THE CHARITY BALL ' 'Wtaj, Mr. Brovuii you at any* 'At| ia pay u a ctantj ball*** my 4nr Mt»# Enrkson. at tftrtfctac M dumair Browning re JltaM. 11* *JrI laughed and shook oat the *«»da of It** misty pink d*n« its ekirt. •ritfe its ntfln sad lac*. 1 has* lust one dance left a arhol* ***** a&tull it be for youT*" she said. -If fom wnM .frmar |;ut m I ran t •»» &nj thing bwt the waltz. 1 am S04SS to ask you to estate with me to that link alcove retreat over there. • acre «« can tak aad wauh the fig aiaa.” For aacwer Mildred Erickson laid her gloved lasers oa his arm aad raised her brown eye* to his lar* as tley walked away from the erwp of •tkaeers aow forming tor the schot The ' little alcove retreat' was at the rad of the Urns ballroom, aad was t«i eased with cut lowers aad ferns. Mtidrwd threw her hose bouquet of bridesmaid rmis, her fan aad her lam handkerchief down faestde her aad took up two-thirds of the dlras with her fill skirts. Hr outline aaak bark lu* wriewsiy la the siikea cushions at her **de. "f»«y one areas to he here to eight.' she said. n« Kvea L “There I* **rtd- Jones aow. !a that rale hiwe rhiloa. lad you know she Is ta he married aezt week to Jack Marshall T* HU*-* Thu u only her sc md sea soa. seat ItT* *Ae«md* So only her first Mil* I dred *s.d with a- .such -no »liras of . ter pltinf white shoulders. “Her lrst? You are mote sensible. Mia* Ertriaua Why. this Is your tenth •raaoa. Doc t you remesitx r. 1 was at your comlas owt tear* “Tee aad yew were old then— ) i «oa?" “Can Mr Btonn.ag be wrjag~ ' Thank jam Now suppose i had married when I vai say A. Tea years ago. I d bate a wif • bo sever thought of me or my borne, but al ways of ber osro personality and her snriai engagement* My borne would be no hntor at ail. bec ause 1 should expert thins* uf her mbit a sbe, wroold never do.** Miss Erickson was trac-onst lousy pilling the flower* to pieces and watching Mr Brow max with studied MMflf. Bros a.ax continued- “As it is. I have my bachelor flat is which | am Kmc My aenraots. wtion bo one ‘ter interferes with 1 so and come when I p>e*se. to the club, to the tprra. to dinners, or to Europe. My horses ar-d carriages are mine, and no om ever complain* of them. My house is solitude Itself salens 1 w lab to mak* it noisy. Don't yon think 1 am a "It really had never orrurred to me. Mr. Brow nine. Mildred said. laughing slightly. "Of course yon do. for you've fol lowed my « sample. and remained single-“ "Bat not alone. Tb'-re is mamma smd papa and Jo and the girls. Mr. Browning O. I should not ears for cn-fftnfly nor en>orment alone.** “Ton mn not ao seiftsb ** “What — “Mo. Mr. Browning. I am not so smith And yon would be happier if yos ••-re not.** Browning looked at ber ia silent T suppose I have given up a lot for my ssHstiaim It ssigbt be nice to bane a wife always waiting for me and (wanning little aurprtaes for my comfort and enjoyment, if sbe were sweet and nk* and rharaung. like she ■aoUl be before f married ber. And to always have aome one to take out with me whenever I—or rather— she eared In go. And to entertain my to see great tall hoys and gentle girts —my children -growing wp about me. But a wan must have a lot of nerve to ask a woman to give herself to ■.** Mildreds Ups in a ber name, nil girliab fe*t of—* Browning went i ."b* regards It all as a pleasant ' rific-e, if she loves the mao, Mr. Browning.” “And if she loves the man will she want to do all this if he asks her?" “Men are positive and women nega tive." So you advise me to marry?" ‘ 1 advise all men to marry." Then why are von single, Mil dred?" “I? O. I am a woman." And she laughed softly. Browning watched the gay sceue of the ballroom in silence a moment Then he said: “Mildred, shall I tell you why I never married?" The girl buried her face again in the roses. “Yes/' she said. "Because I never thotsgh? you would have me. You were so bright and gay aed ten years younger than I." Mildred leaned toward him until he felt her breath on his cheek. She poke rapidly, for she saw Mr. Bixby coming to claim a waltz. Stull 1 tell you why 1 never mar ried. Paul?" “Yes." “Because yoa never asked me." ' Mildred “ Browning sprang forward from th» silken cushions and caught her hand. Hut she withdrew it hurriedly, and with her face all wreathed in smiles caught up her flowers and fan and lace b-.ndkerchief. and said, as slit walked away: “Come to me tomorrow afternoon at S, Mr. Browning." And a moment later Browning saw her floating through the steps of the waltz on the arm of George Bixby.— Chicago Tribune. THE ENGLISH TONGUE. It I* >ot m ■ nltmtl la Trade a* la Claimed. Frank W. Mabin. l ulled States con »ul in Reichenberg. Bohemia, has writ <-« to the state department protesting against the idea advanced by some American trade papers that in intro ducing American goods into Europe the English language "is altogether sufirlent." He says that is just the opposite from the truth, and that every American consul in Europe is strug gling to convince his countrymen who want to build up an export trade that ther langstages must be used, and that circulars printed in English and sent to European business houses go into the waste basket. He fautaiB that cir < ulars must be in the language of the • ountry to which they are sent, and that if personal solicitation is used. ;he agent must speak fluently the lan guage of the country in which he labors. He says: "it is true that knowledge of the English language is xpreading, and it is possible that in a generation or so it can be used success fully m <3 ing business in any part o? Europe. It is also true that some peo p - :a every town of considerable size have a smattering of English, but few if these people will take the trouble to read circulars printed in English, it take* too much effort. They talk a lit’Ie. but will not bother to puzzle out • ‘ • te« i’ni■ al words in printed business matter, and the waste basket is made use of by them as well as by the people who do not know a word of English.’' PREACHER’S PRAYER USELESS. iatoiksua Man U ou|- Not Forgive «»«»• Who Oarii lltiu 91.30. In one of the North end churches the other evening, while revival services were ;n progress a raw-boned man. a little t worse for liquor, sat down on ! e ua k pew. A well-known evangel ;*T was a the midst of an eloquent ex hortation. His gestures and modu 3 a ted » • appeared to possess a great attra non for the inebriate, who matched him very closely and seemed to >e gradually working himself up to m con* derable degree of excitement. After a time the speaker proceeded to discourse on the duty of cultivating a forgiving spirit, and immediately a cloud began to settle on the fellow s <> r..-’ MU ■ Al last he shouted: ’ B it suppose a man owed you a dol lar and a half and wouldn’t pay you?" The evangelist listened to a rambling story of the fellow's troubles. "Now*, brother." said he, "we shall pray a;»out this matter. Are you willing?” For answer the fellow plumped down on his knees. The congregation looked on in amusement, while the evangelist, kneeling bes;de him. offered up an earnest prayer. "But. I^ord.” said the preacher at last, “this man needs his *>ou! • salvation more than he does that dollar and a half." "No, no.” shouted the feilow. springing up. "I want the dollar and a half.” Amlrrw ^i»n# tli® l)Urover#r. Andrew J. Stone. mho has just re rurned from the arc-tic. where he was | sent by the American Academy of Nat ural History made many valuable and interesting discoveries during his journey. He also found mistakes in the present maps of the region. The most important of his discoveries was that of thre** hitherto unknown tribes of Indians, living in the far north, where no white man has ever pene trated before. The members of the newly found tribes are described as j being the most advanced physically ! an^ Intellectually of any of the natives of Alaska and the adjacent country. During the winter of lfc&8-'b9 Mr. Stone traveled more than 3.000 miles on sledges drawn by dogs, and visited no lens than twenty-eight different tribes, speaking as many different dialects. In the short arctic summer Mr. Stone reports that the valley* fairly bloom with Bowers. Close to the art-tic cir cle he aaw finer red currants growing out of door than ever be saw in the United States. onem Brakes Down. According to tb* Army and Navy Journal, the following navy officers have been ordered away from Manila, having broken down physically from the effects of the climate: Lieut. Wal ter S. Croaley. aide to Rear-Admiral Watson; Naval Cadet Bec-kner. Car penter Gill and Capt. H. C. Haines, of the marine corps. The heart where self has found no place and raised no throne is slow to recognize its ugly presence when It looks upon iL—Charles Dickens. MAN-EATING LIONS. OBSTRUCT WORK ON A RAIL ROAD IN AFRICA. A*d Kill Nrarljr 100 Men, Injuring a Good Many Others—Frightful Rav ages of Wild lteasts In Africa and India. Obstructing the building of a rail road is a rather unusual feat for lions, yet that is what two of them did some time ago in Central Africa, near Vic toria Nyanza. The matter was re ferred to by Lord Salisbury in one of his addresses to the British house of lords. These lions were man-eaters, and for more than eight months they terrorized 6,000 laborers engaged in the work of construction. Scores of these men they dragged off and devoured. The greater part of the camp having at length moved up the country be yond the forging ground of the lions, several hundred were left behind to build bridges. Upon these the lions made a still more sanguinary descent. Night after night they would carry away one and sometimes two men. They attacked white engineers, doc tors. soldiers and military officers, as well as laborers from India, coolies and African natives. On almost any night and at any time of the night the men were liable to be aroused by the shrieks of their abducted comrades, and to hear the cracking of their bones and the tearing of their limbs a rod or two away, while the lions growled and quarreled over their prey. Sick men in the hospital died from sheer terror at these horrible sounds and the horrible scenes they suggested. The beasts were shot at in the darkness, but seldom hit. For firearms, fire or torches they cared nothing. One of them leaped upon an officer, tore his knapsack from his back, and then car ried away and devoured a soldier near by. Many became so terror-stricken that they threw themselves on the rails in front of a coastward train and insisted on either being run over or carried off on the train. Those who stayed forsook .the tents and huts and camped out on top of the water tanks, on roofs and bridge girders, or in beds lashed to the highest branches of the trees. One night one of these broke, letting its lodgers fall within a few feet of the lions. But. being already too occupied with devouring a victim, the brutes gave no heed to this ■'wind fall.” but let the intruders escape until another meal. During the eight months that these lions lived upon these railroad men they would be occasionally wounded by a shot and obliged to retire from active life, thus giving the camp inter vals of quiet. But they killed and ate in all nearly thirty natives of India, twice as many African natives, be sides injuring many others of various nationalities. It was impossible to poison them be cause they confined their diet entirely to human beings, to the neglect of every kind of game, with which the region abounds. The white men were not numerous enough to hunt them successfully and the Sepoys were too unskilled with firearms. At length an engineer of the line, who spent months of his time pursuing them, worn out by loss of sleep, sitting up in the moon light and tracking them during the day. succeeded in shooting them both and putting an end to these man-eat ers’ reign of terror. They were each over nine feet long. Both Africa and India are in many parts under the dominion of the lion and tiger. Against the lion of South Africa the native has to be constantly on his guard. The Arabs arrange their tents in a circle, in the center of which the herds are penned, and outside the tents is a rude hedge. When they hear the animal begin roaring, and he can he heard plainly at a distance of three miles, sometimes faintly nine miles off, they kindle the heaps of wood that have been piled up before each tent so that the occupant may hurl a lighted brand at him. But some of the brutes have become so wonted to the fire, the yelping of the dogs and the cries of the people that they pay no attention to them. He boldly leaps within the inclosure. He drives men. women and children into their tents, silences the dogs and stampedes the horses, sheep and dogs through the hedge and across the desert. From the sheep, too frightened to flee, he selects his supper, and carries it away to the mountains;. or. if the mood suits, pursues the horses and cattle. Of ihe.->e he will sometimes kill three or four and suck their blood, leaving their carcasses where he over took them. The power of these black African lions is enormous. The strong est of them can clear an eight-foot inclosure holding in their mouths a j-year-oid norse. uirara, the lion killer, declares that he has seen one of them charge into the midst of COO Arab horsemen on an open plain and drive them back to their encampment, the boldest of them, with their horses, remaining prostrate along his path. In India a man-eating tiger kills more than a hundred people a year; sometimes four or five, and even sev en. persons at one*’. In some districts 300 or 400 human beings are annually slain by tigers, and in lower Bengal as many as <00 are killed. One tigress has been known to close the public roads, cause the desertion of 13 vil lages and put over 250 square miles of territory out of cultivation. They become bold enough now and then to penetrate a city, and are accorded its freedom until they are shot. Fronaorlatian of ’‘Automobile.** Two wavs of pronouncing the word “automobile" are defensible, accord ing to current orthoepic authorities, and two only, although at least five have been suggested. As a noun the word is not given in any dictionary. It is in the Standard as an adjective, pronuonced au-to-mo-bil. The noun, of course, is only the adjective used absolutely, to mean something that is automobile or self-moving. The commonest pronunciation is su-to-mc beel. It is simply “auto,” self, and “mobile,” movable. The Standard, Webster and many other authorities giv* mo-bll as the pronunciation of “mobile,” and Worcester and some others prefer mo-beel.— Inland Printer. SAILING THE PACIFIC ALONE. About 2,700 Miles Almost Without Touching the Helm. For several days now the Spray sailed west on the parallel of 10 de grees 25 south, as true as a hair. If she deviated at all from that, through day or night—and this may have hap pened—she was back, strangely enough, at noon, at the same latitude. But the greatest science was in reck oning the longitudes. My tin clock and only timepiece had by this time lost its minute hand, but after I boiled her she told the hours, and that was near enough on a long stretch. The 12th day of July, 1897, some hundred mile* southwest of Christmas Island, I saw anti-trade clouds flying up from the southwest very high over the reg ular winds, which weakened now for a few days, while a swell heavier than usual, set in also from the southwest. A winter gale was going*on in the di rection of the Cape of Good Hope. Ac cordingly I steered higher to wind ward. allowing twenty miles a day, while this went on. for change of cur rent; and it was not too much, for on that course I made the Keeling Islands right ahead. The first unmistakable sign of land was a visit one morning from a white tern that fluttered very knowingly about the vessel and then took itself westward with a business like air in its wing. The tern is called by the islanders the “pilot of Keeling Cocos.’’ A little farther on I came among a great number of birds fishing, and fighting over whatever they caught. Springing aloft. I saw from halfway up the mast cocoanut trees standing out of the water ahead. I expected to see this, still it thrilled me as an electric shock might have done. I slid down the mast, tremb ling under the strangest sensations; and not able to resist the impulse I sat on deck and gave way to my emotions. To folk in a parlor on shore this may seem weak indeed, but I am telling the story of a voyage alone. I didn't touch the helm, for with the current and heave of the sea the sloop found herself at the end of the run absolute ly in the channel. You couldn’t have beaten it in the navy. Then I trimmed her sails by the wind, took the helm and flogged her up the couple o? miles or so abreast the harbor landing, where I cast anchor at 3:30 p. m., July 17. 1897. twenty-three days from Thursday Island. The distance run was 2.700 miles as the crow flies. It was a de lightful sail. During those twenty three days I had not spent altogether more than three hours at the helm, in cluding the time occupied in beating in Keeling harbor. I just lashed the helm and let her go; whether the wind was abeam or dead aft it was all the same She always sailed on her course. Xo part of the voyage up to that point taking it by and large, had been so finished as this.—Century. “Sicilian Vespers." “Sicilian \ espers'1 is the name given to the massacre of the French in Sicily on ths day after Easter (March 30), 1-82. the signal for the commence ment of which was to be the first stroke of the vesper bell. Charles of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX. of France, had deprived the Hohen staufen dynasty of Naples and Sicily, and parceled out these kingdoms into domains for his French followers; but his cruelty toward the adherents of the dispossessed race, his tyranny, op pressive taxation, and the brutality of his followers, excited among the vin dictive Sicilians the deadliest animos ity. On the evening of Easter Monday the inhabitants of- Palermo sprang to arms, and turning on their oppressors put to the sword, every man. woman and child of them, not sparing even those Italians and Sicilians who had married Frenchmen. This example was followed, after a brief interval, by Messina and the other t»>wns. and the massacre soon became general over the island; the French were hunted like wild beasts, and dragged even f"om the churches, where they vainly thought themselves safe. More than 8.000 of them were slain by the Paler mitan* alone. The 600th anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers was celebrated with much enthusiasm in Palermo in 1SS2. Ant Enemies. All ants that are not from the same nest seem to be deadly enemies, but while an ant will do what he can to put to death a stranger he does not seem to take a corresponding delight in aiding his friends, as is shown by the following experiment: A scientist, in order to test the affection of ants belonging to the same nest, took six of them and imprisoned them in a small bottle, covering it with a piece of coarse muslin. Their fellows paid no attention to the prisoners, but when the experiment was repeated, substituting, however, six ants of a rivai tribe, their enemies swarmed around the bottle, and after some thing like a week through persistent effort they succeeded in eating their way through the muslin. Two ants were found dead, evidently proving that they had been put to death, while the others probably escaped. Hnjnkot schtsc-hlua. The state Besjukovschtsehlna. in Russia, is piobably the only place in the world that is run entirely by women. This state is made up of seven villages, eath presided over by a mayoress, the whole under the super intendence of a lady named Saschka, who acts as president. There are women magistrates, women preachers, women policemen—in fact, every ca pacity in the state is filled by women. The roads are made by women, and women sell milk and deliver letters. If you want to bring an action against your neighbor in this state you go to a woman lawyer; and if there is any thing in your house to be stolen, then a burglar of the weaker sex steals it. No place of any importance is filled by a man. Mr* tar Ions Disappearance Solved. The mystery concerning the where abouts of General White, fugitive quartermaster general of Michigan state troops has been solved, by the receiving of a letter at Grand Rapids from him. written in Cape Town, South Africa. General White saya he is sorry he did not remain in Michigan and fight his troubles out THE SPENDTHRIFTS PRODIGALS WHOSE AMBITION WAS TO SPEND MONEY. And Who Squandered Trlncety For tunes in a Short Time—Max Lebaudy and New York’s "Kins or the Dade*.” Never has there been a time since newspapers were invented that the struggle for wealth furnished more news than now. Yet there is a great dearth of talk concerning prodigals. At this time the world has no big spendthrift of the class of Howell Os born, the New York dude; Max Le baudy, the French sugar refiner's son, and Ernest Benzon, better known as “Jubilee Juggins." These three men were unique in their extravagances. Benzon was the son of a German junk man in London, who died when Ben «on was a boy. leaving his fortune to be divided equally between his son and his adopted daughter. Young Benzon wras 18 before he was told of his fa ther's riches. From his infancy every penny allowed him had been doled out with the utmost penuriousness, his clothing was poor and mean, his edu cation was anything but that which would fit him to manage a big prop erty, and such acquaintances as he was allowed to make were of the wrong sort. Naturally he lost his head on discovering the truth, which had been kept from him so that the fortune might grow. Within a week after he learned the situation the youngster spread the news widely. Not only did his credit become limitless, but the money lenders fairly sought him out to press loans upon him. Before he was 21 Benzon had succeeded in run ning 1165.000 in debt. The entire prop erty to be divided between him and his foster sister amounted to $2,500, 000. Of his share $25,000 was in ready cash. Most young chaps, even of ex travagant ideas, would have made that much loose money do for a while, but within twenty-four hours after he was 21 Benzon drew out $250,000 wherewith to pay the debts of his minority and meet the expenses of a trip to Austra lia. whither he started with as little delay as possible. He then left in ne gotiable securities almost a million dollars. In two years he was dead broke. Benzon's fads were gambling and fine clothing. He rarely wore the same suit twice, and as he never gave away any of his apparel, his collec tion of trousers, coats, waistcoats, cravats and other personal belonging? was immense. Benzon’s father had the wisdom of leaving a trust fund for his son. and upon the income from this the spendthrift has since worried along. Lebaudy's case was different. Lebaudy, the father, began poor, but speedily became rich in the sugar business, his career being so similar to that of a certain great American re finer that he has been spoken of fre quently as the French Havemeyer. Old Lebaudy deliberately taught his son to be a profligate, to take for his motto the significant saying, “Youth comes but once.” Mme. Lebaudy did not ap prove of this, and there are stories of bitter quarrels in the family over the path taken by the son while the father was alive. The father paid all the son's bills cheerfully, and even when lying prostrate from paralysis just prior to his death urged Max not to pay any heed to his mother’s protests. On the old man's death Max came into a fortune of $5,000,000. Mme. Lebaudy was grieved at her son's course while his father was alive. Later she was horror-stricken, for almost before the sound of the clods falling on the old man’s coffin died away the young man redoubled his expenditures, rushing into every conceivable sort of excess that was un paralleled even in Paris. Being a Frenchman. Lebaudy’s gallantries were notorious, but he spent his money in i every imaginable direction. Paris dressmakers got millions of francs; entertainers of the sort characteristic of Paris got other millions, and still other millions were scattered in the gayest towns in Italy and Switzerland. Like Benzon. in two years Lebaudy got rid of all his money save a trust fund of which he couid spend the income only. After that he had to serve in the army, and while in military serv ice he died of consumption. Lebaudy was the victim of Parisian blackmail ers. and hundreds of thousands of francs were "wrung from him. Howell Osborn for years was known as the “King of the Dudes” after Berry Wall stepped down and out. and cut a wide swath. The elder Osborn left a large fortune. Howell managed to scatter $2,000,000. Young Osborn spent money in wads before his father’s death. After that his income was from $25,000 to $35,000 a year till his moth ers death, when ne came into the residue of the family health, on con dition that he should not marry an actress or a singer. By reason of good credit and a knack he had of taking a lucky flyer “on the street” once in a while, however, Howell managed to put a good deal more than his income into circulation every year. He cleared up $60,000 at one clip in an operation in St. Paul, and lucky strikes in other stocks were not unusual. He bought a seat on the stock exchange, and for a time attended to business regularly. While living in Paris, after giving up his stock exchange seat, he plunged heavily at the races and on the cloth, as Lebaudy and Benzon did. but, un like them, he won so heavily as to be one of the famous men on the conti nent that year. Osborn never threw money away without a purpose, nor was he blackmailed. Once he swore to these annual expenses* Clothes, $3. 000; clubs, $2,500; cabs. $3,000; the aters. suppers, etc.. $3,000; charities, $2000; steam yacht $10,000; doctors and dentists. $500. He died four years ago. and New York has not seen his like since. Frlc»*. “He says he never took a penny for his vote,” said the practical politician. “He says true,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I've known times to be hard, but I never saw the day when votes were selling for a cent apiece In his neighborhood.**—Washington Star. PRISONERS OF STATE In England Are Treated with If nob Consider* t ion. In 1849. when the state of Maharaja Dhuleep Singh was finally annexed to the Indian empire, that potentate was requested to take up his residence in England—the inducement to a ready compliance being given by the prom ise of a yearly income of $240,000. with nothing at all as an alternative. Dhu leep Singh wisely acquiesced, purchas ing the fine estate of Brandon in Nor folk. upon which he resided for many years as a wealthy English country gentleman. Though during this pe riod the maharajah frequently ex pressed the desire to revisit his na tive country, professing the utmost royalty to the empress-queen, yet he was never permitted to travel east of the isthmus of Suez. In this case the bond seems to have descended upon the heads of his children. For while his sons have entered the British army, and one of them. Prince Victor, recently married the daughter of the earl of Coventry, yet they have never been allowed to set eyes on the land over which their ancestors ruled. Ap proaching Calcutta on the left bank of the Hujli river at Garden Beach, the visitor will have pointed out the fine palace of the late Wajid All. king of Oudh. There from 1856 until a recent date this prince was held in semi-cap tivity upon an annual allowance of $600,000, the only proviso as to his freedom of action being that he should not leave the vicinity of Calcutta. The king of Oudh, true to those prodigal instincts which brought about his downfall, not only managed to ex pend this large sum, but in the keep ing of snake mounds, menageries and other costiv forms of amusement dear to the oriental mind, was obliged to draw frequently upon the imperial treasury for further amounts. The leniency with which he was thus treat ed was probably due to the fact that he offered no armed opposition to his own deposition. Blazing with jewels and seated in a smart equipage, with servants in royal liveries, the king of Oudh was often a conspicuous figure ;n the Calcutta park, where the society of the Indian capital takes an outing after the heat of the day is passed. Far different was the fate of the poor old Bahadur Shah, last of the Great Moguls. After the fall of Delhi, :n 1857, he was tried for high treason and sent as a state prisoner to Rangoon. There, in a small hut. the only lineal descendant of Shah Jehan and Au rangzeb passed the remainder of his days, unnoticed and upon a mere pit tance. As, however, both his sons were slaughtered and a less culpable rebel leader. Tantia Topi, was exe cuted. he may have thought himself fortunate to escape with his life. Near Colombo, in Ceylon. England still holds in light durance Arabi Pasha and his colleagues of the Egyptian re bellion of 1882. While Arabi has not ceased to bemoan his fate and useless ly implore the British government for permission to return to Egypt, yet. considering the nature of his ofTense, and that he was sentenced to death, his lot cannot be considered burden some. Provided with an income suffi cient for his wants, a pleasant resi dence. permission accorded him to re ceive visitors, and a considerable measure of freedom within the dis trict, he would undoubtedly had Deen worse off had his successful enemies been of his own race and religion. For several years Cetawayo. king of the Zulus, was held an unresigned prisoner at Ghowe. near the scene ol the present military operations in Na tal. where he died before the promise of restoration to his throne was car ried into effect. NO LONGER A “MAVERICK” A Girl't Kxplanatlon of the Baptismal Service. Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, giving his experiences as a missionary, tells of the baptism of a little daughter of a big cattle owner in Indian territory: "In our baptismal service we sign those who are baptized with the sign of the cross,’' he explains, "and when the lit tle girl returned to school after the baptism the children pressed her with hard questions, desiring to know what that man with the 'nightgown' on had done, and if she were now any differ ent from what she had been before. She tried to tell them that she had been made 'a member of Christ, the child of God. and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.' but did not suc ceed in expressing the situation very well, and they pressed her for a clearer explanation. Finally, when she had exhausted every other effort, she turned on them, her eyes dashing through her tears. ‘Well,’ she said, lapsing into the vernacular. *1 will tel', you. I was a little “maverick” before and the man put Jesus' brand on my forehead, and when He sees me run ning wild on the prairie He will know that I am his little girl.’ ”—Indies’ Home Journal. Interested In Oatrnnie of H»r The Australians and the New Zea landers have a very substantial as well as a sentimental interest in the out come of the war. Mr. Justice Williams of the Supreme court of New Zealand pointed it out in these terms in the course of a recent speech; “You know there are two ways from Europe to these colonies. There is the way by a ditch called the Suez canal, which a few pounds of dynamite could block at any moment, and there is the way by the Cape of Good Hope. Conceive to yourselves the half-way house to these colonies in the possession, of a hostile power. That is the immediate issue.” SwaraM of CrMItor*. The duke of Veragua has swarms of creditors in France, chiefly in connec tion with the collapse of a company which he formed some ten years age for the purpose of acclimatizing bull fights on the banks of the Seine, his idea being to create a new market for his hulls, which he breeds for the ex press purpose of figuring in the arena. The duke is in quite as had financial rtdor in Paris as he Is in Madrid, where he was bankrupted a short time before coming to this country as the guest of the United States government. Soma people look too much upon their religion as a varnish on life in stead of a Are within it—Or Storra. the young wife. f,aek of K*p«rl«nc* Tb»t €•»«• !fo1 on* Trjrlnc MhUk**. For lack of experience many trying mistakes are made by l^ yoang house keeper which would gladly be correct ed « only some kimlly friend wonld come to the rescue. Take a young girl fresh from the schoolroom and from home where there have been servants enough to do all that is necessary about the housework, or else from home where the work of the house has all been done by mother, and put into her inexperienced hands the care an entire charge of a house, what eise can be expected but that serious m s takes will be made and many bitter tears shed in consequence of her want of knowledge. Ninety-nine out o every hundred young girls that marry are totally ignorant of the necessary care that will fall upon them. If tbe other one girl from the hundred has been fortunate enough to have a far seeing mother, who has taught her daughter to look carefully after a household, she should rise up and bless her thoughtful mother for her wisdom, .‘cfore a girl becomes a wife .she lould at leest be able to oversee the .ork that is done in her home, give .reasonable directions to the servants, and in time of need she should be able to make good bread, roast and broil meats, know how to make good soups, i few simple desserts, and, above all, mow how to make good coffee. From. his simple beginning she may, by care and watchfulness, become a good man ager of the household stores, even If the necessity of doing the cooking never happens to fall upon her. L have heard mothers say, "Oh! the cares of life will fail soon enough upoa her; let her have a free foot while she can, and when she marries she will soon learn.” In consequence of this mistaken kindness her daughters have everything to learn when the cares of a home fall upon them, and in conse quence of their lack of knowledge many bitter tears are shed, dollars are wasted by her mistakes, and in a large majority of cases an unhappy home and wretched surroundings are the re sult. Her daughters are left to grow up in the same way. and, in conse quence of their mother’s ignorance, matters go from bad to worse. There are many, of course, who have too much pride to allow matters to go on in this way, and to these great credit should be given, for they have a hard fight, and will deserve the victory when it has been won. Every mother should teach her daughter the rudi' ments of housekeeping. BEATS HE* WHITE SISTERS. Indian Malden Who lias Received 2,000 Applications for Her Hand. In answer to advertisements insert ed in eastern papers a short time since, no less than 2,000 direct appli cations have been made by white men of all classes and stations for the hand of an unknown Indian maiden whose wealth is not known. The white maid en who has a dozen suitors at her feet is indeed a popular belle but this sim ple Indian girl has all her pale-faced sisters distanced. The Indian girl lives in Kansas and her mail address is Wichita. She has reached a mar riageable age and she is looking for some good man to share her life and her fortune—for she has a fortune, or, as she calls it, an estate. She does not want to marry an Indian: nor, evi dently. has she found anyone in that part of Kansas who strikes her fancy exactly. She seeks as a husband some city raised man. who knows a bit about business, from which it may be judged that this Indian maiden is in clined to be thrifty. She has an idea that eastern men are of the brainy sort and accordingly inserted her mar riage notice in New York and Massa chusetts papers. Replies began to flow upon her after the first day and she has a great variety to select from. She is in no hurry, however, and the white brave who secures her hand must meet many requirements. ORIENTAL QUEUES. Chinamen Were Made to Wear Them In the FI rut Place. The following gives ine origin of the queue. The early Chinese allowed the hair to grow all over the head. They did not cut it, but wore it bound upon the top of the head, secured by one or more long wooden pins. In 1627, how ever. the Manchus issued an order that all Chinese under them should adopt their style of hairdressing as a sign of faithfulness, on penalty of death. The fashion thus begun by compulsion is now followed from choice. As no man can safely undertake to shave the top of his own head, a barber is required daily. Those who cannot afford to have one come to the house go into the street and sit on the box of the strolling barber to have face and head shaved, ears cleaned, eyes swabbed out and queue braided. Whiskers are sel dom worn, except by some of the man darins of high rank, even by the very few who can raise them. A mustache is not considered proper for a man under forty. A l.tngnUt le Hebrew. The Hon. S. M. Moses, who has been recently appointed a member of the legislative council of Bombay, is very closely associated with one of the best known families in modern Judaism. His mother was a daughter of the fa mous of Sassoon and his father was a brother of the late Lady Sassoon, wifo of his uncle. Sir Albert. His wife was also a granddaughter of Sir Albert. He was the first Jew to hold the presi dency of the great Bank of Bombay. Mr. Moses is possessed by the pride of -ace and religion. He is said to be one of the best linguists in Bombay, and has even accompisshed Chinese. A Rabbit Crate la California. There is a rabbit craze in southern l alifornla. The people around Los Angeles have taken to breeding Bel gian hares, and it is expected that bie fortunes will be made. Rabbit is to be canned and its juicy meat otherwise disposed of; its pelt is to be made into sealskin sacques. its fur into hats and other things are to be done with It. Thre are 600 “rabbitries’* around Los Angeles already and over 60,000 high grade rabbits. A cucumber farm of 1,100 acres Is the latest Lawrence (Kas.) project.