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BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
Author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and Other Rotable Works,
Besides Stories and Letters From the
South Seas.
STNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.
Keawo liTed in the Island of Hawaii. One day lie arrived in San Francisco with $50 in his
pocket. He admired the beautiful nouses, one in particular. Tne owner of this invited him in
and sold him tee magic bottle lor bis 50. This bottle granted iw owner's every wish sare that
of prolonged life, on condition that if the owner died with it in his possession he shoald burn in
hell forever. Keane soon regretted his bargain, but conld not get rid of his bottle. Then, de
c.dins to take the cood alone with the evil, he wished for himself a beautiful house.
CHAPTER H.
Now the house stood on the mountain
side, visible to ships. Above, the forest ran
up into the clouds of rain; below, the black
lava fell in cliffs, where the kings of old lay
buried. A garden bloomed about that house
with every hue of flowers; and there was an
orchard of papaiaon the one hand, and an.
orchard of fruitbrcad on the other; and right
in front, toward the sea, a ship's mast had
been ringed up, and bore a flag. As for the
house, it was three etories high, with great
chambers and broad balconies on each; the
.'windows were of glass so excellent that it
"was zb clear as water and as bright as day;
tall manner of furniture adorned the cham
bers; pictures hung upon the wall in golden
frames; pictures of ships and men fighting,
and of the most beautiful women, and of
singular places; nowhere in the world are
there pictures of so bright a color as those
Seawe found hanging in his house.
As for the knick-knacks, they were ex
traordinary fine; chiming clocks and musical
boxes, little men with nodding heads, books
filled with pictures, weapons from all quar
ters of the world, and the most elegant puz
ties to entertain the leisure of a solitary
man. And as no one would care to live in
such chambers, only to walk through and
"View them, the balconies were made so
broad that a whole town might have lived
upon them in delight; and Keawe knew not
which to prefer, whether the back porch,
-where you get the land breeze, and looked
upon tie orchards and the flowers, or the
front balcony, where you could drink the
wind of the sea, and look down the steep
wall of the mountain, and see the Ball
going by once a week or so, between
Hookena and the Hills of Pele, or the
schooners plying up the coast for wood and
nva and bananas.
"When they had viewed all Keawe and
Lopaka tdt on the porch.
"Well?" aked Lopaka, "Is it all as you
design td?"
"Words cannot utter it," said Keawe.
"It is better than I dreamed, and I am sicki
"with satisfaction."
"There is but one thing to consider," said
Lopaka. "All this m .y be quite natural,
and the bottle-imp have nothing whatever
to say to it. It I were to buy the bottle and
get no schooner after all, I should have put
bt hand in the fire for nothing. I gave
you my word, I know; but yet I think you
would cot grudge me one more proof."
"I have sworn T would take no more fa
vors," saidKeawe. -'"I have gone already
deep enough."
This is no favor I am thinking of," re
plied Lopaka. "It is only to see the imp
himself. There is nothing to be gained by
that, and so nothing to be ashamed of, and
yet if I once saw him, I should be ashamed
of the whole matter. So indulge me so far,
and let me bceAhe imp; and after that, here
is the money in my hand, and I will buy
it"
"There is only one thing that I am afraid
pf," said Keawe. "The imp may beTsry
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Ugly to view; and if you once set eyes upon
Mm, vou might be very undesirous of the
bottle."
"I am a man of my word," said Lopaka.
"And here is the money betwixt us."
"Very well," replied Keawe, "I haTe a
curiosity myself. So come, let us have one
look at you Sir. Imp."
Now as soon as that was said, the imp
looked out of the bottle and in again, swift
es a lizard; and there sat Keawe and Lopaka
turned to stone. The night had quite come
before either found a thought to ssy or voice
to say it with, and then Lopaka pushed the
money over and took the bottle.
"I am a man of my word," said he, "and
bad need to be eo, or I would not touch this
bottle with my foot. Well, I shall get my
schooner and a dollar or two lor my pocket;
and then I will be rid or this devil as fast as
X can. For to tell the plain truth, the look
of him has cast me down."
"Lopaka," said Keawe, "do not think any
worse of me than you can help. I know it
is night, and the roads bad, and the pass by
the tombs an ill place to go by so late; bnt I
declare, since I have seen that little face, I
cannot eat or sleep or pray till it is gone
from me. I will give you a lantern, and a
basket to put the bottle in, and any picture
or fine thing in my house that takes your
1uct; and be cone at once, and go sleep at
Hookena with Nahlnn."
"Keawe," said Lopaka, "many a man
vould take this ill; above all when I am do
ing you a turn so friendly as to keep my
wora and buy the bottle; and for that mat
ter, the nitrht and the dark and the war br
the torn os, must be all tenfold more danger
ous to a man ith such a sin upon nis con
science and such a bottle under his arm.
Hut for my part I am so extremely terrified
myself I have not the heart to blame you.
Here I go then; and I pray God you may
be happy in your house and I fortunate
with my schooner, and both get to heaven in
the end, in spite oi the devil and his bottle."
So Lopaka went down the mountain, and
Keawe stood in his front balcony and list
ened to the clink of the horse's shoes, and
watched the lantern go shining dowtrthe
path, and along the cliff of caves, where the
old dead are buried; and all the time he
trembled and clasped his hands and prayed
for bis friend and gave glory to God that he
himselt was escaped out of that trouble.
But the next day came very brightly, and
that new house of his was so delightiul to
behold that he forgot his terrors. One day
followed another, and Keawe dwelt there in
perpetual joy. He had his place on the back
porch; it was there he ate and lived and
read the stories in the Honolulu newspapers;
but when anyone came by they would go
in and tkw the ibamhers and the picturet-
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And the fame of the house went far and
wide. It was called Ka-Hale-Nui the
Grftt House in all Kona;and sometimes
the Bright House, for Keawe kept a China
man who was all day dusting and furbish
ing, and the glass, and the gilt, and the fine
stuffs, and the pictures shown as bright as
the morning. As for Keawe himselt he
could cot walk in the chambers without
singing, his heart was so enlarged, and
when ships sailed by upon the sea he would
fly his colors on the mast.
So time went by until one div Keawe
went upon a visit as far as Kailua to cer
tain ot his friends. There he was well
feasted; and left as soon as he could the next
morning, and rode hard, for he was impa
tient to behold his beautiful house, and be
sides the night then coming on was the night
in which the dead of old days go abroad in
the sides of Kona; and having already
meddled with the devil, he was the more
chary of meeting with the dead' A little
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Lopaka Pushed the Money Over.
beyond Honaunau, looking far ahead, he
was aware of a woman bathing in the edge
of the sea, and she seemed a well-grown
girl, but he thought no more of it. Then
he saw her white shift flutter as she put It
on, and then her red holoku; and by the
time he came abreast of her she was done
with her toilet, and had come up from the
sea, and stood by the track side in her red
holoku, and she was all fresh with the bath,
and her eyes shone and were kind. Now
Keawe no sooner beheld her than he drew
rein.
"I thought I knew everyone in this conn
try," said be. "How comes it that Tdo not
knowyou?"
"I am Kokua, dauehter of Kiano," said
the eirl, "and I have just returned. from
Oahu. Who are vout"
"I will tell you" who I am in a little," said
Keawe, dismounting from his horse, "but
not now. For I have a thought in my
mind; and if you knew who I waS, you
might have heard of me, and you would not
give me a true answer. But tell me, first of
all, one thing. Are you married?"
At this Kokua laughed out aloud. "It
is you who asks questions," she said. "Are
you married yourself?"
"Indeed, Kokua. I am not," replied
Keawe, "and never thought to be until this
hour. Bnt here is the plain truth: I have
met you here at the roadside, and I saw
your eyes, which are like the stars, and my
heart went to you swift as a Dird. And so
now, if you want none of me, say so, and I
will go to my own place; but if you think
me no worse than any other young man, say
so, too, and I will turn aside to your father's
for the night and to-morrow I will talk with
the good man."
Kokua said never a word, hut she looked
at the sea and laughed.
"Kokua," said Keawe, "if you say noth
ing, I will take that for the good answer; so
let us be stepping to your father's door."
She went on ahead of him still without
speech; only sometimes she glanced back,
and glanced away again; and she kept the
strings of her hat in her mouth.
Now.when they had come to the door,
Kiano came out in his veranda, and cried
out and welcomed Keawe by name. At
that the girl looked over, for the'fame of the
great house had come to her ears; and to be
sure, it was a great temptation. All that
evening tllPV WfrA VarV mnwv tnrratl...-. anrl
the girl was as bold as brass under the eyes
ui uti parents, una maae a mariEol Ja.es we,
for she had a quick wit The next day he
had a word with. Kiano, and found the girl
alone.
"Kokua," said he, "you made BTnark of
rue nil sni:n. -nA .f :. ..:n ; - vij ..
go. I would not tell you who I was because
I have so fine a house, and I feared you
would think too much of that house and too
little of the man that loves you. Now you
know all; and if you wish to have seen the
list of me say so at once."
"Ho," said Kokua. But this time she did
not laugh, nor did Keawe ask tot more.
This was the wooing of Keawe; things had
lam Kokua.
gone quickly; but so an arrow goes, and the
ball of a rifle swifter still, and ret both may
strike the target Things had eone fast, b
ut
Ihs m rt fA f 1 i .. .. '.' .
. uu iu, mr also, ana tne nought
of
i" . . , u5 la "" maiden's head,
hMM nil Tniltft in ih. l. .-t. - A1--
she
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upon the lava, and for this young man that
she had seen but twice she would have left
father and mother and her native island.
At for Keawe himself. hi hone
surf
fle op Jat path of the mountain under
me cim oi tomos, and the sound of the
hoofs, and the sound of Keawe singing to
himself for pleasure, echoed in the caverns
of the dead. He came to theBright-Houae,
and still he was singing. He sat and ate in
the broad balcony, and the Chinaman
wondered at his master, to hear bow he sung
between the mouthfols. The sun went down
Into the lea, and the nightcame; and Keawe
.-. - ... wvvua uj IKUipilgul, Ultfu vu
the mountain, and the voice of bis singing
uruia Bieu on amps.
"Here lam now upon my high place,"
he said to himself. "Life may be no better;
'this is the mountain top; and' all shelves
about me toward the worse. For the first
time I will, light up the chambers, anil
bathe in my' fine bath with the hot water
and the cold, and sleep above in the bed of
my bridal chamber." So the Chinaman had
word, and he must rise from sleep nnd light
the furnaces; and as be walked below beside
the "boilers he heard his master sidging and
rejoicing above him "bv the lighted
chambers. When the waler began to
be hot, the Chinaman crjed to his
master; and Keawe went into the
bathroom; and the Chinaman heard him
sing as he filled the marbleliasln; and heard
bim sing, and the singing broken, as be un
dressed; until of a Budden the song ceased.
The Chinaman listened and listened; he
called up the house to Keawe,-to ask if all
were well, and Keawe answered him "Ses,"
and bade him go to bed; bnt there was no
more singing in the Bright House; and all
nightlong the Chinaman heard his master's
feet go round and round the balconies with
out repose.
How the truth ot it was this: As Keawe
undressed for his bath, he spied upon his
flesh a patch like a patch of lichen on a
rock, and it was then that he stopped Bing
ing. For he knew the likeness of that
patch, and knew he was fallen' in the lep
rosy. How It is a sad thing for any man to fall
Into this sickness. And it would be a sad
thing for anyone to leave a house so beauti
fied and so comodious, and depart from all
his friends to the north coast of Molokai, be
tween the mighty cliff and the sea-breakers.
But what was that to the case of the mau
Keawe? he who had met his love but yester
day, and won her but that morning, and
now. saw all his hopes break in a moment
like a piece of glass?
Awhile he sat upon the edge of the bathj
then sprang with a cry and ran outside, ana
to and fro and to and lro, along the balcony,
like one despairing.
"Very willingly could I leave Hawaii,
the home of my fathers," Keawe was think
ing. "Very lightly could I leave my house,
the high-placed, the many-windowed, here
upon the mountains. Yery bravely could I
go to M olokai, to Kalaupapa by the cliffs,
to live with the smitten and to sleep there,
far from my fathers. But what wrong have
I done, what sin lies upon my soul, that I
should have encountered Kokua coming
cool from the sea water in the evening, Ko
kua tbe soul ensnarer, Kokua the light ot
my life? Her may I never wed, her may I
look upon no longer, her may I no more
handle with my loving hand. And it is for
this it is for you, O, Kokua, that I pour
my lamentations!"
Thereupon he called to mind it was the
next day the Sail went by on her return to
Honolulu. "There mutt I go first," he
thought, "and see Lopaka. For the best
hope that I have now is to find that same
bottle I was so pleased to be rid of."
How you are to observe what kind of a
man Keawe was; for he might have dwelt
there in the Bright House for yearsand no
one been the wiser of his sickness; 'but he
recked nothing of that if he must lose
Kokua. And again he might have wed
Kokua even as he was; and so many wonld
have done, because they have the souls of
pigs; but Keawe loved the maid manfully,
and he would do her no hurt and bring her
in no danger.
A little beyond the midst or the night
came in his mind the recollection of that
bottle. He went round to the back porch,
and called to memory the day when the
devil had looked forth, and at the thought
ice ran in his veins.
"A dreadful thing is the bottle," thought
Keawe, "and dreadful ir the imp, and it is
a dreadful thing to risk the flames of hell.
But what other hope have I to cure my sick
ness or to wed Kokua? Whatl" he thought,
"would I beard the devil once only to get
me a house and not face him again to win
Kokua?"
I To fie continued nezt wiefc .
A PLAGUE 0? LOCUSTS.
Action Taken to Deitroj the Young Before
They Take Winers.
Pall Mill Budget 1
In order to check, if possible, the annual
plague of- locusts that devour the herbage
and blast the hopes of graziers, farmers and
fruit growers to a greater or less extent in
December, the Victorian Government pro
claimed the 7th and 8th of Horember as
holiday for the scholars and schoolmasters
in the rural districts', in order that they
might co-operate with the settlers in destroy
ing the young locusts in the early stage of
their development before they had been
equipped with wings enabling them to take
flight over the country to begin their work
of devastation.
With this end in ylew, preparations were
made in numerous parts of the interior to
destroy the pest in various ways, such as by
beating with branches the beds in the fields
where the as yet wingless creatures were
known to exist, or harrowing the ground, or
turning flocks of sheep upon the land and
moving them rapidly about so as to tread
upon and kill or injure the young brood",
and also by spreading straw over tbe plagne
spots and setting fire to it, Becently the re
ports came that tbe creatures massed them
selves so thickly along some of tbe lines of
railways that although the brakes
were shut down the trains could not be
brought to a stand until they had gone half
a mile beyond the stations, owing to the
multitudes crushed beneath tbe wheels caus
ing the trains to pass along as if the rails
were covered with oil. The wheels actually
slid along the rails. In many of the northern
towns the inhabitants- bad to close their
doors to keep out tbe invading hosts. The
plague has now fairly begun work, writes a
correspondent of a contemporary, under date
of December 9. In the southern parts of
Hew South Wales and some of the.northern
portions of Victoria the outlook is ominous.
KGEHUTCY OF THE BED MAJT.
The Ban Carlos Apaches Invented the
Center-Fire Cartridge.
Ban Fr&nclioo Call.
C H. Busiell, an old resident of Arizona,
was at the Palace yesterday. In speaking
of the trouble among the Indians he asserted
that in his opinion the most intelligent, and
at the same time the most cunning of the
Western savages are the San Carlos
Apaches. To them, according to Mr. Bus
sell, is due tbe invention of the center-fire
cartridge. v
"During the outbreak some eight or nine
years ago," he continued, "their arms were
all Winchester rifles of the rim-fire pattern,
and they soon exhausted their supply of
cartridges. They had plenty of powder,
bullets and percussion caps, but they were
not available for breech-loading guns. The
cunning rascals had saved their brass shells,
and, with surprising ingenuity, they altered
the hammers of their guns, drilled boles
through the center of the shells for the caps,
loaded them, and used them during the rest
of the war. It was discovered when they
were captured. They were, I believe, the
first;of the kind in use."
- italics in WBimra
A Scotch Professor Ont With ut Apology
for Their Use. n
Writers who have a weakness for italics
will be glad to have the supporibf so emi
nent an authority as Prof.' WllUais lilnto, of
Aberdeen. Scotland, for their use. Prof.
Minto says in thtlChautauquaii for -March:
"The employment of italic is an attempt
to make up for emphasis of spoken lan
guage, but italics are generally condemned
as' vulgar. 71 confess I can see no reason
why difference of type should not be used to
guide the reader's attention, except that it
fives more Irouble-fc'prlnters, and might
,aoourage careless "persons in slovenly con
struction." r
.Xha Hainan Body Is Hot.
A writer on physiology asserts that the
human body generates enough -heat during
the day to melt 44 pouaeaof ice and raise it
to the boiling, point.' Probably the pro
fessor would get even more startling results If
be would experiment with a Pittsburg citi
zen the day he gets his natural gaaJjilL
SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.
An Explanation of the Fact That So
Many "Irish Immigranta
ABE HOT YERY WELL EDUCATED.
Facilities for Learning Offered tha Chil
dren of Peasants.
A OSE-SIDED GOTEENMEKT POLIOX
i warncr ros tux sismtcs.
Apart from the land question there is no
other in which the Irish people are more in
terested at present than that of education.
This has always been a difficult problem
for the people of that unfortunate country
to solve, and they are apparently as near
the point of solution to-day as they were BO
years ago. Discrimination by the Ehglish
Government in favor of Protestant schools
has done more to engender religious preju
dices there than anything else.
The American people wonder, and justly
too, why it is that Ireland that boasts of so
many schools and colleges, sojmany Bishops
and priests whose fame In science, art and
literature has reached to the utmost ends of
the civilized world, should year after year
send away from its snores so many hundreds
of poorly educated people to seek new homes
in a foreign country. To scan the statistics
of Irish emigration for the past 25 years no
one unacquainted with the country would
suppose that it was a fit place to live in. To
meet some of these unhappy people on their
arrival here and converse with them, one
would naturally suppose that a schoolhonse
was an unknown quantity in the land they
came from.
Great Institutions of Learning
It would be difficult to suppose the exist
ence of Trinity College in Dublin, or the
Catholic University in the samecity. How
much more burdensome to the imagination
wonld it be to picture a college in Belfast
known as the Queen's College, as well as
similar institutions bearing the same name
in Gal way and .Cork; not to mention hun
dreds of smaller but equally as good col
leges in every diocese In the land. There
are few colleges in America that compare
favorably with Trinity College, Dublin, or
any of the other colleges just mentioned.
And still the quality of the immigration
every year to this conntry from that little
green isle does not speak well for those who
have charge of educational matters there.
It must not be forgotten that the people
who are forced to leave Ireland belong to
the poorer classes, and when it la seen how
these people are reared, and what privations
they are compelled to endnre to make ends
meet, it would not be wondered at that they
are so sparingly educated; but rather the
wonder would be how they re even able to
read and write.
Schools for the Poor.
When the children of poor Irish parents
are able to articulate distinctly enough to be
understood outside the family circle, they
are sent to the parish school. These schools,
it might be observed here, are not what are
known in America as parochial schools,
though to a certain extent they are under
the care and inspection of the priest in
charge of the parish. They are called na
tional schools, and are open to Catholics and
non-Catholics alike. For the most part,
however, there are schools for both denom
inations in each parish.
The priest in charge of the parish has the
privilege of selecting his own principal or
"master," as he is called there, and the
"master in turn appoints his own assist
ants. These teachers, to hold their posi
tions, must pass satisfactory examinations
every six months before a district examin
ing board whose members are appointed by
tbe National Board of Education. Should
they Fail to come up to the standard re
quired the parish priest is notified, and he
appoints others in their places. In schools
where boys and girls are gathered together
the teacher in charge is usually a male
teacher. But it is Customary to have
separate rooms for the boys and the same for
tbe girls, in charge of teachers of their own
sex.
Only a l"ew Tears of School.
The children are Bent to school very
young, as that is the only time their parents
can ordinarily spare them. Of course there
are many children who get an excellent edu
cation, but it is of those who get but a smat
tering of education that this artiele will
treat The children whose parents are poor
can get but two or three years at most at
school before they are taken away to help
their father on the farm or herd some more
wealthy neighbor's cattle. His parents' cir
cumstances demand his services, even though
he gets but two shillings a week. The rent
must be paid twice a year; the house must
be kept up and all the other incidental ex
penses connected with a home met; and to
do this on two or three acres of land all the
members of the family must be willing to
help.
If the average Irish boy had to depend on
the day schools to teach him how to read and
write he would in many cases be a stranger
to the English language. In the majority
of parishes these schools are open during
the winter evenings, when the attendance in
many instances exceeds that of the day
school. In those parishes where no even
ing instruction is given in the schools the
heads ot families in the parish arrange to
have a teacher, go from house to house after
sundown to give Instruction in "reading,
'riting and 'rithmetic."
A Sort of Traveling; School.
The pupils are notified each night where
"school will be held" the following night,
and the teacher insists upon all the boys
meeting. He carries his own blackboard,
maps and the like with him, and he ex
plains the "rule of three" oftener by a
charred etick upon A white wall than by
means of chalk on a blackboard. The resin
candles of years past that threw but very
little light beyond the hearthstone have
given way to Oil lamps, though in a good
many places to this day the resin candle,
with its spitting habit, Is still as essential as
the three-legged "creepy."
Many a representative man in Ireland to
day owes his elementary education to the
night schools of his earlier days. Father
Tom Burke, whose name will live in history
as long as history lives, once told the writer
when discussing educational topics that he
first got his insatiable thirst for learning
from attending night schools in an old Irish
cabin. The ltte Bishop of Kerry, Bt. Key.
Daniel McCarthy, was once heard to say
that the boy who attended night school and
persevered would some day make his mark
in the world.
Bishop McCarthy's Example..
Bishop McCarthy, when a hoy, attended
night should whenever he could, and it was
then that he first made up his mind to do his
part Night after night he walked to the
"night school house." The example he saw
there sharpened his ambition, and how well
he succeeded is well known. He studied
for the priesthood, became Professor ot
Classics, Scripture and Theology in May
nooth College, was made Vice President and
afterward President of the same college, and
finally made a Bishop of Kerry, the diocese
where he was born. The late Archbishop
McGettigan, of Armagh, who was also Pri
mate of Ireland, was another of Ireland's
sons who burned many resin candle to good
advantage.
The national schools are very good in
stitutions in their way, but are very inferior
to the American public schools. In the first
place they are not free schools; each pupil
must contribute from 1 to 6 pennies each
week, according to the grade he is in, to the
teacher. When there are more than four
children to a family, as is often the case, the
teacher's tees alone amount to a considerable
siim for a poor man to meet Besides, books
and the like must be purchased, all of which
loot up a handsome sum for' a poor Irish
farmer at the end of the year.
The Average Curriculum. t
The studies are for the most part care folly
compiledwhat there is of them, bat tier are
not broad enough. History is aot taught at all-
in these schools, and almost everything per
taining to a noted Irishman of the past Is
carefully eliminated from tbe school books
which areprepared and famished the
teachers bylhe Government officials at naif
price. Irish history is unknown so far as
being taught in the schools is concerned, and
verr rarely are examinations held there.
Tne district inspector visits the schools
once a year, but remains merely a few min
"utes to note the average attendance of pu
pils, on which he bases the teacher's salary.
So it is seen that the teachers receive a sal
ary from the Government as well as from
the people. But the Government stipend is
usually very small. It might be noted here
that the Government does not furnish the
coal to heat the schools, the children being
obliged to contribute the money themselves
or go without afire. Each child is assessed
a certain sum with which to purchase fuel,
but in a good many cases the parents are
not able to pay the assessment
Tarf in Place of Cash.
In such cases the school teacher never
tries to collect the assessment, but contents
himself with accepting the next best thing,
which comes in the shape of "a couple of
turf." It is not an uncommon sight to-day
in Ireland to see little ones going to school
with their books under one arm and a turf
under the other. As turf is the fuel used by
the Irish people for the most partt such con
tributions come lighter on the heads ot the
household than an assessment of 2 or 3 shill
ings. The national school course is very limited,
.very few teaching mathematics, geometry or
history. Tbe Government confines itself to
spending large sums of money every year
on three or four Queen's colleges, whose aims
are to make as good doctors as the world can
produce, while half of the money Bpent upon
them, if spread among the poor national
schools, would do a great deal more good.
The Irish Catholic pays taxes every year,
and the Government which collects these
taxes sees fit to endow three or lour Protes
tant colleges out of the general fund, but
positively refuse to give 1 cent toward the
Catholic colleges for the education of their
students. The question of education in
Ireland promises to give the English Gov
ernment almost as much trouble as tbe land
question and when the latter is settled the
former will take its place in legislative halls.
J. H. LEOKABD.
PITTSBUBG'S BUMMEB BESOBX.
First Ball of the Season at Atlantlo City and
the Improvements.
The first dance of the season at Atlantic
City was given on the evening of February
7, at the Seaside House, under the auspices
of Charles Evans. It was held in the
parlors of the hotel, which were specially
decorated for the occasion. The invitations
extended were generally accepted, and the
assemblage was a brilliant one. Some of
the gowns worn were elaborate, and there
was a liberal display of diamonds.
The impulse of the increasing number of
visitors is felt at the Inlet , A number of
yachting parties were made up at tbe vari
ous hotels and enjoyed sailing, although
there was but a limited number of days
during the week suitable for such di
versions. The contemplated improvements at the
Inlet by the railroads are of an extensive
character. Plans have been submitted that
will enlarge the present pavilions, and ar
rangements made to make it an evening
resort, with music in attendance. The
yachtmen's wharf, that was so much dam
aged by the late storm, is being rehabili
tated and extended. All through this dis
trict improvements are; contemplated.
THEPB1VATE DIHNEB.
All the Trappings of the Restaurant Are
v Being Disposed Of.
Sew Jfork limes.
There is a growing feeling that in just so
far at a meal in a private house can differ
from restaurant and hotel affairs of a simi
lar nature in that ratio is the proper fash
ionable effect obtained. Menu cards have
received their death blow, temporarily at
least, although even the high-class caterers
are relinquishing them reluctantly. Their
value to this class as a medium of decora
tion and effective display is too great to ad
mit of a quick resignation. .
Crumb scrapers, even of silver and gold,
are no longer in vogue, a folded napkin
doing duty in their place, although this can
hardly be put down as a non-restaurant
practfee. In many fashionable establish
ments the waiter's tray is also on the shelf,
literally and figuratively. In lieu of it a
napkin folded square in the palm of the
hand secure? the- untouched plate to each
cover. There is an especial significance in
this method. It lakes the most skillfully
trained and expert of assistants to accom
plish successfully fhishand serving.. Carafes
are absolutely unknown on well-regulated
tables.
WHAT BEBKHABST DOESH'I WEAB.
She Doesn't Need the Corset and Won't
Have nigh-Heeled Bhoea,
Philadelphia Press.)
It did not seem requisite that Mme. Bern
hardt should wear corsets with her loose
fitting gowns, and being curious on the sub
ject, X plied her with my impertinent ques
tion. "Mais, nonl" she answered. "Of course,
I do not wear corsets, and never have in all
my life. " Nor do I wear high-heeled hoots."
And so saying, she raised her foot, and
quick as a flash snatched off her pretty
brown slipper to prove what she 'had said.
I had an opportunity to notice-that not only
was the heel low, unusually low for a
French made chaussure, but the slipper was
one of the smallest I had ever seen a grown
woman wear.
A CUEIOUS OLD PUMP.
Water Balsed by a Donkey In a Wheel Like
That ot a buairrel's Cage.
Chamber-' Journal.
Those who have visited the fine old ruin
of Carisbrooke Castle, in the Isle of Wight,
will remember that there is a well there
which still yields a good supply of fresh
water, which is drawn up from a depth of
300 feet by a very curious method. The
cord from the bucket passes over a barrel
like that of an ordinary windlass, but this
barrel ends in an enormous hollow wooden
wheel, in which an obedient donkey is led
when water is required. The animal steps
alongside tbe wheel, like a squirrel in its
circular cage, and the bucket quickly rises
to the surface.
WAB 07 TBS CABNIVAL
Peruvians Pelt Kach Other With Eggs JTllled
With Scented Water,
The merry season of carnival is prepared
for by all Peruvians several weeks in ad
vance of the eventful period. The cook
saves all eggshells whole, Jay blowing their
contents out for culinary purposes, and then
fills them with scented water.
In many families bushels of these are laid
away for carnival warfare, and a thriving
trade is worked up each year by manufact
urers and venders of these missiles thrown
in the three days grven'overtothe sports and
licence of the season.
Depewfor Bill's Place.
New York Press.
I hear the 'name of Chauncey M. Depew
mentioned more and. more frequently" as
New York politicians begin to talk about
this fall's campaign and Invariably Bepub
licacs who speak of him say that if be
would accept tbe gubernatorial nomination
it would be proffered to him by acclamation.
I have not yet heard a single Bepnblican
make opposition to this proposition. The
Governorship has been a road to the Presi
deney'before, and it might be again.
What Sentiment Will Do.
Boston Gizette.1
k Ayouttfof Vanity irair,,wJao aust'go
in" lor sentiment, hat bought the oab in
which he successfully proposed marriage to
f-O JVHBK WtflHaB WW Wit W1IM MUWU.
TOBACCO OF INDIA.
Processes JThfongh Which the Leaves
Go From Seed to Cigar.
PEOPLE USUALLY EAT TOO MUCH.
Apparatus by Which the Burglar h Photo
v graphed at His" Work.
P0I5TS OS PEESEBYATI0N OP MEAT
irsKPAsiD ros thz dispatch, i
A large quantity of the world's supply of
tobacco Is grown in Dutch India, where
much of the cultivation is carried on by
Malay and Battak labor. During the months
of Pebrnary, March and April the fields are
prepared and the seed is planted. In May
and June light rains nourish the young
plant, but seldom fall during July and Au
gust The crop is gathered before the heavy
rains begin in November. After the forest
has been cleared away in December and
January, with ax and fire, a nursery bed is
sown every eight days. If rain falls,- the
shoots are planted out 40 days after the first
showing, but if not the nursery is destroyed
and new seed sown. Then follows weeding
out, and light plowing in due course.
Sometimes the leaves are ripe for harvest
ing 60 days after their second plowing,
sometimes it is four months before they as-'
sume the yellow parchment color which in
dicates that they have reached maturity.
They are then cut by the coolies and hung
in bunches of ten in the sheds, where they
are inspected by the "European planter and
accepted at values ranging from 8 to $10
per 1,000, according to quality. The coolie
leaves them for 25 days to dry, after which
he gathers them' in bundle's into rattan
baskets, wherein they are allowed to remain
and ferment until tbe end of the season in
October. The famous Sumatra tobacco owes
much of its excellence to the extreme care
which is expended on its curing, assembling
and sorting.
It is somewhat strange that the various
leaves from the same plantation will often go
to entirely different markets. For instance,
the favorite in the American market is the
tobacco from well-developed plants, with
fine, silky, supple oily leaves, coloring by
fermentation to a rich, brown. This tobacco
is grown on argilaceous soils, has an abund
ance of silex, and bears great resemblance to
the Cuba product German purchasers,
on the contrary, prefer the liebt-colored
numbers from the plant, grown on sandy
soil usually, which has foliage crisp, dry
and rough to the touch.
Meat Preservation.
The preservation of meat has come to be
an important industry, to which new
methods are constantly being applied.
Nearly all the newer methods of preparing
preserved meats have, however, been dis
carded for the older methods of boiling,
drying, salting and smoking, which together
with freezing preserve the taste and digest
ibility of meats better than any of the moro
recent chemical modes. It is found, as the
result of experiments on a large number of
food materials, such as ham, pork, bacon,
various kinds of sausage and fish, that most
meats are salted not only to preserve the
taste, but also to withdraw a large propor
tion of the water from the flesh; that smok
ing has very much the same effect; that
it hides the salty taste, and being able to
penetrate dried flesh, its anti-putrefactive
action is rendered more efficient One
advantage of smoke is that It acts not
only by drying, the heat at which it is gen
erated producing this effect, but also by the
action of small quanlties of the antifer
mentative constituents, such as creosote,
carbolic acid, and even volatile oils, which
appear to have a direct influence on the vi
tality of putrefactive organisms.
Salted lean meat, exposed" to tbe action of
smoke at from 22 to 25 C. for 48 hours ho
longer contained liquefying organisms,
which had been present in considerable num
bers before the smoking, but non-liquefying
organisms disappeared only on tbe ninth
day of smoking. Bacon salted for ten days,
and then exposed to the action of smoking
for 48 hours, also showed no liquefying
organisms. Bacon salted tor five weeks con
tained no organisms alter seven days' smok
ing. Pish may be preserved for a short
time by smoking only, but it could not be
kept permanently. Ham and larger saus
ages require a longer period of smoking
than do similar artioles of diet
The Laws of life.
The majority of people eat about a third
too much. The average American really
dines three times a day, with his beefsteak
breakfast, chops for lunch, and roast beef at
his 6 o'clock dinner. And he does it at his
peril, for this habit of overfeeding, espe
cially of eating so much meat, is one of the
provoking causes of so many sudden ill
nesses and so many premature deaths.
Three meals a day of hearty food is exhaust
ing to all the vital processes, and even the
strongest succumb finally to this "wasteful
and ridiculous excess." Americans are a
nation of brain workers, and cannot safely
indulge in high living. High-thinking, or
constant use of the brain in any direction,
calls for a plain but nourishing diet Brain
workers especially ought to live sparingly.
Luxurious feeders require much exercise in
t;he open air and freedom from the pressure
on the brain.
For the aged, or even for those above CO,
luxurious living and over-eating are
especially dangerous. As functional activ
ity lessens with increasing years, the sup
ply of food should, be decreased accordingly.
The hardiest races live on the simplest fare.
Frugality in diet, i. e., a minimum amount
of the right quality, serves far more cer
tainly to prolong life, insure health and
well-being, than a rich abundance and
variety, which is accountable in a large
measure for the ill-health and dissatisfac
tion of the present time.
The Burglar at a Discount
The burglar has fallen on evil days.
What between electricity, which turns
night into day and in other ways fulfills the
duty of a city full of policemen, and pho
tography, which disseminates the features
of the convict far and wide, the times are
not auspicious for the midnight thief.
When these two of his natural enemies,
however, combine against him he may as
well retire from the "profession." A citi
xen of Toledo, O., is accredited with an in
vention by which an instantaneous photo-
graph of an incoming burglar can be made
by the flash-light camera, that has been
previously set and focussed toward the door
in such a way as to take in the entire
figure of the intruder. The essential feat
ures of the device are a camera, using the
universally available dry plate and a flash
light arrangement, in which is provided
mechanism to strike a match that ignites
the flash powder. Simultaneously with the
flash a pivoted spring shutter is moved so
as to cause an instant exposure on, the sensi
tive plate, and the work is done. As the
burglar opens tbe door and steps on a pre
pared matan instant electrical connection is
made and a lively greeting rings out from
the alarm bells. The burglar may retreat as
hastily as he pleases, but the photo-flash
light has been too quick for him, and his
image is left behind for the subsequent edi
fication of the members of the household
and the study of the police bureau.
. .
Tha Newest Advertisement.
One is apt to think that the world has
"been pretty well ransacked for advertising
schemes, and that the supply it liable to
run out "Experience proves, however; that
the mind T)f the inventor ll .practically inex
haustible, and breaks out .into perennial
exhibition of its rfttonrae." One' of these
it the saw toy sua fir posting advertlse-
matf.vTM skb is eir.seeMs
vertfslng arrows Into trees, fences, buildings
or any inanimate objects. The arrow is
feathered with light cardboard ot various
colors bearing in large type any desired in
scription. Two sections of the cardboard
and the resultant angles are embraced by a
cross slit kerf, the rear of the stick being
wound with cord, and the point being
sharpened to increase penetration. The ad
vertising darts can thus be projected out of
ordinary reach, but just high enough not to
escape the notice of the passerby.
Pishlne Bod Holder.
A now ancient comic paper gives a picture
of a country scene on the banks of a river.
Stretched at full length on the grass, and
enjoying the balmy warmth of the summer's
day is a dweller-in-citiet, who has come out
of town for a day's fishing. The rod has
been duly fixed in the bank, and the ''sports
man" is casting his eyes every now and
again, from a few feet away, on the gently
swaying line. Suddenly the float scuds
away, and with a look of disgust tbe fisher
man says: "Just like my luck; I've no
sooner lit my pipe and got comfortably set
tled than there is a bite."
For such fishermen as this the new fishing
rod holder will be a godsend, and, indeed,
it is -said to have been "invented by a
gentleman who likes fishing and liberty in
about equal proportions." It consists of
very light, thin bars, supporting a triangle
which is hinged to fold flat The base bar
has at its rear end a butt bar. with eye loops,
to receive the butts of tbe fishing rods. A
securing pin is passed through the rear end
of the base bar into the ground, and holds
the contrivance firmly when the fish draws
down the pole. The braces hook in and are
readily disengaged, the whole thing folding
compactly together. The device weighs
about a pound or a little over, and can be
carried in a small case, the hooks being in
serted in slot apertures and readily remov
able. Several poles can thus be set at once,
and a variety of inclinations secured, and if
they are left for a moment there is, ordi
narily, no fear of their being dragged away
by the fish.
Guard for Street Railway Cars.
The advent of the cable and electric car
into street railway traffic with their higher
speed of travel has necessitated greater care
being taken against accidents to the public.
Among other things it has been found that
tbe guard hitherto employed does not hang
low enough to.prevent a prostrate person
from being caught and dragged over the
pavement An improved guard has been
invented, whichj is suspended close to the
track by means of vertical arms depending
from the car bottom. The point of the
guard has a small junction wheel journaled
so as to engage the roadbed or cable track.
The guard frame is pressed downward by
bow strings bearing on each oi its inclined
bars. Directly below each bar of the guard
Is journaled a roller which forms the bottom
of the guard, and these rollers coming down
to within an inch of the track will not al
low space for a person to get beneath.
Should a car run against a prostrate person
the acute inclination will brush him aside,
the roller allowing of a rotarv motion, so
that the subject of the accident is rolled off
with the least -chance of belne brnised.
which would not be possible in the guards
formerly used.
Beet Befose for Cattle.
An important fact in the beet sugar indus
try is that the refuse pulp makes a valuable
fodder for cattle. The tops are also availa
ble for the same use. This refuse is stored
in mounds, and will remain in good condi
tion for six months. Wherever beet ,sngr
factories have been established there has
been an immense improvement in the agri
culture of tbe surrounding country. It is
found that'although three tons of the pulp
are equal in nutriment value only to one
ton of the best hay, yet when fed in connec
tion with coarse provender it possesses a
value of its own in keeping animals in a
sleek, growtby condition, and, strange to
say, one not Indicated by its chemical analy
sis. PBEPABIHO JOB THB EHD.
The Solans Make Their Owa Cofllnj and
Borne Go In Them Alive.
Hew Tork Times.
The Pijians speed no inconsiderable part
of their lives making mats in which to be
hurled, and every house has a greater or
smaller pile of them rolled up among the
rafters, with which their owners will not
part for love or money. Wherever graves
are made they are bottomed with clean dry
sand brought from the seashore, and some-'
times sarcophagi are made of slabs of soft
sandstone, over which, when the bodies are
placed within, a slab of the same material
is lowered, and the grave filled in with
earth.
Formerly cave sepulchers were formed by
digging straight down for 15 or 20 feet and
then running a shaft horiiontally for an
equal distance. In a hollowed-out chamber
at the end of the shaft the body was laid, gen
erally in a reolining position. In the case
of very old persons, to whom it seemed de
sirable to hint that, as they had outlived
the usefulness, it would be decent for them
to accelerate the shuffling off of this mortal
coil, it was common not to wait for their de
cease, but to put them in the hole while
still alive, leaving the aperture open, and
dropping food down: tbe perpendicular shaft
at stated intervals. When the food was ob
served to be no longer utilized the natural
conclusion was that the iamate had said
farewell to mundane affairs, and the hole
was stopped by rolling a stone over it and
covering it with earth. By this considerate
action the veteran who lagged superfluous
on the stage was gently assisted to that bet
ter land for which the sagacity of his rela
tions perceived that he was so well fitted.
A FOBGEB DJ CHUBCH.
Action of Plymouth Church of Brooklyn
Exciting Discussion.
Hew Tork Press. 1
"I have been studying for some time,"
said a prominent clergyman to me yester
day, "over the moral effect of the recent ac
tion of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in
passing a resolution -retaining in member
ship a forger who is now in the peniten
tiary. In spite of the injunction to judge
not, lest ye be judged, it does not seem that
this method ot dealing with the criminal it
good for the public or for the church. The
mac had been a heartless forger. His mis
deeds ran through a long series of years.
He was discovered, apprehended, punished.
Then he became contrite. Ha was repent
ant only when found out, and he asserted
his repentance as being acceptable to hit
Creator.
"So the church decided not to drop him
from the rolls, but to extend its helping
hand to him in prison. This is in accord
ance with the spirit, 'neither do I condemn
thee.' But not in accordance with the di
rection that man shall do work meet for
repentance. The effect of Christian fellow
ship might have been equally well pre
served if the forger had been put on proba
tion, suspended, or otherwise dealt with so
that his future standing in the church
should depend on his future conduct His
sudden contfiteness and the action of the
church look too much like laying the plan to
secure his pardon from prison at an early
day, and if that should be done it will give
the public ah idea that men who steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil may
have practical immunity from punishment
The Duke of Bedford's Finance.
At a comparison with the reports from
England concerning the remarkable parsi
mony of the late Duke of Bedford, the fol
lowing, taken from a historical work of
unquestioned Integrity, referring to a former
representative of the. family, is interesting:
"On the Snd of March, 1802, died Francis,
fifth Duke of Bedford, unmarried, at the age
of 87, deeply lamented oa account of his
amiable character aai the eallghte lits
erality with whieh he had disfeMtdtlM
ptiaeeiv ftrimsMi of Ut tmuj.
THE ELECTRIC NEWS.
An Atlas of the State38howing tha
Progress Up to Date.
FIHAHCES OP STREET RAILWAYS.
Significant Statistics From Franca en the
Telephones.
DI3TB1BUTI05 OF P0WEE BI WISE
nraxrASzo xoa thx DisrxTCn.i
A very interesting publication has just
been put forth by one of the leading elec
trical companies of this country. It is a
large atlas showing. State by State, the dis
tribution of electric lighting central stations
and of electric railways, the various plants
being marked at each of the towns and cities
in which they are installed. The grand
totals shown are 1,935 central station plants
and 240 electric railways, figures which, of
course, would be much larger if brought
down to later date. A vivid idea is given
of the great variety still existing in elec
trical apparatus by the fact that in such
States as New Tork and Pennsylvania no
fewer than 16 different kinds are running in
the stations to produce light and five differ
ent kinds for electric railway work.
The tendency dnring the last five yean
has been toward a reduction in the number
of "systems," but as fundamental patents
expire and tbe industry is more generally
thrown open, it is not unlikely there will be
as great a variety of dynamos and lamps as
there now is of steam engines or of locomo
tives. These new systems, however, will be
sold on a basis of ordinary manufacturing
profit, unless radical departures are made,
for tbe time when either a charlatan or a
genius could put a "system" together and
get $1,000,000 for it offhand hai gone by.
Up to the present period much of the appa
ratus has had somewhere in its selling price
the items of cash or stock given out to the
inventor, and ol costly experiments that
Erobably led no whither. In the older
ranches of electrical industry, 'much of
that experimental work has baen done for
ever, and the knowledge ot the things that
need not be attempted has become common
property. Mr. Edison himself has said that
he had 3,000 theories about his incandescent
lamp, and it is safe betting that he tried
them all. It is said that when the first big
electric railway was tried at, Bichmond, at
least 100 "underruuning" trolleys were put
to test in a tew brief weeks, to say nothing
of new forms of gear, new styles of brushes,
new lightning arresters, new switches and
other details. In work of that nature money
goes like water, but there is no help for it:
and in due time there is the reward, for had
there been no Bichmond in 1883 there would
certainly have been no atlas in 1890 with
240 electric roads, 200 ot which, with nearly
another 100 now building, dating from that
eventful victory in a great new industry.
New TJe for the Finest
The need of competent linemen in New
Tork City has probably never been so
pressing as it was after the recent storm,
which created such devastation among the
wires of the various services. The destruc
tion of the police telegraph wires threw a
considerable additional load of anxiety oa
the shoulders of the officials of that depart
ment, who had so much difficulty in secur
ing a force of linemen to repair the dam ago
and get their well-organized service into
running order again, that they have decided
to adopt a plan which will, at all events,
lessen the chance ot their being left in the
lurch in case similar conditions should re
cur. The fiat has gone forth that the duties
of the guardians of New Tork streets shall
no longer consist mainly ot escorting files of
shopping ladies over the street crossing or
when things generally are becoming tame
and uneventful, clubbing some unfortunate
citizen by way of rekindling the stagnant
interest in their calling. It has been de
cided that the captains of the various pre
cincts are to be asked to find out and enroll
tbe men in their squads who may be service
able lor line work In future emergencies.
Movable Incandescent tJghts.
A neat way of increasing the usefulness
of the incandescent light by making it port
able, has been devised by the manager of a
telephone exchange. Finding that he could
not get the strong light he required for the
examination of the delicate points of hit
switchboard, he strung two copper wires the
full length of the room about four inehet
from the ceiling, and immediately behind
the switchboard. Both these wires are con
nected with an incandescent circuit A
smalL car which travels along the copper
wires, carries tbe light It is made of wood,
and has four metallic wheels, two of which
rest on each wire. A flexible cord, having
two electric conductors, passes up through
the center of the car, and each of the con
dnctors is soldered to the frame, the lamp
socket being attached to the other end of
the double cord in the usual manner. By
this arrangement its clever desisner is able
to run the car along the wires with ease and
carry the light wherever it is needed.
Distribution of Power.
The London World in an article which em
bodies an English view of American electrical
enterprise, gives a graphic sketch of the char
acteristics and capabilities of electricity. It
says:
An electrie cable, carrying "power" from
some spot hundreds of miles away, can do the
work of a whole manufacturing region and
clear it of noise, smoke, fog. filth, brutalizing
sUre labor and all their insanitary effects f or
ever. One ot the engineers engaced in tha stupen
dous enterprise of utilizing Nlaeara says Be can
force through his narrow cable an electrlo cur
rent of 5,000 horse power to a distance of 100
miles with a Idss ot only 10 per cent After a
time be hopes to drive this current to a dis
tance of 500 In other words, through a region
1.000 miles in diameter, and the richest in
America, for it includes such places as New
Tork and Buffalo. In the scientific millenlum
which is approaching a spider web ot wires radi
ating from a few centers will work every fac
tory, steamer and railway, and light and warm
every house and street from the herring pond
to the Pacific, and from the Quit to Hudson's
Bay. The scientific millenlum is not to be a
time ot small potatoes.
Telephones In Prance.
The marvelous progress which is being
made in this country in various branches of '
electricity can only be appreciated by com
paring it with what is being done in other
countries. France, which is one of the most
progressive countries, in Europe, is sup.
posed to have availed itself liberally of the
advantages of the telephone. Its nine chief
exchanges were subscribed to at tbe end of
last November as follows: Paris and
suburbs, 9,200; Lyons, 800; Marseilles, 660;
Bordeaux. 600; Lille, 450;Bheims, 400; Eou
balx, 350; Tourcoing, 500; Nancy, 176;
Cannes, St Etienne, Nantes, Troyesand
Baint Quentin have about 150, and some 30 .
towns from 0 to 100 subscribers each. The
total is only about 15,000 down to the 69
limit The number of telephones la tha
United States is about 400,000.
Cost of Operating Street Hallways.
The last report ot the Chicago City Bail ,
way shows that on its lines the operating ex
peases per horse car mile were 2L9S3"cents,
and per cable line 9.650 cents. The com '
pany ran 12,740,480 cable car miles, aad
4,859,300 horse car miles. Tbe cost of re
pairs per car were $71 40. The company
lost 1 in 20 of its horses by death. Against
such a record as this the economy of else-
tricify stands out strongly. It is estimated"
that the operation of eiectno cars
about 6 cents per ear mile.
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