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CHAPTER VI.--aaontintuid, hie brow, whilehis teeth chattered.
"Tlee moment tee WWII I bad waited At the sight X leaned my back against
the door and 'aligned loud and long.
oea leant had it last came. I had WY / had alwaya known that -vengeance
*""alea within mar Power. Iragctirez. would be foveae but had never hoped
they could: protect vole other, but for the contentment of soul winch now
sittile they were at my mercy. / din „messed me.
not aet, however, with undue precdpittie "Youdoe X sad'X bane Waited
41.011iMv Plana were alreadar tarmad" you from Salt Lake C,
There Is no satiation= in vengeance
unleee tho offender has time to realize burg. and you have always escaped me.
New at laet your wanderings bya
:Who At is that strikes nim, and why a
antrIbution had Oortte upon iaim. had come to an end, for either you or I
MY Plane arrengea by Whiolt I should
I null never pee tonsiorrown. tom rise.'
'nave the opportunity Of making the He shrunk still further away as I
aPWleand 1 e
an who had wronged. me understand ' d` lY1414 fiee C)11: his faaa that
tis old sin had found him out. he thought I was med. So I was, for
hat h
It °named time amen days before a the time, (The pulses in My temples
beat like eledgeeheimmeraa and I he -
gentleman who had been engaged in
414140 aver' some houses in the Brix- Irt° it twXYabe bildoohrheadhatatgfuisthed -arm:
ton Roan had dropped the key of one
my nose and relieved me.
Of them In me carriage. It was claim-
"'What do you think of Luoy
4d that same evening and returned; . tho ineorma e hadtakena Ferrier nowt' I cried, locking the door
but in
molding; of it, and had a tduplicate con- and shaking the key in hie face. 'Pun-
molding.
By means ,,, ishment has been slow in coming, but
struoted. aspothttatini tris it hats overtaken you at lase.' I saw
access to ea legit one
7 . groat ofa3, where I 00*a rely lab= has coward lips tremble as I spoke. he
e lation. ;law to would have begged for his life, but he
ing free from interre
knew well that it was useless.
niDrebber to that house was the
"Would you ,rourrler men he stam-
ftioult-peoblem which I .had now to were& .
' "Iva'e — . "'There is no murder,' I answered.
. "Ho walked \down the road and went
'into one or two liquor shops. staying 'Who talks of murdering a mad clog?
What Mercy had You upon me Poor
for nearly half . an how in the his walk. end wasevidently
la:t
of them. When be mune out aenta e ,darling when you. dragged her from
' ,gered lan her slaughtered father and bore her
to your accursed and snaeless
away tin
e: ' petty well. on. nem was a haaama harend.
• just i
X followed, it so close then the nose 02 - 'It was not X who killed her father,
• . in ta rent of -nee and he hailed it. ,,,
he cried. • •
anY home was within a yard ofhis
' . driver the Whole way, Wo rattled •'led 'But it was you Who broke her in-
aoross Waterloe Bridge and through . nocent heart,' I & judge between us. hoose and eat.
ricked,. thrusting the
e ,. miles of streets, 'until, to ronstonis - b" heft° him. Lot the bigh God
Meat, we found oueselves bane fanebe C
terrace in which he had boarded,. a There is aleath in one a,nd life in the
imagine what his iritention Mixer. I shall • take what you leave.
a could not i
• ; ' went on Let us see if there is justice upon the
was in returning there; but I
ma cab aihund
tinned nii eed yards exiath, or if we are ruled key °hence.
and '
or so from the house. He entered Lt Ile cowered away with wild cries
and prayers foe retiree, but I drew nay
and his 'hansom drove away, Give Me knife and held elt to his throat until
ity te fit Patera -
a glass of water, if you please, My
• mouth gets dry with the talking."
• I handed him the glass and he drank
it "town. ' - . •
"frilat's better," he said: "Well,' I
waited net a quarter Of an hour or
_more, when suddenly there came a
noise like people struggling inside tne
house: Next • Moment Jae • 'door was
flung open and two Men- appeared. one
of vehotco was Dreaber, and the other
WilEI a young °Imp wh'inet I .had. never
' seen liefore, /This fellow had Drebber
.13a the collar, and when they came to
the bead of the 'steps he gave him
a shove and a kick which sent him
half ttereed the road. 'You houndl' he
cried, shaking his stick et.. nim,
• teach• you; to insult an honest girl!
• He. was se hot thAt I think he would
have threshed Drebber with his cudgel,
only that the cut stengeted away down
- the road as fast as his elegs would
' • carry him. Be rein as far as the corn -
e1, and then, seeing MY cans he llagnila
• me. and jutoped in.. 'Drive Me to
Healiday's Private. Hotel,. said he. .
"When. I. bad leire fairly inside my.
cab my heart jumped so with joy
thati-I feared lest at. this last moment
my aneurism might go•wroragon drove
along slowly, weighing in My own mind
er at it was best to do.. I minat take
T1 right out in the country, andthere
some deserted...limo oave.•no hist
e -view with nen. I bad almost -de-
cided upon; this, when he solved the
problem for me. Xhe craze for drink
had •seized him again, and he •ordered
ma to pull up ,:outside a gin palace. Ile
went in leaving word that I should
wait for him. There he remeined un it
lapsing time, and wient he came nt
he was so far. gime that I k v the
game was in ray ownaltarittsaa.
"Won't imagine that -1 intended
kill him in cold Woad. It Would only
halm been rigid .justioe if I had done
so, bee I could not bring myself to do
it. I had, long determined that he
• should have a shoat for biti life if .he
obose to take advantage of it. Annan;
the Many nillets which I have filled
in America. during my waadering ate,
I wan cinoe a janitor and sweeper -out
of the laboratory at York College. One
day the professor MIS lecturing on
poisons, and he showed Ins students
some alkaloid, as he called it, which
he had extracted from some South
American amity' nelson, and which was
so powerful that the least grain meant
instant detain' I saotteal the bottle in
width this preparation was kept, and
when they were all ge.ois heaped my -
egad to a little of it. I was a fairly
good dispenser, so I Worked this alka-
loid into small, soluble pills, and each
pitl I pun in a bon with a similar pill
made without - poison: I determined at
the time that, when I hadi my chance,
my gentlemen should' • each have a
dm* out, of • one of these boxes, while
I eat -tho pill that remeinect. Itwohld
be quite as dea,dly, and a good deal
less noisy than firing across a hand-
kerchief. From that do I had a -
Imo mq pill -boxes about with me,
and tbe time bet4 now come when I
was to else them.
"It •was nearer ons than twelve, and
a avild, bleak night, blowing hard and
raining in torrents: Dismal as was
outside, I was glad within -no glad
that X could have shouted out from
pure exultation. If 'any of you gentle-
men have ever pined for a thing end
longed e for it, during twenty long
Years, and then ouddenly found it
within your neach, you would under-
stand my feelings. I lighted a cigar
and puffed at it to steady my nerves,
' but roy hands were trenibling, and my
•
be. had .obeyed me. Then I swallc,,ved
the other, and we stood faeing each
other in eilence for a Minute or more,
waiting to see wIncin was to live and
'which was to die. Shall I ever forgot
the look which ciente over his face When
tho first warning pangs told nim that
the • :poison. • was in his . system
I laughed ' as I saw' it, and.
held Lecy's tparrage-ring_ itt front of
his eyes, • It was but for a moment,
for the action of the alkaloid is rapid.
A tspaern of pain contorted his feetures;
be threw his hands out in front of fain,
staggered, and then, with a hoarse co,
fell heavily' upon the floor. I turned
him Over' With'my foot and placed My
bold upon his heart. There was, no.
movement. He was dead 1 ,
"The blood had been streaming. from
My nose, but I had taken no notice of
it. I don't knew whet it was that put
it Into inY head to .write expon the wall
with it: Perhaps it Iva solito
mis-
ohievous idea of setting the,police up-
on a wrong track, for I felt • light-
hearted and .cheerful. X remembered a
German being found in New York with
Bache writtenup above him, and it
was argued at the tone in the 'news-
PaPere that the secret societies must
.neve done it. X guessed that What
puezled the New :Yorkers would puzzle
the Londoners, so a•dippect ray finger
tn ion' own blood and printed it on d
convenient place on tift wall. k Then I
Walked down to My 'cab and found
thdt there was nobody about, and that
the might was still very wild. I had
driven some diatanee, when I put MY
/tuna lino the pocket in which I usually
kept Lucy's raw, tted found that it was
not there. • I' was thunder -stem); at
this, for it was the only memento that
I had of -her. Thinking that I might
have dropped it when 1 stopped over
Drebbern hely, I drove intake ,and
leaving my cab in a side street; I went
boldly up to the house -for I• was ready
to thine anything.rather than losethe
ring. When I arrived there I 'Walked
reghtetntce the' arms eg a pollee officer
evlati was coming out, and only managed.
to disarm his suspiolons by pretending
to be hopelessly drunk,
"That was how-En.och Drebber cant
to his end. All I had to do then wixs
to de as ratteh for Stangerson, and so
pay off .nohn Ferelens debt. I knew
that he was staying. at, 113.1liday's Pri-
vate Hotel, and I:hung about tilt day,
but tile never came out. X fancy that
he suspected something 'when Dx•ehber,
failed to put in an appearanee, He
was cunning, was Stangetsone and al-
ways on 'his guard, ' If he thought he
mend keep Me off by staying in -doors
he was very much mistaken. I soon
found out whichwas the window of his
bedroom, and early next miming I
took advantage of tome ladders which
were lying in the lane behind the hotel,
and go made my way into his room in
the gray of the dawn. 1 evoke him up,
and told )31ra that the hour had come
when he was to answer for thelife he
had taken so long before. I described
Drebbern death to haat, and I gave
lam the same choice of the poisoned
pals. Instead of grasping at the
chance of safety. wheel that „offered
him, he sprung from his bed teed flew
at my throat. In self-defense I :nab-
bed him to the heart. It would have
been the same in ane case, for Provi-
dence would never allow • his guilty
band to pick out .anything but the
Thave little more to say, and it's
as well, for I am about done up. I went
on cabbito it for a day or an intend-
ing to keep at le until 1 could save
enough to take me back to A.merioa.
I Was standing in , the yard when it
.",•
day tlie priaoner will be brought be.
fore the mainetraten analifenr attelle
Will be reepensib e tor him."
dance will be nuked,. ntil Unlit
iRe rang the bell an be Voice and
nefferson Hope was led by %couple of
warders, while my friend and, I Made
our way out albs station and. took a
eel) back to Baker Street. ,
(To be Continued.) 0
temples throbbing with excitement. ragged youngster asked if there was a
ins I drove, 1 weld see old seen Feeney cabby there called Jefferson Hope, and
and sweet Lucy looking at me out of said that this cab was wanted be a
the darknese and smiling at me, just gentleman at ur 13 Baker Street. I
as plain as I see yoe. an in this room. went round, suspecting no harm, and
All the way they were ahead df Me, the next thing I know, this young
one on with sides Of the horse, anal T -man here had tlw braceleta on ray
pulled up at the house in the Brixton wrists, and as neatly Mantled as evert
. Road. was in my Us. That's the whine of
"There was not a abut to be teen, my story, gentlemen. You may can-
ner a sound to be heard, except tint alder ma to be a murderer; but
dripping of the rain. Whed I looked hold: that I am just as much an offic-
in at the window, 1 found Drebber all et' of justice as youare."
huddled together in a drunken sleep. So thrilling lute the man's narrative
shook bim by the. ant, 'It's liMe been, and his manner was so 'meres-
t° go bun' I said. el ns, that we had sat silent and absorb -
'All right, cabby,' said he, ed, Even the professional detectives,
• "I suppose he thought, we had. come blase as they were in every detail of
to the hotel that he had mentioned, melte, appeared to be keenly interest -
for he got out without another word ad in the man's story. When he fin -
Mat feIlOWed me devil the 01'4104 1 ished we sat for some minutes in a
to walk beside him teakeett him stillness which was only broken by the
steady, "for he wasnitill a little toil- eeratehing of Lestrade's penal ail he
• heavy. Where we came to the door I gave the finishing touches to his
Opened. it and led hint into the front shoranadd account,
tootteelegitte you My word that, ell "There is only one point on which I
the 'Way, the father and daughter thould like a Mt% more information,"
. Were walking in freed of tui, Sherlock Hohnia said et last. "Who
"'It's infernally dark a saki he, was youx,s.coomplica who eaMe for the
stamping about. ring which 2 adsterneed?"
"gaire'll, soon heve ta litabta J maid, Tile prisoner winked at my friend
ettiking a nieteh and putting t to a jotiosely.
Winannildie Which •T heti
With Me. 'Now, &Loch Dre
continued, turning to him, and he
the light to My own fade, 'who
Dr
gazed at ma with bleat* 1. friend voltinteered W go and see. X
drunken eyes for a Moment, and thee tbihk OWn. be did it enmity,"
I ease a terror spring opt in them and "Not.a doubt of than" said Holmes,
etnividsti his peen features, whitili heartily.
Ishouts,1 mu that ha knew sne. Re "Now, gentlemen," tha inspector re.
/staggered back With livid We, and marked, gravely, "the forms of the
flato, tho petispfmtieut break out! upon. Jaw malt be Complied With, On There.
rough( "I can tell my own secrete," he said,
era I - "but I tion't get other people into
mg trouble. 1 60,W your advertisement,
nt and 2 thought it might beit plant, or it
might be the ring I wanted. • My
• ok
•
. •have euteenit. co.untra, ntop evitia
fe ly tills 111 Vi p
,s in. a town On the emit bank ot the
' • YIlle Jailor Imo about 10,000 people. It
olly ra. at Villa „Viler. and look at it.
MMI,IT•101
,Paraguay Raver, a day or so's ride bee
Asunelon, December On 1898e-Paran
guay is tho extradite) of &Mtn Arnerioa,
te olimate is delightful, its semietropi.
al vegetation as luxuriant as that 41
he Garden of Eden, and, it bas about
bree Eves to every Adam. I have
never been in a country where ther#
are so many women. They swarm,
They trot by tbe eoores through the •
streeta of the .cities, They walk by
youeand with. you on the highways and
byways, and they are so many that
you find it hard to get out of their
eight, says a letter fora Asuncion,
Paraguay. •
The women of Paraguay are ao much
In the majority that they no the work4
of the country. They are the burgs
and ostlers of • every community, and
outside the cities • thia men are tie
drains. Any bachelor oar& find et
wife in Paraguay if he wants one, for
the men are 'now so few abet any two -
legged animal without, feathers Of the
masculine gender will here be greedily
grabbed. Theeaexes were emote about
equally divided, but Paraguay lead a
war 'whieln killed off the men. Para-
guay Was 'oxice 'the leading country of
this part et the world. It was about
thr richest 4 all Seuth. America, and
its wealth and irdluenoe angered the
people _o. Argentine, Uruguay and
Brazil.. Tiny combinen against it and
their joint army attked the Para-
guayans. The struggle lasted ftve
years, but it ended in the wiping out
as it were, of the Paraguayan Men, It
is said that 100,000 of them died in bat-
tle, and. that thousands of women ited
oltildren-vvere starved to death.
• It Is hard to get accurate figures in
any South Imerican country, but,
cording to the best estimates, the
population of Paraguay_was cut down
by tine veer so that there was only one
mat tp six Women; while another sta-
tistitian gives italluit three-fourths of
all the neople in Paraguay, numbering
abaut 800,000, were destroyed. When
the waj_cncted then:ewer° only 200,000
left, of wham neciut 25,000 were mein
and e06,000awerA women over 15 years
ot age. Theerest were Children. ,Parci-
guay thus beceinie land of women,
and nature seems to be keeping it so;
low Asunelen. As the etearaer stove
at the tainting we notice that every
garden has Ito orange tree and that
suoh. trees ameba the areas, We
See Mc °arta corning in from the orch-
ards cracking under their golden loads,
500
piled loosely within it like so many
potatoes. The driver direots his ox-
en to the piles onoraugee on the banks.
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LANGUAGES OP THE PHILIPPINES t
• E00400
By 'Whom lased and Me Existing leinintles
ter eitudyleir Them.
The opening of the Philippines must
sooner Or later, cell tho attention °a
the Bible societies to the language
aspou:uloen40:bthy"tbeekidiaitiderLentTtteibletTgaUreagases
Calannein evoke°, by 5,000 inhabit-
ants of the Calaunanes group," north
02 Palawan: , • , •
• Ibanag, olaimed to be wed by tiOn
000 people, ta.the provinees of Cagayan
and Isabela, in the island of Luzon, and
in the Brawn group, between Luzon
and Femme. There exists it gram -
Um Bible societies to the languages
preparedby Jane Maxia Fallen° de
Owes. "Arte Nuevo de la Lengua
Ibanaga• second edition. Manila, 1854,
Zambal,spoken by about 75,000.in the
province of Zaziabaleas, northwest of the
island of Luzon.
Piempango, 'spoken by about 200,000.
in aPampanga, mirth of Manila. A
granonar for the study ofthis leg -
gunge, "Arte do la. League, Pampan-
.
ga, compuerato par Diego B,ergano,"
was already pealished in 1786.
.Pangasinan, imeneit by about 800,000
people, blithe province of Pangasinari,
oa the northwest of the island of Luz-.
on. Into this language, the first of the
languages of the Philippines, tae Neel-
Zestament haa been translated by the
ananinican Friar Alonso Lallave, and
the Gospels and the Acts, together
with one of John's Epistles, were pub-
Ilished in '1887 by the British and For-
eign Bible Society. ,
• Vicol, or ' Ribol, is spoken by • 0125,-
CO3 throughout the southern portion of
Luzon. A graminar, "Arte de la Len-
gua Bicol par it Ensenanea de este
idiom en ia Prevencia Camarines,"
was published in 1795. A translation
of the. Gospel cf Luke into the Viaol
language is now in the press. -
Ito= is. need by about 800,000 along
the northwest coast .ot the island of
Luzon and has been -especially studied,
as MO be inferred .from the "Com-
pendio y Method.) de 'las:Sum/a ne. las
Reglas•del Ante del Ydionia Ylooanoaa.
ocanposed by Fray Premise° Lopez,
1792; froM tbe."Votabelario de la Ina-
gua Ileoana, trabajado Pro various,Re-
iigiceos del Orden. de N. P. S. Augus-
tin, 4849 ;" ppm the "Grienniatice Hise.
pano-Ilotanti, coMpuesto pro el R.. P.
• Fr. Jose Naves,' 1.876. A translation
cie the Gospel ef Luke into than lan-
guage is nowbeing prepared. .•
Cebuan, 'spawn by . about 500,000 in
thensiana of Cebu, and in a part of
'Negri:ate ',In the latter island there
is also en . aboriginal- dialect celled
Panayan,,but it is neatly giving way
to the.Clebusee. Who Cebuan May! be.
learned from "Arte de la Interne Ze-
.buana," 1886,' For Panayan, Raymund!)
Lozano Prepared "Oursos de Lengua
Panayana," 1876.,
Tagalog; spoken by 1,500,000; is 7 the
peedonainarit language of the Philip-
pines, andis. the thief language of
Menila. For the study of that 'lane
guatige there exist: "Lecionos de Gtant-
mance Hispano-Tagala," by nese Maria
CamPornanes, ]873;'ataoseabularlo de le
Lengua Tagela, .prineerapy secunda
parte," .1885; "Vocabulario' de la Lan-
gua Tagaia," 1860.; "Arte de In Longue;
✓ Manual Tagalog," 1860, The Gos-
pels of Lerre and Mark in tbis language
have already been published by the
British and lineeign Bible Society; and
the Gospel -of Matthew as in the press.
Don Priequele H. Poblete„ a Philippine
exile, and formerly:editor of a Tagalo
newspaper, is tOe- translator. Aneth-
er languages . is Visayan, sleeken • by
about 2,000,000; and is conemen to naost
of the central portion of the archipe-
lago. For the knowledge and study
of the Visayan, or Bisaya, there exist:
"Diceionario Bisaya-Espanol y Espanol-
Pizarli" 1851-52; "Diecionaio de la Len-
gua Bisaya, Hiliguelna y Ila,raya de la
Isla de Panay." 1811; "Metoao del Dr.
011endorff por .apprender a leer, habla
yescribir ,an idioma culaqUiera athipt-
ado al Bisaya," 1871 n"Arte de lei Len-
gua Bisaya, Hiliguayna de la Isla de
Panay;" 1878..
EARLY CLOSING IlitIONDON.
a
A irroparsitian le isiterrere Wish s reranit-
/ tient Local canon,.
"The malt who writes to the Times"'
is not only an entity in London but is
also a pictorial personage -the theme
of the artist, the essayist, the novel
writer and the drawl:tine The sage
advioe of the Persian "Oolaha to Ids
patrons, 'net your troubles boil with-
in," baa little neeoguition in usage
ameng dissatisfied Englishmen who
find a, teniporary outlet, at least, for
a few of theie minor grievances in tete
• ters sent to Loridon daily papers. dust
now seine controversy has arisen in
Loadon as to the expediency of the ex,
kiting regulations, strictly enforced by
the pollee, for the closing at the hour
ot !midnight of public houses maintain-
ed for the refreshment of hungry and
thirsty Men. One such cortespondent
has been .writing to a London paper
on the subject, and hla eoramunication,
a characteristic one,is as follows
"1 am not a wine-bibber nor given
to riotous living in the small bouts.
But / want to know how much longer
the peaceful Londoner win. subreat to
the absurd, reguladtion which denies
him food at a restaurant after 12
o'clock on Saturday night. Why
should he not be left to eat his supper
at half -past 12, as on teller nights.? It
is not a question of deink, sir. An
American writer says our climate is
fatal without whiskey,. 'Two drinks a
day or you die.' No, sir, it is arbitrary ,
interruption of a man's supper Cry!
Saturdays that is killing off the Popu-
lation, And for what reason of State,
graeiotts powers? I am a moderate
consulter oe oysters, with it chop and
an omelet to follow, and thie conferee
of mind itt between Why is all tine
to be suspeeded at midnight and toy
digestion turned into the street t Prey
uneven Me that,"
Ni, satistadoen answer has been glen
en to thia inquiring Englishmen and to
other hnttar eorreepondents who
have been invited "to send. a I;etition
to Parliament" an the Battiest and imf.
• net way Locating the tonla front which
they ootoplain,
baeirsdhie cart op,to there and durapa
out the fruit just as our workmen
dump dirt when repairing the roads.
Oranges are indeed worth little more
than dirt here. That whole cart full
will sell foe $5, antt we can buy 0.11.we
want for 2e.
And etill every orange is counted,
Those women on their knees are put-
ting the fruit into the baskets. ThinY
coukneta.0 they vvork and a careful tally
ispt
The oranges are carried. on board by
women who balance their loads on
their heads and walk over a gangviray,
to the steamer. There are a hundred
women at this work now, andethe ship
is already so loaded with oranges that
a wire netting has been etretched
around. the outside like a fence and
the fruit piled up within. The deck
ia so filled with oranges,- in fact, that
the sailors are moving about on boarns,
win.* have been nailed, up above it, •
Stop and take a look at the girls.
They are passing to and from the bank
over that roadway of boards 500 feet
long, which has been builtb upon trest-
les out to the steamers. • Eachhas a
round. basket carefully 'poised on .her
heads. and above these the golden- or-
anges xise." The girls are •dressed in
white gems, and. the breeze which
sweeps up theriver wraps their thin
skirts about their lithe tones. And
still tney walk without touching their
burdens and the shaking of the planks
anddist utrhbe tbhreeme Anne the river do not
As you look _you cannot help, but ad-
mire the typtcal Paraguayan maid-
en. She is so well formed and she
walks like 'a goddess. • When. young
she is as plump as a partridge in aut-
umn, and were it not for some of her
ways you might fall in love. .
To a stranger her attractiveness is
spoiled by the use of tobacco., The
Paraguayan maiden smokes like a
chimney. She begins to use..tobacco
when she begins to wear dresses, and
even before, for you may see naked
guns of 6, '8, end 1.0 with cigars in
their mouths. I have seen scores of lit-
tle girls of 7 and 8 smoking cigars al-
most as.big around as their wrists, and
as to old women, it is hard no find
one out in the country who does. not
smoke from morning till night. I
speak of course, ot the women of the
common , people. Those who are net
actuallysmoking have cigars between
their teeth, which they crew without
lighting for hours at a time. Many
make their own cigars, and tobacco is
so cheap here that you can get a dozen
•fairly good , cigars for 50. and leaf to -
beam is sold for a few 'cents apounae
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. AitTIFICIAL GEMS.
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. Is it. to be wondered At that women
who. possess magnificent gems are hav-
ing them copied in artificial stones?
asiterthe.Lonilon Daily Mail. The more
noted. a woman is for ' the heirlooms
and splendid -gedagaws. she possess-
es the more certain ehe is to becorae
the murkofdie light-fingered gentry
who spend their time hunting down
• wel boxes' and lurking around iail-
way is a
very large fifmandfor artificial jew-
eller) nowadays: • '
So exquisite ,are the imitation dia-
monds, relates, pearls, emeralds, and
the other gems produced, and so pet -
feet their setting, tOet, even experts
are set . -a hard task whim asked to
determine their genuineness- off -hand.
The average jeweller; let alone the
layman, is quite unable, without the
.aid of cheraioaln to distinguish the
false Anne the true. '
Among -the Most nitrioult stones to
uf drgetLaornee an LP aPtilwA ia.eyss. mi e e ixna mthei naotpioenn
air, as indeed is the ease with many
gems, and only at a particular hour
and under particular atmospheric con-
ditions, all of course regulated 'by' the
amount, direction, and quatity of the
light. • '. ' .
The afternoon of a cloudy day is
the usual time chosen. Diamonds are
not so difficult to judge as some oth-
er gems. There are some simple tests
which may generally be relied upon.
One of them has been given thus:
Teke a card and bore a small round
hole in it, and then look at th bole
through the atone: 'If the diamo d be
.faleeYOu will see two holes; if 't be
genuine, only one. Again, 'put
finger on the other aide of the gene
and look through it. If you can see the
grain of the skin your diamond is az--
tingle!, otherwise it is gentling.. Of
course these tests are not absolutely
infallible with the best -made modern
counterfeits, but they will guide you
to the truth in ninety-nine oases out
of a•hundred. Still.it Must alwaye be
remembered that artificial jewels are
being improved every day, and, conse-
quently rendered more difficult to de-
tect
Some of dame sham stones are vera
costly, .and their settings are asgood
In every way as those bestowed on the
rent gems, If they were not the dif-
ference would invite eueipieion. In many
cases setts tire made up of genuine and
false stones mixed. It is no uncom-
mon thitg to see an ornament,
consisting of a large artificial dia-
ianuobnidmaartounded by small genuine
It ia not by any means therefore in
all cases to be assumed thenthe wear-
ing of Wee jewelleryis- an evidences
of vulgarity. On the contrary, tht
game worn by a woman of limited
means are more likely to be' genuine
than which adorn her wealthier
sister.
A poor woman dare not appear be-
decked with a magnificent tiara of
false dianionds, for every one Would
know at once that they were only imi-
tatiotten With (he wife of a million-
aire it is different. The public; know
that she can afford real gems, and
consequently do not question the gen-
uineness of those whieh she may be
pleased to wear, and these are very
frequently false. Few women care to
run the risk of having their valuable
jewellery stolen, so wear the counter -
felt. in public, while the genuine re-
poses in safety in the bank.
wele Mob 'bave be
handed down from generation, to gen-
eration, aro most °knely and secretly
guarded. Their value in enhanced by
historie damnation, and, they are not
taken from the safe half it desist tinatie
in a gentratiOn. But,theYate tented
faithfully, and in this otisie frequent.
publfs.
Since. the war' I am told, that more
girls have been born every year than
boys. In Asuncion the girl births
exceed the boy births by more
than five to the hundred, and outside
the city the percentage of girl bahles,
is greater.
The moat of the women of Paraguay
are poor. Many of them eke hewers
of wood and drawers of water; but
there axd some who are erica. -There
are . claim distinctions here as every-
where, and the people of the better
classes dress and act much the same as
those of other parts of the continent.
Paraguay high-class ladies wear clothes
not unlike those of our owngirls. They
wear bonnets or hats when out on the
• streets anaghtefewaof them actually. im-
port dresses trona -Paean- eeThey speak
Semi:den .wlein in' society -at when
on dress parade -and some are
educated that they are able to read
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both English' and French. Such wo-
men are usuallyinterested. in politics,
and through their husbands, •have much
influence, neon what is done by
the government' They are good
housekeepers, excellent iviven.ena
are, I may say, the equals of their ' sis-
ters of any part of this continent.
Many et the Paraguay women are
very good looking. This is soof all
classes, and'espeoially so•of the young.
A Paraguayan maiden le a trifle un-
der middle, height. 8116 is as straight
as an arrow and'as limbs* as a Willow -
tree branoh, though inclined to be vol-
uptuous in form. Her complexion is
of the Jersey cream order -often of the
reddish brown of the Guarani Indians.
She has, as a rule) ;ziore or line Indian
blood in her veins. • When the Span-
iards came here this country was inhab-
ited by the gentle and semi -civilized
Guaranis. The two races intermix..
tied. Their descendants took wives
from tile same tribes, so that to -day
there are comparatively feW Paraguay-
ans who tutve not a large proportion of
Guarani blood. The Indian mixture
has resulted in the adoption of many
Indian . customs, and the language
most spoken by the people to -day is
the Guarani. In the country districts
little nise is used, andea the solutols
of • Asuncion there area hotices on the
walls that scholars must not speak
Guarani , during school hours. The
Guarani is a soft language and the
Paraguayan girls have sweet voices.
Indeed their tones fall softly on no
ears after the parrot -like accent which
has sawed my tympanum during my
association with tbeir Argentine sis-
ters.
One of •the chief industries of the
Paraguayan women is lace-making:It
is true that the lower elassee do .all
kinds of work, but all the women make
beautiful lace. They spin webs as
delicately' as though they were spiders
and every house 18 is full of beautiful
cobwebs neede by its women. They
make lime handkerchiefs, inches and
embroideries and weave great ham -
hooks of thread so tine and SO strong
that they will outlast a generation.
They have patterns of their own which
they have taken from nature. One of
the most beautiful is anted the cob-
web pattern, the threads of 'which are
as delicately joined as though mule by
one of the big spiders winch live here
in the senintropios. SOMft of aeon
handkerchiefs are of silk, other§ of
linen and some of tho fiber grown in
the country. 'It takes a long time to
weave them, but tbere•are so many at
work that they are wonderfully cheap,
so that an article upon which a month
or so has beenspent cati be bought
for $5 and upwrird of our money. A
good hatardock will cost you $10 and a
lace shawl perhaps twice that amount.
Paraguay is a land of oranges. It is
perhaps tins only Week in the world,
here the- oranges grow wild. There
are oranges in every thicket and in al-
most every forest, • The villages are
built in orange, groyne and there are
iio many oranges that they often rot
on the ground. The fruit is delicious.'
It le the beat I believe of its kind in
tho world. It ts oaten by every one, and
the orange gbh) are among the pie-
tureaque features of Paraguay. you
meet women peddling oranges at the
stations. You find them surrounded
by piles of golden Unit in every mar-
ket, and along the Paraguay River
they are to be seen carrying oranges
frera the /and to the boats which are
to take them to the markets of the
South. It is estimated that 60,000,000
oranges are thuo annually shipped
down the Paraguay Itiver to Buenos
Ayres, and the loading of this fruit is
ene of the great sight of t voyage.
As We table Up te sun, •11 We saw
at every town mounta 'oranges on
the shores with hundre.s of Paraguay
girls kneeling before, them and put.
ting them, Ifi bistikete, while other
hundreds were carrying them on to the
theamere. . -
The iteelle is WM that you Can not
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NEW Piall1till10/11L.
On adtiould of the senility of raw
material for the paper srillits of golland
they now use the Stalks of the potato
- plant, witith min be bought of the
, feriae* for SO Miate per tOse•
A SURE TII/NG.
aim 70y 'air -Good morning, Mr„
i<eane, I want to run in and see your
wife. Is she at hornet '
Mr. Par Xetine Yes. She'll be at
home all day. When r left she wale
trying to mako up her mind to go out
and kayo a toOth
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SDRP SLIDING IN HAWAIL
11.7,4
arnideut or the geillidgeace et
noel Dames in the Sport
Tim old Peantioe of eurt eliding,
"bee-nalu," 'upon suet hoards, was
magnificent Wert, Baas a writer. It
haii fallen almost entirely into *moo
since forty years ago, when horses be.
came numerous and cheap. Before
that date I used frequently -to see It
at Lamm, as well as earlier at
Hallam. I believe some adepts still
peactioe it at Hilo. Tbe board used in.
san sliding Is from live to eight feet
long and tea to fifteen inohee end%
rouuded at the ends and sha,rpieh itt
tbe edges, very Match like a paper cut.
tor. The rider wiring eat with the
board ureter one sem, diving under the -
rollers until outside whero the surf is
just/beginning to break, There, by an
adroit movement, he etretohes himself
upon the board just in front of a big
roller, at the eame time violently ply-
ing anis and legs to "get it move on,"
while the roller lifts him rfrom behind.
Once in motion.the wave does the rest,
although great stein le needed to keep
the boded poised precisely at the pro-
per .height • and inclinatibn upon OM
front of ,the violently breaking roller.
The riders will tbus shoot several hun-
dred yards totheshore. '
By, early and long ,practice great
skill was attained in this inert. The
more expert would often rise to it
standing posture, fbalaecing their
boards by their feet at the right point
on the wave. I -can renaember in early
boyhood daily vvatehing from MY home
through the steins ot the lofty cocoa,
palms, scores of natives flying in to-
gether in the white, roaring surf. Some
were prone, ethers crouching on their
boards, and some standing, erect. Both
sexes pa.rticipated, and modesty was
Much at a discount, exoept when the
venerated miselonary was in sight. The
Males ware the malo or breech girdle
when diverting thus in our neighbor-
hood; The females did not stand: up
on their beards.
Customs in those early days were
Aecadien, At about 1824 the writer's
young mother at 'Intilua, Once received
in her thatched cottage a morning call
frau); it bevy of royal dames with their
attendants, all fresh from surf play.
The maidens tarried the garments
while their mietresses stalked into the
missionary's parlor in stately simpli-
city and proceeded to dreas. All that
was utterly innotetit, and so in a per-
tain sense.was the nearly entire marea
straint of domestic morals in those
early days. TO infuse setae degree of
oonsotepoe on .that point has been alto-
gether the most ,diffeetilt part of .the
missionary's task in Hawaii.To most
of the Ten Commendmente the Hawai-
ian was easily.amemable. But the im-
portance of the eleventh am not read-
ily come home to him.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ,
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Hope is the dream eemen, has When
awake. . . • .
aVhat is settee for one May make a
goose • of another
Theatrical angels rush in where. Wise
men leax to tread. •
When it man reaches the end Of his
metatarsi ha is pawn -broke.
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kinds of forgotten things.
Only those on 1 he lower Art of
the wheel are ia favor of royale-
TALES °PRUSSIAN FAI111111
nen
AFFECTED AREA INOLUIAS THE
BLACK EARTH ZONE,
It is only nevi that the truth about
the terrible faunae wbioh for many
works has afflicted the beet part of
EheuAljettoutaind?wwolarlida
t.
footed is bounded on the wet by •the
Volga and on the west by an laaalein-
are line drawn from Moscow to Kiev,
wlikaa la the extreanest • southern
•Putatirneiltretheurchas
flt It
ia fasA
iYx°ar babletrholt
thecinein
angel, though it le very difficult to,
obtain ,reliable infornra.tion with xvie
• te dietriots north of Mini;
goNov-
coiroodThea
bra. ted
taaofece
icfe:alrertilazonsa i,nowlhuiodthueswasie
oticeseesk'fa:pmt eussamferzkraitte f:ra:ialtiotyft,.aarenwaeolliaa:
the great grain distrans of the PrOr.,
ftWilita NVAS last visited by a, farina,
,in 1691-92, but eince that vexy severe
nisitation there haa been only one ele,
eeptionally good year, and hence the
peasents have notbet able to recover
from thear losses in 1892, when they ,
were, obliged to slaughter 46 per (sent.,
of their horses and cattle for want Of
indeer. Moreceiler, this year- the •
leaden gentry have been affeoted quite
as ra'uoh as the peasantry, and the.
series of bad yeera whioh• they have
gone through has so beeken their re- ,
sources that many of theta are I -
VERGING ON DESTITUTION.
Itt ithe oise of the peasantry 1( 18 /MI.
' ported that thee have been 000nlpelled
to still further reduce the number of
their live stock. ' They ate support,
ing•life on all manner et substitute
for
for bread, :including ena bark tie trees
the thatches from t•he roof e of , their
huts, and even sawdust. Eveay, fifteen
is being made by the. Government tit
prevent . the terrible faots connected
with the sufferings of the people from
leaking out. But the aigereua ehatimion
of the Russian peasant, Count Tolstoi.
has managed to' obtain publicity for -a
few circumstances which are sufficient- •
Ay indicative: of the state of affairs.. Ea
says. that., statistical reseaeches 'baste
shown that the Russian people con-
-
mania, on the whole, 80 per cent. leen a
food than the normal „amount' scmn-
ttficitlly
asaupeety, to be' neceseany for
the inegisitena.nce a health. Ile also
points'totaots Which are calculated
to sheiv that during. the lain twenty • •
years the Men, of the black earth • .
region who have attained the age for
military service have increasingly fail-
ed: to 'gallery the atithorinea of theta .
ll'eople Are uvilug ou ibirk 02 Tress, -The
stme ortioo flountre intlannn and glf
twenty or the People now It.
I .g . •
TVs better to be slow to anger than
it is to be handy with a seven -shoot-.
The mau who bouts .of his superior
brains is seldom able to .furnisb the
proof. - . .
. It's a signal triumph for the weath-
er man When bis predietion happens
to cosine true.
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Always look at your joys with a
microscope, and at your sorrows with
the wrong end ot an opera glass.
•An enterprising alt. Louis mast ex -
pints to make a fortune in Cuba rais-
ing imbrellas during the rainy sea-
son.
Denali. well. enough to say "Know
thyself," Met if soine.people really aid
they ought ta be ashamed ofthe. ac-
queintance.
• The man who succeeds in perfeoting
a exaokeless cigarette will benefit hu-
manity more than all the cigarette
smokers in creatioo. . .
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COLORS OF LAKES;
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• , EXPERT SWIMMERS.
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• Ie the Deah arena a man must be
able to stvim as well as to.fight. :More-
-over, if he la in the caltalry, he must
.have a horse whieh will lake a river
as . easily as it hunter triltes a fence.
elivimming manoeuvres are part ` ot.
Lite regular drill there. Collapsible
canvas boats, manned by a few oars.
Imen, lead the horsen so that they do
not Internet to iand ou stone uaye
' and other difficult points. ' Themen
swim across with their horses andon
them. They do it ia swimming CO:t^
tittle and in eal the aecoutrements of
war. • There are few nautical emer-
gencies for 'Which the Dutch eerily is
not prepared. Smuts of the officers
have sten reaOhed it degree of profi.
eieney that not only their horseS and
Int eross the river with them, but.
their pet dogs sit Amon their shoulders
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and are borne over, almost without.
getting wet. .
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It is well known that the water of
ne lakes exhibits charectetistio col-
ors. The lake of Geneva, rif the west-
ern end of Switzerland, /seinen while
the Lake of Constance, at the eastern
end of Switzerland, is green. Blue-
ness implies purity, since the natural
color of water is Olen A green lake
-has its water !nightly mewled with
innaurities, which may be exceedingly
fine particles, separately invisible.
Prof. Spring, ' of the. University of
Liege, says that green lakes sometimes
become absolutely colorless for it time,
and he has found that this sudden
change of hue is due to thel "Washing
into the lakes of mud -conned red by
oxide of iron. 'Red 18 complementary
to green, and the result of the mix-
ture is that the greee color of the
water becomes for the time being neu-
tralized.
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fitness f.or such service. • Besides, the
census returns provq that, while the
population reached its .maximum rate
of Lam:ease twenty years • ago, ,tbat
alining ever since; until it has at last
touched ,zero, That is to sayethe pope-
lation is at a standstill, and eyeryn :
svieneamiineetlant when a population in .
attaiy. na this stage ItnnaentilitlYenbegins •
tia decline.
.Lost liEs,niaa AND IlOt'it.
Count Tolstoi then Pointe to the aln
pearance of the average Russian peas-
ant of to -day, his emaciated body and •
sunken cheeks, and contrasts the con- •
dition the rural population With '
that of the urban, whose physique, ex-
cept in manufacturing towns, is gen- ••
eraily magnificent. Count Tolstoi
maintains that the people are so polioee
ridden that they have lost heart and
hope, they have no spent and 110
energy, it general apathy has come
over them, and they have become
slothful and gin -sodden.
Count Toistoin pionfre is certainly
not overdrawn. The state of the coun-
try le hopeless and the people know it. '
One of the worst features of agricul-
tural 'tussle is the deforestation of the
country. The whale of Central Rus-
sia Is practically denuded of trees, and
this has' been brought about in a lit-
tle less than fifty years. The district
in which Tourgueniev, the novelist,
and,the personal friend of Wend, used
10 sboot are now absolutely bare.
This deforestation has of neeessity
affected the, entreats and has reduced
the now and rain falls, winch are no-
thng like what:they used to be. Snow
is to Russia what ,the Nile is to -Egypt;
it Le the fertilizer of the lentle in the
days of serfdom, the neasants were
cohmetlect by the landownees to. dam .
up this iniew iri the spring so that it
did not all ran to waste in the rivers,
but to -day these precautions eau do .
longer be enforeed. Leading Russian
agriculturists and etigineers maintain
that the only pos.sible way of .staving
off ruin is ay.the introduetion of some
cosytresen 1, el lorlralegna idtlany' s a ts h n n
f r easi ta0
s' re
tained a good deal of tbe mime even
until Sun% and thus conteibtited to
the humidity of Ithe a•tmosPbere.
LAND TENURE.
But the real cause of the depressed •
conaition of Russian agrioulture in the •
system -of land tenure. The land does
not belong individually to the peasant,
but . collectively to the village. The
villege is responsible for the taxes,
and, hence, one wealthy peantut may
have to pay for the thriftless ones.
The consequence. is that e Benton of
eatery has sprung up, by „Moans of
• which the poorer peasants are abso- •
lutely itt tbe power or their wealthier
and often 'limier/melees neighbors.
The village tomenune is also e sort of
treats union, which 0:tnenforce its
. Unite on the landed gentry; who are a
often in dire straits for labour, the
peasant frequently refusing to „work
for then. The system upon which the
land twee alit:need to the peasants was
also ehtitely :wrens. The peasantry
have it firmly rooted idea that origin-
ally all the land belonged to them;
and that the gentry grabbed it and en -
sieved them'. Hence, .when the serfs
were libereted they thought the landed
gentry should return the stolen lend.
The Goverrinneit, however, only carv-
ed off certain portions of the estates
and allOtted theito nations to the peas,
entry, who had to pay for them by
annual instalmente. The gentry, how. ,
ever were paid at mins and in full by
ailee anivernireent, end immediately got
'rid lat the Money In the approved Puse
sian rwinner, in feasting, Retaining,
etc. Their grievance is that the Gov-
ernment, by giving the peasants hind,
hag depriVed the gentry of Unit
labourers, while the peasants comphiin
that they have not received sufficient
lend. Thia is indeed the ease, so that
Ihri present stare of tiffedra is 'that toe
body is pie/tiled and nearly everybody
.ruined. The estate owner tan get no
labour ; the, peasant bite, not enotigh
land to support hintoeif. Thus ans.
aim is face to face with bankruptcy,.
and anybody who knows the real state:
of affairs in the eountry eon nottloubt;
the sinterity02 Ittuudies deoire for dis..
arraninent.
MAX tiNint GLOVES.
Silk lined tiogskits is the latent thing
in' gloves for winter wear. The silk
; native are eer' gay, being of a fine
• and, pretty plaibt and fitted -in on the
bias. This linifig makes the glove
: warm, and the bias tut makes the
:Arno tit at will as if unlined,
ituseet, navy blue and 'deep green
'tyro the best ewers, end. the Itnings
mire selected to harmonise with the
Asada of the &vet
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