Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1890, Page 11

ae Nhe THE <= DRESS P SE | RADE. STORIES OF THE CAMP, Yarns Spun Around the Fires at Fort Washington. PRIVATE LINNEY AND THE INSPECTOR OF THE G@UARD—SERGEANT JOYCR AND HIS NARRATIVE OF A DRUM—AN ENFORCED ENLISTMENT IN THE CAVALRY—HOW THE STAR HAS GOT THE NEWS. How is it that the families, the sweethearts and the friends of the boys in blue, as well as those, if there are such, who are not lucky : to have friends in the guard, can learn happenings down the Potomac so soon in the columns of Tae encu: of th and so completely, Bran ‘This ix a qneation tha is often asked by peo- pie in the city and even the boys in camp seem surprised at the success that has crowned the efforts of Tam Star to put before its readers a complete and readable account of the week at Camp Washington. A small room in tho second story of the head- quarters building at the camp has been fitted ‘up as a temporary office for Tur Stan reporters and out of this comes the most of the military corresponden Two Stan reporters have been on the ground ever since before the eamp i, constantly oa the lookout for news, wo writers have been assisted by others as well when the needs were especially urgent and tho -esults of their labors are dispatched to the city wither on one of the reguisr river steamers or on the Gracie, Tue Star's steam little craft shoots up and down the s news fromcamp to town and of Stans from town to camp, where re eagerly snapped up by the news-hun- gry soldiers, When the first boat up from Camp Wash‘ng- ton every morning leaves the whart almost all re in uniform, but Tar Star's ways be found on board carry- ing reams of “copy” and boxes of graphophone cylinders. The use of the graphophoue is rather an innovation in this sort of work, but it has been rem: ably successful in the assist- ance it has rendered in giving a story of this Year's camp. A CORNER OF THE Fort. After all camp duties are over for the day and taps have sounded and nothing can be heard, or shonld be heard, but the tramp of the seutries on their beat. a Stan man takes place before the graphopbone and begins citing to it the story of what has happened | since the report in the last issue of Tue Star | closed. idly and silently turn the wheels and the needle writes upon the sensitive wax cylinder, it may be. the account of the review of the troops by President Harrison or the story of how this private stood guard duty or officer had some camp joke played upon him by his fellow office-s, 2 ‘Thms the writec’s work is done by talking, and when the sty is told the cylinders are Loxed up to besent up to Tae Star office. Here they are placed im another graphophone and an exper‘ typewriter takes it sl down <8 the instrument's dictation, All that happens ia the daytime is recorded and sent up to Washington by Tue Star's Jaunch atas late an hour im the afternoon as possible. Her cargo of “copy” discharged the Gracie fs tied to her wharf, but everything is kept in readiness for an instant start. A few minutes before 4 o'clock one of the Stan's delivery wagons comes dashing down to the wharf, the great bundles of papers fresh from the press are quickly thrown on board the launch and she starts down the river on her return trip to cam Long before dress parade is over the papers are on the ground and newsboys are disposing of them as fast as they can to the crowds of yisitors and campers, and from dress parade till dark the soldier boys may be seen around camp reading about the doings at camp that took piace such a very short time before. PRIVATE LINNEY AND THE INSPECTOR. By the way, the cavalry troop have a genius in John Linney, who was on guard when Aid- de-camp Hine was inspecting the sentries the other night. In his rounds Inspector Hine came across the cavalry camp and was halted by Linney. who, in his deepest tones, stopped the inspector. Linney has been reading up on sentry duties, but is not yet perfect in his share s. When Inspector Hine ap- uy was something like this: ‘ay! bold on there. Where are you Friend, with the countersign.” “Well, come on, but don’t you get Aud then Inspector Hine preached a little Sermon to Linney. CAVALRY VERSUS INFANTRY, ‘The militia is a curious service, anyway, with officers and men who are socially equals; but ‘one gives the orders and the other bas to obey. In this regard Col. Moore tells a story of an ad- jutant of the Pennsylvania National Guard ex- ceedingly well endowed in worldly goods, year this adjutant t mand, and having ry fine pair of horses and wishing them exercised he the disposal of a certain frien aright day this friend took it into his head to drive to ‘the camp, so taking the adjutant’s horses he started off, and on arriving drove colonel’s sont, be a Gor ee aed to be near 5 and when the colonel came the owner of the horses a fifty-cent piece and calmly drove off. Col Moore describes the adjutant’s face aa a picture, the man standi looking atthe coin and at his own team as if undecided whether or not to run after his late friend and desperately assault him, ‘The beach last night was patrolled in by en infantry and cavalry guard, and boats were compelled to land at the wharf, AT THE CRY OF “SNAKES.” Sixty or seventy half-clad or unclad colored men—young, middle aged and old—sprang wildly out through doorways and open windows the other night. They were members of Steward Smith Wormley’s staff and they were supposed to beon the verge of falling asleep in their quarters on the upper fioor of the long kitchen building. A few candles shed just enough light to make things look very dim. Somebody had been télling a thrilling ghost story and the tightly strung nerves of his not had time to relax when a mis- cuss” threw three or four feet of rope on the floorand at the same moment yelled “Snaki ‘The scramble that ensued beggars description. Most of the scared crowd rushed for the porch and from thence swung themselves to the ground. One man stepped onarotten plank and allowed one leg to go through as far as it would, He whooped “murder” and struggled with all his might to release himself before the man-eating reptile should have an opportunity to crawl out of the window and chew him up, Then the man who was the author of the joke went in and dis- covered, much to his apparent surprise, that the alleged snake was harmless, He imparted this information to his fellow employes, where- upon they climbed down from the roofs of ad- jacent mess sheds and tried to go to sleep. THE HOSPITAL. Some one of the more ignorant of the waiters has done his best to spread abroad the super- Stition that doctors kill, cut up and boil negro subjects and extract from their remains much castor oil. He also insists that the surgeons in camp are the kind of medical sharps who are in that line of business. he cooks and wait- ers avoid the medical staff as much as pos- sible, THE HATCHET AND THE CHERRY TREE. One of the interesting but heretofore unno- ticed facts in connection with the establishment of brigade headquarters in the old farm house between the two regiments is the cherry tree which Wednesday for a time sheltered the President from the sun's rays, As most people already know the emblem of the District Na- tional Guard is the George Washington hatchet. That the hatchet on the headquarters’ flag should be in such close proximity to the cherry tree is at least a strange occurrence and is in entire harmony with a true sense of the eternal fitness of things. The combination of head- quarters, hatchet and cherry tree is one of the few things in connection with the camp details that was not prearranged by Gen. Ordway. ‘Two or three thousand years hence an archieol- ogist will dig up the cherry tree, the flag and the headquarters’ sign and upset history by as- serting that the “Father of His Country” lived iu Maryland and not ia Virginia. TWO TROOPENS. Among the men who have labored to make Fort Washington «# beautiful place for the District National Guard encampment none have been more activethan Orderly Sergeant Joyce, who is in charge of this post. The sergeant isone of the most inveterate story tellers to be found. even in the regular army. Occasionally he can be prevailed upon to talk toa newspaper man or to say something in his presence, but it is rather a difficult job, for the sergeant, in spite of the fact that he has been in the army for thirty years, is a modest man, He was chatting with aSran reporter last night in his cozy little house on the bluff overlook- ing the wharf and the riverand from which a good deal of the city of Washington and the village of Alexandria can be seen. “Did I ever tell you,” said he, “how they came to call one of the army posts Drum bar- racks?” The yf oo said he had never done any- thing of the kind. THE SUNDOWN GUS. “Well,” said the sergeant, “you just put your heels up on that fence now while I tell you. You never knew Brenner? Of course you didn’t. Brenner was the band’s leader of the 10th cav- alry and he wi ~~. good fellow. Now I'll tell you jast what he told me about Drum bar- racks. Four or five of us were in the orderly room of company H of the 1ith infantry one evening, when Brenner, with whom we had been swopping lies, broke out as follows: “While out in California and in the 21st infantry our headquarters were away from the rest of the regiment. There was quite a town whore we were stationed and the citizens of the place had organized a band. This band I was en- gaged to instruct ata very fair compensation, Now, boys, this money, you know, came in pretty handy at that time, for the regimental funds were just about bankrupt and there was no extra pay. The new band was doit soocttorionaly and they were look. ing forward with a good deal of expecta- tion tor the next Fourth of July.” It wae then pretty cold and everybody in town wanted seats at the crowded grates. They had all the instru- . INSIDE THE FORT. ments they needed except a bass drum and that couldn't be had without sending to San Francisco for it. This they finally concluded todo. They raised turned it over to me my pomegees I kept the matter quiet and did not low bay ond 40 cree ia my room. Every day some of the band people would ask about that drum and hoped st would be on hand in time. em they were safe in going preparations, for the big drum be ready by the Fourth. Well, on the evening of the third I sent word to the boys the drum had arrived safe and sound. They agreed to have it remain at my quarters till the next morning. Well, you would have laughed to have seen that band in full uniform with their instruments shining like silver dollars march- ing Pp to my quarters on that — Fourth of July morning. They halted in front of the house where quite a number of citizens had as- sembled to hear and see the new band now making its firat sppenrance in public, When all was ready I called two of the bandmen into the house and turned the drum over to them, after directing them to take it out on the porch, where it was Org by be presented to the band by the justice of the peace, who stood outside waiting patiently with his written speech in his han When they got to the door they found that the confounded drum would not through it. I told them to turn it over, ut this didn’t matter a bit for it was evident, only too plainly evident, that that _@50 dram wouldn't go through the doorway. When I saw this you can bet the perspiration commenced to roll down my face. To think of it. a $50 drum just from San Francisco; the band paraded to receive it; the speech 'was already, and you couldn't get that confounded drum outside. The crowd was shouting and laughing; it wasn’t my time to laugh. At this time one of the crowd with a bigger month than tho rest shouted: “Bring it out the way you brought it in.” “ ‘This was toomuch. I concluded that if that confounded drum couldn't get out of the front door, I had better be getting out of the back door and I did it in double quick time. Du you know those old roosters reported mo to the Secretary of War. and about two weeks after- ward the Secretary issued a general order call- ing that place ‘Drum Barracks.”’ And that’s how Drum Barracks got its name.” THE CAVALRY STABLES, A good many of the infantry line officers have had their educatfon sadly neglected in the matter of riding, and when they borrow a horse and start through the camp many of the Scenes are ludicrous in the extreme. Sergt. Maj. Sweet borrowed a horse the other day of Lieut. Ferguson of the cavalry and started for the canteen. The sergeant major has not the magnificent length of limb which distinguishes the gallant trooper, and his toes were in a con- tinual state of agitation in an often unsuccess- ful effort to help his feet in the stirrups. In passing the cavalry camp Sergt. Sweet found the cavalry drawn up in parade, Now was the time to show the cavairy that other people besides themselves understood the management of horse flesh, and the gallantsergeant drew him- self up and started by in the most dignified way possible with hix legs looking as if they had either shrunk or the “g Se had stretched. Just at this moment Capt. Barbour yelled “at- tention,” and much to the surprise of Sergeant Sweet his horse stopped short and refused to budge. The troop then filed off and in spite of the sergeant’s desperate efforta the horse insisted on falling in beside the line in his proper place and galloping off with his com- panions. Sergeant Sweet had started out to go one way, but he suddenly changed his mind and decided to go the other, and now he swears that it was a put up job and that he will got even if it costs a law suit. CADET HINE AND HIS WORK. Cadet Hine is a great help to Gen. Ordway and his officers. He fills a niche that couid not possiby have beon oc- = eupied with as much ability by any but a West Point man. fresh from his own camp, with ell its rigorous etiquette and discipline, and the selection of a man could not possibly have been happier. He is an ideal soldier, quick, accurate, painstaking, studious, 4 practical, with plenty of “apap and ginger” about# his bearing and manner and a great big heart under his tight gray jacket that ‘prompts just as much good sense as Severity of discipline to mark his course of in- struction at the camp. He has charge of the guard mounting, a matter of the greatest im- portance in militia, fresh in the field and with almost everything to learn. He sees that every squad that goes on duty is correctly informed as to its duties, and then, after instructing the men generally, tests them by wandering around the camp after taps and getting challenged. It is not often that a man goes through the formula correctly, but after Cadet Hine has passed on he knows a great deal more than he did before, thanks to the young soldier's tact and skill in explaining not only the words and forms of the manual but also the reasons for them. Hine became conhected with this duty at the last camp, when he volunteered his services while on leave from the military academy. This year Gen. Ordway, MAJOR M'INTYRE. through the intercession of an influential officer on duty at the department. secured Hine’s de- tail from the Point for this duty, to the demoli- tion of old traditions and the establishment of @ precedent. r. Hine will graduate from the academy next year, being nowa “‘first-clasa man.” Le isasecond lieutenant in the cadet battalion and stands first in his class in tactics and dis- cipline. This is but a verification of the wophecy made by his instructors at the Wash- ington High School, from which he graduated in 1885. While atthe school here he was an officer of the battalion of cadets, Last Wed- nesday afternoon Mr. Hine held quite a recep- tion at his tent in the headquarters camp, be- ing besieged by about a dozen of his old class- mates of the High School, who took this oppor- tunity to holda small reunion in his hoaor. ‘The eadet is very popular in the camp, where the men realize that heis there to do them good. They take his robukes meekly—they are not often administered because he has been there himself and knows how it seems— and accept his praises, which he distributes judiciously.with eagerness. He is an extremely modest young man, and it was necessary to re- sort to somewhat surreptitious means to obtain the photograph from which the accompanying portrai; was made, ————_— FARMERS POLITICS. Formidable Strength of the Alliance Movement in South Carolina. The second annual meeting of the South Carolina ¥armers’ Alliance convened in Green- ville Thursday, The secretary reported that there wore 1,052 sub-alliances in the state, with @ total membership of 40,000, This represents considerably more than half of the total white voting population of South Carolina, The in- crease of membership during the year had been 17,500, These figures aro starting to those in the state, who have not given this powerful organization much consideration. They show how completely the alliance has control of the government if the members vote . In his address the president acknowl- = the alliance > paties and was powerful bear as organi .The power of tho alliance will be felt, he this in many states of the Union, but alliance is not yet ready for the fight, but by 1892 it will be prepared to sw the conn! and the Farmers’ Alliance will olect tho Precidentot the United States, DEATH IN THE WATER Avoid Disease by Purifying What You Drink. DANGEROUS HIDDEN GERMS. Boil and Filter Water Before Drinking— What Tests by Experts Have Shown— How BacteriaCan be Easily Destroyed —Health Hints for the Summer Time, ——_—--— Written for Tum EvExine Stan. URE water and pure air are the first necessities of life, and must be ob- tained if s fine development is desired. The state boards of health and emi- nent professors in medical colleges are making close study of the relation of water to disease and the best modes of securing the purity of drinking water. It is well estab- lished on the best medical authority that thirty thousand people die in the United States yearly from typhoid fever, of which the majority of cases are communicated through drinking water. Other diseases directly caused by impure water are colic, erysipelas, sore throat, constipation, gastritis, pneumonia, dysentery, liver and skin diseases, dyspepsia and general debility. Most of the water used falls far short of purity and safety, That from streams and lakes must carry the wash of shores and decaying vegetable and animal mat- ter, not sufficient to make it positively un- pleasant always, but quite enough to furnish the germs of dangerous ailments, and the fe tilizing medium for these to develop in their worst forms. How far the fearful ravages of cancer and mysterious tumors are owing to impure water and food is partially com- prehended. It is certain that with pure blood and nourishment they would be nearly impossible. The water from tanks and cisterns can only be kept sweet and safe by constant care and is seldom fit to use as it leaves the faucet. The viscid, slimy lining of water pipes, deposited from the water stand- ing in them, not only contains organic matter— that is, living microscopic anim ‘but pro- duces them. In the language of the labora- tory, it is the vehicle for their culture, in which they breed and multiply. No water which de- posits a slimy coating on pails and pitchers by standing is safe for drinking or cooking. Were the microscope as common as the thermometer and as frequently referred to it would not be necessary to demonstrate the necessity of pure water, No one could taste infected water after ounce seeing the horrid forms with which it swarms, in their malignant shapes types of the evil they accomplish—infinitesimal demons of the air and water, It is well they are hid from our eyes or existence would be organized night- mare, But these malignant presences abound, seen or unseen, and it 18 time to lay aside other c onsiderations to learn how to preserve our- selves trom them, EPIDEMIC BREEDER. Experiments testing the purity of drinking water under various conditions have lately oc- cupied the first chemists and physicians here and abroad, and will be found most valuable and instructive reading. The truth is gradually gaining currency that it isin general safest to consume water and milk like other foods—after cooking them. Even water charged with carbonic acid gas, for soda fountains, usually and rightly regarded as preferable for purity to ordinary water, allows certain kinds of bacteria to increase in water charged with gas under a pressure of over 100 pounds to the square inch, As original bacteria perish more rapidly in soda waters when charged than in simple wa- ter, this affords a resource in case the general supply for drinking is inferior in sickly sea- sons. A small addition of alcohol or spirits also prevents injurious results from bad water, but cannot always be depended on to destroy germs of discase, unless in stronger proportion than is pleasant to most tastes, HEAT KILLS THE GERMS, Boiling most effectually kille the germ if the hoat is kept up fong enough. It has been said in medical journals that fifteen minutes’ boil- ing was enough to purify even infected water. Doubtful of this fact, Dr. Currier made over fifty careful experiments at the Carnegie labra- tory. besides a series at the health institute in Berlin. His first remarks is interesting to all housekeepers, To remove sediment and yet have the micro organisms, the bacteria, the harmful germs, re- main in the water, it was strained through thin layers of sand or absorbent cotton, This proves at once the mistake of supposing that small plug filters to scrow on faucets are of any material use in purifying water, or that ordi. nary layers of cotton batting will keep ferment- ing germs out of preserved fruit. No hasty or slight methods are enough to secure the purity and keeping of food or water. It is demonstrated that water may be entirely clear and yet swarm with the living seeds of fever and other putrid diseases, Boiling dostroy this microscopic life. The germs of tuber. cular disease—that is. consumption—are killed by ten minutes’ boiling. The typhoid bacilli and the pus producing kinds are harmless when the water has been brought to the boiling pointand allowed to cool slowly. Cholera germs are still more sensitive, Currier concludes that water whose purity is pected becomes harmless when boiled ten minutes, From many tests he thinks the bacteria of ordinary clear hydrant water are destroyed in this time, though the Berlin Prof. Koch dis- agrees with him, DESTROYING BACTERIA, In the experiments at tho Carnegie laboratory the water was strained and decanted into flasks plugged with cotton, lowered with a thread round the necks into a steam sterilizer, which by the combined use of a rose burner and a large Bunsen burner was kept at its highest C 55 degrees centigrade. The flasks were heated for thirty-seven minutes, and single ones withdrawn at intervals, leaving the lopgestin one hundred and three minutes, By test, it was found thatliving bacilli resisted boiling up to seventy-two minutes, when none were found alive. The flasks were allowed to cool gradually, then samp!es were tested after one, seven and ten days, The water retained its heat so long in the warm laboratory that the bacteria lost their vitality before it cooled, even in the flask steamed thirty-seven minut Ina sample of the original water they multi. lied greatly, but none were found in the Boilea water, and solutions of steamed water kept a year, closely corked, were completely free from animal germs, though other changes took place. z In the stomach and intestines these bacteria taken in drinking water increase enormously, giving off great amounts of foul gases and other noxious products, Raising clear water, con- taining the micro-organisms of typhoid, chol- era, diphtheria or of pus discases, to the boiling point and allowing it slowly to cool de- stroys som germs. In case of surgical tions or of wounds it is of the first necessity have water absolutely free from all germs, as the,heat may produce fatal inflammation, Pass- ages in Hippocrates and Galen show that the ancient Greeks valued pure boiled water and also that to which salt was added and boiled for cleansing of wounds und surgery. But boiling does not wholly fit impure wa- ter to be the ideal drink. Still, more careful and rigid experiment proves that boiled water cwaraleg with dead bacteria is little better than a beef tea or broth of microscopic flesh, none too wholesome at best and liable to speedy change, which makes it undesirable for the hu- man system, The water in this state is capable of disas- trous change, . USE OF THE FILTER, The filter comes in play tostrain out these dead animalcule, inconsiderable in themselves, but able to putrefy in time and give the water foul taste, T. F. Frankland recently reports to the Royal Society of England his experiments on the purification of water. In his paper on filtration he says: “Green sand, coke, animal charcoal and spongy iron were at first success- ful in removing ail organisms from the water passing throngh them, but after one month's continuous action power was in every case lost, The improvement still effected, however, by spongy iron and coke was very great indeed, while the green sand and brick dust were much less efficient and the number of organisms in the water filtered through charcoal was greater than in the unfiltered water,” because it washed out the germs left by y previous fluid.” This en- forces the it filters need renewal best of the known filtering matorisl, is ti gally unknown in this country, except to'chem- To secure perfectly safe drinking water for the ouachold: and wo: for insure immunity from diseases which ravage the summer and make heat unbearable, where they do not actually prostrate, it is necessary to boil the water first and filter it afterward. Fortunate is the family who from well in new soil or spring from mountain bead can draw pure, sparkling water without further process. Such draughts are stimulant and refreshment to the body as well as relief to the thirst, and one make take drink freely as of the ocean air. Free water drinking to the amount of two or three quarts daily for a grow: Person, accompanied by free perspiration, greatly reduces the oppression of summer heat and supplies the place of food in adegree. But the fluid Pax gar by most towns and villages needs careful preparation before it is anything but an inoculation of disease, NEED OF GREAT CARE. Capt. Douglass Galton, one of the first living authorities on sanitary subjects, lecturing be- fore the royal engineers, says: “The soil in many cities and villages is loaded with nitre and salt, the chemical results of animal and vegetable refuse left to decay, from the pres- ence of which the well water is impure. ere are many factories of saltpeter in India de- rived from this source, and during the great French wars when England blockaded ali the seaports of Europe the first Napoleon obtained saltpeter for gunpowder from the cesspits of Paris.” The almost universal modes of vil- lage life mean the presence of large and in- creasing masses of putrefying matter im the soil, a condition which in India is the origin of cholera or the terrible Delhi ulcer, and in our own climate is responsible for at least one- third the death rate. From first to last the water supply should be under the care of the head of the household and not trusted to ser- vants, They will not take the trouble to draw off the water the first thing in the morning that has been standing in pipes all night to corrode lead pipes or absorb sewer gas from adjacent ite pipes, which have the usual pinholes eaten through them, “‘Lead pipes will be eaten away by water containing free oxygen without carbonic acid; therefore put water injures lead pipes,” said Capt. Galton, and the infusion of lead in the water standing is quite enough to give the babies colic and re- new the symptoms of the grip in the elders of the family unless the stream is allowed to run until it is sofd and clear, This water need not run to waste, but may be saved ina firkin for washing uses. A supply of fresh drinking wator for the day should then be boiledina bright tin-lined or enamel kettle, for the cop- per-lined tea kettles are ouly another of the deadly devices which abound in housekeeping. ‘Yea made from water boiled in a copper-lined kettle corrosive infusion equal to upset- ting the digestion in time, if it does not ruin the vital economy altogether, like so much arsenic. AN INEXPENSIVE PURIFIER, After boiling ten minutes the water should be poured into a wooden or stone jar, covered with acloth and left an hour to cool, when it may be put into the filter. Fora filtera new, clean flower pot of unglazed clay, filled monthly, or rather ckanged for one freshly charged, is better than most of the patents in the market. First cut a disk of cotton flannel to fit the bottom of the pot inside, put on this a layer of clean white sand an inch thick, then three inches of charcoal in very coarse one three inches of sand above this and clean, washed gravel over all, and you have as good filter for a dollar as you can buy for ten, as far as working goes, The water must run through this twelve bours before the charcoal dust washes out so that the fluid runs clear. The pot should fit into the top of along stone jar with faucet attached, and the ice be hung in it, tied in apiece of cotton flannel for a primitive mode of keeping the ice worms out and mak- ing the ice last longer. The only trouble with water so prepared is that it tastes flat from want of air, which Dr. Currier proposes to supply by a clean bellows kept for the purpose, but itis more conveniently done by pourin, water from one pitcher to another several times as foaming drinks are mixed. Or one of tent egg and cake beaters could be used water for afew minutes, and the most discriminating palate could hardly fail to ap- prove water so refined. COOLING THE WATER. Last comes the question of cooling the water, matter which has its economical side, and from personal experience I am very willing to impart the method of checkmating ice monop- olies, It should be distinctly understood that the idea that ice water is injurious is a mis- taken notion, imported with other English fads, like the docking of horses’ manes and tails, drawling the vowels and the ‘stony ish stare.” Spit rs with chronic indigestion, stout women with their interiors in a state of constant inflammation, men whose stomachs are inflamed with regular whisky or wine drinking and people getting over the grip, with internals weak, fevered and irritable to an in- credible degree rightly find ice water injurious, as cold well water would be poured over a pa- tient in a high fever, or rather like throwing cold water on aredhot boiler. Cold water is in- tolerable to an inflamed eye, which finds warm water soothing, and inflamed stomachs rebel against sudden chilling draughts in the same way, but nobody fecls that cold water is unsafe for healthy eyes or healthy throats, COLD WATER HEALTHY, Who ever thought of refusing to drink of pure mountain streams flowing from melting snows? Noteven the infallible Britons, who set down the drinking of “iced water” asa trait of American depravities, A race of brandy drinkers would always find ice water dangerous to the raw membrane, with which they are lined from brain to base, But ice, like water, needs to be clean before it is fit for drinking, and a glance at the sediment in the ice pitchers is enough to raise grave doubts of the source of the ice supply. One must admire the thrift of the house keep ers in a central New York town who, finding the ice crop scant or having no way to harvest it, on cold nights filled all possible pots and ans with well water and froze their own ice, Pere the cakes together next day till the blocks were thick enough to store away. They at least had pure ice for the summer, and I doubt if they ever found injury from using it, But the blood that threw off the yoke ofa crown for a tax of a shilling rebels against aying a dollar a hundredweight for ice at the bidding of a monopoly when ice is dear at 25 cents a hundred, In the revised republic ice will never be allowed over thatsum. Why should it be when a manufactory at the foot of 14th street, New York, turns out ice machines which are capable of making seven tons of ice aday any weather? Made ice from filtered water would be an ideal cooling substance, But machine or no machine, the honest citizen may be independent of ice ‘deniers by simple expedients, He can take wleaf from the ex- perience and practice of three-fourths of the globe, who cool their drinks in the natural way. BY EVAPORATION IN A CURRENT OF AIR. A housekeeper, not wishing to be bothered with the care of ice and ico box in addition to her own work, kept water and food cool all one hot summer by this method: She bought large Porous flower pots, soaked them over night in Water till the clay was saturated, set her jars of butter and other food in pans of water on a broad shelf outside the kitchen window and covered each with an inverted flowerpot, throwing a wet flannel over the whole. In the shaded window, with the breeze playing on the covers, constantly wet from the water in the Bans, the food kept in as good or better con- ition than it did on ice. The butter was waxen firm and the fruit fresher than it is from a stagnant ice box. Water so cooled was like fresh well water, and nobody grumbled about the lack of ice. For ice cream she haa whips and mousses of jelly beaten up with raw eggs and lemon, which I advise anybody to try before they sneer at the idea, Blanc mange or custard for ice cream, beaten up with fruit or without and chilled, vies with ice crcams to any discriminating taste, and mashed fruit beaten with gelatine aud sugar, chilled just to the ing point, has « fulness of flavor which is lost in freezing outright Try this before you scoff and you will hardly go back to the slavery of stirring the freezer for ice creams or tame favors of confectioners’ GOoD KATURE AND DRINK. 4a cracking fee, rinsing it and filling pitchers when busy, an interry; they never feel very willing to make. water was always day before. Plenty of plain New England fam- ilies are scrupulous to prepare water in this way, with the reward that, other things being equal, childish ailments are unknown. Babies kept on sterilized milk and water are PROOF AGAINST CHOLERA IXFANTUM and minor maladies, if they can have decently pure air to breathe in addition. Perfect purity of air being impossible is so much the more reason for not giving them impure food to con- tend with. As for grown people, those who have once been used to pure water will never tolerate other for drinking or cooking any more than they will take Laguayra coffee in prefer- ence to finest Java, The question of absolutely pure water is of more serious import this sum- mer than usual, when countless numbers are Struggling with the general disorder left by last winter's scourge. It takes two years, the doctors say, to get over typhoid fever entire: and six months have not begun to elimina’ the traces of the grip, whose claw-like hold is on heart, brain and digestive organs alike, People who never knew they had stomachs befor ind this season that ice water produces immediate stoppage of the digestion and pain, that food does not allay hunger or give * ngth, and sleep flies in consequence of this disturbance. Noise and fret are oppressive and intolerable to the weakened system and work must perforce be slow and interrupted, Such persons need to give themselves every chance or their names are found in the litile para- graph which ends with heart failure. Samer Dane. ————-+e+. AN UNLUCKY WEDDING TRIP, The Groom Blows Out the Gas and Nearly Perishes with His Bride. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Yowger of White Horse, N.J., were married Thursday and went to Trenton on their wedding trip. They registered at the American House, where Yowger told the clerk that he quietly led his wife away from the parental roof and married her in opposition to her parents’ wishes. When the bride and groom were about to retire Yowger blew out the gas. In the morning a waiter detected the odor of gas and burst in the door. He tound the bri d groom in an Unconscious state, A physi: ammoned and succeeded in reviving the couple with some difficulty, Yesterday afternoon they left for the hills of Hunterdon, were candies are still in vogue. ——— THE SAVANNAH EXPLOSION, A Negro Cook Accused of Causing the Fatal Disaster. The mystery of the blowing up of Bullard’s boarding house in Savanneh, Ga., and the kill- ing of Mrs. Bullard, Gus Robie and Mat Lock- line and the wounding of six other persons remains to be solved by the coroner's inv: gation. L. J. Tate of the Citizens’ Bank and John Robbins, whose injuries it was thought would prove fatal, are still alive and may re- cover, The other injured are out of danger. All doubts as to the building baving been blown up with some powerful explosive were dispelled when it was found that the ground floor on the side of the building which showed the greatest force of the explosion had been blown away and there was a deep hole where the explosion had thrown up the earth under- neath. George Maxwell, a negro cook, who threatened revenge on Mrs, Bullard for his dis- charge, is in jail uuder suspicion of having been the author of the disaster. The coroner's investigation began yesterday afiernoon and half a dozen witnesses were examined, when the inquest was adjourned to give the police time to secure further evidences of the ex- plosion among the ruins. Direct and circum- stantial evidence indicates that the explosion occurred in the hail on the first floor and that the explosive was placed there by some one who entered and left by the front door. = —— hae CORNER IN CHEMICALS, An Effort to Monopolize the Manufac- ture and Sale of Soda, The newspapers of London are vigorously Protesting against the proposed corner in chemicals, involving eight or ten million pounds. Practically it is a corner ia soda and if successful would greatly increase the prices of all articles in which soda is an element. Already soda crystals have advanced 80 pence perton, A London special says: The pro- moters of the corner have, it is said, securod a promise from the Salt Union, which controls the raw material, not to supply the firms erect- ing their own plants, except at a fine of 30 pence per ton, but it is doubtful if the union possesses the power to enforce the penalty, If they have, they might raise prices to pro- hibitive figures, and even refuse to sell at all. The Rothschilds, it is reported, have refused to see a deputation from the corner, and investors warned by & practical consumer to avoid the corner as abad investment. Forty-seven factories, which were run on the Le Blanc system, have been closed within the past twenty years, owing to the introduction of the Solway system. Itis a significant fact that forty of those firms which compose the corner follow the cld methods, which require the use of salt, while the Solway system treats the natural brine. The merchants who control the alkali market are sure soon to discover how to make bleaching powder profitably, and when they do the followers of Le Blanc, whose main- stay that now is, would be totally knocked out, They see that, and to avoid disaster ask the British public to buy their work, The Daily Telegraph publishes a letter from an American merchant, dated at the Victoria Hotel, warning the public that disasters will attend the corner. He cites as an illustration the only successful corner in America, that of the Standard Oil Company. ————-see_____ SPEAKING FOR BELLE BILTON. Her Counsel Opens in the Dunlo Di- vorce Case in Her Behalf. The Dunlo divorce case was continued yes- terday in London, Many well-known people were present, attracted probably by the knowl- edge that Mr. Lockwood,Q.C., counsel for Lady Dunlo, would present his client's side of the case to the jury. Mr. Lockwood spoke earn- estly and apparently in fuil sympathy with his own remarks. He admitted in very flowery language that Lady Dunlo was well acquainted with Mr. Wertheimer, and had no doubt been seen in his society, but that she had ever been intimate with him in such a manner as to re- flect upon her reputation, or that she had ever been Mr. Wertheimer's mistress was vigorously and eloquently denied. Theevidence of Woods, who claimed to have seen the corespondent leaving the bed room of the respondent, was dismissed with the sarcastic criticism that it might be the evidence of an officer and a spy, but it lacked so much the quality of even every- Gay decency that it was unworthy of repetition even for criticism, Mr. Lockwood expressed the greatest astonishment at the condition of the moral nature of these noblemen who re- garded mesalliance with horror, almost ap- Proaching the orthodox dread of heresy, yet could deliberately conspire to ruin an innocent girl. Mr. Lockwood concluded his remarks, which were frequently interrupted with at- tempts at applause, by declaring that the en- tire evidence of the prosecution was tainted and worthless, and promised to destroy it all with his witnesses, The court adjourned until Monday, when Lady Dunio and Mr. Wertheamer will probubly take the stand. ALynching in Alabama. News reached Birmingham, Ala, yesterday of the lynching of an unknown negro near Arcadelphia, Blountcounty, on Wednesday, for an assault on @ white girl only fifteen years old. A crowd of white farmers negro, and after he was identified, him into the woods and returned » few hours later without him. 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