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• There was a candy -store not tar
from I enny's hooso. It was not a
large store, but it was nearly all
window, This tras not a large plate-
glass (lane, but the window was
made up of a great elanv small
squares, and when Benny tela down
to the store with Brother 'Robert and
Sister Katherine dere. Wase, little
Pane for each face, and they did not
need to .Crowd and push each other.
There were a great nneny things to
see, and it was nice to have a little
square of gloss all to oneself.
i hire were nlway:' many new thine
in the window on Monday mcirning,
-ttnll it was nice to go out rete spend
the penny one had before school -tine.
Lenny was only four, and was not!.
allowed to go down Mune. although
he knew the way perfectly well,
Mother had said when he was live
be night go by himself and select
just Zhu thing he wanted.
Benny looked forward to this day'
It would be very nice to walk right
up the steps by himself and open the
door, end make the little bell hang-
ing +hove jangle as lie went in. ale
alwey-s knew what he wanted before
going in. Tho selectinit was made
at the window.
Usually in the display there were
several large sugar hearts, a candy
wane and rt box of fresh taffy. Some-
times there were valentines Caul lit-
tle furry rabbits. There were glit-
tering halls and strings of beads for
girl, rut Battey never cared much
for these. Of course any one thing
was eat remarkable, hat somehow,
when they were all tastefully arrang-
ed in a window. he liked to :ave and
gore.
Benny waited impatiently for his
birthday, and he planned to go
down to the cantly -store on that very
day. Ile had three pennies, and when
the morning carne Male Jack gave
him five mare, all bright and shining
as if they were just made.
Benny started out with his money
held tight. In his hand. Katherine
and Robert danced about him, and
told him not to stop on the bridge,
not to stop near the fence that ran
along by the railroad, and to be 80re
to run very fast when crossing the
street. After ell, it was quite n
dangerous way to go if one did not
keep all these things in Hind.
Benny promised to do as nearly
eight as possible, and after kissing
mother twice and waving his hand
to tach Jack. he walked down the
street with his lead held very high.
Katherine and Hobert waited until he
had turned the corner, and then they
ran "cross lots" and took up a
point of slew opposite the store.
Homy could not see then. but they
wanted to know how long he word,
look in lata window.
"Bo you suppose he will go in (y
himself"" said Robert, eyeing his
brother cautiously.
"Of course he will go in," said
Iiatlerine.
And. just at. that moment Benny
fulfilled the prophecy, for he went
into the candy -store! Not just as
they had expected, however, for he
went in through the. windov• In his
eagerness to sec ail the wonderful
display ho pressed ' too heavily
against the glass, and it fell in with
a crash.
Iiathe•ine and Hobert ran over at
once, and they were both crying, for
they supposed Benny was greatly
hurt. Iiut the dear old lardy who
kept the shop had gatherer him up
out of the broken gloss and held hila
on her lap. itis thumb Was cut a
little, and she wrapped it up in a
piece of linen, and wiped away all
his tears without seeming to think
about the broken window at all,
When he was feeling all right
again she allowed him to tonic Eider
t.hc entire Stock, and make a very
careful tile
for his purchases,
Then the children went h.omo rather
serf owfully.
-They told Thiele Mack all about It,
told he went down at once end paid
fol' the wilniotr, and for all the
candy spoiled with broken glass, and
so it all ended happily, for eyerybody
was very sorry for iienny, and no
One scolded. Unele 'Tack laughed.
1Tn said, "Well, limply certainly slid
go into the candy -store all alone."
FEEDING YOTJNC• HUMMING
BUMS,
When I first crawled in among the
bushes close to the nest the little
mother charted at um am1 poised a
foot from my new, as if to stare me
out of countenance, says a welter.
Sato looked me all over from head to
foot twice, then She seemed convinced
that I was harmless. She Whirled
- and set on the nest edge. The bent-
iings opened wide their hungry
mouths, She spread fun' tail like a
flicker, and Mimed herself against
tete nest side. She enamel her neck
and drew hal' dagger -like bill, straight
up abate the nest, She, phutged it
down the baby's throat to the hilt
and started n series of gestures that
seemed fashioned to puncture Minn to
the. toe& Then she stabbed the ether
batty until it made me shudder. It
looked 1110o 1lie murder of the in-
fants, But they were not mangled
and bloody; they were getting a
&mere meal of ter the usual humming
bird mel hod of 11gm•gitation, They
rain ot their slender tongues to lick
the honey from their lips, 1Tow they
liked it! 'Then elie nettled down and
ruffled up her lastest feathrl:s to let:
her babies coddle rime to her naked
110st)in. Occasfonnll,y Sha reached
'under to caress, them with whisper-
ings of mother -love,
•
ANTS WHICH EAT 'BOCK,
et The engineers In charge of a tele-
graph lingo at ;lfoOgkong were sue -
!irked recently •by the discovery that
about ((Via,, nibs of their table,
though it was well p102101ted and
laid underground in a 00mtete trough
Mal hewn sevcrel,v damaged. For tha
greater 1u. ofthe length oval
les
i 1 quite roue the
had foil bored c uta tL ]t
a
1
casing clown to the copper wire itself.
It was agreed that Insects must
have lam the outlaw; of 111.1 1(1 cellii1,
though what kink of insects ens not
obvious. 1t Haight be possible to find
one which enjoys perforating lead.
But these insects seemed to have
drilled the holes, mu, in order to
make: a passcfge, but by way of mak-
ing a meal! They had fella')) a din-
ner 01 51x 00(11'Ses. C111101ti(iilg IU'st of
tarred rope, [lien of lead, then of
twisted rope, then of tape, then of
hemp ((bre, and lastly 14 1lulia rub-
ber, 'l'1w capper strand hall leen too
121uc11 for 11wt11.
l'ort.iu18 of the damaged cable were
sent to the Natnrnl HISt0ry au8eunl
with a hope iilut some opinion might
be given. and all( ore !) replied that
there could 1)n very !dr ie dultht that
111e t'aniage was caused (e while
ants. Spec-inU'a:s of their peculiar
foetes 01'1Ppel!te eat itelul,U'' are
kept 111 (111 1111120.1110, v.11ic11 show m,t
only diet they rill cat leaf, h1(1 will
also bore tlu•o:1gh hard sand:done
rock.
REMARKABLE EARL,
He of Leicester Has Many Claims
to Fame.
Though he was horn over y i y urs
ago, ore of the least at the elalets to
distinction of the venerable Earl of
Leicester, who 15 now Seriously 111,
is that he 1s Numbered ttll:otl;:, the
patriarchs of the British peerage. 1fe
is in many ways atisulutely (01ique
among English .nobles. Ile has been
the father of eighteen children, of
whom fourteen survive, and he num-
bers among his sons-in-law four earls,
a 2lece1)111'alltl a baron. 'There is a
diliereoce is age of Close on half a
century between his eldest [laughter,
Lady POWCrHCallrt, arca his youngest
son. He is at once a great-grand-
father several tines over and the
proud father of a boy of eleven. Per-
haps, however, the most astonishing
thing about the earl's family history
is the fact that he married his second
wife, the present Coln trey, exaelly
100 years after his father marrid
his first. lord Ronald Cower once
mentioned the amazing fact to Queen
Victoria, who was pretty lveIi posted
on the family history of the peerage,
but it su staggered her that she re-
fused to believe It without docu-
mentary proof.
The Earl of LOtceste• is a notable
example of the good results of the
simple life—the real simple life; that
is, not that counterfeit of which(: self -
approving votaries write to the
papers, When well, on any line clay
he might be encountered on one of
the 111111s of his estate clad in a suit
of rough 1w'e0115, With gun on shoul-
der, A true spoet8mnan, he believes
in the spurt that gives the game a
(haler—not that form of slaughter
so popular among the lir[tish a1.isto-
crcicy in which an army of beater's
drive the birds of the guns. Nor
does he ever maim sport an excuse
for gorging, At lunch Lime he may
be looked for tinder a hedge, munch-
ing bread and cheese and onions and
Washing' it down with a draught of
beer brewed in his own house. That
menu is not altered even for the.
Prince of ''ales when ho goes Shoot-
ing with the Marl of Leicester. Ile
will not deviate Prom his simple hab-
its or put on style, to please any-
body,
Holi'hau Hall, where the veteran
peer has spent most of his time in
recent years, is a vast Palladian edi-
fice of waffle slope, standing In a
part( as flat as a pancake, but diver-
sified with some fine timlbei'. He oC-
cupics the ground floor of his magni-
ficent mansion and there ore certain
rules of the establishment to' which
everyone (royal visit Ors not excepted')'
has to conform. All under his roof
are expected to be in bed by 1.1
o'clock and Midge and kindred 01 -
versions arc forbidden. The 0a'l is a
good 1au110(11, an enthusiastic natur-
alist and a genuine philanthropist
with a penchant for church restora-
tion, the -cost of which le defrays
out of his own pocket. In his own
country, Norfolk, there Me several
which owe their preservation to film,
NO MORE NEW LANDS.
Continent of Africa Has Now
Been Parcelled Of/.
After a careful examination of the
map of 'Africa by geographers and
students of international boundar-
ies, it becomes apparent that the re-
cent award of the Bing of Italy re -
spooling the Anglo -Portuguese fron-
tier in Bat•otselnnd (North-Western
Rhodesia), the last piece of land not
definitely appropriated in Africa, has
Men disposed of. For the first time
in the history of the world, there-
fore, Buns: are ao 110(8 lands for the
various nations to acquits), and
001111tries in search of colonies will
be compelled to seek out sumo other
(11121ld (division of tie 00111l's surface,
ttnlees they tread upon the toes of
other nations, And this in Africa, as
elsewhere; may 11(0121 war,
Advices front Lisbon are to the (d-
ied, that the award has given satis-
faction there. The -now Anglo-Purtn-
gtnese 'boundary is formed (1,y a the
following the Iztvend0 River from
the ''Zambesi to the,,24411 meridian of
east longitude, and thence along the
meridian - its fa' aS the 113111 parallel
of &fifth latitude, un tit the Congo
Free State frontier fp reached.
(10611 AUTHORITY..
"Von told lent you had a diary.
Wh(1m is it, old )Han?"
"(Over there."
"Why, that is your wife."
"Well, she keeps account of all I
do."
She•—":T have a new 111111001., Jack,
,Don't yn11 think 113' bets are more
becoming than they timed to 1(07" Iio
--"Yee; unit your bills are becoming
Mare than they used to bo."•
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LiIEIg Nollo
.
Miss [ .•
"It's all very fine," sneered the
manager, just loudly enough for the
demure little shorthand arid type-
writing git'f Lo .overhear hint, for
rho gt'oVeraor to snap up and clod-
file waifs nod strays, so lung as he
finds them work at his Private house,
but it's rank madness to burden the
office with thew, 1l:e grumbles
because our (tweeter is falling;, end
yet 1 can't even .have a typist
worthy the mum!"
The nuuuttcer was not speaking to
11m,:+shier, llit .11 the girl typist, trho
1211(1 Put 111 1)1:1' 111111 (21(1)10(1211110 nt
the office only to few hours earlier.
The color rushed tit her pretty little
1:11', arid site tried to hide her con-
fusion by vatting; away noisily upon
Ler ty'plu•riter.
The manager ,,i(10ed over 11) 1110
girl's side and unceremoniously drag -
!_;•c11 out of the machine the hetet. she
was w1'iliug•
I i ere. you go again!" he exclaim -
('11 angrily,'And' spelt with two
'11'8,' and .L" written Micmac' of a
(tote of interrogation! You ought lo'
Ile w0-lndng doorsteps rather than
acting the fool in an office.
:More blushes from the lady* typist,
who tit once sputa clean sheet of
letter -paper- into the machine.
"I'm very sorry, sit'," .she timidly
etanmetved, "3 was a bit/101/008
when 1 typed (het letter. I'll type it,
over again."
"\o; you won't!" retorted the
manager, "1'11 have it written with
a 1•
"take this letter and write. it out at
once."
"'Tiwon't1'' said Mfr. ,),]utsol.
"What!" screnn'4 the 1)1a2(2(er,
quite taken aback. "Say that;
again!"
"1 aren't write that letter:" said
Johnson, - I
„'.Plum," Reid the manager titnnl-.
phonily, "you '0111 immediately COn1O!
with inn tet tile. governor andtell
hitt
"Certainly!" .loivnson g01011y rn-
Stteretl, slipping front his stool and
moving towards the private ofllce..I
Now, however, the manager seemed:
to he In doubt as to which direction
the teal trouble 005 taking, and h0
diel not oiler to follow .101211sun
across the oflice.-
"One moment," he said 1,111Ily.
"How are you going to explain your
conduct to the governor?"
"That's my business." (moth .John-
son, Placing his hand 011 1118 2110.5-
ter's doorknob.
The manage' was by this time ob-
viously uneasy.
"Ort. hack to your desk!" he coin -
mantled. "I'll deal with you later!"
Twelve months passed array. The
Manager had conveniently forgotten
to tleol with Johnson regarding his
little act of mutiny. Ile hadalso
been 1085 o6'eusive to the typewriting
girl—when Johnson was about. it
struck him as being absurd that he
should have the slightest feat' of
Johnson, het ]le cold not get away
from the fact that such a fee' some-
how existed, lir that reason he
showed to Johnson a Pretence of
friendship which deceived nobody but
himself. ..
Johnson. meanwhile, had obviously
grown more and more friendly with
the bullied little typist, and one dity,
Id everybody's astonishment, both
of then( wore absent from the office,
without having oven eiguilied their
intention of staying covey, much less
obtaining permission.
"how's my chancel" chuckled 1110
menuger, v' Those young upstarts
tllittk It safe 10 Unice liberties to -clay
because the boss happens 'to bo
away! Well, we'll see!"
When the manager arrived at the
office next day Johnson was in his
usual place, but the tyl'ist was no-
where to be. seen,
"Where's that little Miss Nobody
of yolk's?" icily asl(et1 the manager
of Johnson. lie felt dant ho could
now safely 055tlme an autocratic
ntann00,
"She's given up typewriting," said
Johnson; 'got a hotter berth." •
,rust then the principal's electric
bell rang—once, which- 18(25 for the
manager; than twice which was - for
Mr. Johnson. The pair promptly cat(
tor'd rho private office together.
'!'here, to the nanage''s astonish-
ment, Sat the Manure little typist,
dressed its daintily as a duchess, aid
blushing more prettily than ever,
She occupied the master desk -
chair, while the plaster himself re-
clined lazily in a lounge -chair near
her, 11ir. Johnson's eyes twinkled
loge ,
know !, y
"Good -morning, gentlemen!" said
little Miss Nobody, trying hard to
i] her smiles. "I
you thatmy father decided a year
ago to make over his business to ale,
his only child. 01 t.alr81', I all not
+ lllihl 11`48
vain -tide ]] 1'i 1 1' t i( 1,
ofalfa a I 1
b 1,
111y8e11; hilt 1 thought 1 should like
to find out Who really was the coe-
scientious woelte1 lel the office which
tuns to become mine, so 1. induced my
father 1.0 lot ole work unumg yeti for
a time. :tr. Johnson—who, by the
xay, did nut know who I really 2va5
1111111 a furtlnight. age—will hence-
forth be manager. 'PM pre5eu1 man-
ager may suit as a typist, Should he
caro for the 11081 1 have vacated; but
1 thiole he 10011111 probably he bettor
as a Washer of doorsteps."
The ex -manager looked distractedly
ill the ex -proprietor.
"Whet Mrs. Johnson says,•, (0-
nu11.Iced the latter g Halle Han, laying
great stress m1 the Mrs., "Js fully
authorised,"
BALLROOM ON A CRUISER
LAVISH HOSPITALITY OP THE
BRITISI'I FLEET.
Squadron to Visit All Parts of
the World—Will Give
Receptions.
1t9ten the Admiralty devised the
new 5ehellle of redistribution of fleets
and squadrons, smile quarters of the
globe, where the flog of Great Bri-
tain had been More or lees it familiar
ob,iert, were deprived of the constant
presence of those units of the fleet
from whose masts this ensign was
d181110ycd, say8 a London letter.
Arrangements, - however, have now
been macaw )1,y which the British flag
will be shown to e0e11 the infest re-
mote Parts of the -habitable globe,
not 01110 or tnicc, but constantly.
This duty for the present has been
allotted to the ,ecoid Cruiser Squa-
dron, under the command of Prineo
.1.01118 of 1 2 10nbm•g. The s(lnadron
roa••ist5 of the following a'uisole—
prako (flagship), Berwick, Corn Wall,
Culnbcrlaul and Essex. Another ship
which in all probability will be the
Bedford, will be added, end the num-
ber thus brought. up to Six. The pro-
gramme for the next two years (te-
chnics
1eldes visits to Ann+rica ani the
Wrest Coast of Africa., to which will
probably be added South America.
NAVAL 1[,0SPJTALITY.
The officers anti men o1' the squad-
ron will meet with lavish hospitality
front me !pothers and cousins across
the wale•, and opportunity will be
12001(led them of returning this hos
pitelity. if not on 1110 Sane lavish
settle, at any rate in an adequate
1•0111.1"n0
1110^r.
'1 ho 11ag hip of the second cruiser
squadron 3s to he provided with a
ballroom capable of dancing some
,1100 people, and this ball -room 111 to
be supported by the boat deck. This
is a skeleton deck above the upper
deck, which extends more or less con-
alt going to make ono or two alter -
Lions in my etell. First, let dna f:oli
tinuously between the mails.
On entering the hall -room, rcnthn'ed
bright and altrecti80 by meals of
flowersn nd hunting' the visitor will
lima(ine that he hes found his way
int.) a huge marquee. And such is
indeed the case, for the striped roof
and Walls, where they are v151(110 be -
heath the flags that decorate the in -
teeter, themselves concenI the tent -
'like erection of canvas which serves
Iris a cannily to the floor. In order
'to 1101d this roof In place the hydrau-
lic derrick, by moans of which the
boats ,are hoisted in and out, is to
be called into requisition,
AT OANAIIIAN PORTS.
7'liu programme of this American
trip, though subject to alteration,
wilt i-nclnrle a visit to Quebec, St,
John's, 1Tniifax nncl New York, in the
order named. A dace is to ha given
at Quelac and probably two at New
seerk, while 11 is probable that smal-
ler ones will be given at the other
places visited.
71io squadron will leave Gibraltar
on August 1 for Canada end the
United States, and will call at ilcr-
mttuda on ifs tray back to Gibraltar,
Where it i8 due on or abient Novem-
ber 10. (Carly inthe ensuing year•
i it will start again for the west coast
of Africa. -
THE CLASS PLUMBER,
Attention is called in the Technical
World to the fact that the iIltr011a4
tion of the vacuum -tube light has
brought into exietanee a note trade --
that Of "glass plumping," '1lie glass
tubes• in which the light is produced
by an electric e01)0111 flowing through
a gaseous 0onduc)o'r, ars an incl(
and throe-gna'ters in diameter, and
are put up in lengths of about eight
and 'a half 1104., and hermetically
sealed in situ, For the purpose of
thls work a new set of glass -blower's
instruments has been devised, Include
ing cutting tools, brewers and hand
to'clil•s, and experts perform the nec-
essary operations with surprising ra-
pfdlty.
W.ILI, ('1' 011.)11'! '1"0 TTH11s7
A .new pilot f0'1' the 311(85ian Ship of state.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT ,TQI-IN
BULL ANDH S PEOPLE.
1 LP.
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Occurrences in the Land That
Reigns Supreme (11 tato Come
meroial World.
Net receipts from the coral tax in
the United liiugdum ruse from 41.-
8 t. 1,700
11:841,100 in 1 901 2 to 4:2,032,774 111
1004:-5.
111 England and Welles, outside
Londnn,
there were (luring the last
1.2 months 837 eotvietions of muter
car " delvers
Mr. Carnegie bus ufl'e'ed to provide
a bre 1ibraey for Birkenhead at a
cost of £15,000, and Mr, Lever a
site valued at ,110,000,
Ju a little place in 1/evonshiro one
man 101111s the posts of 101011 hall -
keeper, 1211[ -pester', 1(0141)11au, Sweep,
1.0wll crier and. dustman,
1)11(0ial ro(uens show that last
year's expenses of the Metropolitan
police force were 1`^,195,73(}, and uf.
its pension fold .£'1;3-£;1137.
An Etesteenlelt hue been concluded
between (;rent Britain and 1/02110/
for laying a cable between 111)udoi
and Ma111'itltl5 i11 1.1111 Indian Ocean,
The George fun, 111 the village of
Nurten, Si. .itllilip, Somerset, is
supposed to be the oldest licensed vil-
lage ale -house in 1?uglend. 1t tlates
from 139,.
A Japanese hem of limber neer-I
cha1,1s have just negotiated the pur-i
chase from 0London firm of some'
choice English oak for the interior
liftings of one of the Mikaclo's pal-
aces.
At the annual meeting of the Ant ie!
Slavery Society It was stated tialg
slavery was by no means extinct, a
Portuguese cruiser having so recent-.
ly as 1902 captured a slave t1'ader'
off Mozambique and liberated 700
slaves. I
No houses have been built in the!
CI101100810r111ire village of (erect for
80 years,
Owing to the mining operations be-
neath it, 1110 village church. of Seeger
ley, Stalls, is in danger of 11011aps0,'
and must be closed at once. It was
crested seventy-three ,years ago as a
thankoffering fur the inlminlily of the
village from a cholera visitation.
Though he watched 200 drivers
pass through. the London streets one
day Inst .:eek, he did not see one.
use his whip upon his horse, said the
(Bev, 1. Lawrence, warden of the
Settlement in Suulh, London for',
Promoting Kindness to Animals, I
speaking at l.lermondsey,
'l'lle Commissioner of the London
police stales that the force under his
control 1onsis(s of 1,095 nen, and.
that the cost of its upkeep is 1170,
008. The number of arrests last
year was 4,573, 2,96)6 of which led!
to summary conviction, '142 to coin -I
natal for trial, and 1,4.65 to dis
charge. The value of Property stolen I
was Se113,095, of which 1:4,11(113 tvnrIh.'
had been recovered.
The nppoiutmen1 of tine chaplain to!
1104.14 ILen0w'n, tvh1c11 18 10 11002•ey
the Pl'inee and Princess of Wales to
India, Inas been accepted by the Rev.
the Hen, Leonard '1'ylwhitt, vicar of
Trenton, Stallard:1h i re, one of tho
I1i1ig e hon. chaplains. Jt was Mr.
Tyrwhilt who created a furious con-
troversy a year o1• two ago by his
sermon on "Tho Devil in the Pot-
teries."
CZAR'S THRONE TOTTERS
BLOW MAY CCMmole OlY1 FIT S
OPI'I IA FAMILY,
OWN C L I ,
Reactionaries Believe a Strong
Man Could Put Down
Disorder.
The prospect of a settlement of the
crisis in western )'.trope horns gener-
al attention once mole to the slow
Ma terrific Ornate 21121)11 is aPproa0il-
!ne its culmination In Russia• livery
insurrectionary development, fl'0111
the St. Petersburg outbreak in
Januar,. to the surrender of the rebel
battleship In- the Black Sea dein on-
strnles whet hes been clearly pointed
out that, a successful revolution 111
ljo I11 cannot mule from the masses,
whether milted or unarmed.
There is no cnhe fon taming the
1it15sten people, Generations of LI10
Intuit hate cowed their spirit and
reduced (heir intelligence. The coun-
try i5 too vast, the meads of com-
munication leo limited and the
availahio w'enp001 of repression still
too 81 row; for any concerted nto2e-
ment toward onllncipntlon by the
messes themselves to succeed or' even
to matt
A SYsTEVATIC 111:C1TNN[N<l,
Nevertheless a radical change in
the 11(1(5.100 (government 18 1110%11nb10
and imminent. liven the •reactionaries
Who control the ('za' most of the
time recognise this fact. They believe.
that the present condition of virtual
anarchy in many ]urr1.5 of the em-
pire is (1110 to lapses from the policy
of relentless oppression on the part
0f th,, unhappy ruler. It is said that
1111',y era cont'tnced there Is 81}11 n
chance of success in stamping out
popular discontent by wholesale vio-
lence, and hence the reports 0f a Piet
to retnot'o the Cc:(2r, who is hopeless-
ly weak.
A11 attempt to usurp ti20 throne
and reflect! Ro5sia to subrnissi0n in
the pi.esen1 condition of 111ings would
result in unparalleled bloodshed and
a 10111; reign of terror, Whether It
ancevecied Or failed, 1ln the other
hand, those leaders of the bureau-
cracy who believe it advisable to
compromise with the popular rdcnla1nd
for a constitution and national 1egls-
latere are said to recognize nim ne-
cessity fon' a strong; ruler on the
throne or otherwise the Liberals will
soon gain full control and the whole
present system will be doomed.
P1111 PERSON 01 Tail. Blui'i;it0[t
seems really safer with the advocates
of reform in t)te present 1111818 than
among itis netted entourage. Ilia at-
Lilude for the past few clays, how-
ever, fends toward a complete alien-
ation of the. T,Iberal leaders. The
latter have virtually decided to put
a policy of passive rC5dstanee in full
operation et the end of the present
,oitli. A general strike and refusal
to Payr taxes will soon paralyze the
collo lry and render ovens the extreme
reactionary helpless.
But before this policy reaches its
cul'nlinalion there will he startling
evens in Prussia enc] h0 whale.
sdtualfon will be 11120n(101t1 Tlarker
clays may intervene, but Russia will
he saved from utter ruin and then
her regeneration will Isegin,
THE SULTAN'S GUARD.
British Man -hunting Dogs For
Turkish Palace,
Tho Sultan of Turkey has 010010d
a pack of British -bred man -tracking
dugs to safeguard his person in his
Palace at Constantinople, and to he
used to run Turkish criminals to
earth,
'Phe dogs have been ordered through
the Turkish Embassy from -Major 11.
Richardson, the well-iknown breeder
of Panbridgo, 11'orfturshire, Scotland.
:Major Richardson informed a Lon-
don Express representative recently
that tho ability of the dogs to track
a man was the Sultan's chief stipula-
tion. The animals to be sent out
y111 be specially trained for this
work. Pour of the six requited are
already iu perfect training, and the
other two will shortly be proficient.
Major Richardson said that t the
clogs aro not bloodhounds, They acre
of a brood which hastaken111m eight
yea's continual expevimenthlg With
over 70 different crosses to pro(iuuo.
Moattracking clogs, he explained,
use only the nose, and if not giver
a trail are practically (seless; In a
crowd of people, or on a shay when
thea is no scent, the bloodhound
would be completely lost.
Tho Sultan's dogs, on the con-
trary, will use eyes, cars and brain.
They will follow a trail a8 kecly
and relentlessly as a bloodhound; but
they will also hunt without a trail,
and the scent of the quarry may be
crossed a dozen tittles with impunity.
These dogs . aro nut roquir0tl for
phescie 0 power. Their first and chief
duty is to track the fugitive. • Ten
years ago the Sultan bought sumo
l':nglisb mastiffs for 1110 sane per -
1)051r, but they were [wand to muti-
late their victims,
Otto smile makes a flirtation. One
tlb'taticnl maker) two 01quain1acl.
Two acquainted makes one 1.115, Ona
kiss makes several ntor0. Severn.(
1418s05 make an engagement. One
engagement makes two fools, Two
fools make 000 marriage. One niar-
l'!agu males 1.(8o mothers -le -law, TWO
fllOthcrs-in-late make a rete -hot time.
Tie --"'001'1 you thindc that lva
min'8 clover?" (silo—"Clnvel•? Why,
5he's 50 rloVer that slip oast make all
her r1.,ilht's without other women
knowing it,''
I"(rst i'risnlel'—"So the detectives
foiled you but, did they?" Second
Prisoner—"No, they found me in."
)111l1118 11 "(3 'til '(1 htentoeo034 V
White and Meek, pale bile and
pink end Lau --ever,. color luta ex.
presser] Itself In :setao pecedia'fy char-
acteristic. „way, until it is almost
}lard to mike is wrong seleetiOn, 'toren
IV nho0sing at l'}t11d0t1'1.
DISGUISED AS AS A DUSTBIN.
Dwarf Degenerate Has Novel Way
of Evading Detection.
Francis (:add, who has just been
sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment at Peng° Police Court, London;
England, Is a pigmy burglar of a
very reitarl(rtblc type.
'Though thirty -live years of age,
Gadd is only 4 ft. 773,, in, In height,
and police officials describe- him as
a humorist, w11080 quips and cranks
aro irresistibly funny.
Ho hail been well known to the
South Wales police for years, and on
many occasions he has utilized his
smallness of stature to escape clotec-
tion. After his last arrest he 8110W -
ed his captors ]low ho had managed
to avoid observation so long,
With the skill of a trained con-
tortionist he rolled himself tap until,
to use his own words, he appeared
00 bigger than a1 ash -bucket. Ho
(declared, in fact, that the police had
more than .a (iozen times m(8101(en
hien for a 8111011 (lust -bin as he lay
curled Up after committing various
bm•glaries.
Indirectly,- Gadd leas responsible
for bringing about an improvement
in the system of identification from
kluge' -prints:
Until recently the only distinguish-
ing point between the forms used for
taking the impressions of both sexes
was .the words "female" and "finale"
in small .typo. Noticing that the
form placed before hint was marked
"female," owing to an OfIiecr's nnls-
talke, Gadd made the required im-
pr05si00, but artfully signed his
name "Frances" Distend of 110(20035,
and as his fingers are small, the int-
erim (.t11w1t'1f. 'Rosined 01111 011)11211 n
pression passed into the foliate sec-
tion of tho collection at Scotland -
yard,
When Gadd next appealed in the
docs( he Wits abort to be treated as
a first offender, when he was r00og-
nize(1 by a Cardial' detective, As a
result a change Wag made in 't110 of-
ficial linger -print !farms, talose for
100(001 being printed in red.
A CI:IEAU[111 WAY,
If you as 10cilcing' for trouble and
can't +F'e'll an automobile, buy a
mule,
Ethel—"'Phone's ole of the patio•
chairs broker, papa." Papa— 'Dear
1nel Those are strung 0hoir8—strong
enough for one per8001, at any rate."
31:1he1—"Yes, papa, but perhaps not
strong enough for two,' And then
She 00+11)010 too late that she had
given herself away.
"'i don't believe ha could t(11 the
U'uth if he welded to." •,Oil, that
tluesn't worry him. lie never Wailtt1
10 When he can."
THE REFORMED 13
C Y EXPERIENCE 2
TJNANN ZaX B.Iza N A
FAIZ 1415 KITO
FARMER
IS
I'IE
Early Incident Brought Back t0'
Flint By His Visitor's
' Umbrella.
"To this day," said the retired'
burglar—his visitor had just closed
and placed in the umbrella -holder ill
tho hall a dripping imihrella—"Lo•
this day I novel' sec an umbrella
without thinking of an experf0uce I
had with a 100. of uncal once in the
kitchen )a. a country farmhouse, whoa
1: first tools up the business.
"1 ht11 had a complete view of the
whole interior• of this kitchen, teems
OS 1' walked past the house by flay,
and 1 had taken, as you ought say,
in a Single glnnel, 1111 instantaneous
photograph of ft that remained per-
fectly cleat' in my hind. I knew all
about 11. 1: katal. there ass no table
standing In the 111lcldle of the room,
as you are likely to find in some
kitchens; and it wet8n't swishing or
ironing day, so 111000 12148 1111 clothes-
horse out, (hero was n0 obstruction
in the room anywhere.
"And 1 knew the location of every
elude, and where the stove stood,
and whore the door was that opened
into the living part of the house. £
knew the kitchen and every iaatnr0'
of IL; and 1 knew that I could walk
around in it, or across it, or any-
where about in it with perfect 001111-
tlence In the darkest night, 1 Icac:25
it all so definitely and well. lint'
that night., when .0 set out to waltz:
eimpiy straight across the middle of
it, from the back floor of th0"kilchcn
to that other door leading into the
body of the house, across where in
the plan so clearly fixed to any mind
there was nothing in the way what-
ever,
I CAMP: TO CI 111E10,
"Tho back don' openeel
oast/
enough, and, in fact, it seemed as if
everything was going to he easy,
but a.t the second step forward
across that kitchen .l kicked against
something that sort of sprung back
and jumped away from mc, and.
scraped, sort of, along the floor, sort
of ns if It might. have been a Lig
crab wailing there to bite ala So I
started off In another direction, but
the first step I tool[ that 121(y I
brought up against 'another one of
those things, that jumped back and
scraped along 1110 floor just, like the•
first one, and it certainly did put
my nerves on'edge, though I hadn't.
ought to have any nerves et all.
"But I. started again, still making
for that inner door, and going now
very carefully (11nd1 1/e111 forward, lis-
tening, as one is likely to do in 'the
dark, like that, and the first thing
i 10(ely I went up against another of
Chose things on the floor, whatever"
they were, and it didn't give quite
su melt as the others had—ii was.
blocked en the other side, or some-
thing—and
olart ling—anti 1 was leaning forward,
and, Lhe first thing I know, over I
trout., pitching forward, falling 011
this thing and smashing it down and
falling and rolling over, myself, and
51a1111111ng my jimmy clown on the•
flour as I fell, with noise enough to -
wake up the whole township.
"Itut I had hung on to my lamp,
which I was carrying in my loft
hand, and kept that from breaking,
and now T got up anis turned of the
glint and looked around the kitchen,
incl it was a lot of open umbrellas
setting around on rho floor that I'd
been falling over; the floor was cov-
ered with tient, all open, with their
handles
RESTING ON Trim FLOOR.
And then I remembered that there'd
been quite a rain late that day after
I'd been along' the road, and the
whole family must have been out in
it, visiting the neighbor's or going to
a party or something, and carrying.
all the umbrellas i11 the house, and
whet they came back, lilts careful
people, they'd .spread 'can all out
around, open, du the kitchen to dry,
and it Nay these umbrellas that I
had stumbled over and that had tin -
ally upset me.
'All this it takes some time to tell
you, but just one glance was enough
to show it to 1(10 at the time, and
oto glance was 1(11 I eared'to take
time for, because the rattling 1(0101y
and my own big jounce 011 the floor
had roused everybody and shaken
-
the whole 11ou80, . a1(i I could hear
'en coming, it seemed to rue, front
every froom above; but I was•noarer
the door.
','Well, it 0105 a lost night, but not
a lost lesson. It taught me that it
was never safe to take anything for
granted; that it didn't follow be-
calm you'd Seen a +room or a place
in one rhotic at one hour that it
would be like that a few homy
later, .Forty thousand things might'
have happened in the meantime, and.
you must, 1levee take things foe
granted; you .must always take Me -
caution. And seeing you come in
with that umbrella carried 111e back,
tight away, to that Old experience.
'Rut I ought not to go wandering
on like this bofo'O you've had a
thence to put 121 a mord. Now, what -
eon I (1e for you'?"
4
WIlOLL1 'P14TJTFIS.
Speculation is when you lose; in-
vestment when 3101) W111,
'T'here should be music in every
Menlo excepting' the one next door.
Some girls sing like nightingales,
and others like gales in the 111ght.
A fair exchange Is no robb0y, but
the cli ffleul ly is to find at fair eft-
olian.
P110 g01001(1)1( about greeting 1(1(8(1)1'-
11.1110 With a smile is that it never,
8
111
ilc5,baek,
%`hero is a ga'00t (.toot of interlace
between a Mend in need and a needy
friend,
We regard a mat as level-headed
abase lions seem to 120 o1 a level
tvitit cur 049(1,
1f 1(31)1(1 talked about makes tine
ears burn, those 0f some peoplemust
ho made of asbestos,
When 8110111(hng of her "rage, a wom-
an doesn't tell you one thing to -day
and. another ten ,yea's late'.
1(1081 single women say they
wou1(111't marry the best main in the
World, 11.1111 most married women
'know they 'didn't,