THE CHORISTERS,
There's a little band of singers
& Every evening comes and lingers
*Neath the window of my cottage in
the trees:
And with dark they raise their voices,
While the gathering night rejoices,
And the leaves join in the chorus with
the breeze,
Then the twinkling stars come out
To enjoy the merry rout,
And the squirrels range
upon a log;
And the fireflies furnish light,
That they read their notes aright
The katydid, the cricket and the frog.
themselves
All the night 1
Through my head their
ringing
Strains of music straight from Mother
Nature's heart;
Now the katydid and ericket,
From the deep of yonder thicket;
Then the croaking frog off
drones his part,
By and by the moon appears,
As the midaoight hour nears,
hear them singiog;
tunes are
and fog:
Then the mirth Is at Its height,
And they glorify the night
The katydid. the cricket
Atlanta Constitution,
I.
“Goodby, goodby: wes. we'll wr
and tell you all about it, and perhaps
send you some of the drawn work.”
And with these and the other usual
inessages, the train carrying
excursion to Mexico pulled ont of
station.
It was a eommon. everviday sight
the station bands, and gave it
only a passing glance, of
the travelers it was a novel experience,
and they looked on it
ginning of days of sightseeing in
land of the Montezumas.
There were two
ite
the big
tae
they
ut to most
as only the he.
tie
passengers in one
tH),
carriage like
as young
Che other called
about 25. =a
attention. One was a woman of
tall and straight, with a
8 queen, who seemed
gay as the youngest,
her “mother,” and
beautiful girl, Their and brother
had come to the bid them
goodby, a man of 30, well groomed and
well made, the typical American man
of that age.
He had provided every
thing that his affection could suggest,
and told them to be sure and let him
know day by day where they were and
Ww! they were well
“And you will look af
Alice, won't you?”
and
wis
son
station Lo
them with
fer
mother,
aad looked at him his sister aud a
Jounger-waman, about 22. Sbe turned
iavoluntarily, and the pretty blush that
covered her cheek that
name was Alies, too.
wobert Duncan glanced at
Was struck with her beauty, But
saw his look and turned away and
bugietl herself with ber baggage. His
mother and sister both noticed the co
incidence also, and smiled.
showed
and
Her,
said his mother. “I hope we shall be
She looks very pleasant snd very nice.”
Just then the porter shouted
train,
As the car passed him he look
and sister,
some curiosity,
Then he returned io office,
was the junior partner in a prominent
law firm in Boston. and had a hard
afternoon of work before him. There
Was a brief in a case that puzzled both
himself and his partner. But try as
he would to concentrate Lis mind on
bis work, he could see nothing but the
beaatiful face at the car window antl
bear nothing but the droning of
car wheels,
At last he became 0 nervous that he
threw down his pen, and telling the boy
he would not be back until morning, he
walked across the common and
public garden to his home.
The evening at the theatre did not
belp him, and he wae rather horror.
struck to find himself no better In the
morning. This was a new experience
for him. No woman had ever before
come between him and his work. This
was silly. He never saw the girl be.
fore and he never would see hier again,
of course. Ie must have dyspepsia,
Bo on his way to hix office he made
A call on his old college chum, now n
promising young physician He dig
his
the
~ Inent symptom was, but was sgre he
needed medicine for dyspepsia. Av.
cordingly, he felt rather foolish when
he was obliged to say no to all the doe.
for's questions as to whether he had
certain symptoms inseparable from
gastric trouble,
The doctor laughed and gave him
some harmless powder, and he went to
the office strong in the resolve to finish
the brief. He made fairly good head-
way, but still the image of the beaut)
young girl would come back to
Bim, and as the day wore on more dis
ly. Later In the afternoon he got
telegram saying that the party was
Obleago and signed “Alice.” And
it started it all over again,
en he became alarmed and feared
his mind was going. For he was
a believer in “love at first sight,”
bardly in the grand passion itself.
———
Then he found himself with an al
most rosistless longing to take the first
train and follow his folks, Of course,
he did not admit to himself that he
wanted to see the other Alice,
That afternoon one of the firm's best
clients came In. He said be contem-
plated purchasing some thousand acres
in Mexico, with the view of establish
lng a coffee plantation there, He was
not satistied with the title to the land,
and felt that some one ought to gO
down there and look into the matter
more closely. He could not spare the
time, and came to them, thinking that
some of their young men might have
enough knowledge of Spanish to make
the trip.
Robert Duncan regarded him as an |
angel, and said that as the office was |
not very busy just then, he thought he |
This was better than the client expect
ed. so the matter wax soon fixed up.
“Perhaps you will your folks |
down there,” said the senior partner,
“Why, perhaps I will,” said Dunean, |
as if he had just of it, But
told his was hard
ly probable, as he
the lower table lands
meet
tho ight
that It
was going down on
he partner
near the coast
Kept pretty
upon the higher plateans
That night
from
“Alice
before he started
his mother. and in
said: Chambers is lovely,
very mach
her name Chambers
Ii.
morning he si His!
The
journey was a ti
friend,
amd alter
the train
ions afternoon |
next
FesSOme one,
Spent 1a
on
himself one glo
of a burro Duncan bad told
his folks hy wire of his intended 11 pf
and found by looking over their itiner
ary thai they had passed quite near
Was
where he now
He had left the train at a little town
previously, and was making his way in
to the country to intervi fu-
dian whom he expects to find the next
morning. The Mexican lands
often depends on information only ab
the Kindly Indians,
he «slept on Idanket
stars, and early the next!
the path
wan old
title to
talnable from
That night
nnder the
morning was
hi
pusuaing isl,
and beanti
At last, about 9 o'clock, he came
the of the and
looked down on a lovely valley. His
guide and interpreter told him
the little village which be could
was the old Indian
About noon they arrived, the
title was soon fixed up and ar
made to leave the |
But |
that evening something happened that |
altered the plans
A small party of
had been up on
had found a
They did
one of the village burros,
saddle on it and
Slraps was a
that a
woman
amd thew
Ory
over spur moaniain
that in
Wier
matter
were
the villagers who
mountain cutting |
wandering |
as
the
wood burro
not recognive it
It had a side
noder one of
They
En
the 3
find
uneked
the little glove
Ameri
nye
or
Knew
ropean
an
ridden
aunt to
young
nxt
began a
her.
Some miles back thes
found her un
conscious by the road, and putting her |
As thes |
brought her np Duncan walked up the
little village street to see what the mat
astounded
Alice Chambers on the back of the tittle
mile,
She was still unconscious. One of
He was fo sew
the
olil women of the village took her Into |
few minutes she revived, aml, opening
her eyes, smiled a wan smile. When
hor caught that ncan
oVes of
she |
“I am Robert Duncan. Miss Cham. |
bers, and my mother and sister have
been traveling with sou. I am here on
business, and will happy to help |
yon In any way possible When vou |
are stronger we shall bw glad to hear
your story.”
She rvegaineth her vigor quickly un i
der the ministrations of the old Indian |
wownan, and soon told them that she |
had started out with a party from the
little town on the raileoad to make an!
excursion to some famous caves, In|
Some way she had become separated |
from the others, and had tried to find |
her way back. Khe hecame confused,
and, meeting several natives, they had
tried te understand each other, with
the result that she became mote and
more at sea,
She had eaten only what some Kindly |
indians had given ber. At last she went
#0 long without food that she felt a |
faintness coming over her. and she |
knew no more until she woke and
found herself in the little village.
In a few days ahie was strong enough
to travel, and Duncan made himsbif a
demi-god in the village by leaving a
sum of money that to the Indians was
fabulous. They enlemlated that the wx.
enrsion party mast be at the city of
Mexico. and when they reached the
railrond they telegraphed the party, An
fnswer came back which they got at
a station farther on. 1 sald: “Thank
God, she Ix found,”
They were met at the station hy an
enthusiastic crowd made up of the ex.
cursion party, the American minister
and a great mob of Mexicans, who
cheered the couple to the echo, In some
way the story had gotten into the pa
pers,
Duncan decided to stay for some
days, and telegraphed bis partner to
that effect, who wired back congratala.
tions, and Duncan found limself a
hero. He drove with them and went
to ses the siguts,
be
One afternoon be asked Allee If she
would “drive with him to the grove of
Chapultapec, They dismissed the
coachman at the entrance and told him
they would meet him there in a couple
of hours. Then they wandered through
that majestic grove, where It is always
twilight, even at midday, They had
been talking over their strange experi
ence, “Alice,” said Duncan, “you, of
know that everybody thinks
you are my sweetheart, and was before
we left home?
She blushed and owned that she had
heard something to that effect.
COUrse,
true? Alice, |
the first day |
have loved you from
saw you in the train
ly: “Well, Robert, It was quite mu
tual. 1 assure you. Oh, there are some
people coming. You musin't,
From wiich I infer that he
her yes," Ni,
Globe- Democrat
under
tO say
THE SHORTEST WAR
One Day.
the
employ
and
\ eamgpaign, involving
ment of many thousamls of men
ting of
* BiIgh
Was ove begun
sme day Fhe glory of this uni
jie gohievement belongs to the British
In 1848
aspect in the
arins hings bore a threaten
indian state
the Mahrat
formidable
encoun
entral
hy
ng
nhalsited
«f the
had up to
as, considers Fos]
Woes fie
ered in our Ind
Intelligence
an wars
reached the British an
thorities magzaificent
10,000 cavalry
that the
nfaniry,
amd 200 guns contemplated not only a
al
Pun
British in
military depotism, but an active
Hanee with their neighbors of the
of
hreatened by
inh, in the w hid
event
Hueniee
hined
night be § A Com
Nikh Mahraita
1540, 000) with
and army, com
posed of men Xl guns
Accordingly, asx mens
Ford
antionary
orderad
a pres
He, Ellenborongh 1 hye
Gwalior frontier. This force was divid
portions: the
Hugh
and 1
iW on
Riv
Hien
fsough command
field
stationed
el 12.06) srt y Pieces;
General
ou the eastern was
firey. with 3.000 infantry sod a
batteries of horse artillery
roncegtration took place in No
IS, and it had the effect of
bringing the native anthorities to their
sulkily a«
manatiog from
internal dis
Finally, it
nothing shorf of a
of the
The
ember
1
SOLER, while thes
nt
be orders of
Rritish diplomatists, the
went
decided
orders on Increasing
was that
British
Gswalior
capital,
put a un
satisfactory state of affairs prevailing,
0 on December 17 both Gough's and
for
that
occupation
conld stop to the
crossed the frontier
this purpose. No one suspected
government was known fo Iw
fully inclined and contingency
the Mahratta army revolting, to oppose
ii% own account,
tut
colnmns
peace
the of
overlooked
British
was quite
two
no
had the com
rulers traitors, and has
take up
Gough appears to have entirely dis
credited the warnings that reached him,
for he left his seige train behind Agr
allowed his and the
many officers, accompany
on clephants at its
to defensive
wife,
other to
head,
At daybreak
troops commenced
Kobari River in le
an
the passage of the
surely fashion. A
m
of the
ing a heavy gun fired from the woods
village, named Ma
ball the
cannon rolled between
another few minutes the womds he
came lined with flame from the mouths
shell into the British ranks. The snr
prise was completed, The ladies wore
hurried to the rear, and a council of
was summoned, The
ensisd raged for three
which hours,
ate character. By midday, however, the
victory was ours, the Mahrattas fleeing
from the field and leaving behind them
5.000 killed and wonnded and 156 guns,
By a curlous coincidence, at the very
same hour this sangninary and unex.
pected conflict terminated, the second
British force, under General
tacked by the second Malratta army,
12,000 sirong. Mahara jpore had been a
soldiers’ battle, but this, the battle of
Punneal, was to be decided by good
generalship. The little British army,
by a seriex of masterly maneuvers,
drove the enemy from all points of his
position, capturing his aftitlery, and in.
flicting a losx of 5,000 men, This com.
pleted the day's work, and, In fact,
ended the war, which may be «aid to
have begun at 9 o'clock that morning
with the firing of the cannon ball at
Lady Gough's elephant, London Mail,
A Description of Wampum.
Wampum was the name aoplied to
shells or strings of shells used by the
North American Indians ag money, Be-
sides their use as money they were unl
ted to form a broad belt, which was
worn as an ornament, In the language
of the Massachusetts Indians the word
signified white, the color which gen.
erally prevailed in wampum belts,
Six hundred thousand pounds of tea
ire consumal in England daily,
THE CATTLE HORN TRADE.
Where the Supply Comes Prom and the Many
Uses toe Which They Are Put.
In Frankfort street, near the East
River and its picturesque shipping, is
a small shop that deals in a curious
commodity—horns, Not the musical
rig which the little German band
lights to play, but the horns with
which a bull assists a stranger over a
fence or tosses a small boy over a
treetop. Cattle are raised not only for
the steaks which they earry about
with them, but also for their hoofs,
which finally trot to the factory and
become glue; their bones, which are
| laid down in the miil to become agri-
cultural fertilizers; their hides, which
| are turned into shoes, and their horns,
which are made by the art of the jew.
| eler, and the skill of the craftsman
into a hundred objects of beauty and
utility,
The farmer boy, driving Spot and
beef, but he is little likely to think
| Bpot’s hoofs as pasting together parch-
ment or restoring the
{ form of a shattered vase. or to
| Brindle's horns or any part thereof in
window of
deeds delicate
picture
a jeweler's as au object
art
Before the consumer finally
down at the table to eat old Brindle
turned into roast beef he may comb
his hair with a horn comb. Then he
! eat consomme of a horn
spoon and serve the salad with a horn
salad knife and fork, and finally but
Kits
i may out
the beef soup and roast beef,
The horns which the cattle In
field shake at proudly
flantly, are an object of the
ommerce. Sometimes a ship
the other side of the world comes
to New York Harbor 'w 0.006)
TON pairs of cattle
hold
In the tittle
the
de.
world's
from
in
or
Oar
you,
th
horns nu her
shop you see horns point
toward you from every direction:
horns on the wall, thick
a blackberry bush: horns
around as an elephant’s tusks, which
look a= if they might have
by a mammoth; long,
as black as Satan's, once grew
i straight up from a head like
the horns of an antelope; horns pol
ished like ivory and mottled like mar
ble. Above desk
! arches an of horns,
nine feet tip The
steer that roamed
the pampas Repub
He, They lar-
gest cattle and,
ing
as thorns on
as large
been carried
pointed horas,
that
wlowr'n
the propre ietor's
incredible pair
from tip to
»
jong
One wore hose
of the
are to be
horns In New York,
perhaps, in the country,
i “Horns are shipped ww
States from Routh America
Africa, India and Europe”
keeper of shop. “A
come from Buenos Avres and Monte
video, the commercial the
great cattle industry of the Argentine
Republic and Uruguay London, al
#0, sends argosies of horns to
New World, largely
{ Russia and India exports
| buffalo horas. supply
of horns Texas,
Argentine
bwliovend the
the United
Australia,
says the
the great
centres of
collected
the Orient
The domestic
comes chiefly from
i
|
|
i
i
i
i
muttered, “We are all too prone to
use adjectives and adverbs, anyway.”
He picked up the paper and seemed
about to begin to read from it, but
suddenly stopped,
“That whole sentence might as well
come out,” he said, “The meaning is
perfectly clear without it. Concise.
ness is really the crying need of the
hour” Then turning to the girl, he
said: “Be mine”
Thus we see the power of habit, Vor
years his duty had been to edit the
“copy” of prolific correspondents,
Chicago Evening Post.
HOW A PLANT PEEDs,
———
Vas Helmont's Interesting Experiment
Showias Mew =z Tree Grew.
It is more than 2900 years since phi-
losophers began to speculate about the
food of plants and what we may term
their “digestive” processes, but it is
only during the latter half of this cen-
tions concerning the food supplies of
the vegetable world have been general
ly accepted by scientific men. As far
as Is known, says a writer in Knowl-
edge, the first botanical experiment
ever performed was conducted by Van
Helmont. He placed In a pot 200
pounds of dried earth, and in it he
planted a willow branch which weigh-
ed five pounds, He kept the whole
covered up and daily watered che earth
with rain water, After five years’
164 pounds. The earth in the
Knowledge was not sufficiently
advanced to enable Van Helmont to in-
terpret these striking results correctly,
vel
“All the large horns which you see
in the office came from South Amer
ica. 1 don’t think it wonld be possibile
the longest pair here. The wild cattle
have been crossed hy superior breeds,
and their horns ne longer
large and long as they did years ago.
In a measure they are graded, and as
| the stock improves in quality the
horns diminish In size. This is espe
cially true of the herds of cattle in
Texas and the Far West, There are
| hardly any pure wild cattle loft in the
country.
"Tweniy-five years ago one might
Americans in the West whose
! beards reached their waists. That
| was the day of the long-horned cattle.
“The price of horns depends upon
their quality. The best cattle horns
| bring $300 a ton, the poorest may be
had at 310 a ton, while $200 or £250 a
| ton frequently is paid. Owing to the
| decrease in the number of cattle, espe
cially the wild ones, horns have risen
25 per cent, in price In the last two
years, despite the competition ef
L eelluloid,
“The finest horns in the United
| States for manufacturing purposes
{ were the American buffalo horns. The
| bisons, unfortunately, are practically
extinct, and their horns have disap
peared from the market for all time.
Sheep and goat horns do not command
as high a price as cattle horns. We
often receive horng in lots of 10.000
or 60,000 pairs, We sometimes sell
20,000 pairs to one customer,’ New
York Press,
Rive
A Candid Opinion.
“Well?' smiled the visiting lady.
“Were you considered handsome
when you were a young woman
“Er—well, Jackie,” hesitated the visi.
tor, “1 don’t know that | was. I think
probably no one but Mr. Brown con.
staered me beautifol, and youn know
fle married me.”
“Well, 1 just wanted to know. Were
you skinny then?”
“Not very.”
“lI don’t think you could have been
#0 very fat. Now you're old and ugly
and look ike thirty cents. There's
mamma--1 hate to say it, becanse |
like her first rate, ut she's not pretty
and looks about what she is-50, er
some such. Then Mrs. Smith-she
makes good cream ple, but she sure.
1y could never have boon handsome.
Well, this 18 the way it goes with all
the women I know, I asked mamma
what she thought about It. She said
fhat little boys were to be seen and
not heard, and that she would have to
give me a spanking before the day was
over. So 1 thought I'd ask you...
MinneapoMs Tribune.
sion that the increased weight had
been supplied to the roots. He there.
experiment as
supporting the theory which he had
advanced, viz, that plants required no
food but water, Stephen Hales ad-
vauced the subject a great step by lo.
dicating that much of the increase in
weight of plants was derived from car-
bon dioxide in the alr.
Vegetable cells contais a
known as “cell gap,” which is water
holding in various materials
which have been taken up from with-
out by and leaves, These
in contact
CAUROS
COMPOS;
hquid
solution
the roots
the which
them to
tion be added
to the substance of the plant. Thus it
i in the protoplasm of the living oells
of the plant that these “digestive” pro
carried on which Aristotle
believed to occur in the soil. We see,
then, that the living cells are microsco-
with protoplasm,
nadergo changes in
them fo
which prepare
CORRES Are
of the food of the plan is carried o
Like a New Gibraltar.
who Jost
in
man
winter's
According to a as
returned from a sojourn
lermudas, the people of this con
tinent have little idea of the magni
tide of the plans being perfected by
British goverument at
The fortifications, barracks and
bid fair make the isl
ands the Gibraltar of the Atlantic,
The imperial government has built
the
the these isl
to
The
is round, that it can Iv
careened over when the bottom
comes foul, thus allowing it
scraped and painted down to the cen
"he dock can be sunk thirty
feet. Betweetl tlie nner and outer
skins is a space of twenty feet in
depth, This great chamber is divided
into thirty-two compartments by fif.
bottom #0
be
to be
These are pumped out by sixteen In-
dividual engines on cach wide of the
dock, The Imperial anthorities, how-
ever, are not satisfied with this pro
vision, for a new dock is being built,
in sections, in England, which will be
80 feet long and capable of accom:
modating the larges! vessels,
The island barracks are exception
ally fine, and the fortifications are
yory strong and extensive, If is sald
there are 365, or one for every day in
the year. but many of them are mere
pinnacles of rock. The government is
gradually acquiring additional lands
for fortifications, dockyards, barracks
and similar works, There is no dou
that th® yntention is to make it a
place of immense military strength
and equipped with the fullest facili
tien for tHE repair of naval and mer.
chant shipg.
isan
Japaneic Food Abominable.
B. A. Lawton, of Boston. who las
recently returned from Japan, was de.
scribing that country to a party of
friends at the Waldorf-Astoria, and in
the course of his remarks said: “Al
that has been written of the physical
beauty of Japan ix really inadequate,
But while Japanese life, Japanese
houses and Japanese scenery are re
plete with interest and beauty, Japan
ese food i= an abomination to the
civilized stomach, and as such to be
absolutely eschewed. Take the raw
fish, for Instance, they serve, The first
time 1 tasted it [ was forcibly reminded
of the man who invented the “Sapjack’
which, when cooked on one side, auto.
matically turned over and cooked the
other side as well, The seboeme work:
ol out to perfection and fortune seem
od to loom large in the near future for
the inventor, when a drawback to the
scheme was discovered-the ‘fAapjack,
once swallowed, kept on turning. That
i= what happens when you eat the mw
fish of Japan."-~New York Tribune,
i
The number of high sehoold in the
A ———
AN ARMY ON THE MARCH,
A Sisgle Corps Extends Over Ihirty-Togr
Mites of Road.
Few persons have any notion of the
vast length of an army on the march
A single battalion of infantry, 1,008
strong--which is the strength of an
Juglish battalion takes up 2 road
length of 525 yards, including about
eighty yards for stragglers. A bat
tery of field artillery tnkes up 26H
Yards, and a regiment of cavalry takes
when marching four abreast, 650 yards,
An army corps, with its staff, wagons,
guns, hospitals, ete, would extend over
thirty-four miles of road.
An army marches slowly on the best
of roads. It Is much more tiring
marching in a crowd than walking
alone. Soldiers go at the rate of about
two and one-half or two and three
quarter miles an hour, and in the Eng
lish army they do a good day's march
when they cover thirteen miles. This
accounts for the fact that when news
is printed of an army marching to at
tack surprise is expressed that the af
tacked layed so long. It takes a day or
more for all the men to assemble on the
battlefield,
The march for various
arms differ, of course; but the fastest
arm has to suit {ts pace to the slowest
Here are the English official rates: In
fantry in small bodies, three miles an
hour; infantry in large bodies, two and
a half to two and three-quarter miles:
cavalry, walking, four miles; cavalry,
trotting. nine miles, cavalry, galloping,
fifteen miles; artillery, walking, three
miles; artillery, trotting, eight miles
in our army the average march for
infantry is from fifteen to twenty miles
a day. When troops move in large
bodies, and particularly in the vicinity
of the enemy, the march is conducted
to diminish
and ex
of
rates of the
in several columns 30 as
the depth of the column to
peddite the deployment line
battle. In large commands the roads,
if possible, are left to the artillery and
trains, When long distances have to
be covered rapidly, it Is done by chang
ing gaits. The most favorable ground
is selected for the double time, but care
is taken not to exhaust the troops im
mediately before engaging the enemy.
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A Royal Architect snd Gardener.
Kings are generally supposed to owe
their distinction to their exalted pos
tion. It is said of King leopoid of
Belgium, however, that If he were not
King of the Belgians, he would be a
King among architects, among
iandscape gardeners.
His taste In these directions is prob
ably more marked than his taste for
ruling, for it is well known that he de
tests the ceremonials of royaity, and
is never so happy as when inspecting
and correcting designs for a new bulid
ing or planning the laying out of an
estate,
Brussels has much cause to be grate
ful to kim in this respect, since it is
to the keenness of his eye for the bean
tiful in landscape that she owes many
of her open spaces from which delight
ful views of the country can be ob
tained.
The summer palace of the King and
Queen of the Belgians is at Laeken,
a suburb of Brussels, It is an estate
of about 300 acres, and the park and
grounds plainly show the influence of
the King's love of horticulture and
floriculture, They have been so bean
tifully laid out that they are the pride
and delight of his subjects, The King
himself superintended the opening of
every glade and the arrangements of
every group of trees.
Since the Queen shares with her has.
band a great fondness for flowers, and
since Lacken is her favorite residence,
it is not surprising that the conserva.
tories there are sald to be the finest
private conservatories in the world.
They were begun in 1874, and have
been added to from time to time since,
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Every Man Is a King.
Only one people and one little valley
south of the equator whose sovereign
ty has net been claimed by some Bu
ropean power now remains. It is the
valley of Marotse, fifty or sixty miles
wide, north of Lisuli, in South Africa.
and the only reason why the Marotse,
who inhabit #, have preserved their
independence is that England and Por
tugal both claim it, and, therefore, the
work of “civilization” is at a stand
still
It may pot be as easy to conquer
the Marotse when the time comes, for
they are 2 tall, Sl sot 0p race, very
black of skin.
In manners they are very courtepin,
and in bearing dignified. Every Tull
blooded Marotse is by birthright a
king, and takes his place in the aris
tocracy of the empire. In fact, as
every one ir King, there is an head
tuler.
The bare fact that he is 3 Marotse
insures the respect of the subservient
tribes, and as he grows to manhood
a sense of superiority usually Implants
in the native the dignity of self-re
spect. All the labor is done by slaves.
who have been captured from neigh
boring tribes,
Condensing a Document.
The young man took a piece of pa.
per and a pencil from his pocket and
1ald the paper on biz knee,
“1 will bave something important to
say to you in a minute, Miss Jones”
he said.
Then he read over carefully what
was written on the paper and crossed
out a word.
“Superfivous,” he waid, half to him.
self, .
again and crossed
fe went over It
“It's Just as strong without that. ba