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Something WAS wrong somewhere. II
was probably the gearing under the car
\ strong odor as IL from burning rubber
pcrmc;t,d lie ljluosr ere
The passengers looked nt one another
suspiciously ard turned up their noses \
man who sat near the stove looked at his
coat sleeve To make sure that he had not
caught FIRE
An old lady in the next seat said:
Dear me, wonder what wrong?
think | shall get out. =
Everybody had some remark to make
some theory 10 advance People who wore
ovcrshocs looked ut them to see whether
they were smoking or not, and the man
who SAT near the stOyc said:
"Rubbcr's burning somewhere; that :
sure
Then small hoy with IA wise look called
10 him:
say, mister, you better feel of yom
neck. 1t, purity red. =
After that the people were too busy
laughing to indulge in any further spccu-
lation-all except the man near the stove
He was mad. unless looks are dccciving.-
Cleveland Le der
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-02-11

The usual knot of peof L. that had gath
cred on the sidewalk To- look ON. as people
always do when horse falls down, saw
in this ease something that was new to ut
least some of them The horse, the Off
one of n pair hooked To- II truck, had gone
down on snow covered and slippery as
phalt pavement The driver cleared away
all the harness, looscd al, the fastcnings,
SO that the horse would have perfect free
dom of movement, and then did the one
thing that was new
He got from the truck n big piece Of
burlnp bagging and went back 10 the
horses head and prepared to place it un-
der the horses fcnciect He spread it un-
der the horses OFT forcfoof first. because
that was the one he came 20 first coming
from the truck, arranging it on the ground
close to the foot and then lifting the foot
and leg and pushing the hurlap under it,
Then he went around the horse head to
repeat the operation with the nigh foot,
and when he got all ready and had got
hold of the horses foot to lift it the horse
lifted his foot himself, while the driver
simply carried ii forward to its proper
place on the burlap. Then. with this good
secure hold for his feet. the horse got up
on the slippery pavement with no diff
Guilty whatever, and the driver hooked
him up again and drove on
Level headed driver Coed horsc.-New
York Sun
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-02-11

The Zandeh chiefs in the Sudan are
hereditary feudal aristocracy, and they
rule generally with an iron hand. and with
much Judgment and good sense They
were ignorant of all civilization and all
but naked till 1855. hut they know how to
rule Many are capable of discharging
high administrative duties with tact and
with advantage to the government. and
DIR. Junkcr instances Scmio and his broth
er and Rafai as examples. They are Of
pure blood and all are cousins in the
fourth or nearer degrees Their pedigrccs
go back To the time of James |. Semio is
in the eleventh generations; some are in
the thirteenth One hundred and seventy
seven are known by name and full pcdi-
grcc up To that origin. There were six
generations of chiefs ruling he united ma
tion-a time evidently Of war and con
qucst-aftcr which the chiefs pcdigrees
split.
They are ruling race of high caste,
soi.cihing absolutely unique in central
Africa for caste, self respect, trustworthi-
ness and ruling qualities. They are not
negroes. though copper colorcd, and the
un,luubtcd existence Of individuals with
blue eyes. red hair and an extraordinarily
faircomplcxion still awaitsa an explanation.
In time and prcsumable locality the first
name in this Iandch pedigree comes so
close To the of that EliZahcthan sailor
Andrew Battcl Of Essex, who lived for
years far up country In the upper Ogawai
that one wonders If he helped To make
this race. cc.-Fortnightly Review
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-02-11

We toiled on for life-bare life Then
imagine our amaZement when ON the
long surface of dune we perceived hu-
man footsteps imprinted in the sand I
Down we went ON our knees and ex-
amined them There was no doubt Of
it. They were the footprints of human
beings surely we could not be very far
of from the river now In an instant
we We're wide awake We followed up
the trail till we came TO the top of q
dune. where the sand was driven to-
gether in a hard. compact mass and
the footprints coud be more distinctly
made out kaslm dropped on his knees.
then cried iii IA scarcely audible voice.
They are our own footstepsr -
Through Asia. by sven Hedin
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QUEER MIST FREAKS.
Fog which Moved. With Perpen.
dicular Walls. Like nm Iceberg.


Scafaring men have often described
meeting with fog bank at sen the limits
IF which We're so clearly defined that the
forward part of their vessel would be in
bright sunlight. with the after portion en-
vrloped in dense fog That the phenome-
non Is not mis>tatci any of the many peo-
pie passing the brink II the decline lead
ing down Pacific avenue from the city
hall AT 10 o clock Saturday morning could
readily attest This had cleared so that the
shirs nj the elevators were plainly visible
suddenly ther,. came from the straits
bark of fog which instead of unfolding
and drifting over the surface of the bay,
canlc soiidly on This formation was kept
up until the fog struck the rise on Pacific
avenue leading 10 the wharf Then IL
broke. the mist drifting up In trailing
clouds The spectacle of this marching
wall Of fog, as clearly perpendicular rs the
side of IA building. with the suns rays
striking aga.nst il, was indeed grand
Several shipping men noticed II and fog
was made the subject Of conversation in
number of offices ON the water front
bringing forth the narrai ion of similar in
stances
One of these came from Captain Nc
Cabe. who said
The strangest combination for fog 10
take on that has come under my ohscrya-
tion occurred here on the sound some
months ago was travelling by steamer
from Port 1ownshend tn Seattle As we
rounded Admiralty head there loOmcd up
before us what ;ppcared To be "A waterlog-
gcd steamer From her bulwarll rails up
everything was perfectly visible The look.
out on the forccasilc head. the officer on
the bridge. the dcckhouse masts and
smokestack We're all as plain TO our sight
Us Is the Northern Pacific warehouse across
the railroad track from where we now sit
But below the bulwark line nothing
could he seen Of the vessel II might have
been some Puget sound Flying Dutchman
for all we knew. or possibly craft seeking
a bcnching point before sinking
1t was weird and for several minutes
dcCeiving The morning had opened so
thick that the fog had driven down so
close io the surface of the channel rs to
form II blanket for all but the lower part
of the vessel YES. so it was
We came near enough to hail and
wcr, infnriuct. that the steamer was doing
finely all well on board. and, beyond il
being tribe damp on the lower decks
through the fog failing to rise. everything
was lovely
II was "a strange sight. however to see
that steamer plowing on toward us with
every part invisible but its upper works
and with passengers and crew walking un-
conccrnolly about the decks.
How do you account for such freaks of
fog was asked
" II is simply some odd combination Of
air and elements taken by the weather,
just as the atmosphere along the water
front fought against the approach of the
fog Saturday morning last and only yield
ed hen the fog bank found its advantage
in the Pacific avenue incline "-Tacoma
Ledger
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-02-11

The following advertisement, published
In all of the magazines, of an education
by mail outfit in another city that pro-
fesses its ability To teach the languages by
correspondence may not have been in
tended to cmbody irony at the expense of
poor, old, senile Spain, but there is a
dreary humOr in the ad. all the same.
Here are the quotations for mail instruc-
tion in the languages: French, 81; Ger
man. /; Spanish, 30 cents.
We're tine quotation ON Spanish instruc-
tion 20 cents or 10 cents or any other ap-
proximate figure the sting contained in
the ad. would not be pcrccptible, but so
cents, the modern American symbol du
pave for all that is cheap and outclassed
and tawdry-the figure in such n connec-
ton Is almost pathetically significant
Washington Post.
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In spite of the ridiculc that has been
cast upon it. the absurd practice Of provid
ing costumes for canine pets prevails in
Paris In the windows of the dog tailurs
may he seen little astrak han ovcrcoais with
Innings OF pink or blue satin and collars OF
ermine or shccpslin . For travelling there
are lighter wrappers fastened round the
waist, if n dog has a waist, hy belts Of tan
ned leather. Cambria shirts with lace
frillings are quoted at Ii francs. and pat
ent leather shoes-whcrc is the French :
+. &. A.-complete the costume Every
well dressed dog has collar appropriate
to his breed \ Great Dane should wear
Mexican iguana skin lined with white mo.
rocco. For smaller animals fashion die
taicS awhile calfskin nocklet set with tur
qEoiscs while four footed fops appear in
orange velvet studded with precious stones
and hung round with lockcts London
Chronicle
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Here Is good story which has the ad
vantage of lA'!ng perfectly new-and true
At a smart afternoon at home" the other
day well known young author was in
trOduccd TO charming lady novelist of
hitherto unimipcachable propricty-I can
not mention her name for obvious reasons
declares the London sun
Settling themselves in n quiet corner of
the crowded room. they We're chatting to-
g,thcr and discussing Anglo American
politics when. IA sudden silence falling
upon the company. the lady in heartfelt
accents was heard TO exclaini, And the
more we know of one another the moro
dearly we must love one anothcri"
As can be imagined. all their eager cx-
plantations as To thccntirely political char
actcr of the remark fell upon deaf ears and
were powcrleSs To stop the laughter of the
hugely delighted audience
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Mrs. Moore and the Motor.

Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moorc's interest
in the late MIR. kecly and his motor. says
the Philadelphia Ledger, began about
1881. For long time she aided him
financially to prosecute his researches, but
about three years ago she suddenly with
drew her support. This it is said, was
largely due To a report made to her by two
gentlemen, well qualified TO express an
opinion, who, after visiting kcclys work
shop and seeing his experiments. declared
they saw nothing that could not be ex
planned by well known physical laws.
Among the distinguished people whom
Mrs. Moore numbered among her friends
abroad was Robert Browning and an un
founded rumor gained currency at one
time that she was engaged to marry the
great English poet.
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Lord Tcnny.on.- Love Letters.

Mrs Walker of 1ctford, lady of IS, has
been giving the llorncastle (England)
News some "reminiscences Of the late Brit
ish laureate She WAS in the service of Mr.
Sclwood when Alfred Tcnnyson paid court
to his daughter. but the suit ut first was
not approvt~i by the father of the young
lady Accordingly. Miss Sclwood took
Mrs Walker tthcn Miss Dixonl into her
confidence. and strategy had to bc rcsorted
to Miss Dison took missivcs sent by the
unfortunate lover Ia his ladylovc and hid
them under her bed from which hiding
place they were taken by the one to whom
they were sent Subsequently, Of course.
Tcnnysou married the young lady
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There are not many poets who can dis
pose Of So many OF the worlds goods MS
the Swiss poet. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer,
who recently died. Ii was known before
his death that lie was man in easy cir
cumstanccs; for some years he paid taxes
on l, l37, 900 frames, but last year the valu-
alton of his estate was raised to- |, 1870, coo
francs. on the ground that it must have
increased largely owing to his quiet and
retired life
The aged poet protested, however, and
the valuation was left at its old figure till
he died The official schedule, however,
shows that he possessed "a much greater
property than the asscssors' estimate I'm
der the Swiss law half the sum concealed
Is forfeited
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DREAD OF WITCHES.
A White Woman i'm Africa Writes
About the Natives.

A letter received hc-rthr other day from
q woman missionary u ing In Monrovia,
the capita of Liberia, gives some interest
ing news from tina. plrr ii the world. She
Is medical miSs'u airy, ard part of her
usefulness in Africn j. - care for the sick
among the natives. She writes: "The
diseases here are simple and not so com
plicated as they are in the United States,
and they are not Of the nervous kind.
There are always plenty Of sores. Every
little abrasion of the skin runs intoa "A sore,
eating the flesh u the bone and OCCASION
ally resulting in blood poison. The food
here is not hloodmakirg Rice and fish
are the main diet and fish is eaten when
too long out of the water. The natives
bathe once or twice II day. They and the
Libcrians, as "a general thing. are clcanly.
just now the grip Is IA prevailing COM
plaint.
This missionary IS not much impressed
with what the negroes from America have
done for the natives around them. She
says: "MOnrOvia, as YOU know, was set
tied by cx slaves from America, whom
their masters had set free. and this town
was named for President Monroe The
American negroes in turn treated the ma
tives Il. e. hcathcn) as though they were
their slaves In all these years they have
done nothing to speak of toward civilizing
the natives, So that within hearing of the
church bells there are several thousand
heathcn.
The following gives an idea of the busy
life "A medical missionary leads in that
part of Africa: Il have Is children in my
home whom | feed, clothe and teach 9th
ers come to the house to be taught. At 9
p. IN. take the boys TO the native town
and teach there. When at home they study
geography, arithmetic, oral grammar, and
l also teach them physiology TO get into
their heads some idea of the human body.
This Is most important, for now when they
are sick, they say some one has bcwitched
us, and If they die IL is because some one
compasses their death by witchcraft This
constant fear of witches Is terrible op-
preston. \ sick person is often taken
away at night to somc secluded place in
the hope To throw the witch OFF his track.
Down In Old Calabar IL is even worse
Twins and their mother are put to death.
The natives say, One child be a proper
child. No more fodder be- devil. So they
put both to death. The babies are thrust
into large mouthed jar. taken to the bush
and left IL lv dcvourcd by driver ants or
eaten by wild animals. The mother Is fas-
tened to bamboo sticks 50 that she may be
carried to the bush and abandoned. The
poles To which she is tied make 1t unncc-
essary to touch her, which would be IA ter
riblc crime, rs she has given birth to a
demon. One of the first things try to do
is TO diSlbuse the native mind Of the old
prevailing faith in witch power.
She goes on 10 say that She teaches only
English in her school. All her pupils are
very anxious Ia learn English. Her chill
dren are much interested in events in ths
United States and ran up the American
flag every time they heard OF "a victory over
the Spanish. New York sun
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On the Road TO Civilization.

Major Theodore Stcrnbcrg Of Ellsworth, h,
who is paymaster in the army of the
Philippines, has this To say in prophecy Of
an evolution which may be expected to
take place among the Manila fair sex: ~
saw "a native woman whose scanty skirt
barely came Ia the knee wearing gartcrs
no stockings. no shocs-only gartcrS
Now, that woman was Gn the road Ia civ
ilizcd dress. She will have to wear stock
ings II. order 10 dress up To those carriers,
and then shoes will have To come to pro
tect the stockings. and there you arc. /
notice that American skirts and shirt
waists are worn more and more KAN
sls City journal
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7-----777777--7------
A Ready Made Review.

"A firm of German booksellers, says
:he London Chronicle, sends us n little :
shilling book and. lest we have no critic
who is n savant of this matter, obliges us
with "a ready made review, from which we
extract the following: The little Book of
the Marine. \ handbook of all being re-
markablc Of the German Navy, with a
comparative description of the naval forces
of the other countries. ''f This book is
from very competent hands. and there
need no hesitation in pronouncing this
work the most authoritative that exists on
the subject. - The pricr is very moder-
ate, viewing the contents (355 pages and
numerous illustrationsl and the very nice
and solid cover; it is only Sh -
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+. W. Shepard recently told the North.
western Lui.herInan that the mill OF the
Hummer Lumber company at Chelsea,
with which ne il connected, will cut -,
600, 600 feet Of hcnlock during the com
ing season. also pin" and hard wood He
says the company recently sold four car
loads of hcnlock slabs, to be shipped to "A
paper and pulp mill in eastern Ohio.
'' \ funny thing happened up to our
mill ut Chels,al recently said Mr.. Shcp-
ard "Our mill foreman had been feed
ing hcn on hcinlock s;,wdust and meal
mixed. He gradually reduced the amount
of meal until finally he fed her nothing
but hcmlock sawdust. and she seemed 20
thrive on IT, As she wanted to set, no
gave her u dozen Of her own eggs, and She
Matched ont II wocdpcckers and one
chicken with ii wooden leg. tell you,
there is merit in hemlock, even in the
sawdusi
This is curious incident, but Mr..
Shepard is a former Stevens Pointer, and
whatever he says goes. - Stevens
Journal
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THAT naval officer thinks he knows IL
all, doesn't he:" asked the German en-
pcror.
His conduct certainly warrants the
suspicion, your majesty"
He's getting naughty and imagines
that he can have his own way whenever
and wherever he plc;scs.
at certainly looks that way e"
Well. don't want to hurt his feelings
personally. but we'd better do something
To hold down his ovcrbcaring pride. guess
I'll put him in charge of one of our war
ships and send him to Manila. = Wash
inpfon Star
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Con.emp, For Public Documents.

Representative Hepburn was noticed
yesterday putting n special delivery stamp
on an envelope containing public docu-
ment and bearing his frank This proceed
urc struck observers ~ queer I'm the face of
the fact that his congressman frank
should carry such mail without stamp Of
any kind
When asked for an explanation, the
Iowan said he had discovered that many
documents sent under his frank never
reached their destination On inquiry he
became satisfied they were stolen or thrown
away. and in sending documents of special
value he had adopted the plan of putting
ON special delivery stamps TO insure their
safe carriagc At the government docu-
mcnt room II is asserted that the loss of
after being intruStcd To the mails that IL
is accepted as fixed fact to be reckoned
with
The statement IL made by an official
that half the valuable publications sent
out would bc stolen IL precautions were
not taken Ia prevent il Many government
books are rars, and valuable. and when
sending these The BUREAU Of publication al
ways registers them Pub docs. " has
become u term Of rcproach Indicative of
worthlcssncss. and the national conscience
has acquired such peculiar twist thnt 1t
is considered NO sin To throw such publica-
tinus into w;istciaskcis 81. steal them out
right hci rc they reach the party address
cd Washington Cor Chicago Times
Herald
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"Are You an expansionist, Mr.. Scaddss"
asked young Mr.. Hunkcr. who felt bound
to talk to the old gentleman while he
waited for Miss Scadds TO descend to the
parlor.
"No; l am an antiexp8nsionist, re-
piled Mr.. Scadds. My faraily is quite as
large now Us l care to have it. .'-Detroit
Free Press.
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Lord Pcn2af"c d, the oldest English
judge, having been born in 1916. a year
only before sir Henry Hawkins whose
senior cn the judicial bench he is by no
fewer than Ii years. His lor,ishIp will be
best remembered rs Sir james Plaisted
Wilde. The pecrage was created In 1869,
and as thcrc is no issue 1t will become ex-
tinct a; his death
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-02-11

The Right Rev. DIR. Graves. bishop Of
Limerick, who has just celebrated his
eighty sixth year. is not only the oldest
bishop In the United Kingdom, but he Is
also one of the most scholarly and accom-
plished. DIR. Graves has achieved muck
success in antiquarian research and is one
Of the highest living authorities ON
Ogham writing
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Kfplimg 20 Jmlin MnrInNe.

Rudyard kiplinR sent as n Christmas
present to Julia Marlowe copy of this
verse in autograph on the fly leaf:
When skies arr gray instead Of blue,
With clouds that come 10 dishcarjen:
When things go wrong, they sometimes do,
In life's little kindergarten.
beg you, my child, don't weep and wall,
And don't, don't take 10 tippIing.
But cheer your soul with little tale
BY Nsighhor Rudyard Kipling
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The city clerk g: Lewiston. Me who
always demands the written consent of
Iarcnts before marrying minors. recently
received the following unique letter
Mr.. Click, that girl Of min she want To be
mary and done care Il darn Shr got Il feller
end they earn $40 week tween EN-. He
,ood feller. She all right. You will mary
hem for me. and he much al iigcd
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Wife-I found an egg in the coal bin this
morning That's u queer place for "a hen
to lay in.
Husband-.Iust the place, my dear; just
the place.
Wifc-Just the place:
Husband-Why, certainly II our hens
begin to lay in coal for us, we won't need
to mind how the ,rice gocs-Household
Words