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t TBATELLBBS AND BXPLOBERS. Mango Park's Dlscovcrles In Africaâ€" nun-o Polou'o Adventures In The Fair East. \‘v'hilc modern travellers and discoverera‘ are reaping great gains of fame. one should not forget some of the (illlei‘mics, who. like Mango Park and Marco Polo, were pioâ€" neers in exploration, and so far as fame and honor went had little but their labor for their pains. Mango Park was a Scotchman born in the beginning of this century, apprenticed in boyhood to a surgeon. and fired for Afri- can travel by an early voyage to Sumatra. He was tWenty-four years old when his ser- vices were-accepted bythe African Association for the exploration of the ’liVCl' Niger. Af- ter his arrival, while ill in Africa, he learned the .‘vlandingo tongue in five months, and then set out on horseback, with six iiegroes, meeting with all sorts of difficulties on his tour. In one place a wild hear was let loose upon him,but it refused to attack him, find- ing meat more to its liking in others. After enduring a long suspense here while his captors debated whether they should take his life,his eyes or his right hand he Illilll- aged to escape and found the Niger again and, nothing daunted, continued his way. hit the King of the country he had now reached forbade him to cross, and a negro Woman admitted him to her but and took care of him and sang a song about liiiiiâ€" memory of which has since been famous-â€" that of the "Poor \Yhitc Man.” At last the King sent him a guide and a large gift of money in cowrie-shells. llut after some progress the tropical rains, protracted sick- ness and the hostility of the Mahometan inhabitants of that portion of the continent made it impossible for him to proceed, and he was nearly a year in returning to the coast. There an American vessel took him to Antigua, and he at length reached l‘lug- land after an absence of two years and a half, where his return aroused great enthu- siasm. Eight years afterwards, when he had married and begun the practice of medicine, the li-itish Goveriuneiit sent him out to Africa again with the brevet rank of captain and acompany of some forty men. The party reached the sources of the Sen- egal and Gambia, found the inhabitants friendly, but the climate so deadly thatl Park was presently left with but four coin- panioiis. He continued his way, however, and at lloossa, where the river narrows be- tween precipitous walls, the men of the King of Yauri attacked the little party with a imirdcrous rain of lances, arrows and stones, and )lungo l’ark found his fate in the waters of the river he was exploring. (hie of his journals was saved, the rest re- mained with the savage king. \Yith direi struggle and small meed of praise he gave up his life at thirty-five. A very different fate from Mungo Park’s was that of Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller, some five and a half centuries earlier, and one inspired by no such high motives as Park. l‘Iis fat her and uncle. having returned from a trading expedition that had led them over the Black Sea, through llokhara and into what was called Cathay, took Marco, a lad not yet twenty, on their next trip, the Pope liavinggiveii them letters and gifts to the Khan of 'I'artary. They threaded wilder- iicsscs, crossed deserts, great rivers, great cities. and were at last met by an escort and conducted into l’ckin, where the Khan con- ferred great honors on Marco, gave him a place about the throne and in time sent him on embassies to ncinhboring powers. Proh- ably the Venetian beauty made him an at- tractive youth, but his prudence and good Sense and daring won such way for him that he saw the most sacred and secret things, was loaded with wealth and made the gov- ernor of a city, the rulersâ€"who was that- one of whom Coleridge in his opium dream wrote : lu Xenadu did Knbla Khan .~\ stately pleasure house decreeâ€" __.___â€"â€"â€"â€"- refusing to let him leave him for his own peo- ple. At leiwth a Persian embassy having won the daughter ofthc Khan as a bride fortheir own King, Marco and his companions were given leave of absence, on a promise to re- turn, and went with the Persian embassy by sea around llorneo and Sumatra to the Pet‘- sian Half, and were entertained for nearly a whole year in Persia before they left it, again magnificently enriched. They reach- ed Venice twenty-four years after they had left it, and no one would at first believe it was they, long thought to be dead, bronzed by the sun, aged by years and travel, and speaking their own dialect with a strange accent. Uivin ' a great feast, they received in rich orienta garments of red satin those who ought to have been their friends : the guests being seated. these garments were ex- changed after the first course for those of heavy crimson velvet. At the close of the banquet they were in the usual Venetian dress, and then distrib- uted the superb and curious garments that they had taken off among their guests. Then they brought out the 'l'artar clothes which they had been wearing, and ripping them here and there, out tumbled treasures of priceless jewels. This was enough. and they were soon recognized as the travellers who had left them so many years before, and they received many honors and up )oint. inciits. Marco being given commain of a galley in one of the naval wars. lint, al- though Marco was one of the first to make the existence of Japan known, and the most that he said and wrote of his explorations and discoveries was true. he never received any credence, not a word of his stories was llL‘llt‘VL‘ll. The Invention of the Lucifer Match. A quarter of a century ago Mr. John \Valker, of Stockton~upoii.'l'ees. then carry. ing on the business of a chemist and drug- gist in that town, was preparingy some light‘ int: mixture for his own use. lly the acciden- tal friction on the hearth of a match dipped inthc mixture a light was obtained. The hint was not thrown away. Mr. \Yalkcr commenced the sale of friction matches. This was in April IS‘IT. "Young England." who has \‘Ulllt‘ into being since that day. now buys a imckcti'ul of lucifcrs for a penny. .\Ir. \Valkcr. for a box of 34‘), with a piece of doubled sandpaper for friction. got a shill. ing! “l’nunethenns” and other competitrms beat him down to sixpciice. Andthcii. un- willing to be beaten down still further. he h‘iiounccd the Kilt‘. Old Harrison Burn. an inmate of the Stockton Aimshonsc, was Mr. \\'.\lkcr's matchmaker. anddnhn Ellis, book- Illlllll r. made the paper boxes at 13d each. .\I r. .lohii llixon. solicitor, was Mr. \Yalkcr's first customer. I‘lV‘tlililloii has been cheap- eiu-d :u all directions. but few connziodities ll.l\'c “fallen like lucir’urs.” MB. AND MRS. BOWSBB. - l BY .\1 l5. BUWSEIL The other morning we got a telegram from mother, saying she was ill, and asking me to come out for a day or two, and when Mr. ; Bou'ser had read it he said: “ You can go just as well as not. and you ‘ needn‘t hurry back on my account." ‘ “ llut the cook left yesterday, and how» will'you get along 2’" I asked. " Uh, you never mind me. I can sleep here nights and lunch down town. You needn't worry about me. Just take the baby and go and see your mother and stay as long as you wish.” “ And youâ€"you “ I shan’t elope or get drunk." “ But you won‘t try to make any changes in the house while I'm gone !" “ Changes? Do you suppose I‘m going to ‘ put on new doors and chimneys 1" ' " “Yell, please don't buy any new fur- niture or carpets, or move things around." “ Don't you worry about my buying any- tliiiirr more this spring. Hurry up, now, , and I’ll telephone for a coupe. I may lock up the house at noon and go up to the club , house for a couple of days. I feel the need of a little rest.” Mr. Ilowser caught at my going so eagerly that I half suspected him of some design, and the more I thought it over after getting away the more I was convinced that there was something in the wind. 0n the inorn- 3 ing of the third day I telegraphed him that I was coming home, and when the train got ‘- in he was at the depot to meet me. His; face fairly beamed with happiness, and as he beckoned to a carriage he said : " Here's the keys, as I can‘t be up for a couple of hours vet. I suppose it will take you a couple of hours to clean up the muss I have made.” I I had a presentiment and it was verifien. before I got into the house. Glaiicing a the front windows I saw that my lace cur- tains had a queer, strange look,and I rushed in to find that they had been washed. They I had been taken down, washed with bar soap, laid out on the grass to dry, and then I ironed like a sheet. Any housewife can imagine the result. They showed soap stains in a dozen places, and hung as limp and lifeless as the tail of a kite on a tele-l graph wire. I sat down on the floor andl had a good cry, and then started out to see l what else had happened. There was a queer, oppressive odor iii the room, and itl (lid not take me long to discover that some 5 one had varnished the furniture~â€"gone over i the natural oil finish with a coat of furiiig turc varnish and left bristles from the brush j at every foot. It could have been no one; but Bowser. His work was further identi- fied by six queeiulookiiig spots on the velvet I I re carpet. He had spilled varnish and then‘ tried to scrub it out with soap, and in each instance he had run the colors sufficient to, make a blotch. After weeping some more I went into the sitting rooui. There was the same smell here, and I soon found by the bristles stick- ing up all over it that Mr. llowscr had varnished the sewing machine. He had like- wise repainted the radiator, making it a dark blue, and in decorating it with white and red stripes, his paint had crawled around like so many fishworms. Baby at once wanted to tie a string to it and play horse. )Ir. l'lowser had upset the varnish pail in this room, and although he had tried soap and water a great spot three feet Square remained as a sad witness of his careless- ness. \Vhile I stood looking I heard a step behind me, and Mr. Bowser called out 2 “Surprise ! Surprise ! I knew I’d sur- prise you 1” “Yes, you have,” I answered. “\Yhy, wâ€"wliat’s the matter 1” “If you had only let things alone ‘.” “Let things alone I This house needed slieking up, and I’ve nearly broken my back in putting things in tidy shape, and now you complain of it 1” I saw the silver water pitcher at that ino- ment and uttered a howl. “\Vliat is it ‘2” “That pitcher 5” “Yes, I know. It hadn’t been cleaned in a month." “ But you used sand-paper on it !” “Of course, and you ought to have seen the way the dirt peeled off! Anything else to find fault with?” “And youâ€"you sandpapered all the sil- vcr l” I shouted as I looked into the ding-room and saw everything on the table. way up in ‘(l' for ‘3” “ You've ruined it ! See the scratches !" “ That’s itâ€"take on and find fault 1 No one ever does anything right but you '."‘ “ And what ails the glass over the man- tel?" “ It happens to be clean for once. I work- ed at it all of an hour." “ llut you sandpapeer it . “ No, I didn‘t ! I used powdered brick. I don't know how the scratches came there, unless the cat did it." “ And these curtains, too 1" u them. and I know she put 'em through three tubs and then laid 'em on the grass to dry. I pinned and hung ‘em up myself." “ And they are ruined l" . 'net vo r ram .1 ier. er in is "in l_ u g lttl 1’! I don't hang perfect. This all the reward .I get for mv hard work I" scattered every tin dish in a hundred direc- tions and given the rolling-pin two coats of oil to prevent checking. In trying to dress up the hardwood floor he had thinned down Some raw oil with kerosene. and the beauty of the finish was etlipscd only by the smell. “You-you didn‘t touch anything up stairs I" I gasped. “\th not? I varnished all the bureaus, turned our bed around. painted the radiator \Vhat are you howling about 1" “ 0h. .\Ir. Bowser, how could you go and destroy our things in this way." “ llestrov I llestrov 3" down . said when you went away was for me to 34.. ahead and slick up, and now the first thing you do is to find fault. .\Irs. llowser. We are no: mated. No man on earth can This is the ins: s'tl‘.I\\‘<-~'.ll(' very :ist. ’l‘o- iuorrow morning “We will settle pro! matters 2' : composure fully restored. and when he came LSerapliita. : the Truth will find him. 1- thc despised stream the refuse of the street. = sky. _[Ruskin. : H‘dlllel‘ are CPUSSCS V\'l)l’ll ,agc, loss of vitality, loss of memory, bad .scrotum, wasting of the organs, (llZlelCSS, / H . _V , lspecks before the eyes, twitching of the! " ' " 1 : muscles, eye lids and elsewhere, bashfulucss, l . .. For a. N0. 1 Roadster (2r Business i I "i Yes. What have you got your voice' “\Vhat are you crying about now'. 1., got a colored woman to come and wash. didn't pick all the grass off of them. butl I'll leave it to any artist in town if-thev: I entered the kitchen to find that he had i, sandpapercd the bottoms of the flat-irons,‘ bedsteads and stands. cleaned every glass, 5 in the hall a beautiful drab, aiidâ€"-â€".' “The house might as well have burned! “ And I wish it had 3 The last thin; you : understand your erratic li‘llipt‘l'ullll'llhi Agents Wanted Throughout Canada ‘ _' TEEL'RUBBER' ; rm: 'rui: But next day came to find )lr. Bowser's sfi‘anf‘ IIIYII Poems home and found a furniture wagon loaded with bedsteads and bureaus. going or? to be ".“75 I -' - ‘ ' scraped and i'edrezxsed, he “rent‘in by the “["mdml't‘co’13v'cmiu’ “Rom l Irrilley gate and spent half an hour in the ' urn so as not to see anvthiu-V. 1 D ' . 3 w I s . I III res PEARLS OI‘ TRUTH. .__ 0mm Was mu. 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