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Matadi to the Pool on stilts, Mr.. Case
ment, and have no doubt you could &C.
complish the remainder OF the distance
on your head, If you liked to devote
enough time to it, but what good you
would derive from it, or any one else,
when you emerged at Zanzibar l don't
really know"
With this parting shot Stanley left
as for the night, telling Ward to be up
early for the morning start.
Next day we were up before the sum-
and the repairs on the Peace having
been executed during the night, all was
once more ready for start and by the
time we had finished our coffee Ward
had marshaled the Zanzibaris, dis
tributed their rations to them through
their headmen, and they were getting
on beard the Peace.
Her whistle blew, the engineer came
up to say they were waiting for him,
and Mr.. Stanley rose to say goodbye,
and | accompanied him down the steps
of the verandah to the path which led
to the river.
Again shaking our hands, he walked
some PAGES towards the steamer, then,
as if suddenly remem bering something,
he turned round, and, shooting sly
glance at me, bowed to my bulldog,
Paddy, who was blinking on the
steps, and holding out his hand to him
said:
"And ,,ol bye, too, Snarleyow!'
A moment or two later the Peace
was shooting out through the rapids
round Kinchasa islands, and every quick
swirl of her propeller through the water
carried the little steamer further and
further away out on to the calm, placid
expanse of the Pool, whence soon only
a thin wreath of smoke served to mark
the spot where she struggled to over
take her consorts now steaming with a
full days start up the broad bosom of
the Congo
AS the smoke slowly faded away on
the horizon we turned away from the
beach and were soon busily employed,
Swinburne and /, arranging for our
coming journey to the upper waters of
the Congo
/ waited at Kinchasa until an oppor-
tunity offered of travelling up to the
Equator Station, some three hundred and
fifty miles beyond the Pool, where took
upmy quarters while awaiting the arrival
of the steamer in which 1 hoped to be
able to penetrate the tributaries of the
Congo lying above that point, of which
strange stories almost daily reached
me of cannibal orgies and raiding
tribes who signalized each fresh tri-
umph over oheir enemies by feasting on
the bodies Of the prisoners they had
captured in the fight
ROGER EASEMENT.
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Stanley had, however, requisitioneu
her as she stood from the cher OF the
Sanford expedition, for the entire
fotilla of steamers on Stanley Pooi
were incapable of holding all the men
and loads of the relief expedition, and
he wished to use the shell OF the
Florida as a barge, TO I'LL her with men
and loads, and tow her alongside the
State steamer Stanley. :.
For several days during the end OF
April all was hustle and excitement
round the shores of Stanley Pool, load
ing the various little stern-wheel steam
ers of the State, and the two missions
aSd at our station, endeavoring to con-
struct hasty slip to effect the launch
of the Florida All our efforts were IN
vain: the beams cracked and bent be-
meath her weight, and the uprlght sup
ports beneath her sank doep In the
mud as we tried to induce the unwieldy
frame of steel to glide down the in
clined plane of creased logs into the
river.
On the following morning Stanley APP
peared with about two hundred Zanzl-
baris and accompanied by Stairs, Nell
son and Jephson, and after some tre-
mendods showing and hauling the
Florida commenced to move down the
slip. Redoubling our exertlons, all OF
us white men lending hand wherever
we could get in an arm or shoulder to
shove, while Stanley stood on the bank
and urged on his men by words OF en-
enlargement, we at length got the
steamer on the run; and, while the
beams cracked and bent and the logs
sank into the mud as she slid over
them, the Florida shot gracefully into
the waters of the Congo, where the Stan
ley speedily took her In tow down to
where the expedition loads were being
embarked at the Baptist mission station.
On the 3oth OF April every thing was
ready. Swinburne, Troup and walked
down to the mission grounds, about
mile off, to bid goodbye to the members
of the expedition and watch their de-
parture for the Aruwimi and the I'M
known lands which lay beyond it.
At last every thing was complete; the
donkeys had with difficulty been got on
board the steamship Stanley and her
companion, the Florida; the men, IAN
zibaris, Soudanense and Somaulis were
all in their places on each of the little
stea mers of the fleet
Stanley was the last to leave, accom-
panied by Herbert Ward, in the little
Baptist steamer Peace, the only screw
boat then on the Pool, and bidding each
of us goodbye as he grasped our hands
| he stepped on board and waved his car
ere he set his face up river resolutely
to think of the great task which lay be-
fore him.
Swinburne, Troup and I returned tc
Kinchasa half an hour later, wondering
If we should ever see any Of the men
again we had parted from that morning
/ On reaching Kinchasa, what was oul
| establishment to find the black crew Of
the Peace and many Zanzibaris about
/ the station, while we could see the
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CHASTITY TROPHIES.


Three scalps ..Raised' In Nebraska on Ex-
hibition In Bavaria.
Hon. Fred Beyschlag concluded some
fifteen years ago to make up a collection
of Indian relies, such as tomahawks,
bows, arrows. moccasins, buffalo robes
painted by squaws, etc, all of which he
forwarded to his aged father in Ger
many as present. In the collection
were three scalps, which DIR. Renner
contributed. The hair OF two OF them
was jet black, with the braided scalp
lock. which designates the warrior OF
most Indian tribes; the third scalp bore
thin, long. light blonde hair, evidently
coming from a massacred man and not
woman, for the latter generally uses a
fine comb more effectively, when cir
eumstances require it.
The doctor had taken these scalps
from the Sioux in August, 1854, at the
time when they made their terrible raid
on the Blue river region. and Colonel o.
+. Mason ordered him to place himself
between the fleeing settlers and the pnr
suing Indians. furnishing only few
companions, twenty-seven muskets and
2,0IO rounds of buck and ball cartridges,
which Dr. Renner distributed among
the horrpr-stricken refugees on the Blue
and SANDY, whereupon be and half dozen
frontiersmen, armed with Spencer and
Henry rifles, Colts navy and dragoon re-
volvers. took up the trail of thirty or
forty marauding Cheyenne Sioux
and followed 1t across the Re.
publican into Kansas without
any difficulty, as tho doctor was
f,.x
hill and valley, having been in 1857 and
1855 member Of the surveying parties
under General Manners and Calhoun,
who established the boundary between
Kansas and Nebraska, commencing In
the middle Of the channel OF tho Mis-.
souri,, running west along the fortieth
degree northern latitude to the summit
of the Rocky mountains,
When DIR. Renner returned to this
city he prepared his trophies carefully
with alum and arsenic, so that they are
in good state of preservation this day,
as the sequel will show.
few years ago the venerable father
OF Mr.. Beysehlag died, and the Indian
collection came into the possession OF
the heirs; they were all afraid of these
three sealps, nobody dared TO handle
them, yea, even the look of them gave
the German ladies the horrors. SO they
concluded to sell them, and did so at a
fair price. This explains how the three
sealps raised In Nebraska form this
day an attractive feature in the show
window OF Mr.. oifenhauser, friseur and
perruquier thair dresser and wigmaker).
on the .'Schranne" or corn market in
Noerdingeu, thriving city in Middle
Bavaria, the native place Of the Bey.
schlag family,
Our authority for the last statement Ia
Mr.. Rudolph Beyschlag, who came from
the fatherland not long ago.~~Nebraska
CITY Newa
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The Little Men OF Africa.

The Akkas are described by DR.. junk
er as the only voluntary nomads of the
Central African regions. They construct
their little cone-shaped grass huts in the
shelter OF the trees of the woods, and
live in district as long as the chase
lasts. They prefer to abide among
some tribes and avoid others. The
rulers welcome them, and they, being
practiced archers and cunning warriors,
are employed in the invasion of the ter
ritories of neighboring tribes. They
possess no industry, and buy even their
arrowheads in exchange for meat, the
produce of the chase. They are timid
and suspicious, and DIR. Junker only
once saw about one hundred and fifty of
them together, They can not properly
be described as dwarfs, but only as rel.
atively very small Observation-Disclosures
journal
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fcopvnreur 1890.

In April, 1887, was on my way
tn; 'ough the cataract region of the lower
Congo, leading a. caravan Of Zulus from
Matadi to Stanley Pool, with q party Of
natives Of the Ba-Kongo tribe acting as
carriers OF my personal loads-tent. pri-
vate boxes, etc. altogether numbering
about one hundred persons.
The Zulus tsixty-four in number)
were employed carrying two heavy cylin-
ders Of Ave hundred pounds each and
some smaller pieces OF machinery, all be-
longing to the steamer Florida, then in
course of construction ut kinchasa Sta
tion, on the Pool, and only awaiting the
very loads | was bringing up to be
launched on the waters Of the upper
Congo and begin her journeyings through
the untraveled regions OF the interior in
search OF ivory for the Sanford explor-
ing expedition. OF which was mem
Der.
Towards the middle OF April reached
the native village OF Lutete, only sixty
tpiles from my destination on Stanley
Pool, and here the news that II. Nj.
Stanley. at the head Of great expedi
ton for the relief of Emin Pasha, con-
sisting OF eight white officers, 600 Zanzi-
baris, and Tippo lib, the renowned
Arab slave trader from Stanley Falls,
was on his way up country close behind
me, caused me to use every exertion to
hasten my march, so that | might be
able to cross the Nkissi river, which
falls into the Congo some fifteen miles
beyond Lutete, before Stanley and his
expedition should arrive on its banks;
for | knew Stanleys journey was of far
greater Importance than mine, and that
he would require all the canoes on the
Nkissi TO convey his caravan across,
during which time should be compelled
to stand aside with band of 100 semi
starving men.
Leaving Lutete | camped next day in
Nzungi market place, about ten miles
from the Nkissi
Here | was overtaken by Mr.. Jeph-
son, one of SANKEY'S officers, who, pre-
ceding the main column, was charged
with putting the portable boat together
| which accompanied the expedition
forming about thirty loads-so that
every thing might be ready for the
passage of the Nkissi when Stanley
| himself should arrive on its banks.
Jephsen hurried oil at three a. m. next
morning In pitch dark, we having learned
in the night that the expedition had ar.
rived at spot only an hours march
behind us. whore Stanley had halted
/ for the night.
I | followed Jephson at half-past four,
| hoping against hope that might
reach the Nkissi before Stanley, but il
was still u long way otf-three hours
march, and my men could only travel al
snaifs pace They did their best
poor fellows, and at seven a. m. We
had crossed the Lunzadi river by q
frail bridge of felled trees, just sutii
GENTLY strong TO bear" the weight OF
the loads and men together, and were
toiifully climbing up the steep hill or
the far side when looking back | saw
only half milo behind us. across the
valley OF the Lunzadi, long stream o.
people pouring down the hill towards
the river, at their head white mar
/ Il could see that by the elothesl on /
white donkey, followed by two Oh
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SACK TO HER SIDE.
A Pathetic Picture worthy OF Great
Artist's Touch.

A Pathetic PIeture worthy OF Great
Artist's Touch.
An old, dilapidated prairie schooner
orcamper's wagon came creaking through
the December wind, bound westward.
AS 1t came nearer in it's slow course
across the plain saw that the horses
we're thin and spiritless, and the driver,
who sat on rough board seat beneath
the faded and torn canvas cover, was as
woe begone as they
He had once been a good-looking man,
but his sad face and unkempt clothing
told too we'll the story of sorrow or dis
appointment.
GLOW far is it to the next town." he
asked as he came opposite me.
"About five miles,"
GLOW is the road? Can get there be-
fore night?"
81 am afraid not without hurrying."
The clouds were Swimming across the
sky and a storm seemed riding on the
back of the north wind that blew fierce
ly over the prairie.
"Guess I'll GO on, though" he ejacu-
lated after having considered moment
Then he alighted from the wagon and
commenced fixing broken strap of the
harness with some cord he drew from
the wagon box.
"What's your hurry? Where are you
bound for?" were my queries.
'I'm goin' to Smith County," he re-
piled YEARLY, as he thought OF the long
trip, almost to the foot of the Rockies,
IAN must get there before the first OF
the month"
"Why, got some land there?"
mo, not exactly, but something bet.
ter. l lived there two years ago--Mary
and l. The hot winds came and the
times grew hard for us. We worked
highland day, but there wasn'tno use
the sun jist dried up the ground an we
almost give up. Then Mary died; she
was my wife, you know" he said, in
half apologize words. "She helped all
she could, buther strength wouldn't hold
OUT
"And you were left alone?"
"Yes, so much alone that buried her
all by myself on our little claim an
then started for the old home back east
to try and make Twin. / lost my
right to the claim" he went on YEARLY
after pause, "but didn't care much,
except that she was there. Now l must
60 though an see to it."
"Do you expect to get it back?"
''Not all of it; I don't want it. But
they tell me the land is all bein' plowed
up in that neighborhood an I'm afraid
they'll pillow over Ter grave"
"And SO you'll buy the land?"
"a little of it-that that holds her.
kin make Twin l know, an I'll stay
by her side till the end. 1t seemed like
the sun went out when she left me
there"
He resisted all my efforts to induce
him to remain for the night He must
hurry, he said.
And the last saw of him he was urg.
ing the tired horses toward the angry
sunset sky, eager to reach the grave OF
the one he loved SO we'll.
Humble in station though he was,
crude though his surroundings, his
lonely vigil on the far Western prairie,
with the wide spreading sea of grass
around and only the tiny mound OF
earth to attract his lonely heart has
often seemed a picture worthy of a true
artists touch.-Detroit Free Press.
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~O-~-- ------
COPPER BRl IS IN SHors

aAo" d man RESTORE. useJf n i. NJ,
Condition.
do you see the large copper br,as !.
the sole OF my shoe?" asked pentlom..
as he held up to view the sole Il 0na !,
ms shoes. On being answered n ~
affirmative he said: s'To these s,m y
brads alone l attribute nv present .aa,
health. For years l was an ;nv spl
subject to dyspepsia, neuralgia hs.s l
ache and other innumerable mains s,a
travelled the country over in search !,
health. In travelling out West amonr
the Indian tribes | was struck ui,S
their remarkable health, and especiall,
their exemption from the naladjes th,.
afflicted me and also with the fact th,.
the strongest and healthiest went hre.
footed altogether. sought an exp,
nation of the matter and by confined
observation and study was finally led Il
the conclusion that theseaches and mains
to which civilized man is heir il owing
TO the manner in which we insola,s /
our bodies from Mother Earth. Sciepce
IS every day more clearly demonstrating
that electricity is the vitalizing con.
stituent of our bodies and that this
globe of ours is a mighty battery, con.
tinually generating and dischargng
electricity. Now, | reasoned, il this
was correct the secret of the Indians
health was in his bare feet, which OK.
posed his whole body to the vitalizing
influence of the electrical earth CUT.
rents; while my i'll health wasattributed
to my feet being isolated from these
currents. Acting on the hypothesis
sought to restore the broken connection
by inserting these brads in the soles Of
my shoes, and the result, must say,
was astonishing. My feet which
formerly were nearly Away, cold, soon
became warm and moist; my health
commenced shortly to improve, and in
a few months | was entirely relieved Of
all my pains, and have ever since en-.
joyed good health. 1t is very simple
thing and easily tested, and feel sure
would benefit any one afflicted as was
St Touis Rpnuhlic
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THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

When the winter morn is breaking
Over landscapes white with snow,
And the cold has sent the mercury
Down to ten or twelve below;
When the boarders shivering rise from bed
And quickly don their clothes
And hurry to the parlor stove
To thaw their freezing toes;
When people who must be at work
At seven o'clock or so
With gloved hands shield their ears as through
The icy streets they go;
When cans of milk are frozen
That are standing by the door,
And every body says II never
Was SO cold before;
When the fair and gentle maiden
From her slumber sound awaltes,
But no attempt to leave the couch,
SO snug and warm, she makes.
She feels she's not quite rested
Ali yesterday she shopped.
And tripped II at the hop last night
Uutil she nearly dropped
I'll take another nap" she says
The beautiful young lady
And meantime ma will light the IRE
And got the breakfast ready"
Boston Courier
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CALIFORNIA; POVERTY.
How 1t Was Impressed on the Nina o.
an Arizona Pioneer.

How 1t Was Impressed on the Nina o.
an Arizona Pioneer.
Old Judge McCorkle, of Arizona when
he left that land of legends pueolos
celia monsters" and gold, took with
him large quantity of the latter ne
sold a mine for something over SVV'u@
With this fortune th9 ledge repaired
TO "the Bay" as San Francisco IS callea
throughout the coast, there to spend 'ls
rest of his days in comfort. Having
wholesome distrust of banks, acqulleu
from his experience of them IN Aril0a'
the Judge placed his coin in the saleas
posit vaults, and has ever since hseaVl
his principal, drawing on the oFlglaa
stock of twenty-dollar pieces there SnSn
ever his purse runs low "hen Wv
Judge first came to San Francisco ne W.,
some what dazed by the rush ana WIN,
of even that not too densely popala''a
city. But with true provincial pria' ~ =,
determined to conceal his feelings
was this frontier hauteur WHICH '.ss ~
A1A.
ated his retort in the following ula
lorue: The Judge entered tno III. .hs
fast-room in one of the large no'el s W.
morning after his arrival IN 'sa that
cisco. The waiter presented 10 niI .s Ian
long and involved document from r masl
Americans chart out the morning M ial,
The Judge regarded it apprenen' soms
and said: "Ioung man, gilnu' .yOu
frijoles." beg pardon SIT! wal.
don't speak no Spanish, hays "s H.
gimme some beans Every soa ai,,st
but we do not serve beans al ols ,ad IA
sir" "You don't, hay?' rema'n sivs no
Judge sarcastically; lyon don y ,pi
beans for breakfast? Young man aI,na,oboii
the Judge lowered his l ricn a young
bass to an impressive murm the Dsooresi
man. | come from Arizoney' ln a.. a van 10
kentry on this here yearth' .o oa' times 4
Arizoney we git beans tnIe et
dayr'-San Francisco ArgonauE
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= GIRLS lnFLurna,,.

How Fa,,t.t - we !
pu,l,nnty d uttl,,.
hsa aa mans afraid
., mat is, y what you heard sas ,p. Y
sing In The Mikado. s ~ the naa.
about q capital punisbm sne was tells:|
had Witnessed and has ent which 4
the, the doomed man just ss,soc.aratioa IN
head gazed upon her prets.. losing N
courage was always tal p,e'sy iaee n
fantasy. But the idea s I, - a tilbss|
INTO INTO practical use in th = actually 81.
York establishments w w ,argest NJ,
extracted under lanoh;n ere teeth I.
been there two or three tim sas' h.N
watched this feature Of l u. md Nv
with !, amused interest. M, .as basiass
readily know, laughin, -,Uw' IS you ~,
patlentoblivious but not n renders il.
feels all that is done t. hhi; e IL
makes lot Of fuss ahon n.n and ois,
awakening he can recall r, na y out aps
has happened. 1t is whan ao y In
AFRAID that the s'beautifu,' ne man.
placed before him as ..~h aai maid' 4
to see." In other woras 'inlng sigAt
strong-armed dentist stand ' sllls To
SIDE OF the victims a ~, at on
me sne gas-bag ready for ~ II. VIII
preathe out OF, a girl W; i nim b
pretty face takes position - a,a aniabls
opposite arm. She pazss olOse toAs
icaily yet smilingly into his 'is .al
isn't coquettish about ii. Il n ,ace. Sis
scrlbed as sort Of cousinlv .u 10y ed.
Is somewhere between s;s.a, thy t
and an ogle, with no tic q cos gda
ity in it. As the man breat yhUusangaln'
gas and loses his senses tbs s ~. n To
vision is that Of the girls II en 1ass ladlag
face. The practical value of H.
hes In the fact-and | have th i,' uevlcs
authority OF the boss Of the nla.s Y !. .as
goodly proportion Of the n,ts sas'
would become obstreperous and p a,ss
while under the influence Il ~ violent
for the effect of the girls 49,, 81 oa'
mat may seem like nonsense 's e,
practice 1T proves to be- cooa ~ y
when the man awakens be and ~ y
guardian angel is still there ana l !. ~ y
parts feeling, | suppose, tha ~ =, " !, g
taken a deep and poignant is. sae aa y
his particular case. N y .AsfssE u
Herald. W. Boston