Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

from the Commander-in-Chief when I find
| out the troops are three months in arrears,
and old Timbersides begins to weep when I
speak to him. He has taken to the kings
peg heavily-liqueur brandy for whisky and
Heidsieck for soda water"
That's what the Rao of Jubela took to.
Even native can't last long at that"
said Spurstow. HELL go OUT
"And good thing, too. Then I suppose
we'll have a council of regency, and tutor
for the young prince, and hand him back
his kingdom with ten years aecumulations.
"Whereupon that young prince, having
been taught all the vices Of the English,
will play ducks and brakes with the money
AMI undo ten years of work in 18 months.
I've seen that business BEFORE" said Spurs
tow. 81 should tackle the King with
light hand if were you, Lowndes. They'll
hate you quite enough under any circum-
stances"
BLACK CHOLERA.
"That's all very we'll The man who
looks on can talk about the light hand, but
you can't clean pigstye with pen dipped
in rosewater. 1 know my risks; but moth
ing has happened vet. NY servants an old
Pathan, and he cooks for me. They are
hardly likely to bri5e him, and I don't ac-
eept food from my true friends, as they call
themselves. Oh, but it's weary workl I'd
sooner be with you, Spurstow. There's
shooting near your camp.
Would you? 1 don't think it. About
Is deaths a day don't incite a man to shoot
anything but himself. And the worst of it
is that the poor devils look at you as though
YOU ought to save them. Lord knows I've
tried everything. NY last attempt was en-
pirical, but it pulled an old man through.
He was brought to me apparently past hope,
and gave hlm gin and Worcester sauce
with cayenne. It cured him; but don't
recommend il.
''How do the cases run generally?" said
Hummil.
every simply indeed. Chlorodyne,
opium pill. chlorodyne, collapse, nitre,
bricks to the feet, and then-the burning
CHAT. The last seems 70 be the only thing
that stops the trouble. It's black cholera,
you know. Poor devilsl But, 1 will say,
little Bunsee Lal, my spothecary, works like
a demon. I've recommended him for pro-
motion if he comes through it all alive"
'And what are your chances, old mani"
said Mottram.
Don't know; don't care much; but I've
sent the letter In. What are you doing with
yourself generally?'
'Sitting under a table in the tent and
splitting on the sextant to keep it cool, )" said
the man of the survey. "Washing my eyes
to avoid ophthslmia, which shall certainly
get, and trying to make a sub-surveyor
understand that an error of five degrees in
an angle isn't quite so small as it looks. I'm
altogether alone, y know. aud shall be till
the end of the hot weather."
"Hummil's the lucky man, said Lowndes,
Ainging himself into long chair. ''He has
an actual roof-torn as to the ceiling cloth,
but still a root-over his head. He sees one
train daily. He can get beer and soda water
and ice it when God is good. He has books,
pictures es"-they were torn from the Graphic
-"and the society of the excellent suo-eon-
tractor Jevins, beside the pleasure of re-
ceiving US weekly"
Hummil smiled grimly. "Yes, I'm the
lucky man, 1 suppose. Jevins is luekier."
"How? Not"
Eyes. Went out. Last Monday"
"Ap SEP" said Spurstow, quickly, binting
the suspicion that was in eyerybody's mind.
There was no cholera near Hummll's section.
Even fever gives man at least weeks