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about week l broke my pipe, and from
that time my troubles seemed to thicken. 1t
Talned dozen times every day and night
and l always W ol1e up with shiver as the
cold showers drenched me to the skin.
To add to my discomfort, my "slop-chest'
shoes gave out completely and my feet were
soon cut and bleeding, and 1 began to be
alarmed lest my attempt to escape should
end seriously, for my matches were all gone
and was reduced to diet of peaches,
which, however, / was glad to get / hob
bled painfully along, determined to find a
settlers house, even if l was delivered to
the ship again bv the authorities But 1
soon found that L was hopelessly lost. The
country was nothing but succession of
hills and precipices, totally without roads
except near the villages, and pair of
wheels would be a curiosity, everything be-
ing transported on horseback.
One night as L was picking nv wav
through thick grove of fax and tea tree, 1
felt the ground give way under me, and
rolled down a steep bank more than 20 feet
in height and landed in a small creek nearly
stunned bv the fall and badly bruised. 1
managed to crawl out on the opposite bank,
and tainted from pain and exhaustion.
How long / remained in this state can
not say, but the sun was shining brightly
when l was aroused by vigorous thump
some wild animal struggled to my feet to
lind myself surrounded by dozen fierce
looking Maoris armed with long spears and
huge clubs. For moment thought had
encountered one of the savage clans of
Maoris whom the English have repeatedly
attempted to subdue without success, as
they retire to their retreats in the forests
where no European can follow. / was soon
undeceived, however, for one ferocious
looking chap hit me a stinging blow over
the shoulders and grunted out:
Ugh! Go ship?'
Then knew they were a party sent in
search Of Inc by the Captain. They had
taken care 10 remove my lance and knife
before arousing me, and 1 was entirely un-
armed, but the blow maddened me, and,
forgetting my swollen feet, 1 sprang upon
him, wrenched the spear from his hands,
and felled him to the ground with the
shaft.
fully expected to be butchered upon
the spot, and resolved to sell my life dearly,
but TO my surprise they fell back a respect
ful distance and took no notice of their
companions angry looks simply making
signs for me to 90 with them. Surrounding
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musical act on various Instruments, bass
solo. and funny man in a short sketch.
Our overture was received with enthu.
siastic applause, and as the performance
progressed we gained confidence and intro
duced several new features. When the
curtain fell on the last act we received a
perfect ovation. The floor was quickly
cleared of the seats and we were soon
dancing to the music of violin and piano.
Waiting was almost unknown, but our
accordion player struck up German waltz,
and we found apt pupils in several dashing
English girls, who made up in agility and
endurance whatever they may have lacked
in science. At length, at midnight, the
piano struck up ''Sir Roger de Coverly,"
which is nothing more or less than our
Virginia reel" and we concluded our
nights sport, receiving many assurances
that the event would never be forgotten.
On the following day we handed the
beneficiary e5, which represented the fruits
of our concert.
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AiooG ouSSSSSAuA Ah b1ptO CT OOTtStVA
wholesale operations in human flesh till
Johnston appeared But the interruption
of this profitable traffic enraged the chiefs,
and one of them has succeeded in treacher-
ously trapping part Of the force of CON-
missioner Johnston, and is now besieging
the latter in the little fort named after
him at the southern end of Lake Nyassa
Johnston has with him less than hundred
Sikhs, and it is doubtful if the expedition
which the British Government will surely
decide-if, indeed, it has not already de-
cided when this is read-to send to his re-
lief can get there in time to save the de-
voted little band from destruction.
1t seems singular to read of an English
man taking bodyguard of Sikhs into the
heart of Africa, for a generation ago Eng
land was waging bloody war with these
selfsame Indian warriors. But the Sikhs
have shown themselves loyal friends and
faithful servants of their conquerors, and
no foreign race has been found so fit to bat
tie with the climate and the other perils of
African exploration as these hardy soldiers
from the Punjab. The misfortune which
has come upon their Commissioner in
Nyassaland will add another embarrassment
to British progress in Africa, and nobody
can say that it may not lead to q consider
able war.
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AN INCORRIGIBLE PARROT.
1t Acquired a Language That Was Distasto-
full to Its Owner,

1t Acquired a Language That Was Distaste-
full to Its Owner.
Feathered World1
An old maiden lady, who strongly OBJ
iected to Followers" had as companion a
gray parrot with wonderful faculty for
picking up sentences. One day the old
lady had cause to severely reprimand one of
her maids for a breach of the follower"
ordinance. This so irritated the girl that,
as windup to the recital of her wrongs in
the hearing of her fellow servants and
Polly, who happened to be with them, she
exclaimed passionately, II wish the old
lady was dead" The parrot lost no time in
showing of its newly-acquired knowledge
when next taken into the drawing room, to.
the alarm of its elderly mistress, who super
stitiously thought it was a warning from
another world.
She at once consulted the vicar, who
kindly volunteered to allow his own parrot.
which could almost preach a short sermon,
sing psalms, ETC., to be kept for short time
with the impious one, in order to correct its
language. 10 this end they were kept to-
gether in small room for few days, when
the lady paid them visit in company with
her spiritual adviser. To their intense
horror, Immediately the door was opened,
the lady's parrot saluted them with the
ominous phrsse, II wish the old lady was
dead" the wears bird responding, with all
the solemnity of an old parish clerk, s'The
Lord hear our prayer"
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RELIGION Back ed by Rifl les.

Africa is slowly attaining civilization.
In Uganda, the most powerful of the East
African Equatorial States, they have
reached the point of religious war be-
tween Catholics and Protestants. n fact,
they are just where Europe was about the
sixteenth century. The climax of the feud
was reached recently in the deposition. of
King Mwanga by the triumphant Protest
ants, whom he had made the special objects
of his persecution, although it was to them
he owed his restoration to the throne in
1889 The cause of the outbreak which has
cost Mwanga his crown was the killing of
Protestant chief by the Catholic faction
with whom the King had allied himself.
The Catholics and the King would all have
been killed had not Captain Lugard, the
representative of the British East Africa
Company, interfered. 1t is hardly so much
q triumph of Protestant over Catholic, as of
Maxim rifle over Snyder rifle. for the
forces of Captain Lugard were armed with
the former wear on, and their arrival i'm
pressed the Protestant natives so much that
thev repressed their religious scruples and
allowed their Catholic brethren to live.
Uganda has been the scene of much
bloodshed in the last 20 years-a good deal
of it in the name of religion. The country
lies along the north and northwest sides of
Lake Victoria Nvanza, and contains popu-
lation of from 5000, 900 to 100000. Since
Speke and Grant discovered the country in
1860, traders and missionaries have repeat
edly established stations there, but the lat
ter especially have seldom remained long
alive, that is, King Mwanga himself being
responsible for the murder of many of them,
including Bishop Harrington, one of the
pohlest characters in A trica church history
1t seems probable that the English Govern
ment will find sufficient excuse in the con-
fusion following Mwanga's deposition to
establish more potential protectorate,
seeing that Captain Lugard, the
East Africa Company's agent, holds the
balance OF power between the contending
religious factions.
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in his initial handi- Osmond, the Bt"ycttst.
cap. Every one of the five seasons since
then has been filled with the triumphs of
Osmond's wheel. Last July on safety he
covered % miles, ,26O yards, in one hour,
and other notable achievements of his are
the lowering the mile record on an ordinary
bicycle to 2 minutes % As seconds
and to 2 minutes 16 seconds on
safety for the same distance. At present
the chief interest Americans have in Os-
mond is connected with his coming contest
with Zimmerman, the crack American
bicyclist, who is now getting acclimated in
England
The popularity of bicycling, or rather
wheeling, for tricycles are still unsupplanted
by the safety there in England, is attested
by the immense proportions of the cycle
business in that country. 1t is estimated
that 1000, 900 are now invested directly
in the manufacturing of cycles there; that
90, 900 hands are employed therein, and that
over $50 bicycles are turned out every day
during the busy season. Nobody has tried
to estimate how many cycles of one sort or
another are used in England, but the num-
ber must reach the millions. Ihe splendid
roads of the old country make it bicyclist's
paradise
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Archd,ehess Stepha1ie BY marriage ventur-
ing to appear in print. This expression OF
lofty and enlightened feeling is not likely
to hurt the sale of the book, and the poor Of
Vienna to whom the proceeds Of the royal
authoress' venture are devoted can honest
ly rejoice for once that they have wrong
headed old crank for ruler.
But the truth has probably not been told
about the GOODNESS existing between the
Emperor and his widowed daughter-in-law.
1t is more than little volume of romantic
description, illustrated by the renowned
painter of marines, A. Perko, that has
come between these august personages.
Perhaps the fact that Archduchess
Stephanie only mentions Rudolph once In
"Lacroma," although the island belonged
to her husband, and they spent some time
there together, may not have altogether
pleased the Emperor, but her sins of COM
mission are likely to be more e1asperating
in that quarter than any little one of omis-
sion such as this
The Arehduchess, being still under 30,
and a woman of lively Imagination and ro-
mantle tates, cannot reconcile herself to
mourning all the rest Of her life for hus-
band who cared so little for her that he died
for love of somebody else. She can afford
to forfeit her allowance from the Austrian
Government as Rudolph's widow, for she
still has her marriage portion-which her
father, the King of Belgium, made com
Portable sum. The man she has chosen IS
said to be Duke Miguel of Braganza,
brother of Maria Theresa, the wife OF the
heirto the Austrian crown, Archduke Karl
Ludwig Her engagement to this gentle
man is probably the real cause of the EN-
peror's displeasure, for, if it were the pub
fication of "Lacroma," why was not the
Emperor angry when she published during
her husbands life an account of a trip East
called '.An Oriental Journev?" or at the
heir.presumptive to the crown, as Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand is generally consid-
cred to be, when he published his life of
Marshall Radetzky, book that has gone
through two editions? or at the Archduchess
Marie Valerie, the Emperor's Youngest
daughter, for publishing poetry and having
her plays acted?
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| citement. Nobody thinks of rest, day or
| night, and everyone is on the alert, ready
to fly to the edge of the waves at the first
alarm from the watchers. Men defv the
roaring breakers, and. standing up to their
shoulders in the seething foam, catch wisps
| of seaweed in long nets and fling them
shoreward, where the women and children
gather from them the yellow jewels of the
| sea.
In this manner as much as S14, 900 worth
is known TO have been gathered in single
night. But in spite of the most rapid
work it is not always possible to bring all
the cast-Hp amber ashore; the large pieces,
especially, are apt to sink. They are gath
cred by means of long g-handled nets, called
''catchers," when a bright day and placid
sea enables the amber-fsher's sight to pene-
trate the limpid water Inasmuch as it is
often necessary to turn over huge rocks,
this work is very Iaborious; vet case is 4
known where $500 worth of amber repaid
four men for a summer days drudgery. Re-
Gently, however, this mode has been en-
tirely abandoned in favor of one more in
keeping with modern ingenuity and inven-
tions.
Diving in the Cold Water.
The company now having charge of the
entire industry recognized some 20 years ago
the fact that the largest pieces of amber
could not be easily moved by the waves on
account of their weight, and that, therefore,
a lucrative harvest could be gathered di-
rectly from the submerged portion
of the amber-bearing stratum. Ac-
cordiDgly divers were imported from
France, but the very first attempt, though
thoroughly satisfactory from commercial
point of view, demonstrated tn at French
men were not able to stand the rigid climate
of Eastern Prussia and Lithaunians were
substituted for them.
Naturally, the cleaning of the bottom of
the sea along the coast eventually exhausted
the accessible supply of the valuable resin
and from %, 400 pounds in 1881 the trOye
dropped to $500 pounds in 1888; so that
diving had to be discontinued and Will not
be resumed until the Government permits
submarine amber-diYing. The rapid action
of dynamite is then to take the place
of divers whose movements are awk-
wardly hampered by the necessarily stiff
and heavy rubber suit and brass helmet.
At the present time amber is mined from
that portion of the ''blue earth" stratum
which extends into terra firm. In places q
drift that slants downward to a depth of 120
feet gives access to tunnels running in every
direction. Out of 2,430, 900 cubic feet of
amber, valued at nearly $500, 900, last year
by mining.
How the mber Is Separated.
Every miner has strapped to him bag in
which he collects the large pieces of the val
liable commodity. The loosened dirt is car
ried away in small carts which are hoisted
to the surface on elevators and is then
dumped into a large bin from whence it is
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Mrs. 1Hontdgu. Darren coIuHess oI
her brows has impressed the public very
painfully. II cannot help tracing a strong
affinity between Mrs. Montagu's cold, bare,
bold, unclothed brows, unshadowed by
curl, and her hard, cold. unfeeling heart.
unsoftened and untouched by the faintest
ray of natural tenderness or womanly feel
ing" writes a sensitive female to an En-
glish paper, and upon this basis founds this
plea for the revival of the bang 81 have
heard that once, when some dreadful people
of the name of Manning were hanged for
murder, black satin went out of fashion be-
cause Mrs. Manning wore it. Now, could
notfringe come again very much into fashion
simply because Mrs. Montagu does not
wear it?"
On such queer pivots do fashions turn.
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carried by O stream of water into an ar
ranpement of sluices. These have perfor-
ated iron bottoms that permit the sand and
water to escape, retaining only the amber
and larger pebbles, which are easily sep
arated.
Before a miner is permitted to leave tho
premises he is subjected to rigorous search.
Experience has thoroughly justified this
regulation; otherwise, most scrupulously
honest men were known to have had
strangely perverted conceptions of right and
wrong as regards amber. 1t seems to be
considered as gift of Nature to which he
who finds it is entitled. At the beginning
of this century such thefts were punishable
by death.
The amber pieces are sorted into nearly
hundred classes, each one representing some
particular adaptation of the raw material.
Flat pieces are made into smokers utensils,
round pieces are for beads and jewelry, and
small fragments are made into amber var
nish. In certain countries, Austria, Bull
garia and Turkey for example, the amber
jewelry is greatly coveted by women on ac-
count of the superstition that it insures the
wearer good luck and a long enjoyment of
the qualities that make her attractive.
j. G. B
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A Summertime IdyIl.

'earson's Weekly.l
Side by side, within n hammock,
On II lovely summers night
Sat maiden and her lover
And above the moon shone bright
Darling. Sweet and low he whispered,
"Thee love above them all;
Nav we go through Ii Ie together
Undisturbed by snare or fall?"
While thus earnestly he pleaded,
Quite believing Whit he said.
Back too far the young man leaned.
Thump!-he landed on his head.
oh, ye gods! have mi aids no pity?
Loud Il mockin-s la.ugh did sound;
Once moro turned the tricky hammock,
And she sat upon the ground.
"Tis an i'll wind"-you all know that
Straightway he his suit renewed:
And with hands clasped tight together
Sat they on the grass bedewed
Thon, the fates were more propitiouS
Answered she; 81 love thee well;
But" she saw the Swinging hammock
"Please, don't ever, ever tell"
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CARVINGS OF TEA ROOTS
Ingenuity of the Chinese In Constructing
and Cutting Designs In Wood.

Ingenuity of tho Chinese In Constructing :
and Cutting Designs In Wood.
The Colector.l
The designs of carvings of tea roots are
endless. Learned men lecturing birds,
mandarins Standing on dragons, boys riding
COWS and other ridiculous quadrupeds, dane
ing beggars, men fighting each other are the
commonest groups, but of the more uncom-
mon there are thousands. One famous
artist in Foochow claims to have produced,
with the aid of his apprentices, over $4,000
different designs, and, judging from his
stock on hand, his claim seems reasonable
enough.
The tea-root carvings are seldom very
costly, running from so cents to 500. Nine
tenths bring less than 50 each. A handsome
st of a dozen can be purchased for $50,
which will decorate q drawing-room or hall
better that bric-a-brac many times more e1-
pensive. The figures are strong, durable
and is in no danger of fracture by Bridget
or All Sin. Outside of their aesthetic value
they are of interest in showing the wonder
full ingenuity and economy of our Chinese
cousins.
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ow of Crown Prince
Rudolph,fo writing
a book. A cable
gram from Vienna
says that the august
Francis Joseph
doesn't object to the
book, which is merely
a description of the
lovely island of La
croma in the Adriat-
ic, but to the idea of
a young woman con-
nected with the
House of Hapsburg
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CHAPTER x.
1 AN PROMOTED.

When the Captain arrived on board he
took no notice of me, but Immediately got
the ship under way and proceeded to sea.
After we were well clear of the land he
came into the cabin and stood regarding me
intently for few moments while 1 stood
shamefacedly awaiting my punishment.
Barker said he, at last, "you seem de-
termined to leave this ship. 1t is useless
to attempt it any more, as we never stop at
a port where there is a chance of our men es-
Gaping Why do you wish to go?"
The unexpected kindness of his tone COM
pletely unnamed me, and 1 could not
answer.
was truly pititul sight NY feet were
a sckening mass of cuts and bruises, and
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A Very Young Milkmaid.

The 4-year.old daughter of Charles Brandt,
dairyman near Lebanon, Pa, milks six
COWS every day. She is small for her age,
and it is more convenient for her to stand
up than to sit while milking. Only the
gentlest cows are allotted to her. She be-
gan the practice couple of weeks ago of
her own accord, asking permission to try
her hand alter having watched the milk
maids at their work.
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British bicyclist, who
has been knocking
records to smither-
eens the last three
or four seasons. The
accompanying C u t
is a capital portrait
of him. He made
his first bow to the
public at a Crystal
Palace race meeting,
and it is noteworthy
that he was q victor
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is likely to renew
its popularity in
England for a very
strange reason. 1t
seems that Mrs. Mon
tagu, the Irish lady
who is now in the
penitentiary for tor
turing her son to
death, combs her hair
right back from her
forehead, and the
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Johnston has been
engaged in protect
ing the British mis-
sionaries in that re-
gionl, and had lately
succeeded, it was
thought. in stopping
the slave traffic be-
tween the Arabs of
the coast and two
powe rful n att We
chiefs, who had been
poocf vuooaeefu1 in
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AN ANGRY EMPEROR.
Francis Joseph Makes Stephanie's s
Book a Vent for His Wrath.
HER BETROTHAL THE REAL CAUSE.
The Two Great Religions Now at War in
Equatorial Africa.
MRS. MoNTAGU TO REVIVE TIE BANG

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l
The Emperor of Austria is said to be
yexed with Archduchess Stephanie, the wild
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JEWELS OF THE SEA.
The Glorious Yellow Amber Gathered
From Along the Shore.
DIVERS GO DOWN TO SEEK FOR 1T.
Long Tunnels Reneath the Sea-Floor From
Which 1t Is Mined.
SAID TO BE TEARS FROM DEAD TREES


FOX DISPATCH-1
Tears from dead trees" did once Ger
man savant call the precious fossil resin of
which my lady's necklace and her liege
lords pipe tip is made. Still more poetic
than this is the thought of these transparent
golden tears surviving even the .petrifed
trunks of the sturdy monarchs of the forests
that shed them.
Deep down in the 'blue earth" along the
shores of and beneath the treacherous break
ers OF the Baltic Sea. are found in bits and
fragments of fossilIzed wood the traces of
vast forests that in ages long past had COW
cred nearly the entire coast line of what is
now known as East Prussia Large tracts
of land have sunk there below sea level,
and in time were covered with the rank sub
marine growths of seaweed and algae.
Whenever storm churns and lashes the
waves then large masses of this green tangle
are torn from the bottom and often carry
with them pieces of amber, the resin of fos-
sill pines, which being but slightly heavier
than salt water will float in the network of
weeds
The Yellow Jewels of the Sea.
Upon bringing the floating meadows, that
cover the sea after a propitious gale, ashore
at given points, there depends frequently
an enormous gain to the amber fisher, who
has rented certain portions of the shore
from the Crown. At those times the viii
laCeS on the seaboard are all astir with ex-
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An Indian DIgnitary's Coming Visit.

The Gaikwar of Baroda, or Guicowar, for
this hereditary title is spelt dozen differ
ent ways, is to absent himself from his
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In another corner of Africa, to the south
of Uganda, British Commissioner H. H.
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SPRING time is here. The bugs will soon
begin to crawl, Kill them all before they
multiply. Bugine will do it instantly. Is
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LocHINvAR AWNINGS at Mamaux & Sons,
539 Penn avenue. Tel. 1872 Thsu
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Wheelmen Who Have Ridden Into Fame.
Wheelmen everywhere have marveled at
the rapid progress of f. j. Osmond. the
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A Boom for the Bang.

The fashion of wearing bang, or, as our
cousins across the water call it, "a fringe, "