THE HAIDA INDIANS.
TIip Mot IntrrrMliiR Alrlclnp Dwelllns
In tlir Xrtltwpt ('out Country.
otn little Interest and romance at
taches itself to tlio Hatila Indians of
liueen Charlotte Islands, from a tradi
tion which exists, that their ancestors
?ume, originally, in canoe from a
-ountry far to the southward. It is
-laid that they wcro many moons on
Mie voyage, that they landed at mapy
poiiits on the way like Prions and his
Trojans of classic story - and that they
were always repeled hy savage natives,
ir evil omens, till, finally, they reached
these outlying islands whore they
established themselves, built village.-,
ind fashioned now canoes from the
huge yellow c?dar-trees which here
reach their greate.-t size.
It is supposed by some travelers that
these exiles, seeking a home and a
ountry, wore a remnant of the mighty
Aztec people of Mexico, conquered by
Cortex and his Spanish cavaliers, and
that jitor the tragic fall of Tonoehtlt
lan. the Aztec capital of Mexico, a bund
jf fugitives made its way down to the
west coast and came northward.
Certain it is that the Haidas excel the
)ther Indian tribes of the Northwest
?oaht. in warlike spirit, physique and
ingenuity. They are now often seen
t Sitka. Victoria and Pugot Sound
ports, but still claim the Queen Char
lotte Islands as their homo.
What gives the legend of their origin
collie degree of probability is the art
hey possess in carving and engraving
in s-toni wood, silver, copper and gold.
As nearly as can bo ascertained, the
practice of carving the huge totem
posts, which form so odd and striking
a feature of the Indian villages along
this coast, originated with the Haidas.
There is something in the grotesque
sculpture.and imagery on these totems
suggestive of Aztec art, as seen in the
museum at tho City of Mexico. Not
n-en civilized art exceeds the skill dis
played by the Hindus in carving plates,
platters, tureens, miniature totems and
:inimal groups of statuary from solid,
tine-grained blade slate; for it is done
with such skill, finish and good taste
in design that a single platter or group
often commands forty or fifty dollars.
More remarkable yet is tho skill ex
hibited by these people in tho model
ing and construction of largo canoes
from the trunks of the gigantic yellow
cedars, which, on the Queen Char
lotte Islands, attain a diameter of seven
and even ten or twelve feet for
Queen Charlotte's is tho Lebanon of
the Northwest coast. From a single
cedar log the Haidas fashion a canoe,
sometimes seventy-live feet long, with
a breadth of seven or eight feet, a
craft capable of carrying fifty persons,
a good sailor, seaworthy and safe for
.a, voyage of hundreds of miles on tho
open sea. The prows of these huge
canoes are often curved upward in a
formidable war beak, and decorated
like tho galieys of classic times.
It will, indeed, bo an interesting dis
covery in ethnology if tho arts of these
west coast Haidas can bo traced to
their source in that peculiar Aztec civ
ilization of early Mexico, which Cor
tex and the coniuistartorcs crushed so
ruthlessly threo hundred and seventy
j ears ago. Youth's Companion.
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A Test tor Malaria.
A loving father who, at a summer
resort last season, had left behind him
four beautiful children, dead of diph
theria, said to mo: "That hotel, pro
prietor was as much a murderer as if
ho had shot my little ones." Yes,
dear sir, but you, the guardian, ought
to have been armed and equipped
-.igninst such foes. An hour's intelli
gent examination of water supply and
drainage at a proposod country homo
would, in a largo majority of cases,
prevent tho risk of such a catastrophe,
and might bo made before a landlord
could object. Take in tho dross-ing-bag
an ounce vial of saturated
solution of permanganato of potash,
which any druggist will prepare for a
few cents, and put half a dozen drops
into a tumbler of tho drinking water
that is supplied. If it turns brown in
an hour, it is, broadly speaking, unfit
to drink; if not, it is not especially
harmful. If a country hotel's sower
age system is confined to cesspools
within a hundred foot of tho house and
near the wator supply, lake the next
train to a point farther on. These
matters should force thomselves on
one's personal attention, quito as much
as tho undertaker's bills that occasion
ally follow their neglect. American
Magazine.
How a Fortune Was Acquired.
"A scheme by which I could acquiro
a fortune in thirty days would he all I
would require to make mo happy,"
said the long-haired man with tho
corn-cure. "Happiness will soon bo
yours," said tho cast-iron brick-mnkor.-I
will give you a scheme, I chargo
nothing for it, which will render you
u wealthy man." "Your first gift to
tho needy?" asked tho corn-butchor.
"Hut never mind, I will not seek to
call up your record. I will tako the
scheme without gratitude, for what
is cheapor than advice?" Tho
schemo was to form oi stock
company and advertise tho corn-cure
under a foreign name. The long-haired
man did not form u company, but ho
nold his romcdy with rcdoublod energy
and at last got togethor f00. Soon
tho wulls of tho city blossomed with
glowing "ads" of tho .Scandinavian
Corn Exterminator, accompanied by a
plciuro of a yollow-haired Swede bath
ing his foot in a blue liquid. The long
haired man is now called tho hand
somest millionaire in tho country and
Is tho owner of u big itou-in yuoht.
Uullalo Express.
THE RUSSIAN POLICE.
Accorillne to Mr. Kriiiicn IW Chirr Clint-itrlrrl.tli-
l DUlmiip.ty.
Ill a recent lecture in Ronton. Mr.
George Kenr.en referred as follows to
the Russian police: "The police of
Kussia control, by means of passports,
the movements of all the inhabitant
of tho Empire, keep thousands of 'sus
pects' constantly under control, and
certify to the courts the liabilities ol
bankrupts. They conduct pawnbrok
er's sales of unredeemed pledges, su
perintend the repairs of roads and
bridges, collect statistics and enforce
sanitary regulations, make searches in
private houses, read the correspond
ence of 'suspects.' give certificates to
Identify pensioners, admonish church
members who neglect too long
to partake of tho holy com
munion, and enforce obedience to
thousands of multifarious orders and
regulations. It u hardly an exagger
ation to say that in tho peasant vil
lages of Siberia, away from the cen
ters ol enlightenment and education,
the police aro tho omnipresent and om
nipotent regulators of every thing a
sort of bureaucratic substitute for Di
vine Providence. The police of Rus
sia are divided into four classes: Tho
rural police, tho common metropolitan
police of the cities, the detective and
secret police, and tho ijcwturniv.i. The
strongest class numerically is that of
tho rural police, who enforce the or
ders of the (lovernment in the peasant
villages. According to a recently-published
statement, thoro are in tho
forty-seven provinces of European
Russia 2(W,i00 towns and villages
where intoxicating liquors aro sold at
retail. If wo suppose that for every
such village there are two police o Ul
cers, which, perhaps, is not an over
estimate, wo have an army of over
.100, 0.H) men in this one class, without
including Siberia or any part of Asiatic
Russia. Tho rural police aro divided
into stuns, or stations. They wear a
uniform, and aro armed with a saber
and revolver. Their salaries aro from
!?7f to $100 per year lor a privato and
sfliOO for the chief of t district. The
natural result is thai tlie rural police
represent the worst elements of tho
whole population. A large proportion
of them are ignorant and stupid. Those
who have brains aro generally dishon
est, and use tho orders of the Minister
of the Interior in innumerable in
stances to extort money from tho peas
ants." The lecturer asserted that bribery
was almost universal among tho offi
cials. An instance of this was as fol
lows: In every village there was gen
erally one Jewish capitalist. At a
time when tho peasants were about to
float thoir wheat to market on barges,
ono of these capitalists proposed to tho
official that when tho peasants applied
to him for their passports to enable
them to travel to the market, ho should
tell them that they had been sent to
the department for renewal, or invent
some other excuso to prevent tho
peasants from traveling. Then he (tho
capitalist) would buy their wheat at
homo for about half its value, and
divide up tho profits with him. To this
the ollicial agreed, and the scheme was
carried out, with tho result that the
peasants became discouraged, and
agriculture declined.
"Next to the rural police in numer
ionl strength, and far above them in
intellect and power," said the lecturer,
"are the secret police of Russia, who
are to bo found everywhere through
out tho Immense Empire, and who aro
most numerous in tho large cities. A
great part of their work consists jn
maintaining supervision over persons
who are suspected of sympathizing
with the revolutionary movement.
Tho number of persons uuilor super
vision when the last Czar came to the
throne was officially reported to bo
2,8:57 in European Russia, besides about
2,000 in Siberia, all of tho latter polit
ical exiles. The number is probably
much greater now. All these aro un
der open surveillance; they know the
polieo aro watching them, and that
thoir correspondence is under con
trol." Frank Leslie's Weekly.
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Honesty Finds Its Reward.
Some time ago a wealthy man died
in iJrussols, leaving .nearly his entire
fortune to a young woman who was en
tirely unacquainted with him. Tho
American Art Printer explains that
this is how it came to pass: Ho was a
very eccentric man, and sot out, like
Dlogones, in search of an honest man.
Ills tub was an omnibus, and his lan
tern a small coin. In tho omnibus he
usod to tako his scat every day near
tho conductor, and always showed him
self very obliging in passing up tho
money of pussongors and returning
tho change, but to tho latter ho always
managed to add a franc or half franc.
Then he would watch thoso to whom
it came. They would count it careful
ly, notlco tho extra coin, and Invaria
bly slip it. into their pockets. No one
thought of the poor conductor, whose
meager salary of three francs a day
could 111 support such a loss. Hut at
last a young woman passed hers back
with, "Conductor, you have givon me
half a franc too much." Diogenes, de
lighted, followed her homo, made in
quiries, and, as tho answers wcro sat
isfactory, mado Ills will in her favor,
though he nover gavo hor warning thai
her half franc was going to bring hoi
half a million.
Domingo, tho Spunlsh painter,
long resident in Paris, for whoso work
immense prices have ruled these mnny
years, has had tho honor of pulnting
the baby King of Spain and his mother,
tho Quoon Regont, receiving for the
form-jr $'.'5,000.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The population of Africa Is
eighteen to the square mile; in Europe
there are eighty-eight to the same
space.
In Liverpool the rate of mortality
is 1S.S per cent. Every fourth funeral
is that of a child under ono year old.
and every second funeral is that of a
child under five years old.
Princess Eugenie, of Sweden. -ha
borne the expense of establishing n
mission house for the benefit of tho
Laplanders in the northern part of.
Sweden. It is over two hundred milos
north of the Arctic Circle.
A Russian officer who has made a
tour of observation through .India?
concludes that English rule there is
"far from tottering to Its fall. . tt um
struck out so many deep roots that to
disturb it would be no easy' task."
It has hitherto been tho rule in
Japan that all persons visiting gov
ernmental otlieos must alight from
their horses or vehicles at the out'Or
gate: unless they were of. certain rank.
This relic of feudal times has now
been abolished. Every Japanese is
now nt liberty to go where lie pleases
on foot.
Thorough tillage, combined with
irrigation and drainage, enables Japan,
from only 12, 000.000 acres under till
age, to clothe and feed '58. 000.000 peo
ple, to say nothing of exporting an
nually -10000.00;) pounds of tea, sev
eral million dollars' worth of silk and
large quantities of tobacco and rice-
Tho Gorman Empress is not a
woman of dress, but when she does
array herself in her stateliest robes
ho presents a marvelous spectacle,
l'lio other Sunday sho appeared in a'
gown of white silk, with a train sev
3 nil yards long, embroidered with gold
ind silver. The material cost J1,;"00.
It took twolvo girls two months to inako
tho embroidery.
Tho Emperor of Russia has dis
tributed small tokens of gold to all
those who were with him in the im
perial train at the time of tho railway
accident near Horki, in memory of
their miraculous escape. Tho keep
sakes aro miiiaturo copies of a sacred
picture which was found quito un
Janiaged after tho accident in the din
ing saloon of the train.
It appears that laud grabbing lias
been going on at a lively rate in the
South Pacific. Ollicial reports at
Washington aro said to show that up
to 188(5 foreigners had laid claim to
301.000 acres in tho Samoan Islands,
which have a total area of C70.720.
Thus aliens assorted ownership of
21,000 acres more than tho entire king
dom possesses! During the' past two
years tho Germans have. tiled addi
tional claims amounting to many thou
sands of acres.
Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh
air that sho is in tho habit of sleeping
with open windows even in the dead of
winter. The Empress Maria Theresa
of Austria was more peculiar in this
respect. Her writing-table, oven in
winter, was close to tho open window,
and tho falling snow often drifted in
and fell on tho paper on which she
wrote. It frequently happened that
the hands of tho hairdresser were
partly frozen while attending to her
majesty's coiffure.
The rapid increase of tlio furejgn
population in' Franco is causing great
concern to tho government. Since
1SK(! no less than lS2,0O0olglns,"2f).;).-
J0O Italians, 100,000 G irmL-is, Tb'.OOO
Swiss, and 80,000 Spaniards have gone,
into France in addition to tho foreign
population previously resident, there.
In 1851 there were but S81.000 foreign
ers in a total population of nearly
thirty-six millions. In 18SfJ tho for
eign population ' exceeded l,00l),000,
while the native population remained
nearly stationary.
SOME CURIOUS FACTS.
ISOLATED PEOPLE.
I' I 111 UlH'llvlltllltl I. ut of tllll .Mllll Wild
Citrt'K for Xoboily.
Men who isolate thomselves from
lociety, and have no near and dear
family ties, aro tho most uncomfort
able of human beings. Hyrou says:
"Happiness was born a twin," but the
phrase, though pretty and poetic, does
not go far enough. Wo aro gregari
ous, and not intended to inarch through
lifo in single or in double file. In
pairing time. i. o., during tho honey
moon, individuals of opposite sexes
may find it very pleasant, not to say
delightful, to walk apart from the un
sentimental world, two and two. Hut
as a general thing they aro ready
enough to rush back into tho crowd
when the billing and cooing season is
over. Petrarch would havo grown
tired of Laura, and she of him,
had they been condemned to a
life-long teto-n-teto in tho wilder
ness, and Sappho would huve
jumped into tho sea to escape ennui,
hud she been competed to matrimonial
solitudo with the man for lack of whoso
lovo sho mado "a damp body" of her
self. It has boon well said that tho vital
prineiplo grows weak when isolated.
Tho man who cares for obody, nd
for whom nobody cares, lias nothing to
live for thut will pay for tho troublu of
keophig soul and body together. You
must have a heap of ombers to make a
glowing fire. Scatter thoiji apurt, and
they becomo dim and cold. So, to havo
a brisk, vigorous life, you must havo a
group of lives, to keop each other
warm, as it wore, to nllord to each
other mutual oncourugomontatid confi
dence and support. If you wish to live
thojjlfo of a man, and not thut of u
fungus, bo soolnl, bo brotherly, bo
uharitablo, bo sympathetic, and labor
earnustly for the good of your kind.
N. Y. Lcdirer.
AccnrilliiK to nil Authority All Thut
colur l Not llrn.
"Every jeweler lias doubtless met
with mnny curious incidents in his
business career, but I think that a re
cent experience of mine is worth relat
ing. Shortly after the holidays there
camo into my place a pleasant-man- t
nered young man who expressed a do- ,
sire to look at some gold necklaces, it '
'is- needless to say that 1 sold him one.
, U was fourteen carats and very pretty.
Two days later tho door was Hung
open and In rushed the young man,
.bolting with rage. He threw the neck
lace on the counter, demanded the re
turn of his money, and threatened to
, oppose' me as a swindler. It took half
an hour to learn his story.
'It seems that after presenting the
necklace to his lady love he had taken
Ho? to a reception, ornamented with
'lis present. After the first dance there
was a commotion in one corner of tho
ruoni, and the rivals of our customer's
bes,t girl were tittering among them
selves and whispering about, her.
"The young lady looked in the glass
ami almost fainted at the sight. Her
beautiful neck was almost black from
the friction of the necklace. She
changed her mind about fainting, re
turned home with her brother and sent
the necklace back to her young man
with a note that sho did not like his
brass.
I tested the necklaco In his pres
ence and proved to him that it was full
fourteen carats. About that time a
young physician called U purchase a
scarf pin. lie had overheard part ot
the story and asked to hear the bal
ance, as he believed lie could throw
some light on tlio subject. Pretty soon
ho 'laughed outright, and said: 'Why,
sir the trouble is with your girl and not
tho necklace Sho has too much sul
phur, iron, mercury, salt or acid In her
blood, and as any of these substances
has an nihility for gold the explanation
is clear. I havo patients for whom
mercurial medicines have heen pro
scribed, and the result is that their
fingers upon which rings aro worn dis
colored at once.' My customer cooled
oil and carried his purchase away.
"In connection with this subject, a
good story is told at the expense of a
Maiden Lane dealer, lie gavo his sis
tor an eigliteen-carat ring as a present.
Ho is a practical jokor, and sho asked
him if tho ring was gold. Ho replied
that it was. That evening, tlio young
lady had occasion to remove tlio ring
from her finger, and she noticed that
tho skin was greatly discolored. 'Jim
has carried his jokes too far,' she ex
claimed, and opening the window
throw tho trinket into tho street; some
gamin picked it up. When my friend
learned of the iucidont, ho camo tome
for consolation, and I oxplaincd my
owu experience. His sister is sorry
for hor haste.
"'All is not gold that glitters,1 nor
is every thing brass that discolors. A
person wearing a fourteon-carat ring
on one finger and a ten-carat ring on
another may havo noticed that the
linger with-tho higher carat will bo
discolored and the other ono not. Tho
reason Is that tho ring of tho lower
carat fits snugly and thoothor is rather
looso, thus causing a friction."
Jewelers' Weekly.
FRENCH CANADIANS.
The ".Solid" I'lii-tor. Ill Polltlcill
Arro tu; Moplr
Perhaps nothing will surprise- tho
visitor more -than tho persistence of
tho French typo in Canada, and. natur
ally its aggeessiveness. Guaranteed
their religion, laws and language tho
French have not failed to assimilate,
but havo had hopes may bo still havo
of making Canada Fronoh. The
French "national" party means simply
a French consolidation, and has no re
lation to tho "nationalism" of Sir John
A. Macdouald. So far as tho Church
and tlio French politicians aro con
cerned, tho effort is to keep tho French
solid as a political forco, and whether
tho French aro liberal or conservative,
this is tlio underlying thought. Tho
province of Quebec is liberal, but tho
liberalism is of a different hue from
that of Ontario. Tho French recognize
tho truth thatlanguago Is so integral a
part of a people's growth that tho Indi
viduality of a people- depends upon
maintaining it. Tho French havo os
caped absorption in Canada mainly by
the concession to them of thoir civil
laws and thoir religious privileges.
Tho French havo always been loyal
to the English connection under all
temptations, for thoso guarantees havo
been continued, which could scarcely
bo expected from any othor power, and
certainly not in a legislative union ol
the Canadian provinces. In lltorature
and sentiment, tho connection is with
Franco; in religion, with Rome; in
politics England has boon tho guaran
tee of both. Thoro will ho no pre
vailing sontlmont In favor of annexa
tion to tho United States so long as the
church retains Its authority, nor would
it bo favored by tho accomplished
politicians so long as they can use tho
solid French mass as a political forco.
Charles Dudley Warner, in Harpor'a
Magazine.
Another BUmarcklan Victim.
Managing Editor (chucking manu
script into waste-baskot) Rats!
Funny Man What's tho matter?
M. E. Why, here's Samoa of thoso
Pacific Island jokes.
F. M. I thought tho subject had
boon exhausted.
M. K. So did I, but It doesn't Apiu
to bo quito finished yet.
V. M. (dropping dead) I am.
Washington Critic.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. ,
Sowing classes hnvo been added to 1
the public schools of Hrooklyn.
Th new course in electricity nt
Columbia College will bo opened to
graduates of all scientific schools.
it happened, very jirovidentially,
to tho honor ot the Christian religion,
that it did not take its rise in the dark.
Illiterate ages of the world, bu: at a
tituo when arts and sciences wore at
their height. --Addison.
The greater and more varied the
knowledge necessary to perform a cer
tain line of duty, the greater the ex
treme from the inferior to superior tnl
ents; hence in proportion is the ser
vico rendered increased or decreased
in value.
A little Moslem child accounted for
the preference for the Christian reli
gion by saying: "1 like your Jesus be
cause Ho loves little girls. ' With un
erring instinct she had se'zed upon at
least ono of the gieut d I tTerences be
tween tho two religions.
Hy educating our daughters they
will get more out of lifo. havo broader
views; it is not how long wo live, but
how well lifo is; it should not be reck
oned by the number of days and years
we live, but in the manner we improve
what we have. Mrs. Watson.
If you want to havo good compan
ions about you. don't bo afraid to count
good stories among those good com
panions. They can teach you some
thing, can turn your heart toward bet
ter things and induce you to a nobler
and truer life. Robert Collyer.
The American Missionary Associa
tion supports 17 schools with !'. teach
ers among tho Chinese. Of tho LRU
pupils RMS are professing Christians.
They havo It churches among tho In
dians, with ,'i!)7 members, with 1,001
children in tho Sabbath-school. They
havo 18 day-schools, with f80 scholars.
Instruct your son well, or others
will instruct him ill. No child goes
altogether untaught. Send him to tho
school of wisdom, or he will go of him
self to the rival academy kept by tho
lady with tho cap and bolls. There is
always instrue'ion going on of some
sort, just as in tho fields the progress
of vegetation is nover idle.
- It Is a fact not w.dely recognized
that sixteen States of tlio Union havo a
compulsory school law upon tho statute
book, while ono State enforces Its law.
The ono Stato deserving honorahlo
mention Is Massachusetts. Yet, in
spite of a rather stringent enforcement
of tlio law, so far as it goes, there were,
in consequence of Us meagerness, no
less than 10,000 children under sixteen
years of ago employed in the textile
mills alono in that State last year.
How fnrtunato are the children of
to-day In tho excellent litoraturo pro
pared for them. There Is so much of
it pure, wholesome and entertaining
that no bey or girl who knows how to
read need bo without books suited to
his or her taste. The business of pre
paring juvenile literature has grown to
enormous proportions; some of tho best
writers do not disdain to cater to tlio
little ones, and thoro aro publishers
whoso fortunes hnvo been mado by tho
printing and sale of books for tho young
folks.
WIT AND WISDOM.
AFRICAN CANNIBALS.
Tho man who louds his Influence
rarely gets it back,
Politeness is tho most efilcicnt aid
in fho world to strengthen a gooil liaino
or to supply the want of one.
If wo did but know how Uttlo sonio
enjoy tho greatest filings they possess,
there would not be so much envy in tho
world.
It is in lovo as It is in religion; tho
man with a now goddess is ready to offer
up tho old Idol as tho first burnt olTor
ing. Once a Weok.
Prejudice is tho conjurer of Imagi
nary wrongs strangling truth, over
powering reason, making strong men
weak and weak men weaker.
There Is nothing in tho world so
toilsome as the pursuit of fame; life
concludes boforo you havo so much as
sketched your work. Hruyero.
It is not always tho man who looks
the wisest that knows the most, but
most people don't know tills, so that it
will pay you to look just as wlso as you
possibly can. Somorvlllo Journal.
Really thoro Is much to bo
thankful for in this country that has
food in abundance, enough of material
comforts, and, in the main, freedom
from pestilonco and the horrors of war.
Don't think that a man Is a gonitis
because ho wears long hair. Truo ge
nius brings plenty of work to both
tonsorlal and editorial shears, for tho
much-quoted man can always afford to
be clipped. Puck.
A faithful and truo friend is a liv
ing treasure, inestimable in possession,
and deeply to bo lamented whon gone.
Nothing is more common than to talk
of a friend; nothing more difficult than
to find one; nothing more rare than to
improvo by ono as wo ought. Lavator.
I havo nover been In a hurry; I
havo always taken a plenty of exercise;
I havo always tried to bo cheerful, and
J havo taken all the sleep that I needed.
Thoso woro tho rules followed by tho
late Rev. James Freeman Clarke, and
ho outlived and outworked must of
those who bogan lifo with him.
Irresolution is a worse vice than
rashness. Ho that shoots host may
sometimes miss tho mark, but he thut
shoots not at all can never hit If- Ir
resolution loosens till tho joints of a
Stato; like an ague, it shakes not this
nor that limb, but all tho body is at
once in a lit- Tho irresolute man is
lifted from one place to another, so
hatghuth ucthlug, but uddlus all his ac
tions. A uou.
Olisr-rviitloti MidIi In Mm Durk Continent
liy nn I:iikIMi TruvHrr.
I never so thoroughly appreciated
tho "unnecessary" character of thta
African anthropophagy as during nn
exploration of tho Upper Cross river
in the early part of tho present year.
My cano," had been stopped, and I had
been "captured" and carried on shore
by a noisy, boisterous hand of natives.
They meant me no harm, but objected
to my visiting the tribe boyond them,
with whom they were at war. Thoir
country bore a singularly prosperous
appearance, with its tidy plantations of
yams, sweet potatoes, ground nuts, col
loeasia arums, manioc. Indian corn and
bananus, and the large herds of sleelc
cattle and tho numerous sheep, goats,
fowls and Muscovy ducks. So abund
ant was food and so exceptional woro
these Africans In their hospitality that
in the course of two days they had
filled my canoes with 1,200 yams, a
number of corn-cobs, fowls, ducks,
sheep and goats, until I had to cry:
"Hold! enough, because tho canoes
were dangerously overloaded. More
over, they presented a largo bullock to
my Kruboys. Any one who knows
Africa and the natural stinginess of
the negro will realize how abundnnt
must have been tho local food supply
to account for such easy generosity as
this! Yet in this land of plenty tho
people craved' for human llcsh, to ob
tain which they were constantly fight
ing with their neighbors. Hut a Uttlo
while before my arrival a successful
"bag" -of captives had been made,
a feast had taken place, and,
as a relic of the abundance,
there was a sinoko-dried human log
hanging from tho rafters in tho chiefs
hut where 1 sat and parleyed, which
swayed to and fro over tho smoking
brands on tho clay hearth. Lower
down the Cross river, in the district of
Euyon (part of tho I bo country), about
the most cold-blooded cannibalism is
reported to exist which I havo over
heard of. Youths aro purchased at tho
interior slave markets, and aro dealt
with us we deal with tho young sheep
and oxen which we turn into wothors
and halluces aro deliberately unsoxod
so that they may fatten quicker, and
ure then fed upon yams and nourishing
food till thoy aro ready for tho feast
llorriblo and incredible as this state
ment may appear, it is one that I make
on good authority; and this phase of
cannibalism has also, I bellovo, como
under the notice of certain traders
mid missionaries of old Calabar
who havo visited tho district
I speak of. There is little
doubt that tho abrupt cessation of tho
exportation of slaves, which was
brought about on tho west coast of
Africa by Hrltlsh intervention, tem
porarily increased tlio provalonco of
cannibalism in tho Oil rivers and Nigor
delta. Having no longer a profltablo
market for their war captivos and
criminals, tho natives havo found it
more convenient tocousuino thorn than
to lot thoni eat tho bread of Idleness
and cumber tho ground; for tho do
mestic slaves in thoso parts seemingly
will not work for their living; thoy
oppose to all threats and coercion a
dogged resistance of stubborn Idlonoss
that nothing can ovorcomo. Slavo la
bor in Africa is a broken rood to roly
on. Wo want the vigorous, choorful
work of free, willing men HkoKruboyH
and 'anzibarls. H. H. Johnstou, In
Fortnightly Review.
MARRIAGES THAT FAILED.
Divorce Stitt Wtlnt Oovtirlner " I'orloil of
Twouty Wart.
Tho total number of divorces grant
ed during tho twouty yoars in oaoh of
tho several Statos, and tho niimbor of
married couples to ono dlvorco in each
during the years 1870 and 1830, aro
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Sr.vrr.s.
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Sotting the Matter Right.
.Magistrate (to oldorly witness)
Your ago, madam?
Witness Thirty.
Magistrate Thirty whnt?
Witness Yoars.
Magistrate Thanks. I thought it
nilfjht ho months. Harpor'H Bazaar.
Tho oldest sovereign Is Popo Leo
XIII., Hoveiity-elght'yeara; tho -youngest.
Ilia King of Spiiln, uot yet throe.