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NATIVE WOMEN CARRYING Woop TO THE STEAMER

fcrences in the interior races. These
seemed well built physically, and smart,
but cleanliness Was lacking.
On leaving here we had Il good run, be-
ing on a small stream, only three fathoms
at the mouth and seven rOds wide, with
threc=:rlitc flow per hour. The most of the
day was spent III crawling around islands
aud up rapids. until we We're glad 10 anchor
beside a hiG Sandijar Of some three or four
feet in hight, beside which was Il cat-bank
with fyc-knot water washing it. We cast
anchor on this sandEGr and male all tight
for the night. The boys worked in a near
( by forest at wood cutting until nearly 2
O'Clock a. M, when th"y bIilt big fires of
copel wood and slept sourdly until awak-
cned by steam blowing off.
BUYING \ CHILD.
BY the charts ] knew that We should
reach LuSambu in two days iaurc. But
such Strcam to crawl up with a load, and
steamer drawing .ahout two feet Of water
] just as the boys We're taking on the front
anchor, ] saw Il canoe come out Of n small
oTcnIg IN III" rIGit-:ia;ii bank. The pad
| Glcr was = Ncry" l;I'.", brOad-slIoIIidered
! nat!vs. ] told The boys 10 wait. rs per
! hap8 he had something 10 sell. | called
! him, teliirG him 10 hurry up, as we wanted
! 10 bc going. He seemed very indifferent,
bat paddled along TO the sandbar. and just
J before the bow of his canoe struck the sand
! bar he stepped back Ia raise tie low so
! that ii would run well up Oh The inclining
sand. AS soon rs this was done, lie laid
down his paddle and came to the front end
of the canoe and picked up, TO my sur
prise, small child. Carrying it Ey ore
arm he came near the steamer, holding il
up and repeating the native words, som
ba, sonba," which mean buy, buy. The
first thought that came into my mind WIS
TO thrash the old scoundrcl for tying to
sell a little child. BY this time he had
come within some II 10 Is feet of the
steamer. ] tried TO tell the native that lie
had no right 10 sell any human being. He
seemed very Indifferent, and repeated his
request u buy, and finally came up to the
side of the steamer and pitched the pitiabIe
| little objact on the bow of the steame, and
again repeated his demand, "somba."
| Many thoughts came into my mind.
| made short work and told him that the
white man did not deal in slaves, but as
he had given me the child / would give
him a present TO take home. So / gave
him two fa:homs Of bandana handker-
chief, handful Of India shells, knife,
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fork and spoon, and few leads, of the
quality, all costing me perhaps
not over 25 or 80 cents. ] told him that
thought he had a good present, and he
started off well pleased.
FROM 4 PARKWAY LAND.
The thought struck me, What is the
child's name ? | asked him three times
before he made an answer. Finally, with
an uplifted chin, he belched forth lsu.
In those languages the has the sound OF
e or ee, and the Il as 90. He repeated
the name several times, Isu. II astounded
me at first almost beyond belief. In all OF
those Bantu languages the name of Jesus
is pronounced lsu or 1soo. i really felt
astonished: for here 1 was in the darkest
part of all earth. and here TO find a mis-,
cradle, little, scrawny four or five years old
boy child, weighing only 2S pounds, called
by the name of Jesus. l really had n
task to find out how that name got way
down into that benighted region. For a
time let the matter rest, but later. by dlll-
gent inquiry and / learned that far back
beyond any known period this people had
left their homeland and Travelled along Il
big water for many months with the rising
sun to their left. and finally they had
become divided. Some came inland here,
and some had gone n nth, and no one
knew where others We're.
Again it was my pleasure to buy large
lot of ornamcnted pottery, also a large
number of vases and other finely carved
wooden cps, which by a study in the
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Queen Ycalie Of the Baboorna people, who
are CT Batekc races, was given her free
dom and left me with tears Of joy, assuring
me that if she could ever favor me or
Gods people she would do so.
A long time after this she sent wcld TO
me by an appointed delegation that she
wanted me 10 ;cll my people that she de-
sired Coils IcoI lie 10 come and live among
her people and teach them TO live as We 90.
] only saw her two or three times after
this. Each time she reminded me of when
she WAS my prisoner and expected 10 hang,
but said that she was saved by Gods
goodness.
After leaving Mooschie, we went some
two hours run 10 fine sandbar and
campcd for the night in most beautiful,
open country, dotted with many groves of
large fan-lcaf palms.
After this we he'd no special encounters
until some 10 DAYS later, when nearing the
mouth of the Sankuru. We were woodirg
in heavy satinwood forest, when TO our
great surprise we SAW, some SIX 10 eight
rods back in the dense forest. an armed
force Of painted demons, while near by 4
lot Of hippopotami were playing in shallow
water.
l really was scared, ana thought We
were "goners" sure. just as they came in
sight, Capt. Bia and several of his men
had stepped into a whaleboat TO go after
a white hippopotamus, which he had shot
from the steamer, and was some 60 rods
distant.
ADVENTURE WITH NATIVES.
I decided to show myself friendly and
perhaps gain the day, as we We're ''gonerS
unless did something. ! at once beck
oned TO the leader and told him TO send his
people after canoes and help 10 get that
hippopotamus and that my friend would
give them a quarter. He at once turned
and yelled this TO his followers, and really
l never saw gang disperse so quickly in
my life. just imagine a whole field of
bloodthirsty demons with their most fan
tastic war paint on and their bangs
primped and appetites gnawing for bite
of white man, and then for them TO be
turned as by magic to fleeing, friendly
mass Of dark humanity.
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Are Won Prepared: The suddc

untimely changes OF the present season ar"
not only trying on people of weak constitu-
tons, but also on people generally, and
many eases of La Grippe appear IN country
and city. We may therefore look with a
certainty forward 10 another general ;.tt2ck
OF this dreaded disease. According TO news
from the continent. thous& nds Of eases of La
Grippe are reported from France, where
entire cities are in its shacklcs. Italy is
invaded, and Great Britain, our nearest
Eoighbor. is suffering froin the scourge.
The question, Are You Prepared:" is
therefore a timely one. We will not go
into details as TO a general treatment in
case La Grippe should make its attack, put
will only mention that an ounce of preven-
ton is worth pound of cure, and that a full
percentage of both cure and prevention will
be found in IL bottle of the tristy Swiss
herb remedy, DR.. Peters Bloc VitaliZer.
Strengthen and fortify Your constitution by
its timely use. Take it to-day if you feel
in need OF an invigorator and cleanser, and
do not wait until You are down on your
sick bed, and you will save worry, sickness
and expense. =..s.....
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A RUN FOR CAMP.
How Eariheaied Little Stallion CO. Ahead
of Too Ccnfden. Rider.
EDIToR NATLoNAL. TRlRrNE: ] ten-

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | ten
der ComraGc Laugbcii, of the 9Th y. Y. u
unanimous vote Of thanks for his very
interesting contribution, emitted The
Dismal swamp" appearing in the issue Of
Feb. <, accompanied with the words of
Mo)rr's beautiful ppan. For, not only
was the article its@.I choice reading, bat,
touching me AS it did personally on two
points, It awakened shopping memories
and pleasant visions Of the past went troop
ing by One was Of a Brother believe !,
whose BEAUTIFUL sonS-vo;ce charmed all
who listened. and self singing as duet
that lcgcnd song. The music OF the song
is rs weird AMI beautiful as the poem
itself, and in the days Lang Syne" was
/, very popular. have never heard il sung
| by any other singer. and It's years until
| nov since saw the poem in print.
Another vision opens up on the banks
of the Dismal" at little hamlet called
Deep Creek, where Co. Il, Goth n. Y. Cav,
under the command of Capt. Fitzpatrick,
was on duty for several months during
1864, with Maj Preston and Lieut.. Cass
at headquarters. ......
| was on detail as clerk, with Dezrah
Hewitt as Orderly, and while acting as
such he was treated to ride that out
Gilpined John himself, and 1 thought
maybe the account thereof might prove
interesting to other comrades aside from
Co. F. boys.
Among the horses Of our company was
little chestnut stallion, noted for speed
and endurance, and also for doing very
much Is he pleased with each and every
trooper who straddled his back, his
principal feat being that of running away
without the consent of his rider. Dcz
was fine rider, and longcd to get hold of
| the little horse and finally succeeded. For
many days all things went merrily as the
wedding bells" till Dcz in his quaint way
remarked:
"a horse always knows when he is carry
| ing man OH his back, but has no use for
! boys"
One morning, after Dez had mounted
his steed and was about to start on patrol
along the banks OF the canal to another
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Getting Them:

Ct pays for THE NATIONAL
~k TRIBUNE one year and any
TWO of the volumes described
ON this page; 81 pays for two
years and any four of the vol
umcs; S. for three years and
any six volumes, and so on. A
good way of getting some or
all of these books before they
are withdrawn
Another good way is to raise
a club. You get TWO volumes
for each subscriber sent in.
Each subscriber, also, gets two
volumes. 1t is very easy to
raise a club.
Address
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British Museum in London proved that
the patterns We're that of MolOch and many
other ancient deities. ! observed no less
than seven like ancient Egyptian designs.
No mistakes could be made in the similar
ity, as the tigurative carvings and dress
of hair and curves of rams horns, and
the facial features all agreed.
| also find that they have very dim
idea of the Creator and his works. and
| do not doubt but if | could have spent
some months among them that | could
have secured some valuable history yet
unwritten.
CTo be continued.)
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The Rainiest Place in the World.

.Cherrapumji, in Assam, and northeast
of Calcutta, is perhaps the rainiest place on
earth. The mean annual rainfall is there
about 40 feet and in q single month about
II feet have been known to fall. Dur
ing the first five and half months of last
year about p feet were registered, and in a
single week over five feet.
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station occupied by Co. f Of our regiment,
Maj. Preston requested him to bring on mis-
return from Ballahack a Side-saddle.
The chestnut did not object TO the carry
ing OF the extra saddle on his afteTdeck,
and the trip homcTard went smooth as a
| pigeons flight till coming to spot where
| tile little horse usually took q drink, and
| attempted so to do. DcZ cOnclured that
lie would make him drink elscWere this
trip, and kept him from it. Chestnut did
not approve, though kept quietly along the
| towpath.
Arriving at the spot selected, Dezrah
called upon the horse todrink, but, instead,
he lit out for n run like a streak Of creased
lightning. About every other jump the
rear saddle would fly up and whack Dez
| on the back and head, with return stroke
! on the staIlion's rump, which caused him
TO let out an extra link of speed every lick.
! saw the outfit rs it passed headquarters.
Dez was well to the 'front.' hat off, feet out
OF stirrups. hair flying, but sticking to the
proposition like burr to dogs back, and
the stallion running at gait that would
cause Tom o. Shanter's old gray mare to
quit at the distance post. Dez realized
the fact that he and the horse could not
get inside the barn at the same minute, and
leave the rider in healthy condition, so
with might and main he pulled on one
rein and so sTerved the little demon that
the whole makeup went sideways against
the structure with Il force which made it
tremble. Dez concluded from that time on
that he would bar the carrying OF extra
saddles, and also allow the little chestnut
to take drink at any old place" he might
select. The horse passed through many
hands. but was always equal to the occasion
when he felt that Way. +. BUDD. Serg't,
Co. T.. 20th y. Y. Cav. Everett, Wash.
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Travel a Luxury.

The "Royal Limited" finest day train in
the world, leaving Washington B. & o.
Station, New Jersey Avenue & G. Street,
daily, } =. NJ, arrives New York L. NJ
Splendid dining and cafe car service.
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Withdrawn: 4:

All of these books will be
finally withdrawn as gifts
to subscribers on the 18TH of
June, 1000. We are COM
PEELED to this step by the
largely-increased cost of paper
and general publishing ex-
penses.
However, subscribers need
not deprive themselves of
these books, for they can
secure any or all of them by
either one or other Of the
methods suggested below, be-
fore they are withdrawn. We
are giving timely warning,
but the expiry date will soon
arrive. Better act at once.
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Nebraska Ladies of the C. A. P.

Mrs l.. j. Holcomb Loup City Neb.. sends an
interesting report of the work OF two Nebraska
Circles, Shiloh, 4, of Loup City. and the Minden
Circle. The former recently initiated five MEM
bers The Minden Circle has cleared over SGT
on a supper. Both Circles are in prosperous
condition
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Washing :oa-clevelard slearer via B. & O.

Quick service and superior accommoda-
tons daily on $50 p. VI. train, without
change, arriving Cleveland 1920 next
morning.
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Books Timely Notice:

The books described this page the most important
and valuable books published Their
historically and at the tme entertaining of
the Middle Ages In these Volumes Others described
the bearing and Of people while engaged the
greatest of modern times
These books substantially aractive1y bound in
1eatherete-a material that wears better than cloth
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SYNOPSIS.
The author joined one of the earlier eX-
peditions of the American Baptist Mission
Union to the Congo, and was placed IN
command of the Steamer Henry Reed.
The opening of the present chapter finds
him landed on the banks of the kasla Rlv-
er, a branch of the Congo, where his party.
has been attacked by. native tribe oil
which the head was Big Queen 1ealie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-07

Sales-regular call-12 o'clock m.-United States
lis @iooc SI at iI II fotonss Fire Insuresee
at -. Capital Traction. 20 at 97Is 10 at EN-. 20
g b. e 90 at at IS g at at % at a wa al
ton Gas: 20 at a3z, at 5s5s 3 at 81. % at 1915.
type. at 1917, 10 at 1861. 10 at 1854 10 At l9es,
at 1856 10 at 1885, 10 at l96, 10 at 1885, 10 at
IsSs Ia.toa aOnetype. Is at is. 10 at is 100
e. i3, loo at l2s4, 700 at l2as; American G-spho-
al I2i.. After call-Mergenthaler Linotype, 10 at
District Of Columbia Bonds.-so,y year Funding gold
Miscellaneous Bonds Metropolitan Railroad IS,
indebt., A. Ito bid. Metropolitan Raiiroad cert,
indebt;: B. no bid. Columbia liailFoad Gs 1904
asked. Washington Gas Company, ser. A, O.. l1s
BID. Washington Gas Company ser p Is. no
imp. IS, lib asked. United States Electric Light
cert. indebt 6s l1s asked; Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone con- SIS, 1o41. bid, lo!h asked
American Security and Trust IS, 100 BID Wash
ington Market Company imp. Os. ne bid. WASH
nston Market Company ssten io es' II, ~ bid; Ma,
Graphophone deb. 5s- 100 bid
bid. t 4eo ASKED Ssh Msropoifan SEQ BID csn,rs
1as bid. Farmers and Mechanics 300 bid Second,
G Car na ,o be- west End 1is Sa III l's asked a
Traders, LIS bid lbs asked. Lincoln, 10 bid. LIS
Safe Deposit and Trust compan!es.-National Safe
Deposit and Trust, 1870 bid, 1872 asked. Washington
curity and Trust, 1877 bid 800 asked Washington
Safe Deposit 70 bid, so asked.
Insurance Stocks--Firemen's 30 bid. Franklin
10 bid. Metropolitan, so bid, IS asked. Gorcoran.
90 bid Potomac. 1914 bid, 75s asked Arlington.
las bid, Isl asked German American. 200 hid.
National Union. II bid. Is asked. Columbia. l2S
bid, ID asked Riggs, bid 50 asked. Peoples,
c g R II sa i1s, s s.Rsd Do asked
Title Insurance Stoeks.-Real Estate Title. $ bid.
S. asked O Iumbia Title. ~ bid, asked WASH
ington Title 81 bid. District Title. 81 bid.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Company. o7H
hi On laa md hid
town and ieuallyt0wn. % bid.
Gas Stocks.-Washngton Gas. 81 bid. 5sA asked.
Georgetown Gas, IS bid.
Telephone Stocks.-Chesapeake and Potomac, 65
bid 20 asked. Pennsylvania. 81 hid
Miscellaneous Stocks. = Mergenthaler Linotype,
l95A bid. 1855 asked Ianston Monotype, 12h bid,
ia. asked. American GraphoSbone xl1% bid liz
asked. American Graphophone. pfd., liz bid. l2%
asked. Pneuma tie Gun Carriage, .21 bid, % asked
Washington Market Is bid ~
Elk dividend. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-07
JAPANESE PRINCE TO MARRY,
Public Attention Directed to the
Event-Date is Unsettled.


YOKOHAMA, February 16. via Victoria,
B. c., March THE approaching marriage
of the prince imperial is absorbing popular
attention to the practical exclusion of other
interests. The ceremonies will entail, it Is
said, an expenditure of nearly half mil
lion yen. The date of the wedding Is not
yet fixed. According to the usual custom
long sentences. will be pardoned.
The naval maneuvers, which are to come
off during the last ten days Of March. are
to be upon an extensive scale, and the
whole available naval force of the empire,
the strongest with the exception of the
British in these water, will be in evidence.
for its object the capture Of the Island of
Tsu Shima, in the Straits Of Corea, will be
the leading feature.
Much regret is felt that the battle ship
Shikishima, the most powerful war vessel
now afioat of any nation. will hardly reach
here in time to take place in the display.
Great preparations are being made for
expected to arrive on the oath. The Shiba
Palace in Toxic is being prepared for his
reception.
TOXIC has recently been somewhat in a
state of Siege. An army of 400 irate peas
ants, whose farms had been destroyed by
the poisonous eXhalationS of great Ashio
copper mines, advanced on the city for
the purpose of presenting demands for the
abatement of their grievances. The pas
sage of the Tatgamt river was disputed by
a large force of police, and the farmers
were finally routed and turned back
The diet has passed a bill permitting for
eigners to engage in mining in Japan.
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Dizziness Was the Feature of the
Stock Exchange Today.
BOTH SIDES SHY OF DEALINGS
Bankers More Interested in Govern
ment Bonds at Present.
GENERAL MARKET REPORTS

Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
NEW YORK. March THE stock mar
ket relapsed into dullness today. owing TO
a lack Of confidence on the part of both
classes OF operators. Buyers were not will
ing TO extend their lines except against
previous sales. and the short account was
considered to be dangerous because of too
much unanimity of action on the part of
the trading element
Large interests are more concerned with
enterprises outside of Wall street than with
the daily fluctuations in stocks The banks,
for example. are given over almost wholly
tn operations incident to the passage Of the
currency bill and their plans for an in.
creased circulation. They are helping their
out-of-town correspondents, buying bonds
Tor them and making loans on the pur-
chases.
For the time being there is more profit in
this sort Of business than in lending money
on miscellaneous securities in which the
general public refuses 10 take an interest
Corporations planning for next
months interest and dividends. aud some
loan contraction is in progress
There is nothing surprising in this how
ever, since ii was generally expected that
IN preparing for the payment of $50 dfp 600
next month there would be some activity
In the call money rate. During the next
fortnight the market may drag somewhat
because Of these outside developments and
II ii should a slightly lower range of prices
might prevail for time.
Labor troubles and the fears of their eX-
tending constitute the only drawbacks of
any moment immedia tely influencing prices
The usual doubts concerning the crops is
beginning to loom up as a factor yet to
be contended against. The Industrial stu-
alton has been disappointment to traders
and recent evidences of bad management
in few properties has resulted in mis-
trust of all. This general application of
the lesson which should he taught by the
Third Avenue depreciation will prove UNI
profitable unless proper discrimination ia
used.
All industrials are not bad any more than
al: railroads are of equal merit The pres
ent too general nistrust of this group must
give way to a more equitable reasoning
The railroads are. however the logical
leaders of any prospective advance move
ment. They are earning money. they are
for the most part exceptionally well equip
ped, and most of them have been tried and
reduced TO known quantities. In an the re-
cent furrfes the railway list has not de-
yeloped single conspicuously weak feature
support has always been disclosed and UNI
less all signs fail the low-priced shares
VIII gain rather than loose friends during
the next few months.
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HAVE ANOTHER PLAN
Sommiss1Oners Express DiSapproyaI
of House Bill 9O5S

ssioners Express DfsapprOvaI
of House Bill 9O56.
IL Is understood that the District Com
hlissloners will recommend adverse action
on House bill 90j6, to protect the city
against hoods, and for other purposes. The
Dill directs the Secretary of War to notify
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Conn
pany to provide q suitable roadway for
wagons and cars across the Long bridge
ana so construct it as to protect the city
against freshets in accordance with the
pans and project recommended In the re-
port Of the United States engineers office
or April =, 1890, or in accordance with such
plans and specifications as the Secretary of
War may deem proper for the purposes of
the proposed act
In the event of the companys failure to
comply with the Secretary's order and to
make or begin such improvements as he
may direct within one year after the pas
sage of the bill, all the privileges granted
to 1t under the act of Congress of June p
1870 shall be forfeited. and the United
states shall at once enter into possession
of the bridge
In their report on the bill, 1t is under
stood, the Commissioners will state that
the subject of bridge or bridges to replace
the present Long bridge Is now before that
pody IN connection with the project to abol-
1sh grade crossings on the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad, and that while the sub
ject comes under the Secretary of War, be-
ing the bridging of a navigable stream, they
will suggest, it is believed, that better prog
ress might be made and more satisfactory
solution obtained by making the matter a
part of the bill introduced for Improve
ments along the line of the railroad rather
than by treating it as a separate project
Under these circumstances. 1t is said, the
Commissioners cannot advise favorable ac-
ton on the bill.
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Com ittee Meeting Called.

The committee on public address. which
was appointed by the convention of colorad
men lately In session in this city will hold
final meeting at the Mckinley House,
4s9 Missouri avenue northwest, Thursday,
the Sth instant at pm, when the ad-
dress will be completed. James w. Poe,
who was elected president of the national
organization created by the convention,
will at that time announce the two mem
bers of the national committee from each
state, SO far as he has made the selections.
A secretary pro tenn. OF the national COM
m1ttee will be also selected at this meeting
The headquarters Of the national organi-
cation will be at the Mckinley House,
where special arrangements for it will be
made. VIM. H. Logan, Joseph w. Robin
son, Q. F. Gray and A. J. Neverson have
been added to the committee.