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    THE FAKMERS' ALLIANCE, JSER, THUKSDAV, JVY 23, 181)1.
A MYTH
A-floatlng. a-toating.
Acroes tbe deepiax i
AH ugbt I bnri naffiaf tird
Cpoa the topmoet free. ,
"Ok. mmm yon froai tlHt him of Greece,
Or trwn tUe bak of (Vine;
Or off nrnt tret ia tnrrU free,
WoirB fring the- Westers maiar
I rm not off the Old World,
Hot yet from off the New
at I amoae et the Urd of God,
WUcfc atnf the whole nifiit through."
HJk, Bief and wake the dawning
Oh, whistie (or the wind;
the sight U long, the current atroog
Uf hoa U lag behind."
TVe earreat eweepe the Old World,
The current eweepe the Sew,
A wind will blow, and the daws
will
glow.
Ere thoa haa sailed them through."
Charles KingaUj,
A WOMAN'S LOVE.
A black cros bad been set against
Judge Havkln name. Why, it is
not for me to say. We were not ac
customed to explain our motives or
fire reaaoa for our ded The deed
were enough, and this black cross
meant death, and when it had been
shown us all that we needed to know
further was at what hour we should
meet for the contemplated raid. A
word from the captain settled that and
when the next Friday came s dozen
men mot at the place of rendezvous
ready for the ride which should bring
them to the Judge solitary mansion
across the mountains. I was among
them, and in as satisfactory a mood as
I bad ever been in my life for the
night was favorable and the men
hearty and in first-rate condition.
. The house toward which we were
riding was built on a hillside, and the
first thicg we saw on emerging from
the forest was a light burning in one
of the distant windows. This was a
surprise, for the hour was late, and in
that part of the country people were
accustomed to retire early, even such
busy men a the judge, lis must have
a villi Lor. and m visitor uihaui a jX..i-
ble complication of affairs, ho a halt
was called, and I was singled out to
reconnoitre the premises.
The house, which bud now become
plainly visible, wai a solid one of
tone, built as I have said, on the hill
side. It faced the road, as shown by
the large portico dimly to be discerned
In that direction, but its rooms wero
mainly on the side, and it was from
one of these that the light shone. , A
I came yet nearer I perceived that those
rooms were guarded by a piazza,
which, communicating with the portico
In front, afforded an open road to that
window and a clear sight of what lay
behind it I was Instantly off my
horse and upon the piazza, and before
I had time to realize that my fears had
returned to me with double force I had
crept st dttlthly toward that uncurtained
window and looked in.
i What did I see? At first nothing
but a calm, studious figure bending
above a batch of closely written pa
per, upon which the light shone too
brightly for mo to perceive much of
what lay behind them. But gradually
an influence, of whoso workings I was
came conscious, drew my eyes away,
and I began to discover on every side
trango and beautiful object! wblch
greatly interested me, until vuddenly
my eyes fell upon a vision of loveliness
so enchanting that I forgot to look
elsewhere, and bocame for the moment
nothing but eight and fooling.
It was a picture, or so I thought in
the first Instant of awe and delight
But presently I saw that it was a
woman, living and full of thoughts
that had never been mine; and at the
discovery, a sudden trembling seized
me, for I hod never soen anything like
her beauty, while she saw nothing but
the man who was bending over his
papers. There was a door or some
thing dark behind her, and against
It her tall, strong figure, clod In close
white gown, stood out with a distinct
ness that was not altogether earthly.
But It was hor face that held me and
made of me from moment to moment
a new man. For in it I discerned what
I had never believed In till now, de
votion that had no limit and love which
asked nothing in return. She seemed j
to be faltering on the threshold of that
room, as one who would like to enter,
but does not dare, and in another mo
ment with a stullo that pierced me
through, she turned as if to go. In
stantly I forgot everything but my de
spair, and leaned forward with an im
petuosity that betrayed my presence.
She glanced quickly toward the win
dow, and, seeing me, turned pale, even
while she rose in height till I felt my
self ebrlvk and grow small before hor.
Thrusting out hor hand she caught
from the table before her what looked
like a small dasrtrer, nnd holding it up,
advanced upon me with blazing eyt
and parted lip, not eeolng that the
judge had rlen to his foot, not seeing
anything but'my face gluod azatasi the
pane, and staring with an expression
that must have struck to the heart, n
surely as her look pleroel mine, W hen
she was almost MjH'n mo I turned and
fled. Hull could not have frightened
me, but hotven did; and for me that
woman wa heaven, whether the smiled
or frowned. gl ujioa another with
love, or ralMHl a dagger to strike m
to the ground.
How aooa I met my nut I can not
ay, la a few minute doota'.ee fur
they hal stolen afi we and had dv
levied me running away from the In
flow. I mm ttoird to tell ntv tale,
sad f told it MuhretLittsgly. fur I
kaw I vuntd not Mm if want
ed to aad I aWd that L be eparvd
ot only fro-a sharing M fvtu, but
Irua the algal wf hie death, tor ehe
Uih1 fetai,
Thl fwai me! Ni woiuW the Cajv
tola sUred. ns Uuh4. Hut 1 did
it laugh ia rvtura, aa4 twin the
ett uegwet man is the band and the
uraet alia the rifle, it did swt trifle
lung, but tM'it to my pirn and la
part tMiti to thiHtt, Kt I n
trkrt to jr m at to fury wiOk
sneaetfcUf like ttfl$t' while ke,
aYttsititUi l tn UfVMtMw h .
.. W tt fait with a r,mUif
.Vj iVt bate ruf Vie kse
t a-l vw winea.
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- x'i I kxl M-
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gftactoks tHi
ready to enter the open windows If
the Judge refused to parley or offered
any resistance to what was known as
toe Captain's wilL
"IVath to the judge!" was the cry,
and it was echoed not only at the door,
but around the houiw, where the rest
of the men had drawn a cordon ready
t) waylay soy one who sought to es
cape. Death to the iudgof And the
judge was loved by that woman, and
would be loved by her till
But s voice is speaking a voice
from out that great bouse and it
asks what is wanted, and what the
meaning of these threats of death.
And the captain answers, short and
harp:
"The regulator commands, but he
never explains. What he commands
now U for Judge Hawkins to come
forth. If he shrinks or delays his
house will be entered and burned, but
if he will come out and meet like a
man what awaits him, his bouse shall
go free and his family remain unmo
lested. "
And what I it that awaits hlmf"
pursued the voice.
"Four bullets from lour unerring
rifles," returned the captain.
"His well: he will come forth,"
cried the voice, and then in a huskier
voice: "Let me kiss the woman I love.
I will not keep you long."
And the captain answered nothing.
only counted out clearly and steadily:
"One two three," up to 100; then
be paused, turned and llltsd his hand,
when Instantly four rifle arose, and at
the same moment the door, with a
faint grating Bound I shall never for
get slowly opened, and the firm, un
shrinking figure of the Judge appeared.
We did not delay. One simultane
ous burst of fire, one loud, quick crack,
and his figure foil before oyr eye. A
sound, a cry from within, thnn all was
till, and the Captain, mounting hit
horse, gave one quick whistle and gal
loped away. We followed him, but I
was the last to mount and did not fol
low long, for at the flash of those guns
I had seen a smile across our victim's
Hps, and my heart was on fira, and I
could not rest till I found my way back
to that opon doorway and tho figure
lying within it
There it was, and behind it a bouse
empty a my heart has boon since that '
day. A man's dress covet ing a wom
an form and over the motionless,
perfect features that same smile which
I had seen In the room beyond, nnd
again In the quick glare of the rifles.
I had harbored no evil thought con
cerning hor, hut when I beheld that
smt'e now sealed and fixed upon hor
lips, I found tho soul I had never
known that 1 possessed until that day.
WHEN WE CROW MOST.
Tears la Whlrb the Organa of the Head
. sad Bod Develop,
Tho brain of tho child is propor
tionately much larger than an adult1,
but of much softer consistency, and its
convolutions are not complete until
the seventh year. This is one of the
reasons why early study Is dangerous.
The child's heart bents much mora
rapidly than that of an adult and the !
growth of the heart instead of being
regular, like the growth of the body
a a. whole, i accomplished by fits and
starts. The more rapid action ot the
heart renders the child peculiarly
liable to fever and the liability is
further increased by his weaker vital
resistance. Hence childhood 1 the
special season for cnrlet fever,
measles, whooping cough and other
similar complaint , i i
The irregularity of the heart'
growth may give rise to disturbances
of the organ of a seemingly dangerous
character, but with proper care will
niua awv as the heart attain its full ,
development 8uch proper care In-' crueltlos of men In great cities to dumb
elude ample nourishment, sufficient animals, and oven the caustic and gun
sleep and tho avoidance of special ' grened mind of Thomas Carlyle. who
strain. ' I pronounced the author of "The An-
The season of rrpld growth and de- ! dent Mariner to ba "an unmitigated
volopment ay between the ages of ! bore, " could not withhold praise from
ten and twenty, needs particular at- the sympathetic lines, "Ho Uveth best
tentlon. Nature Is then at work, us It iwho loveth best all thing both great
never will do again, in Duuuing up tne
tissuos and developing tho nervous
sensibilities. This 1 the period which
makes the largest demands for an out
door life, for pure air, sunlight active
exercise, abundance of nutritious food,
a vigorous digestive tract a ready
assimilation and an active elimination
of waste.
It is the period ot study and am
bition, a well as a v. Isdom that thinks
itself wlsor than It Is. The increasing
mental activity needs to be regulutod
by experienced teachers nnd consider
ate mothers, lest the brain bo worked
at the exponse of other organs and
tissues.
Duller mind should not be forced
to keep step with those which are
caturally more active, and the Influ
ences of the home and the school-room
should bo tmnqulllzlng and adapted to
evoke the klndler feelings. Fretful
parent and scolding teacher may do
a lifelong injury during this susceptible
porlml.
It Is a period when nolther study
nor night excitements should interfere
with sleep; when dime novel do their
worst work; when mother need to
lr mi t what thnle phll.lmn is, ml mi, I in '
be tholr confidential counselor in all
diuictiu matters; when the uw of to
bacco 1 specially perilous, almost
surely giving rise to affitetion ot the
heart and whea spirituous U.)tor and
all optato are puetitttu-ly pernivhiu.
A alary f Seaator Hearst,
'The last time I saw Hnator
l!tnrt y Captain Kennedy, a
rapttol giUU at Vahlnt.in. I was
exi!.vlu'ut IU fr.r tn a party of
I jhtwiers, and jut I rwt0r" !
jrtUm tvpr tntlrij, th ditr of
gold the old '? pst w ith t'un
crn;A t tun!, A funny id,t m
eurrvd to n M ttul suinteat and
md In a toud tonet -l..!. na4 gi
lfin,o, thai pU'lure tvproeante sena
tor tiuurge ll.tarU In kh fe'l ( d ''
ertng g ot I to t Vitomta to 1 li. The
toting aid won hattdM gAnit
naa who stond sest bttt U Thxmaa
J ka Clua's, bjw to vungre frva
t U !lt tUW. fly the v. Ihor U
the eneur f vtaf. M lNarma
t'takl Is iww w'U kut u ba wa at
the time l thi ffulj d.fcu.ief A
Uw KUautsS tale the !( axis Me r
l WB-,j b
lll'P4 tl Into
snj fcaaA it I a'l fit this Mim
Wy, eU ak-aatoret:y Hit
eWt tlve anywHt (ia thai ewy is
iMtor'
'II f HMulf lute wa, t4 II It
tWst Va Mai r1t
fcol! - MMl a4 4Stf feet to -Nat
m-4 U few ewt!"-u
COWS IN BLUE GOGGLES.
A SPECTACLE SEEN ON THE
RUSSIAN STEPPES.
Ove roar Ta Milk freaaeer
TeMeHeg flMa4 ia srtalee.
rate Teeth, Cerk . Lege
a Wigs.
According to Dr. Verincourt chief
of the agricultural department In Rus
sia, ay a leading medical journal of
London, the Illimitable steppe of the
czar' dominions are covered with a
potleu carpet of snow for six or eight
ucceasive weeks in winter, and upon
this the vertical and ardent sun shoots
down it ray with such intensity of
force that the reflected light 1 moro
than human or bovine eyes can long
endure with impunity. At tho sug
gestion of Dr. Verincourt a consider
able number of Russian farmer have
supplied blue spectacles to their much
exposed herds, which wander hither
and thither in pursuit of food, pro
tected in this way against the sll-pre-vailing
snow-bllndnes which Inflict
ophthalmia, and In some case amau
rosis, upon men and animal alike.
At the beginning and even about the
middle of the present century human
ity and compassion for dumb animal
had not extended far enough to pro
vide them with oculists and dentists,
as well as with skilled veterinary
surgeons, in case of need. How small
were the sclentlUe resource of "vets"
when the century was young i suffici
ently established by the remedies
which were then applied to horot, i
cattle and all othor animal. In
March of 1 836 celebrated hunter of
those days, (irlmaldl by name, won
the St. Ajban steeplechase, ridden by
Captain liocher and the best gentleman
jockey of his time. Hcarcely had the
gallant old gray passed the winning
post in advance of hi competing
rivals, before he stopped short and
reared high aloft pawing the nlr with
hi feet and in evident pain. In a
moment or two ho foil on his side and
expired.
A veterinary surgeon was
instantly called in, nnd bis only re
source wa to drain the poor auimni,
wno was
already dead, of hi
of blood, (irlmaldl had
last drop
broken a blood vessel on his lung, and
the remedy adopted served but to
how the Ignorance of the furrier who
resorted to It and of tho age in which
it wa practiced. But down to a much
later date no horse that broke hi log
on tho raco-courso, in the hunting
field or in tho street of a great city
ever escaped a violent death, which
wa instantaneously inflicted by the
poleax, or, more frequently, ' 'by the
friendly bullet." Nothing is now more
common In England than to hear of a
hunter whose broken luar ha been ho
successfully et that he is still alive to
carry a hoavy weight across country.
Every habitue of Newmarket 1 aware
that not long since a horse ran second
for the Two Thousand Guineas who
bad broken hi leg a a two-year-old,
and the marvels now accomplished by
Professor Loftier nnd other horse dent-
m stopping ana removing me voevn
of suffering equino patients are well
j known.
It 1 of course, intelligible that skill
and Rclence should be brought into
play when valuable horses or "golden
calves" of the Bates brood are struck
down by dlsemto or disabled by acci
dent but to supply the wild cattle of
the Russian wastos with blue specta
cles a a prophyiactlo against snow,
blindness and ophthalmia Is a sign of
tho time which would have gladdened
the humane heart of Dr. Johnson.
. One of his most eloquent outburst of
icorn was poured forth against the
and small."
Yet there has never been a time
when human hearts wore not occasion
ally warmed by eccontrlo affection for
birds or beast, and the last will of
Colonel O'Kelly. tho owner of Eclipse,
provided that i'oO per annum, moro or
less, should bo spent uKn hi favorite
parrot, although he left nothing to the
great race horse vho was the archi
tect of his tortuno. In the last centu
ry there wero many who foil under the
lash of Popo' satire when he wrote:
"Die, and ondow n college or a cat"
In Mis Mitford' 'Our Village" there
Is an amusing story of a couple of
j maiden ladles whose much cherished
cow foil Into a lime pit from which
she emerged bereft of all her hair.
The amiable and compassionate spin
sters Immediately set to work and pro-
ivlded their hairless pet with n suit ot
! OannoW, which she wore In summer
and In winter alike.
A sunder fctnne.
There U a largo stono taken from a
colliery drain, which l remarkable in
that it constitute a perfect calendar
of Sunday and holiday. The stone
Is coniHwd of carbonate of lime.
When the miner wore at work the
water running through the drain left
a dujioait wloitHl bliu'k by coal dut;
but when th"y were not nl work the
water ran down clurtr and U'ft a whlto
deposit In time the black and
white Invent mode stone of eonldr
able thlcknc which vonalltoU qulto
a calendar, haea day of work has left
a black atrvuk, .which ia fodow4 by a
hlUi ireK aurtng ui wgnt wniw
whita trek nnr ;h tianUay nnd
ftie hnUilitke. ana rrm this ctrvum-
staace th tm U t n'led Hi Hun.
4y bl m.H IVmmereiat A4wrtioi
4 Halite taratt
Mr Walli FuHoi ut F- llnUiro,
Pa. futin4 a 4 o k n one day re
runtly that wrtalnty diMrva
linn a a rvtuaraahl mi,nirii)'.
Mr. I'ulWr tie4 th U ry
targ one an4 m14 to herkalf . ' It I
4wlle ywiaa.'. Hut sba he tHae;
il mly wn yv!k ppr L tn turtSer
niSnatina (He wytt r sat pita
4 Taetw was amiitvr Kltly
irtawt v,'f hint to lb flrew T.M
evund eftf. tiHtit lm4
t swat.tto pot'lvft )a'4 , xa
bnm ths ei4 b4 W l a. nn4f
hm aa4 ttti'bw4 what woull b"
bw tin ini4iHt
Nwf aa4)
Wkes, Hh.kpHr a4 Xidtoa wrvto
sly r i rul'loet ikaia
Uniuag. One buiJ r 4
Mt) bUIWMHvf taxi(4s tsvae Urxt
thirty million French, and fifteen
millions English. Prof. F. A. Marsh
ays that more than one-half of the
world postal service are now written
and read by English speaking people.
Jacob Grimm, or.e of the ablest hl- j
torian of language says: "The
English speech may with full right be !
called a world language. American
Rural Home.
'STOOD BY THE VANE."
Hat imbed the Spire ef Ssusfcarr' Crest
Cathedral.
During one of hi vacation In hi
youthful day. Dr. James Freeman
Clarke performed a feat that well de
serve to be recorded. When he told
b! friend afterward it terrified them,
and it is no commonplace thing to
read about now. Here is the extra
ordinary tale a Dr. E. E, Hale, the
editor of the Memoir, set it down:
"The plre of Salisbury Cathedral
ia a little more than four hundred feet
high. With some friends Mr. Clarke
ascended a far as the interior stair
case goes, to what i called the weath
er door about thirty feet from the ex
treme top of the spire. The other
were then satisfied with what they had
done, but he went out and climbed up
the remaining part of the spire by
iron handle fixed in the wall, these
having been arranged for the conveni
ence of workmen who have to attend
to the vane.
"When he arrived at the highest ot
these handle he found a bur above
him, running around the eplre. which
he could reach with hi hands. By
thl he lifted himself to the level of the
ball and, a most version of thl an
ecdote say, stood on top of the bull,
with such support a the lightning rod
could give him, surveying the scene.
"He then roturnod to tho supporting
rod and dropped himself, expecting to
find the friendly bolt by which ho had
ascondod. But it was not there, and
he reflected, too late, that he had not
observed on which lde of the spire it
was. Then and there he bod, so to
speak, to work around the spire, hang
ing on by his hands; and having un
fortunately chosen tho loist favorable
direction, ho nearly compietsa tno cir
cuit before he found under hi foot tho
bolt, which was to bo the first step in
hi retreat"
When Dr. C'.nrko told thl story to
hi classmates more thnn a generation
after the event occurred, "old friend
of his found they could not sleep that
night in the terror of what might have
happened." In his letter to friend at
home ho merely said at tho time of tho
thrilling incldont: "I went to the very
top and stood by the vnno, 4K) foot
above the ground. Buffalo Commer
cial Advertiser,
Vitality or Beeda.
Whether eod can or can not pre
serve tholr vitality for lengthened
period depends a much or more on
external tiiun Inherent condition, and
it i more and more a tendency of
iiclontlfltj bullet that under some con
ditions a seed which would lose its
vital power In a year or two, may un
der other conditions, continue vital for
an indefinite period. It Is still a moot
ed question whether the "mummy
seed" which people who travel In
Egypt bring home with thorn, have
roully been In existence for a couple
of thousand years, or are tho skillful
work of lmpistor which abound in
the classic land as well as in our own.
It Is said that so skillfully 1 the im
position practiced that the mummy
wheat can bo made to roll out of
mummy wrapping even before your
eyes. But undoubted fact are ac
cumulating, showing long life in un
expected instances. Under ice sheet
plant ns well as seed will live for
years. A remarkable instance occur
In connection with a species of cypress,
a native of California. Coulter, a
collector In California, had his herba
rium In the Glasnovln gardens, near
Dublin, and twenty-one years after a
seed was taken from a dried spoclmcn
which produced the living plant -
A Lost Invention,
A Philadelphia shoo merchant says
that two years ngo a man came Into
his oftteo In the last stage of alcoholic
decline, apparently, and exhibited an
invention which would revolutionize
mon's shoe fastenings and make a for
tune for some ouo. It wa some sort
of an arrangement which closed all
tho buttons at once by the turn of an
Invisible levor. and was as much an
Improvement on the old method as the
levor skate Is upon the old-fashioned
kind. That was tho first and last tho
merchant evor saw of man or model,
and ho Is wondering now If the inven
tor' secret went into a grave In pot
ter's field. He cannot In tho least
recall tho mannor ot worktng the fast
ening. ,
Daklea KverrM'bere
Tho building of the contagious dl
ae branch of the health board. Now
York City, boeomo like a great nur
sery during the afternoon. It is then
i that the mother t.tke their bablet to be
vAcclnaUMl, and there are babies every
whero on the sUlmtso. the steps in tho
halt, in the baammt on the sidewalk
there bahlt, babies, buble. until one
wonder where they hall from.
narrle,! a ( hlaaietao.
Sue fcha n Chinese launJryman at
Pntucth. Kv.. iu:trrLl hit nwUlatiL
j juia ,t Rutlelg a prvtly Amerlc
j girt The orw.n my wsw American,
j nnd. the gratn w,u dig'itsl in a dree
.,n, Tho b-ldo iv it l not s multr
l(f hustww vwcntaiuHs, but pur ua
ndulle -nt l inva.
krn IV a till).
etABjYol have) done solunJU!
y. ThU month's bill il only half the
snwHinl ws u :'!i4 Ho In ths
wurUlj mt iu.i nunaMl to rutdosn
B'l.-
tVlfn W lijt. br-l.i4 ot ltjf
day" ti.iM ft.-1 it of thto.l.l's
Th 1a h ut llln.
Purtor' Ibat Knl'r'ty gallin.an
rvftn fcnis u r n It."
H.M vU. - -t MV's ni "
thl)'' a nlin? if mills fruit
biKlw' on IW !, M be It
mmm U to -;to wto,'
r nMil.
la ih Dial Imtf frKMllh' iKv4r.li)
it t. kr .' al laJi4 U
.)( III, Uf a;iU'UHk4 k
(Ma ij
raV4. .Uf4 aa4 lU rl
m U ia-UriUtj. J
WHITE MEN ON THE CONGO.
Thejr Hae laereseed rearfold Wlthie
the Pae! Tew Tear.
The whlto population on the Congo
I increasing rapidly, say the New
York Sun. When btoaley loft the
river after having planted hi twenty
stations, there were only about 20i)
white men left to continue the variou
phase of hi work. There are now
over 800 whlto men on the Conga
Over one-third ot them are in the
service of the Congo State, while the
other are engaged in trading and
missionary enterprise. In 1889 Boma,
the capital of the Free State, contained
the greatest number of white, but but
year it wa surpassed by 5IatadL which
ia at the head of navigation on the
lower Congo. Matadi ha gone ahead
because it is the atartlng point of the
Congo railroad, and most of the white
at that place are engaged in building
tho road.
Matada now has a whlto population
of 169 soul, whf'.j Boma ha ten let.
Boma 1 the seat of government and
also the place where a numbor of im
portant European trading firms make
their headquarter. It hit a railroad
leading from the wharf up to the anl-ta-lum,
the hotel and the governmont
building on the bolght away from the
river. With lU considerable native
population and the large variety of
business transacted there, Boma 1 a
vory busy little place.
Leopoldvlile, the chief settlement
on the upper river at Stanley Pool ha
eighty-two white. There ara only
fifteen American on the river, nearly
all of whom are mUslonarie. Thirty
two Dano and Swede are among the
employeu of the Congo state, and al
most to a man they are epgaged In the
steamboat service, many of them being
engineers. The sixty-three Italian
oa the river are at work on the rail
road. They were taken from Southern
Italy, because the climate there Is
warm and it wa thought they would
endure bard corvlco in Africa bettor
than workmen from North Europe,
They are bosse or section hauds, who
teach the native truck gradur bow to
perform their labor and they tiperln
tend ths work, often toklr.g a hand
to show the nutive how tho work
should lo done.
The forty-five Egyptian are soldlor
lmiiorted from Egypt for the purpose
of setting a good military example to
the native soldiery organized by the
tuto. Half of the Egyptian are in
tho garrison at Boma and the other
half are at Leopold villc.
Banana, the settlement at the mouth
of the Congo, bo now a population of
only eighty-throe whites, and ha been
surpassed by Ioopoldvllle, in tho In
terior. There are now more white
men at each of the half dozen post
on the upper Congo than there were at
Leopoldvlllo, the chief point on tho
river, five year ago.
White men on tho Congo are finding
that with the introduction of more
comfort from Europe, with a supply
of better food on their tables, and
with medical attendance at a number
of the more important stations, they
can live on tho river in far better
health than a few year ago. The
mortality, now that the river ha a
white population of over 800 people,
hardly greater than it wa five your 1
ago, when only 200 white men lived
thore.
HOW BARBARIANS SHAVE.
torture Almost a Keen a Those En
dured by Civilised llrethren.
In my wandering about the world,
write a veteran traveler, being of the
Esau type, a hunter and a hairy man,
I have tested the barber cf many no
tion and bought tholr facial imple
ment, too.
The razor in India, though a clumsy
looking semi-disk of steel on a straight
handle, does Its work in native hand
on scalps (as a religious rite) and on
rough faces very nearly as comfortably
by merely moistening the epidermis
with cold water, soap being prohib
ited. Many a time has that primitive
Instrument crossed my chin without
making a scratch.
At the courts of oriental tyrant
drawing a drop of bload during the
operation of shaving was a capital of
fense a precautionary edict no doubt
Mussel shells were till lately used
by savage for the removal of hair till
the Important discovery that a frag
ment of broken bottle I far more ef
fective. Such is the case of those
fierce Islandor of the Andamans. who
operated In thl fashion on two es
caped Indian convicts, whose lives
wore spared, as they were considered
desirnblo "young mon." fit for a
tribal alliance by marriage. When
afterwards rescued those foolish
truant described their suffering un
der tho ceremonial Installation a tor-
rltto and of long duration.
Prehistoric man used a fluke ot flii,t
to remove hi locks and eyebrow,
"disfiguring hi countenance" on occa
sions of mourning.
Tho modern Hindoo haw hi grief
at the barter lianas in the same
fashion a did hi mothorlsn), old
tout
1 have nice specimen of Norwegian
cutlery, but not until a few day ngo
did I know that the Inventive Norse
man had marched before u In raior.
A friend who ha boon trvellnx tor
two whole yrcnmo to stay with me.
and exhibited the niot betutiful pair
of tlin) toilet tod I ever saw, ot very
highly tinUhed ltovmr tool. 'mtl
and scientific, being niivlv thin, flat
hlnita of met.il In itei on groovet of
thicker stuff.
The agul warrant their edy'n to
ttitd thrva moiilii. wlun tha rasor
mut be u:it to h'm. AUtm mtod and
hrM!H I having to lt romovn I from
the gtoved back to da . I t.aMnsy
the 'u'l'tiic, ma to ne ot hard brun.
wlh a and eltM'liv edg nad
there relic of Pomiitil matiiif
I ii 4 In that alley.
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The Boot and Shoe
ED. C3-. YATES.
NOT
FORGETTING
MY
$2.50 & $3.00 Shoes
SLort Tops High enough to keep dirt out; light single sole,
easy oa and they wear good. I have sold them for four years.
Long enough to find out whether they are good for anything or
not They are Good.
. ED. G.YATES.
1129 O Street. 1139.
The Lightning Hay Press.
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