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IAppearances of Guilt.
"nue of the Inost terrible MOOT over
bad in olY life," were the words with
which Lord Russel a Killowen, the late
Lord Chief Justice"; used to introduce an
experience of his younger days, says the
London Auswers. Ile was unknown arid
almost friendless in London, and bad one
night gone to the theatre, to forget in
the amusement of a comic piece low
badly things were faring with him. The
present and the future seemed alike dark
to him; but the play was amusing, and
young Russell became oblivious of all WS
troubles as he looked and laughed from
itie seat in the gallery. As he aud those
about hint were about to leave at the
end a the performance, a person close
by discovered that he had been robbed
of his gold watch, raised an alarm, and
the police were called in.
"The person robbed bad been sitting
dose to se," said Russell, "and my
heart stood still as it suddenly flashed
across me that the thief, in terror lest
he should be caught with the stolen
Watch upon him, might have put it into
my pocket. If suspicion lighted on me,
and the watch were there, what would
become of me? The thought filled me
with such terror that I felt a cold per-
spiration break out on inc. Such a thing
would mean absolute and irretrievable
ruin. But the police did not light on me,
and I passed out as calmly as I could.
As soon as I had got a little distance
away I carefully went through all my
pockets. The' watch was not there. f
gave a sigh of relief as if I had escaped
from some awful peril."
Russell's terror was by no means un-
founded. Thieves heve often resorted to
the trick of "planting" property they
have feared to carry in the pockets of
perfectly innocent people. One of the
most famous instances is that of a
bishop who, a _few years back, on re-
turning from a fashionabe society func-
tion, wee amazed to find a valuable gold
watch in one of the pockets of las epis-
copal coat.
He, of course, took it to Scotland Yard
with explanations, and they, being al-
ready in communication with the owner
of the missing valuable, handed it to
him. The thief was never discovered. It
seems impossible for the human mind
to associate the stealing of gold watches
with a bishop, but had the detectivea bit
prosecuting their search lighted upon an
unfortunate and equaly innocent party
of less dignity and character with the
watch in his pocket, he woula have
found himself in a terrible dilemma,
A week or two back a ladyappeared
in the courts to claim the contents of a
purse of which she had become the pos-
sessor in a mest reinarkable manner, and
under circumstances which might have
proved most embarrassing. With a little
girl she was entering an omnibus in the
west end of London, when a passenger
who had. just alighted discovered. that
she had lost her purse. Inquiry was made
among all the passengers in the vehicle
without result. The robbed lady went
her way, and the new passenger took
her place in the ornnibu.s with her little
companion.
When' she arrived home she, to her
amazement, found the missing purse at
,the bottom of a small bucket that she
had bought for the child with her, and
which she had been carrying in her hand.
Having at once communicated the fact
to .Scotland Yard, every step was taken
to discover of tho purse and its contents
—something like £10. The owner was
never found, however, and the question
arose as to whether the purse and its
contents should be banded to the lady
Or to the omnibus company. The court
decided in favor of the lady.
In what a fearful position the most in-
nocent may find themselves is shown
by a case which occurred some years
ago in Dublin. A man who was accus-
tomed to visit the house of a bachelor
friend very frequently used to do so in
an unceremonious manner by the back
door. The bachelor was waited on by a
woman, who came in at certain tinies,
and who then left him to his own de-
vices, the only other person in the house
being a medical student. The friend
having slipped into the house one day by
the back door he and the tenant became
engaged in a discussion respecting sonic
juggling tricks with knives which the
visitor had seen. The bachelor declared
they were easy, and proceeded to give
practical illustration of the fact.
By an unlucky aceident, he inflicted a
terrible wound on himself. The friend,
afraid to leave him to call assistance,
strove to do his best. All was in vain,
the wound proved fatal, and the visitor
became filled with horror lest he should
be accused. of causing the death of his
friend.
He stole quietly from the house and !
actually took a passage to New York I
and hastened to hide himself in one of
the wildest parts of the states.
In the meantime suspicion had cen-
tered on the second innocent man—the
lodger. A lady who lived at a house
opposite and who occupied herself in
knitting at an open window and observ-
ing what went on in the street, swore ,
most positively that no one had during
the fatal morning enterea the dead nian's
house. The deed must have been com-
mitted, then, by some one inside.
A knife in the lodger's possession with
sotne bloodstains on it, and some blood
discovered on his clothes, the fact that
be was a violent tempered man, and that
he had been heard to quarrel with the
dead man, together with his agitation
when he was accused, and some obvious
lies he told • to show that he wits out
that morning, all contributed to prove
his guilt. He was hanged. The truth
bee:sine known many years later when
the man who had run away to Americs
returned to Ireland.
An unforturiato countryman tamed
Gill, who found himself in the dock of
the Central Criminal Court, was another
victim of misleading circumstances. Gill,
having served bis time as apprentice to
it butcher at Monkdearreouth, set off to
visit an uncle at Portsmouth, and from
that place commenced to walk to Lon-
don. Between Guilford and London,
Very early one morning, he came upon
man riding a pony and driving two cows.
The stranger Was taking the Cattle to
London, he mid, and, finding that Gill
Was bound for the same place, he told
hint that he Would give him five shil-
lings if he would drive the cattle to
him to Westminster Bridge, where he
would Bud it man awaiting him
Gill was delighted and undertook the
job readily, and the stranger, a infest
agreeable person, rode off, having given
Gill many instructions as to uot oyes -
driving the beasts, and so on. For sonte
hours Gill drove the cows in peace, but
at Waudeworth he was to hie surprise
and indignation, pounced on by the po-
lice on a chitrge of having stolen the
beasts.
In suclt an unlooked for situation Gill
lost his wits, His great anxiety wasthat
his friend should know nothing of what
had happened, to Min, and. no way of
preventing that occurred to him than by
giving it false name and concealing his
identity by a series of very ineladroit
falsehoods. He was convicted and sent-
enced, but before he had suffered long,
the true facts mune to light through the
capture of the 'lethal thief. Be had
stolen the pony lte had been riding and
various other articles, and at the time
Gill chanced to overtake him had come
to the conclusion that he would, never
be able to get the cows away safely.
He therefore handed them to Gill.
Having stolen things foisted on one
may place it man or woman in it terri-
ble position. The same result may at-
tend. having articles stolen from one,
Karl Franz, a young German, had his
pocket picked of it packet of papers be-
longing to Mtn. The next he heard of
the packet was that it had been dis-
covered beside the dead body of a wo-
man who had been murdered; by bur-
glars at Kingswood Rectory. Franz
was driven to frantic terror by the news
and made desperate efforts to hide him-
self. All was in vain, howeve.r. The de-
tectives ran him down, and he was plac-
ed on trial, It was only by a train of
marvellously fortunate circumstances he
was able. to show that he could not have
committed the murder.
Not so fortunate was a yottag fellow
named Gould, who was tried at Staf-
ford Assizes for stealing it pocketbook.
A lady, having gone to market one day,
stooped down to look at some vegetables
exposed for sale in a baseet. While she
was looking at them she bit some one
touch her, and standing up and looking
around, she saw a young fellow beside
her, who at one° walked off. Entering
a shop a short time afterward to make
some purchases, the lady felt in her
dress for her pocketbook in which she
, had placed a bank note. It was gone.
1The police were at once called, and the
!lady communicated to them her susPic-
1 ions of the young man whom she had
! found beside her near the vegetable bas-
ket, and, setting off with detectives they
quickly succeeded in finding him. He
; stoutly protested his innocence; but on
; his being searched at the police station
!
it black pocketbook was found upon him,
1which the lady at once recognized as
'het?. The bank note, however, was not
lin it. The lady and several persons who
; knew her pocketbook swore positively to
• the one found on Gould. He was con-
victed and sentenced. A few days later
r while two men were mowing a field of
1 oats in the neighborhood of the market,
they discovered a black pocket -book! It
; was exactly similar in every respect to
that found on Gould, the missing bank-
note itself was in it! Gould was at
once set free.
t A man suspected of burglary at Gard -
if f found himself placed in dire peril all
through a woman's dress discovered in
his box. A girPs dress had been stolen
by the burglars and had been most min-
utely described to the police by the girl
to whom it belonged. She identified the
dress found in the prisoner's box with-
out the slightest hesitation, and it
agreed in every respect with the par-
ticulars she had supplied to the authori-
ties. One of the jurymen, however, was
in spite of all, not quite satisfied and
he suggested that the girl should retire
with lite dress ani put it on. For a long
time the court waited, and then the wo-
man ia attendance on her came back to
say that the prosecutrix could not get
the dress on. It had been made for
some one much more slender and small-
er. The prisoner was acquitted, but it
had been "a close shave" for him.
A witness in a Glasgow murder case
narrated how he had saved. himself from
a most unexpected and terrible situa -
floc. Walking down a lonely street one
night he had suddenly come upon the
body of a woman lying upon the pave-
ment. She had been stabbed to death,
and horror rooted him to the spot be-
side her. While he was standing there
other people came up, and be awoke at
last to the fact that there was a crowd
of angry and threatening persons about the
him who regarded him as the murderer.
He was in terrible danger, when a
means of escape flashed across his mind.
' He bade the people stand back from the
body, bent over it and proceeded to de-
scribe the poor woman's wounds; in the
best medical language he could cOM -
mand. The people were thunderstruck.
He was not the murderer, then, but a
doctor who had been examining the poor
victim to do his best for her. Ire main-
tained the role till the police rescued
him.
A
A Delightful Surprise
for tea drinkers is to give them a hot,
steaming cup of FRAGRANT
Wellellanfillentatiliaffia.,,,,isanests
instead of some ordinary kind. They'll notice
the diff'erence quick enough, then nothing will
do them but Blue Ribbon Tea. Try the Red Label
consiste chiefly, if not entirely, of cut-
tlefish. Formerly the animal was hunt-
ed by whalers upon all the islands of
the Antarctic Ocean, notably Kergue-
len's Land and the South Shetland,
where they abounded in immense herds.
The creatures wore slaughtered for their
hides and blubber, Pree•-•4-•+••••-4-4 I
The tusks of the male reach a length "1 learned the foundations of IF finger
of four to five inches, their external part Pr4t.":41IVAATItlt trz: charac-
being smooth and conical, while the part teristle modest utterance was made to
embedded in the flesh is furrowed and sivit an interview, says a writer in the
slightly curved. The tusks of the males titiodna,atir gellxVreetlabiingivittigtril:a113::
are solid—at the losver end only a slight pert, the man whets°, name is closely as.
cavity appears—while in the female they
are shorter, and, moreover, almost hol- opeifraitstrudirpineairrldbyover with the ittentificatiM
measurements and finger
low up to the point, Sailors and Beal 14. Bertilion was fresh threombacithebeewnitngeives.
box at BOW street, where
hunters are fond of using these hollow
teeth of the females for pipe. bowls, . vtiti some of his deadly finger print evidence
n regard to the recent ghastly crop of
quills from the wings of pelicans supply- Paris murders.
In appearance, Mr. Bertilion is the serene
ing suitable stems for the pipes.—Scion- thinker rather than the man of action, the
Witt American. scientist of the cloieter, rather than the
1 public figure of the forum. To talk with
KEEP all_LDREN WELL. finger print system bit by bit, arch by arch.
him le to Soo that he bas thought out the
Iloop by loop, whorl by whorl, event as he
has thought out the science of anthropom-
etry millimeter by millimeter.
Your little one may be well and A. high forehead, a well-balanced brow,
happy to -day, but would you know a thin oval fate, a pair ot serene dark eyes,
what to do if it awoke to -night with a dark moustache, abviously Preneb, but
not too pronounced in curl, a trim dark
the croup, or went into convulsions beard, a complexion strongly reminiscent
or spasms to -morrow? The doctor of Parchment, long and delicate fingers, a
tallish, lightish frame, and the ribbon of
may come to late. Have you a reliable
the Legion of Honor almost imperceptible
remedy at hand? Baby's OWn Tao- on the lapel of Ms coat—such, in brief, is el
lets break up colds, prevent croup, re- AlPbonse Bertillon, the terror of criminals.
"Do you think, M. Bertillon," I asked
duce fever, check diarrhoea, cure eon- ' him, "that the science of measurements will
stipation and stomach troubles, help the ever supplant the science of finger prints?"
obstinate little teeth through painless- "No,' he answered, very quietly. "I
ly, and give think the human.measurennent systera will
bound, healthful sleep. And supplement and assist the finger print sytl-
they contain not one particle of opiate tem in the ultlinete marking down and
guaranteed. They are equally good for
r poisonous "soothing stuff"—this a riosbt euenlr at itsai
ger 10m1 aientictahlelye iezreyd wkonroldwn T boor
t Mimeos will go hand in hand.
the new born infant or the well -grown ; "The science that Is based upon the fact
child. Mrs. Susan E. Mackenzie, his
sat bones
diffeeerretantin indelvhiarduaa,elte
!Artie shapesamg
Burk's Corners, Que., says: "Before
and dimensions will march forward In.
I began using Baby's Own Tablets,' unison with the science which arises from
my little one was weak and delicate, the circumstance that the finger prints
tically everybody are ditterout
since then she has had splendid 11 Prtre fin
ger prints of anybody elst
health and is growing nicely. I find Both these truths and the application of
them in every day criminal search and
nothing se .good. as the Tablets when
detection have been of enormous service to
any of my children are ill." h
-01/1 -- ua In Prance, and have helped, to rid respect -
all druggists, or by mail at 25 cents it able eoclety of many ot the human harpies
box, by writing The Dr. Williams' Med- who prey upon it."
".And what led yoU to take up the study
icine Co., Brockville, Ont. and practise of fioger print science?"
- - - "Reading of the work ot Herschel and
Galton, 1 looked into what they were doing
THE STORMY PETREL. as pioneere of the finger print system. 1
.became deeply interested. I soon found
that they were right. and I started collect-
ing finger prints if friends and eriminals
myself.
"My subsequent experience in actual
criminal practise has shown; me that If
two finger prints tally exactly it is practi-
cally certain that they are the prints of one
and the same person, however many of the
population of the entire world may have
passed that way and have handled the article
on which tbe print has been made."
"And the sister science to finger prints,
your own gift to the world, the science et
the measurement of man, how did you first
come to think that out?"
"Well," answered M. Bertillon, with the
ghost of a smile, and a tiny, deprecating
shrug of the shoulder, "I saw the need lour
some such system for the identification of
criminals. I saw that the evidence of
the photograph and the official description
might very easily be made useless, and
indeed has in many, many eases been qupite
nullified by the criminal's own little tricks
of disguise. All the previously photo-
graphed, and otifcially described criminal
had to do was to alter the style of doing
his hair, and the color of it, to distort his
features in one of the well known ways, te
alter the eyeerows, or what no, aud he
had passed beyond the likelihood ot recogni-
tion.
"But a man cannot change his bones.
He cannot disguise the exact length of his
nose, of his forearm, the length and wldtb
of his head, the length of the left middle
finger, the length of the left foot.
"Experience soon taught me that those
bony portions of the human frame rarely
undergo any material change In the adult,
and that practically no two persons In the
civilized world have the same combination
of measurements. This great central fact,
together with the marvelous faithfulness
of the finger print record, has been, of lm-
MOUSe assistance to us in France in the de -
!action of criminals, and the more of these
records we take the more strongly is the
efficacy of the two systems of finger print-
ing and measurement substantiated and
provd."
"Sir William Herschel, cited above by M.
Bertillon as one of his teachers, took many
finger print observations while in India,
and was so convinced of the efficacy of the
principle that he brought back to England
a mass of evidence on the subject. This
was ot great value to M. Bertilion.
Francis Galton, the other English finger
print pioneer, after long and close study of 0
vast number of finger prints, estimated that
_
the chance of two sets of finger prints be -
Lost in Their Clothes. • Ing identical is less than one in 64,000,000,000.
Thus is the march of selence going tri-
umphantly on, to the harassing and hinder-
ing of the human pest in his malignant
deeds against society and social peace and
safety. By a gracious feature of the in-
ternationality of brains, Prance, by M. Ber-
tillon, has learned from us, and we, by Scot-
land Yard, have learned trom France.
To the comfort of peace loving citizens,
and to the terror of evil doers, be it known
' that there has long existed between Paris
and Scotland Yard a real, deep seated en-
tente cordials.
4s4lefe-a• ••-•10-4-4t-e-wese-e-•-•-e-eaeese-e-e-e-e•
BERTILLON,
AWASURER OF MEN
A Few Facts
About
an
Interesting Little
Sea Bird.
While taking an ocean voyage this
summer it Philadelphia boy became much
interested in the stormy petrels or
Mother Carey's chickens, which follow-
ed the ship for days. No matter when
he got up he was never too early to
the them; and there they still circled
when the .sun was .going down. They
were little coal black creatures, shaped
like a swallow, with as belt of snow
'white just above their tails.
They must have fed on fish when the
boy was not looking for, though he got
bread and other bits of food from the
galley, and tossed it overboard" the
• birds examined it curiously, but left it
untouched.
• The captain told the boy that Mother
'Casey's Chickens never rested—that if
they were to light on the deck of the
!ship they could not rise again. This
; all seemed very probable, as the birds
I had followed the ship for three days;
:But suddenly the boy looked: up and
asked, "Where do they build their
nests?"
The captain could not tell him this.
So when the boy got home he looked
the matter up. Ile found that at nest-
ing time, and then only, does the pet-
rel visit the land. He also found that
they were called "stormy" because their
presence was supposed to presage st
storm; but this had prove& untrue the
time he had seen them. He, moreover,
learned that the name 'petrel" was
from the word "Peter," and that the
bird had been likened to the apostle on
account of its appearing to walk upon
water.
MONSTER SEA ELEPHANT.
Killed by Whalers Off the Coast Of the
Falkland Islands.
A new and interesting attraction at
the Berlin Zoological Garden is a mount-
ed svechnen of a monster sea elephant.
It can claim the distinction of being the
largest sea elephant that has ever been
killed,
It was found some 18 months ago by
whalers off the coast of the Falkland Is-
lands. They promptly surrounded. the
monster and subsequently slaughtered it
—no easy task—and the hide with the
raw skeleton Mina purchased at a high
price by Mr. J. F. 0. thelauff.
Some idea of the size of the monster
may gauged from the fact that front the
tip of its tail to the tip of lb it tusk it has
a total measurement of nearly 21 feet.
finch an anitnith whee alive, would
weigh 10,000 pounds, or nearly four and
It half tons. The circumference of the
'body at its widest part is some 18 feet.
The skull alone measures 2 feet 3 inches
long and 1 foot 3 inches high.
The sea elephant or seal elephaftt Is
is many ways an interesting. ereaitire.
So far as size goes he ean give points
to the walrus, but he is eeetainly not
so ferocious looking. Exeept for tine en-
rious nose (whenee his Greek name), he
is just it big black seal, fairly agile in
the sert end
kind. Ire is elninsy the ashbulore, like ell his Effects of Destroying Game,
itbout k of a, hippos..
(New Orleans Picayune.)
potemus, although more hirsute tied
with a leas extends° opening of the
jaws. Ire bolds among seals the unique
position of being common to both hemi-
spheres, Although from the order with
whieh he has been hunted veey few spec -
now exist north of the equator.
Just now, however, the sea elephant is
enjoying it respite, and ti consequently
inereasieg 111 nuisibere tepidly, pollen -
practically the only population of many
an otherwine lonely series of -barren
tocks in the Atlantic Ocean. Ma food
"I am reading from the society col-
umn of my newspaper," he observed as
he glanced up over his glasses. "'Mrs.
W. Biddle Barton, jun.,—thin white
mull, with insets of Irish point, sleeves
puffed to the elbow, high satin girdle,
white chip hat, parasol, appliqued with
bow knots,' 'Miss Katherine MeBridwell
(used to be McBride)—Unbleached
embroideled with blue, NapolAin
hat, pale blue chiffon veil.'
"There's a string of them longer than
my arm, but that's enough to give you
the idea..
I was thinking that men escape some
things that women have to endure, al-
though I don't know that men deserve
to escape anything, and I'm by no
means sure that women object to des-
criptions of this kind, which turn them
loose like so many lay figures tagged
with their names.
"But I've it notion that you and I
won't rebel if we see ourselves in print
morales; after morning pictured in this
!Sashimi: 'J. Thomas Kidder —Yellow
flannels floppy around the hips, de -
tutted cuffs with anietliyet links, large
yellow diamond in bosom of plaited and
unlaundered shirt, alligator skin belt.'
Schemmerhorn — Glazed hat with
dinky brim, plaids, pumps.'
"Wouldn't that drive you to it job
that would make you take your dinner
pail with you and hold you to it till
alter dark. You don't mind if you get
before the public becalms you've broken
it leg or been defeated for dike, or
watered A big block of stock; but if it
ensile to losing your identity in your
clothes seven days ont Of seven, as if
you were making it hit in a parade of
antiques and horribles, you'd quit soeiel
functions and go to work."Froni Top-
ies of the Day, in Providence Journal,
e
One v,1 tho penalties for the wanton tites
Lyn.. tion Of birds is Ptild ill the troeuent ter-
ribis visitationt by Insect pests which devour
the varioue crops in the field. They cost the
'people not °Me of this teeth'', but of all
the other tuitions. Which aro hhhottherit Oh
our crops, millions in loss. Mane Stable
have made laws for the taeoervatioe of the
gene Militate, Intel sand fishes, but these
laws have no eircet on the eilvesest for which
they are really moon, and little On the ma-
Jority of the people. Those who luive tho
new-fangled destructive gaiis want to Wgi
them, end they will find levies targets,
and 10 too many Oftliell they may be butrian
mirk* fot their sta.
THE STORE SPYER.
She Must Keep Thforined as to What
Other Shops Are Doing.
"For the life of me," said the girl at
the ribbon counter to the girl across the
way at the chiffons. "I can't make out
whether she's a shoplifter, a purchasing
agent, or a store detective," indicating a
woman, who had just walked away.
"You're away off," said the friendly
aisle manager. "She's a store anger. We
employ them in this establishment our-
selves to spy on other stores, only you
just don't happen to know it. They go
out in various disguises, Somethnes they
are the most fashionably dressed women
among the shoppers; sometimes they are
quiet, little, unobtrusive women, who
don't look as if they knew a ,bolt of
cotton from a yard of wool, and some-
times the store spy is a clever man buy-
er. They start out early every morning
to see what is ping on in the other
stores. If Mr. Smith up the street, is
selling shirtwaists at SO emit; Yee want
to find out how lie ran do it; if the
newest thing in fall suits is going at
$17, mid we have just put it lot of ours
hi for $18, off we send the storespy
to see how ib can be done; how much of
it is cotton and bOW much wool. There
is riot a position in a department store
which takes more nerve and more know-
ledge of goods. No greert hand tan go
from the kitelion utensils to the carpets
and be .capable of judging all the fine
Shadings without knowing something
about the dry goods businese, and, be-
sides, the store spy has to earry Wiese
in her eye, She has to be able to tell,
when she gets back to her own shop,
just how emeli better or woree the other
storm are sellieg for the same price.lhe
job's Worth all the money they pay for
The Severest test of a womates etiris
osity hi When alio returns is fellow's lot.
ters tinepetied.
I Awakening of the4*41*1-14-44 IS -41
Polish. I
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Inthe insurrection at Lodz,whi eh re
cently set the reading world to revelling
the conunime in Paris, patriotic Poles
both in this countey and at home, see
the dawnings of the day when their na
tional aspirations will be realized and
Poland, now obliterated from the na-
thins of Europe, will be firmly re-estab-
lished as a commonwealth.
This is the dieain of every patriotic
Pole, and for this, in spite of every
measure of his couutry's oppressors to
extinguieli them, the Poles have re-
tained, the use of their language, have
kept alive it knowledge of Poland'e his-
tory and traditions and have fostered.
its 'literature and art.
With the fatherland 'divided among
three mighty neighboring empires, the
Poles retain: no less their racial charac-
terisities aud their national aspirations.
Many believe that the opportune mo-
n:lent for the realizing of these aspira-
tions is near at hand, but that precisely
in what manner freedom shall be brought
about is not yet clear. 'Xlie older and
more conservative leaders at home hope
for the re-establishment of Poland
through diplomacy; the younger and
more aggressive spirits look forward to
heroic rescue of the fatherland through
force al arms.
The Polish national movement is full
of vitality both Wane, and abroad, and
it is a problem which may have to be
dealt with before internal peace can be
permanently be re-establiehea in Rus-
sia.
In the accomplishment of restoration
of Poland as a nation through the mis-
fortunes cif Russia, the Poles see it sort
of poetic justice as the first serious in-
terference from outside nations, and
svbieh eventually led to the partition of
Poland, was begun by the Empress
Catharine of Russia, through whose
machinations Stanislaus Augustus Pon-
iatowski was elected in 1701. Nominally
king of Poland, he primal a mere pup-
pet In the hands of the Muscovite. The
ignominy of this so fired the breasts of
many of the Poles with a spirit of re-
sistance that a military movement crys-
talized to throw off the yoke of foreign
influence. It spread throughout Poland
andLithuania, but the 8,000 confederates
were poorly organized and they were
unable to cope with the Russian troops
stationed around the capital, who pre-
vented their joining the national army.
A patriot whose name is familiar to
every American schoolboy, and for the
erection in Washington of an equestrian
statue to whose memory Congress ap-
propriated pox), was one of the lead-
ing spirits in this unsuccessful move-
ment—General Caunt Kazimierz Pulaski
eirieved by its failure, he came to Am-
erica, and rendered gallant services in
the war for independence.
A secret agreement for the partition
of Polland had already existed among
itussia,Prussia and Austria, and n1772
Prussia, took the palatinates of Malborg,
Pomerana and Warmia Calm (except
Dantzic and Thorn) and a part of Great
Poland, Austria took Galicia' Sando-
mir and Cracow. Russia tookWhite
Russia and all that part beyond the
Dumper. This was the first of the three
historic partitions of Poland. The pat-
riotic Poles were stung to indignation,
but. were compelled to acquiesce in it in
the diet of 1778.
When, in 1791, a new constitution was
promulgated and the country appeared
to be reestablished on a better basis,
discontent broke out among the Polish
nobles, who had lost some af their old
prerogatives. To regain these they or-
ganithd the confederation of Targoviea,
in 1702, and when, at their instignation
the Russian troops entered Poland and
Lithuania, the weak king, Stanislaus
Augustus, made no effort to oppose the
invaders. The king signed the conven-
tion of Targovica, and the Russians held
Warsaw.
The work of the dismemberment of
Poland made still greater progress in
1793, when another partition treaty was
signed. By this Prussia got the west of
Great Poland and some of Little Poland,
while Russia extended its boundary to
the middle of Lithuania and Volhynia.
In vain did the immortal Polish patriot
and soldier, Thaddeus Kosciusko, who
had fought in the American revolution,
lead his fellow countrymen against the
invaders. He was defeated. and made it
prisoner and Suvaroff took and sacked
Warsaw. The kingdom of Poland was
dead.
• r Then followed the third partition. Aus-
tria held Cracow, with the. territory lying
, between the Mica, the Vistula and the
Dug, Prussia held the capital mid the
- country as far as the Niemen; Russia
got all the rest, The king resigned the
crown in April, 1795, pala died utter
three years more of ignominy at St,
Petersburg,
patriotic spirit of the Poles 'was; lin-
But in spite of all these calamities the
quenched. Many entered the military ger.
vise of France and other foreign course
tries. Some looker], to Napoleon for help,
but all he ditl Wa$ to form the grand
duchy of Warsaw out of six of the Vo.
lish provinces, which he upited with
Saxony,
With the treaty of Vienna, in 1814,
came the resettlement of Poland, By
the terms of this treaty Prussia was to
have Posen; Galicia and the salt mines
of Wieliczka were to belong to Austria.
Cracow (thirty-two years afterward
annexed by Austria) was to be eetablisits
ed. as an independent republic, and the
rest of ancient Poland went to Russia,
and was to be it constitutional king-
dom it liberal constitution was made,
with the government by Ministers, a sen-
ate and a house of legislature. The
Polish Widget was to be separate and
provision was trade for it Polish Army,
with its national flag. The constitution.
guaranteed freedom of the press and per-
sonal liberty, A viceroy was appointed
in the person of Zajacek, and the Empers
or Alexander placed his brother, the _
Grand Duke Constantine, as command-
er of the Polish army.
In 1830 the Poles made an attempt to
throw off the Russian domination and,
regain their national independence, but
the rebellion was unsuccessful and in
February, 1832, Poland became a mere
Russian province. Thirty years later
there was again an uprising. Riots which'
occurred were folloeved by concessions
from Emperor Alexander, but the trou-
bles continued, and in 1803 an insurrec-
tion broke out, with guerrilla fighting
between scattered bands of Poles and
the Russian troops. After a reign of
terror, in which supposed Russian spies
were stabbed to death by secret emis-
saries of the revolutionists and those
leaders of the insurgents who were cap-
tured were shot or hanged, the rebellion
was suppreseed.
Efforts for the Russification of Poland
have since been continued, but have been
resisted at every step by the indomitable
national spirit of the Poles. This spirit of
undying patriotism is fostered by writ-
ers like Henryk Sienkiewiez, whose tales
J. Stringer & stirred his readers throughout the B. Strnger & Co., gran merchant,
and exporters, Chatham, submit the fol -
world with sympathy for Poland and
the Poles in their struggle against for -bowing
corn end sugar beets, peculiar t,
report relative to the three crops
eign encroachments.
Beans—Have
vhad favorable weather,
The very rise of the Polish nation, in
that e
the latter half of the tenth century, is
connected with such encroachments. In and the early planted are all harvested
in good condition, but as about 75 per,
905 the heathen prince, alieczyclaw, who
ruled over the Poles, became a Christiacent. were late, will take two weeks yet
n
o
to marry the daughter of the king off favorable weather to secure. A few
are threshed, and altbough the quality
Bohemia, and thus strengthened the pow -
is fine the yield is not large, 10 to 15
er of the Slavonic tribes egainst German
encroachments. bushels to the acre, so there is promise
In the reign of Stephen Batory (1579- of not more than about 70 per cent. of
1586) Poland was the great power of the last year's yield, and as prices for the
new crop are a little lower than last
eastern Europe. To -day she is razed
year at opening of season, farmers are
not free sellers.
Corn—This crop has come on •very
much better than first expected of it,
due of course to the unusually favorable
weather. While much was phinted late
and little reliance placed on it, yet it is
now going to count. The crop will be
no bumper one, in fact is estimated much
under a good year, but glad to say will
get well ripened, something that hasn't
happened to the crop for three yeArs
past, to the great loss of producers and
shippers. •
Sugar Beets—A large area of land is
now given up to this crop in Essex, Kent
and lembton, and due to a favorable
season promises exceedingly well. The
beets all find their way to Wialla.ceburg
Sugar Oo. by boat loads and train loads,
producers realizing $5 a ton delivered
on bank of river and on board cars
shipping points, with an increase if Over
normal percentage..
-
SOME ARE BORN "BLEEDERS."
What is a Backache9
IT IS NATURE'S MUM TO WOMEN
Diseases of Wornan'e Organism Oared and
Consequent Pain Stopped hy Lydia E.
Pinkhaefe Vegetable Conipound
"It seems as though my back would
break." Women utter these words
over and over again, but continue to
drag along and suffer with aches in the
small of the back, pain low down in
the side, "bearing down" pains, nerv-
ousness and no ambition for any task.
"Yrs: 47.bert ‘,...411a tin
They do not realise that the back is
the mainspring of woirien's organism,
and quickly indlea.tes by aching a dis-
eased condition of the womb or kid-
neys, and that the aches and pains will
eoittinue until the cause is removed.
Lydia E. Pinklutta's Vegetable Com-
pound for twenty yearo has been the
one and only effective renaedy bit such
eases. lt speedily cures all womb, and
kidney disorders and restores the fe.
male organs to a healthy condition.
Here is one eure among thousands:
Dear Mrs. Pinklitunt—
"I suffered a long time with ovarkm
trouble, having illtenea pains in the bae.k and
abdomen and very seek bendaehes every
month. I was tired and neevous p11 the time
and life looked very dreary to me and T had
PO deeire tO live until I boss= to take Lydia
la, Pinkbenes Vegetable Compound end to
get some relief. My recovery. vSeS alOW
It was sure. and 1 have never re,,petted tho
money spent for the Compound ea it brotieht
nie beets to good health,
It thems to be A medicine capoeially
adapted tO the bus of our set And I am 'flail
lo say it good word for it, Mrs. Albert
Mann, 154 (lore Vale Ave., Termite, One
X° -other person eat give nu& help-
ful advice to Women wit.) ure sielt as
('alt Mrs. Pinkbatti, lier Addrees la
Lynn. Mass., and her advice free.
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; 0
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.; An increase of only two ego tt.
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t Poultry Food
It will give this increase, and
more, besides giving the pitunage
better gloss, and in every way keep,
ing them in tip-top health, also
making the chicks hardier.
For the winter laying o eggs
there is nothing as good on this or
any other market.
ICeep your hens front fretting by
using HERCULES LOUSE KIL-
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in the weight and egg production.
Nothing better for keeping the
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CROP REPORT.
from the list of nations. Physically Po-
land is a vast plain, with hardly any
natural features except the Baltic on
the north and the Carpathians on the
south. The 'Vistula is its great arter-
ial river. From north to south Poland's
greatest length was 713 English, miles,
from east to west 693, making an area
of 282,00 English square miles.
I The gradual growth of .Poland until
! the last accession to Polish soil, which
! took place in the reign of Sigismund
I
Augustus (1548-1572), when the Russians
; obtained possession of Polotsk, while the
• Poles conquered Livonia, is a story which
; all educated Poles know by heart. The
! name of King John Sobieski, who in 1083
rescued Vienna from the vast hordes of
; Turks who had invaded Austria and he-
ed the capital, and who ,was hailed es
;the savior of Europe, still fires the Po-
lish heart with patriotic pride. With
1 the death of Sobieski in 1090 may be
; said to have ended the glory of Poland.
I Its subsequent history was. one of de-
, cline.
1 But though now it vanquished nation,
Poland is described as a syntbol of pin-
ioned freedom. The Pdlish nal:0nel epir-
it still breathes; in the poems of Miekie-
wicz, of Slowacki, of Krasinski. The
, national temperament and inspirations
(are expressed in its characteristic music
; —full of life and color, noble, emotional,
' soulful, inspiring.
1 Foreign government at home, change
of environment abroad, alike fall to de-
stroy the Polish identity. Instead cif
assimilating, lie absorbs. Of the 2,000,-
000 or more Poles in the United States
many thousands are in the ranks of the
Polish National Alliance, which has its
!treasury in charge of a secret commit-
; tee in Switzerland. The young men ere
i banded into military companies, officer-
!
. ed and drilled, often by members of the
national guards, and always eager to
fight for the re-establishment of Polana
tis
sTna snpaittieololi efforts to Germanize them,
nearly 3,500,000 speak Polish hi the Ger-
man empire, and more than 20,000,000 in
all countries. There are more than 12,-
000,000 of them in Russian Poland and
about 7,000,000 in Austrian Poland, and
in both these countries they exert a .
powerful influence politically. The Bus -
sum government is afraid to trust a
Polish soldier in hie own land, but sends
him to Manchuria, by the thousands to
fight the Japanese.
In the reconstruction of Russia's poli-
tical constitution consequent -upon her
defeat in the far east the Polish people,
in the opinion of Ivan C. Waterbury,
, writing in the World To -day on "lhe
1
Future Republic of Poland," "will
pre. i ts 'composed of chloride of ethyl, ehlors e :
Isent the solid front of an enlightened idof methyl aria bromide of ethyl.
organization, well fitted to form a re- 1 Near Land's End is it remarkable mine
;
public to serve as it buffer state" to ,known as the Levant Mine. It goes down
separate oriental Russia from occidental
1. lvitetref;tically1Y under
2 .11012
bleePofithtdlielsAlvlottrliktted;
Europe.
1 in the ineurrection which occurred last !eoneiderably over it mile from the foot
, week at Lode, when an army of 60,000 .'ef the eliffe. The eompany, which pro -
workmen fought the Russian Cossacks dures tin, .copper and arsenic, is eighty.
from belting strong, barricade% but the :five years old. The mine gives employs
' preliminary skirmish in it 'third laiiielt 'mat to 515 men and 175 boys, and
!rebellion against Rueekt, and, if so, is praetieelle rune the village of $t, Inst.
; it by force of arme that Poland is to 1 An Indian Induetrial and Agrieultural
• be re-cetablislictl as a nation 1 Or tie ;Eehibition will be held at Denares no
I the utslying national aspirations of the , December in connectiou with the meet-
' Poles to bo realized through a politleal Ing of the Indian Congress, it is sug-
reconsttuction of the MOW weakened, nu. :.gested by the 'ConsuisGeneral at Caletit•
wielay, -anarchic lluseian empire?
. . tit that the exhibitionwill afford
. !eellent elmuce for .the display of Atneri-
. an et -
Stone of Jelin Bull's txpenses.
einisiders a market may "be trotted in
can .agriculturai nuiehinery, for whieli he
At Idea, of the vest Of tanning a great We' ; India.
(Leslie's Weekly.)
i Of the 1400 millions of people beillev-
, Miami's belanc.s thert for 0101 Iagiofriaieltil
i tem may be gained am the statement that ,
1 iy. ,ed to inhabit the world only three.fifths
'Irwa tri, "1141,11,..%t a '1.11il'an del- Are known by .eeilenaea.
latire .ost. iiee-eu
I It hes been suggested that the •ekeel.
, fare. Tee eitaet amount was Z1.11,71100.
i TO ll'OPI this reveaties were nisei ronount-
1131 t ) 00,34, u, 4 1 k., ( n tinrW in, mat 0 by A Cie eftrS - 0 co .
1,t-1 " 11 t I i l
I lifitil if 41,Dfil,i100. Of this *vast expenditure lision is due to. the faet thrit the wooden
. 4:cs,No.sat) went to the army see navy, Pere in the train with thent acted as
I :relierae for dienensine futtiee and Veto,- , enshititts aul lessened the force of he
, see was spent on edueatien. There is only A .1.
I sue entry under expenditure whieh tweets elll'e.e.
1 the tateenutle et the eirmias.a bitAiimA. It I Ily mixing tine dust thoroughly with
A Pitfall portion of clay it has boon used
that fee "etetionere and saintioest;: d
*howl that threa-guarter,. r f a • 'Dilaanfin
eeeeteled en tem I
t »fully so feel at the .1ohnstatvit
le.c Oft sass rear.
Dettliaq Uft 4. 1103 iMona dim-
T
plant of tbe Cambria Steel Company,
Peculiar Malady Studied by a German
Physician.
The rare peculiarity known as Imes
mophily, or "bleeding sickness," has
been brought to notice anew by Dr.
Boelnne, a German physician. It con-
tinues for generation after generation bit
certain families', and 18 characterized
by an estraordinary tendency to hem-
orrhage, making the extraction of a
tooth a dangerous operation, while' even
a pin -prick may lead to severe or fatal
bleeding. The cause seems to exist in
unexplained failure of the blood to eo-
sgulate like normal blood. The disease
has been studiea in more than 60 Eu-
ropean families, and in the Mampel fam-
ily has been followed for more than a
century. Johan Peter Mampel and wife
were not "bleeders." Of their 11 chil-
dren three sons were affected, and from
observations on 212 members of these
and subeequent generations of the family
it niost singular law of heredity is de-
duced. This law is that, while the dis-
ease is practically confined to males,it
IS never transmitted by these males to
their sons, but only by the women, who
are normal, to their sons.
Scientific Brevities.
Fifty-two languages and dialects are
spoken along the banks of the Danube.
Somnoforme is the name of it new an-
aesthetic tested at the Bordeaux School,
Paris, which, when properly administer-
ed, is eaid to leave no after effects. It