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life, iiwaie ol pliVM.-al debility, quii Klj -sifteil.
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are prepi red t our iabntalory exact I to sui'
each c rr. t lui" etlect i i -1 cm e w il II 11' lnjuiA
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Under -. va l'li'-iiiidit "-i.s miy h.-us an
d"i. meil t' tie ill liy ni.-,- 'p. mercy Im Cain
th owne s f.Jl to iake meauies to pr serve
their health.
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Arrest Disease, rtyent Disease,
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th uli in tit y ti nes eh I r i w.i- in lie neigh
borhood. ' . i el JJeiiin-tt. -Neb.
Y':lir reinedv st pped my h. us a':''
saved me fioni Ivjcrt.' l.t. eileiisi-k, r-.yr -cuse,
Neb.
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Wagons, Busrsie". Machines Qu'ek'y Repaired ;
flow Nliar'ie ied ana IJeneral
. Jobbing Done.
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SIXTH ST..
PL.VTTS.MOUT
TV. A. Mmnphrcy, 71 T
Phys'oi n and Surge i
t-t.A l 1 iliOl'l tiE. htttlAH.A.
C4IU Ui CH or Country f roiuplly Auswered.
TJIE IU BOO OF BENGAL.
THE GHASTLY TOWERS OF SILENCE
WHERE THE DEAD ARE PLACED.
T!io ri-Mn in Ills Home A Study of the
Zoron.t rl.to 1 hrory uf llr I It I oil A Imjf
Survival Tower Wlilcli Have SlooU Two
II 11 ml red Vriirn.
Tlir-y looked bo human with their con-tltM-vis,
st likcMtthcr M'oik',wlictlicr they
talked (tuzerati t.r Enj,'lLsh, whether one
siiw t lioia in the luarLet tilace or at a
meet, that it was ui.'Iicull to believe this
horror uf them. Yet it was true, for
there were the fac ts and statistics in a
little hand hook in the reading room of
tli - hotel, f u.-tsand statistics of yesterday
and today and t:ot of any remote period
of aiiti-civilizution. This as to time; and
a to hi- not three miles from where
we sat, 011 the topmost point of Malabar
hill, an eminence whi-h also bore the
re.sidenee of Ixrd Iieay, ovenor of the
Itomhay presideney. We asked the hotel
manager, who was a Pardee, if he had
ever visited the spot. Ih fhook his head
and Hhru;:i;i d his is!iou!d--i s just as an
Englishman inilit have dune talking of
the churchyard or the family vaults.
"Parsees go only oi.ee," he oaid, "and
then they are carried." Iiut he advised
us to jm: ail tourists did, lie said; and he
knew the secretary, he would yet us
tickets.
ON THE IIII.L.
So we arranged to,. , ive thenxt morn
ing very early, to ! the Towers of Si
lence 011 Malabar hill, whither the Par.see
living bear tlif Par.s.-e dead, bidding them
a more utter farewell than is conceived
by any other people of any other creed on
earth. Two native soldiers stood Lu the
queen's uniform at the gate, and looked
at us with surprise. It was late in the
season and early in the day for people
who wanted to see the century old sight
they protected from the over curious.
Louis went up to one of them with in
trepidity and showed him our passes. lie
shook his head and said something in his
own tongue. Neither of us understood
It in the very least. I produced a phrase
which I had carefully concocted on the
way from a "Handbook of llinduntanee"
purchased in Calcutta, and which I in
tended to mean " We wish to see the Tow
ers of Silence." But the man only looked
at his fellow and grinned. I tried an
other phrase and yet another, but com
prehension did not come. Then I reflect
ed that perhaps" the language of the Daboo
of Bengal was not necessarily that of the
native Tommy" of Bombay, and later
investigation proved this to be the case.
Finally one of the men jtoiuted with his
gun to a small house near by, and nodded
his head violently as Louis made as it she
would knock. So she knocked loadh
and presently there appeared, in blink
ing undress, a very short, stout oi l Par
see, who instantly retreated again. V
then sat down beneath a mango tree and
awaited events.
The old Pi!see was not long in reap
pearing, tall red cap and gown, and gir
ile and nil. In ids hand he carried a
):tro key. with which he beckoned to us
to follow him. lie went up the steps,
unlocked the gate and let us in. The
road si ill ascended before us through the
outskirts of a tropical garden, and we
climbed to another iron gate, which the
old Parsee unlocked. There we stood in
the dead calm of early morning, with
the yeliow light in the eastern sky threat
ening every moment to break iutoilame,
in a strange place. Flowers bloomed
around us, thooe crimson and 'purple
flowers of the tropics that are all" senst
and no soul. Bordered paths h d in dif
ferent directions, neatly kept, and clumps
of tn.es did their btst to t,ive the spo.
6hadow and sentiment. We were not
louki:,gat the flowers, but at five strange,
round, white structures that rose at a
little distance, divided from usbyawall.
in the nddtt of luavy masses of trees.
The oldest of tin m had been .here 2U
yell's. ith never a profanation of it.
naiue or ofnee a tower of silence ah
that time. The others had been added as
the' were needed. They were not vault.-;
and they were not cemeteries, yet their
business was with the dead.
EY ORDER OF ZOROASTER.
They lirat arose 3,0uu years ago by
command of Zoroaster, as you doubtless
know, thus: The elements, buM Zoroas
ter, are sacred as s mix. Is of thedtity,
then -fore should nter be contaminated
or deliled. - Neither earth nor lire not
water should serve a Parsee after death
had made him acoirupt thing His bods
Bhould be placed on a tower, high above
all human habitations, that living men
should not be p. limed by U, and no foot
enter there but those of its bearers, who
should leave it' and come away. And
the towers of Zoroaster's thought, o.COO
years ago, were the towers with the
latest oaniiai v iiupijjvepienis, that stood
before us in the y Oar of grace which
gives one an idea of the real meaning of
conservatism.
We saw a model of the structures
ghown in the garden, ane undi tsiood it
with the help of the hotel hand book.
They are built of solid black granite, and
covered with white cheenam. Inside is
a circular platform divided into three
shallow receptacles with footpaths be
tween, the outer row for males, the next
for females and the inner for children.
Three is the notable number of the fol
lowers of Z- 'roaster, reminding them al
ways of the cardinal prece-pts of their re
ligion "good thoughts," "good words,"
I'goexJ deed:;." Every Parsee wears a
vhite woolen girde $f triple coil for its
daily sugscBiion anl he cttrriea out the
idea to tlie last. The torp?e bearers are
a sepaiate t hus, prepared by certain r
lijious ceremon ie-n, uikI ferced to live
apart from the rest of the Parsee com
munity because of the impurity which
their oflice is eupposed to contract f7
them.
. lu compensation the work is highly
paid. They carry the body, swathed iu
a sheet, to its receptac.j, and lay it there
without any clothing .vhatever. ''Naked
ve come info th-p world, " paid'Zoroastet,
&a:id naked we oultt to leave it." Then
the cams? bear era go awar, and the vul
tures come, anil in ten minutes there is
U ch-an picked skeleton where they left
what had been a man or woman the day
lie fore. In a fortnight or so the sain
bearers return, und K-'Uher up the loui-s
with iron tongs, and throw them into 11
well in the middle of the Tower of Si
lence, which is their linal resting place.
Conduits lead from this place to under
ground wells, provide. 1 with double til
tcrs of .-iind and charcoal and sandstone,
for the put dication of the rain water fall
ing upon the bones. In-fore it re-enters
the earth. That is the entire system; its
simplicity is ghastly. Sara J. Duncan
in .ioiiLi'i-;jl Star.
Kollie' I'lctuie.
Much interest is being awakened by a
portrait of Burns now mi view in Princes
street. The picture has been quite re
cently discovered, and though the final
word h;is yet to he spoken by theexp-T'a
there is every reason to suppose that the
port 1 ail is by Sir Henry Ihieburn. In a
letter from the artist, w ritten in lo03, he
mentions having dispatched a portrait
of Burns in a fishing smack from Lcith
to Loudon to a well known firm of pict
ure dealers. The later history of the
picture is not yet satisfactorily cleared
tip. I tit from internal evidence? there is
ever reason to beli -ve thct the present
picture is the portrait alluded to in the
ietter. The coloring is rich anil mellow
iu t'-ne. and the figure Mauds out from
l in-c. , :i ::s u it h lifelike force and reality.
Tin- :o 1 is p.i.itel sealed in an arm
chair, w iih one 1 -g crossed over the
o'Ju r.
Tin re is much individuality about the
treatment of the figure and face, and it
is curiously did'erent from Nasniyth's
portrait; but a- the Jatter picture was
done as ;.n c-rder from the publisher for
:i f :onl i.- .piece t the poems, it maybe
supposed that tho face was somewhat
idealized.
In this portrait the eyes are full of fire
uid the eyebrows (generally a marked
feature in people of the artistic tempera
ment) tire broadly defined and have a
tamp of marked individuality. The
i'orehead, one of the most characteristic
features in an intellectual face, is unfor
tunately almost hidden by the heavy
black hair; the lower part of the face is
somewhat coarse. It is difficult, when
looking at this picture, to know how
much to gather from the face itself, or
how much we read into it from our
know It dge of the character. Whether it
prove to be tho mi-sing Raeburn or not,
it is a decidedly fine piece of painting
and a most suggestive portrait. Mur
ray's Magazine.
M.oikeys as Crab Catcher.
The way in which monkeys catch land
nibs is d. scribed hy ft sportsman who
tade an expedition to the jungles around
lugapore. :nd tiiereenj iyed sport which
-.Lea tlie contemporaneous records of
iisn experiences pale into insignifi
;iice. The monkey iie3 down flat on its
niaeh, feigning death. From the
ouniless n issages piercing the mud in
very direction thousands of little red
.:id yellow crabs soon make their ap
eart'nee. and after suspiciously eying
r a few minutes the brown fur of the
lonkoy, they slowly and cautiously siido
to hi. 11. in great glee at 'tfte prospect
i' a big feed olt the bones of Jocko. The
ttcr peeps through his half closed eye
.ls, and lix.-s upon Hie biggest of theas
nliled multitude. When the crab comes
;;hi:i reach, cut dashes the monkey's
is. id off he scampers into the jungle
h a cry of . light to discuss at leisure
t h-verly earned dinner.
il ,n ly did the monkeys seem to miss
ir prey." ailels the cleseriber pf this
m. ,!j Law, hovveveri one old fellow
., mvl it was ludicrous in the extreme
see the rr.ge it put him in. Jumping
fully a minute up and down on all
r s at the mouth of tha hoie into which
crab had escaped, ha positively
Ied with vexation. Then he set to
k , oking the mud about with his fin
1 at the entrance to the passage, fruit
dy trying every now ami i.gain to peep
it." These same monkeys, the so
:led pig tailed variety, are taught by the
.ah:ys to pick fruit for them in the for
ts. The monkeys select the ripest fruit,
nd their masters, by following their
aovements, catch them in 1 eloth before
Liiey reach the ground. Tne monkey is
00 well trained to attempt to eat any
ruit while at work, but when sufficient
:v gather. 'd he is duly rewarded for his
If denial. Imdon jlobe.
Report Ins Knulil Talk.
Speaking cf rapid talkers makes me
1 1.; of the time 1 wa- sent to report a
tare hy Henry Ward Ececher," s;di
:e mayor's private BC-veiary, Tom
Neill. at the Press club the other day.
I was something of a stenographer and
i .d alwa 8 been 'il'" to keep pace with
very man I had been assigned to take
Jo, With no misgivings. I sl.ui pjped my
0; ncil and took ui seat at the reporters'
(able and waited for the distinguished
divine to begin. The subject was 'Evo
lution,' which, in those days, I knew ab
Kolutely nothing about. Well, he starto'i
in, and for a minute everything went all
"-ight. flie second minute he took a
spurt, and I found myself pushing my
pencil at a high rate of speed. Tle third
minute he put on more steam and I had
to write eo fast my pencil got hot and
came near setting the paner rtflre. Thr
fourth ;i:imue im spurted again and I
was lort. lie kept on spurting until at
last he struck his gait.
Heavens! how be talked. manu
script. No iioies. lie just stood up there
by his desk with one hand on it, the
other by his side. His mouth ""s open,
and without changing the expression of
his face or moving a muscle iho words
came rolling out one after another like
drops of lead from the summit of a shot
tower." Chicago Journal.
Mrs. Stockbridge. cf Michigan, likes a
Cooel. lioiJbe. She knows one, too, and
can judge of an animal's points as keenly
as a Kentuckian. "At times I like horses
Letter than people," she remarked naively
once, ind she genuinely has a love for
the noble animal. VI sdl colors she pre-.
fers the blacks, and the Stockbtidge
ttables will have three spans of magniti
GfeUi black. Lot stia tbi wiiUfcXr
HAITI KST OF MANY ISLES.
LIFE ON THE SUGAR CANE ISLAND
OF BARBADOES.
Itemdty of lliti Population A Ilcullhy Fl'
iiaiielul Condition ICnfclUliincii Who
l--t Tlrr MospltHlit jf Mini Oenerwl
;...xl N.ituro uf the People.
Th" Barbadian, from a variety of causes,
political principally, has developed a com
mercial activity greater than has so far
appeared possible in the other of these
islands. His island has become the dis
tributing point of the region, and has, in
consequence, attracted and held together
a population larg r, proportionately, than
any of the other islands. The streets of
the capital are alive with bustling trades,
her buildings hear evidence that land is
valuable, her roulstcad is alive with for
eign shipping, anil the annual addition to
her populni ion appears to go hand iu hand
w ith the increase of Iht material pros
perity, while other islands, notably St.
Lucia, have been sacked and pillaged for
13!) years prior to the opening of this cen
tury, conquered first by one pow er and
then by the other. Barbadoes has, since
1G23, developed as peacefully and nor
mally as New England, and is today, in
spite of the low price of cane sugar, one
of the happiest little countries in the
world.
FOlt MALTIil'SlANlSTS.
Barbadoes has ordv llU.fle-'i f."
which to support a pojiuku.oii 01 u t i
l?J,()!Ji), giving only one square mile of
elbow room to each 1.000 inhabitants a
state of density that should reassure the
most pessimistic Chinaman of Malthu-i-i.in
disposition. She raises nearly $1,
OOU.uhO a year iu revenue, has a public
debt of only $13J,00J, has about 100,000
in her savings banks, has a good water
supply and complete constitutional lib
erty. Could any man want more? And
yet her chief port is a mere open road
stead; nor does she differ materially from
the other Caribbean islands in climate or
soil,
It Is the one island of the West Indies
that has the appearance of belonging to
England; not only by the presence of
British men-of-war in the roadstead and
British soldiers about the streets of
Bi idetown, but from the fact that the
English people hero control local affairs,
take a pride in identifying themselves
with the colony, and by their geograph
ical situation are the center of the best
English social life in this quarter of the
globe. The lloyal Mail steamer from
Jamaica to Southampton, bearing the
families of planters, army and navy offi
cers, civil officials and touri.-ts, stop at
Barbadoes long enough to refresh body
and mind in the society of fellow coun
trymen. From Barbadoes ply the smai
hr connecting steamers idiat distribute
passer.gcis to. the neighboring islands as
far north as St. Thomas and south to
Demerara. The governor of the island
unites in his drawing room or, to speak
more accurately, on his lawn tennis
courts Englishmen from every corner
of the queen's dominions whos wavs
cross at this, little poitt. If the Bar
badian does not keep up with the last
fad from Piccadilly it is merely because
he cannot or will not appear at Govern
ment hQU.se,
ENGLISHMEN FEEL AT HOME.
In other islands of the Caribbee group
the exiled Briton broods in misery sur
rounded by a mob of hopelessly unintel
ligent blacks. Here, on tl;e other hand,
his beloved ensign greets him at every
turn, assuring him that he is on soil that
is English more than merely in name.
The governor's residence, known as gov
ernment house, is in a handsorxn park
approached by an avenue of grand trees,
guarded by a sentry at the lodge gate
and by very majestic household func
tionaries at the hall door. Visitors in
scribe their names in a book kept for
that purpose, and nothing is omitted to
impress them with the fact that they are
here dealing with the representative of
royalty. But government house in the
British West Indies is more than a for
mal official residence. The governor is
expected, if not to govern, at least to be
an important factor in the political and
social life of the island; he is to be a man
above party, able to unite under his roof
the leading people of the place; to medi
ate between the crov.-n and the people,
nis w ife, on the other hand, is expected
to be the pattern of good breeding, the
arbiter on all social points, assisting her
husband in makincr cvernment house a
colon ia' court.
To do all this the government allows
$3,000 a year for entertainment alone,
$13,000 a year as salary besides his resi
dence, handsomely furnished, represent
ing for ths JUtlo island about double
what is furnished to the United States
minister to England. When my rickety
conveyance drew up before the great en
trance of the Barbadian palace I handed
to one of the recpleisiietit ' servants a let
ter of introduction and then proceeded
to write my name in the visitors' ltook.
Before I had completed this important
task the illu-trious footman returned,
ind,' with some appearance of having
made more haste than usual, fchowec
me into a ',arjc, shady, cool morning
tiOum, where the "first lady of Barba
loes" and Sir Charles Lees, the icovenior,
Dade me welcome,
AT Taa GOVEItNUENT HOUSE.
The lawn of Government house
stretches away from tne open doors and
vyip.dusvb io the shade of graceful trees.
When I arrived tennis was well under
wav. Buddy, well built men and grace
ful women, all in comfortable Hansels, J
were struggling for succe with a vigor
aot readdy assuoiased w ith the tropics.
Di'iiccvs liouu i,he squadron as well as
troru the local" garrison vied with one
iuother in entertaining all such as wore
petticoats, while groups of very itiner
ant looking men chatted together here
ind there made up, it was plain, to.
jf local official.-.. TJ,. governor and
Lc.dy Lec&lost uq opportunity of adding
;o the i.leacurd of their guccL. -ither by
a iug a few- words e-f wc-ic-jmo to a new j
ir'rival or introducing those who up- '
geaxed tortured by the know nobodj
( eiTig". :i 1 ie fide uc rn't r jfi 1 s . n e" ( r 1 1 k
island was away on official duties, much
to my regret. Officially be holds a most
exalted post and receives the highest
honors; socially he cannot enter the
dining room of the meanest white trader.
Consequently w-e have the comical pict
ure of a negro ostracized by the poorest
w bite del k, yet a frequent guest of the
first lady of the i.d.nnl not merely on
her law 11, but at her table. The attorney
general, by the way, told me main
things about the negro that confirmed
my suspicion that in spite of centuries
of Christian rule devil worship was a
fact in most of the islands, and even
here under the eyes of an American
bishop. Barbadoes Letter in New York
Times.
A Man with h I-arlat.
A man was found nearly buried in the
sand near San Francisco. Two deputy
coroners could not pull him out. A
horseman was sighted. This is what
happened: lie rode up to them, and
when the situation u;is explained calm
ly alighted, untied a long lariat which
was coiled at the back of his saddle, and
without a word began to make one end
of it fast about the upper portion of the
dead man's body. The rope was passed
under the arms and tied in a knot at the
shoulders. Having accomplished thisthc
stranger paused, and looked up at the
astonished morgue oilieials as much as to
say :
"What's the matter with that?"
"What are you going to do next"
isk'-.l the deputy c minor.
'.-: . 1. . . ! in - -i .'1 1 j t . i i 1.1 . .
.ui."
"Well, you might as well give up that
idea," returned the deputy. "It would
take half a dozen men like us to move
li.-at man."
"Maybe it would," replied the stran
ger, with a chuckle thai v.g.s certainly
a little out of place, considering lh; oc
casion; "maybe it would take a do.-vn
men such as we are, but it will only take
one hor.,e such as this is."
As be said this he pointed to his Meed,
which h:.d hitherto stood motionless,
watching tiie movi ments of his master
with evident interest. Without more
ado the stranger mounted his boixv, and
taking a turn around ;he horn of hi.
sadtlle witli the iree end of the IanO.
mov-..i idowh ahead until the line w a.
Jrawn taut. Then, in response to a gent le
luek from his rider, ihe animal .settled
ids feet down into the sand and steadily
hent his strength against the rope. There
was 110 jerking. It, was un even, steady
pull. The) Hue vibrated rapidly under
thy heavy strain as the intelligent equine
hauled iway upon it. In a mouivuc the
loop tightened about the covpac, and the
oody was drawn, slowly at first, then
with a swish, frv.01 its bed in the sand.
Ilav'njj accomplished this the mysteri
ous horseman removed the wop from the
body, recoiled his lariat, mounted his
horse, and, p.l'ter ntduting the wondering
officials In a highly dignilied manner,
rode silently away, no one knew whither.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A funeral from the Tenement.
A funeral in a crowded east side street!
From every window in the giant tene
ments human heads are thrust, in every
doorway is a group of women, and clus
tered on every hand are little knots of
children, on whose peaked faces is
stamped the desire to lose no portion of
what is going on. Stretched along the
curb is a long string of coaches, headed
by a hearse decked out in all the trap
pings of woe. The drivers, a brawny
set of men, used to such scenes, stand to
gether idly talking. In the mouth of one
of the tenements 6tand a dozen women.
"She must be heart broken," 6aid one.
"Indeed she must," said another, "or
she'd never have spent so much money."
"It'll cost a heap to pay for such a
beautiful funeral."
"And she hasn't a cent, poor thing.
She'll have to work her fingers to the
bone to pay for it."
"And the poor children; what'll thev
do?'
There is a clatter of heavy footsteps on
the stairs, and a rosewood casket comes
bumping down on the shoulders of six
struggling men. It is rolled into the
hearse, which moves slovly away, and
the first coach takes its place. A wild
shrill cry, half a moan and half a shriek
of pain, is heard, and out comes the
widow, a gaunt faced woman of middle
age. She sways her body to and fro,
and rubs her eyes viciously with her
handkerchief. A crowd gathers around
her, and she is bustled out of eight into
the coach with three other women in
rusty black clothes. A Utile boy in well
worn knickerbockers climbs up ia the
driver1 beat and there graciously recog
nizes a crowd of little chaps on the side
walk, who gaze at him with euwous
eyes.
"Are ye goin" to ride up there, Dinny?"
asked one.
"Of course," was the reply; "ain't it
me fodder's funeral?" And the sum Iter
procession moved slowly away. New
York Sun.
Safety Pilot for Uailwuy Traios,
An apparatus which promises to ma
terially lessen tho danger to human life
in cas& of collision on railways h;is just
appeared. It consists of a collapsible
butler, which, attached to and propelled
In front of a train, will receive the force
of the shock and permit the train to be
brought to a standstill without being in
jured or derailed. The apparatus is prey
videil with a series of air citamb-jv con
nected to telescope togetjw? ami permit
the air to be gr.-v.!v.:i ity driven out, and
mounted on a roiling support, which may
bo held near to. or veuovei home lis
tance in adva'.ic-- of the train by the fold
ing or unfolding of the tel-. scoping sec
tions. Either compressed air or steam
may be admitted as desired toloih series
of air chambers. New York . Tecgim.
TUe Uio!( of l.uii; Itrcriit,
Miss plympton After all, Mr. Brough
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Mr. L-roughton Oh, a pre -; Jva.
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