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A sToRy OF SLAVE,RV DAYS.
By MARY J. tIOLNiES,
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CHAPTIell XIT.--COntinued, • been a comraanding officer, and, she his
Would they get Min erom 'her?She'd euhordinaeo. The novelty 'a the
like to see them, dot its Mlle said, as she , thing was rather Pleasing to Rose, and
led the ehildieh desertex to the hearth, notwithstanding, that the PleYeieian
he leening heavily, upon her, and fall- pronounced: the disease typhus fever
ing, rather than sitting upon the chair In its most violent form, she Persisted
she brought. Weary of a eoldier's life, in staying, eaying some one muse help
and satisfied with one taste a battle, Mrs. Baker, and she was not afraid,
• he had stolen away one night: whenthe So day after day found her in that
rail and the darkness sheltered hirn emfertlese dwelling,while; the frequ-
ent' callers at the Mather rilansion
frona observation, Gradually magnify-
, tag the value put upon himself, as wellWondered where' elm could be. It came
as the chances for detection, he had not out at last that ,she was nursing Wile
dared to take tho cars, lest at every Barn Baker, lying dangerously sick of
•station there should be one of thei po- tYPhue fever in Ms mother's dilapidate
liee waiting to secure him, se ae nee ed home, and 'then, as villagers will,
made the .entire journey from Wash- the Rockland people wondered ante
ington on foot; travelling by night gossiped, and wondered again how the
• and resting by day, sometimes in barns, eristocratie Rose Mather could sit
but oftener in the woods, • where $0Me hour after hour, in that povertyestrieke
friendly stump or leaftese tree was en cottage, ministering, to the warits
• his only shelter; He had reached his of despised Bill Baker, Rose hardly
' home at last, but his haggard fade, his knew, heeeelf, and when questioned up -
blood -shot eyes., his blistered feet and on the subject could only reply—
. tattered garments bore witness to his "I guess it's because he's a soldier,
• long,painfill journey, and I must do something for the war.
'
Will knows. it. He says I'm. .doing
With streaming eyes the Mother Us-
* tened to. the story, then opening the right, and Annie Graham, too,"
bed of coals, she warmed and,. chafed And so, with her heart kept brave
helf trozen lirabs handling tenderly by thinking thet Will and Annie al)-
. the peor, huistered tett, from which the Proved her course, Rose went every day.
soies of :the. shoes had dropPed, leave to M.rs. Baker's, doing more by her
ing them exposed. Bet . all in vain cheerful presence and the needful cone-
, sad she prepare the cap of fraferaid forts she supplied. Lo arxest the pro-
tea, sent her that afternoon by Mrs. gress of the disease and effect a favor-
,
• Mather, 33illy • could do little more able change, than. All the physicians
than taste it. He was - too tired„ he ha the country 'could have done. Bill
owed his life to hereand it was touch -
said he should be better in the more-
ing, after he had 'slept. So with lug to witness hie ebildish gratitude
toe- When reason resumed. her throne, and
eager, trembling hands his' 'mother
ha learned who it was het had some -
ed the bed in the 'little room' which
ha4 not been used since he went away, times called his "little Rebel," and
bringing her own pillows, and the nice again had fancied was some beautiful
rose blanket given by lire. Mather, to_ angel sent to cure and comfort him. He
had often seen Mrs. Mather, in the
gether with a strip • of • carpet , which
she spread' un the floor so as to Streets before he went away; but never
make it soft for Billy's wounded, bleed- as closely as now, and for hours after
hag feet. How sick he was, and how his convalescence he would. lie looking
!
he moaned in his fitful. sleep, nonitalk- into her face, which seemed. to puzzle
ing of Hal, now of ,beinse shot, and him greatly. • Occasionally, , too, he
again of the Bible, on the stand,and the wsiteld, take from his poteret a picture,
which he evidently eon -mend with
prayer he heard. his mother make.
something about. her person, then, with
Mrs. Baker was not accustomed to
sickness, but she knew this was no a sly wink, which began to be. very an-
• ordinary case; axed she suggested send- ncYirtg, he would return it tot its hid-
ing for the doctor; but Billy started hag -Place, and ask her sundry quest-
• up in sueh dismay, telling•her no one done, which, under ordinary circum -
must know that he was there unless Stances, she would have resented as
she wanted him killed,' that he suc- being too lamiliax•.
At last, one afternoon, as she was
eeeded in onamunicating a part oe his
terror to her, and she pent
the en- sitting by him,. while his mother did.
s
some
tire Sunday by her child's bedside; doe errands in the village, he sudden-
ly_surprised her by dropping upon, her
bag what she could to allay the rage
ing fever increasing so fast; and. keep- lap an elegant gold watch, whieh
ing watch to see that no one came Rose knew at a glance must have ,be-
neax to drag her boy away, eonged to some person of taste and
• The next 'morning it became absolute- evealtnd• • • • .
ly enecessary for her to leave aim for • "What is it? Whose is it?" she asked,
a time, as she must procure the few and Bill replied:
necessaries he needed, and taking tide
vantage of the heavy sleep into which
• he had fallen, she stole noiselessly out,
• hoping to return ere he should wake.
Scarcely, however, had he • lege the,
lanettoct Lurned into Mainstreet, when
Rese came tripping to the gate,
•'drawn thither by a curiosity to see if.
aes , her suspicions were correct. he. bad
• learned, frora her husband of Bill's exit
'front Washington and for some days
had beenexpecting to hear of his ar-
' rival in town; That he had eome, she
wastertainaind telling Annie wher she
was going, she had started rather early
for -Mrs. Baker's. , Asher knociie met
with no response she entered without
further ceremony,and passing' on
• through the low, dark kitcheri came to
the door of 'the 'little room where Bill
ley breathing heavily, ,ancl muttering
about camps, and guard -houses, and
de.serters. ehe sight of suffering al-
ways awoke a_ chinet of. sympathf in
Rose Mather's bosom, and without a'
thought of danger she bent close to
the eick scan, and involuntarily laid
. her soft, cool hand upon his burping
foi•elead. • The touch. awoke' hinbut
in thaadwild, eyes turned Upon her thera
• was no glance of recognidon, or look
of fear. He evidently fancied himself
back in Washingben, and asked the
name of her regiment,
'Oh, 1 know,'' he continued, still
keeping' his eyes fixed Upon her, "you -
are the, chap 1 took, -but you'vefell
away inieh_ily since then. Yankee
, fere don't see well on your Rebel stom-
ach, 1. goes," and a wild, ooarse laugh
rang through the room, making Rose
ehudder and draw back, on she felt
intuitively that Billy was Mad.
he was not, however, afraid of him,"
and standing at a little distance, she
died to reason with him, telling him
she was net Rebel,—she was Mrs.
• Mather, come to de him good.
Bill only laughed • derisively.
. "Couldn't: .theat him. 'Guess he knew
them eyes and them hands, -white as
cotton wool. • I'll bet I've' got a ring
that'll fit 'era." he continued, and
reaching for his.pantaloens, which he
had insisted should, lie beh•ince him; on
the bed, he took fronathe pocket .the
costly' diamond once worn by the Rebel
ceptive, and. confisticated by him as
con -era -band. "Try it on," he eaid to
Rose, who naccbanic:ally 'obeyed, won-,
•-tiering why it should look se familiar
to het.
, ,
'It Was too large for her slender fin-
ger, end droning off, rolled upon the
floor. Rose at once _set herself to
—finding -the missing ring, and had 'just
, returned it to is owner -when Mrs.
Bakercame in, terribly alarmed • at,
'finding Mrs. Mather. there. Rose
hovvever, quieted her fears at once liy eofferin everthing he had if Id give
telling her she hadknowri. for, some ' it up." •
, day's past, of Bill's desertion, and had 'Why didn't you, then ?" and Rose.'e
'kept it from everone hut, Annie, he- eyes blazed with pinged makeog Bill
easse, her nusband thought it best. She shrink before their. indignant gaze.
did not believe he would, be followed, • " 'Twas rotten mean in me, 'knew,'
ehe said, fee' Will eveote thab he had he said, timidly," but they was con-tra-
beceme so reekless and discontented band. according to „law, and 1 felt so
that his ebsence Was no '1OSS to the savage at ,the pesky 'Rebels then, I
, Remy, but for a while it might he well didn'teknow.itsvits youhe teased so for,
'that his presence should not bo known actuelly. seryini when, 1'wouldn't give
in Rockland, as 'the people might be in- it up, I'm sorry, 1 be, I swan, and. I'll
dignent, at a deserter, and perhaes in give you ever confounded, Contraband.
thsir excitement do him scene injury. You've got the watch, arid there's the
'Ile ought to have medical advies, ring, dm spectacles. the tobarket •boy,
though,' she added; "fot 1 think he's and the thingurabob eor cigars, the
' YorY lick," sum total ef hie traps, except a claw
• Mrs, Baker 'knew he was, end fear or eo of the weed that Xcouidntverer
lest, he should die overcame every well bring back," and Vire feet: wore
alb er feeling, making her consent: that a very satiefied expreeraiim as he laid
Rose sbould cell their family physician. in Rose's lap every article belenging
ft wed' nearly noon ere he tetrive.d, and to her brother.
ei the meattinie, ,Roect bad reported She knew -who the prisoner was in
Oil, case' to .Annie, end then return. whoM she had felt so steange an
Ing to Mrs. ;Baker's took her, plane bY tercet, • It was ,Tineraie, and the nays -
Billy, who' eel led her "his' litte Rebel" tery coneerriing his fate woe eolved. Ile
nit architect her about as it het had
T PI
heart ached to its verY core as she
thought of both her brothers laeguishe
jag so many weary mottths in prison,
Very minutely she questioned. Bill,
elieiting from hiin little or nothing
concerning Jimmie's present eonditiore
He only knew teed; wes it captive
atillt that be was representea nude-
tainueg the ellmoet reserve, seldom
speaking except to • e newer direct
questions, and that be eeerneci very'
unhappy, Although the attle Thuringian town
"Pool' bOY; he watiee to come Mine, ot fsonneh erg, the centre of the neat-
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geese:nee treeeeraes Produce Thera by fife
ereyriee end; rei reit
/aenta nsitsin
know," and Rose sobbed aloud, as site
thought hew deeolitte and homesick he
irtust be. I can't stay any longer to-
day," she eaid, as Wee heard Mrs. Baker
at the door, and. bidding Bill good-
bye, she hurried Milne, where, after a
long, passionate flood of tears, wept
in Annie's lap, she wrote to her moth-
er and husband both, telling - tbene
where Sammie was, and begging of the
foreaer to ccene at ,onee and go with
her to Washington.
CHAPTER XVI.
Tbat, night, as Rose sat alone in her
cheerful bondoir, musing upon the
strange events which had occurred
within the laet few months, it letter
was broeght 10 her, bearing her moth-
er's handwriting. It had passed hers
on the roed and Rose tore It open,
starting, as a soiled, tear -stained note
dropped from the inside upen the floor.
Intuitively she felt that if was from
Jimmie, and catching it up, she read
the home -sick, heart -sick, remorseful
cry of penitence and coratrition winch
the weary Rebel -boy had at last sent
to his mother. Stubborness and proud
reserve could hold out no longer, and
he had written, confessing, his error,
and begging. earnestly for the for-
givenees he knew he did not deserve,
" run pa all bade.' he said," and on
that quiet inorning, wten beneath the
cover of the, Virginia, woods I lay,
watching the Union soldiers coming so
bravely on, there was a dizziness,in nay
'beam, and a strange, womitialy feeling
ern toy-industres saps' litaland's \Vo-
ehenschrift, is commonly considered as
the birth -place of Ley -Making, it can-
oot be denied that the first attempts
in the art were made by the, village of
judenbacin eituated further to the
northeast. ley reason of its favor-
able, situation near the Nurnberg-
Secheieche Geleitestrasse, a road neuell
frequented over since the thirteenth
century, and the only means of com-
municating with Leipeie and Nurena-
berg, the village could always readily
dispose of its crude wooden house and
kitchen` uteneils, and later, of it e lit
-
tie chairs, tables, animals, cross-bewe,
swords, guns, and musical instruments.
Even loug after tese art of making
woodenware had been introeuced
Sonneberg, Nuremberg was eta). the,
market Joe these peasant -products and
continued to make the most by the
transaction. Not without reason did
the city call Sonneberg its Goide
tochterlein, little gold -daughter. Not
until the Thirty Years' War had de-
stroyed all the regular trade eommuni-
cations, did the Sonneberg trades-
men themselves begin to travel about
with their wares. The inhabitants of
enclenbach, on the other hand, could
never cenclude to leave their native
ed my heart, White a sensation I can-
not describe thrilled. every nerve when village in order to sell their products.
I sew in the distance the Stars and While in judenbach, the toy -industry
dul not attain great proportions, in
Efow I wanted to warn theta of their
danger, to bid them turn back from Sonneberg, the trade, as early as the
the snare so cunningly devised, and how seventeenth century, had grown to
proud I felt of the Federel soldiers, such an extent thet when public mar -
when contrasting them with ours. . "
kets were established lexankfort-on-
faneied could tell which were the Bos-
ton boys, and there came a mist before the -Main, the merchants of Sonneberg
my eyes, as I thought how your dear were granted equal exemptions from
hands and those of little Rose had pos- and duties with the merchants of Nu-
sibly helped to make some portion of
the dress they wore. rernherg•
" You know about the battle. You the eighteenth century, Loye
Stripes waving in the summer ward. . •
read' it months ago, and ;went, per- were colored with poisonous bisrauth
haps, as you.thought of Jimmie firing
at his own brother, it might be, but i'aints• An important step in the de -
mother, I did not, 'I scarcely fired at velopment of the industry was the en -
all, and when I was compelled to do d.eavour to make (Mee parts which
so to avoid suspicion, it was so high
were with dilliculty carved. of some
that neither tlae wounded nor the dead
can accuse me as their murderer, and doughy substance, rye flour mixed with
I'm glad now that it is so.' it makes linae waters But this substance soft -
my prison bee softer to know there enert and mildewed when moistened. A
is no stain of !blood upon my soul.
Oiled advance. Can therefore be re -
"Poor Tom, I dare say, has written de
to you of our encouneen in the weods, corded only when Frederich Mailer, a
know. He's down to the old Capitol was to me to meet him there, end know
"'Twee his'n, the clap's I took, you I but he does not know the sheets it ci•izeneefeSortneleerg, leeean to use pa -
pier nea.che, a substance of which be
now, shet, up. Didn't you nevee hear el could not help him. Dear Tone, my
had heard from a French soldier. The
of him?" I heart aches more lox bins than for my -
e " You mean the young man you cap- self, for the Richmond_ Prison Guards figures were no longer modelled as be-
tured," Rose replied. "Tell eine about
hind, please. • Who was he, and where
are not like those who keep watch over fore, but the plastic mass was now
us. There are humane people there,— pressed into •
shape by meulds. .I3y
kind, tender hearts,—which feel for any
" You tell,' Bill answered, w-ith one one in distress, but the jailers, the cora-
of his peculiar' winks. He gave it as Inion soldiers, and the rabble are not,
John .Brown ; but a chap who knowd I fear, as considerate as they might be,
him said Was- something else. He
want Itebel neither—that is, it wan't
his na.tard for he come from Yankee
land." •
" A traitor, then," Rose suggested,
and Bill replied.
"You needn't guess agin; and you
and I or'to be glad that no such truck
belongs to us.
Rose colored scarlet', but made no
response, for recreant Jimmie flashed give your Rebel -boy. Say that, when
across her mind, and she shrank frean I am exchanged, as hope to be,
having even the vulgar Bill know how may come home, and that you will not
intinaately she was connected with a
traitor, watched her narrowly, and
thinking Lo himself. ,
lin on the right track, I'll bet,"
lie- continued, "1 hain't no relations
in the Confederate army, I know, and
don't an atom b'lieve you have."
No answer from Rose except a
heightened bloom upon her cheek, and
her •inquisitor went on:
Ilave you any friends there ?"
Rose could nob tell a lie, and after
a moment's silence, she stamnaered out :
" Please don't ask nee, Oh Jimmie
Jeerunie, I wish I knew where he was!"
and. t_he great tears trickled through
the snowy fingers clasped over her
flushed face. „
be darned if I ain't cryin' too,'
Bill said, wiping his eyes with his
shirt sleleveee but bein' I'm in. for it
I may as well see it through."
"What might be your name before
it was Miss Marthers ?"
" Carleton 1" and Roee looked Lep
'quickly at Bill, who continued:
"You. came from Beaton, I blieve ?"
" Yes, from Boston," and Rose lean-
ed eagerly forward, while Bill with
his favorite Nuff said," plunged his
hand into his pocket, and taking out
the picture, passed it to Rose.
Quickeas thought the bright color fad-
ed from her cheek, and with ashen,
quivering lips, she whispered:
"It's It Tees raine, taken for Jimmie,
just before he went away 1 How came
you by it? Oh tell me e and in the
voice there was a tone of increasing
anguish. • " Tell me, was it,—was it,
Jimmie, my brother, whom you took
prisoner and. carried to Washington ?"
"If James Carleton is your brother,
S'pose it was," Bill said; "And that's
the very pictur he stuck to like a chest-
nut burr, begging for it liken dog, and
Many of them have been made to be-
lieve the war entirely of the North's
provoking, that Hamlin is a mulatto,
and Lincoln a foul -hearted knave,
whose whole aim is to set the negroes
free. But enough of Southern politics.
It will all come clear at last, and the
Star-Spangled Banner wave again over
eve* revotled Slate. ,
Write to me, mother, say you for -
turn away, from your sinful, erring
• Jimmie."
There was a message of love' from
Rose, and then the letter •closed with
one last, 'touching entreaty that the
mother would forgive her child and
take hina. back again to her confidence
and love. 0 ,
"Of course she'll do Re' Rose said,
vehemently, and seizing' a pen and
paper she wrote to Will, inclosing a
note to jimraie, full of pardon and
tender love, bidding hire when he
should be released come directly to
Rockland, where their mother shoula be
waiting for him, and where she, for-
getting all the past, would nurse labia
back •to health.
Nearly a week 'went by, and then
there came a letter. frona Will, tell-
ing how he had visaed the Rebel Jim-
mie in his prison, and Rose wept fran-
tically as she read the particulars of
that interview evben her brother first
met thefsister's husband, of whom he
had never 'heard
To Be Continued.
SOME OF;RUSSIA'S PRISONS,
Prisoners III -Treated, Prisons Filthy and
ligosnitals Crowded titre' ingstyes.
The St. Petersburg corresponeent of
the London Daily Mail says :—" Privy
Councillor Sakmon, of the Prisons Ad-
ministration, has just returned from
a five -months tour in prison and exile
colonies of the Ruesian Government in
Siberia and the lelroad of Saghelien,
off the east coast of Asia. 1.1e has fur-
nished me with the chief points of his
personal reports to the Czar. Its lead-
ing feature is M. Salomon'e conclusion
that banishment is useless and unde-
sirable as a Soren of „panielament, be -
causes it produces complete nioral de-
gradation of the exile. Salomon fond
the prisons in Western Siberia in fair
condition, with no signs of over -crowd-
ing, or dirt, hut in /eastern Siberia the
conditions were quite different, Mat-
ters he found still worse in Segha-
lien. • The prisoners are badly treated,
prisons filthy, and the hoepitals crowd-
ed like pigstyee. 1_4, dismissed two
ehief directors of prisons fee' cruelly
and einbezzleinent, and eight minor of-
ficials for cruelty.
He has drafted a oomprehensive sYs-
tem of reforms in prison .teeatment,
greatly ameliorating the existing son-
ditien and providing' Pityraent for pen-
al work, and faeilities for settling in
Siberia on the eXpiration sentencee.
He believes his eriggested reforms Will
wait a eantive 'Weeleington, and her he speedily adopted by the Czar.
means of this neve substance Sonne -
berg produced its wares with almost
mechantcal rapidity. Toys were no
longer made in the houses of peasants,
but in factories. The cost of these
new wares was, moreover, considerably
reduced—a most significant. factor in
the manufacture of toys. .
Strange tO say, in the making oe
dolls but little progress was made. Not
until a new method was introduced in-
to Sonneberg, which came from - China,
by way of England, can any great im-
provement • be recorded. Prom the
first Chinese dolls of 1852, with their
movable limbs strung together by
cords drown through the joints, devel-
oped_ the so-called "jointed dolls." In
coloring the faces of these dolls, white
lead, a poisonous paint, was long ens -
played, until, by legislative action, its
use was prohibited. Nowadays the in-
nocuous zinc oxid and similar heel/aces
colors are used. The hair of dolls, af-
ter many failures with other material,
is now made of mohair and the fur of
Angora goats.- '
In the manner the toy -industry slow-
ly developed to its present state. How
numerous are the varieties of toys now
made ratty be inferred when it is con-
sidered that the design room of -a Son-
neberg Chamber of Commerce, and In-
dustry proposed the collection of toys
made by foreign manufacturers, in or-
der that Sonneberg toy -makers might
thus be able to acquaint themselves
with the wants and peculiari ties of for-
eign markets. Sueli e collection of
inodels has now been made and does
good service for dee manufacturers, as
well as for the students at the varieu3
industrial schools of Thuringia.
The toys at present made may be
divided into the following groups: e,
Wares made entirely of wcod, such as
cross -bows, guns, violins, flutes,
chess. and dranght boards, rattles,
jumping manikins, autrackers, soldiers,
ninepins, rocking • horses. 2. Articles
made mostly of • wood, such as doll-
houses, kitchens, shops, • furniture,
letinch-and-Judy shows. 3. Mechani-
cal toys. 4. Papier inache artieles, such
as harlequins, riders, carieatures of na-
tional, types, animals covered with felt
or leather, shepher,ds' houses, mena-
geries, figures 61 Santa Claus.' 5.
Animal% covered, with fur. 6. Metal
toys, such as tin figures, toy trnmpets,
weapons, and theaters. 7. 'Figures,
and toys made of china, burnt clay,
e(one, and glass. Among these toys
may be mentioned toy dishes, marbles,
and articles of val.-kiss kende. inade of
bloevn glass. 8. Christmas tree decora-
tione of glass, metal, and wax. In Lae
giieha wax is the material most treed,
e. Dons -with appurtenant • wagons
chairs, and wings.
Besides Sonneberg, the towns Alia
villages of Watterhausen, leriedriebs-
rode, Ohedrui, Illetendau Hildbarghaue
see., Sohleusingen, and dobourg ate en-
gaged in the ineuetry. Toy factories
are now scattered more oe less over
half oermany; they are distributed
from tho Black Fore,st and the Palatin-
ate to the S,urlegie Mountains and the
Province of Bra,denburg. • Of 'perfects -
her importance are the Freebirge oe
Saxony, which, on account of their for-
ests and Ogled:let water -power, heve
enabled the inannfactiirers of Saatoiay
to produce mariy of the mare cOmmon
(eye formerly inadeein Sennebeeg,
• 'The most recent etediseice ellov thu'l
Germany' has exported, 40,5 )0 maelee,
tlO
utelet50,,(0)0000:cw000rratharokft obs,,•0ts)%0-11,0101., ixtwo/,,t9153.
were pent abroad., Inclnding the ter'
eold. in Germany, the procluet ofe „tho
entire German , imitiarY ferohaelY
worth te0r4teet,00 marks, $12,eire0e0, from
which 7tin 0e0 marks, 4e187,500, retire-
deddirig Hi) value of itye imported
froni A:ro 4;11 8, Mind be de -
Senn% berg undemalele Pro-
eateee balt toye mule in Germany.
'1 he two largeet buyers of German toys
ere the (Jolted States and, England'
Telet year, ths United States imported
GorMan toys to the value of 11,000,000
xnarke, 02,750,000. Of the produeds ex-
ported to the United. States, 6,500,000
marks el 6e5 e00 worth were supplied
by Sernieberg. A sinailar proportion
holds good foe England. To the de-
vtheel°1r)misr 0or..oltloenay anklairingurilactrIllureeand
tbe into-
creasa in the number el export houses
311 Sonneberg. In the sixties there
were about thirty export eirms. BY
i880 the number had increased to forty-
eight, and by 1896 to seventy. • Accord-
neagrn toeantetil:oer cs,fte sm \pi vcith:iiiht c sin, uutmhs:hel ceebr seorn4e4:
40,829 persons engaged in German toy-
Meinigen. In the region about Son-
neberg about 31 Per oent of the popu-
lation are engaged in toy -making, not
ionthcleurcwlinisge ethmopseloy*ehd.o, in addition, are
HOW IT IS DONE IN t BINA.
The QuielieSt Thing in That Country Xs as
EXtfettli OD .
To say to a Chinaman who is tibont
to journey to another district, "I well
see you off by the West gate," is no-
thing lees than a gross insult, for the
reason that all executions in China,
no _matter in what province, take place
directly outside the walls of the West
gate. Thee- has been the custom in
China for centuries. Why it is so is
that the Chinese believe that life en-
ters by the, East gate and departs by
the West.
While in the city of Mukden, Man-
churia; says a writer in Pearson's, I
expressed. a wish to witness an execu-
tion. Such an occurrence taking place
elmost daily, on account of that part
of China being infested, with robbees
and brigands, I did, not have long to
wait before curiosity was satisfied. •
At four o'clock one july afternoon,
a native and the writer hired carts and
proceeded to the execution ground,
having heard that three robbers were
to be In headed that day.
Arrived there and waiting about ten
minutes, the solemn precession was
•seen emerging from the West gate of
the outer city ; first f,ur soldiees, with
immense beamers, then twenty more
soldiers with inedern rifles and fixed
bayonets, followed by an open cart,
wherein eat the, three culprits stripped
to the, waist, with hands securely pin-
ioned brhind them, and legs inserted
in heavy wooden portable stocks which
were kept in position by heavy iron
chains girdling the, loins. Their faces
begrira.d with dirt, a,nd hair unkempt,
bue tied up in a knot to leave the neck
• clear, for they are not permitted to do
any toilet during the time of incarcer-
ation.
• The countenance of one evinced fear
at his, approaching end, while the two
others lia,c1. a "don't care" sort of ex-
pression. . At their sides walked sol-
diers with long
SPEARS AND TRUMPETS.
The latter were blown every now and
then.
immediately behind, mounted on a
pony, with a huge knife in a scabbard
sloped over his shoulder, cable dee exe-
cutioner. Several horsemen, among
whom was the die-Le:ice magistrate,
brought up the, rear. ,As soon as halted
the soldiers formed into a square, the
ceiminale were taken out of the cart
and placed in a row in a kneeling posi-
tion; then the executioner came, along,
and placing his hand on the first vic-
tim, bent his neck into the required
position, and gripping the handle of the
broad bladed knife with both' hands
brought it up to his chest and with
one ewift 'doWeawarcl stroke severed -the
The crowd teetered a piercing "Hal"
showing their approval of the skill dis-
played by the executioner. Before the
headless body had time to fall the exe-
cutioner ,graspad it by the shoulder,
• and thrusting forward a long Wooden
skewer whereon were stung some ten
• or more spongy rolls made of flour, he
passed it through the body until the
rolls were thoroughly saturated and
then: returned, it to the onlooker who
originally handed it to him, a repre-
sentative ol eonee large medicine shop,
for the Chinese believe that the only
cure for consumption is to •at the
blood of those who have been de-
capitated..
It is needkss to say that to obtain
this the executioner has to be well
bribed. The same process as above
described was gone through with the
second and third men, and directly all
three heads were off they were held up
for the magistrate to see, as he is the
party responsible for the proper car-
rying Cant of the performance, where-
upon he end the eoldiers returned, the
whole occupying not more than seven
minuted. •
THE GROWTH OF MAN.
Observations regarding the growth
of Man Wive determined the following
interesting facts : The mosi rapid
growth takes plaee immedietely after
birth, the growth of an infant during
the fleet year of its exietence being
about 8 inches. The ratio of intrease
gradually lessens until the as of three
is reached, at which time the size at-
tained is hate that which the child is
to becothe when lull grown, After five
years the succeeding increase is very
regular till the siseteenth year, being
et the rate, for the evenegc: man, of 2
inches a year. Beyond . sixteen the
growth is feeble, being for the foie
lowing two years about:3-50as oi an
loch n year; while iron eighteen to
eWeiity ehe increase ibheight IS eeldern
over I inc,h, At die age of twenty -
the giewtle ceases, exeeout ill a few
rare casee,
WHITE VICTIMS OF CANNIBALS.
furore rdloopeans Eaten by ate Natives ot tho
rilithaugt River, ArrtOft,.,
The cannibels of the upper Mtehangi
Bever are again making white men
the victims of their appetite fax hu-
man flesh. Aceording to a despatch
from Antwerp, four Belgian comraer-
cial agents, in the eervice of the, Ante
iverp Trading Company, nave recent/Y
been killed and eaten, The Mobangi
River is ihe largest tributary of the
Congo, and no rivers of Europe, en -
cep( the Volga and Danube, equal it In
length Or in tele velume of water,
1,500 miles of river banks are denselY
Peopled, most of the way, and the In-
habitants are the most inveterate-cen-
nibals in the Congo begin, In other
parts of the Congo region the first ex-
plorers were, eine to buy food with
beads and brass wire, but along the
Mobangs those articles of trade were
not desired. "Give as men to eat,"
shoute4 the natives, "and we will give
Yon all the manioc, goats and thickens
you want, We don't want your track
goods, and we will sell you nothing ex-
cept for men."
Geenfell, Van Gele and the other
pioneers on the Mobanei used to tell
of the expediLions of large canoes they
met. Eltuadred.s of men were paddling
I1P and down the river bound for des-
tinations sometimes scores of miles
from their starting point. They wee*
not on the warpath, but were simplet-
on their way to other tribes to buy
slaves for consumption, and coming
home the bottoms a their canoes would
be covered with poor wretches,.
130UND HAND AND FOOT.
whom they had purchased.
About a dozen white men, thus far,
have been killed and eaten by Congo
natives, and mose of the victims have
been Frenchmen at the French sta-
tions on the. "IVIebangi. The natives
hive never made war on the whites for
the purpose of eating them. Too often,
the Europeans have been the aggres-
sors. • They have shot natives because
they have not supplied the quantity of
rubber demanded of them and for oth-
er insufficient reasons; and at last the
blacks hive sought revenge by killing
white, men. Imperative orders from
the, governments controlling the bongo
.basin have it last secured better treat-
ment of ths native tribes at the hands
of Hate white agents.
Many of th5 Batetela tribe fought
side by side with the whites in the' re-
cent war with the Arabs which result-
ed in the expulsion of all the Arab
slave, dealers from the Congo State.
'The Batetela cannibals are splendid
--.„
fighters, but are Fandng the degree
savages whe have beerofound in Africa.
"During excursions in the neighber-
hood. of theie town," wrote Dr. Hinrie,
'1 on more thin one occasion saw a
genic. execulien. When the chief of a
town, who is of course an alasolute
monarch, decides that a man must die,
he hands him over eo the people. The !
man is immediately torn to pieces and
disappears as gniokly as a hare is
bralten up by a pack of hounds. Eveey
man lays hold of him at once with
one hind and with the other whips off
a piece with his knife; no one stops
to 'kill him first, for he would, by so
doing, lose Ids piece. More than onee,
after a drumhead courtneartial, when
a spy or deserter was shot, the one
lookers have said to us, 'Why do you
bury him? It's no use; when you are
gone we shall, of course, dig him up.'
I'Iangng fetiches over the grave with
a view to preventing the people from
touching it for fear o1 magic had no
effect. Thess people seem to have no
form of religion, whatever, and
NO FEAR OF DEATH,
or evil spirits. Through th.e whole of
the I3atetela country, extending from
the,Lubefu to the Linke and from the
• Lurimei northward for some five clays'
march, one sees neither gray hairs nor
halt nor blind. Even parents are eat-
en byetheir children on the first sign
of apptoach ng decrepitu,de. It is easy
to understand that, under the circum-
stances, the Batetela have the appear-
ance of a splendid race. These canni-
bals do not, as a, rule, file their front
teeth, nor do they tattoo the face."
Between 5,000 and. 10,000 of these
Batetela cannibals fought in the war
against the Arabs. The fact that so
many scannibals were fighting under
Baron Dhenis proved an important ele-
ment in his success. "The teaching of
the eff.oharamedaxi religion," wrote Dr.
Ilinde, "does not conced.e that a man
whose body has been mutilated can en-
ter into the highest heaven, where
only perfect men are admitted. As a
consequence ref this belief, the white
Arabs and. other faithful .followers of
Islam would, after a rebuff, instead of
trying to retrieve the fortunes of the
day, flee from the field with all pos-
sible speed --not so much to save their
lives as through fear that their bodies,
in the event of their felting, woulcl be
torn to pieces."
WHEN TOE BOOLE
°edger* 'Veins fight Asiainet Mitten*, 0
eerederceisee,
After reading Of the brilliant ene
1,ibits of our gallant troops) aL Oimdur.
men, um may be pardoned for deubte
ing the existence of coward aa in the
13ritish away, says the Loridon Math
Unfortunately, bowever, every now,
end, then amid the din and crash of
battle a recruitt is seized with it, fit of
cowardice, whicIa he boldly fights
ageinst. The at taok is often quite inex-
plicable, and nearly always momene
tery.
The mejority: of men Are hrave by
inStinet, especially when in the thick
of asfight. There aee,sed deuree, ax -
options thedelik hue- generally -
the teeling that the SOldior is not a
aeparate unit, but a cog in a vast
fightiag maehine tends to makee even
the most timorous stand shoulder to
shoulder with his comra.des.
Then the fear of being thought afraid
steels the nerves of many a failing sol-
dier, and there is no doubt, that the
dread of the 'contempt and indigna-
tion of his fellows is IN naost power-
ful ,...cauulant.
• Velar rarely, indeed, does re British
seldier allow fear to overcome his
Sense of, duty; but some old veteran
will occasionally admit that lie least
known perhaps one such instance, and
in reply to the question, "Howt is ie
we never read of such cases?" he will
answer: "One dead man is a small loss
to a regiment. Besides, one man run-
ning off may cause another to follow,
/aim, and a panic may thus set in.
Before any. one has time to' think
about it or issue an order, depend upon
it, one of 'his comrades, for the hon-
our of the regiment, puts a bullet -
through him."
Sir- Charles Napier had an • effective
method of dealing with cowards. • On
one eccasion a flying soldier was stop-
ped by his fellows, who were, about to
shoot him, when the general intervene
"Give the man another chane," he
ordered. "Place him in the front rank,
and if he turns again let him be
shot."
The • man eagerly embraced this
chane for his life, overcame his fears
and fought bravely for the rest of the
.day. Bravery is sometimes largely
due to mere lack of sensibility.
"There goes the bravest man in the 4"
army," said the old Kaiser Wirhelra on
the •battlefield of Sadoeva, as a pale
young officer cheered his men on to
the charge. "He is terribly afraid of
being shot, and. .he knows it; but he
loves leis duty and country more than
his personal safety, and that is what
makes him lead his men on so gallant -
THE LARGEST STANDING ARMY.
Russia possesses the largest stand-
ing army on earth. Every year some
280,000 conscripts join the Russian
fotees, which in time of peace number.
11,000,003 ir.en. On a ever -footing' this
rises to 2,500,000, and ealling out the
reserves would inerease it to 6,047,000
well-trained soldiers, Should necessity
arise the militia would be called out,
bringing the Czer's forces up to 9,000e
000 mem ,
TALKING CLOCKS.
In Eeviteerknd they are inching
clocks, which do not need hands and
faces, The clock merely steads in the
hall and you prose a butt tat in its
toMaoh, when, by meane oe the phono-
, . „
grep.olo internal arrangements, it
calls out "half pat sere.' or "twenty-
three Minutes to eleven," ae the, ease
May be. •
JOURNALISM IN AUSTRIA.
Ludicrous Revelations of an Editor Brought
to Trial for Libel.
Satin -oureouS facts ---herseed_ been
brought to light in the course oran
action for libel brought against the
editor of the Neunkirchener Zeitung, a
provincial 'weekly paper with a large,
circulation in Neunkirchen and dis-
trict. Nemakirchen is a flour-
ishing town about sixty miles from
Vienna.
The. editor, Carl Kull, urged. in ex-
tenuation of his misdemeanour, that
le was so occupied with his duties as
a ehoginaker, that he had no time to
properly discharge his editorial work,
which he only undeetook ae a supple-
m,entary occupation. Hie salary as
editor was £5 per annum.
Judge—You do not seem to possese
the training and education necessary
to an editor.
Herr Kulf—Tlutt-is not necessary at
all.
Judge—But an editor must at least
be able to write an article.
Herr Ku1f-031, no. I cut all my
articles out of other papers.
Judge—Who acted as editor in your
absence?
Here Kulf—A hatter lived next door
to the office, and 1m used to .receive
the correspondenee and hand it over
to the printers. The printers publish -.
what interested theta. t
Judge—These are extraordinary eon-
ditiens for a town so near the
tad of Austria,.
Herr FollfeeeIt is not only in Vienneu
that proper ideals of the mie.sion of the
press are in vogue. I always praise
the townspeople who deal with nee and
pay their belle regularly, and "pitch
into" those who buy their elaoes else-
where and do not :settle their debts,
The Neunkiechener Zeitung is a pa-
per with principles. It receives
sabvention from th,6 Local authorities.
Jtulge—How do you obtain the sub-,
vention ?
Herr Kull—I undertook to fully re-
port all the rnayot's speeches, chrenicle
his small doings and shower praise on
his administration,
Herr 313.1,t was finally sentenced to a
fine for not exercising supervision over
hie paper which an editor is in Austria
legaily cempelled to do.
A USE FOR WASTE PLACES.
Business lefren—e don't see why you
farmers are forever complaining. What
is the mutter with theplece where you
live?
Mr, Hayseed—Wallin th' fust piece
the land ain't: no geod—nothine but
stone—eon't hardly get geese to grow.
Then let the land go and Use the
Iumbee.
No lumber there. • Trees all cut down
years ago.
How about frnit ?
No lentil. either; ell killed by grubs
You might turn the streams into a
pond and raise °tarp for the nureket.
Can't milk() a pond, Got no etream.
n't, hardly get wen water evem
How is tIie. well water
Bad as 'Kca be,
1-tettliph f eoil, no frnit, no trees,
no streams, no water but bad water.
Well, ley • friend, the ooly
call site ie for eou to quit form-
ing and tnoth the place into a summer
resort,