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PLATTRMOIJTJI WEEKLY IfEIlALP, THURSDAY, JUNE 80, 117. In Central Soudan. Aa we approach tlie town, ami when least xj:tli i1, u party of horni-nun in linn: ll.-.lonin liki: array will Kiriii' from Ix himl noun: cliff or out of an unseen hollow, ami nitli marrow ii i in war cries ami unearthly m rcaiin, Hpcurs Iuv- ll-tl or swords uplifted, l.oardown upon us like a whirlwind, amid clouds of dust, apparently heiil on annihilating or wiiil in" t Gehenn.i such inlidcls as ourselyes. IJilt even though you feel a dec ided Want of hai khone, a do.eli spears, as it wear, already quivering in your hodies, and your heads not worth the purchase, pray do not run away, nor even Mem h for one. moment. A "siunc an indifferent ex pression, as if liein;; chopped up or f pit ted on spears was a daily experience. If you can smile in the emergency, all the latter, for ju -t as we .seem to feel the hot I. real h of I heir horses on our cheeks, and ill a bewildered sort of w:iy realize the disagreeable proximity of several Hp'ars, another shout will till the air, tie; ffallop iiiij horses as if by inui;ic will stand titock-slill, enveloping us in a cloud of dust, and by the cordial shouts of wel come and hearty s d.ims we shall find a most pleasant assurance that all this fiendish display is intended as an honor able welcome to their to.vn. liarcly shall -wc have realized that this is tin; way they do the se things in central Soudan, and that instead of bt-iiHj anion:.? foes we are anions friends, when the horsemen are oft aain, seemingly bent once more on annihilating an unseen enemy. Let us wait a minute, ami from behind the gateway we shall hear the notes of native music, not such as would delight us at home, but yet harmonizing with our Hurroundings, and not without a certain wild, weird charm of its own. Some of you may have heard similar shrill melan t holy strains in the streets of Cairo in festival processions, or still more appro priately in Arab tamps. 1'iesently, how ever, the music will cease to monopolize your attention, as the musicians thein silves advance with their hue trumpets six feet long, their pipes and liour-glass-t-hapr d tomtoms, heralding the approach of a Fillani nobleman. Following at no great distance comes the respected mag nate, voluminously clothed, and mounted on a prancing fiery-eyed horse, one mass of rich trappings, which jingle and rustle at its every step. This is the messenger pi nt to bid us welcome by the Sultan a task which he will perform with that dignified bearing and inborn grace which seem somehow specially characteristic of Mohammedan races. This ceremony over, the horsemen will once more engage in mimic battle, showing their modes of fighting, and the skill with which they wield their weapons and manage their horses. Thus escorted, we shall be ex pected to fall into procession, and head ed by a court singer, who improvises a chant in our honor, which is accompanied by the pipes, and accentuated by the stentorian notes of the trumpets and the unmusical notes of the tomtoms, Ave shall be conducted through wondering but re spectful crowds to the quarters specially provided for us in the town. Let us imagine that this quaint and in teresting ceremony is over, and that we are safely housed, that we have listened to a second messenger from the Sultan, and looked over the abundance of good things sent for our immediate entertain ment, and finally left alone to refresh our selves and rest alter the excessive fatigues of our journey. Toward the cool of the evening we can afford to w.i:ider forth once more, and sr-ek new :agliN and scenes to gratify our lively curiosity. We must be prepared to be lbllowed by crowds of the lower classes, more eager to see us than even we can he to see them. Cut observe how respect f'd'they are, and how little of bar barous vulgarity they have in their exam ination of us, as compared with the pagan tribes we have hitherto passed throng!) on our journey Leaving for another occasion the ex amination of the inside of their houses their pi n- tialia let us wander through the town. Long dead-walls of glaring red clay suggesting prisons are varied by the occurrence here and there of a square tower like building having an ordinay door-wav to the street. From the roofs of these towers project long clay pipes to drain oil the water from the Hat roofs. Sometimes, instead of a Hat roofed build- in"- a conical-roofed building takes its place, and in place of the ordinary Euro nean like door-way characteristic of all the square buildings a horseshoe-shaped entrance performs the same duty. Mats or fences of sorghum stalks replace not infrequently the massive mud walls of the wealthy. These are all the architec tural features which meet the inquiring gaze of tho traveller. Having thus little to note in the houses, we must turn to other objects for points of interest. And truly there is no lack In shady nooks sit picturesque groups of natives in all kinds of combinations ac cusing the news of the day, haggling over a purchase, or busily engaged m em broidery or making up of gowns and trousers. This tradewe may note, is here entirely in the hands of men, who ply the needle w ith much skill. Farther on we meet a courtier gorgeously dressed, look ing in his voluminous garments like Fal HtiilT in bulk, as he goes ambling past on his still more richcly decorated horse, bent, on a little exercise in the cool of the eve ing. Of the personal appearance of this aristocrat I shall not now speak, ''lit we may take notice of the horse. By good luck here happens to be one standing wait ing to be mounted, so we can more conven iently examine steed and trappings in de tail. The animal before us is a ve ry fail specimen of a Soudanese horse. It is somewhat lanky, with little beauty of line, but it is fiery eyed, and its tail and inane, being uncut, give it a somewhat wild appearance. Soudanese horses are gem-r ally very vicious ami diflii nil. ao manage, stallions alone being used for riding pur poses. They are specially trained for sud den forward charges, to stop within their own length when in full gallop, to turn with e.pial rapidity, and away like the wind out. of harm's way. At othir tinies Hie favorite mode of progn ssion is by milking the horse's left legs simultaneous ly alternate with those of the right side, a method of travelling which is very pleasant and easy. Th.; riders aie fond of making their horses prance and plunge about with tierce and fiery action. There is not hing which the central Soudanese is so proud of as hi:; horse, and nothing to which he devotes more time and at tention than its appeareanee and trap pings. The head gear is almost one mass of brass-plated ornaments, little bells and a thouraud tassels and flaps of leath er in yellow, liglit blue, or dark red, The beautifully plaited reins would al most hold an elephant iu strength, while the bits are perfect instruments of torture. Joski'ii Thomson, in Harpers Maija z'nie. J 'or -J ul ii. Nebraska is getting to feel very big nowadays. An Omaha editor is writing a book. Nothing since the queen visited Hon. Huff do Hill's show has made the heart of Nebraska swell so with local pride as the announcement of develop ing genius. Only one cup of bitterness has fallen into the general cup of joy, and that was when a measly Lincoln ed itor remarked that it wouldn't do to bind the work in calf, as there ought to be se me difference between the inside and outside. Topikn (Kan.) Capital Ten Eyck and (.Jeorge llubear, the English champion, will row three miles straightaway on Lake Quinisigamond for :;.j00 a side. Retting is in favor of the English sculler. A Iilin.1 Vian's Worn. ITerr Fortolka, a lieutenant in the Austrian army, during tho first campaign in Bosnia re ceived a bullet in his right eye, and speedily I iceamo totally blind. Sinco his blindness he Las invented, in addition to a maga'Ano rifle, a new micrometer, an apparatus for automa tic mapping, a new sort of gunpowder, two machines for auti-oxidation of metals at a small cost, and a number of smaller devices. "When ciUier great or minuto measurements aro in question," says Ilerr Fortelka, "thoso who seo with thejr eyes are often wrong, wbilo I, who see with my fingers, am right." Tho msnlels of his inventions havo len on tirely made by hhnsolf with tho help of pieces of wood, string, and wire. New York Sun. Statistics of the Cliurelies. The Independent says that statistics show that tho churches of the United States have communicants as follows: Methodist Epis copal, 4,3-10,510; Romau Catholic, 4,0tX,000; Episcopal, 430,531; Moravian, 10,00; Baptist, :t,C(S2,007; Congregationalist, 430,370; Chris tian Union, 1:30,1)00; Friend, 1U5,(XK); Ad ventut, 'J7.711; Methodist, !,"'); Presby terian, 1,(W'J,4:0; Lutheran, 9:,83); Re formed, 5J5'.,071; Gorman Evangelical, 125, HX; Meimonites, 80,000; Church of God, 4",ono. If. KlClor Haggard's liooka. Mr. II. Rider Haggard's listoflooks which, he says, liavo influenced him in his career as un author consists of "Robinson Crnsoo," 'The Arabian Nights," "The Threo Mus keteers," I'oo, Maeanlay, etc., etc. His fa vorite novels nro Dickens' "Tho Tale of Two Cities" and Lytton's "Tho Coming Race." His favorite book in the Bible is Eeelesiastes. Labors of a Prlnrp. Prince Abraham Ililuiy has nearly com pleted bis historical work on Egypt, which will contain long articles on the iSoudau and tho Pyramids. He will next devote himself to unraveling tho mysterious connection be tween "Masonic riles" and tho early Egyptian ceremonials. Boston Budget. Kclipso of tlie Sun. Tbo total eclipse of tho sun on Aug. 19 will Ihj visible aJl over Russia from tho Baltic to eastern Siberia. Astronomers from the United States, England, Russia, Germany, Italy and France aro arranging to observe the phenomenon from at least live different stations. Arkansaw Traveler. Gen. Uonlanger's Wounds. Gen. Boulanger, the French minister of war, is no caret general. Between 1S59 and ISi I inclusive he was wounded four times. Iu the Franco-German war ho had his elbow broken by a balL Mrs. Custer's Correspondence. Mrs. Custer is a conscientious correspond ent. "Boots and Saddles" has called out up to date some 500 letters of inquiry or con gratulation, and she has oifewered them every oua A Surprise to the Surgeons. Five years ago T. P. Wooiall, of HartsvfJlo, Ala., in a (it fell into an open Ore, and bis kull was so ludly burned that ho was likely to tlio. Asa last resurt surgeons removed the entire skull on a lino parallel with tho eye brows, placed an artificial covering over the brain, and Woodall lived until a few days ego, and retained all his faculties. New York Bun. An Abandoned Metropolis. Medora, D. T. , the metropolis made famous by the Marquis do Mores and Theodora Roosevelt,"is about to bo abandoned for the winter. The only drug store in town has Just closed, and the hotel was shut up soma time aju. 0DD9 AND ENOa According to The Philadelphia Times, the excellent manual training schools of Phfla Wolplif.i aro mainly tilled with the boiis f woalthy men. Iu sending thir sons to these schoolH, tho wealthy nam show their good oiiso; but it will bo a pity if the son of oor men are thoroby deprived of tho opportunity f attending them. A man who died In Englanc lately left legacies to the extent of 55,000, and utipu labxl for a brasu band at bin funeral ami a banquet to tho mourners. By tho timo tho last Ixaiea of tho banouet had been picked clean, it was ascertained that his whole pos sessions consisted of a thirty shilling horse and 3 wort h of coarso hay. Headers of Homo of tho London papers fre quently find a ghastly red human skeleton pa.sttl on a conspicuous part of their paper. This is not tint worklif tho publishers, but of mi enterprising quack doctor who takes this way of ail vert Ihing his nostrums. I .a m hi- Fontaine, who cl.'iimn tho author ship of "All quiet along the Potomac to night," is a witness in the trial of Hamilton for tho murder of Gutnhrcll nt Jackson, Miss. Ho appears ns nn expe.i t in pistol practice, and it is claimed Hint ho is able to tiro a iiimi ler of Khots into tho bnngholoof n barrel roll ing down hill. Mr. Eadweard Muj-bridgo has Just com pleted the plntes of his work on "Animal lo comotion," with reproductions of nearly 'Jo, -000 inxtaMtaneous photographs of men and animals iu almost every irnnginablo position, representing part of tho investigation carried on by the University of Pennsylvania. A Winiiieg photographer hns put hinvclf iu a way to havo a Hue lot of libel suiti. IIo recently exhihit.cd a enso full of photographs of his debtors, each lieing lalieh-d With the name, address and indebtedness of the person represented. Oscar Wilde has blossomed out as a novel ist of tho blood anil thunder school. One of the Loudon society papers U printing a serial story from his pen entill.il "Lord Arthur fcju villo's Crime; a Tido of Chiromancy." Queen Victoria has dclared her intention of "patronizing" a projected exhibition of articles belonging to Mary Queen of Scots, ami has asked that a cataloguo of tho relics when ready shall lie sent to her. A London shopkeeper was recently fined under the new act of parliament for keeping two of his girls at work for ninety-seven hours in a week sixteen hours and a half day that is, for six days running. It is said that John Groenloaf Whittier and Roln-rt Purvis, of Philadelphia, tiro tho only original mcmlHA-s now living of the Ameri can Anti-Slavery society. A Pocatur, Ills., man, who has been testing tho capacity of the sparrow to withstand th effects Of poison, gavo ono bird a grain of crystal strychnino Without effect. Unusually low water in Lake Consrnnce has been bringing to light many valuable and interestii; relics of the prehistoric lake dwellers. The personal estate of tho lato J. D. Fer rins, n proprietor of thocclebratod Worcester shire sauce, amounted to nearly t-1,000,000. Tho real estate sales of Now York for the first four mouths of tho year foot up in round numbers $50,000,000. Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of twins were born in Chicago during 18SG. It is estimated that thero aro 125,000 old soldiers In tho state of Kansas. ISnfTalo mil in London. Although Mr. Cody has not been In Lon don over a month ho is today as well known to tho masses of this great city of 5,000,000 as is tho queen. You could not pick up in the most obscuro quarter of London any ono so ignorant as not to know who and what ho is. His uarao is on every wall. His picture is In nearly every window. Tho wonder of this lies in the fact that tho London public is strangely dull and unimaginative Tlio peo ple of ono quarter are often ns ignorant of a neighborhood within n stone's throw of them as if it were In Central Africa. You find const tly the proof of this in inquiring your way about town. Tlio policemen nover know whe-ro particular streets or buildings outside of their lieats aro located. An Englishman who has lived in London for a quarter of a century tells me that no ono but an American would think of asking a London iolieoman for anything in tbo way of information. London policemen are often placed on guard in front of English officials' houses whero they aro absolutely ignorant of tho namo of tho occupant. It is a genuino nnd not an afToctod ignorance I havo asked higher police oilieials alxait thi3 and thoy sny that tho men very often do not know nnd do not care. I saw somo twenty policemen guarding ono day tho house of the prime minister. I asked several of tho men on guard if they knew whoso houso they wero guarding. They nil replied in tho most cour teous negative. Finally, ono of them ro fcrred mo to an older constable who had been on tho lieat in that neighborhood for some years, and he was able to give mo tho infor mation. Imagine a set of Now York police men guarding any prominent ofdcial's house in New York without their knowing just wh.it they were doing, and particularly if it wero the house of tho cbiuf officer of our gov ernment. T. C. Crawford in New York World. Ono of tho Famous Pikes. Probably I am the only person in St. Louis having ono of the famous pikes made by John Brown to arm tho negroes of his pro visional government in February, 1S52. When in Collinsvillo, Conn., Brown ordered the manufacture of 1,XI0 pikes by a local firm, and in 1S53 ordered them forwarded to Chamliersburg, Pa., whence they were trans lated across tho country to the Kennedy farm, iie:H IIanr's Ferry. From thero they wero scattered around in various places. One lot was stored in the Mount Vernon (Ala.) arsenal, which subsequently burned. The pikes and a lot of metal wero afterward sent to the Rock Island (Ills.) arsenal, to be rolled into iron, but tho mill was never opened up, and they wero scattoredround the country as relics. Thomas Doughty in Globe-Democrat. A Snail's Pace. A snail's pace need not bo used any longer as a term more or less indefinite. By an in teresting experiment at the Polytechnic tho other day it was ascertained exactly and re duced to figures, which may now be quoted by persons who favor the use of exact terms. A half dozen of the molluskg were permitted to crawl between two points ten feet apart, and the average paco was ascertained. From this it was easy enough to calculate that one snail can crawl a mile in just fourteen day Terre Haute Express. Diet for Athletes. A less restricted diet in athletic training is beigg favored in England, and, instead of Mis large proportion of meat formerly rigidly insisted-on, physiologists now consider a variety of food essential to the best results. Tea Cambridge boat crew, in training for Uio race with Oxford, were this year permitted to eat fish, puddings and dessert, though itul forbidden suax with pastry, AxtAiiS&Tt Traveler. - - --r r m,-"! -. ,-.r TTVTJ Ji THR CITIZKNS 1ST I l.ATT.SMOU rii. - NKI'.ltAhK . CAPITAL ST00K PAID IN, - $f.0,0CC Authorized Capital, $100,000. ! I'li'KllS kani: a liitii i ii. ji.s. ,, niNNiii:, I'lcMiiehl. Ire-l'l t-M. toll! W. II. I HSIIIN'1. ( ii-t.ier. OH: KCI'llKH Frank I'aiiutli, .1. A. Cui.m.i, K IC. ; ut lon.i u. J. V. J i. hi. n. Hem v 1'ieel , J..I01 i I'Keele, V. I. M 111:0a, Win Wi-t.'i.i uiiip. V.'. II. Cashing. Transacts a Ceneial I'.niikhi.' Hardness. AJ! Who have any banking business to transact ;ne iiivllcu lo rail. t matter lnw laiye nr Hinail lue 1 1 u 1, -a. l leii. it will iccel ve our care I nl al tent ton, ami we .iniiise alivayscMur tonus treatment. I-Hlies ( Vriltleaif s of Me.m.sils tie.il tu Interest liiiyHaml mciIm l en Il'ii Kv.-h-oii'. County ami (.'II v si etii ttle. Bank Cass County fjjnotaer Main and HUth Htreets. x, v rrrj?iT: ivi otitic jrx ircifc- . II. I-AI.'MI-Xii. 1'iehl.leiit, I 1.1 M. k'.Vl I UCU.Si.iN. Cashier, f Transacts a General Bailing Business1 HIGHEST CASH miCE Paid for County and City WarsantA COM.ICCTIOMH MA1IK and promptly remitted for. iimtKt'ivroiiH ; O. II. I'arii.fie, J. M. l'atteisiui. Kiel CJf.nler, A. II. Hn.lth. It. II. Windham. M. Alonlsey, James 1'atter.siiii. Jr. Ioiin Krr7.oKicAi.lt, l're.shlunt. s. wahoiij;! Cashier Fi!r.T NATIONAL jb -A. 2sr :k: OK rj-ATTSMOUTII. NKHKAKKA. Oilers the very host facilities for the prnnipJ ti'anHacllon of legitimate BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Imnds, Gold, (oivernment and loci Hee.urlllen I .mini. I ami Snlil, I lenosits receiv ed ami interest allowt-ii on time Cert I U catcfl, Itrattfdrawu, available, in any part, of the Cniteil Hlatcn anil all the prinelial town of Kuroue. Collodions made & promptly rcrnitteif Highest market 'prices paid tor County War Htatcand Count y bond. 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