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THE DEADLY CHEESE. IT WAS IN THE HAND OF THC M/ LAV SAILOR WHO RAN AMUCK. Six Dead and Two Wounded the Record Made by th. WUdMan In Ten Minuter A Terrible »»»• »••*»•< b V • SaUor Who W>» •“ ®y« wltne “- ••In four voyages to the East Indies, two of them to Malay ports, I have seen but one instance of that native perform ance called running amuck. Fortunate ly I saw it from a position of perfect safety, but the sight was enough to make me steer clear of all Malays after ward and any vessel that has them dn board,” said Erdix Deering, who as boy and man sailed many seas in deep water ships. ‘‘lt was in 1860, when I was a boy, on my first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren, which sailed from Boston to India with a cargo of ice. We were lying at anchor in the roads off Madras, unloading our middle deck cargo into lighters, all nations were anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes. The ship nearest us, about two cable lengths away, was the British ship Mahratta, which had come from Singapore in ballast with a crew of Malay lascars. It was one day at noon that, as our crew lay round under the awning in the forecastle waiting for the order to turn to, one of the sailors sit ting on the capstan sung out: (T “ ‘Hi, mates, just look over to Mho lime juicer I They’re having some kind of a rumpus there. See ’em going. I be lieve it’s one of- those Malays running amuck.’ - ■ ‘ ‘ We all jumped to our feet and looked at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up into the rigging to get a better view. From the topsail yard I could see all that was going on on the deck of the British ship. Amidships a lascar, naked to the waist, was slashing and stabbing at a European officer who had tried to grapple with him, while everybody else in sight on the ship was running fore or aft or taking to the rigging. On the quarter deck the captain was hurrying two ladies down the companionway into the cabin, supporting in his arms one of them who had fainted. As the officer fell lifeless to the deck the Malay bounded past him, following three sail ors who had run aft, along the port gangway, upon the poop. As he ran he swung before him a long, slender knife, its crooked blade curving in and out like the writhings of a snake. He over took the rearmost man on the poop and cut and stabbed him, as he had done with the officer, until the man fell. Meantime the second man leaped over board, preferring to take his chances with the sharks and water serpents to remaining on board, and the third man ran across the quarter deck and up into the mizzen rigging like a cat. The man in the water swam for our ship, and some natives in a lighter picked him up ahead of the sharks. ‘ ‘The Malay left the man he had killed and Iboked around as if for fresh vic tims, but he himself was the only liv ing person in view on the decks. He ran fore and aft, searching, but found no one, and he tried the cabin door, but it was closed fast. Then he went to the mizzen rigging and started up the rat lines after the man who had taken refuge there. When the Malay had got as far as the mizzen top, the man he •was after took to the topgallant fore and aft stay and began to go down it hand over hand toward the mainmast. The Malay kept on up to the topgallant crosstrees and began to follow the man down the stay. ‘‘There was something frightful in the relentlessness of his pursuit. He had got about ten feet down the stay when the captain appeared on the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. One, two, three shots he fired, and the Malay kept on down the stay. He was two thirds of the way to the foot when at the fourth shot the arm that held the creese fell helpless by his side, though his hand still clutched the weapon. He clung to the stay by one hand and his feet and kept on down it almost as fast as before. A fifth and sixth shot, and«at the last the Malay stopped still, ther. fell like a lump of putty to the deck, full 40 feet below. Whether he was dead when he struck the deck I do not know, but the mate, who must have been watching from his room, ran out from the cabin to where the Malay was with a handspike and made sure work of the fellow before he could rise. Then the lascars came running from the fore castle and down the rigging, and with capstan bars, belaying pins and knives struck and thrust at the dead Malay un til if he had had a dozen lives in him they would have been hammered out of his body before the officers could re strain the excited sailors. ’ “Our captain got the full story of the affair from the captain of the Mahratta the next day. The Malay had been brooding and sullen for days before, though no one knew what his grievance was. On this day as the men were pip ed to dinner he had gone into the fore castle, got the creese from some place where he had it concealed and had fu riously attacked his mates without a word. They raised the cry ‘Amuck, amuck!’ and scattered, but not until three of them had been killed or mor tally wounded and * two more of them seriously cut by the creese. Running forward, he had encountered the second mate, and the rest of the affair I saw. Five men dead and two badly hurt by the Malay and himself killed at the end was the record of ten minutes’ business in running amuck. Malays in mine after this? No, thank you.”—New York Sun. The Paris prefecture of police has a wooden horse, harnessed, and all candi dates for the position of cabman must show that they know how to harness and unharness him and pass an exam ination in whatever other tests the pre fect may propose. ✓ UNTAMABLE TENDERFOOT. The First to Open Up a Great Territory In the Far North. - To a certain extent all the 5,000 argo nauts who have flocked to Alaska this sea son belong to the tenderfoot family. A rush to the arctic regions is a new thing with the AngßLSaxon race. The Norse men traveled south for their promised land, and tho setting of tho current in the opposite direction cannot be gauged in’the light of history. Heretofore the tenderfoot has tackled many difficulties, but never found .them piled as high or as forbidding as in a journey to the Klondike. Yet the tenderfoot, with bls heavy burden of sup plies, plods on over glaciers and narrow mountain paths, wading through rapid torrents, clambering around bowlders, toiling through swampy ground, shooting rapids not too dangerous, and making a packhorso of himself around water too rough for a raft with any cargo. If he is exhausted or sick, the only remedy at hand is the rest cure and the friendly interest of his fellow adventurers. He has cut loose from comfort and safety, but All ho asks is a chance to struggle on. About tho worst punishment for the burdened procession of pilgrims would be to compel them to turn back. The Alaska tenderfoot, in spite of his disposition to be too venturesome, de serves tho sympathetic attention of his countrymen. Ho is the first to open up a great territory in tho far north, and ho represents civilization in his march. He is necessarily a builder of roads and towns, and every squad of men who reach the dig gings make the conditions better for those who follow. A year from now the routes to the upper Yukon will bo comparatively easy. The thousands who have gone there (Will use all possible energy to open up lines of travel. They want regular mail service and personal access to the outside World. Already the large number of min ers who are assembled near Chilkot, but will not be able to cross this fall, have founded a town, and their first business will be road and trail improvement. The long polar night will not repress their American energy. Many a tenderfoot will fail at the mines, but Alaska will surely present other op portunities. More than 50 years ago coal was found there and mined by the Rus sians. Copper and other minerals’havo been located. Vegetables, hay and other needed crops can be raised in the southern part W-tho territory. Thorough prospect ing for gold on the American side of the line wilt be encouraged by the unusual and greedy restrictions on mining adopted by Canada. By the end of 1898 the tender foot of today will be an Alaskan pioneer, and whether he bo rich or poor the world will admire his indomitable pluck. The tenderfoot should be dealt with generous ly, and that is where the Dominion is making a mistake. Men could not bo hired for wages to do what he is doing. It is the thought of a competency for him self and his family that inspires the ten derfoot and nerveshim for his tremendous task, and every manly nature will wish him success.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Value of Unpopularity. As the tall, angular, stoop shouldered man went by the house the host took his < feet down from the tailing of the porch and, indicating him by a motion of his cigar in that direction, suggested to his guest that he was the only man in the whole neighborhood that he envied. “He doesn’t look like a very jolly or companionable man, ’ ’ suggested the guest. “He isn’t, ’’ replied the host. “He is the meanest, most disagreeable and most un popular man in the neighborhood. Why, it’s a popular impression around here that if a boy ran across his lawn he’d blaze away at him with a shotgun loaded With rock salt. And he’s always kicking about something.” “I should think you’d hate him.” “I do. Do you know he even made a complaint to the police because the boys used his sidewalk for a bicycle path, and now there isn’t one of them that doesn’t take to the road when they come to his property.” . “Incredible!” “Fact. And he raised such a fuss about the peddlers that there isn’t one of them dares go near his house. He’s just as mean to people who solicit subscriptions for churches and charities too. ” “Really?” “ Yes, indeed. Why, he actually insult ed tho last committee that waited upon him to ask him to subscribe SSO to help build a tower on a needlework guild hall. The women who composed it have sworn that they will never go near him again. ” “But I understood you to say you en vied him.” “That’s what I said,” admitted the host. “It may be a big price to pay for it, but think of the advantage he has over the rest of us!” “Advantage?” “Yes—the luxury of being ffit alone by his neighbors and his neighbors’ children and of having his rights respected by everybody. Oh, it must bo glorious!”— Chicago Post. Obstacles to Reform. A short time ago an order went into op eration uppn tho Boston street railways re quiring conductors to address feminine passengers as “madame." Tho always cheerful chatterer of the Boston Herald tells us that, in pursuance of the order, the conductor is trying very hard to cure himself of his habit of calling his feminine passengers “lady” 'and “Mrs. Lady,” but he has not as yet hit upon a uniform meth od of addressing them and in his inde cision has resort to “hl, say,” “missis” hnd “ma’am, ” but ho will doubtless settle upon the right thing eventually. The other day on a Huntington avenue car a conductor who had evidently given much attention to the subject won special dis tinction for himself by the use of the word “madame” in this regard. But there is no rose without a thorn. Among his passengers was a colored girl who carried a large bundle, doubtless the week’s wash of some patron. She asked him to stop at a certain street, and when the car ar rived there he said to tho gentle Afro- American, * ‘ This is your street, madame. ” She at once gave him an angry look and said with marked asperity: “Who’s yer callin madame? Watcher mean Jay insult in me? I’d have you to kfiow I’m a lady, I am,” with which sho hustled indig nantly to tho street. Tho conductor looked perplexed, and as he rung the bell with a vicious jerk he scntentiously observed, “She ain’t no lady anyhow, even if sho ain’t a madame.” It is hard toplease everybody. The Little Critic. “Why, papa,"said Frances, who was looking at tho family album, “surely this isn’t a picture of you?” “Yes, ” replied papa, “that is a picture of me, taken when I was quite young. ” “Well, ” commented tho little girl, “it doesn’t look as.much like you as you look now."—Harper’s Bazar. OLD TIME SWEETNESS GONE Moloeeea Is Now Made Into Rum aa4 Brown Bci<ay Can’t Bo Bought. “The old fashioned molasses is rapid ly disappearing as an art oleos com merce," said a prominent grocer, "and in its plaoe have come a number of sirups which are more costly and by no means as satisfactory, especially to the little ones, who delight, as we did when wo were young, in having ’lasses on their bread. Most of the molasses goes into the distilleries, where it is made into rum, for which, notwith standing the efforts of our temperance workers, the demand is constantly .on the increase, especially in the New England states and for the export trade. The regular drinker of rum will take no other liquor in its place if he can help it. It seems to reach the spot more di rectly than any other dram. “The darker brown sugars have also disappeared, and they are not likely to return, owing to the methods of boiling and the manufacture. Granulated sugar is of the same composition, as far as saccharine qualities are concerned, as loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed and differs from them only in that its crys tals do not cohere. This is because it is constantly stirred during the process of crystallization. The lighter brown sug ars taste sweeter than the white, for the reason that there is some molasses in them. Housekeepers have difficulty these "days in finding coarse, dark sug ars, which are always preferred for use in putting up sweet pickles, making cakes and similar uses. As they cannot get brown sugar anymore.it maybe well for them to remember that they can simulate brown sugar by adding a teaspoonful of molasses to each quarter of a pound of the white granulated sug ar. This combination does as well in all household recipes that call for brown sugar as the article itself, and besides it saves them a great deal of hunting for brown sugar, which, as said before, has disappeared from the market.”—Eastport Sentinel. HE COULD FORGIVE HER. For In His Opinion Mrs. Siddons Did Not Marry an Actor. Mrs. Siddons, the actress, was born in 1755 at the Shoulder of Mutton inn, Brecon, South Wales, of parents con nected with the theater, her father, Roger Kemble, being a strolling man ager. The child Sarah, was reared in a theatrical atmosphere, and at 10 she was playing Ariel. As she grew up she became very beautiful and had many admirefs, among whom was Henry Siddons, a young actor in her father’s company, who had little difficulty in winning the girl’s heart. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble had made up their minds that Sarah should not marry in the profession, in conse quence of which they strenuously op posed the marriage, and young Siddons, in a fit of retaliatory humor, composed a song detailing their opposition and his trials, which brought about his speedy dismissal from the company. Sarah left the company, too, and hired out as lady’s maid in Warwickshire for two years. Daring this time the lovers carried on a lively corespondence and finally, gaining the reluctant consent of the Kembles, were married at Trinity church, Coventry, in 1778, when Sarah was 18. It is said that Mr. Kemblo told her if she ever married an actor it would make him discard her forever. After her marriage he said, ‘*l may forgive you without breaking my word, for you have certainly not married ‘an actor,* whatever the gentleman himself may think is his vocation. ’ ’ This is on au thority of Lady Eleanor Butler, who knew the persons.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. His Bread Upon the Waters. Fifteen years ago Carrie Burch was a servant girl in a California household where William" F. Hastings was also employed. The girl became ill and had to leave, but had no money. Hastings loaned her S2OO, and she went away. The years rolled by without the S2OO being returned, and Hastings had for gotten the occurrence when he received a letter from a barrister in London stat ing that an estate of $78,000 had been left him by a Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss Carrie Burch of California. Hastings could hardly tielieve what he read, but he has the money now, and for his gen erosity to a strange girl years ago he has become independently rich. When the girl left California, she went to Australia as a nurse and there married a retired English merchant, who died some years afterward, and the widow then returned to London and lived there until Kr death.—Exchange. A Good Beason. The general passenger agent of one of the Chicago trunk lines received a letter from a Kansas man the other day requesting a pass for himself to Chicago and return. There was nothing about the letter to indicate that the writer had any claim whatsoever to the courte sy he requested, but the railway man thought that perhaps the Kansan had some connection with the road in some way, possibly as a local freight agent. So he wrote back, “Please state explic itly on what account you request trans portation. ” By return mail came this reply, ‘T’ve got to go to Chicago some way, and I don’t want to walk.”—Ex change. ‘ A. Bakeshop Machine. One of the latest appliances for use in a bakeshop oven consists of a machine which takes the whole meat and grinds it, mixes water with it and kneads it into dough ready for the oven. Open the doors of opportunity to tal ent and virtue and they will do them selves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.—Emerson. In 1020 the first large copper coins were minted in England, putting at> end to private leaden tokens. HUMAN BRAINS. Haw Science Views the Difference Betvrees , Men and Women. The weightier brain would seem also to indicate, a priori, the greater intel lectual power, and this, too, is borne out by undoubted facta Women, it has often been said, have yet to produce their Newton, their Dante, their Aris totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The assertion is very feebly met by the con tention that woinbn’s education has • been for centuries neglected. It was not education which enabled Pascal as a child to see his way through problems which not one man in 1,000 oan understand after’ prolonged mental drill It,was not education which gave the race its great men poets. “They lisped in numbers for the numbers came.” But where are their feminine equals? We will, however, take an art in which women have enjoyed far mere training than men—the art of music. There are some excellent women pianists and vio linists, but where are the female Sachs, Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagners? Na ture only can explain the absence of great women composers as of the femi nine oompeers of Titian and Raphael, the technique of whote art seems pecul iarly fitted to women. Nature tells us that she cannot form the matrix out of which commanding intellectual geniuses of the female sex would proceed. Why this is so we may partly guess, but cannot wholly know. We see that nature has divided the world into sexes for her own purposes, and that to each sex peculiar functions are assigned. We see that the physio logical functions of woman necessitate a different anatomy from that of man, and we infer that these functions and this structure preclude, speaking gener ally, the kind of effort which we call supreme genius, as also that kind of effort which we call sustained executive power. While women are not so far differentiated from men that they can not enter with pleasure into men’s works, and, often in a great measure, share in their production, it remains a fact that it is man’s particular organi zation which is alone capable either of the highest manifestations of Anins or the most sustained exhibition of energy. Whether it will always be so we do not know, for we cannot peer intp the fu tdre. It is sufficient that it not only is so now, but that it always has been so, and that science does give us some good grounds for believing that the fact is deeply rooted in the very structure of sex.—London Spectator. THE HEALTHY PALATE. It Does Not Crave Condiments, but the Food Must Pauese Flavor. While a perfectly sound and healthy I palate does not crave for condiments, I even prefers to do without them, yet the majority of digestions require to be humored and kept in order, and their peculiarities must be studied. Dr. Brun ton says: • “Savory food causes the digestive juices to be freely secreted. Well cooked and palatable food is therefore more di gestible than the unpalatable. If food lacks savor, a desire naturally arises to supply it by condiments, not always well selected or wholesoma ” As commerce brought them within reach of the people condiments, in sim ple or complicated forms, came greatly into favor, and foreign spicegwere add ed to the wild herbal growths of the fields and hedges. In our early history the “spicery” was a special department of the court and had its proper officers. In the fourteenth century spices were both costly and rare, most of them com ing from the Levant Chaucer mentions many by name—canella, macys, clowes (cloves), grains of paradise, nutmegs, caraway and spikenard. The ancients, especially the Greeks and Ramans in the luxurious period of their history, used condiments very freely. An old English historian, referring to the earlier Roman court, says, “The best magistrates of Rome allowed but the ninth day for the city and publick business, the rest for the country and the sallet garden. ” From this it would seem as though the education of taste was accounted of some consequence in those day a—Exchange. . “Professors.” / The misuse of the title “professor, ” when it is applied indiscriminately to musicians in general, finds an amnaing example in the following story, credited to Bandmaster Sousa and printed in The Musical Age: Some years ago Sousa was leading a band at a small country festival The advent of the band. had been awaited with intense interest by the audience, aihd when they arrived the hendsmeti were quickly surrounded by a surging crowd which hemmed them in so that it was difficult for them to keep on playing. Sousa appealed to one .of the commit tee to keep the crowd away and said that unless his men hadmoreroom they could not play. The committeeman shook his hand warmly, and, tinning to the asembled multitude, bawled out: “Gentlemen, step badk and give the purfesser’spurfessers a<chanoeto play I” Aggravation Below Stairs. Mrs. Greene—Really, I think that girls in domestic service have a pretty comfortable time of it One of Them—But we have our trials, mum; Just as like as not, when we have, got a bonnet or a gown that is particularly becoming, first thing we know our mistress comes oat with something exactly like it—Boston Transcript , French billiard tables have six legs instead of four, as in America. There are no strings for marking; score is kept by chalking 1 the figures on a slate set in the side of the table or on a me chanical reckoner inserted in the same place. 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