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THE NATIONALBANKOF AUGUSTA I L, C. HAYNE, Prcs'fc P. G. FORD, Cashier.^ Capital, $250,000. Undlvwld*FSIfltB } $110,000. Facilities of our magnlflcent Now Vanlt containing 410 SafotY-Locls Boxea, Differ ent. Sizes are offered to oui' patrons , and the public at 83.00 to 910.00 per annum. mrrnci A T\ A \ira T)T> f\ DD TT?TAT) RDGEF??Lf). S.- C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1900. PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Fays Interest on Deposits ACCOHGLS Solicited. Ii. O. H AT.VF, President. W. 0. WAEDULW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 2. niuo. ?. Ax/?-iui J "Oom Pic 4 AN INCIDENT OF B0??~? ?feY p> V - The ?rea on the . hills wera the warning. The farmers were com mandeered, that is, every able-bodied man between 16 and 60 in the district . -was cnHed to take Ms horse, his "bil tong** or dried beef jratiou, his rifle and ammunition and puoceed at once _:"'tff CR?rre?^3ezvoas> thence, to proceed against the fierce and warlike Zulus, who had again raided the Transvaal. Farmer Patter sa Idled np and harried off, as his first duty was, bat first he called to him Piet, his son, and sol . ernnly spoke to him. "SOD of mine," said the farmeras?l dier, 4'yon are not yet man tall ehough to face the Znln iurpis in open field, bnt to your care I give mein vronw and your little sister Greta and Pre torias, your brother. Yon mnst, if need be, play a man's part, for, eide? the two gold prospectors left the farm at the sign of war, there is none to 'take command of the Kaffir servants but you?'* Then Piet said without bravado: 'Toa may trust,- my father, for, though I be not a man, still I am a - Boer." So the farmer rode away, and Piet, thus promoted to command, withdrew into the sitting room, and almost at once his troubles began* Hrs first care was to clean and load all firearms. These hung on the walls, and some ware old-fashioned aad without am muniton to fit them. But Pict's eye, seeking his own pet light ri?e, which he had won ina shooting match against all boys of his age for many miles round, missed it He was startle!, for it is ulmost criminal to meddle with another man's glory-his rifle, and he sought Pretorins to seo if that nuibitiou? youth had taken it down. Pretorins had it not, and Piet ran out to call Malaln, a native Borvant, with sudden fear in his soul. Mal ul a did not come at the call, and Piet, with a pale face, thought for a moment, and then, taking his old gun and belt, leaped bareback on a horse, without a word to alarm the family, and rode off unseen at a gallop. He rode to the cornfield, where the native labor ers should have been working. The green corn waved in the wind deserted. Kot a man was in sight. He dashed to the meadows down tho valley, where the herders should. have beeu with the cattle. Here, in spite of him-. self, tears sprang to his eyes, for the cattle were gone, and- the herders were absent. The great grassy fields were silent as were those, of corn. . "They have deserted us, as soon as . my father's back was turned," cried ./Piet in dismay. "And they were not 'rrSi?ns': ic OB-t? ''gBue.?SasfWHIlgi among the Kaffir tribes?" . At that thought ho trembled,but Li had still vigor enough io ride tb the top of a kopje near by.-' From the peak he had a view of much country, t and saw a cloud of dus t far away, which he guessed was made by the stolen cattle. ' "Never mind, " said Piet; "if we beat the Zulus we shall get them back with interest" . Theo he dug bis heels - into his horse's ribs and dashed down the hillside. He had seen, half a ?aile away, a black figure moving swiftly across the veldt, and the sun glaacod from something borne on his shoulder -a gun, Malula. Before the traitor servant was aware of pursuit, Piet was within 400 yards of him. Then the Kaffir heard the horse's hoofs and turned. For a moment the black seemed inclined to run, bnt changed his mind as the boy shouted to him angrily. Malula deliberately raised the stolen rifle to his shoulder. Piet threw himself from the horse, as a bul let whistled over the vacant saddle. The boy, already a hunter,, replied, with .but a hasty glauco through his eights, aqd Malula uttered a howl and staggered and fell to the ground struck in the. chest. Piet felt a spasm of horror. Deer a-plenty had he shot, but never till now a man, so that his .heart fora1 flash. ^toodnJliUll, and his own face, wa* .deathlike.; ^He rode .slowly up to Malulo, and found the Kaffir writhing in a death agony. Piet again dismounted and attempted to offer aid, but the savage repulsed him. '"With a look' of hate he glared at the boy, and cried in his own. tongue: "I am one, but tonight come the Zulu, and no white thing on the farm shall live. For mine there shall be ten deaths." So he died, glorying in the hope of a speedy revenge, and the Boer boy, .?leaving him, recovered his new rifle ? and rode slowly and mournfully home i ward. Here his troubled mother met him. "Piet," she said, "the Kaffirs have left us. "I know," said he, and looked into her brave face, and told her what had happened and what Malula had said of the nearness of the Zulus. "If my father had known it," said her son, "he would not have left ns." "He was commandeered," said the Boer wife. "It was his duty. Country first-always, my son." "But," said Piet, in much pertur bation, "my father did not think the blacks would fly. He thought that they, Basutos, would fight their old enemy, the Zulu. If these come, what are we to do? Shall we leave the farm and trek to Van Boeven's?" The Beer mother pressed her lips with a frown of pride. "That was not well said, my son," she answered. "Oom Putter said 'Stay.' As he obeyed his general and went, so we shall obey him, and s toy and fight till hq comes." It was a Roman speech. Even ns the words came from her mouth, she looked round and saw Piet, a well grown boy of 15-years; Greta, a child of ll; little Pretorins, and the baby a goodly garrison to defend the hearth! But she saw that hearth-she saw the dear walls her husband had. built to bring her home as n bride; she saw the fields he had tilled and the barns he had raised, and seeing them, she would have fought to the last scratch of her nails, like a wildcat, rather than give them np. "Besides," said she hopefully, "wbfth contd the wretch Malula know 3 X tX\JL ?\JLLJ?\J L\)? ?VS Fort" ! UF? )H THE TRANSVAAL \ -r- \ . BLACK. fe th?t w? ddn'tr Th? Zulus c?nndt b? near? and if thc are, tlie farmers have ont their scoilt i?d they say the Eng lish from Natui are also, ready; Be fore they reach our farm the Boers must meet them, and surely the sav ag^.shojl hastrickeuV*,.. .,. . Ndfhi?g uior? Was said sbotit d? Serting the home?tedd; Vr??w Putter Went about her work quietly, b?t Pi?t began to prepare; Now the farmhouse was roomy and the garrison a most petty one, and puzzle over the rdatt?r as he might; th? boy cod ld ndt sec hdw its rough stone walla could be pro tected at once on all sides, if the at tacking force was to be a largs one. His mother was as about as. good a Elliot as ho, and even Greta could dis cbarge a gun at a pinch) but two er three guns could ddt pr?t?ct flo rani bling a building. Piet came - to that conclusion with a feeling akin to despair, until, at last, as he stood in the broad yard looking at the. house, the chickens came clucking about him in their search for food, and he had an idea? All day he Worked busily, leaving his mother to the obildreu, and by nightfall he had prepared a fort to Withstand a siege. Two or three times faring the afternoon he had slipped off to the top of the kopje, where he could look afar,but each time he Came back, having seen nothing b'at the rolling veldt They had supper, and again Piet slipped away and came back, ?but now with a grim fa*e. "Mother," he -whispered, **from the west I heard the war song of the Zulan.- It came faintly with the wind. In the direction also of Van Boeven's farm the skies are red, and if I go at dark I fear I shall see the flamee nsing irom their barns." The mother gathered her baby tight iu her arms for a moment, and then quietly asked her eldest: "Are the gun? cleaned and loaded?" "Yes," said Piet, "and, mother, if you appiuve.we must leave the house. It is too big and rambling for. ns two to protect." "Leave the house?" <:Not very far," said Piet, and ex plained. In that land of few dwellers, space is not of much consideration. The farm buildings were quite widely scat tered, and Farmer Putter had built his cowbyres and pigpens and BQ on a proper distance away fro m his house walls. All tne afternoon Piet had been marching, laden with packages and bundles, between the house1 aud the out-buildings. Now, when it was dark, Jae*put out ail the-iights.ol thahouse,. aud tho*'windows and tfoora were 'stoutly "barV?d. "Where are we going to sleep?" the children asked,accustomed to rise and. lie down with the sun, and Piet an swered chserfu'.ly: "In the chioken coop." The children, at first astonished and incredulous,were delighted when they discovered that their brother meant what he said, for the sight of the chickens feeding had given the boy the necessary idea. If the house were too big, the coop could not be acofcsed of that fault. About the rocky kopje stones were plenty and more oouveu ieut than wood. Therefore, Piet had aided his father in building a solid af fair to shelter the many fowls. It was ?tone.aud high and roomy. Piet, dur ing the afternoon, had made on each side, by careful removal of stones, loopholes, aud carried to the henhouse the more precious articles in the house, with all the ammunition and gund. Now the chickens, squawking, were ruthlessly turned out, and the little family went in, the youngsters gig gling. The door which Piet had strengthened was closed, and the gar rison prepared. Vrouw Putter was not without experience in war's alarms. She looked round with a brave smile. "Well doue, Piet," she said, and calmly began to examine the guns, *.'hile, at the same time quieting the children, who, now in the dark and disturbed by such preparations, began to be afraid. Agau Piet slipped away to the kopje, aud when he came back he said: "Flames are rising from the Van Boeven's, and the war song is coming near." "Loud?" the vrouw asked, briefly. "Not very," her don answered, pil ing rocks against the door. "A detached party," said his mother, quietly. "If the Lord wills it, we will protect; our own.'* And she made them all kneel down and pray, and then sing a psalm. It was a fitfully moonlight night in the dry season, and chilly. White clouds pursued the moon after hiding it and leaving the veldt in darkness, then passing on and flooding the land with Bil very beams. For a long time all was very still. At last Piet, peer ing ont of his loophole to the west, saw a shadow among the shadows, and this shadow moved and glided and, came swiftly up the slope on which the chicken coop stood between the house and the trees by the river. It was followed by another and another and another and another, coming on like wild ducks in a V or wedge, and from the heart of the shadows came a low hum-the song of the Imp's. "How many?" the mother asked,as the moon shone ont, and Piet told ht ir there were about 20, with shields and assegais,for in those days firearms wore not common among the Kaffir tribes as npw. "A raiding party," said Vrouw Put ter, cud took command. Piet ' was oag'jr to fire at once, but she forbade. The children were very quiet, though trembling. The savages came on and halted, aud came ou again, now silent and apparently puzzled at there beiug no sign of life about the house. AH tho coop stood it could not be readily discerned in tho shadow of the slope. Again* the Zulus advanced. "Mother," said Piet, "if they get close to the house they will fire it " tho nodded, but waited until the savage* .were, ouly fifty vardo away, then-"Fire" she whispered, and from her own loophole and from Piet's at the fame instant streamed a flame, and the" Zulus g?ve one great cry of rage ?dd Astonishment} ?s ^wU df their nd m ber threw their arms' High add fell; their shields clattering beside'. them1; At once little Greta and Pretoilus did their part, and with incredible bravery ia such infants forebore even to trem ble, but handed up fresh guns, while the two defenders - passed the empty ones down to be loaded by these small bdt trdin??1 ?inger's. The Znlusjhow ?ver; did ?bt, fall back: Fdribris df being taken By surprise1 they dashed, rtt th? little fort, and . a shower of spears came clashing against the stone walls. Crack! again went the guns, and again a howl of pain resounded through the night. The Zulus were ?inib?t id tbnch df the fort, and were pressing onward; tine on {dp" of the Oth?r, with their f?rdoiOtis yells,when A tall man among them with an iron ring on his head; sign of ad induna Chief} shouted a command, and at t?nce his warriors fell back. "MUtliet;" cried Piet,, as they seized fresh rifle?, "don't lot them think that we are so few. Greta and Pretorias, load ns fast as you can. Mother, let us fire continuously and, thinking we are numerous, they will retire:" Vrouw Putter iWd?ci fions??t; and at on?e these two valiant defenders di hearth and home begun from the half dozen firearms at their disposal to pour bullets into the retreating crowd of naked blacks. They could uot tell what actual effect their missiles had, Bi'.ve for au occasional cry from the warriors, b?t they hoped -that a > quick and withering a fir? w?uld de ceive th9 party. In this manner, however, they used up a good de?l of arum uni: ion from the t.ro boxes of Bar tri tige s Piet had carried to the chickea coop; With hardly rt pause, the induna gave his srtv. ; sa their in structions, amt sudden tiley rafi apart from one another , lid moon light and surrounded th- inhouse and came at it from three s Now, indeed, the bosieged were h ont to it, but never quailed. Gretu k the lightest rifle, aud, little girl oUgh Bhe was, her father and brother and eveu her mother had taught her to nse it. She took-position, a whito facod heroine, at one side, and her mother and Piet in their old places. Down came the Zulus, casting spears before them, and sheltered by their loug, tough bullhide shields. Crack! crack! cruckl swiftly the rifles rang out, and still the Zulus rushed on. The fingers of little Pretorins were busy on the floor of the hut, loading the rifles now geiting hot. Crack! crack! The savages reached the wall; one scrambled to the roof; he thrust a spear down a crack. The Boer's wife cried out; 'her shoulder was pierced. But Pict's voice w as triumphant as a veil came from the induna himself. "I aimed for the chief and got him!" cried the boy, and indeed the induna seemed badly hurt, for he limped back, supported, and again called off his soldiers. Piet ran to his mother and . helped her bandageL?he wounded arm. "It is nothing," she said, bravely, and added more softly, "nor my life, either, if children and home are saved." Suddenly little Pretorius cried out In dismay. "Piet," he said, "there are no more cartridges. " * It was true. One box was empty, md the other covered box did not auld ammunition. Piet lcoked aud despaired. Two gold prospectors had been staying at the farm who used dynamite in j their work. They had ?jone off at sign of trouble, but had left some tools and things behind. In this box which Piet had carr ed off for ammunition, were instead some sticks of dynamite. "I-have-betrayed-my father's trust!" cried Piet. "My mistake has been our ruin!" And he flung himself in despair against the wall. Bat his mother, finding nothing but empty guns, kneeled quietly down and prayed, her babies about her. She had done all Bhe could. The rest lay with a higher power. For a moment Piet was crazy, and then recovered himself. He looked through his loophole. The Zulus were in a group quite a hundred yards away, almost indistinguishable in the night. Even as Piet looked they moved and he knew they were about to attack again. With a shout of rage the furious boy suddenly stooped to the dangerous box he had carried from the house, and theu drow down the rocks from the door and burst out. In his hands he carried two sticks of dy namite, carried such deadly things in his hands that a stumble meant de struction. Yet he dashed ahead through tho night, yelling. The Zulns turned on him in amaze, thinking him mad, and greeted him with a shower of spears. Unstrickeu, Piet ran to within fifty yards of them, and then, one ofter another, he threw at them with all his might the fearful dyna mite. There was a fearful concussion, whi'm dashed the boy to the earth, - a roar as of artillery, a medley of fear ful shrieks from the unhappy Zulus, and all was still. Vrouw Putter and the children came out trembling, and found Piet insensible, bnt of the Zulu raiders no trace, save scattered limbs, where the earth was thrown about, leaving a great hole. The dynamite must have struck fairly in their midst and had exploded with fearful effects. That happened long ago. Piet is today a man and owns the farm. His father is dead, but the brave old mother lives on with Piet and his wife. Many changes have taken place on the lonely farm on the veldt, but one building remains unchanged and rev erently preserved. It is tho chicken coop, which is known by the children for miles and milos ns "Oom Piet's Fort."-New York Sun. Brlrtejrrciom'H Katti Indiscretion. A queer case of cannibalism is re ported as having recently taken place ii the Solomon Islands. The Jean nette took from Noumea a Kanaka who had acted as orderly to the immigra tion office there, and was on his honey moon with his wife, intending to land at Aoba, where his wife's tribe live. He, however, made the mistake of disembarking among the wrong tribe, ar d was at once seized by the natives, Overpowered, killed, and eaten. The widow was provided by tho tribe with a second husband.-?London Dailv Mail. ? LIFE IN A GOAL Mil tc Hoir Oar Black Ulimiomls Aro 5 from t???? Kurth. Dooocooooo?oc????????^ THE accompanying illa stn gire a fair idea of the ni of living and working Pennsylvania coal thousand of feet from pare nu sunshine.- The human worke least get a small skate of both requisites,- but the mino ?fldl?? no such breathing spells." ?h mal shown in one of the illustr. has not been in the open air fo rears,- and ho has not been a pi hearly so long as many of his fi The life of a coal miner has lui vastly of recent yearsi Many features that used to shorten h: and mako it one of. extreme' havebeeu eliminated,or atleast greatly reduced in danger. The air 13 porer, tho danger of that greatest of terrors -fire damp-has been reduced to a minimum through more intelligent methods than those of formetftft&s and tho introduction of imprcn chinery, tho greatest factor i workman's safety being the ndj^er plosive Davy lamp, with whioh a ifjuuer may fearlessly enter a pocket full of explosive gas. Bat with all these new safeguards THE OLD AND THE NEW DAVY iiAMPS. IN USE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINES. the life is not an alluring one. The pay is small, the work hard and the dangora still many. The only really pleasant way to be connected with a coal mine is as the owner of one. Oar Appalachian coal fields alone could supply the world with fuel for centuries. They are the largest and richest known, and they are so situ ated.that the coal can be shipped from them long distances by water. From Pittsburg coal can be carried for eighteen thousand miles on navigable streams, and the grate fires of the South blaze with the rays from the black diamonds from Pennsylvania. The Ohio River is the greatcoat chute for tho Mississippi valley. The coal is carried down it in great barges, pushed by little steamers, and BO fast ened together that a single steamer will push acres of coal. Loads of twenty thousand tons are taken. A vast amount of coal is carried on the canals and the great lakes from one of the chief highways of the coal traffic. The amount of coal carried on the railroads ie almost beyond conception. The Philadelphia and Beading has more than fifty thousand coal cars, which are dragged by nine hundred ooal locomotives. These cars are kept busy in carrying anthracite coal. The Pennsylvania Railroad employs 'more than Bevon ty thousand cars for the movement of its coal and coke trade, and the Central Bailroad of New Jer sey carries about five million tons of anthracite coal every year. More coal is handled at New York than at any other place in the world except Lon don, more than fifteen million ?tons being used or transshipped at that point annually. The coal miners live aa poorly as any other class of workmen in the THE ELEVATOR ( (Tho mulo In Ibo photograph has country. For the most part they are in dirty villages, with narrow streets, their houses blackened by coal smoke. lu many miuing districts the houses belong to the company owning the mines, and the miners pay rent for them, 90 that when a linke cc:tivschd they are out of money they are given orders to leave. Many of the houses have nothing more than two rooms and a kitchen, and in some places the only stores at which the miners can trade are the company's stores. With all this the American miners are far better off than the miners of other eountries. Have yon ever been down in a coal THE "FIRE BOSS'S" OF (The position" of tho kneeling miner ia mine? If so, you can appreciate floine of the dangers of mining. A coal mine is like a great catacomb. It is a city underground, the walls of which in tafiny cases are upheld by timbers. Now and theu you come to rooms out of which the coal has been cut, The coal is taken down with blasting pow der, and there is danger of thc wall falling and of the miners being crushed. ? There is also danger from fire clamp, or the union of the gases of the mine brought together by tho light from a lamp or candle. This canses a great explosion. It comes like a stroke of lightning, and with a clap of thunder. As*alhe explosion occurs a roaring whirlwind of flame goes through the tunnels, pulling down the timbers and caving in the walls. It burns every thing within reach. Miners are blinded, scorched and sometimes burned to cinders. Hundreds have often been killed at a timo by such explosions, and by the flood of cur bonic acid aud gas which follows them. The statistics show that even in the United States one miner is killed for every hundred thousand tons of coal mined, and those who are injured number many times this proportion. TESTING A MINE EOE COAL GAS WITH A DAW. LAMI*. The first coal fonnd in America was near Ottawa, Illinois. It is mentioned by Father Hennepin, a French ex plorer, who visited there in 1G79. The first mines worked were about Eichmond, Va. This coal was dis covered by a boy while out fishing. He was. hunting for crabs for bait in a small creek, and thus stumbled upon the outcroppings of the James Biver coal bed. Our anthracite coal fields have perhaps paid better than any other coal fields of the world. They were discovered by a hunter named Nicho Allen, when George Washington was President. Allen encamped one night in tho Schuylkill regions, kindling his fire upon some )F A COAL MINE, boon In the mino for five yenrs.) blaok stones. He awoke to find him self almost roasted. The stones wore on fire, and anthracite was burning for the first time. Shortly after this a company was organized to sell au thraoite coal. It was taken around to th? bUokimith*, but ikey didn't knew how to nee" it, and it was very unpop ular. Some of it was shipped to Phil adelphia by a Colonel Shoemaker and seid there. It was not ai all satisfac tory, Sad & writ was gotten ont from .the city authorities, denouncing th? colonel as a knave and scoundrel for trying to impose roch* upon them as coal. Still Philadelphia has largely ? been built up by anthracite coal, and I 50,000,000 tons of this coal were taken out of the Pennsylvania fields in 1895, Since then sene'of these coal lands hare been sold as high as 81200 an a CT?,, and the Philadelphia and Bead inp; Company, in 1871, paid $40,000, 000 for 100,000 acres of coal land in this region. It is hard to estimate the enormous amount of money the United States makes out of its coal. We get more than three times as muoh out of our coal mines as out of our gold mines, and the silver metal is not in it with the black diamonds. There is a little region in eastern Pennsylvania, about a hundred and twenty-five miles from Philadelphia, and not more than two hundred miles from New York, which produces every year coal to a greater value than all the gold mines of the FICE Of A COAL MINE, the one usually taken when resting.) Bookies, Canada and Alaska. It is otif anthracite coal fields whioh turn | out between 50,000,000 and GO.OOO.CPO tons of anthracite every year. We 1 have in addition to this a hundred and thirty odd million tons of bituminous coal annually. We have, in short, the biggest and best coal measures on the globe. It is estimated that our coal east of the Eocky Mountains covers 192,000 square miles, and within the past few years coal has been found in many parts of the T..r West. Colo rado will eventually bo a great manu facturing State on account of its coal. A Marriage Slade In Heave?. At a recent wedding all went mer rily until the bridegroom was called upon to produce the wedding-ring. In vain he felt in his newly-creased trousers pocket for the indispensable trifle. Nothing could be found except a hole through which the ring had evidently fallen. What was he to do? Suddenly a happy thought struck the parson. "Take your shoe off," he said. The suspense and silence was pain ful. The organist, at the clergyman's bidding, stiuck up a voluntary. The young man removed his shoe. The ring was fouud, also a hole in his stocking, and the worthy minister . marked, evidently with more than the delay of the ceremony on his mind: "Young man, it's high time you were married. " Swiss Schools of Agriculture. Switzerland was the home of the philanthropist and educator Fellen burg. His school, established in Ho pyl in 1806, was a philanthropy in aid of the peasantry, concerning whom he said that, possessing nothing but bodies and minds, the cultivation of these was the only autidote for their poverty. At least three thousand pu pils received their education in agri culture here. The Federal Polytech nic School at Zurich is the nation's pride. Out of six courses of superior training which it provides for its one thousand students, forestry and agri culture count as two. Five universi ties and numerous special sohools furnish aid to agricultural education. -W. E. De Riemer, in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. Man's inhumanity to Man. Are the men as considerate of the men as women are of women? When an engagement is announced the girl's friends give her doilies, linen, lace things, teacups, etc., but does any one give the man anything? On the contrary, his creditors become par ticularly active, knowing that his ex penses will soon be larger, when it will be harder to collect from him. No engaged man was ever called upon by other men and presented with socks tied with light blue ribbon or a pair of new suspenders with pink bows on. All the attention he gets from tho mon consists of guying. Atchison Globe. Japanese Womp i Dlreri, Over one hundred Japanese women, following the hazardous profession of divers, are found along the coast of the peninsula. They are divided into four batches, and their ages range from seventeen to thirty. They oom? almost exclusively from Shima, Mi yo ken, a noted fishery centre in Ja pan. Their earnings are, of course, not uniform, as they are paid accord ing to the amount of their work, which consists in diving for agar-agar sea weed, sea-ear, sea-oucumber and so forth.-Japanese Weekly News. Method of Strengt hen IHR the LnagU. Strengthening the lungs, especially the apexes, may be 'lone by blowing through a small pipestem or tube that will allow the breath to pass out slow ly. First fill the lungs with good air, then blow with steady foroe vigorous? ly but not violently. A few times daily will be sufficient.-Ladies' Home Journal. There are a thousand vessels which cross the Atlantio Ocean regularly every month, soma of them twioe e month JAKES B. WALSER. 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