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THE Nfif IONAL BANK OFft?GBSTfl W JC. HA Y NE, Prea't. P. O. FOBD, Caanier. j ??PAtal, ?250,000. Undivided iT?fltB } $110,000. Facilities of our magnificent Kew Vanlt [containing 410 ?afety-Lcck Boxes.* .Dliler. lent, Sisea ar?: offered to our patrons and T.the public at 8S.C0 to 910.00 per M"T, PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, QA. Paye Int?r?t on Dspoaits. Acoonafcs Solicited. L. 0. HATITB, President. W. 0. WAEDLAW, Cashier.* S. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. ?DG?FI?LD, S, C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 14. ; J . *W V^'< WHAT HE 1. ? - \%. Of all the men. the world bas soon " T Since Time tis rounds began, -There's one--^rty-?^eryd.-\T^,"~,'k .?-r??--? Earth's first and foremost man; Just think of all he missed fgr^io n'elvfqU'a hoy. ?enererBtt?b?Spdh'ls nakrja too -'' ' Against a rook dr stone, He never with a pin-hook fished For minnows all alone. Be never sought the bumblebee Among tho d?teles coy, . ? Hoc felt its business emt, mm om ?* ^ Because-he never wus aTtloy. ...-T 'T'.n?; -, . , He never hookey played nor tied A bright and shining pail Down in the alley all alono ?* ffi To a trusting poodle's'tall. And when he home from 'swicamin' carno, His pleasurenfo^?siroy0 "0 Ji; &v ' No slipper interfered, Because- be never wa? a boy. I THE DREAM Rj ?t ? - S Adventure Af ?cr Mevti The shooting party had gone away to his great disgust, it was just about v sunrise, trie cooi?s?, nicest time o' day in India, and bis mother was not yet. up, and ibo servants were busy else where, so there was nobody- to pre-, vent him from wandering to the boundary of the toa plantation. There bo observed of a sudden'a quite, uuox pected and amazing sight. Two btpvn meu, one quite old and the otho-' ^niteyoangv were in Jjhe_ ~"^harfow"T?TtbVt?eas. "They were stripped to the waist, and the old man wore-a cnnimoibuud and sandal.", while the Mpug,-Wry man's legs and feet were bare. The old maa was evideut lyliusfcruct'og'tho younger, and super vising a lessonvfar mure.interesting to ^"Wwffw?e thK&ahe worrying ' lulr^?re-V 7 of the rea ling book and multiplication ' table. Flisii, flash! Flickerty, flick! I Up in the air, glancing,iu tbamorning's. j slanting sunbeams, quivered a prodi- j gious number of knives. They must sometimes have touched the juggler's haA ?gsc^fi^*|i<l-tbe mm fin 4f_4ffiem that the knives darted a' out ?sanead ana^dBpfffike a swarm of great dragon flies, grazing bis ears, j soaring above bis turban, swooping to : ' bis knees, bat never by any accident j touching the - ground rtnti', with, a l 'swift clatter and a clash, they all came together in the juggler's grasp, aud j he laid them down. Now,tho little boy's cj'es and mouth were soou very wide opon indeed, and when the feat was over, bis uncon scious legs bad borne "bim, step by step, right up to .the jugglers, where bis brown bair and pale face and pretty snit of snow-white duck con trasted J8fr'a'ugely with" their dnsk? skins and bright black eyes and cloths of glowing colors. He waa immensely interested anrl-ratber a w ed, bnt hv u'ttT ~yy -?? i?f???S^Hr^c?rfOT he had been Dorn in India and was accustomed . to co*--r mune ip a lordly ajanuer;with alt aortal; of natives.. Even trdyel'iif ^uggle^r were hot.unknown to ?iWt?'. So ;.when: . the swarthy men salnaipred h,riiably..l<>V the little-sahib, tho b.o? A?kriowt?dgoi? j their salute.and.?aid^'with the simple .. directness' cf one ft^ed--to, 'being *. obeyed:-*" - ? j ? '7m??3r?- i ?. '. "Doit ?KB?K . l^f**" ' The oidor ?an turned to the boy. at ?; once wito:;JB?_nir of haviug expected i ? him, aud.-smiled anti, salaamed very ** - lo v .. n quite a gratified^r.way.'." They > *?. obej'd *hH?~~at one?, and tho young *. nativv began to -perform, even more .amusii g tricks. It was almost, terri fying, b^'t'the curions and. rather un ~ nerving thing was that the ol.! juggler ? ??? never seemed to take his eyes off the - ..?. -boy. The old man gave him . a mat to sit on, and.Smiled into hi?, face with gr.eat piercing eye*, and told bim to be good and be wonld Bee what he would see. The old man th'?n took a ^?a?ngo stouft.froin a. basket, and care v " ^ally_plante?jt. ,Theu be covered the ^ ''^P<WTP^^P "instant with the basket, aricf there was che young plant already* ' aWojfBhg #o*% tiie^arth. Freddie; g?Q*p<$ aJd tbd?hw^grew5|?l |?J&* right before his eye^. , It "^few aud it ? grew ?&d ipg?^v.uatirin*?very s frort' * time it was a tree. Then it spread . and it spread, and had many branches and leaves, and at l??t t?ttle'roan'goesi, began to appear, and they grow and" ripened in a marvellous way, catii the fakir plucked a big jnicy one arid gav? it to the boy, who ate it and lonnd it delicious. Then the juggler warvecL his hands and-the tree was gone. . 'titynjflhto l'^pst^r?di^TPT don't seo how that Was done." The old juggler-, smiled .again and ? WokVcoi' of rope from the wonderful basket. It was a very ordinary rope, just, in fact, a wash line. But the fakir threw one edcT.'of .the coil far up,; and the marvelling boy saw that the rope spun slowly out, up and ujTtow-" ard the sky, quite straight ns if some one were lian lin g at the upper end. ^Itw?nt^up irnd.up_until.the end yan:< ished altogethaift^.'fo5ft}V / /. "Gracious goody!", cried Freddie. -**I don't see how that "was done!"- . - Tho old ' mau clapped his bands,' ;V?nd the young man leaped at the rope ut once and seized it and began to climb up, hand over* hand, at a tre mendous rate, aud he went up. attd np and np nntil'h? also was patoi sight. "I never,never did!" cried Freddie, who was now limp with amazement. 1 'Where did h.?/g^t?^tj f '/ YVA R ''Wherever'be wished to go," the juggler said. "Does the saMb wish to go anywhere?" Sfl???8??!l? .'Yes,'' cried Freddie with a sudden hippy thought. "Where my Tttpa and uncle are huntiug." , '' In a moment (he juggler placed the rope in his hand?. *XPWI "Cljmb," ?^i?^and withorit" (a>* : ' jug time to think- Frede! e cliulbod. jtiat how and . when it happened that he let go of the rope he could not .tell, but withorit any trouble to him ' self he suddenly fuuud that the ropo had disappeared, and he was stauding - : ld[eat compoubtif. besiri?K;arriver. ^wkfi river b^nk? w^re (greata ataeks ot Inraber, and A -small army of ele phants, each -in charge of a mahout ' K'!!w?__^e,"cke^ o.n'the brute's neck, was r^iaftikg np/h.ttge log3 and carrying " them, according' to their length aud . thickuc?s, to other stacks,...xvhore tue e'epbant? piled'thoa, with al mot hu* mao intoili^otit'o and exactness, Fred? di.? ?aerarbsr&d .this 'yoTerumtat dock* | K MISSED. Ec might remember splendid times In Eden's bowers-yet J ,",'.* -HBTieveractett'Bo^eo-"" "* . rr To a six-year Juliet. He never sent a valentino In tended, t^ttfcr A tfjj^.g \Hb Rood but malden aunt,. Uec'an?e-r-h?-never was a boy. flo never.cut 'a klto string, no,. Nor hid au Easterogg; Ile never spoiled bis pantaloons A-plnyla' jawabley-peg; llb never from the attic stole A ""coon ' huut'to enjoy Nor fonnd'tho '"old man" Walting, For-he no vor' Was a boy. I pity him, why should I not? i even drop tt tear. _ Ile never knew?bow much ho mlssod ; He never will, I fear. . And always when those dear old days Hy inem?rh'S employ, J pity him, Earth's only man, ?Yho-nov?r was a boy. -Pittsburg Dispatch. [DE_0F ? BOY. In ff. Two Indian vTuyglers. .yard, for be bad been taken to watch the elephants ouce before by his father. Ho was? greatly interested and wan dered'abont freely. He chatted to the mahouts and others,bett it seemed odd they were all very, very busy, for .]th'ey ditiljibt.answer, indeed, they did, not seem to see tho little boy at all. freddie did not mind that, there was, so much to watch?, At la9t he came to- a comer of the yard where a, big elephant was stamf ing.all. by kiws..elf,. swaying from-side io side, chained by one leg. Freddie recognized bim by his size as one that lr$3jad riddeh on in care of thSSjua-r Boit when hg was here before. Natu nStUy, the bo^wisheKtb,'enjoy a.ride ngaiu. There- was uo attendant near it?sbelp hijaafu^but somehow he. found that the swarthy, turbaned old jug gler was looking into his eyeB again, aud the next instant he wn3 tri umphantly sealed atop of tho ele phant. He was tr?mnlonsly pleased at first, bnt all of a moment the beast raised hisjrunk and_ rrnin^fevjE with a savage roar.. At the same time he gj|ve his leg a m;ghty jerk,1 ami the n on chain bui st, and the elephant: was free. He roared agaiu aud tossed his trunk high, aud t?eu charge?'straight through the componed. The black men and the white men scattered in all directions, yelling'in fear. 4,Eun! Run! Ltfok out! Look ontl The Eajah's loose! He's mad! Bun for your life!" Jj Thay nirran so quickly that a clear path was left for "the mad elephant^' who dashert straight through the yard, shattered*'the great cutes as if they were orange boxes and, trumpeting furiously, galloped wildly into the far spreatfing open country. Easily and incompreh?nsively as Freddie had got up he fonud he cpuld not now get; ?downland he was - dreadfully afraid,' but~he-soomett fastened folhe^nger': beast's neck just behind tho groat ears. He won ld have liked to ''?-.jump-off, but he could not; he just .stock und .?.'?us. aud stuck^ Ho badalia. 1. no, idea Lie-, j ?bre that elophantVcoild.rtfn so fast., The*T\hj?b'>ai lilte^? iracehoVse. The trees aud-houses flashed" past. - They came-to a native-village, and thain hahi.tau$s--fatherland mothers grab-: bing;-babies.nod howling with fear dashed aiid darte<l*'?u? climbed and crawled to all imaginable . hiding places.- ' [ ' ', Crish! Crash!' through the branches of trees;'""spJisbi splash! through a muddy iiye'r; swishfiswash! through meadows of high, thick grass,in which tame buffalos were; entirely hidden from sight! Through;; wood and river abd grass Freddie held on in a most marvellous manner. At last they came to a spot somewhat familiar to the lit-; tie boy, a strip of jungle with a belt pf open, rolling . grassland in front. Throngh an opening in- the" jungle Freddie saw the dark green brushes of a plantation, and beyond^ that the roofx and upper veranda of a high bungalaw>.^FreJdie.^rocogoized. .bas own home. He had no time tojpok twice, however,foi suddenly right be fore-the elephant, directly iu his path, there stepped out. from the jungle two big men withjjuus,' and Freddie saw that they weFe his father and uncle. F-pr-the first-time the boy found breath M. im.9 ? ?-^Papa! Unelo Fred! Let me. ;3pwn!M he screamed. "The elephant has run away! He'jS mad! Stop him! Take me down!" ' It was impossible to believe it, it. waskabsnr.dv.to cr?ditait. Those two big men, at sight of the mad elephant and tile little boy charging upon'them, turned and fled! ..True, they had only light, small calibre rifles, but-was that au excuse for deserting an adored son anti nephew in his extremity? They did not 'get away, however! Freddie's father tripped and fell right in the road of tho Eajah! Uncle Fred stopped, white cs death, but steady, -astride of the -stunned figure' of'his brother. Seventy yards Away the ele phant trumpeted and bore down tri umphantly. Unole Fred took .careful aim. There was but one little spot in i the great? beast's forehead to hit suc cessfully and stop the*Eajah. To miss it meant death for both men. The hunter gazed steadily through his sights at that spot, and paid not the slightest attention to Master Freddie, who, in an agony of apprehension, ; screeched at the top of his, voice: "Don't miss, uncle, or you-ll hit me!" Seventy yards, "fifty yards, thirty yards! Uncle Fred fired. FJara? and smoke and roar and crash,and Freddie,) found himself sitting on the grass alone, and the wonderful Indian jug glers had both disappeared: ' He picked himself up at once and ran as fast as . he could back to the bungalow. It was past breakfast time, ard , everybody"was on the veranda, | Freddie's mother was tying up her husband's arm-Jin fc\sling. ?nele Fred was standing np and talking'ex-" citedly. Freddie heard hiiivais he ran up. . "The closest shave!" Uncle Fred cried. "By Jove, Dick, though I Say it myself, it was a great shot, too! , Eight on the vital spot, and. ho went | to his knees with- a crash! Halloa!" "Freddit!" cried his' Mother. ^TVhore have yon been? Without a hat! ..oki.dear, .oh! dear? Yon'll have sunntroke!" /Bat Freddie l?stpsd to his tether's brfii?V bobing. ' '.'."? . ? .Tm so g'a?V* bo sobbed, didn't know whether yon killed elephant or the elephant killed y an,d I was afraid uncle missed i killed me, but I'm not. killed, an papa?" All three grown-nps . raised tl hands, and their faces were pictu of bewilderment. "How do yon know atout the < . phant? j Whore were yon?" his fat gasped. "Didn't you see"rue?" Freddie asl reproachfully. "I was on tho top (he olophflnl, where tlio mahout titi yon know. The old juggler let climb tho rope, and I went to . dockyard, and goton the Ba Jab's ba aud he went mad and ran away, i I thought you were kille l and "Freddie!" cried his mother, "j have got sunstroke. " She picked the little boy up in i arms and carried him into a cool roc where be was pnt to bed with ice his head, while the doctor was s for, in spite of his protests, but on veranda Iris father and uncle stared each other. "Jugglers! Clinking up the rop< cried his father. "The child mi have met a troupe of these travel! conjurors!" "But-but," said Uncle Fi feebly, "of course all Anglo-India kuow the strange tricks these iel lo can perform, which no mau-no wh man, at any rate-- has ever explaine but-but-oh, bless my soul-th< was an elephant, and you did fall, a there was no boy on the elepban back, and therefore Froddfo could: ..be there/but-bnt-oh, confound all, bow did he know, what happen? .before anybody bnt our two pelves a your wife kuew any olephaut had be shot at all?" Freddie's father jumped up augri iu spite of his sore arm. ' "I've Seen that rope trick doue oft and the-mau climb into the clout Everybody has seen it, and no o ?ever explained it, saje by bypnotif of tlfe audience. ?hat's it! r>ut t idea of practising their arts npou little boy! It's too bad! I'll sei out, aud if they aro caught, they w have to hvpnotizo themselves out jail!" "Of conrfo," said tho uncle, st with weak bewilderment, "but-but was Freddie on the elephant or wi he not? Don't yon know? Oh, ble my soul?" So riders were sent ont in all dire lions to catch the wonderful juggler but it wa"! uo use-these had juggh. themselves far away. But Freddie mother was very indignant nt hisfatli aud Uncle Fred for "such suggestioi as hypnotism and jugglery. ".You two" big sillies!" she sail "The boy wont to sleep in the sun ar dreamed,' and the -rest is'all coinc dence. So, there!" Still, however, men came from tl dockyard to trace the dead eiepbnn and they told bf his escape just i Freddie did. So, there!-Sun. QUAINT AND CURIOUS.^! j Just.when the day became divide into hoursis- not known, nor is til ^process explained. The Greeks au Romans measured "time hy the wate glass and the suu dial?. Tho hon; .'glass, filled with sand, was the ou1 growth of these vessels, from whir the water dripped through tiny opet ing3. A mastiff was trained to assis thieves in'Paris. It was in the bab: of bounding against old centi?me and knocking them over in the streel A "lady" aud "gentleman"-owner of the dog-would then step for war to assist the unfortunate pedestrian t .rise, and while doing so would eas him of his watch and purse. Why are dignitaries deafened by salute when they visit a,foreign port lt seems a curious sort? bf welcome this firing off of guns, but it seem the custom arose in a very reasonabl way. Originally, a town or a wai shi fired off their guns tn the approach of important and friendly strangers t show that they had such faith iu tin visitors' peaceful intentions they didn' think it necessary to keep their gun loaded. Jer'ryS. Bogers, a cowboy, who ha recently been iu New Mexico, brough back with him to Waco, Texas, a mum mined bat, much larger than the ape cies commonly seen flitting arouni 'buildings^or occupying dark recesso in Texas. The bat, although ver; much withered by time, measured li inches from tip to tip of the wings and is almost the same length fron the tip of his nose to the cud of hi hiud feet. He has very long ears, ir proportion to the body, ?iud toes tba would ennblo him to grasp a stick ai inch in diameter. Mr. Bogers wai exploring among the old ruins of th dwellings of Pueblo Indiaus, and entering a shallow grotto, he fonnc the bat on a ledge. The captain of the bark Silicon which recently arrived nt New Yorl City from the Arctic regions, 1 eporti finding a deserted Bussinn ship of old fashioned pattern. He and some o the members of the crew of the Sili oon boarded the ship, and found th< hatches battened down and the doon fastened. They forced an entry ant discovered that the vessel had a enrge of furs in flue condition, while th? log and letters on board stated thal the vessel had been abandoned in 1848. The supposition is that the vessel hac reached high latitudes, and having beer frozen in by icebergs ever since, hac only just thawed ont. The captain possesses many interesting relict "brought from the* vessel. L A curious condition of affairs exists in the English town of Dalton-le-Dale, near Sunder:and, the discovery haviug been mado by the authorities that all Loi -tho marriages performed in the ! ancietit parish church since 1877 are of questionable legality. In that year a new church was built in the town and all the [rights and privileges were transferred to it, thus leaving :no license for the solemnization of mar riage to the older church. No one ! seems'to have .thought anything of the matter until recently, when the regis ! trar-general called tho vicar's atten tion to it. It is thought probable that Parliament will le called upon to pass a special act.to legalize the '800 mor? riagss pottfcrmsd sicco J.877. :r#n OUR SHARE OF TH TJndor the new Samoan treaty the j United States becomes the possessor of a small island in the South r Pacific Ocean, situated about 930 miles "south of the equator. For some fifteen years past we have had a more'of less sentimental regard for this island, be cause it was here that our Govern ment bad acquired froin a ?a'tiv?'ohief a lease of part of the shore of a harbor on which to establish a coaling station. The harbor was the only onegin the Samoau group in which veasels^buld lie safely during a hurricane, ?fcli as occasionally visits the group, and its S A V A l l i < ^ THE only drawback was that it was almost vfchplly inaccessible on the landward side. Now and- then, but atflong intervals, an American man-of-war has called at this harbor, but it may bo doubted whether any of the,crews eyer attempted to climb the almost precipitous hills that wall in the placid sheet of landlocked water whiph the natives call Pago-Pago. The?isl and of Tntuila is by far thelea3t known of the " three main islands that form the gronp of Samoa. It lies about thirty miles t*outh of theother'two, on which alone Europeans or Americans have settled, dither as planters or traders, and .excepting the harbor of Pago-Pago on the southeast, and a small bay known as Leone, near tho northwest corner, it possesses no place of anchorage or shelter even for 'the smallest trading vessels. The general appearance of Tntuila, like that of all the volcanic islands of the South Pacific, is very beautiful. Aa we entered, the passsage, from twenty to thirty-five miles broad; bo .' tween the islands,, every eye scanned f^Krtttbrt?; -an der tire- inipre'?a?oM?l the schooner would be found lying at some point under the lee of the land. Thero was, however, no sign of a sail. On oither sido the land rose high and broken, clothed from shore to sum mit in the luxuriant vegetation of the tropical islands, and as we proceeded at half-speed through the passage it became moro and more evident that for some reason our tender bad not arrived. We bad reached the eastern end and cleared both islands before any solution of the difficulty presented itself, but then a very small chttor was discovered lying close inshore, at a point where a native village could be seen among the palm trees that formed a background to tho silver white coral beach. The cutter turned out to be a trader engaged in collecting a cargo of copra (sun-dried cocoauut) to be taken to Apia to the German company's stores. We were told we could stay on board if we liked, but th? cutler must go to Leone Bay, at the western end of the island, before it would return to Apia. The prospect of slaying on board was INTEBIOB OF A T?XUILA CHIEF'S HOUSE. so disagreeable that several of tho party determiued to try the alterna tive plan of walkiug overland to Leone and there awaiting the arrival of the cutter. Leaving all our luggage ?ion boord, we were landed on the beach FAGO-PAGO, TCJ'fUILA,, SHOWING!:]:!! within a hundred yards of tho villag which now ubowed among .the tre^a like a grcup of overgrown be?jbirei<of tho old straw material and conical shape. Tko native- wero most friend y, T&iiy invite tis iato tlio lftrfllt hit, OF TUTUILA. E SAMOAN GROUP. gj H. LUSK. . Si oh the floor of whioh we were accom modated with mats of woven grass, wullo- two girls ?repared a bowl of kava juice for our special entertain ment. Personally, I had heard enough about this famous liquor of the islands to decline it, and though my com panions tasted it, they were wise enough to leave it to our .hosts to paralyze themseves with the strange narcotic, lathe meantime we had contrived to make it understood that we wanted a guide to show us the native path' over the hills to Leone Bay, where the missionary lived, and ft OTOO' TAU * "so-Meo MANUA li TUTUl LA SI ISLANDS. the offer of a dollar readily secured a guide, in the person of u young man of magnificent build and appearance. The bargain once made, we lost no timo in starting. Our guide, who was dressed in full native costume, whioh consisted of a very large and finely powdered head of hair, and a very small cincture of some kind of native cloth round his loins, led us along the beach for a short distance, and then faced fbe hill which rose abrupt and THE BELLE OF TUTUILA. very steep behind the little village. The climb was so steep that but for the profusion of saplings, shrubs, and climbing plants that hedged in the narrow path we should hardly have managed it. When at last we reached the top we found ourselves at a height of perhaps eight or nine hundred feet above tho sea, on the top of a long ridge that seemed to run tho whole length of the island. The laud slopes downward from the central ridge on the northern side itt a succession of spurs, with deep glens and watercourses between; but ou the southern coast, especially near tho eastern end of the island, the slopes end abruptly in cliffs and precipitous banks that descend to the ocoan. It is h?r? that Pago-Pago lies, and irom the top of the ridge it can be seen like a nearly circular basin of perfectly smooth water, shadowed by the sur rounding mountains, and with only one narrow entranceway, which winds between two lofty wooded bluffs. The island is not moro than eighteen milos long, and nowhere, I should judge, much more than five miles broad. From what I saw of the natives of Tataila, I should suppose them to be well disposed to Europeans so long as they are not muoh interfered with. There have been repeated and some what sanguinary wars among them during the last twenty years. There is certainly no wealth to be extracted from Tutuila. Evou the E HILLS HISING FKOM.THE SHORE. primitivo agriculture of the island could hardly be mach extended, os there ia scarcely an aore of level land to bi found there, Coooannts, indeed, gr o?v along th? flhore every where-, and mn te iona iwttnt inland) orang?? trees grow to the dimensions of forest trees; there are nutmeg-trees in the forest that clothes the slopes; and ar rowroot, ginger and pineapples abound everywhere. All these tbingH go to make America's South Sea island n delightful fairy spot, but they are, and must always be, on too minute a scale to hold ont any temptation to the planter and the trader. Perhaps, for the sake of the natives at least, it is well. The Navy Department has decided to assign Commander P>. F. Tilley, of the collier Abarenda, as the command ant of the PagO'Pago coaling station,' which will place bim iu charge of the administrative affairs of'the Samoan territory of the United States. Com mander Tilley is now at Pago-Pago.' The naval officers who havo been on the Island of Tn taila recently in con nection with the work of bnilding the wharf and establishing a coaling sta tiou in the harbor of Pago-Pago state that there are at present about 1509 people on the Island of Tutuila, ow- . ing allegiance to about three chiefs. Tho principal chief is hamed Man gum. The people are different from the inhabitants of the other Samoan Islands, being particularly peaceful in disposition. The population is unique in the faot that er erv soul is reputed to be a de vout Christian. They are so orthodox, that not oue person could be induced to come aboard one of the American ships on Sunday, while all of them go to church. This condition is ascrib able largely to the influence of French missionaries. Nothing has been positively settled as yet as to the government of the isl ands beyond the fact that the princi pal official will be a naval officer. The general purpose is to have him inter fere as little as possible with the na tives so long as they continue in their present peaceful manner to govern themselves without friction. THT DEATH CUP. The Tearlr Victims af the Folsonoa? Mushroom Are Maur. It is probable that not many people ever heard of phallin, not only one of th*. : lost remarkable substances ir the worla.butone of the most terrible pois ons. And it is so very common that ib can be found in almost every field and swamp in the country, for phal lin is the poisonous element in the deadly mushroom, the "death cup," as it has been most appropriately called. Not only that when phallin was first discovered it was found that it was almost identical with tho poison of the rattlesnake, so that death from mushroom poisoning is very similar to death from a serpent bite. But still more wont' rfnl. It is known that various bacteria produce nearly the same poison-the bacteria, fer in stance, of diphtheria 'and typhoid fever. It seems odd enough that death from the poisonous mushroom, from a rattlesnake bite and from diphtheria shouid result from practically the same cause. It is said that twenty-five people are tttie?revhyy?tr irr thiJ^ulti?^fateff' ' by eating the death cup, mistaking it for the edible mushroom. It requires only a bit of the death cup to kill-a piece the size of a pea will do it. Oi>e case is oitod in which ? boy ate only a third of a small uncooked oap of the deadly mushroom, but it was enongh to cause his death. Indeed so bane ful is the phallin poison that even the handling of the death cup and the breathing of tho spores may produce serious illness. The "death cup" is only ono of a number of poisonous plants in America, although there are not many in this country or in Europe. The common est of all is the familiar poison ivy of our fields and roadsides. Contrary to almost general belief, poison ivy is not injurious unless actually touched. Its irritating power is due to a non-vola tile oil contained in the leaves, the ef- . feds of which, while distressing, are not deadly. A very good representa tion of the poison ivy leaves and fruit is shown in the picture. Once familiar with it, one necdr. never mistake it for anything else. Poison' ivy is much more common in the East than in the West; one of its favorite growing spots is along old stone fences and at the edges of swamps. The poison oak, so-called, because its leaf resembles that of a Western oak, is first cousin to the poison ivy; it is found only in the far Western States. Thousands of DoM-Malters. Over in Germany there are 5000 ohildren in one distriot alone who are employed to dress dolls and help in the manufacture of various kinds of toys. AU the ohildren who do this work are nuder twelve years of age. They are taught the art of dressing a doll at the tender age of four. At the ! same time, according to the compnl sory education law, they are obliged to go to kindergarten school for at least one year, and that term is devoted to suoh things as making dolls and dress ing them, doing everything, in fact, exoept molding the heads, which is done by men expert at the business. After that the German children have three or four years of study, when- they are allowed to go into the doll or toy factories to add to the j daily income of the family to the ex tent of a few cents a day. The ohil dren who go to the kindergarten haye lots of fun making clothes for the dollies, and so fond do they get of tho little waxen-faced cr?atures that they are-often sore at heart when the ma tron comes around to oollect them all to be sent abroad. Good Codee in Boerdora. The coffee is always good in the Transvaal, but usually over-sweetened. When any-guest ie in a Dutch house wife's good books she shows her ap preciation of him by loading his oup of coffeo with sugar, which he must drink, unless he desires to upset her easily-aroused ausoeptlbilitiet. C crap loin 13 of the noarolty il Mil Ari ?ade ill over Europe. BOER FARM HOSPITALITY. I'll? Family, life Boase und the Footl Some Queer Custom*. The average Boer farm is a long, low roofed cabin stuck in the middle of the veldt Here with tribe of chil dren and Kaffir servants lives and dies the Boer farmer. His herds and cat tle are his,only care; his only litera ture the Bible; his duly recreation riding, smoking or nigger driving, the last being by far the favorite Boer opoi L A howling chorus from the gaunt Kaffir dogs greets the visitor or be nighted traveler. Alone on tho veldt in a sparsoly populated country, the Boer, is, of course, hospitable, us men in such circumstances always are and alwjtys have been. The family troop out to soe the traveler. There is the stalwart, weather bea!eu, rough fnther.'his pon derous, corpulent wife, with his dozen or so children. "With each the trav eler shakes hands, and he is then ushered into the house. A bowl of water is brought to the guest. Being a traveler he produces his soap and washes. The father, taking the bowl, throws a small quan tity of water ou his face, and wipes it off with the towel. In the same Avatar the whole family of twolveor foniteen likewise wash the nsel > es. They have no soap, and the traveler ceases to wonder at the pronounced dirtiness of ali the Boers he has met. For tho evening meal the cloth is laid on the table, and a sufficiency of bowls are set on.plates. The mother brings in a big basin of milk and a dish of hard, crisp bread, or "Boer biscuit" as it is called. A long Dutch grace is prououueed by the father. Then by the light of a singl? tallow candle supper is eaten. For the father sud visitor there is a small piece of boiled mutton. If the hnngry traveler cousnmes his small ration of meat before his host has 'finished hid portion the Boer will courteously o?n* what meat he has not eaten! Yet tho Boer is a wealthy man, usually possessing hundreds of head of cattle His whole life is one strange contrast of poverty and plenty., * A loug oration marks the conclu sion of the meal, and a move is then made for bed. The signal for retiring is the bringing ronnd of a bowl of waler for each person to wash his feet in. Shoes are taken off, and father, boys aud girls, all use the same water. Then, after he has kissed each of the family, the guest is shown to his room. Nowadays many farm houses boast bed rooms, with huge, high wooden beds. But it was, and still is, the custom at many farms for the whole f ami ly to sleep on the floor of the living room. G - at and sheep skins are laid on the floor. Everybody sleeps in his or her thin clothes, .removing only the velt schoon. No Boer ever undresses. jSome-Trnits of British'Officer*. ^^OmcwB^orev^tr'ab?v? tbevTegi timate busiuess, are constantly en gaged in "side shows." When there is nuything "on" anywhere witbiu reach, and they eau get leave, they go straight to see the fun. The proseut commander-in-chief, when on the staff iu Canada, joined General Leo and saw a lot of work with tho south ern army. A year or two back one of our war correspondents came across a youn i gentleman of military aspect riding a- ragged pony in the rear of tho Turkish army. "Who are you?" he asked. "So-and-so of the -th, from Malta. Got a little leave and came on boro." The spirit of adventure crops up in othtr ways. ' The military officer is the most indefatigable sportsman nlive. If he eau afford it he will or ganize expeditions to wild landa after big game; if not,ho will shoot cats; if he cannot hnut the fox he will hunt hares, and, at worst, pariah dogs. He is indefatigable at games, and carries them about with him wherever he goos. When Bussia- Annexed Port Arthur she fortified it; when we got Wei-Hai-Wei we laid out a cricket pitch. There will be polo playing at Ladysmith tomorrow or next day if the Boors do. notcall another truce, sud ff the polo ponies have not all been wanto 1 for transport work. Whatever there is to do, the British officer will do it with the same cheery energy, the same self-sacrificing, un questioning heartiness all over the world. - To-Day. Her Fi rat Impre**ion?. "Mamma," said a ten-year-old im migrant boy in tho detention pen of the Barge office, "is this America?" "It is, my sou; but keep still; the Americau gendarmes are angry," she answered, pointing at the blue-coated clerks ruuniug in and out of the pen. The boy cluug to her skirts and kept silent. After a little he said in a whisper, "Mamma, is it really America?" "Hush; it is. Hush!" "If it's America, why don't the people walk upside down? Cousin Dominico says hi-s teacher says that the Americans is under us, and that our feet and their feet nro on opposite sides. Is it true, mamma?" "If a teacher Nays so, it must be true; but hush, my child." "If it's true, then they ought to walk head downward, mamma." "Hush, my child; hush!"-New York Commercial Advertiser. To Educate Yaqni Boy*. The Mexican gunboat Democrat has arrived at Mazatlan from the mouth of the Yaqui river, having on board a detachment of government troops, who have in charge about 200 Yaqui Indiau boys and a number of braves. These Yaquis were all taken prisoners during the recent engagements be tween General Torres' troops and the Indians in the Yaqui country. The pri8ouora are being taken to the City of Mexico. The boys range ia age from 8 to 16 years and are exceptionally bright and cheerful youngsters. President Diaz proposes to find good homes for them among responsible Mexican families in the City of Mexico, where they will be educated aud trained to become good aud useful citizens. The captive braves will be confined in prison until the rebellion ts ended. Correspondence, Boston Herald. England mined about 322,000,000 tom of coal in ?899? THE CONTENTED Lim. I -wouldn't be an emp'ror after sapper*! cleared away; I wouldn't be a king, aub, if I could, So long ls I've got health and strength, a borne where I can stay, And a woodshed foll o' dry and fitted wood. For Jimmy brings the bootjack and mother trims the light, And pulls tho roller curtains, shettin' out the stormy ulgbt, And me and Jim and mother and the cat set down -Oh, who in thuader'd hanker for a crown? Who wants to spend their ev'nin's sottin' starched and prim and straight. A-warmla' royal velvet on a throne? It's a mighty tedious bus'ness settin' up so thund'rln' late With not a minn's time to call your own I'd rather take my comfort after workin' through the days With my old blue woolen stockin's nigh the fire's social blaze.' For me and Jim and mother and the old gray cat, Come mighty near to knowla' where wo're at -Lewiston (Me.) Journal. HUMOROUS Jones-I say, Miss Brown, how is it that yon are always out when I call? She-Oh, just luck. Little Miss Waynpp-Is your butler English? Little Miss Eighnpp N-o, but his clothes ie, "Your bookkeeper is subject to fits of ill humor, isn't he?'* "No; he has widely isolated attacks of amiability." "Sir," began the book canvasser, "I have a little work here-" "Sorry," interrupted the busy man, "bnt I have a great deal of work hero. Good morning." "I disown you!" cried the angry parent "I shall cut you off with a dollar." "l'es, sir," replied the err ing son, meekly; "and might I have the dollar now?" Maxim-How did "Tweeter behave under fire? Did he shriuk? Gatling -No, I don't know as he shrank; but he evidently tried to make himself as small as he could. "Dearest," she murmured, "I'm so afraid you'll change." "Darling," he auswered, "you'll never find any change about me. " Which was pain* fully true in a double sense. Lives of great men all remind us Wo can make our lives sublime; But as days roll off behind us We get lazier all the time. "No," said the conscientious candi date, "I'd like very much, to secure the nomination, but I cannot tell a lie." "Oh, that's all right,"- an swered the old politician, "bereis pen, ink and paper-you can write it." "Don't you know," she chirped over her teacup, "that you remind me of the bread mother used to make." The old joke in such a new form stag gered him. "In-in what: way?" he gasped. "Why, you are so crusty." . Mack-Did yon give him backMiia . ring when he broke the engagement? Ethel-Of course. But I, queered him with the next girl he' gets en-? gaged to. "*I took the. diamond oat -?nd had a-paste-im?tation- aet :n its place. Davy-Cousin Kit, what is a mi crobe? Cousin Kit (reading a book and not wanting to bo bothered)-Oh, ii's a thing that gets into things. Davy-Well, the baby's a microbe, for every timo I go down stuirs, she gets into my things." Early one morning little Helen be came restless and crawled out of her tiny bed. "What are you doing, Helen?" called her mother. "I ia lookin' for a match," was the reply, "what do you want with a match?" asked, her mother. "Oh, I just, want to light the gas to see if it's daylight," answered Helen. Blooftelookincgnntic's Mysterious Salmon The mystery of Mooselookmegun I tic's big salmon has at last been , solved. For several seasons now anglers who have wet their lines in Bugle Cove have come back to camp with tackle decidedly ont of kilter, aud with blood-stirring tales of the monster salmon that "rose" beneath a certain overhanging birch, and, hooking on, gave them the battle of their lives-always breaking loose at the ?nisb, however, taking with him everything not tied in the boat. It was always the same birch where the fish ro.se, and the tactics he em ployed of sulking with a bulldog tenacity, refusing to be drawn to the surface, were always tho same. The fame of this remarkable fish spread throughout the lake region, and anglers from the other lakes came down early and offen to try their skill. They never failed in locatiug the salmon, but they never succeeded in landing him. It was estimated that S500 worth of tackle, time and bait were wasted last summer in Bugle Cove. It is low water now in Mooselook megnntic lake, and the water, though low, is remarkably clear. The other day Mrs. Ed Whorff aud son. Carl of the Mooselookmeguntic House ran their boats onto an unmarked stump in Bugle Cove, right beneath an over hanging birch. Aud from that birch they plucked just thirty-seven spoon hooks, spinners and artificial flies. Lewiston (Me.) Evening Journal. r.roko Up a Crowd. One of those crowds which gather at the least provocation and blockade the sidewalks and streets was silently and effectually rebuked on Devonshire street. Somebody stopped aud began to gaze at the top of the .building on the opposite side of the street; others joined the first, and still others, until the sidewalk and street were filled for a distance of 100 feet Then some wit in an office of the building at which so much curiosity was aimed hung an old "rubber" shoe from the window, and the wondering mass of humanity, at first slowly, then more quickly melted away. -Boston Tran script A N>w Beady Reckoner. Multiplication and division can be readily figured by the use of a new reckoner, which is formed of a pair of circular pads, having figures arranged on each pad in such combinations that the turning of tue discs will show the different quotients and multiplicands. A Pleasanter Task. "I started at the bottom and climbed np," said the old gentle* man. "Bat its much pleasanter toboggan* lng," retornad tb? spendthrift son, Chicago Booordi