HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-1-10, Page 2CURRENT TOPICS.
Twentieth century legislation is ex-
pected to be done by electricity. The
proposed apparatus consists of two or
more upright disks, to be placed in full
view near the speaker's chair, connected
suitable electric device with the,
desk uf each member. Without eisiit.
teem his seat, willieut elle waste of
needless IninitI 1 time of the hoes,
eneh member preSe111 Mild rennet his
vote by a mere touch of his finger ou
the butten, On leaving his seat for any
0008 lw cnuld lock up the button, so
as to le ettre thet ne enthusiastic., friend
should vote for hini in his absence, ne
some of them might lie willing to de.
The record thus made would he' Pef'
feel, permanent, and unassailable, 'rite
rapidly increasing volume of legislative
business requires some practical relief.
Here is a means for adding SI per cent.
to the working hnurs of each session
lei/hoed increasing its numerical length.
The Idea that there is no natural
death Is fascinating learned biologists.
In the lowest, organisins, those of a
single cell, the individual is represented
by splitting into two parts, each c,f
which been/nee a now living body, and
the distinguished Elie Metchnikoff hes
ventueed the view [het this form el life
le immortal. Death comes only by ac-
cident. Going Nether, Naegeli, a Ger-
man botanist, divides that there is ne
natural death in the plant world, and
that trees living thousands of years are
destroyed at last by catastrophe or some
external (triton. Prof. Loeb sees no
certain evidence of natural death, el -
though the cessation of life In certain
eggs of the sea hedgehog a few hones
after being discharged may be such.
Metchnikoff rejects this possible excep-
tion as accidental death, resulting from
a kind of starvalien, and agrees that
the natural death is unproven. The
se -called deaths from old age, gentle,
and painless, prove to be violent, the ac-
tion of disease microbes being revealed
by lesions of the internal organs.
Various attempts have been made to
estimate the light of the stars. In the
northern hemisphere Argelander has
regis'ered 324.000 stars down to the 93e
magnitude, and, with the aid of the best
photometric data. Agnes M. Clerk's
new "System of the Stars" gives the
sum of the light of these northern stars
as equivalent to 1-140 of full moonlight;
and the total light of all stars similar-
ly enumerated in both hemispheres, to
the number of about 0110,000 is roughly
placed at 1-180 d the lunar brightness.
The scattered light of still fainter ce-
lestial bodies is difficult to evaluate. By
a photographic method Sir William Ab-
ney in 1800 rated the total starlight ef
both heinisphenes at 1-100 of full moon-
light, and Prof. Newcomb in 1001, from
'visual observations of diffused sky radi-
ance, fixed the light power of all stars
at just 728 name (hal of Capella, or 1-89
of the light of the full moon. It is not
certain, however, that the sky would he
totally date( if all stars were blotted obi,
Certain processes make the upper at-
mosphere strongly luminous at times,
and we can never be sure that this
light is absent.
Divining rods are being admitted into
the circle of the erudite. An electrical
divining rod has been devised by one
Adolph Schmid. a Swiss engineer. 11
Curtsies essentially of a glnee nwered
box inclosing e coil of insulated wire
in which a slightly magnetic needle 10
free to rotate over a graduated dial.
When the apparatus is pieced over sub-
terrannean water with the axle of the cell
in the magnetic meridian the needle Is
asserted In osolate more or lees rapidly
from 2 to 10 and even up to 30 degrees.
The anelent divining rod consisted of a
eorked twig of hazel. apple, or any fruit -
bearing tree. It Was hold in the hands
With the }trenches both lying normally
in, the same horizontal plane with the
crotch where the twige branch oft to-
gether from the main trunk pointed el -
thee toward or away from the body of
the operator. It was carried in this po-
sition over the ground end whenever
the finked twigs hent downward it in-
dicated the proximity of \valor or min-
erals. The simplest of the scientific di-
vining rode Is the miners' compass,
Which simply Is a magnetic compass
needle arranged lo swing Dee in a ver -
tical plane, Ils points being jeweled,
It swings freely end polnle le any body
tf iron nr magnetic ore contained in the
earth: It is operated for n considerable
distorter, and lies been used for years
for locating mines, 11111 it Is in no use
hslever for other than megnetic metal
or ores'.
NO USE.
",Seine people," remarked the thought.
fui thinker, "nee religion es a cloak in
this world, lmt—"
"73111 whin?" queried the ettegnan au-
dience 115 the epeeker patteed.
YI GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
CAREER OF THE PRESENT PRIME
MINISTER OF FRANCE,
Has Slade itnd Ovevilleowli Ministries
for 30. Years-- lialtes Ills Bow
at Seely -lour.
There is gem) nenon, sup', Harper's
Weekly. lee site:dint,'eleiliencenti ns
eing maker. 11 wasle, who pet Carnol
,1119 the Preekleney, on 1110 fall of NI.
11105 Grevy. Mean 110 himself had pulled
down. It WilS 110 IVIs brought about the
,leelion of M. Loubel. 11' once con-
fessed te a friend that he himself could
1101 remember hew many Nlinisteles he
had driven out of tenets how many tn.
'1101dual Ministers he had demised of
their portfolios.
For instance, It was he Who lapse)
fetes Greve., "the men of Tonkin"; it was
he who drove Gen. Boulanger out of
idlice, when it was found that "the man
01 herseigielc" was trying to bring back
ihe Bourbons, as Gen. elonk had
brought beck Chance It. of England.
And el. Freyeinet he overthrew al least
three limes, to say nothing of lesser an-
tagonists disposed of.
tinnily less' picturesque is the figure he
inakes ne 0 duellist. 110 is one of 1 he
linos) swordemen in France and has
Leen prinenial in a dozen notable duels
and second ill as many more. 11 WaS lie
W1,10 StIpparted M. Floquet in his duel
with' Gen. Boulanger, when the first.
warrior of France came within an ace
•if being killed by the elderly lawyer. A
dozen years earlier he had e:lood second
at Gamlen& in the famous duel which
;new out of. Nlarshall _McMahon's at-
tempt to
BRING BACK THE BOURBONS.
Yet It would be an crror to treat NI.
1:1en1e110e:1e14 as a sensatienal figure. A
far truer cheracterization is "the sanest
radical in Europe." And we might go
e•ven furtime and say that since his
twentieth year, for well nigh half a
century, Georges Clemenceau has stood
as the manliest and most vigorous ern-
bediment of the republican ideal. More
than that, We can see in Clemenceau's
mind a steady growth from the extreme
revolutionary and almost socialistic
view to a sound and wise individualist's
founded on justice and genuine liberty.
Georges Clemenceau is ft true son of
the French Revolution. His father was
imprisoned by Napoleon 111, at the time
of the coup d'etat which destroyed the
Second Republic. Georges Clemenceau
himself was arrested and imprisoned,
ten years liner, for crying "Vive la Re-
publique!' at a demonstration on the
anniversary of the revolution.
This was in lead. On his release he
look up the slue/ of Medicine. For tho
doctorate exaniination he wrote a Mile -
worthy thesis, "On the Generation of the
Anatomical Elements."
Instead of taking up practice, young
Clemenceau elected 10 spend some years
In travel in the lands of liberty. Ile
spent soma Itine travelling nbent the
States and recording Ins impressions
for Parisian readers in Le Temps, for he
was already a skilful writer. Wu next
lind him teaching a literary history in
English. which he knew perfectly, at an
academy foe young ladies at Stanford,
Conn,
One of his biographers snys that IL
was Ids pleasant duly to ncenmpany his
pupils in them daily promenades. If so,
[hie was the hand of tate. Mr we pre-
senlly find him engaged to one of his
fair students,
WHOM HE MARRIED IN 1869.
Very dramatic is the next change _of
scene. From the midst of his pastoral
1110 by the shore of the Sound. we fInd
him suddenly transported within the
walls of Paris, hemmed in by the Pros-
eian 01111100.
His old friend Arago), very influential
In the Government that deposed Napol-
eon III., who was organizing armed re-
sistance to Bismarck anti efoltke, had
111111 alMointed mayor of the Eighteenth
Electoral district (arrondissement) of
Paris. the quarter of Montmarie. This
district was one of twenty in the city,
and Clemenceau heti about 150,000 to
cove for during the siege, for whose
daily rations he was immediately re-
sponsible. Ile made a strong and effec-
tive official, and even in those early days
waged a cernpaign for the sepavation of
Church and State in France.
Spring saw the si"g° 111° Pr"'
shin armies go))) and the Government
ait M. Thiers installed in Versailles.
There waS an intlial concession betwen
the (lovernment end the popular feeling
of Pales twee the national cannon en.
the 11111 of Montmartre, entl iwo French
Generals, Thomas arid Lecompte, were
shot by the populace,
Clemenceau 11111 everything in his
power 61 :awe 1110114 lives Find for 005 '13'
two hours ran ihe gatmtlet of the 11101)
in n heroic effort to stop the excretion
of the Generals; lac was too late, how-
ever, and enly by a miracle escaped
like fate himself. Thal long Ali ggh.,
through Ote bowling end frenzied Binh
he. has 01111101 his "Way to Calvary."
Next we see Mtn elanding for home
rule for Paris agnitist the nalinnel
Government a t Versei 1 Is an 1 appealing
hi President Thiers, loll apponling 10
Vain, for 100 rights of Ms beloved city,
The reineal of the Versailles Govern-
ment wes a prime 001150 of the uprising
ot the Commune and the wild disorders
that filled the spring menthe of 1871,
Agent, by 11 suddiet 111111401•131111,1013,
WO 111111 Clemenceau denottimed by the
Contemn(' and Clangor of epees!" and
violent death. And Ititer, in 187e, We
and him in yel 0 liew role pleading fur
ainneety for the conmemmels, 50,0n0 of
whom Mid been imprisoned. while twice
that number 504025111 xile.
Armen Tem Invasion
end Ilifi Commune, ceme the long Peel ie -
Mindere. eletiggiii, when for eighteen
pens 110 Ministry Incited more then n
few mort1118, Clemenceaus integrity
and force lir/eight ithout many ft midden
In 1111: next world," ennilmted the transinnintlion in Ibis Blue of chronic.
T. T., "the peoples aforeetdd will hare Tite chief cause of title eetreine insta-
bility wag the tact that, the French
13111 miter ito ft (a ined 1111 less th a 050510
prailles, rind by a suildtm eliMnce be.
no use for a Moak,'
Siat' See lime your birds are in 1110 Very lween levn or three of (hem n large tea•
beat eendition when Marketed. jeirity Might Melt away in 00 hour;
Clemeneeen was the ablest leader of
the Radical Republicans, and his policy
wee entirely dear mu) pnielient. Fiest,
he elooil fur realization of the bones of
Ilia greet Frimett 11ov011111(113, 111001 of
whiell had been thwarted by Napoleon
1, or the restored Bourbons.
11' pointed. 0111 111 debate end in the
tiring, that Frame> was still living in
the trans, made by Napoleon I, and had
hardly advaileed at all in ihree-quiteters
of tt (enemy. 'flee) he stood for the de-
velemneill• of Frintelt ree•etrees
Unjust 14‘411'1'3''s Wild 80111'11100 of COlonial
adVellillre ill Tonkin, Madagascar Tunis
and Egypt,
"We do fen need colonies in Africa
and tlx Orient 1 \\11111 MO need is lo
eillonin France:" he mild in Itio cam-
paign which brought about Ferry's over-
throw.
Again, Ile consistently impend Ille 09-
limns' between France and Russia, being
tuo good 0 ilepublican to wish le see his
beloved country bound to the destinies
of a reinigembi despoliens Ile strongly
advocated stteli an understanding with
England as has recently been effeelett,
and the foreshadowed entente between
England, France and Italy realizes one
ot Ins ideate,
Yet petthape the strongest claim of
Cletnenceau to the gratitude of bis
country end the admiration of the world
Is the spleedid enlist he nenle for jus-
tice and the honer of France in the
finnoue Dreyfus Case, Mien, for month
after month, he wrote ringing arlieles
ltt defenee of Dreyfus, calling foe jUS1i00
aig,uiyiiritils.1 conspiracy and °Nene/eel bo -
t11 is In the lest degree interesting to
vent the pueseges of warm enthusiasm
in whieh he lauds the numly part played
by Colonel Picquart in the Dreyfus in-
vestigtilion, and it weenis ow blood to
600 him choose the S011l0 l'icquarl, now
a. General, as his Minister of War.
Chiefly to these two was due the re-
habilitation of France's honor in a legel
struggle that
SHOOK THE WHOLE WORLD.
In the scandals which grew out of the
Panama Canal, Clemenceau WEIS him-
self fiercely eseailed, and 1011101'Y god
conspinices Were freely used ageinsi him
in the Chumber, in the press and in the
cowls. There are few ilner scenes in
modern history than that of the Cham-
ber of Deputies when Paul Deroulede
(good tip in the telbune to denounce
Clemenceaui, and in denouncing, in elide
f his passion of hatred end teen:ell of
invective, little by little revealed the
weakness of his case, and finany,
shamed and put to confusion, 01110,01
iled from the tribune and the Climber,
white Clemenecau, who had sat still as
a statue front the beginning, burst lute
Homeric luughter,
From 1803 to 1003 Clemenceau was nut
of politics. Ile wrote many brilliant
articles—a work on the philosophy of
endure. "Great Pan," and a novel of
social life, "The Strongest," a play laid
nt the court of China, and some admir-
able criticisms. Then, .in 1903, he was
relented to the Semite, this spring he
took a portfolio in the Seneca Ministry,
and now Ave .see him at last Prime Min -
islet' of France.
THE SHIPS THAT SINK.
What Becomes of Those that Go to the
Bottom of the Sea.
What becomes al the ship that sinks
110 midoceen? 11 11 is of wend it. takes,
in the first place, Considerable 111110 for
It to melt the bettons In a hendred or
mere fathoms of evetee quarigessil an
hour will elapse before the ship reaches
buttons It sinks slowly, and when the
bottom is reached it falls gently into lite
soft, oozy bed, with no crash er break-
ing.
Of clines°, if 11 is laden with pig leen
or corresponding ,substances, or if i1 is
an iron ship, it sinks rapidly and some-
times strikes the bottom with such force
as to smash in 'deers. Onto awn:en a
ship becomes the prey of the countless
inhabitants of the ocean.
They swarm over and through the
great bora and realm 11 theie home. Be-
sides this, they cover every inch of the
boat with a thick layer 0111n111. This
takes time, of counee, mid when one
generation dies another continues the
work, until finally 1(10ship is so laden
with incrustations, corals, sponges end
barnacles thal, if wood, tho creaking
timbers fall apart and slowly but surely
are absorbed in the waste at the sea
bottom.
Iron vessels are demolished more
quickly than those of wnod, which nuty
last for centuries. The only metals that
withstand the chemical (tenon of (he
vave-s are gold and platinitte, and glass
also seems uneffected. No matter brav
Icing gold may be hidden in tete ocean,
it will always be gold when pecovered,
and this fact explains the Many 1010011 -
HO and adveniuroue searches after hid-
den submarine treasures lost in ship-
wrecks.
THE TROBLESOME BOER.
Disposed to Regard South Africa as
Elis 00.11 Special Territory.
'Pile Cologne Gazette draws attention
to inpublicetion by Dr. Semler, a mem-
ber of the Ileichsteg, entitled "(Aisle,
venoms in Southwest Africa," in which
stress is hild upon the question Of 111e
Boer °lenient In BIC German» colony. The
110er peputalbet is represented as
stronger than before the rebellion, and
the nether notes that "the Boer is dis-
posed Le regard South Africa, including
our c.dony, as his own special 1011'1-
(00)'." Commenting upon this, 'rim Col-
ogne Gazette dtielnees declares Ihe Boer
qui:ellen le the m(1s) importing ni all
these lot:1110g to German Southwest,
Africa, 1100111 events, it enys, 1111
ehewn 11151 a highly undesintble 1101ie
elemin bas nested 111 lho (lenient colony.
their preomee is superflentes, end Ilo
Government is tweed net lo Make
grants of (3500'n binds lo 11601.3 eXcepl
in 111.4 01150 Of Ideked fuel weally set•
Bees. Further. any Boer relonisl cehould
be apprised that their stets must beceine
flermaies and be lleble for German 11111.
nary eiewiee. Everything. 'rho Gazette
eontende, elnatel be dime to drew lhe
eolony closer to the twines" einintry;
and lettes nee 1 ei•iimmended 5 1 useful
means et (Simulating )(wel)y find of nes
&ring the 0010113' a lees deelrahle ac-
quisition in the eyes of Oilier Slates.
PALACE OF RICH PEON
THE HOUSE OF PEDRO ALVARADO
AT PARRAL, MEXICO.
Gaudy Intenienings of Ills Din House—
Ins Private Chapel and
Dean ine-Rooni.
The name 0( 130)) Pedro Alvaeadoi the
peon millionaire of Parra), IS ono 10
1011.1111.0 With, and many hitve already
follnd in it 1111815 for logien1 and ro-
mance. Lillie Is really known ef this
interesting chine:Mete writes a OMITS.
pondent of the 5)00 ('11)) Herald from
Paned, except that, aithough a man of
unbountred wealth, he Is still a friend of
the 1/00110 15110 Were his friends hi 1110
oht days, and (bey are now his devoted
)1dmirees.
Tito hoese of Don Pedro stands just
above 1110 banks 01 1(10 Purred Inver, and
fae frem being the gaudy overdone pa-
lace which 11 is geneeelly supposed to
lie, Is, en the °Mettle, a well-beloneed
fiance, of considerable proportions of
course, but careed nchly and arlisticelly
with little of the "giiincebread" which
one would expect front the reports of it.
It iS elegan1 to a considerate° degree,
and the caevings cd 1110 while nettle
stone, on which 500 of Don Pedro's
Mende worke41 for many months, are
very handsome.
IL WaS while standing watehing the
house and the crowd ci wetkinen and
beggars walling inset it for their pay
and 01105 that an oto gentlemen, dressed
in store clothes und wralcing with an hin
posing cane, came up to our party and
Inviled them, with 0/1 the coettiality pos-
sible, tc
COME AND SEE THE HOUSE.
ife hobbled along in front, gerrulous-
ly pointing out the bits of the exterior
which were 0( 11)15(001, and led the way
into the 010111 polio of the house, Here,
he said, WaS BS far its Ii could 10I1e us,
bet he stood for o quarter of an hoer
pointing old the beauties of the patio,
the really handsomely carved pillars find
Corinthian capitals. the figures on the
keystone or every fairy arch and the
paintings which lined the walls, The
patio corridors were full of material for
the furnishing of the new hotel which
Don Peden is building en one of the
Mazes of (he tOwn, W111011, when 11 is
finished, will be one of the handsomest
111 (Ise rnenpyixisblie.narwas
An led to the upper
floors of the house, and the self-appoint-
ed guide rippled on garrulously with his
Then he suddenly turned, and in the
wonderful tales of the beauties abmioitoet,niee:
not much over 5 test 5 inches
midst of us stood a little smillinng,
011100 eyes sparkling out of a white face,
01) sthich gem a little beard and mus-
tache. He greeted us with a certain,
gentle dignity, and invited es to come
upstairs and see the house, at the solici-
tation, indeed, cf our guide.
Se up the onyx stairway we climbed,
past half a dozen peons who worked and
scrubbed to make it shine as the (ley,
and rose respectfully as Ave pegged. Tile
U[17301' corridor was a repetition el the
lower, with the windows Of the rooms
opening on 11 finished in mere of the
beautifully carved stone, and very evi-
dently planned by a master hand, and
executed by much labor, well paid.
THE CHAPEL.
Next we were led to the famous cha-
pel of the house, which etimot has it is
hung in cloth of gold and where incense
burns night and day. It WaS not at all
ris it was advertised, but tee effort to
make it superbly elegant was apparent,
11 was efs, aura in chapel form, as might
have been expected, blil was merely one
et the rooms of the house Ned tip for
the purpose, Don Pectic is a devout
Catholic, and he has levishect 110140 all
thathe could well do in ceowding
chapel full of all that could please hint.
The altar ocottpied the middle of the
outside wall of the room, and a windrnv
on each side gave it light. This t11101'
WaS gaudy and wonderful in gold and
silver and silks nnd velvets, and not un-
like the expensive alters to be [Mend in
favored shrines of ahnost any of the
chinches of this country. In the conlie
of the room was a great pyramid of
black velvet end silvet', in memory of
Don Pedro's wife, dead now some years.
This was hung with cloth of silver,
which draped its base on all 51d00,and
the 'silver ornaments nee costly and
1111711014011S. .0n ono side 01 (00 room was
a throne evlieve Ihe bishop sits when he
entneg to say mass for this devout 800 01
the church, and nn the other walls were
pitintIngs of religious scenes and the
tiny stations of the cross. In one corner
was an automatic puler organ, covered
ten a gaudy velvet curtain.
TIIE DnAWING-BOOM.
Wo Passed to the drewthgreom, which
nee-m.40d nearly the whole 0( 1110 front of
the (m)1se on the 5000041 110014, This was
a room that. but for its overfuenishing,
might have belonged to a really beauti-
ful house. But, along with the heavy
ceetains of dark red velvet and the really
handsome furniture, also front San Luis
Potosi, and beautifully carved end fin-
ished 01 dell gray silver and gold, were
many ntierors, great, 51104e1' VaseS of rich
weekmanstilp, but filled with nethicial
flowers. 111401100 0100115 0)11 War° not
running, and len thotteit nd Icnicklmiteks
01 eVery eon, from ore from the mine In
edger holders of copper anti sllrr. The
mom, like 1110 reSt, was crowded 0111 Of
fillperh ftirnIshIngS, rind hung with
heavy draperies until it was oppeessive.
When we lefl this e00111. tve were Mill
tint guile sure our host tens Don Pietro
himself, and asked our guide, Jesus Jose
Primer°, 110 la Ills exttel identity. Ile re.
Meted us 10 our heel, 01110, evIdenllY
mede eg happy as 11 child by Inir ad-
miration of the riehness of his home,
erns{ out Hutt in very tenth he sons Don
Perim AM:tenths 5101 embraeed us onell
01 then on the spot,
Then we tend 0211 pesi seflle of the
len thousand or more birds which 1(11
the house and ilne all 11111 corridors,
with a Word In the fly() deer inel the
turtle which occupy the hack pelle, and
through n low opening 11110 the bodega,
huff meter the ground, with milers
touching nue heads. 110110 Don Pedro
Wenn) nit nn eleelrle light, calling nu
attention to 11, and 11111, down centime-
ebly on a box. Here 110 WaS tiepin', and
here, and not in lite dining -room or pee-
lers above, he tierVOS 08 WW1 MO cue -
ternary refresco, It watt all eight, thet
up:dines, to show off, Ittlt liere Ito Watt
Colliforlable, and hero wo sal unit 11111ted,
exchanged cards and tteked otieslionS.
Pedro Al 1'41145110 May have a piano In
every rouin—and 111111 legend Is very
nearly thee -sand lie may always be
making Mils for popularity, but he is
withel a gentle, kindly inim, 11 boy In
thought tuel dere, ancl it renter ehn rm
ing boy M. that. Ile is in the prime of
his life, barely 110 years 001, and is still
as thoroughly youthful and happy ns
men can be tinder nny clecumstences.
Don Pedro Is a new (Ammeter in the
annals of the newly rich.
LOST IN AFRICAN BUSH
HOW EASY IT IS 'TO LOSE ONE'S
BEARINGS.
A Gnat Desert. Which Huters of
Game Sometimes Go
Astray.
Anteing, difficulties of travel we 101111d
ihnt Otle boys hail not the slightest idea
of distance, either in miles ot• homes
At nines it. was eetreinely irritating, but
there was 111) help for 1t. A native cen
only calculate by the SIM. (10 WM point
to lite sky and soY: "When 1110 nun is
there we eliall get to water." And if one
is leavening continuously he is generally
right. But an outspan al once upeels
the calculetion, How often did we tisk
"eletsi 0 knee" (Where is the water?) and
receive the invariable answer: "Not so
very far," or "Very fee," the only two
modes of expressimg distences known to
10 this way we jOikerieyed Ori 010Wly
through the sultry and dusty euentry,
snys writer in 1310cl:wood's Nlegazine,
describing a leek In the Nannette, spend-
ing the mornings and everags shooting
11) the bush. It was a land of few at-
tractions, aud yet in the 1001 light of
the morning, or when HS barren Mown-
ness nets hidden by the warm glow of
the selling sun,
IT WAS ALMOST BEAUTIFUL.
Bird life was plentiful, end we always
enjoyed 111e lionlry Of fresh pleiesant
and partridge— lexery to which Johan-
nesburg, under the tyranny of cold stor-
age, is a stranger. Paeleidges. name;
quas and sir:entitles (a little partridge—a
goal (tenet:eye redheaded pheasants.
koriman, guinea fund, were to be found
everywhere, and soinelinieS Wo Sakv 11
731(111)01, Sleinbuck end Milker (plaidu-
lied') in Becheann) were plentilen too,
but, saW 110 larger game.
Foe days we travelled ork through the
wacineen-beelje thei•n bush. Cueleeely
enough, this bush, which sprends Un-
broken OVer so vaSt. 11 portion of South
Attica, seems to the traveller le be al•
ways subtly chenging in character. Now
11 15 so thick (het one can see only a few
)'ards; now it breaks 11110 a paelatike
country; then eget» the bushes ttre for
O mile or two only a few Ieet high, and
O little farther on 1110 limber Is 01 1(0111'
a decent size. And yet to travel on
ihroligh 11 for days Is monotonously
dreery, and its eglieess and unatlecie•
liVeneSS Make IL after a time appear al-
most. DS
A PERSONAL ENEMY.
And, (thee all, this feeling is not so
fey wrong, for surely ibis is the land
"where life has death for neighbor"—u
neighbor ready to greet any one who
may minder alone Into his domain, If
a Man is inexperienced end unlese he
paesesses a singularly geed bump. of
locality it is about ten io one that in
het( an hoer he is hopelessly Inet. It ie.
impossible to hnagine how easy IL is
lose one's bearings, and I 1100410' cenSo 10
utavvel at the instinct which led the
natives to go back 51001)1111 10 the camp,
But not every native has this instinct.
'Co be of eny use he mufti have been
born and bred in the 011811. The natives of
the mneffinins in the Zoilipareitherg
triel• are Worse then 1.1801013S in Me bUSh
nr the 10W country, and the nasuto po-
llee sometimes lose themselves in the
Kalahari. Not long ago a Basuto wee
lost pursuing n wounded wildebeest, and
was found a few days afterward with
his head gnawed off by the )(tektite.
I can imagine no more awful fete than
10 he lost in the beets In the open
Country, ort the greet plains, and under
God's clear sky, hope and resolutien
would be loath to deSert one. But here
"LEADEN -EYED DESPAIR"
would quickly come. A, men woUld haVe
In be of shniliern stuff indeed who
wolild nol be bowed down by the awful
senseAlf inpenelenbleness and hopeless-
olcisnci.swith which this country fins the
n
l'o one born and bred in en open land
it is the feeling of the neverendingness
of the bush that appalls, the feeling, too,
that mares wits are here of no avail, that
water may be within a few yards—per-
haps the only water for many miles—
and yet there he no murk to guide one
to it. The venteele.gsnees, the lonely sl.
tence of the ceentry, the stunted,
bush, 11 )1013'5 0)173008501111Y 1111010100o
peeled I:trenches ot the Memel thorn
with the .etune thoughl--that serely this
WAS 0 land cm which God's curee 145.7
suddenly de.ecended, teenbig it perhaps
from a land growing and full of pro-
mise into this hopeless and useless
waste.
"NEVER UNI)!"
Wrinien are consoling things!
W11011 We grumble at the stings
That we find,
All along this enethly way,
The braVe creatures 10 us say,
"Never mince"
Anti they prattle° tyliat they 'preach!
We may threaten or besets:It
Tin we're blind,
nor Conn/mods 11111 n» (kat OATS,
Fee the pretty, wIlitul dears
Neeee mind,
WOMAN LURED TO EXILE
SWEDEN'S GREATEST PAINTER
LIVES ON A LONELY ISLAND,
Climbs Slippery Ileielits and W01115
Barefu01 00 Snow to Attain
Effects,
On the lonely 1510 or Fifteen, In Ille
Arctic Onian, perched en it gigantic
NMI.% Sbillds Anna. I1oberg4.0 slialio, Ihe
Winlor 1411' 111•Is Waffler 4,
northern 61100)5. There she hag no
companion except 1110 leitutiCs
lIgItI-
11' nu (teethe of eiscape ex-
cept hie' tiny euilboat anchored at the
look's base.
Dui all her le mg spent ht this
crag -bound home. She ninny
excersiens farther 11110 the pular 00-
°01118d
00in thick t•einfleor skin, pain( hex
strapped to seek, swee„ces Asotest
artist 0110116 the slippery Itelghl8 to with
some tvenchelcus white -nipped peak.
In that sublime setting of :krone spier, -
der her skilful hmelt vetches the opal-
eecent efteets of the hing sun roe; glint-
ing aeross the gliteiel expellees. 4111110 -
tin OS the Cold Is so great she is 00111-
,e;c11-111,110,11.entlni111.
11111101 trusties to her be-
WALKS Barefoot Snow.
Th,o when sonle 411)1011,08 lendseape
temple her 10 brave the slinging winds
and al.:rend 10 ;Mille dangonius sum-
mit ehe hes been koint n 11 reniovo her
shoes and slucklogs and lo go Imre
-
foot nn the hard crest of the smite in
order In retain tt fooling, the warmth
of her feet melting the snow crust
enough le give Mee a Ilem poeition.
Once she slipped over a peeelpice
ellove the 80.41141041 sea, Porten:they
she landed In II small sheltered bey.
(mil, es it waq low tide, she escaped
feiv irltiielt:sl,
(30 nin,neng expeditions sho
sl VIA 1110 &soiled hills of nelives
whom ennt tele driVen failhor smith.
Then hor oniy faro Is codfish, son gulls'
via, and black 0,0)'e. When welking
bermes impossible :•00 buckles lin her
long skis. When Ilio wind blows StIV-
0410ly nern,..S 1110 snow-covered Waslos
she straps on tt large sail. Mid, W1111
51011e8 on 1101' feel, is 1.01411e swiftly
along.
1-313eVITC.IIE11 S1'.ENE111'.
Iler einem, ns pninlor- -Mu, Is also
talented as a pnet—begen beirlern yettes
ago, when she end her leteliand. 11 11)1(1.
1705 architect. (reveled to Lenland ny
way al ihe incision Islands. Tho
and mystic efforts of son, imil snow
So bowIl1lied N1148. 1.1oherg 11111 She ,10-
lernliu0d to return Some day find rap.
lure 11M1n CanVas. Iter nest shelleg
neve reek -ems Mt' tapestries. Then elm
attempted wilier co'nee, end (hinny 110-
(111101111 IMO she wag soing to the north
land to paint paler serene.
She has succeeded n11 only In over -
ranting her lenitives' objeeliens in !ey-
ing nside eity 1100110 ens:, end com-
fort the 111110 nf the Angie wan-
derer. lmt In nestling 1 now (1rearier),
in the refem nt 101111001 (01 pectilue-
Ing faithfully Ihe atinnimitere and the
color of the wind-blown snows.
THEFT OF A MAlL VAN.
Orders and Cush of the Valor of Site, -
000 eN'eve Carried Off.
A. then of inereclible laldnelly
careied old 111 the streets of
Toulouse, France, Ilte elltee night. The
driver of ti mail van pulled up his horse
al a branch posi-otlice to pick up some
tinge, hewing the 01111, 10111(11 contained
inlet's and 011011 of 1110 vithie of ellin,e0e,
111 the street, He eves nbsent barely inei
minutes, but When 110 1011114110d to
..treet found to his eller cielonishinen1
11101 the vim had gone. Thinking the
horse mighl have gone the usual route
of his own accord. he dashed thiwn the
etreet. Seeing no sign of the ven, he ran
buck to the post -office and gave the
alarm.
The telephone waS sot lo work. and al-
Inest immediately the whole pollee force
tamed out, ' For two hours they scoured
Ike, streets lind inspected every Ntahle
without result. Some time after odd13
olght, three hours and a half aflor Ilo
disappearance, they discoveved the Van
In a disused yard littered with bricks
and rubbed), It nets empty.
The drIVor 110004 1.0111011therS Meeting 11
young num with it fair beard in the post.
office passage, Ile else found the door
leading in1.0 lite street ingeniouely closed
hy 1111 iron bar on the outside. AL 1111,
(Imo he thought Inee WM; the work of ti
practicel joker. 111.s now obvious that i)
was part of a skilful plot,
The thieves examined their booty by
emelle light in the disused yard, when
100 pollee (mind hundreds of letters teen
npen. Several reglStered ltdlet'S 111111
some boxes of jewellery %vete fnuml
strewn on the ground and intact. The
exact sum stolen IS not known, but it is
honeyed to exceed 8140.00a. In the ease
of a robbery of inane,the Feench Pest,
Office refused to refund the value al
vegislered parcels stolen.
LAPPON'S DEATH PREDICTED,
Stennee flirennistenees Attending D1.
cease of Pope's Pleesielan.
Pent, Lepponi, the Pope's phyeleten.
sem was on (mint benever in the 0001111
sctences, ahorlly befor0 his death hatl nil
odd experience. lie Wm. celled In vise
an inmate of a nuentslIc Infleinney,
"Nothing 51)1151(5," W11S 111'. Lappont's
pronouncement; "0 Avill be well within
0‘.‘1(1P10 1% 1 t
1fl(11().'811.)"
\110ripont had &peeled, 1111
13e1ien1 celled a brother in firinerian, and
sold gravely: "The doctor says 110 is go.
Mg to cure me, but the truth is I Sbinll
ale after two days, You, wIll
be deed tvilhIn a morals, and before
three 01001115 Intee flown the doctor will
neve joined tni both 10 nnothee world,"
The prophelle lenient collapsed in
ffirly-eight hottre, while a few weeke
later it, trine 1111110 50115 the
Campo Venni), nolne. Then entre the
news nen femponl. who Awls deeply
Impressed 51 the prediction, bed fallen
ill with a Malady whieit ape/enlists de.
(dared to he cancel' of the stomach end
te which he liffitnately anceumbed:.
SOME COSTLY DINNERS 11
TRULY REMARKABLE DISPLAYS OP
HOSPITALITY,
Wealthy • and Eccentric Men Spend
Levee Sums on Entertaining
NV1111111 1110 hist yeer nr hen a 001011e1'
of costly dinners lane been given al the
holing leinden 1'e.;1:»1 rank, MP 110sIS
(IA a vele being South Afrienn
nieces Tho chief expielsr on these oven -
Stuns 11118 001 Meet so inuell on aceount
of the actual %hind,: es en account of
the deroralions ef the 1i1i1)4]uelin41-11511,
1,1 this direction, indeed, money is
lavished "quilt, reginelhnse• only few
weekg ago, foe ieounple, (Inc mune of
the courtyard of one or the biggest helets
in London was filled up to represent a
scono In Veniee, the guests dining In
gandidlls, and 511)2) (1s18 1r114(1 Covent
Getelen being engaged to sing to them.
Another way (hat is sr-111101111ms adopted
,of spending limp5 sums on 11 dinner is to
hand round coslet gins with Ihe dessert.
A funtnes magnate in the commercial
world 00101111lvd s ble soul) ly
presenting lite ern»olin,v Inelled la his
table with little triilee like watches' and
elianis, gold 0141700') 10-0)508, jewelled
sleeve -links, and so 011,
Annther wealthy and eceenlric host
was firmly inelined le tile belief that no
London regineetell could he depended on
fee the preparation of move than one
dish. Accordingly, when Inc gave a
dinnee, he would engage
A STRING OF CARRIAGES
end conduct hie guests from one estab-
lishinent in another throughout the
evening. They would begin at one with
100 soup, end then proceed 111 the second
for the neill; a tided would he palismized
tor 1110 game, a fourth for Ihe roast, end
s) on; Ilnally ending up 551111 coffee anti
liqueurs at the ittst place on the Hot. 15
was usually somewhere In the small
1,110,t
17(1. of thmorn
e inre m
morning 101011' ft eet
under these conditions cueld be come
1
11i rio, Willeh is proverbially the city
of eccentric dinners, hes witne81okl Sumo
truly remarkable (Replays of hogpitality.
1'he large 0(1011-)) (1' restaurant:A in the
Champs Elysees are genevally patron -
Neil for the purpose. ;et rine of them a
wealthy young lereneh nobleman, with
more money than lentils. hit mien a
novel expedient fee running up a big
hill. He Ccalitheneed operations by con-
ducting each guest sepattetely front his
own residence in a carriage 50(1 pa),',
Timm 'when they were all eseetnieed,
everybody had
A TABLE. TO HIMSELF,
on 01111011 Were set on( a soup tureen,
a whole snlinon, a sirloin of beef, a
11110(1,41 ravel,. a 11110001 al peaches, a 1' -
apple, and a double megninn el (11111)0-
10541200.
Another eccenthic dinner -giver 10 the
French capital wits the Minims Vicomte
de O'141-S'estel, who once mode a liet 10
consume by himself within (Inc epacii ot
Iwo hours, a 100111 whieh shined cost
%Ore.—Mal is 11. say SIMI. A condition
nf this challenge wee that every dish
should be on the bill of fare for tlw day
at it Well-linown 13001e01)141 Cafe, and
111111 MO priCeS sholild be the ordinary
inleS obtaining at that Mite of year. De
won lns wager quite comteelably end
with something Me twenty minutes 10
spare.
resteuranls nf New York, no less
Ulan those of Purls, are also associalett
with the organizing of eccentric meals
by patrons 0)1111 souls above the com-
monplace. l‘lr. Jerome. whose daughter
flerwards 1,000 (1)0 Lady ilandMpli
Churchill, 01100 distinguished himself by
iteranging 101151 was kennel 08 11
"e1aSS10" dinner. l'Ite 800110 of the ban-
quet Awls titled up eftee the inshinn of a
hall in encient nome, anti everythIng
was done lo carry out the Illtislon.
Thus, instead of chairs there were
couches on which the guests reclined,
and
E
EVERYBODY WORE A TOGA,
while the wailers were garbed ns strives.
111111°Asentlfenatilig7ittIsti(ii(t1•Iiet ltilip11,118enCd4rsthnor
verIons dishes hen to be pertelcen of
without knives anti fot•Ics. On another
occasion a member of the "Four Hun-
dred" celebrated the successful issue of
an escapade which hail landed Olin In a.
entice -station by giving a supper -party
In a few 010110 spirits in a room de -
e condemned cell. The
signed like
waiters were dressed as prison warders,
ond the host appeared cind in convict
gerh. liendcutts and leg -irons hung from
the walls, and lite first course served
consisted of skilly, ,
CLOCK ALL OF GLASS.
Bohemian Workman Procures a Work-
ing Model After Six Years of Labor.
A somewhat futile foal, of painstaking
ingenuity hes been accomplished unit
six years coral:mean weak in the eon -
;Mention Of 0 working clock every part
if which except the :springs is 1115110 of
/lass, Tho conmruclov is a Ilibentien
;class polisher 101111ed Joseph Beyer. who
Ives in Theresle»lhal and Mr) k ntntf
years old.
The plates find pillars which form 1110
letinewee0 ere of glass and are bolted
Ingeiller Wall glass seri W.:. Tho disk
nate, hencle, steins 11101 cogwheels me
it gless, and Mess wedge8 fuel pies ere
geed for feslenig the varkele parte of the
runnIng gear Ingelhete
All these pat•Is ere ground to the
'Iii"11:1111ge.01, ic)•.111011,1:s1.11:1'111s)1111e1 0111111;11eusuizItil:0, 1."11%1.8-,
Meth ed the cogwheels are cet ttillt
minute exactness. Only 1110 1e41t00.0
wheel is henvIer and thicker then it
wend he hi an ordinary clock, but 11 is
eteldoned an- 504 to peel:rely 0(1(11 "1 the
'Imventent of the mehine.
Like the 010e1: ileelf, 1110 key with
•Shielt it Is Wetind Is of glees. '1'00 0,10.
Meilen of the work WaS 11 matter or I11•
lInIlo pains, Some or the peele to
he 100410 over 51101 over egeht es often
tie forty limes before a (leek that 50101111
en and keep 111115 tees peedneed, 1111,
bender Sets a price on the tinhched
Model of 2,500 Meeks, or 11111101 sal!,
Labor 18 cheap 115 Bohemia,