FRESH AIR DISLIKED.
Otrer Worlds.
nr anle knowledge of the reo-
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r7 nie on otner wonas ana now iar
tu, n,.r.n1 ihr differ from our
tiit e - -
;..i,.ji,itant. mn onlv be guessed by
conipariyin with animal nature on this
small sphere of ours. More important
to us "is a knowledge of ourselves.
"Know Thyself" was an old Greek
thought. How to take care of one's
ow;i body is not so simple as some think;
the human mechanism is a wonderful
thing and requires watching.
One man who has done more to teach
the American people how to care for their
bodies than almost any other, is Dr. R. V.
Pk vee, of Buffalo, N. Y., the Author of the
"Common Sense Medical Adviser." He
says : 11 is not the quantity of the food
eaten which produces strength and health
for some people can keep strong on a very
lucie-re diet), but it is how much food is
absorbed and assimilated by the blood and
marred to nourish every organ of the body.
It is, therefore, vitally necessary for the
"bodv that the stomach be in a healthy
state. If disease of the stomach, or what is
called "stomach trouble," prevents propr
nutrition then the heart, liver, lungs, and
kidneys do not get proper food they are
not fe'd on rich red blood, and in conse
quence, begin to show signs of distress.
Outwardly these signs may be pimples
and eruptions on skin, pale face, sleepless
Bights, tired, languid feelings, or, by reason
of the nerves not being fed on pure blood,
they become starved, and we receive a
zrarninv in the pain we call neuralgia.
Rheumatism, too, is a blood disease. After
yers of practice and study Dr. Pierce
iound that an Alterative Extract, which he
named "Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery," mace from the extracts of sever il
olants, invar ably produced a tonic effect
iipon the system. It helped the process f
absorption of the healthy elements in the
food and increased the red corpuscles of
the blood, as well as eliminated the poisous
from the system.
Business is business. No time for head
aches. Constipation causes them. Doctor
Perce's Pleasant Pellets cure thera by cub
ing the c;.use. Laxative and mild.
MENELEK AGAINST SLAVERY
Abyssinian Kins Forbids His l'eopl
do Make Slaves of the Galla
Natives.
A few weeks ago King Menelek of
Abyssinia issued a decree against the
slaro trade. It is couched in the lan
;giage of potentates who have unlim
ited power to enforce laws of their
own making. The king say9:
"By a letter forwarded some time
ago to all the provinces, I forbade traffic
in men of the Galla tribe. I also inti
mated that those guilty of this offense
would be excommunicated from th
Christian Church of Abysi-inia, but you
refuse to cease making slaves of the
Galla men.
"Now beware. You who are taken in
the act of enslaving the Callas will no
longer, as heretofore, be fined or turned
out of the church; but you will be pun
iahed in your .own persons, by which
1 mean you will be subjected to the
penalty of mutilation."
This, remarks the New York Sun,
is certainly one of the most dras
tic measures vet taken against slave
trading in Africa. The Callas are a fine
tribt. widely spread over the country
smith of Abyssinia. A largo part of
their territory, by agreement between
Menelek and Great Britain, now lies
within the king's domain.
The Abyssinians, with their guns and
superior military skill, have regarded
Gallaland as their poaching ground and
have inflicted great hardships upon the
natives, whom they robbed frequently,
not only of their produce, hut also of
their liberty.
The evil has been increasing. Abys
sinians have seemed to think that the
easiest way to acquire wealth was to
make a ra'd in Gallaland and carry
home a few scores of natives to sell as
slaves. The crimes committed against
this superior tribe have been the scan
dal of Menelek's reign. The Gallas
have been powerless to make effective
defense, though they have lost no op
portunity of spearing individual Abys
sinians or very small parties and speed
ily decamping to avoid detection.
Years ago the Arabs w ere wont to in
vade the Galla country and take hun
dred? of the natives into slavery. In re
cent years, however, the Abyssinians
have been the only oppressors.
The- injustice dene them has been
the more pitiful because as agricultur
ist and herdsmen and In the industrial
arts they are more advanced than any
other pagan people in that part of
Africa. They are famous for fidelity
and frankness and are distinguished by
intense love of freedom and telf-gov-'.mirient.
Such is their horror of cap
tivity that they no longer regard as
Gallas those of their fellows who are
tiraeged awav into bondage.
In setting his face against the Galla
-slave- trade Menelek has honored him
self; and the sympathy and interest
with which the world has been watch
ing his effort to consoiUlatp and develop
Ills country wiil be intensified.
.Rudolph Witter, a Salmon river
miner, killed Chris Wain and L.
D. Lorjg and fatally injured Long's
14-year-old eon in a row over min
ing claims at Secesh Meadows,
near Grangeville, Idaho, Friday
morning.
A 100-barrel flour mill is to be
erected at Hood River this 'eeason.
Where Clothe mmA Ful Arc Sore
TbU lias Oftentimes Been
the Cm.
The theory that the necessity of ex
cluding from houses the injurious night
air is the cause the world over of the
practice of poor ventilation will not
hold. It is at leant not the sole nor the
chief reason of the prejudice against
fresh air, says American Medicine..
Manifestly it does not obtain for
countries in which there la no mosquito.
In cold climates, and especially In the
winter season, the theory has no ap
plicability, and another explanation
must be found.
This is, we believe, the necessity that
exists, especially among the vast ma
jority of the poor, to economize
warmth. A large portion of the peas
ants of France to-day secure this econ
omy by keeping their domestic animals
at night in the combined house and
stable.
In arctic climates and In winter even
in temperate zones, and especially in
previous centuries, the securing of suf
ficient clothing and saving the loss of
warmth has doubtless been a chief
cause of the universal fear of ventilla
tion. In this way to-day In some countries
medical college lecture rooms get on
without the expense of fuel by utilizing
the foul, but warm exhalations of the
bodies of hundreds of students, who In
anger cry out against a door ajar or a
crack in a window.
The greatest and best remedial agent
In tuberculosis and many other devi
talizing diseases is fresh air, by night or
by day, ever fresh air.
CHICAGO'S STOCK YARDS.
Twelve Thousand Tons of Dressed
Meat Sent Ont to Consumers
In One Dajr.
The enormous output of a Chicago
stockyard is well illustrated by the fol
lowing figures: At one of the6e places
alone in a single day, as many as 26,000
cattle, 29,000 hogs and 27,000 sheep, or
a total of over 80,000 animals, wll arrive
In the stockyards.
The 26,000 cattle would arrive in 1,313
cars, and the animals would weigh 30,
407,000 pounds, representing, dressed,
the enormous total of 18,000,000 pounds,
or 3,000 tons of beef furnished by Chi
cago in one day.
The sheep would weigh 2,234,000
pounds, and would make 584 tons of
mutton, while the hogs would yield
2,616 tons of pork.
The cattle, sheep and hogs combined
would give a grand total of 12,000 ton
of dressed meat distributed among the
consumers of the world In one day by
this single livestock market.
The meat would fill a refrigerator
train over eight miles long, and the
animals, as received, would make a
train of 1,887 cars, or a solid train of
144 miles, or a solid proceneion of ani
mals, In single file, extending over a
distance of 80 miles. ,
Wherever Women Have Been I' at
They Have Done Their Work in
Satisfactory lnnr,
The history of the lighthouse service
shows that women are thoroughly re
liable and efficient as lightkeepers. As
a rule they are not appointed to the
care of lights of the first importance,
because the work would be too ardu
ous; but wherever they have been put
they have done their duty most satis
factorily. The Boston Herald tells of
many notable feats of heroism per
formed by women lighthouse-keepers.
On Lake Michigan,, at the north end
of Milwaukee bay, stands a tall red
tower, which is under the charge of
Mrs. Georgia Stebbins. Its light is 122
feet above the water, and may be seen
for 20 miles. Ten years ago there waa
a frightful storm, and three men. upset
from sailboat, were in Imminent dan
ger of drowning. Mrs. Stebbins went
to their assistance, and rescued them
at the risk of her own life.
Twenty-five miles out in the ocean,
in the pathway of the steamers from
Boston to Halifax, is a barren and
rugged island of small area, which in
stormy weather is often swept by the
wave. It is called Matinicus Rock,
and the lighthouse was formally kept
by a man named Sam Burgess.
On one occasion in winter he had
gone away to the mainland to procure
Provisions, when the weather turned
bad and prevented him from returning.
Meanwhile, his wife, who was an in
valid, and her four daughters lived for
thre weeks on one cup of corn maal
and one egg apiece per dny. The sea.
swept everything off the rock, driving
the family to the light tower; yet
lights during all that dreadful prV 1
were as carefully tended as usual, and
never failed.
The wife of a lighthouse-keeper of
ten acts as his assistant and perfoms
all his duties when he happens to be
away. Thus it chanced that once, dur
ing a storm. Mrs. Fowler, wtuwe hus
band had charge of North Dumpling
light, on the Rhode Island coast, found
herself in Berious trouble. There was a
thick fog and the machine for ringing
the fog bell broke. It was an accident
that might have cost many lives and
mora than one Bhlp; but the woman
wa equal to the emergency. Scaling
the outside of the tower, she fastened
a rope to the bell, and rang It until the
weather cleared.
AN ERA OF IRRIGATION. j
Advantac of a ComrehilT Sr
twiu for Bverr State in
tat Union.
The following paper, written In Au
gust, by requeet, for the Rural Cali
fornian, is submitted at this time in view
of the special interest in the subject,
awakened by the recent meeting of the
national irrigation congress at Ogden.as
a contribution towards a complete under
standing of its importance to the whole
country:
"The full significance of the new era
of irrigation on which the nation is now
entering is but vaguely understood by
the public at large, and is by no means
realized even by those who are to re
ceive its most direct and special benefits.
It means the inauguration of intensive
scientific agriculture on a national scale,
and there is need of n comprehensive out
line of it, with such tails of its opera
tion as will serve to impress the public
mind with its utility and permanence,
for It is well understood by the promoters
and friends of this vast system of agri
cultural development that in the end it
is to be in general use over at least one
half of the national domain and will con
tinue for all time. At present, however,
the public discussion of the irrigation
system is practically limited to the
reclamation of arid lands, whereas a
yet larger area of semi-arid regions, em
bracing large sections of the country in
the so-called humid st ates hfiving an un
certain rainfall, will ultimately share in
the beneficence of this unfailing system
of agriculture. Indeed, within the past
year, experiments in irrigation have been
made in such states as Wisconsin, Mis
souri. New Jersey, Connecticut, Massa
chusetts and Georgia, and the- irrigated
crops yielded more than double the value
of like crops, which deperdpd alone on
the rainfall. Intensive cultivation in
evitably follows irrigation; this leads to
small, individual holdings, and these pro
vide work and homes for families. Such
homes are the nurseries of patriotism,
and honest toil on the farm, with a due
reward for the work done, always terds
to the growth of the essential virtues;
in a word, such a system of agriculture
produces the highest type of citizenship,
and as a matter of course, promotes the
security, prowess and perpetuity of the
nation. The wisest statesmanship will
therefor? warmly approve of a complete
develonmr-Ti of this profitable, certain
ind scientific tilling of the soil, and not
only in the arid regions where irrigation
is necessary in order to render them hab
itable, and moreover results in making
them the most productive portions of our
sountry, but also in every Btate of the
union where it can be made available for
largely increasing the value of crops in
Drdinary seasons, and in times of
drought, which occur too frequently, will
Insure abundant crops in place of failure
and inevitable distress, and this will no
joubt be done just as eoon as farmers in
such states learn to appreciate its bene
fits, for the general welfare will demand
it and the government will provide the
means for its development."
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FEATS OF CHICKEN FANCIERS,
By Intelllent Breeding They Have
Produced Fowls of All Slaee
and Colors.
The American Standard of Perfec
tion as drafted and copyrighted by the
American Poultry association, con
tains the names of 116 varieties of
fowls, 115 of which are due to the de
velopment of man. God made only
one a homely, wild thing, which
made its home in the jungle along
with the rest of primeval creation,
says a writer on the Great American
P.arnyard, in Leslie's Monthly. Py in
telligent breeding fanciers have pro
duced fowls, of all sires, from the
diminutive bantam to the mammoth
bronze turkey; one a tiny bit of feath
ered vanity, weighing only a few
ounces, and the other a bulky fowl
wei'hing from 40 to 60 pounds at
much as a half-grown boy. Results
equally wonderful have been accom
plished in color effects. There are
varieties in red, black, brown and
white, with nearly a!! possible com
binations. Inside buff and Andnlusian
blue. The fanciers have shown that
they can lace, stripe, spangle or bar
the feathers of their birds in any way
to satisfy their individual fancy. In
fact, about all tiny have left undone
is to put tfi. ir initials on the feathers
of their birds.
POLAR BEARS EASILY TAKEN.
The animal par excellence, which
the hunter, the amateur Arctic trar
eler and the young explorer hopes
and dreams of killing, i the pilar
bear, writes Coin. Kolert K. Peary,
in Leslie's Monthly. The reason for
this ik the -lagniticent trophy which
the great white skin makes. This
feeling was no loss strong centuries
ng' than it is now, for we read that
one of the early Icelandic tea rovers
ti Greenland quarreled with and
killed his bosom companion because
he had slain a large bear, instead of
h aving that honor to his chief. With
the modern repeating rirle the bear
ftands no chance against the hunter,
no matter under what conditions Uiey
may meet, and if he is hunted in the
native way, with the assistance of
dogs, there is hardly more excite
ment than in killing musk-oxen, ex
cept for the wild, helter-skelter dash
over the ice to overtake ths animal
after the dogs strike tb hot cent.
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