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! tive localities they frequent, and have
a long list of victims to their account
before they are brought to book.


The natives of the French Congo
have strange ideas regarding the own
ership of children. In every case they
belong to the mothers family, the
father having no right to them what
ever, except to take care of them when
they are very small and nurse the
babies when the mother is busy. This
is quite a task when a man has a dozen
or more wives. AS 500 as the children
are three years old they go to live with
their grandmother or one of their
mothers sisters. The natives consider
the father unnecessary as 500 as the
children can live with their mothers
relatives. On one occasion a little girl
was drowned, and her father grieved
greatly for her. Some other man
laughed at him, saying, "She is your
wife's daughter; what are you crying
for? If it were your own child you
might cry" meaning that if his Sis
ter's child was killed he ought to care,
but not for his wv Still, we n
children on good terms with their faith
er, and visiting him sometimes. Moth
ers-in-law, too, receive remarkable
treatment. Before a marriage he
mother of the girl generally has a great
deal to say about her future son-in-
law. But as soon as all is settled and
the girl has gone to her husbands
home, the mother dare not look upon
her son-in-law. If she wants to visit
her daughter she sends word the day
before, and the husband disappears. Ii
by some chance they meet, the man
runs away and the m covers her
face. If they need to have any con-
versation m remains inside the house,
the other on the outside, the bamboo
walls separating them. nder these
circumstances there is not much inter-
fering by mothers-in-law. Lucky man,
for it would be rather hard with forty
wives and forty mothers-in-law to con-
tend with.
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1t Works Like a Charm.

Ladies, hats off, please. Ladies will
please take off their hats. In accord
ance with the city ordinance, and to
avoid Unnecessary trouble, ladies will
please remove their hats. Remove your
hats during. the performance. You can
check them with the maid, who is al
ways in attendance, and is careful and
experienced; II you can hold them in
your lap, and if you find that incon-
~venient, request n of the ushers to
have them checked for you. These are
specimen extracts from the programs
of the Chicago theaters since the anti
hat ordinance there went into effect.
They work like a charm.
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English Priests and the Beretta.

Ought Anglican priests to wear the
beretta? This, in the absence of great
er problems, is the momentous question
agitating the minds of a good many
churchmen just now. 1t is ~contended,
on the one hand, that the old English
square cap is the correct clerical head
G while on the other the beretta has
the advantage of sanction in the west
ern church, and, moreover, can be on
yeniently folded up and carried in the
pocket. Meanwhile, the controversy
RACES, and one popular divine has found
himself in somewhat of a dilemma over
it. Asked to preach at a village church,
he was informed on his arrival that
there was to be a procession from the
yestry through the ~churchyard to the
eastern door. 1T is raining heavily"
he pleaded, land l have to return to
| town tonight" The vicar was absent,
but the curate in charge of the service
asked: shall l get you a beretta?'
NO" was the prompt reply, but if you
have an old umbrella about the place
I shall be glad of it.'-London Tele-
graph.
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THE BOER is CLEVER.
Keen and Crafty in Business as in
Diplomacy.

Keen and Crafty in Business as in
Diplomacy.
Little attention is paid to this side of
the question, because there is a COM
plete misconception of the Boer char
acter, as of the character of President
Kruger, abroad in England, says the
Fortnightly Review. The supposed
Arcadian simplicity of the Transvaal
Beers is one of those popular miscor-
ceptions which are astonishing to those
of us who really know the Transvaal
and its people. They are, in truth,
as keen and crafty as men of business
as they are as d~iplomatists. AS long
ago as the time Of the annexation of
the Transvaal this was apparent
was, for instance, a matter of common
talk in the Transvaal that Hans Eras-
mus made a big fortune by buying I'D
the Transvaal greenbacks, valued at
half a crown at the time of the annex
alton, and selling them at a sovereign
when the British government redeemed
them, as it did, at their full value.
The operations of members of Presi-
dent Krueger's government in matters
of various kinds display the same not
altogether Arcadian knowledge O. the
value of money. But perhaps the best
proof of the real character of the Boer
is a brief survey of the way in which
England has come out of its dealings
with these innocent Arcadians. The
Beers were unable to cope with Soco-
cent and were in danger of aunihila-
ton at the hands of the formidable
Zulu army of Cetewayo. England at
the expense of much money and many
men delivered the Beers. Then the
Transvaal state was bankrupt Git had
but lis Cd in the treasury, and the
~greenback of the nominal value of 2es
was worth half a CROWN, when it was
taken over by England and when it was
given back ian abandonment of our re-
s~ponsibility to the English population)
our rule had raised the income 10
else, 900 a year.
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BRIC-A-B RAC.

A horseshoe nail of gold with a
3eweled head furnishes a popular scarf
pin.
A jeweled watch depending from a
bow of diamonds represents a pleasing
style.
Silver %candelabra in Louis XIV. de-
sign show a triangular base and futed
stems.
A novelty likely to please holiday
patrons is the silver flask which repre-
,sents a bicycle wheel in form and deco
ration.
Collars formed of graduated rows OF
pearls, and held in shape by diamond
slides. are in great request for even
ing wear.
Toilet sets out for the holiday trade
receive their decoration in colored en-
amels; others are mounted in gold
with jeweled de Torltion.
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OFFICE PLAYS DETECTIVE.
Reuniting Families as a Side Issue In
Its Business,

The pension Office, besides examin-
ing into pension claims and passing
on them, does an enormous mount OF
other business in the way of uniting
and reuniting families-we find hus7
bands for wives, wives for husbands,
parents for children and children for
parents, says the Washington Star.
Only recently a case came under my
observation which illustrates my mean
ing and It's a sample of a number of
others. An application was received.
from a lady who applied for a widows
pension. She gave the name of her
husband, his service, company and
regiment. In looking into the claim
it was found that the husband was
alive and drawing a pension through
the pension agency at Chicago. The
woman, who resides in Massachusetts,,
was so informed. Immediately came.
a reply from her asking the address.
of the man, which was furnished. A
correspondence ensued between them
that they were on the right track they
and when they were satisfied that
arranged a meeting. The man thought
that his wife had died and at the close
of the war entered the regular army.
and went west. The woman, not hear
ing from the man, became convinced.
that he had been killed or had died.
She was unofficially informed that he
had died in a hospital and supposed,
it was a fact. In the meantime she.
had married again. Her second hus-
band had died and had been dead over
ten years when she applied for a pen
sion. Another case | call to mind is
that of a soldier who originally lived
at Niagara Falls. He went in the army
and served under Sherman. At the
close of the war he settled in New
Orleans. He had positive information
that his wife had died, but he never
was able to get any information
as to what had become of his three
children, except that they had been
sent to an orphan asylum. He did no
know in what state the orphan asy-
lum was located. Neither did the chill
dren know whether their father was
dead or alive, though from what they
had been able to pick up in the way
of information from time to time they
had concluded he had passed to the
other side. 1t happened that the
daughter of the soldier not only grew
mp to be a beautiful woman but hat
married a wealthy man. She wrote
the war department to learn of thu
whereabouts of her fathers grave, Blu
there was 40 record of it. She theI
wrote to the pension Office for the ad
dress of a man she had heard serveC
with her father and who at one tim
lived at Niagara Falls. The ending
of it all was that the children founC
the father and the father found hi
children. There are hundreds of sucl
cases, though, of course, the humble
of them is becoming smaller as tim
passes.
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Here is an amusing instance OF Brit
ish class formality. The lady's maid
of Mrs. Benevolent was stricken down
with typhus fever and Mrs. Benevo-
lent, having a great liking for the
maid, declared she would nurse the
girl herself. This she did through a
long illness and after her complete
restoration to health the maid was
asked to resume her duties. Her an
swer was an expression of gratitude
for the kindness and care she had re-
ceived, concluding with the sorrowful
Regret that l shall not be able to re-
turn into your service, as l cannot en-
gage myself to one who is not a lady,
and, of course, no lady would have
nursed me and waited upon a servant
as you have done in my case."-San
Francisco Argonaut.
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HUXLEY AND RELIGION.
Was He Its Enemy or It's Greatest
Friend?

Was He Its Enemy or It's Greatest
Friend?
Huxley has come and gone. To-day
he is numbered among the enemies OF
the faith, but in a not-distant o-mor
row he may be named as one OF the
greatest of it's friends, says McClure's.
In the language of pure science and fol-
all time, he laid down a principle which
removes the greatest stumbling block
in the path of the eager seekers of this
and future time. This is, that the ap-
prehension of the higher truths of life
is within the reach of the aesthetic fac
ulties only; that the human reason is
not the door by which the truths of re-
ligion find entrance to the mind, n
that it is no evidence of the untruth OF
religion that the reason Ion cannot
receive it. This had been said before
nineteen hundred years before, but
Huxley's statement is the one for mod
ern skeptics' need. Science learned in
the late conflict to admit that, since
it's own depths are fathomless, it may
not reasonably expect that the great
mysteries of life and death shall be any
less SO. And science is to-day beginning
to bring to the aid of religion a help it
has never given before. Moral science,
using an infidel Napoleon who failed at
40 and a Gladstone eloquent at 80 as il
lustrations, is now presenting the prac-
teal theorem that lasting success in the
life of any man depends directly upon
moral strength. Social science is DEM
o~nstrating that that healthy state OF
public opinion which can alone con-
serve the vitality and progress of COM
munities and nations depends absolute
ly upon the united support of a major
ity of the citizens given to a moral code
which can have no existence except
upon a basis of religious faith. And
the physical and human sciences, which
are known to be converging to a period
of great and wonderful discovery, may
eventually present us with the physical
organization of thoughts, with the per-
manency of memory apart from the re-
cording body, and with the indefinite
endurance of post-mortem personality
these and other facts, which will GER
tainly smooth the way to the general
acceptance of religious c~onceptions
now difficult to the minds of many
men. And when all these have been
discovered, and all these have been
told, they will all be found to have
been clearly stated in simple words in
the peaceful land of Palestine, nine
teen hundred years ago.
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Mr.. Ruskin's Bible Lessons.

John Ruskin writes: How much 7
owe to M mother for having SO exer-
cised me in the Scriptures as to make
me grasp them, and, above all, taught
me to reverence them as tr~anscending
all thought, and adjoining all conduct!
This she effected, not by her own say
ings or personal authority, but simply
by compelling me to read the Book
thoroughly for myself. AS soon as l
was able to read with 1uency she be-
gan a course of Bible work with me,
which never ceased till l went to Ok
ford. She read alternate verses with
me, watching at first every intonation
of my voice and correcting the false
ones, till she made me understand the
verse. 1t might be beyond me alto
gether; that she did not care about, but
she made sure that as soon | got hold
of it at all, l should get hold of it by
the right end. In this way she began
with the first verse of Genesis, and
went straight through to the last verse
of the Apocalypse-hard names, num-
bers, Levitical law, and all-and began
again at Genesis the next day. If a
name was hard, the better the exercise
in pronunciation; if a chapter were
tiresome, the better the lesson in pa
tience; if distasteful, the better the
lesson in faith that there was some use
in it's being so outspoken. After our
chapters (from two to three a day, ac-
cording to their length, the first thing
after breakfast, and no Interruptions
from servant allowed-none from any
visitors, who either Joined in the read
ing or had to stay upstairs-and none
from any visitings or excursions, eX-
cept real traveling) l had to learn a few
verses by heart, or repeat, to make
sure that | had not lost something OF
what was already known; and with the
chapters above enumerated l had to
learn the whole body of the fine old
Scottish Paraphrases, which are good.
%melodious, and forceful verse, and tc
which, together with the Bible itself
| owe the first cultivation of my cal
in sound. 1t is strange, of all the
pieces of the Bible which my mother
thus taught me, that which cost me
most to learn, and which was, to m.
child's mind, chiefly repulsive-the On
Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm-ha'
now become of all the most precious tt
me in it's overlooking and glorious pas
sion of love for the law of God"
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1T DOR
Peculiar Invention Which Acts as a Mi
croscope in Detecting Smells.

Peculiar Invention Which Acts as a Nil
croscope in Detecting Smells.
Among the latest inventions, says
the st. Louis Republic, is a machine
which will take a liquid that has here
tofore been regarded as odorless and
distill the most delicate perfume. A
drop of perfumery or essence placed
on the receiver will, on applying the
nostril to the n~osepiece or opening,
produce an overpowering stencil that
would in a very short time if con-
tinued cause symptoms of suffocation.
The instrument can be utilized in near
ly every walk of life. To the grocer it
will prove invaluable in detecting adul-
Iteration of goods. The chemist, drug
gist and physician, of course, can find
ready use for it in their business, while
it has been suggested that bank paper
can be tinctured with a special odor
im~perceptible to the ordinary sense of
smell but which could readily be de-
tected by the s~centograph, thus great
ly l~essening the liability of banks to
fraudulent operators. 1t is also claimed
for the machine that it will become
popular in the homes of the wealthy,
for by the aid of it's mechanism the
atmosphere of a large mansion can be
kept constantly perme~ted with a most
delicate and choice perfume at a NOM
inal expense. For hospital and sick
rooms it's service will prove inestima-
Bile. The machine itself is a small af-
fair about twalye inches SOuare and
eight inches high. 1t is made of wood
and the opening where the nostrils are
applied is nickel-plated.
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Man-Eating Crocodiles of Sumatra.

C~rocodiIes or Sumatra.
In the Island of Sumatra when some
member of a tribe or village is killed
nv a crocodile the relatives of the vic
tim, helped by the other members Of
the community, turn out to avenge his
death. Their revenge is satisfied when
they believe they have destroyed the
crocodile that did the killing. To make
sure of the identity of this particular
crocodile is a less difficult thing than
might appear at first thought. Not in
frequently one of these saurians devel-
CD the same traits that characterize the
man-eating tiger or leopard, and
haunts the waters near a village and
places where men and women work
along the shore. In attaining his pur-
pose to seize and carry off and unfor-
tunate who incautiously ventures from
the safety of the land, he shows a
craftiness and skill in concealment
which is not commonly attributed to
reptilians. In several recent instan-
ces noted by a traveller where croco-
'diles known to be m~an-eaters were
killed and taken, they without excep-
tion were old c~rocodiles, immensely
large and unwieldy, or were apparent
ly incapacitated through age or all
ment from hustling successfully for a
living with their fellows. Like the old
tiger ~incapacitated for pursuing his
natural prey, they had turned to man
as the easiest victims. Some Of these
~nan-eating crocodiles get up a name
of terror for themselves in the respec-
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OF Berbreck have or had "Barbreck's
bone, a fiot piece of ivory not less EN-
cacious. And the Lee penny" now
possessed by Lockhart of Lee, is world
famous. The wner in 1850 was in
dicted by the synod of Glasgow for
witchcraft. Who has not heard of the
Luck of Edenhall," upon which The
fortune of the Musgraves depends? 1t
is a pretty ST linen of Saracenic
glass, perhaps brought home by a cru
sading Musgrave.
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a Temples.

There are in all Japan Buddhist tenn
pies to the number of $4,000 and
Buddhist priests to the number OF
and Buddhist priests to the number Of
100, 900. For every square mile there
are an average of three temples and
four priests, and for every $40 people
there is n temple and for every 400
people there is one priest. There is
contributed to these temples each year
for the support of the priests and the
maintenance of the temples about s12,-
900, 900. These figures apply to Budd-
hism alone and do not include any
items of Shintoism or other religions.
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case the coin is entirely bad. At some
time or other somebody gave me a
dollar that had about as much ring to
it as a piece of tin. l received it in
nocently and innocently tried to pass
it. / was caught up by a clever shop
keeper, who, fortunately, knew me.
""No good he remarked, as he
handed the coin back.
Il mumbled something indicative of
surprise and handed out a bill: I'll
just put this in my pocket and credit
it up to experience account, l said with
a laugh; it will always be a warning
to me, and the lesson is cheap enough,
I'm sure
so l always carried that bogus dol
lar in my left-hand trousers pocket.
"a year afterward l CHANGED to be
in Iowa, in the little town of o.. 1
remember I had excess baggage on a
trunk which 1 paid with a silver GER
t~ificate, receiving in exchange n sill
yer dollar and a two-dollar bill. When
ready to leave o. my hotel bill
amounted to three dollars. l rendered
the landlord the change received from
the baggage agent. He scrutinized the
dollar very severely-likewise myself.
Then he tossed away the tobacco he
was chewing and applied an infallible
test. He bit the coin. Realizing that
l might unintentionally have handed
out by pocket-piece, l felt for it. No
the dollar was still in my pocket.
Hod on0thnr n0Infarfoif hoan mnrlyp6
off upon me? l was nervous and |
guess l showed it, for the landlord be-
came suspicious.
isn't it good?' I asked.
Don't taste right. But l kin tell
in a mint Elevating his voice, he
turned towards a rear room. Tidy!
Tidy ANN Then he added, looking
at me: 'Thar's a gal that kin tell the
time O. day by cribbin' a clock-I've
seen her do it.
HE used the term 'cribbin'' advised
ly. Surely, if a horse could crib a
stall, his daughter could crib a dollar
or a clock, for hat matter. He did
not understand hat this might be a
bad habit in both.
"A toW-neaded, freckle-1aced girl
shortly entered the room.
WELL, paw, whut we calm me
fer?"
Fer to bite this dollar an see if
it's bad
For a moment the coin was lost to
sight in Tidy AIMS mouth.
"How is it, gal?
"'Gow-wow-lak-sugl,' replied Tidy
flake it out an mebbe we kin talk
better suggested her father.
"She did.
"'Bites bad she said, looking at me
severely.
"Then she whispered to her father
"I guess so, too replied her father
IN a tone loud enough for M to hewi
you 60, Tidy
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Tho Nest of an Orang-Outang.

The nest Of an o~rang-outang has
been placed in the Natural History
Museum at Berlin by Professor e. Sa-
lenka, who removed it himself from a
tree in Borneo. The nest, which was
situated thirty feet from the ground,
in the crotch of a tree forty-five feet
high and about one foot in diameter,
measures four and a half feet long, and
one to two and one-half feet wide by
seven inches high. 1t Is made of twen-
ty-fve branches, locked and twined to-
gether, and is large enough for a fully
grown orang to lie in it at full length,
though this monkey probably always
sleeps as it does in captivity, with legs
drawn up and arms crossed over his
body. The so-called nests of the Or
angs are not skillfully built huts or
closed shelter for the new born young,
but simply sleeping places, as many
careful observers of these monkeys in
Borneo have established.
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where's she going" | asked.
"'Never you mind he replied, edg-
ing around behind me and closing and
locking the door. L lowed when I
seen we that we vas bad. You wear
plaid pants an carry a ane That's a
tough combination an would convict
any mar in a intelligent community
like this hyer, O. bein' a counterfeiter,
or wuss.'
"Do you take me for a counterfeit
err" l asked Indignantly.
Didn't We try ter make me take
that ere dollar?' he demanded. I've
sent my gal fer the sheruff-an' thar
he is, now
1.-THE landlord opened the door and
in walked a nan in a SLOUGH hat.
"'Whut's wanted?' he growled.
"'Counterfeiter,' said the landlord,
shortly, waving his hand towards me.
"The case was then explained and
the dollar adduced as proof. l pro-
tested my innocence. The sheriff
seemed to be more intelligent than the
landlord, and he listened intently to
what l said.
"It's jest hyer, stranger he re-
piled, 'mebbe yer a counterfeiter an
mebbe not. If yer a counterfeiter, yer
ought ter hev some more bad dollars
bout We an I'll jest go through yer
clo'es an find out
THAT pocket-piece! I thought of it
in an instant and my skin turned to
goose flesh. The results of the sher-
IFS search were awaited by me with
fear and trembling. The bogus dollar
was quickly found.
"'Bite it, TIL said the landlord
handing the coin to the girl.
"She did bite it.
THAR she said, with a sigh, as SHIT
removed it from her mouth, that dol
lars all right. Lookee hyer-ye xii
see my teeth all round the aige!
$50 1 kin, gal, SO l kim
".Recson the chaps all right, paw,
she went on, apologetically, as sh'
looked at me. Don't rest i'm, MI
Sheruff-he didn't mean no harm
Reckon 'twere all a mistake. H,
don't know how ter bite, nohow. TAX
that last dollar an the bill, paw, an
let i'm go!'
(Which they did.
!. "Out Of curiosity, I banked the dol
!. lar that Tidy Ann pronounced a coun
terfeit, when l got back to the city. ]
went through all right. And I've ma