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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-6-1, Page 6MAL MATTERS IN SPAIN IT IS NELL TO A.VOID LAW- SUITS IN THAT COUNTRY. The Troubles of a House Builder— Dilatoriness In Legal Proceedings. Spanish law is founded on the old Roman law and leaves but lit- tle to he desired, if only it were al- ways l ways put into effect. But the prac- tice and theory of it are two very different things, as many know to their cost. The satire of the gip- sy's curse: "Que tengas pleito y que genes" ("May you have a law- suit and win it") is still applicable to present day methods of conduct - ng legal matters in Spain, as the The following story will illustrate constantly subjected to dangerous 1 ing on following story will show: the haphazard nature of Spanish rays, while on the other hand those guarding a solitary chick. A usend of Spain, writesrto build ustiee. Some years ago a young races whose home is far from the I "It is a noteworthy and curious a house in Mrs-: English sailor, accompanied by an equator have lest most of the pig- i fact that some-- eighty leer cent. of Shiers -Mason in- the London Even- American and an.Irish sailor, went a meat, as the absence o£ any great eagles lose one of their young dor- ing Satfirst. The everything went P'c while i ing the first three weeks of its ex- well at first. The contract was an on shore at their ships While re- Beat renders it unnecessary,istenea and the contractor turning to their ships they were white is more advantageous for the' have been advanced ed to explanations excellent one ttaciced by Chinamen. t at and builder was a most plausible h A erican hit and pleasant man. An old gentle- man, however, with much exper- ience of the country remarked to a, friend as one day they passed the house in process of building: "That house will never The finished, for the builders always abscond in The British Consul, being unaccus- Spain." tamed to Spanish ways, took up THE 1JILDER DID ABSCOND, the case of the Englishman very but the house was finished by the strongly; the authorities thereupon owner. The builder had practical- —possibly to teach him a lesson- ly paid for nothing and our friend tried the men over again and gave was threatened with several law- them all suits. "Pay anything," said his TWENTY YEARS EAGH Spanish friends, "rather than go to law, for if you don't you will be ruined. As a matter of- fact, the joiner, to whom the builder owed ,228, had already been to law ab- out some other matters and had been so bitten that he did not press his claim at all. Our friend paid some and left the rest to threaten him with proceed- ings, which went as far as "the act of reconciliation," in which ht are bion ' i and defendantg joint ff P together before the judge, who tries to act as peacemaker, as though the law realized what a serious thing a lawsuit in Spain may be and tried to save you from itself. As as been said, our friend had to complete the house himself, To make a flat roof he engaged five bricklayers and appointed one to be foreman at an extra rate of pay with the promise of a gift if the work were well done within a cer- tain time. meals a day of garbauzos Some months after the work had peas) occasionally flavored with a been finished he was astonished to tiny peas), of salt pork, a remarkably remonstrate with him. Afton a dramatic interview in which the man of law exclaimed in tragic toes "GIVE ME WHAT YOU LIKE!" our friend got his bill reduced to a more reasonable figure. The dilatoriness of Spanish law is almost incredible. A watch was stolen; the owner immediately in- formel the police of the robbery. Seven years afterward he was call- ed upon to give evidence as to the robbery. A few years ago there was an accident; three years afterward the people who were responsible for the accident were called upon to give their account of it. They had to travel about 170 miles to give evidence. The ease was adjourned and they had to travel home, hav- ing accomplished absolutely no- thing, and they may be called up- on to take the long journey again in a short time, or not for years. WHITE RACE FOUND WANTING WILL VANISH, DECLARES ENGLISH PAO1'ESSOIt. Our Ciellization is Declining, Says Dr, Flinders Petrie, the Egyptologist. It has been satisfactorily proved --on paper --that the original man VMS black and that the white races can never .permanently acclimatize In the black inanet country. Ger- man senders have written learned- ly on these subjects. Now comes an Englishman, Lionel W. Lyde, • pro- fessor of economic geography at London University, with the theory that the white man is doomed to vanish off the face • of the ,earth,, yielding to the colored races. Prof. Lyde believes that the or- iginal color of the human skin was dark brown. The variations of that color are the results of the weakening or strengthening of the pigment, or skin coloring, under different climatic conditions, the object of the pigment beingthe pro- tection of the protoplasm beneath the skin from disorganization by abnormal and therefore dangerous rays of sunlight. The effects of such rays on a man unprotected by a dark skin re, he he says, nervous shock, p'ca sometimes of nervous prostration, and frequently leading to excesses, alcoholic and other kinds. Thusjcertaintee Shortly before three thee the original brawn skin color has l chaffinches burst into song, been developed to black in those I now perceived, to dourn intense sat- ,stand- races living in the tropics and I isfaco o the edge of tht nest and steadily domes until the inferior populaton is swept away to make room for a fitter People," he sees. The rise of new civilizations lir. Petrie regards, as .due to imnaigra- tion of new stook and its admix- ture with the old. He says : "The complete eressi a of two races pro- duces the maximum of ability and from this point repeated Peery, - tions diminish the ability." And to develop and foster progress he suggests that "eugenics will in sohle future civilization carefully. segregate fine races and prohibit continual admixture until they have a distinct type, which will start a new civilization when trans- planted," Dr. Flinders Petrie', opinion is that in place of looking on the fall of the Roman . Empire as a mans, trees and inexplicable fact we now see, by the greater extension of our knowledge of the past, that civilization is not only intermit- tent but is regularly recurring phenomenon. e AN EAGLE AT HOME. Watching the Bing of Birds Dur- ing Early Morning Hours. Writing of his experience in the London Daily Mail, a student of birds says : "We had crossed the bog. and had taken a short nap. The aerie was now faintly visible, and an indistinct white 0bject seamed to suggest the possibility of an eaglet, but' the light was' as yet too indis- tinct to make out any object with tra•gi or en. In the ti , fight that ensued the m isiac�ury. one of the Chinamen on the bead Prof. Lyde holds that in this way The eagle was standing over her so hard with a ed. that the mal the race homes of mankind s can be that young with wings standing versed, authorities y died. The Spanish I divided into different zones, and the chick erved quite me- te did not trouble to die - ,of the black peoples being on and criminate, but sentenced iso three' around the equator and those of tented with his head d alonere tsh leer - to two years' imprisonment. the other peoples. further from the ed by his mother. equator in proportion to the weak- had become clear confused move- ness of their skin coloring. The ments were noted in the aerie, and the white man can { the youngster was in all probabbil- zone in which ity having his morning meal Oc- heve under r its so thernibou has, casionally the chick would raise' his says, a its southern boundary head and appear to beg his mother latitude n degrees, that sofe Copen I for an extra tit -bit, but this was re- s haven, and he can only settle and' fused him with gentle firmness• thrice in other zones by taking s Hour after hour the eagle stood • steps to make himself artificially motionless over young withso a The Englishman after three years fit by such a laborious process as look of tender herrher-love in hera in a Cuban prison, during which puts it out of the question. eyes, quite unlike the usual fierce Brno his companions died of yellow Taking ordinary precautions and expression associated with the king fever, was transferred to Ceuta to aided by all the great modern of birds. The sky shortly after two do the remainder of his time. After knowledge of the microscopic c]is- o'clock had become quite free of some years he and a fellow prison - eases of the tropics, it is possible clouds, and the air became ox- er a Spaniard, escaped into Mer for the white man after tvfo years'tremely cold, the touch of frost in oven where they P h of acclima.ization to hve in the the air being by no means condu- CONSERVATION OF HEAT. account for this but they are all most uvea e,r^111,71,71 Si TIM Standard Article Reedy for uee.in any, quantity Lieeful for five hundred purposes. A con equal, 20 leo.. SAL SODA. Use only the Beet. 9 u te,.s teat,+ SOLD . ,,�..,.0 _ 1 R'`i1r11XWE EI{S For Making Sosp,. Fehr Softening Water. For Removing Paint. For D sinfeeting Sinks, Closets, Drame,ete, Y•urrr co. lro. .i ,Kroh, renrsixisrarc :3eie::sat: PRISONERS ON SIIIPOOAR 9 SOME VERY CURIOUS POINTS ABOUT EXTRADITION. Prisoners May Not Be Handcuffed —One Hour's Exercise on Deck Each Day. The manner in which a prisoner, extradited to this country from a foreign one, is treated while on the voyage home depends very much on the detective who has him in charge; and also on whether or no there is any suspicion tbat he may be contemplating violence, either to himself or to others, says Pear - son's Weekly. For instance, in the case of Jabez Balfour, who was brought here all the way from Buenos Ayres, te was a strong suspicion—probably ill-founded—that he contemplated committing suicide.. Consequently, Inspector Freest, who had him in charge, decided to take no risks that he .could possibly avoid. The regulations do not permit of an unconvicted prisoner being. handcuffed on board ship, once the vessel has left port, and he must be allowed one hour's exercise on: deck each day. These`indnlgeneies —if indulgencies they can be called -were therefore not withheld from Balfour: BALFOUR'S AMUSEMENT. free, a voluntaryprisoner, and yet an inv,luntary ono. ARME; Som think WITH A. BOWIE KNIFE. people may be inclined to lat the close watch which is usually kept over a prisoner while he is o. shipboard, is somewhat in the na ure of a superfluity. That it is shown of Ins ove. Frees forger on an was tro t always so, however, is y an incident in the oareer ,tor Froest, mentioned ab - was bringing a notorious awed Sloane from Havre 'tradition warrant. There ble to begin with over. the THE SCOURGE .OF EUROPE matter, the French authorities wishing to hand him over to the English etective unsearched and unhand fled. To this Freest, knowin- the man he had to deal with, st.ngly objected. Words nearly -led to blows.' The French Freest p Eventua his man a mord was fou seam of "Usefu like this •pave in his possession, growled t1l captain of the steam- er, and p$mptly ordered him .to be kept in Tons during the passage over. GENTLE `.IGHWAY ROBBERY. Strange Ir9 dent Told in a Span- I Newspaper. About th4e years ago Havelock Ellis publi.ed his book, "Tho Soul of Sp n," in which he anal- yzes the nalyzesthe cl peopl strange el ' were ca turgid by the Moors who after making them tropics even more immune from to our comfort. work in the fields for six months tropical diseases than the black. took them back to Cuba and claim - But the period of this immunity is our that,ear tseven favthans, Thelonger Y wardmuch ed the renot eye f- ef- cive authorities had theirafter which the deteriorating upon. our countryman and had of fects of the abnormal heat on a ten tried to get some remission of , skin not naturally protected begin len with a rich red light. his sentence prevented him from jto show themselves and to render glen eagle looked particularly sharing the fate of recaptured con the system open to the attack of beautiful in this light, being trans victs, which was to be cruelly and any of the great tropical diseases,formed for while to a ruby -red i repeatedly flogged by some of the malaria. yellow fever, cholera, &e. bird of preythe and the young bird biggest blackguards in the prison, ,Thus permanent settlement of the also being faintly tinged with pink. who are appointed guardians of the' tropics by the white is out of the The sun reddened the snow fields rest. The food provided in the con civ, "Almost exactly at four o'clock the sun rose in the northeast. He came over the brow of a hill look- ing for the ing red and angry, and space of fifteen minutes lit up The i nestion• 00 the crater -shaped Cairntoul convict! q But on the other hand, Prof. ttivo with charming effect; but his reign prison of Ceuta consists of�nh ick find himself sued for $40 by the healthy if not appetizing diet: as foreman for tools that had been us- the Englishman came out of prison ed by him to do thelcAt the in part ic 1 ly good health After wor a nr • first trial our friend won. Some his twenty years of untust impiis weekeeater, however, he was rath- onment he married a Spanish we- er surprised to be told that the man. bricklayer had appealed to the next court and that he had better go and "SQUARE" THE JUDGE if be wished to obtain justice. Our friend, of course, did nothing of the kind, and so lost the case. It is extremely easy to find false Among the less known writers of the darker races, compared wi w but less in Spain r these days, the nineteenth century was Samuel. the slow increase of whites, and but less than a hundred years ages 1 Rogers He kept open house, and 1. the doom of the white man is in- wsre punisheduwitnesseswhin year coon- 1 frequently entertained Dickens, 1 evitably suggested. dee ewith ten years theirr I Macaulay, Carlyle, and other cele- Then there is Dr. Flinders Pet - Property n thecgalleys and v brities of the time. Rogers was a I rie, the Egyptologist, who views, property confiscated, it could have wit,but unfortunately his; present day civilization with a lofty kings, Thesepulohre of Frederick been no easy matter to find any- notable thrusts wernot always tempered etachment born of dealing with the Great occupied a prominent pee ready is commit perjury. Akindness. Irving, in a letter eighty centuries. In his book The site in the mausoleum. When en- perjurer was also looked upon as with 1" tete with him Revolution of Civilization," he tering the latter, Napoleon uncov- P J says, I dined te, a a non compos mentis. I some time since, and he served up ' attempts to reduce to diagram the Bred his head, and .went dl.lictly up In olden days if the accuser con ;his friends as he carved up his fish, movement of Human progress in to the sarcophagus of the noted s proof that he had not adfficxent' with a squeeze of lemon over each, the arts, sciences and acquisitions wax•rior• proof after the witness had given It was very piquant, but it set my of wealth covering the period from For a moment the conqueror • evidence he prayed ethe fitness teeth on edge " 000 B.O. to the present ago• stood still, seemingly absorbed in else if pt be tortured.dyA witness This same .caustic flavor of his It may coxae as something of a deep thought. Then with the fore - were is perceived beeetortureddg in his ahs- wit is shown in a story he was fond shock to the modern mind to find finger.of his right hand he wrote ors manner as in the same of French curl century art placed on the word "Napoleon" in the dust wof telling to the discrediteruct, earlier a as she accused. In sthla lower pedestal than the Egyptian of the huge ;stone casket, and turn- aeudays the, accused and the valor, and a Frenchmaning to hie marshals, said : r were for red that the An Englishman art of 9000 B.C., and also to ob-causse tt�zz , got into a wordy squabble, serve that present day art is be- "Gentlemen, if he were living 1 cause might be prvbBy with it had ' which led to mutual insults and a ginning. to move'ctawnward in OF DECAY. 5' A FATAL SHOT. Duel Between An Englishman and a Frenchman. Lyde says, the ing absolutely tropics, IS NOT DANGEROUS, ng effects, in colder pigment, while e - But he got few others. For twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four he was immured in a locked' cabin. He was ;not permit- ted even to enter the public dining room, his meals being brought to fter the ehim n of Mr. r the passengerFreest s hada fed, He was, besides, constantly watch- ed, and was subjected to a most rigorous search immediately on coming aboard. His only relaxation was an' oc- casional game of chess with some of the passengers who kindly came to his. cabin' to play with him, by ace of rose permission, and in thep his keeper. This sea imprisonment lasted exactly one month and a day, and Balfour has since declar- ed ar ed that it was the most tryi g ex- perience of a captivisy that was destined to. continue for nearly twelve years. One of the longest, and in its lessons later stages one of the p voyages ever undertaken by an un- convicted criminal, was that which Oharles `Hylton Davidson, the no- torious forger, made .spine years back in the qustody of Chief -In- spector Murray, of the Canadian: Department of Sus Murray tracked the man wanted to Mexico, and secured his extra- dition to Canada. But then his difficulties began, He could not bring his prisoner to Canada by the direct route through the United States, for, immediately Davidson set foot in that country, he could have demanded to have been re- leased. There was, therefore, no- thing for it but to convey him by way of Jamaica and England, and thence back across the Atlantic to Quebec. necessary in the was all too , short, for ominous. hurrying up fro clouds, m the west, soon hid him from our sighchang- ed, . The weather had now completely g ed, •and soon the Cairngorm was shut in by the gathering mist. "I had intended to secure a pho- has no damagi latitudes. The professor concludes: "Pigment is no danger, though , tograph of the eagle leaving her unnecessary in high latitudes, i aerie, but the feeble light effectu- while the absence of it is fatal in ;all put a stop to all efforts in the law latitudes without precautions l photographic line, and shortly be- which no ordinary white man will! f re six o'clock the eagle slipped adopt, and therefore the dark can noiselessly off the nest and disap- intrude permanently into the done- geared from sight, having in all success on a foraging sin of the fair with more iobabilit set out g than the fair can intrude into the expedition " domain of.the dark." Add to this the rapid increase of NAPOLEON'S TRIBUTE. When, after the battle of Jena, Napoleon invaded Prussia, he vis- ited Potsdam, which contains the mortal remains of the Prussian olive drew their swords, educed a loaded revolver. y the latter "downed" and searched' him, when su looking bowie knife ii a secret pocket in the s ft trouser -leg. rtigrt of a toy: for a man IIOW CIIOLERA TRAVEL, ACROSS COUNTRY, Prefers Caravan Routes Tbrough Afghanistan and Persia to Russia. Cholera, the most dreaded of the plagues that occasionally find their way Westward from the crowded East, bas its real home in South- ern China and round the mouth of the Ganges, Every- few years, how- ever, it Domes drifting •slowly to Europe, moving steadily, it is said, at the rate at which an average walker travels. Certainly, the path it prefers is along the ancient caravan routes through Afghanistan and Persia to Russia. An old tradition has it that this dreaded disease always follows in the footsteps of the wan- dering Jew. Russia always suffers terribly when it cornea. In the last visit there were 400 oases a day in St. Petersburg alone. The terrible havoc it works in Russia is largely due to the stupidity of the peas- ants, and their disobedience to the medical authorities. Indeed, a whole village attacked. a couple of doctors, and accused them of put- ting the cholera poisonintothe vil- lage ii- lags' wells. Some of them drink fearful mixtures of tar, resin, and • petroleum as preventives.-., In some e parts householders hire men stand at their front doors and shoot guns to frighten the cholera away: llrecter of the Span - and presents some ents. We expect to find a venee of humanity overlying hardness al violence. In Spain it is the otheway. There the Brim inal pulse p felt sooner than the claims of hmanity are recognized. To prove ie theory the author quotes an oident told in a Span- ish newspehr. As regar the Spanish peasant's attitude to rd his fellow men, 1 found an tructive story, as re- corded magistrate in Spanish m bys , •eg void dP er a few s a new Aragon P an A P g years ago, I a time when there was much a:tress m Aragon.. A laborenut of work came on to the highroa etermined to rob the first perso hom he should meet, it aw a - o a a man with B That ors s T P on. The lamer made him halt, and demand his money. "Here arlhirty dollars, all that I have," thletained man replied. "There is thing left for are but robbery; mfamily are dying of hunger," tha,ggressor said, ap- ologetically, d proceeded to put the money iiiis pocket. But as he did so his mil changed. "Take thisico," he •said, hand- ing him bacltwenty-nine dollars; "one is• ensile for me." "Would,youike anything that I have in my cel" asked the wag oner, impress by this generos- it "Yes," said e_man. "Take this dollar back, to' I had better have some rice and',me beans." The wagene1anded over a bag of eatables, an{hen held out five dollars, which,bwever, the labor- nr refused. "Take them said the wagox that," and onl be robber pers greater certainty, Spain which it challenge. Nothing could save the will be seen that has in some fl � either of them hut aduel. would not' be here," ` A CYCLE Y ''---~— reIf rt progressed) honoruo a But duels were not fought to kill. Dr: Petrie says that the advance strife TONGUES' HARD TO MASTER. If. a poison )n Spain contestscircus wounds were un exvxlization is and to strife, strife difficulties of learning VIII when the decision is at last 'Evens s a mere scratch would between man and man, or strife One'of the Tia a is that each r anything le there is rarely ever pleasant, an answer the purpose mach better, of man with nature. The enormous the Samoan languages dialect of his .left for the ' os emcee that the antagonists might have accumulation of capital and wealth, noble has tiaoprivateltyale t of his o s Novice y pfao.ados emcee so missing one an- which is ono of the features of this own, but yis :cod ti 5±]100 'los 'erodes" (fools. and h). ober, t chance o m Bits of Pal n, to the ch . other, they repaired to a da.tic ago, is in itself, baccording ut diming tan other upoet complicationyn r. stinate potpie make lawyers rich). room. a cause of decay, because mon and This proverb is true of every conn- in reaclincss. The sig- •rales the need for incessant and Gilbert Mends the zlifforent,Wlari. but ospcharg of Spain.paAll was try, �en speak Y om- , Spain offer .nal was given. The I�nglishritan, daily exertion. government he as- guage. The difficulty F mutual M- alian n Lawyers charger o P no less eager to preserve hie foe To Forms of. go. n for avoiding law-tl .' en , little influence and import- ttii ian himself, ze a I another rear" scale of coos tl h msett groped to re open WHAT CHOLERA IS. Cholera has several times got t grip firmly fixed on England. The first time was in 1830-2. But it is safe -to say that it never will again. On the last occasion—in 1892-a few scattered cases wcoixrred in Hull, Grimsby, ancd Yarmouth; but the scourge was soon stamped' out. What is cholera? Well, it shows itself in violent vomiting and diar- rhoea, followed quickly by exhaus- tion and death. A man who is well and strong at midday may at five be haggard and shrunk, and quite unrecognizable, with sunken eyes, and cheek bones almost protruding through the skin. It is quite com- mon for a patient to lose twenty- five pounds in four or five hours. When cholera first came to Eng- land, it was thought that the dis- ease came on the wind from Russia as did influenza on its first visit. But now we know that it infec- tious, and that it spreads by the mouth; Drinking water is its fav- orite path from the plague strick- en to the healthy. A person may carry cholera, germs on his clothing without injury. But, if infected clothing touches food or drink, the plague 1igins its work. It is be- lieved that what brings it West along the caravan routes is' the of _ pilgrims have habit some g dirt h P i in Ce clothing n ' infected g their yin i washing B wayside drinking wells. DR. KOCH' S DISCOVERY. When the germ is swallowed t the disease always shows itself within four days. The germs on. infected clothing lose all power after twelve days. It was the famous Dr. Koch who discovered the real nature of the disease. He went to Egypt in 1883, when the disease was rag gig there, discovered the bacillus•, and broeight it back in a bottle. A cer- tain cure has not been found yet, though under the latest treatment, only one in five dies, as against three in five twenty years ago. B medical science does know exactly how it spreads, and at every port in England there are keen eyes watching for the enemy. It is a curious fact that birds, without making any bacteriological examinations, are as quick to de- test cholera as the most . skilful medical man. It has often been no- tieed in India that•, birds' at once desert an• infected district. The ' first sign that the epidemic is dy- ing is their return, Tee same'thing was noticed in Ireland during the terrible year 1831, . The strangest beliefs have. been' held about cholera. Many ignor- ant people used to believe that the disease lay bottled up in volcan- oes, and came out when an erup- tion took place, Others thought it swept away only those who were unwise enough to sleep in beds. with the head pointed due north. —London Answers.. OBVIOUSLY. RESOURCE TO THE RESCUE. On the voyage Murray kept Dav- idsou under close observation, al- though allowing him considerably more freedom than Freest allowed Balfour. When, however, he had got safely ea lar as.Londen, he was both mortified and astonished to ].earn that there was the extreme likelihood of his having had all his trouble for nothing. The law, he was told, • that a pristner extradited from afor foreign country to a British Colony o not be kept in custody in Englane for longer than twenty-four hours, nor could he be taken, as a prison- er, on board a British ship sailing from a British port. Here was dilemma. Davidson was as irce as air—had he. only known it. But Murray was sgq�al to the oceasion• "Look here, he said,ye `laststage of ou safe. the There is only th journey to complete. If I allow you to travel saloon with me as an ordinary first-class passenger, will youn y you give me your word to play me no Mickel" this reposition Davide: e, ' i �r i cu , o int - vo tercours,e fs Overcome by making knowini noising of the ar al csl ate tl lino f ff yrs was horn y ryas 'i 1 ev Ci h D key, sew 'I'1 friend above mentionedl• 1 f 'ed � eau+:o arrd sy i p units, as they ave no was fireplace, Ile pointed his pistol . tip since• ernacr , , The rxe chimney anc it of tlecline, when he lawyer. his bill the Y Rogers was want "l'he majority without capital ne- amazed wh from his ;llof Spanish6he re Iced in- And by Jove,"t. y,and the civilization %ring a bili of l$?i0 he received in- � to exclaim, ryhc brought down tike 1 cessax,y oat up rile capital, of the !stead one Of g80tl, Se he wont to Trenchrnan I ` s r a .t •ie mac affairs, use o u to men e women i • cam the it And so en. to agree. the m 1 B tongue when slue nq to roa�y Among themselves it is taboo. Anel. poise that One of the ever known the men do not trouble their beads criminals Canada own about the other. came home in state; free, yet r luck' money," "I owe you was the would - ed to' accept. NO IOM. "'Berrie," said hospitable hos- tess at a Su y -school .treat, "won't you eat ne mora Cook - ±08"11" - can't. T'm, " sighed Ber- tie. "Weil, 'then. ptsome in your pockets•'' , "I can't. They'ilull, too," wa•s the regretful answi A Highlander anis death -bed called in a lawyer ir•der to make out his will. : The ,iter, after get- ting pen, paper, 4 ink, asked hint to prceeed. '�s1.i," said the Highlander, "I we like to leave £2,000 to my wife, i :£200 to eiaeh of my seven childis and £000 to the Church." "Be interrupted the lawyer, in eerie, "I had no idea that you aero rich, Don- ald," "Neither al in fact, I've set hi onlyotter I n practically "Look 1 The pompous gentleman at the other table has tucked his napkin under his ohin without at- trading attention•" 'Ile must bo rich." "And he is eating peas with his knife." "Gracious, he must be wealthy!" "And he's stirriug his coffee with his fork 1" "Great Jupiter, he must be a millionaire!" 'And he hasn't tipped the wai- ter;,r "Ah, I said lie was a million - Ore 1" He was. Put the sugar used in a tart in layers with the fruit, not wn the top, dee they'll a' keli good will I for that is apt to make the pastry hat for them:'! sodden. lee