The Brussels Post, 1915-1-14, Page 6TNlIST POOR OLDFRIENDS
VIVI'<1
LIGHT ON THE.T1lAFFIC
IN OLD HOBOES.
Tolling the Tule of the Cruel .Thiele
nese and of Britain's
Shame.
Beery year is procession of tired,
worrouold heroes -marches weari-
ly fromall parts of.Engl'and to the•
docks of Louden. Leith Newcas'tle,.
Cooler Grimsby and ;€fully writes
Calm. the Hon. A. C. Murray, M.
P,, in London Answers.
Poor old fellows - they are, too I
Old hunters, some of them, who
' have followed the hounds on ,many,
a •bright morning with never a
"baulk" at the stiffest fence. Here
and there nsaty..ibe seen a -stocky
little pony, who for years hastaken
the kiddies of the family out in a
governess cart—and brought them
home, too !—willingly and safely. A
few sturdy Clyderrclale.s, who have
served their masters faithfully and
long at many a ploughing and har-
vest, also take part in this sad
march past.
Their Grim •Old Age.
though he had. the right to send
back 04nglaiadeettlee horlie euftlaing
fx'rm glander,e pee memo he Baeyer
dql cox' , ae they -wolvia, only ba
thrown overbiaarell—alive lave
the trouble,,wnde* nse.gt a profit-
less )aurnagee
Klet sly, it fe time, that a Britimh-
erof- mon- twat womeuo, put a stop to
this heatitleds trade—a trade that is
a diagrawe to all eonoerned, but the
greatest of all to urs,.la EngiWnd,
wheprofeesl:to lovlee he horse,
At least we might ,make it our
business to see that these ,poor
beasts whir have served; us so long
and faithfully, aliouGd
'' die ;painlesa-
ly.
You might, perhaps, think that
these faithful beasts, these, old
friends, are wending, their wry to
some happy grazing, ground where,
after. their years of faithful service,
they will be adloweetto pass the re-
mainder of their days in happiness
and peace—that this procession is
one of honor, both to them and
their masters.
But it is neither. On the con-
trary, outside England it is known
as 'England's Shame." In Eng-
land itself it is called the "traffic in
old horses."
In everyday life, in sport and war,
our horses have taken their share.
True, the pick of British• horses are
bought by foreigners, and pass
their days in comfort. But what
happens to the ordinary "middle-
class" horse when he becomestoo
o".cl and tirei to hunt, to plough,
or to pull the governses card
Ile is allowed by his. •affectionate
master or mirtresa to pass into the
hands of Continental dealers in
horsrfleih—callous brutes, for the
must part. without one spark of
kindly feeling for the old horse,
whose only interest in him is the
price he will fetch in the meat mar-
ket.
One would think that this last
journey would, at least, be made
as comfortable as possible, but, to
our everlasting shame, the exact
apposite is the case, Many boats
are employed in this traffic, but
only one—the Harrowgate, owned
by Messrs.. Wilson—is fitted espe-
cially for carrying horses.
With Sticks and Knives.
In the majority of cases, stacks• of
hay may be seen on board these
boats—m compliance with the
Board of Trade regulations—but
BARBED .WIRE IN WAR.
Stop. Bayonet Charges and Hinder
Cavalry.
With the aeroplane and motor
traction., barbed wire is among the
latest inmgvations of modern' war-
fare, and in order to appreciate the
difficulties• which our soldiers have
toefaoe.is attaching tic German posi-
tion it is necessary to know exactly
what these wire obstructions are,
and the conditions under which
they. are , used.
There. are ,two classes of wire en-
tanglements,: namely, high and
low, and 'both possess that essential
of all temporary field fortifications
simplicity and ease of construe -
Lien.
High entanglements are most
commonly used to protect trenches
against bayonet charges. For this
purpose stout stakes some five feet
long are used. They are planted
in the ground about six feet apart
in rows in front of the trenches,
whioh it is desired to shield from
assault. If time and material per-
mit at least six rows are driven in,
and sometimes the stakes are made
more secure by being fastened by
lengths of wire to holdfasts or pegs.
Each stake is 'then connected to
every other stake around it with
numerous lengths of barbed wire
arranged horizontally and diago-
nally.
A line of trenches ego defended is,
with reason, regarded as impregna-
ble .against a frontal attack unless
its defenders have bean completely
demoralized by well -directed artil-
Iery fire. Entanglement of wires
can be demolished in a -eery few
minutes by men equipped with
pliers. But in the face of a rapid
fire from magazine rifles at practi-
cally point-blank range those few
moments would suffice for the anni-
hilation of whole regiments.
The low wire entanglements are
designed almost exclusively as cav-
alry obstacles. Pegs, eighteen inch-
es or two feet long, are driven into
the ground in rows a few feet apart,
and the barbed wire is fixed be-
tween them so as to form a sort of
network. In its simplest form the
low wire obstacles consists merely
of a trip wire.
In either shape it is frequently
fixed along long grass so as to be
concealed. The low entanglement
there they remain, voyage alter is calculated to bring down horse
voyage ; for not one mouthful of and rider. but from a humanitarian
fodder or water is given to the pour point of view it is e. considerable im-
brutes from one end of the misera-
ble journey to the other!
On arriving at Antwerp, some
with eyes gouged out, and many
lamed and bleeding from ,the fright-
ened struggle on board, the weary
old things . are driven throughthe
streets of the town to the quaran-
tine stable, four a:nd a half miles
away.
Here they are examined by a vet-
erinary surgeon. Those considered
fit for human consumption have a
hole punched in one ear in which a
metal button is clenched. This but-
ton has to be returned within ten
days. and th•e amount of suffering
inflicted on the frightened, half-
starved, ill-treated animals during
that period may be left to the ima-
gination. Yuen then, many of the
buttons do not come back, which
means that the unhappy beasts have
been doomed to drag out still more
time, working for masters without
pity. in a, state of sickness, hunger
and misery.
After leaving the quarantine sta-
ble at Antwerp they have to -trudge,
perhaps, thirty miles to some town
inland, ,their wearied bodies kept
moving by drovers armed with
sticks and knives, which they use
unmercifully.
The Shaine of England.
Others may go a three or four
days' journey by train, herded to-
gether anyhow, without one drop of
water or one bite of food.
-• No wonder this traffic is called
"the shame of ]:island" by those
who witness the ill-treatment of old
Englieb horses in Belgium! What
a reward for faithful service—what
a tradti for a nation of horsemen to,
be mixed up in 1
AtAntwerp, where the horses are
killed with a poleaxe, generally
blunt, they may be seen to fall
screaming to the ground -and any-
one whA- has 'beards horse scream
will•: never forget ib i At Ghent
thoupars of horses are killed
every year with sledge bamaners,
while in most of the private slaugh-
ter-houses,,a knife is used!
Last year fit* thousand horses
were eondeimned in this way. Of
dieser, forty -fear, thousand were vel..
tied ,at under Bits;„which :puts them
fn
,the "docrepit horse” class. '
Will L'arliamcut Act?
So eallous to Buffeting do the men
engaged in 'this trade become that a
Government veterinary surgeon
raid the other day at Antwerp that
MAHARAJAH OP GWALIOR,
Aeoording to Report Reis Said to
Bea Betnarkable''Mau.
For sheer versatility, for dew -
Hon to work, and.Ror , fearlesanesss
iu sport, says Saint Nehal Sing In
theStrand Magazine, the Mahara-
jahof ;Gwalior ie unexoelled amopg
the maharajahs, Re oan carry in
his head the minutest details of the
administration of lain state, whioh
is more than 96,000 squaremiles in
area—about twice the size of brave
Belgium, He can do the work of
the lowest olerk in his employ in
the remotest part of his dominion,
or perform the most complicated
tasks of his higheeJt-paid official.
With equal facility he candischarge
the duties of the trooper or ein-
fantryman
-fantryman off his army, or can h
thebrilliant column of his military
forma. With perfect sangfroid he
can jump into the driver's cah and
pilot a heavily laden railway train
over the steepest . gradients and
around ,the most treacherous
curves. For him to see a broken-
down niotoroar is to feel hie fingers
twitching to put ib into action. And
he is no merb mechanic, but is an
inventor as well.
I have' been told of times when
this ruler—only 38 years, old at the
present time—bas sat through the
beet part of the night puzzling over
the details of revenue and expendi-
ture of his state, jumped in. the
morning on the engine and taken a
party of distinguished hunters over
the mountainside into the jungle,
and spent the whole day stalking
lions and tigers from an elephant's
back.
On one such occasion he and
three other friends were riding on
the hack of an elephant in a sort of
balanced saddle. The maharajah
'was placed on one side of the how-
dahalong with another heavy -set
hunter, while two lightweights were
together on the other side. With-
out warning, just as a tiger had
been struck with a bullet, but had
rushed away into the jungle unkill-
ed, the ill -balanced saddle sudden-
ly lurched, throwing out the ma-
harajah. The elephant plunged
ahead, leaving his highness, who
still clung to his rifle, sprawling on
the ground. Without hesitating a
moment, he ran into the thick for-
est after the disappearing beast,
and was not again seen until late at
night. Then, when his courtiers
were beginning to grow frantic at
his long -continued absence in such
circumstances, he suddenly appear-
ed, bringing along the skin of the
tiger, which he had relentlessly pur-
sued on foot, shot, and flayed with
his own hands.
provement on the cruel obstacles
formerly used against cavalry.
TILE PURSUIT OF HEALTH.
Story of the Man Who Followed the
Doctors Orders.
Along the pike I sadly hike, clear
to the county's borders; o'er sand
and rock I daily walk—it is the doc-
tor's orders. O'er hill and dale I
hit the trail, and sigh, "If Heaven
pleases, this honest toil, close to
the soil, will cure my twelve dis-
eases." The farmer's pup would
eat me up, and chase me o'er the
ridges; I'm full of scare where
motor -cars have knocked me off the
bridges. But still I toil across the
soil, where grinning jays behold
me, until I lame my withered frame
because the doctor told me.
The doe's command! When them
he hands down from Inc whiskered
jawbones, the patient bows and
makes his vows that he'll obey the
sawbones. No prince or king on.
earth, by jing! can make the peo-
ple mind him, like our old doe; we
never balk, but just obey, dad blind
him!
He feels my wrist and mutters,
"Hist! Your heart is out of kilter ;
your lungs are punk—this is no
bunc-your kidneys do not filter.
You live too high, eater, much pie
and porterhouse and cutlets; you'll
have to change your habits strange,
like other pampered muttlets.
Hereafter eat a cold raw beet,
which, will sustain and cheer you,
and when you're dry just cast your
eye upon that hydrant near you."
No other guy beneath the sky
could make me do his bidding. I'd
say, "Ods death! Conserve your
breath'1 I'm weary of your kid-
ding!" But when the dee makes
sueh a talk I argue not nor ques-
tion ;
uestion; I live on straw and hay and.
slaw, and jar up my digestion. For
days and weeks I live on leeks and
barks and leaves and grasses, while
neighbors 'boast the luscious roast
and ibuckwheats and molasses.
Folks say to me, "Oh, htilly chee
Why all these crazy ructions?"
And I reply with heartfelt sigh, "Ib
is the dot's instructions!"
au
No wave of sympathy should ever
be allowed to 'burst the dykes of
prudence,
FOE'S ERRORS OF STRATEGY
IS SMOKING HARMFUL?
It All Depends on the Man Using
Tobacco.
BELGIUM'S INVASION A GOOD
THING FOR FRANpE.
Until manhood is reached and full
growth attained there is not the
slightest doubt that the use of to-
.baceo is decidedly harmful. Ib often
arrests growth, and is the cause of
many youths being undersized and
under -developed generally. It in-
terferes with mental alertness and
intelligenee, and might very pro-
perly be blamed for many a man's
failure to get on in. life at a time
'when he should have been keenly
ambitious, mentally active and in-
dustrious, But provided a man has
attained his full growth he should
suffer no ill effects so long as he
continues to smoke in moderation.
The amount of tobacco which is im-
plied by the term moderation varies
so much that every man must de-
cide by his own experience how it
is to be interpreted in his case. It
is a remarkable but ,perfectly well
recognized fact that one may be
able to smoke four times as much
as another without injury. The
healthful amount of Smoking will
be found to soothe the nerves, and,
when indulged after eating, to
stimulate the digestion gently and
to remove the unpleasant sensation
of fulness.
Where smoking is carried to ex-
cess there may be a continuous dry-
ness of the mouth, and an inflamed
condition of the mucous membrane
of the throat, which causes a tick-
ling cough. Other ,signs are dys-
pepsia, nervousness, a fluttering of
the heart, and sometimes trembling
of the hands, In bad cases the eye-
sight is .affected, and serious hearb
trouble may result, As a rule all
'these symptoms disappear entirely
when smoking is given up, and as
long as indulgence in tobacco is
kept within thebounds of modera-
tion a man is quite free from them.
In cases of the amount being ex-
ceeded a man should decide exaetly
how much he can use and stick firm-
ly to it, counting out ,his pipefuls
and cigarettes, and resolving not to
go beyond the number fixed upon,
It is a matter of will power entire-
ly., and if he has any regard for hie
health he must.exerciee his deter-
mination.—A Physician.
'1'he Kaiser's Stuff blade the Vital
Blunder of Underrating
Opponents.
In the Bulletin dos Franoaie, pule.
Belied at Bordeaux, France, there
appears in an issue of the present
month an interesting comment on
German strategy in the present
war. The caption of the article is
German Strategic Errors," and
in it is pointed ou,b what are con-
sidered to be, from a French stand-
point, Germany's •greatest military
errors up to the latter part of No-
vember. The article as translated
is in part as follows':
"It appears that the German
General ,Staff has begun to pay for
the greatmistakemade in the pre-
paration of its war plans, which
was to underesbimette the worth of
Germany's adversaries. The Ger-
mane ,permitted themselves to be
persuaded by Pan -German fables
concerning the alleged undisciplin-
ed condition of the French soldiers,
the miserably insufficient,prepared-
nese of the English, the supposedly
poorly organized Russian Army as
judged by the.. Manchurian cam-
paigns, and, finally,, the worth of
the little Belgian National Guard.
Drunken with self-confidence they
thought, 'Is there. an enemy we
have not eonquered l'
Presumed Too Much.
"Their plan has always shown a
singularly , impertinent presump-
tion. We saw much of that in their
inspired literature concerning the
crushing of France in six weeks, af-
ter which they would execute a gi-
gantic right -about-face, attack the
Russians, and leave the occupation
of conquered France to their sec-
ond line troops. It was in order to
convince himself of the excellence
of this plan that the ,Commander in
Chief in Berlin multiplied writings
in which it was abundantly demon-
strater, both from economic and
military arguments, that the war
of the future would ;be a short one.
Events have proved this a radically
false idea.
Dare Not Abandon Berlin.
RUSSIA MAILING STRIDES.
Country; of V sat Possibilities Lacks
Suliiodent Sea Coast.
The progress of Russia has been
tremendous in the last decade, says
a writer in the Popular Seience
Monthly. Theyeses eine° the .Iap-
anees war .have seen the adoption
of w constitutional regime, the
rapid 'spread of industrialism, the
greatest agrarian reforms shape
emancipation, and a remarkably in-
telligent study and handling of the
problems of primary education,
agrieulture and. intemperance.
Along with this has come a clear
appreoiation of the richness of her
resources. "In the markets of the
world there exists to -day a famine
in meat, lumber and Ibreadstuffs,"
say the,. ,Russian economists, and
Russia has, or can develop, all
three to an indefinite amount. Rus-
iia has a geographic basis for a
greatnation such as is possessed
by no other people unless it' be our
own.
It is wanting, however, in one..
important respect; it lacks an ode-
suets coast line. Russia's sea
coast is too small for so lenge a
state and She is bound to demand
more. Indeed, that is what she has
been doing for centuries, her coast;
ward movement has been in pro-
gress for at least four hundred
years and we are witnesses to -day
of another gigantic step in this di.
rection. The Germans block the
way, and ultimately, combined with
them, the 'Swedes and Danes.
That Russia with her population
of 17.5,000,000, increasing at the rate
of nearly three millions a year, and
with resources ao vast and undevel-
oped that they can only be roughly
estimated, will be kept permanently
bottledup is not likely., Her coast
ward advance, however, will follow
lines of least resistance and the con-
quest of an outlet by way of Con-
stantinople to the world's trade is
as inevitable as is its geographical
reasonableness. Toward the Per-
sian Gulf the way is also open and
inviting. Indeed, everywhere in
Asia she has the unique advantage
of inbernal lines of development •and
therefore also of attack. Geo-
graphically the serious menace to
British world supremacy does nob
lie in Germany, but in Russia.
"The first decisive 'battle of the
war is probably the one which is
now unfolding in Poland. We shall
see how the beautiful theories of
peace work out, whioh were to
abandon the capital, if necessary,
to the enemy of the east in order to
crush the enemy of the west in a
minimum time. Do not forget that
the first sudden attack by Russia on
East Prussia provoked a stream of
German transports from the west
to the east,
"The second axiom of German
strategy, namely, enveloping by
wings, had as a direct consequence
the invasion. of Belgium. This is
not the place to tell of the colossal
political error of this enterprise.
The seed of thab will be reaped in
Germany when the treaty of peace
is signed.
Too Good to be Trite.
Mother—Now, Freddie, if you're
disagreeable to Cousin Ethel she
won't come and play with you
again.
Freddie—Is that a promise?
RETALIATION' OY CONVICTS. NOTES OF sclENcR
T1IE VENGEANCE 'VOW AND 4P5
CONSUMMATION.
1'
KING HAS PRIVATE WAR NEWS
Gets Confidential Despatches of
War Office and Admiralty.
When King George visited a mili-
tary hospital on a recent occasion
the wounded with whom he chatted
were astonished at his Majesty's ex-
tensive.and accurate knowledge of
the officers under whom, they had
served, and also the information he
possessed of the movements of the
troops on the Continent. As a mat-
ter of fact, King George and Lord
Kitchener undoubtedly lona more
concerning the activities of the Brit-
ish troops than any men in Eng-
land. Sir John French's private de-
spatches to Lord Kitchener are
shared by King George. Almost
every day the newspapers report
that the Secretary of State for. War
has visited the King, and it is dur-
ing these oonaultations that the vi-
tal foots concerning the ,troopsare
laid ,before his Majesty,,
Of course, not the slightest rumor
of what has occurred at these meet-
ings ever leaks out. Directly the
King has left his private eparb-
ments a secretary enters and de-
stroys the contents of the waste-
paper basket or any odd scrap of
paper which might afford a clue as
to what took place during the inter-
view. These precautions are taken
before any servant is allowed to en-
ter the room. Important military
despatches Ring George keepslook-
ed in his safe and deet, of which
there are bub single keys, which his
Majesty carries with him.
It was a wounded soldier who
said that "King George carried the
army list in his head," but the en-
thusiastic "Tommy" in question
would probably be more surprised
if he knew the full exbent of Inc
Majesty's knowledge of military
and naval affairs. During his many
years in the naimethe, King had• am -
pie opportunity of studying British
and foreign coast defences, He
knows every weak and •strong spot
on the North Sea and -Channel
coaab,, and of recent years he has
especially concerned himself with
the growth of English coast de-
fences. King George has also ob-
tained extensive precbieal knowl-
edge of naval ladies by taking an
active part in all the big naval re-
views.
Tolling a Few Instances Where
Nothing Seriously
Resulted.
Some , convicted prisoners take
their sentences philosophically
enough; others rags for a bit, and
then quiet down. Others burn with
the hist for revenge of the, real, red
sort ; and it seems to give them
some kind of ghoulish satisfaction
—it alleviates their thirst for blood
—if they can, with mighty oaths,
decla .e whet, they're going to . do
when 'the day of freedom comes,
writes a prison ohaplain in London
Answers.
On Murder Bent.
I remember one
man sayito
m, with vicious bitterness andan
evil light in his eyes: '''You wait,
parson, till I get out of thief Give
mo twenty-four howl, and !11 hash
the life out o1 Mull Th. eooun-
drel I" And he grite his teeth.
You checkhim, or try to; but it's
useless. He'lladmit the truth of
what you say. but, "Wait and,you'll
set; !" See you 'book here?' you
colnplete, with significance. "I
don't -care! I'll swing for him!"
Well, there you haveto leave it.
You've done your best. Convict
lea is going to do his worst, and you
can't atop hien.
He served his time and went out.
Also, he came back. What happen-
ed? By pure chance.I roan tell the
awful story. He went back to his
town, reported himself, and imme-
diately sought the man he intended
to maim, or murder. He made the
round of several public -houses, and,
while he was in one, the man he
was looking for entered.
The new -comer looked, recogniz-
ed his old pal, slapped him on the
back, seized his hand, and shook it
again and again, and, in the ex-
uberance of his joy, called for a
.bottle of his friend's favorite re-
freshment.
"It's a sight for sore eyes to see
you again, Bill! How're you feel-
ing? •I am glad to see you ! When
did yer come out? Give us another
shake 1"
Belgian Attack Aided France.
"But to apea'k only of military af-
fairs, it is not enough to say that
Germany, in attacking Belgium,
did a benevolent thing for France.
That made England united on the
question of an immediate expedion-
ary army, and the great extension
of one of the German wings on the
left bank of the Meuse lost every
aspect of a surprise—and a strate-
gical surprise is one of the most
precious elements of success.At
all events, we have not seen a bril-
liant quick movement, nor has an
unexpected one mime from the forti-
fied regions of Metz-Thionville to
the formidable aloselstellung.
"All their beautiful strategy, of
such formidable appearance, has
ended, in that since the battle of the
Marne, we have had to take the
initiative in operations, and, as a
matter of fact, the time has arrived
when we attack the Germans at
will. If neither of the two belliger-
ents has been able to surround his
adversary on .account of the North
Sea, it is nevertheless true that ib
is our line of ;battle which effected
the enveloping movemenb from
Nieuport to Belfort, with the re-
sult that for a month and a half
the Germans have been reduced to
a strategical defensive,
Calais 0f No Use.
"Emperor William ordered the
capture of Calais at any cost. If
this desire of taking Calais at any
cast is real we must see in it a de-
sire to raise a bodiless scarecrow in
the face of England. A German pa-
per said recently : 'The English,
fearing for the security of 'their
island, have decided to send no
more troops to the continent' New
fables,
"Suppose the Germans bad the
freedom of the sea for a few hours,
thanks to a fog, ib would still .• be a
difficrglt .problem to land en expe-
ditionary :force on British soil for
the very good reason that already
they are having a very hard time It is sometimes inmost as hard to livery cloud .has a silver lining ;
feeding their troops on the eontin- meet it bill as it is to keep out ofbut that is small consolation when
ant.,, its way, you cannot see through' the cloud.
Dancing in Germany.
Dancing at the German court is
alwaye a matter to be taken seri-
ouuly. The kaiser himself is an ex-
pert dancer, and will have only ex-
perts ab the state balls.' At .all
India has trained runners who
can .,&over more than 300 miles a
d'ay.
Machines have been perfected
that can make more than 600,000
rnatchen an. boar.
A. road made of leather waste
treated with tar is giving excellent
aerviee in England,
Three hundred camdlepcwe.r of
light is given by a new kerosene
lamp that new. two mantles.
The finest of Japanese so-oal•led
rice' eiga.rette papers is made from
the trimmings of flax and hemp.
Both the fruit, which resembles
grapes, and the flowers of a Bra-
zilian tree grow dia'eetly on the
bark.
That it will prevent fatigue is the
inventor's claim for a form of ban-
dnge to be strapped to the elbow,
London motor omnibuses of a.car
tain type are being, fitted with
steam driven motors using coke for
fuel.
A Drench sci'entiet has nruoceeded
in freezing water under pressure
in-
to ice ao heavy that it will not float.
When waiter boils in a kettle in-
vented byea Japansee the bubbles
strike againet metallic bars and
produce musical sounds.
Rhodesia in the first six an,onths
of ,last year. produced gold worth
about $1,800,000 nacre than in the
corresponding period of last year.
A new toothbrush made of paper
impregnated with cleansing and
sanitary drugs is idtended to be
used but once,, then thrown away.
Clay found in one place in Eng-
land is ea bituminous that bricks
shade from it yield oil, gas and am-
monia when heated is a retort,
A Britieh patent has been grant-.
ed for a ship hestructed thatin
hull would sink
evellt'af wreckk,,
and the decks float away with the
passenigers.
In Aunbralia, where the rabbit
pest has been a serious problem for
years, it is estimated that ten rab-
bits eat'as much as one sheep.
P•ractioe targets for the British
navy 'have been butat up from many
plates of steel, any of wihich can be
cheaply replaced wheel injured.
Cottonseed meal, when mixed
with cornmeal or flour, has heal
found to make a nourishing, econo-
mical and palatable food for human
beings.
By the erection of a chain of sta-
tions for a distance of 1,800wmiles up
the Congo River it will be possible
to send wireless messages all the
way across Africa.
A. recently invented fish hook is
so weighted that, should it fall to
the bottom of a stream the point of
the hook and the bait are held up
within reach of a fish.
The juice of a cactus gr -,wing
plentifully in Uruguay is used mite,
lime an that country to make a bril-
liant Whitewash which withstards
storms and hosts for years.
Aocording.to & French physician,
the fumes from aluminum factories
not only are destructive to vegeta-
tion, but they also cause a form of
diabetes to workers in them.
Lighter and less injurious to the
circulation than the plaster of penis
bandages generally cried as a wire
gauze bandage invented by n Brus-
sels surgeon to hold a. fractured
limb immovable.
An inventor believes he has muds
poieon tablets safe by crating than
with an antidote for their contents,
the idea being that, if swallowed by
accident, the antidote would coun-
teract the poison.
A °Landon electrician has invent-
ed a safe that is unlocked by a Awn-
ing fork, the vihratic•ns of whsc'h
cause a vire within the safe to vi -
bingo in harmony with them end
operate the mechanics electrically.
The Silent Nan.
No. 1438 "shakes," drinks, and
starts reviling a warder. The two
stayed until closing -time, talking
and drinking, -and getting more and
more brotherly. They went out to-
gether, and--
Then
nd—Then it was that the unsuspicious
pal, was suddenly attacked 1 Then
it was that the long -meditated re-
venge was consummated? No. The
two walked to the outekirts of the
town, and proceeded to "crack a
crib." They were caught red-hand-
ed and full -pocketed, and, after the
sessions, my revengeful friend re-
appeared with the balance of his
old sentence to serve, and a new
one after that ! And when in dem
course I greeted him, he was full of
fierce threats against the gentleman
whose life -he had desired 'before !
In the ciroumstances I dispensed
with a rebuke. A lurid revenge
which evaporates so quickly is not
worth tilting against.
A convict who says but littler but
who; can parry for three years that
stern look in his eyes which shows
that he is keeping a purpose ever In
his mind, is much more dangerous,
That sort of man acts.
One bold me, quietly and with no
melodramatic boasting, exactly
what he intended to do to a certain
man who had "let him in." I am
bound to say that ib seemed a bad
ease of rank disloyalty and treach-
ery.
Ills Long, Long Journey.
these functions the court dawnstion.
roaster occttpfes a place of vantage "•He's gone to sea, parson, I
from whioh ire can watch the den- said I was glad. Ile smiled again.
cars and any tnilitaket oe elurosinett „A w, t eurney, parson, and no re -
will be certain to Ibrin•g the delin-
quent a polite intimation that he
must mend his steps or expect no
further invitations,'
On his release he asked for his
railway -ticket to the town where
the man lived, went to the house,
with a hammer in his pocket, and
asked far him. A white-faced wo-
man, with two frightened children
clinging to her skirts, opened the
door. "Where was her 'husband 1"
She (burst into tears, Doing seven
years! Been sentenced bub two
months before.
The ex -convict chortled with
fiendish delight, mingled with re-
gret that the hammer could not be
used? No. He had money, and he
kept that family for the next five
years.
That's real life! Put it on the
stage, or in a book, and it wouldn't
be (believed. .Against, human na-
ture? A1,, but there's a lot of evil
and good in human nature,
Another ponvict; the usual
threats, but not the, usual. result.
"I hope, I said, you put that
business about G— out of your
mind."
He smiled with sinister satisfac-
burn till Judgme.ui; "004I looked at him queerly, but Iib one voice- Has it 3C i. lo0
said "Good -day 1" and went. to Y01-11"
GRAINS OF GOLD.
The virtue of prosperity is.tem-
perance; the virtue of adversity is
fortitude.—Bacon.
Our greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising. every fume
we fall—Cofucious.
He. who rises late. must trot all
day, and will scarcely overtake his
business at night.—Dr, Fuller.
To travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true
success into labor,—R. L. Steven-
son.
No one knows what he is doing
while he nets right, but ofwhat is
wrong we are always conscious,
Goethe,
Let the dawn of every morning br
to you the beginning of life, and
every setting sun be to you as its
closet then let every one of these
short lives leave iia sure record of
some kindly thing done for others,
some goodly strength or knowledge
gained for yourself.—Ruskin.
d'----
. A Cireulnr ''l'ow.
Mary had a little ring, 'texas giv-
en by Joe, and ever'ywhere that
Mary went that ring was sure•to go.
She took the ring ,vitt her ons day,
when she went i",t t., t.,,,
site irlight show it to the girls, •..!: r
numbered twenty.three. And when
the girls all saw that ring, they
made s,,rxrerat ado, ex' ]feinting with
"Du you think heft able to sup•
port a wife?" "Why, be nr,9't even
maintain a converraliort,'r