IN Mill IIS! Traffic Suspended for Hours on Roads Used by Edward VII. GUARD AGAINST MISHAP Block System of Signalling Sus pended iin llelng too Dangerous for Monarch!! Koynl Trains Preceded by l'ilot Englnea at nil Times Guarded by Hallway OftUinls. Royalty on the railroad presents 0 the busy American some very j imuslng aspects. Kvcry time King Sdward goes from one part of Eng- ; and to another the mercantile com- j lunlty of Great Hrltaln loses some- i alng like $3,000. This Is due to the ' act that F.ngllsh railway officials use aost extraordinary methods In Rafe ;uardlng royal trains. Even In per ormlug so simple a Journey as go ng from Windsor to London a dls ance of about 25 miles traffic Is uspended for hours when the king ravels that way. On longer Journeys, the loss to tuslness houses along the line of oyal route Is something enormous. Vhen the king last Journeyed from Scotland to London It was estimated hat the direct loss to tradesmen was omething like $15,000 on account if the tying up of traffic and delay to lerlshable goods. When King Edward travels along 1 certain line all passenger nnd relght truffle even Including, the ast express service Is suspended, lost elaborate precautions of every 'script ion are. taken to insure royal afety. For Instance, for 15 mln ites before the departureof the royal Tain from any station all trains are jeld up. The ordinary block system of sig nalling Is suspended, as being too langerous for monarchs. Hallway tfficlals do not seem to consider this v reflection on their own methods for afeguardlng the public. They know, lowever, that If any of the royal mrty should be injured when trav eling on any special line, that par icular Hue would "see Its finish," so ar as the British traveling public j concerned. Each portion of the line on which he king travels Is guarded from sec Ion to section by railroad men with lags. They direct the movement of tie train. There are two signalmen 0 every quarter of a mile. For in tance, in signalling the train from 'olkestone to London, upward of 388 aen are required. When his majesty is about to trav- 1 the railway station Is cleared of all rdlnary passengers, and only a fav ored few are allowed on the plat orm. Just before the royal carriage 'rives up a roll of crimson velvet . arpet Is carefully laid along the latform between the king's carriage ,nd the trnln. Usually the king's carriage is pre eded by a few outsiders men on orsebark who clear the way and Ot Infrequently by a small body of avalry, the Horse guards being the ivored regiment, as the king him .alf 1b a colonel In that regiment. Railway officials line the platform nd make a low bow as his majesty asses by en route to his carriage, 'ually the president of the road r "managing director," as he Is ?rmed In England aecompnniesthe lng; though, of course, in a sepa ate carriage. It would not do for a lere railroad president in England ride in the same compartment ith the king himself. The reward of the managing dl nctor for his somewhat perfunctory isk Is, however, often quite great, 'nlghthood, the Order of the Garter, nd other honors are often conferred y the king upon men who have alped to make his Journeys pleas at by their ofllclal presence. As the king passes along the rail way platform the various officials tove In such a manner that they are Iways fining the royal party. Many n official has lost his Job by Inad ertently turning his back upon me member of the royal family 'hen passing to a train. As soon as the king Is seated In his irrlage, one of the railway directors jverently approaches King Edward, andlng him a dozen copies of the ay bill ot the Journey. This Is rlnted In letters of gold on purple 'Ik, and la really an elaborate time tble. The name, rank and occupation of very person traveling on the road n the royal train Is also printed on ie way bill. Its practical use Is to omlnd his majesty that on the same rain with him are numerous officials ach ready for anything In the way f a "tip" from 50 cents up to a ba onetcy. If Queen Alexandra should be raveling with the king, or perhaps done, she is presented with a bunch if flowers just as the train moves rom tho station. The presentation made always by some little girl .he daughter of an official, or of a lo :al mayor. The speed of royal trains is Uni ted to 40 miles an hour. King Ed ward rejoices in the possession of teveral royal trains, which are used exclusively for conveying his majes y, the queen, and members of their 3ulte. When great potentates, such as the kaiser, the king of Italy, or the like, visit England, royal trains are placed at their disposal. King Edward has recently suspended the practice of placing the royal train at the convenience of dusky monarchs, who ao frequently visit England; a oractlce always observed In Queen Victoria's reign. She even received and conveyed In a royal train King Khama, the Kafflr. Pelluburg Gazette. GIUYKVAUD L1Z.IU)3. Superstitions About the Chameleons In New Orleans Cemeteries. On any sunshiny day In the old graveynrds of New Orleans may be seen hundreds of small bright green, slender nnd fragile lizards, or rhnm eleons, running over tho walls of ' the above ground tombs nnd darting In and out among tho vines and tall I grasses which grow between the ac pulchers. Seldom It Is that harm ! comes to them. A New Orleans su- perstltlon holds that the person who Is so unlucky to maim or kill one Is sure to die within the year. How this superstition originated Is . not easy to discover. It has endured as long as the oldest Creole mammy can remember, nnd an old negro doggerel thus voices the belief: Kill er llzerd on do grave, Deyaln' no charm yo' life kin save. Dire tales are told of tho visita tion descended upon those 111 starred persons who have destroyed these little skirmishers and, in the re verse, It Is accounted the greatest of good fortune should one of them voluntarily cross your band. On such bright days when the chameleons nro drawn out In great numbers to bask In the warm sunshine, men and wo men and children, mostly negroes, may be seen In the graveyards rest ing one or both hands ncninst a tomb and waiting at times for hours for a chameleon unsu.ipectlng and brave enough to scamper across the patient digits. Should this happen, the lucky one goes home In triumph, free from fear of future witchcraft and flinging defiance at the hoodoo doctors, whose spells they feel they have certainly counteracted. In fact, so potent Is considered the power of tho little chameleon of the graveyard that not even the witch doctors will harm one, and though they use the bones of green lizards In the charms which they sell to negroes they hunt for them In tho swamps and on the lake shore. To kill one of these Is con sidered no great crime against luck and It may be added that the great majority of chameleons which are sold to tourists come from the swamps and not from the grave yards. doixo msixEss ix i-oxnox. Dinner Table Often the Scene nnd Champagne the Medium. Of the business life in London, Ella Hawl's Financier, Juliet Wilbo Tompkins, writes as follows In Everybody's: "Business In London Is done largely over the dinner table. If it Is asked and the affair has apparently the brilliant Irresponsibility of any other social event; for open discus sion, only men are assembled. Cham pagne Is inevitably the ether through which all business projects How. The role of Mr. Sprngue's new partner was largely that of hostess. Every one who could be of service, direct or Indirect, to the Multiple I'nlt Control was given his chance and his dinner, and Miss Rawls presided with a calm grace that never deserted her, even when, ns often happened, bhe had to take tho table a lone woman with ten or a dozen men. Asking brilliant companies to meet an inventor is not always a simple matter; genius is as likely as not to arrive an hour or so late, with a mind above apology und the traces of the beloved ma chinery clearly visible; but natural ease and a firm belief in 'the control' pulled the young hostess through and had their steadily Increasing in fluence in Sprague's favor. "To these dinner:) und lunches came engineers, M.l'.s. peers of the realm, heads of traction companies, writers for the press. Miss Itawls talked electricity and multiplo unit control until she was popularly sup posed to be n leading authority and something of an Inventor herself. Of course, her great advantago lay In the fact that the system she was pushing was, as has since been proved, the best thing of Its kind yet Invented. The facts were all on her side; her task was to get these facts a proper hearing. For this, her clear business head, her strong grasp on the salient points, were the best weapons. Moreover, as hostess and guest she had the gift of rousing friendliness, and direct, almost self ish Interest both of which Inclined men to listen. It was, after all, fairly simple." Iteming Trunks. A dealer in trunks and traveling bags tells of an odd business which he does In summer. The vacation goer who has no trunk or valise hires one. New trunks, of course, cannot be had on lease. Only the second hand ones are let out. 'You see," said the dealer, "there are a good many young people clerks, salesmen, stenographers, male and female that want a vacation of only a week or so, and they don't care about going to the expense of buy ing a valise or a trunk. Borrow? Oh, yes, they could borrow, I sup pose; but you know what opinion people have of trunk borrowers, es pecially In vacation time. Keeping Time by Wireless. Dr. Max Relthoffer, professor in the Technical High School of Vienna, In conjunction with Hei r Kurl Mora wetz, the government Inspector of clockR, has completed a system for synchronizing clocks by means of wireless telegraphy. The plan has been submitted to the City Council, and permission hus been secured for regulating the public clocks by this agency. The city clocks are to be served free by the system, but for synchronising private timepieces a small fee will be levied. THE COLUMBIAN, :I I No Other Aonarch Surround ed By So Aany Flunkeys FREAKS OF ETIQUETTE Admittance to Court Culls for (Jood Itlrtli or High Position In Army, Navy or State When Strangers are Introduced Tlielr Antecedents Are Investigated. Some 350 noblemen are chamber- i lnlns of the imperial household and 40 men of the highest birth are gen tlemen of tho household. Apart from this vast Array of nrls- ' tocratle satellites the emperor has an exclusive military suite, a naval suite nnd a secret military cabinet of two generals, two colonels, five ma jors nnd 42 other officers, Another department Is the secret civil cabi net of the emperor, headed by His Excellency Dr. von Lucantis. The medical suite of the emperor con sists of tbreo physicians. Tho em press has her own household, con sisting of a chlefest mistress, a chief mistress nnd a half n dozen mls treses, nil of whom are princesses nnd countesses, besides a chlefest master of the houshold, a master of the household and two vice masters of the household, a master of cere monies, n vice master of ceremonies, nnd a medical suite. Each one of the kaiser's six sons has also his own household and his own suite of at tendants, though on a much smaller scale. These high noblemen, of course, are not permanently In attendance, but the kaiser Is always surrounded by a large group of them wherever he goes nnd. whatever he does. When he rides out they follow him In the order of their ranks. On.e of them assists the kaiser to mount his horse nnd another affixes the stir rups. A third carries the kaiser's overcoat and a fourth a spare hand kerchief for his majesty. The em peror Is thus continually In an envir onment which tends to Increase his haughtiness and Imperial pride and his sense of his own supreme Import ance. Ladies who are admitted to the presence of the kaiser must curtesy so low that they almost lie upon the ground at his feet. All persons, men and women alike, must kiss the hand of the empress when they nre pre sented to her or when she addresses them. When the emperor desires strangers to dine with him be does not Invite them, but tho marshal of the court Informs them that his maj esty commands their presence at din ner on such and such a date and at such and such a time. The guests assemble and nre escorted Into tho dining room where the vice-marshal of the court shows them their places. They must not, however, take their seat, until the kaiser has taken his so that they have to remain standing round the table until the kaiser en ters the room. The kaiser Invaria bly compels his guests to wait for him on such occasions, frequently as long as 15 or 20 minutes. Two her alds then advance from the direc tion of the kaiser's private apart ments and take up their stand on either side of the door through which the emperor will enter. The mr.ster of the ceremony then appears in a gorgeous braided uniform and bear ing his wand of office with which he strikes the floor three times. This Is the sign that the emperor Is nt hand nnd a moment Inter his majesty be comes visible, marches briskly Into the room, acknowledges the profuse bows of his guests with a slight In clination of his Imperial head and takes his seat. Close upon his heels follow those of his military, naval and personal suites who are doing duty for the occasion. No one at the Imperial table may begin to eat or drink until the kaiser has set the example. No one Is al lowed on any pretence whatever to leave the table while the emperor re mains Bitting. When the dinner Is over the emperor rises, bows slightly and disappears through the door by which he had entered and after his departure his guests are free to dis perse. There are very stringent regula tions regarding the dress which must be worn in the presence of the em peror. Officers of the army must In variably appear In full parade uni form with their swords dangling at their lefthand sides and wearing on their breasts all their orders, dec orations and medals. Ministers of state, high administrative officials, and gentlemen who move In court society are obliged to appear in court In civilian dress consisting of the black knee breeches, silk stockings and buckle shoes. All male persons who do not belong to high society, but who happen to be In the pres ence of the emperor for any particu lar occasion, are compelled to wear a full dress suit, with silk hat, patent leather boots and white tie. Women are obliged to appear at the Imperial court In extremely low cut dresses, displaying the largest possible proportion of their bodily charms. The cut must not be round ed, but must be square, and the shoulders must be absolutely bare, with the exception of two supporting bands. Boston Post. A Servian Custom. In Servla an old Institution called the Zadruga still exists. It Is the living together of a whole tribe, numbering about 160 persons, under the absolute authority of one chief, who keeps all the money, makes all purchases and decides every detail of family life. BLOOMBURO, PA. noiMTIXO CO.W, AT A MIXR. Smallest DetniN Looked After In tbo Anthracite Kcglon. To most men such as nro even engaged In other lines of engineering construction the mechnnlcal de tails of mine hoisting can not fall to he of Interest, says It. V. Norrls, In 1 Engineering Magazine. It is hero shown that they are vital to the ruc- cess of the majority of coal mining Industries. With many, the mining of coal Is Hasted among the roughest kind of mechanical operations, In which tho pick, drill nnd mulecnr piny the most prominent part nn Idea which has survived the era of primitive mining, operations. Modern mining, however, has been brought to a stage of engl-1 neerlng refinement, never dreamed of j by the pioneers of the Industry. To, the lay reader the condensed pros-! entatlon of the state of the nrt nsj now conducted, even so far ns It re-, lntea to (he lifting of coal from Its normal level to tho surface, Is a rev elation such, ns without expert In structions, could not be gained even by n tour of Inspection throughout the anthracite districts. The manner of obtaining the great supply of fuel, which Is so Intimately related to tho progress of civilization. of which sup ply tho Pennsylvania anthracite re elons are one of the most Important sources of supply, will ever continue! to possess an interest superior to that of many Industries to which coal getting Is commercially vital. The facts given Illustrate the Im portance of skilful engineering to minor hoisting, and serve to place In a strong light the great advancement made during the last twenty-flvo years by careful study nnd skilful construction. It will be seen that even the smallest details have re ceived attention, and that what ml;ht seem of small moment to those unfamiliar with the require ments of coal hoisting prove upon examination to be far otherwise. PKODICTIOX OF STCIMMTV. Thought to lie Due to Over-St imula tiou by City Life. Any dearth of ability from which the civilized world may be suffering, sa' s Sir J. Client on Browne, is to bo ascribed not so much to the Infertil ity of the cultivated classes ns to tho artificial production of stupidity In vr ious ways, and to tho incessant draining from the country which Is the fit and proper breeding place ani rearing ground of intellect of tin) best elements of the people, to be swallowed up or deteriorated in the big towns. Tho Idea that the agricultural laborer Is set apart from his fellows by dulness of Intellect is as untenable as the belief that the city urchin is cleverer and better en dowed mentally than the little yokel. The rule seems to be t hat the mental development of children Is hastened by city life, but soon stops short. Up till thirteen or fourteen years of uge they are precocious, and then come to a standstill. City life nt its best Is bad for children. Involving as it does early puberty, exciting dis traction, superficiality of knowledge, Insufficient rest, and the want of soothing influences which the coun try affords. At its worst, with tight squeezing In squalid tenements, poor food, foul air, constant contact with vice, and m'anlfold temptations. It Is drying up the reservoirs of strength In the population nnd leaving an im mense proletariat of inferior quality. A Diet of Dahlias. Few guess that tho dahlia has had a drably unromantlc origin. This fav orite early autumn flower was first Introduced from Mexico by the Swedish botanist. Dr. Dahl, after whom It Is nnmed, ns a substitute for tho potato! Felicitously enough, the revolution against the tyrannical rule of the Murphies was plotted In the revolutionary year 17S9. But British gardeners soon perceived that the acrid flavor of the tubers, which nre still euten In the south of France, would never be appreciated by our Insular palate. They wisely devoted all their attention to the develop ment of the flower, with the result that we now possess the double dah lia. Westminster Gazette. Romans Set the Gauge. Ancient Rome Is responsible for the gauge of our railway tracks, for Stephenson, when he invented the locomotive, decided upon tho space between the width of the ruts made by the old Roman chariots, explain ing that he did not believe that he could improve upon the experience of a power such as Rome had been. Every standard gauge road the world over Is built upon these meas urements, which have been found as satisfactory now as when Nero rolled through the streets of Rome with the wheels of his chariot the same distance apart as are those of the modern Pullman. Origin of the Metric System. Some very Interesting facts have lately been collected about tho foot, the most widely used measure of length In modern times. The meas ure is derived from the length of the human foot, but apparently has varied more than that portion of the skele ton can possibly have done in his toric times. The ancient Welsh foot, for lnstunce, was nine Inches long, whereas tho Piedmont foot wus twen ty Inches. In modern times It has varied from the SpunlBh foot, of less than eleven inches, to the Venice foot, of more than thirteen Inches. Almost every country has used a foot measure of a different length. It was this confusion which led the French nation to devise the metric system. $1000 REWARD Is offered as a (tun ran ten thiit neither Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription NOII Dr. Pierce's flnldcn Mcdlcnl Discovery contains alcohol, opium, or any harmful driitf. Any one publishing falfe state ment concerning tlielr Ingredients will be prosecuted. Doctor Pierce's I'lintlly lioincdies nre compound of medicinal principles, scleiitlllcnlly extruded from native roots that cure the discuses for which tlioy nre recommended. 'I bey are medicines which have enjoyed the public. conliilcnce for over a third of a itury. iiiev lire medicines not beverages, made to satisfy n craving for "bonze." "(iolde'n Medical Discovery " regulates anil Invigorate stomach, llvcrnnd bowel, nnd cure dyspepsia, purllles the blood nnd tone up'tlic system generally. "Favorite Prescription" cure female weakness. Irregularities, exhausting drain, painful periods nnd kindred ail ments peculiar to women. Accept no substitute for these medicines, each of which lias a record of marvelous cures. Substitution mean scllislincss on the part of the dealer who 1 looking for the greater prolit on an Inferior article. "Our dniurliter who was t tending college tiecntnu very nervous nnd wo were nclvised to try I'r. I'leicc's Favorite Prescript Ion," writes Mr. M. ('. I ox. of f K. I-eonnnl SI., (irnnd Knelds. Mleh. " did so nnl lin n yon mlvKed us to (fet the '(iolilen Medical Discovery' bImi. She t.s.k four Is.illis i.f the ' l'rescrlilloii' nnd three of the '(iohlen Medli'iil PKeovery. nnd you never snw surh n elmnire In a person. She snld she did not. feel like Ihe Mime eloll. She wns nl.lt seventeen years old nt the lime. 1 will t'hully reiiiiiiuiond Hr. Helve's medicine to every one I nclvlse tmrenl who hnve yoiinir (laiiKhters who sutler from nervous tronl'le to try Ir. I'tetve's I nvorlle I'rescrlin Ion nt once. 1 am sure It will help them." Crn nnn "v'f:N AWAY. In copies of OJUfUUU .-M, IV,, pic's Common Souse. Medlenl Adviser, n Insik Hint sold to the ex tent of MHUmo copies u l"W years niro, nt II..V) per copy. I. ast yenr we irnve nwiy ;ie.(Hifl worth of these Invalua ble iKMiks. This Jem- we -hull Klvo nwny $..nou worth of them. III you shnre in this lienetlt V If ho, send only 'Jl one-cent stamps to cover cost of iiuiilliit' only for liook In Mill iuiih'I' covers, or ill stamps for clot h-lsmml. Address ir. It V. fierce. Uuflulu. N. V. The Greed of Gold How great a matter a little fire kindlcth ! It was a b.itiqr.ct that first fixed attention on the misuse of iMjuitahle funds, and brought Mr. Hyde before the public eye. The evolution has been a natural one: First the attempt of the President, James W. Alexander, to take advantage: of a seeming oppor tunity to wrest control of the Society from Mr. Hyde; the mutual mud-slinging; the effort of outsid ers to profit by the inside fight; the burial of the hatchet by Messrs. Hyde and Alexander as a matter of s"lf-preservation; the tardy effort to put on the brakes, by the sale of control to Thomas b Ryan; the failure to shut off the legislative inquirv; the overwhelmingly dis graceful disclosures implicating the Mutual Life nnd New York Life as well; and finally the ill-concealed game of purchase tried on the hith erto practically unknown but now much-feared Attorney Hughes, by trying to force upon him the Re publican nomination for Mayor of the Citv of New York Some of th ; results lo date are: 1. In spite of indignant denials on the eve ot the last presidential election, the charge that corpora tion moneys were being Ufed for election purposes is confirmed. In surance money was used, money taken from funds that should be held as sacred as savings bank funds, and justly applied to reduc ing the cost of insurance. 2. Similarly, large amounts were paid out for working with the legislatures of various States sums too large to be counted as salaries another proof of corruption, both in business and in politics, and of unfaithfulness in handling trust funds. 3. The whole insurance busi ness with its large surplus and re serves have been showu to be too great a temptation to the trustees of it, and the funds have been lav ishly used to build up fortunes for a certain set of men. Their char acters for faithfulness are gone glimmering and their attempted de fence to date only sinks them deep er in the public judgment. Rome had its recital of the wrongs done by officials in the pro vinces Virgil speaks of "Auri sacra fames' the accursed greed of gold; and this Republic has views ofitnowon every hand, iu busi ness, no less than in politics. Cent per Cent in November. HUMPHREYS' WITCH HAZEL OIL :::::: roe iiles, ONE APPLICATION BRINGS RELIETi SAMPLE MAILED FEEE. At DniRirliU. K oenU, or mailed StyNBTvork.lClUCO, Cur' Wal,,u NERVOUS DEBILITY. (Vital Weakness and Prostra . tlon from overwork and other ; causes. Humphreys' Homeo pathic Specific No. 28, In use over 40 years, the only success ful remedy. $1 per vial, or spec ial package for serious cases, $3. Bold by DruggUu,or leot prepaid on receipt of price. I Hwnphrayi' kUd. Ca., WiUlam 4 leha Su., H. T. htx- "!', mSoINU Ot- "It-it bC3, Space In New York Too Valuable For Old Faahionid Artxle. "This day In witnessing the panning of the led," aa'd n fold.ng bed tnnrui facturer on llth-Bt. "(Iround spar Is netting too valuable in New York .ise lor an old fnsh!uu.;i bed or (i devote Kilely to Bkvping purpose. People have got to hnv-t Homethii.g to sleep on that they v.r.t fold up anil get out of the way in the daytime We have the most curlotiH calls for beds made to order. People bring dia grams of flats and apartments in lier nnd order us to make beds, that wiU fit certain spaces. Some people h;i vi new beds made, to order every tiiUl. they move, so as to utilize every tuc.i of ppace. ".".in of people in New York sacri fice space and comfort for a fashion able address. I hud a call from a woman the other day to go up in fashionable hotel. She lives at a conn try home most of the year, but when she comes to town for a few month. In the winter she nnd lier two diuintc tors crowd into one room nt this Imi. L They had one double folding bed uui they wanted me lo roust met a speen'i bed that could be rested on iw, trunks at nicM. That was the only way they could get another bed Into the room. "I know a woman who started ir keeping boarders In an old New Ymt bouse, the. old family home which . had Inherited. In every room was fine big, roomy, obi fashioned 1 -, One after another of her boardt is de manded to have ibis bed removed nnd r. couch bed substituted or a table lA or a bookcase, or any other kind th.vi they could fold away out of sight ia the daytime, and make their toon look like a sitting room. The wninna found she couldn't sell her old fusl ioned beds. No one would have tin 11., and rather than give them away which she couldn't bring herself to do she is actually paying storage on them." New York Tribune. Struck for a WoocJshcd. Because Mrs. Koz.y's landlord refus ed to build a woodshed for her all tli weavers of the Itenrli mill wt nt out on a strike, and remained out until promise was made that a beautiful and commodious woodshed should bit added at once to Mrs. Pozzy's house. Mrs. Fuzzy "a house is owned by Mr. Beach, the owner of the mill which employes the weavers. Most of the weavers are bachelors, and take their meals with Mrs. Pozzy, who has tue reputation of being the finest cook in town. For u long time she wantv.l j woodshed to keep the kindlings, which 1 are so necessary to get up the 10 '-- Ing fire that puts just the right j "bake" on biscuits and pies. For 1 I long llmo the mill-owner has declare 1 j that be saw no reason why be slioulfl erect a woodshed for her convenience. She was at last forced to use strat egy or continue to go without a wowl shed. So she gathered her weaver boarders together and said there would be no more rich puddings, juicy pies, light biscuits and lusi i m stews for them until she had a wool shed. She said that if she could not have a woodshed she could not keep boarders, and they need not return for any more meals. The weavers were panlcstricken un til some one murmured "strike." Then they "went out." Mr. Beach askel their terms of settlement, and tliey said they would not return until Mrs. Fozzy had a woodshed. At Mr. Beach's earnest solicitation they final ly compromised by saying they wo M return if ho would promise that tha building should be erected as soon as he could get hold of the proper carpenters. Mrs. Fozzy. approved of tin compromise, and the men have m timed to their work and -their meals. New York Tribune. Primitive African Banking. In many parts of Africa the aystom of banking is as yet very primitive. Tho natives of that part of South Africa which to a great extent, is ln hr'ited by bushmen und Hottentots have a peculiar system of banks. Those Kaffirs, among whom this curi ous system of banking obtains, live near Kafflrarla ,ln the south of the Colony country. The natives come down south from their country to trade in the several villages ami towns in large numbers, stay with the Boers for a time, then return t Kafflrarla. Their banking facilities are very primitive, and consist en tirely of banks of deposit alone, with out banks of discount or issue ami they have no checks. Hut still they enjoy banking privileges such aa they are. From those who trade, of tholr own number, they select one who for the occasion is to be their banker. He la converted Into a bank of depot it by putting all the money of thoao 'whose banker he Is into a bag and then they sally forth to the stoma to buy whatever they want. When an article Is purchased by any of those who are in this banking arrangement, the price of the article la taken by the banker trom this deposit money batr counted several times and then paJl to the seller of the article, after which all the bank depositors cry out to the banker, in the presence of the two witnesses selected, "You owe me bo much!" This la then repeated by the witnesses. . What Englishmen Talk About. There Is no conversation possible between the French and English. If we speak of literature to the English man he, nine times out of tea. deafevf us with some Incomprehensible chat ter about golf or cricket. Pierw Mille In Grand Magazine. Russia has poured millions Into Manchuria, but aha baa the con eola tion of knowing that ate aa a f tan for kar moatey.
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