| The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BV
HE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
SIGNALS HER PARENTS.
. Toni Enf llrh Woman Haa a HnU
Way of l*foolalmlnf( Ih Safsty.
A young woman who earn* a band*
'% some salary as secretary for a great
corporation, maintains her aged father
and mother in a large institution at an
expenditure of at least 75 per cent of
her entire Income, says an English pa
per. She is bright and talented, and,
unburdened by this care, could quick
ly acquire name and independence; but
such considerations seem never to
weigh with her, for she is ever cheer
's j ful—even gay—as though free of re
sponsibility. For their comfort she
occupies lodgings as near as possible to
the Institution, and every evening she
pays them a visit of love and console
/ * tion. Her route home lays through a
deserted orchard, and its loneliness
has caused her parents great anxiety
and herself no little apprehension, al
though she affeets, in their company, to
make light of it. For their comfort, the
young lady has hit upon a plan to let
them know when she has arrived safe
ly home. She lights her lamp, and al
ternately exposing it before the win
5V; dow and shading it with her hand she
signals them across a quarter of a mile
of heather and grove that all is well.
Her mother being bedfast, the doting
old father usually manages to send
back an answering signal, so that both
she and her parents may retire, know
ing that all Is well. A few nights
since the yonng lady failed to get her
answering signal, and, in great sus
pense, fearing that some harm had be
rallen her loved ones during bs v journey
homeward, the hurried back over the
lonely—even dangerous—petit, only to
And that her father, feeble ai A absent
minded, had failed to make lus signals,
although at first he protested that he
had and that she had not answered.
A JOKE IN BAD TASTB. 1
f > Bern* Dusky MIm Oat In Sight of
Wealth delimited.
■ '• Owing to the arrival of the time for
the collection of taxes, the Treasury
olficials are at present very busy,
though not so much so but what they
had ample time yesterday morning to
Indulge In several broad smiles over
an Incident which occurred at the office
says Cincinnati Oasette. It was about
10 o’clock in the morning that, on look
• Ing out of one of the windows of the
office, some of the county employee*
discovered a gang of a dosen or more
iUj-.. burly Africans wearing their togs and
< carrying on their shoulders those
badges of their craft, pick-axes. The
men were Just shifting the scenes of
their labors and were no doubt dla
cussing that tightness of the money
market whloh had limited their salaries
as treaoh-makers to 75 oents a day,
. when, on coming abreast of one of the
grated windows of the Treasury, they
. were suddenly brought to a stand by a
^ shrill whistle from within, and, on
. looking up, ware almost hypnotised by
seeing an Individual (nobody of leas
distinction than Hon. Arthur Sutton,
> Deputy Tax Collector) standing grin
ft, stag at them and shaking the side of
- his coat, on the lapel of which was
pinned a brand-new 950 bill. Th*1r eyes
«*!-■, opened to the vary widest exJrsmity,
¥ hut before they had hardly got good
look at the money, Sutton Jumped sud
denly backward, and picking up \ huge
, . bundle of bills, threw them at the dusky
toilers with all his might Of course
the money didn’t reach them, as It came
' In contact with the screen in the win
• dow, but while It was la transit there
: t - never was a more expectant and as
«••• • tenlahed crowd. They appreciated the
■ $ lake as much aa anybody,!and after
spending several minutes la coveting
their neighbors’ goods, they hastened
on to resume their digging.
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, AffMlhMl OitwttM
Gardeners are trying so hard to got
rid of ooado la fruit that la a few yean
a peraoa could not have appendlcltla If
ha tried. Already we have Medina, or
navel. oranges.
; Borne Tarletlea of applea hare been
produoed that have almost no seeds.
They are abnormalities. Sometimes
iiy are called “bloomleM” beoauae the
bloaaome have bo petals, and la some
aaaos lack stamens. Raisin producers
la Callforala are trying to Obtain seed
less grapes tor raisins. The famous
teedlees grapes of Corinth are called
jurrants. The banana la seedless and
has been so for centuries, though no
body knows why. It Is a modified
berry; cutting the middle you will
sometimes see some little brown spots
which are rudimentary seeds. The
Mnaapple Is nearly seedless and Is prop
agated from slips. The eggplant Is
occasionally seedless. Horticulturists
ere also endeavoring to rid fruit of
thorns. Some oranges and lemons are
rary thorny. Efforts are being
to get rid of the thorns on raspberry
end blackberry plants simply for con
venience In picking. The thorns are
intended by nature to protect the planta
: tram animals.
•. .. Bart to Had. to Bos*—.
'•* la the early days when Mrs. Julia
ffasd Howe was becoming known la
* Boston as a public speaker, she met
with some opposition both among her
’ Meads and the people generally.
W ‘ Walking down Charles street one day
: a with a friend, Mrs. Howe noticed the
V Ugn over the charitable eye and car In
* Irasary, and read It very slowly:
* .. ‘Charitable eye and ear—can it be
*^4: Store la a charitable ear In Boston r’
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CRUELTIES OF DAHOMEY.
Frmiaent Expedition* In Saarah of Hunu&n
Victims for the .Sucrlflcc.
The slave trade Is becoming more
precarious, not only because of the
surveillance of the English and French
ships of war, but because the devel
opment of the oil Industry demands a
large force of laborers for the har
vesting of the nuts and the prepara
tion of the olL On the other hand,
the neighboring tribes of Dahomey,
the reserve for the king’s raids are
not as numerous as they were. More
over. they frequently receive protec
tion from the Germans and £nglisb in
the neighboring settlements from the
raids of Bedazin. who after the grand
ceremonies of each year recruits his
forces from the neighboring pro
vinr.AiL
After the ceremonies at Abomey
are closed and the ambassadors have
returned to their countries the natives
in the border countries know that
trouble is in store for them, says a
letter in the New York Tribune. The
inhabitants of some peaceful village
suddenly awake to find themselves the
prisoners of King Bedazln. The
troops are stationed at the highest ele
vation in the village, where they
shoot those who offer resistance and
capture any of the inhabitants that at
tempt to esoapa The prisoners are
bound, their elbows tied behind their
backs by one cord, their wrists fas
tened by another and their feet tied
together.
Around the necks of the women and
children is tied a single cord as a
mark of slavery. The raid over, the
band rejoins the army of the Icing and
the slave chasers return to Abomey
where several of the unfortunates are
sacrificed in honor of the cruel god
who has blessed this excursion. Be
fore killing the prisoners the fetich
worshiper whispers to the victim to
carry G ele- le messages from his worthy
son and to give an aooount of his vic
tories The poor wretch, who smiles
at his murderer, answering that he
will fulfill the commission, knows that
his death will be made a trifle less
painful that is to say, his tender
hearted murderer will stun him with
a blow on the back of the head bofore
breaking his neck.
The prisoners'of war are divided
into several lots, some of whom are
retained for the plantation of the king,
others being assigned to the chiefs of
the tribes for ths same purpose while
the greater portion are imprisoned
awaiting their purchasers. A high
court officer, the chief of justice is
placed in charge over them. He is nt
the same time director of criminal
affaire chief murderer, and master of
ceremonies in the thanksgiving offer
ings The captives are disposed of
at Abomey in exohange for gold, sil
ver, ivory, leather, doth or,any arti
de of commerce which the king may
happen to need. The slaves aro
driven from one station to another in
the dreary march across the country
by mounted Arabs
They are sent from Whydah to the
seaooast where they embark for their
new destination. Maximo Carvalho
is one of. the principal purchasers of
slaves He employs them in the
••Fazendas” or coffee plantations of
Brazil and reports that they soon for
get thdr miseries singing the pro
vincial melodies to the accompani
ment of the mandolin. Carvalho
singing the same negro ditties, with
charming insouciance, almost succeeds
in ooavlnoing his audience that he is
doing a charitable act by dealing in
slavea __
ABOUT DROWNINO.
A Woman Says That It to a gleaning
Sensation.
‘To prevent any person from in
terfering with my design I jumped
into the river late in the afternoon.
No one appeared to be about at tho
time. When 1 struck the water 1 im
mediately sank, going down and down,
and yet being carried forward until I
thought I would never again arise.
A sound roared through my heud. it
seemed to me It would burst. I
opened my moutn and attempted to
breathe being unable to endure tho
pressure longer, but the water rushud
in and I oloeed my mouth. I was
again compelled to open it. More
water entered. The feeling was
horrible.
•vast when I thought mil was over
I reached the surface of the water
about 60 foot from the shore and 100
feet from whore I had jumped in.
Near by was a steamboat on which
stood a man with a long pole with an
iron hook on the end. It took only a
second to see those things and in fact
I had just time to get one breath when
1 again sank with my mouth op.n.
My past life flashed before mo uud I
was again a ohild. The ploture of in y
father and mother stood out in bold
relist I reaohed out my hand to
them. The roaring of water sounded
like the sweetest of musia Suddenly
I s%w light and thought I was in par
adise A large green field covered
with roses and other flowers, who.e
fragrance Ioould smell came in view.
I Mt as if 1 was being borne up by ,
some winged messenger whom 1 could
not sett but whose presence I could
feel
*1 remembered nothing more until
I felt a rough jerk. My rescuer had
succeeded in fastening the boathook
into my olothing. As my body was
being pulled from out of the water the
picture ohanged; instead of para lists,
the place in whloh the devil dwells
with all its fires and swarming with
hideous rod dressed creatures and
other things presented themselves in
my mind, only to again quickly dis
appear. and leave me in darkness
When I came to I was surprised to
team that I had been unconscious
Every muscls in my body pained ms
Out my brain was perfectly clear,.
Drowning after the first stages are
past is pleasant"
Uktly Kssish,
Inquisitive Neighbor—I hear that
your sister is engaged. Is that trueP
Small Boy—Guessa. She generally
e.—Good Newn
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THE ALLEGED HUMORISTS.
Town Topics: Slumleigb—I don’t
me why you care so little tor me. Miss
Iyer—Have you ever taken a good look
it yourself?
Indianapolis Journal: “George de
icribes the girl he Is engaged to as a
jerfect vision." “Yes; and his sister
lays she la a sight”
“Treddle Is jealous of his preroga
•ives, isn’t he?" “What makes you say
jo?" “He got angry the other night
ind told me not to be a fool.”—New
Fork Sun.
Cincinnati Enquirer: She—Did you
lave asy trouble in getting papa to
ieten to you? He—Not a bit. I be
by telling him I knew of a plan
v hereby he could save money.
Cleveland Leader: “How did Nell
Jlynn look in her new ball dress?"
■■he asked. “I don’t know,” he replied,
but the large majority of her that
vaa out of it looked stunning."
"Do you think Skinner can make a
i' ing out there?” “Make a living!
Why, he’d make a living on a rock in
he middle of the ocean—if there was
mother man on the rock.”—Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Spat—Your husband is an in
ventor, I believe? Mrs. Spotter—Yes.
Some of his excuses for coming home
ate at night are in use all over the
jountry.—Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
| “Was hael!” cried the Mediaeval Bra.
‘If I were so drunk," retorted the Bad
it the Century, "that I could not pro
nounce ‘wat fell* I think I would go
lome and go to bed."-—Cincinnati Bn
julrer.
Chicago Tribune: “Let ns be fair,
jven to the 'new Journalism,’” said
Uncle Allen Sparks. “It Isn’t wholly
given over to printing indecent pic
tures. Part of Its mission Is to publish
’ake Interviews.”
“And how did he die7” asked the lady
who had come west to inquire after
‘.ho husband she had lost "Er—by re
quest, ma’am,” said the gentle cowboy,
■is mildly and regretfully as possible.—
Indianapolis Journal.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: “I
see where the Queen of England has
sixty pianos and doesn’t play any of
them." "That’s a good girl. I know
sf a woman who has only one piano
but she plays like sixty.”
Eimonsbee—I have a chance to marry
two girls; one Is pretty, but a mere but
terfly, as it were, and the other, though
plain, is an excellent housekeeper. Mr.
Russell of Chicago—Take the pretty
-no first.—Indianapolis Journal.
"It’s perfectly absurd, this clamor
about our hats. People who can’t see
over them would better not go to the
theater.” "I know; that’s what I told
my husband, and he said, ‘All right,
we won’t go; ’ and we don’t.”—Bazar.
A young student lately presented
himself for examination and lgnomln
lously failed. To his family, anxious to
hear of his success, be telegraphed
thus: “Examinations splendid; profes
sors enthusiastic. They wish for a sec
ond In October.”—Tlt-BIU.
MIXED PARAGRAPHS.
A St. Louis woman was married to a
freight conductor Saturday, and they
are now making a honeymoon tour
through the. southwest in a caboose.
He—For perfect enjoyment of love
there must be complete confidence. She
—(of Chicago)—I have heard pa say
identically the same thing about saus
ages.—Life.
A young man of Omaha, presumably
belonging to the first circles 6f that
town, recently called on a Jeweler there
and asked to see a nice pair of golf
links for his cuffs.
At the recent village election in Con
stantine, Mich., the women tax-payers
were allowed to vote on the electric
lighting bond proposition, but only
three availed themselves of the right
A man well up in dog lore counsels
intending purchasers of a puppy to let
the mother of the puppy choose for
them. In carrying them back to their
bed the first the mother picks up will
always be the best
The shipment of apples from the port
of .Portland, Me., to the European mar
ket for the season ending last Saturday
reached a total which Is unprecedented
in the annals of the apple export busi
ness In this country.
“Toh can’t alius tell whah ter put de
credit by lookin' at de surface,” said
Uncle Eben. “De cork on de fiahin*
line dances aroun* an* ’treats a heap o’
’tentlon. But It’s de hook dat’s doin’
business.”—Washington Star.
1 ITBM8.
A Jinwy City landlord aroused a ten
ant at 12:46 a. m. on the morning ot
March 1 to d«mand the rent due that
day, and was thrown down his own
stairs.
England has one member of parlia
ment to every ft),250 electors, Irelar.
one for every 7,177, Scotland one f
every 8,974, and Wales one tor ever
9,618.
The Swiss government is about to es'
tabllsh at Hauterlve, on the River
Saane, a grand central Btatlon for gen
erating electric power, at a cost of
2,800.000 francs.
A Bath (Maine) boy is the prdhd
possessor ot an autograph letter from
the queen of Holland. His interest in
collecting foreign postage stamps won
him the royal favor. :/
Morocco’s city wallB are now adorned
with a trophy of eighty human heads,
removed from the Insurgents defeated
at Sus, in addition te the forty-three
heads of the men who attacked the sul
tan’s body-guard some months ago.
“Aha, he’s working for his own
ends," chuckled the funny man as he
saw the cobbler making a pair of shoes
for himself, “and he’ll put his foot in
it, as usual, before he’s through.’’—
Pittsburg News.
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