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KY . WINNSBORO. S.C... MARCH '30, 1899.ESALHD184 TRI ViE EKLY "DITIUEA T HE AMERI Tupir-,- from ter-- .M Vii:er . az .ai -;rz; L- j -rir .in tmrs . -o - t M .im in bis lieb i. F-l nr down theu ra . 'uin al.h lov- ehind,. Sisbigig in where strivin: men Pusb-bim down and never mind. Dreams of sweet old peacclul scenes. :-metines. i t-te rt:sh and roar; M.-oorics of er:id:e soigs That are sung t him n) rore; wer 'riends und ewer h::r-s, (iaining step bI.; step. and thez IF--r't.4e1h(kd n: coin. Leving al. behind a;ain. THE OLD A Story of One of my dezk-nates in the office at the mini.try of war was an ex-non com:ssioncd o.ccr, He'nri Vidal. He had i4st a left arm in the Italia . Can - 1,a:gn, but :ith is re-ning hand he exect'i4tmar els of eali;raph v--down to drawing v i: i ne pen-stroke a bird in the ff6lir,b ol his signatt:e. A good Ie Iow, Vida'; the type of the npright o. soldie', barly 40, with a s:r1fiiing of gray in his b'oude im periali-e h:d Leea in the Zonaves. We all ealled bin Fee Vidal, more respe'ffllV than 1,ann lar.y, for we all kne- his 'iono- and ei-io iou. He lived in a cheap little lodgi:ig at Greuel:e, wbe-e - on the money of his cross, his reusi6n and his s:dary--he mnagd to :n- port his wilowed sis:er aud her th:e2 chi:d:en. As at.that ti:ie L too, was liviag in the sonthern sub:i-) of Pa is, I oftea walke:*ome vi::h 'ere I i-Jal, and I usedto i ake him tell o f eis ca paigns as we pass:d nar th,e miLta,r scho-', weeliig at every s;!ep it was at the el.se of the epi:-e-the sl:ensnid uni foruis of the I perial Guard, gre -ii chasseurs, w;te lai-ers and the dark and wagalIcet at: tillery omce: s,b'ac and gold, a costume worth while get ting kiEed in. As we wvaIl;eJ nlong the hileous Boulevard de Grinelee -stoppe.: srd denly before a military cid-clothes shop-th ere a e mn.tny like i: in that quiarter --a dirty, sinister den. showi:1g in its window .rusted pistols, bowls full of buttons and tarnished epanlets; in front were hug, ami Eordid rags, a few o d oJicers' u,ifonns,rainrotte and sunburne; wvith the slope-in at the waist andl t-e padded shouilde.s they had an-alimst- hnm=z.. Vidfaf,"seizing T ar.m with his right hand and turning his gaze on me. raised his stum:p to poiij out one of the niforms, an A;ric;I oficar's tunic, with the kilted skirt and the thre gold braids- making a figure eight on the sleeve. "Look!" he said; "that's the ui form 'of my old corps, a captain's tunic." Drawing nearer, he made ont the number engra-ed on the buticus and w ent on with e*:thusiasm: "3Iy regimient! The first Zonaves"' E-uddenly his hand shooi:, his fas.e darkened; dr-opping his eyes, he mnur murs ed, in a hr:ror-;t:ricke~n voite: " What if it wer:e L'is!" Then brnspzely tur ning the coat ab)out he showed me in the middle of the back a little round Lie, bordered by a black iim-i>lool, of course-it made one shadder. likme the sighf'of a wound. "Aiasty sh e ar,' I said to Pere Vidl, hohad droppedt the garmdn and was h:stening away. An:d fore seeing a tale, I added to spur himn on: ''It's not usually 1. the back that bul lets strike c-aptai - of th'e Zouave:-." He appa:enit!y id not hear me: he mumbled to uiiseli: ".w e:ull it get there? Ii~s a lo-"' wuy fromn the battleield of Melegnan-o to the Boule yard of Grene!!e1 0ii, yes I know the carrion cro-vs t.vat follow the army;~ the stripprers of te dea Bulit u'hy just tgere, t wo steps from? the iliitary school where the other fellow's regi ment is oned?. He must ha;-e passed; U s mn,ut have recognize l it. What a gL "See here. I'ee Vidia','~ sail I, vio !ently interested, "stop your mutter ing, atnd tell me what the riddled tunic recalls to you." He looked at me timidly, almost sus piciously. Suddezly, wi:h a gr-eat ef fort, he~ began: "Well, then, bere goes for the story; I can trust yon; you will te!l me frank ly, on your honor, if you think my conduct ,excusab.le. Where shall I 6egin? Ah, 1 can't give you the other ana's surname, for he is s-till living, but I will' call him by the namne he went undi- in the regiment-Dry-Jean --and he deserved it, with his 12 drinks at.the stroke of noon. "He was ser-geant in the Fourth of* the Second, my regiment, a good fighter, buzt fond of quarr-el and drink -all the, bad habits of the African soldier; brave as a bayonet, with cold, steel-blue eyes and a rough red beard. on his tanned cheeks. When I en tered the regiment Dry-Jean had just re-enlisted. He drew his pay and went on a three days' spree. He and two companions of the same kidney rolled through the low quarters of Al giers in a cab, flying a tri-color bear ing the wor-ds, "It won't last forever" It did wind up with a knock-down fight. Dry-Jean got a cut on the head from a tring:o that nearly fin ished him, a fortnight in the guard room and the loss of his stripes--the seco-:d tiu:e he had lost them. "Of well-to-do parents and with some education, he wonld have risen to be an otleer long before if it had not been for his conduct. Eighteen months la'er he got his stripes back again, thar.ks to the indulgence of the old African 'dptain who had seen him under fuce lz Habylie. Hereupon our old captain i promoted ch,ief of bat CAN NOMAD. EvPr striving to utstr?p Those that jlacr r t Sp:irning love and apu?nen. *' Till the last ansatisti-: Her tolay--tomorro' where ! "iom*e" a holliow, empty name; Happinass to give i-- trade yor a little pelf or fame. Still the lazy cattle graze Out upon the Slopi-:: hill, Ard the Snokt :: etr,-in:g 'u. From 'he ed rejd eui:ney still; B-ill the ru.ty crea When they '-sin:. apart the ates, and a little vaa:ut 104 For the rest!ess toiler wairs. -Cleveiaud L'eader. UNIFORM. .he Zouaves. talion, and t1ey send as out a captain of . a Corcican Iamed Gentili, just out of scho-], a coh. ambitious,clever fellow, very exacting,ard on his men, it iug you eight days for a speck of rust on your gun or a bution off your g:ters; 1o:-cover, never haviag se-ved i Al e i:, not tolerating fantasia or the slightest want of disciplir:e. The two took a hat.ed to each other from the first; result, the guardroom for Dry-Jean after every drinking bout. When the captain, a little feilow'. as stitf as a bristle, with the mustaches of an angry cat, fung his punishment at Dry-Jean's head, adding curtly, 'I know you, my mmn, and I'll bring you to order!' Dry-Jeau a::swered never a word and waled away quietly to do pack-drilh But all the same the capmtain :niht have come off his high h:, a!a bit had he seen the rage that red-lened the sergeaat'3 face as soon as he turned his head and the hatred that fa; ed through his terrible blue eves. "Hereupon the emperor declares wxar againt the Austrians, and we are shipped off to Italy. But let me come at once to the day befo:e the battle of Ieiegnano, where I left my arm, you know. Our batta ion was ca!ped in a little village, a-d be.ore breaking thbe rauks the captain had made us a specea-rightly enough-to remind us thpt% we were iu a Irientdly country and that the slightest injury dcae to the izhabi-ants would be punished in an exemrplary way. During the speech Dry-Jean - a little shaky on his Pins that mcrning, and for the best of rea sz::s shrugged his shoulders slightly. Luckily the captain didn't see it." gged in a brawl with some peasants and was being prevented from molest in; a young girl when Captain Gen tili airived. With one look--the lit t\e Co.si.an[ aa paralyzing way--he cowed the terrified se:geant; then he said to himn: " 'Dogs like you deserve to have hCir br.:ins blown out; as soon as I can see the colonel you lose your tripes again, this time for goo-. Th;er"'s to be fighting tomorrow; try to get killed.' "At dawn the cannonade awoke us. Th:e olumn formed, :and Dry-.ea-I never had his blue eves glittered more ominousy-pJlaced himiself beside me. 'he battalion moved forward: we were to dislodge the white conis', who with their cannon. occarica :.elegaanio. Forward, march! At the second kilo meter the Au::trians' grape shot cut :.2wn 15 of our company's men. Then our o:licers, waitn for the order to ebarge, made us lie down in the grain ed,sharp-shoot er wise; they remained sta iding naturally,; and our captain was't the le st straight of the lot. Kieling in the rye, we kept os firing at te battery, which lay within range. Sddenly' som:e one jogged~ my elbow. I ture and saw D:y-.Jean, who was looin~ at mte, the corner of his lips aised lee. ingly, liftiig his gun. " to you see the captain?' he said, noding in that direction. "'ies, what of it.?' said I, glancing at the oiicer, 20) paces oili " 'H1e was foolish to speak to me as he did.' "NOth a swift, precise gesture he souldeed his arm and fired. I saw the cap.tain -his body bent b,ackward, his head thrown up his hands beating! the air for an instaat - drop his sword and fall heavily on his back. "'Murdlerer!' I cried, seizing the segeants arm. Buat he struck me with the iutt of his rifie, roliing .e over and ey:claiming: "'Foo!' nrove that I did it!' "I rose in a rage, just as all the shar-shooters ro.so likewise. Our coonel, bareheaded, on his smoking horse, poin ted his sabre at the Austrian battery and shouted: "'Forward, Zonaves! Out with your bayonets!' "Could I do otherwise than charge with the others? What a famous charge it was, too! Have you ever seen a high sea dash on a rock? Each cmpany rushed up like a breaker on a reef. Thrice the battery was cov ered with blue coats and red trousers, and thrice we saw the earthwork re appear with its cannon jaws, im passable. "But our company, the Fourth, was to snatch the prize. In 20 leaps I reached the redoubt; helping myself with my ritle-butt I crossed the talus. I had only time to see a blonde mus tache, a blue cap and a carbin3 barrel almost touching me. Then I thought my arm flew off. I dropped my gun, fell dizzily on my side Dear a gun-car riage wheel and lost consciousness. "When I opened my eyes nothing was to be heard but distant masketry. The Zouaves, forming a disordered half-circle, were shouting 'Vive l'Em ereur!' and brandishing their rifles. "An old general followed by his stafI galloped up. Hie pulled up his horse, 'waved his gilded helm'et gayly and cried. 'Bravo, Zonaves .ou are the first so-diers in the w..!' "I fcund myself sitting near the wheel, supporting my poor broken paw, when suddenly I remembered Dry-Jean's awful crime. At that very instant he stepped out of the ranks toward the general. He had lost his fez, and from a big gash in his close shav_,n head ran a trickle of blood. Leati:g on his gun with one hand, with the other he held out an Austrian flag, tattered and dved red-a flag he had iaken. The general gazed at him admiriugly. "1_ey there, Bricourt!' turni:,g to one of his st:ff; 4ook at that, if you please. What mei!' "Wnereupon Dry-Jean spoke up: 'Quite so, my general. But you know-the First Zonares-there are only enough left for once more!' " '1 would like to hug you for that!W cried the general; 'you'll get the cross, you know,' and still repeating, 'what en!' he said to his aid-de-camp sone thing I didn't understand-I'm no scholur, you know. But I remember it perfectly: 'Worthy of Plutarch,wasn't ir, Fricourt?' "At that very moment the pain was too auch for me, and I fainted. You know the rest. I've often told you how they sawed off my arm and how I 1ragzed along in delirium for two months in the hospital. In my sleep less hours I used to ask myself if it as my duty to accuse Dry-Jean pub licly. But conld I prove it? And then I said, 'He's a scoundrel, but be's brave; he killed Captain Gentili, bat he took a flag from the enemy.' Finally,in my convalescence,I learned bhat as a reward lor his courage Dry ean had stepped up into the Zouaves f the Guard andhad been decorated. Ah! at first it gave me a disgust at my >wn crss which the colonel had inned on me in the hospital. Yet Drv-Iean deserved his, too; only his Legion of Honor ought to have served is the bull's-eve for the squad detailed .o put him ont of existeece. "It's all far away now. I never mv him again; he remained in the service, and I became a good civiiian. But just now. when I saw that ini .orm with its bullet-hole-God knows how it got there-hanging a stone's hrow from the barracks where the :aurclerer is, it seemed to me that the man:ain, the crime still unpunished, was clamoring for justice." I did my utmost to quiet Pere Vidal, assuring him he had acted for the best. Five days later,on reaching 1he office, Vidal handing me a pap-.er olded at a certaiu paragraph, mur red gravely: "What. did I tell Vou?" I read: lay afternoon, on thiZou's-ard de Gr. 2eile. a certain Jean Mallet. knLown as Dry Tean, sergeant in the Zouaves of the Impe -ial Guard. who with two cnmpauions had oen dr-raing freelv. was svize' with delir am treMens while lookin: at some old uni 'orns hanging ia a second-band shop. H 1r his 1ayoaet aad dashed down i e ,trmet to the terror of all passers-by. T e .1oe privates with hia had th3 utmost d.n utv!m secriu;t the madma!. WhO Shouted ,e-reksy: 'I am rot a murd-rer: I to, I Austrian Ifa at Melegnauc" it seems hat tho laer statAment is true. Male: was decorated for this feat; his addiction to irink has alone prevented him from risin: in the ranks. Mallet was condncted to the mlitarv h:ospital of Gros-Caillon.whence he wii soon be transferred to Charen:;on, for it s doubtful if he can recover his reason." As I returned the paper to Vida], he coked at me mneaningly and con -uded: "Captain Gentili was a Corsican ue has avenged hins alf!"-Translated o~ the Argonaut Irom the French of Fran cois Coppee.. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Of the houses in Paris, France, here ar still 30.00~0 (with 200,000 in. abitants) that use well water. Under H{e,ry ' an act of Parlia met ordiered all the geese in .Eng laud o be counted, and the sheriffs'of the counties were re-luired to furnish six ar owv feathers from each goose. A large tomi-cat for thirteen yea:s made voyages on a mail stea:ne be tween Sydney and San Fraucisco .The Rimal died, and was buried sea, having almost complcted 1,00,000 mies of travel.I There are some curioisersti tions concerning waves. Arab sailors !eiieve that the hid )sens od the coast of Abyssinia are enchanted, and whenever they find themselves among them they recite verses which they suppose have a tendency to sub due them. The oldest inhabited house in Eng land stands close to the IRiver Ver, and about 250 yards from St. Alban's ab be. It was built in the time oi' hing Offa of :Mercia about the year 795, and is thus over 1100 years c-:. It is of ociagonrJ shape, the apper portion being of oak. and the lo er has walls of great thickness. During the last dece excavations in Egypt have added to the treasures of ancient Greek l:tereture buried in the sand for two thousand years manuscripts of works by Aristotle, Herondas, Bakchylides, Menander, besides the Ninus romance, Gre afell's eroti fragment, ar.d the hymns to Ap-. T, with music. Ch ildren or Taxes. If you live in Madagascar you must have ~children, or else pay a tax to the authorities. This is the latest decree issued by the government of Madagas car. For some time the population of that island has been decreasing. The government authorities sat in council a short time ago and decided upon a tax to be levied, upon every man who, at the age of twenty-five, is unmarried,- and upon every. married man who, (d that age, has no children. The tax is 8.75 a year. Every girl must payg tax of $1.80 a year as long as she remains single after she passes her twenty-fourth year, - and every married ,Annan doe: the/'same until she has likren as~ the Jesult of her jF 0ARR"AE GAPDEH, T'Varmth in the Ienbour.e. A small, cool stoole set on the earth en or cement floor!of a henhouse will do much to keep ug the warmth that is quite as necessar-1 as feed in pro 1ncing a large nuioer of eggs. Even if ithe tloor bo of wd there is little danger that the b' flfin, will burn. The amount of c6a ed will be much more than repaid the eggs produced at the time of --ar when fresh eg;s always sall high -t. When the wfeather is fine the heni should be left to run out of doors in! the day tiae. Bat 'cooping them: up with enough fire to kep frost out of the roomis always advisable at night. This precaution is especiakly needed for the breets wih large combs,which are sure to be frost bitten when freez ing weather comes. A hen with a sore head from fi os' bitten comb has enough to do to repair damages to it self without tryiig to lay eggs. Sowing Clover in the Itun. Farmers who grow clover seed only for their own use often thresh it out by hand, and sow the seed, chaff and al!. It is rather unsafe to do this, as it is dificult to tell while throwing out the chaff how much clorer seed is go. ing with it. The better way is to clean up the seed carefally, sow that with a good broadcast seeder, which will distribute it much more evenly than can be dong.y4-nd, and then sow the clover chaff afterwards with what seed may be in t, and make that cover the whole -surf.ce if possible, though as this has :o be done by hand, the hand sowiiX cannot probably be niada to cover.haf the piece. But there is generally nre or less clover seed lying in the scI on land that has once grown clover ted, and this may insure a fair catch ven if no clover seed is sown. It isach land of which farmers say, "It isaatural to clover." It is always good lad, but the clover does not grow-S;4vit spoutaneously; :)n the contrary, eery clever plant comes from a clol seed left some time in the soil, pssibly many years ago. The Prctnble Dairy. To get profit fAm the dairy in com petition with zhproduct of the cream ery it is necessty that the work be done on the in.sive plan. That is a thorough kn,edge of what each cow is doi4 food is given to a oua , wh ' costing, what it herd shoul# t up by stock raised on the farm e cows with the best record, g a thoroughbred sire. Do not :eed indiscriminately from the cowso the herd and add the progeny to thelairy herd. Profit in thelairy can only be made when butter istt the highest price, and to obtain i;tter at the minim-umr of cost the coemust be handled so that their st.udings and feed are as nearf5s posible as they would be in ;Jun. The ise of ensilage will do much in this ditbctiou providing the! green sucelent bod contains the quan tity cd water neided. The dairy cow ye r, varying tli amount accorating to eson and thf stage of lactation. en in summel with an abundant sture grain slbuld be fed, although the pasture isashort the supplemen r.v food, besidis grain, should be dLeiy of soiling crops. In feeding ora stalks the intion should be bai aned by also fading oats. pes bran and cottonseed nieal. On this plan or any similar one a dairy herd may be built up that wilpay a profit even in the face of the really excellent product of the creamieryat a low pries. Warrn Food for Swine An object lessen in the value of warm Ifood, warm quarters and good care for hogs during the winter was re eenly seen on a small farm where but two pigs were kept. These animals were late spring born and were beingI raied for breeders. The owner, a widow, made it a daily practice in cold weather to mnir vegetable parings. chopped roots, scraps from~ the table and bran in skim milk and cook the mixtre, feeding it to the hogs warm. The pens were dry, warm and clean, with an abundance of clean bedding. Once or twice a week the owner,armned with a stiff horse brush, gave the pigs a thorough brushing. The animals were delightedi and came readily to call as soon as the brush api eared, the work being easily done from the outside of the pen. A small yard, in sod, was provided on the sunny side of the barn in which the pigs were allowed to run on bright days, being ket busy with a fewv roots or ears of corn. The~ result was a pair of pigs that. would delight the eye of a breeder of fancy stock. Their skin was soft ad clean and the animals strong and pump, ready, when bred, to raise a faily of youngsters which would be worth money. Aside from the clean ing, possibly, the same practice could be followed out on a larger scale with precisely as good results. Warm food in winter has come to be recognized as an impnortant element in profitable tok rearing. To Get tho 3Tost Out of Sheep. Jst at present breeding for mutt-on ays better than breeding for wool, t as there is always the possibility of the price of wool soaring up to higher figures, it is necessary to keep this product of the sheep well in sight. It was not many years ago that wool was the first consideration and mutton only a side issue. Naturally with this chage, the character of the breed of Isheep has also ch'anged. The iarge breds, take the countr'yright through; are not as much in general favor as ne medium si7.8. and this is due to the fac' that the:* give the most a I tarn for a cer.tain amount of food They have less fat than the large bre-ds. and thei- meat is better mar bled. In selling sheep for mutton the fat, rarely brings the farmer in much return. The butcher knows that con sumers want good lean meat only moderately mixed up with layers of fat. and when he sees an excessively fat sheep he is apt to discount the mutton. The medium-size breed- will. as a rule, grow as fast as any breed on a system of food, and along with their tendency to make good, marbled mut ton they are apt to produce a better grade of wool. This wool is also found on their bodies in a very compact form, which in the end gives to the medium sheep as large a crop as that obtained from the heavier and overgrown breeds. A medium-size breed that is both a fair wool produced and a good maker of fie mutton -s always a good invest ment. There may be seazons when they will not add a very large profit to the farmer's work, but in the ag greg,ate they will yield satisfactory re sulis. Pound for pound, the best breeds of sheep will make more money; than pigs, although the swine hare, always been considered tl best in vestment of all farram animals for thf poor man. A good bleed of shec4 will make a pound of mutton at less. cost for food than the best breed of pigs. It will take the sheep a longe time to do this, but in the end, tho cost will be im favor of the sheep. Ot the whole, mutton brings as much pen pound in most markets as pork. the price and cost of raising the me of two animals were evenly balanced. the favor would still be for the sheep The wool is an item that would ur balance the scales. and tip them d - cidedly in favor of the sheep. Finall, the sheep of fine breeds are alwa a prolifi, and never fail to raise a cro > of good, salable lambs if proper y treated. To get the most out of the we must consider the mutton, wo and lamb items, all three of which ar very profitable and impotat.-E. P Smiih in American Oultivator. Pruning Apph- Trees. The best apples are grown on tree well cultivated, well sprayed an epecially well pruned. If the tree i. a tangle of branches and a mat o leaves, the spray will reach only small part of the frnit, and where th spray cannot be sent but few direc' rays of sunlight will enter, and bad. olored and poorly flavored frnit wi I be found. A grar number of trees bear onl maa' l gh. hola-. J pruned the winter-or sprmg precedin . the bearing season. Pruning will then be eauivalent to a partial thiuni41 of the fruit. Other trees should bc. pruned annually. Onuly a few branches should be re moved at each pruning. Branches crossing each other require attention, as they injure each other, and (luring a high wind brush the apples ojf each other. Many trees are ruined by cut ting away too much wood at one prun in. The bala nce necessary to healthy root action and streng leaf develop ment will he destroyed, and sickly' vellow leaves and a small growth of new wood will freqnutly be the re sult. Sometimes4 very severely pruned trees blight, and in a few years die. It requires more judgment to pirop erly prune apple trees than some men who handle a saw possess. Apple trees should be pruned every year or, every alternate year, with a sharp, wide-set saw. Young trees can be vruned with a knife. The branches should be severed close to the triink or large branches. Never allow one, two, or, as it sometimes happens, six or more inches of a stump to reman. Such trimming is unsightly, and the wounds, if large, never heal and are a constant sour'ce of diseasc and de ca. If even small branches are cut, leaving long stubs, they will be the starting-poinlt for suckers or "water snrouts." If a man does not cut close have him go over his work or have him quit. A man on the ground can better flatien which branches should be re moved Than when he is n the treeI .ith the saw. A good plan.therefore, is to take a bucket of whitewvash. a brsh and a pole of suffcient length, and pass from tree to tree. and mark a I the branches to be removed. This can be done on fine days. Any care ful man can follow with a saw and re move the marked branches. The pruning should be finished before the bark slips in the spring, or unsightly injuries to the trees may follow even at the bands of the most careful work maae. The sprouts remaining in win ter or early spring must be removed close with the saw, but there should not be any there for the saw. An active, barefooted boy, at five cents an hour. will remove more sprouts in August, simply with his hands, th.in three men with saws will remove in an hour in the sprinxg, and do better' work. A quick, downward pull will remove the sprout. and with it the ad ventitionls buds at its base, ready to prodce a crop of sprouts the next seasonl. The injuries, though some times large, will nearly all be healed before winter. -New York Tribune, Helping the Doctor. In these energetic go-ahead days, we are continually hearing of some new and curious way of making money, but the following method is perhaps as ingenious as any previously devised: A little boy entered a suir gry the other day when the village doctor was in attendance, and, march ing up to him whispered, cbationsly:, "Please, sir, mother sent me to say as how Lizzie's got scarlatina awful bad; and, please mother wants tce know how much you'll give her to spread it all over the village!"-Thii ABYSSINJAN JUSTICE A QUEER MURDER TRIAL IN KING MENELEK'S COURT. This Buler. Who Clains Desepnt rron Solonot and the Queen of Sheba. Zia% an Odd Systemn of Jurlsprrdence-Ex traordinary Detective Methods in Vogne According to the legends the Queen of Sheba was the first sover eiga of Ethiopia. When she came back from Jerusalem, after making the acquaintance of Solomon, she not only brought back him who was Men elek I, but also several books of magic. Today we still find traces of these royal present,, in Abyssinia. We ;ave Menelek IL the descendant of this Solomonian dynasty, and also some ancient Hebrew cere monies and practices in -oreary which have found their way into Ethiopian jurisdiction. In order to get cites in cliffieult esses ihe Ahvssin;ans resort to eitraordinary methods. In detect ing criminal:i they employ a young boy whom they put into a certain cou dition of sownmbulism. They call him the liebacba. The liebacha is madic to sleep at the scene of the crime. Early iu the morning the seance begins. Daring the night he is .supposed to have be come thoroughly impregnated with the fluids which the criminal left in the astral atmosphere; consermuently, he has a clue which he 'ollows as one might follow fo:tsteps upon the sand. But before he starts out he must drink fasting the "magie draught" This beverage, like those employed by the sorcerers of the middle ages, is com posed of vegetable and animal ingredi ents. It-is said that at daybreak they add three drops of the blood of a male child. When the liebacha has taken this strauge mioraing cock tail he becomes extra hicid. He sets out on his jour ney, followed by an anxious crowd watching all his movements. Some time ago the correspondent of the Paris Figaro had the privilege of see ing a liebacha started on the scent of an assassin who bad murdered the Abyssinian carrier -of the French mails. The vouu somnambulist at first ran to the camp of the merchants. There he entered a hut and rested. The crowd understood that the criminal had stopped there, and, as a matter of fact, the woman of the house, on being interrogated, replied that a man the day before took shelter there, but left at sunrise, forgetting his gun. The gun wa% examined and recognized s the onc that belonged Ato the car rier. Evidently the scent was good. raiabacha rose, ran along rapidly they fouDd that t eeassass riec for a drink and had just left. The iebacha set out in pursuit, but the horsemen, anxious to seize the assas sin and get the prize ofered by Mene lek, dashed at a gallop along the road Ad soon broulght back the fugitive. Doubtless they knew where to find bim without the aid of the liebacha. 1is real function is to intimidate the evil-minded. .A few days afterw~aid the umembiers :,t the French co!ouy of Addis-.Abeba were invited by M.enueiek to be present at the trial. It was a spectacle nxever to be forgotten. U. is in the open air that Menelek holds his criminal court, under the perpetually blue sky of Abyssiniam. On the steps of au immense bauquet hali the emperor was squnatted Oriental fashion. At his left was the French colony; at.his ight, seated on steps covered with :-arpets, w~as the Affa-Negus. or "M~outh of' the King," as he is called, die chief justice of the empire. Be low him were the judges with their white turbans, and all around, form - ing a semicircle on each side of the ribunal, were the spectators. With their white togas bordered with red they lookedl like ancient Roman sens tors: anid if it hadn't been for the olor of their faces one might imagine that the scene was presented on the b:nks of the Tiber. There was the same splen.lid sky and the dinians ills made the illusion almost com lete. The criminal was brought for ara. According to the Abyssinian ustom lie was chained to two freemen. This is a precaution against any chance f escape or suicide. It is also hoped that his two guards by chatting with im may induce him to confess his cmme. The prisoner was a little,. lame man. He advanced into the vacant spot in front of the Negas. He kuew the fate that awaited his:, but lie ap peared to bo perfectly calrm and looked placidly into the face of him who was about to judge him. "Heaven save you!" cried an Abys sin ian. "Keep your prayer for yourself." replied the prisoner, "I don't want it." "You have committed mnurder," said the emperor. "Why did you do it?" "To rob," was the reply. "Did your crime have 'any other motive in view?" "No. I am a beggar. The courier had thalers and I wanted them." "Well, you shall be punished," said the emperor. "Have you any thing to ask?" "Your clemency would give you immortal renown," pleaded the mur :erer. "If you pardon me you will be like the good God." Then the emp~eror turned toward the crowd and consulted the notabili ties. An old man advanced and de lared that during his long life 'he never heard of such a dreadful crime and that the criminal deserved to be hanged. Another said that he should he burned. A third spoke loud and for a long time, mnaking furious gesticula tons, and concluding tha~t if the as sasin had ten lives he should be exe cuted ten times. All were unanimous . 1 in rolouneing the crime abomina ble. Each one endeavored to 'be as eloquent ns possible, so as to attract the attention of the Negns. They were sat lawyers, and, by the way, it is no* safe lo c*Il a man a lawyer in Abyssinia. because lawyer means "vender of words." They were ordinary sub iets wo had come to the trial, the jnry i all its purity. They were grace ful in tie wi ovem;eutsof sinceritv and iudigeatLon. but,like all Orientals,they were too emphatic and extravagant. The Affa-Negns came down from the steps, and, turning t ward the empe ror. delivered his address in a "loud voice. "One might go," said he, "to Djibo::ti, to Massaoua, and even to the Whit e N ile. without encountering any trob;le. Even a woman can travel fronm the land of the Kaffa to Gondar wit hoti being molested, and yet this little, hic!kly and lame man (at these w . ' he assassin rose up and looked t h Iedge with an air of defiance) killeri this courier while he was calmly sleepng. The crime was great; the p.1uishment must be terrible. Let it be applied. oher:" judge brought the book of the law, the "Fetha-Negest," from wbil h read as follows: "He who commits a murder and wbo by his crime brings scandal upon the city shall be burned alive." But the king of kings of Ethiopa - whc!r Christian generosity has qo frequently attracted the attention of Enrcre,would notpermit the sentence to be (arried ont according to the an cient laa. "Let him be hanged!" said he. They took away the prisoner, and in a corner they removed his chains. Then he was pinioned. The execa tioner, a big fellow with a brutal face, was fully a head taller than the pris oter. 'the crowA followed fiim. On the way the women came out of their little huis and uttered lugabrious cries. The prisoner chatted with his guards all the way to the marketplace, where he was hanged. At twenty. minntes to 10 o'clock in the morning the seutence was pronounced, and at five minutes past 10 the law was Tin dicated. POSSIBILITIES OF HAWAIL E x-Y'r.1dent Dole Writeg Abot the Is' dustrial OpenIigs. Upon the consummation of annexa tion the cultivation of sugar under the conditions of rainfall and irriga tion by gravitation had materially reached its limit. Stability, as a fea %ure both of the government and of , the magar market, caused by a measure has greatly promoted e p. ise in the direction by means o water artificially raised. - -This casts a considerable addition to the rliable. For a generation or more wild cof fee trees have furnished the local sun py. Within seven or eight years the -ultivation of this crop has been taken t. and carried on with much energy. As three or four years from the nursery are required for the trees to reach full >earingit is as yet early to speakwith certainty iA regard to the prospects ';r snecess. There is no doubt, how ver, that in suitable localities it 'will he a reliable and profitable crop. Far- - -be-- data are required as to soils, + eather, elevation, and other mattera 2f environment in relation to its sue -e4nl cultivation. This product is wto materially affected by annexation, i?:cept as that event raises land values and promotes the immigration of per ons who want to plant coffee, thus - -asi ing both favorable and unfavorable. nfuences over the prospects of this udnustry. Toba.cco has long been raised by hef natives in small quantities for heir own use. Both soil and climate favo;' its growth in sheltered and ele- 2 rated localities in many parts of the rong. It freely grows wild in sueh paces. Plants from foreign seed to;rish. What place Hawaiiantobac :o is entitled to in the markets of the o-ld is as yet unknown, as it has :ever yet been properly cured. We tnry expeet that tobacco will be pro iured in Hawaii of good, if not first- - :ias's quality, and that the extension. & the American tariff to these islands will be the signal for exhaustive ex' periments in its culture and prepara- - tioni. A considerable part. of the grazing :iea of the islands is fair arable land :td under annexation will be in die raud for the cultivation of some crop "n other. This will reduce the extent of gazing lands and will dinmish stock- t rd;ing in the old Hawaiian way,which will be a direct benefit, ats it will tend to promote a more intelligent and sci- '. etific system of stock-farming than as been the case heretofore. Quality ill fake the place of quantity as the paranmount object, becaue . it will pay4 etter with the diminished pastures ;nd the necessity of relying to a large etent on forage crops. -Ex-President ~aford B. Dole, in Harper's Weekly. Coat U'n.d by the Rlomans. It is believed by some historians hat coal was used by the Roman.s on te continent and by the Britons on the - sland before the arrival of Caesar. s early as 12.34 Henry III grinted a icense to dig coal near Newcastle,but few years later the use of coal was forbidden in London,the smoke being eemed prejudicial to the publie health. - .in 1306 the. Loudon gentry peti tioned the king against its use, de :aring that, in spite of his royal-or er, certain malicions persons .pera ssed in burning it. Coals began to be brought from Newcastle. to London in 1383. during the reign of Bieharut I. Anthracite coal, which, excp~ the diamiond, is the purest form of ' cabon known, was first used' by a Connecticut blaeksmith named Gara in 1 76, and as a domestic fuel b6y Judge Jesse ' Feli - o Wilksflarre penn., in 1808.t