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imm THE FiRMBRS .
IALEFHL INFLUENCE OF A HIGH
TARIFF UPON AGRICULTURE.
Mere Than 11,000 Pennsylvania
Owners of the Soil (Compelled to
Vacate Their Property Between
the Years 1880 and 1889—Remit
ot Protection Proeperity.
In protected Pennsylvania a Be
psblioan paper admits that in spite of
the high tariff thousands who once
farmed their own land were forced to
become tenant farmers.
When the American people the were Mc¬
asked to vote for a return to
Kinley policy of high taxation, under
toe promise that if prosperity protection will is
restored unbounded
fellow, they should insist on an ex
plsnation of the utter failure of that
policy to bring prosperity during the
thirty-three ytars it was in operation.
It is all very well for the Republican
prers to say that business of all kinds
was good under the high tariff law;
that agriculture was flourishing, in¬
dustry active, the working classes fully
employed and everybody happy and
contented. The people know better.
Tbe hundreds of thousands of fanners
who, after a lifetime of severest toil,
found themselves with mortgaged
farms whioh had decreased in value;
the armies of unemployed working
men who sought in vain for an ap*
portunity to labor; the bankrupt mer¬
chants and the owners of mills and
factories which were idle because the
masses could not afford to buy their
products, all knew that the claims of
toe high tariff advocates are falqe.
Their poverty and losses under pro¬
tection are too real to be forgotten in
the twenty months since the McKinley
law was repealed. Even the speoial
ergans of the protected interests against fur¬
nish Democratic arguments
the protective folly and swindle.
Among others the Manufacturer, pub¬
lished by the Manufacturers’ Club of
' Philadelphia for the sole purpose of
advooating high taxes on imports, 14, de¬
clares in its issue of March that
*in 1889 more than 11,000 men who
farmed their own land in Pennsylvania
ia 1880 bed disappeared farmers.” and given
plaee to 9000 tenant
If thie ia true, and the censue re¬
turn* indioate that the number of
fanners who were foroed to abandon
their lands in Fenusylvania Manufac¬ is mnoh
larger than stated by the
turer, need there be any further dis¬
suasion as to the real effeots of protec¬
tion? I860 For, 1889, daring the high the tariff period from
to was con
tiauonsly in operation, and the so
sailed "home market” was being pre¬
served And for the' the resalt farmers of nine of Pennsyl
uaaia. years of
protection prosperity waa—11,000
compelled to give up the lend|,they had
tilled and beoome tenants of eomerioh
landlord. These were the prosperous
conditions In the State whioh received
the greatest benefit from the tariff. Is
it aay wonder that in the othor less
termed States the farmers wsre
Amen to the verge of poverty and
ruin?
That there should be found editors
cod politicians willing to twist sueh
lasts as the above into an argument
and join an unjust and oppressive tar¬
iff system, only shows the influenoe of
•xtreme partisanship funds. Bnt and of monopoly
ptioa no amount of
special pleading oan oonvinoe the peo¬
ple that a policy whioh drives the
termers oat of their homes is one
which ia likely to make them more
prosperous.
T» Settle Ike «Ckeap.Good«» (JuMtion.
Hers is a very easy way in which
•a test public sentiment in regard to
respective advantages of cheep
ms dear goods. The Republicans
a class profess to believe that a low
tariff ia aa evil, In that it Iowan prioes
and enables the Major oonsumera MoKinley, to buy
linage cheaply. Bandidata for the Be- the
meat prominent President,
aabliean nomination for
declared ia a recent interview that he
nothing good in been oheap enthnsiaeti- products,
and kis views have
eally endorsed by the hand/ protectionist
pram. On tbe other the Demo
party stands for a policy under
whisk goods of all kinds can be most
If sad almadaatly psa-dueed. raally
toe MoKinleyitaa are con¬
vinced that deer it is they better should to have things
and toy the
oaent on a small scale by having
their village, town or city all impose
of fifty outside cent, on bound- goods
of ita’
m. Thu would ot once put prices
higher than under the tariff of
0, and wonld effectually dot away
Then,
who are afreid
el eheapoese, everybody than under will the ha far
mace tarsi condition prosperous of ne<
Republican town of city
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THE BOODLE CANDIDATE.
McKinley to Bay the Nomination
With Fuads Contributed by Pro¬
tected Manufacturers.
When rogues fall oat they are other. apt
to tell the trnth about each
The Republican rascals who are lay¬
ing plans to capture the Government
so that they can again enact high
tariff Jaws in the interest of trusts and
monopolies are just now quarreling
among themselves over the nomina¬
tion for President. Major McKinley
is so far in the lead of all the other
candidates that the friends of the
, Utter , have , became _________ angry «d A boldly
assert that the
large , .
using
Among JL- o^er e eminent Republican
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making a boodl p gn
nomination is Senator Chandler, of
New Hampshire, who savs :
<»utoua ®P 8
^bout McKinley, but it certainly does
seem to me that he m in the hands of
unscrupulous managers. Tb j y
that this year the Repub ic an
elect a yellow dog if we nominate one.
At the same time, look at the situa
turn. If McKinley is nominated we
shall have to meet the charge that we
fried the fat out of the manufac
turer in the last campaign, a e
fried the fat oat of °
seoure his nomination, that lie is con
tinning to fry the fat to b u 7 18 6 ®?'
tion, and, as a result, he will pay hia
political debts with a high ariff
framed solely in the interests of the
manufacturers.
"With snoh charges as these to
meet on the stump, the campaign on
the part of the Republicans wilt be
defensive instead of offensive.”
When a Republican Senator admits
that the candidate of his party will be
foroe<f to answer charges that he
bought bis nomination with "fat”
fried out of protected interests, to be
repaid with high.tariff favors, it should
be easy for the Democrats to wiu.ou a
platform of principle versus corruption
funds.
TARIFF TAXES AND SHIPPING.
The McKinley System Destroyed Oar
Merchant Marine.
In his recent Ohioago speech Major
MoKinleysaid: "The Republican part?
stands for a commercial polioy that
will whiten every sea with the sails of
Amerioan vessels flying the American
flag.” Mr. MoKinley’s idea seems to be
that the best remedy for hydrophobia
is to let the mad dog bite the pationt a
second time. The polioy of protection
whioh was fastened on the eonntry by
toe Repnblioan party, swept Amerioa’s
fleet of sailing vessels from the seas,
and by high taxes on the matsrrialsfor
building steamships with has prevented countries us
from competing other
fora share of the world’s carrying
trade. It requires a great deal of as¬
surance for the leader of Ibe party
whioh is responsible for the decline of
Amerioan shipping to pretend that will
this patent high taxation nostrum
revive the industry that it has almost
killed. Sensible citizens will natur¬
ally ask why the polioy of protection,
whioh is going to do so mnoh for the
shipping industry if Mr. McKinley
gets elected, worked jnat tbe other
way during the thirty-three years in
whioh it was in force?
Another question for whioh a reply
il earnestly requested is, what are ail
the new ships whioh Mr. MoKinley
says will bs built if the oountry goes
back to proteotion, to do for freight?
It is well known that just Republican# as soon aa
they get the power the
will pass laws prohibiting the impor¬
tation ol foreign goods. Is it intend¬
ed that American vessels shall carry
loads of domestic products abroad and
bring nothing baok? If no, hear long
will it take to bankrupt our own pro
dnoers?
The attempt ot the chief apostle Amerioa’s of
the system whioh destroyed the champion of
shipping restored to merchant pose aa marina, is highly
a
inconsistent and absurd.JBut it is advo¬ only
part of the contradictory scheme
cated by men who talk of increasing
trade by means of tanas which pro¬
hibit commerce.
DM toe HeKIuley Tariff XokeYoz Rich t
Msjor MsZi&lsy’s high tax a ti on
soheme for making everybody wealthy
by taxing everything they uasd wee ia
fall operation for four year*. It cer¬
tainly had a fair trial, and thars ia no
doubt but ‘.that it enriched a few pro¬
tected toasts and monopolies. ‘But did
it make the millions of fanners rich?
Did the workingmen in the milla, fac¬
tories and mines beoome capitalists d
through a polioy whioh ino res es the
ooat of the goods they need?
It wonld be only lair that, at the
soaring elections, the votes of eleven
million citizens should be east ia pro¬
portion ^ to benefits raoaivad. Those
- risk by McKinleymm
should vote tha Republican ticket All
the reet should support the Democratic
Did protection make you
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“EGG INSPECTORS.”
MEN WHO MAKE A BUSINESS OF
EXAMINING «KN FRUIT.
Expert Inspectors Decide the Qual¬
ity’ of '10,800 Eggs a Dav—How
the Eggs Are Handled—Great
Dexterity Shown.
d HBISTOPHEB it who had stand to inspect smash npright. Chicago’s an COLUMBUS egg The to make men in
eggs
South Water street could have shown
thegreat discoverer bow to make his
tory without breaking eggs, for, by a
twist of the wrist and a .hake of the
elb^. they toss eggs.from one hand
with a sleight-of-hand dexterity which
ig utonishiDg, and can make an c£e egg
balance itself or the edge of a
without even nicking ® the shell.
Jn the early dayg f the trade these
j ugglerB of egg8 were calIed «. egg
can dlers, ” because the lowly tallow dip
M ppij ^ ed tbe x rays which betrayed
th nterlor economy of the product
of hen8 . negt8 But the development ^
o{ the indnst and the adopti n of
the electric incandescent lamp for the
bgb t brought about a change of name,
an ^ the members of the craft, of whom
there are about 200 in this city, are
known tt8 « egg ingp ectors. ”
A good, brisk inspector, handling a
fftir rnn of 6gg8> can .< Candle » tbirty
caaeg Q f eggg 158 a dfty; J a8 eaob ca8e bo lds
thirty dozens the day’s run will aver¬
age 10,800 eggs. The work is carried
on in a dark room, in which the only
lights are those used for inspecting
the eggs. The condition of an egg is
found by bolding it to the light, and
the degree of translncency, color,
spots and shape of the dark places de¬
termine tbo grade and character of the
egg- •<**.&*
A clever man with a keen eye, a nice
sense ot discrimination, an adhesive
memory and a well developed knack
of handbag things may become a fair
egg inspector in three years, but five
years probably will pass before be is
expert enongh to go on the list of
adepts.
The handling of the eggs is an im¬
portant factor in the craft. Any man
can pick up a single igg, hold it to
the light, turn i.t around two or three
times and lay the egg back in the orate
again, bnt it takes an expert to pick
np four eggs in one hand, there in an¬
other and by the mere working of the
fingers roll an egg between the thumb
and two fingers and then roll it out of
the way to pnt another one in its plaoe.
Generally two egge are picked np with
oaoh hand at a time, so that they are
inspeoted in groups of four, and the
rapidity with which the work is car¬
ried on is so great that from 10,000 to
12,000 eggs a day are inspeoted. Bnt
the inspector does more than candle
his wares, for he handles his own oases,
lifts them to the benob, takes them
down again, nails on covers, transfers
eggs from one oase to anothor and tells
of marvelous ouriosities in the egg
line, whioh have passed under his fin¬
gers. He mentions three yolk uggs;
doable eggs in whioh a perfectly
formed egg, shell and all, is found in¬
side of an egg; eggs with all of the
oolors of the rainbow in their shells;
eggs with words and dates formed in
the shell, and eggs with doable and
triple shells. interesting "trioks”
One of the many
done by the meu who earn their bread
handling eggs is that of transferring
them from one oase to another. Eggs
are shipped and stored in cases and
are packed in strawboard compart¬
ments, or '(fillers,” each of #hioh is a
tray and holds three dozen eggs. A
square sheet of strawboard lies under
each filler. The inspector slips his
hand under this sheet of cardboard
and with his other hand on top of the
tray lifts it, with its load of thirty-six
eggs ont of the oase, lays it over the
empty filler and withdrawing the
cardboard allows the egg* to fall down
into the empty one. This is a knaok
of the trade whioh requires bnt a trial
by a layman to prove its elusive na¬
ture.
A strictly "fresh” egg is one with¬
out flaws of any kind. It may be ten
days or two weeks old, bnt it is not
more aged. This is called a "select¬
ed” egg and commands the highest
price.
When the e egg begins to grow stale
the white i shrinks, and thie ia shown
to the inspector by a well-defined line
in the large end of first the egg. If shrunk
too mnoh for the ol the egg
goes into the “second,” which also in¬
clude fresh eggs that are "cheeked”
or cracked.
A checked egg is a cracked egg, bnt
the eraek ia notnotiusd until it is held
up to the light or is rattled or “licked”
in toe hand with another egg. A
■did egg-shell gives a clear sound if
ticked against another egg. bnt a
cracked or checked egg gives ont a
dead, wooden sound.
After the second* come “spots” and
“leaks.” “Spots”, are egga in which
the yoke dings to the shell and
“leaks” arc broken egga. These are
toe general gradea, grades bat eaeh of them
is subdivided into recognised
by the trade
The beet eggs are selected to be
from in cold StOTMO
Which they will be taken and sold
when freak eggs dre scarce. They are
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withdrawn they are inspected and di¬ as
though they were fresh eggs
vided into similar grades.
eggs are those kept in lime or alkali
solution, and salted eggs are preserved
by being packed in salt. preserved
Of course, none of these
eggs is as good as the fresh article,
bnt if they pass the candler they are
good enongh to eat.
Propagating Big Game.
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains
at Henry’s Lake, six miles from the
continental divide, is a ranch owned
by B..W. Rock deToted to the domes
tication and propagation of big game.
It is stocked with elk, moose, buffalo,
deer and mountain sheep, and the
owner has so far made a good profit
out of the bnsness, having sold over
300 head of elk, besides other domes
ticated game animals for public and
private parks. The origiqpl stock has
been captured by him during the
dead of winter, and many of the ani
mals thus captured have been hauled,
strapped on dog sleighs, to the ranch
a distance varying from fifty to one
hundred miles over the snow and
throuarb a country over which no other
animal but a dog and a human baing
on snow shoes could travel.
Mr. Rock’s system of domestication
is thorough, and his wife drives a do
mesticated moose. His ranch was lo
cated seven years ago, and he tells the
story of the manner in which he went
into the business, and incidentally he
imparts some useful information con
cerning the domestication of big game
in Recreation, as follows: “Game
being plentiful at that time, I made a
stand-off with life by hunting and
trapping them. Time passed rapidly,
and with it the gamp. In two years
I saur the herds were getting smaller,
and that , it , would ,, , be only , a few , years
until some of the species would be ex
tinct, so I concluded to try capturing
and propagating some of these grand
animals. I rustled up the necessary
dogs, sleds and harness for a trip aud
went “after moose. I put in three
weeks and caught five, ranging from
eight months to four years old,
"The young ones did well, but the
older ones wonld not live in captivity.
Moose will eat almost any kind of
rough feed, but prefer browse. They
aie easily tamed and soon become af¬
fectionate to their keepers. I have
one six years old that my wife drives
and handles with perfect safety.
"Elk thrive in captivity caught at
any age. I have oanght about 300.
If caught when calves they will breed
at three years of age. Old ones have
to be kept two years in captivity be
fore breeding. Deer caught after
eight months old will not live. They
breed at two years. Antelope do not
do well. They live from two to four
years in confinement. Rocky Moun¬
tain sheep are hardy and'do well, hav¬
ing one and two lambs each year ?”
Strange But True.
A well-known naturalist and sports¬
man was shooting quail one day near
the Pyramids. Sighting an owl he
raised his gun and was about to pull
the trigger, when, judge of his sur¬
prise, the bird suddenly twisted in its
flight a* if shot and came flattering to
his feet. On examination be dis¬
covered that the bird, although in
midair, had broken its vdng through
the mere exertion of its flight.
When shooting on the moors in
Yorkshire an unluoky sportsman had
his one solitary chance daring the
beat spoiled by an extraordinary acci¬
dent. Jast as be was shooting at a
grouse flying abont forty yards away,
another bird, which had evidently lost
its presenoe of mind, fluttered in front
of his gun, receiving the whole of the
charge in its body. It was literally
blown tt\ pieces. well-known collector of
Booth, the
Brighton, once did the very same
thing. Ha was firing at a small flock
of common pochard when the oharge
hang fire, in conseqnenoe of which a
rare speoimen had time to fly into the
line of shot It is now in the Brighton
Museum.
Apropos, a strange freak of part
ridges may be mentioned. Upon cer
tain occasions they vyill fly far ont to
sea and settle on the top of tbe waves
with as mnch unconcern as if they
were on a turnip field, although it
means certain death to every one of
the covey.—Pearson’s Weekly.
A Fresh Mallet From the Sky.
Yesterday afternoon, while sitting
on our front piazza, enjoying the warm
sunshine and deeply interested in read
ing Forest and Stream abont
“Lost Man,” my attention was
ed from that very strange character
by the swooping noise that is often
in this country by a buzzard
from a very great height by closing
his wings and pitching toward the
earth at a 'great speed. I also have
heard the same sound made by brant
and geese. Almost at the dose of the
swooping noise was a heavy, dull thud
on the earth not exceeding fifty feet
from where I sat, and on looking in
that direction, I saw a one and one
half pound mullet lying in the yard. I
t ton bethought me of toe soroaming,
now racket I l»«d heard from the
fighting birds, and, on looking ap,
saw the fish hawk and eagle half a
lallt away, f both wending their way
coastward. I then a more care
•Ipperfor toe waglefaiTed with to connect. and
It waa still wat aaa water,
22 far the fall from so great an alti
would have bean alive, aa it waa
etightiy by daws and
of the fish hawk. It oertainly
for one living
i the Gulf, and made
a for three wf us ia
ha unlawful to kill quaH In
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KING MENELEK IL
THE DOUGHTY MONARCH WHO
WIPED OUT AN ITALIAN ARMY.
Striking Peculiarities of the Ruler
of Abyssinia and Hi« People
Greatest African Warrior
of Modern Times.
Menelek II., the dusky King of the
Abyssinians, has suddenly sprung into
fame> tbe New York Journal, by
inflicting a crushing blow upon the
j ta jj an forceS) which sought to bring
bim to Emission. This semi-bar
barian wbo rn ] e8 ft i arge area in Africa
: ngt to tbe Boutb of the Soudan and
bordering partly on the Red Sea, is
tbe fi r8 t African of modern times to
ehow fighting qualities of a high order
aud true m }jj tar y gkill in handling
i arg6 masses of men. By wiping out
a whole Italian army almost at a single
b j ow King Menelek has taught a les
^ to Enr0 p eaI1 Powers,
pj, e Abyssinias have a curiouB form
of civilization, which antedates Chris
tianity. There is a large admixture of
Caucassian blood among them,
King Menelek claims to be descend
ed f rom the Queen of Sheba. Abys
sinia ig alleged to be the Sheba of
g cr ipture, and the blood of King Sol
cm0Dj it is ^med, runs through the
rova i house.
^he Queen of Sheba after her visit
to King So i omon wa8 followed by a
number of Jews upon her yeturn
to Abyssinia. Numerous Greeks and
p ortllg tie8e subsequently took up 1 heir
res id e nce in the country, and then be
came absorbe( j amon g the native pop¬
olation.
The characteristic African features
are almost wholly missing among the
Abyssinians. They have intelligence,
stability of character, courage, skill
and q na ijties of endurance not to be
found in any of the races of more pure
Africans. These perhaps are some of
the reasons why the Abyssinians re¬
fuse to give up their country to a for¬
eigner without a struggle, and why
they have shown soldierly qualities
that will make them everywhere re
speoted because they will be feared.
King Menelek’s followers took every
advantage of their topographical sur¬
rounding, just as the Indians do in the
West. They hid in the passes and
crevioes oE the mountains,^ with
whioh their country is plentifully sup¬
plied, and drew the enemy into am¬
bush by ingenious and plausible
schemes. Then an enormous army,
apparently formless and ignorant of
tac tics, sprung as if ontof the ground,
Means of attack that are strikingly
novel were used. Rifles, shot-guns,
gpgars and sabres were employed by
the half 8avage hordes of King Mene
lek and huge boulders were rolled
down from the mountains noon the
helpless Italian troops below.
This signal victory is the greatest
military event in the history of Abys¬
sinia, which o^ stretches far back beyond
the dawn European civilization.
No African sovereign of modern times
has ever achieved Ti triumph against
European arms comparable to this.
King Menelek is no old man whose
early death may be looked for to
throw his immense dominions open to
wild scrambling by Europeans. He is
a comparatively young man and he
comes from a family of warriors, of
whioh he is now the greatest.
The King is surrounded by many
emblems of barbaric splendor. On
either side of King Menelek, when he
goes with his troops to command in
battle, a slave carries an umbrella.
These royal umbrellas are ornament
ed. They are of a bright, rich red,
and have heavy fringes of gold and
silver around the edge. A knob of
gold surmounts the top of each um
brella. The purpose of these two urn
brellas, which are carried on either
side of King Menelek in battle, is to
distinguish him, and, incidentally, to
shade him from the fierce African sun.
Menelek in battle wears an enormons
hat. This royal hat is hereditary
among the male descendants of the
Queen of Sheba. It looks somewhat
like a big sombrero, and is flat
crowned, with a wide, stiff brim. No
bodv but King Menelek among the
Abyssinian troops is permitted to wear
a hat like this. He has frequently
been seen, however, in battle without
this hat, bnt with a barbaric fringe of
fekthers, ivories and gold and silver
pins sticking from his hair.
The Abyssinians are fond of red,
black and white. White ia a royal
color in Abyssinia, and Menelek’s
mantle is big enongh to make two
sheets for the largest bed in the world,
This he gathers about him" in stately
fashion when he walks. Throwing
wide this glistening mantle, the King
of Abyssinia reveals himself as a
strong- built, powerful savage. One
of the most striking characteristics of
hia dress is an enormons silver wristlet
that reaches from the elbow to the
wrist ot his right arm. This pro
claims him to his troops as the slayer
of many warriors in battle. A similar
wristlet is worn by many of his lead
ing chieftains,
King Menelek rides a horse that is
almost weighted down by an elaborate
harness, ornamented with gold, silver
and precious stones. His horses are
tbe finest Arabian tnoroogaorous ua
ho owns hundreds of the best speci¬
mens in Africa. These horses can
climb the steepest and rockiest moon
taina in Abyssinia.
The skm of tbe black leopard, as
well as lion akin, also figures conspicn
onsly ia the dree* of King Menelek.
These he has lined with sear let cloth
and fitted with amulets. He has a
gorgeous dock made of the akin of a
black-maned lion mid set with pfec
having aa clasp
of gold, wardrobe of
this barbaric chi
also possesses fleeces of sheep of mar¬
beauty and delicacy that are
in his war tents for Tttgi and
His sword, which he car
on the right side of his body* has
a handle richly ornamented with gold,
and precious stones apd shaped some¬
what like that of a Bedouin. The
blade, however, after running narrow
and straight for a distance of two feet,
suddenly turns almost at a right angle
and broadens out.
Singularly enough the edge of the
sword is on the inside. This makes it
a sort of sickle or reaper. This iorm
of sword is very common among
Abyssinian warriors, who are expert
swordsmen. pretensions *•
King Menelek makes to
education and refinement superior to
those of any other African potentate.
He reads and writes the native lan¬
guage and is familiar with geograhy
and history. He even makes a claim
to a crude form of Christianity. His
pretensions to ancient lineage are sueh
as to throw those of every European
sovereign into the shade.
King Menelek rules his tried dominions, to take
which the Italians have
from him, with a rod of iron, which is
now stronger than ever. Millions of
men bow the knee to him. He is a
man of enormous wealth, for every- 1
thing in Abyssinia theoretically be¬
longs to the King, who is supposed to
hold flocks, herds and some lands in
trust for his people. He is the ruler
of many feudatory tribes whose heie
ditary chieftains acknowledge him as
ruler and make him annual tribute.
Young women in Abyssinia grow There to<
a rare and exquisite beauty. tribes
are some of the mountain of
Abyssinia whose people are light
colored and whose women are famous
throughout the East for their delicate
complexions, exquisite figure and eyes
of ravishing beauty. Young un¬
married girls of tli6 hill tribes dress
their hair in a manner that makes
it stand out like an immense fluffy
ball about the head. This can only
be done by those that are light in
color.
King Menelek wears a turban of
white silk under bis hat and his hair is
black. His body is frequently anointed:
bv his numerous servitors, and oils
and rare perfumes are carried for his
use from place to place. his slaves,
The Tigro women, among of
wear a vast number of ornaments
silver, which is a common metal in
Abyssinia. They have chains wound
around the neck, numerous silver or
gilt bracelets, and small bells hung
about their ankles. -
Tigre, Amhara and Shooa are the
principal sub-kingdoms over whioh
Menelek rules. These, however, are
divided from each other bymumerous
tribes, over which Menelek’s sway is
absolnte. King Menelek has streng¬
thened the rule of his house in Abys¬
sinia. He is to-day the most power¬
ful native potentate in Afrioa and the
greatest African warrior of modern
times.
Bis First Glimpse of the Sea.
King Prempeb of Ashantee never
saw the sea until the other day, when,
as a prisoner of the English, he was
brought down to the coast and em¬
barked on the warship that had been
designated to take him to the place of
exile, where he mast spend the rest of
his life. The beach was crowded with
a dense throng of natives, who shouted
and sang, and made a tremendous din,
when Prempeh and his companions
came in sight. The expression on the
King’s face when he first beheld the
ocean was one of blank astonishment,
not nnmixed with * alarm, but he soon
recovered himself and talked volubly
in tbe farewell interview whioh he had
before embarking. A detachment of
the West Yorkshire Battalion entered
a surf boat, and Prempeh was placed
in their midst. The chief interpreter
followed closely in the wake of the
boat conveying the King, whose every
movement was plainly visible. His
novel snrronnding evidently made a
great impression npon Prempeh, and
when the Racoon was reaohed and
boarded, he* was quite lost in wonder.
Long before the Racoon started many
of the Ashantee prisoners, most of
whom had preserved a most stolid de¬
meanor on coming on board, were
painfully seasick.
A Dog’s Adopted Family.
Edward Addison, of Sharp street, has
a female Newfoundland dog which for
several weeks has been nursing four
kittens. The dog’s family of poppies
died recently, and she seemed to be¬
come wild over her loss. She would
howl at night until it was thought she
would have to be killed. Afterward
Mr. Addison received two kittens from
the country, which he intended to
raise for tbe purpose of catching rats,
and two more were added to this num¬
ber. Soon after the kittens arrived
he notioed that the dog was much more
composed, and later he fonnd that she
had adopted the kittens as her own,
caring for them as she had cared lor
her poppies. attached
Now the dog has beoome so
to the kittens that she will not allow
a stranger to touch them, and will not
even allow her master to take one of
them from her. Tbe kittens are thriv¬
ing.—Baltimore Sun.
New Usee V for Glass.
By a new process glass is made to
appear like wood with a very high pol¬
ish. It is need in windows and given a
peculiarly subdued and agre eab le
light The glass is put through what
might be called a veneering process,
being ooated with a liquid that desired repre¬
sents the wood which it is to
imitate. The color after drying heated. ia
varnished over and slightly
Sometimes shadings are applied to
bring out the tint, then the glass to
again varnished and thoroughly dried
and m fit for —Haw Tort
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