Show al iii lit it C 0 it odi ori ii r F aroll tob TOR HARD hand TIMES credit na a man to know the real nor to have bave full control it presents all ail his hisch cx ftp 14 ahe phe aggregate and not in de tar tap 10 eairy VO y one has lias more or less of the A iove love of money of the actual ieves and the crisp bank notes W I 1 I 1 ll 11 ayou have these things in yo ir p OP sou you see them as you make your p sq u iras lars visibly diminishing under your esp ere tile the lessening heap cries to yOp top you would like to buy t at and the other but you know 1 l how I 1 10 w much money you have I 1 ca 1 t if you go on buying more things til your purse will soon be empty wm p not na see bee this ms when you take CE bredt cr edt IN f d you give your orders freely w without but thought or calculation and the day of payment comes you fina find a Viat lat you have overrun the tho c consta ansta bjern on every hand wo see people I 1 un y j u Z on er credit dit putting off pay payday day to the last st making in in the thin end some des e c effort either cither by begging or bor rg to scrape tho the money together an ax Lithen tilen struggle on again I 1 with the cant cann canker r of care eating cating at their heart to inevitable the goal of bankruptcy if people palo P would only paki waki make mako a push at the bainn I 1 ng instead of tho ho end they wp wold woid 1 id save themselves all ail this misery tae great secretor secret of being solvent and agrada weli well 1 to do and comfortable is to get ahead of your expenses eat and drink this month mouth what you earned last month not what you are going to earn next month there are no doubt many persons so unfortunately situated that they can never accomplish this no N 0 man can guard against ill health no man can insure himself a well con ducted helpful family or a permanent income there will always be people who cannot help their misfortunes but as a rule these unfortunates are far less trouble to society than those in a better position who bring their misfortunes upon themselves by deliberate recklessness and extravagance you may help a poor honest struggling man to some purpose but the utmost you can do for an unthrift is thrown away you ca give v e him money you have earned by hard r d labor ho spends it in pleasure which you have never permitted yourself to enjoy the best pleasures those which sweeten life most and leave no bitterness behind are cheap pleasures greater pleasure can man enjoy than the sense of being free and independent eident the man with his fino fine house ils gig his glittering carriage and his rich banquets for which alch aich mich he llo is in debt is a slave a prisoner forever dragging his chains behind him through all the grandeur of the false world through which be lie in moves oves ati A all 11 the tho year wound hound EARLY earny PRINTERS PRINT ems the first printers prin tera were titans and they performed a titanic work they were no mero mere skillful mechanics or floding artisans they were what the exigencies of their task required them to be scholars patriots philanthropists among the first of their a age ae 0 e they were men of large lare iare inre lar e intelligence intelli genc e with a right conception of the new power which printing had introduced into the world and a clear consciousness that they were laboring for the illumination and improvement pro of the species and they ca caught aught the inspiration of their lofty mission they addressed themselves to their work with the hearts of heroes and I 1 in n tile the spirit of martyrs mar tyra the difficulties were enormous the early printer had often himself to prepare lepare the work he was to print either ey by translation ran or by original authorship he 11 had adao to make his own printing lectured press ress he cast his own types and manufactured his own ink he was com rositor and pressman and corrector of 16 ie press he had to bind his own book he was his own editor publisher and ana bookseller the outlay of inon luon money 0 was waa necessarily great some embarks embarked a small fortune in the enterprise and were werd ruined one after laying out a large lar g e sum on apparatus and materials and spending years at his task died brokenhearted broken hearted probably before he had finished tho the printing of the book when his materials and his unfinished work wele were sold for a trifle two german printers who carried their theft pre presses uses to rome complain antl in a supplication to the pope that at vast cost and labor they had printed twelve thousand volumes but for want of buyers they were no longer able to bear th the expense of housekeeping their dwelling was full of quires of printed books but ut destitute of every necessary and comfort others encountered the opposition of malignant despot iams isms and suffered death for their heroic efforts in the cause of human enlighten ment it was by such struggles sacrifices and sufferings that the press conquered for its itself eif elf and so for knowledge knowledg 6 and for truth a wo worldwide world rid wide wido empire T these liese ilese early printers were a noble race i and deserve to be held in veneration as among the first benefactors of mankind the printer prints how now TO FALL AsiE asle aslene Bp the T great point to be gained jn order to secure rin sin sleep p is to escape from thought especially pecia peel ally aily ly from clinging tenacious imperious thought which in most cases of thought wakeful wakefulness ne ss has hab las possession of the mind I 1 always paint onn act this by the following biln slin simple pie process procesa Ep I 1 turn my ray eyeballs as far to the right or left or upward or downa downward ard as I 1 can without pain and then commence rolling them slowly with that divergence from a direct line of vision around in their soc sockets keti and continue doing thus until I 1 fall asleep which occurs generally within three mi minutes always within five at the most tiie the immediate effect of this procedure differs from that of any other that I 1 have ever heard to procure sleep it not five file inertly rely diverts thought into a new I 1 channel but actually y suspends it since I 1 became aware of this thia I 1 have endeavored deavo red innumerable times while thus rolling my eyes to think upon a particular subject and and even upon that which h before kept he pt me awake but I 1 could not As long iong long iong aa as they were were moving around my mind was blank if any an one doubts this let him try the experiment for himself I 1 wish he would let him pauso pause just here and make it I 1 venture to assure him that if he makes it in good faith in the manner described the promise of a penny for his thought or for each of them while the operation asin ia in progress will add very little to his wealth such being its effect we cannot wonder that it should bring sleep to a nervous and wakeful man manat at night the philosophy of the matter is very simple A suspension of thought is to the mind what a suspension of travel or labor is to a weary body dody it enjoys the luxury of rest tile the strain upon its faculties is removed it falls asleep as naturally as the farmer in his chair after toiling all day in his fields ex tm THE ANTIQUITY OP OF THE HOTTEN ROTTEN TOTS A remarkable ethnological problem is represented by the appearance of a race in the southern province of africa entirely different from the southern african family both in physique and in language a race of copper color and low development amid dark races of noble physical structure and separated from them both by mental peculiarities and by a language langu agn presenting features exhibited in no other tongue the people the hottentots Hotten tots are supposed to be the oldest people on the south african continent and among the evidences of this is the fact that tile the rivers even in the chuana Bc territory bear names though found found principally on the southern point odthe promontory of africa various fragments of their tribes are met with far in ill the interior even north of lake egami as if the race had been gradually pressed pressed down from the tiie north by more powerful tribes it is an instance oatlie vitality of race that the Bakala dari darl the poorest of the tribes living side by side with the bushmen the most degraded of the hottentots Hotten tots 4 under precisely rec ree isely the same circumstances are as different from them aa as they tiley ever were the former forme r fet few gladly adly raising whenever r possible a few pumpkins or keeping a few goats and the latter scorning any culture of the tile ground or care of cattle and preferring the wild life and the poor game or vermin which the tiie desert i furnishes the people have live been gradually disappearing before the i attacks of civilization in the begin ning 0 of f the last centar century y a number of tribes were settled on the southeast south east coast between the cape and the river kat some of t these he so have been entirely exterminated others have become scattered servants of the colonists or have entered the regiment in the colonial army while a considerable body of emigrants have settled themselves on the winter mountain near the kat hat river the whole guiber number is not thought to exceed 2000 the eam races of the old world lin liz orld by G L bruce GUNS AND SHIP ARMOR acmor the naval ordnance bureau claims to have settled a question which has excited a great deal of discussion in england and france whether ships can be plated so as to resist tile tiie heaviest artillery the annual report which has hasquet just been sent I 1 to congress says the power of the guns belonging to the navy and in cottmon common usein use in the batteries of our ships snips nave have been tested against both solid and built bulit up places and the conclusion reached is ia wholly in favor of the guns and their solid projectiles the spherical shot for smooth bores being however immeasurably superior to the elongated rifle shot in every form forin that is to say no manner or thickness of iron or steel ar mor that could be carried on the hulls of seagoing sea going ships will resist the impact of solid shot fired from from the heaviest calibre of the tho navy at close range with appropriate charges of cannon callnon 0 P powder 0 ader this result has been deac reached j by the fabrication of simple globes of iron solid throughout a thing heretofore considered impossible with large spherical shot it is now known beyond question that it is easy to cast a 15 inch or 20 inch shot which will be perfectly sound and solid from circumference er n e to center of figure and one of the former has resisted without breaking continuous blows of an 8 ston ton steam hammer this being decided tho solution of the tho remaining elements of the problem of or guns against st armor is of easy process for thanks to the skill of our artisans arti the cannon required require d to hurl these compact masses of bf iron with the high velocities due to heavy charges of powder arc are readily obtained MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN ix DAHOMEY the marriage Is soine goine what complicated the aspirant sends to his intended father in laws house a mail man and a acoman woman with two double flasks flacks of afrum rum these open the affair after many preliminaries by saying our uncle wishes to wed one of your girls the parent inquires and learns learna the suitors name after which the proxies retire if asa returns a favorable reply the family is informed of the comin coming g event ent and the empty flacks flasks are sent bac bae baek back ev to signify consent and grant af flance affiance this honoris lionor honor or Is acknowledged by two other and full flacks flasks and at the same time two heads of dowries cowries and two cottons for his fiancee being forwarded by coolers Coo lebs he then collects as much cloth as he can and this task may occupy three years during which he is expected to perform all customs which the girl may have have omitted emitted such as sacrifice for her mother and other relatives on the happy day daysi which is always sunday three messengers with flacks flasks of rum are sent by the bridegroom at morning noon and sunset to beg their daughter from her parents A large cortege brings the bride to her future 0 homo home the tho father and mother are seated upon chairs and then ensues a agen general crai cral feast and carouse as man many goats and pig pigs S as possible being cooks cooked the banquet begins with rum and water and ends wl wi thrum in bartons eur Bur burtons tons mission to the kung king of dahomey electric clocks have become ery very cry 9 general beneral in france within the I 1 last ast few years several of the chief lines of railway as well as a number of public buildings in paris being timed in this manner it is is now proposed to erect small clock towers simple columns with dials on all sides in the main thoroughfares of paris the hands of the whole of the dials will be put in movement by an electric current from the observatory tim THE recent snow storms in idaho territory have been so severe that the roofs of several dwelling houses in placerville erville idaho city and other othen places fell in from the weight of the snow the new atlantic cable cabie now nearly completed isa is a wonder of mechanical mechanic 4 skill there are seven copper wires eneli each 2200 2290 miles long for a conductor these are coated with eight of an insulating material and this core then covered with jute te yarn wound round it from ten stu strands s then comes colnes the outer coating formed of the ten covered iron wires sv ires the iron wire itself is miles in length and each wire wiro is covered separately with five strands of tarred hemp miles bisp of the latter being required making together an aggregate length of material employed of miles or nearly as much as would put ten girdles round the earth or form a line that would stretch almost from the earth to the moon |