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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

- 18th and 18TH the whole PEG.
1 pie of Egypt give themselves
6 up to festive merriment and
jubilation. "God hath given them
abundance" is the thankful burden of
every voice. The humiliation of the
Nile has come in its fullness. The dry
plans are now marsh covered with the
fertile gift of the Soudau, and another
rich harvest is assured. There IS ample
cause for thanksgiving.
For many weeks every year the rising
of the river is matter of the deepest
daily interest. On July Sd the Muniadee
begins his rounds through the streets of
Cairo. He is the "Crier of the Nile, :"
and from time immemorial he and his
predecessors have gone through the city
daily from that date, the 9th of the
Coptic month Ba-oueh, to September
18th, Nerooz Day, proclaiming in a
monotonous chant how much the river
has risen since the day before.
Among the people of the villages, and
especially among the fellaheen in the
Delta, the interest is indescribably keen
and watchful. There is from July to
September IL but one form of greeting:
"How much has the Nile risen to. days"
You hear it everywhere, under all
circumstances; most of all, perhaps, at
evening, when the call to evening prayer
has sounded. 1t is the one vital theme
of conversation. At first, all through
July and well into August, the question
means, "Will the Nile rise high
enoughs" viii its mud laden waves
spread over all the territory that needs
their fertilization2 But sometimes, as
August begins to wane and the flood
rises higher and higher, the question is
asked in different tone. Then the
anxiety is no longer that the river should
rise high enough, but that it shall not
rise too high. 1t is not often that this
occurs, but when it does, disaster is the
result. In 1868, in 1859, and in 1874,
the river rose to an unwonted height.
Embank.nents were swept away, towns
were .deluged, incalculable damage was
done to property, and many people were
drowned. Then, in truth, the whole
country was lake and every town a
Venice. But it is seldom that such
catastrophe occurs, and as rule at High
Nile the country is not lake but merely
a muddy swamp.
''The Gift of the Nile'' is the name
Herodotus gave to Egypt; and an APP
propriate one it is and has ever been.
The country is to-day as dependent upon
the river for prosperity as it was in the
days of the Pharaohs. And almost as
much as ever the river dominates the
whole life of the people.
Although III Cairo itself little heed is
paid to the Muniadee and his daily an
nouncement of the state of the river, he
makes his rounds as faithfully as ever.
He is attired always in gala dress, and is
accompanied by two assistants. One of
them plays necessarily upon darabukeh,
or Egyptian drum, while the other per-
forms monotonously upon hautboy.
"God hath given abundance, " is his cry
when, late in the season, it is seen that
the flood will be sufficient. "God hath
given abundantly:" and therefore will
not the good people of Cairo give of
their abundance to the faithful bearer of
good tidings2 So in these days the
Manladee is nothing in the world but
picturesque beggar, only instead of
threadbare opera airs from a
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
Sir Edwin Arnold saws of chole,

Sir Edwin Arnold says of cholera
"More people die from bronchitis, teeth.
ing and measles than from cholera II
is not such terrible disease. I have
helped carry into hospital many persons
afflicted with it in the streets of India.
1t is no more than a colossal, protean
stomach ache. Simple precautions will
ward itoff. Five drops of hydrochloric
acid in cup of tea every other day will
kill the bacillus. 1t cannot live in an
calculated stomach. think the Eng.
lish and American constitutions are al.
most proof against the disease when care
is exercised"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

A man in Riverside, CAL, is urging
that city to go into the fruit growing
business to raise money for paving their
streets. He has figured it out that, il
the city would plant English walnut OF
Seeding orange trees for street trees, in
fifteen years in the case of the walnuts,
or ten years in the case of the oranges,
the fruit from the trees would pay all
the expenses of street work and i'm
proyements.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

According to the San Francisco
Argonaut, Judge Glegerich, of the Super.
Tor Court Of New York--may his tribe
increase-recently put to an applicant
for naturalization, an Austrian, the query:
"Which would you fight for in a war
between Austria and the United States?"
"Austria," said the would-be citizen.
eco back there" replied tbs Judge, as
he tore UP the mans declaration.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
LEONARD LIPPMAN, President

barrel organ, he chants the words that
have echoed through every Egyptian city
on every day of every summer for thous-
ands of years. His appeal is generously
answered, and literal showers of small
coins are cast upon him by the easy-go
ing Cairenes, who regard him, like the
Sphinx and the Pyramids, as one of the
ancient institutions of Egypt that must
be maintained.
Further south, in upper Egypt, an
cient customs still more hold sway, and
Nerooz is day of extraordinary festivi.
ties. 1t is, of course, a time of ldleness
on the part of the farmers. They can
do no more work till the Nile subsidies.
Nerooz marks turning point, when the
flood reaches its highest and begins to
ebb. So for three days, September 10,
IL and ~, the carnival holds high sway
The plough and hoe are abandoned.
The drum and fiddle take their place.
A master of misrule is chosen. He is
some fun-loving farmer. He is called
Abou Nelooz, and wears tall cap and
bells. For three days he is the SUI
preme authority. Even the Pacho
yields to his power. The courts are
suspended. The law is ia allegiance.
Abou Nerooz is supreme. He goes
about levyiug and collecting taxes,
which he puts into his own pocket, and
promulgating all sorts of laws and
edicts, all of which are unhesitatingly
obeyed for three days. At the end OF
that period his subjects rise against him.
His cap and bells are taken from him
and cast into the fire. he goes back tc
his farm work, and the Nerooz festival
is ended New York Tribune.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
Among the London cab drivers til,

Among the London cab drivers there
are ex-military officers, ex-doctors, ex.
lawyers by the dozen, one lord by
courtesy, one baronet, several honor
ables, one ex-M. F., and dozen bank.
rupt landed proprietors, all which,
moralizes the Boston Transcript, goes to
account for the improved manners and
aristocratic appearance of the London
cabby, who nowadays deems it beneath
his dignity to dismount from his perch
and fight his fare for the odd "tizzy,"
as he was wont to do in the good old
times.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
A Mexican Railroad Strike.

Advices received al San Antonio. Texas.
Tuesday, say that the Mexican Central
railroad is threatened to be tied up with
strike. Three days ago tue American
macninisis employed in the shops in the
CIV OF Mexico went out on strike for
an increase of so cents per day in wages,
the present rate being $4 per day. AT
the shops at San Luis Potosi the men
have walked out The engineers and
Eremen are expected to quit work il the
uachinists' demands are not granted.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
Chs 1nsa Reporter,
Published Every Thursday at
IUKA. MISS.

A company has been started in Chi
cago, ILL.,, for the purpose of manufac-
turing and selling an instrument called
the waterphone. 1t is claimed this de-
vice can be attached to systems of water.
piping, and will indicate leaks, waste of
water and other causes of trouble by
transmitting the sound of running water
to the listeners ear.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

A Northwestern railroad President.
millionaire though he is. has recently
put himself outside the most remote
possibility of adversely by the payment
By ono check Of S136, $50, for which an
Eastern company insures his life for
500, 900 and ten years hence begins to
pay him an annuity of SIP, The
annuity is better known in England
than here, it being favorite method Of
even the poor to guard against poverty
in old age. That our wealthiest and
most sagacious business msn intrust
their own financial futures to approved
life insurance companies. remarks the
New York Mail and Express, furnishes
. safs precedent to men Of small MEANS
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

Two freproof trains lined with steel
plating are now being constructed at the
Alexandrovsky works in Russia for the
use of the Car and the Czlrina when
they take their little pleasure excur-
atoms.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

Last year 5000, 900 books were issued
to the people Of London from the free
Libraries.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27

The University Of Pennsylvania =. :.
tabllshed hospital for sick dovs ~ "A Z
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
HIGH NILE.
ALL EGYPT REJOICES WHEN
THE RIVER OVERFLOWS.
The Festive Observances of Pharaoh's
Time Still Kept "A Country
dependent Upon an Inun-
dation Tor Prosperity.

T|oR three days September 10th,
- 18th and 18TH the whole PEG.
nile of Enupt rive tbanoeoluo,
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
FALL FLOWING.
A Destructive Remedy for Corn Pests
isorers. Lice, Etc. ~

Destructive Remedy for Corn Pests'
isorers, Lice, Etc.
Professor ]. B. Smith, entomologist OF
the New Jersey experiment station, In
the annual report recently issued, gives
expression to this advice: ''Corn is cut,
stacked and husked in the fall, and the
shocks are left in the ground over Win
ter, to be plowed out in spring, when
the soil is made ready for oats, potatoes,
wheat or tomatoes, as the case may be;
sometimes early, sometimes later, &C
cording to the crop to be put in. Among
the serious pests, very destructive IN
some sections, is the cornworm, which
feeds in the ear near the top on the
growing kernels. There are two broods
of this larva, the second reaching full
size in fall, wintering as pup8 and re-
appearing as images early in spring. BY
the ordinary method of cultivation the
insects undergo their transformation I'M
hindered, while by blowing in fall and
carting off and burning the stocks, not
1 per cent. of the pupe would ever come
to maturity. AS this insect in its first
brood attacks peas, tomatoes and great
variety of other plants, and also eats
into the stems of young corn, quite
wide range of exemption would be thus
secured.
"When corn is affected by the root
louise, and this is the case much oftener
than suspected, late fall blowing will re-
suit is destroying a very large proper
ton of the ants nests, which are sus-
pected of harboring the eggs of the lice
during winter. In fact, so generally de-
structive of insect life is disturbing the
ground in late fall that would recon-
mend it in all cases where the nature of
the crop will allow of the practice. l
believe it to be one of the very best
methods of controlling certain classes of
insect attack. l would especially rec
ommend this process also in squash,
melon and citron fields infested by bor-
ers, lice and striped beetle. l believe it
would be most valuable as a method of
controlling these pests.
SIN thus strongly recommending fall
blowing, am not unaware that it is not
the best practice on some kinds OF land.
Soils that leach badly will not stand
it, while heavy, rich soils are usually
improved by the process. The farmer
must in all cases decide from a knowl-
edge of his own land, and after weigh
ing possible benefits and injuries. But
fall plow whenever the land will stand it.
'sIf it be decided that the practiceis I'M
wise, then at least turn the land as early
in spring as it will stand working. This
will still get ahead of many of the in
sects, and will be partly effective. If
then a good top dressing of kainit be ap-
piled, cutworms at least will be pretty
thoroughly destroyed"
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
No More PIeuro-Pneumonia.

Sept. 26 Secretary Rusk, of the de-
partment of agriculture, issued a proc
lamation removing the only quarantines
existing for the suppression of pleuro-
pneumonia among cattle, and with their
removal he announced that ''the United
States is free from the disease known
as contagious pleuro-pneumonia." He
states that no case of the disease has &C.
CURED in Illinois since Dec. %, 1887; no
case in Pennsylvania since Sept. 80, 1888;
none in Maryland since Sept. Is, 1889;
none in New York since April 80, 1891,
and none in New Jersey since March 20,
1892. No case has occurred in any other
part of the Union within the past five
years. The centers of infection have
been around New York city, Baltimore
and Philadelphia, and these have had
the special attention of the department
since the suppression of the outbreak i'll
the west. Six months have elapsed since
the last case occurred in New Jersey.
We are assured also that the seaboard
and frontier inspection and all necessary
cattle quarantine will be strictly en-
forced, and as there is no possibility of
the occurrence of the disease except by
its introduction from abroad, the coun-
try may congratulate itself upon the re-
moval of all apprehension for its cattle
interests on this account.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
Artificial Queen Rearing.

A. w. Tafts expresses himself thus in
The Agriculturist:
If allow my bees to follow nature or
their instinct l should have very few
bees left and should have to go to the
woods for honey. much prefer to rear
all my queens by the artificial method,
then I know exactly the pedigree and
can control the line of descent of her
royal highness, the queen, if cannot OF
her consort, the drone. I have over 100
colonies, and of that number only three
come up to the standard from which l
would like to rear my queens.
I rear about 100 a year to requiem my
apiary, as / do not find that it pays to
keep queens over the second winter, as
they rear too many drones, and lido not
think that they winter as we'll as bees
from vigorous young queens, # I at,
tempt to rear all those queens during
the swarming period, should have to
keep 100 nuclei instead of thirty, as do
now. Those three from which wish to
rear cast no swarms this season, 50 thera
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
Storing Squashes.

There is growing demand for squashes
that keep we'll into spring. Success
full specialists who make money out Of
winter squashes have houses with double
doors and windows to prevent change OF
temperature. They are filled with slat-
ted shelves, allowing free air circulation
about the fruit. Perfect dryness and
frequent inspection to govern tempera-
ture and remove squashes that begin to
decay are requisites. If three tons per
acre can be kept until a glutted market
subsidies and three cents per pound can
be realized sometimes a higher price
prevails) $3.50 results-not bad profit
considering how little real labor and ex-
pense are needed in the production,
writes New York correspondent in The
New England Homestead. He says:
Squashes with hard shells have been
kept successfully until the following
summer in my cellar with cement bot
tom, glass windows and a warm air fur
mace. They lay ON the bottom and were
turned occasionally. Only very small
per cent. of the quantity spoiled after
the first month of storage, fact at
tributed largely to a drying and harden
ing of their outer cover. The stems
were left attached to the squashes.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
Agricultural Notes.

The Siberian crab apple tree does not
make a good stock upon which to graft
the varieties of our larger apples.
The conclusion of the whole matter
digging and storing potatoes-ls com
prised in these five points, says The
Country Gentleman: 1. Harvest the
crop as soon as it has ceased growing.
2. Store the tubers when perfectly clean.
3. Keep them uniformly cool. 4. Never
allow freezing air to reach them. o.
Ventilate only to remove and prevent
foul air.
According to The Sheep Breeder there
is vast region in the south, coast belt
sixty miles wide, on the gulf and the
south Atlantic, and including the whole
of Florida, where the salt In the air
makes sheep perennially healthy, and
the millions of acres of wire grass make
them cost nothing from years end to
years end.
IL you are preea1ng sneep 40 the Gull
ing for the butcher yourself. Never let
him do it, for he will take your best
ones. Keep the best eve lambs in all
cases to breed from. By and by you
will get SO fine "a flock that there will be
noF,culls. The rule in live stock u.s.
breed only from the best. sar24
A writer says that a man with ~
acre farm should raise from TWO TO
ten acres of root crops" Well, that Is 4
tolerably wide range. Anybody would
apparently know that without telling.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26


A Canadian with Four Years Experience
Talks About Winter Layers.
David Lask, in report to the Ottawa
(Canada) experiment. farm, says:
The experience of the past four winters
proves that the breeds which are often
stated to be most unsuited to cold Gil
mates lay the best. 1t is often told by
the inexperienced or the prejudiced that
fowls with large combs are not suited
for winter layers because their combs
will freeze. If any one wishes to make
revenue from his winter eggs he must
not keep his layers where their combs
will freeze. Intelligence must be exer-
cised in the treatment of winter layers
the same as in the winter care OF other
stock.
Of the hens with the large combs, such
as Leghorns, Minorcas and Andalusians,
no better winter layers or harder fowls
can be had than the White Leghorns.
The Andalusians and Minorcas are also
excellent winter layers, but require to be
kept active, as do all the Spanish class
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes are
well known winter layers. Members OF
the Asiatic family-viz., Brahmas, Buff
Coc:lins and Langshans-require to be
Matched out early in the season to make
early layers. They require to be skill
fully handled during the close confine-
ment of winter to prevent them becom-
ing too fat. A farmer will not make
mistake by choosing his winter layers
from the Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks or
Wyandottes. The Wyandottes perhaps
come as nearly filing the bill as pos
sible, having little or no comb, and are
good layers. The Houdans did not seem
to stand the confinement to winter
quarters as well as other breeds. The
following classification may serve as a
guide in making choice from the best
known breeds:
Breeds with Large Combs-Leghorns,
Minorcas, Andalusians, Black Spanish.
Breeds with Small Combs-Wyan-
dottes, Brahmas, Cochins, Houdans.
Breeds with Medium Size Combs
Plymouth Rocks, Dorkings, Black Javas,
Langshans.
Breeds with Rose Combs-Leghorns,
Hamburgs, Redcaps, White Dorkings.
While on the subject of winter laying
it may be stated that the layers do better
when they can enjoy as much freedom
as possible. Many farmers have their
poultry houses so situated that with very
little trouble or expense they can SO ar
range as to allow their fowl access to a
barn, stable or inclosed shed, where
gravel, sand, coal, ashes or other sub
stances may be found for the hens to
scratch in. Fowls so situated are not
likely to give trouble in the way of eat
ing eggs or feathers or laying eggs with
soft shells.
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26
Some Hay Questions.

What is the shrinkage in the weight of hay?
Is it more profitable to sell directly from the
field at SLY, or after lying in the NOW three
months at from SIS to SIS?
When we say 1.-TWO tons per acre" do we
mean as it comes from the lot or after season.
ing in the stack or NOV?
The foregoing questions were an
swered not long ago in The Rural New
Yorker.
A. NJ Lagrange said: 81 prefer to sell
hay after it has been in the barn, as
then there is more time to handle it. In
my opinion it shrinks very little until
cold weather. A yield of two tons to
the acre means one of seasoned hay from
the NOW. l have pressed hay over
thirty years, and find that to take the
chaff out as much as possible and keep
it at home for the COWS and sheep pays
better than to put it in the bale, as the
consumers do not want it for their
horses. label my hay and sell it lit
tie above the market price,
D. G. Lewis said: sit would be more
profitable to sell hay directly from the
field at twelve dollars per ton than to
keep it and risk shrinkage and handling.
When we say two tons per acre we
mean hay taken from the NOW for mar
ket. 1t would be better, or at least as
good, to sell hay from the NOW immedi-
ately after the sweating process at
twelve dollars as to sell it the next win
ter at fifteen dollars"
Charles Chapman replied: LAS nearly
as l can tell, in hay cut before it is in
full blossom the shrinkage has been
about one-sixth From this allow that
it would be more profitable to sell d.
rectly from the field at twelve dollars
per ton than three months afterward at
fifteen dollars, as fifty cents per ton
would not pay for the extra handling of
the hay after allowing for shrinkage.
At eighteen dollars per ton the case
would be reversed, as l could handle the
hay and stand the shrinkage for six dol
lars. When I say two tons per acre.
mean as it comes from the NOW after
seasoning"
The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26

=
reached the ears of the besieged, and
regiment of chasseurs charged and
routed the followers of the prophet in
less time than it takes to relate this
short episode.
It was only when calm bad been re-
stored and when the prisoners captured
in the short combat had been bound
hand and foot that the captain of the
detachment discovered how this regi-
ment of chasseurs had come to his as
sistance at so timely moment. The
cantiniere at the beginning of the en-
gagement had jumped on horse, and
galloping all the way to the encamp-
ment of Medeah, situated some fifteen
miles distant, had summoned help. In
SO doing she may be said to have carried
her life in her hand, for it was only with
the greatest difficulty that she avoided
the Arab outposts. She suffered fright
full fatigue in this mad race across the
burning sands of the desert, pursued by
the awful thoughts that should she not
arrive in time her beloved comrades"
would be butchered before she could
rescue them, and yet it was she who led
the rescuers back to the spot where a
handful of braves had been struggling
for six mortal hours with an overpower-
ing number Of enraged Arabs, and it
was by her energy and well nigh in
credible force of endurance that many
valuable existence was saved that night.
The Duchess de la Rochefoucauld,
mother-in-law to the young American
duchess of the same name, nee Miss
Mitchell, is also an ex-cantiniere.
Of her birth and origin it is impossible
to speak extensively, inasmuch as she
was founding, and as soon as she at
tanned womanhood she became VIVIAN
diere or cantiniere of the regiment in
which her future husband was serving
as officer.
He married her while campaigning in
Algeria, and the mesalliance created an
enormous sensation at the time. Indeed
for cantiniere to marry commissioned
officer was an absolutely unheard of oc
currence, for the highest rank in which
women of her class had until then been
accustomed to look for husband was
that of corporal
AS I said above, although in times of
peace the business of these vivandieres
was restricted to dispensing liquor at
the canteen to the men, yet in warfare
their duties became of a far more extern
sive nature, partaking more of those of
Sisters Of Mercy or ambulance nurses.
They were subjected to very severe