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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
WALLS OF I*LKI\. j
PIERRE LOTI DESCRIBES HIS
JOURNEY THROUGH THEM.
A Wondro s Wbrd Fainting of Thi*
Early-World Metropolis, with tts
Wells Upon Walls, its Grotesque
Architecture- - Etc., Etc.
Ttm crowning ambit
1* L* VV 1 flared
against t'. r. Cel tial Empire is to
emulute t he prowess of tlie French
and Er iisli unrt march to Pekin. Tli
ancient and giga ’<• Chinese capital
is i 1 rt o occupy the at
tent f tin- onh mg world for
son time t come.
11s sights huv< ft <-n < n dipiiri .-1
by I ra er- wlio bad tin fortune to
x i t nor I. workaday state
i n t lie pi | pea but by
none more grnphb y, more p'ci ures
quely t hun I. J i'-rro Loti, Fre nch
i •val office r, lit t crate ur, and Amide
niician.
Subjoined i a translation of AI.
Loti’s oxpericnee«.
Ln route for P 'kin ! Clic! Clue!
“Ta, ta, ta, ta ! cries our pigtaited
coachi mi n, and our two thin mules
start oft with a t'Ot.
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THE MAZE OF WALLS IN THE CITY OF PEKIN.
Our vehicle is mounted upon two |
wbieh preclude
over forty Ls'hour (about tlirve
and one half miles).
1 he landscape which meets our
eves consists of a cloud of dust,
come expressly from Mongolia to vex
,IS - It envelops everything. Do not
take the trouble to look outside, for
in opening your mouth you will swal
low pounds of dust : : 'W „ ! n .. t ;
I lowover, our lit 11 , | n
last t hive days and \v< - ull 1 h lu xe v fm •
distraction tii ,' ' " 1,1 njulvtecr,
win is :,s rom,ll ns 1! 'V i( ' r
his ven or eig.il l L.oatsivin mantles.
5 ! 11 evening of the second
! a y S? ’ ! •eive the horizon an
old ■a v iv n el luted wall, with bas
I s sii tinted at intervals i i an av
r> 's (light from each other.
Behind us is the huge palace of
t h . Son of Hen ven: one perceives the
top of its mysterious wall within
xv hi el i i ’ km-opean .uts ever boon. It
V ■ S IU!>1 ’ l " s in iU inconceivable
sp.etulor, , and at . its feet . tho Lotus
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’VI V l 1 Vl'tCATEl) 10 THt; “SOX OF HEAVES.”
' :l ke e> i ar’.:>hi'il :i r .l dead under
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the January ice.
Due exp-r.ciuvs a - r, n iiulelin
: >.e uneasine-s at tho il .uiglit of the
•' morning; i:! " ' : . k awaking in
' 10 !>r one feels op
pres sou, as it wore [•> this cramped,
confused ’’ ' u<.,ia.u> one
makes out a roar <»1H N ’ 1,1 a
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greater extent a: y (u f our copi
tals of Europe
Tin dogs bark u r > 1
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and make menacing :* - at the
legs of our animals ? move
ments ari re 7 It* s- and ir
regular, >-ut from all
the alliv.-. all the oluacae, and the
troop pnrsu li¬ showing 1 !r
sharp fang-, eager to bit
The countenance* of \ X
•i ••• “ »• v-it U l B n 1>1 - got up,
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ftiiv udy appear b,m.] at tlu , doors of the
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at c sight o f the Western car ‘ a ‘
pasi s Their large e ; pK.- an
bulging pautaloou> f ' Un(i out
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, (iA, TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER IS, 1894.
bright, raw colon* against the gray
walls of the houses; they pois
themselves awkwardly on feet that
are too small, in the pretty poses of
tittle firescreen figures.
These images defile rapidly on each
side of us; they disappear, and we
“gain encounter an interminable
series of deserted streets.
We are in the V<dlow. or imperial
town and all these old, dead districts
bear an aristocatic character. Wails,
walls without end: walls all crooked
with age, all carpeted with moss and
ferns Behind them are immense
parks, where a nature artificial ami
whimsically Chinese lias been fash
ioned at great expense,
Occasionally entrances are opened
with heavy oaken doors
worn by time, and enormous pi las
ters. They have extravagant roofs,
tIn-so entrances, yellow roofs whose
extreme angles nio raised skywardin
capricious crooks, in grimacing
forms of dragons and monsters. All
are guarded by two marble beasts,
half lions, half chimeras, which, with
one i-iawed paw posed on a bull, re
gnrd the passer-by with a mysterious
rictus.
And over all this the neighboring
desert has placed its murk; a layer
of gray dust, effacing the ancient
cess to the country, we now follow a
the semi-obscur
ity of the luminous mist; n double
row of hoar-frost covered trees
stretches before us in endless per
spedive; and on either hand there
are always the same great walls, the
same grand entrances with their pent
houses bristling with chimeras and
monsters, the same marble Rons
i!J „ ‘ e ’T°!V U and gr "V '
r I , '' pe ° P , ° uh,>
pass, T lhese A v amen are academies.
imnistries, law courts, temples, bon
series convents of lamas.
As the hour advances the bottle
vard becomes animated ; wo meet wa
gons, bourgeois on donkeys, cavaliers
mounted on little Mongolian steeds,
with large bonds, and the ruse, knav
ish airs ofa lerned horses.
Now the boulevard begins to
with people: it is becoming aperfect
tumult. Riders come and go, pre
ceded by Mafoos in livery. They
allot a heap in their long gowns.
j and look as though squatting on their
colors and gilt, the strange medleys
painted upon these Yamen by the
tist of long ago.
In the direction of Sitchemen, the
A\ estern gate, which will give us ac
high saddles. They are attired in
garments of silk trimmed with pre
cious furs, and black velvet boots
turned upat t he lips, with thick, im
maculately white soles, made of lay
ers of paper Vmong them are phi
siognomies that, while very t hinese.
are stamped with a kind of distine- ,
tion peeuljar to tlie upper classes,
They eye us as vve pass with a eer
tain expression of astonishment-.with
an impercept ible shade of irony.
1 luU .-b v ‘ ] Gieir deportment-there is
nothing but benevolence and courte
^ ’ ,ul the Asiatic rictus is always j
there, even in the kind aud distin- i
*. guished B;*°a»ojmes nhvdo^noiuies of °I tlw tne uD-er uppet ;
ciu-.-es. 1 here is an rmpassable ;
r h,Ch K^ 1L IV6S !n ! p,t \ ofal1
:
4 — Jl1 aL,out -’ of du«: ami chiidren scan:-;
Pf ri!1 8 uttering whistle; cries as j
pit-iv.ng s> a steam dirty
looking men bearing gongs ; people j
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out of ltreath, carrying lanterns in
broad day light, at the end of long
staxcsxvsth red pennants, halberdiers;
15'■•tors dressed in black and puffed
out doublets and breeches, and lofty
lust s bedecked with pinnies, shaking,
with frantic gesticulation, whips,
weighted cal-o'-nlne-tails, chains and
instruments of torture; and then,
advancing in tlie same headlong man
ner people carrying green dragons,
red screens, chimeras and monsters
stuck on the end of long poles.
Finally the great personage thus es
carted appears on a splendidly capari
i soiled horse, lie h? Li-IIung-Chang,
j the Viceroy of Petchili, who is going
> in .-fate to visit Kong, the Prince-Re
gent, lie is tall and thin. Ilis bony
face, with goatee and long mustache,
j lias a ruse and sanctimonious ex pres
sion. The peacock feather of China’s
; great man floats behind the rose-
1 colored ball which surmounts his
high official coiffure.
All this flies past very quickly;
the people afoot run; the riders trot,
a jogtrot which makes ail their bells
jingle, shakes the long disheveled
manes of the horses and makes the
men’s p : gtailsdance. The gold badge
of the Order of the Pheasant bobs
| up and down on the breast of
the powerful seignor; the cloaks of
the mandarins flap in the wind liks
caps, wiih comical importance, their
rows oi papers and documents slung
over their sliouiders.- Then the
valets a sinister-looking rabble,
dressed m queer rags, running with
all their might. And that is all.
We can continue our journey.
AVo arrive at a triumphal arch with
arcades, painted blood red, and
f urn,0 unted l, v th0 Jnevitablo roofing
-
>wne<l 1 up with monsters’ heads;
is the gate of t lie Red Town. Here
everything changes; one would im
agineitto be the entrance to one of
those liuge cities of bygone ages. The
boulevard continues through°t.he Red
Town and loses itself in tlie distance,
We advance slowly and painfully
through the maze of wagons and rid
ers, while trying not to lose sight of
the ATafoo, who is clearing the way
for formed us. Now and then, at”crossings
bv other lar^e boulevards,
which cut* ours at rteht angles, fnte’rmi- we
are forced to stop to allow
nable files of camels to pass, enor¬
mous beasts with dusky muzzles and
long, rough hair, which amble along
on their comically jointed legs like
machines out of gear.
The fellows leading them are ATon
gols from the Northern desert Their
large, flat faces have something jo¬
vial and hardy about them, which
contrasts agreeably with the perpet¬
ual Chinese grimace. They are dres¬
sed in long blood-colored robes, with
waist belts-bristling with poignards,
and are eoiffed with a kind of cur
tained capelin of fur, surmounted by
a red cone, ornamented with a tuft.
M e trot along on a sort of high
embankment, reserved for horses and
vehicles, which occupied the middle
of the boulevard, while on either side,
on a lower level,is a road reserved for
pedestrians. Around us still are rich
cavaliers, befurred and begowned;
blue carts without number; ladles of
quality in black sedan chairs, shaped
like street lamps, and burgeois of
placid mien, mounted on hired don¬
keys and followed by donkey boys,
who flog the animals with sticks and
shout: “Ta. ta, ta, ta!”
And shops upon shops, always
gilded and splendid,wherein, are sold
Alongolian furs, gold and silver bro
cades, priceless stuffs embroidered
with fantastic things in dreamy
enamels and beautiful pot
tery, all the relics of an inconceiv—
able past, extravagant in richness
and color.
Then there are fortune t-elleis
grouping the people, acupuncturist
doctors operating upon dummies laid
on trestles, There are also banking
houses swarming with a whole popu
jation of sheep-faced employes fever
ishly manoeuvring the strings of balls
on the calculating machines xvith the
tips of their long, sharp. Chinese
claws.
At last, at Jast. wc come to a large
donjon, perched on a high gravxvall,
an j a black guii. It is Sitchemen,
t he direct wester/s gate. Let- us pen
etrate 6 slowlv ‘‘ a.ni a'.d nrudentiv prnoemjx into into this tins
cavern so as not to biv-atc our horses’
i ej?s between the old. - disjointed flag
li-b&i-Kban grandson of Gengiz
a*,T««ndy.
More-j.amels, more touibleflowto
houses ot an old sordid faubourg, and
a great plain opens before us, We
are the opeu coqntr)
room. 1 :i these post-offices the
clerks work from eight to ten hours
a day during the entire voyage, dis
tribuiing the mails by cities and
States, when coming this way, and
by railroad lines when going to Ger
many. On each ship there is one
American clerk, die German clerk,
and a German assistant. The Amer
iean is in charge going eastward, and
the German lias charge of thiegs
coming this way.
These clerks of course, are men
of energy and intelligence. They are
the best material taken from the
postal services of both countries.
The Germans wear gaudy uniforms
with military caps and swords, and
are called by the high-sounding
l'^me of “Reich* Post Secretaer.
1 he AmeriCiin calls himself a “sea
post clerk.” ItTlfpifce of t-he lack of
gold braid and side-arms, however,
the Americans are the most reliable
men. It is said that when the Eider
went on the rocks on the coast of
Ireland last year the “Iieichs Post
Seeretaer” grabbed his sword and
made for the life boats. The Ameri
can stood to his. business, and did
not leave his post-until he bad over
seen the transfer of the mails from
the leaking ship to a tug. These sea
post clerks handle about 140.000
letters and sixty! sacks of papers each
trip; t heir work but in is December alii*st doubled.—[Har¬ and January
per's Young Peojple.
LAST OF WdODEN SHIPS.
Steel to Replace^Timber in the Yards
of Bath, Me.
They will buil&no more big wooden
sailing ships atJ|ath, Ale., the chief
city of timber ship yards in 1 lie Uni
ted States. The biggest yard there
lias just put ibtyt steel plant, and
steel ships will «oon be produced.
Bath is a shipbuilding cit y to the
core and to the<man, It was incor¬
porated as therefore a town in 1780, but ships
wore built than a century
and a half ago, gad though the indus
t ry has somethfes lagged sadly sea¬
going vessels Ove been launched
from the Bath yards every year since
the first keel was laid.
Its site was fixed upon by the set¬
tlers with esnAcitil t(^shipbuilding. reference to its
adaptability It is
the located shores some of ntlfp^up xvjSTdi between the Kennebec, the city
and the sea nfj^Tii gged and abrupt. enough
mum^i" only
* pj grou nd for a town
ipS™p*c'.' seems like thp ii river spa¬
cious bay extending aiotig the city’s
A’ont and northward for several
miles above it. Bath itself is nar¬
row , and stretches along the river
bank for three or four miles. Ship
yards, docks, foundries and sawmills
—all sorts of industries accessory to
shipbuilding—crowd each other on
the shore.
i n the good old days great fortunes
were made out of shipping and ship
building in Bath and the fortunes of
the town are still hound up in the
same industries of which’there has
been a revival Honthton during late SewXl years The
names of’ ° ’ “ 1 ’ Patten
Goss, Sawyer, Rogers, Hawley and
Donnell, shipbuilders famous in the
annals of Bath, are inseparable from
tho history of marine construction
in the United States.
Bath was made a city in 1850. In
1860 her population was 8,07(5, in
1870 7,871, in 1880 7,874 and in
1890 8,72d. These fluctuations cor¬
responded exactly with the condit ion
of American shipbuilding and are in
themselves significant. Time was
when the majority of tlie craft
launched from the yards of Batit were
square rigged, but for some years
fore and aft schooners, of three and
four masts have largely predom¬
inated.
Among the largest vessels turned
out there are the Susquehanna, of
2,728 tons burden, and the Roanoke,
of 8,862. The Roanoke is, in fact,
the largest wooden ship afloat, and
there is but one larger sailing craft
on the ocean, the five-masted steel
built France. The Roanoke is also
the largest American siiip ever built
but one, the Great Republic, which
was launched in 1858.
Notwithstanding the superior size
of the Roanoke, she has not so good
a record for fast sailing as the Sus¬
quehanna, which beat her in a recent
trip from New York to San Francisco
“around tiie Horn.” the Susquehan¬
na's time Leing 122, while the Roan¬
oke's was 12-3. Though both are
wooden vessels, they are fine speci¬
mens of the shipbuilder’s art, all the
latest ideas being embodied in their
construction.
A Wonderful Hog.
Oscar Anureen, who lives at Lex¬
ington, Mo., was in'town to-day. Air.
Andreen has just returned from
Texas, and while he was rusticating
in the country near Sherman, a
farmer frienl invited him out to see
a trained ho£ kill rattle snakes. The
farmer drov-i the hog out among the
many rocks back of his house, and in
les- than half an hour tlie porker had
slaughtered twenty big snakes. The
liog caught iiin rattlers back of the
neck and tore them to pieces with
his front feet. The farmer paid *150
for the hog and bought him exclu¬
sively for -make-killing purposes. He
hunts snakes like dogs do rabbits—
throws hi- j n Air. i. soul Andreen into the exhibited w ork,
as it wen
the tail of t snake having thirteen
rattles »nd a button which he saw
the Air. hog Anders c-atcji In and that kill.The since farmer he owned told
the hog it Lad killed for himself and
neighbors more than 1,000 ruttle
.ikes. The hog is a thin, razor-back
haze’-splitter, and when you say
‘ snakes * to hirq he will jump over
a Steue-ia-d-rldered ieir-v and go af¬
ledger. ter tiioui. orefit uog.—[Mexico (Mo.)
ADYERTISEE.
SOM KWH AT STILVXtJL.
INTERESTING NOTESAND MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction
Tailless cats with purple eyes are
common in Siam.
Nnvv York has tun regular egg
chandlers, who earn their bread by
telling good egg> from bad.
Tis said that drug stores in Mass¬
achusetts have increased in number
l;• >n 1,-too to 2,500 in two years.
V Bible distributor died recently
in New Hampshire at the age of 66.
who durum bis life distributed 120.
Ooo Bibles”
A car load of matches was ignited
by friction in transportation and
borne l the other day at Burgin,
Kentucky.
According to statistics, women to¬
day are two inches ttuler, on an av¬
erage than they were txventy or
thirty years ag
In certain districtof Sicily the iu
dustry of gathering the thread-like
substance secreted by mussels is cai
riel on. Tho fiber thus obtained 3S
used in the manufacture of silk.
A i...injects [Kvison into
I lie umnnt be makes, in
that (lie blood war become fluid
enough ° to lion readily. This is what
*
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< ansi.* i u
Black Bi ll and Bushyhead, two
full-blooded Indians, recently*
peered in St. Paul with 162 head of
cait-e to soli for themselves and
neighbors. Black Bull alone owns
150.
'islar'aliead @
India, of all
of from thirty to forty days are very
common, and once a year they are
said to abstain from food for seventy
live days.
The brig St. Andrea at Constanti¬
nople, from Salonica, is exciting
great curiosity. The captain, officers
and crew are all monks of Mount
At ho s, and xviiile visitors are kindly
received, women are not admitted.
Zeke Gloxts, of Alobilo, Ala., is
the owner of an ox xvith a natural
knot in the middle of his tail. Sev
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die animal to emit a srrt ' ' o
cry*. The tail is so shortened by* the
knot that it is practically valueless
to sxvitclx off flies.
One of the most wonderful of the
many mountain railways is
which ascends Mount Pilatus, Sxvitz
erland. Its length from the shores
of Alpnacht Bay to the Hotel Belle
vue on tlie summit is but two and
Giro?-fourth miles, but in that- dis
tanee it makes an ascent of 5,860
feet.
A committee of the French War
Department has after prolonged in
vestigation, reported in favor of a
nexv kind of buckler made of aluini
mmi and , copper; it can be made light , ,
enough not to be burdensome, and
yet strong enough to stop even the
modern rifle ball except at short
range.
“If you chance to be in the fields
when the clouds threaten rain, and
notice a plant, whoso solitary, tix*e
pointed scarlet flowers, rising from
the axils of opposite green leaves are
rapidly* closing, be wise enough to
seek shelter, for this is the Tim per
nel’ or ‘Poor Man’s Weatherglass,’
and tlie closing flowers indicate that
rain is coming speedily.”
Tiie Six Finger Club is the latest
thing in the way of clubs. Each
member , of „ ,, i.ti? . particular , club , , must ,
hax c at- loa>t i-ix fingers on one hand,
An e lab orate report drawn up by the
secretary- slioxvs that there are 2,1,3
persons in 1 k noi ,d " [[ a ”. 1 x [ Iin = ers
to each band and tel t with seven
fingers. < »nc indixniual, indeed, is
tne proud possessor ot eight lingers
to one band.
There is on a mantel in one of (lie
the residences of a Georgia family* a
piece of stone which bears a striking
resemblance to an ancient castle,the
turrets, massive doors and
foundations being distinctly marked.
The peculiar feature about the little
oddit y is that, to hold it under a gas
light, gives the stone tlie appearance
of the building with many lights re¬
flected from the windows.
JGoldsxiiti s “save” their floors and
gilders thc-ir rags with surprising re
sultant economies. One important
firm of jewelers in this city requires
its factory empldyes to leave their
xvorking clothes at the factory. The
xvork benches and floors are carefully
swept nightly, but once in every few
year- floors, benches and clothes are
burnt- 1. After one of these burnings
tlxe crucibles contain as a residuum
thousands of dollars’ worth of pre
cious metal.
There may be seen near Kelso,
Scotland, the' extraordinary soecta
de of a hen bestowing maternal care
cm a litter of three Dandle Dinmoni
pups, the property of John Walt.for
ester there. It seems that the pups,
which are about three weeks old, had
been deserted by their mother, and
in their aimless wanderings had come
into contact with a broody Orpington
hen. the result being that the hen
began to go about with them. When
she sits doxvn the pups climb ox*er,
her buck ami crawl under the wings
just like as many chickens, a„.l are
apparently a, much attached totheii"
feathered foster-mother as the fatter
is to her canine family
A IRain xvas recently stoppei m
France, on the Ere betwveu Belle
gurde unci Geneva, und@g the follow- j
ing curious circumstances : A freight
train had in one of its cars some cod
liver oil, which began to leak away
from the containing x'essel.
chance, the escaping stream struck
exactly in tho middle of the Tho
train that bore the oil was not affeo
ted, but tlie track was thus well
greased for the passenger train that
followed, which came to a standstill
when it reached the oil rails. Nearly
three-quarters of an hour were eon
s umed in running the two and one
| ui ]f niiles to the next station, and
this rate was only attained by dili¬
gent sanding of the track.
The Covington (Ky.) Record tolls
an interesting story about a woman
who formerly lived in that city. Her
husband was critically ill, and while
he was in that condition she hnp
pened to hear of a lot in the local
cemetery which was for sale very
c j u > a p and, chinking she would have
■ use for it in a s | l0rt w i 1 |i e , j decided
tliat it would bo the wise thing for
I her to do t o make arrangements in ad
vanee. She accordingly purchased
the lot, but no sooner had she done
j so than her husband began to itn
! prove and was soon entirely well.
Shortly* afterward, t lie woman became
ill and died, and her bodv was in¬
: terrcvl in (he } ub ] l0r thoughtful
ec0 nomy had induced her to pur
| chase,
A .tor}-, .Uu»lt.bn ? tho
proocrvnttve proper.;.* ot choke
| *»"!>• comes from China. In the
0 Anho. a party of miners
j recently struck an ancient shaft,
1 where history* records that, a great
catastrophe occurred 400 years ago. old
The miners, on reopening the
> shaft, came upon upwards of 170
bodies of the former workers, lying
where they had been overcomo with
foul gas four centuries back. Tho
corpes xvere as those of yesterday*,
^ fresh-looking, and not decayed
}» nny way. The faces were like
those of men xyho had only just died,
attempt being made to move
them outside for burial, they nil
crumbled away, leaving nothing but
a pile of dust and the remnants of
the stronger parts of their clothing,
The miners, terrified, fled from the
spot, ami though there xverejvaluable
deposits of coal in the shaft nothing
would induce the superstitious men
to return to their xvork.
Some of t he fanners of the Eifel,
the •IhAaict t Vi 1 ijifl" between the
spii*as
, _ |oles ( are sof up irrthe cornfields,
id a xv ire is conducted from one to
the otlier, just’like the telegraph posts
j From that are the placed top of each along pole our there railways, hangs
j a bell, which is connected with the
wire. Now, in the valley a brook
runs along, with a current strong
enough to turn a small water-xvheel,
to which t-he wire is fastened. As the
wheel goes around it jerks the wire,
and so the bells in the different fields
are set tinkling. The bells thus
mysteriously* rung frighten the birds
from the grain, and even excite the
wonder of men and women until they
discox*er the secret. This simple con
br i yan3e i a found to serve its purpose
very xvell.
Some hunters near the Alapaha
River in South Georgia were attrac
ted by the continued barking of a
dog xvhich seemed to be on the bank
of the stream,and near them. It ap¬
pearing that the dog did not move,
the sound coming from the same
s pot for some time, led them to in¬
vestigate, thinking perhaps that the
dog had “treed” some heavy game,
Approaching the spot carefully,they,
presently, came in sight of some¬
thing that made their hair stand on
end, so great xvas their surprise.
There, lying on a sandbed, was an
i mmense the body and tail being
p ei .f ecbi but, instead of tlie regula
-
tion lieafl , iho monster’s head was
shape{1 ]iko an English bulldog
xvith great rows of teetb-glistening in
the 8Un> an(1 a]1 lhe t5me t hc erea
bure was baying as if about to attack
some fching. Before the hunters bad
recovered tlieir senses and thought
of using tlieir guns, the fish glided
into deep xvater and disappeared,
the same dismal barking being heard
once or twice after itxvent under,
Sure Cure for Kleptomania.
“Kleptomania is becoming so gen¬
eral in the East that it xvill soon have
to he treated as common theft,”said
Leonard F. Clifford, of Boston. “In
my capacity as an attorney I xvas
consulted a year ago by a man whose
xvife had acquired the habit of pilfer
ing both stores and prix*ate houses,
He was constantly coming home at
nig]it and finding ornaments, vases
and jewelry in the house which lie
knew had not been acquired honest
ly. Again and again he compromised
xvith storekeepers, sometimes paying
exorbitant prices for luxuries he did
not require, and which were beyond
Ills means. He had paid two or three
^rge doctor hills in trying to get his
Wlfe « uped ° what he <’^ntably re¬
f'f , d as a dl . * fea ,f’ ai ‘ d he iliul corne
to the conclusion.that it-was necessary
^ lake mea8ures of a more prompt
oharacU:r I advised him to take the
bui! by the horns and let his wife
serve at least a week in jail. He did
not like the idea, but consented, and
the next time his wife was caught he
refused to bail her out and allowed
the law to take its course. To his
astonishment his xvife xx*as given
"> . Mt , J1 d , »>' S * ."it n, “ D ?- e<1 , t0 ,
tWfoartlw of the (KBtaue remit
ted. bin the three weete fbe lady
,**>?■» ™"7 Je 5!g, *- uriU
hw ond sll< ‘ 18 »»»<>»* a,ra i d 10 8»
into a store now lest she aitould be
suspected of an offense of xvhich she
is never likely to be guilty again."
—[St- Louis Glob#-Democrat
NO. 4-1
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS
THE SQUIKRKL AND Till'. KEN<’K.
A little red squirrel lived under a
fence—
An old rail-fence at the edge of a
wood;
He took a deep interest in current
event s,
And sat on the top rail and learned
all he could.
The farmer was wide-awake, likewise,
and so
One day in the papers he read of
barbed wire.
And said to himself, “That old rail
fence must go;
I’ll have it- chopped up into sticks
for the lire.”
The little red squirrel has moved to
the wood;
At being a hermit he makes great
pretences.
He xvouldn’t learn current events, if
he could.
lie’s down on newspapers and
barbed-wire fences.
—[J. P. Bocoek, in Harper s Young
People.
yoc.no workers.
It very often happens that, a boy
lias to be busy* with work of some
kind, when be really wants to road
and become educated. Now, this
desire for education is a splendid
thing in a boy. Indeed, there is
nothing in the world that is any
better. But., it often happens that;
a boy is prevented by circumstances
from doing that which would seem to
he the best thing for him. Here is
a xvord of encouragement- to such
boys. Read all you can in the best
papers and magazines. Pick up
scraps of information about people
and t hings, and make them your own,
so that you will remember them.
Some day your knowledge, picked up
little by little, will bevervextensive,
and you will find that you compare
very* favorably with box’s who have
had much bet ter chances for educa¬
tion than yourself. Console your¬
self with the thought that- some of
the best- work in the xvorld has been
done under very trying circumstan¬
ces. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his
“History of the World” during his
eleven years’ imprisonment. And
who knows but you, during your
years of study and re you, may*
be laying worU^aH-iiH the foui«| fl|of Wy some
nieeo of - 8ir
I -mkjirk
(tToHTP i
The cunning of wild animals in
concealing themselves in moments
of danger is xvell known. A party
spending a week on the Xile were
watching eight or ten crocodiles sun¬
ning themsel\*es on (lie surface of a
small lagoon, ft was determined to
trap these monsters if possible. The
water xvas breast deep, including
about two feet or more of heavy mud.
Four nets were tied together so as to
make one long enough to reach across
the lagoon, and this xvas xveighted
on the bottom. The net xvas draxvn
xvith long ; oles from each shore, and
behind thi net came a line of men a
yard a y rt, prodding the mud with
poles The scheme looked like an
admirable one, but the crocodiles
sleepily dived, and that was the last,
seen of them. The xvater was dragged
backward and forward, but they had
burrowed so deeply in the mud that,
not one could be found, and flu*
hunters returned to their boat laugh¬
ing at their own discomfiture.—[At¬
lanta Constitution.
GK J-; A T DROUGHTS.
City children know little of tlie
seriousness had of a drought such as wu
have this year, says the New York
Times. Those xvho have gardens
may have found that the plants have
not thrix-ed, and perhaps some of you
who have go’rie a little way into the
country may have noticed that the
grass is dry and dead, but unless you
have seen fruit hanging in withered
masses and the corn yellowed for
lack of rain you can hardly picture
to yourselves what losses have been
suffered by the farmer, and hoxv
much harder thi- coming xvinter xvill
be for the poor, xvho hax*e hard xvork
to buy provisions when they are
cheapest. But this has not been t he
worst year, nor anywhere near tlie
worst, on record. The longest
drought in this country of xvhich we
have any account xvas in 1762, when
no rain fell from May 1 to September
1. a period of 128 days. Many
farmers had to send to England for
hay and grain. But even thal xvas
not so bad as the seven years’ sum¬
mer from which Europe suffered
sex*eral hundred years ag^ And in
recent times Australia has had jute
such a period—seven years of
drought. Thousands and t housands
of sheep died for lack of pasturage,
as well as lack of xvater. and farmers
xvere obliged to abandon their homes
and seek employment in tlie cities.
THE POST-OFFICE AT SEA.
The system of railway post-offices
has been found s<> successful, and a
means of saving o much valuable
time, that it ha- been extended to
the transatlantic steamships. This
was begun under Mr. Wanamaker’s
administration as Postmaster-Gen- ■
eral, but so fat- mail clerks have only
been placed on the American ships the
running to Southampton and on
German ships t'nar goto Bremen and
Hamburg.
On each of the vessels of the lines
mentioned beep large -Muterrooins }ia\*e
set aside and fitted out for tho
use of the postal derk-r Big racks
of pigeon-holes st.iiid up against the
walls, and the mail-:- m -ha- h:ru
from stands iq tlu* centre of tne