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Show LAND OF THE BLACKS. NATIVE TRIBES OF AFRICA DYING BY SWORD. Tha Good ChrUtlan Nations of Europe Making Quick Work of Kxteriuiuatinc A Disgrace to Century God'a Crature Cun jress StlU. t'.'l- s i, FRICA HAS LONG been picturesquely nainad the "Dark Continent," but it might now be more appropriately called the "Bloody Continent" A few years ago It was dark in the sense that Euro p e a n s knew little about it Since they have shed their light upon its remotest places it has been turned into a land of bloody strife and turmoil from end to end. A number of bloody outbreaks, of such a character as to interest even Americans unconcerned with European policy, help to call attention at this moment to the perpetual condition of Africa, It is hardly to be doubted that this condition will continue until all the warlike races of Africa are exterminated or reduced to the condition of hopeless subjection. There are three great regions of Africa which are of supreme interest at this moment. They are the Egyptian Soudan, Abyssinia and South Africa. To the first two places belong the distinction that Europeans have suffered there about as much as the natives. A strong Egyptian expedition, under British officers, has started to attempt to reclaim the Soudan Ljm the Mahdi, th Hots an.i that Ornuny has r"or- lfM them man rial aid lu a possible struggle with the Hii'i.;:i. Besides this possibility of a general conflagation in South Africa, there it some hard actual fighting there. The Matabeles have risen again in the British South Africa Company's terriThey killed seven whitt m n tory. near Buiuwayo. and siu'e then a much larger number of the natives have been killed. The Matabeles are a brave, strong and fierce race, allied to tue Zulus, who fought so hard bel'oiv the devastating British influence swept over and beyond their country. The Matabeles were mowed down in thousands by Dr. Jameson and his troopers and machine guns before their land w as finally conquered for the British South Africa Company. The remnant of them will pOHSibly make a hard liht now. Another element of trouble lies in the Delagoa Bay situation.. Under a treaty England has the first right to purchase this portion of Portuguese East Africa, if it should be offered for sale. U lies between the Transvaal and the ocean, and its possession would enable the British to surroim! the Boers. The German Emperor, it is believed, is prepared to resist by force this advance of the British. To the north of Portuguese East Africa i3 German East Africi. Dr. Psters, the late administrator of that territory, is now being tried in Berlin for cruelties to the natives. He hanged men and women for petty thefts. In the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa is the great island of Madagascar, which the French have just conquered after a campaign very deadly to themselves. Lately the natives revolted and burned a religious mission house and killed several of its occupants. A punitive military expedition has IT LOOKS BEHIND, I CHAKMEl) BY A SNAKE j i j j ! ronbl Telrscouo Whic h lt f Oral'' SUsse. j THE HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF Mankind, once had aa Jtl eye ir j MISS PAULINE BROWNE. Raj! the Hm of his head. that tftr-- can si ill find tract 0f tkis Mfiti a Kaitler Seven reet eye in a certain irreguW feraation Hidden In a Clamp of White lliixri the anof the skull at the point on It Kxrrted a Weird used to K says the cient V the The0 t.irl. irregulai New York World. but rudiment""! eyes, called places are ERPEXTSareoI y they are aot to be found dl people '"harmed by hur nVf can a bast of In fact, a man who bt'in8s. but a snake VSS rudimentary eye is quite t superioi that turns the taperson. Of course, these ruiimentary bles and hypnotizes eyes are of no real use to.Douy, not people is a freak. even to the owner of them but they A rattlesnake, near 1 serve to show us that at aceitala stage Simona, a town in in our career nature thouat it was Florida, recently u& keep a a wis thing to enable performed this reforc-of firm A watch in the rear. markable feat. This enopticians have very considerately snake hypnotized deavored to supply, as far to may be Miss Pauline Browne, and had it not of done by mechanical meajs, he loss been for the timely arrival of her eye. Thff tave con- brother she would doubtless have lost this rear-viestructed a telescope whicb ftables the her life. user to look around a terror. By In Misd Browne went for a short walk means you may see and reman unseen in the fields to gather wiklfowers. obvious She did not return when a circumstance which posse expected and me indention call her family became anxiou. Her advantages. They e. Mo come brother Arthur, armed with a shotgun, the from a Greek word meaning solid, and set out in search of her. ' After a time he saw the girl in the in this connection it is used as indHe at icating that, the image, aasera through distance sitting on the grass. seess an exact once noticed the curious maciuer in the stereo-telescocounterpart of the object and not a which she seemed to be swaying to aud mere picture of it. The two tubes that fro, as if in time to music. He apextend horizontally carry an object proached cautiously and, peering over glass at either end. The ey pieces art her shoulder, was filled with horror placed on an axis at right aigks to that when he saw the head of a huge rattleof the objecting or oblong Ubes. When snake waving from side to side directly the observer looks througt the small in front of her. Arthur Browne moved cautiously to he sees a differed field with peep-holeach eye. The rays of liglt from the one side, raised his gun and takiig of objects that lie in the field vision are cartful aim shot off the head of the ratAt the sound of the exploreflected by means of prisma, so thai tlesnake. they turn the corner of th right angle sion the girl shrieked and fell to tire Thus you may leisurely study an oh ground unconscious. A the lfulnr Sists Iig eye-sock- et f, w stereo-telescop- pe es Later she said she wandered throuefct the fields picking flowers until, growing tired, she had seated herself in front of the clump of white flowers which slits intended to gather. She admired their beauty and kept her eyes fixed upn-.- t them until gradually she began to feci an uncontrollable drowsiness creeping over her, such as one experiences after gazing fixedly at the embers of a dyiirg fire. Presently, although conscious that the flowers wer pure white, they began to take on the colors of the rainbow who rules in absolute despotism at Khartoum. The dervishes and Mahometan Desert tribes who maintain the Mahdi's power, believe that he is the direct representative of Mahomet, and in fighting for him lies their only hope of heaven. While a British expedition is going to the Soudan, a Belgian expedition from the Congro Free State, which has an outlet on the West Coast ef Africa, has started for the same region. This expedition has been by Houssas, native troops, from the British colony of Sagos, also on the west coast. The Belgians are probably now fighting in the heart of Africa, The brutalizing occupation of the Europeans in Africa does not tend to make them humane and generous in their treatment of one another. The whole world has lately been reading about one illustration of this fact. A body of Englishmen, supposed to be the pick of the pioneers of their race in Africa, being chiefly officers and men of the military police of the British South Africa compauy, has made a murderous raid into the Transvaal, one of the few colonies in Africa that have any claim to respectability. It is said that the Boers are pretty high handed with the natives, but the fact that there are so many of the latter left In the Transvaal af'.er so long a period of colonization 13 in itself a tribute to their masters. These Englishmen started out cheerfully with machine guns and other arms to enter the territory of a foreign and friendly state and slaughter the peaceful and unoffending people. Even the severe defeat they received did not make them realize that they had done wrong. Their African experience had destroyed their moral sense. It must not be supposed that the defeat of Jameson's raiders and their shipment to England has ended the trouble In the more civilized parts of South Africa. There is intense and warlike hostility between the English and the Dutch elements In Cape the Orange Free State, and the Cable reprta bay that TransvaaL tots sides . are preparing to fight There to alwaya aa abundance ef armed tea la tfcoa places. The rorU also Aer? Itallet Girl Most of the girls at Hulls. in tights, short dresses and bizarre costumes at the French and Arion balls and at the masquerade affairs of the "Cuckoos," "Early Birds" and "Night Hawks" are paid ballet dancers, and chorus girls from the theatrical attractions playing in the city. For the better class balls the girls receive $10 each. They usually do a in the grand and dance appear fancy march. As the fun does not begin much before midnight, they can easily arrange to appear at the theater and go to the ball later. The ballet dancers at the Metropolitan opera house and at the Olympla are in greatest demand. They possess the personal beauty and physical qualifications of the chorus girl and in MAP SHOWING THE DISTURBANCES IN AFRICA. addition, as trained dancers, are more graceful than chorus or "extra" girls the head being who have In cover, under while Mombasa work near Ject its only been taught to walk done just to not as of admit and in eueh a position British East Africa. carry a spear in a parade of Ama-- i the tubes are zon8. New York Journal. When seen. now its are British The being occupying in the interior of Africa, behind thus extended, the observer may stand the Gold Coast Colony, and hold King behind a tree or a wall and reconnoiter The Hl&ht of t yclomanla. from his concealed position. There are A cyclist was run down by a brother Prempeh a prisoner. The French have occupied Tirnbuctu, also open points in favor of the in- of the wheel in an avenue of the Bois the capital of Eastern Soudan, a mys- strument. The field of vision i8 enor. de Boulogne. He fainted, and a passerterious city hitherto known to us chief- mously extended. You may study ob- by ran to his assistance, r.nd soon aftera name. jects at opposite points of the compass wards the injured man recovered conly on account of its The Sultan of Morocco Is slaughter- with no more trouble than the winking sciousness. "Where am 1?" he Inof your eye. The may quired. "You have been knocked down ing his subjects. position, which This Is but a glimpse of the bloody be folded up, in being by a cyclist, who made off as soon as It upward, he had assured himself that his maenables Is tubes held with the work that going on in Africa. the observer to look above an object ob- chine was none the worse for the collistructing his view, such as a hedge, sion." The victim with difficulty lifted Tha Hook of Hooka. his head, and Inquired: "Can you tell of people. I have heard preachers argue that in wall or crowd me the name of the maker?" Le Rlre. these times of wide thinking a man Hard to TUu who keeps close to one book will narSome people are never wtlsflexl. An Left on tha Car. row himself. It may be bo with other room of the elevated umbrella maker in Paris has been inThe book, but the minister who sticks terviewed on the subject of sudden road New York receives in iystem close to the Bible has a wide knowledge in the weather. JWeli," about 30,000 miscellaneous deposits a change of the whole range of history. It deals the Interlocutor, "things M fear. Nearly 10 per cent are umbrella with all humaa experience, Biahop C and ranking second are the satchels. well for you. I IPom looking W. PM. are leilicg enormous numbm of Ibout half the articles are called for, tlkelr." Ue ind the remainder, after being held for . brollaer "Very wkk Putting a erowa oa the head, puta irUw'n lurly reply; dz month or a year, according U the are letytag Mthlag kingly la the heart alae, are sold at auction. y naahadear' Col-onl- mj that Owmu From this and lose their outline. iridescent mass at regular intervals a tongue of living flame darted forth that almost blinded her with its brilliancy. She was possessed with a feeling of horror and had a prerentiment of evil, yet was powerless to use her voice or How long she was move her limbs. under this extraordinary influence she Nor was she conscious had no idea. of its nature till, coming to herself after the shock of the gunshot had thrown her ino a faint, she saw the dead snake. The rattlesnake proved to be a mon ster of its kind. Putting the dismcm-- ' bered head on to the body it measured The an even seven feet in length. body in its largest part was eighteen It had sixinches in circumference. a and teen rattles button, indicating that the serpent was at least seventeen years old. Ash-en- tl, comic-oper- stereo-telescop- e lost-artic- le y, d n. THE SUNSHINE OF PAST ACES It Was Iiurietl in the. Earth fo Future Keaurrectlon. The teacher bade me write an j upon "Coal." I studied the encyclopedia until my head was in a whirl with big words like "amorphous substance,' "bituminous coal," "lignite and canne! coal," and they all contained "carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen," and then I did not know one single thinj about coal, and so I asked mamma: "What is coal, any way?" "It Is the sunshine of past ages," said she, and then sl:e told me so pretty t story that 1 thought I would write it foi "Our Boys and Girls" to read. Ages and ages ago, when the earth was young, and man bad not yet to live on it, because as yet th conditions were not favorable to the life that mankind needs, monster tishei swam in the slimy seas and giant animals stalked over and through the marshy lands. Monster trees grew iron the sloppy, moist ground, while grassei taller than we ever saw, and plants witt huge stems and gigantic leaves, grew beneath their branches. Then, as how, rain fell, clouds floated by and the bright sunshine was ovei all. The brighter the sunshine, the ranker and taller grew the trees, tin grasses, the ferns and the weeds. Yeai after year they grew and blossomec and died, over and over again, just as plants and trees do now. Again anc again, in those ages, great earthquake occurred, and the waters would roll it places where they were not before, anc where they were once would bo ban ground. The giant trees and the plant! beneath them would be packed and buried in the mud and would see the sunshine no more. Over and over again trees and grasses, plants and ferns, grew in the sunshine; over and ovel again they were buried and packed clown in the darkness, ever undergoing chemical changes. Ages came and went, and finally man, the crowning work of the Creator, appeared upon the scene. Centuries came and went before he discovered the buried sunshine. Many are the legends as to how and when he first learned of the warmth imprisoned in the black mineral, now and then, found above the giound. As every good deed sooner or later leaves its good record on the annals of time, so the short lives of the tiniest ferns, of ages ago are now maktng light and happiness in many a home that would be dark, cold and gloomy had not the Creator in his wisdom, ages and ages ago, buried the sunshine in earth's dark bosom, to lie until such time as He was ready to bring it again to the light of day. Acella C. Fenton in Philadelphia Times. Ho et-sa- bfe-gu- n COLOR OF WOMEN'S EYES. Question ot 1'iguient Has Settled Many a Man's Fate. "Did you ever notice that men always instinctively put confidence in a girl with blue eyes, and have their suspicions of the girl with rllllant black ones, and will you kindly tell me why?" writes Lillian Bell in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Is it that tie limpid blue eye, transparent and gentle, suggests all the soft, womanly virtues, and because he thinks he cafl see through it, clear down into that blue-eye- d girl's soul, that she is the kind of a girl he fancies she Is? I think it Is, but some of the greatest little frauds I know are the purry, kit-ten- y girls with big, innocent eyes. Blazing black eyes and the rich, warm d women colors which have to wear suggest energy and brilliance and no end of intellect. Men look into such eyes and seem not to be able to see below the surface. They have not the pleasure of a long, deep gaze Into immeasurable depths. And so they think her designing and clever and perhaps (God save the mark!) even dark-skinne- Intellectual, when, perhaps, she has a wealth of love and devotion and heroism Btored up beyond the Impulsive disposition and those dazzling black eyes, which would do and dare more in a minute for some man she had set that great heart of hers upon than your tranquil blonde would do in forty years. A mere question of pigment in the eye has settled many a man's fate in life and established him with a wife who turned out to be very different from the girl he fondly thought he was getting." cold-blood- A Hot Tancake for Yonr Arhes. "A hot pancake for an aching back?" Did you ever try one? Just mix up some flour and water in a thick batter and fry on a griddle as though you were preparing It to eat, only use When just the least little grease. cooked through put between two thin pieces of white cloth and a( ply to the aching place. You will be surprised to learn how soon you will be relieved of your pain. Sometimes it will cure obstinate cases of headache by applying at the base of tie brain. It is vastly better than wet cloths. Hard Lurk la Kansas. While a farmer and his wife were gold piece searching for a lost on the street at Wellington, Kan., the other day by the farmer, his wife bill and they dropped a could not find either. Ex. ten-doll- two-doll- ar ar |
