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xt people's guess. JOB PRINTING L. V. & E. T. BLUM, Publishers aiia IFroprletorSk res fee:: jcs iimnon U ppll4 wltb U airnnry laUrlai. 4 U AiUy kpra to mrt vttfe MCATHCSa, DISPATCH. ajt at ra VERY LOWEST PRICES Terms Cash in Advance. One Copy, on year......... ......$1.50 six months.................. " three months. ............... .75 ;tk Family Newspaper Devoted to Literature, Agriculture and General Information. .-45 Reduction to Clubs. Bee Inside, 9 ear U gl-r wa a trial 1 VOL. XXXIX. SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1891. traatlm wit aajaa W NO. 31 I- The St. Louis- Star-Soyingt believes! that Ge rrhauy is threatened with sn anti corn law agitation. . A very large acreage is devoted to crape crowing in New Jersey, and the area is extending yearly,'""- It has been stated that the cipher used by the United States Nary Department cost $5000, and is so complicated and intricate that it absolutely defies lution. . ' j so- Tho Chicago Herald has sent out an exploring expedition -tpj: discover or as certain the site of Columbus's first land ing-place in the Western hemisphere, spot supposed by tuqjlerald (and by many others until recently) to be as yet uniden tified and unknown. THE OLD DWELLING. Bee how the dwelling tumbles to its f all The wondroua house of life, now leased to death. i How softly in and out moves the light breath, "r And gently in the tender-memoried hall Speaks the loved owner, soon beyond recall 1 In the fast Closing windows glimrnereth : . A dying glory,, as when sunset saith Goodnight; sweet dreams, and faith and hope to all. 1 Thus, full of enterprise and joyous trust, Perched on a sill, serene and plumed for flight. , . A dove will pause while ruin round it lies. So, too, dear soul, although thy home be dust, 5 Yet thou, thyself, now free light, I , Canst find another home, 'neath other ' - skies. . i . J Charles II. Crandall, in the Atlantic. ;.. as morning The ew Jlavcn Drakcman who was crippled in October last and recovered 'his first trial, is probably clad 'now. MY SOLDIER. BY MART KYLE DALLAS. I opines the New York Commercial Adver- , jh'.w.that the court granted a new1 trial ,f to the railroad, for the poor fellow'k sec ond verdict is for $27,500. The St. Louis Star-Sayingt makes tho astounding admission that the only city in the world that, at all possesses the capacity to ultimately rival ijonUon in size and wealth js New York or Chicago. Those who look farthest into the future think that there is nothing to prevent the latter city from having a population 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 in course of time. - !''. Doctor Emil Laurent, a well-known scientist, has takeu General Boulauger for the subject of ah elaborate criminal- anthropological study, lie finds the General s skull to be of a similar con struction with the skulls of the assassins Kavaillac, Dalthasar.Geiard and Jacques Moral sense, rudimentary; very, weak; selfishness, Clement. forehead, enor mous." This is Doctor Laurent"4 final judgment. best .Montagu miliums, one of the known of London magistrates, baa pub lished an interesting volume of his ex periences. As human nature is much the same everywhere, so these reminiscences are of value everywhere. Mr. Williams eays that the greater his knowledge of the starving poor, and of the criminals who are too often the victim off 'their circumstances, tho more he is disposed to dentndcrlyf with them. Ho is all in favor of mind sentences, and is persuaded that, except with confirmed reprobates, lenicucy is more powerful for good than severity. ' i New York City is . making a I deter mined morn to establish cheap lodging- liouscs lor women,1 ana seem3 likely to succeed, hopes the .Chicago herald. Houses not managed on a philanthropic but on a purely business basis are to be established throughout the metropolis. For from fifteen to thirty cents a woman can secure in one of these houses a de cent and private lodging for the j night, and can get her breakfast for ten cents in tho morning, if well carried but tins will bo one of the grandest of benefac tions. The want of decent surroundings drives more women to crime than any ' other cause. ' ! It is frequently asserted that the col lege baccalaureate sermon is a distinc lively American institution. In the main, admits the New York Commercial Advertiser, thfs is true. : But something much like it has lately been adopted at. tho English institutions of Oxford and Cambridge, though the sermon is more ol a general theological nature and less an addrcfs of counsel to the graduating class. , This change is peculiarly worth notice, in view of the fact that Mansfield College of Oxford has this year broken nu Logusn precedents Dy inviting nn American clergyman to deliver the clos ing address of the college year. We had been dancing. .Mr aunt's young people were very fond bf dancing!, and, in fact, she was herself, h ;i There in the West, they always had a very jolly time, and I, as a guest, had been made a great deal of, and my aunt had especially enjoined Captain Duncan to "devote himself to me." j; He certainly had obeyed her. For two or three weeks we had been walking together, riding together, dancing to gether, until it was as natural a thing to say 4 'Lucy and Captain Duncan," as though we had been engaged I to each other. ,.';'; And now, on this evening, which was a more important occasion than' usual, ho had never once left my side, nor had I wished him to do so. 1 He was best of all to me, that Trig, handsome fellow, with his upright bear ing, who had come dowm from 'the fort on leave, and who was a real soldier, not a make-believe one for parade day, such as we had in Edgecliff- . j I forgot everything else when he was with me, and I had never been so happy in my life; only at night sometimes, re morse seized upon me between winking and sleeping, and I cried bitterly, think ing how Dick . But no matter for that just now. I am at my aunt's ball and we hare been dancing, and now as he led me out upon the big veranda, and wrapped me well in my cloak that I may not catch cold, and has kept his arm about me longer than necessary, in doing SO. I ': The great vine that drapes' the porch throws flitting shadows ovei ' us, but the moonlight kisses his black curls, and I can see the glow of his eyes, and the crimson of his lips under his dark mus tache and I am sure he can see my fatje by the way he looks at me. j From the house the regular beat bf the music comes to us. Oh. how well! remember it all, and every word he said tome erery word. . . 'Lucy, I am going -back to the fqrt to-morrow, that is why I speak sooner than I ought. I hare not known you long, but I believe that when love comes to a man, it comes out of ambush, as an Indian does without warning. So it came to me as I saw you yes, as riiy eyes met yours. You are the only woman I hare ever loved or ever shall iove; can't you like me a little? If the red imps do not get my scalp in this skirmish for which we are looking, will you be my wife!" .: ' Pi He drew mc'closer to him, he pressed his lips to mine, and all my heart went out toward him, and however much he loved me, it could be no more than: I lored him. ' i . And then suddenly, all that I had JOr- gotten rushed back upon mo, as the water comes" roaring in at a broken darn, and I cried out: '.. j "Oh I Captain Duncan! Don't don't You mustn't kiss me you musn't talk to me. I am engaged to ;be married. My promise is given, my wed ding day is set, and Dick is true to me and I cannot--! cannot I" He had dropped my hand, he had ilet go my waist, he stood at a distauce from me, with so cold a look that iny heart stood still. . Surgical operations until recently tin- luougnt oi even in tue profession, nro reported. , A young man was brought to a Chicago hospital suffering from a stab wound which had penetrated the peri .caruium. -una : oi trio attenuing sur fgeons, in hi$ exathinatiou,. actually placed his fingcP against tha living heart. The wound was dressed and the .patient recovereJ at the -end of two weeks. In Boston an eleven-year-old boy suffered with a pain in his side and difficulty in breathing, which medicinsi failed to relieve. An operation was re sorted to in wdicui tne pericaraium was incised, and half a plut of thick pale colored fluid removed. After the oper ation the patient fell into a deep sleep, lasting five days, after whbh he awoko smiling to see his mother at his side. . He is reported now out of danger. Such triumphs in surgidal skill as these, says Once a Week, are doubtles3 owing not that life might have held anything better for us, but that an aunt, of mine who lived in a Western town, insisted upon my paying her a visit, "before," as she expressed it, "Ltied myself .down for life." ' . . . The result the reader knows. Captain Duncan had joined the house party. : I had forgotten my dnty to Dick for awhile, and by remembering-it at last, had sent the man I really loved from 'me, believing me a heartless flirt. - The cry I gave when I fainted, brought ome one to my aid. They talked about tho heat, and . tho delicacy of New: England girls, and I was pat to bed by my aunt and cousins. The next day 1 was ill, and it made mo no better to hear that Captain Dun can and the other officers in town had gone to the fort, expecting trouble with the Indians. : There are more anxious hearts in the house, for two Of my cousins were en gaged, to officers when twe heard that the fighting had begun. But happily no bad news came to Flora or Helen ; and one day twohappy girls came dancing into the house with letters in their hands. The trouble was over for the time, and their promised j husbands had written to them. - ; i !' . , "Here is a postscript that I did not notice ," saidl Flora, after reading hers three times. 1 4fOh, how dreadful! Cap tain Duncan is killed, and Jack says that if he had wished to throw his life away, he could not have acted more recklessly. Every one loved him. The mourning at the fort is general " 'Lucy is going to faint again!" my aunt cried, running to me. But I did not faint; I only wept bitterly. And no one wonuerea. Jiiven an engageu girl might weep for so gallant a soldier. "And so devoted as he was to you, Lucy," Flora said, j "If it had not been for Dick, I used to think something might come of it." Little they knew what had come of it, or what an aching heart I carried home with me. i "I'm ashamed that you should go to them looking like that," my aunt said, as we parted. ; "Dick will never forgive ine. I suppose our air is too strong for 'you." ' "Oh, once she gets to Dick, she'll be all right," my Cousin Flora cried. So they jested; but I knew that though I should keep my secret to myself and marry Dick when the time came, I should never be "all right again never the happy girl I used to be. : "Oh," I sighed a thousand times upon the weary journey home, '.'oh, if he had but known that I loved him, if he had not died, believing me a heartless, cruel flirt, I could bear it then, and wait to meet him in heaven." Hut still amidst my sufferings, I vowed that Dick should never know that my heart had for a moment swerved from him. I had done harm enough already. I They did; not expect) me home so soon, and no carriage waited at the station for me, and it seemed to me that it would be a relief to walk, and the shortest nd pleasantest way was, after one had gone a block or two, to strike across a park which was used by all the place for fes tivals and picnics, and by the children for a playground. But" now it was autumn, and quite cold, and late in the afternoon and it surprised me a little as I reached the heart of the wood, , to see two people sitting in . lover-like fashion upon a bencu that stood there. As 1 stood still, curiously shy about passing them, as people often grow in moments of great depression, I' recognized them. One wa3 Lilly Bell, the beauty of - the town; the other, Richard Gardner, my betrothed husband. The wind swept their voices ; toward me. : "I am the most miserable man alive," I heard Richard say. "I will keep my promise to her, of course, but I can never love her, I thought I did until I knew you, but it was merely a boy's fancy." j "You ought not to talk bo, Mr. Gard ner," Lilly answered. "Sho is awfully tbj very truth and let what would come of it. j And what has come, dear reader, is our wedding day, for he answered the letter that I wiote in person, and to morrow I return to Fort Bennett proud and happy to be a soldier's wife, and Lilly, I am glad to say, has married Dick. New York Weekly. IN NICARAGUA. TUB TOWN OP ItIV AS A PEKPECT UAKDEN SrOT. I uenmiini instates una urcat l'leias of Cattle Primitive Ways of! Doio Thinjrs An Indigo A Mysterious Yolc an Florida's mysterious "volcano" is again the object of research. On the Wauclssa River, close by the gulf and about thirty miles from Tallahassee, lies a dense swamp which is anywhere from fifteen to thirty miles across in every di rection.; From the midst of this swamp, during the past half century, from time to time has arisen a denso black column of smoke, looking as though It issued from some huge factory chimney; rising high above the tree tops and hanging like a pall in the air. At night a bright light is plainly to be seen, though no flames . are visible. This phenomenon appears and disappears at irregular inter vals, but always .in the sameplace, and some tew years ago it was seen during twelve continuous months. This strange appearance has excited the curiosity of thousands, and numerous attempts have been made to unra-vel the mvstery of Pinhook swamp, but so far the swamp, and consequently its secret, have proved impenetrable. Some, hfteen years ago the New York Herald put up a standing offer of $1000 for its discovery, and Judge Bell, of Monticello, undertook the exploration, but -after spending weeks of toil and hardship, as well as about $1000 in cash, he gave it up. Judge White, of Quincy, then started out, re solved to solve that mystery, but ho too, came back as ignorant as be wont, his partv finally deserting in disgust and compelling him to return home; Since then expedition 1 after expedition has started out, only to be baffled by the im penetrable swamp infested with j snakes. alligators and , those most annoying of less dangerous enemies to the human race sandflies and mosquitoes. Ex plorers can get all around that ; swamp, and can see the "voleano from all sides, but through that wilderness no mortal man has ever passed. Only a few months ago an enterprising coi respon dent of a New York newspaper deter mined to settle the question once for all. but his quest was brought to a sudden and untimely end. as. like the hero of nursery fame, he "fell down and broke hi3 crown." in climbing up a pine tree for a better view of his surroundings. Another party followed after him, but they too, have returned minm S the vol cano, notwithstanding the fact that they were supplied with a good engineer as well as compasses. They were obliged to literally hew out each step they took, so dense was the growth, and with the hardest work they only, succeeded in makint? about one and a half miles of progress a day. Atlanta Conttitutwn. l'lautatlon. One may travel over the entire extent of Nicaragua, and, arriving at Rivas, pro nounce tais the garden spot of the country. (Indeed, while the town num bers but iten or twelve thousands of in habitants the surrounding of ;ion is xnc nature oi a scattered villaire. so thickly it it settled for many miles in every direction. Traveling on any of the roads approaching it one scarcelv loses sight of one tile-roofed or cane-thatched house, hf hid amid a group of banana, orange, plantain and other fruit trees before lfiothcr abode comes in view, i ; figs "A ; PI jilfl djgiBi 1 I A RIVAS Cni'RCH. t Rivajis the nearest town to the Ine -of the canal on sideofcthc country. It is from tfc lake by way of ot any size the Pacific approach ed Ban Jorge. where j pier is built, extending to deep water. Ihe arrival of the vessel is al ways adicipated by numerous venders of fruit, irved jicaras, etc., they chieny being jgirls and women, who form a pictureiiue group as they squat about tne euq wares of the pier by the side of their Here there is alwavs a plentiful in superior to more enly to improved methods and kuowledge of anatomy, but also earnest derotion to their profession, greater courage, steadier nerrej and ex alted personal character, among surgeons. English surgical jftkill, hitherto! consid ered superior to American, inusi look to its laurels. The iist of injuries classed as necessarily fatal must be rerised "While there is life there is hope" wilJ continue to wider! if surgery continue! t? ijmds tha1 doikalo of tit iacunbl was . never woman," he said, 4 'You are engage to be married, you love another man, and yet have led me on as you have done. What was your object? Do you esteem it a triumph to win a man's heart only; to break it? Enjoy it then. I hope that a poisoned arrow is marked for me out on the plains there, for life has lost all its value. Good-bye." i f He was gone. I could not call to him to come back. I could not cry out for all the world to hear, "I am engaged to another man it is true, but I love you." For a moment I thought I should die of the agony I suffered ; then the moon light grew faint, the sound of the music altered to a wail, I Btretchcd out my hands as a babe does to the mother who has left it alone, uttered a great cry, land fainted away. ; And now to explain how all this came about. To do this I must retrace my steps a little. . I was my sister's bridemaid when she was married. She was just eighteen and the eldest of the family, and I wasbot much past sixteen. .1 '-. There are women of sixteen, and chil dren of sixteen. " I was a child in feeling and a woman in looks, for I had grown up tall and slender, and with a manner which my ad mirers called "queenly" and my detrac tors "airish. ' : r j People usually treated me as if I were years older than my age, and I, for I mr part, felt that, if Kitty, with her little tip-tilted nose and dimpled cheeks, could aspire to the dignity of wifehood, I might. Therefore, as Richard Gardner, who was the bridegroom's best man, hvas of the same opinion, I speedily engaged myself to him, and afterward, in Ameri can fashion, "told myynother," Mho cried a little, and she told my father, who said that it was 4 'the most absurd thing he ever heard of," but made no serious objection to Dick, 4 'since Lucy was set on marrying." - i I was of more importance now that I wore Didk's ring. j My parents grew used to the thought, and talked about furnishing a house for us, and the day was set, at what we con- eidered a cruel distance of time. j I And we should have been a coramon- olact couple taousb. without aj idw nice. . : 4 'Yes a good girl, and true to me, or I would not make the sacrifice," Richard answered. "As for you, you do not care, I know that." " "I must not care," Lilly answered. "We have been foolish, I knew you were engaged " her voice trembled sho paused. . - . As for me, 1 felt no anger, only a strange pity for them and for myself, and for all lovers. I allowed impulse to guide me, and the next instant stood behind them, a hand on the shoulder of cither. "Dick," I said, "I have hoard every word, and I am glad I have, for I am as weary of our engagement as you can pos sibly oe, ana it you wm take this ring from me and put it on Lilly Bell s finger, you will lift a load from my heart." I drew off j my glove as I spoke and placed the ring in his palm. He only said: "Oh, Lucy!" but he saw my face that I spokejthe truth, and I walked away and left them to do as they pleased. But once out, of sight I cried a little ; it was so strange to find that I was not ncecssary to Dick, so tragic to know that I had refused the man I loved in order to keep my promise to one whom it had grown to be a hated chain. In my de pression it almost seemed possible that I might reach home to find that no one there wanted me. However, that was not so, as I knew when the cry went up and down the house of 4 'Lucy has come !" and .hey held me in their arms and kissed me and wondered at my paleness, and bethought them how to make me rosy again. I Yes, they loved me at home. Still I felt ro changed, so spoiled somehow, so different 'from the Lucy who had gone away, tnat i ourst out soDDing again, frightening them all, and mortifying myself, for I knew that when they knew all was over between Dick and me, they would think that I was wretched about that, and I wt5 trying to calm myself when a servant entered. ' , 44 A telegram for you. Miss Lucy," she said. ' At the words my heart stood still What I expected, I do:, not know, but I snatched it from her i hand, and while my mother signed the; messenger's little book, tore open the envelope and read these words:' "So glad. Know year will be; mast tele graph, j Captain Duncan living. ' wounded, will recover. Love. . Auntie." The Cat Breeders' Society. The Boston Cat Breeders' Association is the latest addition to the almost count less number of clubs and associations and institutions which have their headquart ers in Boston. It is not really j a charit able association, yet its aims and pur poses are most praiseworthy. An exhi bition of the new association was open in a small ball at 131 Tremont street, and the crush was so great some of the time that it was necessary to close the doors until those inside were willing j to make room for others. Naturally the great proportion of the spectators were women. There have been cat shows thero . in previous years, but none ever aroused as much interest as the last one. j The most interesting cat in the exhibition was the famous trick cat, "Muffins," owned by L. A. DeRibas, of Boston. This cat is a natural born actor, and will enter into the- sport with as much zest and under standing of what is wanted as though he were human. He is three years old, and from a kitten has shown a remarkable intelligence. Aside from his ; histrionic ability, this cat does innumerable tricks. He will swing on a trapeze, jump over a bar or roll over at command. J He will jump over a paper covered hoop and also through fire encircled hoops, j He shakes hands, walks on his hind legs and catches a ball with certainty. Two prizes were offered in each class the first a silver cup, the second a medal. The cat which was declared to be the best of all won for its mistress a handsome gold watch. Chicago Herald. supply pf fruit. Great clumsr ox carts. with wleels made of a section trunk of a treei ae the vehicles ustd for transport ing goods, for as yet there is no railroad in this section of Nicaragua. From the wh.rf iu the town of Rivas isf about four miles, Jnd the road connecting the two is the est that has been built by the G'overimeht. Here all improvements of a publb nature are made by the general Goyerrment, there being no other power for tlw collection of taxes for such pur poses, the entire national revenue being derivid from the Government monoply of thi traffic in liquors and tobacco, 1o- getlr with import duties. The road is 100 t-et wide, is graded and bedded with stone and within the past year the con slruivion of a tramway has been begun, to run from the wharf to Rivas, the cou ces8ioi for which gives the right to extend the liit to neighboring towns and tc Brito on th$ Pacific. On cither side of the road , arc beauti ful estes with splendid specimens of cattle grazing within the inclosures. Half ajnile from the lake is situated the greatf portion of the town of San Jorge, a viil.'ce tnat has remained lor many years absolutely unchanged. . The oldest inhalftant cannot remember when this or that Ipuse was not where and as it is to day; (Approaching Kivas a large space roofel in is noticed, where rather crude me tli JJ 3 are being used in the carpenter work that is being carried on. Here all the yhrk of the saw mill is done by hand. At hife place a great ' log three or four feet ij diameter rests upon a trestle sev eral feet above ground. Beneath it is a pit ft ir feet deep, in which stands a man strip; ed to the waist, while hi fellow worl-pr is on the log above him. With slow but regular motions they push aud popular resort, the main features of which ure very similar to those found the world over. Billiard tables and refresh ments are prominent attractions. But for the women of the household there is little outside of their own homes that coma oc termed amusement. The fiestas of the church form the greater part of their diversion, and thev soem to find much to interest them in religious dis plays and in the service of the church. The nouses, built without' windows. except such grated openings as the doors have in them, all have patios, or court yards, as the general living places. Their meals are taken under tho tile covering of the pavements, tropical trees planted over the grounds lending a pro tection from the sun's rays. In the evening the parlor is occupied bv family and callers. . Then the great heavy doors re swung open to the street and all sit about in the great Venetian rocking chairs that line the sides of the room and are universally the style, being found in every house of importance. , The con ventional black frock coat is the style of the apparel of the men, except on oc casions of balls, etc.. when thev don the full dress suit. Dancing is the uni versal accomplishment and the young ladies excel in tripping the "light fantastic." The vicinity of Rivas is one of the most productive portions of the country for the culture of cacao, and such plan tations are f onnd just outside the borders o: the town. This product sells for about eighty cents per pound, and so popular is it among the eople that the home consumption prevents the exporta tion of any portion of the crop. The cacao or chocalate is chiefly consumed in making tiste, a mixture of that article, ground parched corn and sugar stirred in water. Among all classes this bererage is used freclr, and it is healthful and re freshing. The cattle industry is the other chief occupation of the people in this neigh borhood and some fine cattle estates ex ist. Recently numerous importations of ceding stock hare tended to iinirore the character of the stock considerably. - Rivas is now without a system of water supply and that, article is obtained from wells for all purposes. A plan is proposed by an American engineer to supply this deficiency. He has formu lated his plans for a system by which water would be pumped to the town from Imj iff COOK 8 BEARD. A Pesrd Scrcn Feet Long. Henry C. Cook, a tailor of this city,, says a letter from Connecticut to the Chicago Tribune, has probably the long est beard of any snan in the world. It is eeven feet, two or three inches long. Mr. Cook is a small, wiry, withered mac, only five feet, six inches tall, as the tail of his beard, when he lets it fall in front of him, trails about two" feet on the ground.- He did not let the beard grow so long in order to excite curious attention, but was indifferent about it. or, as it choose to keep on growing, he just let it crow. It is now over thirty years old, a water fall of dark, silky hair. What notoriety it has brought to him is very distasteful to Mr. Cook, who is one of the quiet est, most retiring men in the world, never bother ing his head about any thing in public life. In his dark Mttle store in this ancient town he labors methodically, in the old-timo leisurely way, for a certain line of old fashioned customers, cronies of his, who are as taciturn and unobtrusive as him self. He has scissored and basted and sewed a snug little fortune for himself, and all the time the beard kept growing leisurely and unobtrusively. ,After the Iteard had become more than two feet long Mr. Cook tucked it inside his shirt, and it grew even faster in there. But it was so completely out of Eight that even after it had become as long as it is, his most intimate friends never suspected that the ambitious but retiring beard was growing fame for its possessor. Finally, one day about nine years ago, the little tailor trotted up two long flights of "fctairs into the photograph zooms of "his friend,- Mr. Laighton, squared off before a camera, yanked a great wad of hair out of the bosom of his shirt, made a deft twist or two at it, and lo! a hirsute cascade flowed to his feet. Mr. Laighton was astonished, but ne punea me trigger ana tne camera did the rest. At the time the photo graph was taken ihe beard was only six feet six inches long;, it has grown seven or eight inches since. Mr. Cook is between sixty and seven ty years, has a sallow, wrinkled, dark face, and it is not known that he ever was sick. His thick, luxuriant hair is as black as a crow's wing, and there is hardly a silver thread in either his hair or his beard. WORDS OF WISDOX. The Toint of Yiew. CLCB HOUSE. ' TvrrcAi. nocsE. ! ' I burst into tears again, but J this time for joy, for he was living and I free. and of one who loved me so well I need have uo few, I would wlfbUo Cnro for Insomnia. It has been found in most cases that insomnia is caused Dy aisoraerca stom ach. Between tho stomach and the brain there is a close communion, and, when one ii out of erder, the other is not only apt, but sure to be. ,Worry will unsettle the stomach, as indigestion will inflate the blood vessels of, the brain. Recognizing this, medical men are now ordering the use of hot water Internally and externally. Before going to bed, the person so afflicted should bathe the lower limbs in hot water as hot as pos sible. This is for tho purpose of draw ing the blood from the head, for when the blood vessels are inflated they press against the skull, and fears, apprehen sions, and a dread of going to Bleep re sult. But with the hot-water application, the blood is circulated and the pressure rehered. Next the sleepless one is ad vised to drink hot water, with tho juice of a lemon or a little table salt added Tbi3 will settle the stomach and distri bute the gases. There will, of course, come times when the hct water will not have the desired effect, or it may be slow in its curative effects. But do not be impatient if it will not put you to sleep to-night, though it did last night. Per sist in the application, ana as tne pre scription contains no "deadly drugs" you can afford to wait, for by so doing a per manent cure is sure to follow Argo naut. ! Angling for Men Fish. Angling for 4 'men fishes" j is a novel sport now indulged in at the New York Athletic Club. A swimmer with a stout line attached to a sort of harness on hit head leaps into the big tank, while an angler on the edge tries to land him, having a solid bamboo rod; seven feet long and multiplying reel, j If the two men are pretty well matched as to strength the angler stands a fair chance of getting l bull fights and the cock pulle4 into the tnk,--ffeayun J tiires of diversion. Tho club, too pull a great handsaw, which is gradually cutting the log into boards, though it takc3 several weeks to dispatch such a piece of timber. The wood is of a vanetf that would be valuable abroad and vbiclt takes a high polish. Beneath the shed are as many as a couple of dozen workmen engaged in getting out material for house building or making handsome pieces of furniture with the most careful and exact labor. The furniture will show about the samo painstaking labor exercised on hidden portions as upon the outside parts. Jt is heavy in weight and there is no evidcuce of those little tricks of workmanship, commendable or other wise, which allow economy in the uc of labor and material, ret produce the same appearance, in this couutry, where the best classes of wood are . obtained as readily as cheaper grades, ; the art of veneering i3 known only in theory, for it is timber that would be valued for such purposes abroad that is here used for nearly all cabinet work. The street of Rivas are laid out at right angles, forty or fifty feet wide, with houses of adobe, tile roofed, the ? caves extending out over the narrow sidewalk There is a lack of bustle of any kind. The stores hare no indication of their character on the outside, though ; a sign .over the doorwav announces the name of the proprietor. Within them the goods will be found to be of English, French and German make, American articles be ing but rarely met except in the case of machinery, and as yet importations- of that character are not largo to meet the demand. , Even more than the difference in prices, this iact is largely in conse niience of tho lonsr. credit svstem that is i b - b necessarv in doing business with -mer chants in this countrr, a year's credit be injg accorded them readily ; by European houses. Notwithstanding that a tariff is imposed on imports, manufactured arti cles are generally cheaper here than in the United States. Through the lack of a more complete banking system between the United States and the Central Ameri can countries all clearances have to be made through London. f ' t jThere are no places of amusement of a theatrical character, though occasional pus rorra lea Lake Nicaragua, through a ripe line four miles long and distributed from a reser voir. As water delivered at houses in carts sell for five cents pei jar full it seems that such an enterprise would be successful. To-day women are seen pass ing through the streets balancing jars of water on their heads, and it is only re cently that the water csrt has begun to in a measure take the place of such methods. We made a trip a shrt time ago to an indigo plantation several miles from Rivas and saw the operation of that in teresting and plying industry. Being in the spring, fhe plant was well matured, and the rolling hills in every direction were covered with yellow blossoms. The flower i6 only allowed to open when the plaut is cut down and carried t the great cement tank in which it is crushed and there it stands in water for some da s. When the valuable product is so extracted a waste gate, opening into an other tank at a lower level, is opened and the fluid passes into that reservoir, where evaporation takes place, leaving .the pure indigo on the bottom. The first farming implements ever introdued into the country were imported for work on this plantation, and the result should give a prestige lorsucu metnous tnat win cause others to follow the example of Senor Arguello, tne progressive Nicaraguan who broke from the old methods of em ploying hand labor alone in cultivating the soil. Tho plantation was no sooner reached than it. was re marked that in certain fields the indigo was higher and thicker, showing a more vigorous growth. We were then told that it was in those fields that the plows had been used, wherea in other portions the seeds had been planted according to the old method. which includes no cultivation, the seed merely being dropped into holes made j. A. All si i iiiii im K . III mi I I 'S Z LI 1,1 . r i ii mm Tommy, the painter's boy, decorate old Sweiglcr's gate. iJfi il!iJl"'fe5 'l!'c ' '. v Hi WATER CART. with with a pointed stick and then covered, soil. - Corn is planted in the same way, and until the crop is gatnerea no ultivation is giren it. Men, women and children were in the field. Their pay was, for the men, twenty-fire cents; women, fifteen cent', and children, ten cents Jer day, their hours of labor being f . Kn.. non UUIU JL. A. UllUL UIUU, uifvu. During a ride through this part of the country one Is sure o come across flocks of parrots and groups of chattering monkeys, the latter always stopping curiously to look at passers-by, and will even approach the road to get a better view and satisfy their curiosity. The richness of the country is evidenced on all hands, though but little is done by the man here to make the soil yield ac cording to its power. Washington Star. Mrs. Mary M. Higgins, a clerk in the Postoffice Department at Washington, is about to devote her life to the education of neglected girls in Ceylon. Two thou sand native women hare already founded an educational society there. Mrs. Hig gins has been unanimously elected prin- j cipl q the high school at Colombo, Old Sweigler appears and wonders at Tommy's hilarity. 1'he Century. A Znln Dainty. Mealies ate the chief food of the Kafirs, but they rejoice at an occasional opportunity of feasting off a tough ."trek" ox no matter if it has died from natural causes albeit their glimmering of religious superstition forbids them the use of animal food. They loathe fish as we should loathe eating a snake; but, on the other hand, their fancies for certain tidbits run in a curious direction. One afternoon a spray of glittering green fol iage is brought to me, from whence are depending the most enormous caterpil lars I hare ercr seen in my life, as thick as my thumb and twice as long fat, green fellows,, studded with small, spar kling scales. , The little Zulu girl from whom they had been obtained wept be cause "we had taken away her food." I flatly decliaed to try a caterpillar or two, whereupon a natire eagerly selects a couple of tha finest, pinches off their tail8,tnanipulates glore-fashion the wrig gling creatures one within the other, frizzles them before the fire,-and finally daintily derours the nauseating morsel with the lingering enjoyment of an Eng lish schoolboy eating a fine tresh straw berry. BlackwoiX Magazine. Kice ia the Sheep's Wool. A Mercer County (Peuu.) theep far mer was amazed to see a black spot trav eling up and down the back of one of his shetp a few days ago,' and upou' in vestigation found that three nta of mice were snugly ensconced in the sheep's wool. The same state of affairs exisu-d in the wool of three other sheep in the herd.' The animalsdid not seem to inin-I the presence of the mice at all. I'hUcdel- phict Record. Pride requires very costly food It keeper's happincs-. . Pleasing in company is the only way of being pleased in it yourself. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seem ing rich- ; Make but few explanations; the char icter that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating. With a modicum; of clothing and a maximum of freedom, air and. sunlight, children are as gods. The creed of happiness is not the only one which a polite legislation has decreed should be written on greenbacks. George Eliot says: "No disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man -whose happiness hangs on duplicity. The attempted reformation of an ideal is as hopeless a task as an attempt to re- " arrange the rainbow colors of a soap buble. , If thou doest ' lore thy frend well enough to forego his friendship for sake of his larger perfecting, make known to him his faults. . The most quietly entertaining people are those wno speac a variety or irutn without intending it and are fantastically witty without knowing it.. Do not expect ; commercial payment for the real benefit you may reader 'to others. Doing good is the surest way of enriching and i ennobling character. If that volatile essence which is senti ment in youth be , not crystallized into principle at maturity the chances are. that its vapor will hare passed beyond the horizon and sunset. Good iutentions are at least the seed of good actions ; and erery man ought to sow them, and leare it to the soil and seasons whether they coma up our no, or whether he or any other gathers tho fruit. Men may as -well expect to grow stronger 1 y always eating, as wiser by always reading, .Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. It'; is thought, which is mental digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind. I Smokeless Powder la Warfare. Captain Benson; in discussing tha probabilities regarding the effect of smokeless powder on the taHical opera tions of the future, fays that infantry will gain by increased facilities for fire discipline and control, improved shoot ing, non-betrayal of the presence ol skirmishers in broken ground, of sen tries on outpost duty and of the firing line of defense, as well as by the fsclli-. ties for combined action, while on the other hand there will be greater expo sure. Deployment will take place f artbet from the enemy', and the defense will gain in frontal attack orer open ground. Captain Benson 'finds many advantages in smokeless powder for the artillery and machine guns, remarking only thai changes of positions will be more open to view and that it will be difficult to do- j tect lndiridnal skirmishers adraacing orcr cramped ground and picking on gunners. Reconnaissance will become more difficult, and probably it will be necessary to add to the offensire powet of cavalry. With regard to machine guns, it is probable that though they seem destined to play a great part, they will not abate by one jot the importance ol artillery. The weight of argument it against the use of quick firing guns fot a field army: Captain Benson urges s higher standard ' of training than hat heretofore been obtained. Armies can-. not now be raised to the necessary stand ard by a few months' drill as they once could, and Captain Benson is of opinion that 'the smaller highly trained fore will be able to beat those larger masses ot men -whose training and discipline hare became rusty, in the future as is the past." Chicago Xews. A Mad Sculptor's Waderfal Work. When the young sculptor, John B. Leoni, during a fit of temporary insanity, was held in waiting at the Burlingtoo (N. J.) Jail pending the results of in quiries as to his identity, he obtained possession of a common bar of washing soap and proceeded to astonish the jail ers. With the nail of his index -finger ' he began to dexterously carre the soap into the shape of the 4hnman form di vine," and within an incredible short time, considering the magnitude of the undertaking and the unbalanced condi tion of his mind, had produced a wooT -derful model of an Alpine hunter. The figure, which is now carefully treasured, is said to be equal to anything erer exe cnfArl hv cither Mprcou or VidooaueV. It represents a; man with bis right arm outstretched, the ringers oi tne nana en circling the neck of a duck, which is as carefully reproduced and as true to ta ture as the figure of the hunter. The left hand hangs by the hunter's side, holding a shotgun, while at his feet lies the figure of a dog 'wistfully gaxing at the game his master holds aloft. Taken all in all it is a most remarkable work of art. St. Louit Republic, Batter la Callforala. Butter is made in a peculiar way in California, but it is sold instill more eccentric fashion. The butter-maker always turns it out in round rolls, about a half-foot in length, supposed to weigh two pound. The dealer sells it by the roll and charges for two pounds, but the roll always lacks from six to eight ounces of full weight. This thing has been going on for years to the loss of the con sumer, and without profit to any one . except the middleman. 1 be Utter buys butter by the pound and sells it by the roll, so-he makes a clear profit on the; short weight. When a man handles several tons of butter a day this makes ei large item, tor' on each roll he will make from eight to tea cents, or at least $100 on erery ton. i The dairyman can't pre. ' vent this, as if they made butter in good two-pound, rolls no commission man--, would handle it- What the butter- 1 maker proposes to do is to establish an honest mould for the rolls and then sell their butter themselres in a co-operative market. . Thi .will also run out the oleomargarine ! which is sold by many dealers as second-class butter. St. Louis Globe-Demoe$at. ' A $3,000,000 hotel about to be built in New York City will hare Q0 lirin rooms and 263 bath-iocoas
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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July 30, 1891, edition 1
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