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The morning call., 1893-05-19
SWARMING WITH MURDERERs
Frigitful Condition of India Previous
to the Sepoy nutiny.
st. Louis Star Savings.

Up to the breaking out of the Sepoy re-
belion in India there were no less than 226
different religious creeds in that country,
each having numerous following. There
were no less than thirty-two grades of
caste, and the lines were so rigidly drawn
that it was almost impossible for one to
travel or do business. Even in the ranks
of the troops maintained by the East
India Company everything went by
caste. If soldier of second caste walked
near enough to the campfire of a soldier of
the first caste to cast his shadow across ii,
the fire had to be put out and rebuilt on
another spot.
Out OF regiment numbering 800 men
not more than 100 could use the same vessels
for carrying water for cooking food Up
to the same date it was estimated by Eng
lish statisticians that there were in India
200, 900 professional thugs, 175,000 profess
sional strangers. who used the hands
alone. 100000 professional poisoners and
at least 250,0 900 men who make theft, rob-
berry and murder by violence their daily
and only av0cation. All but the latter class
travelled about as religious devotees and
sheltered themselves behind the mantle of
faith" India was intensely religious
and yet each and every creed
was declared by all others to be
fraud and sham. Every ruler,
even down to the head man of
the village, had arbitrary powers, but so
long as murder and robbery were perpe-
trated in the name of religion the authori-
ties dared not interfere. The British were
in India for money. Previous to the
mutiny they were careful not to interfere
with caste or creed If a British official in
a town on the Nerbudda, Gadavery or
Ganges river counted forty eorpses per
day floating down stream. or If he figured
up 200 murders in a month in his territory
not even an official inquiry was set on foot.
At Nagpoor, 800 miles east of Bombay, the
number OF deaths at the hands of thugs,
strangers, poisoners and professional rob-
beTs during the twelve months preceding
the outbreak was 1884. and yet not one
single criminal was brought to Justice.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
OLD LOVERS REUNITED.
After Many Years They Meet Again
and Are Married.

A little. dried-up old man, who ap-
peared to have seen many years of hard
toll, stood on the Allan State Line dock
Wednesday, and eagerly scanned the faces
of the passengers disembarking from the
steamship Greeian. At last a woman.
also thin and withered and showing that
over the gangway. The little old man saw
her, made rush, and then there was
meeting the ardor OF which would put to
blush the best efforts of many young
couple. They were sweethearts.
The little man was William Crnickshank
of Broo kdale farm, Red Bank, n. j., and the
woman was Miss Mary Ann Taylor, from
Lenabo, Aberd cen SHIRE Scotland. They
had been lovers in the heyday of youth in
bonny Scotland, but something came be-
tween them and William married another.
He went to Canada, where his wife died,
and then he came to the United States,
where lie followed the profession of expert
gardener William finally grew lonesome,
and, hearing that his sweetheart had
never married, he wrote 10 her. Letters
came and went thick and fast and at last
the old maid started across the deep to
sOlace the remaining days OF William.
Manager Roberts of the Adelph Hotel,
40 West Twenty-third street, said last
night that nothing could exceed the tender
solicitude of MIR. Cruickshank for his old
sweetheart. He brought her at once to
the hotel, where in the rece ptiOn-room she
fell i'll and was gently placed upon sofa.
The little old man consulted the clerk
about registering and then he wrote
William Cruickshank and wife"
''As your wife seems ILL" said Mr..
Roberts, You had better take her to your
room and put her to bed" This sugges-
tcn startled the little old man, who OBJ
served, timidly and confidentially: "Well,
you see. she isn't my wife vet. but she will
be if YOU can assist me, and that, too. in a
hurry"
The couple were welded within an hour
by the Rev. E. d. Evans OF the Presby-
teran Church, and now the bride is sick
abed, with the most devoted slave on earth
in the person of the little old man, waiting
upon her as though she were the youngest
and loveliest woman in the land.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
DIET REFORM.
Fruit and Nuts Being Used to Re-
place Bread and Vegetables.

New York Sun
Modern science welds an iconoclastic
club against all our pet theories and tradi-
tions. Bread that has been from time iul-
memorial regarded as the staff of life is,
according TO the new gospel of beauty ex-
pounded by Dr. Helen Dinsmore, RESPONSE
Bile for much of the nervous irritation and
prostration of the age and leads to intem-
peranee. The little child cries for banana
and is persuaded to eat large quantities of
bread under promise of the fruit as re-
ward. According to DR.. Helen and her
theory. as quoted by the New York Sun.
the child's desire for fruit is a natural ana
reasonable one which should be INDUCED
10 the fullest extent.
Bread and all cereals, according to the
new philosophy of dietetics, are not di-
gested by the stomach but rather in the
lntestines, where the digestive power is
less vigorous aud Is overtaxed in assmilat-
ing them. The strain upon the nervous
system involved calls for a pick-me-up
first in the form of tea and coffee or to-
hscco, and finally wine or alcohol. Vege-
table foods, from their excessive potash,
demand large quantities of salt. which in
turn paves the way by depressing the Der-
yUus system for the use of narcotics and
stimulants.
Fruit and nuts. on the contrary, are
adapted to the tastes and appetites of man
without the addition of salt or irritating
spices; are more easily digested and assmi-
lated than cereals and vege tables, and
furnish the same supply to the waste of the
body that bread laboriously digested less
naturally furnishes.
The system is too intricate for presenta-
ton in full, but the diet recommended by
both DR.. Helen and her husband, Dr.
Dinsmore, consists primarily of fruits and
nuts, but sweet fruits supplemented by
milk and eggs or mild cheese are recon-
mended during the transition of diets, es-
pecially for vegetariaUs. One invalid was
brought out of dangerous Illness by eat
ing two figs with teacup of milk three
times day. Increasing the amount gra1u-
ally until now she eats four ounces Of
Tunis dates. halt a pint of milk three times
a day, two eggs. little fresh butter and
few ground pine kernels every day.
Another woman is thriving and working
on eight ounces of Hallonl dates, one-half
pint of milk and one ounce of pine kernels
for breakfast, and figs, dates, milk and
nuts for the other meals, which are taken
at intervals of six hours three times day
An elderly woman who is taking the diet
has corrected the tendency to obesity
from which she suffered, her hair has n OF
lost It's color, her eyes require no specta-
cles, and everywhere she is taken for her
own sons wife or sister. According to
DR.. Dinsmore, when this diet becomes uni
versal beauty Will come to be recognized
as no more the properly of youth than of
age. The athletic form of age. with its
open and unwrinkled brow, will have no
gray deformity, no deadly germs OF Ian
gour and diseases. no wrinkles, but per-
feet hearing, clear eyesight, sound teeth,
elastic step. physical vigor and spiritual
cOntentment.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
WOMEN WITH MUSTACHES.
A German Professor Thinks the
Bearded Beauty Is Coming.
Lnndnn Standard


& learned German, who has devoted him
self to the study of physiology, anthro-
pology and allied sciences, makes a rather
startling assertion that mustaches are be-
coming commoner among women ia the
present day than in the past. He says, as
quoted by the London Standard, that in
COnstantinople, among the unveiled women
that are to be met with, one out of ten pos
sesses an mistakabls covering of down
on the upper lin. In the capital of Spain,
again, the proportion of ladies with this
masculine Characteristic is said to be quite
equal to that Observable on the Golden
Il m. An American medical man states
that in Philadelphia fully per cent of the
adult fair sex are similarly adorned. and
probably the proportion would be still
larger but that many women take the
trouble to eradicate the unwelcome growth
by the application of depilatory prepara-
tions.
Is this increase in the number of women
with hair on their faces to be regarded as
a sign that the human race is improving
Very few men, at all events, will be dis
posed to consider that a mustache adds to
the charms of the opposite sex. English
men, indeed, only a generation ago, had
such detestation of mustaches and
boards that the practice of shaving all hair
off their face down to their mutton-chop
whiskers was ali but universal. From
one extreme our clean-shayen fathers
plunged into the other, and boards and
mustaches rapidly became the fashion
The fashion has Of late years again been
modified Boards are less common, but
the nustache is cultivated in England as
widely as on the continent. But why
should the fair sex be visited by this in
fiction? Some writer's on ethnology held
that the higher races of mankind are alt
ways the haiyer, and Mr.. Mott thinks tha-
in few centuries men and women will all
be clothed with hair.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
THE WALRUS.
How the Meat Tastes-Wtat the
Great Creatures Live Upon.

As the walrus lay upon the ice their i'm
mense bulk and massive forms could be
better appreciated. says a writer III ST.
Nicholas Lieutenant Schwatka described
the walrns as ''huge seals. with upper
canine teeth prolonged into tusks." These
tusks are usually from one to two feet in
length, and have seen some that were
two and a half and even three feet long.
When full grown the tusk weighs about
five pounds. Their length does not seem
to be dependent upon either the age or size
of the animal, as often a young, small wal
rus will have long tusks.
The average weight of the animal is
about ton, and ours weighed between
1900 and 1900 pounds. One was 10, the
other 13 feet long. They attain, however,
length of from Is to IS feet, and half as
much around the foroflippers The flip
pers are some two feet long. and capable,
when extended, of covering a con nsiderable
area and of forcing the animal rapidly
through the water Warus also use
these dipDers to protect wounded CON-
rades or to carry their offspring. The in
side of these paws is covered by horny
skin that serves to protect their palms in
scrambling around overthe rough ice.
The walrus flppers, when properly
cooked. are considered great delicacy by
the Eskimos. The flavor of the flipper
is very similar to that of the coarser CLANS
The meat did not seem as delicate as that
of the seal or narwhal. The flesh Of the
walrus is protected by thick blanket OF
fat-the blubber-which enables it to resist
the icy waters of the Arctic seas. The fat
yields nearly barrel of oil. The hides
and tusks also are valuable. The hide is
used by the Eskimos to make soles for
their boots, or kamilks, and it is also cut
into strips for their harpoon lines. 1t is
from one to one and half inches thick
The formidable tusks are used as weap-
ons Of offense and defense, and also, it is
stated, to gather their food, the clans.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
We're the Hardest-working Nation.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

Cl. LOulS OlODe- -DemOcTdt.
''lt is quite a mistake" said Walter
Meacham. ito say We have too many
national and special holidays in this coun-
try. On the average men work 3O6 days in
the year in the United States. whereas in
England the average is only 278. In Scot
land it is three days less. while in Bavaria,
Belgium. France. Denmark and most of
the German provinces the number of days
il only 800. In many parts Of Canada it
is not possible to work more than 27O days
in the year. The United States heads the
list, and although commercial and build
ing activity creates demand for labor
which is largely accOunts bic for this activ-
ity, the absence OF holidays has als- some
thing to do with it. Men can prosper with
only working on an average 800 days in
the year, and it would be very good
thing il this country would designate a
lew national holidays like the bank holi-
days OF England. on which little recrea-
tion could be taken. Foreigners are apt to
take the closing of share ana grain ex-
changes for national holidays. but nine
tenths of the population are not even
aware when the spectators are taking a
days holiday. and their hours of labor
are not affected ~
The morning call., 1893-05-19
KRUPP'S GREAT CANNON.
How the Worlds Largest Gun Looks
at Chicago.

Chicago special to the st. Louis star Sayings.
The largest cannon in the world, the
work or Herr Krupp. the gunmaker of
Essen. is now in position on its carriage in
the Krupp pavilion at the Worlds Fair
and is the exposure of all eyes. Krupp's
mammoth engine Of war is 81 feet long and
weighs 270.000 pounds. The range of the
monster is sixteen miles, and single gun
ner by simply touching a lever may send
a 2300-pound steel projectile crashing
through the buildings OF a city over five
leagues distant.
The diameter of the big guns yawning
mouth is 16% inches. The barrel was first
bored from solid piece of steel. Great
rings of the same metal were then shrunk
about it until it was built up enormously
thick at the breech, where the strain of
the explosion comes primarily. From the
breech the great gun tapers gracefully to
the muzzle. As it costs S1100 for n siEg gle
load the gun will probably never becom q
popular for firing salutes. If it were used,
for instance, to do honor to Presiden t
Cleveland, the 2l-gun pyrOtechnics would
cost about S2300
The carriage upon which the great gun
rests is built of STEEL the different parts
revolving on ball bearings. Cog-wheels,
levers and multiple chains are 80 arranged
that it is easy work for the gunner to raise
or lower or turn In any direction the
long barrel of shining steel. At tho rear
there are steps leading to the platform, on
which the gun crew is placed when the
piece is in action.
Herr Krupp's agents do not hail the
story that the great gun is to be presented
to Chicago when the fair is over with any
display Of enthusiasm. Ii their chief has
any such idea in view they know nothing
of it. and after the fair the gun will un-
doubtedly be returned to the works in
Essen. The gun cost about S250,000. and
Herr Krupp has expended 500 900 in
mounting it at Chicago
The morning call., 1893-05-19

cuban hacienda. The house, surrounded
oy the graceful foiiage of the tropics, was
situated on slight rise of ground not far
from the waters of our Mexican sea. and
commanded view of its sparkling waves.
l ne scene IN the soft, spripglike winter of
mat low latitude was picture in itself;
Dut lew would have hesitated tOpron0unce
the woman fairer than the landscape.
though still young, yet there was such
lines on her face as one usually ascribes
TO the etching of time," and there was
peculiar melancholy in the curve OF the
mouth that seemed to have been framed
for smiles only.
She was watching a child at play on the
lawn, when the sound of advancing foot
steps from tile direction of the sea at
tracted her attention. A handsome man,
in the prime OF life, was approaching the
house, and she rose and went forward to
meet him.
His face had very open. genial express
sion, and appeared to be the mirror of an
ardent and impuSVe nature. Like hers.
however, his countenance bore traces of
mental suffering.
We'll, Dearest" said he, after tender
greeting, here Is letter full Of good
news IL is from Cousin Harry, and in
forms me that since the epidemic desolated
our part of the country and my relatives
showed such kindness and charity 10 the
sick, regardless to past enmity, there has
been gradual change of sentiment toward
them. Besides, Mr.. W. who was tie
leader in keeping the feud alive, died last
month, and his family has moved to a
distant State. Harmony and friendship
are now the rule there. SO they all beg me
to return to my Old home What say
you?"
Her reply was iDanGible, for she leaned
| her head upon his shoulder and wept..
"Ah, yes" he continued, as his face
clouded with a dark shadow of remem-
bIance, Il have not forgotten that the
same epidemic took away our hrst-oorn
! before she ever saw her father, and also
caused your fathers death.
Our deception was bitterly punished" !"
N murmured the wife.
True. Yet you cannot doubt that the
punishment was sufficient, since we have
been granted so much happiness here?"
mo" she replied; 81 have had to- much
happiness since l joined you here two
years'ag0 to doubt that: but, oh! the mem
ory of that hateful time when my life was
living lie can never wholly be etfaced.
And YET" added she, turning to embrace
the child, as it toddled toward her, Though
feel supremely blessed wherever you and
our boy are. | often long for the old
familiar scenes of my childhood. and so |
shall he glad to return as soon as you can
arrange matters here"
''Hurrahl' lie cried. and snatching up
the baby he tossed ii in his arms. Mimic.
mo, you will soon be an Ame rican citizen.
and l shall try TO make you a better one
than l have en."-Violet Lindsay in
New Orleans Times Democrat
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Humor of the Commons.
Manchester Times.

Sir John Lubbock, NJ. P, in a recent
address described some amusing incidents
of the House of Commons. A member
from the other side of the Tweed. alIuding
to the vote Of 60. 100000 in support of the
Afghan war, described it as "a fieabite in
the ocean," Another. while advocating
an increase to the European troops en-
ployed in India, remarked: You may
depend upon it, sir. the pale face of the
British soldier is the backbone of the
Indian army" Mr.. Sullivan once de-
livered speech on the relative merits of
Irish and Scotch whisky. He was com
laining that Scotch whisky was intro
duced into Ireland and passed of as
genuine Irish" "The stuff" he said.
"is so bot that it goes down the throat
like torchlieht procession"
In 1879 a young Irishman got up very
late TO speak Oh a particular subject. He
The morning call., 1893-05-19
WEIGHT OF A CROWD.
Experiments Show 1t IS From l40 to
$50 Pounds Per Square Foot.
Engineering News

Engineering News.
The load which is produced by dense
crowd of persons is generally taken at so
to 100 pounds per square foot and is con-
sidered to be the greatest uniformly dis
tributed load for which floor need be
proportioned. That this value may be
largely exceeded in an actual crowd was
pointed cut by Professor w. G. Kernot OF
the Melbourne University, Australia. in
recent paper before the Victorian Insti-
tute of Engineers. In an actual trial a
class of students averaging 1855 pounds
each in weight were crowded il lobby
containing 1928 square feet, making an
average floor load of 134.7 pounds. There
was still room to have placed another
man, which would have brought up the
lOaGing to 1881 pounds per square foot.
Professor KernOt also quoted from
Stoney, VITO placed ffty-eight Irish
laborers. averaging 145 pounds each in
weight, in an empty snip deckhouse meas
uring 81 square feet floor area. This was
a load of 1874 pounds per square loot. In
another test, with seventy-three lab0rers
crowded into hut 8 feet by 8 feet inches,
St0ney produced Il load of 143 pounds per
square foot and estimated that two or
three more men could have been squeezed
in. 1t appears from these eXper lmen,s
that while the figures ordinarily assumed
of so TO 100 pounds are sufficiently correct
for spaces on which there is no cause 10 in
duce the collection OF great crowds. larger
figures, say 40 10 $50 pounds per square
foot, should be used for railway stations
and platforms, entrances and exits TO
places of public assemblies or OF office
buildings, bridge sidewalks, pavements
over vaults and other places were dense
crowds are likely to gather.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Prohibition Gastronomy.
New York Sun.


Prohibitiouists repudiate the use of
wine in all the processes of cooking. This
by no means precludes them from the en-
joymenl of gastronomy. There still re-
mains to them, for the purposes of flavor
ing, the foundations of the culinary edi-
fice-onions, garlic, lemon, sweet herbs
and spices. With judicious and intelli-
gent use of these the employment of wine
as fiavoring element is one rather Of
sentiment than OF practical necessiry. The
use of vegetables in imparting flavor to a
sauce may be accomplished with great ex-
padition by a process of which no mention
is made in any printed formula. If it is
desired to secure, for example, the flavor
OF onions. this vegetable. in its raw state,
may be cut into convenient portions and
its juice expressed with a lemon-squeezer
This is added to sauce q moment before
il is removed from the fire. The same
method may be employed with celery.
turnips, or any other vegetable sufficiently
equipped with the watery element. With
this process sauce may be concocted in
five minutes or less, which, under the con :
ventiOnal method, would require yery
much longer time
The morning call., 1893-05-19
A WOMAN'S DREAM.
Utopian Vision of the Girl of the
Future.

1OtAEG.
st. Louis Republic.
Mrs. Ruth G. ID. Havens of Washington
recently formulated for the Society of
Wimodaughsis most interesting prospec-
tus for the ''girl of the future"
''Ths girl of the new era," says Mrs.
Havens, "if she marries, will be set free
by cooperative methods from househ old
drudgery. Half the families on a square
will enjoy one luxurious. well-appointed
dining-room, where the expenses will be
divided among the families aad where ex-
cellent cooking and wholesome diet will be
served. We are passing dangerously
through the era of animal sacrifice. sweet
ened starch. boilded dough and celluloid
pie. The girl OF the future will abandon
these means of suicide and adopt whole
some, natural diet. largely of the fruits
which come to us in such orderly success
sion and generous abundance.
"HOusecleaniug will cease to be buga-
boo, for the house of the future will be
cleaned by companies organized for the
purpose, and will be the work of day in
stead of the labor of weeks. It's results
from disease instead OF backache, ner-
vous pr0stration, collapse and an influx of
patent medicines.
The girl of the future will select her
own avocntiOn. Ii she be houSeworker,
as majority prefer to be. she will be so
valuable by means of good training as to
command great respect and good wages.
''If she be an architect or jsweler. an
electrical engineer or q steam piow driver,
she will not ROB 4 cook by mutilating q
dinner or a dressmaker by amateur cut
ting any sooner than she Will buy pine
and birthstone and make her own matches
Matches are satisfactory already. Cock
ing will be when cooks choose their pro-
fession tor love of it and are trained, and
paid, and honored. and people are fined
who cook without knowing how. The
dressmaker. by preparation, will be an
artist, and the girl of the future will not
come apart at unreasonable times in public
places.
$50 it viii seem that. although "a minor
ity of the girls of the future will some
times choose and prepare to be astron-
0mers or civil engineers instead Of house
keepers, the home of the future and The
husband-and in this case he spells it with
big H-will not be left TO the mercy OF
incompetent and exas perating servants.
The househelper of tie future will not be
incompetent because the development and
training of woman for her best and truest
work will have extended to her. She will
preside in your kitchen with skill and
science, and you will not pay her Sc a
month and offer her precarious ironing
board across two chairs for a bed"