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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY," MAY 10, 1899.
NO. 35.
THE TWO DOLLS.
Patd the Tlnk Paper Doll to the Purple
Taper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish that I were made of
wood!"
, Said the Purple Paper Doll to the rink
Paper Doll,
"I'm sure I think that paper's just a3
Kood."
Said the rink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish that I were made of
wax!"
Said the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"Your face would soon be seamsd with tiny
cracks."
Bald the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish I were made of bisque!"
Said the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink Paper
Doll,
"Of breaking you would run an awful
risk."
Bald the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish I were of worsted knit!"
Paper Doll,
"i don't Beueve you a nice ic, aear, a dk.
Said the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how 1 wish that I were made of
rags!"
Bald the Purple raper Don to the rint
Paper Doll,
"Then the junkman 'd carry you ofT in his
bags."
Said the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish that I were made of rub-
ber!
Said the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"We used to know one, and we used to
snub her."
Said the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll.
"Oh! how I wish I were made of china!"
5atd the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"You'd be old-fashioned, and they'd name
you Dinah."
Said the Pink Paper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Well, then I'm clad that I'm a DaDer
doll!" ,
Said the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"I think it ls4he best, dear, after all!"
Carolj n Wells, in Puck.
I DEACON GREY'S
CHOICE. .
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PV HFI.PN WH1TNRV CLACK.
. "Well," Mrs. Ferobia Cymonds laid
aside ber new poke-bonnet, with its
lavender ribbons, aud slipped off her
plum-colored alpaca dress, while a
simile of satisfaction spread itself over
her rather sharply marked feature's.
"If Deacon Grey don't mean some
thing by his attentions then I'm mis
taken." It was prayer meeting liiht,
and Deacon Grey had jolt escorted
the widow to her domicile. "This is
the third time hand-running that he.
took me home evening; beside last
. Sunday was two weeks ago that he
walked to chinch with me."
Mrs. Ferobia's method of expres
. sion was somewhat mixed, but her
facts were undeniable.
The deacon had escorted her to and
from, evening prayer meeting on
several occasions, and had thus be
come the subject of much gossip
among the village folks.
"Deacon Grey's aspvucin' up, "they
eaid. "Lookin' rouud for a wife, of
course. Wal, he mout do worse,
though the Widow Cymonds is poor
as a church-mouse, fur as property's
;onsarned."
They said nothin' of Widow Cy
ionds temper, however, which was
as uncomfortable to encounter as the
barbed-wire fence which surrounded
q deacon's well-kept farm,
. Possibly, the -widow had a talent for
concealing any little acerbities of tern
: per from tb,e outside world, and be
I' stowing her ill-nature only ou the
members of her own household.
"Yes," she mused, tapping the
home-made carpet with her foot, while
a shrewd look shone in her steel-gray
eyes "yes, to my mind it's just as
good as settled, and I mean to do over
my wedding-dress. I ain't worn it
nuch,and it'll save buying a new one.
, B(ut there's one thing about it" here
ihe widow put her foot down emphat
ically "that old maid sister of the
deacon's has got to do most of the
work, if she lives with us. I don't
hae any shiftless, do-nothing folks
about me; but of course I won't say a
word now."
. VLa!" aid Miss Letitia Pipes, pop
ping her head into the widow's sitting-room,
"bright and early the next
morning "la, now, Feroby! is it set
tled yet? I'm dyiug to know!"
"Well ahem!" said the widow,
looking conscious and trying to blush
ame ain't set, but it's all understood
between us, you know."
"Of course," assented Miss Pipes.
"Well, I reckoned it was understood,
41of rrtn nra oa onnfl as ATiffofrod. nf
course. How soon do you think it'll
be?"
"Well," said the widow, medita
tively," not before fall, I don't
reckon. You see, I've got a
"ight smart lot of sewing on
hand and some quilting to do,
tocv There's that piny-bud quilt I put
to'.ttlier last winter, and a rising-sun
Dorcas is making." .
"Going to keep Dorcas with you?
rucrl Ihn widow
tartly Dorcas was her stepdaugkttv
"She ain't nothing to me, an' I shan't
keep her no longer than to git the
sewing done up, an' the apple-butter
making an' preserving over; then I'm
a-going to tell her to find some
other home."
"Jes' so," assented Miss Pipes.
And before night it was all over
town that the Widow Cymonds was to
be married to Deacon Grey,. in the fall
just as Mrs. Cymonds meant it
should be.
And at last the gorgeous piney-bud
and the refulgent glories of the rising
sun were nearly finished and laid away
in the big, old-fashioned chest of
drawers in the best chamber.
A ten-gallon keg was filled with
translucent; crimson-clear apple-butter,
and the swinging-shelf in the cel
lar was covered with jars of preserves
and amber-lined jelly all made by
Dorcas Cymonds' deft fingers.
And now the sparkling frosts of
October had turned the dogwood and
sassafras leaves to red, and the ekin
capins and over-cup acorns were drop
ping on the crisp, brown grass in the
woodlands and now pretty, brown
eyed, industrious Dorcas was told that
she must find another home, and look
out for herself in the great future.
. "For I expect to be married before
long, and shan't want to be burdened
with any hangers-on, "said the widow,
heartlessly.
Tears sprang into the sweet, brown,
eyes, but Dorcas turned away to hide
them from her stepmother's sharp
gaze.
Poor Dorcas! She knew no more of
the wide world and its ways than a
half-fledged robin, but she started out
with a brave heart to seek her fortune.
One text from the Book of Divine
Revelations came into her heart to
comfort her "I have never seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his sa 3d beg
ging bread;" and somehow Dorcas felt
that kind Providence had not forsaken
her.
Mrs. Cymonds put on her best dress,
tied her lavender bonnet-striugs in a
becoming bow under her chin, and
looked at herself in the mirror with a
smile of satisfaction.
"He'll be certain to come to the
sewing-society today, and who knows
what may happen, as we walk home
together! My, but won't Letitia Pipes
be mad! She almost turns green with
envy now, when the deacon walks with
me."'
But Deacon Grey did not make his
appearance at the sewing-circle, and
the widow returned home in a some
what different mood from that in which
she had set out.
"What in common sense he means
by not coming I don't see!" she said,
crabbedly. "And that Letitia Pipes
was glad of it looked like she wanted
to titter right out, when I had to put
on my bonnet and start home alone."
The afternoon bad worn away, and
the sun was sinking fiery shafts
of crimson beneath the far-off western
horizon.
"Who in creation's a-coming now?"
grumbled the vidow,as a lithe,slender
figure swung open the front gate, and
tripjedup the path to the cottage
door.
It was Dorcas, her brown eyes shin
ing and her cheeks glowing like a full
blown Jacqueminot rose.
"Back again, like a bad penny!"
cried the widow, crossly. "You'll have
to stay all night, I' s'pose; but I've
told you once I couldn't keep you
and I can't!"
"I've only come for my things,"
said Dorcas, demuredly, her cheeks
dimpled with smiles and blushes.
"The deacon's out in the buggy wait
ing for ru?. "
"The deacon?" gasped the widow,
astounded.
"Yes. I I'm married to Deacon
Grey," exclaimed Dorcas, while her
stepmother glowed in wrath and dis
may. "I met him at the stile, this
morning, and I think he married me
out of pity, for I was crying a little,
you know, to think I had no home tc
go to. So he took me to the parson
age and we were married, and went
home to dinner. And here's the dea
con coming in now for my trunk."
"Well, well!" exclaimed Mis3 Letitia
Pipes, when she heard the news. "But
a body might a-known it was Dorcas
the deacon was a-courting. But I'll
bet a button Feroby is as mad as a we
hen about it!"
And so she was. Saturday Night.
Men With Bird Names,
The following coincidence in names
have been carefully verified. At s
Birmingham chapel Mr. Book held
services in the morning, Mr. Parrott
in the afternoon and Mr. Crowe in the
evening of the same day; the arrange
ment being strictly accidental, but
made by a Mr. Cuckoo, secretary ol
the Sunday school, in which Messrs.
Finch, Martin, Swallow and Bird were
teachers.
In a Midland town ou the same
Sunday some years ago harvest festi
val services were conducted in twe
churches, respectively, by Bevs. J. E.'
Flower and W. Leafe. Within the
last half century the pastor of a Lon
don church was Rev. J. H. Pigg, and
his two deacons Messrs. Hogg and
Bacon. London Tit Bits.
Billboard advertisements are posted
in some places by machiuea that reach
to the top of a fifty foot wall without
BURIAL OF KAIULANI.
SEVEN DAYS OF WEIRD MOURNING
OVER HAWAII'S PRINCESS.
Old Cmtomi Revived A Waving of
l'luuies and Chanting; of Lamentations
Over the Casket Midnight Ktmoval of
the Body Hearse Drawn by Natives.
The remains of Princess Kaiulani
now rest in the tomb in Hawaii, where
lie the bodies of all the Kamehame
has, except the great Kaniehameha,
who was buried, like Moses, no man
knows where. The funeral took place
on Sunday and fully 25,000 people at
tended it. It is Hawaii's supersti
tion that the death of a member of the
royal family is accompanied by the
severest rainfall of the year. TI19 con
ditions attending the death and burial
of Kaiulani bore out the superstition.
The raiu began falling iu torrents
after she died and continued until
after she was buried. The hours of
the funeral, however, were bright and
clear.
All that the military and civic pomp
of civilization could add to the strange
old Hawaiian funeral customs went to
make the ceremony oue not easily
forgotten. lor nearly seven days
there was not an instant when some
ceremony was not in progress. Soon
after her death kahili bearers began
waving royal kahilis or feather plume ?
over her body. Every bearer, whether
a man or a woman, wore the yellow
feather cape, which was a sign of
Hawaiian royalty. The bearers stood
rigidly erect and the waving of the
plumes was done according to a for
mula from which it was a point of
honor not to vary. At the beginning
each bearer held his kahili in the
"Carry arms!" position. At a sigDal
the kahilis were extended in a hori
zontal position till they touched tips
with those on the opposite sitje of the
casket. Each bearer then waved his
kahili to the right, then to the left,
repeating each motion, and then hold
ing the plumes aloft, finally returning
to the first position again. During
the week several kahili bearers faiuted
from sheer exhaustion.
The body lay in state at Ainahiu
until the Friday preceding the funeral
and was theu removed to the Kawai
alias church. The ceremony of re
moval was weird. It took place iu
the middle of the night. The sky was
, heavily overcast and threatened rain.
Kahili bearers walked beside the
hearse, waving aloft torches made of
oily kukui nuts, spitted on bamboo
poles. Following the hearse came
members of the royal family in car
riages, then friends, old servants and
retainers. Among the last were many
Mele women, who hand dowu from
generation to generation the histori
cal chants reciting the valor, great
deeds and history of the Hawaiian
people. They wailed and chanted
throughout the journey to the church.
Others wailed in cadence, while some
of the old servants broke out in la
mentations and expressions of per
sonal grief. The darkness, the weird
light of torches, the absence of the
constraiuingpresenceofthe white man
and the white man's customs, revived
in many of the old Hawaiians thoughts
and feelings of earlier days, and they
broke into hula hula songs and dances
according to the ancient custom, which
has latterly fallen into disuse since
the hula has become discredited.
At the church, a short service was
held and finished at 2 o'clock in the
morning. The church decorations
were in sympathy with the customs
on such occasions.
Throughout Saturday rain t'ell in tor
rents, but the remains weie viewed
by thousands. After the funeral the
quiet of the scene was broken by
chants or by wailing and lamentations
of old servants of the priucess, who
recited incidents of her life. Their
words were extemporaneous, spoken
in a chanting, melodious way, some
times accompanied by a swaying of
the body, which , was kept up until
the speakers dropped from sheer phy
sical exhaustion.
The services on Sunday were those
of the Anglican church. The funeral
procession was led by the marshal of
the republic, A. H. Brown, his depu
ties and a . company of mounted po
lice. Then followed members of the
royal family, civil " officials, foreign
consuls, representatives of societies
and the clergy, including the Catholic
bishop. The hearse was drawn by
230 natives, uniformed in white trous
ers, blue sweaters, white hats and
blue and yellow cloth capes. From
the church to the tomb is two miles,
but the entire distance was lined with
spectators. The services at the tomb
were very simple. The coffin was
placed next to that containing the
body of Princess Likelike, Kaiu
laui's mother, aud near that of Kala
kaua. The Usefulness of Hickory.
Hickory has its place in carriage
building that has never yet been dis
placed by any other wood or artificial
substitute. For light spokes it has no
equal. Ironwood and lancewood are
used in its place for heavy spokes,
where the weight is of less importance
than the strength and cost. But for
light buggies and carriages hickory
spokes must be used for years to come,
as it has been in the past. Forest ash
sometimes takes its place, but the re-
eult is never s-j satisfactory.
"BY-PRODUCTS."
How Chemists and Other Ingenious Per.
sons Make Use of Waste.
To such an extent has the utilization,
of by-products been carried in the
stockyards of Chicago that now the
only waste in a steer is the gastric
juice.and what was formerly the waste
is now worth more than the meat.
The horns go into knife handles or
backs for combs. The white hoofs are
sent abroad to return as ivory, while
the black hoofs become handles for
knives and canes and are made into a
dozen other things, the soft internal
parts being resolved into jellies and
candies.
From the bones are produced piano
keys, dice and bone-black. Glue,
gelatine, neat's-foot oil, and au imita
tion whalebone are made from the
sinews. The clarified blood is taken
by the sugar refiners, while the rest of
it becomes buttons and fertilizers.
The intestines serve as casings for
sausage, and the bladders as cases for
snuff. The tail tuft is an insiguificant
part of the animal, but when steamed,
dried and washed it becomes a curled
hair that sells readily. As a result of
this care and economy, the fiauacial
returns from a steer, as estimated by
one in the business, are: From the
meats and compounds of meat, $10;
from the hide, hair, horns and hoofs,
$25; from the fats, blood, sinews and
bones, $15; from all other waste, $15,
or $55 received from the by-products.
But not alone in the stockyards are
by-products carefully husbanded.
Many large industrial corporations
employ chemists to search for by
products with a view to increased pro
fits and reduced waste. The produc
tion of alcohol from waste molasses
is well known, and the recent conver
sion of pig-iron slag into cement has
been noted. To these may be added
tiling made from crushed tree bark,
acids from plum and peach pits, jellies
and an inferior kind of champagne
from apple cores, pruasiate of potash
from castaway shoes, carbonic acid gas
generated in the processes oi beerl
making, and window weights from the
iron recovered from" tin cans.
More notable, perhaps, are some
products f.vom corn. Indian maize
contains a kernel in which there is a
yellow germ. Under chemical treat
ment this germ yields an oil which, ,
when refined, is a competitor with
cotton-seed oil in the substitution for
olive oil, arid which may be vulcanized
and made to do duty as rubber. What
are called rubber boots and shoes are
being made from this imitation rubber
at a cost far below that of the genuine
article. The Manufacturer.
Gave the Ilequired Information.
The old practice of badgering wit
nesses has almost disappeared from
many courts,,but in some it is still
kept up sometimes, however, to the
damage of the cross-examiner.
Lawyer S is well known for his
uncomely habits. He cuts his hair
about four times a year, and the rest
of the time looks decidedly ragged
about the ears. He was making a
witness describe a barn which figured
in his last case.
"How long had the barn been
built?" . .
"Oh, I don't know. About a year
mebby. About nine months, p'r'aps. "
"But jut how long? Tell the jury
how long it ha 1 been built."
"Well, I don't know exactly. Quite
a while."
"Now, Mr. B , you pass for an
intelligent farmer, and yet you can't
tell how old this barn is; and you
have lived on the next farm for ten
years. Can you tell me how old your
own barn is? Come, now, tell us how
old your own house is, if you think
you know."
Quick as lightning the old farmer
replied
"Ye want to know how old my
house is, do ye? Well, its just about
as old as you be, and the roof needs
seeiug to about as bad."
In the roar that followed the wit
ness stepped down, and Lawyer S
didn't call him back. Waverly Maga
zine.
The Evolution of the flow.
Taking the plow, which is oue of
the most important, if not the most
important agricultural implement, at
the time of the enactment of the first
patent law in this country, in 1791, the
plow was a wooden structure shod
with iron, and it was so imperfect that
but an acre of land could be plowed in
a day, and even then it was not much
more than scratched. The plow had
hardly been improved at all in forty
centuries. Now, the steel plow, with
its greater strength aud its perfected
shape, digs down and overturns the
soil so that a much larger crop is
grown, and several times as much
work can be done in a day with the
ordinary one-horse plow as with the
old form; while a steam driven gang
plow can plow twenty acres in the
same length of time.
Earned Money by Starving
A professional faster, named Succi,
has just completed a term of absolute
abstinence lasting twenty-five days in
Milan, Italy. He was walled up iu a
stone hut, iu which he was under con
stant surveillance through two strong
glass windows, which were closed
under seals.
John Bull isn't easily coved.
HOW A MAN KEPT HOUSE
LEARNED THE TRICK DURINC A FIVE
YEAR STUNT IN THE ARMY.
fie Concealed That Fact From His Wife,
However Once They Lost Their Ser
vant and the Cavalryman Filled the
Hill and Made a Clean Breast of It.
The young man had never told his
wife that he had done a five-year
stunt in the regular army of the United
States. Without any particular rea
son for it some men feel a bit shy
mentioning their service in the regu
lars. Perhaps the fact that, up to
about ten years ago, the army was
looked upon as the last resource of
the ne'tr-do-well, may have some
thing to do with it. Anyhow this
young war department clerk didn't
happen to mention it to the girl when
he came to Washington a couple of
years ago and courted and married
her, relates the Washington Star, that
he had spent almost a five-year stretch
among the yellow, blasted-looking
mountains of Arizona, helping his
tro p to hunt for the elusive Apache
Kid. He told her that he had been
jamming around down in the south
west, and he told the truth, for if
hunting that red rascal of an Apache
wasn't jamming around the southwest
then nothing is. She considered it
odd that he knew so much about sol
diering, that he went around the
house on Sunday mornings idly
whistling the trumpet calls, and that
he knew how to spiel Indian talk that
Indians understood. Or course, she
never stopped to wonder over his
habit of going down stairs sideways.
She never thought of him as a sol
dier, and 8.0 she could not know that
all men who have been cavalrymen
invariably go down stairs sideways
for the remainder of their lives. It is
a habit born of their sorvice fear of
tripping themselves on stairs with
their spurs.
They keep house in a pretty little
place out in Mount Pleasant. They
have had considerable difficulty' in
keeping a servant, as a good many
Mount Pleasant folks do. Their last
servant wearied of tbe"lonesomene8s"
one evening last week, packed up the
things that belonged to her, and
probably a few things that did not be
long to her, in accordance with the
rule in such cases, and departed, an
nouncing that she was not to return.
The young wife wept dismally after
the servant's departure, and her hus
band, sympathizing with his wife's
red nose, endeavored to assuage her
grief.
"Let 'er go," said he. "I'll stay
home from the office tomorrow-, and
you can bundle off bright and early
and get another one. Don't rush
yourself to death over it, either. I
can run this shack for one day, I
guess."
"But if I am away after the noon
hour what will you do for your lunch,
you poor old monkey thing?" she
asked him, solicitously affectionate.
"Never you mind me," he said.
"I'll get along. You watch me."
So, on the following morning, di
rectly after breakfast, the young wife,
with many forebodings as to the rack
and ruin she would find, and not a
bit of her work done when she re
turned, set out for the down town dis
trict to beg, borrow or steal a house
servant.
"It'll be a give away, all right,"
murmured her husband to himself,
but I'll do it all the same."
So he set to work. First, he washed
the dishes. Soldiers of the regular
army of the United States wash dishes
with a practised skill and a thorough
ness such as few women, with all due
consideration, exhibit. He made a
nice job of the dish washing and then
took a pair of shears and cut a lot of
jcalloped borders out of old newsjm
papors for the china closet. Then he
put the dishware away all neat and
orderly. Then he started in at the
kitcheu. He polished the stove first,
so that the kitchen cat raised her back
at her own image in it. Then he got
at the pans, pots, skillets and so on,
and made them look like new. Theu
he swept out the kitchen, after which
he got down on his marrowbones and
gave it the most business-like scrub
bing it had ever had a military scrub
bing. Thus the kitchen was all fixed.
Then he went upstairs to their
room and made the bed. A man who
has made up his bunk in quarters in
the United States army for any space
of time doesn't need to get any points
from the women folk, as to how that
job should be done. Then he
Bprinkled tea leaves around and swept
the whole upstairs portion of the
house, after which he dusted it thor
oughly. Then he descended the stairs
and began the policing of the dining
room, sitting room and parlor. He
changed the furniture all about,
changed the location of some of the
pictured advantageously, gave the
piano a better position and cleaned
and swabbed the whole outfit until
it looked as if half a dozen ordinary
servants had been policing it.
Lunch hour had rolled around by
this time, aud so he-went to the kit
chen, neatly fried himself some bacon
and eggs, aud made himself a cup of
coffee on the gas stove, after which
he cleaned up the dishes he had used
and smoked a couple of pipes full of
tobacco and reflected. He had ex
pected his wife back by that time, but
she didn't come. He began to think ,
of how she'd no doubt be worrying
about the the dinner then, and so h
decided to get the dinner himself. H
put on his coat and went out to the
market to buy the dinner. He picked
out a fine, thick steak and the neces
sary vegetables, and rather astonished
the marketman with his workmanlike'
manner of buying. Theretofore he
had simply been the bill payer at tho
market store.
He had a fine dinner agoing by half
after 3. He knew that his wife would
not be gone later than 4 o'clock, so at
a 3.45 he put the steak on to broil.
Then he set. the table with a whole
lot of neatness, not forgetting the
buuch of flowers that he had bought
at the market for the purpose of
adorning the table.
His wife walked in, weary, footsora
and ravenous, at two minutes past 4
o'clock. She paused at the thresh
hold and looked about her. The hall
had been policed with great thorough
ness and she could not understand.
Then she walked into the parlor. Her
face assumed a dazed expression.
"Why, Jack," she said, "have you
engaged a servant yourself?"
"Nope," he replied. "Just been
passing the time myself a bit, that's
all." ,
When she saw the set dining room,
the spotless and shining kitchen, with
its glistening utensils, the broiling
steak, and when she went upstairs
and saw the miracle that had befin
wrought there, too, she simply sat
down in a rocking chair and stared at
her husband. She was able to speak
after a while, and then she inquired:
"But where did you learn to do it
all?"
He grinned, and went to a little old
trunk of his that was stowed away in
the spare room. He dug into this for
a while, then he brought out a parch- ,
ment paper. He took it over to his
wife and handed it to her. It was an
army discharge. The space after the
word "character" was filled in with,
the word "excellant. " There was an
indorsement at the bottom of the dis
charge signed by the colonel of the
regiment, saying, "This man is a fine
soldier, both in garrison and camp.
"I had to take my turn as cook of
my outfit, you know," he said after a
while, "aud all of us have got to know
how to police up and keep things
clean."
"But why did you never tell me
you were a soldier? Don't you know
I perfectly adore and idolize sol
diers?" she asked him, aud he could
only grin and look sheepish.
A Foison Bottle Wanted.
The Chemist and Druggist, we learn,
bas actually offered a five-guinea prize
for a good tell-tale poison bottle, and
has received many valuable suggest
tions in reply. Oue of them is thai
the neck should be at right angles to
the body of the bottle, instead 'of in a
line with it. This idea also reaches
us from auother quarter. Another, of
a more fanciful kind, is that the user
should be warned off by a death's
head and cross-bones of the poison
label. But the main thing is the apt
peal toother senses than that of sight.
The bottle must be able to signal
"poison" in the darkness. One in-,
genious person, as we showed the
other day, proposed to appeal to the.
sense of hearing by meaus of a sort
of musical cork. The seuses of taste
aud smell, of course, are out of the
question. The sense of touch remains,
and this or nothing can be our safe
guard. This sense may be simulated
by differences of form in the bottle or
by differences of texture. One com
petitor for the prize suggests strips of,
sandpaper pasted on the sides. But
while he is about it, why not have the
roughness iu the texture of the bottle
itself, and combine the two safeguards
in a triangular bottle with "toothed"
edges? If anything further is wanted,
put the neck at right angles, as afore
said. Any person who persisted in
the abuse of the bottle in spite of
these precautious ought to be brought
under the habitual inebriates act.
London News.
Health in the Navy.
Good order and discipline, the clean
liness of the ship nothing, not even
the daintiest of summer cottages, is
more clean than a well-ordered Ameri
can warship were maintained at the
camp throughout its entire occupancy
by the battalion, and the fact that, al
though exposed to a malarious climate
in the torrid atmosphere of a tropical
summer, at a spot located but a few
score miles from where our poor fel
lows of the army were succumbing by
hundreds iu the fever-laden air, the
entire loss of life in the marine batta
lion was due to the casualties of battle
not one maa died of disease shows
what can be done by well-regulased
and well-drilled organization in all de
partments of a military body. There
was no lack of medical or other neces
sities; nothing essential to the effi
ciency of the force as a fighting body,
to its'health, to the protection of the
men from adverse conditions of life in
the field during the rainy season of
the tropica, had been neglected or for
gotten; and while it is true that the
base of supply was close at hand and
the problem of transportation inland
from the water's edge did not have ta
be met, it is safe to hssume from the
admirable order aud systBin displayed,
thut any each didculties presented
would have been overcome. Harper's