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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. COMMON JOYS. Onr common joy.?, 0 what are they Tho brightest and the liest; They glad ns in onr buay walka, Aro with ns wh^n wo rest; An aogel band, they hovor 'round, In walking and In djvam, Anil o'er our hearts In saddest hours They shed a golden beam. Our common joys, 0 what are they? But blessings tatt within, For smalli st deo ls o? goodness do4? Amid a world of sin? The mito wo giw tho child of want, The slightest word of cheer That lifts H heart with sorrow-bowed, Or dries a failing toar. Our common joys, O what are they? The pri'joie s pearls and gold Which memory sifts upon tue heart When life is growing dd; Tho though: that wo hnvo ircasurcd up Wher; naught can stea! away The consciousness of dolus? good With evory pushing day. -C. D. Stuart. AUNT'S EXAMP~TJI AM really quite shocked at your conduct, Nettie; it is most indecorous," and the speaker, Nettie Dauforth's maiden aunt, a prim, well preserved lady of about forty, put on n severe look. "Why. auntie, what have I done?" queried Nettie, raising her blue eyes in well simulated surprise. "You know too well, ? fear, child. You will persist in trying by every means in your power to attract tho at tention of Ned Bartram, and really your flirtations with him are too much for me to endun calmly. I feel that ; I mnst remonstrate, and try to.awaken within you a sense of modesty, which now seems deadened, or at least ideep- ; ing. Now, when I was young-" , "When you were young! Why, aunt, I hope you don't consider your self old-I don't," cried Nettie,*with animation, hoping to didract her ' aunt's attention from herself by a lit tle delicate flattery. * "Why-ahem-no, child, not old, of courte, but I have passed the age ' of gushing school girlhood, and can " now, from my twenty-eight years of 1 experience judge more clenrly of what " io proper for a young girl like you." ** "To be eure, aunt, 1 acknowledge that you know what is best ; but yon speak of your experience; do tell me c about your old beaux," urged Nettie, * mischievously. s "Beaux !" cried Miss Elmer, and her f face expressed all tho horror ehe felt 6 "Why, my dear, I never thought of 1 such a thing ! As I told you before, ( the ideas of the young girls of then pi-i t _ ,. k{ . j ?:Qt;b thin?fi. V"t th:; ??;. on who, sith tho e-.-^ple* thai' fcver ,f von, shunht lc. u most, * modcet, . - - - 5QI ; ; greatest ~~"'V.'\:o; . - litt lilac i ?? great satisfaction, that u-si ii icm . , _ face was quite crimson ; but, alas ! we are sorry to say it was not, as the good jj lady imagiued, with mortification, but-suppressed laughter. ? ?Til tell you what I'll do, aunt," t continued Nettie, after a pause of ap parent confusion. "I'll promise to follow your example. There, will that j satisfy you?" ( "Perfectly. And though I say it . who shouldn't, I must say that I think j you will find little to blush for if you v follow in my footsteps." ? And the lady lifted her head rather proudly; while Nettie, having given and received tho kiss of reconcilia tion, managed to stifle her mirth until ^ she reached her own room, where it j .found vent in a clear, melodious trill ] of laughter, os she said : "Ah, aunt, you thiuk I don't know , about your demure flirtation with old Dr. Allen ; of your occasional necea- , Bary visits to his office for medical aid, ' and your unexpected encounters?in the j street-ha, ha !-but I do. And it?will , be my own fault if I do not marry Ned Bartram, in spite of your shocked j sense of )ropriety.w fit's all nonsense, my dear boy, sheer nonsense, tho idea .of you, who are hardly of age, talking of mar riage," And Ned Bartram's maternal uncle grew quite red in the face in his in dignation. "Why, uncle, I'm twenty-fWe. I should think I was old enough to be looking out for a wife-that is, if I ever intend to have one, which I most cer tainly do." "Pshaw! ten years hence will be time enongh. No man ought to marry before he is tbirty-fivo; he don't know his own mind." "But, uncle," expostulated Ned, "who fs going to wait all those years for a fellow? Certainly not pretty Nettie Danforth. Why, she has had a dozen lovers, and although I am happy to say that she ha3 discarded them all in my favor, leonid not think of presuming to ask her to wait a dozen years for me." "Why, there are other young ladies in the world besides Nettie Danforth, my boy. To be sure, she is pretty, and, 1 presume, is an sensible aa most young girls ; bnt she is altogether too young. Now, if I wera to seleot I should choose some sensible woman ot maturer age-say about such a person as Miss Nettie's aunt, Miss Araminta. Ah, my boy, there's a sensible girl for you. She'd make a first-rate wife." "Ugh ! she's forty if she's a day," muttered Ned to himself in disgust. Then, turning to his uncle, he said, smilingly : "If you have such a fine opinion of the lady, why don't you marry her yourself, Uncle Allen?" "I-I marry !" and the old gentle man's face became purple as he bustled excited about the room, with hands clasped under his coat-tails. "flow absurd! Med, you know I don't believe in such nonsense. I've lived fifty-five-ahem ! forty years Without thinking of it, and its not likely I am going to ma'?e a fool of myself now, is it? Is it, I say, sir?" cemanded he, indignantly, halting tis chubby little person before his amused nephew. "Well, my dear uncle, yon see we disagree eo upon that subject. Now, I should cali it anything but making j o fool ol yourself if you were to marry J and, really, sir, I agree with you that ' Miss Elmer is a fine old girl," said " Ned, mischievously. "Old, sir, old? Why, Ned, my boy, what are you talking about? She tells -I-I mean I have been told thot oAs Elmer is twenty-eight or so ; just the proper age for matrimony." "Well if you say so, why, of course, I am bound to believe von ; but, real ly, if any one had asked my opinion, I should have added ten or twelve years more; but, anyhow, uncle, take my advioo and marry her. You oan'fc do better, and then perhaps you will feel moro charitably inclined toward Nettie and myeelf." "No tbnnkn for your advice," roared the irasoibl? old geutlemau. "Keep it until it is asked for, will you?" "There" (as Ned opened his mouth, as if about to speak], "not another work, sir. Get ont of my room, will yon, with your uncalled-for advice?" Ned smilingly obeyed. He knew his uncle too well not to feel sure that his anger was ouly momentary, and that,as the old gentle mail w^s^eallyone of the best-hearted men livingTie woi?rcrTn??5,"gTTr^^ over his indignation before they met at table. "Good Hoavens!" murmured the doctor, as he sank exhausted into a chair, and ran his band nervously through his scanty curls, "the yonng rascal will have me accepted and mar ried before 1 know it. "Can he suspect my partiality for Miss Elmer? No, I think it is only his inveterate love ot matoh-making. He is crazy to run his own head into a noose, and so wants everybody else to be as idiotio as he is." And the offending nephewJsaid to himself as ho walked away : "The old gentleman is certainly smitten with the peerless charms of Miss Elmer, and I shouldn't wonder if they made o match of it after all, as Nettie predicts. Ha, ha 1 How unole colored up when I proposed it?" Miss Elmer sat in her brother's parlor alone, dressed in her best, and ivith her well-dyed hair arranged in thu most becoming fashion. She sat rigidly erect in her chair, w motionless os :if sitting for her jortrait; but it was for something far nore important that she was attired nth so much care-she expeoted a risitor. The family had all gone to a neigh bor's to tea, but the, by a procon jerted plan, had exoused herself on he plea of a headache, and now, with i fluttering heart, she awaited the ioming of her visitor. Dr. Allen, who, ihe felt assured, would joyfully seize ipon such ?. favorable opportunity to ieclare his passion. A low, rather/ irresolute knock Ql?nd? ? o'. IV: ar * Mis ,:. " ib, is it ?...:. doctor?" ?he erie 3, miling!;*; ^Walk . . I ..?rn :? s^ arv gi an leur, arti waa fc&h?ttatt?te .:;t?..lv." . ... _ . ' * Oh, w '?t rould give me toe most intense hup dcess," and he placad has hand upon lis heart and bowed deeply. <'Why, doctor, hew you talk!" and liss Elinor simpered, und attempted o blush behind her fan. "You men ,r? such odd creatures." "Odd, dearest madam, odd? Well, '. admit it ; we certainly are odd when ?upid pieroes us with his downy hafts. But ther madam, it is the adics who are to blame, for who can withstand their bright glances and iunny faces?" And he gave her a mo3t affectionate ;lancc. Miss Elmer really did color, this :ime from excitement, iorshe felt that ;he decisive moment was very near at nand, and she murmured : "Dear me, doctor, what a flatterer yon are." "I assure you, dear lady, I do not latter. Ah, Arapinta!" and down plumped the little doctor upon his ?tuees. "1 assure you that I'm in the most solemn earnest. 1 have lost my heart to your bewildering charms, sweet one, aud will not rise from here until you promise to be my bride." Much as she had longed and waited for this moment, during her long years of spinsterhood, Araminta El mer was dumb with delight, and a lit tle real embarrassai e?t. Bnt, mistaking her silence for aver sion, the dootor criod : "If you wou't have me, Araminta, I'll-I'll-take poisou 1" "O-h !" screamed Miss Elmer. "Iw.ill,"ho averred solemnly, for get ting his late delaration, and rising to his feet. "Oh, then, Jonathan,!I will promise anything you please," cried Miss El mer, blushing. "Take me, dearest, I am yours !" And she flung herself into his arms. Eut her weight was almost too much for the enamored doctor.who staggered back, and would undoubtedly have fallen, had not a knock just then sounded on the front door, and Miss Elmer withdrew herself from his arms, gasping : "Oh, my! they have returned. What shall wc do? I would not have them find you here for anything. They-they would tease me so about you, Jonathan, dear." And sho simpered. "Good graoioup, Araminta!" cried the doctor, mopping his hot face with his handkerchief. "I'm sure I wouldn't have that rascally nephew of mino find me here for a thousand dol lars. Cannot you hide me?" The knocking was repeated, tbi-j time mnch louder. "Yes, this way," cried Araminta in desperation, and she pushed him iuto ihe china closet. "They won't find you hero, and as soon as they leave the room, I'll let you out." "One moment, my dear," ex claimed the doctor, popping out his head as she wai closing the door; "you promise to be mine?" "Yes, yes, anything-only get in," nhe cried, in a panic, and satisfied, the doctor drew in his head, and his be trothed closed and looked the door and pocketed the key with a sigh of re lief. ' "Ah, is it you? I declare, you gave toe quite a start. I was dozing," fibbed Mi.ss Araminta, blandly, as she admit ted Aettie and Mr. Bartram. "I thought 1 heord some one talking to you as wo stood upon the step.i," ?aid Nettie, suspiciously. "Oh, Mr. Bartram," cried Nettie, suddenly, "have some of the finest oake ; mother made it yesterday. You must taste it," and she cssayed to open tho door of the china oloset. "Why, it is looked J Where can the key be?" she cried, wonderingly. A rattling of dishes sounded within the oloset, followed by a crush and a wild cry, and then a voice exolajmed : "Oh, oh! Help! Murder 1 I'm killed 1 Let me outl" Miss Araminta uttered a pioroing scream and fainted. The door was burst open, and out hobbled the doctor, and a most piti able spectacle did he present. His hands, face and clothes were bedaubed with Mrs. Danforth's beat preserves, and he limped painfully, emitting a deep groan at every step, for ODO of his feet was held firmly in a large trap which had been set to catoh the mice that infested the closet. On hearing Nettie's attempt to open tho oloset door, he had, in a blind at tempt nt oonoealment, essayed to climb upon the topmost shelf, but uu T?^^iL-J??'jiu^his weight, tho shelf gave way, and pre^rpT??T?7rv?Tn^--cbV^ gether with a quantity of china, to the floor. Despite the poor man's distress, his appearance was so ridiculous that it oauaed an irresistible burst of laugh ter. He waa soon released from his un pleasant predioamont, and was then much-moro inclined to treat the affair as a joke. Ned began to quiz him unmerciful ly, but Dr. Allen was equal to the occasion, and taking the hand of the Washing Araminta, who had recovered from her swoon, he said bravely: "Yes, Ned, I have, after all, con cluded to marry, and the sooner yon follow my example, you young dog, tho better; and the day that sees pretty Miss Nettie hore your bride sees you the possessor of ten thousand dollars. " "Nettie has premised to marry me, inole," said Ned, taking the hand of lis betrothed. "And you know, auntie," said Net ie, langbiDg and blushing at the sume ime, "I promised to follow your ex tmple. " Stalking a Deer ou the Ice. We had gone up in the great bay lear the head of the lake, when socie joys and dogs, rummaging around in he woods along the shore, started a leer and chased it into the ice, and we lad the most exciting ohase immedi ,tely after, that I ever took part in. Ve did not harm tho animal, and had ?e wished to do so we couldn't, for here wasn't a gun in tho 'crowd, but re made him "make the effort of his . peliA brill?sro? I" uti ' way. Wbea'we^sighted ? ho in; 'akin g straight tesos* :.;<;- hay. wi foil i Dye ciiu'-y ' -, ftod the JC-J M-a* PO , ' ':)V"'.f ..O. cc-\'.4.ft?t in.ik'- . ! hen tn?- .?. v K . H?X?? j ' ?elf. ?ndacfrttai tuiles bealno them J", ?th au ec s v indiSfcroaci aoa! heautfi . i t--o' ? - J I . _ . - ] yole, sho1; straight ahead, and very oou passed bim and forced him to urn, and when he did turn there was ring ot' skaters all around him, and or an hour he played with us very auoh as a four legged seal might. We got him running in a circle, but re were uaable to catoh him, for every ime any one tried it, that venture ome individual either failed to get a told on him, or, succeeding, was inrled as from a catapult along the oe, to the great delight of all tho rest. t was the merriest skating party ever vilnessedj although the deer might lot have Been much matter for merri nent in it. But he was perfectly safe, unless his ?vind played out Wforo ours did, of which the event proved there was small langer. One wing of the oircular trooha we had formed in tho lino got jut of breath and slowed up, a gap was formt.d in the line, and the deer ?vent through it like a flash, and the last we saw of him was "hull down," ind goinj as merrily as if freshly started.- 3linneapolis Journal. H (?ucor Character, The Paris (Ky.) News tells of a queer character, who for a number of years has been an inmate of the Bourbon County Infirmary : "She is seventy five years old, is now living with her seventh husband, and has changed her religion five times. As the widow of her sixth husband she was entitled to a pension, and application for the bounty was quickly followed by a re quest for a permit to take unto herself husband No. 7, who is blind. Being advised that the marriage would in validate her pension olaim, she was told to choose between a pension and a husband. She meditated a moment and replied : "I dou't kuow the ve.lue of a pension, but I do knoff a hus band's value. Gimme the husband.M Long-Winded Ceremouials. Some ?def? may be formed of what the Russian Emperor has to go through by the fact that tho ceremonies con nected with his coronation eight months ago have not yet come to an end, A few daye ago His Majesty held another reception at tho Winter Pal aoe to receive the congratulations of more representatives of his faithful subjects. Several hundred persons were presented, comprising 165 dif ferent deputations, each one with bread and salt on costly gold and sil ver plates or other works of art. Long tables in the palace were again loaded with these gifts to the Czar, as at Moscow in May last, and the ceremony observed was exactly tho same. Bent Educated Bog. Lisbon street, Lewiston, Me., should go on record as being the home of perhaps the best eduoated dog outside of Switzerland. A woman shopping tho other day missed her purso while in the street," and after hurriodly feel ing in all places about her clothes where it might bo and not finding it, sho turned around and saw a big dog" coming toward her with the pocket book in his mouth.-New York Stn. Ruined by Earthquakes. The Saxon village of Eislebcn, famous as tho birthplaco of Luther, ia falling into decay as the result of con tinned earthquake shooks, which be gan in 1892. MODERN ARCHITECT URL". lt? Tendency to English Ideas-A Res idence With an Onice or "Den.1'? There is one feature common to many English private houses thal; ia seldom found in American residences, at least under the same name. . This, is tTie "offloe." One frequently finds mention of this in descriptions of Eng* li sh residences, even in the staticly' country houses, and the term ol ten confounds the uninitiated. Th ; word "office" has a largo latitude in Ameri ca, and is generally applied indiscrimi nately to any plaoe where business is transacted, doing duty equally for the English "chamber" and "shop." But the one use it never has in this coun try is that corresponding to its use in ? the English residence. There the "of fice" is the private room of the master or the mistress of the house, where business letters are written and filed, where servants are engaged or in-j structed, where tenants are received, or where the hundred and one odds of business, appertaining to every house hold, are transacted. There are com paratively few men of leisure in this country, and many details that the '^n^ih^hr^fflim. ja compelle? THE HOUSE WITH A "DES." look after in his own home are here cared for at the regular place of busi ness of the head of the household. But still much remains to be done at home, and the various oares and troublements are met and conquered in the "libnary," or if the householder is blessed with such a room, in what wo have designated with very ques tionable taste, the master's "den." But whether wo risk tho charge of Anglomania, or stick to the thorough ly American "den," the thing itself is assuming a marked importance in our architecture. Almost every house that is built with more pr?tentions thanacottago contains a "den," and while the room is generally small, it frequently occupies one of the choicest and most prominent places in the u ten arrest cud creditable ta?tsl tc . . .. utsul an : co ? ro>v. di?,?H lcd -pita ot its size, !\?U* .sud t&eerfn] < its atmoirpberevan?* ?i v tc ?? ; tas :;- sfcnei ti Sra "Wi liousc. It shonid I c?mfw! . di?y fet: aieheu, never . rowtled v' r.titi?? and BO that important letter receipt cannot be found without a half hour's rummaging. On the other band, the room must not be bare, or it will have too much suggestion of the business office. Tho central figure muEt, of course, be the desk. Prefer ably this article of utility should be a large and roomy ono, and not a little wall pocket with a folding lid that has by courtesy title of desk. A cabing with plenty of drawers, a set of book shelves and a small table round out tho list of essentials. Here should be a closet, if possible, for a man more tht n a woman needs a "tuok-hole," whe:re some of his belongings can be hurried ly thrust out erf eight. The ligiat Bhould never be a high chandelier, but a shaded drop-light, or a lamp that can bo conveniently ecreened. The pictures should be good engravings or prints, of a character of their own, not mere pretty ?tudies. The design illustrating this article clearly defines the English idea of the office room. The den is shown con necting with library, the "evening" room of the house, with outside en trance from rear porch. A brief description of this design we give as follows : General dimensions: Extreme width, including veranda, 36 feet 2 inches: depth, including veranda, 48 feet. Heights of stories : Cellar, 7 feot ; first story, 9 feet 6 inches; second story, 9 feet; attic, 8 feet. Exterior Materials: Foundation, stone; first story, clapboards; second tVwfal?. First rloor story, gables and roof, shingles. Out eide blinde to all windows except those of the cellar and bayp. Interior Finial) : Hard white plas ter; plaster cornices and centres in main hall (first and second story) and parlor, library and dining room. Hard pine flooring in lauudry, pantry, china closet, water closet and kitchen; remainder of flooring, soft wood. Ash trim in first story, soft wod trim in remainder. Ash staircase. Panela under windows in library, parlor end diniug room. Wainscot in bathroom, laundry, pantry, china closet and kithen. Interior woodwork finished in hurd oil, except attic, which is painted colors to suit owner. Colors: AU clapboards aud panels in gabler-, olive drab. Trim, blinds, rniu conductors and gable columns, olive green. Outside door?, dark green with olive green paueln, Baabes, dark red. Veranda floor and ceding", varnished. Wall shingles oiled aud stained a little darker than natural color of wood. Roof shingles dipped and brush coated in red stain. seco/y) floor Accommcw?T?? rooms and their sizes, are shown by the plans. Cellar, with conorete floor and inside and outside entrance, under whole house. Three bedrooms finished in attic. Laundry nader kitchen. Sliding doors connect principal rooms of first story. Four open fireplaces and set range. Bal conies in second and attio story. Cost : $4865, not including mantels, range or heater. The estimate is based on New York prices for ma terials and labor. In many sections )f the oountry the cost should be less. (Copyright, 1897.) Picturesque and Lively Budapest. Budapest, as everybody knows, is ormed of two cities, separated by the danube, and joined together Hko New fork and Brooklyn by great bridges, ?uda is a city hundreds of y ears old, md rises on a great hill covered with 'ellow houses with red-tiled roofs, and nrmounted by fortresses and ancient 3erman-looking castles, and the palace >f the king, with terraces of ' marble nd green gardens ranning down to aeet the river. It still is a picturesque, ortified city of the middle ages. Pesth, just across the way, is the lost modern city in Europe; more ?todern than Paris, better paved and fetter lighted, with better facilities i>r rapid transit than New York, and he House of Parliament, as massive nd impressive as those on the banks I the Thames, and not unlike them tho rt Americans t ..???ty Of .';!?ri' r- liCr.U; .-j;'?-"?-.?.'"v.";'-* ad io .?. 1* .?" iaijr-* and i,i riots cribner. In thc Heart of Asia. The heart of Asia, in the remark b!e explorations of Mr. St. George iittledale-his traverse of the Kucn un range and of the great eastern ilateau of Tibet, the so-called Chang -adds a chapter to the traveler's rec rd which will Btand side by side with hose of Younghusband, Bonvalot, 'rzevalski, Puudit, Krisna and Rock lil). It is tho beginning toward filling n the great cartographical blank fhich begins with the Northern limalaya chain and ends with the Utai, and with which are associated be headwaters of some of the mighty ?ivers of the globe-Irrawadi, Yang ee and Mekong. This Tibetan plateau, as has boen properly pointed jut by General Walker, chief of the trigonometrical survey of India, is the largest protuberance of the earth's sur face, and its. physiographio features ire among tho most unique and im posing that this globe presents. To ward its exploration will doubtless be directed much of the energy of travel during the next quarter of a century. A Pair of Shoes Can Be Made in Twenty Minutes. One of the big Lynn shoe shop9 made a pair of ladies' boots for the Paris Exhibition of 1889 in twenty four minutes. A notary publio fol lowed the operation, watch in hand. For this feat the pair of shoes went through the usual routine of tho shop, but at exceptional speed ; fifty-seven different operators and forty-two ma chines were concerned in ?bo work, which required twenty-six pieces of leather, fourteen pieces of cloth, twenty-four buttons, twenty-four but ton-holes, eighty tacks, twenty nails, two box-toes, two steel shanks and twenty yards of thread. Smco that timo the division ol labor upon a pair of shoes has become still greater, and thero is a larger number o,f machiues employed, with the result that a pair of ladies' boots can now be made com plete in this factory inside of twenty minutes.-Scribner. Superstition and tho Pingue. A Parsee sacred fire which had burned uninterrupted for twelve cen turies in the temple at Leigule, Per sia, went ont recently. Its worshipers interpreted the event as an omen of the plague which is destroying so many of their coreligionists in Bom bay.___ Ileard EiiougX Mr. Sparking (angrily) - "Seo hero, you little Boaiup, how much did yon hear of our conversation?" Bad Boy-"Couldn't hoar nothing but the smacking !" A ROYAL MONSTER, : KING OBJ3AH OF BENIN AFRICA'S WOB8T SOVEREIGN, A Distinguished and Brutal Can nibal-In His Possession Are Store* or Ivory Worth Many Millions. IP England makes good its inten tion to punish King Obbah of Benin for the recent massacre of an unarmed expedition, the most attrocicus of the African monarchs will got a tasto of the misery he has so generously bestowed upon tens of thousands of others. And that England will do this there is little doubt, for in addition to avenging the deaths of ber subjects, the conquest of Benin will open up a country of immeasur able richness. Not only this, but it will abolish ono of tho central points of the slave trafilo in Africa, and go a j long way towards orushing cannibalism and bu man sacrifice. The domain of King Obbah forms the central seotion of the notorious slave coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Slavery is a formidable part of the social fabrlo of this African kingdom, .iii^n^plies a currency system ; it does ! away wTFfr-r-ie^^e^dof jails or peni tentiaries; it is an exclb^ugeable com modity for the riohes of the slave b'nt??s-j' in northern Africa, and forms a scheme for the disposition of captives made in the petty wars which are constantly being waged. Very few white men have ever vis ited the city of Benin, located some two hundred miles inland from the coast. Even the missionaries have given the city a wide berth, although they have penetrated to all parts of the neighboring kingdom of Ashantee, Dahomey and Brass. Captain H. L. Gall way, the British Vice Consul of that district, visited the plaoe and concluded a treaty with King Adola, the predecessor ot Obbah. Adola was reckoned to be a muoh moro humane monarch than Obbah, but some of the things witnessed by Captain Gallway seem to have reached the pinnacle of outrageous barbarism. 'de reached tho oity at night, and the king cordially placed a house of red clay with a thatched roof at his dis posal. In the morning the first thing he saw was the body of a cruoified wo man wno had been sacrificed some two weeks before, according to fetich rites, that the rain might stop. Nearer his house were two bodies frightfully mutilated, and further away wero the bodies of two other women who had been cruoified. wfc?? b-mit?e? h?f 1 : found Riot -he wait? were Mk: "! ??tb n-itiy hnroan ska:/' . .iud there wer.? ".. . . .. is can OJ fy be eosfectareo, .. the m< z th< co nott. 1 The aambe: ' \-.i?_..'i and children in mo v,n.j> io very great. Polygamy is extensively practiced. The fathers look upon the girl chil dren as so much property, or as so much money. They are virtually slaves from birth, and eventually many of them are sold by the dealers in the slave marts of Morocco. It is believed that the city of Benin contains fabulous amounts of ivory. For many generations the natives have been compelled to give the reigning king a certain amount of ivory, and, as the surrounding country is the riohesfc in elephants of any section of Africa, the accumulation of tusks is figured to bo immense. When Captain Gallway visited the king's palace ho saw enough to con vinco him that the ivory of the king dom was worth millions. The palaoe is surrounded by high walls of clay, and in tho inclosure were numbers of shrines of carved tusks, some of them of prodigious 6ize. Each shrine was guarded day and night by attendants, as the average native is not above stealing from his king, although he well knows that detection means death in a horrible form. King Obbah has some pioces of smooth-bore cannon, and the slave dea'ers have taught his soldiers how to manage them. Some of his soldier are also armed with old-style rifles, but the bulk of them are armed merely with native weapons. Against the rapid-fire guns which the English will bring against them they will be mowed down like grass. In the campaign against Prempeh tho English won a bloodless victory by employing pyrotechnics at night. The fireworks scared the natives almost to death, and depopulated the capital city of Kuraasi in le3S than half an hour. King Obbah, however, has had more experience in modern warfare than the Ashantee king, and it is to be expected he will make a more stubborn fight. To puuith King Obbah will not bo an eaty matter. To reach the city of Benin means a march of more than two hundred miles through an almost impenetrable country, where the dan ger of falling into an ambuscade will be great. To guard again this rapid firing guns will be employed nearly every minute in the march of many days. A number of thcse*guns will be kopt in the van of the invading foroe, and thousands of shots will bo fired through the thick brush to clear it of lurking savages. In this way a fairly safe road will bo plowed through the country for tho English. Among the Benin wariiors cannibal ism is rife. Animal flesh is designated as coming from dumb, inferior brutes, while human flesh is regarded as the proper meat for great soldiers. The bodies of enemies killed in battle, even at great distances from the city, are transported to Benin with much labor for the purpose of supplying the population with an immense feasting. The warriors eat tirar, then the male children are fed, while the women and small girls receive the leavings. During the brief intervals of peace, when there is a scarcity of war prison ers, llaves are sacrificed to appease tho appetites of the king and his leading warriors. Tho execution ground in Benin is near the king's palace. De ?apitation is the common form of exo mtion, tho victim's head being placed >n a block, and when it falls oil at the itroke of a native knife, it rolls into a jit dug for its reception. The wanton destruction of human life is one oi tho pleasures of thi. monster monarch. His moat common form of amusement is to assign a num ber of slaveB to dig a deep hole. When it is so deep that ladders have to be employed for the men to get out of the pit, the ladders are drawn up and the unfortunates left to die. King Obbah, through his dealings with Asiatic slaves, has contracted some luxurious Oriental customs. One of his most important attendants is a functionary whose sole duty is to tickle the soles of the royal feet. This service is always performed for the king while ho is a ttending to affairs of state, seated on his throne of ivory and coral. The West Indies. Only a few years ago Spain owned tho entire West Indies. One by one, however, sho hos relinquished her grasp upon these fair islands, until now her possessions are restricted to only two of them-Ouba and Porto Bico. As to the other members of the group they belong soverally to Eng land, Franoe, Holland and Denmark. Two of the islands, however, are not included in this division? as they are separate and independent These aro Hayti and San Domingo. Among the British possessions in the West Indies are Jamaica, the .Bjoh?mas,J3t. Lucia, St Vinoent, the Barbadoei^r~^n?^pher, _Novis, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, Trim-" dad and the Virgin islands. The Guadeloupe archipelago is owned by Franoe. together with St. Bartholomew and Martinique. On the latter island Empress Josephine first saw the lighi of day and lived until hor sixteenth year. Five members of the group belong to Holland. These are Curacoa, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Eustatius and St Martin. Though small islands, they are well populated and fertile. The Danish possessions are Santa Cruz, St Thomas and St. John. Grouping these several possessions together they embrace 92,270 square miles of land and sustain 5,070,038 inhabitants. Of this aggregate, Great Britain oontrols 12,000 square miles and 1,300,000 inhabitants; France, 1103 square miles and 600,000 in habitants ; Holland, 434 square miles and 50,000 inhabitants, and Denmark, 223 square miles and 40,000 inhab itants. The two independent islands, Hayti and Domingo, contain 24,000 square miles and 1,000,000 inhab itants. While Cuba and Porto Rico are now under dominion of Spain, it will be only a short time before they acquire 1 ri?*.*- i-J-. ?. -rm w ..^ \ ia?*. laaeponuea . ii j^,y\. ana S*n Domingo can sustain independent , ~; ' there ia no tfeaeon . '?Af : i .? ?0 A ifants. Ooh be was . kip-ai yi : Stute of Alabama, anu Luv scut vi ciu, eminent was there from 1819 until I 1S26. The history of Alabama's oapitals is interesting, and may be briefly related. ' In 1817 Congress established Alabama Territory, with St. Stevens, on the Tombigbee River, an attractive town o? considerable proportions, as its capital. Tho two sessions of the Ter ritorial Legislature were held there, and the Second Aesombly decided up on the removal of the seat of Govern meut to tho propsed city of Cahaba, at tho mouth of tho river of that name. In 1819 Congress admitted Alabama into the Union of States, and as the capitol at Cahaba had not been com pleted, the first constitutional conven tion and the first session of tho Gen eral Assembly wero held in Huntsville. Tho Legislature met at Cahaba in 1820, and that place continued to be the seat of Government until 1826, when the capitol was removed to Tuskaloosa. It remained their until 1846, when it was removed to Mont gomery, which still remains the seat of the Government. Tho first capitol built in Montgomery was destroyed by fire in 1849, involving tho loss of valuable public documents. Tho pres ent oapitol-made notably historic by the birth of the Confederate Govern ment there-dates its completion from 1861. It is a matter of sentimental interest that both of Alabama's first capitols have disappeared from the face of the earth. Only some crumbling walls in a forest are left to tell where St. Stevens etood, and Cahaba, once a handsome city of many thousands of people, the property of which was as sessed at a good many million of dol-. lars, is now an unproductive cotton field, tho property of a poor farmer, who lives in one of the $20,000 houses that has contrived to escapo complete deoay.-Atlanta Constitution. Thc Best Data Ho Could Give, I have a friend who is connected with ono of tho largest shoo stores of tho city. A day or two ago ho was called to attend to the wants of a cus tomer, and his first question brought out the fact that the man wanted a pair of shoes. Of course my friend next inquired tho size, and thereby hangs the tale. The customer looked dumfoundod for a minuto, but ho was not to bo fazed by suoh a siraplo ques tion, and finally he blurted out : "Wa'al, I don't know egzactly, but I wear a fifteen and a half collar." He did his best, but my friend was not sufficiently posted in the relative proportions of one's neck and so had to make a guess at the sizo required, and try different pairs until he had found tho proper fit-Springfield (Mass.) Union. A Testimonial. A manufacturer presented a cyolist with a box of meat tablets. "Drop mo a line as to how you like them," ht wrote. A few days after the race, *ho "testimonial" arrived. It ran: "You asked me to let you know my experi ences with your patent meat tablet, and I have much pleasure in comply ing with your request. Fooling in need of food, I, in the sixty-fourth mile, began to suck one of your tablets. The effect was almost instantaneous. Passing tho sixty-fiith milestone, I chucked tho blooming lot into a field." -Glasgow Times. ' M0THER5 READ THIS. The Best Remedy. J For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhea, Dysen tsry, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething Ch?dren, Cholera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from tlio Bowels, Pains, Griping, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis eases of tuc Stomach and Bowels. PITT'S CARMINATIVE o 'Is tho standard. It carries children over the critical period of teething, and Is recommended by physicians ss thc friend of Mother?, Adults and Ciiildrrn. I* is pleasant to the taste, cud never fails to give satisfaction. A few doses will demonstrate its su perlative virtues. Price, T> eta. per A bottle. For sale by druggists. liUUS?HOLD AFf AlltS. BB005I BBIDLE. The thrifty housewife long ago dia? covered that to sew a piece of cloth on the upper part of a broom did much to increase its allotted timo of useful ness, but it remained for a man ts "d?vfeer a ^^^&c^J^-4h?tt^6?\? serve the same purpose, and might bo transferred from broom to broom. This patented device, while simplicity itself, effectually prevents the broom from losing its shape. It consists of wire arms encircling tho broom and fastened aronnd the handle, where they aro clamped in position by a sliding ring. Thc broom-encircling arms ara also provided within a slid ing ring, which admits of adjustment from time to time. FURNISHING A GUEST ROOM. A woman'B idea of hospitality maj be gathered sooner from a glance at her guest room than from attending twenty teas and half as mrny dinners at her house. And not infrequently this eame guest room proclaims a mis tress a very poor hostess. A guest room should not snggest to ita occupant that she is expeoted tc leave as soon as may be. Halfemp tied bureau drawers and closets with three or four pegs in use are equiva lent to a command that the guest cut her visit short. The room should have a habitable iir and should not suggest the manso ii possible, have a iopr. ~r>, or at cast, n low, c icioufc armchii.'r, fur iue small toilet accessories, pins, hair pins, a whisk broom a hand mirror, a bottle of violet water, and all the tritios required by the fastidi ous woman.""---1-.? . Next and perhaps most important of all, is the wash hnnd stand. Let the toilet set be roomy and complete, and be sure to supply a capacious foot bath. Let thcro be a generous pro vision of towels, generous both as to size and quantity, and do not fail to provide a Turkish bath mat, so that the guest may enjoy her morning tub without a haunting fear of splashed rugs and mildewed carpets. A writing tabio or small desk is also indispensable to the comfort of those who tarry beneath your vino and fig tree. Furnish it generously with sta tionery, with various kinds of pens, with a good big blotter, with a calen dar, a paper cultor? and, last of all, an ink stand filled with good fresh, black ink-not the stiffened paste usually found in the bottom of the spare room ink well. KECIPSS. Ono Egg Fruit Cake-One-half cup sugar, h cup butter, J cup molasses, mix together, then add one egg well beaten, one cup raisins stoned and chopped, and one cup sour milk in which one teaspoon soda has been stirred. Add sullicient ilonr to make a rather stiff batter and ono teaspoon cloves and two teaspoons cassia. Bake in one loaf. Put in a stone jar and it will keep nice for a month. Cocoanut Cake-One cup sugar, one tablespoon melted butter, i cup sweet milk, one cup dour, ono egg, one tea spoon baking powder and a little pinch of salt. Turn into a sheet tin, then sprinklo a large tablespoon of coarse white 6ugar and one of shredded cocoanut over it and bake in a moder ate oven. Look at it alter it has been in the oven ten or fifteen minutes, as the top scorches easily; put brown paper on top if the heat is too great. Sponge Cake-Two egge, beat the yolks with i cup sugar, then tho whites, and add to yolks with another x cup sugar. Add 1} cups flour in which one teaspoon baking powder has been thoroughly sifted, and last } cup warm water. Flavor with \ tea spoon lemon and $ of vanilla, Bake twenty-five minutes in moderate oven. Blanc Mange-Wash a small hand ful of unground Irish moss, letting it soak five minutes first, to swoll, and free from shell and seaweed. Put into a saucepan with U quarts of milk, let it boil slowly for twenty minutes, be ing careful it does not Hcoroh upon the bottom. Strain through a flour sieve and turn into cups or fancy molds. Apple Sago Pudding-Fill an earthen pudding dish with quartered and peeled apple?, choosing a tait Bald win. Upon two tablespoons of sago pour one pint of boiling water, cook until soft, then add { cup sugar, a lit tle salt, butter si/.o of walnut and one teaspoon vanilla; lastly ono moro cup of boiling water md pour over apples. Bake two hours in moderate oven, cov ering with plato after hali an Iiour. Servo with milk and sugar. Steamed Date Pudding-Make a plain batter as for steamed apple pud ding, substituting stoned dates for the upplee. Steam two hours and serve with a liquid sauce ; this is delicious. -New England Homestead.