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 WPi^WHf^P! w^m i! li'itV YOUNG POLKS. H0WITALL£5D£D. Katy MarshI and Flora Harwbod were «nt on the ocean sailingâ€" and boond directly tat Paria To be sure their steamer was only a wheelbarrowâ€" and their ocean, the back yard But what of that? And what is the Bse of little girls having an imagination if tiiey're always going to adapt themselves to circumstances ?â€" I'd like to know. However, it all seemed very real to Katy and Flora, and as the steamer rocked again and again in the most alarming way, the little girls clung to the side of the vessel, and said "Whatever in this world shall we do, if we're drowned '" And, as no one could answer that question, they prepared them- selves for the worst But just then the sun came out from behind a cloud, and Katy said, "The storm is over and we are sav- ed." "Yes," answered Flora, "and now We most singâ€" .don't you know, Katy Ship- wrecked crews always sing something." "Do they I should think they'd be dry- ing their clothes. " " 0, Katy Marsh you're so queer. But then ours wasn't areal shipwreck, you know; we only came near it any way I think it would be lovely to sing just as we are enter- ing port." "All right. Flora, go ahead." And Katy, who generally gave in to Flora, straighten- ed up the dollies, pinned the silk handker- chief again on the kitten (for during the storm everybody and everything had been more or less disturbed), then said, " I m ready, go on. " Oh, it was just lovely Even the kitten enjoyed it, for she purred delightfully as the little girls sung airs appropriate to the occasion. " A Life On the ocean Wave, " Speed 5ty Bark," " O'er Waters Blue," " The Breaking Waves Dashed High" and ' Dublin Bay" followed each other in quick succession. ^, " Katy,jdo you know ' My Father sat the Helm'" " No Is he I didn't want to play when any one was around. " " 0, Katy Marsh You'll be the death of me some day. I mean the poem it's per- fectly lovely. " " Is it But what is a helium " " Helm, Katy, don't ever say helium. A helm'sâ€" a helm It's a something that always goes with a ship I don't know as I can ex- flain it a sort of ornament, like a flag-staff, guess. Any way, it isn't very important â€"5 knmo !â€" But the poem is elegant, and makes me want to cry." "Oh-h," said Katy, "I don't beheve I d like it then. Don't sing it, Flora, please it's ever so much nicer without fathers and helms, I think. You know if papa was out here, he'd say, 'Katy, you'd better go in the liouse now and help mamma. ' That would be horrible we don't want to even think of such things. " "Oh, no indeed let's sing " "Katy, Katy Marsh where are you "Oh dear, Flora That's mamma after all. It's that old dress to try on, I know." "Here I am, mamma, "and through a hole in the fence came Katy carrying in her arm Uie little gray-and -white kitten. "\ou don't want me now, do you, mamma " But Mrs. Marsh did want her, she had been wanting her some time. Then, too, she despised cats, and had said to Katy again and again "Never bring one near the house " So putting it altogether, Mrs. Marsh was not in a gentle frame of mind and what do yon suppose she said "Put down that cat, and come in this minute I" Oh, it was dreadful And little Flora Harwood, who was half way through the fence, went back in an instant to tell her another all about it ' Poor Katy It was bad enough to have Snamma act so, right before Flora Havwood but to hear her dear, beautiful kitten called a cat was enough to break her heart, and Iters, she knew, was "breaking all to pieces. " There was Paris just in sight, and every- thing so lovely and here was mamma with a frown, the kitten gone, and a dress to try on Was there ever a little girl so rried " I shall never get over it â€" never" thought Katy but the worst was to come. As her mother finished trying on the dress, baby Ned, who had a faculty for waking up at the â- wrong time on a busy day, began to cry lustily. Katy well knew what that cry meant for her; there was no going out now till " that child" was amused in some way, or put to sleep again, and it was worse than useless to expect mamma to take him so with a most unhappy heart Katy went into the little bed- room to quiet her baby brother. What if at all other times, he was " just too sweet to live, and the most beautiful baby in the world?" He was not sweet when he cried, and not the least bit beautiful besides it wasn't very nice to look after a babywhenone wouldratherlook after a kit- ten What if she had called mamma only the day before, when she promised to make the dress like Flora's â€" puffs on the sleeves and all â€" "too perfectly lovely." She was far from lovely now And Katy wished some- thing would happen to make mamma put up her work and pity her poor little girl Just then remembarance of the long days of last Spring came to her how, when slie was "so sick with that fever, mamma had been so good and patient all that weary, long time." E.ven Katy's xapa, at the last, said 'Katy was getting cross," but mamma hadn't thought so. Surely her little girl ought.to be willing to help mamma when she could. So almost before she knew it the angry thoughts had all gone, and Katy was singing a lullaby to baby Ned, who, as he listened, forgot to cry and settled himself down to finish his nap. Now mamma, out in the other room, heard the sweet voice singing, and then mamma began to think. "Poor little girlie It was too bad to have to leave your play, even to trj' on a new frock and though you came in unwillingly, 1 cannot blame you so very much. It was hard I know, to give up Flora and the fun in that sudden way. I ought not to have been so hasty. But, dear me I I ico,' so tired waiting, and then â€" that cat I never could endure a cat. They're always in the way. " "Meow, meow," went something right be- side Mrs. Marsh, and looking down, she saw the dearest, little kitten in the world All gray but the two fore paws, and a spot of white on the top of its head. "Meow, meow," vent pussy â€" and looking up at Mrs. lursh said as plainly as one could wish â€" "I'm not a cat, Fm, a kitten '" '^Morey mel" exoiaiiaied Katy's maquB% •"you're ^le very thing Katy had in'^CT jtuns; where did ycu come from?" "Meow." answered kitty. _- "Now what can I tell by your meows 1 most say, for a cat, you're i^etty. "Meow, meow." "Well really now, Ibelieveyouknowyoa re cute and pretty," and Mrs. Mam* took from her work-basket a baU of knitting-cot- ton, and threw it on the floor, for ttie kitten to play with, and actually stopped her sew- ing to watch a cat Think of it., toce, at a very funny little jump and tumble, she laughed out loud ' "Oh my what would Katy say if she heard me Say I'd lost iny senses, I gueM. But this is such a dear little thing, I could ahnost like it myself. I wonder if its hungry. ... 9 Come cat, do you want something to eat T "Meow." ^, "Well meow it is." And out into the kitchen, and down the cellar-steps went that very sensible woman to get some milk But where was Katy all this time Ah this is what happened to Katy after singing the pretty lullaby, she started the baby's favorite "Bye O Baby Bunting,^ and coming to the line about the rabbit's skin she changed the word rabbit to kitten, and began to wonder if a kitten's skin was as soft as a rabbit's skin, and if any One had ever tried it, and if it would hold a baby any way â€" and, oh, lots of things As she wondered she kept singing over and over "A kitten's skin to wrap our Baby Bunting in, a kitten's skin to wrap, to wrap our baby, wrap our baby â€" ba â€" by â€" Bunting-^ba â€" by Bun â€" ting â€" in. " And Katy Marsh was lost to all around her, and travelling far away. Over a ground all covered with softest fur her chariot sped swiftly on without a sound. Two beautiful white cats, with yellow tails were before the chariot (an immense shell of mother-of-pearl with silver wheels) and the driver had on an elegant coat of tortoise fur. On, on they went, almost seeming to fly until they stopped at the edge of a lovely grove, where the softest, sweetest music was playing and then driver, chariot and all vanished, and Katy was walking through the grove. All around were cats and kittens of every size and color. Some were climbing trees some playing with fluffy balls some swinging in the golden swings some sleeping on velvet cushions scattered all aroimd, while the most beautiful sight of all was a throne of red and gold upon which sat Prince Grimalkin At his right stood the "cat with the fid- dle" at his left, three cats were singing, "Sing, sing, what shall we sing. The cat's run away with the pudding.-bag string " At the foot of the throne, were the "three little kittens" whoonce "lost their mittens," but who now wore them fastenrd around their necks with tiny golden chains â€" oh, it was all so beautiful Katy gave a great "ah- h-h" right out Whereupon all the cats began to purr, and all the kittens to mew at once Then for the first the Prince espied Katy. "Little girl, why came you hither, and what is your name " "Katy," was the trembling answer.- "Katrina, you mean. " At that all the cats stopped purring and all the kittens mewing to look at the little girl with a cat's name "Katrina, can you purr?" "No," said Katy. "Can you mew?" "Oh, no indeed " "Then what are you doing here " growled Prince Grimalkin. "Please, sir, I don't know." "I should say not. Well, well, can you sing " "Oh yes, I love to sing." "Cats and kittens, do you hear that ?.This little girl can sing â€" shall we listen " All the cats bowed and all the kittens nodded. "Very well, you may sing, Katrina, but remember to choose something appropriate, for if you fail to please us after coming to Catland without an invitation, you shall re- ceive a whipping for this. " And the Prince drew forth a whip of cat-o'-nine-tails, and shook it tl' ~-teningly at Katy. " Purr, p purr," went the cats " Mew, mew, meW," said all the kittens. ' Silence " said Prince Grimalkin. ' ' Little girl, begin." Oh, what a funny, faint little voice Katy did not feel it was her own, and yet all the while she heard " I love little pussy, her coat is so warm. And if I don't hurt her shell do me no hami I'll sit by the fire and give her some food, And pussy will love me, because 1 am good." "Fine, fine, very fine," said the Prince, as he stroked his whiskers and with a satis- fied smile bowed to Katy. ' ' You have shown " excellent taste, and your voice is very sweet. Had you chosen a song about the ' little doggie,' or some such thing, we would all have conje to the scratch and punished you. As it is, we feel you are what you said in your song â€" ' a good little girl.' And now, if you will promise never to come here again, you may take this with you, and go." â€" And as he descended the throne with the most beautiful kitten of all in his arms, Katy felt herself, sinking, sinking, and the music growing fainter, fainter, until it ceased altogether and there she was in the little bedroom, and baby Ned w^as sitting up in his cradle playing with his rattle " Oh, dear me " said Katy, aa she rubbed her ejes, " it was only a u-eam, after all, and what will mamma say I must have slept an hour " And Katy went out to see if mamma was getting supper, when, there in the kitchen, licking an empty saucer, was her darling little kitten " O mamma you're just like other mam- mas after all, and it was a true dream " ' ' Humph " said her mother, " why am I different And what was the dream " Then Katy told her all, and though Mrs. Marsh said when she finished "It's perfect nonsense from beginning to end," â€" the kitten â€" ^aid. [Ladies' Home Journal. AOTBMERQED EAILWIY. i MAESHAL MA^^SOff^STOK; PEEILSOFTHEj The IwceBl«» »«*e«e tn ImOMmm gM»« Near a Ko4y SpanlA Coart. The mines of Onton, near Bilbao, m^ Spain, have long been celebrated for tiieir riSn^ in the yield of iron ores suitable for the manufacture of steel, but great trouble has heretofore been experienced in- the stim- ment of the mineral on account or the oun- cnlty of placing it on board ot the ships, ^ng- land and the Continent are the great markets for this product. The coast adjacent to these mines is high and rdcky, exposed to the full force of the sea, there being no harbors m the immediate vicinity: At the foot of the rocks there is a sloping shore which extends out to a considerable distance, with an even grade. It is upon this inclme that the re- markable raUway we are about to describe has been constructed. The roadbed of the railway has a length of about 650 feet and a width of 20 feet, upon which two sets of parallel tracks, each 3J feet wide, are placed constituting a four-rail railway. The grade is five feet to the hun- dred. The car which traverses this railway, upon which the ore is conveyed from the cliffs to the ships, consists of a high metallic tower made in the form of a pyramid havmg a wide triangular base. The tower is mount- ed on wheels, which run upon the quadruple railway track before mentioned. The plat- form of the tower upon which the load of mmeral is placed is about 70 feet high from the track, a hight which is sufficient to rise above the decks of ordinary vessels when the tower is run alongside thereof; and from the platform the discharge of ore is made directly into the hold of the vessels. This great rolling tower is operated automatically. It is connected to the shore by means of a strong wire cable, which passes over pulleys fastened to the rocks. At the l;ind end of the cable there are attached some weighted cars that move up and down ui)on an incline. These form a counterbalancing weight for pulling the tower when empty in toward the shore. The mineral to be loaded upon the vessels is brought from the mines, which are not far distant from the coast, upon rop° railways mounted upon posts. From the mineral dumps upon the rocky heights the mineral is conveyed part way down the cliff through a chute, the end of which projects beyond the cliff, and when the empty tower is drawTi to shore by the cars before mentioned it automatically opens an end gate in the chute and allows the mineral to drop noon the platform in a continuous stream until a weight of ore sufficient to overcome that of the counterbalancing weight or weighted cars has fallen upon the platform, and when this takes place, the tower, by its own gravity, begins to move down the inclined railway, and the gate of the chute auto- matically closes. The tower continues to glide down the inclined way through the water until it reaches the side of the ship, which is anchored fore and aft, and then by the throw of a lever, the platform of toWer being inclined, the whole load upon the platform is almost instantly deposited upon the ship, going down through suitable sHdes into the hold thereof. As soon as the dis- charge of tlie load-takes place, the counter- balancing cars begin to draw the tower in- ward a'gain toward the shore, and thus the operation of moving the tower back and forth automatically, and automatically load- ing and discharging itself, is carried on with the greatest success. It is said this railway operates even when the sea is extremely rough. It certainly is a bold undertaking, and reflects the greatest credit upon its constructor, Mr. D. M. Alberto de Palacio. The platform carries for its load 100 tons of ore. It is said that 5,000 tons of ore per day can be put on shipboard by means of this apparatus, the total cost §18,- 000. amd to €«*•*»•' â-  â-  .. â-  Some time ago Col. Stoffd, «i #ntlio^ inthT^itai/affidrsof ^^^^ .^°f «^- ^y, published in PariB » râ„¢P*^^tâ„¢ ceii the possibUity of a J-ranco-Geman allianceagainstRussianpan-slavismandKus- sian barbarism generaUy. The ««e qnanon of such an alliance. Col. Stoffel said, was ?Lt Germany should return to France her lost provinces. The general discussion of Col. Stoflel's novel ideas was interrupted bj^ ASDJZlJffaBABj AITDB' I»esperatcthase^,,,^^ The German batkwr"" " lett the vessel in two b^r^lV^^ has not smce been repoj '^f of the crew worn ^^i t' He. events of greater importance at Berhn and been m an open boat Trt"" *« Paris, but it has been revived by some rather they arrived here 4^/^^ S sensational comments on it by the venerable Pearf, Capt. Knapp, fr^^ 0^7 Marshal MacMahon. Since the accession of Chief OfEcer Herman v'" the present German Emperor to the throne, I command of the resc- p.iT*' »« Marshal MacMahon thinks, there is no hope that the Western Cl-tf iT' «ft that I ranee may get back her provmces New York with a g.;;" Ha^i^^ peaceably in the near future. Had young [and took the soutbe""^^" 'â- " WUliams's father, however, lived to execute westerly gales prevailed .tf^S' the foreign poUcy he had in his mmd, France eight days, and durin. t*^^ " would have recovered Alsace and Loraine of this time the bark !â-  "'«f!* without the firing of a shot or the spilling pitched and strained in a ^t' and """•'ent « of a drop of blood. « •, "On file day after the battle of Sedan, says the Marshal, in explanation of his constantly, but the water in tTv^P^J unique opinions, " the Crown Prmce Fred- steadily. During the nLVt M'i4 erick called on me. I could not receive him leak suddenly Increasef t '"m finally sprang a dan^eZ" «H pumps were manned and ^^ J*^ 1 tantly,butthewat^ri„.^,^^I The 'Wardrobe of Queen Bess. An inventory taken in the year 1600 of the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth enables us to estimate the sumptuous attire with which the Virgin Queen at once delighted and astonished her subjects. She had at the date named, 99 robes, 126 kirtles, 269 gowns (round, loose and French), 136 foreparts, 125 petticoats, 27 fans, 96 cloaks, 83 saveguards, 85 doublets and 18 lap mantles. Her gowns were of the richest and cost- liest materials â€" purple, gold tissue, crimson, satin, cloth of gold, cloth of silver, white velvet, cloth and satins of dove color, drake color, horse-flesh color and a very popular color known in those old times as "lady blush." Some of the queen's dresses are worthy of special note, says the London Lady. A frock of silver cloth, checkered with red silk like birds' eyes, with demi- sleeves, a cut of crimson velvet tMosted on with silver and lined with crimson velvet. A French kirtle of white satin, cut all over, embroidered with loops, flowers and clouds of Venice gold, silver and silk. The fore- part of one dress was white satin embroid- ered very fine with border of the sun, moon and other signs and planets of Venice gold, silver and silk of sundry colors, with a border of beasts beneath, likewise em- broidered. Other gowns were adorned with bees, flies, spiders, worms, trunks of trees, pan- sies, oak leaves and mulberries while some were resplendent with- rainbows, suns, clouds, fountains and flames of fire. Her buttons were of fantastic device, some being in the shape of flowers and butter-flies, and those on one gorgeous dress were in the (inulitude of birds of paradise. Altogether, the Virgin Queen, when arrayed in all her glory, must have resembled a preliminary edition of "The History ot Animated Na- ture." Elevation of Women. Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury I in a series of visitation addresses on the pre sent social aspect of Christian life and work, thus alludes to organizations for the protec- tion and elevation of women "Not one step taken thus far in woman's education and advance can be said to have led to one evil or done one mischief. Her Besun to Look as Tnongh Tbej Gonldn't dignity has risen steadily with her iwwer for Agree. R**"**- ^** scandal, folly, luxury, extravag- Tom Dabbs and Mort Spillers, twocolored """" ^^*^ *** " ""â„¢^*^" gentlemen, formed a copartnerdiip to do a general plastering business. One morning, the second day after articles of agreement had been drawn up, Dabbs seized an ax-band- leand knocked SpUlers down and beat hijn unmercifully. SpiUers got up, mbbed his head and, taming to a whit^ nuui Hba-t stood »gir;^aii\ irifi .: ^-:' â-  ' iM fT, « ^^•Ms {trov^'one Uung, Om*. W it ^eepa'oo dis way me an' dii man kain't agree.' ^^^^^„ x~. suddenly incrcaseil T â€" ' on account of my wounds, but d'Abzac, my ' soundings showed that tL ' Adjutant, saw him, and talked with him and of water in the ve' ' on the following day related the conversa- officer Kruse lield a corsulfMi "'""^i tionto me. The Prussian general staff that as the Wk was liabK.^^^'i) and sink at any moment it -•â-  "« They Met .l^Ohanoe. CSoL Yisrgerâ€" What** the matter\idth yon? Yomr ciptiies are all tcHm. and yoj^p {ii«»isaU scaned np. ^^^ ^^^^Jtt^tjl Mfi(^^J[ lM|le fnst and oaoly Gd, whM I met wr w time dnce I married Swayback Ln^cy. --1-Cap,.t^f'^« expected the war to end very soon, and had no idea that Paris could offer much resistance. The Crown Prince Frederick said 'Herr von Moltke is, in my opmion, about to make a grave mistake. He wishes to compel you to cede to us part of your territory I gave my views on the matter, and declared I held such a proposal to be a j bad error. I think I know the French and i that they could forgive everything except just such a crippling of their country, soon as they regained their " ^^ able to abanaon Food and water in two boats Indies. The was a good chance of the for five days wrepj, which werelauncliei .^:il"!i;'râ- iili^^^;"^^.'^-g-ftle •^^1 boat, and selected for his crew ties strength after officer, four seamen, and a W it thus losing territory, they would ti^ to get chief officer was assigned thecaw i back aU tSey had lost. They would, there- penter, cook, four stamen r^^!*- fore, always, be threatening the peace and latter â-  â-  "mv safety of Prussia.' These words of the Crown Prince, reported to me by d'Abzac, impressed me deeply. I have never forgot- ten them. I am sure that Frederick, as Emperor, would not have altered his views â-  trace some but would have been true to his former cen- left Western" Chierabout viction that the annexation of Alsace and Loraine was a permanent obstacle to my reconciliation of France and Germany. Under him Stoffel's proposal for a Franco- German alliance could have been considered seriouslv. Now it is out of the question. " All the German dailies which are not en- tirely occupied with the recent develop- ments of Imperial politics at Berlin are try- ing to prove that the old French soldier is attempting to manufacture history and that Unser Fritz never made any such utterances as those attributed to him by d'Abzac. was Alois Boecher, t'^e son nfl wealthy German, who had been sent '«! for his health. Before getting into -J boats the«rew set fire to the sinkintl, thinking that by so doing tlievniigij " passmg vessel. Thetwi 8 o'clock ill morning, and remained near her alll At 10 o'clock intlie evening the bark J Half an hour later Officer Knist sight of the long boat. He has hows J Capt.Rohling and his men were picbil or that they succeeded in reaching tk I amas. At day break next morning (i Kruse saw the spars of the Pearl, bu; iii evident that the Ixiat could not l« sceii her decks. The Pearl, however wi I ceeding slowly. The (listressed sailors 3 on their oars and drove the boat i| direction of the brig. The latter wii ing to the northward before a soeM wind which blew in pufis. ThekitirJ gain upon the brig until her Ml »i The Republic of France is at war with the begin to show aT)ove the horizon. King of Dahomey, and a French newspaper would come a puff of wind in which tie published the information the other day "Women Professionally Athletic. that a battle had been fought in which eight combatants were killed and many wounded. Later on the Dahomians, who had succeeded in capturing a number of Frenchmen, and other Europeans, made another attack, but were finally repulsed with a loss of 400 killed. The interesting tact in the dispatch laj' in the last lines " Among the dead were found some of the female) warriors of the King of Dahomey." Who are these Amazons Dahomey, now for the fifth time at war with a Europeou nation, is a kingdom of Western Africa, in Guinea, its limits being inexactly defined, but with ain estimated area of four thousand square miles. The Dahomians are Pagans, and the tiger is their principal fetish. They are bloodthirsty, but hospitable and courageous. Once a year the monarch (whose people approach him by crawling with their faces in the dust) sprin- kles his ancestor's graves with human blood. There is an annual festival which takes place about October and lasts sever?' kVeeks. During the Saturnalia many human victims are put to death with great barbaritJ^ At one stage of these "customs" the unfor- tunate 'wretches, chiefly captives taken in war, are dressed in long shirts and long white nightcaps and tied on baskets, '"hey are then taken to the top of a high platform and paraded on the heads of Ainazons, together with an alligator, a cat and a hawk in similar baskets. After the King has made a speech, the victims are hurled down into the midst of a surging crowd of natives, and meet with a hoiTible death. The skulls would heel over m a Uangerons iibi while the brig would rush on until oak spars remained above the horizon. Three men straggled desperately a! I oars until long past noon, gaining pol only to lose it again. At length, aUcI clock in the afternoon, the wind sEnef the northward. The brig was no longerf to head her course and stood to the eastij The shipwrecked men now strained i muscle in a last struggle to come upt«| brig. They gained steadily uponl at length, to their joy, they saw hw tJ to. Chief Officer Christiansen of the Pa'i| seen the boat just as his vessel was.al go upon the other tack. When tk i came up to the Pearl they wereakKKj hausted from the effects of their r* hours' struggle at the oars. A solioq was now seen at some distance to ' ward, 'and appeared ready to ofier!:er| vices, but these, fortunately, were o er needed. The shipwrecked men' treated with great kinihiess on tej the Pearl. An Able New Potato, At the last meeting of the Paris .tai of Sciences M. Aime Girard gave »e teresting information respecting tljH peror, or Richter's Imperator, pot?.t"J stated that, after testing ««"»*.",..,, for some years, hegrew it largelyml^J 1889, and also gave out tutes tor ment to forty growers i_n 'life^" ^. France. It appeared that ^h J^J" are used to adorn tlie palace walls, and the yield of tubers in '"""'^^ .-'^jm^it King's sleeping chamber is paved with the: 7,500 kilogramiv.es (say Hi \.,,^^j^. heads of his enemies. The skulls of the to the hectare, a hectare beuig--^^^ I conquered kings are converted into royal variety known as the Impera^^^'|||J drinking cups. i certain coditions yield as nnicn»^'j About one-fourth of the females are said to 40,000 kilogrammes per liectar ^^ be married to the fetish, many even before with more tlian 20 per cent. o. ^^. ^^^ their birth, and the remainder are entirely j These figures were quite born at the disposal of the king. The most ' Girard's own experience, favored are selected as his own wives, enlisted into the regiments of the Amazons, and then tbe chief men are liberally sup- plied. The Amazons form the flower of the army. They are marshaled into regiments, each three out of forty '^P^"""^? gjultwassj] with its distinctive uniform and badees, and out the comitry the S^°^*qqq kilogtaq they take the post of honor on the flanks of ranging from 32,(KX) to ** ^j,iq jo the battle line. Their number has been per hectare, with a proportioi^-^^ variously estimatel at from 1,000 to 6,000. 2 per cent, of dry starch, tn ^^^ Their weapons are blunderbusses, flint mus- being 36,000 kilogrammes Fj^^ kets and bows and arrows. They are in part 7,900 kilogrammes of dry sw his crop « â-  or 1 yieldmg 39,000 kil«S""^lV 18. hectare! with 'Mi per fff^^2 ' to 7,956 kilogrammes of dry s is more than the general a^ erage ^\M tubers themselves :u '"'•^tbr recruited in a remarkable manner. If a woman in Dahomey is found to be unfaithful to her husband she is at once sent to military headquarters and enrolled among the Ama- zons. If she has an acrid temper or fails to bear children, or if her husband wants to get rid of her, he honors himself by presenting her to the King, who, if she has the requisite physical qualifications, turns her over to his army officers to be drilled as an Amazon. The garrison of Aghome, the King's Capi- tal, is composed almost exclusively of Amaz- ons. A recent visitor to the Capital says there were only thirty male soldiers in the farrison. The Amazons are so trained to 11 the peaceful role of ballot girls. One of thebigsightsof Dahomeyis to eethe Amaz- ons on giua days frantically brandishing their weapons, uttering their warcries and going through their dances before-the King. It is said thftt at the death of the King a horrid scene ensne. 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