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YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.
In Burma During the Time of Floods.
Peary’s Plan For Another Jour
ney—Two Little Kittens.
Burma, the largest province In the
Indian empire, is a beautiful and very
varied country, covered in many places
with forests which in tho month of
March are bright with tho many colors
and sweet with the varying scents of
thousands of flowering trees and shrubs.
This country is traversed by many riv
ers, the largest of which is tho Irawadi,
with a course of probably 1,100 miles
from its unknown source among the
Bnows of Tibet down to tho bay of
Bengal. These rivers during the rainy
season (which lasts for a long time)
overflow their banks and spread over
the plains, tho flood water of the Irawadi
often flowing over the country for 10 or
15 miles on eithor side to a depth of
from 4 to 14 feet.
The inundated villages, however, do
not suffer, as the natives, knowing what
they may expect during the rainy sea
son, are prudent enough to build their
houses on piles, and the flood waters
move but slowly. But one can easily
imagine how unhealthy tho flooded
country must be, w r ith a great heat and
a burning sun.
During the timo of the floods all hunt
ing operations are carried on by the na
tives from boats. These boats, which
are very light, are manned, according
to their size, with spearmen, paddlers
and steersmen. Hunting in this manner
is an occupation of great danger, as it
is impossible to guess what animal may
be encountered in tho flooded country,
and Burma has a long list of wild ani
mals, including the elephant,rhinoceros,
tapir, buffalo, many kinds of deer, tigers,
leopards and bears.
But the Burmeso are an excitable,
impulsive and courageous people, and
they really seem to enjoy this sport not
withstanding the risks they run. They
aro also anxious to secure a hog or a
deer, for, although their staple food is
rice, which is as cheap as it is in India,
the inhabitants of Burma eat fish or
meat daily, and in all respects live bet
ter than the lower classes of India.
Therefore, in going out to hunt over tho
floodod country, these men are in search
not only of excitement, but Of tomor
row’s dinner.
Peary’s Plan For Another Journey.
Lieutenant Peary is anxious to raise
enough money to buy sufficient provi
sions to last, him for ten years. He wants
to take but ono or two men with him on
his journey and to get all the other peo
ple he needs from among the Eskimos,
who are friendly to him, says The Great
Round World. His plan is to make a
number of stations along his routo to
the pole and to loavo a party of Eskimos
at each station.
The stations aro to reach from the in
habited portions of Greenland up to the
lonely north. He moans them to bo like
inns on a post road. By this plan he
thinks ho can kocp himself well supplied
with provisions and everything he needs,
and in case of sickness will always have
a station near to which ho can return.
As tho Eskimos, with their wonderful
dogs, ean go back and forth from station
to station, carrying and fetching all
that is needed, Lieutenant Peary thinks
that ho will bo able to stay in tho far
north until his work is done and the
north polo has been located.
A Small but Faithful Friend.
During tho Franco-German war, in
A. D. 1870, a French soldier who had
been shot in tho chest lay bleeding and
in terrible pain on tho battlefield. Night
came on, and ho was alone with the
dead bodies of his Into comrades. But
his dog, a little terrier, found him and
camo up to him, licking his faco and
hands. After awhile it seized its mas
ter’s cap and ran away. Tho wounded
man thought that even his dog had for
saken him and gave himself up for lost.
The terrier, however, had gone to the
nearest house, two or three miles off,
and the peoplo. seeing a soldier’s cap in
its mouth and noticing its restless, ex
cited manner, guessed that help was
needed and set off with the little dumb
guide in front. Tho dog led them
straight to his master, who had fainted
with pain and loss of blood. But, thanks
to the friendly help which was thus
brought to him, his life was saved.
Tho Oldest Doll.
A Massachusetts exchange says that
tho oldest doll in America is the proper
ty of Mrs. H. O. Brown of Reading,
Mass. She is dressed in the Louis XIV
stylo, aud Captain Gamaliel Hedges
brought her from China 171 years ago
for his little daughter in Salem.
The Safety Lamp.
Tho principle on which Sir Humphry
Davy made his safety lamp for tho use
of colliers is a very simple one. It is
that flame cannot pass through wire
gauzo.
Two .Little Kittens.
Two little kittens ono stormy night
Degun to quarrel and then to tight.
One had a mouse, the other had none,
And that's the way the quarrel begun.
“I’ll have that mouse," said the biggest cat.
“You'll have that mouse? We’ll see about
that.”
“I will have that mouse.” said the eldest son.
“You shan't have the mouse," said the little
one.
1 told you boforo 'twas a stormy night
When these t wo little kittens began to light.
Tlio old woman seized her sweeping broom
And swept the two kittens right out of the
room.
The ground was covered with frost and snow.
And tlie poor little kittens had nowhere to go.
So they laid them down on the mat at the door.
While tlie old woman finished sweeping the
floor.
Then they crept in, as quiet as mice.
All wet with tho snow and as cold as ice,
For they found it was better that stormy night
To lie down and sleep than to quarrel and fight.
Star Pointer, 2:0 2 • has boon taken
to Boston, where lie will bo handled by
Dave McClary, who drove him in all his
races last season.
Art and tlie Ballet.
The possibilities for the attainment
of a very real and solid artistic success
in the direction of tho ballot are not
sufficiently noted in this country. While
the ballet is not considered such an in
dispensable entree here as abroad, yet
our national fondness for comic opera
with spectacular choruses offers a de
mand that has but seldom been supplied
with adequate skill. An occasional pro
duction has, it is true, exploited a bit
of good taste; but, as a rule, American
ballets, while expensive enough, are
rather gaudy than gorgeous, lacking in
unity of idea and maneuvered without
much eye to effect.
The qualities that make genuine ar
tistic success possible in the ballet make
gross error more than probable. Success
here demands ability both in tho largo
and in the small. Working closely with
his lieutenants, the designer of costumes
and tho dancing master, tho director of
tho ballet must give each coryphee or
each small group an individuality, and
this must merge smoothly into the
whole. The manipulation of a horde of
dancers in whom unusual intelligence
is rare and might bo dangerous requires
a skill in the movement of largo num
bers, a quick eye for effective evolu
tions, exact tactics that will bring tho
right body to the right place in the
right way, and a presence of mind in
emergencies that demands of the ballot
director a generalship of limited range
indeed, but of much acuteness and much
responsibility. —Scribner’s.
Remarkable Juggling Feat.
There is always an abundant supply
of stories of the expertness of Hindoo
jugglers and acrobats. One who moves
about perched upon a single long stick
is the latest novelty. This performer is
mounted on a bamboo pole about 15
feet high, the top of which is tied to a
girdle worn around his waist. A small
cushion is fastened a few feet down the
pole, which acts as a leg rest. Tho acro
bat hops around a large space in the
livoliest way, uttering cheerful shouts
and accompanied by the tapping of a
curious drum. He also executes a sort
of dance and goes through a littlo pan
tomime. It is a marvelous feat of
equilibrium. To walk on a pair of stilts
as high as this would be a performance
worthy of exhibition on our variety
stage. But to hop around on one is quite
another thing.
The same man can do many other
wonderful things. Ho appears absolute
ly perfect in the art of balancing. Ho
can balance a very light stick on his
nose and a heavy one on his chin and
then throw’ the heavy one into the air
with his head and catch it on the end
of the light. When balancing these two
sticks, end on end, he will mako one
revolve in one direction and the other
in tho other. He puts one band on a
flat, circular stone, throws his feet up
into the air and balances a stick on
each of them. At the same time he re
volves rapidly on tho pivot formed by
his arm and tho stone. —Boston Tran
script.
A French View of Us.
I heard much of tho American ohival
ry to women—of how they could walk
tho streets and travel alone. Let us be
frank and say that it is all nonsense!
The newspapers make free with tho
names of ladies, and drag wives and
mothers and sisters into tho shambles of
every political controversy, every social
contretemps. While among the better
classes, in their clubs and drawing
rooms, one hears hints, scandals, in
nuendoes, and stories—and most of them
about the ladies in their own circle—
such as would prepare the way for a
dozen duels a week in my own country.
When one hears speeches—it matters
little by whom, for they pretty much
all speak well—one is a littlo jealous of
a race which seems to be endowed by
tho gods with a gift so rare, but when
one reads them one is rather sad than
jealous. Nine-tenths of them are as
sounding brass. They are for the ears—
for long ears—not for tho mind. A
French politician who should treat his
constituents to the quality of oratory
that evidently suffices here would be
ridiculed by every journal in France,
and in England such a one would bo
quiotly shelved at the instance of his
own party leaders. “America and
Americans From a French Point of
View.”
Consoling:.
A Now England congressman onco
went to Franklin Pierce demanding an
office for a constituent. Pierce sent him
to James Guthrie, secretary of tho treas
ury. By aud by the congressman return
ed to the president in great dudgeon.
“What did Guthrie say to you about
appointing your friend?” inquired the
president. ‘ ’He said he would bo d——d
if he would. ”
“Did Guthrie talk that way to you?”
“He did.”
“Well, that’s the way he talks to
me, too,” was Pierce’s consoling reply.
—San Francisco Argonaut. •
A Pointer.
Pilger—l always pay as I go.
Dickson—No wonder, then, that peo
ple are unwilling to accommodate you.
Why, I always keep my tailor at least
one suit of clothes behind, and then,
when I pay him, in addition to allow
ing me a good stiff discount, ho 'nvaria
bly gives me a box of cigars. You’re too
innocent for this world.—Cleveland
Leader.
Drink In the Middle Ages.
The middle ages lasted about 1,000
years, and in that period the feudal
lords hunted the fox or tho stag all day
and went to bed dead drunk ever}’ night
of their lives. Their existence was one
grand carousal. Kings, princes, lords
and vassals lived in their cups.—New
York Press.
Just the Man For It.
“What made Homely so tearing mad
at the bal masque last night?”
“They requested him to remove his
mask, aud he had none on.”—Detroit
Free Press.
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA„ MARCH 21, 1896.
Lamp Snnttu
There is in Natal—or at least so the
natives say—a kind of snake which, if
its domestication were possible, might
make less important the question of
muncipal gas works. For this serpent,
according to the stories told about it, is
provided with an illuminating apparatus
beside which that of other light bearing
creatures, including men with lanterns,
is hardly worth consideration. The rep
tile is supposed to frequent swamps or
lakes, and it is of a size so vast that on
an occasion when one of the species was
attacked and killed by a Boer hunting
party its carcass filled two wagons. In
fact, the animal’s proportions aro al
most unlimited. The light emitted by
this monster is said to be blight and
dazzling in the extreme and easily dis
cerned from a distance of several miles.
Some of tho negroes call the snake
“umuingi, ” while by others it is known
as the “ivimbela, ” a name also applied
to a serpent whose dwelling is in the
sea, and whose powers, though great
and marvelous, are not displayed in
lakes and rivers or fraught with magic
light. No European traveler has ever
seen one of these snakes, but the Zulus
declare that they are not uncommon in
the pools of tho Umvoti river, and that
they are white in color, except for a
few brown patches. It is thought by
some that these tales may have a foun
dation in fact, as there are great brim
stone caves in parts of Natal, and in
them there may boa phosphorescent
fauna not yet studied or even seen by
civilized men. Another peculiar inhab
itant of the same region—still on native
authority—is the “iutokoloch. ” It is a
species of dwarf or manikin, akin in its
attributes to the yahoo of Dean Swift,
is amphibious like the lamp snake and
bears a character not unblemished.—
New York Times.
Grant’s Big Heart.
General Grenville Dodge, who was
with Grant all through tho war, and
who both before and after that period
was civil engineer for the Northern Pa
cific railroad, told a little story illus
trating the spontaneous kindness and
thoughtfulness of Grant when a young
man. Many years before the war he was
sent to Oregon as lieutenant, and while
at Vancouver started out one evening
in company with Rufus Ingalls to ride
to Williamliamite for the purpose of
calling upon some young ladies visiting
them
When they had covered about half the
distance, they came upon a poor emi
grant, whose heavily loaded wagon had
become hopelessly stuck in the mud.
Tho youug men, of course, stopped.
After looking over the situation, Lieu
tenant Grant said to Mr. Ingalls:
“What can we do to help this poor
fellow out?”
His companion did not seem to think
that anything could be done. But after
a moment’s consideration Grant silent
ly dismounted, offered his horse to the
stranger in distress and gave him a few
concise directions as to how to extricate
himself. Then telling the grateful emi
grant where to deliver the horse over to
him at Williamhamite, he continued
his journey—still a distance of seven or
eight miles—on foot.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
One of tlie Family.
It may interest some of our readers
to glance through this short character
istic sketch of James Seymour, born in
London in 1702, which is more strongly
impressive than many longer memoirs.
The fact that he displayed a fondness
for drawing and painting in boyhood
and subsequently gained celebrity by
his skill in designing horses is too well
known to comment upon. Once the
proud Duke of Somerset employed Sey
mour to paint a room at his seat in
Sussex, with the portraits of his running
horses. Having admitted the artist to
his table, he one day drank to him, say
ing :
“Cousin Seymour, your health.”
Tlie painter replied, “My lord, I real
ly believe that I have the honor of being
of your grace’s family. ”
This hurt the pride of the duke so
much that he rose from the table and
ordered his steward to pay Seymour and
dismiss him. Finding, however, that
no one in England could complete the
pictures begun, ho condescended to send
for his cousin. The painter responded to
the message in these words:
“My lord, I will now prove that I
am of your grace’s family, for I won’t
come.”—Harper’s Round Table.
Learning; by Experience.
As we look at young men and women
just entering consciously the world of
self directed activity it seems easy to
advise them. The desire to do so is of
ten irresistible, aud justly so. We must
say to them from our own experience
the words that ought to help them avoid
the mistakes that we have made and to
hold fast the blessings that wo have let
slip. Yet they must live their own
lives, and of all we can ever say they
can use only that which really belongs
to them and has become a part of their
own minds and wills.—Christian Regis
ter.
In a Dad Way.
“How is Diggles getting along? I
haven’t seen him for a long time.”
“Worse than usual,” was the reply
in tones of the deepest sympathy. “Very
much worse than usual, poor fellow!”"
“Are you sure of that?”
“Certaiu. I recently had my salary
reduced, and I can’t lend him nearly as
much as I used to. ” —Washington Star.
Dog; Extremes.
There me dogs standing over three
feet high at the shoulder, measuring
nearly seven feet from the nose to the
tip of the tail and weighing so much as
200 pounds, and at the other end of the
scale the little Mexican lap dog is un
der seven indies in length from nose to
tail tip and weighs only a few ounces.
It is considered that Japanese men
are among tho best need’eworkers in
the world, their only equals being the
women of Russia.
Sources of Gutta FercUa.
Gutta porcha, like indiarubber, is ob
tained from the juices of certain trees
and climbers. The best is produced by a
tree, tho Isonandra gutta, of the order
Sapotaceaj, which formerly abounded
at Singapore and in all Malaysia, but
which now tends to disappear under
the ravages committed by gatherers.
Gutta, in Malay, signifies gum or lime;
perclm signifies scrap, lucisions are
made in the bark, as on rubber trees,
and the liquor flows of perfect white
ness, darkening at contact of air. Coag
ulation takes place spontaneously in a
short time. Like rubber, the liquid
forms a film on top. This cream is re
moved, kneaded into a large lump and
plumped into boiling water. Under the
action of a high temperature it softens
and forms the cake usually found in
commerce. Other trees in Malaysia and
farther India, in Cambodia and Cochin
China, produce good gutta.
In Hindustan different grades aro
mixed by the natives. Chinese mer
chants, in their depots, mix and manip
ulate to give a good superficial appear
ance to the product, as the price is con
stantly advancing. As the gatherers al
so do not scruple to add vegetable de
bris, earth or sand, it has become diffi
cult to secure a pure article. An inferi
or quality is obtained from trees and
climbers in Africa and Madagascar,
and, with the development of those
counrties, more may be expected.—
Clarke Dooley in Popular Science
Monthly.
The Charge of a Buffalo.
As soon as I could steady myself I
gave the beast the contents of both bar
rels, but they seemed to have little ef
fect on him. The four hounds were tear
ing at his heels, and he was kicking,
pawing and plunging like an Austra
lian buck jumper. In reloading I got
hold of the wrong cartridges, and while
I was fumbling aboutJVr stray ones in
my pockets the bull partially recovered
his eyesight and came at me. I jumped
behind a tree, and the bull struck it
such a blow with his immense forehead
that I wonder ho was not stunned. Tho
tree had far too great a girth even to be
shaken. Ho then tried to get round, and
I dodged him, and one of the largest
hounds sprang and pinned him by the
noso. How he did bellow, to be sure.
But the mighty beast, with a toss of
his head, sent the dog flying through
the air, leaving a portion of the carti
lage of his nostrils in the tenacious
jaws of the hound. Just then I found a
solitary cartridge, and, with the muzzle
all but touching him, I fired behind tho
shoulder, which sickened him, and he
sought refuge in flight. But the good
hounds stuck to him. I ran to where the
express was lying, picked it up, and
had no difficulty in giving the great
bull his quietus.—“ Fifty Years In In
dia, ’ ’ by Colonel Pollock.
The Instinct of Birds.
Some wonderful facts concerning the
instincts of birds are narrated by a
writer in The Popular Science Monthly.
The oriole, for example, has a fondness
for bright colors, and yet prudence leads
the little creature, in building his nest,
to select tho least conspicuous hues. He
also shows architectural skill in attach
ing a string to his hanging nest and
fastening it securely, by a number of
turns and a knot, to a branch above, in
order to prevent the weight of the young
brood from breaking the branch from
which the nest is suspended. Is not this
a good deal like buttressing a weak
wall? Birds also show a progressive
spirit. Formerly the tailor birds of East
India used to stitch the leaves of their
nests together with fine grass or horse
hair. Since the introduction of British
manufactures they use sewing thread
and raveliugs from cloths. In the dis
tricts in Switzerland where watches are
made the wagtails have learned to
build their nests of fine steel shavings.
Sparrows, which usually build in chinks
of walls or under roofs, if forced to con- 1
struct their nests in trees or any un
sheltered spot, usually cover them with
a sort of hood to keep out the rain.
Golf ala Kaffir.
An intelligent Hindoo has been heard
to define billiards as a game in which
two men, armed with long sticks, poke
at a ball, while one player says, “Oh!”
and tho other “Hard lines.”
Golf seems to have similarly impress
ed the native South African "mind. A
Kaffir warrior was observed attentively
watching the efforts of certain unskill
ful players to extract their ball from
one of those deep bunkers which greatly
abound on African courses. The follow
ing day this same Kaflir was seen to be
belaboring a great bowlder with a huge
pole aud shouting “Hang it!” the
while.
“This white man’s game,” said the
dusky child of nature. “Welly good
game, white man’s game. ”
The story has the merit of being true.
All golf stories are.—Pearson’s Weekly.
Men and Women Diners.
\\ omen as diners out are rarely sought
after. At a conventional dinner party
they are present in numbers equal to
matching the men guests, but in select
ing the couples the hostess usually asks
her women for their beauty, toilet or
because they happen to be wives of the
men she desires—very seldom for any
individual quality they possess, not
more than one of the sex in 500 ever
being able to meet the requirements laid
down for men. One reason for this is
their incapacity to disguise their utter
indifference to stories and anecdote.—
New York World.
Java’s Population.
Java is very thickly populated, and
cultivation is pushed to an extraordina
ry distance up the steep slopes of the
hills. The plain of Leles in the month
of July “is one sea of ripe golden rice,
with here and there a village of brown
thatch roofs nestling in a group of green
coeoanut trees.” In the middle of the
islund v* liite chimneys of sugar mills
peep above miles aud miles of sugar
cane fields.
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The Queen May Make the Great Radical
a Knight Very Soon*
Now that we are soon to celebrate the
queen’s diamond jubilee, the sixtieth
anniversary of her reign, we may also
expect a big batch of new knights and
baronets, shining medals and glittering
decorations. I hear that among those
who are most likely to be knighted is
W. T. Stead, the quondam radical re
former of The Pall Mall Gazette, the
present loyally conservative but frankly
outspoken editor of The Review of Re
views.
In a rocent number of his periodical
Stead has given us an interesting and
ingenious account of his personal con
version from the doctrine of republican
ism to the doctrine of royalism. He
started as a young man by believing in
a president or a protector like Crom
well. He now tosses up his hat, meta
phorically, for Queen Victoria.
Seven years ago Stead was sent to jail
for writing and publishing certain sen
sational articles in which the vices of
the nobility were pretty severely casti
gated. I should be surprised if in this
year of grace Stead didn’t receive a han
dle to his name as a reward for his re
cent change of heart. Gladstone reward
ed Sir George Newnes. I shouldn’t won
der if Salisbury and Balfour permanent
ly conciliated Stead.—London Cor.
Washington Post.
The Efficacy of Prayer.
The other night, at the holiness meet
ing, the Rev. T. C. Eason astonished
many of those present by professing
sanctification. He related his experience
at length, a part of which is to the ef
fect that while trying to quit the use of
tobacco after being sanctified he felt
great annoyance and even pain over his
craving for the weed, but when he and
his friends prayed that such annoyance
be removed he received almost instantar
neous relief. —Galveston News.
Nevada May Have a Rival.
Idaho may go into a competitive busi
ness with Nevada to secure prizefights
as a means of advertising the state and
promoting the art of self defense.
A bill, which in many respects fol
lows the lines of the Nevada law legal
izing glove contests, has been intro
duced in the house.
The license is fixed at .$5,000, but
this, it is understood, is for the purpose
of giving latitude in the matter of cut
ting.
It reaches the ...
. PEOPLE AND TELLS .
/---- THE NEWS
MORGAN’S ESCAPE.
The Veteran Senator Just Missed Being
Hit With an Inkstand.
A veteran correspondent was toying
innocently the other day in the senate
press gallery with an empty inkstand.
He twirled the glass cover round and
round while Senator Morgan talked and
talked of the Nicaragua canal bill and
the awful things threatened by Great
Britain.
The correspondent pulled the inkstand
out of its place and twirled the cover
agaig. Senator Morgan’s eloquent peri
od drew his attention, and the inkstand
was forgotten. It hung in his limp fin
gers, and then there was a resounding
thud on the senate floor as an object sped
by the head of the senator who was pre
siding over the august body.
Senator Morgan paused in the midst
of his eloquent period, and the attention
of the august body was diverted to the
fleeing form of the correspondent. He
and another who sat beside him disap
peared through the gallery doors. They
were seen no more that afternoon at the
Capitol. An officer from the sergeant-at
arms’ office is looking for them. Now
the inkstands will be clamped down.—
Washington Post.
A Hole In His Skull.
The cast of R. R. Merrigold, an in
mate of tho Brown county (S. D.) hos
pital, is a puzzle to the medical frater
nity. The patient has lived for a num
ber of years with a large' and growing
hole in his skull. The brains are covered
only by the skin of fee scalp. The hole
is circular in form, about five inches in
diameter and is located just above the
left ear. When first brought to the at
tention of physicians, the hole in the
skull was only about two inches across,
but it has been gradually increasing in
size. The cause of the bone disease that
is eating away the skull is unknown.
Merrigold, who is 76' years of age, was
taken to the hospital from the villago
of Rondell about 4j 4 years ago. When
first taken there, he was perfectly sane,
but his mind has since been gradually
giving way.
A Woman’s Hotel.
Real estate men are talking of the
project to erect a woman’s hotel on
Fifth avenue, New York. It is to cost
$2,000,000, and includes a woman’s
bank, apartments, exchange, hotel, re
ception rooms—everything but a worn-
ception rooms—
au’s cook stove.