher before him. Imagine Grctchen’s bewilderment when they came up the garden walk arm in arm. “I have caught your thief, Gretebcu!” Ted announced. Triumphantly. “Deal with him gently, my dear, for he is aa yet young in the paths of wrong doing. His name is Enderby, and by profession he is an artist, as a certain sketch of two young ladies in your possession amply testifies. Your valise issafentthe hotel.” "Oh, the valise!” -sid Oretchen. smiling and blushing prettily. “It was s fair exchange and no robbery at all. Bnt I do want my bonbons sad my Aid- rich. Is my nose willy so long as that sketch makes it out. Mr. Enderby. The thought has worried me so much, I'm actually growing thin.” Here Mrs. Ted Fisher, a pretty bru nette appeared on tho scene: with the help of Ted, she convinced Jack that he could not poasibly go back to Now York for two weeks, at the very least. He stayed a great while longer, and finally went away with Gretchen, who had exchanged her initials G. F. F. to G. P. E., well satisfied that it was n Fair Exchange.— Tid-Bits. The Banana and Pineapple. The large steamers and Bailing vessels from the West Indies and Central Amer ica that carry bananas come into New York all the year round, for in the happy countries where the fruit grows there is no season, new vegetation coming up all the time. The banana requires a deep rich earth and much moisture to grow to perfection. The plant comes up like a palm with tightly folded green leaves, which are followed by others until tin stems of the leaves have formed a trunk eight or ten inches thick. Nine month! from the plant’s first appearance a deep purple hud appears in the centre of ths leaves, which grows large and hangs down like a huge heart. The purple bud falls off, disclosing rows of other buds. Each miniature fruit has a waxen yellow blos som. In three or four months the fruit ripen! nnd the plant begins to die. The bunch of fruit is generally cut while yet green, and ripened in New York, as shown in our sketch of a banana cellar. When the bunch is cut the plant dries up and from its base spriDg up other plants. Although most banana bunches hang down in maturity, a variety ia found on the Society Islands whoa? very large bunches of orange colored fruit stand up erect. The Brazilian banana tree rises to a height of fifteen or twenty feet, but the Chinese variety seldom exceeds five feet. Along the coast of Arracan a banana grows full of feeds. Bananas in the tropics arc eaten raw or with sugar and cream, or wine or orange juice. Ccoked when green or ripe they are fried alone-or in butter, baked with the skins or, pr made into puddings or pies. They arc made into a paste which is the staple food of many Mexican tribes. Bananas contain much nourishment, for Humboldt states that a surface of ground bearing wheat enoogh to feed one man will when planted with bananas feed twenty-five. In the tropics the young shoots are cooked as aspara gus and the fibres of tho leaves make a textile fabric of great beauty. A ban ana plantation will vieid all the yeat round. The pineapple grows much farthet north, is cultivate'! extensively in Flcr ida, and found even in the Disma' Swamp of Virginia. It takes its namt from its resemblance to the cones o; some species of p : ne. It is nearly relate* to the canna, ginger and banana families The American origin of the pineappll has been disputed since it has be :om« naturalized in parts of Asia and Africa. The best authorities believe that it is I native of Brazil, and perhaps of some ol the Antilles. The pineapple is a biennial with tha ! habit of an aloe. It grows in the centra of a cluster of leaves which curve grace fully out from the centre. From thit foliage arises a stem two or three feel high, on the upper portion of which tbe flowers arc crowded in the form of a coni cal spike. The fruit nppears after the flowers drop off. The first pineapples known in England were sent as a present to Cromwell, and the first cultivated in that country were raised about 1715. Pineapples are taken from the West Indies to England in con siderable quantities, but the fruit is so inferior to that raised under glass that its cultivation for the London market is suc cessfully prosecuted. The fruit aold in New York is greatly inferior to that sold in London. Thirty per cent, of the pine apples sent here usually perish on the voyage. Os the pineapples importeil into the United States about one-third come from Eleuthera and San Snlvador. The business of ranning the fruit ia largely pursued at Nassau, N. P. —New York Graphic. Churches as Hospitals. After the battles of June. 1862, a large number of Washington churches were taken for hospitals. A flooring was built over the pews, and small rooms were partitioned off for the surgeons and nuraes. Large temporary structures were also erected, one story in height, but ad mirably planned and ventilated. There were at one time over 10,000 wounded men who had been b-ought from tbe Virginia battlefields and swamps and placed in these improvised hospitals, where they had comfortable beds, good fare, careful attention, and the best sur gical and madical advice. The hospital “diet” embraced the best coffee and tea, bread and butter, soups and meats, ale, porter and brandy, with farina, arrow root, and other delicacies.—Am. Perley Poore. Baseball in the Parlor. The lands on the clock were reaching around toward twelve. She had yawned repeatedly, but t> no avail. He was im movable. At length she said: “I understand you ore quite a baseball player?" ••y-a-as,” he replied, “I play a gweat deal. Do you udoiiah the sport.''' “Yes, indeed.” “What do you like tho best about it?” “I thick 1 like to see a home ruu oc casfonaily, aa well as anything.'’ “Y-».as, ’’ ho returned, “I vewy warely score one.” "But you must be a capital short stop” was the. rejoinder accompanied by a suppressed yawn. He studied for a few minute* and then reached for hi- hat. —Merchant Traveler. Terms. $1.50 per Annum. Single Copy 5 cents. STRONG TREASURE HOUSES WHERE HONEYED MEN OF NEW YORK DEPOSIT THEIB CASH. The Great Safe Deposit Vaults—How Treasures are Handled and Where They are Kept. Necessarily the great money deposit* of the continent are in New York city, writes Irving Bacheller, in the Bt. Louis Republican. There are about aeventy-flve banks represented every day at the Clearing House, and there are nearly as many others which conduct their business independent of it. Then there are the aafe deposit vaults, comparatively recent but interesting institutions, which abound in all parts of the city. The large uptown vaults are magnificenfy appointed. Here the millionaires unload their stocks, bonds, securities and often their cash for ■afe-keeping. The floors arc tesselated. Plate glass, marble, polished brass and itecl are the material which make up their interiors. The vault* are approached through a network of ateel and iron. They are low, square apartments, the walls of which hold lockers of all sizes, ranging from four inches wide by two inches deep to two feet square. The rental of each slide varies from $8 a year to S6O0 —the price paid by W. H. Van derbilt for his slide in the vault of tho Lincoln National Bank. Tha slides are of tin, about three feet in length, which fit into the compartments of tne wall and arc inclosed by heavy iron doors. “But is there not danger that patrons may open each others’ boxes?” the Su perintendent of a large vault was asked. “Not the slightest danger,” he replied. “You ace,” he continued while he stirred np a huge pile of keys which lay upon j the table before him. “No two of these , keys are alike. When any person hires 1 > slide he comes to this pile and picks I out a key at random. We then fit the lock to the key. But no customer can open bis slide even then unassisted. There is it second lock to every door which cannot be turned except with a key which 1 carry, so that no slide is accessible with out the assistance of both the lessee and the authorities of the vault. This pro tects customers from each other and re lieves us of any temptation to load up and start for Montreal.” Each of the large vaults has a coupon room containing a number of stalls sup plied with writing facilities into which customers may retire to attend to their coupons and all correspondence relating thereto. They are free to all customers. It is said that many business men who have little or nothing to deposit hire a small box for the sake of getting the privilege of the coupon rooms and saving the expense of office rent. For some years all the checks of the Vanderbilt family had been drawn against the Lincoln National Bank, which waa founded by William H. Vanderbilt to save himself the commissions which for merly went to other banks. In a corner of the great deposit vault of this bank, inclosed by heavy iron bars, are the slides used by the Vanderbilts. The inclosure ia perhaps six feet square and contains an ordinary table and chair. During the latter years of his life Mr. Vanderbilt was frequently seen at thia table poring over his private papers. Here he enjoyed absolute seclusion with a large share of the fortune which he controlled-at his elbow. In the large box dedicated to his private use he once kept $55,000,000 in government bonds. Two men wete kept busy night and day clip ping off the coupons. The slide will be reserved for the use of Mrs. Vanderbilt. In another part of the vault is the slide leased by General Grant. It is about six inches square, and lies next to the floor. It is now held by one of his sons. On the west side of Broadway, opposite the City Hall Park, stands a low antique structure of brownstone, which looks like a remnant of old New York. Sur rounded by magnificent warehouses, its quaintuess and simplicity challenges at tention. It-is the Chemical National Bank—one of the greatest banking houses in the world. Although it haa never paid a cent of interest, it carriea upwards of $23,000,000 net on deposit. With a capital stock-of SBOO,OOO it haa accumulated a surplus of $4,500,000. Three thousand two hundred dollars wa* recently bid for a single share of it* stock, which originally brought SIOO. The Chemical Manufacturing Company was organized in 1824, and its chartei conveyed the privilege of banking. Ia 1844 the bank proper was organized by Peter Goelet, who then lived on the cor ner of Broadway and Nineteenth street. Its directors were money lender* instead of money borrowers, and it started with a clientage of those fortunate old New Yorkers who owned most of the land on which what is now called uptown svas built. Inevitably, these men grew solider until it had a clientage of extra ordinary wealth and influence. Since its organization it lias paid over $6,500,000 in dividends, the percentage ranging from 12 to 100. Perhaps one of the most important reasons for its success is the fact that it has al.ways maintained tpecie payments even when gold was quoted at 280. Its interior ia exceedingly plain. From the bare boards of the flo-ir to the un varnished ceiling there is no appointment which does not serve sonic purpose in the processc of banking. There nrc no rugs, no polished metal, no gorgeous hangings Its plain appointments have become old and worn under the attrition of hard work. A bank cashier from tbs far West while iu the city recently went to take a look at the bank and exchange compliments with its officers. He hud expected to find a place resplendant with brass and marble und porphyry. Aston iahed to find it to plain, he remarked: “I see you do not go in for frescoea.’’ “No,” replied tho cashier, “we fresco the vault.’’ Probably either the Park bank or the Importers and Trader*’ h*n die *• much money as the Chemical, but when we consider that they hare mort ER than ten times the capital stock of the latter our minds cannot institute a com parison between them. But the largest depository of monej in America is the Sub-treasury Building, that stands on the corner of Wall and Nassau streets. Every one who evei visited New York has teen it and th< heroic statue of Washington which st&ndf at its doric portals and the stone on which his mortal feet once stood. Eighty-five per cent, of Uncle 6am’i debts are paid here. From fifteen t€ twenty thousand checks are paid here daily. The receipts of postmasters, cus toms and internal revenue collectors an turned into its vaults. It c.ames on de posit an average of $180,000,000 in cash. Half of this amount is in gold; which it stored away in bags containing $5,00C each. Its daily disbursements to thi banks pf New York average $600,000. It is substantially built of white granite. Its ceiling is a dome of white and gold supported by Corinthian pillars. It is at architectural strong box nnd its walls art thick enough to shut off the most pene trating cupidity from the treasure! within. Talk With a Snake Charmey. “Ain’t she a beauty?” asked Prof. D’Angelo, the snake charmer, as he in troduced the Tribune reporter to a huge, writhing python. If snakes are evei beautiful this one certainly was,and what was more it seemed really to express an affection for the Professor, as it twined itself around his body and neck and laid its small, shining head, with diamond like eyes,close beside his cheek and often extended its small forked tongue over the Professor’s face caressingly. “What is such a snake worth?” asked the reporter, at a safe distance. “This one I would not sell for SBOO. She is such a beauty nnd lam fond ol her. Good snakes can be purchased for about SSO, and they go all the way up to SSOO. “What causes such a fluctnation in value?’’ “When a snake is small and green or uneducated,it’s not worth much. It takes some time to educate them, nnd this pro cess is attended with much danger. An educated snake that you can put on foi an act is worth SSOO of any man’s money. Then, of course, size has a great deal to do with it. A big snake is a paying card, if not trained. Then the way a snake it marked, or ringed, as we say, is liable to make a big difference in price, and the deadlier the snake the more valuable it is.” “Where do you get your snakes?” “Os the regular agencies in New York. Berlin and other places where snakes are kept on sale.” 4 ‘How are they captured ?” ~ “Most of the large snakes are decoyed into pits and then bagged. Rattlesnakes are decoyed out of their hole; by means of a string of rattles attached to a stick. They hear the rattles and come out ol their holes. A forked stick is put over their head and then they are easily picked up.” “How do you commence to educate snakes:” “Those which have a poisonous bite, and mosi of them have that, must have their fan-, removed, then they become harmless. The snakes of the boa con strictor spceics arc gorged with food be fore they are handled, and a strong man with proper assistance can soon subdue them.” “It takes a great deal of nerve, does it not?” “Well, some, to pick up a Btrange snake. The secret of snake-training it to get the reptiles ac ,uainted and accus tomed to you. This is no easy matter, but it has to be done. After they lean to like you they are the most affectionat' things in the world.”— Detroit Tribune.. The Care of Babies. The following directions for the caw babies in summer, issued by the New York Board of Health, are applicable to any locality: Nursing or Infants.— Over-feeding does more harm than anything else; nurse an in fant a month or two old every two or three hours. Nurse an infant of six months and over five times in twenty-four hours, and no more. If an infant is thirsty give it pure water, or barley water; no sugar. Feeding or Infants.—Boil a fceaspoonfdl of powdered barley (ground in a cqjjlee crinder) and one-half pint or water, wiu a little salt, for fifteen ininut *s. strain, - >en mix it with half as much boiled milk; add n ump of white sugar, size of a walnut, and rive it luke-warm from a nursing be tie. Keep bottle and mouth piece in a bowl of w .ter when not in use, to which a little soda •nay be added. For infants five or six months old, give talf barley water and half boiled milk, with talt and a lump of *ugar. For older infants, give more milk thanbar ey water. For iufants very costive, give oatmeal in stead of barley. Cook and strain as before When your breast milk is only half enough, change off betwceo breast milk and this pre pared food. In hot weather if blue litmus paper applied to the food turns red, the food is too acid, fend you must make a fresh mess or add a Ima 11 pinch of baking soda. Infants of six months may have beef tafcpr beef soup once a day, by itself or mixed with other fool; and when ten or twelve months old, a crust of bread and a piece of rare beef lo suck. No child under two yean? old ought to eat at your table. Give no candies, in fact, nothing that ia not contained iu these rules, without a dec tor’s orders. Hummer Complaint.—lt comee from feeding and hot and foul air. Keep dooi* and windows open. Wash your well children with cool water twice a day, or oftener in the hot season. Never neglect looseness in the bowls in an Infant; consult the family or dispensary physician at once, aud he will give yon rulos about what It should take and now it, shoulu be nursed. Keep your rooms as cool as pos sible, have them well ventilated, and do not allow any bad smell to come from sinks, garbage boxes or gUbters about the hour - where yon live. Where an infant is cross and irritable io the hot weather, a trip ci» the water will do it a great deal or good, and may prevent cholera Infantum.
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