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A STORY OF FANCIFUL ADVENTURE.
WB1TTEN FOB TOT DISrATCU
BY EOBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
Author of "Dr. Jehyll and 3Tr. Hyde," and Other Rotable Worlcs,
Beside Stories and Letters From the
South Seas.
CHAPTER I.
Jli.EE was a nan
of the Island of Ha
waii, whom I shall
call Keawe; for the
truth is, lie still
lives and his name
must be kept secret;
hut the place of his
birth tras not far
from Honaunau,
where the bones of
Keawe the great lie
hidden in a cave.
This man was poor, brave and active; be
could read and write like a schoolmaster;
be -was a first-rate manner besides, sailed
for some time in the island steamer, and
steered a whaleboat on the Hamakuacoast,
At length it came in Keawe's mind to
have a tight or the great world and foreign
cities, and he shipped on a vessel bound to
San Francisco. This is a fine town with a
fine harbor and rich people uncountable and
in particular there is one hill which is cov
ered with palaces. Upon this hill Keawe
"was one day taking a walk with his pocket
full of money, viewing the great housesupon
either hand with pleasure.
"What fine houses there are!" he was
thinking, "and bow happy must these
people be who dwell in them and take no
care for the morro .."
The thought was in his mind when he
came abreast of a house that was smaller
than some others, but all finished and beau
tified like a toy; the steps of that bouse
shone like silver, and the borders of the
garden bloomed like garlands, and the win
dows were bright like diamonds; and
Keawe stopped and wondered at the excel
lence ot all he saw. So stopping, he wsb
aware of a man that looked lorth upon him
through a window so clear that Keawe
could see him as you see a fish in a pool
upon the reef. The man was elderly, with
a bald head and a black beard; and his lace
was heavy with sorrow, and be bitterly
sighed. And the truth of it is that as
Keawe looked in upon the man and the man
looked out upon Keawe, each envied the
other.
All of a sudden the man smiled and
sodded, and beckoned for Keawe to enter,
and met him in the door of the house.
"This is a fine bouse of mine," said the
man, and bitterly sighed. "Would you not
care to view the chambers?"
So he led Keawe all over it from the cellar
to the roof, and there was nothing there that
was not pcrlect of its kind, and Keawe was
astonished.
"Trulv," said Keawe, "this is the beauti
ful house. If I lived in the like of it I
should be laughing all day long; how comes
it then that you should be sighing?"
"There is no reason," said the man, why
vou should not have a house in all points
similar to thisl and finer if you wish,
have tome money, 1 suppose?"
"I have 550." said Keawe, "but a
like this wil cost more than 50."
"The man made a computation.
nrrv vnn have no more." said he.
You
house
"lam
"for it
may raise you trouble in the future, but it
sha"ll be yours at 550."
"The house?" asked Keawe.
"No, not the house," replied the man
" but the bottle. Per I must tell you, al
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though I appear to you so rich and fortu
nate, all my fortune, and this house itself
and its garden, came out of a bottle not
much bigger than a pint. This is it."
Aud he opened a lock-fast place, and took
out a round-bellied bottle with a long neck.
The glass of it was white like milk, with
changing rainbow colors in the grain; with
insides something obscurely moved, like a
shadow and a fire.
"This is thp bottle," said the man; and
when Keawe laughed, "You do not believe
me?" he added. "Try, then, for yourself.
See if you can break it."
So Keawe took the bottle up and dashed
it on the floor till he was weiry. but it
jumped on the floor like a child's ball, and
was not injured.
"This is a strange thing," said Keawe;
"for by the touch of it, as well ns by the
look, the bottle should be of glass."
"Of glass it is," replied the man, sighing
more heavily than ever, "but the glass of
it was tempered in the flames of hell. An
imp lives in it, and that is the shadow we
behold there moving; or so I suppose. If
any man buy this bottle, the imp is at his
command; all that he desires, love, fame,
money, houses like this house, ay, or a city
like this city, all are his at the word uttered.
Napoleon had this bottle, and by it he grew
to be the king of the world, but "he sold it at
last and fell. Captain Cook had this bottle
and by it he found his way to so many
islands, but he, too.sold it and was slain upon
Hawaii. For .once it is sold, the power
goes and the protection, and, unless a "man
remain content with what he has, ill will
befall him."
"And yet you talk of selling it yourself,"
Keawe said.
"I have all I wish and I am growing
elderly," replied the man. "There is one
thing the imp cannot do; he cannot prolong
life, and it would not be fair to conceal from
you there is a drawback to the bottle, for, if
a man die before he sells it, he must burn
in hell forever."
"To be sure, that is a drawback and no
mistake," cried Keawe. "I would not med
dle with the thing. I can do without a
louse, thank God; but there is one thing I
eould not be doing with one particle, and
that is to be damned."
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"Dear me, you must not run away with
things," returned the man. "All you have
to do is to use the power of She imp in mod
eration, and then sell it to someone else as I
do to you, and finish your life in comfort."
"Well, I observe two things," said
Keawe. "AH the time you keep sighing
like a maid in love; that is one. And lor
the other, you sell this bottle very cheap."
"I have told you already why I sigh,"
said the man. "It is because I fear my
health is breaking up; and as yon said
yourself, to die and go to the devil is a pitv
for anyone. As for why I sell so cheap, I
must explain to you there is a peculiarity
about the bottle. Long ago, when the devil
brought it first ubon the earth, it was ex
tremely expensive, and was sold first of all
to Prester John for many millions of
dollars; but it cannot be sold at all, unless
sold at a loss. If you sell it for as
much as you paid for it, back it comes to
you again like a homing pigeon. It follows
that the price has kept falling in these cen
turies, and the bottle is now remarkably
cheap. I bought it myself from one of my
great neighbors on the hill and the price I
The Bottle Followed Him.
paid was lully 590. I could sell it as high
as 5S9.99, but not a penny dearer, or back the
thiog must come to me. 'Sow, about this
there are two bothers. First, when you
offer a bottle so singular for eighty odd dol
lars people suppose you to be jesting. And
second but there is no hurry about that and
I need not go into it. Only remember it
must be coibed money that you sell it for."
"Howamlknow that this is .all true?"
asked Keawe.
"Some of it you can try at once," replied
the man, "Give me your 550, take the bot
tle, and wish your 550 hack into your
pocket. It that does not happen I pledge
vou my word and honor I will cry off the
bargain and restore your money."
"You are not deceiving me?" said Keawe.
The man bound himself with a great oath.
"Well, I will risk that much," said
Keawe, "for that can do no harm." And
he paid over his money to the man, and the
man handed him the bottle: "Imp of the
bottle," said Keawe, "I want my 550 back."
And sure enough, he had scarce said the
word belorc his pocket was as heavy as ever.
"To be sure this is a wonderful bottlel" said
Keawe.
"And now good morning to you. my fine
fellow, and the devil go with you for mel"
said the man.
"Hold on," said Keawe, "I don't want
anv more of this fun. Here, take your bot
tle'back." "You have bought it for less than I paid
for it," replied the man, rubbing his hands.
"It is yours now, and for my part I am only
concerned to see the back of you." And
with that he rang for his Chinese servant
and had Keawe shown out of the house.
Now, when Keawe was in the street with
the bottle under his arm he began to think.
"If all is true about this bottle, I may have
made a losing bargain," thinks he. "But,
perhaps, the" man was only fooling me."
The first thine he aid was to count his
money; the sum was exact, 539 American
money and one Cbile piere. "That looks
like the truth," said Keawe. "Now I will
try another part"
The streets in that part of the city were as
clean as a ship's decks, and though it was
noon there were no passengers. Keawe set
the bottle in the gutter and walked away.
Twice he looked back and there was the
milky, round-bellied bottle where he left it,
A third time he looked back, and turned a
corner; but he had scarce done so when
something knocked upon his elbow, and be
hold 1 it was the long neck sticking up, and
as for the round belly; it was jammca into
the rocket of his pilot coat.
"And that looks like the truth, too," said
Keawr.
The next thing he did was to buy a cork
screw in a shop, and go apart into a secret
place in the fields. And there he tried to
draw the cork, but as often as he put the
screw in, out it came again, and the cork as
whole as ever.
"This is some new sort of cork," said
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'and sweat, for he was afraid of that bottle.
On his way back to the port side he saw a
shop where a man sold shells and clubs from
the wild islands, old heathen deities, old
coined money, pictures from China and
Japauland all manner of things that tailors
bring in their sea cheits. And here he had
an idea. So he went in and offered tbe bot
tle for S100. The man of the shon lanehed
at him at the first, and offered him $5; but
indeed it was a curious bottle, such glass I
was never blows In any human glasswork, J
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so prettily tbe colors shone under the milky
white, and so strangely the shadow hovered
in the midst; so after he had disputed awhile
after the manner of his kind, tbe shopman
gave Keawe CO silver dollars for the thing
and set it on a shelf in tbe midst of his win
dow. "Now," said Keawe, "I have sold that
for CO which I bought for CO, or, to say
truth, a little less, because one of my dollars
was from Chile. Now I shall know the
truth upon another point."
So he went back on board his ship, and
when he opened his chest, there was the
bottle, and bad come more quickly than
himself. Now Keawe had a mate on board
whose name was Iiopaka.
"What ails you," said Lopaka, "that you
stare in your chest?"
Thev were alone in the ship's forecastle,
and Keawe bound him to secrecy and
told all.
"This is a verv strange affair," said Lo
paka, "and I fear you will be in trouble
about this bottle. But there is one point
very clear; that you are'surc of the trouble,
and you had better have the profit in tbe
bargain. Make up your mind what you
want with it, give the order, and if it is done
as you desire I will buy the bottle myself,
for 1 have an idea of my own to get a schoon
er and go trading through the islands."
"That is not my idea," said Keawe; "but
to have a beautiful house and garden on the
Kona coast wbere I was born, the sun shin,
ing in at the door, flowers in the garden,
glass in the windows, pictures on the wallsr
and.toys and fine carpets on the tables, fos
all the world like the house I was in this
day, only a story higher, and with balconiee
all about like tbe king's palace; and to liv
there without care, and make merry with
mv friends and relatives."
"Well," said Lopaka, "let us carry it
back with us to Hawaii, and, if all comes
true, as you suppose, I will bay the bottle,
as I said, and ask a schooner."
Upon that they were agreed, and it was
not long before the ship returned to Hono
lulu, carrying Keawe and Lopaka and the
bottle. Tbey were scarce come ashore when
they met a friend upon the beach, who be
gan at once to condole with Keawe. "I do
not know what I am to be condoled about,"
said Keawe.
"Is it possible you bave not heard?" said
the friend. "Your uncle, that good old man,
is dead, aud your cousin, that beautiful boy,
was drowned at sea."
Keawe was filled with sorrow, and, begin
ning to weep and to lament, be forgot about
the bottle. But Lopaka was thinking to
himself, and presently, when "Keawe's grief
was a little abated, "I have been thinking,"
said Lopaka. "Had not your uncle lands
in Hawaii, in the district of Kau?"
"No," said Keawe, "not in Kau; they are
on tbe mountain side, a little besoutU Ho
fcena."
"These lands trill now be yours?" asked
Lopaka.
"And so they will," said Keawe, and be
gan again to lament for his relatives.
"No," said Lopaka, "do not lament at
present. I have a thought in my mind.
How if this should be the doing of the bot
tle? For here is the place ready for your
house."
"If this be so," cried Keawe, "it is avery
ill way to serve mc by killing my relatives.
But it may be, indeed; for it was in just such
a station that I saw the house with my
mind's eye."
"The lionse, however, is not yet built,"
said Lopaka.
"No; nor like to be!" says Keawe, "for
though my uncle has some coffee and ava
and bananas, it will not be more than will
keep me in comfort; and the rest of that land
is the black lava."
"Let us go to the lawyer," . said Lopaka,
"I have still this idea in my mind."
Now, when they came to the lawyer's, it
appeared Keawe's uncle had grown mon
strous rich in the last days, and there was a
fund of money.
"And here is the money for the house,"
cried Lopaka.
"If you are thinking of a new house,"
said the lawyer, "here is the card of a new
architect, of whom they tell me great
things."
"Better and betterl" cried Lopaka. "Here
is all made plain for us. Let us continue
to obey orders."
So they went to the architect, and he had
drawings of houses on his table.
"You want something out of the way,"
said the architect, "how do you like this?"
and he banded a drawing to Keawe.
Now, wlien Keawe seb eyes on the draw
ing, he cried out aloud, for it was the pic
ture of his thought exactly drawn.
"Jam in for tbis house," thought he.
"Little as I like the way it comes to me, I
am in for it now. and I may as well take the
good along with the eWl."
So ht told tbe architect all that he wished,
and bow he would have that house fur
nished, and about the pictures on the wall,
and the knick knacks on the tables; and
then be asked the man plainly for how
much he would undertake the whole affair.
The architect put many questions, and
took his pen and made a computation; and
when he had done he named tbe very sum
that Keawe had inherited.
Lopaka and Keawe looked at one another
and nodded.
"It is quite clear," thought Keawe. "that
I am to bave this house, whether or no. It
comes from the devil, and I fear I will get
little good by that. And of one thing I am
sure; I will make no more wishes as long as
I have this bottle. But with the house I am
saddled, and I may as well take the good
along with tbe evil."
So he made his terms with tbe archi
tect and they signed a paper; and Keawe
and Lopaka took ship again and sailed to
Australia; for it was concluded between
them they should not interfere at all, but
leave tbe architect and the bottle-imp to
build and to adorn that house at their own
pleasure.
The voyage was a good voyage, only all
the time Keawe was holding in his breath,
for he had sworn be would niter no more
wishes and take no more favors from the
devil; the time was up when they got
back; the architect told them that tbe
house was ready; and Keawe and Lopaka
took a passage in the Hall and went down
Kona ways to view the house and sec if all
had been done fitly according to the thought
that was in Keawe's mind.
To Be Continued JVfcrt Sunday.
GHOTTLS CATCH SMALLPOX.
Grave Robbers or Fern Who Got More Than
They Bargained For.
An incident illustrating the Cholo char
acter occurred a fexr months ago, in the
cemetery at Orequita, Peru, aud is
said to be directly responsible for 1he ter
rible epidemic of smallpox that afterward
carried off its victims at the rate of 200 or
300 a week. A very fat old woman died of
what is known hereabouts as viruala negra
(black smallpox), and her remains were
hurried into the ground without a coffin,
there being none in the limited stock on
hand large enough to accommodate her.
Knowing well the tricks and manners of
their compatriots, the friends left nothing
ofvalne upon her but a plain gold rinc,
which they could not get off from her
swollen finger. Next morning early the
first funeral procession that arrived at tbe
cemetery found the old lady on top of her
grave, black smallpox and all, minus her
wedding ring, the swollen finger that wore
it having been cut off close to the hand.
They returned the corpse with all possible
speed, but for three successive mornings
thefeafter she was found disinterred, having
been resurrected again and again by other
robbers who were not aware tnat the bit of
gold had already been appropriated.
Chauncey Dcpow'a Latest Tarn.
Dr. Chauncey Depew told of a little con
versation he overheard while in the Berk
shire Hills the other day, in the hearing of a
New York Journal man. They were all
gathered in the parlor to help the widow
mourn, when a late-comer, glancing around
the darkened room, said to tbe widows
"Where did you get that new eight-day
clock?!'
"We ain't got no new eight-day clock."
"You ain't? Well, what's that in the
corner?"
"That ain't no eip-ht-dav cloek: thnt'i
him. . We stood him on end to make more
room, 4
THE KINDLY SIMPLES.
Homely Kemedies Set Forth in
Quaint Black-Letler Herbal.
PLANTS IN PITTSBURG'S SUBURBS
That, If Used in lb.8 Right Way, Would
Save Many Doctor Bills. '
YIRTDE OF DOCK, FERN AND FEMEL
rWBITTEN ron Till DISriTCH.l
The most exquisite winter that ever
smiled on New England shores is upon us
this year. Mild, even temperature, 10 be
low frost just enough to freeze the air pure
and CO at midday week after week, with
only weather enough to keep us from
monotony.
It seems to me the moon has been full
ever since the middle of December or about
Thanksgiving; its waning has been so dex
terously timed for nights of cloud and gale.
Then for three days and more we had a
New Year mask of frost, which changed
Middlesex county to Elfland, all the trees
in splendor dressed, of plumy frost and
electric glitter gleam cf ice, in diamond
fringe and aiguilette that mocked tbe ambi
tious pride of Buckingham or Esterhazy.
I could meet Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Astor with entire freedom from envy of
their jewels, for, have I not seen my sward
thicker sown with diamonds, blue, coppery
rose, pale gold and the fine white and
emerald lusters flashing with every breath
that came and went so softly in those won
derful three days?
A Fair'Enong'h World.
Then fell an evening of opal tints, of
subtle delicacy, and a magical moon rise
tbat made mystery and infatuating glamour
of the well-known scene. In the calm, mild
night I sat on the steps out of doors and
went so far into the unreal that I heard SU
Cyprian's bells, which call one to the world
beyond. If there are things like this in the
next world, with no harshness of creatures
to disturb its influence, why should we make
ado about nearing it? It is great good luck,
glad fortune rather to be summoned thither.
Till that comes this world is fair enough
for me, and in the next I wish no better than
such a valley the other side of the moon,
where there are no visitors. Next to that is
a New England winter in a snug house, the
pick of three crood public libraries and days
peacefnl and unmolested as the leisure of the
patriarchs. One could be content to pass
200 or 300 years in this way without asking
change. My summer is all the year, only
half the twelve-month it is within doors.
What Botany Teaches.
"Winter is the time lor study of botany
and plant lore, against tbe breaking of
spring, when one wants to drop books and
be afoot and afield in the sun, with the first
marsh marigolds. This last year or two has
given me a great interest in weeds and wild
things, which I fancy many women readers
would share. When you come to know
what gifts of healiog and use for our cos
metics, our dyes an'd household wantsare
in the rank harvests of ditch and wayside,
above all, when one comes to know their
history and associations, there is nothing
common or unclean in nature any longer.
One gets out of patience with Stanley and
Spefce and the other explorers because they
go so far and see so little. They tell us
merely headlines of fact, such scarehead
type as pigmies, giants, gorillas and gold
mines, whereas a true naturalist could not
journey five miles in a jungle without find
ing more wonders and more gold mines of
use than the corps ot the Geographical So
ciety sends out in ten years. I wish I had
time to tell you all tbat goes on in my
seven by nine grass plot, with its outlook
into clouds and star spaces, its inlook into
plant freaks and the beguiling ways.of birds,
and bees," toads and quail. ' '
Herbs in tho Suburbs.
That is why I prize my little black-letter
herbal with quaint, fascinating lore of
weeds and fruit and flowers. Can't you
womqn, without too much interest in your
lives, manage to rub up some interest in
these homely, natural, kindred things?
Don't say youlive in town and haven't any
chance at nature and plants. If you stndy
herbs you seldom find better material than
in the suburbs of a city.
Such wealth of wayside growth as fringes
the borse car tracks up in Harlem, all heal
eupatorium, melilot and the great dock,
sovereign for hair dressing and complexion
curing, and a score of drugs, whose extracts
and alkaloids you take obediently under
other names from chemist and physician.
Around Boston you find treasure of En
glish herbs and garden flowers old as the
Norman invasion, which have strayed out
and settled by the roadside or taken to the
woods. There is such a bed of tbe precious
white nettle and common nettle, I found by
getting stung for an hour, in Dorchester in
a cul-de-sac of back roads, and didn't my
incomparable housekeeper bring home a
third variety of melilot by adventurous
diving under the fence of a vacant lot by
tbe Academy of Fine Arts with a police
man, and Beven little boys looking on her
as a charming lunatic or a phenomenon be
yond their ken. The farmer down the road
avers that he has seen lovage growing in
Boxbury waysides, where I hope to make
an African exploring expedition to find the
plant.
Along the Monongahela.
Of course, one can buy a root of a nursery
man, but it wouldn't have half the interest
of the plant dug up with one's own hands,
and carried home in a grapo basket, and
would not be so hardy or high flavored
either. When you come to know all that
lovage is capable of, yon will go afield for
it also. Pittsburg has all the woods of the
Monongahela to go bcrb hunting in, and
one can get specimens beforehand from the
old people with their roots and wild medici
nal herbs for sale in the Diamond Square.
All around St. Louis and Louisville you
will find stray plants escaped from German
and French gardens, delicate for cordial or
cosmetic or to "comiort women's greefes,"
as the herbal says. Indianapolis and Phila
delphia suburbs are rich in wild plants,
with which the Indians made wonderlul
cures. Indian herb practice and tbe old
English are curiously parallel in some
things, which goes to prove tbat close ob
servation, whether in monk or medicine
man, arrives at the same conclnsion,
The study of our wild and garden plants
must lead to valuable additions to our food,
condiments and medicines. And a share of
enlightened skill in the latter is a great
saving in health as well ns expense. In or
dinary families an aching cold, a feverish,
bilious attack or sprain is allowed to go with
slight care because one is "not sick enough
to have a doctor," till the disorder gains
proportions to warrant summoning him. A
knowledge of herbs would save the bill.
Uses of Kindly Simples.
When the young lieutenant of the town
guard gets up in the morning with every
bone aching and head ready to burst from
marching in a drizzle the last half of a cam
paign procession, and dreads that his place
in tbe ranks must be vacant to-night in tbe
biggest paradeof all, he ih ready to take the
draught some knowing little woman brews
in her enameled pipkin, and when after it
and an hour's toasting by the fire, he starts
up, grasps his saber and runs off light as a
lark, acnes and snuffles gone, perhaps he
doesn't have a kindly feeling for that woman,
and the enameled porringer, especially as it
doesn't take a 52 bill out of bis slender
young pocketbook to pay for it.
When the girls find their good looks gone
and a tiresome headache increasing just the
evening they want to be brilliant for special
company, it is vastly better to try certain
kind decoctions and fragrant lotions than to
palter with antipyrlne and its dangerous re
actions, or bromide bringing' a rose rash
after it. It is frightful to see the way in
which women dose themselves with new and
dangerous medicines, and not a little of the
nerve and heart failure of the time is to be
.traced to this reckless self-medication...
Dangerous herbs abound, true, but the sim
ple, to use the old-fashioned name, are not
.difficult to learn and use with salety.
Old Herbal Treasures.
Turning the leaves of my herbal, we come
on the pretty old prescription, "To cause
the hair to" grow long, wash the head with
the dew in medows (sie) all the mornings
of March." Going out in the fresh morn
ings of that reviving month would invig
orate one so tbat it would be felt in every
fiber of the body, hair included.
Garden dock we find used to be called
monk's rbubarb.from its medicinal qualities
like those of Turkey rhubarb. The leaves
ofalldocks boiled and eaten are gently
laxative and are a wholesome variety of
"spring greeos."- For gatherings and swell
ings of the head, says our book, pound tbe
green leaves with a little saffron and oil of
roses and apply it rather a rich salve, one
would say. "The root boiled in vinegar or
bruised raw doth heal all skurfes, maunge
and criefes or the skin, being applied."
Tbis last direction is always given, for in
the old time people did not always take
their medicine, but waved it north, south,
cast and west in the name of a patron saint,
and tied it to the head of the bed, tbe faith
cure being as fervently held then as now,
and by the same sort of idiots.
BolUng Meat Tender.
Directions fur pantry physio came not
amiss to onr scribe, fur he notes that what
ever meat is boiled with any kind of dock
will become tender, though it be ever so
old, and the roots either new or dry put into
wine will turn it from white to red. Drink
one dram of tbe root of the garden dock or
monk's rhubarb to purge withal. Kegular
purgations'were formerly a part of religion,
and most people would improve the quality
of their piety by restoring the observance.
For zout seethe leaves of tbe great dock in
May in wine and drink it.
It is singular to come constantly upon
prescriptions for the cure of leprosy, yet
this disease existed in the Shetland Isles no
longer ago than 1843, and it is not unknown
tn-day among the Scandinavians in the
Northwest and the Acadians of the South.
"Leapzy," runs the recipe, "stamp the roots
of sharp red dock and. round dock, their
pith taken out, and boil them with vinegar
and salt butter till the vinegar be con
sumed and use it both for the Impetigo
and Serpigo; or boil the juice ot sharp
leaved dock with swine's grease till tbe
juice is consumed. Then strain it and put
thereto turpentine and quicksilver
modified (the primitive form of mer
cury for medicine), and anoint there
with the morphew, white or black spots
or leapzy." You see that morphew conies
in pretty bad company, and from the same
depravation of the blood, and the remedy is
no trifling one.
Utility of Ferns.
Most experienced women and doctors know
the male fern as a powerful anthelmintic,
but its use is1 not confined to worm medicine.
For inflammations of the skin, says the an
tique monitor, burn the root and apply the
asn with white of egg. For festers and can
kers, which wo politely slur over as rough
ness of the skin, stamp" fern with the roots,
wash "the grietes" with the juice, and ap
ply the dross or refuse as a compress. For
nose bleeding, the roots staunch blood and
heal the wound. For inflamed face, stamp
the root of common fern with milk and use
as a wash. This is avery simple cosmetic
and easily proved.
The next direction is worth the considera
tion of weak-backed, ailing people. Chopa
basketful of fern and seethe it in a bag in
the third part of a tun of water l. e.,
enough for a full bath, and bathe therein to
restore the strength of the sinews. Sores to
heal, apply the powder of the root; the same
healeth tbe galling of the necks of oxen. The
root of the female fern maketh women bar
ren. The powder of brakes doth heal dan
gerous sores, both of men, kine, swine, etc.
Fennel for Fat Folk.
Fennel is another plant of grace, and
pages are devoted to its uses. It is espec
ially prescribed for those who would lose
flesb, and has tbe virtue of Marienbad
obesity pills without the cost. "Leane to
be, seethe the plant in water, strain and
drink it first and last For dropsie, seethe
he seeds in water and use much of it in thy
wine, or use powder oi tbe seeds ot lennel,
anise and peony in thy drinke, or seethe
fennel roots in thy wine. Slender to be,
eat two or three cloves of GarlicK witn as
much bread and butter morne and even,
three hours before and after meat, and
drinke water wherein fennel has been sod
den, morne and even, fourteen days.
"Leane to be, drinke fennel and eat the
seeds daily. Fennel is good for fat men to
open the" veins and inwards. Tbe herb,
seeds and root are very good to open and
comfort the liver, lungs and kidneys. Nor
is it less kindly as an application to the
face. For blemishes of the eyes, bruise
camphor and strain it with juice of fennel
and use it to improve the color of the skin
about the eyes. For heartburn chew crops
oi fennel i. e., tender tops, and suck down
the juice and spit out the rest.
"Eyes dull, make an ointment of the juice
of rue and fennel with honey and anoint
therewith, or chew the seeds and let thy
breath go into thine eyes. To cleanse the
stomach and sharpen the sight eat fennel
seeds, but they must be used as medicine,
not as meat." We read that serpents chew it
to clear their eyes.
Instincts of the Beasts.
Before you sneer at this remember that
whether it is a superstition or not, we have
not a particle of observation or proof against
it, and there is no reason wby snakes should
not eat plants by instinct, as cats do. Men
who lived in thickets gathering plants prob
ably saw more of the habits of wild creat
ures than we do.
It won't do to scoff at things which sound
oddly to our inexperienced ears. The world
has forgotten more than it knows in things
little and great. It was no fool, for instance,
who devised how to boil tbe juice of fennel
between two plates and gather the dew of
the upper one for bathing the eyes. What
is it but a quick and easily distilled spirit
of fennel which "mendeth the eyes greatly."
For dull eyes, eat the seed often fasting a
safermodethan dropping cologne into them.
The seed hath greater virtue than the root.
For heart fainting drink the juice often.
Fennel is good for horses, mixed with mashes
or baked in oatbrcad for them.
If .any mistletoe is left since Christmas,
remember that stamped and applied it
drives awav knots, kernels and swellintrs.
'and mixed with chalk and dregs of wine it
takes away roughness of the nails. With
arnica it cures felons and "naughty sores
which rise in the toes and finger ends." It
is said that the powder of mistletoe of the
oak, pear or hazel, powdered and drank in
wine is good against epilepsy or falling
sickness, but this is a hint thrown ont for
doctors. SniitLET Dake.
A JAP WIFE HUHTEB.
Odd Advertisement lie Inserted In One of
tho Native I'apers.
Here is a translation of au advertisement
found in a Japanese newspaper of recent
date, under the heading, "Wanted a
Wife:"
If she" is pretty she need not be clever.
If she is rich she need not be pretty. If she
is clever, she need not be perfect in form
(provided always that she be not conceited).
Her station in life is no object; neither fs
the remoteness of her place ot abode, whether
in country or town. She ought to be in the
neighborhood of 20 years of age, more or
less, ffhe would-be bridegroam is an artist
of Osaka, occupying a medium position in
society.
EFFECT OF SMOKING.
Welcome Words for Iiovers of the Weed
From the Great Nasibanm.
Tho famous Privy Councillor Nussbaum,
of Munich, gave the opinion shortly before
his recent death that smoking very often did
much good and very seldom did much harm.
Tbe bad feature was the effect upon the eyes
and nervous system. The good one was the
benefit to tbe digestive organs. "The in
spiring,exhilarating and altogether favor
able action of smoking on the brain should
be bighly prized," he said.
.This opinion was remarkable because
.Niusbaum was not a smoker.
THE FOGS OF LONDON.
Fnel Gas Snjfgestedas the Only Way
of Letlins in tho Light
POSSIBILITIES OP MEN FLYING.
A Scientific Explanation tor tha Claj
Eaters of Tortngal.
SWINDLING IN ELECTRIC LIGHTS
IFBSPARID FOB TIIE DISPATCH. ! ,
A proposal. is now under consideration for
the prevention of tbe smoke and fog plague
by which London is from time to time
afflicted. The waste involved in this mis
placement of useful matter is something
prodigious, and it is somewhat surprising
that until now no feasible attempt has been
made to remedy it. A weak idea of what a
London fog is may be gathered from the
following description by a famous London
correspondent:
"Everybody is railing at or sighing over
the fiendish log tbat has kept London in its
grip during the last fortuight; the thick
darkness has reached a climax; the trains as
they pass across the bridges are exact rep
resentations of Mirzah's vision on the hills
above Bagdad, as they emerge from a mys
terious, misty region. The palatial halls
of the West End are utterly deserted. In
one of the largest and best known draper's
shops in the West End, the attendants com
plain that business is at a standstill, and
the season's trade is practically lost. The
flower, confectionery and jewelry trades are
also great sufferers by the fog. It drives
the tradespeople to despair, aud everywhere
only one refrain is repeated: 'The fog is
disastrous, ruinous. The three weeks' fog
has dobe more barm to tbe tradesmen than
a season of industrial depression.' While
the fog lasted many millions of people had
from morning until night to breathe as best
they could an atmosphere that seemed to be
composed of frozen particles of soot and
sulphur.
"Only those who passed the long hours of
the dark day in the midst of the terrible fog
can realize the suffering which it brought
with it. In the rtreets, in the omnibuses,
in the railway carriages, tbe people seemed
to be positively benumbed by tbe dreadful
visitation. Tbey cowered together in speech
less misery. Existence itself was painful.
No wrappings could keep out the fog, and
many hundreds of people were poisoned by
it as certainly as though they had drunk
prussic acid or a solution of arsenic"
The proposed remedy for this frightful
state of things is to turn a large portion of
the coal supply of the Yorkshire, Stafford
shire and South Wales coal fields into gas
and to convey it by pipes to London; wbere
its use will be regulated somewhat after the
same manner as that adopted in Pittsburg
with natural gas. Such an abundant sup
ply of cheap fuel would mean a saving to
the city of over 100.000,000 annually, be
sides transforming tbe city ot smoke and
fog into one of thu healthiest places in the
world.
Solntion of the Flyinc Problem.
Mr. O. Chanute, in an address on
aeronautics, delivered at Cornell University,
gives it as bis opinion that we are nearing
a distinct stage in the progress toward a
practical system of aerial navigation. Mr.
Chanute thinks tbat success with aeroplanes,
if it comes at all, is likely to be promoted
by tbe navigable balloon. It now seems
not improbable that the course of develop
ment will consist first in improvements of
the balloon, so as to enable it to stem the
winds most usually prevailing, and then in
using it to obtain the initial velocity. re-,
quired to floataeroplaoes. Once thestability
of the latter is well demonstrated, perhaps
the gas bag can be dispensed with altogether,
and self-starting, self-landing machines sub
stituted, whicn shall sail taster than any
balloon ever can. If we are to judge of the
future by the past, such improvements are
likely to" be won by successive stages, each
fresh inventor adding something to what
has been accomplished before; but still,
when once a partial success is obtained, it is
likely to attract so much attention that it is
not impossible that Improvements will fol
low each other so rapidly tbat some of the
present generation will yet see men safely
traveling through and ou the air at speeds of
CO or CO utiles per hour.
A Safety Omnibus.
An arrangement for preventing the over
turning of omnibuses and other road
vehicles in case of the breakage of a wheel
or an axle, or of tbe drawing ot an axle box,
was recently put successfully through its
trials. The invention consists of four sup
ports attached to the axle, one being placed
just inside each of the four wheels. Each
support has at the bottom a small solid
wheel or roller, which normally is about an
inch above the road surface. . Upon either
of tbe wheels coming off the support next to
it comes into play, and the vehicle runs
upon the three remaining wheels and one
of the small wheels. In the recent trials an
omnibus fitted with the safety appliances
and having all four wheels loose on the
axles was filled with passengers inside and
out; it was then driven about at good speed
on rough places in the roadway and over
tram rails in zigzag fashion until onn or
more of the wheels came off, when it was
driven back to tbe starting point without
the pace being slackened. A number of
runs were made, all tbe wheels in one in
stance coming off, and tbe omnibus return
ing on the: rollers only. No violent shock
iras experienced on a wheel coming off, nor
was there in'any case serious lurching, even
when on a sidelong slope. It is stated ihat
tne experiments were in every way success
ful, and so far show that the appliance ful
fils its intended purpose.
Steam Crane Excavators.
A steam crane has been constructed for
employment on the Manchester ship canal,
which has done some remarkably good work,
both in hard and in soft material. Tbe ma
chine is an ordinary ten-ton locomotive
crane with au excavator attached to the jib,
the whole being carried on a steel truck,
fitted with wheels. The principal feature
of the excavator is the method by which
the bucket is fed up to its work. This is
done by a .special steam cylinder, which
is bolted " to the arms carrying the
bucket, and by means of which the
bucket can be moved in or out a distance of
two feet as desired. In making a cut, the
Ducket is first lowered to the bottom of the
cutting, and then fed up to its work by the
steam cylinder.the valves of which are con
trolled from the footplate of the machine.
The lifting gear is then applied, and the
bucket is swept ud the face of the cutting by
means of tho lilting gear. In practice en
tire cuttings up to 20 feet deep and 40 feet
wide have been worked by these machines,
the output varying, so the makers state,
from 200 to 300 wagons of 4 cubic yards each
per day of 11 hours. The cost of such ex
cavation and delivery into wagons is said to
be a trifle iess than 2 cents per cubic yard.
The Edlblo Earth. .
Much has been written about the earth
eating tribes of various countries, but it is
not generally known tbat tbe inhabitants of
Penacova, a village in Portugal, have for
generations eaten a varltty of earth found
in the neighborhood. It is said that any of
them leaving home is afflicted with a singu
lar malady with gastric symptoms unless he
be provided with asunply of the earth. The
reason of this is probably tbe presence of
arsenic in tbe earth, which Is known to pro
duce these singular effects upon its habitual
consumers. The fact tbat Dr. Vogel has
found none in it by a cursory examination,
but. on the contrarr. has detected that it con
tains about double theqnantity of nitrogen
liouad.in similar will from the adjacent
fields, lends plausibility to the viewthat the
active substance may be in alkaloid. Tbe
whole question could be easily settled by a
competent chemist, and it is to be hoped that
someone will undertake its investigation.
Frimary Battery Swindles.
A case which recently came into a court
of law in Iowa brought to light another ver
sion of the old tale of the primary battery
swindle. It appeared that the two men
had rented a building in the town where
they proposed to carry on the operations,
and represented that tbey desired to interest
capitalists in a scheme of electric lighting
which was bound to revolutionize modern
methods of illumination. According to the
complainants the defendant said be bad a
battery which cost only a few dollars to
make. When it was filled with proper
chemicals it would run 12 incandescent
lights for seven hours each night, and a
small motor for six hours each day for a
period of seven months, at a cost of 60 cents.
The ostensible scheme was tbat tbe battery
conld be Dut into every house in the coun
try where the owner was able to pay ?00,
and then the company that was to be organ
ized would make'a clear ?80 on eaph one.
The projectors wanted to organiza a stock
company, and for this purpose would place
510,000 worth of stock at 50 cents on tne dol.
lar. A number of exhibitions were made,
which were inspected with great interest. A
dozen incandescent lights, whichillumioed
an apartment, apparently obtained their
current from an ordinary-looking cell in the
exhibition room. Everything seemed fair
and above board, and some of the residents
of the city were so delighted with the sys
tem that they contributed to the capital
stock. They subsequently, however, had
reason to believe tbat the current came not
from the cells which were exhibited, but
from a set of accumulators which had been
located in an ont-of-the-way corner. Tbe
story goes that the storage batteries were
taken from their hiding place in the morn
ing and were charged at an electric light
station. Some of the latter forms of primary
batteries are exhibiting marKed progress,
and on this account it is especially to be de
sired that all fraudulent pretenders in
primary battery work should be promptly
exposed.
Insurance and Electricity.
The prejudice that seems so often to be
carefully worked up against the electric
light on the ground of danger from fire is
found bottomless wherever there is the least
regard for ordinary precaution, as with
every other agent of use to man. Several
thousand bouses in Philadelphia have the
electric light, and the inspector there in his
last annual report states tbat there was not
a single fire or a single dollar lost. Still
more striking is tbe evidence from the elec
tric light companies themselves. Until
about a year ago, fire companies refused to
insure central stations except at ridiculously
exorbitant rates. The station took the mat
ter in hand and formed a mutual company.
The showing is simply magnificent, and the
company is on the most solid basis, while
insurance from outside is now ofleretl them
at the ordinary rates. The mutual com
pany, moreover, is setting a high standard
of construction, so that its losses should tend
steadily to a minimum.
An Improved Castor.
A useful castor of novel form is being
used in England. It is intended to obviate
the difficulties arising from the ordinary
construction of castors, where the roller is
carried on a cranked swivel arm, which is
easily broken off. The center pin of the
roller bearing is fixed in a small plate,
rotating freely round a center pin secured in
the body of the castor. Tbe plate named,
when pushed round into any position, rests
on the base of the cup or disc of the castor
and is thus, while quite free to move in any
direction, thoroughly supported in every
position. It is, in fact, a well supported
universal joint. The castor is a great im
provement on the older type3.
To Circumvent the Sampler.
An effective method of reducing losses
from sampling, and at the same time allow
low goods to be seen by customers, has been
adopted by many leading retail grocers.
Boxes about the height of a barrel and of
similar capacity, are constructed of hard
wood, with a hinged glass cover. The con
tents can be easily seen, owing to the fact
that the covers slope downward from the
back about 30, and can be removed as ex
peditiously as .from an ordinary barrel.
Only the most impudent sampler would
dream of lifting the covers to get at tbe
goods, hence the saving in the course of a
year must amount to a considerable sum in
stores where the business is large.
The Mannfactnre of Old Eace.
A technical journal, in a chapter devoted
to the tricks of various trades, tells how the
ordinary quality of machine-made lace can
be toned up to bear a close resemblance to
the genuine article, and gives the method
by which hundreds of yards are treated
every year. The lace is rinsed in a strong
decoction of Oolong tea which lias been
strained and allowed to become cold. The
lace should not be crushed in a wringer, but
pressed with the bands until partially dry,
then spread on a clean ironing board. The
delicate points are then carefully separated,
so that the pattern may be preserved. When
dry the lace exhibits a tea tint, which lends
the material a tinge of yellowish antiquity.
Iron Production in the United States.
Tbe United States has now become the
greatest iron producing nation of the world,
having produced 9,202,703 gross tonspf pig
iron fn 1890, against about 8,000,000 gross
tons produced in Great Britain, an excess of
about 1,200.000 tons, or 15 per cent. It has
been attained by the most astoundingly
rapid development of a vast industry which
the world has ever seen, our pig iron product
having increased from 4.04 millions in 1885
to 0.20 millions in 1800, an increase of C.16
millions orl28 per cent, during which period
the British product increased only from
7.42 to 8.00 million tons, or about 7.8 per
cent,
Brick Street Pavements.
Brick has been frequently used as a street
pavement, and possesses most dnrable qual
ities. A well-laid brick pavement will last
30 years, and it has been stated on good au
thority that the poorest brick pavement is
better than one of wood. The standard
strength of a good paving brick is put at
the ability to resist a pressure of 6,000
pounds per square inch.
Improved Reflector.
An excellent device for improving the
lighting of churches, puhlic'halls, etc., is a
new "patented opal and silvered double
cone reflector." It is specially designed for
use in churches, halls, theaters, stores, etc,
and is made from 18 to 120 inches in diame
ter and with from 4 to 100 burners.
SEW BTTiT.TAKD GAME.
Chinese Pool tho Latest Fad With Xovers
of the Ivories.
Nevr York 1'ress.J
The new game of billiard pool, or Chinese
pool, is engaging the attention of billiard
experts in all tbe big poolrooms. It is
played differently from the regular game of
pool in that, after breaking tbe bunch of
balls, the pliyer selects any 1 of the 15
balls for his cue ball, directs it against the
white hall and thence carroms it into a
pocket. The white ball, which in other
games is always the cue ball, is thus always
the object ball, except in breaking the
pyramid. The game requires tho utmost
skill of billiards, and also a knowledge of
pool itself.
Its characteristic feature is well illus
trated by a remark I heard a Western mn
make about it while watching a came up
town. "It looks like yon had a pudding,"
.said he, "bat jou shoot and get nothing" .
FUNERALS FOR CASH.
A Penurious Corpse Gels Tery Little
Eespect Down in Peru.
THE. CEMETERY AT AEEQUIPA.
Cadavers Ira Evicted if Their Eenta Irs
Not Fromptljr raid.
A HOUSE FULL OF GRINMXG SKULLS
fCORBESFOIJDZXCE OF TIIE D1SPATCH.1
AEEQ0IPA, Peuu. Jan. 6. Passing
along the street one day our attention was
drawn to the subject of funerals in a forcible
and rather unpleasant manner. With hands
full of roses, wc were musing on the cold
winter weather at home and tbe beauty of
tropic sunshine amid snow-clad mountains,
when we barely escaped being knocked
down and run over by four horses driven
furiously, the foremost one riden by a pos
tilion, tbat came dashing around the corner
attached to a hearse.
About the only thing that goes with speed
in lazy Peru is a funeral procession; and
they claim the right of way, not only in the
street, but on both pavements, invariably
cutting off all corners so closely as to graze
the houses. Considering the fearful jolting
over stones and hollows and broEen places
induced by such locomotion, there is little
danger of being buried in a trance in Are
quipa at least wbere tbe hearse is em
ployed. The poor people, of course, cannot
afford to hire it, but carry the dear departed
on their heads to the cemetery a distanca
of something over three miles from the
central plaza. Most of the latter class can
not even afford a coffin, though the luxury
of a wooden box, painted black, blue or yel
low, may be rented for the journey between
the Cathedral and the place of interment
the same coffin serving the purpose over and
over again, day after day, for years.
Sknll and Cross-Bones In White.
It is not uncommon to meet a company of
men carrying theirdead on a public bier, the
latter being constructed of five narrow pieces
ot wood, about a foot apart, nailed crosswise
to the side poles tbat serve for handle", the
end-boards stained black and showing a
cheerful skull and cross-bones outlined
upon them with white paint.
A few afternoons later we, too, rode out to '
see the cemetery on horseback, accompanied
by a party of resident foreigners for it is
utterly impossible to induce a native, of
high or low degree, to escort any stranger to ,
the Campo Santo; a fact we ceased to won
der at when we had visited the place. Are
quipa's only bnrial ground is situated on a
barren foot-hill, reached, after the city
limits are passed, by an uninhabited road
whose deep sands are alternated by stretches
of loose bowlders. It is a "very small place,
considering that the city is more than three
centuries old, and during all that time has
had a population varying between 20,000
and 50,000. Tbe front of it is quite impos
ing, with high adobe walls and massive iron
gates set in the arches; and just inside is a
well-kept space devoted to flower-beds,
which give no bint of the horrors to be met
with a few steps beyond.
Where Aristocrats Sleep.
In this end aristocrats are buried, in
niches three deep in tbe surrounding walls,
with top and side3 of lava stone six inches
thick and adobe foundation. Most of the
niches have no mark, except a number
rudely painted on the face,, corresponding
to figures placed opposite the tenants' name
in the church "records. Some of them have
a name scratched on the dried mortar with a
lead pencil, and a few have marble slabs
elaborately lettered, setting forth not only
the name and virtues of the deceased, but
also advertising the fact of his or her wealth
and social importance. At the top of these
latter are generally inscribed tbe words
nicho perpetuo, to indicate that the cadaver
will occupy the place "for life," so to
speak.
As grave-robbery is of very common oc
currence not for scientific purposes, as
there is no medical college anywhere near,
but simply to secure whatever of value
may have been buried with the corpse, even
to the boards of its coffin, wood being scares
hereabouts the front of each niche is not
only firmly closed with mortar, but further
guarded by an iron grating.
Near the cemetery gates is a neat little
chapel, and a kind of a receiving vault in
which bodies are placed to await their turn
for interment, when several funerals happen
to arrive at once. Midway between tho
cbapel and the stranger's corner, exactly in
tbe center ot the ground, is a till, circular
edifice of plastered adobe, which looks from
a distance like tbe marble walls of a Greek
temple. A nearer view of this "whited
sepulchre" discloses
An Accumulation of Horrors
sufficient to shaKe the strongest nerves.
Filtecn feet of temple above eight feet of
cellar makes a circular vault 23 feet deep;
and at tbe time of our visit tbis was nearly
half filled with ilnccfflned corpses in all
stages of decay, which had been evicted from
rented graves and pitched into it, to await
the annual cremation time.
Some of the skeletons show considerable
flesh yet clinging to them, and there are long
braids of hair aud glossy tresses, tbat doubt
less loving hands not long n;o caressed.
The wonder grows tbat the air is not so
poisoned by decomposition as to kill the in
habitants of all the surrounding section;
but, though rendered sick to faintness by
the fearful sight, truth compels me to admit'
.that bnt little odor comes from tbe cbarnel
house. This is partly uue to tne lime tnat has
been freely used, and alo, no doubt, to tha
absence ot the blue-bottle fly, and the ace tbat
putrefaction is almost impossible in this para
mountain atmosphere, where carcasses of man
or beast, though left uncovered in tne sun, dry
up and mummify rather than decompose
Prayers for a Price.
As we dismounted a long funeral procession
was just windins through the gates. Tbe cof
fin was first carried into the cbapel and placed
upon a big black dais, while prayers wore said
and incense burned. Then the procession was
re-formed, led by two black-gowned priests.
Kvery few feet In tha distance ot perhaps GOO
yards between tbe chapel and tbe waltinirnicba
in the wall, the pall bearers pnt the coffin on
tbe rronnd and chanted responses to tbe utter
ances of tho priests in a dismal mass; after-'
which water was liberally sprinkled from a tin
bucket upon the coffin, and incidentally upon
those who carried it. We are told that tha
stops thus made between tbe church and tha
grave depend upon tbe affluence of the late la
mented, each stop costius a stated sum for
prayers and responses.
No women followed this favored corpse, nor
are tbey ever seen at South American inter
rapnts.
The day of onr visit must have been a good
one for lunerals; for during the hour we snenc
there, no less tban five of them caine and wenr.
Tbe scond coffin was a plain, unpainted box.
carried ou the shoulders of half a dozen mens
and wc observed that tbis necessitated tbo
service of only one priest, no stops between tha
cbapel and tbe wall, and bat scanty sprinkling
from tbe watering pot.
A SIht That Sickens.
Tbe portion wbere the poor are buried is a
Golgotha, tbat baffles description. Its entire
surface is strewn with bones, scraps of broken
coffin, bits of grave-clotbes, braids of hair. eta.
which have been turned up by the spades of
grave digcers, or dropped by tbose who bear
evicted corpses to the cbarnsl house. v
As many as a dozen new-made graves wera
yawning lor their occupants, and in tbe pile of
earth thrown up beside each one wera skulls
and limbs and bones galore. On top of one beap
I noticed a human trunk, headless and limbless,
and on another a lea witn withered flesb cliog
ing to it, from which the foot bad been cut by
tbe spade. Directly in the path lay sometblns;
so ghastly tbat tbe gentlemen of tbe party
aoickly stepped between it and as. bat too lata
to save onr eyes from a never-to-be-for gotten
sight tbat of a woman's head cat off at tha
neck, with long balr streaminc: all around it,
and the white cotton bandage that bad bound
np the poor jaws still in its place, hardly soiled
by contact with tho eartb.
KAiriaz B. yfxBB.
Worth It
Detroit Free Press.
The Indians at Pine Ridge have had three
square meals a day ever since they came In
and surrendered, and this is more than they
got for three years before. They say it is
worth all the trouble and loss ot life suf
fered in their ranks, and are becoming quita
content.
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