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ging Tor help. Already the lower half
Sof his bod was Wfithing Ia the form
OF huge snake, and as the elder
looked upon him, weeping and help
less to offer aid, the awful change
went on; even an lho lifted his
voice in Al great cry of8agony his arms
sank into his body his head hattenedl
and, the cry changing to a hiss, he
that had broken the tabu5 craWled into
the thicket.
8 Dreams often determine tabu. "a
chief dreamed he saw a buffalo come
up half way out Of the ground a and
Sstraig htway, being much impressed J, he
would not eat buffalo meat nor kill q
buffalo without apologi giving before
hand. Another dreamed Of a man
with an ear Of red corn. in his mouth
Forthwith red corn was on his good
wife's blacklist, and must not go into
her pot nor the ashes on the hearth.
The elk is tabu with some Indians, es-
pecially il they are subject to boils.
Persons who are i'll are tabu. They
may not see strangers, though they
may talk with them through 9 door
way, or possibly through the wall Of a
tent. .s5 455. III; HI sg
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fabus Of the CherOkeeS
Objects Which Are Ield Sacred and Vener1
ated by the Red Men,

war, must bow before her It is joy.
She lunches up her back, grasps the
earth with her feet. and purrs NJ and
purrs and purrs. <sa # 81 n
Besides bears and mothers in-laW
any old thing may be tabu snakes,
for instance but more often 1t is some
such small animal as a squirrel or a
small bird. Snakes are naturally tabu
unless they are. large enough to eat.
Cherokees tell Of two hunters
who sought long after game, and when
Wearied by hope long deferred shot a
squirrel. Squirrel was tabu to them
because they had rheumatism, and the
way a squirrel humps himself up when
he sits suggests rheumatism. There
fore such Indians should eschew his
flesh. One Of these two was over
hungry, however, and in spite of his
brothers warnings went on to pre-
pare a meal. I-% * 81 IA. 5
''You will be changed to snake,
and that is worse than the bunch back
Of rheumatism, if you eat squirrel.
You know how the medicine man
spoke" S.. t~F5$ ~ y.
"That is a conundrum," the young5r
replied. Fl - 1..1s
'All the old men Of the tribe say it
is true.' r.!s .e.. .s=,. =, ..@s
Eyes, but they are not as. hungry as
l am" @.~..s. -: - :" FIX
DO not eat until morning, them y
said the elder, hoping to steal the meat
while his brother slept and prevent Nis
doing evil.
But just then Whit of the roast
ing flesh blew toward the younger's
nostrils. He had too little strength to
resist longer, and would not listen to
his brother. He ate the squirrel and
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After tho sharpest winter. the sprilk
dismounts from the shoulder Of g
southern gale and puts its warm hand
upon the earth, and In Its palm there
comes the grass. and there come the
flowers, and God reads over the poetry
Of bird and brook ard bloom, and
pronounces it very good. What, my
friends, il every winter had not It's
SPRING, and every night its day, and
every gloom its glow, and every bitter
now its sweet hereafter? II you have
been on the sea, you know, as the
ship passes in the night, there is az
osphorescent track left behind tt;
and as the waters roll up they toss
with unimaginab1e splendor Well,
across this great ocean of human
trouble Jesus walks. Oh, that in the
phosp horescent track Of his feet We
might all follow and be illumined!
There was a gentleman in a rail car
who saw in that same car three pas
sengers of very different circum-
stances. The first was maniac. He
was carefully guarded by his attend,
ants; his mind, like ship dismasted,
was beating against dark, desolatea
coast, from which no help could come.
The train stopped, and the man was
taken out into the asylum, to waste
away, perhaps. through years Of
gloom. The second passenger was
euipflt. The outraged law has seized
on him. As the cars jolted, the chains
ratified. On his. face were crime, de-
pravity and despair The train halt
ed, and he was taken out to the Deni-
Tertiary, to which he had been con-
demned. There was the third passen-
ger, under far different circumstances.
She was q bride. Every hour was as
gay as a marriage bell Life gilt
tered and beckoned Her companion
was taking her to his fathers house.
The train halted. The old man was
there to welcome her to her new home,
and his white locks showed down upon
her as he sealed his word with a.
fathers kiss. Quickly we fly toward
eternity We will soon be there. Some
leave this life condemned culprits, and
they refuse a pardon. Oh, may it be
with US, that, leaving this fleeing life
for the next, we may find our Father
ready to greet us to our new home
with him forever! That will be a mar
rage banquet. Fathers welcome!
Fathers bosom! Fathers kiss!
Heaven! Heaven!
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Tonnage and Displacement.

Tonnage and Displacement.
AT the present time, when naval mat
ters are a. source of great interest to
the general public, one continually
hnds the terms displacement, and
tonnage improperly used, both III the
daily press and in common speech. The
confusion between the terms would not
occur If their meaning were UNDER
stood, says the Engineering News
displacement" refers to the ouantitv
OF liquid displaced by the Immersed
hull OF the ship and tonnage, to The
freight carrying capacity Of the shin
determined by certain rules Of meas
urement. The displacement OF : YES
sci is the entire weight Of the hui
with all its contents according to +he
well-known law Of hydrostatics thai .
floating body displaces a weight 81
fluid just equal to its own weight 1
ship sinks insthe water to such 4 1eva,
that the pressure Of the fluid displac I'd
exactly counterbalances the weight 81
the ship. n ". v n. 2.I##s
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, Tabus of the Cherokees was the sub
Ject OF an interesting discussion re-
Gently in the American Association for
The Advancement of Science. 's4s
Ii Cherokee must shoot a bear he
begs pardon first. That is etiquette
and soothing to Bruins spirit-at least
the Indians say so. They should know,
for Bruin has been a totem or tabu
among them for a hundred genera
tons. If he were a totem he would be
tabu, OF course, because totem is a
crest Or household god or guardian
spirit, and therefore sacred. If Bruin
is the ancestral spirit of tribe or a
clan, each member holds bears in pc
cullar generation. 1t is this venera-
ton that provokes the hunters apol-
ogy. Bruin is a stickler, and has no
patience whatever with those who neg
lect good manners. ~ ..s ~
In some cases Bruin is not a totem,
out is tabu from other reasons, and to
particular individuals only, irrespec-
tive Of clan. These individuals must
apologize before they let fly the arrow
or pull the trigger, but other hunters
need not stand on etiquette. Their re-
iatlons are much freer with the lord
OF the American forests. Not only do
they not apologize before killing him,
but they eat him afterward in the most
formal way, each man cutting off a
hunk and cooking it for himself in the
ashes or in pot with satisfaction
evident enough, but with generation, il
there is any, admirably concealed. No
matter how humbly he may apologize,
however, the man to whom bear is
tabu may not cut a hunk after the
killing. He may have been living on
parched corn for a week, and so have
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THE DUTCH SABBATH.

The Christian Strictly Trained to OBJ
In studying the changes which the
map of the wc"!d has undergone in the
course of the last 200 years, it must
often have seemed a puzzle why the
Netherlanders, with all their colonial
ENTERPRISE, could never hold their own
against their British and French ri
walls. "New Amsterdam" and the
names of the Hudson river, Harlem
and the Catskills still CONNER
their presence in eastern North Amer
lea. All Australia was once known
as New Holland. Netherland colo
nists settled southern Africa from the
cape to the valley Of the Zambesi; but,
with the exception of Java and rem
nant of their former share of Guiana,
all their transmarine possessions have
slipped out of their hands. The ma
tives of their colonies, as rule, pre-
ferred any other masters. Yet in some
points Mynheer cannot be called an
iIliberal biped. AS a traveller he is
open-handed, an indulgent skipper
bric-a-brac dealers. Dutch herOism in
defense of national independence twice
stood before the fire ordeal Of life
and death struggle against aggressors
of portentous power But visitors OF
Hclland-American settlements soon re-
aliZe the fact that the dogmatic con-
servatism Of that plucky race trans
cends anything lingering in Scotland
or Upper Canada. From Saturday mid
might till Monday morning Mynheer
Van Kerkens youngsters are kept un-
der strict surveillance to prevent the
possibility of their getting a minutes
fun indoors or outdoors, and United
States postoffice commissioners not
u 1r~o ago investigated the case Of an
old lady with a Friesland name and q
suburban postoffice who declined to
admit letter carriers at the end of a
week to obviate the obligation Of dis
tributing their mail the next forenoon
q similar state Of affairs prevails il
4 cosmos clitar Johannesburg. Six
d
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STORYETTES.

Canon MacColl tells an amusing
story. "a friend Of mine says the
canon, "once shared the box seat with
the driver Of the stage coach in York
shire, and, being lover of horses, ne
talked with the coachman about his
team, admiring one horse in particular.
.Ah,' said the coachman, but that 'oss
amt as good as he looks; he's a sci
entific oss.' "A scientific horse!' ex-
claimed my friend. What on earth do
you mean by that?' I means, replied
Jehu, "a 'oss as thinks he knows deal
more nor he does
A soldier who served in Cuba re-
lates that one night, after march, a
few Of the boys pitched their tents
close to the tent of an officer of an
other company. The boys were talk
ing quite loudly, as taps had not been
sounded. "Hush up out there!" shout
ed the officer, angrily. Who are you?"
asked one of the boys. "I'll show you
who am il I come out there!'' was
the answer The talking continued,
and out came the officer. His anger
was great, and he threatened to report
the men to their colonel, winding up
with, Don't you know enough to obey
an offcer?" Yes" replied one of the
boys, stand we should have obeyed you
if you had had shoulder-straps on
your voice.
When the lord mayor of Dublin pre-
sented to Charles Stuart Parnell from
the Irish people the Parnell tribute,
not less than s1S5,00 his lordship nat
urally expected to make speech. The
lord mayor having been announced,
says Barry O'Brien in his biography Of
the Irish leader, he bowed and began:
sssMr. Parnell--" 81 believe" said
Mr.. Parnell, you have got a check for
me- The lord mayor, somewhat sur
prised at this Interruption, said, Yes
and was about to recommence his
speech, when Parne11 broke in: rs it
made payable to order and crossed?"
The lord mayor again answered in the
affirmative and was resuming the dis
course, when Parnell took the check,
folded it neatly and put it in his waist
coat pocket. This ended the inter
view 3
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BURIED CITIES.

Many of us, no doubt, often wonder
how it is possible for the sites OF great
cities to be covered many feet deep
with heaps of debris and earth, so that
after two or three thousand years the
levels of the original streets can be
reached only by excavation.
The explanations vary with the To-
calities. The lower portions of Rome
have been filed up by the foundations
of the Tiber; the higher by the decay,
destruction or burning Of large build
ings. The ancient builders rarely took
pains to excayate deeply, even for a
large structure. When Nero rebuilt
Rome he simply leveled the debris and
erected new houses on the ruins of the
old.
X Earthquakes are responsible for
much of the destruction wrought
round the shores of the Mediterranean,
for there was a current superstition
that an earthquake came as a special
curse on place, and after one of
these visitations the locality was often
totally deserted. In places Of rich
soils earthworms bring to the surface
an Inch or two of ground every year.
while the winds, bearing clouds Of
dust, contribute their share to the
work Of burying the ruins OF de-
serted cities.
"a pawnbroker may be dissipated. but
he's always willing to take the pledge.
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teenth-century bylaws are enforced
without resources of appeal, and,
rather than run the risk of innova-
lions, the aldermen voted to disfran-
chise 10000 Uitlanders, who pay four
tlfths of the city taxes. Yet those
same tnativists. claim to represent the
only free portion of the Dark Cont
nent. @ =,
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an appetite the
size of the Mann
moth Cave, but all
he dare take is the
head and claws.
Nor should he be
over merry IN
feasting on these.
He must MUNICH
reverently a n d
carefully preserve
the bones in some
exalted place, such
as the shelf over
the hearthstone of
his shack, or above
all heads in the
peak of his tepee.
Mothers = in = law
are tabu, too. They
hold themselves
aloof from their
, sons-in-law who
do not venture to
look upon them. 1t
is only when a.
young warrior has
hillCu Ills uldu anu
secured his vic
TINS scalp weap-
ons that he ven
lures to her pres
ence with due hui
n1ility, presenting
to her the trophies
and making in
.quiries concerning
her health. She
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EncOurageme emit

He-I wonder what people will say
of my Poems hundred years from
now. ] suppose the smart critics W Ii
have to dissect them, as they do By
ron's and Wordsworth now. She
oh, don't borrow trouble on that score.
The critics a hundred years firm now
will have nothing unkind to say about
you. They'll not know that you ever
were.
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deigns some little conversation on
such occasions, and enjoys her
position hugely, for. it is the only
chance an Indian squaw has to
purr. In everything else she is the
drudge. But this brave young man,
her son-in-law, fresh from conquest in
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tive Polish and Russian. He speaks:
no English, however, so that American,
pupils must acquire a foreign language
before they can understand his criti-
cisms, and these, by the way, are often
difficult to comprehend, even at the
BEST 4; ~ slI=
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then lay down to sleep saying the med
icine man was dreamer. s.-sG
~ Turned Into a Snake. IS 49,
IN the middle Of the night the elder
brother awakened and heard the
younger groaning piteously and beg
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Relics of Revolutionary Per,oa.

4 E J, Hewitt Of New York civ
has bought eighteen links Of the His.
torical chain that was stretched across
the Hudson from West Point to Con.
stitution island in 1778. Each link
weighs 300 pounds and is three f,et
nine inches long. Mr.. Hewitt will dis; dis
play the links on the lawn OF hts
country seat near Greenwood Lake. II.
u. Cooper, Hewitt & Co. own the Iron
mine, near the Sterling mines, which
produced the ore that went into tn,
chain. The forge where the chain VA [
made is at Tuxed do. 55 The chain nevar
was passed by the British. Mr.. lew
lit bought the links from d Front
street, New York, curiosity dealer, aft.
## 'e negotiations extending four years.
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Say, Weary, ! amt seen YOU lookin.
so we'll fer a dog age. That yon
been q DIN Z \ 'Fillin 10 a.
S'R eadin, hese here Christmas me.
noos. H. Clevelan4 Plain Dezler. tsl.
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A pawnbroker may be dissipated. but
he's always willing to take the pledge.
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another stone, put it carefully into the
sling, swing it around your head. take
better aim, and the next time you will
strike the center. The first time a
mason rings his trowel upon the brick
he does not expect to put up a perfect
wall The first time carpenter sends
the plane over a board, or drives a bit
through a beam, he does not expect to
make perfect execution. The first time
a boy attempts a rhyme, he does not
expect to chime a Lalla Rookh,'' or
a Lady Of the Lake Do not be sur
prised if, in your first efforts at doing
good, you are not very largely success
full. Understand that usefulness is an
art, a science, a trade There was an
oculist performing very difficult OBJ
Grafton on the human eye. A young
doctor stood by and said: g How easily
you do that; It don't seem to cause YOU
any trouble at all. Ne 's ''All,'' said the old
oculist. ut is very easy now, but /
spoiled hatful Of eyes to learn that, 2
Be not surprised If 1t takes some prac-
tice before we can help men to moral
oversight, and bring them to a vision
OF the Cross. Left-handed men, to the
work Take the Gospel for a sling,
and faith and repentance for. the
smooth stone from the brook; Y take
sure 4 9. ain. God direct the weapon. and
great Goliaths will tumble before Won,
When Garibaldi was going out to
battle, he told his troops what he
wanted them to do, and after he had
described what he wanted them to d D.
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Z
ing among the graves Of our dead?
No! No! The people in Bengal bring
cages Of birds to the graves Of their
dead, and then they open the cages.
and the birds go singing heavenward.
So would bring to the graves of your
dead all bright thoughts and congratl
ulations. and bid them sing Of victory
and redemption. stamp on the bot
tom Of the grave, and it breaks
through into the light and the glory
of heaven. The ancients used to think
that the straits entering the Red Sea
were very dangerous places, and they
supposed that every ship that went
through those straits would be de-
stroyed, and they were in the habit
Of putting on weeds of mourning for
those who had gone on that voyage,
as though they We're actually dead Do
you know what they called those
straits? They called them the Gate
Of Tears. "# I stand at the gate OF
tears, through which many Of your
loved ones have gone, and want to
tell you that all are not shipwrecked
that have gone through those straits
into the great ocean stretching out be-
yond. The sound that comes from that
other shore on still nights when we
are wrapped in prayer makes me think
that the departed are not dead. We
are the dead-we who toll, we who
weep, we who sin we are the dead.
!! How my heart aches for human sor-
| row This sound of breaking hearts
| that 7 hear all about me! this last
look Of faces that will never brighten
| again! this last kiss Of lips that never
will speak again! this Widowhood and
orphanage! Oh. when will the day 81
sorrow be gone?
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

James ]. Jeffries. the heavyweight
pugilist, has arrived from Europe.
The steamship Lucania, from New
York for Europe, carried 40., 900 ounces
of silver.
Thirty.eight new cases of yellow
fever and five deaths is the record for
"a hours at Key West.
James Morton, general passenger
agent for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern railroad, is dead.
Oscar Gardiner, the "Omaha Kid"
wa defeated in a 25-round bout by
Jack Hamilton at the Broadway Ath.
letic club, New York.
The stock of gold coin in the New
York sub-treasury is now 1927, 000, 600.
This is said to be larger than any pre-.
vious holding of gold in 30 years.
Anad A. Advani, a millionaire indigo
merchant OF India. is engaged to marry
Miss Virginia Tyler Hudson, well
known in the United States Is q news
paper writer.
Lieutenant George G. Jennings has
been reappointed postmaster at Clark,
s. D. He was originally appointed I'M.
der the Cleveland administration and
last year volunteered and went to the
Philippines
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OHIO CAMPAIGN E
Roosevelt, Nash and Others Explais Nat.
ters Political to Bucke yss.

Roose vslt, Nash and Others Explaio Nat.
ssrs Political to Buck
AKRON, O.. Sept. 2 .-The Republi.
can state campaign was opened here
with one of the largest crowds known
In tbs history Of politics in Ohio. The
advance guard was swelled at an early
hour by strangers coming in on early
morning trains. &c that when the large
delegation from the cities arrived about
noon. the town was already we'll filled.
The special trains bearing the crowds
from Cleveland, Toledo. Columbus.
Youngstown and Canton added 20, 900
more. and it is thought there were
80, 600 visitors in Akron.
Judge Nash arrived from Columbus
At Z a. NJ. accompanied by Colonel
Charles Dick. Secretary Of State Kinney
and others.
Governor Roosevelt and his escort.
the Tippecanoe club of Cleveland, did
not arrive until after l2 o'clock. Az
immense crowd greeted them at the
station and the party was taken to the
Hotel Buchtel. From here, Judge
Nash, Governor Roosevelt. Senator
Hanna. Colonel Dick and other distin-
guished guests went to the Elks club
rooms where they ate dinner with the
newspaper men. This was an entirely
nonpartisan affair. Afterwards Judge
Nash and Governor Roosevelt received
the college delegations, of which there
were several large ones present.
The parade moved at 2 o'clock. l,
was in six divisions and in charge OF
Captain A. Wagner, as general mar
eEal.
The most conspicuous features were
the escorts of Governor Roosevelt and
Judge Nash. the one of veterans of the
Spanish.American wal and the ether OF
veterans of the Civil War. The speak
ing was held at Grace Park. within
whose confines 25. 0OC people were gath.
cred, only a small portion of whom
could get within range of the speakers
voices. Judge n. B. Tibbals. presided
President Ira Priest of Buchtel colleg,
offered prayer and the Columbu Glet
club of 100 voices sang. Judge Nasf
was the first speaker and was followed
by Governor Roosevelt.
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WORKED

Sub Torpedo Boat Holland Make
Good showing.
GREENPoRT, N. Y, Sept. 25.-The
submarine torpedo boat Holland made
a remarkable showing during her trial
in Little Peconet bay. The little diver
worked admirably, the boat getting
under water and out Of sight in a short
time. The trial consisted Of sending
the boat v e a mile course, when it
came to the surface with the torpedo
discharged from the tube.
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k~EARSARGE SPEEDY.

Will Easily Come Up to Limit Fixed b.
the Contract.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Naval off.
GERS who were on board the new battle.
ship kearsarge on her run from New.
port News to New York say she made
1871 knots IN hour with a screw revolu.
ton OF from 80 to 40. This, and the
further fact that she had a foul bottom,
satisfies the officials that the battleship
will make about 1925 knots an hour on
her trial trip next week, or a quarter
knot above the required speed. 1t is
said she is capable Of a greater speed
than this, but as there is no premium
for extra speed the engines will be
pushed only enough to give a safe mar.
gin above the contract requirement.
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AUSTRIAN CABINET OUT.

Crisis Caused by the Impossibllity Of
Terminating the Deadlock.
VIENNA. Sept. 25.-At a cabinet coun-
Gil the ministers resolved to resign in a
body. The premier and minister of the
interior, Count Thun Hohenstein, saw
the emperor at 10 o'clock and rendered
the resignation of the cabinet. The
crisis was caused by the impossibility
OF terminating the parliamentary dead.
lock.