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TEN CENTS FOR A BLOCK.
What Chief Bonner Offered For A Burning Building —
A Man Whose Life Was Not Worth A Dollar.
, ... - | “I would not give ten cents for that block
f ** f j G* So said Chief Bonner of Ihe New York Fire Department
'■ ? -- Y ■1 j ,rM 9 during the great conflagration in that city on Sunday night,
f\ • - \ ' December 4th, IS9B.
r ' •I' ' ( '*%*" -T Afij.rj +““■ In the midst of the how ling gale and falling rain the men
v . l i g i 'ii..A ile Old Guard at Waterloo and in the end with far
rfe ASk VY* f ' 1 bettor success. Yet there were moments of intense doubt and
iy . anxiety. But before daylight, broke on the wild scene the
\f' I \Sr> Commander of the little army of rescue drew a deep breath
V s - >IS ° f r * he had the situation in the palm of hi hand,
j y\. >?// Ur A\f ' |/ # Ho far as we know, men have always been fighting disease
■¥/* ‘y>i ‘V \9 - jLI o \f —which is a worse affliction than fire-have been trying
* V ’ )/*\ 'il PPm \ ) to understand it and suppress it. What have we learned?
§ If I / ' s sJsx /L r j J jr We havet not learned everything, but w'e have learned much.
/ / 7 / ® ~ I lr>] f / 1 e can a * l ailments; some we can cure. 6ufferers from
if: C }I / *[ ! 1 disease want help, no matter what it is or where it ooines from.
I V\/ / \ i —* ui f ill" l That is why people are continually writing such letters as
J l!: J P /-—J / ——Jl 1 these: Lear Sir—“ You will remember my describing in a
y n y| 17/f ] former letter how terribly I suffered from chronic kidney
u! j I j IJ ) trouble and how hopeless my condition was at that time.
II )/■%> rv n _** 'i ! I I hiul consulted doctor after doctor, from general praetic
/s*- / / _ , | ij I tioners to eminent specialists, with one uniform result.
/ AX/ — y* a ! j , r rhey lookefl wist* end talked wt*ll, but they did not help me.
J VY\ X \ I / But 1 wanted what all sufferers want—relief, not reasons.”
/X'J ' | I j / ■ “In my oth< r!* ter J said I would not take one hundred
, 11 for/ thousand dollars for what your great discovery had done for
j me. To-day I say I WOL’LD NOT TAKK A MILLION DOL.-
BARS for what Warner’s Safe Cure did for me. When I look
the first dose, 1 was so full of despair of my future, that I would noi have given a dollar for my chances in this ivorld. Vet
because of this medicine only, life is as sweet and precious to roe as to any oilier man.”
January 3ist, 1808. (Signed) J. O. COLLINS. Farmville, Va.
Reader, do not give yourself up for drowned until there is no spar to cling to. If in the big New York fire Chief Bonner
had been able to buy the threatened bloijk for loh cents, he would now Ik* the luckiest real estate holder in the country. If
Mr. Collins had sold himself for a dollar at the time of his desfKiir, h<* would have been a very foolish mun. Take no counsel
wi:h doubt and despair. The greatest conflagrations arc put out with perseverance and water, and. dangerous diseases yield
to Warner’s Safe Cure.
HIGHEST SINCE LEITER DEAL
smuarm: nnm is wheat
PITS TIIE MARKET I P.
Hi It Demnml lor All C liimmi'k of Iron
anil Strel —Many Conil.innlioiiK In.
der Way—l.timlirr Traiir ThU.-n an
1 linaril Tread—Grnernl Imln.try
Arlivi*. Eniirrially in fnnl Mining
anil Ship lluililiiiK —Esporl* or Ce
rent. for Hie Week.
New York, Jan. ITT.—Brailslreet's to-mor
row will say:
The apparently steady rise In the li.le of
general business lias been diversiiietl this
week by an outburst of speculative inter
est in a number of staples, notably eotton
and wheat, which heretofore registered
steady 'gains on actual consumptive distri
bution.
Color Is given to this claim by the fact
that the situation of actual wheat shows
but little change from recent weeks. It is
true that the tendency to pare down alleg
ed official estimates of Russian crops and
some weather reports from the West have
been move encouraging to the holders of
actuaf wheat, but the magnitude of the
outburst of new buying, shared in by for
mer persistent shorts in wheat, alone hard
ly expfain Hie activity in this market
which has resulted in the highest prices
reached since the coilaisse of the Lelter
deal.
Activity in demand for nearly all efassea
of iron and steel is reflected in advance for
nearly every class of pig iron and In sue!
billets, rails, wire and plates.
Coiixuliilatinu tt Feature.
Announcements of a large number of
consolidations and combinations, projected
or under way, are also a feature.
In the iloman of other metals, notably
copper and tin, speculation and actual de
mand alike bring about higher prices.
Better reports are received from the lum
ber trade in a number of cities, und ull
the old advances are maintained with con
fidence in the outlook for spring business.
Some Improvement in the dry goods
trade is to bo noted at Eastern points,
notably Philadelphia and Boston, where
advances in cotton are maintained.
Wool, though firm, is slow of sale and
finished product!-, with the possible excep
tion of dress woolens, do not move as
freely as hoped for, a feature this week,
in fact, being the very low prices an
nounced by some manufacturers.
General industry Is reported active, nota
bly soft coal mining and ship building.
An encouraging feature in the former
trade has been the wage settlement made
with 100,000 Western coal miners for an
other year.
Shipments of the Cereuls.
Wheat, including flour, shipments for
the week aggregate 4.907.'>72 bushels,
against 5,195,1i71 bushels last week, J. 1120.024
bushels in (tie corresponding wiek of 1 HOC,
2,835,406 bushels in 1597, 21,550.200 bushels in
1896, and 2.483,858 bushels in 1895.
Since July 1 this season the exports of
wheat aggregate 144.232.291 bushels, against
14C.194.889 bushels last year.
Corn exports for the week aggregating
3.695,733 bushels, against 2,928.191 bushels
last week, 4.926,559 bushels in this week a
year ago. 3.0H.502 bushels in 1897 ; 3.197,086
bushels in 1896, and 942,461 bushels in 1895.
Since July 1. this season, com exports,
aggregating 95.715,92:'. bushels, against 96.-
983.738 bushels during the same |ieriod a
year ago.
Business failures are fewer in number,
aggregating 216, against 262 last week. 288
in this week a year ago, 326 in 1*97, ,2>3
in 1896 and 312 ill 1895.
Business failures for the Dominion of
Canada for the week number 32. against .to
last week. 19 in this week a year ago, 56
ill 1897, 63 In 1896 and 56 in 1895.
EFFICIENCY OF CWtI.RV.
The Able Service This llrnneh Hum
Always Rendered.
Pine Crest Villa. Fla.. Jan. 28—The
sending of some of our best cavalry regi
ments to Cuba and Porto Kioo and the
Philippines is considered a wise move
ment. as (here has not yet been found in
modern warfare a substitute for this ef
ficient branch of the service. The condi
tion of affairs in the rural districts of
these Islands calls for lids class of soldiers
for immediate use. Mounted or dismount
ed, as shown by past records, they arc
equal to any emergency that human skill
and courage can successfully meet. And
yet a few years ago there was an able
discussion over the question. “Has the
Day of Cavalry Passed?'*
lien. Phil Sheridan, (he famous cavalry
e< mmander. was in favor of an Increase
of this branch of the service, and MaJ
of lh cavalry followed up Gen
blietl-Jatta suggestions with a plan for
enlarging, j>erfeeting and making the cav
alry more effective.
, ‘T%- Aovrkan civil war,” wrote Maj.
T*rlce. “filershow that a cavalry charge can
Ik* made ii efficacious to-day against rifles
and rifled artillery as it was in the days
of Seydliiz. The experiment then made'
with i>oor riders and wors- swordsmen
proved what American cavalry can do.
and gives token of what they may do in
the future if they are trained to become
bold rhiers and swordsmen. Tl** safety of
oaVaTry mtfoi always Ik* in rapidity.
The cavaJry of the civil war, the Jour
nal admitted, was. on both sides, “only tol
erable.’’ in default of a better way of
lighting, which thero was no time or
mean*# to organize. The troops were va
riously armed, some fight, some heavy, this
command with carbines and that with sa
bor*. frequently nil organized in a “make
shift” way to me**i a passing emergency.
And yet. granting the truth of this pic
ture, what glaring renown clustered
around the brows of the great Southern
cavalry opmmanders, Stuart, Wheeler,
Forrest, Hampton, Butler, Young, Lee,
Andertson, and gallant leaders of lesser
fame. And the same is true of the cav
alry leaders of the Northern armies, Sher
idan, Wilson, Sturgis, Kilpatrick. Sione
man, Custer, Grierson, Garrard. Johnson
and others who won fame with their flying
suuadrons.
When, tn the civil war Atlanta, with all
her splendid fortifications, was threaten
l. Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s famous
"Buttermilk” cavalry was dismounted and
put in the trenches where danger was
most threatened, and they made a record
for hard work, faithful service and pa
tient endurance then unsurpassed in mili
tary history. And when the “Rough Rid
ers” and other cavalry troops landed at
Santiago* in the recent Cuban war, the
same scene was re-enacted, only with
greater hardships and privations, imme
diate and fierce fighting in and out of the
trenches, and examples of heroism and pa
triotic devotion to the flag of our country,
never before witnessed.
In the manhood ami valor and endur
a nee of the cavalry there has Ik<*ii no
decadence, and in the now gloriously bril
liant record of Santiago, he would he a
very foolish man to repeat the obsolete
question, “Has the Day of Cavalry Pass
ed?* The cultured and refined college
bred young men of New York’s swell
“Four Hundred” and the ignorant and
humble negroes of the famous Ninth
United States Cavalry have joined the
middle class cavalrymen in a most em
phatic “No” 4o that inquiry, that will go
sounding down the corridors of Time with
unvlimimshed emphasis.
what of the grand old soldier who
led tfit so victorious heroes into the deadly
fire of a determined and hidden foe? Ho
was, in the recorded opinion of Gen. Rob
ert K. Lee, the greatest cavalry command
er in the Confederate army, sharing honors
with the illustrious Gen. J. E. B. Stewart,
who fell in the smoke of battle. From a
fieuu i ftiicy he had rapidly risen to the
rank of major general, and finally became
a lieutenant general.
When Maj. Price wrote that the “safety”
of cavalry must always lie in “rapidity,”
he should also have added that its effec
tiveness against the enemy depended large
ly and often entirely, upon its “rapidity.”
Take the campaign of Gen. Sherman from
Chat tunppga to Atlanta, and Gen. Joe
WhtpetePai cavalry record stands out in
bokl relief. He was everywhere almost
simultaneously, to the constant dismay of
Sherman’s forces. This* was kept up all
the way to and below' Atlanta, and with
grea success in the capture of provision
trains and prisoners.
Gen. Sherman found Forrest, in his ex
treme rear, and Wheeler alongside of him,
too much of a good thing, and complains
in his “Memoirs.” that they constantly
Interfered with his plans and caused the
detachment of cavalry needed with the
main army.
Oen. W. \V. Markkll. chief of Joim
s4on'.> Muff, usually congratulated Wheeler
for h!S -most daring exploits, and these
telegrams and notes, dictated by Gen.
Johnston, he still preserves with an honest
pride.
Wherever our cavalry may go in the
present emergency, if properly mounted,
its “rapidity” will be the one thing that
will put t far ahead of the infantry in
prevc nting needless conflicts, the wanton
destruction of property and inhuman dis
plays of cruelty. In Cuba and the Philip
pines they will have plenty to do, and in
Porto Rico few kilo days will come to
them. The cavalry has nobly won its
spurs, and should be given every oppor
tunity to wear them with u well-earned
prifi. . And, thank God, hereafter the
name of grand "Old Joe” Wheeler will
have a place in its present and future
history as the illustrious hero of Santi
ago. Sidney Herbert.
—Base Ingratitude.—parrot (scornfully)
“Aw—What a hat! what a hat! what a
hat!” Old Lady (indignantly)—“The un
grateful beast! I*l2 resign from the Audu
doti Society at once*, and trim my bonnet
with parrot wings,*’—Harper’s Bazar.
—“OhoJfle says he is in favor of expan
sion.” “llow on earth did he ever happen
to have an idea on the subject?” “I don't
know, but I think it struck him as some
thing swell.”—lndianapolis Journal,
THE MOHNING NEWS: SATE K DAY, .lANLAKY 28, 1890.
THE RESORT OF ROIIBER9.
Island of San Clemente and It* Trac
le Record ns it C riminal Refuge.
From the Philadelphia Times.
About sjjrty miles off the Southern Cali
fornia const lies the rocky and barren is
land of San Clemente. It was given a
Christian name by the Spanish conquista
dores, but almost ever .since has been the
harbor of refugees from justice. Until the
American conquest it was known as
“Smugglers’ Island,” because the Mexican
blockade runners used it to defraud the*
customs authorities, at which the latter
frequently winked. Then it became the re
sort for robbers and murderers who fled
from the pueblo of Los Angeles, who came
over from Sail Pedro in fishing vessels.
Ned Wooten and Ben Worley, who had
been suspected of belonging to a gang of
burglars in the pueblo of Los Angeles,
were run out of the town by the vigilantes.
Worley went down to the San Bernardino
Valley and enguged in the business of run
ning horses across the line to Mexico and
bringing bands of stolen cattle to Ban
Pedro, and under the guise of a fisherman
robbed drunken sailors, wdiom he enticed
from the saloons under the cover of night.
At this port the two criminals again
met after a short separation and renewed
their partnership. Wooten was a thick
headed, ignorant, brutish fellow who rev
eled in crime, and only spared the life of
his victim of robbery from fear that the
traces of blood might lead to his detection.
He had served a term in the Eastern peni
tentiary, and his heart, if he possessed one,
was ha fldened against humanity. His
mania for crime was partly inherited and
increased by hie natural depravity und
surroundings. His partner. Worley, was
of Mormon descent, his parents having
moved from Salt Like to the San Bernar
dino Valley soon after the infamous Moun
tain Meadow's massacre, aAd it is believed
that his father was one of the men who as
sassinated 127 emigrants in Southern Utah
in 1857. However, Worley and others es
caped to the San Bernardino Valley, where
they founded a Mormon settlement, und
were never apprehended, for in those days
that section was mainly inhabited by In
dians and lawless white renegades.
Burglaries became more frequent after
the arrival of Worley in the sea port
town, and it so happened that after each
robbery Worley and Wooten returned from
the* Island of Sail Clemente, claiming that
they had been there for several days. The
‘ Sailors’ Rest” sa.oon had been robbed
of about $2,000 in gold, and on the day
after these* fellows returned from the isl
and. They expressed much surprise in
common with the other villagers, and
Wooten at onee began to cast suspicion
upon others and constituted himself a ile
tective to hunt the criminal. In fact, he
stated that he had at one time followed
the business of a sleuth.
“Pedro Ortega did the work," said Woo
ten, after making what he said was a
thorough investigation, and the unfortu
nate Mexican was put in jail on the false
accusation of the real criminal.
A few* days afterward Wooten and Wor
ley sailed over to San Clemente Island
for the purpose of further securing their
s2.<*U booty, which they had taken over
to the island on the night of the robbery.
They were closely followed that evening
by two officer* in a -sailboat, who, after
landing, secreted their boat behind a ledge
of rocks and climbed to the precipice
through a ravine. They took a position
about 100 yards back of the precipice over
looking the ocean. Near the brink stool
a small tree, and for this spot Wooten
and Worley started as soon as they reach
id the cliff. The moon was but dimly
shining, and its falling shaV>ws made the
thickening darkness more perceptible. The
officers tould merely see ihe twA forms
cautiously creeping toward the lono tree
on the brink. They walked lightly and
cast furtive looks around, as if expect
ing the arm of the law to clutch them.
>et they had no reason to think that any
one else was on the island. Perhaps it
was the force of habit.
’ll is here.” sakl Wooten. “Dig it up
and well divide it. und each man can
take care of his own.”
“All right.” said Worley, as he knelt
and began to unearth the leather sack
Containing the‘s2,ooo.
lb* had delved only a short and stance,
when Wooten ilea It him a severe blow
in the back of the head with an iron bar.
knocking him almost senseless. Ho arose*,
and as he raised his jack to strike Woo
ten struck again, and as the man stag
gered Wooten clutched with him. dragged
him to the precipice and rolled him over
backward.
‘ Hands up!" shouted Dixon ami Hen
derson. the officers. Their sommons was
answered by a shot from Wooten, and
Henderson fell dead. Dixon and Wooten
fired ■simultaneously, loth receiving slight
wounds. At the next shot the officei
missed his mark, and the robber clinched
with him in a death struggle on (he
brink. The officer had received two
wounds, though neither was dangerous,
yet he was fast losing blood and was an
unequal match for the strong robber, who
evidently was not dangerously wounded.
Both threw down their weapons and wer
ftow struggling for Ueir Uvcz, for iu a.
moment the weaker must i*> hurl*<! over
tilt pieeipiee to fits death. The struggle
ir hnJ Ihe men eyt<l each other as
ir to measure the.r hatred, and then they
h Vnt with greater vigor. If
{ Wooten endeavored to release
I ’ih° f " oers Krap P *" order to strike him
n * he lar of iron, which he always
. as a slung-shot, but the officer
new h.nj as ,n a vise, and gradually baek
"m ~ owar‘ l <he cliff. Quickly the
omcer raised his knee and struck Wooten
in the abdomen, which caused him t sml
t enly release his grasp and bend forward.
Immediately the 0111,, r struck him a ter
rible b.ow over the heart, which sent Woo
ten headlong over the cliff. The cliff was
s anting and Wooten's feet caught on a
en. ge about fifty [et, below the top. He
taught an upper ledge, and th* n a twig,
and Was endeavoring to climb up to a
large sheltering rock for safety.
• lI P. his face bleeding from
the bruises, he said to the officer: "Haul
otf now and let me up. and me and vou
may have afi. and I'll show you where
tnere is more burk-d on this island.”
that,” replied the officer, as he
. a larw rock down uion the head
of Wooten.
W'ith a crash the bowlder and the life
ess, mangled body of the robber fell into
the ocean.
The mystery of the robberies of San
ii ,i h3d tKV ' n "° lv ed. and for years the
little Sea port town was free from but
gianes.
A CHINESE HELL.
livid Models In Buddhist Temple
to Impress the Diving.
From the English 'lllustrated Magazine.
All Chinamen are by nature wicked. It
Is well that they get to know in this life
exactly the sort of punishment that awaits
them in the next. So they receive instruc
tion by plaster of paris representation. At
tne temple at Yunnan-Sen you can behold
striking models of the Buddhist hells. Jn
other cities are other hells. I took a grim
delight Visiting them whenever I had the
chance. One had the same sort of clam
my satisfaction as one feels when, de
pressed and out of sorts, you go off to the
Chamber of Horrors at Aim.*. Taussaud's
to get cheered up a bit. It all depends
what you've been up ,o on this earth
whether your punishment under the earth
!T .u„k' SaWn 111 two or lo ** equashed in
a ciotnespress.
In each of the hells sit one or two, or
mayoe three, elders. They arc big grew
some, flab-faced and slit-eyed; get:fra Hy
° ‘armsiud gold and twice the size of an
ordinary man. They’re ail relatives; you
old if IhUt by ,he K;ime ‘‘tern, callous,
cast-iron sort of countenance they possess:
by the uniform shape of the chin, mouth
tZ ,r : , Ut ' i,b ° ve a "' th '‘ inadlat
ing diabolical glee that suffuses every
'nveu 0 fa< ’ e - They sit on “ throne and look
Yth * , lf ' work of ihe executioners
and the squirms of the executed. The flg
iiT. 8 th r pl ' ilr, ‘ a Utt ‘ l under life-size,
no hif 8 " * en ‘ y 0f real ™ and piled
up horror Ihe imps engaged in Having,
m bf. !? V hrouyh hanging men
t ‘ P ' ,y •?* ‘®en and generally making
things lively have often but one glitiering
ffL*\ U h Ck A the oen:er <)f coal-black
head, the lower part of which is literally
hall momh. stretching from ear to ear.
Their lau*h is somethin# to remember in
your dreams, *o that you wake up in a
hi of cold perspiration yelling for ii to be
taken away.
i here was a victim being crucified, and
the imps were slowly shortening him at
the knees with a red-stained saw. Stand
ing in tront of the wooden bars that pre
vent the live public coming in direct con
tact with this particular hell were two
young men, flapping their long Chinese
Sleeves in agony of despair, swinging their
pigtails in dismay, while tears trickled
obliquely out of (heir almond-shaped eyes
because thb monk at the entrance lo the
temple had told them that was the exact
fate of their old father at that particular
moment. They groaned and sobbed; th.-n
they got a gong and relieved their sor
row by thwacking it; they pushed a cup
of rice and some hard-boiled eggs through
the bars as sustenance to tliclr relative
iri his trials; then they paid cash down for
a big check that would be dispatched that
night to the nether regions, conciliate the
eiders and cease the sawing at the knees
Before another hell stood an old woman
rather complacently watching folks being
thrown backward into a cauldron and
then probed with pitchforks. She evident
ly had relatives In the real place, for she
was carrying an armful of propitiatory
lapers, paper, gold and large checks. Then
there was a place with a long stove like a
red-hot kitchen range. Defunct, and yet
tolerably lively, mortals were sitting on
the top tying themselves into knots, while
a number of brutes with heads like bulls
gloated leeringly. The elders in the ad
joining place owned a perennial iaugh;
for the imps had men by the heels and
were dashing their heads on stones. One
man was being pressed on a row of dag
gers.
Next door several wicked Chinamen had
fallen on spiked mountains, and there they
were impaled and writhing. There was a
lake with men struggling among slimy,
double-headed snakes; there were several
creatures hung up in the air with a hook
through their vertebrae, and quite com
mon were the cases of evildoers swung by
the pigtails and being disembowelled. Cer
tainly they're pretty ingenious where the
naughty Chinese go. , If a Celestial has a
reprobate of a sire he does not talk to
him for his good, but takes him an after
noon stroll in the Kingdom of Below, lets
him see for himself what’s likely to hap
pen in the uncomfortable by and by, and
then hints he doesn't think he'll be able to
afford the expense of buying the imps off.
If that doesn’t make a Chinaman turn
from Ilia wrongdoing and make him
promise to be a better father henceforth,
nothing will.
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CASTING OCT DEVILS IN RUSSIA.
Curious fuses of Superstition Among
the People.
Russian Letter in London Telegraph.
Superstition is very rife throughout Rus
sia and the East. Not only does this ap
ply to the lower orders, who firmly be
lieve in the existence of good and evil
spirits which have influence upon the lot
of mankind, but there are many intelli
gent and educated people who are extreme
ly credulous in this respect. The story
of "the devils of St. Petersburg" is not
yet forgotten here. In this case a certain
medical man. who occupied apartments in
the Rue Titejuaja, was afflicted by gob
lins, which every night changed the posi
tion of the furniture, knocked down china
and copper ornaments, upset tables, etc.,
much in the same way as did the devils
of Woodstock, celebrated by Sir Walter
Scott in one of his novels. Later on it
was ascertained that these “devils” were
no other than the doctor's servants, who
had been "squared” by certain people
who wanted to get him out of his lodg
ings.
Another characteristic story of this sort
relates to a country house in the little
island of Kammenz, near St. Petersburg.
The establishment in question was built
for a lady of high rank, but she only liv
ed in it for eight days, since which it has
remained empty. It is alleged that appari
tions and visions were seen during the
night. Horrible groans and sighs and
cries for help were hoard. The mistress
of the house stood this sort of thing for
several nights, but finally was obliged to
quit. In this case. also, it turned out that
the servants, which lime, is said to
have treated harshly, were at the bottom
of the trouble.
In some parts of Russia the people be
lieve that devils can enter into the organ
ism of human beings, whose actions they
therefore guide, and there are sorcerers
who profess to be able to cast out the
spirits. These men are utterly without
scruple, and the sufferings which they
cause their victims to undergo may be
easily imagined. Very few cases ever
come before the law courts. The people
look upon the wizard as a powerful per
sonage who can work them much evil,
and therefore not lightly to be provoked.
Hence complaints are rarely laid before
the tribunals. However, a typical case
of thtksort recently came before the court
of Ylndicauease.
A Mohammedan mollah, or priest, nam
ed Ohmed RamasanofT. was charged with
torturing a peasant woman named Kotch
eretova, his object being to drive devils
out of her. At the beginning of the pres
ent year Kotcheretova. who was only 20,
fell ill, her malady being accompanied by
epileptic fits. The villagers and her hus
band, a man named Aslan-Bek, came to
the conclusion that she was afflicted by
evil spirits, and the husband called upon
file mollah RamasanofT to east them out.
The priest came to the house and com
mensed his treatment. First of all they
made a big wood fire, and when there were
plenty of hot ashes they stripped the
young woman and tied her hands and feet.
Seeing these omnious preparations, Kotch
eretova began to cry and begged them to
desist. "Out off my arms, put out my
eyes, do what you like, but do not burn
me.” They paid no attention to her plead
ings and picking her up placed her on the
fire. She then became insensible, which
the doctor, who examined her, declared to
be of a very severe character. When
brought before the court the priest ex
plained that the woman's husband had
sought his advice. He counseled Aslan-
Bek to force his wife to name the spooks,
and he (the priest) would be able to re
store her to health. He had put her on
the fire until she gave the names of the
evil spirits, which he then wrote upon a
piece of paper and threw it into the flames
after which he was quite sure that the
devils would leave her. He added that
when she cried before being put on the
hearth it was not she that wept, but the
devils. The inquiry showed that the wo
man had been kept on the hot ashes for
eight hours. The headman of the village
deposed that such methods of treatment
were often employed, and were always
successful.
The court found the priest guilty, and
sentenced him to deprivation of all his civ
il rights and to one year’s imprisonment.
The husband would have been also tried,
but his wife declared that she forgave
him.
Berlin Superstitions.
Corrspondence London Standard.
Although in Berlin, as elsewhere, most
superstitions ore connected in some way or
other with marriage or with death, still
there are quite a large number that have
nothing whatever to do with either. For
instance, many a housewife would feel as
tf he were Just tempting the fates if sho
were to allow a room to be swept at night;
for, while the dust was going out, she
would argue, trouble would be sure to
er< •;> in. A peaee-loeing servant-maid
will have recourse to all sorts of odd strat
agems to avoid taking a pair of shoes
from off a table; for, whoever takes them
off. aha holds, is sure to have a quarrel
that very same day with him or her who
put them on.
I shall never forget the scene I once
witnessed in a, German household when
the fact became known that I had broken
a looking-glass. The thing was of no
great va.ue—it was only a little hand-mir
ror—and as I was its owner. I was at a
loss to understand why the breaking of it
should cause so much excitement. The
servants stood around me wringing their
hands, and indulging in all sorts of noisy
demonstrations of grief and sympathy;
while their mistress, who passed in the
world for being a strong-minded woman,
looked equally distressed. She told me
again and again how sorry she was that
such a misfortune should have happened
to me in her house. “You will have no
luck now for seven long years, do what
you may,” she assured me in quite a se
pu'.chral tone. And when I laughed, she
waxed quite indignant, and was heard to
remark later that the English were sadly
lacking in reverence.
On a previous occasion, in that same
house, I had stumbled while going up
stairs, whereupon it was promptly taken
for granted that wedding presents would
soon have to be bought. If two persons
have the same thought at the same mo
ment, and express it in the same words,
they may each wish a wish, and the wish
will be gratified if they but have the pa
tience not to speak until they are address
ed by some third person. With regard
to the moon, endless superstitions prevail,
not only in Berlin, but throughout Gerl
many, and among them the old Englisn
superstition that to see the new moon
through glass brings misfortune. There
are superstitions, too, with regard to the
color of the horses one may meet. Some
people will walk miles on the chance of
coming across a piebald horse, just as
others will go far out of their way to
avoid one that is “skebald.” Then the
way the birds fly, how the leaves fall to
the ground, whether stairs do or do not
creak, and whether door-bells ring or te
roain at rest, are all matters fraught with
significance for Berliners; and not for
them alone, for in every land old super
stitions die hard.
Seven Thousand Miles After a Qnecr
Worm.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Prof. William M. Woodworth of Har
vard came up from Samoa on the Alame
da. He accompanied the Agassiz scientific
expedition o the South Sea Islands a
year or so ago, and this second visit was
made in the interests of the Museum of
Comparative Anatomy of Harvard, to in
vestigate the “palolo,” a curious marine
worm which has long been a scientific
mystery.
“The palolo, which is found near the Fiji
and Samoan islands,” said Mr. Wood
worth yesterday, “measures twelve to
fourteen inches in length and is about the
thickness of woollen yarn. On two days
in the year the sea is thick with it, like
vermicelli soup. The natives bake it in
breadfruit, and esteefn it a great delicacy.
It looks like spinach and tastes fishy.
“Only twice in the year does the palolo
come to the surface, in October and No
vember. and then only at sunrise on the
tenth day after the full moon. The na
tives gather from great distances and
make a festival of the occasion. The
weather, which is invariably bad at that
time, is known as 'palolo weather,' and
October and November are known re
spectively as 'the month of the little
palolo’ and 'the month of the big palolo,’
because of the greater quantity of palolo
that appear in the latter month.
“The palolo has never been scientifically
classified, though Fricklander was on the
right track when he hazarded a guess in
1896. It is an annelid marine worm, liv
ing on coral rocks. I detached several
specimens from the rocks below the sur
face, and found that the palolo is really
only the tall of the creature. The stock,
so to speak, on which the palolo grows is
a sea worm resembling those that bore In
the piles about San Francisco bay, and
the long appendage is thrown off at the
breeding seasons.”
Flume in His Breath.
From the Jackson Whig.
There is a colored man by the name of
Bill Watson, who is employed in the new
Illinois Centra! yards as car repairer, who
has a wonderful breath. He can take a
piece of paper or any light material and
by blowing his oreath upon it the mate
rial will ignite. A Whig man had an op
portunity of seeing this feat accomplish
ed with a small piece of writing paper.
It was lighted when he had blown his
breath on it twice. He is compelled to
sleep on an oilcloth and cover with the
same to prevent setting lire to the bed
clothing. He has been In the employ .-f
the Illinois Central for quite a while, and
is an efficient employe. *
—William Peakes, last survivor of the
once famous Peakes family of Swiss bell
ringers, died in Brooklyn a few days ago
at a good old age. This family a genera
tion ago furnished one of the most suc
cessful entertauunenta Uisn on the road.
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