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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-08-15
Anti 1y.'a!'i! an! Toni! Waters
BUEXA VISTA, VA, April :, 1891.

BUEXA VISTA, VA. A pril :, 1891.
Mr.. J. II. Harris, Burkeville, Va:
NV DEAR SHIT gives me great pleasure to
add this testimonial TO the many, others you
have of the Valuable properties of your MIN
eraI waters, especially Spring No. l. My wife
has heen a great sufferer from dyspepsia, sour
stomach and headache-in fact, she was most
always suffering with one or the other' uhIu
This winter we spent a month in your pleasant
little town. and she commenced to drink the
water so highly recommended of spring NO.
She tried Spring No. 2, but L think the water
from that was too strong for her.
Let me say that after she had USED the water
one or two days she did not suffer with dys-
pepSia. sour stomach or headacne Ihc ~
water freely before and after each meal, ana
would eat anything she felt like. My wlies
health has been a great deal Detter sluCc Isle
thc wafer Wishing YOU much success, ana
that suffering humanity may learn OF the
value of your water, | am yours truly, ~
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\ Liverpool (EnSland) man was re-
Gently sentenced TO FIVE years penal
servitude for obtaining a shilling under
the pretext that 1t was TO be used for a
charitable purpose.
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The young czarewitch of Russia las
been a most industrious student. ana Is
now one of the best informed men OF iiIs
age in Eastern Europe. He Is especially
we'll versed in the higher sciences.
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No age is so old fashioned as child
hood. That childhood was happy may
be one of the illusions which is fostered,
if not engendered, by lapse Of time. Of
the happiness of second childhood there
can be no question.
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Humboldt calculated the mean level
of North America to be I4o 1eet aoo't
the sea, and he found that III 4,ooo, 90
years the whole of North Americ.
might be worn down to the sea level.
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1t is imagination, rather than reason,
that distinguishes man from brute and
nc person who is devoid Of Imagination
can know extremes of happiness or mis-
erv. Happiness greatly depends on the
faculty for forgetting.
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GU
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POINTS OF A COOLIE.
Instead of Killing His Enemy He
browns Himself intHis Well.
BURNING JOSS-STICKSsFOR LUCK.
More Devoted to His Dirty Pigs Than the
Caucasians te.Dogs.
HOW HE GETS CUREDi IF HE'S SICK

CORRESPONDENCE OF TIE D1srATcH.J
Annoy, May 15.-Refned and wealthy
people are very much the. same the world
over. To find out the peculiarities and
differences Of a strange race, you must go
down into the ranks of the great un-
washed" The mandarin here is painfully
an American club man; the coolie is unlike
anything elsewhere. He lis ignorant and
wofully superstitious. Hesburns joss-sticks
to keep away sickness and death, to
frighten robbers, to welcome friends, to
atone for sins, to obtain luck in gambling
and to express love and admiration. When
he has no one to talk with, and especially
no pig, he lights joss-stick, and sits con-
templating the smoke an hour at time.
When he wants wife he buys one. He
pays the money to her parents and goes
away with his bride as if shst were SO much
merchandise. Sometimes he is afraid to
become Benedict at once, and then he
hires wife or takes her on trial, paying so
much per month in advance to her mother.
1t is considered great disgrace to be sent
back home, so the trial-wife does her best to
be attractive and pleasing. She usually sue
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PLANO FREE.
Chance of q Lifetime

READ CAREFULLY OUR MIDSUMMER
OFFER.
During the months of June July and Au-
gust We make the unprecedented offer of
giving away every tenth piano sold to the
purchasers who comply with the following
rules:
First-Cut this advertisement out and
bring it with you.
Second-No commission will be allowed
on these sales.
Third-An sales must be actually closed
and S25 paid down, with agreement to pay
not less than SO per month.
Fourth-That purchasers agree to the fol-
lowing, viz: That the advertisers, on or be-
fore the 4th day of June, select an hour and
day in each of the three months and place
in the Allegheny Safe Deposit Company
vault, securely sealed, there to remain until
September /, 1891, on which date they will
be opened in our wareroom and bills of sale
purchase comes nearest to the hour and date
selected.
In making this offer we wish purchasers
to understand that this is not fake adver-
tisement, but is strictly bona fde and made
solely to draw the attention of the public to
the famous pianos we sell and the easy terms
on which we sell them, and we pledge our
selves that wherever it can be shown that
under like conditions we have not sold our
pianos at as low price as any other dealer
in either city, we viii present purchaser
with piano.
We sell the great Ahlstrom, Kreoger &
Son, Kurtzman & Co. and Mathusek & Son
pianos at prices ranging from $3.50 to $500,
and on payments of $25 down and SO per
month. ECHoLs, MCMURRAY & Co.,
123 Sandusky street, Allegheny City.
Telephone building. wsu
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Jim7" To save his tympanum az well as
his hide, the hog sets up hideous soueal
wherever he may be, starts into gallop
and stops neither squeal nor gallon until he
reaches the family board.
What the Prodigsl Gets for Supper.
The proper fuss Is made over the returned
prodigal, who receives two gallons of soup,
enriched with boiled rice, potatoes. cabbage.
ancient herrings, pieces of worn-out leather,
dog-gnawed bones, bamboo shoots. bay
leaves and other incomprehensible inpredi-
ents. After the meal he PLAYS with the
children, allowing them to SIT on his back,
pull his tail and bite his ears until his food
Is digested. He then repeats the experience
of the morning until nightfalL At dusk he
looks around the premises for straw delica-
oies. drives out any dog that NAV he lurk-
ing about, and after rubbing his muddy ribs
against the legs Of everyone he can reach as
a goodnight salutation, he turns in to enioy
the rest which is known only by clear por-
cine conscience. The pig is the coolies
ideal creature. Even when he tries to draw
the sacred dragon, he merely sketches blue
pig with an unnatural huted tail
The chief mongolian amusement In this
district is carrying joss to sick man."
Whenever a celestial becomes seriously ill,
his relatives go to their favorite pagoda and
make the necessary financial arrangements
with the priests for the next day. The day
dawns and in the gray morning the monks
and coolies are as busy as bees in getting up
the ceremony in good style. At 10 O'Clock
the procession starts.
Taking a joss to a Sick Man.
1t begins with band of music consisting
of drum, tom-tom, a gong, cymbal and
four reed instruments which would make a
Scotch bagpipe turn thistle-green with
envy. Then comes crowd of relatives and
friends in full dress, red, blue, green, yell
low and purple gowns. Next follows the
priest in full raiment, to accolytes and
some altar boys. Then comes roasted pig
gilded and painted red, in a palanquin
borne lon the shoulders of four brawny
coolies; roasted goat similarly decorated
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experienced 1t was forerunner of the ap.
preaching rainy season. Lowden and my
self took early refuge in our little hut ]
had learned to know him well during
my short stay and in view OF
my own bright thoughts of near
ing home and friends, felt great pity for
his dreary, solitary life Once or twice I
had broached the subject of his return with
me; but he always avoided it, always gently
and with many simple thanks. This last
night, as the tropical food came laundering
down, hushing for the while the ceaseless
roar of the ocean near, soaking the long
stretches of heated sands and rattling
against the dried leaves of our shaky roof,
I spoke again to him of that far-off land
where certainly there must be some still
alive who lived and cared for him.
"No, lad" he said, gently, mot now. I
am long dead to them and to this world.
Let me rest in peace"
The Truth About the Exile.
Many months afterward in New York I
delivered lecture on the subject Of nay re-
cent experiences in Great Madagascar. On
coming out from the hall felt myself
touched upon the shoulder, and turning
around was confronted by an elderly gentle
man with gray hair and whiskers. He
asked me to name time and place where
he could call upon me- did so and he
called promptly. 'T saw" he said, Sin one
of the stereopticon views at your lecture
the picture of q white man. Have you that
photograph" I had and I gave it to him.
He looked at 1t long and earnestly through
his glasses.
''1s this from life, sir9''
'It is"
"Has this man q slight limp in his gait7
Does he drawl out his words? Has he a
habit of walking up and down when ex-
cited?" and score of other inquiries, to all
of which answered in the affirmative, and
told him the story. 'tIt is the man, he ex-
claimed, 'it is the same man. Twenty-Five
years ago he came with his lies and forger-
les to our house In San Francisco. We ap-
pointed him first officer of one Of our finest
vessels He sailed for Sydney. He got the
crew in state of mutiny, and with his own
hands murdered the captain and threw his
body overheard He sold the ship and
cargo in Sydney on false orders from us. He
paid off the crew three times their wages
and then disappeared. He is the most in
fernal scoundrel that ever took the breath
of life"
I am not sure but that the ''tide" this time
had not better have drowned, than thrown
upon the beach of Madagascar, this tout
cas-" MASON W. SHUFELDT,
Lieutenant q. S. N.
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and carried; mountain of cakes and pastry
work. a pile of fruits and sweetmeats jar
OF holy oil and a second of sacred water ac-
company the pig. Next is an assistant
priest beating huge gong, preceding old
Joss himself, q golden image represents a
fat, well-fed Chinese gentleman of about 40
years of age, and last of all crowd of en-
thusiastic small boys
The procession marches leisurely to the
home Of the patient and there gives an open
air concert. The doors are opened and all
welcomed in. The statue is set up, prayers,
genufexions and food are offered to the fat
divinity, and then the food and drink are
divided among all present ALI the time the
music is roaring out diabolio discord. The
priest now produces bronze vase in which
there are 200 medical prescriptions and
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thoughts and erratic Robodo's Brother.
dispositions. Many others of no character
at all, and whose only desire is the vain one
to soothe an uneasy conscience in peaceful
solitude have met such men. The his
tory of their lives and adventures is almost
out of joint with the plain tale of modern
society. Both their existence and the
necessity for it is one of the results
Ofcivilization. Sometimes skirmishers only
far in advance of the main army-sometime0
stragglers, they live and die and are buried
in the narrow bride paths long before these
are trodden into the great highways of ad-
vancing change.
On the Island of Madagascar.
Once in my wanderings it was my fortune,
to meet, to live with and to converse with
Ench q man. 1t was where the blue waves
OF the great Mozambique Channel endlessly
break on the long sandy stretches az South
western Madagascar. Here for miles and
miles the scene is UNMARRIED. The shelving
yellow beach, broken only here and there by
little bays or by the outlets of mighty riv-
ers rushing to the sea. Always the din of
incessant surf and swish of retreating water;
always background against a cloudless sky
Of rising hills and dark clusters of tropical
trees growing into one vast wave of green
forest, rolling back to far interior.
1 had come down with a large party of
natives from the Malagasy Capital in North
Central country, across the land of the
Betsiles race, skirted the territory of the
dangerous Tauala people, to finally strike for
the west and the ocean. Days and days had
been occupied in this romantic Journey
Plunged in the twilight of dense forests
whose silence is to the traveller almost un-
earthly, we had struggled up the sides, over
and down again the lofty mountains ranges
that for 1000 miles sweep north and south
on the Western coast of the great African
island. Fording rushing muddy rivers,
making wide detours to avoid the thunder
ing cataracts, we toiled ever west Some
times in the very depths of woods we would
come out on an unexpected clearing to find
A village of Rude Huts,
but rarely any people. They had fed from
the bad nfetish" of the white man in their
country. Some women were braver, and
remained to stare at us in blank amazement
and silent wonder, or even offer fruit or lit
tie punches Of the orchilla weed in trade.
They were the Tauala-cruel, crafty and
dreaded by the traveller. STEPPED in the
blackest superstition, the ordeal of the
taugena poison cup, the sacrifice of the reti-
nue. of a chief at his death, the worship of
the bones Of animals, the rites of blood
brotherhood and all the beliefs of the lowest
order Of savage life was theirs. No wonder
they looked upon the white man as the ac-
cursed of God-the 'talbino," marked for
evil by his bleached complexion. Yet
among these people met white outcast.
We were glad when the rivers widened
slowly and rushed more ifnpetuously to-
ward the sea- Weary limbs got new vital
ity; the long column closed up and savage
songs from the Bara men who followed me
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on the ground and dug his assegai in the
sand, and glared at me.
Not an Over-supply OF Brains.
"She's Taula," said Lowden, "and I
brought her down from up country year
ago, Her father Is big chief up there and
never comes to the coast. She has been
fixing herself up to see you, you see. No,
I've never talked English to her nor to any
of them. suppose, in her mind, she only
associates you with the race that makes the
beads and oloth-that's about as far as her
brain goes"
spent three days with this strange man
and his surroundings, then gathered my
party together for start up the long beach
to the next trading station. The night be-
fore we started, we were visited by one of
the most terrific thunderstorms had ever
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A Much-Married Man.

eyes, I've been often back-far back In
the Tauala country. It's bad place, dam
gerous place, but Tn used to it. I'm in
blood brotherhood with most of the chiefs
and they don't molest me much, and won t
so long as the rum lasts, / reckon. Well yes,
I'm married into several of their families,
too-had to, you know; its the custom. Come
back to the house and I'll introduce you to
number six and the latest"
We crossed the hot sand again and into
the hut. "Rabodo," he called, and in a
moment the ricketty door of room on one
side opened and q woman wrapped from
chin to toe in coarse blanket stepped out
She was well-formed and tall, and not with
out native grace of motion. She had a
very black, but withal somewhat comely
and good-natured face Her hair was done
up in tight ball saturated with beef fat,
and her forehead was ornamented with white,
broad, parallel lines of clay. She had her
servant with hsr-a Sakalara who squatted
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See Display Advertisement
'elling about Kensington.. Page 10.
This Is the Time

of the year when we sell off every suit Of
each suit is marked plainly on the ticket
and samples are displayed in our show win
dows: Everybody should attend this great
clearing sale of mems and boys suits. Low
prices rule on every hand. Mems good
suits for S. and S.. Mems cashmere cheviot
and worsted suits made in sack and cutaway
style, only 81 and s.. Sale starts promptly
at o'clock Monday.
P. c. G. c., PITTsBURa CoMBINATIoN
CLOTHING COMPANY, corner Grant and
Diamond streets.
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shakes 1t vigorously to and fro until two OF
three prescriptions fall upon the floor.
From these he selects the one allotted by
providence. The prescription is made up.
More prayers and genufexions are iudulged
In, and then, amid the fearful thanks of In.
valid and friends, "Joss Is carried home"
Not Very Costly After All.
This ornate "faith cure" or "Christian
science" of the Orient Is not over costly.
The tariff Is as follows:
6exen .,l musicians ;....'''.'.. "
Food and drinks (market rates) 90
Holy oil and sacred water. 15
Sixteen coolte carriers. ers.............,.o 80
Total cost. st...................... 81 10
Enough medicine is given to last month
and the event is as memorable as gilt
edged wake in Killarney or camp meeting
in New England. The patient, moreover,
nearly always gets well. Of course the
priest is good herbalist and a fair ply
sician according to mongolian standards. I
was discussing the ceremony with my ply
sician, distinguished surgeon of long e1-
perience in the East, who has been treating
me for neuralgia pains several months with
little or no success. He listened, and, puff
ing one of my best Havanas, said slowly to
the circle present:
Merits and Dement'S of the joss.
'These exhibitions Of hethenish ignorance
are very pitiful, but they serve to show the
vast superiority of European science. By
the way, my dear sir, none of the various
medicines 1 have tried on you seem to have
done any good. think we will make q
bold departure tomorrow and try new
line of treatment.
looked at him q moment, and calmly
asked, "Why not bring Joss 9''
= Nor are the functions of joss confined to
the sick room. He is taken in all pomp
and ceremony to death beds, weddings,
birthday anniversaries and what correspond
to our christenings. Let it be added in
justice to the hard-working priests, who try
to minister spiritual consolation in their
own queer way, that they go with equal
grace to the rich and the poor and that
times innumerable they visit the pauper
coolie without fee or reward. Though
ludicrous to American eyes, their ministra-
tion does good and brings happiness to un-
numbered millions.
WILLIAM E. s. FALEs.
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Ohio PYLE, Pa,

The B. & o. R. r. will sell excursion
tickets to Ohio Pyle every Sunday during
the summer at rate of 81 80 the round trip.
Train leaves depot at $40 A M.
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WILL call on you with samples Of furni-
ture covering and furnish estimates on work.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO Water street.
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e5o Floor OIL Cloths at 1so.

Elegant patterns, too. This is lower than
you buy 'em elsewhere, but not lower, pro-
portionately, than we offer you carpets In
ingram, brussels and velvets this week
j. H. KUNKEL B Bro,
1347-1349 Penn avenue,
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CARLSBAD SPRUDEL SALT

And dissolve teaspoonful of it in tumb-
lerful of water. 1t is the best natural ape
rient and alternative extant. Nothing is
'just as good" when you can get the genu-
Inc imported article.
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Free Train Wednesday, june 10,
To Kensington. See advt., page g.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

HoNTroN and Murano awnings at Ma
maux & Sons, 539 Penn avenue.
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Great Sale Of Lots
At Kensington, Wednesday, June 10.

UNKxcELLD for favor-Iron City
Brewery's Pilsner Beer. On tap in first
class bars
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YOU CANNOT GO

To Carlsbad, but you can have Carlsbad
brought to you. Procure bottle Of genu-
inc IMPORTED
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poles about his "fac-
tory," the rum he has
to sell, the beads he
has in store, the little
broken looking glass
es, the long neglected
books, all are evil
dences of his other and
more powerful parent
age to the daily cluster
Of primitive men and
women, who squat on
the hot sands of his
reservation and under
the shade of his trees.
In his mind and
til oug hts-in his
dreams and waking
reveries-some day he
will return.
But he never will.
He is the outcast Of
his race; the typical
castaway on the banks
of the river of his own
civilization. Count
less are the causes that
have led men to seek
personal exile. Many
are the recruits in
every social regiment.
Men, often of charac-
ter and idea, but en-
dowed with morbid
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VAIL AOe AOVN q SAcoS eAHAy
of adventures. Its ebb
leaves on the shores of
distant and unknown lands
the wrecks of many men.
Everywhere throug b o u t
the still wide and unex-
plored world, on the fringes
of African coasts, on the
distant islands Of til Q
Southern ocean, in vast
Borneo, ,inth philippines,
and on the countless geo.
graphical dots ofthe Indian
Sea, they live isolated lives
Forroffan hu anal nm =
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Rdbodo's SeTTa'st. friends, lost to the great
whirling world of modern society.
The story and the study of such lives, is
the study of the whole history of modern
colonial aggra ndizement. They are the fore
runners as well as the wrecks of a foreign
social system. Incited by legions of wealth
or ready conquest, by tabled stories of an
easy acquisition of power and property
amongst a race of
ALower Scale of intellectually
than themselves, they size the political
opportunity afforded by the decree of some
Continental Congress and follow the troop
ship that carries the advance guard as an
army of occupation. Their presence is at
first symbolized by a fungus growth of
rickety shanties, with glaring signs and
piles of broken bottles in neglected alley
run with weeds. After while the political
panorama changes, the troops are with
drawn, the military colony sinks back into
native neglect and inactivity, but the white
waif is left by the ebbing tide on the shores
of chance.
Little by little, from pillar to post. as the
last echo of the white "boom" is lost in the
forests of his outlandish home, he loses his
identity and slowly assimilates himself to
the manners and customs of the strange peo-
pie about him. Now and then. the flash of
some foreign sail on distant horizon, now
and then the visit of some daring mission
ary brings with him the breath of forgotten
civilization, but there is little else to beguile
him from an exile that is broken only by
the constant roar of ceaseless surf on the
long familiar beach or the moan of tropic
winds amid the pendant leaves of trees
that are ever green.
His Superiority Is Recognized.
Nevertheless, in himself he represents to
the crude minds about him dim power; the
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down coast by canoe to the French settle
ment at Tullear Bay, southwest from here,
and it goes to the Cape and London. Pur-
pie dye, you know, and valuable at home.
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KENsNeToNl KensingtonI Kensingtonl
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KENsNeToN-Large adv't, third page.
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Remarkable Life of a White Man
Among the DuSky Natives
of Madagascar.
HE HAD SIX BLACK WIVES,
Made a Comfortable Living by Trading
In Gaudy Beads, Tinsel and Very
Compromising Rum.
WOULDN'T RETURN TO CIVILIZATION.
One Of the Experiences Of Lieutenant shufeldt in
His Trips Around the World

WRITTEN FOB THE DIsPATCH-l
Almost everywhere from out the by-ways
and highways of our modern civilization the
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Buy a Lot at Kensington.

See large advt Page 10 to-day.