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used in mystic rites of savages, in their games
and as part of the paraphernalia of secret assoc
Citations. They are found buried with the dead
and are sometimes made as independent
objects not intended to be WORN. Masks
have been found in Mexico made
Of human skulls, with the Uranium
removed. These CHASTITY objects have been
richly inlaid and furnished with ewes of pol
ished stone. Such masks were placed. il is
supposed, upon the faces of idols. There are
reminders in the National museum of prac-
hee that prevailed among Indians of Bolivia
and the Amazon region more repulsive than
the use of skull masks. In one of the cases are
two objects, each supported on little pedestal
These look like models OF human heads made
OF ebony or some dark substance. The heads
INST, but the features are exaggerated
Long, sllken black hair trails down
from them, and in holes bored through the
lips and the nasal septum depend strings or
cords woven together. These are human
heads, preserved as trophies by savage warriors
Ihe skull bones and their contents are ex-
tracted, and the fleshy parts of the head. by a
long course OF preparation, are reduced to
owarnsh proportions and preserved from de-
cay. There Is an uncanny look about these
hideous relics that makes one shudder, at least
when he nnds out what the objects really
are, but among the savage peopls
who produced them they would be
highly priced and supposedto be endowed with
marvellous properties. In other parts of the
world the custom holds OF preserving the whole
or part of the human head The Dy.ks, or
head-hunters of Borneo, and savages OF the
trophies. In Matupi island and in New Britain
skulls painted and made more hideous by being
supplied with artificial hair, are displayed in
the savage dances.
The collection of masks in the museum show
The great extent of their use among many
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with string that the wearer can pull. Other
masks have tufts Of elder down 70 represent
hair. One maskette used by the Indians in
their dances has movable eyebrows The Es-
kimos have little objects like masks, which are
worn by women on their forefingers in their
dances. The Eskimo masks are generally much
ruder in construction than those made by the
Haidas. They express humor Of q rude kind
by elevating one eye and depressing another,
or in other ways distorting the features. The
finger masks are ornamented with fringes of
deer hair or feathers, and dancing masks worn
on the face have loose wooden tongues which
rattle as the wearers leap about. The Aleuts,
before they came under the influence of white
settlers, had masks which were worn in many
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Of their ceremonies. These masks are now
found with other relics on the islands. II was
part of their old burial customs to place a mask
over the face of the dead before the body was
deposited in its rock shelter The theory was
that the mask protected the dead man from the
glances of spirits on his long journey to the
Aleuts' happy hunting ground
Some OF the Iroquois in New York state and
Canada who have not vet been educated out of
their old myths and tribal customs believe in
the efficacy Of the ''false faces The ..false
faces are members of secret order, who
wear masks and engage in secret rites. They
are oeileved to have the power of driving
masks are made Of horrid aspect, with tongues
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Written for THE EVENING STAR.
Stranded,

A stranded wreck upon life's stormy shore,
Lies tempest tossed,
And furious waves that broken bark roll DER,
And all seems lost
The morn was fair; with sails Of hope all set
She put to sea,
A precious freight of love she bore, and yet,
A wreck to be.
Twas thought with sails like hers and freighte,
She'd safely steer,
And would through every sea and tempest 60,
No breakers fear.
All, suddenly and unforeseen a blast
Came, whelming all;
There was no help, no answer TO the last
Heartrending call
And there she stranded lies, her costly store
OF love most rare
Forsaken on that bleak ana lonely shore
Doth perish therei
DE WITT c. SPRAGUR.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May, 1889.
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A Fathers Vigil.

From the Terre Haute Express.
CHAPTER I.
Mr.. Figg-"Here's q little toy I've brought
for Tommy to amuse himself with. Pigs in
Glover, believe they call it"
CHAPTER II.
Tommy-"Say, paw, amt You goin' to lemme
see that puzzlel'
Mr.. Figg-"Go to bedl You ought to be in
bed an hour ago!'
CHAPTER III.
Mrs. Figg-"John Figg, are you going to sit
up all night2"
Mr.. Figg-"Tll be there in minute. I've got
them all in but one"
CHAPTER ~.
Mrs: Figg-"Have you been up all night,
John Figg?"
Mr.. Figg-"None Of your business"
Tommy-"Say, paw, where's my puzzle?"
Mr.. Fgg-"In the stove"
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intended to represent some animal. There
are holes about the edges indicating that once
feathers or fbers were pegged on to represent
hair. In the New Hebrides masks are found
made OF cocoanut shells, which are used in the
native dances. These are colored and made
hideous by the insertion of boar's tusks. A
maskette from New Ireland worn like a helmet
and used in dances is provided with
hair made of vegetable fiber and
eyes are represented by opercula
or ''cats' eyes" In New Britain masks are
worn in savage rites. In one of their impor-
tant ceremonies il the mask falls from the face
Of the chief actor he is killed. In the Mar
quesas the natives preserve the skulls of the
dead and give them hideous appearance by
are fastened in their places with cords.
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Written for THE EVENING STAR.
Jack in the Pulpit.

Dear Jack is back in his pulpit again,
Looking 30 trim and neat;
In shadydell, where the wild harebell
And the ferns hold converse sweet
Come tell US Jack to what sunny cline
You hied, when the ice and snow
Filled this little dell, and the cold rains fell.
Till the trees were frozen through.
Is there land where the flowers go,
When through with blooming here?
A spirit land where no winds or snow
Ever GOMEZ Jack, have you been theree
Oh, Jack, you'd tell I'm sure, could you speak,
But one thing know full well,
Wherever you 60 when the cold winds blow,
Every spring you are back in the dell
EMILY THURsTON.
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Next to this collection is a black mask from
Cape Palmas, Africa, made with exaggerated
and hideous features Above the forehead, or
rising from it above the head. is a large black
ring. This is the mask of the grand devil"
worn in savage rites when his satanic majesty is
supposed to come forth and dance through the
village.
of the northwest coast and Alaska attract at
tention by the grOtesqueness of the masks. the
greens. blues. reds. and whites, with which
they are striped and the exaggeration of the
features intended to give frightful appear
ances to the faces. Some of them receive an
additional hideOusness from great shaggy
heads of false hair or fiber punched about
them. One Haida mask. representing
woman's face, with lip distended by labret,
has movable eyes. A mask from Sitka is orna-
mented with band passing across one cheek
made by inlaying with bits of mother of pearl.
and IN the mouth disfgured by iabret is a
plate chopper IN place of teeth. These masks
have holes for the eyes, and perforations for the
mouth. They are of soft wood usually of
cedar. Some of them have inside the mouth
little bar which the wearer takes in his teeth
and thus holds it on. Others are bound on by
some apparently are held before the face BY
the hands. Occasionally an elaborate mask is
made with a sort of cage, framework or head
dress that fits on the head
There are masks like that worn above the
head OF the Alaskan warrior which do not
cover the face at all and which, Dr. Dali calls
maskettes. Other representations Of the
human face, which were not made to be worn
at all, he calls maskoids. Among the Makah
Thlinket and Haida Indians, of the northwest
coast, masks are made for sale by one tribe to
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A Drummer Outwitted.

From the New York Star.
''You talk about being taken in," said a
drummer; ian incident occurred during my
last journey which, besides proving Of interest
to your readers, may serve as a caution to
many. Last month was in Chicago and hay.
ing reason to believe that certain large house
in the center Of the city required Just such
stock as I had, determined to visit it.
ION arriving outside Of that firms place of
business, which covered nearly half block. /
noticed . stairway over which was q sign read
ing: Entrance for Commercial Travellers.
Naturally thinking that the Office Of the buyer
was in that direction, mounted the stairs with
rising hopes. A the top was long passage
with similar signs pointing straight along. At
the end Of the corridor there was a turn and
more stairs, this time leading downward.
The signs continued to show the way. At the
bottom opened door with q sigh of relief.
and found myself-in the street. I had simply
walked up one stairway, through o long han
and down another stairway, to where I had
started five minutes before"
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loliing ont. There is among the masks and
other curious objects from among the Haida
Indians mannikin or human effigy, which,
IKE some masks is supposed to have power to
brighten away evil spirits 1t is about feet
long and made of wood, and its limbs are
]ointed on so they will move about The head
Is large and made with an ugly countenance.
This hideous figure is triced up on pole and
carried through village. 1t is supposed that
at its appearance any evil spirit lurking about
immediately takes flight There is another
case filled with curious little wooden dolls
from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona,
all brightly colored and wearing masks and
maskettes.
Among the plains Indians masks are used to
some extent. These are made frequently of
the heads or skins of animals. Sioux medi-
cine man will wear bears head or a buffalo
head. in Mexico and Central America. among
the Indians, maskolds of wood, stone and terra
Gotta were much in use. Among the ancient
people, after the death of king, painted
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''H 'twere down, when tbs down, It were we'll
'twere down Quickly" Ii what Q person thinks
when he Is contemplating taking q dose of old
fashioned pills. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pureative
Pellets are tiny, sugar-coated granules, scarcely
larger than mustard seeds. As Q remedy for al
arrangements of the stomach, liver and bowels.
they are uneQualed.
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The committee on transportation to the
Worlds Sundays school convention, to be held
IN London July 2 to s, has secured the steamer
Bothnia, and the entire American party will
sail from New York June 49,
Laura Bridgeman, made famous by Charles
Dickens in his American Notes." died yester-
DAY In the South Boston asylum, aged sixty
years, She had been deaf, dumb and blind
from her second year.
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another, so there is no tribal characteristic
about the structure of the masks. They are
painted by the purchasers to suit their own
fancies, and usually adorned with the totems
OF the wearer. Among these Indians masks
are made IN two forms, one representing
human head. and the other representing
birds head, or the head of the thunder bird"
which plays SO important a part in their N.Y.
theology. The medicine man has in his outfit
assortment of masks, one for
each of his familiar spirits and puts
them on in turn according to the
power he wishes TO propitiate or invoke. Some
of these Indians, like certain Eskimos, wear
masks which are decoys for seals or offers.
They cover their head over with wooden
head-gear made to represent seals head. and
then coDcealing their bodies. make cry like
a seal. The animal, deceived by appearances.
approaches near the hunter and is killed. A
dancing mask from Bella-bella, British Column
bia, made to represent the head of a bird, has
the lower mandible movable. 1t il worked by
a cord of slnew that passes over a little pulley
Some of the masks, representing deaths heads.
are made CHASTITY in hue by being painted with
some pigment of a mouldy wilderness in appear
ance. There is a dancing mask looking like a
gorgon head, provided with a waving mass of
hair of coarse fiber and having at the side two
wings, or doors, on which rude outlines of
human figures are painted. These
doors swing back and forth and can
be worked like jumping Jack
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nected with their most solemn ceremonies,
and Is serious business. Many of
these masks are made as frightful as
savage art can make them for the purpose of
striking terror into the heart of the beholder.
DR.. VIM. II. Dali, who has made for the bureau
of ethnology study of the subject of masks,
hnds In IL something more than a matter of
curious interest. He thinks that one who has
thoroughly mastered it would be possessed of
the keys to the greater part of the mystery
which locks from US the philosophical, relig-
ious, and social development of uncivilized or
savage men.
In the study, too, he has found evidence of
the accession by invasion or immigration in
prehistoric times from the islands of the Pacific
to the western shores of America. Similarity
OF masks and masking customs. along geo.
graphic lines extending from Africa to the
North Papuan archipelago, hence TO Peru, Gen.
trail America and Mexico, northward to New
Mexico and Arizona. Oregon and the northern
limit OF the Thlinket country, the Aleutian Is
lands and thence to the Aectic coast among
the EskImos from Prince William sound to
Point Barrow, suggests that fashion set in
Africa or In the Pacific was carried by bold
naylgators to the South American coast
and thence travelled by contact Of one ma
ton or tribe with another, until it had
spread from the South Pacific to the Arctic.
DIR. Dali has found corroborative evidence to
sustain the theory suggested by these facts in
the prevalence of another fashion among saw
ages over the same geographical lines, and that
Is the use of the labret, or plug Of stone. she'll
metal. or wood, worn in hole pierced through
the under lip so TO distend and distort the lip
Whether masks were first used in rude
dramas or were made as shields for protecting
the face is a question in which man can have
an opinion without much fear of its being
proven wrong. Ethnologists think that the
mask was at first a shield or protection for the
face, held in the hand. From this was derived
covering adapted to the form of the face and
supported on the head or shoulders. From
such uses came masks of horrid visage. intended
10 inspire terror in the enemy. Masks are
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ere masks Here is a row of japanese theatri-
cal masks with jolly faces of shining, flesh
tinted enamel, there collection Of wooden
masks from northwest coast Indians. rudely
carved and striped and painted in many colors;
and glowering from the corner OF case a
dark, forbidding, hideous mask, worn by some
savage hummer in a devil-dance in the wilds
of Africa. None OF these savage or barbarlc
masks, whether from Africa or Polynesia. South
America or Alaska. has joyous smile or a
jolly grin on its painted countenance. Humor
of merry kind is not expressed by the
savage matchmaker. 1t may be a part of
his art which he never learned or which
he found was not popular. The nearest he
approaches to humor is grotesqueness, in giving
an eccentric squint to one eye, or putting the
mouth awry. Mouths sometimes are made to
stretch from ear to ear. but the expression
given is one Of savage ferocity, like that of a
snarling beast showing its teeth. The only
masks that seem intended to make one laugh,
and to counterfeit the face of droll, good
natured person, are some Of the theatrical
masks Of the Japanese, who, in the EthnOlogi-
cal scale, are rated far above the savage, or
barbarac races. With the savages masking is
not a matter Of merry-maklng. 1t is con-
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mask set with jewels was put over his face. An
Egyptian mummy stretched out in a case near
the masks has over the face mask Of green ce-
ment ornamented with gold leaf. In ancient
Peru maskoids were used in feasts and
were buried with the dead. They are discov-
cred now in sepulchres projecting outside of
maskoid from Peru, deposited in the museum,
Is rudeiy carved Of wood and redeemed with
ochre. Attached to it are several appendages
The whites of the eyes are represented with
pieces of white shell, and the rides by smaller
bits OF mussel shell cemented On the whites.
There are number Of masks from the South
Seas in the museum.
One from the Friendly Islands is noticeable
from the peculiar distortion of the mouth
made to form a bow or angle. 1t is Of wood.
the interior being slightly concave. Over the
forehead are representations of rounded ears
This, with the peculiar mouth, indicates that
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\ the National museum,
scattered through many
eases, peering out of
unexpected places,grin-
ming at mummies from
Peru. leering at ele-
gantly costumed fig
ures from Japan, squint-
ing at huge totem posts
from the northwest
coast, scowling fiercely
at mild looking cross
legged Buddhas, in fact
making all kinds of
faces at the world in
general. as it is repre-
sented in the museum,
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II was the woman who saw the first snake,
but since then the men have attended to that
sort Of thing.-Lessure Hours.
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MASKS AND FACES.
CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF sAvAGEs.
ADDING TERROR TO THEIR LOOKS.
Numming and Masquerading Among Un.
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