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of the largest stations OF the American
Baptist Missionary Union on the Congo.
Missionaries have found that trading is a
necessary part of their work. The Congo
Free State has issued silver currency
which has holes stamped through it, so
that the natives, who are not blessed
with pockets, can thread the coin on
strings and wear their money around
their necks. They, however, are not
taking. very kindly to the medium of
exchange. They cannot see that the
coins represent any value, and they de-
cline to receive them in exchange either
for labor or the products of their little
farms. The missionaries are therefore
compelled to use merchandise as money.
These goods are in considerable va
riety, including unbleached cotton cloth,
red blankets, .bandanna handkerchiefs,
secondhand clothing, old red coats from
the British army stores, cheap blue glass
beads, and many other articles. The
goods are sent mostly from Liverpool,
and are packed away in stores like that
shown in the picture. From Matadi, the
head of navigation on the lower Congo,
caravans of men take the goods to
various stations up the river.
Once every day the missionary opens
his store. In this picture, Mr.. G. e.
Ingham, one of the best known Of the
Congo missionaries, is represented as
standing in the door. It is the hour
when the store is open, and Mr.. Ingham
is exchanging goods for yams, fowls and
other articles of food. The missionaries
also use these goods to pay for native
labor in building their houses and for
other purposes.-New York World.
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THE San Francisco Examiner has
hit upon novel plan to interest the
young people Of the Pacific coast in
the Worlds Fair and also in their
school work. The Examiner proposes
to send twenty Of the brightest
school-children that can be found in
California to the Worlds Fair. and
bear all the expenses of the trip to
and from Chicago. The excursion
lists are to be selected by ballot and
by examination. The contest Is open
to children in the grammar grade IN
cities, and to those not over Is in the
country schools. The pupils in the
schools are to select by ballot one
pupil who shall enter the examina'
tion, which will be conducted by the
State Superintendent Of Education,
and the twenty are to be chosen by
examination. 1t, is a plan which
does credit not only to the enterprise
of the Examiner but also to its
patriotism and it's consideration for
the schools of the State, for it will
be an honor to the teacher as well as
to the pupil to have one chosen from
his or her school. 1t will also excite
an interest in the fair among the
school-children, and if the young
pcople are not well informed regard.
ing America and its history, it will
be because they are unable to get the
books that will give them the infor.
nation they seek.
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those waters forever.
To make this understood, writes Rene
Bache in the Boston Transcript, it is only
necessary to explain the astonishing SCI
entifc system Of slaughter adopted by the
pelagic (that is, open sea) sealers. Sup.
pose tina, there were single great herd of
one million valuable fur-bearing beasts
which travelled continually over kite
shaped track, many thousands of miles
in circuit. on the great plains OF the
West. Imagine that these animals de-
voted eight months in every year to
traversing this route, never varying from
it, so that their entire company was al
ways sure to be at given point on the
road at a certain date, though hating
together in an isolated spot for four
months annually, to breed and rear their
young. How long would it be before
the greedy hunters would have wiped
them all out. If the latter were per-
mitted to surround them at the breeding
place, single season would suffice for
their determination.
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helpless young are weaned in November
and leave the infant seals to starve by
myriads on the rocks. While not liter.
ally exterminating the species, the result
of this would be to destroy the sealing
industry forever. True, the pelagic
sealers would ruin their own business,
but they belong to class of people who
care only for to-day and do not look for
ward to the morrow.
The Indian hunters carried by the sail
ing vessels take an important part in the
chase. They are turned loose on days
wheu calm weather has succeeded a
storm. At such times the seals, which
have been so tossed about in the water
as to have had no sleep for q consider
able period, indulge in the luxury OF
sound maps on the ocean billows' lying
on their backs at the surface with only
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house of the murdered woman was
poisoned, and Lena Sarschine was killed
by poisoned instrument.
'"There were no other daggers taken
from the house, I suppose?" asked Nor
wood.
Not that know Of" replied the de-
tectiye, "but I am convinced that the
whole secret of this crime lies in the con-
versation between Mr.. Desmond ana
Lady Balscombe."
You do not say my wife is guilty OF
this murder?" said Sir Rupert, angrily.
Il say nothing" replied Dowker,
evasively, till see Lady Balscombe."
When the trio arrived at Brighton it
was growing late, so they went to the
Ship Hotel and had something to eat.
Finding out from the waiter that the Sea-
NEW was lying short distance from the
pier they went down, and hiring Q boat
rowed to the yacht. When they climbed
up on to the deck they we're accosted by
one of the officers, who wanted to know
their business.
we want to see Lord Calliston." said
Balscombe quietly.
I'm afraid that's impossible, replied
the officer, as he went up to town to-day
on business.
rs there not lady on board2" asked
Norwood.
1Yes-you mean
Never mind telling us her name, said
Balscombe shortly, feeling a horror at
hearing his wifes name mentioned. Can
We see herP"
Il will ask, answered the officer; and
he went downstairs to the cabin, from
which he soon reascended with the news
that they could go down.
Dowker went first, followed by Norwood
and Sir Rupert, all feeling in strange
state OF excitement at the prospect OF the
coming interview.
The cabin was small, but luxuriously
fitted-up in pale-blue silk, ana the walls
paneled in oak, with small medsllions
of seascapes around. A lamp hanging
from the ceiling shed soft, mellow light
over all, and on the table below was
work basket and some embroidery.
@She has been working, see, whls-
pered Balscombe with sneer, as they
entered into the cabin. No one was pres.
ent, but suddenly they heard the rustic
of dress, and curtain at the end of the
cabin parted. admitting woman-a tall.
fair-faced woman, with shining golden
hair.
At this sight, Norwood and Dowkel
turned to look on Sir Rupert, to watch
the effect of the sight of his wife on him.
when they saw he was pale as death and
had made step forward.
you wish to see me?" asked the lady,
advancing toward the group.
"You-you-" cried Sir Rupert in
choking voice. You are not Lady
Balscombe."
III" in surprise. Mol am not Lady
Balscombe."
Dowker and Norwood turned suddenly,
Who are you?"
LENA Sarschine!"
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AS A rule people are good enough
except in the little things Of life. So
many Of them lack the ability to be
agreeable; so many of them are bores
and have foolish notions that an
hours study might rid them of. A
man who never steals may be very
impolite and very tiresome. A man
who is never guilty of murder may be
unfair and have contemplate ways.
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their moses and t,healsn showing.

their noses and s'heels" showing. Thus
rocked in the cradle of the deep, they
peacefully repose, doubtless enjoying
pleasant dreams, while the savage in his
canoe approaches silently from the lee
ward. When within striking distance,
the hunter drives toggle-headed spear
into the unconscious animal, drags the
prey up to the boat, and knocks it OR
the head. This method of slaughter,
though not less indiscrlminate than that
adopted by the white men, has the ad-
vantage that no seal that is struck is lost.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated also gives
page of pictures, from which the two
double column cuts are taken, showing
the methods employed in catching the
seals on Kings Island, in Bering Sen.
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Sad Fate Of Suitan Nurad.

In Turkey tine ey-Sunau Mursd,
brother ef the present Callph, Ic under
restraint in ore of the !rast tairy-like
palaces that line the shores of the Bos-
phorous. He was deposed after reign
of only six months on the ground of in
sanity, and as his recovery would involve
his restoration tu the throne IN the place
of its present occupant, it is probable
that he will remain denented, at any
rate nominally so, until his Incarceration
is terminated by death. York
Tribune. ~
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food. They nurse their offspring at in.
tervals of from one to four days, and
travel in search of fish fifty to 300 miles
away from the islands. The fleet, enter
ing Bering Sea in July, would draw a
Gordon around the islands, practically
annihilate all the mothers before the
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an instantaneous survey of him and
dived. Usually, when the animal comes
UP close alongside the boat, its fright il
so great that it disappears too suddenly
for a shot; but, if it pops up at dis
tance of fifty or 100 yards, perhaps it
may pause two or three seconds and af-
ford an opportunity to the marksmen.
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CHAPTER XIV.

A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
Myles had no warmer supporter among
all his friends than Spencer Ellersby,
The young man appeared to be genu-
inely sorry that his evidence about meet
ing Desmond in st. James street should
be used against him.
Hang it," he said to Marion, as they
we're seated at their club, If had only
known how it would have been twisted
I'd not have said q word. but that detect
i've fellow got IL out of me somehow
brute Of q fellov-killed my dog, you
know, Pickles"
We'll, I hear they'll not be able to
prove the dagger in Desmonds possess
sion was the one used" said Marion,
good for poor old Myles-hey!'
Il think it's rubbish, the whole thing, !"
retorted Ellersby, hotly, what the deuce
should Myles kill this woman for? She
was nothing to him; more likely Calls
ton knows more about it.
While this interesting conversation was
going on, Sir Rupert, Dowker. and Nor
wood we're all in first class carriage on
their way to Brighton. AS Marion had
informed Ellersby, the Seamew had re-
turned to England the previous day, ana
now the trio were going down to see if
Lady Balscombe could give them any
information likely to solve the mystery
of the murder of Lena Sarschine.
On the way down Norwood told Dow ker
the discovery he had made about the dag
ger, at which the detective was much as
tonished.
IF, 80 you say" he remarked, the
lodging-house servant can prove the
broken dagger was in the house all the
time, it certainly cannot have been the
weapon used, AMI yet it corresponds IN
every particular with the other weapon3. !
took from Cleopatrs Villa. I can quite
understand Miss Sarschine taking it and
the manner in which it came into Des-
mond's possession. but if this was not
the weapon used. where is the weapon
that was?"
There are plenty of these dasgers,
suggested Norwood:
@Certainly-but the coincidence in this
case is that the dag or found in Mr.. Des-
monds rooms. which came from the
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DEEP. SEA SEALING.
HOW THIS INDUSTRY is CAR
RIED ON.
On the Track of the Seal Herds
Animals Murdered Wholesale
Rifles for White Men and
Spears for Indians.

F the temporary
agreement for pro-
tecting the seals of
Alaska, known as
the s'modus viven-
d." " were not re-
newed, the whole
piratical fleet of
sealers would enter
Bering Sea in July
and wipe out in
one season the en-
tire Pribylov herd,
destroyingthesea seal.
ing industry in
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PITH AND POINT.

Mans life Is constant trial and llht
neighbors are on the jury. ndianapoli1
Journal. ....... t.a
Progress is very well, but very lev
people rejoice over new wrinkle. =
Lowell Courier.
The unsuspecting schoolboy is some
times like municipal revenues--raised b.
tacks.--Lowell' Courier. ~
The politician who clamors for ga free
interchange of opinion" should attend
sewing-bee.-Columbus Post.
Jagson says be used to think wome1
were easily moved before he had talked
much with dlsymen.-Elmirs Gazette.
"Have you any room for poetry2'' she
asked timidly. "Yes," replied the edi-t
tor; ssthe lumber room. ."-Washingt0n
Star. '..-.
After young woman gets to be thirty
she stops calling attention to her birth-I
days by giving parties. -somervills|
Journal.
Humanity is not easily discouraged.
The man with the cracked voice alwsysl
;ncists upon leading the sineing.--Colum.|
bus Post.
ar ,.+ ~ vo,,r hoir :. ,ona !, ea;d
Brown to Burton. "Yes, replied Bur-
ton .sit,s lett for nsrts unknown. .n-Ka Kat0|
Fieid,a washington. s9,. y!
M.rcbant-"wa, there ANYBODY 81,
bsra looking for me while / was outl,s
Office Boy-ssNo, Sir. What have you
donef"-Yankee Blade. 4
1n,,,;-;no Fr;end.-aWhat's your idss.
., tha limit of beioht in bnild;nos9'sa
E,,;nent Architect .sThe length of tfaas
owners purse. Chicago Tins.
Me. sn;,ox-..Mv what a bonnc;nc.,
,.hn I ths. ;.,n Rahv's Rrotber--.tYes, p, I;
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. snbhs- heII - ~Roston Courier. ssi,.ssl
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A Store on the Congo.

This is picture of a sort of building
that is very common at all the missionary
stations along the Congo River. I: rep
resents the store at Banza Manteke, one
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The Useful Elephant.

The normal load for continuous travel
of fair sized elephant is eight hundred
pounds, so the animal is equal to eight
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hePiccadi]IyPuzzle.
THE STORY OF 4 TERRIBLE EPISODE
IN THE LIFE OF An ENGLISH
NOBLEMAN.
BY F. w. HUME.
CHAPTER xuI-Continued.


Il wish to know" said Dowker, If you
are aware that your wife called at Lord
Calliston's chambers on the night Of the
marder?"
who says so?" asked Balscombe.
harshly.
NO one," replied the detective, but
did she?"
Il cannot tell you," said Sir Rupert;
and he gave the same account OF his
movements on the night in question as
he had done to Norwood.
oh" said Dowker, strokine his chin;
$50 you we're in town after all on that
night?"
Sir Rupert looked uncomfortable under
the steady gaze Of the detective, and
blurted out, somewhat :confusedly, that
he was.
And you," questioned Dowker, turn
ing to Norwood, think 1t was Lady Balls
combe that Desmond SAW"
Yes; because he said he could not get
permission to speak except from the lady
ON board the Seamew, and the lady We
know is Sir Rupert's wife,"
But Lady Bslscombe did not leave
this house till after II o'clock, and as the
woman saw Mr.. Desmond before that
time it could not have possibly been
Lady Balscombe."
How do you know my wife did not
se4ys till after l2?" demanded Balls.
combe.
From the evidence of her maid, Anne
Lifford"
yes, she told me the same thing, in.
terposed May, and if that is 80,
we'll" she looked at the other three in
helpless confusion.
As Mr.. Desmond refuses to give ue
any informstion, said Dowker, the only
thing to be done is to wait and find out
the truth from Lady Balscombe herself.
." What could she know about this
woman's death?" asked Sir Rupert.
She might not know much, replied
Dowker, significantly, but enough tc
show in what way her sister met her
death"
Her sister!" echoed the others in sur.
prise.
yes, I have ascertained Lena Sar-
schine to have been the sister OF Lady
Balscombe."
Are you mad?" said the baronet, an.
erily. DO you know who my wife was?"
Il do. The daughter Of Captain
had two daughters, twins; one, Miss
&40lOaU A4Shb1oAit 3oa oVoy WAeN ~~~~
Calliston three years ago and became
Lena Ssrschine, the other, Miss Amelia
Dicksfall, married Sir Rupert Balls
combe."
The baronet sank into his seat looking
pale and haggard.
Ny God, he muttered, this is worse
and worse. I knew Amelia had twin
sister, but understood she was dead.
Dead as Helen Dicksfall, not as Lena
Sarschine.
At this moment q servant entered with
telegram which he handed to Sir Ru-
pert. Tearing it open the baronet
glanced hastily over it and then sprung
to his feet.
Now we will know the truth, " he said,
triumphantly.
What do you mean?" asked May,
trembling in every limb.
Simply this" said her guardian,
crushing up the telegram in his hand.
the Seamew is on her way to England" I"
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A Curious Phenomenon.

There are very nearly ten thousand
steamships in the world, and their sg-
greeate burden amounts to abou. ten
million tons.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23
Horticulture in Vermont.

We are too backward in our farming
in Vermont for the good of the state,
and all our best efforts are needed to
keep up with the procession. But we
are far in the advance agriculturally,
compared with our horticulture-fo
which few states are better fitted,
either by its soil, climate or locality.
There is not state in the Union where
less sound knowledge exists, or less in
terest is manifested in fruit culture,
than in ours; and yet from the grape
growing Champlain region to the coun-
try of the iron-clad fruits in Or
leans and Essex counties; from the
fine pear and plum growing Island
county to the excellent opportunities
for growing the small fruits and apples
in all the mountain section, there is yet
so little interest shown, and so little
consciousness of our resources in this
business in existence, that we have, as
yet, not even the germ of hope of
horticultural society-really one of the
strongest needs of the state.
Our landowners and soil.cultivators,
and even our village populations, need
both stimulation and instruction in the
arts of gardening and fruit-growing.
We want horticultural society, to
start with; and if the state would aid,
by the grant of few hundred dollars
annually, we think such a society could
be permanently established, and become
force hardly second to our prosperous
dairymen's association in building up
our declining, or at best stationary,
best markets for fruit both in America
and Europe-having fine shipping facil-
tiles to New York by Lake Champlain,
and to Europe by the way either of
Montreal or Portland. We might cas-
lily quadruple our fruit production with
profit, and should soon do it, with a
little encouragement and help to be gin
with.
When our State Experiment Station
was started, with good man at the
head of its horticultural departing nj h.,
we felt hope that something was
going to be done, and stood ready to do
our part in helping matters along. But
now comes the news from Burlin gton
that the horticultural department is
abolished! What madness is this?
Have they no sense at all, over, there at
that great center of all that is obstruct.
i've in educational work, for the gre at
bulk of the industrial people of our
state? Is there any rational exp,ana-
ton to be given of such suicidal action?
Farmersl can you not send up legis-
lature next fall that means business?
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constituted that the little roots can push
freely, it grows well. In our own
grounds, we enclose plant in four
sided frame, such as soap box without
bottom, and then fill in three or four
inches of sand, so that it gets in among
the lower branches. 1t seems to thrive
under such circumstance, even better
than we have seen it on its native
heath" 1t seems to us that in this
particular it is much like the May
flower, which grows best among rather
scattered low-growing trees-second
growth, or where the soil is thin and
sandy.
THE return of the country's live
stock, issued by the Department of
Agriculture, is at hand, and informs us
that the number of milch cows reported
is 16,416,351, against 16,0l9, sol the
year before. In cattle of all kinds the
total is 1907 500, against 80 ,S95 ,230 in
the report Immediately preceding.
This is the highest number of cattle
ever reported. In sheep a total of A.
93S, 1865 is reported, against 43, 43l ,136
year ago. These figures in sheep
have been exceeded only in the years
1882, 1888, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887.
In swine the number is placed at 54,-
3OS,019, against 50,925, 106 in the report
preceding, making the number of swine
larger than ever before. Of these
three kinds of live stock the total
is Isl ,403 ,974, the largest exhibit ever
made in this country.
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WE heard man say, recently, that
half the people of Vermont vote as the
lawyers tell them, one quarter of them
as the ministers tell them, and the rest
rarely vote at all. But where does the
I" influence of the press " come in, then?
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AND while we are on English sub
jects, we may refer to the beautiful
little plant (akin to our New England
May flower" Epigaea repenS), the
heath or heather, which is so common
in many parts of Britain, but has been
found so difficult to naturalze here.
Meehan'S Monthly says of it: "The
great enemy to it is the sun, when the
thermometer is very low. 1t would re-
ally grow near the North Pole, if only
light covering of leaves, snow, or
anything that would protect it from the
sun, be employed. 1t will not grow
in heavy clay, or in any soil where the
earth packs closely together, as the
small hair-like roots cannot penetrate
this stiff matrix, but wherever the soil
is sandy, gravely, or in any way so
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale by G. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
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IT is sweet to live, but OIL how
bitter--to be troubled with a cough,
day and night. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,
however, is sure remedy, twenty-five
cents.
81 CANNOT sing tonight My throat
is sore" " Of course you haven't
tried Salvation Oi?" "No." "Then
get it, and you will sing like the BIRDS"