PIRATES STILL AT WORK.
PIRACY ON ™E HCH SEAS FLOUR-
ISHES IN MANY PLACES TO-DAY.
Wn. Three Months an Italian Ship
Waa Seized in the Mediterrsuean—Two
British Steamers Looted in Malscea
Siratte— Bold Pacific Const Buccaneer.
‘That piracy on the high seas is by
ao means 8 thing of the past that it
did not cease with the suppression of
the Buccaneers of the Spanish Main
is well known. Bnt the past year
seems to have been especially prolific
in pirstical deeds, snd proves that the
time powers will have to devote
wome of their ships to the suppression
sf this erime aguinst the laws of
antions and the wolfare of mankind
© The last iraportant piracy was com-
mitted something over two months
York to Marseilles was eapta red by
pirates soon sfter she had entered the
Mediterranean Sea It wauthe Italian
whip Fredacis, commanded by Captain
Maccetta. Off the const of Maroseo she
became beealmed, and, being caught in
a swift current, was carried ashore, As
#oon as she touched an srmed band of
Riffs swarmed around her in their
boats and boarded her. The Riffs
wverpowered the crew and stripped
thi vessel of all the money and cloth.
ing on board and of everything else
movable, Then they took the capiaic
und several sailors to hold for ransom
and put sshore, promising to return
snd dispose of the rest of the crew
Inter.
While the pirates were ashore s
breeze sp up, snd ss the ship had
anly touched lightly, the crew remain.
on board were able to work her
the shosl and stand ont over toward
she coast of Europe ont of the pirates’
reach. So far as is known the espiain
has not been ransomed, nor has Italy
ment any maun-of-war to punish the
‘About two months before this Italian
ship was captured
Mediterranean, a British steamship
passing through the Straits of Malacca
‘was eaptared by pirstes. It was Be
ieamer Peg, corpmanded by Ca
At Frid, one of the ports where the
coasting steamers stop for a cargo of
pepper, eleven Achinesé men aod one
‘womet: came on hoard. According to
custom, Captain Ross searehed the
men for concealed weapons. He fond
none, but it afterward was found that
the woman, who had not been searched,
had concealed under her Malay “‘su-
rong,” a collection of long and deadly
knives, just fitted for piratical work.
The day after leaving Erid, while
the bon and Chief Engiveer Cragie
wers at dinner in the saloon, six
armed Achinese burst in and attacked
them fiercely. The officers were gn-
wrtned, but defended themselves as
best they conld with chairs. Though
they were terribly slashed aboui the
hend and hands, they managed to fight
their way to the deck. Cragle ran to
the engine room, where he bolted the
door and was safe. The captain, how-
ever was killed and literally hacked
to pieces by the knives of the Ach
fir
The pirates then attacked the mate
aud the quartermaster, who were on
the bridge, and killed them. Two of
‘the crew and two Chinese passengers
were killed on the deck, and the rest
terrified into nonresistance. Then the
ship was looted and the safe opened
aud $15,000 taken from it. The pirates |
lowered two boats, and, loading them |
‘with booty, departed for the shere.
In almost exactly the same place
‘where the Pegu was looted snother
steamer shared the same fate not long
‘before. The arms with which the first
steamer was captured were smuggled
wn board ber in the bed of a “lake”
sick woman,
To turn from the Mediterranean Hen
and the Indian Ocenn to waters nearer
‘home, the case of the pirate Oscar
Bartels has recently been attracting
attention on the Pacific coast, because
wf the sentence to two years’ penal sar-
vitude which he has just received in
Mexico. Bartels is called “the worst
pirate on the Pacific const.”
He began his career on the Pacific 7
by stealing the schooner Dawn, whick
was lying in the harbor of Ss Diego.
He and a man pmmed Behn secretly
got provisions on board the unguarded
sail and stood down the coast for the
. Ghulf of California, for Guadeloupe
teland, where they had hoard a large |
number of goat skins had been col
locted and left with only two man to !
wateh them while the owners took the |
first load up the const.
The freebooters reached the island,
surprised the two meninel Barge, ol; zed |
1600 skins and sll the men's provis-
ions, tied oneman to a tree and warned
the other not to untie him until the
schooner was ont of sight, Then they
‘went to Santa Barbara and sold the
plundered skins, while the two men
on the island lived on roots and ber:
ries until a vessel came slong and rea
cued them.
After that the adventures of Bartels
would fill a biz book, and be interest.
ingreading. He stole vessel after vos -
sol, and when people were on board he
did not wish to have about he threw
them overboard. Strange to say, the
people he threw overboard, as far as
is known, always managed to get to
shore or to be rescued by boats from
other vessels.
How the Great City is Lighted.
The greater city is lighted al night
hy 1,080,468 electric lights, with a
vandle power of 50,000,000, and the
yas is poorer than before the Legis-
lature compelled a reduction in price.
«~New York Herald.
Hearing that the little son of one of
her tradesmen was suffering from a
needle imbedded in one of his arms,
{meen Victoria sent her sympa-
thy and a book of animals,
the lim bis
Cahild 18 oflan aseful B% A LEAS of ex.
| perform sll the setinns
ful kind,
by pirates in the
Fyoners, hire ehit ba pl e358 eu rs WH
Chflarents Exercises,
The aminnt of exercise in childhood |
and yonth should be carefully regu-
lated, as in m
children will for excend their strength |
in the effart to avoid being ontdone by |
older and more robast companions. In’
instances ambitions | §
OF
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infancy the nimost incessant move. geE!
ment of a baby's Hmbs show how im- 58fs3s
perstive is the instinct of natars for
muscular exercise, Hence it is im
portant not to restrict too mach the |
freedene of infants, and care shonld be
taken to prevent thew clothing being
too tight fo allow mwple freedom of
Even the ery of a young
srcising thie masoles of the chest, and
in moderation mast pot be discos
i mged. Thy best raasralar exe red #4 for
i young ohildren, sxys =
| writer, is the movement to which they
are led hr the natural playfulness,
ago, when a ship bound from New |
tun ‘hia ghd wreavtle with each other
{| Like sportire kittens, Es
; every pane ie of theyr will by
| tarns ries ind fall, gw} i, f tract and
They, if It to thernsalves, wil ron,
Liiah and
#
of whirh they
are capable, They ure bar diy at rest
& moment. awd each movement they
rink e 1% of the freest and most grace
able for the first development of the
wascaiar systema, and, in fact, for
vigorons growth and sound health,
than the woticns of a child in the free
indnligence of its playfal moods. Par-
ing ehildbocd and youth efforts should
be made to exercise every imporisat
muscle in the body, each in ts turn,
so as to seqare for sil a complete und
symmetrical development and eonse.
quently a robust health —The Ledger,
Credited With Be Being an OH Wigard.
Benjamin ¥. Fulton, of Portland,
Ind., who bas been dabbed an oil
“wizard,” is feel winning a name for
himself as such. Fulton has been
through the cil fields and caused won- |
der by his ability to locate good oil
wells. Mr. Fulton has s peculiar lit |
tle instrmment like a fountain pen,
which contains a second case made of
slaminars. This, he =ays, eoutains
the chemical affingly. When ready to
ro to work he screws the instrament
mentioned to 8 Y-zhaped concern of
the same metal, taking one of the
prongs betwean his teeth and heiding
the other between bis thumb and {ore
fiingar
over thi territory, and the vibrations
af the instrgment fell hits shere the
sought-for product 32 to be fonad
He olatuis that «il and gas sre to be
fonpd in veins, inst the same as waler
He also has suniiar instromusenis by
which he claims he iz shila fo Joskte
valuabina muoerals Not. long ago
Fulton paade an exarinstion of alo
easton and ssid if would be a duy bole:
and sare enough 1% was Lately he
hasbeen in Now York and VPenusyl-
vania, where his services are 1a grest
demand. Fualton is one of the mo.
neers of tha Indians field Indian.
apolis Jourosl,
fanversational Dilemmraes.
Bome amusing stofies are told of
couversalional plights from which es
espe has been found with wore or less
RU COCRS,
Lord Dufferin, whose hospitality
while viceroy of India haz pasead into
a prover, was iu the habit of sending
his ““shubarsi” with sneh of his gneats
as were in search of sport. Retarning
one dav from ane of thess shooting
expeditions, the shikarri met the
viceroy, who asked “Wail, what
kind of sport have yon hed to-day?”
Oh! suswered the “how,” with
charming diplomacy, ‘the vonog sabib
shot divinely, but God was very mer
cunl tothe birds.”
Less liappy was the cast oe: 4 gais sa
to whom a SRrpenieT, one of Lis par
Ee
the likenpes carpenter
i said; am Rind “you like 1a hmve
Lome’
swered, it's . aetally good of
bring it, and how is the dear
Jow¥' “Whe air. he's desd, won
kuow.’ "he fat} 0T said, rauroso hinlly.
“Oh, yer! of canrse | know that,” the
arate snswered “1 mean --eh
how's the man who look the pluto.
4 ph kl wk rolidan Penny,
Talile With an Vagie
At Molamrsevy's Lake, near
EN el ; John Cornet
TR Babin STW Len
wraft and then one night they hoisted |. °
i He Drake ae sage
i be atlepupted 19 Died up the feathers:
fin
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Bain 8% x Fak
Fira Resh
oth Min ocmt.slarve.
on Hock + tr TRE
: srr gtelied
H RE aly 14 TR ¥! 5 6A apa k
alans,
¥ saoceaded drawing his
pocket-Kuile and stabbed it anti], weak
fram oss of Blood, it relense J its bod
3 and fall,
Comstock was eompellad to po to
Liteon and seetire the services of »
Peargeon to dress his wennde, the
muscles of one arm beiag badly tern,
The bird's elaws are at least three
inches long aad black and sharp, in
Pdicating that the vagis was old The
wing from tip to up weasare eight
fest four. inohies
ual.
Kansas City Joaur.
ma
Pxiracting Perfomes.
Misnen' and (ivis’ Bath Habe,
The need of the hath robe is too
(apparent fo require arnng, Writes
Nothing ran be more favor. |
Theos equipped, He passes
May Manton. The model shown is
a POR YARLE SATH RORY
time thst it : Bite the “gare suficientiy to
insure satisiesiory eMart. The fronts
are plain and ow #e, bat ths hacks are |
fitted by means of a centres saam and
gide-baok forms which
edge eof the skirt Beiaw the waist
line the backs ars laid in deep ander
lying piaits which provide falness for
the skirt. The hood extends acro
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BALLON GEALnat could
Tasteful Costume im Stone-Gray.
The poplar £ fancy for cloth is exex
plided (see lzrge picture’ in a stone.
gray tastefaliy trimmed with black
veivel, wora with a Lat ¢f gray and
Liack, aad gray gloves The wan
. which makes a grateful ehasce Low
the hicuse, is» made overs fitted lz
ing tbat closes at the centre-front and
incindes
ancl 4 manner as
comfortable aud Inrarions at the same |
bs
tthe lowar adres fio whieh 1s stitched the
extend to the
a REALM
FASHION.
in a bias seam at the » centre.-1 back. Two
backward tnrrang, over-lapping side.
plaits arrangs the fu t the top In
nppietely cone
i I im
eal the p
ek 2t formiad at the centre.
back seam. A two-ineh hem finis
bp
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t DATING mer piri of xgirs tha
i cirenlar shape, hemmed and
Farr gt ed
| Bach por
sda #9 am on wy riod a
oly tha NTORT prt
ia
evict and other ig R%
or skirts in 1h
filrie’ Froek fn All Wool Chevioy
gives helter servics 1
general wear than goo
The usefn}
ix mada
ie lr, right shade of
tan with trimming of brown. The
| imple childish waist is made over a
fitted lining to which the fall material
i attached and which closes at the
ceutra-back. The plastron-shaped
trimming of brown sheviot is sid over
the upper portion and extends over
the edges of the fall body. Its edges
are finished with two bande of straight
brown braid withia which is a single
and in ‘refoil effect. The sleeves are
one-seamed and comfortably loose
without being Jargs. At the peck is»
i straight standizg collar trimmed with
{braid snd; showing » narrow Jrill of
lace. The wrists are completed with
straight cuffs of the brown trimmed in
i {harmony with the eollar. The skirtis
wiraight sud may be either hammed op
i faced. The faliness nt the top is are
s ranged in gathers and sewed to the
eheniot
oH A 88 wy
The band of ebe
wie wakes the dévoration
ised with straight aud trefoil braid as
i the plasiron on the waist
a . . iy
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To make this frock for a g
smooth-fitting under-armw |
gores. The handsome vest, which ie |
of velvet embroidered with jet, is at- i
tached to the lining at the right side
and books over onto the left beneath |
the cloth fromt which is invisibly
A method of extracting the perfame |
of Bowers without crushing or killing
i the hlossom has beea discovered by a
Frenchman, He simply iooaerses the
flowor in water, which, as it becomes |
charped with the oder, is gradually
BE B ]
withdrawn, while fresh water takes fts
place. Afterward the perfume is 180
lated from the water by tha aid of
ether. It is said that by this method
some flowers have been successfully |
treated whose perfume liad never be.
fore been extractad,
The process has
been notably successful in the case of |
the lily-of-the valley,
When one calls
to mind how susceptible water 1s to
bad odors, it is not at all surprising
thai it should receive the fragrant ones |
as readily.
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booked into place. The bretelies,
enliar and belt are gil of velvet made
over stiff foundations, aud the collar
closes at the left side where it is fn
ished by frills of black lace The
pei ars two-seamed asd sane
the shoulder where shey are dni hed
with small pads. They wre eut 1a
sjuare tabs at the wrists and ee
with narrow velves bands, while frills
lace fall over the hands.
Tle Bare |
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skint delineates ane of the latest styles, |
2d one that will he popular daring
the Coming Seaso
The trimmung,
which is velvet to abhi bodice, 18
cat in bias bands and suiched along |
each edge.
The upper portion, or deep yike
shaped with a front gore that Sts |
closely to the figure, its sides beiug
joiged to cirenlar porticns that meet
aliLs TRMI
eight years will require three yards of
torty-foar-in 3:3 material with cone yard
of the darker eclor for trimming.
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