SOLDIERING IN HAYTI.
HUNGRY PRIVATES SUPPORT THEM
SELVES BY BEGGING.
r Wi; tlie Haitian Authorities Una
of Taking Cars of Their Convicts ud
Warriurs They Travel in Pairs and
Bee i the Streets Day by Day.
Philip McDowell is an old and well
known New Yorker. He was a volun
teer fireman once, and all old New York
ers know what that means. Of late
years Mr. McDowell has traveled exten
sively abroad. He visited Hayti. A
day or two ago a reporter asked him
-what was the most striking thing . he
saw in the black republic.
"I saw many strango things in Hayti,
bnt the strangest of all was the way the
soldiers and prisoners are transformed
into beggars and are forced to live on
charity. When a prisoner is sentenced
to do time there he doesn't have a uni
form, he learns no trade and he doesn't
get anything to eat from the govern
ment. He is allowed to beg, though,
for money and grub, and if he won't beg
well, he can starve.
"This begging is a funny kind of busi
ness. Take the prison at Jacmel, for in
stance. Well, every morning they fire
the prisoners out to pick up whatever
they can get, and each fellow has a sol
dier along with him to see that he
doesn't run away. The two beg together
all day and whack up in the evening.
Then the soldier brings back bis prisoner
to jail and goes up to the fort to show
that he has his musket all right, and
hasn't sold it for drinks or a square meal
during the day." '
SOLDIERS GET NO FAY.
"But don't the Haytian soldiers get
pay-
. "No, they don't. Any money there is
in the army goes to the generals, and of
them there are enough to command the
oombined armies of Europe and America.
Onoe in a long while the Haytian soldier
gets a dollar, which is worth about
seventy cents in our money, but he and
the prisoners live by begging. They go in
twos from house to house and from store
to store. Sometimes they have a good
day and make a dollar and sometimes
they don't make fifty cents, but what
ever it is they must live on it.
"The soldier himself is a scarecrow.
He has never been drilled, has no unK
form to speak of, and if he hadn't a
musket to carry around with liim yon
couldn't tell him from the prisoner he is
taking care of. You recollect the old
Long Toms we had in our army before
the war? Well, that's the kind the Hay
tian soldiers carry. TLey are all old
cap and ball cerncerns, as like as not to
go off at the wrong end.
"Take a soldier, a sailor or a fireman
with us, and they all have a pride in
keeping all their tools neat and clean;
but military pride isn't in the game that
tfce Haytian soldier plays. When he
gets home after a day's begging he
pitches his old musket into a corner just
as a laborer in the street cleaning depart
ment gets rid of his shovel. It may be
rusty and honeycombed, but as long as
me can snow up witn it at the fort and
satisfies the government that it hasn't
gone to the junk shop he's happy."
DEATH OF NO ACCOUNT.
"The soldiers and the prisoners must
be pretty good chums?
"Well, that s very much as you take
it. It's a common sight to see the guard
and the prisoner reeling home together
if they've aiade out well.
"I suppose you'd imagine that prison
ers would often get away with these
kind of guardians, but they don't. When
ever the soldier takes it into his head
that the prisoner is going to escape he
just shoots him dead, and that's all there
is to it. No coroner comes around and
postmortems are unknown.. Why, 1
was walking one day with a friend on
one of the chief streets of Jacmel.
"Right in front of us was a drunken
soldier and a drunken, prisoner. 'Now,'
aid my friend, you watch that fellow
aad see if he doesn't take it into his
head that his prisoner is going to escape,
and if lie does he will shoot him." Sure
enough, a minute or two after the
drunken prisoner staggered into the mid
dle of the street, and the equally drunken
soldier ups with his Long Tom and
shoots him dead.
"Things are not quite as bad at Port-au-Prince
as they are at Jacmel and the
mailer towns on the-island, but the dif
ference is not worth talking of. Hayti
collects plenty of money in duties, but it
is all grabbed by a few men, while the
mass of the people are left to get on as
best they can, and are forced' to support
out of their pockets as objects of charity
soldiers and convicts." New York Re
corder. Savins; a Sparrow.
An authentic incident in the career of
General Robert E. Lee is told as an evi
dence of bis sweetness of disposition and
matural kindliness. One . day he was in
specting the batteries over the lines be
low the city of Richmond, and the sol
diers had gathered in a group to wel
come him. This action drew upon them
the fire of the Union guns.
The general faced about 'and advised
the men to go under shelter. But he
did not do this himself. Walking on,
although in apparent danger, he picked
np and replaced an unfledged sparrow
, which had fallen from its nest near by.
The act was instinctive, bat perhaps
indicates a really higher endowment
-tfiao ' ability to conduct notable cam
paigns Youth's Companion. .
A Great Walker.
Heorick Ibsen is a methodical walker.
So fond is he of his daily walk that; he
takes it rain or shine, and aft cotton
umbrella which-, he -always ccrries has
' become a part of his Individuality. His
favorite time for walking is an hour be
fore twilight TT writM inr'Muu.mtlw nil
day and adopts this method of resting
hUi tired brain and body. His well kuit,
iu oscular frame attests lii good health,
and be can stand any amount of literary
work. It is said of Ibsen that he write
one year and waUts the next. YfiuMug
ton Sine
! Mr. Miller Farm Strangely Disappearing-.
1 The farm of John H. Miller, who lives
eighteen miles southeast of Sedalia, Mo.,
is slowly being swallowed up in what
seems to be a huge river flowing beneath
the surface of the earth. The phenome
non was observed first Saturday, when
Mr. Miller's family heard a rumbling
noise in the orchard. Investigation re
vealed a hole in the ground about six
i feet in diameter and several feet deep,
with water at the bottom. The rum
blings continued, and the hole has been
constantly enlarging since that time.
F. P. Clayton visited the spot and
made a thorough investigation of what
he terms the most wonderful thing he
has ever seen. He reports that the cav
ity is nearly circular in form, sixteen
feet in diameter at the top and tapering
to ten feet at the water line, which is
twenty-six feet from the surface. The
water is twenty-five feet deep and seems
to be a flowing river, as sticks thrown
into it are carried rapidly away by the
current. The opening is in prairie land,
not near any spring or body of water.
Several years ago a farmer in that im
mediate neighborhood was driving a
well, -when the tools became detached
and lost, but it was thought to be mere
ly a pocket,' and no attention was paid
to it.
The cavity is gradually enlarging, and
as Mr. Miller's residence is only sixty
feet distant he is greatly alarmed for the
safety of his home and family. Cor.
Chicago Herald.
Brothers' Death Strangely Coincident.
One of the most remarkable coinci
dences that it has ever been the province
of a newspaper to record comes from the
lower end of the county. Henry Trum
bauer of Ross township, a few miles
west of Shickshinny, a farmer, forty-five
years old, retired at an early hour on
Sunday night in his usual good health,
and to all outward appearances never
felt better in bis life. The next morn
ing his wife was horrified by the dis
covery of his dead body in bed. He had
passed quietly away in the night with
out a struggle.
On the same night his brother Wil
liam, living in H unlock township, about
ten miles away, retired hale and hearty.
He, too, showed no symptoms of illness.
Nothing in his demeanor gave the slight
est warning of impending dissolution.
His daughter, not seeing her father come
down as usual, called, but received no
answer. She went up stairs, when she
was horror stricken to find him dead on
the bed.
The occurrence has created not a lit
tle excitement in the neighborhood, as
the men were well known in the com
munity. No marks of violence could be
found on their bodies, and the general
belief is that death was due to natural
causes. Both men were married and
each leaves a wife anA family. Wilkes
barre Record.
Vicarious Martyrdom.
The grip is depopulating the Indian
wigwams of Alaska and Vancouver's
Island. The malignity of the disease
seems, indeed, proportioned to the inno
cence of its victims a phenomenon
which might be explained on the theory
that epidemics prove specially fatal to
individuals of an unprepared race. A
native of the Allegheny highlands may
be almost killed by a catarrh contracted
by a night's lodging in a bedroom filled
with an atmosphere which the habitues
of the city slums could breathe with
comparative impunity, and the chron
icler of Captain Cook's voyages relates
that a community of South Sea Islanders
was affected with an alarming influenza,
in consequence of a few minutes' con
versation with sailors who had passed
the nights of a long voyage in a stuffy
cockpit. Felix L. Oswald in Philadel
phia Times.
Whistling; in Oermany.
One has to be careful how and what
he whistles in Germany. The other day
a peasant at Diedenhofen, Lorraine, was
arrested and brought before the magis
trate on the charge of showing disrespect
to the German authorities by whistling
the "Marseillaise." The man contended
that the march he had whistled was one
he had learned when he was serving in
the Brunswick Hussars. The court made
the . policeman who had arrested the
prisoner whistle the "Marseillaise" to see
if he knew the famous hymn. Then the
prisoner was ordered to whistle the
march he claimed to have heard in the
Hussars. It proved to be suspiciously
similar to the "Marseillaise," and the
unlucky whistler was fined fifteen marks
for his indiscretion.. The policeman was
not fined for whistling the air.- St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. .
A Well Full of Snakes.
Connecticut evidently is bent on giv
ing Georgia a tussle for the position of
chief center for the distribution of snake
stories. This one comes from Norwich:
A man here the other day took the
stone cover off an old dry well in his
pasture and saw at the bottom of it a
ball of braided black snakes bigger than
a lager beer keg. He ran to the house
and got his revolver and a box of cart
ridges. He blew in all his cartridges,
and the well was boiling over with es
caping snakes when he got through with
them. He got eighteen dead snakes in
the well, and more than tltree times
that number got away. The biggest
snake bagged was over, seven feet long
and the smallest one more than four
feet. ' - :- - - - - .
Orange culture in southern California
is making wonderful progress. Fifteen
years ago the first shipment of oranges
was made from Riverside, San Bernar
dino county, while this season the ship
ments from the Riverside district will
amount to 1,800 carloads, or 400,000
boxes. The total shipments from south
ern California will probably reach 3,400
or 3,500 carloads.
Both Mr. . Irving's sons' will become
actors. The elder, Harry, who is very
much like his father, will leave Oxford
very soon, and Lawrence, who has been
studying diplomacy in St. Petersburg,
wiU give that op for the stage. Both
bars straws talont in private tfcaatrioala.
TO BE RID OF VERMIN.
A PROFESSIONAL INSECT. DESTROYER
TELLS WHAT TO DO.
The Chief Weapons Are Constant Vigi
lance and Cleanliness lienzine. If Jo
diclonsly Applied, Is. a Terror to the
Losthaome Bedbug.
If you will walk over to the east side
some day, up one of the crooked streets
that lead out of the City Hall park, you
will come presently to a small, swinging
sign that reads, "Rat Exterminator and
Insect Destroyer," and, entering, you will
find, in place of a small, dingy shop and
a queer, little, grimy faced, long haired
old man that you may have imagined to
yourself , a bright, airy office, ii window
full of singing birds, a young girl with
some crochet work in her hands and a
pleasant looking middle aged woman in
a tastefully made black gown. .
"You Would like to know something
about our business?" asked the woman.
"Oh, yes! A great many people come
in to inquire. Take a chair and I will
tell you what I can abont it. Mr. Catcher
has been in the business for a long time.
We have our regular customers, and em
ploy seven men to visit them at stated
intervals and keep their houses free from
vermin. They go, generally, two or
three times a week.
"You see, it is work that must be kept
np all the time, like sweeping or dish
washing, and if you leave it to servants
they are apt to neglect it after a little.
Sometimes people think they can get
along without us, and have their porters
or other man servants do the work.
They do very well for a week or two:
then they grow careless and their em
ployers have to send for ns again.
"Who are our customers? All sorts of
people. We send men to stores and
warehouses, hotels, flats and private
houses. Mr. Catcher has worked for
some of his customers for years. They
employ him generally by the year, or
for six months at a time. He has to be
very careful about his men. They must
be honest and have good characters, or
he would not dare to send them into peo
ple's houses.
HOW HE WOKKS.
"How does he do his work? If he is
hunting roaches or croton bugs he first
sprays all of the cracks in the floors and
woodwork of a room with a liquid prep
aration that he has, and then sprinkles
around very thoroughly a white powder,
and in a day or two he goes and cleans
up the dead bugs. He does not attempt
to rid houses of bedbugs when they are
in the furniture. That is out ot his line.
But sometimes people send for him . to
have him clear them out of the walls of
houses before they move in, and then he
goes to work just as he does against the
coaches.
"For rats and mice he sets traps, often
twenty or thirty at a time, and when he
goes for them the next day he generally
finds them fulL He has them baited
here, and then sets them around in the
places where the creatures are in the
habit of coming but, and after they are
emptied tbey are all thoroughly cleansed
before being used again.
"Yes, indeed, he has ants to fight
against, and they are worse than any
thing else to get rid of. v
"People send for him all the time.
They write or telegraph to him, .'The
rats are getting so thick that they are
running away with us. Have you for
gotten about us? or 'The mice are eating
up everything in the house; come and
help us!'
"In keeping a house free from vermin
remember that 'eternal vigilance is the
price of freedom' from bugs and other
predatory household foes of all kinds.
CLEANLINESS IS IMPORTANT.
"Do not allow bits of food to stand
around uncovered on your tables or pan
try shelves; allow no scraps or crumbs
to collect in out of the way coreers; keep
your sinks and drain pipes clean and free
from grease this you can. do by scald
ing them out once or twice a week with
hot water in which you have dissolved a
large lump of salsoda; wash your shelves
occasionally with hot borax water, and
sprinkle around the edges of them and
around the sides of your kitchen floor a
mixture of equal parts of powdered borax
and sugar.
"If you have been unfortunate enough
to move into a house where .there are
bedbugs benzine used daily with patience
and perseverance will exterminate them.
Apply with a feather or an atomiser to
every crack and crevice that may possi
bly harbor the smallest bug, and be sure
that the fumes have all evaporated be
fore you light the gas in the room.
"If you want to put away your clothes
so that the moths will not eat them np
wrap them well in newspapers and place
them between layers of other newspapers
thoroughly saturated with turpentine.
Moths rather enjoy camphor gum and
actually grow fat op red pepper, but
from turpentine they will keep at a re
spectful distance.
"And, last of all, understand that
whether your enemies creep or fly or
run, if you would wage a successful war
fare against them, your chief est weapons
must be constant vigilance and cleanli
ness! cleanliness! cleanliness !" New
York World.
How the Junkman Thrives.
The other day an artist who had ac
cumulated in his room a varied assort
ment of bottles, old rags, papers, paint
tubes, etc.', made a desperate effort to
get rid of them. The janitor declined to
take the stuff away for what ' it was
Worth. In his dilemma the energetic
knight of the brush finally scoured the
streets for a junkman with a push cart.
He was felicitating himself upon hav
ing made a good bargain when he dis
covered that the rag and bottle man had
wrapped up his brand new coat with the
other things. By that time the itinerant
had disappeared. This by the way of
illustrating' a favorite mode of operation
on the part of the street gentry. They
affect stupidity. If caught they made
a mirtakn; if not, well, the other fellow
bmmU a Bmtek. Se? New York BaraJA.
The Question Asking Habit.
Like most other things, curiosity may be
either a virtue or a vice. With its proper
use we have no present concern. We are
only to consider one of its most disagreeable
manifestations.
The English have an old proverb to the
effect that those who ask no questions will
be told no lies. It would be well to bear
this surly old proverb ever in mind when
tempted to make idle inquiries. There are
so many reasons why reticence is wise and
right, and the knowledge of the truth
might be harmful, that the temptation to
evade or deny the truth is very strong to
those whose politeness makes it difficult
for them to refuse to answer even an imper
tinent question.
We may have no bad motives when ask
ing Mrs. A. how she became acquainted
with Mrs. B.; we may not, in fact, care
much about -the matter; but it has occur
red to us to wonder how, why and where a
lady of such elegance and fashion as Mrs.
A. should have become so intimate with
the humble and unattractive Mrs. B. that
the one can rarely be met without the
other. -
So far no harm has been done. As we
have asked no' questions, no mischievous
surmises have been set afloat and no rude
ness has been committed. It may be that
neither woman would object to making
known the origin of their friendship; but
it may also be that to tell it would be to
unfold a long story of sorrow or misfor
tune. Every one detests the scandal monger,
but his occupation would be. gone without
the aid of the questioner. The latter's
motives may be innocent, but the results
of his vulgar impertinence are often disas
trous. Every one who feels in himself a
rising inquiry in regard to the private af
fairs of others should crush it. Parents
should use every effort to divert the natu
ral curiosity of their children into useful
and elevating channels. Harper's Bazar.
Fifteen Bears in One Tree.
A McCloud river woodsman, while
making shakes .at Black Cox mountain,
cut down a big five-foot sugar pine,
which proved to be hollow for forty-five
feet and full of hibernating bears. There
were five black, seven cinnamon and
three grizzly bears in the hollow tree,
and the man nailed slabs over the open
end of the log and started it down
the mountain toward town, where it ar
rived Eafe and sound and is now on ex
hibition. McCloud Pioneer.
The children of the late Senora Llanos,
the only sister of John Keats, have pre
sented to the British Museum forty-two
letters from the poet to their mother.
The period these letters cover, extends
from 1817 to 1820. They have been pub
lished in a collected edition of Keats'
writings, but the originals have a value
all their own.
Diamonds have been found in British
Guiana, where a gold mine owner re
cently collected 638 stones. An expert
in London declared 633 of the specimens
to be diamonds of the purest water.
CON
STIPATION.
ArtlictH half the American people yet there is
only o;u; preparation of Sarsaparilla that acts on
the bowels and reaches this important trouble,
and that is Joy's Vegetable Sarakparilla. It re
lieves it in 24 hours, andan occasional dose
prevent return. "Ve refer by permission to C; E.
EUiingtou, 125 1-ocust Avenue, San Francisco;
J. H. Jtrnwu, Petaluma; H. a Winu, Geary Court,
8an Francisco, and hundreds of others who have
used it in constipation. One letter is a sample of
hundreds. Elkington, writes: "I have been fot
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion. Hare been eo bad for a year back have
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would h ave a headache. After taking one bottle
of J. V. 8. , I am In splendid shape. It has done
wonderful things for me. People similarly
troubled should try it and.be convinced."
Joy'
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
Most miKltfit, i.iost i-ffci-i
lurxcat bottle.
use price, l.o.-. x .M.
For Sale, by SNIPES St KINERSLY.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Tew people know that the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
matter being used for this.
vu l-rn. 0 Til fa Ha.
fold. It not onlv makes the'
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
we of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: " The manipulation of poor teas, to sire
them a'flner appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,,
gypsum, and Indigo. This method it to get ,
eral that very little genuine uneolored green tea
it offered for tale."
It was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted thenpIaeiog of Beech's
Tea before the public. It Is absolutely pure
and without color. Did yon ever see any
genuine uncolored Japan teat Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found In color to be just be
tween, the artificial green tea that yoa have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draws a delightful canary color, and la so
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity " makes H also mors
economical than the artificial teas, for leas
of it is required per cup. Bold only in poand
.packages bearing this trade-mark:
H Tossrtsoeer dnothavK,ba whl gal
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The
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issued every evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fifty
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Its Objects
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city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
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criticism of political .matters, as in its
handling of local affairs, it will be
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