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2 WOMAN’S WORLD. A Few Things of Interest to the Fair Sex. A Queer Kind of an Entertainment. What Annoyed «, Washington Girl. The Queen Wae Ansrry-How To Reduce Flesh—Women Deserting Their Homes-How to Preserve the Complexion—Pronunciation of Peo ple of Different Cities—Decline of Manners on Higher Levels—Other Matters Worth Beading. The London World laments a great de cline in manners, especially on the higher levels. Cads are met with in increasing \ numbers on society’s upper crusts. They are of both sexes and old as well as 5 oung. The chaperones in a London ball room may be seen struggling for seats like semi-rowdies. Two dowagers readily talk across a third sitting between them. Greediness at the supper table is revolt ing. At the theaters vulgarity is offen sive in the stalls and boxes. Young cads lounge on two or three chairs when women are forced to stand up. They remain seated when a woman enters the room, never open the door for her when she is leaving and pay no heed to their language in her presence. This is the time of all times, says the New York Tribune, for buying table sil ver: prices are ver./ low—probably as low as they will be for years to come. The’ shapes are beautiful, many of them being reproductions of the most graceful stlyes of the past. The cheap and ugly forms and ornaments of fifteen years ago have been discarded in plated ware, as well as in sterling silver, and the most refined styles prevail The best silversmiths make admirable plated ware nowadays, and there is a great demand for it, especially by the owners of country houses. In suite of the fact that every luxurious country seat of the day has its huge silver safe, many people think it is more conducive to ease of mind to leave their heavy family silver in the vaults of their city bank and to use in the country the beautiful plated silver, which is so substantially and handsomely made that it lasts nearly a lifetime. It is quite as dainty if not as valuable as the real thing, and it is of no use to the average intelligent burglar. It is foolish to buy inferior plated ware. While the best articles of the kind certainly cost a good deal, they more than make up for the out lay in wearing qualities. “The art of conversation,” says a dis tinguished writer, ‘consists in the exer cise of two fine qualities—you must origi nate and you must sympathize. You must possess at the same time the habit of communicating and the habit of listen ing The union is rather rare, but it is Irresistible.” To listen sympathetically and to talk amusingly are generally supposed to be two distinct qualifications, seldom if ever united in the same individual; and it would be well for those who desire to shine as talkers to study the golden mean and judiciously combine both accomplish ments. I dreamed that Love came knocking At your door one winter night, While the specter trees were rocking In a blast of savage blight. •*O, 1 perish!” poor Love pleaded; "Ope the door for Love s dear sake,” But although you heard and heeded, Still no answer would you make! Not one word of rweet replying t Would your haughty lips have said, Even if Love had lain there dying. Even if Love had lain there dead! Then I dreamed that Love o’erruled you; For in tenderest voice he cried: "Nay, dear lady. I sadly fooled you. Since 1 am not Love, but Pride.” And you straightway oped your portals, With a merry and welcome nod, To that wiliest of Immortals, To that masquerading God. Ah, you oped your portals lightly, Not for Love’s, but Pride’s dear sake; Yet, O lady, if I dreamed rightly. Love soou taught you your mistake! —The Century. A writer in the Boston Transcript gives a long list of rules tending to the elucida tion of the subject of the proper treat ment of female house servants, from which a few of the most significant are culled. Give her as good wages as you can; pay her regularly or give her reasons why she should wait. Do not expect her to be a mind reader, but tell her just what you want done. Give her as pleasant a room as pos sible, and let her have time to keep it in order. Do not talk as if your own way was the only right way to do things. Never allow the children to treat her with disrespect or make her unnecessary work. Never reprimand her before children or strangers. Always say "good morning” and “good night.” Always sa.v “please” and “thank you” when you ask her to do anything for you, and insist upon the children doing the same A command given in an abrupt, disa greeable tone will often make her angry or unhappy. If you like her, tell her so sometimes! If she is cross or irritable, be patient with her. She may be suffering acutely mentally or physically. Above all things, do not scold, blame, or find fault with her any’ more than you can possibly help. Nothing will discour age her so much. She needs encourage ment a thousand times more than she needs discouragement. To sum up, be as kind, patient, sympa thetic, reasonable, considerate, and re spectful to her as you would wish other women to be to your own daughter if she is ever obliged to do housework for a liv ing. The Princess Alix of Hesse is finding that her coming greatness—that of a future Empress of Russia—is already casting long shadows before. She has finished her course of religious education necessary to be received into the Russian church, and is now being instructed by a Russian tutor to the imperial family sent from St. Petersburg for the purpose. Her position in court circles is much higher ny reason of her approaching marrfage, and recently a cordial letter from the crur asked her what especial “act of mercy” she would like to have “ukased” in honor of the importont event, “the par doning of a thousand persons” being sug gested byway or example. The vernacular of different localities in 1 America, says the New York Tribune, is very marked, even among cultivated pen- | pie. and many who flatter themselves i that their cosmopolitan culture has quite effaced any peculiar intonation would be surprised if they knew how much their : early association affects both voice and I accen! “How curious it is.” remarked a New York woman the other day, “that : Mr 8.. who has lived more than half his life away from Philadelphia and has i mingled with the best people at home and abroad for years, should still retain in : pristine purity his funny little Phiia- < deiphia twang. At home 1 had always j thought it rather a pity that he ‘hailed' I so unmistakably from the Quaker City; but 1 simply loved the familiar nasal drawl when, in the Arabian deser;, we exchanged greetings with a passing cara van, and I heard an exclamation from a ■ helmeted gentleman on a camel—an ex clamation in those Chestnut-street ac- ; cents of Mr. R.” i At a luncheon a short time ago pro j vincialisms in America came undei' dis cussion, and while a Baltimorean, a Phil ; adelnhian and a Chicago woman, who, I with a few others, comprised the party, 1 I recognized the pronounced difference in • i the accents of their Boston and New . York friends, they each failed to hear and would not acknowledge that their own speech was equally local. Every one ! has heard the old test sentence for a . Philadelphian and a Bostonian, “I fed a bird sitting on a curbstone with a spoon,” the difference in the pronunciation of the words bird, stone and spoon being unmis takable. “You Boston people carry your clear pronunciation rather far when you say chick-hen for chicken,” said a Philadel . phia lady to a descendant of the Pilgrims at a watering place the other day. “It is better than swallowing half your words as you Philadelphians do,” re torted the other. “And it is a pity,” she added, in an aside to a friend, “that they do not swallow the whole while they are about it!” Some western women try to leap the ugly “r” wherever it ends a word. It is a mark of early neglect that is almost im possible to eradicate, for the reason that those who use it are quite unconscious of the difference. This unfortunate habit is unhappily spreading, and is not confined as formerly to certain localities, but threatens to become a general American ism. Although we laugh at them, we are apt to admire the soft provincialisms of the southerners, with their “cyars” and their ’ “gyardens.” and their ignoring the vulgar “r” altogether when they ask you to shut the “do’ ” and pass their plates for a little “mo’ chick’-n.” A New England accent, pure and simple, is far from pleasant from the lips of a pretty woman. There is much for Americans to learn in the way of voice culture and accent, and it is astonishing that hardly any of the fash ionable schools for girls recognize this great natural defect and try to over come it. Eve, says the New York World, was a blonde of the English type of beauty. From the same source of information it seems that “she freckled.” Being the first edition of womanhood, her liver presumably was all right, and so her freckles must have been caused by the sun. A squeeze of lemon juice, a little milk and wild honey applied before going to her moss-covered bed would have re moved them. Sun freckles can be bleached out; liver freckles have to be burnt off, or allowed to wear out. Liver freckles can only be determined by their permanency. Spring is the season for siin freckles; the crop may be increased during the early summer, but the chill winds of autumn will scatter them, and those that withstand the bleaching, cleansing breath of winter have nothing to do with the sun. They indicate feeble circulation, diseased liver or a weak constitution. Some physicians attribute them to a superfluity of iron in the blood, either in herited or the result of iron-tinctured drugs, waters and foods. The most popular freckle cures, harm less if not remedial, to be found in the standard books on cosmetics were in use during Aspasia’s reign. A cure as old as Christianity Illustrates the simple faith of the Roman maiden to whom it was recommended: # “Distillation of watercress and half the quantity of honey; apply to the freck les night and morning until they disap pear.” Cure No. 2. “Juice of the milk weed, lime juice and oil of almonds; use abundantly for large and little freck les.” Cure 3. “Dissolve a little rock cam phor in olive oil and apply as needed.” Cure 4. “Dissolve some camphor in oil of turpentine, perfume with attar of rose and touch each blemish with the lotion.” Sweet milk, sour milk, buttermilk and cream have always been, used and are still recommended. Applied to 'the face as soon as the darts of Appolo appear, re lief should be had in a night. The use of white or light veils during spring blows and summer suns is the penny’s worth of prevention that out weighs the pound of cure. A white veil reflects the light, and is a non-conductor of heat; a blue veil absorbs the light, and a black veil absorbs everything—sun, heat, dust, attention and personal sun shine. The regular complexion veils sold in Paris, Calcutta, Rome and the Orien tal capitals are sun colors—straw, wheat and corn yellow; flame white, cream and the light tan, almond or burnt brown. So much for the sun freckles. The liver freckles are stubborn proofs of internal derangement. As the youth develops and the health improves these brown patches will fade, and as years ad vance disappear altogether. A certain New York firm made a for tune out of a freckle cure. About two years ago the firm was dissolved, and one of the manufacturers went to Ger many to brighten up the bonny faces of the Berlin girls. Now the Germans have two strong points—-philosophy and chem istry. The “cure” was so well adver tised that it sold, and the sale attracted the attention of the local authorities. A bottle was procured for Herr Somebody, the great little analyist to his Imperial Majesty, and when his* report was re ceived an order was issued for the ar rest of the enterprising New Yorker, who fled with the utmost precipitancy. For the protection of its fair citizens, the im perial magistrate posted the formula in public places on bulletin boards under the caption Poison and over the name of the New York firm. Here it is: One _ quart of water, two ounces of glycerine and fifteen grains of corrosive sublimate. The preparation will remove freckles, but the skin goes with them; it burns like hot coals and leaves a raw, sore place. The idea is to burn off the outer skin; if the freckle is a sun freckle it will come off with the skin, but if it is a liver freckle no benefit whatever will be derived, aside from the pain the fpolish woman deserves to suffer. If a drop of the poison should touch the lips or get on the eyeball, very serious consequences might be appre hended. t ' ie *®®Hy truly fashionable vioman. says Demorest’s Magazine for September, who dresses well and knows her hat is becoming is never a coward about taking the sunshine in her face when she attends country club gvmkana races, or from the deck of a friend’s steam yacht watches crack sloops having a brush in Newport bay. She is glad to take on plenty of sunburn, and never minds freckles in the least; but she very seriously objects to her face looking greasy. Nothing, she believes, cad so en tirely nullify even supreme beauty of face, form and gown as a greasy counte nance, the result of too much sitting in the sun without precautions. Precautions mean cologne and a soupcon of tbe purest rice powder, violet scented. That these may be handy to administer at any mo ment. she carries three magic articles. One is a vast white veil of chiffon, long enough to pass around her hat and face, cross at the back, and draw for ward again to tie in a big bow under her chin. If under this pro tection she still feels herself growing gr easy, she unscrews a flat, antique sil ver bottle, that by delicate chains hangs from her belt, moistens her handkerchief with the cologne it contains, and deli cately mops her face: then, from a tiny, brocade, satin pouch, that matches the prevailing tint of her gown, and that hangs also from her belt, she draws a THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK:) MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894. powder puff and passes it over her face. The result is a sweet freshness of skin and a cooling from the heat that puts re newed vigor into her conversation and a complacent consciousness of well-being into her eyes, that none could gainsay. Some women carry a diluted kind of aro matic ammonia in their cologne bottles, while others carry a bottle of some flex ible material that fits in a silver case, but when squeezed, sends out a sweet spray of cologne over one's face. She was attired in the verj’ latest tailor made suits, says the Washington Post, and as she walked down F street with a swinging gait more than one turned to look at her. Her general appearance was faultless, so the men thought. Not so with the other sex, who seemed to find something wrong, judging by the way they nudged each other in passing. If there is anything a woman hates it is to have two fellow-women nudge each other and smile. Such an action usually means that something is wrong, whether in be havior or attire it is sometimes hard to tell. At any rate, the tailor-made girl, certain her behavior was strictly correct, immediately supposed it must be her per sonal appearance. For several squares she wondered what could be the matter. Was it her collar? No; it was all right. Her cravat was in place. “Oh,” she thought, “I have for gotten my belt.” But the belt was also in its place. In desperation at last she stopped a woman who was staring at her and demanded: “Will you please tell me what you see to amuse you so highly?” The woman looked at the questioner for a moment and laughed in a cruel manner as she said: “You ought to see yourself. You for got to fix your hair, didn’t you?” A light suddenly dawned upon the un fortunatervictim’s thinking powers. She clapped her hands to the back of her head and found she had forgotten to re move the curl papers that were the chief aids in making her short, straight hair appear in such lovely, natural curls. The tailor-made girl would not really have cared so much if two of her rivals had not passed just at that moment. But how, you ask, could anybody walk down F street with her hair in curl pa pers? The case is rather an odd one, but it happened In this way: The young lady in question had accepted a wager to dress without the aid of a mirror, and to look as well as if she had stood before a glass for hours. Calm in the assurance that the wager was hers, she walked down town. We all know the results which have led to the adoption of the motto, “Never be without a glass.” For once in her life, says a London let ter, Lady Jeune has got herself in hot water at court, and has been subjected to severe hauling over the coals by the queen. It seems that her majesty and some of her daughters made some very fine quilt work for some charity or other woman's department of the Chicago ex hibition. Quite recently sketches of these pieces of needlework appeared in some of the ladies’ newspapers published in Lon don, on seeing which her majesty flew into a terrible passion. She immediately had a letter written by her lady in wait ing to Lady Jeune, who had had charge of the work in question, and to whom they had been confided, asking who had given permission for these sketches to be made. Thereupon Lady Jeune wrote back to explain that she herself had authorized the reproduction on the ground that she thought that it would please the people of England to see what their sovereign’s needlework was like. She likewise ex pressed her most humble apologies for having given cause for offense. Her missive was of no avail in assuaging the royal wrath, and a second letter, still more irate than the first, followed from the queen, and, according to latest ac counts, Lady Jeune’s friend, Princess Christian, is now using all her best efforts tojappease the queen's anger. Her ma jesty is very capricious in such matters, and there is no person in the world more quick to resent what she re gards as presumption, or to take offense at mere trifles. It may safely be taken for granted that had not Sir Francis Jeune been in possession of the lucrative presidency of the court of divorce and of bis knighthood he would have forfeited by his wife’s indiscretion all prospects of ever attaining to either the one or the other. At the first indication of the abdomen’s taking upon itself a disagreeable promi nence. says Demorest’s Magazine for Sep tember. accompanied by a sensation of uncomfortable fullness after eating, and often with shortness of breath, it is ad visable to make a slight change of diet. Bread should be eaten very sparingly, and only of the coarse kinds; graham is the best. No white bread should be eaten unless cut very thin and toasted brown. It is best to drop all cereals, and also the root vegetables, potatoes, turnips, car rots, etc., and beans and Deas. Os course sweets are tabooed, and it is well to erase chocolate from the list of liquids. All drinks should be taken In moderation, but a goblet of hot water a half hour be fore meals will hasten the cure. The only meats that are under the ban are veal and pork, and the latter is unfit to be eaten at any time excepting by those working hard at manual labor. Eat as freely as appetite prompts of fruits, both fresh and dried, and all green vegetables, especially salads. Nuts and raisins, figs and dates, ices and jellies, can be varied for dessert, so you will miss the harmful pastries, cakesand puddings. An original entertainment is raging just now for charitable purposes in New Eng lands towns, and the flippant-minded may try to say something funny in this con nection. It is styled: “A Chestnut Party and Old Maids’ Auction.” A num ber of the prettiest young ladies are dressed in quaint spinster style and auc tioned off. An aristocratic church in Pawtucket, R. 1., made quite a sum of money and had a jolly time with one of these auctions. With a witty auctioneer there is a chance for fun. The highest price paid at one party was 81.50 for a It Is Not What We Say But What Hood’s Sarsaparilla Does That Tells the Story. Its record is unequalled in the history of medicine. Even when others fail Hood’s X Cures Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all drug gists. $1; six for $5, Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Pills cure liver ills, jaundice, biliousness, sick headache and indigestion. PAUWAY’S n PILLS, Always Bellable.' Purely Vegetable. Possess properties the most extraordinary in restoring health. They stimulate to healthy action the various organs, the natural conditions of which are so necessary for health, grapple with and neutralize the im purities, driving them completely out of the system. , RADWAY’S PILLS Have Long Been Acknowledged as the Best Cure for SICK HEADACHE, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, DYSPEPSIA, All Disorders of the Liver. ISF’Full printed directions In each box; 25 cents a box. Sold by all druggists. RADWAY & CO., 32 Warren street, N. Y. ——^——■—l^——^————^——————————— very popular “spinster,” while at another church prices ranged from 10 cents to 38 cents. A clever man, says Miss Bisland, in the New York Press, inquired of me the other day what I thought of the wholesale way m which women are deserting their homes. I confess his remark startled me no lit tle, and I promptly demanded an explan ation of this ugly, sweeping reflection upon my sex. It seems he was delighted to ride a pet hobby, and instantly gal loped on at full speed; but what distressed me beyond measure was to find that when he did call a halt I was utterly un able to refute his assertion. He began by inquiring whether I had observed the phenomenal growth of the family hotel in this country. In days gone by inns and hostelries depended upon travelers for patronage, while in these degenerate times their handsomest reve nues are derived from permanent board ers. families who live there the year round. H e also cited a dozen devices women are resorting to in order to escape domes tic responsibilities. In every large city the biggest, newest and most popular apartment houses are those that provide a restaurant for lessees and agree to sup ply cleaners and attendants. Except, he said, for people in moderate circumstan ces, flats arranged for the complete do mestic menage have fallen into disfavor. Women who give up housekeeping exact absolute freedom from care or duty. With bric-a-brac, pictures and ornamen tal plants they are able to relieve the deadly stiffness of ready furnished rooms, and unless the lady employs a personal maid she has nothing whatever to do with servants. Mothers with children are almost as well placed, as these luxurious abodes have a separate dining room for nurses and their charges, so that mamma can see as little or as much of her babies as she likes. “Only the other day I met a clever, charming gentleman of my acquaintance, a hard working fellow who not only occu pies the chair of mathematics in a col lege, but doubles his income with liter ary work. *We w sre it a fashionable de ception where he looked bored to death, and his wife, a handsome well-preserved person, seemed to be having a very good time. Urging me to stop and see him I mentioned his number, when the pro fessor turned a pair of very mournful eyes upon me and shook his head. “ ‘Oh, no,’ he murmured' ‘we’ve broken up housekeeping.’ “ ‘What,’ I exclaimed, ‘given up your beautiful library that has been my envy so long?’ “ ‘Yes. Wife, you know, couldn't stand the strain—servants and things were too much for her health. She said she would have nervous prostration if she did not get a rest, and now we live at a hotel.’ All this in a most dejected tone. “ ‘But I should think with your chil dren,’ I began. “ ‘Oh, yes, you are right,’ he inter rupted. ‘lt is inconvenient for me and the children, But it appeared to be a desperate case, und now my wife likes this way of living so much better she doesn’t think she will ever keep house again.’ “As he spoke we both looked across at his plump, rosy partner, and I thought my own thoughts.” To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healty activity, without irritat ing or weakening them, to dispel head ache, colds or fever, use Syrup of Figs.— ad. THE HUNT FOR HTOSON. Capture of the Florida Negro Who Brained Planter Sigler. Ocala. Fla., Aug. 18.—A posse tracked Albert Hudson from Emerald Island in Lake county to within several miles east of Belleview, where he was captured near midnight by Tom Stark and Andy West and taken back to Tavares. The story we hear is that Hudson was working for Samuel Sigler, a well to do orange grower. A dispute arose over some work. The negro seized a rifle Sigler held in has hand, used it as a club, braining Sigler by crushing his skull. Doctors say Sigler cannot live. A crowd of Ocala boys leave on the midnight train to visit Camp Cooper at St. Augustine. A Good. Appetite Always accompanies good health and an absence of appetite is an indication of something wrong. The universal testi mony given by those who have used Hood's Sarsaparilla, as to its merits in restoring the appetite and as a purifier of the blood, constitutes the strongest rec ommendation that can be urged for any medicine. Hood’s Pills cure all liver ills, bilious ness, jaundice, indigestion, sick headache. 25c.—ad. ANARCHIST PLOTS? They Swear to Destroy the Authors of the New Laws. Paris, Aug. 18.—The Figaro professes to have special information j.s regards the plans of tbe Spanish anarchists Who formed the plot to kill Premier Dupuy. I All members of the Barcelona group, it savs, have been sworn to discourage ; hap hazard outrages against society I and to devote themselves to the i destruction of the authors of the new laws against anarchists. Dupuy was selected be to the first victim. The Figaro sajs that the leaders in the Barcelona conspiracy have been arrested. □Premier stomach trouble has grown worse in the last forty-eight hours. He sufferers severe pains and is aery weak. SAVE 35 PER CENT. 2) per cent, discount on our entire regular lines of Summer Clothing and a-further discount of 10 per cent, for cash. ORDER BY MAIL, Will 159 CONGERSS, SAVANNAH, CA. AROUND THE WORLD. What Rev. Dr. Talmage Saw in Samoa. Scenes of Battle and Shipwreck—A Visit to the Royal Palace—“ Trade Gin” and “Kava”—Malietoa’s Mis sionary Flag. (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.) Apia, Samoa, July 2.—A hundred and sixty men in the angry waters: one ship sunk out of sight st> that not so much as a plank or rope has since appeared: of our three great Amercan warships lying in the harbor, the Leipsic beached, the Tren ton ahd Vandalia demolished; of the three great German men-of-war the Eber and Olga gone completely 'under: the Adler rolled over on its side and cracking apart amidships. Out of all the vessels in harbor only one saved, and that be cause it had steam up and could sail out into the sea: three days of wreckage and fright and horror which shook the island • and by report of next steamer transfixed all nations: all this a brief putting of what an antipodean hurricane dip for this harbor in March, 1889. While all up and down: the beach of this island are pieces of the wreckage of that unparalleled tempest, only one skeleton of a ship remains, the “Adler,” sufficiently distinct to represent that scene of cyclonic infernization. It is rather unfortunate that Samoa in the popular mind of all nations, stands as a synonym of shipwreck, for the place is as fine a specimen of foliage and fruitage as the world holds. Indeed, its harbor is the sea-captain’s anxiety. For though a wide harbor it has only a small entrance, and rocks in all directions toss the white foam. The captain told us that we need not think we were left if we saw him sail ing out to sea, for he would do so if a squall came up, but he would return and take us. After more than seven days of ocean rolling without sight of ship or land the Samoan islands greet you like. A BEATIFIC VISION. As we came on deck this morning the waters were covered with small boats of natives bringing specimens of coral and all manner of flowers and fruits, ready to sell these and transport to shore all the passengers who chose to go. A boat be longing to the German legation with four stout oarsmen took us three-quarters of a mile to the beach. From hence we went to King Malietoa’s residence. But it is a time of war. The king had fled to the forest. A few nights before he was thought to be at a village house and it was surrounded and shot into, and the king would have been slain if he had been there. The whole island is in a turmoil. We are shown the king’s rooms and his pictures and bric-a-brac. The walls sug gested fondness for German arid English royalty, but I found not the face of any American President or general. We saw the queen, and at the invitation of the warriors went into the guards' tent. About fifteen dusky soldiers, each reclin ing on a pillow of round wood, upheld by two small supports. A more uncomfort able pillow, it would seem to me, than that in Bethel, from the foot of which Jacob saw the angelics. Each of the warriors had a gun within reach. At their, invitation we sat down on a mat besides those who were sitting and in scant vocabularly talked over the Samoan troubles. We saw one soldier who had been shot in the foot, and he was limping along leaning on an assistant. Four men were killed last night in a skirmish and another skirmish is to take place to-night. There are natives who do not want to pay their taxes and tfleir various grievances have been summed up, and a young warrior wants to get. tbe throne and introduce the millennium. A long continued struggle is opening. Mean while a German and English man-of*war is in the harbor, and an American man-of war is expected soon. What will be tbe result no one can prophesy. But this is certain, this island and all the group of islands are suffering from foreign inter ference. It is a common saying among the natives that first comes the mission ary, then conies the merchant, then comes the consul, then comes the mau-of-war, then, Oh my! Why should three great nations like the English, German and American stoop to such small business as to be watching with anxious and expensive vigilance these islands for fear that this or that foreign government should get a little ad vantage? Better CALL HOME TOVR WARSHIPS and leave all to the missionaries. They will do more for the civilization of Samoa than all the guns that ever spoke from the sides of the world’s navies. The cap tain of our steamer in an interesting ad dress a few evenings ago concerning the islands of the Pacific, declared that the only movement toward civilization that amounted to anything in these islands had been made by the church. Gospel, not gunpowder. Life, not death. Bibles, not bullets. The only movement that at this time has full swing in Samoa is “trade gin.” That maddens and embrutes, and'has given to Samoa the unsavory and unjust title of the “Hell of the Pacific,” The foreign gin is helped in its work by a domestic drink called “kava.” It is pre pared in the following delicious way: “There is a plant called piper methisti cum, from the root of which the kava is made. A young Samoan woman moved to one of the Fiji Islands, but got tired and resolved to return to her native isl ands. Before starting homeward she saw a rat, which seemed weak and thin, eat the root of this plant, when the rat immediately became strong and vigorous, ana she concluded that tbe best thing she could do for her native land was to take this root to her people, thst it might make them strong and vigorous too. So it was trans plaated. As the root of it made the rat You can save it here at our Reduction Sale of Fine Summer Clothing. Big money, in our Negligee Shirt Sale. Bargains in our sl2 to S2O Suits for $6, $7, $8 and $lO. Am /O& ■ CARRIAGES. BETTERBE Why will you use that old BUGGY, WAGON or HARNESS? For you can exchange the old for a new one at the extensive repository of H. H. COHEN, Bay and Montgomery Streets. P. S.--Special Harness Sale this week. MACHINERY~CASTINGS. ETC. ’ " KEHdE’SIRON WORKS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAK ERS, ENGINES, BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC Special attention to Repair Work. Estimates promptly furnished. Broughton slraa rom Reynolds to Randolphs tresis. Telephone 268. strong and vigorous, why not the same re sult be produced in the human race ? So she cultivated in Samoa the piper meth isticum, from which the kava is made. Girls, and old men who have nothing else to do, prepare this kava by the following process: They take the root and chew it until the juice fills their moutji, then they discharge it from the mouth into a bowl; more root is put into the mouth and the liquid disposed of in the same way. It has become a popular drink. It is ordered on all occasions; at the opening and closing of all socialities, before and after all styles of business, it is KAVA HERE AND KAVA THERE. and kava everywhere. And it is cleaner than most of the drinks of other countries, and has in it no logwood, strychnine or nux vomica, but pure and simple expecto ration. I consider it as an improvement on most strong drinks. It is said to be a most delicious drunk. Almost visitors try this kava and see what it tastes like and what are its effects, but as I have great faith in the testimony of others, I did not taste it, believing all they said about the pungent and grateful flavor of this beverage of refined and delectated spit. The kava not only appeals to the taste, but it is said to beautify the cup or bowl from which it is quaffed. The bowl is not washed, but retains the settlings of this beverage, which har den, and come to look like exquisite enam eling, which submits to a high polish. Not only is the cup enameled, but the stomach of the one who takes it becomes also an enameling so elaborate that I am informed that one who was in such con dition, by sneezing violently, cracked the enamel arid died. Instead of the burning out of the vitals by the brandy and whisky and wines, would it not be more esthetic' to carry around a whole art gallery of en ameled insides? Tell all the Methodists that Malietoa is a Wesleyan and a consistent follower of the three worthies of Epworth, Susan nah, Charles and Johu. Though his every drop of inherited blood is warlike, this king is a man of peace. One of his ances tors fought back an enemy from Samoa, and did it so well that the defeated troops as they got bafck into their boats cheered the Samoan king, shouting, ‘■WELL DONE, FIGHTING COCK.” But the present king might be better symbolized by a dove rather than a chan ticleer. As in America, we never had but one man who declined being President of the United States when he knew that he could get the office, so Malietoa is the only man that I know of who declined to be king, when the honor fell to him. Again and again he preferred another for the throne and accepted royalty only when circumstances compelled him to do so. There have been deeds of blood since he took the scepter, but war is barbarism, whether under Samoan or American or English flag. Nearly all the great gen erals of our American wars have been good members of Presbyterian, or Episco palian, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Con gregational or Catholic churches. Do not, therefore, sneer when I write that Malietoa is a Wesleyan. The flag that floats over his house is a one-starred flag contrived by a missionary. Indeed, the good work of the missionaries is found wherever we go on this island. The Bible is the chief book. There are churches and schools. One of the group of islands has a college of fifty-five stu dents in preparation for the ministry. Nearly all the inhabitants can read and write. There are no doubt enough bad people. Three ships of war lying for the most time in the harbor keep the natives familiar with the vices of more civilized natiqps. “the beach-combers,” as they are called at Samoa, that is the men who combine the work of wrecker, pirate, thief, desperado, and agent for the slums, are found here, but every city that I Know of has its beach-combers, and the poor swindled immigrants find them more numerous at Boston, New York and Liverpool, thsn the voyagers of the Pa cific find them at Samoa. These islands are more thorough Sabbath-keepers than you will find in almost any land of all the earth. From early morning until iate at night on Sabbath the whole town, with few exceptions, is given up to devotion. At half past six on Sabbath morning, the church bells ring, and the people put on their best attire and assemble for Save Your Money. One box of Tutt’s Pills will save many dollars in doctors’ bills They will surely cure all diseases of the stomach, liver or bowels. 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When a woman was a candidate for marriage to some chief she was seated in the market-place for the public to de cide whether she were tit for such mar riage. If they decided in the negative she was clubbed to death. They worshipped the dog, or the eel, or the turtle, or the lizard, or the shark. * “Back I” cried the Christian religion to such monstrosities of behavior and all things changed. The Samoans have not much upe for clothes. I saw no fashion-plates in the windows. A tailor would starve to death in Samoa. Lack of complete physical in vestiture comes not from undue economy, not from pauperism, not from immoral ity, but originally from the fact that on these islands the climate is so mild the year round that necessity does not make inexorable .demand upon weavers and clothiers. But gradually calicoes and nankeens and alpacas are coming into demand. The Samoan somewhat substitutes tattooing, which in some cases appears quite like a suit of clothes. In the boat crossing from wharf to steamer I put my hand on the knee of a Samoan and said, “You are tat tooed.” He replied, “Yes, that me clothfes.” I said, “When do you have that tattooing done?” He answered, “Twenty years of age.” I said, “Does it hurt?” He replied, “Oh, yes! Hurt! Swell up!” I asked, “How long doesit take to have that tattooing done?” He answered, “Two months.” Indeed all the men I noticed had been tattooed. It is a badge of manhood. A man is NOT RESPECTABLE UNLESS TATTOOED. He would be thrust out of society or not admitted. The most profitable busi ness is that of tattooing. The artist re tires to the bush with a few candidates for two or three months. Every day, as the patient can endure it, the pricking in of the paint by needles and sharp tooth combs, the process goes on. The suffering is more or less great, but one must be in the fashion, yet I suppose in this there is no more pain than that which men and women sutler in the mar tyrdom of fashion through which some peoDle go in the higher civilized life. What tight boots with agony of corns! What pierceing of the ear lobes for dia mond rings! What crucifixion of stout waists to make them of more modern size! The tattooing is only another form of worship at the altar of fashion—no flinching on the part of the tattooed, no backing out. The work done, he who went into the bush a boy comes out a man. As we passed along the main street of the island we had a crowd after us with something to sell. To buy a flower or a shell was greatly to reenforce the number of the escorting party. The men are mus cular and well" formed. The children are beautiful. As to the women, every nation has itp type of female beauty, and no one of another nation is competent to judge concerning it. But there goes the whistle of the “Ala meda.”. It has to sound three times and then OFF FOR NEW ZEALAND. We wait for the second whistle and then start. Over the rolling billows to the ladder of the steamer, and up to onr old plach on the good ship to which we again trust our lives- What a mystery it must be to all the innumerable creatures of the deep. We discuss some flying fish or see once In a voyage a spouting whale. but we never realize that we are being discussed by the in habitants of an element filled with so much life that our captain says when a whale is wounded by its captors, it re quires two men to keep off the sharks while the captive is being drawn in. What suppose you, the inhabitants of Oceana think of this ship floating above them, of the bow lowing through, of the screw stirring the wave, of thejsassengrirs bending over the railing? Every moment as we pass on by day and night there are thousands of ichthyolgical inquires of “What’s that?” What do the seagulls flying hundreds of miles from shore think of us? What do the sharks think? Wha tdo the whales think? What does the octopus think? We are as great mysteries to them as they are to us. T. DeWitt Talmage.