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Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
AN AFRICAN CHURCH.
Handsome Enough to Grace ANY
American City.
Reared by Native Artisans Under the Di-
rection of Scottish Missionary-Com-
ments of Those Who Have
Seen the Edifice.

Who would suppose that this hand
some church adorns a village in the
lake region of Central Africa, or that
it was built, from the making of the
bricks to the driving of the last nail,
by natives who, a few years ago, had
never seen white man in their lives?
Such is the case, however, and there
is many a town in England and Amer
lea that cannot show so fine church
edifce as this, which is the wonder
and admiration of all white men who
visit Blantyre, in the Nyassa high
lands. J. Scott Kettle, in his new
book on "The Partition of Africa"
says: ga church has quite recently
been erected in the heart of what is
still savage Africa; creditable and
even handsome church it is, with many
graceful points of architecture, an
apse, double-towered front, dome,
and variety of tasteful adornments.
1t might grace even London suburb.
1t stands on the Blantyre highlands,
consecrated by the name of Living
stone, near the banks Of the Shire river,
to the south of Lake Nyassa. 1t is a
region that for centuries has been
devastated by slave raiders and native
wars. This church, designed by a
Scotch missionary, was built entirely
by the natives with free labor. He
and his colleagues taught the natives
to make bricks, burn lime and hew
timber. All the materials were found
on the spot except glass, the internal
fittings, and some portion of the roof;
and they were put together, brick by
brick, by the natives, under white SUI
perintendence."
The church was completed on May
10, 1891. 1t is in the form of Latin
cross, with a short choir and an apse
hall circular in form. Its length is
100 feet, it is 80 feet wide, and from the
ground to the caves is IS feet high
Seven years ago the missionaries began
to teach the natives to make brick, and
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
COST OF BEING IN THE SWIM,

Occasionally 1t Involves Visit to the
Pawnshop-A Queer Case in Point.
To be in the swim in New York re-
quires from twenty-five thousand to
one hundred thousand dollars a wear.
Among the -four hundred" and people
adjacent to that charmed circle the
struggles to maintain a position
against the inroads of extravaganza
would be extremely pathetic if they
were but known. The nav of the
plebeians who supply the necessaries
is always open and it sometimes swal-
lows regulations as well as fortunes
Speaking of the subject to Press re-
porter, a Union League club man, who
is bachelor with large income, a
free liver and a wide circulator, re-
Gently unbent himself with a few anec-
dotes.
New York society in these days sad
ly needs ready money. When the
tradesman begins to shut down the
trouble commences. l remember a
year or SO ago a friend of mine called
upon a family acquaintance on Fifth
avenue. He was invited informally to
dine. He accepted, and it was the
most unfortunate thing he could have
done. The family were compelled to
send out for dinner, and 1 believe it
took all the ready money in the house.
Their butcher and grocer had simply
shut down on them, and they have
since gone into Involuntary retirement.
At the Patriarch balls mother and
daughter were the most handsomely
dressed women in the room. To make
long story short, Mrs. X. had pawned
magnificent diamond necklace in
order to get her gowns from the dress
maker. Some time after she redeemed
the necklace, and her jeweler sub
sequently discovered that the gems
had been replaced by paste stones. A
detective was placed on the case, but
the pawnbroker learned who his Gus
toners were and threatened exposure
if arrested. The family did not pros
ecute."
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07

in 1890 the foundations of the church
were laid. By this time other natives
had become skilled as carpenters, ma
sons and plasterers, and other blacks
made lumber from the fine timber
around Blantyre, using portable saw
mill.
This conspicuous achievement in Cen
trail Africa, wrought by trained native
craftsmen, is due to the genius of one
man, a Scottish missionary named
Scott, who is one of the most remarla-
BILE men that missionary societies have
ever sent to Africa. He has unfailing
tact in dealing with the natives. He is
able to inspire them with his zeal and
enthusiasm. Under his guidance these
natives work as though they love labor
and had been trained all their lives. to
industrious habits.
The wellknown explorer, j. Thorn
son, who rarely becomes enthusiastic
over anything, thus writes of Scott:
about Rev. D. c. Scott, the head of
the Blantyre mission, can only speak
in superlatives at the risk of appearing
to exaggerate. The least advertised of
missionaries, he yet stands head and
shoulders above every man know of
in the African mission field, whether
you consider his personal magnetism,
his breadth of view, his depth of cul-
ture or simply the work he has
achieved. The church he has planted
and built is, in its way, the most won
derful sight have seen in Africa"
When Archdeacon Naples, of the
universities missions, visited Blan-
tyre last year he wrote: "Mr. SCOTS
wonderful brick church is above all
price as an example of what the negro
can do, and it will endure as a monu-
ment worthy of his genius and skill.
The new mission buildings are built
around great square which is filed
with flower gardens through which
run shady walks. The buildings
around the beautifully laid out square,
with its homelike turf, its flower beds
and it's beautiful church at the end of
the garden, all form a picture which
surpasses anything that have seen in
Africa
Mr.. John Buchanan, planter near
Blantyre, writes: "There are only two
of us at Blantyre who saw what the
country was like before the mission
was established, and who can Judge of
the difference now and then. The DIFF
ference is great indeed, and one needs
to know the. whole history of the mis-
sion to comprehend the powerful infiu-
ences that have been at work there. :"
All through this region the natives
invariably greet the white man with a
pleasant Good day, sir" The labor
ers and craftsmen at Blantyre and the
surrounding mission stations are paid
for their work in cotton cloth. The
day school at Blantyre numbers two
hundred scholars. There is a boarding
school to which boys and girls have
been sent from a hundred miles
around. 1t costs the missionaries only
twenty cents week to board a pupil
and most of them earn their own liy-
ing by their work. Besides reading.
writing, geography and arithmetic, the
boys are taught trades and farm labor
and the girls learn to do cooking.
washing, ironing, sewing and so on.
At the laundry opened at the school
the girls last year earned about 5000,
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
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Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
Lost,

CTRAYED-strayeo from Boyles ranch, on
y the Arizona canal, eight head of horses,
four bronchos branded L on the left hip, and
four work horses branded T G on left hip;
amongst the latter is big grey about 16 hands
high. Any one returning same will be le
warded. w. L. GEORGE.
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
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OF 1000 deaths in Europe, sixteen
are by violence, in the United States
forty-one.
EVERY first-class London theater has
to take Tin round igures) $15O,0O0 a year
before it pays.
Two-THIRDs of the total number of
children under ten years of age in the
United Kingdom are insured in one
form or another.
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
Meat Market.

cries.
Arizona republican., 1893-10-07
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Arizona republican., 1893-10-07

A STRAY; came to my place about septem-
n Der l; brown horse, about 16 hands hig h,
heavy name and tail Owner can have same
by proving property and paying charges.
W. L. GEORGE.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06
Aperture.

There was set of eleven dice in each
compartment, the odd numbers predom-
mating in one side and the even ones in
the other, so that he could throw out
on the table the proper set to win the
largest of the wagers, as the players
placed their money on the odd or even
side of the table. He used this false box
only in the presence of the more mex
perienced or intoxicated and therefore
careless players, and he was extremely
skillful in the sleight of hand necessary
to secrete it quickly under his long white
robe.
Kulcan, however, even after he sus-
pected him of cheating, was unable to
detect him in the act, for he imagined
that he deftly changed the dice instead
of the box, and so when he reported to
Eric, after watching Chalpa awhile, he
confessed that he had been mistaken and
was unable to explain the operation.
The next day Eric informed Iklapel
that he required thousand taos of sill
yer and asked him to obtain it for him
from the subterranean treasury. The
old man readily consented, and request
ing Gilbert to accompany him led the
way to the room beneath the temple.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06

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CHAPTER VIII.
THE TOSS OF THE DICE

NASA~s
Chalpa's success in entangling Kulcan
in his snares was not wholly the result
of well laid scheme. It was largely
due circumstances. The young priests
suddenly developed taste for gambling
was simply the foundation upon which
Chalpa based his villainous plot, and he
succeeded beyond his expectations when
he induced Kulcan to wager his sister.
Chalpa did not love her; he was probac
bly, incapable of the pure passion. Re
wanted her merely because he felt that
she would strengthen his claim to the
vacant chair of Office
Many of the priests and wealthy citi-
zens frequented his rooms, which were
large and comfortable, and were rem
dered attractive by liberal dispensation
of aitsi. The game which was played
was but one Of many ancient forms Of
dice throwing. =
The players sat on the floor around a
square stone tablet and made swagers
upon the odd or even numbers on the
dice as. they fell out Of an oblong box
( upon sStHc LetUle. s. Lne ha1 %
round opening at each end, and was
balanced upon the apex of a prism shaped
piece of wood This permitted the
manipulation, Chalpa, to throw the dice
out of either end, she wished. Ths'dice
were small cubes of baked clay, num-
bered like modern dice, and the game
when played fairly was one of even
chances. But, as Gilbert suspected,
Chalpa did not play fairly, and his de-
vice, simple; almost clumsy one, would
have been easily detected in gambling
room in any civilized community.
4 When he wished to cheat he substi-
tuted for the box another, with parti-
ton dividing it diagonally into two
parts, thus:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06
When he did he found to his surprise
that she was not nearly as shocked as he

When he did he found to his surprise
that she was not nearly as shocked as he
had expected. She was, in common
with all Atzlans, so used to tales of sud-
den risings and fallings in the fortunes
of gamesters that her brothers losses
seemed unworthy Of much anxiety, for
when his luck turned would he not win
it all back?
But when Eric, somewhat piqued at
her Indifference the passiveness of q
woman resting in her lovers arms
told her of Kulcan's last and most des-
perate wager the color fled from her
cheeks, leaving them ashen in the moon
light, and with terror in her eyes she
threw her arms wildly about his neck,
crying:
81 am lost! | am lostp'
Not for an instant did she discredit
the legality OF the transaction; its full
meaning and horror were plain to her,
and for moment she forgot her lovers
power, seeing only the awful, unayoida-
BILE fate before her-to be torn from his
arms, victim to the lust of deprayed
man-not even a wife-for the fatal
wager, so hastily made, gave her to him
as chattel.
A convulsiye shudder shook her frame,
and her clasp upon Eric's neck was Like
the clutch of drowning woman as she
clung to him in her fear. But only for
moment. Then, like Kulcan, she
turned to him for help and strength.
'You will save me, my darling, |
know; but, oh, was SO frightened that
forgot you for moment. Yes, | was
frightened, but now Pm not. It has
gone-all my terror-and my noble love
will keep his own unharmed."
And in moment more it really seemed
as if she had dismissed the matter from
her mind, for she said:
"Now take me home, dear, for it is
growing late, and my eyes are heavy
with Sleep"
And Eric did, and then lay awake un-
til far into the night trying to solve the
problem.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06
Ths treasure pa,tlt Of Atzlan.

The treasure TGLtt OF AtStGn.
He allowed Gilbert but moment to
look about him, and went down q steep
ly inclined and devious passage which,
from its many side openings, showed
that there was a labyrinth beneath the
CITY. and which ended in round cham
ber, the treasure vault of Atzlan. It
was room fifty feet wide, hewn out of
the solidrock Iklapel held thel light aloft,
and Eric saw that the floor was covered
with heaps Of gold ingots, Statues and
images, vases, bowls and rude orna-
ments, strange in form and Of inesti-
mable value, piled together In rich con-
sfraiai. q.
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1893.
1898.
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1893.
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1893.

HARpER's MAGAZINE for 1898 will
continue to maintain the unriyalled
standard of excellence which has char
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Among the notable features of the
year there will be new novels by a.
Conan Doyle, Constance Fenimore
Woolson, and William Black. Short
stories will be contributed by the most
popular writer's of the day, including
Mary E. Wilkins, Richard Harding
Davis, Margaret -Deland, Brander
Matthews, and many others. The Illus
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-28
TIE INVENTOR.

A New York hotel is said to use ma
chine that washes and dries 900 dishes ar
hour Two persons attend to it.
Cast iron melts at 3.479 degrees F., cop
per at 2,54S degrees gold at $500 degrees
and silver at 1888 degrees, lead at Gil de
grees and cast tin at 442 degrees.
s. r. Dawson of Des Moines, claim.
to have discovered the lost art Of making
what is known rs Damascus steel, TIN,
method being known only by the ancients
and which no other man of modern scienc.
has ever been able to duplicate.
Mr.. Frank H. Bowen Of Springfield
Mass, has recently patented machine TO;
typewritiDg music. Hitherto the lack q
some means for accurately and easily pro
ducing from one to few dozen copies of [,
piece of music has been increasingly felt.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-28

Delatole was dressing to dine out. AS
he struggled with collar button he
turned his head to listen to the lazy Tilt
of song coming from room across the
hall. His face wore an i'll humored
frown. 1t was very evident that the
song and the singer impressed him with
equal unpleasantness.
do stop that humming, for Gods
sake! he cried out at last. "It's enough
to drive one mad"
There was no reply, and few mo-
ments later Tom lounged across the hall
He was very different from the waver-
ing, tempted man who rushed from Vir-
ginia's presence that snowy night almost
two years before. His face had lost the
flashing earnestness that rose from an
ecstatic heart. 1t had taken on resolute
lines and an expression Of worldly sub
tlety. The cheeks were slightly hol-
lowed, the eyes placidly heavy, cold,
showing the haggard lines of dissipation.
WAS singing? Iswear didn't know
it" he said languidly.
Delatole surveyed him with cold, I'M
changing glance.
"Still in your blouse and slippers.
Won't you look in upon the theater par
ty at all?'
~ don't care hang about it."
aren't you afraid Mrs. Baudoine will
send out search warrant for your
"Let her send"
"Cool for prospective bridegroom"
prospective idiotr' And Tom set
tied himself very comfortably on his
back on low divan. "I'll never marry
Mrs. Baudoine. rs tho girl in the song
says, Something tells me So Couldn't
you, with your managerial tactics, help
me out of that scrape? You know she
did all the running-not 1"
Delatole drew on his gloves in silence.
He grew white, and when he came to
the foot of the divan and let his eyes
travel slowly over Toms supine length
rage only half controlled made his lips
tremble.
"In my opinion" he said slowly, with
emphasis, you'll be in fair way 10
need the material help of Mrs. Bau-
doine's money very SOON"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-28
"Lf 1t 1ucre 1ntne!m

IL IL acre mtne"
He sprang up and turned the KEY in
the door. Then he stood listening. The
action was guilty. almost before the
thought:
mo one will know if make it mine. /"
1t was foolish to tremble so, of course.
The cold drops ON his forehead were
foolish, too, and his fast beating heart
mo one will know" he said again,
and there was a note of defiant JOY in
the breathless cry as he picked up the
play.
A sound attracted his attention. It
was the faraway .throbbing of a street
band; the air, Il German battle march
1t was long since he had heard its heavy
rolling sweetness, with that flowing I'M
derbear Of sadness creeping in like a
knell for many of the multitude who
marched onward to it's swing. A flicker
of pain crossed his uneasy eyes. He
knew that march. Virginia had often
played it, and it pulsed through the
warm night with wake of memories.
Her face i'll its diurnal beauty rose be-
fore him; then a slim, white robed body
f1oated to join the face, an arm, hand,
with finger pointing at the play, crushed
in his grasp. Yes, her very voice was in
his ears.
"You will not-you will not steal it,
Tom! You could not fall as low as that!"
He dropped into chair, hiding his
face upon his clinched hands. A sud
den nostalgia weighed sickeningly upon
him.
"You will not steal it, Tom" rang the
voice in his soul.
But he looked up again after awhile.
The face was gone. The German march
had dwindled to an echo.
eyes, I WILL" lie said steadily, as if
defying an invisible mentor. "I'll take
it. I'll not be fool. It's q chance to
redeem myself, and cannot let it 90.
can't. The man who wrote it must be
dead-he is dead-and- there's no COPY
of it. can choke down Delatole's
sneers--I can pay my debts--I can start
afresh. 1t will be life, hope, bread to
my soul. I'm not going to let fancy
befool me. If it had fallen from heaven.
it could not have come more opportune-
ly. Conscience BAIL" =
But for all his bravado the violence of
the temptation made him stand petrified
peering into the shadowy corners. Every
creak in the silent house appalled, him as
he mentally weighed the chances for and
against detection. He passed his hand
across his trembling lips, his narrowed
eyes upon the locked door.
iii do it," he whispered.
All night he bent over the pages, copy
ing the play, here and there touching it
with wit that came to him then with
diabolical readiness His heart warmed
over it. 1t seemed to become his own