tion, he prepared himself for college, and supported himself while in college with means earned by teaching. After leaving college Mr. FOWLER was associated in business with CALEB CALKINS, in the office of Hon. GERRIT SMITH, '18, of Peterboro. He studied law in the office of Noxon, Leavenworth and Comstock, Syracuse, and was admitted to the bar in Cooperstown, August II, 1846. From 1847 he practiced law at Canastota. Here, at various times, he held the office of justice of the peace, town clerk, supervisor, school commissioner, village president and trustee. He was county clerk of Madison county 1862-65, and in 1867-68 was a member of the constitutional convention from the Madison-Oswego district. He married, August 11, 1840, ANN JENNETTE CURTIS, daughter of JOHN G. CURTIS, of Peterboro. He survived his wife five years, leaving three daughters and one son: Mrs. ALGENIA KNOX WARNER, Mrs. FLORENCE A. ANDERSON, Mrs. MAUD EDGERTON, of Canastota, and JOHN C. FOWLER, '69, of Syracuse.

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BECKWITH-ROUX.-On Wednesday, June 5, 1889, by Rev. Samuel Manning, Dr. WARD M. BECKWITH, '80, of Westmoreland, and Mlle. MARIE L. Roux, of Lausanne, Switzerland.

DAYTON-HORR.-At Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 1888, Rev. EDSON CARR Dayton, '81, pastor of Presbyterian Church in Mandan, N. Dakota, and Miss AMY DARNALL HORR, daughter of FULTON M. HORR.

BALL-HULBURD.-At Lawrenceville, N. Y., on Thursday evening, May 23, 1889, Rev. ROBERT II. BALL, '86, pastor of the Congregational Church in Fairhaven, Vt., and Miss MARY E. HULBURD, of Lawrenceville, N. Y.

RODGERS-BIGELOW.-In Sayre Memorial Church, Utica, at 2:30 P. M. June 5, 1889, by Rev. DANA W. BIGELOW, '65, assisted by Rev. Dr. E. A. HUNTINGTON, of Auburn, Rev. JAMES BURTON RODGERS, '85, of Albany, and Miss ANNA VAN VECHTEN BIGELOW, daughter of Rev. DANA W. BIGELOW, '65, pastor of Sayre Memorial Church, Utica.

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SUCCESSFUL JUNIOR PRIZE ESSAY.

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands

Like some grave, mighty thought threading a dream ;
And time and things, as in that vision seem
Keeping along it their eternal stands."

THEN the light of written history dawns over Egypt,

W

we find the Nile flowing through the country it had made, as a land and as a nation, and stamping its impress on the character and customs of the people. Go as far back as we may, under the guidance of Pliny, Herodotus, Homer and Manetho, or reading the story of the past from the monuments it has left, we find on its banks a civilized nation with an established religion and a settled philosophy. Even then its source, shrouded in romantic mystery, roused curious explorers to futile efforts, as it has in many later generations, until at last the secret has yielded to the persistent energy of the nineteenth century.

Rising in the great equatorial basins of Central Africa, the Nile cut for itself a channel through the sand and rock of the Libyan desert. This channel is the valley of the Nile -Egypt. The river, swelled here and there by mighty tributaries for twenty-eight hundred miles of its course, flows northward; then still onward over a thousand miles without

an affluent until it empties into the Mediterranean. On each side the Libyan hills and the desert crowd down almost to the water's edge; but a channel is maintained whose average width is about seven miles. The river, ordinarily but a few hundred yards in breadth, during the annual overflow covers the whole valley. All inhabited Egypt becomes a lake dotted with artificial mounds of refuge.

This inundation, caused by the heavy rainfall in Abyssinia, begins in June, reaches its height in September, and subsides two months later. As there is no rain in Egypt the dwellers on the river banks watch the rising waters with the greatest anxiety. Centuries ago Nilometers were arranged to record its daily rise. If the water does not reach a certain point the portions farthest from the river are left hard and dry and famine ensues; if the overflow is excessive much property is lost and the lives of the inhabitants are endangered. "They take the flow o' the Nile

By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know

By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if death

Or poison follow. The higher Nilus swells

The more it promises; as it ebbs the seedsman
Upon the slime scatters his grain;

And shortly comes the harvest."

To this inundation, Egypt owes its all; and, with rare exceptions, its gifts have been continuous. The river, year by year scooping up the soil of Central Africa with its sluggish yet powerful current, bears it down and spreads it over the barren soil of the valley. When the waters retire, a coating of rich mud remains making the country wonderfully fertile. Owing to the extreme blackness of this veneer, both river and land were called, in the language of ancient Egypt, Khem, the Black.

But the work of the Nile as maker of Egypt did not end with the conquest of its valley from the desert. It deposited yearly part of its burden at its mouth; and so the Delta grew and became the most fertile part of this fruitful land. In olden times, when its work was hardest, the Nile had seven mouths by which to pour its waters into the sea. Now that the Delta is formed, all but two have been abandoned by this seemingly thoughtful river.