20 ft! EMLK STORY. EemarkaWe Life of a White Man Among tlie Dusliy Natives of Madagascar. I HE HAD SIX BLACK Hade a Comfortable Living by Trading in Gaudy Beads, Tinsel and Tery Compromising Bom, WOUIDXT EETTJM TO CIVILIZATION. One of tie Experiences of Lieutenant Ehnfeldt la His Wps Aroimd tie Wcrii t 1U1-1JJT FOB THE DISPATCH. Almost everywhere from out the by-ways and highways of oar modern civilization the tide of emigration carries frith its flood a great army of adventurers. Its ebb leaves on the shores of distant and unknown lands the Wrecks of many men. Everywhere throughout the still wide and unex plored world, 09 the fringes of African coasts, on the distant islands of the Southern ocean, in vast ' Bomeo,inthePhillippineB, and on the countless geo ' Erauhical dots of the Indian J-?ia5S? Sea, they live isolated lives. "--X forgotten by ancient Eabo&o't ServanL friends, lost to the great whirling world of modern society. The story and the study of such lives, is the study of the whole history of modern colonial aggrandizement. They are the fore runners as well as the wrecks of a foreign social system. Incited by legions of wealth or ready conquest, by fabled stories of an easy acquisition of power and property amongst a race of ALoirei Scale of Intellectuality than themselves, they size the political opportunity afforded by the decree of some Continental Congress and follow the troop ship that carries the advance guard as an army of occupation. Their presence is at first symbolized by a fungus growth of rickety shanties, with glaring signs and piles of broken bottles in neglected alley ways or in a mouldy little back yard over run with weeds. After a while the political panorama changes, the troops are with drawn, the military colony sinks back into native neglect and inactivity, but the white waif is lelt by the ebbing tide on the shores of chance. Little by little, from pillar to post, as the last echo of the white "boom" is lost in the forests of his outlandish home, he loses his identity and slowly assimilates himself to the manners and customs of the strange peo ple about him. Kow and then the iiasn of some foreign sail on a distant horizon, now and then the visit ot some daring mission ary brings with him the breath of forgotten civilization, but there is little else to beguile him from an eiile that is broken only by the constant roar of ceaseless surf on the long familiar beach or the moan of tropic winds amid the pendant leaves of trees that are ever green. His Superiority Is Recognized. Nevertheless, in himself he represents to the crude minds about him a dim power; the stockade he builds of t coles about his "fac- i tory," the rum he has to "sell, the beads he ha in store, the little broken looking glas es, the long neglected books, all are evi dences of his other and more powerful parent age to the daily cluster ot primitive men and women, who squat on the hot sands of his reservation and under the shade of his trees. In his mind and thoughts in his dreams and waking reveries some day he will return. But he never wilL He is the outcast of his race; the tvpical castaway on the "banks of the nver of his own civilization. Count less are the causes that have led men to seek personal exile. Many are the recruits in every social regiment r: .Men, oiten 01 cnarac terand idea, but en-" dowed with morbid thoughts and erratic Itabodo't Brother. dispositions. Many others of no character at all, and whose only desire is the vain one to soothe an uneasy conscience in peaceful solitude. I have met such men. The his tory of their lives and adventures is almost out of joint with the plain tale of modern society. Both their existence and the necessity for it is one of the results ot civilization. Sometimes skirmishers only far in advance of the mam army sometimeo stragglers, they live and die and are buried in the narrow bridle paths Ions before these are trodden into the great highways of ad- vaacing change. On tho Island of Madagascar. Onco in my wanderings it was my fortunej to meet, to live with and to converse with! men a man. it was where the blue waves of the great Mozambique Channel endlessly break on tJie long sandy stretches at South western Madagascar. Here for miles and miles the scene is unvaried. The shelving vellow beach,broken only here and there by little bays or by the outlets of mighty riv ers rushing to. the sea. Alwavs the din of incessant surf and swish of retreating water; alwavs a background against a cloudless sky of ruing hills and dark clusters of tropical trees growing into oneast wave of green forest, rolling back to a far interior. I had come down with a large party of natives from the Malagasy Capital in North Central country, across the land of the Betsiles race, skirted tho territory of the dangerous Tauala people, to finally strike for the west and the ocean. Bays and daj s had been occupied in this romantic journey. Plunged in the twilight of dense forests whose silence is to the traveler almost un earthly, we had struggled up the sides, over and down again the lofty mountain's ranges that for 1,000 miles sweep north and south on the Western coast of the great African island. Fording rushing muddy rivers, making wide detours to avoid the thunder ing cataracts, we toiled e er west Some times in the very depths of woods we would come out on an unexpected clearing to find A Tillage of Kudo Huts; but rarely any people. They had fledirom the bad "fetish'1 of the white man in their country. Some women were braver, and remained to stare at us in blank amazement and silent wonder, or even offer fruit or lit tle bunches of the orchilla weed in trade. They were the Tauala cruel, crafty and dreaded by the traveler. Steeped in the blackest superstition, the ordeal of the taugena poison cup, the sacrifice of the reti nue of a chief at his death, the worship of the bones of animals, the rites of blood brotherhood and all the beliefs of the lowest order of savage life was theirs. No wonder they looked upon the white man as the ac cursed of God the "albino," marked for evil by his bleached complexion. Xet among these people I met a white outcast We were glad when the rivers widened slowly and rushed more impetuously to ward the sea. Weary limbs got new vital ity; the long column closed up and savage songs from the Bara men who followed me xSSIDq PUmi fBBfTiwJi k t r f4itt5sso3&S(,i plfllll VI? -est V3K m Elj'W. .W SbtoJ&S - broke the deadly silence of the woods. In a few days more we came running out of the jungle onto the shingle of a beach with the western ocean breaking at our feet. To my delight I saw at once close at hand, rising from a grove of .tall cocoa trees, the circular stockade that in this country always indicates the refuge of some white man. I ran over and banged on the bamboo door. It opened presently and there stood before-me A Strange Specimen of Humanity, rr aii :ili j r 3 W 1 V t'Q 1 ju&u, wixu uruuieu iocs ana HlYiS4(Ieen-set eves, a prominent nose badlv ran. Darned ana the remnants ot a grizzly beard. He had on his head a dilapidated derby n, which ha were very much on one side, a flannel shirt and patched woolen trousers. His feet were bare of covering in the" hot sand and the corners of his mouth, I noticed, were black with something he was chewing. "Hullol" he said. "Hullol" I said. And so I met my outcast In a little while I had told him the story of my wanderings and asked and answered a host of questions. He was not a very talka tive person, however, and dragged out his inquiries and drawled out his replies quite out of accord with my patience. He took me into a low thatched hut, in one corner of the stockade, and spread out a mat on the ground for us to sit upon. ("This' he said as he squatted dowmvith his long legs bent under him, "is my living house; those on he other side are mere storehouses." I lobkedover the ope'h door; the view was a desolate one. There was about half an acre of sand surrounded by a tall paling against which leaned the gouty trunks of a few palm and cocoanut trees. Certainly Not a Cheery Home. These Impressed me with the idea that they would like to get out. On the side op posite me stood two long shanties roofed with dry leaves. On the sands were squatted a group of natives, whose black bodies and patches under the remorseless sun. A desolate and cheerless place in deed for anyone to call home. I turned to the hut again and took one of the pipes my new friend handed me. After awhile we fell to talking again: he, half addressing himself to me and half speaking to the air about him, like one who communes with himself in a tongue long unused to; while I listened eagerly to the strange story of his exile. "Yes," he drawled out, 'I've been In this accursed country a good many years: going on 24 this coming rainy season since I shoved off from '.Frisco. Quite a nip, bIt, out of a life of a man to look upon nothing but niggers, to eat nothing hut fish and rice; to be dry as a bone, hot, scorching hot, one half the year, and wet as a sponge the other halt Quite a time never to know what's going on out in the world out there and what's become of one's kith and kin. "Why, sir, vear after year goes jogging along here till I nave forgot to count them. I might as well be dead am in fact to them that knew young Ben Lowdsn in the sixties. Bloody Story of a Voyage. "The story is a short one till I came here; there it is shorter still one day is a frood deal like another day. I was bom in Maine in Bath and my family was a sea going family, and I fell into that naturally. They were religious and temperance people, too, and I was brought up so, till X was put on one of their ships and sent to sea to learn the profession. I was over SO consid erable ana had been knocking about all parts of the world in ail sorts of packets, when in '59 I turned up In 'Frisco first mate of a big bark and loaded with grain for Sydney. The story of her voyage was a bloody story. , "Our skipper was a down-easter. from Damarascotta, and a brute. She was a hell afloat I tell you. and I found myself afore the mast on her before we got in; for being a 'parson' and a 'preacher,' the skipper said. So I 1 either and shipped again at Melbourne in a little brig bound to tne cape in ballast. We men got there, but was blowei up the channel in a hurricane; her bones and crew's bones, except mine, are bleaching on the beach about BO miles north of here. That was in "GL Andhere I've been ever since here, and up country among the Taualas and such. I haven't teen a newspaper in 18 years, nor a white face, except twice, in 20. One of these was a Swedish missionary and the other a Portuguese trader. Yes, -I was married afore I left the States had two children too when I sailed away. God knows what'B become of them. Bow His Trading Is Done. He knocked the ashes out of his pipe thoughtfully and then got up, saying: "Come, I'll show you around the place." There wasn't much to see, any more than I have already described. "We went into the store houses, and he showed me a pile of trading cloth bolts of cheap cotton stuff of English make several native baskets of German beads and trinkets and a couple of casks ol bad rum. "These are what I do my trading with,", he explained, "with the rum principally. We Trent behind the house, and he pointed out about 20 natives seated on native mats, lazily sorting out orchillaweed spread in little heaps before them. "You see, these fellows bring this stuff down from the far interior. They get it in the forests and swamps, where no white man dare go. They bring jt, generally in little bundles soon as they get thirsty enough, or want a new ragout down here, and I trade 'em for it Then, when they sleep off their drunk, I set 'em to sorting of the piles till they get tired and go back for more. When I get a bale or two I send it Zowden and Hit Wife Ho. 6. down coast by canoe to the French settle ment at Tullear Bay, southwest from here, and it goes to the Cape and London. Pur ple dye, you know, and valuable at home. AMncli-Married Man. "Yes, I've been often back far back in the Tauala country. It's a bad place, a dan- erous place, but I'm used to it I'm in lood brotherhood with most of the chiefs and they don't molest me much, and won't so long as the rum Iasts,I reckon. Well yes, I'm married into several of their families, too had to, you know; its the custom. Come back to the house and I'll introduce you to number six and the latest" We crossed the hot sand again and into the hut. "Babodo," be called, and in a moment the ricketty door of a room on one side opened and a woman wrapped from chin to toe in a coarse blanket stepped out She was well-formed and tall, and not with-; out a native grace ot motion, one nad a very black, but withal a somewhat comely and good-natured face. Her hair was done up in a tight ball saturated with beef fat, and her forehead was ornamented with white, broad, parallel lines of clay. She had her servant with bar a Sakalarawho squatted ISSL- ".-z-ZaZ on the ground and dug big assegai in the sand, and glared at me. Not an Over-Supply of Brains. "She's a Taula,' said Xowden, "and I brought her down from up country a year ago. Her father is a big chief- up there and never comes to the coast -She has been fixing herself up to see you, you Bee. No, I've never talked English to her nor to. any of them. I suppose, in her mind, she only associates you with the race that makes the beads and cloth that's about as for as her brain goes." I spent three days with this strange man and his surroundings, then I gathered my party together for a start "up the long beach to the next trading station. The night be fore we Btarted, we were visited by one of the most terriftio thunderstorms I had ever AnHL ""O . Ttt." Hative Orchxlla-Weed Packers. experienced. It was a forerunner of the ap proaching rainy season. Lowdcn and my self took early refuge in our little hut I had learned to know him well during my snort stay and in view or my own bright thoughts of near ing home and friends, I felt great pity for his dreary, solitary life. Once or twice I had broached the subject of his return with me: but he always avoided it, always1 gently and with many simple thanks. This last night, as the tropical flood came thundering down, hushing lor the while the ceaseless roar of the ocean near, soaking the long stretches of heated sands and rattling against the dried leaves of our shaky root; I spoke again to him of that far-off land where certainly there must be some still alive who lived and cared for him. "No, lad," he said, gently, "not now. I am long dead to them and to this world. Let me rest in peace." The Truth About the .Exile. Many months afterward in New York I delivered a lecture on the subject ofay re cent experiences in Great Madagascar. On coming out from the hall I felt myself touched upon the shoulder, and turning around was confronted by an elderly gentle man with gray hair and Whiskers. He asked me to name a time and place where he could call upon me. I did so and he called promptly. "I saw," he said, "in one of the stereopticon views at your lecture the picture of a white man. Have you that photograph?" I had and I gave it to him. He looked at it long and earnestly through his glasses. "Is this from life, sir?" "It Is." "Has this man a slight limp in his gait?. Does he drawl out his words? Has he a habit of walking up and down when ex cited?" and a score of other inquiries, to all of which I answered in the affirmative, and told him the story. 'It is the man, he ex claimed, "it is the same man. Twenty-five years ago be came with his lies and forger ies to our house In San Francisco. We ap pointed him first officer of one of our finest vessels. He sailed for Sydney. He got the crew in a state of mutiny, and with his own hands murdered the captain and threw his body overboard. He sold the ship and cargo in Sydney on false orders from us. He paid off the crew three times their wages and then disappeared. He is the most in fernal scoundrel that ever took the breath of life." I am not sure but that the "tide" this time had not better have drowned, than thrown upon the-beach of Madagascar, this "out cast" Mason W. Shtjtkldt; Lieutenant, TJ. S. N, riANOrKEE. Chance of a Ufettma. BEAD CABEFUMiY OTJB MTD-STJMMEB OFFEK. During the months of June July and Au gust we make the unprecedented offer of giving an ay every tenth piano sold to the purchasers who comply with the following rules: First Cut this advertisement out and bring it with you. Second No commission will be allowed on these sales Third All sales must be actually closed and $25 paid down, with agreement to pay not less than $10 per month. Fourth That purchasers agree to the fol lowing, viz: That the advertisers, on or be fore the 4th day of June, select an hour and a day in each of the three months and place in tne Allegheny Safe Deposit Company vault, securely sealed, there to remain until September 1, 1891, on which date they will be opened in our wareroom and bills of sale made to the winners of pianos whose date of purchase comes nearest to the hour and date selected. In making this offer we wish purchasers to understand that this is not a fake adver tisement, but is strictly bona fide and made solely to draw the attention of the public to the famous pianos we sell and the easy terms on which we sell them, and we pledge our selves that wherever it can be shown that under like conditions we have not sold our pianos at as low a price as any other dealer in either city, we will present purchaser wim piano. We sell the great Ahlstrom, Kreoger & Son, Eurtzman & Co. and Mathusek & Son pianos at prices ranging from 5250 to $500, and on payments of $25 down and $10 per monw. .echols, aiaMLUBRAY is uo., 123 Sandusky street, Allegheny City. Telephone building. wsu Bee Display Advertisement Telling about Kensington.. Page 10. This Is tho Time Of the year when we sell off every suit of clothes for what it will bring. The price of each suit is marked plainly on the ticket and samples are displayed in our show win dows. Everybody should attend this great clearing sale of mens and boys' suits. Low prices rule on every hand. Men's good suits for $5 and $6. Men's cassimere cheviot and worsted suits made in sack and cutaway style, only $7 and $8. Sale starts promptly at 8 o'clock Monday. i P. C. C. C, prxisBUua Combination Clothing Company, corner Grant and Diamond streets. KensingtonI Kensington! Kensington! Hontzon and Mnrano awnings at Ma maux & Son's, 539 Penn avenue. Tree Train Wednesday, Jnna 10, To Kensington. See advt, page & Wm, call on you with samples of furni ture covering and: furnish estimates on wort Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water street su Buy a Lot at Kensington. See large advt Page 10 to-dayi '-y - A7- -I. THEmTSBTJIiGC DISPATCH; POINTS OF 1 COOLE. Instead of Killing His Enemy He Drowns Himself inlHis Well. BUBMNG JOSS-SUCKStFOB lUfjK. Hare Devoted to His Ditfyfigg Jhantie. Caucasians tolBoga. HOW HE GETS CURED 4 IP HE'S B1CK COBKSSrORDSNCB OT TIES- DISPATCH.) Amov, May 15. Befincd aid wealthy people are very much the, same the world over. To find out the peculiarities and differences of a strange raee, you must go down into the ranks of the "great nn--washed." The mandarin here is painfully an American club man; the coolie is unlike unvthiner elsewhere. He lis itmorant and wofully superstitious. HeSbums joss-sticks 1 to keep away sickness and death, to frighten robbers, to welcome friends, to atone for sins, to obtain ludk in gambline f and to express love and admiration. "When he has no one to talk with, iand especially no pig, he lights a joss-stickt and sits con templating the smoke an hour at a time. When he wants a wife he buys one. He pays the money to her parents and goes away with his bride as if she were so much merchandise. Sometimes he- is afraid to become a Benedict at once,, and then he hires a wife or takes her on trial, paying so much per month in advance to her 'mother. It is 'considered a great disgrace to be sent back home, so the trial-wife does her best to be attractive and pleasing. She .usually sue- J r$T ON'EHS TVAIEB ceeds, and within a year is promoted to the regular marital relation. Tho Mongolian Bales for Health. His mode of living is a perpetual viola tion of what we call the laws of health. He builds a bamboo cabin in a swamp or in a drain and sleeps upon the foul and oozy earth. He makes a bedroom, scarcely larger than a coffin and closes everychink to pre vent the air from entering: He eats huge quantities of sugarcane until his abdomen becomes permanently enlarged. He is usu ally an orthodox Buddhist and regards the killing and eating of animals as Binful as theft But he will go from the pjgoda to his brother's home and steal, kill, cook and eat the hitter's favorite dog. He will sell his son or daughter for a song, but will spend a week's wages is buy ing religious paraphernalia for his pet joss house. He hates his superiors and has an intense dread of death, but he will commit suicide with great cheerfulness when so or dered by an official. Instead of killing his mortal enemy, he drowns himself in the Let ter's well, after having written obscene epi thets upon the stones of the coping. Almost numberless stories can be told of tboir curi ous habits. I called last evening at my butcher's, and found the place closed for business, but was allowed tb enter. Using the Boasts for Pillows. The" carcasses, instead of being suspended from hooks, were lying on the blood-stained earth which constituted the floor, and the tnreo largest pieces of beef were being'ntii ized as pillows by the butcher, his wife; children and a couple of friends. In .reply ' to a question, he said that it frighienedi away the rats I and made very comfortable . sleeping. Another illustration is afforded by the Chinese handbill of an enterprising tradesman: On hand over 200 fine newsults taken from ' the entombed corpses of wealthy gentle-. men. The announcement was true except as to the "wealthy gentlemen," the grave clothes having been stolen from the bodies of poor coolies. Grave robbery is common, espe cially when business is dull." The ceme- i teries are unguarded and unenclosed, and the spectacle of a man digging excites no ' comment whatever. Equally novel are the official recognitions of virtue. The latest is an official document from the Imperial Cabinet at Peking, the highest authority in the Empire. Trans lated it reads as follows: The Devotion of a Daughter. Wei P'entr-ohu, Assistant Deputy Magistrate of Uofei listen In Anbul, has a daughter ro nonnodforher docile disposition and filial piety. In the summer of last year (190) her father as deputed to look after some work In connection with the nver embankments. While he was away his wife became danger ously ill and was most tenderly nursed by the daughter, who went the length of cut ting off a piece of her flesh to make Soup for the invalid and who offered to give up her' own life should that of her mother be spared. When her elder brother proposed to go and Inform the father of the dangerous state of his wife's health, sho prevented his doing so by pointing out that her father had enough to do looking after his work, and to add to his anxiety by conveying to him such news would serve but little purpose. Two dajs after P'eng-ohu's return, his wife died, and the daughter refused to take any food for several days. Seeing that by so doing she was causing great grief to her father, sho forced herself to take a little gruel. Some time after he wasagain ordered away on river work, and daring his absence she again refused to take any nourishment. While away he took ill and asked for leave to return home. On his arrival he was met by his daughter, who informed him that she did not daro to die without first telling him, but now that he had como back she wished, to state that it was her intention to go and wait for her mother in tne shades below. In spite of all entreaties she then resolutely nWalnAil frrvm alt fnnd Hud dler! flfirnn tnn days after. The Cabinet agreed that it w ould.l do a tnousana puies iu patsa uver ucu a re markable instanee of filial devotion without remark, and ordered a handsome scroll to be made and erected to her memory. The Pic Is a night Boiler. Chinese life is a perpetual surprise. Man's I must ltuioiiu luur-ivut-cu incut, we uug, 13 relegated to the outcast world and hisplace filled with the more edible pig. Under these auspices the dog reverts to the ances- irai won ana is uaruiy luiuuKuuiuiiuie irom that disagreeable brute, wniie tne nog be s a distinguished member of society. comes Eyery Chinese porker has a name and an swers it, especially -when called to meals, as promptly and knowingly as a well-trained watch doe. He live with, the family and sleeps either on the foot of his owner's bed or else in the baby's" crib. After breakfast ing en famille, he sets off on a constitutional walk through the city and suburbs. He makes calls upon other pigs of equal social standing, invades and robs every garden whose gate maybe open and usually re freshes himself by a walk in the surf on the beach, where he whets his appetite with a dozen oysters on the whole shell and a few defunct fishes. He returns home at 1 P. M. or luncheon. If a moment late, the family turn out en masse and fill the neighborhood with the blood-curdling yells, ,rO, piggy Jim, lost pig, come here! Dear piggy Jim. oomB home and eatl Where are you, lost piggy SUNDAY, ,JHNU W18BL Jim?" To save his tympanum ai well as his hide, the hog sets up a hideous squeal wherever he may be, starts into a gallop and stops neither squeal nor gallop until he reaches the family board. jVhat the Prodigal Gets for Supper. The proper fuss Is made over the returned prodigal, who receives two gallons of soup, TiftV leaves and other incomprehensible ingredi ents. Alter uia meai ne plays with the children, allowing them to sit' on his back, pull bis tail and bite his ears until his food is digested. He then repeats the experience of the morning until nightfall. At dusk he looks around the premises for stray delica cies, drives out any dog that may be lurk ing about, and after rubbing his muddy ribs against the legs of everyone he can reach as a good-night salutation, he turns in to enjoy the rest which is known only by a clear por cine conscience, ahe pig is the coolies' ideal creature. Even when he tries to draw the sacred dragon, he merely sketohes a blue pig with an unnatural fluted taiL The chief mongolian amusement in this district is "carrying Joss to a sick man." Whenever a celestial becomes seriously ilL his relatives go to their favorite pagoda and make the necessary financial arrangements with the priests for the next day. The day dawns and in the gray morning the monks and coolies are as busy as bees in getting up the ceremony In good style. At 10 o'clock the procession starts. Taldnc a Joss to a Sick Man. It begins with a band of music consisting of a drum, a tom-tom, a gong, cymbal and four reed instruments which would make a Scotch bagpipe turn thistle-green with envy. Then comes a crowd of relatives and friends in full dress, red, blue, green, yel low and purple gfowns. Next follows the priest in full raiment, to accolytes and Bome altar boys. Then comes a roasted pig filded and painted red, in a palanquin orneon the shoulders of four brawny coolies; a roasted goat similarly decorated -A2 AHOY. and carried; a mountain of cakes and pastry work: a pile of fruits and sweetmeats; a jar of holy oil and a second of sacred water ac company the pig. Next is an assistant priest beating a huge gong, preceding old Joss himself, a golden image represents a fat, well-fed Chinese gentleman of about 40 years of age, and last of all a crowd of en thusiastic small boys. The procession marches leisurely to the home of the patient and there gives an open" air concert The doors are opened and all welcomed in. The statue is set up, prayers, genuflexions and food are offered to the fat divinity, and then the food and drink are divided among all present All the time the music Is roaring out diabolio discord. The priest now produces a bronze vase in which" there are 200 medical prescriptions and enncueu " vu "i jjuwuobs, caDoage, ancient herrings, pieces or worn-out leather, Hnt-tmawed bones, bamboo Khnnto $25 TO $150 FOR A CITY LOT Don't be foolish; don't buy a lot away off in some backwoods five or six miles from the city. LOOK AT THIS! Lots right in the city, 15 minutes from the Market House, near churches and-schools, with the advantage of police and fire protection, only $25, $50, $75, $100, $150, DUQUESNE HEIGHTS 35th Ward, 5 Minutes From Incline. 5 0 S10 D NO INTBREST OR TAXES JUST THINK OF IT! . ' Most 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT FOR CASH. Call for numbered plan and price list Go and look at them, AND YOU 'WILL BUY, for they are; cheap, dirt cheap, and will sell for three or four times the present prices within ayear, when building 'has commenced. GO LOOK AT THEM, AND GO SOON, OR THE BEST LOTS WILL BE' GONE. , r" shakes It vigorously to and fro until two or three prescriptions fall upon the floor. From these he selects the one allotted by providenoe. The prescription is made up. Mose prayers and genuflexions are indulged in, ana then, amid the tearful thanks of in valid and friends, "Joss is carried home." Not Very Costly After All. This ornate "faith cure" or "Christian science" of the Orient Is not over costly. The tariff is as follows: Seven musicians.. ,i to 70 Priestly mob of nine 0 85 Food and drinks (market rates). 5 PO Holy oil and saored water 0 15 Sixteen coolie carriers.. 0 80 Total cost 47 go Enough medicine is (riven to hut a month and the event is as memorable as a gilt edged tvake in Killarney or a camp meeting in New England. The patient, moreover, nearly always gets welL Of course the priest is a good nerbalist and a fair phy sician according to mongolian standards. I was discussing the ceremony with my phy sician, a distinguished surgeon of long ex perience in the East, who has been treating me for neuralgic pains several months with little or no success. He listened, and, puff ing one of my best Havanas, said slowly to the circle present: merits and Demerits of the Joss. "These exhibitions of hethenish Ignorance are very pitiful, but they serve to show the vast superiority of European science. By the way, my dear sir, none of the -various medicines I have tried on yon seem to have done any good. I think we will make a bold departure to-morrow and try a new line of treatment" Hooked at him a moment, and calmly asked, "Why not bring a Joss 1" t- Nor are the functions of Joss confined to the sick room. He is taken in all pomp and ceremony to death beds, weddings, birthday anniversaries and what correspond to our christenings. Let it be added in justice to the hard-working priests, who try to minister spiritual consolation in their own queer way, that they go with equal grace to the rich and the, poor and that times innumerable they visit the pauper coolie without fee or reward. Though ludicrous to American eyes, their ministra tion does good and brings happiness to un numbered millions. WnxiAM E. S. Fat.tm. Ohio Pyle, Pa. The B. & O. B, E. will sell exourslon tickets to Ohio Pyle every Sunday during the summer at rate of $1 60 the round trip. Train leaves depot at 8:15 A. M. Great Sale of ZiOts At Kensington, Wednesday, June-10. TJNffxnBT,T.za for flavor Iron City Brewery's Pilsner Beer. On tap in first class bars. 25c Floor Oil Cloths at 15c Elegant patterns, too. This is lower than you buy 'em elsewhere, but not lower, pro portionately, than we offer you carpets in ingrain, brussels and velvets this week. J. H. KunkeIj & Bbo., 1347-1319 Penn avenue. Kenstngtoit Large adv't, third page. YOU CANNOT GO To Carlsbad, but you can have Carlsbad brought to you. Procure a bottle of genu ine imported CARLSBAD SPRUDEL SALT And dissolve a teaspoonful of it In a tumb lerful of water. It is the best natural ape rient and alterative extent Nothing is "just as good" when you can get the genu ine imported article. je6 -COST BE.A.UTIIFTJXr 1. of the lots are.nearly level, some BLACK & B-AIRD.H 95 FOURTH AVE. 95 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. The Savings Institution of Pittsburg, THE MISFIT CLOTHING PARLORS, 516 Smithfiefd Street, Will be of more than usual interest to clothing buyers for the next week. The fact is, we will make it VERY INTERESTING TO BUSINESS MEN in generaL Suits for every day business wear are uppermost in our thoughts, and we are going to keep thinking of them AND HAVE YOU think of them as well as ourselves for at least one week to come. .In our Suits fordress wear we can simply say THEY ARE PERFECT IN EVERY DETAIL. No establishment in this city can display such an elegant line of fine Dress Suits as we are now showing. OUR BUSINESS SUITS At $10 were made to order for $20, At $12 were made to order for $25, At $15 were made to order for $30. At $18 were made to order for $35. At $20 were made to order for $40. Pantaloons at $2 50, $3, $3 50, $4, $4 50, $5, $5 50, $6, $7, $8 and $9, Just one-half of the original made to order prices. Merchant Tailors' Misfits and uncalled-for Garments re ceived daily from the leading tailors. Opposite City Hall. $1.25 TO $7,50 D DHTIL IS FOR. A CITY LOT FOR $25. a little hilly, but ALL ARE GOOD. OUR DRESS SUITS At $20 were made to order for $40. At $22 50 were made to order for $45. At $25 were made to order for $50. At $30 were made to order for $60. At $35 were made to order for $70. Next Door to Mellon's Bank. JeTrrssu JeM&tnrwj i ? r ,.; l -vr-i &
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