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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-07-22, Page 6All Ulloxpoeted Confession; Or, The Story of Miss Percival's Early Life. CHAPTER XIV. Rand, for this was the name of the men who had seated himself be- side Esther, also immediately recog- nized her, in spite of the change in her appearance, although he gave no outward sign of the fact. After paying his fare, he leaned back in his seat, pulled his hat over his eyes, and appeared to be ab- sorbed in thought ; yet all the time he was covertly watching the girl. Esther, observing his apparent indifference, began to breathe more freely, believing that he had failed to recognize her, and that she had nothing to fear from him. When the car reached the street where she was to get off she alight- ed, and proceeded on her way, without a suspicion that she was being followed by the pian whom she feared, and who, having also left the car on the opposite side, was keeping a keen eye upon her movements from a safe distance. Once she glanced behind her, but seeing nothing of him, went on again without fear. "Even if ho did recognize me, and should attempt to rob me, he will never find the jewel," she mused; "he would only secure that empty leaden case, for he would never suspect that it would be left,. lying loosely in the tray of my titlark, concealed in an innocent - looking ball of worsted. 1 wish, though, I could gain some clew to its owner," she added, with a sigh; "it is a heavy burden on my mind, and I would like to get rid of it." Upon reaching home, sho ran lightly up the steps, let herself in with her key, and was soon so ab- sorbed in her work that she entire- ly forgot the incident of the morn- ing. Just, as she was sitting down to her supper, Jennie Burt, the land- lady's daughter, carte running in upon her in great glee. "Oh, Miss 1Vellington !" she ex- claimed, her face all aglow, "a friend has sent mother and me some tickets to go to see Irving and Terry to -night, but mother is not able to go out, and told Inc to ask you to go in her place." "Mrs. Burt is very kind," Esther responded, gratefully, an eager light leaping into her eyes. Then, glancing at her worktable, she ad- ded, regretfully, "but I ought not, Jennie; I have those three aprons to finish, for they must bo sent off in the morning." "Oh, don't say you can't go," pleaded Jennie, earnestly. "Mother will not permit me to go alone, and the police," she heard some ono cry in familiar tones that set her heart beating in rhythm to a senti- ment exactly the opposite of fear, and sent the color in a rich crimson tide to her cheeks. The next moment Donald Lancas- ter turned to her, while the drunk- ard hurriedly slunk away. "Miss Wellington, how glad I am that 1 happened to be near just at this moment," the young pian ob- served, as he cordially shook hands with her. "Not more glad than I, I am sure," Esther answered, with a bright smile. "I wonder that the man dared attack me so boldly in such a public place 1" "He would not had he not been intoxicated. Do you know him 1" Donald inquired. "No; but I have an idea, from what he said, that he may be one of two men who were prowling around Mrs. Cushman's cot ago at Lake Georgo last summer," Esther ex- plained. "Nell, he was more than 'half seas over,' if you will pardon the expression, or he would not have been so audacious," Donald ob- served. "But have you no escort l" he asked, glancing around. "No, my friend and I are alone —we thought it would be perfectly safe for two of us to come together to see Irving and Terry," Esther explained, and then introduced her companion. Donald attended them insido the theatre, secured programmes for them, and put them in care of an usher to bo taken to their scats. Then he excused himself and sought his own seat. The two girls thoroughly enjoyed their treat, both Irving and Terry appearing at their best, while the music, as discoursed by the fine or- chestra between the acts, was a rare pleasure to them. During the intermission, just be- fore the curtain rose upon the Last act, Esther glanced around the house through the powerful glass which was a relic of Mrs. Burt's earlier and happier clays. While thus engaged, she caught sight of something which caused her to bound from her seat and utter a cry of astonishment. The next moment she sank back upon her chair, panting with un- controllable excitement. "What is the matter, Miss Wel- lington 1" questioned Jennie, in a tone of alarm ; "aro you ill?" "No --oh, no; it is nothing," the girl replied, and now making a it is too late to hunt. up anyone great effort to recover her com• else. Besides, this is the last chance posure, for sho saw that sho had tc see Irving and Terry this sea- attracted the attention of several son. Please tomo with me and 1 will get up early to -morrow morn- ing, and help you finish your order." "Well, I am sure I have no right to refuse you now," said Esther, smiling. "flow good you and Mrs. Burt are to me, Jennie 1 I often think how very fortunate I was to find such a safe and pleasant home here. Yes, dear, I will go, and ac- cept your kind offer for the morn- ing also—since I must, in order to keep nay word; but you may be very sure I shall try to reciprocate your kindness in some way." But neither girl realized to what extent sho was propliesyiug until some years later. A little after seven o'clock they started forth to spend the evening with the distinguished actors, their hearts filled with eager anticipa- tion, in view of the great treat in store for them. They had nearly reached the thea- tre, and were about to pass a nar- row alley, when a man suddenly stepped forward and laid his hand familiarly upon Esther s ann. "Miss (hie!) I'm very sure you're the girl, and (hie!) I know a fel- low (hie!) who's been looking (hic !) for you for (hic !) a long time," ho said, in a thick voice, while bend- ing closer to her, his breath, hot and offensive with the fumes of liquor, smote Esther's face. Thoroughly frightened, she shook herself free from him, and was about to hasten on, when he again clutched her forcibly by the shoul- der. "Let me go'" Esther commanded, with haughty authority. "No, you don't, my princess!" the man returned, with a leer, and without releasing his hold upon her ; "you've grown 'mazing pert (hic') and genteel. since last sum• fuer (hie '1, but you're the girl wove been (hie') looking after, and my lady on her way out of the theatre, pal (laic!) will be along presently, tell her she had an important com- and be glad (hic :) that you're munication to make, and ask her to found :" al•point a place of meeting for that Before lather could appoal to purpose. ancone for aid. nit .he w-na upon the point of ding. the man's hand was sharply st' yuck (ken from her shoul- der and a tall forms strode in be- tween her and her persecutor. "Conic. Jennie; there is some ono "You vile n retch: Begone in. here whom i want to see, and we stsntlyt Of 1 wilt band you over to must hurry." people near her. She was glad, however, to ac- cept a glass of water from an usher, and then, after a moment or two, she again leveled her glass in the sane direction as before, taking another long look at the object that had given her such a start. When the lowered it again, she was pale t'i ghastliness, and was trembling with nervousness. She had seen the mate to the "twin ruby" It was suspended from a diamond necklace that encircled the alabas- ter neck of a beautiful and queenly woman, who was seated in tho mid- dle box of the first circle on the right of the stage. She was perhaps thirty years of age and a blonde, of the purest type. Her face was liko a beauti- ful flower ; her hair shone like bur- t,islied gold, and was coiled upon the top of her regal head and fast- ened with diamond crescents. Her dress was of pale blue satin. trade decollate, the corsage and elbow sleeves finished with costly lace. in Ler right hand she wielded an ex- quisite fan of white ostrich tips, and upon her lap there lay a great bunch of pink ruses. Froin that moment Esther lost all interest in the play. All her at- tention was concentrated upon that lovely woman, who wore the price- less ruby surrounded by its setting of glittering diamonds. She was like a picture, framed within the white and gold box, with its rich curtains of plush and lace. Esther thought sho had never seen anyone so queenly or so graceful, and she grew more and more excit- ed in view of the astonishment sho would manifest when sho should peek her and proclaim that she had in her possession the mate to the treasure sho wore upon her neck, for sho had desolved to waylay the As soon as the curtain fell upon the last scene, she started nervous- ly to her feet and, seizing her com- f anion be the arm, exclaimed : They made their way through the crowd with all possible speed, and Esther took her station near the en- trance to the theatre, where she eagerly watched fur the face she had seen in that twiddle box. But the beautiful woman who worn the ruby did not appear, and after waiting until the foyer was nearly empty. Esther came to the conclu- sion that she trust have left the place by another exit, when with a sigh of deep disappointment, she was forced to relinquish her pro- ject, with small hope of ever meet- ing the lovely stranger again. As the two girls stepped upon the pavement, however, they were again accosted by Donald Lancas- ter, who had been watching fur them. "1 wanted to see you safely on your v: ay," he remarked to Esther, and accompanying thein to the av- enue, he waited to assist them aboard the car before going to his own home. Upon reaching her room, Esther, who was still greatly excited by the events of the evening, and too wide awake to retire, thought she would work a while upon the aprons that ere promised for the morrow, and to quiet her nerves before going to rest. Her thoughts were as busy as her fingers, while thus employed, as she reviewed all that had occurred during the evening. Donald Lancaster and the inter- est he had manifested in her, lin- gered in her mind, and her cheek grew flushed, her eyes brilliant, as she recalled his every look and word. Ho was her ideal of all that was manly, noble and chivalrous, and she knew that she should love him, and him alone, with all tho strength of her strong nature as long as lift should endure. "But., ah!" she murmured, with a deply drawn sigh, "I know I should not cherish such feelings— there is a great gulf between us. I have been reared veryhumbly, with no advantages of society, while he belongs to the creme do la creme of upper New York. Of course, he cannot care for me—he pities me for the hardships and sorrows that 1 have had to endure—he feels a touch of gratitude, now and then, for the care 1 gave hire when he was so ill, and that is all. But he is good, and kina, and noble—ho is worthy of a lovely wife, and 1 hope—on, I do hope that he will find the right one to make him hap- py. I shall never marry," she con- tinued, the color slowly fading out of her face, as the lonely future loomed up before her ; "but," with a resolute gleam in her magnificent eyes, "I am going to snake the most of myself, for all that. I am going to school some more, after I have saved money enough to give mo a nice start; maybe, by that time, Jennie will bo able to act as man- ager for the business, with my as- sistance, and that will give me plenty of time for study and a good support besides." And thus the enterprising girl worked on, laying her plans for the future, and little realizing how true is the time -worn adage, "Man pro- poses, But God disposes," while outside on the roof of tho perch, which sheltered the back door of Mrs. Burt's humble dwelling, a man steed, as once before, looking in at a window and watching the slight figure bending so intently over her work, and the nimble hands as they deftly wrought their task. This porch was directly under a hall window, and so near ono of those in Esther's room that a per- son located there could easily see the greater portion of the apart- ment, and, as one of her curtains had not been drawn quite down, the spy was enabled to watch the girl's every movement without the fear of being discovered in his espi- onage. All at once a chick upon an ad- jacent church chimed the hour of two. As the second stroke fell upon Esther's ear, sho lifted an aston- ished face and laid her work upon her table. "Why ! I had no idea it was so late:" she murmured. "I must go to bed at once, or I shall not bo fit for work to -morrow." Even then, however, she paused to put everything in order upon the table, straightened the furniture, and cove -ed her machine. Sho then laid out her nightrobe, and was about to undress, when it oc- curred to her that she had not bucked her door. Stepping to it. she laid her hand upon the key, and was about to turn it, when the door was softly swung open, a tall figure quickly entered, and. confronting her with menacing attitude, commanded her in an authortative whisper to "make no sound if she valued her life." For an instant Esther's heart stood still a terrible thrill of fear and repulsion running through her, as she recogniged the man who had taken the vacant seat beside her in the street car tho previous after- noon. Softly closing the door behind him and locking it, her unceremonious visitor turned hack to her and ob- served with a sinister smile : "iiicln't expect a caller quite so early in the day, did you, my dear Well, you see it wasn't convenient for me to get around at a fashion- able Lour, and as my business is iwwwwwwwwilew se. separate room at fronto and ob-s +++++++++++•♦+♦�♦.•1.♦♦ JCIIILDREN AKE DEVOURED serve certain other sanitary pre- 4 cautions out relief will be granted,I Th imperative, I concluded 1 wouldn't stand upon ceremony. "How did I discover your place of residencel" he resumed, as if in reply to Esther's look cf blank amazement. "Well, 1 have had quite a hunt for you, during the last few months. 1 traced you once to that swell place uptown; then 1 heard you wire sick in some hospi- tal, and after that lost track of you entirely until yesterday. How did I get in here so quiet and slick 1" he questioned, as Esther opened her lips to speak, but could find no voice. "Weil, the new washerwoman carelessly (1) ha' ha! left the skylight unfastened this afternoon, when she took in the clothes, and as she lives next door, it was quite handy cowing over the roof." "Stop !" Esther now managed to command, with some degree of com- posure as lie paused, "it is not nec- essary for you to tell me how you carte here—I simply wish to know what you want, now that you aro here.,, She realized that she was hope- lessly in the man's power, and that it would bo useless to call for as- sistance; so she resolved to assume as bold a front as possible before him, and keep her wits about her, for she had not the slightest inten- tion of surrendering to him the treasure which site knew . he was seeking. "What do I want 1" he repeated, with a sneer. "Well, that is a cool one, for you know very well that i want that ruby, Miss Wellington." (To be continued.) TO FIGHT WHITE PLAGUE STERN MEASURES WILL RE ADOPTED 1N ENi,LAND. Will Strike at One of the Sources by the Slaughter of Infected Mitch Cows. Within less than a generation tuberculosis—that terrible scourge which claims more victims every year than a whole European war— will bo a thing of the past in Eng- land. The government has taken up a campaign against it which promises to make it before long al- most as rare as smallpox or typhus fever, writes a London correspon- dent. The English Saint George who has sallied forth to slay this mod- ern dragon is Hon. John Burns, the former dock laborer who is now a cabinet minister and a friend of the King. He is seeking fresh leg- islation, but he is not waiting for that. He has just foreshadowed a policy by which he proposes with the weapons ready to his hand to remove the most dangerous sources of infection—the pauper consump- tive—from the possibility of being a source of contagion to his family and neighbors. Public opinion is not ripe yet in England for the came 'misery isolation of consumptives in the way that persons who arc strick• cr. with smallpox are now dealt with, although medical opinion is practically unanimous that such treatment is necessary- before the disease can be wholly eradicated, but John Burns, the practical man, has devised a means by which this end can be achieved without outrag- ing that false, but strong sentiment which regards isolation as an in- vasion of the liberty of the indi- vidual. He is now preparing to put in practice, by ADMINISTIRATIVE ORDER, a rule by which 90 per cent. of the poor consumptives of the country will bo compelled to enter the pub- lic infirmaries, where, of course, they will be effectively isolated, will have every possible chance of re- covery, and will no longer bo a danger to their fellows. Burns's plan is based on t!ie fact that 90 per cent. of the poor con• sumptives in England, at one stage or another of their disease, are compelled to seek what is known as out relief from the poor law au- thorities. Out relief consists of a weekly dole of money from the pub- lic funds which is given to persons who are not absolutely destitute and who are desirous of keeping out of the workhouse. It is good in most cases because it enabled many a family to tide over bad times without the radical breaking up which roust always result from sel- ling up the few sticks of furniture they possess and entering the poor- house. It also saves many deserv- ing persons from tho workhouse stigma. But in the case of consumptives is enables the patient to make him- self a center of infection. Burns's first step, therefore, has been to issue an order as president of the kcal government board, making tuberculosis a notifiable disease. This means that every medical man who comes across a case of con- sumption in his practice must no- tify the name and address and cer- tain other particulars concerning the patient to the representative of the local government board in his district. These names will then be furnished to the poor law authori- ties and when a person whose name is scheduled applies for out relief A CAREFUL INVESTIGATION of his circumstances will be made. 1f it is found that be hi able to have but if this is not so—and there are very few cases where the observ- ance of these conditions will be pos- sible—the grant of relief will be re- fused. The immediate result will he that the poor consumptive will Le compelled to seek admission to 44+++++4+4+++++++++++* the workhouse and once thero he will bo removed to an up-to-date sanatorium w here ho will receive the best possible treatment. In this en►iucwtly practical way has John Burns solved the problem of over- coming a public prejudice which is dangerous to the public health. No public announcement of this plan has been made and as a mat- ter of fact no public announcement is intended. It is not desired that there shall bo a public discussion of the new policy in England, be- cause there are sure to be a num- her of people who will denounce it as an example of the growth in this country of continental bureaucracy. The nearest that Burns has conte to making public what he intends to do, was announcement that ho made a few days ago in a speech ar the opening of the tuberculosis exhibition in the east end of Lon- don. "I trust soon," he said, "to fol- low up the notification of tubercu- losis order by a circular to poor law authorities, on the conditions under which poor law relief should he given to outdoor consumptive paupers, suggesting methods of self -treatment, removal perhaps, to another place, e Farm # ADVICE AND GUIDANCE, and extended help in tho direction c,f cure and prevention." In the field of legislation also Burns is active in the fight against the white plague. Ho has just in- i.roduced in Parliament a bill to safeguard and purify the milk sup- ply of the country. German and American researches have proved beyond doubt that one of the chief sources of tuberculosis in children is milk from diseased cows, and it has been ascertained that nearly a third of the milch cows in Eng- land are suffering from tuberculo- sir in one form or another. Burns's bill provides for the slaughter of these diseased cows and the pay- ment of compensation to the farm- ers on a scalp graded in propor- tion to the degree to which the dis- ease has advanced. Thus a badly diseased cow will not bo paid for at all, but in the case of one in which the disease is only in its early stages the farmer will receive nearly her full value. Heavy pen- alties are provided for farmers and dealers who sell milk from cows suf- fering from tuberculosis unless it is eflieciently sterilized, or, better still, pasteurized. The bill has the approval of all parties in the House o, Coininons and the only thing that can prevent its passage is the pressure of business in relation to new taxation. If it does not pass this year it is certain to become law at the next season of Parliament, whatever party is in power. --- -- .i. FORTUNE FROM SANDWICHES. Ham, Corned Beef. Cheese, Sar- dine, Beef and Tongue. There has just died at the age of sixty-seven a man of the name of Angelo Basso, of New York, who amassed a fortune amounting to *500,000 by selling sandwiches. Bas- sa was credited with giving the "best, biggest, and most appetiz- ing" sandwich in town for the mod- est sum of a nickel (five cents). Everyone knew Basso's sandwiches, and though he had only one shop it was crowded sixteen hours out !of the twenty-four by messenger boys, work -girls, business men, and others who had come a considerable distance to secure what became known as a "Basso." Years ago, among tho many at- t;actions held at the Madison Square Garden was a six -days' walking race. This race went nn hour after hour from midnight Saturday to midnight Friday, many people staying there. The entire week. On such occasions as these the Angelo Basso sandwich, which the wise old Italian put on sale there, came to be looked upon as a standard article. No ono wanted any sandwich but Basso's, and it was quite useless for anyone else to try and break into the old man's trade ; it was an impossibility t.hich was recognized. One Basso sandwich was a meal for an ordin- ary man, and two would satisfy six children. These sandwiches were made of good material and very varied—ham, corned beef, cheese, sardine, beef, tongue, etc. --and it was Basso's boast that never dur- ing the forty years he had been making sandwiches had he been ac- cused of selling even a "question- able" one. Although the profit of these sand- wiches was very small ---considering their size --Basso waxed rich, and was soots able to take a fine deli- catessen store in a popular part of New York. But though ho sold other things—pickles. tongues, olives. sauerkraut, and. in fact, every kind of "table delicacy"—he never ignored the humble sandwich, hut kept up the standard through - cut his life, and when he died he left a fortune of half a million dol- lars, three-quarters of which he had a selling good sandichea at s MISTAKES IN CALF FI'i:DING. Advice is often asked by farmers and duirytucw regarding side and scouring cat;cs. This is apart from the scouring and sicknces that calves die within twenty-four or forty-eight hours after birth (calf cholera). There is a kind of scouring that calves suffer with after they are well started in life and from one week to two or more months old. In not, less than five cases out of every six the whole trouble is brought on by misman- agement on the part of those who had their feeding in charge. Sonie are so anxious to save the cream for the family or to sell that, they think the little calf can just as well subsist on skim milk when it is only a week old, and they begin feeding skim milk wholly W this little young thing. Some calves will no doubt not bo injured by it, providing it is fed fresh and warn from the separator, but the ma- jority of calves a week old have not strength of digestion enough to digest it properly and it passes through the alimentary canal in an undigested state, or the so called "white scour" state—sim- ply chyle. Tho calf is constantly bawling for something to cat, runs down in flesh and becomes worth- less. All this could have been pre- vented had the owner not robbed the calf of nature's nourishment and had he fed rt whole milk a week longer, and then by degrees change to skim milk. In other eases it becomes too much trouble for some to w•arin the milk for calves, and it is fed almost ice cold, as it comes from a cold water or ice separator. The result is that the average calf's stomach is chilled and the digestion im paired, if not ruined. 'Then the owner desires a remedy for calf scour. Some allow the calf to get extremely hungry, do not feed at regular hours, then feed a double quantity, and engorge the stomach beyond what can be digested. The calf bloats and perhaps dies in consequence; but if it escapes that it physics, loses its appetite and barely cats enough to exist and grows up a weakling when it might have been a valuable animal. Some think any old swill pail good enough to fe-•d a calf from. The result is the pail becomes a harbinger for untold microbes and ptomaines, and the calf becomes literally poisoned and dies with gastric fever or dysentery. Some think sour milk is all the calf needs, and by the time the calf is a month old any kind of milk that comes handy—buttermilk fresh or buttermilk cold, toppered skim milk or any old milk—fed in any quan- tity they may have, is good enough for calf feed. Then when the calf's digestion becomes im- paired they seek to furnish a remedy. A`ever. feed a calf any milk but fresh new milk from either its mother or a fresh cow until it is not less than ten days old, then mix it with half skint milk and gradually reduce the whole milk until the calf is a month old. Never try to feed a calf cold milk until past two months of age, al- ways warm the milk to about 100 degrees, and never warns it to the point of scalding ,t. At the present toe scientists are advising the warming of milk (sterilizing it) by bringing it up to 108 degrees and holding it there for ten minutes to kill possible dis- ease germs. All such milk should be doctored by the use of flaxseed jelly or linseed oil ineal. Never stir linseed meal, oatmeal, wheat, bran or middlings or any other meal in milk. Always gently pour the oatmeal or other meals on top of the milk, and as the calf drinks the milk the meal will settle to the bottom of the pail, and then the calf will lick it and suck it, down and no harm will follow. When it is stirred in the milk scouring may result, as the meal will be carried along the digestive tract with the milk further than it .,honld he be- fore the gastric Juices will act upon it. Never feed lupi -erect or eour milk to a calf. Sweet buttermilk after a calf is tore, months cif age may be fed as a partmilk food ; but acid or sour buttermilk never feed to a calf. In concluFion study to prevent calf scour. This should be the effort of all calf raisers—not seek remedies to cure it. Keep all pails used in calf feeding as clean :.OI your milk pails. If troughs are used, always flush them with pure, clean water after the calves have taken their milk When calf rais- ers will learn to observe the simple precautions mentioned scouring calves and weak emaciat- ed ones will rarely be seen. Skinner : "flood morninr, ma'am: Did you ever see anything so un- settled as the weather has bccn B.t.tMB.t PEOPLE ARE ADDICT- ED '1'U CANNIBALISM. Accoui.t of lion SurveyAIM of Lake lie lrul Air' Major R. G. T. Br�!,, C.M.G., gave an interesting account of sur- vey and exploration in the liuwcn- zorri and lake Region, Central Africa, before the Royal Geogra- phical Society is London recently. The country described is in tht neighborhood c f the western bor— der of the Uganda Protectorate anti the Congo State. Major Bright gave some interst- ing details regarding the natives of the country through which the expedition passed. The people of Bavira are noticeable by their wo- men wearing a particularly disfigur- ing ornament in their upper lips -- an embellished wooden disc from 2% in. to 3 in. in diameter. The young men and women dress their hair with a mixture of light clay. ELEPHANT COUNTRY. The district between the Congol- ese stations Kasindi and Beni, Major Bright reported, is'iir tdw� elephant country, and is tenanted by some largo herds. The Etuli forest and tho wooden slopes of Ruwenzorri form veritable strong- holds for elephants, while in the Toro Game Preserve devastated plantations and spoor testify to the numbers still living in and around the protected country. In the op country, on the southern shore Lake Albert, when the palms mashy, elephant and buffalo roam over them. The river Etuli is here tenanted by numberless hippopo- tami and crocodiles, ttte former of which are a danger to the canoes of the natives. Lions enter the station at Fort Portal during the wet season, but apparently, do little damage to h man life or domesticated &toe. They subsist mainly on the wil pig, a great scourge to the native' cultivation, and it is said that the natives prefer lions to the destruc- tive wart -hog ,and are chary of giv- ing information to enable than to be hunted. THEIR BELIEF. The Bahima, or aristocracy of the tribes, believe vaguely in a►1 all-powerful Deity, who is associ• atcd mainly with rain, thunder, and other weather pheria. They endeavor to propitiate ua devils, most of whom are connected with the prevalent diseases, by erecting joss -houses, in which food and beer are placed. To the Bahima devils the Burro (or serfs) add a considerable number of their own, the most important being Megrim, who eats their bananas in great quantities. ADDICTED TO CANN1BALIS'MI The Bnamba people, living in the forest near the Etuli river are nd- uicted to cannibalism of a parti- cularly loathsome form. Families exchange their young children, who are then eaten. They are, never- c..cless, a jovial people, although a. constant warfare goes on between village and village. Each village has a club -house, furnished with a few rough boughs three-legged chairs, trade of the forked boughs of a tree, on which the members lie. The men gather here to talk and smoke. SEVERAL TRIBES. Tho Batwa or Bambutu inhabit the forest on both sides of the Etuli. They stand about 4ft. high. and are long -aimed, short -legged, and ugly. 'the legs are dispropor- tionately short, the feet large, and the body is covered w ith a sort of down. Both sexes affect a state of complete nudity. Though there are several different tribes of pygmies, they appear to have nu tribal or ganization. It is the custom for a group of families to attach them- selves to a negro chief, and, in re- turn for food, to assist him to fight his enemies. The standard of mor- ality of these little people is high, and, strange to say, they are re- markably intelligent. Tho wild beasts living in this forest are kill- ed for food, even the elephant. I'uisoued. arrows are used for the purpose. KILLED licit TENT-I'1G. h Gunner tut adin O w o Lance. Corporal Newman, a gunner of she Royal Field Artillery, met his death in a remarkable manner re- cently while practising tent -peg- ging near London. He missed the peg, and w swinging the lance over his hea when it flew from his grasp. T butt end embedded itself in t ground in front of the gallopin horse, and, the point falling t wards the rider, he we., impaled o his owe, weapon. Both inrngs were pierced, the lance doing completely through the body. Newman fell from his l,nr'e, pulled out the weapon, and died iri a comrade's arms. lt't" hcncst r•• •.d t theretate's youMr board hill, Mfr. Liu ;lucreAttcceas innafrecoritd w.►t •nil tennthaae- sae." cidcnt having haf,eavvd bc►f„rc.