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Tho Teal, of Kings.
The King of 'leas,
Sold Only in Airtight Packages
MOVING AMONG ATS
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ITISPRECEIDED BY DAYS OP
ILEC01N0IT'1itL G.
Usually the Soft, Warne Nights are
Chosen for the Time of
111oving.
The reaper or harvester ant, an
insect seldom seen in any but a
tropical country, is one of a num-
erous tribe. While the common
ants pass the winter in stupor, half
benumbed, the reaper ant works in
winter as well as in summer. There-
fore they need provisions fur all
the year.
Though these ants cover large
tracts of ground, nothing is seen of
their prudigious activity; they
leave no evidences of their pres-
ence save something like infinitesi-
mal mule -hills and little heaps of
the empty shells stripped from the premier of New Zealand, on his
seeds stored in the underground visit to England, has expressed her
granaries by the threshers of the views of English women in an in -
tribe. Although some of the seeds terview in which she declares she
are found shelled, many are finds them very charming, but
dragged home by the reapers with chilly.
shells on, to be confided to the busy In talking with an English tvo-
JOURNEY THROUGH PAA ttehesysd antoytih
no desire to injure them.
The natives do riot appear to be
BRITISH EXPLORERS IN liotneg8110OU13 people. Ethnol-
ogles! divergencies were noticeable
DARK I:t1tN% thatindicated an admixture o£'
two or three stocks. The Semitic
sesta of countenance was very no-
ticeable in the first half of the
Party's journey, other natives were
usually light skinned; more the
color of the Samoan, In some in-
stances the, skins tvcre no darker
than those of a southern European,
others again approximated very
closely to the coastal typo.
The inhabitants of the Sambrigi
village were particularly interest-
ing, as they live at an elevation of
0,000 feet above the sea level, the
highest elevation, I believe, of any
Papuaps so far visited. The phys-
elite of some of the young men was
magnificent, the Vagi men of the
main range approaching most
closely to them •in this 'respect.
Their weapons consist of the bow
and arrow, a heavy pig spear
which was not used for throwing,
and a man -killing club. Very rare-
ly we saw a stone club, These had
probably been introduced from the
coastal districts,
Iuteresting Light Thrown on the
Manners and C'ustolus of the
Natives.
The adventures of Mr•. Stani£orth
Smith and his party in tee explora-
tion of Papua were . both interest-
irig and exciting.. The journey, was
the longest -.eves' accomplished in
the territory, and the return of the
; party was so long delayed that it
Inses was reported that the Administla-
f not endowed with both setor and, his :party had been massa -
they would not remain motionlesserne,
in the old residence during the time The partystarted' from;Genre
burl island and ascended' the Ki-
kori river as fair as navigable.
From Mount Murray, which is 8,-
000 feet in height and believed to
of the ants t•ecunientermg, to run to
the new refuge with all their grop-
ing
gt
o 1
-
ing speed as soon as the utigratiuii
begins.
What part does this iascet, grog- be the highest mountain in the
ing in its blindness, Play in the life Western division, with the exeep-
of the proverbially active untoion only of the main rouge, the
Na-\
The question is a problem.. party endeavored to, strike west
turalists regard it as important be- with e view of cutting the large
cause man's psychology of the be- rivors mentioned. It was, however,
ings in the scales below the human. forced north-west by parallel
Certainly the ant, with its geniis ranges of mountains and exceed
for war, for a communal civilize- ingly rough country.
tion, to which man has, so far, not -'On 23 January, aftereeravelling
been able to attain, shows a marked . for nine weeks, a large river was
similarity to man in its social and reached, which it was believed
intellectual development. must be the Strickland river. This
ivas subsequently ascertained to be
the Kikori, which has its rise in the
CHARMING, BET CHILLY. main range and at first runs paral-
lel to and about six miles from the.
Ludy Ward Gives Her Impressions
upper waters of the Strickland.
of English Women. The Iiikori at this point was run
-
of through a gorge 1,200 feet
Lady Ward, who is accompanying; deep, and could not be creased, It
her husband, Sir Joseph Ward, ; was then decided to make rafts and
got down to Kiwai Island, where
the Morrie England was waiting.
OVE1tTURNED IN RAPIDS.
The rapids, it .sras found, ex-
tended for 120 miles. The rafts
were overturned and the members
world underground, as farmers eon- man who is not an old friend site' of the party were strewn along both
fide their sheaves to the handlers on feels that the conversation will not: banks of the river for several
the threshing -floors. go far beyond an exchange of fur- I miles. It took five and a half days
The ants' granaries are well ar- malities. This is not because Eng- I for the party to get together again.
ranged and numerous; but now and lish women have little to say, but i All provisions, tents, and baggage
then, for some evident cause, and because they are too reserved and were lost, and the party faced with
oftener fora reason unknown to too cautious to say it. { a journey of 300 utiles over un-
man, the tribes change quarters. "English women," says Lady ! known country. This was accom-
Moving day is preceded by days of Ward, "are remarkably well in-' plished in 33 days.
reconnoitering. The reconnoitering formed, and, once the ice is bro- The expedition travelled on foot.
parties run in ken, talk fluently and with eon- over totally unexplored country
A DOUBLE CURRENT 'viction, particularly if the subject f for 374 miles and by raft 150 miles,
is a weighty one.'' I or 524 miles in all. The country is said Daniel, with an expression of
between the opening- of the ant -hill Lady Ward regards English wo- I indescribably rough, the mountain astonishment on his ruddyface.
and the dwelling places and gran- men as beiug "solid" rather than ; ranges consisting of huge masses of
aries. The two currents of recon- fastidious in the matter of dress. jagged and precipitous corral mak- Well, 1 suppose they will be a
noitering march empty-handed, do- Their clothes are made of the best! ing their ascent always difficult, bit expensive, 1 replied, but if
ing nothing but survey the rooms materials, but the best use is not i sometimes impossible, while the a man is going to be a farmer, ev-
e thethatconnect thed f 1 1 •valleys except in a fety instances en an amateur farmer, he might as
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A FINE PAIR 0P RUNTS.
•
A Man W3lio Wanted Them Very
Badly Got Theist.
The way of the amateur farmer fs
often very hard. That it is so,
however, is usually his 01011 fault..
Such, at least, was the case with
Judge Henry A, Shute, who, in
"Farming It," tells the following
story. The moral which he draws
will bo admitted .by all who have
had similar experiences, and is val-
uable for those who may be con-
sidering agriculture ie general and
the raising of pigs in particular..
I believe f frankness
in perfect
p
i
whenever 2 try to trade with a'man
01 to buy of him anything that I
know but little about. So when I
told Daniel that I wanted to buy
a pair of his young pigs, I knew I
should be treated like a man and a
brother.
"Now, Daniel," I said, "I don't
know anything about pigs, and you
do, but I have some decided ideas
in the matter. I have thought ov-
er the different breeds, and have
decided to get the best, even if they
do cost a trifle more. I want a
good pair of runts, and I don't
just know where I can get any."
"What do you want runts for
an passages
made o the materials. ' well do the thing right; and unless
rooms. For a time the procession Paris sets the Lace and London f are covered with masses of corral you begin right you won't over
moves incessantly; then it halts follows, but there are always small wedged together, and sometimes 40 ar. Now,ginag few years ago," I
and, frequently, no movement is modifications to be made in a gen- or 50 feet in height, making loco -
continued, "T wenin for ancy
seen for several days. What delib- eral type of dress, personal touch- motion very difficult. pigeons and squab raising, and 1
orations are in progress during the es that make the dress becoming Although the rainfall was heavy picked upa lot of information. Let
time of unwonted quiescence can- to the wearer. English women sel- and of daily occurrence, especially me tell ea this, Daniel, runts are
not be known. When Cie -i: t ble dom venture to strike this person- in the eastern portion of the plat- site largest, quickest growing, and
current foreas in cart, we had on many occasions to
reed of
for the second time,everyiindnxdu- rder ' al Theynota never dress unfashionably, go without water for periods of easiest to fa I believe tn of heibe i good
from 26 to 30 ]tours as the rata
pigeons,
' money in runt pigs."
Daniel threw hack hie- head and
laughed loudly; then,loaning for-
ward, with a shrewd twinkle in his
eye, he said:
"Well, old man, you are more of
a farmer than I thought. Now, if
you are determined to have runts,
I will tell you something. I have a
pair of runts, beauties, too, and I
will let you have them."
al in one current is seen moving in . but not often do they dress with dis sank through the corral, leaving no
surface except in the lowest parts
of the valleys.
the same direction, bearing one tinction. This Lady Ward bolds to
kernel of seed or grain; while be due to the lack of self-confi-
every individual in the other cur -'donee, but, she adds, "English wo-
rent is seen returning from the, ip-:men are altogether charming and
posits direction, empty-handed It very shy."
is plain to see that the ants are
changing quarters and moving ti eir
household goods. Days and nights THE KING'S DINNER TABLE.
aro consumed in the moving The laying of the royal dinner
when the old dwelling is evacuated,
hlis d fur table is of necessity attended with
e pace•ahaniiuneall
COMMUNAL DWELLINGS.
At Sambrigi, immediately to the
north-west of Mount Murray, are a
cluster of villages with an aggre-
gate population of about 1,000 peo-
ple. Throughout the trip only one
ether village of any size was seen.
time. In one case observed the a good deal of ceremony. lust ! This was on a large tributary of
come the upholsterers, whose 1 the Kilkori flowing south of east.
reason for moving was obvious; duty it is to see that the table is in ! In every other instance the tribe or
the grain r ms wore found to be its proper place, and ingood con -
close to the bottom of the ditch, elan lived in one communal dwel-
, dition to bear its precious burden ling, varying in dimensions ae-
and much tee ,,ear the, heavy of gold and silver plate. The cording to the size of the commun-
anmh.. ng of t' traffic along the weight of the famous k laxman ser- 1 ity, and capable of housing from
highway, says ilall.er's 'Weekly. vice, designed for George IV., is 110 to 70 people. These ctw•ellings,
In one closely observed case the so tremendous as to justify fully I especially the small ones, are gen-
operation had barely begun, when,
one evening, toward sunset, the
little ant -hill was seen swarming
with the
this precaution. The upholsterers
having seen that all is in order,
give place to the "table de.ekers,"
who arrange the snowy napery,
orally hidden away or perched on
steep ridges that are not easy of
access, probably from motives of
defence, says Mr. Staniforth
BLIND WHITE WOOD -LICE worked with the royal arms, and 1 Smith.
• the plainly folded serviettes. Fan -1 By exercising great forbearance
found in all ant -hills; insects which aqui shapes are inadmissible on i anti patience we were fortunately
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flaring lost their organs of sight, !the royal table. This accomplish1 successful in making friends with
guide themselves with their amen- cd, there enter the Yeomen of the • these httshmen everywhere, and as
nae, agitating their feelers as if ; Silver Pantry," whose task it ie I they had never seen a white man
harassed by profound anxiety. as their name indicates, to place before the arrival of the expedition
the silver in position. The "deck- I tensed great excitement. At the
ers" then arrange the flowers, thus first small communal village the
petting the finishing touch, ftfirst
party reached they all turned out
which the royal table is runsitlwith their bows and arrows and
"well and truly laid." - stood shouting their war cries,
s The evidently thought the exped-
ition was a marauding party, and
PERSIA'S PRICELESS PIPE. naturally and rightly they were
The Shah of Persia possesses,prepared to defend their wives,
children and homes.
While they were in this con-
dition of extreme excitement we
sat down, and although our arms
were ready for any emergency, ap-
peared to take no notice of them
except to hold up some red cloth.
Then they retired, and When some
presents were sent up to the house
it was found that they had all fled.
Great care was taken that nothing
was touched, and a tomahawk, a
knife, and eefne red cloth were left
in the House. • ,
Naturalists have been unable to
discover the.reasun for existence ef
these piteous beings in the ant-
hills. They have been watched by
day and by night. 11 is known that
they live with the ants in familiar
intimacy in the ant -hills, and that
they exert all their feeble strength
to move with the ants when the
•time comes to change domicile.
Myriads of eager gropers have been perhaps, the most valuable lupe in
seen in the throng of ants march- the world. It belonged to his
ing to the new dwelling place. The uncle, who received it from: his
exodus, begun with determined grandfather. It is the Persian of -
haste, is pursued with decreasing ficial pipe, and is..smokcd only en
intensity until the last seed has State occasions. It is set with
bean stored anew. One day, when rubies and diamonds, and is valued
the moving was over, and when the at $500,000. When the Shah is not
tired movers were out of sight in using it, it is kept in a glass case,
the depths of their new retreat) the and carefully guarded by a high
belated tributaries were seen hur- conn official, whose duties are as
tying over the road to the new re- little onerous as those of a director
sidence (presumably) guided by onh
f an arsenal.
. closely
for keep -
some odor left by the ants. ing pipe guarded, and
1b has been noted that, though in a case, is that some years ago a
blind, the wood -lice are very' sen- Grand Vizer was surprised in the
sitive to rays of light, and that the a.ct of removing some of the stones
light seems to affect them very df- with the point of his poignard:
agreeably. Like all the blind, these What happened to the Grand Vier
pecttliar tributaries—if appearances we are not told,
are evidence—possess an excessive-
ly ' ti,r
KEEN SENSE Cl! TOITC7II,
and an equally keen sense of smell.
i'
in one London. Hospital alone-
St. George Is—some 2,000 patients
ire operated upon each year.
BUSH TELEGRAPHY.
Not seeing them return, we start-
ed on our march next morning, and
in the afternoon were overtaken by
the natives, who, when they found
we had no desire to harm them,
evidenced the greatest joy, and
made 11s presents of fond, After
that we had no trouble in estab-
lishing friendly relations with the
natives we met; possibly by some
We concluded the deal, and I
said to Daniel, "There will be no
complaint, Daniel. This is a fair
bargain, and as long as 1 get runts
I shall be satisfied. Only undex-
stand, don't palm off on me any or-
dinary pigs—I want runts and no-
thing else."
"All right," said Daniel, cough-
ing so violently into his handker-
chief that he had to wipe his eyes.
There seemed to be something
the matter with the runts when
they came. They were very small,
and their teeth, or tusks, seemed
to he considerable in advance of
their general bodily development.
The Neighbors dropped in one by
one and inspected the animals, and
there seemed to be a good deal of
amusement displayed by some of
them.
. A few nights afterward it hap-
pened that the smallest pig died,
and was buried with suitable cere-
monies, and after titanic exertions
with a pickax. That afternoon 1
stole an hour from office work and
went. to the library, whore I eon
stilted various works on domestic
swine. After an 'exhaustive search,
I found the following:
"Occasionally there will appear
in a litter of pigs a stunted, dwarf-
ed or misshapen one, known as a
runt. Whether this is a harking
back to the original type or a dir-
ect inheritance from some defective
but more recent ancestor, matters
little. The runt is of no value,
whatever, and should be killed at
birth."
After reading this I reflected a
bit. Daniel had "done" me. No,•
that was pot quite fair to Daniel,
I had "done" myself, and Daniel
was the highly amused medium
which I had selected.
Over 2,000 people have sent in
claims for a share of the fortune,
said to amount to millions, left by
a highlander named Urquhart, of
Dingwall, Ross -shire, who was for-
merly a Californian gold miner,
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MOST UNINILLI O SUBJECTS
PEOPLE WIi0 ARE DISSATIS-
PIEO WITIH THEIR COUNTRY.
Compelled to Live Under a Gov-
manumit 'Rata They
D elest.
Two thousand Dutch villagers,
living near the border of Belgium,
have written to the King of 13e1 -
gin= beseeching him to take them.
under his protection and be their
King. They complain that they are
neglected by their own Queen, Wil-
helmina.
This is not by any means the first
case in which subjects of one coun-
try have wanted to belong to an-
other. Crete is quite happy now,
but for years it was a dependency
of Turkey, a country it hated. It
wanted to belong to Greece, and
rose in rebellion.
The Powers stepped in and or-
dered the Turkish troops to leave
the island. The delighted islanders
began massacring any Mohamme-
dans they could find. The Powers
then insisted on ane Greek troops
leaving, too. The crestfallen Cre-
tans then promised to be good. The.
Powers refused to let either Turkey
or Greece interfere in the affairs
of the island, but gave them a Greek
prince to reign as High Commis-
sioner fer the Powers as a whole.
The most unwilling subjects in
Europe are certainly the inhabi-
tants of the provinces of Alsace and
Lorraine, which Germany wrested
from Prance as a prize of victory
in the Franco-Prussian War. Ger-
man at once replaced French as the
language
TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS,
and the official language of the law
courts and of business.
Gradually Alsace and Lorraine
have been forced to use the langu-
age they hate, so that now eighty
per cent. of the inhabitants of the
lost provinces speare .German. But
their hearts are still French.
Finland would gladly belong to
,Sweden if it could. It did till a
century ago, and only consented to
be taken over by Russia on receiv-
e constitution of its own. A recent
edict of the Tsar has, the Finns
say, seriously infringed that consti-
tution. The whole nation at once
went into mourning. A mourning -
stamp was designed, and obtained a
wide circulation.
The new Russian Governor-Gen-
eral—who, by the constitution,
should be a Finn, not a Russian—
is ignored by Finland society, and
when he walks in the street there
is not a Finn but crosses to the
outer pavement to avoid him. If
Sweden asked and were strong
enough to protect, Finland would
gladly shake off het allegiance to
the Tsar.
Russia has another weak spot of
the same sort. It is well for Russia
that she has a standing alliance
with Germany, for these provinces
which lie between 5t. Petersburg•
and the German frontier are almost
as German as Berlin. The mama -
factures and the shipping of the big
ports such as Riga and Revel are
almost entirely
IN PRUSSIAN HAN:DS.
The boundary scarcely counts,
though there is a change of gauge.
in the railway there that would
help to delay any sudden invasion.
So Russia may hope that there will
never be friction with the Kaiser,
for hdr Baltic provinces are nob
only German in blood and speech,
but German in their' sympathies.
fiome 'fifty years ago the little
'Central American Republic of San
Sal isidor disapproved of its Presi-
dent, and showed it in the usual.
way by shooting him. The unusual
thing was that the rebels had no
one to fill bis place with. D1 fear
of their big neighbor, Guatemala,
they approached their other neigh•
bot•, Honduras, asking it the Hon-
duras President, Luis, could not bo
President for two. Luis was flat-
tered; but the army insisted on de-
clining to annex San Salvador, out
of respect for Guatemala's fighting
powers. San Salvador begged to
be allowed to belong to Honduras,
but in vain. It had to choose a
President of its own. Luckily for
the unpatriotic little state Guate-
mala held off, and San Salvador is
independent' still. --London 'An-
swers.
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PIRATES S
TWO SAILORS MADE THEIR
CAPTAIN WALK TILE PLANK.
Two Armed Passengers Attempted
to Seize a Big Ship and
Her Canto.
Recently a London man was sen-
tenced .to penal servitude for life
for the crime of piraey, It sounds
preposterous to talk of the black
flag in these days of forty -thousand
ton liners and wireless telegraphy,
yet the bald fact remains that pir-
acy is by no means an extinct of-
fence, says Pearson's Weekly.
This modern buccaneer was a
steward who, after serving in var-
ious ships, was stranded at Callao,
in Porn. There he picked up with
a man named Sherratt, and the two
snipped aboard a small schooner,
the Neuss Tigre. They, with the
captain and mate, composed the
whole crew.
A week out from port these two
precious scoundrels attacked the
captain and mate with an axe and
gun, and literally made them walk
the plank in the most approved
eighteenth century fashion.
PASSENGERS AS PIRATES,
Then they renamed the vessel
White Rose, and set sail for no-
where in particular. Neither know
the first principles of navigation,
so eventually they ran ashore in the
Gilbert Islands, where they were
promptly arrested.
The most daring ease of piracy on
record for years past occurred last
August aboard the Alaska -Pacific
liner Buckman, when two armed
passengers made a deliberate at-
tempt to seize•the big ship and her
cargo.
One of them named Thomas took
a revolver, went into the cabin, and
coolly shot Captain Wood, then ran
on deck to help his accomplice,
whom he had left to tackle the mate
on the bridge. But the mate hats
been too quick for the pirate, and
Thomas reached the deck to find
his accomplice in irons. He at once
seized a lifebuoy and jumped over-
board. As he was never seen again
he was, presiunably, drowned.
Aboard the Italian Transatlan-
tic liner Margherita there was a
few years ago a regular Captain
Kettle battle, The steamer, after
leaving Trieste, called at Messina,
and there twenty-two villainous
Sicilians stewed themselves away.
As soon as the Margherita was out
of sight of land they rushed on
deck in a body and attacked the
crew.
A FIERCE REVOLVER FIGHT.
They were surrounded and driven
below, but at night broke out again
and rushed the officers' quarters.
The crew armed themselves with
revolvers, and a fierce fight raged
for an hour. Two of the mutineers
were killed, a number were wound-
ed, and four sailors were badly
hurt. At last the pirates were driv-
en into the fo'c'sle, and while the
crow stood guard the vessel steam-
ed hard for Algiers, where the pol-
ice tock the ruffians into custody.
Pirates, as these instances
prove, usually get the worst of it.
But not always. Just three years
ago the steamer Sophia was cross-
ing the Black Sea from Odessa to
ICorthion, and the captain and pas-
sengers had just sat clown to sup-
per in the saloon when three young
men, masked and armed, appeared
in the doorway, and covered them,
bidding them not to novo 011 pain
ef death,
At the .same time two others seiz-
ed the man at the wheel, and force
ed 'him to turn the vessel back to
Odessa. Others there were eight-
een iu all --opened the safe, and
took out $25,000, the property of a
Russian bank, They then robbed
the passengers of all they possess-
ed, disabled the engines, destroyed
one boat, and taking the other two,
e: caped,
Chinese • aviators • are still notor-
iously unsafe. The British steamer
Sainam was raided near Hong.
Kong, in Jely, 1900, by a gang of
desperadoes, who had shipped as
passengers. Three Europeans,
Captain Joslin, Dr. Macdonald,
and another, held the .saloon for a
tiino. Captain J'oslin was wounded
and lay for dead, Dr. Macdonald's
brains were blown out, the 11,ir
man managed to hide, The ship
was looted, and liar cargo carried
off in five "snake boats." •
HOUSE OFO IIJ ; SI.1LRN
ANECDOTES ANENT TILE ICAIS.
ER AND.IIIS PADIiLI,
Present Emperor William of Ger.
many Comes Prom a Eine Raceof Men.
-There are two things that the
Kaiser carries about withhim con-
stantly -a revolver and the talis
manic ring of his ancestors.
Since the time of Frederick the
Great this ring has always been
worn by the head of the etohenzol-
ierns, The tale runs that u toad
one day hopped into the room of the
wife of the Elector John of Brand-
denbiu'g, and deposited a atone on
her: bed. The pebble was carefully
cherished by the Hohenzollerns and
King Frederick William 1, had it:
mounted ea a ring,.
The martial effect of the Kaiser's
presence is eincioubtedly heightened
by the tip -tilted ultra -military style
of his moustache. Previous to 1894.
he wore itcombed out straight;
but in that year, with. the assist-
ance of the Court barber, its ap-
pearance was changed to that now
so familiar.
The Kaiser is rarely seen in any-
thing but military attire. Even at
home he wears the fatigue egress of
a, general.
Yang William of Prussia, after-
wards first Gorman Emperor, was,
a man supremely indifferent to clan...
ger, At the Battle of ' Sadowa
against the Austrians, he exposes{
himself GO mach 10 the lire of the
enemy that Bismarck expostulated.
"The Commander -in -Chief must
be. where he ought to be," replied
tee King, At length he agreed to
move to a safer position, but can-
tered along with such deliberation
that Bismarck was still very un-
easy; so, edging up to the King's
mare, "I grave her," he says, "a
sly kick from behind with the point
of my boot, She made a bound for-
ward, and the King looked- round
in astonishment. I think he saw
what I had done, but he said no-
thing,,r
Ne less devoted to the soldier's
art, it would seem, is the youngest
heir of the Hohenzollenr's, the son
of the present Crown Prince, . At
the age of three he escaped one
morning from his attendants and
clambered on to the broad sill of a
window of the meleeo, overlooking
the "Unter den Linden." A crowd
soon gathered below, and, when
they cheered, the little prince sal-
uted, presented arms, and ward
his hand
Before his rather dangerous drill
movements could be completed,
however, a large ]land appeared
from below, and lifted the young
military enthusiast out of eight.
His father, the Crown Prince, is,
before everything, a sportsman,
Brought with almost Spartan sev-
erity, he is keen on outdoor life,
and has done much to make tennis,
polo, football, and yachtingpope-
lar in Germany. He is a splendid
horseman, and, as a boyish freak,
rode his squadron of mounted
Grenadiers up the terraced steps of
Sans Souci Palace, at Potsdam,. Ho
keeps a small .stable, has ridden
and won a steeplechase, and has
made an aeroplane ascent with Or-
ville Wright. His hobby is to col-
lect everything relating to the
great Napoleon,
When he was a small boy of five.
he laboriously wrote a letter on
ruled paper, which he sealed care-
fully, and laid on the table of his
great-grandfather, the Emperor
William I. On hismother explain-
ing that the child had done it entire-
ly by himself, without aid or sug-
gestion, "So I should suppose," re-
marked the Emperor drily, "for in
the six lines of the letter he makes
no fewer than nine requests."
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BABY'S Lteli.
How It Is Brought About in 1)if-
erent Countries.
Probably in nothing sloes super-
stition play a greater part than. in
the various little acts which aro
done to ensure the future good for-
tune of the new -Born child.
In some parts of England it is ..
considered essential that the child
should go upstairs before going
down, or it will never rise in tet
world. If, as often happens, there
is no higher room in the house, the
nurse; holding the child, climbs' we
a chair before leaving the room.
Prosperity and long life are as-
sured the child in whose hand it
silver coin or a new laid egg es
placed. Or the little one should,
on malting its first appearateo out
of doors, be accompanied by a small,
loaf, an egg, soma salt, ,and a pen-
ny.
In Spain the new born infant's
fame is swept with a pine 'bough.
While to determine what the
child's future vocation will bo, i'i
sword, a silver cross, and sore
fruit are placed before hirir. If ha,
takes the coin, he will enter busk.
ness; the cross shows he will be
come a priest, the sword a •soldiac1
and the fruit a farmer,
The Turks put a piece of mud up,:
on the baby's forehead as a charm°
while the /Undoes give the nevas
comer the name of a gocl, in the be-
lief, that the deity will be flattered*,
and think well •o$ the child.