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The Brussels Post, 1906-11-29, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS The women -who "fought tor theh eights" at the !lours of the Brill:di par - Lament a few days ago and were ear- ried may shrialng mid struggling In flee clutches of policemen may well cell - older 'their' experiences as contrasted with the fortunes of their more diplo- diatio and more efficient sisters. When so valiant a Briton as Dr. Maguire le - chums openly that England is a eerie rtdden country" he evidently has not in mind the women who are seeking the right of suffrage, but the More fav- ored of their sex who pull the strings BIM control the government. Much has been eatd at one time er another in reference to tho hand that rocks the cradle, and in all civilized natIone tho influmme of woman has been properly recognized by orators and poets. But it might be protested by the Englishwoman of this decade that while the England ef Edward VII. is as much controlled by women as the England of Charles II. or the France of Louis XV. there is still lucking that pc:it:tarty agreeable distribution or 'e- tninine influence essential to the wel- fare of the nation. The form of petti- coat government that is confined to an 011ga:city or one or two pampered feta oreles does not represent the feminine idea, of wonlen's sphere of usefulness, and, while the discomfited suffragists of England may lone something from the smooth ways and methods of successful petticoat rule, they are not prepared to admit that this manner of running a government adds to the joy and ad- vaecernent of womanhood in general. A more creditable exposition of the power of wonian's influence has been made recently in a. Pennsylvania town where a. certain politician set out to ob- tain the postmasterehip. So objection- able was he to the local feminine thought that the women asserted their domestic authority and compelled their husbands and sons to sign the petition of the man of their eitolee„ whereupon the dis- comfited politician relived ,from the race. In thie instance the union of wo- men easily and effectively accomplish- ed the object in view, though it is not co be asserted with confidence that in every case the victory would be oblainee so easily. So it would seem that women can draw both from England and Pennsyl- vania much solace for their wounded pride, and may content themselves for the moment with the reflection that wo- man governs whether directly or in- directly. Eventually women may ac- quire that larger liberty In all parts of Europe and America. that will assure to them general responsible participa- tion in the affairs of state, but thelr pre. sent condition is not so hopeless Dr helpless as to bring forth groans of de- spair. The weather man has a weather plant. Prot. Josef Nowack, Austrian scientist, has taken to England twenty-six clues of a plant which is said to have extra- ordinary properties in the prediction of atmospheric and seismic disturbances. The total number of specimens which the professor has collected in Mexico and Cuba is 1,400. He intends to esteb- lish an institute in England for the pre- diction of weather conditions. and the • forecasting of storms, earthquakes, vol- canic eruptions, etc., and acoumulattons of tire damp in mines. Ile says his eye - lam is based on the discovery Of the weather plant, which has been found peculiarly sensitive to magnetic influ- ences. When changes occur in the elect- triC and magneto forces of the atmos- phere its twigs and leaves perform Pe- culiar and abnormal movements, each movement having a definite signifleanee. By its aid earthquakes and other influ- e nces can be predicted twenty-six days in advance. Ono thousand of the plants have been placed In the botanical gardens of New York. There are to be bureaus in San Frencisco, Bombay, and Tokio, and one already exists in Vienna. Pref. Nowack says that he can issue daily forecasts, showing from two to seven days in advance the lists of rainy, Jaggy, and fine weather. Ona station, he says, will suffice for an area of 3,- 000 square miles, covering the whole ef Europe, North America, and the north Atlantic ocean. BIBLE, MEASUREMENTS, Otten Mentioned Weights and Distances In Modern Figures. A day's journey was about twenty- three end one-flfth A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile, A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches, A • hand's breadth is equal to 3%, Maims. A ringer's breadth is equal to one inch. A shekel of sliver was about 50 cents. A shekel of gold Was O. A (Mont or silver was $530,30, A farthing wits 3 tents. A mile was lege then a quarter of a Ont. A gerah was 5rent. An opah or brlh eontains seven gal, long and flee Pints, A bin was enc melon and Iwo elide. A 'firkin Was Seven pints. Art Omer Wee'SIX pittle. A MOST THRILLING TRW ACROSS THE PALLS OP NIAGARA ON OLONDIN'S RAUL Death et Harry M. Coteord, at Cidettoo, the*Man Who Made the Sen- sational Trip. A few der ago them died in a Chicago hospital a Mail who had one of the most thrilling sensations ever given to mor- tal. Harry M. Colcord was the man who, nearly half a century ago, the tamers Biondin carried cm his bank over a rope stretched aoross tire river at Me Falls of Nlegara, Blonder died a few years ego in London. The sensational aerial trip across the Falls of Niagara occurred Aug. 11, UM- It was mewled tweeafterward, the lest time in the presence of the Prime of Weeee, now King Edward VII. of England. Even alter the lapse of such a long space of time the thrilling memory of his experience ever remained vividly with Colcord. HAUNTED EY THRILLING FEAT. "The thought of it haunts me as close- ly as 11 11 happened yesteratty," he used to say, "and after fit my dreams it all cones back to me. Again I sway frum side to side artd lay myself tike a dead weight as Blondin goes onward, step by step, the rope swaying and his balanc- ing polo tmelliallng; again I see the shores black with people and look clown the swirling river, far below, until we seem to be rushing up stream; again 1 descend from his buck and stand on the taut., vibrating rope, and again 1 feel Mendel stumble and sway as Ulu ruf- fians try to upset us, and I jump up in nervous terror and cold perspiration." Blondin had acquired international fame by his wonderful feats on the tight rope. He eves a native of Calais, Frame, and his real name was Jean Emcee! Gravelotte. Al the age of 4 ho Was sent to L'Ecole Gymnasium, and soon obtained the name of the "boy wonder." His people were poor and ex- acting, and they made him work hard. Iiis daredevil feats made him faeelnatiag and renowned. fie was the first to throw a double somersault on the tight rope—the first and lest and only one. When he vielled Niagara he promptly Mimed the ambition of crossing the river on the tight rope. SEEN BY GREAT CROWDS. The place chosen was opposite the Clifton House, where the rope, a three- inch manila, was stretched across to a place called Whlee's pleasure ground. Tha rope was In two pieces of 1.000 feet each, united by a long splice. it hung at a distance of 270 feet above the river and sagged about 50 feet In the centre by its own weight. The performance was well advertised and was a big money maker. About 300,000 persons were pi,esent, mainly attracted by tire prospect of seeing two human beings going lo probable and spectacular death. Heavy bets were placed as to whether the two performers would succeed 01 their teat or perish. Harry Coieord, who agreed for a sub- stantial corieideration lo bo the man carried, was a emetic of Attica, el. Y. He was 31 years old at the time, hie muscles had been tensed and hardened by roughing it for four years on an Are - Lie whaler, and he weighed only 135 pounds. Biondin's weight was 140. The tart was made from the Cana- dian shore. Morelia wore his profe.s- slam' tights; his burden wore a con- ventional black dress suit. Tha balanc- ing pole was thirty Mt long and weighed sixty pounds. The tight rope. taut es a violin string, was kept in plae8 by guy linos stretched at. intervals of twenty feel, save for a space of forty feet in the centee. "Harry, be sure to let yourself rest, all the time like a dead weight on my back. If I should sway or stumble 'on no account attempt to bal- ance yourself." 'Ibis advice Colcord strictly obeyed. PERIL IN MIDAIR. "My nrst thrill occurred as wo started; over the pine trees, whose sharp tops bristled far below us between the cliff And the river, It seemed Mc' mare WM- tying Men out over hie watee. My meal. was In my mouth as are Marled, but 1 had absolute contidenue in Blom end 1 believed ilutt he would get NA across all right. Our progress seemed to be dreadfully slow. 'rho sight or the rapidly flowing river gave 010 0 ueer sensation; it was 11151 we were moving up at a great rale and going but very slowly toward the opposite bank. Every now and then, in order to give him a rest, I 000 to get off Blondlies back and stancl behind him on the rope, steadying myself with my hands around his waist while he balanced with the pole. "Imagine the siluation—gelling down oft a man's back huedreds of Mt 01 air, feeling for and standing on 5 Into vigraling rope, and bolding en to him, clad in slippery tights, when the least false move or loss of presence of min! on the pert et one or other Might plunge you both hen eternity, And Ilds getting on and off had to be repeated seven tirma: "When we reecho/1 the nriddle of our Innetlel, at the forty feel unsepporled by guy lines, Blondin suddenly lettere( and swayed, and his Wonting pole be gen furiously thrashing up and down lie had Mt his balance and was unable (3 regain it, He broke Into a run, 0 that awful neement his advice foreibly impressed itself nn me, and 1 lay like11 dead weight, on his shoulders, to sky or fail with MM. When we reached Me first guy lln oir the Amcrlcon cede he slipped 011 it. 11 inelently broke, end the matte rope, pulled by lie; mem- pending guy line, was jerked SNOWS 18, 'This MIS 1010 111081 ertfleal moreent of all, With isle wonderful agtltly hi; re. (levered henget( in UM and even 0911111- brfern enough to run to 1118 next hrace of guy lines twenty feet nway„ ,0c1 oft, 9110114,he and 1 Mewed. Ile wits like, 5 marble stable; every muscle wits tensa and Pia; large beads of perspir- ation trickled front him. It was then 1 most admired Ids wonderful grit and. coolness. Neither by volee nor sign did he manliest Ms knowledge of Mite Met that a dastardly attempt had been made to Rill us, probably by enme Unscrupe- lous gamblers who had bet agelnst our crossing. WILD COcooS AT FINISH, "Again I mounted his back, and as wo lolled up the slope of We rope toward the American bank we confronted an lintneuso sea of faces, intone with lit- tered, alarm, fear, A band was trying to Mae, but the wrought -up Intiolciane could only evoke discordant notes. As wo approached the brink there WBS an immense danger that the rush of spec- tators might crowd us over, the cliff and others along with us. AL my advice Blondin rushed Into the throng as far as he oared go. There was a great clime and the danger was over." For his Intrepidity Harry Colcord was made the reclplent of numerous subslait- Bat testimonials. Elontlin was preseuted was a handsome diamond-studdee gold watch and chain, tvhile the representa- tives of railroads, steamboats and hotels presented Mtn with 501545 aggregating a tew thousand dollars. A second tirne that fall Blonclin car- ried Colcord across the river, the pas- sage being without special incident. Tho third crossing was made, over the whirlpool, in kugust, 1800, in the pre- sence of the Prince of 'Welles and 44. gathering of about 0 quarter of a inll- lion people. Immense grand stands were erected on bete steles or the river and the admission fee was a dollar. Doors placed at regular Intervals gave admission to the stands. Tha Prince, now Ring of England, who was accompanied by e brilliant retinue headed by the Duko at New- castle, proved a great drawing card. Newspapers from far and near sent their representatives to watch not ao much the performance of the balanelst and his burden but its effects on the young scion of royalty, and the imagi- native reporters lad full sway. "The Prince of Wales Faints," and "Great Emotien of the Prince of Wales" were among the scare headlines of ;special editions. The Prince did not faint or otherwise create a sensation, Mt when the adven- turers stepped trom the rope on Cana- dian soil he kindly received them in his pavilion. "Ile put his arms around me,' said Colcord, kissed me on the cheek, and said, 'You're a brave lad'—altbough at the time I was old enough to be his father." PENALTIES OF GENIUS. Sometimes the World Loses Mote by Them Titan the Genius Dees. No great genius, certainly no great inventor, ever lived Wile was not s013 - posed to be a little queer by sonie of his fellow men. Three hundred years before Stephenson perfected his locomotive, says the Ro- sary Magazine, a Frenchman, Solomon de Carte, was immured in the living tomb of the 8)00118 for having allowed his mind to outstrip the age In which 116 liVed. Marion de Larose, In a Tel- ler dieted Paris, 1661, tells of a visit Lo this institution. "We were crossing the court," she writes; "mut 1, more deed then alive with the fright, kept, elnse to my com- panion's sIde, when a frightful face ap- peared behind seine immense bars, and hoarse voice exclaimed: '1 am not mad! 1 e111 1101 madl I have made a discovery that would enrich (ho coun- hwiieh.at adopted 10' W "hat has he discovered?" 58140(1 elm gtld 'TM!' answered tee keeper. shrug- g)ng his shoulders, 'something trifling trough; you would never guess it; it is the use or the &teem of hoeing water.' "I began to Inegle Itis man.' continued the keeper, 'Creme trom Normandy four years ego to present to the king a statement of the wond.rful effects lo he produced from Ole invention. To listen to him you would illumine Shal. with stetren you could navIgele shine. meee caeritrges; in Mel, there Le ne end to the miracles whieli, he insists upon 11, ould be per- formed. The king sent thr madmen away ,without listening In lilm. Finnlly, fleeing the poor wretch [(linear in his path. end annoyed by his folly, the Car- dinal had him shut up in the Eleetre.'" RAIDED BY ELEPN HATS. 11, Ports of Bengal the Dip Brides De- stroy Lives and Properly. Mr. Lloyd and 011', hones were emp- ire.: 110 the vicinity f•if 11fahergong Garden soon ono of their elephants, breaking hie eludes. merle for treedom, and to the; dee roams the Torsi Dooms and the 010010118g with his jungle mates, For thirty yours that and other etc- pherile have been allowed lo work their whited win 011 immen lite and property unreelreined. 1111(1 the tale of mortality has gown year by year till it Is past bellying. About two years ago the Gov- ernment offered Yawned of 300 rupees for the destruction of Nile Lloyd's runaway wheel ie now knewn as the cleb-fonted rogue, hy reason of some malformation (bused hy the ehain round bis foot, wheel mode it swell out. Ito 18 said 1,1 have 0111 (4. single leak, 1 an under the 'femme:chin that (the mime animal is hreeve by inn mime 411 "the llooera rogue," and the number of victims alone neemt bigh. though I em certain that he is nol the enty efrender. least Seplember en old maim and her two ynung rin:hen were sleeping in their het, 'leering movements Montt 10, green ry in the night ono of the children woke up, 111010 mother, saying 1001.0 1101'0 11110vcs ttl. their Winn. The sorted of human wens wits enough. An etephanf which 11nd just tern off the wale neuse, charged 111e lintiso and killed 110 wrenort and child, 0110 01111d Till'ry1C111il oI 11Tlil:InS41'10SVPd tills nninell in hen lean e female, for she had a cell wee her, Thongh reirenfing to the Gov - element reserved foresi al. night, Town tepee:ante are gelling bolder Arid holder, novamaing well into the bouges and eel. livnled gardens twnrywbere, ell !he drawl ned less termed hy here are so gent 11151 tenanls are throwing up their • lands orl ell sides, SIBERIA CANADA'S RIVAL PERIOD or GROWTH TO TAKE PIACI' LIKE TIIAT IN CANADA. !hachure Leave Manelturia Chinese Talk of 'Tiger Occupying the Beaver Cave," "I have travelled from Port Arthur to Meseow, overland, the journey taking tweedy -four days," Mr. ie. .4. Meleonzio said, on returning to the reenter! Deny Mall Oleo after his tour of investigation in the Fat' lInob. eThe railway Is (met for regular Mateo the whole way, 051 - cot for A gap of 110 miles between Cirang-tu and the Itussian military boundary at Changeettutimfu, In Contra Maeohuria. 'Ilarbia is overflowing with money. The greet, days of the war, when WO operas, six theatres, and a hundred mete halls and (Arouses ,ere In Lull blast in the city aro °vete but war prices continuo. A filthy room in the best Russian hotel cost Ina 138. a. night, without food, and. I paid between 95. and 1.0s. for a bath. A mechanic demanded 25 roubles, about 4112 tee., for repairing a broken spring in 4117 typetvriter, more than ten eines the proper price. Large numbers of miners :emit' bo seen in the town, all apparently with much money to spend. REALLY GLEABING OUT. "The Russians are seemingly genuine in, their withdrawal from Manchuria. 1 was inferuttel mat there are now only two divisions, 311,000 men, and 1.8,000 railway guards left in 1110 country, one of rho divisions being in Harbin. All that 1 saw and heard confirmed hats statement. Various high Russian offi- cials with whom I discussed matters, expreeeed their sincere desire to hurry out of Manchuria. °rho place has been a curse to us,' they said. 'It has cost us untold. millions, crippled our strength, and has benefited no ono but Jewish co:reactors! "The Russian administration in Man- eleuria is more popular w,th the people than the Jema.nese. Tho Russians spent much money, and did. not interfere with tocal artmlnistrallon, as the Japanese are doing. 'The Russians came and boxed aur ears with ono hand,' say the Chinese, 'but with the other hand thee: gave us many roubles. The Japanese come and box our ears eust the aame, but with their other hand they take alt our dollars away.' We have driven out the beer, but now the tiger has come and mode a home in the old bear's cave,' is mottle!' saying,. STORIES OF CORRUPTION. "The most amazing stories or cor- reption are told freely an the Russian side. Men boast of their ,success in making fortunes out of the war futtds. Ono soldier, who served as chief cook an.d purchase!' of supplies to his regi- ment, claimed to have made 60,000 rdubles (about 16,400). '1 bought cattle for 31 roubles each,' he said. 'They were charged .in the accounts at 100 roubles. Being only et common soldier, I could keep no more than ton roubles for myself, The colonel kept 25 rem bles, and the remaining 25 event among others. 1 bought other things in the same way.' 'Business men admitted that but for wholesale bribery they could have gol !lathing through. on the railway during the war. Ono notorious stationmaster removed military stores from three hundred cars and sent forward the sup- plies of private merchants. Ile received 340 roubles (4654) a. car. He implicated so many higher °Metals that when a milltary board inquired into his ooze he had to be promoted instead of pun- ished, to save a scandal. WANT GOOD GENERALS. "There Well no signs of disturbance er disorder during any foueney, beyond vague inflammatory talk. lelost Rus - eines declaimed against the Govern -- relent Very bitterly, and en the night When the news' or the death of General Trepeff arelved some passengers sent for champagne, and drank to show their triumph, saying tbat their only regret sons duo to Trepoff dying in his bed. Officers with wham I talked de- clared in more than one case, that came what would, they did not mean to fight again under generals in whom they had no confidence. Every inde- pendent man agreed that Leen is no likelihood of tt really serious uprising in the immediate future. TO RIVAL NORTH-WEST. "Siberia. Is clearly entering on a period of great prosperity. The country from Irkutsk to Samaria is emong the richest and most fertile I have ever seen. The peasant settlers are sturdy, prosperous, and independent. They altogether Ina the subservience and fear of officiate seen in European ilusslita. "Aalong the lino of roula I found evidence which convinces ma that even political diguriarinetes cannot prevent Siberia from having, 111111110 the next few years, a period of rapid growth and prosperily, rivalling that of Wes- tern America." DON'T CRACK YOUR FINGER JOINTS. "It you have acquired n habit of crack. ing your finger joints, you should drop !hat habit at once," advises a physician. "Many epeople have a habit of bending and pressing down the fingers till a soand something like a meek is minted from the jcilits. They do not know the ininey to the nerves 01 11)11 fingers which this melees, 'rho creek 10 caused by the temporary dislocation of the joint, and each limo that this occurs the nerves In that port are affected In 811011 a 'manner es to Incense their irritability, or in other words, their liatitlify to be shine- lated into saline, end Induce the muscles to act at the slightest 0111185. If 100 1101111 Is continued, this irritability is neeentualed, and many old man, who have lost, in ft great imeneure, the con- trol of thole fingets, which can often be seen Iremblieg, owe (hat aftletiert elmost etiftrely to 111(5 pernicious habit of cettolo Ing the finger Jones," BATTLE WITH A BRIGAND FIGIIT IN LONELY RUT ON suatteoT Or MONT VIDA. Notorious Brigand After a Beton of Terror Falls Into Ilands ef Low. The notorious brigand, Guisoppe Creatin, vete has long heen the terror of the 14111113' between the Lepontine Alps and 011lce Maggiore, Switzerland, Iia s been captured In his hut in the slime on the summit of Mont 'eeda, after a long and desperate fight with it fe51'17 of soldiers. A year ago Croatia built a !rut on Mont Zeda, 6,6e0 feet high, Ho plun- dered end h!CCOCIZed the valley, and then retreated through the forests end snowy heights to his mountain fastness. The loom authorities made many ettempts only lyclTitiulghhedirn'atlithetair, itettlud51tSvqeettrtbviiiat; thought they were close on his tracks In- the woods, he was making love la a farrneee daughter, while ha mice:fully noted the position of her father's house- hold goods. TWELVE TO ONE, At last the local ponce appealed to the Italian !mementos, (111(1 a dozen special men were sent to capture Grett- lin. They were dressed as guidee, but each mall carried a rifle and a revolvee, They divided up into palm and oro. ceerted cautiously through the forest, There they caught sight of the nimble C:realin, but he was too quick for thorn and effectively stopped them by selling fire to the belt of dry wood that barred their progress for smile time, while it gave 111111 an opportunity to dIsappette in the smoke. A largo tract of the forest was burn- ed, but the soldiers continued the aseent he element routes to the summe. Ss hundred yards from the top Ceetlin challenged them by nring a shot over their • heeds. Ile had loopholed his hut and was evident/3, preeared lo withstand a siege. no soldiers tonk 001001. and opened fee: on the hitt, Creatin replied with greet spirit and the soldiers closed In mnind him very cautiously, for he WAN, sending shots in all directions, AT LAST.• Tho attack began in the late &Mennen, and at sunset the reports of the idiots were still echoing along the mountain. The ettneking party Wa-s Plinking of (nuk- ing a retreat for they recogniziet Met if they could not capture the hut they would have to spend the night on the mountain top, and probably be froze,: to death. Their hands, too, were almost numb, and thee 11rIng was erratic. After Crealln had poured out a very brisk tusilade the tiring stopped. TM soldiera suspected a ruse and waited. Then they made a rush tor the door and battered it In, to find Crealin ure conscious on the floor. A bullet had struck him above the temple and knocked him out, without injuring him seriously. A large sum et money and jewellery and a great stock of provisions were found on the premises, 409 well as a number of love letters treat his various sweethearts in recovered eenselousneter thewvhaelale C.realin said, "Well, kle.ssieurs, 1 think 1 have given you a good long chase all these months, and a stiff fight at the endl) raii12W Celln,hn is n tall, handsome Mal, about forty, will probably be taken to Milart for trial. At a sating 01 (110 Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland it was stated that continue' emigration was leading to the deterioration of the Irish race in many districts The following•doubtful compliment is a fragment from a love -letter; "How I wish; my darling Adeluide, my engage- ments would permit me to leave town and come end sea you' IV would be like visiting some old ruin, hallowed by time and fraught with a thousand recol- lectione." Constable John Finley, who for ,he past fifteen years has been the consta- bulary official on duly at the front of the Belfast terminus of the Belfast and County Down Railway, is about to ete tire from the servkle nn pension, eller over 25 yeers' creditable connection with the force. A shocking accident, which terminnted fatally, occurred at Curragh, nonr Gol- eraine, the victim being Miss McKee, aged about 40 years. It appears the de- censed was assisting a servant man let unyoking a mate, and the animal, push- ing against the shafts of the earl, crush- ed the deceased against the wall, break- ing five of her ribs and !netting the heart. INDIANS ARE INCREASING ACCORDING '1'0 STATISTICS OF 7011 DM, eio OATHS. Eleuree Sinny Raee is Not Vanishing— lecrease of '14,600 in Last Deent-le. ft ;mem Mu alter ell the United States have melee' pillafted nor desteeP 1: 1 it 1106110 ,.acc• Men. Tee tutting 1(1111,15 101111118,0 11.1' cies publietted tig- urte, tellete seow mat there are more In/liens iti the United steles toeley than there were weer! 1 oitnnbus lauded, says Inc Low:retie, 1:near-Journal. The' the retinteit W110 have servived, as the losyris mid fishes survived, three 90 fuer tienttier-s or war with it civilized race .re !Fetter off In this wertree glands than were emir lances - tors goes weenie. saying. 'file lethal as nie. emus es they are, oven anipte real 1A,1314 to provide for their needs. The ;Negev ere the richest nation .1 the mirth. met itt Klowos, tioneutehes. S.otv end Itte hundred other tribes' en and off rescmdttione in the west are well pre etled 11' and numago to got atone w)100111 w.‘1.1c, while their eon - (1111 -4',", l>a '0 in g'1 up with the 01111:0. en, :,111 004110 fna n living In the land they !owe wrenched from the redmen. • VIGOROUS PACE. etentt,Iteientiset always picture the !means a.. a vane:hem race, But cold 4110S0 WM there aro 284.000 Itetrine new 1111,113, and that them hue hell ireeee,0 of l5e1110 in the Met (10,1n1,,. It is pee:wiled that Mere were but 30,0te, in Moe Is now the United states Wien 11,1.; enite*ry was diseovered.. Tnql l4n4 11.4ns., 're eft:hers, alhell they emoyot leroe eame, preserves slept Ire- ne. Iho :peewee and ortoo went hungry, art. lino," living in good houses, riding In aritonteetles, boyine pianos, sowing eretettines 14.041 ettneretrephs and sending titeir• eous end dauglgers to college. Doerr won we. Allot the! ('1' '1' 0113; they eteloY with- out loll 511 1 0(4l4.,ut worry. reettreige the ".veilman has appro. relate: ;fey tee eetire continent, and although ha ;me plugged away at the Indian W13 every weapon that has 10,S1 1't p•quiliti. 11514 front the time 1f blutelereess to that of the Mauve • amt the taretil-the gun, the Indian rats 44(4' ltd 54on9 without suffering a IllS nnmnnrice 1 strength to O (44.1 hinieelf landlord and a capital - let atter a eonmercial race ens striven tee 8615151 cultures to get the best et 111110 The elatiegcs compel admiratien for the iectlan RA 5 fighting man if not as • ilculeeer, and if he stilt cherishes the lerdle et-interne1 for the paleface :he yeatits of the longest 0(50 of history eeem to Warrant it. It is consoling, leowever, to know that the while man has converted 11 wilderness into the greetest courrtry of the world without robing or destroying the original 011 - ant. FIGHTING '001) 0E0011108. German Officers in Africa Picked Oft by the Native Marksmen. Some oddities or campaigning against the Ileyeeee in German Southwest Africa me. detailed Ly Col. Bayer of tho generel sten' in Senle sketches which he (105 been publishing from his personftl ex- periences In the lield. One point that particularly impressed him WOS 110) readiness with which the Henna and Hottentots singled out the cams at 'ong range. "It wouldn't have been strange," said he, "it we had worn brilliant uniform, sashes or other insimnia of rank. But we. didn't. In the presence of the enemy w . used exactly the same uniform and equipment as our troops—sutts of khaki and coric hairnets, with blue border. We curried no swords. • "revery °Meer carried ft rifle and n enettedge bell wilh 120 rounds of am- munition in it, exactly like the men. Many also wore bayonets, lionds, faces, hair, uniforms, weapons, every- thing Game to be of the same earthly color. We often couldn't recognize nu another and all sorts of funny blue- di'1811 look iPlaefe.this oulwerd similarity the natives seemed never at Inas to pick out the officers. Their extraordinary power of vision enabled them to detect the slightest sten—a gesture of the heed 4.0 oonteal the admen of the nring Ilde, the use of a field glees, the re- ception of a report was enough to lath- eattdr'icirne.rea0sne"ollac., bryashei s Is !ripe nierloMrbletcl encln tri and instinctively raised his hand lo els helmet in salute, Instantly the fire i t the natives wits enneretthated on them find tho superior was killed." 001 54'. DIDN'T RELIEVE IN AWNS, chow thenV tilhog have 1 bald 31111, Linn, that ,no should remits stand 111 the lett of your guest 01 serving?" "Lor', mum, I'm itoli se 8Up01.81,111 Doti" AIANY WOMEN SOLDIERS THOUSANDS • 010 '1111131 IN THE REVOLUTION. Amazons of Many Countries Vilto Have Done Valiant Septette in the Field. • There were thousands or women sol- diers in 1110 F1150811 ltevolullon. After Inc fall of the BastIle a battallon or young women took up arms under the name of Amazons and rendered yeo- men service, sue the London Express. jeanne 0acionnoe, comedienne, forsook the stage for the lield. Theresa Figueue saw four horses dM under Iter 111 battle. Oteer Amazons wore pensioned by Na- poleon and One 14115 decorated with the Leelon of Motor. The "Amazon ol the Cossaelcs" is the deughter of a Vladivostock merchant. A skilled horsewoman and rifle 8110f, she diatingulshed hereelf greatly in the Ritsso-Japagese war and et the bogie - meg of the present year she wee made a ward of the Came There died in Florence last March art Rattan woman, Signora Mario, who fought with ane "Mother Jar- rethout," a heroine of the Franco-Ger- man war, died last year. She fought in male uniform on the walls of Chat- eatelun, and at Atolls sero took two pris- oners, "heather Jarrolhout's" end was pathe- tic:. She had mede a great name for !re(8elt as Ma Florence Nightingale a the Franco-German war, had received the cross of the Legion or Honor and numbers of lesser medals. 'Yet she died FORSAKEN AND IN POVERTY. An attempt to melee amends signal- ized her burial in August, 1905. A pick ot of soldiers followed the col1111 to the grave and old soldiers who had been her comracies.in the field mustered trona ell parts of France to say feretveil. The American cavil war bred a whale 0(1113(1 of women soldiers. Many women served throughout the entire War %Infi- eld- thole sex being discovered by o111- eers or comrades. Pauline Cushman, an wheels. was eeptured in mato uniform by the Ceti - federates and was rescued by lure corn- panions just as she was about to be hanged es a spy. Pauline was SO 4110- cess1ul In the field that For her faithful serving there was conferred upon. her the rank of Major. Still more successful SOBS Bridget Danvers, known as "Irish Biddy." Brid- get performed wonders as nurse; hos- pital steward, surgeon. vivandlere and private solcher. In 0110 battle she had three horses killed under bee. The Wa0 did not give Bridget her 1111 of fightteg, so she- afterward crossed the Rockies and :engaged in campaigns egainst the Indians. A woman known se ['Mit Thompson carried megsages through shot and shell at Fredericksburg disguised as an orderly. Her name did net transpire tie twenty years atier, when silo ob- tained a pension and WM admitted le the GRAND ARMY OF THE 11EPUBLIC. A falthful spouse who rohised to bo pulled from her husband was airs. Reth nolds, wife of Capt. Ileyoolds, Commute? A Seventeenth Illinois Regiment. She rode at ids side, In male attire, througb almost the entire campaign. There wets never a time when this heroic and socrlllcing 111 110 WOinan ninehed or hesitated in tune of battle or on tang marehes. On the field after 11 conflict she would go about minister- ing to the trielc and dying, and at last she beenne widely known as the Angel 01 the Regiment. Liko Paullue Cush- man, She eventually -received a commis- sion as Major In Me army. Mrs. Katy Brownell, a skilful sharp- shooter, Joined the ranks and served es I color 1ea1er.0 Itoinentio Ellen Good- ridge enlisted In her lover's company, and rode as a commou soldier by his eirle right through lite were "Fnne. blendereon" of the Nineteenth Illinois was really a young girl who enlIsted be- cause she could not bear. to be parted front her brother. Mary Owens of Danville, ga., Nvailltaf lo se -company her husband in the wor and share with- him lis hardships and its vieleries. The breve woman /aught at his side until ho wee killed. In. the next beetle she was severely wounded and had to be sent heme, her discharge papers bearing 1110 tribute: "A moee (MIAMI soldier never shouldered a ems- Icel." The dye war, of eourite did not hI100 a monopoly of Women soldiers. l'here have. 1,een female worriers tu 1111 nun - tries from Boadicea and Than of Are in (11,1 iimmzon 01 PI, cug.,,oicst," „Ito &Welled the world at "Muteden. Anytime the hundreds 01 such examples a feW special 111151001 11117 be cited, THERE WAS 1101111.18(1 311)1,1, (1)a1y Andrea who in 1354 headed 1,000 01 11 against the Pilime of Ponta and anstelnetl MI unequal comlell With 1,1110 Spaelards for seven hours, any three Spaniards lo liner pewees against her single ann. There was valiant Ittinias Gray" (Ran- ee S(1ell), n. hosier's deughter who fought in 1110 War of the Spent:el secoessioe, received innurnercible ;V00 (14)4, 5008 p011' 5(011011 by Queen Anne mid et hey des lb Was hurled full military hon- ors in the cemetery of Chelsea fleept- lo I There was hardy Mrs. Chrielien Gavle, bemper of the Scots Ganes, en Irish 4M0/0)I, W110 WS W01111(1011 al 1111111l1- 1108, Anil thova wa; "Ala S,,rnilon" Bahama Ann wh1 001101 end died on one of Nelson's Males. 'Phew; 'Wag 03I110, ni,11001(11. .11'110 Villi' wetly withstood the siege al Louisburg in Cape Breton ierheill), 053' 11101 night .she was to be found nn the remparts, cheerieg the snifflers end herself load, tssg and firing the gum, 11111:81 "Johnsen wants to borrow len dollars from me. Do 7054 Minh he 10 gnarl for that amount?"' • 131111ta; with proper "Mall annuli, lies would you suggest'?" "A chain rind padlock, rt pnir of handeeffe, and 11 (109. That would 110 enough to hold hint."