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SONNET.
As some translucent wave that shakes,
Its silver crest inflame with morning light,
Rising-in majesty of secret might,
Until at last' with deep mouthed roar it breaks,
And swift the field of smitten foam betakes
Along the yellow beach its flashing flight,
Then back returns to lift again its height,
And once again to burst its snowy flakes—
So, sweetheart, does the first dear song of thine,
“I love thee,“ come again with new born
power
To break like that great sea across my soul.
No more I ask; so sweet this lot of mine,
Wliclmcd in a. sea love new every hour;
Life‘s joy is full while still that wave shrill
roll. —-W. J. Henderson.
'i‘l-lli SILVER IMAGE.
“0h, surely, come along! What avails it u
tosit niopiug in this lonely place all night?
Como! ch?”
“Not to-Iiight," I answer.
“Ob, balii la vida es un fundango y”—
“You think I am a great fool not to dance
at the ball to-night, oh, Florian?"
“Well, yes.”
Florian and I are both attaches of n lega-
tion in‘ Linux. It was my first diplomatic up-
poiiitmcut and some years ago now.
“Perhaps, :iiiiigo; but I have much writing
to do and”—
“Writing. clicl What will Josefina and
Mercedes, and Cannon :and Alicitu, and Do-
lores, Paquitu mid Consuelo do when you are
not; there?"
“Run your and console them,” I laugh.
“Not until I frighten you into accompany-
ing me.”
“How so?"
“Oh, I heard today the legend attached to
this house; it is enough to make the blood run
coldl”
“Well, I am wurni; tell‘it."
“You know the house is over 300 years oldi
Well, it was built by, two brothers—Jews;
men of immense wealth, obtained by means
of their silver mines, especially the Mirn-
ficres"—-—
“Ali, that mine which is now flooded and
which no science has been able to drain!"
“Precisely. Well, the Jesuits, you know”—
Floriuii blinks his eyes exprossivoly—“thoy
say that Senor J 050, the younger brother,
had made for himself an image in silver of
the Blessed Virgin weighing forty pounds;
that every morning in orieuof the rooms yon-
der he fell upon his knees and, after the cus-
tom of the Jews, said his prayers, and that
immediately afterward he took abunch of
rods, sharply tipped—fancy! and beat the
image with the frenzy of a. madman. Every
morning, they said, as the qunrraquirri
tapped three, the Jew set to work on his
dnmuublo task. Oh, say, look here, why do
you start?” Florian pauses.
“Did I?”
“Yes. ' Good—goodl
coming frightened.”
“Maybe; continue.”
“lVell, to make a long story short, you see,
the J esuits—they are very clever—they seize
Senor Jose and put him in prison. Senor
J acob, he is very clever also; he offers the
Jesuits inonGy, but they say no, that in Spain
alone can so heinous an offense be tried or
receive punishment or pardon. Senor Jacob
asks for the time to go to Spain toiiiterccde
for his brother, and offers it large sum for
the privilege; not large enough, however; he
doubles it; no; trebles and quadruples it, al-
most beggariiig himself to do so ———a.iid at last
the Jesuits accept his propositions. He sets
forth—but before he goes he spends a night
away from home, and the day after he has
sailed the Miraflores mine—the source of all
his wealth—is found to be flooded. As you
know, today it remains the same.”
“And Senor J 050?" .
“Ah, you are anxiousl Well, what do you
think? The ship was not out of sight of the
port of Calico before Senor Jose, together
with his image, was walled up—think of it—
iiuniui-ed, buried alive i—in the room in which
he was said to have daily beaten it.”
"What?”
“Oh, but yes, I assure you: and all those in-
credible noises thai; We have board are the
spirit of Senor Jose begging some charitable
person to come and release him from his
Charuel house. Say, you will come to the
ball now, chi”
“By no means.”
“Oh, you are a fooll”
“Oh, well, tomorrow you toll me how
many duennas you have eluded, and how
many delightful waists you have clasped.”
Florian has left me.
I blow out the candles; the curtains that di-
vide the enormous room in two parts wave
gently back and forth in the breeze. I lean
my head upon the window ledge, for the
julousics are open. and the roses—tho splendid
flowers of Lima’s patron saint—come strug-
gling in, fi‘eigbting the sen. wind with their
luscious sweetness.
A fortnight ago I was awakened at a little
before 3 iii the morning by a strange, shrill
noise, something like the metallic whii- of a
buiidlo of rods striking against a hard and
ringing substance. In a. moment more the
tapestry swung'out far into the wind and I
heard the quarriiquirri on the mud roof tap
off 3 o’clock, the bells of the convent rang
out, and presently, as the slow dawn crept in
at the easement, Lheard again' that metallic
sound, growing fainter, fainter, indistinguish-
ably lost somewhere down the broad corridor.
I arose and pressed my hand to my forehead;
it was cold and wet. My builds trembled as I
struck a light.
And now, thirteen times more in succession,
had this thing happened to me.
It annoyed and puzzled me.
I am not a superstitious person; neverthe-
less it would have been folly not to recognize
the coincidences between any experiences and
the story Florian had told me.
As I have said. I had the writing to do, but
I had determined to sit up the entire night ill
order that the force of habit should not have
the power to influence me in awakening at
any special hour.
I had made up my mind to give to the
thing, whatever it was, the full benefit of all
my senses, uniiLcumberod by the drorvsines
and mental inefficiency incident to the first
moments after a night’s sleep.
If the house—n. su rbly large one, by the
by, with its grand branching staircases and
wide, cool galleries—was haunted, well, there:
I would fliid out what thing—spirit, fish,
tangible or uIitungiblc—it harbored.
Haunted!
I laughed aloud.
It was an odd experience to find myself sit-
ting up of a night in Lima to watch for a
ghost.
The moon turned around the corner and
threw now but a little beam in at my window
over the top of the cathedral roof. The breeze
from the sea had ceased. Florian, too, had
come home. Seeing that my candles were
not lighted, he had taken for granted that I
was asleep and had not parted the curtains
between our rooms.
Did I feel drowsy?
Surely—yes.
But I lifted my head and. by the moonlight
I looked at iuy womb. It was half after two.
I laid it upon the table before me.
I lighted a candle.
If ghosts absolutely refuse to demonstrate
themselves save in the darkness, then to-night
It should not hear Senor Jose beefing the nth
vci- image of the Blessed Virgin nor—
, Hark! '
1 Oh, bah! The forlorn tingle of a far off
ute.
I set the candle nearer to my eyes as I sat
leaning my chin in my palms. .
There!
The qunri'aquirri tapped three. I steadily
took time to glance down at my watch. The
hands marked the hour of three,
And—What their? ;-
Anything? ‘
Yes 'v
You are already be-
‘ II
The metallic whir—dios! I could distin-
guish the string of each separate rod as it fell,
flail like, upon the ringing silver.
Stroke by stroke, frantic, showering one
after another in inipetuous fury—the long,
wailing echoes sounding out with a horrible
distinctness.
I looked around.
The hangings at the further end of the
room blew out straight, and yet there was
not a breath of air to stir them. The alert
stillness of the hour before the down was
over all the powers of nature. .-
I put my hand to my head; it was clommy.
I rubbed my hands together; they were stiff
as ice. I looked at my watch; it was ten
minutes after three.
Ten minutes and still that sound was ring-
ing in my ears—still I heard the fast,'regular
beats fall with a desperate hatred of energy.
A little fainter now, and a little fainter, not
ceasing l' I'llly, but merely that a greater
distance \- . growing between me and it—
whatcvcr it was.
Should I attempt to follow it?
Decidedly. -
I walked the length of , half the room and
the curtains blew back in my face. I pushed
through them, the'attomp't at resistance giv-
ing me an angered energy. I ' crossed the
other half of my apartment totho door. It
stood open.
I had left it closed, latched, locked!
I passed out on to the gallery.
The sounds were now much louder, of the
same intensity as at the first moment I had
heard them.
They grow louder still, and the long wall-—
bittoi', horrible as the wordless prayer of
some disembodied spirit in hell itself, sounded .
desperately in my ears as, I pushed on
I
The corridor was very long, and it was not
until I had almost reached the extreme end
of it that there conic a pause in the sounds.
I stopped. I passed my hands across my
eyes.
Was it If “Ins I in reality awake?
Bnhl Truly. As I stepped on a pace I
knocked against a palm tree in its great
tub and bruised my check on the bark.
I stood still once more, and then there come
a. sigh—Mudro do diosl
Not the sigh of suffering humanity, and
that is sad enough.
Not the sigh of a lost spirit, for that even
possesses a certain pathos.
But the sigh of a devil, and I trembled in
every limb us I heard it.
This devil’s sigh, and after it a. crash, as if
some one threw himself with the utmost vio-
lence against the wall of the corridor.
I rushed to the spot, guided by thesound.
I spread my fingers over the wall; it shook
slightly, trcniulously.
Very well.
I collected myself.
The morning had begun to poop in at the
skylights and also at the windows below in
the court.
I gathered myself together with all my
strength of lusty youth—I was six feet in
height and broad, as most of my country are
—aiid throw myself against the wall at the
spot where the sounds had ceased.
Once, twice, thrice! At last the mud wall
yielded, and, enveloped, enmeshed in dust
and crumbling ruins, I pitched in—
' Iii—where? .
I could scarcely breathe.
I choked with the dust.
I was blinded with it; my head swam.
I staggered about, at every step * my breath
seeming to come with only the more diffi-
culty. .
I was stifling with this chamel house air-—
this spot reeking with the pent up, condensed
vapors of mystery—death, what sisal—for
300 years!
I pulled off my collar, my cruvnt.
Should I go back?
No—most emphatically.
As the question arose in my mind I heard,
once again, the whir of the rods—the echo
of the devilish sigh. ‘
The light, I could now discern, struggled in
a little through the jagged fissure I had made
in the wall as I forced my entrance, and with
it came a whiff of air.
I turned around.
By the dim gleam I beheld myself in a
large apartment. At first Iconld distinguish,
as I cautiously crept around its four sides,
clinging to the cold walls, but little. Finally
I came to a. square space of roughness. It
was a. window, walled up on the outside!
Withthe increasing light, dim although it
was, I beheld a few moldering rags and worm
eaten bits of wood, the remnants of furniture,
very likely. A pedestal of marble stood at
the eastern end; it fell a. crackling ruin as I
touched it. A book that crumbled into a
film of dust lay in one corner. I stooped to
pick up its fragments. ’ The only scrap that
held together was that portion of the Cor-
'dova leather binding bearing its title—“The
Talmud” -
I held it between my fingers, and, oppressed
almost to death by the atmosphere, I made
for the aperture.
As I did so—again, the last time—unearthly
strdkesfcll ringing, stinging, lashing, cutting
on the echoing metal,
I turned back, and stumbling ,to the middle
of the room, or what seemed to me the mid-
dle, whence the sounds came, I dashed my
foot against something. ,
What?
Well—this:
The skeleton of a man. ' .
I raised myself upon my lmees,-I felt it,‘ I
saw it lying there in units miserable squalor.
In its fieshless right hand, tightly gripped,
o flail of metallic rods. -
In its teeth, hold fast in the agonies of
starvation, a stick of worm eaten wood.
Across its breast, holding it pinioned to'tho
ground, lay an image-of silver of the Blessed
Virgin.
The first ray of sunlight that had pene-
trated this place in three centuries at this
moment crept in the rent I had made in the
wall.
It fell across the silver image.
I lifted it in my arms; it weighed full forty
pounds.
Did the quarraquirri ever again awaken
me at 3 o’clock in the morning?
No.
And was any one ever again disturbed by
those cruel sounds?
Never. -
And, nftor all, how can one say if I did not
dream the whole affair?
Oh, well, that is true, except: for this
reason:
“The silver image,” pitted and beaten,
stands today in the oratory of my father’s
house in Moscow, whither I carried it when I
uitted Lima—Count Chopolsky in New
ork Mercury. .
TENDING THE "YOUNG runs."
One of the Crucifixious of Boyhood
Days—Hereditary Depravity.
was in the fact that I had the dry nursing of
all sorts of “young ’uiis," as they were gener-
ally termed. Every farmer that I worked
for scentedto have one of these specimens,
urged from 10 to 18 months.
If any proof is lacking as to the cause of
ruptured depravity, it could be found in the
breed I had to care for. They were always
queruleus, squalling, rapzicious, intolerable.
They were cruel, for they invariably scratched
the faces of those who attended them, clawed
the breasts that fed them, throttlcd dogs that
some within their reach, dicw cuts backward
by the tail, smashed, tore, and defaced every-
thing, which they were permitted to touch.
l‘hey were voracious as sharks, and preda-
tory misers in the matter of property. Every-
thing thcy had, everything they saw in the
possession of others, belonged of right, in
their estimate, to them. After getting
through the vernacular as far as “it-goo, u—
goo,”'theii' next step was “Mine! Mine!” Each
of them was Jay Gould from the start, and
wanted the earth. I
Often when holding seine squalling bicrup-
tive brat, which, with clenched fist, closed
and streaming eyes, red and puffed features,
legs and body as stiff as stone posts, yelled.
struggled and fought without the slightest
reason other than such as are to be found in
natural diubolism, did I wonder why there is
such to dislike of Herod the Great, who
showed himself to be a ruler of consummate
value, and whose only popular failure was
the slaughter of the Bethlehemlc babes.
I worked one summer for the wiekedqst
man in the county, who lived on the outskirts
of the hill country, who could neither rend
nor write, and who' generally gave utterance
to an oath or some atrocious blasphemy at
every breath. He had an infant about 15
months old, which I had to trundle and
cuddle, and which I always believed was an
incantato devil. Long before it could say
“do. do.” it could utter'witll vim the expres-
sion, “By Dod!" I remember even yet the
little match as he sat in a high chair at the
table, with a bullet head covered with red,
close curling hair, bcady gray eyes, thick
lips, flushed cheeks, and witlia chuckle of
glee would reiterate “By Dodl By Dodi"
it causes me no profound grief to say that
the father, having moved out of the vicinity,
was sent to the state’s prison for grand
lui'ceiiy.--Poliuto in Chicago Times.
How Frogs Are Caught.
The simplest method to secure him is to use
a common gig light and the bare hand. A
frog is attracted and charmed *by light. He
will swim to land toward a torch. At night
he rests on the tangled edges of the water,
about a foot within, but always with his head
toward his destination. You must not reach
for him from the rear, but always catch him
by the head. This sport can be continued up
to 2 o’clock, but after midnight his dolor-ens
cries have ceased. You must then find him
by accident.
The red flannel catch is adopted to day as
well as night sport. Anything red pleases
the frog’s fancy. Three, book's adjusted to a.
line, half bid by the flannel, and ‘slowly let
down within near reach of the frog, will in-
duce him to leap for the object, and a simul-
taneous jerk of the rod ‘will catoh~ the game.
A more scientific arrangement is to take four
books on two-feet lines, arrange them around
a cork with o. string.-bring the four lines to-
gether into a knot above and affix to a rod.
A clover head plucked from the field and
strung to the cork mid their let down to the
view of the game will make a sure catch
every time. A fisherman will deem it good
luck when he can blowout his light over a
bag of 150 frogs, and he will say of some that
inches—Philadelphia Times.
Preventing Sunstroke.
The best thing to prevent sunstroke is a
thoroughly ventilated hat, the ideal but for
summer being that which simply shades the
head. If such a one cannot be procured, the
lightest and best ventilated one obtainable
‘ should be worn, and it should be frequently
lifted and held above the head, so as to shade
it and let- the air circulate around it. The
frequent wetting of the head with cold water
is, of course, good. Do not wear anything
that prevents the free radiation of the natural
heat from the head, and the free circulation
of air around it. If a person is prostrated by
sunstroke, put pounded ice or cold water on
the head, and give plenty of fresh air, cool if
possible.—-American Agriculturist.
One of the crucifixions of my boyhood days ‘
they are large when they measure eighteen
'l‘llll.’ WITH A rnunsr
AMONG THE AVERAGE POOR OF
THE GREAT EAST SIDE.
A Tour Among Typical Tenement Fami-
lies—Disorderly Condition-tot” a. “flasher-
woman's Home—A Noni. Place-A
Mother and Daughter. ‘
It was about the middle of the afternoon
when the priest stopped beforou big tene-
ment building not far from the East river.
An alloy run directly through this building
to the back yard. The,pnssago was low,
dark and narrow. The yard was about fifteen
feet square. It came to an end at a five story
building, which stood. therefore, of! the
street and between blocks, entirely sur-
rounded with solid rows of tenement houses.
It seemed like a house in a well. This struc-
ture swarmed with the life of twenty fami-
lies. Besidos serving as a habitation for up-
ward of 100 human beings. it had been found
convenient as a hitching post for numerous
clothes lines. From all the building's by
which it was surrounded i-iin lines that were
attached to it in various places. Them lines
were double, running airouiid'a pulley at the
further end, so that at woman in the third
story by pulling on the empty line could
bring all her drying linen within her much
one piece at a time. Certainly it convenient
arrangement, but it was productive of a
picturesque array of clothing of all sorts sus-
pended at heights varying from one to six
stories, and by so much the more shutting
off light and air. ‘Such is one of the most
common features of the tenement districts.
Were it not thus there would be no place
whatever for the hanging out of a wash, for
the roofs and back yards combined would
not go around to one-quarter of the “tenants;
' and it saves going up and down stairs with
big baskets of clothes to roof or yard, as the
case might be. ’ But it does not save going
down stairs even from the seventh or eighth
or tenth stories to dispose of refuse, for the
only connection with the sewer for these ‘
dwelling places is through outhouses in back
yards. ‘ .
“Let us go in here,” said the priest, leading
the way to the door of the narrow building at
the back of the yard. It need notbe said
that the stairway was steep and dark. At the
top of the fifth flight the priest knocked at a
door.
“Komm,” exclaimed a strong, hearty voice,
and the priest and his companion entered.
Nothing short of a photograph and catalogue
could do justice tothe confusion of that room.
Imagine, in the first place, that it is about
ten feet square. The door, when pushed part
way open, comes to a stop against a mass of
clothing, or if not clothing odds andends of
cloth; in the heap, which is about two feet
high, may be detpcted- remnants of shirts,-
trousers, quilts, skirts, stockings, shoes, sheets,
towels, mosquito netting and nondescript ar-
ticles, apparently without number. They are
not the evidence that thewoman who stands
at the other side of the room is in the wash-
ing business, for the things in this heap are
hopelessly ragged, very dirty and unfit for
use. The heap is crowned by a broken down
market basket, in which is lying a baby less
than a year old. She is covered with tho
shreds of a quilt and she looks indifferently
out of her dull eyes at the visitors. A similar
heap of clothing is under the window at the
end of the room. Pots, shocs, plates, pans,
coal. kindling wood (a very little of each),
bottles, a brush, a piece of soap and somo
other articles that have slipped from the
memory are on the floor. One cannot step
without treading upon something besides the
boairls of the floor. There are a small stove,
a. box cupboard in which a few dishes are till--
systematically arranged and amantel shelf at
one side of the room. Several cheap pictures
are on the walls. From a smaller and- win-
dowless room in equally hopeless confusion
comes a child of about five years to stare
glumly at the priest. The woman cooking at
the stove is a stalwart- German, clad appro-
priately to her surroundings. She smiles
pleasantly and talks with all the gusto and
volubility of a typictd gossip.
The next place visited was scrupulously
neat. A young woman with a grave face
presided there. She had three children. Her
husband was away at his work. He is a shoe-
maker, and. gets from his regular employ-
ment $5 a week. He pays $10 a month for
rent, and the priest said that he believed the
young man added somewhat to his income by
cobbling until into at night in his tonement
for his neighbors. The only child premnt was
a bright little youngster just able to walk.
He looked healthy. As the priest went out of
the building a 0-year-old boy run up to him
shouting, “Hulloa; Father!” Ho belonged to
the same family.
Up four flights in another building was an
elderly woman whose room was fairly neat,
but crowded with kitchen . and bedroom
furniture. She told how her son had fallen
into sooner the day before and bad to be
taken to a hospital, and bow three days be-
fore her husband had gone down with a stag-
ing and injured himself so that he had to stay
in bed.
“W here is he now?” asked the priest.
“0h, he got up this morning and went to
work. again.”
This family consisted of husband, wife and
five children. The husband, when he did not
lose time from calamities, made 812 a week,
and, with the work of the mother and the
eldest boy, the total income per week rose to
$18. The writer asked: ' .
“Would it be posible by a more sensible
outlay of the income for these people to live
more comfortably? Is any of it watted in
drink or other form of dissipation!"
“These people are temperate,” replied the
priest gravely. “Whether they might not, if
they know more about domestic economy,
manage to get more for their money, I do not
know; but there is an aged father and mother
whose support, rent and all, has to come out
of that $18 a week."
At the very top of a lofty building within
a. stone‘s throw of the water front were a
mother and her daughter at work making
shirts. The daughter was about 17 years old,
and under better circumstances she might
have been pretty. She rose with a smile to
greet the priest, who inquired about her
health.
“I am feeling well, today, father," she said,
“but the reason I have not been to church for
two Sundays is that I was sick abed. I can-
not go out every day now, as I cannot tell
when I shall be better. I was so sick last
night that they thought I would not live till
morning.”
.“Yes,” ipterrupbed the mother in a trema-
lous voice, “we thought she would surbly die."
“And yet you are at work now!” he asked.
“Yes,” was the cheerful reply. “We must
do all we can or we shall not get rich."
Further questions developed the fact that
these two, who had only themselves to depend
upon, managed by continuous work during
the light of two days, to do seventy-two cents’ ~
worth of work. And they sighed as they ex-
plained that work was not always steady.
The girl’s voice was weak, her frame thin and
wasted, her face colorless, and us the priest
and his companion went down stairs they
could only look significantly at each' other,
both silently wondering whether she would
live to take her communion at church on the
coming Sunday.—New York Sun.
Infatuated with Wagner's Music.
Judith Gautier became so infatuated with
Wagner’s music that she went to Bayreuthto
iivo. There she used to dress in the garb of
Lohengi-in and other Wagnerian operatic
heroes, and strove in every way actually to
transform herself into one. She not only
were the heroic costume, and listened by the
hour to the music connected with the heroic
part, but assumed the manner and speech of
the character into which she wished to be
transformed. More than that. She tried the
arts of witchcraft, and went through the most
outlandish rites. On one occasion, when she
had been trying for two weeks to turn her-
self iuto Tristan, she had a dream which she
thought assured her succeiw. In accordance
with what she saw in the dream, she went out
' to a lonely spot at midnight, mixed it strange
kettle of broth over a. fire and walked; about
it for an hour chanting some of the lines of
Tristan in the opera. Then the kettle upset:
and scolded her foot, whereupon she uttered
a most unheroic scream, limped away and
abandoned the" whole business in deep dis— _
gush—Paris Cor. Chicago Tribune.
An East India Joke.
It is not generally known that the downfall
of Dhuleep Singh, in a social sense, was due
to a monstrous trick he played some fourteen
years ago. It was in a country house where the
Prince and Princess of Wales were staying,
and a certain noble lord was in the not of of,-
fcring n candlestick to the princess as she was
retiring up the stairs. The maharajnh, at
this moment, stuck his foot in the way of the
noble lord, tripped him up and sent him and
the candle flying. Such a gross piece of mis-
behavior was probably nsver before known,
and the justly incensed nobleman “went for"
Duhleep Singh like a. bulldog us soon as he
got him into the billiard room. It was with
difiiculty that Dhuleep Singh was rescued
from his assailant—St. Stephen‘s Review.
It’s er putty hard matter fur or man dat's
got on or po’ suit 0’ cloze to ham or good
humor wid qe worl’. De strawberry is
nearly allus sour when do seeds bergins tar
chem—Arkansaw Traveler. _ ,,
THE BIG NEWSPAPER.’ '.
HAS THE LIMIT OF THE READERS’
PATIENCE BEEN REACHED?
The Newspaper of the Future May be
Smaller Than the Present Average.
Condensation in tho ‘Judioloiis' Sense.
The Pictorial Practice.
When the big newspaper becomes still big-
ger how is it to be delivered? Newsdsalers
and carriers have already complained of the
hardness of the task of handling so many
pounds of paper. How will it be when still
more pounds are added? Why, it will be im-
possible, mrtainly at the prevailing low rates
Tho days of the cheap pron will be. passed. ,
The price must be vary considerably in-
creased to induce the middleman to dispose of
Mr. Jones' larger sheets and more of .them.
The newspaper of the future will be smaller
instead of larger than the present average.
And it will be no worse a howspapor on that
account, but rather better; ,v This result will
be reached by condensation 'in the judicious
sense. I don't mean by this “boiling down
everything,” so that thererfs little of spirit or
substance left in the article or paragraph, or
anything much but the heading. The process
to which I refer is condensation by exclusion.
The nowspawr of , tho' futuro will publish
only what it is reallywortlt while to publish.,j"_:-
The newspaper of tho presént prints a vast’
mass of matter upon which space is wasted,
which nobody is profited by reading or actu.
ally wants to road, or having read recalls a
moment later. If all of this were omitted the
newspaper would shrink rapidly.
in omen nursnmrv‘rs.
' But it is not only the literary department
that condensation is advantageously practi-
cable. The commercial department is as in-
viting to field. I doubt that the present sys-
tem of advertising will be in operation in
1987, or even in 1037. An illustration will
point the case. 'If all the newspapers in New
York should agree to double their advertising
rates, and if in consequence the advertisers
should buy half as much space as heretofore,
it is, of counts, mathematically demonstra-
ble that the newspapers would be no worse
off pocuniurily. I think it is morally demon-
strable that the ndverthers would be no
worse off in respect to the publicity of their
business, but that all hands by and by would
be a great deal better 01 in every way.
The mivertisement would attract very
nearly as much attentign. It would get
quitons much if the advertisers agreed to
stand upon a level. It is the competition in
magnitude—the struggle for a. longer an-
nouncement and for bigger letters, the enor-
mous alphabetical blotohes which disfiguro
so many daily journals-that characterizes
the system. Then there is another sort of
competition within the paper itself, between
the literary and commercial columns.
run Pica-0am memoir.
Mr. Ottendorfer says: “I think the habit of
presenting illustrations in such journals is
foolish and in verybad taste.” I certainly
agree with him; but if we should trace the
genesis of the pictorial practice might we not
find that it originated in part in a supposed
necessity for an chat to the black, street
poster letters of the advertisements? There
was, perhaps, a disposition to restore the bal-
ance between the departments, and to do it
bloated headings, monstrous “cuts" and diffuse
padding of all sorts were resorted to. This
policy of the literary half in turn stimulates
the commercial half to fresh efforts.
. If journalism could recover from this inad-
ness of magnitude the two sides would still
. act and react upon each other, but in a more
wholesome ,way. Both would learn that
there are effective opportunities in compact-
ness of space and moderation of statement.
It seemsto me that the hope of journalism
lies in some such reforrnasthis. Otherwise
its fate threatens to resemble that of an over-
grown, gigantic vegetable. not nutritious.
agar-liming to useless pulp and unproductive
I think the newspaper of the future will
have smaller pages and fewer of them. The
tendency almost everywhere seems away
from the blanket form—Cor. Brooklyn
Eagle.
MARRIAGE ssrwssn cousuIs.
Scientific Opinions on 'Both Sides of the
Question—An Anxious Inquirer.
This inquiry as to the effects of such mur-
rlages on their offspring comes from a friend
In Oregon:
“Is not the common belief that marriages
between first cousins are objectionable some-
what like the belief in the effect of the moon
upon planting of crops, shrinking of meats.
eta, merely coincidences. and not caused by
the moon! I am aware, of course, that family
traits must be more pronounced in the chil-
dren, but where both sides are [mentally and
physically sound I can'tseo wily such mar-
riages should have the tendency to produce
unsound children.”
Though the prejudice against such mar-
riages has a sounder basis than mere supersti-
tion, their evil efiects upon ofispring seem to
have been exaggerated, except in instances
where there is a family predisposition to
serious disease. In 1871, when the English
census wusto be taken, Sir John Lubbock,
Dr. Playfair. and other scientific men made
an efiort to have statistics obtained as to the
prevalence and consequences‘of cousin mar-
riages, but unfortunately they were defeated
bynporliament which was silly enough to
treat their proposition with scornful laughter.
Afterward Mr. George H. Darwin, son of the
great Darwin, and-himself a man of much
scientific reputation, undertook an investiga-
tion on his own account, though in acom-
paratively narrow field, and reached the con-
elusiou that, on the average, such marriages
did not produce the evil eflects commonly
attributed to thorn.
But Signor Paolo Mantegna. a professor
at Pavia, made a somewhat similar inquiry
in 1808, and his deductions were that “con-
sunguinoous marriages are, on the whole,
mom unfavorable to the offspring than
others,” and that “tho nearer the kinship the
greater the danger,” and the more so when
the kinship is through the mother, “because
more evil or good is heritable from the
mother." Mr. Darwin himself acknowledges
that the preponderance of opinion among the
many authorities examined byhim isthat the
ill effects of cousin marriages are greater than
his partial investigation showed- them to be.
Dr. Crichton Browne, of the West Riding
asylum for lunatics and idiots, expreses the
opinion that “even healthy temperaments,
when commonto both parents, often come
out as decided eachex'im in the children;” and
ho goes so far as to contend that uopersonsof
similar temperaments ought to marry. Dr.
hinder Lindsay, of a Scotch asylum, thinks,
on the other band, that “the ill sheets of
cousin marriages, including insanity, are
much less. than represented." Dr. Arthur
Mitchell, who, as deputy commissioner in
lunacy for Scotland, made a very thorough
investigation of blood relationship in mar-
' rings, comes to the conclusion that “consam
guinity in parentage tends to injure the on-
spring. ”—New York Sun. .
Identity of Mutilated Money.
I am often asked whether this or that piece
of mutilated money is redeemable. It is safe
to say, unless the money's identity is entirely
gone, that it is redeemable. In fact, one may
ray that money in the shape of ashes can. be
restored. It is a fact that after the Chicago
fire ashes were redeemed. It came about in
this way: . It is customary in banks to do
money up in packages, say of $10,000 each,
and in the big fire of course hundreds and
hundreds of these packages were reduced to
ashes. But the shape of- the package re-
mained, and wherever the package could be
sent on to Washington without crumbling
the ashes, the money was sure to be replaced.
It was done by nimble fingered women in the
treasury department whose trained touch
and sightnro wonderfully acute.
It is well known that the ashes of the news-
paper if dampened will show knees of the
printing. So was ’it' with the bills. These
women would moisten the package of appar-
ently useless ashes, and to their experienced '
eye the numbers. and character of tbcrbill
would at once appear as if they had touched
It with a magic, wand. . So. thousands and
thousands of dollars [were- redeemed by these '
patient women. A friend of mine, a country
merchant. afraid of banks, placed a large
3uni of money in bills in a itoiio jar ona
shelf in his store, where he thought it would
bequito safe. When he went to look at it
one day some time after it was a mass of
fragments. Mice had got into the jar and
chewed the bills into the minutes: parts.
Then they had mixed them all up, and alto-'
gather it was a fearful looking mess; He
sent a cigarbox' full of it to me. I forwarded
Itto Washington, and what do you think!
Out of “1931.145 originally in the pile a little -
over $1,000 was redeemed, the parts beyond
recall being only the mere fibers of the bills.
So the man lost only 8100 by his foolishness.
The reclamation of such money is done
entirely by women, whose patience especially
[its them. for the monotonous work—Bank
President in Globe-Democrat.
- Different Theories.
it is said there is a town in Scotland where
twenty-two moii have refused to speak to or
recognize each other for years, because they
have dilfcreut theories about the creation of
' the world, and nonoof them will give up to
the other.
' somethin
VARIATIONS IN STATURE‘.
THE SIZE OF A PEOPLE PROPOR-
TIONATE TO ITS NUTRITION.
Efi'ect of Famines—Loss of Vigorous and
Robust in War—Kolght Reduced by
Fatigue—Small Men Make Best Soi-
(lien.
'. Considerable differences will be found to
exist when we compare the statures of the
various races of mankind, and it is the ex-
aggeration of this fact that has givoii rise to
the legends of dwarf and giant peoples. In-
dlviduals of the supposed dwarf races would
appear quite large if compared with real
dwarfs. A dwarf much over 3 feet high be-
gins to lose interést as a dwarf; if he reaches
4 feet and more, he ceases to be a. dwarf, and
becomes a. “little man.” Among the smaller
races are the Esquimaux, averaging 5 feet 2
inches; the Laps—men, 5 feet 1 inch; women,
4 feet 7 inches; the Akkas seen by Schwein-
furth in Africa; the Negritos, of the Philip- .
pine and Andaman Islands anti Malacca; the
dwarf race of Madagascar; and the Bush-
,men, whose height ranges from4 feet 5 inches
,to 4 feet 6% inches. Among the large races
1‘ may be mentioned the Norwegians, the
Canadians, the North American Indians, the
Cafi'rcs, the Pgtagonimis', and, the Poly.ie-.
sinus, the av'brago height of the last
two of which is estimated at about
6 feet. The difference . in the mean
height of the various human races is, there-
fore, that between 4 feet 5 inches and 6 feet,
or 1 foot 7 inches. The mean between these
two numbers is about 5 feet 3 inches, and
this standard is generally agreed upon by
anthropologists nsa division line in the op-
proximative classification of the races ac-
cordingtotboir height. If we may believe
the ancient authors, a large number of giants
and ginniosses attained extraordinary stab
are, even for persons of that class. Pliny
mentions the giant Gobbarn, who was 9 feet
Oincbes tall, and two other giants, Poison
and Secundilla, who were half a. foot taller;
Garopius tells of a young giantem who was
10 feet high, and Lecat of a Scotch giant 11%
feet in height. But we may take it for
granted that these figures are greatly exog—
gerabed, while we have a right to regard as
authentic giants whose height runs up to 8%
feet. The Grecian giant, Aninnab, now 18
years old, is 7 feet 8 inches tall; the Chinese
giant, Chang, 8 feet 8 inches. The Austrian
giant. Winckelmeier, who was recently ex.-
hibited in Paris, measuring 8% feet, may be
regarded as a specimen of the highest stature
attained by the human species. At the op-
.posito extremes may be found numerous
dwarfs not more than 20 inches, and some
even as little as 16 and even 12 inchesin
height; but such dwarfs are only monsters
with ntsophied limbs or twisted backbones,
or stunted infants, whose age is usually ex-
aggerated by their Barnums. One of the
most remarkable dwarfs on record was the
celebrated Borulawsky, who was born in
1789, and died in 1837, who was never more
than 28 inches in height, was perfect in every
limb and proportion, and was bright and in-
telligent. The conditions that affect the
stature of populations and races of men may
all be described under one general head—that
of nutrition. The size of a population, a race
or a. group of individuals living for several
generations in the some conditions of en-
vironment and resources is proportionate to
its nutrition.
It was long believed that climate alone had
a great influence on stature; and, in fact, if
we regard the white or light colored races,
we remark that the stature is less in climates
of extreme temperatures than in temperate
latitudes. In. the extremely . cold Arctic
regions, the Laps, Esquimaux, and Green-
landers are very small; but coming down
into more temperate regions and more fertile
countries, we find much larger races, like the
Nor-semen, Russians, Anglo-Saxons and North
Germans in Europe, and the Canadians and
Indians in America. Farther south, and as
the temperature becomes hotter, the stature
diminishes; a fact which may be verified
among the Italians and Spaniards, and which
is observed in most of the great regions of the
globe. These variations are not the effect of
climate, but are directly dependent, as we
have already said, on nutrition. In very
cold climates assimilation is excessive, for the
organism needsa large quantity of food to
sustain it against the outer temperature. If,
in consequence of the rigor of the climate
and the limited resources of the country
in game and fish, waste is a little
superior, or quite equal, to assimilation, the
population subject to such conditions must
continue small. This is the case with the
Laplanders and the Esquimaux of the Arctic
islands and the east coast of Greenland. But
when game and fish are abundant the stature
of the tribe rises—as takes place with the Es-
quimaux. whose average height increases as
their habitat draws nearer to their southern
limit. There the Esquimaux cease to be
dwarfs and reach the average height of 5%
feet, or greater than that of the French popu-
lation. The influence of climate upon stature
is, therefore, a. question of faculty of assimi-
lation and of the quantity of available food.
For this last reason, the fertility of the soil
has a considerable influence upon the size of
the population.
Famines and frequent or prolonged dearths
have the effect of reducing the size of the
peoples who are exposed to them. Wars in-
duce the same result, and this not only by the
operation of the material disasters and
miseries which they occasion, but also
through the loss of a large number of the
most vigorous and robust men of the nation,
and the enfcebling infirmities and sufferings
of those who survive. This is what, took
placein France during the long pe 0d of
war that prevailed at the close of thel-LBigh-
tcenth century and during the first empire.
One of the less recognised agéncies affecting
stature is fatigue, under the influence of
which the height diminishes. A soldier, for
instance, is perceptibly taller before than
after a forced march; when the body is
fatigued it gives way, the cartileges lose their
elasticity and become thinner, and the fatty
and fibrous cushions, which give spring to
the organs of locomotion, become less supple
and more attenuated, all of which contribute
to the diminution of height. The fact is
knownto the tricksters, who practice upon
young men liable to military service, so as to
secure exemptions for them. If the men are
oulya few centimeters over the minimum
standard of the service, these practitioners
pntthcni through a varito of fatiguing ex-
ercises, with carrying of burdens and priva-
tious, etc, till they succeed in reducing them
below the minimum and causing them to lo
rejected on examina‘ tion. The ratio of muscu-
larenergy to the pound of living weight is
much greater with small or ,middle sized
men than with very large ones. The length
of the limbs of the latter necessaril' yoccasions
an amplitude in his motions that makes exe-
cution slower. Length of limbs also contrib- ,
utes to a. waste of strength. Thus, looking at
military aptitudas, it is middling sized or
small men that offer the greatest energy,
powertoresist fatigue, and activity inbat-
tie; andof this kind is the popular type of
of the French soldier—the petit chassenr, or
the soldier of the line.—M. Guyot Daubes.
(Translated for The Popular Science Earthly .
from La Nature.)
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Vegetable Compound is the best remedy
for female Complaintsfthey ever heard of.
It sells enormously. ' ~
There are- no corner groggeries on the
road to prosperity. -
Unto the third and fourth generation,
N“, scrofula and salt rheum is cured by
ontaine's Great Discovery. For sale‘by
I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk.
Mr. Blaine has joined the procession,aud -
is laid up with the rheumatism like so
many other public mcn.
- The aggregate tension of the strin s of
a piano on the iron frame if from fi teen
to twenty tons. The Mathushek Plano
Co..cast their own plates. See these pianos
at Loomis’ Temple of Music. ' '
' George Wiliaiin Curtis says the Benton-
Stonc episode “chills“ the indo pcndcn
friends of the president.
It is rarit in these days to find a really
reliable art cle, but .Sperry and Barnes’
Hams are without a doubt, the best in the
world. If you wantpure Kettle Lard, ask
for Sperry and Barucs’. Every reliable
grocer keeps these goods in stock.
“Mama," said a little boy, “there’s
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little whi c. There, it squoke again."
The microscope demonstrates that con-
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duced by disease gems. Fontainc's Cu re
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One thing can be said in favor of the
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not warm it up for bi'eakfast. »
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And hot weather is now in
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If they are fed on cake and
pie,
They’ll have Dyspepsia by
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A quart of boiling water, a
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LESSONS IN FRENCH.
MISS BAIRD’S INSTITUTE.
. .
PI of. LaLwnde,
Widelyknown as the director of the French Depart-
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Chatauqua. wi'i. come twice a week to Miss Baird’s
Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited
numbei of pupils outside of tire school will be
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They have in stock Electric Batteries, which
will be sold at close figures. They carry also a full
assortment of Keystone Writing Paper Packets.
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learn of a perfect mere. No CUBE, No Pa v.
"R. YARNALL,
150 E. 86th Street, New York City,
ly50
BLASCER’S
“OLD BRIDGE STORE.”
Nearly half a century ago my store was christened
as above,’and has since been known and honored among
the old residents of Norwalk by that'appropriate name.
But that is a matter of little consequence to the public in
these piping times of severe
BUSINESS GOMPETITION.
The one important question
to purchasers is where can
we get the >
,Best Goods for the Least Money!
From time "to time the report comes to me that some of
my near neighbors have boasted that they could under-
sell me.
N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of such a
claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and
UNEXCELLED STOCK 0F GOODS
and the extremely low prices at which I offer the same
has ever left
“The Old Bridge Store,”
With any other feeling than that no one in the trade can
or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than
I do.
I have the choicest exhibits of
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
GROCKERY 8: GLASS'WARES.
Also about every conceivable device for Table
Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with House Cleaning
and Cooking Implements of every description.
Call and
examine and be convinced that my statements are strict-
lv true as to my carefully selected stock of the
listener outlines and Varieties of [tools
In my line are
Sold at the honest Possiblel’rices
We strive to strictly attend to our oWn business.
We never run down or misrepresent other dealers, and
we ask simply a chance to show our customers our stock
and let them satisfy themseIVes; hilt‘f'on‘e, thing may be
depended upon—
NO OTHER CONCERN .SHALL UNDERSELL ME i
The times, the times, the age, the age-—
.The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage;
Tell of the town or city, where they keep
Such goods at once so rich and yet so cheap!
For of all cheap stores beneath the sun,
B. S. BLAscsn’s is the cheapest one!
B. S- BLASCER.
' Norwalk, April 4th, 1887.
OUT ON THE PLAINS.
Room! Room to turn round in, to breathe and be
free,
And grow to be giant—to soil as at sea
With the speed of the wind on a steed with his
mane
To the wind—without pathway or route or a rein!
Room! Room to be free where the white bordered
sen
Blows a. kiss to a brother as boundless as be;
And to east and to west, to the north turd the sun,
Blue skies and brown grasses are wielded as one,
And the buffalo comcs'likc a. cloud on the plain——
Pouring on like the tide of a storm driven main;
And the lodge of the hunter to friend or to foe
Offers rest, and unquestioned you come or you go!
My plains of America! Seas of wild land!
From a. land in the seas with u rnimcnt of foam,
That has reached to the struingcr the welcome -
of home,
I turn to you, lean to you, lift to you my hand!
--Joaquin Miller.
”CHUGGING” FOR CLAMS.
Scene at the Horseshoe of!“ Sandy [look
—A Big Catch.
From early spring until late fall the clam
fishermen may be seen in their boats “chug-
ging" for clams with their immense rakes.
They come from Highlands, on the Shrows-
bury river, where the famous Highland lights
flash their greeting to the mariners. In
March, when there is a. good wind blowing
down the river, the fishermen shove their
floating shanties from their Highlands moor-
ings, make fast to sailboats, and are towed
down the river to the Horseshoe.
.The' houses anchored and moored, work be—
gins. Alittie creel: which empties into the
Horseshoe affords an excellent harbor for the
small rowbonts. At half tide , the men got to
work. The poles of their rakes are thirty
feet long, and with them they polo the beats
out of the creek and into the waters of the
Horseshoe. Then they begin “chugging.” A
man chugging in deep water works with his
grip on the very end of the handle of the
long pole. The upward and downward
motions of the boat on the waves and its
drift on the tide cause the forty teeth of the
rakesto bury themselves in the sandy bot-
tom. In shallower water the man has to
handle the pole from lower down, and the
work is more difficult because more awk-
ward.
“How can you tell,” the reporter asked one
of the fishermen when he had come ashore,
“when to draw up the rake .1" ‘
“By the sound as the teeth grit against the
clams. The teeth are pointedwith the finest
steel, and the sound kind 0’ travels right up
the pole. That’s the sort 0’ music we likes to
hear.”
“Is that a. fair catch?” the reporter asked,
looking into the chugger’s boat, which was
about a quarter full. -
“Fair to middlin’. A big catchis about
3,000 clams, on’ I reckon there’s about 1,500
in there.”
“Does the size of the clams make much dif-
ference in the value of a. catch?”
“Them as is smallest fetches the most. The
teeth of the rakes is about three-quarters of
an inch apart, and we takes what they’ll hold
between ’em. A catch of 3,000 clams, sizes as
they comes, is worth about $4.”
“How do you dispo' se of them?
“ We feed them to the yachtsmen and the
railroad hands, and on Sundayto the land—
lubbers who sit: on the pier and think they’s
goin‘ to catch fish. Then when we’ve col-
lected a bout load—that’s 0,000—wo keeps
them in the creek, where they burrow down
to their bills if you leave them alone long
enough. We takes them up in our beats in
the Highlands to a. wholesale dealer. He
ships them to New York, and from there
they’re shipped west or sold to retailers in the
ctty. They’re sold as little Necks, for Little
Neckers has the name, though the Horseshoes:
has the fiavor.”—New York Sun.
Travers and the English Orator.
It is due to Mr. William R. Travers that
this country still retains the palm for oratory
and volubility of speech. A few years ago a
vaunting and loquncious Britisher had ap-
peared in our midst to dispute the claim of
the national cup in oratory, as Rowell had
done for the belt in pedestrianism. It was in
the yachting season, and the volublo cham-
pion was invited to accompany a party, of
which Mr. Travers was the leading spirit,
down the bay, in Mr. Travors’ yacht. Tho
orator had talked nearly everybody within
caishot of his voice almost deaf. When the
party arrived at the dinner table,'it was
hoped that he would cease for a short time.
but when every other topic seemed exhaust-
ed, as well as the patience of his listeners, he
started off with renewed Vfluency or. the sub-
ject of oysters, which constituted the dish
then at table.
“It isnow a debatable point among scien-
tists,” he said, “as to whether or not the oyster
has brains."
Travers, who up to this time had endured
the infliction ,of his verbose guest with the
calmness of Job, said: “I th—th—ink the
oyster must have b4b—i'aiiw, because it
knows enough when to shut up.”
By this satiric stroke the English orator
was dumfounded and almost paralyzed; his
fluent tongue ceased to wag with its usual
volubility, and when requested to name his
time for the international contest, he begged
to be excused until cured of his cold. He
took the next steamer for Liverpool, and has
not been heard of since. Thus Mr. Travcis’
incisive remark about the mental attributes
of the oyster thoroughly squashed him and
saved the orator-ion] honor of our countrv.—
Chicago Herald. '
Cyrus Field and His Daughter.
Mr. Field was seated in a big ’choir in s.
down town office. He was cool and self poa-
sessed. He talked on all sorts of subjects.
His quick, nervous eye was riveted upon his
desk. Before him lay an open telegram.
Every few minutes he would pick it up and
read it. Then his face brightened. A smile
played about the corners of his mouth. He
seemed as merry as u. sunbeam. “Ah!“that is
better than a check for a— million, sir,” he
said. “Road that. Read what it. says. Give
it to me and I‘ll read it. Never mind—I
know it by heart. Isn’t it good news? It’s
the best thing I’ve heard in a. month.” With
this he tossed the telegram across the table.
It was from his family physician, and read:
“Your daughter is very much better. She is
improving very fast. She sends you her
love."
And then I remembered that his daughter,
his favorite child, is an invalid and has been
such for years, and her father is more
wrapped up in her than all else. He has taken
her all over the world, to the best physicians
in Europe andAmerica, and has spent; a. for-
tune in trying to get her health restored. He
has been like an elder brother to her, andihas .
lavished time find attention upon her to the
exclusion of all else. Mariya big financial
denlhas had towait until Mr. Field stole
away to his daughter’s sick room, where he :
often acted as nurse aswell as companion.
It has been his habit' to spend most of‘ his
leisure time in his daughter‘s company.~ IIc '
.would read to her, gossip with her, tell
her the news of the day, and was withol so
cheerful in her presence that in her moments ,
-of greatest pain she would cry out for her
father. .
“Sit near me, father, I’m very sick,” she
would say to him; “but. I shall be better
soon. You are always so cheerful and so
hopeful that you do me more. good than
drugs. "
Time and again Mr. Field, a man of blood
and iron, a. giant in finance, 0. Gibraltar in
determination, has sunk down disheartened
in his office chair and buried his face in his
hands; sobbing like. babe because of the bud
reports of his daughter’s health. Onthe very
day of the late panic he walked up and down
his office floor wringing his llmldslll a. frenzy
of grief. The news that day from hisduiigh-
for was unfavorable, and he was afraid that
he might not see her alive again. His mill-
ions wcro slipping through his fingers, but he
gave his orders to his brokers quietly and
would then resume his pacing to and fro.
This child has been the apple of his eye. —Ncw
. York Letter.
Wliitc Races in Africa'siliiterior;
The statement contained in Rider Hag-
gnrd’s new novel, “Allan Quntormain,” con-
cerning the existence of white races in the
interior of Africa, has received it most re-
markable confirmation from the man who
above all others is qualified to speak on the
subject. Zcbehr Pasha, the grand old slave ‘ '
king of Central Africa, whom the German
traveler, Dr. Schwcinfurtb, describes in 1871 _
as living in a palace “where visitors were
conducted through halls of state by richly
dressed and attentive slaves, and where
chained lions guarded the doors and soldiers ,
in mail armor waited on his will,” isnow a
captive in the British fortress of Gibraltar,
whither he was deported from Egypt some
two years ago in consequence of his suspected
complicity in tho Soudan rebellion.
Talking the other dayto a correspondent
about the slave countries on the White Nile
which are entirely savage, he remarked: “At
Saknru and Benghicb, in the very heart of
the slave country. there are tribes as white as
Europeans, with long and silky hair. The
boards of the old men sometimes reach down
to their feet." Zebehr. in describing others
of the black tribes, asserts that cannibalism
still prevails and that many of them eat none
but human flesh. . “Men and women are sold
in the markets by the pound exactly as one
sells mutton and beef. The old and [at are
preferred. Sometimes they .arosold dead and
cut up.”—Ncw York “’orld.
Norwalk Chronicler