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Power of Conscience.

Coal Magnate-Ay dear, couldn't sleep last
night.
Wife--No wonder; the room was terribly
warn.
Yes, the room was warm, but that wasn't
what was the matter. My conscience troubled
me-"
"Eh?"
eyes. got to thinking of all the poor people
in th world and what hard time they had to
get along, and l couldn't help thinking it was
pity they had to pay so much for things.
YES"
"Yes; and I firmly resolved that with
Heavens help I'd reduce the price of coal 25
cents q ton before the 4th Of July-but 1 guess
maybe 10 cents will be enough"
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Managing 4 Dauehfer.

Wise Mother-You know. dear, your heart
action is not strong and you must be very
careful not to dance too much might.
Daughter-Oh, mother, if l should happen to
dance myself to death, you'll have me buried
in that lovely dress I'm going to wear, won't
you?
Wise Mother-No, won't III save that
dress for your sister, and bury you in my old
calico and check apron. Now you be careful.
Daughter resignediy)-Yes, mother, viii.
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and he WASHES down every other mouthful
with this Scotch whisky. This is done by the
best classes of people, and as yet l have seen no
drunkenness. The French people meet uni
versally drink wine at their meals and many
of the English ladies, ethereal and esthetic as
they look, get away with good-sized bottle of
beer at luncheon or dinner. The only water
drinkers are among the Americans, and many
of our citizens use wine, beer and whisky dur
ing their travels.
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BATHING IN THE GANG Es.

this reason tiger skulls are now rarity, and
they are esteemed one of the most valuable
curios one can carry away from India Through
an officer of the Forestry Department of the In
dian Government was able to obtain beau
tiful one 1t has teeth an inch and a half long,
and it makes me shudder when l think Of its
official record, which states that the natives
swear that it has killed three men. Tiger
claws are used largely for jewelry, and set in
gold they are made into bracelets, brooches,
and necklaces. The claw of the tiger is just like
a cats claw save that it is from half an inch to
an inch and lflong, and at the base about
half an inch wide. 1t is as hard as iron and as
sharp as a knife 1t is of a soft white color
not unlike alabaster, and it makes very pretty
jeWelry,
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Special Correspondence NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
CALCUTTA, INDIA, April, 1889.

ALCUTTA contains
more people than
Chicago. 1t is the
capital Of a country
half the size of the
United States, and
it contains six times
as many people. 1t
has under its Gov
ernment a half dozen
different races, and
its people speak more
languages than do all
the countries of Eu-
rope. There are more
Mohammedans in In
dia than in Turkey,
and here in Calcutta
there are Mohamme-
dan mosques at which
thousands daily wor-
ship. Therear about
four Hindoos to every
one Mohammedan,
and India is honey
combed with relig-
ious sects and relig-
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON D. g. THURSDAY 2a

food. There are no dishes upon the table ex-
cept the plates, and the man who has no serv-
ant has not the chance that he has at an Ameri-
can country hotel to grab for himself.
You are surprised to see how many people
drink, and the men in 'India-that is, the Eng
ishmen-take whisky water for breakfast,
luncheon and dinner Each man has his big
bottle of whisky beside his plate, and he pours
about half teacupful of this into his glass
and fills it up with water. As he eats he sips
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Mrs Stetson, wife of the operator at little
station in New Mexi-o was sick and steadily
g owing worse. At last she said to her hus-
band:
"Stet! that DIR. - amt heIpin' me one
sole bit. I'm gettin' worse every day"
81 know it, Alice! I know it! Don't ap-
pear like he's any good on earth"
81 tell you, Stet, I'm going to die! feel it
in my bones"
"Wal, Alice" with solemn earnestness and
comfort) if you do I'll be id if ever pay
the doctorI"
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AMONG THE HIND00S.
Pictures in Pen and Pencil of the
English and the Natives of lndia'S
Capital.

Oriental Religions and Curious Castes-Indan Ho-
tells and Native SerYanis-Whisky rs Beverage
"A Swell Bali Of the Eiceroy's Conrt-lOw the
Wonderful Banyan Tree Looks, and Something
About 0uinine-An Indian Bazaar and Its HOrdes
OF Notwithstanding About the Monkey and
the Snake-Tiger Skulls as Curios and Tiger
Claws as JeWelrY.
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All Right Now.

l-IuCVIt ItItyI tlJIt-I
4 lady in the Sixth District of Worth County,
Ga, hearing that horseshoe in the fire would
keep the hawks from catching her chickens.
put one in, but it only made the hawks three
times worse. An examination, however, showed
that she had made a mistake and got hold Of a
mules shoe. a change was promptly made,
and now the hawks sit abont on trees and look,
but dare not approach the forbidden land.
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The monkeys of this geological garden would

The monkeys of this geological garden would
be great addition to Barnum's circus. There
is one which whoops and howis just like man,
aud another which looks for all the world like
Darwin's connecting link. The snakes are
kept here by the hundreds, and the most ven
omous reptiles of the world are found in India.
Scorpions are common, and an English lady
who has lived many years in India tells me
she has frequently found the deadly cobra in
her country house. "They are often found in
houses" said she, but people are seldom killed
by them in such places. You can almost feel
the presence of a cobra when it is anywheres
near you, and | remember once sitting at a
table in my own drawing-room and writing
home to England, when felt that something
was looking at me from behind. | looked
around twice, but could see nothing, and at
last glancing at the floor saw a cobra rising
on its tail and just about to spring at me. l
jumped to the top of my chair, for the cobra
cannot you know, strike further than its own
length. / screamed. My servants rushed in
with lights and we killed the snake. The dan
ger from cobras is in the houses of the Jungle
and also in moving about through the jungle
itself. The snakes don't usually seek you IN
less you come in their way, and if you see them
you can get away from then for they DO not
move much faster than man can walk"
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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Her Disposition.
rDa.F- Jr-.,..-..T

On local railroad printed blanks are fur
nished conductors for use in reporting aeci-
dents 1t is related that recent return caused
a great laugh in the SUI erintendent's office.
Opposite the side-head disposition" the con-
ductor wrote that the injured passenger was
sober and industrious, instead of stating where
he was sent. The disposition of the areass q
a COW killed by his train bothered another con-
ductor for he declared that the disposition of
the animal was kind and gentle.
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A cat with its fur rufled doesn't feel fur
straight.-Texas Sittiags
Partial payments-Those made to preferred
creditors Terre Ha.ie Gasette.
You are all the world to me" "affeetionately
remarked Noah as he surveyed his menagerie.
Hotel Mail.
The nuisance of the hotel was in the parlor
warbling, "Oh would I were a bird. "Well,
here's beginning for you," said the landlord.
And he handed him his bill.-Fofi Plain Free
Press.
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Simply Rolling in Wealth.

IDTuke'S IraUeteTS Adgazsne.I
"Now, Jedge, what am going TO DO bout my
alimony?" asked a Dakota woman who was su-
ing her husband for divorce.
What property has your husband?" asked
the judge.
"Propty, Jedge? Why, he's the best off man in
the County. He's got II splendid dawgs three
fddles, two game roO5ters, six shotguns, four
breastpius all washed in gold, two rifles, a pet
coon, a tame fox and six good brass rings. If
! couldn't get alimony of'n man that rich
there amt no iesticc in this country"
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Shocking.
I0rnnhn IKorld.I

Omaha Wfe-Did you ever hear of any
thing so immOlest?
Husband-What is it you refer to- my dear
Omaha Wife-Why, it says here in the even
ing paper that scores of Nebraska people are
now in Dakota watching the Cherokee Indians
strip.
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Customer-Yon sell cracked eggs at half
price, do you not?
reduction on cracked goods. Anything else
to-day2
Customer-Yes; you may give me dollars
worth Of cracked wheat, and here's your SO
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I went to the China bazar this afternoon.
Why it is called so do not know, but it is the
biggest bazar of Calcutta, and it runs through
a number of dirty streets. IN the walls of the
houses lining which are hundreds and thou
sands Of these store-ike booths. The moment
| entered if the brokers jumped or my carriage
and besought me to 90 this way and that. Each
know where ii! kinds OF goods were, aud every
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AblIit. Runs in the FamiIy.

ItFTt IutlIt IllLlItSS.I
Dime Museum Patron-Where were you born,
my man?
Living Skeleton-Me and my twin brother
was born in Connecticut.
PatrOn-Is your brother living skeleton,
too?
Living skeleton-Naw; he's de boneless
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Not Premature.
TTeeaS Siitings.l

Fond Lover (after long delayed proposal)-
Perhaps I've been too sudden, darling.
Darling Girl Organizing her composure with
mighty effort George, it is very, very
sudden. but-land here she become faint agsinl
it is not too sudden.
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MY Boy DwARRY.

around him. picked out one l intended to
patronize, and after five minutes bargaining
got two com(orters and three pillows for one
third the price the merchant originally asked.
While was buying other merchants crowded
around, and they brought different articles to
sell. Oae offered me a lot of American patent
medicines, the advertisements of which may
be found in every American newspaper YOU
pick mp and another brought cheap American
watch and wanted me to buy it.
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Yes, There's a Difference.
[Binghamton Repubiican. ]

A writer says anything can be expressed
better in short than in long words. AS a
rule, yes; but in speaking of ones future home
two syllables are preferable to the necessity Of
expressing it In one.
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Quiet Missionary Work.

Literary Critic Qaying down a new bOokl-I
wish every maid, wife and mother in the
country could read that book.
Able Editor-Well, run in a line TO the effect
that that book is one which no woman should
he allowed to see
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A Slight Nlsanderstandlns.

Minister (making out record of baptism, and
IN doubt about the date)-Let me sec, this is
the 23J. isn't it2
Interested Mamma-No sir; it is only the
fifth. and tWo Of those are dead.
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Conldn't Comprehend. Yoa Know.

"Papa," asked the small boy, "why do some
dudes wear only one cyegiass ?"
Because, my son." answered his father,
thoy are not able 70 comprehend all that they
might see with both eyes"
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The Indians themselves, however. are by no
means lazy. There are on this Indian PENN
sula more than 250,000,000 people, and the
majority of them go through life on the basis
of root hog or die" l have never seen
people so anxious to get work to do and so
persistent in doing it, The business men of
the bazars are crazy after bargains They
beseech you to enter their shops and pray you
to buy. Me poor man! Me good man Buy
something!" they say, and everywhere you
go, no matter how fast your horses are running,
pedlers will keep up with the carriage and
thrust their wares in at you. The bazars of
Calcutta are scattered all over the city, and
people of one business collect together. There
is quilt bazar cloth bazar, and horse
bazar. At one place you viii find hundreds of
men sitting in little narrow cell like booths,
with nothing between them and the streets.
making shoes. They squat on the floor, and
hold the leather between their toes while they
sew ] went into the quilt bazar to buy some
bedding to use on the railroad trains, and l was
Immediately surrounded by at least fifty of
these black-skinned heathens, each of which
pulled my boy this way and that, and brought
things for me to buy. This bazar covered an
area the size of four acre field. Each man
had little square store-b box cell of his own,
and he squatted on the floor with the goods
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CALCUTTA FROM THE RIVER.

wait upon the table. There are scores of serv-
ants for rent about every hotel, and the man
got was supposed to speak French and English
fucntly, and to do my work for 16 cents day.
He fed himself, too, and in looking over his
labors for me it is much of a question whether
he is cheap or not. His English was exhausted
in two hours and his French played out about
an hour later Now we get along by signs. He
sleeps on the floor just outside my room at
night, stands behind me at the table and fights
with the other walters TO see that / get my
share of the tidbits. He engages the carriage
when I go out to drive. and conducts all the
negotiations when ! make purchases in the
bazaars. ! have noted that in leaving a store
he is always behind me, and in turning around
sharply this afternoon l saw the storekeeper
drop some money into his hand. He gets a
commission, ] doubt not, on everything buy,
and / suppose he makes good HindOo wages.
His name is Dwarry, and he is character.
With black legs like pipestcms. clad in tight
thin trousers of linen, he has long gown
which falls from his neck to below his knees.
He wears turban, and his black face has a
half starved look. lie never thinks of coming
into my room with his shoes on, aud he patters
around in his bare black feet. In Indian eti-
quet the hat or turban is never taken off in
the house. and the servant must always be
barefooted in the presence of his master.
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ious superstitions varying as widely as the
variety of the human mind and as the lido
synC7ccsies expressed in iii5 iS!oonlihgpaie n
sane Asylum. H13@ = ca saa ia the parks Moham-
medans with dark faces and Boards IN long
white or red gowns with great turbans on
their heads kneeling down towards the setting
sun and humping their foreheads against the
ground as they mutter allah Allah! =
You meet at every turn black-faced men with
regular features, dressed in white clothes or
clad in gorgeous Dolly Warden costumes, with
red marks upon their foreheads, arms ana
cheeks, aud you know them for the followers
Of Yishnu or silva. In q country drive to-day
l saw hali-nafed men and women kneeling
under tree and praying to its branches, and
/ drove this afternoon over the great bridge
across the Hoogley and watched the hundreds
engaged in their holy bathing in this branch
of the Ganges With a wast-cloth about the
loins, men walked down into the water until
it rose above their waists, and then, putting
their hands together, they locked to heaven
and prayed. They dashed the water over them,
sucked it into their mouths and spat it out in
streams. There were women bathing rs well
as men, and each bather made as many signs
in his ablutions as a magician. as they rose
from the water they slipped OF their wet clothes
under dry ones, which they had brought with
them, and went away carrying brass Jars of this
holy water to their homes. On my way back
to the hotel | noted men in long black coats
something like those Of preacher, with calico
hats looking for all the world like inverted
cos-scuttles, and / was told these were the fire.
wershipers of Bombay. The especial goddess
of Calcutta is the bloody Kali, whose hideous
countenance, dripping with blood and crowned
with snakes. is hung around with skulls 10
her are sacrificed goats; but ali along the banks
of the river you will find the bathingplaces OF
the disciples of other gods, and Juggernaut has
his worshiperS here.
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TO be continued.

3 In Russian. "Vot tebya Babooshka &c Yourief
den Kooska Khleba nyett" Literally, -" Here
is Grandma Georges day, and not q piece of
bread. 1t is popularity used to give expression 10
any kind of disappointment.
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p ltca1g's Ca3EoTia.
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A Hatel that Jast snited nIm.

Night Clerk-We're all full.
Inebriated Guest-Zat so? Bully for you
Just my fix 'xaC'iy. Glad come here.
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loorrnrourrD BY FRANK c. CARPENTER 1891
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Religion enters into everything, and you are
made to feel this as soon as you arrive at the
hotel The clerk tells you that everyone pro-
vides his own servant in India, and he advises
you to hire one whose caste will permit him TO
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A dinner at an Indian hotel is lively feast
The guests all take their seats at the same time
and each has Hindoo behind him. These
Hindoos have gorgeous tnrbans of various
colors, embroidered with gold thread, and not
few of them are in livery. They are all bare
footed. and most Of them long -gowned. Each
man strikes out for himself and his master. He
rushes from this end of the room to that after
the butter aud during the various courses tries
TO see that his master is served first. He darts
out into the kitchen after the roast beef, and
il is a wonder that he does not spill the soup
over your lap or that of your ncighbor. 1t
usually takes an hour to serve dinner, aud
the man who has the best servant gets the best
feed. II IS the same at breakfast and luncheon
and in al eases the meals are served in courses,
with caanee Of plates for each new article OF
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Dwarry is Hindoo but his caste will not
permit him to carry another mans bundle.
This caste business enters into every branch of
Hndoo life, and it divides thepeople into hun
dreds of different religious sects and trades
unions The sons follow the caste and bust
ness of the father, and the foreigners who have
done 50 much toward changing India have had
no effect upon its castes The result is that
every family has TO have from a dozen to 20
servants. know bright American lady who
lives here in Calcutta who keeps IA servants,
and who, though her income is small, has to do
SO. The boy who waits on the table will not
wash the dishes, and the cook will handle
nothing but his frying pans. The man who
waits on the door will have nothing to do with
the cook, and the chamberlain and the sweeper
have each their own work, and will do no
other. Every horse of the stables has to have
its own groom, ana for every two horses man
has TO be employed to cut grass for them In
an English house here the woman must have
her servant who is expected TO wait upon her
alone, and the man, III addition to his retinue Of
| Il or l3, must have a boy or man TO attend to
his own wants. 1t seems ridiculous, but it is q
| necessity, and an English clergyman whom |
met here, and who has a salary Of 81, 500 a year,
told me he found it utterly impossible to get
ever, will hardly do as much as an American
maid of-all-work, and all told their wages do
| not amount to much more. They range from a
! dollar to So a month, and they feed themselves.
/ Each servant does his own cooking and he
| would lose caste if he ate from the hands OF
most of the servants of the same house.
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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-11
Be Careful of Baby,

The throwing of baby into the air and
catching him again is always risky prac'
tlce, certain though the tosser may be OF
his quickness OF eye and sureness of hand.
A sudden and unexpected movement of the
child in his midair flight may result in
cruel fall
a gay young father snatched up his baoy
boy one morning and tossed him to the
ceiling. Twice the little fellow went flying
through the air and came down safely into
the waiting arms The third time the eX-
cited child gave a spring of delight as his
fathers hands released him, plunged for
ward and, pitching over his father shout
der, fell head downward to the floor When
the poor baby came CO. of the stupor in
which he lay for hours, =. was found that
although no bones were broken, the brain
had sustained an in ury that would in all
probability render the child an imbecile.
Another baby snatChed from the floor and
tossed into the air received fatal wound
in the top of the head from the pointed orn.
ament of chandelier. Still another child
slipped between her fathers hands as he
caught at her in her downward flight, and
although his frenzied grasp on the babys
arm saved her from falling the ground, il
wrenchCd the muscles and sinews so cruel
~ that the girl 5 arm was shrunken and
practically useless to her all her life.
These are extreme cases, but the fact OF
their occurring at all should be enough to
warn one from the habit of reinqushing
one hold on chile when tossing THAR
pers Bazaar.