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night they are concealed beneath a heavy
ulster, not because of what we would call
the cold, but because the night temperature
of Loanda is much lower than that of the
dav. The police preserve very good order,
but the natives of the city are well behaved
and seldom make trouble for the authori-
ties. All the soldiers except the officers are
natives, and are required to serve tor a GER
tain period of time without pay. The Chief
of Police OF Loanda kindly assisted in my
anthropological work by procuring natives
for measurement. OF course, these could
not understand the meaning of my work,
and when they saw what was about to be
done they showed great concern, remarking
that they had served as soldiers once and
fearing that some scheme was on foot by
which they would be obliged to again leave
home and work without pay, .or / believe it
is usually those who own property that are
mustered into service.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NATIVES.
The natives of Loanda belong to various
tribes and are for the most part industrious,
offer their fashion, peaceable and very civil
to the whites. Many of the men conduct
small stores, others work for the merchants,
and still others act as carriers, for, as there
arc no horses few mules and not many oxen,
men must here do the work usually required
of such animals. All the markets, OF uui-
tandas, of which there are three in this
city, are carried on by women. In the larg-
est market vegetables and fruits are sold.
A native market presents a curious scene
to the stranger. As he enters he sees per-
haps 200 women sguattng on the
ground with their wares before
them. The jabbering OF these women
endeavoring to sell. and the crying OF their
babies are enough to deafen one. Babies!
Nearly every native woman you see seems
to have a baby. and they all take them to
the market, leave them to roll about naked
on the ground in the broiling sun, with the
halfstarved dogs and pigs that are busily
engaged in hunting for few morsels. 1t is
astonishing what treatment a black baby
can endure. A white baby could not live
long under like treatment. They are car
ried on their mothers backs, fastened by
means of cloth, which leaves only the
head free to swing helplessly about in every
direction, just as if they were dead, and I
have often wondered why such treatment
did not kill them.
ROUGH ON THE BABY.
I remember seeing q woman washing
clothes with her baby on her back, and az
she rubbed on the wsshbosrd the baby was
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royal family. The King is the heir to all
the property of his subjects, but it is said
that he usually demands only the gold OF
the deceased, and leaves the other property
to the wife and family.
SLAVERY AND PoLYGAMY.
Slavery is of course, carried in the
Ashantee kingdom and on large scale.
Many of the mobiles have as many as 1000
slaves. All prisoners OF war and many
charged with crime are made slaves. But
slavery as practiced here is not so oppressive
as it might seem, for not only here, but also
in MANY other parts of West Africa, slaves
are reg arded as servants and have consider
able liberty. They are supposed to be well
skilled in witchcraft, and this undoubtedly
prevents cruelty on the part of their
masters.
Polygamy is practiced to an extravagant
degree The more wives a man has the
higher is his social Importance. The num-
Der which a man in private life may have is
limited by his ability to purchase and sup
port them, but the number of wives which
the King may have is limited by law-iIm-
tied to the modest number OF 3, $685. and it is
said that he usually does not far exceed this
limit. At any rate he must have more
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Indigestion

IS not only distressing complaint, Of
= itself, but, by causing the blood to
become depraved and the system en-
feebIed, is the parent of innumerabls
maladies. That Ayers Sarsaparilla
is the best cure for Indigestion, even
when complicated with Liver Complaint,
is proved by the following testimony
from Mrs. Joseph Lake, of BrockwSy
Centre, Mich
"LiveT complaint and Indigestion
made my life burden and came near
ending my existence. Fer more than
four years I suffered untold agony, was
reduced almost to o skeleton, and hardly
had strength to drag myself about. All
kinds of food distressed me, and only
tie most delicate could be digested at
srI Within the time mentioned several
physicians treated me without giving re-
lief. Nothing that took seemed to do
any permanent good until commenced
the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla, which
has produced wonderful results. Soon
after commencing to take the Sarsapa-
rilla could see an Improvement in my
condition. My appetite began to return
and with it came the ability to digeSs
all the food taken, my strength i'm
proved each day. and after few
months of faithful attention to your
directions, 1 found myself well
woman, able to attend to all household
duties. The medicine has given me .
new lease Of life"
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Kine's army that they might become pos
sessed OF his courage.
Three years later, however, the Asian
tees were defeated by the English, and
since then, recognizing that they are en-
tirely unable to cope with English guns
and English soldiers, they have most of the
time kept within their own territory. In
recent years the trouble has been renewed,
and the English are compelled to Keep
soldiers stationed on the Gold Coast to pro-
tect the Fantis and their own interests.
The government of the Ashantees is as
complete and barbarous despotism as is to
be found anywhere in the history OF the
world. The King has absolute authority
over both the property and lives of his peo-
pie. His word is law, and no one dares
disregard it for fear of death. Anyone who
seems to censure by word or deed anything
the King does is liable to be judged guilty
of high treason. Any man who is called
before the King. goes in great fear, no mat
ter how innocent of any unlawful act, Tor
be does not know whether he is to be hon
ored and receive some gift or be sentenced
to death because he has been charged with
some crime, or because his blood is wanted
to wet the grave of some member OF the
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of course, jerked back and forth, and its
head topped to and fro like that of limp
kitten carried about in the mouth of its
mother. This was kept up for hours at a
time, and it is only fair example of what
happens every day.
Another market is located under grove
of banyan trees in the principal street OF the
city. Cloth and drygoods of the most gaudy
colors are retailed here by black women at
tired in their own wares, presenting tidy
appearance, in marked contrast with the
women of the other markets. These goods
are sold mostly to natives from the interior,
vino prefer to buy in the open air rather than
the stores. The third market is the fish
market, where fish of all kinds and sizes,
from six inches to three feet in length, are
scaled and chopped by women. The waters
about Loanda abound in edible fish of the
best kinds.
Probobly at no place on the west coast Of
Africa will one find such variety in the
manner of native dress as at Loanda. A
large number of the men wear anything
whatever that they can get to put around
the waist. The law requires them to do at
least that. Pieces of coffee sack or filthy
cloth of snv kind is used. But many take
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A NOBLE LADY HONORED,
The Cross of the Legion Conferred Upon q
French Sister Of Mercy.

The Cross of the Legion Conferred Upon a
French Sister Of Mercy.
New York Tribune.1
1t would be hard to cite a uobler story
than that of the career of Marie Therese,
the French Sister of Mercy who has Just re-
ceived the Gross of Legion OF Honor at the
hands OF the Governor OF Tonquin. This de-
voted woman was only 20 years of age when
she received her first wound in the trenches
OF Balaclava. She was wounded again at
the battle of Magenta. Later with un-
daunted energy and courage she pursued
her chosen mission under her country's flag
in Syria, China and Mexico.
From the battlefield of Worth she was
carried away suffering from serious injuries,
and be ore she had recovered she was again
performing her duties. On one occasion Il
grenade fell into her ambulance; she seized
and ran with it for hundred yards, and
her patients lives were saved, though she
herself was severely injured by the bursting
of the missile.
The French troops who were called out
to witness the unusual scene OF the bestowal
of this honor upon u woman presented arms
to the heroine of the ceremony.
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THE RESOURCES OF PERSIA,
Iron. Conl, Copper and Lead Awaiting
Enterprising Capitalists.

Iron. ConI, Copper and Lead Awaiting
EnterprisinG Capitalists.
A bright and happy history may yet be
in store for Persia. Recent surveys have
shown that the supply OF coal in that State
is practically unlimited, and that at the
pits mouth it can be produced and sold for
5s or 6s ton. AT present coal
is only worked at Hir, 40 or
so miles from Teheran, where tie
output each year is $4,000 tons.
Iron is believed to be found in close conjunc-
tion with these Persian coal fields, but at
present only one mine near Teheran produc-
ing excellent ore and 70 per cent of metal is
likely to be seriously worked The Elburz
range is also rich in this mineral, the ore
producing from % to 60 per cent OF metal.
Copper is found throughout the country,
and was one Of the chief exports from
Gombroom 10 years ago. There is also
abundance of lead in the Elburz Mountains,
and, as there Is great demand for this
metal in Russia, it is expected that a profit
able trade in it can be carried on across the
Caspian
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SWALLOWS AS CARRIERS.
A Freachmnn Has Trained Birds That Give
Wonderful Performances.

Freachman Has Trained Birds That Give
Wonderful Performances.
Youths Companion.l
1t seems to be quite possible that the
swallow will prove successful rival to the
carrier pigeon in its peculiar line ofservice.
The idea of domesticating this little
feathered favorite has been taken up in
France, the exigencies of war having sug-
gested the possibility of its usefulness. A
Frenchman has been experimenting with
the birds for years. He has managed to
tame them, and make them love their cage
so that they return to it after a few hours
liberty. The birds spend the winter at their
home, and do not change their residence
with the change of season.
The speed of these messengers can be
judged from single experiment. An un-
trained swallow, having its nest on a farm
near Roubaix, was caught and taken in a
cage to Paris, where it was set at liberty.
In less than an hour and half it was back
at the farm. 1t had passed over a little
more than 155 miles, in 80 minutes. Tt is
asserted that the trained ones will do still
better.
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WRITING SHORT SENTENCES.
Wager of Two Students on Saying the Moss
With Fewest Letters.

Wager of Two Students on Saying the Most
With Fewest Letters.
Two students, Smith and Jones, were
great friends in college. They had made
an agreement that after each had been at
home Tor week during the vacation term,
Jones should write in Latin letter to Smith,
the reply was to be in Latin also. The
writer who wrote good sensible letter, with
the least number of words. was to have the
entire expense of his vacation paid by the
other.
Jones wrote from his city residences:
'Eo RURE,"
meaning in English II am going to the
country"
"If Smith writes a shorter letter than
that and to the point" ehuckled Jones,
shes corker.
The next day Smiths came. It read a.
follows:
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same general description. Many of them
have one story, but those OF the more
wealthy people have two stories. These
houses are very old, being built when Lo-
anda was an important port for the embark
alton of slaves for Brazil. The timber for
them was brought to the slave dealers from
Brazil as a return cargo. The rafters and
floors seem to be as sound as ever, not
being at all injured by the white ants and
other insects that are so injurious to the
woods grown in Angola.
CARPETS ARE UNKNOWN.
At no time did see carpet in any house
of Angola, not even In the houses of the
wealthy; and I take it to be on account OF
the great multitude of ants and the lnJu-
rious effects of mildew. 1 am sure that,
with all these troubles to contend with, the
lot of the American housekeaper in Africa
would be a very unhappy one.
1 said that there are 5000 whites in
Loanda. These are mostly Portuguese con-
victs, for Angola is penal settlement and
has been used as such from the time of its
first settlement. Capital punishment has
been abolished in Portugal for many years,
and instead of that criminals of all classes
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CATTLE LOSSES AT SEA,
Two Thousand Perishcd Last Month and In
surance Rates Go Up.

surancs Rates Go Up.
New York Tribune.]
The companies that insure live stock for
the voyage across the Atlantic have
been meeting with heavy losses from the
recent terrible gales at sea. Scarcely a cat
tie ship has reached port on the other side
within two weeks without reporting more or
less of the animals dead and all the rest
badly battered and bruised and generally
unfit for IN arket. though of course, this last
loss falls only on the shipper.
Tie sea in the track of these cattle-carriers
is strewn with the carcasses of dead beeves,
thrown overheard after being smothered in
crowded stalls between decks. TIE estimate
OF the losses in February places the figures
close at 1000 head. So disastrous has been
the work OF the storms that the insurance
companies have raised their figures, and in
some cases, it is said, where the ship and the
accomm odations are poor and the ventila-
ton bad, as high as 10 per cent is asked to
insure the cattle abroad.
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which means in English, "go."
Electricity in Gold aiining.

New York SUM-
The electrical process has been success
fully adopted in South Australia for the re-
covery OF the minute gold dust that has
hitherto been lost in the WORK of separating
the metal from the ore. The economical
value of the process has been abundantly
proved, and the returns are sufficiently good
to compensate for the somewhat high ex-
pense OF the process.
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CHARACTERISTIC BRUTALITY.

A desperate battle was fought Sir
Charles and his officers were defeated, cap
tured and killed. Sir Charles secretary
was taken prisoner and held for long time.
Every night he was locked in room in
which hung the heads of Sir Charles and
his companions. 1t was said that Sir
Charles heart was eaten by the chiefs Of the
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W ehAo w
from Free Town,
We stopped for coal
at an English town
called Elmina, To-
Gated on that part
of the West Coast
of Africa known
as the Gold Coast,
from the amount
of h at metal
found there. Its
latitude is very
little more than so
N, and its longi-
tude slightly over
10 w. 1t was OF
\ the evening of
November 20,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

A PISTOL IL good thing for traveller to
take but . better Ia DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
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ON THE GOLD COAST,
characteristics of the Natives
of West Africa.
KING WITH 1888 WIVES.
CrueltieS of the War of the Ashantees
Against the Fantis.
PORTUGUESE CONVICTS IN ANGOLA

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsrArCH.I
ST. PAUL DE LoANDA, AFRICA
January 81, 1890.
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Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED BY

D.. J. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass,
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wives than any of his subjects or his respect
ability will suffer. 1 was told by the Amer
ican Consular agent at Elmina. that the
present King actually has the 1888 wives,
and that ne has 600 children.
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ROUGH ON THE BABY,

she rubbed on the wsshbosrd the baby was,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-29

moon shone clear and bright. / kept
up my steady tramp on my beat, and
all seemed quiet, only when the wind
come whistling through the trees. All
at once I saw an object, or shadow of
one, seemingly fit behind one of the
trees. I supposed it to be the shadow
of man, and that he had concealed
himself behind the trunk of the tree.
I was ready for him, and advanced with
my gun in position for use. / cautiousi
ly stole around SO / could get a good
view of him, but could see nothing
whatever. Then / advanced to the
foot of the tree, but there was no perI
son there, nor had there been, for there
were no footprints in the snow or tracks
of any kind. / stopped and studied
for a moment, but was unable to arrive
at satisfactory solution Of the mys-
terry. I resumed my beat again. but
still kept watch in the direction OF
the tree to discover if / could see any
thing that would produce shadow rel
sembling that of human being. IL
was some time before I saw the same
thing again, but finally, when the
wind blew hard, the shadow, or object,
seemed to retreat behind the tree.
Well, / am no believer in the super
natural, but acknowledge that I was
somewhat puzzled. / examined the
tree again and found nothing. / finally
concluded to stop few moments and
see ifthe object or shadow would APP
pear again. In short time I sawSthe
shadow again, and also the object that
produced it. This was cluster Of
dried leaves on a branch Of the tree,
and the shadow was cast on the body
of the tree only when the wind blew,
which waved it back and forth. I felt
very much amused when ] found what
caused my anxiety. But this was only
an imaginary enemy, while the gallant
Eighteenth Ohio brayed many a battle-
field, and many Of US feel the effects oi
itto-day.
CARBoN Hull, Ohio.
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the Empire State he took his hat from
his head and, kneeling, kissed the earth.
ABegorra, the bloke's crazy" said an
Irishman who Witnessed the performance,
Walking toward the country town, O
mile beyond which was the home he
once owned, he stopped to drink at o
branch that ran along the valley between
the pine hills. On the slope, few Yards
distant, was the grave OF o Federal SOL
dier-a prisoner who had died on his
way to the stockaae. Looking in that
direction, he saw o white object. IA
ghost, he thought But it moved about
with quiet briskness not peculiar to the
ghost family. "Tll see what it is," he
muttered. Approaching. he noted neat
railing around the grave. The ghost was
woman placing flowers on it. 1T must
be ghost, he thought; 9his sisters,
maybe" She softly placed GROSS Of
bright-colored blossoms, which finished
the kindly task. She looked up and saw
him.
@AIicel" he spoke. /
She leaned against the railing He !
thought it her ghost, SO pale she was. I,
Tobe, why did you stay away SO long?l
You promised to come back soon, and
you never wrote but one letter"
He covered before this arraignment,
and evadingly answered:
What does this mean, Alice?"
"To-dayis Decoration Day. It's some-
thing new to you. This grave was lons-i
some, and ! have made it cheerful. Am,
wrong2"
God have mercy on me for leaving
you," he gasped. aCan you forgive me2l
am going to the old home; you know
what for. Will you walk with me?"
"Yonner come Miss Alicel" cried half,
a dozen pickaninnies, as the two entered
the gate.
4Bress yer sweet soul, whar's yer bin
all day2' asked the old negro woman,
who took her bonnet I'D gun ter git sr
little anxious erbout yer. But
This is Mr.. Linthit itum, Aunt Lucy. I
expect he's hungry. am"
EWhutl Am dat Mr.. Tobe Linthercum
whut went ter Brayzill? Hes mighty
Drowned an sorter gray, but now 7 look
ct i'm, dem whiskers KANT hide his pop,
per's eyes an his mudder'a smile. III
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set severki Of the men 10 graphing
under the water and after little time
and labor they brought to the surface
q body in the uniform of an officer Of
the Union army. They turned 1t over
and fioated it toward the stern Of the
boat, where 1 sat.
This movement washed enough of
the dirt off the face to render the fea-
lures distinguishable, aud / looked
into the dead face of the murderer
and traitor / had unsuocessfully pur-
sued q few hours previously; a terri
BILE, crushing wound, evidently from
the iron shoe of horse, was on his
forehead, and told the story of fall in
the pitch darkness of the night, the
struggle of man and beast to rise, and
the crashing hoof that ended q villain
GUS life. Truly, vengeance for his double
crime had overtaken him quickly and
in q terrible manner. What must have
been his thoughts during the wild wan
derings of that night, the blood of a
poor girl on his hands and soul, and
the brand of traitor on his life, wander
ing in unknown paths and pursued by
the resistless forces of nature turned
loose, and if he lived but asecond of
time after receiving his death-blow,
what must have been the concentrated
agony and remorse of even that simple
heartbeat of consciousness?
I left the body where we found it
such a creature deserved no better
burial place than the mud that har-
bored poisonous reptiles.
Then we turned again to save the
living.-Chicago Ledger.
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nov, he said, TO bind me here. I love
Alice, but she Is too good for me. have
NO country. viii 60 TO Brazil and die
there.
He sold the property and went into
exile. He prospered. But az the muri
derer cannot escape his conscience, 90
could not Linthicum escape the irresisti-a
BILE longings Of his own heart His
dreams were Of the graves at the old
homestead. That spot, once carefully
tended, was now grown up in weeds,
every sprig of which pointed the finger Of
contempt at him. The walnuts wrung
their limbs as if in painful wrath. A
sweet pale face at the village posioffice
grew paler when the answer came, No,
nothin' ter-day, Miss AL CO." He had
written her only once. But why should
he look Backward The past was dead
to him; he was another man in another
land.
One day he received letter. It con-
tanned miniature American hag-noth-
ing else. Two weeks Afterward he was
q passenger on steamer bound for New
York. When his foot touched the soil OF