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- I BARBARITIES ON THE KON 30, <■ «»• •* dWt 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 , X ■—l ■ * 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. - Bitt. .. 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 * , J. JAPAN’S tyOMEN. . y 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! 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