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MAURITIUS. TEMPERANCE. produce their papers, answer to their names, give their age, nationality, ON ELLIS ISLAND. THE NEW SY STEM OP HANDLING IMMIGRANTS. the British officials will not drive the scavengers to clean the streets often enough to prevent rank smells from loading the air of the cities.

The island slopes from coa3t side upward toward the three mountain chains which cross the interior. Violent rains and wind storms are frequent. The bushes, vines and flowers are beaten to the earth to rise again in a few days as though nothing had happened. Mountains lie exposed on the eastward side to the full sweep of the great storm winds of the Indian Ocean. Outside 6f the cities there is little building that is more than temporary.

Several times in a century the hurricanes come and raze the whole island except the cities and the deep valleys. With each hurricane many natives are killed, because of the weak shelter their houses afford against the flying tree trunks and stones, and against the fierce wind that can uproot the most firmly planted foundations. But never before has such a wind a3 this last come out of the depths of the Indian Ocean. It must have attacked the cities and overthrown them, as well as the houses scattered on the plantations and the hillsides all through the island. It must have left few places where shelter from violence could be found, and, no doubt, very few escaped injury of An Average ot 2000 Poor Foreigners a Day Are Coming Here How They Are All Examined and Disposed Of.

ITH one of the parties of vistora who apply daily at the Barge Office lor permission to visit Ellis Island, the writer made the trip on Tuesday morning. The boat runs from the Barge Office to the island about every forty minutes, from 6:45 a. m. to 8:30 p. mm and one was just leaving, so the visitors strolled in the Battery Park while waiting for the next one.

AH the seats were filled with newly arrived would-be citizens, and others stood in groups, their bags and bundles and babies at their feet. It was easy to tell when the boat was coming back, for most of them left their seats and crowded the entrance to the dock. It is a delightful ten minutes' sail to Ellis Island, a spot of land at the mouth of the North River and directly behind the Statue of Liberty. It seems to be altogether covered with buildings, and it is very nearly so. The Government has just completed a hospitaland other necessary outbuildings, and there is little ground left unoccupied.

In front of the large building two steamers were being moored, both of them black with crowds an incoming European vessel. As we passed close to them to land at the saved up by the fond parents for this auspicious day. Some expected to meet friends or relatives. For these there is a platform with tiers of benches at the far end, where they can wait and watch for friends. For the same purpose there is a gallery running all around the building.

These friends give the names of those they seek to the registrars, if they are there early, and when the immigrant comes up to register the name is called out. Those friends coming after the registration give the names to officials, who bawl them out all over the floor and take pains to find the proper parties. There are a number of girls who come in couples or alone, for the purpose of being domestic seivants. There are two matrons who attend to these. They are detained and their friends here, if they have any, are at once telegraphed to.

If they have none they are turned over to the religious missions of which there are several doing excellent work and there they are cared for and have suitable situations obtained for them. For those detained who have come in violation of the law of 1S91 and who have to be returned, there is a separate building, filled up with double-decked berths on which is a wire mattress and a couple of blankets. They always make a pillow and bolster of their belongings. There are cots for about twenty in the men's hospital; only five were occupied on Tuesday, and it was about the same in the women's. The contract laborers and others who are to be returned are fed by the Government until the vessel which brought them is ready to sail, and the expense is charged to the steamship company.

If, after being returned to the ship the passenger escapes, the company can be fined $300 for each one and the clearance papers withheld until tho fines are paid. New York Advertiser. A Duke's Country House on Wheels. The rage of this season is to be cara-vaning, and as carried out nowaday it certainly has its charms. The quaint gypsy house on wheels, with its solitary room and tiny windows, the hugh red and yellow box houses of the menagerie and circus, the Home Rule, Salvation Army, Church Association and artists caravans, with which we are all more or less familiar, are simply nowhere in comparison with some of the gorgeous palaces on wheels that are being built this season in walnut and ash with saloons and kitchens, silver knockers and plate glass windows.

And quite unique, even among these, will be the 'Duke of Newcastle's land yacht, the Bohemian, in which the Duke, in company with Mr. Gambier Bolton, F. R. G. and valet, intends from time to time making a series of photographic tours in Great Britain and on the Continent, commencing immediately after he returns from his five weeks' trip to America.

The Bohemian will carry a beam of six feet nine inches, which is fully nine inches wider than any other caravan yet built; and, as she is nearly fifteen feet long from bow to stern, she will require some careful steering get throuH narrow lanes without running aground, and, in passing through gateways, without wrecking the posts. The table will be unique, as, to gain space in the saloon, when rot required it will disappear into the floor, leaving a good clear gangway in which to walk up and down and entertain our friends, not to mention room for the morning tub. There are, in addition to the sleeping berths, hammocks and a tent, and accommodations at a pinch for six or eight persons. The motive power at present will be supplied by two useful London dray horses, able to do a little trotting without breaking down, while at the same time they will be fully up to their load. No one can carefully watch the signs of the times without seeing that electricity will be the motive power of the near future for railways, carriages and caravans, and the sooner this becomes un fail accompli the better, for one of the greatest drawbacks to the successful cruising of a land yacht is the constant A GROUP OP PORTUGUESE PEASANTS.

THE STORM SWEPT ISLAND IN THE IXOIAN OCEAN. Peopled by Representatives of All Kaces, Languages, Religious and Customs Remarkable For Its Beauty. Now that the whole "world is seeking information about the island of Mauritius, it ia surprising to find out how little is really known of it. It is one of the most important islands in the British possessions. It is visited daily by men-of-war, sailing vessels and tramp steamers from all parts of the world.

Its name and its beauties have been made famous by the glowing descriptions of Bernardin St. Pierre in his "Paul and Virginia." Mauritius, or the Isle of France, is an island belonging to Great Britain, lying in the Indian Ocean, about 460 miles east of Madagascar and 2327 miles from Cape of Good Hope. It is thirty-six miles long and thirty-two miles wide, and has an area of 676 square miles. But Mauritius has never been visited much by the tourist and the descriptive writer. It has the same charms as other tropical islands which are more easily and more comfortably reached.

So, aside from dry consular reports and fragmentary observation that Mauritius is a gem and that Mauritius is a queer little island, there is not much material to put into a picture that will show the readers of the Sun what manner of beauty and strange aspect of human life it was that the hurricane swept down upon and blighted. It is known that Mauritius, discovered in the early years of the sixteenth century, is now inhabited by the most conglomerate population on the face of IHDIM OCEAN (AH 0 HOP WHERE MAURITIUS IS. the earth. Europeans of three nationalities, English, French and Dutch, are there in considerable numbers, and Europeans of all nationalities in smaller numbers. Negroes and Mozambiques and Madagascans have come over from the west; Parsees, Arabs, Cingalese, Chinamen, Lascars and Malays have come down from the northeast.

There3ult is a commingling of breeds and languages, PORT LOUIS, religions and costumes, that makes the dirty streets of the queer cities of the island full of sights, sounds, faces, costumes and wares to inspire amazement and confusion. Everything is jumbled together, religious as well as languages and breeds, until nothing can be put in exactly its proper place. Although Mauritius is rich and fertile, it is hardly developed at all. For eight months of the year the sun shines down upon the island day after day, with brief intervals of terrific rains, whose beating only a rank tropical vegetation A Vl-'- SWILLS MAP OP MAURITIUS. can survive.

The heat is intense and, when the wind is in certain quarters, poisonous. For instance, in tho thr years of 188t, 1807 and 18(33, 73,000 persons died of fevers of various But in the four summer mouths, or winter mouths as they are in the Southern hiinisphcre, the climate is cool aud delightful. The people, except the pure-blooded Europeans and the Chinese who have not been there too many years, are lazy, shiftless and sensual. Food is easily got, and no more work is dotie than is absolutely necemry. All the cueriry of If IMPORT AST FOB DRINKERS.

A man who drinks whisky Will feel awhile frisky. And paint the town brilliantly red; But soon in the gutter With misery utter He'll wish with a curse he was dead. A man who drinks brandy Will feel like a dandy As long as the smell's on his breath, But soon in the 'tremens Snakes, bogies and demons Will chase him an scare him to death. A man who drinks wine Will feel very fine. And play funny antics and shout; But for it he'll pay With headaches next day, And die when he's young from the gout.

A man who drinks gin With pleasure will grin And bave what he calls a good time, 'Till with a red nose And dirty old clothes, He, homeless, will beg for a dime. A man who drinks rum Will think it's yum-yum, For may be, an hour or so, 'Till, poisoned his blood And brains turned to mud. He dies in sad spasms of woe. A man who drinks beer Feels good for a year. And thinks it don't hurt him a bit, Till bloated and red And hog-like in head.

He falls on the street in a fit. An apple jack drinker Feels gay as a tinker Until the bad feeling comes on, Then, nerves in a quiver, He jumps in the river, Or blows on! his head with a gun. A man who drinks water, As everyone ought 'ter, Enjoys to the utmost his life; He's happy and healthy, Respected and wealthy. And loved by his children and wife. H.

C. Dodge, in Chicago bun. NO LONGER DEBATABLE. Whether the drink habit is increasing or abating is beyond proof, and is the subject of much assertion in both directions. The moral and physical destruction of mankind by the drink habit is no longer open to debate.

It is conceded by every one that it fills our almshouses, jails and penitentiaries with its victims, and our homes with poverty and indescribable suffering and distress. The practical question for statesmen and philosophers is, "What is the best method of reducing the evils of intemperance to the Judge Hubbard, of Iowa. INEBRIATE HOSPITALS. w- The following resolution was recently adopted at a conference of the British Women's Association, Yorkshire branch: 'In view of the entire wreck of human life, and the sad cruelties to children caused by iw temperance among men, this conference is of opinion that the time has come for more drastic legislation for the curing and treatment of habitual inebriates, and considers it desirable that magistrates should be empowered to commit such cases for lengthened periods to specially certified homes, instead of to sentence them for repeated short terms which, in most cases, exert no curative fluence." SALOON DECORATION. At a certain prominent place in Cincinnati a new saloon has been opened, after fixing the place up in the most elaborate manner.

The recess door in front is all that art can make it, finished with stained glass; on either side of the door are large show windows, lu one is an easel holding a horseshoe of the most delicate roses, nicely imbedded with ferns, and in the other window is an elaborate decoration of crimson and white roses with fern leaves for the background. On the day of theopeninga man in passing by was heard to say after gazing intently for some minutes on the display: "They ouht to put on the window please omit Another one added: "This is our funeral;" and so it is, but mothers and widows will be called on to shed tears. Christian Worker. MOTHER'S PLACE IN TEMPERAy- WORK. Home is the training school of vie and mother is first teacher.

To the cuud no influence is so great as that of the mother; no word truer than hers, no form more beautiful. It is to the mother that the chili clings for protection, to her it looks "for guidance. The good mother is like an anchor to hold a child fast to the right amid danger; she is like a compass to guide it in its wandering. The thought of mother has redeemed many a wayward man whom no other influence could save. A good mother is God's best gift to home.

To her comes the duty of making home what God destined it to be, and when evil comes to home it falls more heavily upon her than upon any one else. Whare, theu.is her place in the great battle ot hooia against intemperance? It ought to be in the very front ranks of home's best defenders. By word and example, she to teach the children to love and practice the holy virtue of temperance; she ought to be the first to practice what she teaches; to banish from her home everything that tends to encourage intemperance; to keej liquor from her table and out of her home; to teach the children that liquor is not neo-essary for joy, nor is it necessary for sorrow; that the home is brighter aul happier when temperance rules; that the safest and best way to guard against all possible in temperance is total abstinence. Keep your boys sober, keep your girls sober. If intemperance enters, be kind in your counsel, be firm in your urging.

Pray "for the wea ones, pray for the erring ones. Your prayers and tears will often win a heart steeled against your unkind and harsh abuse. Mothers of Christian homes, enter the army of apostles of temperance! You can succeed where the printed wor and the eloquent ai- dress will fail. You can reach tne heart which refuses the influence of society and the church. Be apostles.

Preach iu your homes, preach total abstinence by word and example, and in your family prayers be? heaven to sen 1 its sweet influence into vour homes, to the hearts of your lovei ones. School and Home Magazine. TEMPERANCE NEW3 A ID NOTES. It is asserted that in Wisconsin s'vauty-seven of the postoflices ara kept iu saloons. Jerusalem has 135 whsre li'pnr sold, the liceusj few going tj Constantinople.

The Irish Presbyterian Church ba aroused itself against the drills aul tratlickers. The present available stoe'e winxn Italy is estimated at from tea to million hectolitres. The I'hil idelphia Ledger says tint of th 13y iifjuor licenses in tliat city, eigbty-nv are held by worn m. It is estimated that thare are at the pres time 1 0 0j; wme 0- aog in the ctll.u's of California. Hereafter the nur4 in tia training school of tne National Tftmperamj Hospitil will hi distinguished by a special strojt suit of navy blue with bonnet to matea.

Tho Quarterly Journal of Inebriety says: "The nnM rational cure lor inebriety that has been ur-ei at this empirical stao of the subject is this: Have the patient interested iu apriz fight, and place him iu training for three months." In reply to the question "Mro you in favor of the people around you hsvuuttie power to suppress the liquor traffic by votes, shotill they wish to do soK' persons in tuty-ne sma'l Seotiau iusweivd and 3uly oj.T IMMIGRATION BUILDING ON ELLIS ISLAND. whether they can read and write, where they are going to, to whom, their occupation, amount of money they have, if they have railroad tickets, and if they have ever been in the country before. In the case of those able to speak English, the last question generally comes first. Those about whom there is any question are crowded into the next department and detained. They may be there for a few minutes, an hour or so or until the steamer which brought them is ready to take them back.

This department is under the charge of N. J. Arbeely, Major Semsyand Morris Sinverstein, a trio who speak most of the European and Asiatic languages. The first named, who is a Syrian, and was for some years the United States Consul at Jerusalem, claims to speak eleven languages; Major Semsy, a Hungarian, speaks six, and Mr. Sinver-stein, five.

So when Mr. Arbeely walks up to an immigrant he rarely says "Ko voulette?" or its equivalent in French or German; but his "what-can-I-do-for-you" salutation is generally in Arabic, "Shoo biddah?" or in Greek, "Tee tekte?" or in Turkish, "Ney stinrsin?" The same with the other two gentlemen. No one would think they were all asking the same question from the words or the manner of putting. While we were detained by curiosity in the detention pen, Colonel "Weber came hurrying through and recognized the greyheard of the little party as an old acquaintance. Ho explained that the immigrants returned comprised paupers, criminals, contract laborers, those suffering from contagious or loathsome diseases and insane and idiots.

Of all these there had been retained during the year ending April 1 last, 2094, out of 445,000. This, too, was about as many as Castle Garden (when the Emigration Bureau was a State department) had returned in four or five years. Colonel Weber invited the little party to view his offices, which are situated at the west end of the building. They are fine, largo rooms, flooded with light by wide windows. "That's what we wanted," said he; "light and plenty of it; for after a week or two of steerage life these people are none too sweet.

We are doing everything we can for them in that respect. We have supplied them with barbers and are erecting bathhouses." There are only about 112 Government employes, each of whom speaks two or more languages, and, in addition, the trunk railroads have about seventy-five men employed here. The Bureau was transferred from the the Barge Office to Ellis Island the first of this year, and Colonel Weber is exceedingly pleased with the increased accommodation and the improved system it has enabled him to make. We can now handle 10,000 people a day," he said. "We handled 5100 people in one day a couple of weeks since, and everything worked nicely, and there was no relax of efficiency of service.

We could not have done this at the Barge Office or Castle Garden." By the time we got upon the huge floor again some hundreds of the immigrants were hustling on the trunk line railway companies boat and being conveyed with their baggago to the various railroad depots. Others had just passed the doctors and were registering, so that we could see the whole system. The women sat in groups, with their bundles and babies, while the men were getting their money changed, sending telegrams, buying tickets or laying in provisions at the lunch counter. In this large new building there seems to be every possible comfort and convenience for the newcomers, and as no one is allowed among them except officials or persons well known to the Commissioner they are entirely protected from sharpers and trick-ster3. The rates of exchange are sent from Wall street every day and posted up in several different languages; railroad rates are also made clearly known, and the food served at the restaurant is good and cheap.

The women, too, and the children, although shabbily dressed and bearing the marks of a passage in the steerage, were, as Colonel Weber remarked, of a good class. There was one largo Purtuguese group that, having washed and eaten a frugal lunch, seemed content to wait. They had not the fresh complexions of some newly arrived groups from Northern Europe, but their eyes were bright with eager hopes of the fu-ture in their new There were any number of babies, and it seemed that even the poorest of them had some bit of jewelry or bright ribbon probably THE THEATRE AT PORT LOWS. some kind. When it is considered that the population is only 300,000, the reported death roll of shows how enormous the destruction was.

Yet, no matter how great the ruin, before the fastest steamer could reach Mauritius from London or New York, the last trace Of destruction would be obliterated and the remaining people of the island would be found sunk in the tropical apathy. The inhabitants must have had warning of the storm that was coming, a3 they have had warnings of the three other hurricanes that have rushed upon them since the opening of the century. On one of the coasts of the island stands a great block of black basalt, rising forty feet above the sea which surrounds it on all sides. It is bored from its summit down to the waves with a circular hole. When the waves are rushing in, warning Mauritius that a storm is bearing down that way, the water rushes into this sucked thrown high in the air in a column of spray.

And the tumbling of the the rock is called, may be heard many miles MAURITIUS. away. Also, when the hurricane is coming, the people of Port Louis may look away to the mountains and see little white clouds darting round and round the tops, while a coppery tinge overspreads the whole sky. As the island is almost surrounded by coral reefs, tho waves that a great wind lashed up are thrown in the air to great heights, and the noise is so loud that, combined with the roar of the wind, it makes the thunder seem faint and far away. A3 one remembers these things and reads of the darkness and the flashes of lightning and the ships lifted in air and rent asunder or blown far up on shore, one realizes what a spectacle this storm must have been.

New York Sun. Hosts That Drink Blood. A gentleman who has a marvellous display of roses in the little space behind his town house says that he attributes their wonderful bloom, color and size to the effect of a strange experiment. An establishment for the slaughtering of animals for market being in his neighborhood, he obtained, several times a week, a quantity of blood whieh he mixed with the earth around the roots of the plants. The result is most satisfactory as far as improving his plants is concerned, but oue cannot help rather shuddering at the fdea of carnivorous roses; it seems like an unnatural and horrid appetite.

Particularly superb are his "Jacks," whose deep and vivid red is almost unpleasantly suggestive. New York Tribune. The Influence of Heredity. The influence ot heredity is probably the most important factor in the making of criminals. From a criminal stock not much else but criminals can be expected to spring.

And that this is so has been proven tune and again by the family history of criminals. But there are other factors that can be counted upon just as surely, though they operate with less frequency. Habitual drunkenness on the part of tho parents is pretty sure to result in mental or moral degeneracy. New York Herald. I II 11 i I II I I I end of the large dock picturesque costumes and bits of color were noticeable.

The Government has five transfer boats and three barges, capable of carrying 2500 people. These meet the incoming steamer at her clock and take ofE her living freight with great expedition. Most of the landings are made in the early morning, so that the passengers can be examined and investigated and sent on to their prospective homes the same day. Over the steamer's side they are hurried, and their baggage taken on the barges. In most instances the barges, which were intended only for baggage, have to take passengers, too, for it is found impossible in many cases to dissever the immigrant from his personal effects.

He lugs it around with him everywhere, and when he is waiting, invariably tries to sit on the whole of it, no matter how many pieces it may happen to be. When he is away he gets a friend to sit on it. The trip from the steamer to the little island is very perplexing to most of the foreigners. Years of. Governmental oppression have perhaps rendered them at the same time cunning and suspicious.

Most of them think the island is merely a floating dock, though why they should be taken there when their destination is in the interior of the mainland they cannot understand. But, as will be seen, the idea is in every way wise and excellent. By no other arrangement could the country and the immigrants themselves be as effectually protected. By it those not wanted cannot escape, and can be readily returned, and those acceptable are protected from the sharpers and harpies who, on land, would be waiting for them. Told in all the languages available that they must land at the island, the immigrants lug along their possessions to the great building and are ushered into a pen.

Their eyes open upon the greatest transportation depot in the world. It measures 410 by 150 feet, and is divided oil into separate compartments by largo-meshed wire nettings, so that the whole is always under scrutiny, and there are no corners lor cunning tricks or evil deeds. As they come into the room the newcomers are closely inspected by a cbrps of medical experts under the charge of Dr. John Godfrey, of the Marine Hospital Service. Then they are passed on to the registration department.

"What's tho matter with mel" exclaimed one irascible Irishman the other morning, "I'm no Bashi-Bazook, nor no Phaniao, neither! Yet those fellows wid the caps on sniffed and sniffed and smellcd me all over. Here's me papers to show for it." His papers were all right, but he looked a trifle consumptive, and the doctors had laid their ears close to his breast and back to listen to the workings of his lungs and heart. The doctors pick out the sick and prescribe for them at once, or send them to the hospital in the rear, where they receive treatment. Those liable to have contracted contagious diseases are sent to the contagious diseases hospitals, and the idiots or lunatics are taken immediately to the New Jersey State Asylum at Iloboken. Those of good health are passed ou to the Registry 'Department, where they msms TI1E BOHEMIAN.

fear of a breakdown on the part of ono of the horses. "We intend starting in June," said the Duke, "for a preliminary cruise on the Kent and Sussex borders. This is a perfect paradise for the amateur photographer, as at present the camera, black cloth, and tripod are almost unknown there; the scenery is magnificent, the old churches and ruins of ancient monasteries deeply interesting, the roads are good (a matter of importance to the caravanist), the hills are not very bad, and by hiring a third horse we hope to get along capitally. "After we have got things a little into shape, the Bohemian will work her way along the south coast, and eventually enter another photographic paradise, the New Forest, where we shall probably cruise about for some weeks if the weather is propitious; but even on dull or wet days there will be plenty to we shall have photographic work to attend to, the animals to look after, the piano and typewriters to amuse us, and, above all, thc log to be carefully written up, as we hope to make this of interest to our friends." Pall Mall Gazette. An irrigation canal is in progress oj building in Utah and Idaho by Chicago capitalists, it is told, that will irrigate 100,000 acres of land.

Many of New Jersey's muck meadows are being reclaimed and devoted to onion aud celery growing..