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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-2-9, Page 3es - olEk L . v e arld War***. A STORY OF SL.AYERY DAYS. Vil 1 r , k By MARY J. tiOLMES. 0 tit , 74............4...e.e.4„,e......n,ea.....„.........z.,,„,....t.z.,,.%,,..akots.,....9%;:t.Inh, . i,t •seeeetaeseeesitcl'era-tegetreeteemeerseVVVeresel'eXL"eretesee'W:" '-'-e•-t-eite--- v.se CHAPTER XVII, the cheers, making the depot ring with Rose had fretted herself into a head- the loud buzzes, interlarded here and ache, and ae Mrs, Carleton could not there by a groan or hiss from those think of meeting her returning prodi- pot yet IVOil over to the popular party. gal in the presence of strangers, there Lifting his hat gracefully, Jimmie was no one to go up to meet him unless bowed an acknowledgment, and his lips Annie should consent to do so! But moved as if about to speak, while cries greatly to Rose's disappointment Annie of "Hear, hear!" "Give us a speech!" obstinately refused, while Mee. Carle- "leat'e have your polities!" ran through ton, too, saki it would not be proper the excited throng, Standing close to for Mrs, Graham to go alone and meet Jimme,,who would fain have dispensed a stranger whom he bad never with kis euggestive presence, 13111 seen.whispered in- his ear, "Let 'er sUde, "Couldn't she telehim she was ,e.nnica, Cop'ral. Go in strong for Uncle Sam, my adopted sister ?" Rose said, half if you don't want this new coat of poutingly. "What will he think when yourn sp'ilt. There ain't a rotten hen's he finds nobody there but Jake, who, I nest in town but what was robbed this verily believe, looks upon him as half =ruin' on your account, and if they a savage for having Joined the South- once git fairly to work, it'll take 1 ern army ? I heard him, myself, tell mor'n me and Mr. Sullivan to stop ena 1 Bridget that Ben Arnold was coming Pitch in,•then, to your sermon." -to-day, rneaning that horrid traitor Jlecunie's natural disposition prompt-. that gave up Yorktown, or something'," ed hina to brave the purloined cone and having, thus betrayed -her ignore tents of Rockland's hen's nests, but he sumo of Revolutionary history, .Rose would not endanger his sister's car - bathed her aching head in eau -de- riage, and besides that, he felt that cologne, and lay back upon her pillows, submission to people so infinitely be- . wondering what Jimmie would say, and ea un was a part a his merited how he would manage to brave the punishment; so, forcing down his pride, gaping people who were sure to stare , he in a few well-chosen words, told his at him as if,he were some monster. She ; breathless audience that though he had hoped there would not be many. there, , once proved faithless to his country, , and of course, there wouldn't, for who ' none regretted it more than lairaself, knew or cared for Jimmie's coming? ! or was now a firmer friend to the -- More cared for Jimmie's coming than Stars and Stripes, the brief speech end - Rose suspected, and the streets were ing with the proposal of three cheers full a Daen and boys of a certain class, ' for thee Star Spangled Banner, • hastening to the depot to.see the Rebel, I In a trice the whole crowd responded as they persisted in calling him, in, with might and'enain, prolonging their spite of Billy Baker's repeated suagese yells with the eries a 'Carleton.! tions that they soften if deevn some- , Carleton forever !" and promisee to what by prefixing the word "reform- , make hira police justice iie the spring, ed." Bill was very busy, very import- should he want to run for that very ant, very consequential that day, and agreeable Office I . .quite inclined to be very patronizing, , "Couldn't of done much better ray - and do the agreeable to the man he self," said the delighted Bill, hovering had captured at Manassas. "Folks about the window of the carriage in oWto overlook him,' he said, "and treat which Jimmie had now taken his lalin half way decent, for the best was seat. apt to stunible, and there should neithe Thoroughly tired of the scene, Jim- ' ' er be hootin' nor hissin', if he could me intimated to Jake his wish to go help it." tome, and the iron greys sprang quick - Indeed, so impressed was Bill with ly forward, but not until Jimmie hacl the idea that the responsibility of Jim- caught Bill's parting words, "Call mie's reception was pending upon him- round and see a feller, won't you? I'll self, that he deliberately knocked down show you the old gal. You know you two of the ringleaders, who announced asked me about her in the Virginny their intention to hock and to hiss as woods." much as they pleased. Bill's warlike . * • .* a, tri propensities were pretty generally un- • It seemed like a new world to Jim- derstood in Rockland, and this ener- mie when, after they had left the noisy getic demonstration had the effect of crowd, they turned into the pleasant duelling, to a certain extent, the Babel quiet street which wound up the hill which would otherwise have reigned, to where the handsome Mather man - when at last the train stopped before sion stood, every blind thrown back the depot, and the expected lion ap- and wreaths of smoke curling grace - peered upon the platform, his identity 'fully from every chimney, for Rose, proven by Bill, who whispered, "That's wishing to do something in honor of him, with the rowdy hat—that's the her brother's return had ordered the chap," then, with a proud air of self- whole house to be opened as if for a assurance, he stepped forward -and of- holiday; while every flower which fered his hand to,. the embarrassed could possibly be spared from her con - stranger, who was looking this way servatory, had been broken from its and that, in quest of a familiar face. i stem, and fas,hioned into bouquets by "Halloo, Corporal,!" he called out 'Annie's tasteful hands. ,,with the utmost sang fiend, "you re- I "Wouldn't it be splendid," Rose cog-nize me, I s'pose. I'm the critter said, as she lay' watching Annie at her that took you in the Virginny woods. ' task, "wouldn't it be splendid to hang I've gin all them contrabands to your the Stars and Stripes in 'festoons sister, Miss Marthers. She and 1 has across the hall, where Jimmie will pass got to be considerable intimate. I think under them?" a sight on her," he continued, as jime / Annie did not think it would. In rale showed no signs of reciprocating her opinion Jimmie was not deserving the coarse familiarity other than by of such honor, and she said so, as rather haughtily offering his hand. . delicately as poseible, adding that But Bill was not to be put down, 1"were it Tom it would be a very dies for "wasn't he as good as Corporal ferent thing." Carleton? Hadn't they sustained to Rose knew that Annie was right, each other the relation of captor and and so the Stars and Stripes were not captive, and if there was any prefer- brought out to welcome the young man ence, wasn't it in his favor ?" He now rapidly approaching. Annie was thought so, and nothing abashed by t,he first to catch the sound of the car- jimmie's evident disgust, he was about riage wheels, and when Rose turned announcing to him that a carriage was 1 to ask if she really supposed Jimmie in waiting, when Jake made his way 1 was there, she found herself alone. through the crowd to the spot where "She's gone to meet him, of course," Jimmie stood. The sight of him sug- she said, "but 1 raost wish she had gested a new idea to Bill, and bowing staid here, fen I wanted to introduce first to one. and then to the other, he her mergeth I hope she 'won't die - said, "Ale, Mr. Jacob Sullivan, allow me to introduce you to my friend, Cor- poral Carleton, late of the Confederate Meantime in the parlor below, Mrs. Carleton sat waiting for her boy—not as Spartan mothers were wont to wait for their sons returning from the'w but. with a yearning tenderness for t loved 'prodigal, blended with loyal' i the good-humored smile which broke I dignation for his sin. He was not co over the hitherto cold, haughty fea- i ing to her as a hero who had done wh tures of the stranger, changed into a he could for his country, but with imprecations which the words "Confede general laugh the muttered groans and i traitor's stain upon his fair nam which she would gladly have wiped ou erate Army," had, provoked. It was I see had heard the carriage as it sto strange what a difference that smile pee, and heard the step on the piazz made in the looks of Jimmie's hand- I not 'rapid and bounding as it used t some face, removing its haughty, sar- be, but slow and heavy, as if uncertai castle expression, and softening to a which way to turn. . great extent the feelings of the crowd, , "I must go out to meet him," sI many of whom instinctively dropped / said, but all her strength forsook he the brick -bats, stones, and bits of froz- len& sinking upon the sofa, she coal en mud, with which they were prepared I only call out faintly, " Jinarraie, m to pelt the Rebel's carriage, so soon bee.. as they should be in the rear. Still I , words had left her lips her Jinamie bo 1.1" e heard her, anci almost before th they must have some fun, even if it i were at Bill's expense and just as the ,' was kneeling at her feet with his fac latter was button -holing the perseeute buried. for an instant in her lap; the ed Jimmie, and escorting him to the ; with one burning kiss upon her fore carriage, one, more daring than the I head, the proud. James Carleton wh others, proposed ."three groans tiger for the deserter." and a lin his early boyhood was scarcely eve e'lInstantly, hats, caps, and I known to =knowledge that he wa , Seurished aloft, atsd the air resounded fists were wrong, asked to be forgiven and re stored again to the confidence and e with the most direful sounds imagine hare he had forfeited, and with her ableheehegman after groan came heav- hancl upon his bowed head, the =the/. "Tclie up fiewn. theeleathern lungs of the crowd. With a fierce gesture of I forgave her boy, bidding him look up, irue that she might see again the face she Patience jimulic turned upon theitit -his I had once. thought so handsome. It was black eyes fleshing fee at what he tear -stained now, and worn and Mrs. deemed an insult offered to himself. Whatever his fault; had been, closer- Carleton sighed as she detected upon it unmistakable marks of reckless die - teen w163 li ot amorig the number, and he i was about to say se, wheat MA sipation. Stilt it was Jimirde's face, imperturbable gravity, whispered with and it grew each' moment more isatur- to! al as the flush of excaitement deepened, perai. It's ma they'ee. hittint e der -. ben, "They don't mean yott now, Core on the cheeks, and , lent an added You seer I did leare Washington in a - ---e. I °rightness to the saucy, toughing eyes, The lines upon the forehead and about hurvy. Don't mind 'em an atom . they the mead, welled wear away in home Mrs, Oerleton hoped, and parting the eat, hlack curls, clustering round the broad, whit beow, the told bine why Rose was not there to meet him, and asked if he worilcl go up then to see like him." army, supposed to be fitin' for just such goods and chattels as you." The African's teeth was plainly visi- ble at this novel introduction, while ar he n- m - at a cs, t. P- a, are the off-scourin's of the teens,'and having piloted Jimmie safely to the carriage door, Bill took ,off his own cap, and swieging it around his head, 8houtael. island, "Three cheers for Cor- poral Carleton!" ,, . hr, " For an instant there Wae silence, the Rose heard thetn coming and at the crowd a little melee/astir,. as to how far Sound of the familiar voice calling her their loyalty might be ,as by name, the teats flowed in torrents end eheerieg far a Rebel.; but When the with her /aco burled in her pillows the dark, handsome face, with its winning received her brother's first embrace. mho, was again turned towards thein, Very gently he lifted up her head, and and they saw in it a strong resem- taking in his tlat little hot bands kiss - blames to the pateiotie little lady whom ed again and again her childish face, Beets the lowest of thete had learned to and eviping her team away, asked, regard with respect, their doubts were half, seriously,- half playfully, "it they I hives/ to the winds, and the ringleader, met in peace or war ?" ' seem darried in his pocket a quantitY "Oh, in peace, in peacel" Rose an - of qUeStionable eg;gs, designed for use neared, tted winding her elms arosind as the occasion might require, led off his neck, she hugged eact ceieet over .e le • aekvig why he had been so nauglie ty, when he knew how badly they would feel, and why he had not in- terfered to save poor Tom from a Prite cater's fate. He explained to. /aer how that was impossible but toy hi$ treachery he bacino excuse; be could only answer ftobragewheen.was sorry and af3k "to be h I do not now believe the South all 'wrong," be said, "Many of them sin- cerely think they are eighting for theiv fieesides; others hardly know what they are fighting for -while others again are impressee into the army and cannot held themselves. As forme, I would gladly blot out the past. for which r have no apology; but as that cannot be, I would rather talk as little of it as possible. Try, Rose, to forget that you ever had a rebel 'brother, Will yon ?" Rose's kisses were a sufficient an- swer. She was too /sappy just then tp remember aught save that he had al- ways been the dearest brother imag- inable; besides that Annie taught that we must forgive as we would be for- given- Annie bore no will toward the South. She prayed for them as well as for the North, and cried most as hard over the sick, suffering sol- diers captui•ed by our army, as over our own prisoners, and if she could forgive, Rose surely ought to do so tete r " Tote have not seen Annie yet,' • she said; "she ran away the moment 'she knew you had come. I thought she might be going to meet you, but it eeems she did not. You must love her a heap, and I know you will. She's so beautiful in her mourning, and bears her trouble so sweetly. I wish every- body was as good as Annie. Graham. She has never been heard to say one itter thing against the South. She only iutiide.sada.hd prays and says they are rais- And pray, who is this paragon of amellence that mast love a heap V" inmaie asked, vrhen Rose heel exhaust- ed the list of Annie's virtues, and paus- ed for a -little breath. "Who was 'she? Hadn't be heard of !tale? Had Will failed to tell him f her adopted sister ?" Rose asked in ome astonishment. ' Will had proved remiss in that one articular duty, and never until this oment, had Jimmie heard that Rose ad an adopted sister; and if Rose, lay not himself? Wasn't he Rose's other? " Certainly you are," Rose replied; but Ien not sure Annie will let you 11 her sister, because you're—you'xe, well, you see, Annie is real good, d, as I told you prays just as hard r Southern soldiers, as for ours, that prays that they may be Christians, d that their sick and wounded may kindly cared for, but of course she nts us to beat, and knows we shall, t I guess she does not think of you st as she does of Tone though she ver saw either. She would not go to the depot to meet you, and nted her to so much. She ,said, too, was not good taste, or something O that, to hang out oar banner on Rebel's account, and she acts so ny generally about your coming me that Ilaope you'll do your best be agreeable and make her like you. ill you Jimmie?" and Rose looked at her brother in such a comical, bus way, that he laughed aloud, mising to do his best to remove prejudice from Miss Graham's mind, asking who she was and where she e from." I'm sure I don't know where she e from," Rose replied, a little un- ain how to grapple with the Carle- -pride, wlaich existed in Jimmie well as the rest of them. "She's a . as any one can see, and possessed s muchwefinement as we often find Boston. She can't help it, jiramie, he is poor. It don't hurt her one and I'm getting over those foolish ons cherished by our set. at home. says she came of a good family might have married a millionaire, enough to be her father, but she dn't. She preferred a mechanic, ge Graham. The most splendid ng man you ever saw. He's dead poor fellow. Will took hare m and brought him home; that's Annie lives with me." se's expla.nations *ere not . the est that could have been given, immie extracted from the medley cts a very prominent one. It was Miss but a Mrs. to whom he was agreeable. It had not seemed y unpleasant duty to change a iful young girl's opinion of him - but a Mrs. was a very different , and for the first time since his al his old, merry, half -sarcastic rang through the room, as with eking whistle, he said, widow, hey 1 How many children he boast ?" t a single bit of a one" Rose, an- d, feeling that Jimmie had said hing very bad of Annie. saw it in her countenance, and ed to make amends by asking rless• questions about Annie, history from the time of Rose's cquaintance with her up to the t hour, he managed at last to e result being that he was not h interested in the Widow Gra- s he mischievously, called her, might have been in Miss Annie. sily disheartened Rose gave him incorrigible, and mentally hop- ra would not prove as refractory Dlie had done, she turned the ation upon Will, whose good - e extolled until the supper bell nd Jimmie arose to leave her me, as she was not prepared to n that night and do the lioners table. To Be Continued. E) A br ca an fo is, an be wa bu ju Ile up wa it lik a fun Ito to w up ser pro all and cane cam cart ton as lady of a in if s bit, noti Will and old woul Geor looki now, of hi why Ro plain but J of fa not a to be a ver beaut self, affair ,a.rriv laugh a mo " does s " No severe somet He hasten numbe whose first a presen get, th as mac hara, a as he The ea up as ing To as Jim convent ness sh rang a for a ti go dow of .the COST OF EUROPE'S FLEETS AND A.RMI ES. , It is est•iniated that Europe pays yearly for the maintenance of its fleets and armies 225,000,000 and neer- as mach nein in the guise of inter- est. on debts contracted Inc the prose- cution of ,foreign wars. The daily ex- penditure needed for a conflict in which the five Conti/sante' Great Powerswet engaged would amount to 4,195,6t10, Over and ,above thie sum it would be necessary to expend on the fantiliee of the soldiers sheet 4108,600. Its other word, the ennual cost of this Euro- pean -war, exclusive of indirect loam% would, according to the calm/tat/Otte oi el, Bliokh, a lhcilish publicist, reaels the fantastis total of A1,747,120,000. TOO ANXIOUS. wish I knew all tins Moan things my neighbors say about me. You want to know too much. 111E JUJU NEDIOINg NEN. iECRET SOCIETIES OF TH COAST OF AFRICA Adepts In Sorcery *Who are .4.101e Down Cocoon:nth reelh the Spread throughout theejsV of Africa from the inland the Gambia 'to the ,Carner probably to the Congo, are no Live secret societiee, more connected with each other dieferent degrees of power, clanger to the peace of the European colonies. That som have very sanguinary cast been known for the last fi though not to the general p The latest letters tells us -situated about a hundred land from Opobo,"*and "reg the headquarters of 'the long and "the centre of fetish rite part of Africa." So far back T. J. Hutchinson, Consul of of Biafra, said that there ex the Oiu Country, in a directio ing from Keleher toward. Abo River Niger, a "spirit" sup any other, even that of the Old iralaber, the country in N dwelt being termed that of "t juju;" here resided in a sp amphitheatre surround.ed by woman, a sort of Delphic orac was supposed to know everyth Once these societies are stain the firmer will be our hold on, t Gcoaazsettteof Africa, says the Pa , • THERE ARE TWO CLASS of the.se secret organization "medical," which comprises the (found among the Timanee, Men Shealmo tribes), Wunday (amo lelendi), Oro, Yasey, and Bondo two are female pocieties con with the Purroh), Mannekeh (Ti and Lymba tribes), Telang (Ti Sherbros and some of the Mendi Diamboe (Mendi), etc., and th stical, whose representatives found principally among the Ljr of which are thee lhofong, Ks Xayersar and Egbo (Niger distri A native African writes of Kofong that they profess to hay power of transformation; this beeh proved, he says, "by the, e of many from the Freetown goa formai times, though we shout agine that influence over superst guards had something more to do their succesa. The Aiyaka, a h o the Egbo, professes to be ab °enure down cocoanuts from a All these societies have pee rituals, grades of membership, words, and many of them have special dresses and bracelets. The grades of the Purroh are as follows; 1, Bangane or apprentice; 2, Pornor, or compamon; 3, Lakka, the herald; 4, Ba Xasey, the lawyer; 5 Famanja, the moderator; 6, Nyayge bane, the revenger; '7, Svekoe, or Sopwaywee, the master of the habita- tion. It would be too tedious here to describe their various dresses and masks, and to enumerate their duties; the 'Ngaygbana wears a bow and arrow on his uniform, the Sopwaywee has a head-dress on Which are fixed two horns. The vicinity- of the habitation can often be told by the peeuliar way in which certain grasses are tied on plants or fruit trees, and a black man not belonging to the society if he no- ticed this would wisely keep away from that part of the bush. Many of the society possess "medicines" or charms which enable them to detect culprits and perform extraordinary feats such as those that have been seen by Englishmen in India among the fakirs. The Idem, or representative of Whe spirit of each particular habitation is E WEST te Celli WY rireeeN, T05 Coast •egions of oons, and various or less , but of and all a various e of these ones Las fty years ublic, of Bendi, miles in- arded as a in that as 1848 he Bight isted in n trend - k up the erior to juju in elatch it he long ecies of hills, a le, who ing. ped out he west 11 Mall ES s; the Purroh di and ng the (which fleeted. manee manes, s), and e my - are rabas, Inger, et). the e the has when he tetsv them in our room, d iti•ed that tliey were devils. N we said, they are angelel He was 71 mevineed, but coat Shined to mut "Son adiabeos" The figures durin the sieeret soelety rites are euppose to poesese magic poss-ers, tuld to lie, ab to speak and to tell what is going o and where gooes are that have tree reatoseleue,wiTtilii eNseabli)kuesetreisactispit(4onsoet xioaeugcho ettrved figures mealy of which ere 0 horseback, and some of ss-hich raper sent merely animals, and are generall dY.NeciabilirreePriaslitateeed uvsaelPailte 1-Qh°e1°Ins.cloki 0 triennial purifieations of towns, whe Lbs evil spirits who may have accts. ululated therein are expolled and drive into the figures that are those throw ithorte° the et tildvoelre Ql. andhlisahre; theseocouarrseerthcoerme partitively common, and are also of every variety of finisle, gaudy or plain, delicate or rough. But secret soctieties, we , believe, are not confined to the West Coast, al- though it is there that possibly the most impose:ant are to be found. We are toldd that they are sled to befound in the northwest of Africa. 'Witela doetors or medicine men, of course, abound all over the contient. Xagube well known asi a magician in Ma- ne and, Milmo IVIatabeleland also had the same attributes; powers of ventriloquism and foresight consider- ably sustained this reputation. Witches also have great power over the women But even these solitary wizards and witches require suppression, All praise is due Sir Ralph Moor for extexminating the juju chiefs of Benin and uprooting those of Bendi. The in- fluence of these societies over lis native mind, once withdrawn, the country will more willingly yield to British administration, and the means of fostering simultaneous rebellions will have passed from the natives for- ever. Interesting though these so- cletie,s are from an ethnological point of view, the sooner they aie abolished the better. c- police areelect 'coking. The tWQ e ii 0, ere wall known th roughcast the dies trict ef -A-gefi1a, and metlY think that ex for that very reaeon the autherities g ought to he elate to capture them (tee- d Ily. Viela, hosvever, bee many friende and, relatives there, and Whenever the n, police or soldiees show teemeelvee these n loyal fellows presently send word to a- the bandits cue lime enable them to y get into a -ea.fca hicling place. n As a matter of fact, too, the number of police/nen in the dietriet is entire- ly ineclequate and the result is 'thee Viola and other brigands do pretty r mach as they please. It is said that n some of those lawless men have been - plundering for': the lea quarter of a n century, and, le so, (be chance of their n capture in the near future seems rath- - er doubtful., WINTER HEALTH HINTS. ......... • Avoid' Colds.—One good way to avoid taking cold is to avoid exposure when the stomach is empty. Breathe through the nose only. _Douche the nos- trils kherally with Seller's dr Dobell'a solutian, or with warm water in which common salt has been dissolved. It pays not to sit down after exercising without first putting on, dry clothing. Warm Peet,—'Not every one can wear thick shoes to advantage. People whose feet sweat profuselY will prob- ably get along better on the average scape i when wearing thin, porous shores; but te al for others thick shoes are the proper d im- winter wear. items Instinct.—"When children play with imokey thrash the teacher," says a St, ranch Louis doctor. 'When children steal ap-- le to pies arrest the parents." His meaning i . tree. is that proper teaching interests the till"' pupil and that a proper diet includes pass- i AN IMPORTANT PERSON in sev •lects of her societi as the the he - The These more e erful t grades proofs sums 0 are on digging as they respect summe dances gin ma society. known ably w corpse's magic every se the Egb made of the eyes top of t ward; h bamboo enecl . to goes alo of green and in h bide whi whora lee Very houses juju hou faced he painted s curiously and dou made of tatto mar head an near the O f the a noupha both eve little fake The be and evith ning teen WE A Spani eral of these societies. He col - the members, and wells as a sort old or whipper -in of the Egbo es; but he is not so important master (or head juju-raan) of bitation to which he is attached. Egbo, Xofong, etc. are religious. Mystical societies have many eremonies and are far more pow - ham the "medical." Their various like the others, a:re gained. by of qualifications and payment of f money. The principal festivals the occasions of the planting and up of the yams. These customs, are called by the white man ars ively in November and in the r, and during their continuance/ and the consumption of trade nifest the presenoe of the Belo At these times they have been to kill people in the bush, prole- ith the object of furnishing for furthering their black rites—very black indeed in use of the word! The Idena of o society wears a black rizard wood, with hetet piericed for , and two' horns rise from the he forehead and carve over for- e is dressed cap -a -pie in rough matting, and has a hell fast - his side which rings as he ng; in his left hand is a bunch leaves of a particular plant, is right is an enormous cow - p with which he flogs those eemcreeettsidols are kept in the ot the members and in their ses; some of them are J'anus- ads, the faces of 'svhich are shite, the hetes)/ co'or, and are earved with double chins he forbeads; the , eyes are tin let into the Wood, and the ks are embossed on the tore- ou tho sides et the cheek ear end painted on the reef, eek. Some ot till had ham of double back home carving ys; others merely have a k hat, di eland mt. small pedestols their veliite co'or and grin - I look very IRD AND GTIASTLX, sh earvent in Greed Cagary, plenty of fruit—propositions worth thinking about. LongLife.—If any one thares to live long let him or her merry. Almost all the well -authenticated cases of lon- gevity have been of married people. Women live longer than man, married women longer than single women, and mothers longer than the childless. A. surprisingly large proportIon of can- tenarian women have been mothers.of eight or more children each. Breathing.—Two years ago Hugo Pruessing, of Milwaukee, was dying of consumption. He began regular breath- ing exercises, expanding the upper part of the chest as much as possible, then breathing with the lower chest—in a word, setting at work all the nniscles of the chest. The increased blood flow thus induced toned up the lungs, and Pruessing-is now not only cared, but an athlete of much ability. - The Hair.—In warm countries where People live much out of doors, people seldom have gray hair until extreme old age. As a rule, an indoor life brings on premature grayness. Last summer's Newportefad of driving about hatless was not a badidea. Don't put grease on the hair. Turkish Baths --The Turkish bath is - a preventive of cold if used in season and many even fend off graver ills like pneumonia. But if, after a bath when the pores are open, one is ex- posed to draughts, his last state may become worse than his first. Pillows—Don't use a thick pillow. Don't use any if you can get along without it. A tleck pillow cramps the neck and chest muscles and gives them no chariest to recover from the fatigues of the day. Crooked necks come frona high pillows. A GENTLEMANLY BRIGAND. Re is also Roth Generous and Kind- ' ' gentled. A. picturesque and humorous brigand is Bernardo Viola, wbona the Italian authorities are just new trying to catch. •He is not an ordinary, valgar cut-throat, but a gentlemanly felloivi who has a host of friends and who is described as being both generous and kindhearted. • Viola expects patielt priests to sup- port him, and whenever he finds him- self short of money he infothes the priest e of the ra.cts and insists thet it is their duty to supply him with the necessary funds. The priests who com- ply with his request find 'Viola a pleae- ant visitor, He takes just what he thinks they can afford to give him and theta he goes his way satistied. Those priests, bovveeer, who refuse tie comply with his demands, 'very soon discover that he is 110t to 1./0 trifled with. Viola wastes no words on the but Simply lays hands on the money and other valuables he eon tied ia their homes and then makee off with them. Only owe did he let anger get the better of him. That was wheal a sturdy priest tried to prevent him from plundering 1118 llome. Viola would not stand that, end so he promptly WOW enfor tune te priest. Vita' e great desire at. prese,nt is to 'ram 0 partnerehip with another band- it, named lettimondo I'ace, for whom the CROWNS •FOR ROYAL HEADS. They Cost all the Trey from Five Dollars to Ten There are few things which appeil so largely to the imagination as the crowns of kings, svhich, though lying lightly on the palm, are worth many tons of -gold and almost every stone 01 which is a chapter of history. One of the most interesting of European crowns, is that of Hungary, a curious composite crown in the possession of the Emperor of Austria, which disap- peared for several years in mysterious fashion and reappeared as mysteriouslY. The crown cortsists of a circle of gold, richly jewelled with hearts and other costly genes, to which has been attach- 1 ed an old Byzantine crown, bearing 0 an enormous sapphire in a setting of e green stones. Just half a century ago atlif isichaissetuotihic, and, ni carie into the hands s _n spite of the most D diligent search, nothing was heard of it for five years. At the end of this time it was discovered by a peasant in a hollow tree and restored to the Em- peror's keeping. The famous iron crown of Borabardy, which is now treasure,d in an Rein= in cathedral, is the oldest and most sac- red of all the crowns of Europe. It is c fashioned around a circlet of iron made from one of the nails with which in Christ was pierced at the Crucifixion, g and 'from its sacled character is held in the highest veneration. Although ol through all the centuries the iron band et has remained untouched, it is said bas st SPOT; Or RUST be lo ever NO Oeen seen on it. Ph There is no crown quite so Imposing Ne as that with which the Russian Czars Lo mo IT Al OF INTegesir ABovr TUI BUSY YANKEE, eighbarlY frAeresf ills Daistil—Slattera of Mcone4. and ilirth Gathered from ffht Rally Record. Atnerioans pay $8,000,000 a year for looking glasses, It is eetimated that non -vesicle huatere spent §2,000,000 in Maine last year. In 1898, 3,032 deer, 159 moose and 59 caribou were slaughtered ' in Maine, The water -works at Alton, 111„ have become disabled and a water 'famine is threatened. Rear A.drairal Bunce, retired, has taken to land amusements and, become a golfer and 'cyclist. Detroit is planning a demoestretion" for 1901 to celdbrate the bicentennial of its founding by Cadillac. Six members of the American Senate are natives of Engeand. There are only ten foreigners in that body. Robert Taylor, of' Wyoming, owns 90,000 head at sheep and is the largest sheep rancher in the United States. Gen Wheeler ascribes his hardihood to regular hours. He goes to bed every night at 10 and. rises at 7.30 in the morning. , Every summer a newspaper is pub- ished daily at Pike's Peak. It chroni- les the names of the visitors, and Is •apidly sold at a good figure. Count Alfred von Waldersee, who ucceeded Von Moltke as chief of staff the German army, married an Am- ericas\ woman, Miss Mary Lee, of New Torkeewho thus became aunt by mar - lege to the German Empress. Miss Sallie Faulkner; daughter of enator Faulkner, of West Virginia, re» ently paid a visit to her brother, a eutenant in the array, now stationed Wyoming. While 'there she rode It. roncho which only one man at the fort ould master, Lieut. Peary says his Christmas enu while north of the Arctic circle enerally consisted of broiled salmon out with tomato sauce, potato patties, ives, roast saddle of reindeer, cheese 'ts, nuts, raisins, champagne, cigarr tes and coffee. It is estimated that the horses have en displaced by bicycles in the fol - wing cities to the number indicated: iladelphia, 50,000; Chicago, 75,000; w York, 40,000; Baltiraore, 25,000; St. uis, 10,000; Cincinnati, 10,000; Rich- nd, Va., 25,000; Toledo, 15,000; total are crowned. is fashioned in the farm of a mitre, to typify the spiritual sovereignty of the Czars, and it es crowned by a dazzling cross of enor- mous diamonds with a ruby centre. In marked contrast to the magnifi- cence of the Russian crown is the sim- ple design ef the crown of Denmark, This crown, which is of the most deli- cate and exquisite art, consists of a gold circlet wreathed in leaves. Each leaf is traced in precious stones and bears one gem of almost priceless value. The German crown, which is appro- priately militant in design, contains eight shields bearing alternate black eagles and jewelled crosses, -while pois- ed on four arches blazing with dia- monde is a globe crowned by a cross of gold. The State -crown of Great Britain was made sixty-one years ago for our Queen's Coronation, and is among the lightest of European crows. Although it weighs only two pounds, seven ounces its value is e1,600,000 or at the rate of nearly mow an ounce, and it con- tains 3,000 stones, many *of them his- torical, One enormous sapphire came from the signet ring of Edward tthe Con- fessor, and, from this sacred associa- tion, is reported to have the power of healing disease. One of the rubies however, has a sadly tragic history, It was at one time in the possession of one of the Xings of Grenada, whom Pedro, the Cruel, invitedr to his palace 240,000, New York is not the only large Am- erican city in which the number of saloons for the sale of intoxicants, has been reduced by statutory regulation. January, 1887, there were in St. Louis, 4,067 saloons. This year finds that number reduced to 2,029, a de- crease of 2,038. Col. Charles Marshall, a lawyer cif Baltimore, is writing a life of General Robert E. Lee, upon whose staff he served during the whole civil war. Col. Marshall wrote all the official reports of the army of Northern Virginia, and, with General Horace Porter, arrang- ed the terms of surrender at Appo- mattox. Mrs, Stephen B. Manley, of Awbuxn, Me., has among her collection of plants a lobster cactus which is 22 years old and of ram beauty. It has just fin- isbed blossoming, and while in full bloom contained over 400 blossoms, svitich were pink in colour and much resembled wax flowers in appearance. At Columbus, Kas., the other 'clay a g man took out a lieense to marry rl of his acquaintance, and not the fact that the license had itssued appeared in the paper did cur to him to ask the young whether she would have him. She only refused to marry him, but rought suit to recover heavy dam- youn gi imbu:naent0401 and basely murdered colt of greed for I not his gem. has b In the Pope's treasure house are two crowns, Which together are valued. at $2,500,000. One of them, the gift of the great Napoleon to Pius VII., has the largest emerald in the world, and the other, the gift of Queen Isabella of aSnpcalinisto Pius IX., weighs three pounds WORTH e1,000,003. It is interesting to note that the CTONVIl has no pa rt in the coronation of the Kings of Spain and Belgium and the Sultan of Turkey. Its place is tak- en in Turkey by a sword, which is re- garded as the symbol of Divine au- thority. In ludicrous contrast to these mira- cles of gold and gems with which Eur- opean monarche are invested are the " Itrutaraagera " orewns 'under which African chiefs have to strut and pos- ture. These are neanufactueed by hun- dreds in Birmingham ,and are a blaze of mimie gold and paste " stones " of all the colors of the rainbow. Their prices range from $s to $500 or $1,000, and even Solomon in all his glory pales betore the vision of an ebohy chief in the discarded apparel of a Lord It:layer's footman, and wear- ing in all its paste brilliancy a ten dollar Brummagem crown. VERY ODD VISITING CA.RI)S. The visiting card, of the Emperor 'William IT., is a Teal curiosity. It is printed on glazed Bristol board 151-2 eentimeters long and 10 centimetere wide. It is engraved with the mane "eVilhelea" itt large 'character, and 'beheath it in letters alincest as large, "German Emperor and Meg of Prussia." There is no addreaS. The stationcsr in Berlin who terra them out, with special envelopes to match, de- livers to his imperial client from 20,- 000 to 30,000 Cartiti ti, year, and the Em- peror uses ao others. IT NEVER FAILS. Askins—What kittd of rilarte c1ofr have you t Cynic—My Wiere's elbow, ages. According to the latest ruling of the Post -office Department at Wash- ington, the practice of suspending postal clerks for minor offences is to be abolished. Hereafter, when a clerk is found guilty of some offence of no great importance, he will be allowed to continue at his work with a reduc- tion in salary of from one to five days' Pay- • A woman has brought suit in the Municipal Court of Boston to recover e300 damages from a baking earapany because, while passing along the street, she "was struck by an egg, dropped or thrown from the building' of the defendant, and had her garments de- stroyed." She further alleges that the "egg was set in motion by the negli- gence of the defendant's servants en- gaged in the discharge of its Masi - nese." A fl'-----,.. 'who had. been convicted of contempt at court has been releas- ed, after twenty-two months in jail, on a rather hovel argument. Cer- tain books, 'which he claimed were his private properety, were demanded, and he, refused to seve them up, alis law- yers contended that he might have of- fended in his official eapaeity, but that as a private oitizen he was guiltleas. The law meat yet find it 'needful to evolve some scheme by whieh a mart may be looked up onlyduring the of- fice hour's -Where he is ordinarily on duty hi his official capacity, "Se/later Hanna," says the New Tork World, "is most democratic in his manners. He °temples handeome bul unpretettious quarters at the Arling- toe, and they are open to any one having legitimate business. He sees neeveletper men and politicians at all /warm of the day and at any reason- able, thus of tile night. He rides to and erten the dapitol in a eteeet ear, always paying his fare. The traetivei tome paniee tendered him itettI ttetrisportee titan, hat liti retueerel it with thanks, Tri the Senate be is a, Meet acceesibits Mall. The Man or worattn who sends a card to him is generally asked, tate his presence."