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Show i this side of the water. is pronounced tlie handsome member of the Tuuumt family. A'. 1'. iVess. Mrs. Stanley to American Eyes. The ladies are gossiping about Mrs. Henry M. Stanley and her niother.Mrs. Tenuant. in a way that must make their ears tingle. So much was said about the beauty of the younger lady at the time of her engagement to tho great explorer. and American ideas of beauty are so different from those which pre-vail in England, that disappointment is expressed on tindiug Mrs. Stanley what I heard her described by a Mur-ray Hill society leader, "a solid-looki- Englishwoman, with too lii neb of tho color of good health." But tha' is the Englishman's special type of leau-t- y. The woman that is strong, robust, nud healthy, who sets her foot squarely down on tho ground and walks with athletic instead 6f mincing manner, is just what suits him. Besides, I cannot imagine that after his cxperieuco in Africa Mr. Stanley would have selected any pale, ethereal beauty as his wife, or any woman who was not strong and solid, after the English type. The criticism that she wears her gloves half buttoned at tlio theater is r'Importttnt if true," and so shockingly awful that I wonder some of our Mur-ray Hill dames do not rush down to the Everett House and tell Mr. Stan-ley that he has made a serious mistake in his marriage. If Mrs. Tcunaiit. with English taste, chooses to wear a many-colore- d scarf to the theater it is offset by the fact that she has bred her daughter with such noblo qualities of mind and heart as to win the most dis-tinguished traveler of his age, and that is nil there is of it. By the way, while the Londou correspondents were ex-tolling Miss Dorothy 'Pennant's beauty, they seem to have entirely overlooked Ler sister, who, now that she is seen ou AGED INDIANS. r.emarkable I.nng-eTit- of tlia SHM of ttouthera) California. The early iuhnliilants of southern California, nceordiug to the statement of Mr. II II. Hauerofl anil other re-ports, were fouuJ to be living in Spar-tan conditions as to temperance and training, and in a highly moral condi-tion, iu consequence of which they had uncommon physical endurance anil contempt for luxury. This train-ing in abstinence ami hardship, with temperance in diet, combined with the climate to produce the astonishing lougevity to be found here. Coutrary to the customs of most other tribes of Indians, their aged were the care of the community. Dr. W. A. Winder, of San Diego, is quoted as saying that iu a visit to El Cajon Valley oiue thirty years ago he was taken to a house In which the aged persons were cared for. There were half a dozen who had reached au ex-treme age. Some were unable to move, their bony frame being seem-ingly anchylosed. They were old, wrinkled, aud blear-eye- their skin was hanging in leathery folds about their withered limbs; somo had hair as white as suow, and had seen some seven score of years; others, still able to crawl, but so aged as to be unable to stand, went slowly about on their hands and knees, their limbs being at-tenuated aud withered. The organs of special sense had in niauy nearly lost all activity somo generations back. Some had lost the use of their limbs for more than a decade or a gen-eration; but tho organs of life and tho "great sympathetic" still kept up their automatic functions, not reeouizing the fact, and surprisingly indifferent to it, that the rest of the body had ceased to be of any use a generation or more in the past. Dr. Palmer has a photograph (which T hfivn aeeiii nf n ammw whom he esti- - mates to be one hundred and twenty-si- x years old. When he visited her he saw her put six watermelons in a blanket, tie it up, and carry it on her' back for two miles. He is familiar with Indian customs and history, and a careful convinced him that her information of old cus-toms was not obtained by tradition. She was conversant with rfibal habits she had seen practised, such as tho cremation of the dead, which the mis-sion fathers had compelled the Indians to relinquish. She had seen the Ind-ians punished by the fathers with Hog-gings for persisting in tlio practico of cremation. At the mission of San Tomas, in Lower California, is still living an Indian (a photograph of whom Dr. Remondino shows), bent and wrin-kled, whoso age is computed nt one huudred and forty years. Although blind and naked, he is still active, and daily goes down tho beach and along the "beds of the creeks in search of drift-woo- d, making it his daily task to gather and carry to camp a fagot of wood. Chrirw Dudley Warner, in Mar-ker's Magazine. vestigating" the city, as the afreets were-- blocked in many places with huge masses of ice. rendering passage al-most impossible. The buck, too. became uneasy, and we started on the return trip, reaching camp the next day.tired, but satistied that wo had been the first men to gaze ou that silent city for cen-turies. "After spring had broke I made some strikes in nugget gold at the headwa-ters of the river, working with the through the summer months,' leaving camp for the Yukon about the end of August. We reached the river all right, the trip down being easy, and in due time I got back to Juneau, where I took the steamer for the South. "It was while I was at Juneau I saw newspapers with an account of the mirage seen at Muir glacier. I did not make any allusions to this, though, as I did not think any one would believe me, but I am positive that the mirage of Muir glacier is tho reflection of the frozen city found by me." Juneau Tunes. A DEAD CITI - A DESCRIPTION OF THE FROZEN CITY OF THE NORTH. The Tro or a Minor Who Ru Seen tho 0.:inal of tho Muir Claclor Mirage In Ice Hound Alaska, Since the story of tho Muir glacier mirage first became known, your cor-respondent has made every effort to substantial news concerning it, but teyond the statements of Prof. y. and the word of one or two who had seen tlio mirage, nothing tangible until yesterday could bo d. Bv the steamer Eider, which arrived at Victoria from the North, came a miner, who left tho vessel at that port, and did not go on to San Francisco, us ho nt lirst intended. From tins miner, wno is a very intelligent man, a most remarkable story vasob-taine- d, and the tirst description of the Silent City is hero given. George II. Kershon is the name given by the narrator of the tale. He says lie is a nativo of England, but left that country when a lad for the gold fields of Australia, w here several years were passed. New Zealand. Cape Colony, n ud California were also visited, and in his fortieth year he joined a party of miners who were bent on exploring the secrets of icebound Alaska. Ker-shon is a hardy-lookin- g man, with a well-kn- it frame, indicative of an abil-ity to withstand physical hardship, while his clear, blue eyes are a surety that whatever he undertakes ho will carry through. "Yes," he said. "I think I am the first white man who ever gazed on the frozen city of the North. In the sum- - mer of 1888 I was one of a party of six who left here to go north prospecting. Of the other five, I know not where they are. We took the steamer to Juneau, where we left her. buying a small sloop to take our kits up to Yukon. After several weeks of awful toil wo reached a fork. "I was for going up this fork and prospecting, but the other five were against it; but ns I was determined to go I left the party, engaged an Inditiu canoe, with two bucks, and started up off this unknown fork. We had a ter-rible time. The stream narroed in between high cliffs and shot with dizzy swiftness down the gulches, making it necessary to tow the canoe by means of a line from the banks, two doing this, while tho third man rested. Pro-gress was necessarily slow, and for many days we toiled before the range of cliffs and mountains were passed. Ouce a 100-fo- waterfall barred us, and it took three days to get around it. "After that it was a bit easier. The river broadened out and the country was more level. The banks were well wooded and gume was plentiful. We kept ou like this, alwnys going north, wheu, after six weeks, a range of mountains was sighted. I believed this to be tho luad Of the river, and pressed on to reach it before the cold weather set in. "Snow was now falling very often, and it was evident that the summer was nearly done. At length wo reached the wild country again, and the stream, which had beo'n subdividing itself iuto lesser ouos, soon became too difficult to navigate. This was almost at the foot of tho mountain range spoken of. Here I determined to camp for the winter, and good quarters were found. Everything was mado snug, as the weather up there is something aw-ful; but we were in a deep ravine.over-ru- n by high cliffs, which broke the fury of the winds, and tbo best was made of it. Game was plentiful, and large quantities of moose and bear were shot aud frozen for use during the long winter months. "Before long the cold came, and at times it was impossible to stir frem cover. Especially was this the case when the wiuds blew. At other times it was fairly comfortable, although the lack of sun made it gloomy enough. Toward the end of winter it began to get lighter and the gales were less fre-quent. ' One day I delermined to try to scale one of tho mountains near us, as I got so tired and weary with being penned up in such a confined place. This idea I put before the Indians. One of them said he would go with me; the other would not risk it, so he was left in camp. A storm shortly arose, blowing heavily for three days, but as soon as the weather bad settled myself and the Indian started off on our trip. "We went right tip the line of the frozen river, which, being a solid mass of ice, made a good roadway. Follow-ing this for about twenty miles,' at a pretty steep rise, we reached a plateau between the foothills and high range. Here the stream ended, and we started to climb one of the big hills. After a lot of hard work wo reached a point near the summit. A wonderful view was had from here, but the strangest thing was a city in one of the valleys. 'You may bet I was surprised to see it. At tirst I thought ic was some fan-tasise arrangement of tlio ice and snow which had assumed the form of a city, but examination with a glass showed that such was not the case, it being too regular in appearance. "It was a city, sure enough. "Determined to see more of it. I commenced to work downward, al-though the buck was rather frightened, he evidently not considering it 'good medicine.' "After several hours of hard work I reached the outskirts of this mysterious city, and found that this place was laid outin streets. with blocks of strange-lookin- g buildings, what ap-peared to bo mosques, towers, ports, &c. Mod every evidence of having been built by art. "Tho whole was of solid ice, or seemed to be but blows from a hatchet on one of the walls disclosed the fact that beneath this barrier of ice was some sort of building material. It looked to be wood, but of stone-lik- e hardness, and apparently petrified. "The silence around the place was something ghostly. 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Bona to "MoTiiiRa'' MAiLiivTRta, nuAiiriELii Hr.ut xarou co- - atlantajba. hold ar u UucexiuTa. A RACE WITH IDAHO ROBBERS. Joaqnln Millar Belatae mm Exporloooo of Hit Youth. I was lying at Lewiston, Idaho. Men wanted to send below to their friends or families; merchants, anticipating the tremendous rush, must get letters through the snow to Walla Walla. Would I go? Could I go? The snow was deep. The trails over open aud monotonous mountains, were drifted full. Could any liviug man face the drifting snow and find bis way to Walla Walla? At first the mer-chants had tried to hire Indians to undertake the trip and deliver their letters. Not one could be found to go. When the storm abated a little, the men who kept the ferry across the Shoshoaee River scraped off the snow, and cutting down the upheaved blocks of ice made it possible to cross with a horse. At lirst I meant to carry only letters. But having dually consented to take a little gold for only ono merchant, 1 soon found I should lose friends if I did not lake gold for others. The re-sult was that 1 had to take gold worth nearly teu thousand dollars. A few mulllud-u- p friends, came down to the river bank to see me ntf. It was a great event. For two weeks we had tint had a line from the outer world. Aud meantime the civil war was raging in all its terrible fury. As I But out that bleak and icy morning, ufter I had mounted my plunging pony I saw iu tho crowd several faces that I did not like. There was Dave English, who was hung on Unit spot with several of his followers, not forty days later) there was Boone Helm, hung in Mon-tana; Cherokee Dob. killed iu Millers-burg- h; aud also Canada Joe. This last lived with somo low I ml inns a little way down tho river. So wheu he rode ahead of me I was rather glad than otherwise; for 1 felt that he would not iro far. I kent watch of liiui. how- - ever. And when I saw that he skulked around uuder the hill, as if ho were going home ami then filially got back into the trail, 1 knew there was trouble ahead. But the "Rubicon" was now behind. My impetuous horse was plunging in the suow and I was soon tearing through the storm up tho hill. Onco fairly on my way I looked back below. Dave English aud Boon Helm were bid- -' ding good-b- y to two uiounted cow-boys ut the ferry-hous- e. Ten minutes later, ns I looked back through the blinding snow, I saw that these two desperate fellows were following me. True, there was nothing criminal in that The two highwuynieu had a right to ride behind me if they wished. And Canada Joe had just as good u richt to ride ahead of mu. But to be ou a horse deep in tho blinding snow and loaded down with gold was bad enough. To have a desperado blocking the narrow trail before you with his two friends behind you was fearful! I had two close at hand uuder tho bearskin Hap of my saddle-bag where the gold was. 1 kept my letl hand in my pocket where lay' a small six shooter warm and ready. Unee ns the drifting unit blinding attow broke away up the mountain, I smv Canada Joe with his head bent down iu the storm still pushing on ahead of me at u safe distance. A few moments after, as I crossed uml climbed the far-ther bauk of an uirlv canon, the two robbers came close enough to hall me. Ono of them held up u bottle. They evidently intended to overtake me if they could, and profess to bo friendly. This I must not allow. I urged my ambitious horse to his best. But, to my dismay, us I hastened up a narrow pass I found that I was net far behind Canada Joe. This black follow was reported to bo the worst man iu all that country. And that was saving he was bad indeed. 1 was iu a tight place now, and had to think fast. My lirst plan was to ride forward and face this man before the others came up. But 1 was really afraid of him. It seemed a much easier task to turn and kill the two rear men and get back to town. But. no! No! All this was abandoned almost us soon as thought of. In those days, even the most desperate had certain rights which thoir surviviug friends would enforce. 1 was uow but a few hundred yards behind Canada Joe. So far as I could tiud out. the robbers were closing iu on me. But we bad ridden over the roughest part of tho road nud were within a few miles of tho high plateau, so that the wind w as tearing past in a gale, and the drifting suow almost blinded mu. Suddenly. I bad a new thought. Why not take to tho left, gain the plateau by a new route, and let theso bloodthirsty robbers close their uet without bavins mo inside? I roso in my saddle witTi cxeHrricnt tU tlio idea, aud striking spurs to my bravo horse. I was soon climbing up the gradual slope at a gallop. Ah! but I was glad! Gallop! gallop! gallop. I seemed to hear many horses! Turning my head suddenly over my shoulder, I saw my two pursuers not a hundred yards be-hind me. They shouted! I was now on tho high plateau and the snow was not so deep. Gallon! gallop! gallop! Canada Joe thank Heaven! was away to the right, and fast falling be-hind. Gallop! gallop! gallop! I was gaining on tlio robbers and they know si . it. iilMMl'l HU,M,i .f..,.iI.t.i,....r.. U.l,t,n:v, Il.lr curses and their shouts. And then: Whiz! Crack! Thud! I looked back and saw that they both had thrown themselves from their saddles aud were Inking deliberate aim. But to no purpose. Not one shot touched me or my Itorse. and I reached the tirst station ami. linally, rode into Wnlla Walla, with my precious bur-den, safe and sound. St. S'holus. AFRICAN BARBARITY. They Kill 31en Just for tlio Fun o It tllllMStlUlrO. "I bad the pleasure of witnessing a negro executiou once." aaid E. J. (Jlave at the Sherman House receutly. Mr. Clave has just returned from Alaska, where he has been exploring the interior, but for the six years prior to that he, was iu the Congo country with Stanley. "I had the pleasure of seeing this execution aud of knowing that 1 wasn't strong euough to stop it. I was allowed to witness it only on the condition that I and my companion should bo unarmed. But for that I should have shot the chief and the exe-cutioner. Afterwards I diit have forces enough to prevent it, and for two years there weren't any wanton killings. The missionaries have the place uow and the slaughter is going merrily on. Soft words won't stop it. It lakes something more than that to put the fear of (iod into those blacks. But I am drifting away from my story. Some old women of intluence had died and accordingly, to celebrate the oc-casion, a slave had to be sacriticed. lie was lashed fast in a kind of a seat anil a pliant stem about fifteen feet long stuck into the ground near him. The top of it was bent over and tied fast to his head, so that his neck was as taut as a fiddle-strin- That was the tirst time I had seen them use one of their soft iron knives, and I expect-ed to see the poor fellow's neck hag-gled into rags, but I heard only a click when it struck thn bones of the spinal column, and the mail's head shot away like a pebble in a sling. A fountain of blood spurted from his neck, and the body worked and twitched exactly as a chickeu does when its head is cut off. The head when picked up was chatter-ing its jaws and rolling its eyes. "'It's awful, the nmouut of killing that goes on in Africa. A tribe will make up a party and go out to make captives in an adjoining village. They wait until after night and then lire up-on the village until its defenders aro killed. They take the rest of the folk aud make slaves of them. Some ore killed fur the mere fun of killing them, some are slaughtered to be eaten, some for sacritice, and others die from cruel treatment. About live out of every six captives taken die by violence. As a consequence iutcrior Africa is being rapidly depopulated. One may go for hundreds of miles and not see a man, but may note the charred stumps which mark where villages have ouoe been." Chicago Tribune. THE ILLUSIONS OF CREAT MEM. Martllng KIT eta of IniUg-eatU- aud Imap-Infttln- n. Goethe states that he one day saw the exact counterpart of himself com-ing toward him. Pope saw au arm apparently come through the wall, aud made inquiries after its owner. Byron often received visits from a specter, but he knew it to be a creation of the imagination.. Dr. Johnson heard, his mother call his name in a clear voice, though she was nt the time in another city. Baron Emmanual Swedenborg be- - lieved that he had the privilege o in-terviewing persons iu the spirit world. Loyola, lying wounded during the siege of Pampeluna, saw tho Virgin, who encouraged him to prosccuto his mission. Descartes was followed by an in-visible son, whose voice he heard urg-ing him to continue his researches after truth. Sir Joshua Reynolds, leavrng bis house, thought the lamps were trees, aud the men and women bushes agi-tatn- d by the breeze. Rav.iillae, while chanting the "Miser-ere" and "De Profundis," fondly be-lieved that the sounds he emitted were of the nature and had the full effect of a trumpet. Oliver Cromwell, lying sleepless on his couch, saw the curtains open aud a gigantic woman appear, who told him he would become the greatest man in England. Ben Johnson spent the watches of the night au interested spectator of a crowd of Tartars, Turks, and Roman Catholics, who rose up aud fought round his arm-cha- ir till sunrise. Bostok, the physiologist, saw figures and faces, and there was one human face constantly before him for twenty-fou- r hours, the features and headgear as distinct as those of a living person. Benvenuto Celliui, imprisoned at Rome, resolved to free himself by self- - oestruetiou, otic was ueierreu uy tne apparition of a young woman of won-drous beauty, whoso reproaches turned hint from his purpose. Napoleon once called attention to a bright star he believed he saw shining in ii is room and said: "It has never deserted me. I sue it on every great occurrence urging me onward; it is an unfailing omen of success." JJieolai was alarmed by tho appear-ance of a dead body, which vauishcd and came again at intervals. This was followed by human faces, which came into the room, and after gazing upon him for a while departed. Nicolai knew they were but the effects of indi-gestion, i Dance of The Devil. A fantastic or&y was witnessed at the town of Loongi, the capital of Bullom, west coast of Africa, by a party of officers from the West ludia regiment quartered at Sierra Leone. The peo-ple of Loongi are Mohammedans, but the daneinsf devil himself is a relio of not long departud paganism, aud so also probably is the dauce itself. It takes place in tho courtyard of the chief's premises, which is entered through a circular hut. The cene which presents itself to any one com-ing suddenly out of tho darkness into the noise aud glare is decidedly unsan-n- y. "la the center of a circlo which fills the courtyard the devil, with an orthodox tail, a great crocodile's bead, and long grass, looking like hair, de-pending from his body and legs, and swaying as he moves, leaps, beating time with his feet to tho beat of tho drums, while tho women, two deep, wail a chant and striko their palms to-gether in slow, rhythmical measure, those iu the front row bowiugdown be-tween each beat. . The young men, in long robes and caps, wail with tho women. Both are tinder vows, thn dance being one of their rites. They look dazed to begin with, but gradually work themselves into a frenzy, and the black faces, the monotonous wailing cry, the thrum-ming of the drums, the rattle of the clnckers and the beat of the devil's feet as he springs up, crouches down and swings about, make a scono to shock the quiet moon and stars and gladden Gehenna. North of Sierra Leone, Africa, is Mohammedan, South Pagan t.nd the Southern people have this devil. When peace is declared between two native tribes the peace devil, who is fetish, comes leaping iuto the town, lit if he stumbles or falls it is considered a bad omen and be is put to death for his pains. His dress is sacred, but bis person is of no consequence. Japanese Interiors. The houses that tho Japanese women occupy are, it goes without saying, as neat and woudrously fashioned as themselves; almost always full of sur-nris-with movable panels, with boxes and slides, with compartments of nil shapes aud astonishing little closets. Everything is mioutiously clean, even among the humblest, aud of apparent simplicity, especially among the richest. Alone the altar of the ancestors, where sticks of incense burn, is gilded, lacquered, and garnished like a pagoda with vases and lanterns. Everywhere else a purpose bareness a bareness all the more complete and white if the dwelling pretends to el-egance. No embroidered tapestries; sometimes transparent portieres, made of struug beads and bamboos. And never any furniture; it is ou the floor or on little lacquer pedestnls that necessary objects or vases of flowers are placed. To the mistress of the house luxury consists in the very ex-cess of that cleanliness of which I spoke above, and which is one of the incon-testable qualities of tho Japanese peo-ple. It is everywhere the custom to unshoe before entering a house, aud nothing equals the whiteness of those mats, upou which ono never walks without tine socks with divided toes. The wood-wor- k itself is white, ueither painted nor varnished, keeping as its sole ornamentation, among women of true taste, the imperceptible veins of the young pino. Metre Lo!i, in Har-per's Magazine. Making n Explanation. I was getting shaved in a oue-cha- ir barber shop in a mountain town in Ken-tucky, and there was only one other man in the shop besides the barber. The process was about half through when some one was heard walking on the veranda which surrounded the shop, and pretty soon a wild-looki- face peered through the window. "Say, Bill, docs he'un waut you?" asked the barber of the other man. "Who all is it?", "Simmons, I reckon." "He'un can't want me. I never did nothiu' to him." "Stranger, does ho'uu want you?" asked the barber of me. "Who? Simmons as you call him." "Yes." --Never heard of him. Who is lie anyhow?" "Oh, he'un lives back yero a bit. Great hand to shutc. Had any trouble with him?'1 "No." "Well, I'll go out and explain to he'un. Might sluite through the win-dow if I didu't." Ho put dowu bis razor and went out, and when he returned Simmons was with him. The shooter stepped around nud took a square look at me, and then heaved n sight of disappointment and said to the barber: "Tain't ho 'tin. Sam, but so mighty el us to it that I might hey popped through the glass." "Never does any hurtto explain, mat-ters," said the baber in a reflective way as Simmons went out. "He'un killed two men in this chair, and I don't like the muss of it. That's what I went out to explain if you was he 'tin's meat, he 'un was to wait and drap you outside." Detroit Free Press. What Constitutes a Nation. Forty millions of people on three millions of squaty miles of territory do not coustituto the United States of America. A million or so of peoplo occupying twenty --ono thousand square miles did not coustituto Greece, it was tho Greeks who constituted Greece; it U Americans who constitute Amer-ica. So many people thrown together on ono territory no more make a na-tion than so many blocks of stone thrown together in a pilo make a tem-ple, or so many types in pi a book, ot so many threads iu a tangle a fabric. Every nation has its own distinguish-ing features, its own type of character, its own consciousness. "its own life. To constitute a nation there must be not only peoplo and land and law, but laws that are literature that is the expression of national life, language fitted to express that life, and therefore a life to bo expressed. Lyman Abbott in The Century. Vrtlstlo Wedding Dress. A wonderful wedding dress was re-cently made up in Russia for the daughter of a great Russian artist. It is of regulation white satin, butou the satin are innumerable little pictures, chiefly allegorical, painted by bur fa-ther's artist friends. A Iicgal Distinction. "Good morning. Undo Abner. I was orry to hear of your being convicted f chicken stealing again." "T'ank yer. Boss. I wuz mighty sorry myself speshually when doy done 'vict me on sarcumstanzable ebber-dence- ." 'What do you call circumstantial evidence? It appeared to me to be direct proof." "Beg pardon, sah, but hero's de diffunce. Ef de witness dun sw'ar dat he see de bull chicken in my ban's, dat's cl'ar pruff, sho nuff, but when ho war he on'y see do tail fodders stick-e- n' out un'er my coat, dat's nuffln but jes plain, of fashioa sarcumstanzable ebberdence." Jitw towns are springing up la Maryland and growing lik Jonah's gourd, . Bath of Hoses. The bath of roses, so often mentioned by writers on tho luxurious age of Home life, is a comparatively cheap luxury y. Tho warm water. In quantity amounting to tho usual re-quirement of the bath, is lirst softened bv stirring into the tub finely sifted oat meal, to which is also added half a pint of glycerine; lastly put into it two drops of altar of roses. This bath softens the skin ami blends perfume iuto eaoh line of the Imilv About 17,000 buu-H- j are addeJ f-- J vut in IxmhIou. ine fauama Canal works are wrecked; even traces of the esrava. tions are vanishing and the construct he machinery is worthless. This en-terprise, in which $41)0.000,000 has been sunk will figure as the monument-al failare of tba aa. |