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DRIVEN OUT BY SAVAGES. NATIViS OAPIUEE STANLEY FALLS AND EXPEL THEIR OPPRESHOR8. n . i i. . i ( . ibr i:.>.; While Men Hi-main | karaurtl nl ihr Mullen A Ur>ll . , i n-i Ibr i im. - .nl i , I,, ii < nflln-lr.il>. I Ir-l Ill-nil, r ll> I mil ;i) lri. ...I i \llltr |. l,,i> O.rr III. I,, Sown has 1>ecn received from l!oma, tli< capital of the C'onxo State, tliitl the Arab settlement of Stanley Falls, aUuit I.4IMI nilea up the river, has U-. n captured by the natives) who revolted against the cruelty and oppression of tlio Arabs. dim hundrM and fifty Arabswore killed in the lighting, and the rest were driven np t IK rivrr anil have prolisvhly it>trcatcd li> 1 1"- Ui/c Arab station at N'yangwe. All their establishments at Stanley Falls have been destroyed, and there remain only two buildings, in which agent* of the ( 'ongu State are living. This indicates that the natives have not l.-i-n making war upon the wliitos, but only upon their enemies, the Arnlm. A large force of Congo State soldiers is stationed at the mouth of the Aruwimi Htver, about 100 mile* down the river, ami tin- Congo State will probably h.ive no difficulty in asserting its authority at Stanley Falls. It is note- worthy that on the two occasions when norious trouble has occurred at Stanley Falls smn- that lUtion was founded Tippu Tib w.ts absent, lie was in Xanzibar when the Arabs attacked the State station in 1886 and drove poor Deane into the wilderness, wl'rnc* he wa.< rescued several weeks later, in a starving condition. He is now in /an- /ilir.r, when the second series of bat ties have at the Falls been fought, and this time his own people were on the defensive and have met with disahter. The sympathy of the world will be with thr natives. Stanley and Herbert Ward have tolil us liow terribly they have suf- fered in recent years. Thr Arabs for seven or eight yean have trained hands of Man- ycma warriors to the use of arms, and sent them into the forests southwest and south- east of titanley falls topr>y upon the natives. Their chief ijiiest has been ivory. It has been their habit to surprise a village, kill any one who resisted them, capture all the women potsible, and then camp down to negotiate with the poor savages. They have sent word to the fugitives that for every tusk of ivory delivered to the Arabs one woman would be restored. For a long dis- tance arouml Stanley Falls the nativcH had, during a series of years, accumulated much ivory which they kept hidden. The Arabs have gained possession of a great ileal of ' this ivory by sheer robWry. Many of the natives have resisted these outrages, a*)d hundreds have 1-cen killed. ed the Arabs. These tights have occurred both north and noutli of the Congo, but the mostsignal defeat of the Arabs was sustained by them upon tin- Sankuru Kiver, last spring, where about J.n.n of them were put to (light by tin: doldiers of the Congo State. MV.il A>D VILITAUl I'Kii* til -.. Nailer* *r Isilrrr.i I* Tkmr In Thrito II r i ii. In - 4>f Ibr -.1.1 The bestowal of the historic name Retri- bution upon the protected cruiser just launched in Knglauu has revived the story connected with the old frigate of that name. The old vessel was a steam frigate which served in the Crimean war and passed out of the Itritish Navy in Mill. Since that time the name has been allowed to lapse until now. The old frigate wax originally named Hcrmione, but in 1797 her mutinous crew murdered nil her officers except three and handed the ship over to the Spaniards. She w.is lost to the British Navy for several u. >n ths, when she was discovered by (.'apt. Hamilton of the Surprise laying at anchor in a comparatively impregnable position in the harbor of 1'uertoCabello, under the walls of two fortresses mounting '200 guns. He determined upon a most Janug exploit, and as -con as darkness fell (,'apt. Hamilton and his cruw felt their way along in bo*ts with muffled oars, determined to seize her and carry her off. When just beginning to board her over the bows they were discovered by A ii IEKIHI i > \r-i 1:11 M i. 4 Muhl HiriiKcli- mil Warrvw Esrapr from i '"i Bavlac Madssra About twenty yean ago a fearful crime was committed at C , a siuull town near Halifax. The wife of a farmer named Dillon ami her two children were cruelly butchered by a madman. The murderer, however, escape J, aud, though well known in the locality, the police and citizens failed to dis- cover hiM hilling place. It was said that the terrible loss Dillon had sustained was driv- ing him insane. He used to go from house to house searching for Uallagan, the mad- man, and V>wiug an awful vengeance. It was about a month after the murders. I was sitting by my tircside listening to the wind howling outside when I was aroused by a low quick knock at the frontdoor. Open- ing it I beheld standing on the steps a half naked, shivering creature. Pushing me aside he crept toward the fire. First, how- ever, he closed the door and gazed search- ingly around the room. I at once lecognUed Dan C'allagan. As I watched him he made a sudden spring from the fire and grasped me by the throat. I felt my breath leaving me as 1 was dashed against the wall. I fell to the door nearly dead. I must havo remained un- conscious for some time. The first night that met my opening eyes is one I can never forget. In the middle of the room stood two figures, their hands grasping each other's throats, their ryes leaping madly in their heads ! A fearful wound on one of their ladies and a dagger ... . so the ship's launch, which was armed with J4 pounder. An alarm was given and .. . deadly hand-to-hand tight ensued over the | '>'" clo e . b T lold of tt fearful struggle. bows and on the deck. The guns from the k T " >nadnicn--ta]lagan and the father of forts were directed a< ainst KoUish and the miKd*! children ! A wild laugh re- Spaniards alike. Amid all this, and while """"""d through the room, and then I saw the fight continued, the cables were cut and ' the '> of Callagan go , rashing into the face the rfermione was towed out by the boats. , "' '" .* nt W nut - 1 At length the Spanish crew and officers sur- I " fcl1 ^ *". floor instantly, and the rendered. In mei cry she was called The recent experiments wn,n m ,-a,,n,, . - - - ed upon me with the bloody daggei raised above his head ready to strike. I had lie Spanish crew and officer-, sur- I In memory of her gallant recov- i ne f l mo >"t " '',' " >"el deep called the Retribution. I in his breast. I quickly stood up and was it experiment* with OIL- Danish a V ut U) interpose when the madman rush- ship Hecla to test the efficiency of her cel- lulose armor belt have really demonstrated but little concerning the value of this sub- stance in stopping leaks made by the pene- tration of shot. The vessel was anchored and a five inch shot was fired through her belt. She then got underway and steamed about for three hours, the mnall amount of water entering causing no derangement be- low. Had a snell been fired at her the re- sults would probably have been far more serious, and even disastrous. A shell would have inflicted a much more serious wound, and in all probability would have destroy- ed enough of the cellulose to make a large opening, which would allow the water to enter freely. Some interesting experiments were recent- ly made in Swit/.erland with a new rifle W>- show the effect of the small calibre pro jeetile upon troops. The objects fired at Stanley rails has been the most eastern sta- w , r . nlEterWs o { Tarioui kin d ti j nc | u d,, l( . n MI of the Aralm. The term "Arabs" ap- plied to the people whom Tippu Tib and the osseous structures and piece* of wood fill with liquid, in order to note thecffect upon other leaden brought in the country is by no meaiiH a precise one. Few among them can hoaHl of pure descent from Muscat, or are able to Hpeak Arabic fluently. Many, and among them Tippu Tib himself, have prin- .."* i f i i i miiinmii**"; cipally negro blood m their veins, and make atteni | e d I, uw> exclusively of Kuwmnili thc/in</n '(;< in of CeMial Africa. They are all, howevrr, strict Mohammedans in their creed -in. I morals. Among their followers are hun- ilreil of soldiers and slave* derived from the most varied races in Africa. This wild rob- ber band, whom the Arab* have uncd i \ r since they entered central Africa to carry out their slave and ivory raids, have iwen held in ' hcc!< only i,; the iron hand of thrir masleis. Tluv ur, >dled I- ',. natives thal ,, ,.,,,.,,,,,,.. , MaiamataniU. and fo, yer,, ., the very tvf , tnllltir ^ , trengt|l utterance of this name, the ;mor natives bavr been aghast with terror. Stanley un- wittingly paved the way for the advance of , the Arabs down the river to Stanley Falls. Their settlements at the falls aud at other living subjects. These experiments continued the oft re- peated claim that the effect of high velocity small-calibre projectiles produced an effect similar to explosive shells. Ths trials were Swiss army officers and sur- geons. Tlie riHc was imed at distances varying from HO to WK) meters. When the Sharpshooter, Spanker and Speedwell, during tin- recent naval maim u vres, developed structural and machinery defects, the British Admiralty ordered sus- pension of work on the " improved sharp- shooter " > U LI, -..i.., .u in ail, as provided for in the Naval Italvuwai-l of 1HM9, pending the investigation of the causes. It was found wan insufficient to give structural strength adequate to the enormous engine power, vi/. . 4,, VK( indicated h /,, ,,,, , l ,. | , Ua . n , CIlt , aml m .,, linen . |,.Le,l the weight d h ;, n ^ ^ Adnijralty " , ord ,. rej t |,at this elas. be po,nt,furth.ru P tl,enverhaveeT*rsmcebeen incrcM ,/ |n , ,, , jh ^ ., t(lt . ,. s , Th , k pr . ^ , , ., . ||Mwi> whj , . , ^ ,,;', , . f , T , en incrcM , | rowm K , number and su. heyo.c U p,rd , ,,, .,, the ....Its of the river at Stanley Vail, and , s , the left to the white station only a 'large island in the stream. All travellers havecaid Uiat the Arabs und Xan/.ibaris in their great no means of defending myself, nor was there any apparent chance of escape. But I moved out of his way and eluded the blows he aimed at me for a short time. Suddenly I stumbled over something and fell through the window (which must have been broken by Dillon) into the street. I heard the door opening, and on getting to the sidewalk I saw the madman come leaping down the steps. I made hastily for the next street, the murderer after me. See- ing a door open, I rushed into a hallway and got into a yard. For a moment I consider- ed whether 1 could hold the door closed against him, but seeing a garden in the rear which rose as high as the first story, aud which was accessible by a row of stone steps projecting out of the masonry, I let go the doorknob. It did not take me long to gain the top, but the madman was close at my heels. .In.- 1 then a terrible idea rame into my brain. I waited for the murderer at the top, and as be wa about to spring into the garden I quickly shoved him into the yard. He fell on his head, breaking his neck. As hr lay dying his fearfi:! cries awoke the IM upli in the house, and I can never forgot the awful scene 10 the end of my life. i ii >..i.. f ikr vfarld. Thr following table xi'cs tlie 11 umber of vessels in each nsvy of the world, either built or building. It should lie carefully kept in mind thst thin list does not include sailing vessels, store ships, tugs transports or similar vessels, but is confined entirely to serviceable war vessels, capable of actual fighting. To the British ships must be added the colonial navies, which include many line modrrn vessels ; and to the Rus- sian navy must be added a number ot what are callei " volunteer" ships. These addi- tions, however, will make no change in the relative ranks of any navies : S UIIIN their grei station at Stanley Kails, with their clean- looking slavei, male ami funiale, have made a very pleading impression in their daz/.ling whits burnouses, while their fairly built clay houses and their hue fields of i n < and other ' i "I", along with their cattle, have formed a striking contraM to the miserable villages of the natives in lhencighlx>rhood. The white station at Stanley I'a'ls was . the Utlicr of Ni>\ al Intelligence -has made i fiinmleil l>y Mauley in 1883, and for over six > .pi KM appeal ance. I be number should have months a little ScoU-hmaii named Ilinnry , i i i i , " -" MH -5SZ i* :::^.:!t ,', , ajSjaT&s croft. It was also shown in the trials i these boats had ditlii nlty in keeping up with the liattle ships goin^ twelve Lnotii in an ordinary sea way. In thr new Chilian tm pedo vessels, 1 1, e Almiranle l.ynrh and thr Cundell, the structural defect was remedied to some extent bj building on thrm a trunl. poop-leek Annlriit. China t ten mark Krancr.. l. run. in) . t.r.-ii Mrii.iin : (Jrcst ItriUi TM 1 ear s Naval Progress - annual ot , Orw _____ He made a flourishing station, got along well with (In- Arabs, who had already reached] thr falls, and Stanley complimented him highly. No trouble occurred with t he Arabs until 1X34!, when 1 >eaui- with one, white aswistaut and a ton e of Xan/ibaris i quarrelled with the Arabs, und after lieing in his buildings he was driven issue was due Otlice, whu- *h, while under pressure of work, , Norway luf its employees to go on J e ve }ij ugtt | lays. The contents of thm mini- ' lloninuiu.v mini- ' itiiiim n,..i lie r are of the same general character on ol Ituia last ytar's issue, with the addition of a new > "" 1 vi/ , "A lint of standard hooks on Spain. Swwlrn. away, In* store* captures, and the buildings burned. White supremacy at Slanly Kalis was not restored until Stanley went up the livri on his way to ICmin I'asha, taking with him Tippu I'll', who restored peace between the whiten and his followers at Stanley Falls, ..n.l IH i .inn iliel uii^o State I iovernin of that professional subjects," which will lie a vain- ] Tmkej able guide to naval anil military student*. I IIM10N 10).. I I.. > in. |U. I I ..n.l mil i In. i . ,.i MMa, Tfcrlr Idii None Italy J apan Mexleii. . Nelhei .intt . An impoiUnt paper on London foj was i altodHtate* 1'ruifuay With the certainty that the scarcity i.f wheat and rye in Kurope will establish high prices for the nun HIM plus of those i that this country can semi abroad, district. Sn.reihen. ilimugl. r |,e mil le.nce of , read ( t),e hygienic congress by Dr. Kiiasell there isa valuable suggestion i n I he proposi Tippu Tib, .lave rai.lin* has l.ern largely de who has made it the -..inject ,,f H.M-J >al study. , ,,, t , la , ..,, , hM , ukell , . ho ,.{, VWMd though (he rrnel i\ u, \ linntR have ' II' 1 says, (n si of all, that the numltcr of fogs IHTII continul,and hiu c mil H led perhaps a* mm h mi-i i \ II|MIII thr natives ns the slave chase. Thrre are SCM n . ataraclx along a stretch the direct result of the increased :'onmunp- lion ut coal, which amounted to i;, IIKI.IKXI i >n- 111 I sim, as against 4,4(M),OOll in Ins., l'i lin.-i II claims to have proved thai iu nf lhe river, nearly Klllmiloi :n lungth. The Arab settleiiient that has been captnie.l is at the seventh or lowest cataract. This place is undoubtedly destined to play an important part in the O|HMHIIU up of Africa. Id i. I l,e longDavi^itblestrstchol Ih. (.'im^,, ceasus, and the heart of Central Africa ii ..il. There are 1,000 miles of uniuter- ruptfl navigalinn Ixtween Stanley I .<IN und Si:mley Cool. The natives were very mil' h impressed in favor of the whites by the eventa that led U) the retreat of Deane and the rapture of Stanley Full* by ths A i, iln. The stubborn defence that was made by the white man was a matt, i ..' surprise and .ul miration In them. The) . n. iini.-li ini|iressed ky the fa. t that the AruhsliMt sixtymen aud the whites only two. It is prolmble '.hat tho present re f oft was I encouraue<l, if not directly incited, by tlim knowledge of the fact that thr ','oiig.. State wishes to nroteut them agianst slave riids anil injustice. News travels rapidly throughout Africa, ven though tiny have no railra<l/ nor telegraphs, and the natives iindoiv*-.lls have heard that the soldiers of the Cougn State within (In last year have had several hard fights with raiding parties from Nyangwe, ami e* on eaeb oixMsion defeat in-, i n countries the availability of corn pro- (constantly increasing in the metropolis, du.-tii as an article of food. Such a sugges- rrom 18,0 to I H, ft there were M of then, ; tj ^,, , the ^ B s from 1*7.. to 1880, I Itt ; from INNO to ISH.,, , . wj ,, , ,,,,. Ja^ ,,f ul ^ l;fm ,.j sut(a II ; and groin IKHft to I Mill. I,* 1 ). i, ,, , ( , |>r(ivl( ,,, ,,. , t n] ., M e , llibll of ,, products at thr Paris reposition ; but, like many suggest ion*, when there is no impcru- tive incentive Wking them, it was not creased smoke makes fogs mine frequent as well us thicker, by adding to imparities in the air. Fogs, he adds, are especially likely to oocur in still, cold weather. The actual effect of fog upon human life is uncertain. It has been noticed, however, that fogs in cold weather are accompanied by a rise, in ths death rate. This may be due chiefly to the cold, but it must be re- membered that cold is intensified by fog, which obstructs the rays of the sun. There is im doubt of the injurious effects upon vegetation, which is effected, even at a dis- i.im-r of thirty or forty <niles from London. It is the sulpher, probably, that does the mischief. There seems to lie no room for .Inn Li that the number of fogs will increase in London in exact proportion to the growth of the city, unless some means are discover- ed in getting rid of the smoke, which oomes i must be added, from the domestic hearths, not from factories. How this problem will I-- solved, it ever, no one can now tell. Two plansaresuggested one, the use of improved vraten, and the other, the substitution of gas lor coal fires. followed up. At present, however, the pro- ject presents the combination ol a benefit to Immunity and a commercial profit, which i* common tn all legitimate commerce, but i* especially prominent iu this case. If it is propsi ly prosecuted it will make available to the people of Kurope, who at best will be burdened by the scarcity and bigh price* of food, a cheap and wholesome staple At i In same time it will open up a new market for a great product of which there is nearly always a surplus in North America, and which heretofore could not be Hunt abroad except in the form of pork. If ths project is properly pushed it will be highly suucees- f n I and will prove beneficial to the workers on both sides of the ocean. Cricket Champion. The celebrated Australian Cricket Team- of which Mr. David Scott is a noted chain. pion, is safe against field Scot t writes Oil are magical. used relief juries. Mr Jacobs it for a terribly was surpriniiig. " bruised leg. Ths Mrmlwn of all athletic clubs would be alike surprised at the results of it* use. rpr kll, IKI > .lilt M.I -It .1)11(1 Is. -in,,, i,,.,, ,i ,, | ,, r ,ii i Heat In Fine Wea- ther -A Qui-. i I u rn nl .<-.> l'i ri l>. The one writer of sea stories who of all | others has a regular constituency, so to I speak, aniong the seafaring people ; the one whose stories, no matter how st-angc or un- usual they may be, are always read with attention and respect ; the one, moreover, that is the most prolific of all sea writers, ia the hydrographic officer at Washington. There are two things to lie said of his stor- ies which commend them to seafaring men ; they are true and they are short. Besides that. Dome of them are exceedingly strange. IfCieorge W. Cable or some other writer would collect the "Strange True Stories of the Sea," he would find the task fascinating to himself and the result interesting to the reader. The last publication of the Uydrographic Office the periodical for September is a fair sample of the story-telling ability of the hyrlrographer, and contains three strange stories, besulra a host of tales of such thrilling experiences in storms as would make a landsman's hair stand on end were they related in graphic dtt ml. On the 23rd ol August the British steam ship Robert Harrowing, Capt. Hughson, was about 750 miles east of the capes of the Delaware. It is a quiet part of the sea, not at all specially subject to storms or unusual happenings such as one might look for in the Caribbean Sea, but at 10,30 o'clock that morning, although the wind was light, the sea suddenly became so much agitated that the waves poured over the ship's sides, rill- ing her well deck completely full Then the sea subsided again, and by 1 I'. M. it was a dead flat under a calm. The British ship Hen Cruachan, C'upt. Kolirrts, hail a similar experience on the 25th of April last. She was then iu the ludiuii Ocean, about half way between Cey- lon and Sumatra, when at .V.41 o'clock in the afternoon, without any previous wanting, I the ship Iwgan to tremble as if in a collision I with some hidden wreck, and so continued for seventy-five seconds. A heavy swell from the southeast arose, while there was an unusual convulsion of the water in ad- dition to the swell. According to the by- drographer both of these experiences were ' due to earthquakes. Another strange story that is quite as re- markable as, though less striking than, the others was that related of the (jerman steamship Scandia, Capt. KoprT, which at X o'clock on the morning of July 19, in lati- tude 44 II.Y north, and 48 33" west, en- countered a strong current, about a third of a mile wide, a sea river, running from north to south with suck velocity that while cross- ing it the steamer's helm had to be put over I ~i degrees to counteract us influence. The water was two degrees colder in the current than on either side of it. Its banks were very well marked in the water. This is a part of the sea very often crossed, but no such phenomen on lias been noticed there, a fact that suggests the existence of a current (lowing from north to south beneath the tiulf Stream, which may now and then break through to the surface, as sub-currents in rivers are known to do. Among the tales of perils by storms was tli.il of the British steamship Tynedale, ('apt. I.ovr. She was in the Culf of Lyons when a gale came on very suddenly, with a sea I hat rose more rapidly than the wind. The waves were so high and steep that the ship had no chance to rise they buried her almost out of sight at every blow they struck her. In this emergency the cargo shifted and thr steering gear carried away. She drifted helplenxly Tor two days, when the wind and the sea went down as rapidly as they had come up. Then there was the British bark Kmma Pay/^nt, Capt. Dexter. In a gale oil the American coast the vessel was thrown oa her beam ends, and there rolled in the hurri- cane for two days wholly unmanageable. The case of each ship was as near hopeless as one could well imagine. Lighter gales and lc. t ry ing circumstances have often sent as good ships as these to the bottom, and for forty-eight hours the '.Tews were on deck facing what deemed ' > be certain death iu a i.."t terrifying form. But they pulled through with no loss of life and comparative- ly small damage to the ship, hecsuse in both c.uies there was an abundant supply of oil on l.on.l suitable for smoothing the combers. The waves that were buryinn "he Tyiiedale ceased to break an soon H , oil began to apt rail while the liaik n. ,r..i fell, i-ve.i if ' on her U..m rnd.<, .'10.1' .itrain as soon as 'the oil .* -..n-i! I: wan because of the | saving etTpct ot thr oil that the stories were I lLii!cd I , ilu- liyiirographer. Tin- hut strany true sea story to be told | is that of the g: eat hurricane at Martinique, t ivecaiise it show.-i the sailor's idea of the way i o (ell a .im y nl that kind the hydrographers report is given in full: KrporU received by telegraph state that a very severe hurricane in Martinique on the \eiiingof Aug. IS causing great destruction of life and property anil the loss of mini -rims vessels. The ollii iul report is said to state that the loss of life was 37K and of proiwrty $IO,U<IO,<KKi. The data thus far received are I too incomplete i.> allow of plotting the track of the hurricane with auy certainty, although it appears to have moved about west north- west over San Domingo and thence north- waul and eastward. It is desired to collect | as complete information as possible, in order to publish a more complete account. 1 1. n i., i n |..ii,,i, Kuiope.ui nations are getting too im- patient for a real fight, and so they went through the motions last week, France, (icimany and Austria putting their mili- tary forces through their maim uvrea to see how i In u new arms aud other appliances are likely to work. The small bore rifles and smokeless powder are the chief objects of interest. It is a question whether there will be any real value in the smokeless pow- der for use in warfare, except so far as it prevents the fouling of guns, and thus per- mits the use of smaller calibres. The pow- der smoke now got rid of, serves as a very useful curtain behind which to chanvo the position of troopti. Besides the small-bore rifle*, other appliance* awaiting the real test of war are telephones and bicycle*. The Austrian army has a telephone < .up* and a bicycle corps, both of which should be ex- trrinely useful The one will enable the general in command to talk directly to his lieutenant*, the other will carry despatches wiih more certainty, than courtiers mounted on ho.seback. The bycicle uorps, however, will I e much more useful in Kurupe, where every battlefield has good roads, than it would he in Canada, where even passable roads, oxcept in the neighborhood of large cities, rr few and far betw*|k, It Wl&kes Pure Blood And by so doing Hood'* Samparllla cures scrofula, salt rheum, and all other blood ins- tates, aids proper digestion, cures djrsur psia, gives strength to every organ of the body, und prevents attacks of tliat tired feeling or more scrimis tffectton. The fact that It lias cured UiuiuamU of others U iiidkuM reason fur belief that it will cure you. N. II. Be tare to set Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. |1; ill forJ. 1'rrpareJonlf by C. I. HOOD* CO.,Apoth*c*rl4. Lowell, Mais. IOO Doses One Dollar II'. |.-| .r- .' .1 r War cloudiare gathering again in Europe. There does not seem t be much chance of Kurope getting clear of these ugly shidowj upon its peace except by a thunderstorm winch shall shake empire* and remodel the ( H. 1 World's map. No new cause for appre- hension has been developed, but that Franc* and (iermany are Hearing another conflict is the prevailing belief among observers not given to alarmist views, r or the moment th innocuous anil pretty waterparty at Portsmouth, which enabled the Queen to pay some graceful compliments to her French visitors at the risk of sea uickmessr, has given pause to the tide of war-talk that the effusive courtesy of the Czar to the offi- cers of the French fleet at t 'ronitadt set in motion. Kven while all the official newspap- ers of Russia, Herman y and other interested countries, including the excitable scribe* of Paris, are describing the pacific effect these international courtesies must have, the arm* factories of Russia are running double time, the French troops are preparing for autumn maneuvers on a grander scale than ever, and Kniperor William is once more in the saddle reviewing his beloved soldier*, and exhorting them to remember that the peace of Europe depends upon them. The approaching hard times in Kurope, which bad harvests bar* made inevitable in Russia and probable in most of the Continental countries, may _ prove a new factor in the situation, but whether famine and discontent will weigh' for war or peace between the nations is a question. "August Flower" Mrs. Sarah M Black of Seneca. Mo. , during the past two years has been affected with Neuralgia of the Head, Stomach and Womb, and writes : "My food did not seem to strengthen me at all and my appe- tite was very variable. My face was yellow, my head dull, and I had such pains in my left side. In the uiormiiK^vhen I got up I would have a flow of mucus in the mouth, and a bad, bitter taste Sometimes my breath became short, and I had such queer, tumbling, palpitating sensations around the heart. I ached all day under the shoulder blades, in the left side, and down the back of my limbs. It seemed to be worse in the wet, cold weather of Winter and Spring; and whenever the spells came on, my feet and hands would turn cold, and I could get no sleep at all.* I tried everywhere, and got no relief before using August Flower Then the change came. It has done me a wonderful deal of good during the time I have taken it and is work- ing a complete cure." G. G. 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