CANNIBAL ORGIES. HIDEOUS SCENES WITNESSED | INTHE DARK CONTINENT, An Amazing Story of Mingle% Civi~ lization and Barbarism. Prison- ers of War Slain and Divided | Among the Victors. A Savage | Frenzy. | Father J, { Dubendor!, Superior of a mission at Onitska, Africa, on the Niger, 150 above mouth, tells an amazing story of min- civilization and barbarism | among the natives near the mouth of | the river. Father Dubendorf jour~ neyed down the river by canoe some months ago along with Nathani African boy of Brass, educated Christianized at the mission. Father and his companion were tertained at a Zenobian trading post, six or eight hours from the native city of Brass, and there the king of Brass had a pirogue waiting, with the that the lad be sent to his people, Brass is one of the mouths of Niger, not far from the sea. another of the mouths is the ci Akassa, the seat of Royal Niger Company, concern which, accor Father, hasdriven ont of th by severe action three other compa- two French and English. and has earned, by alleged brutality the hatred of the natives. { on miles its | gled en. » re- quest visit the 1 nm tv nf i Of ies, one Father Dubendorf reached the region when feeling was at its most in t, and the natives were ripe 0 When the reques Nathaniel be sq the Father he dete pany the boy t the latter tained in eap:ivity by Ling in time relapse into barbarism } was i, and ace QQ nonce fil successiui ¥ i } i in water becaun Ar n charge of were forbidd their lords Sooner were han the women fell ing among themselves « ion of various honsehold 1 } They wailed over the departure their sons to the battle and prophe their return with wounds or their death in the fight The quar- relling kept up until after nightfall, and then the women crept to bed wherever they could find shelter outside the houses. The first returning canoe reached Brass at 6 o'clock next morning, and a quantity of booty was carried into the King’s house. Then it was that the Father first learned that the at- tack had been the headquarters of the Royal Niger Company. Father Dubendorf represents that the Eng- lish would have been destroyed but for a French naval officer, Lieutenant Gruigues, accidentally at the head- quarters, whose courage and address delayed the attack and gave some of the whites time to escape. A young Alrican of the returned party leaped upon a cannon just af- ter it had been fired and displayed the company’s flag in token of tri- umph. Other canoes rapidly arrived, bringing more booty, and many of the warriors wore white breech clouts in token of enemies slain. By noon | nearly all the canoes but the King's had returned. He and some of the! warriors had stopped at an island | some miles from Brass and taken | ashore six captive Kroumen Africans | of the slave coast, who had been em- | ployed at the company’s agency and | en gession of sied the six corpses in another, captives, still alive, were brought home. joicing and cannibalism. The bodies | were cut up in pieces, the children stationed around that they might be inured to the sight, and whole limbs were carried off to be cooked and eaten. One young Afri- the Father declares, had been educated at 1ission, taking in one hand the sabre of Mr. Flint, General Agent he Royal Niger the other a limb ns. danced in sav. company’s flag of one of the vic about 1 age j0¥ ing f ! ler fol- with quarrels frenz lowed, and a madness ri was added to that of sls the was 80 hi Father ref to notes that several parts of body were br } Ww courteously as } choice. His refusal was evidently not understood. Later, in king the Father saw a ros accompanied sort of savage . of gin and palm brandy ar, and the He human he scene uses is WU the King’s house, solved to be careful at The supper at which not present, was served naan style and with Eur save for a large roast quad Kery, but in tion 2OeIns based on the and physiological effec is far cosmetics restment ¢ dective than Prov ket requirements, is due to the substratum of the skin, more sensth and wasl battery will meet Much in beauty a small analomicas de. ANY attractiveness pending largely upon contour, and thing that tends to restore and lines, the fac inl muscles secentuate their outs This modification of the muscular tissue is primarily result of the in. fluence of the current upon the nerves, for the muscles are controlled by the nerves, both in their and in thei nourishment. The effect upon the heal th. and beauty the skin follows on the improved circulation of blood in the skin. Increased flow of blood means increased nourishment, capacity to elim. inate deleterious material, and firmness end vigor of the skin, so there Is little doubt that the judicious application of a mild faradic current to the face, neck and shoulders of those who wish to improve their personal appearance can in no way do any harm, and, if patiently persevered in, is most likely to aid them in their pur. pose. ‘tones up" the movement ineas of the He Wrote a Famous Song. . The writer of the famous song, *‘I'll Take You Back Agnin, Kathleen ® form School at Chehalis, Wash, Like many writers of such famous heart-songs, he is not a professional song writer, and though be has written a number of others this is the only one that has lived long. L NOTES AND COMMENTS. nearly all cities Tre State censuses of 18005 indicate a movement from the to the farms. Tne homs. woman is b More than twenty new there charged with bein Peesmission to establi service on the Dead the Sultan of * authorities l'urkey OL SYVria. were Prine Hina Kingdom. mist be taken as Tels is how the 000, or more, tions: (sreat 100) 75: Russia, tries, 125. Aw dutiable, secording the Treasury Department. mitted without t} be attached to the False teeth in the 1 nited States France oliier coun Germany ne. woes leg, if stood upon, is bot to a recent decision of To be ad. fax it must the owner mouth, wigs on the head, false eyes in their sockets, are, under the same ruling. also exempt from duty. The false leg that does not support the owner must bear its part of the sup. port of the Government. Thus the im. ported leg must do its duty or pay it. Wigs the change the trolley cars was made in Massachu. setts hundreds of stablemen lost their work and wages, and the conclusion was that the chance to work had gone. The facts show, on the contrary, that 4,108 workmen were empjoved on Massachu. selts street cars under the old system, and that under the new system 7,431 are em. customs body of ie from being employed in constructing 2,000 extra cars, needed to carry the 220,404.. 786 passengers who used the street cars of the old system. Tur discoveries incident to the un. neum and Pompeil have been recently paralleled in Turkestan in Central Asia, where an underground city has just been discovered. The archaeological import. ance of such relies of the past is more widely understood now than it was when the Pompeilan discovery startled the world, There will, undou duly authorized commis | the Hus i 1 ity of thi tatistics of it Archaeol hiedly, rianiz ian Government auther subterranean red tion rd the whilom in tim in certain , hee nKny | of this kind 1 Tens twenty lawn NEW YO 0.000 ire ench Dr. We lence 1 U0 for his resid rk, *1.0 Mis LO00 worth recent A SUBMERGED FOREST Trees a Hundred Fest Tall Standing Upright in the Water > ‘ and it now ROR is piece attempt padsage over the Even now the re is very deep, and ole would sink perpen sight ten feet from t tops trees, al sh a he shore All over this strata of blue clay, which in the winter season are very treacherous, and given the least bit of opportuni- ty wiil slide away, carrying every. thing above with them. This is the theory of the submerged forest of Lake Samamish. It probably was growing above of these blue earth strata, and heavy rains, or an earthquake, set it moving. The quantity of earth carried down was 80 great that the positions of the trees on the portion carried away were little affected. It is hardly to be believed that the earth suddenly sank down at this point and became a portion of the lake, Few such places exist. There isa place inthe famous Tumwater canon, on the line of the Great Northern, near Leavenworth, which is in some | respects similar. At some early time a portion of the great mountain side came rushing down and buried | itself at the bottom of the canon. | Now there 18 a considerable lake and in the center stand tall, limbless | trees, different in species from those y growing along the canon. | At Green lake, near Georgetown, { Col., alake which is 10,000 feet | above sea level, is a submerged for. | est of pine trees, some a hundred feet | tall, but not so numerous as in Lake { country are 3 one Samamish, The flax yield of the State of Illinois comprises 4672 acres . { Odds and Ends. Kansas has 166.617 acreage of 30,214.456, The Iv of Illinois 1800, 506 bushels farms, irley flelds 1,197 35,000 1 in Lhd A Wonderful Ade-~tation. ine, who was for several Western int lie SeTVICY on th ZAVE me a4 very interesting accom the » of that section to their sur. 1 have uover seen it laid down mderful plant roundin in the books “Down in sandy, arid plains of Western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the cacti that remain green and flourishing in the summer sea- As succulent they would be greedily eaten by the herbiverous ani. the wild cat and deer tribe, and would soon be exterminated “To themselves against this wholesale destruction they have developed the are the only plants SOU. they are mals, such as gunrd a perfect chevauxaddedrise of sharp, barbed spines, that branch out in every direction, forming such a complete protection that no large animal can get at the body of the plant.” Jut the really marvelous fact, the truth of which my friend affirms, is the adap. tive imitation of one of to these plants, “The horned it is commonly misnamed, is abundant. As it would be an easy prey of carnivor. ous birds, it, also. has been forced to pro. tect itsell by a cunning fraud. It has de. veloped spines on its head and all up and down its back and mil, in exact imitation of the spines of the cacti. And so closely has it carried the imitation that the spines all over the body actually blossom out during the season the cacti are in bloom, the flowers taking on the shape and color of the species of cacti among which the lizard lives. ¥ ‘The most beautiful sight I ever saw,” said my friend, ‘‘was on a bright morning when there was a light dew. The sandy plain was covered with the little dusky, brown animals, darting about, each in full uynasli Proved Their Claim, Three alleged vagrants rested in Pendleton, Or end locked up over night. The next lay they pleaded before the Record- er that they were not tramps but ac- robats on their way to fill an engage- ment in a neighboring town. and that they were saving money by walking instead of traveling by rail Their appearance was against their plea, but the judge said they might prove their case by doing some tumb- ling in court, if they cared to do so. The tables and chairs were cleared away, and the alleged vagrants gave a very clever acrobatic exhibition on the floor of the courtroom The judge forgot his dignity and the court officers the circumstances of the tumblers being there, and all ap. his honor were are recently that he held circus in court for hall an hour and then released the men and chipped in to a subscription for their benefit. The street cars of Sacramento City in California are now ran by elec. tricity by the falls of the American River at Folsom, twenty-four miles away. The river has been dammed creating a reservoir three miles long with a flow of 85,000 cubic festa minute. After turning the turbire wheels at the dam the water is mt allowed to escape further service, Hat is used for irrigation. Sacrameite City expects soon to be warmed fod liehted by the river. /
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