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I • ! Chineje Pirates 1 StlU PI/ TKelr Trade In CKfna Seas • •• The present unsettled state of affairs In China has given a fresh Impetus to the ancient Chinese diversion of pir acy, and only the other day an Ameri can vessel was attacked by pirates In the Yang-tse-Klang river. Piracy has never been fully suppressed In the Chl si«*se seas. The hotbeds of this species of crime are at Amoy and Macao. Here the pirates lie in wait until their many spies, who are scattered about all the principal ports, bring them word of the sailing of a richly laden boat. Im mediately they sail out to sea in their shallow-draught Junks with the inten tion of Intercepting the vessel near some shoal water, over which It would be impossible for the sailing schooner to follow them In case of detectloa. A favorite device Is to ship several of their fellow cutthroats In the guise of seamen. These gentry pose as harm less, hard working coolies, until their comrades’ junks are in sight. Then, all In a moment, they show themselves up In their true colors. All opposition speedily is stunned or knifed, and the few remaining Europeans or loyal na tives are only too glad to hold up their hands In token of surrender rather than incur the fate of their slaughter ed bretheren. Wltliln fclglit of a Gunboat* V Last January a British launch was captured by pirates In the Chek-Hu eng-Shan district, almost within sight of a British gunboat. The gunboat— the Sandpiper—had stuck on a har.and the pirates saw their oportunlty. They swarmed aboard the launch, killed the pilot, made a prisoner of the super cargo, end looted both the launch and the lighter which she had In tow. Then they took to their Junks and disap peared, This sort of thing frequently has taken place almost within pistol shot of British gunboats In the Hong Kong dock yards. A well-known ease of the capture of a merchant steamer by Chinese pirates was that of the Na moa, which occurred in November, 1890. This vessel was a good-sized k lir.er and carried five European and 250 Chinese passengers. Among th" latter were several rich merchants who were returning to their homes from the Straits Settlements with their carefully hoarded savings. This fact becoming known to the pirates, fifty of them took passage in the vessel. She had barely been five hours at saa, and the majority of her peaceably disposed inmates were comfortably settled at y their evening meal, when fifty yelling savages, armed with revolvers and cut lasses, suddenly appeared on deck. Carefully covering the officers' quar ters, the villa'cis started to fire upon the passengers below. I.i so doing they killed the captain, wounded the first officer and made the second officer a prisoner. Then they looted every pos sible article of value in the ship. They shut the surviving Europeans in a tiny cabin end navigated the vessel back to Pinghoi. Here they were met by a fleet of pirate Junks, into which they speedily transferred their plunder. They abandoned the vessel after dam aging every bit of her machinery which they could readily reach. Even tually the Imprisoned Europeans hurst open their prison house, repaired the damaged engines and made the best of their way back to Hong Kong. Re cently a launch belonging to a British naval officer was approached by pir ates while she was lying peacefully at her mooring In Canton harbor, right under the guns of the responsible port r officials. The pirates took the launch up the river and held up every promis ing looking merchant vessel they met. When they had filled the launch with booty until she could hold no more they ran her ashore,landed their spoils and made off. The natives of Archln, on the northwest coast of Sumatra, are as notorious pirates as the Chi nese. A Woman's Armament. In July, 1898, the steamer Pegu stopped at the Bast Indian port of Erld, one of the places where pepper is taken on. At that port the steamer was boarded by 11 Achlnese men and one woman. Capt. Ross, who com manded the Bteamer, searched the men for weapons,as lo customary when tak ing natives on board a merchantman. The men were found to be unarmed, but the woman, as afterward j was learned, had concealed about her cloth ing a fine assortment of Malay knives. When the captain and the chief engi neer, Cragle, were at dinner, six armed Achlnese burst Into the cabin and attacked them with great fury. The officers defended themselves with chairs, end although badly slashed, managed to reach the deck. Cragie ran to the engine room and locked himself in, but the captain was cut to pieces as soon as he reached the deck. Meantime the other Achlnese had kill ed the mate and the men at the wheel, cutting them down on the bridge. Two more of the crew were killed on deck. There were several Chinese passengers on board, five of whom were killed outright, and five driven overboard, where they drowned. The Achlnese ran among the passengers rnd crew, cutting right anil left, and wounding 14 of them. Having terrorized every one left alive on board, they broke open the ship's strong box and looted It of $15,000. Then they lowered away cue of the steamer’s boats, placed thel; booty In it, got In themselves and ea eaped. Itunton nml IlnKIniure lluipItaW. The principal hospitals In Boston are: Boston City Hospital, Harrison avenue; Boston Lying-In Hospital, 21 McLean street; Carney Hospital, old Harbour street; South Boston; Child ren’s Hospital, Huntingdon avenue; Infant’s Hospital, 37 Blossom street; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 176 Charles street; Massachusetts Gen eral Hospital, Blossom street; Mass** chusetts Homeopr.thic Hospital, Bast Concord street; New England Hospital for Women and Children, Dimock street: St. Elizabeth Hospital, 61 West Brookline street. The principal hos pitals in Baltimore are: John Hop kins Hospital, North Broadway; Maryland General Hospital, Linden avenue; Maryland University Hospi tal, Lombard and Greene streets; St. Agnes Hospital, Carroll Station; Union Protestant Infirmary, 1514 Di vision street. Southern I'dltorial on Negroes. Augusta, Ga„ Chronicle: The people of this community are thoroughly aroused on the question of seperat* accommodations in the street cars foi whites and negroes. In many Instances where no lawlessness results there ara collisions and incidents of an unpleas ant nature that would be avoided by the observance of the rule requiring white passengers to be seated on the front seats and negro passengers on the back seats and as the number In creases for the intervening seats to be filled until there is no more room for passengers of either race without en croaching upon the seats occupied by the other. When this occurs, the con ductor and motorman are prohibited from taking on any other passengers Fenian Raid Medal*. Medals are being Issued by the Do minion government, under instructions from the Imperial government, to Ca nadian volunteers who took part in the Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870. , Recently a number of mines In Col orado hare passed Into the hands of women operators and are being worked nt a profit. Other women have made a study of mining, have Invest ed their SMCey In prospects, or leased locations and are reaping rich flnau dal rewards In consequence of their shrewdness and judgment. The sue cess of the pioneers In this uew Held has Inspired others with a desire to take part In the hunt for gold which Is going on In Colorado. Not all of lh« women who have taken up mining sngage In ths actual work which gt*e» on In shaft or tunnel. In furl, very few of them have the strength (or this employment, hut they are even more profitably employed In figuring on the purchase of supplies, marketing the urea and Uioklng after the finances of •wry department. There is one worn an In ths lUn Juan mining district • ho goes sven farther than the moat of her ees rthr . «ts on uvernlls ami "jumper" and when is • a*ton requires goes Into the n trklngs of her esten slve mine nnd '*bosses ' the men who nre working with pick, shovel and tram car and »hu nre employed In th* ewncentrmtlng mill Her mine, which Is near the celebrated Camp Bird, owned by Millionaire Thomas P. Walsh, la one of the greatest produ* dug gold mines in the state and hag been made so largely through her en terprise. Empire, a little mining town In Clear Creek county, la the head quarters of three progressive women miners. Two of these are from Hoa ton—Misses Mary and Edith Tracy. They were formerly stenographers mid came to Colorado two seasons ago on a pleasure trip. They took the famous eicueslon trip over the Georgetown lv p, which Is the heart of the Clear creek mining country^ and lierame interested In the subject of mining Instead of returning to Denver with oe re* of the eirursiou Ists. they rental usd for some time st Empire and -.ad* ,« (borough study of the district. They knew nothing of ertual mining, but they learned read ily and concluded that a little capital might be Invested In some of the properties that were lying Idle. They went hat k to Ituetoa end secured some funds with which to re enforce their own savings They decided not to In trust the money to a manager Hi red a little cable erected oa e (delta whkfc I bey sec ursd. - Chicago Chronicle. Made a Pinter of a Toe. A substituted forefinger was shown b,v a Koenigsberg doctor at a surgical congress in Berlin recently. He had cut oil the patient's second toe and sewed it to the stump of the missing finger, and the operation was success ful. The doctor did not explain how or where he was going to get a new toe for the patient, so it looks like a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. ____________ You can generally tell if a woman has on torn gloves by the suspicious way in which she holds her hands. One Woman’s Letter SAYS “I doctored with two of the best doctors In the city for two years and had no relief until I used the Plnkham remedies. “I¥ly trouble was ulcer ation of the uterus. I suf fered terribly, oould not sleep nights and thought sometimes that death would be such a relief. “To-day#ama well wo man, able to do my own work, and have not a pain. “ I used four bottles of Lydia E. Plnkham’s Vege table Compound and three packages of Sanative Wash and cannot praise the medlolnes enough.’’— MRS. ELIZA THOMAS, 634 Pine St., Easton, Pa. Mrs. Plnkham advises suffering women without charge. Lydia It. Pinkbam Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. Garter Vacancy. According to the London Chronicle there la now a garter vacant, and If a plebiscite decided on whom It should be bestowed there le not a doubt but that K. O. would be placed after the name of the field marshal commanding In south Africa, who most certainly merits the distinction quite as much as Lord Elgin, on whom It was so properly conferred by Lord Salisbury. In the last two centuries the garter has been only thrice given for military services—to Marlborough, Wellington anil Lord Anglesey—and, strange to say, no naval commander appears to have had It; not even Nelson. Japan*** I.ov* of Nature* The Japanese Is a born lover of na ture. Whatever he produces, from the most painstaking work of art to the simplest household utensil, Is after natural models. In the representation of figures and scenes the Japanese dis play a perception which Is astonish ing. With a couple of strokes of the brush they reproduce what they see with a truth to life which Is almost incredible. Eye* of tile Home-Fly. The common house fly Is said to he provided with 16,000 eyes; that Is to say, his two compound eyes have each 8.000 facets. By this singular arrange ment be Is enabled to see in every di rection, and to elude with great skill and success the many dangers that threaten his dally existence. Famine* of Modern Time*. The worst famines of modern time* were the famine In Ireland in 1846-47, In which 1.000,000 people perished; the Indian famine of 1866. which claimed 1.460.000 victims; the Indian famine of 1877, In which 500,000 people perlehed; and the great famine In Chinu in 1878, In which 8,500,000 died. Improved Electric I-amp. An Improved electric lamp has a pencil of refractory material suspend ed inelde the bulb and surrounding the wires, the passage of the current through the latter beating the pencil and causing It to glow with a white light. SmUiw r**e* Coaf*r*ac«. The Pennsylvania clergyman who tried to separate two pugilistic deacons and was "punched" by them finds but little satisfaction In the fact that all three are now arrested for assault sad battery.—Providence Telegram. This la the tine of year when men would like to have a law passed to pre vent women from heuscclsanlng. Caterpillar* to Cent* m Qnart. The village of Saratoga haa reop ened Its public market tor the pur chase of the forest tree caterpillars which atarted out to destroy the street shade trees, says the New Tork Preas Three hundred people, residents and visitors, brought the pests In palls and pans and received 20 cents a quart for them from the village, which buries them alive. Nearly |200 was paid out yesterday. This method of extermin ation Is found more effective than spraying the trees. And AU Wu nright Again. A widower down east felt keenly the death of hia wife. She was a good woman, and he mourned for her tak ing off constantly. He had a handsome monument erected at the head of her grave, and thereon placed this beauti ful inscription: "The light of my life has gone out." In the course of a year he met and married a woman who very much resembled bis first wife. In or der that she might not feel too keenly the position in which she was placed he added to the inscription on the monument: "But I have struck an other match.”—Freeport Journal. On* of tit* Emperor1* Fade Among the many fads of Emperoi William is hi* passion for collecting boots and shoes of famous people, his collection of these particular objects of attire constituting a fitting pen dant to his huge museum of uniforms. The collection is kept in the marble palace at Potsdam and there are some 2,000 pairs, from Greek sandal* and a pair of slippers reputed to have be longed to Mahomet to the boots of W'allensteln, of Guntavus Adolphus, of Peter the Great, of Frederick the Great and lastly of the first Napoleon. Sir Richard Cartwright. Blr Richard Cartwright belongs to one of the old Tory families of Upper Canada, and in the early days of bis publlo life gave an Independent sup port to Sir John MacDonald. Since the period of the "Pacific scandal" he has acted with and been a member of the Reform party. He was Finance Minister In Mr. Alexander McKenzie’s cabinet. Sir Richard was nsver a member of a government of which Sir John MacDonald was premier. The Pancock Feather C'rnia. One sees new examples of It con stantly. There Is a craze for peacock feathers. An elaborate housegown, for example, Is of gray panne with long peacock feathers embroidered on the skirt. This frock Is cut tn the Di rectorle fashion, with a short bolero of guipure edged with chinchilla. The collar and revere of the little jacket are faced with a changeable blue and green velvet. Millionaire to Psddler. Less than two years ago Grant Gil lette was perhaps the leading cattle dealer and speculator in Kansas. He was worth millions. Just before Thanksgiving, 1898, he collapsed through overspeculation. Cattlemen and banks are now fighting over the remains of his once vast estate, and Gillette Is now peddling in Chihua hua, Mexico. In Honor or lils I,ost I.eg. An odd celebration In New York the other day was that of the tblrtyslxth anniversary of the loss of the leg of former Senator Matthew C. Butler of South Carolina, who came out of the battle of Brandy Station in 1863 with only one leg. The celebration was a dinner at Delmonico’s given by Mr. Butler to some of his friends. Ladles Can Wmr Shoos. One size smaller after usingA lion's Foot Exse, a powder. It makes tight or new shoescasy. Cures swollen, hot,sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package Fit EE by mail. Ad dress Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Cooperative Mines in Colorado, Officers of the Colorado State Fed eration of Labor are arranging to lease from the state a large amount of coal and mineral land on which mines will be opened on the co-operative plan. II Condon Were H. sieged ft has been estimated that ths food supply of London would not last out s week if its communications with the country were broken and the Inflow of provisions stopped by any causa. Street Railroads in Orest Brilaia. Some nineteen or twenty British cities own and operate street railway systems, and of the whole track mile age In Greet Brltiln over one-thtrd Is owned by the public. BriiUant Before Morn,a Glow-worms are much more bril liant when a storm Is coming on than at other seaeons. Like many other mysterlee of nature, this curious cir cumstance has never been esplained Opportunity often goes past the door where the knocker is kept too bright Married Mora Than Seventy Tears. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Brown, who live half a mile from Hagerstown, Ind., have been married over seventy years and are etlll comparatively hearty. Mr. Brown was born Decem ber 26, 1808, and his wife July 17, 1811. They are the parents of eleven cbildrsa, six of whom are still alive. God uses the chaff to protect the wheat. What we can is the measure of what we ought Cartor's Ink Is Used by tha greatest railway syttems of tba United States They woulJ not uac It if It wasn’t tba bait. Holy Joys are current coin In heaven, but they will not pay church expenses on earth. i a ■ ■■ .. ■ FI Tt r»r#d. Ifo fit* or after fin»t day • um nf Dr Klfn#’* Oraat N*rv# hrstorg#. tend for FlivK 0*4.00 trial bolt I* and trMilia Da. IL II. IUua, Ltd , Ml Arch Ht.# 1 tuiadalpfcla. Pa. It Is always easier to weep over the wanderer than to keep him at home. Dyspepala U tha bane of the human system. Protect your naif against lia ravages by tba um of Bet-man's Pop.la Gum. The blusterlngs of the Intidel are the winds of a tempest-tossed heart. Plan's Cur* Is the beat medlclno we ever used lor all afTectlona of the throat and lungs — Wa O. Enubuct, Vanburen, lud., Feb. to, 1800. When fortune knocks at a man's door It's his own fault if the knocker is out of order. The favorite for rciiortng Ilf* aud color to tba bait la 1’arrrr • Hair IIai.bam. UiKuaBcoRRi, the beat cure fur come. IScte. Some girls seem to think their edu cation is complete if they know all the latest coon songs. Are Ton Cuing Allan’s Inot-Baaef It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting. Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 26c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Every man deceives himself more successfully than he deceives others. 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