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ARTIST ? |i WAINWRIGHT.! r u Tiia Adventures Abroad of a Painter * From America. t BY SIDNEY LTISKA. i t CHAPTER III. , That afternoon I again found myself In the Bischofsplatz. At X one is c constantly finding one's self in the Bischofsplatz. Nearly all the streets of ^ the little capital give upon it; and the cathedral is there, and the Bishop's pal- s ace, and the Morinorhof, and the princi- | pal cafe; and it is there that the military band plays of a pleasant evening. At one of the open-air tables of the f cafe I was seat el, when a man passed ji me, clad in the brown garb of a Fran- s cisc-an monk. He had a pointed black "beard, this monk, and a pair of flashing ^ dark eyes, and, though ho quickly drew j his head into his cowl at our conjunction, I had no difficulty -whatever in j. Identifying him with my queerly hirsuit B fiddler friend and prison mate, Sebastian r Eoch. "Dear me! he has become a mcnk. It 0 must have been a singularly swift con- e version," thought I, looking after him f "With some wonder. r He marched straight across the r Bischofsplatz and into the court-yard of ^ trie Aiormornoi, wuer? uc woo iuai tu c view* c J> "The beggar! He is one of Conrad's Fpies," I concluded. And I searched my ^ memory to recall h' I hud said anything E of a nature that might compromise me in the course of our conversation. A few hours later I sat down to my ^ dinner in the best parlor of the Hotel de s Rome. It is a small hostelry, though the biggest that X possesses, pat- 1 ronized chiefly by commercial travelers and special envoys. Baedeker com- 1 mends it with an asterisk, which it deserves, being both cheap and good. " Mine host rejoices in the name of Hilde- ? brandt Strumpf, and on the occasion in ^ question no less a person than himself P was serving me. Scarcely, however, Had ne niteu xne cover irom iuj iuu-wj i y of noodle soup, when, suddenly, and * without a breath of apology, he dropped ? tbo cover upon the table-clolh, and dashed in mad haste from the rooru. _ "Wondering somewhat at this precipitate ^ conduct, I was about to fill my plate, j. when I was arrested in tho act by a t( great noise of hurrying feet upon the pavement without. People were ran- g ning and calling to each other, and altogether there was so much tumult that ^ I said to myself, "Ah, another mob!" *( Then I, toe, left tho parlor, and hast- y ened to the street door of the inn. * There I discovered honest Strumpf and honest Mrs. Strumpf, supported by the entire personnel of their establish- y ' ment, from the boots to the billiardmarker, all agape with astonishment, as three loquacious citizens poured news into their ears. "Otto is dead," said the fifst citizen. "He died at sixteen minutes past six? 7 more than an hour ago." v "But that is nothing," cried the sec- i ond citizen. "The great "news is this. Listen to me " ; "No, to me," interposed a third. "I ' have it directly from one of the sentinels at the palace. The pretender, Con- ' rad, has been knifed like a pig; and jolly ' well he deserved it, too. It was be- ^ tween four and Ave o'clock this after- i noon. A monk, a young monk, a Fran- J ciscan, presented himself at the Mar- [' morhof, and demanded an audience of ; the Prince. The palace guard?and it Is straight from one of them that I have t *lie story?or course reiusea mm aa- y mittance; but he was determined, and ?o at last the Prince's chamberlain gave kim a hearing. The upshot was he wrote a word or two upon a slip of paper, sealed it up with wax, and begged ~ that it might be delivered to his highness forthwith, swearing that it contained information of the utmost importanee to his welfare. The chamberlain conveyed h:s paper to the Prince, who, P' directly ho had read it, uttered a great oath, and ordered that the monk be ush- . ered into his presence and that they be . left alone together. Alono accordingly they were left. More than an hour . passed. At a little after six arrived the news of the death of the old Duke. An officer entered the Prince's chamber to report it him. There, if you please, he found his highness stretched out deud upon the floor, with a knife in his heart; the monk had vanished. They could find no trace whatever of h s . whereabouts. Also had vanished the paper he had sent in to the Prince, but, . what the police regard as an important clue, he had left another paper, twisted . around the handle of the dagger, whereon was scrawled in a disguised hand: 'In F the country of the blind the one-eyed men may* be kings, but Conrad only 0 squinted!' "The grand point of it all you have ? omitted," put in the second citizen. "It 1)5 this. Shut up in an inner apartment Vn i > TT7^ 111 ' fill vJk T 1* 1 HE DROPPED THE COVER UPON THE TABLE CLOTH. nf MnrmnrHof. thev have found the hereditary Grand Duchess Malhilde J alive and well! Conrad has been keeping her a prisoner there these two f Weeks." The tidings thus delivered by thrse * worthier proved to be substantially cor- 1 rect. c "The Duke is dead! Long live the >Duchess!" cried the populace. \ It was like a delightful old-fashioned ( blood-and-thunder opera, and 1 was almost i ehind the scen< s. Hut oh! that t hypocritical young ribald monk, Se- i l ust inn Koch! \\ hat had bi como of j him? "WonId he keep his promise to t look me up? The police wery said :<> i<o t prosecuting a diligent endeavor 10 l< ok 1 him up. but with, as yet, no po.-itive results. 1 Ot course, up->n the aceession of tho j new ruler to the throne all the loyal print-shops of the town displayed h?-r ^ highness' portraits for sale ? photo- ? graphs and chromo-Iithograplis; you paid j*our money and you took your ; choice. These represented her as a Blight youug woman, with a delicate, j Interesting face, a somewhat sarcastic \ mniith, a great abundance of yellowish j hair, and, in striking contrast to this [ chevelure, a pair of brilliant dark eyes. I could not for the life of roe havo ex- ( plained it, but there was something in i ter face that annoyed me with a sens? car if familiarity, a sense of having 6een it for >eforq, though I was sure I never had. at 1 n the course of a fortnight, however, I sto lid see her?caught a flying glimpse of 6ce ier as she drove through the Markt- hin trasse in her victoria, attended by all arc nanner of pomp and ciicumstanco. She ed ay back upon her cushions, looking doc ale and interesting, but sadly bored; us nd again I experienced that exasper- ket ting sensation of having seen her some- 1 rhere?where? when? how??before. fro CHAPTER IV. Offi One night I was awakened from my get lumbers by a violent knocking at my she oor. ""Who's there?" I demanded, not let oo amiably. "What's the matter?" anc Bill, "Open! Open, in ihe name of the rnmmandpf] a defer* i Iiuuu - ? i- ?ca ass voice. "Good heavens! "What can the row be J tow?" 1 wondered. 6CI " Open, or we break in the door," cried cor he voice. J1?1 "You must really give me time to put b'fi omething on, " I protested, and hurried- J y wrapped myself in some clothes. ?ar " Then I opened the door. A magnificently uniforc. ed young of- ni? leer stepped quickly into the room, folowed by three gendarmes with drawn j|uf abers. 110< The officer inclined his head slightly Bca oward me, and said, "Herr Veinricht? 0D< ch glaube?" ?P* His -was not the voice that I hai ^ leard through the door; it was a much Bhi ofter voice, and much more high in om itch. Somehow it did not seem alogether the voice of a stranger to mo; the nd yet the face of a stranger his face ble mphatically was. It was a very florid the ace, surmounted by a giowth of short sui ed hair, and decorated by a bristling I ed mustache. His eyes were overhung kui >y bushy red eyebrows, and, in the un- to i ertain candle light, I could not make S iut their color. sou "Yes, I am Herr Veinricht," I admit- ad nA/iAnfinn t Vi i c barman vorci r>r> nf I CV4, UVVV|'l,iIJQ ViliU i ?ay name. ^ "English?" he questioned shortly. nnc "No, not English. American, if you f1 lease." "Macht nichts! I arrest you, in the ~ > -r>. . , . auc tame or tne uranu juacness. 8ta "Arrest me! Will you be good enough ^ o inform me upon what charge?" "Upon the charge of consorting with ri_] ^ngerous characters, and being an ^ut neuiy to the tranquillity of the state, 'ou will please to dress as quickly as <juj ossible. A carriage awaits ^rou below." "Good Lord, they have somehow con- >, lectecl me with that infamous fiddler, ge^ iebastian Rocli," I groaned inwardly, ^ nd I began to put certain finishing an( ouches to iny toilet. . tjjU "No, no!" cried the officer. "You must t ut on your dress suit. Are you so ig? ^as lorant of criminal etiquette as not to now that state prisoners are required of o wear their dress suits?" jjea "It spcrns n v,>rv ahsurd regulation." aid I, "but I veill put on my dress suit." ' "We will await you outside your door, ut let me warn you, should you at- ( empt to escape through your window .. ou will be shot in a hundred places," ? aid the officer, as he retired with his arc linions. I ? I donned my dress suit and opened i ^ tie door. ues The officer looked me over somewhat "*"t' - i ma '' ' j' ti0; THEN I OPENED THE D03K. She I I ritically, and at lasc remarked, "Yes, per lat will do. Follow me." act The whole population of the hotel mU! ere in the corridors through which we peo assed, and crowded after us to the are treet. A closed carriage was waiting a lere. with four horses attached, each orse bearing a postilion. Three other atJ orses, saddled, were tied to posts about le hotel entrance. These the gen- ?nr armes mounted. "Will you be good enough to enter the t0.3 arriage?" said the officer. J 1 But my spirit rose in arms. "1 insist upon knowing what I am ar- lin^ "ted for. I want to understand the ?. ito charge against me." *1 am not a magistrate, \ilr. Will you 10lJ indly enter the carriage?" un, mis is a uuwuuyui vuuayc, ? i eclared, and entered the carriage. \ rid; The officer leaped in after i me; the dro oor was slammed to; the postilions lad elled at their horses; o.T we drove, lisj >llowed by the rhythmical clank-clank A f the gendarmes. hai "I should really like to get at the abc leaning of all this, you know," I inbrined my captor. ' for "I must caution you that whatever you dei ny will be remembered, and, if incrim- coi lating, used against vou," be replied. I ti "It is a breach of international com- ] ;y," baid L my "Oh, we are the best of friends with ly ] England," said he. bac "But I am an American," said I. 6ur "Macht nichts!" said he *iai "Macht nichts?" I echoed, angrily. ^ Tou think 60? I shall bring the case j n o the notice .of the Minister of the f0r Jnited States, and you shall see." plK "How! And precipitate a war between tire wo friendly nations? Unfeeling mon- pr? iter!" ett "You laugh! But who laughs last aughs best, and I promise you the at irand Duchy of X shall be made to >ay for this pleasantry with a ven- "Wf reance." wh "This is not the first time that you arjl lave been arrested while in these do- >j ninions," he said sternly. "And I must fr(J emind you that lese majeste is a hang- j? rte matter." nLe6e majeste!" I repeated, half in nn< scorn, half in terror. -\V1 "Ja wohl, mein Hcrr," he answered. 'But after all, I am but obeying orders," le added, with an iullection almost apol* ia? jgetic.. Th Where had I heard that curious, soft the :oice before? A voice so soft that his oju German sounded almost like Italian. a s Meanwhilo we had driven straight has icross the town, past the walls, and nto tho open country. The night air, pc< 'UtUng in through the open carriage gr: vindow, was sweet with the olors of | i ai lew-ladon grass and vibrant with tho j wil lutiirnltig of a million insects. . lull ill'* pL'IUU[>fe Ul?UUUl'l iJXri JJIU l'J I ho frontier," I suggested,deriving some j i( relief from the fancy. j ris'l Oh. Hardly so far ns that, let us | iope," he rejoined, with what struck uio | is a suppressed chuckle. Tar! 'I cried. "Can you use the word j at ii speaking of a pocket-handkerchief?" xvi "It is small. but it is picturesque; it ifi jaintahle," said he; "and, what is more, rn.' >y every syllable yon utter against it, rou weave a strand into your halt<:r and jt . lrive a nail into your coflin." ; i,k The night was intensely dark, and I tor lould see no further into it than the lew 10! f-ards of roadway illuminated by our uu riage lamps. We drove on in silence, perhaps a half hour longer. Then ast the horses' hoofs resounded upon ne, and we drew up. My officer dended from the carriage; I followed i. We were standing under a massive hway, a sort of porte-cochere, lightby a hanging lantern. Before a small >r pierced in the stone wall fronting a sentinel was posted, with his mus* presented in salute. "he three mounted gendarmes sprang m their saddles. Farewell; Herr Weinricht," said my cer. "I have enjoyed our drive toher more than I can tell you. If we iuld never meet again in this world, us hope we shall do so in another 1 a better." Then, turning to his 'Ordinates: "Conduct this gentlen to the tower chamber," he comnded. ?he sentry stood aside. One of the idarmes preceding me, the other two uing behind, I was conveyed up a tow winding stone staircase, into a octagon-shaped room. ?he room was lighted by innumerable idles 6(*t in sconces round the walls. nVJ-r nwon ri/ihlr fnr bed, and decorated with a considere degree of taste. A vast worra d Persian carpet covered the stone >r; hooks, pictures, biblots, were .ttered discriminatingly about; and in > comer there stood a grand piano, with a violin and bow lying on it. The gendarmes bowed themselves out, ltting the door behind t'nem with an inous clangor. If this is to be my dungeon cell," I ught, "I shall not be so uncomfortaafter all. But how preposterous of m to force me to wear my dresst." threw myself into an easy chair, ied my face in my hands and tried effect upon my situation. luddenly I was disturbed by the ind of a light little cough behind me, iscreet little uhem. looked quickly up. l lady had entered the apartment, 1 was standing in the middle of it, iling in contemplation of my despairattitude. Good heavens," I gasped, but not iibly, as her face grew clear to rriy rtled sight, "the Grand Duchess self!" I am glad to see you, Mr. Waintit," her highness began in English, ; slightly continental. "X is a 1 little place?oh, believe me, the lest of its size in Christendom?and y tell me you are an amusing man." ?0W, 01 course me reuuei uuo juicii it from the outset; otherwise why uld I be detaining him with this ;cdote? But upon me it came a? a nderbolt, and' in my emotion I for, myself and exclaimed aloud: "Seitian Eoch!" The face of the Grand chess had haunted me with a sense familiarity: the voice of my redided officer in the carriage had seemed . strange to me; but now that I saw face, and heard the voice, tingod ty ,t slight foreign quality of English", >ne and the same time, all was clear. Sebastian Koch!" You said?" the gracious lady queried, hing her eyes. Nothing, madame. I was about to nk your highness for your kindis, but " But your mind wandered, and you de some irrelevant military obsewaa about a bastion rock. It is perhaps lasia." Yes, very probably," assented I. BuC "'ou are a man of honor, ara you ;?" * I hope so." Tho Fnrrlifth rrenprallv ar?. You fan ;p a state secret, especially when i happen to have learned it by a sorl accident, can you not?" I am a very tomb lor such thingB, dame." That is well. And, Desides, you st consider that not all homicide ie rder. Sometimes one is driven to ir. ?elf-del'ense." I have not a doubt of that." I am only sorry it should all have ipened before you saw his squint. It aid have pleased your sense of humor. ? is the dullest little principality," went on, "oh, ,but dull, dull, dull! ina sometimes forced in despair to petrate little jokes. Yet you have iially stopped here five weeks. It st be as they say, that the English pie take their pleasures 6adly. You a painter, 1 am told.'Yes', your highness, I make a shirt painting." And I at fiddling. But I lack a disninating audience. I think you had ter paint my portrait. I will fiddle rou to your heart's consent. Between iles we will talk. Sometimes, 1 may you, I smoke cigarettes; one must e some excitement. We will try tc iven things a little, to galvanize a ic life into this corpsely court. Do i think we siiili succeed?" Oh, I should notdespalr of doing 80.' That is nice of you. I have a mosl iculous high chancellor; y6u mighi v/ caricatures of him. And my firsl y of the chamber has a preposterous ). I do hope I shall be amused." lS she epoke she extended her Ief1 id toward me. I took it and was >ut to give it a friendly shake. No, no, not that," said she. "Oh, ] got; you are an American and e nocrat, and the simplest a b c o] irt etiquette is Sanskrit to you. Musi ill you what to do?" ["o cut a long story short, I thoughl lines had fallen unto me in extremepleasant places; and eo indeed thej 3?for awhile. I passed a merrj nmer at the court of X , alter ting between the Eesidenz in th< rn and the Schlo^s beyond the walls lade a eood many preliminary studies the Princess'" portrait, while#sh< yed with her violin; arid betweei ies, as she had promised, we talked icticed court etiquette, smoked cigar es, and laughed at scandal. Bu en I began upon the final canvas I least, had to become a little grave; nted to make a masterpiece of it ? had two or three sittings, durlnj ich I worked away in grim 6ilence, :1 tho Grand Duchess yawned. Then one night 1 was again arouse< in the middle of my slumbers, takei custody by a gray-bearded colonel o i'.;oons, conducted to a closed carriage :1 driven abroad through the darkness len our carriage canw to a stand-still found ourselves in the Austrian vil e or Z , across tne x rronuer ere my colonel bade me good-by. A ; same time he banded me an envoi ?. I hastened to tear it open. 1'poi heet of paper in a pretty feminim id, I read these word*: You promised to amuse mo. Hut i >ms you take your droll British art at ind serious. We Lave better portrai' inters among our natives; and yui !! find models cheap and plentiful a' ?. rare-well." i'TIIE END.1 "opyrlchtod by the Autliora' Alliance; al tit if i ('served.) J?noUs Out or PitmpUiiiF. Flu-re will i?* mi auctiou sale of pumpkin' JJHvoiI'T'.*, IV-nii.. the proson.ls <>f w'.ii -! il ho liM-.l to buy a now library for th< tiuxlist CImt' Ii at that place. L-:?t sum r h momlit'r of th??*hurcj \vn< suppli'* th five puaijikiii seeds for planting. (): > day set for this work tli<i nwaibors hold >rayer meeting and invoked the divin* fssinus on tin; see J. the soil and tho plan's. The harvest amounte 1 to upward o! )0 pumpkins, anJ it is these that will bi ctiouecl o?f. MADAGASCAR, b T CUSTOMS AND QUALITIES OP tl ITS INHABITANTS. n 'a: The People of the Island are Enlightened and Kind?Living Is Cheap?Woman's Position. d El IT N unprejudiced study of the 1 1 /\ people of Madagascar will p show that they have many o i <C superior qualities and have n mado great progress in a short time, a They have not enjoved the influences a of civilization around them as have i the Japanese nor h&ve there been any i: 1 efforts -worth mentioniDg to develop c the resources of the country. In fact n ' many parts of the great island conti- d nent have yet to be explored. That J part already explored has convinced s the best authorities that Madagascar, ( in addition to being the third largest b island in the world, take3 first rank ' for the variety and magnitude of its t I ?AOA11?rtflO T ICOUUlWCCi I ? LOYE AND MUSIC None of the native officials receive i any compensation for services ren- e dered to theij Government. Their t ' sole reward is rank and honor, "which ^ is based on military precedence and i conferred by the number of "honors." | The first "honor" corresponds to the t , rank of a private soldier, and is the 1 lowest; the highest is fifteen honors c or "dimyambonfoly Vonitra," corre- i sponding to the rank of Field Marshal. 1 One of the greatest ambitions of a i Hova is to have his honors increased. ! The officers of the Government and ] i nobility are not devoid of income by x any means. In fact, some of them in ? that respect would not trade places x > with a United States Senator who gets ( $5000 a year. Every man and woman j | of rank and title is the proprietor of ? , a vast estate and many slaves and cat* E j V-nssi? \ k .r.TMA>^in r*Tt?T /iit>T>rTVn TUATPB. J JUAJJAUAaUAXt VJ1XVU VAXUuiiiiv 1 ] tie. Though slavery exists in Mada- i ^ gascar only in name, the fruits of the 1 1 labor of these people bring in good i [. returne. In addition to the service i k the officers are compelled to render ] f their country, they are also expected, ] t and sometimes forced, to contribute a portion of their income to the Gov- < ' ernment exchequer. For instance, < ' should the Government need money i \ with which to purchase arms for the t . soldiers, a special tax is levied, and i 3 each one ie made to pay two cents per ] head for each slave owned and the j Bame on each head of cattle. Some- 1 3 times it happens that on this basis one ( i person will pay on slaves alone nearly ( > 8400. The slaves are captives from " rebellious tribes. They are bought ( and sold, but not abused. c 1 I i NATIVES OF 31. 1 . "While the women are not given 11 1 i voice in the affairs cf State, excepting, j i 1 of course, the Queen, jet they are ex' I tremely patriotic and loyal in their j I f support of their fatherland. When 11 the last war with France came npon j i them and they has to buy arm0, one '! w ! oman responded to the call for loney with a contribution of $10,000. ol hie time she had given 815,000 for ic le cause. Soldiers in the army do A'. ot receive any pay beyond the w mount necessary to procure their b; itions and clothing. The reason for lis is simply the poverty of the Gov- gi rnment, and that poverty is due hi irectly to the drain upon their re- b< purees to pay the indemnity due to ce 'ranee as a result of the last war. fc 'heir one source of revenue of any ira- ir ortance is the customs duties, and in a rder to insure or guarantee the pay- a] lent of the indemnity these duties tl re, and have been for seyeral years, c< nder the control of the French. The Malagasy are fortunate in hav- t< ng at the helm of State a wise and jt ool-headed statesman who has u icasured arms with the cleverest " diplomats of his time. Admiral Gore- c< 'ones, of the British Navy, had occa- h ion to pay an extended visit to the Jourt of Imerina. In his notes on If lis visit he says of the Hova Premier : tl 'He is one of the ablest men I ever p aet." The ablest diplomats of the h irench Republic can testify only too a ? t( a t f( / <%r j | cT % t f ^ ^ i r/s fi SK ! ' ' ' ' ""' ' ' 11 c IN MADAGASCAR. i yell to this, as among those whose icalp hangs at the Premier's belt is hat of the renowned M. Le Mjre de 7illiars of Siam fame. Twice has he net defeat at the Court of Imerina. As the Prime Minister is the hus>and of the Queen as well as Premier, ie has every thing pretty much his iwn way. He owes his position and >ower to the fact that he is at the lead of the army as its Commandern-Chief. Ranavalona III., the Queen of the lovas, is a woman now in her thirtylinth year. She has reigned wisely md successfully since 1883. Of nedium height, graceful in form and sarriage, rather sharp featured, comjlexion dark brown, hair long and itraight, she is what may be justly laid a fairly pretty wcman. Her court s kept up in great splendor. She iresses in Parisian style, except on e occasions of the National feast, called "Fandrona," when the Queen and members of the Royal family and ? lobility appear in their red "lamba." ? \ lamba is similar to the Roman toga. 1 She is proud and independent, but not ]! rain, as some writers have it. Fol lowing her example, many of the high 0 Masses, and particularly those who are 6 ander influences of the missionaries, e iiave adopted the Christian form of *3 marriage, but the masses, cannot in spite of missionary efforts, be turned From their own form. According to their idea a man and a woman become t Dne by mutual consent. And the o anly ceremony is a feast, to which the c respective families and friends attend, separation is seldom heard of. It would be difficult to find more Jomestic happiness anywhere in the yorld than in Madagascar. The wonen are always devoted and true. A yearly tax of twenty-five cents is evied upon every man who has a wife md should he desire to separate from lera feetof ?15 is exacted. Polygamy s no longer practiced. Women do rery little housework, however, as learly every one, even among the poorer classes, owns slaves. The Hova women are especially clever in fine needle work. Since the establishment of the medical college md the numerous hospitals many of ;he women are learning to be trained lurses. This work is under the supervision of European instructors. " The increase of all the churches has ^ jeen remarkable. The Malagasy aro ievoted to the Methodist Church, and ? jive it generous support. At the capital the Hovas have a fine ^ jollege erected for them by the lionIon Missonary Society, and in con- B ? |t 1^(1^1111^1 5 VDAGA.SCAll. lection therewith is a theological an! 1* Laetlicnl department. * The Malagasy have a reputation for r nonesty. With the example set them i )-y the foreigners now in their country c t is hard to say how soon this will be I loot. i Agriculture is the principal pursuit ' the Malagasy people, but the handrafts are by no means neglected. 11 the tools nesessary for their work, hile not elegant in finish, are made y natives and answer every purpose. It ccsts very little to live in Madaiscar. A good ten to twelve room Duse in the best part of the city can 3 rented for $8 a month. Servants in be had for SI.50 a month, and as >r provisions, they co3t almost nothig. Porterhouse steak is two cents pound, chickens are three cents piece, geese, sixteen cents; eggsf iree cents a dozen; potatoes, ten jnts a bushel. The average wages paid a native iacher or pastor is from S3 to ?10 a lonth, and an ordinary servant gets 3ually 31.50 to $2 per month, and his vary" or rice, amounting to two snt6' worth per day. We seldom ear of a, want of food. A stranger traveling through the "**4 Ua A?l/tniaUa^ frt fin/1 iuu wjix uo aobujuioawi bu .uuva. w*? be recipient of fowls' eggs, rice and otatoes at every village where he alts. These gifts from the natives re a token of weleome. In addition 3 this the be3t house in the village is lways given up for the "vazah'; or areigner. ? On the whole the Malagasy are ineresting and thrifty, deserving of the ympathy of all civilized Nations in heir struggle for the preservation of heir fatherland and their independnce. Ice TFhile Ion Wait. A small ice machine for the housetold, which in fifteen minutes will urnish a small cake of pure ice, is be ng very generally introduced abroad, [he water used to obtain pure ice nust be distilled or filtered through a eliable germ-proof filter. The appaatus consists of a double sheet-metal ylinder, covered on the outside with i protective layer of asbestos, for the )urpose of heat insulation, and hung n sockets by two central pivots. The eceptacle, the section of which shows he shape of a aross, is filled with disiilled water up to within half an inch 'rom the top, and after the rubber vasher and the metal cover are adusted, it is tightly closed down with i screw. This permits the filling of ;he space between the double wall of ;he outer cylinder with a chemical ised for generating the cold tempera :ure?in this case amzaoniam salt. Mter turning the cylinder around apidly for fifteen minutes the inner eceptacle is withdrawn from the sylinder. held for a moment in boilng hot water, and upon being opened j 3TCHEN MACHINE AND CTIdNDEBS FOB MAKING ICE. ! piece of ice exactly the shape of the nner wall will slide out without trouile. ' Another round cylinder is proided for the quick cooling of any luid. The cost of the production, ays the Illustrite Zeitung, is very mall, as the salt may be used over ,nd over again, losing but little of its [uality. New Hurricane Flairs. The new hurricane flag3 issued by he United States Government, on an irder signed by Willis L. Moore, chief if-the Weather Bureau, have been re ?f #EW SIGNAL FOB MARINERS. eived by the "Weather Bureaus staioned throughout the country. The flags are six feet square, a red ield with a black square of two feet u the center. They are to be used to ndicate the approach of severe storms m the coast and southerly tropical L ? ~ Ttrn nf toriiia HIUvmg uuxuuiu. Anv w hese flags are to be displayed?one bove the other?to warn mariners. Teaching the JBagpipes. A Highlander, having to teach a hum in his regiment to play the baglipes, began to instruct him ia reai g the music in the following way: "You see that chap with a white, ound, open face?" pointing to a emibreve between the lines; "well, ie moves slowly from that line to this, rhile you beat one and take a long ilow. Now, if you put a leg on him ou make two of him, and he moves wice as fast. If you black his face he uus four times as fast a3 the white need one; then, if yon bend his knees r tie his legs, he will hop eight tirac/ aster than tho white faced one. "Now, when you blow the jjipes, reaember that the tighter those chaps' egs are tied the faster they run, and he quicker they are sure to dance."? Jlasgow Herald. A Walking Encyclopedia. Lord Bacon was a walking cncvcloHe was a master of nil the mowledge of his time and rernem>crod it to the minutest detail. He arely made a note of anything, trustng to his memory all the particulars if the complicated legal cases brought icfore him, and seldom was it found n fault. / / r TEMPERANCE t'i|| THE JJSTJXKABD'B EETEOSPECT. 'Tis dark and still, and all Is peace,- ^ These passive hours are meant for rast. .'V And home and toil now finds repose - Withln the ample folds of sleep. 'Tis memory's lease from sharp resets, i M And life's retreat till day begins. < ' .jifiB But who can know the drunkard's pain t,. ^ The stillness voices back to him? . ' .; $& These silent sounds; this frightful traaoo, , In fear he tries to break the spell. But o'er and o'er he hears their tones, ^ And this is what the voices tell: -1 "As you have sown, so shall you reap/* > ~ He heare the noiseless conscience say, . While retrospect rears its trrim form < jg| And with its finger points his way, ' t i "You knew your duty loner ago, . When youth and strength were in yourj "v path, < jj*j Bnt you have made a fool of both"? . And then he hears a mocking laugh. "You're drifting on a waste of sea; Your barque is sinking in the swell"?' . The voices chant in concert now? '.y "The drunkard makes his bed in helL' , He can not tell this waking dream, > Yet calls for help In abject dread, fyj While silence chants the lost soul dtrjp And phantoms gather round his bed. V Oh, mystic spell that binds the soul In drink's embrace against the will, And leads its victim su-o by step ,' Until bis feet are snared in hell! , v ?J.. Lewis Smith,in Lebanon (Penn.) Report,' A TOUCHING LETTER. N MtDeaeSon. What would you think of yourself if you should come to our bedside every night, and. waking us, tell us that vott , would not allow us to sleep any more? That ./v is just what you are doing, and that is why I am up here a little after midnight writing . to you. Your mother is nearly worn out and y* dying because you won't let her sleep?that mother who nursed you in your Infancy, .?85 toiled for you in your childhood, and looked ', upon you with pride and joy when you were ' growing up to manhood, as she counted on / . the comfort and support you would give her, i; declining years. </;?' We read of a most barbarous manner in which one of the Oriental Nations punishes , - \ some of its criminals. It is by cutting the . ) flesh from the limbs, beginning with the' . ? fingers and toes, one joint at a time, till the ,; wretched victim dies. That is just what you 'is are doing: you are killing your mother by inches. You have planted many of the I white hairs now appearing so thickly on her i j v.# iv, V?n. kfir.il 4a ; -tfl IlCttU uciurc IUU time. XUUl WUVI uwaw drawing ihe lines of sorrow on her face, making her look prematurely old. You might as , '? well stick your knife into her body every "' ? time you come near her. for your conduct Is ; stabbing her to the heart. You might as wall. bring her coffin and force herinto it, for you ?5 are pressing her toward it with very rapid: j&g steps. Would you tread on her body if pros- , S trated on the floor? And yet with ungrateful foot you are treading on her heart and Vcrushing out its life and joy?no, I needn't > j say "joy," for that is a word we have long a S ceased to use, because you have takes it ;<? from us. Of course we have to meet our -jj friends with smiles, but they little know of JyS the bitterness within. You nave taken all the roses out of yoar sister's pathway, and scattered thorns in*. <$? stead, and from the pain they inflict scalding' tears are often seen coursing down her cheeks. Thus you are blighting her life as well a3 ours. And what can you promise .. 4 yourself for the future? Look at the miserable, bloated, ragged wretches that you see '*$ every day on the streets, and behold in them V;# an !'exact picture" of what you ara fast. |jj coming to, and will be in a few years hence.' .' Then in the end a drunkard's grave and a Jj drunkard's doom. Forth9 Bible sayB that ^ no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom ot God. Where, then, will you be if not in the $ kingdom of God? Will not these considerations induce you to reform at once? And Ti God help you in the effort! Your affectioar '?? ate but sorrow-stricken father. - ^ IN BEHALF OF TEHPE1UXCE. The following extract, sayB the Sacred ' fi Heart Review, is taken from the recently ,i issued bulletin of the Bsv. James M. Cleary, ? who. it will be seen, congratulates theunion, : of which he is the worthy head, on its late . 5 successful National convention, and urges. all total abstainers to agitate for the fur- . therance of the oause: "All honest men, and designing politicians as well, have come to recognize in union a ; ;-& force that can not be ignored in public life * 3 in America. While we are not politicians, -sv ana are unskilled in political management. ' ^ we deal with men who have votes to cast and who are fearless in their hostility to ij saloon domination. The American people / y.? well know, in the light of the practical, noble work it has done in moulding the ; character of our Christian citizenship, that ?* our great union is not simply a passing fancy of which enthusiasts soon may weary. :' *+ We have passed the great mile-stone of our silver jubilee, more energetic, mare earnest \ and better skilled that ever to combat the demon vice of intemperance. We have ' I awakened great ezpeuuuiuua, ivi stem. .< things have been done, and the public Is convinced that we have mighty activities la : ^ reserve. The public is right. The C. T. A. , { U. of A., although it has commemorated its " ; silver jubilee, is only just well equipped for '? the mighty reform in which It is engaged A We have a noble record to guide us. We 9 have with us the confidence of honest and upright men to inspire us. Always present ' before us are the evidences of the blessings . which total abstinence from strong drink insures to the people. A great responsl- i >. bility, theD. is oura, and we moat prepare toprove to all men that we are fully consclofap of its meaning. miohtv wannon of our >: a^iiauuu to huv .? w~r warfare. The drink business cannot prosper when fully exposed to the glaring light which intelligent agitation flashes upon its " foul work. The temperance cause needsonly to be known to be loved and fostered by all honest men. The drink plague need# only to be thoroughly known to be detested and feared by sincere and candid men. Let us, therefore, agitate, agitate; persuad9 and lead the timid from the delusive and tasst* nating charms of drink.'' DISEASES PRODUCED BY ALCOHOL. Scarcely any chronic disease can be Mmed that is not sometimes produced by the iSe of . alcoholic stimulants, because It (the alcohol) 7V circulates as a free agent in the blood, thus irritating every tissue of the body. Bat Its more specific effects are congestion of the stomach, liver, tuberculosis of the right lung, fatty degeneration of the heart, disease of the arteries and kidneys, and chronic in- j flammationofthe brain with thickening of ita , 1 entire substance from the effusion of lymph, [*' with ultimate withering and atrophy. Ol course this means early death. Its habitual I use has no justification whatever. The old . 'J Elea that it is a heat-producing food has een utterly overthrown by the great chem- , | ist Bunge. who has shown conclusively that ? " ' the heat that it produces is much less than v; that contained in the food substances fron> whl'jfl it IS miiue.?Aujertvau ajuv-uHuiui. TEJirERASCE NEWS AND NOTES. Some babies are brought up on the bottle, and e good aiuDy men are brought down by it. The poverty of a parish can be estimated by the numbai of rumshop3 the people in it support. Jane Cakebread. an English woman, has just been punished for the 289th time for disorderly conduct while iu a state of intoxlon. tion. 31 is.? VTillar?l reports that teetotalism is Very much in v.igue in England. Iu her cyelinK toursshe frequently noticed hotels la1 fled with signs watch read 'Jlilk for bicyclists on Su'i'l.-.v. :i Spring may'."cue and sprln? may go, but the accursed saloon will not. by the grace of God. go on forever. The reason some men can't make both ends meet is because theyarot&o busily innkins one end drink. An old ia<ly was asked what she would do Ul. ..II 4-U.x ? if * ~-vfc Ui* A. AV1111 ?l?i iiac fWfu J i li C'JUin uui uc lurtur; mvv whisky. She replied: "I would make it 4 into starch to stiffen the backbone of tho J temperance people." 9 The Female Ssminary in Rome, Italy, tias * a Y. W. C. T. U. organized by .Ut>. Leavitt. Though difficult to obtain pledge i members on account ot' the custom of drinlcins light wines so prevalent in that country,a few girl* rally around the two teachers. Miss Vickery and Sliss Marcy from Indiana, who by preempt anjgjpimplc hold j ??tbo benefits or total altauttke?. -V-'jjj