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Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
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DANGER IN SLEEPING CARS.
Bertha Scored as Filthy- and Disease
Laden by- American Health
Association.
1 The filthy and disease-laden sleep
ing car has been duly scored by the
American Health association. At the
meeting in Washington, says the Star,
the subject was very thoroughly dis
cussed from a sanitary standpoint.
Although the facts regarding the culp
able uncleanliness of berths are ad
mitted by the public, their rehearsal
from time to time helps to emphasize
the necessity for reform.
The railroad companies are always
ready with excuses against bettering
conditions. Their business is to
avoid trouble and save expense. The
casual traveler may growl as much as
he chooses, but is oftener contented
to submit to an infliction rather than
suffer the humiliation of a fruitless
appeal to authority.
No one needs be told that the ordi
nary heavy curtained and ill-ventilated
• night car is a veritable propagator of
infectious diseases. What better could
I be expected when the nightly used
blankets, as claimed by one speaker,
are cleansed but once in six months?
And, pray, what power exists to call
officials to account? What is the real
guarantee for the sleeper that he is
absolutely sife from the germs left
for him trom the previous customer?
T-c on.y remedy rests in the ordinary
honesty cf the common carrier,
f Ore of the railroad experts rather
plausibly claimed that it was not fair
to icquire raih-oads to spend large
sums of money for sanitary purposes
until they knew where they stood. As
if, in truth, there were any doubts con
cerning the efficacy of absolute cleanli
ness, perfect ventilation and thorough
disinfection—all easy enough of ap
plication when there is a will for the
way.
CAUSE OiTbaD SPELLING.
Repetition the Only Seeret of Learn*
lnB to Spell for Persons with
Average Memories.
Probably it is a mistake to say that
any person with an average memory
cannot learn to spell. As there is a
lack of analogy in the spelling of
words, learning to spell is chiefly a
matter of memory. Repetition is the
| only secret about it, says the Philadel
| phia Record. There are some aids, but
it is the words to which there is no
j guide which are the common source
| of trouble. Persons who do not spell
well have simply neglected the study
of orthography and are not entitled to
sympathy. Operators of typewriting
machines who have considered them
selves the victims of a defective or
thographical memory have often be
come good spellers through practice.
In a vast proportion of cases bad
spelling may be traced to wrong pro
nunciation, which is even more fre
i quent than is wrong spelling. Prob
ably the modern methods of instruction
have something to do with the number
| of bad spellers among fairly educated
people. The old spelling-bee system
insured repetition. In recent years the
writing of the spelling lesson has in
many schools taken the place of the
oral system. The men and women who
had gone through the district school of
j half a century or more ago were al
ii most invariably good spellers. If, as
I the Evanston councilmen maintain,
j spelling be a gift, it is apparent that
; | It is not bestowed on man as liberally
as formerly. .. |
GUN-MAKING IN CHINA.
Every Form of Munition of War, from
Rifles to Heavy Artillery,
Made by Natives'.
A correspondent of the Lahore Civil!
and Military Gazette visited one of the
Chinese arsenals and thus put down his
impressions: "Finally we were taken,
among other places, to the great Chi-!
nese arsenal some way beyond treaty i
I limits, where every form of munition of I
war, from rifles to 45-ton guns, was be
: ing made. We wandered through a
wilderness of factories, covering acres
! of ground, and were shown the whole
1 process of manufacture. And there
were powder factories and other insti
tutions not far away which we had no
| time to visit. That was, perhaps, the
most significant experience of all. You
may have seen gun factories before, but
have you seen a place turning out
great guns by the dozen, and machine
guns by the hundred, perfect in design
and construction, run, from coolie to
j head mandarin, entirely by Chinese, and j
! with only a couple of Englishmen en- |
gaged solely in consultative supervision?
Have you seen a roomful of Chinese
; draughtsmen and designers in pigtails
and blue gowns solemnly, stolidly and
j assiduously getting out the drawings for I
| a new gun? It is a sight that furnishes :
food for thought. And as you leave I
; you ask yourself the question: ‘If these \
men can make guns, why may they not
i work them some day!’ ”
Cnrlnua Savage Cniiom,
Maj. Powell-Cotton, who recently ex
plored a part of central Africa never be
fore visited by white men, writes’
| “Among the Klmager the women go
completely naked, but the men are
j clothed. I secured some photographs
of a tribesman and his two wives hoe
ing the family plot. One of these shows
a curious fashion of skin decoration In
vogue among the womenfolk. It is a j
raised pattern wrought on the body
when they are young. Small incisions,
geometrically arranged, are made in the
skin and into these ashes are inserted.
The wounds heal in permanent raised
lumps.”
We Take Mora Than Half.
The United States uses more than
! five-eighths of the diamond output of
: the world. In two years the total ad
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Memphis To
One way, $6.50. I Corsicana, Waco, Ft. Worth, Dallas,
Round trip, $10.00. I Gainesville, Greenville, Commerce, Sher
I man, Paris and all intermediate points.
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Memphis To
One way, $6.50. I All points in Indian and Oklahoma
Round trip, $10.00. I Territories, and all joints intermediate, in
I Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.
Tickets on sale I
March 1st and 15. I mW*
Amarilla, Houston, Galveston, Cor
I pus Christi, San Antonio, Kerrville,
I Brown wood, Brady, San Angelo, Rock?
I port, and all intermediates, $8.00 one way,
I $13.00 Round trip.
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). N. CORNATZAR,
General Agent,
MEMPHIS* TENN.
GEO, a LEE, i
General Passenger, Agent,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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