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*, ''---:':STABI___SH TRI- WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO, S.C., JUNE 6, 1899. THE NANIUC True Story of the Infamous Has Terroriz THE RITUAL CARI Considerablemeation has been made of the circImstance that all the nani gos, the notorious criminal class of Cuba, were members of certain secret societies, about whose character and aims little is known here, and not a great deal more in the island in which they flourish. For many years it was believed there that the nanigos were a kind of Ku Klux Society, whose members were banded together for the purpose of in juring-their white neighbors. What gave rise to this belief, arsd for a long time supporLed it. was the circum stance that all the nanigos were col ored men, but for more than thirty years past white men have been asso ciated with them. From documents discovered by the police, and seen by the writer'of this article, it appears that in 185, when|General Dulce gov erned the island, White Lodge (yuego de Blancos) number two was founded. Whence it is deducted that lodge num ber one was already in existence. Nor are these societies political as sociations devoted to a common end. In the separatist conspiracies the nani gos took no part as a body. There were separatist nanigos, as there were nanigos who were loyal to Spain, and there are nanigos of Spanish birth. That the nanigos have pursued no common oolitical or religious aim there is incontestable proof, which is that each lodge is absolutely separate from and independent of every other. There is no hierarchy, no.species of grand lodge or centre of action and govern ment. Not only are the lodges not friendly, but they are frequently hos tile to one another. In Havana, when it is known that there has been a mid night brawl -in some out-of-the-way quarter, some one will be sure to say, "that is because the Ecori Opo Lodge has declared war upon the Evion Lodge." Nor is it even certain that these so cieties are recruited exclusively from the criminal classes. The nanigos are not, indeed, models of propriety; but not all,or even the greater number, are orofessional thieves, or gamblers, or assassins, or men without settled oceupation. Theie are nanigos who follow a trade, and many of -them are cooks, barbers, bag-makers and Butchers. There have also been in stances of young men of the upper ra eeist or a a irit tendency which leads certain men culture to seek associates among the soum. of society, have joined the lodges of the nanigos. There is one trait common to all the nanigos-they are ostentatiously courageous. To be a member of the sodiety 'is to be accredited a brave man. The reputation, deserved or not, of courage, gives prestige among the women of the lowest class, and credit among the men of the populace. Where no one is anyone, to come to be a nanigo is to be someone. But what was the origin of this in stitution? Were its founders the guapos--that is, the men oi strength and brutality, in the lower classes or the 'eriminals? Neither the one nor the other, for it is thought that the firstinanigos were Africans; slaves some, others free, who banded togeth er to practice the idolatrous rites they had brought from Africa. What tends in some degree to strengthen this opinion is the African charaeter of some of the ceremonies and of the vocabulary in use among the nanigos. It is said that they sac rifice blach hens, stripped of their feathers, and that in the places where they hold their meetings there is a log called the Palos Mecongo, which is for them what the altar is for others. This is what is said, but no -one who is not a nanigo can declare -positively that he has seen all this, or that -he has any certain knowledge of their ceremonies. The nanigos have never been brought to public trial in Cuba, nor has this curious in stitution ever been thoroughly stud ied. Nanigos have been tried by the summary methods of the police courts, but the declarations drawn from them by torture or threats have thrown but little light upon them. Not even the origin of the word nanigo is known. Some hold it to be purely African, others Cuban; others say that it is African-Portuguese. ;; The nanigos have not a complete veabulary of slang, like the argot of the French, or the calo of the Spanish criminal classes. They use, it may be, a limited number of words having a double meaning, but still Spanish words. . Their vocabularyis restricted, andgAlso is composed of strange, bar barcris words that have no connection with tie Spanish language, and that have, in all probability, come from the Conga or from Guinea; such as, en cocoro, ataquenanoue, manfuanfua. -Some os their songs are no less AE Necan in character; and there are -among them airs so original, of such wild force or sach'plaintive sweetness, th'at they would make the reputation of a composer of foreign melodies. What takes place at their cere monies, what prayers they offer up' before the Palo Mecongo, whether this is for them the image of God, or of one of their heroes, or whether it is a mere fetish, are questions which cannot be answered any more than one can explain the fact that many nanigos profess religion, or the spe cies of mental halucination which leads Europeans and descendants of Eu 3peans, brought up in the faith, to take up Africau idolatry. Re garding these point nothing positive rs known in Cuba. IS OF CUBA. Secret Criminal Society That !d the Island. DFULLY GUARDED. In the localities, however, where people of doubtfIl character live those who in Spain are called the chusma-thc residents generally know who are and who are not nanigos, and the police know also, although they have frequently made persons appear as such who were innocent of the charge. According to the police, the ::anigos are known by an indelible biae mark which they tattoo on the backof the hand between the thumb and index-Iinger. and Iie %. ve been periods during which the police have arrested hundreds ofi persons in the streets to examine their banas. If these had a blue nack they were put in prison. Sailors with tattooedmarks have sometimes beeIL victims of this method of pursuing nanigos, although they did not belong to any secret so ciety whatever. The real nanigos have declared that the blue marks proved nothing; that they were not a necessary requisite for membership in societies; and that it would be a mis 'take for the nanigos to mark them selves in a way that would serve to betray them. The police, however, have continued to regard with great suspicion the blue marks, and the plucked hens also. When one of these is seen in the yard of a house it is concluded that a nanigo lodge is celebrating its rites within. Some years ago, a Governor of Havana, General Rodriguez Batista, boasted of having put an end by peaceable means to these secret so. cieties. The heads of the lodges de livered up to him the idols, drums and other paraphernalia of their worship; the press eulogized Senor Rodriguez Batista highly, without taking the trouble to find out what arguments he -might have used to produce such speedy resnIts. Bat within a short time after the Gover nor's departure for Madrid the nanigos were again in the field. Under General Weyler's rule, aided by the circumstance that the existing state of war permitted the condemnation of accused persons without trial, that is, the employment of the authority of the police instead of the action of the courts, measures were taken to clear Havana of nanigos. About a thousand persons were deported to Spain; and, a to the declarations of the police, there remained in the city some 71 ore. - - - Arsons sent to Spain, i -n the greater part be ono association, and there are strong reasons for believing that many mis takes were made. Any one who had talked with the nanigos in the prisons of Havana, in the vessels in which they were transported to Spain, or in the Peninsula, afterwards, will have heard many cf them say: "I was a member; but there are many here who were not members." They also gave the names, the occupation and the age of the victims. The method employed to determine who should be transported could not be more defective than it was. There was no trial, nor anything resembling one. No proofs, no defenc~e, no wit nesses, no publicity. Every Saturday the Chiefs of Police of all the districts met together. Each one presented the list of persons arrested by him as supposed nanigos. If a magistrate was interested in any one arrested by order of another magistrate, he spoke in favor of his protege, who was set at liberty, in Havana it was regarded as certain that the police accepted money from those arrested. It is be yond a doubt that the manner of liv ing of all the police officials--in spectors, wardens, etc., was not in accordance with the modest salaries which they received. The government of Mearia has been blamed without reason for having sent back to Cuba the men~ thus deported as nanigos. Having renounced her authority over the isiand, Spain could not retain in her prisons persons ovc whom she no longer exercisedt any species of jurisdiction, and who, be sides, had not been conidemned by any regular court. The fault was not in sending themi back to Cuba, but in having taken them thence solely on the-warrant of a police that had by no mecaus the repu tion of being over-se-ru pulous. It is probable that under tkie new rule naniguria will disappear, for it is plain that its enviionent, both politi c& and social, has contributed to the preservation of the association. The population of Cuba is composed of three elements-the European, the American, and the African. In the contact of races it is not one race only that is influenced and that undergoes modification. The European, and still more the American, of the voor and ignorant classes in Cuba, has become Afrancanized. He has taken from the African words for his vocabulary and music for his songs. Thme rites of the nanigos show that he has also accepted something of his idolatry. a symptom which tells what would have been the condition of the island if therc had not been a constant and abundantini usion into its population of other blood. Thanks to this infusion, Cuba and Porto Rico arc the only tropical coun tries capable- of an orgauization simi lar to that of the European States. New York Post. From an Obitnary Notice. "He was a manm of great persever ance and enterprise. Nearly three years ago 'he buried his wife, with wom he hmad been united in marriage almocst :ity y-ears. "-New York Comn AN4D ABY (eUR A Hero of the Wudvor Hntei ire. During the terrible :re chde stroyed the Windsor Hotel, in -New York City, on March 17, there were performed a number of heroic deeds a,; splendid as any ever done in war. All these can not even ne mentioned; but what was perhapsthe very bravest deed of all should be recorded. Faward Ford, a fireman of Exten sion "rack No. 20, has the honor of having been the last fireman to leave the hotel, bringing down the last per son rescued alive. The brave man would not talk for publicationhimseli, but a comrade who witnessed the res cue told the story partly as he saw it, and partly in Ford's own words. It appears that Ford was going home ou the elevated railroid, when he saw the smoke of the fire. At the Fiftieth street station, he broke from I the train and rushed to the scene of the conflagration. When he arrived the smoke was pouring out of every win dow, and the building apparentlyabout to fall. "I pushe d my way through the crowd," he said, "and had begun work with the hose company, when some one shouted that there was an old woman in a room on the sixth story on the Fifth avenue side. I could not see any one at the window. I saw one fireman up there, but he was in theroom to the north of where the woman was said to be, and he could not see her, or know that she I was there. I determined to go up my self. There was a scaling ladder from the second floor up to the room where the fireman was, and I took a thirty-five-fcot ladder and pheed it inside the hotel railing, and started In a few minutes he had reached the top, and found a comrade there named Bill Clarke. The room was full of smoke, and the men could hear the fire roaring and crackling outside. Thinking to get into the next room b means of the hall, Ford threw himself against the hall docr and forced it open, but a storm of Zames and smoke busrt into the room, almost suffocating him. He tried to force the door closed again, but the hinges were broken, and it fell outward into the flames. Then he tried the windows. "I stood on the stone lintel of the window below," he said, "and grasped the woodwork with my left hand. Then I reached for the next windo , but it was too far off. I Stood mny on 4W stanig an a aump for the other one. Fortunately I caught the 'I-Il firmly, drew my body up, and looked in. There was a woman on the floor on her knees. As I sprang in she turned and grasped me convulsively. 'Save me, for God's sake!' she cried." The brave fellow took her up and dragged her to the window, calling to Clarke for help. He grasped her fhlmy around the waist and climboed out on to the lintel of the window be low, holding himself close to the build ing. Clarke was already outside of the window, and tried to reach, but the distance was too great. The woman was airaid that she was going to N'_l and kept praying and' shriek ing to be saved, at the same time grasp ing at everything within reach, and greatly hampering the movements of the men. "At last," maic Ford, "I shook her free from her hold on the window-sill. She then became un conscious, and was a dead weight on my arm." All this time the tire was eating on the woodwork of the room toward the window, and the part to which Ford was holdin~g began to scorch. "I shifted my holdi,"he said, "for another on the top of the sill, and bent my head and shoulders be low to get out of the range of the fames, which were already sweeping; out of the window. I called to Clade Ito reach over to me, as I could not olanv more. He leaned as far as he coalil holid on with his left haud, andi reac-hed out with his right. I hlfea the~ woman toward him vwith all the strength I had left, and he sei::Cd hr aroundL the waist. Clarke ss a big, powrful man, and succeeded in gel - ting her to the top of the Ldder." Clarke then took the woman down to the sidewalk and brougift her to a drug store. She wvas found to be Mirs. Chishofl, a gray-haired lady of fifty or sixty years. T his was the last 1:el son takten from the building, and three or four minutes later the walls fell in. Lelpen out by a Jiear. An odd although rather brutal story o a man's adventure with a bear, is tod n the "istory of Williams Cnnitv, Ohio." John Gillet had made up i smind, from various signs, that thee owas a nest of bear cuba some wer-e in his neighborhood. One day, wen he was out hunting for them. he grew tired, and as his good luck had it, ear down to rest beside the very st ' n which the nest was hidden. Heaigthe cubs seratching inside, he leanitt bas oa a tree against th stmp whc' a very tail one, cimbecd nr. lo.sked down into the holo. Saaw two cubs about the si- 'li-grown rat dogs." With c tig to think, he jumped into the hole, caught the cubs, tied their mouths so that they could not squeal, and fastened their feet so that they could not seratch; but, then, Gillet used to say, in telling the story: I"I knew the old bear would be along pretty soon and make it hot for me if she found me in the nest; so I swung the youngsters into my Icuck skin belt, preparatory to getting out. "Get out? Did I get out? Land~ of love! It makes me shiver to think o it yet. I could no more get out of that stump than I could fly. The hanIma be-a4a larger at. the bottom than at the top--so large, il fa t, that I could not put my back against one side and my feet and hands against the other and crawl up, as rabbits and other animals climb up inside of hollow trees. In no way could I get up a foot. "There were no sticks inside to help me up, and I made up my mind I bad to dic, certain. About the time I came to this conclusion I heard the old bear climbing up the outside of the stump. With only my hunting 1aito as a means of defence, and in such close quarters, you may possibly ingine my feelings. "TChe old bear was not more than half a minute clitbing up the stump, but it seemed like a month, at least. I thought of all my sins a dozen times over. At last she reached the top, but she did not seem to suspect'my preseno at all, as she turned round' and began slowly descending, ail foremost. I felt as though my last hour had come, and I began to think seriously of lying down and letting the bear kill me. so as to get out of my misery as quickly as possible. "Suddenly an idea struck me, ana despair gave way to hope. I drew out my hnnting knife and stood on tiptoe. When the bear was about seven feet from the bottom of the hollow, I fastened on her tail with a viselike grip, and with my right hand drove my hunting knife to the hilt in her haunch, at the same time yelling like a whole tribe of Indians. "What did she do? Well, you should have seen the performance. She did not stop to reilect a moment, but shot out at the top of the stunip like a bullet out of a gun. I held on until we reached the growd. Then the old boar went like lightning into the brash, and was out of sight in half a minute. "I took the cubs to Adrian the next day, and got five dollars apiece for Ihen." Drave Bernadou Lientenant Bernadon's classmates :;ay that he fears nothing on earth or water. His fearlessness overcomes any conseiousress of self. One afternoon in October, 1881, the United States steamer Kearsarge, Ctain G. B. White, lay at anchor in Hatmpton Roads. The weather had been stormy for a day or two, and the Wind had kicked up a heavy sea. There was a strong tide runting, and tho vessel swung out on a long cable. A seaman by the name of Christover son, who was boat-tender in one of the cutters swinging at the lower booms, went out and down the Jacob's ladder. In steppi 'a . wart his foot i . o on deck the gray .-ere was a hoarse/cry -.f -man overboard." Seaman Robert Sweeny, who saw the accident, running out along the boom, plunged in without delay, just as the ma lame up the second time. Bernad othen a cadet midshipman, heard th e, and rush ing to the gangway sa the terrible struggle of Sweeny with the drowning man as the tide sweptthemout toward the sea. Bernadou tossed off his coat and was overboard in an instant. Christoverson, in his fierce struggle, carried Sweeny down with him, the latter only breaking away to be carried down again. Bernadou by this time was within reach, and catchingthe drowning man from behind managed to relieve Sweeny until a line was thrown him, and they were finally hauled aboard in an exhausted condition. For this act both Bernadon and the sailor re ceived the recommendations of their captain and the thanks of William H. Hunt, then Secretary of the Navy. A Cool-rrended Girl of Twelve. T u-dve-year-ol d Bessie Kinney lives in L's Angeles, Ca!. The other day her miother sent her to the market for meat. Moanted on her pony. she was returning from the market when arun away horse dashed past, dragging an eapt~y carriage. Bessie gave chase. Her pony is a fast one, and she was soon able to catch hold of the bit of the runaway with her left hand, all the while tightly clasping the meat and the pony's reins in her right. Gradually pulling back on the fright ced runaway and quieting it with othing words, she finally brought it to a standstill, after a chase of fifteen blocks. Then she went home, leav ig the bystanders to publish her brave deed. The papers of her town tell it with words of praise. Attacked byva Wild Cat. Richard Wheeler, a Binghamton sewing machine agent, recently had a thrilling experience near Melrose, says the New York Press. He was riding a horse along an old log road, on his way to see a castomer, when a wildcat sprang fronm the bushes with a growl, gave two or three leaps and seized the horsa by the neck. Wheeler kicked at it as hard as he could until it let go and then dropped in front of the run ning horse. He didn't hear any more from~ the wildcat, and, after he had quieted the horse and hitched him to a tree, he went back, struck some matches and searched for the savage beast. It lay in the road with a crushed skull, the horse having ap parently trod upon it as it fell. A New Guard For Watch~es. Watches een be securely held in the pocket by a new guard, fcrmed of a two-piece snap button, having one ortion of the button sewed in the fabric to the pocket and the other at tached to the cbain, a slight pressure on the paits locking them so that the chain cannot be pulled out easily. The Substitute For Trees. The latest in the building line is the alminumi hut for Klondike miners.i When packed for carriage it weighs 110 ponnds. It is composed of four Isides and a roof of thin sheets of aluminum, and when put up it con tains 190 c______ feet NEWS AND NOTS FOR WOMEN. 9 Flowers For Sealr. if you are artistically inclined a very pretty and novel way of sealing your letters is to form flowers with various colors of wax, thus doing away with the old-fashioned mono gram. Pansies are very easily formed by flest using violet wax, giving slight carves to the outer edges, and then wAit or yellow in the centre, twirling ii around a few times to produce a de ciaed pansy effect. Roses are easily made by using the different shades of pink. If the seal is brought to a thin, shar; etem whea finishing the effect will be greatly heightened. Daintily Perfurned Lingerio. Sachets of lavender and of violet nowder are popular to lay in drawers among clothing. Perhaps even nicer are pieces of pumice stone saturated with some perfume. A delicious scent for this purpose is made of half an ounce of whole orris root and two oances of spirits of wine. Be sure-that the orris root is the real thing, and that it is fresh. Pound and break it up into little pieces, and let it remain in the spirit several clays. Then use it to 'saturate the pumice stone, and place it among your cloth ing. It will fill your room with the delicious odor of fresh violets. Advice to Stout Wonen. It has often been urged, but it seems well to emplbasize by much repetition that women of generous proportions should invaribly renounce all of these round-waisted styles, no matter how beautiful they appear on some other slenderer figure, or how universally the rage for them in creases. Adoptingthese waists is not a matter of age, for the young, the mature, and the elderly find them comfortable and useful. It is simply a matter of figure, and, for women in clined to stoutness, there are many close, trim, ard attractive models which make them look better and slenderer than any of the "rcund" styles, festooned with net, draped with lace, and finished with circling ribbon, bells and bows, which cut off the apparent length of the waist by two or three inches. The suminer Shirt-Wa*sts. Some pretty shirt-waist moJels. have been designed for the summer, some of them showing a deep esilor collar, joined to pointed revers that reae...4h lilt in front; the entire piece of woven guipure lace, with cuffs and girder to match. These trimmings adorn pique, linen and duck waists,; as well as those of taffeta, foulard, or wash silk; other styles are trimmed with very hand some Swiss or Irish point em broideries. Again waists aro seen ith removable vests, stock col!.rs and girdles of Liberty satin. Besides these are countless morning vests formed of India linen, percale, dimity, bishops'lawn, fine qualities of dotted and cross-barred muslin, plain and facy swivel silk and zephyr gingham. The majority of these resemble as nearly as possible a boy's shirt-waist, wihasingle pla down the front, a few gathers on each side of this plait and on the shoulders, and a double pointed yoke on the back, The regular shirt sleeve is shaped with but little fulness con the shoulder, and the entire model is email and eztremely plain. ____ sammier Gauzes. The cloualikc nilk muslin that prom ises o be the most fashionable sum mer ball gowns have full-blown roses in two shades of pink or in yellow and red on their faint blue, deep cream or lemon-tinted backgrounds. Zephyr ginghams and piqnes, with damask stripcs or flower patterns, are going to have t'he first choice in wash goods, while all the colored cotton goods from Scotland show small plaids in two colors with shirred stripes. Soft sashe~s of ganzes, with ruffled ends, appear on some of the new gowns, falling in front or at one side, which is prophetio of Empire styles again, and gauze scarfs. It is prom ised, too, that the skirts of the thin summer gowns shall be elaborately ruffed or ruched in the form of an overdress or tunic variously shaped at the bottom and rounded up over dress fashion at the sides. Other hints reveal the double and triple as one of the features in thin gowns. Lace insertions, arranged in various sauiming designs, and the lovers' knot in particular, with the material cut out underneath, will be lavishly used to decorate organdies, batistes and other thin fabrics. Narrow rib bon, both gathered and plain, bids fair to eutend its popularity as a trimming through another season. The Southern Girl. In concluding an editorial inspire'd bya outhern girl's regret that she cannot go to college, Edward Bok. in te Ladies' Home Journai, has this to sa of the girls of th- Southland: "he Southern girl is surrounded by a life far truer and more conducive to self-development than girls living in other sections, because social con dt ns aire more normal. Her life is he.thier because it is saner, and her m~ind, by reason of it, is clearer and more constantly at rest- The rash of life of the NTorth and West is not so stimulating as many Southern girls sunose. On the contrary, it wears woen out as often as it develops them. In no part of our country do wo nen look younger at maturity than i the South. To the Southern girl, too, nature blooms in a profusion as she does nowhere else. The natural historv whichi the )orthern girl must get out of books the Southern girl gets direct from nature's own hand. She is born of a soil as rich and - ' >s :n --m hwncr as is the literature of Spain. This she receives I as a natural heritage. - Her parents are, and her ancestors were, among the best types of American chivalry and Aierican womanhood. She hears but ode language spoken. and thit is her own. If there is the introduction of another tongue it is French, and with these two she can travel the world over and rever be at a dis advantage. The religion which she learns from her mother is the highest and best because it is untainted with modern 'revclations.' The truest friend and safest teacher in 'highest living' a girl can have is her mother, and in the South mothers have a way of finding time for their daughters and being companions to them. The Southern father is fond of his children, and proves it by his presence at the domestic hearth after his day's busi ness is over." Xelba's Excuse For Being Late.. When Mme. Melba went to the Grand Opera House the other night, not as a performer but as a listuer. there was a slight delay about her ar rival. She did not reach her box in time for the opening bars of "I Pa gliacci," and everybody wondered. But the great songstress. was ar ranging a happy event for a bedrag gled young girl who had blocked her entrance to the Opera Hous3. Just as she alighted at the canvas awning she caught sight of the upturned face of a girl standing in the pouring rain waiting for a glimpse of her. She was only a poor factory girl; who lived somewhere in the unfashionable neighborhood of the Grand Opera House. Even for her class she was not very well dressed, nor very well bred; but she had the divine love of music in her heart and in her eyes, and Melba caught the gratifying light of true hero worship. The great singer did not ask the management to pass in this stray'ad mirer, as she might have done, and so have gained for the girl an uncom fortable hour in the back row of the well-dressed orchestra .chairs. She had too much consideration, even for such a lowly guest. With a softly spoken, "Come with me," she led the girl up to the box window of the gallery, and procured her a seat, for which she herself paid witir two big Eilver dollars. Then Melbs quickly sought her own pro scenian box, from a corner of which sje sniiled softly to herself several I times daring some of Chalia's best songs, as she recalled the look she had brought to the eyes of her damp and 'hedraggled protege.-San Fran cisco News1ietter. . i ~ sGossip. Miss Con,* is an Alderman of the London Co6ty Council. Miss Leigh Spencur of Brtis Columbia, e riis There gie twenty-three English women practicing medicine in India. In Ausdio-Hangary about 3,000,000 women are engaged in industrial pur. suits. Sar.h Bernbardt was once intended for a milliner, and came very near to being sent to a shop to learn the trade. When the Empress of China travels she carries with her 3030 dresses, filing 600 boxes, in charge of 1200 cooles. Women in Great .Britain are well represented in 4he professions and trades, and, about 4,000,000 earn their own living. A successful firm of tea merchants in London is composed entirely of women. The blenders, tasters and packers are also women. Miss GwendoinNi. D. Kelley, of Col umbus, Ohio, is at work on a minia ture of Mrs. McKinley, which is in tended by the sitter as a gift to the President. There are twenty women who are pastors in the Iowa yearly Friends' (Quakers') meeting, and they are r-e orted to be doing good work, and are well suited to'their: feld of labor. Mrs. Leonard Wood, the wife of General Wood, interested herself in her husband's work when he-was an army surgeon, and under his direc tion read medicine to such good pur pose that it is now said she could eas ily secure a diploma from any medid cal college. Gleanings From tha Shops. Satin-bordered squares of soft, light wool snitings for summer. Sashes of varionaly colored crepe de chene with long fringed ends. Every variety of untrimmed hat shapes in chips and tuscan braids. Embroidered swiss muslins showd ing fancy stripes of colored figures. Summer gowns trimmed with nu merous flounces cut in deep scallops. Golf score-books made of Ioather in various colors and prettily decorated. N ew style blaser coats with white reers and blacg satin braid trim Linen lawns in conventionai pat terns on a white, blue or black found ation. Sailor suits for children, appropri-, Iatey trimmed with gilt braid and em blems. Pompadour pekin taffetas showing ricliy colored stripes on various dark colors. Delicately colored chiffonettes showing clusters of silken cord in contrast. White silh parasols covered with black velvet appliques cut in the form of crescents. Ready-made sleeves of net ap pliqued with lace or lace alone in some striking pattern. Pretty cameo-striped chiffons in combinations of blue, nile, mauve and yellow with white.-Dry Goods Econo The Torture of the Unfortunate G Beyond Conception. To the ardigary man and wom eonoeotion'of the torture to whic poor, unfortunate goose is put possibly, be imagined. The geese, when about nine mon old, are taken from the pastures placed in' an underground gel where broad, slanting stone sla stand in rows, and assaboun -fast the tables. They are-' literally fed. Feet, wings and bodies are apr out and bound by bands, so that oni the neck is left free.' As may be i agined, the animal struggles with alt its might against this stretching, till, after days of vain endeavor to free it self from the bands and its position', its powers of resistence are overcome; and a dull resignation, broken only: by its low cries, takes possession of it. Two months must pass away be fore diath brings relief. The animalsmeanwhile are crammed with dumplings made of a dough of buckwheat, chestnuts and stewed maize. Every two houirs, six times a day, they receive from three to five dumpling pills, which in time become so sweet-to the tortured creatures that they stretch their ,eeks to be crammed. The most difficult task is to deter mine the right moment for death. Those who Aie df their own accord are lost to the liver factory, therefore a ind of study is needed to see when the. cup of agony is brimming fall and the liver is ripe for taking. The bodies of such ripe ones are like pumpkins-where ordinarily fingers are buried -in flesh and fat nothing but skin-and bone is found. The livers have aborbed all the strength and juices.-Paris Figaro. .34 Couldn't Forego That. It was in Bradford. An old man was about to step in front of a. steam tram going at full speed, when a band seized him and flung him back.. It was a narrow shave, and as. soon as the old man realized it he extended his hand-to his rescuer and exclaimed: "You have saved my life, and I can never repay the debt!"' "I deserve no thanks," was the Modest reply. "But you deserve more than thanks. I am a rich man, and I want to give you some substantial token of my gratitude. Here-.let me write you a check for-" -I couldn't accept anything-really, .1 couldn't," protested -the other, "but there is something you might do for ma all the same." "Speak and it shall be done" "You are a-tihzman, a I know "on' by name. _am secretary of the gas "comnf [Every mouth when -'5t come in to pay your bill yoamake a tremenduous row for half -an hour, =nd declare that we are highay rob bers. If you would only agree "Not to make a row over my gas bill. Never, sir, never! You saved my life, and I afa ready to di-a you a check for whatever sum yout want, but as foregoing a privilege granted only to freeoborn Britons, I can'tsur render it-couldn't do it if you saved my life a dozen times over!"-Tit Bits. Owners .or Ennienid's Soil. "It is interesting to observe how many good opportunties thd thrifty poor people, of thiis country have to ac quire valuable property," remarked a -- prominent Englishman. "In England the poor classes have no .such chances, 'aore than half the soil of the united kingdom is nominally owned by some 2000 wealthy persons, who- refuse to sell their land.- These persons are the owners of 22,880,7565 -acres, or nearly 5,000,000 acres more than one-fourth of the total area of the united king dom. The mind is unable grasp what .-' such amonopoly costs the country, but certain features of it stand forth with a prominence suf~ciently notable. .In a most absolute sense the well-bemng -- of the entire population of some 2 000000 souls is placed in ths poyeer'of ~ a few thousands. For thefieth-osands the multitude toils, an-fit may be on ocasion starves.. "Hence it is that all through rural England we havo continually ibe fore us the most saddening of all spectacles-two or threo families liv ing in great splendor, and .hard i~y their gates the miserably poor, the ab ject slaves of the soil, whose sole hope. in life is too often the workhouse that famous device against revolution. paid for by the middle class-and the pauper's grave."-Wash~ington Star. The Smallest Dwarf on Earth.' "We've got by long odds the tiniestI mite of humanity in the world in this neighborhood," remarked a Sands street (Brooklyn) druggist a day or so ago. ~"Tomn Thumb and all those other dwarfs of snore or less fame would never be inT it with this pigmy in the way of smallness. Why, this fellow is so little lie'd get lost in your change pocket. You don't believe it? - Read that then,." The apothecary fished into a drawer and handed over agrampled and dirty it of paper. "A little girl of -the neighborhood came in with that from her snother a few days ago, and I saved it as a curi osity," said the druggist. On the paper was written in sprawl. ing characters the following remark able request: "Please give the girl five cents' worth of quinine' for a six-year-old boy in a capsule."--New York Times The Eroper Way of Breathing.. To learn to breathe properly, inflate the lungs and walk for five, paces, kieeping the mouth shut and breathing through the nose, increasing the five. aes to ten, and then to fifteen' dr more. JFollow this up by-taking sev eral long breaths after :gettibg up in - the morning, ankd again before retir ing.-Ladies' Home Journal.