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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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