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I on on on on on on on on on on on ONE PANTHER'S SENSE OF HUMOR HAD FUN WITH A HUNTER IN THE WEST VIRGINIA WOODS, BUT LOST ITS TEMPER IN THE END. game out of season, do you? the visitor inquired of John Bruner, the guide in the Middle Mountain range. No. I don't want to kill any game," Bruner replled. "The fact is, I was scared about a year ago putty nearly to deathmade a plaything of by a'damned painter for about an hour in these very mountain, and I don't want that sort ot agin, and it was just because I didn't hcv my gun with me.

"'I was at Cherry Grove, on top of the Allegnany, intending to stay all season with fr'ends, one day I askin' me to conte on a certain tatiotayletter to Adison to meet a fishin' party an' guide 'em into the Cheat Mountaing on a a troutfishin' tr.p. As I only had time nuff to meet em on the day set bv takin' the shortest route I c'luded to foller the old Senec path Seneca path is an ole Injun trail which runs 'bout as near straight as a surveyor could make It right through the DrY Fork of Rich Mountain, across Laurel River, then over Middle Mountain and East Fork, over Shaver Mountain an' Otter River, an' straight on through the wildest, roughest part of the wods to the railroad "'Better take yer said Jim Burk, the feller I was stayin' with. 'They say them woods 19 full of painters an' bars, en' they mought tackle 'I'll jes' go light as I kin, an' I won't hev any time to spare. As fer the varmints, I ain't skeered o' I says, an' off I loped, carryin' nothin' but a piece 0' meat an' a pone o' cohn bread. "It's a mighty long way 'cross, an' I made good time I didn't see nothin' that day but a ole she b'ar an' a couple o' halfgrown cubs, an' they wuz right in the trail, an' all three stopped an' growled an' sniffed when they me, but when waved my arms an' started at 'em with a whoop they lit out like race horses.

"Them b'ars looked 80 com'cal, an' they a was skeered so bad thet I laffed till I was sore Thet wuz my time to laff; the nex' time the other critter did the laffn', of any was did. "I slep' under a tree that night an' nothin' bothered me, an' the next mornstarted early, follerin' the old Injun trail 19 jes' das as it was a path--an', praway that ole Seneca hundred and fifty years ago. It's 'bout eighteen inches wide an' a foot deep, an' so hard that nothin' grows on it-jes' like it hed been leveled out with a shovel. was goin' 'long in a sort o' a lope, right 'long the top o' Shaver Mountain with woods growin' thick an' big rite to the trail, when right in front o' me, not Atty feet away, big painter jumped off big limb plump into the path. He was the biggest painter I ever saw, an' he must 'a' bin at least nine teet long, from tip to tip, an' how his y'aller brown body did shine when he stretched himself out full length, jest as though he elS stretchin' out for a big jump "'I tell 30 I was skeered for once.

I recly didn't know what to do To an' run away I knowed would be worse'n foolishness for he'd 'a' bin on me in a coup! o' Jumps, an' to stan' still would 'a' been ekallv as foolish. At last I 'cluded to keep on goin', though I was putty sure I was goin' to be attacked the next minute WeLS 100m to pass without techen of the painter whar he laid, fer the path widened out in Passin' over a fat rock rit. there an' I'd made up my mind that I'd try it ef I felt his claws the next minit What would a happened you kin imagine yerseif, but the painter didn't fer me to come quite up, fer when I was half a dozen steps away, without seemin' to any prep'rashun, he give a mighty spring, an' I saw him comin', jes' like a flash o' yaller light, an' before I could even throw up my han's he flashed by, jes' over my shoulder, an', as I looked back. thar he was, lay in' fat on the ground, with his short, strong legs an' his long, curved claws stretched out like a half-growed kitten in play, an' it ain't necessary to no more that I was skeered half to death. "'I was mighty feared that the nex' second he'd be rite a top o' me, but I kep' on goin', lookin' rite an' lef fer anything to fite with, a big club or even a rock would a-bin bettern' nothin', but I didn't see 8 durn thing.

an' it was a mity good thing I didn't, as It turned out, fer 1 hadn't gone moren' twenty steps further before a yellow streak went by rite clost to my face, an' there he was as before, in tront o' me, his great yaller eyes shinin' rite in my face -not mad like, but like a good-natured, mischievous puppy "'It was becoming plain to me by this time that the painter was havin' fun with me, but how long it would last was a question The minit he felt hungry, or got mad or 'sploious, he'd tear me to pieces I wag sartin'. Then, again, I thought mebby he was only playin' with me like a cat with a mouse, an' all I could do was to watch an' look out for a chance for somethin'. I didn't know what "How long It lasted I don't know; it seemed me a week, but, of course, it wasn't 0)9 I walked along sometimes the varinint would disappear and I would hope he fer goud, when beet ha'd come, sometimes in front, sometimes 6111 vie Alde the other OF behind: entes tAtted eel and dE othelA Dulling like 4 1'46, Jumpin' clear ever 118 1 4 4101 AN' tumblin' an' 1: An' the pIe valler thing our in tient 4' me so float that his At 1. d8 biter a 8 my teched my foot cAL' I would bed his white belly his ful. length.

"He kep' this up rite long, till I must hew SAudl gallon, expectin' that every Jump be the last. All at onst I saw Jes' anoad, and off a little to one side, a old. deserted hunter's log camp. "It was about fitty yards away, an' it seemed to be sound an' close, with a door made of split puncheons, about two foot wide and four feet high. It looked like it been built fer safety, an' I determined to git as clost as I could and then make a dash fer "I tell ye I felt mitty skittish fer the next minit or two till I got rite front of the door, then I give a yell an' run fer that door The yell kind o' startled the varmint, an' I got to the cabin an' slammed the door jes' as the derned critter lit lIte on the foot log.

"When I slammed the door I'saw that It had a strong wooden latch, an' a place fixed ter a bar, an' ye kin bet I got that bar--it was stan'in' rite alongside across thet door mighty sudden. The painter hed been full o' run an' mischief up to now, bu. as soon as he saw I was out o' reach he began to screech and tear the bark off the logs like a man with a hatchet, fer he was mad In earnest now, ag his yaller eyes flashed and his teeth glistened in his "ge he failed to get in at the door he began to smell at the cracks between the logs and try to get at me with his claws One look roun' showed me that the logs were strong and that there wasn't any winder, the cracks letting in the light "'In the middle of the floor thar was two or heavy pieces o' poles, an' I out the soundest an' best o' them--a club about three feet long and two Inches thi0 igh Thar was four or five places be'wapn the logs almost wide enough fer a I unter to pull himself through, an' It wasn't long till he begun to try one o' the places. "When he shoved his foreleg In tried to follow it with his head I struck his foreleg close up to his elbow as hard as I could drive, an' I'm strong man. That painter fell back with a Screen PREY OF CHRISTIAN NATIONS Sir Hiram Maxim Savagely Arraigns China's Oppressors.

TSI ANN, EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA. place in China are directly attributable to the presence in that of the missionaries, Of this there no shadow counties of a doubt. China is an immense empire, having over 400,000,000 of population. The country is but loosely bound together, intercommunication is difficult. slow, and expengive.

Still we ask of the people to do things which we are not able to do ourselves. If the English missionary societies should send the same kind of missionarles with the same kind of religion to the west coast of Ireland and should attack the religion that happens to prevall there at this particular moment, It is very certain that the missionaries would be assaulted. Russia and Spain are countries where outside missionary propaganda is forbidden. If we are willing to grant Russia and Spain the right of keeping missionaries out of their countries in order to insure peace, why should we not grant the same privilege to China? The Boxer movement, of which so much has been said, only lacked one element of being great and glorious--it did not succeed. Had these Boxers, who were Inspired by patriotism, succeeded in ridding their country of missionaries and other objectionable parties, would certainly have done a service to their country.

But they were unarmed and ignorant, and their aotion was approved by the greater number of well do Chito nese -they failed, as was to be expected from the first. German High-handedness, Let us see, now, how the Christian nations of the West made war upon the Chinese upon this occasion. True, the Chinege had been a party to The Hague convention, but every rule of civilized warfare, laid down by that convention, was disregarded by the Christian invaders. It will be remembered that the Boxer movement started on account of the destruction of Chinese forts by a foreign fleet, and also on account of the extraordinary conduct of Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister at Peking. Mr.

George Lynch, In Chis excellent work, "The War of the Civilizations," in speaking of Ketteler affair, gives the following significant plece of information as to the determining point that led to the Boxer action: "On the morning of the 20th Baron von Ketteler went to the Tsung-Li-Yamen in order to explain the decision of the minlaters in refusing to leave, and was shot the streets. In reference to this murder of Baron von Ketteler, the following facts alone, they were all in the first grade, Only Ave could read. "I set the five to teaching the others, the son of a colored minister came in and helped me without pay. Ag fast as any learned to read I set them to teaching the others It was the third year before I had a regularly paid assistant. "There had been a public school in the neighborhood three months in the year, but the teachers had taken no Interest.

and so the people had taken no Interest and had not sent their children. The money spent in the South on colored schools might do a great deal of good if they could only get the right kind of teachers. But the teachers have got to have the missionary spirit, they have got to be filled with the desire to do somothing for their race, in order to accomplish anything. As it is a great deal of public school money 1s practically thrown away, "Every summer I have traveled and spoken in the North in the interests of the school, till now we have four buildings. One is 8 dormitory for twenty-five girl boarders.

They bring their own food and board themselves. had adother dormitory the boys could could do the teach same. more tr we farming. had more We Have land enly ten aeres: number of my pupils have beell teachers in the One girl taught with me seven years. rive el my have taken university In sehnol there 19 no difference in ambition between beys and girls, But mare bey than girls take higher couses, beeause it la easier for them to work their way through college, Are practically only two things the Southern polored sir can de -worke in the felde or enter domestio service.

encourage my girls to at home and work in the fields, It these go Away to the cities as servanta the 18 full of temptation. "We have graduated twelve classes, Many of our graduates are married and settled the land near us. Our boya support their families, and' our girls keep their houses and children neat and clean, "There is a great change in the prosperity, the appearance, the manners, and the morals of the community. The women don't hang around he groceries 88 they used to years ago. They have developed self-respect and race pride.

There are not nearly 80 many 111e- gitimate children as there used to be. "The men are ashamed not support their families and not to save money. They have made use of the opportunities offered them, and that's all you can ask any people to do." Miss Bowen is president of the Alabama Federation of Colored Women's Clubs This body is trying to establish a reform school for colored children. There 1s one for white children, supported by the State. They have 88- surances that if they can get the land and building colored juvenile offenders will be committed there by the coufts, and that probably eventually some State funds will be forthcoming.

Eight thousand dollars would be sufficient to purchase a suitable place Of this they have raised $2,000 among themselves, and Miss Bowen has come North after the rest. Miss Bowen is a tall, slender mulatto, cultivated and cosmopolitan. Since she has been teaching she has won one scholarship, which gave her a year at Teachers College, this city, and another Queen Margaret's College, Glasgow, which gave her year abroad. She was gowned the day the interviewer saw her In a delicate brown voile, with gloves and hat to match, all in perfect taste. LEFT YELLOW FEVER IN WAKE DISASTROUS TRIP OF TOWBOAT DURING EPIDEMIC OF 1878-SUBJECTED TO SHOTGUN QUARANTINE.

Nicholas Court House, W. Sept. 1. you always your rifle with you, Bruner? have noticed that even on our trout expeditions carry it. You don't intend to kill any that'd made yer blood run col', an' almost before I could draw back fer another blow the darned varmint was back, right at that hole, tearin' an' bitin' to git at me.

"He dug an' tore' an scratched an' growled till he managed to git both claws an' the pint of' his nose through the crack. Then I smashed him across the nose' an' I felt the bones give an' crack, an' before he got out I broke one of his legs it acrost knot. For the next few minutes I was kept mighty busy fightin' the mad varmint till I got in a side blow that broke his jaw and knocked out one eye. "He couldn't get at me, I could now see that, in his crippled condition, but that he intended to stay right there I could see, expectin' s'pose, that he'd git me when cum out. Of course I knew I'd stand a mighty poor show, too, as I had but all at once't I thot of a plan.

hurt the he durned critter, ef I went out; "Thar was four ole bunks in the cabin Alled with spruce limbs, all dry tinder. I got together a armful of the spruce an' set it afire an' shoved it through the crack. "That varmint never knowed what fire was afore, I s'pose, but he found out when his blame claws felt of it. Sech a yellin' I never heerd afore, an' I've heerd many a painter yellin' in my time; an' then pa the leaves an' dried sticks about the cabin caught fire, an' in less than five minutes there was a stretch blaze a hundred yards wide, with big painter plungin' an' tryin' to keep out o' its reach. didn't wait any longer, fer I couldn't ef I'd wanted to, as the ole cabin itself had caught fire.

I fin'lly got away from there with only few burns and a mighty bad scare. "I didn't see or hear anything more of the painter; I s'pose he WAS burned up, for that fire never stopped till it got to Lauprel Fork, but it didn't cross the trail, an' I got away, as I said, safe. "This place we are goin' to fish in 1g in the same mountains, an' thar's more'n one dadburned painter roun' here, an' now you know the reason I always carry my rifle with m'e when I came up in these mountains." APARTMENT HOUSE CLIMAX. Entire Floor for Each Family, with One Dining-room for All. From the Now York World.

Thomas Kilpatrick, who gave New York Its first flathouse in 1853, was ridiculed as "the man who built Ave houses, one on top of another." It is more literally true that the apartment structure to be erected by the Home Club Corporation in East Forty-fifth street will be a tier of seven houses. On each of its seven upper floors will be, for 'a single family's use, more space In more convenient subdivisiona than is to be found in an ordinary fivestory private dwelling. This is not to be a building for speculative purposes. It will represent the latest turn in the evolution of a crowded city's dwellings for the rich. There are seven members of the Home Club.

Each is to take and decorate and furnish after his one floor in the building. He secure for his family 3.11 expectasto the advantages and none of drawbacks of the apartment-house, the hotel, and, which is the chief idea, the private home. There will be little necessary housekeeping. Meals may be taken in the club dining-room on the first floor or they may be sent to a dweller's own dining-room. To this extent, and tn the use of the driveway, garden, and billlard-rooms, tho venture will be co-operative.

Cooper, in his "Notions of the describing the brick houses that earlier New York, remarked that "no American who is at all comfortable in life will share his dwelling with another." There should be another Cooper to write the notions of modern, apartment-house Manhattan, with the Home Club enterprise as a climax. Perhaps he would tell us, hate the news columns do not, how the club memberg arrange peaceably for the choice of floors. BY HIRAM MAXIM. HINA is an extremely old and highly civilized country. I have never met a learned Chinaman who could give a clear account of where the Chinese people originally came from; they all maintain, however, that 'China has existed as a civilized country for more than 10,000 years.

The Chinese have seen the decay and death of Egypt, they have seen the great Persian Empire overthrown, they have seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, they knew the origin of the Christian religion, they have witnessed the birth of the Mohammedan faith, and have seen its wonderful progress, until it extirpated Christianity from three-quarters of the Christian world. While we in Europe were floundering in the ecclesiastical slime of the Dark Ages and burning hundreds of thousands of people at the stake, China enjoyed as high a state of religious liberty as exists any where in Europe to-day. Hundreds of years after the Chinese discovered that earth Was a sphere and determined the angle of its axis to the ecliptic to within a few seconds of arc, we were burning people at the stake for rediscovering the same great truths. What We Owe the Chinese The Chinese were the first to make use of the mariner's compass; they invented gunpowder, the art of printing, and also movable type; they were the first to make high-class fabrics such as are worn by ladies of Europe and America to-day, and the first to discover the process, and to make, the beautiful white porcelain and earthenware which is so extensively used throughout the entire world to-day. They had numerous books printed on paper before the commencement of our era, from which it would appear that in literature and philosophy at least, we are a good deal more than 2,000 years behind the Chinese.

Perhaps nothing ever taken place in the world which has brought so much misery and suffering to such a large number of people as the forced Introduction of opium into China. For twenty years after Sir Hiram Maxim. apium was freely imported, the law against its cultivation in China was enforced: at the end of that time, however, Anding it absolutely impossible to restrict its importation. the against its cultivation in China was removed, and from that day opium has been grown by the Chinese in competition with the English article. From 1840 down to the present time China has been outrageously Imposed upon.

A mere list of the outrages perpetrated upon the Chinese by the Christian nations would occupy ten times the space I have at my disposal. We gent them our opium, and forced them to take it at the point of the bayonet, and then we sent our missionaries to tell them they would go to hell if they used the drug, All the recent troubles which have taken A LITTLE TUSKEGEE Results Accomplished by Cornelia Bowen, Daughter of a Slave, Among Illiterate Negroes in Alabama. ISS CORNELIA BOWEN, a up own. ground graduate a She little of where was Tuskegee, Tuskegee born Tuskegee has on of Insti- built the her tute now stands, and her mother was in slavery. Alone she went into the plantation region of Waugh, fourteen years ago, a mere girl.

It was a community of Illiterate negroes, living in one-room cabins, owning not a foot of ground, working cotton land on shares, their crops mortgaged before they were in the ground, living In poverty, wastefulness and ignorance. There was a public school, open three months in the year, but the extent to which it had been taken advantage of may be judged by the faet that out ot colored ehildren In the cominunity only Ave could read. there 18 In this community boarding and day heel, the Mount Melgy Colored tute, whieh has four well equipped In ea and 897 enrolled pupils. The colored people of this amall and poor pommunity have themselves paid 796 for one of these buildings, and out of this community comes $500 A year in tuition fees. Some 500 Apres of land are now owned at Waugh polored men, where fourteen years ago there was not one, Comfortable homes have been erected, money saved, and the mode of life 18 changed.

A visitor watching the morning influx Into the school now would think the children came from city homes, so neat, clean and well clad are they. Numbers of the graduates have gone a away to Tuskegee, or to other institutiona of higher learning. Numbers of them are married and settled Waugh, and their well kept homes testify to the Influence of the school. Pupils are taken to the eighth grade, and taught wheelwrighting, blackamithing, carpentry, sewIng, cooking, general housework, and general farming. It has all been done by Miss Bowen.

She created the school and was its only teacher until she could raise money to pay another. She has collected the money for all the buildings and land. She raises money each summer in the North to run her school during the following year. Booker T. Washington 1s one of the trustres of her school.

William E. Peck, of 116 Broad street, and Noah C. Rogers, of 31 Nassau street, New York, are two others. "How did I do said Miss Bowen. "I wanted to do something for my people.

I chose Waugh because It WAS thickly populated with negroes, all very uplifting influences. poTher people raised only cotton, not 3 bit of food. They lived entirely out of the stores, and were always In debt. They worked land on shares and paid the rent in cotton, and the crop was mortgaged long ahead. "Home life was at a deplorably low ebb.

The women worked in the felds. They never made their beds. They never cleaned their houses; they never washed their children. "Immorality was rife, for exactly the same reason that your economists say 1t is in your slum tenements--from overcrowding. The whole family lived and BAREHEADED BRIGADE Headgear Discarded by Both Sexes During Vacation Time.

From the London Telegraph. should be borne in mind. A short time previously, two men, unmistakably Boxers, were captured then Germans, 'brandishing their swords Legation street The men were shot. It is believed that this precipitated matters. This certainly, appeared and to provocative me an proceeding.

extremely What would have been thought of the Chinese Minister In London or Washington who would have shot two Englishmen or two Americans for 'brandishing their swords outside his Savage Warfare. The following 1s a part of a letter taken from a German newspaper. It is interestIng, as it throws some light on how warfare is conducted by the highly Christian Emperor of Germany. The Bremen Burger Zeitung publishes a letter from a soldier at Peking, from which the subjoined account is taken: "Sixty-eight captives, some of them not yet adults were tied together by their pigtails, beaten bloody by the Germans, compelled to dig their own graves, and then shot en masse." The Halberstadter Volks Zeitung prints 8 communication from Peking in which the writer gays: "No prisoners are taken. All are shot, or preferably sabered, to save ammunition.

On Sunday afternoon we had to bayonet seventy-four prisoners. They had killed one of our patrolmen. An entire battalion pursued them and captured seventy-four alive. It was cruel. It was The foregoing is only a fraction of the outrages which have been perpetrated against the Chinese Empire.

China at the present moment is taxed to the very point of exhaustion to pay Indemnities to the foreign invaders. China has committed but one crime, and that 1g the crime of not learning to fight; she only excels in the arts of peace. But the Chinese are tot waking up; they have become aware the painful fact that they have either to learn to fight and defend themselves or remain the slave of the foreign invader, and there are 1'- dications that China intends, at no distant date, to throw off the European yoke, and banish forever the opium merchant and the exasperating missionary from their fatherland, and I think the Chinese will succeed. At any rate, they will have the sympathy of every wellmeaning man in the world, quite irrespective of his nationality, his politics, or the kind of superstition he pretends to believe. (Copyright, 1906, by Central NeWs and Press Exchange.) BSERVERS of the holiday habits of the multitudes now enjoying their brief spell of leisure at the seaside or in the country are noting the increasing disposition to dispense with any form of headgear.

Boys and girls, young men and women, aged, middleaged, and even elderly gentlemen are all to be met on the beach or promenade, in road or lane, hatless, capless, unprovided with any form of covering beyond that bestowed by Nature. And as this is often in the case of those no longer In their Arst youth but a niggardly sprinkling, It is to be feared that their protection against sun or shower is but slight. Matronly ladies, It 18 true, do not show quite AB muen Inclination to abandon some form of millinery, but even they ale pumelently Influenced by the movement to deem a peaked eap or a Pain e' Chanter appropriate wear. It 18 difeult to gay how "the hatless brigade," as the adherents of the move: ment designate themselves, had an origin. But, perhaps, the beginning dees not ter.

The feet la clear that in the favorite resorts of touriats in the North and in Aeotland holiday makers are to be met 88 often unhatted as not. The game ten: has been mated by those who gnatoh a river. few hours From of the reat and watering reoreatian qn of the South and Bast Coast ane hears of a like departure from convention an the subject, while with it the youngsters are also encouraged to adopt the easlest deshabille- possible, in which socks or stockings are no necessity. Ag far as ladies are concerned, the fashionable coiffure, involving as it does mysteries of "hair frames' and pads, constitutes a fairly efficient head protection. But whether it Is desirable that those deprived of nature's own covering should expose the scalp the direct rays of such brilliant sunshine as that we have been enjoying 1s another matter.

The experience of those who have lived long in tropical climates is against their experiment, for in the East it would be regarded as evidence of sheer lunacy to go into the sun with an uncovered head. Nor 18 it only the skull that such people of practical knowledge it necessary to protect, and if it be absolutely essential for them to go into the direct rays of the sun, they are as careful to cover the nape of the neck and the top of the spine, as the head itself. seem yet to have had much adverse effect Widespread as the a craze is, it does not upon the hatters' trade. In its recognized monthly organ it is shown that the imports of hats for the six months of 1905 amounted to £241,896, which is a vast increase upon the £203,803 of the corresponding period of 1904. Imports of the raw material for hat making are also large.

An expert correspondent of this district, writing on the subject of hats or no hats I for his commercial brethren, Bays: "I have seen people on their holtdays wandering about bareheaded, but it struck me that the practice would not be Terrible Disaster Averted. The terrible disaster of nervous breakdown, caused by dyspepsia, is averted Electric Bitters. 50c; guaranteed. Ail I druggists. 4456400 seal 4456400 HERE are many alive to day who can remember the disastrous cruise of the Pittsburg steam John Porter, with yellow Jack on board, on the Mississippi and Ohlo rivers during the summer of 1878.

In that year thousands of persons died from yellow fever in New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, and other places. The Porter was new 200 feet long, valued and built and owned by the Cumberland Towing Company, of Pittsburg. She carried a crew, besides officers, of twenty-six men. She left Pittsburg about the last of June, 1878, on what was destined to be the most eventful river trip ever taken by any steamboat in the United States. The boat was loaded with cotton ties and nails for an experienced was the capthe New Orleans marketan Chester Mahan, tain, Charles Dagleman, chief engineer, The boat made a quick trip down stream and reached New Orleans in due time.

In the yellow fever had become city, and Capt. Mameantime, han found it impossible to secure a cargo for up-river trip. The John Porter left shortly afterward with three barges in tow. Two or three days after she left New Orleans fever broke out on board. Stops were made along shore at New Providence, Vicksburg, and Helena, but a at each place, 88 soon as the local authorities found that the John Porter had fever on board, they used shotgun arguments and drove the steamer out again into the river.

By this time half of the crew were down with the fever and there had been several deaths. Finally, the steamer arrived at Memphis, where she lay for several days fast to a wharfboat in front of the city. Denied Fuel and Food. The city of Memphis at that time was in a very unsanitary condition. No attention had been pald to keeping the streets and alleys clean, and the city had no system of sewerage.

The lesson that Memphis received in 1878, when thousands of her citizens died, was not lost. It resulted in making the city what it is today, a healthful, well-drained town, with modern sanitary Improvements. It 1s an open question whether or not John Porter carried yellow fever to Memphis. At all events after the steamer was hurried away from the city the fever at Memphis became more virulent and malignant than it had been, and it was not long before people were dying at the rate of two or three hundred a day. Meanwhile word had been wired from town to town that the steamer John Porter was on her way up stream with many cases of fever board.

The situation on the boat was shocking. Nearly all the crew were down with the fever and the craft was looked upon along shore as laden with death. There were so many cases on board that the patients could not get the care they should have had. Supplies were running low and the supply of fuel was short. The healthy members of the crew went from hamlet to town and falrly begged for provisions and fuel, so that they could make their way North and get out of the yellow fever belt.

Everywhere they landed it was same story, they were driven off at the muzzle of shotguns. The shotgun quarantine was even more rigid in those days than it has been this summer. All along the river banks, on both sides of the stream, were men armed with shotguns, rifles, and revolvers, on the lookout. The citizens of towns yet free from the fever turned out en masse when the John Porter came in sight, staggering up stream with a load of sickness and death on board, and warned her to proceed on her journey. 01d Friends Also Hostile.

She was seeking rest and finding none. Citizens of the river towns were so crazed at the idea of fever making an inroad in their communities that thev had no pity for anybody but themselves. Once in a followed very far. There is too much dust rising from the motors to conduce to the comfort of those who would walk or cycle along the highways and byways bareheaded. Soap and hairwash may be cheap, but one shudders to think of the condition of a head of luxuriant hair after a morning's walk along motor-frequented ways.

I have not found hatters or any one else take the no-hat-at-all fad geriously." Rev. G. M. Parsons, vicar of St. Trantoc's, Newquay, in Cornwall, Is a stern disciplinarian.

Newquay and its delightful neigborhood appear to be full now of ladies walking about everywhere Hatless, and, according to Mr Parsons, they decline to make an exception at church time. Mr. Parsons has vainly recalled to them dt. Paul's dietum the First Apistie to the Corinthians, and hats lemOnstrated during deveral BedBUlls without Now he has the church, posting up the following Re: tiee: "Cranteek Church is ploged until further notlee, except at the hours of Divine service. The church has here: tofore been freely open It 18 deplore Able that It cannot so remain, A8 it This la wholly due to the Irreverence of numbers of women who, walking uncovered, presume to enter God's house with no sign of reverence or modesty upon their heads." Several times during the recent London season the same question has arisen in the minds of certain men with regard to the costumes of bridesmaids, who have lately in IncreasIng numbers discarded hats for vells, small caps, and even wreaths of flowers.

Speaker Cannon's Persiflage. the Suocean Magazine. Speaker Joseph Cannon, in response to a toast at a recent dinner, began his remarks 80 as to create the initial laugh which 18 so much destred by orators preparation for weightier matter to follow. "Astronomers tell us," he began, "according to the gentleman who has just sat down, that an express train moving 100 miles a second would consume several million years in reaching a certain star." He paused and looked toward the guest to whom he had referred. "That was the statement," said the Speaker's neighbor, nodding.

"I was just thinking," pursued Mr. Cannon, "what a predicament a man would be In if he should miss the last train and have to walk." King Edward Devoted to Croquet. From the London Truth. The King has taken up croquet again, and big majesty played on three afternoons during his stay at Goodwood, on the ground in the private garden behind the house. The royal croquet ground on one of the lawns near Balmoral Castle is to be into thorough order during the next month.

At one time the ground was played over nearly every day when Queen Victoria was residing at Balmoral, but croquet gradually went out of fashion at court- and elsewhere. However, hag been a general and successful revival of the game of late years. while they were prevailed upon to throw some provisions on board the Porter from a rowboat, which then hurried away. The steamer was undermanned, nearly everybody being down with fever, dying, or dead. Yet the steamer finally made out to reach Cairo, where the captain and crew had many friends and expected aid.

They found no warm greeting here. There was less mercy for them than down river. They were ordered to cross the river and tie up to trees on the Kentucky shore. The woods came down to the river bank and those of the crew who were able went ashore and got a supply wood. Here also they received a supply of provisions, and Capt.

Mahan was taken ill. The steamer lay opposite Cairo for several days. At length the chief engineer, who was now in thought he would run up the as Louiscommandia ville. It would have been wiser to let the boat stay where she was. The steamer had a comfortable berth and those of her crew who were yet living were doing ly well.

By offering big wages the steamer 88- cured new hands at different points along the river. Fresh men stepped into the places of those dead, only to be taken Ill and die in turn. Strange as it may seem, men were found willing to risk their lives for the wages offered. Thus it was that the John Porter brought yellow fever Into the Ohio River Valley. The steamer touched at Louisville, but was ordered away.

Shortly after she left Louisville the fever broke out there and there were some deaths. By this time nearly every man on board was either down with the fever or getting over it. What crew she had looked like a lot of ghosts. In this state she reached Cincinnati. Met by Troops and Artillery.

The authorities of Cincinnati had been warned the John Porter was on Its way to that city. A company of State militia and a battery of artillery were ordered out and stationed on the river a bank. The steamer was ordered to keep on. If she stopped, they said, they would Are on her. Through it all Capt.

Mahan had stuck to the three barges. But the chief engineer, who was now in command, thought it to cast them loose when opposite Cincinnati. They were set on fre by the people of the city and burned to the ter's edge. The death ship was ordered to keep on going. Cincinnati did not care where she went, provided it was somewhere else, anywhere away from Cincinnati.

The steamer had left yellow fever wherever she had touched. There is no telling how many of the crew died, as there was a constant accession of fresh hands. It is estimated that there were as many as forty deaths on board Some of the crew escaped to the shore and wandered into the interior, where they spread fever from place to place. The officers and crew left on board were desperate. little more than a hundred miles above Cincinnati the stcamer was vet run aground hard and fast on Possum Bar.

The river was low, it was impossible for her to go on, and there she remained until late in the fall. Officers and men went on shore and scattered They made their way to various points, taking as a companion the much-feared yellow jack, Many cases in the Ohio River Valley were afterward traced to this Il1-fated boat. Two members of the crew got as far as a small village in Pennsylvania below Pittsburg, where one of them died. Thrown Overboard. When word reached the Cumberland Towing Company in Pittsburg that the John Porter was aground on Possum Bar and deserted, the company, by offering a large amount of money, secured a gang of men to go down to the boat, fumigate her, and bring her up to the city Almost the Arst thing they did was to throw Into the river everything in the way of mattresses and bedding.

These things were scattered for miles down the river and were accused later of doing still more to spread the fever. After some weeks the steamer was thoroughly fumigated, and soon after cold weather set in the craft was brought up the river to Pittsburg. Nearly every one of the original crew was dead, but the captain got well. The chief engineer did not have the fever. The John Porter was now looked upon by roustabouts and river men generally as a hoodoo It was hard to get men to work on her.

Finally her owners decided to overhaul the boat, rebuild her in part, and refurnish her from stem to stern. Her name was changed from John Porter to Sidney Dillon. The steamer ran as a towing boat on the river for several years and became more and more of a hoodoo. She was continually meeting with accidents, and, finally settled the hoodoo question for all time in the eyes river men, by exploding her bollers and burning to the water's edge. slept in one room.

The first and greatest need of the Southern negro is to get him to the point where he will have two rooms in his cabin. In many cases the father did nothing whatever for the family. He simply lived there. The mother worked the land and supported him and the family. But when the crop was harvested and settlement time came, it was he who settled with the owner of the land and pocketed the surplus.

The mother raised the crop, but she never handled a cent of the money. "To-day there is not a man In that community who does not do something toward the support of his family. How did do it? I shamed the then, and taught the women to stand up for their rights. have preached the doctrine always that elther the man ought to support his 1125, OP else the wife ought to have the handing of the money, "Many of the men have built eamforta able ea dine. Twenty of them own farms aggregating 600 aeres, and land la 015 AR Here there.

It was 97 fourteen years age. "One great means of this prosperity has been Alveralded erops. They raise eorn, potatoes, rice, cane, and peas now, They are too far from mArket to market these crops. But they live on them, and this saves mortgaging their potton at the storea and la more healthful, begidea. "When I began I went from house to house and taught women how to make their beda, scrub their floora, cook, everything a woman should know.

And all the time I talked to men and women to rouse their ambition, their self-respear, and race pride. "I still keep Saturday for my visiting day throughout the year. asked thein all if they wanted A school of their own, a little Tuskegee. I met with a general and hearty response. All wanted it, and promised to do what they could to pay for it.

"I was very fortunate in that. Black communities in the South are just as different as Individuals. Some are eager to grasp opportunities when they arA offered. Others care nothing about them. "It is just the same with Southern white communities.

Some are permeated with a spirit of kindly Interest in the welfare of the negro. Others laugh at everything the negro tries to do. I can't explain it, but I think the spirit has been inherited from leading white families in the earlier days. They stamped the sentiment of the community, and this sentiment has persisted year after year. There is one leading white family near Waugh to which we are much indebted for this very thing.

"Well, lived alone in a one 10g cabin at Arst. Then a man Connecticut lent me $1,735 for my first building, a two-story frame. He lent it without interest, to be repaid when we could. "I don't suppose he ever expected to see his money again, but the negroes of Waugh paid every cent in seven years. and I have the receipts to show for it.

would have educational meetings, and I would talk and lecture and then collect. Sometimes it would be very discouraging. I would get only 25 cents. Then they would bring me eggs or chickens, or anything they could spare, and I would send it to Montgomery and sell it and put the money in the debt fund. "When I opened my new building 300 children came in upon me.

I WAS all CAPITOL'S FAULTY DESIGN. Why It Fails to Conform with Essentials of Great Architecture. Froth the Century Magazine it is hot the contention even of enthua Blasts that the Capitol at Washington IB, or ever will be, a complete and perfect whele: There is little hope that It will ever be entirely and etill legg Rett it May attain perfection Apropos the deme, for may he Palled that the shetorienl and fastidious Ruskin dees admit Iron A8 A PAR: material, and on those grounds inveighed disdainfully againat the spire of Raven Cathedral Purity and pettishness aside, there are other reasons why the bullding fails to conform with the essentials of really great architecture, far as the Interior is concerned, the situation is any thing but sublime, and it is hence a pleasure to know that Mr. Elllott Woods, superintendent of the Capitol building and grounds, has under advisement a proposition for the rehabilitation of the rotunda. Yet the faults of the Capitol appear in a measure inevitable to those who know and treasure its history.

Looked at broadly, they are not faults, but merely venerable shortcomings Incidental to growth and development, Considering the Importance of the, prospective alterations and extensions, the evolution of the building seems to have entered upon an approximately Anal stage, and it is gratifying to know that Congress, the superintendent and the coosulting architects realize the dignity and seriousness of the task in hand. Something of the old simplicity should guide and chasten each effort. To this simiplicity should also be added a reverence for those traditional ideals and aspirations which are, happily, a country's or an individual's most cherished heritage. The panorama, once its several features are supplied, will present a majestic and inspiring apectacle. Grouped about the spacious court will be Ave superb structures -the Capitol on the west, the Senate and House office buildings to the north and south, and the Congresstonal Library and its companion on the east.

offer To the average eye the Capitol will little change; there will merely tion. a It grateful will, as gain before, in repose and proporcontinue the focal point, the keynote of the composition. Despite Its Immensity, there appears to in nothing that is pompous or pretenbe trous the scheme as at present outlined. long It is but the logical fulfillment of plans, since formulated, which are the fitting symbol of a subsequent national and territorial expansion. Frightful Loss of Life Results from throat and lung diseases.

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