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TRI WEEKLY EDITIG WIN NSBORO. S.C.. APRIL 12. 900. ESTABLISHED 1844 WILLE vtstrrio IN THE COCt'r. I wish 'at I tould live out here Where thore are hill, to climb. Ani wherr a t no can ,liie dvwn liko A fhash, in wiut-r tne ; Where4hey are drift. to tumble in And ponds to's-ate upon I w:ish my Cousin John was mO And I was Couin John I'd like to have a cnt to ride And lambs 'a' tuinrs to pet. W,th appies it; the e-ilar. and Drink mil;: tbat-s stearmin' yet : I'd live to 1V w:ere t could whoop Around wi:h all my might Anti never have to b, . frasid A cop wouid come in silht. It's jolly sitting in the sled w h.-n une"l drives to town, And lets the horses walk u' hil! And n:akes them g::lop d w ! it's jolay gett.rg out thiL":. Sometimes. an.l hn:iug on I wisi In'. Cousiu John was mo And I was Cousi1. John i Eat-Side Tholl 4 - STORY OF THE BY MARGUER It was not a pretty story, but it was more. it was fraught w;th that prim itive ruggedness one gets an imupre; sion of along with cutting pm airie winds, bucking broncos, the cract; of a revolver, the whiz of a bullet. . The fel,ow's name was Thompson, and he could hand e a bunch of ttee -s with the best of them, b t there was an air of metro ol,tanis a about him that assorted ill with his surroundings. And although he went rougher than any man of thein he had never been able to live down his nickname of "East Side". Thompson. Under the in in en:e _1Qling-prairies, the ho%dless sweep of ch.ud and sky, an intn=y wisthe e ements and reliance upon nothing but his own wit and courage, 'wan grows to be a strong, sagacious, I creature, so did'erent frotan our ~cumscribed ideas of a-man that, for want of a better term, 'we call him a "cow-puncher." The Three-X outfit of cow-punchers hacd be u on the trail more than a mgn h, and,ac ording to all precedent sudiasofi the rains shonud have set in weeks, before, but they had not. The gias:thit' had sprunghp with the first'arsishowers ha sea .,and- died et, rainr:c . e 'ow uggisii tle streams of 6rackish water that crawled along the bottom of their bels, which the year befor h'ad been swollen, be yond their banks, finaby gave out ut terly. In every direction the white alkali p'ains glisienel away to the meeting line of the sky in an attitude of isolation. The oldest inhabitant in all the country could not recall a -win ter that equaled this in dryness. Howbeit, Nevada was then h new state, and the population migratory. Wilson, the boss of the outfit, had hoped to get out of the sagebrush F country and strike the California line somewhere abo e Bodie by the end of "ae first month out, but there was no ~in, no water, and the plains lay in ~en cracks. Day after day the sun arose, smiled down upon the parched little banch of men and cattle 14 long hours as he sailed across a cloudless sky,serenely unconstcioas of the male di tions'hurled against him, while the bare, burnitig prairie stared back in un blinking defiance. There were gor geous sunsets every eveni,g--momnents when the great fiery btall seemed al moan to stand still to give a long back ward g'anee before dropping out of sight, and with a Midas fouch turn ali the world to moiten gold. But to the played out cow-puncher sunset means nothing but bedtime-be ltimne after a hard, parched, hopeless day. There aw.re clear,chaste moonlight nights - f wondrous radiance, too, but the moon was seen only in the ea- ly morning, when they rose to another day, more hard, more parched, more hopeless. The cattle-mere anatomical charts by this time-went staggering about in crazy circles, too weak to need watch ing, the three Xs oIn their flanks re duce to half the or'ginal size by the shriveling of the hid'e, or fe 1 head ly to the earth to rise again, af.or many seasons of aun and shorver, as prairie flowers and salt grdss. Tieir bellow in g was reduced to a moan alm st human in its mise-y,for the one voice common to all created th'ngs, animal or human, is the voi e of suffering. The Missourian, a great, hulking young fellow, was first.of the men to show signs of weakening. That is the most terrible moment in all like experi ences,when the men who ha e held on g-imly and endntred toget'uer see <ne of their number losing his grip. This had been an ill-assorted outfit when they started out with the cattle across the plains, but standing together, nouholder to shoulde:, defying death lgainst fearful odds'.nits a man deep ly into the life of his feliow. Among i -se men there was no spoken sym pathy, no overt act of kindness, but in their very sullenn ss was that g-imn me- t of all.sacrifices, each man endur ing in stoie ailence in order that he might not ibtrn le his own sullerings upon his alr endy overcro wded neigh bor. The clinching of the lips to sun presa a groan when one is thirst-mad dened may require more heroism than facing a cannon with Rags fiying and dru-as 1'eating, inasmuch as "he that rul th his 'own spirit is greater than hbat taketh a ci'y." A t las one'day the Mis<onr'an.gave out utterily. 'tie was not of the cow boy buik% in the fi st place.. hut his splendid ~horsemash'p and enthusi am had induced WX ilson, the bos'., or Yankee Bill," as he was ca:led, tc take him on. In his'dc( rim he lay and cried for water, i. day and night aonINZv IsT NC TI crrn. I w!shed 'a: I lived here, where tb.ngs Are a"l set at the door, Ana wu.-:e you see so many sights Yon never saw l>efore ; I'd like to ride in nice, warm cars Tat whiz along tue street, In..ad of in a t>obslad. where You nearly freeze your feet. They never have no wood to chop, Nor cows nor she.ep to teud; Th.-y never havc to carrv slop To where the pits are p"-nn-d; They never parry water 'rom A well that a far awav. Nor every ni.ht and morning feed Tse stock a ton of hay. T never have no cows to milk, Nor other Lhores$ to do., And every time they turn'around .Thev look at something n-w ; There's aiways lots that's going on, The streets are never still I wish that Cousin Will was me, And I was Cousin Will! ipsOll S Petitioll ALKALI PLAINS. ITE STABI.EI an-i called upon the names of thoie he had known in his chil hood. Every man went shout his own business, wh chvtas ltrge'y the formulating of fe ve-t and e'oqu(;nt oaths anent the heat, the drought and the de'ay, and anparently no one heard his ries. Water was the one thing he wanted, and the dne thing they could not get, so, af:er they had put his to >ts under his head to make h'im comfor able, they let him alone. Quder or inary circuni stances a Missourian more or less was of no great consequence to "..anlee 'il," I ut this break in the ranks shattered the last vt stige of hope. Whatever- may have been d ne after Ithan in the effort to ke p up their spir. ifs WS:s mere bravado, for each man foresaw the end. The Missourian had been .a quiet sortin the camr.,a 'a no one had eve heard him talk much, but now be talkebd ncessaatly - in-the sof( .thick drawl of the south. And: always. of hime see- es, of the memories.of boy hood -that whetted : the edge of . their torture till it was - beyond all enbir ance.._oaw he was.fishing along some stredm no hve wa.4n school stxig Alw coherent enough to call -up memories in their own minds o'f a youh,'mis'tpent for the most.part. Th-y could not move farther away becruse they were camred under the only shade in sight. They thought of dragging him off beyond ear-shot, but whi e every one would have been glad to have done it, no man could do it himself. Their hornvhands had grown gentle in their ministering totches. Escape was long since out of the question, for the horses were worse off than the men; not one of them could carry a sadd.e,much less a ri ler. Fach~ ma-i had saved a last charge in his revolver, knowing thit that per hapn would be their only deliverance from a de'ath too horrible to name. All but "East-Side," who, when ad cision had to be made between himself and his horse, hadl led her out I ehind a ii tie .accliv ty and put his last charge through her ga ne little heart. Now he.miust make his exit in some ot er way, if he won:d let his disembodied spirit pass on uninenmbered by a sun parch'ed frame. The knife he ca"ri d in his boot was a miserable hack of a thing, fit only for sha.ing tobacco -or chuuiking ba'on. He felt a momentary regret as he ran his fingers alon g its agged edges that-aman with hisrecord should be obliged to make his end with so mean a- weapon. The big Swede in a moment of madness had rai-ed his pistol as if it had been a jug, say ng: "Wal, boys, here's to a wetter country!" But he had not shot. The co'd iron seemed to cool the rashness < f his bramn, and the mir age of hope luredl them on a day far ther. After the second clay the Missouri an's talk began to grow less,his raving subsided in a.weak, inconerent bab bling; at last it ceased altogether, and he lay sta ing widd-eyed into the re lentless sky. As they had 'one every thing -else, they did this silently,stoio ally. A shallow bed was scooped out and the canvas taken off the wagon for a winding sheet.: When, the broken circle 'closed in a-mind 'the open grave, the boss cleared his th'roat and said: "Boys, before we go any farther, some one must make a prayer, sabe?" .. They sa1-ed, but - although every ma's soul might be consumed with a vo celess cry to some p!wer above himself for the repose of the departed soul and release from a like fate,they were all dumb when confronted by the thoncht of taking the name of Cod revdrent-ly. Instinctivrely they turned to "Fast-s3ide." "It's your lead, 'East-Side," they sad. And " ast-Side," groping blindly backward toward the me-no rien o: his you b, tried to recall some thing of religions import. Slowly through his desiccated brain pereola ed a line from a church hymn, -"From Greeu!aud's Icy Mountains," but al though the thought was pleasant in this burning de<ert, the words were not to the m oit- aesides, that was all he kn 'w of it Fe shook his head sorrowfully. "In the beginning," he thought he had struck the.right4 lead there-"Jn the beginning, God created --" But again he was stuck and c uld go no further. "Lead up,'. ast-Side!'" they urged. Then t be light broke. The I ack ward groping hatd brought hiz dQwn to the days of his childhood, to the wrds his grandfather had been wont to say, as with iowed haa. the familv. to the third and fourth genera ion, was gathered around his tab!e on Thanks g viag clay. S, under the burning sun, whose only shadow was east by the locks o' carrion i.irds that circled above the remunani" of the ontfit, they stood over the grave of their deal pon anion, waiting for a like fate, or ceath by thdi - own hands, to be to n by coyotes rerhans before the brea h was out of their bodies, the six sannt men with bowed, uncovered heads, ,,h le "Fra3t-Side" pronounced in sol emn tones: "Oh, Lord, for what we are about to re e ye make us devoutly thank.ul. Amen." A prayer was a prayer to "Fast Side." Anything that began with "I o- d" in reverent terms and ended with "a'ren" was a prayer. His g-andfntbe had been a godly man,and he had said it, therefore it was appro priate on this oceaqion. The effect was the same upon the others, for the words s'uacked of the phraseo'ogy ci the wandering exho,-ters they had heard. After the rassing of the Missou'ian there was even less to do; the men were mo e taciturn- w'th each othe"-, .but the- e was noticeably less profanity among the n, possibly beeanse they harbored their streng'h more jealous ly and the exertion was unnecessary, or because their months were too dry to articulate many nords. It was now six weeks since they had set out across the "sink," expectng to get the cattle off their hands and have a little "t'me" in the city before tartin, back to the camn, but the wild-eyei,sorry looking things - seemel unp ontising enough now even for a glue fact, ry As "East-side" lay on the ground lookint up through the holes in his hat-they stood uprirht and walked no mo-e than was absol itely n~ce :sary, f r that re .nired an expenditure of strength-lazily watihing the flocks of bi; ds that swooped and poised in the air above him, - e-_discovered, or -thought he did, that ther cast a lhsdoxv against the sky-a tiny gray shadow that he watched for the utter lack of anything else to watch. When the bi-ds flew lower, the shadow seemed to grow larger, but when finally they few away there was still the shadow, larger and darker. V ith a wild whoop he sprang to his feet, forgettin; the value of harborin his Ft"e1gth as he gra4ed the import of that shadow. t was a clond! Every man sprang un at that tiny speck and went to wo k with white face an I nni eidy han Is. The speck grew larger, and the men worke l ha er; eve P hol e basm eared for action Qo th*-not one precions drop n:ight be lost. Their wo ds were few but kindly as they sera' ed away, with one eye on the g onnd and the other on the cloud slowly but unmistakably growin- larger and coming their way. Du ing the night those sun-s -orche 1 dreamers dreamed of moist winds, and rain clouds fo egathering over the moon, then of raindrops pattering gent-y until they made a soaking downpour. But they had often dreamed that-dreamed it when their parched tongues hang out of their months and cra, ked for dryness. By this timie ther- ha-l g own wary; even in their aleep they were on t aeir guard and not to be begiule I into believ'n 1. When at last in the early morning the rain did come, with the first pat to:ing drops every man forgot every thing in the world but the all-counsam as io'i to slake his burning thirst; until their hits had caught e. a to drai i, they sucke I their shirt sleeves. Then, bec inse his own need for that 'ast charge was no longer impeative,the out fit boss drew a bead on the li%eliest animal in the herd, and they feasted roya ly, joyously, upro:ar ionly on steak a ad wate . And in the t.nberance of t .eir glee no one no. ticed that for convenience they hal chosen the monnd that covered the Missourian for their ta de. After the feast every man lay down in.h s trench, which was now fill with water,and a aked,soake I throngh to the ma-row, ronsin I himself only to drain his hat, then falling back and soaking niore. An I wheti, a.tar 2 1 hours of so king they got up out of their trenches, each water-logged ma i was a tiran he'iever in the e.icacy of prayer.-San Francisco Argonant. The N-w Dialect. "Anything new, Scratchard?" in qired the publisher, as he toyed with hadiamo-nid studded seal. "Yes," said the author, eigerly, as he d -ew a bulky wad of maunscript fro n a much soiled newspaper. "I've got, a, original story he:e that is sim ply g eat." "What's great about it?" "The dialect. It's all Beer." The, publisher slightly a arted. *"That seems like a g od thing," saijl- -"Let's hear a i-e ot it." VThe anthor moistened his lips, un flid the mannscript, and began: "'The bron .ed yonng uitlander pause,d beside the sp nit, wuich was now little more than a dusty sluit. He had come through the kran r,aud over toe neck, and along the poort, and pa-t the ko. je. and straight across tie level veldt, a d he was tired. Raising his bo. tIe of dop to his lips he w.is dlisap pointed to fi id it was empty. He til ed the flask at the fontein, in the kloof, e ese to the drift, and, moistening a l.tie bdtoig, ate e.igerly. "I wisai I had -some mealies," he mattered, "but I can't expec- it until f. reach Ithe next kraal. E den thea I donbt Ithe wisdom of showing myself. I feel pre.ty sure that the zarpn we e p'ut on my track as soon as the voorlooper recogized me" The great publisher waved hi3 hand. "Splendid!" he cried. "That's just what we've been looking for. We 11 bave it on the bookstan la in ten days. Can you fill a se inel with so..no more of the same rot?" And the happy author said he thought be 'co'd.-Cle,eland Plaio Telr.1 ME CLARK-DALY FED, ORICIN OF THE TROUBLE BETWEEN THE MONTANA MILLIONAIRES. Once They Were Partners in the M1in inr Business, But Now They Are Bitter Enemies - Many Stories Told Ab 'ut the Cause of Their Quarre). "Twenty years ago William A. Clark and Ma -cus t aly were partners in the mining basinest zi Montana," says a writer in Ainslee's Magaz-ne. "The two iad made theii. lortanes in the i ough con.iitions of the tarly years of that state, and hal been drawn to ether perhaps by that peculiar sym pathy which, the world over, unites Een of natural bigness. Daly was the agent and piac ical mine locator and operator for the rich syndicate eouds- I of J. B. Haggin, Lloyd e.is and George Hearst (afterwards 3enator). Clark was a merchant and banker, who hat l;een successful in most of his operation=, and who had Luoney to spare to invest in mines. Clark's capital and Daly's minin.. aca men eonibined to form a partne: ship of unn nal efiectiveness. Montana's early m ning developments involved tae lark L aly movements at almost every important turn. "iuring the duration of the part-. { nership the interests of the two en extende 1 widely, participat :ng eventually in e%ery aspect of the progress of the community. Their ca; ital . aided in the location and improvement. of new mine sites, aud hence of new tovns. They had to do with the construction of the tailroads. They built smelters an I e nployed hundreds of men. They Loaned money to ethers. They ac quired landed as weil as mineral prop e.ties. They sestabished and con dncted-banks, built 'office structures, D era:e.l street railways, and-of ne cessity-went into politics. By the time-he.tlquari--arose between them there was scarcely-a' phase of the state's activities in thich tuey were sot, ei:her jointly fr indivilually, eoncerned. ".7o one knows, scept Clark and Daly themselves, w i this close as aucia ion began to br ak. And no one ealy knows why. The friends of Clark do not acknowle that there was any outward evid anti as late'as 1488. )als date it b.tck to t the ;0s. "Dily is an.Irishnl -frC n w e oPP s American, not chances or to be bea, tered .Montana with no money, and e arned had come h superi.'r sh-ewdnes other hand, was e I made his way by a. s ri;iaally a m nin; had become a locator f thro gh a remarkab judgm nt had been abl an minerest in the value which he discovered. barter:ng or these in ere laid the foundations of a iortu by choice as well as by in lu* he had remained with the syn and ultimately had bec.ame ei manager aud representativer He acted in thisi capa2ity all during the private partnership wizCTark and in whatever he did wit6 Clark the syn dicaw s inte 'ests appt ar to have minged. Where there were town imt provements to be made Daly rendered asistance on behalf of the company. W\her e there were politics to be run he die ated the votes of the emiloyt-s of the co nyiany. In the narrative told of the genesis of the quarrel, there is ittle se)aration of Daly as r.presenta tive of the syndicate from.Daly as in dividual. "According to one story, Daly. on behalf of the syndicate, was seeking t ac.ini e an important copper mine, when Clark, proceeding upon inuide k'owledge derivc .1 from close friend ship with Daly, i'ought the property before Daly could close. ".Another story i3 that Daly, still acting ais representative of the syndi cata, entered upon an extended series of improvements in the town of Ana coda, and was engaged in acquiring cerra n wvater rights when Clark sawv a cha~nce and held the syndicate up fo" a big profit. Daly had ac inired sout seven eighths of the nec'essary rights for somne S10,03 to $15,010, when Clark slipped in and bought the remaining eighth and the iaske I Dly 825, t00( for it. The price made Daly's ag uts hesitate for 21 hours. Wh n they returned with S23,00'\ Clark a ked $30,000. When they hesitated another 24 hours, and then returned with the $50, I tO, Clark caried still nmore, continning to ad vai 'ee the price with ea?h hesi'ation of the p irchasers until untimately he r eceived $12 ,O. 0. "Still anoth r narrative is that while C lark and Daly were as o..muted in the ownership of a large tract of land Daly or de -ed some improv-ements du ing Clark's absence. Clark, upon retur i, disauproved of the improve ments, refused to hear the expense and comp) -lIed aly to buy him out. The price he fixed was regarded by L ay as a de iberate extor.ion. "i nl thb-en e of authoritative ex plaat o ,, it is nece -sary to take the <nariel for gra ited, as the people of 3iontana have done. E'ectrocut ion in France. The Freoch government may dis continue the use of he guillotine and a ou;t electrical execution. The head o the criminal is inclose i in s: belmet somewhat similar to that used by a diver. When the execntioner turnsion the entrent two needles penetrate the temles and enter the brai:n. A poerful alternating current ricptures ad destroys the brain cells so qufic#y FINDING OF A LOST TRIB . A Hermit Race Just Miscovered in Arctic ( anad :. The Federal authorities at Ottawa have 1 ecu not.fied of the discove y,on a tonely isl.nd in Hudson bay, of a lost trioe of Esquitnaux, a commnui y which has been for centuries without interco rse with other representatives of the human species and whose inmen bers never aaw a white man until a few months ago. They arestitl in the stone age, knowing no metals; they grow no plants, and tiieir houses are built of the skulls of whales. The home of this strange tribe is on Southampton island, a piece of water girt land nearly as large as the state of Maine, and situated at the north end of Hudson bay, Apparently the people have dwelt there since pro Columbian times, and today they sub sist in exactly the same way as they must have doue then. Having been isolated for so long a period, it is natural that they should pcssess many peculiarities. Their houses of skulls,more properly describad as hu:s,are built by putting together the great iaws of whales and then covering them over with sk,ns. In the middie of the primitive dwe:l ing is an elevated place, on which stands the inevitable stone lamp, em ployed for li;htin -, heating, cookinz, melting snow, drying clothes and in certa.n arts. The lamp i, nothing more than an open dish of whale or seal oil with a wick of dry moss soaked in fat. The whale is the chief means of subsistence of these strange people. They use the whale.)one in a variety of surprising ways, making even their cup< and buckets of it, by bending it into round shapes and sewing on the bottoms. Many of their implements are of whalebone, and from the same article they mace to boggan-like sleds. They also manu facture sledges with walrus tusks for runners and deer antlers for cross pieces. It wou fbe hard to find more daring hanters than they are; the seal, the wa rns and. the wa'y caribou con tributing to the game Lags. The tribe comupris2s only 58 i ldLviduals, about e iually dividel between the sexes. Its members speak a dialect peculiar to the.nselves, ad quite un like that empl iyed by any other Esquima ix. Straits 30 milei b-oad from the where d no lui s orab e ma ttd kettles. Hen e ihe ost tribe are o.,l.ged to receptacl s out of ala s of gln-d together in re,-tan u Te with a mixture of grease eer b'ood. In the same way manufac:ure their lamps, an.I is tact is an >t ier ev.dence of the prolouire. isolation of the con.manity inasmach as other Esqui.nanx, when they cain ootain no soapstone in thein own neighborhood, will make trips lasting save ali years in quest oY this rare material. An ".A meric in Diei" at H.-idoiberg. During my r-esidence in Heidelberg a lamentable and terrible a a.r tuoi place that threw a pro:ound gloom over the univer-sity and the entire tow i. Two German studeats having quarreled decided the oathI was not large enongh for both of the n to live in, and resorted to the diabolical prac tiee cal ed .he "Americamn due ." .in a darkened room the two yong men drew lota, having sworn that he who drew the black ball w.>u di commit sui ci le. The unuapl,y loser w,nt to hi.s room and discharged a bnllet into hi s breast, but massed his h art an 1 ljia gered for i-everal days on his dea.h bed; his par-ents were summonel by telegraph and besought him on their knee, to di close the na ne of his ani tag nist, but he re used and die I wi.h the secret in his bre.st 'Ihe students not .:y en use his conucnt, hut praised his courage, and when his re mains were taken to the ra.Iway sta tion to be trans;oorted to a distant ciy they accomupan ed the fu ieral or tege with tore'ies and music. The stdents claimed he wvas not a sui cide, for he was ki led.in an hou era ble due',and the ma.ntained that his opponent "as not accessory to his death bec iuse he shot himself; I ha I ma y argumtents witn tieem and ne er could convine-e the of their extraordi nar-y tergv'ersation. -Science. German fintnpiinPnes at Mfania. The German officers were bumptious and brusque in manner. Their syza paty for Spain was openly expressed and plain'y shown. Their conduct all through was in striking contrast with the cordia .ty of the English, t he good natured aliabihity of the Jal:anese,and he st..diedl anzd formal conir.esy of tile French. Car first expeditionary land forcne entered t-he E'ay of Mauila on tne 3 th of June, 18 i, under convoy o: the Baltimnore and th Charleston. As we passed the qua-antinie staion at Marivelis the German prot ectedl cru'ser F aiserin Ansnta, the most formnida Ible warship in the ba -, steamed ont, a d, running c ose to the Australia, on which the writer had h s head quarters, followed us up to Ca' ite. I did not suspect at the time that any discourtesy was intended, but I found a terward that our naval o ice * thoght it was a disconrt. ens bit of bra alo. Many of them expressed the opi'nion that the -mans intend~ea to interiere to prevegg he bombard ment of M1anila.-- eDr Thomas M,. AnesoD in th or-th g iericaD li G ODS OF THE FILIPINO). PACAN CUSTOMS CBS=RVIO IN OCR EASTERN ISLA1D3 The Natives Believe in a Ieinarkabte Medley of Deities and Occult I,aaences - Creation Myths Simitar to TIose of Ceylon - The Egg Shell Ordeal American missionaries. who expect to carry on evangelieal work in the lhilippine Islands will find no dearth of native Pagan religions and re" ligious custo as to -combat. In the various large islands comprising the archipe ago many odl rites are prac tised and many strange.gods believed in. During the past quarter of a cen tury the investigations made by inde fatigable trarelers and Spanish priests who have dwelt among the natives have brought to light some carious and interesting facts concerning the religions of the different tribes. The Pagan natives be-ieve in a remarka3le medley of gods-and occult intluences, investing the.piroductions of the earth as well as the celestial bodies with sacred and mighty powers, eithei good or malign. It js also imnortani to note: that, while o?ten.eurile,there ha; been found in their vague and jnmbled pantheistic system aremarka ble rese:nblance in seve-al instancet to the several religions of Egypt and India. Some of the least savage tribes hold ve y pronounced beliefs concerning the progeuitor of the human race. The Aelam of the Illocom tribe is known as Angogalo, a giant, wh< created the world by order of a an prewe being, a belief similar to thai preva ent in Ceylon, where, it is de clare i, there is on the summit of the Mount of Adam a gigsntic footl.rial left by Ada:n whei he sprang from the heavens upon t earth. The beli f in an after-life is ver3 general. Among tha northern Illo cans the souls or shades of the de fuuet are known as Anioaas, who re main up.,n the earth in sadness and darkness, fre tuenting the place where their bodies were accustomed to be in ide.. Sometimes they assame theii corporeal form, and appear to th -ii frieuds or relative.' The Tllocan' ho d that each mortal has three dif ferent souls -the Karlternia (tue so,l of the liviag); the Alali (that of tha dead), and. --ke .o #tna,oahe bad), wh igh tles an t rocks. Th is hed to be c en to a,numbe of Filipino gods. chief god o tae ancient Tagals was known as Bad hala or Bathala mev;Kapal, who wa b-lie,e I to be personitied by the bir Tigma.uann :in. Tue same desigus tion is given by the irgals to comet or c.rtain other re!3;tial phenomena which they believe to pressage g en events. In th religion of the native of the island of Minan to there is god Bad a, only son of andher grea deity, Mansi atan, who preserves an defends from Iraud and t--escherg c the demons Pu lanon an i Maliw bung. It is held that the. word Ba tala or Ba lla is siauply avaraatio1 and abbreviation of Batura-gurn, th title sometimes given to Siva, whc with Brahma and Vishnu, constitut the trinity of the Hindu religion. A cnrious in,tance of sore,-ry knoii as Bongat is still in vogue among th natives on tbe island of Miadano. I is brought into play when a ro ber; ha< bee 1 committed and the th efi uknown. In two hollowed can stalKs a mysterious powder is pre served. A bis of this powder fron one cane is blown into a hen's egg through a small hole in the shell an< the e gg is then laid upon the fire The result is astonishing and satisfac tory. Immnediately the unhapp: cn:glar, no matter where he may b or how remote he is from the se n of his depredations, is seizel with ter rific and incessant pa:ns throughon his body, and he promipt'y and o>)E diently uakes known his whereab ut andi guilt by exclaim ng in anguish "1 am the thief!" If the robbed part; is inexorable and wishes the lascal t die, he suddenly smashes the poti dered egg and the guilty man's exisi en e is at once ei 'd. But if h doesn't meet this dr adfal doom h has a chance of e..c ping from hi p sins. He must obtan some .of th .'ler from the se co4a cane, none c which was blown in to the eg4, ant .tL.er it ut on water, in wh ohi h must bathe. Having accomplishe all this, he is at once relieved fron his Lodily tortures. New York's Mill Sapsly. Despi e the nimber of devotees t cofee, tea and stronger stimulants, la -ge propor ion of New York's popn i ion is made up of -mi.k drinkers Fe -v people have any suspicion of ti anoint of muilk to samned daily in tor geatest cit.y in Ameri.a. For a 1 wh teel curiosity on tnis .point here ar the ligure.s: Eve y day ~there ara sold in Nei qt irts of ore im and 10,5J( quarts o cnden-ed milk. Five states Join forces to feed th people of Manhittanibland with mik New Jersey, Pennsylv nia, .Connecd ct and even Mas,acauset s hetp Nei ork state in con ribu.iig this i po tant item of provisions. Almost threa-fourLhs of the amoun conum.:.is daily br,>u;ht to -the cit; by train; the rest c&nes from farm in the vicinity. Evety quart is p c tected a.ainst conta.oination or di u~ tion, against son -ing in eu:n.nr an< frezing in winter. It has been estimated with muel eactness that 18$,3 H d ows are neces sary t) furnieh the city's daiiy suppi; a milki - THE PROFESSION OF SPY. Necessary to Watf.are, and AltMough iIazardoa It Ia Lucrative. The word "spy" has an ugl,, soun1 owing to its many unpleasant : savcit tiuns, yet. in war time spies affor.. an army aid which is as valuaole as it is highly remunerate.l, says a writer in the London AMail. One of the maxims for commanding officers, in a book for their guidance written by Lord Wol seley, is that a successful spy must be pe.ted and made much of. The management of spies is very .difficult. Out of every 10 employed by the offiter commanding a war district he is fortunate if one gives lyim t uthful information. It is a most important thing that spies should not be known to each other. Great care is generally taken by officers that each spy shall imagine tLat he is the only one whc is empioyed. It is very necessary that all 'oonafide spies should have about their persons some means of proving themselves really to be what they represent them selves. For this purpose a coin of a certain date, a Bible of a certain edi tion, a Testament with tha seventh or 15th leaf torn out are generally em ployed. By their means a epy who was em ployed by an officer in a neatral state, making his way to the headquarters of the a my in the field, could thus at once make hi.uself known to the in telligence department there. In some instances it is considered that a pass word or sign should be employed, as it is less compromising. The putting up of the right hand to the ear and then to the left ear, or somie such ges ture, is generally employed. The more extensive the ramifica tions of the system the better are the chances of escaping detection. It is --' very nece.sary that o licers of .th. in telligence department should be pro vided with specially prepa ed 'raper, upon which letters can be written,.in ink that does not berome vidble until it has been sub ecte,3 to so.ne chemical process. Itis also necessary thata let ter in ordinary ink shou d invai iabFSrbe written on the same paper continin; the information that it is required to keep secret. Although a spy runs the great iisk of imme.liate death if he is detected, yet the serv.ee is not without gloryat . ' -times, and it is certainly extreme <j2< e tativea -: s baid to - those--of the Ina; pnal which .grows on the banks of' tue 1. Amazon: They ie weh a length of froa e 30 to 50 feet, and are 10 to 12 feAt-in f breadth. r f A St. Petersburg parer has the fol lowing intereitilg item concerning rations in the Bri1ish army. "The English haveplenty of food r teir soldiers; bot, like the Mala,., they feed-thrir men on tiger's e..e+lr to make them more courageoas and blood. t thirsty." De:onshire's chief "singing man," SJames Parsons, a hedger by occutpa tion, is d.ead. The "singizg men" f I De;onshiire, -England, preserve a I -chant the old-'West Country songs andi -ballads. Parsons was nickn:.m:d "The Singing- .s achiine" because one evening he made a .set that he. could Igo on singing till dayoreak without Srepeating any piece and won the bet. The small, hard shell known as the 'cowrie is still used in parts of India and' Africa in place of coin. Whales' Steeth are used by the Fijians, red fe ithers by some of the South Sea -Islanders. and salt in parts of Abys Ssinnia. In parts of India takes of tea and in China pieces of silk pass as currency. Oxen still form ihe cir culating medium among many of the Zulus and Kaffirs. According to D.-. Robert Munro the eancient dwellers in Scotlaid used thus to safeguard the:nselves against benev tolent assimilation: After rearing a -fortress of rongh stone blocks, they sbuild huge brush fires along the out side of .the wale, which partially Smelted the surface into a crn-le glassy subs ance and filled all the chinks, -making the whole very annoying to the assimila ors when they tried to Sclimb the smooth surface. 5In Lordon just at present the fad Sdists and the cnrio collectors are vying 'fwith one another for the nossession of the skeletons of Dervishes that havre Bbeen brought back from the bloody 1 lains before Omdurman. .ome..5 'tio 200 Dervish skeletons are on- the London market, and experts in bones declare that their suroriority over the aver. ge skeletons of c 'mmnerce will Scause no little stir irn anat.amiu al cir eldes. One of the principal dealers in -London stares that these fine, arhletie Dervishes make the finest skeletons Sever put on the bone msrket. Since Will Stumphi was so ne-ady Sele2trocute I Iast summer by co:ning in contact with a live wire hisi system Shas become a virtual barometer, sub j) ect to the sligh est atm'osph'erie-al dijs ft .ance, acco ding to the Punxsntaw. ney (Peon.) bpiri'. Meteorolopecat , ariatis>ns are indicated byea change in colo: of the mn riad sc.&ra on the sur face- o' his ana o.ny, which are the rres,ilt of the wounds inieted by the Iwire. Paiy weather or snow is in dicated by redness and a slight itch ting pain.in the scars. Clear weather is indicated by the absene of' these. sThe-e mani.fes:ations begin to be no ticed.2N to 3u) thirty hours ahed of th c c urrence, and are always accom. ipanied by nervoasness and slight attacks of nansea, which are inc eas ing perce..tibly in violence. Although quite annoying to Mr. Stumphi, he da e rnot suyer much and is curioas to kuqw Iwha' will bie the outcome.