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 K"^^ THE GBEAT SEALING FLEET. "' m ^i nn fti'l' 3 Off for the Uortliem Ice Hoes, â- â€¢w tke Seal Hnnten of Kewfonndland Capture Tkelr Preyâ€" SaiUng Anans tbe Icebergs. Once more the great sealing fleet has left the Newfoundland ports for the northern ice floes. They sailcsd from St. John's, Harbor Grace, and Carbonear â€" a few vessels from other small places â€" the sailing vessels leaving about the 10th of March, the steam- srs on the 15th. It was a fine sight to see half a dozen of those strong and stebtely ships, their decks crowded with cheering men, steaming out through the Narrows, in the face of the stiflFgale. They were detain- ed in port later than the sailing vessels, for the exi)erience of past years has shown that a steamer will sometimes have half her cargo «n board before the sailing- vessel reaches the floe. All these steamers were built on the Clyde and were thoroughly overhauled before starting on their expedition. They are •hiefly owned by large Scotch houses having branches in St. John's. Since St. John's •btained her fine dry dock the largest ships can be overhauled on the island without crossing the Atlantic. The quantity of provisions needed for the •ruise for one of these steamers is large, as the crews will range from 200 to 300 hearty aaen. Scores of barrels of prime mess pork and beef are 'aid in, hundreds of bags of Hamburg bread, and butter and molasses, flour, meal, peas, and tea in proportionate quantity. There are bunks ranged along the side, tier above tier, to be used before the cargo comes in. But when the ship's hold is once full of seals the men are obliged to lie about wherever they can room, and are thankful for that. And what strapping fellows those seal hun- ters are As they stood about the wharves ready to go to THEIR RESPECTIVE SHIPS, each one with his spare c othes tied in a cotton handkerchief or stuffed inco a large carpetbag, along single-barreled sealing gun on the shoulders of some, and gaffs on the shoulders of all, they presented such a picture of sturdy, daring, and capable manhood as one seldom sees. Some of them wore heavy blue Guernsey shirts â€" " ganzy" is how they pronounce the word â€" some had jumpers on all had sealskin boots, either smooth and tanned or made of the raw skin and sewed at the foot like a moccasin. Three and four pairs of heavy woolen socks are worn inside the ' ' skin" boots, and the hunter can go over the slipperiest ice and not fall or slip. In a sheath belted to the side is thrust a large knife, which the hunter uses for eating and for stripping the pelt off the seal. Very often the chief point of departure, St. John's Harbor, is jammed with heavy ice when the fleet is ready to go, and then the crews swarm- about the ice with hea\-y ice saws, hand-spikes, and axes. The people of the curious old town come down to look on and cheer the hunters, who reply till the echoes from the south side and Signal Hill are flung back and fill all the harbor. But how pleasant it was to see the good nature with which they departed the other dayi each crew going to their own ship This, alas is not a feature of the departures from that turbulent port, and for these regrettable reasons From the north, and chiefly from such places there as Harbor Grace, Carbonear, and Brigus come Protes- tants, a large number of whom are Orange- men. From the west â€" that is, from St. Mary's and Placentia Bays â€" come Roman Catholics. The men scarcely ever, if they can help it, meet upon the same ship, so that one Captain has a Protestant crew and others a Catholic crew. The brawling of one drunken hunter may sometimes precipitate riot. It is not so long since in the midst of a yelling mass of enraged men, some armed with heavy pikes pointed with steel and others with guns loaded with buck shot, the" calm, stem voice of a magistrate read these words, and every man could hear him "Our Sovereign Lady the Queen chargeth and commandeth all present immediately to disperse them and depart to their lawful habitations under- the pains contained in the act made in the twenty-seventli j'car of tbe reign of King George III. to prevent tumul- tuous risings and assemblies. God save the Queen!" There was an awful pause for a few mom- ents, and the inflamed mob was jammed between high buildings in an narrow street. The storekeepers had put up tlieir heavy iron shutters, always AX OMIN'OUS MOVEMENT at sailing time in that part of the town. There were a few straggling shots fired, a few blows struck with the heavy gaffs, and when the crowd moved off to their ships some were taken away wounded and some were dead. The cause of the affray was this A Car- bonear man hoisted upon a pole, which he carried, a flag representing the Pope lying on his back, and above him mounted on a horse William Prmce of Orange. One of the horse's hoofs was on the Pope's neck. A St. Mary's man promptly leveled his gun and fired at the flag. In a few ininutes the crews swarmed ashore from their ships. After these great iron-sheathed steamers, â- with their heavy steel cutwaters, get out from the Narrows they shape tlieir course for the point where the Captain expects to find a "well-fished" flow. The expectations this year are good, for the veteran Captains -saw that the great bodies of ice formed in Baffin's Bay and other regions must have ' started earlier this year than usual, and this would bring the seals nearer, for the tend- ency of these floes, irrespective of prevailing winds, is to work southward each year. Most of the ships have doubtless reached ice by this time, and are making their waj" '.inland, "as pushing into the compact floe is sometimes called. Some of them will be heard from, returning with loads, in from three to four weeks. The sailing vessels are chiefly owned by small and local concerns, and put out for the fields from every considei-able port of the island. They are stanchly -built schoon- ers, capable of standing rough bufl'ets, but they often come to grief on the edge of the floe or in broken ice when the wind blows Lard. The steamer can make two trips in the Spring, and often one of them returns with two loads, containing from 50,000 to 60,000 pelts, but the sailing vessel may con- sider herself fortTuiate if she can land one cargo in tbe Spring. This Spring the num- ber of sailing vessels out is smaller than usu- al. I am uuonned that men care less and less each year for going in these vessels, preferring steamers. Many and many a wooden Tessel geta CAUGHT IN A FJLOE after going out, doesn't see a seal for tlie entire Spring, returning with a crew heavily in debt and broken spirited. A hunter, or "soiler" as he is invariably called by the coast people, gets in a sailing vessel " half his hand." That is to say, half the entire catch is divided evenly among the crew. The steamer's crew gets one-third of the entire catch. Mid-March is a blustery time around this wild Newfoundland coast, but the fleet fearlessly plows its way through the stormy watei-s. Sometimes ice is sighted after the vessels are out for four or five days; but frequently they have to explore for it, some- times shoreward and again in the open seas. But I have never heard in the history of the island that ice has been missed. In one of the sturdiest of these iron ships the writer gained his own experience. The ship was just four days out, and had got well up on the eastern coast of Labrador. The Captain had theories as to where seals were to be found, and when the lookout, late on the fourth day, shouted, " Ice ahead," the CaptS,in struck his knee hnd said, " I ex- pected it; and 'tis well fished, too." He had reason to believe that no other ship had yet reached this floe. The Captain said to the second oflScer, "We'll stick her into it a little t» the port of the big felloy," meaning a very large berg that towered up almost into the clouds about two miles in from the edge of the floe. " It is going to be a bad night, and its coming sudden, too, so let us get her comfortable quick as possible." Presently a greet mass of black cloud be- gan trooping over the sea and whitening the waves as it moved; soon it struck the ship and went whistling and shrieking through spars and rigging. You could not stand up- on the deck without seizing hold of rope or rail, and the driving spray soon coated the vessel over with ice. As the sun set the ship was only a mile from the edge of the ice, and soon the great cubes of ice formed far up in the north were tossed about as if they were so many wooden blocks. As the ship drew nearer still through the piping of the wind and the roar ot the sea a t ambling sound RESEMBLIXG DISTANT THUNDER could be heard. This was occasioned by the grinding of the ice cubes; while in the wan light over the cold, ghostly field could be no- ticed the rocking of some of the smaller bergs. The great one stood there stolidly and defiant of tlie storm that raved about it. The Captain gave a few rapid but specific orders as the vessel came close to the floe. Strong as were her iron sides and heaAy timbers there was just enough of danger in the entry in such a storm and darkness as to make every one hold his breath. Where the opening seemed widest the ship lunged forward, then she struck and quivered then a great block was flung against her quarter and she quivered again. ' The tumult of wind, wave, and grinding ice was so great that conversation was impossible. But every man seemed to know his duty instinctively, the great vessel pushed her heavy cutwater in among the broken ice as" if feeling her way along. Her railing was badly smashed, it is true, but no serious harm was done. Little by little she pushed and strained and groaned, sometimes she was motionless again, as a gi'eat wave rolled under the floe and made iin opening, the steel prow reached forward, and the Captain would continue to encourage her, saying at each piece of progress, "Well done! Well done!" as if she knew w. he was saying. An hour found her safe irom the storm, held fast in the embrace of the great ocean floe. Then the ship's cdmpany took supper and went to bed as if they had entered the safest and calmest harbor in all the world. All night long, while the huntei-s slept, the ship was making her slow way further and further into the. field. At the first break of dawn a score of men in the rigging were waiting for light to show them the surface of the floe. "There they are," shouted the Captain, "plenty of them, too. Hurrah, my lads this ice is well fished. They are all over every place I turn my glass I can see them." As the morning brightened out the seals could be seen with the naked eye, scattered here and there in little coveys and lying quite still. HOW GLORIOUS THE SIGHT was when the clear bright sun arose out of the distant east Everywhere stretched a white gleaming field the summits of the bergs sentineling the floe caught the sun first and fairly quivered and scintillated in flame. The side turned to the east was burn- ing gold the side away from the sun was a steel blue. Birds which make these icy peaks their home till they reach their breed- ing haunts further in the south rose and circled in swarms about the top of the berg. But when the sun rose above the smooth-ice level it sent long spears of yellow fire, so numerous and so bright that you could not look at the pathway of scintillating light. It needs no orders from the Captain to get the men out on the ice such a morning as this. Every man of them, except the regular crew, sallied forth, his gaff in his hand. The gaff is a weapon with a stout wooden handle and a steel spear and gripping con- trivance at the end. This is the hunter's weapon of slaughter. He carries a coil of rope on his shoulder and his great knife in his belt. He has no fear on this floe, for all the armies of the world and all their horses may rest upon it with safety. It consists of a vast agglomeration of " pans " or "cakes," frozen together and compact except when the floe begins to break up. Ocean ice al- ways forms in this way, and never in great sheets, as on rivers and still water. The â-  wintry ocean waves are forever in motion, which would break up large areas of thin ice. The bergs are regular ocean wanderers i and get imprisoned by the flat ice, but they break away as the Spring advances and have a fondness for the track of ocean ships. Of all other floatiug things they are, in foggy weather, the most deadly menace to f ships. The writer went out for slaughter with a great brawny hunter who soon showed how the work was done. Here and there on a broad ice pan was a covey of three, four, or j five seals, all sunning themselves, 'and I apparently sucking the ice. They have no I other food in the wilderness so far as can be seen. They go on the ice to bring forth their young, and also perhaps to get a free ride down from Greenland to l^wfound- landandthe s hores o f the Canadian pro- viBces. tt ' "'M i They aeldfaa majte nracb eficat to get away as you come up to them, but the hunters de- clare that THERE IS A LOOK OF TERROR in their soft, dark eyes, and they have, more- over, the firm belief that the seal sheds tears. Lifting his heavy gaff the hunter strikes the animal on the head, strikes every one of them in the group, then taking out his knife he strips off the pelt by opening the animal back and front down to the lean meat. The skin, which is gray, goes with the blubber or fat, the carcass is left on the ice. These pelts are left where they are till all the ani- ^oals in a convenient radius have been secured. Then, tying several of the pelts together the hunter proceeds to collect them, putting them all together, and marking them with a miniature flag from his ship. Here is the advantage of the steamer she can work her way up, following the lead of the men from day to day picking up the pelts. The sailing vessel remains where she gets fast, and the hunters are obliged to drag their trophies for miles over the ice. They get lame at first from ice travel and they all get ice blind tmless they wear green goggles, as they call that kind of glasses. The seal is not the valuable fur animal from whfch ladies' jackets and muffs are obtained he is known as a white-coat, and the fur is not in much request, being coarse and presenting a bristly appearance. In about a week the ship had over 20,000 pelts, worth about §5 each, and in another fort- night had added nearly another 10,000. This filled her to the hatches, and the men slept about oi^he top of the cargo. Their clothes were saturated with seal oil and they smelled strongly of it. There are hosts of sea birds on the floes, and some good sport can be had. The greenhoi-ns looking for adventures would go after the huge stemmatopus, or hooded seal, but they usually left in much terror. Heavy seal shot has little effect on the " dog hood." He covers his head and lies defiantly on the ice before the hunter's gun. He is nearly as large as an ox. A curiosity is the small white fox known as the ice fox. He comes out to feast on the carcasses left by the scalpers, but if there is any chance of an off storm, which would blow the floe ofl' from land, he scampers shoreward. He is an excellent weather prophet. Wasteful Economy in the Kitchen. "Many a young wife," said a motherly woman the otlier day, "would find the wheels of her household moving m uch more smoothly if she would spend a little less money on the furnishing of her drawing-room and devote it, instead, to supplying her kitchen with labor-saving appliances and plenty of uten- sils. Economy in kitchen utensils may easi- ly be pushed too far, and if there is another place where a woman may be more readily excused than another for extravagance it is jugt there. "To have to stop in the middle of making a dessert in order to clean a saucepan or a kettle in which the soup had been prepared, because you liave not another, is folly when soup kettles can be bad for twenty -five cents each. To have your kitchen knives of such poor metal that they will not stay sharp, or to let a good knife remain dull because you think you cannot afford to spend ten cents to have it sharpened, is a real waste of strength out of all proportion to the saving. To have nothing by which you can measure your ingi"edients accurately, because it costs more to buy a set of weights or a graduated glass measure than to trust to guess-work and an old teacup, has spoiled many a good dish that cost just as much and brought humiliation on many a good cook. To scrape your porridge poc with a spoon be- cause you will not buy a patent pot-scraper for twelve cents wears out ten spoons to one pot-scraper, and the hired girl invariably selects your best spoon for that jiurpose. Sifting the coalashesis such a dirty business as it is usually performed and the servant kicks against it so vigorously that the most economical housekeeper soon abandons it in despair. A patent ash-sifter that allows no dust to escape and presei'ves all the half- bumed coal will pay for itself in one winter and last five. A cheap refrigerator can be had. for one-third the cost of a good one of the same size, but if you buy it your ice-bill will be' twice as large. "There is hardly anything in the kitchen of which there are not two vari.eties, the cheap and the dear, and the result of the use of either is generally its exact opjjosite in actual cash. But in comfort to one's self and to one's husband and children, a saving of time, temper, brain-worry and back -ache, they repay their own cost many times over every week." Thirteen Pairs. Ladies will be interested to hear of the thirteen pairs of garters ordered for the Princess Sophia of Prussia, the bride of the duke of Sparta, according to old" HohenzoL lern custom. These were not for wear, buC for distribution as souvenirs of her marriage. In ruder times, and even in less exalted ranks of life, the bride's garter was and is a kind of perquisite for the bridemaid.s, to be cut up and shared among them to bring each young lady good fortune. In Germany each bride of the HohenzoUems gives a garter to. be laid up in the museum in Berlin. The collec- tion is beautiful and curious, some fifty or sixty in number from the homeliest in quali- ty to the richest embroidery on silk and dazzling with jewels. The thirteenth pair of Princess Sopliia's are of pale blue silk and clasped with large diamond buckles. These are the historical garters sent back to her own country after the ceremony. Of the remainuig twelve it is understood that she gave one to the reigning sovereign, and the other eleven to the Greek nobles of high rank who attended the bridegroom to the altar. All the thirteen pairs ot garters have gold buckles with the bride's initials in diamonds but the blue and white, supposed to bring good "fortune, which went to the musemn, are the most beautiful and costly of the whole set. Lots of LoTe. Well-Offâ€" It isn't true that you're en- gaged to that cock-eyed, hair-Upped, broken- nosed Miss Real Estate, is it Hard-Up(cheerfully)â€" Yes cards wiU be out in a week. But you can never have any affection for suchaaca^^-crow. -»^ Rrat assured that I would never marrv her if I did not love her lota. BEITISH GOLD DT MEXICO. Enormous Help f» Bankers, Mines, and Kallways. The last report from the British Legation in Mexico contains statistics from a Mexican economical journal of the various companies formed in Loncfon, with their registered capi- tal, for undertakings in Mexico. Of these there were 11 with £2,555,000 registered capital in 1886, 15 with £5,135,800 in 1887, 25 with £10,956,020 in 1888, and 26 with £14,.S43,370 up to Nov. 9, 1889, thus giving a total of 77 companies, with a total regis- tered capital of £32,990,190. This enormous sum has been invested in railways, lands, mines, public securities, banks, c., and constitutes (says Sir Francis Denys, the author of the report) a tremend- ous mortgage on the resources of the repub- lic, rendering the maintenance of public or- der a matter of almost as much importance to Great Britain as to Mexico itself. On the railway system this country has a strong hold the Mexican Railway is an English corporation, the control of the National Line is in E^lish hands, the Inter-oceanic and Mexican Southern are also English compan- ies the Tehuantepec Railway is being con- structed with British capital, and it is stated that the majority of the first mortgage bonds of the Central Railway have passed into English hands. A number of railway con- cessions in various parts of the country have been granted recently, and it is probable that the money for their construction will be sought in London. The drainage of the valley of Mexico has been undertaken by British capitalists on security offered by the city of Mexico. The capital of the various mining companies re- gistered in London during the first nine months of last year amounted to over a million sterling, and an English bank is about to be established in Mexico. It ap- pears that American capital in Mexico, except that invested in mines, is being gradu- ally withdrawn and replaced by British capital. ' Sir Francis Denys suggests that this is because the American insists on do- ing business his own way, a,nd will not adapt himself to the slow and dilatory methods of the Mexican, partly also to the scope for capital in America itself, and partly to Mexico being close at hand and therefore not so attractive. On the other hand, in Great Britain, Mexico, being one of the chief silver-produc- ing countries, is regarded as a kind of El Dorado, while the distance is too great for people to go and judge for themselves of the soundness of their investments. "The unscrupulous promoter, therefore, has an admirable field for his operations in Mexico. " And it appears probable that the London market will be flooded still more with all manner of Mexican schemes for extracting money from the British public showers of concessions have been granted by the Gov- ernment during the past two years for every sort of financial and industrial enter- prise. This leads Sir Fra.ncis Denys to recom- mend that, every caution should be exercised before concessions are taken up second hand, or investments made in land companies in remote districts where there is no pop- ulation, or perhaps no water where the transport for produce is long and difficult, or where there are no local markets. Mines struggle under similar drawbacks, railways compete with existing lines, and so on in the cake of many other enterprises. The securities offered for local. State, or niunici- pal loans should also be scrutinized in view of the existing mode of taxation. At the same time, Mexico is undoubtedly advanc- ing rapidly in material prosperity the admin, istrationhas a strong hold on public con"d- ence, and, "if caution and discrimination are exercised, there need be no fear on the part of the public abroad in embarking under the present Government in those min- ing, agricultural, or financial enterprises which offer reasonable prospects of success." Charlemagne's Statue. The many thousands of English people who visited Paris during the exhibition prob- ably imagine that the really magnificent colossal statue of Charlemagne, which they must have noticed on the Parvis Notre Dame, was the property of the town, but un- fortunately such is not the case. Its author, the late Louis Rochet, who consecrated ten years of his existence to the completion of the work, offered to sell it at a very low price to the city, but all he could obtain from the Council was permission to place it where it now stands. A pedestal costing over 4,000f had to be provided. The work v.as executed, but has not yet been paid for. M. jSIarcadet, tlie contractor, after vainly seeking to obtain pa jTuentf or tlie pedestal, is now taking legal proceedings for the sale both of the pedestal and of the statue, but he is hindered in his action by the founder, who, not having been paid for the bronze of the staute, puts in a prior claim. It is hoped the Municipal Comicil will smooth over all these difliculties by purchasing the statue, which is certainly a great ornament to the Parvis. Though the municipal authorities are lavish in their expenditure in raising statues to moreor less insignificant republican heroes, it is doubtful whether they will make uptheirminds to remember that in the timeof Charlemagne repuclicanism had not yet come into existence, and that he was a liberal- minded monarch. French ^gineers propose aacendin e the Jvngfixa by ik aacoeasKm of slaatiBc toada forming a aigMg to ahei^tof lo^e 12.000 feet, kadug nearly at iSm mmadt of the Strack by a Falling Star. One of the most remarkable accidents re- corded m history occurred near Marlborough Mouse, London, England, recently. At about 5 o'clock p.m. a gentleman, a well- kno^vn public oflicer, was passing from St. James Park to Pall Mall when he sudden- ly received a violent blow on his right shoul- der which caused him great pain and to stumble forward as he walked. He noted a cracking noise at the time, but had not the slightest idea of the cause of the shock he had experienced. Reaching home he disrobed and submitted to a critical ex- amination, but nothing was discovered which 111 the least accounted for the great pain m both shoulder and arm. A sen-ant sent to brush the gentleman's coat next morning discovered a scorched streak ex- tendmg acroas the shoulder of the coat and t^^- ^\ '^^ mysterious shock wais ^rteg'atii' " ^*â„¢^^ ^y -«*- A'ffintforfipwTMf, ... 1^5*^ 9^»»" to rawe ^e House ol Only half tbe menil' House of Conu„onTw^':»' weekwnenMr. Lawl*^«»iii;? annual motion to a ^^tS and 137 voted in its f ,v ^^Bot^li majority of but wit;?:;" CiS year. It is not kno«I^T*'»'M^ constituting pariS'^tthettS the peers, and the com,; '"'^^ getherasoneaseST.^^'S*^ gether until the time of P^**v«!' they separated into tl. '^^ ill\^ and the commons. TW "'"^-i^ abolished .luring the 1 "^I^' W^ what is known fs?rid°rX!^t IS military party '"~tnVued\'»lt ' members out of «nse, parliaments. 1653, a little 'erei During the protectorate "t^: '^•^ first, wMoi" JjIjj the suppression of tl-e il ?*«*, went out of business Deceml^ ^!'N »i4s ters that Cromwell, who .nn ** not want its members to S'^^'m ond met September 3, loi i aside also as not subsernJm'i *^*l new constitution. ments consisted thr« These inrff ., of one house W,;"^*! was unsatisfactory to Crom^eU i^.."*! was too repuUican in~"tCsih"' publicans resigned rather thWw** dictation an.l nKr.„f in, â„¢"»lttol. dictation were tion; and about 100 k^;:*!!"' denied admission to 1^,^" fourth parliament, under thenâ„¢ tion, consisted of two houses • ku"" ' disolvedit because thp !^::°' '"" commong HI«(| atfgl to recognise his mongrel ho^TZ 1 here is precedent, therefore for ^, mentiu England without a house „n**' but^it IS a somewhat-revolutionan-anLl gether an unfortunate precedent »(. tlie assertion of democratic ideas' ' The house of peers as ^^ c*i stituted consists of the whole 3 age of .England, and certain repnsntS peers of Ireland and Scotland." The~.- I all 543 members, exclusive of 1.1 and 5 women who are peeresk.^ in ti own right. The membership is ii\ii^„ follows: Princes of the Uood, ^.J bishops, 2 dukes, '22 marquises, iyi'.f„i,| 114; viscounts, 2S bishops, 24;} 288 Scotch representative peers Irish representative peers,2S. Oftlieaonen resentativc .Scottish peer and ;wj res sentative Ii-ish jiecrs are also mm peers of Enghiml. Of course, tbe 1«. peers is in theory a hereditary body,.. senting the ancient aristocracy bu: ael over the dates of the dignities of tie 'i bers is something of a surprise, Tberf few titles that have any halo of actioi about them. Only two of the dukesdatt' as far as the sixteenth century only ci the marc^uises only five of the earls; only one of tlie viscounts. The oldesttii are among tlie liarons but there are n few even of them that are reverently Of course some of the peers of the' ranks have old titles of a lower ran even with this allowance tlie hots peers is a pretty modern hody. For stance, as the result of a hasty count, we 219 of the 288 barons of England whosti are of nineteenth century creation; 6 oi dukes l.S of the marcitiises 67 of thelcri| 22 of -the viscounts and of course bishops and archbishops do not sit ii house by virtue of liiith. The Ice Man on Top- It was Arabella Mc (iinty. the once p?3 coal-dealer"s daughter. She sat lonely: not too luxuriously furiushcd drawing- â€"the carpets liad"not been lenewed for past yearâ€" and thought of tlietime. jisi years ago, when she had refused the haM Reginald Smikes, the ice man's son. H years of mild winteis h;wi knocked heni out. Sales had been light anJ protts than nothing. Arabella Me Ginty was the daughter of a man worth about cent, on the dollar. She mused on tbe when, in tlie arranscmeut of weaia had refused the hand of Reginald b« his father's income was a little lesstha of her own parent. " He will neverreW she said. ' ' He cannot foi give me myheiirt I loved him so " There were footsteps ""the walk onu a ring and footsteps in the ^^^^^â- ^"i'^u ushered into tlie drawing-room by a refl-^ ed servant girl wlio hadiit hail acen.c... for twoinoiitlis. Arabella tunio.l pale. tlien turned pale again. speak. „ ,, "1 have come," sai.l ReginaU. ' rcsiioiwei' f speech. I have come to claim minang^ etn.-icd me. K" "" t, not .leecive yea back. The mild winters ha«m^^;. coal. " We are har.l "P "^S^.i^i^nin* tiien Whs' vjhe cow' "Come, for what regaining tbe jjowcr o: •'I havi hand you once ii me fiilly, I W(niM same cause pauper has broken m.V â-  â-  The mild winters have ice supply just as they have \Ve are hard np together Aral's* onto the situation V J^"?!! "^.jiiea Tears of purest "ffectiou weu Arabella's eyes, ^^^l^^e^.. She could be happy i" a was his forever. Then came the .v""»g '"tni" 1"' umph. "Ihavenottold-oujU;^^,, "We don't need cold winM^^.^^^^j anymore A Patent ice^^^_^ .^ •„, r business to a 1. " "'"^Hrffvon- Wi in dollars. I was only ^^^Zl^^n ask of you to teach our chiWre ^^^f mild seasons the ice man bos the coal man. Costly Easter Bggs. finisnCi" A Parisian firm has ]«st^^^.ealti! an Easter Egg,;intciide(Uof ^^^, ishlady, at a cost of S?4,«A_ ^jy ingenious piece o mechanism entirely of pure white enamel^. ed with doors and sl«"' j^. Tbe engraved with Kaster gos^' ^J.' oft door sets a tiny W^'-gbMf? calap^ratus going winch IS 'i- ing twelve airs. FuUof! •qWi Mr. Wildflower i^^J^'^^lLte will excuse my behav^o-joj^f^" Jones, but I was so/n""'..! hart' Miss Jones (fn^now*" slightest curiosity to wj, fufl of, Mr. Wildflower ^^' Mr. Wildflower (despej^ misunderstand me. a„ was full of, but sp««^ ody). Miss Jones (contempW» ^y^ pooh another name i" Bftl" Are Anny lae rbeJ 5 French l(jin a sn C^y.thatmyst iVbich so mai tlished in the ks a natural ci Utrange cust( Hves of Dahon" kid- ^homey has Jtely sealed b oed- It is a kingdoi ler Guinea coi 3 and 8 degr« u-es hem it in 1 on the west i I on the south Its area varies lie sovereigns Estimated at 6t JThe country hi *ce the beginni y, and there h 1 Portuguese f vals for 20!) yc ^he tactics of ays been to ns, then tofal b is the destrii ties," or tradi tomey coast w «ent struggle. The king of Di 3 and bestial is not at all ..ons. Jehas trotted y, for he has 1 given them oners. I the last battl rior armament i hundreds of d et charge on tl famous A aen warriors. The king of D; 5 all the â-  marri I to appear oni le passes the-.ii " 3 harem, ot i for his tavo i the ugly and 6 lows to return t' Ee has about 4 I in additiou U nuig a body-g ,Wor2,0iX) in n These lal)orious long to his hous .e, and when th â-  is rung in fro happens to be a expected to 1 ay if he doesu' cats him into s The composition â-  curious. Oi have been ist always be m; nished by esecu These woman ar r than the m B reason probah fch a constant st I their brutal m Dtrol over their py are good for Ing privileged cl wer Louis XI. it They are by no mbat are tertibl They take scalpi 6 Indians do, am y;le-fields they c i large number led with old-fa e butts of these â-ºhells with coag ^jcatmg a man s IJose who have ph bows and an I around their ^. with which they scalj "ese women d »P08ed ofaslee ^te native cloth «e below the i «w the knees. J a country wh â- ne highest cour '""« are the gi â- ce, these fer « and receive dis the return of "11 raid or a b r» from the ca ^^fe killed "t "e bodies are 1 tS**' "•* the 8 L?«onunent of t Ik French capi teofthei, V tK '°®- »., .^azoniai *f of Dahomey S,'*«ni,and. ^^lasted fo "Me struggle. id» ♦ '^^ pies kflak^^presei 7i?l?^eiorg, f«kallei ~*li8leB mi ^^^