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BARBARITIES ON THE KON 30,
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Explorer W<
w . nth . a«nied to form » tin
wneairae power* no fairest Uc tlon
mease out or “
of Africa and placed th a Kongo ma . un
the protection of Beiglum, they were
influenced by one of the noblest human!-,
tarian foments that ever swept thfough
Europe- Bvtthe results are not enoour
i X^he T n h
llzation in its beet forms, not only fall In
the suppression of slavery, but carry on
snoh oppression and exhibit such rapacity
that the thickly populated banks of the
Kongo are rapidly being converted into a
wilderness. Rubber and ivory take on the
Kongo the place of the gold which in Peru'
converted men into brutes. There seems
little doubt that the horrible tales related
by the Swedish explorer Westmark are
" only too true. The following letter, ad
dressed by a German in the service of the
Kongo state to his relative* at home, is
making the rounds in the German press :
“ You have no doubt already been in
> farmed of the horrible defeat thathas been
inflicted upon three of our expeditions.
Well, X was not with either of them. Xam
now safely on the coast. But lam not in
a comfortable frame of mind for all that. |
"If my contract were not nearly run
out, if I had to stay another year, I would
rather de two years in the French Alge
rian region and would be grateful for the
change. I would not let you know these
things by the ordinary mails else I might
be reported as ‘dead from fever. ” JJut this
letter goes by a chance English veesM. So
I will give you a hintof wb<t is going on.
“ The first four months here were pleas
ant enough. I received my pay fairly reg
ularly then too. After that, however, I
Was sent up the river and soon lost pleas
ure in my wort and in the beautiful scen
ery because I witnessed too many outrages
on the part of the Belgian officials. But
that was nothing to what I saw when I
reached the garrison to which I was at
tached X was sent with the soldiers under
my charge to gather India rubber and
ivory, and was almost continually on the
. road fat this purpose
“During the year I was there more than
80 villages whose inhabitants could not
gather the required amount of rubber and
ivory were .wantonly destroyed. As I did
’ my best to prevent cruelties, I was not
after awhile Intrusted with the Wort of
gathering the taxiaid upon the natives, 1
I and two Batetela noncommissioned officers
I were sent Instead. They always returned
with a large quantity of rubber and IvOry,
I but always excused themselves for not
I bringing more, and exhibited one or two
dozen human hands, chopped from the'
bodies of ‘refractory* natives. In this way
f about SOO human beings have been muti
lated near our station alone within a sin
gle year. Neither women nor children are
spared. The hands are dried before a char
s' coal fire to prepare them for transport.
Yet the unfortunate natives dread the fe-
K '-vers and the wild beasts of the forest al-
I most as much as their cruel masters.
I “Feb. 4,1897 (I intend to report the
| matter at length as soon as I return to Eu-
I rope), we reached, with a farce of 1,800
g men, a native settlement we had not known
before. We showed the people some goods
for barter, and they brought their produce.
I They did not, however, bring as much
I rubber as our people wanted, and our
I' Batetelas fired at them without a word of
I warning, killing dozens of the people. The
whole proceeding made me so sick that I
I had to be sent to Leopoldville.
“The Kongo state needs for this horrible
work about 4,000 recruits annually. They
are taken from the Batetelas, a tribe just
emerged from cannibalism. They receive
no pay, and consequently do not serve vol
untarily. They are driven together like
cattle, and hundreds die by the way. In a
I single week 118 were thrown into the riv
er. When they have learned their drill,
| they have been transformed into veritable
I wild beasts, ready to murder at their mas
ters’ bidding. Meanwhile the Kongo state
is depopulated and ruined altogether from
an economic point of view.” I
I English papers have related similar
things before, but the continental press at
present receives with great caution ajl ac-
I pusations against Belgian officials made
by Englishmen, as the latter are said to
be influenced by the defeat and death of
the filibuster states. The above, however,
I seems to corroborate the worst statements
in our British contemporaries, and an in
ternational investigation will no doubt be
I instituted. —Literary Digest. i
She Got It.
I. The hostess was thinking of the compll
ments she would be sure to earn by the
beverage which she was-preparing when
she discovered that some necessary ingte
: dlentawere missing. A colored woman
who had been employed only a few days
I before was called to the rescue. j
I “Hannah, ” said the hostess, “can you do
an errand for me in a hurry!"'
I “Yes’m."
I “Can I depend on you?”
“Yea*m.”
I “I am afraid most of the groceries will
I be dosed at this hour, but I want you to
go after some lime juice, and see that you
don’t come back without it.'"
The colored woman hurried away. An
I hour passed, and she did not return. 5
I Guests began to arrive, but there was no
I trace of the messenger. At last sne came.’
“Did you get it?” asked her mistress, j
I “ Yee’m—■dat is, I come ea close to it ez
■ I could. X didn’t bother ’bout no grocer-’
■ les, case I knowed ’twould be wastin
I time.” ’
■ “Where did you go?”
fa "I went straight.to de limekiln. I form
■ de watchman dar, an he said he didn’t
r reckon dar was no lime juice rouh de
5 place. So I mhde him gimme dis chunk, ‘
fa an I reckons de bee* t’ing foh me ter do is
H ter hurry right along an .put watah on it
■ so> tpr soak de juioe out’’—Detroit Free
| Press. |
I How He Was Caught.
Perhaps it might be better for Mr. Blunt
■ if he were more, observant or possibly,
■ more something else. The other morning'
■ when he started off to town his wife gave
fa, him an important letter to post, and when
■ he returned In the evening It was In his
■ pocket. I
“Henry,** Inquired his wife just as had
■ settled himself comfortably, “did you post
fa that letter I gave you this morning?”
“You don’t suppose, love, that I would
fa carry it about with me, do you?” he re
fa plied in as smooth a tone as he could
■ muster. •* |
| “1 don’t suppose anything else,** «he
■ said suspiciously. “Where did you post
| it?” .
■ Mr. Blunt evaded the question.
“The pillar box is only just round the
I corner, my love, ”he said. , ; .“Why, only a
f x blind man could miss it.” >
I ' Mrs. Blunt jumped up suddenly.
I “Henry Blunt,” she exclaimed, “give
I me that letter th laminate! They moved
I that box to the far side of the stftiaro a
I month ago. Strend Magazine. j
■ ,
THACKERAY AND GOETHE.
The HoveUM’s Btart Interview With the
Great Poet.
In The Century there is an article by
Walter Vulpins, entitled "Thackeray at
Weimar.’’ The following is Thackeray’s
account of his first meeting with
Goethe: z
Os course I remember very well the
perturbation of spirit with which as a
lad of 19 I received the long expected
invitation that the Herr Gehoimerath
would see me. This notable audience
took place in a little antechamber of
his private apartments, covered all
round with antique casts and bas-reliefs.
He was habited in a long gray drab red
ingote, with a white neckcloth and a
red ribbon in his buttonhole. He kept
his hands behind his back, just as in
Rauch’s statuette. His complexion was
very bright, clear and rosy, his eyes ex
traordinarily dark, piercing and bril
liant. * • ♦ I fancied Goethe must have
been still more handsome as an old man
than even in the 'days of his youth. His
voice was very rich and sweet. He ask
ed me questions about myself, which I
answered as best I could.
Vidi tantum —I saw him but three
times—once walking 4p the garden of
his house in tbe Frauenplan, once going
to step into his chariot on a sunshiny
day, wearing a cap and a cloak with
a red collar. He was caressing at the
time a beautiful little golden haired
granddaughter, over whose sweet, fair
face the earth has long since closed.
[Alma von Goethe died at the age of 17
years while on a visit in Vienna in
1844.] ' •
Though his ran was setting, the sky
round about was calm and bright, and
thatlittle Weimar was illumined by it
In every one of those kind salons the talk
was still of art and letters. At the court
the conversation was exceedingly friend
ly, simple and polished. The grand
duchess, a lady of very remarkable en
dowments, would kindly borrow our
books from us and graciously talk to
us young men About our literary tastes
and pursuits. In the respect paid by
this court to the patriarch of letters
there was something ennobling, I think,
alike to the Subject and sovereign.
AN OCEAN VOYAGE.
The Proper Fees to Pay on Board an
Atlantic Liner,
Fees are too indefinite to be regulated
by rule, but certain amounts are cus
tomary at sea. The voyager, if he is
not seasick, is dependent for comfort
first on the table steward. To this man
it seems to be the rule to give <2. SO for
one, or |5 for two or three persons in a
party, whether one is served in regular
courses or orders what he pleases from
the bill Late rappers might increase
the fee.
One’s next best friend is the deck
steward, 'if he is attentive and has fol
lowed out suggestions about the steam
er chair and rugs. Sometimes one can
eat on deck when it is fatal to go below,
and then, if the deck steward is oblig
ing, he deserves the larger part of what
would go to the table steward .in reg
ular course. If the weather is at all
fair, it is most agreeable to find one’s
chair well placed and the rugs dry ev
ery morning, especially if one is in
clined to seasickness. Moreover, thia
steward is the one who continuously
brings sandwiches and broth on deck,
and, as he is obliged himself to fee the
cook's assistant to get these articles pre
pared, it is dear that he should be well
remembered at parting, if any one is.
On many lines his pay, like that of
most of the stewards, is not higher than
sl2 a month, and the company, on gen
eral principles, keeps back one-third to
pay for breakage. Another third goes to
the cooks in fees, Where, therefore,
would he be without tips?—Lewis Mor
ris Iddi/'gs in Scribner’s.
The Sootohwoaaan’s Book Motes.
A. poor old widow living in the Scot
tish highlands was called upon one day
by a gentieman who had heard that she
was in need. The old lady complained
of her condition and remarked that her
son was in Australia and doing well
“But does he do nothing to help you?**
inquired the visitor. ‘*No,nothing, ’was
the reply, “He writes me regularly
once a month, but only sends me a lit
tle picture with Ids letter. ” The gentle
man asked to see one <?f the pictures
that she had received and found each
4»ne of them to be a draft for £lO.
That is the condition of many of.
God’s children. He has given us many
“exceeding great and precious prom
ises’’which we either are ignorant of
or fail to appropriate. Many of them
' seem to be pretty pictures of an ideal
peace and rest, but are not appropriated
as practical helps in daily life. And not
one of these promises is more neglected
than the assurance of salvation. An
open Bible places them within reach of
all, and we may appropriate the bless
ing which such a knowledge brings.—
Dwight L. Moody in Ladies* Home
Journal
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Prosowteg It. A;'-0
Miss Maud Powell, the violinist, had
a somewhat unusual experience with
her precious violin. She sent it by ex
press solidly packed in a stout
box, but when she came to claim it-it
was missing. She described the appear
ance of the box to the official, and a sad
-and sympathetic look came over his
face. He sighed and went away, and
presently returned with the box held
coffinwise. “We had It’on the ice,” he
said.—Springfield Republican.
Strawberries are often served With
orange juices. (Dover the berries with
sugar and juice of several oranges. Let
them drill, in.the refrigerator for half
an hour and serve with powdered ice.
;
A French autograph cdlector says
the signature of Christopher Columbus
can always find a buyer at $4,000.
The brain of an idiot contains much
less phosphorous than that of a persoa
at average mental powers.
A VIRTUE OF OLIVE OIL.
aUa-of-waZ* Men Say Th.t it Will Pre
vent Inlonlcatlon.
The glasses were going round when
the man who had been in the navy
spoke: "Wait a minute, boys. We’ve
had several. Let me give you a tip that
I learned when I was on the China sta
tion. Y&u are pretty good drinkers, you
Kentucky boys, and you can hold your
own with anybody, east, west or north,
who tries to put you under the table.
But unless you carry out my plan don’t
you ever stack yourself up against an
Englishman, and especially an army or
a naval- officer. You could knock him
out on whisky, but he doesn’t drink
it, except in the shape of smoky Scotch
and Irish abominations. But cham
pagne, buxgundy, claret, ale, sherry,
madeira, port, pulque in Mexico, rirti
in China, palm liquor in Africa, bam
boos and shandygaff in India, steer clear
of them—that is, unless you have the
good luck to meet a certain little, yel
low faced, wizened creole from Louisi
ana whose recipe is passed around the
mess table of United States men-cf-wttr
to this day.
“It started in the old days when the
British officers always bad the pleasure
of outstaying their American guests or
hosts whenever two ships met on for
eign stations Then that little yellow
devil came along with his trick, and
the Englishman has never since oome
out better than second in any drinking
bout The secret? Olive oil. One wine
glassful before the fun begins, and, if
possible, another later on, and you can
keep your wit and legs throughout the
dampest evening. I suppose one of two
things happens. Either the oil coats the
stomach and keeps the alcohol from be
ing absorbed by the system, or else it
floats on top and keeps the fumes from
rising to the brain. But yofi’U have to
ask the medftine men about that. All I
know is its practical result, and that
has enabled us Yankee Doodles to go
home cheerful and clear headed many
an evening when our foreign cousins
were speechless.”—Louisville Courier-
Journal
AMERICAN TOOLS ABROAD.
ParchaMn Fownd For Them Nowadays
Throoffhont the World.
American tools are sold all over the
world. The New York representative of
an American tool manufacturing estab
lishment when asked where American
tools were sent ran over the export or
ders received that day. They included
orders from Hungary, Austria, Ger
many, France, England, South Africa
and South America. There were alto
gether about 20 orders, and from some
of the countries named there were two
or three orders. The export orders of
the previous day included orders from
Russia, Australia and New Zealand,
and these were not unusual orders, but
such as are constantly received. In the
shipping room at that moment stood
cases marked for Java, for Ecuador and
for Australia.
Mafiyof these orders are small. In
some cases there were orders for a single
tool, or for two or three; for some orders
of half a dozen or two or three dozen to
supply orders or to beep lines filled.
These small orders are mostly from Eu
ropean countries, With which commu
nication is nowadays quick and conven
ient European merchants order these
things just about as merchants in other
cities in this country would. It costs no
more to send to London than it does to
Chicago, and it is as easy to send to
. Berlin as it is to Paterson.
The characteristics that commend
these American tools to their foreign
purchasers are the same that mark
American machines and implements
generally—lightness, fine finish and
perfect adaptability to their several
uses. The exports of American tools to
all parts of the world are steadily in
creasing.—New York Sun.
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Bad Stovy Talite*.
If Oscar Wilde’s assumption were to
be taken seriously, that all fiction is ly
ing, it might account for much that
afflicts readers, since the lack of morale
affects the intellect, and what is done
without conscience is apt to be done
badly. €Mt course all fiction is not lying,
as all killing is not murder, but it is a
sad ffat that many writers of novels
and dKpstories seem to have left their
ennsniefaea and much of their hmin*
behindfwhen they go forth to Work—aS
if thMA belongings might safely remain
in seclusion, with the dress coat and
the white tie, to be brought out only
for especial occasions. Artemus Ward
once remarked that he had a giant mind,
but did not have it with him, and that
(or the latter half of it} it apt to be the
case with any of Uswhen weart care
less. True, even good Homer sometimes
nodded, but this afford* no example for
us who are not Homers. Tocotna toour
tasks otherwise than with aliaurwita
about us and invite publie attention to
the chanoe "oozings of our brains’* is
as if one should issue from his apart
ments unshorn and half clad or enter
upon the busy haunts of men without
money in hfa pocket.—FredericM. Bird
in Lippincott’a
There is one use of kerosene which id
seldom mentioned. It often happens
that When a heavy shoe or boot has been
wet it hardens and draws so that it
hurts the foot If the shoe is put on
and the leather thoroughly wet with
kerosene, the stiffness will disappear
and the leather, become pliable, adapt
ing itself to the foqt. If oiled whilx
wet, the leather retains its softness a
longer time. Tb%|erosene does not in
jure the leather c ■-
At the beginning of this vOSUtury a
most peculiar cholsre tifaW was in
use in Prasin. It wadding
up a leaf from forcing it
down the patient's throat.
The medical depargifent of the queen’
household coats yearly and com
prises 24
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JAPAN’S tyOMEN.
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Xkay Hare Hom Orsaatatas to Sararo
Their Klghte.
“The Japanese ladies are really organis
ing at last. They are beginning a strong
movement to amend the Japanese laws so
that a Japanese gentleman that supports
another woman besides his legal wife oan
be arrested. The laws ate now one elded
—yes, very much one sided. The Japanese
husband can have as many outside wives
as he pleases; not regular wives, you un
deretand. Japan law lets the husband
marry only one wife. Otherwise bo is
guilty of bigamy, same as here.”
This announoemeut of woman’s inde
pendence in the land of silent wives and
maidens that won’t be kissed cams
recently at the Hotel Ryan from 8.
Klehi, a young attorney of Tokyo. Mr.
Kiahi having practiced some time in his
own city, resolved to venture forth InU
western lands to see how it was possible
for lawyers to honest living in
Europe and America. The study of this
intricate problem detained Mr. Klshi six
weeks in San Francisco, throe months In
Milwaukee and some weeks in Chicago.
He has now arrived In St. Paul, where ho
Will enter the law department of the Groat
Northern railroad and remain several
months. Eventually he will proceed to
Europe.
“Formerly,” continued the smiling.
White toothed law pilgrim, “that is to say,
up to 85 yean ago, a Japanese gentleman
could have as many informal wives as be
wished. He was rather proud of them and
showed them Ln public. Now sentiment
has so changed that he keeps them hid
away. He would be thought very Immoral
to exhibit them in public. S Yet ho cannot
be punished by law, but this exception in
favor of the men la likely to be done away
with. There la a oommlosion now revising
our civil code. That oode Is based upon
the Oode Napoleon, not on the English
common law. Our commercial oode. how
ever, is modeled after the commercial oode
at Germany.
“But It is natural for woman towant
less than man In Japan. We consider that
she is equal to san in quality, but not in
quantity. That la the way we express It.
And she Is always by nature different.
Man io strong, rough, brave. Woman
io weak, gentle, gracious, timid. She
must attend to her homo. Man must go
out into business, into government, Into I
war. We do not mix occupations as you
do here. For example, the men ride bi
cycles In Japan very much mare now than
before, but the women—never. A woman
astride of a bicycle! It would be too rude,
too bold. She should be at home, not
showing herself upon the streets.
“Her costume? Oh, It is almcut always
Japanese. Years ago, perhaps ten years,
one of our cabinets thought they would
help Japan abroad, by persuading our peo
ple to dress like Europeans. Even, the
court ladies began to wear foreign dresses.
But the cabinet went down. The women
took back their native costumes. Now a
Japanese lady most always wears her an
cient costume. We find that your dresses
are not convenient, as our women sit
about on the floors of our little houses.
But the Japanese men are using the Euro
pean clothes very generally in our cities—
that Is, for business in government offices
and in the professions. But when the
men get home they take off these clothes
and put on the good old Japanese robes.
Then we are comfortable.”—St. Paul Pio
neer Press.
The composition of a landscape photo
graph requires as much care as any other
picture, though beginner* in photography
usually think that a landscape, being oom
posed of stationary objects, cannot be “ar
ranged” in any special way. This is true,
but It the landscape cannot be moved the
camera can, and by shifting it a little to
the right or left an artistic picture may be
made of what'would be a most uninter
esting scene if the point of-view were not
well chosen.
In a general landscape view the camera
should be adjusted so that the borlson line
will be about a third of the way from the
top or bottom of the picture. If the hori
zon line is nearer the bottom than the top,
there should be plenty of clouds in the sky
to give variety to the picture. In case
there are no clouds in the sky they oan be
printed into the picture from a cloud neg
ative. _
The line of the borlson should never
run straight across the picture, but must
be broken up as much a* possible by ob
jects which rise above it.
According to artists’ laws, the lines of
a picture should either run diagonally os
be arranged in a pyramidal form.
If the lines run diagonally the tallest
objects should be at one side of the pic
ture, and if they are to be in pyramidal
form have the tallest point a little to one
side of the oenter of the picture. By mov
ing the camera a few feet either way this
effect is easily obtained.
A picture should never be divided in the
oenter by any prominent object, like a
tree, a house, etc. Pictures of this kind
are very trying to look at, giving the effect
of two pictures on one card.—Harper’s
Round Table.
Hopeless-
A Mr. X wished to have a teleshops
put In hia house, but his aged mother vig
orously protested against it. “Robert,”
she said, “If you bring one of those dread
ful things in hero I'll never dose my eyes
for fear it may brealront and sweep u* all
into eternity, and us not a bit the wiser.”
Mr. X tried to persuade her that it was
a most harmless Instrument, but she said:
> “No, no. Look at the thousands—aye,
millions—of poor Hindoos it killed last
autumn.” “Why,” exclaimed be, “that
wasn’Fa telephone, mother I That was a
typhoon.” But the timid old lady lowered
her spectacles, and, looking at him over
the rims thereof, said: “ You need not try
to make a fool of me, Robert. I perhaps
don’t know very much, but I do know
that the typhoon is the emperor of Japan. ”
gave up as a hopeless case.—
Story of Essfe Sarrendsr.
When Hamlin Garland was gathering
material for the life of Grant, he sprat a
day or two In Atlanta, where be niet an
mid Virginia negro who said that be had
witnegnd Lee’s surrender. Garland was
interested and questioned him closely.
“You say you were present when Les
• surrendered?”
"Dotl wus, sub!” / > ,
“DM you see Lee give up bls sword?”
“No, sub, I didn’t! Gln’rol Lee give
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