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VvTUiiDAY,JUNE 11, iB9S~

ABOUT PHILIPPINES.

The Islands Were Named in Honorpf Philip 11,

One of Spain’s Richest Colonial

facts Abont the People

and Country.

The Philippines were the last diseov*

t ry of Magellan and have ever since

been claimed by Spain, This discoveryv.as made March 31, 1521, and on April22, 1522, Magellan was killed by a na-tive of Mactan, one of the smallerislands. His ship, the Victoria, whichmade the rirst voyage around the world,

was taken back to Spain by SebastianC'auo, who succeeded in command,

The islands are of volcanic forma-

tion, many of them being simply bare

rocks polished by the action of the

waves. Those which have any soil at |all are very fertile. Tobacco is the prin-cipal product and abaca or mauila hempcomes next, Excepting Cuba, the Phil-:ippines are Spain’s richest colonial pos- jt-essiou, and, like Cuba, they have near-;Jy always been misgoverned and largeportions of their territory have neverbeen more than nominally under the

control of Spain.Class feeling runs very high. The

Philippine Spanish are cpnridered not jquite up to the tone of the peninsular ISpanish; together they hate all theother races, all the other races hate.them and each other, and everybody!joins in a most cordial hate of the for-

eigner.Owing to the configuration of the

land—open toward the China sea andpractically landlocked tow’ard the Pa- 1cific—the tides run to excessive heights.Sometimes two tides running in eppo- jrite directions hurl themselves against jeach other and the noise of the shockcan be heard for a mile, Ships caughtill the rush of waters pre utterly help-less.

The Philippines are the most north-ern group of the Indian archipelago.They have a range of 1,050 miles fromnorth to south and 700 miles from east

to west. There are only 40 of any im-portapoe. of which Luzon, 350 mileslong and 175 miles wide, is the largest.The Islands, with their fantustic, tor-i

fuous forms, furrowed by straits,stretch out in every direction theirlong, narrow peninsulas and capes.

From them a succession of islands leadsto Borneo and a chain of small islandsto Formosa.

From November to April the temper-aiure, though often reaching 82 de-,grees, is not oppressive and the nightsand mornings are generally cool. Dur- jing the rainy season, which continues jfrom May to November, the heat is very ¦oppressive and enervating and is un-healthy for strangers. Endemic clis-;eases, are, however, rare. Cholera is'occasionally epidemic, but not more sothan in other and cooler countries.

Thunderstorms are frequent and dis-'Qstrous and tremendous damage is doneby ihe vaguio, a sort of cyclone whichsweeps over the country from the east,rotating uniformly from left to rightend spending itself in the China sea orbreaking upon the Asiatic continent, asdid the one cf September 3, 1874, whichswept an enormous ma*s of water upon 1the city of llong-Kong, engulfing over1,000 people and foundering 14 ships, j

The bay cf Manila is one of the mostspacious and beautiful in the world.!The old city of Manila, which wasfounded by Lagospi in 1571, is surround-'ed by a crumbling wall pf masonry 200or 300 years old. In this wall are vaults .for storage and a number of guns aremounted on top. Soldiers and priestslire plentiful in the narrow, dark

ftrepfs of the old city. The River Pasig,!Which flows into she harbor, is a rival jfor filth of cur own Chicago river. Thereare itany ruins in evidence of the hid-

den power cf the earthquakes whichoccasionally work great damage in theislands. The street! of Manila arelighted by kerosene, as the frequencyp f earthquakes makes the laying of gaspipes impracticable. i

A frequent and to the foreignerrather odd sight is the oarabao or waterbuffalo, which is used universally bothin the city and country as a beast ofburden. It is an ungainly, ox-like ani-mal, about one-third larger than ourcattle, of a dark, leaden color, withwhitish feet, scanty and coarse hair. Itshead Is carried low, with the large,flattened horns extending almost horl-|gontally backward. This slow and do-cile but powerful creature is guided by5» ring through the nose, to which is

attached a cord leading backward to thedriver, who is either perched upon itsback or upon the shafts of the queer-looking vehicle.

In the construction of residences re*gurd bos to be taken of shutting out thebeat of the sun’s rays and at the sametime permitting light and ventilation,while the possobility of earthquakesmust also not be neglected. Glass win-,bows are practically unknown. Theupper two-thirds of the house usuallyhas sliding windows, six feet by threecr four, with two-inch square panes ofplaouna, a flat, transparent oyster shell,which Admit light but shut out the heatof the sun, are not easily broken andare readily replaced. Carpets, curtainsI'.nu upholstery, to collect dußt and hor-bor insects, are not used. Rtraw mat-ting takes the place of a mattress on thebed,«—Chicago Evening News,

Poaalblc Ovenlcht.Miss Parvenu (just home from abroad)

*—IThere we saw Venus de Milo. Shewas very lovely, but she had no armS.

Miss Geraldine Parvenu (who staid athome) —Did you look on the door of hercoach?—Detroit Journal,

Incontrovertible Proof.Husband—Why do you tell it around

that Mrs. Puffly does ail her own bak-ing? You know nothing about it.

Wife—l do, too. Every one of thefamily ba6 dyspepsia,—Detroit FreePress.

Cotton Manufacture In Mexico.Mexico lias been manufacturing cot-

ten goods for centuries, the first cottonmill on a considerable scale having beenestablished in Pueblo by an enterpris-ing Rpaniard in the sixteenth century,ret long after th*- founding of that c?»v—Chicago Inter Ocean

KINO AND BRIGAND.

Romaptic Adventure* of a fanf|»»l* u

Outlaw and III!SuddenExecution.

The tribes in the Caucasus have, bytheir irreconciliablt- hostility to Russianadministration, greatly retarded the ;progress of civilization And made their ;country a veritable hotbed of outlaw- ,

! lees-ness.The Russian government is bring a'l

! the means in their power to attract set-

i tiers to this district, but their effortsare unavailing; the district continues

l to be chiefly a place of banishment f°r

mild political offenders and membersof unorthqdoy sleets.

The abortiveness to introduce any-thing like law and order into this law-

¦ less land may be judged by the follow-ing characteristic incident:

A notorious brigand named Ahtned-Abuzar-Ogli was convicted and thentransported for a term of ten year® to

1 Saghslien for highway robbery. Be-fore the expiration of this term he suc-ceeded in effecting his escape, aqd twoyears ago he returned to his native

! place, a village palled GunjaU in the Flis-abetopol district, and commenced torule like a king the inhabitants of theneighborhood.

He did so with the full cognizance of

the Russian local authorities, who werepowerless to raise even a protestagainst the usurpation of their official

j prerogatives. He administered the law; after his own fashion, dealing out jus-tice with an impartial hand, and caus-ing the simple peasant folk to wonderat his wisdom.

This man's power and influence overthe minds of his coreligionists grew 1

| with such amazing rapidity that it; would only have required a word fromhim to cause a revolution against theRussians.

As the officials in this village wereabjectly in fear of incurring Ahmed-

jAbuzar-Ogli’s anger, it was due to thechance visit of a high government comp-troller that the true State of affairsleaked out. Prince Galitzin, the gev-

! ernor-general of the military district,jwhen aware of the facts, caused Oglito be arrested, court-martialed, and

¦summarily banged as a warning toothers of his type.- .

HER THEORY OFFENSIVE.She Thovcbt She Knew All Abog£

Until fiend*, nut ShePldn’t.

A girl who has theories has made upher mind thatof oueof them,at least, she

:will never again speak in public. At¦somebody’s tea, not long ago, she metan elderly but still youthful-appearingman who is a power in society. Theconversation turned on hair, and thelack of hair, says the Washington Post.

“You can tell a man’s character fromthe way baldness begins with nim,”an-

! r.ounced the young woman who hastheories.

“A scolarly, studious, upright man

1 \hvays grows bald at the crown of his| lead first,”

I “And suppose he grows bald at the

empies first ?” asked the elderly gentle-nan, whose hair is really almost aKing.

“Oh,” said the young woman, pcsi-j ively, ‘ he’s a very different sort, then.I never knew a man who grew baldibove his forehead who wasn’t an ut-

' ter scoundrel at heart.”“Hut—’’began her listener.“Ob, he may conceal his real nature,”

she went on, “but he’s a villain just thesame. Don’t you agree with me?”

! The elderly gentleman rose. Hisvoice trembled a little.

“Young lady," he said, “Iwear a tou-pee.”

Question* of Veracity.

It is not wise to accept the assertionsof historians as being always beyondquestion, They have made many er-rors. Mary of Scotland was not a beau-tiful woman; Richard 111, was not acripple, and no more is the famous

| “Round Tower" anything else but a millerected by some of the early colonists,

jIt is also not advisable to buy curios un-less their authenticity can be absolute-ly established. There is a story of a six-teenth century traveler which is apro-pos in this connection. He had visiteda French monastery where he wasshown what was asserted to be the skullof John the Baptist. With some sur-prise the traveler said: “Why, themonks of monastery showed methe skull of John the Baptist recently.”“True,” said the exhibitor, not a whitdisturbed; “but those monks only pos*sess the skull of the saint when he wasa young man, whule ours is his skullwbeu he was well advanced in age andwisdom.” , ,

English Dlef,A London eoryesiponden t of a London

pa.per says: “English diet affords an1 example of the antiquated mode of life

in England. Nothing could be more

1 primitive than the preparation of Eug-• lish dishes. They consist of a huge, fatpiece of bullock, sheep or pig. If themeat is lean, as in poultry, fat is sup-plied by bunches of bacon. The mottoof these conservative islanders is:‘What our forefathers did and flourishedqn Is good enough for us.' "

For Snake Rile*.

T)r. Frazer, of London, and others,• ha’ -e shown that the bile of snakes con-

tains A vaccine against their venom, and

M. Phisalix, of Paris, has recently made

i experiments which prove the virtue of. the bile to belong to oholesterine and

’ other biliary salts. When oholesterineis injected into guinea pigs the venom

, loses its power over them.

Navies of the World.The Army and Navy Year P.ook rates

l the navies of the world as fallows i 1,

, Great Britain; 2, France; 3, Russia; 4,

Italy; 5. United States; 0. Germany; 7,? Spain; 8, Japan: C, Austria, and 10,, Netherlands. Under present naval con-

tracts Japan in 1899 will go to the fifthj place, crowding down the United Statesand Germany one point.

IWant* to Sell Herself In Slavery.

A Danville (Ky.) woman has adver-) tised her desire to sell herself info slav-

. ery for life for money enough to pur-chase a comfortable home for her chil-dren, adding: “Will serve faithfully,and endeuvor to make myself invalu-

- able, always striving to please,”i ¦

j Test of Affection.A man must be awfully in love who

sincerely thinks a woman pretty whenshe is taring her hair tvrshed.

HOW DO YCU DO>

; A Real Harm Hidden in the Old formof Address Which Should

lie Remedied,

“How do you do?”“Comment ca \a?”

| “Wie geht es denn?”One might have g different phonetic

| set of phrases for the tongue of each

I man present at the tiiue of the confu--1 sion of tongues, and yet would thesense

be the same; the cordial inheritedquery ns to the state of being of theperson met and greeted. It is the lawof courtesy lhat holds good in everyrace of people on the earth that theirfirst expressed anxiety on meeting a

friend shall be as to his health.The question is usually met by the

same words from the person addressed,and then there is some Sort of odd tacitunderstanding by which one or theother makes answer, and it is of theseanswers that complaint is unjust lymade; jf fault there lie in the matter it

is at the door of the questioner.“Oh, how people bore me telling me

of their woes,”“Ifairly hate that Mrs, H . fihe is

always growling about her ailments.”“The first thing Mr. T—*— ever says

when l meet him is this climate will jkill him, Iwish it would.”

“Why will people go on pelting their!unfortunate friends with a history oftheir ills?”

These are just a few samples of the Jexpression we give to our growing re*!sentment at receiving a deluge of com*jplaints whenever we stop to speak to afriend, The fault lies all on the otherside, we think, and yet if we analyze the 1situation, we will find that we havebrought the whole trouble upon our-selves, In the full flush of the meetingwe deliberately, following a custom thatis almost as sure a law in the socialbody as is circulation of the blood inthe physical, asked our friend: “Howdo you do?”

What are they to do? If some one isrll, if they have a new grief or a newpain is it not only natural on their partthat they should tell us of it? They mayhave a lot of blessings, but a presenttoothache makes one forget that stockswent up a point or two the day- before, jor doing all the cooking at home be-!cause the girl has left is just cause foroverlooking the fact that one Is in luckto have things to cook.

No, the fault is in the question. Weought to address people differently ifwe only intend to laugh with those wholaugh, and it is easily managed. Whynot go up to your friend and say i i

¦“l’m delighted to see you,” or “This isa pleasure,” or any one of a hundredpossible forms of greeting that youcould find instead of the old hackneyedand really injurious phrase: “How doj’oudo?” j

It is not exaggerating the state of af-fairs at all to say (hat this primary-question as to the state of every one’s

health or feeling is injurious. It hurtsboth parties alike; it spoils the bright-ness of the day, and it is positively hurt* jful, so, at least, say our most advanceddoctors. There Is nothing so bad tn this

world for anybody as to brood or- con-tinually speak of their sorrows or their jaches, anil we all know that if in a daywe meet three or four people, each ofwhom tells us he has a sore throat,

we are inclined to think it is epidemicand discover a scratch in our own t hroat jbefore bed time.

There are people who have thoughtover the matter and decided to get;round the bush in this way:

“Oh! I always say: ‘l’m very well, jthanks!’ if anyone me, even if I’mready to drop,” says one \vomai\, and janother remarks that she answers thequery with the same question: “Howdoyou do?” In the first instance the schemeis bad, Ifyou say- you are well whenyou are ill all sorts of funny annoy-ing complications are sure to arise;some other unfortunate of your familyis asked after the state of the house lateron perhaps, and, selecting you and yourills for discussion, is met by the amazedexclamation::

“Why, I met Z this morning andshe said she was very well.”

“Oh, was she?” your brother may an-swer. “Then why can’t she dq her pwnerrands?”

No*, it won’t do to make a rule to liewhen some one says: “How iloyoudo?”and as forsaying in reply: “Howdo youdo?” the whole thing is about as sensi-ble as when two, serious-minded roos-ters take to remarking to each other:“Cock a doodle do.” There Is no escape.Ifpeople will ask each other this sort ofhoodoo question they’ must take theconsequences, and they are bad.—De-troit Free Press.

Train de L.uxe tor Siberia.The Russian government has recently

had built a train of cars as a sampleof the railroad coaches that it proposesto put upon its line which, when com-pleted, will run from St. Petersburgon the Baltic to Port Arthur on thecoast of China. The four coaches ofwhich the train is composed ore spiel tobe superior to any thing that has everbefore been constructed or used in Eu-rope. There are staterooms for the pas- |sengers, a saloon or parlor car, a difting jcar, bathrooms, telephone communica-tion from one car to the other, and, asa distinctly pew feature, a section isset aside as a gymnasium. This latterfeature is introduced for the reasonthat, when the line is completed, it willbe about twice the length of any rail-way system in the world, and it is as-sumed that the passengers travelingover this long distance will requiresome form of physical exercise as ameans of keeping themselves in a goodstate of health. The opportunity will

thus be afforded of pulling chest |i weights, punching the bag, hauling

I one’s self up upon rings and In other jways setting the blood in circulation,

i and after a half an hour or more spent

in this way a bath can be taken, and thetraveler approaches lunch or dinner ina physical condition to do it full jus* ,tice.— Boston Herald.

How They Caleb nogrnei In Part*.A year ago polioemen stationed at the

crossings of principal boulevards ofParis were provided with handsomewhite enameled “billies” and helmets.The patrols are now armed with a weap-on new to the history of police anDals.It is a piece of chalk. When surround-

| ed by a crowd of hostile toughs who| hustle the guardians of the peace the

, patrolman deftly* puts chalk marks onthe clothing of his assailants, who arethus arrested when reinforcements ar*

( HAMI’AIiNKFOR ALL.

The Klondike Will Soon Re Floodedwith Fizz,

“Swiftwater Bill" ||a» Ordered 10,000

Bottle* for His Patrons at Dawson

“Warm Time” In Prospect

for Next Summer.

There will be a warm time in Dawsonwhen “Swiftwater Bill” Gates receiveshis first consignment of 10,000 bottlesof California champagne. The floors of

his new ‘‘Palace of Amusement forGent* and LP<li es ” will swim with realold fizz, and the size of the average headon the Klondike will approximate An-dree’s balloon. For months, so “Swift-

water” has figured it, the Yukonershave been yearning for a gentleman’sdrink. “Forty rod” of the most fero-

cious brand has been the nearest ap- iproach to it so far, and, as is well jknown, “forty rod” is not a drink fora ladylike gent in the new diggings.After the river opens up this year “forty-

rod” will not be in it. “Swiftwater’s” jfirst cargo of sparkle will have reached ¦Dawson then, and the festivities will (

j be due,F, B, Mulgrew, traffic manager of the 1¦ Alaska Transportation company, made |

the deal for the champagne with the ;| Klondiker recently and his breath !I was taken by the lightning rapidity of \j Gates’ arrangements. Mulgrew called ;! on him the day before he left for the j; north to see about shipping some goods, t

provided a market might be found in

i Alaska for them. Mulgrew had already-agreed to send some light wines to St. jMichaels to parties holding a govern- jment license there, and he sought out

“Swiftwater” to try- to sell him a stockof wines for his Dawson resort, which .is to furnish the river city “Barbary jcoast” pleasures within a few weeks. |

j “I’ve got some good California cham-pagne,” said Gates,

“How much can you put in Dawsonfor me by August?” said Gates.

“Ten thousand bottles,” replied Mul-grew, with thoughts of staggering hisquestioner.

i “Make it 100,000 and I’llsign and pay! down,” was the cool rejoinder.

This was Bill’s idea cf quick businessand he was disappointed when informed

i that it would be impossible to fill sovast an order. So the paper was drawnup and the bold signatures of WilliamB. Gates witnesses that he agrees topay and deliver in dust or nuggets, atsl7 an ounce, the price per bottle set

; upon the wine.“You see,” said Gates to Mulgrew, “I

want to get a supply and be sure of it,I hate to go back to Dawson—and I’mstarting now—and say to the boys thatI ain’t fixed for good, I tell you, the

1 fellers has got little use for me if Iget there flying light. I just want tobe able to put out my flag and have onit ‘Swiftwater’s cargo of champagnewill be here soon and there’ll be enough

. to go round.’ ”

I The transaction involved over SIOO,-i 000, and while the lawyers were prepar-.

i ing the contract Bill kept on insistingj that he would be “short” with less than

: 100,000 bottles. When he had finallyaffixed his name to the document heleaned back in his chair and with athump on the table that made ink blots

:on adjacent things he said: “That

j means SIOO,OOO for me and the eternalj gratitude of every mother’s son that

ever handled a pick on the Yukon.; Life’s dull enough at the best in that! country, and it would be a —-shame; if the boys can’t get a gentleman’s

drink when they’ve got the dust to payfor it. I’m going to set the ball rollingin Dawson, and I’ll bet a thousandounces that before the winter’s in cham-pagne will be the only- beverage thatgoes in Dawson. i

“Dawson’s going to be the greatestmining camp in the world, and there’smore money going to be spent there inthe next two years than ever changedhands anywhere on earth. Iexpect tomake a million right in my Palace ofAmusements and Ladies’ and Gentle-men’s Place of Rest. It’s to be thegrandest place that ever a leg was shookin or a gentleman bought wine for alady. Ex-Sheriff James, of Napa, is oneof my right-hand men, and things aregoing to be run in style. I've boughtmore liquor for the boys than they cancarry away in a year, and that ain’t nosmall pre-ek full,” San FranciscoChronicle. i

Chinese Candle* a* Rnn*inn Dainties.To most people a tallow candle ap-

pears more in the way of a necessitythan a luxury, but the Russian blue-jackets Who are enjoying shore leave,just now from the Rossia and the Ad-imiral Nakimoff appear to find in as-!similating candles of Chinese make asmuch gusto as an English child wouldhave in eating a sugar stick. Theother day a party of stalwart Muscovitebluejackets were (o bp seen going alongQueen’s road, pnd Die avidity withwhich they polished off joss candles wasa sight for the gods. Some of the men,who were evidently petty officers,elected to dine off candles as thick asone’s arm—regular Xp. 1 joss pidgin

j arrangements—and streams of greasetrickled from the corners of each man’smouth. British and American Jackslike their beer and rum, but they drawthe line at Chinese-made tallow can-dles. —London Telegraph. ,

, AUSTRIA’S DECADENCE.

There |* No Place 1h the Tranquil

Empire for Great Men, Say*

Mark Twain.

I mOst take passing notice of anotherpoint ip the government’s measures for

maintaining tranquility, says Markj Twain, in Harper’s Magazine. Every-

I body says it d-oes not like to see any in- jdividual attain to commanding influ- !

| ence in the country, since a man can

become a disturber and an inoonveni-I ence, “We have as much tplept as the

: other nations,” says the oitjzep, re-i s-ignedly, and without bitterness, ‘‘but ,! for the sake of the general good of the !country we are discouraged from mak-ing it over-conspicuous; and not onlydiscouraged, but tactfully and skillful-ly prevented from doing it, if we shewtoo much persistence. Consequentlyvve have po renowned men; in centurieswe Lr.ve c e!r’ ~ p*-cduced one-—that is.seldr.r,. aliov o: ;e to produce fclrrWe can say to-day what no other nalienof first importance in the family ofChristian civilization can say: Thatthere exists no Austrian who has madean enduring name for himself which isfamiliar all around the e-lobe,”

PATRIOTISM IN GERMANY.

Ti»e pieaaant Way In Which theSentiment la Taunlit the

Youth in School.

In Germany they teach patrlotisca Inthe popular schools; in England we dohot'—at any rate, not officially, says tibePall Mall Gazette, In Ge/miany the

, kaiser's birthday, the anniversary of

i Sedan, and other national landmarksare celebra/ted ip the national schools.They have feasts and music and exenr- jsions; but t.he tlhildren have kept clear-ly before "their eyes the reason for theirrejoicings. Indeed, the law impressesupon parents and children that all vol-untary absence from these school feasitsis an offense. There were parents whokept their children back, especially jfrom the Sedan commemoration, and :this on conscientious grounds. But nowiuo longer; “for,” s<ays the magistrate, ;

i “any unexcused absence from patriotic j; festivals established by the sobool shall !

be considered as voluntary non-rattend- ': ance, and inspectors, teachers and theauthorities eonccrned are hereby in- .structed to this effect.”

! Patriotism a la pedagogue, perhaps,but patriotism none the less; and the ;

jchildren of a great empire might per- I! haps do well to take a leaf out of a book j

made in Germany. Let us imagine the !! astonishment of the English child if he ,

j were told that he was to hove a holiday j\ and a fete for the soke of some great {• event in our own history. But Germany j

: has these patriotic school feasts, and jj France the emblem of the republic in

• every schoolroom, because they actual-ly imagine the patriot is made as well jas boro.

SUCCESS ON THE ROAD.

It Is Attained by an Illinois Girl W~hoTravels (or Two Lum-

ber Firms.

For nearly six years Miss Fanny Shan-non, of Mount Carmel, this state, hasbeen traveling as representative of two :

j Minneapolis lumber firms. Such a jlengthy engagement of itself showsclearly that she has been a success in

j her occupation. So far as is known sheis the only living woman who travelsfor a lumber house. In the summer of1892 Miss Shannon was visiting in Min- ;neapolis. She came in contact withmembers of large lumber firms, andthey, being impressed with her good jsense and business ability, offered her ;a place as traveling representative. She iconsulted her parents and accepted theposition. Miss Shannon is a petiteblond. She is modest and uuussvimipg,but- a good conversationalist. Shedresses modestly and carries very littlebaggage. When necessary she travelson freight trains and sometimes“makes” three or four towns a day, saysthe Chicago Chronicle.

Nowhere is she treated with morecourtesy than by the crew of a freighttrain.

Miss Shannon’s grandfather was the '¦late Judge T. J. Shannon, the first man ¦to establish a bank in Mount Carmel.Her father is well known in Illinoismasonic circles, having been grandhigh priest of the Royal Arch. Masons ofthis state.

A BUI of Lading:.A bill of lading for slaves is a curios-i

ity in its way. The following extractis from one dated February 1, J76Gi“Shipped, by the Grace of God, in goodorder and well conditioned, by James* ,in and upon the. good ship calledthe Mary Borough, whereof is master,under God, for this present voyage, :Capt, David Norton,, and now riding at lanchor at the Barr of Senegal, and by jGod's grace bound for Georgey, in ISouth Carolina, to say, 24 prime slaves,six prime wo;jen slaves,” etc. It endswith the pious wish that “God send thegood ship to her desired px>rt in safety.Amen.” However impious it may ap-pear to us to associate the name of Gpdwith the iniquitous traffic, still it \va,s

looked upon by many as a divine insti-tution, directly sanctioned by the Bible. |The famous slave-trading captain,Newton, afterward to be Rev. JohnNewton, of Olney, hymn writer andfriend of Cowper, did by no means seeit to be his duty to change his profes-sion immediately after his conversion,though he ultimately became an aboli-tionist; he carried on slavetrading foryears after he was a devout Christian,giving thanks in the Liverpool churchesfor the success of his lpst venture, andimploring God’s blessing on his next.

Silver First.An old Scottish dame rather too fond

of the “mountain dew” was one day“unco’ droutble,” and without funds

| wherewith to provide “a drappie.” She

! thought there was a chance of gettingit on credit, so summoning her grand-daughter, she said: “Lassie, ganground to Donald McCallum and bringme a gill, Tell him I’llpay him i’ themorning.” Back came the child witha refusal. Donald declined to part withhis whisky without the cash. Eager andirritated, the old woman cast about foisome means of “raising the wind” andhe*- eye fell upon the family Bible. !“Here, lassie,” she said, “gie him this ¦and tell him to keep it until I bring the

siller.” Off went the little girl, but she ;soon returned still carrying the Bible.Donald was obdurate. “He says hemaun hae the baubees first, granny.” IIn anger the disappointed grandmoth-

' er threw up her hands and exclaimed:| “Losb, did onybody ever hear the like

o’ that! The man will neither tak myword nor the word o' God for a gill o’whusky!”

Risks from Lightning.The risk of being struck by lightning

is five times greater in the country thanin cities, nnd 20 times greater at seathan on the railway.

Atllngs of Middle-Aged Folks.Physiologists say that of all people

in middle life at least one-third haveone ear In some degree affected by deaf-ness.

Berths May Be Sold.The supreme court of Maryland has

decided that the purchaser of a berthor a section of a sleeping car has theright to give another person the usethereof if he leaves the car before It¦-"aches the end of the trip forwhich the

‘ 1’ v ' “cht. A passenger¦Te in it for part < f

50 aDC ¦ uger, hetrain. The second purchaser was je-

fused the use of the Section by the cor.-,doctor of the car and was ejected, where-upon he brought suit with the above re- jsuit -—Pester T’-a r’«r*r!»>t

THE PURITAN.

Slip la Without Poubt the FinestFighter In the Navy, Her Men

and OfHcers All Agree.

!

One of the warrant officers of theUnited States monitor Puritan, whichis with the blockading squadron off?Cuba, gives in a letter to a friend in thiscity some interesting observations onthe Puritan’s work, says the New YorkSun.

“We are all convinced,” he writes,| “that the Puritan, under the proper cir-cumstances, is the finest fighting boa:in the navy; but she has her restric-tions. There is no question about thehigh defensive qualities of the moni-tor type forharbor work. Our low free-

¦board makes us a small target for the: enemy, and our 12-inch guns make usvery dangerous to an enemy. Copt,Harrington nnd Lieutenant CommanderJ. Russell Selfridge have worked ourcrew into fine condition, and there is

: no question as to. the loyalty of the menor their skill with the big guns. Ourlow freeboard, however, precludes any

! possibility of our coaling at sea withsafety, and as our coal oapacity is com-paratively small, unless a lee is as-

I forded, so that the monitor may open upher deck scuttles with safety, we must

! return to a coaling station. Such wasthe case off Matanzas, where there isan open sea to windward and no protec-

I tlon. The Puritan did good work atMatanzas, as ycu probably know, and

I our guns were very effective. 1 notice; that some of the newspapers corameßt-;ed on the fact that our fire was slow.! This was according to orders to prevent

waste of amunition. YVe didn’t wantj the gun captains to throw away shotscarelessly in their first brush. Every-thing on board moved like clockwork,and our men behaved splendidly.”

KITE FLYING.

A Pleasant Summer Pastime That PmRendered Invaluable Aid

to Science.

One of the most noticeable Rjore-

ments of the present time in popularscience is kite-llying. while its practiceas a pastime is having a large increase.Its interest to our reader, however, isalmost wholly in its scientific aspect,says Appleton’s Popular Science .Month-ly.

To the question: What is really thej use of all this practice with kites? Mr.H. H. Clayton, superintendent at Blue

Hill observatory (in the suburbs of Bos-ton) once replied nearly as follows:"We arc living in an atmosphere of

which we practically know very little.Our position is like that of crabs at thebottom of the sea. It is expected tha’such knowledge will be gained in theseaerial explorations as will ennbl? themeteorologist to predict hot and coldwave® and the various kinds of wormsmore accurately and much earlier than

j has been done heretofore. The nbserva-! tions have already become serviceableI in this direction, while the know edgegained has modified opinions found inthe text books.”

Truly there are mountain topstlbree,fear, and nearly six miles high, butthese are remote or inaccessible; be-sides, the atmosphere enveloping themis mainly of the same stratum which

upon the surface of the earth else-where, only a little rarefied, chilled andbroken in upon slightly in storms, whenthe stratum is shallow, by the more

rapidly flowing stratum next above; so

that usually what may be found on the

, mountain peaks is merely the crest of a; billow of the lowex atmosphere.I

| RATHER ROUG£ SPORT.How the Hardy; Jronvrorkere Initiate

Mew Hands to theBaitoeM.

“Iron mills are hot places to work in,but the men have lots of fun, with oiltheir hard work,” said a retired iron,man to a reporter of the Washington

! Star.“The other day Itook a walk through

several mills over in Pennsylvania thatI am interested in. As I was goiogthrough one the superintendent askedme to wait and see a, little fua. I didso, and I will tell you about it.

“A new man had come to work thatmorning, and the men were about toinitiate him into the mysteries of thebusiness. Yquknow it is so warm thatthe men strip bogies tp arj.shirt. When the trip hammers com,edown they produce myriads of sparks,which the men try to avoid.

“The newcomer had been that hewas iu danger of being seriously burneel,and that if he spitfpit a spark anywhereabout him the only sure way of help-ing himself was to jump into a big ycv\of water, which stood a few feet away.

“Finally one of the big trip hammerscame down with greqt force, and as itdid so one of the men sneaked up be-hind the newcomer and dropped a smallpiece of ice down his back. You neversaw such squirming and agony in yourlife.

“Thinking of what had been told him.he took a run and jumped headlong

| into the vat of water. The men gath-I ered around him and talked of an am-

j bulance, but he soon found he was onlythe victim of q joke.” WashingtonStar.

Honser Stones.“Hunger stones” were seen in the

Rhine last winter. They appear only ;when the river is very low. and the date |of their appearance is then cut into jthem. They are believed to forebode ayear of bad crops.

iPIKKIDK (Os Fish.

The natives of Kottiar are in the habitcf digging every year in the summer

: dry banks of the Y’ergel river for fish.' which they dig out by hundreds, just as

1 they would potatoes. The muei lumpsare broken open and the fish, perhapseight or ten inohes long, will always befound alive and often frisky, as if justremoved from its supposedly native ele-ment —the water.

Bean Fever.Bean fever has been added to the list

f epidemics like hay fever and roset ver by a German doctor, who has

christened his discovery “favismus.”His cure for the disease is to keep awayfrom bean fields.

Her* TT>-y Wed

Marriage in Spain takes place by dayor at night, according to the fortune ofthe young people or their station in life.If well to do the ceremony comes off In Ithe early part of the morning.

i ARTICLES OF INCORPORATIONGT THE

|

Winslow Electric Light!

j AND

ilce Manufacturing Co.

Know all men by these prosente that wethe undersigned, have this day associatedourselves together for the p urpose of form,ing a corporation under the laws of the Ter-tftrjr of Arizona, and do hereby certify:

FIRST}That the names of the incorporators are

Frank Hart, J. X. Woods, W. R. Campbell, U,Z. Rand, A. T. Cornish and F. C. Demarest.

Th# nameof the corporation shall be YVina-low glee trie Light and Ice Manufacturing}Company, and the principal place of trans-acting business shall be at Winslow, Navajoeounty. Territory of Arizona.

SECOND lThe general nature of the business pro-

posed t« be transacted and carried on bysaid corporation, and the object for which itis formed, incorporated and organized, shallbe to manufacture, create, supply, furnish,sell and distribute electricity for light,pow-•v, heat and an> and all other purposes for

: which electricity can be in any way or meth.ad used} to build, construct, maintain andoperate electric street cars, railways, tele.»raph and telephone lines; to manufacture,construct, purchase and sell any and allelnss-•s of electric appliances; to construct, ope-rate and muintaiu ice manufacturing plants,for the manufacture of artificial ice and dis.tilled water} to manufacture soda, mineraland other waters; to purchase, sell and dis-tribute ice, distilled water, soda, mineraland other waters; to build, construct andoperate cold storage plants and warehouses }to manufacture, brew, purchase, sell and dis.tribute beer and other malt Ugbup; s ; to se.cure, take, receive and possess and lawfullyacquire by purchase or otherwise the capi;-,ta! stock, rights and franchiseaof any cor-poration or persons, bonds, writings obliga-tory, evidencesof indebtedness, chattels, realor personal property, choses in action; tobuild, purchase or otherwise acquire ma-chinery transportation facilities, lands, ten-ements and other advantages, appliances and:means for the purpose of carrying on thebusiness and purposes of this corporation;and to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage o-*pledge any and all of Its real, personal qyother property pf or belonging to ot pos*.sessed by said corporation; and to have andpossess tpr ali pf said purposes the same pow-ers in such respects as private individualsnow enjoy.

third:Thesausojint of capital stook authorized ia

Forty Thousand Dollars (*40,01)0). to be paidin at such in.es ao.d in such sums as may h,eprescribed by the Board of thesame to be divided into 400 shares of the parvulueof §IOO each

FOURTH:That the time of the commencement of

corporation shall be January 10, 189$, and theduration twenty-five years there-after.

fifth:That affairs of this corporation, shall;

be conducted by a Board of Five Directorsand the officers of the. corporation shall bea Manager, President, Secretary and Treas-urer, who are to be elected annually by said;Directors, and serve for oij/e year an/dthe election and qualification of their sue.*cesuors.

SIXTH:

The private property of the stockholdersof said corporation shall be exempt i|romthe payment of its corporate debts.

SEVENTH:

I The highest amount of indebtedness or lia-bility to vi(kich said corporation is at any

i time to subject itself is twenty thousand dol-jlars ($20,000.)

! In witness whereof, we have hereunto set| our hands and seals this 7th day pf January

A. D. 1838.Frank Hart, [Seal.)J. X. Woods, [Seal.]

YV. R. Campbell, [Seal.]

U. Z. Rand, [Seal.]

A- T. Cqrnish, [Seal ]

F-. C, DsitAßEftT, [Seal.]

Territory of Arizona, l uaCounty of Navajo. iBefore me, F, W. Nelson, a, NoUu Public

in and for the County and Territory afore-said, personally appeared Frank Hart, J. X,Woods, W. K. Campbell, U. Z. Rand, A. TCornish and F. C. Demarest known to me to

be the persona whose nam*>, areto the foregoing instrument and duly ac-knowledged to me that they execute t,hesump for the purpose and considerationtherein expressed.

Given under my hand and seal of(

’

) office this 7th day of January A. D,|KA q 1898 ’

F. W. Nelson,Notary Public.

Mjj- expires December 6,161)8,

tkrritokt of afizona, j __

County of Navajo, II, J. R. FrisVy'i County Recorder in and for

the Coynty gl Navajo, Territory of Arizona,

and custodian of the records thereof, dohereby certify that the foregoing and heretoattached Articles of Incorporation o» theWinslow Electric Light and Ice Manufactur-ingCompany. L* 9 fuilv trup and correct copy

of thp Articles of Incorporation of said com-pany wow on file in my offcf ; that said Arti-

cles pf Incorporation werp filed for recordin my on the Bth day of January A. D.

1898. at 2 o'clock p. m., and are duly enter-

ed of record in Volume No. 1 of Articles ofIncorporation, on poftiNos. 26, 27, 28 records

of said Navajo county.

In witress whereof, Ihave here-! < ) unto set my hand and seal Os ottice

<SSAL> this Bth day of January A. D. 1898( ) J. H. FKIBBY,

| County Recorder.

, DOCTOR I

AckersENGLISH

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and Consumptionis beyond question the greatest of ill

modem medicines. It will stop a

Couth in one night, check a cold inz cljly prevent Croup, relieve Asthma,,and cun Consumption if taken in

time. “Youcan’t afford to be with-

out it ” A 25c. bottle may save vour fyour druggist for it Send |

I f p?r hlet. If the little ones have \

l or Whooping Cough |

1*„,e ,

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