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The Clinton New Era, 1890-06-06, Page 3IilP" i{+ tivZ, NONTBS• 1$ , WIMP, ptlxt lraiPect Taves they feed item oa wipe jag= as, ileo, and ell, and ^wban tbey gait them into good condition they kill them. Hund- reds of the Ballo slaves at e taken into the river Ii: ,1 disposed of in this way each ,south. A great many other slaves are sold to the large village.1 nn the Congo, to supply %ictims f.r the execution ceremonies. Much life is lost in the captur- ing of slaves, and during their captivity many succumb to star- vation. Of the remainder, num- bers are sold to become victims to cannibalism and human sacri- fice ceremonies, There are few indeed who are allowed to live ana prosper. of ,.. Twelve molatbe ago Famea Ion, a well know citizen of Tyrrell nounty, insured bis life for $8,000 in the Uunneetieat Mutual Life Insurance Company, Some time after he fell from a boat half a. _ mile from shore, Ansi yelled lend ly for help to a man a half a mile away, When the man responded Dillon seoretly swam ashore and couldn't be seen. The man whose assistance be had asked supposed he was drowned, and was perfect. ly willing to swear to it. Notice of Dillon's death was sent to the Company. It refnsed to pay the insurance. Action was brought by Dillon's wifc, and when the case stood for trial at the court last week the widow alleged that be was drowned. Ten days ago a body was found nes.' the place where he had been seen to sink in the water. The body was identifie4by 200 people as that of Dillon. At court cot.n• sel for the widow took a non -suit because the body had been found. There is no doubt that the com- pany would have paid the money, but last Tuesday, to the surprise of every one, Dillon himself re- turned safe and sound to Columbia. His statement is most remark- able. He says he swain ashore the day he overturned the boat, ut his hat in it and left the boat half full of water. He determin- ed to hide in the woods so as his wife could get the insrancue money. He kept in the great swamps for five months, when he found the body of a drowned man floating in the Alligatar river. He removed the hair from his head so as to make it bald, and taking his own hair and whiskers put them in the decomposing flesh of the corpse. He knocked out to of the front teeth of the doad man, removed the clothing from the corpse and dressed it in the clothes he had worn on the day of his disapuearance. At night he conveyed the body to the place where he was supposed to have been drowned. Subsequently bearing of the non-suit,he thought it put an end to claim, and that there was no hope of collecting tht money, and so be returned home. "THOSE NASTY CHILDREN." A drunkard went to the public - house for his glass. While drink- ing at the bar he heard the land- lady angrily exclaim, 'There are those nasty children again ; turn them out !' He chanced to peep through the window, and saw they wore his own children at play with the children of the pub- lican. Ragged and dirty they were of a surety, and certainly unfit to be the associate compan- ions of the boys and girls, well- fed and well-dressed, of the pub- lic -house where he spent his money every night. Seized with a sudden terror of remorseful shame he laid tbe half -emptied glass on the counter and passed out. From that hour he resolved that ere long his children should be as clean, as duly fed, and better dressed than the children of the publican and the publican's 'lady,' fitted to be the playmates of child- ren of a higher social grille than theirs. And, God aiding him, he kept hie word. It was bis last visitito the fine pa'ace; the first and only lesson he had learnt there; and long afterwards, when he told this story to Mrs Hall, it was with thanksgiving and prayer when his children occupied posi- tions much more respectable than that which those of the publican filled when the incident happened which changed the whole current of his life.—S. C. Hall. A CASE WHERE PLUCK WON IN THE SLAVE -SHED. these hungary creatures form indeed a truly pitiable sight,— After suffering this captivity for a short time they become mere skel- etons. All ages, of both sexes, are to be seen; mothers with their babes; young men and women; boys and girls; and even babies who cannot yet walk, and whose mothers have died of starvation, or perhaps been billed by the Lufembe. One seldom sees either old men or old women; they are all killed in the raids; their mar- ketable value being very small,no trouble is taken with them. Ai Witnessing groups of this poor, helpless wretches, with their em- aciated forms and sudken eyes, their faces a very picture of sad- ness, it is not difficult to perceive the intense grief that they are in- wardly suffering; bat they know too well it is of no use to appeal for sympathy to their merciless masters, who have been accustom- ed from childhood to witness acts of cruelty and beutal:ty, so that to satisfy their insatiable greed they will commit themselves, or per- mit to be committed,any atrocity, however great. Even the pitiable sight of one of these slave -sheds does not half represent the misery caused by this traffic -homes brok- en up, mothers separated from their habies,hushands form wives, and brothere from sisters. Wren • last at I4lasankusa I saw a slave women who had with her ono child, whose starved little body she was clutching to her shrunk- en breast. I wasattracted by her sadfface, which !betokenen great suffering. I asked her the cause of it, and she told me in a low,sob- bing voice the following tale. 'I was living with my husband and three children in an inland village, .a few miles from here.— ' My husband was a hunter. Ten days ago the .Lufembe attacked our settlement; my husband de-. fended himself, but was overpow- ered and speared to death with several of the other • villagers.— I was brought here with my three children, two of whom have al- ready been purchased by the trad- ers: I shall never see them any more. Perhaps they will kill them on the death of •some chief, or perhaps kill them for food.—• My aemaining child, you see, is :ill, dying f'om starvation; they ,give us nothing to eat. I expect ,even this offs will bo taken from zne to -day, ns the chief, fearing less it should die and become a total loss, has offered it for a very small price. As for myself" said she, 'they will sell me to one of the neighboring tribes, to toil in the plantations, and when I be- come old and unfit for work I shall be killed.' ' There were certainly 500 slaves exposed for sale in this one village alone. Large canoes were con- stantly arriving from down river, with merchandise of all xindsIwith which they purchased these slaves A large trade is carried on be. tween the Ubangi and Lulungu rivers. The people inhabiting the mouth of the Ubangi buy the Ba- lolo slaves at Masankusu and the other markets. They then take them up the Ubangi • River and exchange them with the natives for ivory. Those natives by their slaves soley for food. Having BOYS; WHO SIJCO l 1EI). There was once iu Harrow, School a very poor boy, the son of a small tradesman in Harrow who was vary much Burt by thoughtless taunts about the pov- erty oti his family, and be used to 0:)y, "Never mind; I intend before I die to ride in a coach and four ;" not a very noble ambition ; but long before Dr Parr died he had ; become the greatest scholar of his age, and habitually rode in a 1 coach and four. When Warren ! Hastings was a boy he used to be grieved at the fact that his family , had lost their paternal estate at Daylesford, and to say, 'I will buy that back.' He grew up to be the great proconsul of the age, he bought back the estate, and be died at Daylesford. I had the honor of knowing Mr George Moore. You may remember that he came to London as a poor, unknown, unbefriended Cumber- land lad. When he entered a great commercial establishment his ambition was, 'I intend to marry my master's daughter and become my master's partner,' Both those things he accomplish- ed. He not only became a wealthy man, but what was in- finitely better, a man of great ser- vice to his generation. About 60 years ago there was a boy of Jew- ish extraction, a clerk in a solici- tor's office, and to the intense amusement of his companions he used to say, 'I intend to be Prime Minister of England,' and in spite of scorn be becanie Prime Minis- ter, and his name was Benjamin Disraeli. Ninety years ago there was a boy in Staffordshire who had been told exactly what I am telling you—that any boy who determined to be this or that could be, and he said, 'If that be true I will test it; and I am deter- mined that I will be Prime Minis- ter of England.' That boy be- came Prime Minister, and his name was Robert Peel. Some fifty years ago there was a very rude and ungainly -looking boy, who seemed as if all his limbs were out of joint ; when seven years old he was shoeless and penniless, who at seventeen was driving a canal boat, at twenty was a rail -splitter, at twenty-two was at the head of a small shop which was very unsuccessful, but who used to amuse his comrades by saying, 'Never mind; I intend to become President of the United States,' Ilia name was Abraham Lincoln. It is deggedness that does it, and it is thoroughnessithat does it. After all his failures Lincoln thought he would take to the law. He bc.aght a law book, and atter breakfast he used to go out and sit under a tree, and with bis legs higher than his head move round the tree in the shade from morn to dewy eve. Im that way he mastered the law book, and in time became one of the greatest of the modern Presidents of America.—Archdeacon Farrar. A lively 1 -I -year-old lad named Jones, of the town of Preston, had an experience the other day the memory of which will abide with In the rear of his home, near the Shetucket river, is a very deep well, the curbing of which is of seamless sections of big drain tile, smoothly dovetailed together. In leaning over the well curb to! recover his jack-knife, which had fallen on the edge of the well, he lost his balance and, like a plum- met, plunged head first down the dark cylinder. It is 45 feet to the water and fourteen feet far- ther to the botton. • The boy caught the well -rope, broke it, and boy and rope went to the bottom in an instant. Then he came to the surfake and, being an expert swimmer, easily kept himself afloat. He ,called for help but evidently his voice barely soared to the surface of the earth. Swam around the sides of his per- pendicular prison a few tirnes,and the desperate nature of his:position was apparent. But lee was plucky. If he kept on swimming long, he reasoned, he would soon be ex- hausted and sink. ,So he managed to fix his head and -shoulders against one side of the well and his feet against the opposite one, and in that positien.lrested for several moments. He gazed upward. The tall shaft narrowed like a tunnel above and at the top was capped by a round segment of blue sky, which seemed im- mensely far away. The boy decided to make the effort to climb to the top of the well. The well tile is very wide, but the boy' was barefoot, and his muscular toes and fingers stuck to the smooth curb like feelers of a leech. He began to crawl up- ward. I'p he went slowly and without a slip, until he was with: in a foot or two of the' top of the shaft, and then suddenly his clutch slipped and a second time he shot down the well, going to the bottom. He came to the surface of the water quickly, and, after a mo- ment's rest began his toilsome up- ward climb., and again,when hold- ing withina foot of the top,bo lost his hold and plunged again to the bottom. A third time he essayed the feat, and that time was sue eessful. He pulled himself out of the abaft, stepped over the well curb, and fell breathless and ex- hausted on the ground. The flesh had ,heen stripped from his fingers by the cutting grain of the drain tile, and his fingernails were worn to'laequick. Vi"HAT ALCOHOL WILL DO. THE THREE STARS HEALTH Will absolutely and per- manently cure the moat N 0 I • aggravated ease of CATARRH, Hay Fever or Catarrhal Deafness. This is not a snuff or ointment, both Of which are disoarded by reputable physi. Mans as wholly worthless and generally injurious. Ask for Hospital Remedy for Catarrh. N.B.—Thio fe the only Catarrh I pawn Remedy on the market which emanateeiromsoientiaoaouxeee. $1.00. 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A certain Sunday school re' cently decided to give au enter, tainment in aid of 'the Arch fund. - The Sanitarian tells what alco- hol will do, thus: 'It may seen strange, but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol, regularly ap- plied to a thrifty farmer's stom- ach, will remove the boards from his fenoe, let the cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees, mort- gage his farm, and sow his fields with wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint off his building, break the glass out of his window and fill them wiih wags, take the gloss off his clothes and polish off his manners; subdue his reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunkard's grave It would do this to the artisan and capitalist,.and matron and the - the maiden. "My daughter was greatly troubled with Scrofula, and, at one time, it was feared she would lose her sight. 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The bullion departments of this and other great English banking establishments are night- ly submerged in several feet of water by the action of machinery. In some of the London banks the bullion departments are connect- ed with tbe manager's sleeping rooms, and an entrance cannot be effected without setting off an alarm near- that person's head. If a dishonest official, during either day or night, should take even as snuch as one from a pile of a thousand sovereigns the whole pile woukl instantly sink and a pool of wafer take its place, letting every person in the establishment know of the theft. When Baby was sick, we gave her Cutorfa, When she wu a Child, she cried for Cutoria, When ebe became lids, she clang to Cutoria, iPban abs had Children, ebe meth.* Castor's ed that it was given in aid of 'the arch fiend.' Son—'Pa, a monkey s five times as good as Deacon Good, ain't he ?' Pa—'Jimmy, I'm sur- prised ! Why do you say so disre- spectful a thing?' 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