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Whoa I Pennsylvania mlrrled Inn and n Pan-”luau lauded won-n, .ch nouly chm-con And in]: large hulls“ ol chlldnu. slope, lot II. but u no" of the (ollloc o: lover. young. Uldonblodly American chlldm VIII Mn to loot more am: their ”mu. 1'). Indmnllou o: as In Mouth: wnlully numerou- In Ill put. 0! the canal". lufd (or moron-c1 In China would man I M: boon to the publishers. Bach I In: vonld be bound to man my chun- In tho my world. Corbett Announces with n nourish that he has tough: bl. not fight. Ho '11) now go right on deliver“); upper- cuu and emuâ€"counts" to the Ameri- ca drum. Adrian Continuum: Anson, the hero 0! many I home run. Is now appearing In I dram apecwly built for himself. cm: the My (or Capt. Anne. warm nova, "Holmes can only be hanged once," any. Ohm” Tribune. But Is thero not some punishment for thus murdering tho language? Raul; In evidently bent upon strik- ln; out at England, even though It In: tn be done over the shoulder of Japan or Venuueh. The blending of Blenheim with the ham that Vanderbilt makes a bit or mhihocturo of which no American is proud. It 1- reported that the Comte do Cas- tolluxo in losing his millions on the home. Who said poetic Justice wu I ‘ Since the mm in China the It". 0: vase/tum: are not no long an 'ghoae of meat eaters. 1 “Canadian who solved the Ameri- m N; Telephone would both):- that of! . ‘ I quulo between Run!- and Eng- _,_‘ -_...-_ um on Ill: market. f_ . lithium 10m " 7m; a gamma m- hymns-m a mummy. 5m: mum». ILLINOIS. ‘4th clams-n.1mecna . diam-anyhumot mur- in, "talisman-mm Him] mu- m 11'“. In! A Man a carton mm 1me“. via writes to an» mum: of me In the tar Gallium practical politics. One woman but dam- mutated, however. that lie has a very clear Won of what polltleu nouns. She II n nu. Hem Vnr‘lck Bolwell, who made before the Republican mane convention It Binghnmton the first meet: on puma! politics ever made before 1 New York State political mnntton by n wmnn. The speech '1: a go“ out. tot, and showed thnt mu Bum" Ind made I does study of the "Meet and had totaled her ova opinions of caul- planes at the poll!!- ctl mm. TM “'01“. ham 0! 00:. film noflnr Buckner “I I3. "Illa log ham-o II the Keane” mm In which be wan m. rm lbo day that he kn (he um] of (h Cnldmey he in upon! all bl; until”. "an: than. The clbln ls pun-p. a Indra! years old. and II In seventy-three yearn Mace 0a.. Buck- nev am nu (Delight or day then. The lovn to which It to nearest In lnnbtdo- vllre, at! no other house In In sight. Though untimely (muted In n “(has my. mm are no Inglis- u man the loan Paup- the non ":4 (menu-g omen in the home is the Mo- tol with which Burr lined "mum. A W. (hump-Dr. n I! genera-"y taken [or muted that women do not “10' Anything about 1h- qunluu o! nun-mu. Dtnlnond powder and china. and even the amt dun, an- o! urn! ulna In “no annals-n] m; ltrulllnn almond. In now put to a non-l and lawn-mm In. A this disk at um). um: an In 3 dun-car. bu wow. u Internal. 0! [ about on. and one-halt luau. 1 TM- space- nn and I- I‘ll}: E W20;- o! and um malty an. 1 and Into that m on the au- mndl and In unmet-uni. mm ”Mu. Thar an annual an Iron” 0' ”flu. and an no placed that may do an! Inflow on. nocllr In" tho Mb" I- m cut. but mu m» In" m can comm. TM- cmenlu our In and tor mulls up Mach 0! no... Ind Io cl- ckot II H Um so in. an I'D Ind onu- blll "I" u tan cut out four Illdrod And "only nouuud quar- tut a: non. It I mm o! I Mlle Ion (In hm min a nun foot. In lilo “no It In: but many Io no" Imty at tho hell. ('0. "on” coal 0! which Ml bun about (to dollar! w Icon. ' ' ‘ Tnpln In very {and of me nit-lick. which are tormcd in the nfillhborhood ol the numerous miueni swing. by the evaporation of the sa- line wuor. Hero they Ire either Iiwt with bullets on moonlight nlxhu. or no huniod down with do", and killed with spun."â€"(w. T. iioruaday. in St Nichol-u. the hot lowlandq of the tropics, they are Inquently (cum) on {amt-covered mounuln- as well. Dr. Franulun In- torml us that In Cosu Rica Band'- Taplr I. (cum! both In the lowland: and on the htghm mounmu rant“. H0 lay: alto that “It I: much hunted. {01' "I £932: In Very delicate; the MCI- voodslnen mm It, or dry I: In the air. Ind thus provide themulvu with larn stores. lu thick hide I. very uulul ? Our univerlal poverty in specimens at the Tnplr named In honor of Prof. Baird Is not due to the extreme rarity of the animal, but rather to a lack or enterprise on the part or the Intelli- Kent white men who from time to time have had it In their power to procure and to preserve specimens. The unt- mnl is well known In Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and aunt!» ern Mexico. Although Tamra are usually found along small and wellâ€"shaded river: in A Common luongh Ami-oi The! Can No: Be Seen In My collection Still less known in this country, and never seen, either in mommies or mu- 'seums. are the two species of Tnplr ‘ found in Central America. The sleek, plump-bodied, chocolate-brown Tnpir of South America we do see occasion‘ ally, both alive and dead, but of Baird’s Tspir there is not even one adult stuffed specimen in existence, either in this country or In Europe. A few skulls and skeletons, and two or three mutilated and unmounted skins, are positively all the world possesses in representation oi: this species. and. what is still worse, no naturalist has yet had an opportunity to even write a description or the lull-grown animal) The young animal is known to be of a ‘ reddish-brown color, marked with irâ€" regular white spots and stripes. KISS HELEN BOSWELL. an». nun-or. m BAIRD'S TAPIR. _mh “Mo cm:- the compilation! ,0"! tithâ€" qu‘o’suol. 9‘0 mu The English troops under Sir Garnet Woluley remained only two days In the «pm! of Autumn. Before they left the flange potent-to agreed to do cer- uh things. Thu was King Kaine. " m; m, the pram .Klng of Mugabe;- Kins Prempeh. In: not tul- IIIII automation. It in m: tummy-one years since the British government appropriated 84.- 000.000 to send out an expedition to bring the King of Ashamee to terms. and before the expedition got back. at- tér burning Coommie. his capital, It had cont I! much more. I King Prempeh Is a bioodthlrsty mon- ‘uth snd he is in the habit at making 'hnmsn sacrifices on a wholesale sale. Whenever it pleases him to do so he orders s few hundred subjects to be be- headed. Besides this. during certain religious ceremonies. It is customary to kill subjects. It is this maetice which Engisnd wants the King to stop. And it is to put an end to these human sacâ€" rifices that the British troops will wade into the tot-est snd mske war on the King. The King is sewers! times a mmlon- alre. and It I! believed that he has sev- eral barrels of gold that and nuggets. Anhnntee In rlch In gold. HM nanny live! In a big stone and native brick palaceâ€"the only structure a! the kind In the kingdom. His Royal Highness sleeps on the floor. The King wears earrings. They are at solid gold. He also has other person- al Monuments of solid gold. m. royal chasm-s an warp gold earrings, too. King Prempeb. among other things, has cncfly 3.233 the: allowed him by law. Why thlalllbenl figure was deâ€" rided upon His ”8193?: do!” not know. Like the umbrella. they came to him by Inheritance. authority In an alumna. TM- curiosi- ly has o M. bamboo handle. and spokrs ol embossed gold. 0n the end of each spoke la a human skull. Nobody. not even the King himself. known the six- macaw». of this sir-me mptre of maâ€" testy. but It m: ammdod to him tram a long line of once-"y. Another remarkable tact about this barbarous king is that he has no throne. He has. however. a solid gold stool. which does :ervlce as a throne. It takes four able-bodied Have: to tug this heavy stool around. The King 0! Ashantee is the absolute monarch 01 about three million sub- jects. They live in the heart. of the African forest. a few hundred miles back {mm the "Gold Coast." The King wears a girdle of dried grass around his hips and a “plug" hat. He owns no crown, but in some way has become possessed of a silk int, which now does duty as an emblem of sovereignty. «cumin! mmi mu m W HE KING OF ASH- nntee, the most extraordinary rul- lng potentate of the world, stands and- denly revealed. 0! all the astonishing klnga of Africa or South Sea Island cannibal chiefs he is the most remark- able. 9 King Prempeh, King or Ashantee has defied the English government He has 3 announced his readiness lor war, and is now swaltlng the srrlval of the Brltv ish troops. fire-I ntluln lla- Ju-t noel-rod War on "In: “For Hiking lluunn Saul- llccn"-â€"â€"J. Bun Will (lat. tho Country at: u- uu-c Wunm ' But the [real omclal emblem of royal KING OF ASHANTEE. .IPI(E 2° =0m<zoz >K<Z_OEO<¢.PXN Enos ”7:. "No. Maud; no. I swear by al!--â€"" "Never mind that. It you say it I belle": it, but I cannot be yours. A mm who but livod u long It you hue without loving must be tummy n vo- fun-hater, and I mm new: mm 1 Manama. 0001! «mm. 11:. hits,“ m (mu 05 a» maid); £“_H_.. filmy!” Upon every nauonal festival It ls also the custom for the King of Anhnntee to offer human sacrifices. People are be- lieved to be killed almost every day It Coomassle, the caplul, 1nd this klnd of “halal murder la a regulat- thing. When one king dies 2,000 people are lulled as .2 guard of honor lo accomvflfll‘ Mm to the other world. As many as 10,000 are reported to him; been kllled on one oceaslmr In a single day. If any man hole at one of his 3.333 wives that man's name In Dennis. Sam-I. of these numerous when of the King of Aahnntee are not worth looking at. It In true, but the owner of any profane eye: that even by acidezt happened to rest upon them would he conducted to a “My grove in the neighborhood of tho town and fall to return. He in an absolute despot, Th:- King of Ashaniee could give points in despot- ism to the Salem of Turkey and the Czar of Russia. It the Car were to do ihe things which the King of Ashamee think: nothing of doing there would be a vacancy in the Winter Palace. flare is probably not nnothnr African monarch who can canol- the British governmrâ€"nt so much trouble and ex- pense as the King of Ashantee. He in a very powerful potentnle. HI: people are an born "3mm. who wank! rather fight than eat The advanm of the [mush Into tho King of Anhantee's country I: expected to be we“ under way early In December. In the meanwhile troop v"! be sent to Accra from Lam and bther Mam All Is now excitement on the Gold no Dlll NM 'IIC . Punk. "an3 you, ever loved another. the Inspector-Omen! o! Hm Gold Coast form. who In M! II England. will loan for Wu! Am“ as mu u poul- Mo m orgnnln the (wee. According to the last dispatches from the Gold Coast. where the coming war on the King 01 Ashantoe is the one topic of conversation. there will be no limo lost in making a start. A strong force of imperial and native troops. it is said, will now be sent to Coomabaic to bring the King to terms. Sir Francis Scott. England now controls the coast, out- side of his territory‘ The French conâ€" trol the neighboring country of Da- homey, whose King is protected by a body guard of armed women. Ashantce is rich in gold, and both England and France have long looked at It with jealous eyes. The terms of tho ultimatum were that he should have a British Commis- sioner In his country. and that he ahculd place Ashantee under the “protectlon” or Great Brltuln. 'l'hls burly negro, who has 3.333 wives and orders people‘s heads to be cut on it his breakfast dlsu agrees wlth him, Is helleved to know what “the protection of Great Britain" means. The King of Ashantee said in eflect that he did not care a snap of his finger for the British government, and that he was looking for tight. According to opinion on the Gold Coast he will get it. The King. at the time the British Commissioner lei't Coomnssie. appeared to be preparing for war. A dispatch from Accra. on the Gold Coast, dated on the last day ot-Oo- tober, said that Capt. Donald Stewart, the special British Commissioner, who had gone to Coomassie, escorted by 100 Houasaa, had returned to the coast. He said that the King had rejected the ultimatum and defied Great Britain. But this savage monarch wpa not frightened by the untimntum of Britain. He did not even wait. until the uni- matum expired. Alliance. They gave him until Oct. :1. THE KING OF ASHANTEE. '33,! ‘ no (mm an: o! the warm chum) -Yon not Ilka a ironed rotun- 8h flan Gin-mount hung ”mu-or. Feathmtoneâ€"l wonder If yam sister realises, Willie. that during the last month I have given her (an pound. of candy? Willieâ€"0t come she don The": why the In leaning her engagement wu'h Jim anlln' a motâ€"Harper‘s This species has a very wlde range, being found from the Red river of Ar- kansas as far south as Patagonia. ln ‘Texaa It la no longer abumhnt save in the low jungle bottom lands along the [Ho Grande. It does not go In great droves. like the White-upped Pcccarv, and It ls seldom that more than elght nr Rm lndlvlduulo are seen together. The time was thn they were much more ready to fight than they are now; but llke all other dangerous animals they have learned to fear man and his deadly firearms. ~(W. 1‘ nomad”. In St. Nlcholnn. THE BRAVE LITTLE PECCARV. A Very l'lurly l-‘lghtor When "a la Amy. ”up!“ "Is Mn. 0! the few American quadmpeds for which an Intelllnnt hunter entertain: ‘a certain amount of respect. the (Zol- lared Pcccary In one. Although he ls only a little flat-alder], high-ahmlldrmd hon, wlld and uneducatpd. yet hp la a plucky fighter when angryAand like .1 {me child of the wlld wont, he gala mad qulte easily. It always annoys Mm very much that any one should dare to go a-gunnlng for him. and Mr. A. 8. Baker, of the Washington "Zoo." polnta to a long allt In the alde of his leather leggings as an llluslratlon of ‘ what a Texas Peccary can do when he I! very "IS??- (Inc: to llw pom-o «mm: a tow darn ago. Rob allowed Ms dlnnlmamre to everyone exam. me cal. He was ml- dvnlly afraid of pussy. "0 spvnt all or Ms llmo- wllh the bulvhor for two days, and than disappoarod altogethor. All "I: poll".- have nmlen to look {or Mm. Four years ago he turned up in the police station, halt starved. and a po- liceman named Bob ted him and save him a name, and under this treatment the dog came out wonderfully. He was of a very mixed breed, common cur blood predominating, and his coat was a mixture of white and yellow, uro ranged after an indescribable orhery pattern. This was when the police sta~ tion was in the old haunted house and when at 2 o'clock the spook made its irregular appearance. Bob was the worst frightened inmate of the station. He always. after his first ghostlxexperl- once. ran out into the street, and it took great coaxing to induce him to re- turn. He had a habit of assisting the sergeant to turn out the squad of po- lice every morning at 6 o'clock. He stood at the head of the column. and when the command “March!" was given he gave two sharp ynips. Then he went I across 'the street and visited the butcher, who happened to be the rather ’ oi policeman Bob. and there he stayed until time to turn out another squad of police. at 6 o‘clock In the evening. Then. until next morning. he was the guardian of the station. lie became, blind three years ago by u cataract forming over his eyes. He hilt] already I become very iamiiiar with the station; and its surroundings. however, and his 3 blindness dial not embarrass him to any 5 extent. When a. his: grny mt look a. J.“ u ‘l'nup Police Car. but Wald-h film. with I Tramp on. Bob. the blind do: that has been at- tached to the police station at West Brighton, 8. 1., for the last (our years, has disappeared, and now there is gloom in the police circles at West Brighton. Au inierioper cat is responsible for his absence. 308. A BLIND DOG. GONE- 11.. Pub tnmltloa Inflow. ‘. Subscriptions will thorny be 1mm by n number of Park banks (or a. “ 000 exhibition Iona-y bonds of lo I f ‘ each, designed to form the gum fund of 00,000,000 trues, for the pennant the exhibition to be he!!! year mo. Among the print w’m’ “0 "Physically. madame," returned tit.~ educated butler. "the II. As an 3 Hunt question the fact cannot In ' nled: but in rotation to your denim "' see her. I cannot say definitely until .4, have ascertained Mn. Harktns’ mnheii tn the matter. Pny be noted mm 54 have received advice: from above.” ii Ind-mo In“ no Multan. "In M15. Hal-kins at home?" the caller. The adoption by Uncle Sun of to la- demnlty limited to 310 would Increase the confidence of tho public at very llttle cost. During the last lmi year 654 pieces 0! registered matter wen lost. Supposing the maximum pap men: to be granted In each instance. the entire Pxpense of such insurance would he 86.540 for the twelveuonth. This is a trifle compared with the money gained that would accrue to the government from the Increase In the rctistry business that would follow th acceptance of the indemnity plan. latter would take tron the ordinar mail: a vast number of money letter: and would make the transmission of such letters much more safe. Turning to the regulation! of the III- ternattorml Pastat t‘nlon, one and: that the trend" of a roxlstnred package to a foreign country In rntttlod to .10 In use of loss. unless the latter has been ocrastonrwl by ”torve majenre"~â€"meanâ€" In; war; This Indemnity molt ht- paid by the government that dispatches the pacing. However. that governmnt may rntoror the ammmt from the « ernmont tn whose territory the ll; vas Incurrrd. ‘ . am all Ionian ronnlrla lunar. louru aml paring“ up to IIO In their damn-m- .wnlu' without mm IN. 0: (he onwr hand. an Indvmnuy ts pl own for walnut-ml man mnucr by (a (Inns-d 80mm. "run. Bolivia. Par.- nmly. l'nmm). Chm. nnmn India. 1.. pan and (mum. The» are Hm only M- romions In the general mlp. The Third Amlslnnt f’oumnu'r-Gmcnl of tho 11mm! Rules in his last no annual re~ port: has rocommendeol to Coupes: the math»; 0! an Indemnity on rum-red Item" and wring»: not to exact! ‘10. This is more to be done mom-r or Inn. "not In manquq-nrv M la-uul reliablllly. but minimum and an an an at "we." nmmunon n! monry or knelrr II campulnon ; nub nrlirln uro 00! M'- «mm: to be mu In the ordinary mulls. At "u umv Hmr. u-rmln manual In (only: purla mnnnt ha "attuned. (lawn. [or lmllu lluu may ho Inland. The Utlllrh umnnmwm pa). up to no for tho \nluo at my ordinary humu- tom! pucknn that 1- lost I- m mall un‘kv. TM: applies only In tho L’nflw ed Kingdom. and I! do" not men at I" H "m mrrel Is impromty wrapped or contains run. "qu1 or wry (nulls l" h I". i The remedy In very slmple. The (on { ernmont ought. to grant componsallon u for "(uttered letterl Inc! or (lo-lulled. ' Now!) all (onlxu counldu [tn such Shawna-.113 Gnu Brllnln. for ex- lumpig tho rrglulratlon fee I. only A ’ft‘hlll. and ll the letter I. not ulcly dollwrod tu the addressee an lndemnlty ‘ a! no In paid to the later. A graduated ~ urln of M1 In no "mam-ll that lbo nudvr o! a panel can Insure tt. up to $350. IMI mnxlmum aunt-mu mult- ' mu Ibo my mom of 32 man. The pu- . NI mun: lw mnrlml will: Ill value. u I: Mam! In tho» postal regulation of um l'mlmt Klnmlom. mlher qualm- lr. HIM paymrnl u! Inch Insurance VIII be mmh- by Iha Pmmmncrr-Grnenl, When a mall car or a postomco ts robbed, in Is nlwnys the registered mu- ter. advertised an Its lace u valuable. that I: taken. In 1860 the Postmuteh General of the [failed States advocated the abandonment o! ruglntratlon on the ground that. It was “trulttul only or dang“- to what It “u designed to pro- tact." No wonder that the registry business or the poatoflice department is steadily dlmlntahlng. The people are losing confidence In the system as a means 0! Insurance. Though the fee has been reduced from ten to eight cents. the number or letters and parcels regisâ€" tered during the last fiscal year was less than 11,000,000. Four years at!) the number exceeded 15,000,000 Inna-l- 131. What Is wanted ls safety, and the ”seem does not she it, 5833 New York World. senders paid to the government. eight cents on each letter, besides the post- age. Nevertheless they will get not one cent. or compensation for their loss. THE covannmeur naruszs ‘ro- ' PAY INDEMNITY. non-co Bun-luau In Inning (llâ€"Alma All on.“ novel-mum:- Bmmpcm the Sunder Up to - lelcod.Amoquâ€"â€"- Polk] Union herniation. REGISTERED MA‘Ifii’: "9"" W673: NF: hundred amt five registered let- ters were de- stroyed .by the burning of a mall car at Newport. Team. the other day. Undoubtedly nearly all of them contained sums of money. To Insure their safety the asked