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Explained.
"It wasn't my fault, so every
one said, that Hipe Conklin missed
itis footin' wino he was tryin' to
board my enjine after he had flag-
,ged me on the midnight express
'n' fell under the wheels, losin his
Silo said the fat engineer but
I Warned myself considerable nev-
ertheless, 'xi' took it'sorne to heart.
It's customary when you're flagged
te. just slow down 'n' let 'the flag-
man make the tank step to gib on
the online 'n'. tell you what's doiu
en ahead, This night when Ripe
xwung me up because his fast
freight train was stalled a couple
of miles down the line I 'eased her
up 'n' wars scarcely reakin' more'n
sevenoreight mile a hour when the
tank step name along to Hipe, but
some way or 'nether he missed 'n'
:went under, heist' .killed before I
could stop.
"I took a week or so off before I
went back on my run again, but I
made up my mind that railroadin'
at its best was a serious business
'n' it was up to me to get down to
cases 'n' go back to work or move
en down to the poorhouse,
"Nateherly my first trip after the
peeldent I was quite squeamish
comin' down along by Nicholson's
curve, where Hipe had met his
-death. Just as we commenced to
take the curve 1 gritted my tee
'n' got myself on edge. As the
train commenced to straighten out
on the main line after comin'
aroun' the eurve T saw a white light
swingin' horizontally across the
track, which of course is a signal
to step, 'n' stop I did. After we
had come to a standstill, however,
e a could find no white light nor
anybody aroun' who might bane
;been swingin' it.
"'fit's mighty peculiar, mighty
peculiar,' I says, cluubin' back.
"Of course the boys all thought
YOUR WATERLOO!
sSuela little things, when seen afar,
w;
pie
,
' 01 the nearer
Loom lit in
It all depend's jest where you are,
How much, bow little you may
do.
Poen friend has (alien by the way
Who sadly needs a help !rem
eau;
Take up 'the burden' while you
may— :
Make that for once your Water-
ne,
you wear heart and soul,
Of life's hard struggle day by
day;
In vain you try to reach the seal
That always seems so far away.
And yet, perebance, one effort
more—
A most determined effort, too—
And all the failure will' be o'er—
Make that to -day your Waterloo,
Where is, perhaps. •a little sin
That'sg daily ]cnocicin
your
at
door;
le .weakness, p'r'aps, you let it in,
Te worry at your bosom's core.
,Hit out, and say you'll have no
more
Of what you know you can but.
rue;
Fight hard, as neer you fought be-
fvro—
Make that to -day your Waterloo,
Yon say she passes coldly by
Whose smile you yearn so much
to win ;
Your heart beats fast when she is
nigh,
And then to tremble you begin.
"Faint heart ue'er won fair lady
yet";
Take courage, and begiji to woo,
And in the end her love you'll get—
Make that to -day your Waterloo.
FEW DIVORCES IN CANADA.
A Grand Total fa Forty Years of
TIGHTEST OF CORNERS
Tigris WHEN 'TOURISTS '11141.D
CAUSE TO TR)GM11L11.
$acus Ifoliday-halters Uave Most
Vnlool¢ed•foe and Tatrilliug
Adventures.
Imagine rushing down a steep,
lee -clad road at a speed approach-
ing that of an express train, and
With a dead loan seated at the
steering -wheel of the sleight Can
any more horrible predicament be
de/lamest of 1
In January, 1008, a party of 'foto'
tourists took a bob -sleigh up to
the Swiss mountain: village of Ley -
sin, intending to run down to Se-
pey, three miles below. Their.
steersman was a Mr. Darren,, wile
was both capable and 0Y
eri
nc-
ed. A mile they travelled in safety,
and then, just as the sleigh had
reached its topmost speed, and the
white snow -dust was flying in foun-
tains under the screaming steel
runners, Mr. Derren's tread fell for-
ward. The pace had proved toe
much for a weak heart, and he was,
dead, •
A LIGHTNING SLIDE.
The other passengers thodght
that he had fainted, but, as they
were unable to reach the wheel,
there was nothing for it but to trust
t0 chance. Down they five at ever-
increasing speed, missing two other
bob -sleighs by a miracle, through
the street of Sepey like a flash of
lightning, and then the end of their
career came as they erashed down
upon a frozen pond. All three
were hurt, but happily no one was
killed.
People who spend their holi-
day's in Mountainous eountries are
liable to find themselves in a tight
136 in the Dealt/den. place just when tucy least expect
into the water and pined the
share; the rest ,went Braving down
towards the harbor, scr e ing
in
pun, The overloaded stitci
o
rocked harribly, and disaster seem-
ed oertaan. It was the proprietor
of a bathing pavilion who, oame to
the rosette. Springing into a petrol,
launch, he }won't in pursuit, over-
took the house, made it fast to the
launch, and tilumphautle towed it
ashore,
At Perris, M, Vernanehet and
party of nine holiday-makers had a
most exciting adventure a year er
two ago. They had hired a balloon
aid, after .a delightful SIX h0a1•s'
trip.in mid-air, were warned by
the lnereasing darkness that it was
time to descend.
On attempting to open the valve
and let oat the gas, the valve -rope
'broke,and when night came the
party was still in the air. Fortu-
nately, cooler air eontracteal the
gas, and the balloon slowly sank,
They paid out the guide -rope, and
in
a
caught
a. • last thegrapnel
L
hedge, Some peasants came.' to
the ranee, and with diffieulty the
alloon was hauled down.
.UPS AND DOWNS.
Nine of the party got out, but
sne of M, Vernanchet's sons, think-
ing ,he would let out the gas,
climbed to the valve. There came
a little gest of wind, the ropes
slipped through the hands of the
holders, and up shot tine balloon in-
k the darkness, with the young
fellow clutching desperately to the
broken valve -rope.
Naturally, his friends gave him
up for lost. But the boy had plen-
ty of pluck and resource, He man-
aged to get out a knife, :and cut
-the envelope, and eventually came
to ground some ten miles' away,
half frozen, but unhurt, -London
Answers.
A GYPSY COUNTESS.
Attempts to Regain. Possession of
Her Lands.
There is a surprising difference it. Gaping Ghell, that vast under sac -I The Countess Haller, who for 23
between the divorce statistics of erna g
Tngleborou h Mountain, + years has, with her daughter, the
the United States and those of Can- presents no special dangers to the I Countess Etelka Lazar, lived a life
ada. While in the United States roan with a cool head and strong I of penury and wretchedness with a
divorces are granted by the thou- muscles. It was simply a sudden `troupe of travelling singers, is at -
1 was seen' things, but I declared sand, in Canada the number rare- rainstorm which, a few weeks ago,:tempting to regain her lost lands
u'p 'n' down that I had seen a white ly reaches even two figures ante- imprisoned several members of the! in Transylvania.
light bein' swung across the tracksally. Since 1867 there has been a Yorkshire Ramblers Club in its I Left a widow 25 years ago, she'
'n' 1 wouldn't have it any other l grand total of 136 divorces grant- bjaek depths. I assorts that in her complete ignor-
way. Incidentally suoh an occur- cit in Canada. A small stream pours through 'since of all business 'matters she
renen didn't go very far toward The figures aro given in detail the Cavern, and this, swollen bysold her vast estates, which stretch-
sntoothin' out my pent up feelin's. iu the St. John Globe as follows: the heavy rain, nose so fast that ed for miles and included no fewer
only exit,so that than villages, far the ,sum
I wasn't the only man who had In 1867-08 one was granted;- in it blocked thea y l twenty g ,
seen the light at that, for it soon '69, one; '70, '71 and '72, none; the explorers were obliged to re- of '2'16.
,- . '--for nearly So helpless was she after her hes-
got passed aroun'up in the'store ,, one w, one' '78, one; `77 main where they were p
committee 'n' elsewhere at meet- four; '78, three; '79, one; '84, one ; twenty-four hours before the water • band's death that she had no idea, ;boiled` water on stands at si'.reet
in's ef the railroad men, 'n' other 'S5, five; '80, one; '67, lice; '88, subsided enough to allow them to' she says, of obtaining an income ,corners in the shipping and indus-
boys allowed that they d seen the two; '89, four .'90, two; '92, four; crawl out, out of the prorelty, She and her trial districts. Si. Petersburg has
same thing. '93, seven; '94, six; '95, 'three; '96, Of all ghastly predicaments that daughter actually lacked the ne- a floating population, exclusive of
"M neat tripdown tbere on the one; '97,one; '98three; '99, four; a man could find himself in, not; eessities of life, and whet) a party ,seafaring crews, which amounts to
my firemen as I came in the vicin- see„; '01, xis, ss I just called to 1900, five; '01, two; '02
midni , two; '03, thing could be much more dread -int gypsy musicians passed through .over 20,000
in The summermoiiths,
g
ht express fol than the experience ef Mr. IV. 'the district they resolved to• .rid. whose living quarters ere oh' the
ity of Nicholson's curve 'n' made In 1905 nine were granted; in 111 Crook. In company with two themselves of the land and join great barges in the oanals; they
him keep his peepers peeled just 1906 fourteen • 190; five; 19031, ladies he was walking across the I the troupe. I come from Lake I agocla mostly
to see what he could see. As we 1 Tl d 1 ] ith the The estates were valued at £80 with w•ood fuel' for the winter or
come arcus' the curve the little d f f f 1 as quite fa D00 Tho Countess Ha era rms
white light was on the job all right.
"'Did you see it, Murf 1' I hol-
lers to my fireman.
" 'I certainly did,' he says, his
teeth a-chatter'in'. 'You g.tin' to and signed at - Old 'Coplcza in 1886, Medical students volunteered to
stop?' vestigations, Dr. Ridgeway con- The estates include certain import- go around among themanclexplain
'Stop nuthin',' I answers, for eludes that the smelting of iron 1 Ile was conscious of flying down . ant mineral springs whose develop -the need forInc boiling the water they
I was ettin' my nerve back now. originated in Central Europe, and; between two dark wails of Ice, while; went should greatly increase their drink, When the bargees Darned
g gt
'If that's Hipe C•anklin's ghost he es scall - in the region known as' bi oken fragments of snow and ice i calcic.
that the young men had tome on
P y
wants :to read up on the rules. h Noricum, equivalent to modern Au -;rushed past him. Then he was; The two Countesses were barely feet s authorization to c
f 'tgood fonn to flag a train with is and Bavaria, says the London i bion ht up with a crash, and found , able to earn their' bread in their board they suspected police inter
-
au sir y g
a whitelight.' Globe. I Egypt 't b traced; 1 ' If ledge. Below him the new sphere of life As the last re- fet•enco and threw some of them
• depths; . , tl family of into the river.
ac - to ninth century , ! black - rt
an in Libyato- about 450far above it rams n•onsen
First mention of its use in China I the sky. + rtobled for seeing the life of the could swallow a microbe.
goes back to 400 B• C., while in i lie had fallen sixty-five feet! ;Empress Joseph T. at a bear hunt THAT MIGHT KILL THEM.
HE CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
•COUIRSI OP THE 1rPLD MX0 IN
ST. PE'TEIIS13 WIQ,
Those Attacked are Among the Ig-
nottant Who do Nes I1oi1
Drinking Wales.
A statistical record of the eho1-'
era situation in St. Petersburg is
.'issued daily by the Epkteniiolo_
gieal Department, w rites a St, 1 et
ereburg correspondent, It is
glanced at by the reading. public
with the same casual enri,osaty that
I'S givers to the published chart of
tiro weather bureau. In the town
hospital there are 813 cholera pa-
'tients. Since the .0We/ tic began
;fifteen months ago 14,865 persons
have been taken ill in the capital,
5,759 have died send 8,829 have
Oured. been, ct o
l-
,Liio tubsence 4f emotion is leas
ily explained. The reading public
has scarcely been touched by its
ravages; it is the non reading, the
illiterate public that furnishw,s the
'victims,. The outbreak began among
the waterside laborers living in
the lower depths of the social fab-
ric, and among them. and their.
neighbors it has practically remain-
ed. If ever -a preventable scoarge
•has been .allow'ed to destroy the hu-
man, body it is the St, Petersburg
,cholera epidemic of this .summer
send last.
Dr. I'ossadslcy, chief'physician of
the cholera barracks, says.that the
number of cases hie has had from
:households living in decent pre-
cautionary conditions he could
count on the fingers of his hands.
The American, British, French and
German colonies hero have so far
ESCAPED ALTOGETHER,
none of their members belonging
to the unskilled labor of the port.
•Some Scandinavians have been
stricken among the trading vessels.
The one cause of infection that the
medical authorities' admit 'is the
drinking of unboiled water, and the
,only i�nstruotio'n issued is a red
lettered bill posted en thousands
el the walls of the city, "Don't
drink unbolted water." As the
likeliest victims are people who
don't read at all, the instruction.
.has had to be circulated among
'them by word of ,mouth.
The Prefect of the ,capital, Gen.
>Cr.atehaysky, has placed barrels of
eight, while the last season ec ips- Lower see u e g icier, with ( ed J'.tit,ith ,bricks and cement for the
ed all records s witha totalo six• surface of which se w
teen. miliar, when all of .a sadden the; that she sold them and waived a111•builders. Their homes are sea the
4, ---snow gave way beneath him. and 1 claim to further compensation, in ( deck -covered cabins of the barges
qT ltc found himself dropping down- 'return for the payment ef £iG..Tre I wsithoa pairtOf little
ttlerei'nt ns look-
FIRST USE OF IRON'. agreement, she says, was drawn up
As a result of his interesting in-
wards through space.
'TWIST LIFE AND DEATH.
ig o e. n .gyp r can a rac lmse on a c 4 They end the nay -
"I jerked the throttle open 'n' we b k thetl B C 11 k ift sank to unknown ep hs;' presentative of;re oldyse thatthc
there full tilt, but b t B. Cib ce a streak a blue showed Rrndsmaul—her ancestor was en vies held y
went away from d Iib
1 wasn't seared a bit.
"We were net :through with the
spookin' of Nicholson's curve, how- Uganda it is said to have been in . His head was bleeding badly, but (—tire Countess Haller rcceve the
ever, for the. next time I was eoml- use only some five or six centuries. y e did not lose his presence of small yearly allowance from
in' east with that midnight ex- The above date for the first use of 1111i.114. Ile plastered the wound up !Emperor..
pi eec I got a whistle signal from iron in Egypt refers to the metal; v,ith snow, and, with his ice -axe Helped by this slse eked oat a
the conductor to step and no mon- obtained by smelting. The use ofi_which had been slung round him miserable •existence by preparing
key business about it. So I set ftp native iron in the form of meteor- —began cutting foothales. Butt herb teas and dealing in rustle tee-
the brakes 'n' we stopped One ites dates back to remote antiquity. I the cold of a lacier rift is appal- ' dicines tlsroughout the country -
of the journals on the sPoleepers was The wee ns made from these were; ling. The axe ,flipped from his! side. Now, at the age of 70, she
1
gittin' agitated 'n' '/lie conductor obtained, like flint implements, by; numbed hands, and rattled down; has applied :for the annulment of
had signalled me to stop till they chipping. And it is interesting to I into the bottelniess blackness be- the agreement by which she sold
could soothe it. remember that recent investiga-!low,
"Well, of course I was tickled to tions have shown that the iron of ! Soon the deadly cold began to
death to stop right there in the many meteorites is a sort of •natur- chill hint to the bone. He could
community of interest of that will al steel, • not move, fur be was forced to
- cling for clear life. He had given
up hope, when at last help, brought
In one of leis plucky companions,
o' the wispy light. We came to a
standstill just as I was on a direct
line with it. There it was all right,
swingin' slowly 'n' steadily, Now
that I could get a good sight on it
while the enjine was standin' se
I saw that it was considerable to
the right of the tracks 'n' some dis-
tence away 'n' only the speed of
the train comin' aroun' theta made nation. September, 1907, some fifty plea -
it appear to swing directly across So you're the man that gave sure boats were sailing or rowing
the track. the officers so much trouble? his ce the firth of (nyde, off peewe,
"Knowin' that we would probab- honor asked. I understand that , when a sudden gale swept dawn the
1y lay to some minutes while. the it took seven policemen to lock you river, and within five minutes a
crew were pacifying the anarchistic up. h heavy sea was running.
box T. just stepped dawn off the en les, yes hvnor," responded e Some boats :von to. hhnre, but a telly that you art not at house and
e'n'went to a little clamp of Celt, t broad grin; "but
itjiv.
nun,cr ween swept t out to sea. n
e son are/
EASY JOB,
her possessions,
LIVING IN GLAS ROUSE.
Don't Throw Stones nt Cliildrou
Who Copy Your Faults.
The little ones are natural bornpolice .
Of the magistrate there WAS one—
1prits haled before a reached bim, and he was hauled up i irritators and would rather copy
to safety.
( any day than -carry out abstract il-
an Irishman—who had caused no *ext to mountains and caves, it lustrations.
end of trouble to the police. The . is the seaside holiday-maker who Can you expect your son to be
magistrate regarded the prisonerinsets With the most unlooked-for atoncst when he hears you put off
with mingled curiosity and indig- adventures. One fine evening in trades -people on the ground that
sou haven't the money when you
really have it, but don't want to
pay the bill just then? -
And can you expect that your
daughter will not deceive you when
hbe hears you kill the staid repeal -
trees at the side of the track 'n
peered through. An' what d'ye
think it was? Why, there on a fac-
tory in a village a couple of miles
to the right of the track they bad
erected one of them big clocks Inc
advertisini purposes. Tise long
pendulum was fitted with an elec-
tric light 'n' as the pe'salulum went
from right to left, left to right, the, its kennel, apparently mistaking it nstniher whieh :night almost he
light would swing. Conlin' around for their hire, and the dog, a largeat
salted bo-henscs, t)ss July ego;,
vvould take only ono to let
ru0
art miss f nd next morning at liner about tea/Ming ng
he f
eno
1
out.„ Largs. Mill floating. In it was they vvhcu you lose ymtr awn temper at
bods of a girl, dead from cold and the slightest pr<n•ocation an•d mope
DOG KILLED BY BEES, exposure, In all, three were ever every little bad turn that bap-
droltned, and massy had bitter ex- pens to you1'
A deg met its death in a remark- ps rienees. And what about self-respect and
able way near Bourne, Lincoln- Anseriean house -boats are muni neatness when you go about the
shire, England, being stung tolarger than aura. On the house in a soiled wrapper and gos-
dcath by bees. The bees invaded Teles„;), at New York, there are a sip over subjects which belong 'to
,the yellow papers?
('an n -child form the right ideas
of life ellen it, sees you reading
trarih au'l wasting year time 1
C: learn l sensible or
Can ii, lea Lo is sen e
liiglt minded wisen all you think
about are display and the latest
fashions'1
No, indeed ; IToui•lr of lecturing
de net emelt against one minute
sif bad example,
Be the things yourself drat you
want your children to be, That is
the, only kind of teaching that will
make any kind of impression on
thein,
the curve you could get a glimpse
of this svvingle' light through
elearin' in the trees, but after the
train got straightened tip again
ynu'•cl lose Sightof it, bees, and when it was released the
"As 1 said before. I'm no believer bees still clung tenaciously. Even
in ghosts, but I was /nighty glad trolly, the dog entered some water
retriever, being chained up, timid tome two hundred of New i-ork'a
not escape. The animals cries at- .smart set were in one of these—a
ta•aeted the attention of its owner, greats, two -storied slsmite re —
who found it almost covered with watching 8(51511 Swimming raees,
w•l en ainric:its ihttr.clo.sttrm broke,
IN THE NICK OF TIME,
A tremenclnns squall struck the
-1 . sere was a . i cl n
hcirse ,mtt, there Std e
rending of over sirainee isatyaevs,
and the whole thing was adrift,
and swirling churn the river on a
rsnid ebb title.
Some, else could settee sprang
to lcnowthat it was only it clock
me/Willem 'n'. not Ripa C"rntlrlin's
ghost that had been a-lserklin' rne.
I"i .f hadn't gob nervous 'n' ran SO
frit hyI would�Ctttve fennel it out
the, first night,, n 'saved myself a
lot offrettiti''
and thus got rid of the beet, but
it tete been so severely stung that
It died an hour aftot•w.ards•
se_sems
It's Up to •every mast to bee,onet
elsairnla.n of the advisory hoard of
his own affairs.
"We so big and strong and that
only a magnified speck in a bot-
tle'—when they were shown or-
ganisms in ordinary water—"it is
impossible that it could hurt lis!"
When Prof. Metchnikoff of the
Pasteur institute im ?iris was here
its early summer his advice was
"seek everything." At his idea
students went among the inmates
of tine night refuges and workmen's
eating houses and gave graphic de-
monstrations of elementary bee-
•teriolegy.
Often they were followed by big-
oted religious sectarians of the
stamp of the late Father John of
Cronstadt's Order of Joheen.ites,
who declared that the doctor from
?aria had brought ilio poison: with
him in a bottle to kill off the fait' •
ful Russians. An assistant,deptor
on the big island in the lake' of
,Pekoff was nearly mauled to death
by the islander's. He Used t0 'fish
from a boat in his spare time and
they declared that he brought the
cdiscas,e out of the lake; when they
bad sent him alone 011 a boat to
the mainland
they tare e down the
cholera barracks and took their
sick people home again.
lbe a•stottishing rarity of infec-
tion among people tending pati-
ents is ascribed to the established
record that cholera victims are per -
eons who have 'themselves swallow-
ed eontaittina'ted water,
In the Archangel province •where
cases have broken out among the
shipping from St. Petersburg and`
the barge living workmen in the
summer wood cutting traffic people
1,avc taken tothinkinga mixture
of tar and turpentine 0s" a pro-,
ph;ylact c. Seine people' believe, in
shooting guars from their front
doors at
THE INVISIBLE SPECTRE.
l
Educated people have come to
sea that the effective precaution
rests with themselves. A soldiery
hand in ome of the best resteur'ates
10 the etittital'died 'of cholera, A
Sew days latera buffet attendant
at the Nlcolal depot here of the
s 1 • it and
railroad
w a La sen 1
lFIosao sv
They remained rso-
died next day.,
I1
die t y
y
•fated eases in their r'ospeetive es.
tablishtnents e ,icl were unqucstien-
ably clue to drink'ng uebpiled w ater
from the kitohei tap,
' Tin •history of the epidemic is
aseepted as beginning with e care.
t f Asiatie ehoies'a latent zri a per.
•son•who had oomo to St. Peter's -
berg, The cholera tradition in St.
,Petersburg is that an epidemic
lasts no less and no more than two
years, .Aocording to the records it
has been so in all previews visita-
tions; whether that is the maxhnisns
.ctestruotive period of any cholera
infected. medium is not stated;
M. Metchnikoff warned the peo-
ple here of the length of time the
human body 000 carry the cholera
bacillus without the disease decler.-
ing itself. He cited a ease which
germinated for, fifty-six days, His
evarnieg was addressed to the peo-
plein•i the fortnight,
o who dtsrn
�a g
there were no fresh
spring when
eases supposed that the length and
severity of the winter, 'by shutting
the people off by the ice from di -
yea, access' to the river, would
freeze out tiro disease altogether.
The sand filters through which
the Neva water flows into the reser-
voirs whence is drawn binds/mettle
water supply of St, Petersburgare
old, old-fashioned and leaky. The
Prefect demonstrated the defects
o'f the filter by emptying some seeks
,full of dyed 'sawdust into the river
near the inflow to the filter. He af-
terward found not only the stain
,of thedye. but 'the colored sawdust
itself inside the reservoir. There
is a municipal deadlock over the
.question of supplying new filters
SENTENCESERMONS.
"We will" does ten times as much
as ''You shall.":•
The heart ripens best in the en-
rioting ef other hearts.
Nd .man drops into a better world
by dodging this .one.
Consoience eau have no author-
ity_beyoud its possessor.
The worst conditions always call
for the best in character.
Taking a by path to avoid duty
we are sure to meet our deserts..
Table talk:h.as much more to do
with character making than pulpit
talk.
The rights of the race depend
en recognizing the rights of the
child.
Many men are a good deal more
sure of the devil than of any di-
vinity.
Indifference to humanity tries to
'balance itself by anxiety as to di -
No religion can be healthy that
thinks only of its heart and never
of its hands.
Using God as a bogey to keep
children straight is sure to drive
them crooked.
When parents 'complain of irre-
ligious children they need to look
at their own tracks.
You ean as ;easily shut a: box of
sunshine in. as you can compass
religion in a creed,
A sincere man may get down on
the wrong side of the fence, but he
cannot straddle it. •
Many people who take time to.
learn to make doilies believe that
character comes by accident.
The way to meet some doubts .is
to look them squarely in the face
and then blow tb•em away.
It's a poor sort of a man who
would do wrong if only he could
be sure of a cool .spring down in
hell.
That is sooial]y a dangereus ede-
eatian' which gives financial profi-
ciency without moral .sufficiency.
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ONE-ARMED PIANIST:
Count Zichy, Willi Great flantli-
eap, ,Became fine Musician.
FRENCH WEAPON STOLEN
IhfPit OVED MACHINE OW
sot') TO GERMANE,
Deserter. Urged lo Crime by Ac-
tress--Aetod as Spy for Ger-
man Authoi iititee.
Although the French military au-
thorities have denied thatthe im-
proved machine gun Melee'frorn
the barracks .at Chalone -sur -Marne
has left the country, it is now de-
finitely established that the gun
is safely in possession of the Ger-
mans,
It is stated thata deserter
named Des -ohms -ape quietly took the,
train kr Strasburg with the ma-
chine gun, minus only its stand,
wrapped up in brown paper. At
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man
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th
authorities that the
alto
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,package contained old .-iron, but
then oal'led a policeman and said.
"1 have got a malchine gun; take
me straight to the police station,
This was done, and }Deschamps
was promptly placed: in communi-
cation with the German military
authorities, From this point a j
trace of Desoh•amps has been lost,
but it is saki that he has been seen
in Metz, and is now living there.
A. further sensation has been cre-
ated at Ohalons by the arrest in a
cafe-chant/tut .of an actress who
is believed to ,have been the insti-
gator of Deschamps' treaehery.
The woman is said to be a regular
agent of the Ge+man espionage or-
ganization, and to have lured many
ether young 1? Tench-soldiie s to
commit the moat terrible of crimes
towards their country.
OTHERS ARRESTED,
Her method of procedure in every
ease was similar to that employed
in the case of Dest:hamps. She
made the soldier's .acquaintance,
,and once she had him in her power
,li.egan to arouse his jealousy by sug-
gesting that he had not enough
money for her.
Deschamps tried by hook or by
crook to satisfy her 'demands, and
anally, when he had failed to do
,so, she put it to him that he might
easily obtain the necessary money
by selling French military infor-
mation to the German authorities,
/Once Deschamps had started on the
down grade it was comparatively
easy to persuade him to go so far
rts'to desert and steal the machine
Oun.
Although the greatest secrecy is
!maintained, it is known that at
least half a dozen other soldiers at
/Chalons are either under arrestor
are under strict surveillance, all of
them being known to have been
friendly with the, arrested cafe
r:hantant artiste.
RUSSIA:''S SECRET AIRSHIP.:
Count Gen, Ziehy, president ef
the National Conservatory of Me-
ese at Budapest, celebrated his Goth
birthday on July 23. Referring to
the event, -.a Vienna paper speaks
of him, as a unique figure in the mu-
sical world, "If we are justified in
saying that Raphael would have
been a great painter, even if he
had no arras," says the writer, "we
oan certainly say that Zichy was a
great pianist, although he had but
one arm. He was fourteen years
olcl when ho lost his right arm on
a hunting tour, but notwithstand-
ing this handicap he continuedthe
study of music, and became sopr'o-
ficient as a performer that he play-
ed with great skill the works of
Chapin and other composers. In
1866 he ntacle his first appearance
before the public as a pianist, and
he has since that time played at
hundreds .of concerts, always For
the benefit of some c'har'itable in-
stituti'on. Ho composed several
operas, and in 1891 became the
director of the Hungarian opera at
BudITapest.IS A''
GREIT
IAT MISTAIE-
To worry &bent what cannot be
rr:noel ed.
To expect to be able to under-
stand everything.
To measure blip enjoyment of
others by your own,
To look for, uniformity of +spin-
torr in this world,
To think to find jstdgmonbreel
experience in ,youth,
Not to make allowances for the
infirmities of others,
To consider everything impos-
sible thee the cannot perform.
Can he Used as a Balleen orReale
icr-Thau-A it Machine.
An extraordinary airship is nom
being secretly built in Russia, It
is claimed that this vessel eau ac-
complish both aerostatic and ciyna-
mio 'flight—that is, can be used as
a dirgible balloon, lighter than air,
and also as a heavier-than-air ma-
chine. The gas, it seems, can be,
rapidly taken from the buoyancy
chamber and 'stored' away under
pressure. Air then takes its place,
and inoroases the weight of rho
ship until it no longer floats in the
If this change is made while the
vessel is travelling high up in :the
air it beeenses in effect a hying ala-,'
chine, and it is so provided faith%
planes that, according to the inven-
tor, it can inake very high -speed
flight. Another great feature is
that the propeller shaft runs
tbrough the centre of the vessel
and thus gives a direct forward
drive. In other airships the pro-
pellers are mounted between the
balloon and the oar, and •set up a
"tugging” action, which is very
wasteful of engine power.
Should the new Russian ship bear
out its claims we may . expect a
novel departure in airship design,
The vessel is .quite rigid, and is
built 'of a. material lighter and
stronger than, wood or aluminum,
says the inventor. The engine is
also the special invention of a man
vvho' has. labored Inc two years at
aerial Motors. Speed's up to sixty
miles an hour are claimed.
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AS OBOE:8ND.
A produee commission hausc,
which prides itself on filling all or
eters correctly, reeently received a
letter from a,custereer sayings—
"Gontlomen,—'.Chis is the first.
tithe we ever knew you te make a,
mistake in our order, You are well
aware that we, buy th'e very bests
country eg;e, The last yots sent-
are
entare too poor for our trade. What
shall we do with them?
The fair fame of the home Inc:
never making 'an error seemed, to
no at stake, but the, bright mind of
the junior partner found a:w•ay e it 't
of it, He wrote:—
"Gentle/nem—We axis . sorry to.
(tear that our last colssignmenE did K
not shit you. There w•ss, hovvnver,
no mistake on our part, We have
looked tip your original older Anal ��
find that it reas e'as fnllowse'llit ti
fifty c:atcs ego- 1Ve want tato'
bad,' �,
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