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ADVENTURES AMONG CANNIBALS ► —--— fThe Strangs Story Told bv Louis de Rougemont. OOD n*o is being made by the »oi* enlists of an ac count of the experience* of M. Louis do It o u g e m (i n t among tba sav age* of nortb Auatralia, svhioli appeared Hi* experiences are al have covered a period of thirty year*. During that Rongemout became practically a cannibal tribe. He say* be from his nomadic life and Melbourne in IH'Jo. He ar in England a short timu ago, , September I), told the surry oi in) adventure* and bis re turn to civilization at the meeting of the British Association for the Ad tnent of Hcience, at Bristol. Rougumont’s tale bas aroused ual interest. It is said that his ha* been investigated by famous raplier* like Keltiu and Mill, and d to have every evidence of truth, as probably because of this under - ding that he received an invita from so staid aud distinguished a J as the British Association. Her* is the story of his wanderings as »vr*» pared by M. Rougemont himself. In the year 1 HiJH I left home, a mere youth, and engaged in a pearl-fishing ventnre on board the Dutch schooner Veiellaud. Our pearling ground* lay between the Australian coast and Dutch New Guinea. After about teu mouths the vessel wh* wrecked on a •mall coral island, situated about thirteeu degrees south and 125 da greet* eut, on the northwest coast of Australis. I wan absolutely alone, eave that I had the captain’s dog with me. On this island, or, rather, sand •pit, I lired for two years and under went much suffering. At the eud of that time n party of blacks, who had been blown out to sea from the Aus tralian main, were cast upon the island on a native raft, such as is used in fishing expeditions. After a furth er period of six months’ waiting for favorable winds, we set out together lu a boat built from the wreok of the schooner, and I luuded with my com panions on the coast of Australia in the year 186# — the exact locality was SrcCawbridge Gulf, on tbo northwest coast. ?< m Of course, I mado many ex cursiuns iu various directions, always with the hope of reaching civilization, either overland or by sea. Evidently, however, I drifted into the centre of the continent, and only reached civil ization in 189o, after an exile of up ward of thirty years. When I first landed on the Austra lian main it may be necessary to bear in mind that 1 was absolutely destitute —without clothes, tools or instru ments of any kind,except a harpoon, a stiletto aud a steel tomahawk. I had no book except a New Testament iu the French and English language; all maps and charts had beeu swept away by the heavy seas that preceded the wreck. I had uowritiug materials whatever; it was therefore impossible for me, even if st that time I had had the wish, to make any scientific ob servatiousor to record my wanderings. For a time, however, f did make notes on the blank leaves aud margins of the Testament, using blood for iuk and a quill from a wild boar as a pen. This book was, unfortunately, lost after my return to civilization iu the wreck of the steamer Mntura, which was lost in the Strait of Magellan in the present year of 1898. When I lauded oil the believe vast tracts of it plored, and certainly my edge of Australian geography was very small and vague. If I bad known even tbo exact outliuo of Australia, it wonld have saved me many terrible continent, I were unex own know! journeys ami years of suffering. As I have already said, I landed on the east aide of Cambridge Gulf, as nearly as I can now remember, that is to say. Queen's Channel, which was the home of my native companions, who found their wav hack with me from the little islet by steering by the stars. For iftotue little time f remained in the camp of their tribe, where f was re ceived in a most friendly way in eou seijncuce of the introduction and lepreseutations of my native wife. This woiuau was one of the family of blacks that had heeu cast upon my islet. When we lauded, nearly all the members of the tribe and many iudi viduala from ot her tribes were gathered to see the tlrst white man they hail ever hrheltl. They were not •<> utuob surprised, however, at my personal appearance as at the form of my foot prints. which differed very gieatly from theirs, and the few aitnle* I po* sessed filled them with ama/em*ut, especially my l»oat. This boat, which I built on tue island from the wreck, and in which I reached the mainland with the party of natives, was, uufur innately, lost to an eueountei with a whale, and with it disappeared my hopes of reach tug hoarerset, at I ape York, a setlleuivul of which I bed aftse heard the pearlers apeak. Thus I was obliged to make the attempt by laud, and I started alth my mfs about < mtr.i>er, 1*47, intending to travel due east to the Qusersslaad coast. Aflat it «r seveu months' beveling, at Mr at o««r a Hat coast land ills *r sided by isolated hilts, and then through an elevated and very broke* ewcntry, t r••cited a dam late aad waterless re gins tovsted will* apiarist, where we both suffered terribly from thtret, aad bet far 'he shill af are newts sits in hading water sad preear tag lead, I should probably never have come through it. We soon found that we had come considerably further south than we inteuded, and so we struck due north and eventually reached a Hooded river (lowing eastward, which presently led ns to the sea. This river wasproba- | bly the Ropa, entering the Gnlf of I Carpentaria, but as f did not know of the existence of such a gulf I believed we bad reached the (Queensland coast, and I at once inquired of the tribes we met for the nearest settlement of white men. These natives were the most savage and hostile I ever en countered in all my wauderings. They attacked at night, Imt, having been warned by my native wife, we retired from our gnnyah, or shelter of boughs, and slept in the bush without a tire. In the morning we would find our shelter riddled with spears. At length, after several months of coasting, we found the land trending to the west; aud here, at Rattle's Ray probably, we found a Malay proa. We landed on the northern coast of Mel ville Island, and after we had again reached the coast of the mainland through Aspley Htrait, we experienced u terrible storm, which must have I driven us past Port Darwin. For wholo nights my uative wife and I would be immersed in the sea, ding ing on to the gunwale of our frail craft. At last, abont eighteen months after we bad left uiy wife's home in the Cambridge Gulf region, we one day reoognized curtain islands and also the coast, and soon afterward we found ourselves, to my great surprise, at the very spot from which we had started. The next attempt I made wan to the southwest, starting after some inonthn of rest, and coasting in the dngout as fur as King's Hound. 1 lauded upon aud explored many of the islands dot ted along that extensive stretch of coast, and in some of them] found caves with rude drawings on the rocks. On what was probably Bigge’e Island I found a cairn of stones, which I readily saw must have been the handiwork of a white man. We returned to the old camp overlaud, mossing the King Leopold ranges, which were finely wooded, aud ap peared to be largely composed of granite. We next struck what was probably the Ordo River, which we followed down to Cambridge Gulf, aud re turned along the coast to our own home. On returning from this jour ney I felt little inclination to make another attempt, and for three years I lived among the natives, becoming ac customed to the life and finding it not disagreeable. The desire to reach civilization returned, and about tbe year 1873 J started with my wife, re solving this time to cross the conti nent to the south, as 1 knew in a vague kind of way that there were great towns on the coast somewhere to the south. I had ouly tbe very haziest idea, however, of their posi tion. The tribes were very numer ous, and altogether it was very thickly populated. 1 never traveled due south, but found it expeditious to go from tribe to tribe aud from water hole to waterhole. Besides having my native wife with me, I was armed with a certaiu mystic message stick aud, best of all, I had the power of amus tug the tribes by means of acrobat ic performances, my steel weapons, aud the bark of my dog, who could also go through a little performance on his own account, dancing to the tunc of my reed whistle. ] emphasize these things because they saved my life over aud over sgaiu. Wheu we were perhaps seven months out we came suddenly upon four white men. At this time w'u were with a small party of blacks, who were on a punitive expedition. The party had already been attacked by these same white men and had retaliated, and, therefore, they were by no means disposed to be friendly. Naturally, in the excitement of the moment, I forgot that l was virtually a black man myself, and rushed upon them, but they promptly tired upon us and retreated. T now know them to have been the (iiles expedition of 1M74. 1 should poiut out that I was perfectly uaked, like the savages, aud was auoiuted with the same proteetive covering of black, greasy clay which is used by the natives to ward oft cold aud the attacks of iuseuts, but apart from this, the suu had loug since tunned my skin out of all resemhlanoa to a Kuropeau. Itejmlsed in thia way more than once, ( despaired of ever making uiv real character kuowu, Two or three weeks aftei the eu counter my wife cauit> upou the tracks of a mau whom she deretthed as a white man. aud as a mau »*o lunger m hi* *eu»e» Hhe deducted tins latter fact from the eccentric circles which the tracks followed Kollowiug up these tracks, we did bud a white man alone aud dying from thirst Ife was hopelessly imliecile tie lived with me for Iso y.ar*. * set urns menu hrauce, aud never legatued hie in Indigence until just Mere he died, lie asked who I was, and where he *t*, and then he said hie name a as (liliMM, aud that be had Ueen a mew tier of the title* eipadttiou. The place wh«re he a a* lost was, I aow uu In •land, called by lh« tides et (•edition "tlihaou'e Deee#t.‘* sud it Ilea tn the tsslbtail of Weatera Aus tralM After ttibsoh's death f made up att miud to ead my -lays in tublude, and the reaaoa for this was partlv that I •d deemed tw di>apph>lutmsu> every time nu opportunity offered it relf to return to civilization, and partly, also, on the urgent solicitation* of my wife anil the tribe* with whom I lived. They pointed out u> me that I had everything a ninu could want, and that l could be King among them. It wa«, moreover, quite evident to them that nry fellow white men did not want me. Thu* for something like ta-enty year* I made iny home with them in the mountainous region near the centre of the continent,whore J nltimately became King or ruler over a number of large tribe*. Prom this mountain home I made frequent long journey* aud traversed at one time or another a great part of the in terior of the continent, Once I followed on the < amel track of a white party with the tribe for the purpose of picktug up empty tin* anil for other thing* useful to us, and 1 came upon an Au*traliau newspaper. 1 remember it was the Kydney Town aud Country Journal, bearing date somewhere between 1*74 und 1870. It was a surprise indeed. I read it over and over, until 1 bad learned it by heart, and 1 preserved it iu an opossum skiu cover until it was liter ally worn to pieces. Much of the information tins ne.ws paper contained puzzled me greatly, and T nearly worried myself into in sanity over h statement that, "the deputies of Alsace and Lorraine had refused to voto iu the German Parlia ment and had walked oat." Turn it over how ] might, I could not under stand how the representatives of two great departments iu my own country could possibly be in the German I'ar liament—knowing absolutely nothing, of course, of the war of 1H70. The tribe over which 1 reigned was composed of beings wLo wore certain ly low 'down iu the human scale, but at the same time they have elaborate laws which govern their daily life pro-1 cisely as in the case of civilized peo ple. They are savages, repulsive iu appearauce, who have not even risen to such a point of civilization as to have permanent houses, ahdicted to cannibalism, and altogether of a very degraded type. While my natives did not, as a rule, paint the body on great occasions,such as corroborees, initation ceremonies and other festivities, they point and decorate themselves elaborately, each tribe having its own design of decora tion, and even a geometrical design for each ceremony. The pigments used in decoration are of many colors, but chiefly yellow, red, white and black. Ordinarily the only clothing known consists of a coating of greasy clay, mixed with charcoal. This serves many purposes, ft keeps off the cold during the winter, ami is also a pro tection against the attacks of insects. In summer a special kind of pigment is used to keep off insects, and this material is scented with a kind of pennyroyal. Cannibalism prevails to a very great extent, but is governed by many rules. Usually it is the slain victims in battle that are eaten by the victorious side, and as the object seems to be to ac quire the valor nud virtues of the per son eaten I endeavored to wean the tribes from ennuibulism by assuring them that, if they made bracelets, anklets and necklaces out of the dead mail’s hair, they would achieve their end eqnally well. When a family grows too large, and the mother—be ing the beast of burden—is unable to carry one of Ibe children, the lather orders it to be clubbed ami eaten. This, however, is entirely actuated by love, aa the natives have a horror of natural deoay. Maimed and deformed children are also killed and eaten. Women aud people who die a natural death are never eaten. When a man has to be eaten there is always a grand oorroboree. The natives are not ashamed to confessed cannibalism,nor ia an individual considered uncleau after joining iu a feast. From this account it may appear that my natives were not a pleasant people to live among. But I found the reverse to be the case. They were ll wnys cheerful, obedient and defer ential in their manner, and many times did I owe my life to the care ex ercised by my faithful native wife. It was possible to devise many occupa tions, which were at least siitticent to pass the time. For amusement l used to search the beds of the watercourses for curious stones. In a great many of these watercourses 1 found both coarse and tiud gold, nud in some in stances the creeks were extremely rich iu alluvial gold. I found great quantities of gent stones of every shape ami color, which could be distinguished by iouk iug through them when wet. In some oases the prevailing color of the stones wonld t>« various shades of red, iu others blue, and in rarer cases green. This f took respectively to be ruby, sapphire and emerald. On occasion I came across a range of grauite lulls extending several miles, aud the ad ••cent creeks contained large quaiiti ; tiea of pieces of brokau reefs and ' lodea anti water worn pebblea, also immense <|iiautitiea of heavy black sand, which I anp|ioa«d to he iron, hut winch | now kuow to be tin. In another district 1 found large quanti ties of native copper lying about in pieces. My wtl«l life came iu an end at Iasi. Au epidemic wl lahueusa swept over the country au l carried oh my wife. My surviving ebildreu werealso swept awav. Thus left alone, without the obi interests that has made life toler able. 1 determined to mate a last short to reach my own people, and tearing my mountain home I net out for the southwest On this, however, as in all my tourneys, I was ns ter aide to take a direst line, but had to go hither and thither with the tribes among whom I was sojourning Alter e time I louu I a lre« marked Forte*!, the asms of tne explorer wha had passed that nay, aud turning eoulh I at length met a fatty at fioapeetere many days north of Mount Marga, the nearest camp. Taught by bitter previous experi ence, I knew that before I could ap pear among the whiten 1 ahonld have to get tome of iny natives to procure some clothes for me by any means known to them. When at length T presented myself before the white men 1 wan afraid they did not at first look with favor on their guest. I an swered their questions, and when they heard 1 was without mates and had been journeying hither from the in terior for nine or ten mouths they were convinced J was n person of intellect. A question of my own, “What year is thisV” convinced them altogether that they were right in their conjecture. However, in the end I obtained help and work, and in 189.r* f reached Melbourne, whence by slow stages and not without difficul ties i got back to Europe, ROOTING A FARM, tirniH* kal>!t> Ki'rrautlnli* In I’rulrrl a California On lianl t ram Kraal. Front is a frequent feature of orange growing in California and many de vices for keeping it from harming the orchards have lieeu tried from time to time with only partial success. During the day the earth and trees heroine warm, hut as the night roots the atmosphere the process of radia tion sets in and the heat from the earth and the trees sh carried oft', the cold, frosty utmospbere taking its place. This warm air must not he allowed to escape. The fact was evident that the trees must he covered, A fog would do this eflectualiy, hut fogs eaunot. be muutifactured to order. The idea was conceived by a Mr. Krerest of coveriug the orchard with canvas, which could he rolled up iu the morning and let out at night. One aero was covered iu this way and it was found to be expensive and un stable, as the cauvuM would get wet and decay. Then Mr Kverest thought of a covering of leather, and it was tried, was a success and to day is an accomplished fact. A visit to thia ranch would remove any doubts one might, have regarding tho feasibility of the new plan. A dial aet in the ceiling of the house at the head of the stairs indicates the direc tion of the wind at any time of the night or day. At another place can be seen a system of electric bells. These ring when the thermometer has fallen to n dangerous temperature. The men are then called up and a pro cess of tiring up ia commenced. Anti vet with all these precautions the frost has often been too quick. Now tbe trees are roofed in with canvas and laths. Although this shel ter has been used over but fifteen acres, tbe entire ranch will be covered as soon as the work can be doue. Last spring tbe fruit which was covered matured perfectly, while that uncov ered was more or less injured. The operation is perhaps considered an expensive one, but when the value of a crop is considered it is infinitesi mal. The cost is about $400 to tbe acre, it has been demonstrated that tbe temperature is some five degrees higher under the cover lhau outside, with no fire at all, while with a small fire the temperature can be brought up eight degrees higher. With this cover the rancher is absolutely sure of a crop from any citrus orchard.— Han Francisco Tall. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Flour molded into brick* by hydrau lic. pressure is reduced two-thirds in balk, and rendered proof against damp. l)y means of a toughening process, recently discovered, glass may now b« moulded into lengths and us>id as railway sleepers. Cast iron is now being used for stills for concentrating sulphuric acid, and it is confidently anticipated that it will supercede both glass and plutinuni or that purpose. M. Victor, the French naturalist, says that a toad will lire twenty-eight, months completely embedded in plaster of paris poured on at a liquid, and then allowed to harden. Guttapercha from the leaves of the caoutchouc tree is now being used by French makers of submariue cables, it has all the advantages of thu pro duct from incision into the tree, while less expensive and more durable. A new kind of carbon for arc lamps is reported to have been patented iu Hussia. It ia made from ninety per cent, of very pure carbon aud ten per ceut. of carburet of silicium, the in gradients being very tiuely pulverised aud agglomerated with pitch. To iucrease the durability of lime stones used for buildings, a French engineer pro|to*as to coat their sur faces with a solution <il hydrate of baryta, which is dually converted into barium narhouate or sulphate, both of which are hard aud insoluble, Ko« Ills Huslssss. A baby beaver wa* caught arid given to a gentleman as a pet Beav ers, a* yon know, build dams m which they can i.'ske their bouses. But here was this pour baby liviug in a bouse where there was 110 possibility >f bis having the klud of a iiom»> that be would love to have, lias day when the little heaver was in ihe kitchen, a leaky |N»tl wo» pat on the floor. The mj uiieut the tiahy heaver sew the watei iuhuiun in a little stream across the floor he ran oat in the yard, and appeared in a minute with a chip the geulletueu who owned the heaver won called to see him. The ehtp sir placed is such s way as to atop the water, end the twaver burned ant end •'ware in with another hit of wood, sad then eorue mad, Orders nera given that th« heaver was n»t to b disturbed, but allowed to work oat hie plea, and ia four weeks he hod budi a solid dew around the nail in whnrh was the water. —Tbs Outlook. | Indian Legend of Hiawatha | «.W WWW WWW WWW WWW The Indian story of Hiawatha Is even more beautiful than that which Long fellow has told so charmingly In the justly popular poem bearing that title, but It depicts the hero as u very differ ent man from the bold and tender hearted warrior of whom the poet writes. The Indian story, though In part fiction, Is founded on fact; there la no doubt that such a man as Hia watha once lived, and that he played a lending part in forming the compact of the Six Nations. According to the story, Hiawaiha was the wisest man of the Onondaga*, and when the different tribes were troubled by the Hurons, who lived to the north of them, and the Algontitiins, who were their eastern nelghbora, lie proposed a meeting of the tribes to form a union for mutual defense. But the scheme was defeated by Atatarho, a great wnr chief of the Onondagas, who was jealous of dividing his power, and Hiawatha watt driven out of the tribe. He did not give up the plan, however. As he journeyed toward the aouth he came to a beautiful lake (probably Oneidal. On the shore he picked up a quantity of beautiful white shells. uiawama, living amno an urn unit, and never i-eclng any man, learned inui'li from the Great Hplrlt. it was tlnally revealed to him tliat bln people were at laat ready to unite, and ho Has tened back to them. Then there was a great meeting, which all the chiefs attended. Atatarbo still aut back de fiant, saying never a word. When at Inst Hiawatha arose and began to speak the people were charmed by his voice and listened In silence, for It seemed to them that he spoke with the wisdom of the Great Spirit hlinsi If. Lifting his strings of wumpun, Hia watha unfolded his plan for the union, telling off on each shell the position and power allotted to each tribe and to Its chief. Atatarho was to be made the great war chief of the confederacy-—■ which abows that Hiawatha was some thing of a politician and at thla even he gave way and the treaty waa adopted. While the people wers celebrating the treaty with the usual feasting, It was observed that Hiawatha waa sad and ailent. “Feasting is not for me," be said, when his friends urged him to Join the festivities; “I um to go on a far journey.” At that moment a beautiful white ca noe wus seen approaching across tho lake, driven by some unseen power. When it reached the shore lllawatlm, bidding farewell to those who had crowded about him, stepped Into the canoe, whi< h moved rapidly away. As It reached the middle of the lake It suddenly rose into the nlr. Higher and higher Into the blue Hky flew the while canoe with Its single passenger, until It became a dim speck and then vanished altogether. That was the lust of Hiawatha, but the league which he founded continued for centuries and was never conquered by its enemies, and every year alncc the wampum has been brought out at the great council and tho solemn rites with which Hiawatha had instituted the confederacy have been rehearsed. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Notel llrlifescakc. For a homp wedding the last and most artistic touch of festivity centers in the bridcscake and the cutting thereof, says the Chicago Record. The cutting lias a drawback. If the cake ia an rich us it becomes a bridescake to be. the cutters are apt to have lin gers slightly greasy, and a trifle sticky when they are through. Hut that keeps no young woman from try ing her fate by its auguries. Never theless, she would try it with better grace if she could manage to do it without detriment to her gloves or soiling the tips of Iter dainty lingers. AH this was achieved at a swell wed* diug down south not long ago. The wedding supper table was set in the form of a fan. The brldeseake was another fun. iced all over so as to re semble point lace, with a bouquet of orange blossoms In Icing where the sticks joined. It was exceedingly pret ty. The novelty, however, was in the , ribbons - short lengths of w hite satin j ribbon, which came through the l ing all around the fan's outer edge. The ring, the 5-ccnt piece, darning needle and so on were made fast to some of the ribbons. Instead of euttlng, each young woman pulled a ribbon. If she drew blank, well and good if she , happened to lay hold on a freighted length, she had to aeeept her fate. - | * u*laud's IlntlHI. The independent contains some rent- ! inlscencee of Gladstone, suggestive, as all aueh reminiscences must be. of his i wonderful Intellectual and moral pow er. He learned French late In life. In cited to do so by hla enjoyment of i Freni h literature. At eighty-ala he mastered Danish. A few yeara ago a dinner was given him by Jules Hl mon and other distinguished French men. "Khali I speak In French or Kng j lleh?*' he asked an Amerbaa friend, i on arriving The American would not venture la j advise Mr Gladstone la anything, hut added "If | were e*pe*ted le speak, and could da so In their awn tongue. I should certainty use It,** "I will speak In French," said Mr j Gladstone, **d m he did for half an hour, to tao astonishment and delight of all who were present. No subject seemed low alight In at tract bis inisreei Nome American ap pies were placed un the uhte near him. , and one of our countrymen remarked* “Those are rather fine applet.” “Yes," said Mr. Gladstone. “Tou sent uh seven thousand three hundred and stxty-flve barrels last year.” AmonK the two hundred guests pres ent, possibly there was not another one who coUd so promptly have stated a fart of surh merely general Interest. It la good to bear the generous (or just!) commendation of one great man for another. “When you meet Mr. Gladstone,” John Bright once said to a visitor In England, "you will seo the greatest Englishman of our time," A titled lady was one day railing at Mr. Gladstone, as was the fashion In Kugiand until recently. Suddenly Mr. Bright turned and asked: “Has your son ever seen Mr. Glad stone?" The son was at that moment stand ing beside them. "No,'’ was the sur prised answer. “Then, madam,'' said Mr. Bright, "permit me to urge you to take him at once to see the greatest English man he la ever likely to look upon." Harmony and Contrail. Tlit* following It a list of colors wblrh conlratt and harmonise: White con t rant* with black aiid harmonize* with gray. White cafitra*ta with brown and harmonize* with buff. White rontruHta with blue and bar raonlze* with tky blue. White contrast* with purple and harmonizes with rote. White contrasts with green and har monize* with pea green. fold green* contraat with white and harmonize with bluet. Cold greena contraat with purple and hurmonlze with citrine. (’old greena contraat with pink and harmonize with brown, Cold greena contrail with gold and harmonize with black. (’old greena contraat with orange and harmonize with gray. Warm green* contraat with crlmaon and harmonize with yellowa. Warm greena contraat with maroon and harmonize with orange. Warm greena contraat with purpla and harmonize with citrine. Warm greena contrast with red and harmonize with «ky blue. Warm gfeena contraat with pink and harmonize with gray. Warm greena contraat with white and harmonize with white. Warm greena contraat with black and harmonize with brown. Warm yrecna contraat with lavender and harmonize with buff. (Sreena contraat with colora contain ing red and harmonize with colora containing yellow or blue. Orange contrasts with purple and harmonize* with yellow. Grunge contra*ta with blues and harmonizes with red. Orange contrasts with olive and har monizes with warm brown. Orange contrasts with crimson and harmonizes with while. Orange contra*ta with gray and har monize* with huff. Orange requires blue, blacl' purplo or dark colora for contraat, and warm colora for harmony. Naylnes «f American#. “Don’t aw«ar; fight!” The phrase has the ring of sound metal. The American army of invasion ad vancing upon Santiago de Cuba was preceded l>y a body of rough riders. Suddenly the Spaniards, who were ly ing in ambuHb, fired a deadly volley, and the startled rough riderH replied with an outburst of curses. "Don’t Bwear; fight!” called Colonel Woed. The phrase will live. America is a big country; it !» des tined to become a great country, for there is manliness and vigor in the memorable phrases coined by cele brated Americans. It was Stephen De catur who originated the toast, "Our country, right or wrong." Henry Clay said: "Sir, 1 would prefer to be right thaw to lie president.” The last words of Nathan Hale were: "I only regret (hat I have but one life >o lose for my country.” William Penn coined the phrase: ‘‘I prefer the honestly simple to the Ingeniously wicked." And it was Henry Ward Heecher who uttered the words: “The mother s heart la the child’s schoolroom.” When nations become artificially re fined the phrases which their great men coin are generally either cynical or flippant. Thua, to Tallyrand Is attrib uted the phrase, "Mistrust first Im pressions. they are always good." Vol taire declared that "Ideals are like beards; children and women navar wear them.” To which might tie add ed. "except when they are monstroel ties.” Antonie Rlvarole said, "It la an immense advantage to hava dona uoth ing. but one should not abuse It." Ham lie! lingers said. "When I was youug 1 ■aid good natured things and nobody listened to o*a; now that I am old I say ill-natured things, and everybody listens to me." To Sydney Smith we are indebted for the following nugra clous description of a fashionable wo nisi "Don’t mind the caprice* of fashionable women The. are as groaa a« poodle* fnl on milk and mullns " Whither Colonel Wood uttered them or not, the words, "Don’t swear, llghlf" will ring for long in the memorise of many generations. London Truth. A rnke of magnesU Is n good friend to the economies! woman in these days of many light frorha lluh the nulled • pots on both sides #f (ho goods when the dreoa or waistcoat la takan of. and after slrlag hang away with the mag ussla still them. When the dress ts vented again duet the magneotn off lightly and It wilt he found is have carried away pan of (he soil and in hide (ho rest A light dree* thee may to kept imm*‘ tilste la appoamae* sev eral days after it would ofhermtga have to go to the els*ear