QUITE TOO
I HI I0
Slier one wa a woman o wofulljr
ffhat the ewept her wbol family into th
street. ,
Bh lectured on lidineae, flay after day.
Rill her children ran off to the neighbor
(And, sometimes, the "lord of the manor"
would roam m
Trom hit beautiful hoime which was never
a home.
"Twas a ayiendid expression of beautjr and
't.
Cut it dul not possris home's one requisite,
, heart.
Bat this woman worked on with her brush
, and her broom,
With her servants she battled through
' room after room;
Eh waxed and she polished her beautiful
floors
Kill her friends hardly ventured inside of
i her doors.
Ker carpets so velvety one would refuse
To walk on, until he had dusted his shoes:
tier chairs all ao tidied, without an
within,
rhat to sit on them seemed little less than
aiu.
3& e
NQ BY
TV IT"
"I
F they come nt nil, tlicy 11
couio to-night!" Thus briefly
nnd plainly, with tmo Anglo-
Kiixou coolness, Old our sturdy
leader inform us tlint, within a very
lew hours, hundreds of armed savages
Rad cnnulhnls to boot) might bo cx
cted to full upon our uimrinoil com
pany of flfty-uliio souls, two of whom
iwere women, and seven more helpless
Invalids prostrated by the terrible
laVfrlcan fever.
Our vessel hnd been cast nwny nt the
(mouth of a small West Afrlenn river
three night before, and hnd not our
boat providentially touched the slime
U the very point where two white
traders hnd established themselves, n
few mouths before, we should prob
ably hnve been (as our Irish doetor
poetically phrased It) "the deadest men
live!" liven ns It was, when we at
length succeeded In landing (after a
erics of sensational adventures too
long to be told here), we had to show
fight at onee with oars, boat hooka,
nd even fists, agulnst the mnraudlug
natives, who seemed bent upon strip
ping us of what few clothe the sea
bad spared.
But when once fairly housed after
(their five hours In open boats beneath
the pelting African ruin my brave com
rades accepted the situation w ith thor
ough British stoicism, and made them
elves a comfortable ns could be ex
pected where fifty-nine persou were
crammed into a trading station orig
inally built for two. No stranger could
have found any token of peril or hard
chip in the merry talk and ringing
laughter of theso men who had Just
lost all they had except their lives, a
they tat there around the one email
lamp which our kind host' limited re
sources could furnish, chatting, singing,
telling tales of adventure, rending the
two or three soaked and tattered book
(which I had luckily brought ashore in
my pockets, or drowning the moan of
the night wind and the thunder of the
breaker on the bar with the lusty
Chorus of an Impromptu parody on
So Early In the Morning:"
The sun it baked us black and brown,
The scorpions sauntered up and down,
l And the flics kept gadding about like
bricks.
Till yoa couldn't draw breath without
' swallowing six;
Where we were wrecked that morning,
Where we were wrecked that morning,
Where we were wrecked that morning,
i. Before the break of day."
' Briskest and blithest of all was poor
Prank V, Stanley' famous lieuten
ant on the Lower Congo, who, little
dreaming of the miserable end that
waited him In the hideous swamps of
the Niger not many months later, was
the life and soul of our party. And yet
all this time he knew -well and we all
knew it a well a he did that there
was but a step between us and de
struction. For the first -two day after the
wreck, however, there was no sign of
mischief, our fierce neighbors being
fully occupied with the picking up of
the countless waifs and strays which
kept drifting ashore from our poor old
teamer, while some of the bolder
spirits among them, defying in their tiny
canoe the fury of a surf that would
nave beaten any other craft to atoms,
went out to the wreck Itself, and
tielped themselves as freely as Robin
son Crusoe. We could not look sea
ward In quest of a possible tall with
out seeing a swarm of human ants
creeping up and down the two toll
masts which stood gauntly up out of
tne sullen waters that had engulfed
but lost -vessel, and witnessing a hack-
log of sails and a. chopping away of
cordage from which our poor captuin
already heart-broken at the loss of his
hip turned away his eyes with a
aufled groan.
I -may observe. In parenthesis that
the native of West Africa can fairly
claim at least one clause of the bitter
old Levantine proverb, "The Greek
vine steal all beads, the Greek
women steal all' hearts, and the Greek
nen steal everything." Nothing 1
"too hot or tod heavy" for the savage
(of the Guinea coast. With him thieving
I one of the fine art; and while other
thieve steal for the baser motive of
stain, he steals In the spirit of an artist.
for the mere pleasure of taking what
Hoes sot belong to' him, however use
less It may be. The true West African
rill teal Latin dictionary, a sextant
map of ancient Greece;, and In tev-
cral of the .native villages whioh I
Afterward visited higher up the 'river
I found poll quite as-incongruous a
Che, I bay knows a "Kim boy"
SWEEPING.
WiTISBU.
Her children hd toys Which they nevtt
spread
O'er immaculate floors; nor could cookies
or bread
lie en ten where crumbs might b scattered
about,
For her house was like "wax-work" within
amhwithout.
Of dust, just the least little innocent bit
Would hi ins; on something; akin to a fit.
And a tidy or picture a trifle awry
Could never escap her most diligent eye.
Iter children grew up and they hurried
away
A soon ns they could, scarcely caring to
stay
Where brooms were a-wlrisking; they
sighed for a nest,
Rill neat, hut, inviting spirit of rest.
And the day when the last of her little
ones left,
And the home of their smiles was forever
bereft,
She said, while for dust she still searched
up and down.
"They know I'm the finest housekeeper in
town."
-Good Housekeeping.
P1RELV
1 1 1 1 1 1
spend a whole afternoon nbonrd n ship
in patiently unscrewing the brass knob
of a ventilator, which could bo of no
posslblo use to him when ho bad got
It; and such a case is by no moans
unique.
Peeing the worthy savages so fully
employed, we began to hope that, after
nil, the occupation of robbery might
prove more attractive to them than
that of murder. But, as thlrd-rnte
novelists sny when they want to bo
Impressive, "the time wus coming, and
it came."
Our enptnln hnd foretold (n I hnve
said) tlint the third night would bo the
critical one; and his seventeen yenrs'
experience of African savage gave
special weight to bis opinion, In which
our two trnder host fully concurred.
alio wury trader saw at once that
their minll garrison would hnve no
chance of being ablo to defend against
a determined attack the wide circuit
of the palisades which inclosed the stn
Hon, and wisely decided upon trying
to hold tho house Itself till tho tribe
beyond the river.wlth which they were
on friendly terms, could come up to
the .rescue. This, indeed, they hnd al
ready done on a similar occasion Bmne
months before, when a baud of sav
ages hnd assailed the "factory" nt mid
night Tho house wns completely sur
rounded, and the besiegers, desplto the
heavy tiro poured upou them through
tho loophole of the barred doors nnd
shutters, were pressing elosu up to It
to set it ou tire, when all nt once, in a
momentary lull of tho hideous uproar.
there was heard far awav amid the
dark thickets a faint tinkling sound,
growing ever louder and nearer. That
sound was ns sweet to tho cars of the
fainting garrison as Havelock' High
land war pipe to tho bard-pvosscd de
fender of Lucknow, for it told thorn
that the friendly chief follower (dl.
tingulshed by the (mall brass bells at
their necks) were advancing against
the assailant, who knew better tnan
to await their approach.
Our hosts rapidly made all their
preparations, and, having posted their
native musketeers in various parts of
the building, placed two sentinels out
side, with orders to fire a signal shot
at the first sign, of the enemy's ap
proach, when. (thanks to the glorious
tropical moonlight) they would have
ample tlmo to do, the brushwood hav
ing been cut away. to a considerable
distance on every side of the house.
All being now ready, our leaders sig
nificantly advised us to llo down nnd
sleep whllo wo could. At such a crisis
tho suggestion sounded like a mockery;
but (as I have had good cause to know)
men can slumber even, on tho brink of
destruction, and scarcely bad wo laid
our beads upon our mull bags which,
gallantly saved from the wreck by the
captain and purser, were now serving
us as pillows when we were all fast
asleep.
Bang!
Clear, sham and stunnln? rams tho
report of a hcavr musket from with.
out, Instantly followed by a second
snot, ana tuen uy a confused clamor
of honrso outcries.
Instantly we were nil on our foot.
and ready for action; but I think the
noiaest among us and our party con
tained more than one man whoso rnnr.
age might have matched the stoutest
paladin of Frolssart was not wholly
tree irom tnnt sudden tightening of
the heart which a man in wont n ri
when fairly driven to bay, and about
10 struggio ror life nnd death.
We sprang to the windows tlint AVftr.
looked the courtyard on tho side facing
me river, naturally supposing that we
were attacked. And so we were by
an enemy more .terrlblo and cruel nnd
Irresistible than the fiercest cannibal
la Central Africa.
The red glare of a watch fire kindled
by our vigilant sentinels, and the fitful
light of the sinking moon, showed us
a strange and fearful sight. Half a
dosen goblin figures were leaping wild
ly to and fro only a few pace from
the house, and flourlshlgg biasing
torches, which they swept along- the
ground like, scythes ever and anon,
while the flames of these firebrands
threw the contortions of their gaunt
frVmes and grim face into tartling
anel hldeou relief against tho hiky
blackness of the background, through
which glimmered apectrally the white
eethlng foam of the unresting ea
From the pot where tbU demon
dance was ta pregres down to the
farthest palisade the whole courtyard
itemed Covered with a ahett of black
water, quivering glistening and trenv
bllng Incessantly. Ws were still gas
Ing blankly at this bewildering spec
tacle, when the fatal truth was forced
upon u by the crle of tho black torch
bearers, who shouted, or, rather
creamed
"The drivers! The drivers!"
Then tho full horror of this ghastly
dilemma burst upon lis at once.
Tho terrible "driver ants" of Wet
Afrlcn, whose devouring Jaw can In
one night turn the t-nrcass of an ox
Into n clean picked skeleton, were upon
us In an army millions strong; and
should they succeed- In forcing their
wny into the hotino our only way of
escapo from being actually devoured
alive would be an Instant flight down
to the bench, n night upon which, un
sheltered from tho drenching rain
which n mighty black cloud wns fast
bringing up against us from the sen,
would bo nothing short of certain
dentlt to tho delicate women nnd fever
stricken Invalids of our company.
Thero was no time to lose. Ilnrely
ten. pace divided the advancing
swarms from the front of the house;
nnd should they once reach It nil would
be over. Darting like lightning down
the little wooden steplnddcr that led
to tho courtyard, nch of us seized n
firebrand, nnd we fell upon the Invad
ers llko men who were lighting for
their lives, nnd for other lives dearer
then their own.
All tlint pnssrd after tlint moment
wns llko tho confused terror of n
frightful drenm. The ceaseless sweep
of our flaming scythes, mowing down
tho 'destroyers by thousands, only to
bo replaced by fresh thousand In an
other moment tlm frantic yells nnd
wild gestures of our black followers
the fitful and tinonrllily glare of the
firelight nmid the utter darkness the
deepening gloom of the coming storm,
blotting out the cold splendor of the
moonlight nil were, Indeed, like the
vlslnnnry horror of one of those ghastly
nightmares In which ono seems inevit
ably doomed to struggio forever with
some hideous peril, and to struggle In
vain.
More thnn once It seemed ns If the
battle must go against us after nil;
nnd our henrts sank ns we saw the
bleeding arms nnd limbs of our native
helpers, upon which tho greedy de
stroyers fastened with such deadly
tenacity ns to let themselves bo torn
asunder rather than uncllnch the grasp
of their cruel Jaws. Do whnt we would,
on came the Invaders over tho blasted
corpses of their comrades like a rising
tide. We might ns wrll hnve striven
to drive back the Inflowing tldo of the
sen.
But, while some of us wero fighting
their vanguard, others, under the di
rection of the experienced trndcrs, were
laying blazing splinters of wood in a
lino along tho front, of the charging
column, and meeting It with an im
passable barrier of fire, whence the
rising wind, luckily In our favor, blew
the llamcs right" into the ranks of the
assailants, destroying more of them
thnn we could mow down with our
firebrands.
Little by little, human energy and
skill began to prevail over blind ani
mal ferocity; and at length, to our In
describable relief, wo saw the line of
their march gradually slant off to tht
right, In a direction which would carry
them past the bouse Into the "bush"
beyond it. Before the first drop of the
gathering storm had fallen all was
over and we were saved; and the deep
"Thank God!" uttered by a brave ml
slonary whose sick wife was among
those for whose lives we had been so
desperately battling found an echo In
the heart of every man amongst us.
Wavcrlcy Magazine.
Peril In Man's Instinct.
"ITere's another automobllcr'i death
recorded," said tho chauffeur, "and th
accident was duo to the usual error
the error of taking off tho brake in
stead of putting it on.
"In several makes of automobiles tin
brake Is worked by means of a level
thnt has a backward and forward
movement. To put on the brako you
pull the lever toward you; to take it off
you pull It away from you. Those
movements arc, somehow or other, con
fusing to the average man. They
seem wrong to htm as wrong as 11
would seem to pull on a horse's right
rein to make him turn to the left.
"Biding along swiftly In an automo
bile you hnve an instinctive feeling, ni
you hold the brake lever in your band,
that you should push this lever for
ward in order to put tho brake on, and
that you should bring it back toward
you in order to take the brake off. This
feeling, as I say, Is Instinctive, and it
Is apt to come over the most skilful
driver In moments of excitement and
peril. He yields to it; when he want!
to put the brake on be moves the level
the wrong way; the next moment he li
crushed against a stone wall, or b
falls over a seventy-foot cliff.
"Therefore, those autos with brak
levers that have a backward movement
for 'on-brakes' and a forward move
ment for 'off-brakes' should ba'vt
their levers' working reversed, out' oi
consideration for men's instinct in
tbl matter. Accidents,, thereafter,
would be more rare." Philadelphia
Record.
The Busy Bee's Work,
An overturned beehive the other day
created a sensatlen at Green Harbor
In the heart of the' summer colony
the beehive wag accidentally tipped
over, and the bees flocked about Mar
ginal street like files around Tom Pe
el's flsu market, where a sign an
uounees that the proprietor Is going t(
live "forever."
Several summer girl and permanent
residents, among the latter being Geo
Sampson, were stung smartly, it wai
sometime before the bees were finally
rounded up. This evening many u tu
rner resident have their hand anj
faces plastered with, mud in an effort
1m qult Uis pain. Boston Hoi aid.
flange of the
Monkeys In Every Continent Save Australia
Polar Bears Stick to the Far North Habitat of
Elephants, Ostriches and Eider Ducks Crowing
Less The Skunk Confined to America- Nar
row Range of the Famous Birds of Paradise.
Oil more or less Intelligent
friend, tho monkey, Is
found In every continent
AhmIpiiIIa luifr Ilia
.0.
lH HI Inrgest habllnt Is In Africa.
llu l connneu in xoriu Aim-nca
chiefly to tho long peninsula from Mox
lea to rnnnnm tlint unites the two
western continents. Ho Is found In
Europe only In tho cxtrcmo southern
part of Ppnln, nlong the Strait of llb
mltnr, whero tourists who hnve time
to wonder nmotig the forests overlook
ing tho sen will discover him leaping
from lira lull to branch as ho does in
tropical Afrlcn.
Monkeys are very numerous nlntig
tho northwest const of South America,
but nre not found west of tho Andes
from northern l'eru to the south end of
tho continent. Their homo In South
Anmricn Is chiefly In tho forests of Ven
ezuela throughout tho great Amazon
bnsln nnd nlong the fluvial systems of
tho upper halt of the rnraguny nnd the
Pnrnnn rivers. A lltllo south of the
Junction of these two rivers they dlsnp
pear nnd tho greater part of Uruguay
nnd Argentina regard thorn as a curios
Ity to bo exhibited In traveling shows.
The monkey lives In tho forests of
nlncMcnths of Afrlcn, from the mount
ains of the Atlas rnnges in the north to
the Ornngo Itlver of the south, nnd I
nlso seen In great numbers nnd variety
throughout India, Biirmnh nnd Cochin
China, tho Islands of tho Indian archi
pelago and parts of southern China and
Japan. Htrnngc to sny, he drnws tho
lino nt New Guinea nnd the neighbor
ing troplenl const of northern Austrn
Ha, whero ho Is conspicuous for his ab
sence, though the conditions there seem
to be favorable for bis prosperity.
Tho Indian elephant is found
throughout that peninsula nnd nlso In
Iliirmah, Blnm and the French Knst
Indies, but his range among the Islnnds
of the nrclilpr logo Is confined to Suma
tra nnd Borneo. Mo Is not known In
Java.
There seems to be no cllmntlc renson
why he should not have appeared on
tho- other Islands of tho East Indies,
Ills homo In Asia extends about seven-
teen degrees of latitude further north
thnn that of his African cousin, who
was onee numerous among tho Atlas
Mountains, near the Mediterranean,
but, having been exterminated there,
bis most northern range Is only about
fifteen degrees north of tho equator.
Ho roams through tho Soudan and
tho whole of Central Africa, from the
neighborhood of Timbuktu nnd Lake
Chad as far south as the Tropic of Ca
pricorn In South Africa. Not many
years ago the Afrlcnnelephant was
browsing on the slto of what is now the
city of Durban, on the South African
coast, but ho was bunted so persistent
ly that be has entirely disappeared in
the southern part of Africa, and Is, now
found pot nearer than 1000 miles north
of Cape Town.
Tho polar bear will not wander very
far from the Ice oceans of tho north.
The result is that his habitat is ex
tremely narrow, though it girdles the
world in tho Arctic regions.
He wanders along all the northern
coasts of tho continents and the shores
of the Arctic Islands. Tcary has seen
him on the edge of tho most northern
land yet discovered around the north
coast of Greenland.
If we were to visit Iceland for a look
at the polar bear we should have to go
to tho north coast to see blm. The
waters washing the other coasts of the
Island appear to him a little too warm
for comfort. This is natural, for the
south coasts are under tbo inftuenco of
the wnrmer waters of the Atlantic, and
the polar bear cannot understand why
any ono should cjijoy lifo in such an
uncomfortably hot climate.
We hare the-skunk all to ourselves
In North America. Ho lives in Canada
ns far north as the upper part of the
Mackenzie River, and is distinctively a
North Amcricnn animal.
He is found throughout our broad do
main from Portland, Me., to Oregon,
and from Florida to Los Angeles. For
some renson bo seems to have a preju
dice against Nova Scotia, and 1 not
known in Newfoundland.
The skunk Is really a very respect
able beast and cannot be severely
blamed for making himself obnoxious
to his enemies. Some bold experiment
ers assert that the skunk is very good
eating.
There are Just four regions in which
tho wild African ostrich is now found.
He lives in. considerable mrabers in
Arabia, where he has been little
hunted. In Africa his most northern
habitat Is the 8eudan and the southern
part of the Sahara from the Bed Sea
almost to the Atlantic Ocean.
He does not live in the excessively
moist regions of Central Africa, but
iu the drier countries between the In
dian Ocean and the Nile be is found in
considerable numbers. His fourth
home In Africa Is in the great dry dls
tridts of German West Africa, from the
Atlantic Ocean more than half way
cross the continent.
Ho wa long ngo driven out of the
.thirst land of Capo Colony, for hunt
or became too numerous for him; The
fact that wild ostriches are always
killed to obtain their plumage ha un
fortunately caused a great diminution
among them, and the prospect I that
In time they will be entirely replaced
by the domesticated ostrich now living
on the ostrich farm of Cape Colony
far south of any of the region wtur
th wild bird la found.
Wild Animals.
The habitat of the elder duck, whose
down In so highly valued, practically
coincides with tlint of the polar ln-nr.
It Is found on all Arctic coasts, but nlso
lives considerably south of the southern
limits of the polar bear. The time wa
when the elder duck girdled all the
northern const line of the world with
Its myriad nests, but the bird has been
so mercilessly hunted thnt It has now
disappeared from thousands of beetling
cliffs along the sea where it was for
ineily known.
l'robnhly no famous bird Iinsj a
smaller babltnt than the bird of para
disc, whoso hcnutirbl feathers ore so
highly prized in tho millinery trade.
No ono knows why tho varieties of this
beautiful bird arc confined to tho Island
of New (iuiiiea nnd tho neighboring
coasts of Australia. Thero nio many
other islnms not far away where the
conditions would seem to lie equally
fnvornblo for their existence, but thry
nro not found among them; nnd If we
should ever see a Jiunler of the bird
of paradise we would know that be
was a tmtlvo of New tiuliv-i or the
neighboring mainland of Australia, or
had visited those regions.
Everybody bns heard that the cowry
shell is used as money over a wide part
of tho Western Soudan. It enmo to bo
regnrdeil on account of its shape and
si j-.o as a very convenient medium of
exchange. Hut If tho cowry shell
might hnve been picked up in bushel
baskets by any ono strolling along the
African coasts It would, of course, have
been valueless ns money. If the shell
were very easy to get, so that every
native might accumulate Inrgo quanti
ties of it, nobody would give bis Ivory,
vegetables or skins in exchange for It,
The cowry shell enmo to hnve value
In much tho snmo wny thnt valuo has
been attached to gold. It wns regarded
by tho West Africans who snw it ns a
convenient form of money; but It was
dlfllcult to obtain it. As tho nrtlclo was
desired It came to have valuo Just the
mine as anything does which men do
sire to possess.
Tho cowry shell Is found only on the
consts of n number of islands off tho
southwest shores of India. It had to
bo carried thousands of miles to the
west const of Africa, whero there was
a demand for It, nnd so renl value be
came attached to It and it could be used
as money.
The time enme, however, when on
account of tho largo profit derived
from tho transportation of cowry
shells In West Africa thnt supply be.
camo greater than the demand. Na
turally tho price of cowry money was
thus reduced and West Africa passed
through a financial crisis which was
never adequately reported In tho news
papers. Cowry money been mo so cheap that
there was llttlo temptation even to
steal It. This state of affairs put an
end to the importation of the cowry
shells and no more were shipped until
equilibrium bad been restored between
supply and demand. Sun.
Khgllsh Soldiers.
In his letter to the London Times on
the physique of the British Army,
which made a very considerable stir
In England, tho Duke of Wellington
gives some Interesting statistics as to
the British recruits. In 11)00 tho aver
age height was 0 feet 5.1 inches;
weight, 124.4 pounds; admissions to
hospital, per 10UO, tlSS.lT constantly
non-effective through sickness, per
1000, 34.85; death rate, per 1000, 0.02.
The percentage of rejections In 1000
was 27.4; In 1001, 29.04, and In 1002,
32.22. Tbo last figures Germany pub
lished wero for 1SST, when the percent,
ago of rejected was only 10.3, and that
from the total number of conscripts,
not from men who had been accepted
by recruiting sergeants.
Ibe Loon Bird's Call. ,
nave you ever heard the loon bird's
call? It is tho weirdest cry of all the
feathered tribe, and is only to be beard
on rare occasions on the grent inland
lakes of America, It sounds exactly
like the cry of a womnn In distress.
"Like woman walling for her demon
lover," said one man who bad heard
It, quoting Coleridge.
"I heard a faint wall far away up
the lake," he continued, enlarging on
the experience. "It sounded like a
woman crying for succor. It wa in
describably weird and harrowing. A
the cry came drifting down the lake,
the very air seemed to be full of sor
row." New York rrcbs.
rialnt of the British Fidillpr.
The annual complaint of English
musician comes from London. It is
that an English musician has no
chance to get work in competition with
foreigners. There are 300 orchestral
.bands in London during the season,
and practically all of them are mode up
.of aliens. The one chance nn English
man has of-' steady employment 1 to
disguise himself and pretend to be a
Germ no or a Belgian. One band of
sixteen wears- foreign uniforms, trims
beards in foreign stylo and speaks only
In foreign monosyllables, but every
'one is an Englishman, forced to the
'subterfuge by tho necessity of making
a living.
An ynivarntl Want.
' Though real estate -men say porahel
give more trouble' than any other pari
of a house, everybody seem to want
on. Philadelphia Record,
CAPTIV6 AMONG THE M00R3.
Kapetienee of lha fMidon Tlmea' Cot
respondent Captured by Brlganda.
Walter n. Harris, the t-orrespondenl
nf tho London Time In Morocco, after
three week of very unpleasant captiv
ity among the brigands In Northern
Morocco, has nt Inst been permitted to
rejoin bis friends. Being a white man,
he w-ns regarded ns a very vnluabl
captive nnd bis relense wns obtained
only by the exchange nf slxti-en men
who hnd been captured from the tribal
that held hlin a prisoner.
Thn natives who caught Harris art
among the mountaineers who have
never admitted the right of the Sultan
of Morocco to Impose taxes upon them)
nnd of courso they are part and parcel
of the rebels who have recently been
making so much trouble for the Mo
roccan Government. They did not ex
ert themselves to mnko their white
captive enjoy blj short stay among
them.
For nine days bo wns unable to wash
or chnngn bis clothing, for thirty-six
hours he was left In solitude with noth
ing to eat nml for several days a head
less rnrps occupied thn room In which
bo wns confined, nnd It wns Intimated
to blm thnt his physical appearance
would soon resemblo thnt of tho Imp.
less victim nf thn brigands whoso re
mains he snw before him.
Harris, however, lives to tell the
story of Ids captivity, nnd It will doubt
less mnko good nnwspnpcr rending.
No other white man In Morocco has In
recent yenrs hnd so ninny Interesting
stories to tell of his personal adven
tures ns Harris.
Hei first brought himself Into notice a
few yenrs ngo by bis venturesome Jour
ney la disguise to tho chief town of
ono of the fanatical mountntn tribes,
who would have killed blm without
any prellmlnnrlos If they had suspect'
cd that he was a white man.
At that time he knew no Arable hor
nny of tbo native tongues, nnd though
his skin was stained to the proper Mo
roccan hue, and the native costume sat
well upon blm he would not have been
able to travel n mile nmong the mount
ains If he hnd not pretended to be a
deaf mute. He had with blm a faithful
young nntlve, who carried on bis eon
versntlons for blm.
When appronchlng the town which
no whlto man bnd ever entered be
pnssed two men on foot, who decided
that ho wns a white mnn, and when
they reached tho same place n few
hours after Harris' arrival they lost no
time In spreading the news that one of
tho bated foreigners was there In dis
guise. Tho report caused much excite
in cut, with the result that In the dark
ness of night Harris, who had been re-
disguised as a womnn at the home of
bis servant, stole out of the town, and
nindo his way back to Tangier, travel
ing only by night nnd hiding In the for
ests In tho daytime.
Harris has spent a long tlmo In Mo
rocco, nnd rrobably no white man Is
better acqnnlnted with the natives and
their country than this adventuresome
European,
Kxpenslva Borrowln.
"I hate figures," raid the tall girl.
"but I've held a session with them this
morning. Just to satisfy my curiosity
I totaled up the money I spent In mend
ing other peoplo's umbrellas in the last
six months. I bad to mend them be
cause I borrowed them, and they had
the perversity- to get broken while In
my care. I began by borrowing from
the top floor girl. She bad scruples
agnlnBt lending.
" 'It Is an old one,' she said, 'and
Isn't of much account, but It Is the
only one I have and I should hate to
have It get broken.'
"It wa pouring torrents and I bad to
have an umbrella, so in the face of her
objections I Insisted upon borrowing.
Hcfore I had gone a block the handle
broke off right In the middle, and I bad
to pay fifty cents to get it mended.
"The next time it rained I borrowed
an umbrella from the back parlor
hoarder. When turning the corner of
the Flatlron building three of that urn
brell's ribs were broken at one clip.
"During the winter nnd spring I bor
rowed from every other member of our
cosmopolitan household, and each time
misfortune attended me In the way of
smashed umbrella ribs or handles.
"Those accidents were expensive. All
told I bave paid (8.50 for the making
over of umbrellas. The result is that
all the people in onr bouse now haveJ
good umbrellas. They are afraid to
lend to me again, however, and now,
after having spent enough money in
repairs to buy half a dozen new um
brellas of my own I am driven to buy
ing one for myself, after alL" New
York Press.
Tho Improved Ers Itlfle.
The improved Krag rifle used by th
American team which won the Palms
trophy was highly praised by English
expert, many of them thinking it wai
a much better arm than the Lee-Enfield
used by the British team. Tht
feature, however, which all praised
and to which many attributed the vic
torywas the peep-hole sights on, the
American weapon and the movaolf
tvind guage. These parts have always
been opposed by English Army author
itlcs on tho ground that they could not
stand hard service. Their simplicity
made a deep impression, and one result
of the match will undoubtedly be tht
adoption In the British Army of slinllai
devices. New York Commlrtlal Adver
User.
Ttellroad Traveling In Rnsala.
Thieves got luto a sleeping car on a
Russian train the other night and ftolc
the clothe of all the passengers, who
were obliged to remain In bed until
they reathed Moscow.
That whicb we call a grasshopper li
a Rocky Mountain lociwt. The trui
grasshopper Is very pale green, hat
thin wugs and resemble th katydid,
NATIONAL CAME
t.nsh Is plnylng wonderful ball fot
Detroit.
Kiwlor tins apparently regained hh
batting eye.
Illiiglininton lias released outfielder
emit n ror light hitting. ; .
Wagner Is the renl leader of tb
National League batsmen.
Jon Kelley. nf the Clnels, Is on or
I he best genernl players in the coun
try. I'ltcbor Dohetiy lias been permitted
by Mnnnger Clarke to rejoin th
Pirates.
Kd flremlngrr Is plnylng groat bait
for Boston, hitting hard and covering;
third finely.
Long Tom Hughes Is one nf the flv
irrent pitchers who recovered the ua
of a broken nrm.
Klttredge has made tils first error 1
thirty gnines with Washington. He
accepted 1 IH chalices.
The New York League Club has pnr
phased, pitcher I.enn Ames from th
llloii Club of the New York League.
Acting Mnnnger Wagner, of Plttsv
burg, predicts that Veil will soinn tiny
be ono of the League's slur plt- hers.
Jlgirs Donahue, the first baseman of
tbo Mllwaukcn Association Chili, ha
been sold to tho Chicago White Stock
ing. Tim Mitrnntie says: "If the rittsburg
champions go against tho Boston Amer
lcnns this fall for the world's cham
pionship, they must be In better shape
thnn they hnve been so far this sea
son, to mnko anything like a good
showing."
Hnlil tbo New York Sun tho other
day; "No player In a long time ha seJ
Impressed New Yorkers by bis snnppy
work In all departments as Klberfeld.
He Is a player of the Tinker -Parent
style. Gilbert Is Just as fast mid lively
but doe not hit as well a the otbef
three."
SPORTING BREVITIES.
Dnpgletiy I pitching great ball few
the Phillies.
The new rco trnek nt Los Angelev
Cel., will be called Ascot Park.
Tho football game between Prlncetosj
and Anniiills has been cancelled.
Harvard expects to hnve the new stay
dliim ready for the big footlmll game.
The tipper end of the New York"
Speedway has recently been resur
faced. J. A. T. Brnniston, wl!h n record
score of seventy live, won two cups at
the Homewood links, nt Chicago.
W. B. Leeds and Mrs. V. K. Mney. of
Philadelphia, were tho chief winner
at the burse si iik nt liar Harbor, Me.
Africander won the Clminplaiii Han.
rticnp In the mud nt Snrnlogn, N. Y.,
Ilermls nnd .lc'li"siiey i;(,t starting.
John linll.nail has been suspended by
Ibe st ecu r-U of t In- Saratoga (N. Y.)
race track for bis rough ride on Cboate.
A tiiiinlier .-f small towns in the vi
cinity of Mhldleboro, Mns nro talk
ing of forming a hnlf-mllo trotting rlr
cult.
Gold Rnlnt won the Albany fUake at
tbo Saratoga (X. Y.) race track and
James It. Krone's Fiiturltn, nt thirty
to one, bent tbo best sprinters.
Albert Champion has lowered tho
Ilhode Island record for twenty mile
motor paced, defeating Harry Cnldwell
by two miles and four laps, and cover
ing the distance In 20.21 4-5.
The Doherly brothers successfully do
fended their title to the American lawn
tennis t-hnmplonshlp in doubles by de
feating the Western champions Krelgh
Collins and L. II. Waldner, winning
three straight set.
Plans for the resumption of football
relations between Pennsylvania and
Lafayette College have been started,
and there Is now a possibility thnt th
two Institutions will again meet on tho
Sldlron next fall, after a break i
ree season.
New Story About 8dan,
To commemorate the heroic but
hopeless charges of the French caval
ry at the battle of Sedan a monument
Is to be erected on the spot where th
division of Oencral Marguerite melted
away under the fire of the German In
fantry and artillery. M. Emlle OuJl
laume, the sculptor, has undertakes
the work, and the monument will b
erected by public subscription. At th
request of General de Galllffet, Gen
eral Faverot, who was In the last
charge, wrote bis recollections of it.
One would Imagine that little or noth
ing new could be told to the world
about the battle of Sedan, but th
general gives some details which are
noteworthy. Among them there 1 on
episode which escaped the pencil of
the painters of battle pictures. When
the division of General Marguerite),
which rushed upon the Prussian col
umns, was shattered and broken by th
terrible fire of the needle gun and of
the artillery, a fragment of it. under
General de GalUffct. passed in front
of the Prussian reserves and cam
close to the Eighty-first Nassau Bat
talion. The German officer command
ing that battalion, In admiration of
the brave fellows, gave the order to
cease firing. Tho French officer sa
luted and the German returned th
salute and cheered.
Tho red deer of New Zealand ar
estimated to number between 4,000
and 6.000 Individual, the offspring of
two stags and six hinds that wer
turned out in 1S6S.
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