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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-12-6, Page 2, • . NOTES AND COMMENTS An Nusleation of the power and infl- enco of the labor party 10 Great Britain may be found in the trade dIsputes bill which passed tinsitouse of Commons few days elm: The measure hes teen and t1n is Vigorously tettielced by law- yers, professors and employers of labor as a plea° of flagrant class legislation, as a revolutionary departure from cofl- . stitutional principles and a menace to Industrie] peace and equity. Yet it final- ly passed the Commons without the for - Malay of a division, Mr, Balfour an- nouncing the withdrawal of opposition to It by his party. Originally the Government introduced a trade disputes bill that differed mater- ially from that offered by the labor group. Subsequently the Government threw its draft into the waste basket and accepted the labor party's bill. Then a queslian arose as to the sufficiency and plainness of one of its major pro- visions, and the laborites demanded the adoption of a certain amendment. As- • quith and linidaee, strong Ministez•s, said that they would never accept the amendment. A few days Inter they did Accept 11, saying that they had yielded to the wishes of the other Ministers. Tories twitted them with their thnidity, but when Balfour imposed silence upon his folletvers and accepted the bill as labor wanted it the laugh was on them. All admit that the bill is retnarkable In many respects. What does it do? legalizes peaceable picketing for pur- poses of persuasion, giving or receiving information, and so on; it modifies the law of conspiracy by providing that in trade disputes no concerted action shall be deemed criminal or tedious unless the same action would be tortious if committed by a, single person. It legal- izes advice and suasion involving breach of contract, and, above all, it secures ab- solute immunity to union lends by pro- viding that no union shall be liable in damages for torts committed by officers or agents in its bebalf, the liability resting on the individual offenders only. This feature annuls the famous Taff Vele and other judicious decisions which had the effect of conferring a semi -corporate and "responsible". status on the trade unions. The advocates of the bill deny that it Involves danger or injustice. They say that it merely restores a condition which had existed for thirty years with the connivance of all parties and of Parlia- ment. They point out that it applies to employers' unions as well as to unions of employes. The oponents of the bill, however, think it mischievous and de- plorable to specifically exempt trade unions from liabilities and restrictions of assistance aboard. that are borne by all other bodies and First he took from the hand of an of make them a ileged - fleer the half of a eacoanut shell, from prie•class under the WONDERFUL ILLUSIONIST 110W INDIAN FAKIRS mom THEIR mum FEATS. An Insight Into the Methods of Perform ing Thew Marvellous Feats. The Indian fakir Is the world's mos wonderful ilbusionint, It is easy to de- clare his feats are all humbug; it is easy to laugh at persons wig), having seen his performances, regard birn with awe and wonderment; yet It is a fact that no Europeen juggler, Illusionist, scientist, or other person, has success- fully performed any of the Important feats accomplished by Indian fakirs, This article does not attempt to show bow the tricks are done, It merely gives the opinion of those best acquaint- ed with the subject—experts in occult- ism and hypnotism. Understand, in the first place, that everything in a fakir's performance is illusionary. Any attempt to photograph It results In failure. The plate reveals teething. You are simply made to see things which do not exist. And what things? This is one trick, which you can see being performed in isdia in many cities on the days If general festivities, Round a fakir, a wiry little man, whose clothing consists only of a loin -cloth, Inc assembled a vast audience. The little fellow in the centre gives a shrill whistle, and throws up into the air what appears to be a rape. You wait for this rope to fall, but it doesn't. THE BOY WHO CLIMBS TO THE SKY. it straightens ilsell out, and looks just as 1111 were hanging from the sky. The fakir claps his hands, and gives vent to another whistle. Apparently out of nowhere, for the crowd are quite fifteen feet from the fakir, a boy ap- pears, clothed in the manner of his -master. The fakir picks up the boy, and flings hint into the air, towards the dangling rope. You hold your breath while the boy clutches hold of the rope, and shins up it, monkey fashion, till he disappears from sight, in the clear sky. A few moments later, up goes the fakir, until he, too, is lost to view. Suddenly, from the sky you see and hear sections of the boy's body fall and strike the ground with a dull thud. Then the fakir re- appears, descending the rope, first, es a. mere speck in the heavens, but gradu- ally becoming larger as he nears the ground. The fakir gathers the boys head and limbs and body, sticks them together, and behold! the boy, all smiles and activity, runs once round the fakir, and then disappears as mysteriously as he came. WATER FROM A COCOANUT. This, the favorite feat of Indian fak- irs, has been -witnessed scores of times he officers and other Europeans whose word Is indisputable. The anthem' of a British warship, having several civil of- ficials aboard, vouch for the following particulars. Their ship bad come to a halt in an East Indian port, niter a journey of many thousend miles, when the fakir made his appearance, swim- ming through the surf and scrambling tr, the dock by the anchor -chains. Thus 113 had no confederate, nor any means law. The lords were expected to change the bill beyond recognition. The with- drawal of tory opposition, however, alters the situation. Tho tory leaders feel that they cannot appear to be less friendly and generous to labor than the A new method of sterilizing milk, re- ported to have been discovered by Prof. Behring, dispenses with boiling and does not destroy any of its essential principles. The method is said to be based on the powerful qualities of Ger- man perphydrol, simply oxygenated. One gramme per hire of this substance is sue:Went to destroy all noxious germs. Milk thus sterilized can be kept long time and is not injured by tra- velling, but it cannot, be drunk until it bus been warmed and a drop of cataly- tic substance added. Dr. Behring has proved that light has a harmful effect upon milk, whether sterilized hot or cold, and he recommends that It should be kept in a dark place or in red or green bottles. A precious plant, discovered in Bra - 01, Is a new textile growth, which is caned the Brazilian, or Perini, flax. Its fire is said to combine the qualities of hemp and flax. Dr. Vittorio Perini first discovered it in its wild slate at an alti- • tude of about 1,000 yards ehaveSett level, Having gathered some weed, he expert -- merited with the product at his planite lion near Rodeiro. By this means ho was able to classify and domesticate the leant and to learn how its domesticated culture could be perfected, and to study its peaetical value in the manufacture of cloth, cordage, and paper. It is said that the new material has been success- fully used in Italy. IIOW TO GET FRESH FISH, Pletisburg, 4 seaport town on tho east eeesef seeleswig-elolstein, hes an ex- cellent system of bringing to 'port fish which are -intended for immediate con- etimption. Instead of packing the fish In the bold 01 the vessel, the (Mermen use flat, oblong boxes, drilled with holes 10 allow free Pease of water, and Into these the Titre 116 are pieced as soon es Wight, and ere towed under weter, 13y Me melee the esti are 'kept alive until • the harbor IS t cached, and they are then • taken out of the boxes and sold alive on 'the gutty, so that there Oen he no qUee- - Roe 5,5 .40 their absolute thesitneeig, which, when held aloft, he caused twelve pailfuls of water to flow to the deck. A largo earthenware dish was next borrowed from the pantry. The fakir poured into it a gallon of water, and held it on his outstretched left hand, placing the other hand an his forehead. As the crowd of officers and men stood watching in wonderment, the dish began to shrink in size, until it entirely disoppeared. They still star- ed as a brown object, like a grain of send, gradually grew larger and larger, and assumed its normal dimensions, and was found not to have spilled a drop of the water poured into it. WHAT TIIE CLOTH PRODUCED. Another performance of the same fakir was still more amazing. On first reach- ing the deck after leaving the water, he had united a large red cloth from the back of his neck, where it had obvi- ously been stowed to keep dry. This ho passed round the company for in- spection. It was merely an ordinary cloth, of coarse texture. Spreading rot upon the deck, the fakir walked round 11 several times, muttering in his throat, and occasionally turning his eyes upwards. MI eyes were glued to the cloth, under which something was apparently growing in size. Suddenly, out hopped a grinning end chattering monkey, which danced all round the deck; it was followed a mire Mt later by an ugly and venomuus- looking cobra, wriggling away from the c:oth to the feet of the astounded be- holders. Once again, something. fur larger than the others, began to stir be- tteath the cloth of mystery. Soon a girl of about fourteen year's of ago emerged and stood smiling at all around her. While those sturdy Jack Tars stood rubbing their eyes, and pinching them- selves to make sure, thnt it was 050 a dreain, the fakir clapped ,Iiis hands, and monkey, rotten, and girl vanished into the air. Then, quickly folding up the cloth into a bundle, and without solidi - Ing Money from officers Or cretv, the fakir leapt into the sea, swimming away with EASY AND GRAGEN.3., ST110KES, M an explanation of these marvel, thus feate, 11 18 generally aceepled that Indian fakirs, by long sojourns end medifinien alone in the jungle end by heredilary, or 501110 secret power, are enabled, by merely forming, pictures In their own tifinde, to produce illusions in the minds of those perenns who crowd about them, expecting to eee Softie wonderful feat. The pictures the fakirs conjure up they mentally ingress upon the minds of their Street:dors. IL is different 11010 hypnotism, in that, not ane person, but, a hundred or a thou - send. willing or unwilling, become the victims of •Ilie, (niche. Tills colleetieo heltheinellen, ea es. picture of a thing we have seen before, an °Wetly° them of that, thing comes Into existence within our mind, and Is composed of the substance of our Ma. mind. 11, by centinual practice we pin suf- ficient power to hole on to Wet image, and prevent Its being driven away by ether thoughts, it will become compare. iit ely dense, and be projected upon ihe menial sphere of others, so that they may actually believe they see that which really exists only as an image within our mind, On the other hand, If we meat hold oa to that ono thought—that. mental picture—and control it at will, we can- not produce Ils rellyetien upon the mind,' of ethers. Europeans fail to 51" produce the feats of fakirs through weakness ef concentration and of con - trot of their own thoughts—which Inc- ulithe are extraordinarily strong, even in the average Hincloo. — Pearson's Weekly. LAUGHABLE INCIDENTS LITTLE ADVENTURES THAT RAISE SMILES. Medical Men Chased by a Lunatic — A Man Who Could Not Get Up. A young medical man had quite en exciting adventure a short time after he had been appointed to the medical staff al an English asylum. He was a somewhat nervous young man, and was not altogether sure regarding the atti- tude which one of the patients adopted towards him. Tliis patient was a leg fellow, east in the mould of a Sampson. The frantic alarm of the poor doctor, may be imagined when, while out in the' grounds by himself one day, he saw the: patient approaching him at a run. The doctor thought it advisable to lake re- fuge in flight. Then a hong chase en- sued, along walks, over flower-bede, across lawns, behind gardening sheds, a chase which lasted until the doctor fell to the ground, utterly exhausted. The end of the harrowing story is, that the patient ran up to him, lapped lum playfully on the shoulder, and said, "Tbggy!" Ile was playing "touch." 'While a workman was engaged in taking water from a fire plug in Com- mercial Street, Leeds, he turned the handle too Inc. The result was a ti•e. mendous burst of water, which caused the drenched workman to fly ignoonbn- ausly. Then there was the uncommon spectacle of a waterspout in the centre of THE TOWN'S PRINCIPAL STREET. The :plucky workman, mustering up his courage, returned to give battle to the waterspout. Ile turned the handle the wrong way, with the result that the column of water rose to a height cf thirty feet. The poor workman retreated again, while many people in the street got wet, and retired to a respectable 'distance. Nothing daunted, the worlonan again tackled the waterspout; he made an- other dash for the handle, encouraged by a large crowd which had pthereil. The street was practically flooded for a long way around, and the man had a most exciting time in his heroic en - cleavers. At last he succeeded, and emerged from the contest, a bedraggled -looking oreubur8, amidstt ld chaers. Another awkward little adventure with a jet of water occurred when Mme. Calve appeared in Carmen at the Con- necticut Opera House. A huge crowd ef students from Yale College gathered mound the stage doer to welcome her, and, like all students, they soon became very lively. Their pranks got so excit- ing, that they were called upon to Ws- perse. As is the nature of students, they refused, and their wildness in- creased. The theatre officials then got out the fire -brigade hose -pipe, and turned a jet of water upon them. ;lust at that mo- ment Sime. Calve herself appeared, with the result that she was DRENCHED FROM HEAD TO FCOT. SOME DRAMATIC SCE ECCENTRIC BRIDES WITS SAY Al' TIIE ALTAR. Wedding Ceremonies Which Been Abruptly Slopped al Last Moment NES "NO" Have There was an extraordinary scene in a New York church the other day, eas- el by the eccentric ectien of a youthful bride, Miss May Constauee. When she was asked by the clergyman if she toek the behlegroutn as her busband, she screamed at We top of her voice, "No, no'Irile" \Veverybody stood aghast, she gave her almost paralyzed sullen a glance of withering contempt, turned n her heel, and marched straight out t•1 the church. The next Moment the bridegroom burst into tears end wrung his hands in its grief at this &emetic ending to the marriage ceremony. Ile, however, had but himself to thank fur 11. The bride was told that morning by one of the bridesmaids that the fickle young man had actually proposed to her while engaged to Miss Constance, whom he had only escorted to the niter because of his rejection by the other young lady. So she determined on a• startling revenge, and carried it out to perfection. Some time ago before St. Catherine's Church, Moscow, Pennsylvania, was the scene of a similar SENSATIONAL ENDING to a wedding. The "high contracting pieties" were Miss Margaret Moors and ' Timothy Foley, and the officiating minister was the Rev. Father Walsh. When the bridegrom had duly mode his responses, the priest turned to the bride end asked the question whether she Look "this man for better or worse," whereupon she interrupted him with the remark, "Father, we are not married yet, are we?" On receiving en answer in the nega- tive, the bride remarked, "Then I guess we won't be," and without another weed turned and walked out of the church. The wedding of yet another American bride was terminated in the same abrupt fashion. Miss Frances Miller, of Chicago, the bride, had presented the bridegroom with a tie which he was lo wear at the ceremony, The young man, however, had not been able to lIx it to hie satisfaction, and he had accordingly donned another. This was not noticed by the bride until her intended was pledging himself at the altar, and she was much incensed at TIIE SUPPOSED SLIGHT. On being asked whether she would have the man as her spouse, sho sharp- ly replied, "If it is not too late, I will not." The wedding -party did not know what to do or think; but the bride quick- ly relieved the situation by appealing to her father to lake her home, which he did at once. She is still a spinster, end likely to remain one, so far as the jibed bridegroom is concerned. A Manchester, England, young lady said "No" at the altar a mw years ago under circumstances of an unusual or- der. She had been wooed and won un- der what amounted to heartless false pretences, and the fact coming to her knowledge at the eleventh hour she de- termined to balk the impostor at the last moment. So, when the minister de- manded to know whether she accepted him for her husband, she responded with en emphatic "Not if I know it." which sent a thrill through the assem- bled company. Somewhat puzzled al this unexpected reply, the clergyman repeated the words of the Pince Book whereupon the bride declared, "I will db first!" and fainted away. While efforts were being made to 1p - skim her the bridegroom stole quietly off; and it subsequently transpired that he had been stealing fn a more literal sense for a considerable time, and that he was actually a fugitive from justice while posing ns A MAN OF WEALTH. On one occasion, in a San Francisco church, a wedding -party was treated to the edifying spectacle of a bride reject- ing a bridegroom because he would not undertake to obey! This reversal of the usual order el things matrimonial could not have been permitted even If the bridgroom had been willing. 13111, in order to get the young body to the altar, he consented to make the promise 08 she desired, though without the least intention of doing so, whether permissible or not, The service proceeded in the usual way until 11 was Um bride's turn to give her pledgee, but, when asked if Site would have the bridegroom as her wed- ded husband, she replied. with a toss of her' head, "Not until he promises to obey me in all things." The clergyman was evidently shocked at this condition, and remarked that it could not be introduced in the service, which required the wife 16 racier obedi- ence, and not the husband. The ghl, hewever, refused to dispense ,with the p1101181, and the wedding was not pro- ceeded with. Not long Mime a St. Louis girl, who hod been forced Into an engagement with n wealthy elderly suitor by her ambilinue parents, gave vent to her sub- orned ferlinge le the course of ilio ma- rling ceremony, 11 woe n greet func- tion with a church crowded with guests and most elaborately decorated. To the bri-te, howeVer, it was all A HOLLOW MOCKERY, Cndn ilalctihnee7fille ligniClIcAbleheint forced on her, she declared, ha a loud vette, "As this is the first time 1 have been oshed, I say once and for all 1 Will not." The tangregation wore thunderstruelc by this unexpected hite,11 In the proceed- ings, rind before they bled recovered from thee, rielonishinen1 the bride had sped them Iia churn end driven rapidly rimy with her lover of her own to whom she was united a couple of hours Infer In a. eithurbon clinrch. It would be herd, Indeed. to divine Ilia melee which prompted 1110 ncliorl it Dutch girl 111 enyleg "No'enelhe altar, The young ,nicier be Mom she lind gaged herself was an eligible stator in She took her ducking good-humoredly, and sane hetepurt in Carmen with more than ordinary fervor. just es awkward an incident occurred at the Lyric Theatre, London, while the piny was In full progress. Without the sliglithel, warning, the water sprints lers commenced to work. These sprints lees are fixed all about the siege, so that the flames cooed be put out you rapidly in ease of tire. The result was thin the performers ond oicee4tft received a sound drench - big, as it was found impossible to stop the sprinklers until the water was turn- ed off et the main. Naturally the sud- den flight el the tweets and instrumen- talists ocensioned considerahle merle - mint amongst the audience, the WWII), coetinuitig for some time after the piece was eventually resumed. A very ludicrous adventure happened n London man who tteS seen sitting en the roadway outside Highgate Police Station. The nature of it soon Unmet, ed—he voted riot get up. The difficulty arose from the fact that the man heti sab down en Scale wenn tar, left in the road by workmen, who lied Vein lay - Mg wooden blocks. The police very kindly provided the erten with enough brown paper In cover the deficiencies of his gartered equipment, so that ho might en able to Mt down in the pain sta- tion WITHOUT STICKING FAS -11 Quite gruesome is an adventure which Immoeil le some laborers who Were linthaling the carne of a vessel at, the AllierDett London. The lid of a large eemeieele became unrn „I on,d, and a (Windily of linia,r ran from II, The sorting smell from the branched cook gave eifincient Inillealien that Ilie liquid we'; spirit,. As lids WAS running to Wosle, n number of the laborers &rink sCane of 11, nnil pennounced 11 to he ell excellent, drink. The Customs Officiels cattle In make inveeligallone. Upon el: - millirem the murk they found it contained perk term it, is. Induced by Wore by th huge Heard, which had been, ehipped rensOn of ilieir knowledge of the t•elti- a, a medical specimen, 01 course, It (lona thee exise between obiecilive and hail been immersed In spirit in order subieetlY0 atelee ef odedence. 101' 11151 It might be preeerved,—Pearson's thelatioe, If tve coneeKo lb our 110110151110110151i d a e,veeely, an respects, yet when they were about to be made one she amazed the officiat- ing clergyman by declining to be Mar- riott. Overwhelmed with grief at les Mee - (Ion at the eleventh hour, the unfelt". nate suitor led himself in Germany, weere the apparently repentant bride very soon afterwards went in search nf him and begged hint to return home turd marry her, ;limed by her teem end entreaties, be at length consented, but, incredible es bb any seem, only to again undeegn the bitterness of rejectinn at the eller, When asked lhe all-important question. the flekle-mincled bride actually said "No" for the second time; and slanil wonder that the outraged bridegroom thereupon again disappeared, and this lime for ever. CLINGS TO HIS MOTHER BOY'S AFFECTION STRONGER THAN ALLURING OFFER OF FATHER. Mother Appeals to Court for Aid lo Keep Consumptive Lad From Early Grave. A pathetic case is now occupying the French courts, in which a consumptive boy had to cheese between semesterva- lion and probable death with his mother, and luxury and all care with his father. In 1886 M. Jacquet, the son of a man- ufacturer, was a student in Paris, where he met and fell in love with a pretty milliner named Mlle. Mallard. After four years of mutual affection, a child was bot•n, a boy, who was hnmedialely, as is allowed in French law, officially recognized by the student as his son. Then the romance of student life came to an end. M. Jacquet- had to leave his companiot and enter his fattier's busi- ness. He gove ,her $600, and agreed to pay $7.50 per month toward the support of his son until he attained his majority. Shortly afterward he got married. BABY PUT TO NURSE. Meanwhile, the little milliner, having to set to and earn her living, put, her baby out to nurse. After some months she discovered that the child was initiated with tuberculosis, having been kept in the same room with a dying man In the last stages of consumption. Mme. Mallard, as she was then known, was but 22 years of age, but she brought her baby home, nursed him, and denied herself of the barest necessities to provide the child with medical atten- dance. She succeeded in bringing him back to health. He grew tip passionately fond of his mother, who, by great ele- vation, paid for his education in a school for professional mechanics. The lad passed his preliminary exam - elation brilliantly, and then the dread disease reasserted itself, and all the mother's strenuous efforts were vain. The doctors ordered the boy to be taken out, into the country, and Mine. mallard went with him to her parents' home in Alsace. But, her little savings were ex- hausted, and at last she appealed to the lad's father to increase the allowance. M. Jacquet wrote buck that he would not increase the allowance, but would adopt the boy into his own family. The Ince ther then sought the help of the mw to compel M. Jacquet, to increase the allow- ance. THE FATHER'S OFFER. The father came to the bar of the court and repeated his offer. "I linve e family of my own," he said, 'a wife and three children. My wife has agreed to take the boy and bring him up with our own children. I offer the boy a comfort- able home, and I ask the Court to order the lad to he given over to my charge." To this the mother replied that the boy had never even seen his father, who did not, attempt to intervene when the child was ill. "Heaven knows what. 1 have gone through for my son," she cried to the boy's father. "1 have twice nursed him back from death. All you have done is to contribute a small monthly sum. It would be cruel, in- deed, to take the lad away from me. MI 1 want is en increased allowance." The lad iihuself—a bright bit very thin and consumptive -looking lad of 16— refused to leave his mother. Placing his hand In hers, he said; "I love my mo- ther, and I would ruttier live in poverty with her than be pampered by my falhee, for whom 1 have no affeetiont" The Court reserved its decision. SENTENCE SERMONS. Only the hopeful can help. All:joy were but discord Without et:11'- 10'1'111e cum for our own. cares is care too 11°,31eheeriss. nothing heroic in a home- . nia0dnelyhearegend creed can be embalmed in phrases. The secret of being n saint Is being a saint in secret. You cannot lift up the people on whom you look down. No mon loses any of bis own light by kindling it In others. A man's sensitiveness usually is in in- verse ratio to his service. They seldom transgress any law who follow where love letifis. It's no use looking I15a ri lemon when you talk of loving your neighbor, Judged by some standards pickles might to bo powerful promoters rif plot y, The people who ere praying to be no- thing aro answered before they begirt. Meet of us would rather clo a lot of reeulation abroad then preetice a little righteousness at home. Many think they are defending -faith when they are only fighting aping the necessity of thinking, It's a wise old world that wails fee the indorsement of every day honesty on the checks of extraordinary holiness. It's no use spending Sunday 'praying the Lorti to enter ,yeur boort When you am spending the week barricading it Willi bad business. 11 lakes a women to' cart,' an a deny with a man in tt tone that 00501e of a nocldloog,,• TOY FOR LUNG MENELIK A NEW ISLANDWAS MADE HUGE LOCOelOTIVE DRAGGED FROM COAST TO AMUSE 11101 King Went In Stale to Meet Procession, Butut- giiNieV5\5V:sislIs Nio)Pt°LthiltgefiderE. The announcement that all obettieles, principally political, to the completion if the ralirond lino from Jibouti, ori the Red See, 10 Addis Abate, in the Mute of Aliessfula, have been removed, hos led 'News le lloux, a Mengel traveller and writer, to tell the story of an extraordinary feat that was performed for the entertainment of King :Omelet in 1904. This was the transpor- tation of a locomotive engine from tile coast to itlenellles capital by human force. M. le Roux says ho was the only teuropean present when the barbarian despot first beheld the great machine. After the first, plans for the railroad were accepted by the King, somewhere about, 1895, there was a long hiatus. Years passed by and the construction of the road and the arrival of the "great steam horse" seemed as far away as ever. 11 got on Menelik's nerves like a child's desire for a toy, and he could think of nettling else. Then one of his courtiers, one Serkis, proposed flint he should go to Europe, buy a locoinotive, and transport, it to the capital. Tho Negus pointed, out the forests, the mountains, the rivers that the machine would have to travense. Steeds insisted that the chiefs of the tribes inhabiting the country could and would furnish all the men necessary. He staked his head on earryreg out the pro- ject. "13E IT SO," SAID MENELIK. Serkis went to Europe and there fell in with a Russian engineer officer, named Babitcheff, whom he sent ahead to open a temporary route for the 'loco- motive to follow. Ilabilcheff set all the energies of the native tribes to worlc, and for 250 miles a temporary roadway Was constructed, in which ravines were spanned, mountains crossed, jungles teemed, and forest, trees cut down. "It was on May 18, 1904," soys M. le Roux, -"that I received a gracious invi- tation from the Emperor to join the cortege, which was starting to meet Serkis. Menelik took the road with all bios adornments of a pleasure party. I hove never seen so many horses capari- soned with silver, mules covered with splendid saddle cloths, so many silken hoods and cloaks bordered with purple. All the functionaries, eager to stand well with the Emperor, were in the cortege. "As they were to be four or five days afield they took fall camp equipage along. The Emperor alone had 700 to 800 women cooks, ench one riding a mule and having a soldier to guard her. MET LOCOMOTIVE. On the morning of the second day out, on the borders of Leith leflole, the Em- peror received news that the locomotive was nearby. He took his station on a hilleop facing a ravine, the slope of which seemed to reach to a level with tilskS•P leeeere the big hat of grey felt lined with green, in which he Is generally pictured. Everyone else had a smaller grey hal, unlined. elenelik kept, his telescope to his eye, watching the crest of the gorge over which the great toy was to appear. The moment ler saw Le Roux, lee exclaimed; "I hope you have brought your camera. I desire a me- mento of this meeting." Le Roux had a small camera slung on a strop, and he took up a favorable position for a snapshot. He goes on "AL last there came to us the confused chanting of thousands of men. Then they came trooping down the dusty track that had been cleared over the 11111. They dragged the engine behnicl them by cables. Others behind prevent. eit its too rapid descent. First, of all come a crowd of slaves carrying two magnificent elephant saddles, a present which England sent from India to the 'King of Kings.'" "Next came two light, open railway COM. Next came extra wheels and other parts, curried by porters.- The men seemed intoxicated with a sort of religious fervor, as singing, they ap- proached and MARCHED PAST THE NEGUS. "There were thousands of them. Every province had tarnished its contln- eent, and when the forced labor of etch lot was completed many fell in behind the procession and kept on to the end of the journey. "An Ethiopian banner fluttered above the crowd.. It was fastened to Its body of the locomotive. When the big ma- chine appeared at lest at 1110 'swine& of the gorge a terrific shout rent the nth. The Emperor stood up, took a slop for- med and made a gesture of salute: "1 ."thought it would be bigger," was ltlthngc4omment when he saw i 1 at closer i Bellied the locomotive ennee Peek's, who fell to his knees at his master's feet. IL had taken him twenty-eight days to drag the engine thither from the conet, at Dit•e-Daona, reaching tin clove - then of nearly 8,000 feet, above sea level. Locomotives, unforturintely, have their caprices es well es despots. Some weeks lot.er, when tracks were had at Addis-Abeba, the locomotive refused to operate. 011 and charcoal were con- sume,d, In vain. -It evottidn't budge. It took weeks 01 overhauling before they got the engine going at teat. By that Wee Siwalik had lost interest in It. "I realise," said lice "that wo will 'aee nothing Serious mill the real railway reaches here fronl Jibouti," PROOF! "Ne," he declared, "1 wouldn't get dawn on my knees to talc any girl to be ray Wife.' "I don't blame you," sho answet'od, "It would be ridiculous foe anybody 10 got me hie knees before the girl who wetttebe your wife The only Wry to mete 51110 Of, a cletin heart Is to \Veldt against the alnutS, ONCE SAID To JIA'al BEEN THROWN UF NEAR AtteerSEA• U. S. lievenue Cultee Visits It, and Greve 11 11(0 Milne Terry Island— Made a Lareline On II. The Technical \\theta gives the bng description of an island said lo have been card up by an carthqueke near Alas15a; Early in May Bente fishermen ',relight the news to Dawson City that a. small island had suddenly arisen from the ocean. This new island was "born" on or about the J8111 of lest April—that fateful thee so memorable In the history of San Francisco, first the stranger island was only a few hundred feel above the ocean's level, but 11 kept gradually ris- ing, until 11, is now estimated to be near- ly 700 feet high. M it Is comparatively a small island the sides are very sleep—in places al- most vertIcal. IL was terrifically hot,— S011ie of 11 in a sentl-moiten state—andi naturally the heat made a, vast comm. lion in the see. POP a long distance In all directions the waters were heated to a boiling temperature. VAST CLOUDS OF STEAM constantly nrosn from the surface of the sea, totally obscuring at times the view of the island. At first the new island itself sent forth blinding clouds of smoke and stilling fumes, so that the fishermen dared not, approach the rugged and abrupt shores. These were ise reports that were first brought down to Dawson City, Credence, was not at first given to these fisher - mens stories, but investigations mode Inter proved beyond all doubt that a new island had suddenly arisen above the ocean. That It was a volcanic island— the outlet to subterranean fires—was equally true. Several vessels early visited the newly created !sinful, but none orf them ven- tured very near. Moro recently the U. S. revenue cutter Perry visited the Island—in fact, has made several visits and made some casual investigations. Some photographs were taken by an officer of the Perry when the island was still very hot. 11y virtue of being the first living creature to set fool, on Iles new-born Island, the officers gave this, the latest of the Aleutian Islands, the name of "Perry Island"— AN APPROPRIATE CIIRISTENING. Perry Island is now one of the Ragas- lof group of the Aleutian islands. It Is situated between leire Island and Castle Rock Island—both cern:partitively recent. arrivals nn geologists reckon time. Castle Rock poked its rugged. nose above the sea h8-15. 1770. Fire Island's birthday ws. a in18 Perry Island is located about 00 miles west or the town of Unalaska, and though gradually - cooling, Is probably one of the hottest places on earth to- day. However, in spec of the heat and the fact that the surface of the iStend was still sell, the allicers the Perry ventured ashore, and with great diffi- culty and no little peril one of them succeeded in climbine almost to thesummit, summit, nearly 700 feer above sea level. The new island in shape closely re- sembles a stupendous beehive, with a base about DUI feel, in diameter. FrOtti numerous fissures steam, smoke, and sulphurous fumes constantly rise in columns, which continue to form a aloud that is visible for more than 20 miles. —4 WHEN YOUR FACE IS A DOT. Here are a few facts which will help you to judge distances: Al 30 yards, assuming that your sight is of the aver- age sh•ength, the white of a man's eye is plainly seen, and the eyes themselves up le 80 yards. At, 100 yards ahl peels of the body are seen distinctly, slight movements aro perceptible, and the de tells of the dress can be distinguished. AL 200 yards the outlines of the Mee are contused end rows of butions look like stripes. At 400 yards the face is e ir.eeedol, but all movements of the legs and arms are still distinct. At 60o yards details can no longer be distingu- ished. At 800 yards the men in a crowd (menet be counted, nor their individual movements distinguished, At 1,000 yards a line of soldiers resembles a broad belt, At 1,200 yards covalry can be distinguished from infentry, end al 2,000 yards a mounted man usually ap- pears a more speck. .10o.••1 KNEELING DOWN TO DIE, Though a camel is supposed to have carried Mohammed in four leaps nom Jerusalem to Mecca, seven miles an hour is the latter day centers limit, 11 cannot maintain Res rale for over Iwo hours either. Its usual speed Is five miles an hollr—a slow pee beyond which it is dangerous to urge it, lest, ne Asiatics say, it might look its hone and die literally on the spot, 'When A, easel is pressed beyond this speed, mut is spent, it kneels down. and hot, all the wolves of Mia will make It budge again., The Camel remains where it icneels, and where it kneels it dies. A fire uenthe its nose is useless. REINDEER EXPRESS, The capacity of the reindeer for them - work Is remarkable. His hoofs nre very broad and do not minarets the snow crests. Elis average weight is obout, 4001b. 110 will swiftly drew f.1 Sled MI'S/. ing 600111,, and with nus lend can cover thirty, arty, and even Mealy reties 0, day, The reindeer length now (Jerry the malls from Kotzebue to Point narrow, Alaslca., a distance of 660 miles --the most northerly post route in the world, No food is carded for the deee. At Ilio end of his journey, or at any stopping -piece, 110 is turned loose, and at once breaks threogli the show to the white moss which Serves es food. ib (Mese% tette long to choose between 01 sinnee.who sworres once in a While and a saint .35001:05 every one SWCIItt all the 0. 1 4,