wSS AiaK322iaitoij "- " ,fe T'f' r . THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. THIRD PART. j J i PAGES 17 TO 24. M. ! I I I 1 1 PITTSBUEG SITNDAT, DECEMBER 20, 189L HOITIO AFRICA. Lord Bandolph Churchill Pictnres the Paradise of the Sportsmen. GAME OF EVERY YAEIETT. Lions, Leopards and Snakes Con tribute the Element of Danger. WHAT AN EXPEDITION WOULD COST. Esrd Chases of Harlbeests, Antelopes and Their Eelatives, COITFESSrOSS OF BID HARESHANSHIP IIUI'IU FOB THZ DISPATCH.1 To the young man fond of shooting, or riding, of a wild hunter's life, active, vig orous, healthy sad endowed with adequate fortune those regions of South Africa which extend from the Limpopo to the Huny&nl river, offer a field for sport not to be equaled In any other part of the world. DuriDg the winter time from May to September the olimate of this region is almost perfect, the risk of fever slight. The air of the veldt is invigorating, the scenery aud surroundings attractive aud various, the life of the hunter temperate aud wholesome. This man, coming to these parts of Africa eager for sport, will experience little if any disappointment Accompanied and gnided by some good Dutch hunter, suob as Hans Lee, he will fee, flume and probably kill almost every African wild animal with the exception of the elephant, buffalo and rhinoceros. These also may be obtained without difficulty, if one is not daunted by the remoteness of the districts near the Zambesi, by the real rough life incident to the absence of wagon? and o( all beasts of burden owing to the existence of the Tsetse fly, or by hard walking exercise under the heat of a tropical sun. But in the vast ter ritory I have defined above, every species of comfort may without difficulty surround and cheer the hunter. Plenty of the Element of Dancer. The soundest sleep at night, the best of appetites for every meal, the clear bead, the cool nerve, the muscle and wind as perfect as after an autumn in the Highlands, are pleasures and delights which can be here experienced. Nor is the exciting element of danger by any means altogether absent. The lion and leopard are beasts, to en counter which successfully requires skill, experience aud courage. Snakes of creat Tenom, eome of great sire, may not infre quently be met with, falls from the horse when galloping over the plain, may occur constantlv, and should any one imagine that antelo e hunting in Africa is a tame, safe kind of amur-enient three or four weeks' ex perience of it will quickly undeceive him. Then the game numbers such variety, ruch size, such beauty. Nothing more wildly lovely can be imagined than the sight of a herd of roan antelope, of hart beest, quagga, galloping through the forest; nothing more wildly exciting than the'pur suitofsnch a heri Sighting the game throngh the trees, sometimes obtaining a fair standing shot within 'moderate range, then mounting vour horse, loading as you gallop along with the spurs rammed well home, leaving him to pick his way as best he can among trees, branches, roots, rocks, stones and holes, coming again within 100 or 150 yards, not dismounting but almost fiinging yourself off your horse and firing both barrels as rapidly and as accurately as you may, then on aiain, over hill, riverand dale until the herd is decimated, until your appetite for slaughter is stayed, or until having missed quantities of shots, both the strength of yourself and your steed are alike exhausted. Hot Plenty Enough to Be Monotonous. These good chases will not occur every day any more than a fox ohase or a good day's salmon fishing comes often in the sea son; the hunter may ride for miles and for hours through the most sporting "gamev" kind of country without setting eyes on a living creature, but when they do occurthey areperiods of excitement, every incident of which the roemorv cannot fail durins a life time to retain. Then the accompaniments, the framework as it were of the chase after the buck. The early start, the break of day, the brilliant sunrise, tno cool morning air, the returns to camp, wearied bnt pleased and excited, the bath, the evening meal eaten with an appetite and a zest such as only an Africa . hunter knows, the camp fire, the pipe, the discussion of the day's sport, the hunter's stories and experiences, the plans for to-morrow, no thoughts of rain or bad weather oppressing the mind, allthis makes a combination and a concentration of human joy which Paradise might with dif ficulty rival. Nor is this hunting life, when pursued for a few months or from time to time, a useless a frivolous, or a stupid exigence, especially when it is compared with the sort of idle, unprofitable passing of the time experienced from year to year bv num bers of young men of fortune. Nature and all her ways can be observed and studied with advantage, much knowledge of wild animals and wild men can be acquired by the observant, the intelligent sportsman, languages may be learned, habitudes ard customs noticed and written about, inter esting persons met with, excellent friend ships formed, the mind and the bodv seasoned, hardened and developed by travel in a wild country and all its many Incidents, its rough and its smooth, its sur prises, its difficulties, its adversities and its perils, and I hold this for certain that in nine cases out often a young man who has six months of African hunting life will be a ten pounds better fellow all around on his return than he was before he started. TVhat a Trip Would Cost. A six months' hunting expedition out here need not be a very costly business, at least when compared with the cost of Lon don life to many a young man, and meas ured by the amount ol real pleasure and ad vantage to be derived from either. For the purchase of a couple of good wagons and a couple of snans of 18 to 20 oxen each, of four or five goo 1 shooting horses, $4,000 would probably suffice, and if these requis ites were purchased with care and bkill much of the outlay would be recovered at the termination of the trip. Some i2,000 for icnt and for the paraphernalia of a camp, for personal wants and for luxuries in the way of food and drink. An expendi ture of $-500 a month in wages and food for the bovs, grooms and native followers, would keep the expedition going. As for personal outfit little is required, but that little must be of the best quality. Good tanned buckskin breeches, good strong pi; fkin gaiters, good brown leather laced wait ing boots, a dozen flannel shirts, "a couple of Norfolk jackets," an Inverness cape of warm material, three or four large thick rues and a Terai hat are all that can be re quired in the way of clothes in this part of the world. As for armament I wonld suggest a couple of doubIe-barreled express breech-loading rifles with rebounding locks, 500 bore, and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Solid bullets are greatlv to be preferred to ex panding bullets. The latter, indeed, in my opinion are not safe to use in a conntry where at any moment a lion or a leopard raay be met with, as they are to extremely uncertain in their effect upon the animal truck by them. I have seen them kill buck on the spot, breaking up almost the whole of his inside. I have seen them pierce the fore and hind legs of a buck, in flicting a trifling wound, and I have seen them smash up on the surface of the skin, causing a frightful wound in appearance, but no immediate or necessarily fatal in jury. Oraii for Feathered Game. In addition to these rifles a couple of smooth-bores for feathered game, with un- choked barrels, so that ball cartridges may be fired from them: hair a dozen Martini Henry rifles lor the "boys" of the camp will complete the outfit in respect of weapons of offense. Hatchets, fcnives, saws and any tools should be brought along. In the matter of provisions, meat can be obtained, and of good quality, at Cape Town or at Kimberley, or at Johannesberg. Tea, coffee, bacon, hams, and any wines or liquors should be brought out from home. I would stroncly advise that the hunter should provide himself with some cham pagne. After a long day's hunting in a hot snn this wine is the most refreshing and re atoring of the alcoholio beverages. So equipped the fortunate and persevering sportsman will pass many delightful hours and memorable days. Hunting during a period of some weeks or months, he will probably come across giraffe, hippopotami, ostrich, eland, sable, antelope, rtfon ante lope, koodo, wildebeest, hartebeest, water buck, quagga, which latter if almost a sin to shoot, manv kinds of small buck, wild pig, hyena and jackal. I have as yet been hunting too short a time to meet with all these animals, and have not been fortunate enough to see either giraffe, hippopotami, ostrich, eland or wildebeest But the spoor of all these animals, with the exception of the sea cow, I have seen in quantities, often quite fresh. A Chase for a Hartebeest. I left Fort Salisbury at 9 A. st on August 19, and treked in the mule wagon as far as the Hunyani river, which was reached at 9 A. M. Tl ere we outspanned. A bath and breakfast occupied the mornintr. Sir John Willoughby arrived about 2 oclock in the afternoon mounted on a sturdy and well bred erajr pony which had been lent him by Dr. JamiesonT Mr. Borrow, of the firm ol Johnson, Heaney & Borrow, had most kindly lent me his excellent shooting horse, both "salted," for myself and Lee. I found that it would not be possible to ride better animals. At 3 o'clock we went out hunting down the course of the Hunyani river, within about three or four miles of it The country here is flat, the bush open; wide grassy plains separated by groves aud belts of trees succeed each other. After some time Lee descried a solitary hartebeest grazing. Sir John Willoughby stalked this buck, but could get no nearer than 250 yards. He fired two barrels, and, I thought, hit the hartebeest, who circled wildly round and scampered off, moving apparently behind with some difficulty. I galloped after him as he made fai the bush and pursued him for nearly two miles, al ways hoping to get within range in some open space. But he always kept a distance between us of 500 or 400 yards, and stuck carefully to the trees, bush and high grass so that it was difficult to keep him in view and useless to dismount and fire. Those hartebeests are despairing animals to chase. They appear to be cantering along slowly, never exerting themselves, but it requires a horse of great galloping power to overtake them. The Horse Hadn't the Mettle. They have a wild, weird look, and are the least attractive of all the antelope. In size they are similar to the smaller red deer of the east coast of Scotland. A whole herd of them when chased sometimes get con fused, gallop wildlv about, stop to look round and scatter, giving several good shots to the pursuer, but a solitary one rarely, stops or stays; he goes right away straight en end. Finding my horse was getting blown and that the bush got thicker I de sisted from the chase, firing a parting but useless shot Mv companions soon rejoined me, guided by tnc report of my rifle. "We continued our ride without seeing anymore game. Close by the camp, returning home, Lee got a shot and killed a "duiker," or small antelope. The little beast came in useful, as we had no fresh meat, with the exception of a sheep which had been purchased at Ft. Salisbury, and which turned out to be such a wretched, poor animal that it was handed over to the natives who accompanied us. These buck, big and little, are all excellent eating. They are never fat like the park deer of England or the forest stag in Scot land, but their meat when kept for a day or inuisuuucitiuuirju. iuc luugue, liver and kidneys are in truth delicious. Nothing can be more plain and simple than the nec essary cooking. A good heap of hot ashes, a couple of baking places, some fat, either bacon or butter, lots of pepper and salt, a quarter of an hour's patience, and the best dinner which can be eaten awaits the slayer of the African buck. Marrow Bones of the Antelope. Roan antelope venison I have found to be most meritorious, but Lee tells me that eland is superior, and that giraffe venison far exceeds either. Nor must I omit to mention the marrow bones of the antelope. Again the cooking is of the simplest char acter. The thigh bones stripped of meat arc thrown upon hot ashes and covered with them. In ten minutes they are -ready, a hatchet or a stone serves to break the end of the bone, and marrow is poured out on the pla e, such as no one in London ever dreamed of. A luckv hunter in Africa need never wait for his dinner, and cannot com plain of it Early on the followingjnorning we treked toward "Bealc's camp," a locality to which we had been directed and where we were informed that there was much game. This spot lies on the Umfiili, about 18 miles south of the Hunyani. between that point ol the umiuii, wnicn is traversed bv the main road to Fort Victoria, and that point which is traversed by the road to Hartley Hill. Shortly after starting we got badly stuck in swampy ground. Spades were used freely to extricate the wheels buried over their axles, two horses were in spanned, but to no purpose. There was no thing for, it but to "offload," a most tedious and tiring business. Four thous.nd pounds weight of load were taken off the wagon. We were only eight in number all told aud a lot of time was consumed. Even then with the wagon thus lightened it was all the mules and horses could do to drag it out of and across the swamp to firmer ground. Now all the mass of things "off loaded" had to be carried by us some 300 or 400 yards and replaced on the wagon. A real bad business this. It was my first ex perience of a genuine African stickfast Clmrclilll Was a Jl.id Shot. Inthe afternoon we sta rted out hunting. Again we came upon a solitary hartebeest bull. I got a good shot at this fellow as he was facing me about 100 yards off, but did not hit him. Sir John Willoughby and Lee galloped after him but tailed to secure liim. boon alter a sable antelope bull was sceii a long way ofE Getting oft my horse I crawled to an ant-hill, on looking over the summit of which I perceived my friend at least 300 yards away. There was no get tidg nearer to him, so resting my rifle on the ground I fired. He also was facing me, and offered but a small mark. Alas! my bullet went wide of him, and he scampered off, hotly pursued by my companions, who got four shots at him. Lee brought-him down. He was a fine old bull with good horns. It was now dusk, and having "gral locked'' the antelope and covered him with long grass and branches to preserve him for a time irom the vultures and the jackals, we returned to our camp. At daybreak we started oft again in the same direction as on the previous evening. Soon .we came upon a herd of about a dozen, and had a right good chase over two miles and more of varied country. Each of us got four or five shots. Lee, as usual, killed one, a cow. Sir John Willoughby and I wounded one piece. I saw my antelope separate him self from the herd and make off, and gal loped after him. He led me a fine dance and gave me but one opportunity of getting near him, which I was too slow to take advantage ol Mot Very Bard to Get Lost After two miles' gallop I pulled up wondering what had become of my com panions and where I was. In about half an hour I heard a shot, and going in that direc tion found Lee anxiously looking for me. In a chase of this kind it Is very easy for the inexperienced to lose himself in the veldt All landmarks get lost; the direc tion of the wind and the position of the sun give little assistance when one has been galloping hard for some distance. I found that all our galloping and shooting had only resulted in the death of one harte beest After, this we rode on for two hours with out seeing any game, and were getting near our camp about midday when we ob served standing in a grove a fine herd of 15 or 20 roan antelope. These magnificent creatures cantered off, but soon stopped to look 'round, giving me a capital shot, as I happened to be in front of the others. I fired both barrels at a distance of some 80 yards and knocked down two. One im mediately rose again and made off when I saw that his thigh was streaming with blood. The uncertain expanding bullet had smashed up on the surface without penetrating. Lee got a shot at this fellow and knocked him over, but he again got np and followed the herd. We now thought we would get a good chase, for we had fol lowed them hard for a mile and the bucks were getting blown. Unfortunately they made for a spruit with high banks and muddy bottom, and while we were search ing for a plaoe to cross the stream escaped away out of our sight The Wounded Ones Got Away. Sir John Willoughby wounded one badly as the herd galloped down to the spruit ana on the other side he found a very bloody spoor, which was followed up for some dis tance fruitlessly. Then returning to look for the animal which both Lee and I had hit so hard we found the place where he had fallen. The grass was covered with blood,but ot the antelope not a sign. ' Two natives who had been following us at a distance all day came up and promised to spoor the wounded beat and to bring the horns, which were very fine, into camp. This, howeve. thev failed to do. I think if Lee had him self spoored the animal we should certainly soon have got him, but the day was hot, the horses tired, the camp near, and all seemed to make an immediate dinner necessary. Un our way to .camp, alter covering up the first antelope shot, we saw more harte beest, but had had enough of chasing for that day. On the following morning w moved our camp ten miles further on tovrard the locality we were aiming at We outspanned under a large and lofty magundl tree. This tree bas at this season of the year leaves of the most vivid green, con trasting sharply with the prevailing winter hues and gives a most beautiful and welcome shade. During our morning trek a herd of hartebeese was seen from the wagon, which Sir John Willoughby pur sued. After a long chase he succeeded in killing one close to the spot where we out spanned. Now there were in camp four dead antelope and much "billtong" was made. Four Mashonas had made a little hut down by our camp, and gladly assisted in cutting up the meat, of which they re ceived an ample supply. flow the Natives Hunt Little native hunting parties are fre quently met with in this velut Two or three in number, with one wretched old musket and two or three charges of ammu nition in common, they rarely kill anything of themselves, but trusting to finding the dead or wounded game ot others, or to be ing fed by some hunting party suoh as ours. In default of these resources, they subsist on caterpillars, which are found in large quantities on the topmost branches ot cer tain trees. Toward evening I went out for a short ride with Lee in the vicinity of the.camp. We got no shot, making three unsuccessful attempts to stalk successively a fine old pauw (bustard), an oribi (sort" of gazelle), and two hartebeest cows. Fresh eland spoor was seen, which kindled my hopes of getting a chase after this fine antelope on the morrow. Next day, accompanied by the "Baboon" we hunted" in the direction of the Umfuli river. It was a morning of misfortune; both Sir John Willoughby and I .got good fnnftnrr stint at ivan tnlitnrr man anfalnna bulls, and both missed without excuse. Lee also chased and tired at, without result, two Koodoo cows. Lee and I again tried our fortune in the afternoon, over the open plain extending to the north. We had a good gallop after, and several shots at a herd of hartbeests, of which I succeeded in killing one. Lee, this afternoon, shot very badly. He carried a rifle of mine, a .537 single bar rel Henry, and missed shot after shot at comparatively easy distances. He was muck 'put out, and declared that the rifle was a bad one. As he had been shooting with it well on previous days I could not understand how the weapon could suddenly have become worthless. The BeesU Know Bad Marlnmen. On our way back to camp, as evening was setting in, we got good shots at two rcan antelope, which hardly troubled to get out of our way. They were perfectly right, as we both missed easv shots, and Lee was more than ever convinced of the badness of the rifle. While we were engaged in moving the next morning Sir John Willoughby hunted. His gray pony played him a nasty trick, galloping off 3fter he had dismounted to shoot at a'rait buck and Sir John had to cotie into camp on foot One of the grooms was sent in vain to look for the pony, and the "baboon's" spooring skill had to ba called upon to find the lost aniuaL He found and brought him into the camp late in the afternoon. With the best trained and most certain horse, it is most unwise to neglect the precaution of attaching the prime to your waist dv a string. While we were out spanning this morn ing my servant observed a large snake close to the wagon. I quickly got mv gun and shot it while it was wriggling off Into some bush. When examined, Lee pronounced it to be a cobra of considerable size. The bite of this snake is very rapidly fatal to man or beast It measured I feet 6 inches in length, and was in thickness equal to about three fingers. Broad stripes of dull yellow and gray marked the body. A More Successful Chase. In the afternoon I took A .577 rifle my self and had a long ride, but no shot Sir John Willoughby bunted toward the Um fuli by himself and shot a loan antelope bull, not returning to camp till after dark. Next day we proceeded for hours passing at times through a most lovelv land. Not a living creature did we see till noon. Then Lee fired at a rait buck a long way off, which galloped away. Tho report of tho shot brought out of a plantation three roan antelope, who stood looking at us about 300 yards away. I dismounted and fired and away thev went. Galloping as hard as I could over an open space I got within 100 yards, jumped off and fired asrain. This was a lucky bullet It struck one of the ante lope in the thigh and passed through, mak ing only a small hole, as I discovered'af ter ward, but fortunately smashed in two the thigh bone of the other leg. This antelope separated himself from the two others and I made after him. He could not get away from me and I soon got an other shot, which 'finished him. Lee gal loped after the two others and shot them both. They were'all three fine, fat cows with nice heads. ' We had now hard work for about two hours cleaning and covering up the three antelopes, which lay on the plain more than a mile apart Long grass aud branches had to be cut and fetched from a distance, and before we had finished our attentions to, the first vultures had settled by scores on the other two bucks. We saved these, however, before much harm had been done. , KASDOLPH CHUSCHHA. & . , . - -. ,-. EVENTS OF THE DAY. One of the Brightest of the fiew Con gressmen Is the Youngest CAPACITY 0J? THE MAYFLOWER. Forthcoming- Novel That la Erpccted to Start Reform in Russia. A THEEATESlNG Y0LCAX0 IN 3IEJIC0 mums ron thb msr-ATCH. Texas sends to the present Congress a Bepresentatire who is liable to distinguish himself before h i political career is finished. He i the youngest member. Born in Mississippi in 1863, James W. Bailey was at 21 years of a g e an elector-at-large for Cleveland, and the following yea r .1885 located in '( Texas, where he be gan the practice of Congressman Bailey, law. Within a twelve-month he attended the Congressional Convention in the district, and made so stirring a speech at one stage of the pro ceedings, that almost to a man, the dele gates demanded his nomination in prefer ence to any of the candidates so far named. He refused the honor for two reasons; he had not been in the State a year, and was not yet old enough to be eligible to the office. Last year he went into the Democratic convention against Judge Silas Hare, a man distinguished for his attainments, who was serving his second term as a Representative for his State and who had resided in the district for 40 years. Notwithstanding such strong opposition, Bailey won, but so hon orable was his canvass, that Judge Hare, after his defeat, publicly acknowledged the honorable methods ot ms opponent ana called upon his own personal friends to sup port him. What Lady Somerset Has Discovered. That very clever Englishwoman, Lady Henry Somerset, who is at present travel ing in this country, expresses astonish ment, which must have oreviously occurred to Americans, that the historical old vessel, the Mayflower, was of such tremendous capacity. Lady Somerset judges by the number of persons she has met recently whose ancestors came over in the famous old ship. It they can one and all prove their claims, surely the Atlantic liners we are wont to consider gigantic and altogether without precedent, are really veritable ferry-boats in comparison with the sea craft of a couple of hundred years ago. This and the passion for lionizing foreign nobility, some of whom were never heard of before they came to this side of the water, are, in Lady Somerset's opinion, the great est of American fads. At the same time she qualifies her opinion and sets herself right with us by the statement that in this respect we are no worse than her own peo ple. In England, she says, it has long been the practice to adopt every species of Americanism as a craze, no matter what it might be. But within a few years th s fad has to a great extent died out, and she looks for the same result when Americans realize their own co dition. Kind and sen sible words these, and from a woman re nowned for her eood taste and judgment It is to be hoped they will have the effect - desired. Russia's Treatment of Fennel!. I do not care to attack too ardently the customs or characteristics of a people with which I am not familiar. There is always the pos sibility that, rude and unsatisfactory as they may be, we have in our own conntry cus toms or methods of procedure- as open to criticism as any we find abroad. But in thecaseofBussia, I think it safe to freely pass upon the usaires there in the name of Jo- PenneU. the law. There are no parallel conditions in Russia's case. She stands alone to-day as a brutal and whollv barbarous Government in the midst of cultured and civilized com munities. Are there any palliating circumstances to warrant a modification of this opinien? I do not know of one. The Russians are an intelligent, progressive people, who, in in dividual cases, have shown exceptional qualities in the arts and sciences and the Emperor makes it appear as if he sanctioned effort of the kind. But it seems to be more or less "a bluff" on his part Neither he nor the Government favors progression of the kind. Warl war! is tho watchword. To that end everything is sacrificed. Who can say that a country with a constant de sire to subjugate its neighbors is civilized? In what country on the European conti nent would a quiet, peaceable man like Artist Joseph Fennell be restrained from working? What idea of the defensive ar rangements of a nation may be gathered from a sketch ot a church ora village street? In case of a conflict between the great pow ers it is hardly likely that either the church of Kieff or the rude streets of Ber dicheff will be tho keystone or the line of battle of a campaign. Yet, for snob mild, 'peaceful employment, undertaken in a spirit of artistio zeal and by which the world is the gainer, Mr. Pennell, whose magnificent work in Americau books and magazines is so well known, was seized, subjected to all sorts of indignities, without going so far as personal violence, and in the end "fired" out of the country altogether. Some say Mr. Pennell was very lucky. So he was. If the intelligent Bussian offi cials had taken the notion, they might-have marched him into Siberia, instead of out of the country, and who would have been the wiser? The Eruption af Colima. The eruption of the volcano of Colima, Mexico, is proving so serious that the Government has ordered the inhabitants of the adjacent villages to move to places of safety. Colima has not done much damage in recent times, with the exception of a short period about 60 years ago, when an outbreak did tremendous injury to the neighboring towns. In the meantime it ha3 always shown signs of suppressed ac t ivlty, at times assuming extremely threatening appaarandes and it has been t he general belief that sooner or later, It w ould "repeat its performances of centuries ago, when, as is evident from conditions still existing in the vicinity, it destroyed pretty much everything destroyable within a radius of 400 miles. Indeed, T re member a magazine correspondent's letter of about 18 years ago in which the writer suggested a safer locality for the villagers at the mountain's base. He had visited the crater in company with authorities on vol canic matters, and the party became con vinced that within the near future Colima would again vomit forth destruction as ybat mr -". ml m "U i vigorously as it did in ancient times. If it did the famous eruption of Vesuvius 1,800 years ago was not any worse than this would be. Can this be the eruption prophesied? If it is let us hope that the unfortunate in habitants will escape the fate of the people of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The Uncle Tom's-Cabln Idea. In sending Hall Caine, the distinguished novelist, to Russia, for the purpose ot con structing a romance that will set the Busso- Jewish social" situa tion before the world in its true light, the English H e b r e w s hope to gain the attention of civilization through a method which has already proven its HoU Gain. efficacy in the case of our own Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Hall Caine is not a writer of the Mrs. Stowe type. He will hardly deal with his subject in anything like the manner of the famous American author, but if he treats it with the vigor manifested in those two powerful and dramatic works of his, "The Bondman" and 'The Deems ter," we may look for a work that will have some of the efiect desired. If the author, through this medium, attract attention to the Bussian Hebrew as he did to the in habitants of The Isle of Man and Iceland in the books' named, and succeed in improving their conditions, even in the slightest de gree, his object will be accomplished and the people benefited will in many respects have as much right to look upon him as their deliverer, as the colored race does to Mrs. Stowe. I suppose it is known that it is within the past six months that his powerful romance, "The Scapegoat" was published in the London Xetcs. The truthful and sympathetic manner in which he treated the Hebrew character in the East led to his selection by the English representation of that race as the best exponent of the question in which they were interested. By sending him to Russia with the ground work of a stirring romance it was thought he might endow it with sufficient local color to create a current of practical inter est in the direction of their persecuted countrymen. A Badly Needed New Jewel. The return to fashionable favor of the emerald and turquoise, seems to indicate that precious stones like new idess in cos tuming have run the gamut of possibility aud are gradually coming back to first forms. In dress every conceivable design and combination has been used and now the old styles ore coming into vogue again. As to jewels, the opportunities have not been so vast, but, since all the different precious stones have each had their day, as far as fashion is concerned, it has become necessary to fall back on some of the old "standby's" for a change. Perhaps the discovery of a new stone in the Nevada mining district to which the name of "Sarascite" has been given may re lieve the situation somewhat, by giving to the ultra fashionables something, just at a Eeriod when they need it most The itherto unknown brilliant is described as being of a beautiful dark green color and susceptible of a high polish. As it has not been found in any great quantities as yet, it is likely to be very costly. Wilkie. WHAT DO YOU INTEND THE M N FOR EVERYBODY. Rattan Furniture, Folding Beds, Buffets, Sideboards, China Closets, Dining Room Suites, Parlor Suites, Library Furniture, Bedroom and Parlor Suites, Etc., Etc. YOU CAN BUY ANY OF THE FOREGOING AT EXCEPTIONALLY REASONABLE P.RICES. We offer you better goods and name lower prices than can be offered or named at any other establishment in this city. Our stock is too large to give a price list. The best thing you can do is to call and see the goods and ascertain the prices. By all means pay us a visit before purchasing elsewhere. iiii.i.iiiiiii.Himiniiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin1 SsV "W 1 a"cEl I Ladies' Desks, $8 to 0 A GOOD DKINK OF TEA Is a Luxury That Very Few Amer icans Enjoy in Their Homes. EVEN DELM0NIC0 ISN'T A JUDGE. It Is at Ceylon, Formosa and Amoy One Gets the Genuine Stuff. WHAT CONSUL BBDL0E HAS LEARNED rcoanrsroironfCB o the dispatch.! Amoy, CrtiNA, Nov. IT. When I left Philadelphia, I thought I was a fair judge of tea. I had Imbibed both it and the knowledge of it in .large quantities from George C. Boldt, John Chamberlin and Delmonico. Now, after having visited Ceylon, Formosa and the Amoy district, I find that I knew nothing, and the three worthy gentlemen named, knew even less. We Americans don't know the first prin ciples of making tea. The delicate leaf should never touch metal. "It should be kept in paper, wood, glass or porcelain. To make it, put a small quantity in a porcelain cup, fill the latter with boiling water, cover it with a porcelain saucer and let it stand three minutes. Then if you desire to be an epicure, drink only the upper layer of the golden liquid, throw the rest away, rinse the cup and begin drawing de nova. Don't use sugar any more than you would sweeten Chambertin or pour molasses into Mumms Extra Dry. Don't use milk! It ruins the flavor of the tea and injures the stomach. The cloudiness produced by adding milk to tea arises from the action of the tannin upon the casein, and is, chemically speak ing, pure leather. An old maid who di inks a dozen cups of this mixture a day swallows 100 pairs of boots and a section of extra long leather hose during her lonely life of CO years. The Tea Mnjt Never Boll. Above all things don't boil tea. The heat drives off the perfume, spoils the flavor and extracts the tannin, the astringent principle,. If the boiling be done in a tin or iron pot the tannin attacks the metal and makes the liquid black. This fluid is simply diluted ink. Never let the tea stand except in a tightly closed porcelain pot Standing changes it from a delicious wholesome beverage into an ill-tasting and bitter liquor. Bather make it in small quantities and make it often. In summer when you want to cool off qnickly; sip the tea boiling hot with a slice of previously peeled lemon, or nicer still, of orange, without the rind, floating in it In winter especially when you have a cold, and require a sudorific, add a wineglassful of arrack to it and drink it down as hot as you can stand it It will bring out a pro fuse and healthful perspiration when punch or hot scotch fails to thaw you out Beware of green tea 1 It is an abomina tion and a fraud. A Chinese coolie wouldn't give it to his pig. He will give that patient porker dead rats, old boots and other offal and such unconsidered trifles, but he draws the line at green tea. In the first place it is simply the unripe leaf, and bears the same relation to the real article that the "little peach of Emerald hue" does to Delaware's delicious fruit In its richest ripeness. It has the same effect upon the stomach md abdominal nerves as in the case of poor "Johnny Jones and his sister Sue." Bow Green Tern Gets Its Colon The green tea of commerce derives its FOLLOWING CLASSIFICATION OF Towel Racks, Rockers, Book. Cases, Clothes Stands, Chairs, Desks, Lounges, Music Stands Card Tables, Easy Chairs, Shaving Stands, Hat Racks, Umbrella Stands, Couches, Secretaries, Wardrobes. Our styles are always the best I Our prices are uniformly low I You can find whatever you want! You can depend on getting the right pricel You can rely on anything promised! You will find everyone connected with our business anxious to please you! You will receive the benefit of all that experience, education and large business facilities can offer. $35. this is our name:, business and location: BOOS. & C rare color from being cured or rather killed on dirty copper pans, from being mixed with weeds and shrubs, from being stained .with indigo aud chrome yellow, from being colored with verdigris, grass juice or chlo rophyL Every green dye known to com merce has beeh used to produce the much admired but death-dealing color, excepting it may be pans green. I'll venture the statement that there is no fine tea in the United States. What foes to our country is the cheap stuff used ere by the'coolies and jail inmates. When an American housekeeper pays 1 per pound for her oolong or English breakfast, she is buying what is sold here for 25 cents. No really good tea is sold here for less than SI per pound by the wholesale. If laid down in the market at home it could not be sold for less thau 81 75. This SI 00 tea is the usual article for clerks, poor tradesmen and mechanics. For the well-to-do, the official class and nobilitvl are finer pickings that run from $1 to $50 per pound. The only Europeans who purchase these hizh priced leaves are the Russians and a few connoisseurs in France, Ger many, Austria, Spain and Turkey. The bold Briton permits patriotism and his purse to guide his palate and uses the vicious vitriolic horrors of Ceylon and India. Good Uncle Sam patronizes a Cheap John who gives away to each pur chaser a $2 cup and tauccr with every 25 cent pound of tea. Where the Plant Thrives Best The tea plant is as sensitive and delicate as a belle. There are farms in Formosa, Fo-Kien and other tea districts where the best conditions exist unchangingly, whose tea crop is as famous and distinctly known in the Eastern world as the various chateaux of France are to the wine experts of Europe. Just as tho millionaires of Europe control certain vineyards, so do the millionaires of the Flowery Kingdom con trol tea plantations whose annual output is worth a King's ransom. Another point of the many we have to learn from the Chinese, is the proper mode of packing the leaf. That 'which goes to America is dumped as soon as it is "fired," burning hot into a lead-lined box, the lead is soldered and the air-tight coffin is sent around the globe in the hot hold of a steamer. The tea sweats and undergoes manv changes which alter its flavor alto gether and vitiate its quality. Bow Poor Tea Is Packed. The Mongolian packs the poorest kind in, strong paper packages and these in turn in' mortuary lead; the better kind in soft tin paper-covered boxes; still better ones in silver-foil inside of one-pound cases made of split sun-dried bamboo and the best of porcelain jars and vases, tie packs in eights and quarters of a pound, so that if a few leaves are improperly treated or not cured, they will not contaminate much surround ing tea. But ah, the exquisite pleasure to be found in a cup of truly fine tea. The color is a delicate gold; each leaf unfolds into a per fect olive oval; its fragrance fills the ban queting hall, delicate and yet penetrating, dainty but distinguishable above all other perfumes; and the flavor! The famous Clover Club punch pales into dim distance in comparison to this "cup that cheers." Words cannot describe the delight in a brew of fresh Formosa tea. It fills the system and makes every nerve thrill with joy. It lingers on the palate for hours. And "the next day," think of it, O votaries of Bac chus, the brain is clear, the body all alert and ine soul ready for the battle of life. Edward Bedlob, U. S. Consul. They Know Each Other. Boehester Union and Advertiser. The Czar and the Sultan may make it np just now for a purpose. But they will watch each other like two thieves, all the 10 ARTICLES WILL HELP YOU TO DECIDE: Easels, Etageres, Fancy Tables", Rockers, Brass Stands, Writing Cabinets, Music Cabinets, Dressing Stands, Fancy Chairs, Fire Screens, Sewing Chairs, Pedestals, Work Stands, Bnc-a-Brac, Chiffoniers, Cabinets, rWlr'nilnnl ji a """"'f I ' IS' if Ladies' Rockers, $4.25 Only. COMPLETE HOUSEFURNISHERS, . 307 100 STREET, PICTURES BY WIRE. Photos Can Now Be Telegraphed and Eeproduced in Half-Tones. HAUD-SKETCHES CAS BE SENT. The Procesi Permits of Enlargement or deduction in Sizes. ONE OP SCIENCES LATEST TEHJ1IPH3 rwTtrrrrcr ron tot dispatch.1 The advent of the telephone, which enabled us not only to converse through hundreds of miles of wire, but to recognize the voices of our friends,and the report of a few years ago that one's autograph could ba faithfully reproduced at the distant end of a line (now an accomplished fact), paved the way for the conjecture whether the time would not come when we should see by electricity. On account of the subtlety of the light vibrations, compared with which those of sound are crude, it seems improbable that the latter will ever be accomplished. But there has recently been invented a process by which photographs can be transmitted to any distance antl reproduced at the fur ther end in the form of half tones, similar to the photographic reproductions so much, used in illustrated journals. The process is known as the Electro Artograph. The time occupied in trans mitting an ordinary column-wide illustra tion need not exceed eight or ten minutes, and the stereotyping of the reproductions should not occupy more than a few minute more'.so that the reproductions can be placed upon the newspaper presses along with tho press dispatches descriptive of the subjeo to be illustrated. By a system of gears on both the trans mitting and receiving instruments it is pos sible to change the size of the picture at each end ol the line. That is to say, a pict ure can be transmitted either larger, the same size or smaller; and at the receiving end, if there be several instruments, they may each reproduce it on a different scale. Of course, much greater accuracy is at tained if large originals are used, and they are reproduced on a smaller scale. A singla transmitting instrument is capable of actu ating a large number of receivers at differ ent points: thus the same picture may be simultaneously reproduced at a number of widely-scattered news centers. If it is desired to send hand sketches, a process has been devised by which a special artist can make his sketches "on the spot" by suitable washes, preserving all the half tones that he may deem necessary to the correct pictorial representation, and upon the completion of the sketch it is wrapped around a transmitting cylinder, and, by a simple adjustment of the tracer, the ma chine can be left to itself until the whola picture has been transmitted to its destina tion, where it is automatically reproduced, a complete line engraving. It is claimed for this process that the depth of engravings can be increased over 100 percent above that reached by tha deepest half-tone engraving, thus adapting1 the work to uses to which the latter, on ac count of their shallowness, are unsuited. The inventor of this process says it is quite possible to engrave directly on" metal by its means. He expects to find large application of his device by reproducing portraits, pho tographs and conventional designs, both singly andinmultiplicate,on silver and other metal ware, principally at local points. PITTSBURG. 1 WH Jfctik&lbii :-4r-v;v '--3fc ' MMSSM
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