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K.n.uo wui aa uui or aa aaoarmoua Ui DWCmUOBl. 3 The latest romance of gold discovery comes from Nicaragua, where it in as sorted that the old mines of tlio Aztecs have beca found. England in said to lie moving in tho direction of an imperial znllvercin to held her colonics closer together by means of trade relations with tho mother country, Tho mines of tho world lust year pro duced a vnluo of $1,876,000,000, of which $700,000,00!) was in coal. The United States is credited with $000,000,- 000, of about one-third of the total. Farragut and Porter were tho only two 'American naval officers to hold tho rank nnd litlo of Admiral. "Tho rauk will probably not bo revived," opines tho New York World, "until wo have another war." Says tho Pliiladclpbh Ilernrd: When William I'enn laid out Philadelphia he ; didn't lay out that in tho year 1890 J Philadelphia manufacturers would furu f, IbU locomotives for a railway in the Holy Land to draw trains from Jaffa to Jeru salem. Tho surviving Union Generals who commanded departments during tho Civil War arc: Generals Banks, Buell, Butler, lloscrrans, Sigcl, Lew Wallace, I). N. Couch, C. C. Augur, J. M. Palmer, N. J. T Dana, J. J. Reynolds, II. G. y Wright, G. 31. Dodge, Scholleld and B. jV. Kelley. f J Robert Bonner is authority for tho statement that in 185G there was npt a liorso that had trotted a mile in 2:20, and not over twenty horses in the 5 country in tho 2:30 list. Tho great . W-hango which has occurred during tho jtervcning years, notes tho American tiiryman, is indicated by the fact that tiring the past year almost ono thousand firscs were added to tho already very rgc number who had covered n mile 2:30. Tho greatest record thus far iJido - was iu 1S85, when Maud S. Jaclied the wonderful speed ot a mile in 2:08. Tho railroad statistics of the United States furnish no end of interesting 1 figures to those who care to investigate them. Nearly one hundred and sixty v thousand miles of road are iu actual j operation, and these roads employ about 5 three million poople ia various capacities, i During the last year $1,000,000,000 was spent in railway freights, and, figuring upon a bash) of 02,000,000 population, this would mako $10 for every man, woman and child in the country. This sum would pay the national debt, or supply free education to all the children in the country for a long period. Tlio Sandwich' Islanders believo, de clarcs tho Chicago llsrdd, that Kala kaua was poisoned by the doctors and they feel very bitterly toward Colonel Baker, a friend nnd companion of the King in bis illness, who, they think, should have mado sure that the medicines administered to him contained no poison ?by first taking a dose of them himself. . This was a duty duo to Hawaiian royalty i which tho Colonel failed to perform, and though somo very good reasons for it ' may be nppareut to others, lie will never be able to show the Sandwich Islanders 1 why bo should not havo taken tho alleged poison himself and saved the life of the King. Tho proof of tho adago that whero thcro is a will thoro is a way to break it is seen in some statistics in a Boston legal journal. They show that iu tho United States last year 4000 wills were coutes'ted, 2i00 of which wero brokeu. Largo as ..they seem, thero is no reason, confesses the Chicago Herald, io doubt the accuracy of those figures. The contested will case has becomo a familiar feature of every Probato Court, and the lawyers in setting aside wills has become prover bial. Even tho will of so subtle a law yer as Mr. Tilden was successfully con tested. The situation is uu unfortunate one for the man of wealth. Ai his death ho can neither tako his riches with him nor be certain that they will be distributed afterward iu accordance with the behests of his will. v lias tho ancient city of Moscow, Ras kin, gone down on its knees to tho Mer-g chant Jermokoff? This is tho question now agitating Moscow society. It seems . that a subscription for a certain charity was being raised iuMoscow, und of the million rubles required thero was a de ficit of 300,000. Tho Mayor bethought him to niuke an appeal to a rich merchant , of his acquuiutuucoifor the required sum. lie did so; the flrstltime iu vain. But on another visit theuuerchuut said: "Go down on your knesnud beg mo to give you tho money." "Aud why not?" re turned the Muyor. Like Lady Godivu, he sacrificed hi pride aud gained the money for the town. And now so ciety is much concerned to know if it." honor was lost, and casuists are arguing ou both sides of the question. Moscow Las got something to talk abeut. IN EARLY SPRINO. Bright days are with us, lengthened and serene, Tho clouds grow mellow, and the forost bath Tts building pleasures; yet of Winter's scath Borne drear memorials here and there are seen. For, though the wind no more breathes frosty-keen, It often flnata the old leaves in our path, Or sighs along some unroaped aftermath, To mind us of I he rigor that hath been, O thou my Joy, Kpring of my Wondrous Year? Forgive, If in thy presence aught of grief Remain from that dead time ere thou wast here. Now, surely, such gainsiying shall be brief; For thou wilt set my feet where flower and leaf And soft new sward blot out the stubble sere. Edith At. Thomcu, in Scribner. JANIE'S ATTEMPT. BY. TOM r. M0H0A5. "I'll not como back till you call me, Miss Lang?'' "Thcu, I fear you will be a long timo in coming, Mr. Atchison I" Then tho young fellow whacked the old fcuco beside him so fiercely with tho stick ho hid picked up as he came to tho trysting placo that the catbird in the lil c tangle just over tho fence jumped out of her nest with a squawk of wild nllright and went blundering away in tho gathciiug dusk, while tho wieldcr of the stick turned his back upon tho girl nnd trudged down the hill with unnecessarily heavy steps. "Miss" Lang! "Mr." Atchison! The catbird, who had witnessed many a meeting at tho old gato since she began her nesting in the lilacs, has never be fore heard tho young pcoplo address ench other with such ceremonious exac titude. It bad been "Janic" and "Phil" till the catbird, perhaps with some of tho in stincls ot a mutch-maker, lias grown complacently nccustomcd to their meet Ings. The young pcoplo had had oc casional "tills," to he sure, but never before such a quarrel as this. Phil Atchison did not look back as he tramped away, and Janic tossed her short little curls and hurried toward tho bouse. "Phil is so so commonplace, and- There was a little cutch iu her murmur as she told herself so, in spite of the fierceness with which she forced herself to believo that she was glad it was nil over between them. Perhaps Phil was commonplace. But it was ouly of late that Janio had dis covered it. It had not been so very long ago that she had thought his honest faco something very much better than com mouplaco aud his homely talents more than ordinary. Tiiore was much of the inventor about this youug fellow, who was continually pottering with Borne novel contrivance of his own conception, and but a littlo while igo Jauio bad pridcfully regarded him us destiucd to uccomplisu great things. But that was before her inspiration had come to her, showiug her, as it gradually opened her eyes to her own possibilities, how commonplace Phil really was. To be sure, ho was an inventor us far as in tent went, nt least but as yet he had never succeeded in accomplishing any thing iu particular, aud probably, she decided, never would. Beside, this, ho was intensely, almost disgustingly, prac tical. Janie loved poetry, particularly the kind that wailed more or less dis tressingly about unrequited love and such sad themes, But Phil cared littlo for it, eveu, upon tho night of tho quarrel, going so far us to snort contemptuously at ouc of her most soullul aud wailful selections. 1'hil was all well enough in his . "-ay, but there was littlo of the heroic about him, unless, indeed, it Wight havo been in the reckless way in which he placed himself iu the power of some of his ex periments. When she broached a part of it Phil had promptly scoffed at her inspiration and his skepticism, or nt least lack of sympathy with her imbition, had been a prime factor in bringing about tho sepa ration, blow-going Phii, outside of his inventing, had no yearning beyond tho having of a commonplace little home, with Janie as itr- littlo mistress. This prospect had seeued very alluring to her till tho coming of her inspiration had whispered to he,' that she was worthy of better things ui.d then that she was capa ble of attaining them. She wantei well, she ho dly knew definitely jus; what she did want, but it was sometlkug that tho prospect of be ing tho miltrcss of a quiet little Lome did not pro'uise. In tho big, bright world beyond the village there wero many opportunities aud Her discontent began to grow as rapidly as Ler ambition expanded. Phill promised cheerfully that, as the iuvention proved tlv success that ho fondly hoped it would lie, they would exhaust some of the plesiurcs of the great, bright world. But Juiie, impatient at his awkward sympa'hy and his scufiiug at her poetical quoin ions about hearts bowed aud am oitiojis enchained, scoffed in turn at his 'inspects. The invention, she said sei vnfully, would probably amount to no moru than its predecessors fantastic fuilunes, all of them. And Aud so matters went on from bad to worse till tho quarrel was followed by tho purting uud Janie aud her ambition were free of slow-going Phil uud his Commonplur.e plans. She smothered the pang in her heart as she hurried toward the house iu the gloaming. There was little now to pre vent her matiug tho attempt ut whirls' she felt so sure of succeeding. Phil would have no chance to object. The indulgent, unv.'orldly oil aunt with whom the orphan girl lived and who would huve thought it neurly the correct thing and made imt feeble objection if Janio had proposed uu excursion to Peru, uud did not put a veto Ukii the proposition. Ihut she but hulf understood. And, two days luter, when Phil Atchi son, with n very transparent excuie Upon his lips nnd a hopo for reconciliation in his kjcnrt, caiicd nt tho little cottage in the lilac tangles, Janie had gone to make her attempt. Then Phil was angry in good earnest nnd inquired no inoro. Why what right had sho to I Then he remembered Unit she was no longer his promised wife and went back to his inventing, re solved fiercely to mind his own business and smother Ids feelings, and a discour aging job enough he found it. Janie s idea of the advantage offered by the city had been gathered from vari ous unrcliablo source?, and her aoimr was chccied by the fancy that fortunes there wore to be had almost for the tak ing. She could paint a little butter cups aud violets on saucers and placques ana the like and fancied, poor child, that she was destined, if not for a great artist, to at least make something ot a name and fume for herself. Her pretty little daubs would not sell. But Janic, though sorely disappointed, was not conquered, and sho set bravely to work and painted other pretty little daubs, which did scarcely better than their predecessors. One sold, after sever at days, ami tlio littlo girl chirked up wonderfully for a time. It was slower work than sho had anticipated, but with perseverance sho would win success after awhile. Homo was not built in a day. And so she struggled ou. Economize as one will, board and other necessities will cat up one s savings and Janie saw the littlo store of money she had brought with her decreasing duy by day. And still tho little daubs did not sell. Then, when at last sho knew not which way to turn, she secured a chance to color photographs for a miserable pittance per dozen. Though sho worked, poor child, to the limit of her endurance, day after day, till sho grew wan, hollow-eyed and nl ways weary, the scanty pay was scarce sufficient to keep body and soul together. This was very fur from achieving the fame and fortune sho had so fondly ex pected would bo here. Aud there seemed nothing brighter to which sho could look forward. In tearful retrospection, in the solitudo of her barren, cheerless room, the quiet little village she had left seemed no longer mean nnd commonplace, but the brightest spot on earth. Aud the quiet littlo home that poor Phil had planned for her seemed in fancy almost like Para due. And Phil ho was no longer the commonplace clod to vhicu her inspira tion had likened him, but his talents the brightest, his honest face the dearest and his love the most? desirable in tho whole wide world. llow she hated the inspiration that had tempted her to leavo them and to so wroug Phil, dear old Phil! Oh, if sho could only but she was proud, this little Janie, and sho could not go back to them. And so the days dragged drearily on. Then, even the pitiful boon of tho photograph coloring was denied her, and sho could find nothing to do even to earn the few dimes necessary to keep life ia her weary littlo body. Her scanty store of pennies went one by one and no more were added to them, blie had no recom inundations, no inllueuco, that might have secured her a situation. Nobody knew, nobody cared for tho poor littlo struzclin". despairing child. The rent of hot dismal little room came due and there was no way of paying it. In day or two sho must give it up, und then Day after day she had sought for some thing to do, be the reward ever so small that would add to the pitiful remnant of her fust disappearing store of dimes aud pennies anything that was honorable no matter how illy paid. But nobody wanted her, and worn, weary, heart sick, discouraged, sho dragged herself back each time to her cheerless room to sob herself suppcrless to uurefreshing sleep. She told herself that even Phil, dear old Phil, would scarcely have known he now. Tho bloom was gono from he face, which had grown very thin aud white, and the dainty bands that he had so often held iu his strong, warm ones were growiug more slender und like lit tlo claws. Presently came the day when eveu that miserable existence could go ou no longer. On the morrow she must leave the room for which she could no longer pay. She had cried herself suppcrless to sleep the night buforo. The last of the pennies, ouiy half a dozen of them, purchased the mite that made hoi break fast. Thcu she set out bravely to mako ono more hopelcse attempt in tho battle of existence. Nothing rewarded her, and weury, despairing, defeated, she dragged her tired littlo feet back to her dinuciless room ut noon. The struggle was almost over. Thcro seemed nothing more for her to do but to lie down uud die. Her prido was broken at last, and weak, wan, hungry little Janie sank down on her hard bed and sobbed out her pititul loucliuess und weakness and duspuir like a poor lorn, lost child. Oh, if ouly Phil if only she hadn't Thau a thought came to her. If sho left a letter addressed to him, after she win gone, ufter the troubled spirit, weary with the battle, with tho battle with privation and despair, had taken its (light, they would send it to him us the one likely to bo most interested, and he, if he came, could take tlio cold little body aud do with it us he might. Tho letter occupied a loug time in writiug. Sho hud not so very much to say the pitiful stjry was uot a long oue but her weak hand trembled aud tears bedimmed her sight aud dropped ou the cramped lines so ofteu.dkl'hen, when it was done, she left it lyiug on tiie table. But shu could uot remain j there with her thoughts her thoughts ' and her hunger aud so sho weut out j nguiu with weak steps aud ladeu heart. Thero might but no, there seemed no hopo for auythiug. Well, she might as well die trying! Her thin face was ' Hushed a littlo now uud her eyes un naturally blight. Her unsteady steps ' grew quicker, and o i l, queer thoughts I troubled her braiu. Her hunger was half forgotten as she wandered on and on with feverish strength and uncertain purpose. Her short little curls were all astray and her thin hands clenched con- ulsivcly. licr half unguidcd steps led to tho art store where her pretty little daubs had so unsuccessfully been exposed for sale, the kind old proprietor feeling a hair pity for the lonely little child-woman who had asked so often and anxiously of their fate and had been too proud to voice her disappointments when they never sold. This old fellow was just stepping to the door when sho passed the place. Tho daubs were almost forgotten in tho half delirium that had como over her. "Ho, Miss Lang!" he cabled, cheerily. Luck at last!" The daubs not one, but all were soldi Some youns fellow, much to tho old fellow's surprise, upon blundering into the store, seeing the daubs, which he nppearcd to recognize, and making a few inquiries as to the Identity of tho artist, had snapped up the whole lot as if they had been very precious indeed. The ma.i placed tho money in tho bewil dered girl s hands, and watched her as she weut weakly away after a few half incoherent words. "Poor child!" he muttered to himself. She looked ill and half starved! I wish why, I declare, I forgot to tell hor that that young had bceu very particular to inquire her address, and exhibited strong symptoms of intending to call on her." Meanwhile tlio buyer of tho daubs, with his purchases in a bundle under his arm, had made all baste to proceed to the address the art dealer had given him. No, Miss Lang was not iu, the land lady iuforuieJ him. She had probably gouc to look for a new abiding place, as she was about to leave her present quar ters upon the morrow. Wus Miss Lang enjoying good health? Well, now that she thought of it, the landlady was moved to confess that for some time the youug lady had appeared to be sort of fading and failing. V hat was the matter? The landlady could not say. A woman with the cures of a shabby genteel lodg ing house, a worthless husband and valueless children could not bo ex pected to flud time to pay more atten tion to her patrons than to know that they paid their dues promptly and did not make way with tho furniture. When did sho expect tho youug lady back? She could not sa-. Maybe, now that sho thought of it, luiss Lang would not return at all. She had been given warn ing to vacate tho room aud might have dono so already. There was a letter on tho tablo addressed to a Mr. Philip Atchison. It might possibly "That's mo!" interjected tho visitor, with much promptness and profound contempt for the restrictions of gram mar. Five minutes Inter Phil Atchison was reading the letter in the dreary little room. Such a pitiful, disconnected, tear blotted letter it was ! And when the visitor had read it through ho rubled the back of his hand across his eyes and there were other und fresher tear spots on tho page. "When you read this, Phil, dear, dear Phil,'' tho letter said, "my strug gles will bo done. I've tried so hard, Phil, but it was no use. The battlo is almost over, and when it is done, you cau lay me among tho lilacs. And, oh, Phil, forgive tho wrong I did you, deur, dear Phil. Oh, if you could only come to inc now. I am so tired, so tired aud hungry. ' Come to me, Phil! Conic " Thero was a catch iu the young .fel low's voice as ho spoke : ller struggles will soon bo over ono way or the other! Well, I am glad my inventing wasn't a failure at last! And the golden harvest it is bringing mo shall be devoted to making Janie, littlo Janie, hnppy if I find her alive!" He started to read on again. "Oh. Phil, comeback tome! Come " The door opened just then and Janio entered. Her step was less weary aud her eyes more nearly happy. A good supper will do wonders for ouc. "Janic, littlo Junic!" "Deur Phil!" "You called me and I have como!" "Forgive me, Phil! I" And then sho wus half smothered in his protecting clasp and knew that her struggles were over at last." "Aud now you can sec all of the great bright world you desire," said thoyouujf fellow, somewhat luter. "I don't want to see it! the girl re turned, holding him fast with her thiu littlo hands. "I don't wunt the great world er anything but that quiet little home of which wu used to plan, and aud you, Phil!" Xetc lo(i Mercury. Sunbeams Will Sinif. A wonderful discovery has been at tracting tho attention of scientists. A beam of sunlight is made to pass throi.gh s prism, so as to produce thu solur spec trum or rainbow. A disk, having slits or openings cut in it, is mudu to revolve and tho colored light of the rainbow is made to breuk through it aud full on silk, wool or other material contained iu a glass vessel. As the colored light falls upon it sounds will bo given by thu different parts ol the spectrum, and thero will be silence iu other parts. If the vessel contains red worsted aud tho green light Hashes upou it louds sounds will be given. Oidy feeblo souuds will be heard when the red and blue parts of the rainbow fall upon tho vessel, uud other colors make no sound ut all. AVt Yurk Journal. The Iuilluns Made Maple Siifur. That maple sugar has been made by the Indians from a remote time, accord ing to Henry AV. Heusliaw, is shown by their luuguage, their festivals aud their traditions. They collected the sup iu birch-bark vessels, aud evuporated it by throwing hot stones into the reservoirs. They ute the sugar with corn, uud boiled veuison und rabbits iu the sap. Some times the pure sugar wus their ouly did for a month. 1'rcntvn (X .) American, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Vcnccrs aro cut by electricity. Asbestos is supposed to havo n grcit future as a lubricator for machine bear ings. Berlin, Germany, has refused to grant any franchises for electric street rail ways. The telephone between London, Eng land, and Paris, France, is to bo opened on March 1 ; charge for three minutes con versation, $2. ' A lineman who received an electric shock in Louisvillo, Ky., has becomo in sane and believes that he is constantly pursued by an electric ghost. It has beon recently ascertained that the resistance of bricks to crushing force varies from 5000 to 22,000 pounds per square inch, according to quality. Drapers and others showing window goods liable to lose color by fading are advised to put yellow-colored glass in their windows, as the bleaching is caused by tho white rays of the sun's light. Yachtsmen who do not liko tho black tar in their deck seams can now get it white, a white pitch having been in vented that can be run into tho seam hot and which will then stand the sun's heat in any climate. An English engineer has designed, and is now manufacturing, a portable cross cut saw ; that is, a large two-man saw, that can bo folded up into small com pass. It is really a flexiblo chain of saw teeth riveted together. Experiment has proved that, if a deli cate piece of lace be placed between an iron plate and a disk of gunpowder, and the latter be detonated, the lace will be annihilated, but its impression will be clearly stamped on tho iron. Photography is being used in the Paris (France) morgue to determine, if possi ble, identification of tho deceased. A photograph on a largo scalo is taken of tho hands and put on exhibition. Per sons are frequently identified either by scars of injuries or murks of various kinds which indicate the probable occu pation. A nietcofV no, resembling granite, recently fell near the mouth of Pistol River, in Curry County, Oregon. It weighs something over 400 pouuds and imbedded itself several feet in the earth. Parties who saw it went to dig it out, but found it so hot nothing could be done with it. After it had cooled it was re moved, and will soon be placed on exhi bition. Some nickle-stcel plates recently tested at tho Carnegie Works, in Pennsylvania, tho specimens being cut from a three fourths inch plate, gave excellent ro sults.' The clastic limit is said to havo been 59,000 to C0,000 pounds, and tho ultimate strength 100,000 and 102,000 pounds. I he reduction of area was twenty-nine and one-half per cent, and twenty-six and one-half per cent, re spectively. One of tho highest aims of an expert fireman should bo to keep tho largest possible portion of his grate area iu a condition to give radiant heat the largest possible part of tho day. This may bo done as follows: When using atithrunto coal, by firing light, quick and often, not covering nil of tho incandescent coals; wdien using bituminous coal, by coking it very neur the dead plate, allowing sorao air to go through openings in the door, and by pushing toward the bridge wall only live coals; when slicing, to open' tho door only far enough to work the bar. History Depicted on Fans. In this couutry u fan cau scarcely havo any more serious definition than uu ele gant adjunct to the toilet of a lady. But in Japan even tho commonest variety may possess a deep political significance, nud even in tho present day, according to a London paper, fans have occasion ally to be suppressed for much the game reason that a Western newspaper has beon confiscated for beiug a vehiclo in vented to sow ill-feeling und contempt for statesmen or officials by means of cartoons aud epigrams. Ou examining un ordinary bamboo fan it must not be supposed that it is a mere creation of the urtist's fancy. Those quter littlo men nud women, to our eyes tho fuc-similes of each other, represent to the Jap well kuown histori cal or romantic characters. Those im possible lookiug landscapes on the reverse side all depict localities around the capi tal, famous shrines and pilgrim goals, nt once recognizable by uny traveler iu tho couutry, A collector of Japanese fuus of uucieut date finds himself in posession of u com plete history of the times, for before tho newspaper wus established in the land, the fan to a large extent supplied its place. There is uo doubt, as uu iu stauce of this, that much of tho ill feeling displayed in Japan against for eigners some thirty-six years ago was due to the extensive circulation of fans bearing outrageous caricatures of Western life uud manners. Dream f an Onyx Kiuir, According to William Cooper, the Mexican ouyz kiug, there is enough onyx in Mexico to last about u decade and then it will become an extinct material, unless miucs lire discovered elsewhere. Such a great demand exists for onyx, both in this country nud Europe, I can not supply with ull my mines, he suid. I keep hundreds of miners ut work quarrying ouyx, und yet I cannot hull supply the demand. No nun now would think of erecting a line house without having tlio interior decorations lurgely composed of tho liuust onyx. A certain millionaire who is building u house on Fifth avenue intends to have u grand stairway of onyx, which w ill cost something like $300,000. The famous stairway of the famous ''peacock" mausion of Mr. Lelaud, of Loudon, will sink int. i insignificance beside - this grand I'oriuthiuu stairway of translucent onyx. 1 expect to see u solid edifice of ouyx iu Ibis city. It would staud longer iliau the Coliseum. Aem Yurk McruiU, A SMUGGLER'S PARADISE HOW CHINAMEN GAIN ACCESS TO THE UNITED STATES. White Men SmngRle the Oriental or) Dark Nights From Vancouver to Washington The Trices Chargea Looking at the map one may see that the northwest corner of the State ol Washington is torn off, and tho space that is left is filled with water, dotted with an archipelago. The island of Van couver fits partially into tho gapng corner as if it had been torn out by some gigantic convulsion. The tatter and debris of the rent form the archipelago. Our national interest centred in that corner long ago when that portion of the boundary was ia dispute, and the tension of a war feeling was only relieved when a foreign arbitrator settled the boundary, and gave us the island of San Jua, the most important in the group. The city of Victoria con fines nearly all the popu lation on that corner of Vancouver Isl and ; the city of Vancouver is the main settlement on tho British Columbia shore; and on our borders aro such little places as Whatcom, New Dungcness and Port Angeles, in the State of ashingtoa. Fort Town- send, on Puget Sound, is the principal American town near by, and the head quarters of the scanty force of customs officials who are supposed to guard against tho smuggling, and who are en. titled to the presumption that tncy are doing their best in this direction. Vic toria has only 20,000 population. Van couver fewer still, and the islaads only here and there a house. Deer abound upon these islands, which are heavily timbered, and tho waterways between them feel the keel of but few vesselsof none at all, except the smallest craft, outside the main chaancls. It would be hard to imagine a more difficult region to police, or a fairer field for smugglers. Old London itself has scarcely a greater tangle of crooked and confusing thor oughfares than this archipelago possesses, and these ratcrways are so narrow and sheltered that mere oarsmen can safely and easily travel mauy of them. It is a smuggler's pi radise. Those who transport the Chinamen are all white men. The resident Chinese act as their confederates and as the agents of the smuggled men, but do no part of the actual smuggling, that is to say, the boating. The great smuggling is of opium. The introduction of the Chinese themselves is of small account, so far as the defiance of our laws is concerned, as compared with the introduction of opium. Yet that extensive business also is car ried on by whito men. The Chinese cannot pass to and fro as white men can, therefore they leave the traffic to tho whites. These white men are of the class ono would expect to find in such business. A Government employe in V ictoria told mo that I would "be surprised to know what important and respectable persons were counetted with the smuggling," but as he gave mo no further enlighten ment, and as I failed to obtain any proof tliat auy number of so-called respectablo men profited directly by the business, I did not and ill not believe that there are many su-h. Those who do tho smug gling of tli -i Chinese are unprincipled aud reckles -characters. They make their bargr.us with those Chinese whose busi ness it is to arrange for tho carriago of their countrymen into our couutry. The boats employed urc small sail-bouts, and quite as small steam launches. When tho owner of one of these boats has secured a sufficient number of Chiucso to make the venture profitable, if it succeeds, th t journey is made at night, without com pliance with the law, which requires vessels sailing after dark to display lights at their sides. At times the contrabands are landed near Port Angeles or New Duugeuess. Sun Juan Island, within out border, is only twelve miles from Vic toria, and has a few Chinese residetit upon it. At times Chinamen are curried there. Once thero they can cross to the mainland with more freedom, and with a possibility of obtaiuiug testimony to the effect that they aro and have long been domiciled ou American soil. Thu smugglers charge $20 to $23 for lauding each Chinanmu on our coast; $20 is the ordinary anil usual charge. Wuerevcr the Chiuuaien are landed they find either men of their owu nationality to seerete them, or white men awaiting their ar rival, and ready to take thi-iu to some Chinese quarters. Onco ou land the danger of urrest is greatly lessened, and ufter a newly-smuggled Chinaman hu! mailu his way to one of the larger towns or cities near the coast, his fear of deten tion by our Government vanishes en tirely. llurper't Mti jazint. Ato Dear Liver aud Went Mad. The Esquimaux live by fishing and hunting. In thu water they find the seal, wha! and walrus. The ticsh of the walrus furnishes food and thu teeth, which ur of tho finest ivory, uro legal tender. On land are tho polar bears, blue foxes, geese, pelicans aud millions of ducks. The Esquimau used to kill tho polar bear single handed with speat and hunting knife. Ho would steal up near it, hurl the spear, and as thts wounded animal lumbered toward him, would closu with it, and iu a hund-to-haud contlict would begin tho death struggle, armed only with an eighteen inch hunting knife. But it was very dangerous. Many lives wero lost iu such struggles, ami nowadays, uuless with a shotguu, a single Esquimau seldom at tacks u polur bear. We shot several ol them, und wheu wo cleaned them every dug that ute of their livers weut mad aud ran howling about tho ship, und finally jumped overboard uud was drowned. The polar bear meat has a strong, fishy taste and is is not very palatable. The blue fox is the Esquimau's finest game. Its fur is the rarest and cuttlicst in the world. 1 saw tlio Empress of Russia at St. IVtersburgli, ou u state occasion, clad in a mantle of blue fox fur. The blue ."ox is chasi-d with dogs and spears, but it has the cunning of its sp.icii s and is Seldom captuied. VM-mjq It'rM. THE INVISIBLE," The red men, whom we so despise And proudly try to civilize, j Aro wiser in some ways by far " Tban wo and all our teachers are. We preuch"the after-life, and range- ' ' VSJ Through nature's round of eeaselesa clianga, ' Ami search the hopes and fears ol men To prove that we shall live again. We only half believe; at best Our faith stands not the greatest test, For when our friends depart, m weep More than those who do but sleep. And on each marble slab we write Home legend of the spirit's flight Lest, passing by, we might forgot That he who died Is living yet. The Indian, with a single phrase, ' . The ghost of doubt and terror lays, And lifts the viewless curtain spread Between us and the so-called dead. He knows no "dead:" just for a space His friends have faded, form and face, 1 Through Nature's stroug and subtle spell They have become "invisible." We are too fine and wise: we need Much less of logic and of creed. Oh, let the untaught forest child Teach us his credence undeflled Let us no longor say "Our Pead," Nor think that those we love have fled. They are "Invisible," as we Shall close our eyes some day, and see. Gcorue llorton, in Chicago Herald, IIC.U0R OF TIIE DAY. In times of financial panic, even words iau. Did they write Hog Latin with a pig pen? A domestic tyrant General House work. A reliable trade mark Hardened hands. Aptly named Tho "Cornerstone" ol tho Stock Exchange. Puck. Beauty is but skin deep,and frequently it hardly gets below the powder. "Jay Gould is a very silcut man." "Yes, but then, you know, his money talks." "An' phwy d' yees cahl ycr stove nn Injun range, Pat?" "Faix, beca'so it's a good hater." Puck. Why are colts liko rich men's sons? Because they won't work until they aro broke. Pittsburg Dispatch. Never judge an insurance company by tho quulity of tho blotting paper it gives away. Xcw York Continent. Let who will make the country's laws, Yen, t'eu her ballads, grave or funuy; Here mast of us would serve her cause. Content in helping make her money. Life. You can't tell how valuable, a girl's affections are until you are sued for blighting a set of them. Martha' Vine yard Herald. Student "Did Stanley dicover the African Pygmies, do you gather!" Pro fessor di Gamma "Yes; he aud He rodotus." Puck. A boss of street laborers i3 looking around ior that "lino Italian hand" that ho has read about, and offers to make him a foreman. lick. Slangy Artist-Would-Bo "I see by your smile that you're stuck on my joke." Editor " Yes, 1 would bo if I accepted it. Good day." Xeut York World. "Whero aro you going, my pretty maid?" "I'm going ti) ratuli ma a man," she said. "Cast ino your bait, lay pretty maid." "I'm lishiuj,', sir, tor a mau," she said. .veiu luri.vur.. Grin "Seo a dog fight?" Barit "No; the dogs only stood off and yelped ut each other." Grin "Ah, a bark mill, as you might say." Uujfalo Et jrresa. Good : Professor to one of his pupils "Wheu Alexuuder wus as old as you, he had already conquered the world." "But you said ho had Anstotlo for his teacher !" FliejeiuU Placttcr. Cuinso "They say Brown has a very poor memory for faces." Banks "And he has. Why, tho other day he looked into the mirror und asked his wife whose reflection it was ho saw." lliuij Ike. The head uud the heart in the game of love, Must piny its separate part; But we'll purdon a girl a eol l in the head, tSo long's she's not cold in thu heurt. Philadelphia Time. "Don't you ever go to seo couiodicsi" inquired Mies Laura. "No," Buid iliss Irene. "Laughter produces wrinkles." And Miss Irene weut on reading the "Editor's Drawer" iu l!arer't. CAi eaijo Tribune. I know that by my boot straps now 1 cnu not lilted be; I'.ut once a 1u1l red-toppo 1 pair, V Inch Hist iu ImyliooJ 1 did wear, Much elcvutud uiu! Puck. "I urn quite pleased with my son-in-law," said old Mrs. Pickalliw. "My in fluence over him is great. Ever since I have been at his house bo has staid down town ut work until 10 uud 11 o'clock ut uight." .1u York Herald. Wife "Youdou't tell mo that Pro fessor A. has been struck dumb I" Hus buud "Yes, last uiylit. Aud ho was master of seven languages." Wifo "Is it p -s-ible. Aud was he struck duuibiu ull seven?"--'lxat Sifting. Choliy---1' Weuh uboul Chappie? Sup posed to be dead, you know, but came to life iu his colliu. 0,iiecah,vewy quceah." Dolly "Aw, uot m. vewy queeau. They had Hit the ilcah boy into un American made, slnvoml, don't you know." lndtaitui' tin Joui'mt'. An unfortunate mau 'has obtained access to rich Burou Rapiiieau. He de picts his misfortunes, his misery, iu so moviug u manner that the l!arou, with tears iu his eves uud hi - voice choked with subs, culls to his sc: ant: "Jeuu! Put this pour fellow out int.) the street! Ho is breaking my heart "Pari t'i'jaiv. A large quantity of unus imported into thu Congo State, Africa, by the Dutch Rotterdam Con: puny, have broil disposed of to Arabs iu thu interior, aud they are recommencing their slave luids uu the uulivu population.
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