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TeQxoe, aaae, what's yer came?
Gia I sacet f olfcs i-a&giax hame.
They'll ask me if I saw ye;
They'll see the smites I caana hid
Sin' I've met the mornln'a pride
What will I say they ca' ye
Let me be. sir. that's my name.
Ye can turn yer face tae hame.
An nae thanks for yer speerin';
It's my ain, air. if ye please.
Bought wi'faither'scood bawbees
I dinna like yer jeerin'.
Lassie, I hae lanrfan kine,
m mak'yea ieddy fine.
In state ye'll aye be carried;
To'Il hae servants at yer ca
Yell hae silks and satins braw
What sae ye tae be married t
Yer a fule, sir, for yer pains.
Keep yer Une an' silken trains.
Sic ne'er made guid hearts better;
Some day sane may came Til gie
In exchange for ane as tree.
Sync I'll be nae tnon'a debtor.
William Lyle in Detroit Free Press.
MYSTERY OF THE VALLEY.
Alxut ten years ago business com
pelled iu- to make frequent journeys
from Lausanne to Sentier. in the valley
of Lake Joux.
At first tl:i3 mountain trip, which had
, lx made in an ordinary diligence,
to
He-em; J to n:e extremely tedious, men,
liKk iv little. 1 became familiar with
the nrfyr.t.un waj-s tliat I traversed as
inn !re.'-'i. and at last I caiuotolove
i!ie:n 1 !...e.l the austere melancholy
or tin ho:ii:t r horizons, the murmuring
vjt!sT (:r. the iastures of long, thin
gratfi. :i:nc:i which tho hardy yellow
;r:i;i.u:s nre- the isolated and silent
chalets. a:id, above all. the lake, that
mystei'io...- lake- which received many
sti-cai.: and !:r.cl no visiMo outlet, but
- -taeja
cntpti:
i lSr.sun:
'iq (if its ilnrk and BlllC-
."iter into
r.ibtcrranean channels.
1 UinO
ncmural an
red an affection for tho in
habitant. of the region, who called their
valley the valley, as if there were no
other in Use worid. They were a sturdy
race of mountaineers, peasants and work
men, most of them being engaged in the
manufacture of watches. They were
descendants of a number of families of
French refugees, had old fashioned inan-
ners. were intelligent, laborious, saving,
fairlv well educated, scrupulously hon
est and devotedly pious.
I took the diligence at the station of
liotnainmoticrs about 4 o'clock in tho
afternoon, and by night it Iiad conveyed
me to Sentier. stopping at supper time at
the principal inn of tho village of Pont
There, after having partaken of a plate
of soup, I was served with ono of those
delicato trout which aro the specialty of
tho place, and with a bit of excellent
"vacherin," the savory cheese of tho
country. Tho host saluted me, drank a
small glass of white wine with me, and
at my departure gave mo his liand with
a cordial "au revoir."
" Every time I stopped at this inn I saw
in one corner of the room, seated at a
table with a glass of absinthe before him,
a gaunt old man, with a sallow complex
ion, lie was negligently dressed and
was smoking his piiw and contemplating
his glass; he was continually absorbed,
apparently, in a drunken reverie or in
memories of days long past. The inn
keeper, whom I finally questioned in re
gard to Ids strango guest, said:
"That is 3L Arnaud, who was tho syn
dic of Pont in 1855, tho year of the
crime."
The horn of tho diligence summoned
mo before I had timo to inquire conccrn
inj the details of this crime, which was
called the crime, just as they spoko of
tho valley.
On my nest visit to this region, on
stopping'nt Pont ono cold, clear night in
October, 1 was informed that it would be
necessary to remain at the place several
hours in'order to repair tho diligence to
which some accident had happened. I
was tho only passenger, and tho inn
keeper having gone to look after the
diligence. I found myself tho only occu
pant of the room, excepting that strange
old man, who cat there smoking before
his half empty glass. Curious to know
more of this strango character I took a
scat at tho table next to his. I helped
myself to a glass of vermouth while
waiting for my supper, and opening "a
newspaper which lay near by I began to
irlanco at it
WHAT'S VCR NAWEf
lie soon seemed to have tho same curi
osity in regard to me that I had concern
ing him. Slowlv he raised his largo
head, which had been nodding; his eyes,
which were usually lialf closed, wero
opened sufficiently to iix their glance on
me; his lips moved as if he wished to
speak, and ho coughed. Then with
a trembling liand ho took his glass, rose
with an effort and came to my table, at
which ho seated himself opposite me. I
laid down my paper and addressed somo
words to him, wliich ho did not 6ecm to
hear. lie liad resumed his accustomed
attitude; his eyes wero half closed, his
head drooped, and I almost believed that
ho was spellbound to eternal silence. His
presence became embarrassing to me. I
began to feel uncomfoi table, and that J
might become more at my case before
this man, who seemed to take no notice
of me, I again took up my newspaper,
when he suddenly stretched out toward
mo his heavy bony hand, laid it upon my
arm, through which I could feel a ncr
tcus tremor run. and said:
"Do you not know tho history of the
crime?'"
I was astonished, and signified my ig
norance by shaking my head. He at
onco resumed in a hollow voice:
"All, well! I will tell it yoa."
" And, without relaxing his hold on jny
arm, which, for a moment, Ids strong
grasp pained, ho began to speak in tho
measured accents of the people of tliat
region, his face wearing a fixed expres
sion, which never for a moment changed:
"It was in 1 S55," ho said. "I was then
tho syndic of Font. Ono morning old
3Ieylan, the forest guard, came to sum
moii nn lie was greatly agitated. Ho
said: 'ilavo yoa cot heard, II. Arnaud?
Old JIatliurin has been assassinated; his
body luu; been found lying in the road
near Lien. Come and see"
3Iy strange companion paused for a
moment and then said:
"Do you not know who Mathurin was?
He was a French peddler. Ha often
camo to the valley selling pens, paper,
Jiockcibooks, etc Ho had been known
lerc for years.
"He had not an enemy in tho world.
He was a good, honest fellow, a Protest
ant like ourselves. Ho told stories to
the children and explained tho Bible to
them. Only tho day before he was killed
I had brought same playthings from him
for lay little girL
"Well, I went witli old Jleylan. All
the people the whole village were on
the road And poor old 3dthurin we
found him lying rigid in death and
white. Why, he was as white a3 the
snow. If 1 'should live a hundred years
I could nevpr forget it. Why. even now
I cats r.eo him as plainly as 1 6ee yoa,
with fcia old wrinkled face and gray
locks. And ho looked so peaceful nat
urally, for his soul was in heaven. At
Meylan's suggestion I put my hand on
his breast to learn if his heart still beat,
but it did not. He was dead. He had
six stab wounds here, here, here, here,
here and here."
He indicated on his owa breast the
places where the murdered man had
been stabbed; Ids forehead was beaded
with perspiration and his words seemed
to stick in his throat. For a few mo
ments he remained silent, apparently
contemplating the torpse of old Mathurin
photographed on his memory. Then, re
suming Ids story, be said:
"The governor of the province asked
me who committed the crime, but I did
not know. How could I? How was any
one to know? There had never been an
assassination in this part of the country.
Nothing had been taken from Mathurin.
He must have been killed for revenge, as
Jleylan said. But who bad thus wreaked
bis vengeance and for what? Everyone
in the village loved poor old Mathurin,
who came here twice a year like a bird
that brings good lock. All began to
search for the murderer tho gendarmes,
the jmdges.ail the people of the village
bat it was useless. And the search was
continued for a long time, although
nothing was discovered. Nothing ever
will be discovered nothing! No, it will
ever be known who killed poor old Ma-
tfcttrisr
As he said this his voice was gradually
lowered, and was finally lost in sobs. A
moment afterward, relaxing his grasp,
he took his hand from my arm, and his
heaving chest sent forth great sighs. At
last he carried his glass to his lips, took
several swallows of absinthe, rose from
his chair and returned to his corner,
where he resumed his former mvsterious
manner. Looking at him, I asked my
self if I had been dreaming, if this extra
ordinary being were a reality and had
been sitting lace to face with me, his
hand upon my arm, and speaking to me.
The servant came to tell me that my
supper was served at another table. 1
did not have much appetite. However,
I made an attempt to eat my soup.
When the innkeeper returned I called
him to me and said:
"Tell me what you know about this
strange man who has just related to me
the story of Mathurin's assassination."
My host smiled calmly as he replied:
"Ah, ho has told you that story. 1
knew he would tell it to you some time.
He tells it to evervbody. He can think
of nothing else. He is not happy, poor
old man."
"But why docs be remember with such
distinctness a crime, which most of the
people of the village have long since for
gotten?" i"Ah! Ho was the syndic when the
crime was committed. It was he who
first touched tho corpse after its discov
ery. It was ho who formally announced
the murder to tho authorities and or
dered an inquest; and he took an active
part with the police in searching for the
ngqiMin. All this affected his mind. At
first no change in him was noticed, ex
cept that ho seemed to be a little nerv
ous. People said, 'All, the poor syndic; ho
is troubled over tlus affair.' Then, when
the inquest was finished, he sent in Ids re
signation as syndic, 6aying tliat ho was
not worthy to hold the office, sinco he
allowed peoplo to be assassinated just
as if he were to blame for Mathurin's
murder. To show their confidence in
liim, tho people wished to send liiai to
tho grand council. Ho declined to go.
Ho was the wealthiest land owner in this
part of tho country, and was held in
great esteem by all. Soon afterward he
lost Ids wife and also his son, who died
of a cold caught on the frontier during
the war. Then he took to drink, and
would repeat to peoplo over and over
again the story of Mathurin's murder.
People began to shun him, and at last he
talked with no one except strangers, to
whom ha recounted tho history of the
crime. Yes, he is certainly demented,
and absinthe has helped to unsettle his
mind. lie no longer busies himself with
anything; his affairs arc in disorder, his
property is mortgaged, and in a few
years he will liecoine a charge on tho
commune."
In my dealings with the inhabitants of
the valley 1 liau found them to be very
conscientious people, and could under
stand how their sensitive minds might bo
tortured by scruples and doubts. How
ever, the case of the old syndic seemed
extraordinary to me. I believed that I
had found in it one of those strango cases
of mental derangement resulting from
the exaggeration of one faculty, or from
dwelling upon one idea, to which the
psychologists were beginning to give a
great deal of attention, and I made up
my mind tliat I would follow it more
closely. As soon as I had finished my
supper I approached the old man, who
liad just been served with another glass
of absinthe.
"Is the place where the murder was
committed far from this village?" I
asked.
He raised his eyelids, looked at me a
moment, and then rising, said:
"Come, and I will show you the spot."
Wo left tho inn together.
Silence reigned throughout the village.
The houses, tho roofs with their chim
neys, tho trees and the massivo old
church were all distinctly outlined in the
white moonlight. In the keen, frosty
air I could hear tho fallen leaves crackle
under our feet; while the boughs of tho
evergreen fir trees repeated their mono
tonous plaint. Tho waters of the lake, a
large part of which was visible in the
moonlight, driven by tho wind in waves
upon tho pebbles of the shore, com
plained like tho firs. Along the road
Arnaud's shadow advanced beside mine.
He walked with a heavy 6tep, Ids back
slightly bent, his head lowered and his
arms swinging. Ho said nothing. By
degrees, as wo went on over the road,
whicktook us some distance from the
lake, he seemed to walk with more diffi
culty. Although Ids faco was still im
mobile and Ids step was slow, his breath
ing was heavy, and at last he proceeded
oulv with trreat effort. At a turn in tho
road where three trees formed a sort of
a triangle ho paused, drew a long breath,
and with a quick, almost automatic ges
ture of tho right arm, said:
"This is the spot."
There was nothing sinister about the
place.
I wanted to ask the old man several
questions. Contrary to my expectation,
his first emotion having been overcome,
he talked more freely than at the inn, as
if, having been obliged to mako a great
effort, he Lad succeeded through that ef
fort in putting some lucidity into his
ideas.
"The corpse was there," ho said, "at
the foot of that fir tree, stretched out in
that direction the extended arms al
most forming a cross, the left leg slightly
curved. There was not much blood. The
ground was damp, and wo wero able to
iraco the step3 cf the assassin. He wore
large shoes, with heavy nails. After the
murder ho went toward the lake by that
little path which crosses the field, per
haps because he wanted to wash his
hands. He returned and took 100 steps
toward Lien, apparently to throw people
off his track; then he went to Pont. At
the edge of tho village his traces were
lost at six paces from my house. The
knifo was never found. Nothing was
missed from Mathurin's 'effects; he had
100 francs in his pocket. Could you
conceive of anything so mysterious? Up
to the present time tho murderer has not
been discovered; that's certain. The af
fair happened so long ago nearly every
one has forgotten it. But I I have not
forgotten itl"
As he uttered these last words in a
broken voice, Ids face still expression
less, his eyes fixed on the fatal 6pot, the
problem which had already presented
itself to me was brought to mv mind
more clearly than ever. How, I asked
myself, could a sensible man one whom
the citizens, not only tho ignorant peas
ants, but tho intelligent and educated
people, intrusted with their interests be
cause they considered him tho most
capable and honest man among them
how could such a man be driven almost
to monomania by the murder of a ped
dler? The continual contemplation of
some dark problem might, of course,
cause 6uch mental aberration. On the
other hand, the peaceful life of those
mountaineers was too simple and too
healthy to bring on mental troubles
which result from the overwork, ambi
tion, intemperance and excesses incident
to life in the capitals.
Thus I quickly argued with myself while
Arnaud stood there rooted to tho spot, as
though spellbound by his memories. I
looked at liini again. His face was still
expressionless, but the sweat rolled down
his cheeks, and in his look there was
something terribly tragic. Then a hor
rible suspicion, which perhaps had al
ready been outlined in my mind, sud
denly presented itself to me, and in
stinctively without reflection I ex
claimed: "But, you wretch, it was vou who
killed him!"
Arnaud turned toward me, his eyes
wide open, his form almost erect. A
little foam came to his lips. He clinched
his fists and came toward me, and then,
as I retreated, he threw riimcolf unon the
ground, exclaiming in a hoarse voice:
"Ah! do not denounce me! Do not de
nounce me!"
He dragged himself along the ground.
At last his features underwent a change
and his convulsed face, contorted mouth,
dilated nostrils and enormous eyes
showed his terror. Something of the
fear that possessed him was communi
cated to me, and at the same time I felt
great pity for him. What crime deserved
this long period of torture? What pun
ishment could compare with it? Gesticu
lating wildly, he repeated his prayer in
a husky voice:
"Do not denounce me! Do not de
nounce mar
Do not fear," 1 said, "I am neither
judge nor informer; I will keep your
secret. But why did you"
He divined my thought and interrupted
me, exclaiming:
"No! No! No! I can say no more!
That will never be known! Never!"
Then rising from tho ground with all
tho agility of a young man, he took flight
and ran toward the village.
During the following winter I did not
have occasion to revisit the valley, but
in the spring 1 again went to Sentier.
On stopping at. the inn at Pont I no
ticed that the corner of the room
where old Arnaud used to sit drinking
absinthe was vacant. I asked the inn
keeper what had become of him.
"Ah, tho poor man!" he rr'd "It
is a sad story. You know 1 ! - you
that he was a little crazy. Well, it was
found that ho had lost his wits alto
gether. Ho finally persuaded himself
that it was he who had killed old Mathu
rin, and ho denounced himself as tho
murderer. It became necessary to put
him in an insane asylum."
"But," I said, after a slight hesitation,
"what if ho wero not insane? What if
he really were tho murderer?"
My host regarded me with on air of
stupefaction.
"fie a murderer!" he exclaimed. "How
can you imagine that he would commit
such a crime? Ho did not have an en
emy and was the most upright man in
tho placer
This perfect confidence lad tho effect
cf shaking my conviction. I kept old
Arnaud's confession to myself, and I
havo never made up my mind whether
ho was an assassin stricken with remorse
or tho victim of monomania. Trans
lated by A. K. Haven, from the French
of Edouard Rod, for New York Press.
Mastodons la Alaska.
That the mastodon was once common
in Alaska is certain from the great num
ber of their skeletons, found in the
marshes and clay banks of tho Yukon
and northern plains; but tliat this huge
pachyderm etui exists there in the liv
ing state lias never been deemed likely,
or even conjectured, till recently.
This conjecture rests on reports by way
of the Stick Indians on the White river,
a tributary of the Yukon.
The account is that while hunting on
a wooded bottom, a few miles from this
river, two Indians came upon a trail,
consisting of enormous tracks fully two
feet across, and deeply imprinted in the
moss and earth, strewn along near which
were broken branches of the trees.
Following cautiously en these signs,
they at length heard 'the noise of the
creature feeding, and presently espied a
prodigious animal, as large, they assert,
as a white man's house meaning the
trader's one story store.
Its teeth, they declared, were as long
as a man's leg, and curved outward,
while its cars were likened to a seal skin
in size. In color it was represented to
bo dark brown. It leaned against a dead
tree stub, and scratched ite side, and its
body seemed to be covered with patches
of coarso brown hair. Terrified at the
eight of such enormous game, the two
hunters promptly retreated.
Other native hunters corroborate this
story with similar accounts of their ex
periences; accounts which thev arc re
luctant to relate for fear of ridicule, or
from some superstitious feeling regard
ing the matter.
The uncharitable attribute the appari
tion of tho strange beast to the vision
disturbing effects of hoochinoo a par
ticularly villainous kind of whisky dis
tilled from molasses. Others rejoin that
these Indians uever take hoochinoo while
on a hunt or, in other words, that they
never go on a hunt as long as there is
any hoochiuco left in the raneherie.
This may be subjecting the narrative
of the natives to a somewhat l.arsli criti
cism, the more so when it is ;:onsi.i-:xd
that one cf the two who saw the s.r -posed
uiar.lcdon is on Indian of Irsov. n
probity and good character. Ycu.'.i
Com .'anion.
Tests of Civilization.
Wliat shall one take as a typical test of
civilization? No coast in tho world is
better lighted and buoved than that of
Japan; nowhere aro life and property
more secure; in no country is universal
courtesy so natural and a As
for tho art of Japan, if tiiat b ., test,
everybody knows of the exquisite draw
ings and "lacquer and silk and faience
and silver and bronze that were pro
duced hero before America was discov
ered. Why, in tho very winter tliat Co
lumbus hoisted Ids sail the famous Yosh
iniasa was inaugurating a now departure
with new luxury hi tho Cha-no-yu cr tea
drinking ceremony, probably the most
elaborate and poliancd ceremonial tliat
hasjjevcr been devised. And the splendid
gardens of Gin-kaku and Kin-kaku
"the pavilions of silver and gold" at
Kyoto, remain to this day monuments
of tho samo Yoshimasa's taste. But
these, although they antedate the new
world, aro but modern here, for before
William tho Conqueror crossed the chan
nel and founded at Hastings the Eng
land that wo know, the Count of Nara
was tho focus of a marvelous art and a
magnificent life which are among the
inspirations of Japanese history. Cor.
Philadelphia Times.
Christmas at riymoath 1CSX.
In writing the history of Plymouth
colony, Governor Bradford closes the
record for 1621 with this paragraph:
"And here I shall end this year; only
I shall remember one passage more,
rather of mirth than of weight. On the
day called Christmas day tho governor
called them out to worke (as was used),
but the most of this new company ex
cused themselves, and said it went
against their consciences to work on that
day.
"So the governor told them that if they
made it matter of conscience, he would
spare them till they were better informed.
So he led away the rest and left them;
but when they came homo at r.oone from
their worke ho found them in the streets
at play openly some pitching the barr,
and some at stoolo boll and such like
6ports. So he wente to them, end tooke
away their implements, and told them
that it was against liis conscience that
they should play and others worke.
"'If they made tho keeping of it matter
of devotion, let them keepo their houses,
but there chculd ba no gaming or re
velling in tin streets."
The tiling parUcularly to be noticed in
this brief mention of that early Christmas
in New England b that the governor
speaks of it as tho day called Christmas
Day." y this he intimates that it is not
such in .reality, and that there is no good
authority for reading this as the an
niversaxv tf ckz Lord's birth.
What Mars a Woman.
There never yet was a woman so gifted,
wealthy, beautiful or high in social posi
tion that she was not marred by a cold,
distant and supercilious bearing. There
aro so many sorrowful things in life,
there are so many hurts and wounds for
all of us, it seems to me that every woman
ought to cultivate a sweet manner and a
kindly glance for the stranger or the
acquaintance. It costs nothing, and, like
a ray of sunshine, it warmsaud strength
ens many a frost bitten life whereon it
falls. 1 think some women and girls
have the idea that a haughty and proud
bearing impresses a stranger with a sense
of their importance. This is a mistake
The truly great aro never arrogant or
cold but modest and kind in demeanor,
while the unworthy and presumptuous
often assume an air of supercilious dis
dain with strangers to hide their natural
deficiencies. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Coacbiaff la Chorea.
Concerning the habit of coughing in
church The Lancet say- r sents
to a large extent avoki' ! ... I d of
habit and thoughtleho Luiu. i i and
their very desirable reduction u there
fore by no means hopeless. Even where
a basis of disease underlies the explosion
a little self control could usually do
something to lessen its force or its fre
quency." A young married man of Buena Vista,
Ga., started on his wedding trip. The
best man and a friend of the bride accom
panied thehappy pair. Both ladies were
heavily veiled, and somehow they got
mixed. Friends are still poking fun at
the Benedick, who, doubtless, is net as
firmabehever in instinct as was Faktaff.
A TRIP" TO AMCi.
HABITS AND HOMES OF THE DENI
ZENS OF THE GOLD COAST.
How le-Tear-Old Mother Carry Their
Habit Singular Thoagh Redely Elab
orate Battel Certoai Aa UacomfortaMe
CoBTeyaace.
Although the Gold Coast is not favor
able for the prolongation of life of white
men, the natives aro strong and healthy
enough. The children are particularly
sprightly and fat They run about in a
state of nature, with merely a girdleof
beads around their waists, in lieu of
clothing. They are marriageable at an
early age, commencing the cares of
wedded life at 10. The infants ore car
ried by their mothers in a peculiar posi
tion. A piece of light wood about ten
inches long by four or five broad is cov
ered with cotton and tied around the
woman, so as to rest upon the lower part
of her back. Upon this the infant is
E laced, straddling face to the motherV.
ack and secured by a fold of her cotton
cloth. The woman is thus free to work
and the babe is near the nourishment
necessary for its existence.
DKY WEATIIEU HOUSES.
I saw some very old persons here. One
day on going down tho road toward the
castle, I saw a venerable looking negro
sitting in a wicker chair, bareheaded and
fully exposed to the fierce rays of the
6un. It was about noon, when the sun
is very powerful, and the old fellow's
6kull was,devoid of wool, bare and shiny.
I stopped to speak to him, placing my
hand on top of his head and finding the
heat excessive. He spoke hi tremulous
tones, telling rao he was nearly 100 years
of age, and that his blood was cold; so
ho had his chair placed in the sun so that
his system could be warmed thoroughly.
The bouses arc made of 6un baked
bricks, or adobe, which material is all
right during the dry portion of the year,
but has an inconvenient habit of tum
bling about your devoted person during
a continuance of rain. The walls of the
houses are thick, to keep the great heat
out, and the roofs are thatched with
dried grass. Two of us occupied ono of
these houses half wuy between the castle
and the lighthouse. The under story
was a merchant's store, and wo occupied
tho top Iloor. We liad been experienc
ing rather heavy rain for a week, when
one night the wall facing the direction
the wuid came from collapsed, bringing
down Uio roof with it. Fortunately our
cots were on the other side, otherwise
our earthly "globe trotting" would have
been brought to an untimely and sudden
end.
BUUIED IN GOLD.
The burials of the Gold coast are very
peculiar. Most of the people own tiieir
nouses, and the family have erhaps
lived in them for generations. The cus
tom doubtless arose from considerations
of security.
for fear the graves might be
rilled.
Thev nlwavs bury their dead
within the walls of
the deceased's resi-
deuce. The house where we were lo Iged
was separated from the adjoining one by
a narrow alley. The window of our up
per room looked into the lower story of
the other house, as a door was just oppo
site us. Wo were thus enabled to view
the whole proceedings. The wife of the
owner, a young woman about 20 years
of age, liad died of puerperal fever and
was laid out on a trestle covered with
black cloth, attired as in life. In the
center of tlie room a trench was dug, the
depth of which we could not exactly de
termine. The body was literally covered
with j" 'd ornaments. Gold beads round
her tivck hi a double row, gold bead
girdle, earrings, rings, pins, bracelets
all of massive form and chased, but not
very finely. The workmanship is not
of the highest order.
A rich mulatto lady, widow of a white
merciiant and niece of the ruling king of
Asliantce, was among the mourners.
She had a vial tilled with gold dust hi
her liand. which she emptied into the
mouth of the deceased woman, scatter
ing tho overplus on the face. Some wo
men then took the body and wrapped it
carefully in a white sheet; they then
lowered it with cords into the grave. A
brazier was burning in the apartment,
which was largo, and usually the parlor.
Onto the hot coal they then threw some
odoriferous gums, wliich gave out on in
tense smoke. This had tho effect doubt
less of driving away any evil spirits that
might have been loafing around seeking
somctliing to devour. Under cover of
tliis smoke, which was too dense for us
to see through, the earth must have been
filled in; for when wc could dir-cera ob
jects again the floor was even and
stamped down, looking as before. 1 saw
no men present during the interment. 1
was informed that during a little diffi
culty between the French and a native
king, men were landed from a war ship,
who, after driving away the inhabitants,
had Kroo boys to dig up the interiors of
the chief houses, and secured a fair
amouutbf the precious metal as booty.
The kingdom of Ashantee adjoins the
Fantee country inland. The peoplo of
this kingdom are not so tall or athletic a
race, but are lithe and clean limbed, ac
tive and intelligent. I preferred them to
their neighbors, the Fantees. I went up
as far as the Prali, a pleasant enough trip
of several days. As there are no horses
nor mules, nor even the humble Jerusa
lem pony, wo were carried in liammocks,
a bad imitation of the Indian palkee.
These contrivances are made of canvas
and slung to a pole, which latter is cat
ried on men's shoulders fore and aft. It
is a very jumpy, jolting method of loco
motion. 1 heard of one poor fellow who
was being carried in one of these vehicles
of little ease, being sick with coast fever.
The jolting irritated him so much that he
called out to them to go blow. The
bearers, tliinking he called out to them
to go faster, through ignorance of the
language, literally jolted him to death.
Ho was quite dead when they reached
his residence. Cor. San Francisco Chron
icle. FEMININE ROMEOS.
College Girls Who Fall la Lore with and
Adore Each Other.
"Perhaps love fever is not a disease, but
we think it one. It is very prevalent in
all of the colleges for girls, particularly
so at Vassar, Smith and Welleslcy, and
it is claiming the very serious attention
of the college faculties."
This rather startling revelation was
made by n professor, and a feminine one,
who has taught in all three colleges, and
is at present connected with a fashionable
boarding school in this city.
"I remember well when I was a girl
and first read 'Elsie Venner, she con
tinued. "You remember Dr. Holmes
says a girl must love something. I
laughed the idea to scorn. But in my
experience of teaching I have found his
statement to be exactly true. Girls who
arc kept from proper masculine society
fall in love with each other, and some
times go to the most absurd extremities."
"Oh! then you do not mean that col
lege girls fall in love with men?' saiJ a
Journal reporter who was an interested
listener to the conversation.
"Nothingso natural, my dear," said the
little professor, with a fine look out of
her big gray eyes. "They fall in love with
each other. One girl is always the lover
and pursues the other with attentions,
notes, flowers and similar tokens of love,
and I liave known them to be so jealous
that well, really, it made me tremble to
think of tho consequences.
"There was a pretty, blue eyed prl in
my Saxon literature class who fell Iran-"
tically in love with a tall, serious, dark
eyed girl who was taking the scientit'c
course. This little creature used to sit
at the head of the stairs for three houn
every evening until Eleanor, the dark
eyed girl, would come from her lal-ora-tory
work, and then she would run down
to meet her. and insist on making her
a cup of chocolate over her gas stove, on
braiding Eleanor's long hair each night
and doing a hundred other services. If
Eleanor snowed tho least unusual atten
tion to any other girl my little blue eyes
would almost cry her pretty orbs out.
She did not get over her infatuation un
till one Commencement day, when she
met a dark eyed young man whom she
afterward married."
"But isn't tliat an exceptional case?"
asked one of her listeners.
"Not at all. It is only one of many.
Onlv last vear I had two girls in my
CJass tn natural pnnoeopAj-,-ootn ttsfKfc
some and spirited, and they took a vio
lent fancy each for the other. They had
to sit side by side, they exchanged rings
and locks of hair, used to write each
other every day, and send each other
flowers. One day the older of the two
took a small cluster of violets from a
Sctty girl in the senior class and wore
cm all day in her corsage. Then there
was serious trouble. The younger went
into hysterics, and for almost a week
was verv ilL Those .two girls left col
lege at the samo time and vowed always
to live together. But I heard one of
them had married within a year. )
"It fa extremely dangerous, I know," (
said an old dowager who was present,
"to have only one man to a hundred girls
at a summer resort. Almost every girl
will fall in love with tliat man, but I
thought young women cultivating their
intellects were different." !
"Not at all," said the little professor. !
"They liave brains, of course, but they '
also have hearts. For my part, I believe
in co-education. I went to a university
where men and girls studied in the same
class rooms. The girls were able to see
many kinds of men, and to be critical
about them. They did not 'fall in love,'
as the saying is, with each other or with
the young men. but studied their lessons
and enjoyed the society of both sexes '
like rational young women." . I
At Vassar college and at Smith, also, '
the students are cautioned by the lady .
professors against the practice of "fall
ing in love" with each other, and jeal
ousy of one girl's attentions to another
fa vigorously preached down. New
York Journal. j
Sicalflcaat Wtak. men in the business do not get over forty
A great part of what is called a man's ' five. Still, you will find no better work
success in life depends upon bis finding men in the world tlian here. Their work
out in good season what his natural bent , fa done with the use of very few nails.
u, iiuu uku luiiunuig tu uiuu
nasmviti was nanicuiariv lonunaio in
this respect.
... ... -r-
Although his father was
an artist, and he himself had no little
aptitude for drawing and painting, yet
he was sure that he was "cut out" for a
a machinist, and a machinist ho became.
Having learned his trade, he went to
Manchester to start in business for him
self, and there, among other good people,
he met the Brothers Grant, the famous
Checryblo Brothers of Dickens.
Ho was first introduced to Daniel, who
trifwl liim tn liie linncn and nt-oenntcul
invited him to Ids house, and presented i
him to Ids "noble brother William." as I
Daniel always called him. At the
dinner table young Nasmyth sat next to j
William, and was asked many questions. (
"How old are you?'
"Twenty-six.
"Rather young to begin business on
your own account."
"Yes, but I have plenty of work in
me, and know how to bo economicaL"
"What capital have your" Nasmyth
confessed that he had only 63.
The old gentleman thought that a very
small amount, but after giving his new
friend sundry cautions ho added tliat he
must keep his heart up.
"If some Saturday night you should
need money to pay off your hands or for
anything else you will always find a
credit of 500 at 8 per cent, at my office,
and no security."
Nasmyth was, of course, as much
pleased as surprised, and, as he says,
could only whisper his thanks in return.
To these Mr. Grant responded with a
squeeze of the hand and a peculiarly
knowing wink.
This wink made a most vivid impres
sion upon the younger man. It seemed
full of all manner of kindness. As he
describes it, "Mr. Grant seemed to turn
his eye round, and brought his eyebrows
down upon it in a suddeu and extraor
dinary manner."
The "uoble brother" proved every whit
as kind as younir Nasmyth could liave
expected or asketffor; but it transpired,
a vear or two afterward, tliat the wink
hid no immediate connection with his
generosity. In fact, the eye that gave it
was made of glass! It now and then got
out of place, and its wearer had to force
it back by that odd contortion of his eye
brows, which, taken in connection with
tho conversation then passing, Nasmyth
had understood to bo expressive of all
manner of kind intentions. Youth's
Companion.
Turkish Bazars.
The bazars of Constantinople, or the
Tcliarshu, as they are called bj the na
tives, are situated on ono of the famous
hills of that oriental metropolis, facing
the Bosphorus. They are unlike any
other places of traffic, being altogether
sui generis both in construction and de
sign. To give the reader an idea of their
singular nature they may bo compared
to the publio markets of this country,
though they differ in extent and internal
arrau'rement. Imagine an entire city
ward with its numerous blocks embraced
in one edifice or inclosurc, with its
streets, lanes and alleys arched over and
devoted to commerce. These bazars
are built of stone and aro one 6tory high.
Each street is allotted to some particular
branch or class of merchandise; thus,
there is spice bazar, called Missir-tchar-shu,
where all kinds of drugs, spices
and dyo stuffs aro sold, including the
famous henna, and the exhilarating
hashish is procured.
There aro the perfumery bazars, where
the most fragrant perfumes, tho ottar of
roses, Khurtz tenroofs and other odor
iferous pastiles and essences fill thoat
mosphcro with their delicious fragrance;
tho silk bazar, tho dry goods bazar, of
wliich there are two, the Kalpa Kd jebar
bashi and tho Uzoon-tcharshu, or the
Broadway and tho Bowery of Constanti
nople. Besides these is the Yaghlukdji
lar, where the most varied and exquisite
embroideries aro displayed. Tho Kaf
faflar, or shoo bazar, is an institution
peculiarly oriental. There ono sees the
meeting of the west and the east in the
motloy collection of wares, the clumsy
Oriental chaussers, with tho patent
leather boots: the tehedik-Pabbootcha or
the walking shoes of the Turkish ladies
of the Ancien regime, alongside of the
tiny gaiters of varied colors, for tho
modernized hannums (ladies). Tlie jew
elry bazar is also a prominent feature of
tho tcuarsnu, for it is much frequented
by all classes. Cor. St. Louis Republic.
Tho Curo for Heart Neuraleia.
Angina pectoris (agony of tho chest)
carries off many people, one of whom,
according to the newspapers, was the
novelist, the Rev. E. 1. Koe, who ex
pired in one day because of its crushing
anguish. JIaj. Gen. George B. McClel
Ian, according to tho published reports
of that time, likewise succumbed after
twenty-four hours of uncontrollable pain.
Just how these patients were treated I
am unable to say; but Dr. RichardsOn,
of London, long before Gen. McClellan's
death, had received a prize of 25,000
francs from the Academy of Medicine in
Paris for having discovered an almost
infallible remedy for angina pectoris by
the administration, in the small doses of
1-100 to 1-25 of a grain, of nitro-glycer-ine!
This discovery entitles Dr. Richard
son to tho never ending gratitude of
every suffering man, woman or child
afflicted with angina pectoris.
x Know a number or persons who
always carry tablets of nitro-glycerino
with them, and I am equally certain that
all these people, by tho use of nitro
glycerine, aro livingin comparative com
fort, who would otherwise have fallen
under the insupportable torture of that
form of heart neuralgia, tho most dread
ful of all pains. Montroso A. Pallen,
if. D., in Belford's Magazine.
JAPANESE ARTISANS.
Carpenters Who Work la Crade Ways, ba
AchteTe Saperior Beaalts.
The Japanese artisan has four hands
and twelve fingers. He uses his feet as
an extra pair of hands, and his two great
toes can wrap themselves around the
articles with which he works like an
American's thumb. I saw. a cooper at
work mending a bucket: He held the
bucket between his feet while he sat
down to his work and put on the hoops
with a hammer and wedge. His legs
were bare and his cue was tied in the
old Japanese fashion, while his almond
eyes closely watched the work he bad
before him. After fan minutesof ponnd
ing he laid down his took and took a
smoke, and during the hour that I sat
near him he smorfid four timea, The
Jananese oioe only, holds a cinch of
tobacco, ana tie coma cio tnis cnetpiv,
but the time consumed was at least
twenty minutes. Tlus perpetual siesta
fa one of the features of Japanese labor.
I am told by old American residents that
a" Japanese workman will not do one
third as much a day as an American
workman, and in every case they seem
to do their work in the'hardest of ways.
The methods of labor in Japan aro the
direct opposite of those in America. The
carpenters, for instance, pull their planes
the other way, and when they use the
drawing knifo they push it from them
instead of pulling it towards them. They
do most of tiieir work sitting and they
do all the work on the pull stroke in
stead of tlie push stroke, and they stand
tho board as a rule at anagleof 45degs.
against something rather than lay it on
a bench or sawhorse as we da They do
their marking, not with chalk, but with
a reel and an inked string when they
wish Ursaw in a straight line, and the
whole of the work of turning the rough
logs into the finest of cabinet work is ;
uone oy nana.
There are no planing mills in Japan,
and tho sawmills can be counted on the
fingers of one hand. The usual method
of sawing logs into boards is to stand the
log at an angle against the support and
saw it by hand. The saw used fa not the
powerful cross cut saw of America, but
a wide short Japanese instrument, which
has a handle about two feet long, and
wliich looks like a butcher's cleaver filed
into a saw.
The human sawmill stands on top of
the log or under it, and pulls away for
ten hours a day for about thirty cents.
Skilled carpenters in cities get about
fnrtv Anwnmn rpnb n Hnv onl Tu hoo
ana uiey nave to be cabinetmakers as
well as carpenters. Every Japanese house
nas wans wnicu must movo in grooves
in and out every day, and the ordinary
home fa as finely put together asa bureau.
The joining of everything fa by dovetail
ing, and the Japanese could teach our
American workmen much in the polish
ing and joining of fine woods.
Speaking of house building, the Japan
ese begin their work at the ton. Tho
roof goes on first, and then they begin to
, build the walls and toconstruct the inte-
1 :,. rml. f r'..nnn
rior. Frank G. Carpenter.
How a Sllne Waa Discovered.
The discovery of tho Amulet mine, on
Lynx creek, reads more like fiction than
reality. As it lias never been in print
we will give it: In July, 1886, F. E.
Doggett, with pick and "shovel on his
shoulders, was climbing tho Lynx Creek
mountains on his way to examine a
quartz mine. Becoming weary in the
ascent ho stopped beneath the friendly
boughs of a juniper tree to rest. After
recuperating for somo time he took up
his nick, and in throwing it on his shouf
! dcr it slipped from his hands, and. in
' falling behind him, its sharp point
struck him in the leg, causing great pain.
Picking it up with a vehement fan-
firecation from the pain it caused
dm, ho stuck it in the ground, saying it
j could remain there, and started to walk
; away. Ho had gone but a short distance
1 when he relented, and, returning, pulled
t it. fmm tht frmiinri trrirnnTur n-iK
some bright and shining metal. In his
anger he had unknowinglv struck it into
a blind ledge, which he located as the
Amulet mine, and from which there has
been over $50,000 worth of high grade
ore shipped. From a careful examina
tion made of the second class ore, which
lias been allowed to remain on the
dumps, it fa estimated tliat it contains
fully 2,000 tons. Samples were procured
front thfa promiscuouslv. and sampled
2??$rjg!? K"nPS b, pv
nS? value of $ per ton. or total van
value
f .tho ori?,." tho mmPa of $,000.-
Arizona Miner.
SoHtethlng About New South Wales.
Now a little about tlie colony of New
South Wales. This is tho oldest and
richest of all the colonies and the parent
of them alL In 1824 Tasmania, then
known as Van Diemen's Land, was sep
arated from New South Wales and be
came an independent colony. Four years
afterward the colony of Western Austra
lia was founded, 1830 South Australia
was founded, 1840 New Zealand became
independent. 1831 Victoria was separated,
and tho last founded was Queensland in
1839. The northern territory belongs to
South Australia, with Port Darwin as its
capital. New South Wales lies between
28 and 37 degs. cf south lat and 141 and
153 meridian cast long, it has 800 miles
of seaccast, with u number of good har
bors. Its general shape is trapezoid, con
taining 310.038 miles, four times C3 largo
as Great Britain or Victoria, or twice as
large as California. As regards the dis
tance fiom the ciaiator it can bo com
pared to Caie Colony, Cliilo and tho
lower bcr.in of tho La Plata in the South
ern Hemisphere, end with Texas, Louisi
ana. Mississippi, tlie south of Spain, Italy
and Greece which occupy eimilar posi
tions north of tho line. Cor. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Thoa.taiuW of Dollar
ere spent every year by people of th3
Btate for worthless medicines for tho
enre of throat and lung diseases, when
we know that if they would only invest
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The Passenger Department of the
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containing the democratic, republican
and prohibition platforms, together with
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Sins are not known till they lie acted.
Dogs are fine in the field.
The Merry Maid aad tfce Tar."
She was merriest before she "struck"
the tar. Her spirits sank as she beheld
her new white gown blackened by the
tar. This tar helped a wagon run in
stead of a ship. Just so a thousand
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things" take the merriment out of the
lives of young girls and maidens. Par
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enjoyment and happiness from life.
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