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The Mutt! Advertiser I
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FORSYTH, GA.
OFrictAt. Orsar of Horror Oprtt.
BY McGINTY & CABINISS.
.Swimming baths arc becoming popular j"
additions to English school*. The* school
board contends that it is quite as impor
tn t for a boy to learn to swim for a
girl In learn the art of cookery and
claims that th<‘ swimming bath adds to
the comfort of the scholars and assists in
ic work of education.
There arc 1.400,000,000 people on
« artb and all these, as some one compute-,
could be gathered iu a field tea miles
ffuuare or in 100 square miles of territory
and every last man of them reached from
one telephone. Who, exclaims the De¬
troit Free Prvui, says the world is over
jKjpulntcd when one book agent may ad¬
dress such an audience?
Maggie Hhreiner, of Chicago, poured
kerosene oil on her husband and then set
fire to it, burning him to death, Al
though she is serving a term of ten years
in the penitentiary, she is suing the
High Court of the Catholic Order of
Foresters in Chicago for 82000, princi¬
pal and interest on a death benefit of
*1000, which she claims as a beneficiary
of the dead maty’s estate.
Uncle Sam’s money bags in the Treas¬
ury Department at Washington have been
saturated with the tear drops of heaven.
Recently the concrete roof was taken off
lor repairs, and when the rain fell it
poured down on 87,000,000 silver dollars
store*l in bags containing 1000 each.
Treasurer Huston thinks the moisture
will tend to rot the bags and necessitate
a recount. An effort will be made to
team the moisture out. of the bags.
\n experiment in ocean time-saving
hit;, just been tried by having the steam
ship City of Rome discharge her passed
- ers at Milford Haven instead of at Liv¬
erpool on her last voyage out. Milford
Haven is the extreme western point of
England, and it is believed that sailing
direct from Now York fo that point will
save from eighteen to twenty-four hours
in the passage. It is likely to become
t he great point of sailing between the
two countries.
The dawn begins to flicker over
another United States, in the southern
h unisphere on the other side of the globe.
“ I’he project of consolidating the Aus¬
tralian continent into one powerful State,”
*sy* out British contemporary, the <S pec
i•>(<!)', “has taken a great step forward."
t he movement toward such a union of
• In- Australian colonies has been in ex¬
istence for some time, led by the colony
• ot \ ietoria and resisted principally by
New South Wales.
The Paris exhibition having
Parisians are now engaged in contempla¬
ting the statistics ami counting the gains,
li is estimated that 5.000,000 of French
people came from the provinces, and
i hat their aggregate expenditure in the
capital was $100,000,000. At least !.
500,000 of foreigners visited Paris and
Lac c xhibitiou, and spent $30,000,000.
Lngiishmen head the foreigners list with
.’•*0,000, Belgium coming next v. itli
2 26,000, Germans third with 160.000.
h: id America a good fourth with nearly
■20,Oft).
The interesting report of Inspector-
1 acral Dumont, of the l uited States
Sieamboat Inspection Service, presents
mil striking figures. During the fiscal
\',.t er.ued last June, over 6700 steamers
v . - inspected by his subordinates. Tin
>ial uumber ot accidents resulting in loss
Oj iilv during the year was but thirty-two,
mi! the total death-list reached 301 nit
mi e.-tlimited total of 550,000,000 pas
• igvi- i allied on steam vessels during
ihe year General Dumont modestly
credits the increased efficiency of the
Nv.unboat Inspection Service to the faith¬
fulness of his associates.
AL Eiffel, the builder of the great tower
in Paris, has recently invented a bridge
which promises to "fill a long felt want
-T the railroad companies. It is to be
n-ed temporarily in the place of the ordi
i iry bridges when they have been dam
ged. It is made of steel, carries a
track, and weighs, with a length of 3 5'J
tret, about eighty-six ton*, It can be
put iu position from either end without
the aid of machinery or any preparation,
(imply by human hands. At a recent
U'.d in Paris many officers of high rank
' id officials of the railways from several
countries expressed their hearty admira¬
tion of it.
i he King of Siam is a magnificent ob¬
ject in state attire, lie glistens from
h ad to toot v ith jewels worth more than
.000,000. It is commonly reported ic
Bangkok, the capital of that country,
ual he has 300 wives and eighty-seven
rhddrcu. though the exact figures have
i - ver been giveto to his subjects. He
a father at the age of twelve, and is
DDT only thirty-six years old. If he
ves a few years more hc will be able tc
-st.tne the title of "father of his gouc*
trv The King a good fellow, fond
a reasonable number of his children,
and very kind to his 300 wives, He is a
very progressive man and has done s
great deal of good to Siam.
Thx boiler of a passenger launch plying
between the bridge near Foochow and Sharp
Leak, China, exploded. Out of ninety pae
wagers on board only twenty escaped 'ahve.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA.. TUESDAY,DECEMBER 31, 1889- EIGHT PAGES
i The late Congressman S.S. Cox's deep
interest in letter carriers is well remem
leered, and they propose erecting a hand
' monument his Each
some over grave.
i carrier will be asked to subscribe $2 to*
i ward the fund.
lystcr culture is attracting consider*
able attention in the South Atlantic
Mat- Georgia and North Carolina
! have planted large oyster farms recently,
and South Carolina, not to be left, it
comtemplating a plant of 4000 acres it.
Winyah Bay.
j Cholera is said to have broken out ie
[ Persia, and the authorities by way of pre¬
venting the spread of the disease have
forbidden the population on the Messo
potamian frontier, under the severest
penalties, to eat grapes and fruits, and
have ordered them to eat fowls.
The pay roll of officers and sailors in
the United States navy this year will
amount to nearly eight millions of dol¬
lars. The feeding and clothing of the
men will cost another million and a half.
What a bagatelle that is as compared
with the value and importance of a good
squadron of ships ready for service any¬
where !
The issuing of contracts by our Gov¬
ernment for eight new war vessels means
increased work for private ship-building
firms throughout the country. At pres¬
ent manufacturers iu Boston, Bristol,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
San Francisco are all doing private con¬
tract work on vessels of war, to say noth¬
ing of the firms scattered everywhere
throughout the country that contribute
by sublet contracts.
The municipality of Paris has invited
the officials of the London School Board
to favor them with some details of their
work last winter in providing free meals
for the jtoor children attending the board
schools. The request arises out of a
proposal which iias been discussed of
lute by the Paris Municipal Council to
provide a free breakfast for those of the
children attending their primary schools
whose parents arc so indigent as to be un¬
able to give them a meal.
William S. Roberts, who is a cripple,
taught school in the country north ol
Kearney, Neb., and at the same tiim
won the heart of Miss Minnie Bears, tin
result being an engagement. The fickh
Minnie afterward changed her mind ana
married another man. For this breach
of promise Roberts brought action in the
court and obtained a judgment for dam¬
ages in the sum of $3000, but as Minnie
is wealthy in affection only is is probable
that Mr. Roberts will be compelled tc
continue school teaching for a livelihood.
• A new company, like ^lie famous East
rndia Company, has just been chartered
by the Government of Great Britain. Its
powers are almost sovereign, and it is
hoped that it will do fin' Africa all and
more than all that its predecessor did for
! 11114111. Its African dominion will be
called Zambesia. Zambesiland, and will
cover Matabeleland, North Bechuanaland
and Kllama's territory, in all four hun¬
dred thousand square miles, or twice the
area of France. Alore than half this vast
region is fit for European settlement, and
the whole of it is rich in minerals.
A report comes from the City of Mexicc
that General Barrundia, an exile from
Guatemala, resident there, is aided by the
Mexican Government in a plan for the
starting of a revolution in his native land.
General Diaz, it L said, is ambitious to
become Dictator or President of all the
territory between the Rio Grande and the
Isthmus of Panama, and the revolution,
now in course of preparation, is to be but
a step toward a great union of all the
Central American countries with the Mex¬
ican Republic. Money, it is asserted, has
been furnished by Mexico for the pur¬
chase in New York city of arms to bo
used by the revolutionists.
Judged by its merits the American con
tributiou to the Paris Exposition has been
eminently successful. It was very little
more extensive th an the corresponding
exhibit iu the affair of 1878 attheTroca
dero, but the prizes taken were more
numerous, especially in the higher grades.
The follow ing table shows how American
exhibits compare this year with those’ of
eleven years ago:
isrs. 1SS9
Grand prize*.......... .... 10 55
Special prizes......... t
Gold medals........... . ..143 ltd
Silver medals.......... 281
Bronze medals......... 225
Honorable mention... 206
Totals .S69 959
The emigration policy of the Austrian
Government the New York Commercial
Advertiser regards as entirely in karmony
with our immigration policy. "For a
second time during the past few months,"
our contemporary says, "we learn of the
arrest of steamship agents in Austria for
inducing peasants to emigrate to America
by picturing it as a land which overflow
etk with work and money. It appears
that the motive of the Austrian Govern¬
ment is not so much to secure the emi¬
grants against fraud and exiled wretch¬
edness. as to prevent its young men from
escaping military service. But whatever
rhe motive, our own country is to be con¬
gratulated upon the attitude which the
Austrian Government has assumed. It
is victimized ignorance in Austria and
Italy, more than Government assistance
iu Great Britain, which supplies us with
the most helpless and objectionable class
of immigrants.”
NOT YET.
The child who plays amid t’^j noddinj
*
grass—
The wild-flower's home, the butterfly's
dear haunt—
Hears in the softly-scented winds that pass
Echoes of voices far and sad which chant,
"Not yet."
The youth who pores o'er many a ponderous
book
Till daylight sparkles in the distant sky.
Dreaming of fame with fond, enraptured
look.
u Hears m them . footsteps . as the , years
^ ass
Not yet.’
rhe old man. whom kind death, with gentle
hands.
Beckons to sleep, looks hack oer all his
years,
Gathers their few poor sheaves, and humbly
stands
ror the portal waiting still he hears,
/ et '
aujaiet I . homos, in I outh a Companion,
ACROSS THE HALL.
r, ...... " i,iii T SC 7 • th , “ , h f ,, 11 .
’ :iUU
sta ir rw rentS ,V it , 'V i; 7 CCD ?’ 777' rooms "7°°
she b V entn r usl ! lst, ; :ali v declared it
-
haul i!' T T n . n . i' , r r t \ boardl SUlt th ?£- *‘ l
urn ; ; thoU f: ,h0 mill,0Qairu " ho
, £roa ” od hor
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,l K ) a, J f ^ US( \ l was an< a
util i| ’
conducted, , comfortable
one, when
l"// '. ’ ni o a o c ‘ d room on the
thir ' °°f' ,ln< l,r oug it m\ >clongmg.«
. I fully
w as aware that the
' V i' 1 L ’itm< o i s. damson s
l boarders i d,d not resale above the second
001 i am ° n ■' " ia h e f a lt d "olerivs,
L’"' ( P< °P*'- wno Ute cannot tiurd pay and a
ihiirtl K / <1 " ’ ( / C jU 1011
fourth floors. So I , let her think what
she pleased about my income, needed
to her demand for '* " eek hva vs ia ad
\auce, and , sai<l - , T I was a medical V - student, *
although I had graduated three years be
fore.
“Did you get iu, old fellow?” Steve
Harlan asked me, the next time wc met.
“I did.”
“Next rooin?”
“Engaged! Mine is across the hail.
“Well? Who is she?”
“Companion to an ancient party on the
next floor below. Maid has a room next
the mhnuess. C ompanion mounts another
lg i i). s ,ui.-. Am wo sit opposite each
o.-ici a l.t “t'l *'• ae ancient party
g.ares at me as U 1 owed her something,
, t,la l >s thinks I want to feci her
pa s . !*>.e> is a eorpuient individual,red
m the face, and eats like a rhinoceros,
1 >si<l ,,0lvS JU'etlier than ever
' U i '
“Got any names?”
“Yes. Ancient party is Mrs. Carter.
Companion is Elsie Lennox.”
Then Steve whistled with s:* much sig¬
nificance that 1 cried, with conviction:
“You know her?”
r s . u !’ a d !ar . iKT t uu '' 1 . ’ Tier
' ;
, , . td goodness Twuv
“ T ’ or knows
nun i, ,wo '.ears ago. and like Lewis
.ui.). s laker, he ‘softly and suddenly
vanished away from his creditors, leaving
0 w,th her auat - - AIrs - Carter is a
UistHut^ T Luce relative—cousin, j Elsie or Lennox something.
ears ago was
ot Tho season.
> 1 did uokknow whether I was glad or
sony to hear all this. I had seen Elsie
Lennox in t-iie street, had seen her enter
Airs. Samson's several times, and her ex
quisite face and graceful figure had won
so much warm admiration that 1 longed
) now ik'j . io speak to her, hoping,
p- r ups. to win Lorn her some answer
mg interest and likmg.
- nd so I applied tor board at Airs,
8amsou s, and having seen Elsie's face
... a iand >to,\ window, obtained pos
session ot the corresponding window on
the other side of the hall.
t was no, difficult to strike up in ac
quaintance. but very difficult, I found it,
to grpu more than a scant courtesy from
Miss Lennox. Hm ancient party. Airs.
Carle.-, evidently allowed no "followers."
* n ‘ sa< ’ m B s< decidedly snubbed me when
cv(u I tried to make myself agreeable.
* n< * d ' d • 1 offered her the
of , all magazines,
use m\ numerous only
to ie mtoimed that she subscribed her
si t foi e\ cry thing worth reading. I
nought flowers to her, and saw them
fade in the had, because she thought the
scent unhealthy in a room. I micro 1 to
attend to any business she might have
downtown, a fid was informed that her
agent and her maid attended to her af
fairs. And at about this stage of the
proceedings I b c une uncamfoit ibly
aware that Aliss Lennox was laughing at
me.
J mopped , Mrs. Carter then, and di- _
rented my attentions to Miss Lennox; but
it was certainly the most up-hill courting
ever attempted. Miss Lennox was cold
as ice, and Mrs. C arter gave her but lit
tie leisure time, so that meeting in the
public parlor was simply a vexation. I
tried other tactics. I waited m my own
room un.il my neighbor across the hall
went dov a to dinner, and then stepping
o\ei, lelt, just inside her door, ;uch of
ferings as flowers, fruits or books. I
wrote tender verses and slipped them
under her door; aud once—only once—
I took my violin when she was singing
iu her room to her own piano accom
panimeut, and joilowed the air in my
tenderest -trains. ' :lc emphatic bang
v\ it’n widen the piano was closed effect
uallv prevented any repetition of that
effort.
I had begun to despair, when fortune
favored me. I had been reading until a
laic hour, and had fallen asleep in a soft
ly-cushioned chair, when a quick rap on
my door awakened me, and Mrs. Sara
sons voice asked: "Are you awaxe?
I opened the door at once.
"I saw your light was burning, Mrs.
Samson said. "\outold me you were
stuuv mg medicine. . Do Come to ^Mrs.
Carter and see if you can do anything for
her before her own physician comes. I
have sent for him, but it is a long dis
tance to go.
Just oae glance at the sufferer told me
she , eould not wait for aid from a “long
distance. She lay in an apopietic fit
that threatened instant death. I went to
vyork tnroat. at applied once, the opened usual a remedies, vein in and the
had the satisfaction of bringing her back
from the very confines of the grave, be¬
fore her own doctor arrived. All through
the quick, active treatment, I had ac¬
cepted almost mechanically the help of
orders Elsie Lennox's rather sharply ready in hands, the giving of dan- my
stress
ger. and thinking nothing of the girl I
had learned to love, until, the danger
over, the case taken in hand by Mrs.
Carter's physician, I became conscious ol
a deadly white face and shaking hands
beside me.
‘‘Drink this!" I said, mixing a stimu
j ^ ant an( i putting it to her lips.
j ‘‘I am not familiar with sickness/
1 | Elsie ogy. said, ‘ I thought presently, she in »! tow dying.” of apol
was
j “She was dangerously near it." I said
j “ a nd j£u had the right to be alarmed
I evcn if you were familiar with sickness
But the danger is over now."
“It- was well you’ were so near." I)r
Hall said, joining us. “Bless me, ft >
Harry Bell!”
I had already recognized one of tin
' professors of the university where I had
taken my diploma, and we shook hands
j cordially ; a little professional chat foi
1 lowed, as I escorted him to the door
and on returning to Mrs. Carter’s room I
undertook to be ready to respond to any
' further call upon mvservices during the
night.
Dr. Hall must have spoken in my favoi
to Mrs. Carter, for the barriers between
us found were suddenly thrown down, and 1
myself admitted to a friendship 1
j had thing quite favored dispaired of gaining. intimacy Every*
me, and ill the
) ! that followed my whole heart passed into
Elsie's keeping. She filled my ideal of
womanly sweetness, bearing the caprices l
a » d ^ temper of her condo with gen
tie patience that had not one atom of
servility in it: showing in her quiet con
; venation a cultivated, intellectual and
refined taste; using her accomplishments
to amuse Mrs. Carter, never for display
•
, Of her own power. Toward me she was
-"»• ?*•
—no more, rsever seeing her alone, I
could not plead mv love, and I feared to
startle herby writing, having no thread
G f encouragement to build a hope upon.
Three doubt; happy months, happy passed in spite
of my and fears, away
j auc j then I was hastily summoned away
t0 the dcath hsA Q f a near relative. Aftei
W eek’s absence I returned to Mr. Sam
son’s to find Mrs. Carter alone and mys
| teriously reticent about her cousin’s ab
j scncc '
It k uot a plcasant recollection to me.
the months that followed. In answer to
i a plain question, Airs. Carter flatly re¬
! fused to tell me where Elsie had gouc,
and I fully, miserably realized that my
whole life’s happiness had been bound up
in the hope of winning her. I traveled
j about, always returning to Airs. Samson's
‘ in the vain hope that Elsie might have
come there also. I was not fond of my
profession, which 1 had studied'to please
my uncle. 1 had tried to like it while he
lived, but when he died, and there was
uy one f 0 please, I found my disgust ... for
SO res and sickness, my shrinking from
the sight of pain, were stronger than my
desire to heal or cure, i know this is a
humiliating confession, but it is.true,
y 0 i moped about, read a great deal,
hovered on the brink of many a pitfall,
and drew back... and a year had passed,
: when one morning Airs. Carter sent foi
me.
“Why did you deceive me?” she asked,
abruptly;
I stared at her in honest amazement.
“I thought you were a poor man,” she
. said, “poking up in that little, miserable
third story room. I had no idea that
j you were Harvey Bell's son, and worth
j hundreds *of thousands. It was onlv
yesterday 1 heard who you are. I am a
; ; vor idly old woman, you will tell me.
j WeH, lam; A and being worldly and mer
ceua ry, and that, I sent Elsie Lennox
out of your jAL A, when—was I a blind
i old idiot as or were you iu love
with her?”
“I love her with al! my heart!’’ I au
swered.
“Hinnim! why didn't von tell me you
' ] hu \ sufficient money to support a wife?
j sent her off to be governess iu a friend’s
family. How could I know her misera
^ ]fi e scamp of a father would send for her?
Gracious tire! There’s a pretty mess
now! John—that is, Mr. Lennox.
Elsie's father—is down in Texas, dying,
and writes to me for money. "Whatever
j fi 0 did with all he muddled away, he
! didn’t take any with him; and there's
that child alone with him! I can’t go.
j You can see I’m not fit for such a journey
j„ midwinter. John may be dead now-.
Bless me! I’m half distracted. Do you
want to go to them? She is the child of
a bankrupt, who made a disgraceful fa.il
' I don't choose to tell lies about
ure. any
them. She lias not a cent, and she will
not have my money, because it all goes
to my husband’s nephew, whether I will
it so or not. You sha’n't say t deceived
you'about her. I suppose she would
want to choke me if I tell you she is fond
of you. I knew it, reserved as she was.
You need not imagine she put on love
; fi rs a fi 0 -jt you, and gushed to me;
but eves and cheeks arc tell-tales some
times', Well, are you going, or are you
disgusted with the whole business?”
‘ ‘I am going as soon as you are kind
enough to give me the address.”
“Here is John’s letter. Likely enough
fi e j s m0 re scared than hurt, and not so
jfi as h c thinks. There! Good-live. Give
mv i ove to Eisie, and if I am mistaken,
and she doesn't care for you, will you
Drinsg her back to me?”
•‘I will. I’ll start to-day.”
John Lennox was not mistaken. 1
found my darliug in a wretched hut near
Galveston, with a servant trying to con
so j e fi (!r as s fi e sobbed over her father's
corpse. I had stopped in St. Louis on
my journey, and persuaded a c-ouisin of
n p» own—a gentle widow, past middle
a g e —to accompany me to Texas, and to
her tenderness and care I left the desolate
until after the funeral, It was then
i _ >
decided she should accept my cousin's
hospitality, and we went to St? Louis, a
mourning party, but with one heart full
of eager hope.
I did not win my darling easy, for she
was crushed by the knowledge that her
father's failure was one of exposed fraud,
But she loved me. and to that iove I
trusted, and not in vain.,
W'e came again to Mrs. Samson's after
two years spent in Europe, where my
wife left all her sorrows and troubles,
coming home a happy, loving wife, and
proud, fond mother.
Mrs. Carter had engaged a suit of
rooms for us opposite to her own, and
seems to have renewed her youth and
found a new stock of amiabilitv*. It is
difficult to believe the smiling, loving
womauwho greets us now when we cross
^fi e Rail, is the same fat old tyrant who
mac j e Elsie's life miserable when she
lived in the third story, and least loving,
despairing looks upon her across the hall.
_ j; ie Ledqer.
Tlie Richest American Gold Ore.
A lot of about 200 pounds of quartz.
carrying gold at the rate of 850,000 a
ton, was recently taken from the main
shaft of the Michigan gold mine, near
Ishperaing, Mich, Assays of three
,
samples of quartz from $110,958 the Michigan give
$21,620, 851.552 and per ton.
■ The latter is the richest gold-bearmg
, rock ever taken from an American mine.
A NEW KEimiG.
THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL*
AND ITS PEOPLE.
A Country Comprising More That*
Three-Sevenths ot’ South America
—Emancipation **f the Slaves
—Its National Debt.
Era7.il, the Empire of which was
changed to a Republic by the recent
bloodless revolution, lias been subject to
the wise and humane rule of the now de¬
posed Dom Pedro II. since 1840. He
had become the nominal Emperor ir
ISol. when his father*.Dom Pedro I., ab
dicated the throne. Uiider Pom Pedrc
I.. Brazil cut loose from the parent coun¬
try, Portugal, in 1821. The grandfath¬
er of the recently deposed Emperor who was tied
l)om John, King of Portugal,
to Brazil in the terrible days following
the French revolution. For a time he
ruled Portugal from across the sea, and
cm hi* return to Lisbon he left his spn,
the first Dom Pedro, at the head of tilt
Brazilian affairs, It was this son who
led the revolt against Portugal and who
was crowned constitutional Emperor ot
Brazil. After his abdication in favor of
his six-year-old son the affairs ot the
Government were administered by a suc¬
cession of regents elected by the legisla
five representatives of the people. In
1840, however, the nation became dis
-atisfied with the regency and so gave
the Government into the hands of Dom
Pedro II., then a boy of fourteen. Ashe
was proclaimed Emperor July 23 of that
year a few more months would have
rounded out for him a half-century of
power. On account of his feeble health,
however, the Govermcnt has been prac¬
tically. for several years, in the hands of
his daughter Izabei, heir to the throne.
Her husband. Prince Louis of Orleans,
the French Comte d’En,- a Bourbon, was
Commander-in-Chief of the 'Brazilian
army. house of
Dom Pedro is of the royal
Braganza, still ruling in Portugal. Tin
Empire which he ruled so long comprise.'
more than three-sevenths of the territory
of South America. It has an area of
3,287,964 square miles, and is therefore
nearly as large as the United States, in¬
cluding Alaska. It, has a population,
however, of less than 14,000,000. Its
soil is very fertile and its climate is mag¬
nificent. Of late years the country lias
developed rapidly, yet its vast interior is
mainly an untrodden wilderness. Four
fifths of Brazil is an elevated plateau,
and this is separated from the 4000 miles
of seacoast by ranges of mountains which
shut off free access to it and which are
pierced by railways only with great dif¬
ficulty and at enormous cost. It has
been the policy of Dom Pedro to push
improvements of this sort by placing be¬
hind them the national credit. While
he has piled up a large debt for public
works, he has wrought permanent good
for his country in exchange for the money
spent. There are now 5000 miles of
railway in Brazil and several thousand
miles more are iu the course of construc¬
tion. Of late strong efforts have been
made to attract European immigration,
and these efforts have been quite suc¬
cessful.
Brazil, long the only monarchical gov¬
ernment of the Western Hemisphere, w*as
the last to abolish slavery, although Dom
Pedro throughout his long reign was
constantly aiming to give freedom to the
bondsmen. His plan was to set the
slaves free by degrees. A government
emancipation fund was established in
1871, and in 1875 laws were passed
which would in time have wiped out
slavery. The results of this policy were
very plain, for in 1873 there were 1,541,-
819 slaves in the Empire, and iu 1883
the number has been reduced to 1,211,
945; two provinces set all their slaves
free in 1883-4. Still the work of
emancipation went on slowly until on
Alay 13, 1888, the Legislative Assembly
passed a bill abolishing all slavery. This
bill was signed by the Princess Regent,
Izabei, aad became a law. The Emperor
at that time was in Europe for his health.
This action of the Government was very
popular in Brazil, except among the
owners of slaves, who vainly sought pay¬
ment for the human chattels taken away
from them. It is now asserted that the
abolishment of slavery led to the present
revolution in Brazil. It may be doubted,
however, whether that was the chiel
cause of the upheaval.
The Brazilian navy is composed of
nine ironclads, six cruisers, eight tor¬
pedo boats and fifteen gunboats, manned
by 4272 officers and seamen.
Brazil has a national debt of $500,
000,000, mainly due to the cost of great
public improvements and to the war with
Paraguay from 1865 to 1871. Its credit
is excellent abroad, though its income is
less than its expenses. The Legislative
Assembly is composed of a Senate and a
Chamber of Deputies, and all its mem¬
bers are elected by the people. The
Senators hold offices for life and the
Deputies for four years. The established
religion is Roman Catholic, and com¬
paratively few Protestants exist there,
though all religions are tolerated. About
eighty-four per cent, of the people are
unable to read. Only those are per¬
mitted to vote who have a yearly income
of at least $200. Tne Government is
very liberal, and the late Cabinet was
pledged to carry out a number of im¬
portant reforms. If the new republican
rulers, shall prove more worthy of the
public confidence than the Emperor they
will be little short of paragons.— Chicaqo
Nacs. _
Punished For Her Curiosity.
Farmer Lutz, of Montello, Penn.,
missed a ^oung cow, and hunted all over
the place for her for two days, but in
vain. On the evening of the second day
his son Billy went to the old smoke
house, and pulling up the latch noticed
that the piece of old clothesline with
which the door was usually fastened to
the frame by means of staples for addi¬
tional security had been chewed in two.
He thought this was queer, but a moment
afterward, when he stepped over the
threshold, the ease was made clear tc
him. There on the floor of the smoke
house, mooing faintly in her compressed
quarters, and weakened by the lack ot
food and water, lay the young heifer,
-offering the punishmeut for her cu¬
riosity. Rhe had got there two nights
before, having first jumped over the bara
yard ferifce, opened the farmyard gate
with her mouth aad forelegs, and then
chewed the rope off that fastened the
smokehouse door and lifted the latch.
The country having the largest propor¬
tion of cultivated land is Demark, Russia
having the smallest. The United King¬
dom has 29 per cent, of land tilled
against 71 hntilled.
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