Alvoi"tiiny Juntos. "Irelnfte I A relief i ei M I ' it BBfA l iJ'i. aj c Din endMt t'We it le c n Milerat (on of i . i 1 1 ... i . I i : ;.l t li- , , ... VI NVA. . ,,! - !. 'I lMS iiertod t the following low rate?: 1 incb, 8 timet.. 1 " 8 ta'.nt? .. V.iV) .. t.fto .. f.on .. e.i'o .. IC.Oo i.Ofl .. li.On .. 1. .. 0 .. f. .. ''.0i 1 6 month....... 1 " 1 year I a month! ...... t " 1 year 8 e month t " 1 year . '. . . t i - !!. . .. c ;n .!: ! ' " : I .1 I montln., 1.76 ' : i i' I wtl.li t'i year., v it . t,..t,.i.K I'Ut.-M "f t' eunty l i,.il l r jrir ll clianS'! to ,.r nil! Hi !v i.rnifl r-a d ,C.i.l 'N Jun i'uli inmr 1 i , , : In -"1 vu l"" mul u.t " ' I ', ., tl . -.1 f'M't 1 tut - ' . who ' . . t le i! 1. 1' not ly underlined Irura W eol'a month....... 4 COl 1 8- e monies....... 1 year a month....... 1 year . fin (in en item, flrnt lnocrtlon lOe. per line ; etch I! abMqnent lnaertloD fro. per line. AdmiDldrtionand Ezecator'i tit Use..... S.M Aaiiitor'i PoUoe - i " K2 JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and Proprietor. H IS A rKEIM Alt WHOM THE TRUTH MUM FBIt, Al A LI. ARB BLAY7U BKSIDK-" SI.CO and postage per year in advance. Stray end clmllar Notice I M r kraol'Uiom r procrtfitni r any corporanf or society, a J ccHnmunio(oTi drtittnrd to tail cttrn turn t an? met'rr of limited or individual i:tnt mut be pmxti jm ot advrrtitemmt. t ': - put er riore T"0 itop It. If Hop e I'll' le'HlawAJft o otiioratne. l n: ire i ! "tort. I rr T"': VOLUME XXIV. E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1S91K NUMBER 34. job r RiKxma oi an 'Dap ntiy hohjioi- oualj eiecBted At lowest prioe. Don't ycu Jorge it. ; ' i l p Mill in i(d '9 REMARKABLE IURGAfXS IX D HIE BARGAINS T T """" A 4 A " Dress Goods. v .;. li we ih t m'i1 cvtry ' r S-.ti:j'l,'s. Writ i4 to us :m , riir iu-fI'. V'.'.'v -1 . ,i ncii lv iill-wool v vr:;r s'titinirs, 0 inohc . ;(; a ;i ii1 . ! ir . I' .!n ..Mo-wi-ltli iali- !:.-w col.irinirs, ma.!..' sptM--r u-, i. lily '2n ;i yanl ..i-Wi i I ancy stripes in wi !e, regular ")e. piods rlv .. a yard. ' ; :r( es all-wool mixture ; v. -i i in. will.', .",1m-. a yl. 1 im- ei.Inrin-s. ., inehes ; ' ineli, all-wool -tripe suitinirs, :! i-'i-r iT'Hxls uj to tho finest If in foreign countries for us, our stock is '" - 'Iks of every dc .'1 a n vt ry large varieties, "ur Mail Onler De- . aiE & go., '-'-1 I'KX.N AVK., FJSBURGH, PA. . vj f '1. -I x - ' ' . V ; v. .., j ... JM N, SO III' Jit " '' 1 lu coviia Ti.a inr. " ' Tut t : : ii. "j'd circular to -'"Viii., & Ca, 1 ' ' i . .it -tt rct't, '! Till MR Machines yt'lU A-PKT.Ar.TT. i l otion. Ini ac-1 perieri um rni lurniark , . , . icctn ana T i f . ". r ' ' ru' i-t)frii. 1 '. .. Ill n . 11... i - . .... r,vu.n CO- Limited. 'I". OlvK. PA. PEOPLE'S STORE, II I II AVENUE, PITTSBURG. PA. IZZ ksS? fJ IS? H .-. t ::i U'fl). Dt'atly all woul. STKITEU DRESS C.OODS. marked down t-r sold Ht 3." ci tits. This l-t the bik.';eft U'.: cents' wurth evtr , i--ir lillAY MOHAIRS, niaiked down to-doy to 25 ci-bta. Would b ' Kxfra Fine Kill I.LI.V NTIXE MMIAIP.S ; elegant shades of (;iay ,, . V. 'uTi' . wer tiiijiirtd to !! at . peuts. V tuvn uiarked them to ;, 7' ct-iit. N twtter t,ariin In America in Dress (rooils. u'. 1"-' i i't'i" Millet-width ail-wool filled Dr-s lJ:od-. txccllrpt styles and d , '.l niiri v sell fruni U'..' to 15 cents a yard We tiaye marked thein 10c. ,ii il.-u 'iii-wld:u lurdiuiu aud lrk tiray A'pacvs, tnarked dowD to-day , .. . ti S , f'llt. t -.v,... ln:e KNtil.III SLTTINtiS. neat little, p'.aids to raat a stylish and . r, , -a t 111 1 1 k .1 down tw 7A t ents, reu'arly so: it a tl and ?1 a yard. . . .. , i I l e s; ee ril huruains. (i v pci-'-s (i('(I.)S. limh Novelties and tletx cost French and German Ii..; t,Mii', tiiivti aiiut(littrred the prii'cs to wind up the umaier ceahon's .. , i l, .it..!, a l;ir linn of C'ram and T.'uht Colored FABRICS of a'l de fil t.'nmv' war Also, choice lines in 15L.ALK and tOLUUS . :v t l'l,IN FAiUilCS at lowest price. i,i:i saw ui.mev t'y t-'oiuuiit to lUi Drci (JiK)ds Department, CAMPBELL & DICK. NO. MORE OF THIS! T'llil. rlit. l i'i:t.y. v. iiii itni'omfArtfll.W ti.-lit. ' ul "IXfu ! i f "X tti f.--t. l' nuurtl; this e il lUo "CCLMtSTEa" B5JS2L1 CO. i.fTT n )..: 'v .1 i ':: it - i ! f ti e bt l lived with l - 1 .'...' ' . HI1.I J"Vllti . .il..-. i. n ftf. ( nil lor III.' I uli'limtrr w st.rin- sha.les, 30; " AOES1Ve COUNTERS" i' i ! j . liOiiii v a.w. run cr liuiip'lu thrtu. ROBERT EVANS, ul all-Wiiul (npo In- YwS KZhZf-FlZfZ0! . ! l , l,V0P,"1 UNDERTAKER, ( n ' A.l) MANt'KACTT'Ktlt OK '.: !' i i ae 'ks Ullil t rO.SS- j anj .teller la ail kind ot Ft'KNITritE. -ait. .-re wt-iht eloth , lCloii!-ilniipr, I n . . A t ill Una of (Takct alway on hand.'aC . i' .1 "f :i!!-wor.l "0 in. sulc- r- w i n, , quaiity nt I tJoaies tmDaimed WIlKN KKtit lKEIl. Air 3J Si LILLY inSueitiCE&smHip AGENCY. HKK INSl'ltANOK AT CdST. r IJ'Iri !fKI LMUlDIi IIIXIAIILKI'OMPA MKS AT VfcKY MIAESf KaTllS. STKAMSHII riOKKTS SOLD A.NU LiKACTS ISSI EO r.VYAHt.K IN ALJ.lKAKrS ay KCKOPE. I- If. IMiillon, Aj;tMit , I.llJ.Y. CAMKKIA CO.. PA. Kil.ruiiry 11, 1jo. ly. A COL1D W AUK OF EXPANDED METAL T lEt?LKu SCMETBIS6 NEW. For Risidi nets. Cmubchu, Cvrrrmtt Fftw GAimiNa (Milvft, ArlMjr Mwd iioard. TreUIr tkn-proof rHimiN LATH. I)IMB S TS Ac. rite for 1-inilr.Ucd CataU gue: mailed frc CENTRAL EXPANDED METAL CO IIH mit r St., l-iltnbna-a-li, t'lv. narilnare Jlta kers iU Ctv iialuc uf tiiu paper -Kirs - Catarrh CREAM : BALK ( lrnra tttm HAVFEVER Uif &. Allay laln ' lnn.mn.Ml leaila Snt. Tjr Kfit.rf. th Sfnifi of 1al . nil Smf 1 1 Try tho Curo.HAY- A partlole lo a HJ Into eark oeatrll and la aarr..l.c. Pru-a 6) rnt at tTairgl.t t bf wall ri'i'r..1. u clu. Kl.Y BKHS, M Warren St., rw ura. LUMBER IS ADVANCING. SAW-MILLS, STEAM ENGINES, SHIMII.E S11LI-S. HAY I KrE-S.lia If ynn want a rtrt-laMa MW NII.I, i-n.l ti.'rt'a'-ali.uit ami tpacial prire tolDtroilua tu yoi. r neetion to A. i. FAKUL'AK, (Limited; .York, Pa. Ub .. A. MOTT.Ni. York City Tut. ".rk .. ul! kin.l. r.-Oly etiou't l at th'a ; in e U3 n ti :. J' N " ATTEMPTED SUICIDE." Your Honor, I ha ul got a m-ord to say In my & t, !.,-; Yuii've ISti nod to the painful lacks, but ct It's 1 11 toll y ii iu a slmplo way I ain't great on till.' tulli Wnytoru a gray old chap like me wantod to "cut tUo stalk." It's forty year t-Lnce me and Ruth mix tied as man and wlft. And nary niortul ever had a truer mate for life, lu all tLein years wc never Lad a word as you'd (Mill ITOJ1J (Barrln' the Christmas Day she bruk the kneea of Jeff, the hobs). We growed up like a e'.m that runs two Btems f.oiu Iho sarue bule; Sometimes I tliOu-lit that over yoad' we'd on'y have ouc soul 1 I never douc a thing I didn't ask her 'pinion fust. And ot'our than you'd think I found my own waywuzthe wuat, When nulierj. niio'1 me how'a my farm I'd Creel 'otn say 'iwa-s her'n. That l;uth done all tue thiukin' work and I wuz thar to learn. ' SUe saved and saved and paid and paid until th" place wriz clear IVor fe-al, she J.d:;'l '.s, ect 'twould go so sotn ter th' auctioneer! We never ha.l no chlllon, ban-In Zach, and be w.rhad; Cut eft f':n hum and want to N'Torlc t r lam to write and add: Said in ii'id uiother hedn't sense tcr come !n (-ul tiie r.un . " i Ni).'t; ao'b ii .ail, cr diK-tertn" p'r'aps fer gram mar on tu brain. That's rars aid years and year ago; but Ruth she a. Yer bl.unod The lad as rave us Tap 'acos ol home he wuz ahauied. She larut me how ter write o,u'.t good, a-say in' as out Znch I'd bit i j pruud his father knowed bo much when he got back. Uut ZicU h .'.1 ll:rowcd us up for good; and SO fer ninny y.-ars II. s mother s heart wux wearin' down with floods of secret tearn; I ! vatc'.wd her a ct pin when I come in fer i.iy t. a. And I mi:.';- : "Po. r la . you'r breakli' fast i:a t i rnueh con -ta:.cy. i ie -tor my day she Hayed t bed, aad I tat by herald;: Tiie r.iiu c- rue down like Nl'gra). I Just sat thar tvr.d cried. !"er -ao till -..-1 of sunr.y me. laws, nmcil tr he .r se t rg afar: And t lii.owt d ih.- I.eru LaJ nr.U"ni word He wasted hur up laar. x Th.-a when -.he f. t.-ft.-d arou.id a bit aha suys t r me, -i.- i i" ' i)o:il t e te-j c. n-t ki'th Zach and practice oa O'.at cut'- -l 1 I'll t.ei t:i .- L ird how g od you wui; although II' hars and vha AiJ knr m we nev. r hart BO words. 'Cept "bout that Y.utt- s kae.)s." It ketchi d w In a teaJer p'tnt t-r sc her thar 3 lek, Truuli.e; a -out icy wrlun" and atmut my 'rlth- r.e t i Ste to :... ! ai I, j kl-.-el tfjo-l-Uye, and r-.J -1 I T li.eei a,,ea Where 3rs Ls t ars of gladness and death em't e:.ter In. Voi r H i-xvr, when I'd burled her my lire wua s'.raek with b'.!(.;'at ; Th. re' weren't a blaie thin? 'round the farm Uiat I cu'd "t.-a 1 to r:,;tt. r y t'.j.- :,;:i?h ffpn-n t fiar. u:io dyy I t.jok tho h."'-,-' ter "rt a &Iiom. And woke up btandiu' by the s'un rad :i' liKiod silty two." And so at las I s.-1'.od the farm aid went ter t'.i. Lai 1-1. Th:n:u' H it -. r'aris he'd growed out of his f'in-v" f,.r his o..l dad. For twei.ty m .nths l"v- H'an heJ and s'arch-jd ai.d cud ui lxo'x la N Vuril. All gone too poor ter ilnve around and much too tired to walk. Ai.d th"i. oh. Messed GoJ! I'm glad ye sp l t.iat ballet wide, Th- 'd l-''n a tear ia Ilear'n if I had died a ba.cidijj. U si:..hir'i fainted: Water terel Whore) la n.ys', .cks? Jeewaek: IC'ita, Kutu: i K.k dc.wn from Paradise! I've found him. Here's our Zach I Thomas Frost, ia N. Y. Heralil A TEXAN MAIiKET. Busy Scenes Er-titeted Once a Week at Houston. The Qutfer Things Ouo Sen and Hears la lad ArouiMt the 'l:irketIIi.uie ICvt-rjr Saturdsy All N ttioualitl Arc Tliere. l'ursuinj the odd. the now and tho charae'eeris-tic takosi the tourist to tho Sa'.urilay evening market held at Hous ton. It is sometliincr unique and this the onli plare to see it, binall markets not iK.-in x allowed lif-re as in other citi'8. Houston also holds a Sunday nv-i'in't, but inaugurated tho Saturday ir.Dverr.ont for tho b'n nt ct thoso who w r.- too lazy or too rcdijious to rise c .rly on this Sabbath morninir. It has boruo irood fruit, opening out great and m.vv lielJs for trade, a.s the German farmers soon can.o in from distances of twenty miles and onorb bauMii their produce in waircnH, and wholesaling it to the many small dealers, who now de pend on this supply, -their "prairie schooners" and slow ox teams of four and five yokes of oxen filling tho slrcetd with an element usually unknown in city life. 1 he marketrhouso itself, standing in the midst of its square, is a flne-Iookinfr building, with crouching lions at tho corners and fountains in the grass-plot at the bide; but it is the -people who eonpre?a'. here that, ruake it ucb a re markablo scene, tho vender alono representing every nationality, Anaor ieans bcin far in tho minority. The market wagons occupy one Bldo of the thoroughfare whieh bounds thr square. Thoy stand drawn up In lino, their hind wheel uuchi"ug the curb, tho horses" heads turned to the middle of the atreet. It is supposed, and in some fe-w-eases correctly, that as tho owner of these wagons pay no stall rent, but only a small license to soil, they will dispose of their commoditio at lower prices that do thot-j venders within the building. It Is only in this outr row that wo find the negro market gardener. Ho raises all that he offers, from tho fat turkeys, ready dressed or alivo in coops, to the tiny bird-peppers, brilliant in hue, small as a pe. hot as Ere, and delightful In flavor, which grow wild along the bayou that borders his land. Near by on the sidewalk a Chines peddler displays bis ware. John bas riis pig-tail neatly pinned up, and his blouse and shoo are models, ol cleanli ness. "Any tllng a-day?" he asks, exhibit ing wonderful fans . and cishions. brushes, teapots, Chinese lilies, and what not. He tries to be very per- ; susave in his pidgin-English, and re- ; genU demonstratively the Interruption : of the little blaclc-syed Dago boy who runs up his band-cart of hot peanuts and-takes his stand, vociferously call ing his wares. A fat, yellow man, as greasy as bla own plucked geese, ia chaffering by his cart with a slip of a girl, who be lieves, and rightly, that he is cheating her in both prico and measure as she buys from him a'suppjy of okra for gum bo on the morrow. Here is a little German woman, face sharp, and puckered into innumerable wrinkles; but her balls of hand-cheese, strewed with caraway seeds, are white and appetizing. She has pet some away in a can, which she tells you 'schmech gut;" but when uncovered they are as yollow as gold, and "smell to heaven;" yet the so her German customers prefer.,- This thin-faced Italian has a wagon laden with gapio, all killed closo by. Mu'e-uared rabbits and "mollic-cotton-tails; squirrels, rod, black and gray, some skinnod, some not;" bunches of partridges, braces of prairio chicken and dozens of snipe tied together by the neck; some wild geese; ducks of ail kinds, from canvas-back to didapper; and hero is a single sand-hill crane fine oatiug the bird Ls, too, and a hand somo fellow to shoot. Tho owner is a good salesman and an eager. He calls to each passer-by, and knows well how to praise and show his stock. Small, swarthy, litne and dirty, be is a typo of his class, always asking higher than he will get, ruI dropping littlo by littlo to the offered price at last. Many others aro in lino, but thoy are but repetitions of these. If wo except the strapping brown virago, with her poultry and eggs, turnips and cabbage, who is too busy joking coarsely with the colored men and abusing the ven ders around her to pay much attention to her trade. Within tho. building stretches a quad ruple row of vegetable stalls, all tended by women, German and Irish exclusive ly, clean dresised and batless. Their wares niako a pretty show; no hot-bed produe'Ls are hero, no garden truck from other Stales, but all home-raised. The frrs.li gre-rn and wtito of tho succulent t-priug vegetables arc seen in the midst of December, the pale pink radishes lying in the crisp, curly leaves of chic ory; tho purplu" koLl-rabi against the piles of creamy, wax beans; the long, slim pods f "Carolina okra"' are heaped next to (r.lden carrots and red spring bewts: piles of puryie egg-plants are ranged between cabhago heads, pro verbially hard; while great bunches of cooL, white celery keep company with baskets of fresh jrroon peaso and pink-.skinnnd new potatoes. The women are very artistic in their arrangement of thes things, and they make a fine display of color; but fruit they do not touch. Here again tho Dago comer to tho fore. You find him in stalls stocked wilh West India, Northern, and Cali fornia fruits; only what other States draw from the Antilles, Mexico supplies to Texas. "I.emona a tawenta conta dozna; ap-pel.-iy, bsnin, grapa all a cneepa," they assure one as he goes by. Very foreign they look, with gold rinirs in thoir ears, men though they bo, and red mufflers around their throats. Thoy seem to give endless amusement to the respectaldo-looking colored man and woman opposite, who keep a stall where they sell cold food fried catfish and tender chicken, bard-boiled eggs and heaps of golden corn-bread and roasted potatoes, with thin-sliced sand wiches, all appetizing indeed, and where many a darky stops to eat a meal and t-reat his dusky "Dulcinea." lieyond is tho meat market, the butchers nearly ail Germans, with a Frenchman and an American or two, to mix the nationalities. Passing through that, wo enter what may be called tho bazar little stores of ready-made clothinc both male and female, tin ware, cutlery, baskets, fancy articles, candy, all separate, and the last-named stalls presided over by handsome Italian and pleasant German girls. It is a very olla vdriiLi of merchandise. Hack of this again, the fish-market and game of various kinds; and bore onco more does tho Dago find an occu pation. There aro shrimps, crabs, oysters and all sorts of fish, but the cat fish, in infinite variety," stands out in marked prominence, for it is the favor ite of tho negro race, and they are rare good customers. In and out of tho building 6nrge tho crowd, for all of Houston is hero. . It is a singular custom, this making a fash ionable promenade of tho market, yet it obtains, and tho fine ladies do not M-om to mind the mixture of p-voples or tho place itsolf, but dros in purple and fine linen" for the occasion. The dudo is in forco, and the. "masker" is not waaiing; tho men who staro and the girls who love to be stared at;, sober matrons on houso-keoping thoughts intent; flirtatious maidens who push through tho crowd, and seem U bavo no idea thnt their manners are not of tho best; natty negro wenches, pert of tongue and loose of demeanor; respectable colored "maumus." ample of girth, in spotless white aprons; strap ping negro men and saucy bootblacks; merchants, lawyers and physicians; sorvant-girls and cooks, the kaute-toW and tho. dciui-vii.adc, and both in their l"st ature; policemen and tramps; old women, cu-n on crutches and babies in arm-; black, white, brown and yel low negroes, Americans, Mongolians, Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians and Spanish they are all tbert laugh ing, tslking, quarreling, gesticulating, bargaining, gossiping," staring, keeping apiointments and making new ones, be inif proper or improper, polite or rude, as the case may he. And this gees on from four to nine In winter, from five to ten in summer. Every Saturday even ing It is re-enacted; tho people never tiro, it i(m. but congregate weekly, year in and year out, in anv endless repetition of the same thing. It is a wonderful ' 6Cene, a bustling moving picture of contrast and characters, and helps the traveler to better understand t'u rospority of the fctatc, which at tract onx'.and its rudanosabs, which re poL Leo C Ilarby, in Harper'a ilaga- lir.e. . . . 4 ... CoaMn't Get Rid of Him. "An Auburn man," says the. Lewiston (Me.) Journal, "thinks just twice as much of dog intelligence now as ho did a week ago. Ho owned a dog and bad. tired of him. and bad agrood to trans fer him to a friend who lives In the . south part of the city. , He took him in bis arms, tied a rubber coat over bis brad and carried him," down and de-' livcred him. It was a long distance," and he bad no idea that the dog would ever show tip again"' about his own premises. ' That night on reaching homo the dog Lay on his accustomed place on tho rug, while the Anburn man's wife wore a curious smile of. amusement. The conundrum ia the family is: , How docs a dog know the way home?" ,.... . ... .. , : A COM3INE. She came here from the middlo West, - And yul she had. bo il confessed, A Boston air mound her; A figure sT.;ht, a forehead high, An earnest look, a clear gray eye; And so for her I came to sin. And wise and charming found her. Hut as to press ray anlt I eame. Full oft she stnothored all my name lly asking curious questions; Tho aro:. fa of woman, the state and land. What social changes IBsen 'planned. She'd ask me to discuss offhand Aud give her my suggestions. Did I agree wlta Henry Goorget Would solflsU capital disgorge The shnre that toil domandedf How could the Indigent be) ted? Should criminals be allowed to wad? Did tariffs raiso the pneo of bread? She beggod me to be candid. And when the race at last had gained The highest point to no attained 15J growth or revolution. What would the last great victory be, The tinal goal that men should Beef What did Utopia mean for mo: The end of evolution f And as I heard I grew more more dazed. Until at last my courage raised To utter desperation; "Utopia moans for mu," I said, "The aocuU contract when we wed. We'll form a trust." She shook her head. 'C-ill it co-operation. " Charles S. Oroena, In Overland Monthly. IN AX AFRICAN DESERT. Terriblo Experience of a Deserted Explorer. The colonial policy of Germany dates back only a fow years, but the master hand which planned and executed the sedden acquisition of vast tracts in Africa and Australasia was busily preparing-for years ahead. The astonish ment ofthe colonial powers was com plete at this unexpected stroke of a na tion which did not own a square inch outside of its own frontiers, and which bad always maintained that colonies were a source of weakness to the mother country. Tho timo w-as well chosen. England was having a deal ol trouble with the Zulus, lloers and the malcontents in Egypt, and Franco had her hands full with wars in Tonquin and Madagascar. These disturbance facilitated the dealings with tho African tribes, and only when the German flag was waving over some of the most de sirous tracts in Africa did the other powers realize how they had been fore stalled. Out of a party of twelve army officers which loft Germany in 1SS0 to explore and navigate in Southern Africa only threo. reachod home in 194. Several were killed by wild animals and snake bites, others were murdered by hostile natives, others succumbed to tho dim a to or perished in tho desert Of the three survivors the writer was one, though thero were times when he despaired of seeing the sun rise again. Sometimes at the morcy of bloodthirsty, crazy chiefs, sometimes robbod and deserted by treacherous servants, sometimes ac cused as spies by English or Iloers death by violence, hunger or thirst lurked on every side, and escape see mod impossible. Four of us had explored and mapped the west coast from Orange river to Walfisch bay by tho end of September, IbS2. Our labors completed, we were thinking of home, when we received or ders to form two expeditions and start eastward. One party was to go by way of Lake Ngarai, the other by Latakoo. We drew lots for choice of route, and, having won, Lieut. V. R and 1 chose the northern course. We took five Hot tentots as drivers of our eighteen span of oxen, attached 'to a huge vaar, or wagon, tnree riding horses, and twenty head of cattle. We expected to load up with a good supply of ivory, skins and ostrich plumes, and we were not mis taken. At a cost of about SrtOO worth of cloth, knives, guns, beads, mirrors, etc., we possessed ourselves of about 811,000 worth of goods. We bad to hurry for ward, or else we could havo augmented this by our rifles. . , After surveying the country and con vincing numerous tribes of tho mighty power of Germany, we left theOkawan go river in December and anticipated -little trouble in reaching the Trans vaaL We bad hired four men of tho llalala tribe before loaving Lako Xgami and were pushing ahead rapidly.. My companion was a little too imperious and hot-temperod in hi treatment; of our servants. Hold and fearless and possessing great personal strength, he relied on his authority and word of com mand and used little diplomacy in his dealings with them. For some days they had been murmuring and one day they broke out into open revolt. Von R knocked two of them down and as they had no weapons they were soon brought into submission. We kept an eye on them for a few days and took turns at watching nights, but our threats of death to any grumbler seemed to havo crushed them. , . - One night we were encamped on the western borders of tho Kalahari Desert. Von R and I were both awakened from a sound sleep by hearing a gun fired. . We jumped up and felt for our rifles they had been removed! Just then one of the Kalala fellows cried out in Dutch: "Getoutof therairandrunl" The others joined in and cried: "Hunt the brash, you dogs get out!" ' Wo sprang out of the wagon, and in the light of the camp-fire we saw that the rascally blacks bad armed them-, selves with our rifles and revolvers and were aiming right at us. One of the Hottentots could speak a little English, and, unknown to the others, I tried to induce him to give me his rifle, prom ising him unheard of riches, and threatening a fearful revenge for this robbery if he did not forsake his com rade. He answered: "We shoot you who know?" Lieutenant Von K was storming at tho others in Dutch, but to no effect- . Unarmed we could do aothing, and the rascals -drovo us out of tho camp. We .lay down in tho sand about fifty yards away, and 6aw the rob bers harness the draughtoxen and start off northwards at early dawn. As far as they could see us they reviled us, and one big Ilalala fellow fired at us several times, but without doing any damage. We went back to the smoldering camp fires and picked, up some fragments of charred meat remnants of onr supper. I a tea heart of tho desert without food, water or weapons, there seemed but lit tlo chance for our lives. We resolved to continue to travel eastward, and, as our only hope lay in making the best of our present strength, we started at once. After a few miles we came upon a veldt of yellow limestone. For three hours or 60 we scrambled over huge bowlders, but tho fearful heat of the sun was too much for as, and at noon we were forced to lio in tho shade of somo high rocks, exhausted and panting. Wo each had a hunting-knife poor weapons if we canio upon any beast of prey. After resting wo pursued our way, some times crossing plains of hard-baked clay, and then again marching over tracts of limestone. At last we saw trees ahead, and as the sun was sotting we came to a sandy plain where tamo and mangaton melons grew- in abundance. Parched and nearly deli-' rious with heat, thirst and hunger, wo tore up those godsends of the desert and ate our fllL Without those wonderful productions of nature, cool, sweet and juicy, we could hardly havo lived an other day. That night we 6lept in a wide-spreading tree, and though tho cries and roars of desert inhabitants echoed all around us, wo slopt soundly and well. Next day wo loaded ourselves with melons and continued the march. We.spoko but little neither of us wanted to dis courage the other by the utterance of bis thoughts. Tired, footsore and hot, wo reached at noon a low rango of hills. At the foot we found 6omoinchio bulbs, and feasted on them aud somo of our melons. About fivo o'clock that after noon we were pushing our way over a rocky plain, dotted here and there with clay beds on which grew tufts of tall grasses and veldt thorn bushes. Pass ing around a thorn bush we both camo to a sudden halt at the sight we saw. A great yellow lion lay outstretchr-d on a rocky ledge not twenty yards away. Ueforo we could retreat ho raised up with a threatening growl. We darted behind the thorn bush and drew our knives. Tho Hon bounded round the bush and we faced him. We were not long in suspense. The great brute crouched and, with a fearful roar, he sprang right at me. I fell flat and he passed over mo, but before. I could rise bis great claws struck my shoulder and held me helpless on tho ground. I re member hearinga horrible growl of pain and rage, and then I became unconscious. When I regained my senses I 6at Up and looked around. A few yards away tho lion lay duad in a pool of blood. There was a cut in his body over a foot long. Lioutenant V. R lay by his side, his right hand still clutching the knife, but my brave comrade was dead. His head had been crushed by a stroke of tho lion's paw and his chest crunched in the jaws of tho mortally-wounded brute. I dragged the body of my friend to a cleft in tho rocks and spent an hour wedging bowlders in the rift and piling up a heap of huge stones to protex-t the remains from wild beasts and birds of prey. Already vultures wore in sight soaring in great cirsles over the spot whore tho dead lion lay. When tho sun went down I hacked a passage into a vol bush and stopped tho way with a mass of tho sharp, thorny branches. All night long jackals and hyenas snapped and snarled around the carcass of the dead monarch, and bj morning they had stripped tho flesh off the bones. When I craw led out of tho protective shelter of the voi bush I made for a rolling tract of land which gave promise of water. The melons were scattered and smashed in tho fight with the lion and 1 had oaten my last inchie bulb. All the forenoon I toiled forward without seeing a trace of zame or mangaton, and finding only the poisonous Bcilla and mar bo bulbs. No pen can express tho torture of that day. In the afternoon I was wild with thirst. The rocks danced before my eyes and my brain was in a whirl, but I staggered on. A leopard bounded be fore my path, and, with a fierce, hoarse shout 1 rushed at it, longing to sink my teeth into its flesh and to suck its blood. It fled and I chased it, but a few leaps took it out of my sight. The memory of that day is burned into my mind. Towardsnitrbtfall I gained the summit of a small hill, and. looking over a long stretch of sand and rock, I saw a sight that gavo me a feeling of delight such as no words can describe. Three camp fires wore brightly burning about a milo away.. 1 have no idea how I reached them, but when a German acquaintance stepped forward and lod me to a scat I wept tears of grateful joy. My rescuers, as I may call them, wore a party of four Gorman officers travel ing westward, and when I had refreshed myself I told my tale. It was instantly decided to pursue the robbers andro-, cover my vaar and aontents. 'There were seven horses with the party and two officers and four trusty blacks set out with me early next morning. We car ried only a small portion of dried meat, relying on the zame and melons for liquid refreshments. The trail was plain, and on the afternoon of the third day wo reached tho last carapfiro of my former servants. Pushing on we camo in sight of the rascals as thoy were outapanning the attle. Charging upon them, we captured the whole gang bo fore they had time to organize any de fense. Some of them fired a few shots, but none of us were hit. Disarming them we led. them away from the camp and treated them according to the South African custom. The damage to the property was but slight. They had finished the liquor and eaten all the private store of dain ties, besides having killed and feasted upon eight of tho cattle. The westward- party kindly gave me four men to drive the oxen, and ouo ofli-j cer returned with me to the Transvaal, which we reached, without . farther mishap. Zu IiefehL, in Detroit Free Ircss. Ily Cable l p the Jaiigrrao. French engineers are planning for an attack upon that hitherto virgin peak of the Alps, the Jungfrau. They propose to continue tho present line of railroad from Interlaken to Lauterbrunncn as far. as Stockelberg, at the foot of tho Jung frau, and thence to mount up by a suuees- ' sion of slanting cable roads, forming a zigzag, to a height of some twelve thou sand feet, landing nearly at the summit of the mountain, where there will be a hotel for the excursionists who are ex pected to make the trip by thousands daily. There will have to be five steps to the great stair-case, and a-separate railroad for each step, makyng five changes of cars necessary to reach the summit. i - Th Old War Much Better.- "Rubbing alcohol on the Hps to make them cherry-red is all very pretty for awhile," said a leading doctor recently, as a young lady passed him, "but the alcohol hardens the skin and soon leaves the girl w ith disfigured llos." THE "SPOONEY" COUlJLE. It doesn't matter where you FtTay, Go where you w Ul Ly night r day, S.y Cut. id's ever "maliing hay;" He doesn't wants a minute. Betweeu the UayliLt and the dark. In railway trains, hotel and park. There's not a spot but you can mark A spooney couple in it. At church or play, there, too, one rles Some couple making honeyed eyes. With sweetost Kmiles and softest sighs They're certain to bpln it. Until at ltrijj'.h you gravely doubt If yon should search the world about That you could find a spot without , A spooney couple in It. And who would bnve it chnngad! Would you? I love to hear the lover- ooo Aud in their softest listings woo Souu gontlu huart au J in It. In all of life there should not be. From Eden t- eternity, A piace without il seems to me A spooney couple in it. Chicago Post. A COUNTRY CIRCUS. Why Alice Was so Very Proud of Loauder. . "Cut, cut, ca-iir cut! Cut eur.' Thus enroling her way, the speckled hen flapped w ildly around among Miss Terebinth Rockwell's dahlias and car nations, with that fair maiden following close in pursuit, her checked sun-bonnet waved above her head like an ensign of war. Leander stood and watched the pursuit with the cool, impartial smile of a disinterested spectator, until tho speckled fugitive bethought herself t-o dart headlong into the sunny angle of the stone wall, where tho scarlet spheres of ripening tomatoes basked on a rude wooden frame. At tho supreme second, ho swoopod noiselessly down from his unseen vantage point, aud seized Old Speckle by ber fluttering wings. "Here's your "fowl. Terebinth," said be. "Well, I declare!" said Miss Terebinth, according a reluctant admiration to the. deftness of tho capture. "And I've been chasin' the creature this ten min utes! I'm goin' to have a fricumsce for dinner." "Company coming?" "I mean to ,atk Elder Atkinson and his wife." "Don't ask 'em, said Leander. "Put it off till some other time. Terebinth." "For goodness' sake! why?" Leander drew three square f yellow pasteboard from his pocket. "Look," said he, "I've got tickets for the circus to-night for you and mo and Ally Ames." Miss Terebinth's careworn vlsago brightened up. To these simple country-folk, tho annual visitation of tho circus signified opera, theater, polo, and athletic games all in one. "Good!" cried she. releasing the struggling hen. "Then I'll let Old Specklo r-o this time. But Leander, havo you asked Alice?' "I'm going thero now." "Are you sure she'll go?" "Of course; why shouldn't she?" Terebinth hesitated as she tied tho sun-bonuet strings under ber chin. "Perhaps that young English tourist that boards at the hotel Captain Cassell they call him, don't they?" Leander's hanasome, nun-burned vis age darkened. "What of him?" said he, sharply. "He may have asked her. Don't bo vexed, Leander, "she added, pleadingly. "Folks do say she's dreadful took up with him, and I don't know's I wonder so much arter I heard him talk, t'other night to Mary Hailey's Chinese party. He's travelled most everywhere; and if you could bear him describe tho tipers he killed in Ceylon and the elephants he's hunted on the Niger river " "Ob, hang the tigers and the ele phants!" impatiently broke in Leander. "I don't believe a word of it. I dare say he's all very well: but for my part I haven't much opinion of a fellow that loafs around a hotel piazza in hay-making time, doing nothing, with a white scarf on his hat and a sash for all tho world like a girl's tied around bis waist!" "It's the fashion," said Terebinth. "A queer fashion, I think," commented Leander. "He's a very brave man a regular hero," went on Terebinth. "Ho served in her Majesty's White-Heeled Horso once, during a London riot, and " "And did wonders, I don't doubt," in terrupted Leander. "Hut I don't see what all this has to do with us and Cal umet's circus." Ho took up his hat from tho grass where it had been reposing among butter-cups and white clover blossoms all this timo. and started off at a brisk walk. Terebinth looked dolefully after him. "I'oor Leander," said she, half aloud, "I'm afraid he's goin' to be badly dis appointed." Alice Ames was sitting on the porch, under the green, shifting shadows of tho hop-vinos, shelling Lima leans to dry, as Leander Rockwell's flno, tall figure camo swingingup the path. Ho was vary handsome, thought the girl, but ho lacked the ease and polish of tno dapper littlo Captain of "her ,Majesty's White neeled Horse." His clothes bore evi dence of country cut his boots were powdered with dust and his face was bronzed w ih August heats. "How do you do. Ally?"' said he; and Alico, remembering the deferential manner with which tho Captain always addressed her as "Miss Ames," answered, with a toss of tho head: Tm pretty well, I thank you!" "I've been gettin' somo tickets for the circus to-night, Ally," said he, plung ing con atnore into his subject "Will you go with me?" "Thank yon' ever so much," said she, stooping for a fresh handful of the vel vety, groan pods, "but I've promised Captain Cassell to go with him.'" "Humph!" observed Leander, "so Fm too late?" "Yes, a little too late. " "Is it to be always so. Ally?" "I don't know what you mean, Lean der." "You used to care for me a little, be fore this boasting captain-of-horse came here." , . '.'I like you well enough, now, Lean der." "Well enough to marry me?" "I don't think you're justified in ask ing mo any such questions," said Alice, jumping up and retreating hurriedly into tho house.-' "I understand," remarked Leandor, grimly.- - "J don't stand any chance abnigside of the tiger-hunting hero. It's a pity we haven't a few wild beasts ia'the:;e woods to kill. The Captain must mis his occupation. Will, t'a,'l afternoon. Ally. Terebinth and I will have ti go t the ireus 1 y ourselves, I suppose." . The mammoth tent on Purkill Com mon was crowded that night. Caiiitnev's circus was a local celebrity and had been widely advertised. The rural popula tion had not many opportunities uf en joyment, and did not propose to let this one go by default Every one was there, from Elder Atkinson and his wife down to little Micliae-1 Ryan, tho cobbler, and his pinched-lookin-r better half. Captain Cassell an .1 pretty Alico Ames occupied a conspicuous front seat, and a few rows farther back sat Leander Rockwell, with Miss Terebinth and her friend, Hannah llinns, beside her, a plain littlo seamstress body, who had been asked at the eleventh hour; "sooner than wasto tYie tickut," thrifty M;ss Terebinth had said. One by one, the "Enparall. led Attractions" hud been put forward: tiie time-worn clown, tho spangled columbine, tho trained ele phants, the bicycle-riders and tho swarthy snake-charmer with tho goi 1 crescents dangling from his ears anl the great flittering stage-diamond in the front of his turban. "Oli, isn"t it wonderful!"' criod Alice Ames. "Pretty fair pretty fair;" answered Captain Cassell, tapping the ivory knob of his crine ajrainst hi.s teeth. "Put those rattlesnakes don't coir. pari- in sizn to a cnhra "pi!'(.o I once killed in our tent at Dunguporo, when " And the rounds of applause drowned tho end of his sentence. "Ah! a tiger-taming act!" said the cap tain, consulting his prop-rammo. " 'The Marvelous Mignor Mahmelli and his pupil. Rajah!" Call thnt a Rengal tiger, do they? I wish you could hae seen that fellow I thot that last bummer in the jungles at Doodah. My sister has his skin on her drawing-room floor now, made into a rug. It had killed four men and a sacred ox. and the natives callid him "The Scourge of the Shore.' O. yes. I don't deny the fellow handles him very neatly, but" At that second, just when tho "boast of tho tropics" was drowsily going through with his list of his accomplish ments, the lash of his keeper struck a Uille sharper than usual, or some other unseen cause icriiited the powder maga zine of the animal's slumlierlng sav agery. Wii.h a ferocious roar lie sprang forward, fulling tiie keeper with a single blow of his paw, and leaped toward tho row of footlights, who.se iitful flicker seemed to irritate him as a red rag en rages a bull. There was a shriek, a rush, a moment or two of wild confu- ion. Ally Am'-3 utt'red a scream. Cr.ptain Ctisst 11 Lad turned as pale as a tallow candle. "We'd better get out of this." said he hoarsely. "Quick! juick!"' Hut Alice, paralyzed by fear, Rat as still as death. "I 1 r in't move!" she gasped. "I think I'm going to faint." The captain hesitated a second, and finally decided matters by t iking to Lis heels, with tho rest of the flying crowd. Alico shut her eyes with a chill shud der; she could not see tho tawny death spring upon her; but in a moment sho opened them again at tiie sound of a triumphant shout that went up around her. Leander Rockwell was in the arena lately occupied by tho vanished hand, struggling with the savage monster. Sho could see bis set teeth, the veins standing out on his forehead, the red fire in his eyes, nnd she knew that it was for life or death. "After all," said the minister, "these circuses aro sinful risks to human life. I never shall see my way clear to at tending one again. Suppus'i that bravo young fellow had been killed before our face and eyes, in the noble eiTort he made to save our lives." "Golly, though, pa. wasn't it grand?" said John Henry, th. good man's cldt-st hope. "'Most equal to a Spanish bull fight Everybody k nows that Lee Rock well's the strongest fellow in Duvkill Four Corners, but the old tiger'd got the best of him if it hadn't been for that lick Leo gave him over the head with the bharp edge of the cornet that the mus:c-nien had dropped when thoy jot under the stage, like lightning. It was as good as a Damascus soimeter, Lee says; and, onco stunned, it was ?asy enough for tho property-men to kill him. It'll bo an awful loss to the circus folks, though!" reflectively addwd John Henry. "There, ain't many tigers of that size in the traveling ring in this country." "I5ut wasn't it funny, husband," snid tho minister's wife, 'about Cnptain C'assell's being found hiding under tho manger in the trained ponies' stalls, with tho door tightly locked. A man who, according to his own account has killed scores of leopards and half a dozen elephants in India, and is afraid of nothing. I'm told that tno engage ment between him anl Alico Ames is off, and that sho is ppending a week with Terebinth Rockwell. Tho fright and tho danger together havo made poor Terebinth quite ill." Hut if tho minister's wife had only known it. Terebinth was a great deal better, now, and she and Ally were busy making a gown of white surah Kiln, w ith a great deal of sof l lace and ribbon bows about it "liecause," said Ally, laughing. "Le ander says he trh't wait and a man who can conquer a tiger oughtn't to bo contradicted by a woman." "You rcal'y love me, then?"' said Le ander. "I nnV'j lovo you," repeated Alice. "And oh, Leander! 1 am so very, vry proud of you! ' Amy Randolph, in N. V. Lodger. Aiming ty r.lectrlc Light. Some interesting experiments havo been niado in Toulcn to ascertain the accuracy of aim when the el.s u ic light is used for night attacks. A large gun was mounted on a revolving j latfortn, which also carried an electric projector. The mark to be hit was a mile dis tant and the only light was that of tho projector. It was found that the gun could be discharged with as great rap idity and precision as was attained in daylight. A l'oliremaa and a Fool. A Providence policeman met a fool wandering around at night, and to have some fun with Li in Le look out his nana culls and threatened an arrest. lhe fool didn't Login to cry and U ana neither did ho run aw.iv, but sailed in w ith aelnbandso nearly hi but ho d tne oiccr that he will ho in be t month, f i in . C e . 1
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