EUGENE CITY GUARD.
I.Ii.CA.MMtKLL.
1'roprletar,
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
"When things run smoothly, tod my mentul
aky
i It clear of cloudi and there's do cause for
alalia.
That in, whoa all li lovely and sorene, then I
l'hlluitoptilze.
Bnt when the little Ilia of life appear,
To pouter, worry, and pilo care on care;
When mere existence la sand-papered, aa It
were,
Why, then Iiwear.
When on the rlirht aide la my bank account.
And grout good luck iny efforts auoiim lo
orown.
Then upward toward the aky my spirit"
mount:
I own the town.
But when misfortune! never aeem to lot
on mo, and each move appears a lilun
(llT,
And 1 fii aenms one "domnltlon grind," I get
Aa uiad ua t bunder.
T.ssowlth most; we all can smile at. str fe
At euros unci trials from wh ch we aro free.
And calmly reason o'er the Ilia of life
We nevor aoe.
Hut when the clouds obscure our diiliv k:c
And nvlle from 1 wi(lorn i box fly thick,
Instead of stopping to philosophize.
We mostly kick.
Uurry J. Mtellman, In Texat 8tfllnu.
ATLANTIC ICEBERGS.
Tba Great Risks Bun by North At
lantic) VobboIs.
ling Maaeea of Ice Borne Along the Ki imil
BoftOin of the Labrador Current
flhlpe Discovered on the Knda
of Immense Iterga Lata
ColIUIone.
In the dailypapors, atintervals, morn
or less widely separated, we may see
notices of icebergs passed by ships on
their passages to and from the ports of
North America. Not unfreqiienlly. n
thrilling account reaches us of ship
wrecks, Buffering and sad loss of life,
caused by some ill-fated vessel collid
ing with an iceberg and sinking in mid
ocean. Occasionally, some noble
ship, replete with all modern improve
ments under the command of a skill
ful navigator, carrying a precious
freight of eager hearts and willing
hands to their Eldorado of the Far
West, Bails from our shores. Nothing
.. more is heard of her. In a little while
ho is posted at Lloyd's as missing, und
a total loss. Her insuranc is paid:
and except to a few hearts at home be
wailing their loss, her fate fades away
in oblivion.
Few landsmen would, however, be
able to infer from these necessarily
crude and fragmentary paragraphs of
tlio newspapers the great risks which are
run' in all seasons of the year by passen
gers and crews in the North Atlantic.
. The most important dangers are lee
bergs, fogs, and derelict vessels. Ice
bergs are more especially to be met
with in this ocean from the middle of
February to the commencement of
Julv. Tho barrier of northern io in
brolcon tip by the inereasinsr power of
itMi Him t-mvn h nn n nrp pinnwuri in
his apparent path towards the summer
solstice, attaining day bv dav a greater
1101 muni uccn nation, r ur 10 me not in,
in thoso awful ice-bound regions within
the aretlo circle where so many brave
men have perished, each glacier pro
tmdes an icv mass beyond tho land and
resting on the water. In course of
time tho extremity is wrenched vklen'lv
oil' by tho upward-bearing pressure (if
the sea. After a fuw convulsivo somer
saults, the resulting ice-berg, in all its
grandeur, floats placidly in its
new element, and is now freo to
bo acted on by the forces of
wind and current. Tho bergs aro
borne southward by the (Jreut Arctic
or Labrador current, which vast body
of water washes the east coast of
North America from Labrador to Flori
da, and constitutes , what 'is known to
v. meteorologists as the "cold wall."
'UJuge mns-es of ieo or Ice-islands are
.borne along on its broad bosom, mixed
with smaller Icebergs and lield-ico.
tMiberg and field-ice are formed in
quito distinct ways. A berg, as wo
have seen, hV its origin as a glacier
probably far inland, and moves down
ward to tho sea s a component part of
the glaoler; whereas lield-ico is formed
on the surface ofj the sea during the
polar winter. Side by side with the
Arctio current flows tho warmer water
of the Gulf-streatn. The direction of
the (iiilf.9ti-iniii a. hnuiavnr nmia'l.
to that of the Arctio current, and it is
more remoto frtfm the American coast.
60 sudden is the change in the tem
perature of the sea-surface when
crossed by these currents, that the tem
perature pf the water at tho extreme
ends of a vessel has been found to dif
fer from twenty to thirty degree
The influence of those two great riv
ers in JJlie ocean is vory noticeable when
we compare the climates of two places,
botW equally distant from the equator,
but separated from each other by the
wide expanse of the Atlantic The
Americans have the cold current bug
ging their coast, thus increasing tho
severity of their winter; while tho
warmer water of the 'Gulf Stream,
stretching across in a northeasterly
directiou from about Cane Hatteras to
the west coast of Ireland, tends direct
ly or indirectly to ameliorate tho rigor
of our climate. In March, 1883. the
Dundee whalers reached a point in lat
itude seventy-four degrees thirty min
ites north, longitude four degrees
thirty minutes east; while at the same
time the harbors of America were im
penetrable by reason of ice even as low
down ns Bordeaux. Icebergs have
been observed aground on tho Hanks
of Newfoundland, where the deep sea
sonneting hail snowed that bottom had
been reached at a depth of six hundred
and fifty feet.
During the past two or threo years
manv largo icebergs and field ice,
hundreds of miles in extent, have been
met with in lat tude forty-two degrees
north. Many of these bergs attained a
height of three hundred feet abovo the
level of the seiu When wo remember
that but one-ninth of the tolunieof a
berg is exposed to view, it would ap
pear that the total altitude nmy liav
been. roughly-speaking, about- two
thousand seven hundred feet. The;
have been fallen in with in the North
Atlantic as early as January and as
line as Depiemoer. in juarcn, a vesei
has been jammed so firmly in the ice in
latitude forty-four degrees north, longi
tude forty-five degrees west, as to en
able her master to enjoy the luxury of
a walk on the ice in mid-ocean. Ice
bergs have been seen richly laden with
stones, earth, and other substances,
which they deposit gradually on the bed
of the ocean, perhaps for geologists of
lutttre ages to ponder over.
Occasionally, icebergs are the car
riers of more interesting objects. In
June, 1794, His Majesty's ships Duula
lus and Ceres passed a verv high and
dangerous ice-island on which a ship
was stranded. In June, 1845, in lati
tude forty-six degrees north, longitude
forty-seven degrees west, the i'erth
shire passed an ice-island thirty miles
long; and on the north end was a ship
high and dry with Jier crew ; but no
assistance could be atlorded them. ' In
April, 18.01, the Kenovation, in latitude
forty-hve degrees hfty minutes north
on the edge of the Grand Bank, passed
a very largo berg, on which wore two
three-masted shins high and dry. They
had apparently been made snug anil
secure at some previous time lor win
ter quarters In the Arctio regions.
Those two vessels were supposed by
some to have been the hrobus and J er
ror of Franklin's long-lost expedition
though later tidings do not support this
supposition. In May, 1883. the City of
Lincoln passed twenty-seven large
bergs in latitude forty-five degrees
north, longitudo fortv-eight degrees
west, with many Polar bears on them
The Magdalene, ten days previously
but two degrees farther to tho eastward
had ' passed tremendous bergs, like
islands, w th many Arctic animals on
them. In April a large berg was seen
with a hut on it; and on the 28th oi
the same month the Glamorgan passed
more than one hundred bergs with
numerous bears on them. Tho ice
was two hundred and sixty miles in
width. Probably these animals would
exist on fish and seals. Dr. Seoresby
once counted five hundred bergs at one
time in the Polar Seas. A steamer has
passed as many as three hundred dur
ing her passage across the Atlantic.
J here Is scarcely anything more
grandly beautiful and majestically im
pressive than a large berg seen under
favorable conditions, ft is a s'ght
hardly to be reproduced on the canvas
of the painter or to be portrayed in
words. Its stately domes, its
glittering pinnacles, its fairy-like arch
itecture, its peculiar sea green tint, the
miniature cascades, all consp re to hold
captive the senses with a feeling of
awe. They are, however, as treacher
ous ns beautiful, being extremely dan
gerously to approach except at a re
spectable distanco. Owing to the con
staut melting of the ice, the bergs are
always changing tho;r form. I heir
center of gravity becomes d solaced
they topple over, and woo betide the
unfortunate vessel close at hand! If
the bergs were easily distinguishable,
the mariner would have little to fear
mis is not the case, ihey am gene
rally shrouded in mist, and are met
with in latitudes where denso fog is
prevalent. Tho'thermoiiWor glv-ua but
imperfect indications of tho presence
01 ice, nun the utmost vigilance,
bergs are close to the ship before being
seen. J ho passenger in b:s warm
berth can hardly realize the Intense
strain on the senses of the captain and
ollicers at such times.
1110 JHeteoroiofMcai uince is in
formed, by telegram from America, of
tho exact position of bergs passed by
steamers on tlioT outward passage to
New York. This information is pub
lished in the daily papers for tho imme
diate benefit of tho mariner. Tl.f
Admiralty placo on their charts tin
limits wlth'n which ico Is likely to be
met; whilst tho American Government
published monthly charts in which the
embody all the reports of ice met with
up to date of going to press. It is a
matter or wonder and sincere thank
fulness that in this iron age, when time
is more than ever money, out of the
largo number of vessels carrying pas
sengers across the tracks of these un
welcome pests of tho deep, so few
casualties occur.
This year, icebergs have been unus
ually numerous nnd very far east foi
the time of year. At Quebeo, on the
10th of May, as many as thjoe steam
ers were behind time, owing to the fact
that tho unpreeedentddly heavy ice
had blocked the entrance to
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Such
an occurrence has hitherto been un
known in the annals of the port Si
lailing-ships botlnd for .Quebec were
totally lost, audleight sttanjers seri
ously damaged, by -collision' with ice
bergs. The" barque Mjmtneejoumlcrod
with all hands except the captain-and
two seamen. 1 he survivors, wn, a few
biscuits to sustain life, were' eighteen
days in an open boat, Surrounded b
icebergs, and exposed to the inclemency
of an almost arct 0 skv. The screw
steamer Sarmatian got in tho ice on the
1st of May, and remained fast 1 11 the
Cth. The ice was solid as far as the
eye could see, extending completed
across the entrance of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. The screw steamer City of
Berlin, at thirty-five minutes past three
on the 19th of Juno, ran stem on to an
immonso berg, doing damage estimated
at five thousand pounds. Many tons
of ice fell on her deck, crashing
through into the hold. A dense fog
prevailed at the timo. On the 28th of
Juno the screw steamer Brooklyn col
lided with a large iceberg in a thick
fog, when much ice fell on deck,
though happily no ono was .iniurec.
Some hours after, the fog being still
denso, it was discovered that the ship
had passed between two large bergs.
the whole of these steamers escaped
foundering, owing to their being divided
into water-tight compartments. Cham
ber? Journal .
An attache of theAustrian Mission
delights Washington society by appear
ing in a bull' suit in tho morning, a
slato-colored ono in the afternoon, and
a vhite one in the evening, wearing an
immense English cloth hat to mutch,
snl being followed by a bull-dog in
harmony with suit and hat Washing
ton tost.
A SERIOUS JOKE.
How a Prrnrhinttii lint ICve.i with nn Im
pertinent Ktr. inner,
Among the frequonters of a. well
known Parisian restaurant was a cer
ta n methodical personage, who dined
there every day, and always at t'.osamu
tablo, which the proprietor, .i li a duo
regard for so regular a customer. es,ju
c ally reserved for him Oiuv, how
ever, by some mistake of tho waiter, ho
found on arriving his usual pLicu
already oocup'ed by a stranger: and,
inwardly fretting at the disappoint
ment, entered into "conversation witu
the mistress o( thij establishment, who
presided at tho counter, and awaited
tho intruder's d 'partnro ti patier.tly as
he could. The latter seemed in no
hurry, for, after consulting the bill of
fare, he ordered another dish anil
fresh bo'.tlo of wine, seeing vl ich tho
habitue, who would rather h a vi none
without h s dinner than taken any piaco
but h's own, resolved at all hazards to
get rid of the unwelcome gi.o.st, and
addressing tho aame an eomnimr in
low tone, inquired if she knew who tint
ind v;dual at h s table was
"Not in the least." she leplied: "this
is the first t me he has been here."
"And ought to be the last." he s'g-
nilicantly remarked, "11 you Knew as
much as I do."
"Why, who is ho?"
"The executioner of Versailles."
"Mon Dieu!" exclaimed tho terrific
Jnn)A flu rmniilmr nnd nnllirvr hoi lii.Q.
band, imparted to him the information
she had lust received.
"Ma'ca out his bill," ho said, and
counter order what he has asked for
He must not stay here, or wo shall lose
evert customer we have.
. Whereupon, armed vrtth tho docu
ment in question, he presently cros.-ee
tho room lo where the stranger was sit
ting, and inqu red if ho were satisliod
with h s dinner.
"Pretty well.." was the answer, "but
the service might be quicker. Why
don t they bring what I ordered r'
"Monsieur." replied the Iruilcur, as
suming an air oi importance, "i am
compelled to say that your presence
here is undesirable; and that 1 must re
quest you lo leave my house as soon as
possible, and on no account to set toot
in it again."
"What on earth do you mean?" asked
his aston shed guest.
"lou must be perfectly awaro, con
tinned tho other, "that vur being seen
here Is most prejud.c al tome, and '
"speak pla:nly, man: impatiently
interrupted the stranger. "1 insist oa
being told who you imagine mo to be."
"l arlileu! you know as well as X do.
The executioner of Versailles!"
"Ah! and pray who is your authority
for this?"
"That gentleman." replied the pro
prietor of tho restaurant, pointing to
the habit 110 at the corner, who was be
ginning; to feel uneasy as to the result
of his "joke.
"Ind Jed! said tho stranger, raising
his voice so as to bo distinctly heard by
every ono present; "that gentleman has
informed you that I am the executioner
of Vena lies. Well, he ought to know;
for two . vears ago it was my painful duty
to brand linn!
With these words, uttered in a tone
of complete indill'cronoo ho left the
amount 01 reckoning on tne taun
leaving the o'.hcr mvstifier to diuo us
he might. Temple Bur.
A FINNISH CUSTOM.
How thfl 1'eopln of Thitt KimUn IT.ivIikm
Indulge in Their Aniiu il Itutti.
"In cross' ng the country I nofoed
that n-.iar every farm or settlement
thero was a small log hut with openings
all darkenod by smoke, and on asking
what it was always received an answer
that it was tho savna.
"Tho savna is in fact the common
bathroom of the farm and sometimes of
tho ne'ghborhood. Kvery Saturday tho
savna is used by tho whole family, tho
servants of tho farm, and any guests
that niav bo desirious of participating.
A hugo log fire is lit on a hearth in the
room, and when the bricks or stones
are red hot cold water is poured on
them, which soon tills the room with
steam. When all is ready tho bathers
gather of both sexes and all ages,
simply in the state in which wo are told
our first progenitors disported them
selves, and this even if the mercury is
frozen to a lump in the bulb. When
tho room is full fresh water is poured
on the stones, and the bathers begin to
belabor each other with birch tw gs, an
operation which has about tho same
ctl'ect as rubbing down tho nudo fcrm
by a hard brush aud a powerful hostler
would have. The proceedings arc
naturally carried on under a great deal
of fun from' the younger members of
the company. When the bath is over,
and a profuse perspiration has been
caused by the whipping and the steam,
tho whole company adjourn to tho snow
oaits'do, in which another bath takes
place. This over, the bathers adjourn
to var.ous direct. ong in 1110 saiuu cunn
ing they came. I had many onportuni
t es of witnessing this spoctaulo on my
lengthy journey into the heart of Fin
land." Sophon Trombolt,
Grant's - Nearness.
At Richfield Springs one day. General
Buckner heard some military skeptics
critic'sing General Grant's military
ability. 'Why, Hooker was as brave
ns Grant," said one man, excitedly.
But Grant was a very near man,"
said Buckner. "Anil McClcllan was a
greater strategist," said another scotler.
But Grant was famous for his near
ness," said Buckner. "Uo may not
have been brave, but he was always
near." "What do you mean by near
ness asked another scoller, petu
lantly. "Why, when I looked around
at Fort Donelson for some one to sur
render to. Grant was right there handy;
and! noticed when General Leo sur
rendered at Appomattox, Grant w as the
nearest General to take his sword. O,
he was near, Grant was!" N. i Jtt-
depemlent.
m 9
-An exchanga asks: "Why wasn't
the spring ch cken chosen as an em
blem of th's country?" We can not
answer with any degree of exactness,
but suppose the fathers of tho country
were not familiar with antediluvian
ornithology. Koibury Advocate.
: SPYING AND SPIES.
The gecrnl Workings of a City Detective
Deptrtment. j
"You think o.irbusinc-s aqticerono,"
remarked a Central Station detective
yesterday. . '
"We have to do.all kinds or tasks;
he continiiod; risk our lives ono 'day
capturing tome thief, and tho very no.
perhaps assume all the delicate tact and
nice behavior required to convince a
lady that she has absolutely no cause
to be jealous of her husband. Theu
the worst of it is we have to be so mys
terious in everything we do. . NoUa
syllable dare we utter for fear of spo 1
ing the job. Sometimes I fairly ncho to
tell of the funny things I see. bjtt it
won't do; tho story might contain somo
scrap of informaVou which, thought
lessly repeated by others, would allord
outsiders-a clue to the business I had
in hand.
"I remember an incident of the kind
lu question, showing the bad poPcy of
talking too much about a case. Somo
four years ago the confidential clerk of
a certam big grain house in this city
was found to be nn embezzler. This
discovery was made ono Sunday after
noon by tho propr'etor himself; who de
voted the entire day to the work of
overhauling the accounts of the con
crn. Ho chose Sunday for this work,
so as not to exc te the suspicions of his
man and about four in the afternoon
had abundant evidence that tho voting
fellow was several thousand dollars
short. Naturally, tho old man was
exc ted. He jumped around his o'lice
and tore his hair, and then resolved to
have tho embezzler arrested forthwith.
"His eye at that moment caught s'ght
of a young bootblack 0:1 the opposite
side of the street, and he called the lad
over and gave him a dollar to go to tho
house where his clerk boarded and in
qu're if he was there. The boy knew
fie young man very well, and when ho
appeared at the door told him every
thing that was going on nt the ollico.
' 'Mr. is pulling his hair out by
the roots,' said the boy, and the young
man took the hint and left the city
within half an hour. We got track of
him and telegraphed to- town farther
on his description, and asked tho pol ce
to arrest him on the cars. But the
fugitive knew a thing or two himself,
and left the cars at a small slat:on, and
boarded a train going in another direc
tion. That young man gave the depart
ment nloro trouble than I care to tell.
He was tracked to Kansas City, thenca
to Quebec, and finally, six months later,,
he was located in ot. .Louis. An ollicer
was dispatched to bring him back, but
the bird had flown. "How is it,' wo
asked, 'that this man is able to escape
us right along; he seems to forestall all
our actions, and it would appear he was
be'ng advised of our intentions right
along?'
"Such proved to be the case, and
some of our men talked a little too
freely. The fug live was a member of
a powerful socety, and all our talk
concerning him, we found out after
ward, had been telegraphed, him direct,
and he knew beforehand what we in
tended to do. Wo captured him at last,
however, -nd he is now doing h s bit at
Jol'et.
"That case taught tho department a
valuable lesspn. t It would bp jmpossi
ble now for a caso like that to lie re
pealed, and that i,s why I first sa d .ton
might possibly think our business
queer. If you'll allow that we have
many odd jobs to do. what do yo;i
think of tho men who are hired to
watch us? You see a detective keeps
h's eyo on thieves, but there are de
fectives whose only business it is to
watch other detectives. Spying on
sp'es is their work, and if 1 am any
judge I should think it rather t ckl s!i
work to do.
"Who are they?"'
"I don't know. All I know is that
every detective in th's department, and
every - uniformed ollicer as well, is un
der surveillance, aud that these secret
agents report only to the Superintend
ent.'' "What do they report?"
Well, various things. lo tho first
place, the Chief of Police is constat! ly
m receipt of complaints against patrol
men aud others on the force. Sonie-
t mes a L'eutcnant is sa:d to be 'work
ing' his distr'ct for a gold watch, a
horse and buggy, or some expensive
present, which generally takes the form
of a testimonial. Thero is a rule in tho
department prohibiting an ollicer of
police from receiving any present. Now,
this rule is not often enforced, but, to
make sure that it.won't be, your ambi
tious copper tells the chief that tho
diamond star he is about to receive, or
the horso and buggy, or the gold watch.
or whatever it may bo, is the unsolicited
gift of the residents of his district who
open their pocket-books and buy h:m
what ho gets in order to express their
sense of his fitness for office. Of courso
that is all bosh; the Lieutenant is alwavs
at the bottom of such a scheme, nnd ono
of tho jobs your mysterious IIy bobs'
has to do is to look up the extent to
wh'ch he is a party to the dodge.
"Again, anv detective who dresses
well or wears diamonds ;8 a sure work
for the 'fly bob.1 I ought to exnla n
that those secret officers are called 'By
bobs -in the department. Ihey aro
put on the track of any and all police
ollicers who are known to be addicted
to fast living. If the ollicer thus
singled out happens to be doing a tju et
sort of blaokma ling, as is often the
case, it isn't a great while before his
head goes into the basket. Even tho
corner 'cop1 who takes too many pea
nuts from the dago fruit merchant is
under tho watchful eye of tho "fly bob.'
vlt s a t'cklisli business, as I said
before, but its cnha.ices discipline in
tho department and for that reason I
suppose the schemo is all right."
Three linemen were at work at tho
top of a telegraph polo near New
Haven, when a thunder cloud, emitting
X'g-zag arrows or dove s diuo tiro,
rolled down toward them. By and by
a current from tho surcharge! cloud
camo flashing along the wire and the
men were given a dreadful shock. The
fellow who was standing highest was
Btruck senseless, and, falling, was
caught by the others. Upon the taut
skin of tho stricken man s chest were
three parallel marks; but, in spite of
the stroke, he recovered within an
hour. Au iai'n, Regxsltr.
A HIDEOUS CRIME.'
rBt.sl, Parent w7,o HH Th.lr CbUrtre,
to Obll th" Trillin Sum for Which
Tli-y Were Insured.
' A generation b'as passed since Tenny
son wrote that: .
K.nn tnlto mother kills her babe for a
burial fee, , ...
And Tlmou r mammon grins on pile Q
dron'a bonea. .
But the hideous work of killing children
for monev seems to go on just as
ever in Kuglaud. The fashion now is
to insure children's lives and then de
stfoy them, so as to gut the insurance.
It transpires that though tho insurance
companies will only insure healthy
children and reject numbers of those
who apply for insurance, yet the aver
age mortality among insured children
is fifty per cent, higher than tho mor
tality among children at large, as pub
lished it) the Government reports. The
inference is1 unavoidable great num
bers of children must be murdered by
their inhuman parents for tho sake of
the trilling sum they were insured for.
W hat a fearful revelation this gives of
the state of society among the poor in
England! How degraded, how lost to
all sense of humanity, a parent must be
when he or she will 'sacrifice the life of
a poor little child for tho sake of a few
miserable shillings! What conditions
of lifo must be required to produce such
creatures? It shows how a long course
of degredation, living from hand to
motitn, with no comfort in the present
nnd no hope for the future, will brutify
the human species. .There must be nn
equilibrium in all societies. If there are
people raised far above the common
level, there must be others depressed far
below it. The great landed ptoprietor
who counts his income by tho thousand
pounds a day implies swarms of men
and women to? whom a bellyful is a rare
occurrence. The crested duke involves
the- vile, sordid, scrofulous, squalid
baby poisoner.
Does it not seem a grotesque mockery
(or the English to work themselves up
to a pitch of fury over the gates of Herat
and the triumph of the Tory Democracy
when their system brings forth such
fruits as a wholesale system of baby
murder under their own noses? Where
can such things end? To what must
they lend? The British papers urge tho
authorities totak6 rigorous measures to
suppress this "new form of crime."
They forget that the baby-killers are
merely the outward and visible sign of
an inward and spiritual rottenness,
which has eaten deep into the bone and
fiber and blood and sinew of the poor
people of England. Punishing a mur
derer here and there will not stop the evil.
It will not cure the cause of the disease.
It will not touch the source of the wrong.
The father who kills his child for three
or four pounds is, of course, a hideous
criminal, for whom hanging is too kind.
But what produces Mich fathers? What
engenders the virus of which baby-killing
is an outward symptom? That is
what it concerns English statesmen to
find out and remedy if they can. Until
they do, they had better not trouble their
heads about the delimitation of frontiers
in Asia or fallals about Conservative
Cabinets in England. Srtn Franueo
Chronicle.
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SLAVE HUNTING IN AFRICA.
The Cruel Work of the Stive Dealen li the
f Dark Continent.
We discovered that this horde of ban
ditti was under the leadership of several
chiefs, but 'principally under Karema
aud Kiburuga. They had ttartcd six
teen months previously trout Wanc-Ki-rnndu,
about thirty miles below Vinya
Njara. F r eleven months the band had
been raiding successfully between the
Congo and tlieLubira.i.i. on the left bank.
They had then undertaken to perform
the same cruel work between tho Biyere
and Wane-Kirundu. On looking at my
map I (ind that such a territory within
the area described would cover 16,200
square miles on the left and 10.500 on
right bank, equal to !!4.,100 square milts
just 2.000 square miles greater than
Ireland inhabited by 1,000,000 people
I was permitted in tho afternoon- to see
the human harvest they had gathered
rows upon rows of dark nakedness, reliev
ed here and thereby the white dresses of
the captors. There aro lines or groups
of naked forms upright, standing or
moving about lisilessly. There are
countless naked children, many more
infants, arid occasionally a drove of ab
solutely naked old women bending over
a basket of fuel or bananas, who are
driven through the moving groups by
two or three musketeers. I observe that
mostly all are fettered; youths with Iron
rings around their necks, through which
chain, like one of our boat anchor
chains, is rove, securing the captives by
twenties. Children over ten are secured
by three copper rings, the mothers by
shorter chains, around whom their re
spective progeny of infants are grouped,
hiding tho cruel iron links that fall in
loops or festoons over their mothers'
breasts. After realizing the extent and
lepth of U16 misery presented to me I
walked about as iu a kind of a dream,
wherein I saw through the darlness of
tho night the stealthy forms of the mur
derers creeping toward the doomed
town, its inmates all asleep, when sud
denly flash the light of brandished
torches, the sleeping town is involved in
flames, while volleys of musketry lay
low the frightened and astonished peo
ple. The slave-traders admit that they
have only 2,890 captives in this fold; yet
they have raided through the length and
breadth of a country larger than Ireland,
bearing tire and spreading carnage with
lend and iron; one hundred nnd eighteen
villages and forty-three districts have
been wasted, outof which is only educed
Ibis scant profit of 2.300 females and
children, and about 2.000 tusks of ivory!
To obtain these 2,800 slaves they must
have shot a round number of 2,500 peo
ple, while 1,300 more died by the wav
siilo through scant provisions and the
intensity ot their hopeless wretchedness.
The Congo 11. M. Stanlry.
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The London Mechanical World ad
mils the superiority of the tools used in
every mechanical trade in America, their
great perfection, their adaptability to
the daily changing needs of commerce,
the saving of hand labor they insure,
and the consequent economy in the j rice
of production. This is a big auvertiie
ment for American manufacturers.
SHY OF POISON.
How Paople Instinctively Shrink from Snip
. Containing Morphia and Opium -,A
EepotUr'i Besearchei.
From the Washlnnton Daily Pot.
For many years physicians hay8
been much exercised over the use 0!
drugs and medicines containing opi
ates or poisons. Opium smoking by
tho Chinese and tho introduction'of
the habit into America is an evil which
has been Bought to bo remedied, and
the police of Philadelphia have recent
ly mado successful raids on opium
"joints" and arrested the proprietors.
A more insidious form of poison than
this, however, and one which laruely
efl'ects not only the health but the lives
of children, is that which conies in th
form of popular medicines. Nine out
of ten of these, it is known, contain
narcotics or deadly metallic oxides.
The difficulty, however, has been to
find a substitute for eurh things which
would ho purely vegetable, and at the
same time effect a prompt cure.J That
such a discovery had been made wa
announced recently,and Dr. O. Grothe,
chemist to the ' Brooklyn Board of
Health, and a graduato of th Univer
sity )l Kiel, Germany, publicly certi
fied that ho had analyzed the remedy
and (pund it free from narcotics, opi
ates or injurious metallic oxides, and a
harmless happy combination, which
will prove highly effective. ' Hearing
that Dr. Samuel K. Cox, a graduate of
Yak', and expert analytical chemist of
this City, hud also analyzed the rem
edy in question and given public tes
timony as to its puritand efficacy, a
reporter of The Post was told by him
that he had given such a certificate,
and that he believed tho remedy
marked a new stage in the treatment
of throat and lung diseases, lie knew
also that many public men in Wash
ington had given the remedy
a trial, and felt confident if they were
culled upon that they would cheer
fully iniorse it. One of them was
Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, Senator-elect
from Kentucky. Mr. Blackburn, on
being approached, said ,ho hud used
tho remedy with marked effect and
found' great benefit, especially during
his occupancy of 'the Speaker's chair.
It had removed all irritation from his
throat and relieved a cough which had
troubled him much.
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, said
thut he firmly believed in the remedy,
which he hud personally tested. Con
gressman J. II. Bagley, Jr., of New
York ; Win. Mutchler, of Pennsylva
nia; J. II. Brewer, of New Jersey;
Hart B. Ilolton, of Maryland, and J.
P. Leedpm, Esq., of Ohio, Sergeaut-at-Arms
of the House of Representatives,
were emphatic in their endorsement of
the remedy. Messrs. Fid. A. Clark,
Architect of Public Buildings; E. A.
Carman, Acting Commissioner of the
Agricultural Department; Thomas S.
Miller, chief clerk in the Surgeoa
General's Department; II, E. Weaver,
ex-Congressman from Mississippi, and
now chief of the collecting division in
the General PtiHtofHce; Ji II. Graven
stine, head of the labor division in the
same department, and F. B. Conger,
City Postmaster, and son of Senator
Conger of Michigan, all pronounced it
a valuable discovery, and hud found
its effects not only soothing, but last
ing. The remedy in question is Red
Star Cough Cure. It is free from opi
ates or poisons and is purely vegetable.
A physician who stands in close
relation to the Board of Health of the
District of Columbia said that there
are two things which seriously affect
the health of , the people. impure
water and impure drugs, and there
fore the benefits of a discovery like
lied Star Cough, Cure cannot ho over
estimated. Thousands of children die
annually from the use of coughnd
soothing syrups containing opiates or
poisons, and even adults are exposed
to the danger of blood-poisoning from
such a cause. I j view of these facts
members of Boards of Health in vari
ous cities; public men of Maryland,
lrom the Governor down, and leading
practicing physicians throughout that
State have over their own signatures
testified that Red Star Cough Cure,
which by the way costs but twenty
five cents a bottle, cannot fail to be a
boon to the suffering and afflicted.
The reporter's investigations were
thorough and unprejudiced, and the
testimony, obtained, judging from it
character, cannot be gainsayed.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL
i.Hiuoruia lias a state lioard or jui-ueation-which
-has. elected a "literary
proof-reader aud ed.tor-in-chicf" at a
salary of ?200 per month.
Boston, expects to enterta'n over
4,000 guests at the seventy-Iifth anni
versary of the establishment of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foie'gn Missiona tictobor 13-16.
Princeton Theological Seminary
recently celebrated Its seventy-fifth an
niversary. One-fourth of the graduat
ing class of thirty-live have given them
selves to foreign m'ssionary work.
Cnly two students, it is said, from Con
gregational ceniinarics have decided to
become foreign missionaries. N. Y.
herald.
A Fresbyterian Church has ben
orgnni ed in Portland, Me. Dur.ng tho
last century thero were many in that
territory, several of ho towns taving
Scotch-Irish settlers. But these cturches
became extinct or were changed into
Cong -eo-ational bodies, ani tlw ra rntly
organi ed body is the oj'y one of iU
kiud in the State. Tro Times.
The Baptist Unior Germany last
year had 161 chu'lfs' w'tb 33,483
members; a net gak"0' L190 over tho
previous vear. 'i"1"8 were 3,546 bap
ti ed. The chnre8 raised for all pur
poses nbout S'.K'' a"d their property
is valued at at"' 3a:i. 302. They lost
321 memberj V emigration, and the
exclusion of 01 8lw a good Etandard
of Christia-acfcC -