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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-6-6, Page 2SLAVERY IN AFRICA, The Evil Spreading*, and the Numbee in Post Few Obtincles Met na the Traders in latiunan Beings. ,IiStS +tkfrios, but It I :aid to be comtently on the imamate, with the •fiffdots 4preading proportionately, Tbere aetine to be two aletleat kindot sla- very, that cao be w olassed as domestic and foreign. The first ha': always prevail- ed there. Priaoners taken in war are either sacrifieed, eaten or made :sieves of. Certain offences are punitseed by making the oriree„ heal a slave, and in some tribes men pelt themselves. But in such mem whore those surrendering themselves willhogly to a Slave's life are of the same tribe as their owners the oruellty and horror of the real slave life are not made apparept la what comes under thethead of foreign elavery men, women and claildrai are torn from home and each other, aid made the servants of a brutal master who cares no more for them than the dirt under his feet. At first ivory was the exonse. On the beautiful inland plateaux of Africa it was found in moat quantities that elephants' tusks were used to fence in the gardens and to support the poles of the natives' tante. This ivory was the ruin a the country. The trader was not satitfied to bny it for a trill- ing min, or to take possession of it without payment; it must be carried to the coast; so when the Arab traders beoame acquainted with the country and gathered quantities of ivory, they eeized upon a alight pretext to quarrel with the negroes ; in other words, they organized A PREMEDITATED MASSACRE. The villages were burned, captives taken— men for porters, women for the harem—all who resisted were slain, and the caravan of devise and ivory proceeded to the meet where the humsee beasts of burden were sold, couple of wiveaat leset. Naturally the, together whit the ivory they brought. greatest lawlessneas in regard to marriage This was the beginning. Every year the is the result, the More so as many cif the merchenta of Khartoum sent armed expedi. tions into this regton to collect ivory. These expeditions amendecl the Nile to the Soudan and the lake region. It was at first a fine time for the Turkish speoulators. Glass beads, copper dishes and armlets were arti- cles eagerly sought after by the negroes, and prompt them. Striking int:tames of love for half a dozen or so of "dove's eggs,' large, and devotion are nob leaking even among milky white glass beads. an elephant's tusk these metallized creatures. weighing 80 pounda could be purchased—yes, eeThe name price for a wife is three or four a slave could be bought at that price ! oxen, or their equivalent; but where the But this state of affairs did not last long, trader has been, six drill -eyed needlea or a The Soudan eves fairly flooded with glees box of matches will secure one of the best beads, etc., e� that these Fancies became al- most worthless ; but the value of the slaves King Russuna, of the Upper Lualaba die- inoreased, and this blamed the speculators Won is credited with having the hand - to send oat armed expeditions almost entire- somest women in all Africa for his wives, of ly for slaves. They established stockades at whom he has nearly 200. When he receives short distances apart, which served as the a visitor one of his wives sits and hot& his basis of their. operations. These stookadee feet in her Iap, and often when he site down are called " seribasand though at firat to rest it is upon the back of one who is on they were presumably only stations where her hands and knees. . the Arab traders and Metis bou,ght ivory, A custom which clustinguishes the western they soon became centers of elave hunting tribes from others ia that of waxing a piece when the elephant hunt became ttnprofit- of vette of 2 or 3 inches long, through the able. under hp, which verytnutott impedes articu- The waribe of the ivory trader, which is lation, already impaired by breaking. out the sourrounded with strong palisades or thorn incisors of the lower teeth, which is also a' hedges, oomposea a sort of citadel; and custom. The Morn women wear a splinter many of them are so strong that they can of wood in the upper lip, or a ring with a defy even the Egyptian Government, single petui. Other ornaments are eae.ringe, wbich has ' necklaces, and rings for arms and legs, of FORBIDDEN THE SLAVE TRADE. iron Or other metal or of leather, anything By degrees these markets have been they can make a ring out of, ln filen and opened everywhere beyond the Bahr el vvith aid of copious lavings with palm oil Gbazel and the other peovince once coned- or other grease they are considered to. tubing Egypt's equatorial empire, bat now have made themselves exceedingly attract - under the rule or the Khalif Abdallab of ive. successor to the Mahdi, and known now as Mahal. The only obstaclen to the treffie are E111111 Pashaeat Wadelai, the Christian missionaries. and the Ea- glish trading stations at the takes Victoria Nyan.ze. and Tanganyika. The Mahal is aiding the inane trader:a in afforts to destroy Emir' Pasha and to expel the miseionaries and all Europeans, and religious fanatiolein is n th the greed of the slave trader the Christians from the lake region. The methods which the slave-tre.dert melte use of to secure the human tattle they deal in are perfectly force:lone, and the wanton - nets with which many of the tribes are de. stroyed is frightful. If the ruler or pasha of a large tribe is called upon for tribute by his superior, if be wishes to build himself a •palace to replenish Ms harem, or to put himeell in funds, he mends his soldiers, erne ed wivh guns and ammunition (impertedfrom the Christian conntriee of Europe), against a negro tribe armed with bows and spears, and captures slaves anough to supply his wants. . . SaAt present the principal victims of slavery are women end children; the men are killed. The negro traders of the interior are not dealete in ivory. They are employed by great Arab slave traders, or by native chiefs, like the lately deposed Wwanga of Uganda. who hunt slaves simply for their own cap- rice. Tbe slave hunters surround the village of the tribe atm:tit:bight, when all the residents are asleep, or creep upon it from the sur- rounding thiekete at a time when most of the men are kr:town to be abeent. The few men who endeavor to defend their homes arelsoon made to see how useless are their efforts, and THEIR ORIES OF TERROR, deepair and agony mingle with the murder- ous fusillade of their fiendish aemailante, who ehaokle the terrified, helplees WOrO8D and drag them away, while the screambag Mildren follow, if they can, leaving the men dead r dying among the ruins of their home; for il the barbarous executioners dr nob set fire rt the village in the first plane, smoking their prey out,„they burn it after their captives are moored. A trader's camp where the fettered cap- tives are cox fined foe ehr night is a heart- rending sight. Thine the poor, naked create urea are huddled like sheep, too close for comfort in the hot equatorial climate. Row upon row crowd the dark, nude forms of the captives; youths wita iron rine around their necks, through which a chain is rove 'teeming theses by twenties; three copper rings are used to secure the children ove ten, a ring on each leg, being faetened ee a seng between; the women are fastenechn droves, with 'shorter chains than the yontha; but: the little children and infants are urn bound sot by the tiess of 'maternal bye, and they cling to the necks of their as tive mannas and cluster round them, liking the cruel links of iron which hang in loops or An Objeetien- festonna t vor their breasts. Amorg a fold Aunt Mincly a—Bresa yo' deah, ole, brat& ef 2,300 women and children, them was nob bunt, beacon Gillis, howls eb'rereing down a single adult male captive, yet the inhuraau t' d' che'cle? dealers had devastated 118 villages, and Deacon yo' go enny furder, killed at least 2,500 men I And after the Mies Wonkley, I wanter &gest dat my shad- slave.drove has reached its destination. In' doat go quite ter fur in, ez yo' remahk many of them will have sudeumbe.1 to the wud Mein far t' /limply 1 hardships of the march, for the etoppagras give theni no relief, mid they often die of Burls, Mod in making veneers with re- c hanger on the way. makable occentricitiee of grain, are excrete. p They are compoilecl to walk on, at the conceit that grow upon various trees, such b point of the epear, even when they are cly- as the walnut, roeewood, mahogany, oak b ing and, although iron shackles sisie not a- and kith, litheY weigh from_ 1%60) to 02006 ways Iliad, heisey wooden feria: are e plead poande, and the lergezt end best come trom on their neolta, as we put Ss yoke on tsar Persia and Clroessia, and coat In the rough w oxen, If a poet creature can no lenges` ptit item 15 to 40 cents a pound, one foot before the other, instaml of remov. ing the fork the trader leaves it on, so that the elave who falle by the way CAN NOT en..4stst DEATH. Sometimes they are devolved alive by wild lama: met more savage titan tte bratal trader, who will break a child's nech before its agoeized reothertt eyes, waen, fainting and exhaosted, her weary arms can no loeger uphold tbe double burden of her load of ivory and her infant, Satvery is worse then death to these poor women of Africa ; death tots the men free; but slavery holds a thomand deatbe in re - :serve for tee women and children. They are delivered defeneeless iuto the hands of -their mestere, uleveeno the vilest debauch - mid victims to every deed of wanton and atrocious cruelty. At the negro come, of Uganda, from 1200 to 1500 women are ;slaves to a brutal tyrande caprice. "Not a day has peased," an eye. wieness says, "without my seeing one, two or even three of these unhappy women who) melee up aftesan harem led to death. Drawn or dragged, along with a cord around their wriste, by the body -guard, which lead them to the elaughter-house, the poor area- turea, with eyes full a tears, utter cries that break your heart. 'Hai Minange (Oh! ray Lord ) libe,kka (My King a 'Hai N'yetvis ! (Oh ! my mother 1). In spite of these piteous appeals to public pity, not a hand is lifted to save them frotn the exeoutionere, though here and there one eeete remark, made in a low voice, on the beauty of the victims." Conoubinage and polygamy ilourith in all countries wheels women are the surplus population ; and. as the wealth of a man is irequently estimated, as in Solomon's time, by the number oi his wives, it follows that mattimony is for the most part a busi- nese transaction, and that the women are not tumidly considered as anything but a valuable artioles of merchandise or domestic furniture. Almost every moat tries to =ape enough wealth together to buy himself a poorest classes are not able to purchase wives, and so steal them, the women some- times abetting the thief if inclination and the desire to escape from A HATED TYRANT The Men delight in the trappings of war, min warriondremed and arraed for the fray, with :peep and shield or bow and artiefresare frigntfun object to coistemplate, although be can do no more harm than a divilized sol- dier well armed with repeating rifle and cern ridges. Still more frightfuldeoking objects are the.anham devile," who are men dressed in a fashion which they imagine closely rs. eembks real devils, and who ehow.themeelves where the woods are reeorted to be haunted by real devils, as in Klbokeve, and make them remove to some outer locality. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Frost did much damage generally through- out Ontario on Taesday night. The Wimbleann Team is to sail by bit e Parisian from Qeebeo on Jane 20. It is said that Mr. Edward Murphy, of Queheo, will succeed the late Senator Ryan. The Toronto 'Varsity baseball team won a hard fought game from Cornell at Ithaca, by 11 to 10. Mr. C. H. Rose, of Stratford, was found dead in a bath room at the Russell house, Ottawa. It is expected that Montreal's increase in ateessment this year will he about 0,000,- 000. , The Grand Trunk Company have been served vith notices of suit by three Wood- stock residents, °Jointing $65,000 for iirjurien received in the S. George accident. A report from Duluth eays that a new company proposes to pus a dozen large steamers in the waters o the great lakes se fast as they can be built. Soule of the Hudson Bey Co. shareholders propose to have the capital divided into two armee, one ranking On the trading privileges and the other on. the land property. Some of the crew and offioers of the Cynthia are the guest% of the St. Andrew's Horne. Most of the crew were nearly naked when they got there. Divers say it will be almost impossible to get the Cynthia's cargo out without blowing her up. George Murison, of Hamilton, well known among the riflemen of Canada and Britain as a crack shot, died at his home in Handl- ton on Monday night. lie had held the office of mayor and was universally esteem- ed. :Lizzie Davis, an employee in the kitchen(); the Grand Central hotel, Peterboro, was ar- rested the other night on a charge of having stolen $10 from the trunk of a fellow -set - vent, Ada O'Btien. The girl pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence to allow the magistrate to ascertain her previoile char- acter. THE RIMALAYA,S. -- Along the Hillsides et the Highest Xenia - tains tn. the World. In the hes rt of theIiimalayas in th midst of mouataina whose perpetuta snows glieten like diamonds ender the rays ef the tropical sues, with oceans of elands below me, 7,000 feet above the jungle where the tiger hides and almost within the sound of the Englieh troops, who are fighting on the bordere of Thibeb, I write this letter for my Cauedian readers. From ney window I can 'see the snow on It anoltanjanga, 28,• 000 feet above the eea, and upon a Thibe. tan pony I galloped thie morning twelve miles higher up the mountain to Tiger Hill and paw the sun gild the snowy :summit of Mount Evereet, which is a full thoueand feet higher. Ttae top of Mount Evens:it is of all the world, the nearest point towards heaven. Fusiyama, the seemed, snow cap. ped rnountam of Japan, is nob half as high an Mount Everest, and if my memory servee me, the snows, of Mount Blanc are at least 10,000 feet) lower. Go to the top of Mount Blanc, ascend in a balloon straight upward for two miles, and you have ihbent reached the altitude of this highest of the }Itemises Mountains.. It dwarfs everything in the Andes and the Alps, and it is a fitting king to this noblest range of mountains in the world. Himalaya means the abode of onow and thoueauds of the peaks are crowned will eternal front. Has. any one ever reached the top of the highest of these mountains? I should say not An American attempted it a few months ago, and he left Darjeeling with a staff as bong as himself and enough provialons to last him a mouth. He came baok four weeks later and claimed that he had spent the night on Kanohanjanga. "It was as ectay," said he, "as falling off a log. It takes an Arnerioan to do a thing that you Englieh fear to attempt," And he then went on to describe the glaciers in spread-eagle colors. He told of mountain bears and polar wolves and discoursed for hours in the language ot Juke Verne. The English residents of Darjeeling cooked their one -eye gleams at him, and some believed and some did not. About a week after he had left the Himalayas, a wealthy tea plant- er same to thestation and asked the people if they had heard anything of an Ameriosn named Jones. They replied that Jones was the wonderful man who had ascended Jim- chanjanga, and they described his tour. Up. on comparison it was found tint the date of JOIla starting up the mountain was the day before he came to visit this tea planter. Tie planter mid; "Re talked nothing of tie mountains to me, but I found him a geou fellovnand ho stayed with me full four week' We played poker three-fourths of the time, drank whiskey and soda during the interval, of the game, and the remainder of the days Jones apent in reading up my libraryof mountain literature. He was at this time doubtless thinkhrg how he would take in Darjeeling, and was making up the Muin °barmen story whioh he MISC." Man here is fully as interesting as nature, minima have servants and guides who are more like the people,of Thibet than India. There is no seclusion of women here, and great strapping girls dreased in the gaudiest of colors go about with flat plates of gold hanging to their ears, each of, which la as big soma trade dollar. They have gold on their ankles and breceIete of silver running all the wey from their wristes to their elbows. Their complexions, originally as yellow In 'the Chinaman, are bronzed by the crisp mountain air, until they have now the rich copper ot the American Indian. Beth men and women look not unlike our Indians. They have the same high cheek -bones, the esme semi -fat noses and long, .etraight black hair. If you will take the prettuar equavr you leave oval'. seen you may have a fair type of the average belle of the mountains. She wears two pounds of jewelry to the ounce of the squaw, however, and her eyes are bright. er ana she is far more intelligent. She warke juet S8 hard, and the woman of the Hiram layan does much of the work of the moun- tai"THE 'WOMEN WORE LIRE THE MEN. I see women digging in the fields, working on the roads and carrying immense baskets, each of which holds from two to throe bush. els, full of dirt and produce, on their back. Just above the hotel the road is beingrepair- ed and a side of the mountain is bane cut away. The dirt le carried about a quarter of a mile and need in filling up a hole in the hillside. Its is all done by women. Two women are digging clewn the dirb with pick- axes and a halt dozen are shovelling this in- to the baskete of the girls who carry it from one place to the other. The basket rests upon the the beck and shoulders of the girl, and it is held there by a wide strap which comes' from the basket around and over the girl's forehead. They stand with the baskets on their backs while they are loaded, and one of the women who lc doing the shove/ling has a baby a year old tied tight to her baok, and it bobs up and down as she throws the dirt from the ground into the basket. These girl's carry easily 160 pounds, and I was told that one had oarriel a cottage piano a distance of twenty miles: up the mountain upon her back. This is hard to believe, but after seeing the mighty shoulders, the well -knit frames and the great craves and ankles of the etrongeet of them loan believe ite The men are fully as strong as the women. They are not so tall as the American Indian, and they are very fierce -looking. Borth wears a greab scimitar -hike knife in his bolo, and they are jamb like the Thibetene whom I mew alt Pekin. They are notorious as wife -beaters' and the woman of the Him- alayas ham, as a rule, a very hard time. Many of the men wear earrings, and the women, both before and after marriage, carry their fortunes upon their persons. They wear strings of Sliver 00b18 of the size of fifty and ten cent silver pieces in rows about their neoks, so than often the whole front of a woman's bust is covered with them, and the poorest vvorkingegirl has her earrings of gold and her anklets of silver. A SEMI -BARBAROUS EE/STENCE. They work all day for whets would he the price of a drink in Canada, end ,their inotintain huts would be ooneidered hard ltnee fee the establishment of a Canadian pig, Little low hut*, thatched With enerev, end not trench bigger than store berms. They do inoee of their cooking Out of doors, 'deep upon the floor, eat with their fingers and worship Buddha in a ,half.civilized way, Scene of ,thena MO the ptayer-witeel, and thii memos to be ,the only invention they have, The prayer -wheel consiets Of a metal box aboue as big around as one tyhich holds: boot,tilaoking nnd about twice an deep. Through it a wire is stuck and tibia isfasten• ed into a handle a foot ong. Inificle the box there le a Yall Of prayer's Weittoo in Thibethe hareatere and the 4$siotehipper tattlea off tayere at the rate ef a hundred a minute y giving ttte handle 0, *let and sentiug the tor to rolling, Earth roll retokds a prayer, very prayer does away with Mid or snore Ms attd puta a briokitt the pavement hieht beede toWarde heoeien. In going up 'the tiltuolyas to ballot, ling you pass through the torrid, the temperate and land et last in the frigid zone. At the bottom le the jungle into whioh you dealt out of rice fields, and which, with ites thick bamboo, its benyen trees en1 ite inter- woven III15800 of foliege, forms the home of the tiger. As you go through yoo ean al. most Ate the bright eyes ot this noble Ben. gal beast shining out of the deeknees, land the old residente of India who are with you will tell you storiee of the tiger hunts they heve had and of accidents that have hap. paned to lone travellers. They will tell you that the tiger la only found where live, the deer end the wild hog; that if he once has a taste of human blood he is satisfied with no other. A single one of these tigers is known to haye MU 108 people in three years and another killed 80 portant per annum. One of the agents of the Indian Perot Department tells me that about two thoueancl tigers are killed in India evely year, and in 1682, 395 men were killed by tigere. The English Government gives a reward for tiger killing and during that year several thonea,nd dollen were paid for the killing of 1,700 tigers, In a few week e there will be an immense tiger hunt in India. The party will to olds upon elephants and will 'spend some weeks in the jungle, ' As you go up the Himalayas this jungle give is way to huge forest trees, but the branohes have long roots and creepers shooting from them down to the ground, and the trees are often from one to two hundred feet high. These Mees are clothed with a luxuriant growth of moues and ferns, and you see many varieties of orchids fastened to trunks and hanging to their branishes. As you go up you note the tree fern; a tall, round trunk, from ten to twenty feet high, with fern leaves jutting out from its top like those of a palm. The underbush becomes more sparse, and as you rise the color of the moos upon the trees changes from green to silver. This hangs from the branches, in clustere, clings to their limbs like a coat, and makes them look at a distance like a forest of green dusted vidth silver. As you near Darjeeling you find many of the hard woods of Araerieen mountains; the rose begin,: to bloom and there are tea plantations by the hundreds of sores. TEA BEST TEA nt MB WORLD. The tea of the Himalayas is the beat in the world, and I would advise Canadian house- keepers to try Indian tea, There is a tea, in thibet which has the flevor of milk to suoh a degree that when used it has all the good properties of good tea mixed with the most delicious of Jersey cream. This Himalaya bets has the flavor of flowers. It is pure and clear, and it ie supplanting the Chinese tes in England markets. The tea plant growe wild in Mese Himalaya hills, and in some of the regions near it attains the dimensions of a large wee. It was probably introduced from here into Chins. Still it is now only ebont half a century since tea culture was aommenced in India, and now there are many Indus tea men who prophesy that India tea will eventually push Chinese tea out of the markets of the world. Just ten years age the exports of Indian tee amount. ed to 33,000,000 pounds. Five years later they had risen to 58,000,000 pounds, and a osa planter, whom I met here at Darjeeling, tells me that they are now making 100,000, 000 pounds of tea a yeas in India. The exports of Indian tea to the Amer- ica have abeedily inoreseed, and it is now take over a half a million pounds of Indian tee every year. The lownr hills of these Hiram - ayes are covered with them tea plantetiona The plants look nob unlike well trimmed box- wood hedges, and they rise in terraces up the sides of the hills. Here and there you may flee a gayly dressed woman picking their leaves, and now and then a low shed in, evitioh the firing is done. The .seede are gown itt nureeries in December and Jennery and they are transplanted between April end July. The ground has to be well drained, and 1 ant told that the best tea oil is virgin forest land, which in India is very rich. The plants begin to bear about the third year, and they are at their best when tney are ten years old, The Indien tea planters get about five pickings a year and often seven. In China and Japan three pickings is considered good. I note some curious anomalies here in them old Htinaleyas. Many of the rude huts, which are of the same Moyle as they have been f or a thousand years or more, are roofed with galvanized iron and the skies of some of them are sheeted over with square pieces of tin. This tin comas from Philadelphia oil cans, and some of the mountain huts are lighted by the Standard Oil Company's oil. Calico from England is corning into use among the natives and many of the idols upon being inverted are ound to have sunken into their brass bon Hems the trade marks of the Birininghani manufactories. Who Started the Slander? 67Z4 TORONTO, June 8.—When tin Campbell, a, lumber dealer and builder of this city, wenb for a trip to Sault Ste. Marie a few weeks ago, some naaliolous person started a report that he had left: without sealing with his creditors. Messrs. Mills & Mills have been given charge of the case, and a writ has been served on Mr. Danoan Coulson, of the 13ank of Toronto, for having repeated the slanderous atatements. Matters are to be made hot for those who have assisted in giving It currenoy. He Knew His Man; An old tenant -farmer, on Paying his rents told his landlord that he wanted SOMO tim- ber to build a house,and would be much obliged if he would give him permission to out down what would answer for the pur- pose. " No1" Paid the landlord sharply, Well, then, sir," the farmer went on, .1 will you give me enough to build a barn ?" " No 1" "To make a mite then ?" "Yee." "That's all 1 wanted," said the farmer and more than I expected." A Slight Respite. Count Bagitnolles (junt after his rejec tion):—Aha ! a.s. 1 You refuse one of z: nobility of Fr-r-rance ? 1 go me away„tor evair 1! Mies Kiettletas wouldn't hurry. Mamma wants you to stay to dinner with us. We are to have brazed lege d'frog, with Halm, Count Bagitnollos 1—Meroi 1 I will my aelf give one more hoer of basest before Iffy. To tell a dignified citizen to null down his yob, is apt to make him raise hie choler. Strawberx:y and old rose Medea are well efitablished in popular favor, but are more delicate than heretofore. Georgia Petrie, while cutting peat on the bland of Burray, Orkney, found nom cud' ous and Valuable salvor twins and ornaments. There were twenty aye minket: and bangles, and tWentaattvo neck rings a silver wire, tope pattern, The coins are of the eleventh centrity. AT INDIAN C.RIME Pronnestonal Poisoning Taking the Place 4 n °iinterestingrha'r 42 014°ortth:err :spree onlm n in Indian province has been prepared hy Mr. Eastace J Kitts, of the B, angel Civfi Service. The province is the important ad. afinstrative isdivieion called "The North, West provinces and 0 ade," and the period treated Of Many bhpOrtalltfa0f8, all of which cannot be referred to, but among °there is the prevalence of dimity in the heart of fildia. To those who think that the exist- ence of daeoity in Burrnah demonstrates the slender hold we heve on that country it will`be some encouragernent,p?rhaps, to learn that the 'same sorb of thing exists in districts of India where our authority has been un- questioned for a century. Decoity is only another name for nIG-IIWAY ROBBERY. The small States subject to the rule of their awn chiefs in Central India seem to be the centre of daeoity organisation and to pro- vide the deemits with a place of refuge. Of 4,530 murders committed during these 11 year's 72 were perpetrated by dimwits and 368 by highway robber% Thuggee which used to be a sourge of the people of India, was in the same period reeponsible for only abc -murders blab the report goes on to state that if "Tnuggee has died out professional poisoning hue to some extent taken its plata." Mr. Kitts mentions many oases of professional pononiag to justify this state- ment. Another curious 'mot:iota whioh re- minds one of China, is the murder of a re- lative in order to throw 'suspicion on a per - sena! enemy who is maimed of the crime be - clause the body is found on his premisee. Mr. Kitts describes deceits as"all tnoreorleas des- perate oharaoters." The muss of the band depends on the merit of its leader, who, al- though he is •RUTHLESS AND CRUEL, only outs down those who ;east, and tor- tures only for the betrayal of treasure. The Kmajers seem to be a formidable tribe of ex- pert footpads. Their numbers are fortunate- ly few, and "their women, in the Deccan at lamb, are noted for their handsome looks, their command of native Billingsgate, and their extremely filthy songs." In theperiod discussed there were 500,000 mass of house- breaking and 700,000 oases of ordinary theft. The significance of these large figures is dim- inished by the individual offence being as a rule trivial. Mr. Kitts concludes by show- ing how great the improvement hes been in 40 years, and he says that "the oriminel classes in these provinoes still exist, but they exist under diffioulties, and are becoming every year more and more open to bhe eon. viotion that an honest livelihood is both easier and more profitable than their former Ishmaelitieh existence." Can't Do it. We have been offered $25 in cash and a barrel of wild plum vinegar to publish the record of the man who nuns the weekly turther down the street. 'While there le no doubt in our mind that he is a bigamist, horse thief, barn -burner, and Anarchist, sympathizer, we know what belongs to decency, and we positively refuse the bribe. There ss too much rcud.throwing among the editors of the West, anyhow. They seern to have forgotten what is due to the poen tMn. If one of our dootors kills a patient by some mistake, the rest are always reedy to awesr him clear. If one of the editorial fraternity makes a trip, the rest are eager to pitch into him. It shouldn't tbe so. There should be more of the fraternal spirit —more of the pride of profession. Therefore, vrhile we are perfectly satisfied that tee beldheatled, bowlegged, equina -eyed old coyote who calls himself the editor of the moribund dish -rag eleven doors below ought to be in State prison for life, we are not going to forget what belongs to the amenities of editorial life.—Arizona Kicker. Carrier Pigeons For Railroad Service. Superintendent Given of the Rook Island road Is mating experiments with carrier pigeons, with a view to using them to sup- plement the telegraph service. Ono day re- cently he sent thirty-four pigeons by express from his home to Brooklyn, a station on the Reck Island, seventeen miles eaab. They were released by the station agent there. The birds firat rose m the air and made a circuit of the town as if to get their bearings, and then took a bee line straight west toward home. They made the seventy miles back in less than two hours, and all but three reached Superintendent Given'house in good oondition. These were all young birds, and this was their first long trip, so that their success in coming home was the more remarkable. Mr. Given says that the wind storms often render the telegraph line useless, even if the wires are not blown down, and he thinks that a eee of carrier pigeons at) each station might be made very serviceable in such an emergency. He is experimenting. He Had the Bulge. 13arber (to first comer in hand): "Shave sir ?" (To second customer): "Take a chair, sir; 1 shallise disengaged immediately.' Smith (firat coiner, who has recognized in the glans opponite that it is that fellow Brown, his rival and enemy): Yaqui, I wish to be shaved, and—ah—ben 1 should like my headlwashed—shampoopd, y' know,and after- ward my hair cut and—carofully curiae{ 1" (Tableaux.) Deaths by Lightning. At the mooting of the Royal Meteorologi. cal Society on the 17th ult., a paper "On the Deaths Caused am Lightning in England and Wales from 1852 to 1880, as Recorded ih the Returns of the Registim.General," was read by Inspector General R. Dawson, LL, D The total number of deaths from lightning. during the 29 years amounted to 546, of which 442 were of malets and 104 of female's. In oonsequenoe, apperently, of their greater exposme, the inhabitants ot rural districts suffer more from lightning thanthose of towns. It appears ale° than the violeity to the weet encl south comas reduces the ohanoes of injury by lightning, and that distance froth the coast and high lana items to increase them-4E1'1°6406n. The newest form of Mit gown is the me- diteval, which has a °ukase omega, tall akin and antique sieeneta., In Reeetoen,. Hollapd, there is a giant mina tree belongIng to Maiti. Regnen, Which ale* years ago held 6,000 roads at the saint time. Four Mend:are nogroen are iamb to appear et the Gowen eourt ae Anibassadore from their Afti ran &then, Who ate lraid to bt tnarvei o intelligenee and with a moral etaridatd extraordinarily high. Though they will drat in their outtneoottense„the etigtette of tho derineet couetinannet be foregone, and an the regtriat tittles coatniiill be Wert' Over bhetr Aftkiati PLAYED HIMSELF FREE he Adventure or a lilted= lalan'st Who Wanted to Go to Germany.. Arthur Friedheim,. the famous pianist, wished to arose the western Russian border reoently for the purpose nf filling hisengage- matte to play In several German oitiera As a Russian subject he WAS Obliged t? go through ell Porte of formalities with Russian offroials before leaving the country. Two weeks before the date of his first concert he asitecl the Captain of the city of St. Peters- burg, where he: was stopping, to ask the Governor of Livonia to afik the Mayor of Per nem, where he was born, for the consent) of the Pernau pollee to the departure of Arthur Rriedheim to Germany, Of course, the Mayor and the police of Perna,u had nothing magnet Mr. Friedheitn or hisenomert tour in Germany, and they said 80 ill a letter which they want to the Captain ofathe cap- ital by return of mail, " Owiug to the wretohedness of the Liven - km meat servioes, this ane e'er was stranded ir a fourtlnrate Post Offioe a few mtles from Pernan and lay there four weeka. At the end of the second week Mr. Frieclheim had broken two engavements to give concerts in Germany. At the end of the third week he had broken tour engagements and was re. oeiving telegram by the "more from German theatrical managers' whom he had disap- pointed. The fourth week brought tele- grams and demands for an explanation, but no letter from Perna% Priedheim wae in despair, and he resolv- ed to OrOMS the border withOut passes, He tried it, was airested, and was taken before the ohlef of the distriotr, who sent him to prison after confiseeting his papers. In Friedheimtspooketbook were apaokage of his visiting cards and several nevespemer crib- ieferne of his playing. The chid concluded that he had caught the murderer of Artbur Friedheim. He had Friedheim, whom he sisspeoted of murdering Mansell and con - &eating his own papera, doubly ironed end doubly guarded. After protesting and appealing for a whole day, Friedhelm got an audience with the chief. He reiterated in vain the atetement that he was Arthur Friedheim, the pianist. The ohief wouldn'b believe birn. Finally Friedheim begged to be allowed to prove his indentity by playing. The chief, who was something of a musician, consented. Priedheim was marched throttgh the street to the ohief's house between two spldiers and was set down before a piano. He played the second Rhapsodies of Liszt. As soon as he finished, the chief removed theguard, saying : "Now I know you are Priedhem." The &mist was re- leased on his promise to return to St. Peters. burg for his passes. Upon hie arrival in the capital Friedhehn found the letter from Haman and his other papers reedy for him, Four days later he began playing in Germany with a reoord of seven broken engagements behind. him. The official red tape, of which h$ -was a victim, so distended him with the. Govern - meat of the Czar that he has declared hie intention to give up his Russian oitizenship to become a aubject of Emperor William II. Cultivating the Lotus. The verymention of the sacred lotus of bhe Ent brings with it a host of poetioaa and historical suggestions. Beautiful similes in allusion to it are common In Oriental poetry, and for its influence on actual life, we have only to xemember how deeply it has affected art. To one who thinks of it so a rare growth, set apart for high uses, it is a rather startling fact that it may be cultivated in this country from Cape Cod southward, along dee coast. It had been grown here and there, ex pera mentally for some time, when Mr. E. D. Sturtevant, of Bordentown, N. J., succeeded in really naturalizing it, in a pond near his house. Nine years ago, he obtained a plant from Europe, whither it had been taken from Japan, and it soon hem n to spread in all directions, blooming profusely. Otto sum- mer, it was nearly desbroyed by cattle which, finding the foliage sweet in taste, waded into the pond, and ate the pleats down to the water. In a year or two, how- ever'the lotus had recovered its lost estate, and last summer and autumn it showed a solid rams of leaf and blossom, covering three-quarters of an acre. Its botanical name is " Nelumbium specie - sum." Although it is a speoles of water -lily, its leaves do not float upon the surface of the water, bub grow profusely above it. The flower is at least a third larger than our MI lily, of a rosy color, and grows upon a firm, hard stalk. Last August, at the height of the blots - mining season, the pond at Bordentown was covered by a mass of foliage, in which the tallest man would have been hidden from view. Five hundred of the beautifully sthe,cled flowers were open at once, and in their last stages of expansion they measured from ten to thirteen inches in diameter. In some instances the flower stalks measured eight feet in length. The water of this pond has several times frozen to a depth of ten inches, and its trop- ical inhabitant :shows a curious "vegetable intelligence" in dealing with this phenom- enon, with which it is quite unfamiliar at home in Egypt, India or Japan. During the summer, its roots spread hor- izontally in every direction, at a ,moderate depth of mil. On the approach of autumn, however, the root atalks demand to a greater depth, sometimes as deep as eighteen inches, and there, below tine frost line, tub. era are formed, which lie dormant until spring. When the warm weather comets again, a new gro wth of roots amends to the normal level, and the prooess of horizeital growth is again resumed. An Arithmetical Question. Grocer—" What do you want, boy Boy—" One pound of coffee, onoand-four one pound of sugar, twopence; one pound of butter, oneandosix ; two pounds of rioe at three halfpence; and two pounds: ofja rants at fourpeoce per pound. If I now, ive you half-a.crown, how much do I still oise?" Grocer—" One 'shilling and fivepence." Boy, turning away—" Thank yen. I hope it's quite right. Grocer— Where are you going ?" Boy —"1 am going htime to oopy the anewer in my home -lesson book1 must give it at school to -morrow morning," aramirY.* On the ground of famillatam with French the Rritieli Mb:dater and the Freneh Miniater at Washington are getting quite &Minty. Father Damien 8 self.sacrificie itt the leper settlement of Molokai, aroused Audit general admiration that the Ptoteetante Of agland raised Money for hint to build a ehirreh. At the Bat des Artistes Of the Park' °petit Sarah Bernhardt appeared aa the conductor of an otoheette of 120 eitrualoians with Cheque - lin eatte6 lig the leader d the violins. Leto in the evening, when they played the Inter - eel 0 -O&M°, which Was danced with dia. helieal Oplrib, Covell -it out subli antic e that he broke lila how,. and then eineahed his violin over the head Of to dancer, all with iMo mange Ontlitisieniti.