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MexicO's Vanderbilt.

Judge Murat Masterson was at tho Le.
land not long ago. direct from Mex
leo. With him is Don Luis Huller, who
is the Vanderbilt of Mexico, though a
Vanderbilt would have little standing
in his family, for he prints a golden crest
at the head Of his note paper, which has
distinguished such a long line Of Huller
Dons that the memory of man does not
begin to run back to the first of them.
Don Luis is Of the bluest- blooded Castil-
ians. He lives in castle at Tacuba, a
little town but few miles from the City
of Mexico, where two other of Mexico's
wealthiest men live-Antonio Escandon
and Sebaston Wier. Don Huller owns
and occupies the famous Villa de Bar
ron. The place is really palace. The
house has fifty rooms, and its cons true
ton is on scale of magniticence, equal
to any in Mexico. The grounds alone
cost $500, 600, and the whole place
several times that sum. Most of the in
terror finishings were imported from
Europe. and even the stone carvings for
the doorway and the great gateway into
the grounds were imported. Even with
all this magnificence for home, the
owner spends much of his time in Europe.
He is on his way there now, to join his
family,
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to exposures through the country
teeming with hostile savagea. wild
beasts and poisonous serpents;through
junRles where death lurked in q thou
sand forms. and where even the very
air itself was pregnant with noxious
vapors.
Starting from Zanzibar in the month
Of April, 1871, he succeeded in meeting
Livingston At Ujiji on November 10 Of
the same year-what an entire expe-
dition, equipped by the English, had
failed to accomplish. In July, 1872,
Stanley arrived in England, and re.
ceived a universal ovation. Again
starting out with an exploring partv
he headed for the interior of Africa.
and by his subsequent exploration OF
the lake region Of equatorial Africa
and Of the Lualaba Congo in 1S74-z
he placed himself in the front rank of
African travellers. Under q Joint
commission from the New York Her
cid and the London Daily Telegraph.
Stanley started from the eastern coast
Of Africa In 1874 eiroumnavigatsd the
Victoria N'yanza. marched across the
country to the Albert N'yanEA and
turning southwark Examined port
Tanganyika and its outlet toward the
Lualaha- From Vnyonyembe he
pushed onward along the course Of
the Lualaha, supported by . large
force of men, and frequently repealed
the onslaughts Of the fer0cious
savages, by force of arms. Upon ar
irving at the mouth of the Congo in
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was ., 90 miles. Inc river was Hol
the most part studded with islands
The tolls and psrils Of the trip were
increased by the ferocity of the na-
tives. aud although seeking In ever
way to avoid conflicts, Stanley waa
obliged to engage in thirty-tve
close fights with them. Nest Of these
fights were with cannibalA They
refused all presents and othsr over
lures Of friendship. and said: I'VE do
not want your wareA We want you.
We will eat you" Then would begin
the war cry and the din of the drumA
above which Stanlsy's men could hear
the terrible cry: Meat! Meat! We
shail have WILMA meat todayv'
No less than twenty-eight cataracts
we're encountered in the course Of this
journey. Famine, fever. wild animals
and still fisrcer human beings put
danger all around them. Tho rem.
nant of the expedition, famishsd and
sick at heart. pushed on to the Ea2.
lish trading village OF Embowa, where
relief awaited them.
OF course Stanley knew that Dr..
Livingstone's superstition that the Luz
lalala was the upper Nile was Q mis-.
take, long before he came near the
coast. In fact, he found it turning to
the west from its northsrly oourss
soon after passing tho point to which
Livingstone had explored il. but It was
necessary to demonstrate this fact be-
yond doubt by following the river to
its mouth on the Atlantic coast.
Probably no greater hardships and
dangers were ever faced by explorers
than those that Stanley and his fol
lowers met on This march
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Locked horns are becoming quite
fad with some of the swells at the me-
tropolis, said gentleman the other
day, land some of the Adirondack hunt
ers and guides are making nice little
sums by occasional sales of the curiosity
that is demanded. You see the old story
about the bucks that fall to fighting,
and in some manner get their horns
locked so they can't get apart and then
starve to death, has taken strong hold
upon the romantic natures of many peo-
pie, and if they can only get set of
locked horns mounted they are happy.
$50 the hunters select nice horns that
correspond as to size, and by the use Of
q twisted cord and case spring them to-
gether as if locked in their death en-
brace BY the maddened thrusts of fight
ing bucks. Then, on account of their
great rarity and the difficulty of finding
them, they are sold to the rich curiosity
hunter for big price. His friends look
in wonder and envy at him. while he re-
counts the story told him by the guide
who found their skeletons held together
by the horns and the earth all trodden
down around the place 80 solidly that
vegetation had not grown there in years,
ETC., and the guide goes back to the
woods and fixes up another pair for the
next curiosity seeker.
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correspondent of the New York Her
aid. and in that capacity made expe-
ditions into various parts of the
world in search of information re-
garding strange people and places, In
order that his fellow country mon
might learn through the columns Of
the press. all that q brilliant journalist
could find out about the country the
gsographers gave so little information
about. His first great step was the &C.
eompanying of the English expedition
into Abyssinia and Ashantee. Later
as the discoverer Of Livingstone his
renown became worldwide. Com
missioned by his paper. Stanley was
sent into the dark continent to find
the long lost explorer. With char.
acteristic American nerve and enter
prise he started ON . journey full Of
unknown hardships and psrils: bssst
On every band BY danger. subjected
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Cam. Tho language Of tho people II
the region resembles that Of the CAT
feoa and BachuanaS

Africa.
The interior Of Africa consists for
the most part Of one vast plateau.
Upon this fact depends tho great dii
6eulty Of exploring II. Attempt -
enter the heart Of the continent by
any Of the great rivers. that the e1-
plorer may, he soon comes to 1nsur-
passable falls or rapids around which
or over which It Il impossible to pass.
The explorers who have 20 far pushed
into the interior have been obliged 70
abandon their boats and push ON ON
foot, making. at best. but short jour.
nsys. occasionally by watsFo In such
small boats - they were able to OBJ
tain from the natives. In area IL, Il
considerably larger than the cont.
nent Of North America, the area Of
the latter being. in square miles. g.
o5S 315, while that Of africa Il II, o6a, 500
square miles How denssly populated
the dark continent must be, can Be
seen that while the known population
Of North America was only IS. 000, 900,
in 1880 the population Of Africa h
estimated to be EOS, 67o, 900.
North Of this vast triangular plateau
basin lies the Sahara, an immense
desert The surface b covered With
0ne drifting Mnd. The absenee q
veGotAtioa causes stroag winds - blow
oonf1nua1lx. n Whioh 6e 0A1 = co.
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Do you feel dull, languid. low-spir-
tied; experience . sense of fuiiness or
bloating after eating. tongue coated,
bitter or bad taste in mouth. irregular
appetite, dizziness, frequent headaches,
nervous prostitution or exhaustion, hot
flushes, alternating with chilly sensa-
tons, sharp, biting, transfer. pains here
and there, cold feet, drowsinass after
meals, valentines, or disturbed and
unrefreshing sleep. constant, indescrib-
able feeling of dread, or of impending
calamity?
If you have any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering
from Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liy-
er, associated with Dyspepsia, or Indi-
gestiOn. The more complicated your
disease, the greater the number and
diversity of the symptoms. No matter
what stage it has reached, DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will subdue
it, if taken according to directions, for
reasonable length of time.
"GOlden Medical Discovery" acts
powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood purifying
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monds and tropical luxuriance; land
about which little was known until
the intrepid Stanley. Livingston and
Paul Du Chaillu penetrated its jungles
md gave to the world the results OF
their perilous journeyings OF these
explorers, Stanley IL perhaps the best
known, and his exploits have been
watched with interest by every Amer
Ian Who had any pride at all in see
IND Q fellow countryman gain such Q
xenown - Q explorer.
Henry n. Stanley was born in
America in 1871. The place Of his
birth has been . matter OF dispute.
hut Il ID enough to know that he is
= native Of this country, and that tho
homage paid him by foreign powers
NO not in the least turned his head
aeninst his mother country. Enter
-. the profession Of journalism. he
AeE1y blqane renowned - . sDecial
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time he was piundered by natives,
baffled by rivers and scourged with
fever The people began to be anxious
about the missing explorer, and STAN
ley, the intrepid journalist, was sent by
the New York Herald to find him.
Pushing his way from Zanzibar to
Ujiji, the bold American finally found
Livingston and the almost disheart-
ened missionary gazed upon a white
mans face for the first time in several
years. The meeting was short and
business-like. for Stanley was all bust
ness. He had started out to find his
man-and found him. The rest Is ia
miliar to all readers of the newspapers.
African Exploration.
Herodotus records that an eIpedi-
ton circumnavigated the African con-
tinent during the reign of Pharaoh
Necho. and there are traditions of
carthagenian exploration far inland.
Nothing definite concerning these ex-
plorations is recorded in history and
not until the Portuguese followed the
entire coast from Egypt to the In
dian ocean in the fifteenth century
does anything appear. Vaaco da
Cana was the first explorer to give to
his country any facts about the new
country, and was the first to double
the Cape of Good Hope, which he did
on November 20. 1497. He went ON
African waters as far a.
Mobas. and from there to In
dia. Prince Henry, tho navigator,
later sent out several expeditions.
In the Seventeenth century the French
placed colonies on African soil and the
Dutch East India company founded
its first trading post in 1850 on the
Cape. In 1850, just q century later. the
English appeared, establishing trad
ing posts in Guinea. In 1873 Bruce,
the Scottish traveller. visited Africa.
and went up as far as the sources of
the Blue Nile. After untold hard
ships he returned to England and re-
lated the story of his wanderings, be-
ing jeered at as a story teller Of the
deepest dye. In 1906. Mungo Park, a
Scotchrnan, was killed in his second
trip to the Niger, after reaching Tim
buctoo. Denha,n and Clapperton
went out from Tripoli to Bor-
neo in 1929 and made numerous
and valuable discoveries They were
the first white men to see Lake Tchad.
Captain Clapperton, ia attempting to
trace the Niger from tho coast, was
stricken with fever and died. The
earliest knowledge Of the South Afri-
can interior was brought by adventur-
Gus merchants who penetrated the
jungles in search of money and gold.
In 1849. Livingstone began his explo-
rations and in connection with Spoke,
Baker, Burton, DuChaillu bring US to
the point where the intrepid Stanley
took up the burden and penetrated
the heart OF the great dark continent.
The Region 0flhe Congo.
The region of the Congo extends
from latitude degrees 80 minutes
to 8 degrees 30 minutes south, and il
bounded on the north by the river
Congo or Zaire, on the east by q range
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OF mountains parallel to the coast and
ON the south by the Dande which
separates it from Angola. The
Atlantic forms its western boundry.
The Congo region Is drained
by many largo rivers which flow
through it on the sea. Chief among
these are the Lilundo, Ambriz
and ONO. The coast region is I'M
healthy because OF its alluvial plains
and forests where the air is dark and
noisome with noxious vapors. White
men can hardly exist here q week on
account of the fevers that permeate
tho very atmosphere and hang like .
pail over the entire coast region.
Further inland the climate is better
and Stanley tells US that Europeans
would have no trouble in living
there at all. The soil is fertile
and produces many kinds Of grain
and fruits unknown in Europe or the
Americans. On the banks Of the
river, in the rich black soil, grows q
species OF grain called luke or luno,
from which q delicious white bread
can be made. Rice and maize grow
rapidly and yield enormously. In
one season as high as three crops have
been taken off Of one piece of ground.
As early as 1916. an English scientist
visited this region and in studying the
flora, found $40 species of plants, $50
of which were at that time unknown
to botanists. The forests and plains,
especially in the interior, TEEN with
large games, while the rivers are fire.
quented by hippopotami and croci-
diles. Myriads of strange fish are to
be caught in the inland waters, many
Of them Of exquisite flavor. The
Sparus, one species, often attains q
weight of sixty pounds, and is as fine q
table fish as the salmon.
The natives of the Congo region do
not know what beasts OF burden are,
nor do they use domestic animals in
tilling the soil, and do the work en-
tirely by hand. Sheep and horned
cattle are very scarce, though the
semi-wild hog and poultry and fowls
of various kinds are common. The
reptiles of the Congo region are a.
humorous as theya enormous. They
haunt the jungles as faithfully - ths
brilliantly colored parrots haunt the
thick branches Of the trees above
them.
Some of the insects found in tho
Congo are even more venenous than
q the snakes. Travellers fear certain
kinds far moro than they do the lion
or the boa constructor. Tho bite Of
the banjo penetrates even the thick
skin of the elephant, produces a pain
that is maddCning. The natives
Of the Congo are of ordinary
stature and their color and fea-
lures are less strongly marked
than those Of most other negroes.
On the other hand they are indolsnt
and lazy. Polygamy is praeticed
among the natives. but adultery IL
severely punished. All crimes except
murder are punished by slavery, and
of slaves proportionate to his rank
are killed and buried with him, to at
tend him in the world beyOnd.
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ALONG THE CHICKAMACG4.
How an Obliging Conductor Impaired Il
formation tn His Passen-ers

How an Obliging Conductor Impaired In.
formation to His Passengers.
snow, Mr.. Conductor" said snap
pish-lookins old lady as she boarded the
sleeping car at Chattanooga. Il want
you to tell me the names of all the places
Of interest we pass on the way to At
lanta, for this, believe. is the road along
which Sherman marched
@Yes'n.," replied j. B. Jackson, the
conductor, as he cast his eyes at two
pretty girls with the old lady.
"Jane, said the old lady to one of the
girls, you get piece of paper, now,
and take down the names the gentleman
tells you.
@Yes, ma" replied the girl with a
smile that made the conductors heart
ache.
@What stream is that?" asked the old
lady, as the train passed over trestle
"That's Chickamauga creek" replied
the conductor.
"Take that down, Jane"
A half mile further another stream was
crossed.
"What stream is that?" again asked
the old lady.
"Chickamauga creek" replied the
conductor.
stake that down, Jane.
A half mile further another stream
was crossed.
@What stream is that?" Intercepted
the old lady.
sChickamauga.
The old lady began to look suspicious,
and said:
"Take that down, Jane
sWhat stream is that one yonder,
running into those woods; now we are
crossing it?"
"Chickamauga.
@Take that down, Jane.
An ominous silence followed until the
same creek had been crossed four ad.
ditional times.
Another stream was seen babbling
over the rocky bed.
With a timid glance at the yellow
waters the old lady asked
"And what creek is this?"
~Chickamauga, came the reply in
despairing tones, and the girls looked
like they could bite the conductors head
off as the old lady said, snappishly {:
sTake that down, Jane.
Another creek was crossed, but the old
lady said nothing. Still another was
crossed, and she asked:
sAnd that stream is what?"
"Chickamauga"
sTake that down. Jane, was heard in
IN almost inaudible voica
Two moro streams were passed, but
the old lady was silent
Suddenly her face frightened with
new hope as the train pulled up at lit
tie station.
.what place is this" she asked. con-
6dently.
.Chickamauga, came the monotonous
reply.
Jane, throw that paper out Of the
window. That hosrid-"
sHold on, madaml" exclaimed the
conductor; and to save his scalp be had
to explain that the State road crossed
Chickamauga creek fourteen times be-
fore reaching the station Of the same
name
It took the old lady some time to 70
cover her spirits, but she did after .
while, and tho smile and the sweet
words she and her daughters gave the
conductor ON leaving him in Atlanta
cheered him for many miles along his
way
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WIT AND HUMOR.

The old topper always has gin phiA
-Binghamton Leader.
Bagley-"Well. who are you looking
forp" Bailey-"O. nobody in particu-
lar" Bagley-"Why don't you look in
the glass?-Judge.
Wilkins-"Did Suem win his law
suit?" Filkins-'I think so; saw his
attorney wearing new suit of clothes"
Minneapolis Journal.
Maid-''Your wife is out, sir" Hus-
band-"Well. give this kiss for me
when she gets back. I'm going to
town."-BoSton Herald.
A writer tells how to sponge shiny
coat. If he will tell how to sponge q
brand new coat he will attract more at
tention.-Teras Siftings.
He-"Kiss me. darling" She-'One
moment. Have you had Ia grippe?"
He-"Yes." She-''Then wait till ]
take some quinine. Life.
Faust-I say, Mephistopheles. do
you belong to the Four Hundred?"
Mephisto = mo, Fausty. The Four
Hundred belong to me. life.
1t was q thoroughly sophisticated
though absent-minded young woman
who asked the waiter for stack Of
Saratoga chips Washington Post.
Bagney-"Why did you change your
tailors! Couldn't Cuttem suit you?"
Inndette (sadly)-' He could. but he
wouldn't wait any longer."-Tinae.
Minnie-''This picture of me when
Twas q little baby" Mamie-"How
photography has improved in the last
thirty yearsr'-Terre Haute Express.
us Brown happy in his marriagea"
''Well, think If Brown were to sec
Mrs. Brown today for the first time he
wouldn't even ask for an introduction"
Life.
Overheard in the Capitalists .
pity that Ananias couldn't have lived
In the present." "WhyT' There was
great political timber in him."-Wash-
S140t0n Post.
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Pretty Gabrielle Greeley.

Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of
Horace Greeley, who, as . girl of 10
was famous belle. resides very quietly
on the old farm at Chappaqua. She is
about % years Of age. still very
beautiful. but has almost entirely given
up society, devoting herself chiefly to
charitable work under ritualistic aus
pices. She bought in the old Greeley
homestead and has since spent much
money and time on the Episcopal church
near by. Perhaps no girl in America
ever had . better claim to social recogni-
ton both at home and abroad than Miss
Greeley, whose beauty is Of striking
character and whose accomplishments
are many. She was the rage for two
seasons in London, but while enjoying
the simple pleasures Of life cared nothing
for its social successes.
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a D.ll. Of sh. r..r Hundred

law one Of the famous beauties the
other day, Miss Sallie HargouA She b
one of the bellies Of the Four Hundred.
No ball or assembly ID complete without
hsr. She has IN income Of 81, 900. Is
accomplished and charming. She d Of
the Spanish type, with lustrous eyes and
marvellous coloring. She lives with
married sister, and her brother Robert il
devoted to her. The ball which he gave
on her coming out b yet talked Of On
the street she dresses plainl1, - an the
swell New York girls do. She wore
brown cloth gown and sable csps and
carried . mun to match. Her evening
Gowns are always tasteful and fresh, and
II compIsxion = - fault2e9 that she
en- wen almoot sny oo1oe.r
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murdered him, and hope from Egypt
was cut of. Ell Mahdi then turned
upon Emin Pasha. but died (probably
by violence) before making an attack,
and Emin was comparatively safe till
another Mahdi arose and the crusade
revived. Years passed before the
civilized world could gain any certain
knowledge Of Emin. Meantime Stan
ley had completed his early African
explorations; the Congo Free State
bad been established, with the king
Of Belgium, Leopold, as its protector;
the Germans and English had made a
division of the east coast, each having
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stantly shifting. It is desert because
tho prevailing direction Of the wind
brings dry atmosphere over the terri
tory. Rain never falls. The land is
lower than the sea, and 1t is proposed
TO let in water by a canal connecting
the sec and irrigate the land. II this
could be done this vast portion 81
Africa would be made very produo-
tive.
The zeal Of explorers and mission
aries and the Commercial incentives
offered to merchants. have combined
to overcome these obstacles to explor
ing the continent, and gradually the
world b acquiring Q knowledge 81
tho geography Of Africa.
Early civilization had seats alonR
the northern and northeastern bord.
ers Of Africa, but these fell into decay
long before the period at which au
thentic history begins. Along the
Nile the historian finds the monu.
ments Of this early civilization. but
can only guess at the condition Of the
people who constructed them.
The southern portion Of the CONT
nent has never apparen ~ been ocou-
pied by civilized man. It IL now for
tho drst time being penetrated by the
explorer.
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Society in tho region above de-
scribed Is divided into several
classes. First the chiefs, second
the traders. third the farmerA
and fourth the fisherman, and
fifth the slaves. The Kingdom Of the
Congo il divided into several pre-
vinces. each Of which has its capital
and chief, who owes allegiance 10 .
lord paramount at the capital Congo
bauzA The region was discovered u
1854 BIZ the PoFtusese undse Diaao