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The Brussels Post, 1910-3-3, Page 3I POSTED HERSELF. Aria Then Told the Author About Hie Book of Travel, Brine° de Talleyraed, one nee, when tistOO Mtn leech, eeld to his wife, a very ignorant lady: "You will baile your eide at dinner tonight e very et). markable 'man, Lie has written his travels. For leetvetee sake, do talk to him sensibly. A$ you Pass through the library ask or the book and glance • It through and bring the conversatlen th 11118 subject. Do riot forget to ask for M. Denon's work." Tbe princess obeyed, but the thought Dr the torrent of eareasni which would follow an uestleceenful Issue o hev lord's commode made her forget the name of the nuthor. "Give me," saki the pieneees, addressleg the lIbravian, "the adventures of tills traveler, Lis- ten, now, a !mine whic,h ends In 'on,'" "1 know," said the librerian, sinn- ing, and he banded her "Robinson Crime." Mine. de Talleyrand rend the book and was enehanted with the story, and more no wItb the thought that she was to dine with the author. At night she found !myself next to M. Denon at table. She was not long In turning the conversation Into the line directed by the piqued FIO'fille said to her neigh- bor: "Your travels have Interested me deeply, monsieur. What joy you must bave experienced In your lonely island when you found deridaye"-From "L'EsprIt de Talleyrand." - HELD HIS JOB. ' Tho Boy Was Willing to Be, a Friend , to Senator Hanna. ----Wheu Senator flame was walking through his factory In Cleveland some years ago on the lookout for new Ideas OP auythIng which would aid the progress ot business he overheard a little red headed lad remark: "With I bad old Hanna's money and 4 he was In the poorhouse." • The senator returned ,to his office and rang to have the boy sent to bine The boy dune to the office timfdle, justn bit conscience stricken. woucler- ing If his remark had beeu overheerd and ready for the penalty. As the lad twisted his hands and uervonsty stood on one foot before the gaze of those twinkling dark eyes fixed on hiro by the j tui at the desk be felt the band of el to Mark on his shoulder: • "1 , e wish you had old Hanua's money -and he was In the poorhonse. eh? Suppose your wish should be granted. What would you do?" "Why," stammered the lad. "the first thing 1 would do, sir, would be to get you out of the poorlionee." The senator laughed and sent the boy back to his work. Today he Is ern, ot tbe managers of a large fee - tory, but he never tires of telling tbe story that held hla first job. -Joe Mitchell Chapple In National Maga- fr-gtre: Canine Etiquette. In their relations with. one another aogs have a keen sense of etiquette. A. well known traveler makes this un- expected remark about 11100of naked block men living on ono of the south sea 'steeds: "In their everyday iutetcourse there is much that Is stlft', e, formal and precise." Almost the same remark might be made about dogs. Unless they are ou very Intimate terms they take great pains never to brush agniust or even to touch one another. For one dog to step over another Is a. dangerous breach of etiquette unless they ere special friends. It is no un- common thing tor two dogs to belong to the same person and live in the game house and yet never take the slightest notice of each other. We hare a spaniel so dignified that he will never permit anotber member of the dog- family to pillow his head upon *e. Mire but, with the egotism of a true aristocrat, he does not hesitate to make use of the' other dogs for that purpose. -Henry C. eleetrin in Atkin. tic.• When Lives W01.0 Cheap. In the prison of Luxembourg one of Fouguier TInvIlle's agents could make up only seventeen convicts out of the list of eighteen which had been given John, "1 want one more," he said, Ile asked the first suspect who paesed by hls Immo and on hearing it said, "Yee; It Is you." He had him carried off, aud the next day he was guillotined. On another occasion a warder called out the name of an aged prisoner. •,A. tad wile was playing hall in the gal - tory mIstoolc the panic Loy his own and asked it he was wanted. "Yes," was the auswer; 'come along," and the next day the boy was gulliotined,10- stead or the man. fet Bordeaux a boy ot slxteen namee Mellet was guillotined Instead of ea aid man of eighty tunnel Benny. Ou objecting he was told that he was eighty years old In wickedness, Not Gulley. It was 4 a. in. and Bilittoe crept softie into the house add removed Ms stethe but as he tiptoed up the staire one of the treads glum loud creak. Is that you, John?" demanded Mrs, Jenkins from aboye, "Ne, tny love," replled Stikine. "it's the stalre."-audge. Short Stories. Slie-Sbort stories Seem quite tho tldug . should say so, Neerly every follow I meet stops and tells me how short he ie. -Boston 'Deane script. The Chatterbox. "Mtge Chatter Is a eort of talking octane, isn't site?" "No, not a :perfect machine, Slit aeks the %eh:rust.' "-Saltimore Amets leen. A. good man does good merely by • A FEELING or UNCERTAINTY. I is Whet Aceempenies 4 Men Whq Awakens In the Brazil Jungle. I "When you ere werking in the jungle you elvveYe awake in the Morning with a feeling et Mines* taints'," eaYean Alnerliten civil en. gioeer, Who recently retimnod to the United States from weetern Brazil, Where 4 railroad is being constructed through the !greet. "Of eourse, ti eurveymg perty simply has to liew its path as it geee along, and your Maim is usualle in a °leering nut big enough to eOliteie it. About 11 18 it thick wall ot treed viues and under, growth that a man cannot ?tons wlthout the aid of an axe, but which el couree are filled with every man, nor of creeping thing. "When you awake in the morning, for Instence, you mow see a playful anake wrapped firoun.d the pole over head, giving every appearance ef se. !eating the proper point from which to drop hate your mouth. You may feel eomathing soft and clarrony rub up against your ear, and when yitu erab at it to 'Wig it away, you find tt is a lizard. Or perhaps a scorpion inay be playing with yoar hair, "Then, when you have decided te ret up and reach for roue boote you are apt to find thet & big tarantula hap made up hi& mind that one of them would niake a comfortable house, and has pet himeelf and his legs in theie sio cosily and nice that rou hate to disturb him. We caught me of these joluiaties and killed him uid measured Mai, and wit/lout nretching him eA all, it was eight 'sacttes from the tips of his atarboard legs to those he carried on the port tide. "Perhaps your other oboe ha been ippropriatod by a family of giant tentipedes, which abound in large quantities. "As for snakes, the Garden of Eden aen't in it se all. Some of the big HICS the anacondas sound as your body, end it vras anfrequent that some of our men in :Mopping away at what they thought were giant roots or vines found they had taken a hack instead at a big make, and then there was Kalil 4Calliper1.11g. "One of Aimee big fellows that was killed by the naen 01. our party meas. tired 28 feet. We had him skinned and photographed just for proof. YOU never ace the sun when you are in a Brazilian jungle, but there is alwaye something going on even if it is coal crawling.' , 1 Something to Be Thankful For. I e A Scetehman who had a keen me 3,1 predation of the strong character- r :eouos ot his. eounitYmen delights( in the gory of a druggist known both l' for his thrift and has philosophy, t Once he was aroused from a deep steep by the ringing of his night bel/ "` AN COSTINATE QUEEN. Her Encounter With the Manton Rona Mender, Xavier Paoli, whose duly for quentee et it Century W08 the safe- guarding ot royal Oisitore to France, found the late cieeen Elizabeth ot sAailastfia a reettloitrient °herd% go "I was never easy eo long as elle obstinately refueed to peewit one of utY men 40 fOliCAV her, even at a. die - theme. Once, however, having there ed that the Italian laboier$ who were mending the road to Me/Aerie had emeken in it threetening Way et the sovereIgna who were always coming to the emuntry, I begged the empress to be kind enough not to walk in their direction, She wee much dis. 6 "'Always afraid!' elle exeleirned. say again that I have no fear of them "-and I will proenise nothing.' I was as cleterrained'as she. I doubled my watolifulness and took it upon myself to send over the Mcntone road one of my Coesican agents, dressed like a road mender, hut thoroughly armed beneath his clothes, with directione to mingle with the Italian laborers. Wearing a pair of velveteen trouser and a mottain jumped and 'made up' to look old and wrinkled, he was quite 1.111I8COgniZable. As he spoke Italian fluently, he disarmed all sus- picion, his companions taking him for a newly -hired comrade. He was breaking stones as well tut he could when zuddenly a well- known figure appeared at the turn of the med. Darkeess had begun to fall, and the empress, with her read- er, was returning to Cape Martin. The false road mender waited ann. thusly, When she carne opposite his group she stopped, hesitated a mo- ment, then singling him out, no doubt because he seemed to be the oldest. she approached him, saying gently: That is a hard trade of yours, ray good fellow.' "Not daring to raise his head, he staramered a few words in Italian. " 'You do not speak Frew:lir " 'No, signora.' " 'You have children?' " 'Yes, signora.' "'Then here is something for them,' and she slipped a gold piece into his hand. 'Tell them it is from a lady who loves children vary much.' "And the orapreas walked ort That evening at the hotel she (mine to me with laughing eyes. "'Well, M. Paoli, scold mel I have isobeyed you. / have been on the entone road. I have thaked with a oad mender, and I run still alive, 04.1 see!' "I never dared to confess to her hat the worth.y road mender was y faithful Corsican." He went down to his little shop anti sold a dose of rather nauseous mede cine to a distressed customer. "What moat do you make out o' that?" grurabled his wife. "A ha'penny," was the cheerful arrawer. "And for that bit e' money you'll lie awake maybe ten hour," she said impatiently. . "Nevar grumble, o'er that, woman," was the placid answer. "The dose will keep him awake all night. We must thank heaven we ha' the peofii and none o' the pain o' this trans. notion." Shout Breaks a Glee?. Every one knowe that windows will rattle when a loud noise is made in a room, but very fevr persons know that a glass can be broken by shoriting into it. Any orrlinary glass wt ich ho s olear 1000e wifl do fox this trick, and the exact nature 01 its tone can readily be athertained by peessing a moistened finger around its nni. This )thint being settled, the performer should hold the glass in front of ens mouth and shout into it in a tone about an octavo higher than that of the glass. The result will be thee the glass will break ine mecliately and for the reason that 11 will not have strength enough to re- sist the force exerted against .11 by tlie waves of Mr, The thinner the glass is the more easily it will •be broken. Dumas and "Monte Cristo." I Alexandre Dumas, the great French novelist, never set foot on the island of Monte Cristo. When visiting Elba in 1842 the novelist sailed ;Across te Monte Cristo in the hope of shooting some wild goats. On the point of landing, however, he learned from one of the sailors that, as the island was uninhabited, no boat was allowed to touch there under penalty of sin days' quarantine at the next port of call, it was therefore decided not to disembark, but Dumas insisted on fieoiolzlgd 1.s ibliroand the island, because, leon, "1 int7tirrg inoniory 01 thio trip with yon to give the name of Monte Oristo 10 sbree book which I shall write later on." Held by Etiquette. !, When Dom Pedro, then Emperor ot Braiil, was mitartained at, the White House, he had beer% told by a cenfus. a or a t would 1)0 eoO))OOtcd thatahe, the Emperor, simile/ be the last of the guesta th depart. The President's wife, however, in. termed her other guests that they would be expected to fellow, not P10. cede, the royal party in leaving the house. The result wee that no one dared to go for fear of a breeeh of etiquette, but at 3 o'clock in the morning a tired %roman pretended illness, and the deadest* wag broleen, Greet is etiquette, but common- sense is trometimes allowable. • , His Portrait. One of the members of •a certain suburban photographie society re. cently delivered a lectuxe, illustrated by lantern views. Another member, thinking to have a joke at the ex- pense of the leoturer, slipped in eunong the slides a lantern portrait of himself. The joke would come in, of course, by the portrait appearing on the screen immediately after the lecturer had announced the appear - Mg of something quite different. Fate and chance Were unluckily against wth:8 hurettoridd fcg, when his portrait knowing what was on the screen.' gravely read from his list: p e,sen e e ecturer, without HOUND FOR Ttie FRONT. An incident Showing the Military Courage of the Mentenegrirt. 14 military courage the Montenegrin prebably simple at the head el Ouse, peen races. Tire beet wlith foe a baby boy is, "Afey yea net die la youe bed," and to 1440 death is to men or boy only a joyous game. Save W. 1. Stillman in leis "AutobiegraphY," I have stem man uuder a heavy Turkish fire deliberately leave the trenches and climb the hreaetWeek, only to expose himself from ebeer bravado. While lying at Iseedgasteters at Oreabuk, awaiting the opening el the otuttpaign in 18/7, I was waihitag oue day with. the prince when A boy of sixteen or eighteen approeched no, eap hi hand. 'Now," said the prince, "I'll ehow yeti an interesting thaw, l'his boy is the last of a good Ifis fath. et' and brothere -were all killed in the laid, battle, and I ordered John to go home and stay with his mother and sisters that the family might not be. come extinct." The boy drew near arid stopped be. gore us, his head down, his cap in hand. • "What do you want?" asked the prince, "I want to go back to ray bat- talion." "But," said the prince. "you are the last of your lino, and I cannot allow a good family to be lost,. You must go home and take care of roux mother," The boy began to cry bitterly. you go hotne quietly and stey there," said the prince, "or will you take a flogging and be allowed to fight?" ' The boy thought for a moment. A flogging, he knew well, is the deepest disgrace that can befall a Montene- grin, "Well," he broke out, "since it isn't for etealing, be flogged." "No," said the prince, "you mast go home." • Then the boy broke down utter/et "But," he cried, "I want to avenge my father and brothers!" He went away still crying, and the prince said, "In spite of all this he will be in the next battle." "The Man of Destiny." A very- interesting pen picture re Napoleon is drawn by Sohn Cam Hobhouse, afterward Lord Broughe ton, in his "Recollections of a Lang Life." He writes: "I had for• 60E00 time a most com- plete opportunity of contemplating this extraordinary being. His face is of a deadly pale, his jowe over- hanging, but not so zroach as I had heard. Ilia hair is short, of a dark - dusky brown. He generally stood with his hands knit behind John or folded before him and three or four times took snuff out of a plain brown box, Once he looked at hie watch, which. by the way, had a gold face and, I think, a brown hair chain, like an English one. His teeth seemed ream ler, but not clean. He very seldom spoke, but when he did smiled in some sort egreeably. He looked about John, not knitting but joining his eye- brows. As the Lone of mu& regiment passed he put up the nrst fingee of his left hand quickly to his hat to salute, but did not move his head or hat. He had an air of sedate the patience. Pelee I •• "The next slide, ladies and gentle., men, is the picture of a refractory ; donkey!" A Primitive Clock. A naturalist while visiting Great Sangin one of those islands of the Indian ecean known as the Celebes or Spice Islands; found a curious -Hine recorder lodge at the house of a rajah. Two bottles were firmly lash- ed together and fixed in a wooden frame. A quantity of black smut ran from one bottle into the other ie just half an hour, and when the up., per bottle was empty the frame was !reversed. Twelve short sticks mark- ed with notches front one to twelve wore hung upon it staing. A hook was placed between the stick 'bearing the number of notches corresponding ! to the hour last struck and the one to be struck next. The sentry an. ! nouuced the time by striking the ' hours on a large gong. A Circular Rainbow. "set A member of a party who made an ascent of Fineterrehom some years ago us eau d a novel sight p ! which delighted the tired climbers: it The day we mounted the Finsterre. , horn we were treated to the rare sight `I of a circular rainbow, the phenorne non lasting nearly half an hour and forming a complete circle. There n were heavy clouds lying some 4,000 r , feet below on the Aar glacier, and it le was ori these that the beautiful, brie r handy colored ring lay. A second , circle was also visible. We were nem I. . the summit of the peek when the first P ' of the party observed it, and from w that point the lace of the mountain tl on the Grimsel side is ahnost perpem 11 dicular, giving us a splendid view. to TAM POACII/OWS DOG, Ghee Warning ot Otttnekeeper's During thttePTeenill: trial of a poacher Lleugollen, North Wales, ie earn? out in evidence that hie oanioe campanion on forays acts ed as an etivance ecout end gave him notice of the •presence and whereabouts of the gamekeepers, says the Scotsman. Actiens of that kted are all a matter of 'training, end When the training "rue10 families" the habit beeemes quite imetinctive, so that with the paps of old poaching dogs very little teaching is necessary. The best type of dog for :that purpose is the '"iurcher," product of the grey- licuncl and smooth coated Scotch ocillie, especially if the dog is to be used for hare poaching after d a rk. A hi'ghly trained dog of that stamp "hunts eilent"-that is, it never gives a whimper in the eliaee. A dog of inferior instinct) often whimpers, and if it finds its prey outmanoeuvring or outdietancing it gives utterance to loud yelps - a perilous thing to do on a dark, still night, as it may be heard for a mile or more around. • An old Ayrshire poacher of is past generation had a wonderfully trained dog, Starting frora home, he and the dog went in opposite di- rections, the dog often making a enema of many rniles, but never failing to meet its master at some appointed place. That dog also acted as is spy on gamekeepers, especially those of the old tippling, ruffi•e,nly "school," new almost ex- tinct. Dogs of that kind, so highly trained and instinctively hunters, often co-operate aniong themselves in forays and by 'skillfully imitat- ing lessons taught them by man often do an immense amount of in- jury. The writer adds: "I knew two collie dogs that showed great skill in co-operative rabbit hunt- ing, and when they 'snapped' more than they could carry to their respective homes (wide apart), they hid the carcasses and removed them lei; by bit." Night sheep worry- ing by dogs is a curious "instinc- tive" survival of a trained habit neolithic or palaeolithic man taught wild canidae long before Cadmus or any other pundit brought him letters, ARTIFICIAL SA.P.PHIRES. French Scientist Claims to Have Made Theta. Will the sapphire ever be made artificially, like the ruby? A French scientist, M. Verneuil, claims to have succeeded, and his method has been described at the French Academy of Sciences. Rubies can be made artificially by coloeing alumina, one of the constituents of ordinary clay, which occurs naturally as the mineral corundum, by imparting a red color to the fused mineral by a trace of some foreign substance like iron. Many attempts have been made to repave sapphires in a similar way, sing cobalt as the coloring merli- n,. The sapphires produced by M. rerneeil are made from fused alu- dna as before, but he uset the are element titanimn in conjune- on with iron to produce the vele ety blue appearance. The most pitiable sapphires are those which ossess a corn-fiewer blue color, hich does not appear too dark in re light of an ordinary room at ight. The crystal sapphires ob- mod are stated to Inc identical with the natural stones. , King Leopold's Answer. Few nionarchs have possessed a more caustic tongue than the late King Leopold of Belgium when ho chose to exercise it. Once a dispute was raging in the Belgian army as to whether the worcle of couunand should be given in Flemish or Frencle. Nei- ther side would give in, and at length it was agreed that King Leopold should decide the matter. The aged mouarch asked for week in which to consider the question, At. the end of that period lm sninnioned tho leading generals dud announced that he had decided that in future all orders should be given in Esperanto. Need- less to say, the disputants managed , to come to some .amicable arrange.; merit. The Fulmar Petrel. The fulmar petrel somewhat resene hies a common gull at a distance, bid skimming the waves or hovering by d the cliffs without perceptible motiou of Nie wings. It makes its nest, upon , the grassy ledges and cliffs of St. Kilda and is caught with a rod in the , eame way as a pufiin, only es it is found on the precipices it is more die 14 ficult to secure. It was greatly valued de formerly for its oil, of which each bird has about hall a pint and evhich 11 uses as a means of defence and elects • with greet force at an enemy. It is the purest anieniel oil in existence and is still used for various purposes end selpsre %reel i ally by th L' es ain ancrinbruise.s.-LoendnetivMail.w has a mech more grateful • flight, WHAT KILLED THE RING ? •— haries IL. Well Taken Caro of by Ph ysici ans. During the fatal illness of King haales II. 'of England there were doctors in attendance, and they sed him in the couree eve end ne-half &eye with the fallotiang drugs and powders: "Orange 10 -1 fusion of the metals, white vitiol dissolved in compound peony water, powder of sacred late?, syrup of buckthorn, common de - cc clystees, rock salt, me- th': wine, two -blend pills, byrony compound, powder of cowslip flow• ors, hest meanie, cream of 'WW1', barley and ligutiriec, sweet Almond kernels, sal ammoniac; antitotleA milk water', mallow I•ord, melon seeds, chicken broth, bark of elm, a julep ot black cherry water, flowers of. lime, ',Mee of the .ya1- ley, spirit of lavender, prepared pearls and white sugar vendee eenna leaves. itle, syrnp of elovee, Goa stonc, Rhine wino, oriental Bremer stone and 11 number of other medieinee." The Suspension Bridge. There is no doubt that the first idea of a stispeusiori bridge was suggested to primitive man by the interlacing of tree branehes and parasitical across rivers. Probably mon- keys thed them before, men did. In ver es mountainous emintrieti, such as Tibet and Peru, they have apparently been used since the dawn o/ hiseory, , possibly cattier, Born With Them. • "Mamma," said the little girl, her Too Bige asialegeece Rei Vithile studying her Sabbath school lesson nincorear-eId Elitabetit was tench puzzled by the stetement tliat Soloman "repaired the breaches of the cite of David, hie father,' Thai was to her mintl teinarltable state - Inca and quite ineemprehensible. Atter pondering it deeply she asked one of the older members et the iMila by for ilX1 eXplellael011, paying thee eyes wide with exoitement, "I do be- lieve the minister told, a story I" dy"ottrtin "Why, thin ideal" said her mother, lg- a' know what you ere says "ilia I do, mamma,. heard papa :Lek Alm how long Inc had worn vehiskers, and he said he had worn them all' his life," PI ot Chl "She talks twice as much ea the oat! did not think any man eould other girls I know." "Yes; she has "Mend the breeches of a *hole 141.1 a double A Jolt For the Doctor. Among the patients in a certain hospital there was reeently one die. posed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. "Cheer up, old man!" admonished the youthful medico attached, to the ward wherein the patiesit lay. "Your symptoms are identical with those ei m own ere; four years ago.I • just as sick as you are, Look at me now I" The patient ran his eyes over the physicanet etalwart frame. "Weal dater did you have?" he finally trek. ed feebly. Making Surat Boerne years ago them was a trial for murder in Ireland vrhieh the evidence was so pelpably inhefficieni that the judge stopped the ease and disteW tip jttry to return a verdict Of nt gui - saeeeees...asesaa: A well-known lawyet, however, whd wished to do semething foe the fee he had received for the defence, elainied the privilege of teldressing the court. "We'll hear you with pleasure, Mt, 11.," taiti the judge, "but. te protean aecideret we'll first aequit the pria. e "I make 11 a rule," he. said, "never to tell (mite all know." "I have often wondered," She. re- plied, "what made you so awful- ly quiet." • your face is dirty again this Meening," exclaimed the tette cher. "What would you say if I came to school every day with a dirty face " "I'd be too perlite," grunted Jimmie, "to say any- thiag.ns RADENePOWELL TO VISIT vs. HARD TO PLEASE, Bey Seont Movement Tends t Make Good Citizens, o No use Trying le Be Neighborly With Sortie People. ' "It is it fine thing to hold a re sponsible cerninaud the King' Army, to train men to bear arms and to earry out the routine o the servieet but it e is a far tine thing to give boys charaeter, to teach them to take life cheerfully, and to be true citizens and whole- hearted sons of the Fempire." lt iewith, thee° %verde Sir R. EL 5, Baden-Powell explained the re- signation of his commission as a lieutenanlegeneral in order that he may devote the vrhole of his time to the perfection of the work he initiated twe year e ago, Thaa work is the organization of the Boy Seoul; movement throughout the Empire. What is a Boy Scout? General Baden-Powell smiled almost im- perceptibly. "Certainly he is not the: picturesque impossibiliey many people suppose him to 'be," he said. "He is not merely a youth who carries a long pole, wears a distinctive costume and looks pic- turesque. Whae 1 want my boys to know is that by being good 'workmen they serve their country just as truly as they serve their King b,v learning field signalling, 01 troopSicinrci eldli.sGe'iePnleinrael Baden-Powell ori - and the rudiments ginated this Imperial scheme all manner of unofficial offshoots have sprung into existence. "In some of the colonies, though the move- ment has caught cen finely, there is," he said, "no proper organiz- ation. We are sending a large party of our boys over to Canada next August, and I myself will visit the Dominion during the sum- mer. Later on I hope to travel throughout South Africa, leew Zealand and Australia elieching our organization in every part of the Empire. "In South Africa troops a Boy Scouts are in active operation as far inland as Bulawayo. Male - king? Well, I cannot say definite- ly, but I should think there is one there. South Africa, as a whole is working -with us splendidly. bir Perey Fitzpatrick has given us 500 prizes to be competed for by pa- trols of eight boys in England and South Africa. "The problem set the English boy is settlement in the African coloniee on a capital of .2100. He communicates with his colonial cousin regarding trade conditions in South Africa, thus bringing himself into amicable touch with the sone of Englishmen in our eouthern dominions. The English boys whose ultimate decisions are. adjudged the best. will be award- ed prizes, and the colonial boys who have given the wisest advice will also be included in the list of honors. Wben ears, Calloway met Mrs, Das. son in the market one morning and ° inquired for the news el the PeoPla 400arlellsroribislc,ekwilte 43utisnied° ttclo libgehtneihg4liththore. ef the °endways, WM held that rela- tionship to the Deesons. NaturaltY the eharacter of the Caroleons ae 11 family and as iralividuels we short- ly under discuesion. Mrs. Doman who admitted somewhat grudgingly that she supposed that the Carelsone were "p/easaut enough," then turued confidential and recited a ethey, which The Chicago New e vitas; "Aere. Carolson is at Shallow Lake now, isn't eller" Mrs, thdlowaY had asked, "Yes," said the other evoman., "and she never said a word to me about it before she went. I saw Mr. Carolson tveeding the pansies the other morning, and celled out, juet to be neighborly, 'Your wife g();Pe 'Heawaym?.u'nted something that might have meant either 'yes' or `no.' I went on: "'You'd better go away, too and stay over Sunday with her. look grunt. 'Why house.' He gave another " 'Why not stay until the follow- ing Monday?' I asked, " 'Thank you,' he growled. 'I wish my firm was as generous 68 700 are.' Then he were, into the house. "A little while after that my daugh- ter met him on the etreet carrying a msuyit adeavsiee,e. so I knew he had taken " 'I suppose Inc won't be home fox ten days. He must have gone in. a hurry, for he didn't tell me a thing about his going,' mild to my &Aga. ter, . "I had so much work to do that I could give little time to their place. Still, I like to be neighborly, so early the next morning I went over and picked all their pansies. Then seeing e that Mr. Carolson hadn't stopped tudde milk or his paper, I helped rayselt to loth. Afterward telephorm to the milkman not to leave arty more milk. "I ran to the door every time I heard their bell ring and e..eplained to the caller that the family had gone away for ten days. It was a lot of trouble, for I had. th keep watching all the time." "You always have such a sense of responsibility when your neighbors are away, Mrs. Deoson," said Mrs. Calloway. "Well, I try to do my duty by everybody. Late in the afternoon a boy came with a suit case. I called to him that there was no nee ring- ing the Carolsons' bell, as they wouldn't be at home for ten days, iddse clothes take eald e " 'I had special orders to bring l'vvon't you em in -dollar collect?' "'I don't meddle with Mr. Carol - son's clothes,' I said. 'Bring tem back in ten days.' Them I shut the door. You have to be firm with boys . like that. They'd argue all day it you'd let 'em, and I had my dinnee to get. "We had just sat down to the table when my daughter said, 'Who's that picking the Oarolsons' pansiett?' "'Here, you!' I called. And if il -wean t Mr. Carolson hmuself, looking madder than a hatter. "'Sone one has picked them. all I' he snorted. "'I thought you were away,' I 8al`d"That accounts for the milk and he papers, I suppose. Perheps •ou've the clothes that I am waiting or?' " sent them back' -I began, but idn't get a chance th finish the son. once If I told yme what he said -- could hardly believe my ears! Some eople are hard to please, aren't they, rs. Calloway?" NOT SITRPRISED. Si Perkins had never been sur- prised in all his life. When it t snowed in the latter pert of April 3 he allowed he'd sorter felt it in the 1 air for some time; when Judge Ab- d bott's barn burned, Si thought it t was about time; and when the town hall was struck by lightning p he merely shrugged his shoulders M and said he'd told 'em that them lightnin' rods wasn't any account when they were first talkin' of p11t- 11-"em up. Mrs. Perkins had just 411)0111 given up an hope of ever exciting her husband's wonder when it friend told her of is mar- V0110uS conjurer who was showing at a variety theatre in Boston. She took Si. Whit the conjuier called for a volunteer from the audience Mrs. Perkins urged her husband to go up en the stage. He did. She watched expectantly lie thc "professor" eetracted a five - dollar gold piece from Si's ear, primed 10 waieh through his back, and eetracted yards and verde of ticker tripe froni Ids shoes. Si look- ed bored. Finally, the ponanrer be- gan to coax at Si's beard, and, to the amazement uf the spectators, out hopped three little white lab- iate 'Wal,'' said Mrs. Perkins, tri- urephautly, when Si resumed his :oat, "I guess that surprised ye some, didn't it Si seemed aimed surprised that she should think so. "Why, no," he finally drawled. "I didn't like: to say nuthin' about; it, but I've been sorter see:poet-in' that them rabbits was thio' fur eoine time," 01,1) SAILING 'VESSELS, Sleel,•rn steamships hat C' 0very: beief 1 f AA coleperOd 'With illy old peeele. The Princeee which couveyesiT am 111. to liig1encl from }l('1111fd in lees rind evvoliv years old, lasted lintel Vie). This veesel wee retaieed as a royal yacht until the ridge 'of George by whoee ordere she was sold. Se the Betsy Cairns she sailed to the West Indies and book -for over fif- ty years and then, after ;mother change of ownership, Wee employ- ed as a collier lentil February 17, 1827, when ehe struck 11 reek and was totally wrookeLL The Deadly Nightshade. The reason why nightshade appears, to be deadly in sonie eases and mere- dde ly injurious in others may be traced th the difference existing between woody and deadly nightalutde. The commoner species, the flowers of which are to be found in nearly every hedge, suggestive of its cousins tho potato and tomato, has berries that would probably cause discomfort it eaten, but would not kill anybody. But the real deadly nightehad ,e which is vory rare, is the plant from which we get belladonna, Sheke- speare's "Meant, root that takes tho reason prisoner," and it berries are so pcdeonous as to have given the plant its tdd English mute of dente. taken from the French deuil. mourn- ing. -London Globe. Chinese Opium &nugget:8d dee Of opium smuggling in China a Y'unnen correspondent writes: "The other (ley ienne men passed through several towns on the way to the cape, tal with three eeflins. In the fiest was a corpse. The other two were peeked with (odium Being suseeoted at \ unnenfa, the firet coffin -was open. ed, but the earrhes made as nuteh note- as they could for having their coffin burst, and the second and third coffins were not examined. Quito common ie it for men to travel in smell crowtle, smuggling opiu00 iron% the arm -ince of Ksveichau, They trate, el by night only, hy lantern beht over the mountains, mid in the day hide from ally peeeibl,•• searchersa" The Ohlneman's boost, `P,osr whp understand the subject Nye to reimit thin when it oomes to the queetion 01 5111100101 dress the Chi. fiamiTir tee very ;mesh the best of It. Lenericea elothee ere net ,ygitle thlperleirnitilitre of limier stooping er dernestie gyinnestiee, but the China. 01511)1 in his leose, eneystitting teethes, is as ,Iree to stoop, jump, run or turn eaesaariegs 11,1 a eaten boy in 1)0(10, 111)1, ln n CM:new slui of clothes yea een lie doe» and bleep with tile eerne effluent 01 centime that you can MAW up and Italie The Philosopher'e Stone, If yell Iteme how to %metal lees'111101 you get you have tilo etenee-lfranklim