SECOND PART.
THE CliE LAND.
Progress of Eoger Casement's
Party Up the Malinga.
WHOLE TILLAGES IN RUIN.
Strange Cicatrization of the Great
Kace of Iron Workers.
CREW OF THE FLORIDA IN A PANIC
rwniTrisr tor the dispjltch.1
NO. 3.
INDING nothing
atBukutila more
interesting than
4 firewood and eggs
' and the attention
of the ladies, who
giggled and
nudged each
other and then
fled if we gave
the slightest in
dication of ap
proaching within
ten vardsof theni
which we had no desire to do we bade
farewell to the good-tempered crowd and
continued our journey up the river.
"We passed some two hours later the large
district of Lulungu consisting of several
Tillages on the mainland and on an island
in mid-stream whose inhabitants regarded
us either in speechless astonishment, or
greeted us with loud cries to land, as we
steamed past the long line of their villages.
Elenge Minto. our guide, informed us that
we should find these keen ivory traders more
inclined to sell to us on our return from the
upper waters of the river than on our present
journey, so we determined to push ahead as
rapidly as possible, onlv stopping where it
was necessary to obtain fire-wood, or to pur
chase food for ourselves and crew.
A heavy tornado of wind and rain forced
us to halt early alongside the deep impene
trable forest of the left hank, on the edge of
which we put our crew to sawing up dry
trees and dead wood for next day's firing.
ANOTHER ISLAND VILLAGE.
Next morning soon after starting we again
came on canoes darting about ahead of us,
and speadily were steaming through a chan
nel between an island entirely covered with
native houses and the north or right bank
on which were collections of huts among im
mense prove of plantains separated lrom one
another by stretches of grassy plain in some
places extending quite a mile inland beiore
the ever-encircliiig belt of forest was
reached.
This island-village and the north bank
district was called Bonginda, but we passed
it without stopping pursued by a fleet of
friendly canoes offering verv bad smelling
small fish fir sale. They continued the
chase until we had entered another district,
that of Wauibala, Elenge Minto informed
us, whose inhabitants set up a great cry at
our approach, but did not attempt to come
out to us in their canoes.
Towards evening we arrived opposite two
villages surrounded by high stockades on
the land side, through two gates in which
we could perceive women going and com
ing, on their war to or irom the Village
plantation surrounding the fence. We
halted for the sight at the upper of these
villages, fastening the steamer close along
side the bank. In the morning when I arose
irom my couch on deck, I found, to my dis
gust, that some enterprising native had prof
ited by the shadows of night to steal my
trousers, socks and roat from the table at
the head of my bed, where I had laid
them on going to rest, so that I was spared
tle difficulty I usually experienced on get
ting up of endeavoring to get into my
clothes unperceived by native eyes, until I
had been able to arouse Glave in the cabin
by my cries, who soon appeared on the scene
with fresh articles of attire and enabled me
to arise clothed and in my right mind, but
The Destroyed Village
breathing awful vengeance against the thief
it X should discover him.
HOPE TOE THE BETUEN TKIP.
The missing garments never turned up,
and X was forced to qnit Bolombo (the name
of this dishonest village), hoping that on
the return journey down river again the thief
might be revealed, or that at least the clothes
and the effort to nut them on properly might
work the physical ruin ot the wretch who
had stolen them.
From Bolombo we continued our journey
past long stretches ot thick forest, occasion
ally relieved by open spaces and sleep red
earthed bluffs topping which extended vivid
green patches ol banana and plantain leaves,
where some small village nestled amid the
deep groves of those trees.
Although I judged we must now have
been from 80 to 100 miles from the mouth of
the Xiulungu the river continued of the same
breadth, averaging a mile wherever we could
gee its entire surface from shore to shore, un
broken by islands.
J Late on the afternoon of the second day,
after quitting Bolombo at a point about
110 miles from the Congo we came upon
the first of a long line of villages, extend
ing up the left bank as far as the eye could
see, crowning a bluff about SO feet high and
so steep that rope ladders, or wooden steps
fixed into the hard, red clay of the bank
served to communicate between the village
and the water' edge.
HADE BLOOD BROTHERS WITH THEM.
Large canoes were lying hauled up partly
out of the water at the foot of the bluff, or,
manned bv excited crowds, darted out from
the shore and circled round us as we drew
in to the beach. Voices from under the
great trees that towered over the streets of
houses lining the top of the bank called out
to us to approach, and answered us that
there were tons of ivory for sale here. Land
ing by firelight we made blood brothers on
the bank, amid a crowd of savages, with the
old chiet of this village, whose name we
learned was Popono, and received from him
two fine tusks of ivory as presents. All
night long our men were chatting with the
natives round the fire on shore.
The district ol which Popono was only
one village was called Masan Kuso, and
extended about eight miles higher up to the
junction of the Malinga and Lopori rivers,
jrhich together form the Lnlungi, the great
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tributary of the Congo we had been travers
ing for the last four days.
Next day we steamed higher up to the
topmost village of the district, situated in
face of the Lopori which, coming from the
north and flowing through countries destitute
of ivory, and only supplying enormous
numbers of slaves to the raiding canoesof
this very Masan Kuso district, here joins
the stillbroader Malinga by a mouth about
400 to 500 yards wide.
The natives here were very friendly, and
we had to undergo the ceremonial of ex
changing blood and becoming "kindred of
one blood" with several chiefs of the com
munity, who expressed their appreciation of
their new-found relations by offering us
goats, fowls and two or three beautifultusks
of ivory, for all of which we gave suitable
presents in return, consisting of several
fathoms of redcloth, or American sheeting,
or cheap Manchestercottons, a few spoonfuls
of white and blue beads, a mirror or two, a
tin plate, cup and spoon, and one or two
odds and ends which cheer the heart of the
African in his rude simplicity.
DEVASTATED BY CANNIBALS.
Learning at Masan Kuso that a great in
land tribeol cannibals known as the Lufembi
had been ravaging the banks of the Malinga
and had destroyed every village up to the
great Balolo town of Malinga (from which
the river takes its name), we determined to
lay in as large a stock of fowls, goats and
other food as possible, since we conld not
hope to reach Malinga town before three
days.
On the second morning after our arrival
wc started lrom Masan Kuso up the Malinga
and were soon far from any evidences of life.
No canoes passed us and no signs of human
habitation or human being greeted us. For
two days Ave passed along between the tall,
silent walls of the great forest on either
side, the silence scarcely broken by the
cries of any bird, and the only moving
thing upon the waters the head of a black or
green water snake as it strove to avoid our
bows in its passage across the river. One ot
these creatures jumped into our low-lying
canoe attached to the side of the steamer,
which served us instead ot a boat, and scat
tered all the cooking arrangements of poor
little Mochindu, our cook, who used to ar
range his mid-day dishes along the bottom
of the canoe.
On the evening of November 10, after we
had been two days in the Malinga without
seeing a sign of hut or human being, we
were cheered to sight a few miles ahead of
us up along a straight reach of river,- the
lighter green patch in the dark surronnding
line of lorest which denoted the presence of
the broad-leaved plantain groves that sur
round every village.
However, on getting up to it we were sad-
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dened by the scene which met our eyes, after
we had ascended by rope ladder and steps
cut in the bank the cliff on which the plan
tains waved their long arms. Everywhere
was desolation. The huts were almost all
destroyed by fire and only charred poles and
half burnt thatch remained to show where
once had extended the broad pleasant street
of a comtortable African village. The
beautiful stems of the bananas and plantains
were blackened by fire or cut down in
enormous masses they blocked up the paths
between the houses, or lay halt suspended
across the still banging center pole ol some
partially destroyed hat.
AVe wandered about for some time amid
the ruins, wondering at the cause of this
destruction, and seeking if we might find
some poor savage lurking in the hushes near
his but recently destroyed home. Presently
from across the river a voice called out to
us, timidly and faintly, and looking in the
direction whence it came, we perceived a
small canoe with two occupants creeping
close in to the opposite bank and stealing
up stream in the shadows ot the trees. To
our cries that we were friends and should do
them no harm if they approached, the timid
natives only answered that they had noth
ing to sell or even give us save the advice
that we should sleep anywhere else rather
than on the site of their destroyed village,
for that the Lufembi at the back were only
a short distance off and would probably
come down on us in the night
FLIGHT TROM AN INVISIBLE TOE.
However, as there was plenty of good wood
to be had trom the partially burnt frame
workof the houses, we determined to remain
the night there, and put all bands to pull
ing down poles and charred timbers, sawing
them on the top of the bank and throwing
them down the cliff, whence we had them
carried on board the Florida. This work
by firelight went on gaily enough well into
the night, the men chaffing each other and
occasionally saying in half-play, half-earnest:
"What will we do if the Lufembi come
down upon us by and by?"
Gradually, work being finished and the
wood all carried on board, the men sank to
rest round their fires upon top of the cliff,
each man with his loaded Snider rifle beside
him, and a guard having been posted we all
went asleep with a feeling of security. I had
not lain very long, X fancy, on my camp
bed out on the deck of the Florida'when I
was startled from sleep by an awfnl noise
coming from the top of the bluff yells and
shrieks and hoarse cries, amid which con
tinually sounded sharp and clear the bang!
bang! of the rifles being discharged. I
jumped from bed, seized my revolver lrom
under my pillow, and with 'Glave and the
engineer, whom I encountered running for
ward similarly clad and armed, X was just
going to leap on shore and scale the steep
path up the plateau, when, tumbling helter
skelter over one another, rolling down the
entire distance from the top to the water's
edge, or even leaping from the summit,
came the greater number of the crew ol the
Florida. For a moment there was a scene
of indescrible confusion among the panic
stricken men, struggling up to their necks
in the river.
ALL CAUSED BT THE GOAT.
No one could tell the cause of the sudden
flight. All were shouting at once, and ex
pecting the next moment to be nearly over
whelmed by a shower of spears from the
banks, where we doubted not the savage
Lufembi must be gathering for an assault
on the steamer. We endeavored to arrest
the men in their scramble, and were just
mounting the scaling ladder when voices
from the darkness on top of the blufls and a
ringing peal of laughter caused us to pause.
Then came the tones of Bionelo's voice re
lating the cause of the panic, and the shouts
of laughter from the men who a moment be
fore had been risking their lives in their
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wild leaps to the bottom of the river bank
drowned all our attempts at inquiry or re
proof. It appeared from Bionelo, who with one
or two more had not fled when the first shot
was fired, that on searching for the cause of
the disturbance, he had found our three
goats tied up near one of the houses for the
night after having grazed during the alter
noon, and it was one of these which had
coughed in its dreams, or while chewing the
cud, that started Elenge Minto, that brave
"young man," from his slumbers.
His first thought was ot the Lufembi, and
the blood-curdling cough being repeated, he
had answered with a yell of fear and pulled
the triger of his Snider. Then followed the
panic, the hasty shots at an invisible foe
and the indescribably swift descent over the
face of the cliff. We could not retrain from
joining in the merriment and chaffing the
unfortunate Elenge Minto. The racking
cough of a consumptive goat became quite a
popnlar complaint on board the Florida for
the remainder of the evening.
ON UP THE EIYEE.
Our next day's run was a short one. and
j we camped at 2 in the afternoon alongside a
small opening in the lorest ot the norm
bank, where we found dead wood lor fuel as
well as numerous elephant and buflalo
tracks, but none of them very recent ones.
The river now was only on an average of 150
to 250 yards broad, and its general direction
was always the same, Irom the southeast.
Continuing our journey next morning, we
steamed on at a good speed without seeing a
human habitation or a canoe until the alter
noon, when we arrived off a village situated
on low-lying swamp land at the water's
edge, and consisting of a few poor fisher
men's huts. It was on theright bank of the
river and opposite the side on which the
Lufembi carried on their ravages.
The few fishermen about were astonished
at our advent, but they speedily gathered in
fresh recruits from the forest at the back and
adjacent plantations, and became sensible
of the beauties of a few strings of white
beads held up artlessly before their longing
eyes. When to these "were added a handful
of cowries and a shining tin plate acd spoon
the leader of the assemblage of savageson
shore could only find broken tones in which
to explain his appreciation of our kindness;
and when, later on, we asked him as to the
country lying ahead of us, he eagerly strove
to impart everything he knew.
THE FAMOUS IRON WORKERS.
He was of the Balolo, the great iron
workers (Balolo signifying "Iron People"),
who inhabit the country bordering on the
three affluents of the Congo the Itonki,
Ikelemba and Lulungu but whose true
home is at thehead waters of this system of
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kindred rivers. The facial and bodily
adornment of the Balolo differs entirely
from the modes of cicatrization of the tribes
dwelling lower down, or along the banks of
the Congo. The men we now en
countered indulged their savage instinct
of improving upon nature's handiwork
by chiseling their features into hard
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lumps resembling Spanish nuts in size and
shape, which were impartially distributed
down the forehead to the bridge of the nose,
and on each cheek as well as on the chin.
The shoulders and hollow of the back
were alike covered with these protuberant
knots of hard skin and flesh. The women,
in addition to sporting all this display,
revelled in an extra batch or two of lumps,
scattered down the thighs, which, if one
may except a narrow strip of banana or
planatatn leaf, fastened from a thong of
fiber around the waist, formed their sole in
debtedness to art tor any covering. The
men, on the contrary, wore a strangely-made
little grass or palm-fiber cloth, which termi
nated in a tail behind, to which was at
tached a piece of monkey skin, or the fur of
some animal. They carried spears and
shields, the lormer beautifully made of iron,
their shafts covered with shining bands of
copper or brass, and the latter procured
from melting down the brass wire rods used
as currency by Upper Congo tribes. The
younger boys paraded about with bows and
arrows to shoot small birds, or thin, many
pronged spears, with which they speared
fish in the shallows.
THE DREADED LUFEMBI.
I was our first glimpse of the mysterious
Balolo, on the borders of whose realm we
now found ourselves, and we listened with
interest to the speech of the old headman,
who spoke to us through Elenge Minto, our
interpreter. First,he gave us to understand
that they lived in mortal dread of the savage
Lufembi, and that the "big" town of Ma
linga, to which he belonged, only a little
further up river, had lately suffered a great
deal. Many had been killed and others
carried off into slavery, but that now all the
scattered Malinga villages on the other, or
Lufembi side of the river, had drawn to
gether and constructed a strong barricade
around their united town, and so had been
able to beat off the renewed attacks of the
Lulembi.
In reply to my question whether these
savages had ivory, he lacetiously remarked
that as no Malinga man who had ever vis
ited the Lufembi returned to tell his tale it
was impossible to say what they had, but he
considered an appetite for human flesh as
their most cherished possession; and on
farther inquiry the old gentleman admitted
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that he himself was not at all averse to a
little boiled or roasted Lufembi, whenever
the fortunes of war delivered a lew prisoners
into the hands of his countrymen.
THEY ATE THE CAPTIVES.
"Those who are not fit to sell as slaves,"
he said, alluding to the weak or wounded
captives, "we eat."
Then he branched off into a description of
the upper course ot the river, which we soon
judged would prove navigable yet for
another ten days' steaming of the Florida.
"High up," said he, "the river divides
into two branches, one coming from swamps
and trees, the other, and larger, falling over
stones where there are fisher villages."
Before reaching this point, however, he
said we should come across the veritable
home of the elephant, scores of these huge
creatures continually crossing and recross
ing the infant river, bathing in its pools and
wallowing in the shady recesses of its forest
banks.
Slaves, he asserted, in that paradise of the
man-catcher could be purchased for two
mitakos each (two brass rods, worth about
2 cents each), so valuable was metal there
and so plentiful the supply of human flesh.
A TUG AT THE STEAM WHISTLE.
Any exhibition of disgust on our part was
out of place here; and we felt that to argue
with a blood-thirsty old cannibal, and have
our arguments met by a supercilious lifting
of a pair of anthropophagous eyebruws was
more than either we could stand, or Elenge
Minto find suitable words to express; o by
way of inflicting as much torture as possible
ere we shot out from the bank, we gave the
steam whistle string such a tug that the
shriek whichliurst from the Florida nearly
deafened ourselves as we enjoyed the spec
tacle of its humiliating effect on the line of
grinning savages along the muddy shore.
Our last view of that village was some
what obscured by the hopeless jumble of
arms, legs, monkey's tails, knotted thighs
and bursting banana fiber waist thongs,
which heaved and throbbed on the muddy
beach as old chief and young warrior,
wife,husband and babe struggled and panted
to escape from the piercing screams of the
iron monster which was now gaily dashing
aside the current of the river on its way to
renowned Malinga.
Eogek Casement.
A EAT ATS A DIAMOND.
The Rodent Was Caasht in Time, However,
" and Ihe atone Rescued.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
When Louis Braham, the old-time pawn
broker, opened up his shop yesterday morn
ing he missed a quarter of a carat diamond
shirt stud, valued at from $35 to $50, which
he was positive was in the window late Sat
urday evening. He called his son, and the
two searched the shop high and low, but
could not find the diamond. Braham began
to get crazy over his loss, and went to Vic
Hill's to get a glass of beer and brace up to
continue the search.
"Had quite a time last night watching a
rat in your show-window," said Vic as the
old pawnbroker quaffed off his beer.
"Kat in my window! What's that?"
"A number of us were sitting in front of
the St. James Hotel about 8 o'clock Sunday
evening. The electric light was burning
brightly in the windew, when along came a
woman, and, stopping a moment, looked in
and shrieked, 'A rat!' We all rushed over,
and sure euough there was a big gray fellow,
at least a foot loug, skipping around among
the diamonds and breastpins, smelling of
the silver spoons and listening to the ticks
of the clocks."
Braham took off his hat and flung it on
the counter. "I wonder," he said, and then
started out.
"What's up?" cried Hill.
"Why, I've lost a diamond stud out of
that window." Hill, who used to work for
Pinkerton, said: "Why, the rat has swal
lowed it. Catch the rat and you'll get the
stone."
"Nonsense! What do youknow bout
rats and diamonds?" and Braham rushed
out. But he acted on Hill's advice, fixed
up some poison in an attractive manner for
a rat, and at 4 o'clock out comes the rat
hunting for water, weak and sickly looking.
Young Braham rushed up and kicked him
with ni9 ioot. The rat was cut open, and
safe and sound in its stomach was found the
stud as good as new.
A UEM0KIAL TO BEECUEE.
nil Old Friend Ilallidny Will Bnlldn Church
In Ills Honor.
Ever since the Key. Henry Ward Beecher
died, says a New York exchange, some
plan has been out on foot to erect a memo
rial to his honor. His old friends will be
glad to learn that at least one of the plans
will become an accomplished fact before
very long, and that Mr. Beecher's old friend
and assistant, the venerable S. B. Halliday,
will be entitled to the credit.
He and some associates have prepared
plans for the Beecher Memorial Church,
and will begin building operations within a
month. The new edifice will be a frame
nffair, about 40 leet wide and 80 feet deep.
It is expected to cost about $17,000. The
congregation consists ol about 200 people,
while the Sunday school contains 300 little
ones. Over this modest parish Mr. Halli
day will spend the remainder of his days
preaching. 39 he says, "The Gospel of Jesus
Christ and Henry Ward Beecher."
A KOYEIj JAIL BUILDIXG.
It Looks Like n. Chimney, but is ns Im
prcenablo as a Fortress.
Ozark county, Mo., has about 12,000 in
habitants aod a debt of $17,000, but as only
3,000 are taxpayers they must be responsi
ble for the debt or it will never be paid. The
county owns a small frame Court House and
a jail. The latter is a sample of pioneer ar
chitecture that is shown with pride to all
that visit the town. It is a two-story log
building 8x10 feet and 20 feet high. When
first seen it gives the impression that a
factory had been torn down and the chim
ney left standing.
There is neither door nor window to the
lower story, and the upper story is reached
Ozark County Jail.
by a ladder to the heavy door, which is
always double locked and barred.
Six grated windows give light to this
story, and the whole place is almost as im
pregnable as a fortress when the jailer is in
side with his ladder drawn up. This upper
room is used for the incarceration of criminals
who are not considered ot a dangerous char
acter, but are confined for simple breaches
of the peace, such as shooting a neighbor.
A trap door and ladder leads from this room
to the lower room, which is a regular
dungeon, ill smelling from the emanations
of the occupants. When the jailer feeds his
guests he simply lowers a bucket Dy a rope.
At the time of the correspondent's visit there
were eight men confined in the hole.
TVIAUCH 16, 1890.
HOW TO LIYE LONG.
Eminent Physicians Point Oat the
Way to Health and Vigor.
L0B6EYITY IS ON THE INCREASE.
The Moderate and Excessive Use of Whisky,
Tobacco and Candy.
EYERY MAN OUGHT TO L0YE A WOMAN
CWIllTTICN FOB TUB DISPATCH. 1
Americans are told they live at the pace
that kills. So they do, but they live longer
on the average than their ancestors, and
longevity is likely to be still greater in
future generations. While on a visit to
Hew York recently, the writer dropped in
at the handsome office of the famous surgeon,
Dr. Lewis A. Sayre, on Fifth avenue, and
in a long conversation, the doctor explained
the reason for the extended term of life.
It is said the kindest hearted physicians
are the best ones. There never was a kinder
hearted man than Dr. Sayre. Nor, per
haps, was there ever a stronger minded one.
He is 70 years old, but age has not left its
full impress on him. He is known the
world over by his writings and his services
in the cause of humanity. He comes as
near throwing physic to the dogs as a
doctor well could. He believes largely in
hygienic and rational treatment, and his
reputation demonstrates that his theories
Dr. Lewis A. Bayre.
are correct in practice. He is a wonder
fully interesting and entertaining man in
conversation. He discusses things pertain
ing to his profession in a way that is not
only easily understood, but effective. He
said to the correspondent:
"WE should be centennabians.
"Everybody, under ordinary circum
stances, ought to live to be 100 years old.
As it is, people live from 8 to 15 years
longer than their forefathers did. They
have learned how to eat and drink; how to
keep their homes ventilated and 'their
sewers drained and how to generally take
better care of themselves. Still they do not
live anything like as long as they ought to,
because they do not yet live as they ought
to. They have too much to do, too much to
think about, and too much care to bear.
Many are very much distressed as younger
men to know how they are going to make
sure of a living. By and by when their
reputation has grown they are driven to
death with the work forced upon them. If
I had lived anywhere near right in the
earlier part of my professional career, I be
lieve my liie would have been prolonged be
yond a" century. I never used to know
what it was to be tired, hungry or sleepy.
When thp decline begins the face loses its
color; the plump, vigorous look of the skin
vanishes and lassitude takes the place of
elasticity.
"Open grates are far preferable to any
other means of heating a house, for they
help ventilation which is an important fac
tor in the prolongation of life. I never al
low a furnace to be lighted in. my house ex
cept when there is danger of the water pipes
freezing up. One of the greatest dangers to
human life is
THE CANDY SHOP
which destroys the stomachs of children.
Candy, in fact, does almost as much to de
stroy the stomach as alcohol. A child with
its stomach full of candy has no desire to
eat bread and butter and drink milk. Chil
dren ought to be sustained by nutritious
food while they are growing. Adults are
likewise harmed if they go about muching
candy. Sugar is a necessary ingredient ot
the body, but it should be taken in proper
quantities and at proper times, and not in
discriminately. Tobacco is decidedly in
jurious when used to excess the same as
liquor. A mild cigar smoked a.'ter dinner,
however, has a soothing effect, and the
smoker sustains less injury from it than he
wouid from rushing off to work on a lull
stomach.
"No injury will result from sleeping after
a meal. Old people are benefited by a nan
after eating. Actors almost invariably take
supper before going to bed and they "are a
healthy set of men. Animals afford an ex
ample. Peed two dogs and let one curl up
beiore the fire while theother is taken out to
hunt rabbits. Then on the return from the
bunting expedition kill both dogs. The
stomach of the one that has been sleeping
will be clean while the food in the stomach
of the other will be found undigested. The
dog that has been hunting has expended all
his energies in the chase and tht food has
had no chance to digest.
THE EFFECT OF 'WHISKY.
"Whisky caunot be considered injurious
under all circumstances. There are times
when it is uselul like castor oil, calomel
and quinine, but it is not beneficial when
used as a beverage. I am not certain that
water is not as harmful as whisky. Ice
water, which people generally gulp down in
unlimited quantities, paralyzes the nerves
of the stomach, and is one of the greatest
causes ot dyspepsia in this country. People
should drink water at its natural tempera
ture. Boiling water drank an hour or so
before meals is a valuable aid to digestion.
The majority of people eat more than they
ought and they also eat too last. In eating
it is not a question how much a persou can
devour, but how much he can digest. Some
people are better off on two meals a day
than on three.
"Turning nighf into day that is, work
ing at night and sleeping in the day time
does not mean that the person who does it is
doomed to an early grave. Men who work
nights may live to agood old age. William
Cullen was accustomed to working nights
and attained a ripe old age. Still I con
sider that people who work during the day
and sleep during the night are better off.
One thing is certain, a person must have
sleep at some time whether it is at night or
during the day.
THE AMOUNT OF SLEEP.
"The average person ought to have eight
hours' sleep. When I was young I read
that Napoleon only took four hours' sleep
in 24. I thought that no great man needed
more than four hours, so that was all I took.
I found out the error of that idea later.
When a person's system plays out no elixir
of life is going to rejuvenate him. About
all the elixir of lite amounted to was to
lighten the pockets of old men and fool
them into the belief that they could be made
young again. Nothing in the way of medi
cine or inoculation will restore vitality.
Boast beef, beeisteak, out door exer
cise, freedom from care and a proper
amount of rest will do more to prolong
llle than anything else. The cure' of hydro
phobia by the Pasteur method is pretty well
established, and the valuejiof the transfu
sion of blood is demonstrated beyond doubt.
The transfusion of blood, however, will not
save old men from the grave, but it will
bridge over exhaustion in certain cases and
enable the patient to recover his strength.
Under no circumstances, I may repeat, can
a young man be made out of an old one.
"The great mortality from phthisis, or
consumption, is due to the varying temper
ature and the foul air breathed. It is con
tagious, and healthy persons can contract it.
The sputum, or expectoration, becomes dry
and is converted into a powder which floats
in the air and may be inhaled. The next
ten years will show a great diminution in
deaths from phthisis.
A CUBE FOE CONSUMPTION.
Consumption can be cured. The way to
cure it is to put the patient in the mountain
where the air is dry and keep him way from
the doctor and the apothecary shop. He
does not need medicine. There is too much
medicine used in many kinds of disease.
Certain specifics are es.'ential, but they
should be used with intelligence. Thegreat
trouble comes from the nostrums and adver
tising quacks.
"Insanity, I should say, is increasing, and
the explanation is to he found in the way in
which we live. Men rush to secure millions
when they ought to be satisfied with hun
dreds of thousands. They likewise rush to
spend their money and then worry to meet
their financial engagements. Insanity may
be caused by functional disturbance or by
an organic change. In case ot an organic
change it is doubt ul it insanity is curable.
Dreams do not indicate a physical defect.
They indicate that the dreamer's stomach is
out of order or that he is worried. Dreams
often seem of long duration, but it should be
remembered that thoughts fly so fast that
they cannot be measured. They will travel
over pretty much the entire universe in five
minutes.
KEEPING THE MOUTH SHUT.
"If a person keeps hisimouth shut he will
not snore. If he cannot keep it shut any
other way he ought to tie a bandage under
his chio and over his head. The nose is the
proper thing to breath through. But snor
ing will not do any harm. A person who
appreciates humor and has a good hearty
laugh now and then is the better for it, but
to be eternally giggling and smirking, when
there is no cause lor the risibility, is neither
benencial or interesting. A giggler is a
fool. Crying often affords reliet. If a per
son is suffering from great grief and he is
unable to shed tears, there is decided danger
of trouble in his mind.
"Whether the jovial or the quiet person
is apt to live longest is perhaps a question.
Some people are so solemn that they have
not life enough to die, and keep on earth to
curse everybody they are acquainted with.
It is not the length of time one lives, but
the good he does. Some men could live 100
years and be of no benefit. Others could in
20 years accomplish wonders by their
energy and the proper use of their abilities.
One man may know no fear while another
may be frightened nt his own shadow. It
is a mental affair. The man with a good
healthy stomach is apt to have more cour
age than the man with dyspepsia.
ETEEY MAN SHOULD LOVE.
"Every healthy man ought to love a
woman if he can find one worthy of his
affection. There is a difference between love
and lust. Love is a creation of the mind.
A man must have a mind capable of appre
ciating love, or be has not the capacity for
loving. Disappointment in love is injuri
ous, as great grief or sorrow is always harm
ful." The same day Dr. Fordyce Barker, the
eminent physician, whose practice is among
the wealthiest iamilies in New York, siid
to the writer: "Human life has been
added to 10 or 11 year3 during the past halt
century. The reason people live so much
longer on the average, than they used to is
that there has been a great improvement in
hygienic treatment and in food. People, in
other words, are better led and better cared
for than they were half a century ago. The
longevity of future generations will be still
greater, for not only will the human race be
come hardier, but the ways of living will
continue to grow better.
"The average duration of life varies in
different parts of the world. There are also
periods ot life when disease and death are
more likely. A man's life, in reckoning the
liability to disease, may be counted in
cycles. The greatest mortality is found un
der the age of five years. The individual
liability to death depends, of course, upon
the disease.
CONSUMPTION AND INSANITY.
"The most recent and most valuable dis
coveries in medicine have been the revela
tions as to bacilli. Phthisis or tubercular
consumption is the most frequent cause of
death, as shown by the vital statistics. The
mortality from phthisis is, greater in colder
climates, in New England for instance,
than in Pittsburg or New York, and less in
milder climates. The disease is infectious.
It may be communicated by the expectora
tions of a person afflicted with it. The
reason consumptives almost invariably take
whisky persistently .is on acconnt of the be
lief that it arrests waste, but it is doubtful
if this theory is well founded. The whisky,
however, temporarily overcomes lassitude
and exhaustion.
"Insanity, one of humanity's greatest
afflictions, may be cansed by excesses of
almost any kind. Alcohol is a frequent
cause. Tobacco, to some people, is poison
ous, but there is a great deal of extrava
gance in the language used concerning it. If
gormandizing is a cause of insanity it is a
very indirect one. Paresis is decidedly dif
ferent from paralysis. Paralysis is loss of
power ana sensation, while paresis is loss of
power." H. I. S.
WOMEN'S IDEAS ON TIPS.
Tboy nro Nearly All Liberal hot Sirs. Har
rison Frowns Upon lbs Custom.
New York World.
Women are divided on the subject of
tips. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison is strongly
opposed to the system, and an a feeble effort
towards eradicating the evil never bestows a
tip on a waiter, porter or messenger. Mrs.
Bussell Harrison, on the other hand, is
most generous and has a coiu for every
servant in the railroad car and hotel that
does her a service. Mrs. Cleveland is re
ferred to by the attendants of the Victoria
as most kind, and Mrs. Frank Leslie gives
every bell boy in the Gerlach who answers
her bell a dime.
Miss Frances Willard has a kind word
and a smile for each employe of the road
and the hotel, and servants vie' with one an
other in anticipating her wishes. No pub
lic character has more friends among the
help than Susan B. Anthony. In her red
letter days Anna Dickinson tipped as liber
ally as Colonel Ingersoll. Ellen Terry is a
great believer in the power of prayer, and
in ber tour of America she had the expen
sive habit of giving the chambermaid in
each hotel 5 shillings lor a first-night
prayer. At each city a maid was hired
whose blessing she paid for before going on
the stage.
When Mme. Patti lived in the hotel an
usher sat in the hall outside of her door day
and night, to receive cards, announce vis
itors and give the alarm in case of fire, ac
cident or burglary. Although special ar
rangements were always made with the pro
prietor of the house for his services her fee
on leaving was generally $10. Harriet Hub
bard Ayer's liberality is said to be manly.
Mrs. George M. Pullman travels in her own
private car, generally with' a party of
friends and always with a staff of attend
ants, whose tips take the form of a large
bank bill or a small purse.
Hoi shot for a Senator.
Washington Star.
Pompous Senator To meek and lowly
correspondent: "I can give you no infor
mation on any subject, sir.."
M. and L. G.:-Beg pardon, but hadn't
you better resign and go to school for
awhile.
WBITTEN FOE
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
The story opens at Brynselly. on the Welch coast. Geoffrey Bingham, a very promising
young London barrister, is taking an outing at Brynselly with his little daughter. Erne, and
Lady Honoria, his titled wife. She married him for an expected fortune, which did not material
ize, has little wifely feeling, frets about poverty, and makes her husband generally miserable.
Geoffrey is cut off bv the tide one day, and Beatnc Granger, the charming, beantiful. but some
what eccentric, daughter of the rector of Brvngelly, undertakes to row him ashore. The canoe
upsets, and Geoffrey is knocked senseless. Beatrice rescues bim, and he is taken to the vicarage
to recover. Here Lady Honoria and Geoffrey have several scenes, after which the former bun
dles off to Garsington to visit wealthy relatives, leaving Effie with her papa. Geoffrey and
Beatrice learn to admire each other. 'Squire Owen Davies. honest, stupid and very rich. Is madly
in love with Beatrice. She can scarcely bear his society. Elizabeth. Beatrice's sister, is ambi
tious to become Mrs. Owen Davies. The latter makes up his mind the crisis is at band, and ap
points a meeting with Beatrice. The girl, of course, rejects him. but, touched by his wretched
ness, she gives him the privilege of asking again in a year, though holding out no hope. Eliza
beth, from a hidin" place, sees the meeting. After Beatrice goes she comes to Owen and he tells
her Beatrice has refused him. This is her opportunity and she plots accordingly. On ber way
home Beatrice meets Geoffrey and almost unconsciously confides in him the storv of the meet
ing. A long talk on religion follows. Geoffrey seeming to make some impression upon the pretty
little unbeliever. As time goes on Geoffrey and Beatrice are more and more together. The
brief in a celebrated law case arrives for Geoffrey, and Beatrice helps him with it, displaying
great ingenuity and really putting him on the track that afterward led him to fame. In a mob
collected bv an attempt to distrain a tenant Geoffrey is reported shot. Beatrice is shocked al
most into insensibility by the news. But Geoffrey was not shot it was a false report. everthe
less, the incident served to show each bow far Cupid had gone with them; and before Geoffrey
left they came near to a mutual confession. No sooner has Geoffrey arrived at his London home
than he and Lady Honoria qnarrel about a rich, social lion the latter had fallen in with after her
departure from Bryngeliy. '
CHAPTER XVIL
GEOFFBEY WINS HIS CASE.
Before 10 o'clock on the following morn
ing, having already spent two hours over
his brief, that he had now thoroughly
mastered, Geoffrey was at his chambers,
which he had some difficulty in reaching
owing to the thick fog that still hung over
London, and indeed all England.
To his surprise nothing bad been heard
either of the Attorney General or of Mr.
Candleton. The solicitors were in despair;
but he consoled them by saying that one or
the other was sure to turn up in time, and
that a few words would suffice to explain
the additional light which had been thrown
THE THRILLING
on the oase. He occupied his half hour,
however, in making a few rough notes to
guide him in the altogether improbable
event of his being called on to open, and
then went into court. The case was first on
the list, and there were a good many counel
engaged on the other side. Just as the Judge
took his seat the solicitor, with an expres
sion of dismay, handed Geoffrey a telegram
which had that moment arrived from Mr.
Candleton. It was dated from Calais on
the previous night, and ran: "Am unable
to cross on account of thick fog. You had
better get somebody else n Parsons and
Douse."
"And we haven't got another brief pre
pared," said the agonized solicitor. "What
is more, I can hear nothing of the Attorney
General, and his clerk does not seem to
know wnere he is. We must ask for an ad
journment, Mr. Bingham; you can't manage
the case alone.
"Very well," said Geoffrey, ahd on the
case being called he rose and stated the cir
cumstances to the Comt. But the Court
was crusty. It had got the fog down its
learned throat, and altogether it didn't
seem to see it. Moreover, the other side,
marking its advantage, objected strongly.
The witnesses, brought at great expense,
were there: His Lordship was there, the
jury was there; if this case was not taken
there was no other witn wmch they could
go on, etc
The Court took the same view, and ko
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THE DISPATCH.
tured Geoffrey severely. Every counsel in
a case, the Court remembered, when it was
at the bar, used to be able to open that case
at a moment's notice, and though things
had, it implied, no doubt deteriorated to a
considerable extent since those palmy days,
every counsel ought still to be prepared to
do so on emergency. Of course, however, if
he, Geoffrey, told the Court that he was ab
solutely unprepared to go on with the case,
it would have no option but to grant an ad
journment. "I am perfectly prepared to go on with it,
My Lord," Geoffrey interposed calmly.
"Very well," said the Court in a mollified
tone, "then goon! I have no doubt that
the. learned Attorney General will arrive
presently."
Then, as is not unusual in a probate suit,
SCENE IN COURT.
followed an argument as to who should open
it, the plaintiff or the defendant. Geoffrey
claimed that his right clearly lay with him,
and the opposing connsel raised no great
objection, thinking that they would do well
to leavethe opening in the hands of a rather
inexperienced man, who would very likely
work his side more harm than good. So,
somewhat to the horror of the solicitors,
who thought with longing of the eloquence
of the Attorney General, and the unrivaled
experience and finesse of Mr. Candleton,
Geoffrey was called upon to open the case
for the delendants, propounding the first
will.
He rose without fear or hesitation, and
with but one prayer in his heart, that ho un
timely Attorney General would put in an
appearance. He had got his chance, the
chance (or which many able men have to
wait long years, and he knew it, and meant
to make the most of it. Naturally a brilliant
speaker, Geoffrey was not, as so many good
speakers are, subject to fits of nervousness,
and he was, moreover, thoroughly master of
the case. In five minutes judge, jury, and
counsel were all listening to him with at:en
tion; in ten they were absorbed in the lncid
and succinct statement of the facts which he
was unfolding to them. His ghost theory waa
at first received with a smile, but presently
counsel on the other side ceased to smile and
began to look uneasy. If he could prove
what he said, there was an end ol their ease.
When he had been speaking for about 40
minutes one of the opposing conn-el inter
rupted him with some remark, and at that
moment he noticed that the Attorney Gen-
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