HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-03-22, Page 3LAST OF THUGS IN INDIA
MEIN WIlta Rhi,DUCED NO:RUH TO A
FINE MIT.
Religious Devotees That Divided Spoils
,
of Their Crime With
Temples.'
It wee a happy inspiration that led to
?Jo adoption:of the word "thug' -tte a,
:synonym for e feroeious crimioaleIt
very eound eutegteitive of siicot �M
sudden inurtitte.• :it catee,S, MO thug of
the Olunit-ehotto This, of coarse, •ta
tnere eoincideneth the word la not Itog-
tish, in spite ef' its Sound. It is Hindu-
Stenee, and came to this country, by wee*
' of England. There it has no,neavspaper
'turreneit, but retititte4ts historical mean-
ing, a caste of Indian stranolere,
In becoming popular the term has
suffered some &gradaeion, for the thugs
of India Were 76 vulgar sluggers and
ardneierers, says the7Los Angeles Vilna,
'They were religious devotees and artists
in erime. De Quincey would have given
them, a high rank aniong the practition-
ers of "Murder Considered as a Fine
Art."
The, Thugs, indeed, werk under vows
to Kali Devi, the black browed eonsort
of Siva the Destroyer. She is that terri-
ble peraonage whit:appears in the Hin-
du Ihtietheon as -a fierce but "'beautiful
woman, riding on a tiger, or as a hic1.
coos, blood stained idol, garlanded with
akulle. Banded together as caste bro-
Ilierst the Thugs honted.tmen to offer
Mem to the deity of deatructiont and be-
cause she required a bloodlese sacrifice
they killed their victim e by tuffocation.
The Thugs, not being cannibals, could
Tot live by mere murder. So thyrobbed
',heir victims and divided the spoils be
themseltres and
THE TEMPLES OF KALI.
As a religious body„ they Were protected
by the Brahmins and by pious. but int-
,. pecunious Rajahs, who licensed and
-taxed. them. It was an easy way for a
ruler to increase his reventie and the vie -
time were travelling Merchants who
• would not be missed. -
Luring the many centuries of war and
anarchy in India. Thuggee flourished
rnightily . Under' Aurungzebe, to, whom
: as a Moslem Kalliwae an abhorred idol,
it suffered a check. Hindu fanaticisfri
supported it. The Nawab of 'Surat had
captured a band of Thilgs and was about
to release them for a ransom offered by
certain. Haitians, who hoped' to acquire
• -"religious merit" by the act. . The Em-
peror. ordered the Triage to be strung up
by the left hands in the jungle end. left
- there to die.. The Hanians, prototypes
-of. the eenttinentabsts who present no-
torious Modern criminals with boquets,
banqueted the strtinglers before the eX-
ecution. '
;These terrors of the Indian 'highway
are- new extinct,- like the salve toothed
e tiger. „About sixty years ago many.hun-
.
dreds were executed and the remainder
transported of puti to work' at. tend
Making and other peacefol trades, in
strict ctitifinernent.
It was Ahe 'writer's privilege a few
years baekt to, visit one of the last Of
.these'world,famous stranglers. He had
been captured young; and sentenced. to
imprisonmenhfor life in a central Indian
j• ell. • ..
• In a cool corridor that overlooked the
. sunlit garden a verterable old men was
weaving the pattern of a Persian carpet.
Tall and erect, with snowy moustache
and high caste features, he • might have
passed in unifotm for a. 'British colonel
• bronzed by years of seri ice. Sri0Weit
not single one of the eriteriOns of the
'type 'ecriminahe as .desseribed by Lorn-
' brosone „
Nadhoceiso he Vea's cailedt-had been so
.lond a' nrieoner that he was rtithereared
for as curiosity.
• . •
- ...A MUSEUM SPECIMEN,
than treated as a crithinal. Ile had be.
ciente ari eapert weahing,, and when
, the 100MS 3.vere idle was by no ineaoie un-
willing to talk of his eiceietiences as a
Thug, 'lie had been .borne, in the eaStee
and devoted earty to the eerviCe ot
His father led him to o secret place in
the jungle and there initiated hint., by
. the wierd rite' of the corps and the dag-
ger, into the freemasopry of the brother-
hood. Ile learned their sigos, how to
interpret the ornen of the Owl; the patter
of the "ratnavesi"-hthe secret language
,
of the ,craft. Being a precocious youth.
4$ he said, 'he WaS selected to play the
part of "talker," en* confiderree man. Ile
was ostensibly a traveller .on: the Delhi
road, A,vhere 'nit) Inchoate Midland nail-
avay 110W runs, fer his brother,. who
doalt in silks and cotton goods in a
Deccan city. Of his' exploits as talker
for the hand of 'Altai itaxne a notorious
-Thug executed 16ng 11 go hie crimes,
he told this tale :
"Tuisi Ram was the right arm of Kell,
and I was the, right arm of Tulsi Rana
It was I who decoyed Nasur, Khan, the
rielt jeweller, with coaxing words, as
men take carp from a pond by tickling
their tildes.
"Nheur was journeying to Delhi with
gem; frotn Mysore and a caravan, ladeti
'with 3ilks in bales iind rich brocades. 'I
came before him to; a poor trader, beg-
ging for permission to join his train for
the sake of protection against thieves.'
A. twinkle in the old men's eee be-
trayed .Iii; relieh of the irony of the situ-
ation. ,
"NtlfitIr '1/41.11Fi''' as hard as the stones he
dealt iii," he ('01i111111 '1, "arid the price
he dente:tided for ids protecthee WEIS
I told him that the Rajaii of
mopeor had newe of tile, approacli of his
earavan, and Nasur's heart. became as
water, for lie feared tile lioneerneih'of
htulwit Died toll they take. And 1,
°Optima my tot -nolo with the oil of per-
ehizahelott, harped 6/1 lxi. leave truth drew
hint ori to tette a teeter way---vvlieen Tulei
and ids traria 1.VOTO Waiting and where
ova' brethren , of the picitaxe had dug
long trencitea
IN THE JUNG1.8 GRASS'.
, "Norturie heart VtIIS glad withiti itiro
WttOrk 110 rode aeide from Mtilwa, and
when he rife% Hain merry was
gL'08tiog. oQuiet ineretients rill, they
(scented- my brodiere-rifiti Nanulde !lien
ethetted with theta, lie travellerte of
the prieet of ,titain. And aa they Gott-
eetegel tahentiter they Iitadea jeet 411361it
the Thttfite tto fey brethren hathere,t
titaied nig' irhan :sett itie teen, Iwo le
te traveller, Tated, wiiete all node likitening
erten intiettieed to aetrery !fatten Tatht,
o
ao
teast hehted tvehe fitorn tho tungte.
Thawas the 51141(0."
The oid matt illnegrated 'whit eveiet EMI
411ZLF.'1.ile deo eel et tigieto jino the rumei,
• handkerettief, reandollot welt OE heti
told how the travellere were
bu• ried while WWII! in' the gravee that
had been mei ;teed DA, them. that' hint-
eelf it wee the neetioy to be Q. Thltil•
onr hasten,hp. BrUld. "The pet.
tate eon tekes le the 11,-)tterli WIK.4;1; the
('J:% 1; to the.' thehling thetnritcr-'
ettrangely eneugh tithe veteran became
himself saerifice to the gotItIm of hie
vowe. For Kali Devi la ateo the retrial.
esti
if ihat eeourge .of India, cliolern
merbus, t and next hot eveather the old
Thug paseed 'away during an ephientic.
Kait hod stretched out one of her hu:'
deed hands and.called- her devotee awey.
Prom , this ' confession it tikeiniit that
winning the' confidence of their victim§
wes Ahe mainstay,iet the Thug buesiness,
Theirs WaS not the bolel, Overt "Your
Money or your life" 'attack of the bale-
dite but the crafty approach of the
criminal 'tactician. They rectioned Ofl
taking their man off his guard, as the
"coney catcher" did in sixteenthcentury
London, as the bunco man does to -day
in Western America. Confidence opera-
tionsaro ae old as graft itself.
The work of suppressing Thuggeewas
done by Col. Sleernan, one Of those mar-
tyrs to exile and oflicial duty that, the
Indian civil service needs and trains.
In the dietrict where he replaced blach-
mail .and brigandage by law and order,
the ',down of Sleernanabad-Sleemarhs
city -stands for his., monument. The
long task of rounding up the Thug bands
was made easier by disaffection within
• their ranks. The powerful religious
band was broken when unbelieving
Moslems were admitted as emembees of
the robber caste, anu rose tO be leaders.
Then Kali worship ,beettmeoa Mere pre-
text for robbery and murder, and Theith'
gee fell before the repressit e riteaeures
of
,
AA STRONG EXECUTIVE.
'One is not surprised to hear of Euro-
pean criminals adopting methods, more
or less like those of the Thugs. If a
robber can trust his pal, two heads and
two pairs of hands are better than one.
A eltillful grasp en the throat by one
man stifles the hry for help and safe-
guards ,the operations of his partner.
But as no idea of religious duty would
avail in court, they mush stop short. of
strangulation or risk a charge of mur-
der. ' •
The garrotters who infested London
in the 160s choked, but did not kill the
late reterning, citizens. When chloro-
form, came into use in surgery,' the
underworld of crime, or: at any rate Us
master minds at once appreciated its
value. It was painless, it was safe -for
thein; the victim vvoulcl awitke in e state
of mental confusion -he could give the
police no clew. The -drug became peon-
elar with the scientillcoorineithele
operated on Engtish railroad 'inept WU&
the closed compartments secure- privacy.
Sometimes .a subject dietl under, chloro-
torpe:by' misadventure, but that might
have *happened at toe hands_ of a young
niedical practitioner, t
In Paris, however, the tricks of Indian
Thuggee have been closely followed.
Loolt over the thee of the .Parisian pa -
'pore of 'vent years, you will find atet
counts ' of men found dead lonely
.places with leather -cords exeunt their
'necks and empty pockets. They had re-
sisted the' attacks of strangler thieves.
In otherecases wealthy men, returning
late from, the opera on loot, fell VietiMS
to the hariclicerchief tncle. • In this case
the "foulard" of heavy Lyons silk took
the place of • the cotton "rurnal" of the
nug
A robber dressed like a ;Workman or
petit bourgeois would approactea belarel
clubman and offer him for safe a ring,
ostensibly plotted up .from the pavement.
If Monsieur did net take,. alarm the rob-
ber's partner, who tad crept behind his
victim, snared his Month and throat in a
noose. Thenwithe quick' hu-litso turn
to
tioitsgQdwg nk,hebaaveedm off the grohnd
on
LIKE. A SACK OF Lean,
,
and lii partner -Stepped up and' rifled
e
Motialeur's pockets. The latter wasithen
dropped on the' Pavement with force
enough to start him and the thugs made
their escape.
The, Feet -felt gendarmerie trace e nits
clever. -and bloodless operation to the
teaching -of a professor who lectured in
toe critninal guiltier of Paris Spine sixty
years since. AlX/Ut that time the -Thugs
of India were being brought to trial, and
'the revelations that followed excited
great interest in Europe. It is very like-
ly that the professor borrowed his line
of treatnient from these published cases,.
But old Nadhoe .of the jail would have
said that the spirit of an exeeuted Thug
had incarnated itself in the ,Irrenchman
in order to 'propagate themystery of
Thaggee in the virgin sell of France.
The Thugs of India, it was said, began
as devotees, but ended as. brigande;
Some form of bitigarehiget,Indeed, seems.
endemie in Asiatic countries that are net
ruled by the strong 11111)11. Bitrtnali is it
case in point, and so are the Philippines.
The" Thugs of 'nymph were called
dacolis.• Doting the first years of the
13ritish oceupation the troops ever° ace
tively employed in Small detachments in
hunting' down the "claims" and laying
their chiefs, by the heels. It Was a rough
echoed for subalterns. 'Tlye nature or ino
'warfare is well illustrated in Kiplinees
"The Taitipg of Lungtungpen," a tale of
the harrying, of a dadiet stronghold by
Mulveney's detachment. But decay s
new extinet in Bunnell and the country
is policed by native .constabulary,
gx,..,.F.d.froottarozoomg
TACTFUL QUAKER. h
ON THE HIGH ZAMBESI
some time' ago there lived a gentle-
man .0t indolent habit; who spent his
timeivisiting einorig hie friends. After
wearing out hie welcome in his own
.neighborhood he tit:Ought he would vis.
it an old Quaker' friend some .tweeety
ulnae distant. , •
On hie arrival lie' wee cordially lea
Ceived by the *Quaker, NAM, thinking the
Nisitor had taken much petite to 'Mlle
SO far to Lle0 hint, treated him with
el great deal of attention and politenese
for tieveral days.
Ae the vitelor showed no signe.of lease.
hits the Quaker became uneahy, but
lore it %Atli petienee until the eighth
day, wheo he eald to him:
"My friend, I fl i abated thee will 110V11:
CAMO again."
"telt yee,1 ohall„" c3oid 1116 Viaifor. "1
nave enjoyed my vied vety much and
than et:hie:Oily ahaind
"Bute" eaid the Qualm% "if thee will
hem leave, how cau Lim come 0001
OVER WI OF ROCOD1LE AV
111PpOPOTAMI.
Itleetinos With trig iteasts Cause Frioht
to Iloatincti--Ileautifol Riede
to Re Seen
. •
IA ay new wird then ilhihige in a l'iltie FoUR DAYS ON A RAF'f"
Like ItianY Other OilitYilali,, they are eeve
c.
hge in clefertee of ger newly 1:0-411 Off-'
swing. 'They de ot attach huipen be
trigs, When ooth they 1:!ave Vara/101
ii. you i.1,Ifq tEile water, tittiti troth -fie them=
i
striane na feediee, nee have they any
OCC4SicAl
frde tie; tee eveciterde sc'--'3,.1
' the rest. he ie lite the!, teat irrithti'
them. Ittitaiitleto thtty.eenetere 3 10 i:
sciwe rivet, .ntenethe hinvetling „their
, .
light piey,,they itre, feiely tieeet; but now ,
dontaiietre
' For theh' itchier sefely the paddler; Of
,
the dugoute licep as C1050 ‘113 1;06011)101Q
The Hitilt Zdrnbesi is foll of crocoililee; ,,the banlis, but coinetimes, forced out by
in shine iitf the hack Wicitcrs they, literally ; sliallowei •aey are obliged 'tti. iirosie thal
maven, eitys a lecebt,Cdee Town,letterotwindirage from .paint to •point. With a
'flay vary in size front the little thioeees- river abaut as wide .fiS the' Th4t/(teS a
lilift levee Bier& to itignstere over,. twelve London Bridge -this ' tahes a, little lime,
feet in letigttis., iteen where the, bunko arid once ouv croesing was atterideil by
are of clay and nearly iserpendicular an amosing thouhit alarining incident.
they seem to have 'little difficulty in l'ande 1 I was• inupersed in my diary when I
iog, Dad by conetant Walking to and fro . Was startled by the shock of a atidden
score the bank into ledge:,. and terraces.' noise, which. I can oink •compare to e
They ialsot scratch out or work, out by ' slice out' of the roar of a, cattieuet,
other means hollows in the 'clay, which 'There, close, to as. was a hippo, He
they constantly occupy when sunning', looked at us for a moment, and' then
themselves or sleeping. ' , topened his mouth to its very evidest'ex
' Sometimes they go to sleep.floatIng oat tent; as Mr. Rowland Ward's beasts de
a summer day, and then, like the pike,
on eitlavPoi,cnc.cuilllert I , was,
the surface, just as our pilte will do staring into a red
'i The beast was so close that it
they remain unconscious, of. your pre- dashed throunle my mind that I, could
s 01 - tit it sudden nioheritent tvaties eastlY throw in a bun. Perhaps be want
them hp, when they disappear with a waiting for ane, or else was only mak-
prodiious disturbance. 'But this is not ing faces to exercise his facial innscles.
certainly 'succeeded.
If he simply meant to frighten us he
I could not see how the five boye he-
aled me fared, but the tall steersman
gave the dugout such a lurch with his
paddle that he neorly toppled out of'the
boat, which was narrow in the bows:
•swayed violently from side to side and
then felt backward into the bottom of
bank, loolting like-beat:1110d canoes, an.!
,eornetitnes they lie across one another the boat. eYoti may be, sure we watened
like ettooms of drifted tree. But -long the hippo N,,ery anxiously as he dived,
and thankfully saw hinetehe was eo
befere the canoes conic up they ealte
close -turn belew the water and disap-
warning from the paddles, and, turning .,
on the fulcrum of their toile, glide late Pear- .
the water. !
• More than once when having Itiotheon, CHINESE. GEOGRAPHY.
, , ,
by the water's edge I have suddenly be- . -
come taWare of the cruel heed and the They Are Learned Only In The KnOwledge
lustreless . glazed eyes looking up at 'Inc That Was.
born Itelow. It really "gave me quite a
Mu,ejteluis been said about thetwisdom
turn." ' I instinctively juniped back` for
the crocodile is credited, and prObably af 1110 East, and tn° Chinese are con-
ceded to have been a wise natirin before
on good igrounds, with the practice 01 the United States' masted. Nevertheless,
knocking, its prey into the water with a
4 tra.veller from the United States was
sudden sweep of its heavy teilie-Ae many
shrprised . at. a conversation that tooke
eh" sixty eggs are laid by a crocodile In
place between some local officials of a
its nest to the sand bank; Beside me as
i Small village in Chine. Thett had ap-
I write is an .egg from'a nest containing
that number. It le, rather larger, than d heared to greet the traveller anti arrange
or further progress. One of -the officials
goose's egg, but elliptical in shape, with,
asked him if he had travelled far and if
a white and very, brittle sieell. We are he hed collie by land or sea: s To tell'
told (hut the statement. requires GO:ofirfrx- him, who tonsidered one hundred miles
.ation) that when the little.crocodiles be -
4 iengeteerney,. that 'ten thousand miles
, gm to squeak m the shell the mother
!digs up the eggs and as the young es- was the clihtitoce*havelled was to brand
cape leads them down to the watere one's self as a fi,TOSS exaggerator and
his answer was inet`with peals of laugh -
GETS ROYAL HONORS. teri •t.
The official's next question. eveai as eo
'Shangwerf (chief) calls Out my steers-, whether Antericia was north or South of
_
an as a dugout. approethes Corning up Chtna-to which. one of his oorppanioria,
the etrearn; whereupon:the peddlers stop .0.6 though ashamed of the ignorance of
their. pitddlirig ' and squatting down in his friend, pointed out to him:that Alper -
the :boat clap their hands; ' their usual ice was in the Western and 'China in, the
forth,. of salutation hi' an i Oflicittl or a .Eaetern hetnispliere. The first' official,
chief; end,. presently; 'catching, sight of' tttien seemed to renter:nisei`, that the Wilted,
theirtivory armlet:le they hotel their erroe States was. 'between France and Ger-
aloft and return "Shangwel" The. arm, Many.- ' It weeittaiet traveller's • turn : to .
lets '(ribbed rOuncl the centre, the dise laugh,' The ilret official Was overy muck
tinctlyee sign Of rcyaliy) had been. kin* esteemed of hie friend and .repeated eM.
'atnen me ty.Litia, seh of Lewaoike King proftically the -same inforrnetiorir abeitit
of Matrose. They acted. indeed as a late thehhemiepheres, but as he vblunteered
isinah that dey. When We came to ..a. nothing further that probably riont-
watexaide. kraal, where the Batoltaepicka- promised his. entire knowledge . °teethe
ninnies rare in and out ied -holes in . the subject,
grass screens like rabbits, intik tette' This ignorance, 4however, from •a Chi -
instantly brought: and Kaftir 'beer, and 'nese point of ViClw, must not, be eon-
thw women were ' set to screpe a bit of founded ,with- being. vatedueateoi. They
ground for me to sit on, but no undue- were highly educated, havhigespent in
delay .allowed--ancl thuso through the , Moiety the anteing of time, that a college
boy ot America, would serve to get a
Ph.D. -degree • at a university.' But the
Chinese had stepped with the learning
of the,.fitth century before Christ, rather
than the twentieth century after.
. .
often' ordinarily they are very wihe
awake and vanish silently, sinking with
scarcely a circle made. ,But the shallows
and sand banks are itheir favorite re-
sort, and there they are always watch.
• .,
Often you can see' them far aheade
tails to the water, heads up the flat sand
THRILLING STORY OE TIIE SEX •
003(3' TFRRIBLE ORDEAL,
Costa% y Stood tat Raft tt
Fiturzsi:th:
,
The White Star liner ltlateehe,
r: :'iv.' et .Q1itie1lettione reeently, f:'u.
Now 'York, brought ,,partietilitre of the
fhttodering of iL, Ailed% and ''.c 1'-
cuttelirtti!ttfnriltftrygito
oi oiwi,iy,aeniic,
iible 'privatione And oftee beinit on 41
7i41t witiitcut foral foie rtinetyteix itfoirel
On Dec. 15' laet the Largo Hey wen
royal armlets,
'Birds 'Walked,' the sand - behks-hlack,
white, open billed and marabou storks;
sacred and 'glossy plchiers,thras' that
waded in the shallows, The'quainthada-
dah and quainter haminertep and all
the family of the 'herons.For, besides
the' Goliath, there were the great white
herense the •purple end the squacco her -
one as ,Well as the, beautiful little gret.
„In the shallows also we sawthe elegait
jacane, whose toes' are -so •long that it
can Walk the waterover the thinnest
water,reeds; stilte, elSo, and advocates.
-graceful pied birds whose long .slencler
bills curve upward. --- About- :the reeds
were many small bitterns,who tight-
ened upitheir feathers aild'oazed into the
•sky 'with straight, 'thinnecks till' they
Jooked Ificestalks crr bitS: of sticks.
And every now and -Alien there flashed
aerdas the water, a flaming streak, the
crimson bee eater; Egyptian and Spur
winged geese .and Afriaan,pochards
„swam in the water or fed along the Wa
ter mark, while thelarge pied king-
fisher hung poised above the river or
dropped an ;term on the fish. Per-
hahs the least expected birdwas a see.
gull ---the grey headed e gull -of "thhich
many were, seen 'throughout •the day. •
Terns werenumerous, especially the
Whiskered term easily distinguished on
the wing hy its sinolty celor. But ofau!
'the birds seen. time was odder thole the
scissor These birds are riher, terns,
and; iilse other terns, toy, their 'eggs on
the sand batiks. They are. holorergrey,
*black, and white. But the *nog° point
abdut :thent is this,. thet' their orange
Scarlet tells have the upper mandible, ct
great deal -sh,orter than the lower (1'
maxillae The beak is also flattened front,
side to stele, and what the birds feed on
is not properly !mown yeth
THE; UGLY 'HIPPOS.
°Thehippes are causing, US SQMC con-
cern. Every ilOW and then one hears
a. noise likt the steam blowing off in a
rano/Fly • station; and there, is ft hippo
loolting angvilie at eur boat. The head
of the beast usually lies nretty flat on.the
water; only the nosteils and eyes above
it. A good way off at first, by constant,
diving be reduces the distapee, and at
last, when perhape some fifty yards
away, he ritiees his head and shoulders.
and look's like a frightful mask in econe.
infernal pantomime. Ilovvever kind a
hippo may lie feeling he alwaye loolfe
irate. Ile seems to he reckoning to n
Meaty the distance far ids final rush.
Ile dives o.riti you go through 'the .stih-
penee of hie interval-eswill he or will Ith
not attenke .ro your relief he rieee xi
little fitrther off; hie better ,nature
owevailed.
How long cent a hippo Vernitin tinder
water? It i9 lk) judge uniese you
have lttm iTt a quiet pool. I 1141;0 OMNI
tWO, 1111P -five
utee -bUt uL Icaf:t he can remain below
ae lonehtie ithe Finlay. end 'oaten Mese
planbly dieliiipitere ethnic:little
Veen. net etie eye • denten fneit
thehe oigardie hewee. lotting ten
inontint ot thoyeare although indiaidtlati
SALE, OF Iy011Y IN L'ONDON.
About once at month great ivory sales
are held at the 'London Docks, end ttl,
tbese tons of ivory are teed out before
the manufacturee's gaze, 'and large sums
change hends. • The material Ssi import-
ed in great quantities from 'Africat the,
tusks of the Alt lean elephant tieing Most
prizeds owing to theirSuperior density
and whitehees. ,IVOrY, 'such es that uted
for the manufacture of billiard balls,
mei commanda price' of £1,10 to X150'
a hundredweight,. so that thevalue of
mammoth tusks may 'be approximated,
India, Burma, Cochin -China, Ceylon, an
'the ' Malay Archipelago export small
quantities to this country, though the
bulk of ivory produced in these countries
tiudsl a native market. So'sublie are the
(Mathias of' ivory that sometimes even
the most experienced buyers are deceived
as' to its proper value. Good ivory is
judged by its solidity and freedom from
flaws, its elasticity, toughness and white-
ness. •
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MINIATUIIE GEHMAN LINE.
Germany possesses a miniature raii-
.
way to which no parallel is found in.
any coontry. Its peculiarity' is that its
trains have no drivers. It Oh used for
earvyine salt" front the salt mines at
Stassfurte " The trains consiet of thirty
-
trueks, each carrying half a ton of salt.
-
The (Int:Once are eleetrie, of 2 •Itorse-pow-
er eaii. Att it approaches a station, of
Whicth there are five along elle, line, OW
train automatically rings a belt and the
rent, and then deseends before the "ttn-
gine has gained speed,
station attendant turns 4 SValell • to re-
ceive it. He is oda to stop it at, any
moment. To.start it again, he stands
Ike- locoruptive, switehes on the cur -
leek.
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Spain has a lawsuit, stilt posettled that
has been in the courts' 39 years, Or since
1317, The caste which concerns a pen -
seen began, between :hie Mayquie .de
Viana Mid the Count Torten de Cabrera,
and the acnumulated 511111 in dispute
would have reached fabulous millions
had not four centuriee of attorneys, bar-
listerd, and, court officiate taken consit
detette 11101Uure:-; of eppeopriation to
poweht, the antotuel, becoming unwieldy.
teitlilltit, IN TM.. DARK.
A seri•(1 "soeial Sinida,y night ehr-
vicee fov werintei people" it; announeed
re 5Noostilt, England, parieh. The
whole eevvi et will be eondueted in the
Oath, 2.'.5 !hilt the /nit:Pet and
WV net feel out Of jt becattee et
their 410tiec$:`
OLD SPANISH LAWSUIT.
goalie on• her voyage from the fidediter-
.
anean ports toward Brooltlynt Linda -el
States, when" the second officer, Toni
Davidson, from the bridge eaw a speck
flashing in the sunlight three or four
miles to the northward. 'Through the
11 lookedelike a bit of wreckage,
with a bre,crawfish naoving upon itt
The Largo Ikty bore down upon the o11 -
jt 1)avid McGregor hurried
s butocullars in the direction, and Saw
boy holding, as high as he could, a
pair of .oilskin breeches uport lLOA
"It was the most pitiable sight I ever
beheld," said Captain McGregor. "When
the boy haw we were going toistand by
IG save him, lie fell down upon lies
knees in the water over the raft, clasped
hie hands, bowed his head, and prayede,
A beat was manned and the leoh taken
oft the raft, which wee only eight square
feet in area, and upon which he was
under- water for some, inches. 'rile
castaway had stood upon his frail craft,
without sleep, fresh water, or food, for
four,days and nights. In half .an hour
from the time we had sighted him tte
was Saved. He was $0,exhausted that
he could barely whisper that his name
NwoarswCaai:laridakstforn, fro,tn neer Bergen,
sp
HIS AGE EIGHTEEN YEAR -S.
The boy's hands were swollen to seveee
el •times their natural size, and bleach-
ed. He WOre LWQ full suits of :clothing,
a suit of oilskins, and a pair of sea
boots, but lead rio eap. leo could not
siva': a 'word of English. •,
"When we g6t hint aboard," said Mr.
Kennedy, .thee chief Officer, who had
tuk-
en the boat to the raft, 'aye put him in,
a bunk forward, where several ot hitt
countrymen could address him in 'his
own tongue.He kept ealliogAor water,
but the captain would noh alio* bine to
basic it. The first thing I,nave tiirn was
4 bit of fried stile, wheat had been pro-
cured fresh the day before. ,..Then I gave
him .a cup of fresh tea, and I bathed hint
in hot water. His feet began to swell.
Ile, Was' delirious. •I took him in hand
.when be had fish enough. At 11 o'clock
he. inhered a chill, and doubted. tip With
eratop.o; then 1' gave him a spoOnful ef
thaddyi ea The first thing that Captain
McGregor, ttivai4gh the interPrel,er; ask'
lli:,eseootO..hetea.nll ttl Ws
hitherttiereyegalarsvv0:s
hwreev.fromvtliat„‘hua;s.
eeped. .
hle shook his head andethrthhhteted
thatehe wee thetonlet survivoit of the
NorWeghtn,. steamer Albula., •of 'Bet:gene
tithith *had -stilled 'froth Trapani, Staler,
no Dec. 11 for Kopereak, Norway."
leaksteoin told the following story of
his escape:
"On the night of ill?, day that the.A1-
bola left Trapani, a northeast gale
broke eat. 'The cargo of salt shifted,
and the vessel ,took ,a bad list to port,'
and would not right herself': The crew
nunibered only snineteen, being short of
the hill complement, while the Allhila
des some •
THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD.
'1 110 posttion began to look serious. The
see boomed clean Over the steariter,
sweeping .everything by the board'. Cap-
tain Peter Flamer said that all mist take
Il -in -boats for the Albula would never
iriglt herself. An attempt was made -to
launch a boat, hut 'it' was . smashed.
against the ship's sido. Under the weight
ot the last sea the vessel suddenly be-
gan to turn turtle. . 'May God have
mereyEvery mate for himself,' stionted
Ceptaint Flamer.-
;"1 found myself going down, down,
choking withsea water, 'and. I thought
that I was .never coming up. As soon
as I did' so I could See nothing but bits
of vVreekage rising 'end falling on the
sevelling•waves. I espied a raft not far
may, swein for it, and pulled thyself
upon it. The: cement er, en -the captain's
orders, had built a rude wheelhouse on
the' bridge to shelterthe qUarterrnaster
from the tropical sun. It WaS only, a
rough affair, -made, of inch -and -a -quarter
boards and. scantling -4h If it, had been
,a permanent part. of the "steamer it
would not have detachedeiteelf .when the
ship went detvn. I saw the second mate
near me, and I succeeded ein hauling
him from the sea upon the raft, whieli
turned out to bh the top of the wheel-
house. The raft would pot well hold
both of us. The water washed over it,
and neither of us coeild sit' down.
er"Fhe second caeca had been hit by
the ship 05 ;hie sank. He wes already
nearly overdelite WILII 'oshaWtion. lie
could neither it nor stand. 1 had to
support him standing or lash him With
his oilskins Irr a sitting position io the
water,
HE LASTED NO TIME..
On that night he 'died, arid 1 pushed tuis
body off the raft, which made the plat-
form tilOre buoyant, bid still the boards
were mesh., and I had ,to stand day eft
ter day and night atter night iti the wit
1&, with nothing, to drink, with nothing,
to eat, end with no sleep..
"Olt tho Aitty before yoli Ccittle .by fin
Itxilian stehtitee passed, close. I waved
my oilekin and tried to shout, but
could not do et). My throat and nfauth
Were towelled and swollen. Another
steamer passed too, fac,ftway 10 WO 111±.
Millen I :taw you I determilied to tey
once; 11101eetohliehOaVO1.14.•1111(1..if.,1ofatled
thi3 'tint° to ' falloff the raft and ha
through with it. I prayed and when
eaw yolt turn out 01 your e Course
'thought 1 should go mad wait joy. Th6
wiod had teen off shore,' the raft lied
drifted riboht twenty mike; to the soul*.
ward (11 the place where the, Athlete,
went down, and elie had sunk before
We had (.101141 C;i1rit..V iriii103 front Trapani"
'lite position ot the M4110 was eonte,
ferty-eight tnilee whet Of the little Head
of Marittlino, eff the 014 of Sieily, The
Largo itap tote:lied at Gibralter long
enough to land the aretteful Norineoian
tenriewhe wonid he eiiht n'Tee leetete !WIZ
%Itg 11 by 'Ho' Not enigian C4f1A1.--Imn.
don Standotrd, ,
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LEADING- MARKETS
401.10111.1.11.
HI thA phti lt EFS.
Tteeteito, Mateli e -NO, t ()Mari('
'410 et. sett eat ttieiteatt Pewit
•taeorti, tattier quetatiott*
e,ventete,
heatt-finterite - No.. 2t, 760 i;,ked,
ttie 1;14, teiviside; reiecel, vieiner, 750
heti; etettote ashede
iieat Alenittihoo- No. • 1 noi-thil.n.
1 ‘,1, fI4 1.'4o4t0 'North Lay, alai usitod
oti iinek Edward, hlay ehipineott
L'Oeleyet 50e, iedtet euiside ler' No. if,
47e bid' fot • i at 7h, per,efine.
(t.P.11,
(5't-lof?, 7.171ait.0 31ti bid, 3V:t.thasliie'ila
ioeh freighte to Nee'e.thoilit, oohed
in, store; Throtito, Cr:t, bige on triVii: 'Ea-
eono No..a mixed, 35e iiid„Teronto.
Coro --4934e tielteelhiroronto, 4e bid to
arrive T,Orooto, 490 asited to arrive
Tokonto. . • - '
Buckwheet-Offered at 50e outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Hutter-Quotalions are unchanged „
eavemery 25C to 2Get
do solids' .. . . . 23e tO 24e
Dairy th rolls,' good to choice. 18c to 190
do large rolls 17e to 1$e
do medium 16c to 17e,
Cheese -Quotations are unchanged at .
14c for large and Vigo for twins,
Eggs --46c for new laid and 130 for
storage.
Poultry --Choice dry pluelted :-Fat
chickens, 110 to 12c, thin 7o to 80; fat
hens, 8c to 9c, thin he to 70; ducks., 12 to
13c, thin 6c to 70; gease, 10o to 110; tur-
keys, 14c to 150 for choice small lots.
Potatoes -Ontario, 650 to 75c per bag
on track here, 750 to 850 out of store;
eastern, 700 to 80e on track, and 80o. to.
90e out of store,
Baled Iia -$S per ton for 'No. 1 tim-
othy on track here, and $5.50 to $6 for
Baled Straw -$5 50 to $6 per ton for
car lots on track here.
MONTREA▪ L MARKETS;
Montreal, March 20. -Grain-hiThere,
was little -inquiry. either_forManitoba,'
wheat or American Oro by cable tido
morning. .
Oats -No. 2,. 39c to 39S‘C; No. 3, 38e
.to 38eeee No. 4, 37e to 37%0;
Peas --796 f.o.b. per bushel.
•Barley --Manitoba, No. 34(49c to 49Xe'd
Na. 41 48e to •48h4c; • Ontario, 46o f.h.b..
78 per cent. points.
• Coro -American mixed, 5134o; Net, X
yellow, 52c ex -track.
. Flour -Manitoba' spring wheat patents,-
$4.50 to $4.60; strong bakers', $4 to $4,1tit,
winter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4-50;
straight rollers, $4 to $4.10; do, in, bags,
$1.75 to $1.85e extras, $L65 to $1.75.
Milifeede-Manitobe bran in" bags, VI;
shorts, $20 per tone Ontario bran in
bulk, $14:50 'to $15; shorts', • $20:
rnouille, $21 to $24; straight grain e
mouille., $25 to $27 per tone
Rotted Oats -Per - bag, $L90 to. $1.95d
cornineal,,$1,30 to $1.40- per bag.
Ilay-Noe ls $8 to $S.50; No. 2, $7. to
$7.50e clover, mixed, $6 to $6,50, and
. •
• ure elover.
,,cheese -Quotations are -teiven at 13o
to rl13h-eee,2.a• „1e*?twefor choice, atauter772q6,
Sale$
20%c to 21%e for underagradean
of single, packages offaneg stock are
'paid at ae high as 23.c. -
Eggs ---Fresh, selling at 16e to 16%0.
limed andifaltinteck at, Ile to 13e.
Hearten -Choice prim -ea, $1.60 to 4$1.,
per bushel; hand-picked, $1.80,
Peas -Boiling, 'in carload lots,. 95c to
$1.05 per bositeLe •
Pbtatoes-Per bag of 80 Ilia 60c to
7110/ley-e1:White clover, in comb, 130 th‘-
14c per lb eection; -extract, 8e- to (,o4
buchwheate6yin to lc. '
Provisions -Heavy Canadian short cut.
pork, 821; light shert cut, $20; American
short ciao, $20; American cut clear fat
back, $19 to $20; compound lard, 6Xo
to 73-ec; Canadian, pure *lard, 11ehc ta
12c,. kettle rendered, 12hee' to lac; lianas,
12e. to 13c., according to size; bacon,
14ehei .fresh killedabattoir dressed .hogs,
$10; country dressed, $8.75 to $9.25;
$1,50 for selects.
NEW 'YORK WHEAT MARKET. -
New York, March- 20. -Spot firm; No.
2 red, 840 elevator; No. 2 red, 135,1.41;
Lehi. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 8630
1.0.1. .afloat.
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CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, March 20. -Higher prices OVA
for •some months were'recorded for cala
tle ithone dr tWO instances at the Wes:
tern Market to -day.' .The approach of
sprint, theescarcity of good cattle, the.
presence of a few Iola of exeellerttly
stall -fed animals ,were' mainly the Ms.
of this high tone.
Exporters of good qualify Were find- •
led. A few short -keep feeders were steld
at high figures in consequence, one lotuf
1.,`260 lbs nt*$4,65. • For fairly good an
mats 84.00 ,and .$5 was obtainable.
A few heifers, choice stall -red, weight,
ing over 1,200 lbs, were sold at $3 *
$5.50 per cwt. • '
Good butchers' were in demand eh
strong priees. For good, 'ordinary heie
fers,84,75 could be got. , Cows., medium
steer's' and other classes, nold -17adi1y.•
The general quotations weree-Cholen
butcluirse $4,25 to $4.75; fair to good
butchers', $4 to $4.25; best coweh $3.25
to $3.15;. common caws, $3 to $3.25 per
cwt.. e
The supply of sheep was Moderate
and the mariod was steady. Quotatioaa
were: -Export eaves, $4.75 to $5 'i,
poet bleilts.e. $3.50 to $4.50; grata -fed
iambs. tte,73 to $7,25; mixed lambs,
e5e0 to $6,50; ealves, $3.50 to $6.50 per
cwt.
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TEAM 1'ASIIIc1) INTO TRAIN.;
A Sensational Speetaele, Id Galt -Neither
,
Horse was Killed.
Galt,, Ont., Mai -eh 11.---A Onetime, eine
ALNie.„was witneteied on a croaded thore
oughlaroeltere at tile noon hour toolaya
A team of large icioreee, owned by Jae.
King, of Dumfries, ran from tiardinerta
tionitudo wall log trucho attached, emit
turned down Main •Stinete The Getout
Trtmk ltaihvay ituoie hail) had tu-t left
the depot and.wait tieeltiog good time on .
the Guelph run. • The engine hod only
cleared- the deed crossing, el:at it the
teaut croshed into the ttaitt. Itotit leorteis
were hurled hack t.vith terrible fume,
and fell, udited up. in harnoe; awl tangos*
WbAte12, One Itor-,3e had it 411,NV shatter-
ed, while the °thee eeettptel oath an
ailvtry to the huh. Two pedeeiriana
Lome within a liairhi breadth oti being
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