The Signal, 1898-11-10, Page 3T6liT[1Ifl6 THE DEVIL
Weird Ceremonies Among Su-
perstitious Porto Ricans.
III!li WATS OF KILLING SATAN,
pen .tee ine•gee Mutilated sad Dwra.
Ae1d Disorderly Dsaelas - A
Moms* fleet Which Maeledes A11
lewelssetre Wlteberaft sed Veo-
deelam.
Tales of • ourfotts religious seat in Porto
lieu are told by the Her William Max -
.oh, misdates,/ who has spent 16 yeast
s Porto Rloo, aye the New York Press.
Ir. Maxfield wee sent to the Wand by the
'orelgu Mlsdonery society of Ii Meth
DgVIL Italica Ie roue° Rico.
fd Episcopal ehnroh, end as moot of be
irk was among the lower °lamas he be-
me
ese initiated into a elrole that has &l-
ips carefully excluded foreigners.
The sect a known as Chiral'. and tt has
number of peculiar ceremonies, one of
itch is flogging the deviL Tele Is done
rry Frday, that day being set apart es •
7 of worship by the Chime instead of
tndsy. In the seaport towns the o+re-
o ny takes plane on bred fishing smacks
other craft owned by members of the
et and often 1s attended by the entire
gelation of the village. The ceremony
,sally 1s observed at daybreak, the time
hen all business begins 1n Porn Rloo, to
ter to avoid the beat of the sun. After
"efficient crowd is gathered around the
of where the venal is moored the life
Le figure of • man, arrayed is grotesque
anima .uppoeed he represent his meanie
e iest7, le dragged os desk and, amid
r& hisses lad soma, beamed lo the
alarm. Far same time the Ogura is el -
wed to hong; thea N le carried three
nes around the deck of the craft and
tally fastened to the espeten or some
avrnlent post, when the crowd proceed
belabor It with clubs, shrieking and
cling at the top of their voices that they
ice killed the devil. When the clothes
e cut Into shreds, the figure entirely 6.-
i6.1, creasing the block of wood that
ever as • bead, It is repeatedly dipped
•rrbonrd and finally hauled in again.
bete the block of wood is chopped Into
linters and banded to the cook, wbo
:roe them In the galley Oro.
1n such of the Inland towns where the
et exists the ceremony Is droller. Early
the morning the stranger will be weak
•d with the bum of • hundred voles
Mkt* dwelWt .
The Mt time 1 iew ft," said Mr.
ard51rt, tel WY wriesd 117 weal r fed
ought was IM brie elf an approschtng
orm, but width ieseensed In violence
n11 around the MOW of the street
abed a disorderly mob of seep, women
d children, half bras& regeogaese and
tgror, Indiscriminately, reottag like
ads at the tope of their velem ad drag
at behind them the torr of • man,
Mob they eacasionally jumped upon and
e ked. My Qat tmpraeds* was that
S unfortunate wretch bed incurred
dr wrath and they wells *seeking their
pganoe on him. Hareylpg on my
odes, I rushed tests, hoopping to sive the
sly fans further Mutilation at lest
allowing the crowd to the publlo square,
taw them halt and haul tbw body on to
*limb of a tree. Then I New for the
retiree that the figure was Muffed with
taw Quickly the bundle of rags was
slened to the trunk, 'deka were piled
trend is end soon the fire was blazing
eerily
'Amend this pyre deemed the disorder -
mad, yelling, amaassleg Ol j bMRply
teprauon• on the kid Of tis Illgoe
e idenhy there irks an .aplm/6w, rltd tis
ran was blown So pith% mom .M
hetes rags falling oa the Meta et the
ie A bag of gunpowder bad hams 1111
reed around the neck. Timm eS thayb
f magic. the fin went days. 161 1100111111
vwyd dispersed, and is mmr/d • 1 0 -
amt sole*, 1 was left with
rears d tut• �N
100"
A ember aerentesiy et tbdswtltlllrm
relied • •drowning trim
o Friday. jt fa -11111edSpanied
more seriellediliMidtffilebnitil.Carey
Wan It • man nim .nett elf 1a.erigible
alter whom a neighbor hagebarrld with
r►alf s "devil"
The tender., r he•dmsa, of tis. res IS
e e their time to the week and beemm.
%eh t• Cheered juigt.ry. I1 ts solktng
**as at Item tis Mild amltea lead in Me
11.4'NOW
or 11 Mmes d rsdb1 Mae en Ms
hews! besimilar Oeste without
lbs"a d11dlM" M another endow atm -
liked lakes /1/�1'oAar.nce a Aar. hi the
maa111M es she gOsoh ret Rag Joan, 11 Y
mei • seam cave axes where Ore can he
wyM
that It seprdally holy. Thtt fire,
4 !Stag to tradition, was lighted try •
d�thltte Sten mama* sad one
11Mk ever It NW d ►ns
f Pear, 11bdMb tie tied
VIII PYny .(Iasaer • heal U.IK Aum
�acada, width aSiclyN the
-94._'Ind he Y sr* is ts111'
imam Ts. be to 11114 to s.'se . Slatted
lUth No develi r dares. some be that
,. ..,y ..Apros ,.. _ .ne Mimes end 1n61e►
Ing severe burns. 'nose who are .wombed,
however, are said to enjoy impeufah ten-
muaky from aluknem for the uuanlug year.
Instances bay. bete) known where the
devotes In their enti,uelasm base been
so badly burned about the tee and legs as
W cripple hies fur lite. The roan wbo
now attends Lbe holy Ore in the cave 1s
mid to be horribly dt.Ogured as • result
of suob au experience in bis early youth.
The adherents of this snot arc no bigot&
and eeveral have beau converted to Meth-
odism, but they look upon the oer anontes
more ae • mystic rite than • religion,
much as the uegrues of the south regard
the voodoo.
THE LISTENER.
Llewellyn Powers, governor of Maine,
Is • druggist.
General X. S. Hobson, the newly elect-
ed prel.ldent d the Voter as et the Mex-
ican War, served also In the civil wer.
General Grenville M. Dodge, president
of the commission to inquire into the
management of the war, 1/ the head of the
Society of the Army of the Tenneres.
Major Marchand, the French odloer et
Fsboda, le described .. • dtodeat and re-
tiring little man Ateobool be was known
as "the moues" because of his unoblru
sive character.
The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry, wbo has set
out to purify Chicago, L the pastor of the
Lasalle Avenue Baptist church in that
city. He engaged In • simtlar crusade le
San Francisco a few yeah ago.
Professor R. Lenclanl, the famous ar-
chaeologist, whose new work, "The History
1f the Destruction of Ancient Rome," will
soon be published, has take to gds and
establisbedagolf club In the Eternad City.
A friend of Senator Morrill of Vermont
In New York city has just received a let-
ter from him, in which be set's:"I'lea jti
my usual health. There le no truth in
the It about my resigning from the
The late Lord Winohelese's outdoor rec-
reatloos Included the odd lmusementa of
bricklaying, glazing and even ditching.
In the summer of Ira* he spent nearly all
kis holidays 1n tepalrtug the roof of Ewer -
by cherub.
Mr. Charles Godfrey, the famous Eng-
11eh bandmaster of the Royal biome guards
(blue). hes very nearly reached the age
for retirement from the army, but bas ob-
tained an extenelun of Ove years. Mr.
Godfrey bas been • handmstr for 40
rears.
"Yea, I knew Wagner," said Bismarck
anoe, according to the Londe° Deily Nowa,
"but it was Imporlble for me to ante for
him. At breakfast, u1 leech, M dlanr-
evere moment - Wagner demanded ad-
miration. He would be first. I bond
dtymdl-1oo bury 1,)e thee" •.,goners - . -
Russell Face, the New Turk m18Iosatre,
te connected wttb 07 sorporatlona, In
which than are 45 railroads. He 1s the
only living original director .1 the New
York Central railroad and the only living
founder of the Fifth Avenue bank. He
has stood a sub run e° blmrU in bard
tames of $9,000,000 in one dal.
Colonel J. R. 0. Plain, the new o: --
▪ of Now Orleans, declined the ex -
lean intrusion, which was tendered to him
by President Arthur. He was mademin-
bear to the Argentine Republic by Pred-
dent Harrison, and, although he 1. an
ardent Republican, President Cleveland
complimented him on the way In which
he performed the duties of his otos
THE ROYAL BOX.
The Duke of Cambridge, wbo represent.
ed the crown of England at the funeral
ef the Austrian em peer, was also the rep-
resentative of English royalty at the °m-
ere'''. wedding.
Prince= Fybille of Helm Cassel, wbo
is closely related to the German imperial
bonne and to halt the royal families of
Europe, has chosen to marry a commoner,
Freiherr von Vlneke. She had previously
refused to marry King Alexander ot Ser.
via.
The full name of the sultan of Ternatl,
wbo received the Order of the Lion of
Kaaren at Queen Wflbelmina's corona-
tion is Tadjul Malmo' Bind jettl1.blllpenan
8lradjul Mulkl Amlyddln INkander Mun-
•urrnasdik Ws/amain inaladlin Fjah Pa-
th Ajanhar Raddbinktrnk Pmdlbelja.
Queen Victoria, as she grows older, be-
comes broader and more liberal on many
questions, especially concerning the ob-
servance of the Sabbath, much to the die -
trees of many of her worthy subjects. Inst
spring, in going to and returning from
the Riviera. for the Ont use 1n hr life
she traveled on hnndey.
THE WRITERS.
Hamlin Garland ays that he got but
$26 for his first published story.
II Redd that Hall Caine's next produc-
tion will not he • bok dramatized, but n
play written for the stage.
Swtiburne, although be now writes lit-
tle and spends months and months rev le -
Ind, makes *6.000 n year by hie poems.
Rudyied -Kipling Is said to be one of the
IOW manageable of literary il/mL "We
Menke, compliment., shuns society and
likes to live quietly.
Lulgla Calenln, the Italian poetess and
author a ' Nobnnt," has died at Venire
at the age of 70 year. The bad grams
with which Clearge stand teoeived the Sig-
nora Codemo *bile she was visiting
Franco called forth "Nobent," In which
novel the author of "Commode)" 1s laid
open to ridicule.
OUR COUSINS GERMAN.
135. Loris 11 exporting beer to the Phil-
ippines. Bo long as the countrymen of
Agulnaldo read our Bibles and drink our
beer Oertnany will scheme In vain. -St
Louis Republic.
Germany Is said to be the power behind
Aguinaido, but the United States le the
power over Germany el is as the Philip-
pines ate concerned, and Admiral Dewey
le the wdathy representative ot that pow -
r. -Louisville Poet.
Certain German navy officials want .0
know why the Americo!' government is
sending the battleship Oredtrn to Manila.
Just as noon as 1t in shown that 1t 1s any
of their basher the Information will be
cheerfully placed at their dispossi.-New
York Mall and Express.
VOLCANO BLASTS.
Vetettm end Blanca are still in rep -
lion. -Tacoma Ledger.
Valorise for the fief time 1n many
¢' en MA .keg Waltdt►„it''lAr1rrre.
k: the old reboot geographies. --Chicago
Timm-Hrahl.
Mount Vesuvius A s•16 to be belching
ap ihd, whliS lig VIM Osvnn- Tide will
not be Hkely Minorities the friendship ble-
lwsea epeds sed liedy.-(`lowland Leder.
flow that the Hawaiian volcano le •
part of the United States it will troupe/ek-
ed
roupe t-
d to gee • bump on itself and not he out-
done ityety old one hone Dalian volcano.
-Topeka Male Journal.
der Mamma.
the wad telling one of bar delete •11
about It, avid shit is what bar father over-
heard:
And when the little girt that .115 ite-
twoe,n es leans forward the little boy on
the other lite or her eatebss bold of one of
her braids and i trate! bold et the other,
end we yank ber head beak. Oh, lt'5 more
tun" -
"go *hM's the way you get in school, le
1st' laterrepled the father.
"IA, Well," returned to 11yesreM
t &wkly, "we den's do that 1n the regular
oohed. r n know --only hi She bendy
.s5s5i"-43510 Pae.
ORDON'5 HEA
t
A Ghastly Exhibit to Unnerve
Slatin Pasha.
"I5 THIS NOT THE HEAD OF YOUR UNCLE. THE t'NF:ELIEVERT'
f udolph C. BLttn. • young Aurtrtan
officer in the Egyptian army, entered the
Sudan 16 years ago with • bright, prowls
Mg military career before him. Made goy
earner of Darfur, he made his weight felt
rapidly in that pioneer movement That
Ids government failed to support him, as
It failed to support Gordon, was not his
fault. He was not strong enough to cope
single banded with the great problems pre-
sented to him, and, like Gordon, be tuo-
oumbed to the inevitable. That death did
not release him from the horrors of the
region and the times fate done decreed.
To his ready wit be owed his salvation,
his ultimate mope from the tortures
heaped upon him. To bis ready grit Eng
land owes her soccer at the Sudsy today,
for without his assistance her efforts
might have been as sadly misdirected as
they were once before, If Indeed she bad
made the effort at all.
Blatin Pa•ba tell before the fury of the
Mabdiet revolt. Darfur fell two years
before Khartum To the fact that be
subscribed to the Mandist creed and be-
came, or pretended to become, one of them
be owes his life. As It was, he became a
prisoner and later ■ slave During the
frightful days In which the fanatic's be
sleeted Khartum he wee confined • Peso
miles away In Omdurman. It was then
he witnessed Rs fell, and then he heard
of the fate of Gonion and hie followers
Though from a distance be viewed the
spectacle, Its bloody memory will never be
erased from big mind.
Chained beside the tent of • Mandist
ohleftain, be was the last Kamtean to
look upon the face of Gordon, though
death had then set the fstwres in s bur-
-able east, though the heed was then dt•-
membered from the trunk. This is the
description he writs of that momentous
day:
The sun was now rising red over the
horizon. What would th1e day bring
forth/ Excited and agitated 1 awaited
the result with intense irnlettenoe. Soon
shoots of rejoicing and victory were hien)
in the distance, and my guards ran off to
find out the news.
"Ina few minute* they were hack again,
excitingly relating bow Khartum had
been taken by storm and was now in the
bands of the Mandlaa.
"Was It partible the news was false/ 1
mewled out of my tent and scanned the
camp. A greet orowd had collected before
the quarters of the Mabdf and khalifs.
which were not far off. Thee there was
• movement fa the direction of my tent.,
and I could see plainly they were ooming
toward me.
"In front mareb.d three black soldier
One named Shafts, formerly belonging to
Abrhd Bey Datalla'• slave bodyguard,
carried In his hands • bloody cloth In
wbioh something was wrapped up and be-
hind him followed a reword of people wear
In".
The slams had now sppro shed my
tat and Mond before me with insulting
gestures. Shane undid the eloth end
showed me the head of General Gordon I
"The blood rushed to my bed and my
heart seemed to stop beeting, but WItk.J„
tremendous effort of self control 1 grariedd
silently at this ghastly a eotaole. His bine
eyes ware hall *paned. The mouthafq
,Fdtwialt41s labs et hie ]read elf'
Is short whiskers wore almost quite
white.
• Ii ad the the heed M your need, the
unbettleew'r std Rhetta, bolding the bred
ap before me.
• What of it/' add I quietly, 'A breve
soldier wbo fell as his poet Happy Is be
to have fallen; be •offerings are over '
" 'Ha, he aid Shama. 'an you still
pastes the unbeliever, but you will anon
ore the revolt,' and, leaving me, he went
off to the Mabdl, bearing his *terrible
token of viceroy. Behind him followed
the crowd, •NII weeping
"I ritentervd my tent I was now ut-
terly broken barest Khartum feller'
mid Oo,don deed) Atte this woe the end
of Ib. Wear..oldhir Wire had halm •t hie
niter dllmitgmsd at bat woe lrtaerhellit
mai mina pleb tat aMl/Mwlflwhtl tit
gums Yat • uillslty Y Ms 1Iu1Il "kWh
wow ed ,
Amos, the ipos
lla Rb•rwm were
*teed Mseee fyohl Doreen eel ether lea
sspt•e e5oer. dIwheaing MN hollrwieS ie
had bleu rdelved betraying the etromit5
of the Mandt.t. behave the attack on the
city. Under suspicion, ylatln was loaded
with heavy Irons riveted to his ankles and
neck. After weeks and months of torture
and starvation he was partially reheard,
but his position was dangeroua. Every
hour subtle enemies menaced him with
peril.
At last. after many vain attempts to
abeape, with the powerful and secret aid
of two gnat government's and an especial
fund, word carne that camels were watt
Mg for flight acnes the desert To go
down the Nile would be fatal. as the fa
natio; swarmed Ise waters
"In • hurried whisper the trusted men
manger told me that all wee ready, and
after arranging a rendezvous for the fol
lowing night, when the kballf• had native]
bo rest, we separated.
"I mute= that 1 passed the greater part
of that night In a state of fevered excite
meat. Would this attempt also fail, like
the others( Would some unforeseen event
frustrate this effort toot Ther thoughts
kept me awake and retakes, and it was
DOS till toward morning that sleep, which
was so necessary to keep p my strength
during the journey. came t length, and
I had two or three hours of sound repose.
"The next .morning. when before the
khalifs'. door, i feigned sickness and
asked the chief of the tnulazemin for per•
mission to ailment myself from morning
prayers. as I proposed to take a dome of
amnia tea and tnmarind and remain
quietly at home the following day. The
neoem•ry pernelrlon was e000rded, and
Abdul Kerim promised to make my ex
°uses to the khalifs .honld he inquire for
me 1 felt sure that my nester, when he
knew that I was not pageant. would, under
the pretext d solicitude for_ my 5.5lrh
send to my house to .ee tf I was really
then, but 1 amid think of no other way
of aorountng for my absence."
Statin told he servants in greet confi-
dence that he was going to get • large
. um of money brought by • mere{ mea
angor from Egypt, and he would make
them prevents if his mieelon were not re -
vented
vented to the khalif* This; wile the sato
atton when the time arrived for flight
Three home after sonar elatln stole
away, accompanied by • faithful guide.
and after a most perilous and estausting
journey reached the town of Assuan, on
the Nile, beyond the reach of fanatical
barbarians. In a region inhahited by "iv
iBeed people and governed according to
law and Justine,
A Onetime Investors.
Prebendary Wordsworth has been rola
tatfng • large number of facts as to the
mediaeval eteton.e and ceremonies of Lin -
min cathedral. Among other of his find.
is • moat curious inventory of the fifteenth
century of the neared relict at Lincoln
They Include St tingh's head, the heard
and amble of Ft. Peter, part ot a tooth
d Ft Paul and teeth of 1,11 ('ecily and St
Cllrlstruher end s tone of St i.awrsi.oa
b. Well Quoted.
A burglar met a policeman as he left a
Moa he hart robbed.
What have you beam up td" asked the
eltepDer.
"duet speaking to • man," answered
Sykes, a little taken aback.
-atirtittosicotaldirthar-Mie in/11111•
way up and shook bin, so that a dozen
diver apnoea fell from his pncket on to
the ground.
aNiaor l hewer Owe •peeeh 1. rarityslt•
Teri,' said the Dopper.
"And M16neo Is golden," 1116 PykMe,
dipping • coople of sovereigns into the
bands of he raptor, and the napper ais.
sorbed both the diver and the gold. -Pick
Me Up,
This *pasha' tteeerel.
t's*y venerate ed ms gaits In the fray
Aad forced all our wnkllers he 55,
Rut let es he i.y,
Ire allow me le say
1 dlWnetty refuse to dmlt it.
-W.shtngtes Sar.
as.a. we mesa
"Sureittng of the terrible risks of war,"
MIN the hero who had just resnrnd, "15
Y laM. y.a kaew, that dlesue grm lurk
tithe kith"
ilitlbeiUlrty tl+ereatlr rime they sew
• Mei gt beerd eoMml girls *Hewed
mete iso abs YM bows. Wool
• hane.--01#1woo
A YOUNG MAN'S ic_RSCNAL LET T. :,
Ther raiment rut IIs Addr.e.ed M 111.
Pine. of Madae.a
"A young men In business le wisest
who woes to It that his personal a do
not come to isle businees asns,"
wrlite Kdward Buk lu the 1 ad Hulme
Journal. "Amble from the Whet pu,01
that he bee no glebe to use his emglpyer',
addrese for social oorte.puudeatat and
that It 11 not the place for sue. ig('er.,
It menus a freedom from drelltici
which Is valuable to ban, The Mai 5 of
social 1seSrs at bulimia places often
meas their anisette them, tad so one
evil multiplies Into another. A young
man's business hours anot,id be de, elm:
to busmen's, and he cannot he too strict
in the observance of that sal•. Nor
should our girls seek In any reepeo$ lo
lewd our youug tnen to give tansy SO
that rule. 1 he best kind of • "espsct-
lag girl, on the utter hand, is she wbo
helps • young man lo keep tnatolete a
rule so obviously for els own best !dor
este, preens and future. A 0:1 cac0ut
too rlgfcly let a young man alone during
business hours. '1 het I. Lb. rale of win-
dow, and I wish that every girl would
learn It and adhere to It.'
What Pere. .Meru. In Ros.la.
One thing at least 1. aba:iulely nor
Lain, and that 1. that Ruses Is profound•
le desirous of keeping the peace and 16
very far tram being prepared to wage war
with either Germany os Kngland. It wal
be a number of years before the Tran.
Siberian Railway wltl be nearly enough
completed to be used for transporting
troops avid supplies to Cores, Northern
China, or any ut those regions where
Stere has been so much friction beween
Britl.5. and Russian interests. It would
be hopeless for the Ruaslan soldiers to
attempt to oope on the Chines assts
with the English ships. Russia hal plan-
e, el menunder nems and Mould rousts
still resider fosse; but her resources are
so undeveloped del In a great war it
would be well-nigh impossible to trans-
port or supply large Russian armies, and
to such respect. (formally 1. Incommar-
ably superior. Hauls has every reason
for desiring a long period of profound
peace. Her statesmen have observed tie
progress of the United Stats, and real-
ised the fart that the material greatnes
ref this oountry 1s due to the Immense
development of the M1s.les,ppl Valley
and the Yar West In the more than thirty
years that have followed the civil war.
The profound object of Russia's policy is
50 build railroads, open mines, bring vast
areas of wheat lands into cultivation,
and, In abort, to build up the nation
upon a bade of economic progress and
aresprlly. file 8s1°g erase Me esti waetd
g ladly obtain relief from the at.ormoua
pecuniary burdens Imposed upon her by
the maintenance of her huge armies. She
navels the money for rallroadi and the
meioses of peaceful development. But
Ills Is tise viotlm of the prevailing IOM -
terry 'moron of Europe and considers it
necessary so go armed If her neighbors
do the same. 11 has been very much the
European habit of mind to regard Russia
as the grew menace to the world'• smaoe:
but the Russians ate precisely the op-
posite view of then, monition and are very
tar Indeed from wishing to provoke •
war. Moreover, they are shrewd diplo-
mats and have .cored great points of lite
years. As matters stand, they Dave noth-
ing to gain and very much to lose by go.
leg to war, 'rho new Czar will keep the
peas. -From "The Progress of the
World," in the American Monthly Re-
view
eview of Reviews.
Thr story of 1•0ne..
Pones 1• an old story today, yet ef111
■ pretty one. In Its blttory is a hlry tale
which has the merit of being true In
the years when the time went *SOAK a
page lounged through the Ielsates of
Ferdinand -e court He was young, im-
pudent and abominably good looking. A
prinoees smiled and beekoned. That was
enough There and then he was sent to
the tropics which Columbus had found
He landed at Borfquen, assisted with
easy gallantry In eliminating the natty. e,
assisted also In gathering the gold wh.eh
they left. Between the lined there are two
deosdes. Meanwhile ttortense had been
christened Puerto Rloo, incidentally the
Pere bad grown old. Whether he regret•
Md the princess Is problematic. That he
mleeed his good looks is clear. In an
effort to recover them he took s trip. The
' tory of El Dorado nail not let bees sold
Bat ano.her story. equally 1f not more
seduotivs, was current then. It was to
she effect that somewhere nearby wire
the fountains of eternal youth. In search
of shoes waters he milled. The land which
he reached wee so rich In flowers that he
called It Florida. lint of the waters net
• tram. And yet, may 1t not be that the
legend of them typified fame! For it w -i.
-.hat which he did not fled. Hie Dan
was Pones de Leon, sod It was he wno
founded Ponce.
The Bookman telle thlr story illustrate
Ing a school examination:
"It appeals that at an elementary ex
amtnatton In English which wee held In
• school In New York two /entente' were
given out to be .emoted by the yowler
scholars '1 he Ont .entente was Id b.•
oerrected as to ISP snidest matter end tree
second sentence se to Its syntax. Ther
were the sentences:
" 'The hen hs three lege.'
" 'Who dons tit'
"When the papers were handed In It
wee found that one 05 the examinees' had
apparently regarded the sentence as
subtly winnowed 1n tboagbt, for hie
answer was as follows:
" 'The hen didn t done it; God done
ft' "
re. oceiei Union.
A mdiral authority ale: Those who
are In the habit of lbdnlgtng In raw
onions may be consoled for the social lis
advantages which ensue by the feet that
minus are about the best nervine known
No medicine Is really an efOoaclous In
sere et ner1Dme prn5lrettell. and shop
lone up a wore -ens wyr5em in • very
short Sties Their absorbent powers a -r
also mete vilaahle, eepentally in times of
epldente. It leas bean repeatedly observed
that an one n patch to the vtelnity of •
house onto ae • shield arsine. the pe.tll
.OW, which. ht Teri AIM ..M+.pw.. .ver the
Inmate* of that house. ;Wed onions to •
sick room absorb all the germ. and
prevent contagion, ,
A W•111.10.... • uw•,l.l.,
A tails vainly tiled to make clear he
Identity to the Debi of Wellington.
"Why, ' said he, "Gators), uon't you
know met 1 mane yr temente." Recce-
nitlon dawned In the great Duke's eyes',
s he eor'dtally gndped hie Interlaentr'a
lend and etel•Imed: "Why, Major
Ar11,5.., bow are rent"
wmeelatsd Ch.s.$I.a&
Okareh going Is not merely • habit; It
he • duty and • very profitable and
ple•mns one. When the house of and is
negleead, it is beth a die of mildness
and • predeer elJnd,fferene.. No erne
ought .ear wfllfnley es neglect the mora
of God. He thereby spews disbonr b
(led and Indlfisteam MHa Rat
greets* gtrt lee 1e te hi5••lf• 'I'b..ou1
starves for want el 'Wheal meterilbseeem
whim shy Fnthr's bona M forsaken.
e It laduM. # M Sim eilsrele
wed scot talulr, but Wow 8511
_SM:1:1:e. moats Is blooms.
W M 1f they be Obrit-
COLOUPHOTOGKAPH'1
HOW A CHICAGO atNIUS BOLVID THE
PROILEM.
meat a rertaa. and M•s..leaeated
Mor Mem, 1ears. bat Finally Sus.
seeded avid Then Died-lletbed 001
she New Pweess, -
G0lo1 pholograpby is add to be an 1111
cured fact Fy • process invented by •
Chicago genie* anything in nature nuts
now be photographed In iia own colors,
with all the varying tints and eludes !m-
aglnabue. Ti.. fleeting glory of the sunset
the transitory fascination of Gelds of grain,
October woods and even the pink of •
young eeri's cheek may be s ugbl and held
In all their obarut and glow mg atter the
erlglnal. have 1:•104 ls
The Chicago river, thee bleak, murky
stream of 111 swelling fate, furnished the
inspiration which led to the discovery.
Mr. James W. Mol onough, the invent°,
of the hew proclaim. was hoking at the eel.
ors made by oil floating on the water,
when he thought what a beautiful epee -
facie the river would present If Its whole
surface could be thus covered. Next be
wondered how a pboSograph of such • riv-
er surface would look.
This led him to the problem of oolag
photography, and eventually be began his
exporlmenta. He was a wealthy and No
tired merchant and had decided to devote
the rest of his life and fortune W eotentate
Inquiry. In the end he laid Sot only his
fortune, but his life, on the altar of sod -
*nee, for he died • year ago. His expert -
menta in oolor photography were so coin•
pieta, however, that before be died he bad
drmonetr•ted his succor, and now his
friends and bualneed associates are carry-
ing on the enterprise.
The proems that he created he • oolar
photography which is pueely mechanical.
The erdlnar7 camera la used, and Way..
Wives are produced and developed by the
weal promisees, but before exposing the
..gads. In the camera a tranapepnl
Jabal w. n'DOKOVOE.
IMMO ruled with the three primary .ohm
is tnterpo.ed between the negative end
object to be photographed.
Atter developing the negative • poelttn
plate is pnduood from It, which, viewed
by ltaelt, dos not differ from the ordinary
black and white plate, but when 1t Is laid
upon • Clewing screen, ruled with the
primary colon, • duplicate of the taking
screen need In the camera, the colon In
the object photographed appear.
The principle of color photography Is •
mixture of colored Ilghta on the retina. A
transparent medium Is ruled in One col-
ored lines, 800 to 600 to the inch. Them
lines are red, blue and green, commonly
speaking. They are the fundamentae of
the spectrum -the yellow of . school days
now being rejected -and their mixture
produces white light: In other words, the
color of each is much as to absorb the re-
maining two and transmit only 11. own
light
To make • picture It 1s necessary be
place one of the.. ruled '.Teens in Immo-
Mate oontact with the sensitive surface of
the dry plate and expose the same as in or -
denary photography. The sensitive plates
must be what is known s euchromatic
plates -that is, sensitive to all the colors
of the spectrum.
Atter • negative is made • positive 1.
also made by oontact printing, am in the
usual manner. This positive le then pinrdrd
over the ruled screen and the dark lime
on the positive aro trade to register with
the colored lines on the screen. When this
1s done. the picture Is seen In Its natural
tuts.
Yoreper photographs are made by print-
ing in the mond manner on the sensitive
paper ruled with the three colored lines,
as on the screen. Half to a plc s rpr-Iq,
&VAT Miele b printing with
btackink-horn a Bet tone prate made
front the original -neon paper having the
throe colored Anes ruled on its surface
the same as a screen.
A majority of his experiments for lean
were absolute failure. One effort after,
another was rejected until he came to the
correct principle, which wee to cover •
Oat plate with very fine lines and than k
endeavor to nddn,-o these Mies to greats
or less angles, .o no to give off the colon
from a picture photographed on their sur
face.
His perpetual aeeumptlon was that the
sun would reproduce nature as she 1s 11
the revolt ing plate wee of the proper kind.
ills work was to find that plata The
plate or block which he tinnily determined
to be the proper one la what 11 known
technically as a diffraction grating and
gives off oolon when a beam of light
strikes Its surface at an angle.
The first experiments with such • plata
were more than dlseourngtng, and when
further efforts seemed useless McI)onough
was •bout bas It side. The day that
he determined to do no he accidentally no-
tt.d ont the •urfaoa of the block whet
ewemd lo he spot. of dl.terent colon. The
thought carne to him Instantly, "Why not
stipple on the colored] spots, photograph
through them and try and gee some color
remits?"
He pnrohasd an air brash, and, after
seecnring inch adore as red, green and
hips, -began blawingthatieHt el p0111-
.15..54 attempting to wows .n evenly
grained plata. lint, pewslonu to piecing
on! sbsw.ugh made a ewes et
some. to tvenre the beet number of hinds -
mental colon possible whom combination
would produce whits light or • neutral
tint
These were only • few M the obstaelee
which he had to overeeme. Por mon
Ilan 58 years he kept at his work until
finally he was able to take photographs in
which objents were given their true colon.
RPAxxt.te Num
Dielora/l• Pea..
Malden Annt-And pray, mire how
mime you to he talking to • young matt
on the. pier last nightf
Ethel-Ob--.r-be wanted to know
your name and where you lived, and I
wouldn't tell him.
Maiden Annt---I thought ho seemed a
en per ler youth. -Ally Slolawr.
ipeatestae Charley.
He. -•That Rt Louh heiress stems b
have mate quite • *octal 511.
AIN..._inMlidT
He -- Yea; I aidenl►and the hue s della
pn•1lnent .eetey men at her feet.
Rh.--Wen,.Ae b fortnnatm In Metal
Woe Wan *or them.-Chtoago Newf.
Dead
M e n
Tell no Tales
But living wotnen and hungry children
do. They tell a sad tale sometimes, that
brings the terrible charge of cerclrsaneee
and neglect to provide, against the hus-
band and father whom the hand of Death
has stricken. Whitt a little thing ; 5
cent piece is, yet se. a day will prooide
*3,oco Insurance for a man of average
age in the
CANADIAN ORDER OF
FORESTERS.
Twenty years ago there wee a.onettacues fix thew
who kit their family unprotected, t..•s..y there is
aM.Iutei• new.. The only queer.. is piety,
avid is thn the Canadine Order of Foresters easily
1We. It h.... teepee .wrplu• per h.aa, and
m411 Larger for .act 51,.,00 of a risk carried, wad could
dicier up mad pp 15..15, if re deem& ea..o
awitiay par wserwbar than any ceder Society o1
55. kind is Canada. Surplus per mealaw, ter.tte 1
per geer.Osof laweeac<, $•••.•A.
• Woe o..sh new of the Canadian Order of
Foresters Last year was lower than that of any d
Its competitors. being eetly need In tam 5,550.
The Interval on the Insuraas Surplus paid
weer 29 newt:. 0lalxws of a •I,000 each
I..t year.
For further particulars enquire et say of the
Officers or Members of the Order, or edema
R. ELLIOTT, THOS. WHITE.
H.C.R., Iegrr..11. Hu.A Sec y, DineeKl rd.
ee ERNST GARTUNG. Beset/bat
CORNISH DIALECT.
S ome Quaint Terms That Anis Ciento
mon Aroag rho Natives.
"A bitched my foot in the soonoe and
knacked my nuddiek, and A wads': able
to clunky for a fortnight."
Readers of recent popular dialect takes
w111 probably take It for granted that this
sentenos is Scotch. It is, however, Cor-
nish,
ornlsh, and, being interpreted, moans, "I
aught my foot In the pavement and
struck the nape of my nook, and I wee not
able to swallow for re fortnight."
There are some qunlnt tertnscommon in
Cornwall which have a pleasing aver of
their own. The phra.e "ray deer" -pro-
longed to two syllabus -b nut. for In-
stance, any indication of especial affection.
ll Ml,,•gomnon form of oddities to either
men or eroasan.. -do .ars, though with
rat bar more discrimination in Its ass, 111
"my deear lite."
A young child Is mentioned In terms of
e ndearment as "my 'anwne" or "tender
deear" or wren "tender worm." "Son"
and "sonny" are used without the less
relation to the age or vii of the person ad-
dressed. A eon may sometimes be beard
speaking to his own father as "fay son"
or a husband calling his wife "sonny!"
"Young" moans simply unmarried. A
bachelor of 80 L "• young man." Of •
bride still In her teens It was said that the
was "•pretty lot better looking than wisest
she wee young!" An old person 1s noel
simply old. He le "old ancient." Sev-
eral New England localisms ars found In
Cornish speech, as "cricket" for • amalt
stool, "chores" for household jobs and
"dowdy" for pudding, though to America
the latter word survives only as part of
"pandowdy," the delicious deep @pined
apple pie of country housewives.
A Cornleh anecdote relates that a small
boy, left at home to supervise the family
dinner while the net of the household
were at church. having, like King Alfred,
neglected his duty and allowed the flg
pudding to scorch, In he dismay ren M
the church and from the doorway made
signs to the housewife to cons forth. lobe
Indignantly signed to bon to wait, which
for a time he did, but at length, becoming
impatient, cried' aloud in reply to her fur-
ther winks and grimaces, to the scandal
of the mtartld congregation:
"Flew may wlnky and akrinky as long
as ylew du pleas, but the flggy dowdy is
burnt ea the mock I" -Youth's Compan-
ion.
THE KITCHENER MUSTACHE.
Londoners of this M..eallwa Terlety Take
Op a New Fad.
Since Sir H. H. Kltchenr'a signal
triumph on the Upper Nile the Kitch-
ener rr n Mahe has beoeme • 1 the ge In
MUSTACHIOS Or NIR H. H. 5,1701:1En.
Ergt•DA, Aeoording to the Lenton Mail,
the Kltehrr sr mustache 10 radically
different from the traditional military
mustache of the British Army. The long,
drooping mustache, which for gener•-
tion@ has been identified with the army,
and considered the perfect type of what •
peeper mo.taehe should be, has now, 11
Is believed, recedes -1 VA death blow.
The battle of Omdurman hs also see -
tied the fate of the waxed mustache, of
the French mustache and of the extraord-
inary moetacbe with Its end neintlug up-
ward, which the Kaiser haa endeavored
Io pope hart ze.
•'510111.. '5anted."
A London green grocer recently pat
cal the sign "Mollies wanted." It drew
a great crowd and was o00s.qu ntly
taken down. The doter explained to the
pollee that he wee not wonting Mollis
In the feminine sense, but of its Meal -
mate or oommerotal variety. "Mollies,"
he explained, "are Deakins In which we
peck one vegstabtes. Il ie • common
term with es, but them, az you my, we
ere not all green graters."
2 BOILS
" Three years ago 1 was troubled
wltff boils, and tried several
remedies recommended by friends,
but they were of no avail. I had
FIFTY-TWO BOILS in all, and
found nothing to give me relief
until i tried Burdon. v. Blood Bitters.
The first bottle 1 t ,ok made a con.
piete cure and proved so very
satisfactory that 1 -.here recom.
mended B.B.B. to many of my
friends who have used it with good
results." A. J. MUSTARD,
Hyder, Man.
Any .one troubled with Boils,
Pimples, Rashes, Ulcers, Sores,
or any Clr,-onic or Malignant Skin
Digease,'who wants a perfect cute%
should use only