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Show f OGDEN DAILY COMMERCIAL: both of jo THE wat uk uutc: cf WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. Bojrj THE DEADLY I NDDflOT of France is a mm canaand returned to lawsai with Js-Then ths cdacatoVatf tor OikfmMUtfiMnMitiila Lite mm taH m ssmias tote mm Mite all of tew eCurtt of u rf,.; ,4.) the aarvinea of two Kroo aula. ; barked in a frail canoe and etote away After four day and aighta oa the ooaea v-- Whreabo, king of mil the Baasas, died head town in the interior of Grand Corah, a trading nation of Liberia. The Baaaa are a very nuiueruu mad intelii getit people, inhabiting a large district on the went coast of Africa, and Wh abo was one of the most interesting characters on the coast. Hi father wat Buyer, who repeatedly waged war to from set prevent the Americo-Libenan- a tling at Grand Bassa Borer, however, fell a victim to the vengeance of the Li berian law, and died a bloody death, bnt not before he had instilled hatred of the civilized blacks in the mind of hii on and heir. After Boyer't death Whreabo attempt ed to take control of the government of his tribe, bat he was prevented from doing so by hi brother Taipn, who will be remembered by many old traders at Tom Will. For months the Basse savages, in factions supporting respectively Whreabo and Taipn, engaged in a guerilla war. Neither side gained any decided advantage. Taipu, however, had always been more or less friendly to the Americo-Liberianso when the merchants of Monrovia demanded that the troubles which interrupted trade should end the Liberian government exerted its power for his benefit, with the result that Whreabo was driven to an asylum in the bush, while Taipu took his father's town, his wives and all the Basse couu-trv- at hi O t- -J s o a (f) CD CO x O O Em . Taipn was not long permitted to enjoy the dignity which he had usurped. Trouble arose from cruelties inflicted ou Liljeria's citizens by the Vie people, a warlike tribe farther north, and diverted the attention of the Liberian government from the affairs of Bassa. This wat Whreabo's opportunity, and he took ad vantage of it. He endeavored to outt his brother from power, and success followed lus arms. It was not many weeks before the dead body of Taipu, swathed in many bandages, stood muniniylike in a, corner in his chief widow's hut awaiting burial; and Who a no began to rule over the country. The fact that Whreabo had secured power in Bassaland gave the Liberian merchants excellent reason for alarm Almost all export articles, such as oil, skins, camwood, ivory and rice are gathered in the Bosss district, and this field, controlled by a chief hostilo to Liberia, meant that all commerce in this direction would be brought to disaster. Events soon made it plain that Whrealw intended to hold no peaceful relations with his civilized brothers. He looted the factories of Liberian merchants, drove the traders from their stations and issued an edict that no produce of any kind was to be sold to Liberiaua by any of his people under pain of instant death. The "palaver" ground in Whreabo's town became a theater wherein were performed many bloody acts. Huudreds of the followers of the dead Taipu daily lost their heads, and for weeks the savage chieftain held high carnival with death, until, feeling secure, he gathered his hordes around him and prepared to descend on Grand Bassa for the purpose of driving the Liberian settlers into the the Kroo boy back to discarded all clothe, and ia the of the country a cloth around the lout began her journey for the chief town of the Baasa. Arriving at Whreabo' '. .:.'; :i. i. I : ' .1-- :;. ' like expedition against hi enemies, bet when the in her beauty presented her-tel- f before him and told him who aha was, hi porpcee changed, Inataad of proceeding to war be gave order for feasting and general rejoicing to celebrate the return of hi long lost bride. Jacinto accepted this position, her influence in tuch a way that forgot his warlike intentions By degree the to influenced him that he dismissed hi other wives. She induced him to look upon the Liberian without hatred, and so changed him that eventually, from being that colony' enemy, br became a bnlwark to protect it from its foes. Finally she won him to Christianity. For many year this woman exerted an influence for good over the savage chief, but some ten year ago he died. Since then Whreabo has never left hit town, but aged, blind and feeble, pa tietnly waited for the final summons. New York Sun. The MUtleto. Kissing under the mistletoe it a relic of Scandinavian mythology. Loki hated Balder, the Apollo of the North, and a "everything that spring from fire, air, earth and water," had been sworn not to hurt the celestial favorite, the wicked spirit made an arrow of mistletoe, which he gave to blind Homer to test The God of Darkness shot tiio arrow and killed Balder. Being restored to life st the urgent request of the gods and goddess.-the mistletoe was given to the goddess of Love to keep, and every one who passed under it received a kiss, to show that the branch was the emblem of love and not of death. The mistletoe is a parasitical plant which flourishes on the branches of many kinds of trees in northern Europe, lt is the viscum album of botanists, and la frequently found on the apple, and less often on the oak. The druids regarded it with peculiar reverence, from its connection with the oak, the favorite tree of their divinity, Tntanus, who seem to have been identical with thePhumi-ciagod, Baal, or the sun. The plant is very rarely found in Scotland and nowhere in Ireland. It abounds in som parts of England. Brooklyn Eagle. , n Sing Sweetly Though Nearly 80 Yearn Ol.l. Mrs. Emma Bostwick, once known as the American Jenny Lind, has probably retained her voice to a greater age than any other public singer. She is now seventy-seveyears old, but her voice is still pure and fresh, and she sings in admirable time and tune. She is the daughter of an English violinist, named Gillingham, and began her career on the concert stage when only twelve years of age. By the time she was twenty she Her was widely and favorably known. voice had a range of three octaves. Theodore Thomas, then ft rising young violinist was among those who took part in her concerts. She was married in 1836, bnt did not sea. The Vies in the north at this time, en- retire from the concert stage. For a couraged by the intriguing English of number of years she was the soloist of Sierra Leone, were offering such stub- the New York Philharmonic society. born resistance to the Liberian forces She has never sung in opera, and the that the Liberian government found it wonderful preservation of her voice is impossible to do anything for the relief to be attributed partly to that, and partof its citizens in Bassaland, and it was ly to the care she has observed in her decided to issue an order that Grand diet and mode of life. Exchange. Bassa be abandoned and all Liberian citOur Two Orange States. izens leave the country. On the day In the United States oranges and lemwhen it had been determined to make this order public there arrived in the ons are produced only in California and Florida. The orange crop of the latter port of Monrovia, the Liberian capital, is practically out of the way before that the bark Edwards. This vessel came of the former is ready for the market from England and brought a beautiful The California orange is of slower negrcss, who called herself Jacinto Boyer. From Jacinto's earliest day stirring growth than the Florida product and seaincidents marked her life. While little does not decay so soon. The orange son in California lasts five months, bemore than au infant she had been stolen from her parents, who were Mandingoes, ginning Jan. I, and it will be prolonged and sold to Portuguese slave traders. in future, as the people are planting The vessel which was bearing her to Valencia oranges, which do not ripen Brazil was captured by an English gun- till July. The lemon is more sensitive to frost than the orange, and it is proboat, and the prow was turned toward Sierra Leone, where the human cargo duced with more difficulty in Florida reawas to be turned over to the English au- than in southern California, for the state is son more the former that subject bethorities. This slaver was wrecked L. A. Sheldon in Forum. fore she reached her destination, and of to frost. all on board the only ones saved were The "Maneater of the Golf." the officer in charge of the vessel and The region in the vicinity of the north-- 1 Jacinto. era extremity of the Gulf of California Shortly after the Englishman and Ja- is inhabited by a rare and terrible creacinto were cast on the beach they were ture a member of the lizard tribe-cal- led discovered by the savages, and by them the "Maneater of the Gulf." He were taken to Boyer, at his chief town is hardly large enough to warrant his in the interior. Boyer was then in the awe name, being only about inspiring midst of his struggle with the Libenans, fifteen inches long, but is one of the most and the civilized man who fell into his poisonous creatures knov. n to naturalpower was fortunate if he was killed ists. He is a member of the lizard famwithout torture. some akin to the famed Gila MonWhen the Englishman was brought ily, and bis ster, body is almost as brittle as into Boyer's presence he raised his phon St. Louis Republic. glass. to strike him, but Jacinto sprang forward and threw her little arms around There is a curious instance of an echo the intended victim. at Tatenhill, Staffordshire. The tower "No! Not King," she said, "give me of the church there has an echo that rethe white man." The sudden action of peats five times the syllables uttered at the little captive arrested Boyer's arm. the centrum phonicum. which is about All the Bassa women are extremely ugly, seventy yards distance. Whispering and the beauty of the Vie girl so pleased galleries can scarcely be considered anyhe the chief that hesitated. Whreabo, thing but odd items iu our sacred edithen a lad of ten years, was an inter- fices. Of these there are examples in ested spectator, and when the young Gloucester cathedral and St. Paul's. girl made her plea his precocious eyes Gentleman's Magazine. discovered that she was fair, and struck The republic of Honduras is very rich by a sudden fancy to earn favor in her sight he joined her in petitioning his in the valuable wood called mahogany A survey of these forests estimates the father to spare the white man's life. "The strange maiden shall be thy value of the trees of this variety which wife, and the white man be a slave to are fit for market at tSuO.000.000. n Oim Cm an TWy Tfcat See I to arocad to BaantlaasL AN AFUICAN KING. bJO Sim work ubug in aa At riving at Monrovia wheal a did. the Li Sanaa, eethortUet infaaaa1 to carry la afctaaal ef ttoSUaaraao uU to Am. CO Asanawaa intended to EVER STEALTHY "SEA PUSS," in eiato, uuiiM'i iMiiMud . UtO THt FATAL CLASP OF THE A i nmf tiai Ali Arm TWy Hay B tftaw to ih mmd U UmS. C Carroll, a broker of New York, "bat hiao way is is store ranrirshk than hj o o the attturw iu which it guard the vaults to which i great stores of gold and ail rer are kept The Bank of France gea stare gold and si way rally earn saore silver than say other institution ia ths world, whh the solitary exception ef ths C sited States treasury Bat Ths many death by drowning oa the in and s great and bars attribute the stealing. We confide in w to the presence of but while the Bank of France ha a com -a ass porn;" other aay it wat suupiy and adopt a vert petal WL T yjnj iar mean for ina&nng the security of a its treasures do not know "Every day when the money is placed . hi the vault ia the cellar a lot of ma rent, bat believing the words to be yn aons are on hand and wall np the dr. r with hydraulic mortar. Water it then tide u the alternate rising and falling of turned oo and kept running until the the waters caused by the unequal attrac- cellar i flooded. Thus a burglar would have to provide himself with a diving tion of ths aun sad moon, while s car- suit and break down a cement wall beton is a tooting of a mass of water fore ha could work on the begin not that may or may rise, bat has only When the officer arrive in the vaults morning one direction. Current are sometime the water i drawn off, the masonry but wind, produced by strong geuerally broken down and the vault opened. It level byadiflVrenc-o- f ia difficult to imagine bow the most exration of the bottom. pert burglar would penetrate all these The first thing to avoid i the defenses, and certainly the treasures of in is which water low, always strongest Bank of France are better guarded about waitt deep. If the bather would the than any in the world." St Louis Post out further or remain nearer the he would escape the ttrength of the Dispatch That disturbance of the water Ha Wa a stranger la tk City. ia confined to no particular locality, A very twell looking, middle aged though it it stronger in some place than man. apparently every inch of what it in others, owing to the trend of the termed a man of the world, entered s shore. It ia caused by the rushing out Broad way car coming down town reof ths water under the surface after be- cently at Thirty-fourtstreet When ing thrown up on the beach, and it al- the conductor came for his fare the swell ways strongest in an angry curl One looking, middle aged man addressed him may judge of the strength of the under- very politely, saying: tow by the height of the wave a they "Kindly let me know when we reach break and the velocity which they imthe Fifth Avenue hoteL" The car rolled along. The etreet crosspart to objects along the beach. The explanation of the undertow is ing leading to the entrance of the Fifth simple. The approaching waves have a Avenue hotel was reached, and the car velocity depending upon the strength of was brought to a halt by the conductor. the wind. So have the receding one, The swell looking, middle aged man was but this is due to gravity and depends titting sideways gazii.," out upon the upon the angle of inclination of the beauties of Madison square. beach. The breakers, therefore, with "Fifth Avenue hotel!" the conductor their greater velocity, run over the top shouted in the door. of the waves, while the receding water The swell looking, middle aged man bolted around in his seat and began to keep below. Tint DREADED "SEA PUSS." stare at the big hotel. Eddies are simply partial currents "Fifth Avenue botelf" shouted the that take an opposite direction to the conductor again, coming into the car. parent stream, and are produced entirely Then, as the swell looking, middle aged by the trend of the shore. Wherever man did not move. he added somewhat there is a recession of the beach or testily, "Here is the Fifth Avenue hotel, pocket," a it 1 called, there will be sir; are you going to got out?" found eddies. They are of no conse"Why, no," responded the swell lookquence, however, and of little or no dan ing, middle aged man, surprisedly. "I ger to the bather. only wanted to see the hotel. Heard so We now come to a disturbance of the so much abont it, you know." The passengers laughed in spite of water, the very name of which causes a panic among bathers. The "sea puss" themselves, and the conductor went has no place in physical geography; in back to his stati n and jerked the bell fact oo scientist has deigned to notice strap viciously. New York Times. this phenomenon. Webster does not even give a definition of it in his unHunting Guinea Egg. To find a guinea nest was the very abridged dictionary. In The Century it is denned a "a swirl of the undertow poetry of egg hunting The creatures making a small whirlpool on the surface are half wild, and feed far afield. The of the water i a local outward current bush pasture wat their chosen haunt, Also called sea and had such store of hidden nooks, such dangerous to bathers. " pouce and tea purse. clump of brake and briar, auch steep How the "sea puss" is formed no sciengrassy banks, such tangle of sedge and tist states, but in all probability it is due dewberry and plum thicket, that we to the same causes as the whirlpool, to would never have found an egg bnt for which it is closely allied. When two the bird's queer habit. When the hen currents, with different sets and drifts, goes to the nest her mate stands guard meet at a point in the water, the resultover her on the nearest bare spot, and fills the air with his harsh buzzing cry. ant is a motion of rotation, with a diameter and velocity depending upon the Following the sound, we came upon resistance with which it meets The the pair. Madam chooses her home whirlpool or "sea puss" is given a mo- daintily, and deeply hollows the clean, tion of translation, which it takes from dry earth of it. Flowers often nod above the stronger of the two currents. Now it, grass is sure to spring greenly about there is often a slight southerly current the edge. Overhead is always shelter of setting parallel to the shore along the some sort, for the maker knows instincJersey and Long Island coasts. This tively that sunshine will addle her presometimes meets another setting to the cious eggs. Her small cousin, the parwestward and at the union of the two is tridge, so admires her taste that someformed the "sea puss," which moves times she decides to share the nest. Sometimes, too, a hen of independent slowly to the southward and eastward. OCEAN CURRENTS. mind comes into the This westward current may be due to bush pasture, and prts her eggs into such shelter. Very often we found forty strong winds, or to a storm many mile out at sea. Far away to the eastward, eggs to the nest. And when we took the water is piled up and driven landthem out it was always with a silver ward, where it is smooth and undisspoon. Black mammy taught us, "Ef turbed. In this way it is possible that yer puts han in dar, de guinea'll smell the "sea puss" may be formed under it an' quit de nes'." Whatever the reacloudless skies and in unruffled water son, the fact was none the less fact Should a bather be caught in the swirl, Harper's Young People. it is useless to attempt to swim against A Cat That Can Open a Door, it The wiser plan would be to keep hir, A black cat called Bonnivard, who ntad above water and swim with it, gradually Bearing the edge until he lives at Montreux, has learned how to is out of its unwelcome radius of action. open the door. You know, no doubt, that the Swiss door handles are different Professor Maury, formerly a lieutenant in the United States navy, attributes from ours, going up and down. Bonoffshore currents to a difference in the nivard found by jumping on the handle temperature and density of sea water at he could open the door. There is also in this house a gray cat, who is a great different places. Another proof of the presence of sub- friend of his. One day Peter was outmarine currents is the fact that in all side, and mewed to come in; his mistress deep Bei soundings the line has never was busy writing, and took no notice; yet ceased to run out even after the lead Peter became more argent; Bonnihas reached the bottom. Should it be vard, who was asleep on a chair, raised his head and listened, and seeing held fast in the boat it will invariably part, showing when two or three miles Peter's wants still unattended to he of lt are out that the undercurrents are got up, walked across the room, opened sweeping against the bight of it with the door and admitted his friend. 1 have heard that black cats are the what seamen call a "swigging force," and that no twine, however strong, has most intelligent, and tortoise shell cats the most amiable, of the cat tribe. yet been able tc withstand this. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, when wonder if there is any ground for this in command of her majesty's steam belief? Cor. London Spectator. frigate Friedcichsteen in the MediterOath In Olden Time. ranean, also made some important disThe Roman oath of olden times was coveries in this direction. In the archipelago he found the counter currents so made with great solemnity and elaboi In Roman mythology Juno, makstrong that they often prevented the steering of his ship. In one instance ing a promise to sleep, strengthened it when the water was very clear he lowby taking the heavens in one hand and ered the lead with colored shreds of the earth in the other. Greeks and Robunting attached to every yard. These mans swore by their gods, by the Styx, by pointed in different directions all round Olympus, by hell, by their sacred springs, W. Nephew King, Jr., in wells and rivers, and by the sun and the the compass. moon. Their oaths were of much value New York Recorder. and meaning during the early days of the Kskiino Mourning Cmtomi. republic, but worthless after they became All Eskimos are superstitious about corrupt Oaths lost their sanctity and became death, and, although they hold festivals in memory of departed friends, they will colloquial or profane at ft very early time usually carry a dying person to some among the Jews. Greek ladies swore abandoned hut, there to drag out his re- daintily by Venus, Diana and Juno, and maining days without food, medicine, now and then by some male god whose water or attendance. After the death of name was frequently taken in vain by a husband 01 a wife the survivor cuts their liege lords. The French monarche, the front hair short and fasts for twenty-fivtoo, had their own peculiar forms of oaths. St Louis Republic, days St. Louis Republic. far-i- t 3 o h 3 o-t i- aim. rt a -S CD i- 5 cr cr 3 e GTQ -- o a 1 e I 3 CD |