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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-7-3, Page 26 TRE IIMIIIMOMMIMI110•111•10•11••4•1.3.1 BRUSSELS POST. JULY 3, 1.89t shadowy shape of Ramboeillet showed hinii DEVOURED BY CANNIBALS, ABOUT GHOSTS, a hleeding and fetal WOVID1 in his aide from whieh the blood seemed flowing ; then the' apparition varnished. Some Modern Instances of Stipernattiral the ones of 1 rem semmoned his e , Visitation, who aroosed the house and searched every nook mid corner, but nothiug was found, . A Yetintseere mine iittunted—Theneti' del and the whole vision was attributed to a erium of fever. A few days later the — Spirit -which Appeared Like II (IIIIIMIl mail from Flanders arrived, bringi»g the et' filsolte—Tice Sold fer'e ,inparlften• news that the Marquis of RaMbouillet lied Are there such things as ghoete ? fallen in a elarmish turd died from it wound Half the civilized world tune up its nose in the thigh. The prediction of his friend's • and sneers at the suggestion. Just the same ghost concerning Preci wits fulfilled very ninety.nine hondredths of half the world, S0011 alter, for the Alan:leis was killed in his if placed on the inquisitional rack of cross- first fight near St. Antome, questioning would hesitatiegly admit that, There lived in Allegheny City at the while they didn't fully believe in such me- breaking out of the rebellion, M widow by dieted nonsense, yet they weren't quite sure the name of MacDowel), She had nue son, ;fiat there might not be such things ne inys. John by name, who lived with his mother terious warnings, wiercl appearances and in a twoeitory frame house on, Robinson 'unaccountable happenings. Street. The widow and her son were de. Our belief in the inysterious and super. votedly attached to each other and when he natural is a legacy deseended to us from our came home one night and told her that he remete forefathers, If there is a orain of had enlisted at one of the recruiting booths Insh blood in our veins it is freighted with a lingering trace of the wild old stories of the wail ot the Banshee ; if English, the cry on Federal Street, she was Ineonsolable, After he had been absent ttt the front about nine nionths with his regunent, .1 rs. at• of Gabriela hounds in the midnight tiarl, Dowell became bedfrAt with pulmonary ness ; if Scotch, the uncanny Highlend trouble which was aggrevatcd by anxiety legends told around blazing fires affide the for her son. The widow frequently remark - storm raged mend Ben Nevis and Ben ed to the kind hearted neighbors who shared Lomond ; if German, then the tales of the the duty of looking after her during illness, Black Forests and the Hartz Mountains, that she being too poor to hire an attendant, had been told in song and story for cell- that in the event of anything happening tortes. her beloved smi she felt sore that a warn - The general diffesion of knowledge and lug of the event would be conveyed to her, the progress of civilization has in a measure An she was a consistent member of the destroyed many of the older and creder illusions that have haunted the oral history of our forefathers, Bet while these have faded Away in ehe light of intelligent scien- tific latter.day investigation, there have arisen new classes of so-called supernatural Presbyterian Church these expressions were regarded as being peculiar by some, while others attributed it to her Scotoh life and trainin g. On the afternoon of April 0, 18(h2, Mrs. AfacDowell sat in au easy chair at the sec - manifestations which are—in e, measure —as ond-story window of her home, It was the much of a mystery to intelligent nineteenth first day she Intel felt strong enongb to leave century men and women as were the crude her bed. It was warm and the son shining pranks of Salem witches to the man and • brichtly. As she sat alone with her wen woman hunters of Cotton Mothers day. Ghosts, whether or not they may have existed or do exist, have received distin- guished consideration at the hands of theo- logians in all ages at the Cheenh. Even such distinguished figures in hi. ory 05 Alachia- velli, Hommel°, Thomasius odd Rant had discussed the grizzly theme and announced their belief in supernatural appearances, Tertullian, St Augustine and Thomas de Aquinas state distinctly as a dogma that the settle of the departed ein leave their home, though not at will, but only by special per- ped in the mtddle of the toom and I saw mission of the Ahnisghty. under his cap, which was pusheel back, a Whatever may be the primal or contri- broad bandage. strained with blood around buting causes for weird manifestations of oc- his forehead. Suddenly he waved hissword cult power, their ortainly lean innumerable and 1 SSW an awful look, such as I had number of good stories i,old under this head, never seen before, conic into my boy's eyes, In the city of Washington to -day there are he waved his sword three times looking net less than a ctozen 'houses empty and backward over his shoulders as he did so. tenantless because of the strange inexplicit- saw the sword fall from his grasp, bat it ble noises and occurrences that happen made no noiee on the floor, he reached both within their wane. hands to me and the fierce expression died One of the most remarkable modern in- out of his eyes as he cried out, alt mother,' -stances of this kind occurred in the home of cheek resting agaiust the pillows she heard a heavy step tin the narrow stairwey. She described the sum:ceding events to the first neighbor woman who reached her side as follows " The instant I heard the step I knew it wits John. As he reached the head of the stairs I turned toward the door and tried to rise and meet him, but I Was too faint and besides there Was something in his face that drove all the blood from my heart. He was dressed in bis uniform Mild WDS carryine a. big sword in his hand, He stop. Rev. Dr. Phelps, of Stretford, Conn. Upon returning from church one day he Jotted their all the doors of his house, which he had and then before I could say a word he was gone." A. week from that day the widow Mac - Dowell was buried in the 1-IiUJale Getnetery. carefully locked on his departure, werewide I On the afternoon of April 5, the day open, and the contents of the rooms on the when the apparition of her boy appeared to first floor in the wildest confusion, Nothing her in the sick room, he was killed while Intel been stolen. In a room in the upper story, however, eight forms were found, each one n frit an open Bible held close to its repulsing a Confederate charge at Pittsburg Litnclin . Ile was etreck by a. spent ball upon t e forehead early in the day, n't face. On examination these were wend to tyieg o handkerchief around his forehead he be bundles of clothes, alluringly any very I remained in the fight. An the officers in skillfully arranged to represent living beings. 1 his company had been killed or wounded, Everything was cleared away end the teem 'and lie was leading his company with the locked, but within five minutes the same i sword of it dead Confederate in his hand scene was repeated, although the elothing when Ire was pierced by a bullet. His last bad been carefully put away, For seven months the house was disturb- ed by extraordinary phenomena. The most unearthly noises were beard day and night. Furniture aud kitchen utensils were mys- teriously moved. Glassware and window. panes were broken by unaeen hands before the startled inmates, and Onee the i1 -year - 01(1 son of the Doter was lifted bodily and carried some distance, Tho most diligent research discovered nothing, and not until he applied to some spiritualists in Boston did the disturbances cease. This case has been fully authenticated, and it is cited by Proiessor Schele de Vere as one of the mysterious instances of the manifestation of occult power. Perhaps the best authentic instance of ghostly visitation is connected with Dr. Ker- ner's so called Seeress of Provost. Dr. Ker - utterance as he fell was the pathetic cry, " Oh, mother!" A " double" is another phase of myster- ious appearance, and while not a ghost comes under the same general category. There have been some remarkable end, it may be said, historical instances of the latter kind. The most noted is that of the Empress Eliza. beth, of Russia, who was seen seated in full regalia on her throne in the throne room, while she Was fast asleep,in her bed room. The vision was so distinct and the terror of the beholders so great that the Empress was awakened and informed of what hatl occurred by her lady•in-weiting, who had herself witnessed the whole scene. The dauntleas Empress did not falter for an instant, but dressing hastily went to the throne room where, when the doors were thrown open, she saw herself as the others nor for many years conducted an asylum for had seen her. So far was she from being the insane at Weinberg, in Southern Ger, many. There cams to him for treattnent Mrs, Hauffe, it lady ill delicate health, of great nervous irritability and with a mind away the hall teas empty, weired shape had which was, to say the least, not too well disappeared, bet the Emprees died a few months later. terrified, as were her servants, that she or- dered the imperial guard to fire at the apparition. When the smoke had olesued balanced. Wherever this afflicted won In 'went, and Dr. Justinus Kerner is authority, she WM pursued by it variety of strange noises. Chinaware and glassware, tables and chairs, were mysteriously moved in the pres. ence of witnesses. A medicine phial rose and is constantly becoming rarer. Ilus is slowlyinto the air andhadtobebrought back due thinly to the mania, for hoarding which characterises all classes. The Government and the Princes themselves hoard, so that Ole Imperal Treasury now contains to sur- plus of nearly three millions sterling, quite withdrawn from circulation. Every one follows alit and hides his wealth, No form of investment is secure, and therefore the money itself is treasured. The effect of all this in a country where the curre»ey is at a minimum, and notes, bills, and drafts are almost unknown, mey be imagined. Mone- tary crises are constantly oceureitig, now at Teheran, now at Ispahan, and then at Tauris Or Chintz. In addition to this, the constant excess of imports over exports have to be paid for in gold, and this further drains the country. The result is that exchange fluctuates so enormously as to make ordinary business themes:stint a matter of great nth and difficulty, During the past year the rate of exchange has varied as muoh as 14 per cent. Add to this that the state of the ourrency is very bad, muoh of it being very old, and the condition of affairs is seen not to be such as to facilitate the ordinary trans. /lotion of businesa Money and Credit in Persia. Money is a very rare commodity in Persie, by oneof thebyatanders. On severed occasions an easy chair was lifted np to the ceiling by unseen power and then returned elowly to Ole floor. On one occasion the great alteptio, Dr. Strausz, was one of her visitors, and during his stay Mrs. Hauffe fell asleep on her sofa when there immediately arose long, fearful groanings close by the Doctor's side and in the vicinity of his amiable but re- markable hostess. This strange.suffering woman was the only one who knew the cause of these phenomena, She ascribed them all to a dark spirit who appeared to her as a black column of smoke with a hideous head, whme unseen approach oppressed even the bystanders. Dr. Kerner relates countless mysterious phenoneme, which occurred in this patient's bedroom. He behold Alrs. Hauffe's shoes pulled off by invisible Molds while she was lying almost inanimate it a trance on her bed. She revealed soots which, upon -writing to utterly unknown persons at a great distance, Dr. Kerner proved to be cor. redly stated.. One of the evidences of supernatural ap. pearances is the ineffable dread which is apt to oppress the heart and to cause intense suffering to the beholder, A. famous ease, which set all Forme talking at the time, Was that of the Marquis of Rambouillet and Ole Marquis of Prem. They were intimate friends and bound themselves by an oath to inform eaoh other of their fete after death. The Marcpiis Rambonillet was ordered to the army in Flanders while the other re. mained in the Capital. Here the latter was taken ill with the fever several weeks after his friend's,departure, One morning about 6 o'olook as he wag lying in bed awake, the otirtaina were suddenly drawn aside and his friend, dressed in uniform, booted and spur- red etood befre him. Overjoyed he was about to embrace him but his friend drew back and Wel that he had come only to keep his promiee after having been killed in a skirmish the day before, and added that Prod also would share the same fate in the first battle in whieh he should be engaged. The fever-strieken Marquis thonght his friend was joking, and springing from his bed endeevored to aeize etead his arm paned through the form inch was composed of naught but empty As ?reel fell book upon 01 s bed, tho Startling Report of the Pate of the Crain- pel Expeditiou. mires- are said to Have Seen Stilled and Eaten by central A friere's" Stves— whets Lacs nested 11r0111 crumpet Was cross- Ittnathe Great Enniown 'North 00 the tiiTheueuI fifver—Che 05110101 confided cs.',isint—fils Peat serviees as en Cos. ;door. The olives of Al Mange have killed and eaten the French expedition from Loango wider the command of Air. Crampel. About, a year ago a private letter received from Longa, on the west coast of Africa, north of the Congo, said that Paul Crampel, the French explorer, had arrived et Longo. He wold tell no one the purpose of his ex- pedition. It was evident that he intended to make 11. long joerney inland, for he had a large supply of trade goods and was enlist. int; many porters, It became known later that, Crampers second expedition to Africa was for the purpose of travelling from the greet northern bend of the Mobangi to Lake Tchad, making treaties' with chiefs on the way to bring their countries under French protection. In fact, the Freud li had on foot the large scheme of attaching to their othern territoes in Africa one of the great regions still -unknown, and they hoped to penetrate even to the shores of Lek(' Toiled. Cratopel left Brazzaville at Stanley Falls for the Alobangi, on Aug. 15, last year. News had just come that the commander at Bangui, the French post, on the Mobatigi, near 4 degrees north latitude, had been kill- ed with Ins garrison and DATES' BY CANNIBALS. Cranmel was charged first to reestablielt the French post and 'punish the natives who had masencred the garrison. Cranmel severely punished the cannibals. Then he established another French post as hie base of operations, on a little tributary on the northern bank of Ole Mobangi, and explored the surrounding regions. He ascended two or three tern. aeries of the Mobangi, and finally. started for the great unknown early in December. In a letter dated on the last clay of December he expressed the hope of reaching Baghirini, one of the large Mohammedan States in the Soudan, in three or four months. He had with him three or tow European olficers, about 900 native carriers, a small force of Senegalese soldiers, and a lerge supply of trade goods. A letter received from Crampel dated early in January annouucecl that he had just crossed the country of the Demme and was upon the point of corning in contact with the people of ,liaghinni. A letter from a tnember of his party received after Cram• pel's lot letter gave little additional infor- mation except that the party were making steady progress north and all were well. The letters were despatched by messengers to the post Crampel had established on the liobangi and were sent down the river. Cramps' had hardly left the Mobangi he - fore he came among people whose manufac- tures were such as Nachtigal described among the natives of the Soudan. One of Ole men in Crampel's party had great suc- cess and influence among the natives on account of his tattoo 'narks, which resem.. bled those among the Haussa, An Enterprising Young Russian, Five school boys at Charkow, their arms ranging from 13 to le, recently diseppeared in a most mysterious manner. The parents 01 000 of the boys' received a few days ego from their son the following reassuring let- ter :—"Dear perents,—When We letter reaches you I will be far from Charkow. not worry about me. In ten years time (hall return to.you—not as a echool boy, but as an Amerman millionaire, the proprie- tor of gold mines, or the captain of. a band of indians--perhaps the last would be best. flail endeavour to discover new lands, and hand down our name as a glorione one to posterity.—Your loving eon, &a," As the young explorer has riot yet been heard of, it may be eurmised that he it already nego- tiating the purchase of his gold mine or levy- ing his band of Indians. Tt, fs estimated that the amount of ls,nd under cereal drop this_year in Manitoba 15 one million three hundred and eleven thosi. sandacree, ittW1tbo7sjnhisdredancl sixteen housend are in wheat act if he declined to take heralong. 'rho chief eaid he was astonished at the inhospitality id other obiefe, who had not proomted the explorer with any of their women, and he intended to thew that he WIIS Mere woe. thy the frierels'llip of the white people. Thor ffiyear,old gwl, therefore, WU met of his Neatly feeling. Otily Frenchmen among Eeropetine have fallen ptey to the cannibale of the Congo. P1100113' previous victim with Air. Must, of the Burgin post, The Mubangi River is one of the grenteet centres of eannilutlism in the C'ongo basin, lien Cele and other writers have told of seeing war parties start out for no other purpose than to procure captives to oat, Along this extremely populous river it Is customary for the WOIDell, Wile are the only agrioultnrists, to 1,111 the fields, with a considemble force of warriors guarding them against forays of neighboring cannibal tribes. It. is evident that the Congo eannibels ex- tend D. very considerable diethece north of the Mobangi though they were not observed by Nachtigal in lus journey through the southern part, of the Shari basin. In Cram. pel FIllnee loses ono of her most, successful explorers, He WaS not only brave and tact- ful, but he bad good scientific acquirements, end he wee tt skilful artist, and was thus able to adorn his stones with his c {VII pencil. Cannibalism in West Africa,. A correspondent, writing froin Sierra Leone, West Atrium, gives an amount of Seine terrible mordere which have recently been committed near the boundary of the British settlement by a umber of men who ve earned for themselves the munes of " Leopard men," on account of being cover- ed with leopard skins when they make their terrible raids. The outrages happen mostly in the Imperi country. Otte boy was caught and scalped ; afterwards his eyes, heart, liver, right D.C111, and left foot were taken by the cannibals to eat. The bodies of two girls were Aso found on the road muti- lated in ti shocking manlier, the eaoni- bale having token out their hearts, Sce.., and nearly cut their bodies to pieces. On the day following this discovery, an old woman, gathering pine -apples near the spot, heard screams, and on rushing to the spot, and making its much none as possible, she dis- turbed a number of leopard men, who at once bolted. The old woman found a girl stretched on the ground unoonscious. The girl had large punctured wounds in her back, and had the old woman not disturbed the fiends the poor girl would have been out in pieces in a few athletes. These were but few of the recent cases which had occurred. The correspondent pointed out that these outrages had been much more frequent a short time ago, but they were gradually diminishing, owing to the efforts 01 0110 fron- tier police, organised by the Governor (Sir James S. Hay), to whom the correspondent pays a high tribute for his exertions in the interests of the 13ritish colony. Captain Soden, with a force of police, was scouring the Bagroo district in search of the leopard men. 'JIG poor girl who was found insensi- ble was taken by Captain Soden's men to Bantle for medical treatment. A PANOILS PEOPLE living ill the northern part of the Soudan. These and other facts proved the existence of relations between the people of the tipper arobangi basin and the tribes to the far north. He found also asses and cattle used as beasts of burden, and guns like those in southern Algeria. He saw the curious structures made of bark and built in the limbs of trees. These structures were seen by Crenfell further south, and were describ- ed by Nachtigal upon his visit to the south- ern regions of the Soudan. The buildings are connected with the ground by ladders made of vines, and the old men of the vit. lages, provided with an abundance of pois- oned. arrows, and of wooden javelins whose points are hardened by flee, constantly occupy these hefty poets Of observation and sound an alarm by trumpet or drum at the first appearance of strangers. TJpon the first alarm, the women disappear in the forest, bent nearly double with the weight of childreu upon their backs, 'while the men spring behind the palisades that surround their villages and are ready to defend their homes. We have no knowledge of the Matonge, natives who are said to have killed and eaten the Orampel expedition. If the news is correct, the teagedy must have occurred somewhere near the border of liaghirmi. Disaster to the expedition will be regarded by the French as a geeet misfortune. They had depended upon Crampel to see that France was not left behind in Lamp Rook of Central Asia, Captain Younghesband, an English travel- ler, writes home from Central Asia an amount of a rock which has been a mystery to the na• tives and to travellers. It is situated on the shores of a lake near one of the branches of the upper Oxes, and is known as the Lamp rock. The account of it is published in the Geographical Magazine. This rook received its strange name be- cause from a supposed cave in he side aper - p0000) light shines out. Mr. Elias, who passed the spot in 1885, thought the light might be a phosphorescent one, but he aid not have time to examine it properly. Youngbusband says the rock stands by itself about two hundred feet high, and pro- jects front the mountain side. digh up the steep cliff the cave was pointed out to him, and sure enough there was a pale light 17iS• ible. The natives have a euperstitious dread of the rook, and say the light comes from a diamond in the forehead of et demon, who guards his vast treaeures stored in the cave. With great difficulty Mr. .Yotinghusband ascended to the cave. A false stop, in some places, would have meant certain death. He entered the cave and saw the light, which he found to he merely the unadulterated light of heaven, cooling from the other side of the cave. In fact, it is no cave, but a tunnel right through the rock. From belew, Ole fact menet be determined that the hole is not a cave, and the light striking up against the roof is all that can be seen, TDB BNCITIND RACE for lake Telma in which the Germans and English are also engaged. They fully ex- pected that Crampel wotdd be able to add a largo domain to French territory. In order to put into inimeciinte deed Ole treaties be might secure, an ex- pedition was secretly sent oet from France early thie year to follow in Orem - pore footsteps. U.'he Committee of French Africa had the enterprise in hand. It was pot in charge of five ‘vhite men, who ocured at St. Lotus, Senegal, the soldiers they required, arid ab Loango enlisted a large force of porters. It was not till then that the purposes of the expedition were known. By this time it has probably reach- ed Crampol's base of operations on the Mo. band, if it has not already started along his path toward Lithe Tchad. Its equipment in all respects was larger then that of the pioneer on his route, The expedition was instructed to strengthen all agreements he had tirade with the natives, to establish a number of trading posts amo»g them, to buy their ivory end other goods which would bear transport to the sea, to take handsome presents to the chiefs, and to leave little de- tachments of the Senegalese military at the posts for the purpose of insuring French supremacy. It is probable that this expedi- tion, if Crampel is dead, will endeavor to carry out his work. IS bIPItENDIDLY ARDISD, &baby the superiority of its weapons could probably master tiny ordinary force it might moot It was instrected to resort to arms only as a last expedient, but if possible to make its way peacefully through the ecom, try, Cramp& spent nearly two years explor. ing the little-known forest regions of the French Congo. He added a great deal to our knewledge of the cannibal Fan, peoples of whom until within a feW years ago we knew Tittle except in the writings of Du Chaillut. It was he who over two yeare ago retuned to Franco with a little black girl Who haa bon given to him by a chief who never before had seen a white man. The child was put at school in Emmet and prov- ed to be a bright and studioue little person, Control did not Witth ter have his expedition burdened With tide maiden, but the chief was bent upon regarding 11 as ral unfriendly YOUNG FOLKS. 0 OUN TING. OUT RHYMES, seine rammer Examples !tad Their 'earth. 01,110, finery, twoery, dickery diary, liallabone, emokabone, tottery navy, Diseurn, (hurdler), merry come tine, liembledy, bembledy, twenty.nine. 0-1J.T, out 1 Somewhere 01000 100 different variations and versions of thie rhytne alone are given. The following is one of the several versions from Aberdeen, Scotland : Finery, twaery, tuckery, thyven, Halaba, oracketry, ten or elayven, Peen, pan, musky dam Feedelam, faclelan, twenty-one. Prom is work on the Gypeies, by Mr, Chas, G. Leland, we have it specimen of a Gypsy magic melt ; 10 10 as follows: Elekeri, akairl, you kair-an,l Fulisin fallisin, IS'icholas Stint, stani, buck. This, OD comparison, will he found to be almostidentical with the first exatnples we have given of a conneittg out rhyme ; " el:- keri akairi" being the equivalent ie Romany for " onery, twoery." Another very familiar form is that commencieg " eney meeny,:' etc. This is a groat favorite among Amen. can children, the commonest version being ; Eney, meetly, miny 100, °eta a nigger by the toe : Is he hollere, let him go ; Eney, meeny, miny !no, This example gives evident proof of adap- tation to Americen ideas ; but the prelimin ary and cementing "eney, moony" are of obvious Cet.man end Dutch origin ; such as: Eue, tone, mony mei, Pastor, lone, bone strei, Eno, fine, herke, herke, Wer ? ',Vie? Wo ? Was? A Determined Burglar, One of the most bloodthirsty burglars and murderers ever brunght to juetice in France has been condeffined to the guillo- tine at the Dijon assizes. The specific, charge against him was the murder at Saulx•le Duc, of the widow Beville whose throat he cut in September lust. Fiches the criminal inhthestion, not having found money enough m his victim's house, corm mitted a series of daring and successful burglaries, in the district, althotigh the hue and ory had been raised against him, and the inhabitants of Seidl had organized ex- peditions for his capture. In October last he broke into the premises of another widow, Madame Goland, living in a lone- ly house. The woman was in bed when the burglar entered her room, and having before her eyes the fear of the fate which had overtaken Madrona Beville, she feigned to be asleep. Fichet accordingly took ,640 of her money and went away. He was tracked to Troyes, Paris, Bevalle, and other places, but returned to Saulx in order to perpetrate another burglary in Madame Gueland's house. This time the WidOW WW1 lucky not only in saving hor live a second Ulna but in getting the reseal arrested. She stole out of her house with bare feet, ap prised the local mayor of the presence of the burglar, and, as gehAttnnes seem to be unkrtown quantities III the commune, a contingent of the boldest inhabitants was formed, and Fichet was promptly arrested, In hie poseessien a big loaded revolver and a razor were found. The man confessed to the murder of Madame Beville and the local burglaries, bat he denied having been the MSSIIIISin of en eldetgy woman who was found vsith her throat out near Ruffee. This eharge was net, recognized by the jurors, but Futhet was condemned to cloth Lan the Sattlx murder. A New Version, "They are going to try Dr, Griggs for heresy," " You don't mean it 1 On what ground?" "His interpretation of the Eden episode, He insists that Adam and Eve ate banana, and that the fltllscae due to their earelessness with the peeling."—.New York Herald. 41, Wash a wall that has been whitowenhod, with vinegar ma saleratts.water to make paper stick to it. Papered walls may be Awned with atale bread out a loaf in half and rob the wall down With the crumb side until dirty, and then take 11 fresh plus. THE BONNET WITH THE IUD ROSE. Ole teeth running down her wrinkled (Moat*, exclaimed t "1 elan never see them agate— I shall never see them again 1" " Don't feel so badly, auntie," said Mr. Martin, " After breakfast, I'll got Nome of the neighbors and we'll track the thief and see 11 we can't make him give up his plunder," And so he did. And wbot's more Its was successful in We undertaking, and brought hack the stolen treasures and placed them in Auntie Simplon's arms that very after- noon. The shawl was all right, but the bonnet I TIte velvet and ribbon were spotted and torn, the frame wee bent out of shape, and the lovely thee was gone. But when Alt'. Martin deseribed the ap- pearance of the Indian when he and his. friends discovered him, even Auntie Simp- 8031 had to laugh, it was so ludicrous, He WWI seated by a Inc which Ire had made and was apparently taking II good rest, The thawl was folded blanketdesh. ion around him, the red rose was firmly fastened in his scalp -look, and by Ills aide on the snow lay the green velvet bonnet. He was soon persuaded to hand over shawl and bonnet, but, the rose he refused to part with, and that rose Auntie Simpson never ceased to regret. Years ago, when the Canadian village of Chester was yet is its infancy, and Indians often visited it, sometimes with kindly in- tentions, and sometimes to steal from the inhabitants, on one cold winter day there WM an unusual stir in the place, itnd old Auntie Simpson—the oldest of all the women there was going from cabin to cabin telling some good ews. And this was the news : A member of kind ladies, in a far. away city, had sent a box filled with warm clothing and other presents to these poor people. The village across the river had received such a box every :year for several years, and now Chester's turn had wine at last. A messenger had brought word that the box was at the station, twenty miles away, and that the following day three men would start for the village with it. These men worked up the river and came home once a week by way of it track on the ice, which was it shorter way by two or three miles than by the bush -path and, in winter, a much hatter one. " Oh 1 1 do hope there will be a wax doll for me, just like the one father saw when he went to the city," said little Amy Stewart, while Jessie Martin wished for a book full of fairy stories, and Auntie Simpson for a wenn, gay -colored shawl, and all the other women end children for something especially dear to their nearts. Late in the afternoon of the day on which theboxwas expected, the eled was ueenrapid- ly approaching, being drawn by two stont horses (lent for the purpose hy the foreman of the lumber cemp) and joe Martin was dancing a. jig on the precious box. When the sled arrived at the stopping - place the box was lifted off and coriect into the old ithool-house, for, as yet, Chester could not boast alt meeting -house. It was very large and heavy and, evidently, had lots of things in it After much talking about and wondering over it the crowd left the school -house, for the box was not to be oreued until evening, when the minister froin the adjacent village was to be present and officiate on the great occasion. .As soon as the work for the day was over Ole people began to Rook (Auntie Simpson being the first one to arrive there) to the schoodhoese, end the light of the sputtering tallow candles lit tip many expectant faces, both young and old. The warm gray -colored shawl was found directly the box was opened, and immedi- ately given, to her intense deliget, to the old lady who had so earnestly desired it. Anty got her doll, and Jessie her book, and twenty other books and many pretty dress- es, strong shoes and stockings, mid thick ooats and troneers and snug caps were dis- tributed among the fifty other children. The fathers and mothers and all the older folks fared just as well, and everybody Wet contented and, happy. The last thing the minister (who, by the by, MA a handsome new overcoat for his present) lifted out, was a small wooden box which held a green velvet bonnet, one side of which was orna- mented by a large crimson rose, ': And to whom shall we give this?" said be " Oh,.I wish I could have it 1" exclaimed Aentie Simpson, "11 would go so nicely With my shawl," There was a burst of laughter at this, followed by an unanimeue vote 111 favor of granting the old woman's wish, So she placed the bonnet on her gray, or more correctly speaking, white hair, and wrapping the shawl Ithout her, paroled around the room prouder than she had ever been in all her long life before. Soon after the (Retribution, the meeting broke np and the people went as gaily home throngh the biting cold as though it had been a pleasant summer night, Auntie Simpson wearing the bonnet Instead of the woolen hood in spite of the twingee of rhombi:Ism in her neck and the bank of her head. She was to stay that night with the Martins, who lived near the school -house ist 10 two -roomed log cabin that had a large window and was con- sidered the fineet holm in Chester. On the way home Jessie talked the whole time about her book and as soon as She WEIS in Ole hone(' and the tallow dip was lighted, she began to look over it But her mother bade her go lo bed to Anntie Simpson's great satisfaction, for the old woman was tired out besides which the was not used to staying up as late as 9 o'olook. She folded her new shawl and leicl it on the broad wind.sill and placed the precious bonnet upon it. Then the door was barred and soon the Martins and their guests were sleeping soundly. Alma= hour after, a pelt of 'nee, coined feet crept up to the window outside, a dark lace peeped in—tce smoldering fire on the hearth dimly lighted the room—and then the eon was softly retired rma a big brown hand seized shawl and bonnet and, in a flash, they disappeared. You oan imagine auntie s rage next /norm ing when she looked at the empty window sill, Angie TOD Olit and spied the print of the feet, " ile wore moccasins," &leaned, "50 it must have been 611 Indittn." Then auntie 'sank inte a chair, and With Mrs. fits,r,00gin Answers a Query About, Removing Freckles, "400' clye know fwhat, Airs. Arca lag. gerty " " Fwbat, Mrs. Afagoogin ? " "Some person irdotrely unbeknownst to, me has wrote me a letther." " Arrah, now, is that so, Mrs, Magoogin? " Divil a evened av lie Offin thine' ye, Mrs. itleGlaggerty. An' f whisper, id's axin' Inc a kustion aboutfrickles." ".About trickles, is id? ,An' fwhat about thim, Airs. Magoogin " Yis, about frickles, Mrs. McGlaggerty,"' said the widow, "an' how to get red ivy thim, Isn't that foonny now? Who in th' wurruld id think that annybody id be lyin' awake o' noights butherin' their heads about little bits av things loike trickles ; but, bless me sowl, here'e a gen iu Hamilton aboov that sinds me foor sheets av foine molly - gramme(' wroitini paper 'min' me to burry up an' tell her th eeriest an' quickest an' eafest way to get rod ivy Trickles. D'ye moind that now, Mtn. McGlaggerty ? Alusha bad acran to her an' tier mollygrams ; an' they're as big as a silver dollar up ahem,- in Oh' corner av oh' lather'Mrs. AloGlaggerty, bad saran to her an' th' divil take her at 0' same toime fur cumin' to me fur sonch in- formation, Pwhat die Oi know about get - tin' red of Trickles 1 Id meant be pokin' foon at me that Miss Mollygram is thryini to do, fur sure an' haven't I me own trickles, an' id's manny's th' wan av thim °Pee got, too, be th' same token, Mrs. Mc- Gleggerty, shtuck to me th' lasht forty year an' more. An 'ids 001 00 mooch as a. thought 01 gev thim in all thet toitne, me {rind. But ye tuttsht andhershtand, Airs. MeGlaggerty, that there ar' some persons that trickles Is very becomin' to, an' fwhin Oi was a gerl manny's th' beauty was rail jealyous au' invious ar thim same trickles that ye see now on me foe. OM give ye me wurrud an, banner, me frind, that f whin my Dinney —God be good to th' poor mans sowl l—fwhin my Dinny fusht began (mar- tin' me, Mrs. MeGhiggerty, he was as proud av thins trickles as a pawnbroker's woife is av her doiminde, an, fwhether ye'll belaive me ur noo, id's an honist fact that 01 nuver so much as wallet armlet] to get rid av thim. An', begorry, 00 tell ye th' threat, woman, Oi wuldn't know how. Oi've seen me (laugh. ter Toozy thry face washes tin' perplextty powdhers an' enyuoclont 0110 510 lir three hundred other things, bet she's nuver shult wan solitary frickle frein id's toundation yet, an' i'whin Oi axed her aff site kud tell me how to get red av thim she taught up irs me face OIL tOWICI MD to tell Miss Molly - grams that fwhin she got cnvIder she'd have more sinse than to axsuch asilly kustion. So there ye art Mrs. MaGinstgerty. Toozy doon't know no'thin' about tel an' Oi don't kno'ts' nethini, an' 01'1_1 howld ye tin eines, that ye don't know nothin'y erself, 100 frinct, do ye now? Oi thought not. So fwItat can 01 say to th' .gerl. Aly b'y Tammy, little clivil that Ire is, towld me to tell her to get a gud sthrong pair av tongs an' pull thim out be th' roots, ur to howld her face over II well an' let thim fall aff into th' wather, but sure an' that's only foonin'an' ger) id think Oi was a fool aff Oi wrote her anny such thing as that. Upon me wurrud 01 don't know fwhat to say an OM say, nothiffi at all, except to remark that freckles is trickles Dal they'll SlItiOlt to thim that's got thim worse than flays to an outeasht dog. Don't ye think Offin roight, Mrs. Ale- Olaggerty , The "Night Air" Superstition, The prejudice which exists among, per - trona otherwise sensible and intelligent against night air is really remarkable. 'they consider a breath of it while sleeping as something to be carefully guarded against. Yet science has announced and experience justified the fact tha at no time in the twenty•four hours is Ohs air of a crowded city so wholesome anclpure itS after eleven o'clook, •riii$ is specially true, says the New York Times, during the warm spring and summer months, when the setting of Oho sun and the consequent cooling process which the earth immediately begins sends off vapors ancl exhalations in 0101501115 51100. tities. After two or three hours the atmos- phere is rid Of its impurities and clear to a noticeable degree. This air should come into our eloping rooms copionsly, not in a direot draught upon the bed, but for free circulation through the apartment. Happily now.eocloys most private houses are built with transoms to the bedrooms, and it is easy to set the air inoving. Such, however, as aro obliged to occopy a one -windowed eleepinproom without a transom will find good air aim -dation got by lowering the window from the top and raising it front the bottom. The ventilation of the sick.room is another subject in which meet people have not advanced from she 'Ail...fashioned notion that air direct from the outer atmosphere is to be avoided. A trained nurse will tell you that she fights this obstinately clung.to tenet in nine families out of ten to which she goes, Yet who so much needs the vitality and strength.giving qualities of fresh air as a patient struggling with disease? 10 was refreshing to encounter a sensible mother the other clay who has recently brought her two boys through searletlever, and hear her tell how every two or throe hors elle cov- ered them up, leaving just breathing space, and filled the room with fresh air, It was doubtless MI important factor in their easy eonvalescenee and entire freedom from the too -often serious aftermath of this dread diocese, The Jewish persecution Is extending to all foreigiters in Russia, especially to Ger, intens, Poles, and Tartars, The Senaputti who took an active partiet the recent Manipur outbreak lies been founel. guilty of rebelling against the Empress of India and of abetting the massacre of Mid Commissioner Quinton, hes boo ondemned to be hanged,