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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-5-16, Page 2NOTES AND COMMENTS Fifteen pare ea() only half of the WInte Men in the employ of ille Cengo State haCI dlaIlea of &Mg to the end cf their three years Service. In other \verde, the appalling proportion ot ap- proximately lie per cent, of the men died before their corned time expired. That Was before the scientific investigattono! tropleal bygerine nad evolved We rules Of right living now commonly observed In equatorial Africa; le was when men eat men On the Conge were still hun- dreds of miles apert, the dwellings Were mere Ins, unsatittary and cornfortless, and most of the toed WEIS Untied. A great change lias COMA ubout, for the problem ol living in tropical Africa seems to have been solved. The report of Vtscount Montraorres lo the British Foreign Cake on Ills eight 01001115 journey 00 inquiry 1 the Con - gel State, during which he leavened 3,- 400 miles afoot and afloat, has recent- ly been printed, IL shows a decrease In +++++++++++++++++++++ Augustus Intervenes ++++444++++++++++++++ It was owing partly to my old friend Drill, partlyto a constitutional dislike on my part for the utteeance of the little unfriendly ward "No" %Ater& asked for a favor, that 11 all (tame ttheitt, Brill, it seemed, had in a geoerous nioenent promised to eat as tutor to tho soo an old friend. who, owing to an illness, heti lallen somewhat behlod his fellows. Then Hem received an urgent suininons tO Australia, and, ilaillyntlY, he wished to father his reeponsibility, In the perm ef James Ward, the son of an old friend, on ntyself, Arthur Berry, And, well -barely a fortnight later saw Brill on his way to Austra. lia. and me receiving Mr. James Ward at No. 7 Arlittery Terrace, Southsee. No delicate, slekly-'ooking boy thie, suet as I had half expeeted to see, but a big, broad, fair fellow of nearlv mv OWn height, WW1 a beaming smith. a handelnike that made one's tingerS aelle the rate of mortality that is scarcely credible and it Pbtful If any other OU for the next five minutes, and a laugh that might have been -and probably was trnineal aninny in iho world- is to -clay -heard in the next house. Ile was very showing so small a deteth rate among! companionable, and I soon found that, the while officials. He says that 2,000 with all his fun, when he worked 11 white thee are hew in the state ee„„,„e was hard and cooselentiously. In spite e"'"". of illyS011, I began to feel glad that the and that the mortality has been rediteed boy haa come, during the avevage term of three years, i Al the end of a week, during which lade' She ' - " ner,.1 nu, wt, teaming back in one oar- elsill you; then he look 'efardy' fur yo r per cent a year. This in-! We lled got to know .eneh other ver 0 th4 ,11.)ile0•sreading, so I seined myself ChriStian mono Instead of.--" - u th about 2 ., well, he brought home a brindled bud. 1 the result of carelessness, and also the chides deaths !nom sun.sh•olce, ueually clog,augsall)tuld ue." and " a W‘s "wanted something end devoutly limed that no Imrde (... ee [teeny wae shrieking children would c el ) Ale one, took out my book, en'olltituelPutihal vuotest-'eubgeve":43% al "Ying i.gi o,,\Iv,onuoubto vie: onee an play , 3'O)) r etilous boy," she enswered, 31;Cleatining fokinid.ly upon thin suicides that are sometimes induced by; complete withont a dog" It efts' ar Is htde- ),-, • o i . the trying conditions of pioneer tropi- i anPeared bet he hod .met t.' e'Ll‘LNlinl'ai '18.' 1,,,),, ursalsed her heed, behaved very badly." Here she made ot life. This is not greatly in excess f bring exercised with a number of others glaneed ei ' indiffeeenee, and went Oil reed- allgvY with 3001." seemed such a nut. I couldn't re - r him on the spot. folktwed hint home 1110.country. to the dealers, and concluded a bargam there and then. " I wanted to call the dog Pincher, af- ter one I had when I was a boy; but nOW," he Said, WIt11WA, back . to Met tout then, very red in the We, fitite• ly ruelied out of the rooln, "Well," I sietwa. "Augustus, We may as well go out, Mee -impatiently pushing aside a neve book which, open at the thuolitng word "Dear Mardy, with fond- est love Irene her boy," I found planted carefully at my elbow, AugUstus was guile willing, and tvet marched off along the terraces of tall houses which border the cammon, 111 we found a convenient emit on. the grass behind a clump or shrubs. Idly I turn- ed my head to look through the sheets' at the veliteles passing along the road behind my seat, and, In a eab laden with luggage, I beheld Jinn, and "that woman" herself! There was not a doubt or if; there she was, talking and laugh - Ing, and Jim training upon her. This was the friend he expected- the person I had invited him to bring to Otir mottle! After mere lima a week of (t, 1 fell thoroughly miserable. end, I must own, cross. "It ls absurd lp worry about lhat boy." I said resolutely; "I have only to take up my old ways mein, that is all. 1 pocketed a new book and set oil across the Cannon le spend the atter- neon reading, since I was, as usual, left in a way that ougld to have covered nione. f thought Augustus was out het with confusion. with Jim, but in the midst ef the own- "Doesn't he know?" she asked, limning mon I came aerase him. Ile was ocew lo Win with what seemed to be germ - pied with one or two fox terriers, pro. me amazement. "Why, Rat? My dear Olin, trying to promote a fight, so 1 isfY did nnt bother about him, bu1 lust walk- ' trs nlothert" Shrieked Jim. "MY ed on, He wagged his bit at Ine, and real, true, only mother, aren't you? Oh, I knew he uniteretood that I WS bound 1.se had the greatest time you ever faLmite OK, 5110110, 0,1 the heard of! First, lie insisted on taking front, graudmother's photo for yours; then he I found it ()coupled by one solitary $aw Yours, and thought I was in love tend to nle this Instant, Send thee man Away r' el mille Jim $1101sea eiges ee re. lapse here, but tie pulled lialleelf to- gether. "It's Ws own piece, Ill's Mr, Parry, 1113' tukirr' "elardy" gazed at me In. a stupefied Manner. "Nonsense!" elle said al. last, "Ch, it's 411 my fault, it wally le," saki Jim apolegelleally, getlIng tip and putting Ms ern) round her -before me, too. "Rut you told me the other dey--- Yen pointed out---" "I pointed out the right man, hut you turned your head ethitight the othee tvey end sew old Mr, Potter 11t lawyer, and yet: said; 'What a hoeferl-looking old thtngl Don't Introduce So I let you think he wes Me. Berry, just for nee Ha, hut But I meant to own up teelay..-1 really did, That's why I came 111 newt 1 meent io bring him to eall OJ) you, and Wm yeti met out• here, and bad tide row over Angulus, We the greatest joke. I ever—' "James," I interposed very sternly, checking 111111 al the commeneement et another laugh. "this Is all very well, hut demand to know who thls lady Is?" And I glared at the arm mend her Walet of the death rate to many towns of aur Go thi) 0.11011100, had mum tow with 10111001.00‘. over ser rq,,Letelee with an attempt to look serious, "I am very The majority of the men, to be sure. ere in the prime of life, but there are Jun said he \'as 0 real higintonede bull- I was bound le admit that she eves els° many men of advanced years, dog, and nothing but Augustus would undeniably good to look et, beautifully whose constitutions bave suffered by do, so Auguelus he remained. , disissed.."But quite ten years older than long terms In hot climates. Montmorree peel smanuiltv.adwyn 0tallye Idraeyss‘j:10arf,SeT livaerri Y11." sighed; "perhaps even more. She attributes this remarlcable improvement and in the evenings We enjoyed our lel'. to the tact that the whites have learned sure to the full. One wet evening I sat how to live, that the conditions of ex. With my armchair drawn up to the did not. "Mardyt" 1 nearly 0101(1sist It, said Jan apologetically, looking it aloud, but jenny 1 stepped myself s; quite solemn now. "I hope you'll for- NvaTsh'ti'lialW1NUnt10 IN'001"doubt about it. give me, sir?" holding out his band. Who could witheland him? Nat I. We shook hands, and I forgave him on the spot. " think I am the one who ought to apologize," I said. "Mrs. Ward. what might be thIrty-very likely she Ls. Shall 05111 do to show you how sorry I am-" I write to his mother to ennui? But I "Well, you might give me smile tea,' don't like to make trouble. Shall ___,, she answered sinning, with a glance -0 I Ilere Augustus, having failed in his the table. "And," ,she went on rather 11:500 101)0 shyly, "you in08111't think us quite im- p attempt to organize a Millie, strolled My feet. Jen 'brought out a good-sized Meal, Paesixig me wilasg) tetence are sanitary and comfortable, .LL IL L bones, my son and I, writing 'sweet - and that the men are freed from all din knotting -book. and prepared to write tvag of his tail, he trotted up to "Moody" hear!',to each other, and that sort of &idly in provisioning themselves. some long -deferred letters, of course and sn,arted affectionately. I had for., sang. 1 am afraid I began it when he y e spreading the whole table with papers, gotten for tho moment that he must was a baby. I was onlighteen, and S'01'3' silly, and lie has never learned In his opinion, almost all •the stations and shooting a goodly number on the know hoe, and expected a 8010010.I hearthrug, as he stirred up Augustus had an Idea at 1101 110)0 that all women any better yet—" are admirably planned. The principal with, the point Of his shoe. The photo. were afraid of bulldogs. "Nor ever will!" put 10 Jim, crushing buildings are of brick with wide reran, graph of a grey-haired old lady, with a "Come here, sirP I said. her In a bear -like hu -g, regardless of her dos, the grounds are laid out with an certain likeness in her face to Jim him. "Meetly" looked .up in extreme sur- little flowery -hat and the frilly lace thing round her neck. "Neither nave I, -I am afraid," she went on, when he released her; "1 am not strict enough with WM. He wants ' • prise. and Augustus took no notice eye to effect, the wide, straight avenues em.„. ward, „moose, I said, as I wbatever. AIrnost immediately afthe, ere bordeved by shade trees and are caught it and handed it been Nerdy" shut up her magazine, opened her red sunshade, shook her dress Into place, and prepared to go. "Augustus," she called; "come alongl" 13u1 f was not going to stand that. Augustus was half mine, anyway, and I did not intend to let "that woman" walk all with my properly in that. im- pudent manner. "Augustus," 1 said sternly, "stay hero!" Again that look of astonishment passed over her fate. It was remark- ably well acted; anyone might have sup- posed that, it WaS real. "Augustus," see repeated, in a higher key, "come this Instant!" "Excuse me," I said firmly, rising in my turn, and thrusting my book into my pocket, "my dog stays here!" "Your dogl" she exclaimed. "He is mine; at least, he belongs to my--er a' -friend. I am going to lake him homer "No," I said, suddenly becoming very stern, and replacing my hat In a deter- mined way. "He belongs to me, and I "I 000( 111100 anything at all. I know am going to take him home!" she is the only woman in the world I "You can't!" she gasped. "He ts going care anything about," he answered, with mel" with determination. For reply I whtstled to Augustus, 1 "And Mrs. Ward?" I said, horrified, stepped round my and of the shelter, pointing to the first photo, which helead just as she, nith a cry of "Gussy-Gus- stok up on the mantelpiece. sy-Cusr stepped round her .end, and "Mrs. Ward conies second," he said, we came to face once more. Side by with a short laugh. "Mardy firstl" side we turned and walked across on "Oh, James, James! I am grieved- te the grass, that idiot Augustus, who I tun—" Words failed me. I stared seemed to think this a delightful ar. at tile fire, and Augustus rousing up, rangement, gamboling between us. For chewed my lingers In a. sympathetic about a hundred yards we continued in manner. as they dangled loosely over my this ridiculous manner: and then I stop - knees, "Weil, it can't be helped now," said Jim, la an odd sort of voice, also star - 1»g at the fire. "You talk as though it were fixed and irrevocable." "So It 1s1" "Do you" -I almost laughed, it seam- ed so absurd -"do you, at eighteen, con - eider yourself bound to this lady?" "Cerialnly1" "And she—" "She consider:\ heeself bound le me." "James," I said selemely--"James, you can't remember yotty fellter"-he shook head --"but do you suppose he would have countenenced your being-er—" "Marrying Mealy, do you mean?" he suggested. "Yes." Jim considered, "No. I am sure he wouldn't." he an. swered. "lie would have said it WAS Impossible." "I wish I were your father—" I be- gan. "1 WiSh you were, old chapl" he said cheerfully. "It would just suit me. AM Great ideal I—" "What?" "Nettring-only 1 just theught of some- thing. Eh. Augustus, wbat do you thin10 tla, bal" The subject of "Merely' was tacitly al- lowed to drep for that evening, but ee would not ter me forget it; he reminded me frequently of it, not in actua1 words, but in many Mile ways, buying a book or a box of chocolates, And tvriting on them. "To my darling Mardy, from her cid sweetheart," or noiesewse of that sort, /raving them ebetit where I eouict ton avoid seeing them, and then ad, dressing them eecretly and going mit to the pest with them himself. "I -I shall hale to take part of the day off for a time," explained ra- ther nervously, one morning, atter sev- eral \voles Nei gone by. '1A -a friend coming down tor a week or two, and-" "All right," I answered. "Bring him here 0.0 much as you like," "Er-or-I-VVe got to go down to the well made and finely maintained, and "Yes, that's Mrs. Ward," answered every station has its luxuriant flower Jim sinwlY. "Very like you," I remarked, and at garden and a kitehen garden that con the same time another photograph flut slimily supplies all kinds of European hired out and hit me on the ohest, as and other vegetables. The sanitation he towered above 100, holding the case zi tiieloeleir-flg Augustus. ,‘"Taonpy Is excellent, every station has a show- a et- balli In a specially constructed house, (.1) reasiron the barekm; unnielehanicg the native quarters are kept clean and turning it over, saw the picture of a whelesome, and every day the station grounds are cleaned and garnished. Many of !he stations now have cattle supplying beef and milk, and the State not only pays Its men well, according to the Relgtan standard, but it also re - (lens them completely as far as Euro- pean supplles are concerned. Each man ihroughot the vast domain receives his supplies once in three months, and they embrace all the necessities and many luxuries, including a bottle of red wine a day, and all on a lavish scale. The State Inds that this pays, for the ex- cellent care that it takes et its officials makes them far more efilcient than they could otherwise be, and thus enhances the value of the whole service. HtVel TOO MUCK LIBERTY, The Chinese in South Africa are Not Enslaved. Sir Weal Ridgeway, the hied of the late Conunission to South &idea, has given an interview Li which he ex- presses Ins views on the present situ- ation in Ole Tranevaal. Much, he says, depends upon the at- titude of the Peogrosive position In the new Legislature. It they will rob low their able and judicious leader, Sir Georo Farrar, all will be well; but if they listen to wilder spirits who adopt the policy of exasperation. and continue to dilute on the disloyalty of the Dutch, there may be a revival of racial anti- pathies. Here, again, the British pros can do much by refusing to publish ex. asporating speeches which are Lolly addressed to the gallery in. England. And the greal mining houses in Lon- don can do much by discouraging a provocative attitude on the part cf their representatives (n the Trensvattl, and instructing them to co-operete with General Botha's Ministry in the speedy and satisfactory settlement of the \mel- ons questions which concern the inns. try. In justice to their shareholders they should do so. Regarding the Chinese labor question Str West Ilidgeway seith-No inquiry .seerns th bare been made oe to the an- leeedents ot the men who were sent In South Africa, and they comprise in their ranks melt of the eon.) and of the Boxer element of China. But there is 201 slevery, and nothing! tit all having a semblance or slavery. The Chinese are .' there of their own free will, and have tlu. Option to leave it it they need lo eco They did hot accept, the offer, There es; an Impression in England that they are imprisoned in enclosures, Nelliing . ot the eort. The compounds which they inhabit cover a large area, and are un. fenced end prattically unguarded, and it is impossible to prevent, the Chinese from leaving them if they cared to do We The consequence is Chat there is not .4 farm -house within fifteen or (wen. • fy Wee of Johannesburg which Is safe from pillage and attack. tf anything, The Chinese have too muoh liberty, lady in evening dress. obviously young, fair, and very pretty, but ohl years 010- 0. than "my boy," as I had begun to call him to myself. I held out the photograph, and he flushed scarlet. "I couldn't help readtng it," I said apologetically. "Well!" he answered, with a note of defiance in his voice, "What then?" "Nothing -only I'm sorry." "Sorry? "Yes, It's ridiculous! That is the only word for it. I suppose you think you are in love with her. '-pityingly. ',Madam," I said, in the courtly style once agaM, "you surely cannot intend to follow me home?" "How dare you?" she answered, with well simulated indignation. "You are following met" The walk was resumed as before, It was not easy for her to keep up with me, but she would not give in. "Once for all, madam," I said, paus- ing at 110 000001' of our road, "will you kindly leave me?" "Will you let me have my dog?" .she retorted breathlessly. "What motive you can have for trying to take the dog away 1 eannot think; but you are onle' wasting time, You shall not have a—" "Stern father to look after him," in- terrupted Roe with a grin eil me. "iusi what 1 told you the other day, old chap) wasn't it? Now, 1100113', pour out, there's a dear; I'm dying -of thirst!" "Mardy'' obediently took off her gloves and p010011 out. Jim and I sat on eith.er side of tier; Augustus occupied a chair opposite. Well, she pours out for me still, and Jim. who Is now at Oxford, never fails to address me, on his visits home, as hie "stern father." As to Augustus eve have agreed to divide him between us. BALLOON INVASION. Clow the German Scientists Reached the Heart of England. For the first time an invasion of Eng- lan0. by an airship from Germany has been ,accomplished, says a cable de - sprach, when two German aeronauts, Dr. Yurt Wegener, a member of the Ger- man Aero Club, and Herr Adolf Koch, of Franktort, descended at Leicester, after having acomplished a voyage re- markable not only as Vag the first of its kind, but for speed es well. Dr. Koch is a meteorologist in the ser- vice of the German Government and has made many ascents. This voYage was undertaken. mainly, for the purpose of making scientific observations. Thtart e s waseenade fiteureRitterfield, near Berlin, at a quarter pas, eight o'clock Wednes- day evening. The coast of England was reached at noon of the following day, so that., roughly speaking, the 11811000covered in sixteen hots what by ordi- nary methods of transportation would have required at least twenty hours to do, The SIX hundred inns Mom Ritter, field to Leicester was done in twenty hours. "Our balloon is of tha ordinary type, with a capacity of 1,400 cubic metres," Dr. Gegener said when he reached Lon- don. 'in was inflated with hydrogen gas. When we first ascended the wind was east southeast. Later it changed to east, We maintained an elevation of 2,000 feet, though in erasing Hartz 'Mountains we him I went higher. The ball000 moved more We walked on. Al. the gate of my swiftly nearer the earth, own houee 1 hesitated, but she did not. trito the gate, up the steps, and -yes, in et the door when I turned the handle.. Could Impudence go farther? I would waste no more words on her, Together we burst into my silting - room, and beheld Jim, waiting for lea, and solacing himself with a large slice "Passing over Holirmd we could make 0111 the boats In the canals, and in some places We were observed and greeted with shouts. We reached the shore of the Znyder Zee at twenty minutes past eve o'clock in the morning and crossed to Texas Island, which was left al a quarter past stx o'clock. When we start- er calce meanwhile. ed we had expected sto come down in "jarnes," I begen sternly. "will you ex- France, but when we reached the coast plain why this lady forces herself into wo knew there Wes no danger as long our /iterate apartments?" ad the wind held Ile direction. We had "Jim -oh, Jim," exclaimed "'Weedy" at no anchor, only a 100 -metre guide rope. the same time; "speak to this man! tie "Weather lied been fine during the Os followed nth all the way here, fry• night, but as we started seaweed a heavy ing le steel Anguslus from Inc:'' mist below us hid the sea from view. 1110 stared from one to the other; then, The nest point. on the English shore we dropping the cake On the floor, he telt made out muet have been Cromer. Any - an the eofe in wild shrieks of laughter, how we reached that pert of the coast I never saw, or heard, anybody laugh at neon minutes past twelve o'clock and SO much in my life. passed along the edge of the shore and "Oh, what a lark," he gasped; "what then crossed the Wash to Boston, O glorious gorgeous lark! Ohl" "There the wind changed to northeast "Jim," said Mat woman," In decided end we were borne along as far as Let - tones, co the Shrieks ceased from sheer osier, near which NVe deSeended In a exhaustion, "sit up al once and tell me perk belonging to eft. C. Laurie John. whet this moans." son, twenty minutes past four o'clock eim struggled op and feebly wiped his Germen, twenty minutes past, three ere, pushing ',side Augustus, who heel o'clock English, time. .The bellonn hastily Oobbled the rake. end Mid noW zagged badly es wo neared the ground "No; 1'01 a little embarrassed. I've been flung himself upon Wm, end WAS Mr- and dashed us about, but we eseeped standing ever here trying to figure red tying his etw, with fow bruises. We hope to rOpeat the whieh arc the edibles end which ore "IMP exclaimed "Marcia" again, "at- trip." the decorations." A STORY FROM RUSSIA DARING RESCUE OF TEN POLITICAL PRISONERS, Terrorists Acted tho Part of Chief of Police oloSeel')aurisittlysty, and Ills Like the irwention of a romancer Is the following true huadent from an lull. ela by (sew Scott in the May 110013' - body's, illustrating the resourcefulness awl cool nerve of the Ruesian terrorists : "in wommy a 7041, ago ono 01 th, 111081 SISI11101, MOSt daring, of recent tele rovistle plans. was consummated -with, out a shot 0) 11)0 loss of a drop of blood, Ten political prisoners Pavyaelc prison (t)vre\evacto,:tildwemtenrectrulLo,isciedflettleeirifliadeda (0g 108 - cue them or to die leying, Toward mid- night, about 30 nitre before the time set toc executioe the 00100 of the chief of pollee of Warsaw called over the tele- phone for the assistant prison warden: 'Got ready these ten pelsonens'-gIvIng mimes and dates of 01'res1-'for immedi- ate thensfer to the Citadel, Ciendeeme Officer Baron nuclberg will call in half do how with the necessary orders and will 'eke oherge of the transfer.' "That gruff, authoritative voice was in- dubitably the ehlef's (the imitation was perfect), so the assistant warden began !tastily to prepare THE NECESSARY PAPERS. Within the specified half hour, neon Iludbevg was at the prison with six Policemen. The latter were left inside the yard, at the prison entrance -yawning, smoking, sleepily cursing at the revolu- tionists. Baron Rudberg-very stiff, very insolent -proceeded to the assistant warden and delivered the orders for the prisoners. The minutes while the war_ den was examining the papers were hours of racking strain to the terrorist beneath Baron Budberg'e mask; if there were any flaw in the forgeries, he and hie comrades would die with the ten. .. But the forgeries were perfect. "The warden humbly begged pardon, but, his papers were not yet ready. Ba- ron Iludbeeg abused his slowness with true official arrogance. An hour passed -two. This delay had not beeu counted an; momentarily (he baron expected Some telephone call, some police visit, that would send them all to death. 1311e finally the formalities were completed, and the prisoners ordered from their cells. "The prisoners, of course, were entire- ly ignorant of the seherne for their res- cue. When the ten were all brought to- gether, one of them recognized the baron ; and so sudden \vas the idea that here was a plot for their deliverance that he could not mask his face. 'flu) baron SAW the look-trembledlest aliens had also seen it. Immediately he buiest into new. abuse of the warden, which turned all eyes to that official and re- duced him to CRINGING APOLOGY. "The ten 'prisoners were led down to the entrance, where the six policemen .and the black prison wagon were in waiting. The policemen, with all the charatteristlo brutality of the RussIen police, shoved into the wagon the ten prisoners, still ignorant, of their fate - taking care that their comrades did not attempt a desperate dash for liberty. Then the gates were thrown open and the wagon rattled out. "As they were going through a quiet, almost houseless street, one of the police- men on the backstop celled out, Mend- e wheel is brolcen 0 The wagon stopped end the driver climbed down and stooped to examine the indicated wheel. Sud- denly he was caught by the throat and thrust among the prisoners. Then the horses were driven to a county house, clothes, money and passports were fur- nished them, and Immediately all con- cerned were hurrying toward the fron- tier." But MADE REAL DIAMONDS, s They Were Microscopic in Size Ile Didn't Wear Them. Dr. Burton, of CaMbridge, started gunning last year on the attempt to mane cuitilleial diamonds, says the Jew- elers' Circular -Weekly. He based., his experiments on an entirely diffmanL theory to that of the late Prof. Moissan. Dr. Burton's idea grew out or the as- sumption that diamonds are just char- coal, -only denser, In order to achieve his object Dr. Bur- ton used an alloy ot lead and metallic ooletum, to hold a piece of thermal in solution. If the cathtum es separated from the fused mess 'a part of the char- coal eltrys talizes. To bring this effect about the agency of steam is brought into play. 'While the metallic alloy is in a state of igni- tion the scam is introduced, 'and small crystals of graphite are formed. When the steam is introduced at lower tem- peratures, microscopic crystals are pro- duced that prove to be diamonds, but only mteroscople ones. This is the out- come of one more of the many tedious and costly experiments, But the really valuable feature dis- closed by the laboratory work In this ease is that, it knocks off its pedettal the former them that the real Simon Pure diamond of Dame Nature's labor- atory is formed by the Influence of en excessively high temperature followed bs intense pressure on sudden cooling. At least this experiment of Dr. Bur- ton opens up new theory that can run nip and tuck with the old one, The rival theory is that real diamonds are due to the presence of some unknown solvent of carbon separated at a very high pressure. BOTH STOOD TO LOSE SOMETHING, Customer (exeitedly)--"You've given me morphine instead of quinine." Druggist -"Is It possible. In. tilel case you owe me twenty,five tante more ' "Wild a. beautiful luncheon!" said the guest. "Yes," answered Mr. Cum. rex, "metier and the girls say 11 Is all teethe" "7310 300 mien% enjoying 112" BRIBER GOT PROTECTION SANCTUARY IN CORFU WHERE THROE IS NO'EXTRADITION. Flintily Expelled the Country on Representation of French Government, Fornend Bolles, a bookkeeper, or Parts, Feline°, whose manner of the mused his employers to give 1110) milice„ discoveted In reading of the exploits of the runaway bank deter Galley that Greece had no extradition treaty with Prance, end therefore eesolved to ercic ,sencluery in Corfu, whither belied 101 October, 1005, with $21,500 fiom forged cheques, and with Amelia Blgotiville, her sister, and her end. Ills adventuees were brought, to light in the Purls collets the other day, "I tried to be an honest, man," he explained, "but as my employers prevented mo I !resolved to be as dishonest as I could be." In a pretty little suburb of Corfu, handsome viltee surrounded by palm trees and a world of roses. whieh nes earned an onsevery reputelic,n as the residence of meny notorious characters froin all parts of Europe, the party found a roomy villa, surrounded by o, loge garden) with a sPlelultd view 00 1110 sea. PUISCHASeel A VILLA. The landlord was n load notary, Bolles resolved to settle down, and bought the place for $7,000. Then, sup- posing himself safe from pursuit, he sent his friends in Peels pictifee posicartle, one representing himself end his men- panions on the verandah. From these the Paris police found their clue. Two detectives visited the island, but ono had lo return to Athens to ar- range for the expulsion of 11011e5. De- spite the intervention of the French Min- ister, delay followed delay, and mean- tIrrie the chief of the Coreu pollee, a friend of Bolles' notary landlord, Sept kept him acquainted -for a considera- tion -with what took place. One pre- text of delay was that the manor could nal be dealt with while the Hellenic Parliament was debating the question of molesting foreigners. Operations were, ilierefore, postponed till Parlia- ment rose. • AIDED BY POLICE. As a result of a formal complaint from the French Minister, the chief of the police WAS iri December removed from lits position, Bolles, however, was taken to a safe hiding place by two policemen, and afterward went to live tvith smug- glers at Manduthio, whom he paid dearly for his food and lodging. Unfortunately, he became so annoyed et the way he eves bein„,e exploited by the police and smugglers that be returoed to Corfu and in February, 1000, Bolles was expelled. In court lie said that he had been ruined by the sums paid to the Corfu police and the smugglers. The French detectives calculate, boweser, that these "tips" did not cost more than $1.500, and believe that he has bidden away the re- mainder, BACILLI IS BARRED OUT SCIENTIFIC METHODS ADOPTED AT ST. BARTROLOMEWS New 'Wing to 'be Disease Proof - Im- possible for Dust to Collect There, The new buildings for out-patients at Si Bartholomew's Hospital, ' London, England, which are now nearing com- pletion, will be practically "disease - proof." Every effort is being made to fight the bacilli of all diseases by the latest methods lcnown to science. When com- pleted and ready for opening the new block, which forms an odditional wing 01 1118 hospital in the. direction of Wow - gate street, will be the most hygieni- cally conducted building in London. The "beellhas-proor scheme on which the receptien wards have beeil erected is the result of the combined susses. (teals of the chief bricteviologists, who are constantly waging warfare against the myriad germs of disease. DUST -PROOF ROOMS. An "Express" representative Inspected the building, which will be opened, when ready, to deal with the constant streams of out-patients who ore now taxing the resources of St. Barthel°. mcw's beyond its present limits, In the construction 00 11)5 building only dust-nroof material is being used, tor dust, the scientists are agreed, forms the breeding -ground for every variety of germ. Neie patients are once admIned to these light and atry dust -proof rooms, to addition to the usual sterilization the surgicel instruments by boiling theta before use in antiseptics. interest- ing experiments will be tried. The ward utensils and furntturci, the boles and operation registers, with ev- erything that by any possibility can be harbouring bacilli, will be subjected to antiseptie Waimea also. HOT AIR TREATMENT. In the ease of books and furniture, boiling will necessarily be impossible, but these and similar perishable nett cies will be treated by a special hotwir treatment. and disinfected beyond . thr. 11111 . SitihseiPici?eric'eption and consultatine rooms, which will be tiled, there will be no flia.plage0 to create dust, bet the apartments will be heated by air. At inteevals throughout the builditig ape air -shafts, lined inside with patent tiles, to render the coneelien of dust M- ntourns rilainug:intilbtligti' will he fire -proof, ri tle well es dost-proot, arid the 01m08- p11eee ihrotighout will be purified by cleverly arranged alrentermils. 'The tetrad grewth and dissemination 1001 '110 will, It is tholight. be ogee. tivelv rheelted Ity theee and other slrin. gent. precautions, AFiEK NEW ARCTIC LAND 11° AWN l'ItYING TO POI,LOW tVIIALE9 AND'ill1105 'LOTUS NORTH. Noes From Winter Omelet's on Swell() Cost -- (ndieuttons al Land In the Far North. 80A0 111 e)t)yters forlovmst allgt oe$ ur sc itiviii1(1,14111 ep410111)4 Milted in the April Bulletin of the ein- Mean Ceographleel Society, 11 Is 1111. ell with newe frOln CNA, leilkicelsen, the Aerate explorer. It was carried bu 00 - Lobel, last from the Winter quarters of the explorer one hundeed and fifty ogles along the Arctic coast of Alaska to tierschel Island, near the 100)1111 of the ANIell°11cCSett ° illerO iVegr'NigdaIc Ivilalraj°rcls,L rle°Ys°rilaVt: N,e In November the mall that goes seuth ono during the Arctic night starts on its way in charge of two or throe men who carry it from one ethunted police station. or Hudson Bay post to anothee, slepplog a few days at each point to eeplenish supplies and rest Nom the arduous march. In midwinter It !Teethes Dawson, in the )(thence, and hence lts southward journey Is expedited, Thus wo have ono mail in Winter from the northern coast of North Ameriee. Mikkelsen and Ms little party spent last \tenter on their schoener, the Duch, 0,01 of Bedford, ab Flaxman retried, about 240 miles west of the MacIcenzie River delta. The thick ice which press. eel an the mast of Alaska last Summer prevented the pally from reaching as proposed Winter quarters at NUM° Inlet, YEARLY ICE PACK, I3ut the main plans of exploration will not be retarded by the fatiure to reach the proposed Winter quarters, Flexion leland Ls well place11 as ft starting point for the sledge journey which 5111111025001 and Lefenswell are doubtless now making on the sea the In search of the new lauds that are be. !lewd to exist, somewhere ln the Arctic north of Alaska. Capt. hiikkelsen had mingled much with the whalers, who told him of their leng expertence in Inn waters, and ho was able to collect valuable facts bear - log upon. the question 01 1110 land he has gone to seek. It is a curious fact that In the Spring O narrow lane of water opens in tho thick pack the to tile north of Cross Is - lend. Here the EsquImaux mot, on their Spiong fishing. Tlic lee pack is almost motionless outside of this lane of water which extends far to the north-east. In 1110 latter part of May the whales disappear from the neighborhood of Point Barrow. They 5W1n1 off to the north-east and nobody knows whero they go unless they follow this iane of open water througli the pack, which perhaps takes them to the 100(11 00 the supposed land inass. The next that is seen of them Is hun- dicds of miles to the east behveen Banks Land 5.110 Cape lleihur.st, where whalers can count on their appentonce in the latter part of July. They are travelling from the north-east. Hoe the whalers make their nest harvest as tho whales aro eireling around arid turn westward again to swim to Point litae- roa; lasardto along l understand why this pack ice should open year after year and supply the whales with a channel through which they can travel far to the north-east. The only ensemble ex- planation is the( there is land of some magnitude in the rineth train which leo ice recedes in. the Sprin,cs Tim; WHALES' CHANNEL. Mikkelsen also learned somo very in- teresting facts about the inigration of birds. Myelads or birds pass Point Bar- row in the Spring, travelling Mee the ‚41,11 les, to the north -cost, It is well known that millions ce teem must, breed elsewhere than on tlie ntainland, for they do not live on the coast of Alaska, but pass over 11 to the north, and they are not seen again ell In the Fall, when they aro travelling south. Geese came flying out of the north to Herschel Island as late as Au- fdlidstit 111.Sot1 0 rcas01e10 0 Ifi0relstegillevveirti.gbet12\001-itir\i 1010- 101155)) kelsen and isiffingwoll will find land this Spring not very rae to thenorth el the MrIll'Isileillo6rtlyastiirne when this. land Is be- lieved to have been seen by civilized man was tn. the '705, when Copt. John Keenan 0-08 in commend of the whaler Stamboul. Ile snit' that lie WAS elands Ins to the north iteder, easy sail in a fog eoneewhere between Harrison and Camden bays' on the Alaska coast when the fog liftedawl' he and all the Ine11 crOW distinctly sew land to the 1101ifeh. 1could not- take ilmo In visit it Crt he was obliged to tur10 south in search of whales, as the sitepees of 1110 voyege depended on seethe them. The 0141)1. 10011)1 near Camden end Harrison bays 5.53' that in the beightest ileys on early Spring they con see land far to the newlh. Mikkelsen intended In tette a party at two oe three men finely 1111 Spring and strike out 01 tho ico Mom Flexion Iss lend toward the nortlimmilli-ensl, follow this direction for 1110 miles, lheit travel west for ebout 100 miles, mul thence south to Gress kens!. Ile hopes on nits journey to steike tether the lend l'eport, ed by Capt. Keenan or that Nvhleh Dr. 11, A. liarris, of Weshinglen, believes, from the ellghl movements of (he peck lee nett the small diurnel range of Ihe tide, probably exists in Beaufort Sea. DEI NED. Teacher (in manual tralnIkg scheme -- "What rimy be regerelt(l es the footle). ter of the modern automobile?" Shoggy-hairect 011p11 -"Anybody that gas in its way.' Young Mrs, Cotrox (et her first break- fast with her elderly "calcite); "you ent With your knife, don't, you, John, deer ?" Old Mr. Cotrox Wolleing his opportunity, and with severity 410111 dignity): "No, Madam, Ido not. I eat with my mouth. 1 frequently eonvey food from my plate to my faelal aperture with 1113' knife, but O do my own eating with my own ex, elusive mouth, and until further notice I 'edit myself furntsh all the lustruotions respecting the methods to be employed." ;ftelt A