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BIT THEffi OWN PEOPLE, AFRICANS WHO THUS DISPOSE OF THEIR AGED AMD CRIPPLED. Tws Tkeeisua4 Mails In a P*vs**) Ts>e s>rssn Signals k>r Wnlfh Messace* Wer* *>! In Ihr etrreai Arab War las>sr<as>l Part Wesssen Playesl In in* (upaizn rrr.i. Teesalac wlta Cer re*. Capt. 8. L. Hind? wa* in th* Congo m*di cal service daring the recent war whiob has resulted in the expulsion of all th* Arab lav* traders from th* Congo Slat*. In this campaign h* travelled through a part of th* Congo basin that wa* almost unknown, and sine* his return home h* has told some new and striking things bout tribe* that have never been studied before, and lived about 300 mils* directly oath of th* northern bend of the Congo. There i* a region here, nortn of th* Sankuru River, about 90,000 square mils* in silent, that is almoet a blank on the maps. The Arabs knew ths country very well, however, for her* they had pursued ths slav* cnass, using part of tn* natives to prsy upon ths others. It was one of ths most densely peopled part* of Africa until ths Arab forays, within ths past few years, m id* deeolate a part of it. Capt. Hinds thinks h* found in th* Batet*la people of thi* region the moat r mackabl* cannibash* ha* seen. Throughout th* whole of their country, he say*, tne traveller see* neither gray hair*, nor halt, Dor blind . Th* unfortunate who is marked by any physical imperfection la killed and ssten. riven parents ar* eaten by their children upon the first sign of approaching decrepitude. The** people ar* probably th* only tribs in Africa who KAT THEIa OWN PEOPLE. Ths ffeot, however, i* not to deplete their umber*, but to maka them superior, physically, to tn* tribes around them, for -t-^Vi4o, way only with those who an physically imperfect or upon whom old age is stealing. Capt. Hind* says they re a spUndid raos, aad all in* finer in ap- pearance because they do not diafigur* themselves with tattoo marks nor by filing thsir teeth. Th* BateUla are a very numerous peo- ple. About 10,000 of their warrior* were in in* service of tn* great slav* ruder Congo Lutete, who helped the Arab* cap- ture a large part of their *lave*. Tbu long-headed cLisf mad* up his mind that it would pay him to cast his fortune* with th* white*, aad *o h* turned hi* back on hi* former employer* and with his can- Bibal brigand* helped to drive the Arabs out of the country. Uongo's oapiiai, N'Uando, is a tight to behold. 1 1 is a fortified town on th Lomauii River, and each of it* four gate* i* approached by a handsome pavement of human skulls, th* bregma, or front part of th* skull, being th* only part showing sbov* th* ground. Capt. Hinde counted mor* than 2,0<H) skulls in th* pavemsnt of on* of the gtlea. tvery tree in the town n crown*! by a human skulL Th* prsc- IK* of adorning th* tree* with skull* is vsry common among ihs mor* aavag* tribe* throughout th* Congo basin. Capt. Hind* participated in nearly all th* big fight* with th. Arabs, and IB soms f then severs,! thousand of th* Arab forcss, l.i.Sy-Aimsd slave*, wer* killed. After the l>ttle~tne one:.:bal camp follower* and tighten among the Stats* ~>iiie would kav* A QRXUT FEAST. In on* battle over a thousand men fsTi, and Capt. Hind* ha i th* direction of the burial parti**. H* found only a few hund- red head* and ban**. Th* cannibals bad carried otf all .h* meat, and in many -tiss ths whols body for food. African canni- bal*, apparently, never eat fleeh raw. They always boil or roast it. Th* whit* explorers hsve never been ble to trac* th* beginning* of this horrid practioa until daring th* Arab campaign, wh*n they discovered that the llaiiiba tribe, of whom explorer* have never *pok*n as cannibals, have taken, of late yesrs, to sting thsir enenms who sire killed in battle. Only the men, however, indulge in the new custom. It ie well known that, throughout*, larg* part of tropical Africa, th* tribe* ar* able te communicate with on* another by mean* of drum signal*. There is a fairly well- -known general ovd* of signal*, though oftsn two or three chiefs will havs thsir private cods* and can talk with on* another at distance* of rive or sn miles, their enemies bearing every stroks of th. drum, tut without being able) to under- stand anything of ths plot* that ar* hatch- ing against thsm. hi this war ths white* found the private signal code* of consider- able service. They had no difficulty in talking at night to friendly natives tcvsral mile* away. Sometimes the chiefs in ihe State) service signalled lo some of their own people who happened to be prisoners in ihe hands of th* Arabs, telling ihem when and where to deecrt in order lo rsech th* whit* encampment. These instructions were usually carried out wilh success. During many months of hardship thsre was scarcely a death, exospt o the baslle- ]eM. among the thousand* of natives in th. Mrviceof ths whites, and Capt. Hinds at- trihule* this good fortune to the women who followed the army. As is usual in African warfare, the native soldiers were accompanied by their women, and The New Spanish Water Bicycle. THESE > EAtTRX1 relieved the men of all the care they could assume tbemse.lv**. When camp wa* pitch- ed it was th* women who restred the rude hut* and cooked the meal, and they march- ed heavy laden with the camp equipment while th* lighters had only to carry trisir gun* and ammunition. Th* women thus played an important part in the year of hard work while the Arab* were being driven out of the State and across Lake Tnnganyila. L'apt. Hinde's caravan law th* Conge) Iwaris furtner south than th*y had previ- Don Ramon Bar**, of Madrid, i* th* latest unateor to try his hand at inventing nautical bicycle. H* has perfected a machine tor uae upon lake* and rivers, with which h* ha* been enabled to make about six miles per hour. This machine is composed of two on**)* of it**!, which serve a* floats and ar* connected by cross-bar*. Near the (tern, in the *pace between the two cais*. i* a padd!* wheel, operated by pedals something like a bicycl*. Th* maobins wsighs about on* hundred pound*. It i* steered by a small rud- der at the stern and has been tried successfully by it* inventor, passing over th* water uiokly aad .asily. ously been observed. One day aboat a hundred of them, men and women, nocked to the camp from the surrounding forest. It is a curious fact that they are not afraid ef firearm ; they drop when they ee th* dash, and then run in and spear their enemy or ihoot him with an arrow before be ha* tim* to re- load. Th* two great Arab towns of Central Africa, both of them the ratult of th* lav. chase and th* ivory trade, were cap- tured in this war. Nyangwe, on th. banks of the Upper Congo, was, until this cam- paign, one of th* great**., market* in Africa, When th* Belgian* attacked it the town contained 30,000 inhabitant*, but to-day it ha* ceased to exist, and it* site) i* occupied by a single house. Kasongo, a little farther eoath, had a population of about 60,000, and hers the Belgian* cap- tured large quantities of repeating rifle* and ton* of gunpowder. The town ha* now been entirely swept away. This war completely changed the politi- cal geography ot th* Upper Congo, for th* Arab* who w*r* mastsrs of the country, wer* driven out of it. It also changed the trade rout**, for th* traffic which once followed the well-beaten track from Nyangwe across Tanganyika to th* Indian iic*an at Zanzibar now goes down th* Congo to Stanley Pool and th* Atlantic. A very significant fact mentioned by Capt. Hio-is u that in all parts of the virgin Congo forest which he viite>i wild coffve is *o abundant and so excellent that hi* party left their tins of imported cor!** unopened. A Story Of Macaulay. "When I wa* London, in th* fi'tie*," writs* on* of Macaulay 's biographers, among my haunt* was an old, low-ceiled tavern, with a landed floor two (eel below the level of the street. I used to go ther* aad drink "alf-and-'alf.' On* day, while I wa* sitting b**id. a table, a large man in a cloak eutere.l. His face w a* round, p LIFE OF THE POOR IN PARIS. arracks Are I* nt |T*n Ik* BoMier* Away t* ik' To get enough to eat is not th* chief difficulty, for that can always b* don* witu a little ingenuity. For instance, there ars here 20,060 soldiers continually under ar i s, housed in hug* birrack* in different quar. t*r* of th* city, for who** support *normou* snpplie* ot provisions ar* required Naturally there is a great amount of surplus or unoonsumed victual*. Instead of b*mg destroyed or sold, theee ar* given away to whoever ohooee* to ask for them. All one has t* do i* to fair* qu*u* (stand in line early in th* morning at th* doors of ibs caserne*, to have e bountiful supply. Free soap is distributed at the asilee d* nuit. Then at the great Halle*, or Central Mar ket, where tn* meat received from the abattoirs is eat up, th* butchers and mar- ket gardeners sell a soap made from the sct-aps of meat and unsold vegetable* which though not very --lean, is still pala- table and wholesome and en* can get a breakfast for 2 sons. At night if a man ha* exhausted his ticket for three success- sive lodgings at the asile de unit, he can find a room in soms of th* luge barrack like buildings ef which there are two or three in Paris, immenss building* divided off into small rooms, where a mght'slo.l.vuc can b* had for 40 or 30 centimes. Or h<- can walk out to St. D*nis, where these lodging houses are more frequent and the The drhculty of finding a place to sleep in is,the chief one for those without re*ouic e* or employment who try to live in Paris. Some croea th* river to a certain famous "zinc" or bar, so caned from the materia, of which the drink counter is mad*, and " t h'e' t) we.'i'Xouu'a S.IICSK ['00 busby eyebrows slid up ana aown w'" quick change* of expression. H* sat sxs>*5*""ft IWODle WiHliO at ths tabl* n*xt to mine, and a wai' , , _ md heavy; but his syes were) bright, el>' e - M tae visitor* wrru liberal with their bushy eysbrow* slid up and down w *a*h and BpwOt it frtwly on iiiercti.imlisx. *- etc. The Ow)u Sound not consular tlit-it. . - or iuconveiiiencttl in any way. came in directly with a big plate of br. (Urril)K tl>e !,.,. ^.,1,.,,,^ if a llke and ehees* and a glass) of al*. and s*l*>v. c ursiim w r-j tj visit the I'Lice every b*for* him. He at* and drank heart >, j or BM ,jrui ^j takes aad after finishing hi* lunch. *at upright and rested hi* hands on a heavy can*. Suddenly h* reached for hi* empty glass d hurled it on the floor with all hi* strength, smashing it into shiver*. H* sat for a minute longer, then got up slowly, lipped, the waiter, paid his reckoning at the bar and passed out, H* had uttered not a word. The waiter got a broom, swept up the pieces of glass, and cleared the table. I s*k*d him if th* gentleman's intellect wa* a littl* in o**d of repair. 'Oh, no, sir,' said h*. That's nothink unususl with 'mi, sir. Wy, 'e'* broke ,yb* a 'un.ler glahsssis sine* 'e 1 * been a-coniia* to thi* ouse. E don't know it when ' doe's it. 'K's vthmkm,' sad it seems like a* ' got mad at somethink 'e was thinkm' about." 'Who is he*' 'Lord Macaulsy, sir.'" A Demented Mother. A horrible murd r wa* committed a few miles north of Hillsboro', Ohio, the other j day. A mother, evidently demented, de- j liberate ly took the life of her year old baby by strangling it with a rope. Th* child wa* strangled while being dragged along th* public highway. At times the desper- ate woman would swing the child over one i shouldsr. Then she would lighten the cord, swinging it over the other shoulder until lit* wa* extinct. Thi* act seemed to onl. sharpen the depraved appetite for , other diabolical work. Another child of six j years was next the object of the infuriated mother. Strangulation was first attempted, but wearying of that sh* threw the child into th* well. Sh* followed thi* by throw- ing herself into the sm* well and only for the fact that the water wa* shallow her own li'r w->uld be added to the list of the dead. T.ie child thrown into the weil stowed some signs of lite when taken '<ut, bat its condition is hopeless. Th* parlies ars colored, named Kichmau. foil Kichmau b*iug th* husband s nam*. u .. t- E day to finish it. In the place I am speaking of they pay 4 sous a glaas and thus get a night'* Sleep, more or lees comfortable, ana are nor disturbed because this is th* v.ry objec' th* "patron" ha* in view and h* is *ai>' deriv* a good revenue from it. Up to within a few y*ar* lucre existed a larg" room in Montmartrw where the lodger* slept on the door for M sou* a night. A Private Slaughter House. The Amesr's son is a most uncomfortable guest to entertain. His following numbers some SO persons, who have to br f*d accord- ing to th* Mussulman rites, tud tae *i*ctiou of a special slaughter house was sanctioned by the London authorities before the Prince consented lo **t fool in England. If th* retmu* is as careless a* th* Shah of iYrsia > when that potentate visited I en.iou sevsral- 'neighbors to us* thi* wonderful medicine. ye*r* ago. th "cleaning up" will have to b* searching and elaborate. It wa* said when th* shah departed that no pigsty could approach the apartments devoted to his attendants in filth aiid destructive, and such a light was let in on ihe customs of these semi-barbaric visitors that th* royal servant* did not cease to shiver with disgust for week* afterward. A GRATEFUL MOTHER Kelatei How H*r OaughWr's Life Wu Saved. Sieaeral BeMIlt* Mas! reach! sVr i. 1st* vesj* ef Ike trave i llel i ( V. M.e or B> illu> Plak Pills Acala Prove a Life Saver. from ihe Ottawa Free frees. A personal paragraph in th* Free Pre*s some time ago limply stating that Miss Sophis B*iang*r, 42S Cooper street, Ottawa, ial recovered from a serious nines* cause. i by anaemia and general debility, ha* ap- parently awakened more than usual interest. and pleasure ""*mg h*r relatives aad acquaintance*. So much so, indeed, that a reporter of th* paper found it eitremely interesting to visit the fam'ly and anjoy s chat with Mrs. Belanffer on the recovery of her daughters: tersne nad fortwo yean been considered irrecoverably a victim of thi* terribly enervating and dangerous disease- Mr*. Belanger is a vsry intelligent French - Canadian, wire of Mr. Joseph Belangv, who** wall paper and paint aad glaas es- tablishment is at 148 Bank street. Mia* Sophie Belanger, the whilom invalid, vasciiUting between death and life, u a promising young ladv of seven '.sen j< BE LAT OX A COCCB LIKE OXE OY1XG. 3h U astndsnt under to* nun* of SL. Jean Baptist* school on Primro** HilL Over two yaars ago she fell sick and rapidly wasted away. The nature of her disease appeared to he a profound mystery to tne pnysicians as they wer* called m one after the other. Despair seized the family a* th*y limk* t U(X>n th* one* beautiful, *pir- ited girl, laying day iii and day out, week* and months on her couch, simply slowly vanishing and they powerless even to raise a smile to her wan lip*. K-ion sue ceeding medical man gravely told the parent* to prepare for the wont. However, Mr*. Belanger is not on* ef tboee women who give p la despair while tn*re U still hop*, a* her own words will denote. It wa* a terrible time," *he said. "We had been told again and again that coining could be done to save Sophis, and had almost been forced by appearance* to Del. eve it. I hav* now to *ay that but for Dr. William*' Pink Pill* sh* would have been in her grave instead of attending school very day th* liveliest of th* liv*iy. It began liks this : Tbe-poor girl w%s coming to me three or four time* day exclaiming, ' Ob, ma ; I have such a terrible headache! I cannot s'and the p.n of it.' This went on for a long urn*, weeks tn fact, until w* be^an to look at it in a very serious light. Ws bad almost svsry French doctor m the city called in. but with no result. Sophie got worse and won*. Her face wa* small and yellow while her lips were a* whit* a* your collar. Sh* wa* liai.e,* and apathetic nd so weak she could not rats* her nand to h*r head. A leading doctor forced ii*r to take a certain kind of powder*, which teemed to be taking the flesh from her bone*. Hsr skin Decani* hot ind parched, her eyes sank into her head in i sne lay on that couch as one dead, tak- ing no interest whstever in things going on around her. Then it wa* we became coo- ri -m-d lo the popular belief that she was going to die. It was agonizing to look at ner, but ws became partially resigned to the fale that appeared to be overtaking us. She wa* watched day aad night, but w* .ould detect no chang > unless for th* worse. All hop* ha 1 gone. I had read of ths cure* by th* as* of Dr. Williams' Pink Pil s, and about this tim* I noticed a description published in the Free Frees somewhat similar to Scphie's case. Something seemed to urge me to giv. them a trial, nd now I thank God I did. I **nt for tome an i began g vmg them to her on* at a time. Before long we saw an improve- nent, and gradually increased the dose from ons to two and then to three at regular interval*. It was incredible to oote the change. Her color caiu back, a i T r ent look m her eyes, hsr general health and ippeeraace gave u* all new interest in ner. Itufore the fourth box w*s gone Sophis was K .. to be up and rn p-d again, and a further ute .-f them fa. it ureii her health, r rather snatched hsr from tne briok of th* ,riv. r- Ur U i.l.ams' Fink ftok* is du* i., th* credit for w* had (topped doo'.or's 'iiedicioe, and simply gave her those, fallowing ihe direoiions around the box. My daughter's life was saved by Pink I'n * and no on* know* better than her mother. I wish lo tell *v*ryoo* of th* uis, as it is almost impossible to bcluv* that th* poor thing that lay there, and tne happy ro*y-chekad girl who goes regularly o her classes ar* ons and ins same person n uch a marvellously short space of time, and you may be sure I am advising ailing For twenty-five years DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND LAK4.r.SI Sil I. l\ 'AV4UA, Just a* the reporter wa* leaving Mi** 5e. anger return* from school. She was In: picture of grace, health and beauty, her lithe physique denoting health in svery movement, while her face showed the warm, rii'Hy glow of health. She corroborated I all her nwh-r had said beeidee adding . me n*w testimony. Happiness BOW abideth in tna*. home where misery held sway loo ' loug, and Mrs Belanger rests hsr faith in i Hi. Williams' Pink I* Hi, whioh will do for i other weak and ailing girl* what they did for her daughter. A Tallow Tree. Dr. Sluhlmann. who it traveling in Africa, has come upon a tree whose fruit give* out a tallow- Ilk* fat. The tree is one of the largest in the forests of l'mbara, i and the frui is b g .n i heavy, measuring \ a foot in length i-v ' < a 'i-i.t in Jiaateter. | It :s a new specie* of tne guttiferL The natives call mkuii, but lie loiauists i nam. - .-i, iron Stuhimanai. THE HATEFJL OPPRESSOR A YANKEE JOURNAL'S JEALOUS RB- MARKS ABOUT BHUA1H. Strltaamla Hair. Ik* r<;es f (he *r a rr ILK- ciTll War-ne Brill.* Share f American Trade. Annuity. xt*sitJslr. Weekly **! Ball?. Much as* been heard in rsceat time* W Brituh set power, bat it remain* far th. jooikJ Economist of N'*w York to prsr MOC the subject in a new and, from the American point at view, out agraeabl* aspect. It has been so long cardinal doctrine of the Englishman taat Britannia rule* the wavw, and o gensiaiiy acknow- ledged by other nations, tht a mere r**latw> menc of toe fact would attract bat litu* tteotioo. The Kconomist, however, tell* u juet what percentage of American trade Britannia controls and bow much per cent, 'here is in the operation. The figure* are such as to give frame idea of the enormous r source* of the United Kingdom. The writer in the Ecooom.it it distinctly huetiie to British commerce, bat he states the fact* a* they are. Of the l.iTS milliou of oommeroe carried to and from Europe is 1 892, the ehipe ot the United Slates had a* their chare one and a half per erne. Half a million doilan daily, payable in gold, it demanded, ie the debt incurred by the Cnitea State* through the employment ef < *T*M(tn ships to do their business. Up till Igol the United State* carried more than their share of tee total commerce between Europe and America, but unce the begin- ning of the ciTil war there ha* been S, tTEADT DECLJ.tE. The proportion of American tonnage) en- tered and cleared in the Culled State* in the American traile wae b'-.ti* per cen'. IB l^:J,6d.iUm I Mi'. '2.10 in U70, o.*l in 1VJU, and 2.50 in 1*>S. During toe sams period tne British tonnage engaged in 'he trade mureaeed from .i.'l 73 in 1-JJ3 to 90*5 I in ISSd, wnile forsigu bottoms, which or- ried3.59,perceoL in 1 ^.53, carried 7 pec gent in 1888. The** figure* move the Soon omiit write.- to po.ite prut tmy, and 11 how he give* expression to bu feel Thus it appear* tr.a' liable f< nation, the wi.y nvl of our bilcyoo who has no: kept fa:ih in carry. ng free (Hipping pol.cy, the hateful oppn of dsleooe!es people, the depre .i<jr prict* all ov*r the world, the onreieaui enemy of silver money, the muerly d man - er of gold lor debts, has almost mono- polized the foreign trade an.l transport* tion of the United Suttee. It la an iutar eetiog question to wnat eitent are we, linancially, in the toil* of this domineering 'creditor nation'? A* a.r-.aoy stated, foreign (hipping has been received from our tr.)not lee* than two hundred millions annually. Th* Brituh share of this '* over two-thirds. Including insurance, it may be> taken at 70 per cent, and will reach the following figure* : Annually.. fUO.i Monthly ll.M6.oM Weekly *.4,927 Daily 3,5l " Mercantile pruhts increase largely these anounts, " The foreign tax, of whatever sort, is gold account. Different urrs curi>p.>s* this tax. A leading for*ign banker ha* estimated our usual interest and inveetment account at flll.OUO.i.-OU. To this he aid* rim TO SIXTY MILUOSS expended in trave.ltng and living abroad. Travelling goes in witu transportation. Allow for living ooiy. and w* have in all. for ! uiope. $1 l.j OUO.UOU. brom the figure* ef a British statistician it may be reduced that sixty or suly tivt million* represents British interest due from the United Stale*. Add to this for residence abroad and w* have not exceeded seventy 'milieu*. It is therefore, plaio thai our foreign tax is) twice as great for shipping service as fee interest account, whether we have regard to Kurope or Great Britain, and that out total foreign tax is about $>63.tX daily, and over six million* a week." , Th* end of it all ie that the people of the United Stales are implcied to own their marine, do their carrying for their foreign trade, and gel frum under the thumb of an oppressor who refuses t j take depreciated silver, or silver certificate*, in return for the work done, and demand* gold or gold bonds. The financial crisis is said to be largely due to this "domineering creditor nation, ' which, not content with drawing I5,OX),U)0 sterling yearly in interest on A 'i ..Tican investments, tiemaml* slso 30.- O)0,UU<> a year for carrying American goods all over the world. The KooQoimet writer wan*** an Am- erican marine, and, apparently, is wiring to pay tor it, because lie 'in >'e aproving- ly the fact that tnirly years ago (treat Britain was losing 1,000 daily on mail subsidies. He would .ioubtles*. advise a HsunLOMi n.i > .r. into the subsidy buemsts, so that an Am- ricsn marine coul-l be i-*-ai> micil wmoh wou d take it* py in (tore onleis instead ofcasn. But wnat dors *il hi* reasoning lead to ? Tni" : THat Groat Britain came* the world's goo>ls cheaper and batter than any other nation. That the l'nua<l Stats* an hard-up necaus* they get their good* carried more cheaply ilian their own ships could do the work. 1 hal it would be advis- able to pay Americans more for do n work than i* now paid to Englishmen. All this because the \ineriens could t>ef> silver, and the r*iiu'i'-h:i.en have the power to demand gold. The absurdity o' the whole thing i* clearly shown by "the fact that ail the gold n use in the United Sia'e* amounts to about $ti-M,'>im,m. that, if golii were exported to pay into *t an I ocean carnage due HrniMn, there wuul I nol be an ounce of gold in the United State* in three years. No'w.-.htn \\nt the denunciation ot 'he K.-'inon if. tt... United Kingdom will contmu* to carry m erican ocean tre.ghts, anc wi.l lake ptv in wheat and other foo i pruiiucts, Br* i I* mart De*d<< ! 'hunn. l,i. Not till the peopi* of the I . . csn make more mon-y ly owi init auti \\ log ihip* than by cultivating j-.' and raising cattle will the *ra power of Britain be **riou*lv m-ua *J.