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sisited horse ranches and looked at several

hundred horses without seeing one that ne up to the specifications. I was also informed that the class of horses required hy the government are getting very scarce in ¢ alitornia, and that many of the cav- giry horses now at the Presidio were pur- chased ir. the states of Oregon and Wash- ington,

Cavalry horses are purchased by the quartermaster 8 department under the cantract system. Proposals for furnishing cavalry horses are invited, and the con‘ tract is awarded to the lowest bidder. The svalry horse must be a gelding of hardy color, 4to 8 years old, 15'4 hands high, and weigh about 1,000 pounds. He must be gentle under the saddle, free and prompt at the walk, trotand gallop; broad forehead; eyes large and prominent, and possess perfect vision. He is thoroughly examined for splints, side bones, ring- bones, curbs, spavins and any trouble, lo- cal or constitutional, which may tend to shorten his usefulness or render the ani- mal unserviceable. The nostrils should be large and occupy nearly the whole facial g@ructure. The mouth should be small, with thin, firm lips. The eyes should be large and mild, with fine eyelids. The ears should be delicate and pointed. The feet should be of medium size, due regard being giver.tothe size and shape of the horse, and there should be no visible dif- ference in the feet as to size and form. The tail is more ornamental in well bred than underbred horses. A fine silk mane characterizes well bred her’ es.

The cavalry horse must bt s without blem- ish or defect, sound in every particular. Literally speaking, it is m ore difficult Jor a horse @ get into the cave lry service than

it is for a recruit to enter the army on his |

“cst enlistment.—Sar Francisco Cheon- !

Too Much “Wafting.”

Ezra Stiles, president of Yale ceilege, 1778-9&, wus one of the most learned men of hisday. He wasalways a student. He took wp Hebrew after he was 40. He knew Greek and Latin thoroughly and wel- comeé Dr. Franklin to New Haven in an offhand Letin oration. Among his lin- guistic stiuiies were the Chaldee, Syriae, Samaritan, Arabic, Coptic and Persian languaces.

He corresponde@ with Indian Parsees,

was something of an electrician, some- |

thing of a mathematician, something of a chemist, something of a theologian, and loved’ to indulge im political speculations which, strangely for a New England par- son.ef that generation, were full.af breezy democratic optimism. He mapped out an ideal commonwealth, which he-.confident- ly expected to appear on American ground, of which Chancellor Kent said, ina Phi Peta Kappa address, that ‘‘it was far su- Yerior to the schernes sketched by Milton or Locke or Hume.”’

President Stiles was not a large man, nor had he an imposing presence. But he loved to weara big wig much becurled and was fond ef ceremony. Though a prolifle writer, he published little, but left forty odd bound wolumes of manuscripts, Which ar: preserved at Yale.

A frag ‘nent, queted by Donald @. Mitch- ell in his ‘‘American Land and Letters,’’

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eagleism’’ flourished. Washingtor in anelection sermon, he says:

“Thy fame isof sweeter perfume than Arabian spices)in the garden of Persia. A Baron de Steuben shall waft its fragrance to the monarch of Prussia. A Marquis de Lafayette shall waft it to a far greater monarch and diffuse thy renown through- out Europe. Listening angels shall catch

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the universe. "’

“Rather tall writing for a Yale presi- dent in our day,"’ is Mr. Mitchell's com- Ment, ‘‘unless indeed he were writing on the eveof a football revival.""—Youth's Companion.

Ages of Marriage.

Better than a fortune teller’s predictions isthe table recentiy prepared by # statis ticlan by which one can foretell the prob- able age of one’s future helpmeet—tbat is Wesay, he bas tabulated the age at which tien at various stages in their life prefer their wives to be. Young men of 13 and 19 years, it seems, generally select wives of their own age, but with increasing years comes wisdom, and at 20 a man pre- fets a woman of from 21 to 24 years. This indeed seems to be a very desirable age for #2 unmarried woman, for i¢ remains the

favorite for the man in search of a wife

Util he has passed his twenty-ninth ycar. At 30 xe likes best the women who are aDywhere from five years to one year Younge; than himself, and he is constant in this preference up to his fortieth yeer. Then he is w illing that she shall be as much ®8ten years younger than himself, but will net have her if she be his equal in years, 22 Opinion which he holds for half a a cade. At from 45 to 50 he looks for less disparity, Preterring women from 40 to 45, and - the Hext five years he has the same choice. Thereafter he prefers a woman ten years younger than himself.—San Fram- Cisco Argonaut.

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THR DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 15, 1898

A BACHELOR’S QUARTERS.

Homelike About Them, Accord- ing to the Married Man’s Story.

They hadn't met since the old college days, ten years before, and of course the benedict insisted that the bachelor should come home to dinner with him,

‘*Married the year after I left col-

ge,’’ he said, ‘‘and Ihave the nicest ttle home and the finest lot of young- ors that you ever saw. I want you to ome out and see how nicely I’m fixed,

tell yon aman doesn’t know what ife is until he’s married.”’

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“Well, I should say not.”

And so it happened that the bachelor went with the benedict and met the latter’s wife and played with his chil- dren and made himself generally useful and popular until they were all seated at the dinner table.

It «was over the coffee and cigars, aft- | er the benedict’s wife had left thetable, | that the benedict finally suggested:

‘*Pretiy comfortably fixed, ain’t I, eld rran? Children, why don’t you go into the other room?’’

‘Very nicely, indeed,’’ answered the bachelor, replying to the first question and ignoring the second.

‘Oh, there's nothing like home life,’’ went on the benedict. ‘‘ Willie, step trying to climb on Mr. Brown’s knee. He wants to smoke. Do you kuow, old man, I laugh when I think of my fool- ish idea that I knew in those old days | whet happiness was. Why, a man doesn't berin to live until— Maggie, put th.t nutpick back on the table. You'll jat it in your eye the first thing you know. Yes, sir. I actually have to laugh when I think of it. Our idea of contentment in those days was to geta pipe anda _ bvok and a bottle of Scotch | and lock the door and lie down and— | Would you mind moving your coffee cup a little farther back on the table, old man? Tommie’s trying to reach it, and my wife would raise my scalp if I should let him break one of her very best cups. That’s it. Thank you. AsI was saying, we didn’t know what ease and contentment was in those days. No Single man does. A man has to have a big armchair amd his slippers all reaéy for him and everything sort of restful and quiet before— Now, don’t cry, Ma- bel. If you didn’t want to get hurt, why cid vow yrab the end of my cigar? Tommie, take her in to her mother., There, Willie, I told you you'd ‘stick that nutpick into your hand if you didn’t look out. Run into the other room and ask your mother to put a bandage om it. Let’s see, where was I, old man? Oh, yes, I remember now. I was abort to say that there’s nothing homelike about a bachelor’s quarters’’—

**No,”’ interrupted the bachelor, with considerable emphasis, “there tisz’t.’’

The benedict couldn’t quite see the reason for such an emphatic assertion, but he wisely changed the subject, just the same. —Chicago *Post.

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Ia St. Nicholas F. Fitz Roy Dixon tells of a baby elenhant that was cap- tured by friends of his in Ceylon, after the death of its mother. Mr. Dixon says:

When Sidney was first brought over,

virtually in order that she mjght be |

fed, the question naturally.arese as to how she would take ber nourishment.’ Of course the proper way for an adult

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| to rise over the crest of the dam. | there being no masonry protection, the

elephant to take in wateris by means of the trunk, which is furnished with two tubes running its whole length. But when a bowl of milk was placed before the baby elephant she did not know what to do withit. She dipped the tip of her trunk into it, and the lookers on thought that there would be

no difficulty about ber drinking at all,

since she recognized the «cent of the nourishment she had been.accustomed to. But she was quite at aloss and set up a roar which seemed quite natural under the circumstances. Then some one suggested pouring it down her threat from_a bottle, and séhis was ac- ¢ cordingly trfed, and after one or two in- effectual attempts she understood.

She was half starved when this was done, for she had had nothing to eat: since the death of her mother, and her delight at being fed was mest amusing. The only trouble was that.it was diffi- - cult te satisfy her, and itwwas feared that the change of diet woukd disagree | with har, but fortunately it had noil!

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A MODERN MIRACLE.

THOUSANDS OF LIVES SAVED EY COURAGE AND FORESIGHT. How ti?.e British Authorities on the *ron-

tier of India Prepared For a Tre -~A Wonderful

Showing When a Dam Would Break,

dous Flocd Calculation

On the r-ssuwestern frontier of India, In the flant f the Himalayas, is a small stream, the Birahi Gunga, a tributary of the Ganges. High up on this stream is the little village of Gohna.

In September, 1893, an enormous bulk of rock and earth slid down the mountain side into the river, and in October of the same year was another grenxt landslide. The mountain from which this material came down rises 4,000 feet above the bed The dam which the ma- terial formed across the valley was about $00 feet high and 3,000 feet long as meas- ured across the gorge. Of course the for-

| mation of this dam would convert the

stream above it into a lake, and it wascal- culated that when the water should reach the level of the top of the dam it would cover an area of about 1 1-3 square miles and would contain about 16)650,000,000 cubic feet of water, about as much water as could be carried in 600,000 of the big- gest freight trains.

All of thig was apparent to every one, but back of all this the British officers, civil and military, who were in charge of the affairs of that region saw certain other truly awful facts. Some time the lake would fill and the water would begin But,

water would begin at once to cut away the crest and the face of the dam, and, :he breach started, it would increase by swift leaps, as greater and greater volumes of water were let loose, till the whole lake would be released, to sweep in one vast wave down the valley. This process of

, breaking down begun, the end would not be a matter of days, but of hours. Be-

tween the first trickling overflow and the escape of the mass of the water probably less than a day would elapse, possibly only a very few hours. In fact, 17 hours after

| the first overflow did take place the great

feod was let loose.

That all this would happen was not speculation. It was human experience. It was exactly what happened at Johns- town, Pa, in 1889, when several towns were wrecked and 5,008 lives were los, only the Gohna dam was 14 times as high and 3% times as long as the Johnstown dam, and the water held back was 26 times @s much. Frora surveys they knew the area of the watershed from which the water would come to fill the lake, and from records they knew the ordinary rain- fall,and so in the autumn of 1893 they calemlated that the overflow would begin Aug. 15, 1894. It ectually began Aug. 25. Nodoubt the officers intended to make the error on the safe side and hardly expected the overflow to take place as early as Aug. 15. Having satisfied themselves when the flood would take place, they begaia te pre- pare for it. They built a telegraph line trom Gobna down the river 160 miles and established stations at all important points. @hey put up pillars of masonry on the elopes of the valley in the upper part 200 ‘feet above ordinary flood level and farther «town the valley 100 feet above floods. These pillers evere established near all vil- lages and caznping grounds and .at inter- vals of half 2 mile down the river. The people were directed to retire above the line of pillars when they should receive warning of the flood.

The valleys not thickly peopled, but it contains several villages and one town, which has a population of 2,000. It is, however, a famous resort for pilgrims, and is studded with shrines, and streams of devotees pase back and forth.

When they had done all they-could, the officers waited for the food. At half past 6 on the morningof Aug. 25a Little stream began to trickle over thedam. At 2o0’clock in the afternoon a message was ‘sent’ down the valley, saying that the flood would come during the night. A thick mist over- hung the lale and the dam. At half past 11 at night.a loud crash was heard, acloud of dust rose through the mist and rain and the flood roared down the valley.

Just below the dam the wave -rose 260 fect above the ordinary flood level. If this wave had swept down Broadway, it would have risen te the cornices of some-of the recent 20 story buildings. Thirteen miles below the dam the wave was 160 feet high, and 72 miles below, at Srinagar, it was 42 feet above -erdinary flood level, and at Hardwar, 120 miles down the :stream, at the mouth of the valley, the waxe was still ll feet high. The average speed of the flood going down the valley ia the first 70 niiles of its Gaurse was estimated at about 18 miles an hour, but in the upper 12 miles it must have meved at a rate of over 27 milesan hour. In 4% hours 10,- CLV, VOU, 000, 009 cubic feet of water. almost two-thirds of the whole contemts of the lake, were discharged. This mase weighed more than 800,Q00,000,000 tons.

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but, woncdertul to relate. there was ab Jutely no icss of life e: Goh: lis fan y Oui teblos Wiartiia iustians and his Lawmiiy \ Lwice rcibly ved up tie slope, but ce trey re turned, to be finally overwhelined in the Lood e whole cost cf the protective work and the ie of bridges tbh iC pro} ( @RoOVUNUWU VU I i wal vValae ¢ rupee } Lov4d w its, and ths re Liis sul Was ¢ » SSVUO,OOVU ibis toes not ib clu ‘ truction of private property timcate bas been mude.—H

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A skillea navigator knows that his chart, E compass and —= sextant will guide him with unerring certainty across ten thou- sand miles of tempest- driven ocean straight to one little speck of an fsian@ on the almost boundless waters. With the same unfaltering 4s- surance a skilled and sci- entific physician seeks for some umndiscovered remedy in the wide ocean of materia medica.

He knows that wh the nature of a disease is

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its ultimate discovery is only a matter of

time. It was in this way that Dr. R. V.

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world-famous ‘‘Golden Medical Discovery”’ for the cure of consumption.

He realized that consumption is a consti- tutional malady, deep-seated in the blood. He sought and found this marvelous consti- tutional remedy which renovates and en- riches the vital current with nutritious life- giving elements; healing wasted. tissues, restoring digestive and assimilative power, and building up healthy flesh and genuine enduring vigor.

In all those debilitating diseases which ate caused by imperfect nutrition; this ex- traordinary ‘‘Discovery’’ is the most per- fect alterative remedy a:.d strength-builder known to medical science. It is not a mere temporary stimulous like various malt “extracts.” Its good effects are permanent.

Where costiveness is among the prevail- ing symptoms, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pel- lets should be wsed im conjunction with the “ Discovery.”’

‘Dr. Pierce, T am one ef your most grateful ients,”’ writes Mrs. Annie M. Norman. of uinunk, Wayne Co., Pa. “I have taken ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ also * Favorite Pre- scription’ and ‘ Pellets’ with wonderful results. I am, as tefany of my friends tell me, like the dead browg¢ht to life. The doctors said I had consumption and death was on’v a matter of time. at was six years ago. I concluded to try your medicine. I continued wnti!l I had taken nine bottles of ‘Discovery’ and several bottles of ‘ Peitets.’ I got well and lave done a great deal of tard work since.”

CUNNERY PRACTICE, —«

An Occasion When Quickness of Action Prevented a Fearful Disaster.

An officer of the United States navy relutes the following as illustrating some of the perils of gummery at sea:

**T cume very neat going up into the fir in small bitsen this last squadron craisc. We were at heavy gun practice at sea and but for the quickness of a gunner’s mate would never have re- turned. As you probably Enow, the heavy guns in the turrets are fired by electricity, the gun keing discharged simply by pressing a button. The officer im command of the forward turret on our ship during rapid firing practice was just about to press the button to fire one @t our big guns when a gunner’s mate was seen to grab at something on the tyall cf the turret and then fall in a heap on the floer. The officer pressed the button, but the gun was not dis- charged. When the mate came to, he was asked what had happened, and he informed the officer that the breech of the gun had not been locked and thet what he grabbed at on the wall was the wires forming the electric firing circuit.

‘*When he saw that the officer was pre- paring to fire the gun and at the same time observed that the breech of the gun was not locked, the only thing that occurred to him to prevent the gun be- ing discharged was to destroy the cir- cuit, which he did promptly and effect- ively. When all this occurred, there was a charge of 250 pounds of powder in the gun, another charge of the same size in the turret ready to be served, and the passageway leading to the powder magazine was wide open. But for the quickness of the gunner’s mate the gun would have been blown out inside the turret, the gases from the burning pow- der would probably have ignited the charge lying in the turret, this explo- sion would have ignited the powder in the magazine, and the chances are that the whole ship, crew and all, would have gone upintheair. A thought that has occurred to me is this: accident had occurred, what do you imagine the verdict of a board of in- quiry as to the cause of the loss of the ship would have been? Since his experi- ence the department has adopted elec- trical weans to prevent the discharge of any of the large guns until the breech is locked.’’—Sau Francisco Chronicle.

The earnings of the Grand Trunk Rail - way system for the week ending 7:h inst, were $416,885, compared with $342 200 for the corresponding week, 1897, an in-~ crease of $8,685.

The Legislative Counc] of Quebec has thrown out the Government's education bill.. Public opinion seems to -be well pleased.

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