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CLEVER IMPOSTORS
Bomne Interesting Facts About the
Three Fox Bisters.
FOunED OF IODEU SPIRIIULII
Great Contempt for the Credulity
of Their Dupes.
FIRST SPIHIT RAPPINGS
Wiliam B, uiiie in the Isdepeadent.
Fifty years ago modern spiritualism arose
near and in Rochester, in New York.
There were three Fox sisters-namely,
Mrs. Leah Fish, a young widow, who af
terward was Mrs. Underhill. the wife of
the president of a New York insurance
company; Margaret, better known as Mag
gie, and Catherine, also known generally as
Kate. Lwah was a half-sister, and much
older than Maggie and Kate, and evidently
an experienced woman. Maggie was born
in 18KA and therefore could only be from
twelve to thirteea years of age when the
mysterious noises were first heard at
Ilydenville, Wayre county. N. Y., in 1848.
Kate was younger than Maggie by nearly
three years, and her age, consequently,
would oe about ten years. Mrs. Fox, the
mother, stated in an interview with her
several years subsequent to the commence
ment of the "rappings" that the relative
ages of Maggie und Kate were fourteen
and twelve when the noises were first
heard at Hydlesvilie. It is highly probable
that tins simple-minded old lady spoke in
an offhand sort of way and made a mis
take of a year or two. But whether she
did or not, it is certain that both the young
sisters were merely children. And this fact
is dn .it upon by spiritualist believers as
showing that these children were too young
to practice deception, and it went far to in
duce many inteiligent people to believe
there must be some 'foundation for the
manitestattons exhibited afterward by the
iittle Fox girls.
All three. Leah. Maggie and Kate, are
dead. Although Leah was much less known
to the public In the inception and progress
of spiritualism than her sisters, in foot, not
professing to be a medium, she had never
theless most to do with working up and
carrying on the so-called spirit manifesta
tions. 5he was a shrewd, cunning and de
ternilned woman. Her little sisters were
completely under her control, as also was
the mother, who was a plain, uncultivated,
good-natured and credulous country wo
Remarkable Credulity.
Maggie, in later years, speaking one day
to me of the credulity of the "old spiritual
lots," as she called them. told me that her
mother even was a believer in spiritualism,
and died believing in it, so well were the
secret practices of her children kept from
her. Then people sometimes hear or tell
ies so long and persistently that they
inally forget the origin of them and believe
them to be true.
The so-called phenomena arose at the
house of Michael Weekman, village of
Hydesville. Wayne county, N. Y. Week
-nan, it was said, heard mysterious noises
or knockings at his door. It was an old,
dilapidaz ed building. lie left it In 1.11T, and
then the Fox fancly went to live there, the
rent being iow and they being poor. They
re-ort,i Inat mysterious sounds were heard
liy them in the house in March, 1wS.
When Mrs. Fox, some years after, spoke
of the matter she said: "The noises seemed
to be in one of the bed rooms, and sounded
aw if smie one was knocking on the floor
ur moving chairs. On Friday night we con
cluded to go to bed very early, because we
had been broken of our rest so much. I
had Just laid down in bed when the noise
began. It commenced as usual. I knew it
from all other noises I had ever heard. The
girls. Maggie and Kate, who slept in the
other bed of the room, heard the noise and
tried to make a similar noise by snapping
their fingers. As fast as the youngest one
made the noise with her hands or tingers
the sound was followed up in the room, it
making the same number of noises the girl
did. When she stopped it stopped. The
other girl then spoke in sport and said:
*Now, do Just as I do--count one, two,
three, four, etc..' she striking one hand in
the other at the same time. The blows
which she made were repeated as before,
blow after blow. She then began to be
startied. I then said to the noise, 'Count
ten in the same way,' it making ten
strokes. The ages of the children were
rapped out. I asked if it were a human
being making the noise, but no response
came. I asked if it were a spirit to signify
by two sounds, and two were made."
Public Manifestations.
A few months after these alleged
manifestations the Fox family removed
from Hydesville to Rochester, where they
resided with Mrs. 1eah Fish, the half-sis
ter of the two little girls. The rappings
continued in that city and other people be
gan to have like rappings. Generally the
rappingg of the Fox sisters were only heard
when they were together. They went to
Auburn and other places in that secUon of
New York. where in 1LlI they made their
"ma nitetations" before an audience in a
public hall.
irt Ma, I1C) they went to New York city,
Where their proceedings became the topic
of much public discussion. At the same
time spiritualist 'mediums" sprang up in
many different parts of the country, the
business having become too enticing, witn
prospets of profit, to escape adventures in
it
When spiritualism had become a flourish
ing b~uemross Maggie and Kate used to
mnake noises by snapping their toe and fin
ger joints. Maggre espeelaliy was aii adept
in thus making distinct and sharp sounds.
Beside. every skilled conjurer knows there
are ditferent ways of producing sounds or
rappings the source of which would be un
kno wn to an audience.
While the family remained at Hydesville
the sensation was only local, and investt
gation did not go far, but when, three
3nonths after, they left the "haunted"
house andl went to live at. Rochester with
Leiah Vish quite a spiritualistic reviva4
commenced. Mrs- Fox, the mother, prac
tically di-"appe'ared and only knew what her
daughters 'lid or proposed to do just as they
thought proper to tell her. Leah perceived
at once, evidently, that by proper manage
ment the sensation that had been started
co~uld be made pr atitabie by bringing her
seif as well as her sisters to more promi
anence in life and in getting money. Having
take-n charge of Magcie and Kate she had
abiolute contro,: over them, After entering
Ut. n a course of deception they couild not
for their own sakes conifess thiey were or
hadl been deceivers. Certainly Maggie and
Eate diared, not do so while under the firm
hanid of Leahi. The progress of spiritual
Sam, after having been thus started is known
genierally and need not be related here.
Glood Looking Girls.
Both Maggie and Kate were good looking,
er, ad some would say, pretty; short in stat
are aiid slight In figure. but with well
sounded forms. Their features were regu
iar but small. Their childlike, winsome
mianner and good nature when they first
came lnto public notice won for thems the
favor of the people in general.
Dr. Kane, the celebrated arctic explorer,
mnet Maggie in the second year of her ap
pearance. before the public, when she wasn
about sixteen or seventeen years old, fell
in love with her, became engaged to her,
and made arrangemetits to prepare her to
become his wIfe. Previous to his expedition
to the arctic region in liG3 he inisisted that
3Maggie should gire up the spiritual medium
ship, and he provided the means to have
her properly educated during his absence
in the north; colisequently she was placed
in an excellent school in Pennsylvania kits
intention, no doubt, was to marry her. But
when he returned in 18i55 f roam the arctic
his health was broken and he never recoy
eer It. He died not long after.' Maggie
asserted that a marriage had taken place,
and although this was denied by some of
Dr. Kane's relatives she assumed the name
er! Kane and was ever after known as Mtar
, t or Maggie, Fox Kane. Dr. Kane left
a small mnome, from his estate, which,
drew for several years; but when she
~bbdin 1IR her book, entitled "The
Lif o Dr. Enne,"' containing letters
and fac naites, the Kane familly were in
s Commenced legal proeeding~ to re el
it. but failed In her endeavor.
. Retuen ll prttumlinm.
Between the time of Dr. Kene's death and
the publication of her book she resume
more or less the practice of a, spiritualnst
But when she instituted the lawsuit she
had become a Catholic, and therefore wax
not permitted by the Catholic Church to
practice spirituasm. Somewhat later she
relapsed and returned to spiritalist part
ly because she was in needy circumstances
and partly through the incessant calls upon
her by spiritualists for seances and so
called spirit omnimlncations. One day J
asked Maggie why she had gone back tc
spiritualism, when she replied she had to
do something for a living, and then added,
with much disgust: "The old tools, they
will have it."
Kate Fox went to England some time
about 1871. and there married a Mr. Jenc
ken, a barrister of the Temple and an ao
complished man, but a spiritualist. He be
came acquainted with her through her per
formances as a medium. In a letter to me,
dated London. September 19, 1875, she says:
"Since my marriage I am quite out ot
spiritualism."
When Leah married Mr. Underhill, a man
In a good position, and she was well pro
vided for, she abandoned spiritualism as a
business. Previous to her marriage, how
ever, her sisters, after they grew up to
womanhood, quarreled with her and car
ried on the spiritualistic business . Inde
pendently.
Maggie went to England In September.
1876. In a letter to me, dated London, De
cember 6, 1877, referring to her brother-in
law, Mr. Jencken, with whom she had quar
reled, and to some other spiritualists, is
the following verbatim extract:
Held Thema in Contempt.
"Jencken, withal, is a fanatic, and of all
thitigs on earth I detest fanatics the most.
Have you read of the slaughter of the Phil
adelphia spiritual fanatics? Only Imagine
tHeir invented spirit names, as In the list
are Billy the bootblack, Red Cloud, Spirit
Water. etc., etc. They had the name of the
Blessed Virgin. What old foolsi One of the
faithful was a Mr. S., one of the wealthiest
men of Philadelphia. He had spent a
hundred thousand dollars in his great effort
after truth, and at last he has got it-and
as the naughty little boys In the street say,
he has got it bad. Pardon me for stooping
so low as to quote the language of the
naughty street boys, but it comes in so
apropos that I cannot help It."
At another time she wrote humorously:
"Yours in sisterly love, as the old spirit
ualists would say. Apropos, how are you
progressing in the faith? Do you believe as
of yore?"
She knew well I did not believe in the
silly fraud, and that I had all along begged
of her to repudiate It; but this was her way
of showing I was a disbeliever and of mak
ing fun of the "old spiritualists."
In the same humorous vein she wrote on
another occasion:
"Imagine how happy I am to hear that
you are still In the land of the living. i
was a little fearful that you had 'passed
away,' and that perhaps you were giving
some startling manifestations through some
spiritual medium."
I could cite many other sarcastic and hu
morous expressions, and also of disgust,
from both Maggie and Kate, when writing
or speaking of spiritualism and spiritual
Ists, all going to show their disbelief and
contempt; but the above Instances are suf
ficient to convince any intelligent person.
A Typical Seance.
When I first met Maggie it was at the
residence of distinguished people, who were
Inquiring into or gratifying their curiosity
about spiritualism. In the evening a seance
was held, all sitting around a table with
hands joined. Previous to sitting down I
told Maggie in a whisper that I did not be
lieve in the spiritualistic stuff, but that I
would not give expression to that to the
others present nor reveal any of her se
crets. As a consequence she placed me by
her side at the table, where she could re
lease her hand from mine whenever she
chose, which no one would perceive, as the
room was darkened; and she did take her
hand from mine at times when the custom
ary rappings, with questions and answers,
were going on. Subsequently I was at many
other seances In different places with botn
Maggie and Kate, and they, knowing my
disbelief, never asked me to communicate
with spirits, being conscious at the same
time that I would keep my promise not to
betray them as long as they lived. All the
sisters being now dead, I am free to state
the above facts. -
Although they made no public revelation
of the deception they had been led into and
practiced, fearing, no doubt, an outcry of
condemnation against them while living, I
am sure their minds were oppressed by
what they had done. For many of the later
years of their lives Maggie and Kate sought
mental relief and oblivion by spells of hard
drinking and intoxication. Naturally they
were not bad girls, but were good-natured
and kind. They were the victims of the
circumstances by which they were sur
rounded and from which they were un
able to escape. Had they been placed from
childhood and in early womanhood under
good moral Influence and favorable circum
stances. there Is reason to believe their lives
would have been marked by truthfulness,
modesty and propriety.
Ballad of Lieut. Miles.
Clinton Scollard in Harper's Weekly.
When you speak of dauntless deeds,
- When you tell of stirring scenes,
Tell this story of the isles
Where the endless summer smiles
Tell of young lieutenant Miles
In the far-off Philippines!
'Twas the Santa An fight:
All along the rebel line
From the. thickets dense and dire
GusiMd th-e fountains of their fire;
You could mark their rifles' ire,
You could hark theIr bullets' whine.
Little wondler there was lsae!
Some were wounded, some were dead
'Call Lieutenant Mile " tHe came,'
In hIs eyes a fearless flame.
"Yondt'r blockhoo-tht's our aim!"
The battalion leader said.
"You must take it-how you will;
You must break this damned spelt'"
"Voliunteers!" lhe crIed. 'Twas vain,
For that narrow tropic lane
"Twixt the b~amjoou and the cane
Was a very lane of helL
There were five stood forth at last;
, Gd above, but they were men!
"Come.!"-oh. blithely thus he saith!
lDkd they falter? Not a breath!
Dlown the path of hurtliag death
The Lieutenant led them then.
Two have falion-now a third!
Fo:-wardi dash the other three
In the nrnsh of that race'
Ne'er a swerve nor stay of pace.
Aid the rebels-dare they face
Such a desperate company ?
Pane gippd temby the throat
And as though they seemed to see
la those charging foemen three
An avenging destiny,
Fierce and fast anti far they ran.
So a salvo for the six!
So a round of ringing cheers!
Heroes of the distant Isles
Where the endless summer Enliles
Gallant roung Lieutenant Mites
And his valiant voluntee'rs!
--e
Death.
From the Denver News,
Death is a name. Death Is the portal
Into a higher way.
Life la eternaL Man in immortal,
ibing victorious,
Radiant, glorious,
O~ut of the clay;
Out of the b~ounds of time,
into the realms sublime,
lato a goiden clime,
Into the day.
Desideriumm.
Hold, TIme, a little while thy glass, --
And Youth, fold up those peacock wIspl
More rapture fills the years that pass
Then any hope the future br ng;
Some for tomorrow rashlypry
And somse desire to hold tody
But I am sick for yesterday.
Since yesterday the hills were blue
That shall be gray forever more,
And the fair sunset was shot through
With color never seen before I
Tyrannic Love smiled yesterday,
And lust the terrors of his sway.
But It Is God again toda.
Ab. who will give asbeek the pat?
Ah, woe. that yonh annsile oe to he
Lake this swift Thae that speed. se fast.
And Is se faim to find the e
That lmeaes this mane of shadow and sleep.
These creek, dows which blows blossmmseg
fur breaker. of the aneelm s=
- eart's Grief.'
I sooeathe
And the dear, deer ft. befor. - -
To Uise, son--, begs.
Ber lips, mas m te t thsd
A sles of seh esiss e
Steed ulisiman- in has eyes.
Lad dew-s em cbe the teers. a,
Flwed ei shesij reane
Ad. *b, that -lye baet-thee, dari$J,
ess es a wieire dresmol
-ImiE1R mN
6t to be asat "had
turned the 4 e.. welcome in
to the tnfa o net .w they had mande a
=intake in entaig the 01e
16 canes" the %u w=i a a wetd is
=okn determin as much as
a nn oif yo in hanuse
the tone of the4L h" IA,
and say bea= Z =ma a tinSte or
corro. One tovds ,nd one only, ex
presses man. Thdif VA tour ot these tones
in standard or d dialect-a high
curving InlectIon falling inAetion,
The sound " I" uttere In the first
tome, means brasen-faoed; In the second,
to hide; in the full: and in the
fourth, slow. tones are the o0
casions of absurd blu ris.
A missionary ones I ormed his audience
that the Savior, Ilwhfn on earth, "went
about eating aak," He intended to say,
"healngm the sick," but an aspirate wrong
ly placed changed the healing into eating,
while an error In tone made oakes out of
the sick.
On one oooasion, when Mr. 'Holcombe
was the host of a large dinner party, he
ctdered his Chinese butler to supply some
small article that was not on the table.
The man seemed pusled, then went out
and returned with the kitchen upon a tray.
The host had placed an aspirate where it
did not belong.
At arother time the cook was told to buy
100 "ladies' fingers". for an evening party.
Two hours later he entered the courtyard
of the American legation riding upon the
shaft of a Chinese cart, and reported that
he had been able to buy in all Pekin only
sixty-four "ladies' fingers." "Why did you
hire a cart?" he was asked. "To bring
them home-they weigh five or six pounds
each."
Instead of tiny strips of sponge cake to
be served with Ice cream, he had bought
sixty-four fresh ox-tongues.' A wrong tone
of his master's voice had done the mischief.
NEW DWEY STORY.
The Famous Admiral Nearly Started
Another War With Mexico.
Prom the New York Tribune.
Lieutenant F. Winslow, U. S. N., retired,
L cousin of the famous commander of the
Kearsarge, Is at Albemarle, and yesterday
he told a Tribune reporter a new story
about Admiral George Dewey.
"In May, 1875, Admiral Dewey was com
Inander of the old Narragansett," said
Lieut. Winslow, "arid he was detailed to
surveying the Gulf of California and the
shores of the coast of the peninsula. It was
iot long after the Virginius affair at Santia
ro, and the feeling toward the Mexicans
and Cubans was none too cordial. The
Narragansett reached La Paz, near the
southern end of the peninsula, and we no
sooner got ashore than we heard that an
American mining engineer and some En
rlishmen who owned the mine were pris
)ners In their mining shanties, forty miles
back of La Paz, In the mountains. The
American had resented an Insult, a quarrel
'ollowed, and the American killed two
kexicans. The friends of the latter swore
hey'd kill the Yankee and the Englishmen,
oo, and the latter were soon obliged to
>arricade themselves. This siege had been
n for several days when we dropped an
:hor.
"As soon as Commander Dewey heard of
t he was very much interested. The next
lay he sent a messenger to the Mexical col
mel In La Paz, who had a garrison of 60
ioldiers there, asking him what he was go>
ng to do to give the American a trial be
ore he was shot.
" 'Oh, he got into the trouble-let him !et
ut,' said the Mexga
"Commander Detey dn't like this reply,
Lnd the more he tjwought about it the an
,rler he got. The next forenoon he sent a
tote to the Mexlcait colonel telling him that
n American citizep's life was In danger,
.nd that the marr wad entitled to a fair
rial. He told the colorial that he would al
>w him just twent?-ru.for hours to rescue the
Lmerican and pr-Aect' the Englishmen. If
.t the end of that time relief was not on
ts way to the little miping party he would
embard La Paz a~d barn it.
"When we heard what Dewey had done
re were all frightAed7
"'Upes he mean; ItT;we asekd one an- t
ther.
"As for myself, I wal soon satisfied that
e meant every word of it. I was in com
3and of the guns. WV had only two old
owitzers on the Narragansett, the larger
uns having beengleit temporarily at the
fare Island navy yare y
''Get those. owirs ready for tomor
ow morning ad inIpeetjVi1 -the small
rms and armntir' c,2d: Dewey to me.
'hen he called the men to quarters and
stimated that of the crew of About 120 we
ould land ninety able, armed men as a
torming force. We drilled the men all
tat afternoon and far Into the night. That
Ight, on Commander Dewey's order, we
teamed to a point commanding the prin
[pal streets of La Paz and trained the I
owitzers on the town. By next morning a
,e were all ready to begin a second war
gainst Mexico. a
"At daybreak a Mexican corporal came on
oard with a message from his colonel say- t
ig that the Narragansett commander's U
!quest would be complied with. Early that t
korning we watched 300 armed Mex
an soldiers start for the mining camp, ,
nd we kept the old howitzers trained on a
a Paz till the soldiers returned with the 1
nerican engineer. When Dewey reported t
> Washington on the matter he minimized a
ie importance of it, and it was passed
ver as a mere incident. Lieutenants Har
s and Wright were on the Narraganset;
len, and Harris, at least, was with the
set at Manila. .It Is somewhat singular I
lat at thatt time, when we were expecting
declaration of war against Spain on ac- F
)unt of the Virginlus affair, Commander
ewey had his plans all made to sail the
arragansett to Manila."
s
Curious Christian Names.
rom Notes and Queries.
I remember hearing the following story
-om the late Canon Bardaley, author of
Ienglish Names and Surnames." There
as once a woman-"a 1ttle 'eracky,' I
link," saId the canon, by way of paren
tesl8-who had a son whom she had chris-.
>ned "What." Her Idea seemos to have c
Mm that when In after days he was asked
a sname, end kept saytng "WhJ~t" amus
g scenes wlould tallow, wthich wee likely h
lough, especlatly if 'ifhe boy was careful de
>pronounce the aspirate. Suoh a scened
d, I belteve, occur once when he went to
htool, and was told, as a newomer, to
and up and furnish cortain particulars.
Wha~t is yvour name?" asked the tea~cher. n
What," blurted oult the boy, amid the b
ughrter of the oless. "What is your ii
mane?" asked 'the meter again, with more it
isphasis. "Whalt," eplied tihe boy'. "Your
lame, sir!" roared ouft the infuniated peda- b
igue. "What, What!" roared back the
rrified iridhin. The sequel I forget, but I tl
Aleve it was one of those cases in whIch d
a follies of the parents are visited on the 01
didren of .the fBrst generatton
A Sure Thing, A
0om ife. .jp
"I want to be sure,* said the aged philan- g
ropist, "that mys.money will, after my al
ath, remain In 4hisi country, where I tI
ads it, and the hohle of my adloption." dl
"Have you thougl o any way this can
fully assured?' lftuib'ed: his lawyer. ni
'I have," replied 4li Shila'nmhropist, con- hi
lently. "I am goiti to leave it to a for
The Silk skft Wtrist.
om the Colorado Sprflg &zette. hi
skl essiig a i siis $ "goi a
perversely doth ratA
0' no microbe in l~lgi~ tia inaimenly ai
aokng sdthe once ~ihave ?O
aasth u'Idoensa um.a witselt emel.er
stvely unte the filrer es; t
di do~ not ears to-eeri, bet are wilim Cl
re'' ,r heyns the g~tlorylt ~dt
at te sile lobe desal is 1t. view, a ese
a maide msa diso,,m that the bo aletisa b:1
heesal aro 11ebr, jet she never foe a wi
mm~t e~ a fesr as se
w i~ st 4 sse sar!kstl
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POPULAR WITH SAILORS
Enmhs Supply 7gi Wit uay Daw
aims Whe in PrL
How the Industry Is Carried OaW-f
Sats to smaiggle Ige
jWAboard Ship,.san
From the New Yor* Tribuse.
While the warships lay at anchor of
Tompkinsville a few days ago two bumboat
women and a bumboat man came to blows
In the course of an argument over their
respective'rights to trade with the returned
jack tars. Although not always fought for
so valiantly, the privilege of bumboating is
always greatly sought after, and the profits
of the business are generally so large in
proportion to the outlay that it is an occu
pation likely to flourish as long as there
are ships and sailQrs.
The ordinary landlubber does not have oc
casion to know much about bumboats or
their proprietors, and it is ten chanoes to
one that his acquaintance with them Is
limited to the one classic bumboat woman
of song. Little Buttercup.in "Pinafore."
But to the sailor the bumboat men and
women are highly Important members .of
society, and if they should cease to ply their
trade he mrould find himself deprived of
many a luxury that he now enjoys. The
captains of all vessels recognise the value
of the bumboats as a means of keeping
Jack contented when he is in eight of either
a home or a foreign port. Without their
visits he would be far more persistent In
his demands for shore leave, since he would
be able to represent, reasonably enough,
that he was enjoying no benefit from the
ship's nearness to land. But the bumboats
bring him all the tempting articles in the
way of food that he could possibly find
ashore, and, though these things make up
the greater part of their stock, they fre
quently have besides various little curios,
pieces of jewelry and other articles charac
teristic of the country to which they be
long. Bumboat women are often washer
women as well, and they are only too glad
to relieve the sailor-for a consideration-of
his laundry duties as long as the ship re
mains in the neighborhood.
Every bumboat proprietor must have a
written permission from the captain of the
vessel he desires to trade with, and he
must exhibit this as soon as he comes
alongside. Then an officer of the ship goes
)board the bumdboat and makes an exam
Ination of the stock, to see that no liquor
is being smuggled into the sailors' posses
lion. To be absolutely sure of this the
)ffieer must be well up in the tricks of the
trade. All sorts of Ingenious expedients
Ire devised by the bumboat proprietors, In
-olluslion with the ever ready seamen.
Whisky and other spirits are brought
Lboard in the most unexpected ways, and
.he success of a scheme must depend chief
.y upon its ,novelty. The large claws of
obsters carefully scooped out and filled up
with liquor have served to convey many a
ink aboard, and they hold more than
would be generally supposed. Innocent ap
)earing strings of sausages have also been
HiPeovered on investigation to be not sau
;ages at all, but the empty cases of them
tiled with whisky. Even loaves of bread
lave concealed in their centers little pouch
)s of the greatly prized liquid, and there
tre numbers of other devices showing an
Ldmirable gift of invention on the part of
'he bumboat people.
Many of the tricks are discovered only
Lfter the sailors have given repeated and
mnmistakable proofs of having been well
uppiled with liquor. Then the officers
udgel their brains to find out by what
neans the stuff could have been obtained,
ad finally suspect some article of the bum
aoat stock.
Besides exaning the goods, the offieer
rho boards the bumboat also looks over
he schedule of prices and decides whether
>r not they are exorbitant. This is to pro
ect the seamen, who are proverbially no
natch for the traders at a bargain, from
eing swindled by extortionate prices. Oc
asionally, of course, the boats bring odd
vares. for which no prices can well be
cheduled, but the staple articles of their
tock, such as fresh fruits, vegetables and
weetmeats, are all valued at certain rates.
'he officers themselves very seldom naje
ny purchases, unless In an emergency they
appen to be in need of some article for
heir own table.
There is probably not a port at which
hips ever touch where the business of
umboating does not exist. In China it Is
specially active, as well as at the various
orts of Indo-China and British India. The
umboatmen of Alexandria, Egypt, are said
o be the laziest of their profession. Too
idolent to make an effort to get alongside
ship, they sail aimlessly up and down
mong vessels in the harbor, crying mo
otonously, "Ebryting! ebryting!" This is
itended to describe the extensiveness of
leir wares, but It is deceptive, for they
sually have next to nothing to sell. Some
mes they rouse themselves just before a
lip is about to depart, and come alongside,
ffering pigeons and other birds and ani
als, which the sailors often buy for pets.
i far-away Madagascar the natives are en
iuslastic bumboat traders, and frequently
warm about the ship in great ndumbers.
FIGHT WITH CUBAN BANDITS.
fow Maj. Harrisom Captured the No
torious Outlaw Leader Trocan.
rom the New York Tribune.
Major Duncan B. Harrison of the 9th
nited States Volunteer Colored Infantry
aye he knows that there are bandits, in
uba, because he has killed theni. The
uajor has recently returned from Cuba,
'here he served during the entire cam
sign. His military record bears the fol
wing statement over the signature of Col.
.3. Crane, who commanded the regiment:
"Largely instrumental in suppressing bri
andage in Santiago province, Cuba. In
rmmand of expedition of 9th RegIment,
hich had combat with Cuban handitti near
anta Ana, Cuba, resulting in killing four
anditti, wounding five and capturing
even, including the notorious leader, Pru
ancia Beal, alias Trocan. Received flesh
ound in right leg. Service honest and
tithful. Always zealous and energtic, a
yal assistant,"
The story of the fight with the banditti
entioned -In the military record was told
r Major Harrison to a Tribune reporter
st evening at the Hotel Imperial. Here
is in his own word.:
"On the night of March 20, 1890, a hand of
mnditti ambushed two of the wagoners of
ur regiment and murdered them. One of
to men was virtually shot to pieces. I
t believe I have ever seen a body so
atrageously mutilated. The following day
started out with twelve picked men and
cceeded in capturing five bandits at Santa
na, the largest sugar plantation in the
'ovince of Santiago. I sent back a ser
ant and four men with the prisoners, re
esting that reinforcements be sent to me
once, as I had positive information that
ere were from 100 to 150 men in the ban
tti contingent. With the remaining seven I
en I pushed on for three days and four
ghts to San Tomaso, a banditti strong
aid, about eighty-six miles distant frdm
Lnta Ana. At San Tomaso we raided all
o shacks of the bandits, capturing seven
are prisoners. We had considerable skir- 1
ishing at long distance during the trip,
id finally becomning convinced that the
.ndits had doubled on us and taken the t
amntain roads to Palma Saviana, I made
detour over the mountains back to Santa
ia, where I rested my men and mules u
d placed the prisoners behind the bars,
e reinforcements had not yet arrived.
'In the meantime a band of thirty-two
nditti, led by the notorious Roque broth-rn
s; Chino, or China, So-called because, al
Dugh a Cuban, he lcoks exactly like a
finaman, and the celebjaed bandit leader,
'udencia, Breel, alias Tracan, or *Bi P
tunp,' had made a dtour and endaved
surround us. They opened are with a
lley, keeping well under cover in the
msh about a hundred yards distant on
b other side of the Yarang river. K or
red my men to dismount and imedmae*
ploy as skirmis~hers. We returned fihe are
volleys. The- bandits were all armed
th Mannmr ri4 e, using smonlessa powder
ntwo mse., One of theme had a -
eerbine, 48 the oh
rrisi ignd'. U4~.Rt
theer usedg Uaa wdier, and 185m n
igi theW re that' de eong locamte
We dtore tkmIha . 3r4ed the et
lea fewr of Jhe aouana ~*
a emptured elev'en, with thear
rues- andam--*u-'e-- U'all w ~
li the and gave tageb 20rn
lieIe.thepse who ym telo the &
SUFFER BUT LITTLE PAIN
Egpedm.e of Ern Who 9a BMrn suk
'M by TM
The Eut. ef a Smn.,e Ana. is .a*h
Nore Psitaul-Uome Remsesk
able Mseaves.
Piusm tie Eemia et
The attacks of the lesser carnivore5
Smaller In proportion to man, are frequent
ly very painful; but matters are so order
ed that the bite of a dog or a ferret is usu
ally more painful than the injuries inflicted
by the jaws of the lion. The instances
Quoted are very numerous and striking.
and properly grouped according to locality,
or the species of the attacking beast, In
Somaliland the experiences of the bitten
are supplemented by Capt. Abud, the resi
dent at Berbera, who has had a long ex
perlence of cases, English and native, as
most of the former, unless killed outright,
which very seldom happens, are brought to
Berbera.
He states that "the view that no actual
pain is-suffered at the time seems almost
universal. In most cases it would seem
that there was no knowledge of the actual
contact, even in the first rush of a ion,
much less of any pain experienced from
tooth wounds." This was the view not
only of the English, but of natives. In
one or two cases where consciousness was
entirely lost, the person "came to" while
the lion was still standing over him, a
period of complele anaesthesia and uncon
sciousness having intervened. But more
commonly those who have been attacked
and have recovered are conscious all the
time, and if they suffer at all do not feel
acute pain. This may be accoynted for
partly by the shock given by the charge,
which forms the usual preliminary to be
ing wounded. A lion comes at its enemy
at full speed, galloping low, and dashes a
man standing upright to the ground by the
full impact of its body. Maj. Inverarity
states that "the claws and teeth entering
the flesh do not hurt as much as you would
think," but that the squeeze given by the
jaws on the bone is really painful. When
knocked over he was still keenly conscious,
and felt none of the dreamy sensation ex
perienced by Livingstone.
Maj. Swaine, struck down by a lioness
going full gallop, was unconscious for adme
minutes, and did not know what had hap
pened till he found himself standing up
after the accident. "I felt no pain,' he
writes, "not, I believe, owing to any spe
cial interposition of Providence, but simply
that the shock and loss of blood made me I
incapable of feeling it. There was no pain
for a few days, till it was brought on by 1
the swelling of my arm on the twelve days'
ride to the coast." Captain Noyes, attack
ed in the same district by a lion in 1895,
was charged down, and bitten, until the 1
creature left him, probably' when attacked i
by his servants. His hand was badly bitten I
but he "was not conscious of any feeling
of fear, or any pain whatever, probably be
cause there was no time, but felt exactly
as if he had been bowled over in a foot
ball match, and nothing more." A far
worse accident was that which befell Lieu
tenant Vandesee in the same year, near
Beira. The lion charged him down in the
usual way, and mangled his thighs and
fractured one of his arms. "During the
time the attack on me by the lion was In
progress," he writes, "I felt no pain what
ever, although there was a distinct feeling
of being bitten-that is, I was perfectly
conscious, irdependently of seeling the per
formance, that the lion was gnawing at me,
but there was no pain. * * * I may men
tion that while my thighs were being gnaw
ed I took two cartridges out the the breast
pocket of my shirt, and threw them to the
Kaffir, who was hovering a few yards
away, telling him to load my rifle, and im
mediately the lion died and rolled off me I
scrambled up and took a loaded rifle and
fired at the carcass."
BEAJTIIFUL KILLARNEY.
It Takes Threia Days to "Do" Its At
tractions Thoroughly.
From the London Times.
A certain tourist, who was doing all the
sights of the Holy Land with painful ear
nestness, was scandalized to see an Ameri- r
can arrive one afternoon, hurry round all a
the sacred places, and 'make ready to de
e
part betimes on the morrow. He ventured c
to Inquire of this bustling traveler why, 9
having come so far, he rushed away so t:
quickly. "Sir," replied the Yankee, "I am 3
timed to do Europe in a fortnight. I have .
C
thrown in the Holy Land, and if I stay here b
longer than one night I cannot see Killar- v
pey, which takes three days." That Ameri- a
can had been well advised. Energetic,
bustling tourists have endeavored to see all b
the beauties of the place in one day, and
though they have been delighted and over- r
whelmed by what they saw, they have not n
been able to restrain a pang of regret at k
the thought of what they had missed. a
Killarney, if not in Itself, at, least by L
description, is known the world over, and A
has a great reputation to maintain; but, tA
unlike many other p ces of renown, it t
does not belie it. The lakes of Killarney 0
may not prove to be quite as the stranger r
anticipated, but the impression he carries tl
away is none the less one of profound ad- i
miration and wonder. The particular tl
charm which enwraps him is that of the a
peaceful loveliness and serenity of the c
whole, and this strikes home with Increased I
conviction after passing by the waterway N
fromt the upper to the lower lake. The
former sheet of water, enveloped as it is by
ragged peaks and gloomy, unclothed moun- y
talns, cannot vie with the lower lake, whose
magnificent stretch of silver waves is
fringed and caressed by foliage and trees, f
by rich meadows and sweet-amelling
blooms, while the rugged outline of the =
wild hills is softened by the purple haze, g
and space is lost in an Infinity of graceful
undulations. The boat ride from the far
edge of the upper lake to the ruins of Ross
Castle is an expdience which cannot be be
described. It must be enjoyed; and rest hd
assured It will linger In the memory to the l
last day.
IEEARNING CHINESE.
Tone of the Voice Chamages the Menu- m
lng of a Word. et
P'rom the Youth's Comnpanion.
The oldest spoken language now existent ~
upon the earth is the Chinese. It hau an m
tnormous list of words-the estimate of er
the number of characters ranges from 25,- 'm
X00 to 260,000, The language has an al- E
phabet. Each character represents a com
plete Idea, and corresponds, practically, to til
he English word. It is written in columns cil
from top to bottom of the page, and from
right to left. A Chinese book ends where
in English book begins. Writing is done Fr
with a fine camel's hair brush and india
nk. t
The lack of an alphabet and the number di
sf characters make the labor df learning to m
read Chinese burdensome. Each character
nust be learned by itself. When the stu- be
lent has mastered 5,000 characters the suc
meeding thousands must be learned in the fi~
same way. Those which he has mastered el
!urnish no assistance to learning the others,
save as practice may have given him a cer
Eain quickness In perceiving the peculiar
Corm which distinguishes each character Fr
Wrom its fellows,
The grammar of the language is so sm
ple as to be almost non-existent. The same
word serves Indifferently as a non,veb
sdverb or adjective. Moods, tenses, per
ions, gender and number are lacking; there
sre neither conjugations nor declensions It
nor auxiliary verbs. The few Chinese who
tave attempted to master the English
ongue regard its grammnatIcal 9olsrc- ha
Ion as clumsy and full of pitfalls,
The Chinese characters give no clue to
he pronunciation, and amount of book It
tudy will enable a foregnrto speak the
anguage. That ability must be acquired
rom the lips of a living teacher, assisted Tb
sy months of drill, a quick ear, and great
lexibility of the ,vocal organs. Even the
nost faithful effort fails to enable many 8e
oreigners to speak Chinese correctly.
Chester Holcomm, for many years in-5
erpreter to the United States legation at
Mekin, frisa whose Interesting book, "The
!teal Chin====n " we have eopied, selates
leveral aneedotes ilustrative of a fofeign- W1
rsalmost inevitable blundea ia speaking
Mr. Holcombe once heard ae 'venerable
missionary address the Deity in prayer, be
oft a croefded Chingse audiencue, as",
hon omniverous God." J.. macet tos~
'onsnseant" "buat used a mawatediists ge
if an unaspirated ch. nte a~ch~
a# -with eishieae teadn
ledly leave his p 'roi t
'e theaghat was le e'i3U
te dsad, we gee the pri% ne W th
others at Santa Ann.
"Abot "W e*s the t m am
while tanding outpost with my men-f
the force was so muan that r personaflty d
guard duty-I saw Troeam step out in th
moonlight, 200 yards or sf froa my outpos
Hiding myself as best I could in the shado
of the brush and undergrowh I crawl*
down to him, and wben within atson ym
I made a rush at im. He swung at =
with his machets, but I had the good oi
tune to hit him Arat. As he went down
drove my knee Into his neck, 'at the samn
thee Shoving a .45 caliber Colt revolver tnt
his mouth. Captain Wi. Lowrey of Con
pany K arrivedL just at this juncture wit
the reinforcements, and came to my an
sistance with two of my own men, who
had heard the struggie.
"We bound Mr. Trocan and took all th
prisoners tp camp near San Luis. En rout
two of them attempted to escape and wer
killed. Trocan is absolutely the largest ma
I have ever seen. He Is six feet seven an
one-half inches tall, weighing fully =
pounds. His chest measurement is fifty
six inches. He was known as Macso's exe
cutioner, and boasts of having strangle
LWa prisoners, seven of whom were Amerti
cans. I brought his pony to America wit
me.
"This Incident illustrates the gallantry o
the colored soldiers. On the first volley fire
I had taken the rifle of the nearest mat
Corporal Franklin of Company K. Whet
the contest was over I turned to him ani
saw the tears streaming from his eyes.
asked him what the trouble was, and ih
replied:
" 'Major, you didn't even give me on
shot at 'an, and Gottschalk was my pal.'
"Gottschalk was the wagoner who was a
fearfully butchered"
MAKING WALL PAPER.
The Interesting Process Briefly am
Instructively Deseribed.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The manufactoure of wall paper Is singu
larly interesting. First, a web of blani
paper is set In a reel behind a blotching
machine; two cylinders bring the free en<
of the paper into the machine, where a
roller working in a color pan puts a large
quantity of color upon the paper In blotch.
es. Then a set of flat brushes, called jig
gers, brush quickly back and forth, thus
spreading the coloring matter evenly over
the surface of the paper.
As the paper comes from the blotching
machine a workman takes one end of it
wraps It around a stick and places the stick
across two parallel endless chains, and the
paper is thus carried up an Incline. Wher
eighteen feet of it has run out, the chains
take up another stick that lies across them,
and carry It up as they did the first stick;
a third stick soon follows the second, and
thus the work continues until the entire
web of paper has been run out of the
blotching machine.
The chains, in their working, hang the
paper in loops over a system of steampipes,
and it is thus thoroughly dried before it
reaches the end of the chain work, where it
is again wound Into web form.
Wall paper designs are first sketched on
paper, and then transferred to rollers of the
size required. It is necessary to prepare as
many rollers as there are colors in the de
sign; thus, if the design requires printing In
eight colors, eight rollers must be prepared.
When all of the rollers are ready the ar
tist directs his workmen and each one Is
given a color. A workman to whom that
color has been given takes a roller to his
bench, sets it firmly in the grasp of a vise,
and, with hammers, files, brass ribbons
and brass rods, goes to work. Every bit
of the design that Is to be in green is traced
out for him and he carefully reproduces It
in relief on the roller.
When his work is finished, the roller
bears on its face, in raised brass, green
stems, leaves, etc., and at the proper time
and place will put the green coloring and
shading just where the designer Intended
it should be. In like manner the other rol
lers are m.ade ready for use, and they are
then taken to a press that has a large cyl
inder of the width of ordirary wall paper.
There are grooves around the sides and
the bottom of this cylinder, into which are
fitted the rods on the ends of the rollers,
and when in position, the faces of the rol
lers just touch the cylinder. An endless
cloth band comes to each of the rollers
from below, each band works in a color
pan, which contains, in liquid form, the
coloring matter to be carried on the roller
to which the band belongs.
Each roller Is placed In such position that
the part of the design upon it will strike
exactly in the spot necessitated by the rela
tive position of the other rollers.
When all is ready the paper that has
passed through the blotching machine is
placed between the cylinder and the first
roller, the cylinder and the rollers revolve
rapidly, and soon the paper is beautifully
printed. At each of the endless cloth bands
there is a steel scraper called a doctor, and
it Is the doctor's duty to prevent too much
liquid from the other pans from getting on
the rollers.
The wall paper press throws off ten rolls
of paper a minute, and each roll contains
sixteen yards. It Is said that stamped pa
per for walls was first manufactured in
Holland about the year 155. Some of the
very costly wall paper in use nowadays is
beautifully embossed and hand-painted.
mclaimed Fortunes.
From Leslie's Weekly.
The extraordinary revelation was made
at a recent meeting of the state Savings
Bank Assodation of New York that there
were in the savings banks of the empire
state $1,500,000 in dormant accounts. 'Te
savings banks of New York state now hold
thout $700,000,000 of the people's money, and
te dormnant accounts of $1,500,000 remain
seithout any evidence that chedr owners wlU
ever cal flor them. Some of them have
been dormnent for over fifty years. One
bank in the city of Albany reported thalt
is unclaimed accounts aggreated over
p2,000. Some of these accounts have
slaunants who wni appear In due sasonn.
the owner of one of them, for instance, Is
hiat popular Amnuedcan, Senator Chrauncey
II. D~epew. He had never presensted itt.
pass bsook to have his Interest entered,
:hough his acount had more than doubled
wiuile it isay dornmn. We must indeed be
i. deh and prosperous nation whei. we can
wvedook a biktie itemn of over $1,500,000 ly
ng unclained in the sa~vings bank's of a
lingie state.
Cuttin' Rashes Lon~g Age,
l'rom Blackwood's Magazine.
1k, mybe It was yesterday, or fity years ego!
Mesef was riin' early os a dy for cuttia'
galk*n up the Brabla' barm, stifl the -o was
1%w I'd hear the bars ran and then I'd hear the
thruahes.
rong, still young!-en' drencin' wet the gram,
Wet the golden honeysuckle hangin' aweatly
[era, lad, here! will ye follow where I plass,
Au' End mie cuttia' reshes on the mematnin.
liliti' oun Itnibg mol hig amon the
'he hook it made me band sore, I had to lave it
go,
"'es he that cut the rmbhe thee for tue to hind
hnme,4 rcomne!-an' bac'k aloug the barn
See the darln' honeysuckle hangin' like a crows.
luick, oekiss! Bire, there's some one at the
-Oh were afiher euttin' rush.. on the mon..
esterday, yesterday, or ffty year, ego * C a
I wake et o' drea when I bear the summer
b, tht' the Brahia' her., I c.. he.r It su.,..
Per eaR that's fair, P'd scorner see a bech e'
green rases.
us, burn, EMBt (am Se aged when we wee.
1~ehemysuklehengs aoe, the g-s Is dask
bare, re the ye malmi whm we were en
day we eat the ramhe. en thne n..tais
The lit~e earse that bettedse
I hust thse r~u
A-e the aaetes
Ammang the wst at
Asemme the levieg at
Th et the trees,
lb wt at the hs~b
Atmr et th
thethe
tiees bsh Deia ohr C
PAGODAS OF INDIA
r
Miallapea ine Tha A06et m.
ame aw auwo..
1IO Ini W ONIGIFUR~
Granite Bull of Tan"ore is Kept
Anointed With Gres.
I
vrALTY or aMDOOIBa
Fiem the 1,1010 uslg.
Southward out of Madras you stMl run
through the new India, the old India of the
nurmery. Now It Is vivid with long grass,
now tufted with cotton, then dast green
with stooping palm heads or black with
firs, anon brown with tallow, blue with
lakes and lagoons. black with cloud-ehad.
owing pool, stained with white water flue.
Presently red hills break out of the woods,
then sink again to sweeping pastures do
ted only with water hoists and naked
herdsmen. Then in the placid landscape
you are almost startled by the sight of
monuments of religion. A tall quadrangu
I lar pyramid, Its course lined with rude
statues, a couple of half-shaped human
figures. ten times human size, a ring of co
lossal hobby norses sitting -n their
haunches like a tea party in wonderland
they burst grotesquely out of meadow and
thicket, standing all alone with the soil and
the !rees No worshipers, no sign of
human life near them, no hint of their
origin or purpose-till you almost wonder
whether they are artificial at all and not
petrified monsters from the beginning of
the world.
These are the outposts of the great pago
das of southern India-those suhlime mon.
strosities which scarce any European ever
sees, which most have never heard of, but
which afford perhaps the strongest testi
mony in all India at once to the vitality
and the Incomprehensibility of Hindooism.
The religion that inspired such toilsome do
votion must be one of the greatest forces
in history, yet the western mind can de
tect neither any touch of art In the monu
ments themselves nor any strain of beauty
in the creed. Both command your respect
by their sie-that which is so vast, so en
during, can hardly, you tell yourself, be
ccntemptible. And still you can see nothing
In the temples but misshapen piles of un
couthness, nothing in the religion but un
earthly superstitions, half-meaningless and
half-foul.
Orieatal leenwruity.
The nearest approach to a symmetrica"
building iS the great pagoda of Tanjore.
Long before you near the gate you see Its
pyramidal tower shooting free above crook
ed streets and slanting roofs. Presently
you see the lower similar towers, so far
from the first that you would never call
them part of the same building. In reality
they are the outer and inner gateways
gopura is their proper name-built in mas
sive diminishing courses, garnished with
carving and statuary. From a distance
the massive solemnity of their outlines, the
stone lace of their decorations, strike you
with an overwhelming assertion of rich
majesty. But you are in India and you
wait for the inevitable incongruity. It
comes at the very gate. The entrance is
not under the stately gopure. but under a
screen and scaffolding of lath and plaster
daubed with yellow and green grotesque
ness, men with lotus eyes looking out of
their temples, horses with heads like
snakes and kings as tall as elephants.
There Is to be a great festival In a day or
two, explains the suave Brahmin; there
fore, the gopuras are boarded up with pic
tures beside which the tapestries of our
pavement artists are truth and beauty.
You walk through scaffold poles into a
great square round the great tower, and
with reverence they show you that colossal
mopolith, the great bull of Tanjore. I wish
I could show you a picture of him, for
words are unequal to him. In size be
stands, ow rather sits, thirty-eight hands
two. His material Is black granite, but it
is kept so piously anointed with grease
that he looks as If he were made of toffee
In attitude he suggests a roast hare, and
he wears a half-smug, half-coquettish ex
pression, as If he hoped that nobody would
kiss him.
Visit to the Shri..s.
From this wonder you pass to the shrines
of the chief gods. The unbeliever may not
enter, but you stand at the door while a
man goes along the darkness with a Sam
beau. The light falls on silk and tinsel,
and by faith you can divine a seated image
at the end. Next you are at the foot of the
great tower, and the ridiculous has become
the sublime again. Every story is lined
with serene-faced gods and goddesses.
dwindling rank above rank, a ladder of dei
ties that seems to climb halfway up to
heaven.
Then the Brahmin shows you a stone bull
seated on the ground, like a younger broth
er of the great one. "It is in existence," he
says, throwing out his words in groups, dis
passionately, as though somebody else were
speaking and it were thing at all to do
with him-"it Is initence-to show the
dimensions--of four other bulls-which are
in existence-up there." You, lay your head
back between your shoulder blades and up
there, at the very top, among gods so
small that you wonder Whether they are
gods or oply panels or pillars, are tour
more little'brothers of the hare-shaped tof
fee-textured monster below.
The Keymete et Hiade. Art.
Reduplication Is the keynote of the Hin
doo art. The same bulls everywhere, the
same gods everywhere, and all round the
cloistered outer wall scores on scores of
granite, fat-dripping, flower-crowned em
blems, so crudely shapeless that you forget
their gross significance, but all absolutely
alike. Next he leads you aside to piles and
piles of what look like overgrown, gaudily
painted children's toys. This is an exact
facsimile of the tower, reduced and Imitat
ed in wood. It Is all i pleces, but at the
festival the parts are fitted together and
carried on a car, Every god sculptured on
the pyramid Is represen ted in a section of
this model, waiting to be fitted Into his
place. Only what is richiy mellow in'tant
ed stone Is garishly tawdry In king's yellow
and red lead to the infantile.
Next a little shrine that is a net of the
most delicate carving--stone as light andt
fantastIc as wood, Pillar and panel, mold
ing and cornice, lattice and Imagery, all
tapering gracefully tilt they become minia
tures at the aummit-4t is a gem of ex
quisite taste and patient labor. And tihe
very next minute you are again smong
famming red and yellow dragon tigers and
duck peacocks, and the one Is just as holy
and just as beautiful to its worshipers as
the other.
Sublime and Reedem.
That is all, except to write your name ia
the visitors' book, As I went in to sign K
noticed a band of musicians standing at the
door and thogght no more of It. But. as
my pen touched the paper suddenly ready
pipes and diMordant Mddle. and heavy tam
tans began to play "God Save the Qmem,.*
A. huge campst of muslin and tImsel, line a
magnialed Christmas tree stocking, was
east abeut my neck, betel ad altar ef
rose were brought up in silver vessels ad
llowers and truts m silver trays, The
pagoda keeps Its charaeter to the ead-the
DomPniment was subnme, and I was uicin
Yet the Temple et Tanjore Is the inost
imple and orterly ot all en Wad. Vist
:he great basada et Mai-m and yoe i
mo eat maad ltb Hiemem. Ag hte
sdsand i ,tei ee
a breed oew te dagama. an rmy
ug painae The si- is enans
he tear eet gateways sine pUs
ewers, eelered hem baatmea,
restn the aras and in f
du and weie and as s-- as
b a th es mte