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A HE P P5 THES.,UAYEOPLE JOURN95. V~~. 5, ~PICKENS, 8, C., THURSDAY, MTAY 16,18.Nq1. THE PESTS OF INDIA. eMeots That Render the Lives of Europeans Miserable. BAdents That Browse Upon One's Mair and Reptiles That Are Numerous and Soolable-An Undeilrable Poe. to Live. "Along with the intense heat," says a returned East India traveler to a New York Sun man, "there go many varieties of noxious Insects. The mosquitoes swarm the year round. Every bed is covered with a tent of mosquito not ting, and It Is the business of your boy, after having made the bed In the morn infVto scare out all lingering mosqui toes and then draw the gauze curtains close and tuck them under the mat tress. On going to bed you make a 1it tle hole In the tent, get in quickly and draw it tight again. House files are a constant nuisance, and there are great flying cockroaches, two inches long, which sometimes bite, and at certain seasons leave their great wings lying about the house. They eat one's patent leather shoes. Flying ants, great black 'creatures, come in swarms and also leave their wings over everything. The centipede, an inch and a half long, and more venomous than that of this coun try, gets into the house and often crawls upon the sleeper. So long as one keeps still there Is no danger, but the creature, if one moves, is likely to dig his claws into the flesh and make an unpleasant sore. Scorpions abound. They come out of old woodwork, and you find them in books that have long lain unused. Their bite is poisonous, and sometimes fatal. "Along with the insects come the serpents. The cobra is the most dan gerous. It seldom comes Into the houses for some reason, though my .small sister slept upon a pile of mats 'nder which a sleeping cobra, was aft. erward found. The cobra, however, comes into the compound and often bites the natives. Europeans are sel 4om bitten by the cobra or other nakes, because the European goes about in boots that give the serpent notice of his coming, and also pernaps protect him from the bite. As a matter f fact serpents commonly met in India do not voluntarily go after hnman prey, but are probably more afraid of man than man of them. A barefooted native, treading noiselessly, gives the serpent no notice of his approach, and may unconsciously step upon him, and ihon the creature bites in self-defense. I knew a native gardener to be bitten !by a cobra. Ie fil1ed himself with whisky and walked to keep himself pwake. An Englishman whom I knew was bitten by a cobra, and his friends romptly applied the same remedies. hey walked him all night against his hrowsy protests and his earnest prayer that he be permitted to sleep. His life .was saved, but he never really recov tered from the shock, though lie lived mtnav. years after. The bracelet snake is a familiar and venomous little wretch 'that takes pleasure in coiling up in one's boot during the night or in get ting Into the holes of one's garments, One soon learns to shake one's boots before putting them on. The natives have a Curious aversion to killing snakes, and they have a superstition, -shared by some Europeans, that if a cobra be slain its mate will come to avenge the act. Of course, there is no foundation for it, save perhaps that a widowed cobra comes in search of her mate and incidentally meets the slayer. "Rats abound in India and get into houses and swarnm aboard a ship. One ,great Indian rat, the bandicoot, with a snout like a pig, visits one's bed at night gund chews the ends of one's hair. I knew p. red-headed fellow on~ board ship who used to grease his hair with oil or bear's grease. He was visited one night by a bandicoot, and camne upon deck next morning with the oddest evi dence of the bandicoot's barbering. The muskrat swarms in India, gets into tl'J1ouses as all sorts of wild creatures do, since the doors are merely unclosed openings. His smell is something tre mendous, and when he merely crosses the cork of a soda water bottle he seems to scent the contents. "The bite of an insect, even though slight, or a small sore of any kind that vwould soon heal in a temperate cli mate, may hang on for days or weeks in the heat of India, and a slight ill. ness greatly weakens one. Europeans luckily seldom take the native diseases, and, though cholera is constantly pres cut in- India, it is only In cases of pe culiarly widespread epidemics that it reaches the European population. There Is no yellowy fever there, but smallpox ravages the natives. It is amazing to see how many natives are pock marked. The natives have small faith in European doctors, but they always 'take the European cholera mixture, of gourse no European submits himself to a native doctor. Abscess of the liver is the groat terror of the European, 'though the land breeze comes laden with all sorts of horrible possibilities. "T he change of climate as one goes frotV the coast into the mountains is like magic. On the journey up from IBombay to Materan one starts with a pocketful of Indian cigars, trichiinopo lia, cheap long rolls of tobacco with a strr,w througl hem tha~t tiheyr~n draw. This is because thog itre ei tremely wect, but when one reachi6 Materan he finds his trichiniopolis ad dry as a punk. The thin atmosphere of the heights has sucked thorn dry of all their moistur. Everybody is familiar wit)} thp act verse criticisms passed by sh~opkeepedq on articles not p1$rchased from thern Here is an Instance: A woman had a handsome Russian aable skin presented~ - to her, with head and feet i perfec condition. She took It tq 4 furer M have it miade into a bow. 1P0 e furrier examninedi it olos'ely. !'lleputiful ski, isn't it?"'remarked the womtan. "Yes,' rep)lied the shopmnan, "but I don't thid'k you have the right kind-of a head ob e""Wll,?' returned the womam "as e lP~i to be the kind'tttimd puit RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. -The .Independent Congregational- US Ists claim 14,120 members, and 166 ohurches, worth $1,486,000. - -A .new compulsory education law 054 went into effect In the state of New aid York with the opening of the new 10 year. thi -Michigan tcaehers in session at n Lansing declared in favor of free text era books and against teachers using to. nei bacco. liq -In New Mexico the woman's exeon- tio tive committee of home missions has tul more schools than all the government me and other denominational, including noi ]Roman Catholic, schools combined. dri -The career of the Presbyterian old women's organization for the further- thd ance of home missions spans the period q 1878-94. Fifteen years ago the -entire dr3 receipts were less than is now received lif in any one month. feo -The value of medical missions is wil shown by the fact that, of twenty-five Th recent additions to the Second Presby- leo terian chioh in Canton, China, eleven ths had been treated as patients in the the mission hospital, which isboth medical shi and evangelistic. tui -Bishop D. B. Knickerbacker, of the Episcopal diocese of Indiana, who died sa December 31, was a stamp collector of universal perseverance. He had col leoted 1,000,000 of canceled stamps ex which he sold for charitable purposes, ha and had acquired one-tenth of his sec- 4 ond million when death put a stop to du his energies. -The statistics from 335 college as sociations indicate that 82,000 men in round numbers are members of evan- wi; gelical churches ri the colleges with 115 which the associations are connected. ha There remain apparently 43,000 men e who are not professors of religion. the There are altogether, it is said, 200,000 P young men in the institutions of higher f loarning on this continent. nel -The eastern communities connect- 611 ed with the pope and known as Uniat I churches are: 1. The Chaldee church, xI with five archbishoprics and six bish. ere oprios -in Turkey, in Asia and Persia. for To this belong also over 200,000 Christ- is I ians in Hindoostan. 2. The Uniats of on the Syrian rite, who are subject to the Cho patriarch of Antioch, and have four at 4 archbishoprics and seven bishoprics. tat 8. The Church of the Maronites, with eight dioceses. 4. The Melchite ha% church, subject to the Greek patriarch W" of Antioch, with six archbishoprics Th and eight bishoprics, extending from Th Constantinople and Alexander to Ispa- the han. 5. The Uniat Armenian church, ter the most important of all, whose head, t the patriarch of Cilicia, resides at Con- set stantinople and is the representative of all the Uniat chiurchcs in the east. As There are about 13,000 Uniat Copts in E1gypt and 25,000 Uniat Abyssinisns. In . Europe there are 42,000 followers of lat the Greek Uniat rite in lower Italy and dri Sicily, and a small number in Greece tra and Constantinople; 8,000 Uniat Armen- a a ians live in Austria and 24,000 in Rus- sto sia. The number of Uniat Greek Rou- sue manians is 1,100,000; that of Greek pri Ruthenians in Austria over 5,000,000, lar while 70,000 Greek Bulgarians of the of Slavonic rite live in Macedonia and har Thrace. _wh: WIT AND WISDOM. ren trei -Young man, don't you know you ides ought to lay something by for a rainy of a day?" "I do; my rubbers."-N. Y. Re- say corder. oreg -Irish Nurse (shaking patient vigor- yes ously)-Come, now, sor-r, wake up an' tha swallow yer slapin' dose; it's time.- our Tit-Bits. *Whl -Living Skeleton-What's the mat- laa ter with the glass eater to-day?" Fat prkc Woman-I hear he has a pane in his the stomach.-Philadelphia Record. bi --Teacher-Therec are three kinds of 9n I' poetry. You have mentioned two, ago lyric and dramatic; now what is the an< third? "Well-epi" Elsa-Epidemic. ma: --Fliegender Blatter. two -"Jack," said mamma, "run into the was! parlor and see whether your father is P< asleep or not." "Not quite," exclaimed ear<n Jack, on his return. "Hie is all asleep the but his nose."--arlem Life, alto -Not "Advanced."-One-I presume fori you are one of the "advanced" wom. finer enI. Tr'other-Well, no, really, I can't stiti say that I am. You see, I'm married littl and have four children.-Detroit Free and Press. of q -Girl (jokingly)-I'd like a place and where I'll have everything I want, to f4 nothing to do and no one to boss me. mor Clerik-This, miss, is an employment an office, not a matrimonial agency.- able London Tit-Bits. the --"In de ease ob do trusted em- plc ployee," said Uncle Eben, "yoh kain't dru1 allus jedge by appearances. Bunt yoh hav< is sometimes 'bliged ter fohp) b'ury pps- 9cll' itive conclusions by disappearances." - Washington Star. whc -The Foremarl-(sharpy)-Henry- star man down here at 7 o'clock-wanted WvhC to see you. Henry-(shufiling into the You room, pulling off his coat at 8-15)- the Who wasq it? The foreman (with1 s uses metallic olick)-Me, sirn-Kansas Ciy whc Star. bes't -Mrs. Potts-I suppose you have a thou wife and seven children at home starv- thme ing? Everett Wrest-Of course I ain't, sure Do you suppose I would be out workin' ire sichi weather ais this here cf I had a reim family to support me?--Cincinnati Tri- alwi bunme. -"Uncle," said the impecuniois T sephmew, ".you ought to g.o and see timq dist new play. You would just die laugh- elc i ng." T1he old moan merely glared. In a hab Sew minutes latem therec could be hear-d the sound of a scratching pen a's he al clas tored his wili.-Cincinmnati Tribune. thei .-Silas Rustc-WVhy, that young fel- -twvu Iar over $lhere soems tq be fairly eatin' muom that smnok9. Dick Urban-'Phatisme what tihey gal1 Mnain Sias- th WVell, I'd ofteri hearn' tell of thecse o smoke consumers; but I never 'low'ed gui they was as Insignificant lookin'.- ge Pittsburgh Dis 3tch-. ma "Hey," nudeeg pp Sptilgre Amaerican presh gnt,, "isp a letter fromi die t Ya kl's hyporfer vyit~h 'th'e wdor frno ,dietate ' at the bottom Qf it.'" "Yes, lumi pine," humbly said his secretary. "Havepe him fired out of the Counti-y on th9 qm firsit steamer. I am r uni gl thg ficta n uspogs Journph' Go]gggg - THE JAPANESE DRINK. waiins Prefer SaM to the Wine and Beer of Amerlea. le increased importation of Japan. saki has been the subject of con oration of the liquor importers for ase time past. The recent action of viticultural association of Califor 'has brought this new favorite bov ge of -the Hawaiians more promi itl. to the attention of Honolulu aor housos. The mandatory resolu -s of the California wine manufao oe8 were rather a surprise party to st of the dealers here. They have ad the growing demand for the mk, but hardly expected such a de ed e*preuion of sentiments to which Californians recently gave voice. !here br, fads In drinks as well as In goods. That beer and California st wines have tiokled a man's palate years past Is no proof-that they I continue to do so for years to come. a average frequenter of barrooms is king for .ftoets, and when he finds it a cheaper product will bring about same salubrious sensations in a irt space of time he is inclined to i from his California wine cups and :a to the Japanese. This is what A has proved. !h figures of the custom house con a the statements of the California )orters. The wines of the state te been crowded out, their importa a has fallen off to a marked degree Ang the past year. Saki importa a has increased i much larger pro tion. 'or 1898 the importation of Californi. es to this country amounted to .142 gallone In 1894 these figures I dropped to 0,684 gallons, a do aSe of 25,458 gallons. During 1898 ire were 9,889 gallons of saki im ted to this country. For 1894 these ses r 70,958 gallons. This gives a increase in favoy of the saki of 87, gallons. !his showing gives evidence of two sting facts: That there is an in ased substitution of Japanese wines those of California; also, that there ncreased consumption, presumably account of the ability to obtain a aper drink. These are facts that )ne interest the temperanoe agi -r and the importer of liquors. It notable fact that native Hawaiians ,e taken very kindly to sali and I often take it in preference to the r-faithful gin to addle their brains. 3se in a position to know say that effects of the liquor are more dele ions than any other of a similar na e on the market.-Hawaiian Ga te. _____ THO. RAGE FOR QUININE. the Drug Grows Oheaper the Demand for It Increases. he sale of quinine has increased in a years to such an extent, says a iggist who has one of the largest des in this line, that it has become aple article In nearly. every drug re. It is being bought in bulk in h large quantities that would sur is you. Quinine has gained a popu reputation by some means or other being a sort of cure-all. You can ly imagine the various illnesses ch people are now using it to ady. Sonie are foolish in the ex ne; how the oustomers got slagh 68 of quinine's eficacy in treatmei$ Oe sicknesses is more than I can The sale of the drug has been in. sing rapidly during the last few s. The two-grain pill is the one I sells the most. Three years ago store sold ten thousand of these, le this year the amount will be at t A-ve hundred thousand. The of course, has declined greatly in last decade on account of the duty g taken off and the great increase a manufqoturp. About ten yeigr8 I remember? it sold for six dollars unee; now it can be bought in open ket in five hundred onnce lots for sty-five cents, and at one time it down as low as sixteen cents. ople in using quinine should be ful that they get a good grade of article or that they are not fooled gether. In many cases an in r product of the cinohona bark, which quinine is made,. is sub ited for the real article. IM is a e better than the cinchona bark has not nearly a third of the virtue ainine. This is called cinchonidia, can be bought for from two cents ur cents an ounce, just a little -. than the bark itself, It Ia so good Lmitation that the customer is un. to tell the difference, except that esults will not te the same. Peo should be careful to get the pure ,t and the only guarantee they pga Is the reputatioxj gf theo rian who i jl to' themn. inino pills must be taken by the lesale in some families. For in cc, there is a man in Allpgheny buys themn in five hundped 19t4ei. would suppqse he wras going into irug business, but as a fact he only them for his family. Winter, n people are catching qolds, Is $t1e seaison for t'hec sale of quinine, al gh the sale keeps up welhl during 3ntire year. A damp, murky day is t~o bring the quinine fiend to real hat ho needs some of his favorite dly, so the sales on these days aro ya8 large.-Pittsburg Dispatch. Long Distance Talking~ ec people of Alb~rkrj practice long uneo talking ivithou't the alal of the ri current. They have a curious Lt whenI they meet of passing each r with a nod, or perhaps a hand > anud a few muttered wordls, and wait until they get to the toqp of hills to begin~ te ttlle. Yqu mgir~li ig after your Albanuian guide and anothuer. On you go andl forget you mect anybodly, when suddenly, arriving at the to1) of a lill, your le turns around aind yells out, '"O, rg lo-o-o!" or w haitover the name 'bo, spluning out the syllable to t length. Tihe echo has' hardly .away before Gbeorgio answers in his hill, and these two leather. ged fellows roar at eagli tAther for laps a half hour. at an interval of a rter mule oy muore. y they keep this ugasperating hait nopn )wB, and no Albanian will telL den Days. MR. SLOQE> THE MEDIUM. Vhe Veet Brownng Datqteasa Impost. ton on His Wife. Mr. Frederick Greenwood, In his per. sonal - reoolleotions, written for the "Realm," tells the following story: "Everybody who lives with books has heaM' thaVRobert Browning's 'Sludge, the Medium,' reflected upon Home, and most people have also heard that the celebi'ated creature succeeded in bring Ipg Mrs. Browning under his Influence completely. But the trick that unde qeived her (we must suppose) is not so well known. It may have got into print, but, If so, I, for one, have. never seen it, and tell the story as it was told by Browning himself. 'Home had been about the Brownings a good deal, knew many people known to them; was, in his tea-party why, an agrecable'sort of person; and there were sednces hero and seances there; 'and,' said the poet, casting a vague look about the room to express his bewilderment, '1 don't know lhow it was. I did my. best, but little by little he gained her over. to believ ing in him; how much to my distress, imaginel' After awhile Home found a yet more excellent way of working on the poor lady's mind. She had lost a little child by death, and, her own wishes running out to embrace the promise, he began to hint that some day he would bring the little one's spirt into her presence. But he was slow in performing this promise-naturally; for, otherwise, he would have lost the ad vantage of an excited expectation, often stimulated and as often baffled. At last p4 pyioing was named when the mother's yearning gliuid l satisfied. In the customary way, light was shut out of the room when the three sat down, and the usual rap piugs and questionings and invoca tions went on for a time, and then then the child's spirit was to ap pear. And, sure enough, there did arise pbove the edge of the table some thing that was wWter thq the darlc, that seemed to have a motion of its own and the luminousness of a living thing, and that might veritably be what poor Mrs. Browning fancied it. But, conscious of her trembling state of mind, her husband was -in another guess sort of passion. 'I suddenly sprang up, dashed my arm across the table, and took hold Qf-vhat do you think? The scoundrel's obscene footi nakedI' The flaming anger in which Browning finished the story-after so many years, too-left no doubt about what happened next to the celebrated medium-Rome. Ile was instantly and literally kicked out of the house; his shoe and stocking after him, no doubt." POLAR BEAR AND WALRUS. Strange Association Existing Between the Two Animals. Old voyagers in Behring sea tell of a strange association between the wal. rus and the polar bear. The walrus furnishes the principal foood' of this great carnivore, which is his deadliest. foe, in fact, yet to see them together, as they frequently are encountered, one might think they were boon com panions. Lying upon the field ice will often be seen "patches" of walrus con taining from thirty to -fifty, and with each of these groups will be found the polar boar. They all are apparently resting together in the happiest sort of unity. Occasionally a walrus flops into the water and sinks leisurely into the depths, while others will be see emerging therefrom and climbing u on the ice. The bear becomes hungry and de cldes he will dine with the walrus thjat day. Hie rises to his haunches and sways himself heavily upon all fours. After a yawn and a stretch ho saunters to the nearest walrus and swings his power-' fuil paw in a crushing blow on its' head, instantly killing the animal. He then proceeds leisurely to make a ceom fortable dinner off the infortunate ob ject of his selection. This perform anee, apparently, does not startle the others. They continue to bask un-. disturbed, seemingly indifferent to the fate of their comrade an~ ryaitipg their turn like stoios. The female wali rue with young, however, does not told erate the presence of the bear. She regards him with merited suspicion, and promptly takes to the water with her offspring on his appearance. TIPS IN E NGL AND. Gsakeepera Soorn Anything Ivesu Than a Five-Pound Note, A retired Anglo-Indi~an officer has published his notions on the subject of "tips."' Thackeray's Col. Neo'me, it will be remembered, made a sort of royal progress through England on his return from a long sojdflrn in the east, rewarding postboys with gold and mak ing waitera happy with handfuls of silver, says the London Daily News. This reminds the Anglo-Indian officer that there are no tippers so hardened and profuse as Anglo-Indian $1ppopg. T i is so novel for tA~m to be waite on by I white faces that they feel Inclined to I reward the most trifling sortice. They are, moreover, pleased to be at home again, andl touched with thec civility they meet with in their journeyings toI and fro their hands are everlastingly in I their pockets. Thle 'retired .I ndl~an inftlce does not ph~ject, to tips Ini the abstraet, but he I enter's a protest against the givfig of gold to any domestic in a hoiuje where one has been staying. It spoils thel market and is unfair to those witig slender purses. Five shillings, he con., siders, is a suiflicqnt r(oWvivd for a lin ie e:St11a trqulblo. TliIS IS very well, but what about the gamekee-pers-a large class, as some of us know to our cost who are accustomed to return tile shooting guest's sovere ign w~thrglite intimation that they p pyer necolgt 'es than ppey,'' Kept lioth Placos. WVhen the c'zar wvas made colonel of the Royal Scots Grays an offlee of the regiment said to his orderly: "Donald, 1:lve you heard that the new emperor pt Russia lhas been aippointedl colonel of the regiment?" "Indeed, sir," replied Ugnld, "It Is a vera prood thing." Thien, after a pause: "Beg pardon, sir, bnt wn11 he be able in kreen both ~ HOW HE WAS USED. The Woeful Tgio Of an Obliging Young Gothamnite. I boarded a Sixth avenue "L"train at 125th street the Qther afternoon. At 116th street two pretty girls, ingenious looking, entered the car I ocupied. After looking around in a sort of where-are-we-at way for a moment they came to the section where I w'as sitting, riding backward. bny vis-a-vis was an old lady. One ingeziue sat be side me, the other beside the old lady. Before I had time to offer my seat the one beside tle old lady asked: "Won't you please change seats with me, sir?" "Certainly. I was about to offer it to you," I said. "Oh, thank you." After riding as far as 104th street, she jumped up and exclaimed, with a peachblow pout: "Oh, I can't ride backwardl Won't you change again, sir?" "With pleasure," said I. "Sorry to trouble you, sir." "Don't mention it. I could keep this up all day." "Have you the time?" she asked, in a few moments, leaning toward me, not half far enough. "My watch is stopped, but I'll just step off at Ninety-third street station, tell the conductor to hold the train a moment and look at the station clock," I said. And I did as I had promised. "Seven minutes' past three," I said on my return. "Are you sure that clock is right?" "I prpslme so, but to make sure I'll open the window and ash tho ticket chopper," I said. This I did also. She nodded her pretty little head and smiled bewitchingly. "How long does it take to go down to Forty-second street?" sweetly asked the ingenue in a moment. "About twenty-five minutes." "fWo want to patch a train at the Grand Central at 3:40. Do you thi4lj we can do it?" "I should think so, if you take a cab at the station." "Those horrid cabs! I don't like 'em. Do you, Mollie?" No. Mollie didn't either. Mollie asked in her ain't-he-a-nice-young-man cattenish voice: "How much do they charge, do you know?" "About fifty cents apiece. Perhaps they'll take you both for seventy five." "How far do you go, sir?" "I go to Thirty-third street." "You couldn't get off at Forty-second I suppose, and help us with our traps into a cab?" "Oh, certainly. I have all day to my self. 1 only work at night." "Well-how's that? Are you an actor?" "No, I am a newspaper man." "A reporter?" "Copy reader." "What's that?" came from both pret ty mouths simultaneously. I explained. "Forty-second!" cried the conductor. "Oh, here's where we get off, sirl Will you kindly-" I "kindly." I carried their traps jvn stairs, bailed a cab, asked what the fare was. Seventy-five cents. Boh opened their pocketbooks. Neith er had change. Jehu had none either. I was asked if I had. I gave ub the last three quarters I hud, saluted and started to walk to the office. Just then I heard one sweet ingenue say to the other indignantly: "Strikes mec he's rather fresh on first acquaintance."-N, Y. Herald, SWAPPING STUPIDITIES. A Short Session of Bomne Saecharine So ciety Swells. "Let's tell the stupidest thing we ever did in our lives," suggested a so siety girl, one of a group sipping ehocolate in a confectionery store. "Put it in the present tense," said the girl with the side combs in her bangs. "I regularly light my alcohol light with the greatest trouble and. when I have coaxed it into a blue flame* shut a drawer immediately be low it, and whiff'! out she goes." "That's nothing," said the girl with her hair parted in a straight line. "I uised to make afternoon tea for mom mer, but every tinrlQ I lit the spirit lamip I get fire to the lace draperies in the alcove and called out the fire de partmen t. "How awfully swell," said the girl *n the picture hat. "Now my forte is ralling down stairs. I :neyeri visit any where wihou getting up an excite nent of that kind. I just forget about ny unfortunate habit, and instead of ilinging to the balustrades tumble lown in a heap." "Girls, your oxperience Isn't a cir mmnstinee tn ie," said the blond >ud, holding her spoon fr1 the air. "You cnow that dear Perdimmons boy-just ionmc from Europe--lots of money isps and wears glasses. Well, didn't ie go home with me the other night reom the .Smith function and wlen~ lhe eft mec at the door 40 hp4 gy fan ny 'is lockeot and forgot to yeit to m, oifepasked li'im or it?" "Oirla, I did. Wasn't it awful? I oat the opportunity of my life." That ended the session of the dlear tupids for that day.-Dectroig lyrgo ?ress. Wiltd Fnough, At the dinner table in a country ho ol a guest says to the waitress: "Miss, are you sure that this is Syg1 Luck that you've given mei?" "WildI W9Uh I shopld think it was. f yon could 'a' seen us chasin' that luck more'n forty times round the tarn yard 'fore we ketched it, I gu 'Oui'd believe 'twas , '~ouths '~ompaniQq, A mpor tant begal Paint. "You wished to see me?" ad4d M awyer as the living skeletan from the lime-~useum approached. I'Yea, sir. I want advice on an im iortant point." ''Go on.'' "I am in love with the two-head.4 Phl If I maanr he ean [hamrg.-+ LANI*4DAPES OF CUBA. Its Most lieautiftil istricts Seldom See by Visitoro. A good deal delends upon the season of the year in whic1h Cuba is visited as to the ipressiin piro.hted tmoching Its verdure. Columiibus reacicted lhara coa just as the autium rains had done their work of magic revival. The northern visitor of too-<i iv goos to Cuba in the dry season, wit' i tho green hillside has hloome chanigred to tawny brown. The change in the appearance of the landscape is about as great as it is possible for such a elange to be. One of the chief items of disappoint. ment in the Cuban scenery is the ab sence of the umbrageous woodlands. In the famous Valley of Yumurl, and in some less known localities, fine trees may be seen. and almost every where the ceiba (silk cotton tree) is in e.i dence--solitary and desolate 10<1ling. BIut the trees are generally sy' ill, and what the Cuban calls a w'od, a mnl from Indiana Wold 4.seribe na "brush." It is little more than a tangled wilderness. A gene'rous comn Penlsation, howcver, is found in the never-failing beauty aid great variety of "feathery palns." Amig the first features of the landscape to arrest the eye dt the traveler, they are a0b.out the last thing to fade fronot his m0emnorY. To them there attaches a sort of chirim that belongs to no other hind of growth. Almost every variety is here to be met with, and oie soon discov ors that the palm is as use fut as it is beautiful. Pleasant to thie eve, it also furnishes material for building, for wrappers, for clothing and oven for food, When the flora of Cuba is uder coni sideration, language cii hardly be too affluent or too eulogistic. If only i moderate alnount of care were given) to culture and arranigiement., this islani.d would be a veritablo parad is of floral loveliness. This, tunfort.unately, is not the ease. Disorder is supreme. lere and there "a well-ordered gairden" nt tests the richness of the soil iind tho kindliness of the climate, aml the best results of borticulture are not I frequently those of the Chinese gar dener. it is unnecessary to catalogue; Indeed, it is well-nigh impossible. Any and every growth known in tropical climes can be brotght to perfection in the fertile soil and uinder the sunny skies of Cuba. But Cuba is not all beauti full. 1e. tween Ilavana aid Cieinfuegos there may be encoutered tcensive stehes of country as dull and uninviting as any I know inl any part of the world. The povelty-stricken dwellings of the Cuban peasantry add to tile 1unlpleasilg aspect of the scenery. Tho most beautiful districts of Cuba are those vhich are least known to I visitors; I refer to the imountall dis I tricts. These are little likely to be come known unutil better roads an1d I better accommodations are provided, 3 and until tho risk whihol soinotiies attendmcs excursions 1into solitary places ceases to terrify. firigandage, as such, can hardly ho said to exist in Cuba, but tile attitudO of certlil organized outlaws is sulicient to suggestcaution. I owe it to the couLrtesy of oine of the directors of dal ragulill that, I heenmillo ae quainted withli what, proved to be thn finest of all 1ie scellery I behold in Cuba. Certa ily the est abli slued routes of travel must be departed from if the choicest aspects of tile island are to be enjoyed. ]iere, amn11g tile hills 1111d valleys of the Tierrit e Cubai, as also in% tile district lying north of Trinidad de Cuba, no0 question can arise as to the beauty of Cuba. Most of the cnsst scenery of tile isl and is very ine, wiVleo airund tile spa cious hlarbors for wh'Iich Ciuba is fm.. m'ous may ho founid spmots oif sylvan loveliess. F~rom Capije Cruz to Cape MJay zi an enohantinug pa mlora ma comles into view from the steamuei's deck, in. eluding Torquino (8,000( feet), thie loftiest mountain of Cuba.--N. Y. Charis, tian Advocate. A Marvolous Es'eunpo' In his recently pubililihed lmemloire Goen. Marbot, who took part in nearly every one of Napoleon's campaigns, describes a hair-bread th escape, I te wuas charging the Austrians at thle head of his regiment, when his horse was killed unl~der hhu11. M\arbot fell, and the cavalry passed over hlim wvith out touching hima,, whlich is not suri.. piing, as a hlorse, uniless wounlded ou. tired out, generally avoids treading on~ human bodies. lie biegnan to think lie was safe, when lie perlceivedi his regi ment retliuning at full gallop, pumrsumed by a division of the Austians.. Glen. Marbot realized thant if lie could( not keep pace with tile horsemen lie would bie cut down without mercy. TIho thought of certain dleathi inmcased hlii strength a hundred fold, lie held up his hands, which21 were grasped by two riders, who, dragging imi along by giant stridea be(twen their horses, conl vcyed hiin to a pla0ce of safet-y.---olden~ Days. ________ Losing Ifold on Life, ihue then and there lost her hold upon life. She was p~oisoned~ andic mu1.st die. She was as sure of it as the China-. man who has seen an eagle, and who, recogmnizing that his hour is come, calmly lies down an~d breathes 1his last by tile lmere suapensioni of volition. In 0old coiuntries the lower orders, as ia rule, have but a low vitality. It may be truler to say thlat the vital volition is weak. Let the learned settle the detinlition. The1 fact is easily accounted for. Duing generations Upon genera tionso the majority of European agri cultutral populations live upon vegeta ble food, like thle majority of eastern Asiatles, and with the same result, Ilard labor produces hard muscles, but vegetable food yields ain low vital ten. sion, so to say. Soldiers know it well enoumgh. Tihe pale-faced city cler'k who eats meat twice a dlay will outfight and outlast and outstarve the burly laborer' whose big thows and sinews are mostly cmpounded of potatoes, corn aand water-Marion Crawford, in Century, --According to the old church canons the Chrien nas festi'val lasted from Chlristmak 'eve to February 1, by which date all the decorations must be re .moved frein~ tihe. qawxohoa, SAVAGES WHO ARE CIVILIZED African Native* Who Have a Notion of til Arts and Solenocs. Most people think of the natives 01 tropidal Africa as naked savages, with out any of the resourbes of civilization, said an ex-missionary. But the fact In that many of the tribes are acquainted with not a few of the mechanical arts. You are probably aware that the mining and working of iron have been understood by the natives of that part of the world ever since prehistoric times. In Liberia tho Mando are smelters of iron and workers in gold and silver. They are also tanners of leather and weavers of cloth, and they make an infinite variety of domestic articles. The Makolos arc excellent wood carvers, the Djours are skillful iron workers, and the Rechuitnas are good metal workers, fur dressers and sichitects, The Baganidas, of Victoria Nyanza, do beautiful work in brass, copper and ivory. On the slave coast the people of Dahomey, who otherwise posseR% at unenviable reputation, are accorded a very respectable position in Industria artisanship. Glass making is not known among them. They mako cloths o cotton and many other textilos, an< their dyes of blue, red and yellow owe their peouliar richness to native color ing substances. Tanning they also un derstand, and they obtain salt fron sea water by evaporation. Among the tributaries of the Whit< Nile at Bakara and Benghtch the tribes of natives, as white as Europeans, hav< oval faces and silky hair. In Dahomey public prostitutes were licensed an< the proocods of the tax paid into the public treasury long before the prac tice was adopted by modern legisla tures and eonsidered as a radical de p arture in modern civilization. Lord eaconsefeld said of the Zulus: "They have outwitted our diplomats, outina neuvered our generals, and converted our missionaries, and yet we call them savages." Thxo Mandegnas have attained a con siderable degree of cultivation and knowledge of the common arts. Their musical instruments are the flute harp, bell and drum. The Veis o Liberia having obtained an acquaint ance with letters from contact with Arabs, have invented an alphabel primeor of their own language, orig inal and Independent both of the Ara bio and English characters. This is the greatest effort over made by an African tribe toward the advancement of culture. The Veis make pons of reeds and use indigo for ink. Africa is destined before long tc become the great gold producing con tinent of the world. In 1889 it yieldec $8,600,000 worth of that mntn\, Uaas year it produced about $85,000,00 worth of gold. During 181. the out put of its gold mines is likely to equa the 830,000,000 produced by the Unite( States. The total exportation of diamon(L from the Cape of Good Hope, from th date of their discovery to the present has probably exceeded 8350,000,000. The annual expenditure in the digging for the gems is now $5,000,000, and the export is limited to 4500,00o of carats annually, to prevent a depreciation In price. The (range Free Stato hiss re pently given to the world the largest known diamond, weighing in the rough 970 carats, and likely to weigh when out 500 carats. The ruin of the white man is a curso to the natives of Africn. It is esti mated that 10,000,000 gallons of spirits are annually Imported into t1o dark continent.-BQton lloraild. AN UNEXPEOTED ANSWER. It Was Doublems Suggested by the w~ordu of Preceding Orators. "Waal-er-hemi-hildron," began Col. Handy Polk, the well kcnown real estate, loan and insurance agent of Oklahoma, who had wvanderedl into a Sunday-school, and been invited by the superintendent to addr'ese the children, "I didn't com~e hepre with the expeota teon of makin' a speech, but nowv that I've been called on, Ill say a few words on1 the-er-ah-beauties of honesty and-er-truth. Honesty is the best policy. Alwors be honest, children, and alwers be truthful. As-cm What's-his-name truly said, ani honiest man is the-er-er-noblent work of God. And a truithful man is better thg-ei-ah-maniy spairrers. Al wers remember that, children. If everybody was honest, what a different world this would bei But, alas! they ha.n't. Insteadi, the generality of mnankcind in -er-generat ifn forever trying' to giL th beotter of the-cr-er-generality of pnankind in-er-ah---goneral, so to speak. From this we shomuld lorgr should learn, as it were, to-or--be honest. hun. VIA tell yont a little story to sorter illustrate my mneanin'. Once op n time thar Was a boy whose par ents were poor but honest, and tried to raise him up in the-er-way lie should go. But he wouldn't obey 'em, and seemed to take a delight in doin' wrong. He began stealin' little things when he was no higher th~n the table, and 'peared te prefer to lie when the truth vypyld haavs done jest as well, or evenbetter. Ho grew worse and worse as time passed on, anmd by tihe tune he had grown to be a man ho had biecomno a regular out-and-out scoumtlrol. Ito made a business of swintlin', lyini' anid eheati' a~tlnd oymed to glory in his eshamo. And what do you suppose be amo of him? I ask you, childreni, whur do you reckon he is ait niow?" And the colonel'p lnnoeniet hearers answvered in~ ,no voice: %'~e ntow stands before us"--Tiom P'. biorgan, in Harper's Mlagazine. A Uolid Meal, The Man of thp Hlouse---H~ere, poo0r fellow, is a sponge cakce? lUungry Hiawkinw--O, say, boss, can't yer give mnc somet'in' muore solId dant cake? The Ma 9t3 the Ifouso (surprised) gonmethiing more solid! Good hieavens, man, my wife baked this cake herself, and it is the first one she ever made! Puck. ---Men commnonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act accordjng to custom. --Bacon,